The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1935 Page: 3 of 8
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5ng abreast with
NATIONAL NEWS EVENTS
(Daily Newspaper Gleanings)
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last T)I Presidential
Vetoes Increases
In cleaning up the long list of bills
left him by the Congress just ad-
journed, President Roosevelt vetoed
;seven bills which brought his total
number of vetoes for the year to
more than forty. Most of them have
been in connection with private bills
lor the relief of some person, the
major veto of the year being the
bonus vote. Roosevelt does not use
the practice, merely leaving the bills
that he desires to veto unsigned after
Congress leaves, as it is his privilege,
but in each case he gives a written
statement explaining the reason for
his veto of the bill.
Texas Enjoys Healthy
Building Boom; 100% Gain
In a recent survey conducted by the
Houston Chronicle, Texas appears to
be in one of the largest building
booms for a number of years. Public
and semi-public construction has in-
creased more than 100 per cent over
figures during the past three years.
Residential construction is enjoying
an increase of over 50 per cent. The
boom is credited in the first place to
state and federal aid; however, the
survey shows that a good percentage
of the bulding was being carried on
through private financing.
Ethiopian King Makes Shrewd
Move; Outcome Unknown
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
who, feeling unable to withstand the
attack of Italy if the latter should
attack the King of Kings, made a
bold move to bring both England and
the United States to his aid against
Italy. The Ethiopian King involved
the two English speaking countries by
granting to the Standard Oil Company
and a huge British concern the min-
eral rights in half of his kingdom for
r **75 years in return for building of
railroads and other needed improve-
ments in the territory by these cor-
porations. The entire matter is in a
muddle and has not been straightened
•put as yet.
Male Nudist Makes
Appearance m Dallas
For the fourth time within the past
four weeks a man has made his ap-
pearance on a Dallas golf course in
nude. The last time a second man ac-
companied the former, each being
clad only in shoes and socks. Each
time that the nudist has been seen,
it was due to the fact that he held
.lighted matches before his body. He
apparently has the complex of an
exhibitionist. On one occasion a neigh-
bor fired a load of buck shot at the
male, but apparently missed the
mark.
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United States and Russia
Bee Things Differently
The news wire between Russia and
the United Stats has been kept hot
-during the past week. The United
States has accused Russia of being
unable to control her citizens and
keep them from urging the destruc-
tion of our democratic form of gov-
•ernment. The United States, through
Secretary of State Hull, plainly told
Russia that our recognition would be
withdrawn immediately unless they
were able to control the talk against
our form of government ■ and^ stop
middling in our internal affairs.
State Closes Year With
Books Written in Red
Last Sunday the State of Texas
started out on another fiscal year.
The one just closed shows a deficit of
$11,337,349. Prospects for the coming
year do not look so good unless ad-
ditional revenue can be provided by
the Legislature in the special session
beginning September 16. The general
revenue fund showed a deficit of
96,495,578, while the Confederate pen-
sion fund was on the red side of the
ledger by 94,841,771. The school fund
was the only main account to show
substantial improvement over the
past year.
Looking Over Prohibition
Map Since Vote on Aug. 24
At this year’s election the repeal
majority was 47,876 out of a vote of
.539,480. However, looking the map of
M Texas over county by county after
’ l*16 vote> one finds that only 101 coun-
ties voted to repeal State-wide pro-
hibition, while 147 voted against re-
peal, one tied, and five have not as
yet been heard from. One finds that
North Texas is almost solidly dry,
Hgj while South Texas is just as solidly
wet. In forty-seven of the counties
that voted for repeal, local option
P. Drought, Texas Works Progress
Administrator. Senator Sheppard is
to remain in Washington until some
action has been taken on the project.
Odds and Ends From
Around the World
More than 11,000,000 tons of paper
are used each year, much of which
is imported. . . Mrs. Harold L. Ickes,
wife of the Secretary of Interior, was
killed in New Mexico early this week
in an automobile accident. . . Mus-
solini calls out 200,000 more soldiers
to prepare for Ethopian conflict. . .
Texas relief cut almost in half for
September. . . Twenty-one states now
require that cars must have safety
glass in all windows. . . One thou-
sand men tried out for the State
highway patrol jobs; only 26 of the
number were to be picked. . . Lee
Simmons, well known manager of
prison system in Texas, resigned, ef-
fective November 1.
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Honor Men of the Armed Services
ON TEXAS FARMS
By Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Extension Service Editor
THE CITY’S PRICE
Fort Worth Star-Telegram: The
urban dweller pays with from four to
five years of life for the advantage
of living and working in the city. This
state of affairs is revealed by com-
parison of the average length of life
of the city dweller with that of his
rural brother. The price, set jointly
by nature and industrial conditions, is
computed by the statistical bureau of
a large life insurance company.
The urban white male, at birth, is
found to have an expectaton of life
of 56.73 years, while the expectation
for the rural dweller is 62.09 years.
Corresponding figures for white fe-
males are 61.05 and 65.09. In the
computations a community is reck-
oned as urban if it has 10,000 or more
inhabitants.
The statistician explains that while
no adjustment was made for deaths
of rural inhabitants who die in city
hospitals—a factor for which it is
difficult to make proper allowance—
there can be no doubt that the figures
are essentially characteristic of ur-
ban and rural longevity. The findings
are in line with previous observations
that mortality tends to run in direct
relation to the degree of industriali-
zation.
The tables show that South Dakota
with 9.2 per cent of its population
over 10 engaged in manufacturing
and mechanical industries, leads in
longevity, with a life expectancy at
birth of 64.38 years for men and 66.81
for women. Pennsylvania, 31 per cent
industrialized, is at the other end of
the list with life expectancy of 57.68
years for males and 61.35 for women.
