The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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THE ALTO
;;[,!TOHAND OWNER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR
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THi; ALTO HEt:ALD, ALTO, 'i'LXAS, AUGUST 26. !937.
NO. 13.
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-lease the
cover,
enforcing
be called
t;iwand
e or other
strikers,
i noob-
:knmif he
a t let him
: sit down,
on his own
ny [awful
iton the
far whom he
has he any
v ith others
h-ttitvaakonthejoba
^abandoned.
[ir. -ynipaiity with tabor
] workers everywhere, and
^should ha\e a square
jtrikes and \iolenceare
vaytoadjut differences
opit.il and tabor. Such
nek of anarchy andout-
)j)d should n t be toterated
MtngAmericaiis.lt is to
that all Te::nns will stand
[nemorAlired and sustain
ikingTexassafe fnrem-
vell as workers.
A-J[
! tike the Chinese are
putupaprtttygoodfight
]Whi-' :ate i States is
: the Sino-Japanese con-
f : i raising
t! : itltc mother
y '< ag.-unst the
Japanese army. If the
wuld unite their forces and
Jt: - < they might
the money.
A-tt
f"'' ' ' )tas broken
jSpani-h [i;)-co has been
yt .L'f page. However.
Cernians, and Rus-
[ i .tin. Cen-
)ko;:i..i '(-.-Spaniards are
ltd mystery to the
' be the [ast
!ini vet to be determined.
A-tt
has adjourned, but the
witt not ti.)\e peace for
^'r'rA)i;,dh;tscaHeda
w of t!)c legislature for
^ Th;. win keep us 'in hot
; Sunday mornittg the revi\al at the
< Alto Haptist Church entcMt tin ee-
I ond week. The preaching is being
j done by Rev. Perry F. E\ atts. ^uptpty
jPa3[or for Me Mineota Baptt
jchurch. His brief but pungent ser-
mons have been favorably rf-cci\ed
by the increasing crowds at b<th the
morning and evening :ervi-.es. Two
people have ioined the church on a
profession of faitli. Many whohavt
been in the services feel that it i^
going deep into the lives of the peo-
ple and will last long after the meet
inghnsctosed.
Mr. Glenn Easoti, director of music
during the revivat, is putting t.is best
into it. In following his teadeiship.
one wishes that every churcii in
every town coutd have a mm [ike
him to direct the music every week
in the year. At the piano each night
is Joy Aiien, one of Alto's severa?
tatented and accomptished young
[adies.
The chitdren and young peoples
services are being efficiently directed }
by Mrs. B. E. Hatbert and Mrs. Tracy
Pearman, who work witti the Pri-
maries; Mrs. Joe Merriwether and }
Mrs. Jewet Tcarman, assisted by Mr.
Eason, in the Junior group; Mrs.
Wallace Clark and Mrs. Gienn Eason
are directing the Intermediates.
An invaluable service is being ren -
dered each night by Mrs. B. E. Hat-
bert and other hetpers as they keep
the smaller children in the Nursery
during the preaching services.
Mr. Eason will remain for the tast
servicc of the meeting Sunday night
Brother Evans finds it necessary to
teave after the service Friday night
The revival wit) continue through
Sunday night with the pastor, Rev.
Waltace Ctark, preaching the last
two days.
Morning services are at 8:30,
evening services at 8:00 o'clock. A
fine spirit of co-opcration has been
shown by at) during the meeting. It
is hoped that the [ast days witl prove
to be the best days of the meeting.
Wallace Asks
President For 9c
Loan On Cotton
conere ,
A-H
day- an
lupin n;me
! forgotten
reconvenes.
amnesia vtc-
ptace, claim-
las name and
It is our opin-
jT.ojtof these victims re-
!on!y t.<; ','.(ii who they
they gut that way.
A-H
that there are
);!oyed. not in-
n and sit-down strik-
in piteofallthe
aaney that has been
' .pent. !t looks
made a bust
A-H
the lung desired com-
in Alt., i: about to be-
thecnter-
! the Lions Club.
