The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 112
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
vandals had partially dislodged these seals from the markers,
making their removal advisable. A newspaper suggestion that
the rest of the seals be removed and sold for junk was effectively
counteracted by President Kemp. A program of public edu-
cation designed to protect markers and save them from being
defaced is much in order.
J. E. Conner spoke on "The History of Fort Sam Houston"
at a meeting of the San Antonio Historical Association held
at Cos House on March 17, 1944.
President L. W. Kemp was personally responsible for the
addition of twenty new members to the Association in the
month of December.
The publicity incident to the annual meeting was handled
again this year in a highly satisfactory manner by Professor
Duncan Robinson, Director of Publicity for N. T. A. C., and
by Miss Lorena Drummond, of the Public Relations Bureau of
the University. Our sincerest thanks are extended to both.
I think every member of the Association will agree that the
letter which follows is a genuine historical document which
ought to be preserved. It is an authentic picture of ranching in
Texas in the winter of 1943-1944. Perhaps Evetts Haley un-
consciously writes history any time he sits down to his type-
writer.
JH Ranch
Dear Walter P.: Feb. 6, 1944
Since this is Sunday morning and I have been fortified with a small
shot of religion via the radio, and three more by way of the old fashioned
coffee pot, I decided I had better kick back the tablecloth, dig out my type-
writer, and wrestle out one of my biennial reports to you. It will be
the first time I have devoted a Sunday to such spiritual activity in a
long while.
You have probably gathered that we have been engaged as usual
and as it will be in the future, in a tough tussle with the weather.
Actually it has been the toughest I have ever seen. I like for the going to be
rough; I never really get interested and screw down in my saddle tree
until it does. But I like to have some chance of coming out on top sometime,
and at times this winter it looked like old mother nature was going
to turn out to be the best man, to use a slightly mixed metaphor, which
is nothing to how everything else is mixed up these days.112
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