Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1932 Page: 2 of 8
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Cream—all for only 49c.
Only a limited number to go at this price.
TIMPSON P1H1ARMAOT
"The Place to Get What You Want"
WEEKLY HUES
fettered as setond class out.
ter April 17. 1909, at the pozt-
office at Tirapaon, Texas, under
the Act of March 3. 1879.
T. J. MOLLOY,......Editor
8. WINFREY, - - Business Mgr.
SCHOOL DAY5
Another school year has be-
gun. More children than ever
went to school at one time be-
fore. will spend the next eight
or nine months laying the
foundations for their independ-
ent and individual lives. Some
of them will leant a good deal.
Some of them will not leant
very much. The one thing that
most children leant in school,
and the most important thing
that any of them learn is, after
all, not what is in the books but
how to live.
It has always seemed to us
that the real life of the child is
his or her school life. During
these formative years the
ehfld’s principal interest cen-
ters about school. It la the one
place where he can mingle on
equal terms with all of those
around him. For several hours
a day he works and plays hi
_ the company of those of his
own age. He learns, through
the necessary discipline of the
schoolroom, to restrain such
natural impulses as tend to
disorder, but he learns from the
contacts with other boys not
only the wisdom of non-inter-
ference with the rights of oth-
ers, but the importance of
standing up for his own rights.
In other words, the most valu-
able function of the school is to
socialize its pupils, to help
them to learn how to live in
the crowd.
In the old days of big fami-
lies the children learned those
things from their own brothers
and sisters. Families of eight
or ten or more youngsters are
not so common in these days,
and the discipline of the crowd
is best enforced and learned in
the school atmosphere. And it
is becoming more and more es-
sential that our young folks
should go out into the world
with a better understanding of
their place in it
We think the best schools
are the ones in which the pu-
pils are required to do moat for
themselves and have the least
done for them by their teach-
ers and others. All that any
association with other young
ones of his own age.
COTTON STILL TOO CHEAP
The statement that the re-
cent increases in the price of
cotton represented a fortunate
gain for the farmers of Texas,
who had managed their crop
this year with the expectation
of a five-cent price, needs no
elucidation. This year’s cot-
ton crop represents a smaller
cash cost expenditure by the
farmers than any crop in re-
cent years. But this doeB not
imply that the farmers will be
content to raise future crops
as they have raised the 1932
crop.
When it is said that Texas
farmers were prepared to sell
at 5 cents and obtain a small
profit on their year’s work, it is
also said that legitimate farm
expenditures had been cut out
entirely, and doubtless even
the family budget reduced.
While this latter factor was
minimized greatly by the
tremendous increase in food-
raising and preserving on the
farms, the fact remains that
Texas farmers can not continue
in the business of producing
cotton for a five-cent market.
What can be done one year is
not necessarily to be done year
after year, or even two years in
succession. Better prices are
needed for cotton, for the
simple reason that the normal
costs of production are higher
than eight cents.
Needless the cotton farmers
of Texas regard the price rise
as - a genuine windfall. It
makes the compensation for
their year’s hard work and
denial just as much more.
They and the land, too, have
suffered by the sort of work re-
quired for holding cash cost ex-
penditure down below five
cents a pound. There will be
no acreage increase next year
because of the price rise this
year.—Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram.
VYaRADPORO MOBLiT
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Washington, D. C., Sept. 12.
—With the worst of the hot
weather over, tourists are be-
ginning to flock into Washing-
ton in larger numbers than at
any other time since last
spring. There have not been
so many of them here this past
summer as usual. Fewer peo-
ple have had the leisure and
the money with which to take
vacation trips. But there are
never less than a million out-
side visitors to Washington an-
nually, and some years the
number has run to nearly
double that figure.
system of education can do for
any child is to stimulate him to
use his own native intelligence.
But outside of the curriculum,
beyond and above the formal
routine of the acquisition of
knowledge, far more impor-
tant is the socializing and _
civilizing influence of constant from the visitor gets a bird’s-
One experience which every
stranger visiting Washington
always enjoys is to go to the
top of the Washington Monu-
ment. Five hundred and fifty-
five feet from its base to its
solid aluminum tip, the Wash-
ington Monument is still the
highest spot in the city, and
Is not a young mother one of
the sweetest sights which life
shows us?—Thackeray.
eye view of the entire District
of Columbia and the adjacent
hills of Maryland and Virginia.
The monument stands exact-
ly on the meridian of Wash-
ington which is exactly 77 de-
grees, 3 minutes and 57 second
west of Greenwich, [England,
which is the point from which
longitude is calculated. It ia
as nearly as possible the exact
geographic center of the tract,
ten miles square, which was
laid out as the Federal . Dis-
trict in George Washington’s
time. A line drawn north and
south through the monument
would pass through the middle
of the White House, and up
Sixteenth Street, the upper end
of which is known as Meri-
dian Hill.
The monument is no longer
the center of the District, how-
ever, because in the 1840’s the
part lying on the Virginia side
of the Potomac River was given
back to that state, so that the
District of Columbia now, in-
stead of containing one hun-
dred square miles, is only about
sixty-four square miles in area.
That High Water Mark
This monument to George
Washington was begun about
1830 by an association which
got contributions from the
public, but ran out of fnnds
when the structure had reach-
ed the height of about 150 feet.
