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CUERO RECORD
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THE CUERO, RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
REVERSE ENGLISH'
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15,1940
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Organ of the City of Cuero and DeWltt County.
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While House v
?k Pegler, analyzing the typical American whom
Spelvin, finds George having a hard tussle at
1th his conscience and principles and ignorance and
jHons, and with a great yearning to ‘“chuck the
aid go fishing.”
; that isn’t practicable. So poor George does the best he
his thinking about the war, the state of the nation,
logics, the troubles of the Allies, the possibility of
lihg a lot of credit again, the political campaign, and
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one thing especially, in the analysis, catches atten-
Bpelvin "is glad*he will not be the next President
g&Bdted States.”
The fact will bear quite a lot of thinking over. And it may
, When you ftart reflecting, how a lot of Ameri-
f offering themselves for the toughest lob in this hem-
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country’s and the world’s present situation, it looks
i for two or three supermen.
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37 YEARS AGO
: To Be Seen in "JOHNNY APOLLO*' )
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(The following Interesting
items we clipped from an Is-
sue of The Record of the year
1903:
(MAY 15. 1903.)
The children enjoyed a delightful
Little dancing party at the school!
house belonging to »Mrs. Willie!
Breeden, opposite Countv Clcik
Box’s home. Friday night
Senator Davidson spent ye-tmlayj
in Karnes City on legal business.
Dan T. Price of Yoakum v. as in j
the city
business.
yesterday on some legal
R H. Preston ot the Smith lanch j
invest of the river, reports no serious j
damage from the hail of last wrek.j
The stones were large but not iiura- •
, erous and fell without- wind.
R H. Wofford ^reports the dam-’
age from hail in the neighborhood J jxirothv Lamour and Tyrpnne Power who are the co-stars on 'Johnny
of his farm at Rabke exaggerated.j /vpolicy a thrilling lornaiice packed with rurnei e ai.U allure in^ery
He saw no seriously damaged cornj unforgvttabie moment which plays at the Rialto Theatre on fciatuAfay,
or cotton. Sunday and Monday. 3 days.
Umi
l Mrs. Wm. Robinson of Nashville, i
i Term., is visiting her grand niece. | Pu^“ ^
Mrs. J. W. Woodson. She arrived
yesterday from Flatonla.
Dock York of Edna, the only Re-
in the Tex-
as Legislature, spent a few hours in
Cuero yesterday.
lroin a several weeks'
friends in Fun Worth
Josephine Wolford
back
, "Wfi *
and Waco ’
She reports a most delightful visit,
though, of course, glad to be at
• home again. „ .
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WRITTKM COR A VII RH>:<CSKt* KY
Oren Arnold (58)
>.ASI.U KY CENTRAL PRK.S.-1 ASSO. 1ATION
POLLIWOGS
By POLLY
I" By A Kitten
I sleepy puppies and a mewing kitten were the sub-
! ot a recent news picture which broke records and made
.The tiny animals were entered in the sixth annual pet
East Side Boys Club in New York City. The New
Jrfiiror sent a photographer on routine assignment.
‘ cameramen were there, and all took pictures in the reg-
;y borrowed the kitten from one boy and the puppies
and grouped them with the kitten in the mid-
job done, the Mirror man lingered to tickle the kitten
the chip. The kitten mewed and in doing so assumed a broadcast to get the iak*t war news
The Answer to Reduced Acreage
By T. C. RICHARDSON, Associate Editor
Farm and Ranch
A good many cotton growers are
much cotton on
Mrs. Edgar Smith says that people
_ „ „ - „..ia smaller acreage as they made
rarely ever call her “Mrs. Smith”
and when she answers the telephone.
she even calls herself “Kay Mugge”
$ $ *
before the government program
compelled acreage reduction. High-
er acre-yields mean lower costs per
Tuesday night bowlers taking timejP°und’ which enhances the chances
off to listen to the ten o’clock
very inspiring to -. the behyider. The
took another £ttch of piefthfeb; one of
used IrUjh amazing results. ' *, JS\ * \ ?
as the papers appeared on the streets, readers
daffy. Before the incident was ovfx, the Mirror
Qpany thousand copies of the picture and set
' for their distribution. It received 3,000
_ day and 5,000 letters about the picture, and
waited in line to buy copies at 50 cento each
r, the price set to cover cost of production,
tan the same picture four days ir succession,
pictures are always popular. Many delightful
printed in the papers right along. It is hard to ex-
tras singled out for special
l\w$U5t of course, a charming picture, ffut perhaps the
: political news happened to be more harrowing than
The nesws must have upset the jr yields by fertUis
bowlers for most of their scores were turnin« under 8"cn
bowlers for most of their scores were
terrible. .•
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A friend of ours from Yorktown
told us about a girl she saw In San
Antonio “faying on a purse.’’ She
pranced before a' mirror, trying the
purse under her arm. lianging at herj
side, and holding it in front of her.
