The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 384
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
The true story of the bringing in of Santa Rita, as told by the
promoter, and other participants, will receive very favorable con-
sideration for publication in the Quarterly. Such a story would
be of great interest to members of the Association, and would
make amends for whatever injustice there is in the version which
appeared in the October Quarterly.
The San Antonio meeting, held in connection with the Texas
State Teachers Association on December 1, was well attended.
In addition to the addresses made by Harbert Davenport, J.
Marvin Hunter, Maury Maverick, and H. H. Ochs, Senator Tom
Connally made a brief talk. The San Antonio committee, con-
sisting of Mrs. J. E. Crowther, R. L. Bobbitt, Dr. P. I. Nixon,
Mrs. Albert Maverick, Edward W. Heusinger, Miss Frances
Donecker, and Mrs. Henry Wofford were indeed gracious hosts
to the teachers and members of the Association.
A similar meeting will be held at Arlington on February 17,
and later at Houston and Nacogdoches. Following the San An-
tonio meeting, a prominent citizen of Texas wrote:
"I trust that we may be able to have these meetings through-
out the state as planned. If we can make the meetings interest-
ing and not wear the public out by listening to a lot of papers
being read, I think we will have perhaps well attended meetings.
You have enough common sense, however, to know that people
will not sit and listen for hours to someone, even a highbrow,
read a lot of history in which they (the readers) may not be in-
terested. If they get out from such a meeting, they won't get
caught again.
"There is no substitute for common sense-particularly in
public psychology and in public meetings. We must have some
humor and a little diversion, or wind up with a few elderly ladies
and gentlemen humoring one another's pet hobbies, while the
broad vision of building and recording Texas history will utterly
fail of realization."
There is certainly much truth in these paragraphs. It is ex-
tremely difficult, however, to get people to observe time limits.384
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