Midshipman L. L. Shock, Jr. (left), was the top honor man of the gradu-
ating class at the United States Naval academy at Annapolis; and Cadet John
D. Brlstor of Passaic, N. J. (right), headed this year's graduating class at
West Point.
RELIGIOUS RIOTS CLOAK
GRAVE DECEPTIONS
A stratosphere expedition figures
that for every pound saved in weight
of the craft it can rise 15 feet higher.
San Angelo Morning Times: It is
like turning the pages of history back
for a quarter of a century to read of
the recent anti-Jewish riots in Ber-
lin.
To be sure, outbreaks of anti-Se-
mitism in Germany are no new thing
these days. Perhaps we ought to bf
case-hardened to them by now. And
yet there is something appallingly
reminiscent of Czarist Russia at its
worst in these accounts of uniformed
bands of Nazis roaming the streets,
beating men and women, spreading
terror and chanting bloodthirsty slo-
gans.
The worst thing about an outbreak
of this kind is not its brutality. That
is something which this imperfectly
civilized human race of ours never
entirely succeeds in quelling. We are
born to trouble as the sparks fly up-
wards, and getting poked on the nose
now and then by our brother man is
just one of those things that go with
human existence.
What makes a performance of this
kind especially dismaying is the fact
that it represents a case of self-de-
ception. In order to rouse yourself to
the point where you want to go about
the streets beating people whose re-
ligion or race is not like your own,
you have to persuade yourself to be-
lieve something which obviously is
not so—to-wit, that the mere pres-
ence of these people in the 3ame com-
munity with yourself is somehow a
threat to your well-being.
Nor is that all. While you are giv-
ing way to this delusion, you may de-
pend on it that off in the background,
unseen, someone is getting away with
something that he wouldn’t get away
with if you were keeping your eyes
open.
The pogroms of the old Czarist
government remain the classic exam-
ple of this sort of thing.
Under the Czars, the people of
Russia suffered so many glaring in
justices that the danger of revolu-
tion was always present. But when-
ever public sentment got too danger-
ous, the government would trot out
the old Jewish bogeyman. Riots would
be fomented, horrible waves of vio-
lence would sweep through ghettos,
and in the bloodlust of the pogrom the
people would forget how the ruling
class was victimizing the entire coun-
try.
That is the sort of thing these
anti-Semitic riots in Germany call to
mind. By giving way to them, the
people of Germany are blinding their
eyes to more important issues. They
are enabling their government to
flim-flam them on matters of vital
concern.
There is one more point. In the
long course of human history one
rule seems to hold good; a govern-
ment which rules by teiTor perished,
sooner or later, in the same way. A
government which foments pogroms
and mass brutality is running up a
dreadful bill which someone, some day
will have to pay.
Home makers may yet come to a
fuller appreciation of beautiful wood
through the surprising medium of
clothing work. At least there are
signs of that.
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Take this story from Dickens coun-
ty for instance: “Buttons made of
mesquite roots trimmed the natural
color linen crash dress which Mrs. R.
F. Harrell, Red Top home demonstra-
tion club member, entered in the re-
cent county clothing contest. Mrs.
Harrell dug the root, sawed it and
carved the buttons herself. Each but-
ton showed two shades of wood, the
only trimming needed on the dress.”
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Or this story from the same coun-
ty: “Lage walnut buttons, made by
her husband, trimmed the pink lace
dress exhibited by Mrs. Jim McDan-
iel, member of the Twin Wells home
demonstration Club.”
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The McCrosky home demonstra-
tion club members hung up a record
in their rally day report when it was
revealed that with three-fourths of
the membership reporting they had to
their combined credit 10,259 cans of
food.
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G. A. Knowles, Goldthwaite, Mills
county, plants each year eight acres
of golden rod and seeded ribbon cane
which this year is taming out 200
gallons of syrup per acre. This syrup
is readily marketed at 75 cents per
gallon. Mr. Knowles always turns un
der the fodder and other vegetation
as soon as the cane is harvested and
last year gathered eight bushels more
of corn from the cane land than from
other adjoining land.
Christmas island in the Indian
Ocean figures in world trade because
of its deposits of phosphate of lime.
V. D. Goodall, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office in Old 1st Natl Bank Bldg.
Office Phone 166. Night Phone 92
Clifton : : Texas
DR. W. A. JOHNSON
Optometrist
Lowest prices on glasses
Clifton, Tues., Thurs., Sat
Original Gold Seal
SCHOTTS
Old Lager
Bring Your Car To
Sinclair Filling
Station
SINCLAIR OILS, GASOLINE
And the Best Possible Service
We Can Render
With Sincere Appreciation
Cars Washed and Greased—
and mechanically serviced.
Sinclair Filling
Station
J. M. WALLACE, Manager
CLIFTON, TEXAS
MARTIN’S TAILOR SHOP
AT YOUR SERVICE
TAYLOR-MADE CUSTOM CLOTHES
There’s a Swing to Our Style That None
Can Follow
The earth would look blue if seen ■
from outer space, says Dr. V. M.l
Slipher of the Lowell observatory.
Clifton
Hats Cleaned and Blocked
Cleaning and Pressing
MARTIN’S TAILOR SHOP
DOC MARTIN, Prop.
Call For and Delivery Service
Texas
SAT-IS-FY. Something that pleases,
gives satisfaction; something that just
suits. For example, you are pleased with
a dress. As applied to cigarettes, it means
one that is MILD—that is not harsh or
bitter; one that TASTES just right.
Chesterfield ...the cigarette that's WIDER
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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/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.