J?" a club house
r'"' the responsive chord
^"M'ltizen.forsuch
to the con-
L" ' of the town
)Tr,h' civic organ-
L '^ 'tul tions Lions, and
'"'Keeping-on!
A-[[
where
tightening
- ^ned rhpnnnat)Hyo
! inf^
of rheumatism,
""nation on to Bob
[Shattue^
A-H
- now an up-and-
woman, hav-
'' ^'th Schmidt
L . !"^es as host-
jt Patrons ot this
L '"lyeoldcol-
Ly ^ ' *tuck says she
< n knows Me
"ut of the money.
, ^ - "ferred by Da
O^'S-O, WHV
) < ^ $53 and was
W ellington. An.?. 2t.—Secretary
Wjiinct* mgcdl'tesidcnt Roosevelt
AIo:id:iy tt) aut!iorize a federal loan
of 0 cents a pound on cotton.
After a [unchoott conference at
the White [louse, the agriculture
secretary .-.-.id he had di.'eu.-yed cot-
ton toans and the sugar quota bit]
awaittng pta idcntinl action.
Asked whether he favored a spec-}
iaiscssitmrf congress tt) consider
faim and other bitis, Wallace said
he had atways advocated that.
Waltace s;\id 'there probabty
would be no dcci anion the cotton
taan rate untit the Commodity Credit,
corporation meets in a few days to
fi.nsidcrdatagatlteredbytechnicat
experts.
A tO-cent toan was advocated by
some cotton states senators and
congressmen.
As to machinery to handle the
federat subsidy equivatent to the
difference between the amount of
the !oan and 12 cents. Watlace said
producers would be asked to save
their sales stips.
The subsidies woutd not be paid
untit after farmers actuatty com-
plied wsthsurptus cotton legislation
for 1938, which congress has put at
the top of its calendar for next
session.
HfGMWAY FORTY SOUTH
TO BE ASPHALTED SOOX
The State Highway Department is
advertising for bids for a doubte As-
phatt Surface on highway 40 for a
distance of 7.4 miles beginning at
the south city limits of Alto.
A[[ bids must be in the office of
the state highway department by
August 27, when the contractor witl
be announced. Work is to start im-
mediate!y after the contract is let.
COTTON G!NN!NGS
DOUBLE LAST YEAR
Washington, Aug. 23.—The cen-
sus bureau reported today ttiat cotton
if this year's growth ginned prior to
Aug. 16 totaled 514,675 bales, more
than twice the amount at the same
ime last year.
Texas ginnings were 447.784 bates.
Pottok Citizen
KiHed )n Wreck
!n Lufkin Sunday
The coHision between a truck and
an automobite on North Raguet
street, near Frank, at 5 a. m. Sunday
claimed the life of O. D. (Dee)
Crumpler, 54, of near Pottok, and
injured three others.
Crumpter died about 0 a. m. Mon-
day at the Angelina county hospital
from a concussion and other injuries.
He had never regained consciousness
since the accident.
Mrs. Crumpler is in the hospital
with a broken cottar bone, cuts and
bruises, and possible internal in-
juries. Mrs. Bud Hinson. wife ot
County Commissioner Bud Hinson,
was less seriously hurt. The dtivef
of the car. E. C. Beckom, was also
treated for minor injuries.
The truck driver, Watt Ctoyd,
employe of the Angelina County
Lumber Co., was uninjured.
The Crumpters, Mrs. Hinson and
Mr. Beckom, the [atter a Centra!
Consotidated school teacher, were,
returning from Houston to their
homes near Weils when the collision
occurred.—Lufkin News.
Five Amendments
Out oi* Six Voted
on Favorabiy
Very tittle attention was paid to
the Constitutional Amendment elec-
tion in Alto held Monday, as onty
about one-eighth of the voters cast
the:r ballots. A few over a hundred
votes were cast out of the eight
hundred voters in this voting pre-
cinct. At! of the amendments voted
on appeared to have carried ex-
cepting the amendment to place the
county offices back on the fee
system. This met defeat by a [arge
majority.
