Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 323, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1938 Page: 4 of 8
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS
PAGE FOUR
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938
also
on
otttoTtar 8w«etwater, Texaa, Feb. 9,
George Bennltt and Russell Bennitt,
Jesus came and spake unto themi, saying
flower is given unto me in heaven and in
s -Matthew 28;18.
Tfce pains of power are reul; its pleasure ira-
v.—Colton.
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SCHOOL BOARD PLANS
for PHYSICAL EDUCATION
The plan proposed by the Sweetwater Independent
Schpol Board for a physical education building at the
high school looks forward to a permanent solution of
this need. A building sufficiently large is proposed
to take care of demands that may arise in the future
and of a type which will add stature to the school
plant already on the ground. By utilizing the govern-
ment WPA program under present plans the project
would not necessitate any addition to bonded debt.
As far as can be determined no opposition has
arisen to the plan of going forward with this
project. The need is so well recognized that the
chief interest has centered around how it could
be brought about within the district's ability to
pay. As a WPA project the cost will be greatly re-
duced to the taxpayers and at the same time
many new jobs will be created to add employment
opportunities.
This looks like an opportune time to go forward. For
one thing, the WPA may not be available in future
years on its present basis. The need for a physical edu-
cation building comes up with each recurring year.
Until such a building is available our high school can-
not offer the type of physical training it should, nor
carry on an indoor sports program. If Sweetwater is
to continue to build as a recreation center, this one
missing factor must be supplied.
NEW YORK WAITS
LONG FOR CIRCUS NOV ELTY
Everything comes to him who waits. Even if he has
to wait for it in some isolated village off the beaten
track . . . like New York.
The circus came to the island of Manhattan the
other day, and a newspaper reporting the parade told
of a feature which it described as "an unusual sight,"
the circus "hiding its light under a bushel." Quite a
lot was made of it.
The big novelty was the concealment in a can-
vas-covered wagon of the circus' most publicized
attraction, Gargantua the Great, an out-size gorilla.
You couldn't see him at all, he was completely out
of sight. What do you bet that the wagon was
empty ?
It must have been in Barnum's best days, maybe
before that, even, that this stunt was first in-
troduced. And every circus parade that has ever-
lumbered along Main Street since then has either
had its really breath-taking attraction snugly
boarded up out of sight in a special wagon or left
it behind on the lot and just given the wagon an
airing.
Chinese is spoken by more people in the world than
any other language, but the Japanese are changing
that quickly.
Canal Builder
HORIZONTAL
1,3 Viscount
Ferdinand
builder of a
great canal.
9 The canal, he
built.
13 Mad.
15 Fence bar.
17 To observe.
18 Schemes.
19 Spaces
between
infant's skull
bones.
21 Italian coin.
22'Throng.
23 To shatter.
24 Hpps kiln.
25 Chaste.
26 Musical note.
27 Mountain.
28 Harbor.
29 Sesame.
30 The greatest
number.
31 Window part.
32 To rely on.
■34 To skulk.
35 Beer.
36 Ulcer.
Answer to Previous Puzzle
E'N.IJW;DIN;E 5 D.A V
iR E iO'N
P'OjSlE
P I AjT'E-
ERE
5 DOM
38 To bind.
39 Mineral
springs.
40 Thin slice of
bacon.
44 Upon.
45 Covered with
spines.
47 Father.
48 Ache.
49 Tree.
50 Sloths.
51 He was a
world famous
52 He was
by birth.
VERTICAL
1 He was also a
2 To enroll.
3 Convulsive
tic.
4 Being.
5 Southeast.
6 Irregular.
7 To gasp.
8 To perch.
10 Consumer.
11 Snaky fish
(pi).
12 Relish.
14 To classify.
1G Unstable.
19 Fortified place
20 Chaos.
22 To wound.
25 Office.
26 Fur.
28 To
attitudinize.
29 Net weight of
a container.
30 Beast of
burden.
31 One who
chases.
33 To shower.
34 To lend.
36 Backbone.
37 Loom bar.
38 To carry.
39 To twirl.
40 House
covering.
41 Compass point
42 Narrative
poem.
43 Headstrong.
45 Capuchin
monkey.
46 Pound.
48 Portugal.
50 Form of "a."
Dark Cloud May Have Silver Lining
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BACKSTAGE IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON — Pat
Harrison of Mississippi
sought the majority lead-
ership in the Senate and
John J. O'Connor of New
York went after the same
post in the House.
They were ambitious to
reach the highest points in
their political careers. And
in each case Franklin D.
Roosevelt turned thumbs
down. Harrison and O'Con-
nor were too conservative
for the New Deal.
But they got there ju.st
the same. While the men
whom the administration
preferred to lead its forces
have pleaded desperately but
impotently for Congress to
stand by the President, Har-
rison and O'Connor have ap-
peared conspicuously as
leaders of a new majority
in Congress—the anti-Roose-
velt coalition.
