The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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and son, Geo.
last week-end
i. Owen Howard.
,nd daughter, Co-
■ from a visit in
and Kenneth Burch
Taco to enroll with
Corps.
Russell and chil-
are visiting her
.. Charles Ellison and
us week.
Nell McCorkle of Me-
spending the week with her
Mr. and Mrs. A. S.
m
Mrs. Ford Forson and
Linda Lou, are visiting Mr.
Jack Adams in Fort Worth.
Mrs. Leon Morris and
i Lou, of Groesbeck, spent
with relatives and friends
week.
Mrs. Marvin Bloodworth
and their guest, Miss
Lewis of Austin, were vis-
Sunday.
, Ed Nimintz and children have
to their home in San Angelo
an extended visit with her
Mrs. J. C. Jarrett
iche Rose Howard of Wa-
last week-end with her par-
and Mrs. J. C. Howard.
Mrs. John Smith of Gates
and their daughter, Mrs. Quince
of Wink were here las.t Satur-
day for a visit with relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sadler and
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daughter, Florine, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
ey, spent last week-end in Gal
on the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
'Sadler.
C. A. Lawrence went to Aus
Monday to be present for her
Rex Lawrence’s graduation from
University of Texas Monday
Raymond Moore of Bartlett visit-
ed here the first of the week. He re-
turned home Tuesday accompanied by
H. D. Howard, who will visit his sis-
ter, Mrs. R. E. Hudspeth, and family,
Bob Reed has been going around
with one eye bandaged up. He was
climbing a step-ladder the first of the
week when it suddenly gave away
and he fell to the ground striking a
piece of pipe cutting a gash just over
his left eye, which required five or six
atitches to close.
Miss Faynette Griffin has returned
from an extended visit in Dallas,
Mrs. Moss Richardson of Canyon
is visiting Mrs. Mary Fulmer this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Butler and
daughter, Dorothy of Kilgore, are
spending a few days with Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Shannon of
Eulogy are guests of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Griffin since
Wednesday.
The children and grandchildren of
Mrs. T. A. Barnett gathered at the
home Sunday and enjoyed a birthday
dinngr in her honor.
Dr. and Mrs. V. D. Goodall of Clif-
ton vsted relatives and friends here
Sunday evening.
Miss Mary Neal arrived home Fri-
day from Denton where she attended
the summer session of N. T. S. T. C.
Mrs. Howard Fall and daughter,
Mary Lynn have returned to their
home at Cedar Lane after a visit
with friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bronstad of
Clifton were week-end guest of their
parents, Mr .and Mrs. Charlie Smith,
Miss Jo Goodall is home from
Breckenridge where she has been vis-
iting her cousins, Mmes. Hawkins anci
Stokes.
Dr. and Mrs. T. D. Baxter and lit-
H. J. Cureton
ATTORNEY AT LAW
MERIDIAN. TEXAS
r’s ^College "through the
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Mrs. W. H. Jones and daughter,
Faydette and Mias Carrie Beavers of
Gatesville were in Stephenville Tues-
day to make preparations for Fay-
dette’s entrance to John Tarleton at
[the opening of the fall term.
Mrs. Leland Wilkins and daughter,
Serena Ann, returned to tHeir home
[in Waxahachie Tuesday accompanied
by Misses Nell Walker and Jeanette
Lawrence who will visit them for
week.
Sarah Jo, the combined names of
her two grandmothers, is the name
given the little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Griffin of Austin, who was
born Saturday night.
Mrs. George Goodall and daugh-
ters, Misses Frances and Nell, spent
a few days here this week on their
way home from a visit to Brecken-
ridge and other points in West Texas.
Mrs. M. T. Bettis had as her guests
last week-end, Mmes. Higginbotham
of Lubbock, Jim McClain of Ballin-
ger, and Pearl Harvey of Waco. Mrs.
