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-TK SOTOAY AVALAHCItt-JOtJWAl LUBJOCK, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931 SDNPArAVAIANCHE-JODRNAL Were Things Simpler In The Old Days- ORIS IT JUST A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE? The National Whirligig Behind The Court Reform Show-Down MOfMDt EM fne News Behind The News 4 OOY VI Ortnelplw OBitew to UMWr to ooblWiJne tht f.imw wroot uxi Uib- of Oa UA ot i int ui as HuatUtWA Pali Servfct On Public Expenditures HE average the average citizen of every other state, for that goes blind with rage every time he hears that the legislature is engaged in thinking up something nerv in the way of taxation. Yet that very same fellow has one or more.pet public projects for which he wants more money. That's the weakness of our system. Lubbock people, for instance, would be in seventh heaven if the legislature appropriated to be spent at Texas Tech We can show needs for appropriations" for our college and among the institutions of Lubbock none is more ambitious fcr'lexa- Tech than The Avalanche-Journal "But Austin people and the profes- -ex-students of the Lmversity of the same way about the Austin institution. And the same goes for the supporter? of West Texas Teachers, bul Nonh Texas Teacners ana all the If all of us had our way and the leg- listened to our pleas, soon a stag- geriiig'debt'would the S'cate of example of more general v-atnre Burnished by liners and propaganda material being ssnl out by proponents of bigger, better and more public libraries in Texas.

Librae? are fine tningf. No thinking person would criticize the idea of hivmer plenty of good books available to all our people all the good f.ction. biography and poetry, but treatises on any and all important well. But the of the library plan in Texfis are 'seeking ST50.0UO from the general fund of the state to be snent ir. the WASHINGTON By Say Ttcker Republicans' oontpirtcy to fivt the treatment to the Prsrtdent'i court reform program hac blown up.

The strain on too many golden tongues was more than mortal could endure. Enraged Richberff Inserts Bitterness In FDR's Plan BY RODNEY It was a promise But it didn't' stick, one by one Mr. Roosevelt's enemies have assailed him, though emphasizing that that their volunteer allies would demobilize. William C. Bullltt's prospective return to America has been rightly headlined if "'purely personal," for the personalities'he discuss with President Roosevelt are Messrs.

Baldwin, Blum, Hitler, Stalin, Franco and Mussolini. Their confidential conversations will amount to a complete, current review of the European scene and prospects. The Ambassador to Paris, who served in a similar post at Moscow, is the key man in our foreign diplomatic trenches. With the possible exception of" Roving Ambassador Normari H. Davis, no American emissary has such valuable foreign contracts aa Mr.

Bullitt. As F. D. personal and official representative, he has been conducting a canvass of European sentiment on the possibility of another world war. He has detailed reports on the attitudes and aims of the three Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.

He also knows the sentiment among the so-called "democratic and France. ened on by Gtamnl Joluuon. made famous "horse and Fib. eUtement. ff of human and error are snarled over the revewe Ra4 BMM "Stovcrtlng" Atonf side of the New Deal historical VTO important cate Involving New As Whirligig revealed, O.

O. P. per- tapestry, now woven to the point Deal reform had come before suadcd Alf Landon not to make a "partisan" iwue where ye roolhardie knighte, Sir the court prior to the NRA caw. Up of the question by attacking it in his radio speech. They Franklin, doth challenge to mortal to that time, according to the in- understood that Herbert Hoover and John Hamilton eombatte ye Nine Supreme KnighU side Information, the had promised to lapse into vocal retreat.

Other an- of ye Marble Palace. justices had been aomewhat in the cient S. Chamber of Commerce and the Thanks to the fact that Supreme same frame of mind as Republican National Association of court Justices, and other members of Congress. They felt it agreed that their absence from the hustings might characters involved do not always would be wise and expedient to string make the American heart grow fonder for the court, confine their feelings within their along with Roosevelt in the emer- bosoms, it is possible to reveal these gency becaute the country was be- of background to the current hind him. cannonade: There was great discensio The issue between Roosevelt and ta jiew Deal at the time, the court probably would never have faction favoring a new, its opponents.

Behind scenes G. O. P. BTW ha(1 thelr Bt utude subsequently Rjcuberg to drop the Belcher lum- been stiffened by unfavorable ber case, first scheduled the public reaction to But Rfchberg insisted Rooaevelt's 'horse bulling it through, and and buggy re- Schechter case as his Armageddon. The court wrote about as bitter parts an opinion as it could write, with-i- of including a single kind word, a message to Con- suggestion as to what Con- i gress asking power mlght do to teect the mer to pack the court ency a ta Miatri I we re inserted by tion of problem.

