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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, AUGUST 29, 1935
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Com Bread Heresy Our National Humor
Let George Do It
Kicking Huey Up
McKinney Examiner
PHONE 233
have a
is calling
for
Denison went wet by 337.
pay
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skulls are
there was
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Farms for Resale
more
congressmen
ever
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Rural Church
is
for the night to
last
contributor
to
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‘See That Black One’
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Old Age Pensions
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haven’t I played — the dickens,” is
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CLINT THOMPSON
F. C. THOMPSON
J. FRANK SMITH
The government
mules. Have you any?
Gfayson county went dry by 1583,
Sherman gave a dry majority of 432.
received
Austin, that
their
have
of a
a
(Journal.)
Clyde Simms of Celina
I visitor
Mrs.
Annie
Jenkins
making
their
Editors and
Proprietors
Sales Tax Cnmincr
Clark told of
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be-
has
SUBSCRIPTION RATE:
Inside County, One Year $1.00
Outside County, One Year------$1.50
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Day on the Farm ’
In savage tribes where
thick
And primal passions rage
They have a system, sure and quick,
To cure the blight of age.
For when a native’s youth has fled
And years have sapped his vim
They simply knock him on the head
And put an end to him.
to the spoken
paragraph,
their back-
Clarence Collier and
I little son, visited her parents, Mr.- '
The Old Age Pension Amendment
won by an overwhelming majority.
Now if we could just get the money
with which to pay it, all would be
hunkydory.
Entered at the Postoffice in McKin-
ney, Texas, as Second-Class Mail
Matter.
another
the
The
that attract at-
by Maud
; we
was
with relatives
But we, in this enlightened age,
Are built of sterner stuff,
And so we look with righteous ragej^^.
On deeds so harsh and rough.
For when a man grows old and gra|
And weak and short of breath
We simply take his job away
And let him starve to death.
—Geo. E. Phair in Dirt Farmer.
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Owl, Forester
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wet
of others
who' would have voted dry had they
gone to the polls are in for some
genuine regret. The expression "now
We heard an ex-service man declare
the other day that Europe could go
hang, he didn’t intend to get “all het
up” over their affair. If they want to
go to war let them go to it. But as
for our country he believed in us at-
tending strictly to our home busi-
ness. And he is right.
automobiles have been stepped up in
t. speed from 40 to 80 miles an hour
and their number quadrupled along
'with the improvement of highways.
Dangers from intoxicated drivers
Whave been serious, probably will be
t more serious.
We believe many who voted
Saturday and thousands
Well, the w;ets have been telling
it to us drys a long while now as to
how prosperity would come-a-running
when liquor began to flow. Now, let
, them show us. We are from Missouri.
Congress should receive unanimous
thanks at the hands of the people of
our country for its prompt steps to
prevent this country from becoming
entangled in the European war that
seems now to be almost a certain-
ty. We have had enough of trouble
arising from the World war. We were
"raring to go” and help make the
world safe tor democracy. Now see
what we got. Yes, hand it to Congress
for refusing to let a lot of crazy men
get us into another war.
■' When you see the government
(Congress) voting to raise salaries of
men drawing $7500 a year to $10,000;
and others drawing $12,000 put up to
$15,000, at the same time cackling
over forcing “down and outs” off Re-
lief into the c<tton fields where they
can make the mighty sum of $1.00
to $2.00 a day, it makes one’s blood
boil. The rottenness of the political
clique that is doing this hiking of
already high salaries of “big” politi-
cal pets, smells to high heaven. And
spells destruction unless the people
stop it by defeating the men who
are reponsible for it.
going to be a live, bothering thought
in the brains of many good people.
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The McKinney Examiner is rath-
er enthusiastic about the number of
town people who, during the past
two years, have been moving back to
the farm. It says:
“Thousands of farms are being
sold to people who are tired of
city life after a few years of the
uncertainty of steady work, who
for the first time in their life
realized that land is now at the
bottom in price and feel like it
is ‘now or never.’ Big loan com-
panies and the government are
co-operating. Federal statistics
show that 10,000 per month or
over 120,000 such farms were
sold by leading institutions to
home owners and individuals dur-
ing 1934. Also that more than
twice as many farms were sold
from Jan. 1, to May 1, 1935 as
were sold during the same period
in 1934. At this rate the large
number' of farms now owned by
lending institutions will soon
pass back into the hands of in-
dividuals, thereby forcing land
values to a higher peak than they
have been in recent years. The
government seems to be trying
to help people to locate on farms
and furnish them money at lower
rates of interest. Farmers can-
nt afford to pay 6 and 8 per cent.
