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El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
Sunday, September 19, 1948
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The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Servirg a Bine Ribbon Community
Usutd daily except Saturday from 207 South Rock Island Avenue,
aid entered as second-class mall matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
RAY J. DYER
Publisher
BUDGE HARLE DEAN
Managing Editor Business
HARRY SCHROEDER
Circulation and Office Manager
WARD
Manager
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Hey, Somebody's Dragging Their Feet!
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Sunday, September 19, 1948
Cruelty and falsehood destroy us more certainly than they do the
victims of these ugly sins. The perfect preventive of these errors is
treasuring mercy and truth as precious virtues.—Prov. 3:3: Let not
mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck; write them
upon the table of thine heart.
Science Is Emotionless
SCIENCE offers “the best hope of mankind’s becoming one
^ world in purpose and objectives,” says the centennial
pmerr^m of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
It offers the following reasons to bolster an understand-
ably biased opinion: “Science is universal. It recognizes no
national boundaries, is limited by no racial prejudices, fol-
lows no dogma or party line. Whether a discovery in science
is made by an Englishman, a Russian or a Japanese is not
important. All that matters is the soundness of the work
itself. When a scientific paper is published no one asks if
it were written by a Negro, a Roman Catholic, a Jew or
a Seventh Day Adventist. The paper is judged by what it is,
not by who did the research which it reports.”
The trouble with that reasoning is that the AAAS
spokesman is writing about the world of science, not the
worlA in which scientists must live. When he neglects to
~ limit his observations to the world of science he invites the
suspicion that he is paying no attention to what is going
on outside his laboratory. The fact that he is writing in an
AAAS publication, and apparently with the association’s
approval, does little to recommend scientists as the instru-
ments of world unity.
* * *
Out Our Way
By J. R. Williams
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WON a bet. An arlidc ap-
pearing
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in The Oklahoman
indicated some question as to
whether Governor Turner wculd
welcome Governor Warren. I
took the stand that Governor
Turned could be depended on to
be first, last and all the time a
gentleman and that neither
position nor politics coitld in-
fluence him to da otherwise.
Saturday mornings Oklahoman
confirmed my j-Kliment, so I’m
one up on the dope who bet
that no good Democrat, r eg aid-
less of position cr manners,
would welcome a Republican
candidate into this state.
Every day I’m impressed with
the variety of things people are
doing to make money. Saw a
little gismo yesterday that any
lady eye-glasses wearer might
have dreamed up but didn't. It
is only a ribbon with suction
cups at the ends which fit on
the bows of one’s glasses. When
the glasses are on the face, the
ribbon fits up under the hair in
the back; when off they are
suspended around the wearer’s
neck by The ribbon. I do not
question the success of the ar-
ticle and I hope every friend I
have who weafs sun glasses will
buy one of these gimmicks and
hang her glasses around her
neck so we won’t have to go
back after them. I’m immedi-
ately getting one for me for my
reading glasses^
The home nursing classes are
nearly full. The night class is
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From Hike in interest Rates
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NLA Staff Correspondent
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WASHINGTON— (NEA)—When the information leaked out that
Veterans’ Administrator Carl Gray was considering hiking the
interest rate on GI home loans, veterans who had applications in the
mill got a nasty jolt. And so did the government effort .to check
.•nflatjon.
The curious part of the whole business is that Gray apparently
didn’t want the power to raise the interest on guaranteed mortgages
from 4 to 4% per cent which the special session of Congress gave him.
He certainly didn’t ask for it. And it’s obviously contrary to the
President’s announced policy of trying to hold the line against in-
complete and w’e can take but i creasing prices at every possible point. Yet Congress barely got out
of town before it was out of the bag that Gray was seriously con-
sidering using that power which would add to the inflationary spiral.
WHO can remember Hitler’s nazification of Goman science
” and still say that no one asks the race or religion
of the scientist? Who can read of today’s sovietized science
in Russia and say that science follows no party line? Who
can imagine what would have happened if Germany or
Japan had been the first to have the atomic bomb, and still
say that the nationality of a scientific discoverer is not im-
portant ?
The scientists seem to forget that they do not market
their own product. Their discoveries pass into the hands
of government or private commerce. The scientists and those
who develop and exploit these discoveries are bound by the
laws and policies of the government under which they live.
