Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1937 Page: 4 of 12
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National Editorial
Aaaoeiation
The Columnists Are Coming
A LMOST in the same manner that John
/a Knox preached to the reformers of
Scotland, the columnists are now preach-
ing’ to the people of Texas—but appar-
ently making a direct appeal to the sov-
ereign voter. Most of the congressmen
have a column, published in the home
town newspapers under the guise of
“news from Washington.” Governor All-
red, who seems to be the latest column-
ist, heads his story, “The Other Side of
the Record."
Such contributions only go to add to
the already incumbered woes of the pub-
lisher, particularly the small newspap-
ers that at the best have only a few col-
umns for the "must” copy-
Without any desire to criticize these
contributions we wonder if there is ac-
tually any real news value attached to
any of them. Or, looking at it from an-
other angle, is it too much to say that
these columns are not inspired out of a
desire to promote the interests of «the
writer? We simply ask the question, and
leave it to the reader to answer.
Something To Think About
117 M. JONES. Limestone county fruit
?» • grower who spent Tuesday in Ste-
phenville visiting the Wolfe Nursery, is
authority for the statement that Texas
does not can for commeicial purposes a
single can of peaches. In view of the
fact that Texas produces such an abund-
ance of super flavored peaches it seems
a strange condition that none are canned
for the purpose of sale.
Here in Central West Texas where
there are literally thousands of bushels
of Elbertas, Early Wheelers, Frank, In-
dian Clings, Barbaras and other varieties
produced it seems that the proposition of
providing canning facilities at least mer-
its a close study. Moreover, the dried
fruit market could be studied.
The country Mr- Jones hails from is
said to have a very fine quality of peach-
es, while East Texas surely must produce
a healthy volume of the crop.
This does not mean that the producers
are not finding a market for their peach-
es. The truth is that they have sold at
good prices at the orchard.
However, if and when Texas does start
a research program as to the possibili-
ties of canning its own crop of peaches
along standard commercial lines there
must ^>e at the same time more peach
trees planted. The number of bearing
trees is now down to a level considerably
lower than it was in 1930, according to
government census reports.
Here in Central West Texas, or we
might say the Heart of Texas, soil and
climatic conditions are extremely favor-
able for all types of fruit and vegetables.
Erath, Comanche, Brown, Callahan, Tay-
lor, Eastland and perhaps other counties
have ideal conditions for expanding these
crops. And when the volume is increas-
ed there must be an outlet. Commercial
canneries might be the answer.
Kaufman Got The Facts
T/AUFMAN, a trading center in Kauf-
■Ir man county, renched the decision a
few weeks ago to conduct a poll of the
people of the territory as to the short-
comings of the merchants of the city. A
questionaire published in the local news-
paper asked many and varied questions,
one of them being, "What, in your opin-
ion, is the outstanding need of the mer-
chants of Kaufman?”
The answer brought out many salient
facta, and these answers opened the eyes
of the merchants of that East Texas met-
ropolis. One person wrote in to say that
"salespeople are entirely too indifferent
when approached by customers.” There
were other answers, of course, and after
a study of them all merchants and sales-
people alike have been greatly benefltted.
They have started an intelligent study
of their needs. •
Too many towns, as well as individuals,
fail to take stock of the true facts and
silently complain about mail order houses
destroying them and the evils of trading
away from home. There is always room
for improvement, but a sharp pencil and
facing the true conditions as they exist
will many times bring out an answer to
the problem-
The merchant that keeps hustling af-
ter business, maintains an attitude of
friendliness, all the while offering mer-
chandise that is seasonable and properly
priced, will come out with a profit at the
end of the year. Likewise, towns that
adopt aggressive trade expansion pro-
grams and forget about the troubles of
the competitive city, will go forward.
Kaufman has undoubtedly started
something that can well be copied by
other towns in Texas.
Opinions of Others
“Meeting The Dead-Line”
/\NE of the lasting truths that Ye Ed
U learned in his youth as a sea-faring
human being, was that “time, tide, and
steamboats wait for no man.” In our'con-
duct as a marine engineei, whose duty it
was to provide the propelling power for
the steamer when it was needed, was the
definite knowledge that, when the boat
was ready to go, the machinery had to
start moving—excuses for any delay were
not acceptable to the vessel’s owners.
