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t gives fore* to
it i* essential that
opinion should be enlght-
—George Wsshinfts*
Editorial Page of Mexia Weekly Herald
"t "wholly disapprove of whs.t
you isy but will d^lend to the
death your right to say It.''
—Voltaire
Mexia, Texas.
friday, april 12, 1940.
The Mexia Weekly Herald
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THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered at the Postoffice at Mexia, Texas
as second class mail matter under Act of
March 3, 1879.
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JIow Politics Block A Return To
^ Fiscal Sanity
w (From San Antonio Express)
This Congress faces the necessity of cut-
ting governmental expenditures drastically,
at the same time levying new taxes to meet
needed outlay for the national defense, or
else raising the legal debit-limit considerably
above 45 billion dollars.
With a political campaign at hand—in
which all the House and one-third of the
MysteryH
oase
It's kinda chilly in that spring suit, isn't
it? But after April 16, two months to the
date from that day in February it thundered,
it should be spring.
Boyce House, free-lance writer and col-
umnist, asked in a recent column, "What is
the, smallest town in Texas that prints a
newspaper?" Carbon, whose Messenger is
edited by W. M. Dunn, had a population 463
in the 1&80 census. Do you know of a paper
Senate must stand for re-election, excepting j printed in a smaller town ?"
the few emembers who will retire voluntarily i , ...
—none of th, coon*. .numerated 1. pelat- i In ,, er c0,u"m w™'« :,. A "«'*
able. The Conmessm.n who vote, for either ?*>*/ 881 ypulatlon. Glen
new taxes or an increase in the national debt
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(which must be liquidated in taxes later on)
knows he will have a hard time explaining that
act to his constituents' satisfaction.
Meanwhile—through the Gallup polls,
resolutions adopted by business organizations
and othe influenzal civic groups, and letters
from citizens—Congress has been hearing
from the country The people are demanding
that their Government stop spending money
which it does not possess, while increasing
the national debt to a fantastic figure. In,
telligent citizens are waking up to the haz-
ards which beset that course. They can see
Doas, managing editor of the White^rght
Sun, comes forward with this interesting in-
formation about the Savoy Sun.
♦ '"Yes I know of a paper printed in a
smaller town than Carbon, which you say in
your column has a population of 463.
'"The Savoy (Fannin county) Star is
published and printed in a town having a
1930 census count of 284. Incidently, I got
my first odor of printers ink on the Savoy
Star, where I worked after school and on Sat-
urdays In 1908.
"'The Savoy Star has one of the first
George Washington newspaper presses built,
the end to which it is moving too rapidly for the old hand-inked and hand-impressioned
cmfort: loss of confidence in the pubic credit, kind 0f press, and the Star is printed on it
inflation, national disaster. I every week. Some 20 or 25 years ago t hey in-
The time has come to reverse the direc- stalled a cylinder press, but later sold it and
tion and at least to move toward "fiscal san-; went back to the G. Washington.'"
ity"—to reduce the deficit, balance the bud-
get, betrin paying that 45-million-dollar debt. 1 This writer knows where a weekly news-
Certainly the difficulties blocking that sen- paper is printed in a town smaller than Savoy,
sihle course are formidable. For all the ; RjeSel, McLennan county town 15 miles south
House's show of economy, the appropriations 0# w3c0i my former home which E. B. (Son)
authorized or pending will exceed the budget- Moslev says consists of a hitching post, a mul-
t.otal which the President had submitted by berry tree and a country gin, is a town of 268
many million dollars and thus raise the na-: population. Norman White, barring mechan-
tional debt well above the statutory limit be- jca] trouble, manages t.o come out with the
fore June 30, 1941. Riesel Rustler every week, and he'll trade
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IP YOU HEAR SOMeONB
Give A BLOOD-CURDLING
SCREAM DON'T PAY ANV
ATTENTION BBCAUSS IT'LL
PROBABLY BE YOU
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WHILE 1
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EXT ?A BODY
AWOUND
ANYWHERE,
HAVE Y0O?
TWO-MINTTE sermon
Reality In Religion
By E. H. HUDSON
"Pur# Religion and undefiled is this;
to visit the fartherless and widows and to
keep himself unspotted from sin."
James 1:27
Modern Menus
-MODERN MENUS, RELEASE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10—
What is worse, it appears that the 985
million dollars which the President proposed
for unemployment relief will be insufficient.
butter, eggs, kindling wood or frying-size
chickens for a subscription.
