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VOLUME 51
Ou the "Broadway of America."
NAPLES, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION
Editor's Note: Following are
questions and answers prepared
by R. B. Anderson, chairman-dir-
ector of the Texas Unemployment
Compensation Commission, which
is an interpretation in simplified
terms of the various provisions
of the recently enacted Texas Un
employment Tjompensation Act.
Further questions and answers
in thfef aeries will appear in this
paper from time to time.
fits"dKarged against you are n°t! UnhhPnin0*
more th5n *330 nor less than $80. WGWSy nappeniTlgS
$10,000, average annual payroll
1,080, contributions from 193(5
to 1941.
330, benefits paid out from 193G
to 1941.
750, excess of contributions
over benefits.
750, seven and one-half per cent
of your average annual payroll, i Rocky Point, Feb. 3.
$1,080 total contributions. .Mrs. Hfcks Wommack were Sun-
80> total benefits paid out. (day guilts of Mr. and Mrs. C. E
1,000, excess of contributions j Wommack.
over benefits. j Mr. ami Mrs. C. H. Awtry had
1,000, ten per ccnt of your " their guests Sunday iMr. and
average annual payroll. Mrs. J. W. Garrett and children
2. The second merit rating is J' W., Jr., and Mildred, of Lone
for all employers whose excess'Oak, M'r. ahd Mrs. Ennis Smith
o; contributions over benefits Is'and little daughter, Peggy Sue,
more fffan fen cer cent. These ,°f Dalton, Mrs. Kathleen Nickels
employers get a tax rate of nine- ,an<l Miss Eva Awtry of Linden.
tenthT'cf one per cent on their: George ICesseler was Tuesday
payroll. night guest of Mr. and Mrs. Neu-
3 The third rating under tlie .gent Kesseler.
merit system is a demerit rating. | We are very sorry to report
Those whose benefits paid out ex- 'grandmother Reid on the sick list,
ceed the total of thfcir contribu-jWe wish for her a speedy re-
tions must pay a tax rate of 3.6 covery
What is the IMferit System of
Rating?
Quetion 21: :'"Just what is
meant by the merit system of rat-
ing for employers under the Tex-
as Unemployment Compensation
Actr
Answer: The theory of the
merit system of rating is that the
employer with a good labor rec-
ord—one whose employment is
stabilized—should be rewarded
and the employer with a bad rec-
ord "should be penalized.
So far as contributions are con-
cerned. the merit system will go
into effect after December 31
1940; will affect the tax on pay-
rolls during 1941 and succeeding
years.
But the merit system is actually
In effcct today. The Commission
will keep a separate account for
ench employer, starting with
that employer's first tax pay
mc-nts. This account will con-
tain two items: 1. the total of
his contributions or taxes, and 2
the totar'compensation or benefits
paid out to those who had been
employed by him—that is, those
benefits directly chargeable to
his particular account.
Beginning with payments ^ due
tn January, 1941, it will be possi
hie for an employer to have e
record which will enable him to
pay a lower tax rate; or, if his
record is bad his rate will be
more than the average.
It must be maBe plain that the
merit system does not mean that
employees of a certain firm will
draw benefits from the contribu-
tions made only by that firm. Ai:
the money collected will go into
one big fund, and all employees
in tin state share jointly in that
fund.
Th>. merit system is solely a
vtf'n of bookkeeping. The
rates under the merit system will
be explained m the next article.
How Mtuc*i Docs an Employer
Pay Under the Merit System?
Question 22: "How will the
amount of tax that 1, as an em-
ployer, pay under the merit ays-
lem be determined?
Answer: When the Commisson
nets your tax rate for 1941 and
after, your personal account will
be consulted as to 1; the total
amount you have contributed t<
the fund; and 2 the total amount
of benefits charged against those
contributions.
With the^se two totals as a
base, an exact mathematical
formula has been set down in the
taw for the working out of the
rate. It can best be demonstrated
by ti king a hypothetical case.
