The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1931 Page: 2 of 6
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TAFT TRIBUNE
REMEDY IN MCDONALD S
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it rlm>» matter. tlil1
of Ur* «l Uft. I'M*.
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WOULD YOU NOLVE
MOVE ro* MORE
situation or iointi c.o»i
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Stair ommiMinxi J. E McDonald
would control otton acreage toy
tattoo In the Tran* We»Mjr. date of
July It before a Parmer* Short
•mmmm Cwun* a. Lu n« Mr McDonald ire
TUI muted a picture of happiness amt
prospcrlt)- tor the farmer end 0*1 man.
- tv the jjrrration process and without
In one column me read that the tht* syw-m »c wti: remxin a do-
1 of wheat ha* dropt through the moralised mo* of inodurCi- an.t
that cotton ha* almost, further impovrr *hmj our natural re
turning to another ootumn ere gouree*. adding to out unemplojmen:
Nurt the railroad com pane are and suffering and . general busmev. MHiKATfON
for an inerenae tn fretsht oeirrmaton • There ta a b*ck-to-the-Uind move-
told that a refusal to „ ^ miM, do aomethm* for cot- ment actively tn progress tn thr East
increase of rstee may mean lon ttarou>h jefUlatton. why not pea* Within the iwat three
aythg off of thousands of em- ( |Jtw requiring the ore of cotton 111
1 Nit tell, aomr one. any one. aU kind* of begging instead of tra-
the eery fountain head of our jute and o*her freturn ms-
no*, the agricultural class. I* Iwla, AtyJ vhy no( thf le*U-
M bjr prices far unde, coat at li|lvt jchctne • little farther and
how can any one stand tU TtxMt women sear cotton tn-
aJon- and pay Increased freight rales? 0( ^,k compel th* men by
Dale Milter my* the granting of the legislation. to sear c lion soctu aud
railroad petitions for increased rates cotton neekties instead of .ult and have s Job in sn
win Itabdtic railroad stock* on the com;iel everv wholesale grocery hour*, factory When timer, are bac
tserkst. We wwld kindly *Jk Dele lo ^ ,„ttoo paggiti* instead of Ira- of work We have b*en saving, my
MiOer why he don’t advocate way* baMlng Th n go farther In wife and I. to buy a house *n town,
and mean* for placing agricultural thu matter of legislation. Specify the Then we began to consider shat good
Products on a paying bast*. Instead of tabor We kno< the h gh- a town house would be to us If I didn’t
of railroad stocks It seems too many n ^ aage lhe mon. mone* - ... -
«< our assumabiy Mg men begin at V,U labor spend and whet, mon y least feed our. elves and
(fee wrong end of the superstructure u plentiful. then Is the time mer- children, „nd were near enough to
to build, overlooking th* (act a perm- cj„nts can Why rrgMce the town so that when thing* pick up
aueut foundation la iiaeded. and that [^gne- a erlmfnal If he plants WO I esn ro hack to mv job and come
always, must be the agricultural class acrei 0, o! yj acrc.s, home every nlgnt. ITr not a farmer
Mr. Miller appeals for an increased )eU oongrattiiate him on hi* industry but my wife Is country bred and I’m
ftWfht r*te hi behalf of the many and help him create a market for not afraid of «ork
poor people who own railroad stock. lht)Jlp PIlra w. agree with the We are going to hear more of this
MfUtom of Americans are llvtng on Texas Weekly In assuming some- *or. of thing In the old days
half ratlins Millions are half cloth- thing more ’han cotton acreage re- landless man' was regarded n..|r, OI I[K.
•d. Many a farmer shipped produce ducUon u lieoMgary t, deal effec- *ochu outcast The only really mde- d*,rlct and whlch wU, corer .several
,t| a |j (l>. „b> •„ t t whktl
tinu* ^ i* «t;irk .1) @u>ton
Thre. mrmtx s of the commlsioi.
