The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1931 Page: 2 of 4
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Bishop Gardner Murray, left, presiding at the joint session:.1 of
; Bishops and Deputies of the Episcopal Church, receives from Bisliop
illiam Manning, of New York, a “Golden Buie” gavel made* from the
lars of Lebanon by Near East Belief orphans in the carpenter"' train-
; school at Nazareth in appreciation of what American charity has
THE MULLIN ENTERPRISE
SUNNY SQUIBLETS
Published Weekly at Mullia,
Mills County, Texas
R. H. Patterson, Editor
ntered a-s second class mail
matter January 1, 1902
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Three Months .....................40
Notice of church entertain-
nents where admission is charg-
ed, card of thanks, resolutions
&f respect and all mattters not
news will be charged for at
regular advertising rates.
The cold wave the early part
of the week did damage from
Texarkana to the gulf. Rio
Grande valley fruit and vege-
table growers suffered serious
lass from fVost.
Many calls are made on var-
ious charity organizations every
where. Some are worthy and
many are not worthy, but some
are certainly peculiar. A negro
woman at Covsicana applied to
the Red Cross for a set of false
teeth.
The fat stock shoAv at Fort
Worth was an immense success
•this year, with a wonderful at-
tendance,not withstanding many
people cry hard timotS.The large
patronage of the fat stock show
proves that everybody is not
broke.
The night watchman of Nac-
ogdoches was overpowered by
two men Monday night, was
bound, blindfolded and thrown
into a field several miles from
Ahe town, but w'as not injured.
No reason can be assigned for
the attack.
Extensions and improvements
costing $32,000,000 will be
made by the Southwestern Bell
Telephone company in 1931, ac-
cording to the company’s an-
nual report, copies of which
were released Saturday by the
Houston office.
Seems like somebody was
**laying for” Edw'ard Denison
in Washington last week end.
Immediately after Ms comple-
;ion of a sixteen year service as
congressman from an Illinois
district, be was arrested on a
liquor violation charge.
A physician celebrating his
97th year at Rochester, Minn.,
announced that four hours sleep
in 24 hours w’as sufficient for
men engaged in business or
professions, lie claims he has
.only given four hours per day
to sleep for the past 58 years.
Fire swept through the little
oil town of Mivando City, Webb
county, early Sunday, destroy-
ing fifteen buildings in two bus-
iness blocks, and causing dam-
age estimated at $50,000. Six
persons were burned slightly
and bruised, but non seriously.
The state board of education
'Monday unanimously voted to
revise geographies, largely in
response to complaints filed by
th eWest Texas Chamber of
Commerce. Eliminations and ad
ditions were made to meet all
the suggestions made by that
body.
If home town people would
develop a sense of home town
loyalty all this talk of the
‘‘small town losing out,” would
be the emptiest sort of prattle.
There never was a time when
So much opportunity for devel-
opment and growth was offer-
ed enterprising communities.
Texas’ only glass factory is lo-
cated in a relatively small town,
as are her two great sugar refin
cries. In point of fact, high ten-
sion lines for the tvansmission
of electric power have wiped
out the small town’s disadvan-
tages and emphasized its at-
tractions.:—Ennis News.
5%
FARM AND RANCH LOANS
Easy Terms—5 to 36 Years
Dependable Service Through
—the—
Federal Farm Land Bank
of Houston, Tetxas
A —See—
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The boys who went hatless
tYrough the winter might con-
sider how smart they would ap-
pear if they also went barefoot,
The college students of Texas
don’t write as well as they
should, but anyway they are
careful to write legible letters
home asking for money.
In fonnev* days people felt un-
der obligation to support their
political party, but now they
expect their party to support
them.
The American people are urg-
ed to go back to the soil, and
anyw'ay they have to use the
soil to play baseball on.
The girls are using so much
colov on their faces that the red
Indians must find warpaint get
ting scarce.
Foreigners say Americans
think of nothing but the dollar.
This is all wrong, as they don’t
think much of anything under
ten dollars.
Government berths are desir-
ed by many who regard them
as a reservation in a sleeping.
The teachers are bothered by
the young people who fail to
learn their dates, while the
girls are bothered by the boys
who fail to keep them.
Motto of the speculators: If
at first you don’t succeed in los-
ing your money, tvy, try again.
