The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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THE DE LEON FREE PRESS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1937.
tyt IKeott Jfree
“_Established 1890._
MRS. R. L. SCOTT, PUBLISHER_
Published every Friday at De Leon, Comanche County, Texas.
*“ ''EnWred Us second-class malfcr at the postoffice at
under Act of Conferees of March 3, 1879._
comforts and necessities of life? At
the ti(ne Woodrow Wilson was suc-
ceeded by Warren Hardioff in the
presidency there wa- distressing un-
employment throughout the country.
Authentic statistics were i-sued l>y
the Government. These statistics
showed that soniewhert? arouxni-LOOU,--
De Leon, Texas, 000 unemployed exited in striefcly
__ 1 normal times, that being the regular
. ’ ! " ~ 7 t „ „ number unable and UNWILLING to
Advertising Rates—Local readers, 10c per .me, per issue; four or more fuw. A,U1
Insertions at IVac per line, per issue. Minimum per issue, 25c. I . ' ^ Ty”-r' re 10..,000,000 ,Hop.u
word for first insertion; each additional insertion |n the country at that time.
Ads charged j There ha.-, been an increase of 25
.ur 20 million since then.
/
To the Rescue
$20,000,000 DISTRIBUTED TO
AGED IN PAST 11 MONTHS
Classified ads, 2c per —_ -
at lc per word, cash with order. ^Minimum per issue, 25c.
only at the line rate, 10c per line first insertion; 5c per line each additional
Insertion. Display advertising rates on application.
Responsibility assumed only to extent cf amount paid for advertisement.
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I02f* employment was on hith.
factory employment index f,.r
(1917) was at the highe-t level
Notices of church entertainments where a charge of admission is made,
resolutions of respect, and all matter not news registered in any month since N..v
obituaries, cards of thanks,
will be charged for at the regular rates.
j her, 1 DSD”
Perkins,
of Labor i
in June ,
Any erroneous reflection upon the character of any person or firm ap- was c,0^2,000, said the National In j
peering in these columns will be gladly md promptly corrected upon calling (Ju8trial ConferencP Board statement 1
says Secretary
Urn mployment
&
) OH H~ SNIFF
SNIFF- S-SPARE
HE, KIND Sift/
SMIFF //
5 SPORE M me/
UNHAND
THAT WOMAN
SCOCNDOEL1
attention of the management to the article in question.
’ SAFETY FIRST
Before stripes of gold braid indi-
cated the length of service by train-
men you could tell about how long a
man had been on the railroad by the
number of fingers he had saved while
coupling cars by hand and without
the aid of safety devices.
the.safety drive is the best sustained
plant safety record in its history.
More than 8,000 foremen repre-eniing I average
published August 8. The two state- j
ments, plus substantial confirmation ,
from other sources, suggest that the !
time is about here when positive an-
nouncements should be issued by the
Government that the worry about un-
employment has passed.
Great forces have been producing
new- standards, anti conquering 7 old
onas. For instance: shorter hours f
work, inosje pay, more comforts, more
luxury, le-s wrecked bodies under
heavy" burdens that have been trans-
ferred to n achinps.
Progress proves all its claims in
the fact that infant mortality has
been whittled down to a reas .nahb*
Scourges like yellow fever.
or of this Federal District to call on tains to Puebla, looking out upon a
us officially as hi- representative. | valley where Cortez built a church
Mrs Allred u- visiting tie* President's for everyday f the church yoar-^OO
wife t day. Everywhere these people of them, beautiful, massive tilings of
. eem to realize that they have stone w ith ,-lvning burnished domes;
more »n o mirs n with Texas than per- j ••no built o:; : p of a ;n mmi !.
ha;is ary nthei state; I think if we j ' - -----
take the same p< -qtion., it can only ro-
-e.lt in mor^'IT . .... j. ; i-et*
tioi'.s for ..11 >f u-.
It \\ .-aid in* im; - 'id in ti is short
space to ev.-r. ;< for to all the interest-
ing p! .c's v o have -eon n this trio.
