The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1938 Page: 4 of 8
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WIST. TEXAS srrTBMBEB M, Hit
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THE WEST HEWS
Oeehoslovak Publishing Company
Publishers
Leonard Webb — Editor
WRITE A LETT**
It's only a few steps to th« near-
est mall box—write a letter! Take
a little chunk of your heart and
spread It over some paper j it goes,
oh, such a long way!
Published every Friday and enter- write a letter to your mother or
Ad as second class mall matter at father, to your sister, brother,
the post office at West, Mclennan sweetheart, loved ones. Are they
county, Texas.______dear to you? Prove it with a letter!
•— 7" | Write a letter and give them the
Subscription—In Advance ^ thrill you had when you last
One Year ...........—..........-.......*150 received that same kind of a let-
BU Months .....-.................. -90 (er 0f the joy of opening
Three Mon'hs ............................ M the mall box and drawing out a
Cards of thanks and notices of en- warm envelope enriched with old
lertainment, where admission Is
eha.'ged, are published at the rate
of 10c a line. __
Any erroneous matter that is a re-
flection on the character or stand-
ing of any individual or firm, which
may appear in this paper will glad-
ly be corrected if brought to the
Attention of the publishers
Europe is all set for the next
familiar hand-writing! A personal
letter—It’s good to get one. So send
one—write a letter!
Write a letter to the aged rela-
tive who hasn't many days to live,
the friend of your father, the
friend of your family, the one sur-
viving link between your own pre-
sent and past. Don't wait for that
dear soul to dip till you act. Act
now with a mesasge of love to cheer
those last few days on earth. Sit
down and start writing!
Write a letter to the author whose
story gave you that delight half
war whenever Uncle Sam puts up hour last night Write a letter to
the money. the cartoonist whose serial strip
• ! you avidly devoured this morning;
Dale Carnegie might try his to the teacher who inspired you
“how to influence people" theory twenty years ago; to the doctor
on Herr Hitler who saved your baby's life; to
• your old employer to show him
As we understand It. we must i there was something more between
prime the pump if It takes all the you than a pay check. Be a human
water In the well being-write a letter.
• There's a man in public life you
A neighbor declares his wife Is admire, believe In, rave about.
m economical that she used only Write him a letter of praise, of
SO candies on her 40th birthday encouragement. To be “with him in
spirit" Is not enough—show your
• spirit with a letter. We cant all
A scientist declares the human be pioneers, crusaders, presidents
Jaw will grow smaller and eventual-1 —but we can help those brave
ly disappear But not from want I men stay on the track and push
of exercise. j through to a grand and glorious
• success if all we ever say Is “Atta-
Ttaen there was the housewife boy!” Write an "Attaboy” letter!
who sent the eggs back to the Write a letter and—give Give
groeer because they were too small praise, encouragement, interest,
for their age. , consideration, gratitude. You don’t
• HAVE to give these things: but the
We wonder why those pretty real letter is the one you don’t
women in the washing machine HAVE to write!
mds couldn't have married men The sweetest, gentlest, and most
Home of West Publications
Able to hire the washing done.
Asked by reporters for a state-
ment about world conditions on his
return from Europe. J. P. Morgan
parried with “You never get into
trouble until you volunteer state-
ments."
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GEN. PERSHING IS 78
useful of all the arts—letter writ-
ing. Great, grand characters like
Washington, Franklin. Lincoln, and
the greatest men of all nations,
have been regular letter writers.
Write a letter' Write it with pen,
pencil or typewriter. Use any kind
of paper, any kind of spelling or
grammar. It doesn't matter how
you say It, and it doesn't even mat-
ter what you say; its beauty, its
General John J. Pershing, now; gold lie in the pure fact that it's
to France, was reported to be in ; a letter! Each mistake is another
good health again on his 78th birth*| handclasp; every blot is a tear of
day, September 13; a bit of new* joy
which was most pleasing to all his; Do you see a job? Do you smell
feBow-c-ountrymcn It will be re- an order? Is your mind on busi-
called that last winter he was so ness? Write a letter. Then write
111 of pneumonia that he was given, another letter. No business, no In-
up by his physicians and a special dividual, built on the “wrlte-a-
funeral train was actually made up letter" rule ever failed. Because
to carry his body from Arizona to you simply can't fall, If you write
Arlington, a letter.
