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ot a govertimen' Rive* (ore* to
public opinion, it is essential that
public opinion should be enlght-
ened."—Genre* tyaski*rt«i
Editorial Page of Mexia Weekly Herald
"1 wholly di ■W'ov "f what
you M,y but will defend to tha
death your right to say It."
—Voltaire
Mexia, Texas.
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941.
The Mexia Weekly Herald
PUBLISHED BY "
THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY
A. M. (Gus) STEWART, Managing Editor
Entered at; the Postoffice at Mexia, Texa?
as second class mail matter under Act of
March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year (in State) $1.00
One Year (Out of State) $1.50
One in a Thousand
Approximately 130,000 European refu-
gees are now in the United States, accord-
in? to the National Refugee Service, and
half of them are concentrated in New York
and a few other large cites.
That's one refugee for every thousand
Americans, which wouldn't seem to he any
very menacing proportion. Experience here
would seem to tally with that of Mexico,
where European refugees cling to the big
cities. That's unfortunate, because they
would probably learn American ways and
establish themselves far more quickly in
small towns. But most of them, being in-
voluntary and not voluntary immigrants,
still hope to get back to Europe some day.
Those who really want to stay in Am-
erica after the war, having established
themselves, will stay; many will return.
But in the meantime, until the United
States has provided refuge for 10 times as
many homeless people as have now found
it heie, there wouldn't seem to be any rea-
son to worry about American life being en-
gulfed by a foreign tide.
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Must Somebody Dominate?
Typical of a line of reasoning that is all
too prevalent in the world today is this,
from Japanese Rear Admiral Gumpei Sek-
ine, a naval critic. He was discussing the
political fate of all the Asiatic lands lying to
the south and west of the Japanese islands.
Japan has no territorial ambitions, Ad-
miral Sekine asserts, "but the crux of the
matter lies in the question: If Britain is de-
feated under whose control would the south-
erners fall?"
The simplest answer never seems to oc-
cur to anyone today.
It is: why anybody's control? Why not
let them control themselves?
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What We're Up Against
Twenty tons of cutlery were recently
dumped into Mexico by Germany—enough,
trade experts say, to absorb a specialized
comer of that trade in Mexico for years.
This shipment was eight months on the
way, across Russia, and then by Japanese
steamer to Manzanillo. Costs of such trans-
port, especially considering high war-time
insurance rates, must have long since eaten
up any conceivable profit. Yet the goods are
now offered the Mexican housewife at prices
lower than those of U. S. goods which merer-
ly cross the border. The German govern-
ment, of course, absorbs the loss, for its own
reasons.
This shipment started for Mexico soon
after the fall of France, at a time when Ger-
many was expecting a quick and easy end
to the war. It is a clear indication of what
the United States will be up against in its
trade relations with the rest of the western
hemisphere when the war is over. For if
Germany wins, a whole continent of Europe
will be producing such goods at labor costs
dictated by the conqueror. Even if Germany
loses, its desperate producing machinery will
turn to such cut-throat methods.
Can anyone doubt the wisdom of stim-
ulating by every feasible means our trade
with Latin America—now?
GEMS OF THOUGHT
CUSTOM
Custom may lead a man into many er-
rors, but it justifies none.—Fielding.
Men commonly think according to their
inclinations, speak according to their learn-
ing and imbibed opinions, but generally act
According to custom.—Bacon.
Custom, education, and fashion form
the transient standards of mortals. Immor-
tality, exempt from age or decay, has a
glory of its own—the radiance of soul.—
Mary Baker Eddy.
The custom and fashion of today will
be the awkwardness and outrage of tomor-
row—so arbitrary are these transient laws.
—Dumas.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no
freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
—Bovee.
The despotism of custom is on the
wane. We are not content to know that
things are; we ask whether they ought to
be.—John Stuart Mill.
4 4*4.
No new order can he introduced by peo-
ple who spit upon religion.—Sir Gerald
Campbell, British Minister at Washington.
Though .«he is still weak. Japan will be-
rnmp a major power if she acquires th*'
f'u'rh Espt Indie*—Or. William M. Mr-
tjoverri. Northwestern University.
20 Years Ago
IN MEXIA
From the Files of
The Mexia Evening News
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March 17. 1921
The lid is off! Mexia is to have
an oil well either this afternoon or
tomorrow. This comes direct from
Col. Humphreys, who stated to
The News this mornintr that the
Blake Smith well would be drilled
in by night if no accident or other
unforeseen difficulty barred the
way, after which the Rogers well
would be drilled in and others now
waiting would come in succession.
The News Publishing Company
is issuing a specially attractive en-
velope carrying illustrations and
reading matter concerning the
town and the oil developments here.
Through the advertising commit-
tee of the Mexia Chamber of Com-
merce these envelopes are made
available to sustaining members of
the chamber at the price of regu-
lar envelopes.
