The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 26, 1937 Page: 4 of 8
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Friday, November 26,1937
Dublin Lodge
No. 504
AF&AM
Staled meeting** each third
Tuesday. Vhdtlng Mason*
Welcome.
C. K. Walling. W.M.
W. P. Langston, Sec.
STORY OF A FEW
SWINDLE GAMES
Some months ago Postmaster
General James A Parley made
public a statement which contain-
ed an expose of the Fake Eye
Specialist recket, which had been
In operation in this county for
approximately twenty yeats nur-
w this period Its operators had
filched from the public, particular-
ly aged farm people, several mil-
lion dollars.
Since the publication of this
exposure, the Post Office Depart-
ment has been asked many times
the question: "How did the vic-
tims fall prey to these racke-
teers T” An answer to this ques-
tion is found in the official files
of the Department bearing on
the operations of this most in-
humane racket.
In the first place these swind-
lers seek out elderly people who
live alone and in remote places.
They know that elderly P^'P,e
have great fear of going blind;
and they will do everything in
their power to retain their vision.
Then their scheme is cleverly de-
the parts played bb
These make the victim believe! and all have made every effort
that the great doctor who per-, they could to evade
mai me gixai uuvivi re-
formed the operation had been kill-
ed and before his death asked that
they call and find out if the oper-
ation was a success, and If not to
refund the money which had been
paid. One of these is alleged to
tie a lawyer, judge ----
ruys.
Since the Inspectors started the
investigation of the "Fake Eye
octal! st liacket" there have been
fort/ arrests and thirty-two con-
victions. Sentences Imposed total
one hhundred and seventy-sever.
of the blood by giving off radium
$9,975.00.
One an eye glass peddler, corn-
one hundred and seventy-seven
himself with his belt. One of the
most active of the fake eye spec"
mllsts attempted suicide in the
tall by leaping from the third
nor stair landing He was sever-
ely injured, it having been ne-
cessary to amputate one of his
legs.
One of the most inhuman cases
brought to attention was perpe-
trated in the Stste of Massachu-
setts on an invalid girl, a hiring
skeleton, who was born blind. Two
of the racketeers made her father
believe that her vision was ob-
structed with malignant growths
j over the iris, and that by remov-
insr the growths, which they
j cla; rred to be able to do with liquid
! raidum, she would be able to see
[within several days. They pre-
tended to perform the operation
and demanded two thousand, five
hundred dollars of the father but
he had only five hundred dnollars.
and they kept that .....
The two swindlers who victimiz-
ed the aged father of the girl are
in custody. One of them was loan-
ed by the Government to a State,
where he received a sentence of
five years. He is yet to be tried
vised, and t----- —
each practiced until perfection is
attained They are so adept at the llvc ■ •- — t— -
aarne tnct they actually compel ] on a Federal charge of using th
£nfldence Y mails to defraud In connection
Uuilf the eves free of charge, and *rrest. and he Is now a miserable
selling glasses of a cheap type ■ invalid, hidin'- his time In ja
and often of no benefit to the awaiting trial . ..
purchaser They are usually with-1 Five people were involved in the
out license to operate, and are first rase which came to the st-
not competent to examine the tentton of th- inspectors four faKe
eves or to fit glasses Their main: rye specialists and a fence who
profit comes from furnishing the collected for them through the
aames and addresses of their vie-: mails a two thousand, five h tn-
tteus to others more advanced In deed dollar check which was ob-
tbe racket, who pay them twenty tained from the victim i. All of
live per cent of any additional > these have been arrested. Fou
(tails filched from them - ----'*"'4 —
These eye glass salesmen are
followed by two others One of
the latter enters the victim's pre-
ambles first and represents him-
jelf to be connected with some
foptical company informing the
victim that he had recently pur-
chased glasses from one of their
agents; that the glasses were
guaranteed; and that he had come
to check up on them free of char-
*•
Doubtlessly some of them will
go back In the eye specialist or
some other racket. They have
had no training In honest labor,
and their Incomes have been that
of men of the higher positions of
life with scientific training and
ability, while the fake eye spec-
ialists are usually Ignorant and
they have only developed a cer-
tain quality of. shrewdness and
cunning of value in the practice
of deception. But they can rest
assured that the path of the fake
eye specialist which existed a short
time back now leads but to the
jail, for the public has been warn-
ed against them by the press of
the United States.
