The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 17, 1937 Page: 4 of 6
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i THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
Office with the News Publishing Company
Entered at the poatoffice at Mexia, Texas, as second
rfasa mail matter under act of March 3, 1879.
Molyneaux Asks That Farmers
Be Told Facts
In a plea to acquaint the farmer* of
Texas with the real problems they are fac-
ing in connection with the reduction of
eotton acreage Peter Molyneaux, publisher
of the Texas Weekly surmises:
"Any policy is better, almost, than the
policy of reducing cotton acreage in Texas,
while production is increased in every for-
eign area and in California to preempt the
markets that Texas is losing. For that is a
policy of suicide. We are not and never have
been advocates of such schemes as the ex-
port debenture plan or the domestic allot-
ment plan. But we are frank to say that
they would be better than the present pol-
icy. However, unless there is a radical
change in sentiment among the farmers, the
present policy is going to be continued. For
the farmers are going to be made to be*
that the present low price of cotton
is due to the large American crop. They
will not be told that the foreign crop of
19,500,000 bales, or 3,500,000 bales more
than the AmerlCUn crop, has had anything
to do with it, and they will not be told that
the decline in conjumption of American cot-
ton abroad to about 5,000,000 bales has had
. anything to do with it. They will not be told
either that during the past five years,
while they were reducing their acreage, Cal-
ifornia was steadily increasing cotton acre-
age, or that California cotton has been die-
placing Texas cotton in the world's markets.
They will be led to believe that by reducing
their acreage they can affect the world price
of cotton, in spite of the collapse of five
years of. such' a policy. The prestige of .
President Roosevelt himself is behind such
a policy. For did not the President insist
upon receiving assurance that new "con-
trol" legislation would be enacted before he
. \vQuld consent to a cotton loan? The good
intentions of the President and his desire
to "help the farmer" will not prevent such
a policy from having ruinous effects. But
they will go a long way toward inducing
the farmers to agree to such a policy. The
odds, therefore, are overwhelming. And yet
the farmers ought to be aroused to the reil
situation." :: •; : . . .
Gary Cooper and lovely Frances Dee carry the major love story in
Paramount's epic "Souls at Sea,'' the amazing; romance lifted right
from one of the most glamorous pages of American history, which
opens next Saturday at the National Theatre for three days.
'Chute Tester Takes
No Chances in His Job
NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept 11,
(UP)'-Farley Vincent, local avia-
tor tests parachutes—but he does-
n't leave the ground. -
Vincent only parachute rigger
in this part of the south, feels
his testing is good enough and be-
_•—jides; Tt-etcesn't endanger his-neek.-
He stands on the smooth grass
field at Shushan airport behind
the tail of a plane with its motro
running and with the parachute
strapped to his body. Air blasts
from the motor cause the 'chute
to open—as if it were in the air-
when he pulls the rip cord, and he
has Ample opportunity to make «•
full test.
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Read The News Classified Ads
PHYSICAL EYE READ!-!
NESS IS IMPORTANT
FOR THE STUDENT.
Have their eyes examined |
now!
GLASSES for STUDENTS |
at SPECIAL PRICES.
Dr. Joe B. Williams
1161/2 W. 6th Ave.
—CORSICANA—
(In Mexia Office Every
Saturday)
DiEAD HORSES*
Mules, Cows removed Free
within 50 miles of Waco.
Phone WACO RENDER-
IT.G CO., Phone Waco, |
1900, Collect.
Pablic Hearing
Flood Control
Be at Corsicana
A public hearing will be held by
Louis P. Merrill, Regional Conser-
vator of the Soil Conservation Ser-
vice in the Court House, at Corsi-
cana, Texas, beginning at 10 o-
•clock a. m., Sept. 22,, 1937, for the
purpose of enabling all interested
parties to present their views con-
cerning flood control from stand-
point of run off and water flow re-
tardation, and the soil erosion pre-
vention of the water shed of the
Trinity River.
It is imperative that the people
of the north side of Limestone
County be there to present their
views and wishes, T. B. Lewis,
County Agent, said, because out
of this meeting will be recom-
mendations passed on to Congress
for the coming session which will
affect all the people in the Trinity
River water shed.
