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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, MARCH 14, 1946
and plowed
the desert
soap
forests.
on
PHONE 233
frescoed
and
con-
creeds and
has
unspar-
are
provide
ments
ava-
even when he makes
DER begins to crumble.
give
woodpile?” He is there and
tempers, land effectively cleaning ’that th® United States note to Russia,
♦
to
V
Communist Gen. Chou En-Lai
Chambliss
vinces.
posing the council:
e
NO CLOSED SESSIONS
may
Governor
came
0
LONDON,
fields of world order, foreign relief, ' ed and an air of geniality prevailed.
regular
European
senators ask for reelection
every
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Greer and family
for removal of wreckage, reconstr a c-
attendance.
nro-
whatever
DEVELOPMENT of a power duster
1 Classified Ads for Results.
*
Medals Award
Selective Draft
Board Members
Bennie Persists
In Using Soap
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War Prisoner Home
Outside Collin County (1 year) $2.00
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.25
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) 75e
ex-
co-
Gold cubes were used as currency
in ancient China.
THE CHINESE invented paper 1800
years ago. Thanks to our brothers on
the other side of the world.
The Young Women’s Christian As-
sociation was formed in 1894.
them to take a iob of work
they join the union.
g up i timers will agree with me, that Blos-
the shouts changed to ■ _s?m had the biggest crowd ot all its
NEVER FORGET THEIR
VERY FIRST CIRCUS
Drain
Mr.
7.—United Na-
Ad-
Parlor Organ
£
P oets’ Corner
~ bi^'ied'
t flight
a reactionary. I expected opposition !
to my efforts to liberate the people ;
from the bondage of the toothpaste
operations, an- . geESjc.n on their own call. When those
It is being prepared for shipment to
SUBSCRIPTION RATE:
Inside Collin County (1 year) $1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.) 60c
.... and STOP I TI_ c,cu-
the Republican I jng was Hon. Jeff H. Williams, Chick-
such effort soon descends to force ®an>
that is PHYSICAL, and the castiga-
---sr---
CHURCH PLEA AGAINST
HOLY WAR VOICED
THERE IS a wild and irresponsible
element loose in this country who are
bent on inflation and later repudiation
of all government debts. If you are a
sensible citizen and a patriot, you will
listen to reason and quit backing up
these crackpot conspirators who
now crawling into the saddle.
bassador,
, settle it.
i Marshall is empowered to look af-
| ter American interests in China in-
L. H. Caudell and famliy visited
Joe Davis and family Sunday, also
Mrs. Dudley Caudell and little baby
daughter, Joan Elaine, returned home
with them for a few days’ visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Scribner and
family of Chambersville visited his
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Duke, Sun-
day.
McKinney Examiner I The Strike Riots
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
THIS COUNTRY is on its way to-
ward inflation. Don’t you doubt that
fact. The masses of the people do not
realize the danger. They have heard
the cry of wolf, wolf so often that
They have become careless. The man-
ia for spending is growing, especially
by the government which is being fi-
nanced with bonds and printing pressr
es. We need lots of money and we are
enjoying prosperity now. But the
time is here to watch our step. Bet-
ter save some of your good wages
now. Government bonds are the best
investment.
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
conducted at Camp Mabry for police-
men from all over the state. The De-
partment of Public Safety of the Tex-
as State Highway Department is in
charge of the school. They study
latest methods for protection of the
public.
i gram committee, introduced -a quar- gerous radical to the tories of his day.
: was
getting steam up for her trial run, the
river’s banks were lined with crowds
who shouted, “She’ll never start!”
n Jpaper
T® the
th" resi-
who died
his rela-
Wide Land I love! The test is done.
Receive me with a sanctity.
America! This is your son.
In wisdom I inherit thee.
—Frank Stebbing in New
York Times.
muse upon their rise and
And unciphered fate . . . On English
downs,
In the valleys of the Nile
This is my land! These are my skies!
That I have won the bitter way
Down oceans of a thousand sighs,
Down lanes of red dismay.
be and Mrs. Chas. Nolen of Dallas, Mr.
