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Honey Grove Signal
J. H. LOWRY
EDITOR
Published Every Friday
Subscription: $1.50 In Advance
Hie rate is $1,50 a year to all.
commission allowed agents.
OKLAHOMA’S SCHOOL MESS.
Seems like a contradiction, but
it’s a fact nevertheless—it’s the
empty head that swells the
quickest and most.
Governor Neff and the Texas
Legislature love each other just
about like two young girls love
each other who are in love with
the same fellow, and each with a
new dress which she fears isn’t
quite as pretty as the other’s.
And now a medical scientist
has declared that the woman on
the American silver dollar has
adenoids. The learned physician
says the woman’s nose is pinched
and her mouth open, which are
positive signs of adenoids. What
shall we do?
It’s blackberry time, and there
are more blackberries in this sec-
tion than ever before. Black-
berry time means blackberry
pies, and we positively have no
use for the man who is ill or
ugly when he can have hot black-
berry pie for dinner and cold
blackberry pie for supper.
In the school mess of Okla-
homa we have an ugly example
of the outcome of paying polit-
ical debts with appointments to
office.
In the late gubernatorial con-
test in Oklahoma, J. C. Walton,
who was elected governor, had no
more enthusiastic supporter and
helper than George Wilson, who
had been in the state a short
time and who, before going to
Oklahoma, was an organizer for
the Non-Partisan League in Kan-
sas and North Dakota. Wilson
is not a school man, but the gov-
ernor he assisted in electing de-
sired to see him at the head of
Oklahoma’s A. & M. College.
On the Board of Regents of the
institution were two members
whose terms expired when the
new governor’s term began, but
there were also three hold-over
members. The two regents ap-
pointed by the governor voted
for Wilson, but the three hold-
over members voted against the
governor’s choice. But it was a
game of spoils politics, and
the governor removed one of the
hold-over regents who wouldn’t
do his bidding and appointed in
his stead one who would. Then
George Wilson was appointed
president of the A. & M. College.
The students protested, the
ex-students .'protested, and the
A Chicago girl committed sui-
cide because her parents would
not let her bob her hair. The
girl pleaded pitifully for per-
mission to go to the barber, but that every time he saw an Amer-
permission was refused and as
life without bobbed hair wasn’t
worth living, the poor girl shuf-
fled off the mortal coil. Strange
that parents will be so cruel.
It’s easy enough to forgive a
strapping fellow, whose muscles
are like iron and whose temper
is like unto an hyena’s, but we
carry a grudge and say hard
things about the weasley, soft-
handed fellow a long time. It’s
hard to get it out of our system
that we just must whip him to
a frazzle.
It’s one grand glory after an-
other in grand old Texas. Last
month the old state was full of
sweet girl graduates, and we
swore there was nothing prettier
or sweeter in all the world. Now
the fine old state is bespangled
with June brides, and we’ll be
hanged if the eyes of man ever
rested upon such a constellation
of beauty and sweetness. •«,
DeValera, the Irishman with a
French name, who has raised so
much hades in Ireland, has laid
down his arms and asks that Ire-
land have peace. We were inclin-
ed to the belief that DeValera is
not an Irishman, but we now say
he is. He didn’t want peace un-
til he was whipped to a frazzle,
and that’s pure Irish. If he
starts another row within a fort-
night we’ll know he’s Irish to
the core.
The Texas newspaper workers
are in annual session at Galves-
ton this week, and are having a
great time, we are told. We
thought of going, but upon in-
quiry learned that there are a
lot of bathing beauties at Galves-
ton this time of year, and most
of them wear bathing suits lib-
erally abreviated at each end.
Not being able to endorse such
things, we concluded to stay at
home. The report spread by cer-
tain newspaper men that we
didn’t have the money to make
the trip is a base slander.
Henry Ford says the distribu-
tion of the world’s wealth is
wrong. We have been wanting
some rich man to say that very
thing for a long time, and now
that Henry has said it, we feel
like he has a lead-pipe cinch on
our vote when the presidential
election comes on. We were
taught in our plow-boy days that
somebody was robbing us, and in
our old age we know somebody
has been robbing us all along.