The executive committee of the
Limestone County Interscholastic
League has unanimously selected
Mexia as the place for the county
meet this year. It will be held Fri-
day afternoon and Saturday,
March 25 and 2fl. The Mexia Dis-
trict meet which is composed of
schools in Freestone, Limestone,
Leon, Navarro and Robertson
counties will also be held in Mex-I
ia, April 16 and 16.
J) Sanford Smith left last night
for a business trip of several days
to Houston.
F. Julius Fohs, geologist, return-
ed today from New York and Tul-
sa where he has been on business
Matsuoka Has a Nice Visit with Hitler
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March 18, 1921
Quite a bunch of young people
from Shiloh matored down to the
Reunion Grounds Sunday. They
were as follows: Mr. and Mrs.
Gray McElroy, Mr. and Mrs. Clif-
ton Cook, Misses Ila Wilson, Ag-
ness Cook, Ruth Stokes, Vera Saw-
yer, Mable Hicks, Christell Mul-
lens, Verna Ward, Annie Lee
Wells, and Messrs. Erby Thomas,
Currie McElroy, Floyd Hughes,
Alva Bryan and Harvey McElroy.
They all reported a jolly time.
P. W. Hancock and J. D. Frazier
of Coolidge were in the city today
watching oil developments.
Garages are reminded that it is
against the law to wash automo-
biles on their premises and allow
water to run into the streets or
gutters.
H. W. Tatum, C. M. Mcintosh, E.
P. Littlepage and L. N. Benson,
prominent citizens of Mart,, were
in the city today mingling with
the crowds and watching for the
oil well to come in.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Moody and
two children, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Wright of Fort Worth are in
the city visiting the family of T. E.
Wright
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BY W. H. SEALY
The 'volf in snoops' clothing is
the fellow who differs with you on
political questions and economic
problems.
March 19, 1921
Miss Betty Karner Kennedy re-
turned from a week's visit with
her friend, Mrs. John Wacker, of
Bartlett
W. A. Shuler of Paris, Texas, is
in Mexia visiting his sister, Mrs.
W. Duke Pittman.
Miss Deborah Hinchliffe, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hinch-
liffe, Duff Tucker, young son of
Rev, and Mrs. P. D. Tucker, and
another little girl were struck by
an automobile yesterday afternoon
at the City Hall corner. Miss
Hinchliffe was painfully though
not seriously injured, a gash on
the left side of her head resulting
from being thrown violently to the
ground. The other two children
were dashed aside by the car but
escaped with no injur.; other than
a bad scare and a few minor bruis-
es.
Mrs. J. W. David and son, Louis,
of Corsicana, are visitors with her
father, C. L. Watson and other rel-
atives and friends in Mexia this
week.
The Tidwell Sanitary Gfocery is
to be remodeled and made over in-
to a modern self serving grocery,
commonly called a Piggly Wiggly.
The change from the ordinary gro-
cery to a modern self serving store
in a town the size of Mexia is a
radical change, but Leonard Tid-
well says he has no doubts of the
success of the enterprise.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (U.R)—Of-
ficial* of the state, led by Gov. Sam
H. Jones, have turned to the sport
of their grandfathers to shed the
cares of pffice—namely horse-
shoes. In the rear of the governor's
mansion, Jones has built a horse-
shoe pit where he can he found
daily before lunch and late in the
afternoon.
LONDON (U.R)— Private Mon-
tague always carries a copy of his
birth certificate in his pocket be-
cause no one will believe that his
actual name, is Percival Montgom-
ery Plantaganet Debrassey Ronald
Basil Irvine Graham Marmaduk'
Alexander Montngiir. Bui to thf
army he is just "Monty."
Henry Lilcs was on his way to
the wash-pot the other morning
with a dime's wortn of white corn
out of which Henry .'aid he was
going to maks some old fashioned
lye hominy. Then Clive Ayers hno
penetf along and said that he was
going to the house to cook the
wash pot half full of lye hominy.
So, it seems that the fashion in
the culinary art among the men
here is thet of cooking lye hom-
iny; and that sort of' hominy can
be cooked only in anold fashioned
cast iron, lard stewing, out-in-the
ard pot with a capacity of about
20 or 30 gallons.
Henry Liles said the first time
he ever tried making lye hominy
was on a fishing trip down nn the
Brazos river, when he knew noth-
ing of the swelling capacity of
corn when put in water. He got his
pot and corn to boiling, while the
boys were fishing down stream;
and the corn began boiling over
and piled so high until it took the
boys a week to get back to camp.
