Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-18


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Cecil Storey, Vernon candidate
for attorney general. is getting his
public notice late. but is getting 1t
in full Measure now.
The effect Of bringing him for
ward as the opponent Of Atty. Gen.
Robert Lee Bobbitt has been de-
clared to split up the vote that Bob
bitt win not get between Alfred. who
has been campaigning with his ac-
customed vigor. and Storey.
Oil companies decidedly are not
>getting excited about the prospect
OF drilling prison farms, Chmn. w.
A. Paddock Of the penitentiary COM
mission said here.
A few inquiries have come In, but
there is so little demand at present
for the right to bid on oil leases on
prison lands, that the date for
OkLAAAAAR 1AA Al1 $3.50
Paddock said.
Hopes for discovery OF OIL In the
farms. and the building up OF a
royalty fund similar to the Si5,00O,-
600 oil stake OF Texas university,
have been made the basis Of plan
Ming to overcome the money wor-
ries OF the system.
This isn't politics. declared ROY
I. Tenant, appointee OF Mrs. Fer
guson on the state board Of con-
troll. in urging S50,000.000 state for
eleemosynary insN utions-
Now, MIR. Ferguson Is claiming
that II highway bonds are issued
10 take the tax burden off farms
and homes and put 1t ON the high
ways. then bonds for everything
else would be opened up and the
state. entering a mad orgy OF
spending would get hopelesSly ! n
debt.
1t isn't politics. but ii comes from
a staunch Ferguson man that bonds
ought to be issued for the hospitals
and institution.
There would be no way to meet
them except direct property taxes.
Mr.. Tenant will say do you
want to issue bonds for roads but
not for orphan children?"
Why not have put il on the basis
Of the Confederate pension tax and
levy a direct constitutional mill tax
for the support Of the Institutions?
AS one persons opinion: Why
mot issue both kinds Of bonds? The
bnly answer is that the bonds Mr..
Nennant advocates are utterly UNI
7 necessary. and the people more
readily will vote a mill tax to be
spread over the resources and in
dustrieS as well as land and houses.
Mr.. Tenants point that the state
acutely needs money TO improve
and expand its institutions. to en-
gage in preventative work in deal
Ing with tuberculosis and insanity is
well taken.
The only thing wrong with his
plan is that he projected it into a
political issue. rather than laying IL
out upon a plane and in a direc-
ton where II might have a prospect
of achievement.
Two pieces OF legislation. seeking
some uniformity in Texas with
other states are to be proposed at
the next legislature.
One is a general safety code TO
cut down the tremendous toll Of
traffic deaths and injuries. This IS
TO include q drivers license law,
~~A4nH @vrw1-& a. I1n~r~ 49, -. skn
books long ago. II lives are TO be
valued. The other Is a proposal for
q constitutional amendment to per-
NIT an old-aee pension. under the
sociological policy that has swept
II states into this form OF endea-
o in the past few years.
James Young. oldish but 1.-THE and
vigorous, IS a peculiar acmixture OF
the old-fashioned southern demo-
crat and the modern political scrap
per. He Is a man whose campaign
has peculiarly interviewer elements
Of strength ana weakness; a man
who makes and holds friends, even
among those who consider his poll
teal program practically negative,
and fear the lack Of constructive
s~fadership would lose him in the
SHUTTLE Of dealing with a many
minded legislature.
OF Mr.. Young another candidate
said he was isolated in congress
10 years. and has been isolated in
Kaufman another 10 years until he
Is out Of touch with The progress
and needs Of Texas.
In fairness to Mr.. Young. il
should be said that the candidate
who made this speech stressed his
own advantage from having been
isolated beyond the range OF the
past political controversies OF the
state.
Sen. Nat Patton Of Crockett. can
didate for state railroad commits
sioner, has shade a swing through
central Texas. reminding his friends
at Austin that he always has been
q staunch friend Of the state ms
titutions.
He claimed the credit for the de-
feat Of the central Texas prison re-
location plan.
He also reminded his friends that
he will carry on in the senate.
should he be defeated for railroad
commissioner, and that regardless
of the office he holds. he is going
10 continue to be a friend OF the
state institutions.
COMPLIMENTS
Mrs. Clancy: Faith. now. and why