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The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Serving a Blue Ribbon Comnnmlty
*“Ved ,d^iy MCept Saturday from 207 South Rock Island Avenue,
anaentcrecl as second-class mall matter under the act of March 3, 1879,
RAY J. DYER
Publisher
BUDGE HARLE DEAN WARD
Managing: Editor Business Manager
HARRY SCHROEDER
Circulation and Office Manager
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Elsewhere In State-One Year____$8.50-Out of State
Including Sales Tax
$11.00
Monday, January 30,
If we are content to worship in shabby temples Iho able to have better,
we will quite probably have shabby spiritual experiences. The two doors
also were of the olive tree.—1 Kings 6:32.
It7s Time for Revisions
PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S tax program has laudable aims,
but it’s a real question how close his specific proposals
would come to realizing- them.
The war saw the government impose a whole host of
excise taxes lor the joint purpose of raising money and
discouraging civilian consumption. They were declared to
be emergency levies only, yet they’re still with us five years
after the war.
Mr. Truman proposes to cut seven of these, including
taxes on transportation of freight and passengers, long-
distance telephone and telegraph, furs, jewelry, handbags,
uggage and toilet preparations. Except for a 3 percent
levy on freight, the excises range from 15 to 25 |>ercent.
But the president doesn’t say how much the reduction
should he nor what should he done about taxes on a wide
group of other products.
In view of his juist messages on the issue of tax reduc-
tion, Ins new program represents something of a reversal
in attitude. Hence it may he expecting too much to imagine
he would consider outright repeal of any or all wartime 1
excises at this time. His recommendations nevertheless
are disappointing:
Mr. Breger
Monday, January 30, 1950
By Dave Breger
1JARRISBURG, Ark., Jan. 26—
Last night the heavens
'[’HERE was nothing surprising in his suggestion that
money lost through reduced excises he made up—and
another #1,000,000,000 drawn in-through closing various
tax loopholes and boosting corporate and certain estate and
gift taxes.
I Love My Doctor
cBy Evelyn Barkins .
r,> Copyright by Evelyn Barkins;
* Dwtribafed by NEA SERVICE INC?
XXXIII
. think that modern man never fin-
IUT the die was Inevitably cast : ishes serving."
Whether he may have thought also of advising higher
income levies we can only guess. In any event, he bowed
to election year realities on that score.
. I.‘:5?.P!aiJ?_t,ha^ir <*I5rf«i ou* his program would be popu-
In a short while, we discovered
that we were definitely "expect-
ing" and so took the first step out
of the honeymoon stage without the
slightest realization of what was
taking place.
"How come husbands in the
movies never seem to know before-
lar with a majority of citizens and unpopular merely with
Enr/rnUPS affeSted *?y Pr°P°8ed increases and loophole- hand?” I aaked John as he consulted
pre.ide^pT.^- h°» <”« ««■*» ^
Aside from the excise changes, most recommendations “n<1 he RCt,‘ as flabbergasted as if
are offered as ways of correcting “inequities” in the tax “
structure They may indeed have some value in that direc-
tion. But Mr. Truman’s sketchy, piecemeal approach to
soun<[enUmey C°mpeX iMue of tax inequity hardly looks
JgoiH Democrats and Republicans concede that the fed-
i eraI t*xJ9et‘uP.is a thinff nf shreds and patches that has
long needed revision. The Republican 80th congress made
a stab at a general revision bill but it died after getting
through the house late in the 1948 session. Since then
nothing has happened.
Mr. Truman and his tax advisers are no help. Each venr
vJLtax- ,)r?posu,s ar.e limited in scope. The notion of re-
vision is always pushed into the future.
t„v^e believe it would be a mistake to consider isolated
tax inequities without reference to the whole bodv of tax
ivlnA-f COnprress ?nd the administration combine to chop
xpenditures enough to balance loss expected from lowered
fimiM8'- Mar Vimei let a Ket on with at l«wt the real pre-
pattem °f thP ,On8r‘0Verdue revamPing of the entire Ptax
On some western radio programs cowboys do more croon-
ing than shooting. It’s just another way of boring 1^
from Tereter" 9u/fireorl removed part of a wrist watch strap
ss r"' **if ”,nve,wa,e "■«-
he were never even there!"
John laughed.
Although I joined in his laughter.