That was what sent Roosevelt, as his Intimates know, into a He never forgave the Justices at? least, not the elderly v- Richberf was humiliated. Roosevelt himself developed something of 4 sense of humiliation when the antagonism at his "horse iffgy" statement But if long, the election completely. of the had taken at Donald Richberg. They are traceable to the bitterness engendered by the Schechter Ontchcr Richberg. to stake his legal reputation Mr.

Roosevelt's domestic program is inevitably in- xher foremost conservative tertwined with foreign developments. AS never be- believe they could kill, or at least fore, Europe's behavior effects American plans and turn back, the New Deal by killing hands, However, probably led policies. That's why Mr. Bullitt and several other NRA. 9Bvelt to confer chiefly with foreign emissaries are now visiting Washington on "purely persona! business." to the supreme court NRA case, more than one observer Recent shifts and promotions among high believes, the New Deal would have navy personnel indicates that Uncle Sam is preparing been upheld in its farm program.

against future trouble on the high seas. Violation oi tradition in several instances in placing a premium on youth and fitness was the result ol Roosevelt influence. If the AAA test case had come Webbers when the recent the supreme court before the WM wnnen Errors Came In Series DeciciMt Cp To EANWHILE Chief Justice Hughes, intellectually receptive' to the New Deal philosophy, had to NE mistake followed another. The decide whether to stand against the- President gambled on NRA as conservative majority and thus un- THE NEW BOOKS It's Of A Nile" And Bss? Of Hb Career: Ferd Madcw Ford Traces Tody's Wees To Civil War in Book "iishinent of 10 reeional libraries et -rate- Emil Ladwig Pens Another Biagraphy, But This Time It's their iirt Iri of the this da" of nKved -TC -io to read by traveling a of the- arjrumem that anti rapia get book? miles. In spite 'libraries are as im- by tail! iz Yorki.

great "fid iT'jod can per -vc-iild be 1'jveiy were it stiii-' to 1 riscy lo a in iir.y htln out vhcr-r. tha' not Yet 1 iavfc no doubt that m.ar.y of the backers of library exnenditurt scringe and at the possibilities of a state income tax. a state tax. or anv other method of incrf; 5ing taxation. all that way.

Vv'hiitTwe believe that the 45ih'ieiri-la- ture in session likely through political pressure, to make expenditures and to turn thumbs down on necessary ones, we must admit all of us are nror.e to want to s'pend. on the things we- think but chop off what the other fellow wants and SOP no sense in. The big problem confronting Texas. the nation is not in spending money but in spending it where it will do the where the expenditure is essential to progress and where it will pay dividends in public imrjrovernent. And that is something- it hard to convince the public on.

Ol men number, Hrr.i! Lucwig a neai. ini 1 merch his new book, and v.T;tes ihe bio-rtphy of a river. Incident c.lly. he produces tchat teems t-j be the bool; or his career. He employs a nta: concepticn in discuvsing the river in So say? the eminent noveUsi.

Ford executive, came an Madox Ford, in an uncommonly thai a representative be sen; to book. a speech before an important for social climfc crranization. Stich aa invitation ccula not be refused, but was BAKK1: In the good old days advancement came as a matter of course of social influence. A coniraander became a captain simply bscause he knew the right people or traveled on consi Roosevel he couldn't budge tradition. The latest promotion list caused howls pain the navy.

Gentlemen supposedly in line for elevation passed over in deference to younger and more efficient sailors. Mr. Roosevelt, ordered the perroned literally. The navy is no longer a society either stimulating impassioned "Great Trade Spsaks Of Mar.y Things Mr. Ford writes of tour from France; to Tennessee, and speaks ot many ihln tut mostly he is find Lms had v.ith the iiz to ocial climbun.

K1SES: "if it his big ace, rather than the tiermine court prestige by the un- works program. NRA tras P'easant mppcarance of 5 to 4 badly that nearly cisions, or to Join irtth the majority hated it or was in votes to preserve a Since he went with the majority in- the 6-to-3 decision against liberal minority has been increasingly savage in accusing the" case before the Supreme court. majority of following its personal Those who counted strongly on "economic predilections" instead of the liberalism of Justices Brandies, the Constitution. Stone and Cardoao feel that the The court's prestige has been un-- 1 three justices made s. mistake by dermined and perhaps Hughes -efSirajs: Imrint siid in "We" live under a Constitution, but the- Constitution is what thc justices- sav it is." Uon of NRA.