The money minions, the con-
scienceless cormorants and the
cruel corporations have had their
feet on our neck and their hands
in our pocket all our days, and as
a consequence they are rolling in
-wealth and we are running from
collectors. Henry doesn’t say
how he is going to perfect the
distribution by taking a few dol-
lars out of his pocket and put-
ting a few in our pocket, but we
like the sentiment of his speech
so well we will vote for him
anyway.
his check, as the state has no
money. If a bank should do this
the state would order its doors
closed forthwith. With taxes
higher than ever before, and
the state unable to meet its bills,
we say again that somebody has
been on the job of running the
state who should have been do-
ing something else.
Sixty people prostrated by
heat in Washington. As we read
the item the southern zephyrs
fan our polished dome of thought
and with them come the delight-
ful odors of the magnolia and
the jasemine. Possibly some of
you would rather be in the Cap-
itol city, where Volsteadism
works imperfectly, but you don’t
really know how much the Lord
is favoring you by letting you
live in Grand Old Texas.
Trouble comes to all, the Ku
Klux Klan not excepted. The
two high men of the Klan,
Colonel Simmons and Colonel
Evans, are not in agreement
and it appears they do not love
each other very much. Colonel
Simmons recently organized a
woman’s auxiliary to the Klan.
Colonel Evans claims Colonel
Simmons had no authority to
form such an organization, and
so he has started another fem-
inine Klan and given it another
name. We trust the brethren
lovers of education throughout will adjust their differences
the state protested. Most of the amicably, but if they do not,
members of the facultv of the they should not forget that
College resigned, and the stu- trouble is the common lot of hu-
dents rebelled. A military escort
accompanied Wilson when he
wTent to demand the keys of the
institution. And, worse than all,
the American Legion is up in
arms. It is alleged that Wilson
was heard to make the remark
ican Legion button he wanted to
shoot a hole in it. The Legion
Commander urged the governor
not to appoint Wilson to any posi-
tion of trust.
Spoils politics appear to have
been played to a finish in Okla-
homa. And the policy has
wrecked a great educational -in-
stitution.
Scientists continue to claim
that all animals have brains, but
we don’t believe it. Every per-
son should know that mosquitos
and chiggers have no brains.
Tell us that an animal with
brains would bite the shank or
neck of a scrawny, sweaty man,
when the world is full of such
excellent biting material.
There will be a woman candi-
date for Congress in Texas next
year. The lady who is to seek
congressional honors is Miss
Margie Neal. Her home is at
Carthage, and she will make the
race in the ninth congressional
district. We don’t know who
will oppose Miss Neale, but we
do know that Miss Neale will be
elected. A bright, queenly
woman is Miss Margie Neale, and
woe be unto the man who opposes
her in a race for Congress.
Clara Phillips, the pretty Cali-
fornia woman who murdered an-
other pretty woman with a ham-
mer, is again in the Los Angeles
jail, after a sensational escape
from the bastile and a trip to
Honduras. Dispatches tell us
that the sympathy of the people
all along the route home was
with Clara, and she was cheered
at every stop. It’s always so.
There are law of all kinds on
the statutes, but they were not
made for pretty women. The
only punishment that will be
meted to Clara will be the re-
marks at the trial by some jeal-
ous rival who will say Clara’s
hat isn’t becoming or her skirt
doesn’t hang right.
Bright ideas occasionally come
to editors, enabling them to
make suggestions that would
really prove a blessing to the
world. Here is one worthy of
the best thought of statesmen
and scientists from a Missouri
scribe:
“Why is it that pests like chinch
bugs and chiggers multiply in
spite of hades and high-water
.while necessary things like yellow-
legged chickens have to be nursed
by day and night in their short
journey from nest to skillet?
This question should suggest to
some scientist the idea of grafting
chigger and chinchbug vitality in-
to products of the poultry yard.
And—marvelous thought!—what
if somebody could produce a breed
that would have the chigger and
chinchbug ability to multiply!
Think of frying-size chickens be-
ing so plentiful as to become a
pest!”
When a person performs work
for the State of Texas these
days, Texas issues a check in
payment for the service. When
the worker takes the check to
the treasury he is told to keep
manity and institutions. There’s
no smooth sailing for any per-
son or institution these parlous
times.
The Governor’s race in Texas
next year will be an exciting
contest and will keep ennui out
of the state several months.
There will be two Davidsons in
the race, the present Lieutenant
Governor, T. W. Davidson, and
his predecessor, Hon. Lynch
Davidson. Mr. Pope, of Corpus
Christi will be a candidate, so
will Mr. Carpenter, of Dallas.
