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“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today *
Trow are the mighty fallen, and the
XT weapons of war perished!— II Samuel
1:J7.
***
It is not possible to found n lasting
power upon injustice, perjury and treach-
ery.—Demosthenes.
TURN ON THE LIGHT!
THE whole case of the petitions before
A Council requesting an election on a
bond issue to build a public light plant
certainly should be investigated, and ap-
■ parently the Grand Jury will undertake
such investigation.
This is to be welcomed. But taking
the matter before the Grand Jury will
plunge it into a cloud of secrecy, since
proceedings before that body are clothed
with secrecy by law. And this is the
public’s business. Particularly to it Coun-
eil's business. 'Council ought also to in-
vestigate, to get this business out in the
open and let everyone know what it is all
about..
Petitions signed by 11,000 persons
were filed with Council in favor of the
election, by persons who made affidavit to
the genuineness of the signatures.
Then Texas Electric Service Company
sent a hundred of its employes around
among the people who had supposedly
signed the petitions. It claims by Affi-
davit to have obtained requests from
nearly 2500 persons that their names be
removed, along with allegations that sev-
eral hundred names were duplicates, or
were unauthorised, or in certain caees
' were‘even those of dead people.
If someone sought to victimize, the
object was Council first, and second the
people whom Council ws supposed to repre-
sent. If an offense was committed, Coun-
cil, was offended.
We feel that the responsible govern-
ing body of the city of Fort Worth should
be alert to find out if there was bad
faith in a petition intended to force it
to take an action as vital as calling an
election on a question of great public
importance. It should be just as alert
to find out if there was bad faith on the
other side.
Let Council call before It a repre-
sentative group of the people whose
names are on the original petitions, and
who are represented by Texas Electric
Service Company as now wishing to with-
draw, or as not having signed the orig-
inal at all.
Let Council find out just what repre-
sentations were made to them to sign
the original, or in case the company
claims they did not sign it, let that
be checked out.
Then let Council find out just what
representations were made to those who
were induced to sign the withdrawal
petitions.___—___..___2________■,___________...
That TESCO is desperate is shown by
its extraordinary course of house to house
calls upon the original petitioners. Is
this a proper company activity? Was it
proper for the city secretary and city
attorney to turn the original petitions
over for TESCO use so it could engage
in this activity? Who is paying the bill
for this extraordinary type of "public
service?”
The light company’s franchise is to
furnish light and power in Fort Worth.
How far does that franchise permit it to
engage In political activity of the nature
it has undertaken during the past week?
Council is supposed to regulate rates
in Fort Worth, and the company's operat-
ing expenses constitute an integral factor
in those rates. How far should the pub-
lie be compelled to pay for political ac-
tivities of TESCO employes? Or should
those activities be charged to the com-
mon stockholder of TESCO, American
Power and Light Company, which alone
stands to profit if the municipal enter-
prise is defeated?
A All these questions imperatively de-
mand an answer. It is not only Coun-
cil's right but its duty to clear up this
nasty mess.
PARIS REVOLTS
THAT is happening In Paris is much
V more than a passing riot, It to an
explosion of deep discontent Many and
' conflicting groups and classes are in-
volved. The mobs number tens of thou-
sands. They represent every point of
view from the Royalists on the extreme
right to the Communists on the left.
In the case of the middle classes the
bank scandal has shaken loose the pent
up resentment against inefficient par-
liamentary administration, unemployment,
taxes and the high cost of living. Their
demand is reform. But from the right
and from the left comes the demand of
revolution, for basic change in the nature
and control of the system.
Whether successful or not this wide
popular - revolt and violence is the stuff
of which revolution is made. Modern
governments in civilized capitals in the
year 1934 do not turn machine guns on
citizens unlose the situation is serious.
It was after demonstrators were killed by
machine gun fire that the general popu-
lace poured onto the streets in anger.
An event of this kind is never forgotten.
It lights new flames of revolt which, even
tho smothered for awhile, are apt to
burst out with greater intensity later.