which was'widely taken as a rebuke to the whole New Deal. Roosevelt made a mistake when, demand for Supreme make the speech? The president, court changes has rallec: off all beta on the identity to wouldn't. general manager the race has got he siss teiW he "ordinarily would em- the Ainerican War the piv- plcy to riescribe 3 human life. He L-L-gins iar up in equatorial Africa the Nile is "bom" in an outlet from Lake Victoria. He follows it t'-rourh in the hi? perlorrr.an'je.

resolved tiiat tlie time; oral came to In that war. he says, two of he would acquit wrdi grt-at- sociely contended for tne cr Kt 13 a ear- In the south there wab a hocit-i'- iuui study to iroprovt his ability as based on the soil, without great a speaker. cities or great a society in thc thirty years since- that ear- in which human values predonilnai- effort, E. St. Elmo has made In the north thrre was a hard- over 2.000 sastwhes to masiv thous- er, more e.cquisitive society, which ar.tis of people, to many varieties was beginning to dedicate itself ol women and chil- tc the machins.

dren, professional arid Made Certain Triumph tn.de aisocititicns. clubi. college The north v.on—ana made cer- and political conierences. tain the triumph ol the machine Today he rscosr.ised f.s one of age. And In tht machine says the country's outstanding speakers.

Mr. Ford, there is neither virtue The results of this thirty years of nor Unless we can get study, persona! experience, and ob- cltar aU'ay Irom it and restore the are now brought logether of the lost in which ir. hi.s now booi: "Going to Make a life was simpler, Ireer. and Speech?" Mr. Lawis has prepared Iv-althier.

Mr. we a book unlike any other on the shall eventually rush clown a steep aubjtct: a which wiil equip place to the sea anc pen-'h togeth- business man lor the you may tie Emil RADIO ACROSS THE BORDERS In his newest. The has broutrht raanv innova- orK mil Lu 0 ij bioeraphcr. portrays the romantic Un Making A Speech uons. out the most recent is it- tor in- carecr of tht mi htv riv Nilc 0 MAK A SPtL most masterly above, famed lhat with very lit- iaction his you will find the worth reading, nonetheless.

Fo: by questioning all the things which we ordinarily take for granted. Mr. Ford compel-' us to re-examine them and do a little independent thinking. Thumbnail Reviews cl ths Democrats' presidential nominee for 1940. F.

D. R. has blurred the psiitiral picture so that even he can't recognize it. Tliere are. nine candidates ivlUiny to rua four years her.ce, although then- may bt several more still in hiding.

But tat- men whoai the politicos mention are Cabinet. Members Ickes. Wallace, Hull and Farley; Governors Earle of Pennsylvania and Murphy of and c.K-Governor McNutt oi Indiana; and Senators" Clark of Missouri and Wheeler of Montana, None has announced definitely, but all have the well- known in-ection known as House itch. Mr. Roosevelt will exercise thc presidential prerogative of choosing his heir, if he can.

But it happens that the only ones who side with him openly and ag- eressively in the court fight are erstwhile Republicans Roosevel: New Earle. Ickes and Perhaps Stanley Hiph knew what he was about when he predicted that the ccn- would witness the blow-up of the old-fashioned Democratic party. SIT-DOWN: King Edward may be dead, politically. but thc gallant spirit of his kinship moves decks ol the ship named in honor of his tht Queen Mary. The former king, as every informed persons knows die; not hit.

scepter over Mrs. Simpson. She uas an and a pretext. Britain's invisible great economic him out becaust they feared that they could not control him. Anci it v-as his comments upon dedicating the Queen Mary which first aroused their feart and Chess And Checkers Players' Corner Problems And News Concerning Those Old Favorites WTIDESPREAD interest in checkers and chess over the South Plains" TT area has prompted this "corner" of the Sunday Avalanche-Journal's editorial pase Several score persons are actively engaged In chess play ana chess clubs: several hundred belong to checkers clubi and clay grand favorite Here is the latest checkers and chess news, along with problems and comment.

The Checker Board The Chess Board Progressive using the lystetu employed In bridge, will be p-ayeiJ a mm.ng of Lubbucfc Chc.s«. club to Hilton hotel o'cloci: Mor.day nlKhV; Wlnnert will ndvancc tbc No. 1 table, thersby kssurlng that players' prewnt vin meet nearly thc At recent meetings, a player has hnd the saint opponent during (he- evening. Dr. Alan L.

