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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
4-D Abilene, Texas. Monday Evening, Dec. 24, 1951
E D I T 0 R I A L S
If we desire to secure peace ... it must be
known that we are at oll times ready for war.
George Washington so Congress, 1793.
MARQUIS CHILDS
Difficult to End a
War As Korea Proves
Of Heaven's Kingdom
We would like our readers who have
sen us Coristmas cards to know that we
appreciate their thougntrulness, and we
hope tney wins accept this as due acknowi-
euement. It seems to us this years cards
were unusually attractive and impressive,
many oi them bore little personal mes-
sages oi good cheer in addition to the cus-
tomary verses.
Some of our cards came from friends
we had not heard from in years, bringing
back memories of other Christmases, oth-
er scenes, other faces. Frankly we were
surprised to learn that some of these old
compadres were still among the living, and
our delight at learning they were was
heartfelt. As James Whitcomb Riley
wrote: “It’s a great thing, 0 my brethren,
for a fellow just to lay his hand upon your
shoulder in a friendly sort of way. The
quotation is from memory and may not be
strictly accurate, but the sentiment is
there—and after all what an unendurable
place the world would be without senti-
ment:
We appreciate all our Christmas greet-
ings, none more so than the one our post-
man rubber-stamped and Put in our box.
It was one of the friendliest and warmest
gestures we ever encountered. To think
that a man who has grown practically
•bow legged from wagging great loads of
mail around from door to door should
turn the other cheek, in the spirit of
Christian forgiveness, and actually wish us
well! , ,
Well that is the way of Christmas; and
the example set by our faithful postman
1 should permeate every soul and actuate
every spirit at this time of year.
We are all brothers, a fact we tend
to forget except at Christmas time. In-
deed, that is one of the glories of Christ-
mas, the general spirit of brotherly love
and kindness it generates among people
of every station in life, of all ages and
conditions of man.
We are perfectly well aware that the
materialists have tried to destroy the spirit
of Christmas, and we are just as well
aware of the impossibility of their self-
imposed task. They do not realize the
futility of their campaign against Santa
Claus, but every child knows, and the
great Cause of Christmas said that child-
ren are of the Kingdom of Heaven
This world needs nothing so much as
to get back to the simple faith and accept-
ance of little children. This general ion has
Jost much of that simple faith, a faith that
does not ask for signs and portents in the
heavens but receives the promises of the
Word as a child accepts the lovingkind-
ness of Santa Claus and does not need to
probe into the mystery of his coming.
thank thee, 0 Father, Lord of heav-
en and earth, because thou hast hid these
things from the wise and prudent and hast
revealed them unto babes," prayed the
Lord Jesus. He might have added, “the
wise and prudent in their own conceit.
We are all the better for Christmas if
we achieve the miracle, if only for a mo-
ment, of casting aU doubt aside, throwing
away our test tubes and our yardsticks,
and accepting the incontrovertible and
incorruptible fact that God's in His heaven
and all is right with His world, a world -
where every prospect is pleasing and only
man is vile.
In a clamorous world it is pretty diffi-
cult to achieve this miracle of faith even
for a few moments, nevertheless uncount-
able billions of people down through the
ages have so embraced and go received it
as little children do.
And so a Christmas card from friends
and acquaintances serves the purpose of
reminding us of past companionships and
present good wishes, of hopes of a future
that is bright with the promise of etern-
al bliss in a land where God will wipe
away all tears and ease all pain and re-
move all doubting and restore that perfect
faith that little children know and drive
away the evil darkness and—glory of glor-
ies—stand revealed as the universal
Father of ns all, the center and circum-
ference of all that we have been or ever
will be. .
“Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men."
The Cannon and the Car
The U. s. Naval Observatory in Wash-
ington, keeper of the most accurate time-
measuring device in the world, is authori-
ty for the statement that Old Man Win.
ter arrived at exactly 11.01 a. m Saturday.
The millionth traffic victim was not far
behind and this writer observed both
events by getting to work twenty minutes
late.