This habit of “being ready to go” was one
of the best we learned as a sailor, for it
has been of inestimable value to us in
meeting the demands of present times.
So, when we entered the newspaper
business, “meeting the deadline” was
merely another way of saying that “time,
tide, and steamboats wait for no man.”
All of which brings us to an editorial
written by Lester B. Colby, in The Infor-
mant, entitled: “The Lesson of the Dead-
line,” which you will read with enjoy-
ment and profit. It follows:
I had called to interview one of Ameri-
ca’s great generals of industry. He was
a big, genial, friendly man—chief of a
fifty-million-dollar manufacturing group
with thousands of salesmen in the army
he commanded. He was a genius for orga-
nization; had a reputation for getting re-
sults. Men envied him the name he had
built.
When we were through there came a
twinkle in his eye and he remarked:
“I began as a reporter on a daily news-
paper. What I learned in those days has
helped me much each day through all my
life."
“What was it you learned?” I asked.
“Dead Lines,” he replied. The great in-
dustrialist put match to cigar and leaned
back.
“I learned, early in those days, to re-
spect the Dead Line.' I learned that at a
certain moment each day all my work had
to be done. At that unchangeable fraction
of time the job must be over. It could not
be missed.
“At a certain minute the copy had to be
in. At a certain minute the type had to
be set, the proof ready, the forms locked
up. At a certain minute the presses had
to start. Trains never waited. The papers
had to go out.
“When I got into business life I found
that few men understood the meaning of
the Dead Line. It was not a thing in their
consciousness. They did not finish. Tasks
piled up. Correspondence and mass of de-
tails were left over to the next day. To-
morrow was always a good day, or the
next.
“It came to me that I possessed some-
thing that these other men did not have—
an intimate knowledge of what the Dead
Line meant.
“So all my life I have mapped each
day’s course, worked to the Dead Line,
swept my desk clean.
“Every day, all my life, the Dead Line
has been the policeman that has regulat-
ed my conddfct. He has paid me big divi-
dends. He has cost me nothing for salary.
The Dead Line has been my truest
friend, my great benefactor.
"Without my sense of the Dead Line, I
often think, I might have been just an-
other private in the ranks.
“If any man should come to me and ask
for my most prized secret, this one thing
I would say to him:
‘It is the Dead Line. Make it your
whip, your spur, your goal; make it a
part of your daily conduct and find a
place for it somewhere along with your
religion. Never forget the Dead Line’.”_
Eccentric, Bermingham, Michigan.
Mr. Rockefeller’s granddaughter in
Italy couldn’t believe grandpa willed her
$25,000,000. And she was right. After the
taxes and expenses came out it was only
$10.000.000.—Dallas Newa.
Austin. Texas. As
dication of syphilis
health problem and <
hold us incompt
control syphilis within this JH
tion," said Dr. Geo. W. Cox, 8tate
Health Officer,
Since the Inauguration of the na-
tional campaign, the public has
been made aware of much of the
truth about syphilis. While the vast
importance of syphilis in general
has been stressed, further emphasis
needs to be placed on hereditary or
prenatal syphilis, one of the most
readily preventable types of the dis-
ease. Prenatal syphilis is an inno-
cently contracted form, transmitted
by an infected expectant mother to
her unborn child. The disease in the
child can be prevented in almost ev-
ery intance, provided the mother
receives proper treatment during
pregnancy. Syphilis, in a sense, is
chivalrous; it deals more kindly
with women than with men. The
early signs of infection are not
manifest in women; this is espec-
cially true during pregnancy. Blood
tests, therefore, are all the more es-
sential in the early recognition of
syphilis in women.
It has been determined that syph-
ilis affects approximately two to
three and one half per cent of the
white children attending hospital
clinics. People should appreciate
also the fact that many cases of
syphilis are contracted innocently,
in marriage and before birth. Syph-
ilis in itself, is not a disgrace. Dis-
grace lies rather in the failure of
people to take advantage of modern
medical science and in failure to as-
sure an equal chance in life for all
of Texas’ children.
