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PAGE TWO
THE 1KIBUNE — FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 1934.
LATE NEWS FLASHES
NARMEItS OF NORTH DAKOTA
PROTECT PHEASANT FRIEND I
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1933 Grade Crossing
Deaths Drop Slightly
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NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Reductions
Burma rk, N. D. — North Dakota
tenners don’t shoot pheasants. They in the number of grade crossing acci-
■Mtoct them. j dents and casualties for the first 10
Grasshoppers eat farm f.rops and months of 193.1 have just been repoit~
pftoksants are highly regarded for the | cd by the American Railway ussocia-
taial they offer in the fight against I tion. Accidents to.aled 2,474 for the
•he grasshoppers. j period, a reduction of 287 from the
The state game and fish depart- corresponding 10 months of 1932: in-
meat determined from a recent sur-j juries resulted from accidents were
acJ that the five counties in the 2,768, a decreuse of 325, and fatalities
which have most pheasants jweie 1,176, a reduction of 25.
Mane the fewest grasshoppers and' ---
the number of grasshoppers Report Says U. S. und Vatican
Ckranghout the state faried inversely
with the number of pheasants.
May Renew Relations
Rome, Italy.—Although Vatican of-
To Lower Taxes
One department employe reported j ficials declined to comment, the re-
al he found 300 “hoppers” in the,port is widespread that there may be
a renewal of diplomatic relations be-
tween the United States and the Holy
of a bird accidentally killed.
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INDIA STATE’S EDUCATION
GROUP URGES RELIGIOUS IN-
STRUCTION IN SCHOOLS
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Trivandrum, India. —(NC)— The
«daeation committee appointed by the
tee of Travancore to make sugges-
tions for the improvement of educa-
SiUt in this section of India, in u
report made on its investigations, eign, exercising a physical control
To the citizen who promptly pays all his taxes, when
due it is apallii\g to learn that in Texas there are dose to 120
million dollars due the different units of grovernment, just call-;
ed delinquent taxes and let it go at that. Why is this tax not '
collected? In most cases the taxes are not owed by persons un- [
able to pay, because 35r/t of the delinquent taxes are owed by
only 5# of the property owners- That means these persons j
own seven times as much property as the average citizen of
Texas. Agents of these lagging taxpayers are pleading, that
it. is not a good policy to force the collection of these taxes, be- j
cause it would hurt the small home owners. But in several j
counties 4 r/r of the slow taxpayers owe 40fA of the delinquent i
taxes. Evidently they own ten times as much property as the
average Texan, so don’t worry about the small home owner.
That these tax debtors have influence in the legislature is
shown by their persuading that Body to pass the law in 1931
that makes all the 10 years old tax debts out of date. Does
that create confidence of our citizenry in the government?
We have gasoline, cigarette, poll and other taxes form-
erly unheard of to swell the available school funds, and yet we
rre almost a year behind in paying for school maintenance.
When taxes are not collected to meet the various bud-
gets of government, higher tax must be charged, and so the
round goes: more public debts, higher taxes, more delinquents,
- • repeat “ad infinitum ” Those who pay must pay more to
«aopbatieally declares that religion
am never be divorced from education
jMtd strongly urges instruction in the
Mbwla.
NAZARETH ILLUMINATION IS
ALMOST COMPLETED
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Jerusalem. —(NC)— The electric
illumination of the Galilean town of
Blasareth is about completed. The
wswfc is being carried on by the Pales
Mae Electric corporation with Arab
and Jewish laborers. The current
Sm supplied from the Jordan station.
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TURKEY KILLS COBRA TO SAVE
LIFE OF BOY
Wrocester, South Africa. — A
turkey saved the life of a small boy
here by attacking and pecking to
(death a deadly yellow cobra which
was about to strike the lad.
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BOSTON BAKING ONE-TON CAKE
.TO HONOR ROOSEVELT
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•Boston, Jan. 26.—(INS)— A one-
ten birthday cake, the smallest item
te which will be ten ounds of salt,
will be one of the features of
Boston’s celebration of the fifty-
weeond birthday of President Roose-
wdt next Tuesday. A score of
■Master bakers have begun work on
the cake.
