Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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commission allowed agents.
Most of us carry out scrip-
tural injunctions, but insist up-
on the right to interpret them.
We are willing to “love our ene-
mies,” as the Book tells us to
do, but we won’t love them right
now. We’ll wait until they die.
Unless some of the Irish in the
old country quit fighting and
give attention to the distilleries
we fear there will soon be such
a scarcity of whisky on the
Emerald Isle that there’ll be
nothing for the fighters to
drink.
Brethren, plant lots of corn,
that we may have fat horses,
fat hogs and plenty of sausages.
Plant acres of watermelons, that
we may have happy men and a
big Democratic majority. Also
plant some parsnips, carrots and
squashes, and we’ll send the Rus-
sian bolshevists a good feed.
It’s unlawful to sell milk choc-
olate on Sunday in Texas—that
is if you sell it as a beverage.
But it’s- perfectly legal if you
sell it as a food. Milk chocolate
may be a food, but it would be
interesting to take the picture
of a fellow who had made it his
daily meals through crop-making
season.
Optimistic as we are, we be-,
lieve the world is getting duller
and losing all of its thrills. It
used to.be when we heard a shot
we would rush out bareheaded
and find one man dead or dying
and the officers rushing another
to jail. Now when we hear a
shot we work right on and won-
der where the fellow will get the
money to buy another tire.
When trains are a few min-
utes or a few hours late in this
country there is much complaint,
but in Russia the the traveling
public have grievances worthy of
complaint. We note in the pa-
pers that the Moscow express
steamed into the city a few days
ago twenty-one days late. In
Russia railroads are owned and
operated by the government.
Mrs. Asquith, the noted Eng-
lish woman who recently toured
America, says the American
girls have fat calves and bony
knees. Mrs. Asquith told one
truth, but we are anxious to
make affidavit to the fact that
one of her statements is with-
out foundation in fact. And if
the girls will cut ’em a little
shorter we are sure we’ll get the
evidence upon which to make
the affidavit.
Another great triumph of
buttermilk over John Barley-
corn is that you seldom see a
fellow hit his feet together and
swear he can whip any mortal
that walks the earth and there
isn’t an officer in all the world
big enough to arrest him. And
still another is that a gang of
fellows with bucksaw voices
hardly ever get together and
sing “Old Oaken Bucket” or “My
Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.”
There’s room for a new song
now, and it seems to us that the
composers have shown them-
selves very slow, or they would
have had the popular ballad on
the market already. We aren’t
much on rhyme, rhythm or tune-
making, but offer a suggestion
that may be worth something.
The ballad must say that the lit-
tle brown jug and ■ the quart-
tickler are gone and that the
fruit jar should have a smoother
rim. Most any kind of a tune
will do.
The soldier bonus bill passed
the lower house of Congress by
a very large majority, but the
soldier bonus bill is yet far from
being a law. The Senate is yet
to act on the measure, and no
man knows what the Senate
will do. The august body will
be a long time doing anything,
and it is a safe guess to say if it
passes a bonus bill of any kind
it will pass one differing from
the one the lower house passed.
And when the Senate has finish-
ed with the bill President Hard-
ing will have an opportunity to
veto it. It is said the President
is opposed to the bill as it was
passed by the house.
TROUBLES OF THE GREAT.
Dayid Lloyd George, premier
of England, is rated by many as
the world’s greatest man. Per-
haps some believe Mr. George a
happy man—a man who basks in t
contentment because of his high
position and his achievements—
and a man who is free from
trouble and Worry.
Mr. George was reared in a
little town in Wales. Recently
he ran down to the old home for
a short visit and rest. Those
who knew hm in his early life
tendered him a reception and
demanded of him a speech. This
is what Mr. George said:
“The higher you climb the cold-
er it becomes. The higher the
lonelier. You are exposed to ev-
ery blast and every wind. Often
you will find yourself encom-
passed by mists, on an unbeaten
path, and you must deny yourself
the comforts and peace of home
life.”