To eradicate prenatal syphilis and
thereby give the newborn child its
rightful heritage of a sound mind
and a sound body, health authorities
urge observance of the following
measures: (1) blood tests for syph-
ilis, affecting both parties who con-
template marriage; (2) a blood test
for syphilis on every expectant
mother, and (3) thorough treat-
ment if necessary for the benefit
of both mother and child,
IN TEXAS TOWNS
The Haskell County Leader an-
nounced last week that first plans
toward the completion of the First
Presbyterian Church now under
construction in Haskell were to be
made Sunday morning when ex-
ecutors of the estate of the late
W. A. Black who willed 160 acres
of land in addition to money for
improvements to the church 22
years ago, make their report to the
congregation. At present the local
church is only about a third com-
pleted.
Livestock owners in Nacogdoches
county sold $20,275 worth of cat-
tle to out of town buyers within
eight days, recently, the Redland
Herald said last week. Thirteen
cars with 565 head of stock cat-
tle were shipped out by rail to
San Angelo, the shipment bringing
$25 a head. Ten car loads of calves
and old cattle were trucked out to
Fort Worth, the shipment contain-
ing 205 head that sold for $30
each, bringing cattlemen a total
of $6,150.
Shearing of the fall mohair clip
in the Menard area is now in full
swing and crews are expected to
finish their work early in Septem-
ber if dry weather continues, it was
reported last week by the Menard
Messenger. The market opened at
60 cents a pound for grown hair
and 70 cents for kid hair, local
warehouses having already sold 12,-
000 pounds at these figures.
Postmaster J. H. McClellan has
announced Monday, September 8,
as the date for the official dedica-
tion of Gatesville’s new postoffice
building, stated the Gatesville Mes-
senger. An interesting program is
being arranged for the occasion.
The Junction Eagle reported that
plans for the rodeo, picnic and
barbecue to be held at Mason this
week had been completed and
everything was in readiness for
the big event, which is the. first
celebration of that kind held at
Mason in nine years. Mason Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce is spon-
soring the affair.
The section of Highway 101 ex-
tending from the Colorado city
limits north to the Scurry County
line has been paved and is now
open to traffic, the Colorado Rec-
ord announced last week. Work
on the project was started sev-
eral months ago.
A western prof has thrown out text-
books and teaches his course from cur-
rent publications. This ia new—a college
student working his way through a mag-
azine.—Milwaukee Journal.
Peanut harvesting in the De
I-eon section began last Monday,
the De Leon Free Press reported.
Dry weather since about the middle
of July has caused the nuts to
mature earlier than usual, the pap-
er stated. The bulk of the crop is
usually harvested during Septem-
ber. Prospects for a fair yield in
the De Leon section this year is
said to be very good. Peanut hay
is quoted on the market at $8.00
per ton, but the opening price of
peanuts harf not yet been an-
nounced.
Approximately 600 people were
at Tate Grove Friday for the Sev-
enth Annual Old Settlers Picnic,
announced the Clarendon News last
week. Two hundred and fifty of
these were Old Timers or citizens
who have resided in Donley county
twenty oh more years. Sam M.
Braswell made the principal ad-
dress.
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Robert Ballard, twelve, of White Plains, N. Y., smiles as he receives
the International Soapbox Derby championship trophy from Felix Doran,
an official of the race. The contest, held at Akron, Ohio, was attended by
a record crowd of more than 100,000. A handsome cash prise and a scho-
larship to college when he Is old enough were the rewards for Robert’s
skill in piloting his soapbox vehicle.
Thirty-Nine and Twenty Years Ago
In STEPHENVILLE and ERATH COUNTY
39 YEARS AGO
(Files of Empire Aug. 25, 1898)
Miss Mae Walling is with Mrs.
Murdock in St. Louis this week,
where they are purchasing an
elegant line of millinery.
Judge Burroughs was in the city
for a few days this week and last.
He and his mother left Monday
evening for their home at Sonora.
Henry Maxwell was bitten by
a moccasin snake last Friday.
He was putting up a furnace for
a molasses mill at the place
where Perry’s gin was burned
last spring, near Rocky Point,
and the snake was under a rock
which he started to pick up.
Mr. Maxwell was quite sick for
awhile from the effects of the
bite, but is able to be at work
again now.