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Victor Moore and Helen Broderie k are seen here as they appear in
thejr current co-starring picture fo r RKO Radio, "Meet the Missus."
The hilarious comedy deals with th e happenings during a convention
at Atlanta City where legions of w omen are gathered to compete for
the title of the Average American Housewife, or "Missus America."
Moore finds himself—you guesse d it—as the henpecked husband of
the winner. Showing at the Palace Theater Sunday.
Suggest Game Re-
serves for Palo
Pinto County
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BARGAIN
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I; See Us
First!
Mexia Battery
& Tire Company
Wunstop Duzzit
MINERAL WELLS, Sept. 10
I (U.R)—W. T. Krumens of the Uni-
ted States Biological Survey in
Washington has suggested the pos-
sibility of creating huge game and
wild life refuges in the Possum
Kingdom Dam area of Palo Pinto
County.
Krumens said he was interested
in working out plans for preserves
in the wild country which borders
the lake made by Possum Kingdom
Dam.
He suggested the possibility of
damming small creeks and draws
to provide a constant water level
for wild fowl. The uplands should
be stocked with deer, wild turkeys
and other game.
Krummens said his inteerst was
aroused by the series of razos Riv-
er dams which have created a chain
of lakes lying directly in the flight
line of migratory birds.
DOUBLE-CROSS
IS RECOGNIZED
BY UNCLE SAM
CINCINNATI, 0., Sept. 11,—
(UP)—A check for $2,500 soon
will be received by John Brooks,
Cincinnati Negro, who for 16
years has striven to get back
the money he lost when a faith-
less friend jumped the bond that
Brooks had put up to bail him
out of jail.
It was back in 1921 when
Brooks, taking pity on a former
schoolmate who was in jail on a
charge of stealing cigaretts from
a freight car, gave bond for him.
The friend, being not the friend
Brooks had thought he was, skip-
ped the bond and disappeared.
Brooks at a loss at having to
pay the $2,000 bond searched the
country for the fugitive with the
aid of hired detectives until final-
ly the government said the bond
would have to be paid Brooks
paid but he continued the search.
Then 1929 rolled along—4 he
year the depression hit the coun-
try—and Brooks was one ®f the
many whose finances were deplet-
ed. He even lost his home through
foreclosure, the home that the
$2,600 would have saved had he
not lost it through his faithfless
friend.
More ironical was the fact that
Brooks in that year had at last
located the fugitive—but too late.
The government was no longer
interested in him since eight years
had passed and witnesses were no
longer available.
So Brooks turned to Uncle Sam
pleading for the money he needed
so barly. One congress had no
ears for his plea. Undaunted be
placed it before the new congress
that met last January. Congress-
man Herbert S. Bigelow spoke for
Brooks and introduced a bill to
pay the negro his money.
The bill passed and the money
will soon be paid.
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Why 'Phone Girls
Make Good Wives
CALCUTTA, (U.R)—If you want
a patient, polite wife, marry a
telephone girl.
This is the advice given by
"Miss Operatro," who has just
broadcast an address entitled "At
Your Service," from the Calcutta
station of the All-India Radio.
Justifying her claim, "Miss Op-
erator" said:
"The telephone girl has no illu-
sions about men. After two or
three years at a -telaphone ex-
| change she has dealth with men of
j all sorts, in all manner of woods.
| She can tell by tlie tone of ynur
I voice whether you have just had a
I raise in salary or whether you are
! suffering from that 'morning af-
! ter' feeling. Whatever your mood,
she had learnt always to be pat-
ient and polite."
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J. K. Hughes has returned after
spening the week in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Measels of
Drumwright, Oklahoma are spend-
ind the week end here with Mrs.
Mollie Metlon and Mr. and Mrs. E.
T. Measels, Sr.
Do Your Eyes
Behave?
Eyes, however, imperfect, have
a large share in deciding how suc-
cessful we shall be in this world.