But the doughty old soldier made Try l1, ycu 11 Iike il- °reat J°y
an amazingly rapid comeback, and and many surprises are in store
» few weeks later was able to at- for *>“• You'H ^ lett«rs back
tend his son^ wedding to the East. Y°u-U he>P from unexpected
shortly after which he embarked sources. All that you gave in your
1 letters will be returned to you ~
for a long vacation in France.
The former commander of the
American Expeditionary Force in
the World War has had the mast
remarkable career of any United
(Kates Amy officer of his genera-
tion. He saw service in Indian cam-
paigns. the Spanish - American
War. the Phillippine Insurrection,
and commanded the expedition
aent into Mexico in pursuit of
Villa.
While serving in the campaign
against the Filipinos he so distln-
thousand-fold. For a letter is a 3-
cent investment in bountiful for-
tune.
Write a letter' Whether you say:
“Attaboy!," “Thanks!,” or “I love
you," always remember: A LETTER
NEEDS NO EXCUSE!
—James Mangan.
MUSICAL CONDUCTORS
Orchestra and band conductors,
as we know them, standing before
their organizations and directing
the players with a baton, date
galshed himself as to be promoted on]y from 1820 when the German
directly from captain to brigadies- vlolin virtuoso, composer and con-
general. Upon our entry into the ductOT Ludwig Spohr, was the first
World War he was placed to com- to ]ead an orchestra to this man-
mand of the A. E. F„ and in 1919 ner
he was made General of the Amies jn earlier days the conductor sat
at the United States, a rank crea- at a harpsichord or piano, playing
ted for him by a special act of Con- as occasion required, the time be-
*ress ; lng taken from the first violin.
Since his retirement from active who in some cases was also known
military service for age in 1924, he as the conductor,
has served as chairman of the The large number of musicians
Pictured above Is the home of the three weekly newspapers
published in West. The publications are “The West News, Cechoslovak
and Vestnik”. Our aim is to serve this section and we invite you to call
on us at all times.
Why McLennan County
Should Have a New Jail?
Reducing the cost of the new
jail that McLennan county hopes
to build from $600,000 to $200,000
is the main reason why voters are
looking with much more favor on
the project, and why a bond issue
calling for $110,000 is expected to
pass September 28
There are three reasons why pro-
ponents of the issue believe that
its passage is absolutely essential
now. The first is because financ-
ing of the newr building will not
burden anybody.
This is probably the last avail-
able chance to secure a $90,000
cash grant from the federal gov-
ernment to add to the county's
$110,000. Furthermore, the issue
has been arranged• so that the
bonds will be paid off in 10 years,
without undue cost to any tax-
payer. A man whose property is
assessed at as much as $10,000, for
example, will pay a total of only
$20 during the whole 10 years as
his part of the jail cost. A man
owning $1000 worth of property
will pay about $2.25, this broken
up into yearly payments ranging
from 23 cents down to 18 cents.
The second reason has to do
with the practicality of a new jail
structure, on the site of the pre-
sent one. Plans drawn up for it
arrange to h„use the county clerk’s,
county treasurer’s and county tax
assessor-collector's offices on the
first floor, with an entrance en-
tirely separate from the jail en-
trance. Ample space Is to be pro-
vided for the records of each of-
fice, and since the whole building
will be fireproof, no property own-
er or taxpayer in McLennan county
can suffer loss or damage to his
taxpaying records and property
titles by fire. As the records have
to be kept now, scattered over the
courthouse wherever room is avail-
able, a fire could cause inestimable
hi Koy, Magician,
At Tokio Tonight
El Roy, student of N. T. 8. T. C.
and magician of increasing pop-
ularity, will present his latest show,
"A Night of Mystery” In the gym-
nasium at Tokio at 8 o’clock to-
night, Friday. Admission charges
will be 10 and 15 cents.