Suppose your average annual
lyroll for five years—1936-1940
—was $10,000 a year. At the
fixed tax rates set down in the
law for those years, your total
ontr buttons by 1941 would be
?l,0f0.
Now subtract the total amount
of benefits charged against your
account from the total of your
contributions. The law says that
if the amount you paid in exceeds
the amount paid out to your em-
ployees by a sum equal to 7'^ to
10 r-«r cent of your average an-
From Rocky Point
Local and Personal News of th«
Community.
-Mr. and
per cent unless they can show
M'rs. Aycliie Heard has bepn
some unusual reason such a1? ca^'ct' away from home on account
fire, act of God, etc., for high un- sickness of her mother, aunt
employment record. ni' uncle. We hope they will
4. For all employers whose 00,1 ahle to be up and going
records'" are not good enough to
entitle them to a merit rating.
and whose records are not bad
enough to place them in the de-
merit class, the rate from 1940 on
will be 2.7 per cent on their pay-
roll.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
IN LONE OAK
If you have any questions con-
cerning the operation of this law
it affects employers or workers,
you can have your questions an-
swered by writing to R. II. An-
derson, chairman, Texas Unem-
ployment Compensation Commis-
sion, Austin.
Local and Personal News of
terest.
In-
Mildred Garrett
RELIEF MACHINERY
GEARED TO HIGH PITCH
Fighting the Greatest Emergency
Since the War.
In Washington tpis week clone
to a efiozen government agencies I
havo been gearingIkhcmPelves up!
to meet what Rearf Admiral Cary|
L. Grayson, national Red Cross
head, describes wi 'Hhe greatest i
emergency since tl'e World War. ';
Tho army, the n*r, the Coast j
Guard, the Civilian Conservation!
Corps, the far-flung labcr reser-
voir of the 'WorkJ Progress Ad-
ministration, the Red Proust func-
tioning for all pifwtieal purposes
like an arm of tfco government
—all tResc and a wrinkling of in-
valuably useful smaller agencies
mobilized themselves to cave the
millions of fellow-Americans in
the Ohio and "Mississippi Valleys
from tfTe ravages and perils of
tho nation's worst flood.
More than 10ft,000 men and
women as government employes
in one way or another have beeh
conrfcripted or accepted as volun-
teers in a vast salvaging army
Executives and sjibcxecutives by
hundreds, if not; by thousands
have been ordered away from
their routine tasks and, either
in the floiod'zone or in their ih«
cessently telephone-jangled
Washington offices, yoked to-
gether in unfamiliar combina-
tions with vast emergency re-
sponffliilities.
TAKE THE PROFIT HAS PERFECT RECORD
OUT OF ffAR, SAYS ! AS TAX COLLECTOR
SENATOR CONNALLY
_______ Uses System Which Has Never
Washington D. C. Feb. 1, 1937 j Failed ,n 32Ye*"-
—-"Taka the profit out of war* is1
the aim of legislation introduced Sheffield, Mass.—Clarence H.
by Senator Tom Connally today I Warner, tax collector of this
in Congress, Through taxation, {0W.n (QV thirty-two years, has
NUMBER 44
Qn the "Broadway of America."
the Connally measure drafts in
dustry and wealth and effectively
prevents war-time profiteering.
Should the United States become
engaged in War, increased tax
rates and reduced exemptions for
individuals would automatically
become effective. Personal ex-
emptions >vould be lowered to
?8(M) and 1,600 for single and
married persons, respectively, and
the rate of tax would ge 10 per-
cent, with a surtax beginning, one g„es about it right," he de-
with 6 percent on the first thous-j clares. "I try to impress upon
and dollars in excess of the ex-1 the se reluctant to pay that they
emption and reaching a maxi- j v.ill have to settle with the town
nmrn of 80 percent. Corporation • jome t/me or their property will
taxation would multiply in likejbe sold. I suggest that they pay
manner. on the installment plan and some
Disturbing economic and social 0t- them do.
made 100 per cent collections
each year. With no back taxes
due, the town of 1,810 inhabitants
bcriows no money, except once
in a hundred years or so when
it wants to build a school house
rr town hall.
