Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1931 Page: 4 of 8
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LOOK AT THE AVERAGE
One of my friends, who now
occupies a high position, start-
ed life as a salesman for the
National Cash Register Com-
pany.
He thought that if he could
sell cash registers to Marshall
Field it would be a big feather
in his cap, and the example of
this leading store would have
influence with smaller mer-
chants all over the country.
So he called at Field’s and
made his talk, but received no
encouragement The next year
he called again . . . and the
next . . . and the next. The
tenth year he came away with
an order for 1150,000.
In telling me about it, he re-
marked :“I said to myself, that’s
$15,000 worth of business for
each of the ten years. Not a
bad average at all.”
In 1929, when stock prices
were crashing and even the
richest men were feeling poor,
a New York banker met a cap-
italist whose fortune, on paper,
had shrunk many million dol-
lars. He was in a blue funk.
The banker said: “You
ought to have learned better
than this. Don’t you remember
back in 1920 how worried you
were, and how you sent for me
to reassure you? Even at pres-
ent prices you must be worth
ten times what you were then.
If so, your average is mighty
good. What are you locking
about?"
A young man and young
woman were married. After
the ceremony the bride’s father,
a veteran business man who
had fought hard for his for-
tune, took them into his study.
*'I want to say just one thing to
you,” he remarked. “You must
not expect that all your years
win be good. You’ll go along
for a while without seeming to
get ahead, but at the end of ev
ery year you’ll own a little
more furniture and have a few
mure dollars in the bank. Then
there will come a year some
time when you’ll have a stroke
of luck and make a lot of
progress. You must expect to
average the good with the
bad.”
It seems to me that much of
the worry and fretting in life
grow out of the fact that peo-
ple do not take a long enough
look.
Every human life, at some
point, has been handicapped
and doomed to disappointment.
At forty, Henry Ford had never
saved a cent. At forty-five,
- Lincoln was a disappointed
politician. For twenty-five
yean, Charles Darwin worked
day after day without the
slightest recognition. Then, for
each of them, there cane a
few great years that amply
made up for all the rest.
The law of compensation
works for those who keep their
industry and their faith. Those
who quit under discouragement
are selling out at the bottom
For a majority of courageous
lives, taking all the years to-
gether, the average is good
Back Up the President
^OMf FOLKS GIVE
GOOD AJWlCE £ECAUSt
THEYR.E Too OLD To
SET ABADBXAMPlt.
President Hoover has an.
nounced a policy of rigid econ-
omy in Federal Government ex-
penditures. He has incurred
the anger of many minor offi-
cials by ordering them to spend
no money not necessary to the
public welfare, to incur no fur-
ther obligations to be paid for
in the future, and to cut tbeir
estimates of their department-
al needs for next year down to
the bone.
In the face of a deficit of
nearly a billion dollars this
year, it would be absurd to sug-
gest that the President is not
more than justified in his
stand. Much of the reduction
in expense will have to be in
the program for naval expan-
sion; a large part of it will
have to come out of the Army
appropriation. In time of
peace there seems to be no
better place to cut off expendi-
tures. We are not going to
suffer if we don’t have quite so
many cruisers and battleships.
Nobody much is going to worry
over the abandonment of a few
obsolete Army Posts. The coun-
try won’t go to ruin if a good
many of the more ornamental
bureaus and activities of Uncle
Sam are suspended until we can
get back to an even keel and
live within our National in-
come.
One thing is certain; there is
nothing which the people of
the United States would resent
more keenly in the present situ-
ation than an increase in Fed-
eral taxation.
That goes, too, for state and
local taxes. Political leaders
who want to remain in office or
to gain office can do nothing
more popular now to follow
the President’s example and
declare themselves for economy
in State, County and Town ex-
penditures. There is no part of
the United States in which the
burden of taxation is not al-
ready too heavy.
FOXHIiRTEflSTO
SIKH FIliH
IF SOME ONE
ONLY HAD TOLD
HIM.....
He’s a swell fellow—good
dancer — good line — good
dresser—but—he lacks that
finishing touch of the well-
groomed man—proper tonso-
rial attention.
Maybe we’re wrong—may-
be he is a violinist. Even so-
il’s time he was told that well-
cut hair—unlike Samson
strengthens his public appear-
ance—perfects his appeal—
lengthens his social life.