I still was firm about not revealing
the news until after my diploma
was secured, and John finally
agreed. Despite his personal excite-
ment. however, his professional at-
titude was as annoyingly consistent
as ever First he decided that he
would look after me prenatally, and
call in Bob at the end since it was
considered unethical for a physician
i to deliver his own wife. Then, with
| practical arrangements thus
I rapidly completed, he delegated the
| whole business of having a baby to
! the unimpressive cubby hole re-
served for prosaic, routine cases in
medical practice.
"It’s a perfectly natural func-
tion. he began, like a second-
grader reciting the pledge to the
flag. "The most important thing to
remember is to forget the entire
matter." This conclusion was of-
fered like an obstetrician address-
ing a class for expectant mothers.
Keeping busy was no task for
me—at that time, or anytime since.
I was soon fully recovered, back
in the office, helping John and
Down Memory Lane
Jan. ,10, 1925
, oil • iV°*,1*tfhschool girls’ debate team opposed the Blaok-
“Resolvid-^ ThItat|EI Renn l<>*da-r ”? bating the question:
I,c pl t2'f h the ,preaident of the United States should
be elected for a single six-year term.” The El Reno team
Wa8Mramr8H Armstrong and Edna Myers.
a „ C’ H’,Sder’ Mrs- Rnber* M. MaUonee, Mrs Charles
A Mason and Mrs. Harry Morris entertained at dinner-
*ndge Thursday evening in the home of Mrs. Siler At
KTuX7drmben "f *>»»*< and
Mrs. Paul G. Liebmann, Mrs. W. Worthington Misses
Irt?LU tJe P ?arh"nduMiss Sarah Ellen Townsend win
at tend the Founder s day banquet given bv Kanna Alntn
Theta at the Oklahoma club Saturday evening in Oklahoma
reaping my full share of engross-
ment and often laughter. If dis-
traction was all that John pre-
scribed. then his office was the
ideal place to get it.
* * *
| "It wasn't such a horrible job
for you when we were engaged,
and first married," I answered,
trying to joke back, but not suc-
ceeding very well. "You used to get
me loads of things then.”
"That's just it." said John. “A
fellow kind of runs out of ideas.
Besides. I’ve got a lot more on my
mind now."
"Well, anyway." I said deliberate-
ly turning away from this Scylla
and Charybdis topic, “you'd better
wait and see how I make out.”
I made out pretty well, all things
considered, and on graduation morn-
ing I set out proudly for the com-
mencement exercises with John, my
mother and my father, and Lizzie
too, as John called our expected.
* * *
A FTER the ordinary hectic fare-
wells and vows of eternal
friendship had been freely ex-
changed with even some classmates
I had never spoken to before, my
family party drove down in my
father’s car to lunch at one of those
thrilllngly expensive restaurants,
where the menu actually reads like
the financial budget of a foreign
republic. In these vestigal establish-
ments, whose sole raison d’etre is
perhaps to cater to groups like ours
where celebration rather than di-
gestion is the primary consideration,
tiny potatoes are presented individ-
ually as if they were gold nuggets;
and the service is as elegantly pro-
tracted as an inaugural procession
to Chopin's Funeral March.
On the way home my mother
said, "I’d be a lot more excited
about your being a lawyer, if you
were unmarried like the others in
your class. Tel! me. dear, what
you plan doing now?”
®^eeP’ 7 replied immedately.
I'm going to sleep until 12 o’clok
every day to make up for the years
of jumping out of bed and rushing
out. Then I’ll make my place In
the world."
This worthy ambition lasted only
one week, after which time the full
significance of my graduation made
itself felt.
“I can't believe that I'll never go j
opened and a regular deluge oc-
curred. This morning my office is
a moist and moaning sea. Buckets
under the drips, each one with
a different tone. The big ones
provide the bass notes and the
smaller ones the treble, with an
occasional rivulet making a trill-
ing crescendo as it rises to its full
force and gradually dies away.
The drops falling on the hot
coal stove add a fine counter
motif, as if the little people were
running hither and thither to get
away from the heat, and through
a very thin partition between me
and the women's shelter can be
heard the crying of children and
an undertone of women’s voices
trying to console the weeping
ones. Now and then the sharp
strident voice of a scold piereces
the air, the whole making a
symphony that makes me wish I
could write music Instead of
pecking on a typewriter.
