The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1938 Page: 7 of 8
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Colorful Tea Towels
* .To Brighten Kitchen
Pattern 17M
Treat your tea towels to thia
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and applique, or embroidery
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by 7V4 inches; illustrations of
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Send 18 cents in coins tor this
pattern to The Sewing Circle, Nee-
dlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Avenue,
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Please write your name, ad-
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EX-LAX
I HI i > H I (.i i N A l (.HOC 01 AMD i A I A I I V k
Discuss vs. Dispute
He who discusses is in the right,
he who disputes is in the wrong.—
De Rulhiercs.
—due to chest
colds are quickly
lessened when
you rub Penetro
on chest, throat
and back. Extra-
medlcated vapors
are Inhaled to
aoothe Irritated,
congested mucous
membranes. Its
counter-irritant
action Increases
local blood sup-
plv-gives feeling
or local warmth.
PENETRO
A Merry Heart
A merry heart doeth good like a
medicine; but a broken spirit dri-
•th the bones.
CHEST COLDS
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TbetrMSTltESSI
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when
NIGHT
foughs
•oothing, warming Musterole is appli
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or throat, generally
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plast
«aróle ge la action because it's NOT just
a salve. It's a "counter-irritant"; stimu-
lating, It penetra tea the surface skin sad
helps to quickly relieve local e
•ease and peine due to colda.
Used by millions for 80 years. Recom-
mended by many doctors and nursse.
la three strengths: Regular, CbUdren'e
<mild) and Extra Strong, 40*. Approved
tar Qood HouesksepiagBureau.
Sentinels
of Health
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
Early Mailing Help Postman
Avoid Problem of Yule Ruth
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.—The other day. a'
brisk, dapper little old man
stepped into a big Wall street In*
vestraeat banking office and asked
w - - . for the top boss,
W.C. Durant *rith an air of
In Scrimmage assurance. He
A 77 had an audience
Again of 77 and cama out
full of business and stepping high.
A friend, who was doing basl-
aaea there that day reports te
ma that the peppy visiter waa
William O. Dar ant, twlee head
af General Matera, enea the
meter of f 1M.MMM, and that,
at tha age of 17, Mr. Dnrant waa
aceatlng new capital far another
big tonraey In meter finance.
My friend cealdn't learn wheth-
er he get It, bat enld he had
heard there waa a deal en which
might pat Mr. Dnrant on the
mala Une again. He enld the lit-
tle Napoleon of early day ante
finance looked aa If he were
about te merge all companieo
and aklm the cream.
it was in 1910 that the bankers
crowded Mr. Durant out of the pres-
idency of General Motors. He was
back in 1919 and out again in 1920,
in the post-war crash, in which he
Jettisoned $90,000,000 of his own
money, trying to stop the down-
slide of the stock. He took his losses
casually end was busy for years in
daring market forays, but never
quite converted any of his passes.
An acquaintance of this writer,
who knew Mr. Durant well, told me
how he laughed off his second re-
linquishment of his motors kingdom.
"I built the greatest automo-
bile balldlng In the world, at
Detroit," be said, according to
my Informant, "and when I did
It, I fixed It ao they won't soon
forget me. Hidden somewhere
in every column and every capi-
tal and big stank of that building
there Is s deeply chiseled D.
There wasn't anything anon-
ymous about that Job, and 1 took
good csre to lesve my msrk on
It."
So did the king in Kipling's poem,
' when he was pulled off his big pal-
; acc building Job. when "They said
thy use is fulfilled." He "Carved
on every timber and cut on every
stone." and the poem concludes,
"After me cometh a builder; tell
\ him I, too, have known."
Public Always Walts Until
Last Minute Despite
Tearful Pleas.