...iggested the salaries 0: «>»<“ fouiitj (
health nurw county agent and county J
demon** rator be cut IS PC bli: I
action on this was ;>o»t|»oneri till after j
tlie 30 day* vacat.on period, .wme time j
in August
Av a further movement along hue. |
a1 evoiiomy. .. d suggest the ta* rs.*.
leri r's office sutl the countv ire*\-
urers office be made one Thai thej
uru..n i.rnfA «ood I aaaesora office be willed to the ah.riff j
eleefrieal equ„H..ent and -hat the Janitor, county su,wrm-,
I m out tendent and county attornev br msde j
one. and that the health nurse count.. •
d monstrator, countv agent be pre-
edited to the county surveyor.
Rut a Ix-'ter way would tie to e 1m-.
.* i lnate all elective countv officers |
have a Job. On the farm « ^ ,hr e comm-loners to be elec-
ted at large, and these employ alii
clrrks to jx-rform the duties of thC|
various offices, and by this system,
the cost ol operating the county,
business would be one-half of what .
tt now- is or even less.
months six-
teen farms within five miles ot my
own have b.en sold to people who
have been working in the factories
in the mdusfial cittee ot Massachu-
setta
I talked with one »f iheee newc>m-
er* the otl»r day T m an electrician
he said.
the
as a
Evicted Cats
Radio City, which is ix>Ing
Ight in the heart of the theatrical 1
built
to the northern markets last spring tlvel>. w;th ^
and did not get enough out of it to __0_
pay Um freight And now. look at
the wheat market and the cotton
market, two important factors Texans
art Interested In. and ae stand by
with our hands tied, while the legis-
lature wtmld do someth Ins for oil
and the power* that be in Washing-
ton, vrwld grant higher freight rates.
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WANTS NO NSW STATE
pendent man today is the one who
can get his own living tn a p:nch
from his own land
(blocks
not being built without |
I PICKED AT RANDOM •
1 By W. S. Clark
•____ a
The rheapei the gasoline the mrr*
wreckless some people drive
Even some of the political wars
might be settled by arbitration
some suffering. Most of this exists!
among the cats who have been
driven from home.
Thev have not only lost .heir
I «aw th- beglnnmg of a^rtvolution. hofn(8 but ,(ist aI1 th,ir feUne con-!
tacts, their neighbors and families,
alike being forced to shift Quarters
HOUSES
the other dav In Wilmington. Dela-
ware. It was a house, a smail.or.e
family house, the frame of which Is. Thrown on their own resources and;
■ their regular mode >of life broken,
made of
pressed steel shapes. Two
the frame of the
, young men put me irame ox ^ ,nto thcs, hynd^ds of cats
hou.e together with bolts In a couple hungr>. aIld arf growrlng more
COMBVATTON COMMI88ION, who wants to waste his time on a of days' time. It was as easy as a: more gaunt as time goes on .
' bathing beach where there are no boy playing with one of the popular j society for the Prevention of •
.* *•— | cruelty to Animals is trying to round
dinner pajamas.
■win Gcrron. member of the sUte1 mrremaxds
jggMmture, writes an Interesting letter
im the publisher of the Dallas News.
Which appeared in that paper Wed-
OMday. on a matter of grave im-
portance to the agncultural class ot
the state. Help Mr. Gerron to find
the "nigger in the woodpile." Mr.
Gerron says:
The letters of Mr. Sparkman.
Mr. Clark and Mr. Toole, which
hare appeared in The News, plain-
ly indicate what the people of
Texas think of ‘class legislat.:n."
There ts _ no overproduction of
farm, rr-ncti and oil product* in
this state Nation and World, but
there ‘s an over monopoly of
their distribution. Multimillions
have been squeezed from the
farmers ranchers and laborers of
this Spate during the last fifteen
years and do alarm was sounded,
nor effort made by big business
or these would be political saviors
to help the manses, and now in
time of distress the wolf is In-
viting the lamb into his den
There is 'a nigger in the wood-
plle” in this special ae&sbn of The
Legislature and the members of
the Legislature and th? people
back home should study carefully
and wisely the sugar-coated life-
saving remedies offered by those
clamoring for the Governor arid
Lsgtslature to save the country
Is It nst strange that they never
have become alarmed about tne
farmers, ranchers or laborers In
Texas? In my opinion there lias
never bees nor never will be a
time when the best interests of
the people were in more danger
than at this time.