Jas. E. Ferguson was very anx
ious to make the race, but the
effort to expunge the impeach-
ment proceedings against him
failed, and it is believed that he
will again be a candidate for
United States Senator. Hon. C.
E. Gilmore, Railroad Commis-
sioner, is being urged to enter
the race, and should he conclude
to do so, it’s the Signal’s guess
that he will be the next Governor
of Texas.
The fake oil stock promoters
are having their inning in the
courts now and in a measure are
paying the penalty for skinning
people who ought to have known
better. At Fort Worth Tuesday
three men were given sentences
to the penitentiary and heavy
fines. Two of the men were
given ten years in the federal
prison, and the third, an old
man, who was but a willing dupe,
drew a sentence of two years.
The old man is named Robert A.
Lee, and one of his meanest acts
was in posing as a relative of
the South’s idol, Gen. Robert E.
Lee, and staking the honor of the
Lee family in his nefarious
schemes. This is the first batch
of the fake promoters to face the
courts. Indictments have been
returned against about ninety
others, and the indications are
that when the courts have fin-
ished their work the federal jails
will be filled with scoundrels
who robbed the gullible people.
There is to be no more legal
hanging in Texas. If some one
commits a crime worthy of
death, and the jury can be made
to see it that way, and the high-
er court doesn’t reverse the ver-
dict on a technicality, the crim-
inal will go to the electric chair
to expiate his crime by electro-
cution. In the days of Moses
people who proved unfit to live
were stoned to death; a few cen-
turies later they were burned at
the stake; still later they were
beheaded, and finally America
found a more humane way to
despatch criminals with the rope.
From the halter Texas has gone
to the electric wire, which does
its work instantly, and without
inflicting pain. A touch of the
button and the heart stops, the
blood congeals, and the victim is
ready for the undertaker. It’s a
better way, but what an awful
thing it is to take life in any
way.
The condition of the state’s
finances and institutions, to-
gether with the burdensome
taxation carried by the people,
and all emphasized by the tie-up
staged by the Governor and
Legislature suggests to the Sig-
nal that our legislative system is
a failure and we ought to look
out for a better plan of making
laws and caring for our institu-
tions. It may be treason to even
suggest that laws should be
made in any other way than by
a house and senate, with a Gov-
ernor holding veto power, but we
see no reason why law-making,
as well as other things, should
not be subject to the laws of
progress. True, Great Britain
began the two-house and king
system many years ago; true,
our federal law-making and state
law-making have always been on
the same plan, but for this there
is no divine authority, and to us
the plan does not exist by divine
right. We believe a commission
of twenty good men could serve
the state better as a law-making
body, and we are ready to cut
loose from the old moorings and
make a change.
Last Sunday was “Father’s
Day.” Not many of you knew
it, but it’s a fact that Sunday
was the day set apart to honor
and pay tribute to father. We
never heard of any sermons be-
ing preached in honor of father,
although the scriptures abound
in fine passages for texts for
father’s day discourses. The
land was full of flowers, but we
saw none worn in honor of
father. If the truth must be
told, father doesn’t amount to a
great deal in the world’s affairs.
He makes a very poor showing
at the wedding, he eats with the
wrong fork or spoon at the big
dining, he clutters things up
about the house. Occasionally
father gets mad and runs the
place two or three minutes, but
when he cools down he is made
to feel ashamed of his behavior.
In the poultry family we notice
that there is great agitation in
favor of killing off the fathers.
Possibly the human family will
take up the cry soon—in fact it
has already been taken up in
Dallas and Fort Worth. When
some other way is found to pay
bills poor father will have to go.
Paris has at last obtained an
adequate water supply, and there
is great rejoicing in our sister
city. The Parisians are so
hilarious that they have planned
a great jubilee for June 18, at
which time the virtues of water
will be praised by home folk and
visitors. For a long time Paris
paid little attention to water, but
was known far and wide as the
whiskitorial center of North
Texas. Finding the city short
on aqu pura, the people finally
built a great dam, at a cost of
one million dollars which prom-
ises a lake with a capacity for
four billion gallons of water. We
congratulate our neighbors on
their water supply, yet we can’t
help thinking how much more
fortunate Honey Grove is. This
goodly city showed a preference
for water long ago while Paris
was courting whiskitorial hon-
ors, and unto it was given a sup-
ply of water sufficient for sev-
eral cities, and the water is as
pure as the dews from Hermon’s
mount. Not a great deal has
been said about it, but Honey
Grove has a water supply that
many cities would gladly pay
millions for.