If Christmas mailers didn't watt
until tha last minuta with their
eards and packages, post office of-
ficials predict the annual Yule rush
would be minimised immensely. But
despite tearful pleas eaeh Decem-
ber, the bulk of holiday mall falls
into post offices, less than seven
days before Christmas. What tha
public really fears, say officials. Is
that their gifts will be delivered too
soon before Christmas. As a result
all too many gifts don't arrive un-
til after Christmas! "Mall early,"
is the plea of the heavily burdened
postmen below.
DoansPills
FOR several years. Dr. Karl T.
Cnmpton, president of Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology and one
of the nation's greatest scientists,
c . has explored the
r or Science- no man's land
Government between an ex-
Collaboration P^'ng govern-
ment and an ex-
panding technology. He thinks they
ought to get together but he Is no
advocate of bureaucracy or extreme
federalization. He doesn't like the
Idea of the government getting on
anybody's neck. He thinks the gov-
ernment, with its vast resources,
might be an invaluable collaborator
with science, and should be, in fact,
but he advances this idea warily,
as he finds creatlveness and social
progress in the old American free-
for-all, without elaborate govern-
mental trimmings.
He never olaimed an Ivory
tower, aad sees the problem in
Its simple social componente of
Jobs, a rising standard of living,
social progress and security. He
notee the Job-killing potentiali-
ties of the machine, in certain
Individual Inslanees, and aa-
sessee Industrial management
with finding a corrective.
This qualified edmission is in
sharp contrast to the view of Dr.
Robert Andrews Mlllikan, another
distinguished scientist who has
wrestled with the same problem.
Doctor Millikan is for throwing the
throttle wide open, with the certain-
ty that machines ultimately will
make more Jobs than they destroy.
Both, however, prescribe as a cure
for our technological ills more of
the hair of the dog that bit us. The
difference in view is that Dr.
Compton urges certain collective
rationalisations and Judicious self-
imposed controls by Industry and
management.
For many yeara Dr. Compton
haa been bleating at the Inner
citadel of the atom te seise there
the hidden golden key of nmlim-
lied power which has long been
the "pie in the eky" of the great
Wyalclata. He batters down a
.impart new aad then, and, la
the long view of the solentlata,
thinks that we may aame Say
lap reaervotra ef energy ae vast
that all ear preaent Ilia will be
eaally salable therein.
He has headed M. I. T. since 1930.
Now rounding 80. He was head at
the department of physics at Prince-
ton before 1990, one of tha most
rtebly garlanded men of his profes-
sion In honors and records af
achievement.
• Cease^^Wswsteeturee.
m
Nature9s Yuletide Gift
Uncle Pkil&L
Nature With Wisdom
Never did Nature say one thing
and wisdom another.
A bachelor may be merely a
man who overvalues his personal
liberty.
One of the "lurea" of the vamp
la to expreaa aympathy for the
man who la aorry for himaelf.
Belief ia merely undiacoverable
knowledge.
Put It Into Action
Most of us have committed tha
Golden Rule to memory. Now let
us commit it to life.
Something that people always
discover: That fat men do have
tempers.
"Reverie of an old buggy"
would make a good sketch 139
lines long.
He's What He Mekes Himself
No man is any good because his
grandfather was. Nor can he
blame his faults on his ancestors.
After a modest man has been
praised once for his modesty he is
always Ashing for more praise.
HCNPi .
¿T— Ruth \tfyeth Spears
tSLACK
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AO ART UNCN VITH
A HARD TWfW
OLCPOiNT YARN
'SACKINt or
MÜSMT auTa
IVCLVKT^H
•"pHE Town Improvement asso-
* elation waa giving a sale to
raise funda in a village where we
were viaiting. Our hoateas had
been to the aale early in the day
and triumphantly displayed tiny
cross-stitched pincushions pur-
chaaed for Christmas gifts. They
were so colorful and quaint that
we went in search of some. We
found them, but on every one was
pinned a ticket "SOLD"! The lady
had scored a hit who made those
ASK ME
ANOTHER
The Questions
?
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
1. What does the investment of
this country in South America to-
tal? In Europe?