‘ Thus applied science can he intensely nationalistic.
But pure science is not hampered by bigotry and preju-
dice. It is concerned wjth the product, not the color or extra-
scientific beliefs of the producer. Then, one might ask. why
not let the scientists run the world’s governments in this
scientific age?
The flaw in that idea is that science hus no morals,
either. It is an impersonal, emotionless pursuit.
TIIE STORY! Dying in the In- nothing was disturbed. Sabrina
dian desert, British secret agent
Hilary Shenstone feels a desper-
ate need to get back to England
and to Nuns Farthing, his family
home, lie doesn’t know the house
has been let and that dreamy, 17-
year-old Sabrina, whom he has
never met, has adopted his old
room and eagerly awaits his re-
turn. Hilary clow return to Fng-
laml and to Nuns Farthing—after
death, lie is in his old attic room
had formed a childish attachment
for the man whose books she had
been reading, and perhaps the
news of his death was a little
sudden. . . . 4
* * *
pEORGE SHENSTONE had only
succeeded In looking bewil-
pURE science has never balked at its function of uncover*
* jug and utilizing the mysteries of nature. And even if
its practitioners were empowered to apply science to every-
day- life as heads of government, there is no assurance that
their professional lack of morality or their unprofessional
human emotions would permit them to do better than the
when Sabrina comes up. She is
unaware of his presence hut Hil-
ary manages to get through to
dared. But Aunt Effie had con-
vinced herself that the room
should now be definitely closed.
“Mr. Shen stone’s mother feels
it, and then went on to Aunt
Effie’s dismayed face, and came
al last to George, who was wish-
ing he had brought his mother
along to tell him what to do.
“I think, sir, that .at least for
the time being—**
“Very well, Mrs. Pilton, I leave
it entirely to you,” he agreed
hastily.
“Thank you, sir.**
"Now, Sabrina, you’re
’■wrought and hysterical.”
that if we don’t need the room, Effie laid an urgent arm
over-
Aunt
about
he her. “I want you to come along
v/hich of course we don’t,
would like to keep it closed a 1 to your room and lie down quietly
her a little an she seems happy, while.’* she went on to Sabrina.1 till dinner time.”
Hilary realises she is the girl he “So Mrs. Pilton is going to pu. Thwarted, rebellious, convinced
would have loved if he had lived. 0ut the dust-sheet-:, just as they
Next day, Sabrlaa learns of Hill always used to do when he wol*
ary’s death from his brother. | coming back, you kdow, draw
George.
oi some deliberate conspiracy
against herself, and against Hil-
arv if it came to that, Sabrina
two or three more in the after-
noon class. This is the class
which will meet Tuesday. Thurs-
day and Saturday afternoons. 2
to 4 o’clock. After the. class gets
organized, if Saturday seems
like not such a good time, Miss
Wilson is willing to teach it
Friday morning or afternoon.
Don’t let the idea of giving up
your week-ends for two weeks
keep you from enroling. You
can call the Red Cross office
Monday and first calls get the
places now open.
For the next two weeks I shall
be hopping around like a flea on
a hot griddle. The office force
can take care of most anything,
but if you think you need me
personally don’t hesitate to call
me at home at right. I’m ctill
on 24-hour duty.
AGITATION to increase the interest rate on GI home loans began
many months ago. The sale of homes to veterans constituted a
large hunk of the nation’s housing business. The banks and agencies
which were financing the sales naturally wanted more interest on
their money. The 4 per cent rate fixed in the GI Bill of Rights was
quite a bit lower than the regular non-government loans were bring-
ing, and cost the vet from one-half to one per cent less than the gov-
ernment’s FHA guaranteed Joans.
While the lending agencies sought the Increase, they were also
putting considerable pressure on veterans to make special combination
VA-FHA loans. This type guaranteed the lender 100 per cent of his
money. The straight GI loans only guaranteed 50 per cent of it up
to a maximum guarantee of $4000.
On a $10,000 Lome under the straight VA plan a vet ended up
paying about $14,311 for it, including interest. Under the combination
plan he eventually paid, about $15,513 for the same house.
This whole situation of lenders tending to shy away from straight
GI loans was presented to the recent special session as a “drying up
of the GI loan market,” caused by the low 4 pbr cent interest rate.