Mrs. Mcllhany and children left
yesterday for Goodnight to join
Dr. Mcllhany in their new home,
he and his son, John, having gone
several days ago.
Rev. B. S. Bassel of Stephen-
ville will commence a meeting at
the Christian church on the fourth
Sunday in August at 11 a. m.
Alva Dunn and his mother
came in Saturday from a trip
through Washington, Missouri,
and other states. Mrs. Dunn’s sis-
ter, Mrs. McGruder of Lincoln
county, Missouri, came home with
them, bringing also her two lit-
tle daughters. They will re-
main in this county a month.
This section of the country was
visited by a fine rain Tuesday even-
ing and Wednesday morning.
S. B. Watts returned Monday
evening from the eastern markets.
W. C. Kiker went to Blum,
Hill county, Friday, to visit his
brother. O. P. Kiker, and to
attend the Abe Mulkey meeting
at that place. B. M. Kiker and
family of the Center Grove com-
munity, left a few days before
for the same purpose.
Phil Wright intends going to
Brownwood next week to work at
the stock yards.
Capt. J. B. McIntosh returned
last Friday from an extended visit
in Missouri. He spent some time
in St. Louis and other places, but
most at his old home in Lincoln
county. He says crops there are
almost destroyed by the rain.
Bob Williams left last Friday
for the eastern markets to buy
a large new lot of goods for the
popular firm of Higginbotham
Company. He has had a great
deal of experience and their many
many customers will be sure to
find a well selected stock of
goods when he returns.
Mrs. Murphy came home Friday
evening from a visit with her sis-
ters at Waxahachie.
Mrs. Murphy and children have
been here from Dallas for sev-
eral days visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Doyle. Mr. Murphy came
over Sunday and they all returned
to Dallas yesterday.
Mrs. J. 8. Haslewood and the
family of J. T. Haslewood of Al-
bany, Texas, are visiting rela-
tives, the family of Jim and
Ewing Ferguson and others at
Valley Grove. They came in last
Friday and will remain a week
or two.
Miss Florence Hutchins of Fort
Worth, is visiting Miss Pearl
Wylie.
20 YEARS AGO
The first bale of the 1917 crop
was received at Stephenville Mon-
day, August 20, raised by H. M.
McCarty, 420 pounds and sold for
$134.10 with $30 added as premium
making $157.10. The cotton was
ginned free by Kight and Hall.
Thad Ator, who has been sta-
tioned at Jefferson Barracks, St.
Louis, has been transferred to
Fort Bliss near El Paso, together
with a number of other men.
When the train passed through
Mingus Friday, Mr. and Mrs.
Baxter Ator and family, Mrs. W.
Ator and Mrs. C. R. Coulter of
Stephenville were there to see
him as he passed through.
According to Dave Patterson, the
local showers around Morgan Mill
have had a fine effect on vegata-
tion. The showers did not cover a
very large territory.
Mrs. B. C. Fant is at Aransas
Pass visiting her brothers. When
she returns she will go via Houston
to see her son, Lonnie Pickard
who has joined the colors.
Tax Assessor Henry Belcher
finished his tax rolls on record
time, and they have already rea-
ched Austin, his being the second
county sent in, which shows that
he has attended to his work in
a businesslike way.
Dr. M. L. Strickland of Selden
received a telegram this week to be
ready to enter the service, and he
is likely to leave about Aug. 27,
and be stationed for awhile likely
at San Antonio where he will be
able to render service to the new
troops being prepared for service.
The doctor holds a commission as
first lieutenant.
Joe Gatlin of Coleman, is here
visiting his parents and has been
confined to his bed with pneumonia
. Earl Standlee of Canyon, is
setose ivO VI II
here for a short visit with his moth
er . . . Mrs. Archie Winn and two
children of Fort Worth, are visit-
ing E. A. Winn and family.—Huck-
abay News.
Wednesday the annual Baptist
protracted meeting at Valley
Grave was commenced by Rev.
W. B. Sensing, the paster of the
Stephenville Baptist Chunk The
song service is to be e
by Prof. Charles Ski lee.
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Q. Where and when were the
first two battles of the United
Statee-Mexico War fought?
