The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1927 Page: 2 of 8
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Entered as second class mail matter
August 2, 1907, at the postoffice at
Electra, Wichita County, Texas, under
Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
W. J. and A. H. Sheldon, Props.
R. A. Franklin, Editor.
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Second,
into gasoline, our oil companies ex-
tract about- 35 per cent gasoline,
and every year the proportion is in-
creasing. This fact, in spite of
exorbitant taxes and increased cost
of production, gives the United States
the cheapest gas in the world.
While house furnishings* increased
126-5 per cent in price from 1913
to 1926; anthracite coal, 125.5; wool-
ens and worsteds, 189; and farm pro-
ducts, 33.7 per cent, gasoline in-
creased but 24.8 per cent—the least
of a group of 20 classifications.
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PENALTY ON CARELESSNESS
Th United States has done little
regarding personal responsibility for
damage done to others by fires
caused by carelessness. In Indiana,
however, an owner of property may
be held liable for damage done by
fire to another’s property, provid-
l by
failure to comply to an order by
the state fire marshal.
Authority of the state fire mar-
shal includes making and issuing
orders for abatement or removal of
fire hazards and includes the order-
ing of repays to or the complete
removal of buildings found to come
within the purview of the act, as
wel las enforcement of regulations
pertaining to storage, use, manufac-
ture, sale, handling and transpor-
tation of all classes of combustibles
and explosives.
The owner of property, condemned
as a fire hazard, who persists in
maintaining it in such an order de-
spite the order of the state fire
marshal, may be held liable in dam-
ages to others whose property is
reduced in rental value or otherwise
by reason of condition of condemned
property or whose insurance rates
upon theif property are increased
by reaso nof such condition.
If other states would follow the
lead of Indiana and adopt such a
law, it woul do much to lessen fire
hazards and reduce fire losses in our
country.
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WORLD’S CHEAPEST GASOLINE
About 11.000,000,000 capital is in-
vested in the petroleum industry.
It pays national,
taxes precisely as
fcAfeS/fe.1 defendant
ffltily 15, 1926
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f apd they don’t hold it' before you long,
“Haye -yqur money reiady in case
you.have to give, but don’t^give if you
can help it They may. think you’re
giving to other charities .and can’t al-
'ford' this, too. (They often* have .nice
kind thoughts like that.” n
That had -been the way in -whiph
Walter had been brought up, so one
Can hardly blame Walter. Yet he was
a very?selfi«h little boytas a result and
It grew‘to be so that no one wanted
him ground. He'wanted everyone to
do’everything fo> hiim He-wanted toj M
had and he ha/l been taught, too, that
the less he spent the less would be
expected of him.
And he had found that this was very
true. But, of course, he knew nothing
at all of the joy of giving and the joy
of sharing and some of those particu-
larly nice joys.
There had been a time when his
father had said to him when they were
taking up a contribution in church for
a very worthy cause:
“Now if the plate is held so It ‘
would be very embarrassing if you
didn’t give and so everyone would no-
tice it, then put a little something in
the plate.
“But If you can keep from giving
without It being particularly noticed,
then you will be that much richer.
“Sometimes they hold a plate a lit-
tle longer than Is necessary before one
but usually they think you’ve given
before and can’t afford it this time
xrOW Walter was a very stingy Mt-
tie boy\ He hated to give away
anything. If he had some pennies in his
pockets and the other boys were go-
ing to cljlp in together an.d get some
candy or1 marbles Walter would go
along with them but he would try to
pretend he hadn’t any money so he
wouldn’t have to spend his. Of
course, .if he couldn’t succeed in this
he’d spend a very little. Walter was
just like his father always had been.
So it was not altogether his fault
He had been taught that the more
one |ield onto money the more one
water “for_ irrigation^ pu^oSfes: tjre\ flSj
proving section
PLAYING FAIR
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Valet AvteCtrep
Mazer, the only
rarer that
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electric power working a
transformation,” declares
Green, president of the American
Federatio nof Labor.
