The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1930 Page: 4 of 8
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Entered the Post Office at Cotulla
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The Democratic Ticket this year will some-
what .resemble the page of a newspaper.
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A hail storm last Saturday up in the Pan-
handle-Plains region destroyed $250,000 worth of
wheat .and other crops. That was a whopper of
a hailstorm.
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A FIVE-STATE TEXAS.
Representative Garner must have been
joking with solemn face when he suggested that
Texas be divided into five States, so as to offset
the small State influence in the Senate, as illus-
trated by the overrepresentation of New Eng-
land in that august body. A similar proposition
m, ~ „ '—r.u .— „ . . . *anu m mat august body. A similar proposition With the recent decision in the Love case
bolC'i?t J™™ iwas Emitted to the Legislature of Texas sixty which has thrown down the bars in the Demo-
alter crossing the South Atlantic to South Amer-1years ago, but died in committee. It could not
ica, thence to New Jersey and back across the;even reach the committee stage now. Mr. Gar-
Atlantic. 1 he oceans look like ponds to the ner knows, and everybody in Texas knows, that
THE GOVERNOR’S RACE.
Unless the people of Texas forgen person-
alities in the coming primaries, the Republicans
stand a good chance to elect a Governor in Nov-
ember—and this may be Dr. George C. Butte, a
man of ability and already known to the voters.
giant aircraft.
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Southwest Texas is due to make a good
cotton crop this year. Too bad a real crop and a
good price can’t come along together. Cot-
ton prices are lower than they have bedn for
some time, and the future has got ’em all guess
ing.
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Texas has no intention of dividing itself up
into five petty States. We are proud of our size,
but still prouder of our history and of the future
that lies before ,us as the coming Empire State.
WThat Texas might well do is to develop a
regional form of government, under which the
several regions would govern themsplves
| through small councils in purely local matters
cratic primaries, if some candidate, through an
unusual circumstance, not the choice of the ma-
jority of people, should receive the nomination
there would be a wholesale stampede to the Re-
publican ticket in November.
One political writer says the situation now
is such that it is entirely possible that Tom Love
and Mrs. Ferguson will be the winners in the
first primary. Then, in either carfe, there would
be no Democratic governor in November.
Pledge or no pledge Ferguson followers would
This year will likely go down as a year of j and develop a State Legislature made up of rep- jnot vote for Tom Love and would throw their
-1------4----------- -----resentatives from these regions. The legions! weight to the Republicans. Followers of Tom
freakish weather. Anyway, up to this stage,
the weather has been very unusual. For in-
stance several days this week, low, wintery look-
ing clouds kept the sun out and it was cool, par-
ticularly at night
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There are a few corners left around, Co-
tulla not yet occupied by filling stations. There
are too many already but still they come. The
would receive grants of power from the State as Love will never vote for Ferguson, consequently
a whole, and the State Government would exer-
cise general and supervisory powers.
Texas is growing too large for
government under the present system, but the
remedy should not be by division into separate
States, with the inevitable increase of taxes and
multiplication of offices. Five to seven Regions
Border Motor Fuel Company is completing a sta- might easily be developed, so as to allow each of
tion at Main and Carrizo and the Humble Oil these to push forward its own interests on its own
Company has purchased the corner of Broadway \ initiative and expense. The resultalnt friendly
and Main and will soon start the erection of rivalry would prove highly stimulating, and
an $8,000 station. would give a great impetus to progressive move-
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* While the paving on the highway is being ture’s inability to vision the State’s needs in re-
done through Cotulla it would be a wise idea for jgions and as a whole. The regional division of
the property owners along the highway street to Texas is a subject well worth the ccfnsidleration
kick in and make the paving a little wider. We'of Chambers of Commerce and similar bodies in-
understand the highway pavft ? is to be 19 feet terested in the promotion of particular sections
asphalt on a 20 foot gravel base. If property,of the State.
owners would add tdn or fifteen feet to .this We Americans are like sheep in our devo-
width, it would make a wonderful difference and ticn to set ways of doing things, in harmony with
be of great advantage to the property adjoining, past precedents. Why should not Texas work
out a different plan of State organization, a
the result will be the same.
With Mayfield, Love, Sterling, Davidson,
efficient Young, Small, dividing the same class of vote, it
is almost certain that Mrs. Ferguson will be in
the run-off. The Fergusons will poll practically
all of their vote In the first primary.
It is high time for the people to get down
to business. The Moody-Ferguson fued, that
has been on for the past five or six years has
cost this state millions. Politics has been plac-
ed before business, and the state has gotten into
an awful mess. One faction throwing monkey
wrenches in to the machinery of the other.
Nothing constructive can be done.
Let’s get away from it. Why prolong this
fued. Get away from Moody and get away from
Ferguson. Let’s restore reason in Texas
this year.
