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THINK INGCharges Law JugglingTHINKING OUT LOUD:Thousands of your readers are interested in information about the old age pension system. If you will permit me, as a member of the Legislature, I will give them some facts that I knew beforehand, and which have been proven, under oath, in the investigation that the House of Representatives is now making.The information contained in this letter will give the old people the reasons why they have not received their pensions, nor the approval or disapproval of their applications.According to the Treasurer’s report they have already spent for administrative purposes about $624,-000 and they are still eating it up. Only about $4680 have been received for this fund. An additional $480,000 have been placed in the permanent old age assistance fund, and We are now seeking to use that now for old people.I am seeking to use $2,000,000 annually of the cigaret tax for thispurpose.The system has developed into a racket the same as the relief system developed. The “investigator” is another name for “case worker.” The investigator sets the amount a man or woman will receive justlike the “case worker” did. Favoritism and discrimination are being used in a shameful manner.The executive director when ask-*ed why more men were not employed answered they were trying to keep expenses down. No wonder, when they have eaten up about 14 percent of it.They have engulfed the relief system on the administration of this law as I foresaw a year ago they would do, and they are now trying to hide behind the Federal Government. I am tired of this “carpetbagging” scheme and will appose it at every point.It has been proven that many receiving the pensions are not entitled to it, and thousands who are entitled to it are not receiving it.CLARENCE E. FARMER. Representative from Tarrant County, Texas.*Mexican-AmericanTHINKING OUT LOUD:The article in your paper of Oct. 6 regarding the “color system” in regards to Mexican births and deaths prompts me to write.• I spent the winter of 1926 in El Paso and at that time noticed the current of animosity between Americans and Mexicans in your city. In a city where international relations should be the very highest, I found conditions unbelievable. It seemed to me at that time that Americans looked upon all Mexicans as if they were of the peon class. T learned that there are classes in the Mexican race, the same as in the American. We have the well educated. well mannered, high bredaristocracy, the middle class and the poor white trash, the latter to which even a Mexican peon is not to be compared.I have lived abroad, in the eastern United States and in the old South and have found that wherever I have lived, the people never felt anything but respect toward the Mexican race. After a trip down into the interior of Mexico in 1929.... . .and again in 1933, I can easily see the prophecy come true that I read, recently in an American Weekly magazine, that within five years Mexico will havf as,many tourists from Europe as the United States now has. Reason? Mexicans are born with courtesy in their blood. Many Americans of the aristocracynever attain it. . ,This August on returning* to; El Paso to spend the winter here, it seemed to me that some of that old hatred and superior feeling , that some Americans have for Mexicans was broken, but if this “color system” does break down what little friendly relations Mexicans felt for Americans, there is no one to blamebut the Americans who institutedthe system.Let me say that I do not believe in marriage between Americans of the middle class or aristocracy and the Mexican peon class—neither would I approve of a marriage between a high class Mexican and one of our own poor white trash. Nothing would be gained to further the race if such marriages occurred, but I do believe that high class Mexicans (and there are lots of them-in this city) should not be segregated and ignored and treated-as if they were inferiors. They are not, and the sooner the people of El Paso learn this, the better off they will be.' WILLIAM C. BANNERMAN,Richmond, Virginia.\Walk’’ Is Al’s ErrorTHINKING OUT LOUDBall four! A1 walks. But -where? Into the outstretched arms of the Republican party* where we fondly hope he will find more congenial companions and surcease from political sorrow.* . -We have never been of those who could see statesmanlike qualities in A1 Smith. In our opinion he has been much overrated. We have always admired his plucky struggle against poverty and we* know nothing to criticize in his record asGovernor of New York State.♦As an inspiring leader of a virile democracy A1 was very much of a flop. He didn’t have what it takes.His faltering support of Bryan and the stubborn, unyielding attitude at Madison Square Garden, which almost wrecked the Democratic party, are very good examples of pbor sportsmanship and inexcusable selfishness. Democrats and the country generally expected a more liberal arid broadminded attitude from one who aspired to the highest office within'the gift of the American people.' It seems strange that the poor boy from the sidewalks of New York City should forget the downtrodden whence he sprang, dismiss without a qualm the earnest professions of alifetime, betray the loyal, steadfast friendships of battle-scarred veterans in a noble cause and fall head over heels, high hat. silk stockings and all into the army of the enemy whose only purpose is to use the influence thus acquired to decoy in-]J]11(1nocent and trusting friendships still loyal to the shadow of a leadership that once showed promise of bettera1Political wounds made in the and turmoil of battle are easily forgiven and soon forgotten by big-hearted, broadminded men. Narrow indeed is he who nurses a'*I1
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 10, 1936
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