The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1937 Page: 4 of 8
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THE WEST NEWS APRIl, 23, 1937
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THE WEST NEWS
J. M. Ripley
Owner-Publisher
Published every
Friday and entered
a* second class
mail matter at the
post, office at West, McLennan coun-
ty, Texas.
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are published at the rate of 10c a line.
Any erroneous matter that is a re-
flection on the character or standing
of any individual or firm, which may
appear in this paper will gladly be
corrected if brught to the attention
of the publisher.
Stamp Collecting
As a Hobby
1U CARL FREl'Nl)
TYP LICE
Lindbergh's
htill gets him
passion for privacy
i lot of publicity.
Some versons are so intensely hu-
man that they sometimes appear to
be inhuman.*
It is well
occasionally
if the frai
remind us
lties
of
of others
our own
weakness! -
When one flouts the rules of the
game he shouldn’t complain when
denied their protection.
We wouldn't mind people who say
what they think if they didn't think
such awful things about us.
We call this an
age of civilization
yet we sometimes
wonder when there
|is constant talk of
another war. na-
tions spending mil-
lions of dollars pre
paring for conflict,
millions of Ameri-
can citizens worshiping fake “lioodo"
teachers of various doctrines, men
women and children being killed in
civil wars, and thousands of other
happenings that have absolutely no
place in civilization. It is also inter- !
••sting to note that in the Spanish:
war. towns, villages and cities are j
being destroyed by soldiers on either i
- do. Each is hopiful of winning the!
conflict, yet it appears that when the j
battle is over the victor will have no-1
thing more than a barren picture of |
dost ruction.
1 became interested in stamps
through my father who had a collec-
tion. I started with a booklet and
fifty stamps.
My friends and relatives helped
me. My grandfather, who also has a
It is estimated that 450,000 persons ,
visited the Dionne quintuplets at Cal- 'a u<<
larder, Ontario, Can., last year.
A Canadian prison inspector, re-
cently sentenced for crime, will have
an opportunity to perfect himself in
bus profession.
An economist is a fellow who gets
paid for making phony predictions
and thinking up economic
that won’t work.
schemes
Obituaries sometimes refer to the
deceased as "an indulgent hu.-bano
and father." In some cases "indulg-
ing" would also be appropriate.
To show the expense of war jt was
pointed out hv one writer that the i
World War cost 400 billion dollars, in i
addition of 30 million lives. With this |
amount of money it was shown that i
a $2500 home, $1000 worth of fur- !
nishings, and a 5 acre [dot of land;
at $100 per acre, could have
been given to every family in the ;
Enited States, Canada. Australia.
England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland,
Fiance. Belgium, Germany and Rus-
| sia. To each city of 20.000 inhabitants
and over, in each country named, a
five million dollar library and a ten
I million dollar university could have j
i been donated. With the remaining
i money a sum could have been set
i aside at five per cent that would pro- j
| vided a $1000 y arly salary for 125,- I
; 000 teachers and a like salary for j
125.000 nurses.
An editor often gets an idea from
folks who suggest how to run the
paper. Generally it is the idea thai
he would like to shoot the suggester.
England recently issues a call for
volunteers to increase her standing
army, having appropriated a large
sum of money for armament. Ac-
cording to reports from the war de-
partment of England, 50 per cent of
those answering the eall were found
collection, sent me some Czechoslova-
kian stamps in exchange for the com-
mon one cent green, two cent red
and three cent blue stamps of the
United States. My grandmother stood
in line for twelve hours to buy a
valuable Austrian postcard, which
she sent to me.
The value of stamps depends on
the age. variety and what the stamp
commemorates of whose portrait it
bears. It also depends on the type of
paper ami cutting. My oldest stamps
were issued in eighteen hundred and
forty nine. They show portraits qf
Napoleon Bonaparte and Emperoi
Napoleon 111. My most valuable
-tamp - from the North German
Federation. My oldest and most
valuable United States stamp was
issued in eighteen hundred and fifty
one. Thi re are three, one being a
twelve cent stamp; another a three
cent stamp; while the other cost two t
cents. A stamp found in an attic was
sold for ten thousand dollars.