225,000 employes, were enrolled in the I small pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, I rally belive we could spend a month
conte.-t staged in 78 plants, and 256 j influenza and all the other “killers" [ right hero in Mexico City ai d trot see
foremen received radio sets while 266 have been brought wholly , or partly , j half of all we shou!iL.2tt-™ The old
additional foremen received merit j under control. “My Brother’s Keeper”
certificates foe their records in.reduc- I has lobared among us as a physician,
ing accidents among the men in their j social worker, relief agent, scientist.
ihurches or cathedrals, the—"padaces.
the public buildings, the theatres, the
| gardens, the parks, tire flowers, the
The first great industry in Amer- ! charge, elimination of industrial ha-
p,jr
I
ica was farming. The forefathers
milked the cows and tended the
horses .and mules in those days. Un-
ungodly hours the foremothers were
starting their days’ work, that end-
. ad with “setting the bread" hours
after dark.
The second industry that, arrived
‘had to do with lumbering. Forty
years ago lumberjacks worked -six
months at a stretch with short night-
ly intervals for sleep. In the Spring
the men went to town, blew off the
lid, blew in their dough, and Went
back to camp for another long
stretch.
The working hours in early times
....... *were unlimited. Believe it or not,
thousands of people were killed by
i horses and mules i nthose days. Un-
protected wheels on threshing ma-
chines and farm implements account-
ed for lots of accidents. About the
' only old-fashioned way to meet with
an accident is to get struck by light-
ning.
How different the above is from
the reccrd of eight General Motors
i-.-, automobile plants that have just fin-
—; ished a seven months competition of
the “Sloan Award” without a lost
time accident. They worked a total
of 4,517,661 hours. The record of the
entire General Motors Corporation in
zards, safety education and good in-
dustrial housekeeping.
Tt is almost impossible for the lay-
men to realize the methods employed
to prevent accidents unless he has
gone through an automobile plant.
The mark reached in the safety drive
is 4.56 accidents per million hdurs
worked, resulting in only .511 days
lost for each thousand hours worked.
“AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER”
| chemists. The politician occupies an schools, the public markets—the pe »-
i inconspicuous niche in the frame, des- ■ pie. TFTs“fhe neople who most ir.ter-
j pite hi- loud protestations. The ! pst me. They are picturesque with
| greatest advances in our lives have [their music everywhere, their art.
1 been given to us by those noble men! their dress which ha- changed hu
and women who have lengthened hu- | little for centuries, yet all this ma:n
I . i.ur.t tell y >u .-f the hull fight
'hey- staged for its. I am glad I saw
.•no— n fact. 1 enmyeq it, but I can’t
say that I want t , see die again. On -
of the nice-t entertainments given us
was yesterday at th ' Dupartment of
t'i■mmunii at < First, of course, a
nice luncheon; then young ladies who
worked in the department paraded be-
fore u- dre-sed in c..d irful native c .—
ftimes of each of the 28 Mexican
state-. Then they entertained with
music, songs and dances. It was bet-
ter tjjxr'T! flrof *s.vonal show since
those wh> pluyei the parts actually
came from the st-ites they repre-ent-
ed.
Mare 7 i.ar. $20,000,000 has been dis-
tributed to Texas needy aged in the
list 14 ninth?. VY. A. Little, acting
director of the old age assistance com-
missi m. sa.d t hi - week as he explain-
ed that tie- real purpose of the pro-
o : was to h-ip those aged who
, .a! i t !.v i, thm:..selves.
•• 1 i. p.Tp« e of oei age assistance
under bolt the Texas statute and the
federal social security act is to furnish
s us ten.. me to tn.se aged who, with-
out state-fed ‘Ial .Oil, would Ire in
reo .•?-it'T“’'cTh rrrTt.inces,” he pointed
out.
"The i l l age assi-tance commission
i • i. t a ; hey fuming, Mil '-nit.k.ng
ag'-tuy. Our sole duty is to adminis-
ter th • law as passed l>\ the Texas
legislature," lh'tle said.
