Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1944 Page: 4 of 6
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ZAVALA COUNTY SENTINEL, CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS MAY 26, 1M4
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25 HAVE GIVEN MORE THAN 2,000 A YEAR;
100,000 NOW G-IV-E AT LEAST 150 PER YEAR
I GIVE
YOU
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BOYCE
HOUSE
Whatever has become of the “hu-
man fly?’’ You know—a man who
made his living by climbing up the
side of the town’s tallest building
with his bare hands while <he crowd
gaped, got stiffness in the neck and
had a near heart attack when he pur-
posely “almost’ lost his hold on the
legde near the top?
* •
I never missed any free attraction
that came to town during my boy-
hood—the expert marksman who put
on an exhibition to advertise Peters’
cartridges; the cyclist who rode a
single wheel standing up by way of
directing public attention to the su-
perior qualities of one particulur
brand of bicycle; and the medicine
show with the gasoline torches lurid-
ly lighting up the platform, the “pro-
fessor’ with his long hair, high top
hat, long-tailed coat and marvelous
flow of language; and Sambo, who
entertained with numbers on the
banjo.
• •
And did Buster Brown ever visit
your town? He was a nvdgct who
looked like the once-popular comic
supplement boy with the odd suit
and the bobbed-hair. (He was pub-
licizing a product.).
Sometimes, the merchants would
bring in a special event for trades’
day a slack-wire walker »r a dare-
devil, who leaped from the top of a
high iaddc-r into little more than a
tub of water.
Whenever a minstrel show came to
town, there was always a free con-
cert in front of the tent or the opera
house.
• m
But of course the biggest event of
all was the circus parade. Folks
lined the streets for an h-,ur ahead
of time—why, I never knew, because
no parade ever started on time. But
it was a real thrill from the begin-
ning—the proprietor in a rubber-
tired buggy who (the proprietor, not
the buggy) bowed smilingly to right
and left; then the many wagons, a
few of which were open to show the
lions and monkeys; the bespangled
ladies on the elephants ; the downs—
on to the very end, the cal'iope (we
boys culled it “c-aly-ope”) tooting out
noises amid which could occasionally
be detected a couple of notes that
suggested “In the Good Old Summer
Time.”
Them was the days!
-WGD-
WOMEN IN THE CHURCH
By Mary Fowler
The American Indian will be the
subject of women’s home missions
| study classes in thousands of Pro-
testant churches during the coming
I fall and winter. For the first time in
[many years of such studies, two of
I the study books will be bv Indian
j women. Heretofore, they have al
| ways been written by whites. Ellc. C.
jDeloria, an Indian member of the
Episcopal Church, contribu*es a vol-
ume “Speaking of Indians;” and
Ruth Muskrat Bronson, of the Pres-
byterian Church, has written “In-
dians Are People, Too.”
■ r
The Bishop of Rochester, England,
the Rt. Rev. Christopher M. Cha-
vasse, ironically suggests this bed-
time prayer for a "modern child:
“Bless the dear clinic which
weighed me with care,
And the nursery school teacher
who fine-combed my hair;
And the youth movement leaders
so careworn for me,
And my mother, God bless her,
whom never I see."
--
Twenty-one young people of the
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
are in training in colleges and theo-
logical seminaries to go to Presby-
terian mission fields, as soon as the
war is over, for service among Mo-
hammedans, “The most difficult peo-
ple on earth to convert to Christian-
ity.” Miss Glora M. Wysner, a Meth-
odist missionary in North Africa,
heads a committee for the Foreign
Missions Conference of North Ameri-
ca, trying to increase the American
church’s ministry among Moham-
medans.
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“No one is emotionally mature
who has any type of racial prejudice;
growth is stopped at this point,” said
Miss Lillian E. Smith, author of
“Strange Fruit” to a group of church
women in New York recently, Miss
Smith believes that “we have re-
gressed ip racial matters and are
now just about where we were be-
fore the present world crisis. We turn
our backs on reality and walk back-
ward in times of tension; we are
afraid of what is ahead." Comparing
the white race to a sick child who
reverts temporarily to habits which
he has outgrown, Miss Smith said:
“We are very busy sucking our
thumbs racially just now. We say,
‘We had better not push on in these
matters now. Let us go slowly. We
had better wait’ When are we going
to begin? . . Most of us feel a deep
betrayal of ourselves and our Chris-
tian beliefs.”
• •
Despite the plea of many leading
Methodist women and ministers that
"women be included in the traveling
ministry,” of the Methodist Church,
the General Conference of the de-
nomination in recent session, de-
feated the proposal by almost two
to one. Five years ago, a similar pro-
posal was lost by only thirteen votes.
Proponents of the measure included
Mrs. J. D. Bragg, president of the
Woman’s Society of Christian Ser-
vice of the Church—a body of more
than a million women. Women may
now be ordained to the Methodist
ministry as “local preachers" but
cannot become membes of the annual
conferences which assign men to the
‘traveling ministry.”
• *
For the first time in the history of
the Young Woman’s Christian Asso-
ciation in India, an Indian woman
has been named national general
secretary, the highest executive of-
fice. She is Miss Sosa Matthew, and
she succeeds in that office the much-
beloved Miss Anne Guthrie. The
ceremony of the “lighted lamp” in
which the new secretary received the
symbol of the office from her pre-
decessor, was recently held in the
chapel of Isabella Thoburn College,
Lucknow, before a body of 140 dele-
gates from Y.W.C.A.’s in India,China,
Burma, Ceylon and Egypt. Among
those present were Lady Rani Ma-
haraji Singh, national president of
the Y.W.C.A. of India, and Madam
Tsai-Kwei, general secretary of the
Y. W. C. A. of China.
• •
Mrs. Estella Seajlds Howard, de-
scribed by a Puerto Rico newspaper
as "A Christian in the most funda-
mental sense of the term,” has re-
tired after serving for seven years as
superintendent of the George O.
Robinson School, operating in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, under t'-e auspic-
es of the Methodist Woman’s Society
of Christian Service. Mrs. Howard
served with her husband as a mis-
sionary in Southurn Rhodesia Africa
for eleven years and later helped to
supervise activities of a school in
Georgia. During her administration
the Puerto Rico institution has un-
dergone extensive improvements. It
will open next fall with accommoda-
tions for 135 girls and a staff of 25
persons. Miss Verr H. Seliff is the
newly appointed superintendent.
-WGD-
—Now is a mighty good time to re-
new your subscription.
-WGD-
—Ledgers, double entry record
books on sale at Sentinel office.
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WHEN HE READ THAT ALL
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CARRIED ON THE FORK
HE DIDN’T BEUEVE IT
COULD BE DONE__
HE ALSO WAS TOLD THAT DIKING
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Hardy, J. H. Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1944, newspaper, May 26, 1944; Crystal City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1096233/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .