The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1931 Page: 2 of 4
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The Seminole Sentinel
•*nbliab»d uvury Tburtday and devot-
ed to the interests of Oaines Count;
Harry N. Stone, Editor
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This Week
h Abthur Brubanr
Treat Criminals Kindly
Mussolini's Wisdom
A Billionth of an Inch
Two Fighting Machines
Clarence Darrow, good lawyar, kind-
hearted, exaggerate* a little when he
Raya of criminals:
"The public likes to see them tor
fared, and guards are anxious to give
the public what It want*.”
That Is not accurate. Criminals
sometimes torture their victims. The
general public does not like torture.
Prisoners today have baseball
games, vaudeville shows, radios, and
new prisons are planned with ecpn
rate rooms, decent beds.
Prisoners should be treated humane
ly, but not made to feel that a crira
keel Is some one to be admired. Thai
la overdoing It
Mussolini talks common sense on the
wheat question, asking why the world
demands a cut in the wheat Bcreage
'‘when In the world there are all too
many people poverty stricken and
grievously distressed."
The Italian ruler says that the trou-
ble with wheat conies not from over-
production, but from underconaump
tion.
The nations should listen to him,
and find a way to dlstributa among
the earth's 1,600,000,000 the grain pro-
duced by farmers, hd<1 at a price prof
Itable to the farmers.
Professor Compton, winner of the
Nobel prize in physics, shows the
atoms in an electron, separated front
each other by one-blllionth of an inch,
and, In proportion to their sixe, as
far apart as the earth and the sun.
Until lately it was thought that noth
log smaller than the atom could exist.
Now we know that It Is a little solar
system with a proton, or nucleus In
the center, like our sun, and electrons
revolving around It, like planets.
In the order of bigness, matter Is
arranged by Professor Compton as
follows: “Electron, atom, bacterium,
gnat, man, moantaia, earth, sun, solar
system, galactic duater, galaxy and
known universe."
That known universe is so big that
It would take light, going 180,000 miles
a second, about 600,000,000 years to
croea from one side to the other. Fig
are ont that distance.
And, for all we know, “known uni-
verse” may be merely one little grout)
of cosmic dust in an Infinitely bigger
universe. Think of “a billionth of ah
Inch," and thousands of suns a mlllioh
Ty t
How
Olive Palmer
Sang her way to fame
by Long Distance
.A.N Iowa girl just out of her 'teens
rushed excitedly to her mother with a
crumpled newspaper in her hand.
“Look, mother! Sanford Abbott*,
the New York producer, is reviving
twenty operas. I’m going to ask for a
place in the cast."
“Why Olive, dear, you’d be foolish
to go to New York for thatl Your
chances arc almost nothing.’’
“I’ll telephone him aud seel’’
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• Let a noted newspaper tell the story (name of news-
paper and date of article on request):
“She got long distance. And when a far-away voice
•aid: ’This is Mr. Abbott speaking,’ she talked as fast
as she could. But Abbott cut her short. His casts were
full. It was useless for her to come to New York.
“ ‘I don’t want to come to New York,’ the girl said.
‘Just let me sing for you.’
“And singing through those miles and miles of wire
came a silvery voice—Olive Palmer singing the famous
‘Shadow Song.'
“ ‘Get the next train to New York,’ Abbott said
quietly when the last note died away.’*
Olive Palmer went—and made good. Every Wednesday
night in thousands of homes throughout the land, radios
catch from the ether the liquid beauty of her voice. A
radio magazine lists her as one of the ten most popular
stars on the air.
iff
So clear is long distance that even the subtle shadings of
a singer’s voice are heard easily and correctly, though
artist and critic be separated by half a continent.
That's whyjwv hear so clearly and understand so easily
over the long distance telephone.
It’s fast, too. In most cases you are connected with the
called telephone while you hold the line, particularly if
vou .call by number.
And you can telephone 100 utiles for 35 cents after
8:30 p.m. (station-to-station). Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company.
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LAMESA SANITARIUM
million tiiu«a as big as our sun.
Uncle Sam is building two airplanes
that will help us t* rsallse the use-
lessness of marching troops In future
wars. Each of the planes, called
“hedge-hoppers," will carry five uih
china guns, to “apray’’ marching sol-
diers with bullets, while flying fifty
feet above grouud.
In addition to machine guns each
plane will carry 5(X> pounds of bombs.
Are you taking golf lessons? Pay-
lng some professional to tell you what
to do with your head, arms, wrists,
feet, knees, eyes and club?
Learn that yon may have to taka
those lessons all over again. Slow-
motion “movies’’ of the great Bobby
Jouas and the beautiful Joyce Weth
ered In action show that these great
golfers do not “break their wrists on
the back swing” until very late in the
swing. And Jones the Great hesitates
at the top of his awing, shifts his body
and gets planted before he brings the
clubhead down.
Theory and practice are far apart
in golf and in all education.
“Ingratitude, thou marble hearted
fiend,’’ poor Mr. Gandhi of India
knows jail about you now. He worked,
slaved,’ starved in prison, endured
days of silence, which must be hard
for a man full of Ideas, risked hla life
a thousand times, gladly.
Then he arranged a truce with the
British government, the British hanged
three Hindus, and some of Gandhi's
followers tried to kill him.
Now he will quit, If the Indian con-
greas does not take his advice. He Is
disgusted to see Hindus and Moham-
medans murdering each other In India
the Brltiah looking on, careful not to
amile.
Gandhi will learn what ethers
learned long ago, since and before the
days of the Gracchi—that It Is noble
to try to hslp peopls, but usually does
not pay.
For the Better Class .
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Seagraves, Texas
Reeves Cothes Local Agent
Elliott & Waldron Abstract Company
of Seminole, Gaines County, Texas
A. J. ROACH, Fart Owner and Manager
A Complete Abstract of Titles to All.
Lands and Town Lots in
Caines County, Texas
An accurate ownership map of Gaioes County may be had
without charge by calling at the Seminole office
You cannot please everybody.
Advanced thinkers In Europe, led
by Briand of France, wanted a United
States of Europe te tear down cus-
toms barriers between different na-
tlons and ereate a great European
United States, all states trading free-
ly with each other.
Germany said, “All right, we shall
start with Austria,” and planned a
trade agreement la accordance with
United States ef Europe ideas, making
Germany and Austria the nucleus.
“Not at all,” said Francs, and “Not
at all," the other nations. “We don’t
want you to do that” So the United
States of Europe Is undsr t cloud.
The wealth of this country, accord
lng to the Industrial Conferenca board,
has Increased 8S per cent since 1M4.
Now we own Hi all $861,100,000,000.
about $2,877 for each of the 12*00©,-
000 Americans
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1931, newspaper, April 9, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577044/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.