The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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The Tyler Journal
Issued Weekly By
HENRY EDWARDS & CO.
Publishers
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Editorial and Business Offices
SOS Citizens Nat’l Bank Bldg.
Tyler, Toxa3
Phone No. ...... 1178
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Entered as Second-class matter
May 8, 1925, at the Post . Office at
Tyler, Texas, under the Act of
March 8, 1879.
HENRY EDWARDS - - - Editor
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I will think—talk—write . . .
Texts Centennial in 1936/ This
is tv be my celebration. In its
achievement 1 may give free play
tv my patriotic love for Texas'
heroic past; my confidence in its
glories that are to be. .... .
TRUCKS WANT TO DOUBLE
THEIR LOADS
A heavy loaded truck collided wiih
a school bus near Fairbanks, Texas,
Monday afternoon, seriously wound-
ing six children ard hurting sixteen,
more or less seriously. The driver of
the school bus claims he tried an
he could to pass the truck but fhe
road was not tfwide enough for both
vehicles. All of us wdnder when we
see some of these huge trucks how
any other car could.get by them.
Wednesday the Texas legislature
killed a bill, that had strong support,
to increase the allowable number of
pounds a truck can carry from 7,000
to 10,000 pounds. Should this bill have
become a law it would have meant
practically the turning over of our
highways to these monster trucks. It
Would be a brave man who would
want to take his family on a high-
way where the capacity of present
trucks had been doubled. Not only
would life be endangered but our ex-
pensive roads would be tom to pieces,
roads the taxpayers have paid for
so they might use them with never
a thought that they were being taxed
to furnish a free highway for Com-
mercial trucks and buses. Then it i$
Unfair competition to the railroads'
who have to pay taxes to build roads
for their competitors.
It is true that the motor truck can
be used to the advantage of the pub-
lic but they should not be permitted
to make travel on the highways a
menace to life and limb, neither should
they expect the taxpayer to furnish
them free roads. It looks like the
trucks will largely increase in number
and size and they should be compelled
to build their own roads. If they Say
they calnnot do this, then they should
not expect the taxpayers to foot the
bill. Any business that cannot pay its
way .has no right to call on others to
nuike it possible for it to make money.
Wo will come to see this some day
end tell the trucks we want our high-
ways for the benefit of those they
are built for.—Tho Marshall Morning
News.
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Here it is March—and the month
for corrt-planting in this latitude. Two
questions bob up in this connection:
What quality of land op our farm
will we assign to eorin? And wha't
kind of seed will, we plant? Com, the
farm crop that provides bread for
the table, feed for the livestock—
finishing fat for the porkers (on the
farms where there are porkers) —
com that does all these things should
be planted on the best land on. the
entiie farm, garden spot excepted.
Anil, .whatever you do, don’t plant
scrub seed corn. It’s a waste of your
time. Probably not 250 farmers in
the county grew com last year fit
to be used as seed corn this year. It
may be expensive ‘to buy your seed
com this year—-but it will pay you
to buy it—and to buy it from a res-
ponsible dealer, who deals only in de-
pendable seed, and who tells the
truth to his patrons. • •
Most of us smart-alec farmers long
ago turned the garden operations ov-
er 'to our wives. No little piddling ar-
ound the house was good enough to
engage our activities—give uis big
cotton fitVhis, and let us fool our-
selves witbSa—little patch of corn on
some of the hillside clay galls. But
if we do leave the gardens to our
wives and children we ought at least
to do the heavy work therein. Truth
is that if the friend wife does the
housework—arid there's always thou-
sands of it to,do, lasting all the way
from daylight till bed time—we lords
of creation just ain’t built that way
—-not many of us.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AIDS TO
RECOVERY
When the history of the depression
comes to be written one of its bright
chapters will be the part , the public
libraries played in enabling individ-
uals to keep their heads above water
for the time being pnd to prepare
themselves for the prevention of de-
pressions in the future. Not only have
thousands of people found temporary
forgetfulness of their troubles in
reading, but even more thousands have
found in libraries concrete informa-
tion through which they have been
able to build for themselves new ca-
reers. Since the expression began 4,-
000,000 new borrower's registered then,
solves with the public libraries, bring-
ing the total served by them through-,
out the country to 24 000,000—arrrl
this figure does not include?--frhe-re&d-
ers who used reference and reading
facilities in the- library buildings. Any
public librarian can tell the inquirer
ed people, old and young, who actual-
ly taught themselves new trades, in
many cases highly techni* al one®*,
through library resiling, and built for
themselves new careers as a result
. , | Tragically enough, just at the time
r>est wjien the libraries were rendering this
immense service t<y the-Country their
revenues dried up. In the second larg-
est* gity of the country the public li-
brary has not bought a new hook in
three years, and its old ones are be-
ing physically worn out .by constant
use.*:The American Library Associa-
tion has recently created a planning
committee to co-operate with the fed-
eral and state governments in making
the most extensive use* of government
aid in library rehabilitation and ex-
tension. In ’ spite of the enormous
growth in library patronage since the
depression, ‘there are today forty mil-
lion people who have no library fa-
cilities and another forty million with
a very inadequate service. The sparse-
ly populated rural areas are, of course,
the areas least able to help themselves
Lti this matter, and at the same time
the areas which most need library
service both for adults and as part
of their educational setup. Forty
states have already begun intensive
work in library development., relief
workers in many instances doing the
necessary survey work. Here is a
chance for the public-spirited citizen
to co-operate with his state or county
in a Work which is vital to civiliza-
tion itself.—Christian Century.