It stood there unfinished for
forty years, a blot on the land-
scape of the capital city, until
Cqpgress appropriated money
for its completion. It was finish-
ed in 1885, with stone from the
same quarry from which the
lower part had been built. In
the meantime, so much othed
stone had been taken out of
that quarry that the new stone
does not match the old, and the
very distinct line, about a third
of the way up the monument,
where the darker stone ends
and the lighter stone begins, is
a perpetual reminder of the
forty years’ delay in its com-
pletion.
In the spring of 1889 floating
ice in the river jammed against
the railroad bridge, forming a
dam which diverted all of the
water of the river into the city
and men and boys rowed up
and down Pennsylvania Ave-
nue in boats from the Treasury
to the Capitol grounds for two
or three days.
• * •
Occasionally, an old Wash-
ingtonian. when asked by a
stranger how to account for
the line across the Washington
Monument where the stone
changes color, replies that
that.is the high mark of th<*
flood of 18891
The Capitol Building
Next to the Washington
Monument, the principal point
of attraction for visitors is the
Capitol Building. It is possi-
ble for those who are suffi-
ciently active to climb up a
narrow winding iron stairway,
concealed between the castiron
dome and the ceiling of the
rotunda, and stand at the: very
foot of the Statue of liberty
Most visitors, however content
themselves with remaining on
the main floor, viewing the his-
torical paintings around the
walls and on the great ceiling
of the circular rotunda, which
is 150 feet across, and stroking
through the wings on either
side to the halls in which the
Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives hold their sessions.
These two wings are much
younger than the main build-
ing. The Senate, in the early
days of the nation used to meet
in the comparatively small
room in which the Supreme
Court has held its session for
the last hundred years, while
the House of Representatives
sat for half a century or more
in what is now Statuary Hall,
which has one of the most
famous whispering galleries in
the world.
There is a certain point at
which the visitor can stand on
one side of Statuary Hal] and
speak in a whisper which can
be distinctly heard by any one
standing in a corresponding
position, at the other side,
more than one hundred feet
away.
Guarded Craftsmen
Almost every Washington
visitor wants to see "the place
where they make the money."
The Bureau of Engraving and
Printing is the largest plant in
the world devoted to printing
by what is known as the steel
engraving process. The plats
from which money, postage
stamps and government bonds
are printed are engraved on
steel, which is then hardened
until it cannot be cut even by
a diamond, and from these
plates money is printed on
hand presses, requiring ex-
tremely skillful operators:
Visitors are admitted to a
closely guarded gallery from
which they can look through
heavy bars and watch the
money printer* at work. Ev-
ery sheet of paper has to be
accounted for at the beginning
and end of each day’s work,
and the employees who actual-
ly handle the paper and print-
ed money are not allowed to
wear the same cloths in the
workroom that they wear to
'and from work.
The Secret Service Museum
in the Treasury Department, in
which specimens of counterfeit
money and plates and presses
captured by the Secret Service
men are kept, is no longer open
to the public. The, most ingeni-
ous counterfeiter, although not
the most dangerous, has been
dead for a great many years,
but the Secret Service still has
many specimens of his work.
He did not use plates or presses
at all, but would bleach out
a dollar bill, and with pen and
ink draw a hundred dollar bill
on the blj-. iched-out paper so
perfectly that he had no
trouble in passing them on
banka all over the country. He
never could earn mere than
$100 a week at this trade. If
the Secret Service men had
ever been able to catch him
there was a job waiting for him
:n the Treasury Department at
a higher salary than that, so
expert, was he in drawing the
‘ fiicate designs which make
American money difficult to
counterfeit.
IlMTMSETS
0PEK6 BUTE FOB
County Scholastic Apportion-
ment Made; Trustees Ap-
pointed ; Full Quota at Meet.
Shelby Reporter, Center.
The County School Board, at
its regular meeting here last
Saturday set the county scho-
lastic apportionment at 27
cents per capita. The state ap-
portionment has already been
placed at $16.00 per capita.
The total state and county ap-
portionment, therefore, is
$16.27. The cost of adminis-
tration is fixed at .53 per cap-
ita. This leaves $15.74 avail-
able for each school child in
the county.
Several vacancies on the
boards of trustees for rural
schools were filled by appoint-
ment at the meeting.
September 26 was set by
the board as the latest date at
which rural terms should be-
gin. All trustees of rural
schools are urged to have the
terms for their schools open at
this date in order that closing
dates may be more uniform. It
is expected that all schools in
the county will begin by that
time.
All members of the board
were present Saturday. They
are: C. A. Crocker, Joaquin,
chairman; J. B. Hammer,
Timpson; L. S. Creech, Choice;
G. N. Bagwell, Tenaha; Dennis
Schillings, Center.
The world rewards the ap-
pearance of merit oftener than
merit itself—La Rochenfou-
cauld.
LOOK!
TBHITEUS
Dallas, Sept 11.—Question-
naires sent out to'24 wholesale
and retail trade associations in
Texas regarding business and
financial conditions disclosed a
"healthy improvement in
wholesale and retail trade
within the last 30 days,” ac-
cording to a report made here
Thursday by Frank Kell of
Wichita Falls.
Kell made the statement be-
fore a meeting of the banking
and industrial committee of
the Eleventh Federal Reserve
District.
Other members of the com-
mittee corroborated the re-
ports. They stated that they
had observed a much better
sentiment among business men
of the State. An increase in
actual trade activity also was
noted, they reported.
An upward trend in. prices of
cotton, livestock, wheat and
other commodities was given
ss one of the main causes of
improvement in business.
Committee members said
the reports on the question-
naire were proof that the un-
employment situation in Texas
was being improved.
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