Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 29, 1931 Page: 2 of 6
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The wear on tires on a loose ma-
il toad to about ten times an
aa the wear on the average
ooocrete road.
An automobile will give about
twice the mileage per gallon on a
concrete road as on an earth road
Oood brick road ranks second.
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The farmers are working over
time to create more surplus. The
government is telling them how to
do it. The farm board Is telling the
farmer to reduce. It looks like every
body ought to be satisfied.
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A headliner says Henry Ford has
$300,000,000 In the bank. We have
been wondering why we could not
get any in the bank to our credit.
Henry has it all.
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There Is Arthur Brisbane, said to
be the highest paid columnist in the
world. A short time ago he made
the statement that what people
lacked was intelligence. That shows
what education can do for a m
Arthur has a college education and
can express himself politely so as
not to Injure people's tender feelings
on that subject.
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Hellovanote—
A storekeeper in Clarendon who
never does any advertising recent-
ly asked the writer why he did not
•pour it on" the mailorder
houses more. Inaddltion to not let'
ting the public know what he had
to offer, or what his prices were on
a single commodity in his shelf-
worn stock, his envelopes were
printed by the government at less
than cost, and his botchy letter-
heads were printed In a San An-
tonio sweat shop.—Donley County
Leader.
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In conversation recently with a
prominent and well known citizen
of the state, he said, "I just had a
conversation with a well known city
banker and I said, why don't you
bankers loosen up and do business.
You have plenty of money in your
vaults and you admit it. Why don't
you get busy'? 'Well,' the banker
said, 'It looks like we were in for a
Democratic victory at the next elec-
tion and we don't know what will
happen'." Now wouldn't that rattle
you and all after the mess the Re-
publicans have gotten us into. Lord
help us if the Democrats could do
any worse.
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Station K O R S Amarillo. put
over the air Monday morning an
editorial from The Claude News,
relative to our asking that telephone
rates in Claude be reduce to 12.00
for business phones and 11.75 for
resident phones, Also that Natural
gas rates at Claude be reduced to
30c a thousand feet with 11.00 s
month as a minimum charge. The
above was ask for in lieu of the fact
that most farm products have been
materially reduced. "Pa Hinkle"
also Interrupted by saying that he
guessed that The Claude News would
be reuced to 1.50 a year. Bless your
heart Pa Hinkle, The Claude Newt
has already reduced its subscription
price down to $1.50 in Armstrong
county. Advertising has been reduced
along with a big reduction in Job
Printing. If you want Peculiar Print-
ing, Practically Prepared. Properly
Presented that Produces Prosperity,
Call The News Office. If you would
use advertising where it pays. tr>
The Claude News, The Oldest and
Best Read County Seat Weekly In
The Panhandle.
Buntus offsuch Items at 15 cents
fe, others dune J cents each.
__t ruing n- It docs from a High
Powered Salesman, like this Mew
News Clipping Company, to worth
the half dtUar ask. At any rate they
needed the money, mi would have
gotten It had not the editor of The
Claude News had 30 years practical
experience with various News Clip-
ping bureaus. Many of these Newi
Clipping Bureaus,Jrted to buy The
Claude News for Half Price, while
others offered us a 25 cento a year
paper of some kind In exchange
for The Claude News. We always
wrote each News Clipping Bureau
that we would be pleased to send
them The Claude News at the same
subscription rate charged regular
subscribers. The Claude News car-
ries, most every week, some Hot
Shot Editorials relative to some Cor-
poration, Business or Institution,
that these News Clipping bureaus
could use to good advantage If they
were not too stingy to pay the sub-
scription price of Live County Seat
Weeklies. And some of them are
NOT too stingy for they send us
13.50 for a years subscription; for
which we thank them most cordial-
ly. News Clipping Bureaus are Just
as essential as anything else in the
business world, for they help vari-
ous firms. Corporations and individ-
uals to secure articles of Interest
regarding said institutions, but those
who DELIVER THE GOODS, are
the kind who paid one year's sub-
scription to various papers and do
not bellyache about the subscription
price, nor do they try to "Horn
swoggle" The local paper out of a
year's subscription, when they need
the paper.