The Texas Legislature is still
in session trying to make the
state’s buckle and tongue meet,
so to speak. The law-makers
have lopped a little from the ap-
propriations made for the va-
rious departments, and have
scaled the appropriations for
schools until the rural schools
and higher state institutions will
suffer somewhat, and still the
expense account runs about
three million dollars above the
state’s income. A million dollars
could have been saved by wiping
out the appropriation for a new
school in West Texas, that isn’t
needed, but the law - makers
dared not make the cut for fear
of Western voters. There are
two or three other institutions
that are not needed and have
very little patronage, but of
course it wouldn’t do to disturb
these. There are also some
boards and bureaus at Austin
that are worthless, but it would
raise an awful row should some
one’s fat job be taken away.
And so the matter stands. Not
enough money to go around, the
institutions that perform real
service suffering from lack of
funds, and institutions and
boards the state could well af-
ford to dispense with drawing a
goodly portion of the tax money.
Governor A1 Smith of New
York placed his signature to the
bill repealing all laws having to
do with the enforcement of pro-
hibition in New York state. The
Governor was besieged by both
wets and drys for many days
with arguments as to why he
should or should not sign the
bill, and for many days he was
the center of interest in the
political affairs of the country.
The repeal of the New York state
law leaves the enforcement of
prohibition entirely to federal
officials, and means that there
will be a very poor enforcement
in that state. Even with the
help of state officials, we are
told that intoxicants have been
sold openly in the big city, and
with only a few federal officials
working it is feared that prohi-
bition will become a farce in New
York state. The action of New
York brings prohibition to life
again as an issue in politics. In
every state where there is a
strong “wet” sentiment efforts
will be made to repeal state en-
forcement laws, and turn en-
forcement over to the federal
government, and where this is
done prohibition will prove a
farce. We had hoped that we
would hear no more of prohibi-
tion in American politics, but
like Banquo’s ghost the disturb-
ing issue refuses to down.
The Signal hardly ever urges
people to enroll on its subscrip-
tion list, but when it sees a great
calamity befall some one for not
doing so, it feels duty bound to
relate the circumstance in order
that all may be fully warned of
the dire catastrophes that may
overtake non - subscribers. A
man who lives less than twenty-
five miles from Honey Grove was
a regular subscriber for many
years, but recently let his sub-
scription expire and decided to
reduce expenses by borrowing
his neighbor’s paper. All went
well for a time, but one fateful
day, while making the accus-
tomed trip for the neighbor’s
paper, the would-be economist
left the gate open, and his cow
stole into the neighbor’s yard
and ate the neighbor’s morning
glories. The neighbor’s Wife
threw a fit, of course, and said
things that shattered the friend-
ship that had so long existed be-
tween the two families. Now
when members of the" families
meet they make faces at each
other, and the head of one of the
households is carrying a gun for
our friend who permitted his
subscription to lapse. Friends,
we have some stock in an oil well
that we know will make us rich
one of these days, therefore we
care nothing for money, but do
not take the chance of shattering
fine old friendships and of hav-
ing your body converted into a
lead mine by permitting your
subscription to lapse.
Southwest Texas will market
her first bale of cotton this
week. Down in the Rio Grande
valley the cotton fields began
pointing their white and crimson
bugles at the sun some time ago,
and now the bolls are popping
and revealing their snowy white-
ness. A first bale is expected to
reach Brownsville today or to-
morrow. Up in North Texas we
are watching the infant plants
and wondering what the boll
weevils will do later on. This
gives an idea of the length and
breadth of our wonderful com-
monwealth.
Will Be Here Tuesday.
S. R. Lawrence, registered op-
tometrist, of Paris, will be in
Honey Grove Tuesday at Schrei-
ber’s jewelry store. See him
about glasses.
Big Stunt Night.
The Local Scouts will give an open
air program on the lawn on the east
side of the Presbyterian church to-
night (Friday). The program con-
sists of many things Scouts do in their
regular meetings and camp. The
Scout band will render several num-
bers. This will be their first public
appearance but they will furnish a
program of several numbers. If you
can enjoy an evening of fun and in-
formation you should be present for
this program. Promptly at 8 o’clock
Friday evening the Scouts will appear
on the scene, marching from their
quarters and being preceeded by the
band. The first number on the pro-
gram will be a number by the band.