The automobile is more deadly than
the cannon Since 1899 a million Ameri-
cans have died in traffic accidents. Ameri-
can fighting men who have died in all the
nation’s wars reached the million mark
last September 3 or 4 in Korea. Our first
man died in the Battle of Lexington April
19, 1775. There is nothing blissful in the
fact that the first person to die in motor
traffic was H. H. Bliss, who was killed
in a New York street September 13,1899.
Thus it took 176 years to compile a mil-
lion deaths in battle, but the automobile
achieved the same goal in a little more
than 52 years.
It took the most vigorous efforts of
our statesmen over a period of 176 years
to pile up a million slain, but reckless
drivers and pedestrians without half try-
ing equalled that record in a little more
than half a century.
Our warriors died in battle in defense
of their country. Our traffic victims, of
all ages from infancy to advanced old
age, died aimlessly, purposelessly, invol-
untarily. and most of them needlessly as
sacrifices upon the altar of carelessness
or recklessness.
Usually, war takes but a single mem-
ber of the family. Sometimes traffic ex-
acts three or four family lives at a single
blow, sometimes wipes out entire house-
holds
Like war, traffic cripples many peo-
ple for life Like war, it rings down a
pall of grief about many firesides. Like
war, it leaves scenes of carnage behind,
spreads economic misery, physical suffer-
ing and inconsolable sadness.
It is the monstrous Moloch of our times.
BOB ALLEN REPORTS
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Bradley Speaks up for Harry?
CAPITAL COLUMN
Inspection Service Next
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. —Pres-
ident Truman got an unexpected
Christmas gift
It was a hearty pat on the back,
from a source usually not given
to such sentimental demonstra-
tions.
Praise of any kind to rare these
days for the President, and from
this quarter especially so.
The unwonted lauder was Gen-
eral Omar Bradley.
Ordinarily the head of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff is inclined to be
taciturn where civilians and par-
tisan politics are concerned. Also,
while relations between him and
the President are cordial, they are
wholly official. The two men are
not close friends.
But on this occasion, Bradley,
surprisingly, cast himself in the
role of s staunch defender and
admirer of the President
FOR COURAGE
Significantly. In doing that,
Bradley stressed the President's
courage — s quality that obvi-
ously, appeals strongly to a pro-
fessior >1 soldier Also, it is a qual-
ity the President to moet proud of.
He rates bravery very high and
likes to feel he is s valorous man,
Bradley's unexpected commenda-
tion of the President occurred at
a Pentagon meeting with a group
of leading industrialists.
Bradley and other top military
leaders wer conferring with the
businessmen on certain urgent
was said by anyone about the man
in the White House.
REVEALING LETTER
Agents of the King Committee.
Investigating the Internal Revenue
Bureau, have uncovered a num-
ber of .trails leading directly to
the White House.
Whether any al these “hot
leads" will be brought out into
the open remsins to be seen. So
far, there has been no sign of that
However, the matter to far from
settled, because if the King Com-
mittee doesn't act other congres-
sional probers are prepared to do
so. e
Most of the trails lead to White
House secretary Matt Connelly
This is not the first time that
has happened. He has popped up
in most of the investigations that
Congress has made in the last few
years. But, curiously, through rare
good luck or some other potent
means he has avoided embarrass-
ing public grilling — as befell bis
colleague Donald Dawson. White
House patronage secretary, sev-
eral months ago In the RFC probe.
Illustrative of the kind of in-
triguing material that is in the
King Committee's possession is the
following letter from Dennis De-
laney. fired Tax Collector in Bos-
ton who to facing trial on a num-
ber of charges:
“Dear Matt: You will recall
that I talked to you regarding
Frank Kraemer, Collector of In-
the amount will exceed $25,000,-
000,000.
Other outstanding highlights of
the report are:
The . seven U. S. divisions (1
Marine and 6 Army) that have
borne the bulk of the fighting in
Kors a, have been re-equipped
completely on an average of two
and one-half times.
The 24th Infantry Division,
which has been in the war since
its start in 1950, has been re-
equipped completely four times.
The 10 South Korean divisions,
now giving an excellent account of
themselves, have been re-equipped
completely by the U. S. from three
to five times.