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BIO AND LITTLE BOOTLEGGERS
Is there any difference between
big and little bootleggers? This
question will have to be answered in
different ways. In law there is no
difference. In the minds of many
citizens there is no difference. Un-
der enforcement of the Prohibi-
tion law possibly there is a differ-
ence.
The Idea of the federal depart-
ment of the Volstead act is to catch
the big fellow who manufactures
or despenses booze. This view is a
commendable one. but we wonder
whether stopping the big fellow will
stop the little iellow. There are too
many "independent" bootleggers go-
ing around to cause any appreciable
lessening of the bootlegging evil.
In all good conscience, the patron
of a bootlegger is what makes the
business possible and hence is as
morally guilty as the seller. That it
takes two to make a bootlegger is as
true as any axion known to the
language. There are few other
crimes in which it takes a legally
innocent person tOWmplete the of-
fense. Bootleggering Is one of them.
The next time the urge comes to buy
liquor it might be well to consider
this fact. It makes no difference
under this logic whether the pur-
chase is made from a big or a little
oootlegger. The same damage is
done, and the swne or worse chance
is taken with the "little" bootlegger.!
Wrong Is wrong and right is right, j
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"THIS AND THAT"
By JIMMINY
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MEMORIAL DAY
In most of the States Memorial
Day Is observed May 30. A few of
the Southern States reserve May 10
on which to pause and give due
honor to the departed. Would it not
. be fine thing If all of the State:
would agree upon a certain definite
day for such a noble purpose?
Hits brings up the question of a
greater degree of standardisation In
many of the objects and purpose
of the American people. Perhaps it
would not do to have the same laws
apply to all 8tates. Conditions, cus-
toms, local historical events do not
make it convenient or fitting to uni-
formly obeerve certain holidays. But
It would seem entirely consistent
that common consent and establish-
ed nirtinr set apart a certain date
Day, and In this way
Af fMeral Government could par-
only by proclamation
but by taking official part In the
which would center the
i of the whole nation.
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D. Butler to
gi«wn up with Ml to auto *
favorable lmprsssien on visitors #|
even home fllks. But clean alley* I
and back yard gardens show a spirit
of thrift and pride that to commend-
able. There are flowers that are
hardy and easily grown that add
to the looks of any home.
But plenty of water Is needed and
cultivation to necessary.
Those who go In for pretty lawns
and flowers must be on the job early
and late and a certain amount of
knowledge to also necessary for the
best success In home beautlficatlon.
Contests, as a rule, are not satis-
factory because there Is no way of
determining who has the best right
to the prize. A tiny flower bed may
deserve more praise than a beautiful
lawn and a profusion of flowers, yet
few will notice the lowly posy bed
and all will see the well kept lawn
and the abundance of flowers on
which somebody was able to spend
both money and time.
The home should be the civic cen-
ter.
Encourage children as well as
grown ups to take pride in home
surroundings and then even tho the
bed of posies be tiny and the result
not flattering, from a Judge's point
of view, something has been ac-
complished and no feelings will be
hurt.
Children like to play In the dirt.
Combine work with play. A garden
spot may be a source of Joy to chil-
dren. A row of onion or a bed of
hary annuals will keep children at
work and at home at the same time
and street gadding or running to the
home of neighbor children be check
ed.
There Is also such a thing as pre
paring children for the days that
are to come. Teaching love of na-
ture and giving them the key with
which to open the door for pleasant
and profitable work as well as play
is Indeed worth while.
The mother or father who gives
the child In the home something on
which to build for the future Is lay-
ing the foundation that will be there
In place when the time comes and
the lessons will not be forgotten,
And what fun may be had!
Not only that. Older folks may
find pleasure in the little plot of
ground at home.
People go chasing off after pleas-
ure and fail to realize that home is,
| or should be. the place of all places.