We are obliged to depend upon
them for our facts, and they are
not always truthful. They may tell
us one thing in the morning and
later in the day reverse the opinr
ion. Which to believe? Also the ill
effectB of infectual eyes can croop
upon us without our knowledge.
That fact makes imperative a
yearly examination to determine
just how the eyes are behaving.
If the eyes always announced
their inability to give service, that
yearly examination might not be
so vitally important but often the
defects which spoil the record of
good behavior are unsuspected.
Lack of co-ordination of the two
eyes is a fault of this type. Every-
thing that the two eyes, muscles,
nerve impulse, everything must
synchronize if one is to have really
effective vision. But two out of
every five people may lack that co-
ordination may not always use
both eyes equally when looking at
an object. If that fact causes a lit-
tle trouble, a little fatigue, the
eyes instead of insisting like a bad
tooth, will obligingly try it another
way. One eye will "suspend". That
is, one eye looks while the other
suspends for a brief bit of rest. If
both eyes had equally good vision
this little trait might not be troub-
lesome or a danger, but a one-eyed
driver —that is with only one real-
ly efficient eye, could have and
often does have a very serious ac-
cident during the period the good
eye was taking "time out" for re-
laxation. The same menace is pres-
ent when working with machinery.
Eyes however Imperfect have a
permanent place in forming our
judgment of distance, depth, and
shape. It is a costly experience to
use a pair of eyes that are ineffic-
ient and untruthful to aid in form-
ing important opinions.
No good business man would pay
a huge salary to a man who lied to
him continually. A state too silly
to deserve consideration you are
thinking. Yet many of you are
trusting your liveg to untruthful
eyes. Many firms are employing
men with eyes that lie to their
owner continually. And the men
believing that those same eyes are
serving him faithfully and truth'
fully, pays in energy that should
go to other parts of the body; pays
often in bitterness and a wrecking
of his self-confidence when anoth-
er man gets the advancement he
feels should be his own in view of
the loyalty and effort he brings to
his work.
Optometry advocates a yearly
examination of the eyes, not to de-
termine whether or not you need
glasses, but because only a scien-
tific examination of the acuity, re-
action, and responsiveness of the
eyes can determine the value of
their performance.
Nine Directors
Are Chosen at
Meet Stockmen
Nine directors of the three-
county Stockmen Asociation now
in formulation were named at a
barbeque Wednesday noon at
Springfield. Limestone, Freestone |
and Leon counties are to have
three members each on the board
The nine directors will meet
Monday afternoon at the offices
of the Mexia Chamber of Com-
merce to elect officers and put
the planB in effect immediately
Plans call for a large cash reward
for the arrest and conviction of
cattle thieves and for betterment
of cattle breeding in the throe
county area.
At the Wednesday meeting over
150 stockmen heard Joe Adams,
of Swift and Company discuss
problems facing stockmen and
how they could be met.
Leonard Afdahl, head of the
cattle buying division of the Dal-
las plant of Swift and Company
talked on "better beef, better cuts
and better prices."
Greetings from the Fort Worth
Stockyards Company w • re
brought by E. W. Nicodemus
Fort Worth.
Cleveland May Build
Island in Lake Erie
CLEVELAND (U.R)—D. M. Wei-
gel, a Cleveland engineer, has de-
signed an airplane motor which
has attracted attention of the So-
viet government.
He i« in communication with A.
IN. Toupolev, Soviet airplane ex-
pert, and with V. E. Molotov, of
the Council of People's Commis
bars.
HWeigel'g motor is said to per-
form the full cycle of intake, com-
presison, expansion and exhaust
during a single revolution of the
crankshaft.
Weigel said the motor's merit*
have been recognised by Prof. F.
H. Vose, of the Case School of Ap-
plied Sicence, here, and by the U.
Is. Navy.
The inventor, a British subject
who has been in America since the
World War, said he has been told
that the navy would buy hit mo-
tors, if they were already avail-
able.
8-YEAR-OLD BOY
SLEEPWALKER
GOES NUDIST
ENDICOTT, N. Y.t Sept. 12,-
(UP)—A night watchman of En-
! dfcott Johnson Corporation gazed
■ out of the window of his office—
and rubbed his eyes. A nude boy
was walking briskly along the
street.
