The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1954 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ALTO HERALD
A Leader in youth Cherokee County since 1896.
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Entered as second ciass matter in 1896 at the post office in Alto,
Cherokee County, Texas under the act of Congress of March 3, 1887.
Published every Thursday at Aito, Texas.
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, AUGUST 26. 1954
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Frank L. Weimar and Son, Editors and Owners.
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reputation of any person, firm or corporation which may appear in
the column- of the Heraid wiil be gtadly corrected upon its being
brougit to the attention of the Publishers.
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Obituaries, Cards of Thanks and all like matter that is not new^?
will !je charged for at tivo cents a word in advance.
Advertisement rates furnished on request.
I ime T o I hmk Oi School Hazards
Another school year is near. Hundreds of thousands of children
wii! trave! heavily trafficked streets and highways. There should
be new concern for their safety in ail cities and towns.
Recalt the story about communities with fine safety records'.'
York, S. C.. was one. Among honors which have come to York is the
grand award for 1953 in the American Automobile Association's na-
tional pedestrian protection contest for cities under 100,000 popula-
tion. Aiso, first piace among eitii^ under 10.000 population in this
contest.
York's record is the result of outstanding accomplishment in many-
phases of traffic safety. But basic is the fact that it begins to protect
its children at a tender age. In August, York safety peopic contact
mothers of children who wi!! be entering schoo! in Sptcmber for the
first time. A date is set for a police nfficet ro call at the home to
map out the safest course for the chitd to take in walking to school.
Thts procedure also applies to each new family with chiidren of
school age that moves to the town.
Perhaps other towns follow a simitar practise. If not it's something
to consider now. Burden is on the motorist—to drive more cautious-
ly, especially in school zones. But sound advice to chiidren, guided
on the safest course to take to and from their school buitding, helps
to reduce accidents and save precious young iives. York has found
tt so.
CoJ's Rcnevo/cnce
SPEAKING OF FARM UNEMPLOYMENT
Every once in a whih- we read of the statistics brought out by the
government experts with Uu.< sharp [Minted pencils, who figure out
the drop tn farm unentptoyjt^i and then try to tell us whv it
dropped. Ninety per cent of those statistics could not tell vou the
difference in a plow point and a George Stock.
*H drawing their conclusions they go bock over a period of yeais
#nd cwic forth with the .statement that far^ tabor employment has
fallen off h-om 10 to 25 per cent ever so and Ko period of time, and
then attempt tu tpl) the reason why.
At no time do Ihey p$<(?r detve down into the barrel and get the
reai facts.
Should they take a survey of A!to and Cherokee bounty they
WU!d finu t^-4 ?yer ? pefjuc! pt ymys it hac ^4 lt.M«t
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se\ . . . u per cent.
The reasons are obvious and doesn't require an expert to tell why.
Ten years ago land was piowed with mules and horses; that re-
quired farm labor that is not used today.
Practically every farm in this county raised some tomatoes, a!) of
them raised cotton and corn, sweet potatoes and peas. About al! the
meadows around here were smai] patches that were kept up for a
few head of cattle. Not too much hay was baled for commerciat use.
As a cash crop, farmers iooked to tomatoes and cotton.
The average farm was fifty or tixty acrcs, and during the year
from three to ten persons were employed on these small farms.
Today it is vastly different. PracticaHy a!! farming is done with ma-
chinery. One man can no\y perform duties of from three to five.
The unsettled condition of the markets have brought the tomato crop
^own in Aito from 300 car laads a year to )00. Where we used to
have 5000 bales of cotton a year come to Aito, we now do weil to
get eight or nine hundred bales. The same can be said of other crops.
Cherokee County has got away from the old method of farming.
Where it used to be crops as a major money getter, it is now cattle,
chickens, eggs and dairy products.
With modern machinery and methods, one man can now handle
a hundred acres; ten years ago he did weil with three or four hands
to take care of 25 acres of growing crops.
Farm labor has most certainiy dropped off, but it is not because
"times are dull." but we are iiving in a different age and the trend
of times has changed the oid method of producing agricultural pro-
ducts.
Long ago we gave up the idea of ever shipping three hundred cars
of tomatoes out of Alto in any one year, and neither wilt we ever
see again 5000 bales of cotton ginned in Aito in one year.
The boys who try to figure why farm iabor has dropped off, might
as well lay their penciis down. Farming, like everything else, is done
with machines.
STEVENSON ON CONFORMITY
Adlai E. Stevenson recently delivered the commencement address
at Vassar College before 269 members of the graduating ciass.
Mr. Stevenson pointed out that one of the corrupting infiuences of
our modern era is "corruption of conformity." He totd Vassar's se-
niors that was one problem they faced in growing up in this turbulent
era, and that to conform is not always in an individual's best interests.
We have often pointed out that the advent of moving pictures, tele-
vision, radio and ail other means of mass communication, has created
a stronger and stronger trend toward conformity. Younger peopie
tend to imitate movie idois, and if the movie ido! can swig down two
or three glasses of straight whiskey, an unfortunate number of
youngsters wii! be induced to try the same stunt.
Smoking, of course, was put over very largeiy through many of the
new communication media and a targe-scale advertising campaign.
The danger in conformity is that individualism wii] be iost and that
independent thought and action will go by the boards.
