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VOL. 12. NO. 11
The Tyler Journal
To “Sell” Smith County’s Better Farming Program to Our Own People and to Texas—and Tyler to Her Neighbors
5. FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1936
A CONSTRUCTIVE NEWS
SERVICE FOR SMITH
AND
ADJOINING COUNTIES
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Does Tyler Need An Adequate
Children's Playground Plan?
For a number of years, America has
been changing rapidly from a rural
to an urban country. Our cities have
lbecome industrial and business cen-
ters. Open spaces about residences,
business and industry are disappear-
ing and our populations are living in
niiore congested areas. The lack of
recreational areas for the old, and the
lack of play space for the young, have
helped , turn the populations of our
cities from physical exercise to the
automobile, movies and other com-
mercial forms of recreation, and have
bottled up the energy of our children
instead of permitting the natural out-
let in active play.
Where parks and playgrounds do
not exist, play activities often take
the form of “gangs” whose desire for
excitement leads to the destruction of
property and to delinquency. And
where parks and playgrounds are pro-
vided, but the play on them is unsup-
ervised, it is generally found that the
activities are controlled by the oldest
or strongest boy or girl, who, by bul-
lying tractis, directs the play to his or
her own liking. The reticent or shy
boy or girl is not only left entirely
out of the activities, but his or her
limitations are exaggerated.
Judge Lindsay of Denver has said,
#,Our plea for public playgrounds is
a plea for justice to the boy. We are
literally crowding him off the earth.
We have no right to deny him his her-
itage, but that is just what we are
doing in neaily every large city in
this country, and he is hitting back,
hitting hard, when he does not mean
to, while we vaguely understand and
stupidly punish him for his crime.
Why shouldn’t he rebel ? The amaz-
ing thing is that he is not worse than
he is.”
District Attorney Chas. Edwin Fox
of Philadelphia, who covered a dis-
trict. for five years before and a like
period after the establishment of
playgrounds, stated:
*1 discovered the remarkable fact
that within five years of playground
recreation, the neighborhood showed a
50*/r. decrease in juvenile delinquency
as compared with the previous years.”
. Investigations conducted in various
rities disclose that few children are
struck by automobiles while going to
and from school. So long as they have
the school in mind, they seem to re-
member their safety lessons. It is
when school hours are over and chil-
dren are out at play that they are itt
the greatest peril. A Chicago report
states that 66% of the children kill-
ed or seriously injured in traffic ac-
cidents were so injured within one
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TWO TONS OF AIR
MAIL WILL LEAVE
DALLAS, JULY 18
Approximately two tons of mail
will move out of Dallas July 18 on
the most unusual mail transport trip
in history.
The mail will be dumped into com-
partments in the wings of the most
unusual airplane to hit the airlanes,
then to be hauled at very high al-
titudes over the Atlantic Ocean and
to Paris where it will go into a post-
office for stamp cancellation.
On July 4, just 14 days before its
departure on the Dallas to Paris
flight the Flying Wing—that is what
Monty G. Mason and Clyde E. Pang-
born called their red, long winged
plane—was christenede the Texas Sky
Ranger. On this same day booths
from which envelopes and stamps are
sold were opened within the Texas
Centennial Exposition grounds.
Thousands of specially designed en-
velopes, bearing the insignia of the
Centennial Exposition, the sponsor of
the Mason and Pangborn flight, plus
stamps necessary for mailing, are on
sale at the booths. Rates on such
mail, which include regular postage
and special delivery stamps in addi-
tion to the amount charged for trans-
portation across the Atlantic are as
follows:
Dallas to Paris, or one way $1.14;
round trip, Dallas to Paris and return,
$2.65; Paris to Dallas, or one way,
$1.65. Difference in the one way
rates was attributed to adverse fly-
ing conditions of the return flight.
Round trip and Paris to Dallas mail
will be limited to around 1,000 pounds
for each class. :
TYLER, TEXAS.
SMITH CO. CLERK
WILL WARD PASSES
IN TYLER, MONDAY
HENRY EDWARDS & CO.. Pubs.
ALLRED SWINGS INTO
NORTH TEXAS CITIES
Shows Opponents Up In Unfavorable
Light; Quotes Hogg That Issues
Not Men Interest Voters
Cites
Garner as “Ribbon-Clipper
and Bridge-Opener”
Will R. Ward, 57, County Clerk of
Smith County, died at his Tyler home
at 118 West Shaw street at 8:30 Mon-
day evening. Death was the result .
of a recurrence of a paralytic stroke Admits ‘‘Gllllt” As Charged
suffered several weeks ago.