. Frank Thompson of Sher-
Russell Wilson of Princeton,
and Mrs. Paul Henderson of
General Gale. “In these countries the
Germans followed a deliberate policy j
of ;
THE PROPER. USE of atomic pow-
er would no doubt benefit mankind. A
PROPER use of the ballot can go a
long ways in that direction, too.—
Pittsburg Gazette.
And isn’t that the truth? Thou-
sands of people pay their poll tax be-
cause the law requires them to do so.
But join with those who are aganist
a poll tax because they declare it
hinders the poor man from voting. Yet
50 per cent of those who have paid
the tax do not take enough interest in
the elections to cast a vote. The prop-
er use of the ballot is necessary. If
thoughtful people are< too negligent to
vote properly, they help to give the
atomic bomb a job. The poll tax goes
mostly into the school fund. The
kick against the poll, tax, as a rule, is
made by men who expect to vote a
certain class of people they know well
and good before hand will not vote
at all unless th ;ir poll tax is paid by
some group. Do we lose anything by
those people NOT voting? Study this
matter and don’t cry over the “poor
man” having to pay a little poll tax
like thousands of others. Maybe that
is the only tax he does pay.
: asha, Oklahoma, attorney with a na-
tional reputation and la past director
crowns.
Unearthing frescoed tombs
stones engraved
With runic symbols of old
DAVE BOONE says “it seems to me
since there is still a paper shortoge it
might be a good idea just to print a
list of the industries out. on strike in-
stead of the ones that are. Gosh, if a
man is satisfied with his job, on good
terms with the man who pays his sal-
ary, and is reporting for work every
day these days he is a stand-out. He
can almost get booking in a Broad-
way show or the movies.
Here is my Love and here my Peace
That I have purchased with a will
Along clay corridors of grief,
In flaming fields of kill.
Before my eyes now, like a spire,
There climbs the Torch of Liberty
And I am come, by way of fire,
At last into my legacy.
duced by W. P. Abernathy. Mr. Wil-
liams spoke for an hour, mixing his
words of wisdom with numerous
to vote republican unless something ' sprinkles of fine humor which kept
is done. They are sick of Hillman. R. ; his audience jn high spirits. He is
J. Thomas, Jnc. L. Lewis,
Bridges and Walter Reuther.
” - V
THERE ARE 435 members of the
House of Representatvies in Wash-
ington. One day last week a billion-
dollar apropriation bill was passed by
that body with only 215 Congressmen
present and voting—less than half
the membership, says the Lamar
County Echo. Editor Lon Boynton
doesn’t like the idea of so many being
absent. But it is possible that the
government really profited as there
is not always wisdom in numbers. And
just think of the windjamming that
the 215 escaped. And again, maybe
the others were off on important
committees. Look at the bright side,
Lon.
In a recent issue of the Examiner
we noticed Bennie O’Brien’s attack on
the “tooth paste” syndicate in his
Celina Record and his use of old-
fashioned soap for cleansing his
grinders. We solemnly warned him by
referring to the unfortunate cow that
had “gone mad” near Chambersville
and having been duly killed by “soap
factroy experts” from Dallas, was no
doubt being manufactured into soap
for all who have fallen into the habit
no-
he
his
Ex-
THE AMERICAN Legion at Deca-
tur, Ga., is seeking to obtain 100 trail-
ers from the government in which
to house World War II veterans. And
the strikes go on just the same. Are
the vets going to stand for such treat-
ment by men who stayed home and
drew down big fat checks and now
won’t let them work unless they join
their unions. Ask. your candidates
how they stand on these matters. It
is time to act. Don’t elect men to of-
fice who are playing for votes for that
crowd.
on the atom bomb despite
the exploitation of man by man, that
must be weighed when we consider
it sdenials of liberty, its materialism,
its denials of liberty, its materialism,
nomic order.
“If capitalism has preserved more
of liberty and lifted the physical
standards of men, that must be con-,
sidered when we weigh its failure to
remove the contradiction that lies in
its ability to produce and its inability
to distribute in a moral or rationally
adequate manner.