Three chairs—no waiting—
reasonable charges.
Ladies’ Finger Waves 25c
City Barber Shop
COME TO SEE US—We AP-
PRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS.
At a recent meeting of the
East Texas Fox Hunters Asso-
ciation held at the Shelby coun-
ty court house, plans were
made for the fall, hunt which
will assemble November third
and last four days. The old
Brinson field near Shelbyville,
was selected as the site for this
event.
are expected to attend during
the four-day meet, it. has been
estimated, and at least 100
dogs will be entered in the con-
tests. Many hunters from near,
by states have signified thei<
intention of attending the Shel
by county hunt, and will bring
their prize hounds, it is stated.
No hunting will be done near
the Brinson field between now
and the annual encampment,
it was decided.
Officers for the ensuing yean
were elected at the meeting as
follows:
Hunter Parker, president;
Bib Samford, vice-president;
H. E. Stillings, secretary. The
following directors were
named; George Ford, Joe How-
ard, Norman Ross, Terrell
Smith, Dr. F. L. Pearce, Bro. J.
A. Smith, T. A. Harris, Jesse
Harris,. Robt. Atkins, Doc
Willoughby, Joe Christian, F.
L. Goolsby, Tom Strong, C. L.
Risinger, T. P. Todd, C. B. Sam-
forrd, Steve Ross, Marvin Mar-
tin and Jnd Oates.
9,131,111 Bits
found to apportion taxation in
proportion not only to people’s
ability to pay, but also to the
benefits derived.
We think that economy is
just as sound Democratic doc-
trine as it is Republican doc-
Too much of trine. We cannot see any
New Orleans, Aug. 1.—Sec-
retary H. G. Hester of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange Sat-
urday announced a world con-
sumption of American cotton
for the year ending July 81,
ers, in making his annual
port of the season
The carryover into the new
cotton year, opening Aug. 1,
he placed at 9,130,000 bales,
including 420,000 boles of Ent-
ers and 736,000 bales in port
and mill stocks and afloat for
Japan, China and India.
The year’s exports, including
shipments to Canada, were
placed at 6,927,425 bales, an
increase over the year before of
74,789 bales.
The total commercial crop
for the year ending July 31
was put down at 13,893,155
bales, a decrease from last
year of 620,517 bales, a de-
crease under year before last of
1,892,210 bales and a decrease
from 1927-28 of 650,779 bales.
It was announced that other:
data on the cotton year would
be made public within the next
few days.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Thomas-
son of Houston returned Tues-
day after a visit with Mr.
Thomasson’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Thomasson of this
city.
MUOfl CMM
BUYS LEASES
it is carried on the shoulders of
real estate, not enough on the
shoulders of those who get the
benefits of taxation without jtional affairs.
paying their proportionate! —--
share. i “I don’t mind
partisan politics in this move of
Mr. Hoover's. It is just good
business sense applied to na-
Nacogdoches Sentinel.
One of the best indications
seen lately in the oil business,
is that one of the Major Oil
Companies buying a spread in
a block of acreage in this coun-
washing the !ty, after a well has been com-
Woodville—On poor sandy
land that has been well ter- State Treasurer, remitting
raced and made fertile by
rotating crops and turning un-
der legumes, Ben Best, Tyler
county farmer, ha* made a net
profit of $80.80 on one acre of
tomatoes and now has began
growing on the same land, ac-
cording to B. B. Martin, county
agent Plants cost $5, fertili-
zer $12.60 and poison $1.50.
Selling for 1 to l*/i cents per
pound Mr. Best received
$100.40 for his crop and esti-
mates that tomatoes used at
home and canned paid - the
labor cost
TIN IKS ID
HOLE GIGtRETTE
STMfPS, ISMCEMEYT
Until permanent arrange-
ment ran be made for the han-
dling of cigarette stamps, the
Guaranty Bond State Bank and
Cotton Belt State Bank of this
city will handle the initial sup-
ply of stamps, according to in-
formation from State Treasur-
er Charley Lockhart
Officiate at both Timpson
banks stated this morning that
they had agreed to handle the
stamps, but stated that so far a
supply had not been received.
