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CORSICANA DEMOCRAT AND TRUTH
HATCHER WOULD
SHIFT STATE FUNDS
IN HIS OPINION THERE IS AMPLE
PROVISION FOR DOING TH18
UNDER THE LAW
NO CHARITY REQUESTED
Unhappily Our Highway* are Now
Ful of Tenant Farmers Moving
From tho Dry Counties.
Austin, Texas.—W. G. Hatcher,
State Treasurer, gave out the follow-
ing statement:
"I have visited about fifteen coun-
ties in the drouth area and talked
with the bankers in different towns
in these countleB and conferred
with the business men and county
officials and citizens and have
peached the conclusion that a very
substantial assistance could be ren-
dered to the people In these com-
munlties. If a part of the State's
funds deposited in the reserve and
State depositories scattered over the
State could be shifted to the coun-
ties affected by the drouth, num-
bering perhaps thirty or thirty-five.
"In my opinion there Is ample pro-
vision for doing this under the law
and without working an Injury or
undue hardship upon the other com-
munities of the State.
"There is now deposited in the
State depositories about $4,000,000
and in the reserve depository banks
about $6,000,000.
"It is necessary at all times to keep
available funds to pay the State's ob-
ligations and avoid going on de-
ficiency. However, there are sums in
certain funds amounting to some
12,000,000- to $3,000,000, which even
though the State were on a de-
ficiency would not be paid out, and it
is my idea that these funds should
foe deposited in banks located in the
drouth-stricken counties of Texas.
"The bankers in nearly all of the
counties I have visited have ex-
pressed a desire to be created State
depositories and be alloted these
funds, and with the approval of the
depository board and the receiving of
the security provided for under the
law it is my Intention to deposit
funds in the drouth-stricken counties
with such banks as apply for the
same.
"I have talked with the bonding
companies and will shortly hold an-
other conference with some of the
largest in the State for the purpose
-of obtaining their co-operation in
acting as surety upon the bonds of
banks applying for State funds.
"In the communities < have visited
I have found that the people are
resentful of the idea of having any
charity dealt out to them, but only
want a little financial assistance to
help them overcome their distress
because of the drouth. The majority
of people needing assistance in the
drouth-stricken communities are
those without property and who are
unable to give security and the risk
could only be taken by the bankers
in the different communitis who are
able to estimate the value of the
moral risk. Unhappily our highways
are now full of tenant farmers,
moving from the dry counties to some
other communities seeking employ-
ment, and unless something is done
to alleviate their distress a very large
percentage of the tenant farmers of
the drouth-stricken area of Texas
will move into other communities,
and into the cities and will bring
about a disruption of the farming
conditions in the best communitler
of Texas."
c.
TWO ARE GIVEN UFE
TERMS IN PICKFORD CASE
Two Men Sentenced, While Third l«
Held as Not Guilty.
Loa Angeles, Cal.—Superior Judge
/Victor McLucas sentenced C. Z.
Stephens and Claude Holcomb to
terms of from ten years to life in San
Quentln prison following the con-
viction here of plotting to kidnap
Mary Pickford, film star. He denied
their motion for probation and a new
trial. The defense gave notice of ap-
peal.
Adrian Wood, the third member of
the trio indicted on the charge, waa
acquitted by the Jury.
The three were arrested May 30
last when detectlveB announced that
they had heard them discussing with
Louis Geek, described by the defense
as a police informer, plans to kid-
nap and hold for ransom Jackie
Coogan. Baby Peggy and Pola Negri,
of the films, and the grandchildren of
E. L. Doheny, oil magnate. The final
decision, the investigators testified,
was made in favor of seizing Mary
Pickford and holding her for ransom.
Patches Relnhardt on Front Page.
Chicago.—Germaine "Patches" Rein-
hardt has returned to the limelight
again after a year-long oblivion fol-
lowing her adventure as the sweet-
heart of Richard Loeb, now serving a
life term in prison for the slaying
of Bobby Franks. That romance for-
gotten "Patches" was a member of
a party of high school girls am*
boys which recently narrowly es-
caped death when the automobile la
which they were speeding home from
• cabaret created late a tree.
OF C. SEES
BETTERMENT IN
EUROPE ON WAY
Survey Shows World War Countries
Are Vastly Improving
Washington.—The economic restor-
ation of European countries that par
ticlpated in the World War exhibits
"encouraging progress," said a report
made public by the American section
of the International Chamber of Com
merce, whose committee on economic
restoration has just completed a
survey. Given a continued will for
peace and "the sound leadership
which experience is developing," the
report held that "the upward trend
should continue."
