The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1934 Page: 3 of 8
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In The Editor’s Mail
Just a few of the letters coming
to the editorial desk— those that
commend, or praise, or flatter.
Those that condemn, or point out our
weaknesses are suppressed, you
know, just as you would suppress
letters of that nature written to
you.
Dallas, -Texas, Feb.
1934
Dear Mr. Edwards:
The rose bushes came and we are
delighted with them. They are such
nice, large bushes and we hope that
we will have some beautiful flowers
from them this summer. This was
most liberal of Mr. Watkins, manag-
er of Dixie Nurseries, and we great-
ly appreciate them. We want to
thank you for your assistance in
procuring the bushes.
, Very truly yours,
ANNIE LAURIE LITTLE,
Supt.
Miss Little is superintendent of
Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled
Children. Our editor had no part in
the gift except to state that the
hospital needed some roses, in that
the grounds thereof contained sev-
eral large plats which he had rec-
ommended be set to Smith county
roses. We’d have thought that a
most generous gift from any one
nurseryman would have been enough
(or even half enough) to supply one
of these four plats each of which
required fifty bushes, if fully set to
roses. Mr. Watkins didn’t stop at
giving fifty bushes, nor 100. He just
gave 200 bushes, enough to fill all
of the four plats. More than that,
Mr. Watkins paid the freight on the
shipment. On behalf of the little pa-
tients there, we thank him. We are
going to have a little play with
those kiddies this summer out in
their rose gardens—and we’d just
like to have Watkins along for the
fun.
U. S. SENATE
Washington, D. C., Feb.—1934
Editor The Tyler Journal,
Tyler, Texas.
Mr. dear Friend Edwards:
Thank you for yours of the 29th
acknowledging receipt of the copy
of the report of the Louisiana In-
vestigating Committee. I am pleased
to know that so much of the report
as you have read merits your ap-
proval. and that you intend to write
an article on the subject. I shall
thank you to send me a copy.
Whenever I can be of assistance
to you here do not hesitate to call
on me.
Sincerely,
TOM CONN ALLY.
From a C.enerous Friend
Some few of our readers know
Mrs. Frances Poindexter, widow of
the late Judge William Poindexter.
She is a poet of rare talent and we
have been privileged to publish a
few of her charming compositions.
Writing from her Houston home,
1507 Tuam St., she says:
Houston, Feb. 23, 1334
Dear Mr. Edwards:
This note is merely to acknowledge
the regular receipt of your most in-
teresting paper, which I read each
week with the greatest pleasure, es-
pecially the personal utterances m
your editorial columns, and the col-
umn in which you “tell it to <)n.
That particular feature is unique —
and so very, very human. I like it
immensely.*** .,, .
I noticed one of Mrs. Crowells
poems on your front page not long
ago. It was beautiful, and in fact
all her poems are very lovely. She
is one writer of whom Texas well
mav be proud.
Tn this note I shall not become
either professional or personal. It is
merely to thank you and to remind
you that I am
Sincerely your friend,
FRANCES POINDEXTER.
Against St. Lnwrence Treaty
A few davs ago we carried an
editorial stating that, much as we
want to be in agreement with Pres-
ident. Roosevelt, we couldnt go
along with him one foot in his ad-
vocacy of the treaty with Canada to
provide an ocean-going ship chan-
nel bv canalizing or dredging the
St. Lawrence River. The following
letter is in response to that editor-
*** Henderson, Texas, Feb. 7, 1934
Mr. Henry Edwards, Editor
The Tyler Journal, Tyler, Texas.
Dear Mr. Edwards:
I have been fighting the St
Lawrence Waterway Treaty for three
vears and from time to time nave
had articles printed against it in
magazines and papers all over the
United States.
The St. Lawrence Waterway
Treaty will come up before the Sen-
ate again in a few days. When
President Roosevelt was Governor
of New York State he opposed this
treatv. hut there is evidence now
that the President is in earnest
when he backs the St. Lawrence
Treatv. The four reports and maps
that he had sent, to the Senate for
•use in its favor cost, the government
'Tht*<i*'4;°X; imm
of the American taxpayers’ money
and makes a present of it to Kns-
land The waterway is to cost one
billion dollars. Of this amount Can-
ada will pav S40.00fl.0n0 and the
United States S960.000.000. Practical-
ly all the work is to be done in
Canada and the treatv simulates
that no one hut Canadians may he
employed with this billion_ dollars
from the United States. The. nav
will range from $4 to $9 a dnv.
When the canal is completed it will
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cities as New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and Norfolk
about one-half. The business thus
loBt will go to the Canadian cities.
Besides the loss of the billion dol-
lars in our national budget the loss
of business to the United States
will be in excess of a billion dollars
annually. This action deeds the
water of Lake Michigan, a body of
water . completely in the United
States, to Great Britain. This great
“American Lake” will forever, thru
the new treaty, become an interna-
tional body of water.
I urge the American people to
write o? wire their Senators at
cr:ce and oppose this nefarious
treaty.
