Sweetwater Daily Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 77, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1930 Page: 2 of 6
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RECOGNITION
RECOGNITION of the potential!
I\ ties ot the South Is given by
the publication of the New York
Trust Co., which points to the fact
that in the past six year* the total
wealth of the section has increased
nine billion dollars and now totals
eighty-one of the three hundred and
sixty estimated for the entire na-
tion. The South’s wealth has in-
creased 316 per cent since 1900, the
article says, while its manufactur-
ed products have increased 563 per
a
... cent.
As reasons for this remarkable
growth, thi? article cites that the
South has practically all the cot-
ton, half the tiinber acreage, over
!)5 per cent o^ the uil resources,
..two-thirds of the coal and natural
gas production, one-tentli of the
iron deposits, nearly all the sulphur
(Texas alone in 1929 produced
99.99 per cent of tne country's to-
tal), an abundance of phosphate,
shale, granite, marble, asphalt and
building materials/
Conslruction crats are estimated
at 20 to 25 per cent under those in
the North, relatively inexpensive
land, lower rentals, promixity to
|umber and stone materials helping
to that qitd. Because of climate
labor costs will be permanently
lower in the South, the article says,
$lld while there nmy be some dis-
pute as to that assertion, there will
'lie none over the fourth advantage
of tiie South, its climate, which per-
mits out of door work practically
the year round, with lower housing
costs, smaller fuel charges, and the
'■fact that the day light hours in
t|^e winter are longer than those
in more northerly sections.
Tiie New York bank's review is
substantially of the prediction re-
cently made by Roger W. ISabson,
'that the section of the United
States with the greatest future was
■the Southwest, and he based his
prediction on the same major fac-
tors of climate and proximity ofj
raw materials, but with some not-
able additions, to-wlt, strategic lo-
cation and a pleutlturW' of cheap
fuel ami power.
TEXAS TOPICS
His Greatest Treasure!
AUSTIN—If the Missouri Pacific
railroad would put a submarine in
the Rio Grande at Laredo, the fin-
ale of transportation would be
reached. Now it has set up a com-
bination motorbus and train ser-
vice all the way from St. lands to
Mexico City, Including connections.
Airplanes already are in use to
complement passenger trains.
Tho sub would be the missing
link to a new age of varied and
vurigated travel all on one ticket.
Cows and sheep and goats Tnay
ride in common carrier motor-
trucks at special rates to and from
tiie west. Wool and mohair have
been given exceptions to the regu-
lar tariff schedules, based on rail
rates. Salt cake and livestock
feedstuff's share the special rates.
But tiie state probably is going
to rofuse to extend tiie list of spe-
cial rates to many other commodi-
ties that tiie ranch country people
are insisting upon.
So fai'. this is merely at the stage
of indication. Rehearing lias been
asked by tho shippers on this set-
up, scheduled to go into effect
Thursday. Indications are th%t it
will be tried out before further spe-
cial rates are granted.
Walking lilies must have been a
treat for startled eyes at Sail An-
tonio. A headline said:
FLOWERS PARADE
• TO CLOSE FIESTA
Responding to the lure of east-
ern newspaperdom, William Pres-
cot Gaines il, formerly of Austin
newspapers, has abandoned his
plan of coming back and offering
himself as a candidate for the le-
gislature from the Austin district.
Sen. Clint Small is to fire liis
opening gun in his governor's race
at Amarillo. His campaign is ovi-
dence of the growth of Texas, that
tiie great upper country should fur
Governor Moody’s Prison Survey
Compares Texas and Oklahoma Pens
AUSTIN, May 1.—Texas should
take a lesson from younger sister
states -that it costs more to feed
and guard a convict than his labor
on a cotton crop will pay for, Gov.
Dan Moody said orally in making
public comparative Oklahoma and
Texas prison financial statistics.
Oklahoma prison has been mak-
ing nearly half a million dollars
a year net profit on industrial op-
erations in its prison plant, while
Texas has been losing money on
cotton, Gov. Moody pointed out.
Texas is now spending an aver-
age of $74-21 per year guarding
each prisoner. This represents
Gov. Moody made public figures
which lie has prepared showing the
average cotton production on the
23,517 acres planted by the prison
system over the past ten years, to
acre. This was practically as high
as that of other farms in the state,
said Gov. Moody and it spoke well
of prison management of unwilling
convict labor.
But it isn’t enough to pay the
convict's keep, Gov. Moody said.
Figures he said had been fur-
of the Texas Interscholastic Lea-
gue meet. Two are from Sweet-
water, two are from Roscoe and
one is from Ada, rural school.
Miss Elizabeth Jobe and George
M. Thompson are from Sweetwater
high school; Misses Virginia Wor-
thy and Willa 13. Sloan, Roscoe
high school and Miss Christine
Wilkins. Ada.
Miss Jobe is entered in the de-
clamation event; Mr. Thompson, in
extemporaneous speech, Misses
Worthy and Sloan in debate and
Miss Wilkins in 3-R- All of these
students won first places at the
district meet in Abilene.