28,000 Texas Farmers Sign
1935 Corn-Hog Contracts
College Station,'March 5.—Twenty-
eight thousand Texas farmers have
signed the pew 1935 corn-hog adjust-
ment contract, it was announced here
today by E. M. Regenhrecht, Exten-
sion Swine Specialist. This is an in-
crease of more than 25 per cent of
signers over ast* year.
“The progress of the 1935 sign-up
is gratifying,” Regenhrecht declared.
“Much of the increase, in signing
contracts, is due to the new literal
regulations of the contract. The in-
crease is particularly noticeable In
the ‘Black I>ands.’ Corn-h6g farmers
may now receive payment from the
government by retiring a part of their
own corn crops and at the same time
plant an unlimited amount of other
feed crops such as oats, barley and
other... feed grains.
“Also,” he added, “this year the
government has raised (he ante on
payment. Thirty-five cents a bushel
will be paid for the corn, an increase
of five cents a-bushel over last year."
Each county is allowed to set its
own deadline 7>n the signing of the
contracts. Reports show that the ma-
jority of the counties have set clos-
ing dates as between March 1 and
March 15.
A report from Dr. A. G. Black, chief
of the administration's corn-hog sec-
tion at, Washington, D. C., states that
more than 450,000 farmers of the Com
Belt and other states throughout the
nation have signed applications for
the 1935 contracts. This estimate was
based on reports from Extension di-
rectors in the ipnjdr corn arid hog
growing states. ; L
Editor Comments on Above News
The foregoing news item is from
official—and authentic—sources. Corn
prices, pork and pork product prices
are going up ?n Texas—and the pmy-HTrgwise they are out of employment.
pects are that they will continue tc
go up. The upward “punch” of living
costs is being felt acutely by most
Texa,ns now, especially by the wage-
earners and those who must live by
their labors dav by day. Yet, in spite
of that fact, the government is deli-
berately inducing and paying farmers
to curtail their corn and hog produc-
tion. Yet today Texas is - importing
corn and pork products front foreign
countries. Thousands of car loads of
corn are being* shipped every month
from Mexico. The ports of entry at
Brownsville, Laredo, Del Rio, E! Paso
and along tt\e Gulf Coast, attest this
embarrassing fact. Other corn is be-
ing shipped from far-away Argenti-
na. Pork and meat! are being import-
ed fre>m foreign countries—even lard
being imported from Germany. These
imports are not in payment of debts
i i .Up to control world man-
owed by foreign countries* to Uncle, over wn government that we
Sam—and it ip a shame, an “economic ■ kets- - *> al,out has, in its do-
shame,” that we must send these iui- have j)een able to outwit or
told millions of dollars out of the; mc; tii • • * • jaw 0f supply and de-
country to nay for foodstuffs and i repen *l % ;s that there must be
other goods that might be produced j mnnd. 'brain-trust policy <>-
here at home, or at leart by our neigh- a change ol * ----
boring states—that might, so produc-
ed. put money into somebody’s pocket
to the 'end that with larger produc-
tion at home there could be larger
consumption at home and thereby
more employment.
People are hungry here in our own
country, and at our own doors—and
and without decent clothes and with-
out many of the necessities of life.