H: wvnt n to sli * that old age
assistance 'could not be construed as
a pension because aid is limited to
the needy only and is paid them in
the amount of their need. The cri-
teria of eligibility, he explained, is
"can this old person get along with-
out state-federal assistance?”
“At present we are acting
tinner the orderS of the Texas legis-
lature by going hack over our rolls to
see if th.-re is anyone now receiving
as : AWy. ho c--uh1- live decently"
without the monthly aid. Some peo-
ple trunk that our rule- of eligibility
are arbitrary ones. But the require-
ments that Texu.- and federal-.money
he -pent only to aid those in real
need, these requirements are part of
the laws of this state,” Little declared.
Washington, D. C., August 20, 1937.
-On a summer -morning I watched a
engaged in' clearing
Their tools were steam
shovels, trucks, electrical and mechan-
ical devices. “No sound of hammer
or of saw was there.”
man life about 15 years, according to Ptainej^alorrgs.i.ie a twentieth century |
mortuary statistics.
“THE REST OF THE RECORD"
Bv James V. Allred
Governor of Texas
t».i
MEXICO CITY, August 14, 1937.
By the time you read this, we will
be back in Texas and, notwithstand-
j ing the wonderful privilege . it has
crew of men engaged in'clearing a visit Mexico, happy to h-
budding site. Their tools were steam back home We ar8 particula'rly anx.
ious to see littie David, our second
ssn, and baby Sam Houston.
It is difficult for us to realize that
A few weeks rolled by and 1 came > it is so hot in Texas. Mexico City is
again to observe that “silently as_a
dream the fabric rose” and here be-
side the Potamac River were spank-
ing new homes within the reach of
rentals, and purchase of the workmen
whorri I had seen building them.
Men of today work with machines,
drudgery in the homes except for
electricity, gas and modem conven-
iences.
Then, is it true that the present
“machine age” deprive our people of
work, wages, employment and the
V
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LIGHT
Y08R YARD
for
RELAXATION,
ENTERTAINING
Work .. . . .
7500 feet high and the weather is
ideal. They tell us it is this way the
year round—little cooler in winter
than in summer. It was a little chilly
for us at first—-believe it or not, we
asked for a fire at lunch; now, how-
ever, we are accustomed to it and the
weather is lovely. Occasionally when
the mountain tops are clear of clouds,
we can see two snow capped volcano
peaks in the distance.
Although Ambassador Josephus
Daniels is in Europe, he wired his as-
sistants here to insist upon our stay-
ing at the American Embassy. So
here we are—and we have never been
privileged to stay at a lovlier place.
Our own Government officials have1
been almost as marvelous to us as ;
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those of the Mexican government.
Last week I told y<>u how hospitable !
these people had been to us in the j
early stages of our visit; this hospi- |
tality has increased in warmth at |
every stage. YVe have been enter- I
tained by seven governors in a- many
state capitols, and by officers in the
President’s cabinet here in Mexico.
It clearly demonstrates that these peo-
ple beiieve in the Go,cl Neighbot poli-
cy inaugurated by President Roose-
velt.
President Cardenas of Mexico is
absent from the capitol. He is in
the state of Yucatan, which is the
most southern Mexican state, working
on agrarian, or agricultural problems.
He sent us a warm telegram of wel-
come, then commissioned the Govem-
civilizati. n -f modern highways, rail-
road:-, hotels, tourist camps and con-
veniences of every kind. We have
driven over highways as well con
structed and maintained as any in
Texas, yet in fields adjoining they
Wri-yiil; of course; be back in tima.