But so far there is no indication that
either the Royalist revolutionists or ths
Communist revolutionists have sufficient
organisation to harness the revolt for the
purpose of selling power. There seems
to be even lees organisation now than A
the somewhat similar riots which result-
ed in the short-lived Red commune of t
1871. It is highly improbable that such '
effective revolutionary organization will
be developed in time to ride this par-
Scuter wave of revolt. It is probably
^
into another war there seems much more
than an even chance that she will come
out of it either a Fascist or Communist
country. Indeed even the threat of war
may be enough to precipitate successful
French revolution. * •
Even from what has already occurred
in Paris, the United States can learn
several things. We can leant that citi-
sens who are indifferent toward govern-
ment graft and financial scandals during
prosperity, turn into dangerous mobs
when this sorts of villainy is rubbed Into
them during hard times. We can learn
that machine guns should not be used
on citizens unless a government is pre-
pared to start a revolution against it-
self. We can learn that revolt is not
caused by foreign propaganda but by in-
ternal conditions.
EVERYBODY’S PARTY
T AWYERS, it seems, are at odds over
L who has the right to participate in the
County Home Rule precinct conventions
to be held all over Tarrant County at 10
a. m. Saturday.
Lawyers are technical folk. They are
.accustomed to hearken back to legalities
for guidance, and some of them are con-
fused when the legalities refuse a clear-
cut answer. -
Some of them may not quite grasp
the fact that this is intended to be every-
body’s party, insofar as that ideal can be
carried out. There is contention what
year's poll tax receipt will serve as your
admission ticket, and various disputes of
the like.
Such conflicting advice may confuse
you. Our advice is that if you are a
"resident qualified elector” holding a 1983
poll tax receipt, you go and make yourself
at home.
Our advice is not only to go, but to
ask your wife to go, and to go around
and get your neighbor to go. Remem-
ber the time, 10 a. m., Saturday, . The
place for each precinct will be set out
for your convenience in The Press to-
morrow.
.0'00
A MONG the purposes for which the
Home Rule amendment wae passed,
and certainly among the effects it should
have, was a rebirth of democracy here
at home.
The Legislature surrendered to the
people of Tarrant and 12 other counties
the great gift of local self-government,
after that gift had been locked up at
Austin for 100 years.
What are we going to do with it?
The cense of responsibility which every
citizen ought to feel for the proper con-
duct of his own county affairs may have
boon put to sleep by 100 years of ab-
sentee landlordism of those affairs.
We don’t know how successfully it
can be revived. The confusion attendant
on the first stepo of the Home Rule
process argues that the exercise of local
self-government is still awkward and
numb, like the use of your arm after
it has been "asleep."
But democracy is everybody’s party,
and unless everybody takes part who can
do so, the party may not be a success.
A small and selfish faction may take
possession of the powers granted for the
use of the whole people, as has happened
repeatedly in local government.
The way to prevent that to for every-
one to put everybody’s affair, for the
moment, ahead of his own private affair.
We should like to see every business
and laboring man and professional man
and farmer in Tarrant at those precinct
conventions. Yes, and every housewife
and spinster. We should like to see-
employers excuse their help—and go
themselves.
We should like further to see each
such group pick some known and trust-
ed neighbor to go to the county conven-
tion February 24, to choose the men and
women who in turn will write the Home
Rule charter which the people in turn
must approve.
• ez
TE don’t believe the politics of delegates
make much difference. We don't
believe it matters much whether they
favor or oppose the Home Rule principle.
We don't believe they ought to be dedi-
cated solely to sny fad or "Ism” in gov-
ernment, however, worthy. We do be-
lieve they should be willing to work
seriously with open minds at the job of
making local government better if it can
be done.
We should like to see women dele-
gates to the county convention and wom-
en on the charter commission. For one
thing, government is only a sort of com-
munity housekeeping, and a good house-
wife is just as apt as s man to know
how public affairs should be run.
Remember, this to everybody's party,
and will be successful only insofar as
guests attend. That goes all ths way
thru the Home Rule campaign. We hope
and expect to see public Interest pro and
con mount to great heights as the Home
Rule process goes on. We’re going to
get a Home Rule charter exactly as good
as the people make it by their interest
and work.
New York State Chamber of Commerce
would have every citizen and alien In the
United States register, as a deterrent
against crime—"X" being used for those
who can’t write, as well as ths spot
whsrs the latest murder was committed.
Wines alone will be served at the
White House during the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. Mrs. Roosevelt, who made
this decision, has a feeling of responsi-
bility for her guests.
The Daily Nosegay
Mr. L. B. Donning,
Chairman, Lone Star One Co.,
Dallas, Texas.
