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Democrats Get Together
on Election Year
Democrats fight among themselves, but
when the iime comes for election they usu-
ally get together in pretty good shape. There
is. lor instance, Peter Molyneaux, editor and
publisher of "The Texas Weekly," of Dal-
las, who took any pot shots at the New Deal
early in the administration. But right now
Mr. Molyneaux is a staunch defender of
the Roosevelt administration—for it's elec-
tion year.
Mr. Molyneaux is a student of funda-
mental economics and world trade. He is
able to call the hands of the Republicans in
their wild statements on economic questions.
This Democratic habit of criticism and ar-
gument is the strength of the party. We
argue among ourselves a lot, but on election
dav we are usual!v there together voting
"right"v" * *""* " r
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An Imposition of Morals
Congress is now considering a law 'f;;;;:
which would tighten postal regulation on re-
gard to improper books. Under the present
law, proceedings _against a person accused"'
of committing an improper book to the
mails must be instituted in the city where " ,
the book.was mailed; under the new one,
the mailer could be prosecuted in the com-
munity where the mail is received.
Here is a change which is not as harm-....'
less as it looks. What seems to an isolated ; '::;
and backward community to be an impro- •
per book may not seem improper at all to
the people of a metropolis; yet under this
law the ideas of the isolated community f 7 .
could be enforced on the metropolis,'
New York publishers could be made ;ii '
just themselves to the ideas of some bac}£:i3Br.
woods town. ' "y'r; " '■
The rural community can protect itself '■
by local ordinance against books it dis-
approves. It should not be given the power
to say that books it does not like shall not
be printed anywhere in the country. That
would be the effect of this bill; for that rea-
son, the bill could well be allowed to die.
Emergency Farm
Loans Again in
This Territory
Three on Ballot r ; J
for Senate Race
AUSTIN, March 17. (UP)—
Three. men today had been cer-
tified by Secretary of State R.
B. Stanford for placing their
names on the ballot in the 19th
senatorial district's special elec-
tion March 28.
The election is to choose a suc-
cessor to Sen. Welly K. Hopkins,
resigned. The three candidates
certified are Henry G. Stein,
Luting; R. M. Vavness, San Mar-
cos; and R. A. Weinhart, Seguin.
Certification of candidates' names
is not. necessary, in special elec-
tions, therefore candidates other
than those mentioned may enter
the race. ; 1 'i
Girl Talks for
Ten Days Straight
SHREVEPORT, La., March 17,
(UP)—Ruby Poole, 16-year-old
Haynesville, La., high school stu-
dent, just talks, talks, and talks.
The girl, an honor student, was
in a local sanitarium today, suf-
fering from what physicians said
was an "odd affliction." She has
been talking almost constantly
for. ten days.
The Poole's family physician ex-
pressed the belief that Ruby
would recover.
Emergency crop and feud loans
for the year 1936, as authorized by
the President's Executive Order of
February 28, will be available with
in the next ten days, Governor W.
I. Meyers of the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration has announced, nc-
cording to N. R. Slaughter, field
supervisor. Regulations governing
the loans have been issued.
Governor Myers said the loans
will be made through the same
channels used in previous years.
Farmers eligible may obtain appli-
cations from the field supervisors
or the local emergency crop loan
committees already operating in
most counties. t
He said the loans will be limited
to the minimum amount necessary
to meet the immediate and actual
cash needs of farmers who are un-
able to obtain credit from any oth-
er source, and in no instances ex-
ceed $200 to one farmer. Appli-
cant* who can get credit from any
other source, including a produc-
tion credit association, will not be
eligible for emergency loans he ex-
plained. /
Loans will be made for the pro-
duction, planting, cultivating, and
harvesting of crops, for summer
fallowing, /ok supplies where they
are necessary lor production of
1936 crops, or to produce necessary
feed for livestock.
According to the governor's
statement, preference will be given
to applications of farmers whose
cas^ requirements are small, and
rio,loans may be made for purchas-
ing livestock or machinery or for
I payments of rents, debts or taxes.
|The loans will bear interest at
| the l'ate of 6% per cent a year and
rr? gift: secured by a first lie], or an
agreement to give a first lien, on
all crops financed in whole or part
with the proceeds of the emergency
loan. Where loans are made for the
production of feed for livestock,
they will be secured by a first lien
on the livestock to be fed.