A new use for watermelons was
discovered by a Gladewater far-
mer when he squeezed the juice
from a truck load of melons to
extinguish a fire which broke out
In the rear of his model T.
PAID *520,194.01 TAXES
The Texas Gulf Sulphur Com-
>any has paid the State and
Wharton county $520,194.01, *in
full for increased tax assessments
for 19.26. and delinquent fees on
he ta.v, due last January.
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Personal
| Christmas
Present
< Helen Waterman |
Texas
By C. Horace Hamilton,
Agricultural Experiment station
During 1928, the number of
people living on Texas farmi. de-
creased 26,000 or a little more
than one per cent of the farm
population According to the esti-
mates of the Division of Farm and
Ranch Economics, the Texas farm ,
population on January 1, 1037
was 2.280,000. as . compared with I
2,316,700 a year earlier ine (
United States Census found i,-t
322 692 people living on Texas
farms in 1935 and 2.352,373 In;
\ g RS. GRI KNfc. sighed as »he i93o. Since 1930. therefore, tne
\ A rummaged through the old Texna..„farm population has «*
IVl trunk for the Christmas creased approximately 62.300 or
decorations. Sighed, and felt' 2 6 per cent, and since 1935 the
have received substantial sen-
tences. and one is in jatl awaiting
trial.
The Investigations by inspec-
tors disclos-d two oases which
,ver- even more horrible than that
involving the blind invalid girl
In those cases the aged victims
na .l the swindler* in cash at their
homes, and the swindlers suhse-
ouently returned at night with
sawed off shot guns and other
weapon*, tied the victims hands
the victim’s eyes and the glasses
and falselv claims that there is
a condition of the eye whtoh he
does not understand He tells the
victim that he has with him in
Ms car on the outside a doctor
from some renowned institution
who is one of the greatest ex-
perts on the eye, whom he is sure
would make an examination free
mt charge The man is called In
from the car, and he too pretends
to examine the eyes of the victim
and falsely represents that he
finds a cataract or a cancerous
growth on one of his eyes. Fin-
ally the victim is led to believe . --— -----■
that this man is a great doctor about fourteen and one-half yea a
and expert in the examination and and had served one sentence of
. 'a - w - - i*a ihiw The wife WkS n
and ransacked th*- premises. In
on? of these cases, where they fail-
ed to find a large amount of mon-
ey, they threatened to burn the
house If the location of the money
be not disclosed, and in that way
forced the victim to disclose the
lcration of a large number of
Liberty Bonds, which were stolen.
*.r.e of the bonds tn the sum of
fivs hundred dollars not having
b rn icgtatered
Amongst those arrested were a
husband and wife, the fo mer hav-
L*; operated as an optometrist
and !he wife as his nu'W The
husband had been in the racket
A FEW REASONS WHY
EARLY CHICKS ARE
MOST PROFITABLE
1. Most people have more
time to work with chicks
during the winter months.
2. Disease germs and para-
sites do not bother so much
in cold weather.
3. Chicks grow much fast-
er in cool weather.
4. Fryer prices are always
highest early in the season
5. Pullets hatched early
develop younger and make
larger hens.
6 Pullets start laying ear-
ly in the summer and we
have our best egg prices
during the last six months
of the year.
Why not get chicks now
or book your order for an
early date?
I Dublin
i Hatchery I
I Dublin. Texas
ashamed. For why should she be
lonely, with two flue grown sons,
successful enough to satisfy any
mother?
Rut Mrs. Ore.-ne missed her
tous!ed-hr:>ded lads ind as she An-
gered the battered drum, the out-
grown mittens, the books and souve-
nirs, she felt a deep pang that no
one needed her ny longer.
She found the decorations and
bustled down. Mary, the house-
keeper the boys provided, had An-
lshed. There was really nothing left
to be dona. She thought of other
tired Christmas eves, and could
stand the oppress.an of memories
no longer. "I'm going out." she
said, and with no othei explanation
set out into the n ?