W- H. Jobe, A. F. Llgon and
Mrs. Roy Thompson accompanied
the Sweetwater students to Austin
E. Stanfield,
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nish a candidate, and that a for- j farm.
mal campaign should spread its
wings elsewhere than in East
Texas.
SAM HOUSTON
rjpEXAS’ greatest hero—and prob-
JL ably the most romantic charac-
ter that ever strode tharngli Amer-
ican history—Was Sam. Houston.
He lias been a favorite target for
the last few years and one writer
recently got into court over a grat-
utious slur affecting liis descend-
ants. Sam Houston was a very
faulty human, and was great in
spite of everything. He went
through United States history fi*om
the War of 1812 to the begiuing of
the war between tile States. He
fought and loved . and caroused,
schemed, plotted and hated, but no-
body ever doubted bis courage, his
vast services, his undoubted con-
tribution of immeasurable glory to
the history of the country. Yet the
debunkers are busy, despite tiie
fact that the southwest, in partic-
ular, knows all about SAM'S sins
and glories in liis manhood and
achievements, and honors ids me-
mory upon frequent occasions. No
good can come of raking up these
oid stories, true or not, for Hie bad
died with Sam Houston’s body, and
the remarkable great character aud
deeds of the man live on.
Houston’s sponsor and patron
saint, Jackson, was copiously lied
about, but his name stands near the
top of the American roil. He was
a violent man.of bis time, but no
man who whipped liis own sour and
sulking troops into sufficient rage
to whip Tiie pick of the British ar-
my with cotton halos and squirrel
rifles will remain debunked in
American estimation.
Burning down business houses
appears to be a considerable in-
dustry, according to J. W. De-
Weese, state fire insurance com-
missioner. The torchy business of
“selling out to the insurance com-
pany” isn't as rare as one would
think, nor as rare as it ought to
be made, lie points out.
"Take the profit out of a possible
fire,” lie advises insurance agents.
He recommends the drastic cutting
of fire policies issued to those who
nished him by former Oklahoma
prison warden were quoted by Gov. \ and Mrs. Virginia „
about $40 per year per man in the i Moody to show that the Oklahoma \ principal of the Ada school accom-
Huntsvdle walls and costs running j .system, using 1021 convicts, made panied Miss Wilkins.
up to $38 on the Wynne farm for j a net profit of $502,818 in Indus-! -------- -•*-----
trial work in 1026. In 1928, a to- Onl'ntoll nf
tal of 1047 convicts earned $322,- JAclJ Illcill t'l
627 net profit for the system; and
in 102!) a total of 129§ prisoners
showed a net .profit of $29U,J(iS
in Oklahoma industrial occupa-
tions.
guarding prisoners outside the
walls. It costs $87 a year to guard
each woman prisoner on the Goree
It costs Texas $108 per year to
feed each convict.
Gov. Moody pointed out that if
the prisoners were concentrated on
industrial work within the walls,
their guard cost would be cut in
half. Tn addition they would be
occupied all the year, rather than
seasonally. They would be given
valuable vocational training as
well, he pointed out.
The state is prevented from us-
ing the prisoners on highway con-
struction by the legislature’s refu-
sal to grant money to build camps.
Gov. Moody said- Hope is. still
Hope is
become less desirable risks, or the iheld that small-scale road work
cancelling out entirely, cf policies may be taken with convict labor.
When conditions warrant.
Every time an incendiarist sets
fire to a piece of property, it caus-
es the rates on every lionest man's
property to go higher, Mr. De-
Woese points out.
University of Texas'is overlook-
ing the best bet of building its
school ot journalism to higher pres-
tige. It fails to offer the courses
in the summer school. The young
men and women who could take
advantage of them then perhaps
would be tiie very cues whose
achievements would enhance the
reputation and point the way to a
broadened usefulness for a school
of unbounded potentilities.
Held as Slayer
Of Own Father
Hylton Light
Farmers in the Hylton commun-
convicts into the manufacture of
such goods as can be used by the
state and its institutions.
Students at
State Meet
Five Nolan county school stu-
dents arc in Austin this aft rnoon
in preparation for the opening of
preliminaries of the literary events
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Corning, one of the leading
•farmers of the Hylton community
who lives on Valley Creek, but
planting was started Wednesday
and is expected to continue for
several days.
“We did not get much rain,” Mr.
Corning said, “hut many of the
farmers started planting early
feed stuff Wednesday. Cotton is
to be planted a little later and then
more feed stuff will be planted.”
Mr. Corning was in Sweetwater
Wednesday afternoon looking after
business matters.
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An English' clergyman' breaks Kenneth Carter, below, arrested in
Into print with tho prediction there .Cleveland, Ohio, lace trial at Call-
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was over. .another mining prospector. The
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tlnn: "A torrential reign, follow-. after which they shot Mori,>ek and
cd by heavy wimlp," |strangled Huise.
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