Where farmers applying for e-
mergency loans are the tenants of
a private landowner or concern, t.he
maximum amount of loans to the
tenants of one landowner in one
county may not exceed $500. The
maximum amount of loans to mem-
bers of one household who are oc-
cupants of the same farm is $200.
Application in this vicinnlty
will be accepted at the Chamber of
Commerce ofifces.
Names of notes of the musical
scale were taken from the inital
syllaKss of the lines of a hymn.
First Coughlin
Church Burned
TEXnRKMM Visit El PHS0!
BROUinSUILLE See RIMIRIU0 ■
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j OYAL OAK, Mich., Max. 17 (U.R)
j —Father Charles E. Coughlin's or-
iginal shrine of the little flower
and «" of its treasured possessions
were destroyed by fire here today.
The 10-year-old frame structure,
built at a cost of $30,000 under the
leadership of the militant radio
priest, still smouldered at 9 a. m„
as fire departments of Royal Oak
and Birmingham concentrated ef-
forts on preventing the blaze from
spreading to the new shrine.
Father Coughlin was moved
deeply by loss of the shrine in
Which he had stood before the mic-
rophone each Sunday afternoon
and preached his sermon against
"the money-changers" and exhort-
ed his followers to action.
TEKMIS!
PLAN TO TRAVEL
TEXAS DURING —
[EHTERHIHL
VEHR
AU Texans are leveling thl« ytar,
■Ming and knowing their own itat*
-the real Texas!
Resident* of Ihe Bio Grande Vall«r
are finding that Ihe Panhandle and
Peeee counuos of North and Wnl
Texas olfer scenic attractions untur
passed anywhere in the United
Slates. East and West Texans are
finding in the Hio Grande Valley a
garden spot such as they never
realised existed anywhere before.
They're enloying picturesque San
Antonio and her historic missions
they're seeing Houston, visiting Ihe
■an ladnto battlegrounds; and
■pending happy, care free days at
Galveston. Corpus Chrlstl and other
Gulf Coast resorts 1
Elaborate Centennial Celebrations
make il especially interesting to
(ravel Texas 1hls yearl Every section
offers Interesting attractions—events
that come once In a century! Read
the calendar printed at the right For
more detailed Information, write the
Chamber ol Commerce at Ihe due*
you are Interested In.
Classified Ads Pay Big Dividends
CULLY COBB IS
GIVEN SOUTH S
COTTON REGION
WASHINGTON, Mar. 17. (U.R)
— Reorganization of the invali-
dated AAA into five regional
sections lor all 48 states to ad-
minister ybe new $600,000,000 soil
conservation program was an-
nounced today by Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A, Wallace.
Each of the five areas will be
under a regional director, the
same men who were in charge of
t]>e commodity, programs under
the old AAA'. Supervising the
work of the 'directors will be act-
ing AAA)" Administrator Harold
R. Toltfcy, Wallace said.
Thl five divisions include:
Southern—including South Car-
olina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Texas and Oklahoma. Regional
Director Cully A. Cobb, director
of the cotton program under
AAA.
Western—made up of North
Dakota, Kansas, Colorado, Wyo-
ming, Montana, New Mexico, Ar-
izona, California, Utah, Nevada,
Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Regional Director George E. Far-
rell, director of the AAA divis-
ion of grains.
Wallace ordered discontinuance
of the four commodity divisions
which administered the old pro-
gram.
He said that the task of liqui-
dating the AAA production con-
trol programs, carried on by
these divisions since the Supreme
court invalidated AAA, will be
part of the duties assigned to
the new regional divisions.
The order left intact other ad-
ministrative units of AAA, inclu-
ding the division of marketing
and marketing agreements, the
program planning division and
the consumers' counsel office. In
addition, the sugar section will
continue to handle quotas and
some other phases in connection
with a sugar program, Wallace
said.
Regional divisions will contin-
ue to maintain headquarters in
Washington, and the Washington
offices will deal directly with in-
dividual .itates.