The government could do a real
worthwhile thing by refinancing
all high interest loans held by
these big loan companies.”
The Bqnham Favorite says: ,
Some of our town and city dwellers
“In connection with repeal we
have this one thing in particular to
worry about says the Sherman Demo-
crat. This state has had prohibition
for 16 years and during that time the
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Robt. Quillen’s definition of Ameri-
canism is as follows:
Making wonderful machines to pro-
duce abundance tor everybody; slow-
ing up the machines to raise prices
so the poor can’t buy.’’
In another year or two everybody
will be digging up a few cents more
on every purchase to pay the sales tax.
For that’s the only way to pay pub-
lic debts when we expend more than
comes in. Thousands of people voted
for the pension because they need
the help. And are hoping some plan
will be found whereby the money
can be raised. Every taxpayer is will-
ing for his. neighbor to pay the extra
tax. Those who have nothing to tax
don’t give a whoop who pays it—
just so they get the pension. And isn’t!
that Old Man Human Nature? Our
opinion is that millions of men who
have been raking off big profits and
growing richer and richer day by
day while others all but starve, had
bettei’ do some good head work and
help raise this pension money.
we do not understand.
Sam Fryar of the Clarksville Times
is bragging on how tall the corn
stalks grow up in Red River county.
Told of three stalks, one measuring
13 feet, 2 inches; another 14 feet;
the third 14 feet. 2 inches. Each stalk
bore two large ears of corn. It was
grown on new ground. No fertilizer
was used.
Robt. Quillen says “if you think the
tax man alone soaks the rich, ac-
company some rich friend when he
tries to buy something.
Here comes a sturdy cowboy,
Who rides as a knight of old,
In the van of the herds from make-
believe,
From the land of adventures bold.
With his good six gun and his trusty
rope,
And the night time drawing nigh,
He has no fear of lonely trail
Or the strangers passing by.
Just a while longer if all is well,
And the sun is deep in the West,
And the herds from the land of
make-believe
Have lain down
rest,
This knight of the plains will climb
on my knee,
And cuddle his sleepy head,
For the end of the trail is slumber-
land
And his cozy trundle bed.
—Fred C. Comes.
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Culleoka
Mrs. ..
a week-end
and friends in Frisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Byrum and
children visited in the homes of T.
L. Nash and H. C. McCormick Sun-
day.
Miss Mary Newman of Dallas
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Jeff Black.
Dr. and Mrs. Ogle, Mrs. Roy
Northcutt and Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Newman and son visited Mr. and
Mrs. John Hill in Denton Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Acker of Im-
perial, California, are here visiting
his grandm/other, Mrs. Mary F.
Acker and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Crownrich and
son left Wednesday for a few days
trip to Galveston.
Ed Bryan returned to his home
in the Lebanon community Monday
after a ten days stay in Baylor hos-
pital at Dallas, following — -----
tion. His mny f
know he is improving.
Miss Louise McConnell attended
and taught a course at a young peo-
ples encampment at Crateville, Okla.,
during the week-end.
Mrs.. J. D. Vardaman and daughter,
Mrs. A. F. Bryan, accompanied by
Mrs. W H Polser and daughter, Mrs..
Ray Smith of Hebron, spent Saturday
with Mr and Mrs E. P. .Browder at
Handley.
Little Elizabeth Ann Martin of
Greenville is spending this week with
(Dallas Dispatch)
Adoption of the old age pension
amendment means that the fight will
be on in earnest for introduction of
the sales tax into the Texas tax
system. And the legislature is going
to have a grand time deciding wheth-
er $40,000,000 a year shall be spent
in paying old age pensions to every-
body or only to the needy—and HOW
needy.