“We refuse to identify the Chris-
tian Gospel with an ECONOMIC OR-
DER. We shall be called COMMU-
NISTS by UNTHINKING CAPITAL-
ISTS and capitalists by dogmatic
Communists. We are uninterested, in
these appellations. We seek to be
Christians.”
The council came to no final stand i
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Miarch 8—A
special'postwar policy meeting of the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
in America closed Thursday on a key-
note warning against churches being
led into a “Holy War” against either
Capitalism or Communism.
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, council
president and head of the New York
area of the Methodist Church, told
tne final session of the three-day gath
ering of 500 delegates from 1
Elton Riggs was named president
of the McKinney Chamber of Com-
merce Friday evening at the annual
banquet held in the First Christian
Church annex. W. B. Finney and
Frank W. Smitn were named vice-
presidents and W. Hammond Moore,
who for seventeen years has served
so efficiently as secretary-mana-
ger, was reappointed to his position.
A. H. Eubanks Jr. was elected treas-
urer, a new post created only this
year. In a sweeping reorganization of j
the executive set up the names of ■
Arkansas experiments w:'th tele-
phone messages on existing rural
power lines are reported successful.
i UNRRA Buys U. S.
! Machines for Clean Up
The above is true as gospel.
Examiner hopes the
Science Monitor and all influential
newspapers will pressure
Truman and Congress io
to my efforts to liberate the people ;
from the bondage of the toothpaste
tube, but I am disappointed that it Marshall, President
comes from such an otherwise distin-
guished source.
the blandish
He
had
nuts
were
making arrangements with the Rus-
pro-
A personal in a smalltown
read: “Family lawyer will re
will next Monday mornixfl^at thG resi-
dence of Timothy Hallahap, ’’ " ’
February 29, to accomodate
fives.” y
i
twenty-one directors were announced
at the banquet as having been elected
by a secret ballot of the entire mem-
bership to serve for one, two and
three years respectively. These twen-
| ty-one directors take the place of a
former board of fifty-seven members.
The inability to get "a quorum at
emergency meetings and the other-
wise unwieldy set-up called for the
reorganization. The names of direc-
tors are as follows:
Elected for 3 years (all past presi-
dents) : Gibson Caldwell, W. A. Dow-
ell, F. D. Perkins, C. H. Ray, A. M. publicTy the^toothpaVte
Scott, H. L. Shoap, H. W. Warden. I
Eledted for 2 years: C. M. Cooper, ;
W. T. Dungan, W. B. Finney, Clyde ' hi.
Horn, R. F. Newsome, Jack R. Ryan,
Wofford Thompson.
Elected for 1 year: W. P. Aber-
nathy, J. C. Cantrell, Wilkins. Come-
them on the spot. They backed the !
amendment that wculd have i
each $3500 a year straight salary. The j Sunday afternoon. Their nephew, Rob-
people rebuked them by defeating the j ert Burgess, just recently returned
“salary grab.” They ought to be left | from Germany,
at home. Ask them how they voted
and why.
and A. M. Scott, while the attendance K A xxx^xxv
committee composed fo sixteen men the invaded nations of Central Europe
under the chairmanship of G. D. Led- f... :
better did a fine job of building the .tion of devastated cities and repair of
attendance. roadways.
--— - ■ ■...----- “The machines are to be sent to
Government plans to buy 8,500,000 ?°land> Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia,
pounds of dried eggs during Febru- White Russia and the Ukraine,” said
Beaumont, . service boys at all. who are not ask
ing for such extravagant use of the
are wit-
men |
: na- I
Chief of Police Padgitt, Dan Rike
elsewhere whatever equipment of ; and /• ®a^es have returned from
this type they could find. The result ! Austin where they attended the school
. . • . /"» n tv n r» 4- r\ rl +■ Pnmr\ lUnhr>Tr frx-n
is that with little more than manual
labor to call upon, the work of clear-
ing away rubble, building highways
. and reconstructing bridges and
■ wharves has been much delayed.”
on the atom bomb despite a recom- . ------—
mendation in one memorandum that
i the United States “NOT BE THE to spray DDT on cattle has been an-
i FIRST” to use it in ANOTHER WAR. nounced. May replace dipping vats.
