Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 61, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 1923 Page: 2 of 4
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at Brenham.
' rn roTlRT WITH THE
CONTRACTS
It developed on one of the
publiahera with whom ontracts
were made last December by the
state textbook: commission to
mi? a move for legal test of the
extracts'validity. The state's
attitude, since' the legislature
instructed Superintendent
Marrs not to comply with jthe
award? had been negative. Su-
perintendent Marrs, taking the
position that as the incumbent
■Billlta'' ; leg-
of an office created by the leg
islature he is subject to its in-
struction, simply ignored the
contracts, doing nothing toward
placing the books contracted for
in the schools.
on which the
report Having
approved the form of the con-
tracts, the attorney general took
*he assumption that unless the
law had been violated in nego-
tiations leading up to their mak-
ing, the state was legally and
morally bound to abide by them.
Evidently his investigations
have convinced him that the law
was so violated, hence he oughf
it
already to be armed with the
necessary evidence for opposing
the legal action of the book com-
pany.
A lawsuit is preferable to a
$1,000,pOO inroad on the school
fund for books that are not
needed. The whole incident is
regrettable and is another po-
tent argument for the exercise
of sound and cautious judgment
on the part of statl officials j
charged with the administra-
tion of public funds—Galveston
News.
The American Book company,
one of the publishers awarded
contracts, on Monday filed with
the supreme court a motion for
permission to file mandamus
proceedings against Superin-
tendent Marrs to compel him to
recognize the validity of the
contracts and take all steps nec-
essary for executing them. It
is just as well that the issue has
been joined without further de-
lay. That the matter should
have become a legal issue was
inevitable. The text-book com-
panies naturally are not greatly
concerned about economical ad-
ministration in Texas public
schools, and regardless of any
Violation of legal technicalities
to which they might have been
a party in obtaining the awards
they are not going to let a pro-
fitable deal slip through their
fingers without a fight.
The final decision of Attor
ney General Keeling to support
Superintendent Marrs in de-
fense of the suit is an encou-
raging indication of the stren-
gth of the state's case. Mr,
THE NEWSPAPER MAN
Others may loiter and squander
away t
A generous slice of each God-
given day,
But luxurious leisure's no part
of the plan
Of that hustler de luxe-the
newspaper man.
He keeps tab on the pulse, feels
the heart-throb on earth,
No symptom escapes him—
how trifling its worth.
Does the stork call next door,
or a quake shake Milan?
Tis instantly known to the
newspaper man.
Though a creature of rapid,,
ubipuitous brain,
His heart beats quite normal
with pleasure or pain,
As our triumphs or failures he
daily must scan—
The human and brotherly
newspaper man.
From antedeluvian ages, and
aft,
There ne'er was vocation, or
job, or craft,
With one hand
a peneil which thrills,
With the other h*pays the
numerous bills.
'Twas ever thus, since the
press began—
That practical plodder—the
newspaper man!
The "sanctum a&nctorum s a
rank misnomer
For hjm who must quote stock
markets or Homer,
Be cultured scholar or one of
the clan,
Your friend and neighbor—
the newspaper man.
/
An air-ship, or "Ship of State"
—it's the same—
Or the "easy chair"—euphon-
ious name—
Or the "seats pf the mighty," or
flivver sedan;
They're all in the life of the
newspaper man.
(
Not merely reporter of notes
and news,
But shaper of policies, molder
of views,
What any man dares or does, he
can—
Mighty but modest—the
' newspaper man!
He "carries on" the torch of
learning,
Keeps civilization's home,
fires burning.
In the march of Progress, find
him in the van!
Hats off to our hero—the
newspaper man!
—Florence Riddick Boys.
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are railway «m»W* **
to how it should be accomplish-
ed.