The friend said the only tim; she
had seen anything funnier was the
time her husband “tried on a milk
bucket” to see if it looked too large
for him to carry.
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At last Nylon hose are on sale for j
American women, and are available
to Ouero women as well as to those
who live In large cities. They can
be found at Koehler's Dry Goods
Co., and at Bass Brownbilt Sho-
ck). They range In price from $1.15
bP-
profit. whatever the price may
The Old South is getting bet-
fertilization, both by
manure crops.
! and the use of bottpncrcial fertilizer.
The same methods are practical for
a large part of the Southwest, but
are not adapted to the Western cot-
ton belt. Texas and Oklahoma, par-
ticularly. and Arkansas and Louisi-
ana to a degree, are penalized in the
AAA allotments on account-of past
low yields. Until the law and its ad-
ministrative rulings are re-wrlb-
ten. the only offset the South-
western cotton grower can make to
the low allotments, is to increase tils
acre yields by every means within
economic reason.
There Is one factor of lowered
yields which most of the cotton
south has in common — the insect
problem. The Southwest has not
os id as much attention to bugs m
has the Old South, resting on tiff
that climatic condi
has lost a part of its former ac
vantage in cotton production by *
spreading acreage over large areas
with low production. The obvious
answer is to produce as much cot- t
ton as possible from the acres left, j
and turn the diverted acreage to'
other uses, using livestock to con- j
sum® the crops on the farm. If the j
government program is to con-1
tinue, the Southwest must raise its j
base yields. If the government pro- (
gram is abandoned some time in the ;
future, the growers who make good j
yields will still liave the advantage.!
Last year the Southwest generally ;
peaking had fewer cotton insects I
than the average season in tliis re- 1
gion yet those who poisoned for j
flea hoppers and boll weevil report
that their increased returns much
more than paid the cost of insect
control. In ’a “bad” insect year
the difference is much greater in fa-
vor of insect control.
The *‘how’’ and “when” of cotton
ftisect control will be discussed in
lOtfigr articles in this paper. In ‘the
time the county agent will be
to give information on the sub-
both by word of mouth and
rough bulletins.
„ T1Tlir-Trr.liriri-ai r - ....... ii - These hose are not indestruct- - assumption ,
Good poetry is no longer written by Anonymous. Every- j JMe. but are much stronger than silk j bere
w-1
m,
ESE.
body signs his stuff now, whether it is good or not.
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'Goman# Expansion i
Reports from various sources would seem to indicate that
and his Nazis really have the loyalty of less than half
people. Some of the latest estimates say about 40
cent. How do they stay in power then?
is a double reason. First, the government is too
for unorganized rebels to overthrow. Second, where po-
is lacking there is military loyalty, which would
4 rebellion, especially in wartime.
“The important thing,” says the veteran war correspond-
ent, Melvin K. Whiteieather, "is that the German people are
putting their shoulders to the wheel during this war because
kffsfty to the army and ambition for military expansion are
Germanic, not Nazi.
will be no revolution in Germany until the army
its back to the wall, and such a revolution will come from
not from the people.”
Moral Disaster
■ Strategically, the British abandonment of nearly all Nor-
after a losing effort to hold it, may not be very important
liter of such growing scope and changing character. But
it is disastrous.
is very bad for British morale, and stil! worse for the
of the small neutrals that have looked to Britain for
support. "There were Czechoslovakia and Poland and Finland,
they say, and here is Norway. Again Britain promises redemp-
tion of a crushed democracy some time in the future; but if
her power or policy cannot be depended on now, how can we
trust them hereafter?”
Britain may be doing the wise thing, or even the inevit-
able thing. Both strategy and purpose may be sound. But that
possibility isn’t satisfying the victims and neutral onlookers
rtgMkNOW. And nothing but victories can turn the general tide
af sentiment back to faith in Britain’s power and purpose.
hose and will wear much longer
ink. in
showing that the United States can
It% just another fetep, we think, in! farmers‘ 011 the other hand, knew .-
1 that insects had to be controlled
1 and the better ones adopted
be self sufficient and need not de-
pend on outside agencies for needed
supplies.
