Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 176, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 21, 1929 Page: 2 of 4
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JOHNSON
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 21 (UP)
—Holiday trade augmented
business activity in Texas to
an even greater extent this
week than for the correspond-
ing period in 1928, one of the
best seasons in the history of
the Southwest.
In Dallas an increase of
$2,000,000 over a similar 1928
period was experienced, and
many other cities also report-
ed material business growth.
Unusually high total debits
to individual accounts were
reported in the eleventh fed-
eral reserve bank district,
amounting to $219,000,000.
Bankers take an excess of
$200,000,000 as an indication
of excellent financial standing
of the territory.
Industrial demands of the
southwest will be served with
additional facility by the op-
eration of a new Dallas insti-
tution, the Texas Bank and
Trust company, which opens
for business on Dec. 30. The
capital will be $125,000 with
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Mrs. Clint Brook of Beau-
mont is the guest of her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Y. Rog- »
ers.
channel budget of possibly
in Texas foreign $20,000,000 are
commented on by the bulk sum.
Grade separation work in
connection with a $10,000,000
freight and passenger termin-
al at Fort Worth of the Texas
& Pacific and the Frisco rail-
roads will cost $2,031,450, ac-
cording to' estimates this
week. The terminal project
had already been announced.
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Mrs. Bertha Massey of Dal-
las is the holiday guest of
relatives in Center and Shel-
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a surplus of $25,000 and new
capital will be added as re-
quired.
Statistics released by the F.
W. Dodge corporation indic-
ates that Dallas will have a
$30,000,000 construction year.
Contracts let in metropolitan
Dallas through November to-
tal $24,760,300, and prospects
500,000, as compared to $12,-
000,000 in 1914, he pointed
out. Texas’ annual foreign
trade totals $800,000,000, Av-
ery declared.
The Houston Chamber of
Commerce estimated that
more than $56,000,000 will be
spent b ythat city in 1930 for
civic improvements. MunTci-
point to an unusually large pal expenditures and a ship
figure for December.
Growth
trade was
Sherwood H. Avery, district
manager of the bureau of for-
eign and domestic commerce,
during the week. Experts
from the state in 1928 to La-
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work, willingness to take pun-
ishment, quick recovery from
defeat, and profiting by such
defeat so that an error of the
same kind will not be made
the second time.
In the city in which I live
and in the business of which
I am the head, frequently the
remark is made, “How does it
come that you made a success
of your business and built up
a large business while others
who tried to imitate your suc-
cess have failed by the road-
side?” One reason is because
I have been in business for
more than thirty-five years.
I did not expect to cash in
on big dividends or get rich in
a year, or two years or even
ten years. It was a case of
constantly keeping at it, tak-
ing a lot of pleasure and en-
joyment out of my work, and
in the early days of my busi-
ness vacation was not in my
vocabulary. Each day brought
something new and it was a
perpetual pleasure.
Naturally, under these cir-
cumstances, my businehss has
grown until it has become one
of the largest of its kind in
the world. In the formula to
bring this about, however,
there has been no magic, but
plenty of luck. The luck,
however, consists in hard
work and fairly well directed
efforts.
Any young man with aver-
age intelligence and plenty of
“stiek-to-itiveness.” can do
likewise.
(From Houston Press)
Gasoline will build Texas highways and no state bonds
will be needed. That is the verdict of many who have
analyzed the situation, following the enactment by the last thought out program, hard
legislature of a law requiring a four-cent gasoline tax, of
which one-fourth goes’ to the school fund and the remainder
to road maintenance and construction.
Such being the case there should be no road issue in the
next gubernatorial campaign. The problem has been solv-
ed, and those who have the state’s interest at heart should
unite upon or urge some other great measure or needed re-
form. There is still the penitentiary problem, the public
utility issue and the proposed income tax over which states-
men and politicians may argue and make their pleas.
Only two things in the road-building program have
caused disagreements in the past. One was how fast should
Texas build roadways and the other was how to build state
highways through counties that could not or would not do
their part to aid the state and nation.
The securing of the four-cent gasoline tax has answered
both questions, in the opinion of Hon. Leonard Tillotson of
Sealy, who introduced the measure during the last session
of the Texas legislature.
His emphatic statements were obtained by a Press rep-
resentative because of assertions made by bankers and other
business men who in a friendly discussion showed a lack of
information as to the present highway laws and just what
may be done with the money contributed by all the people
for building roads for all to use.
These men made the statement that we could not com-
plete our highways—fill in the gaps—without the authority
of a state bond issue secured by constitutional amendment
and a vote of the people.
If supposedly well-informed business men have that
idea, isn’t it likely that many thousands of our citizens gen-
erally have the same impression?
Is it because they have not investigated or is it due to
misinformation that has been circulated?
What ever the cause, shouldn’t some newspaper get the
facts or secure the opinion of those who have studied the
subject?
That’s what the editor of The Press thought and that
is the WHY of the Tillotson interviewf in this issue of The
Press.
Read that interview and learn for yourself what a four-
cent gasoline tax will mean for Texas and how easy it will
be to complete every state highway regardless of what may
or may not be contributed by the various counties through
which the roads will pass.
Mr. Tillotson estimates that the state will have avail-
able next year a total of $32,350,000 for road building pur
poses; that certain counties and districts are committed al-
ready to the expenditure of $5,500,000 of their own funds,
or a grand total of $37,500,000 to be spent for state highway
construction and betterment in 1930.
He further estimates that within two years we will
have from $45,000,000 to $50,000,000 annually to spend on
our state highways, new and old.
But what about the gaps ? There will be none, accord-
ing to Mr. Tillotson’s interpretation of the laws and the
rights of the Texas highway commission.
Says he most emphatically:
“THE LAW AS IT STANDS ON THE STATUTE
BOOKS TODAY GIVES TO THE HIGHWAY COMMIS- ;
SION EVERY NECESSARY MEASURE OF LEGAL AU-
THORITY TO FILL IN THE MISSING LINKS TN OUR
MAJOR AND PARTLY COMPLETED HIGHWAYS FROM
THE STATE MONIES AVAILABLE.
“It also vests them with all necessary legal - authority
to plan and execute a program of statewide highway con-
struction of any local funds whatsoever.”
That all being true, what is there left to argue ? Noth- S
ing but the question of reimbursing some counties for the
monies they have contributed or are committed to contri-
bute, and that can be settled by the legislature or by a vote
of the people. Whether it should be done is debatable.
To delay a state-wide building program another two
years while discussing and amendment to the constitution
for a state bond issue would seem the height of absurdity.
Let us proceed with the use of state funds and federal
aid and complete a few highways and build more each year.
Fill in the gaps. Cease making the state a patchwork
of road building. Have connected highways and let there
be no missing links.
Let us have no road bond issue in our next gubernator-
ial campaign, but let us have roads as fast as we can use
the huge sums to be showered upon Texas by the users of
galsoline.
George S. Parker, President
of the Parker Pen Company,
says:
THAT people nowadays
have got away to an extent
from the old-fashioned idea
that you must give a dollar’s
worth of work for a dllar’s
worth of pay.
In my judgement there are
too many people wasting too
much time thinking they can
find a short-cut to wealth that
somebody else has overlooked.1
It is also my judgment that
real material wealth in this
world comes from a well
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* DID YOU EVER STOP
TO THINK?
Edson R. Waite
Shawnee, Okla.
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THE CENTER DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1929
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Lynch, John W. Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 176, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 21, 1929, newspaper, December 21, 1929; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1354046/m1/2/?q=music: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.