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 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 will 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 penltentlary 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
opening bids has been deferred. Mr..
Paddock said.
Hopes for discovery OF oil in the
farms. and the building up Of a
royalty fund similar 70 the $4,000
900 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
7. Tenant. appointee Of Mrs. Fer
guson on the state board Of con
troll, in urging S50.000.000 state for
eleemosynary instN. utions
Now. Mr.. Ferguson is claiming
that If highway bonds arc issued
to take the tax burden off farms
and homes and put Il on the high
WAYS, then bonds for everything
else would be opened up and the
state. entering a mad orgy OF
spending would get hopelessiy IN
debt.
II 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 1t on the basis
of the Confederate pension tax and
levy a direct constitutional mill tax
for the support Of the institutions2
AS one persons opinion. Why
not issue both kinds Of bonds? The
&only answer is that the bonds MI.
HI remnant advocates are utterly UNI
necessary, and the people nor
readily will vote a mill tax to be
spread over the resources and in
dustries as well as land and houses.
MIR. Tenants point that the state
acrtely needs money TO improve
and expand its institutions. to
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 IL into a
political issue. rather than laying ii
out upon a plane and in n direc-
ton where it might have a prospect
Of achievement.
Two pieces Of legislation. seeking
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other states are 10 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 a drivers license law,
which ought 10 have been on the
books long ago. If 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
IL states into this form Of endea-
vor in the past few years.
James Young, Oldish but 1.-the and
vigorous. is a peculiar admlXture 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 and weakness; a man
who makes and holds friends, even
among those who consider his poll
tical program practically negative,
and fear the lack Of constructive
leadership would lose him in the
SRuffle Of dealing with a many
minded legislature.
OF Mr.. Young another candidate
said The was isolated in congress
10 years. and has been isolated III
Kaufman another 10 years until he
is out of touch with The progress
and needs of Texas.
In fairness 10 MIR. Young. 10
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
a 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
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