"Under the new setup, how-
ever," the announcement said,
"much of the administrative work
of examining and auditing pro-
ducers' applications for grants
and paying producers will be done
in the states instead of in Wash-
ington."
Tolley pointed out that estab-
lishment of the new administra-
tive set up was "One of the nec-
essary steps in getting the new
farm program into operation as
quickly as practicable."
"W<> hope to announce details
of the new program within the
next few days,'' he said.
He said creation of field organ-
ization to administer the new pro-
gram alreeady had been started
under direction of the agricultur-
al extension services.
He emphasized that farmers'
county and community commit-
tees "as under the old program,
will take the leading part in loc-
■•)! administration."
"In addition to. these commit-
tees," he said, "a state commit-
tee will be established in each
state. Each of these committees
will have from three to five mem-
bers, the majority of whom will
92 Players Are
Squared Off to
Start Contest
Ninety two golf players of tha
Mexia Country Club squared off
Vuesday for their annual Easter
barbecue tournament. The low
score for the team wins, accord-
in gto Ralph Morgan, club man-
ager, who points out that each of
the 46 on Captain Louis H. Simp-
son's side will play one man on
Captain Maxwell T. Hill's side.
If one side of the two-man team
refuses to play, he forfiets the
match and his side loses 10 strokes.
The matches may be played any-
time between now and March 31
deadline. The Barbecue will be
within 10 days after that time, or
a few days before Easter.
The golf committee is composed
of Lynn Adams, Jack Slay, Eddie
Felz, Johnny Kennon.
The course is in good condition—
the best it has ever been — and
more than 50 played Sunday.
Matches for the tournament, in
which the total scores for the nine
holes count, are as follows:
L. H. Simpson Maxwell Hill
Captain Captain
Johnnie Kennon vs Lynn Adams
Val Horn vs C. E. Christie
Eddie Felz vs Cecil Cantrell
Charlie Kennon vs Dick Flake
Jack Slay vs Sid Ham
Gene Sinclair vs J. I. Riddle
Frank Felz vs S. N. Forrest
Pat Fain vs Blake Smith
E. L. Smith vs Omar Seely
Jno. Sweatt vs A. J. Laughlin
J. B. Patton vs George Lee
Bud Eubanks vs Jack Taturn
J. E. Woods vs Frank Oliver
H. R. Martin vs W. R. Tidwell
Horace Hitt vs R. M. Hawkins
Joe Stubenrauch vs Gray Forrest
Jesse Denning vs W. Reynolds
Wallace Mason vs H. B. Berry
Clif Wortham vs Doyle Hines
Barton Cox vs T. A. Phillips
Jack Corley vs M. W. Anderson
J. K. Hughes vs Willie Adams
W. A. Reiter vs R. L. Maddox
Don Foster vs Chas. Shelton
Wallace Welch vs J. B. Watson
Ivan Thorn vs Earl Smith
W. C. Sarter vs O. T. Christoffer
M. M. Brown vs J. W. Elliott
M. L. Tidwell vs Claud Nu9sbaum
Perry Potts vs J. M. Eller
Sam Antonio vs Raymond Dillard
Jno Phillips vs Abe Boyd
Miss Ann Stevens vs Geo. Peyton
Pat Fain Jr vs E. L. Smith Jr.
H. F. Mace vs Max Altman
Harold Nussbaum vs Will Peyton
Sam Werner vs Don Caldwell
Frank Becson vs Walter Boyd
G. T. Goolsby vs Jesse McLendon
R. E. Cromeans vs W. A. Jackson
Jack Driver vs Rufus Peoples
Sam Cox vs Ben Smith
Bert Hollister vs W. G. Reynolds
W. B. Kendrick Walter K. Boyd
R. H. Johnson vs Wright Kinche-
loe.
Lynn Adams Jr vs W. D. Hight
Jr.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar. 17
(U.R) Oklahoma's Republicans today
were lined up solidly for the pres-
idential campaign of Gov. Alf Lan-
don of Kansas after handing him
an instructed delegation for tho
Cleveland convention next June
be producers."
Wallace, in a farm and home
hour radio address, warned that
many proposals recommended at
the four recent regional meet-
ings will have to be modified or
rejected in the interests of de-
veloping n rounded national pro
gram.
terrs
ierterrirl
1936
VISIT THESE INTERESTING .