The price of power is very
high. We think of one who sits
in a high place as one who tastes
most of life’s sweets and enjoys
most of life’s comforts and ease;
but far from it. The increase of
power brings increase of worry,
and worry robs man of health,
satisfaction and comfort. It
robs him of the companionship
of friends and the sweets of
home life. It robs him of the
simple life, and in the simple life
man finds the greatest joy and
comfort.
And yet, most of us crave
positon and power. It’s the
spirit of restless, grasping man.
The New York man who mar-
ried his step-mother wants a
divorce. It appears to us that
this fellow is not acting the part
of wisdom. So long as the
woman is his wife she has no
legal right to whip him, but
when she ceases to be his wife
and becomes his step-mother
there is no law to protect him
against her wrath.
Oh, to be a boy again! If we
could only go back to the halcyon
days of youth, when there was
springtime in our heart and hair
on our head, and own a pair of
shoes that squeak like the job
counter shoes we are now wear-
ing, truly our cup of happiness
would be full, and we wouldn’t
care a baubee if the wicked Re-
publicans or the shouting So-
cialists captured the country.
Lucian W. Parrish, who was a
candidate for the United States
Senate, died at Wichita Falls
Tuesday. Mr. Parrish’s death
was caused by injuries sustained
in an automobile accident while
he was campaigning about two
weeks ago. Death here closes
the career of a man who was
prominent, worthy and useful.
He had, through his own efforts,
prepared for life’s battles by ac-
quiring a thorough education.
He then entered a profession and
succeeded. With the discovery
of oil in his section he made suc-
cessful investments and came
into possession of a comfortable
fortune. As a Congressman Mr.
Parrish was known as a hard
worker. In the race for United
States Senator he had a strong
following and would have been a
formidable candidate.
There was a man named Moore
and he kept marrying until he ac-
cumulated thirteen wives when
his hoodoo appeared and landed
him in jail while making arrange-
ments to lead to the matrimonial
altar his fourteenth blushing
bride. Moore had married so
many women and at so widely
separated points in the country
that he could not give the names
and addresses of all of them. He
accumulated thirteen wives in less
than ten years and says he likes
being petted so he tries on?
woman after another to get all
varieties of affectionate demon-
strations. Now, who’ll be the
first woman to send him a bou-
quet and circulate a petition to
have this fellow released?—Tem-
ple Mirror,
You intimate that the
women who send Mr. Moore
flowers and urge his release
from prison will act foolishly.
Hasn’t Mr. Moore done much for
womanhood? He made thirteen
of them happy by leading them
to Hymen’s altar. And then, he
made thirteen of them widows,
and everybody knows that a
widow can pick up a good hus-
band where a maiden wouldn’t
even get an escort to a show.
Coming, mustard greens 1
Four years ago we ate mustard
until the taste of mustard dead-
ened our appetite and the smell
of mustard made our olfactories
sick. That was during the world
war and we were trying to whip
the kaiser and make the world
safe for democracy by eating
mustard. We even dug up our
mint bed and seeded it to mus-
tard. While the soldier boys
bared their breasts to the enemy
we helped the fight along by
eating mustard. Finally the
mustard odor grew so strong
hat we could smell it over the
phone as we talked to the cook—
but still we hammered the Huns
by eating mustard. We swore
that if the cruel war should ever
be over, no mustard should ever
again cumber our garden or
scent our dinner pot. But ab-
sence has made the stomach
grow fonder and now we long
for the plate of mustard even as
the tired deer longs for the wa-
ter brook. May the winds be
kind to the mustard crop and the
bugs leave it alone.
A traffic cop out in California
arrested his wife for speeding.
Furthermore, when the wife was
called before the judge for trial
the cop appeared and told the
judge that the woman was liter-
ally burning the wind when he
arrested her. Tell us there are
no brave officers? Think what
this poor fellow suffered in be-
half of the law.
Can people save money on
small salaries? It’s hard to do,
but some of them can. A Wash-
ington policeman has been work-
ing 23 years at $75 a month and
from his salary has saved $200,-
000. The policeman’s earnings
have been only about $20,000,
but his savings are $200,000.
Some people have a knack of
saving that is positively as-
tounding.
Honey Grove’s new auto fire
fighting machine is a wonder.