. ‘‘The general use of electric pow-
er has enabled the workers to raise
their standard of efficiency and pro-
ductivity until Americans have es-
tablished their industrial supremacy
throughout all the nations of the
world.
“It is clearly evident that elec-
tric power will be used and applied
in an ever-increasing way in all
lines of industry. As the amount of
electric power supplied to each in- §
dividual in industry is increased, 3
in like proportion his efficiency will 5
increased.” . S
A BAD MIXTURE
Mixing of politics and businesss
has made a muddle of the affairs
of San Francisco’s municipal street
railway system. Pay xaises, first to ]
platform men, then to other em- I
ployes, have brought the city’s wage j
scale up to about 50 per cent high- ;
er than that of the privately owned
competing lines. As a result, the
municipal system faces a shortage
estimated at over one hundred and
twenty-six thousand dollars a year.
Among the many relief measures
River between 'oil field arid north-
ern part of county- * < •
breaking 'ptefe; legislature^ im'far-
ious states passing , thousands
of'' billsx which’ /immediately to
the already - to^eavy tax/To^
REALITOS^C^C. Rody- ^building-
filling station, , -
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. FALFURRIASt-# carloads spinach
shipped from here recently.
proposed are shifting the bond re-
demption charges to the taxpayers;
drawing of warrants against the de-
preciation fund; return to the roads
of eighty-three’ thousand dollars turn-
ed over to the city to help build mu-
nicipal tunnels for car lines; increase
of carfare from five cents to sev-
en cents.
Politicians prefer a tax raise to
higher carfares, as the latter exped-
ient would 'deprive them of their
boast of having kept the carfare
at five cents while car fares in
other cities were forced to high-
er rates.
But even leaders of the municipal
ownership forces confess that the fi-
nances of the street railway have
been drained to the last drop. This
places the politicians in a dilemma
and they must soon choose what
they must do. For the present, they
will doubtless dodge the increase in
carfare.
“As steam revolutionized our in-
dustrial processes, so now we find
greater
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year
Six Months
THE TAX-INCREASING CRUSADE
The record of more than 13,000
new laws enacted by state legisla-
tures in 1925 out of a total of 40,-
956 bills introduced, will probobly
be broken this year. Legislatures
are meeting this yea£ in all states
except Kentucky, Mississippi and
Virginia.
A survey reveals an increasing
number of new law-promoting groups
representing active minorities and
special class groups, including re-
ligious, social, civic, labor, women
and other bodies. Each has its
own panacea or special class ad-
vantage in mind and is endeavoring
by legislative decree to restrain, re-
form or arbitrarily control the mor-
als, business methods and domestic
lives of others.
A heavy crop of bills designed to
restrict industrial and commercial
operations and for new forms of
taxation, together with many enti-
crime and social welfare proposals,
is indicated by the survey.
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INDIVIDUAL
Some remarkable arguments
advanced as to the reasons why the
government should spend $125,000,-
000 building a-dam and power plant
on the Colorado river at Boulder
Canyon.
The logical plea is that such a
dam is necessary for flood control
purposes to protect settlers and prop-
erty along the river. The building
of a dam for this purpose is a func-
tion of government, but it is stat-
ed that government engineers have
estimated that the floods of the 'Col-
orado river could be controlled by
a dam at Topock, Arizona, which
would cost about fourteen million
dollars.
When the government treasury is
to be tapped, modest schemes grow
to gigantic proportions. Instead of
fourteen million dollars for flood
control, the Colorado river project im-
mediately grew to a one hundred
twenty-five million dollar undertak-
ing which included the greatest dam
in the world, a canal to prevent
the diversion of waters and a great
dp. nothing - at all for anyone except
himself. • x ,
He had no ideij.of what the spirit
of giving meant No idea at all. Now
Peter Gnome had heard jQf > Walter and
Peter Qpomekfelt It was a ] ‘ '
l(ttle boy who would otherwise be- a
grow up Into a miser or very mean
person. •
So, one time, .late,
Pe^er‘'Gnome paid a call on Walter.
