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GALVESTON COUNTY TIMES, TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1932
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GIRL SCOUTS GIVE
PROGRAM OF WORK
AT WOLVIN SCHOOL
COUNTY JUSTICES
PRESENT PETITION
FOR STATIONARY
BIG BI-CENTENNIAL
PROGRAM BY LOCAL
MASONIC AFFILIATES
LOCAL BUSINESS WOMEN
HOLD LAST BIG SOCIAL
EVENT SEASON MONDAY
PIANO RECITAL AT
CENTRAL HI SCHOOL
BRINGS OUT MANY
meeting was called to order by Mrs. F.
R. Sawyer of Texas City, president.
Written reports were read by dele-
gates from Dickinson, LaMarque, Port
Bolivar, Texas City, Santa Fe and the
After an enjoyable luncheon served
by Mrs. J. A. Hoyland and Mrs. A. W.
BACCALAUREATE BY
DR. HAROLD FICKETT
ON SUNDAY NIGHT
Those signing
Stuart Wheeler,
S.
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LATE RESIDENT OF
TEXAS CITY BURIED
AT ALVIN, TUESDAY
ANNOUNCE THE ENGAGEMENT
OF MISS MELVA MATTHEWS
BIGGEST POLITICAL
RALLY IN HISTORY
OF CITY ON JUNE 11
Schedule of Proposed
Expenses Reveals
Drastic Cuts
TEXAS CITY WELL
REPRESENTED AT
METHODIST MEET
MEETING AT THE SANTA FE
SCHOOL ATTRACTS
LARGE NUMBER
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COM. COURT HAS LIVELY
SESSION ON RURAL
COURT COSTS
INSTALL OFFICERS
EVENT WEDNESDAY NIGHT
BRINGS OUT HUGE
AUDIENCE
AT CHAPEL LAST
MONDAY
EVENT TO INCLUDE BABY
SHOW FEATURE FOR
THIS YEAR
ALL CANDIDATES WILL BE
HEARD SAYS CLUB
COMMITTEE
Methodist Choir
Presents Program
EPWORTH LEAGUERS ELECT
DELEGATES TO ASSEMBLY
County Agents Tell
Rotarians of Work
CITY AUDITORIUM
SCENE BIG DANCE
TOMORROW NIGHT
LEGION AUXILIARY
PLANS ITS ANNUAL
PRIZE BABY CLINIC
FIRST OF COMMENCEMENT
SERVICES AT CITY
AUDITORIUM
Public Hearing Next Friday
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Miss Wanda Walker and Miss Marga- ’ at the Santa Fe high school Saturday,
ret Brady gave a group of clever read-
ings, and members of the Order of
Rainbows were especially pretty in a
Fan Dance with Miss Zillah Strong
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Saturday night, June 11, will be a
big night in Texas City.
The first shot in the state, county
and local political battle, as far as
Texas City is concerned, will be fire
when the big state and county politi-
cal rally, sponsored by the Business
and Professional Women’s Club of
Texas City, gets underway at the City
Auditorium that night.
The events of the evening will start
with an excellent “Dutch Supper,”
served by club members at the Liv-
ingstone Hotel, after which there will
be campaign oratory, followed by a
real old-fashioned before-the-depres-
sion dance. There will be the usual
red fire, torch lights and music, all
dear to the heart of candidates and the
public. Music will be furnished by a
snappy eight-piece dance orchestra,
who will also make merry at the
rally.
The committee having the affair in
charge has the assurance that practi-
cally every candidate for county and
local office, as well as candidates for
congressman-at-large and other state
offices will be on hand to tell the vot-
ers why they should be elected. Mayor
Carl Nessler will act as chairman and
all speakers will be limited as to time.
“This will be the last activity of the
club before fall,” said Miss Laverne
Hunt, president of the club, “and we
want to make it the biggest rally ever
held in Texas City. Now that Texas'
City is one of the large voting pre-
cincts in the county, you know we’ve
got more than 800 votes this year,
we should have a tremendous crowd.
This rally is in line with the club’s
program of interesting itself in civic
affairs and we’re doing the work that
a league of women voters would do,
if we had one. That is, bring the can-
didates and the voters together,” she
concluded.
annual farmers’ short course to
held at College Station in July.