Cost of equipping an Infantry di-
vision to approximately $93,000,000,
This figure does not include the
personal gear of the men. It does
not include such items as $360 for
a BAR (Browning automatic
rifle), $50,000 for a 155 mm how-
itzer, and $230,000 for a Patton
tank.
NOTE: The Joint Chiefs are at
variance among themselves over
what should be done about U. S.
WASHINGTON, Dec St —How
difficult it is to end a war, even
a comparatively limited war, is
being demonstrated once again in
Korea. The casualty list was a
shock in that the proportion of
prisoners held by the Communists
was so low is comparison to the
list of missing in action. Yet it
has apparently opened the way
to an armistice.
One stumbling block on the ex-
change of prisoners has not gone
into the headlines out of Tokyo.
That is the fact that a number of
captured Communists, both Chi-
nese and North Koreans, have
gone over to the United Nations
side.
This is particularly true of the
Chinese who have been taken.
Some have gone so far as to have
the Chinese Nationalist emblem
tattooed on their arms. That em-
blem would, of course, be a death
warrant if they were returned to
Communist territory. It was the
fact of these converts that made
it impossible to agree to any
blanket exchange of all Red
prisoners for all UN prisoners if
there had been any disposition for
such an uneven exchange.
Communist prisoners have been
well treated in UN prison camps.
They have been given better food
and clothing than they received
with their own forces, which is
one reason they were willing and
even eager in many cases to sign
up on the other side. At the same
time they were given a thorough
indoctrination in the UN cause and
the truth about who started the
Korean war. •
TO BE PROTECTED
How many of these converts
have lined up with the United Na-
tions is a closely guarded secret.
But the number is believed to be
sizable and the UN command is
determined that they shall be pro-
tected in their right of choice.
Given the remarkably efficient
and careful record-keeping in the
Americar. armed forces, it is. hard
to realize the almost-complete lack
of that record-keeping in Commu-
nist armies. This was true of So-
viet Russian forces in World War
II. With no records of casualties
kept so far as American observers
could determine If the man did
net return home, then his family
presumed that he was dead or a
prisoner
This has been even more true
of the Chinese and North Korean
Communist armies. A company
roll call, such as is carefully taken
and kept in the U. S. Army, to
unheard of. South Koreans token
prisoners have been persuaded or
coerced into changing sides and
they have done ae with little for-
mality. The alternative was often
to be summarily shot.
All this helps to explain why
there are so few prisoners listed
and why the list as given out may
be inaccurate or incomplete. There
to the faint hope that men act on
the list as released by the Com-
munists may have escaped from
prison stockades and may be la
process of trying to find their way
back behind U. S. lines. Repeated-
ly during World War II escaped
prisoners were given refuge with
friendly native families who risked
their lives in occupied territory to
protect them That was particu-
larly true in the Philippines.
NO FEELING
The almost-complete disregard
of the Chinese and Korean Com-
munists for human suffering and
human life to incomprehensible to
Americans. It would seem to be a
compound of oriental fatalism and
Marxist materialism, which rates
human beings as an expendable
commodity when the end justifies
the means. During the bitter fight-
ing of a year ago the Chinese
hordes were sent into battle in
savage winter weather wearing
sneakers. Many were taken pris-
oners with frostbite so far ad-
vanced that their feet and legs
were black.
In the face of this it to probably
surprising that the list of UN pris-
oners contains a third of the men
reported missing in action. On a
limited scale thus far we have
been able to see what land war-
fare on the continent of Asia
means.
How a truce will be enforced. If
it is once achieved, to a matter
for concern at the highest level
here in Washington. There seems
to be some disposition to cinch it
with s pledge that if the terms
are violated, then all-out measures
will be taken against both the
North Koreans and the Chinese.
That would be a very doubtful
course. It might well be equivalent
to preparing a kind of powder
train ready for the spark which
would convert a limited war into
an all-out war. In other words,
calamity could become catastro-
phe. with Americans pitted against
the millions that the masters of
communis.n would ruthlessly
throw into battle. In the saying
first attributed to Pyrrhus, “One
more such victory and we are un-
done.’ —(United Feature Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
HENRY McLEMORE
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By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
- WASHINGTON -(NEA)— A general inspec-
tion service of some kind to keep top govern-
ment officials on the straight and narrow paths
of righteousness may be the outcome of Presi-
dent Truman’s new effort to clean house in bto
administration. * .