It was crisp .ami starlit, and she
walked fnr. The light and warmth
of a cafe nttrarled her. and she
stopped for tea. Over the rim of
her teacup her eyes met those of a
small boy just outside the windolv.
He drew back shyiy, leaving a moist
spot where his nose had touched the
pane. He looked very hungry, not
just the healthy hunger which her
sons had brought home from school,
but as though he were really in
need. Mrs. Greene smiled and beck-
oned. “Come In," she invited. The
boy shook his head, started to go.
but the temptation of warmth and
food was too much
“That's better.” Mrs. Greene ap-
proved. when he was sealed oppo-
site her, with a great bowl of soup.
"1 just needed someone to talk to."
And before long sh, had heard the
boy's whole story Having no folks,
he lived with an uncle, but he want-
ed to get out on his own. There
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GRADUATE
The Keys quadruplets (Rober-
i ta. Mona, Mary and Leota). of
! Oklahoma, have graduated from
I Baylor College. Waco. Twenty-
three years old. the four girls are
; fine specimens of physical woman-
hood.
FREAK ACCIDENT
Houston Press: "In February,
W. S. Pettit was driving along
the Post Oak road. A wheel rol-
led off a county tractor and tore
a hole tn the side of Mr. Pettit’s
auto. Yesterday the court voted
$47.50 to pay him for repairs."
treatment of the eye. and he sub-
mit* to the nretended operation,
which It 1* alleged can be done
painlessly with radium, and that
the expense will be just the cost
at the radium itself
The alleged expert produces a
small vial containing an ordinary
three years The wife was m the
racket with him about t lght and
one-half year* They are now
In Jail awaiting trial in the Fe !-
eral Court.
These fake eye specialist, prior
to the post office inspectors' cam-
paign against them, lived luxur-
rSSSeS iSfSJgf
Mend dof the first great doctor.j tlon One. with hts wife and three
These cause the victim to believe children, drove to the resort tn a
that the operation was not a sue •] new high priced automobile and
•mb and obtain deposit* In large occupied an expensive apartment
•urns from the victim for an al- HI* wife afterwar.1* told another
lamd radium belt which. It Is rep- woman in the racket that her
resented will cure the condition elder son said they were doubt-
Flrat their eye glass peddler* lesaly the richest family at the
aye wash, but alleged to lx- a ra- ‘ resort as they were making the
«um water, an.l this liquid l* biggest taow It so happened
placed In the victim'* eye, a few that the wife, who knew all about
Strops at a time, the alleged ex- th* racket her husband was in
M|*t examining: th* vial after each Wai witl him In a hotel rooir
application and announcing the when he waa taken into cuatixly
value of the nldlum uaed. One of and bee tears were copious
ChMe alleged experts gave as the though she had no feeUng for hlr
reason for announcing the value poor aged victims
Md after each application of the It Is difficult to picture the
eye wash was to ascertain what Might of many of the victims
tM victim would pay. | ^ I**
In case* where the awtndlere long to amass aomethlng for their
believe additional funds can be deciinnlng years, and it wa* ft ter-
obtained two additional member* ribla shock to them when they
«f th* racket are sent to call on realised that all had been taken
(he victim, and these In turn pay from them for naught In one
who preceded them twenty- case an aged victim lost her mind
per cent of what they get. and It became necessary for the
i fltate to place her In an Insane
asylum.
| But today the picture of the
fake eye specialist and their
families la far different from what
it was a year or two ago. Their
rapket has been practically wiped
out, and many of them are tn
jails or penitentiariea They did
not expect such to happen
sere net prepared. What
sonsy they put sway 1
spent Is unsuccessful efforts to
wini pp punuuunwiT wnwn
ghly deft erred
who
YOU’RE AM YOUNG AM
YOU
LOOK
they
little
they eo -thoroughly
their wtvsa and _______ _____
formerly had everything they de-
sired. are In want.