Btrout. tormcr City cfcesi. champion vhote record In flmultaneous Is perfect, has give other dlipluy Monday night, March 8. Doctor Strom, it will be recalled, met' eight members oj the club thc tumi" 1 llmr. winning all tht gamrt.

Several weeks liter Dr. H. 6. wood. City champion, will give his tecuud slrnultineous display.

Having lost hli llrst acaUut 13.. players. Doctor Underwood has challenged the club to return engagement. oi the tropici. f-jf 1 ternational sputtering: and threatening, i-wamps anc jungW of Dictators and governments are shouting cc-s-n to -youny nia.nhood" in the each other through the ether like the £udiin Egypt, and at lei-jhbors fighting over a backyard fence.

is Milan speech Mussolini said, "I great deita. Other History And in dcjng this, ol he Kellerniar.r.'i "Song Friendship" is kind morality play translated from the German. It if, the story ol un by five men to create a life ur.a ecor.o:ny out of postwar chacs. and an attempt, to ST. Elmo Lewis iivr- ior more) ec into public speaking.

To an anc thc result ii, not too Amor.s checker players there It no thrill quite to that of springing piny on th? gann watchlne thc eflect. Thc iormer King rambled through the great liner. And vsy lor the He noteci thc comforts ana luxuries provided for pay- pi 11 ln vf hls ing passengers, and contrasted them with the crews' quaner-s, where the sailors had to stand while they Is by private timo Lewis; 'Konaltl Press, X. organization in which he was a A captained by Doctor etrout de- Seated a tttra coplair.ed by Doctor Un-" flerwood recently, S-3. The r.emei of the winnmc teurn luted llrst: Strout 2 Underwood itudy of yubllthrd play.

Gordon Webb 2, John Spencer 0: Tod vf urc lining three or the latest o'Neall 1 O. Jennings Pardue and ht-sl and where they may be 0 Robert Allen 2 rhi; 1 urc quite reasonable In lood and arank their grog. This and simnar pricc irllb gu i or e. with ma- chni plu5 er5 and otll ra ho kllow tumcicnt for hours study. The Doctor Underrood will be to ones, hated below furnish ix fair cross KC- koov that Mrs Underwood, vho hut been tlor.

of pluy. critically 111. la Improving. Woods' by B. Wood, Gary.

ure pumphletls contalntnr corre- nr3t patron membership fee for 1931 received lust Fees be paid to Webb. Uon. they contain many timely problems. comnienti coil Edward his crown. But they forced the Cunard Line to install seats for its sailors.

Thus Edward appears to have been a sit-down monach in a big wiiy' Side Glances -By George Clark NEW YORK Bv Jamei McMullio ure pumpaietis comauimc corre- nr3t patron membership games by the bc-jt players, in i ext6 chest association WHS country. Besides giving the best so WKek from John penccr far on the three move restrlc- to ebb. The Pioneer System, by Arthur Most of all. the book is tht story said. "Our rights and our vital inter- Ko tl! study or its rocks must be respected.

But have said Jtb0 £0 itV and its thousand times, and I repeat, that -re tribes, of "its warriors and do not intend to menace this road. We do explorers, great men and exploiters. not intend to interrupt it." And in the British House of Commons. a am wno toned by the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had of great river since been listening, came in kind: ''Britain corded time, and who has steadily welcomes the assurance that Mussolini and sot the worst of it from all his rui- Jtaly do not propose to threaten the route through the Mediterranean. Once more I tiammedan sultan and 'all their suc- repeat the assurance that -we have no de- sire to threaten or intention to attack any 1 C1 1 ed chv i JT.

in- j-. Tnt lehah it todav much what he Italian interest in the Mediterranean. vhec the pvra mids were bullt So If both of these good neigh- man who lives by the sweat of mean vhat they say they might as his brcnv tolls chiefly to TV call home their warships, and dis- mantle their forts. And if they did that perhaps the world would begin to believe Mr. has written history, them.

Our great mistake is in excepting men just like us to do better thar. we could we elect them to run Today's One-Minute Sermon God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. There-ore will not "'a ftar. though the earth be ar.d though tiv- mountains be- into the of the Though the waters there--: be troubled. Ihongh the mountains shake the ewftllint thereof.