Regarding pessimism existing in
some quarters, the commission re-
called that despite gloomy forecasts
by eminent authorities Ave years ago,
"progress is continuing and is tan
glble."
Political pressure, the report end
ed, would now appear to be more in
termlttent and less definitely obstruc
tive.
The burget position of practically
all European countries has Improved
a number being regarded as satixfac-
tory, the report said, with taxes re-
duced in some of them.
Surveying the Held, the committee
found:
Currency inflation ended, and re-
organization of Independent banks of
issue, nonpolltical, effected through
finance control, in Austria, Poland,
Germany. Hungary, Latvia and the
free city of Danzig.
Currency returned to par in Great
Britain. Sweden, Switzerland and the
Netherlands.
Currency "appears to have been
stabilized definitely," in Austria. Hun-
gary, Poland and Germany, it resting
in the last named "upon what Is prac-
tically a gold basis."
Financial recuperation in Austria
"haB not sufficed to cure all its
economic ills," and its problems are
complicated by one-third of its pop-
ulation being in its capital, Vienna,
because it is a "top-heavy" country.
Belgium's foreign trade situation is
a bright spot with is budgetary re-
ceipts and expenditures tending to-
ward a balance, with its devastated
regions practically reconstructed and
its Treasury situation alone present
"difficulties remaining to be over-
come."
Despite production increases in
France, "the industrial situation is
controlled largely by factors of pub-
lic finance which are still potential
sources of economic disorder." Cur-
rency "remains to be stabilized; the
service of the national debt Is too
heavy for a healthy economic lite:
the budget is not yet Anally and con-
clusively balanced." The permanent
solution of France's financial prob-
lems "may bring about a period of
temporary embarrassment to Industry
and trade" there, as happened in
other countries."
GOVERNMENT MAY
HOLD UP TEXAS COTTON
MEXICO IN NEED
OF STRONG HAND
If Calles Falls to Solve Them, Mex-
ico Will 8uffer for Generations to
Come and Calles Will Sink
Into Oblivion.
Williamston, Mass.—The use of dic-
tatorial methods is now necessary
in Mexico to bring about law and
order, Dr. Guillerme A. Sherrill, sec-
retary of the Inter-American High
Commission, said at the Institute of
Politics at Dr. Leo S. Rowe's round
table conference on Inter-American
relations. He read a communication
described as "very important from J.
Pulg Casaurane, secretary to public
Instruction, at Mexico City, outlining
a program of policy.
"The last revolution in Mexico per-
verted to a considerable extent the
moral sense of the country," he
said. "Bandits have openly pros-
pered and have been rewarded or
bribed or stopped their activities;
mobs have held sway and agrarian
and labor movements have taken a
dangerous dlrtction. To bring order
out of chaos it is necessary to use
dictatorial methods ivithout forget-
ting that the purpose of any dicta-
tirshlp ut present would be only to
pave the way for democracy.
"It would have as its immediate
object the task of directing the
agrarian and labor movements into
conservative channels and checking
self-appointed Generals and grafters
who have Infested the country. Calles
must rise above the personal in-
terests of some of his followers and
guarantee the reiga of law.
"The solution of the agrarian and
labor problems will be the salvation
of Mexico. If Calles fails to solve
them, Mexico will suffer for gen-
erations yet to come, and CaJles will
sink into oblivion. The present
methods of agrarians are misguided.
It' their mistakes are not corrected
the agrarian policy will bo a failure.
"The American Government must
be patient and must exercise great
care in supporting complaints of
American interests in Mexico. In
many cases there has been no de-
nial of Justice to American interests
and appeals to the An.erlcan Gov-
ernment have often had the purpose
of obtaining special prlvillges through
a show of force. This will not do if
the United States Government Is to
develop a policy of friendship toward
Mexico and fulfill its higher mission
as a trustee of Pan-American faith,
CALIFORNIA GIRL KEPT
IN LOCKED CAGE
U. 8. May Allege Lons Star Failure
to Enforoe Fumigation
New Orleans, La.—Drastic measures
against movement of cotton from any
section of Texas or New Mexico Is
threatened. It is known that State
Department of Agricultural oflclals
contemplate demanding that the or-
der requiring fumigation of cotton
from these States be enforced in
strict accordance with interstate ship-
ping laws.
