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THE TIMELY REMARKS
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Entered as second-class matter
November 27, 1920, at the post-
office at Refugio, Texas, under act
Of March 3, 1879, and
REFUGIO COUNTY NEWS
Entered as second-class matter
November 10, 1928, at the post-
office at Refugio, Texas, under act
of March 3, 1879.
WOODSBORO WEEKLY TIMES
Consolidated February 1, 1937.
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BELIEVING NONSENSE.
Most high school graduates who
are turned loose upon the world
this year, and every year, look on
life with minds befogged with su-
perstition, according to Dr. H. J.
Arnold, eminent psychologist of
Wittenburg College, who recently
enumerated a few of the silly be-
liefs he found prevalent among
them.
ways good-natured and that you
can read character by bumps on
the head or by depression in the
skull.
And every one of the ideas men-
tioned are without the slightest
foundation in fact. All are sheer
nonsense.
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STATE TAX WARS.
Realizing the great harm which
may be done by the erection of
barriers by one state against the
products of other states, the Mil-
waukee Journal takes its own state
to task for starting the movement
and points out what is happening
through following Wisconsin’s ex-
ample.
Illinois proposes to tax Texas
natural gas at a rate which will
keep the Texas product out. Mas-
sachusetts proposes to tax outside
beer at a higher rate than beer
produced within its own borders.
The Texas legislature warns Il-
linois that levy and collection of its
proposed tax on Texas gas “would
probably cause retaliatory steps to
be taken against sale (in Texas)
of sizeable amounts of products
in Illinois.”
The Wisconsin legislature has
before it a bill which would close
Wisconsin markets entirely to al-
^on.a.kine freshmen entering,^
psychology classes
beliefs and misbeliefs, he discov-
ered that 50 per cent of more than
200 believed that women have the
powers of intuition with which men
are not equipped, that expectant
mothers can mark their unborn by
frightening experiences, that beav-
ers know when to prepare for a
long, cold winter, that red makes
a bull wild, that chess develops
powers of concentration.
Nearly half of them believed that
dogs howling foretold death, that
long slender hands indicate an ar-
tistic nature, that civilization is
almost entirely a product of the
white race, and that of you stare
long enough at a person’s back,
you will force him to turn around.
As many as 25 per cent still
cling to the idea that a receding
or stream-lined chin denotes lack
of will power, that silent men are
deep thinkers, that fat ones are al-
ZTtJ? criminatory’
beer.
tax on Wisconsin
< FRIDAY, JUNE 18,1937
NOBODY’S
BUSINESS
Mf nUU CAF1CKS JB,
Austin, Texas.—What effect the
action of Con. Martin Dies, who
obtained adoption by the national
house of representatives of an
amendment to the bill creating a
new federal judgship in the Hous-
ton district, that would require
the appointee to be a resident of
that district, upon the plans of
Gov. James V. Allred to obtain the
appointment as federal judge, fur-
nished grist for the political gos-
sip mill here. If the bill is finally
passed by the senate with the Dies
amendment in it, it would mean
Allred, a resident of the Wichita
Falls district, could not be appoint-
ed federal judge, and the whole
elaborate plan, repirted to have the
secret approval of Senators Tom
Connally, Morris Sheppard
tions is $74,569,803, to run the
government for the next two years
an increase of more than $10,000,-
000 over 1935-36. The state gen-
eral fund deficit is about $10,000,-
000, and will likely reach $20,000,-
000 at the end of the year, which
is the low point for tax colections.
The legislature raised no additional
revenue, but cut off about $150,000
a year, when it repealed race horse
betting. The governor’s vetoes
eliminated more than $1,000,000
from the departmental bills as
passed.
Nobody expects the special tax
session to balance a budget as far
out of balance as. this, but a sub-
stantial levy of new tax revenue is
indicated by the figures.
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LOOKING FAR AHEAD.
Social Security
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QUESTION No. 6.