The Commission, acting un-
der Congressional mandate con-
tained in the Transportation
Act of 1920, is trying to perfect
a plan for combining all the
railways into a limited number
of systems approximately equal
in financial strength. The main
object of course is to eliminate
the weak road, which has al-
ways had to be nursed through
rate adjustments; by consolidat-
ing it with one or more strong
roads-
The most persistent objection
in the hearings has been that,
even if it were possible to group
the roads so that they would be
of equal strength, the more en-
terprising system would forge
ahead to such an extent as to
make another grouping neces-
sary within a few years. It is
as impassible, objectors say, as
the old vision of keeping wealth
equally distributed among indi-
viduals.
Among the companies that
may be said to favor a Govern-
mental plan of consolidation
one faction would like to see
such grouping as would arrange
the roads in transcontinental
systems, while the other favors
centering the groups in various
of the large cities. Other roads
that do not insist upon either
of these plans object to being
consolidated with certain other
haired pa-
has pat aside M» wHtorm snd
taken hold of the plow in « manner
that means business.
Heigh ho, here comes little Jim,
leading his little sister by the hand
and most doubled with laughter, and
tiring to call me, "Aunt Maria, Oh,
Aunt Maria, ha, ha, ha.* Guess where
t found the baby, ha ta ha. I found
her, ha ha, in the chicken nest of
that long line of npsts in the one
next one old Rhode Island was lay-
ing and baby would look at the old
hen and the old hen looked at baby,
and cackle, baby only said, ha ha,
hush up Biddj I'm laying an egg, ha
ha, and snuggled down on the nest,
ha ha. When I wanted her to come
off she said "no me lay egg," ha ha\
pulled her ou|t and she surely
howled for "Mrs. Henny Penny Jump-
ed off and there was a lovely white
egg and baby had none, how she
howled, ha ha ha. I Just can't stop
laughing'' and little Jim rolled over
on the grass and laughed and laugh,
ed.
Ma Pettie is not affected by small
things of life but yesterday whea
two cars rolled up your Auntie's
"head was most turned, there sat
some of Pa Pettle's old friends and
how they talked, but said "no time
to get out,'' so Pa said, "now Ma
don't talk so much if these good
people must go this morning.'' Two
more cars drove up, thcn a third, til
I thought we would have a party,
but these good Samaritans only stay-
ed a little while. Now children do
you know why these good people
were like the Good Samaritan, well
so many lovely people think theu
alls, the highway with its beautiful ed
drive coaxes them the other way and
they forget, but aU these good peo-
ple remembered their promise and
came.
Well Ma's radio sometimes workB
now and yesterday we had a fine
concert- In the morning some child-
ren came over and in the afternoon
about 1:20, back they came, at first
the Monster Selfishness whispered,
"now you can't have a nap" but
then your Auntie looked at the little
sunburned faces and such tiny hands
to hold a hoe for hours at a time
and ever}' day so it must have been
Messenger Butterfly who whispered,
"try to make thfim happy" so you
Bhould have seen your Aunt Maria
seated at the piano playing some
pieces about 60 years old and in her
little droning voice singing the old
songs we used to long ago but
these little ones sat with faces full
of interest, then we borrowed Ma's
radio and ii|was kind and we had a
concert and one little one looked at
me and said, "Are you playing the
Victrola?" Dear child, never mind,
your Auntie does not understand
this wonderful thing either, when
clapping after each piece was finlsh-
my evi
when they i<
SMjil
to three
growing iate>
My dear lov#
Lovingly
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fOR RENT—,
bome, all COtt,
June 15 - *
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Hejjry^
FOR rent-
see Mrs. RIch«"
287-tf. 7'
designs.
Miller._^Ad.|
FOR SALE-CTT"
designs. Mrs i
396-W.—Ad .in
When you want to J
estate see Will Wieit
Sfl
390.—Adv.B9.8tn
LOST—One Dunn's <SlL
Pen either at FlreMwTEil
lege Hill, retttrn
office.—Adv,59-Stp.