Wot since John H. Reagan, or-
ganised the Railroad Commission
with the help and advice of Jim
Hogg has the finger of suspicion
ever been pointed at it; its ad-
ministration of oil and gas laws
tn Ureas is faultless, in so far
as lt« authority extends Then
why all this smoke screen about »
cosMwrvatie® commission to be ap-
pointed by the Governor? If there
is * solufcsosi, then why not correct
the defects ip the law^and leave
lt» enftwweaoeut to any organ i-
xatton already hosveslly and abiy
- aej-ttng the people of Texas?
M this movement ts not aimed
at eeearissg: another Goweraor-ap-
panted cessmisslom, and thereby
taking from the people their
right to say who ahail administer
their affairs; if it is not an at*
baaBpt of the big oj! .wwapaiises to
<dl production la Texas,
then why not leave it under the
Raffoaa d Commiisioe. which is
e!af*»d by the people and reapon-
xSMe to she iievifik? No nobSer
« abfer m« haw even served
Timas iSas CSiaimaa C. V Tet-
refi aad OosMahs^smer Lass A.
SwSth. Through year* of study
they have fitted themselves to
discharge the duties that Texas
sfc-r&simb. and >>.>« trade them
aft for an expert by the
oil eamsaa'es would be a eaJkmHy
structural toys.
- j These amateur builders are using
We thought pajama* were to sleep oni,- materials which call for
tn, but now they are called lovely skilled labor^ In completing their house■' nmirto'fey'hxnds’on the suffers
Oraee Loving and Clarence Kissam T”’”hem rhev **v a more sub- taramel Ire < "am
_______!_____ ________ will *‘'e nem tne> *•> a more SUU Qne Quavt of crcam hall |x>und
Factory-made roofing, siding. Insula-
ting material, wall-board and flooring
... will give them, they say. a more sub-
wet* recently married. We hope they #t#nttal house than m3St and at
much lower cost than a house bo't
them up and put them out of their |
no mLvrv but 1? finding i extremely dlf-
I
will continue *hat way
One quart of cream
of sugar, one tablespoon
of vanilla.
Coffin would be a good name for
an undertaker, but a man bv that nnru-
in Mathis sells groceries
tects
and manufacturers are about
If some men didn't talk so much ready to offer better homes at less
in their sleep, they wruld get along money,
belter. And save some alimony. ........
WORK
The five-day week for factory
workers is already established in
many large industries and in some of
! one pint of milk, put four extra 1
in the usual manner ounces of granulated sugar in an ron j
I heard of other experiments in ,rvj an{| s(4r over f)re !lnti!
factory built homes. Engineers archl-
As a career, there is nothing more
promising than that of a politician.
Everybody promises to vote for him
sugar melts, turns brown, bolls 1
and sinok- s Have readv one vint of
boiling m ik. turn the burnt sugar inti,
this, stir over fnc fire one minute ]
and stand awav to cool When cold
all the sugar, cream and vanilla mix j
well and freeze
If Noah knew as much about mo- ’he building trades It will not be
squifoes a* wr do, he'd never found Ione befi re nolxody wo. -s on a.
room for a pair to roost in the ark t*3?'
_ The eight-hour working day. .or
Just because a man drives a nice which the labor unions fought for ro
b.g car is no reason to believe he may many tears seems about to be .short-
have been a bootlegger. He might bi
a fanner.
ened The Kellogg Company of Battle
Creek is the first large concern to try
the six-hour day. The factory runs
twelve hours n two shifts. There is
no time out for tneals. The company-
reports that even with an increase
of one-eighth in the basic wage rate
the overhead and operating cast per
unit of production is lower than un-
the hook wa< baited d:i eight-hour plan
Watch for the shortening of
working day by other industries
. Playing bridge is said to be a lest
:f intetttoence, but a good bridge - lay-
er may be a failure- ir. the game oi
stud poker
A Corpus Christi grass widow would
have her friends believe she wouldn't
marry again, if
with a million.
the
A young man of this town broke
his engagement when he attended a
bathing party and discovered his best
girl w as bow legged
SHOES
Shoes are cheaper than ever before,
and the tendency is still downward.