After watching this machine
perform for a time we incline to
the belief that if Honey Grove’s
fire fighting outfit should ever
make a charge upon Satan’s
realm his great brimstone fur-
nace would soon resemble a burn-
ing trash pile and Gehenna
would be turned into a fairly
comfortable winter resort.
Revised figures on cotton pro-
duction last year, by the census
bureau, show that former esti-
mates were too high—about 1,-
000,000 bales too high. The crop
was actually less than 8,000,000
bales. If farmers do not let
these low figures lead then into
planting too heavily this year,
prices should not be paid for the
South’s great staple crop next
fall.
Cyclone season is with us
again and every day’s paper tells
of the destruction of human life
and property by the death-
dealing winds. Whatever the
cause, there are more cyclones
than there used to be. Possibly
the elements, like the people of
the world, have gone on a tare
and find their greatest delight
in killing and destroying. No
matter how brave a man may be
his nerve deserts him when a
storm cloud is seen, and he
deeply regrets that he hasn’t
lived a better life—until the
storm passes.
Today six hundred thousand
miners will quit work. How long
these men will be without em-
ployment no one can say—it may
be for a week and it may be for
a year. Should the strike con-
tinue for a long time other work-
ers will join the ranks of the un-
employed, for machinery can not
be operateed without fuel. The
country is passing through an
era of hard times, and of course
the unemployment of hundreds
of thousands will make a bad
situation worse. The remedy for
these great industrial disturb-
ances is yet to be pointed out,
but until we have a better order
the people as a whole must suf-
fer. Some day the solution will
be found, but we can not hope
for a solution so long as em-
ploye envies employer and em-
ployer hates employe. Greed and
hate are placing hardships on all
and threatening a reign of
terror.
In order to combat the dancing
craze the pastor of an El Paso
church has opened a skating rink
in the basement of his church
and made skating free to all.
The El Paso pastor is working
on the right idea, which is to
give people something that is
better and ask them to surren-
der something not quite so good.
He has our word for it that skat-
ing is better than dancing. The
skater travels more rapidly than
the dancer and with less exer-
tion, and skating isn’t as hard on
shoes as dancing. But, in spite
of these things, we doubt wheth-
convinces the devotees of Terpsi-
chore that any other diversion
is as good as dancing. This
writer is too religious, or too
awkward, to dance, but he has
noticed from golden youth up to
now, that when a dancing man
comes along he can toll any danc-
ing woman • away from a non-
dancing man, even though the
non-dancer be as handsome and
as philosophical as the Signal
man. The dancer had rather go
around and around than to listen
to homilies or poetry.
The Council of New York City
has passed a law making it a
finable offense for a woman to
smoke in a public place. We
can’t say much in favor of the
women who smoke, but we can
say. even less in favor of men
who pass such a law. They for-
get that there is a court in the
land before which such class
legislation will not stand scru-
tiny three seconds.
Governor^ Parker of Louisiana
and Governor Neff of Texas
were questioned regarding their
views and stand on Ku Kluxism.
Governor Parker replied by call-
ing on all officers to suppress
Ku Kluxism with an iron hand
and appealing to the Legislature
to enact a law making the wear-
ing of a inask a felony. Gov-
ernor Neff replied by saying he
stood for the enforcement of all
laws. Everybody knows now
where Governor Parker stands.
Hon. Lynch Davidson sends
out a lengthy communication
saying he will not be a candidate
for United States Senator this
year, but will be a candidate for
Governor two years from now.
In his communication Mr. David-
son tells what he stands for and
what he would do as Governor.
We are not interested. Two
years is a long time, and people
are only interested in the candi-
dates who are to be on this year’s
racing program. We’ll consider
the going-to-be’s later on.
Many of man’s finest theories
are badly shattered by living ex-
amples. For instance, this
writer has always stood against
the doctrine of the total de-
pravity of man, contending that
somewhere in every man there
is a spark of goodness. We hold
our own very well with the theo-
there is no reason why profitable logians, but just as we feel that
we have silenced the teacners of
stotal depravity, State Press of
the Dallas News bobs up and
knocks our theory into a cocked
hat. He’s a living example of
the total depravity of man.