A. On Texas soil, at Palo Alto,
May 8, 1846, and at Resaca de la
Palma, near Brownsville, May 9.
Q. How long have the tower
lighu ia Austin been in use?
A. They were erected in 1888—89
and have been in constant use
since, except for the interruption
caused by the breaking of the Aus-
tin dam, April 10, 1900.
Q. How does the Texas State Col-
lege for Women at Denton com-
pare in attendance with like insti-
tutions elsewhere?
A. With an annual enrollment of
over 3,500 it is the largest stand-
ard women’s college in the United
States.
(Files of Tribune Aug. 24, 1917)
Mrs. J. J. Pate is at Canyon vis-
iting her brother and sister. She
will return next week.
Robert Slaughter went to Fort
Worth Wednesday to see his wife,
who ia ill in a sanitarium at that
place, she left here August 18.
Charley Roberts and Tom Bel-
lamy are constructing a new resi-
dence for Judge Tam Chandler
in the western part of Stephen-
ville. It will have six rooms, a
gallery, and a large sleeping
porch, and will cost about $2,500.
J. J. Blair of Alvis, Okla., is in
the county visiting his parents at
Lipan. He was a resident of Ste-
phenville less than a year ago.
Mrs. C. E. Wheat and daughter
of Stephenville, are spending the
w(eek with her parents, A. Metsgar
and wife.—Huckabay News.
Mrs. W. F. Anderson and Miss
Bess Roberts have returned here
from Canada. Enroute home they
stopped at Niagara Falls and
other places of interest.
Wednesday Charley Merrill ship-
ped two cars of fat cattle to Fort
Worth from his Chalk Mountain
ranch.
Q. How has the history of the
three Brazos County seats been re-
corded at Bryan?
A. By a plate attached to a his-
toric tree that has stood on the
lawns of three succeeding Brazos
County courthouses, on which plate
is inscribed: “1841, Ferguson
Spring; 1843, Boonville; 1892,
Bryan.” This plate was placed by
the Bryan D. A. R. chapter.
Q. Where and when were salt de-
posits discovered in Shackelford
County?
A. At Ledbetter Salt Works, eight
miles south of Albany, white men
discovered salt in 1861 and the
manufacture of salt was begun
there in 1862.
Q. When was Salado College es-
tablished in Bell County and what
became of it?
A. Salado College, supported by
students’ fees, was established at
Salado in 1858 on land donated by
Sterling C. Robertson, son of the
empresario of the same name. Fire
destroyed the buildings in 1890 and
the land reverted to the family ex-
cept the immediate college site,
which was given to Betty Martin
Chapter, D. A. R„ which erected
a suitable marker there in 1935.
Q. What was the Central Nation-
al Road of the Republic of Texas?
A. It was a highway chartered
by the Republic, to be paid for by
a donation of not exceeding 160
acres of land per mile of road built.
It was to be 30 feet wide, the
bridges to be 15 feet wide, and “the
stumps not more than 12 inches
high,” and was to extend from
Fort Inglish (Bonham) to Neely
Bryan’s cabin (Dallas).
Q. Why has a rough boulder been
placed on the University of Texas
campus in front of the new library
building?
A. It marks the spot selected by
the Texas Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution for the erection of
a $50,000 monument to George
Washington, funds for which are
being raised.
Llano’s first annual rodeo held
the past Friday and Saturday
at _ Robinson state park was ac-
claimed a success by both spec-
tators and contestants, according
to an announcement made by the
Llano News last week. More than
2,000 people, it was estimated, at-
tended the event.
To prevent tea towels from leav-
ing lint on china and glassware put
them through a solution of weak
starch after each laundering.
The department of Agriculture
says strip sodding with buffalo
grass may hold soil against wind
erosion the same as strip cropping
holds soil on hilly farmlands.
"Old friends and old wayt ought not to
be disdained."
AUGUST
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i opened at Titusville. Pa,
V* l/~h 99—Henry Hudson entered
Delaware Bay, 1609.
99—New Amsterdam surren-
dered to the English end
--- beoame New York. 1664.
db 99—Natives massacred at
Fort Minims. Ala., by the
ylt Creek Indiana till
91—Von Hlndenbura de-
feated the Russian tomes
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first electric railway
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