Stamps taught me that ail coun- j
tries did not use the same money. 1
learned that Argentina uses the
peso; England uses the shilling and
1 pound and Mexico’s principal unit
was the centaro •
The hobby has improved my know-
ledge of history. Stamps show the 1
\ Louis and Clark Expedition; Valley 1
Forge, Lee, Washington, Napoleon.
Bolivar. Columbus and many others
Geography can be learned from
this money-making hobby. A United !
State- stamp shows the large Miss- !
issinpi River and Rocky Mountains.
Hungarian stamps show grain. Jap-
an uses rice as can be learned from
postage units.
Many stamps have beautiful colors
and artistic borders. One can’t keep 1
from learning art when he has this
as his hobby.
■■■■mm
You Pay Less
to ou t IT
TO It I X I I
1937 Ford V*H
• If you think that “all low-price
cars coat about the same” — for-
get it I They don't.
Ford makea a car — a 60-horse-
power economy Ford V-8 — that
aclla from 30 to 60 doViara under
the prices asked for any other ear
of comparable size. The lowest
Ford prieea in years!
Cheek delivered prieea in your
town and see for yourself.
• (If eourae, first eost doesn't prove
“low cost*’ — you must eonsider
operating cost also.
The “60“ has definitely estab-
lished itself as the most economical
You can prove those figures —
on the open road — in a ear pro-
vided by the nearest Fort! dealer.
• ^Tion you've finished your per-
sonal check-up. ask yourself:
“Do I want to save money the
day 1 buy my car and every mile
I drive it?”
“Do I want a safe, roomy, com-
fortable car of advanced design —
created from the finest materials
‘to the highest precision stand-
ards?”
There’s only one answer, of
mrse — the 1937 Ford Y-B.
__An exchange tells of a young wo-
man who “gave up her job at the
soup works to study home econom-
ics." And will probably learn that
an effective measure of economy is
eating plenty of soup.
Grounds for the divorce which Mrs.
Martin Scbwt-nk of Cleveland, 0.,
has instituted against her husband
are that he bought a ticket to the
circus and then, while she saw the
show, moved the furniture out of the
house ar.d went elsewhere to live.
Said Judge King Williamson of
Dalla . Tex., as he stepped up to pay
a fine for overtime parking: “I’m
innocent. Mrs. Williamson is the of-
fender—but it seem- to be the man
who pays.”
Palestine leads in religious stamps.
Hungarian religious stamps show
Mary and Jesus.
I hope to use my collection towards
paying my way through college.
... . . . . , I Everyone should appreciate stamps,
i unfit for service due to undernourish- _. ,, „ . _
... . . , . , . They are really a small tax. Some
ment. This is indeed a pitiful situa- . .
.... , ! money, in foreign countries, goes to
1 tion. millions spent for war prepara- , ,,, , . ,. ,
.... , . . charity. All people should have a
tions while thousands go hungry. In , ,, . , , ...
, . , I hobby and 1 believe stamp collecting
our opinion, another example of .
... . . . . . ... Us one of the best there is.
humbuggery or just plain bull i___
: will be shown in the coming corona-
tion of King George. Millions of j
dollars will be spent on this grand I
pageant and thousands of people will j
stand for hours just to glimpse the
king. It is the height of bunk, and of Pennyslvania thinks all the fuss
for our part, even if it were possible about 5-4 decisions of the Supreme
to witness the ceremony, we had just Court is foolish. He pertinently
a- -non sit at home and hear some observes that in an\ case where dem-
iniiio comic attempt to make the old ocratic form of government permits
jokes sound new. decisions of question by a majority
rar in Ford history. Ford cars have
been famous for economy for 34
years, so that means something!
Ow ners who have driven it thou-
sands of miles report that the Ford
“60” averages lielween 22 and 27
miles on a gallon of gasoline.
Ford v-l Jf
Prices
Begin at
>1 O-srbeio facto).
TiiiipirliUas chain.
Sun lit FUail Um iilri
TV id jirirc 1, for the bO-lior»r,»nwr— Coopr
r<|uipp*<t with (r«nt and rear bump
tire, horn, windshield wiper, sun «l
rwmpartmrnt, and ash tray
A MONTH', after
. *!»•"
. *!«*«
' usual down-payment,
bay. any lord \ H far,
Ford dealer,
i the U. S.— I
Finaner Plan* of InOersal Oedil t o.
from any lord dealer,
anywhere in the II. S.— through Authorised
Ford ~
FOIIII MOTOR COMPANY
•: ’
SIDELIGHTS
Bv MARCY B. DARNALL
vented to determine whether a wo-
- man should wear high heeled shoes.