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WARNS LIQUOR TRADE TO
“CLEAN HOUSE’’
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"Denver. Jan. 26.—(INS)—Colorado
■will be bone-dry again within two
years if liquor business does not
“cleun house”, according, to Homer
Bedford, state treasurer in charge of
:Uie issuance of liquor licenses.
Bedford returned to his office after
•five weeks in a hospital during which
'time permits had been issued to
hundreds of liquor dealers. A
legislative investigation revealed that
several former bootleggers had ob-
tained such licenses, contrary' * to
(State law.
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'Classics Quoted at Meeting.
MONTEVIDEO — Alfonso Reyes,
Mexico’s scholarly Ambassador to
'Brasil, in a seven-minute speech be-
fore the recent Pan-American con-
ference here used quotations from the
Bible, Goethe, Dante, Seneca, Cam-
panella, Thomas Moore, Bacon, Wil-
liam James, Bolivar, Pascal and Rodo.
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Reich Penalizes Marriages.
PRAGUE, Jan. 16.—Two hundred
marks will have to be paid in cash
Try every German who marries a
"Cseich girl. This decree recently issued
issued by the German Government,
is due to the fact that in the fron-
tier district of Nachod the inter-
mingling of the population on both
nides of the frontier, which has gone
on for centuries, had resulted in
numerous young men from Germany
■marrying Czech girls.
THE TRIBUNE
The Only English Catholic semi-
weekly in the Country
over subjects within his state.
See.
The international “legalty” of such
a movement was recognized in the
fact that since the United States last
had diplomatic intercourse with the
Holy See, which ceased in 1867, the
temporal power of the Pope has been
established over a recognized territory
and he is regarded as a real sever-rmfit the budgets.
If you ask, you may get a confidential answer that it is
not good politics to force the collection of taxes from some per-
sons. — Elections are coming. me for the voters to
make it “not good politics” to evade or not to collect all the tax-
es due. Let’s elect “collectors” and not “receivers” of taxes.
Of course, if you complain, they pinch you and collect every cent
from you; that is, make of you an example and think they com-
pelled you now to hold your mouth shut.
If tax laws are wrong, make them right, but not so as to
shield the influential tax dodger. If tax laws are right, elect
such persons to the offices that know how and are determined
to enforce the laws impartially. —sk—
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Unuiline Nuns Asked to
Teach in Gold Camp
KISUMA, Africa.—Although most
of the Europeans working in the
newly opened goldfields of Kukam-
ega, in Kenpa colony, are nonCath-
olics, they have asked the Ursuline
Sisters to open a school for their
children. They aie also anxious to
help the Catholic priest who is try-
ing to build a new church of brick to
replace the old one now by far too
small, and they have arranged among
themselves for a “sportday” to raise
funds for the completion of the
church.
DOUBTS CLEARED'!
'Published every Tuesday and Friday
by the Maine Bros. Publishing Co.
Z08 Texana St., Hallettaville, Texas
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Q. — Why does the Catholic
Church bless candles on the Purifi
cation Day. Feb. 2, and what are
they for?
A. — Blessed candle is one of the
sacramentals introduced by the Church
to aid in the development of the
spiritual life of her children. By
being blessed by the Church, they
become sacramentals. The candles
are blessed on that day (Candlemass
day) because it is tfce commemoration
of the 40 days old child Jesus be-
ing offered to God as was the cus-
tom of the Jews, and at that
occasion, when the priest, Simeon,
took the child in his hands, .his
spirit realized who the Child is, and
he called Him “the Light to the
revelation of the Gentiles” that la a
Light to enlighten the unbelievers.
The Church blesses these candles for
her children, that is for her members,
jthat they also may walk as “child-
ren of the Light.” See Luke II.
32; Ephes. V. 8. These candles are
used with pious intentions by the
Catholics and produce their effects
by the prayers and blessings of the
Church. That effect depends princi
pally on the pious intention of the
pierson who makes use of them.