. . But
where it is to come from we confess
with them for a visit.
IL T---
McKinney were Sunday visitors with
the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Christie.
Guests in the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Ogle Sunday evening were Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Meadows of Denton,
Mr. and Mrs. Olen Meadows and
children, Wilda and Lorene of Little
Elm, and Miss Ola Meadows and
Milton Nelson of Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Carter and
Miss Pauline Carter have returned
from a few days visit with their
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. A. A. Marchant, at Amarillo.
Allagene and Aline, who spent the
summer there also returned home
with them.
Mr. and
daughter,
Wod, I. C. Simmons,
Ernest Gunstream ;
and Norman
all day
Bishop Boaz declares the election
Saturday was the “loss of a battle
but not the war.” He further says:
“It is now up to all law abiding citi-
zens to see that proper legislation is
enacted for strict control of the
liquor traffic. The bootlegger must
be eliminated from all walks of life
and liquor men held to account for
all infractions of the law. Public
sentiment must be crystalized at
this point. I shall watch with great-
est interest the action of the next
Legislature in Texas. I sincerely hope
its members will live up to their
promises. I have no regrets over this
battle. I did what I thought was
right and have a clear conscience.”
If ever there was a man who
is dangerous politically, we
lieve it is Huey Lbng. But he
sense in a minute than hun-
dreds of congressmen will
have. His efforts were to get a 12
cent loan ,as stated, on the cotton
We have fought, bled and died on
the dry battlefield for the last 50
years. It had become a habit, and
last Saturday we did our best to
help go over the top with the white
flag of prohibition. But the liquor
people had the most votes and they
won. We feel “poorly” over it, too.
But it just couldn’t be helped. We
are not at all discouraged. The wets
have a great job ahead. The Prohi-
bitionists are not going to quit—not
by a big sight. They are going to
keep up the fight for a sober Ameri-
ca. They don’t believe it is ever -com-
ing through the manufacture and
sale of more whiskey.
The British lion is beginning
yawn and move his tail. England is
preparing to' circle the Suez Canal
base in Egypt. And thus the world
moves steadily towards the awful
abyss of war, in spite of all that
England and every nation can do to
persuade the mad dictator, Mussolini
of Italy to stop, look, listen. Our
sympathies are with the little plead-
ing nation of Ethiopia.
Huey Long made a 7-hour speech
in Congress Monday in favor of a, 12
cent per pound loan to farmers on
their cotton and a 90 cent loan per
bushel on their wheat. He was
defeated. But in defeat he is even
greater in the political estimation
of the farmers than he probably
would have been if he had won. You
never can tell. The congressmen had
it all set to pass certain measures
and “cut for home.” It made them
mad when Huey took up the fight to
loan 12 cents instead of 10 cents on
the cotton. They jeered him and
tried in every way to call him down.
The report says: “that Senate Demo-
cratic Leader Joseph T. Robinson
and sharp-tongued Senator Hugo
Black (Dem.) of Alabama railed at
Long, contending he was withhold-
ing needed funds from the crippled
and, the old.
“Never mind about that,” shouted
Huey. “When I go up to the door of
a humble wheat farmer or a humble
cotton farmer he is going to say to
me, “How do you do? So you’re the
man who stood in the Senate on Aug.
26, 1935, and fought our battles.’ ”
There was nothing for the House
to do but wait, so the Navy Band
went into the chamber and played
such airs as “My Old Kentucky
Home” and “The Sidewalks of New
York.” But many Congressmen found
the show in the Senate superior to
their own and they stood two-deep
in the rear of the hall and listened to
Huey’s hoarse voice.
It was an odd ending te a Con-
gress that has written eight months
of history by APPROPRIATING AN
AVERAGE OF $140,000 FOR EVERY
MINUTE IT WORKED. Though it
ended on a half comic note, it was
typical of this Congress that the last
bill it had up for consideration was
one adding still more to the $9,000,-
000,000 ' (billions) expenditures to
which it has committed the American
people.”
ever there was a
dangerous politically,
The Dione quintuplets
$1,000 a month income.