Mr. Ward was a long time resident
of Smith County, having lived in Ty-
ler for many years, and had announ-
ced his candidacy for re-election to
the county post in which he was serv-
ing his third term at the time of his
death. Later, however, he withdrew
from the race because of ill health.
Funerul services were held at the
First Baptist Church at Lindale, Tues-
day, at 5:00 p. m.
Among the survivors are his wife;
two daughters, Olive and Anna Ellen*
and one son, Will Ward, Jr., and nu-
merous other relatives, some of whohii
live in this town.
B. 0. SMALLWOOD
NEW MANAGER OF
’DOCHES ICE CO.
Second Annual Railroad Week
To Be Observed Here 13-19th
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Rose Festival’s Social
Program To Include All
America In Its Scope
ETEX MIGHT SECURE
COTTON LABORATORY
According to C7 K. DeBusk, man-
ager of the Jacksonville Chamber of
Commerce, East Texas’ chances of se-
curing a cotton laboratory appear
more and more favorable. Such a
laboratory would have as its purpose
the finding of new uses for cotton
products.
A recent letter from G. B. L. Ar-
ner, principal agricultural economist
of the Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C., stated that such
a laboratory in this section would fill
'agiujatr'necd for the cotton industry.
The matter has been referred to other
Government officials for further con-
sideration. :
EDITORIAL
We’ll Keep Morg Sanders On The Job
Our own Congressman, Hon. Mor-
gan Sanders, is back in our own dis-
trict. after an arduous session in
Washington that called him there last
December. His many friends, of
course, welcome him; for not within
the entire history of the district has
it had a more astute, understanding
* and faithful representative in Con-
gress. That is saying a good deal in
view of the many distinguished men
who have served the district in the
past, but the official record of Mor-
gan Sanders thru the years he has
served us, when compared with those
of his predecessors, will verify and
confirm the statement.
Returning from a recent vacation,
we hear that Congressman Sanders is
to have an opponent, a fact that we
hadn’t heard before and which, we
think, will be news to many of the
district's voters. That candidate, in
war opinion, is entitled to the medal
for optimism; for it doesn’t stand to
-reason that the intelligent voters of
the district would replace Sanders
with an unknown and untried ama-
teur.
The Congress of the United States
{ms peculiar methods, processes and
•customs, in that seniority of service
_counts for much. That means that
the Representative who has been there
the longest in general terms—and
especially if he has proven alert and
efficient and honest and decent in his
i service—is by the very nature of this
^ congressional custom the most capable
■ and the most influential servant of his
firtnct. Morgan Sanders is, We be-
lieve, concluding his eighth consecu-
tive term. But he has come back
each two years and laid the commis-
sion that the voters of the district
gave him back into their hands. They
B. O. Smallwood of this city has
accepted the position as manager of
the Nacogdoches Southern Ice Com-
pany plant. Mr. Smallwood has been
connected with the company ten years
and is thoroughly familiar with con-
ditions in a city the size of Nacog-
doches.
He succeeds L. W. Scott who has
moved to Dallas. Under Mr. Scott’s
supervision the Nacogdoches plant
made an enviable record, especially in
refrigerator sales. The Nacogdoches
plant won high honors in a four
state sales contest more often than
any other plant in the organization.
Southern Ice Company employees
gave a farewell banquet for Mr. Scott
and a welcome banquet for the new
manager in Reavley’s lunch room
Monday evening at Nacogdoches.
Thirteen employees were present to
pay respects to their employers.
American Rose Society
To Meet Here October 23
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have invariably renewed that com-
mission, because Morgan Sanders has
kept faith with them in every way.
There is no use to recount the varied
services that this congressman has
rendered our district —■ but they are
numerous and outstanding.