CAPT. CHAS. P. SMITH
Henderson, Texas.
How to Improve Cotton Status
From “Bill Skinflint who lives at
Flint” comes the subjoined letter
with a note signed with the writ-
er’s real name requesting that we
include the missive in our “Telling
It To You” column. However, as the
letter is rather too long for that
space, we publish it here. The writ-
er’s real name can be supplied if
necessary. “Mr. Skinflint” writes
thus:
Flint, Texas, Feb. 26, 1934
Editor The Journal:
It seems to me that the cotton
situation could be improved by drift-
ing back to the big boll Rowden, or
the big old gi’een-seed varieties.
Half-and-Half is the kind planted
mostly now — and if a kind comes
out that is “all-in-all,” that is all
lint, farmers will plant that. It used
to take 1600 to 1800 pounds of seed
cotton to make a 500-pound bale of
lint. Now they get that much lint
from 1100 pounds of seed cotton.
They claim that there is a short-
age of cotton seed meal and hulls
now; and, if 1934 and 1935 crops of
cotton are cut one-third or more, it
appears to me that we are “blowed
up” for cotton seed, meal and hulls,
not saying a thing about other cot-
ton seed products. We need a varie-
ty of cotton that is mostly seed —
just enough lint to hold the seed to-
gether—and plant that kind for a
few years until we get clear of this
big surplus and still not run short
of cotton seed and their products.
Cotton seed meal is one of our
host fertilizers, and most lands here
in the “sticks” need it. Everv sweet
has its bitter. Tf yon have to rob
Peter to pay Paul, then the condi-
tions are not imoroved much. Everv
vear there is a shortage of feedstuffs
on most, farms. Cotton seed makes
good feedstuffs, esnecially for pat-
tie. So if we would plant cotton with
not so much lint—and plant, the, land
rented to Uncle Snm to corn, and
not destroy anv of our nigs, we
would have more “hog and hominy"
after awhile.
Yours truly,
VA/ORLD WAR
V « «YARNS
LIEUT. FRANK E. HAGAN
Time for Informality
There were times when it was defi-
nitely a disadvantage to be a com-
missioned or non-commissioned officer
In the American forces.
This was particularly true when the
Germans were sweeping the paths of
the Argonne forest and associated
bols with machine gun bullets, and
when they were spraying the cross-
roads of the Meuse-Argonne battle-
field with their assorted ash cans of
high explosives to pile men and horses
together In a ghastly heap. Such de-
fensive fighting by the enemy allows
him t,Q sit Mick of the old gun sights
and pick out the lenders of an attack.
The officers recognized the fact that
they were supplying more than their
average In casualties. Whenever pos-
sible they did something about It.
One of these occasions is said to have
been the arrival of a runner at tlie
front in search of his major.
This major was well known and
well liked. Ills roly poly appearance,
his pointed beard and his frank expres-
sions had made him popular with the
soldiers. He led them in attacks and
he wasn’t afraid. However, the major
was distinctly annoyed when the run-
ner, arrived at the spot where the
major and- his men were digging In,
yelled at the top of his voice: “Oh,
major!”
“How many times have I told you
not to do that!" demanded the major,
rising from his resting place. "Every
German sniper ahead of us is looking
for majors. When you want me on
the front all that is necessary Is to
veil: ‘Hey! Come here, you old gray-
whiskered son of a what!’ ”
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By MI MI
MILLION EMPLOYED ON
HIGHWAYS IN JANUARY
Mr. “Skinflint.” the editor calls
vouc idea an ORIGINAL IDEA—and
he is not so sure but that you are
nearer right than the experts of the
A A A—or anv of the other experts
in Government, ernplov who are pro-
posing so manv bewildering, befud-
dling, confusing, obfuscating and
discombobberating things.
Washington. — Almost a million
men were employed in highway and
dependent work during January, op
State and Federal roads only, ac-
cording to an announcement of the
Bureau „pf Public Roads, United
States Department of Agriculture,
which is administering the $400,000,-
000 highway appropriation. This is
an all-time high for the winter sea-
son. The tabulation is as follows:
employed “at the sites of the high-
ways,” 362.000; labor in stone quar-
ries, gravel pits for road construc-
tion only, 543,000; supervisory, ad-
ministrative, clerical, etc., 51,000,
total 956,000. The record far ex-
ceeds highway employment for the
summer months of 1933. Assuming a
family of three, the persons sup-
ported by these workers number 2,-
868,000. Actual employment is said
to exceed 1,000,000, the names on
payrolls being materially higher
than the figures given, due to labor
turnover.
Theatre Programs
QUEEN THEATRE
Tyler, Texas
T’hurs.ln v-Fridn v
“WHAT PPTCre DECENCY”
with
Dorothv Burgess
Allan Hale
Walter Byron
Saturday
‘BROADWAY TH^U A KEYHOLE’
with
Constance Cummings
Russ Colombo
Texas Guinan
A he Lyman and Band
Sundav-Mondav
“ONLY YESTERDAY”
with
John Boles
Margaret Sullivan
The Blue Ribbon picture of the year
with 93 Feature players.