Walter was smiling to himself for
Walter, had just been thinking of what
luek./he ’had bad in not having to
spend anything for ever an’d ever so
long,, but in getting everyone to do
for him..
And as -be was smiling to himself
along c.ame Peter Gnome.
-•“Hello, Walter,” said.,Peter.
“I don’t know you,” said Walter,
“but what Is your name?”
“Peter Gnome. I’ve come to play.”
“Oh yes,” said Walter, “and have
you Some marbles?”
“No,” said Peter Gnome, “but you
have.”
Walter looked quite uncomfortable.
If he played with his marbles they
might get lost.
“And Td like some candy,” said
Peter Gnome. “I heard you hadn’t
spent a penny for days and days and
I thought It was a good time to be-
gin.”
Walter looked very miserable.
“And I’d like to have a game of ball,
too, but we’ll have to use your ball.
I didn’t bring mine.”
Walter looked astonished.
“I don’t know that I can play jpst
now," Walter said at last. ,
“No,” said Peter Gnome, “and you
won’t be playing very much from now
on except all by yourself if you don’t
change your ways.
“The way I’ve talked to you isn’t
half as dreadful as the way you’ve
acted with the other boys—you want
all their things to share but you will
share nothing of your own. And
you’ve'become such a miser that every-
one Is getting tired of you.
“Learn to share,
That’s playing fair!’*
And Peter Gnome was gone!
But Waiter remembered What
had said.
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nection is directly dependent
upon the cooperation your bank
can give you—working with
you in business and financial •
problems. Our facilities for
- giving this cooperation are of
the best—and they are always
at the command of those who
are not now using them
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Feb. 2, Mar. 1-8-15.
CITATION BY PUBLICATION
The State of Texas. To the Sher-
iff or any Constable of Wichita
county, greeting:
You. are hereby commanded to sum-
mon Dewey Summers by making pub-
lication of this citation once a week
for four successive weeks previous
to the return day hereof, in some
newspaper published in your county,
to appear at the next regular term
of the 78th District Court, of Wich-
ita county, to be holden at the
Court House thereof in Wichita
state and local Falls, on the first Monday in March
. - , , other Property A. D. 1927, the same being the 7th
does, and, in addition, an astonish- day of March, A. D. 1927, then and
ing variety of special taxes and (there to answer a petition filed in
In some states as high as 401 said court on the 24th day of Janu-
nf nf 10On- _..lx ______t ,
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come from the petroleum industry, docket of said Court as No. 19399-B,
_ While foreign countries turn but wherein Alice Summers is plaintiff
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“The gas industry is the oldest
of the industries commonly meant
by public utilitis but—it has no hard-
ening of the arteries,” says Bernard
J. Mullaney, Vice President of the
People’s Gas Light and Coke Com-
pany, Chicago.
“Gas has come out of the kitchen.
It is taking on the entire job of
keeping the home fires burning, and
it ranges the highways and by-
ways for the larger tasks if com-
merce and industry. In the home,
besides coking, it does anything
and everything, from heating a cup-
ful or a bathtubful of water to in-
cinerating the household wastes, and
heating the garage, running the
refrigerator, and heating the whole
house, with cooling the house in
summer a possibility. In shop and
factory its versatility reaches from
tempering watch springs and mak-
ing brick and the heat-treating op-
erations of heavy manufacturing.
“The output of manufactured gas
in the United States has more than
doubled in ten years. In the same
period, large-volume demand for in-
dustrial and commercial purposes has
grown from a mere fraction of the
output to nearly 30 per cent of the
total.
“There is room for more research
and more appliances and also room
for modernization of rate structures-
The encouraging thing is, that the
industry is recognizing its needs
to
One argument advanced for this
enormous expenditure is that it will
furnish additional water for the
city of Los Angeles and additional
power for Southern California, al-
though that section is now equipped
with more developed electric power
than it can use. Another argument
is, that xs ith the Colorado river
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Is lived togitierland' tlie marital, rela-
tions still ^exist* That* on or -about
s'- r” January 15, 1927, the defendant curs-
ed and abused “thisKplaintiff and
ed her, threw her on the bed and
choked her, that by' reason of such
treatment it has rendered their fur-
ther living together unsupportable.