Five of six constitutionat amend-
ments submitted to Texas voters
appeared Tuesday night to have car-
ried. on the basis of returns tabutated
by Texas newspapers.
The 6 p. m. tabulation Tuesday,
which bureau officials said ptob-.
ably woutd be the tast, accounted for
87,506 votes from 220 of the state's
254 counties, with 31 complete.
The total vote was expected to
range from 120,000 to 125,000, but
batlots yet untabutated were con-
sidered untikely to upset the ratios
already established.
The tabulation showed:
For the amendment abandoning
double tiabitity now ptaced on stock-
hotders of state banks that fail,
56,151; against, 28,279.
For state aid to dependent chil-
dren not in institutions, 60,643;
against, 26,220.
For rewarding prompt taxpayers
with discounts equivalent to the
penalties against detinquent tax-
payers, 64,585; against, 21,720.
For state financial aid for aduit
blind persons, 65,654; against, 21,852.
For return to the fee system of
paying certain state and county of-
ficial, and abolishing the salary
system, 36,369; against, 49,668.
For granting Harris county per-
mission to adopt a long-time, pay-
as-you-go policy of road building,
designed to obviate issues, 46,170;
against, 32,427.
As a result of the election, the
governor is expected to ask a special
session of the legislature next month
for appropriations totahng at teast
$7,560,000.
RAILROAD TO GIVE
SPECIAL RATE TO
PAX-AMEKlt AN HXPOSlHOr-
CONTRACT AWARDED
ON RUSK POSTOFF1CE
The Treasury Monday awarded a
contract for construction of a new
post office buitding at Rusk to J. J.
Fritch, Dattas contractor. It is sur-
mised construction wit) begin in the
near future.
Cost of the buitding witl be $41,237
according to terms of the contract.
The new building for Rusk was
approved some time ago, but the
contract had never been let.
Dattas, Texas, Aug. 26.—Croup
movement of schoot chitdrcn, their
teacliers, parents and friends from
A!to has been set for Oct. 14 and
15 at the Greater Texas and Pan-
American Exposition. The connect-
ing raitroad has offered a group rate
for this event. Total cost of the
round trip is a cent a mite.
When the group reaches the Ex-
position it witt have the facitities ol'
a servicc office near the main en-
trance gate. There orders for group
admission tickets at 25 cents each
witl be issued, special amusement
concessions provided and informa-
tion as to todging furnished, at!
without charge. The Exposition, at
this office, atso will maintain a bag-
gage checking service.
Governor James V. Atired has of-
ficially proclaimed these dates as
school holidays. Full credits will be
allowed the chitdren who attend the
Exposition.
Much that is new and educa-
tionat is offered this year. Inctuded
is the Cavalcade of the Americas,
greatty en[arged, presenting the ro-
mantic history of alt the Americas
without charge. The Pan American
Casino, iargest indoor stage in the
world, witl offer entertaining pro-
grams. In the $1,200,000 Texas Hall
of State, in addition to the romance
of Texas, is presented an exhibit
from Tutane University of Mid-
American history. The Federal
building has added numerous new
features as has the Hail of Texas
History, all these being free attrac-
tions. The football season will be in
full blast. Students may spend two
days at a very nominal expense and
witness the only international Expo-
sition of the year.
EAST TEXAS APPHANCE
ONLY AUTHORtZED
ELECTROLUX DEALERS
The Alto Herald,
Alto, Texas.
Gentlemen:
This letter is to inform you that the
East Texas Appliance Company of
Jacksonville, Texas, is the only au-
thorized franchised Serve) Electrotux
dealer in the county of Cherokee.
Any person making a purchase of
Servel Electrolux Refrigerators from
any other person in that county
would suffer on account of service
and service guarantee.
Will you kindly be governed ac-
cordingly.
Yours very truly,
THE SCHOELLKOPF COMPANY
E. G. Boughtin, Sales Manager
Electrolux Department.
Note: A. E. Parker and R. P. Hughes
are the Electrolux agents for the
Alto section, which covers south
Cherokee county.