GROUPING THE RAILWAYS
As progress is made in the
hearings of the Inter-State
Commerce Commission on the
plan to consolidate all of the
railways of the country into
nineteen great systems it be-
comes apparent that, for once,
there is no concert of action or
opinion among the railway
companies. In the first place,
the roads divide into two groups
one of which is agreeable to
some sort of consolidation and
the other of which opposes the
entire scheme. Among those
Professional Cards
Dr. R. E. NICHOLSON
SPECIALIST
Eye, Ear, None and Throat
Over Farmers National Hank
Office Hours 9 to 12 A. M.
2 to 5 P. M.
Dr. G. HEINEKE
Dentist
Office Over Tristram Pharmacy
Phone 187
roads grouped with them by the -will drive out to this beautiful place
Commission. Still others object I to see ail at Live Oak Grove, but
that logical consolidations which
would be made voluntarily by
groups of roads are being hin-
dered.
It is still further pointed out
that the 1,600 railway corpora-
tions in the United States are
now grouped, so far as opera-
tion goes, into twenty-two sys-
tems, only three more than un-
der the grouping planned by the
Commission. There are, how-
ever, only 186 "Class 1" roads
—roads whose gross earnings
exceed $i,000,000 a year—and
there is no contention that the
present groups are of equal fin-
ancial strength.
The hearings have brought
out the fact that, practically
Dr. BILLY BURNES
VETERINARY SURGEON
Office 205 St. Charles Ave.
DR. R. W. BROACH
STUDBBAKER
L1GHT-SIX
TOURING CAR
More Cars Shake Themselves to
V. , .. ..V *
Pieces Than Ever Wear Out
General Practice of Medicine
... , ,. „ , and Surgery
without exception, railway exe- Specializes in Chronic Diseases and
cutives would be glad to see the
number of railway' companies
greatly reduced by consolida-
tion. A majority of them are
disposed to insist, however, that
tombination should be allowed
to proceed along natural lines
Diseases of Women and Their
Complaints
OVER TRISTRAM PHARMACY
Office Hours 8 to 12—1 to 6
DR. R. H. LENEP.f
Eye, E*r, Nw« and Throat
SPECIALIST
Office over Tristram Pharmacy
.i . . ., _ | Hours, O to 12 a.iu. aud a to 5 p.m.
atner than by arbitrary Gov-1 office I'hone gwi Re., atw
eminent direction.
When the Inter-State Com I F. W. MARTIN
Ulttic MARULB and GRANITE YARD
merce Commission completes its First ciusa Foreign ami American
task of working out a system Marb,e* ttnd 0ranit° Handled. All
Kinds of Cemetery Work. Iron
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Charge that up to vibration.
Vibration causes cars to grow old
prematurely by racking their chassis,
destroying the "metal life" of vital
parts, loosening up their bodies and
causing aqueaks and rattlea. Frequent,
costly repairs are the result.
The Studebaker Light-Six is freer
from vibration than any car of its ap-
proximate sixe or weight yet produced.
This has been accomplished largely
by a complete machining of the crank-
shaft ana connecting rods on all sur-
faces—a practice used by Studebaker
exclusively on tars at this price and
found only on a very few other cars
whose selling prices are from three to
ten times as high as the Light-Six.
There are 61 precision operations in
the manufacture of the crankshaft
alone, 40 of which range in accuracy
from one-quarter thousandth to one
thousandth of an inch.
The Light-Six motor embodies the
most advanced design known to auto-
mobile construction. And no chassis at
anypriceisbuilttomoreexactingstand-
ards of materials and workmanship.
Aside from its mechanical excellence
and its consequent long life, the Light-
Six is handsome in design, extremely
comfortable, sturdy, and we believe
the most economical car to buy and
operate ever offered at $975 or any-
where near this figure.
Its substantial all-steel body, one-
piece, rain-proof windshield, ten-inch
cushions upholstered in genuine
leather, cowl lamps-these are among
many features heretofore to be had
only In higher-priced cars.
For 71 years the nameStudebaker has
stood for integrity, quality and value.
Power to satisfy the most exacting owner
MODELS AND PRICKS-/, o. b. Uctorws
light-six
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Ttama to MhI Youf Cuinn^nw
STUDEBAKER
WM. TIE MANN
18 A STUDEBAKER
YEAR
of groupings, there will be no-
thing compulsory about it.