He found Billy Wella, 8, years
old walking in his sleep, oalled
police, who awakened the boy,
clothed him in a cheesecloth veil,
and returned him to his home, one
mile away from the spot.
Billy was badly frightened.
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Squeeze table linens in heavy
suds made from mild soap. Rub-
bing roughens the fine fabric and :
shortens the life of the -article. I
The tilted moon, from which (
water would spill is known a*
wet moon.
Western Flyer
Girt's
Bike
w
Fully
Guaranteed!
Balloon Tires
- A $35.00
Value
Davis De Luxe Auto Tires
Guaranteed 18 Months Against AH Road Hazards
Y/earwell Auto Tires
Guaranteed 12 Months Against All Road Hazards
AT LOWEST PRICES
Wesferit Auto Associate Stor
Home Owned and Operated by C. H. Molony
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FINDS RECRUITS
TOO EDUCATED
FOR ARMY JOBS
SIDNEY, N. S. W. (U.R)—The
City of Sydney squadron of the
Royal Australian Air force has an
inverted recruiting problem—re-
cruits are too many and too good
More than 800 men between the
ages of 18 and 85 applied on one
day for commissions in the non-
flying branches of the squadron.
Many of them were turned down
because their qualifications were
too high.
"Bachelors of Science and other
men with equally high qualificat-
iona were coming forward to en-
list as airmen.," the commanding
officer. "It would obviously be
uneconomic to accept them in that
capacity."
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Summons Family
of 80 to Meet at
Fair Grounds
SACRAMENTO, Cal., (U.R)—
Nick Singley has just invited all
of his descendants to a family
reunion at the county fair.
The reason he chose the fair
grounds was to be sure there
would lie plenty fo room.
According to Nick's best cal-
culations and censua his descend-
ants number 80.
Road Bump Causes
Near Fatal Accident
TOESTENKILL, N. Y., Sept.
11, (UP)—Rolf Jensen struck a
bump while driving his truck
along a nearby dirt road. The
jolt threw him against the roof
of the cab and knocked him un-
conscious. The truck, out of con-
trol, swerved off the road and
crashed into a tree. Jensen is in
the hospital recovering from a
broken leg.
More Rural Boys,
Girls Leak City
COLLEGE STATION, Sept. 11,
(U.R)—Rural boys and girls in
Texas ugain are looking in in-
creasing numbers toward the
bright lighfs of the cities, Dr. C.
Horace Hnmilton, economist at
Texas A. & M. college, has found
in a study of rural population
trends.
Rural births topped rural deaths
in Texas by some 33,000 in 1936,
but the farm-to-city movement
surpassed the city-to-far.n trend
by 47,000 persons, Dr. Hamilton's
report showed.
An additional 12,000 Texas far-
mers sought new pastures in the
other states. City-goers and those
moving to other states combined
to tear down the stork's efforts
and left a decrease of 26,000 in
Texas farm population for the
year, h6 said.
U. of P. Seeks Funds 1
for 1940 Celebration )
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. r,
(UP)—The University of P>
sylvania will -Jmd iu>i>eals to r:
than 60,000 adumni all over
world Oct. 18 in its campaigi
raise $12,500,000 fro its Bicent
nial Celebration In 1940.
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The drive will be instituted : t:
, "Pennsylvania World-Wide Dir
| rier" to be held in nearly <'00" /
American and foreign cities, the
| bi-centennial committee announc-
ed.
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RANDOLPH FIELD, Tej.as
| Sept. 16, (U.R)—Second LSeut. n-
drew D. Moore, army flying n-
structor suffeied a crohen oecli .
and Cadet Claud Putnam, Jr. re j
ceived minor lacerations when
their training plane crashed in a
field near here today.
Mrs. Ben S. Smith haa returned
from Fort Worth where she visited
Mr. and Mrs. Judd Stiff.
Flowers
For All Occasions
Sparks B Jenkins
NURSERY
Mexia, Texas
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The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 17, 1937, newspaper, September 17, 1937; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299521/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.