Formal request for Federal enforce-
ment of the fumigation order will be
made, It was learned, at a confer-
ence of two emissaries of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
representatives of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange aid State officials.
It Ib understood that Louisiana of-
ficials have assembled a mass of data
to present to Dr. W. O. Hunter and
Dr. C. F. Jenkins of the Federal
Department of Agriculture to support
their demand, which is said to be
based on the alleged failure of Texas
authorities properly to enforce regu-
lations designed to prevent spread of
the pink bollworm.
It was intimated that the Louisi-
ana department in the past has been
willing to forego full enforcement of
fumigation orders if cotton from in-
fected sections of Texas and New
Mexico were kept from passing into
this State.
Plotters Doomed to Die.
Constantinople.—For conspiring
against the security of the repuhllc,
eleven persons were sentenced to
death at Angora and forty others
were sentenced to various terms of
Imprisonment.
Man to Meet Andrews
Washington.—A call for a general
prohibition conference bas been is-
sued by Alssitant Secretary Andrews
of the Treasury In preparation for
making effective the reorganization
of the dry forces Sept. 1. Participa-
ting will be eight of the nineteen
chiefs of divisions and twenty-two
of the State directors who are expect-
ed to have placea in the new organi-
sation, some aa administrators and
others aa assistaatants. Officials of
the Washington headauartsrs will at-
tend tho conference.
Couple Ashamed to Let World
Know Daughter Is Demented.
Los Angeles, Cal.—A Mexican
couple, ashamed to have their neigh-
bors know the existence of a de-
mented daughter, kept the girl locked
in a wooden cage for years and fed
her as if she were an animal.'
The strange situation was di-
vulged her«s when two police officers
entered the home of Maria and He-
glnlo Seanez, forced open a locked
door and found Josefa Seanez, 23,
lying naked on the floor of a
specially constructed wooden cage.
The parents, recently from El
Paso, tearfully explained that the
girl had been "s^ik in the head"
since birth and that they did not
want the world to know about it.
"We gave her good care," the
parents cried. "We gave her very
good care."
At the psycopathlc ward of the
General Hospital, where the girl
was taken, phylscianB said she was
in excellent health and apparently
had >not been subjected to any ill
treatment.
"The girl was removed solely be-
cause we feared a fire in the frame
structure where the Seanez family
lives," Police Captain Kline said. "We
have known of her case for some
time. The family were entirely in
tLeir rights In holding her. If they
had been wealthy people with a good
home we would have permitted them
to keep her."
The room where JoBefa was kept
was large and clean, and the cage,
made of lattice work, only partly
filled it Acordlng to police, the girl
had plenty of food and ventilation.
PROGRAM FOR PRISON
BODY ANNOUNCED
Segregation of Mentally and Physical'
ly Unfit Is Kecommended.
Austin. Texas.—The annual report
of the Texas committee on prisons
and prison labor has been made pub-
lic. Its principal part is u review of
tiK survey made of the State prison
system.
i'he survey cost the State nothing,
it having been financed by the com-
mittee from private sources, but no-
tation is made that had the pro-
fessional services of the experts
been charged for at the usual rates
the survey would have cost ap-
proximately $150,0000. It is pro-
nounced complete.
The committee has an Indebted-
ness of $4,500 aa a result of its ac-
tivities.
In making its report the commit-
tee announces its program for 1925-
26 as follows:
Educational work based on the sur-
vey findings to inform the public
of prison conditions In order to
equip with accurate Information and
make articulate the enormous public
seutiinent already existing for bet-
terment in Texas.
Collecting data on successful, mod-
ern, scientific prisons and methods
of prison management that have
been developed In other States to
be used in the reorganization of the
T xas prison system.
A survey of conditions in the coun-
ty Jails throughout the State in or-
der that a practical and humane
plan for dealing with offenders nerv-
ing sentences for minor offenses
may be made to supplement the
recommendations bhsed on the find-
ings of the survey.
The committee announces its pur-
pose of organization as follows:
The administration of penal insti-
tutions by competent men and wom-
en, selected for their fitness to train
prisoners and to conduct prisons on
a basis so fair and just that the
prisoners receive incentive to become
law-abiding members of the com-
munity when released from prison.
The remanding of every person
convicted of crime, after conviction
and before sentence, to a classifica-
tion station for thorough examina-
tion, physical and mental and ac-
cording to the work record and other
previous experience in life. The fix-
ing of sentences according to the
report and recommendations of this
examination.