Dear L. B.: ,
I see that you've been chosen
Head of Dallas County relief.
1 acclaim this as a noble choice;
My reason for such belief?
Why, that you're the guy who if you
choose.
Can relieve us all like the devil,
By bringing down your rates for gas,
“To a more decent level.
y Tours, etc..
I LESTER (Just call me Les).
Seems To M
_ JD
Heywood Broun
(Copyright, 1924, for The Fort Worth Press).
NEW YORK—A young man on the New
I Yorker (all members of the staff ex-
cept Harold Ross are very young) wrote
a brief essay in which he said that 1933
---------- would be remembered
ootids as the year in which a
Aoi midget sat In Morgan’s
179 lap.
Nineteen-thirty-four
is even younger than
ATAes) W* the young men of the
* New Yorker and yet al-
aremth ready I would nominate
1264 it as the year in which
s I a sea serpent was seen
Tin Loch Ness.
6 Whether he exists in
the flesh or merely in
the minds of a roman
Antic clan, that old ser-
Ma pent has symbolic 1m-
portance. It seems to
me that he stands as a
sign snd a portent that in the year 1934
almost anything can happen.
Nineteen-thirty-four was also the year
in which Mark Sullivan saw the revolu-
tion. "The public at the time,” he wrote
in describing the insidious plans, of the
Roosevelt administration, "sees only the
first step; experts foresee that the first
step makes the second inevitable—and
also the third and the fourth and so on
Broun
until the revolution is complete." 1
I am less interested and impressed by
this prediction of immediate upheaval
than I am by Mr. Sullivan’s suggestion
that there exist experts in revolution who
can foretell the coming storm by the
pricking of their thumbs.
I wish that Mark had set forth a list
of the wise men who can already envisage
the coming of the great day. In all logic
Mr. Sullivan himself ought to be named
as one of the men whose pores are sensi-
tive to the coming storm.
Upon numerous occasions within the
last few weeks he has called attention to
the machinations of Rexford Guy Tug-
well and other members of the brain trust
gang.
*09
Charter ‘Cabinet’ Member
MARK SULLIVAN, as a charter mem-
1’1 ber of the Herbert Hoover medicine-
ball cabinet, learned, I am afraid, to see
upheaval in everything. Behind each
rock and bush and Democratic measure
there crouched a Red, In the suspicious
eye of President Hoover,
In the eyes of that stalwart Chief
Executive the decline and fall of Andy
Mellon was equivalent to cirrhosis of the
Constitution. And I rather suspect that
the Great Engineer was shocked and sur-
prised when his own defeat failed to
bring with it comets, northern lights and
the rending of the temple veil asunder.
And so I think that Mark Sullivan is
not qualified to be one of those experts in
revolution whom he mentions. He is no
more than a supersensitive and nostalgic
newspaper man. To' him any piece of
legislation which does not contain the
name of Herbert Hoover blown in the
ne
Points to Economic Value of Pecans
WHAT ova READERS SAY
Editor, The Press:
In these days of back-to-the-land
movement,- it is well for Fort
Worth citizens to be reminded that
they live in the heart of a 'coun-
try where boundless opportunity
awaits them out in the open
spaces.
The late Luther Burbank
once
“If I
wrote a citizen of Texas:
had my life to live over again. 1
would come to Texas and devote
all of it to propagating new va-
rities of the pecan. The English
walnut is our greatest commercial
proposition in California, but your
pecan in Texas will surpass it.”
If a line be drawn from Okla-
homa City to San Antonio, Texas,
- it will pass within ItO miles of
bottle is in some way both Bolshevik and
bootleg.
Nevertheless, out of the intuitions of
the amateurs wisdom may come. Altho
Mr. Sullivan’s specific signs of Red re-
bellion seem spurious to me, I will admit
that this is the year of the sea serpent
and that anything may happen. It can
be a season of first, and also last, things.
Already there rises up an extremely
fundamental concept which seems brand
new to many persona I refer to the no-
tion that a government has an actual, a
literal and an overwhelming responsibility
for the welfare of its people.
It may even be that before the year
turns we will have learned to accept the
still more startling concept that the gov-
ernment is not an outside and an alien
thing, but our personal property and the
very essence and synthesis of our hopes
and aspirations.