Delegates who will attend the an-
nual young people’s assembly to be
held at Jacksonville, Texas, June 6th
to 10th, were elected at a meeting of
the senior Epworth League at the Cen-
tral Methodist Church, Sunday night.
Those elected are Miss Naomi Rob-
erts, Miss Louise Sloman, Miss Ellen
Kilgore, Raymond and Emmett Hale.
Alternates selected are Miss Janie Mc-
Lain and Miss Joyce Colwick.
Harris of the Santa Fe
group, the
Final plans for the Annual Baby
Clinic held under the direction of the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the American
Legion, Texas City post, June 1st, 2nd
and 3rd, were completed at a meeting
held this week at the home of Mrs.
C. H. Meyers.
The clinic, as in previous years, will
be held at the city auditorium, the
first two days being given over to the
white children of Texas City and the
last day in the morning for Mexican
youngsters and the afternoon for the
little negro children.
Drs. F. N. and Duncan Danforth and
Dr. W. A. Jackson as well as County
Nurse Mrs. Scholles will be on hand for
the examinations assisted by Mrs. H.
Selvidge, Mrs. T. K. Moore, Mrs. P. J.
Hayes, Mrs. B. McCauley, while the
registration will be under the super-
vision of Mrs. Ed. Watts.
Prizes this year will be blue ribbons
for firsts and pink ribbons for seconds.
Tnere will be three classes this year,
classified according to age.
Plans also provide for a prettiest
baby contest in which there will be
two awards entrants being divided into
two classes; one month to one year and
one year to three years. Judges will be
announced at a later date. There will
be entrance fee of 25 cents, proceeds
to help defray expenses.
JOHN JACKSON, POPULAR
YOUNG PHARMACIST,
DIES SUDDENLY
the petition were
The first sign of the close of the
school year and the beginning of the
commencement activities will be the
services at the city auditorium Sun-
day night at 8 o’clock.
This year the Rev. Dr. Harold
Fickett, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Galveston, will deliver the
admonitional discourse to the mem-
bers of the senior class.
In addition to Dr. Fickett’s address,
the following program, arranged by
W. R. Blocker, will be presented:
Invocation, “The Lord is in His holy
temple, let all the earth be silent be-
fore Him,” Parent-Teacher choral
club; processional hymn, “Fight the
Good Fight;” prayer; scripture read-
ing; “Vesper Prayers,” vocal solo, Mrs.
P. J. Hayes; baccalaureate sermon,
Dr. Fickett; “Lead Us, Heavenly Fa-
ther,” Parent-Teacher choral club;
prayer; doxology; benediction.
County Agents Miss Velma Duns-
worth and J. C. Yeary presented an
interesting outline of the work being
done in Galveston County by the A. &
M. College extension helping rural fam-
ilies adjust themselves to present eco-
nomic and agricultural conditions, in
addresses before the Texas City Ro-
tary Club at the regular midweek
luncheon held at the Royal Cafe, Tues-
day.
Miss Dunsworth told of the intens-
ive canning work that is being carried
on by her club women and mentioned
the fact that' one women at Algoa,
with nine children in the family, has
been able to keep her grocery bill be-
low $3.75 a month since November.
Other activities she described were
yard and home improvement projects.
The club voted to pay the expenses
of one 4-H Club boy and one girl to the
MISSIONARY CONFERENCE
AT GALVESTON BIG
SUCCESS
The District Conference of the Wom-
en’s Missionary Society of the Method-
ist Churches of the Galveston District
was held in Galveston Tuesday with
around 250 representatives present.
Gratifying was the representation from
Zone No. 1 which includes Texas City,
League City, Seabrook, and Dickin-
son, there being an even hundred dele-
gates from those places.
Mrs. W. R. Blocker of Texas City,
chairman of Zone No. 1 and spoke on
the general topic of “Industrial Rela-
tions in Galveston District,” telling of
the wage scale in Texas City, enumer-
ating the local industries and stand-
ardizing their wages and employment
with the necessities to be met in the
community.
Other zone leaders spoke on the
same subject and the culmination of
the discussions was brought down to
the question, “What Should I, as a
Christian, Do to Help?”