' where true pleasure is found.
Civic pride, then, is nothing more
or less than home pride.
And when the whole family, little,
big. old and young, are at work In
the home yard, the devil is going
to be cheated out of a Job. Idle
hands will be put to work and idle
brains will be put to thinking. Idle
talents will be put to developing.
Idle thoughts will be centered on
that which is worth while and beau-
tiful. Healthful exercise will drive
away the mullgrubs and tone up the
system.
And all this will do more to build
up the high ideals of the great
American home than all the laws
that may be passed.
When each family in town or
country community Join forces in
home pride, then somebody is go-
ing to stop and take notice..
Will it pay?
Yes, a thousand fold.—Higglns
News.
PRaspr
With Harsh
Irritants
"Reach tor a
LUCKY Instead"
Nowl Pleasel- Actually put your flngw
on your Adam's Apple. Touch It—££££
Adam's Applo— Do you know you aro ac-
tually touching your larynx?- This Is your
volco box —It contains your vocal chords.
Whan you consldor your Adam's Applo#
you aro consldarlng your throat—your
vocal chords. Don't rasp your throat with
harsh irritants —Roach for a LUCKY Instoad
— Remember, LUCKY STRIKE is tho only
dgarotto in America that through its ex-
clusive "TOASTING" process expels cer-
tain harsh Irritants present In ai| raw to-
baccos. These expelled Irritants are sold
to manufacturers of chemical compounds.
They are not present In your LUCKY
STRIKE, and so we say "Consider your
Adam's Apple
Schohnaster Sterling the other
day wrote report cards for members
of the 42nd ledgislature. He told
his "boys and girls" they had earn-
ed a vacation and should run home
for week or two before resuming
their studies. He highly praised their
conduct, telling them there had
never been a legislature so well-
manned. so ladylike and gentle-
nanly. He conceded them a perfect
score in deportment.
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Having sung their praises In two
ir three long paragraphs, he con-
luded his report with one terse
statement: the students had failed
niserably In reading, wilting and
arithmetic.
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Publicists who said Mr. Sterling
would never make a politician, that
>ie'd been too long the plain and
blunt-spoken business man. should
hang their heads in shame. The
"Big Fat Boy" has become a diplo-
mat of the first magnitude: he has
earned the secret of administering
* stern rebuke In palatable potions
of agreeable words, and helps him-
;elf to the words, and can help him-
self to the "sauce" with as much
grace as any bona fide politician.
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The governor's message to the
legislature, summed up. read: "De-
oortment. excellent; scholarship,
/ery poor".
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Of course the governor's report
ecelved no attention at the hands
if the legislature. They did exactly
what be had warned them not to do
But that doesn't mean the gover-
nor's diplomacy Is to blame, for who
ever heard of a Texas legislature be-
ing Influenced by the language of a
T If Mr. Sterling wants to
the attention of the boys
and girto at Austin he'd better take
the measure of the Mg stick so
wielded by the late Theo-
Ute stick
AND THEN BAD WHISKEY
The enthusiastic reception accord-
ed a recent legislative mandate mak-
ing possession of habit-forming
narcotics a felony, should encourage
our legislators to take steps for
making effective the state enforce-
ment of prohibition.
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If the federal government needs
state lielp in suppressing the traffic
in dope, it needs it even more In
controlling the commerce In whiskey.
Citizens living in the border region
and in the larger cities realize the
threat of dope, but the people of all
the state recognize the menace of
the bootlegger who knows no dis-
tinctions. either of age or sex.
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Enforcement of the state prohibi-
tion statute Is woefully Ineffective.
The bootlegger thrives In every com-
munity; he Is known to everybody
save the officer whose duty it Is to
apprehend him. He sells his poison
indiscriminately to the man who can
afford to buy It and the man who
can't to the mature adult and the
immature boy. He Is Interested sole-
ly In getting his cash, and he doesn't
care whether he sells the weapon
wherewith a young girl Is to be se-
duced or the Instrument with which
a young boy's future Is to be Jeo-
pardized. He greases the slides upon
which a host of young people are
skidding to penitentiary and worse
of him. lie Is really a more vicious
ind because there are so many more
evil than the peddler of dope.