And when that time comes I look for
a very grest splash in Loch Ness. I think
that the old serpent will say to Itself:
"In the beginning of 1934 I felt quite
reasonably at home, but now I'll bury
myself in the primeval slime. It is a
new world, after all.”
-----AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT .......
Spiritual Independence
___By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON___
VOUNG women are tremendously con-
I cerned about economic independence.
I have letter after letter describing the
ambitions of the writers and inquiring as
to the probability of their realization.
Fortunately the fields
Into which girls may go
these days are many,
but so few of us under-
stand what success and
independence really are.
Primarily, of course,
success means the mak-
ing of money, or at
least of a decent liv-
Ing. Girls hardly ’ex-
pect more than that.
But we should want
something else. To
build a good life, and
to work, not for cash
alone, but for the pleas-
ure we have in doing
Mrs. Ferguson our job—these are the
true rewards for all human striving.
And so, it seems to me, before we can
become economically independent we must
first be spiritually free. The latter of-
ten involves far more effort than the
former.
TVE known plenty of fine girls who
A were regular whizzes at the office-
almost top notch in their professions or
trade—but who were such slaves to other
people that they could not spend so much
as a happy half hour with themselves.
That's what I call being spiritually de-
pendent.
If, every moment of your day, you
must havs companionship of some sort
then you are not independent at all. You
are condemned to a perpetual serfdom—
the serfdom of the mob. If you can not
sit down and enjoy your own society, or
read a book, or feel keen pleasure in
that sense of enlargement of personality
that comes only by being alone,' then you
might as well be back in the Victorian
era so far as getting any good out of
freedom is concerned.
We are a gregarious people, but there
is something almost servile In our con-
suming need for excitement and noise.
One seldom meets a serene woman now-
adays. •
And so I think the one thing the
modern girl needs for any kind of suc-
cess is more time out for getting ac-
quainted with herself.
more than 75 per cent of all the
native pecans of the entire world.
In very truth, our state has been
honored and hallowed by heaven,
horticulturally speaking, beyond
any land or clime on earth. Our
creek and river valleys and much
of our uplands, are forests of this
incomparable tree which produces
the richest of all known foods and
has been aptly termed “the great-
est food engine in all nature." It
lives for centuries, yes, milleniums,
in Texas, and produces as much as
2,000 pounds of nuts to one tree
in one year.
In this country, there are tens of
thousands of vigorous, native trees,
producing small crops of nuts that
carry only 25 to 40 per cent of
meat that sell for * to 11 cento
per pound, which can be converted
into huge producers of immense
paper-shell pecans carrying 40 to
65 per cent of meat that sell at
40 to 75 cents per pound. These
trees range in size from one inch
up to four feet in diameter and
will have a producing capacity of
300 to 100 pounds per tree, per
year, for the larger trees and de-
creasing amounts for the smaller
ones, within five years after scien-
tifically top-worked into finest va-
rieties. Production will begin on
all sizes in two years after con-
version.
Yet, living as we do, in the
midst of such splendid environs
ment, our people, our business
Isadora, our capitalists, almost
without exception, are helplessly
sitting around waiting for Presi-
dent Roosevelt to send prosperity
down to them and wondering when
it will come.
How pitiful that out of this land
of splendid natural resource, mil-
lions of dollars were sent to Peru.
Timbuctoo, Ballyhoo, and other
foreign ports for their worthless
*
bonds, or scooped out to eastern
promoters in such lavish measure
that one-fourth of our citizenship
had to join the breadline while the
only argument used against its
realisation is that “trees are too
slow, we can't wait.”
I have seen 11.000 worth of nuts
per acre gathered from an 11-
year-old grove, the land now worth
several thousand dollars per acre.
Eighteen years ago the neighbor
over the fence said. Pecans are
too slow, I can't wait" He did
wait If years for nothing His
land to worth only $25 per acre
now.
The one great obvious economic
tragedy of the city of Fort Worth
to the thousands of shade trees
along its streets and in its yards
and lawns that are not pecans.
Thousands of homes are to be
handed down to the next genera-
tion, burdened with taxes, to pay
city bonds or mortgages issued for
the benefit of the present owners
who planted these shabby trees
They might as easily have left
trees of far greater beauty, pro-
ducing delicious, valuable nuts, in-
stead of sycamore balls and hack-
berries, with which to pay those
taxes, and our city famed thruout
America for its wonderful shade
trees.. MORA C. CLARK,
Horticuturtot, City.