This discussion period came during
the morning session and other fea-
tures included conferences on Chil-
dren’s Work by District Superintend-
Numerous friends of John Jackson
were shocked to hear of his sudden
death at his father’s home in Alvin,
Saturday night. Mr. Jackson was
stricken with a paralytic stroke Thurs-
day night. A second stroke Saturday
caused a cerebral hemorrhage which
proved fatal. He had been the pharm-
acist for the Halbeck Pharmacy here
for more than three years, his two
children having been born in Texas
City. He came here from West Co-
lumbia. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and
their two baby girls, Mildred Carolyn
and Johnnie Marie, had been at the
home of his father, J. S. Jackson,
prominent Brazoria County lawyer, in
Alvin, for the pzst two weeks. In ad-
dition to his wife and children, two
brothers survive him, Paul Jackson,
publisher of the Gulf Coast Review,
Alvin, and William Jackson, Hemp-
stead lawyer, and one sister, Mrs. J.
S. Grady of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist Church in Alvin at 2:30 p.
The annual series of delightful Sun-
day evening music, under the direction
of W. R. Blocker, was held last Sunday
evening at the Central Methodist
Church.
The opening number “The Tideless
Shore,” by James Rogers ( sung by Mrs.
P. J. Hayes, was beautifully rendered.
The Parent-Teacher Choral Club gave
a delightful ensemble rendition of Nel-
son’s “Still, Still With Thee.”
A special treat for those who attend-
ed was the singing of negro spirituals
by a local quartet of negroes. Their se-
lections were well received and it is
planned to have them on future pro-
grams.
E. J. Katzmark delighted his listen-
ers with “Unanswered Yet,” the clos-
ing number.
There was no evening sermon, the
musical program taking up the usual
alloted time.
One of the gala events of the
social calendar is the dance to be
held at city auditorium, tomorrow,
Saturday night, May 21st, under
the auspices of the Catholic
churches of Texas City and La-
Marque.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the Hoover-Rychlik
eight-piece recording orchestra of
Galveston, introducing many spe-
cialty numbers.
The committee of arrangements
consisting of the Misses Pauline
Bogatto ad Delores Mora of La
Marque promise all who attend a
most pleasant evening. There will
be a nominal admission charge,
proceeds to go to the churches in
both parishes.
There will be an important meet-
ing of the Business and Profession-
al Women’s Club at the city hall
at 7:00 o’clock Monday evening,
prior to the club’s last social event
of the season, which begins at
eight.
The election of club officers,
scheduled for Monday night, has
been postponed, by the board of di-
rectors, until the beginning of Fall
activities.
Every member is urged to attend
the business session as matters of
vital importance to the member-
ship will be up for discussion. Club
members bringing guests to the
social are instructed to notify the
club secretary, Miss Winnie Mc-
Gar, in advance.
ATCAUMEASEEMN Cy's New Bu^eL Ready F
Addressing an audience that filled
the local city auditorium to overflow-
ing, John H. Crooker, member of the
Grand Masonic Lodge of Texas, as the
main speaker of the evening, paid
glowing tribute to the first president
of our country at the bi-centennial
celebration of Washington’s birth,
Wednesday night, at a program spon-
sored by and given under the direction
of Texas City Lodge No. 1118, A. F.
& A. M., and Texas City Chapter No.
626, Order of the Eastern Star, and the
Texas City Assembly No. 82, Order of
Rainbow Girls.
In addition to the address of Mr.
Crooker high spots of the evening’s
program were the several selections
rendered by the Scottish Rite choir of
Galveston under the direction of Fred
M. Burton, with Mrs. R. M. Martin at
the piano. This group of 25 well
trained voices showed the result of
careful training, a wide scope and
thorough knowledge of music and exe-
cution in their songs, those most en-
joyed by the audience being “Sweet
and Low,” “Sylvia,” and “Pale Moon.”
