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U. S. SETS EXAMPLE IN NEUTRALITY
SWEETWATER, TEXAS
By swift congressional action to stojarms or war mate-
niff shipments to Europe and Spain in particular, United
St*“8 is definitely setting a policy of neutrality. This lead-
ership should be a stimulus fpr other nations to follow, par-
ticularly that nation bordering us on the south which has
incHhed favorably toward the loyalist factions. It is also no-;
tice to the world that this nation will do everything within
its power to keep from being embroiled in any armed con-
troversy that does fot directly affect this nation. Such ac-
tion affords a backbone to a world-wide peace and discourages
the spread of war beyond its present Spanish zone.
Unfortunately some war material shipments left this
country before the ionvening of congress but the definite
action that was imnjediately taken insures no repetition.
President Roosevelt has left no possibility of mistaking
his stand on the matter of neutrality. He has acted through-
out his first term tolfurther the interests of world peace and
especially so upon his recent journey to South America. The
nation can rest assured that his future policy will continue in
the direction of American neutrality and world peace. This
is certain to foster a spirit of peace among all nations even
though there may be an outright indication of preparations
for war, due to a naval building race now going on. But there
is a great deal of difference between being prepared for war
and actual fighting. The school of opinion that sees prepared-
ness as indicating definite trend toward war appears weak
to us in drawing conclusions.
Some Day The Bird Will Turn
FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1937.
BROADWAY OF AMERICA SHOULD RE KEPT SO
The story goes th round that a reason why our Highway
No. 1 and 80 has been slighted as to further improvements
is because of a policy to spread traffic over more of the states
east and west main highways. That may not >be the case hut
it does look like it, if one is to become critical. We trust that
if such has been a policy by the state’s highway commission
that it will not long endure. Trying to get people to take other
highways than they really want is a lot like the old proverb,
“you can lead a horse to water hut you can’t make hir i ‘rink. ’
You can build good highways following indirect routes hut
you can’t make trans-continental tourists take them.
“The Broadway of America” is more than just another
state or national highway. It is in reality the “Broadway” of
America. People realize that it is a direct route that can he |
traversed at all times of the Jr ear from qcean lo ocean. Any
state that treats it as just another part of its highway sys-
tem is missing its real significance and will suffer from a
diversion of traffic, but not to other highways within the
state. Millions of dollars have been spent to put highway 80
where it is today but many more millions are necessary to
.Jteep it abreast of modern highway development. But con-
%ijrring thft important part that it plays in transportation
the investment is worth while. It will repay in dividends for
every dollar spent.
The time seems to have come for widespread activity
along this important Texas, artery of travel. That is not a
selfish point of view for'Sweetwater but a far-sighted one,
looking to preserving the huge investment made in publiciz-
ing to the nation what the “Broadway of America” really is.
If the tourist finds it is just another highway—you can draw
your own conclusions.
Any erroneous reflection upon the char-
acter, standing or reputation of any
person firm or corporation, which may
appear In any of The Reporter's publicat-
ions will be cheerfully corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the publisher.
What Will You Have for Soup?
Reported by 72 Hotelt aad Reitauranta in 44 Ci)!«> Thro
Eecli Figure Indicates th* Soup Is e Favorite at One Eating Piece
ughout the Country
In Addition to Those Shown Them Was
Mention of Each of tha Following:
Chief an Gumbo (2) Mongol (I)
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Chicken Noodle (2)
Chicken
2
Source of Data:
"Hotel Management"
i enema*i teae n iu out— a
Yankee Bean (2j
Cream of Corn (I)
English Beef (II
Cream of Fresh
Green Pea (I)
Fish Chowder (I)
German Beef
Broth (I)
Liver Dumpling (I)
Philadelphia
Pepper Pot (I)
Potato (I)
Puree of Lentils
with Frankfurters
(I)
Tomato (I)
Old Fashioned
Bean (I)
STORIES in
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Byl.S. Klein
FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL
As Seen By Harry Holt
' Esther of
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u. S. Navy*'
Capt. J. B. Gillett, known by many "cultural background” presented
ranchers and oldtimers of this sec-
tion, recently released the book,
"Six Years With The Texas Ran-
gers,1”, which he wrote, describing
early day histbry of Texas. Now
Capt. Gillett is one of ithc most
colorful figures in Texas. He not
only is famous as, a Texas Ranger,
but has made history as a cattleman
and banker. His big cattle ranch
iri .he Big Bend country is stocked
with well bred Herefords.
has the Jersey cow in the new book:
"The Jersey,” published by The
American Jersey Cattle Club, NeV
York.
from the college there, this writer
being one of that number.