2. Which of our states has the
greatest seacoast? The smallest?
3. What three American plants
are carnivorous?
4. Can you complete this quota-
tion: "The ladder of life is full of
splinters, but they always prick
the hardest—"?
5. What animal utters no sound
at all?
6. Why, according to Tennyson,
was the strength of Galahad as
that of ten?
7. How many of the bills intro-
duced in the Seventy-fifth congress
became laws?
8. Name the nearest and far-
thest planets from the sun?
9. How large do gorillas grow?
The Answers
From verdant forests throughout northern Amerlcs, trees to grace
1. In South America it totals
2,560 millions. In Europe, 2,372
millions.
2. Greatest, Florida; smallest,
New Hampshire.
3. Three American plants that
catch and eat insects are the sun-
dew, the pitcher plant and the
venus fly trap.
4. "When we are sliding down."
5. The giraffe.
6. Because his heart was pure.
7. During the Seventy-fifth con-
gress, 17,104 bills and resolutions
were introduced in both houses.
Of these, 1,759 were enacted into
law.
the nation's Christmas morning are shipped each year. This picture was
•ken In Mslne, where 1,500,000 trees are being felled for the holidays,'
« be loaded for shipment to sll parts of the United Ststes.
ColoradoTown
Revives Ritual
Of Log Burning
pALMER LAKE. COLO.— Resi-
• dents of this high-perched town
on the great Divide celebrate their
modern Christmas in an old-fash-
ioned way, by burning the tradi-
tional yule log
Each year the log Is secretly
cut. notched and tied with hempen
cord, hidden among the trees and
rocks awaiting the finder to whom
goes the honor of dragging it into
town.
Lsst year tor the first time
Palmer Lake burned Its yule leg
In the town hall, where local Are-
men built s huge stone fireplace
wide enough to accommodate a
four-foot log Previously the cele-
bration was held in a private
home where fewer guests could be
accommodated.
The hunt for the yule log starts
at 1 p. m., when all participants
are summoned by a bugle to meet
in front of the hall.
The yule log has a colorful his-
tory. In Scandinavia, where Thor.
the god of thunder, was wor-
shiped, great log (Ires were built
along the rocky shores both at
mid-summer and mid-winter in
order to propitiate him tor his
rumbling wrath.
When the early fathers substi-
tuted the feast of the Nativity for
that of Mlthra, the Persian sun
god who was worshiped on De-
cember 25 in early Rome, a dif-
ferent note crept In. Yule-tide be-
came a time for feuds to cease.
In England, before the Reforma-
Uon, bringing In the yule log was
an important part of the Christ-
mas festivities. The community
usually gathered In the hall of the
lord of the manor, where the log
was kindled with due ceremony
and all partook in the wassail eup,
a sweet elder flavored with fruits
and apícea.
Minstrel's Shrine
"Quotations"
—v—
Nations are but enlarged
schoolboys.—Froude.
A drop of ink may make a
million think —Byron.
'Tis time to fear when tyrants
seem to kiss.—Shakespeare.
Everyone lives by selling
something.—R. L. Stevenson.
No government can be long
secure without a formidable op-
position.—Disraeli.
The philosophy of one cen-
tury is the common sense of an-
other.—Henry Ward Beecher.
Had I a loaf of bread I would
sell half and buy hyacinths to
feed my soul.—Confucius.
8. Mercury is the nearest, being
36,000,000 miles away fronr. the
sun. Pluto is the farthest away,
being 3,700,000,000 miles away
from the sun.
9. Frank Buck says: "Males av-
erage about 5 feet 8 incites, though
some top 6 feet. The spread of
the arms sometimes exceeds 9
feet. Gargantua, the gorilla now
in my possession, weighs 460
pounds and is still growing; he
may reach 600. He measures 70
inches around the chest."
little three-Inch plnouahions i
contribution to the
booth. They were kept for
play even after they were
The top of the cushion
be made on tapestry canvas
round thread art linen so that
threads may be counted
making the croas-atitchea.
foundation materiel should
marked off in 1-lnch squares
shown in the diagram at the i
right. The numbera indicate
color used for croaa-atitchlng
square. The velvet uaed for r
ing adda the richneaa that
small gifts should have. Sa«
or hair from an old mattress
moat aatiafactory for atufRnf.