Suggestions For
Self-Help
Editor. The Press:
you are alone and loveless, every-
thing to dark and gloomy. To
secure appreciation from others,
make yourself attractive and lev.
able and beauty is not at all neces-
sary.
You may, be commonplace in ap-
pearance and still acquire an allur-
ing personality. Some people un-
consciously inherit personal charm,
but character and personality can
be developed only thru cultural
training. One should make every
possible effort to develop an at-
tractive physical appearance and
no matter how drab or uninterest-
ing one may appear, this to usually
possible. Then too, it to desirable
to seek the opportunitlee that are
necessary te fulfill one desirable
and admirable Then the love that
you may be craving should auto-
matically appear, for after all.
happiness must be earned. Prepare
yourself to moot the responsibilities
life brings.
Acquire the vivid aliveness that
makes one an outstanding figure,
then life should open up resplend-
ent possibilities. Love that should
satisfy the yearning of the most
romantic, soul should ultimately
be yours. But it will rarely come
without appropriate efforts on your
part.
J OHN F. DOLLINS, City.
Ask The Press
Many people are victims of self-
pity
To them the world seems harsh
and unsympathetic.” Much misery
and suffering has been theirs:
they have been let alone and no
one loves them. The days come
and go, all alike. Enthusiasm Is
absent: no thrills stir their senses.
Many people suffer from self-pity
martyrdom. And they, themselves,
are usually to blame.
In life, that which you give out
usually comes back to you. If you
radiate good cheer, wherever you
go—If you wear a winning smile,
an appropriate return can be ex-
pected. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the
renowned poet, told that in "Laugh
and the World Laughs With You,
Weep and You Weep Alone."
There is a world of truth in her
viewpoint. Disease is credited with
being very contagious, but a win-
ning smile is far more so and a
hearty laugh . . . why it cannot be
resisted. It to so infectious your
reaction to automatic and when
that deadly thought appears that
Tou can set an answer to any an-
swerable question of fact by writing
aBeme
Q. Are there different classes
of railroad cars in Soviet Rus-
sia ?
A. The Soviet Union has first, si
and third class railroad cars For
EIT a!#E m.^ux
seats, and the third, wooden benches
nd
Q. Are all sorts of gambling de-
vices legal in Nevada?
A * . . .
Q. From whom can the birth
certificate of a person born in
Hawaii be obtained?
mA JIMLNA NISAORO"EE-AEU *
Q. Do municipal employes come
underkany of the N.R.A. codes?
SIDE GLANCES —By George Clark
L^JiwHSES
“It’s nil right, fellows, he’s going to give me another
week to meet that payment.” A
i /or Cup 1 C(U 078 (oor.
I----By M. H. TRACY d
IT is difficult to imagine one
A L. Mills as Republican H
date for the presidency in
It to even more difficult to
Ine the Republican party ar w
a low-tariff platform. Stir 9
an age of surprise and
Here is the Democratic : a
instance, the party of a.,
and state rights, endorsing an
gram of centralization and b
reaucracy. While some Demorre
merely tolerate the program s
emergency measure, others acco
it no permanent.
Of equni significance. Hira
Johnson, Progressive-Republics
of California, will probably
supported by the Democrats
he runs for re-election next
while David I. Walsh, Demoers
of Massachusetts, may be supper
ed by the Republicans.
Oee ■
VTE are doing a lot of things as
thinking a lot of things
now which we did hot expectis
be doing or thinking 10 or
five years ago. The New fl
bears little resemblance to
son's New Freedom, and the pro
alent attitude toward banfl
bears less resemblance to what
was in 1928. Four years ago He
bert Hoover was still a popurl
idol, while eight years ago the
wasn’t a man in the country id
could have beaten Coolidge. 1
Unless all signs fall this to
a fluid season in our national 9
with emotional hunger for refl
ery at any price as the drives
force. Whatever works is acced
able. 1
Unless future historians a
kinder than those of today,
will write down this epoch of 1
tellectual floundering as a" a
commentary on higher educatic
We can’t seem to hit oa an id
that is worth retaining, or if it,
we can't seem to resist the ten
tation of shelving it for a fl
one. Thinking, like travel, fl
pears to have become a matter)
speed rather than dependability,
see 1
WELL, it can't go on forever ■
TV cause of the overhead. We
soon run out of taxes, even if 1
do not run out of ideas. Our or
hope consists of converting sod
of those Ideas into bread at
meat. Wo have displayed pled
of imagination when it comes 1
setting uv administrative age
cioa. but very little in the field!
new and constructive projects. 1
What this country needs to e
terprises that will create new or
lets for capital and labor som
thing like the steamship, raiiror
or automobile era, something th
will force all of us to relocate, 1
build and reshape our habitsJ
life. This country never can rd
prosperity thru doing old things,
a bigger, better way. Its futur
like its past, hinges on Its pod
to conceive and carry out origin
undertakings.