1 ........ At the same time, a fashionable
New that skirts have grown longer.; Fifth Arcnue custom shoemaker has
j w hope the ladies will do something j recently raised his minimum price for
to increase the demand for cotton a ^ ol ladies shoes from $75 to $100
by wearing cotton hose. 1 a pair!
thing to make shoes
If a revolution breaks out In Ger-
The latest thing to
' W ^ "fru jind*r adSc'^eveloiT’m the uJZ
cover of dMm and again take h « labf9tori(ss and now ln ^ by some
old seat on the throne 70-odd shoe factories, fastens the sole
! After some people seek bliss in 1° *ht upper without the use of tacts.
' separation, we often wonder how they P«** cr stitches It is said to be water,
managed to keep going on the same proof, flexible and iievmanent.
bout as, long as they did. There will always b* a few P«op.e
___ who will pay fancy prices for hand-
A prohibitionist is a man who votn, made goods, but the big money is
dry, but keeps a lev bottles of eham- made by those who find a better
pagne in cold storage-, along with a way to make things cheaper
goodly supply ot home brew.
:ELT SICK
AFTER EATING
"None of niv food agreed
with ma — I »"ulU frenucnt!v
ta3te what I at-, long after ntf
nicalo, uud 1 did not an 5 -.veil
day for w?-ks.’’ says .Mr Peter
Seeger, ',129 S. Elmwood St.,
Kansan City. .Mo. ‘I began tak-
ing a pinch of Hlar'.-Iira'ight
after each rm-a!, an'i kv, t »n>.- p
for tv.-v-ltK. t irdu'ualty *h«- jiiin
left r.if anil I b* «an t > f>ete r.
I ova-i—l to he tr-»tis•*.-.! wit . u.ia,
«ad could tat ivh:.t I iiUcd."
« Thedford's
BLACK"
! DRAUGHT
I For CONSTIPATiON,
■ INDIGESTION. BILIOUSNESS
BAYER ASPIRIN
is always SAFE
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS
A girl wW walk a mile to .show her
engagement ring to a friend, but
FISH
Fish ought to be the cheapest of all
instead of being one of the
•tome of them wouldn't walk across, mast ^pensive, u it is in all large
the street to show a husband. j cities :irrfi hi towns away from the
. ccmsnerciai fisheries. It is one food
crop which ret;litres no planting or
as.ys he jiuty get msrried semetuae if
he can Had a girl who knows how
' to make a real pie and never spends
her money for lijistick srxd rougw.
cultivation.
The reasois for the high cost is
the perishable nature of fish «nd the
___ expense of keeping it iced. Expert-
The Mtroitomm stay agree the with the quick freezing of fish
oilier pSnaets wti} net support life, by carbon dioxide snow or '‘dry ice’
and the wsy M* money is getting in*S rate that the flavor can i> pre-
oootrol on tit a earth, tbe only thing served and deterioraLon prevented :rt
left whereon we do not have to pay * way which makes the cost of hand-
« bonns. is atr. and it begins to iook kog much lower than previously,
that wiil br- served rhr:ugh m.ter.-.. .’one fresh fish of ’-he most
and be paid for re. n ir, advance popular food varieties will be avi.I-
8ev E A. Sandifor. pastor of the
First Baptist Church at Cotton Va.-
o . — it,-, Louisiana, a preachais a mara-
11 * «« tfle *** * **** a:,, g«r®on Tuesdsy. he had reach-
3e aa tnfficatior of s short crop in
izss* ’tee.
able evwywherc at a cost to com-
pete Tith meat But no flib ever
btsichi in a market taster hst? ait
vo-vt ** thr saw* you -ratx n yourself.
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name ,‘..or and
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rut price in yearn. \« mmm
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The most striking fine car types ever offered m suxT*
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Get tbe facta about these fine cars. Compare their
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ride in the wide, restful seats arid you will realize
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■which make the Ford a happy uivcatmt-irt.
wt. the forty-eight hour mark He An auto wlrsautn was tr.v.aa to »JJ
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Clark, W. S. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1931, newspaper, July 16, 1931; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth711654/m1/2/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.