[ sessions ot the State Senate. He con-
1 tends that the nublic has a right to
know how their legislators vote on
any and all matters before that body.
And about 99 per cent of the people
feel the same way about it Governor,
says the Lamar County Echo.
The Examiner believes Gov. Ste-
venson is one of the wisest and safest
governors we have ever had at Austin
and the people appreciate him. He
i has given them a real rest from poli-
man executive committee which has
... --------------------vv, ocxxu xxciJ. teams into
to pay each and every one of them ' Manchuria.
.$250 “per month and maintenance” I The independent new®naner T«.
another will raise it to $500. Then the kungpao reported that Marshall, Na-
W1k be ref®rr®d to tbe | tionalist Gen. Chang Chih-Chung and
slaughter house gang —the commit- , Communist Gen. Chon En-T,ai wptp
Mr. and. Mrs. Wesley Drain of
Paris visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Caudell, Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davis of Sedalia
visited Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Caudell
Wednesday afternoon.
Amon Roper and Bill Carroll went
fishing at Lake Texhoma Wednesday
night.
Mrs Bill Hoolie Hendrix and Mrs.
Nora Webster were shopping in Mc-
Kinney Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Davis and wife
and little daughter of Sedalia visited
L. H. Caudell and family.
Rev. I. D. Wallace of near McKin-
ney filled his regular appointment
here Feb. 24.
.Misses Peggy Miller and Yvonne
Tisdale of McKinney visited Misses
x.,. xj Dorothy and Frieda Bell Webster last
voter in their districts ought to put ' Sunday and attended church here.
the j Mr. and Mrs. Ira Greer and family
paid ' visited Robert Burgess and family
say. fallen victim to
ments of the toothpaste
thinks my family might
good reason to believe I
when they discovered I had been fol-
lowing the unorthodox practice of
i brushing my teeth with ordinary soap
instead of the messy concoctions, of
uncertain paternity, sold to a gullible
manufactur-
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
: Good morning,” said theFswitch-
board operator. “This is Perkin.s Par-
kins, Peckham and Potts.”
“Mr. Perkins, please.”
"‘Who is calling, please?”
“Mr. Pincham of Fincham, Pettam,
Popum and Pogg..”
“Just a moment, please. I’ll
you Mr. Perkins’ office.”
“Hello, Mr. Perkins’ office.”
“Let me speak to Mr. Perkins,
please.”
“Mr. Perkins I’ll see if lie’s in. Who
is calling, please?”
“Mr. Pincham Gf Pincham, Pettam,
Popum and Pogg.”
“Just a moment, Mr. Pincham. Here
is Mr. Perkins. Mr. Pincham on the
line, please.’
“Just one moment, please. I have
Mr. Pincham right here. Okay with
Perkins, Parkins, Peckham and Potts,
Mr. Pincham. Go ahead, please.’
Lo, Joe How about lunch?”
“Okay, Charlie.”—Texas Outlook.
Government plans to buy 8,500,000
arj» and March for export from buy-
ers’ who certify they have paid nro- - * -
ducers at least gov’t support price® destroying or appropriating for use
for shell eggs. elsewhere whatever equipment
ONE THING that encourages us
not worry too much over the i Wednesday, Secretary of
probability of another “world war” is I James F. Byrnes corrected a state-
the fact that our country has treated , ment he had made Tuesday to the ef-
our returned veterans so shamefully I " ’
in giving them proper consideration.
Congress has been coming across |
fine when it comes to i ' ’ ’
bills for VOTING tax money to hand
nation’s tax money. They
nessing millions of union labor
blocking the reconversion of the
tion’s business from war to peace- i Governor Stevenson says there
time prosperity which would enable ' should be no closed door or executive
these veterans to buy homes and go ! sessions of the State Senate. He "—
into business. But refusing to permit ’
unless
(Christian Science Monitor)
Any thoughtful American must be
deeply cone irned over the news of
the strike riots in Philadelphia The
spectacle of some 4,000 American fel-
low ciiizens CLUBBING EACH
OTHER is saddening.