If you would like to make aowe
of theae cushions for gifts or for
your next bazaar, clip theae direc-
tions and keep them aa they earn
not in either of the booka offered
below.
NOTE: Mra. Spears' Book S~
Gifts, Novelties and Embroidery,
has helped thousands of women 1m
use odds and ends of materials
and their spare time to make
things to sell and to uae. Book 1—
Sewing, for the Home Decorator
is full of inspiration for every
homemaker. These books mite
delightful Christmas gifta. lira.
Spears will autograph them on pa
quest. Crazypatch quilt leaflet la
included free with every order flav
both books. Address: Mrs. Spears
210 S. Desp'aines St., Chicago, HL
Books are 23 cents each.
IpureI
aspirin
^ ' 4
mmm
•i;
Retail price
Hi per quart
Mr hen you ask your dealer for Acid-
Fret Quaker Slat* Winter Oil, you are
taking the máximum precaution to insure
care-free Winter driving. Quaker Stste
pioneered in the development of motor
oils for Winter use. Its lou> cold letI will
relieve you of starting troubles. Bach drop
of oil is rich, pure, full-bodied lubricant
... pure as the driven snow ... to pure
that troubles from sludge, carbon or cor-
rosion are wholly overcome. Quaker
State Oil Refining Corp., Oil City, Pa.
Bvey rfat/'fiiee
Quaker State Winter Oil
it €¡**4 ffiu*
This monument at Oberndorf,
Austrls, honors Joseph Mohr, who
wrote the words to "Holy Night,"
and Frsns Gruber, who wrote the
music for one of the world's most
beloved Chrlatmss hymns.
IBSSGkOmm
Christmas Wreaih *King*
Started as Shoemaker
WINSLOW MILLS, MAINE.—
Thrown out of work when a shoe
factory closed last year, Mervln
Flanders came back to his home
town and set himself up as the
leader of Maine's Christmas decora-
tion business. Flanders' success sto-
ry started with a ball of string,
some barrel hoops, some spruce,
boughs and a little ambition. Now
he's perfected a gadget that speeds
up the wreath-making process by
ten Umes. Shoemaklng, he says,
can't compare to the wreath busi-
ness.
CHRISTMAS FIRE HAZARDS
Lighted Christmas candles in the
window look nice but they may ig-
nite the eurtains. Fire experts warn
that extreme care must be observed
In using candles and other Yuletide
illumination.
THROW YOUR LIP OVER A
PRINCE ALBERT '/MARIN'S' SMOKE.
THERE'S TOBACCO THAT GIVES A
MAN Aa HE COULD ASK FOR-
Jlffy-QUICK ftOIUNf MM, MCM
TASTI, ANO SURE-ENOUGH ALL-
AROUND SMOKInfW
That's Jim Bain i right) giving some
points on the National Joy Smoke.
every 2-ez. tin ef I
*MAKtrtmtü*áCCOmUL
1. Rolls eawer, quick*, flrmr
2. Ssiskss coslsr, mellower
3. Tsstes richer, without bits
• fits mora tragrant aroma
Onrrtitl, ISM, «. 4. ftem«t-1a Te a I as Omm—
Wine tan Saleen. Nerth OaieH—
That meant Princa Albert—-tha cholea, rip#
tobacco that's "no-bite" treated for estns
mildness, and "crimp cut" to roll right!
There's no other tobacco like Prince Albert,
P.S.—tin NATIONAL JO* SMKC M
to i*11!
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Smith, G. A. The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1938, newspaper, December 15, 1938; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth175336/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.