The candle itself does not have any
supernatural power, It only aids in
lifting the pious thoughts and inten-
tions to the One whom the “blessed
light” represents. They are burned
in front of a statue of a .saint, in
the. time of a fearful storm or calm-
ity, at the occasion of the priests
visit to administer the sacraments
to the sick or dying and such solemn
occasions when the Catholic wishes
to offer intensive prayer in time of
special need. The lighted candle
symbolizs the prayer ascending to
heaven before the throne of God.
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— VARIETY— I'
Seek — That’s not the way to do
You must brace up old chap, and
show your wifey who is the boss
at your house.
Meek, sadly — That isn’t neces-
sary. She knows.
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Jimmy — Mother, may I go out
with my classmates to look at the
comet?
Mother — Well, you may; but be
careful, don’t go too close.
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Grammar teacher — Vera, is
“trousers” singular or plural.
Vera — I — I think “trousers” is
singular at the waist but plural
below.
CODE
of the
NORTH
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by
HAROLD TITUS
Copyright hr Khrol* THoo
WNU Sorrleo
“shut up!" the liny snapped and
averted his face.
"No. I'll keep reminding you of It,
and of what you might have been able
to do to me, and of what you ran do
for him and to me If you make up
your mind to it. A line man, your fa-
ther; not the kind most men would
turn down. . .
Young Jim winced and I.aFane’t
lips twitched as if he wanted to smile.
CHAPTER VII
Down into the rushing maw of the
river went Franz. Spray lashed his
face, the canoe bucked and reared like
a frightened, living creature. He
grazed a rock and although the touch
>T!ditor.
Walter Male*.
Subscription rate $1.60 a year
Entered as second-class mall matter
Jan. T 1932, at the post office at
-■iallettKville Texas under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Friend — Hellow, Dave I I heard
that you had a fine auto trip 'yester-
day.
Dave — Yes, it was triple fine.
TheCWA Scandal
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In spite of the best intentions in the plan, the CWA was j
'tound to produce irregularities and worse things.
Few realized how much money and responsibility CWA
will involve in a community.
It was started too suddenly and left too much chance
for selfishness and graft-
It was wrong to put the administration in utterly inex-
perienced hands, as it happened.
It was wrong to allow many to get on the CWA relief,
vho did not need any relief.
It was wrong not to stick to the strict rule that the CWA
was, and is only for those actually needy and destitute, and for
no one else.
It was wrong to allow projests to communities which did
not represent actual need.
It was wrong to pay 35 to 40c an hour for common la-
bor in these parts of the country.
And so you may continue. There were many “wrongs"
«*.nd amidst of them those so inclined found an opportunity for
selfishness and graft.
The waste and graft must have been immense.
The present CWA scandals are only a beginning.
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The Tribune Asks Consideration For
Small Farmer in Cotton Reduction.
The foliowng self .explanatory letter was addressed to
Mr. C. A. Cobb, in Washington, the man in charge of the
cotton reduction program, by the publishers of this paper;
“Sir; While our small farmers in great majority are
willing to co-operate with the government in the cotton curtail-
ment program, they have a right to feel that their situation was
not fully considered in the program. They do not believe it
fair that, for example, a 1000-acre cotton planter should re-
duce only in the same proportion as our farmer who out of his
50 acres of cultivated land, due to diversification, plants only
20 acres in cotton while the other plants practically all his
land in cotton.
“This thing is causing perhaps more dissatisfaction a-
mong small farmers of this section than anything else in your
cotton curtailment program.
“Our County Agent, Mr. J. M. Parks, after a strenuous
campaign on behalf of the program, reports 1800 farmers of
Lavaca County signing out of the total more than 1 thousand.
The same will, undoubtedly, be true in other counties of this
f.ection.
“It is generally believed here that much better satis-
faction and results would be accomplished if in the final form
of the cotton reduction plan some cotton acreage minimum per
family be considered and the percentage of reduction be fix-
ed in proportion to the land cultivated on each farm-”
my friend; but your wife is in the
land of joy. striking the harp with
the angel*-
lOh, I doait know. It is more like
her, if she strikes the angels with
the harp.
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Doctor, my left arm pains me ter-
ribly. Can you cure that? Why
is it, you think?
-------- Oh, that’s just a sign of old age.