Former Senator George W. Pepper The next device needed is one that
will convince the the woman if the
machine says she shouldn't.
In England a machine has been in-; les. Although he was rejected for Suing for divorce, Mrs. Ella Guen-
service in the Civil War because of ther of Seattle testified she had been
poor physique, he is about to celeN poisoned by fishhooks her husband
brate his 102nd birthday.
had put in the pocket where he car-
ried his money.
Willian F. Ice of Danville, a blind
■student at the University of Illinois.
Arrested for intoxication, Richard made the highest scholastic average
Phillips of Chicago tadmitted that he jn his first semester examinations
Now we don’t mean that
is the only country that shows weak-
ness. America is just as bad in many
respects Just today we saw a pic-
ture in one of our daily papers show-
had stolen communion wine from a j„ the freshmen class in law, winning
England' at rimT ^ a “appa trophy.
His ambition—to Income a father
—has been realized by Alfred A.
Knapp, retired printer of Tampa, Fla.,
at 79, with the birth of a 7-pound
daughter to Mrs. Knapp.
TRAFFICE LIGHTS PROVIDE
NEW JOB FOR ‘CRAZY’ GEORGE
Tallulah Bankhead, whose * father
is speaker of the House, says that
. when she finished school her parents
ing a large number of American citi- | wanted her to settle down and be a
zens dumping their jewelry into a Southern ]adyi and adds, ..but j
pot, the mone\ to be used for the de- t want*d to act and insisted upon it,
fense of Aimee Semple McPherson in ! so they gave me up as the blafk
Mrs. Caroline Walsh of Newark,
N. J., appealed to the court to make for 30 years in a coffin in which he
her 19-year-old son work, declaring was finally buried,
he was “too lazy to wash himself.”
Another old-timer who fooled the
Traffic i ghts were put in opera- tbe legal action in which she has be-
tion in
our neighboring city of Hills- C0ITlt involved (again). The Texas
gave me up
sheep of the family.”
doctors is Levi Easton of Los Ange- j eighteenth operation In 20 years.
Raoul Velliger of Marseilles slept -
WILL REMOVE FREE
Dead horses, mules and cows
removed free within 40 miles
of Waco. Phone 1909 collect.
WACO RENDERING CO.
Waco, Texas
Ivan Mills, a sign painter in Quin-
cy, Mass., recently underwent his
boro last week. Naturally citizens
motorist and police officers expected
quite a bit of trouble, not being used
to the light- in Hillsboro. But one of
the city’s oldest and well-known citi-
zens. George R- agar,, better known as
“Crazy George”, has been busy since
the advent of the lights, doing what
!e can to aid law-enforcers in regulat-
ing taffic.
Those who are acquainted with the
weil-known negro character can fully
appreciate what the signal lights
mean to him. He has a new job—
working traffic—and Sunday it was
this writer’s pleasure to watch him in
a *ion. George was wearing an over-
c st. although the thermometer stood
around HO degrees, about his neck
hung his tin cup and many other ar-
t c es used liuring the day. Someone
hc l supplied George with a whistle,
whir h he held in his mouth with one
hand and with the other he waved his
w; iking -tick at motorists. At rimes
the whisle, walking stick and hand
were ail put into violent use to stop
s me of the travelers.
Just how old George is we cannot
say. but we believe he is past the
three score and 10 mark. He has lived
in HilDhoro all his life and citizens of
that section regard him as a necessity
and not a nuisance. George cannot
read nor write but carries a pencil
and note book and each month col-
lect* a small sum from his special
friend-.
M e hope the traffic lights, of Hills-
boro will ^prove a great success and
that “Crazy ’ George #ill find much
pleasure in bis new position.
Legislature is another striking ex-
ample of what the people of today
have to and do contend with. We are
not looking for a job stiaightening
things out but are merely debating
whether of not civilization has made
such marked progress as declared by
many.