Psalms, XLVI: 1-3. travel, a social treatise and all once. The danger- oui device of giving personal attributes to a rivor is. managed, and t. book of more than 600 pages made to run like ihe wind.

by rert Mutiux Ford, (Ox.ord frett. X. VsrilEN P.cket/s heroic cnarge i foundered in the gunfire along Cs-sTsetery Ridge, at Gettysburg, the o. mankind in this modern v.r.nd v.f- changed for vor-'. Tht v.ay wai cleared, by 'or t'ae era o' mass pro- Mv.c'.ion und super-mouitnalism, and 15 to thai era that owe most of out dire troubles today.

the player who hasn't time to study variety ol play. It tends to ccn- the llnf, of Bhoii'6 how he i Stanaard by Joe DufJy. Chl- CUKO, are boots out. They drsl strl" and how delicate game are keeping a watchful eye ii tf liirornla's handling of its old age- pensions. Comment runs that the state is staging a race between income and outgo via old age payments is apparently liK due to end with income trailing by many lengths.

It is undertsood that the present age qualification of G5 years is due to be dropped to 60 this year. Pay- mgs ments are holding at a maximum of $35 from all The residence qualification is five years and can hardly be lowered without by Inference inviting all the unemployed who are 55 years old or niore to come from other states and settle in California. Well-posted sources predict that thc- size of state's deficit will be startling when the budget -li complete, and that frantic attempts will then be to find new taxes to cover it. Reuben Fine, the New Yorker, r.or.f.dfr» the following his best game in thc Hist- Ingt Christmas congrcfs: laid ed -li news has a aloof the loea.1 acd SsJSiKS J. feitKer iro" 1 acfl 3 tl on -here a6 ectl to our i ss ni 1 Hended by Williamson own ready to take CHOOSY: The current wave of labor unrest has ulated fresh activity among scouts for municip? which are trying to attract new industries.

Companies subjected to attacks of sit- tin; inclined to be highly -critical of law enf cliic'ials. when; the affected plants are loc- discontent i-; the cue for agents of busii; communities to step in with generous oif- power, with the enforcement of propertj" am- mating the 111 bc suggested- they A vu 'rtlnft le match home Mencblk White 1 2 N-KB3 3 P-QB-1 P-JC3 5 N-B3 6 PxBP 7 B-K2 O-O 9 P-QR3 10 R-K- 11 BxBP 12 B-R2 13 P-K4 14 P-KR3 15 B-K3 16 R-QB 17 PxN 18 QUEEV6 Tine Black N-KB3 P-Q4 P-K3 P-B4 P-QR3 BXP O-O K-B3 B-O3 PxP P-QN4 B-N2 N-KN6 KN-K4 K-QB NxN cb N-K4 N-N3 GAMBIT Menchlk White 19 H-KR 20 R-E: 21 R-Q3 22 K-B 23 B-Nli 2-1 QNR 25 B-N3 26 N-N Ti QxQ 38 K-K3 29 B-R4 30 P.tP 31 P-N3 32 K-K 33 K-Q 34 P.xN 3i N-Q2 3G Resigns Vine Blank- O-K2 KR-Q N-B5 ch B-K4 P.xU P-KN3 P-N5 Q-Q3 Bv.Q~ F-QR4 P.v.P R-B7 N-N7 rh KxBcli R-B7 B-35 Lnmesu Word tomes from seetanv; of factory iy timely bail rights. problem conte asked to be watching Ior our next surprise problem. We have another copy or Standard Positions, by Joe Duffy, to as a prize, and the problem for It will be announced soon. Thc problem for today is quite and the solution well concealed, but don't it gel.

the best of you: Bls.ck kings, un urrs 12. 34. White men 0:1 T. 11. 19.

White 10 in this column 1 move and win. Pamphlets mailed for the shortest correct Word comes du Bunfcb tllow d1 M-tc" V1 Quite a few companies have been facted by this selling point end sre preparing to mil plan vs from storm centers to havens Some communities have beer, attracting new industrial enterprises are frettini? choosy about tht btif.iric-sses they may accept in promised pro- i so successful in A this basis that. -A m-sification among As Some Other Things Comments By The Pron Questions Of Today JaP century "Junior was very food today. You owe him a dime for his lunch and 11 quarter for taking his nap." BLANKETED: Shrewd W. P.

A-- wnrth while to pick out projects ix-romp perms ar.d then pur ed to rhtse. is now a certain wii; assume a permanen P. A. is swallowed by the propt V.v:f&re or of Public Works or r.Hed likf-'y that people will be blat without having to run must unquestion- ave in the ntn rc con Uily give educational oppor- as their personal lioeri reactionary all. But it must then pro' found it cerned the pres become ous by rational and cournpe- regime decrees.women sha Qf i'hlch seem lixerj i househo achm bombs or oslty-pjoitstion of its to get ft become Ja unnt- Jan Cs to meet the dcm0a 7Ue ishimoto.

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