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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER. Thursday. December 30. 1937
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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
AND MKSvSKNC.ER
W H cooks: Editor and Pul'
gjstfr*' 4- '« i'or.d o:tv mutter Ju > 19 1902. at the postoffice at Rockdale
TVio*. under the Ac: of \ln.eh 3. l#i< Published eir; \ Thursday.
PRICK
In Milam and adjoining counties
T\> all othe: counties and states.
‘rR±Tieu'ing 1937
B. CHAPIN
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lishers
M VIE l’HESS ON “THE SAVERS'*
saver is >
' more popular
lasts. The hard
State Pro
Sa\ • r>." v 'i
telling abou
ings of dim
A good
spender i<
spend it
ing soi
hardly ever cent ini
up unassisted. Tht
les' added to. It' tl
it shows care. \\
Most of the familiv
that condition it th
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ruing a \ aragrnph which appeared in The Reporter
Rockdale woman who had just cashed in her sav-
which am mnted to 1,690, or >169:
ging his bread. A good
m seen
t Vi q n q
lays
ncy
food saver as long as the
that situation is that spend-
ig continues unabated, it
Income hardly ever holds
for income to diminish un-
ddition can be made a dime at a time
ut care no income sustains itself.
*n relief today needn’t have come to
had been good savers. On the other
hand, the g i miv-. r> are having to support the reliefers by
way of taxes. Taxes eat into saving day by day. and unless
the -av g art increased in proportion to the taxation they
decay. It takes two kinds of sense to keep the wolf from
the i r and the Tax Collector out of the house—natural
sense and sense of responsibility. Many have good natural
sense and only an infantile sense of responsibility. Americans
have been good moneymakers, at least until later years, but
not good savers. This accounts for the millions of poor people
win - were once affluent, by inheritance or by other forms of
g i i.u'k.—State Press in The Dallas News.
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RECENT KIND WORDS
~h-- R- porter is indebted to H. F. Schwenker. conductor of the |
“Sane '* c '.umn in the Brady Standard for some recent kind j
w, -. , ur f>’> - ' r Gift Shippers edition, published'
December 9. We reprint the' following from the Brady Stan-
dard column, blush modestly, and say “thank you sweetly” to
Editor Schwenker:
Sauci last week had occasion to comment upon the value
bale Carnegie
5-Minute Biographies
Author of “How to M in Friends and
Influence People.”
LAWRENCE TIBBETT—He Once Picked Grapes To
Rent—Today He Earns Five Dollars a Second.
WAtHfNCroN
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Twenty years ago the Red Cixm*
Christmas Drive netted for Rockdale
i.^G4 uc** iiicuiucia, ui iiiging tin; vuiai
membership here up to 2.074.
Twenty years ago Judge Ed Gunn
reported three Christmas marriages, as
follows: Tom Nelson to Miss Verlic
f?j\kon; W. E. Haciblg to Miss Ivy
Jones, and Dunk Williams to Miss
Wallie Brockenbush.
Twenty years ago J. j. Hlllin. who
had moved to Crosby county, visited
ii Rockdale as an enthusiastic West
Texas boosters nfter one year’s resi-
dence in his new location.
Twenty years ago R. R. Tyson of
Mays fie Id announced that lie would
nuke the race for sheriff of Milam
county.
Twenty years airo Robert Caywood
received a broken collar bone in an
accident at a gin.
Twenty years neo Mrs. Mary strel-
ky. wife of Andrew Strelsky. died at
her homo.
Tu.nty years ago Will Echols es.eap-
1 w ia only a bruised knee when he
a- \nocked through the Scarbrough
& Hicks plate glass window by an
’utemobile. The car. driven by'Car-
rol Robertson, ran wild. Jumped the
curb, and crashed into the store
front, carrying with it Echols, who had
j ' en standing with his back io the
I glass window of the store. His cloth-
jing was not even cut. although the
! glass window was shattered, the mar-
ble coping below crushed, and a plate
■ glass door knocked down, and sup-
porting timbers splintered.
Twenty years ago Walton Douthit,
| of Rice Institute, was visiting his par-
ents in Rockdale.
! Twenty years ago the northbound
;S. A. & A. P. passenger train crashed
into the rear of a local freight train
| about two miles south of Rockdale.
The freight had broken an air line and
had stopped to make repairs. The ca-
boose and one box car were demolish-
ed. and the front of the passenger en-
gine was smashed.