On this basis Gray, without asking for it or wanting it, was given
the power to increase the rate a half of per cent.
Jobs for Older Workers
Called Future Problem
laymen are doing: today.
If there is ever to lie world unity, it still seems that the
only force that can achieve it is the force of individual
morality and humanity exerted through world governments.
: We doubt that the American Association for the Advance-
?ment of Science can produce such a force. What is probably
^needed is an International Society for the Elimination of
-Human Cussedness.
Down Memory Lane
Sept. 19, 1923 ,*
Recent rains have put the highway between El Reno
and the Fort Reno reservation in an almost impassable
condition. In an effort to aid traffic, County Commissioners
Lilly and Thomason this morning employed a man with a
team to be stationed along the highway to assist all vehicles
in pulling through the mud. , ” '
Sheriff Tom Shack let t and Undersheriff John Hackett
XXI
OABRINA, flung face down across
^ Hilary’s bed. drained dry of
tears and spent with sobbing,
heard them—too late—coming up
the stairs. Hilary, who was hang-
ing over her in an agony of help-
lessness—“But I’m here, my dar-
ling—I’m quite safe, I’ve come
back to you, can’t you under-
stand?”—retreated to the far cor-
ner by the chest of drawers to
watch whatever form of desecra-
tion, George would choose to visit
upon his brother’s property.
He had been sitting by the win-
dow when George drove up. and so
had witnessed the brief tableau
under the tree, and Sabrina’s
stumbling escape to the house. Her
first headlong dash for sanctuary
had carried her blindly past her
own bedroom door and up the sec-
ond flight of stairs to him. But
so far it was beyond his power to
penetrate her grief with any sense
of his usual invisible presence.
the curtains, just to keep the sun i allowed Aunt Effie to lead her
from the carpet, and—” away toward her own room. She
Just as she was quieting, limp and
receptive, just as he hoped to | things!” cried Sabrina, and sprang
While Aunt Effie prattled on.
Sabrina’s stricken eyes sought the
housekeeper’s in a look of sheer
despair. Without seeming to avoid
that appealing glance, but equally
without responding to it. Mrs. Pil-
ton bent to shroud a chair with
swift, competent movements. Her
dark, secretive face was set in its
habitual calm. ,
And George—her eyes went back
heavily to Hilary’s brother—
George was at the defenseless
desk. Efficiently his thick hands
went through the blotter and the
drawers down the left side, tear-
ing the written sheets of personal
letters across and across as he
came to them.
“Tidy blighter, wasn’t he!”
George was saying. “Not much to
do after all. Oh. yes. his clothes.
Mother said he took almost noth-
ing with him that day. and the
village people might as well have
whatever’s here.” He went to set
the leaves of the wardrobe ajar.
glanced back from the top of the
stairs, and saw George reaching
aeft ssojob sintmno aqi mup
sunny window by the desk, and
noticed how his coat pulled in
ugly straining wrinkles across his
ugly fat back. . . .
(To Be Continued)
TJECAUSE Gray hadn’t sought the power, it was logically assumed
that he wouldn’t be in a hurry to use it. But Gray immediately .
wrote to~the heads of the 70 regional offices asking them to investigate
whether the increase was actually needed to spur on the loan program.
And, as is his habit, he also wrote to the big veterans’ organizations
asking their opinion. He must have known, however, that every one
W ■ | of them had just gone on record opposing it.
CHICAGO SfTOfc 13__npj_ By The letter-writing let the cat out of the bag. As soon as the lenders
thp venr onift fh* .-i-r’.ovwnt Vf got wind of the fact that Gray was seriously considering raising the
5 rate, most of them naturally stopped negotiation on loans at the lesser
rate, many of which were in the final stages of approval. Before this
happened, however, many of the reports from the VA regional offices
had shown that the GI loan market was far from drying up.
But the damage was done. The very situation which the agitators
for the hike wanted, automatically came into being. The market
virtually did dry up. And it practically placed Gray in the uncom-
Tbe increase carries with it cer- fortable position of being forced into raising the interest rate. Only
tain significant changes in the na-' an order of President Truman himself to Gray could keep him from
men and women over 4"» will be
a major problem cf America’s in-
I dps try.