We have just
“reminder” from
days of “relief” are numbered,
commission gives notice that the
"school lunch program” which
year aided in providing lunches for
51,000 children weekly, will not be
resumed this ye^r.” /’
* --- ’’-ffinson remarked—“you
noth, ng yet.”
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
There’s a government agent counting
your corn.
Another one is lecturing the old red
sow
On the number of pigs she can have
and how.
Pa’s gone to town to find out what I
He can do next month with the old:
meadow lot.
Ma’s at the radio, hearing them tell.
How, under the New Deal, there ain’t
no hell.
Aunt Marne’s in Washington, drag-
ging down pay
From the PDQ or the AAA.
The hired man quit when the work
didn’t please
And got a job trimming government
trees.
They’ll be telling you soon, if you
don’t take care,
Where you can live and what you can^^
wear.
How much you must pay for your^^
pants and shoes,
So this is no time to be taking your
snooze.
Little Boy Blue may be buried deep,
Under red tape, but he’s not asleep.
—Batesville, Ark., News-Review.
Old Men
tist church Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. —------------ --
son, Haden Jr., are enjoying a
days vacation in Colorado.
Mrs. Bristow Bates and twin sons,
Charles and Clary of Dallas, and
Mrs Charlie Shipley of Prosper visit-
ed Rev. and Mrs. Borum, Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Mays and other friends
here Sunday.
Wednesday evening a surprise
lawn supper was given at the home
of Mr and Mrs. R. C. Clark, south of
tbwn in honor of their daughter, Miss
Adelle, who has recently arrived
home from Santiago, Chili, where she
has been studying and teaching tor
the past two years.
Those enjoying this surprise were
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Clark, Mrs. I. S.
Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Will Clark and
son, William, Mr and Mrs. A. F. Free-
man, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Daffron and
family, Mrs. Wallace Smith and
niece, Miss Mary Louise Smith, of
McKinney and nephew, George Smith
of Denton, Ray Newman and Billie
Rosamond.
After supper
m don’t object to making hay
Awhile the sun shines, but we do wish
the government would furnish us
with an umbrella and plenty of ice
water.—Pittsburg Gazette.
Aw, don’t be too modest. Why not
ask the government for a private
secretary to do the work. He who
doesn’t ask the government for any-
thing these days lacks in enterprise
and is dubbed a piker.
(Kansas City Times.)
If it may be said that there is such
a thing as a specifically “national”
humor, the late Will Rogers must be
accounted one of the two masters of
the American school. He is the only
American humorist of our generation,
the quality of whose comment on life
is comparable to that of mark Twain.
Although Mark Twain employed his
genius in the writjng of books that
have become part of the literature of
the English language, while Rogers
confined his largely
word or the newspaper
the essential similarity of
ground and tradition is evident.
There is a human quality, a kindl-
ness and a homeliness, about the
humor of Mark Twain and Will Rog-
ers that sets it immediately apart
from from the European product. It
is significant that both men came
from the middle west, that part of
the United States leas affected cul-
turally by foreign influences, and
yet their humor has a universality of
appeal that has found an audience for
it far beyond the boundaires of this
country. “Everything,” Will Rogers
once remarked, “is funny as long as
it is happening ti somebody else.”
And the response to their lively com-
ment upon human foibles shows that
neither idiom nor language is an in-
surmountable barrier to such kindly
criticism.
Nevertheless, much of the humor
of Mark Twain and Will Rogers has
a special meaning for Americans that
eludes both translation and exporta-
tion. Thus, although the \ American
habit of organization is recognized
abroad, only an inhabitant of this
country can appreciate the full force
of Rogers’ observation that “when-
ever two Americans are gathered to-
gether, one of them takes a gavel and
calls the other to order.” And to ev-
eryone who has any interest in the
human comedy, American life is
richer for the fact that such men
have lived among us.
The Henderson paper tells
woman driver who picked up
thumber on the road near that city,
and on hearing the man’s story of
hard luck offered to lend him a dol-
lar. The man accepted and, when a
town was reached, got out of the car.
A few days later the woman received
a letter from a hitch-hiker saying
that it was his intention to knock
her on the head and steal her car,
but that her kindness dissuaded him.