(Editor’s note:—This column is pub-
; . h, d st i .'tly because of its interest
and entertaining features. Opinion,
expressed herein are those of thf
uje author, and do not necessarily express
the opinions of this newspaper).
of color; how well it -ervt .1 a ^rreat purpose in the scheme of
all things, of nature ^ ;
now. right down our alley, comes another fine example of
the value of color, in the Shoppers Edition of The Rockdale
Rtoorter, issued last week by Wm. H. Cooke, publisher of
that outstanding county newspaper. Bill Cooke is always do-
ing something unusual in the newspaper world, whether it
be thru his editorial column, or by means of innovations in
the mechanical department.
Carefully planning his edition. Bill Cooke sold six of his
leading advertisers upon the value of tvv -color work in their
ads, with the result that not only did Santa apear in color on
the front pages of the edition, as a background, but six page
ads likewise blossomed forth in striking two-color effect.
Certainly, the result must have been pleasing to the adver-
tisers for the two-color ads could not do otherwise than at-
tract and hold the attention of every reader. And, too, Rock-
dale and Milam county should be proud of an editor posses-
sed of business acumen and energy- such as puts his news-
paper in a class with the best efforts of the metropolitan
dailies.—Sauce, in the Brady Standard.
A LOT OF PEOPLE
! In 1922. Lawrence Tibbett was living
j near Lo-: Angeles having a hard time
j trying to support "his wife. He sang in
j a church choir on Sunday, and pick-
1 :d up five dollars now and then by
'singing Oh. Promise Me! at a wedding.
I He had studied for years: but He
wa n'; getting anywhere. However, he
I had a fr.end. Rubert Hughes, who be-
(heved in him. Hughes said: "You
have the making of a great voice. You
ought to study in New York."
Tha^ little bit of friendly encourage-
i ment proved to be the turning point
I in Tibbetts life, for it caused him to
borrow twenty-five hundred dollars
and start East. What if he failed to
make good in New York? Well, if he
did. he was determined to go back to
California and make a living selling
automobile truck*
That was in 1922. Lawrence Tib-
bett selling automobile trucks today?
Far from it! He is now selling his
| services for thousands of dollars a
i week in Hollywood. And the next | was
time you hear his stirring voice on the
radio, it may interest you to recall
that someone is paying him three hun-
dred dollars a minute, or five dollars
a second, to sing to you
Washington. D. C„ Dec. 23.—(PAS)
—Rival’ed in intensity only by the
brilliance of its own social season, the
'N.i\vV- CnyitC. is now nightly bathed
in a lavish c! splay of floodlighting that
gives newcomers a vague suspicion
that somehow the Christmas Holiday,
like so many old-fashioned institu-
tions. has gene slightly Hollywood.
30 to 40 per cent and the New York
Times’ Index down almost 40 points,
editor^ guessed rightly that the “man
on the .street" would be interested iu
what Business, with a capital B.
thought about the situation.
I ammont du Pont pleaded for sta-
bilization of the laws that, control in-
dustry and received a mild two-col-
umn head, inside, in m0st sheets. Wal-
ter J. Kohler, whose "ideal village" oi
Kohler. Wisconsin, has won him fame
a? a forward-looking employer of la-
bor trouble in 1936. rapped the Gov-
Visiters aamire the shiny new Gov- i ernment's labor policy and managed
ernment bui'dings by night and then !crash Pai"1 Two of New York’s li-
by day. if not suffering from klieg |beral DailJ’ News.
eyes, stroll along Pennsylvania Avenue
)o mingle with the throngs of happy
shoppers.
Night-Lights Again
The grave bombing of the United
Weir Hits Page One . .
But when Ernest T. Weir, Chairman
of the Board of National Steel, who
with Tom Girdler of Republic led the
They Said He Wasn't Good
Enough to Sing in Th<ir High
School Glee Club
Antoraster: Unless <ome great catastrophe kills off a lot of
people, the population of the United States will reach the 130
million mark some time next May. That has been figured out
by the Census Bureau on the basis of the average number of
births and deaths, and is probably accurate.
By 1938 there will be, then, nearly fifty times as many Ameri-
cans as there were at the beginning of the Revolution, four times
as many as when the Civil War began. This country has grown
fast. When William McKinley became President, in 1896, only
about 40 years ago. there were barely halt as many American
people as there are now.