Moreover, our Congressman, by vir-
tue of his long services and his fidel-
ity to his trust, has attained a place
of commanding influence in the Con-
gress. He is big enough to envision
national needs and to think in terms
of the necessities of the whole rather
than of his own district alone. His
colleagues like him and listen to his
counsel. He now ranks fourth place
in the all-powerful Ways and Means
Committee of the House—and this
Committee is really the policy-form-
ing and governing body of the Con-
gress. It doesn’t appeal to either the
political or to the good business sense
of the voters of the Third District of
Texas to replace a Representative of
the type, capacity and national in-
fluence of Morgan Sanders with an
amateur who has no claims for con-
sideration except that he wants the
office—and that “Sanders has been
there long enough.” Neither bank-
ers nor school boards, nor farmers or
other business men are in the habit
of “firing” their competent cashiers,
or teachers or workmen and replacing
them with job-hunters who have no
claims nor qualifications for the job
except that they want an office and
the one whom they desire to succeed
has held the post for a long time. It’s
a forlorn hope for the optimistic can-
didate, whoever he Is, who seeks
Morg’s place either by assailing our
Congressman’s official record or by
Maiming that he wants the job and
hat Morg has been there long enough.
HENRY EDWARDS, Editor
The American Rose Society will
hold its meeting in Tyler, Oct. 23, ac-
cording to A. F. Watkins, trustee of
the association, who recently received
a communication from Dr. Horace
McFarland, president emeritus of the
Society, to that effect. The meeting
in Tyler will close a three-day tour,
the opening session to be conducted
in Fort Worth, Oct. 21 at which time
the initial business of the group will
be taken care of. The following day
the delegation will be entertained at
a luncheon in Dallas and by a visit to
the Centennial.
Their visit to Tyler will be in the
nature of a tour of the rose fields of
this section. The closing sessions will
be held here, also. The original plan
was for the rose society to meet here
during the Texas Rose Festival, but
due to the crowded conditions that ex-
ist at this time, it was decided to de-
fer the meeting until later in the
month.
CURTAIN IS RUNG
DOWN FOR WILLARD,
ARTIST OF MAGIC
Willard the Magician, whose real
name was Tommy W. Willard, died
at a Jacksonville hospital, Monday
morning at 5:45 o’clock. Mr. Willard
had been confined in the hospital for
about four weeks.
The body was shipped to his home in
San Antonio, where funeral services
were held last Tuesday.
Willard, though 32, had been on
the stage as a magician for a number
of years, and had the reputation of
being one of the outstanding members
of his profession. He played here
several times in recent years, and his
show was a favorite with those who
liked his form of entertainment.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ker-
ine Willard; mother, Mrs. Lucy Mae
Willard; a brother, H. F. Willard;
and a sister, Mrs. Edith Mencer. All
reside in San Antonio. :
FUNERAL SERVICES
READ SUNDAY FOR
MISS DORIS DAVIS
Sherman, July 6—-(Spl) — Four
“perfect men” and one “mere human
being” are competing for the gover-
norship of Texas, Governor James V.
Allred told a North Texas crowd here
Monday night.
“So far as I can find out, there are
only four perfect men in Texas,” All-
red grinned, “and unfortunately for
me they are all running for governor.”
“Personally, I can’t claim to be per-
fect”. I don’t claim that I haven’t
made mistakes. I’m only a mere
human being.”
“No doubt there are many trifling
matters about which my opponents
can criticize me. But any mistakes I
Tpay have made don’t qualify these
gi&tlemen for the governorship!”
In bringing to Sherman his cam-
paign for election for a second term,
Governor Allred came to the county
where his great grandfather settled
in 1837. In his speech here he de-
plored “the campaign of misinforma-
tion, ridicule and personal abuse" that
is being waged against him.
“Just to illustrate how utterly silly,
trivial and unfair they have been”,
the Governor continued, “I refer you
to the record on ribbon cutting and
bridge opening”.
“My opponents have denounced me
all over the state as a ribbon cutter
and bridge opener. As a matter of
fact, I have been to one ribbon cut-
ting and one bridge opening. That’s
all! I submit to the public that men
who will indulge in such tactics there-
by demonstrate their own unfitness
for the Governor’s office”.
“Vice President Gamer went to a
ribbon cutting bridge opening at
Laredo last week. He has been to
one. I have been to one. I am won-
dering whether my opponents will
jump on to him and denounce him
as a ribbon cutter and bridge opener!”
“Forty years ago Governor Hogg
said that the people were interested
in issues, not men; in principles, not
personalities. I am asking the people
of Texas to permit me to carry on
the program already begun, basing my
claim for the second term upon my
record. Let the record speak, and I
am sure the people will render a
verdict.”
Invitations have been extended to
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs.
Nance Garner to name a Princess to
repi'esent the United States and the
District of Columbia to the Centennial
year Texas Rose Festival, which will
be held in Tyler, October 2-6, inclu-
sive.