This column remembers the
days back dn the farm, immediate-
ly following the hog killnigs and
sausage grinding and cracklin'
making and souse cooking was all
done, that the old wash pot was
scoured and cleaned to a shiny
brightness an dthe hominy making
seaosn was on. The pot was made
hot with boiling water and about a
half bushel of corn was poured in-
to it, and hominy makin gwas on
to the finish, and the finish was
all day long. Next morning for
breakfast Mother would have hot
hominy, plenty of brown ham gra-
vy, hot biscuits and butter, coffee,
and a jug of either ribbon cane or
sorghum molasses. Dad usually
bought molasses then by the barrel
—about 33 gallons, and they usual-
ly would be enough, until they
gave out. Ah me, them wuz the
dasy of real sport.
believe It or not. If Joe denies he
told this the column will send it
back.
A neighbor back there was per-
suaded to gro wseeded ribbon cane
for making srup. He made a cyook-
ing or two of his new kind of
syrup, and m dad bought a three
gallon jug fulyl of it. That was the
blackest, stickiest molasses this
column has ever seen, and would
stretch further than any piece of
rubber has ever been stretched.
1 golly, you could get hold of one
end of it in the jug and begin pull-
ing it, and pull all of it out of the
jug, that is if ou eould pull that
long; and then it would be stuck
to the bottom of the jug so tight
you could turn the jug inside out.
Them days are gone forever.
And Joe Ayers came along with
one that is<a real corker. House
fires and scjrry flues was the sub-
jeetvbeing discussed, and Joe told
of an old house out east of town in
which somebody spent the winter,
in which the stove pipe reached to
the ceiling, hut with no connect-
ing pipe between the ceiling and
the. shingled roof; and they kept
hot fires in the stove all winter
without setting the roof afire—
On keeping the record tsraight
relative to national and interna-
tional matters, remember back in
the last presidential campaign—
the slogan was to the effect that
no American boys would be sent
outside of the western hemisphere
to fight in this war. Everything
short of war was the battle cry.
Later, the Hon. Winston Churchill,
prime minister of Great Britain,
delivered an address in which he
said that all Britain needs is mu-
nitions of war, not manpower, not
men. "Give us war materials and
Britain will win," In a little while
after the Churchill address another
spokesman for Britain, while the
lend-lease bill was pending before
the National Congress, said that.
Britain never before neede.i nvjn
and munitions of war as badly as
right now. And, now not so much
as a whisper on keeping American
boys out of the war can be heard.
That's the record.
KENT, O. (U.R) Kent State Uni-
versity has inaugurated a course
in the economics of war—designed
to train those not in actual mili-
tary service. The new course deals
with the economic needs of a war-
ring nation in man power, raw ma-
terials, distribution and finance.
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NICE ROOMS—FACING ENEMY
TORONTO, Ont. (U.R) — Gunner
Leo Leach, now manning a British
long-range gun somewhere along
the English coast, writes home
that Dover landladies are. adver-
tising "Nice Rooms, Every Con-
venience. Facing the Enemy."
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IT PAYS TO READ
CLASSIFIED ADS
OUT OUR WAY — — — — By Williams
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MAN LIKE A KITE.
The kite cannot rise against the
wind high and- steadily into the
sky unless it is held on its course
by the string in the boy's hand.
When the kite string breaks, in-
htead of mounting on beyond the
clouds, the kite comes zigzagging,
and tumbling down.
Like the kite, man rises highest
when he is controlled and held
down by restraining powers. Those
who break loose from restraints
and attempt to live their own
lives regardless of constraining
influences of home and church and
public opinion come to disaster.
Liberty to do a you please is
true liberty only when you choose
to do right.
It is a good thing for a boy to be
tied to his mother's apron strings.
It is a good thing for a man to be
restrained and controlled by law
and providence. For only controlled
lives rise to the skies.
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P. J. BOUNDS Jr.
And then there was the preacher who
made the announcement: "The Reverend
Doctor Orrville will lecture on 'Fools' Frir-
day evening, and I trust a great many will
attend."
BUT
Cuss the French if you want to, but one
of their proverbs is that a deaf husband
and a blind wife always make a happy cou-
ple.
This column isn't much on poetry, but
there is a good bit, of consolation in the
verse from Longfellow which reads:
"Life is real, life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust retumeth,
Was not spoken of the soul."
MANY ARE CALLED
FEW ARE CHOSEN.
This word of the great teach'r
describes our Selective Draft sys-
tem.
Only a small percent of those
who are registered are chosen for
services and training.
The fit are accepted.
The unfit are lejected,
The ones who need training
least, get it.
The ones who need it most are
refused.
The general public was deceived j
in the draft, bill.
People were led to think of it as J
a general training for the youth !
of the land, not enly for possible
war, but for better citizenship; ani
that such training would to some
extent be universal.
But it turns out to be a horse
of another color.
Not only is it a war measure
but a measure for immediate war.
It appears just now that the pro-
cedure of the selective service act
is necessary, for we have walked
with open eyes deliberately into
war.