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During the next year while the highway
is being built Cotulla should arrange in some
way to do a little more paving. Along the high-
We are of the opinion that Lynch David-; regional plan, instead of the traditional, county, jway trough town the paving should be widened,
son will get into the Governor’s race before it city, town and village form? European Nations; several blocks to 50 feet width. There are some
goes much farther. Friends put his name on j are experimenting In regional forms of govern- streets in the residential sectic n that want pav-
the ticket LU was present at the meeting of ment, the regions being partly historic and part- in& ar^ nee(ls paving, and it is possible that
the Executive Committee and did not protest, ly new, owing to growth of industries. The ,ex-1 Property owners can be lined up to come m with
Thebe are four men in the race that are going to perience of these Nations would furhish illustra-
p;et a pretty equal vote—Davidson, Mayfield, tions that would be of great help in the forma-
Sterling and Love. Thebe is no way to eliminate tion of an efficient system, and so would the
any of them, but if three of them, and it doesn’t metropolitan regional forms of government de-
matter which three, would get out, the Governor’s velopmg round about our great cities.—Dallas
race would be settled in the first primary. IF. Farm News.
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Some,towns and cities are still wrangling
over their disatisfaction with the Federal cehsus.
their part. The rule of most cities is that the
city pays one-fourth of the paving and property
owners three-fourths. In this way a bond issue
will go a long ways, and the property owner, who
gets the real benefit from paving pays most of
the cost. On the first paving the city paid one
third of the cost and the cost of intersections
which amounted to considerably more than one
third, more than the city should bear, as this cost
Jim Ferguson pulled one of his wily tricks is distributed to all the taxpayers. At the pres-
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JIM’S TRICK FAILED TO WORK.
The census brought many surprises. Most every . .. r W1‘* UXT ,s ,u!?u‘T,ltudn u.e u^pave,s. ai uie yies-
ton-n has •) tendency to evaa-erate its nonnlatinn at the Democratic Executive Committee meeting ent time the city is paying a 45 cent paving tax.
if !„ .Lil eUX.®------1., ‘ 1L1L ' enX'last Monday. After Moody had finished mak- and it is evident that when any further work a-
thAown C DeoDl^'6 T^ho 'ng statement to the Committee saying long this line is done, the property owner will
Two years a»'o the cltv m ule a count^ncf estab- ]'ke*y Ferguson thought that Moody, riled for,is around the city plaza and in front of the
Kci.,A fain no4 Y, the moment would take the dare and the more courthouse.
r erguson can get m - he race the better for him,1 __00___
and with Davidson, Love, Sterling and Mayfield
lished the fact that we were talking too high.
The official census was right in line with the
city’s count, so we had no kick coming.
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On the 24th of this month the contract for
the graveling of the highway through La Salle
splitting the Moody vote Ferguson would stand a
Bishop Cannon seems to made his “walk-
fine chance to beat Moody. But, Moody was not ™u an. I10’ enab' ^lck. Cannon had the
swept off his feet by the caustic challenge. He Senate Just a xmt where Tom Love had the Dem-
sharply replied “I met you and defeated Trrkri• 0C1 a^lc: Executive Committee at Austin last Mon-
countj will be lot. The a.»phaIt paving will tol- there can be no greater coward than one who be- : Lcnetold the Committee just what
low in due time. This contract to be let is on . i • . v ^ f rWmv o-nod o-nv- would and would not do, which was contrary
44 miles of road and will be one of the largest hmment and I aXi^te yom^Stade- the average Democrat’s way of thinking but
he
to
single contracts let recently by the Highway De
partment. The estimated cost is somewhere a-
round $000,000. Bidders will be required to at-
tach certified check for $42,000 with their
feat,” and sat down.
Some people mean well, but never do well,
bid. They are always intending to do someth ing that
Prices at which roads are being constructed now never gets done. Instead of taking a just pride
is ’1 ’1 ’ ’ ...»
they dared not keep his name off the
cause that would have brought on
trouble in November.
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ballot—be*
too much
... One of the town’s greatest needs right
considerably below that of a few years ago, in accomplishment, they are continually humil- now is a modern 50 to ¥5 room hotel. With the
and the bidding is keen. The construction of iated by the inadequacy of their excuses. They letting of the,contract for finishing the Highway
this amount of mileage in this county will help do not even drift with the tide of humanity, but this month, there will socin be a continuous string
things out greatly this summer, as work will like- are simply switched into the eddies of lift. For of traffic on this international highway. Locat-
l.y start by the middle of July. Cotulla will like- them there is a beginning, and an end, but noth- ed in the center of the winter garden district of
ly he made headquarters for a majority of the ing in between. They have neither true friends Southwest Texas, and far enough away from San
workmen. A large amount of Cotulla gravel nor bitter enemies because they do nothing to Antonio and Laredo, a hotel with all modern con-
will be used, and takinor it as a whole Cotulla and insnirp pithpr fripnrlsViin nr pnmitv. Thpv nrp upm’onnoo wnnlrl rln o +V»vitri-K>r* Knnlnpno Wp
will be used, and taking it as a whole Cotulla and
the towns along the road will benefit by many
thousands of dollars by this work.
inspire either friendship or enmity. They are
nameless, because no one is sufficiently interest-
ed to name them.
veniences would do a thriving business. We
should put forth every effort to make hotel men
with money see it that way.
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1930, newspaper, June 13, 1930; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1162209/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.