Old people could learn as well as
the young, according to Dr. Irving
Lorge of Columbia University. He
says the mind does not deteriorate
with age, but that as people get old-
er they simply become lazy. Some, of
course, merely remain as they always
1 were.
The following from an essay writ-
ten by a Japanese schoolboy on Wash-
ington has some very strong points;
“George Washington was sore be-
cause American persons was not free.
He say to king, I express declara-
tions of independence. King he say
nothing doing and M.r. Washington
tell Admiral Dewie to shoot big guns
at him. By and by king say he will
not run over American persons again.
‘Let George do it’, he say. and so to-
day American persons she is free.”
Dick Grace, World War pilot and
veteran movie stunt flyer who crash-
es old planes just to amuse the pub-
lic, suffered humiliation and a brok-
en nose recently. While driving an
automobile near Hollywood he swerv-
1 ed to dodge another car and hit a
lpmp post.
A Farmer
By OCBE GROPPE
Super-spot news reputedly publish-
ed in an Illinois weekly newspaper;
“Grandma' Smith is very low as we
go to press. If she dies in time she
will be buried Sunday.’’ \
I want to be a farmer when 1 grow
up big.
And in nature’s soil 1 want to dig.
All my land I’ll work with plows;
I also want some pigs and cows.
I even want a great big barn
With real large cribs of seed and
corn. * ,
I hope that all I say is true;
I want to be just like my daddy too.
I will alWiy? try to do my best.
God
Like the famed bull that tried to
toss a locomotive off the track, one
j in Oklahoma recently showed more
courage than judgment. Thd' animal
charged an automobile and broke his
neck. The car was damaged to the-
extent of $76, but Donald Dorman
and two companions riding with him
escaped injury.
Paying a fine before committing
the offense is a rather unusual pro-
will thoa please do the rest? 1 cedure. but such a case is reported
from Tennessee. A local toper said
he “felt a good drunk coming on” and
deposited $7.50 in advance with Judge
Robert S. Clement of Dickstecn,
An operation on Mrs. E. F. Schuer-
man of St Louis, Mo., revealed a
pair of scissors in her stomach.
Texas U. S. Approved Chicks
Every Chick Bred and Hatched for Health and Vigor
REGARDLESS OF BREED OR VARIETY, YOU WILL FIND EVERY CHICK WE HATCH COMES
FROM AN EGG LAID BY A PUREBRED SELECTED FEMALE, MATED WITH SPECIALLY
CHOSEN PUREBRED COCK BIRDS.
We Take No Chance—Why Should You?
Health, vigor and vitality are all important factors in successfully raising baby chicks.
it the strict requirements of the
----- —,----We take
chances on quality. Every fowl in our free range farm flocks has met
high standard set by the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s National Poultry Improvement Plan and
Texas Baby Chick Association for our breeders. Each bird has been chosen for body sice, color,
health, breed-type, and indicated ability to transmit egg-producing qualities to the resulting chick.
The eggs we set are scientifically incubated in modern equipment to produce chicks that live, grow
and mature into profitable fowls.
Modern Methods Mean Better Chicks — Hatched Right
We Operate Modem Mammoth SMITH INCUBATOR ... the
Finest Equipment Made!
S. C. White Leghorns
THESE CHICKS ARE SIRED BY MALES OUT OF HENS WITH ANNUAL TRAPNEST RECORDS
UP TO 300 LARGE 24-OZ. CLASS EGGS ... WITH OVER 200 TO 300 EGG BLOOD IN PEDIGREE
FOR GENERATIONS.
WHITE LEGHORNS are especially noted for their great egg-producing ability. Through many years
''---»!.;• —----*■---—m— and the introduction of exceptionally high
of specialization in this variety, through careful culling- __________
egg-production blood lines into bur flocks—we have this year developed something extraordinary in
White Leghorns. And now we are able to offer strong, healthy, vigorous White Leghorn Chicks such
as you propably have never seen before—SUPER Cicks with such hardiness and high egg-production
ability bred clear into the bone—they quickly grow into unusual money makers!
PLACE ORDERS EARLY, AND BE ASSURED OF GETTING CHICKS WHEN YOU WANT THEM!
WEST CHICK HATCHERY
WEST, Phone 4 2 TEXAS
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