The letter ended with this advice:
“Never pick up any hitch-hiker
unless you know the party personal-
ly. Never stop your car to help any-
one that is apparently injured at the
side of the road, unless you see
tangible evidence: of the wreck that
caused the injury. Never pick up a,
girl hitchhiker, an old man, or even
an old woman. They are all often
simply decoys. The road is tough.
There are thousands of young fellows
who have had experiences that have
turned them into the worst of crim-
inals, roaming at large, from place
to place.
(Dallas Journal.)
In rebuking George Rector, the
famous restauranteur, the Sherman
Democrat correctly avers that wheat
flour has no proper place in the
genuine article:
If you’re in the South, Mr. Rector,
don’t say anything about wheat flour
when you’re talking corn bread.
Wheat flour in corn bread—them’s
fightin’ words, stranger.
All of which is very well. But
what should the Democrat do next
but undertake to tell Mr. Rector how
to make corn bread with eggs! Eggs!
Imagine that. Here is what the Sher-
man Democrat thinks is sho’-nuff
Southern corn bread:
The real article contains only six
ingredients. They are: Meal (old-
fashioned custom-ground, if you can
get it), buttermilk (also old-fashion-
ed, not Bulgarian), eggs, shortening,
soda and salt. Anybody who would
dare add flour is a Down Easter. As
for him who would add not only
flour, but sugar, he is a barbarian.
Alas that the children of men
should fall upon such evil times that
a Southern editor no longer knows
what corn bread is. The Sherman
brother gives us an admirable recipe
for EGG bread—the kind that is
poured into, a biscuit pan in batter
form and baked in one piece; and
then cut up into squares with a
knife. But the genuine old pone with
the print of old Aunt Ca’line’s fingers
baked into it—THAT had no egg in
it. No, sir. Whether it be scalded
meal or unscalded, whether she pour-
ed a little bacon pan grease into it or
not, Aunt Ca’line never had egg in
corn bread. Sometimes she left out
the buttermilk and soda, but when
she put egg in the mixture, Aunt
Ca’line knew it wasn’t corn bread
anymore, but egg bread—usually fix-
ed for some Yankee visitor.
Egg bread is effete. Sugar is no
better than it deserves. Maybe the
Sherman brother likes it with mer-
ingue, too. But corn bread with a
crust that tries your teeth and re-
wards your palate—that is the corn
bread of the old, deep South. And
crackling corn bread—Mmmm! It
seems ages since there was any
crackling corn bread.
The home counties of Allred
(Wichita) Sheppard (Bowie) went
wet while Uvalde, the home county of
Cactus Jack—Vice President Garner,
went dry. You explain it. It’s your
Play.
some of her many experiences while
in Chili, also ways and customs of
people which was very interesting.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Newman left ./L
for Houston Monday where they clos-^^
ed the deal for a home and expect to^M
move the last of this week. They
frmerly lived in Houston, but have
spent the past few weeks here with
her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Ogle.
Willie Wood and
Marie, Mrs. D. E'.
, Mr. and Mrs.
and son, J. W.
Duncan, attended an
home coming and singing
convention at Farmers Branch Bap-
tief nVinrnln ( JL liw wx ----
;. Haden Standerfer and have papered their church and paint-
ed the inside: woodwork.
Horace Dotson and family of Dal-
las visited his mother, Mrs. Bettie
Dotson one day last week.
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J. A. Gaither of Throckmorton,
West Texas, sends cash to ’’enew for
the Examiner. He lived in Collin
County many years.
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Misses Viola and Gwendolyn Duck-
worth are having some remodeling
done on their dwelling on South
Bass street. A new roof, a screen
room on the west and repainting.
of the South. The House members
refused to vote' on the bill and in so
doing killed it- along with the other
bills to help aged persons and crip-
pled children. Huey thus seemingly
WON. When Congressmen go into
districts they* are going to
a time explaining wherein
Huey was. not right. A 12-cent
lean meant 12c for the cotton
farmers. A 90c loan meant 90c a
bushel sure for the wheat farmer.
Give the farmers something tor their
stuff and they will take care of their
aged and needy. HUEY IS BEING
KICKED INTO THE PRESIDENCY.