In New York City it is against the
law to open or close an umbrella in
the presence of a horse.
"THE REST OF THE RECORD," AS V!EWED BY ALLRED
Have Schoo!
Children Examined
Urges Dr. Cox
Austin, August 25.—Now is the
time, according to State Health Of-
ficer Geo. W. Cox, for every parent
to ask himself if his chitd is physical-
ly ready for school. A visit to the
family physician wit! answer this
question and give time for correc-
tion of minor defects before school
bells ring out this September.
School children are exposed to so
much infection that where a definite
preventive against disease is known,
parents should take advantage of it.
Vaccination against typhoid, diph-
theria and smallpox should be done
at once. Those vaccinations may
save many days out of school, doc-
tor fees and perhaps life itself.
More than three hundred children die
each year in Texas from diphtheria.
A chitd with defective vision can-
not be expected to do the required
work in school, until this handicap
is removed. Inflamed, watery eyes,
granulated lids, chronic stys, nervous
actions as habitual winking may be
caused by defective vision and should
be attended to immediatety.
The far reaching effect of infected
tonsils on the system has been rec-
ognized by health workers for many
years. Many of the ilts of later life
as heart disease, arthritis, deafnes:
and the like, are directly traceable
to tonsits that became infected during
childhood and were allowed to re-
main untreated.
dental defects are found in more
children than any other imperfec-
tion, estimates the Texas State De-
partment of Health, urging that chil-
dren should be taken regularly to tha
dentist for examination and cleaning
of the teeth. This precaution keeps
the mouth clean and makes it pos-
sible for dental defects to be dis-
covered as soon as they appear.
Postural defects are detectabte in
children much sooner today than
was formerly the case. Haw your
family physician see if your child's
shoulder blades project and if his
arches are low. Simpte exercises
white the child is young, diligently
adhered to, will prevent later de-
velopments.
Some physicat defects of children,
particutarly underweight or mal*
nourishment, show no appreciable
present effect. If such a condition is
i.ot corrected <t may result seriousty
in later years.
Hard and fast rules for a child's
weight at a certain age arc difficult
to arrive at due to variation in chil-
dren's bone construction and physical
build, but some gain should be shown
each month. Average weights for
height-and-age, as computed by ex-
perts, may be had from your family
physician.
DEEDS AND OIL INSTRUMENTS
FH.ED FOR RECORD AUG. 11. 1937
By James V. AHred
Governor of Texas
This week demonstrated again the
wisdom of taking the unrestramed;
power of pardon out of the hands of,
the Governor and placing it in "
hands of a non-political board.
Upon my return from Mextco
'ound four men condemned to dte
!n the electric chair. Under the o
system the Governor, with att tns
other cares and responsibthttes.!
would have had to pass on these
cases. It simply wasn't fair to com-
pel him to submit to the tearful ap-
peals of wives, mothers, relatives
md friends. Although he mtght have
a Legislature on his hands, although
he might have sickness in his home
or several other trying ordeals, he
was placed in the position o wetn
ing the life of a man and
standing outside the death chamber
watching the condemned
back and forth waiting for ^ dead-
ly hour of twelve o'clock and the last
walk to the little green chamber !
don't think I ever slept a wrnk on the
night any man was compelled to pay
the penatty.
Now it's different. Before the
Angetes, who I Governor can commute a <<' j
penalty, or grant any other k.nd of
clemency, it has to be )cs.ommc
ed by the Board of Pardons. The
Governor can refuse to follow the
Board if it recommends clemency,
but cannot grant any whatever un-
less the Board rccommends it.
There are three members of the
Board. One only is appointed by the
Governor, and the others by the Su-
preme Court and Court of Criminal
Appeals. The members of the Board
have several investigators and, of
course, no other responsibilities than
looking into clemency cases. In thts
manner both the convict and the
public get a better deal than undet
the old system where the Governor
was charged with all the responsi-
bility in addition to his other duttes.
I am proud of this great reform.