Calling Federal Bureau of Investigation Di-
+ rector J. Edgar Hoover Into White House con-
terences has provided the Up-off on how sweep-
tog a probe and purge of Truman's official fa
mily may he contemplated
one of Director Hoover s basic personnel po-
licies and guides has long been that. "No orga:
nization to better than its inspection service.
This to also a frequently quoted slogan in well-
managed business organizations.
In the case of the FBI, internal inspection of
its own personnel has been carried to such an
ext erne that its own field agents are more
rigorously inspected than the cases they are
assigned to investigate.
It begins before any FBI employe to hired.
The applicant is so thoroughly investigated that
sometimes the FB* knows more about a bros-
pective employe than he knows about him-
The, inspection I continued through special
training in the FBI Academy Every doubt
art a man is alwave received in AT of the
Bureau The trainee is never allowed to pass
wit’ the excuse of “He’s a good boy who means
well He has made a few mi-akes, but he’ll
I de hotter after he gets on the job.”
It there to any. record of repeated mistakes
er failures, the man int isn’t hired This is
where the first big washout of personnel ee-
‘ eu—
CONSTANT INSPECTION THE NORM
Bet even after a man to hired as a special
. FBI agent, inspection of Me every activity to
pursued relentlessly. Every man has to make
a written report on everything he does
These reports are reviewed by the special
aznt la. charge of Me Office, by supervisors
and by a staff of some * top inspectors under
Hugh H Clegg an FBI assistant director, and
Mr Foover.
They inspect even the special agents to
, charge of field offices, the supervisors and the
inspectors themselves.
While aU this may sound something like s
' gestapo or Russian NKVD operation, it has
been well enough administered thus far to give
the FBI the reputation of having one of the few
administrative organizations to government to
which the Congress and a majority of the peo-
ple place full confidence.
The catch, of course, to that up to now the
FBI has had no authority to inspect any other
branch of the Federal Government, except on
special assignment on a specific case
The FBI system of personnel inspection to
applied only to its own people
From this, it la not to be concluded that the
FBI has been without fault. It has had its cases
of agents who went wrong, who got drunk, who
chased somebody else’s wife, or who got in-
volved with some person they were sent to in-
vestigate
How many agents the FBI has Bred sr asked
to resign the Bureau will not disclose But the
FBI record of dismissals for cause is said to be
2.6 per thousand per year. The average for the
U. S government aa a whole to 2 per thousand
For industry it to 4.7 per thousand
ACTION ON INVESTIGATION IS THE TEST
If the FBI to now called In to Inspect or in-
vestigate other government agencies in sa ef-
fort to clean up the Truman administration,
the test of effectiveness will come only in what
armament problems. During the
frank discussion some of the man-
ufacturere tossed sharp barbs at
the President One was particular-
ly critical, taking repeated pokes
at the President
“We wouldn’t be la this mess,”
the Irate industrialist finally ex-
ploded. "If it weren't for Tru-
man."
Bradley had said nothing up to
this point, but he now spoke up.
“When the record ia all in,” be
said quietly, "I believe it will ac-
cord President Truman a high
place in the history of our country
and the world Few people, are
fully aware as yet that Presi-
dent Truman has made more im-
action to taken on FBI findings. . . portant decisions than any other
FBI Director Hoover has tried to keep Ms President since Abraham Lincoln,
organization strictly on the job of investigation
—not recommendation of corrective action nor
prosecution
Many FBI reports on loyalty investigations
have heretofore not been acted upor Many
FBI investigations and reports on Hatch-Art
political activity by government employes
were likewise never acted on.
The trouble that the Truman administra-
tion now finds itself in ‘$ not over the activi-
ties of its career eivil service employes on
whor. disciplinary action can easily be taken
All the bad actors today are political ap
pointees—sub-cabinet officers, collectors of In-
ternal revenue and the like—who were person-
ally selected for public office by the Democratic
administration
President Truman’s immediate problem is to
check up on and got rid al these wrong-doers
He appointed them and to personnally respon-*
sible for them.