Herein fail not; ’ but- have before
said Court at its aforesaid next reg-
ular term, this writ with your re-
turn thereon showing, how you have
executed the same. * .
< Giveh under'” my hand'and the seal
of said Court at% office* m Wichita
Falls, Texasv ;thiis the cr 8th dayv. of
^February/ Av'D. ;1927. u
(seal)5* , < • ^Eunice * Jackson, •
Clerk,* District Court; fWichita ,Coun-
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AUSTIN,"’Texas; ’’ Febf ^^Ambhg'^
the candidates ‘ for v the ..Master?/ of
Arts degree > in 'June at’1 the^ Uni- M
versity of Texas is ReV^' W.^'L,
Downing, 77-year-old retired1’ U/ S,
A- Presbyterian minister fof Kerr-
vjlle. His major work is in edix- |
cation and philosophy. •
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WHEELERt—Arrangements being
made for construction offroad to
and bridge across north forlc-of Red
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With 'most- local < taxes, at recprd-
states \ arepassing 4 thousands j
Discussing the tariff, Senator Reed
Smoot says, “What is the essential
difference between an inadequate
tariff such as that of 1913, and an
adequate tariff such as that of
1922?” And answers his question:
“The difference between success
and failure. The width of this
chasm is determined by circumstances
that may differ in each case or
commodity. That is a matter of in-
vestigation and inquiry. A ‘com-
petitive’ or low tariff under the
plea of ‘tariff reforme’ was tried
in 1894 and again in 1913. Neither
worked to the advantage of American ing the damage was occasioned
industry or labor. The facts of e-
conomic history prove this.”
An equalizing tariff is neither
class legislation nor a tax on the
many for the benefit of the few.
The slight increase in the cost
of some articles which may be oc-
casioned by a tariff upon them,
is made up many times by the bene-
fits accrued through the operation
of these industries.
“The tariff of 1922 is not per-
fect,” says Mr. Smoot, “no tariff
ever was or will be. But its es-
sential principles were sound.
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NO HARDENING OF ARTERIES
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petition alleging 'Cha’L plaintiff
wererle^ally^fiW^
15, 1926 and'Jived' together
■ *“sihcl>hieh fee they haveSiot
i.' . a j __r.._—J 44:& wiomtnl rela-
--answer a petition filed in
fees. In some states as high as 40 < said court on the 24th day of Janu-
per cent of the total state revenues ary, 1927 in a suit, numbered on the
as No. 19399-B,
'■ five to 11 per cent of crude petroleum and Dewey Summers is defendant,
Imperial Valley could be made, the
greatest cotton i
of the -United States^*. /;
Why ‘ should thb’>. government’ fur-,
nish water ;)>dWer.^for. the ^city of
Los Angeles? ’ Wliy should, it de-
velop water power* for Southern
California? And why should it
spend millions to raise more cotton,
when our present cotton situation is
so enormous that cotton prices are
so low the southern planters have
been almost bankrupted. 'Men who
know the cottonx situatio in the Uni-'
ted States say that what the South
needs to bring about an agricultural
prosperity is not a bigger cotton
crop, but a reasonable price for a
moderate crop. What would be ac-
complished by the government’s
spending so much of the people’s
-------$2.00 money to add a million bales of cotton
to the overproduction of this crop
which we already have in the South?
The next cry would be to, finance
cotton planters who were unable
to move their crops.
If the Boulder dam proposition
with all the side issuer proposed,
developed into as big a farce as
Muscle Shoals, and there is no rea-
son to believe that it would not,
with all the log-rolling and wire-
pulling which would result from a
half dozen states being interest-
ed, 25 years would not see the
project finished, and $125,000,000
would be only the first installment
collected from the* taxpayers.
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Franklin, R. A. The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1927, newspaper, March 1, 1927; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1219226/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.