Pupils of Miss Mignon Huguet gave
a clever tap dance, accompanied by
Mrs. B. B. Hardin. They were Adine
Lowery, Burke Johnson, Nellie Lucille
Perry, Marvin Johnson, Dorothy Hard-
in and Bert McCauley. Miss Emma
Strong sang “The Rosary,” and “A
Bowl of Roses,” Miss Ollie Jean Billo,
Citizens of Texas City will have an
opportunity to learn something of the
financial condition of the city and also
learn how drastic the city’s economy
program for the coming year will be,
at the public meeting to be held at the
city corporation courtroom next Fri-
day afternoon at 2:30, when the tenta-
tive budget approved by the city com-
missioners last week, will have its
final hearing.
Anticipated revenue from all sources
and a definite schedule of expenses
will be submitted for the approval of
taxpayers, as will, perhaps, other mat-
ters pertaining to the city’s financial
condition.
For the fiscal year just closed an-
ticipated revenue was placed at $58,-
397.10, but the actual receipts from all
sources, totaled only $42,386.01, with
$16,011.09 of the 1931 tax levy still de-
linquent. Total expenditures for the
pasht year, including bonds and war-
rants redeemed and sinking fund re-
quirements, amounted to $55,376.55.
Total outstanding delinquent taxes as
of April 16th, 1932 amounted to $31,-
171.11.
The new budget as drawn up antici-
pates revenue from all sources of $49,-
015.00 with expenditures scheduled at
$49,205.00.
Last year executive and administra-
tive expenses were $6,080.71, for the
coming year they have been fixed at
$3,800.00. Fire department expenses for
the coming year will be held at $3,400,
as against $4,415.63 for last year. Gen-
eral expenses, library, repairs and oth-
er miscellaneous items required $9,-
346.20 last year, but for the coming
year these expenses have been limited
to $5,800 and no more. The police de-
partment will have to get along with
$2,400 for the coming year as against
$4,304.95 last year. The street and
bridge department needed $7,789.90
last year, the coming year there will
only be $5,500 available. The health
department is cut from $1,509.52 to $1,-
400. Last year it took $20,790.00 for
interest and sinking fund and the re-
demption requirement, for the coming
year, $24,405.00 will be needed.
In commenting on the proposed bud-
get and tabulation of anticipated reve-
nue for next year, Mayor Carl Nessler
stated:
“The assessed valuation of property
printed with the names of Galveston
justices, and asking for an allowance
to cover rent and miscellaneous ex-
penses.
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The engagement and approaching
marriage in June of Miss Melva Mat-
thews, daughter of Mrs. C. A. Mat-
thews of Humble to Paul Cezeaux, a
young Humble business man, has been
announced. Miss Matthews has been
the instructor in the business admin-
istration department in the local high
school for the past year, and made a
host of friends in Texas City. The an-
nouncement was made Saturday when
Miss Matthews’ sister, Mrs. W. Grif-
feth, complimented her with a seven-
table bridge party. Miss Olga Fehner
was the only Texas City guest besides
Miss Matthews. A novel feature of the
entertainment was the tiny girl dress-
ed as a bride, who carried a bride’s
bouquet from which hung the tallies.
EASTERN STAR GROUP
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
New officers to serve for the ensuing
three months’ term were elected at the
regular meeting of Texas City chapter
626, Order of the Eastern Star, held
Thursday night of last week.
Those who will head the group for
the next term: Worthy Matron, Mrs. E.
E. Johnson; Worthy Patron, William
Seitz; Associate Matron, Elizabeth
Lege; Associate Patron, L. B. Slaugh-
ter; Conductress, Mrs. Grant W.
Wheaton; Associated Conductress, Mrs.
Voorhees, Secretary, Mrs. L. B. Slaugh-
ter, Treasurer, Mrs. L. Osterholm.
Coats, Precinct No. 6, and D. C. Rich-
ards, Precinct No. 7.
Justice Coats explained in detail to
the commissioners something of the
annoyance and inconveniences caused
by having to use forms imprinted with
the names of other justices and pre-
cincts. Justice Salzman of Dickinson
stated he must have relief of the fi-
nancial burden imposed upon him in
onducting his office as required by
law.
“This is the only month since No-
vember that I have collected any fees,”
he said, “yet the public constantly de-
mands my services, night and day. I
have to furnish the use of my car, pay
for gas and oil, and other expenses
whether I get paid or not. Deputy
Sheriff Ezra Crow of League City
has to do the same. The item of long
distance telephone calls is considerable
in itself.”