He can sub-let the job of inspecting them to
the FBI or some other agency. But he will have
to fire the guitly himself.
That may sound as an exaggera-
tion to you now, but I am certain
that history will bear me out.
“With the exception of Lincoln,
no war President has ever faced
the number of crucial decisions
which President Truman has had
to make He has faced every one
of those decisions in a forthright
manner Never once has he
shirked his duty, regardless of
what you may think of R and
him.”
In the remaining hour and a
half of the meeting, nothing more
The Timid SoulI:;
NOT STRICTLY FISH EATERS
Research experiments oa a Minnesota otter
farm shows that otters, contrary to common be
lief.subsists on a diet made up chiefly of cray-
fish. caddis-flies, and the like and not of fish,
which form only a small part of their diet.
Try-on shoes for children, for use in retail
stores, are made of transparent plastic and per-
mit salesmen and parents to see exactly how the
shoes fit the feet When the proper shoe is deter-
mind, exact counterparts la leather, made on the
setae lasts, are delivered for wear.
Scouring powders contain cleaning substances
which act chemically, but the chief ingredient is
abrasive material which loosens soiling film and
dirt particles mechanically.
Red lighting for automobile instrument panels
to recommended because e: adjust more easily
from red to darkness than they do from other A
colors.
ELECT
troops in Korea — if and when a
truce agreement is signed with the
Reds. General Collins favors a
slow withdrawal of Army units,
depending on the development of
satisfactory ROK forces to replace
ternal Revenue for Connecticut, them. General Vandenberg wants
and his difficulties. Frank called to pull out the bulk of his A
Force as quickly as possible. He
to urging that because of his fear
Russia will touch off a major war
next spring. "We have got to be
careful,” Vandenberg says, “to
make sure that our Air Force is
not wasted or destroyed in Korea.
That to exactly what Moscow
would like to see happen."
—(Post Hall, Inc.)
me this morning and informed me
that the case has been referred
from the Attorney General's of-
fice to the U. S. Attorney for Coo-
necticut The federal grand jury
has not convened as yet and
Kraemer thinks they will present
his case to the grand jury for in-
dictment when it convenes.
‘‘I do not know what you can
do, but it does appear a shame
that one of our boys to being pen-
alised for doing what comes not.
urally. Will you let me know what
I can pass along to Kraemer?"
WHAT KOREA HAS COST
Congress — and the country-
will shortly learn what the war in
Korea has cost in dollars and
cents, so far.
The information will be con-
tamed in a report the Defense De-
partment will submit to the Sen-
ate and House Appropriations
Committees The document has
been to preparation for weeks and
is nearing completion. No date has
been fixed for its presentation, but
it will be some time next month.
Because final computations are
still act conclusive, the total over-
all cost of the war, as of the end
of this year, to not yet available
But it can be safely forecast that
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WALTER WINCHELL
Broadway
Laurence Olivier and Vivien
Leigh turned down $60,000 for a
one-time one-hour appearance on
teevy Transplanting their "Cleo-
patras” from London to Broadway
involved shipping more than 25
tons of scenery They witnessed
“Top Banana” the other night and
went backstage to meet Phil Sil-
vers. the star, who embraced Sir
Laurence and quipped "I hear
you're in town to do the Cleopatra
Mt" The rolls-and-fork dance on
“The Hit Parade" the other pro-
gram was ptrated right out at
Chaplin’s "The Gold Rush" The
acton in “Don Juan in Hell" wear
ne makeup or costumes. They
beat the audience to the street and
cabs every night Chas Laughton’s
delightful candor: “It’s easy to be
modest when you look like 1 do.”
• • •
Patti Page had the usual diffi-
culties before scaling the heights
But in the year ending she had
nine straight recording clicks.