But! with billions of dollars of monpy
wrested from industry, from taxpay-
ers of every clfcss, these high-brow,
brain-trust (experts are trying oi5t
this fool idea. Their theory is: De-
stroy foods and feeds, burrow money
on government credit and subsidize
farmers to produce less food and feed-
stuffs, so that scarcity will make
higher prices. They overlook the fact
that this scarcity, while it may put
money into the pockets of a few,
means starvation and business stag-,
nation for the many—and, most pi-1
tif’d of all is the fact, the shameful |
fact that unemployment and desti-
tution and enlarged governmental ap-
propriations—for rilief purposes are
increasing. No government on earth,
in its foreign trade relationships, ha.*
borrow i
to
^Contentod Pauperism” -vh^rm K-Y
have lost their self-respect and got_
ten to th
want to wei1®*—y - can ag]*ee
for wanting to worn nlir idea
tnisters” 'hav^kn'^’l^
TnoS"—eSi VumbAry*;
that the world ever saw. •
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Re M ise—Advertise
BOB
FRANCIS
Wants to do your Hauling
TRANSFER
PHONE 103___
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O those whose backs were sore
with endless toil! To those whose
days were fore-shortened by
smudgy, eye-killing lamps! To
those who were far removed from
the conveniences of the "city!” To
those "nine o’clock” Texas towns
whose curfews were enforced . .
and their safety endffngerd . . by
their inability to have street
lights:
To these
!t Most” .
, "Those Who Need
the Texas Power &
bight Company dedicated its
services . . 22 years ago!
Today this company serves 197
Texas communities that never had
electric service until our trans-
mission lines were extended to
serve them. They needed it most!
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Smith County Marriage
Licenses Feb. 25-March 4
Following “permity to pair” were
issued by Countv Clerk W. R. Ward
for the week of Feh. 25.M-- .rch 4:
J. C. Blackmon-Ruby Hqll; Major
Ratliff-Winnie Steele: C. V. Flournev-
Zeffie'Crear; C. O. Bruee-Pearl Vir-
ginia Trim: Charles L. Newton-Mar-
rruerite McCloutrh; Axford W. Lowry-
Mrs. Lucille Collier; Alvin Bashenrs-
Alda Hedgecoug; Walter H. Pjnkins-
VTazel Shattuek; Charles Curtis Neal-
Maxine Shcrrow: Freddie Sfwndors-
.Tessie Stewart; James Duncan-Reh^c-
ca Tyee: Turner Henson-ITelen Wil-
liams; Bruce F. Ferrell-Mildred Hicks.
THE BEST ESTATE TO ®t,EAVE
SERVICE IN SONG <§
Ho! hoi fickle world
Tve no'fame
ft. ■
I’ve sung t*|e
who wis 1
And .as
little child
lame—
he’d sit meekly in hi3
little wheel chair,
fie’d really be running Jn
v\ green pastures fair,
i Chasing gay butterflies, ahd ’
winning the race! /
I've seen divine rapture'* on
his little pinched face,
-—Juanita Kinney.
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
reporta-total cash income of farmers
during 193i*tras $6,031,000,000 a* com,
pared with $5,051,000,000 in 1938.
/
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Not every father is able to leave
to his, son a big estate made up of
lands, mortgages and bonds, but any
father can bequeath to his children
an estate worth indefinitely more—
one for which they will fise up to call
his name blessed. He can leave an
honorable name,__a good reputation,
the. memory of a godly life and a rec-
ord of fair denying. He cam, teach his
ttntt to hnve n nlofound respect for a
a thirst for knowledge and a willing-
ness , to work. If any youth has ail
this he will nof need any money that
may be willed tirhim; if he does not'
leave this, no money left him will do
him much good. This is an- esftate^ any
man can leave to his chinlren
The Wills Pdlnt Chronicle.
In its revolution about the sun, th*
earth travels at a mean rate of about
18.5 miles per second, 1,598,000 miles
per day or 583,670,000,000 miles per
.ORE than 2,000 farms
enjoy electric service from our transmission
lines. As a further evidence that our service
is extended "To Those Who Need It Most”
is the fact that 23 0 of those Texas communi-
ties which wc serve have less than 1,000
population.
Serving these communities, (and nearly a
hundred larger ones) with the very' bestkeloc-
tric service required the investment of large
sums of money. This Company made these
investments in order to bring the service "To
Those Who Need It Most,” at a time when it
would serve them best.
This chart shows that electricity is cheaper to our
customers today . . in j pile of the fact that the lost
of living is rising sharply. This Company will^nake
it still cheaper,. . voluntarily . . ,ust as rapidly as
good business will permit further reductions.
ELECTRICITY is CHEAP
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Edwards, Henry. The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1935, newspaper, March 8, 1935; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth619637/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.