Mr. Salzman declared and demanded
that he must have relief “either from
the commissioners’ court, the sheriff’s
department or state adjutant general’s
department.” He cited instances of be-
ing called at all hours of the day or
night to investigate highway wrecks
and other cases, due to the fact that
it is not always possible for the sher-
iff’s department to have a deputy there
before several hours had elapsed,
mentioning in particular the recent
Dickinson bank robbery, when offic-
ers did not arrive until many hours
after the crime was discovered.
Members of the court expressed
i themselves as having no authority to
grant the request for expense accounts,
but it is reported that printed forms
and other material will be supplied
outlying districts.
The subject of repairs to the old
Clear Creek bridge on highway six
which has been in bad condition for
some time was also up for discussion.
Commissioner Noble wanted to know
whether the court ever received an
answer from Harris County on the pro-
posal sent them by the Galveston
court that the cost of repairs be di-
vided equally, after a survey by the
engineers of both counties.
County Engineer C. C. Washington
said that Harris. County replied they
would put their side of the bridge in
condition in Galveston County put its
own. Mr. Washington said that was
treet ,
st on, Texas.
AUDIENCE APPRECIATIVE
OF YOUNG PUPILS
PLAYING
as toe soloist. Rainbow members par-
ticipating in the dance were Julia
Moore, Gertrude Voorhees, Metta Ev-
ans, Helena Jacobson, Elsie Emken,
Fern Vestal, Lillie Bush, Sallie Lege,
Eloise Crump, Minnie Ellen Lege, Pau-
line Greer, Jeanne Louise McClintock
and Betty Coleman.
Mr. Crooker, introduced by Earl L.
Noble, addressed his audience on
“Washington’s Devotion to Masonry,”
and also referred to his experiences as
one of the 125 delegates from the
Grand Lodge of Texas to the recently
held memorial services to Washington
held by the Masons of the United
States at Alexandria, Virginia.
The Scottish Rite orchestra regaled
its listeners with several well chosen
and well played selections, a violin
solo during one of the numbers by
Conway Shaw being especially worthy
of mention.
The complete program follows:
“America,” assembly; invocation, Rev.
A. D. Lemons; “Blue Eyes,” and “An-
nie Laurie,” Scottish Rite choir; tap
dance, pupils of Miss Huguet, Mrs. B.
B. Hardin accompanist; reading, Miss
Walker; “The Rosary” and “A Bowl
of Roses,” vocal solos, Miss Strong,
Mrs. R. M. Martin accompanist.
Reading, Miss Billo; fan dance, Rain-
bow Girls, Miss Zillah Strong soloist,
Miss Frances Wiley accompanist; “The
Story of Washington,” Miss Margaret
Brady; “Sweet and Low” and Pale
Moon,” Scottish Rite choir; selection
from “Naughty Marietta,” Scottish
A lengthy petition from the five
Mainland justices of the peace was pre-
sented to the County Commissioners’
Court at the Tuesday meeting, in
which the justices asked that the coun-
ty furnish them with stationery and
forms printed for them so they would
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Installation of newly elected officers
of the Galveston County Council of
Parent-Teacher Associations and an
interesting report of the recent
district conference held at Whar-
ton, by Mrs. I. T. Tucker of Galveston,
were the outstanding features of the
quarterly meeting of the Council held
Island school group. An invitation
from the Bolivar Parent-Teacher As-
sociation to hold the next quarterly
meeting August 13th at that place was
accepted.
The newly elected officers, who will
serve for the coming year, president,
Mrs. F. R. Sawyer, Texas City; vice
president, Mrs. Henson, Kemah; sec-
retary, Mrs. W. K. Ray, LaMarque;
treasurer, Mrs. G. M. Hughes, Bolivar,
were then installed with a simple and
mpressive ceremony by Mrs. S. R.
Biering of Galveston, 5th vice-presi-
dent of the 11th district.
The chair then appointed the follow-
ing committee chairmen: Mrs. Adkins,
a Marque, program; and Mrs. W. K
Ray, publicity.
Mrs. Tucker gave an interesting re-
port of the District Conference follow-
ed by a discussion on the benefits of
the endowment fund. The Parent-
Teacher extension correspondence
course was also stressed to the dele-
gates and its many advantages out-
lined.