Mr. Warner has had opposition
fei election only three times and
then his opponents were snowed
under.
"It is easy to collect taxes if
conditions, particularly in the
European areas, lend impetus
"One farmer said he had no
mrney, but he tlid have cows and
and need for the enactment of j viould 'T take a couple of them
v-ar revenue legislation at this j for the tax? I did. On another
Newsy Notes
From Dalton
Interesting New y Itemr
Personal Mention.
and
Dalton, February 3. — Willard
Grisham returned home Thursday
after a four months stay at
QuanaH'.
Nannie Ree Shankles was Sun-
day right guest of Johnnie Hamp-
ton. '
The Tollowing C. C. C. boys
were at home this week end: Carl
Tuck and Carroll Wommack.
Uene Henderson left Thursday
for Commerce where she expects
to become a student'of E. T. S. T.
C. She was accompanied by Dick
McDowell and Will Henderson.
Georgia Lou and Ben Calvin
Grimes were week end guests of
their aunt, Mrs. Fred. Hampton,
of Douklassville;. -
M'r. and Mrs. Earnest Tolbert,
Ima Jean and Ann Wommack were
week end visitors in Commerce.
Pauline Wommack accompanied
them home for a brief visit.
Mrs. Earnest Tolbert, Mrs. Doll
Hampton and Mrs. Tom Collins
were business visitors in Linden
Tuesday.
Irene Campbell is visiting her
uncle.
Johnnie Hampton was week
end guest of Nannie Ree and
Jewel Lee Shankles.
Nadine und Fern Wommack
were Sunday night guentsi of
Polly and Ann Wommack.
Nora and Vannie IM'ae Dodson
visited Mrs. Leonard Shankles
Wednesday night.
Vera Pearl Roberts spent Fri-
day night with Winnie Mae Smith
Visitors in thie primary room
this week were: Mrs. G. I<
(ii'isTiam and MVs. Tom Spaiigler,
Both teachers and pupils alike
afc making extensive preparation
to attend V-tc "Sing Song* at
Marietta Tuesday.
Nannie R<-e Shankles spent
Wednesday night with Ima Jean
PRESIDENT HONORED
Lone Oak, Feb. 3.—Mr. Vernon
Sosbee is still very sick with the
mumps. We hope he will soon
recover and be able to start back
to school.
Miss ina Faye Stringer was
Psturtfny nigtit post rrS M'ion
Marie Sosbee.
Miss Johnnie Hampton was
Saturday night guest of Miss
Nannie Ree Shankles. {tended a President's Biihhday
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Barnard Call given at the home of Mrs.
c£ Daingerfield were Sunday J.ou Lee in Naples last Saturday
epiests of Mrs. Barnard's par- right.
aits, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Harrison.) The ball was given in the
Mr. Isham Harrison, who has President's honor and to raise
hoen visiting in Mt. Pleasant andlinds to fight, infantile paralysis.
Daingerfield. returded home Sun- ) It is estimated that more than
day.
AT BALL IN NAPLES
Proceeds Go to Funds to Com-
bat in:*t>ujkr&rutyi*i-
A large number of persons at-
:ession of Congress; such action
will be sought by Senator Con-
nally, who made the following
statement:
"The War Profits bill provides
drafting of industrial
plants and factories and muni-
tions and supplies*. It musters
occasion I took'ln payment a Jug
e,f the period of 1H40. Only thi?
year j told one man who owed
me a poll tax that if he would
give me "'an old time iron shoe
scraper set in marble I would
give him a receipt for his tax
Ho did. Upon my advice some
money as well as men. It calls I Sheffield residents start saving
to the colors a vast industrial ja year ahead and their tax Is
army as well as the manhood of! eady when due."