One fine for speeding, one for paM-{ But, doctor my right arm doesn’t
ng a red light, and the last be-[hurt and it is just as old.
cause my lights went out. J -O-
-0—— Teacher — Fred, what is the dlf- get so excited?
1 certainly sympathize with you, ference between water and ice. ■'about the same on both shf-
Fred — Ice is colder than water, it
is harder than water and It costs
about hundred times more.
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Ethel — Don’t you think that the
world is wonderful, dad. Every-
thing is so beautiful and lovely 1
Dad — Yes; what’s his name this
time?
Takovic — Have you heard the
glad news that they overturned the
Russian government?
Makovic — No, I havent: hut wh'
Doesn't it ln>V:'
He knew the country and the trails
well enough, hut Franz knew them
more intimntely than he. The landlnfl
above Twenty Mile rapid was the ob-
vious place for one to leave the river
and take to his legs for transport. To
run the white water, of course, would
cut miles from the Journey but the
risk of tmgle disaster wss great.
He speculated as he speeded along,
trying to put himself In Franz's posi-
tion, trying to reason as Franz would
reason. When he reached his decision
he commenced to smile with tongue
In check. Ho relnxed hi* paddling and
chuckled nnd sol back, drifting with
the current.
He could hear the grumble of the
treacherous water below, and ran his
canoe into a shallows where It was
screened by overhanging alders and
waited, looking backward.
Of course. Franz might not do what
Steve expected of him, but he was pro-
ceeding on the belief Hint to block
the recording of that all-important
document he would be forced to fol-
low. .
“Right I" Drake muttered aloud as
a canoe shot Into sight far behind,
coming fast.
He shoved off and bent to the paddle
and In a moment from the tail of his
eye he saw the other sweep into sight
of him, and then he was rounding a
bend with the voice of shaggy old
Twenty Mile growing louder In h!s
ears.
He looked over his shoulder Just
once. Franz had not rounded the
bend yet. A leaning cedar was fifty
feet beyond him. He rose to one knee,
dropped Ills paddle nnd balanced there,
arms raised.
The cedar rushed at him. The first
twigs brushed his hands. His right
closed on n stout, green branch. He
snatched nt another with Ills left,
missed, nnd grappled at a dry stub.
He gave these holds Ills weight, gam-
bling they would hear It, lifted hts
feet and let the canoe shoot on. The
stub cracked wnrnlngly and, wriggling,
kicking, he let It go nnd grasped liv-
ing wood and with a heave swung
himself sideways and up, until he lay
along the bole, panting furiously as
he drew branches about himself for
concealment.
lie could see his canoe, tossing Uke
a chip, enter the first white water and
dtaappear around the sharp bend.
So much accomplished I Now, he
turned hie face up-stream. Franz wee
approaching, making In toward the
trail landing. He leaped out as the
bow touched rock end stopped to greep
the thwart* and lift the canoe out and
checked ell .movement, then moved
slowly Into the trail, scanning the
rocks and earth.
Steve chuckled. No sign was there
for him to see! Even at the distance
he could detect Franz’s bewilderment.
He went a short distance up the trail
and returned, scratching hla. head and
peering down Into the head of the
rapid.
A moment, before, Franz had had
Drake In sight. The only place he
could have, left the river was at that
trail; leaving it, he could not have
failed to leave eigne. Easy!
Franz evidently made up hie mind.
He stepped Into hie canoe again and
atarted down the current. Balancing
gingerly, Drake worked hie way to-
ward shore and ran along the ledge
to the trail, feeling hie breast pocket
to be certain that the precious paper
was still there.
• ••••**
The sun was sinking Into the forest
beyond LaFane’e meager camp.
LaFane himself lounged beside the
Ore, smoking Indolently. Toung Jim
Flynn sat with hla back against a
tree, glowering.
“Going to starve me next?” he
blurted.
The other ahook his heed. “N*.
Whatever Is done to you, you do.
Within limits, that Is.”
“Limits I“—bitterly. “When I didn’t
want to come in here, you beat me up;
when I tried to leave you did It again.
Now it’s nothing but coffee for both
of ua. Enjoying It, are you?”