QUESTION: If a young lady
~r—and I works for a few years and then
Vice President Garner, would col-1 quits and gets married, does she
lapse. Friends of Allred here be- lose her rights to old age benefits
lieve the Dies amendment will be j under the social security act ?
taken out by the senate, under I . TVTQwnr'T?. ^ , , , TjC
pressure from Garner and the two j h R' N,0- sl?e dofs £ot- R
Texas senators. This will delay: ®he quA fi|%Under -he Wl11
final passage of the bill, however,1 J? ft0^a “°nthly JT°™e’
and keen the nolitical situation in !at the aSe. of 65’ determined by the
Thus does the battle of the
states proceed in this year 1937.
Wisconsin is hardly in a position
to complain much, for it originat-
ed the present movement with its
prohibitive tax on oleomargarine.
It should now be able to see where
this type of legislation leads.
When one state begins to be sel-
selfish in its regulations it arouses
animosities in other states which
are, or which fancy they are, be-
ing damaged by the discriminatory
legislation. Since all states muse
depend on markets in other states
to absorb the surplus of their ma-
jor products, the results are likely
to be tragic.
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When Mrs. Sarah Loomis, 77, of
Boston was arrested for drunken-
ess the judge said, “You’re a
naughty old lady, now go home and
be good.”
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SAFETY
Is your car safe for summer driving? Its manufacturer
says it needs,the transmission and differential drained,
FLUSHED and refilled and the front wheels pulled and
repacked at least every spring and fall. Your nearby
Sinclair dealer is featuring a special service that includes
these and other safety^ services recommended by the
manufacturer of your car. It is called “Sinclair-ize-for-
Summer” Service and includes:
L TRANSMISSION AND DIFFERENTIAL drained, flushed
and refilled.
2. FRONT WHEELS pulled and repacked.
3. CRANKCASE drained, flushed and refilled.
4. RADIATOR cleaned of anti-freeze, rust and sludge
5. CHASSIS lubricated.
6. BATTERY tested and refilled to proper level,
7. SPARK PLUGS cleaned and adjusted.
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RADIOS-500 SPALDING OFFICIAL NATIONAL LEAGUE BASE-
BALLS “Babe Ruth autographed”. These are the prizes in the
Sinclair-Babe Ruth Baseball Contest. See your Sinclair dealer for
a free contest entry blank every week.
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and keep the political situation in
Texas in its present state of un-
certainty and high tension for
probably another four to six weeks.
Dies Mad at Jimmy.
Dies offered and fought for the
amendment because of his feud
with the Texas governor, growing
out of the candidacy of Clyde
Smith of Woodville, against Dies
last summer. Smith, who startled
the state four years ago by mak-
ing a very creditable race for at-
torney general as an unknown was
appointed assistant secretary of
state under the Allred administra-
tion, and Dies credited the Allred
forces with encouraging him to run
against Dies.
The delay in settling the matter
is particularly irksome to friends
of Lt. Gov. Walter Woodul, who
are anxious to begin his campaign
for attorney general, and can’t
very well do so until they learn
whether he is going to serve a
year as governor, as he would do
if Allred resigns. Close friends
of Woodul declare the latter would
not seek election as governor, even
if he served out Allred’s term, but
, would run for attorney general,
leaving the gubernatorial field open
to Col. E. O. Thompson and Attor-
ney General Bill McCraw, now gen-
erally regarded as the chief con-
tenders.
Press Officials Named.
Members of the Texas Press As-
sociation, at their annual conven-
tion in Brownwood, named R. J.
(Bob) Edwards, publisher of the
Denton Record-Chronicle, veteran
Texas newsman, as president, and
Deskin Wells, brilliant young pub-
lisher of the Wellington Leader, as
vice president. Sam Harben, per-
ennial secretary, was renamed for
the 27th time and Uncle Ben Har-
igel of LaGrange, treasurer. Joe
Cook of Mission, another young-
ster whose achievements have won
wide recognition, became chairman
of the Young Publishers’ section.
The Belo award for best weekly
newspaper of the year went to the
Kerrville Times, edited by J. J.
Starkey.
Press Freedom Curtailed.
Disregarding the plea of Texas
newspaper publishers that the law
was a direct attack upon the free-
dom of the press, Gov. Allred has
signed the bill prohibiting dentists
from advertising. Allred at first
indicated he would disapprove the
hill, but it had the strong support
of Secretary of State Edward
Clark, whose recommendation to
Allred apparently carried more
weight than that of the press of
Texas.