Investigators at Northwestern
university said the overage age of
America’s workers is increasing.
j
Lesson in En
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do
not say, “His brother replaced him
as manager.” Say, “His brother
succeeded him.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Nep-
tune. Pronounce last syllable as
tune, u as in use, and not choon.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Franchise;
tee, tnough pronounced ize.
SYNONYMS: Sluggish, slothful,
tions employment problems, Aht immediately it became apparent that the opposition to the hike
economists said.
would be licked. The Veterans of Foreign Wars national encampment
The older workers will benefit quickly voted approval of report which read, “We recommend with
over young workers through : on- reluctance this necessary evil of the home loan guarantee program.”
iority, but once unemployed, the At the time the bill was passed giving Gray the power to make the
older worker will be in for a long ' inc ease it v ns sagely remarked that it would put the administration
siege, they saU. The hops of th3 xietatly over the barrel*
older union member is that his
union can write seniority clauses
into the contracts with employers
providing fer his re-employment
first in case of layoffs. • I
Hospital Notes
Mrs. L. C. Wheeler and daugh-
drowsy, inactive.
Use a word
were very busy today making out tax warrants for those
who have failed to pay their personal taxes. A total of 566
warrants are in the hands of the sheriff.
J. A. Shuck left Monday for Dallas, Tex., where he will
attend the convention of a photographers* association.
Sept. 19, 1938
Two WPA projects in Canadian county—one in El Reno
and the other in Yukon—were listed today for immediate
approval. One project will provide $12,000 for improving
streets in El Reno while the other calls for expenditure of
$14,816 for new gutters and curbing in Yukon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wallis and their niece, Miss Leona
Scarlett, spent Sunday in Chickasha.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Garner, 708 North Hoff avenue,
have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Anna
Fay, to Chester M. Davis of Tulsa. The ceremony took place
Saturday afternoon at Norman.
reach her once more with some
form of comfort, George and Aunt
Effie entered, followed by Mrs.
Pilton carrying a pile of folded
dust-sheets.
Sabrina sat up on the bed and
looked at them breakly, making
no move to go.
“Oh, there you are, darling,”
Aunt Effie began, too brightly.
“We were just saying downstairs
dull, indolent,
inert. ~
WORD STUDY:
No. no. you shan’t touch his three tlmes and il is you” " ^ as
increase our vocabulary by master-
ing one word each day. Today’s
word: EXONERABLE; to relieve, as
of a charge; to free from blame.
“Your testimony will exonerate him.’’
up to4snatch the wardrobe door
out of his hand and slammed it
shut and set her back against it
protectively. Haven’t you any
feeling—haven’t you any common
decency, to give his things away
to the first village lout who hap-
pens to be the same size?”
* * *
Another danger to the aging-ter, EuLna, Ttae, were taken from
worker is the increased rate of the El Reno .sanitarium Saturday
technological change. A high rate to their home at 320 South Ma-
Problem a Day
A flywheel 8 ft. 4 in. in diameter
is attached to a shaft whose end
of change creates opportunity for comb avenue. The baby was born
young workers and endangers the
older man, the economists said.
Friday.
Mrs. William Wosika and infant
rests upon the floor. In describing
the circumference of a circle around
An aging labor force lacks gon 315 south Evans avenue, were
adaptability, yet the older force
has greater stability which may
contribute to greater efficiency,
the economists concluded.
S
HE
weak.
began to cry again in a
spent- way, bent over
BARGAIN DAY IN P. O.
McAllen, Tex.—(U.R)—“The best
bargain we ever offered and not
a single complaint from the cus-
tomers.” That’s how Postmaster
Al Weir explained the public re-
you mustn’t take this too hard. Be- [ sidewise as though she had a
cause after aU. as Mr. Shenstonc, broken wing, thought George,
has very sensibly pointed out. it
isn’t as though you had ever ac-
tually met his brother, is it?”
watching her helplessly.
“Mrs. Pilton” cried Sabrina,
clinging to the wardrobe door,
action when a stamp machine
went wrong and clicked through
five 3-cent stamps for a dime.
taken to their home from the
sanitarium Friday. The baby was
born Sept. 13.