Mr. Lockhart says:
“In obediance to an act of
the forty-second legislature
which places a tax upon all
cigarettes sold in this State
subsequent to August 22, 1931,
making it my duty to adminis-
ter said law, I have asked the
banks of Texas to handle an
initial supply of these stamps
until permanent arrangements
can be made for their distribu-
tion.
“I have received a favorable
reply from Guaranty Bond
State and Cotton Belt State
Banks of your city and these
stamps may be had at the
above named banks. If for any
reason stamps cannot be obtain-
ed from your local banka they
may be had by sending to the
for
same by expresa or post office
money order, cashier’s check or
by draft drawn on eny Austin,
Texas, bank. No personal
checks will be accepted.”
Marlin—Two Falla county
club girls who hsd no garden
spot at home have good gar-
dens growing on a hillside near
a windmill by paying rent to
the owner in the form of chop-
ping out an acre patch of cot-
ton. The girls are Dorothy
Sutter and Lucille Wheeler of
the Cego Club, and they ex-
pect to “sell” their products to
Conductor Stops Train to their families and to Ed Whit-
Get Milk for Hungry Baby tner, owner of the land. They
- have growing radishes, toma-
Lubbock, Aug. 2.—A motheg toes, lima beans, mustard,
It seems to us that public 'dishes for you," wailed the hen- pleted, or rather reached the -------.—— —-------------- ----,----
funds should not be spent, for pecked husband. “Neither do;Georgetown lime and abandon- boarded a Santa Fe train at beets, cucumbers and black-
the time being at least, for any-
thing which does not directly
benefit all of the people. What
benefits all of the people is
public works which will give
employment to the largest num-
ber of men and put them back
in a position to become custom-
ers of the nation’s industries
and merchants. It also seems
to us that ways should
I care so much about sweeping, led at that depth. Although
dusting, mopping the floors'the well was not drilled in this
and cooking my own meals.'
“But I’ll be darned if 1 11 run
blue ribbons through my night
shirt just to fool that baby.”
—Plainsman, in Lubbock Jour-
nal.
Courage is the thing,
be goes if courage goes.—Barrie.
county, the greater part of the
acreage was in this county and
as to what will be the ultimate
outcome by the transfer of
leases, remains to be seen.
The names of the company
and the location are not given
AH 'for the reason, that it was not
'given for publication.
Fisherman's Luck
By Albert T. Reid
Lehman and forgot to bring eyed peas,
along the baby’s bottle.
Conductor E. E. Thompson
held the train and added 15
minutes at the next stop .while
he sent a messenger to the busi-
ness district in search of a cer-
tain prepared baby food which
had been prescribed for the
child.
Aged Lady is Injured
Walking In Sleep
Mt. Enterprise Progress.
Mrs. Tom Turner, happened
to serious accident at her
home in Mt. Enterprise Wed-
nesday night, July 23rd. She
was walking while a sleep and
fell from the porch of her
home, which is several feet
from the ground, suffering a
fractured hip and other serious
injuries. When she swoke she
was laying on the ground, her
husband being in bad health
she was afraid to call for assist-
ance, she crawled up the steps
and returned to her bed before
telling him of the accident. The
doctor was called and she was
rushed to the hospital at Nac-
ogdoches and an X-ray picture
was taken to find the extent of
the injury. At last report she
was improving nicely.
and
de-
“Whatever makes you
Billy so quarrelsome?”
mended Mrs. Brown.
“Why,” replied little Betty,
“we’re just playing papa and
mamma and we can’t agree on
the budget.”
DOCTORS DISAGREE
When children are irritable
and peevish, grind their teeth
and sleep restlessly, have
digestive paint and disturb-
ances, lack of appetite, and
have itching eyes, nose and
fingers, doctors will not always
agTee that they are suffering
from worms. Many mothers,
too, will not believe that their
carefully brought up children
can have worms. The fact re-
mains that these symptoms will
yield, in a great majority of
cases, to a few doses of White’s
Cream Vermifuge, tho sure ex-
pellant of round and pin
worms. If your child has any
of these symptoms, try this
harmless, old fashioned medi-
cine which you can get at 35c
per bottle from F. R. Bussey's
Drug Store.
—AND SELL THE
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for every oar or truck
at discounted prioes
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1931, newspaper, August 7, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth764287/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.