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The 43nd legislature earned the
gratitude of the people when It pass-
ed the narcotic law. It would Insure
its place In the people's heart if It
should succeed In making effective
'he state drive against the menace
of the bootlegger.
■very man under the flag Is
titled to •
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B. Watoca of
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TUNE IN-
The Lucky Strike
Dane* Orchestra,
every Tuetday,
T.±M*'dav and
>nlay evening
r N. B. C.
The A. T. Co.,
tffrs.
It's toasted"
Including the use of Ultra Violet Rays
Sunshine Mellows—Heat Purifies
Your Throat Protection—against irritation—against cough
WHAT WE THINK
By FRANK DIXON
But we go about screaming over-
production, when men within the
sound of voice are starving.
We like this old world even If most
of us are wrong most of the time.
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The most successful men In Amer-
ica today are those who never lift
a glass of liquor to their lips.— Ed-
ward Bok.
"On reflection." said the furniture
salesman to the customer, "the price
of this mirror will be reduced."
"All right, here's some quick
silver," replied the customer.
A regular party man thinks onl.\
a nut bolts his party.
A democracy does have its draw-
backs. If Hoover were a kine in-
stead of a President the people
could put in somebody else.
Tuesday. 5 a. m.—The weather
man predicted frost this morning,
but we guesed better. No frost and
no damage to the fruit so far. But
the fruit crop has a lot of hazards
yet to escape—Worms, fungus, cedar
rust, etc.
Very recently Henry drove out his
twenty millionth car. Going to put it
in a museum. Here I have been
struggling along and have sold my
hundred millionth strawberry plant.
Anyway we have brought more
people to their knees than Henry.
But Henry has jolted hell out of a
lot of 'em.
Here I have been saying people
are plain tools and have no sense.
That sounds like I was sticking them
with a stiletto and giving it a twist.
Having never had a college educa-
tion my language can not be expect-
ed to be quite so refined, but we
both mean the same thing, only
Brisbane gets real money for giving
out the information.
AU the above is written to prove
that life Is mosty luck. We are on a
farm and Brisbane in New York
City, where they have all the money,
but I do not think I would trade
places with him at that. What would
happen to this country anyway. If
I should leave it.
Flag Day Is coming. The fellow
who knows how to display the flue
correctly generally respects it as
well.
It sometimes takes marriage to
open the eyes of the blindness caus-
ed by love.
Trade At Home—
(Continued from first page)
The rich man and Lazarus has
cusslon lately. But we allow no dogs
held the center of the stage for dls-
to lfck our sores.
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By means of radio, an office hold-
er can make the people hear from
him right In their own homes; but
the office-holder has to wait un-
til the next election to bear from
the
the merchants to sell only "Hondo
made bread". Why only bread? Why
is creamery butter being sold In
Hondo when tons of good homemade
butter can be bought cheaper?
Where was the soda pop made that
you sell? Were the candles, cigars
tobaccos, etc, brought from the Hon-
do wholesaler or from some San An-
tonio, Dallas or St Louis dealer?
Do you sell milk from the Hondo
dairymen or do you sell (canned)
milk shipped in from New York?
Why New York milk?
Do you offer for sale "Hondo
made" cow and chicken feed, or do
you prefer to sell feeds made In Ft.
Worth? There are seven middle-
men's profits In buying your Ft.
Worth made feeds. Why not keep
all of these profits at home by sell-
ing only "Hondo made feeds."