Bettis and Mrs. Harvey accompanied
Mrs. McClain to Ballinger where
Mrs. Harvey will be under the treat-
ment of specialists for several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Jones have re-
turned to Valley Mills after being
away for a few months. Mr. Jones
has been working for the Govern-
ment as farm supervisor, is again
buying cotton here and surrounding
points.
Parker
I wonder if a good deal of the
world’s troubles is not due so much
to “marginal” agriculture and "mar-
ginal” industry, as to what might be
called "marginal men.”
I meet a lot of them. In a crowd
they pass for average, intelligent hu-
man beings. Individually, there is
something lacking. They are too con-
tent merely to “get by.” They are too
eager to accept money or help that
they have not earned. They are not
skillful enough to be worth top pay
in any line, but believe themselves
to be superior to most.
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a scientific
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issue of Harper’s an article bearing a
somewhat startling title, “Chemistry
Wrecks the Farm.” They insist there
is in progress a great agricultural
revolution and indulge the prophecy
that in the not distant future there
will be even greater changes than
have occurred in the past 40 years.
In 1790, when our Government was
starting out under the new Constitu-,<*« chemists say this yield may be
tion, 90 persons out of every 100 lived increased to more than 4 1-2 bales an
farms. In 1930 less than 20 per- acre- The biggest wheat crop we have
TOO LITTLE OR TOO BIG
Colorado Springs (Colo.) News: He
was just a dirty little street urchin
bedraggled, grimy and ill-kept. When
we saw him the other day he was sell-
ing newspapers on a downtown Colo-
rado Springs business corner.
There are lots of dirty little street
urchins—in Colorado Springs and else-
where. One sees them every day—sees
them and feels sorry for them. But
we noticed this young chap in partic-
ular—noticed him and felt sorry to a
degree more than normal—for there
was something about him that par-
ticularly attracted our attention. It
was the fact that he was wearing a
regulation O. D. army blouse.
Yes, soldier’s blouse was hanging
about the upper part of his body. It
struck him half way to the knees.
Only his fingers protruded from the
lengthy sleeves. The blouse flapped
in the cold breezes—flapped as though
were on a scarecrow in some far-
mer’s corn field. It was much too big
for the little newsie. He was lost in
it.
We looked at the body. We won-
dered. We became sorry all over
again. Hard times these that force
American grownups, too, to wear
cast-off clothing too larg for them-
or too small; or too ragged. Not
enough to wear in a land that pro-
duces too much. No wonder we were
sorry.
The youth was a pitiful figure. And
we thought of the lad, of the blouse
that was too big and of war—for the
blouse was a garment of war. It was
not difficult to think of war. Weren’t
the very papers that this lad of 14
15 years was carrying—weren’t
they telling of war clouds hovering
over Europe? Yes—of war and of
war. Dictators, leaders, politicians,
common citizens—most everyone
talked of the possibilities of war.
Many feared the race of armaments
would end in conflict—maybe not now,
perhaps not within the next two
years; but in the not far distant fu-
ture.
War looms. That seems certain. By
this time we had passed by the news-
boy with the army blouse that was
too big. But we thought of him again.
Two or three or four or five years
from now—would he by that time
have grown into the garment? A few
years and it would fit him? No,
couldn’t figure it that way.
Another thought came. The blouse
isn’t too big for American youth—
whether their ages be 15, 16, 20 or 25.
The garment of war is too little for
the boys of this nation and every
other. The youth of today have out-
grown war blouses. They are the ones
who are too big—too big for the
tunics of war! Too big for war itself.
Twenty years ago there were war
clouds in Europe. And war came—
the most devastating conflict in all
history. America entered to make the
world safe for democracy. That war
failed, as all wars fail. With the
clouds of war again hovering over
the European horizon—it behooves
America, Europen and all nations to
shun armed conflict that the world
may be safe this time for democ-
racy’s most precious possession:
1 outh—youth that is too big for war.
In my youth it was every Ameri-
can boy’s ambition to be a soldier.