The infirmary is busy as a
beehive with nurses running back
and forth over to the mess for
orange juice and baby food. Our
illnesses are mostly children. We
have 10 pregnancies, one diabetic,
one badly ulcerated leg, several
children with “spells," and the in-
evitable "sides" and "backs" cus-
tomary with women v.ho have had
no medical attention before, dur-
ing. or after childbirth.
The women are nearly all long,
lean and lank, with shoulder-
length drab dirty hair which goes
uncombed for days at a time.
Their eyes are dull and listless!
j their te*th are broken and snag-
iiled. and their whole demeanor
, one of passivity, with no hope for
J anything better. ’Pile average age
is 27 and a woman of 40 years
i is to them approaching senility.
Families range in size from two
to 10 children and every woman
expects to have one every two
years as long as the Lord wills.
I do not believe they are un-
happy. or that much could be
done to change the picture. It
would need to be a more funda-
mental change than I can vis-
ualize and take more years than
most of us will live to see.
Such is the Arkansas share
cropper.
There! I KNEW it had a secret compartment SOME
WHERE!”
a
* WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Congress Needs Some Kind
Of 'Must List' for Legislation
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—Both houses of Congress, in the first
, „ three weeks of the new session, have become completely fouled
“P ^eir own red tape. The subject in the Senate was repeal of
ation and other restrictions on the sale of oleo margarine. In the
House it has been an unsuccessful effort to move backwards by re-
pea ing a much-needed reform which passed last year, curbing the
power of the House Rules Committee to kill legislation.
_,.„er.raiance °t this kind is what drives editorial writers and
others interested in efficient government nuts. It is also the despair
of voters and taxpayers who think they are entitled to a better break
oJ*1 m.oney; An? 't Provides excellent propaganda material for
.a . j0Cates of totalltanan government who are telling the world
that democracy-with a small "d“—is a complete flop.
Pr»l h ^ b*en made of ,he new "Performance budget" which
i Truman introduced this year. The Citizens’ Committee
Report on reorganization of the federal government
m.mli0118, as aJnaJor step forward in simplifying and making
^rnTnt n?ore emclent- Hut this performance budget based on
dollars has also suggested that maybe what Congress needs is a
performance budget based on time.
Public Notices
back to school again, that a whole IlPj!Dllshed .in The El Reno Daily
part of mv life is nvpr" t inu ITnbune, El Reno. Oklahoma ion
part of my life is over." I told John
thoughtfully one morning.
"That's how I felt too,” said John.
"But you'll get over it. In fact
now I believe Life Begins at Grad-
uation."
The shadow of change came over
me then for the first time and I
experienced a subconscious re-
luctance about leaving the com-
fortable familiarity, and moving
ahead.
ITo Be Continued)
39. 1950., Re"°' Oklahom*- J*n.
. ^ ORDINANCE NO. 1749
rh»^lnailce t®. Rankle and Fix
flhiari^n orj the Operation of
Shuffle Boards within the City of
(, rinuen°f: Rr.ovldin8: for the Pro-
ShnfVL na Uienstto Operate such
?nhr fhf Fixing a Penalty
^r.llF Yl0lati°n of this Ordinance
and O^r'artng an Emergency.
WHEREAS, The City Commis-
sioners of the City of El Reno
fbfm advi^)le 10 regulate and
rpHE Congress has its parallels to the agenda idea in the Senate and
»°rM calendars ” Hut items get on the calendars only after
i^ usLfurineUn«rm8 by. POl/tiCaI strength and awkwardness.
This is useful in one respect only. It keeps off the calendar an
enormous amount of legislative chaff 80
w,n°W b!fore t!?e Senate 2900 bills and 460 resolutions, most
of them left over from the last session. Before the House are 6900
793Shfrk m0<L- reS°4h tl0n.S' The 1949 session Congress passed only
H ^ making them law. This comparison of measures introduced
.passed ®'!'es an idea °f the amount of work that Con-
met onT85 days,atnheeiHolrT6t5hS' SeSSi°n’ dUri"K Whkh the Senate
ures like authoS^fh^M®.,egi?latj1ve a lot of trivial meas-
eoroassJb_anlto «° plac« aad music
education
This
a t,a2Lor,,Fhar8p for the opera-
!<0Il-oL8huffl?. Hoards in the City
Look and Learn
, of El Reno. Oklahoma, and require
I ilf .prf>cllrin£ of a license to oper-
1. When did the United States
flag add its 48th star?
2. Whose duty is it to adminis-
ter the oath of office to the presi-
dent of the United States?