"A New Yorker wins prize for his work with heavy water.”
thinks the news may be an Inspiration to icemen.
Dora
The New Deal
In Washington
Activities of the Texas Rangers
arc vividly described in the book,
however, he author wax most mod-
est in recording his own heroic
deeds, making only casual mention
of the incidents. There is one inci-
dent related where Capt. Gillett
took one man, went into Mexico
arrested a murderer and kidnaped
him from under the guns of the
Mexican soldiers, and beat it across
the Rio Grande in a hail of Mexi-
can soldiers' bullets.
Royalty comes into the book
through ownership of fine Jersey
herds for the production of milk
for royal households. Napoleon 3rd
is reported to have bought a prize
Jersey bull and four cows in 1815
at a cattle show held in Scotland
and for three generations the Brit-
ish royal family have been breed-
ers of Jersey cattle. Queen Victoria.
Edward VII and George V.
The first Jersey cattle were im
ported to this country from the
tiny Jersey Isle where the breed
of cattle was developed and grew
to popularity.
The proposed Argentine sanitary
pact, which is fast coming to a head
following President Roosevelt’s visit
to
Do You Remember?*
FIVE YEARS AGO
Teachers of the rural schools of membership committee of the
M. B. Howard was head ol the
Nolan County met for an organ-
ization of Nolan County Teachers’
Educational’ association. Carl M.
Anderson spoke to the group. B. E.
Bunnagan of. Divide was named
president; Mrs. Virginia Stanfield,
vice-president; Mrs. Ethel Necper,
secretary-treasurer; M. M. Shef-
field, parliamentarian; Joe A.
Stewart, sergenat-at-arms.
M. C. Manroe was elected Com-
Sweetwater club. At a breakfast of
the club members began a drive
for new names on the roil. '1
Henry B. ^kljer'rep^teif jtp the
cty commission that a Broadway
viaduct over the Orient tracks
would cost approximately $28,000.
The commission was working on a
plan for erection of a 350-foot
bridge-typje construction.
mander of the Knights Templar at rp    ,,    , n m
a meeting of the order.    * OO If 00(1 l O He Tril6
JRISH-BORN John Barry was 15,
in 1760, when he went to tea
It was natural for him, therefore,
to lead the small, untrained naval
force of the colonies, when the
revolution broke out In 1776. He
commanded the first naval vessel
owned by the United States and
made the first capture of an Eng-
lish ship.
In 1781, on his return from an
errand to France, he encountered
The West Texas Chamber of
commerce directors were meeting
in Sweetwater to discuss a budget
of $60,000 for the year.
the South American country, I    ships’. 8nd the ensu-
will occupy the spotlight at the an- |
BY RODNEY DUTCHER
MCA Nervier Stuff i*orr«*»|»«ndrnt
VTASH1NCTON —Holiday con-
” ferences of President Roose-
velt, some of his closest advisers,
and certain labor leaders who
really count at the White House
resulted in several decisions of
major importance as to forthcom-
ing proposals for labor-indust:
legislation.
make an arbitrary wage-and-
hour standard apply to all indus-
tries. They believe that it would
be unwise at this time to attempt
federal regulation of wages and
hours in small towns, local indus-
tries, and the service trades, after
the manner of ill-fated NRA.
But the steel, automobile, coal,
' 'xtile and other major industries
will be regulated if the adminis-
tration has its way.
Any legislation passed with ad-
week of 30, 35. or 36 hours, as
proposed by various labor leaders,
the administration will support a
bill to delegate to a board or com-
mission the power to set maxi-
mum hours and minimum wages
in industries whose business ob-
viously is of interstate character.
O—The administration proposal
" will be exclusively a “labor
Instead of seeking to legislate
a national maximum work ministration approval will aim at
ending a condition under which
“sweatshops" frequently leap
across state lines to obtain cheap-
er labor,
Roosevelt has in mind a federal
agency governing wages and hours
which would be modeled along the
lines of the New York state min-
imum wage board. The law un-
der which that board operates
(applying only to women and
children) has been declared in-
valid by a 5 to 4 U. S. Supreme
Court decision and the reasoning
of the court in various cases has
indicated that, barring a change
of attitude, any federal legislation
of similar type would also be de-
clared unconstitutional.