Rack when 1 was wearing overalls and
Perhaps an additional half-billion dollar will sunburn to the Riesel school, an apred man
be required to keep the WPA going through named Fisher, now passed to his reward, was
another fiscal year. 'editing the paper. I marvelled at Mr. Fisher's
Rather than increase the debt-limit, Sen- • ability to do three things at once—pei-k the
ator Adams (Colorado) proposes that Con- Bible system—seek and ye shall find—on the
gress authorize the Treasury to borrow [typewriter, smoke his pipe, and listen to the
money to meet specific appropriations. That battery set radio with the earphones clamped
still would be a subtefuge, however. If the , to his earR.
debt must be increased, the better way (as
Secretary Morgenthau has suggested) would
be to face the issue squarely and openly. Noth-
ing is to be gained, but much ground would be
lost, by deferring the necessary reforms until
after election.
In t.he "Dogears" of his paper, Mr. Fish-
er printed a poem:
The boy stood on the burning deck.
A common, unrattled Hustler.
He smoked his pipe with great delight,
And read the Riesel Rustler."
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX !
NEA Service Stall Writer
'"THE warm breath of spring says
"Come out of the kitchen."
Better listen once in a while and
take a few modern short cuts to
menu planning. Try some of these
well-balanced suppers when cook-
ing seems too hard.
Poached eggs on corned beef
J hash (canned), lettuce w Rus-
i sian dressing, bread at outter,
I canned fruit, tea or coflci milk.
Sausages or bacon, spaghetti
with tomato sauce (canned),
shredded cabbage, rye bread and
butter, cookies (packaged), tea cr
coffee, milk.
Baked beans (canned) with
ketchup, brown bread (canned),
butter, fruit salad, tea or coffee
milk.
Cold tongue or ham (canned),
vegetable salad (canned mixed
vegetables), hot pan rolls, butter
sponge cake (packaged) with
crushed pineapple (canned), tea
or coffee, milk.
Codfish cakes (canned), stewed
tomatoes (canncd), celery, pickles,
whole-wheat bread and butter,
grapefruit, tea or coffee, milk.
Or else reduce kitchen time with
a hatch of beans which can
served the second day.
Tomorrow's Menu
BREAKFAST: Apple
sauce, dry cereal, muffins,
honey, coffee, milk.
LUNCHEON: Cream of
tomato soup, lettuce sand-
wiches, chocolate cake, tea,
milk.
DINNER: Cold cuts, lima
beans and chili, lettuce and
grapefruit salad, frosted cup
cakes, preserved pea.s, cof-
fee, milk.
LIMA BEANS WITH CHILI
(Serves eight to ten)
One pound dried lima beans, 1
onion, chopped; 2 tablespoons fnt,
cup sugar, 1 teaspoonful chili
powder, 2 cups canned tomatoes, 1
cup grated cheese.
Wash beans and soak in cold
water overnight. The next morn-
ing, boil until tender. Drain. Melt
fat in frying' ppn, and brown
onion. Add chili powder, sugar,
salt and tomatoes. Combine the
lima beans and tomato mixture in
a casserole. Bake in moderate
oven (350 degrees i'.) for 30 min-
be utes. When done, sprinkle with
I the gr:.ted cheese and serve hot.
NOMINAL RELIGION , a , 14
Every genuine thing is imitated and counterfeited
Religion is not an exception.
Some critics ay only ten percent of church members are
converted.
Some assert that less than half are real Christians
If this be true, many sermons are misfits and fail in the
message most needed; they offer to the blind messages that
are helpful only to the seeing. '••• {
Real religion is more than church membership. Folks
are not Christians because their names are on church rolls;
not because they read the Bible, or pray, or assent to a creed;
not because they do not lie or steal or drink or gamble; no$
because they wear long faces and give to missions and fttnWC;
Church membership is not a sure pass to Heaven.
Real religion is not inherited. Religious ancestry may help,
but does not guarantee real personal religion. If the world
were won to Christ in this generation, it would need to be won
again in the next generation, for man of every time must be
"Born Again." The Visible Church is composed of those who
belong to it today.
Real religions is more than formalism. Rituals may help
but do not create Christians; they are a means to an end. Our
forms and creeds that fail to get into the days work are vain.
Real religion is more than Reformation. Reform of the "old
man" does not eventuate in the regeneration of a 'new' man."
Improvement of a sinful nature may fall far short, of a new
nature. Jesus pronounces judgment on nominal Christians:
"Inasmuch as ye did it not unto the least of these, ye did it
not unto me; depart from me."
GENUINE RELIGION.
Real religion is a personal experience of God. Sometimes
we hear one say "I have got religion." But that one is not truly
religious till he can say Religion has got me." Never until
men experience God can they do the works of God.
Fruitfulness is a result of real religion. Churches today
; are excusing their fruitfulness and justify it. They say "we
are living in a Godless age; the seed is being cast on stony
[ ground." This is not true. Churches are fruitless because of
j empty, barren hearts. Neither the soil nor the seasons are at
— foult; the tree itself is to blame. Men today need God; they are
searching for God; the soil is ready for the seed.