Tuesday-Wednesday »
“BIG TIME OR BUST”
with
Regis Toomey
Gloria Shea
Walter Byron,
Thtirsday-Fridny
“COMING OUT PARTY"
with
Frances Dee
Gene Raymond
'Allison Skipwcrth
Harry Green
Nothing But Praise
but
Ernest — “I have nothing
praise for our new minister.”
Elmer—“Yes, I noticed that when
they passed the collection plate.”
When You Buy a Used Car,
You Want the
BEST USED
CAR
Look these over:
1933 Chevrolet Coach,
Q^y a few $525
thousand miles .........
1932 Chevrolet $395
Coach ....................
1930 Buick $295
Coupe, 46-S ..............
1931 Buick 5445
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1929 Studebaker $245
1929 Nash
1929 De Soto $1?5
Coach ......... ............. ** *“*
(6 wire wheels)
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The Passing of Pin Cushions
I SAW one of those old-fashioned
* contraptions up In the gurret of a
farm house not long ago. It was a
pieek-looking and faded-out mess and j
punched full of pin-holes. These pin '
cushions passed out of existence
along with a host of other things |
found peculiar to the female of the j
species.
The old style woman was of the :
pin-cushion variety. She Just stuck j
around and took whatever happened |
to come her way. She was a hum- j
ble, silent being who had about as j
much Initiative as the, average gov- j
ernment employee. Her idea wus that)
of watchful waiting, and she did a !
lot of the latter. She took what she I
could get and hung on to it until It j
got rusty.
You don’t find many of these fe-
male pin cushions nowadays. The flap
perish woman Is more of a porcupine
who throws the plus, or quills. If you
wait to take what the men offer, you’ll
take a lot that you don't want, or
nothing at all.
The modern girl never had a chance
to be receptive, for she came Into the
world when life was flying. She knew
that she had to reach out ufter what
she wanted whether It was a dunce
or a Job, a spiffy hut or a man.
When It comes to getting a man. It
doesn’t pay to sit down and look In-
terested. A girl has to exert herself.
As a matter of fact, the only way
to get the man you want Is to take
the lce-tongs and drag him into the
kitchen. Of course, that doesn’t seem
dignified, but dignity Is only another
one of the things that has been
stuffed away In the attic of the apart-
ment
But I’m not thinking of mere men.
No, I’m considering the change that
has come over us women since the
revolving doors began to spin around.
We can’t afford to sit still and accept
the pins which Fate has In store for
us. ~*
We’ve got to be on the Job In all
matters.
The moment a girl ’’makes a pin
cushion of herself, and accepts the
opinions of other people, she’s on her
way to the attic.
Don’t say to us, “Use no hooks,’
for that's Just the thing we %ars
to do.
((£) br tk* Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
FEWER FAILURES UNDER
NRA THAN DURING ’28
Washington —Business failures in
the United
States in
the
last
six
months of
1933 were
47
per
cent
lower than
during
the
last
six
months of
1932, and
31
per
cent
lower than for the last six months
of 1928, according to a comprehen-
sive survey by A. D. Whiteside, di-
visional administrator of the Na-
tional Recovery Administration, who
in private life is president of Dun A
Bradstreet, a world authority on
business statistics. The report shows
that the decline in failures, which
has been marked since NRA start-
ed to function last summer, was
much more pronounced in small bus-
inesses than large. :
Vulcanizing—
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A. H. BENNETT, Mechanic
Corner Spring and Line Sts.
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Tyler
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KILOWATT HOURS
Each space of No. 4 dial records the equivalent of 1 Kilowatt Hour and when No. 4 dial has
made one complete revolution No. ) dial motet one (pace. Therefore, each ipace on the No. 3 dial
1* equivalent to 10 Kilowatt Hour*, whila each ipace of No. 2 dial it equivalent to 100 Kilowatt
Houn and each ipac* of >No. 1 i* equivalent to 1,000 Kilowatt Hours.
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between which the hand points. For illustration! In reading the dialjis shown above, you should
•how No. 1 dial as reading 3, No. 2 as reading 9, No. 3 dial as reading 8 and No. 4 dial as reading 1.
i The Above Dials Now Read - - - - - - 5,981 KWH
| If the Reading Last Month Was - - - - - 5,960 KWH
( The Amount Consumed This Month Would Be ^1 KWH
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Michigan. Thin means that all the
United States’ shipping will be t,ak-
«i off the Great Lakes and Great
Britain will put ships on to take
i V 4 their place. Thousands of American
seaman will be out of employment.
The St. Lawrence River is to be
deepened for ocean-going vessels so
that every Canadian city now locat-
ed on it' will become a seaport. This
will reduce the commerce of such
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than twenty years ago. The spirit of this slogan has lived through the development of service from
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Edwards, Henry. The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1934, newspaper, March 2, 1934; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth620073/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.