fo vote tit the election Monday, August
23rd: "Six' con-titutieftal amendments
are to be voted on: All of them are
| important, ur. i I hope my friends will-
| vote for them. I am particularly in-
terested tn seeing the one adopted
still plow with oxen: and peons trudge vvhich v iH auth>rze the legislature to
alongside the road plving whips over 1 r,r'ivl,u‘ for r>a-vment of c,)Unt>' <>ffi- '
the backs of the burros loaded w,m '-ers b> either ialar:^ or fees. The
wood or cargoes larger than the saiarj- system hasn’t worked
beasts themselves. j as -at -'factorily as the old fee sys-[
The history of Mexico is an inter- ! tPm- [t c"'ts the taxpayers of the j
esting as thaT“fjr any nation. The ! state “ J wh le 70 P'*r cent more-|
struggles of the people for liberty ant “r'a 1 m irt)°re'te'i ,n tr>ln^ to save j
freedom have been just as brave, .{ j tbat mone> • j
not braver, than our own. It has been
First it was press agent, then pub-
licly agor.t, t!:en direct m of public
relation-, and h w it's director of the
fn-titue. , y
HERE’S THE STRONGEST
BATTERY GUARANTEE
EVER WRITTEN!
# Driv* your car
3.000 miles or
3.000.000 miles,
doesn’t make any dif- *
Terence The new
Goodrich Kathanode
Electro-Pak Battery
must give you satis-^
factory service as l mg”
as you own that car or
it will be replaced without coating you
a cent at clearly stated in the written
gua santee.
BACKED UP BY THIS*
NEW BATTERY SENSATION
-uch a privilege to us to journey over
the very ground travelled by Cortez,
the Spanish Conquerer, hundreds of
years ago; to see the palaces and the
churches he built. One of the most
inspiring and stupendous things we
have seen was driving over the moun-
Friends say a man is determined;
enemies call him stubborn.
Experience and judgment must be
gained by the slow process of doing.
Beware of the man who wants to
make you1 rich but us broke himself.
Higginbo t ham* s
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if S,
• Flood your yard with light for games, for reading
or for entertaining with one of these new portable
\ard Lights which stick in the ground and can be
moved to any part of the yard.
We will be glad to bring one of these lamps
^to your homo and demonstrate how it can add
to your comfort and enjoyment this summer.
This light costs, only about 1 Vi cents an hour
cm your cheap electric rate.
Cash $045 Ten* Price
Price O $i.ts
ISe Rom - • $1.01« Month
TEXAS ELECTRIC
SERVICE COMPANY
L. D. STEWART. Msnsgro
YOU CAN THROW CARDS
IN HIS FACE
ONCE TOO OFTEN
YTTITEN you haro those awful
YV cramps; when your nerves
are all on edge—don't take if, out
on the man you love.
Your husband can't possibly
know how you feel for the simple
reason that he is a man.
A three-quarter wife may bo
no wife at a!! if she nags bra hus-
band seven days out of every
month.
For three eeneratlons one woman
has told another how to go "smil-
ing through" with Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the discomfort* from
the functional disorders which
women must endure In the three
ordeals of life 1. Turning' from
girlhood ’to iromanhood 1. Pre-
paring for motherhood. 3. Ap-
proaching "middle age."
Don’t ha a three-quarter
taka LYDIA B. PINK HAM
YKO BTABLBpOMPOUND
On "Smiling Through."
Invites You To A
Special
Demonstration
— of —
Martha Turner
Cosmetics
The Leading Cosmetic
Line In All Better
Department
Stores
August 23rd to 2Sth
Miss Katherine Singleton, Beauty Specialist from
the Martha Turner Laboratories, Chicago, wall be in
our store from August 23rd to 28th conducting a
school of instruction on the home care of the com-
plexion.
Aug* 23rd to 28tH
She will have two classes each day, one at 9 a. m.
and 2'p. m. Only a limited number of ladies are
token in these classes, as each lady receives a free
facial that would cost ordinarily $2.50.
Get your appointment in early for one of these
classes. Special arrangements will be made to ac-
comodate teachers and business women.
Please Phone 38 for Appointment
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on the coldest mornings—to keep your
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times. And that ElectroPak super-
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film are locked oyt by the exclusive
Power-Saving Top
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expense as long as
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today.
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Scott, Mrs. R. L. The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1937, newspaper, August 20, 1937; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1143239/m1/2/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.