The champion tree sitters will
get lots of publicity, but prob-
ably the business men would
prefer to employ the champion
garden planters.
It is claimed the worm will
turn, but if he does, the fisher-
man digging for bait will prob-
ably discover him before long.
The pen is said to be greater
than the sword, but many of
our most learned people can’t
make any legible marks with
the first named implement,
After appropriate exercises in
observance of ‘Rake and Lawn’
day, ‘Clean up the Back Yard
Week’ should next be ee lei (rat-
ed here in Goldthwaite.
The sporting crowd are inter
ested in night life, but a little
more day life in tending to
their .job would be helpful.
The sporting crowd is inter-
to one person, advertising talks
to the whole body of newspaper
readers.
It does not help so much to
talk in favor of your home
town in conversation, if your
money talks for some other
town where vou buy goods.
SUNNY JIM.
TEXAS CENTENNIAL
If all Texans who were gath-
eyed Tuesday night in celebra-
tion of the anniversary of Tex-
as independence had paramount,
ed hi their discussions ways and
means of staging an adequate
celebration of the Texas Cen-
tenial in 1936, such interest
might have quickened or would
soon yield a well-defined plan
of procedure. Before anothev
Independence Day arrives it is
to be hoped that not only the
many who make it a practice
to celebrate the day, but all oth
er loyal Texans, will have be-
come keenly concerned in this
important matter. Centennial
Year is just around the corn-
er. Unless some ambitious plan
is evolved and put. through,
such celebration as Texas may
stage will not be in keeping
with the anniversary’s impor-
tance. It is too late to launch
such a project. But a plan can
be shaped that will make cer-
tain an impressive celebration.
There is an urgent call to patrio
tic Texans that they join in
shaping such a plan and in pro-
moting it to tsuecess. Centen-
nial Year will present an oppor-
tunity. If Texas citizens fail to
make something of it, they will
have occasion to regret it to
the last of ther days on this
historic soil. All of which is
well taken. It is indeed time to
take up this matter in earnest.
—Pallas Journal.
CARS CLASSIFIED
There seems to be consider-
able misunderstanding as to
the proper classification of ears
and trucks and the following
statement from Palestine will
give some information.
The Statement
Palestine, . March 6.—District
Highway Supervisor J. C. Greg-
ory of Division 10 conferred
here with officials, after consid-
erable criticism in vegard to en-
forcement of highway and au-
tomobile transportation law's
following complaints of illegal
arrest of motorists along the
highway in Ande*son county.
A passenger car becomes a
commercial ear when it is used
habitually by those engaged in
commercial business- for haul-
ing sample cases or other sam-
ples of trade and business, Greg
ory said. A farmer’s family car,
when used habitually for haul-
ing truck or chickens and farm
products to market, also is class
ed as a commercial car and
must be so licensed to be used
lawfully, he said.
Gregory, accompanied here
by Lieutenants Moffott and
Longley of the highway patrol,
said the Anderson county of-
ficens had been clearly within
their rights in making recent
arrests though much contro-
versy and criticism had result-
ed.
The highway officer said a
farmer may attach a small trail
er to his car for hauling pur-
poses and use it for his owh
business without paying a com
mercial license. If the small
trailer is used for pleasure, as
for hauling equipment on a fish
ing* trip, it becomes subject to a
license, he said.
Another ruling made clear
was that all trucks mutSt be
equipped with rear view mir-
rors and trailers must carry tail
lights. License numbers oh all
cars must be kept free of mud in
ordev that the license plates
may be easily read.
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WORSE THAN WAR
In simple manner Justice OH
vev Wendell Holmes Sunday
celebrated the 90th anniversary
of his birthday in Washington
City. The only deviation from
the customary simplicity of his
life was a radio addresg:—his
first—delivered from his home.
He is the oldest man ever to
serve as a Supveme Court Jus-
tice.
THEY WANT MONEY
The difference between idle-
ness and unemployment or be-
tween honest need and impu-
dent begging may be illustrated
in simple tests. We know men
in Tulsa, who being approached
by other men who said they
wanted meals and lodging, led
to eating placqs and were de-
serted. The men asking for aid
did not want meals; they want-
ed money. That happens a great
many times every day. It is cer-
tain a great many have come
into Tulsa for the pickings they
may get from liberal people.