Whatever the provocation, the stri-
kers DEFIED THE LAW. They stag-
ed mass picketing, the court ordered
them to cease, they REFUSED. And
the strikers have also DEFIED the
precepts of WISDOM and good sense.
If this injunction be unjust the only
sound remedy is to obey it. thou
fight it in the courts of law and pub-
lic opinion as UNJUST legislation
should toe fought.
But having said this, we have done
no more than deal with the obvious
and ’he immediate. The rioting
would NOT have occurred had there
not been mass picketing. Mass picket-
iig would NOT have been staged had
not negotations—the use of REASON
—broken down. Both the violence and
Hie solid line of marching men stand
as evidence that the United States
HAS SET UP NO ADEQUATE pro-
cedures to take over when bargain-
ing stalls. Economic weight becomes
RAW FORCE—and force can quickly
flare into CONFLICT when the pres-
sures mount.
A big industry can exert, its kind
of force by SITTING TIGHT, within
the law. A. big union can grow to1
fear that its pressure MEANS NO-
THING UNLESS a struck plant stays
struck, and it abandons persuasion
for violence or the threat of it—
AGAINST THE LAWL
W'e shall not solve the problem of gys, A. H. Eubanks Jr., Tom Perkins
strike violence until management and I Jr., and Elton Riggs.
unions learn greater wisdom and I Hal L. Dyer, retiring president, dis- j
i an
mes-
drowns,
In Mayan forests, on Ferrara’s
plain,
With hands unresting, kindled heart
and brain.
Men disinter their temples, coins and
ers.
Wrere it not for the fact that I know
Im for a staunch Presbyterian, a pil-
lar of the Church and the sort of man
whose profanity is limited to an oc-
casional “Tch! Tch!” there might per-
ihaps be a possibility that Editor
. Thompson’s implied aversion to the
, idea of soap as a dentrific.e might
i stem from the painful remembrance of
times past, when his mother washed
out his mouth with soap for saying
ugly words.
Exploring other avenues of conjec-
orite songs.
It wasn’t great music, but it was
good music. As the. family sang the
beloved folk songs, carols, and hymns,
all the world seemed safe and secure.
Mother would manipulate the stops
to fit the moods of the song. A “sing”
was an eagerly welcomed joy in those
days. Sometimes the neighbors would
come in and then there would be good
fou-’-part harmony. Plain, unpreten-
tious recreation, yes, but the solid
stuff on which many boys and girls
were raised before they left home to
try their wings in the outside world.
—St. Louis Star-Times.
majestically huffing and puffing
, the liver, 1'
“She’ll never stop!”
We have investigated two hypoth- ' — ——-----1
eses to explain Editor Thompson’s ' T
doubts of my sanity. I can think of i LUU 1 PROBLEM
only one other—it must be he has , TN MANCHURIA
aligned himself with those who in-'MC.AOC! runnziTn
stinctively oppose great and liberal
ideas. He has, by his opposition to ; ------
my simple suggestion for lightening I SHANGHAI, China, March 8.—High
the people.’s labor, saving their money j Chinese officials predicted Thursday
.opucu. aua airector ?1nd ^mpers, .and effectively cleaning ; ^at the United States note to Russia
of Rotary International. He was intro- their teJth’ proved himself, ipso facto, j Protesting the removal of industrial par6n11y
rlnrpri hvW p AWnathv axth a reactionary. I expected opposition I equipment from Manchuria would j Han hfiq
CRACK the Manchuria problem
WIDE OPEN and Gen. George C.
~ t Truman’s Am-
would be called upon
codes,
They ponder how this beauty
outbraved
All wasting wars and time’s
ing goads
The flesh may fail, but hearts are not
enslaved,
Men pass ... but not their dreams—
their Roman roads.—Agnes Ken-
drick Gray.