El Roy believes his outstanding
brain teaser is his escape from a
pine packing box. He invites mem-
bers cf the audience to bring locks,
chains, ropes, or any other articles
they think will keep the elusive
magician in the box. El Roy has,
in previous performances, escaped
to a matter of a few seconds.
Other features of his show are
the destruction of articles by tear-
ing. cutting, and burning them
and then restoring them in their
original forms before the audience.
He prcduces articles from nowhere,
and many other baffling perform-
ances. The "wishing cone” is a
favorite with all audiences El Roy
molten sealing wax. To climax the
act he walks a ladder of saws with
bare feet. Then leaps from the
saw tooth ladder and does a dance
in a box of broken glass. ,
El Roy Is the stage name under
which Le Roy Neal, senior In the
College, puts on his magic per-
formances. While in college Neal
became well known In North Tex-
as. He defrayed all his expenses
In school practicing magic to 16
counties. Two hundred schools
lodges, and various other places
have witnessed his performances.
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Stefanox Matoll of Pallanza,
Italy, has just received an Invita-
tion to his son's wedding which
occured 25 years ago. It had been
lost to the mails.
“Why, I don’t know what a fire-
plug is,” explained Mrs. T. B. Las-
kly when she was haled into court
In Muskogee, Okla„ far parking
near a street hydrant.
says.
As a special feature. El Roy will
present a newcomer to Ills com- j
pany. Hubs Haba El Diablo—the!
man with the Iron skin. Haba
Haba Is a 270 pound giant who does
the unbelieveable. He eats fire,
burning ' cigarette* blazing fruit. |
A penny Isn't much; hardly
worth picking up cn the street, yet
there are fortunes in penny sales.
In « year one company operating
penny slot machines vending chew-
ing gum and candy took in three
and a half billion pennies—$88.-
000.000—over 810,000.000 of which
represented profit.
A JOB
THAT IS
damage.
Third reason why a new jail is
so necessary is that present con-
ditions among the unfortunate in-
dividuals who have to be imprison-
ed there is revolting to decent, hu-
mane people. An average number
of 18 insane people have to be
kept In Jail all the time, waiting
for places In state asylums. There
are always one or two young boys,
white and negro, in there waiting
to be taken to reform school. The
adults, men and women, white and
black, run from 30 to 100 They are
in jail awaiting trial, or are for the
most part serving out time for
such misdemeanors as drunk driv-
ing and petty theft.
The Jail was originally built to
hold about 40 people As It Is now.
the Jail population Is always 80 or
more, and sometimes the number
gets up to 120. A young boy who
may be in jail waiting to spend his
first term In reform school has to
stay In the same cell with crazy
persons, white and black, or with
men who may have been suffering
from disease for years. There Is no
isolation ward for the sick. Resi-
dents cf the county remember
such painful happenings as when
a young boy had his ear nearly
bitten off by an elderly insane man,
and when a demented woman
would have delivered a child In
the jail If attendants had not
rushed her to a hospital. The fed-
eral government has indicated its
disapproval of deplorable condi-
tions at the jail by refusing to
place prisoners In It.
This is a situation that nothing
but a new jail can remedy. Oppor-
tunity to secure a modern, safe,
roomy structure with toolproof
prisoners' quarters at a very rea-
sonable cost is available Voters
are urged to cast their ballot for
the bond issue Sept. 28
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TRUST
Accuracy that comes from a check and recheck of all
Ingredients and measurements before a prescription Is deliv-
ered; a stock of complete drugs and expert prescriptionlste
make this prescription service 100 per cent dependable. Ask
your doctor
Was your last prescription fresh? — To be sure bring your
next prescription to us.
WEST DRUG STORE
“The Prescription Store'" WEST, TEXAS,
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American battle monuments com-
mission, spending much of his time
to Europe on that duty.