Then will follow the program of
games, stunts, speeches, races, music,
etc. By permission of the City Coun-
cil Tenth street will be closed between
Main and Market and this space re-
served for spectators. No charge will
be made for the evening of entertain-
ment but a free will offering will be
taken for the benefit of the local
Scout work. The public is most cor-
dially invited.
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FLASHLIGHT
FIILM STATION
J. D. Notley, Proprietor
East Main and 7th Streets
.- -
By selling for cash we sell for
less.
Windom Notes.
Saturday, June 16, is the date of
the election to determine whether
$28,000 in bonds shall be issued to
erect a brick or stone school building
for Windom. Talk on the streets
shows a strong sentiment in favor of
the bond issue, also considerable op-
position. Quite likely there will be a
full vote on the proposal.
Sunday is Rev. W. J. Haywood’s
regular appointment at the Christian
church and he will occupy the pulpit
morning and evening. At the Sunday
school hour a children’s day program
will be given.
vi "Acmuuisi cnurcn win sen cake
and cream on the Methodist church
lawn Saturday night. Everyone is in-
vited to come. There will also be
cakes to sell. Why not buy one for
Sunday’s dinner? ' '
Splendid progress is now being
made on Mrs. W. H. Dowlen’s new
residence, and soon Windom can boast
of another spacious and beautiful
home.
W. G. Woolsey, of Dallas, a brother
of Mrs. Price, was the guest of Dr.
and Mrs. C. G. Price Saturday and
Sunday.
Here’s the best fish story of the
season, and a true one. Alex Long-
mire, Charles Armstrong and others
came in Tuesday with a cat fish that
weighed 51 pounds. The big fish was
caught at the mouth of Bois d’arc.
Frank Council, who has been at-
tending Vanderbilt Medical College, at
Nashville, arrived home Wednesday
afternoon. He came by Fort Worth
and attended the commencement ex-
ercises and jubilee of Texas Christian
University.
A freight train got off the track in
Windom Tuesday night and stayed off
all night. It required two big engines
to pull it back. .
Mrs. Ruby Pulliam has been in Fort
Worth this week attending the com-
mencement exercises and jubilee con-
vention of Texas Christian University.
Mrs. L. F. West and Miss Gladys
Olive have returned from a visit with
J. O. Moore and family at Bonham.
J. M. Curtis is tearing down his
residence in the southwest part of
town and will replace same with a
new, modern structure.
J. Price Olive is building a sleeping
porch and making other improve-
ments on his residence.
While J, F. Burras was driving to
Bonham Saturday he was run into by
another auto and his car was badly
damaged, though he escaped injury..
The driver of the other car was very
nice and willingly paid for all neces-
sary repairs.
An error appeared in the Windom
notes last week, when it said that Miss
Myrtle Cobb would teach in Randolph.
Miss Cobb will remain with the Win-
dom school.
Prof. B. C. Tarter, Miss Myrtle Cobb,
Miss Tommie Tate, Miss Jewel Mc-
Kinney and Hayes Holman left Wed-
nesday for Commerce to attend the
summer session of East Texas Normal.
College.
Miss Kladys Kirk is attending com-
mercial college at Paris. She and
her sister, Miss Clara, who works at
Paris, drive to Paris every morning
and back in the evening.
There was a family reunion at Dr.
H. H. Leeman’s Sunday. Dr. Leeman’s
mother, Mrs. T. R. Burnett, of Dalals,
is visiting him, and many of the rela-
tives came to be with her.
J. W. Bell, who was elected town
marshal recently, has tendered his
resignation. No one has been ap-
pointed to succeed him and Windom.
is at present without a peace officer.
Mrs. Maude Duke and two daugh-
ters, of Luders, Texas, are visiting W.
B. Carleton and family.
A revival meeting will begin at the-
Windom Methodist church Sunday,.
June ,7. Rev. W. C. Howell, of Rock-
wall, will be associated with the pas-
tor in the meeting. Rev. Howell is a
strong preacher and has been very
successful in revival work.
There will be preaching at Rock
Point M. E. church Sunday morning
and evening by the pastor, Rev. T. M.
Kirk.
Mules.
I will receive a new carload of
Missouri mules Thursday night.
If in need of a good mule see me.
O. G. Lancaster.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, June 8, 1923, newspaper, June 8, 1923; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621402/m1/4/?q=%22Texas+Normal+College%22: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.