America. It announces the policy
that dollars shall not be more
sacred than, human life. It
enuhciates the doctrine that in
time of war and crisis every re-
source and every instrumentality
to secure victory and the triumph
of American arms shall be at the
command of the government of
the United States."
• f
The measure effectively carries j
out the policy of the American j
Legion to draft industry and
NEGRO ARRESTED
CHARGED STEALING MEAT
Last Friday afternoon a negro,
claiming his name to be John
FindJey, brought some meat to
Naples and sold it to R L. Alex-
ander. When the negro asked
Mr. Alexander to buy the meat
Mr. Alexander told him he did
not want all of it but thought Mr.
Harvey might take some of it.
Th'e negro is said to have left the
meat at Mr. Alexander's and gone
to see Mr. Harvey.' The negro
soon returned to Mr. Alerander's
and told him that Mr. Harvey
said Ife would buy the meat but
insisted that Mir. Harvey buy it
all. which he did.
It was learned later that Mr.
Harvey had paid the negro for a
ham of the meat. This caused
suspicion and Mr. Alexander be-
gan to inquire around to find out
if any meat had been stolen, and
also to locate the negro that had
sold the meat.
Investigation disclosed that t>be
meat had been"?tolen from a
negro woman ~ named Isabelle
Williams.
Wednesday Sheriff Ben Garrett
came'over and arrested the negro
chargeeTwith selling the meat, but
instead1 his narniTbeing Finley it
proved to be Chiam.
Mr. Alexander stated ' that
Cl.ism made complete confession,
implicating another negro In the
theft, sai'd to be a son of th'e Wil*
liams woman.
Sheriff Garrett carried the
Chism negro to Daingerfield and
placed him in jail.
The Sheffield tax commitment
last war was $52,0p0, compared
with $16,000 when he was first
elected in 1904. His surety com-
pany bond is $7,000.
FLYER BREAKS MORE
SPEED RECORDS
Seven years apo Howard Ro-
wealth as well as individuals in|bftrd " ^es, a young millionaire
tool manufacturer from Texas,
confounded Hollywood scoffers
Mr. and Mrs. Arlin
ar.d family, Mr. and Mrs
and family and Mr.
F'lward Smith were
quests cf Mr. and Mirs.
Shankles.
£000 communities throughout the
Hampton ration held h rthday parties
D. Smith wherever there was a hall big
and Mil's 'enough" to hold them. It is 'es-
Sunday timated "that at least 5,000,000
Lawrence citizens enjoyed the partijps in ,
person, while millions of others I
the prime of their life. Senator
Connally believes that with pro-
fits from war removed, one of the
major causes of war will be re-
moved.
Working under its Chairman
RESETTLEMENT AIDS
| MORRIS-CAMP COUNTIES
Dallas, Jau. 27.—-Camp and
Morris County farmers aided by
the Resettlement Administration
are making notable progress in
their "live-at-home" program, it
was stated here today by D." T.
Trent, regional director of the
Resettlement Administration,
after examining the annual re-
port for this county made by C.
Sunday guests in the home of who could not attend Jistened tc j
Mr. and Mlrs. A. T. Brewer were the radio broadcasts in their
Mr ant! Mrs. J. W. Bryan of homes.
Union Chapel and Mr. end MVs
John Stout and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ennis Smith and
little daughter, Peggy Sue, were
Saturday night guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Garrett.
Visitors in the home of Mr. W
I, Cremcr Sunday were Mr. ant5
Mrs, Charlie Shankles, Mr. and
Mrs. Jess Briley and family, Mr
and Mrs. Norman Shankles and
daughter, Hazel, and Mr and Mrs.
C. W. Brewer and little daughter
Ikulah Katherine.
Nannie Ree Shankles was Sun-
day night guest of Johnnie Hamp-
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Garrett and
family and M!r. and Mrs. Ennis
Smith and daughter weie Sun-
day guests in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. IT. Awtry of Rocky
Pcint.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Davlin
and family were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Shahan.