™" Growth is another result of real religion. When men or
STAMP N5WS churches cease to grow they begin to die. When man or church
' is satisfied, that man or church is dead. Of all men, the com-
placent man is furtherest from God. Being rooted and ground-
ed in love, we grow in grace and knowledge and power.
Wisdom is another result of a real Christian. "Learn of
me," Jesus says. But religious education alone, fails to give
understanding of God and men. Oul.v the pure in heart can see
God. True learning comes when the spirit of truth is within
us. Scholarship is a help to religion as a background, not as
a foundation. Not by might or by power or by wisdom but by
the Spirit of God is real religion created.
Obedience is amother mark of real religion. "If ye love me,
keep my commandments." "By this shall all men know ye are
disciples, that ye love one another," Obedience is a test of the
soundness of our professions.
A real charchooneists of a number of sincere, re-born peo-
ple united in loving fellowship, bowing at the feet of the Lord
of All, inspired by a common hope, empowered by the Divine
Spirit, working together ipr the redempt ion of the world.
"He ye Do em of the Word and not Hearers Only."
*ro*o
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Be not discouraged at broken and spilled jj
resolutions; but to it and to it, again!—Col-
eridge
Herald's
Weekly Sunday School Lesson
House lists a group of newspapers with
expressive names. He names the Big Lake
Wildcat, Bowie Blade, Comanche Chief, Here-
ford Brand and Ferris Wheel, but fails to list
jW. F. Stewart's Kosse Cyclone, which, in my
A man should never~he ashamed to own °Pini™. '« a colorful name.
he has been in the wrong, which is but say- The Oakwood Oracle used to be printed j MiCClh's Vision of PeaC6
lug. in other words, that he is wiser today <!n Leon county. I heard at one time
than he was yesterday.—Pope
COUNTRY doctor gave mod-
ern medicine one of its great-
est miracles—anesthesia. After 8
long controversy, authorities have
finally agreed that Dr. Crawford
W. Long of Jefferson, Ga , was the
first physician to use ether to
deaden pain of an operation.
Dr. Long's discovery is com-
memorated by the U. S. 2-cent
stamp above, released April 8 at
Jefferson, Ga., second stamp of the
scientists group of the Famous
Amerieans series.
Dr. Long removed a tumor from
the neck of James Venable, March
30, 1842, using ether as an anes-
thetic. His bill for that operation
and for * second, for removal of
another tumor, totaled $4.50,
proved Long's claim of discovery.
Dr. William T. G. Morton, Bos-
ton dentist, was originally credit-
ed with the first use of ether,
based his claim upon an opera-
tion performed by Dr. J. C. War-
ren, in 184fi. But investigators
ruled against Dr. Morton and oth-
ers.
W. M. Jones Has Prize Plum Jree,
He Wins$10 From Colonel hughes
W, M. .Iwes of Tehuaapa was
$1(1 richer Monday hecause he has
a plum tree with more plums on
it than does Col. J. K, Hughes,
.lones in a sworn statement be-
five * Notary Public said t,hit
a plum tree nf his property at
Tehuacana had more plums than
i (-ana, Texas, which st this tune
has more plums now growing
thereon than does any other Oil#
plum tree tn Limestone county."
Colonel Hughes, after paying
•Innes $10, said 5,282 of the plums
on the pri7.e tree had br>en knock-
ed off the tree by .Saturday's
i wind and rain. "I couldn't, tell
the difference in the tree," he
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mother and child first!"
To reach a port, we must sail, sometimes
with the wind and sometimes against it, but
we must sail, and not drift., nor lie at anchor.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
it had passed out of existence. Do you know
whether it. is still being printed—Oakwood
Oracle—that.' a colorful name itself.
May Some Day Come True
Text: Mieah 4:1-5; 5:2-5a
Energy will do anything that can be done
in this world, and no talents, no circum-
Here and There: Indications are that;
most farmers of this section will plant Acala I
cotton this spring. After a study last year,
the Mexia Chamber of Commerce declared
that, Acala was the best variety for planting
in this section, and urged the planters to set-
stances, no opportunities will make a man tie on one variety. Acala is a longer-staple
without it.—Goethe
Goodness and benevolence tire. They
maintain themselves and others and never
•top from exhaustion.
♦ + ♦
I go on with what I am about as if there
were nothing else in the wrold for the time
being. That is the secret of all hardworking
men.—Kingsley
♦ + ♦
Only those who have the patience to do
simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill
to do difficult things easily.—Schiller
♦ + ♦
What is defeat? Nothing but education.