If the United States keeps on doubling its population every
forty years, we shall soon become as crowded as China or the
thickly-populated nations of Europe. But that is not in the cards,
according to the experts who make the study of population sta-
tistics their business. Immigration has slowed down almost to
the stopping point, and the death-rate is over-taking the birth-
rate. The annual rate of increase by new births is less than half
of what it was in the 1870’s. The outlook now, according to the
statisticians, is tha' in another 32 years, by 1970, the American
population will number 148 million, and from then on it will di-
r. inish, as fewer babies are born than the number of old people
who die.
The average age of the whole population will be higher. It
is already ten years higher than it was in 1900. This will doubt-
less affect us in many ways. The important question is. how-
ever, whether as our average age increases our collective wis-
dom will increase in proportion.
brings back vivid memories of 1915-16
Jt- veteran reporters. Sentiment on
the situation is divided. Some say the
to be a sheriff himself like hisfJ"ited S[ates should withdraw ^om
fathcr China and not risk further "incidents.”
Foremost among advocates of with-
States gunboat. Panay. and the sink- Ifieht of Litu’ Steel against the CIO.
ing of three Standard Oil Tankers jlet loos<? a volley against the Perkins
with consequent lass of nearly a score ! Labor Policy, he flashed across Page
of lives, by the Japanese during the i pn£' of ev«r>' metropolitan daily.
Nanking battle last week, is still keep- I Weir blamed labor strikes for a.
inr the night-lights burning in for-j wage, profit and product loss of $5.-
eign department offices. The incident j 000.009.000 this year. He condemned
strikes as a wasteful and unsatisfac-
tory method of settling labor disputes.
He demanded that Washington estab-
lish a clear-cut and fair labor policy.
In 1922, Lawrence Tibbett was sc
poor he couldn’t afford to live in
i/own ... So he rented a house in
country . The house cost him only
twelve dollars and fifty cents a month;
but little as that was. it was some-
times more than he could make as a
singer. He rented a piano for five
dollars a month, but he couldn’t put
it in the front room because the rick-
ety old houes stood on a steep hill-
side and the front of it was propped
up on high stilts and he was afraid
the piano would fall through the floor
Critics were quick to retort that
Then suddenlv a dramatic and tra- U°remoi1, a™n£ advocates of with- weir had formerly decried government
fhimr ".S ®Hd Z . drawal are Senators McCarran of Ne- ••int^rWpnrp" in matt™ Marline
L IS , m 1 ?a vada’ ShiP*t«ad of Minnesota. Sen-
iur,05-and.kl1 Cd T t batte Wlth Jini ator Borah apposed hasty action.
°‘ the mORt n°forious, Meanwhile, a variety of gossip is
thP j making the rounds in the wake of the
! recent changes in the London and Ber-
Tlial shouting i,banged the whole,,in embassies. After the announce-
McKinney, one
bank robbers and
West.
gun men in
course of Lawrence' Tibbetts life, for ment that Joseph P. Kennedy tvould
his father was a very religious man. ! succeed Robert W. Bingham at the
bitterly opposed to smoking and danc- ' Court of St. Jame’s. and that Hugh R.
ing and playing cards and the theatre; j Wilson would replace William E. Dodd
and Tibbett told me that if his father' a* Berlin, speculation has been rife as
had not been shot, he himself would Ito real story behind the news,
never have dared become a singer and ! the ca^e of the Wilson appoint-
actcr. His father’s training still casts j ment. cxnlanation is simple. Dodd
a spell over him and even now he sel- 'vas disliked by the Nazis,
dom smokes more than one cigar a j However, the appointment of Ken-
... , , . year: and when he does, he has the r,ec,y in the London post, most impor-
and ?o rolling and bouncing through , fee]in$: that he is doing something ter- tar>t ambassadorial position, has no
Mie graoe vines unth it struck the ribly wrong and lhat the de*n is such •'mole background.
1 standing right by his side, urging him Kennedy, Business Go-Between
WTien he first came to New York, he on to destruction. Kenedy’s popularity with business is
couldn't afferd to buy even the cheap- As a boy jn high school, Tibbett de- mntched'by his rapidly increasing in-
est in the Metropolitan Opera House. J sloped an inferiority complex. His "" 0( 0 v !,b tbe Pr(?sident. As inti-
So h-" used te pay two dollars and mcthcr ran a rooming house. He had mat<? as Harry Hopkins or Thomas
twenty cents for the privilege °U only one suit, of clothes, his trousers
standing up in the back of the mighty w?r€ too short, and he couldn’t buy
i"the C.'Tk’’) Corcoran, some say Ken-
nedy. acting in the role of mediator
Metropolitan Op'ra House to listen to hi- best girl and ice cream soda *t the betwoen Roosevelt and the rank and
the glamorous pe rformance':, of the im- , corner drug store. The other students
mortal Ecotti and the beautiful Mary snubbed him and paid no attention to
THE THREE THINGS NEEDED
The Projrressive Farmer: The present plight of the all-cotton
farmer only emphasize? afresh three principles the South’* wis-
est farm leaders have been preaching for years:
1. For safety, the farmer mn^t fir*t of all aim to live at
home—“frtod, feed and fertility first.”