What we these mm going to
SNAPSHOT CUIL
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decrease hn* been about 42,100,
or t.8 per cent, Tn 1920, the,
Texas farm population was 2,277,-
77.1, Other important population
changes for the State of Texas
during 1936 are given below
Table 1, Farm Population Changes
In Texas During 1986
Population living on farm Januao’
1. 1926 2.318,700
Number of babies born on 'Texas
farms during 1936 53.000
Number of persons moving to
farms from towns and cities
during 1936 ^.O00
Number of persons (net) moving
from Texas farms to farms in
other states 12.000 j
Number of persons moving from j
fnrms to towns and cities
during 1936 96,000
Number of deaths on Texas farms :
during 1936 20,000 (
Excess of births over deaths
during 1936 3,000
Net migration from f“rm*
towns and cities 4i,00l
Net migration from Texas farms
to farms in other states dur-
ing 1936 12.000.
Decrease in the Texas fn™ Pop-
ulation 26.000 ;
Population living on farms Jan-
uary 1. 1937 2.290.700
As t he above table shows, the
net decrease in the Texas farm i
population was due mainly to the ;
heavy migration to towns and.
cities There was also a small mi- ;
gratton of farm people to other
states The natural increase (ex-
cess of births over deaths) on I
Texas farms was only 33,000.
That is to say. had there been no
net loss in population due ta oity-
ward migration, the Texas farm
population would have increased
by 33,000. Since Texas farms .
lost 59.000 by migration to cities |
and to farms in other states, how-
ever. the total farm population
decreased by 26,000 ( 59.000 min-
us 33.000 equals 26,000.)
Population Changes and Type
of Farming
In general, farm population was
found to be decreasing in west
Texas ami central Texas and In-
creasing In south Texas and east ^ ftjonK wlth th(1 decrease 0r the
Texas, The drought caused a (arm population during 1936, In-
slight decrease in the farm POP**- | atcate certainly that no Increase
lation of the north plains. In the , (n Texas farm population is
major cotton growing areas of llkejy during the next few yeais.
It Is more likely that the farm
population will decrease or possi-
bly remain approximately stat-
ionary.
Farm Population Trends In The
United States
The Bureau of Agricultural
Economics found that the total
farm population of the United
States also decreased during 1936.
On January 1, 1937, the farm pop-
ulation of the United States was
31.729.000 as compared with 31,*
809.000 one year earlier and 31,-
801.000 in 193fK The net loss of
80.000 per aona was the first net
loss reported since 1929.
The Bureau further estimated
that during the year 193S, 716,000
babies were born to farm women
and 349,000 farm residents died.
The net migration from farms to
towns and citiea waa 447,000 per-
whlch came from the drought
sons; 1,166,000 persona moved
from farms to villages, towns, and
cities, and 719,000 moved to farms.
The most important single factor
S0^:sr“f*" m
When we think of the many things we have t.» lx- thankful
for, We are reminded especially of our friends ami c ustomen
ami want to continue to give them the best smlc*s, a*)
vail*** to be bad.
At this time we wish to call your attention to three
of our most complete line* for the coming holidays,
Bibles
The moat complete stock and reasoimhli priced.
Christmas Cards
Never more beautiful and appropriate, priced from le to l«c.
Elgin Watches
The moat beautiful lasting gift. Complete stock. Priced from
$21.00 to $50.00.
Save with Safety at
City Drug, Inc.
TELEPHONE 70
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No ready-made Chrletmai card
can match th* Individual, per-
aonal quality of a card that utea
on* of your own picture*.
albtliU** U broad—an upp-aljr.
•conic view, a flrealdo picture of
f MmiaTMAa Is close enough now
for you to be giving thought to
. y >ur Christmas card*—particularly
If you wast this year’s cards to have
the intimate, personal quality which
your own favorite photographs cam
ie*t give them.
And. a* an nettve photographer,
vhy should you entertain any other
IdMf Consider the dlferetce, to
your friends, between n formal
•tereotyped card and a personal one
bearing n plaaelng winter photo-
graph of the family, the house, or
tome other near and deer reminder
-and your own tndlvtdnel message.
inevitably yonr file of pietnren
vill contain an appropriate negs-
Ive. Or, if you hare one that nearly
>nt not gwite Ate. there U *UH time
»o improve the idee is a new pletara.