An interesting bit of gossip con-
cerning this bill circulated here
was to the effect that it was lob-
bied through the legislature by
Sen. Carl Hardin of Stephenville
on a contingent fee paid by the
“ethical” dentists’ organization. If
the governor had not signed the
bill, Hardin, according to the story,
would have been paid nothing for
his four months’ work getting it
through the legislature. Certain
large city daily newspapers are ex-
pected to support a legal test of
the constitutionality of the act.
Notes.
Opening of the Pan-American
exposition at Dallas drew to the
North Texas metropolis the larg-
est assemblage of state politicians
since last year’s Centennial cele-
brations . . . Sen. Connally, Gov.
Allred, Lt. Gov. Woodul, were the
headliners, while members of the
house and senate attended the af-
fair . . . Nudism which featured
the Centennial last year is con-
spicuously absent this time and
opening day visitors were uni-
formly enthusiastic in praising the
new Cavalcade, magnificent spec-
tacle depicting the establishment
of liberty on the two American
continents, written by Jan Isabelle
Fortune, Dallas newspaper woman
... A terrific protest went up this
week at Gov. Alred’s action in ve-
toing two important measures, the
soil conservation act and the Big
Bend purchase . . . Opposition to
the tax remission features .of the
first, which he also said was doubt-
ful of obtaining federal aid , be-
cause of its poor drafting, and a
$150,000 appropriation item to buy
the park, were given by the gov-
ernor for his. veto.
State Finances.
Some idea of the task confront-
ing the legislature may be drawn
from the final appropriation figure,
after Gov. Allred had vetoed cer-
tain items and approved the big
appropriation bills for the bien-
nium. The total of the appropria-
amount she received while work-
ing in covered occupations after
the year 1936 and before she at-
tained the age of 65.
A quaified individual is one who
has attained the age of 65.
wflo has received at least a to-
tal of $2,000 after December 31,
1936, and prior to attaining age
65, and who has worked in covered
occupations at least one day in
each of five years after the year
1936 and prior to the attainment
of age 65.
If the young lady is not a
qualified individual or dies before
reaching age 65, then at age 65 or
death she or her estate will be paid
three and one-half per cent of the
wages received by her in covered
occupations after the year 1936
and prior to death or the attain-
ment of age 65.
(Futher inquiries should be di-
rected to the office of this news-
paper or to the Social Security
Board office, 501 Maverick Bldg.,
San ^.ntonio, Texas.)
JEFFERSON’S EPITAPH.
Thomas Jefferson’s dominating
trait was his love of liberty and
it was as a champion of human
fredom that he desired to be
known to posterity. This was il-
lustrated by his epitaph, written
by himself for inscription upon his
tomb:
“Here is buried Thomas Jeffer-
son, author of the declaration of
independence, and of the statutes
of Virginia for religious freedom,
and father of the University of
Virginia.”
No reference is made to his ser-
vices as governor of Virginia,
member of congress, minister to
France, secretary of state, vice
president and twice president of
the United States. In his own es-
timation his services in the cause
of liberty stood above all these.
Freedom of government, free-
dom of education, were the para-
mount objectives of his life, as
epitomized in his epitaph. Born
an aristocrat, Thomas Jefferson
became the ardent defender of the
masses and one of the greatest ex-
ponints of human liberty the world
has ever known.
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Los Angeles Electric
Rate Cut $1,000,000
Los Angeles, Cal.—-The seventh
electicity rate cut since the begin-
ning of the depression, a $1,250,000
reduction in annual payments by
the city’s consumers, becomes ef-
fective August 1, under order of
the board of water and power com-
misioners.
The seven voluntary rate reduc-
tions represent annual savings to
consumers in excess of $7,250,000
after the effective date. Increased
use of electricity, however, has
produced higher gross receipts, re-
ports of the bureau of power and
light, which this year began serv-
ing practically all electricity to the
city’s consumers.