Yet these are the very quaiities which make any democracy great
and which are necessary if maximum progress is to be made.
To al! graduates of 1954, and to a!l young peopie and adults every-
where, we humbiy suggest that conforming to the majority rule, or
majority practice, is quite often not the advisable course. Even
though an independent position, or independent conduct, sometimes
might !ead to temporary unpopuiarity, in the long run such sincerity
of purpose wi!i pay targe dividends. It is surprising how few people
are wiMing to buck the crowd, or fail to conform in our society.
ARMY TO RE-SHAPEpiviSlONS
The Army announced recently it would rcbuitd two divisions this
fall in an effort t)o design divisions capable of operating under condi-
tions which might be imposed in an atomic war. Other than the an-
nouncement being several years too late, the news is heartening.
The Army program is an experimental one, and wi!) be carried out
with one infantry and one armored division. The Army says several
yeans of study have a!ready been conductcd on the probtem and that
the new "Atomic Age" divisions wi!! have vast mobitity, flexibility
and self-sufficiency in combat.
The main change in tactics will be a new ability to disperse very
rapidly and the new atomic-warfare divisions wi!! be abte to disperse
on a moment's notice over a very wide area. Such dispersa!, the
Army says, must be rapid and controHed at every stage.
This wou!d minimize casua!ties in the event of atomic attack and
would enab!e the Army's forces to keep a coherent front, even though
its divisions were hit by atomic weapons.
Since it has been some nine years since the advent of the atomic
bomb, we be!ieve the Army should make haste with its "experi-
ment." We are also of the opinion that conventiona! divisions, such
as we now have, woutd be severely mauled in any new war, by
atomic weapons. The Army shou!d expedite its experimental pro-
gram and make pians to have a!J its divisions modified to operate
under atomic warfare conditions as soon as is humanly possible.
ASS/S7\4;VCE OFFERED
OAf F. M.,4.PRO./FCrS
FOR 77V/S COt/ATX
Chas. M. Richter and William
McNair of the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration, has advised J. Perrin
Wi!tis and C. P. Gowland of Rusk,
how this county may obtain aid
for irrigation projects.
Tan'kiy can be bui!t or wells
dri!led, however, before any pro-
ject can be approved by the F. H.
A. involving dammtng up a stream.
Permission to dam the stream must
first receive the approval of the
state water conservation board in
Austin. Rice growers and the city
of Beaumont have prior water
rights on the Necht! river and all
creeks feeding the NecheS. Under j
the present Texas water conserve-
""" !f!w, no farmer cat! legally im-
pound water for purpose other
than stock water and home con-
sumption. Before damming any
creek feeding the Ncchcs, those
holding prior water rights must
vote their approval.
Mr. Richter said n new bill. H.
B. 6788, provides for flood pre-
vention and offers more advan-
tages to farmers. "We arc sending
for a copy of that bill," says Mr.
Willis. We want our farmers to
get every assistance offered else-
where. This program will be under
the Soil Conservation Committee.
This is just one of many oppor-
tunities our farmers have had
taken away from them because
agricultural areas are not repre-
sented in the Congress or State
Legislative by men who know
agricultural needs. Here we have
thousands of farmers deprived of
water for irrigation to supply a few
farmers in the rice belt and the
city of Beaumont. Neither of
which could ever use onty a smatl
portion of it, letting that they
cannot use flow into the Gulf.
We were instructed to proceed
with surveys and setting up the
Oakland project—if and when we
can get State approval, after
which the government will step
in with financial aid. Wet! projects
can be processed much faster than
storage projects.
Mr. McNair worked with Mr.
Willis on the Oakland project in
1945.
Baltimore. Md.—Mr. and Mrs.
D. B. Dugan, whose daughter is at
a camp for girls in New England,
recently received a letter that
rates tops for brevity. The girls
arc required to write home every
Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs.
Dugan received the following
from their daughter, Jennie: "Dear
Mother and Daddy, This is my
Sunday letter. Love, Jennie."
r< ver research into the causes and
ttc.itmcnt of cancer, heart disease,
men!;.! ittness, arthritis, multiple
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sclerosis, mo -
tooth disc ,
mon cold
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The U. S. Public Health Service
has granted St4.685.67) for t.)42
medical research projects on ma-
jor diseases. The awards went to
scientists at 355 colleges, universi-
ties and research institutions and
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Food, rest, mental peace and
exercise are the four golden keys
to old age. Better try to take ad-
vantage of this advice.
SERVICE IS A DEFINITE PART OF A
Good Drug Store
By service, we don't mean just waiting on a custont-l
when they come into the store.
Real Drug Store Service means, also, proper attm-l
tion to stock and supplies to see that the many things you &
pend upon a drug store for are here when you want them-
it means keeping abreast of newest developments in the
drug and pharmaceutical fields so that we can provide vow
personal physician with the remedies he may prescribe fot
you—and it means giving you and your needs the persona!
attention we'd like to have if we were your customers.
You can depend on Boyd's Pita' macy to give you this
service, for we list our customers through the years at thetop
our lists of assets of business! Call us first when you need
any drug store service, please!
Boyd's Pharmacy
Phone 261
ALTO, TEXAS
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F. L. Weimar & Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1954, newspaper, August 26, 1954; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215354/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.