General Pershing is a great
and composing modem symphony
and operatic orchestras makes it
almost necessary that the conduc-
tor give all his attention to direct-
aoldier and a great American May lng without playing an instrument
he enjoy his well-earned honors himself.
for many years to come ! It has been truly said that great
_)o<_ but a high quality of musician-
A year ago Tom Haywood of Cro- ship, attained only by long study,
atan. N C., rigged up a "kicking is also an indixpenstble requisite
machine” to front of his filling Many leading conductors have pro-
bation, where anyone feeling the digious gifts of memory, and are
need of being given a good swift able to direct whole symphonies
kick could work on himself by and even operas without a note of
toning a crank. Haywood says musk;. t
remorseful people have worn out More recently it has become a
lour shoes using the machine. sort of fad among some to discard
• i the baton and conduct with their
When Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cd- j hands alone. Tuscan to I. by corn-
well of London were committed to mon consent considered the great-
JaU for fighting to the street, the, est conductor to the world, con-
hunhand requested that bis wife's i tinuee to weild the "stick", how-
term be deferred until he had sever, and this custom seems like-
oonpleted his. ly to prevail as standard practice.
DEATHS FROM CANCER 1 cation, serums, colored lights.
REACH 4305 IN TEXAS pastes, salves, and diets are value-
_ , less.
Austin, Texas, Sept. 21.—Deaths “The great protection against
from cancer in Texas reached a j cancer is early diagnosis. Every
total of 4305 during the past year, case is an emergency and it is un-
indicating that a warning against fortunate that the majority of
cancer quacks and so-called can- those with cancer do not seek med-
cer cures is Justified by the State ical advice early in the first stages
Health Department. Early dlagno- of the disease. No hope should be
sis and competent treatment could' placed in fake cancer cures or
have prevented many of these treatments. Rather, the annual
deaths, states Dr. Geo. W. Cox, physical examination and an im-
state health officer. mediate reporting to your physician
"While newspapers, as a rule, do! of an* whlch **
not carry advertising of this type,1 susPected U> * the ginning of
there are many other ways by1 cancer *ou,a reUed uP°n The*e.
are many other ways
which misinformation can reach
thq. public. Undoubtedly there are
many persons who, being thus de-
toured from seeking proper medical
advioe, unnecessarily become can-
cer victims, while others not hav-
symptoms are: any unusual bleed- j
tog from any body opening, any :
lump In the breast or other parti
of the body, any persistent sore,
particularly on the face or mouth,
and chronic indigestion. These con-
tog cancer, are fleeced out of much <UtloM ma* not cancer-
but
money for a
Cox added.
so-called cure," Dr.
sometimes they are forerunners off
the more common types of this
■ I disease. Where cancer Is suspected,
"mere are but two ways of treat- do not delayi mu consult your
lng cancer. First, by surgery and; physician at once
second, by the use of radium or ___
X-ray Treatment must be started A Maryland legislator thinks
early and In the hands of a com- i some of the laws on the statute
petent surgeon. Surgery is relied books of his state are rather out at
upon to remove cancerous tumors date, and suggests their repeal. For
and Is used to nearly two-thirds example, one law forbids drivers of
of the cases. X-ray or radium is horse-drawn street cars working
used to advantage tor the remain- more than IS hours a day; another
tog group. Frequently the two; makes It unlawful to feed slaves
methods are combined. Seif-medi- mi terrapin more than once a week,
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people of Mclennan
COUNTY ARE AGREED
ON TWO THINGS:
FIRST:
That the $110,000 which a new
jail would cost the county is
a conservative and reasonable
and a necessary expenditure;
that this is probably the coun-
ty’s last chance to secure the
important contribution of 45
per cent of the needed funds
($90,000 in cash) from the fed-
eral government.
SECOND:
That the DIRE NEED of a new
jail is unquestioned, even by
those who opposed previously
proposed larger bond issues.
No reasonable person, what-
ever his attitude toward law-
breaking, approves of throwing
insane, criminal, diseased and
10-to-16-year-oid first offend-
ers together as crowded condi-
tions at the present antiquated
jail necessitate.
VOTE FOR THE JAIL BOND
ISSUE SEPTEMBER 28
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Webb, Leonard. The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1938, newspaper, September 23, 1938; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth590366/m1/4/?q=music: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting West Public Library.