There will be church at Lone
Oak Saturday night, Sunday and
Sunday night by Bro. Clifton
Mills. Everybody come.
Forms of entertainment thru-
out the country ranged from a
checker tournament to the splen-
dor of the full dress ball. Re-
ceipts from all partTes will be
divided in the portion of 70 to 30
the largest percentage remaining
in tin- communities where it is
collected. The smaller percent-
age wilT be presenteeT to President
Roosevelt to he turned over to
the Warm Springs Foundation.
by producing a motion picture at C. Mears, rural supervisor,
the colossal cost of $4,000,000—1 Out of the 487 families receiv-
and'making a profiit on it. "Hell's loans in Camp and Morrij
Angels"' launched Jean Harlow Counties, 10 were reported a*
Serator Connally, the Senate i" « star, turned the heads of! havingr grown sufficient vegetable.
Finance subcommittee has spent | thousands of American girl* tor they use the past ^aria
platinum, and pet the pace for sp*te of the rocord-bi^akiug
movie-makers in a now cycle cf drought, three hundred were re-
ported as having sufficient poul-
ln the last few years )Mlr. try, 275 ns having sufficient nvlk
out of the tax plan. The bill wa~s|K"*h" ,;a* bee" settinR a Pace bU,tter "!e"' ^ &
unanimously adopted by the sub- tor real-life aviation. In 1935 m making chee.e. More than
committee and reported favorably with 0 Powerful monoplane de- ;«8.600 quaits of vegetables and
by the Financc Committee to thoN^ied and built under his own . were put; up by these fam -
Senate late last session; action I Erection, he made a world record 59-000 pounds of meat
was not taken due to adjourn- (for land-plane speed of 352 mile?
ment. The measure carries out' l'ei" hour. In 1936 he (lew across
the anti-war-profits plunk in the!*11' conbnent (Los Angeles to
Democratic Platform adopted in I Newark) in the record time of 9
That record proved their
months in conjunctioh with tax
experts from Joint Committee on _ _
Internal lievenue on Taxatioh I aviation thrillers,
ad from the Treasury workihg
nua! payroll, then you will he Wommack.
taxed at a rato of one and eight-1 Mr, and Mrs. Horace Tuck. Mr.
tenth* per rent on your payroll, and Mrs. Mac England, and Mr.
Take THe above figures and ap- 'nnd Mrs. C. R. Powell w<<re Sun-
ply tihts TorrrTiila: I day visitors in the Frank 'Puck
1. With your total contrlbu- home.
*ions I1.0P0 and your average an.! Mr. and Mrs L. S. Smith, Wil-
nual payroll $10,000, you could lard -and Loyd iQrisfiam Vfsre
qualify for the one and eight- Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs
tenths per cent rate if the bene- W. D. Worrwiack. •,
I *
k i
Construction of lateral high-
ways during 1936 increaned the
public highway system in Texas
to 160,000 miles.
Republican Subsidy [
Chairman Hamilton is to get
825,000 a year to rehabilitate the
Republican party. There shtfuld
I?.o be a contingent bonus.—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Vlcrris Co. Teachers
Meet at Cason
The Morris County teachers
met in Cason Saturday, Jan. 80,
at 10 o'clock with only four rural
teachers absent, and Cason ahil
Omaha a 100 per cent attendance.
The meeting, was the fourth for
the present school year. Mr. H.
T. Mbrris, "Supt. of Naples school
und an officer in t.he N. E. Texas
division of the State Teachers
iissocfatlon talked to the teachers
and made annoucemeht of the N.
E Texas Division of the meeting
in Commerce at Easter.