Both are popular and
known generally as "good
fellows." So their recent tri-
umphs have been enjoyed
by many friendly colleagues
who smarted with them
when the administration in
its palmier days blasted
their aspirations.
Celebration
After the historic defeat
of the Roosevelt reorganiza-
tion bill, O'Connor had some
of the correspondents, pho-
tographers and others up to
the sanctum behind the
Rules committee room and
opened t he door of an elec-
tric refrigerator which con-
tained champagne, whisky
and beef. Perhaps he wasn't
thinking of the days of late
1030 when he and his cronies
sat in that sanctum and had
to mourn collapse of his
campaign for the leader-
ship. He had a right, how-
ever, to recall those days.
An often turbulent, alter-
nately gruff and genial, hut.
keen niinded, red - haired
Irishman. O'Connor had in-
curred New Deal wrath
when he opposed abolition
of the Democratic two-thirds
rule at the 1030 convention
and when, as chairman
of the Rules Committee, he
balked the White House de-
sire for a record vote on
the holding company bill's
LEGAL '
DIRECTORY
"death sentence."
Administration propagan-
dists made much of the fact
that O'Connor's brother Ba-
sil had accepted a $25,000
fee from the Associated Gas
& Electric Co. during the
holding company fight.
Back on Top
Although O'Connor did
not rate the leadership
through seniority, his chair-
manship of the Rules Com-
mittee made him the third
most powerful leader in the
House and it had been tra-
ditional that when a .south-
erner—in this case Will
Bankhead of Alabama—was
to be speaker, the leader
should be a northerner.
But the administration
chose Sam Rayburn of Tex-
as. who had piloted the hold-
ing company bill and other
of its legislation. Roosevelt
persuaded Vice President
Garner to come to Washing-
ton before the session be-
gan and put Sam over. That
was the end for O'Connor.
But today O'Connor is still
chairman of the Rules Com-
mittee, the committee which
stands in the way of wage-
hour legislation. And it was
O'Connor who led the anti-
reorganization bill fight, pro-
viding strength for the op-
position! which undoubted-
ly responsible for bill's bur-
ial. When the House voted
down his first motion to
kill the bill by 22 votes and
it looked as if the measure
would win. O'Connor said:
"There'll be no reorganiza-
tion bill passed."
I'al Pleased, Too
Meanwhile Harrison, still
powerful as chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee,
was triumphantly steering
through the Senate a tax
bill which wiped out prac-
tically the last vestige of
New Deal experimentation
in the taxation field. Al-
ready Roosevelt and the
House had bowed to pres-
sure for drastic modifica-
tion of the undistributed
profits tax. Harrison insist-
ed upon compete repeal
and on drastic revision of
the capital gains tax.
Long a Democratic lead-
er and caustic critic of Re-
p u b 1 i e an administrations,
Harrison had swallowed
many New Deal measures in
which he did not believe,
meanwhile shaking the pat-
ronage plum tree with
heavy hand.
But when Roosevelt al-
most openly expressed his
preference for the relative-
ly liberal Alben Barkley of
Kentucky in the face of Har-
rison's candidiacy last year
to succeed the late Floor
Leader Joe Robinson—and
when Barkley won by a
single vote which White
House emissaries wangled
from Harrison at the last
minute, then Pat raged.
He excoriated the wage-
hour bill, then maintained
long silence, supported the
reorganization bill because
he believed in it and final-
ly put through his tax bill
MAYS & PERKINS
Attorneys-at-Law
322-25 Levy Bid*.
Sweetwater, Texas
BEALL, BEALL, YONGE
& NEBLETT
Attorneys-at-Law
Ooscher Bldg.
SWEETWATER, TEXAS
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STAMPS
Washington on First
Tmius-Cent Qtamp
.
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I^VEN after the adoption of fh>.
r 1851 reduced rates of U. S.
postage, the sale of the first full
series lagged. Agitation contin-
ued for uniform rates. Not until
1863, however, was such legisla-
tion passed, abolishing the ele-
ment of distance in charges. The
rate was set at 3 cents for all
letters weighing less than one-
half ounce. In 1883 this was fur-
ther reduced to two cents.
Meantime other innovations in
the American postal system came;
stamped envelopes in 1852;
postal cards in 1872; double or
reply cards in 1879; faster trains
and additional thousands of post
offices to expedite communica-
tions.
The three-cent stamp fast led
in use, of course. The profile of
Washington, after Houdon, was
portrayed on the 1851 stamp, brick
red, reproduced below, one and
one-half times actual size.
(CopyriRtit, 1938, NISA Sorvice. 1 no i
LOOKING
Backwards
FIFTEKN YRARS AGO
A check for 80,000 was receiv-
ed from the state department
of education for payment on
salaries of county school tea-
chers, Miss Minnie Fowler was
county superintendent.
* *
llarry Cress had purchased
the Nolan Hotel and Cafe and
was to operate them jointly.
* + +
Miles of tracks were washed
away on the Orient railroad be-
tween here and Maryneal. The
heaviest rain in many years
swept that area.