\ CENTENNIAL* j
XCELEBRRTIDNS/;
(March II through
April 11. Ririttd
t March 1)
MARCH 13-M-FORT WORTH — South-
western Eipoiition and Fat Stock Show.
MARCH 17—CRYSTAL CITY — Splnacn
:-"enival.
MARCH 27—GOLIAD—Pontifical Field
Mats. _
MARCH 1 —AUST1U—Tmj« Centennial
Rilayi.
APRIL 1-4—AUSTIN—Texa« Round-up.
APRIL 1—COLLEGE STATION — Cent«n-
rial Cotton Fastlval.
APRIL 4—BELTOH — Texo* Literary
Parade. (At which 100 Texas writers
representing 100 years ol Texa* -'.-HI re-
view literary arhtevements at Mary
Hardin-Baylor College.)
APRIL S-t—PLAIN VIEW — Panhandle
Plains Dairy Show.
AFltIL 10—EDNA--Educational Fair.
APRIL 10-11—GEORGETOWN — Agricul-
tural Ond Cultural Pete.
APRIL IM1—HOUSTON — San Jaeinlo
Association Celebrations. (Ten-day tastt-
vdl, parades, banquets, concerts, and
patriotic events, including Catholic Held
mass ol great national imucii.nnc*
APRIL 14-U—SINTON-TAFT - San Pa-
tiicio County Oltbratton, "-
APRIL IS—VICTORIA — Field Map and
Paqeant. (Commemorating a wase hxld
on the banks ol the Guadalupe in 1989.
APllnMwf-JELlpAS&-Mioels' Centen-
nial- Portraying the History ol Texae.
APRIL 17-r.AYMONDV1t.LE - Texcre
Onion Fiesta
APRIL 17—KINGSVILLE—Historical Cele-
brations. (In heart of world's greatest
<."jttle riomuin. ihe King Ranch.I
APRIL 2815-SArt ANTONIO—Fiesta de
San lacinto. (Gay leitival oi San
Idelnto, Battle ol Flowers parade, April
«)
-- APRIL « —PARIS—'Texas in th< Mais-
inrj" Vageant. (Gall ol #00.)
BIG SPRING—"Rose Window'' Oper-
etta.
IME Cenlennial Folk Festival.
jORE--Centennial Po$#«tnt:. '
I.ULING Caldwell County Centen-
nial Celebration.
RALlS—Crosby County Centennial
" Rwnd^Ip.
TEMPLE—Bell County Music Festival.
APRIL 21—CROCKETT - "Texas Vnde
Six Flaw®" Paoicint.
APRIL 21—BAY CITY-Centennial Plot
Day.
APRIL 17-MAY J—VERNON - Historical
and Industrial Review.
APRIL 27-2S—CROWELL — Foard County
Jubilee Celebration.
, tor Altt foftwd April U, mrllt
Stale SMtvwtoM
TRXAS CKHTEHN1AL CILIBRATIOM
Dallas, Texas
STATEMENT OF CONDITION
PRENDERGAST-SMITH NATIONAL BANK
MEXIA, TEXAS
March 4. 19.16
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
Banking Tfouse, Furniture and Fixtures...*
Other Real Estate Owned
Other Assets
U. S. Treasury and Guaranteed Bonds
Federal Land Bank Bonds
Other Bonds and Stocks
Cash on Hand and with Other Banks
$ 36,026.00
98,282.60
37,931.50
407,098.26
$199,263.56
50,000.00
6.00
2.263.82
579,337.26
$830,870.64
LIABILITIES
Capital: Preferred $ 50,000.00
Common 50,000.00
Surplus 20,000.00
Undivided Profits 27,859.59
Reserves • 677.72
DEPOSITS 682,333.33
$830,870.64
The above statement is correct.
"i. SANDFORD SMITH, President,
NOEL HOLLINGSWORTH, Cashier.
FROSA NEWS ^
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Mr. and Mr . Josh Burleson and
sons of Coolidge and Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Johnson of Tehuacana
spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. Clem Rued.