Working through the Federated
Garden Clubs of the United States,
Mrs. L. A. Grelling, Chairman of the
Princess Committee of the Rose Fes-
tival, has extended invitations to 43
states of the union and to Bermuda.
The remaining states, without a fed-
erated state garden group, will be re-
quested to send a representative thru
the Governor.
Mrs. Grelling has reported that sevr
eral states have responded and ten-
tative plans have been made for at
’east six states to send young ladies
to the festival and it is expected that
at least thirty states will finally be
represented. Cities throughout the
states are being incited to send Duch-
esses for the Coronation Ceremony
and many definite entries have been
rceived.
The Coronation for the Centennial
year festival is to be produced by a
large eastern theatrical organization
and will be much more elaborate than
previously attempted. The ceremony
will be held in the proposed new 5,000
seat Texas Rose Festival amphithe-
atre on which construction is expected
to start within the next few days.
The Coronation promises to be one
of the highlights of the social season
in the Southwest, offering several fea-
tures which will attract the socially
prominent throughout the state. The
Queen’s Ball is one of the oustanding
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VOTERS FOR STONE
FORM AUTO CARAVAN
Jacksonville, July 8—Flaunting the
banner of Emerson Stone, candidate
for Congress from the seventh dis-
trict, a caravan of 100 automobiles
carrying some 500 voters left here
Wednesday morning for a jaunt thru
the district. Members of the Stone
for Congress Club of this county and
friends and supporters from through-
out this section joined the parade es-
pousing the cause of their candidate.
The itinerary included visits to Alto,
Wells, Corrigan, Livingston, Shep-
herd, Riverside, Trinity, Lovelady,
Crockett, Grapeland, Elkhart, Pales-
tine and Neches.
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Engaged in the railway and allied
industries of the Nation are more than
2,000,000—and in the geographical
division known as the “Western Rail-
roads” there are 750,000 men em-
ployed, including allied industries.
This great group of men represent the
highest type of producers and one of
the greatest groups in our entire
economic structure. It is fitting,
therefore, that the Nation should ob-
serve the Second Annual Railroad
Week which embraces from July 13
to July 19. Tyler held a very success-
ful observance of the event last year
and plans to observe it again this1
year. And well may Tyler observe
this week; for Tyler and Smith coun-
ty owe much to their railways.
Tyler Chamber of Commerce will
take the lead in observing the week
and will hold their weekly session in
conjunction with the weekly luncheon
of the Lions Club on Tuesday, July
14, at the Blackstone Hotel. Hon.
Claude Pollard, former Attorney Gen-
eral of Texas, will be the principal
speaker, and will be accompanied by
Hon. Horace Booth, a former Tyler
citizen now holding important posts
with the Missouri Pacific Lines.
On Saturday night, July 18, the
week’s observance will be closed by a
banquet here in Tyler at the Black-
stone, and Congressman Morgan San-
ders, recently returned from Washing-
ton and himself a great and under-
standing friend of the railways of the
country, will be the principal speaker,
Tyler can do no finer thing than
for the coming week (at least that
long) become “railway-minded.” But
for the city’s railways and the group
of fine citizens who operate and ad-
minister them Tyler could never have
attained the rank among her sister
cities of East Texas that she now en-
joys, nor would the gr eat body of her
incomparable citizenship have includ-
ed the many railway men whose ef-
forts in civic enterprises and commer-
cial endeavor have so enriched the
city in all those assets that make Ty-
ler a desirable place in which to live
and to do business. The classifica-
tions to which the 750,000 workers in
the Western Division and their allied ,
industries follow:
Executives ........................... 4,500
Research ......................... 4,000
Allied Industries ..................... 368.700
Yardmen ....................................... 3,300
Pullman ..................................... ..20,000
Maintenancy of Way....................83,500
Brakemen .......... 30,500
Engineers ......................................15,000
Conductors .................... .13,000
Firemen .................................... 16,000
Equipment & Stores ............ 100,500
Freight Handlers ........................10,000
Station Agents and
Telegraphers ................. 20,000
Clerical .......................................61,000
HALF MILLION BOYS WILL
ENJOY CAMPING IN SCOUT
CAMPS DURING THE SUMMER
Funeral services were read Sunday
afternoon at Hetman City for Mias
Doris Davis, 19, of Wright City, who
died from injuries received in a two-
car collision a half mile west of
Wright City shortly after midnight
last Friday morning.
Miss Davis, a former Troup school
student, was riding in a car with E.