This Is Life
By JACK MAXWELL
TELLO, and howdy-do!
I For instance: In looking th
the bits tn one of my scrapbool
T came across the following cor
ment (one of my fixing) on weal
and success. Here it to. tho- 1
very “hot." But maybe I can s
by the editor:
"Most of us have so much 1
might truthfully speak of 1
wealth of success There are
many kinds of RICHES in this 1
world. We may have good heal
a few true friends to love a
think of, and to do for. We ni
have a little place we call HOM
where at the end of the day ]
gather and sing life’s sweetest so
. . , the song of peace and conter
ment.
"We may be surrounded by 1
commonplace things of life, a
our home be but a cabin bed
the roadway. But even tho It]
think of the friends who perchar
may pass that way: friends]
whom we can call when we NO
them most. Friends who will hl
Our Call, even tho we have 1
a dollar In the world. Yeah, ml
be YOU are doggone RICH .1
and don't know It"
A Quest That Succeeded—Yet Failed
_ By C. L. DOUGLAS_______
TVIS is the story of a quest that
A ended in success—but yet in
failure.
It has to do with a son's long
search for his mother, and how he
found her, only to lose himself
without knowing that he had been
successful.
Last week a .25-year-old man
dropped in at the office of Sheriff
Oram Smith at Cleburne. He said
that his name was Oscar Adams
and that he came from Binger,
the young man left town. M’
that he feared the search wa
vain—that his mother must
dead.
And then, on the following '
Austin Corbin, former juvenile
ficer of John- .
son County, vie- rooioun
led the sheriff as
He said that
his wife was 1 -
the the former Blued
Minnie Clare,
and that she
was living, even .
then, on North
Robinson
Street They
Okla.
He carried with him a picture
of a young woman dressed in the
mode of 20 or 25 years ago.
“This is a picture of my moth-______
ar." he told the sheriff, “and I'm had been mar-
trying to find her. Of course, she - 44"
ried several
lice Laur
Hunt for:
Libera
I (Starts o
I amount of
I with $84,0
I and the ba 1
. The fathe
Il am happy t
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. his head. 1
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1 himself. 1
may not look like the picture
now, for it was taken when she
was a girl, and more than likely 1
wouldn't know her myself .., you
see, I haven't seen her since I was
a baby. But someone up in Okla-
homa said they thought she was
living in Cleburne.”.
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A ND then he told his story. A
A long time ago, when he still
was a baby, there had boon a. di-
vorce and he had boon left with
his father. The mother, after re-
suming her maiden name of Min-
nie Clare, had disappeared. And
that was all he knew--except that
he had heard that she had once
been in Dallas, and later in Cle-
burne.
Would the sheriff aid him in his
searchT The sheriff would, and
newspapermen were called in and
asked to run a story. The young
man waited, but admittedly he
held little hope. That was early
last week. The afternoon edition
of.the Cleburne Times-Review
carried the story but next day,
when there had been no replies.
years ago in
Dallas. Mr. and
Mrs. Corbin had
just seen the
newspaper
Douglas
story. ...
rpHEY were, of course, am
X to find Oscar.
“But he’s gone,” said Sh
Smith. "He gave up the se J
and left town. However. I’ll V
to him at Binger and have him
turn.” Pl
The sheriff wrote, and I
mother eagerly awaited the ni
It came yesterday. N
The postmaster at Binger, Ov
said that Oscar Adams had M
that town and had not filed at
warding address. 14
Sheriff Smith gave this
mation to Mrs. Corbin. She T
—asked the sheriff to helper
find her boy. 01
And now Johnson County T
cials are asking for news da
car Adams, who hunted dl
years for his mother, and 11
her—only(to lose himself.
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