And if you do not do year own derat-
playlng In the snow or btteldo L*,l
year's Christmas troe—lndeed. any*
thlh\r personal that suggests the
holiday season.
If you wish, you can have deverel
type* of card*. For Instance, for
friend* who are especially foni of
your children, yon could pose your
•mall daughter nt a table, writing,
with a holly wreath at n window
beelde bar. Prints of proper «!t >
could he gummed at the upper > dg.<
lnelde e folded correspondence rard
and on tU opposite elde. In the
child's own writing, could app-ar
the meaaage. "Merry Christmas
from (her name), also Mamma end
Papa."
You might even nee humor. For
example, the front leaf of n folded
card might hoar th# note: "No
Christmae card from the (family
name) this year " I ns Ms could be a
photograph of tho front door, wlih
a large elgn hanging from the door-
hagh:
OUT
THROWINO
SNOWBALL! ,
'outturn-.
Texas, the increase of large-
scale farming, due to the use of
tractors and power equipment,
has apparently caused some de-
crease in farm population. In
some counties, the crop adjust-
ment program has influenced pop-
ulation movement*. In some of
were enabled to stay with their
farms with the help of govern-
ment benefits, but In many cases
It Is felt, the government bene-
fits have Increased large-scale
farming and hence population dis-
placement.
Farm population was found to
be Increasing in the Rio Grande
Plains Area, the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Area, the Piney
Woods Lumbering Area, the east
and west ends of the Coastal
Prairie Area, the oak covered
Northeast Sandy Lands Area, the
North-Central Grazing Area, the
newer sections of the High Plains
Cotton Aren, and In small areas
surrounding large urban centers
are: the Panhandle Wheat Area,
Areas of population decreases
the Low Rolling Plains. Edwards
Pluteau Grazing Area, Corpus
Christl Cotton Area, Black Priar-
le Area, the pine covered North-
east Sandy Lands Area, the Poat
Oak Area, and the Central Cosuit-
al Prairie Area.
Estimates of population change*
by counties are not available be-
cav it- of limited data. It la en-
tirely possible that the farm pop-
ulation of a given county actually
Increased even though the popu-
lation of the surrounding area
may have Increased or vice versa.
The data on which this report la
( ■ • arse txiiii.il linn (email IH
scenic view, a flreslde picture of baaed were secured from queat-
thft family group, the yovuuivi ?r,» Inneers and letters received from
*_ ...-----— • •• •" 1008 farmer* in 46 representative
Texas counties ~
.......-..... These question
eers supplied Information on sev-
era! thousand . farina adjoining
thoae of the correspondents.
The Outlook for Farm Population
The farm population of Texas Is
expected to remain more or leas
constant during the next few
years It is entirely possible, of
course, that the Texas farm pop-
ulation might Increase or decrease
one or two per cent In any given
year. Texas cities are atm grow-
ing nt n high rate Were it not
fpr the Increased use of machinery
on farms, the increasing consum-
er power of Texas cities might
rail for more farm people. How-
ever, the very growth of cltlm
attracta many young people from
Texas farms. The cities do not
^!"U,,Lthelr own Population by
Wrtha. They must depend on a
high rural birth rata on a con-
etant stream or migration from
farms. One additional factor must
U considered hers : the fturm With
rata, as well aa the elty birth
rate, ta falling about one per otal
per year Thle means that
A
affecting the farm population^
lng 1936 was the drought
creases ir. the drought area
larger than elsewhere. Th«
lflc Coast States rep
creases due to migration
states
II-YEAR-OLD (HKL
SAVES BABY
Jane, 11-year-old dau
Mr, and Mrs Frank
saved an 18 months old
from drowning at Carrlker’il
near Center. Shelby county,
the Shelby Champion. A met
of the girl scouts
swam out and rescued tne
which had fallen In deep
FAIRY SHRIMP AN
The oddest fish ever fo
Texas waters, known mw
shrimp, will soon be
food for newly hu ched ,
at White Rock 1»ke /l^r(l
hundred thousand ot «■
fish, discovered
year* ago, were recently _
to the White K.x-k flih
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