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The mother of Vivian Day of
Chicago lost a diamond from her
engagement ring 11 years ago. Re-
cently Vivian complained of a se-
vere earache and a doctor found
the -335 stone in her right ear.
We hear a good deal about the
necessity for special attention to
dull children, and every aid which
may be given these unfortunates
ought to be given. Butf a lot of
bright ones need some thought and
practical assistance, too.
Education of the masses to a
certain common level is to be de-
sired, but unless the boy who
shows exceptional talent can be
given special opportunities to de-
velop his latent powers, not only
he, but the world at large, is the
loser. «
Thousands of mediocre boys go
through college with little benefit
to themselves or to society, while
other thousands who have great
gifts are denied the privilege of
using them through lack of means.
That any boy with exceptional
talent for creative work, scientific
research or leadership should lack
the opportunity to make the most
of that talent is a tragedy. Upon
such boys and their proper train-
ing depends the progress of the
wirld. The same is true of espec-
ially talented girls.
When our civilization is a little
farther advanced, means will be
provided that our brightest minds
shall have every opportunity for
their highest development. Such
means should be provided now.
Rural Electrification
in Corpus Christi
There will be a Rural Electrifica-
tion School held at the Nueces
Hotel in Corpus Christi June 22 at
9:30 a. m.
The program will cover all phas-
es of rural electrification. There
will be a display of electrical de-
vices to be used on the farm. It is
being sponsored by A. & M. College
with Professor P. I. Montfort, ag-
ricultural engineer in charge.
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U. S. Gold Hoard
Exceeds 12 Billion
The U. S. treasury’s gold hoard,
largest in the world, now is more
than $12,000,000,000.
The government’s gold stocks,
Since the first of the year, the
treasury has been “sterilizing” in-
coming gold to prevent it from
flowing into excess bank reserves
and thus laying the basis for a
credit inflation.
Farmers’ Debts Are
Cut 26 Per Cent
Washington, D. C.—The resettle-
ment administration has anounced
that the debts of 55,576 farmers
have been cut $47,352,521, or 25.9
per cent, in the 20 months from
August 31, 1935, to April 30, 1937.
Adjustments of these debts re-
duced the total sum from $182,-
827,530 to $135,475,009.
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THE TIMELY REMARKS ONE
YEAR FOR $2.00—BY MAIL.
Dr. C. A. Mills, professor of ex-
perimental medicine of the Univer-
sity of Cincinnatti, looks forward I
to the adaptation o fair condition-
ing to animals and the opening of
a field which will' offer benefits to
the farmer comparable to those
enjoyed by the city dweller.
“Animals,” says Dr. Miller, “are
just as responsive as man to their
atmospheric or climatic environ-
ment. One phase of air condition-
ing thit I think will receive great
attention in the rather near future
is that which concerns livestock.
This will be particularly true of
animals that have bodies poorly
adapted to meet sudden changes,
such as poultry and the heavily
furred animals that must lose most
of their heat by evaporation from
the mucous membranes of the re-
spiratory tract.
“For this domestic animal prob-
lem, I believe major relief will
come through proper insulation of
the buildings which house them,
coupled with a cruder form of air
conditioning, but nevertheless a
definite means of regulating and
handling of the air.
“Profitable results to the stock-
man can be forseen in such devel-
opments. Some experimental data
already show that hens lay better,
that cows give more milk and that
the quality of fine-bred race
horses is improved by regulating
their atmospheric environment.”
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Fishing Tackle
Ammunition
Campers’
Supplies
Golf Balls
Almost
Everything
for the
Sportsman
Get Your
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The Timely Remarks
We Carry a Nice Line of
Ledgers
Cash Books
Sales Books
Desk Blotters
Wire Baskets
Desk Files
Zipper Files
Blue Print Paper
Pen Sets
Stapling Machines
Rubber Bands
Pencils
Ink Pads
Ink
Memo Books
Rulers
Typewriter Ribbons
Adding Machine Paper
Columnar Pads
Bookkeeping Sets
Typewriter Paper
Punches
Stationery
Carbon Paper
and Many Other Articles Not Mentioned
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1933 FORD SEDAN—New motor,
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Going at.........................
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