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Nasturtium Troop No. 21 had the ‘
program at Wolvin at Chapel period '
Monday morning. . When the curtain
opened the girls were standing in for- ’
mation and gave the Girl Scout slo-
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gan, motto, promise and laws. The
flag salute was led by Virginia Tye. 1
“America the Beautiful” was the open-
ing song, being the official Girl Scout
song.
After being seated the different pa-
trols were introduced by selected pa-
trol members. First was the Eagle Pa-
trol which was introduced by Julia
Moore and was followed by the Dra-
gon Patrol; by Doris Prater, the Sil-
ver Fox Patrol by Josephine Moser
and the Grey Wolf Patrol by Mary
Acker. Doris West, treasurer of the
patrol, told how the treasurer was
chosen through the patrols and
through the Court of Honor. Gladys
Buchhorn demonstrated trail signs,
Thanet Hassler and Dorothy Harris
demonstrated table setting, Effie Har-
ris showed proper bed making.
Seven girls composed the first aid
team and illustrated the following.
Mary Acker showed how to stop bleed-
ing; Doris West made and explained
a figure eight bandage and told when
to use it and how; Julia Moore illus-
trated an oblique bandage; Berneace
Wall showed a spiral reverse bandage;
and the head bandage was shown by
Doris Prather. Mildred Wasson showed
the sling.
Following the bandage exhibit, Miss
Lois Noble played a piano solo, “Pick-
ing Cotton,” then came an exhibit of
knot tying with the square knot by 1
Mary Gary, the sheepbend by Gloria
Schultz, the bowline by Doris Prater,
the clothes hitch by Mildred Wasson
and the sheepshank by Julia Moore.
Josephine Moser spoke on “What a
Girl Scout should do in case of Fire.”
Mildred Claire Schwartz was original
in her discussion on Camp Life, having
attended Camp Tejas last summer. Ger-
aldine Vestal spoke on Life Saving and
with Mildred Claire Schwartz showed
resustication from drowning. Julia
Moore gave the five points of health.
The final number in the program was
a pretty example of the art of signal-
ing, the team performing being com-
posed of Geraldine Vestal, Doris Prat-
er, Mildred Wasson and Julia Moore.
The singing of “Taps” closed the meet-
ing.
More tha 200 music lovers were in i
the audience at the recital of the
classes of Miss Katherine Pearson of
Texas City and the Dorian School of
Music of Galveston at Central High
School auditorium Wednesday evening.
Double novelette piano numbers with
eight pupils taking part were the out-
standing offerings of the evening. The
program, rather lengthy, but withal
interesting and well presented, consist-
ed of 24 numbers, each selection being
rendered in a manner that demon-
strated to advantage the young pupils
technic and training.
The high school orchestra, directed
by Miss Pearson, opened the program
offering “Our Heroes” by Ascher, and
“Barcarolle” by Offenbach-Ascher.
Some of the high lights of the pro-
gram were Nevin’s “Narcissus by
Buford Davis; and Denza’s “A Merry
Life” in which Bruno Cristelli took
the singing lead. The Pi Mu Chapter
presented an unique number, “The
Frolic of the Bullfrogs” by Turchek in
which eight persons took part.
Other members of Miss Pearson’s
class offering numbers were: Bernice
Davis the first of the pupils to appear
offering “My Choice,” and “The Flick-
er,” taken from the Tone Picture Se-
ries. A delightful duet, “Twilight
Waltz” was successfully played by
Mary Glen Fry and Florence Ryan.
Marcella Klein was the 18th number in
“Song of India” by Rinsky-Korsakoff.
The Misses Eloise Miller, Melva
Matthews, Minnie Maud Harlow, Olga
Fanner, and Zerilda Grant, attractive
in appropriate conventional evening
gowns, added much to the occasion as
gracious, charming usherettes.
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SUNDAY—ALONG With all my cos-
THE BOULEVARD mo p o l i t anism
I’m still “small
towner” enough to get a kick watch-
ing the wheels spin around. And
watching the sucker lay his nickel on
a number and suffer pergatorium ag-
onies when the clip hangs the wheel
near his choice but doesn’t pay off.