Bill Bryant, 120 South Admire
avenue, was dismissed from the
sanitarium Friday. He was ad-
TOO MANY MOVIES
CHICAGO —(U.R)— A man who niitted Sept. 14 for medical treat-
hasn’t been inside a movie theater | ment.
in 10 years said he was sick of the
movies and retired from work. Roy
G. Harris, Chicago censorship clerk,
the point upon which the end of
the shaft rests, the wheel revolves
3-2/3 times. What Is the length of
the shaft?
ANSWER -
15-5/18 ft. Iviuitiply 8-1/3 by
3-2/3 by 1/2. It is unnecessary to
multiply 8-1/3 by 3.141$ pi> as
later in the problem pi is used as
a divisor, thereby cancelling it. 1
said he spent more than 20 years
answering complaints from honest
critics and cranks about the movies j
shown in Chicago and now he’sr
“Just plain sick of ’em.’’
Bud’ Thompson
Aunt Effie had been trying to (“promise you won’t take his things
explain Sabrina’s odd behavior to jawav! Promise you’ll leave his
Hilary’s brother. She had told him clothesflBHH ■■■■i
---PUBLIC sale-
building CONTRACTOR
that her niece had found her way
into Hilary’s room. . . . Mrs. Pilton
had thought it all right as long as
The housekeeper straightened
from swathing the bed in white,
and her eyes met Sabrina’s across
I will sell the following described property at public auction on
the Myrtle Barker farm, located/ 10 miles west, 4 miles south,
and mile west of El Reno on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1948 starting
at 11 a. m. •’ WWNFfMMf n , ••
Will Begin Construction at Once
on 10 New 5- and 6-Room Homes
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Potts and Mrs. Hattie Davis, ac-
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Merle K. Potts of Tulsa, visited
Saturday with relatives in Lawton.
Mrs, Alma Roper and Mrs. Mary Fornew spent the
week-end with friends in Chickasha.
¥
PICNICS
ONF. DAY SERVICE ON YOUR FILMS
Leave Films One Day—Get Them the Next Evening
We have all Kinds of Supplies for Your Picnics,
So Come On out Today!
Roll Film Finished 35c-Double Size Prints 6c
OPEN SUNDAYS
CATTLE— 1 Whiteface cow, fresh In January, giving 3 gallons
milk; 1 Black-Whiteface cow 4 yr. old, fresh in Dec., giving 3
gallons; 1 Roan Whiteface cow, 4 yrs. old, fresh in Feb., giving
3 gallons; 1 Roan cow 6 years old, fresh in Jan., giving 3 gallons;
2 Roan cows, 5 years old, fresh in Jan., giving 2 gallons; 2 Hol-
<ein cows. 6 yrs. old, fresh in Jan., giving 3 gallons; 1 Holstein
cow. 5 yrs. old, fresh in Jan., giving 3 gallons; 1 Whiteface cow,
3 yrs. old, fresh Jan., giving 3 gallons; 1 White Durham bull, 3
years old; 2 Black Whiteface liclfer calves, 10 months old; 1
Whiteface heifer calf, 10 months old; 3 Holstein bull calves; 1
Whiteface bull calf. HOGS—4 Shoats, weight about 100 lbs. each;
1 Boar, weight about 300 lbs.; 1 Cow, weight about 300 lbs.; 2
in Southwest Section of El Reno
$7,000 to 88,500
FHA AND GI APPROVED
CONTACT ME NOW ... You Can Select Your
Poland China Pigs, 6 months old, eligible for registry; About 30
small pigs. HORSES—1 Blue horse, 8 years old; 1 Blue-Roan
/
9:00 A. M.
9:00 P. M.
Mare, 3 years old; 1 Blue-Roan Horse, 2 years old; 1 Blue year-
ling colt. One Allis Chalmers Combine. Borne Household Goods.
Home While Under Construction.
CHAMBERS GROCERY
Red Rock Ladies Will Serve Loach At Noon
Telephone ?$$ # DRUGS and JEWELRY • HI 8. Bickford
1319Hi South Evans (Off the MiU Road)
—Plenty of Shrimp for You Fishermen
RACHEL BARKER GARRISON and SONS, OWNERS
PHONE 2413
Everett, Werner and Thorp, Auctioneers
First National Bank, El Reno, C!?rk
723 South Reno
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