However much we may talk
about electing people to office
on account of their fitness for
the place, it is true that sym-
pathy, hate or prejudice fre-
quently guides the hand that
marks the ballot. In Kentucky
hot long since a sheriff was slain
while in the discharge of his
duty. His wife, who was left in
rather straightened clrcum-
tances and with a baby only a
few weeks old, was elected to
succeed her husband. As an ex-
hibition of gallantry it was fine;
as an expression of sympathy it
was noble, and worthy of a sym-
pathetic people. But what, do
you think, a frail woman with a
little baby to care for, can do in
the work of capturing murderers
and horse thieves or running
down bootleggers?
ill and it is feared she can not
recover. Because of her illness
her twin sister is growing ill.
If she dies her sister must die
also. Here is a fine illustration
for a sermon on “the tie that
binds.” It ought to be preached
to capital and labor, it ought to
be preached to those who dwell
in the country and those who
dwell in the city; it ought to be
preached to those who toil with
the hand and those who toil with
the brain, for all are inseparably
joined, and the ruin of one means
the ruin of the other. Together
and well the fleshly twins are
happy. When one is ill the other
must suffer. The death of one
means the death of the other.
So it is with the human family
of workers. Happy for human-
ity the day when fraternal love
rather than selfish greed shall
rule the world and all men shall
brothers be.
“First Blood for Peace.” In
this title it is easy to find con-
tradictory words, since blood
and peace are seldom yoked to-
gether, but it is a fact that
peace has drawn first blood in
the battle against war. The
United States has adopted what
is known as the “four power
peace pact.” In each branch of
Congress the majority was large
in favor of the pact. Last
August President Harding in-
vited the nations of the world to
gather at Washington and dis-
cuss the limitation of arma-
ments. It was at this confer-
ence that the United States,
Great Britain, France and Japan
entered into a treaty agreeing to
respect each others rights and
in the event of a dispute to call
a conference and adjust the is-
sues. There was further agree-
ment that if either of the
powers are attacked by an
outside power a conference shall
be called to decide upon meas-
ures to meet the situation. Per-
haps it is not a great victory in
behalf of peace, but it is a be-
ginning. And perhaps the vic-
tory in behalf of peace is greater
than appears from the simple
wording of the treaty. No doum
it means that neither of the four
nations will war against another,
and with these powers maintain-
ing peace among themselves and
giving aid should one of them be
attacked by another power, the
chances for war are very remote.
Cyclone Davis has begun his
campaign for Congress in the
Paris-Texarkana district, and we
are glad of it. People have been
thinking and talking in penny,
quarter and dollar language for
some time, but when Cyclone
gets in a good weaving way we
are going to hear something
about millions, billions and tril-
lions. And we never get mad
enough to slay the scoundrels
who have been robbing us except
when we hear Cyclone speak.
We know very well somebody
has robbed us, and when we hear
Cyclone speak he tells us that
it’s the “money minions,” the
“pilfering plutocrats” and the
“conscienceless cormorants.” Be-
holding our frazzled finances,
we believe if we should hear
Cyclone speak we wouldn’t stop
until we had slain every money
minion, pilfering plutocrat and
conscienceless cormorant in the
land, provided of course that we
could find out who these money
minions, pilfering plutocrats and
conscienceless cormorants are.
In a hospital at Chicago are
twin sisters, who are bound to-
gether by flesh. Surgeons can
not cut the fleshly cord, as the
operation would cause the death
er the El Paso preacher ever] of both. One of the sisters is
275,000 Persons Traveled by Air
During Past Year.
Some 275,000 persons traveled
by air in 1921, although a year
ago many persons believed that
the present generation would not
accept the flying machine, ac-
cording to a paper by Samuel S.
Bradley, of New York, general
manager of the Aeronautical
Chamber of Commerce of Amer-
ica. Commercial aviation “sur-
vived with no appreciable en-
couragement other than hard
work and relatively meager
funds which its supporters put
into it. Such was 1920. Then
the next 12 months witnessed
the most interesting develop-
ment in our transportation his-
tory.”