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control as a regular program,
along with weed control and fer-
tilization. The result is that the
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Marriage Licenses:
anuel Odnzales, Jr.,
John J. Bell and Tom Shults just1 Southwest is now losing more
back from a ten days trip to Wash-1 ^°tton to ins^t5 than * the Old
ington, D. C., saying that they have •
caught up on their traveling for e • ^ ^r>?s w^hout saying that the fc*
wlille. ! practical cotton grower does not
if, ^ I plant a crop and leave it to be
! taken bv weeds. Why. then, should
1 we stop short of doing ail the. eco-
nomically sound things that - will
raise the yield? Why treat the in-
ect problem as an ‘‘act o God”
and do nothing, while we plow.
Mr.^and Mrs ‘‘Spot” Schorre, con-
templating a trip to Mexico. D. F
during his vacation in July.
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H. D. Meister of Yoakum in Tin
Record office Tuesday, telling u:
about plans for the Tom-Tom. and
incidentally leaving us a few' com-
plimenary press tickets.
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Understand that wearied, bored
and sleepy looks adorned the face'
of those attending the lengthy meet-
ing of the city council Tuesday
evening, as the clock neared the 1
o’clock mark.
we
hoe and sweat to bring the crop
along to harvest? Weeds are also
orovidential—that is they are a
natural growth which we do not
leave to nature or Providence. It
is doing half a job to prepare
1 the ground, plant good seed and
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PUBLIC RECORDS
and Miss
McCoy.
on Gonzales, and Miss Vivi-
ana Gonzales.
and Gas Lews;
b Stothart assignment of lease
H. E. Emmerlon. 30 acres of land-
Andrew Lockhart League. Con $1
WPA Charged Wifh
Waste And Fraud
Cuero Firms Take On
Nylon Hose Line
WASHINGTON. May 15 — <JNS>-
Charges against the Work Projects!
Administration. ranging from al- j
leged waste and payroll padding to
1 harboring of Communists, were con- 1
tained in a 94 page report made
public today by the House WPA in-
vestigating committee.
The report, the bulk of which
we seldom have all, brought categorical denials from
?ultivat?. without also keeping down
insect losses.
Fortunately
Two Cuero business establish-
ments—the Koehler Dry Goods Co
and the Bass Brownbilt Shoe Store
the insects in one season, else wt j reiief officials, led the senior com-
would have been out of the cot- j mjttee investigator. Thomas C. Eld-
ton business. Fortunately also, in-
sect losses are not serious in every
er, to declare that “the WPA is thej
rottenest organization with which I
have ever come in contact.”
Citing a long list of specific in-
stances on projects throughout the
seasons arc | nation, the report emphasized the
of irregular-
—have added the greatly-publicize! 10,11 Mnf
Nylon hose for women to thcii In s,,rb
stock. The hose already liave gone vle,ds- *’ *3 l,iai 1 do political work for officials, in
on sale at the stores. ooitant to save all tlie yield pos- j many projects private property.
Although the report that Nylon j s*b*p Cuiting insect lapses is one j sometimes ow ned by WPA officials,
hose are indestrurtable and will;*a' was improved at publje expense,
not run is erroneous, the completed ! Whipping the insect* like con- pavrolLs were padded, excessive sup-
1 fabric is beautifully sheer and ,rndmg wefds *-s a question of plies of materials were purchased at
strong and is rapidly going 111(0 px- ,V1"K piepaied and beating them uneconomical prices, projects were
tensive use the country over jEUn Insects aie harder to authorized when the local sponsor
Nylon hose are being introduced >ee ,ban WPf>d-s- hut cotton grow- j could not meet his share of the cost,
at prices ranging from $1.15 up PKS el,hei know or can easily learn land many wasteful projects were
- | how to identify them, guage the j undertaken.
degree of infestation, and do the! ___
■e-ason. But seasons unfavorable
0 the crop itself, and. its pot-ntial
Yields are lowered by factors be-
yond our control. Dry'
also unfavorable to weeds, but we j following allegations
lon’t stop plowing on that account ,^los
seasons of low potential j Relief workers were compelled to
is that much more im-1 political work for officials,
save all tlie yield pos- j many projects private
insect losses
» When we all have super-cars running at super-speeds
over aoper-highways, all we’ll need will oe super-incomes.
Some take the high road and some take the low road, but
Hitler takqs the road $0 Narvin.