Roads may combine according!
o the plan or they may remain
separate. They cannot, how-
ever, combine under any plan at I
variance with that of the Com-1
mission.—Outlook.
Fencing a Specialty. Phone 190.
AUG. BROCKSCHMIDT
KEAL ESTATE and INSURANCE
Office Ove* Mauok's Jewelry 8tore
Brenhani, Texas.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN
Utopia, June 1923
My dear children:
My, my, what a charming time
these sweet boy and girl graduates
are having, parties of all kinds and
description from dancing, swimming
to moonlight rides, but of these your
old Auntie does noi take kindly, for
accidents ore numerous and how
awkward for a swcot little dainty
Jtirl to stap on the road for hours
while a patch must be put on or a
tire mended, but there you'll say,
"How old fashioned Aunt Maria is,"
Rnd maybe it Ic so," but you little
folks are too precious to allow
"The winds of Heaven to visit you
too roughly." That quotation Is ra-
ther twisted as the little girl said
to her big brother when he said,
"A rose would smell as sweet by any
name," "Why don't you say
brother." Again we ask,
what's in a name?
Next year Lily will receive he*
discharge from school days thru her
diploma. As I look at this little
girl a feeling of tenderest pity and
protecting love <111* my heart and I
pray God's blessing upon her thru
the untried paths of life. Our man-
ly Qty In whom college life has
brought no change ln his great lov-
STOKES BARBER SHOP
4—-BARBERS—I
GET SHAVED RIGHT NOW
VOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT
C. K. STOKES, Prop.
_West_81de_of Court House Square
iiEE CURRY, District Agent For
SOUTHLAND LIFE
INSURANCE CO., of Dallas.
Phone O-l 1 Brenham, Texas
othor
violet.
PROMPTNESS IN
EMERGENCIES
(Domes first but cleanliness and
quality must not be sacrificed.
Ws have a full supply of
bandages, ointments, disinfect-
ants, medicated cotton and ad-
hestaipUster In family siw
nr hands will be
the first to toueh these ean-
fully prepared materials. We
can supply Hot Bottles, Syrlnr-
«La£L0t"er Rubber Good" of
the beet manuufacture.
When emergency finds too
the needed articU, 2S
•4 and you will find ns nromnt
to respond. *
tristram
pharmacy
HEINEKE, Prop
Magnolia Fig Orchards
in the Hamshire District of Jefferson Coupty, Twk
produce from $300 to $850 per acre per year thne^]
after planting. The fig preserving plant, within mt\
six miles from the orchards, pays cash twice §Bm
Land sold at $40 to $60 per acre in tracts to gait, JS1
easy terms. Our best fig growers are GernutolitlJy!
We want an active, responsible representative in fogS
who can speak German and English.
For full particulars address the ownen
Theo. F. Koch & Go.
Wiess Bldg.
We Do Make the Better Kind!
Because of the long years of experience. Best chemiesb a(|
equipment up-to-date. Let us make that picture fot JN,
PHONE 92 WINKELMANN'SStUHCl
Fruit Jars, Fruit Jar Caps
Fruit Jar Rubbers, Gulfwax |
WE HAVE THEM j
We are closing out a few Kerr Jars at a, bargain
Insect Powders, Tanglefoot, Fly Killers, Etc.
F\ A. Wirtdhausen
PHONE 148
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BRIDGE THE GA*
A substantial aavnp *
count has helped
bridge the gap over WW*
canyon of misfortuna.
It is a shortest
safest m
from thrift to indepenw*
GIDDINGS 4 GIDJJNGS
Established Is"
Summer
For all the
Picture yourself and members of your
a hot, sultry Summer's day. Not a ^reexe
ring. And then—Oh, Boy!—you spot thitHj|
trie fan. One push at the switch—
stant Relief! Talk about your "grand aDdH|
rious feeling."
Buy that Fan here today and be prepared.
Phone 146.
Brenham Compress Oil
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