We are not having any complamts
about wholesale abuses of the pardon
power It is all based now on merit,
and unquestionably everyone is
much better satisfied.
* * *
Naturally I have been quite busy
etching up with my correspondence
a?ter a two weeks vacation. How-
ever, on Friday of last week I flew
down to Palacios on the Gulf Coast
to review the 36th Division of the
Texas National Guard in camp there.
Texans generally probably do not
realize what a wonderful organiza-
tion of fine young men this ts^ tin-
questionably we have one of the best
National Guard units in the nation.'
Nearly 8,000 men train intensively;
at Patacios each summer for two
weeks. This is in addition to their
regutar drills and parades back
home. They are well equipped, well
officered, and as fine soldiers as any
I saw during the Wortd War.
The total cost for military de-
fense in Texas which is borne by the
Federal government approximates
more than a million dollars annual-
ty. The National Guard has in its
possession more than four and a half
million dollars of Federal property,
guns, uniforms and equipments. Its
payroll, including both men and of-
ficers from the highest to the lowest
military grade white large in the ag-
gregate, averages only $83.50 per
capita per year. Their time is given
free as a patriotic duty.
In addition to the 36th Division,
we have what is known as the 56th
Cavalry Brigade, about 1100 in num-
ber who train for two weeks each
year at Mineral Wells. As Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Texas
militia I always visit these two
cpmps It was a great joy to me
upon my recent visit to Mineral
Welts to hear one of the Federal)
army officers praise the cavalry bri-
gade. He said that we had as good,
if not the best, in the nation.
Of course, we don't want war, and
I pray God we may always be spared
what is going on in Europe. It has
been the policy of the State, how-
ever, to maintain a regular militia
from the beginning. The wisdom of
this was demonstrated in the World
War when our National Guard was
the first nucleus around which our
defense was built.
It is heartening to know that if a
war emergency should arise, our
guard is manned, officered, equip-
ped, trained and ready for immedi-
ate service.
Of course, as most everyone knows,
soldiers don't have much use for a
sailor. I was in the Navy during the
World War and I had quite a bit of
fun out of some of the National
Guard officers by reminding them
that their Commander-in-Chief
was once a sailor!
I wasn't greatly surprised to find
upon my return from Mexico that
the politicians have been "buzzing'
quite a bit. It is my understanding
that State Superintendent of Educa-
tion L. A. Woods has been running
around over the State making
speeches condemning me for cutting
the ad valorem property tax rate to
the lcvest it has been in some twen-
ty years. I think this gentleman will
find out next summer that the public
won't approve of his making political
speeches on State traveling expense.
Timber Deed—G. W. Humphrey to
Rube Sessions. 40 acres and 61 acres,
being a part of S. A. Duncan League.
Royalty Contract—D. D. Pinkston
to Raymond Leon Tucker. Und. 1-2
of 1-8 interest in 122.6 acres, more
or less, a part of the T. J. Rusk sur-
vey.
Warranty Deed—E. R. Maddux et
ux to Mrs. Ida Maddux. 122 acres,
more or less, a part of the John Durst
Grant.
Warranty Deed—Mrs. Viola Mur-
phey, Ind. & as Community Admin-
istratrix, to H. L. Maddux. 122 acres
of land, a part of John Durst Grant.
Vendor's Lien Deed—W. M. Cope-
land et al to Mrs. Memory Egbert.
Being Lot No. 10 in Block No. 2, in
the town of Rusk.
Vendor's Lien Deed—Hannah El-
lis to Mary Snow, et al. Being parts
of Lots 15 and 16 in Block No. S 15
of Dickensons First Addition to New
Birmingham.
POP CORN
M. J. Hogan states that he is ready
to buy pop corn at a 2c price. This
means 2c per pound for the pop corn
on the cob, shucked.
There was about 160 acres of pop
corn planted here in the spring, but
the extreme dry weather has cut
the crop down to less than one
hundred acres, according to Mr.
Hogan, but those who have been able
to raise the corn can make between
$20 and $30 an acre from the crop
based on the above price.
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