Nevertheless, it has been point-
ed out that in the last 20 years 10
justices have voted for minimum
wage legislation nnd only seven
against, the seeming paradox be-
ing due to the fact that liberal
justices have come and gone faster
than conservatives on the court.
bill," in that it will cover only
wage and hour regulation. It will
have no provisions as to anti-
trust law exemptions, price-fixing,
or trade practices such as char*
cterized the NIRA.
O—Roosevelt is now willing to
O meet the U. S. Supreme Court
issue head-on. The new wage-
hour law, if passed by Congress,
will be the gage of battle. The
administration will not prtici-
pate in any movement to obtain
a constitutional amendment or
otherwise to curb the court's
power pending a supreme court
ruling on that measure.
If the court should declare the
law unconstitutional, Roosevelt—
judging by the way he is now
When Sam Bss, popular outlaw
of the Denton country, was killed
by Texas Rangers at Round Rock,
July 21. 1878. Capt. Gillett was one
of the eight Rangers sent to cap-
ture the notorious bandit. The Ran-
gers left their camp on :the San
Saba River at sunset and rode the
same horses through to Round Rock
by one o'clock the next day. a dist-
ance of 110 miles, It is recalled.
Following much controversy, this
department Is thoroughly convinced
the word “bronc” is spelled with a
“c” and not a “k” as it is often
spelled by those not so well ac-
quainted with cowboy terms.
Scott Amend, a former high rank-
ing livestock Judger at the Ameri-
can Royal show, Kansas City, is one
of ho nine soil conservationLsts in
the Amarillo section who is to work
on the wind erosion program this
year. The SCS engineers will run
contour lines for farmers who agree
to list their land on the contour.
They also will locate tree-fees foiJ
windbreak or farmstead plantings,
and the oCS will provide native
grass seed, when available, to reseed1
badly eroded land.
Amond was a high ranking, A.
& M. College student before his
graduation and return to his home
at Canyon, where he annually aided
the junior livestock judging team
nual convention of the American
National Live Stock Association at
El Paso, Jan. 12 to 14
No vote will be necessary to de-
termine the association’s stand on
the important Argentine pact. The
cattlemen will go on record again
as bitterly opposed to importation
of Argentine meats. Beef grading
by tlie government is expected to be
a center of discussion at the meet-
ing.
Sweetwater’s severest cold wave
had struck, with a season’s new
rloiy- of (23 ddgtees recorded.
Fifteen Years Ago
| Faculty members of the East
;Ward schoojjjwere entertained at
Aho.hcp of Mrs. R. M. Simmons
.with Mmes. Tom Crutcher, Life
Cutbirth, J. M. Alsdorf and A. J.
Wimberly as co-hostesses. ____
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Miss .Mable Browning, Garland
Vinson and’ Harris Toler spent the
day in Post visiting Miss Mildred
Boren.
Dr. Knapp To Speak
At Temple Meeting
feat seemed certain,
wounded, the colors were shot
down, all guns except one were
disabled. But Barry refused to
surrender. Manning the lone can-
ron, suffering from his wounds, he
fought hard until the enemy ships
ran up white flags.
After the war, Congress au-
thorized construction of a new
fleet, and Barry was put in com-
mand. He led this nucleus of the
American navy in raids against | Boyd and family of Hamlin,
pirates and armed vessels of
France. He died, in 1803, aged 58.
His portrait appears, with that
Osier Leach left for Mineral Wells;
to enter high .school for the remain-
der of the year.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Willis had as
their guests his sister. Mrs. W. H.
of John Paul Jones, on the
one-cent Navy stamp.
LUBBOCK .—“Famous Men in
Agriculture” is the topic of an ad-
dress Dr. Bradford Knapp, presi-
dent of Texas Technological College,
will make Friday morning a.'t a
meeting of the Texas Agricultural
Workers Association in Temple, c.
E. Russell, head professor of plant
Industry at Texas Tech, will speak
to the horticulture division of the
organization Saturday afternoon on
"Fruit Growing in Northwest Tex-
as.”