There is so much publicity for
drouth and unemployment aid
that men’s hearts are rathe*
tender and they will ‘ ‘ give up ”
coin. It is well to offer the
meals or the lodging and see
what occurs. The applicants of-
ten make elaborate get-aways.
The Christian Science Monitor,
editorially, tells of a neat little
job which Mayor Curley of Bos
ton put ove* on the Commun-
ists. They marched to the city
hall demanding work. The may
or shocked them by inviting
them in. A long, elaborate ad-
dress was read to the mayor
and then he began offering
johj|. Not a red would aecept
any of the jobs offered; they
would not even given names of
people who should have jobs
They emphatically did not want
to work, they, on the level with
the panhandlers, want money;
the red wants notoriety, atten-
tion, opportunity to make a
speech. Confine efforts at aid
to the people who really want
and need aid.—Tulsa World.
During 18 months of the
World War, 50,510 members of
the American Expeditionary
Force were killed in action or
died of wounds. During the 18
months preceding January,
193.1, 50,900 people were killed
in automobile accidents in this
country. There could be no bet-
ter illustration of the serious-
ness of the automobile accident
situation.
According to a .survey by the
Travelers Insurance company,
the leading cause of accidents
in 1930 was failure to give ‘right
of way, which accounted for 15
per cent of deaths and 31.5 per
cent of injuries. Second was ex-
cessive speed, which was respon
sible for 21 per cent, of all ac-
cidents, and third, driving on
the wrong side of the road,
which totaled 16 per cent.
HigheV speed is a natural re-
sult of improved roads and cars.
But the other two primary
causes of accidents—which to-
gether accounted for 27 per
cent of deaths and 47.7 per cent
of injuries—amount to simple
ignorance, recklessness cy care-
lessness. They show improper
training on the part of the mo-
torist., coupled with inadequate
enforcement of tvaffice laws,
and the predominance of hog in
many people. That such acci-
dents could lie at leant partially
cuvbed by adequate enforce-
ment of modernized traffic
codes, is well within the limits
of plausibility.
Every year complete and de-
tailed resumes of the previous
year’s accident record are pre-
pared. Study of them should
show what enforcement is need
ed, what can be accomplished.
A few states, in a peviod of ris-
ing hazards, have managed to
appreciably decrease accidents
within their borders. All other
states can do the same.
PHILANTHROPY’S
MUCH ROAD WORK
Within the next thirty to for-
ty days there will be more road
work begun in Texas than ever
before in the history of the state
at any one time. Lettings at the
present session of the Highway
'Commission have been unusual-
ly high, with almost $7,000,000
in contracts aw'avded in every
section of the state. A large
number of jobs will start in
West Texas, and for the next
few months detours will be com
mon along any designated high
way in the state. Most of this
work is for small stretches of
not more than twenty miles,
and will be completed by early
fall.—Ballinger Ledger.
Hagop H. Yacoublan of Beirut, Syria, and his wife, formerly
Arousiag Kinousian, typical products of a Near East Relief oruhan-
age, with their baby, a grandchild of American philanthropy Near
East Relief has saved 1 S3.»(ni such young people to leaven the gen-
eration which is now busy reconstructing life in war-torn Bible Band*.
CHURCHMAN GETS ORPHANS’ GAVEL
the
William
cedars
’iing school at Nazareth in appreciation of what American
done for them.
Orphans Need Thirty-Five Million Meals
The great dining room in the Near East Relief
orphanage at Syra, Greece, where American money
1» still feeding 1,200 children three meals a day or
1,314,000 meals a year. The »2,lil children sffli
in Near East Relief’s care in its various areas will,
require 35,182,445 meals this year. '•
| Open The Door And Invite
| Prosperity To Abide With You
EE Invite the good times to come back. The door to better times is better equipment and thor- *
EE ough preparation.
^3 We have the Farm Equipment, Hardware, Nails and Plows, ready for your spring work.
= The best of Screens to keep out the enemy, who specializes in carrying germs.
jjs Invite Prosperity by investing in new Screens before fly time. 5?^
]S The ladies are invited to buy of our nice line of shelf Hardware and new Aluminum, Varnishes
EE jmd Paints. J-gj ^
5 We carry at all times a complete line of Undertakers Supplies Si
| J. H. Randolph Lumber Company
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Patterson, R. H. The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1931, newspaper, March 12, 1931; Mullin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115885/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.