1
DAILY RECORD 50c RER MONTH,
Texas oil companies furnish pro-
ducing. pipe line and refinine equip-'right thing at the right time in the
ment free for use of students m right way. It is no more compli-! ■ ■ ----------
adult vocational classes conducted rated than setting a planter or a! \ LAME BACK
by the 8tate Department of Elu- cultivator to do the right kind of j indicates a sore kidney. Cit-Ros will
cation. Approximately 14.000 Tex- work, and is just as important in1 relieve this irritation, keen you
ans have taken these courses to producing a good crop of cotton. j from getting up at night. Sold for
date. .1 » Under the AAA the Southwest $1.00 at Buttery's Drug Store, taav.)
SYNOPSIS
THE CHARACTERS:
BENJAUIN MERRLFIELD, aged capi-
talist, Aires
GAYLE DIXON to make love- to bis
grandson,
JEREMY TUCKER, a shy student of
archeology.
BILL BAILEY and si* pretty girls are
employed to help bring life and youth
to the Merrifleid mansion.
• • •
YESTERDAY: BUI finds Himself grow-
ing jealous over the fact that Jeremy
had kissed Gayle, even though it
was part of a play rehearsal.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
WHILE HE glumly ate a sand-
wich and a glass of milk for lunch
—declining to sit with the seven
girls who had been so peremptorily
hired In the Merrifleid mansion—
Bill Bailey made his pirns. Right
after lunch he would go to old Mr.
Merrifleid and confess that circum-
stances had made him change his
mind about working at this
strange Jolx Then he would devote
his life to courting Gayle Dixon—
a free man to do whatever was
necessary. y’'
In his mind he had magnified
Jeremy Tucker as a rival of tre-
mendous possibilities, a condition
brought about by Jeremy's back-
ground of wealth. The $1.40 in
Bill’s pocket—all his earthly as-
sets—was symbolically, as well as
actually, small.
However, Bill had barely drunk
the last swallow of milk when old
Mr. Merrifleid himself came onto
him, beaming.
“Well, well, young sir. I was
looking for you!” -The old man
looked younger. “Want to congrat-
ulate you and Miss Dixon on a fine
start. The little Impromptu dinner
lAst evening was excellent, and I
note that you have not delayed in
launching your other plan—the,
ah, Little Theater movement here.
I like that I like to see a plan
put Into action promptly.”
“Thank you, sir,” said Bill,
but—”
“No buts, young sir! Modesty is
becoming, but encouragement
should be received where it is due.
Now listen here. 1 have another
idea that I—oh. Miss Dixon!”
He called to Gayle, who had
come In sight, and she smiled as
she approached them.
“Yes. Mr. Merrifleid!”
"I was just congratulating young
Bailey here. And I congratulate you.
too. I expect it was your effort as
much as his. in truth. The party
last evening, and the immediate
launching of our little—ah. private
plan.” He paused to chuckle.
“It was a nice evening,” she ad-
mitted.
"Correct. So nice that I want
you to dc it again.”
“Oh! All right, surely."
”1 mean, young lady and young
sir, that the thought of having
welcoming p-rty for Jeremy was
an excellent one. I should have
thought of it myseif, earlier. We
must do it yet. Have a house full
Dancing and music and refresh-
ments. You will know how to have
a party here?”
He was almost pleading it now,
tacitly admitting his futility in
such matters. Gayle was impressed
anew by his kindliness, and even
Bill showed a revival of interest.
“It shall be done, Mr. Merri-
fleid!” Gayle assured him. “Would
—would next Tuesday be all right ?
That’s hardly a week off. The in
vitations will take a little time.
And—"
‘The sooner the better, my dear.
I am sure Jeremy will be pleased.
He ought to be very grateful to
you."
“To you, sir, not us!"
She watched him lea^ve the room
somewhat hurriedly. then she
turned at onre to Bill
“We’ve got to put that ahead of
the play. Bill. And work fa.~t.
Goodness, I don't know anybody in
his set. Jeremy's. I mean.”
“He hasn't got any set.”
“That's right. There hasn’t been
any society at The Oaks in many
years Of course. Bill, that’s why
the old gentleman wants us to do
it all He’s asking us to make a
'set.' To build a new social scheme
around Jeremy. Don't you see? It's
still a part of our plan. Our work.”
Her enthusiasm mounted rapid-
ly, and Bill was lifted out of his
personal gloom.