President Knapp said his address
would include: inventors, plant
True sons of the range more or
less resent the “yodeling" cowboys
of the radio, and one story is told
of the Texas cowboy who listened to
a radio program as long as he
could, then pulled out his six-shoot-
er and shot the radio full of holes.
A REDEFINITION by Congress
,fl’ of “commerce among the
states," as referred to by the Con-
irs’ssss zsz&z    **«»*■*-.«*■
nnd attempt to jam through a con-
stitutional amendment with <11
possible speed.
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lT,HE conferees agreed that it
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would be impractical to try to
interstate commerce comes to in-
clude little more than railroads
with tracks running across state
lines and production is regarded
as "local.”
Shorty Coates, bachelor rancher
southeast of town, keeps 13 house
cats at his bunk house, and he holds
no fear of the evil which black cats
may bring, because that color is in-
cluded in the wide assortment. He
ays It certainly is nice to come
in nights after having worked all
day. and have a warm place to
sleep, the cats serving as “bed
warmers.”
FLAPPER FANNY
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It seems uncertain that Top Row
will run in the next $100,000 added
Santa Anita Handicap, the world’s
richest turf classic, according to his
owner. A. A. Barronl, who plucked
him from a $350ff claiming race two
years ago.
Although 38 pacers have beaien
2:00. none has ever beaten the rec-
>rd held by Dan Pi ; b of 1:55 1-2,
made behind a windshield.
One of the most sought horses
in the West Pnclflc coast at pres-
ent and even in West Texas, by
admirers of pretty horses, is a Pal-
nmhio that has either three or five
saddle gaits. They demand a fancy
price.
Domestic animals, particularly the
cow. have always pioneered with
(Copyright, 1917, NEA Service, Inc.) people in the making of new coun-
tries, but until now has had her
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Ten Y'ears Ago
Dr. A. H. Fortner was issued a ‘
permit for $1,203 to build a brick :
nnd tile garage. J. A. Long was j
given a permit for a» frame office
building to cost about $900.
Paving on East Broadway was
underway. Fve blocks were to be
hard-surfaced at the east end of
I he street where it joined highway
60.
Too good to believe was the
news that brought this smile to
Mrs. Joseph L. Smith, of
Youngstown, O. But it was true.
She had been awarded first prize
of U. S. bonds with a maturity
value of $5000 for suggesting the
best name for Amos’ and Ruby’s
baby girl in the “Amos and
Andy” radio contest. The name?
"Arbadella.”
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breeders, animal breeders, chemists, I
conquerors of animal diseases, lead- |
ers in movements for social and
economic justice, organization lead-
ers, educators, and political leaders.
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Mid-Term Exams
Begin At Roscoe
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"How’s the budget coming, Fanny?"
"I can make it balance if I do without something I need to buy some-
thing I want."
Students Having tirade Of DO
To Be Exempt From
Final Tests
ROSCOE.—The mid-semester ex-
aminations are began in the high
school and continue through Thurs-
day and Friday. The Roscoe school
is ahead of most of the schools in
this section since only one week
was taken for the Christmas holi-
days.
The examination schedule is as
follows; Wednesday, typing, Eng-
lish IV, Latin II. vocational agri-
curture 1-A, and general science.
Thursday, English II, math II,
math III, chemistry, junior busi-
ness training, history III, history
II, trigonometry, general mathe-
matics, civics. Spanish II.
ALMOST
ONE THOUSAND
MILES
OF
STANDARD GAUGE
RAILROAD TRACK
WAS LAID IN
FRANCE DURING
THE WORLD WAR,,
WITH MATERIALS
SHIPPED FROM
AMERICA.
T. M. RIG. U. S. PAT. OFF.
Friday: Spanish I. English III.
vocational agriculture 1-B, Texas
history, English I, public speaking.
Study halls are maintained for
students taking examinations, oth-
ers are not required to be in school.
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IS AFRICA'S RAREST A A//A1AL /
ONLY ABOUT • ATFTV OF
THESE ANIMALS NOW
REMAIN ON EARTH
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has TWO K/NOS OF EVES...
three small ones, and two enormous ones.
M. J. Weaver, principal, an-
nounced in assembly that any
student who made an average ol
90 or above in his work last seme-
ster would be exempt from final ex-
aminations in May.
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