3. Is a person taller when lying
down or standing up?
4. Which is Europe’s longest
river?
ate same.
sks; crry or
Section 1: It shall
and an offense for
got passed while a lot of important measures like aid to
thC T3’ Eecurity P^rarn got pasltl over.
5h!Jo emphasize a need for some kind of a time per-
formance budget for Congress, to give priority for the more im
was*n ,PS' iln °therh ' V°,rds’ the j0b of ^a°mlin?ngmCong^
m ^ * was barely begun when Congress passed the
LaFoUette-Monroney reorganization bill of 1946. F
^ ROUGH tabulation of all the measures which President Truman
has requested in his State of the Union, Economic and Burteet
rnopTriorfiW950In1ddmonthth arC SOme 85 which he ™nsidfrt
u In addition, there are another 100 or more proposals
Si™ which
1“S.n<lt b“" ittehiplcd
But the President’s list is a good starter for setting ud a time n»
formancejudget, an agenda, a must list, or whatever you want^to
a: call it. This is not to say that everything" "a‘“ w
be unlawful I should be passed just because he asked it i a nt Proposes
any person, the President’s °.f ‘.he ^
firm, corporation 7 Jiat^n^i ?? President’s messages should be and probably will * JXld or
have for operation irThta *!?" & flayed. But they are the things which^any elec^d^^ chief ^executive
of any party, and the voters who elected him ill- * fXeC_Utlv?
5. What is the average life span
of a cat?
ANSWERS
1. On July 4, 1912.
2. Chief Justice of
court.
3. Lying down.
4. The Volga; 2,325 miles.
5. Fifteen years.
the supreme
National Banner
. , Jan. 30, 194 0
A shower of gifts was presented Mrs. Price Courtnev
by members of the Eagles auxiliary at the lodpre hall Mori-
evening dunnff a covered dish dinner. Hostesses were
Mr« r' Uoff’ Mra Earl DeLong and Mrs. C. I. Clark
Mrs Courtney s home recently was destroyed by fire
Presidential approval of a $213,715.20 WPA farm-to-
market road project in Canadian county was announced
intJrLhe|10t’lfirhsC5001’ for,Ter,y a member of the Mid-State
interschoiastic conference. last ni^ht voted to accept mem-
bership in the newly formed Boomer conference it was in
cSThi^ VHalier I" IMarsh' PrinciP»'- Duncan, Lawtltn
Chickasha and Anadarko are the other members of the
Boomer circuit. El Reno was represented by H^ry Avery
footbaH coach: Anderson Green, basketball coach, arid’
M NinAf«he4OrRaniZftt10n meetin* in Chickasha last niKht.
w»rd .1 \teau R of W0. 01611 each’ “PPointed by Wilfred
Ward, membership committee chairman, opened the 1940
hSTvbeThe>fM,Ve °f thPuEI Reno chamber of commerce
today. Trie teams are seeking a total of $6,735 in pledges
to carry on the 1940 program of the chamber.
A ND "forget It" was exactly what
-t* John proceeded to do. When I
developed spells of nausea, and
complained because I had to sneak
out of the lecture hall at school, he
merely said with his usual exasper-
ating nonchalance toward non-
dangerous uncomfortable symptoms:
Morning sickness is common
enough, and of no significance at
all. Don’t worry.’’
Besides keeping busy in the office.
I found inyself flung into the final
throes of cramming at school. The
effort of covering the whole year's
law work in preparation for the
concluding examinations, as well as
the state bar. was no negligible
matter.
"Thank Heaven that’s all over!”
I told John one day after the last
paper had been handed in, and I
came home from school for the
last time.
"Think you passed?’ asked John,
as I fell wearily on the couch.
*'I prayed hard enough," I an-
swered confidently, as if prayer
could alter the facte of how much
two plus two make, or what Jus-
tice Marshall said more than 100
years ago.
“When’s graduation?” h* asked
equally confident.
"Got something for me?" I spoke
wth renewed interest.