2. For profit, he must $ro further and add animal production
Garden In those days he had to bor-
row mcney from his. friends to pay
fer his room rent and music lessons.
Yet ten yes rs later he himself was
rridir.se nrrc- the proud stage of the
M< tropoiitan. arousing a frenzy of
wi’d huzza . winir.g twenty-two cur-
•nin calls at a single performance, and
rnikir.e himself one of the most fam-
ous baritones in all the world.
Lawrence Tibbett spent his child-
ly :d In rsfiekl California. For
years hir father had been a cowboy in
California, and now was sheriff of
Kern County. California Being a
sheriff ecmed like a mighty exeiting
and glamorous business to young Lar-
ry Tibbett so his boyhood
him So he resolved to make a name
fr.r himself and he looked about for
a her: cut to distinction. He tried
to become a member of the glee club
—and they wouldn’t have him. He
tried to get a part in the high school
plays . . . and no one wanted him. This
boy who was destined to become the
mast famous singer that ever cam'1
out of California was turned down
cold when he wanted to sing in a high
school concert. The spark of genius
didn't shine through his voice until
he was twenty-seven years old.
Typewriter riaoons, carcon sheet*
■>aper and seoona sneers. Get them a:
ambition | Reporter ortiioe tt
to plant production—jfet income from farm animals as well as
fat in crops.
3. For real prosperity, he must tfo still further and adopt a
well-rounded program of business farming.
file of business man was largely re-
■non.-ib’ef or the present peace-over-
tures to industry and finance. Thus,
if he remained here. Kenedy would be
counted on to go far in New Deal
"Tries.
That the President acted wisely in
appointing Kennedy to the foroigr
past is not to lx- questioned But the
evident speed with which -his name
was suggested and approved by the
inner circle casts suspicion on the
deeper motives of the President's ad-
visors.
Business flood Copy
Apropos of the recent "truce" be-
tween business and the New Deal is
the growing sentiment in Washington
for rapid action on the problem of re-
lieving business RepcrcSBions are still
b< ing felt Trom the convention of the
National Association of Manufactur-
er at New York's swanky Waldorf-
Astoria
Ordinarily the NAM meet would get
only routine handling in the news col-
umn but this year, with stocks off
‘interference” in matters affecting
employer-employee relationships. They
charged inconsistency.
One of the worst aftermaths of the
NAM convention wa* the announced
investigation by the LaFollette group
to see whether cr not numbers who
voiced pious sentiments in favor of
improved working conditions were
treating their workers according to
law. This, plus the now memorable
"Fascist” speech of Secretary Ickas.
has done much to make business men
wonder if they were ever really out
of the New Deal doghouse at all.
Will It Be Aiken?
When Vermont’s Governor. George
D. Aiken, found himself being boomed
as a passible 1940 GOP Presidential
candidate he modestly commented "he
didn't know what he’d done to de-
serve it." The Aiken incident came
almost simultaneously with the an-
nouncement by ex-Govornor Alf M.
London that he would not oonsidei
running again if he should ‘happen
to bo re-nominated.
Governor Aiken, who slightly resem-
bles Landon. is a tall, wrinkled, grey-
haired New Englander whase manner
and bearing is remindful of Calvin
Coolidgc. though less restrained. He i-s
comparatively young, and has a fla”
for being both progressive and practi-
cal. His call for a party "purge" of
reactionary elements and for a con-
structive progrnm in step with the
nation's problems should go far to at-
tract younger voters bark to the fold
Recurring disorders from time to
time have made Havana police cau-
tious A suspicious looking package
found in the lobby of a public build-
ing was carefully handled and soak-
ed in water through fear it was 1
bomb. When opened the package
was found to contain a baby’s milk
bottle and nipple.
In Moline, 111. a physician extract'"
a tooth from the mouth of a baby t*n
minutes after Its birth.
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Cooke, W. H. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1937, newspaper, December 30, 1937; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth694487/m1/6/?q=%22thurber+%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.