Panhandler:
. you help a brother Mason,
low, Elk, Moose, C
Labor-Unionist?”
Old Man: “I don’t belong to any
of them.”
Panhandler: “Ah den, kin you help
a fellow Methodist, Catholic, Episco-
palian, Presbyterian, Disciple, Bap-
tist or Quaker?”
Old Man: “I don’t belong to any of
them, either.”
Panhandler: “Ah, den, shake hands,
pardner, and assist a feller-socialist,
upligter, brain-truster and boon-dog-
gler in distress.”
(Paris News)
Members of the Texas legislature
have before them two duties that
call for the thought and action of
MEN WHO HAVE MENTALITY TO
KNOW what it is all about and who
have enough regard for the welfare
of the people to treat those duties
as duties and not as POLITICAL
step-stones or as opportunity for
grandstanding and showing just how
IGNORANT some of them may be.
Governor Allred will call the legis-
lature in the near future and it is
lair to presume that he will lay be-
fore that body the necessity of en-
acting statutes for the handling of
the liquor traffic and for designating
who shall be beneficiaries of the
PENSION AMENDMENT and HOW
and from WHAT SOURCES the
money is to be raised.
Could the legislature DEPEND on
the estimates of the advocates of re-
peal, and be CERTAIN of seeing mil-
lions of dollars roll into the treasury
by reason of the licensing of liquor,
the task would NOT BE SO DIF-
FICULT, but if the payment of PEN-
SIONS is made dependent on the
REVENUE FROM LIQUOR, even in
part only, the pensioners will have
tc discount their warrants by a con-
siderable figure.
If the prohibitionists in the legis-
lature are politically wise they will
stand aside and let the repealists
draw the statute to tax and control
the liquor traffic. THEY are the
people who MADE DEFINITE PROM-
ISES of what would be the RESULT
IN INCOME IF REPEAL WAS
MADE, and of how strict enforce-
ment COULD and WOULD be, includ-
ing the ROUT OF THE BOOTLEG-
GER. As NEITHER of these PROM-
ISES WILL BE KEPT—because they
cannot be—the friends of prohibition
should not interfere and thereby sup-
ply the wets with the alibi that they
are CERTAIN TO NEED.
THEY are the people who made
the PROMISES and PREDICTIONS
—now HOLD THEM TO IT. Give
them a FREE HAND and the voters
will know on whom to lay the criti-
cism when the time comes. AND
HAVE NO DOUBT THAT IT WILL
COME.
who have purchased cheap lands and
moved back to the- farm wiil make a
success of their venture, because
they have had EXPERIENCE IN
FARMING and farm life. Many of
them made a MISTAKE in leaving
the farm, lured by the promise of
high wages and shorter hours. But
there are many who have moved to
the farm because they have FAILED
to make a SUPPORT in town dur-
ing the depression ,and because they
have always DREAMED of having a
quiet place, where living is easy, to
spend their declining days. They
WON’T KNOW HOW TO FARM
when they get to the farm. The re-
sult will be that in a few years
THERE WILL BE A LOT OF FARMS
FOR. RE-SALE to men who DO
KNOW how to make a living out of
the ground. It is a difficult thing to
accomplish. ONLY THE FIT CAN
SURVIVE AT FARMING.
It will be a GOOD THING FOR
THE COUNTRY, however, if none but
those who intend to live on the farm
buy farm lands. Absentee landlord-
ism isn’t a good thing for any coun-
try when it becomes very general.
(Houston Post.)
Writing in the American Scholar,
Harold E. Fey, executive secretary of
the Fellowship of Reconciliation,
says that the country church must
wipe out tenancy or else “tenancy
will destroy the; country church.”
As Mr. Fey sees it, the underlying
causes for country church decadence
are social and economic, rather than
ethical or spiritual.
The country church has largely lost
its place in the scheme of things by
reason of the changed mode of liv-
ing in the country. Look at the high-’
■ways; they are literally pulsating
with life, on the Sabbath day, no one
going any place in particular.
Or, if going to church, many are
headed for the place of worship in
the city.
Another contributor to the de-
cadence of the country church is the
radio.
Forty or 50 miles out of Houston
is today no greater distance than was
four or five miles a few years ago.