In truth Bill began to fell • lit-
tle ashamed of himself. He wished
he were not given to quick ani-
mosity toward another man. He
couldn't remember when anybody
had so arqused him as Jeremy had
done this ’morning, kissing Gayle.
Not even in football had he ever
suddenly wanted to strike another
man; but then, he never had faced
a situation like this before, involv-
ing a girL He wopdered If love up-
set everybody the way it did him.
“The floor is all clear in the two
big rooms.” Bill told Gayle. “Looks
like a swell place for a dance right
there. We can use the stage for
the orchestra, and—"
“Oh, surely. Bill!” Gayle walked
wkth him back to their new "the-
ater” and stood with him, plan-
ning. “It is a perfect place. In fact,
this is where The Oaks had big
doings 25 years or so ago, remem-
ber. Back when Jeremy's parents
were young. Mr. Merrifleid told us.”
“That's right. Now look—where
arc the g^rls?”
“I’ll got them.”
The six other girls were rounded
up by Gayle and brought to the
big barren halls, and together the
eight youths stood there in happy
connivance.
“It's another case where we have
to play a game and keep mum
about it.” Gayle exclaimed to the
others. “We want to have a really
grand welcoming party for Jeremy.
But there is a sort of ticklish sit
uation— Jeremy has no friends
here, except for us. Mr. Merrifleid
knows no young people much. So
the guest list will have to be ours."
“Goody!” Temple Hyde bubbled
that.
“Hush!” Bill Baitey pretended to
slap her. “It's a party for big peo-
ple, not kids.”
The other girls laughed. All but
the ’olive-skinned one, Lola Mon-
tesa. It was gradually becoming
apparent that Lola was not given
to laughter, or much talk. But that
seemed not to affect her striking
beauty.
Bill picked up the conversation
lead. “Now look, chillun," he was
hig-brolhering all of them, “sit
down this afternoon and make out
lists of at least a dozen people
each. Pick right gats and guys—
vou know w hat I mean. Your best
friends. Tell them you and a few
others of Jeremy Tucker's friends
are giving him a party at his big
home here next Tuesday night. A
dance. Tell them each to invite a
date. Just pretend like you are
Jeremy s friends who at^e organiz-
ing tiie party.”
“Well, aren't we?" Tempe Hyde
snapped.
“Right, Tempe. we are!"
smiled at her and put an
around the smaller girt ^
like Jeremy, personally ai
professionally. But you m
help us In this immediate
It's r.ot—well, ent
al, you know.”
They nodded. They did
to be reminded that
ing paid $150 a month each
that their “work” sc far had
sisted entirely of what they 1
have called fun. Mr. Benj
Merrifleid was more and
legendery somebody, however
they saw him tp be.
It was Gayle herself who left
group to go afld. tell Jeremy.’*
She could not Sod him
For several minutes she
and finally Graham the butler re-
ported that Mr. Jeremy was in the
library. Gayie realized she should!
have looked there first.
She discovered'him between tww
tiers of books that partially en-
closed a corner of the great room,
and came onto him so suddenly as
to surprise him.
“Jeremy, I—” but he interrupted
quickly.
“Oh! Look, I didn’t mean It thatr-
way!" he burst at once into an
apology. “I was—I was going to
write you a note, but I—well, look.
Miss Dixon, Bailey told me to act
natural, but I didn’t mean to kiaa
you as if I—*
Gayle had stopped, mouth agape,
and now site burst into laughtort - •
“Stop it, Jeremy! Don’t feel that
way. Everything’s all right. Why—
why, Jeremy—it was grand! Good-
ness, you needn’t ever need to apol-
ogize for kissing a girl! I loved it!”
“You—you did?" He held out &
hand, pleadingly.
“Of course! We were just re-
hearsing, arid if you wanted to
tease a little bit, who caredY I
don't get aflgry easily, Jeremy.
Anyhow, a girl is honored when a
handsome man wants to kiss her.
And somehow I think you really
wanted to kis»mc there. Now hon-
estly, didn’t you ?”
He swallowed, staring wide-
eyed.
“It was nice, Jeremy. Honestly,”
she said in a low tone, intimately,
sweetly. Not flirting with him. but
trying to console a man In an ob-
vious misery of embarrassment.
She bit her lip to be sura aha
wouldn't laugh again. He was
backing slowly away.
“I have something else to tell'
you," she bfgged.
He gazed fearfully at her lor
long moment
"A-all right," he said then,
ing.
(To Be Continued)
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