Approximately 130 companies
or individuals are permanently
established and operating about
half of the civilian planes of the
country. In other words, they
operate between 500 and 600 of
the aggregate 1200 machines.
They report that in 1921 they
carried 122,512 passengers and
123,221 pounds of freight. They
traversed air routes and made
short flights aggregating 2,907,-
245 miles. The average cost per
passenger was 55 cents a mile as
compared to 65 cents the year
before.
McCraw’s Chapel Notes.
Miss Eula Cooper is spending the
week with her brother, Mr. Cliff
Cooper, of Hale.
D. W. Simpson weht to Bartley
school house Tuesday night to attend
the Farm Labor Union meeting. A
fine time is reported.
The Sunday school at McCraw’s
Chapel was rained out last Sunday.
The announcement is for Sunday
school every Sunday.
We have not heard very much from
the Nubbin Ridge ball team. Wonder
if they were just joking?
The Oak Ridge Farm Labor Union
was well attended last Thursday
night. There were several visitors
from the Silver City Local.
—Red Bird.
Dr. R. E. Robinson went to
Fort Worth yesterday to attend
a called meeting of the Texas
Synod. He will also attend a
meeting of the directors of the
Presbyterian Orphanage, at
which meeting a decision will be
reached whether the Orphanage
shall be moved from Albany to
some other place.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party.
For Congress—
SAM RAYBURN
For Sheriff—
ED BRENT
For County Attorney-
A. L. McRAE
For County Judge—
SAM E. NEILSON
For County Clerk—
URAL L. DARLING
For Commissioner, Precinct 8—
N. E. BARNETT
JO ROBARDY
For Cotton Weigher, Honey
Grove—
A. T. DENISON
SHELBY LITTRELL
White Rock Items.
Mr. T. A. Nelson and daughter,
Miss Verda Mae, visited Mr. Nelson’s
mother at Commerce last week.
Some of our young people enjoyed
a party at he home of Mr. and MrSi
Will Owens one night last week.
Several of our people have been
off on fishing trips this spring.
In last week’s report we said the
Rock Hill school would close March
31. It should have read April 23.
Regular preaching and Sunday
school services were held at the church
Sunday. Although the weather was
unfavorable, there was a good at-
tendance at each service.
Some of our farmers are dipping
their cattle again this spring at the
dipping vat located near the school
house. Cattle dipping is not compul-
sory in this section this year, but
some farmers think it is beneficial to
their cattle and are voluntarily dip-
Everybody invited to Sunday school
and Epworth League services Sunday.
—Reporter.
We do auto top work and har-
ness repairing on short notice at
Clark’s Harness Shop.
Members of Elan Must Testify.
The Court of Criminal Ap-
peals handed down a decision
Wednesday holding that wit-
nesses before grand juries must,
when asked, tell whether they
are members of the Ku Klux
Klan, and if they are niembers
they must answer questions re-
garding the membership and of-
ficers of the Klan. The case
grew out of the refusal of two
members of the Klan to testify
before the grand jury at Austin,
for which refusal they were held
in contempt of court and fined.
Thq case may go to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Auto top work done right and
priced right at Clark’s Harness
Shop.
One Better.
“Yes,” sighed Jones to his
friend. “I had the prettiest lit-
tle garden that you ever did see.”
“And how is it looking now?”
asked the friend.
“Ruined!” groaned Jones.
“My neighbor’s chickens
scratched it up.”
“Did you do anything?” asked
his friend.
“I did,” was Jones’ sinister re-
ply. “I got a big cat that soon
made mincemeat of his chick-
ens.”
“Then what did he do ?”
“He bought a bulldog, and the
brute killed my cat.”
v “But you weren’t beaten,
Jones ?”
“No. I borrowed a wolf from
an animal trainer I knew, and
the wolf put an end to his bull-
dog.”
“Well, what happened then?”
“A little later I heard he was
about to buy a tiger to kill my
wolf and as I could not afford to
purchase an elephant to kill the
tiger I gave up all hope of ever
getting my garden to look nice
again.”—Ex.
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