John’* face fell 20 points. "Oifte
again!” he groaned. “I clean for-
got. Don’t worry, though, now I’ll
remember. I tell you though,
sweetie,” he went on half Jokingly,
“the Bible says Jacob served seven
years for Rachel, but sometimes I
Answer to Previous Puzzle
HORIZONTAL 2 Native
1 Depicted Is the 3 Morsel
flag of— 4 Type measure
8 It was 5 Hindu hero
founded by 6Holm oak
-freedmen 7 Italian city
13 Beasts 8 Nostril
14 Spoken 9 Hebrew deity
15 Social Insect 10 Gazelle
UOne of its
products is
16 Measuring
device
18 Lincoln's
nickname
19 Georgia (ab.)
201.avaL
22 Battanon (ab.) 21 Pilchards
23 Heating device 24 Sexless
25 Mimiek
27 Bamboolike
grass
28 Unusual
29 Higher
30Two (prefix)
3kPreposition
32 Irish (ab.)
33 Pare
35 Require
38 Land measure
39 Rim
40 Sun god
41 Cruel persons
47 Right (ab.)
48 War god
50 Palate
51 Charga
52 Steps over
fence
54 Beverage
holders
58 Egret
57 Liveliest
33 Church
- * district
12 Danish seaport 34 Card game
17 Suffix 36 Herons
20 Young frogs 37 Hate
42 Solar disk
43 Distriot
26 Mated
attorney (ab.)
44 Those who
(suffix)
45 Pace
46 Rip
49 Ventilate
51 Enemy
53 Behold!
VERTICAL
1 South
K African camp
«?onAPayln*f therefor the sum of
$50.00 per year or fraction thereof
for each of said Shuffle Boards.
No license issued under this Sec-
tion °f the Ordinance is trans-
ierable.
Section 2: It shall be unlawful
and an offense to have, keep and
a Shuffle Board between
,h« hours of 12:00 o’clock Midnight
and 8:00 o'clock A M. during week
days and from 12:00 o'clock Mid-
night on Saturdays until 8:00
o clock A.M. the following Mondav
and each Shuffle Board shall be
completely covered from view be-
»«> the hours of 12:00 o'clock
Midnight and 8:00 o'clock A M
during week days and all day on
Sundays. 3
Section 3: Any person, firm, cor-
poration or association violating
any provision of this Ordinance
shall, upon conviction thereof, be
•on™ ,“2 sum not exceeding
$20.00 including costs, and such
conviction may be considered suffi-
cient grounds for the revoking of
his, or its license.
Section 4: An emergency is here-
by declared to exist by reason
whereof it ia necessary for the
preservation of the public health,
peace, safety and general welfare
that this Ordinance become effec-
tive immediately upon its passage,
approval and publication according
to law.
First read this 3rd day of Janu-
i960.
Passed and Approved this 3rd
day of January, 1950.
• SEAL) HERMAN MERVELDT
Attftsi; Mayor
Ethel Dowell, City Clerk.
^o act on; 'o^'w^Vr’ShS!"1’ 8 right *
Lesson
in English
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED:
likely when
1 increase
our vocabulary by mas-
tering one word each day. Today’s
, , Use word: ARROGANT; unduly proud-
.. referring to a con- overbearing; haughty
Ungent event regarded as prob- 1 Y'
able; as, "It is likely to rain to-
night Use liable when referring
to a possible event regarded as
disastrous: as, “You are liable to
fall If you are not careful."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED:
Column. Pronounce kol-um, not
kol-yum as sometimes heard.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Breath
(noun). Breathe (verb).
WORD STUDY: “Use a word
three times and it Is yours." Let us
■ - . Praise has
different effects . . . it makes a
wise man modest, but a fool more
arrogant.”—Peltham.
SYNONYMS: Talkative, loquaci-
ous, garrulous, voluble.
ADDED INSULT
T Tl™' „Neb ~<U R>“ Fireman
x. A. Halyard raced for the fire
truck when the alarm sounded, but
he fell, dislocating his shoulder and
cutting a bad gash in his knee. Then
he discovered it was a false alarm.
Problem a Day
Two motorists, one traveling at
an average rate of 6 miles an hour
faster than the other, leave two
towns 460 miles apart at the same
time and travel toward each other.
In Just 5 hours they meet. How
fast did each travel?
ANSWER
43 and 49 m.p.h. Subtract prod-
uct of 5 and 6 from 460; divide by
sum of 5 and 5 for slower motor-
ist: add 6 for the other rate.
SMOKING IN BED C08TLY
MINNEAPOLIS —(U.R)— Smoking
in bed cost Donald Cheney a fine
of $100 for starting a fire and “en-
dangering the lives" of SO families
in an apartment building.
1950. Ki«|
X««»r.u-U Irnve to tttj»£* tm ^
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