Mr. and Mn. Ray Curry and
children, Lynden and Btllie were
Groesbeck visitors Saturday.
Mrs. Babe Allen of Coolidge
spent the week-end with her mo-
ther Mrs. R. L. Howard. Miss
Ruby Howard accompanied her
home for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hardin
of Prairie Hill spent Sunday with
the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Ward.
Miss Shirley Hargrove of Prai-
rie Hill spent Friday night with
her sister Mrs. Garlin Ward.
Mr. John Hawkins of Coolidge
spent Friday with friends here.
Mr. S. J. Hines and Herman
Howard had business in Coolidge
Saturday.
Miss Dorothy Lee Gorman spent
the week-end with her parents
of Coolidge, Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
Gorman.
Miss Anita Poole spent the
week-end with her aunt of Delia,
Miss Evelyn Cotton.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Stafford
spent Sunday with relatives of
Prairie Hill.
Mrs. T. M. Burk& and Mrs.
Herdna Moran and children of
Mart spent Sunday with relatives
here.
Miss Marie Phillips of Kirk
spent Thursday with Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Curry.
Has Jinx, Says
Accident Story
KOSSE, March 17, (Spl)—
Kosae continues to hold its record
for automobile accidents, since the
people here, about 20 days ago
began singing safety driving
pladge cards, having had 16 of
its own town people In with auto-
mobile accidents and five out of
town people, making an average
of move than one a day.
The latest accident In which
Kosse people were Involved was
Saturday morning on Highway
14, just south of Dallas, when
L. W. Freeman, superintendent of
the Kosse schools, Mrs. Freeman
and Mrs. Lola Hunt, who were
en route to the Fat Stock Show
at Fort Worth, plunged into the
rear of a farm wagon being driv-
en by a negro, smashing a crate
of eggs and splaterlng a ten gal-
lon can of sweet milk all over
their car and the highway. None
were injured in the mix-up. The
wagon was torn to pieces and the
Freeman car was damaged con-
siderably.
—
Women of Bouganville, South
Seas, have long been fan dancers;
the fans are made of palm leaves.
Break Records
for Attendanc
An ostrict can eat oranges so
fast that six can be seen in his
neck at one time.
FORT WORTH, Mar. 17 (U.R)
Attendance figures for the 40
annual Southwestern Expositi
Fjk. Stock Show continued to tin
ble today as huge early mornii'
cro.wds jammed through the tur
stiles for the stock judging.
Led by a delegation of 13,0'
4-H Club members/ |rom evej
nook and cranny of sW) state, 2"
116 persons attended t^e show yt
terday.
Today is Fort Worth day as w
as Weatherford, Marshall and Ha
rison County day. -
Dr. Condon Back
from Panama Trii
NEW YORK, Mar. 17 <U.R) |
Closely guarded by relatives ai-
friends, Dr. John F. Condon returl
ed to New York today from a
months stay in Panama and frol
behind his stateroom door issu I
a statement saying he would ha I
nothing to say on the LindberJ-
case.
The Bronx educator, who attai
ed renown as "Jafsle," was accoi
punied from Panama on the *teai
er Santa Inez by his daughtt
Mrs. Myra Hacker. ; j
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The glow-worms seen flashin
their lights in flight are all ntahj
the females cannot fly. ■
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Elephants cannot trot or gal
I lop. A walk and a shuffle
their only gaits.
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... so was ihe Raisgo of that period
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science
MARCHES ON!
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A 1926 model car popping along
is certainly a true picture of
a "has-been." Contrast it with the
streamlined models of today. Com-
pare its performance. It fades out
of the picture . . . outmoded and
obsolete.
WITH A NEW
And so it is with gas ranges. In
their manufacture science and engi-
neering have wrought advancement!
just as striking as in the automobile
industry. Appearance, structure\k-
(ails and performance have'be'en
radically improved, creating a new
standard in a cooking appliance.
Without this modern cooking appli*
ance no kitchen—no matter how
modern its architecture and other
appointments may he—can truth*
fully be called modern unless its
range is a truly modern gas range!
So go modern with a new gas
range. You can afford to. Terms are
.surprisingly small. See the newest
1936 models now on display.
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Com mun itySlNatural Gas Co.
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