One doesn’t see them ary more. Ap-
” 7 the old-fashioned parlor or-
j gan has gone to join mankind’s other
outmoded accoutrements. But a gen-
eration ago the parlor organ was a
treasured part of the family life. On
a cold stormy winter’s night or on aJ
Sunday evening, Mother wou'd si?
at the organ and play all the old fav-
---- . __ tee appointed to use the pigeon holes !
delegates from the ■ inS Tom Perkins Jr. as follows: i provided for all such phoney propo- | sjan(? to visit’the northpaqterr
twenty-five Protestant Churches com-; Wavne Milburn of Bristow niria i citinna mbo,,
posing the council: I Thurman Henderson ----
“Men who would lead the church Chas. G. Cotten of Fort Worth, Ben
into ‘holy war’ are blind to the fact E- Cabell of Dallas, Errett Dickenson
that the massing of force for the de- °t Melissa, Wick Fowler of JDallas, Mr.
struction of a movement may
planned as the FORCE OF IDEA, but i and Mi’s,
that is PHYSICAL, and the castiga- Mr.
tion of words becomes the clash of Princeton, W. B. Gantt of Princeton,
arms.” i Otis Fowler of Denton, U. N. Clary of
World Progarms Sought. i Prosper, Sgt. and Mrs. Chas. M. Coop-
Bishop Oxnam’s plea came after er> J1’-, R. E. Miller of Farmersville,
three days which included a speech Mr. and Mrs. AV. J. McGee and Carl
by President Truman urging a MOR- O. Henry of Sherman.
AL and SPIRITUAL WAKENING and I The ladies of the First Christian ;
dozens of sectional meetings seeking Church served a sumptuous dinner to i
to achieve programs for the 25,090,000 ' nearly three hundred guests. The
communicants of the churches in the banquet hall was beautifully decorat- tions Relief anY '
fioldc nf wnrlrl nrdpr fm-Aip-n rpliof pci and an air of srom'nlifir nravo' -_-_x x- ,
atomic <
relations.
“If Communism has brought more ' cation was pronounced by Rev. Ger-
of equality to man,” Bishop Oxnam ' aid McCollum. Arrangements were in UNRRA j
said, “and has endeavored to abolish J charge of Geo. James, J. E. Largent nounced Thursday.
AS LONG as selfishness and
rice exists, just so long will thieves,
murderers and war continue to plun-
der the world, says the Tioga Herald.
Rather discouraging when we note
the unrest in the world at this time.
Eut don’t forget all this trouble start-
ed ages and ages, billions and billions
of years ago. But we have the fin-
est planet in the universe. Or will
have when we get these strikes set-
tled.
A COMFORTING thought comes to
us over and over when we feel dis-
couraged at the gloomy outlook for
peace. We remember that all the
world is in a turmoil over POLITICS.
Millions of people are seeking politi-
cal power or office, and are making
speeches only for HOME CONSUMP-
TION. Perhaps it is as well that we
do not take too seriously all the big
scare headline reports that are ap-
'pqaring in Hie big dailies. Learn to
distinguish between, .a rumor and a
fact.
A. W. Neville, in his “Backward
Glances” in the Paris News, touches
a responsive chord in the heart of
every one of hi\s old time friends,
when he writes of his first circus.
He says:
It is easy to forget seme things, but
where is the man or woman who has
forgotten the first circus they saw?
Not so many today who see a circus
the first time will remember it, be-
cause there are so many other amuse-
ments, but when I was a child the cir-
cus was an outstanding wonder,
never to be forgotten. John Robin-
son’s circus, one ring, brought to town
in horse-drawn wagons, the elephant
walking along the road, was to me a
greater show than Barnum and Ring-
ling combined in later years. A Negro
woman who had belonged to my
mother’s family carried me into the
little tent to save buying a ticket, as
“children in arms” were not required
to pay. The doorkeeper must have
shut his eyes-, for I was six years old
at the time.
At least one man who remembers
his circus is Veo Brannon, now living
in Oklahoma City, who tells me that
“The year 1912 was an exiting one
for me, when a circus was billed for
Blossom on my twelfth birthday, Oct-
ober 27. We lived in the little com-
munity of Post Oak, six miles north-
east of Blossom., where my father, C.
W. Brannon, had the only store, a
general merchandise stock.