We felt—we did not have to be taught
•that the noblest purpose to which
a citizen could devote his life was to
fight for his native land and its
ideals. Every boy who could, at least
among those I knew, joined some
sort of a quasi-military organization,
learned to drill and to handle a rifle.
That, we felt, was the duty of a pa-
triot.
Today I am often aghast at the
expressions of contempt for national
honor and the duty of citizens to fight
for it, which I hear from young men.
read of preachers and teachers
counseling non-resistance and refusal
to bear arms. Such expressions give
me a pain in the neck.
I have no particular respect for the
national philosophies of Germany,
Italy and Japan, but I believe their
respective dictators have the right
idea for the preservation of their
countries when they bring up every
boy to be a soldier.
For a hundred years and more the
old Hubbard farm, up near Long
Pond, has supported, educated and
made good citizens out of generation
after generation of Hubbards. A few
years ago old Mr. Hubbard sold the
place. I drove by the other day and
saw an auction sale going on. The
new owners were being “sold up” to
satisfy their creditors, and the sav-
ings bank had foreclosed the mort-
gage on the land.
Guess they just ain’t good farm-
ers,” said Mr. Hubbard, when I
stopped by his cottage down the road
to ask him how come. “No character,”
was the banker’s harsh judgment.
“Thought they could make a living
without working and spend money
before they earned it. Do you know
any real farmer who’d like to get a
good place cheap ? There’s a bargain
for a man and wife with character
and a little capital. It’s no place,
though, for movie-hounds, joyriders
or people that want short hours and
long vacations.”
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I get reports from the Middle West
of a revival of activity in farm land
sales. Good farms in Nebraska have
recently sold for from $100 to $150
an acre. One South Dakota farmer
friend writes me that he has been of-
fered $150 an acre for his quarter
section. An Iowa farmer I know
tells me that he refused $GO,000 cash
for his 600 acres recently.
Those prices do not compare with
the speculative prices at which sim-
ilar farm land changed hands in the
boom days. They probably represent
more nearly the actual value of the
land, in terms of earning capacity in
the hands of competent farmers.
A great deal of the farm distress
has come from buying land at fancy
or speculative prices.
A few weeks ago I remarked in this
column that I expected to hear of dis-
satisfaction among the farm colo-
nists whom the government is under-
taking to settle in the Manpanuska
Valley in Alaska. The complaints
have begun to come in a little sooner
than expected.
I don’t pretend to know the rights
and wrongs of the situation, but I do
know that nobody—individual, corpo-
raton or government, can do anything
for the benefit of any group of people
without becoming the target for crit-
icism by a high proportion of the
beneficiaries. It is human nature to be
dissatisfied.
I think everybody who has been
around enough to understand people
and their reactions must become con-
vinced that the best service anyone
can render to most people is to do
nothing for them, except to encour-
age them to shift for themselves and
see that nobody else tries to stop
them from going their own ways.
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sons out of every 100 lived on the
farm, and scientific opinion held that
with improved scientific methods 10
persons out of every 100 would suf-
fice to man the farms so as to pro-
duce all that the country needed.
The writers in Harper’s say that
the decline of the horse population
“has reduced consumption of food as
sharply as if 40,000,000 persons had
stopped eating.” The consumption of
meat per capita declined 15 per cent
between 1920 and 1930. These writers
attribute this decline to the fact that
people rode in automobiles instead of
walking, thus reducing the energy re-
quirements of the people. There is
ground for suspecting here that the
gentlemen are talking through their
hats. Perhaps lack of exercise has had
something to do with the decline in
meat consumption, but a more pow-
erful reason is the increase in the
variety of food. People who used to
eat only meat and bread now eat a
great deal of other foods.
It is true, however, that chemistry
is responsible for great changes in
agriculture as well as in other fields.
Formerly millions of acres were used
in the growing of indigo for dyes.
Rayon has done drastic things to cot-
ton which are not balanced by the
demand for cotton created by that in-
dustry. Perfume, which used to re-
quire millions of flowers, is now made
synthetically. Artificial leather has
cut down the market for hides. But-
ter substitutes have encroached on
the realm of the dairyman.
