Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-07
By THE POLITICAL ANALYST


A Texas governor attended the
inauguration OF the late lamented
Pres. Alvaro Obregon in Mexico
City in 1920. Then Pres. Obregon
sent a group of distinguished citi-
zens to the Inauguration Of Gov
Pat M. Neff in 1921.
Formal invitation will be extend
ed Pres. Ortiz Rubio to attend THE
inaugural ceremonies IGNORING Gov.
Elect Ross S. Sterling next jan
uary 20
The state has been said 70 have
authority to prevent physical waste
CT OIL or gas. but not the power Il
prevent economic waste" that =
production at prices below tins
worth or the cost OF producing the
commodities. This doctrine has
been preached even where the oil
and gas was the property Of the
state itsel. produced by lessees OH
a royalty basis. IL will be threshed
over again IN hearings on the suits
contesting proration. since the new
proration law and orders represent
the first step 70 regulate produc-
ton BY the gauge of demand.
1t may take a constitutional
amendment TO enable the state 10
protect its own property and its
ntural resources. which when eX-
housted can never be replaced. If
so. the people would seemingly well
come the chance to adopt such an
amendment
Lieut. Gov-Elect Edgar Witt, be-
sides having ~balled-up information,
said in a speech TO OIL men at San
Antonio that he had been having
a terrible time trying 10 get ews
papers 70 publish information about
constitutional amendments. Fact is.
newspapers over the state uniform
ly gave splendid space to the
amendments, and without doubt
brought to the amendments the
greater part Of the votes they re-
ceived. without their support and
their boosting. the amendments
could not have commanded any
considerable vote. and there was no
issue involved Of self-in.5rest TO the
newspapers
When a community Is concerned
about local unemployment. II should
look to Sweetwater's example: two
hundred men are roU at work on
the big Sweetwater dam; or to the
I Hrnr~nrfr @T 4h1 TnT1~aI1 v.xvcr
dams IN Burnet and Travis coun-
ties. vhree 500 men are employed
daily for a year and a half.
Treasurer Gregory Hatcher has
sent out checks distributing 80 per
cent Of the $50. 600 he is to disburse
from the old guaranty fund to de-
positors in failed former state
guaranty fund banks.
To these depositors. the guaranty
fund was a good thing: but strict
and adequate depositors Of banking
has replaced the experiment that
was a failure. The guaranty plan
was a failure, because It put a pre-
MUM on careless banking, and
levied the penalty upon the able,
prudent and efficient banker
The longshoremen's strike, al
ready settled, brought up ghosts of
the open port law" Of 1920. since
declared unconstitutional. This law
was passed 10 modify the rigors OF
martial law in cases Of disorders
and was in use not only in the Gal
weston strike OF 1920. but In nu-
merous railroad centers Of later
strikes. This law created the his
toric occasion when Ranger Capt.
Joe Brooks went 10 Galveston 70 Re-
lieve a regiment OF national guard
militia. And he succeeded so well
he stayed on as a prospector OF the
wharf properties after the strike
situation passed, and he Is still an
employe OF the wharf people in
Galveston.