* * *
TEN YEARS AGO
S. I). Myers Saddle Company
completed a $5,000 saddle to be
awarded to the rodeo winner
in San Antonio. They were
making saddles for Ringling
Brothers circus.
* * *
There were 100 characters in
the cast of the Nature Pageant
to be presented at the east
ward school, as a part of the
May Day celebration.
* * *
Jack Fulgham was given a
contract for remodeling the
West ward school. The consid-
eration was $15,981.
* * *
I'U K YEARS AGO
Wool was selling here for
Hi cents a pound. Due to the
low price, the large clip was
being held. Most of the wool
sold had brought 13 cents.
* * *
Sweetwater was selected as
the next meeting place of Fed-
eration of Women's clubs of
this district.
* * +
More than 180 attended I he
anniversary celebration of the
Odd Fellow lodge 111 years
ago.
with obvious glee and a fur-
ther attack on administra-
tion policies over feeble pro-
tests from a Barkley whose
influence had long since
declined.
Pat and John may have
smarted in the past when
New Dealers scorned them
as "Tories." But they're
feeling better than ever
now.
"I'm afraid we're spoiling him. When he wants a new
toy he J list calls up and charges it."
Give Vour
THE BEST OF CAMS
Cash Service
Station
itO W. First
Pecan Grower Says I
Crop Ruined By Cold •
CLYDE — J. H. Burkett, hor-'
ticulturist, reports leaves killed
on his pecan trees and indicates
few pecans will be borne by his
trees this year. Much of the
young wood was killed, Bur-
kett said, and stated the buds
under the bark of pecans, "na-
ture's reserve" might come out
this year and bear fruit.
o
Western Windmill
Enlarging Office
Additional office space is be-
ing constructed at the Western
Windmill company, 209 West
Avenue A., the room being built
on the south side of the build-
ing-
Brick is being used in the
construction.
The building permit issued by
the city caled for an expendij
ture of $800.
modern
Motor Analyzer
Locates Trouble
Quickly
Pceples Garage
DcSoto-Ply mouth
Approved Serviee
LADIES !
Learn to bowl—it's excel-
lent exercise and you'll
enjoy every game.
Sweetwater Bowling Alley
Only Neatly Repaired Shoes
Please those who are Careful
of their Appearance.
Hand Made Roots
BRANTLEY'S SHOE SIIOI'
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5c each will he paid
for copies of the Re-
porter dated March 27.
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Protection and
preservation of
precious vision
"Glasses Fitted ONLY
When Necessary."
Bit. P. T. QUAST, O. I).
Just received large ship-
ment new popular priced
bedroom suites, superb
styling, new designs. All 4-
piece suites. Comes with
large triple round or ob-
long mirrors.
You will be agreeably sur-
prised. Quality suites pric-
ed so low—
4 1 C. SUITES AKE
PRICED FROM
29.95 to 69.50
IN THIS SHIPMENT
BO NOT MISS
SEEING Ol'R NEW
LINE OF DECORATIVE
QUALITY
Bed Spreads
Pastel Color Combinations
To Match Anv Room
Worth $12.50
Priced $9.50
I Singer Sewing Machine
Used, Good Condition. .$20
I Good Singer
Sewing Machine $15
MANY OTHER BAR-
GAINS
IN OUR USED
IT ItNITURE DEPT.
J. W. ELROD
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D & I)
taxi
2067
CITY
TAXI
2502
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We arc now operat-
ing- 4 cabs. Time us
—if a cab is not at
your door in 10
minutes after you
call, you ride FREE
—in city limits.
f
Registered
Optometrists
■?, Expert exami-
nation and
glasses correctly fitted. Re-
pairing and broken lenses
duplicated.
J. P. MAJORS, J. B. MAJORS
For Your HEALTH
A Complete Drugless Health Service
Chiropractic — Massage — Electric Treatment
Colonic Irrigations—Vapor Baths—X-ray
Rooms for Patients
Dann's Health Home
1
E. A. Dann, D. C.
207 Pecan (Across from Sears Roebuck
Phones .3291 Nite 2837
&Co.)
Nolan Drug Store
"The Friendly Store" ■
DEEP CUT PRICES fe>
10very Day
Free Delivery Serviri
Dial tiOMMCJ
Here Is The Answer
To that question of a good used car at an exceptional
price. Don't fail to see them. Quick turnover prices.
Come in today.
O'KEEFE MOTOR COMPANY
HUDSON TERRAPLANE DEALERS t
Used Car Lot Next Door to Reporter
"Where Can I Find
A Good Used Dump
Truck?
W.
Answer:
Come In and See Us About This
l!>.'{4 Model Ford V-8 Dump Truck—
Dual Wheels—Good Mechanical Con-
dition.
This is one truck you can't go wrong on—Drop in to-
day and see it.
International Harvester Co.
Oak Street
Sweetwater, Texas
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 323, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1938, newspaper, April 14, 1938; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290336/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.