Even more startling is the ambi-
tion of the scientists to make food-
stuffs indoors, thus freeing agricul-
ture from the hazards of climate. In
England, Denmark and Germany this
ambition is already being realized.
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times the volume of seed planted in was recently completed at depth of
the ground. The average yield per 12,786 feet, equivalent to almost
acre of corn in the United States is 2 1-2 miles. The well, known as J. T.
25.5 bushels; the agrobiologists main- McElroy 103, is located near the mid-
tain that the average yield may be die of the west line of Upton County,
increased to 225 bushels p.er acre. West Texas, about 36 miles south of
The average yield of cotton is less ^ Odessa, near the Big Lake Oil field
than one-third of a bale to the acre;, in Reagan County, where Ordovican
production was first discovered at af
depth of about 8,600 feet.
The well cut the greatest thickness
ever had is only eight per cent of the j of the earth’s surface ever pene-
possible yield under propert cultiva- [ trated and remains one of the 'out-
tion and treatment, say these agro- standing achievements in the oil in- i
biologists. Taking all the major farm dustry. Gulf Production Co. has1
crops, they claim that the producers learned much-from drilling McElroy '
are only 11.3 per cent efficient. 1103, which passed through many feet
All of this reminds us of the sci- of hard formation, and there are many
entific statement often heard that reasons to believe that a much great-
gasoline engines now utilize only a [ er depth can be attained. It is be-
small part of the possible power to - lieved that the best surface equipment,
be gotten from the fuel. When we | now in use would drill to depths rang-
grow all our food in a two-foot metal ing from 14,000 to 15,000 feet,
tray and the family automobile runs
a thousand miles on a quart of gas,
we shall perhaps have to work no
more than five minutes a day. But
likely that time is a considerable dis-
tance in the future.
Trade with Record advertisers.
NOTICE
The Cranfills Gap Wool & Mohair
Growers Association will meet at
Cranfills Gap, in the school building,
Sept. 7, 1935, at 1:00 o’clock. This is
the semi-annual meeting of the asso-
ciation and all members are requested
to come out. It is your organization
operating for your benefit. Let us
make it bigger and better.
27-2c Chris L. Rohne, President.
ANNOUNCES
Removal of offices to Dr. Gillespia
Building, upstairs.
ROBERT F. CHERRY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Clifton : Texas
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Four Sight-Saving
Suggestions
1. Make sure there is a reading lamp
for every member of the family
and a study lamp for the children.
These lamps should have shades
that are light-colored inside, open
at the top, deep enough to pre-
vent glare from bare bulbs and
wide enough to throw the light
where it is needed.
2. See that every reading or study
lamp is equipped with the proper-
sized bulbs—one 100-watt, two-
60’s or three 40’s accordiij0-«J tn e
number of sockets*^"-'^
3. Place lamp*"S6 that there is no
direct Of reflected glare in your
eyes.
4. Do your visual work in a room
that is moderately well lighted
throughout. Reading under a
floor lamp in an otherwise dark
room is a sure source of eyestrain.
T T is an appalling fact that one-fifth of all grade
A children have something wrong with their
eyes. At college age, forty students out of every’
100 suffer from defective vision.
The new Science of Seeing reveals that one of the,
principal causes of eyestrain is improperjuifcdtfg-
A student who reads in dimHtfl»*''fhst1nctively
forms the habit of bjjpe*«<grnis book or other
object of study>>*oSSrto his eyes. His eyes adjust
themjsl***™ this wrong reading distance—and
eventually becomes near-sighted.
If your child habitually reads with the printed
page less than 14 inches from his eyes, there are
two things you should do at once. First, have his
eyes examined by a competent eye specialist.
Then, correct your lighting to conform with the
sight-saving suggestions shown at the left. We’ll
gladly help you with your lighting problems, free
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1935, newspaper, September 6, 1935; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775807/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.