The distribution of men and women
physically and mentally diseased to
hospitals or other custodial institu-
tions.
The release of men and women
from the industrial prisons only
when so trained that they are com-
petent to take useful places in so^
ciety.
The employment of all persons
confined in industrial prisons at work
as nearly as possible adapted to their
capabilities for which they receive
adequate wages from which shall be
deducted the cost of their keep—the
balance of wages so paid to be
the property of the. prisoners and
available for the support of their
dependents or funded against the day
of their release.
The careful study of the abolition
of the practice of confining per-
sons sentenced for crime in Jails
under city and county control with
the resulting Idleness and degreda-
tlon and the substitution of a better
system.
CONDENSED AOSTIN NEWS
Former Senator Gray Dlea.
Wilmington, Del.—George Gray,
S5, former United StateB Senator
from Delaware and retired Judge
of the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals, is dead.
Man Hunt at Standstill
Salem, Ore.—The man hunt for
Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelly and
Pames Willows, escaped Salem con-
victs, has reached a standstill.
Man and Wife 8laln.
Muncle, Ind.—Ben Hance and his
wife were shot to death here by a
man who Hance Identified shortly
before hiB death aB George (Dutch)
Anderson, companion of Gerald
Chapman, notorious mail robber who
is now under death sentence In the
Connecticutt State prison for the
murder of a New Britain, Conn.,
police officer. Anderson escaped with
Chapman from the Federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta, Ga., where be was
serving a sentence fcr robbing the
United Sttes malls.
CALLS ARE MADE FOR
COTTON PICKERS
Picking Will Begin in Many Sections
Next Week.
Fort Worth, Texas.—The Farm
Labor Division, United States Em-
ployment Service, at present has calls
for 100 white or negro families to
pick cotton and new fields will be
calling for pickers by the latter part
of next week, It was said by C. W.
Woodman, assistant director of the
division. At present there is no de-
mand for single hands.
Farmers where possible should ar-
range with their local Chambers of
Commerce to have families delivered
to some certain person, who In turn
can place them where needed, Mr.
Woodman sayB.
Three field men will be sent by Mr.
Woodman into the drouth-stricken
section of the State next week to
ascertain the surplus labor situation
there and to direct those desiring
to pick cotton to other sections In
a manner that will prevent con
gestlon in any one district.
Hindenburg's Son His Adjutant.
Berlin.—Maj. Oscar Hindenburg,
Who, until his father's election as
President of the German Republic,
was stationed with the Hanover Cav-
alry School, has been transferred to
the Defense Ministry.
Smith to Visit Texas Oil Fields.
Austin. Texas.—Lon A. Smith, State
Railroad Commissioner is on a tour
of inspection of some of the Texas
oil fields. He will visit Rockdale,
Mexla and Corslcana and Waskom,
completing the trip with a visit to
the Harrison County field. He will at-
tend the meeting of the Railroad
Co-imlason of the Southwest Division
of Texarkana. Mr. Smith will visit
Houston, Beaumont, Orange, Humble,
(loose Creek, Columbia and Liberty
fields. This Is Mr. Smith's first
trip of inspection of oil fields
Revenue amounting to approximate-
ly |Cti,00u aunually is received by
the University of Texas from rental
of residences and summer c#uip sites.
* * •
Oil gathered by pipe lines In Texas
in June amounted to 12,684,026 bar-
rels, an increase of 1,113,254 barrels
compared with the previous month,
the oil aud gas division of the
Railroad Commission reported.
• * •
Gross receipts tax collections for
the quarter ending June 30 aggre-
gated $1,683,000, Comptroller S. H.
Terrell has anjounced. Collections
of tax on production of crude oil
for the current quarter amounted to
$l,400,i)00.
• • •
The Railroad Commission gave
notice of bearing for Sept. 8 to con-
sider an application of the carrier
to apply the rough rice rates at min-
imum on carload shipments of rice,
bran and rice hulls which had beer
accorded transit privileges.
• • •
' So that farmers can receive an
advance of $85 per bale, the Texas
Cotton Growers' Finance Corporation
has amended Its charter by increas-
ing its capital stock from $100,000
to $200,000. It is a subsidiary of the
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Associa-
tion.
• • •
It has been held by the Attorney
General that funds of Harris County
can not be used to dig trenches for
the burial of cattle destroyed in
eradicating the hoof and mouth dis-
ease. The expense will have to be
borne by the State or Federal Gov-
ernment.
* * *
Assistant Attorney General Clifford
L. Stone conferred with defense
council in the case of the State' vs.