The monotonous chant of the operator,
“Come on, boys, get your money down.
One good one makes up for a lot of
bad ones . . . She hits on Ford, 40 to
1, and nobody on.” How quickly the
yokels’ nickels find themselves over
on the other side of the counter.
The smaller gip wheels, nickeling
saps at a half a dime a turn. Bored
and tired concessioneers—"grifters"—
wondering whether the day’s “take”
will pay room rent and eats. Every-
body on the make with the rustics
from the hinderland as prey. And
they call this gambling? Never, it
couldn’t be—it’s petty larceny.
That suspicious “once over” if you
just stand around and listen and look
but don’t donate or play. And those
of the weaker (?) sex, flint-faced and
berouged, brazenly stalking their
quarry as they follow their chosen
profession. Tawdry sordidness.
At another joint. “Hey, youse guys,
what the hell you think this is: a flop
house; beat it,” to a couple of the
class of ’34 sitting on a counter ogg-
ling the blond the other side of the
room. “You gotta keep them punks
outta here, Mame, they ain’t got no
money, they ain’t.” Certs, brother,
quite right.
Around the corner to a speakie.
“Where’s Jimmie?” and I’m told he’s
in the back. “Well, if it ain’t that guy
from Texas City. How’s the newspa-
per? Have somethin’?” “Yep, the
same as yourself,” and we split a bot-
tle of White Rock. Jimmie’s a good
business man, he doesn’t drink what
he sells. Calls his customers by their
first names, but privately considers
them all a lot of come-ons. We talk
of this and that and politics—Jimmie
knows much that certain politicians
would like to learn. “So long, come
over again.”
Over on the beach. Shades of Com-
stock! And to think that just a few
years ago they called them limbs.
“Have a picture made in your bathing
suit, girls.” It’s funny how some folks
get all the lucky breaks when they
choose a vocation. Me, pure scrivenor
that I am. Happy family parties.
Young couples full of zip—bubbling
over with it. Old men wondering
what’s coming next. Strangers hoping
for a lucky break and panhandlers
busy making change. Crying babies
and tired mothers who would like to
cry. A day of days for some—a red
letter day for many. For me, just an-
other day, what with Mike and Patsy
out in the middle of the Atlantic. That
one in lavender, now. Would that I
dared. Oh, hum; I better be going.
The bright painted entrance to the
Buccaneer. Red, blue and yellow
squares on the sidewalk. Wanted to
play hop-scotch. But Sgrt. Biaggane
was too near. It would have been im-
possible to ’explain a Nordic urge to a
Latin, anyway. Inside. The ever gra-
cious “Casey,” charming and delect-
able in pink, picture hat and all—
eyelet embroidery I think it is called.
Dressed as for a lawn party, but sen-
tenced to the sordid job of manager.
So it goes.
Keno, the old army game. How it’s
degenerated; it is now played by
women and with corn as markers.
Memory goes back to Bucktown, just
outside of New Orleans, over the line
in Jefferson Parish. Keno at a dollar
a card and worth as much as $150 to
the winner on every “Keno” on a busy
night. If you went broke the cashier’d
toss you four-bits, hack fare back to
town. And now it’s played by women.
Sometimes they win—groceries. Why
couldn’t it have stayed back in the
cajon country ever a man’s game ?
To Tom’s for a hamburger “without
everything,” but heavy on the onions,
with coffee with our own Heinie
Clark. Plebian? Yes, but then I like
it. Outside the customers waiting for
the free show—the fireworks. Two
pieces that won’t go off because
they’ve been rained on. They’re tak-
ing them down and inside. Too bad;
five gallons of gas wasted and no free
fireworks.
Blooie, the lights. Finegan-like they
have even the natives worried. Light-
ening, thunder, splashes of rain, gobs
of it. And such a rain. Ask those
braggards whose cars could go
through anything how they enjoyed
spending the night along the highway.
Heaven help the poor working girl on
a night like tonight, stranded on the
road in a car with a wet coil.
Driving back home. Off the road,
back on again. Darn those lights, why
don’t they use the dimmers? Finally
hitting Sixth Street, Eleventh Avenue,
home, and so to bed.
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