“The Democrats had nominated two
great men for president and vice-
president, Woodrow Wilson and
Thomas R. Marshall, who were des-
tined to be elected. Although far
from the voting] age, I took a keen
interest in politics, read the news-
paper every day, and my father, an
ardent Democrat, felt sure Wilson
wculd be elected, that cotton would
be worth more, and times would be
better. Sure enough, the farmers were
gathering good crops, prices were
good, so father promised me that I
could go to the circus in Blossom.
“Fosters for the Mighty Hoag Cir-
cus’ had been stuck on the barns and
fences in our community, and when
the day arrived it was an ideal day,
I borrowed my brother’s horse and
new rubber-tired buggy and with a
boy friend, Herschel (Doc) Ferguson,
drove to Blossom, put the horse and
buggy in John Skagg’s livery stable
and set out to see the sights.
“When we reached Main street the
parade was in full progress and it
was witnessed by the biggest crowd
That I have eve’r seen in Blossom,
peiGier before or since. Doc and 1 paid
| ten cents to rice a float, which I be-
lieve was operated by John Castle-
berry, which was hauling passengers
to the show ground, a half-mile west
of town in the Ellis grove. I do not
believe that the Ringling Brothers
show ever gave a better performance,
or had a finer selection of animals,
though my judgement may be color-
I ed by thepassing of the years. But one
And when the steamboat puded away I thing I am sure, and believe that old-
up I timers will agree with me, that Blos-
■ history.
BURIED TOWNS
The world will never tSl ot b>
towns—
Of cities lost
again.
It loves to
reign
wisdom and | U ’ T M ;
skill in labor relations, until govern- ! patched the evening’s business in
ments provide MORE ADEQUATE admirable manner and in a brief
mediation service, and until society sage mentioned the more important
whole provides machinery fur accomplishments of the past year,
operation of all the citizenship and ;ture’ a y^wpiont such as my friend
the various organizations of the city. I . might be the result of an in-
Especially did he compliment the lo- j stinctive antipathy to the use of soap
cal volunteer fire department for its | *n an^ fasbion at all. This, however, I
constant vigilance and wonderfully 1 could not be true, for the Mc-
efficient record. A printed booklet giv- I Kinney editor always has a freshly-
en each guest explained every detail scrubbed look; even when he makes
of the past year’s work. | the Examiner’s front page he turns
A very interesting part of the pro- i oyer the the lock-up man with clean
gram was the presentation of Cita- ,bands-
tions of appreciation to members of Since the world began, new innova-
{the local dr.aft boards for their un- tions and new ideas have met with
selfish work during the critical war the jeers of the crowd; stones have
- yGcirS. Major LTfU Tnhncjnn ua-nvoao-nio- 11PPTI nplfprl ut +1to Nnrline zv-F +V*
President | ^ve of g.en
pass the < - •
Case law that will require all unions
to incorporate, thus making them
responsible for breaking their con-
tracts, just as General Motors and ail
banks and industrial institutions are
incorporated and can be sued for vio-
lation of contracts. Help rid honest
unions of the grafting leaders now in
control in so many of them and vot-
ing their members like slaves for
politicians in both the Democratic
and Republican parties. Why is it
that so few of the big newspapers of
as a t
the peaceful arbitration of deadlock- pressed appreciation for the "fine
ed disputes- and insists that it. be'
used.
\ve shall make poor progress to-
ward any of these if even a FEW
UNION LEADERS are allowed to
find that a DISPLAY OF FORCE gets
le.sults more quickly and easily. We
shall make no progress at all if the
FOUNDATION OF LAW AND OR-
j UL JEU 1 LOLL
Riggs and his new board of directors
the Chamber of Commerce looks for-
ward, eagerly, to another prosperous
year of work and accamplishment.