Henry Henke, et al. for $30,000 dam-
ages, the value of shell, sand and
gravel taken from alleged jubllc
lands at Morgan's Point, without
payment to the State.
• • •
A. D. Mangham has been nominated
and confirmed for retention as store-
keeper-accountant at the San Antonio
State Hospital. His nomination was
made by Dr. W. J. Johnson, who
becomes superintendent at San An-
tonio on Sept. 1 and confirmation
was made by the State Board of Con
trol.
• * •
Cotton shippers of the Sta'.e have
asked the Railroad Commission for
a further conference in the matter
of a revision of the cotton rates in
Texas and the Railroad Commission
will hear them some time In the
future, the date yet to be fixed.
Whether It will be a formal hear-
ing or an Informal discussion is un-
decided.
• • •
Appeal in the first case where a
woman has been convicted of violat-
ing the liquor law since the Court of
Criminal Appeals adjourned for the
Bummer vacation in June has been
filed. The defendant is Elnor Knight,
convicted in Potter County of pos-
eessing liquor and sentenced to one
year.
• • •
All cotton fields of Presidio and
Brewster counties must be cleaned of
all bolls prior to February 1 of every
year, while all cotton fields In the
counties of El Paso, Hudspeth, Ward
Reevef and Pecos fbund to be in-
tested with the pink boll worm
must be subject to the same treat-
ment, Geo. B. Terrell, commission-
er of agriculture, said.
• • •
The Attorney General's Depart-
ment in an opinion to the Railroad
Commission advised that it bas no
objection to the granting of the ap-
plication of the Gulf ft Interstate
Railway Company for a certificate
of public convenience and necessity
authorizing it to acquire and operate
the properties of the Santa Fe Dock
and Channel Company.
• • •
Unless a tropical storm or other
disaster occurs, sufficient revenue
will be realised from cropB on the
farms of the State prison system to
pay off the entire prison debt by
the middle of next November, Judge
F. L. Hawkins of the Court of Crim-
inal Appeals said on his return to
Austin from a vacation In the coaet
country, followed by a trip through
Retrieve, Harlem and other State
farms.
• • •
Plans for conducting experiments
in reforestation on all three classes
of pine have been completed and
material progress made toward start-
ing the actual work, it was an-
nounced here by E. O. Siecke, State
Forester, who was In Austin regard-
ing title to a third tract of land
which is soon to come under the
control of the State Board of For-
estry, consisting of the president of
the A. ft M. College, the State Land
Commissioner and the State For-
ester.
* • •
Returning to Austin from Fort.
Worth where be held a conference
with C. W. Woodman, assistant di-
rector of the Federal Labor Depart-
ment, E. J. Crocker, Texas Labor
Commissioner, announced that ho
made arrangements for continuing
State free employment agencies after
September 1, when State runds 'or
the conduct of such agencies will
be available. Commissioner Crockett
said the arrangment was only tem-
porary. the Federal autborlUss agree-
ing to continue to work through
tho present season.
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i CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP IS j
j CHILD'S BEST LAXATIVE \
• •
HURRY MOTHER! Even a fretful,
peevish child loves the pleasant taste
of "California Fig Syrup" and it never
fulls to open the bowels. A teaspoon-
ful today may prevent a sick child to-
morrow.
Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup" which has directions
for bubles and children of all ages
printed on the bottle. Mother! You
must say "California" or you may get
an Imitation tig syrup.
For over 50
years it has been
the household
remedy for all
forms of -W■
It is a Reliable,
General Invig-
orating Tonic.
Malaria
Chills
and
Fever
Dengue
Camela Going
Arab sheiks are taking lo automo-
biles. Camels are going out of style,
even in the desert areas. Proof la the
continued requests from the Near East
for American cars.
Quick
Safe
Relief
COICNS
In one mlnute-or ItM-the pain end*. Dr.
scholl • Zino-pad It the safe, iure, healing
treatment for corns At drug and shoe store*
DlScholl's
j&ino-pads
Put one on - the pain «'« goaa
Variety
"Do you have much variety at your
boarding house';"
"Well, we have three different namel
for the meals."—South Wales Echo.
Firat Aid
"Were you bashful the first time yon
railed on a girl?" "Why, yes, but her
futlier helped lue out."
A project for the construction of
a system of canals lu Poland to con-
nect the Baltic aud the ltlack seas, is
being advanced by a syndicate there.
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If you have reason to suspect faulty
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