Why are vegetables bought In San
Antonio when fresher home-grown
vegetables can be had? About a year
ago a farmer carried some fresh
picked vegetables to one of our local
merchants offering them In trade for
groceries. The offer was rejected
with a frown; at the same time one
of his clerks was unloading vege-
tables which he had bought In 8an
Antonio—vegetables which had been
picked the previous day. Who paid
the car expenses to San Antonio and
back while going after the vege-
tables? The buying public did. of
Futhermore. Mr. Merchant
h for the
Antonio did not care lor his grocer-
ies, cash is what they wanted. Now,
where did Mr. Merchant spend his
cash? Buy at home and save time
and car expense.
Mr. Buslnessmnn! Make a list of
the various items that can and
should be bought here at home, and
then start "house cleaning". Re-
I member. Its the buying public who
pays the freight and upkeep on the
numerous trucks who daily visit our
town. These truck owners and driv-
ers spend their money In San An-
tonio and not In Hondo. Did you
ever see one of these bread trucks,
soda-water trucks or any other kind
of truck from San Antonio buying
gas or oil in Hondo? Did you ever
see one of these trucks In a Hondo
garage for repairs? No. A San An-
tonio wrecking car comes out and
tows the truck to San Antonio,
where it will be repaired. Now. why
oh why. do you not practice what
you preach? Buy at home and the
buying public will not have to help
pay the upkeep expenses of these
San Antonio trucks.
Back to the bread proposition.
If all of the Hondo women would do
I their own baking In less than two
I weeks bread would be selling at 5c
i per loaf, the price that It should be.
i Flour is "dirt cheap", why must
; bread be sky high.
If Mr. Business man will see to It
that his wife does all of her shop-
ping in Hondo instead of San An-
tonio then he will have a right to
preach "buy at home." And as long
as he permits his family to shop
away from home the buying public
has as much right to shop away
from home or to order from some
mall order house. •
Mr. Businessman! Do all of your
buying at home. Then and not un-
til then have you a right to expect
the buying public to do the same.
—Contributor in Hondo Anvil-Her-
ald.
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Truck Drivers—
(Continued from first page)
Tills position of the truck opera-
tor is In keeping with the attitude
of his driver who hogs the highway.
This arrogant operator not only as-
I serts his superior right to the high-
way. but states plainly that the
heavy truck should destroy the poor
highway aa quickly as powlhto so
that the tax payers will build him
a new one.
Diversion of Traffic to the Highway
For the benefit of any who might
minimize the gravity of the situation
brought about by the diversion of
the traffic on the country to the
highways. I will mention three in-
cidents which came to my uttend-
tlon during the past week. Tlie
lowegian Citizen, a newspaper pub-
lished In Centervllle Iowa, carries
an editorial in reference to a truck
train a mile long hauling automo-
biles. This one fleet of trucks car-
load a railroad freight train of 4fi
cars. We have had occasion to men-
tion several times, trucking units
carrying %hole train loads of freight
but this Is the first one which has
come to my attention which carried
a whole train load in one cavalcade
of highway monsters. In the State
of Texas we are accustomed to see-
ing trucks 65 leet long carrying five
automobiles on one truck. On the
main highways such trucks are .so
common that they do not excite
comment any more. However, the
Texas trucks carry automobiles in
one deck only. This Is not enough
for the Michigan trucker and he Is
now doubling the decks and carry-
ing one automobile above another,
and the end Is not yet.
On the train last week a coal
dealer from St. Lauis told me that
a check made covering a period of
ten hours showed that 700 truck
load of coal crossed the free bridge
from Illinios to Missouri in that
length of time. This is about 1000
carloads estimating the net weight
of the trucks at five tons each,
which is probably low. This cool
dealer said they estimated that 750.-
000 tons of coal were trucked Into
the City of St Louis annually. These
highway carriers have not only a
free highway, but a free bridge on
which to cross the Mississippi River.
Both are furnished by the tax pay-
er.
Last week In Hamlin. Texas, a
city of 3.000 inhabitants, served by
three railroads, the freight agents
made a check for one day which
showed that not a pound of freight
was received by any one of the rail-
roads. All shipments received that
day by the entire city came In by
truck. These are examples of the
extent to which the highways are
now absorbing the traffic of the
country. —LA PAPER.
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