Quite a number of out-of-town
guestxs were introduced to the meet-
Wayne Milburn of Bristow, Okla., I sitions. They are not fooling the ex-
- ----an iTcndCxGxxxi of Beaumont, . service boys at all. who are not. ask
of using soap. Bennie’s folks had
ticed his mouth foaming and
feared they were questioning
sanity, so he comments on the
aminer’s warning as follows:
“My esteemed, but misguided <
temporary, Editor Clint Thompson of
the McKinney Examiner, for whom I
have always had the greatest affec-
tion and regard, has, it pains me to
sav. fallon viotlim tn ttia
ads.
have
was
to . eluding Manchuria, it was pointed out.
k: I Wednesday, Secretary of State
the fact that our country has treated ' ment he had
feet that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had
jurisdiction over Manchuria.
Marshall, at the invitation of the
introducing Chinese Government, heads a three-
- ■— -----——J I.X.... V c ucrillllllLL
Under the guidance of Mr. Elton to the veterans. If some one proposes ! authority to send field
March
I Rehabilitation
if world order, foreign relief, ; ed and an air of geniality prevailed, ministration has bought all of the 4inem. a raai trom
energy evangelism, and racial Following the singing of two verses United States Army’s surplus heavy I Cal- asnatc'’’s m not calling an extra
is. ] of “America the Beautiful,” the invo- engineering eauinment in Britain Tt I s®sqion legislature. But the
ommunism has brought more ' cation was pronounced by Rev. Ger- Gen. Sir &Humfrev Gale chief of i “immortal 19 ' senators didn’t think
ility to man,” Bishop Oxnam : aid McCollum. Arrangements were in TTNRBa Enmnoan nnoratmnc nr, : S0‘ 4nd Proce*--ded to hold a special
The
Christian
I years. Major Hal Johnson, representa-
i A---2 ------J. Watt Paige, state head
i selective service :at Austin presented
i the Citations. Those receiving awards
were Roy Brockman, Dr. H. F. Wol-
i’ford, Wallace Hughstpn, Gibson Cald-
| well, Dudley Perkins, Add Wilson and
i W. P. Abernathy.
At conclusion of business session, be forced to go to work at something
been pelted at the bodies of those
whose minds have produced ideas for
the liberation and uplift of man. In-
ventors of modern ma chines that
lighten the burdens of our everyday
life were thought by the mob to be
crazy. The Wright brothers were just
a couple of simple dopes who ought to
I A. H. Eubanks Jr., chairman of pro- useful. Thomas Jefferson was a dan-
j tett of young ladies from TSCW, Den- . When Robert Fulton’s Clermont
I ton, who entertained the group with x -
; several excellent numbers. This quar-
L.x„u ou x.„ ux ..u C U15 Jlc„Bprtpv1B o i tett, known as the Swintett has a na-
ihe nation are sc- soft-pedd:ing and ! “ona’ reputation and will shortly go
refuse to point out' ’he “skunk in the i Mew York under contract in radio,
woodpile?” He is there and every- iMiss Mary Jo Thomas, daughter of
body can smell him. But you can’t get our t°rmer townsman, Russell Thom-
enough courageous Congressmn to ' as> and granddaughter of Mr. and
pass a law that will put it up to Presi-! ^rs- John W. Thomas of McKinney
dent Truman and leave it there until !is a member of the quartett. Other
h* shows JUST WHERE he j members are Misses Arline Truax,
STANDS in this stiike trouble -ye ! Kathryn Myatt, and Tinker Cunning-
are having. If the Democrats DO NOT ' ham.
PASS a bill like that and STOP ! The principal speaker of the even-
rHE’SE ISTRIKES t’
party is sure to win in the next Sec-
tion.
We have talked with a number of
old-line democrats lately who have
never scratched a ticket, and they de-
clare their disgust and their intention '
+ „ ------------xx_:__
is done. They are sick of Hillman. R. ; his audience jn high spirits.
J. Thomas, Jnc. L. Lewis, Harry widely read and has a wealth of in-
' formation on topics of world im-
portance. He touched on local civic
affairs, the church, the Red Cross and
world political and social problems,
putting his points over clearly and
cleverly. Wick Fowler in the Dallas
News compares him to Will Rogers.
It was one of the best talks ever
i heard at a Chamber of Commerce
I banquet here.
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Thompson, Clint & Thompson, Wofford. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946, newspaper, March 14, 1946; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1323460/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.