Mr. T. M. Jones, Supt. of Omaha
school and President of the Mor-
ris County Teachers Association
made a report on the county mem-
bership. The various committee
then made reports. The date for
the County Intel-scholastic Lea-
gue meet was set for March 19th
in Daingerfield. The literary
events on Friday and the decla-
mations and debate on Friday
nigjht. Mir. McKinney principal
Philadelphia last June, a plank hours 2fi minutes
which was placed in the platform j
stood
until
stored.
W though practically all of
these families were fa,rm ;teu->
ant-, rather than owner# thty
temporary home-
last week, wh *i M,U bv planting « trees, 50
upon the insistence
Connally.
of Senator
of Rock Springs school was ap- , " , V I Mr atv>;.iv rM,nrt
pointed Director of Picture Mem-1 sub-Ptjatorsphere at 14.000 feet . j v r onnie
with an ovvtren nia«W tr> hplni'011'"* W!t" Lonnie
Hughe?, hearing that some r
planned to attack it, set out from
Los Angeles To establihh a mark
larder to beat. Flying in tlie
;^{)j shrubs, finished the walls in 25
They made 40 mat-
made 600 auilts and ren-
houses.
; tresses
iovated 210.
was mad*
.with an oxygen mask to helpj,n,mi7 W!xn uonme Taylor rural
I him Th-oathe, he crossed the coun-!9Vpervisor_of home mana*ement
I try tit 1 hours 28 minutes—an
j average speed of 51-2 miles per
Fortnight v Club
i o'.i
February 17
Early
1937
cry.
Cason afforded interesting en-
tertainment Tor the "teachers. Mr.
and Mrs! Goode of San Antonio
.-.nei formerly with Rad Cliff jmim,te- 332 milea P*r hour-
Chatauqua presented a trcup of
trained Australian Cockatoos in
an act. ;Mrs. Goode gave a lec-
ture on natu?e study and especi-
ally pertaining to the birds. The
teachert expressed themselves a?
very appreciative of the intelli-
gence of these birds.
Mrs. Thelma Scibert, piano dir- v
ector in Pittsburg Iltgh School. jr°w« Wt>rc u'oxfen Into Her Bas- amount ioaned has j,een
with Miss Robert Montgomery i^t and Blankef repaid, although the loans we're
afforded the music. In every way! hostess: Mrs. Homer Cole., mdfi ^ ryn f(.0In Qne ^ five
the Cason faculty and people made j Residing "Apostrophe to thlf veflrs Average repayments for
the teachers feel welcome and fainted Rocks,' Hawthorne with yu, state were 26 ner ccnt
preface: Mrs. Wendell Smith. yflll, rnJ, : A\r -
, , twentj-lour Cami^ and Morris
Roil call: RMP„ e. oc.tim. cf County b„rre,.„, h,„ ,,,
.rt conect.on. Jn Americi: The |oana ful| and on,y a
u " made no repayment. The aver-
plans for Camp and Morris Coun
ties.
.J/oans totaling $106,87# were
Tiade by Resettlement AdminfR-
(ration to 497 families in Camp
und Moh'Tm Counties during 1936.
Most of the amount loaned waa
expended for teams, tools and
ther so-called "recoverable"
goods, the remainder being spent
for consumable supplies such as
, , ,r food, clothing, medicine, feed
The Squaw Joys and Her Sor- ptc> Thirty.sjx per cent of the
American Art
The Indian
showed a pardonable pride
their school building.
A Warning
ir;
Special Introduction; Cyrus j
Dallin and his Indian Cycle: Mtrs.
Now that a Swedish gland ex ; H D Rojjerts
ert believes he can give children', Specia, picturc fltudy with ,n
he strength of grown men, fathci tlpductlons -End of the Tral," c ?w?etrt8-
ge borrower received a loan of
1221 and "has repaid $80.03.
vill ponder a bit before usurping
unior's toy railroad.—Kalamazoo
>azette.
Fraser; Mrs. Rernice Whitecotton
Travelog, Out of Tass: Miss
Special .Introduction, The In-
dians Totem Pole: Mrs. H. "
I Moore. .
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