But I hope to see the plan
changed so that we may have a
Universal Military Training for
our youth, beginning at high school
ago, continuing two or three years
following and that the unfit be
given preference over t.hc fit.
STRIKES THROUGH THE EYES
OF A SOLDIER.
This column has a letter from a
college graduate who has volun-
teered for service to his country.
"Why don't you write something
regarding these strikes that are so
frequent throughout, our country?
They are undoubtedly harmful.
"It looks as if the industries are
full of communists, or, at least,
that communists are behind the
strikes. These men in the indus-
tries are exempt from military
service; yet they continue to strike
for shorter hours and larger pay.
"I believe that if the government
would take the next bunch of strik-
ers and put them in the army at
$21 per month for an unlimited
period, that a large number of
strikes would be "averted."
The young soldier is right. Our
army training i* being held up and
retarded by strikers who stop pro-
duction in national defense works.
We should have a law declaring
every striker automatically eligi-
ble for army service; a law pro-
hibiting picketing; a law prohibit-
ing the use of threat or violence to
prevent any person filling the
striker's place or engaging at any
time in any lawful work within the
nation.
Our two national parties, instead
of bidding for the favor and votes
of the CIO, should unite in steps
to extirpate that and similar or-
ganization*, from aur national life
root, branch and stem.
The Boy Scouts of Mexia will do their
part, toward aiding the British. Leaders of
the boys have requested that citizens of
Mexia leave their old license plates in tha
filling and service stations of Mexia. The
old plates will be gathered up by the Boy
Scouts, sent, to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and finally will reach England where
the British can use the metal in their fight
against Nazism.
It is a worthwhile project the boys
have undertaken and Mexia automobile own-
ers fan help the organization carry out the
good deed without one hit of expense. The
old plates will bo of little or no value to
purchasers of new ones. Remember that
every license plate will help that much. So
make it a point to leave your old ones at
some garage or filling station and the boys
will see to it they are taken care of proper*
ly.
Bag of Gold to War Fund
KITCHENER, Ont. (U.R) -Tho-
mas Kondert,, Rumanian-born un-
employed has presented the Do-
minion government with a $600
bag of gold left in his care several
years ago and unclaimed sinec.
Kondert said he was giving it as a
contribution to the nation's war
effort.
TROOPS' MAIL" HEAVY
MONTREAL (UP)" — More than
1,903 tons of mail was forwarded
to Canadian .troops overseas dur-
ing 1940, H. Beaulieu, director of
administrative service, revealed
here. The huge supply delivered
to the Ua^e Post Office at Ottawa,
comprised more than 5,000,000 let-
ters fioo.ooo pounds of newsprint
and 3,260,000 pounds of parcels,
This and That: The salesmanship class
for Mexia retail employees got underway at
the high school Monday night . . . Make
your plans to attend the open house at the
Fort Parker C.C.C, camp Sunday afternoon,
March 30 . . . Chief of Police A. B. (Boss)
McKenzie expressed the belief this week
that the short wave police radio station in-
stalled hero several months ago has made
(he local law enforcement organization as
modern as forces in Waco or Dallas. "It is
(he modern way of policing," Chief McKen-
zie said, adding that Station KOXW has
meant much to Mexia . . . Just because a
person has more time than money is no
reason why ho has t.o waste it—the .time .
The address that Patrick Henry, state sec-
retary of Christian Churches of Texas, made
to first Christian members Sunday made
all hearers realize the big part they can
play in thr world today as Disciples of
Christ . . . And for night services at tho
Calvary Baptist church we hear they had to
turn away part of the crowd.
Draft e e s and volunteers w-hiJ
left Mexia last Friday for selective service
training were not given inside beds at Fort
Sam Houston. The army is no place for a
sissy, it is said. The boys spent two nights
on a cot in a tent . . . Incidentally, s?x of
the nine failed to make the physical grade
—which bears out this newspaper's conten-
tions that the cream of the crop is bein£
mobilized .
Five Million Bibles
For many years the Gideon Bible in
hotel rooms has been n distinctive American
institution. In no other country, so far as
we know, has an organization undertaken
such a task, to make certain that every tra*
velei who goes to his hotel room in a
strange city shall find there the Book of
Books.
Now the Gideons are undertaking to sea
to it that every soldier and sailor shall hav«
the same privilege. They plan to distribute
,000,000 Bibles to soldiers and sailors dur-^
ing the next four years.
Who shall 8ay that this is the least
part of America's armament?
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I-ots of daughters keep away from ci|h
arets by using a holder.
We know the U. S. Navy "mosquito"
boats will make a hit with the British—and
we sincerely hope they will with (he Ger-
man subs.
Oui iHea of fun js a harbor shavingf
himself and arguing that he doesn't want. *
shampoo.
' '""i' up! It won't be long till we'll bt
tuasing winter goodb.v
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