It is not too much to say that the
country church, in very many in-
stances, has been put on wheels and
moved to the city, while the radio
has silenced the voice of many a
rural church^preacher.
There is nd doubt, though, that
the growth of tenancy on the farm
has played an important part in
weakening the country church. Any
church, to be a going concern, must
have a nucleus of a membership that
is permanent, and which shoulders
responsibility for finances. In many
communities where tenants pre-
dominate, members of the churches
move frequently. Many tenants re-
main on a farm for only one year
and then move on. It is difficult to
maintain a country church where a
large element of the population is
migratory.
Tenants, in most instances, are peo-
ple of small financial means and
can not contribute much to churches.
In communities where most of the
land owners have moved to town
a,nd where the land is tilled prin-
cipally by tenants, the country
church has a hard time getting along.
It is probable, also, that the
churches have not adapted their pro-
grams to changed rural conditions
in the degree that they should in or-
der to survive in present day rural
communities.
The country church, which has
been a feeder to the city churches for
j ears and which produced much of
the leadership for the church in the
past, is today a problem for almost
every protestant denomination.
Mrs. C. R. Gladden of Frisco visit-
5, following an opera- ed her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Da-
friends will be glad to , vis, one day last week.
J. S. Judd and family spent Satur-
day and Sunday with his grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Judd.
Leonard Jenkins and wife who
have been making their home in
Dallas since their marriage have
moved to> this place where he has a
job as manager of the gin.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Gardner of Dal-
las spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Judd.
Mrs. Frank Wheeler of McKinney
_x. spent several days last week with
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. her mother, Mrs. Maggie Snavely.
till T'rt’-u. *-»-»-»/J TT1 v»-» on 4- • Cn q xrolxr hmro
Jack Sonntag, son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Sonntag, was taken to a Dal-
las hospital Tuesday night. His con-
dition is thought to be very serious.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Martin and Mrs.
W. E. Knight of Greenville visited in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. F Mar-
tin Sunday H F. Jr., returned home
with them for a visit i little son, visited her 1--------,
Mr and Mrs. Jennings Powell of and Mrs. Pete Mounger Sunday.
-wroi’rt Rnndcnr -rricitnr-Q witu ! Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Jenkins and
Weldon Godwin and family were din-
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben God-
win, Sunday.
Mrs. Maggie Davis of McKinney is
visiting her son, Clarence Da,vis and
family.
Charley Graves and family of Ai-
toga visited Roy Akin and family
Saturday.
Little Jollie Dotson of near McKin-
ney is spending a few days with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Jackson.
Born tO' G. F. Andrews and wife,
Wednesday, Aug. 21, a girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude McElroy gave
a birthday dinner Sunday in honor
of their daughter, Mrs. Ada Jenkins.
Those present were Bob Bowman
and family, Clarence Escue_and fam-
ily of Fort Worth, ---1,
family, Marvin Jenkins and sisters,
Edith and Alla Gene, Howard Lee
Poston and Newell Lepeard.
The members of the Baptist church
(Marshall News.)
We are all prone to believe there
are far too many black sheep in the
human family. It is, of course, unfor-
tunate that there are any black
sheep but it’s well to once-in-a-while
count the white sheep. It will sur-
prise most of us as to how many
there are. In a conversation not long
since some one pointed out that in a
certain family there were three of
these off-color ones. And then one
suggested we count the white sheep
in the family. This, was done and the
result, was 34 white sheep to counter-
balance the three black ones. But it
is the black ones t
tention. A little poem M
Uschold illustrates exactly what
are trying to say:
CYNOSURE
Ninety-nine white sheep
Feeding in a meadow,
Only one black sheep—
Dusky as a shadow.
One hundred sheep, all
Grazing in the sun.
Every passer-by says,
“See the black one.”
Mr. and Mrs. Ulmont Snavely have
just returned from a vacation trip.
They visited Houston, Galveston,
San Antonio and Huntsville.
Mrs. Etheline Snavely and sister, i
Mrs. Hazel Miller of Princeton visit-
ed their mother, Mrs. Christian of '
Lucas, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Collier and ' ' ''
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