Nothing but the first step to something bet-
ter—Wendell Phillips
♦ + ♦
When everything seems lost, noble souls
find their opportunity.—Lacordaire
♦ ♦♦
The highest reward for man's toll is not
what, he gets for it, but what he becomes by
It.—Ruskin
♦ + ♦
Experience is victor, never the vanquish-
ed; snd out of defeat comes the secret of vic-
tory.—Mary Baker Eddy
cotton which brings an added profit averaging j
around $7.50 per acre. One-variety cotton
finds ready markets at a premium. It is, there-1
fore, a much better means of solving the cot- j
ton farmers' problems than government aid, i
which is costly to the taxpayer and aggravat-
es unemployment by restricting production
. . . Frends of Ray Bach us are sending him
issues of the W. Lee O'Daniel News. They fig-
ure Bachus will pursue its contents to the very
end. The latest "paper," the one in the sack,
was sent to you, Ray, by "Boss" McKenzie.
Where's that reward? . . . Old-Timers in this
section will recall when J. L. Spencer, now
editor and publisher of The Mart Herald, re-
sided in Mexia for two years in the nineties.
Spencer is Congressman Bob Poage's ap-
pointee for the postmastership at Mart . . .
Jodge 0. F. Watkins prediits a rain within the
next several days. "I'm not a new comer to
Texas, and I don't think I'm a fool, but I've
been trying to predict Texas weather for 48
years," the judge said in making the fore-
cast.
After a look through the day's news,
there arises the question, "Whatever be*
coma of Sumner Wall* 7
BV WILLIAM K. GILROY, D. D.
Editor of Advance
npHE vision of a world of peace,
with the nations bsating their
swords into ploughshares and
their spears into pruning hooks,
seems in these days as remote as
the days when Micah uttered his
prophecy.
But it is precisely because the
world is at war that this vision
is important. It is a long way to
look back to the days of this
prophet of ancient Israel, the
man who saw the vision of a
warless world and of a Prince of
Peace judging righteously be-
tween the nations; and it seems a
long way to look forward to the
realization of any such dream as
this when we think of the inter-
national hates and Jealousies and
the bitter strifes that are mani-
fest in the world today.
Nevertheless, years are slight
In the great march of eternity,
and time is not long in the ac-
complishment ot Ood's purposes.
With God, a day is as a thou-
sand years and a thousand years
as a day; and, though the ac-
complishment of this vision of
p«ace still seems far remote,
even in a war-stricken world we
are not without signs of hope and
promises that the. fulfillment will
come.
• • •
«T<HERE is hope here on our own
*■ American continent. There
was a time when, along the bor-
ders that have now been peaceful
for over one hundred years, men
were at war in the bitterest en-
mity. Recent novels and moving
pictures have vividly told the
•tory of these terrible conflict* in
which Indian and white man,
Briton and Frenchman, Amerl-
utmost savagery, and in which
enemy perpetrated upon enemy
the most, eruel and horrible tor-
ture. Yet, today, we live in a
land of peace, and along this bor-
der where once horror and terror
prevailed now men and govern-
ments live side by side in peace
ancl mutual respect.
Is it impossible to believe that
such a thing may come in ptner
parts of the world?—that men
may yet turn from their unpro-
ductive and wasteful strife to
ways of life and mutual helpful-
ness? Is it too much to expect
that men will turn from ways of
bruitishness, and that they will
see the folly of their mutual de-
structiveness, and how much
better it would be if both men
and nations would follow the
policy of living and letting live?
• * •
VET, what hope is there of ever
A achieving this until there is a
new heart in men and a new soul
in nations? The new peace in the
world, the new leve of life, and
the new way of life, are not go-
ing to pome Just by chance. They
are going to come only as men
turn from ways of evil and ways
of greed and righteousness to the
ways of right-
It was Micah who spoke of re*
ligion as consisting in loving
mercy and in doing jusUce.
Micah saw this new world of
peace as a world of regard for
law 'and right. He saw the
Lord's house established on the
top of the mountains and the na-
tions coming to that house In rev*
erence and devotion. What •
world it would be If the nations
did Colonel HughtV prize treu, !
and Colonel Hughe* gave he $I<11 said. "It still looked like it had
Dr. Long died of apoplexy while i haf' promised for the owner of just as many plum* on it as it
on an obstetrical case, in 1878. the tree which exceeded his in : did before the, rain."
His last words were: "Care for the I p)um(! j ColonP| Hughes and two other
.Tones' sworn statement. was; persons spent nearly the entire
made before L. B. Anltman, loeal, morning Monday counting the
Notary Public. | plums which had fallen. "It was
The oath read: "That to the j some task," Colonel Hughes said,
best of my knowledge and belief,; "You must be a 'plumb good
I am the owner «f one plum tree, ro ut.er' by now," a wisecraeker
located on mjr property at Tehua- cracked.
LONGVIEW, Texas, April 9.
(U.P)—Longview blasted Tyler 11
to % Monday in an East Texas
league exhibition game. I/ingview
play? Kilgore here Wednesday.
OUT OUR WAY
By Williams
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