The teevy sclence-fiction scries
called “Out There" rotes a nod for
skipping gory mayhem It hasn’t
a single murder They realise chil-
dren are watching What makes
a star twinkle? See Julie Harris”
superformance in “I Am a Ca-
mera” Makes you laugh and ery
“A Tree Grows to Brooklyn”
won s majority of okay notices It
wound up with a $125 000 deficit
New Yorkers are still chuckling
over Mrs. Tyrone Power's retort
on s teevy show They asked her
“What did Tyrone say to you on
your first meeting?" The appalled
Mrs Power gasped: ‘‘I don’t think
I should say that over the air" .
• • •
“The River,” a movie featuring
tan-forehead artistry, to a com-
mercial dandy It to now rated
among the top dozen mints Red
Skelton’s gag-hustlers have terrific
memories They had him say: "He
teres the ground she walks on— be-
cause she owns the property."
MEXICO CITY. Mexico — This an Indian suit, and a cowboy piss
to the first Christmas I have ever tol.
spent in e foreign country, and I’m TIME OF LOVE
awfully glad I chose to be here I believe thst Christmas time
at this time is a time of love. I have heard a
I am far away from my loved thousand times that Christmas
ones and in my hotel room there has become commercial, a time
is no mantiepiece to hang my for merchants whose hearts are
stocking on, even if I had a stock- closer to the cash register than the
ing. Manger The commercial part
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day, I’ll be more than glad to tell
you. It has brought home to me the
heart-warming fact that when love
covers the heart there len t much
difference between us peoples. For
every American baby nose press-
ed against s Santa Claus window
in. say, Cleveland, there’s a brown
baby Mexican nose pressed
against a window of toys here.
The eyes of children on this love-
ly day are the same the world
over. Little dreams are being spun
in little heads, no matter the
, country I’ve always felt that the
average Russian to not much dif-
ferent from the average Ameri-
sound of carols. Silent Night, Holy
Night. O Little Town of Bethlehem.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. It
Came Upon a Midnight Clear.
As long as men sing these, the
sound of their voices will keep the
spark of decency alive in this
world. Most of us do things during
the rest of the year that almost
disqualify us to sing of Him, but
somehow. He seems to know that
in our tiny little hearts we love
Him.
I wish all of you the very happi-
est of Christmases, because, af-
ter all, you are the ones who help
to give me my happy Christmas.
— i McNaught Syndicate! Inc.)
can. I refuse to believe that a
Russian mother is happy to lose
her son at war, or that a Russian
girl does not sob at night over the
loss of her sweetheart
FAMILIAR SCENE
I don’t want to make this a mushy
or a maudlin or a sentimental
column, but since the Christmas
window displays have come alive,
I have watched what are obvious-
ly poor families stand in front of
the windows. Papa clutching the
little boys’, hands. Mama brooding
over the girls. Mama and Papa
didn't have to tell me what they
were thinking.
I knew From the very bottom
of their hearts they ached to be
able to give the children, too
young to know about poverty, the
things that brought stars to their
eyes. Now that I ave grown much
older I know how much Mama
and Pape suffered by not being
able to give us children the things
we gazed at, and the things we
mentioned in our letters to Santa
Claus
I always wanted a brand new
bicycle, but I never did get one
Frankly, I used to resent It. I’m
ashamed of that resentment now.
because know that Mama went
without a new dress she needed,
and Papa went without a suit he
wanted, to give me roller skates.
Egypt's N««d Cited
LOS ANGELES, * -
Egypt is undergoing a period sf
rapid change and needs small In-
dustrial enterprises and social
services, says Dr. Kari de
Schweinitz of ths University of
California, who has recently re-
turned from heading a U. S. State
Department Point Four mission to
Egypt.
Two factors are bringing about
great social change. Dr. de
Schweinitz said. The first is interest
in Western technical advances and
social customs which have resulted
in modern building construction and
increased rights for women.
The second factor Is that the
Egyptians for the first time to their
history are running their own gov-
ernment. From 525 B. C. to 1936
A. D., Egypt has been ruled sue-
cessively by the Persians. Greeks
Romans, Arabs, Turks and British
he said.
Guayule, the only native plant
grown for rubber in the United
States, requires winter rains, then
drought for the rest of the year.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951, newspaper, December 24, 1951; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648763/m1/40/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.