E. Elliott and “Red” Ehl, both of
Wright City, when the accident hap-
pened. The driver of the second car
was Forest Seale of Troup.
Miss Davis suffered a fractured
skull and a broken arm when she was
thrown through the windshield. She
waB rushed at once to an Overton hos-
pital, but died at 10:00 a. m., Friday.
Paris, July 7—(Spl) — His “hat-
ting average” on platform pledges
carried out stands at more than 800
and his record has emerged unblem-
ished after an eight-months “fine
tooth comb” inspection by an un-
friendly auditor from a preceding ad-
ministration, Governor James V. All-
red reminded the people of Texas in
a campaign address here tonight.
“It’s just as bad to deal in half
truths as it is to tell a deliberate lie
in a political campaign,” the gover-
nor declared.
“For several weeks my opponents
have been trying to give the people
of Texas the most elaborate misinfor-
mation this state has witnessed in a
long time. It is strange, indeed, that
the charges and insinuations they
make are hurled just a few weeks
before election.
“I remind the people that for more
than eight months after I became
governor my record was gone over
with a fine tooth comb by an un-
friendly auditor from a preceding ad-
ministration. At dll tlfflfeft ftVifl dl
the present time we have had any
number of legislative committees
checking everybody from constable
on up. Yet no committee has made
any report adverse to my administra-
tion.
“In their enthusiasm and zeal, my
opponents have found many trifles
ahOTTt which to criticize me. Nut a
single one of them at any time has
had a kind word for anything that
I have done. According to them, every
act of mine has been motivated by
an ulterior or sinister impulse. I am
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Nearly a half million boys will en-
joy camping experiences in Boy
Scout camps this summer, according
to the National Camping Service of
the Boy Scouts of America. For most
Scouts it wijl be training for the
first National Scout Jamboree to be
held in Washingtor(TT^ C., late in
June and early in July, 1937.
Camping has been one of the prin-
cipal year-round activities of the
Boy Scouts of America since its in-
ception in 1910. There are some 542
Permanent summer camps maintained
by the local Boy Scout Councils. These
camps occupy a total area of more
than 54.000 acres that Scouts may
truly call their own—an area larger
than Rocky Mountain National Park.
In addition there ai'e hundreds of tem-
porary camp sites offered through the
generosity of private owners or on
permits from state, county and na-
tional park officials.
Swimming
Swimming is conducted under the
supervision of experts at the Scout
camps throughout the nation. Non-
awimmers are taught in .shallow water
and usually they have become pro-
ficient in swimming before they leave
ami Lftifc summer 16.290 Scout
were taught to swim in Council Camps
alone, bringing the total in the past
twelve years to 216,038 taught in
Council Summer camps.
Scout camp leaders pre men select-
ed from colleges and universities who
have had previous Scout experience
and have shown their ability to lead
Since TfeaTth and Safety are two
subjects uppermost in the minds of
those giving leadership to Scout
camps, periodic surveys are made of
the camps, their sanitary facilities,
their kitchens and their programs
Larger camps have hospitals with
regular physicians in charge; in all
camps there are men trained in medi-
cal care. Daily inspections are made
not only of the Scout’s personal health
hut of diets, food preparations, clean-
liness and sanitation.
Each boy is required to fill out a
health history blank, certified to by
his parents and family doctor, and is
given a health examination before he
is accepted as a camper. The proce-
dure not only protects the Scout but
his fellow campers.
Scoutcraft
Summer camps afford abundant
opportunities for Scouts to become
more proficient in Scoutcraft and
progress to higher Scout ranks. Near-
ly every camp has its nature museum,
many of which are the summer homes
of small animal life. Nature trails
enable Scouts to study the trees, birds
and animals.
All Boy Scout camps arrange for a
boy’s fulfillment of his religious du-
ties. The twelfth point of the Scout
Law says, “A Scout is Reverent” and
goes on to explain that he is “Rever-
ent to God”. He is faithful in his
religious duties and respects the con-
vTctions of others in matters of cus-
tom and religion.”
Emphasis is placed, nationally, on
Troop Camping within the Council
camp, because it recognizes and
strengthens the Troop as a Unit, en-
ables more Troop leaders to camp with
their boys and take an active part in
the camp program, trains individual
Scouts in Troop leadership by the
Scout method of “learning by doing”
and results in a great camf'
pertenee by more boys fro
Troop. Through these Troop
the local Scout officials are <
to observe closely the methods and
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