“Much. . . . Tee. You're sober,
now; you've been sober most of a
week. Thero’s t little rifle yonder. In
that birch alts a grouse. If you
weren't ashamed to show how shaky
you atlll ere you'd try to get him be-
cause you're hungry. When you are
able to take your living from the
country, we’ll feed. Not before. I
can stand It longer than you can.”
After e time he said:
“I'm glad you're ashamed.”
LaFane smozed on.
“He was depending on you und you
turned him down. Think of that! An
old man, laid up with smashed hones,
his back to the wall, and you turned
him down. ... I recall hew gentle
ho always was with kids. I should
think they'll break their necks to do
things for him "
I Down Into the Rushing Maw of the
River Went Fran*.
' was light the Jolt all but upset him.
I He stint between protruding boulders
' with scarcely a hand'* breadth to
{ spare and straightened nut for the run
down a stretch that was white from
el Ilf to cliff.
He was forced to work frantically to
keep himself In shallows because pro-
truding rocks were so thick outside
that no cruft could thread them. He
skirted a lodged tree top, canoe rasping
through the outer branches without
disaster, but was inroad crosswise Of
the current.
For n long moment It seemed as
though the pull of the river would
defy bis efforts to straighten out and
that the canoe surely must cnpstze,
but he put into the paddle every energy
of his splendid body. The bow re-
sponded, swinging slowly at first,
swinging faster, threatening by that
spin to bash the one rook with even
greater vigor than the current alone
could have Impelled. But he won. Won
by Inches. He straightened out,
slipped past and was In safe water.
At the foot of the rapid a big eddy
swirled monotonously. As Frans
came abreast the eddy, hi* Jaw
dropped because along Its outer edge,
beside a half-submerged log, floated
a heavily listed, water-weighted canoe.
He altered his course and went
close, saw the shattered bottom where
a rock had Impaled the water-weight-
ed craft, observed the Folarla star
branded on the bow and let a long _
breath slip through hie Ups.
“Sol” he said and laughed, some-
what uncertainly. “3o, Young Jim
Flynn, or whoever-you-are! Old Twen-
ty-Mile got you, eh? You. and your
r
:
option I
Meanwhile, along the trail that led
through the timber out to the Shoe-
string road, Steve Drake covered the
miles at a woodsman's swift pace. At
dawn he entered Shoestring and break-
fasted. Inquiry developed no newt
of Franz. He had a moment of won-
der, of doubt. If the other had met
death In the rapid . , . But he
shrugged that off. To prevent his ar-
rival here Franz would have shot him
down without compunction, concerned
only with escaping suspicion for such
an act.
letter, he lingered In the register's
office until he saw that the entry had
been properly made and then, draw-
ing the first really long breath it
seemed he had enjoyed since be first
stepped Into the store at Good-Bye
nnd picked up the gage hurled by Old
Jim Flynn's enemies, he walked down
to the telegraph office. Frans, thwarted,
might try for vengeance, now, but all
he could do would be to harm Stevp
Drake's body, and that was a trifling
consideration.
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asked that
"Sleep well?” LaFane
morning.
“No,’’—shortly.
“I heard you rolling around. A bos
In your shape, who's done to hlmaalf
and hls father what you have done,
shouldn't expect to sleep very—■"
“For the love of God, LaFanat
won't you please let upr
Honest appeal was In both voice and
gesture. Tears showed In hla eyes
and hls breath caught Slowly hls
hands which had been wide spread
dropped to hie sides, hls head hung
and he turned away.
For an Interval the older man
watched him. Then he walked closer1
He put e hand on the boy’s shoulder
end gripped It tightly.
“Look nt me, son.” he said and hie
ton* was most gentle. “Look at
me. . . . That's right I And listen to
this: It was nil you had left, your
sense of the decent thing. It almost
got away but you hung-to It. You’ve
got It, now; It’s yours; for keeps. If
you hate me. I'm sorry. But you
won't have much longer to endure
nn». That’s n promise. As soon ns the
Iasi shake Is gone, we go. The Job
"a'llng Is aoi one fur • man who Isn’t
stviidv as a rock I”
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