Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 8, 1938 Page: 2 of 4
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Garden Seed I
We have just received a fresh shipment of
BULK GARDEN SEED
in a variety that assures you a complete as-
sortment of the best lo be obtained.
We have also have received a shipment of
Gulf State Tomato Seed
TIMPSON PHARMACY 1
TIMPSON, TEXAS
THE DULY TIMES
Entered as second class nat-
ter April 17, 1906, at the post-
office at Timpson, Texas, un-
der the Act of March 3, 1879.
T J. MOLLOY----Editor
S. WINFREY - Business Mgr.
A THOUGHT FOR *
TODAY •
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One’s heart is happy •
only when it is blame- *
less.—Goethe. *
Enforce Traffic Laws
One of the obstacles in the
■way of enforcement of law®
against reckless automobile
driving is the practice of
"ticket-fixing.” In large cities
and small communities alike
there has grown up a practice
of letting off violators of the
traffic laws with a suspended
sentence, provided the offend-
er has political pull or other
influence.
The deadful annual toll of
motor fatalities will never be
checked unless the laws
against excessive speeding and
reckless and drunken driving
arc rigidly enforced. It is dis-
heartening to those charged
with enforcing the traffic laws
to make an arrest or serve a
summons on a motorist, only to
have the charge dismissed or
sentence suspended, because of
“pull.”
New York City started a
year ago to reform this prac-
tice. The imposition of fines
for traffic violations was made
compulsory on magistrates,
who could no longer suspend
sentences. One result has been
cut down the number of traffic
accidents. Another has been
to increase the city’s revenues
by nearly 3750,400 a year,
making the magistrates’ courts
practically self-sustaining.
There is too much laxity in
law-enforcement of all kinds in
this country. There should be
no leniency for wilful violators
of the laws for safe driving.
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"It’s awfully decent of you
to dance with me, Miss Spright-
ly.”
“Don’t mention it—after all,
it is a Charity Ball!”—A. C.
C. O. Press.
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Just tbe Thing!
The salesman had sold ev-
erything that was necessary
for the furnishing of the law-
yer’s office, when he had a
happy thought. “Oh, yes, I
nearly forgot,” he exclaimed,
“you need a doormat!”
“Fine! But bring me one that
is well, worn!” — Christian
Science Monitor.
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Well!
Yet another gleam from the
examination papers:
Question—For what were
the Phoenicians famous?
Answer—Blinds.
—Manchester Guardian.
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The attitude of Japan to-
ward England and America
seems best described in the ex-
pression, "Notes to you!”—
New York Sun.
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It may not be a war that
Japan is conducting in China.
It has all the appearance of a
massacre.—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
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Money saved up to buy go-
loshes for the thaw can un-
doubtedly be called a slush
fund.—Toronto Star.
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There are 12,000,000 busi-
ness men, big and little. The
question is, at what degree of
bigness do they begin being
wicked?—Birmingham News.
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Some theorists seem to think
that the stable dollar belongs
to the horse-and-buggy age.—
Grand bland Independent.
Satisfied ?
Some people wish they had a home, while others
crave a car—
None of us are satisfied to be just what we are—
We only see the ones that are fortunate, in the mat-
ter of finance,
And wonder why in the world that we, have never
had a chance.
Why rack your brain and cuff and cuss, because you
haven’t wealth.
When the richest man in the universe—would give
it all to have your health?
Good health IS wealth—so watch your step—and
check from time to time—
See that your foods are good and pure and come
from NUMBER NINE!
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Political Announcements
The Times is authorized to
announce the following, sub-
ject to action of the Demo-
cratic voters in the 1938 pri-
mary election:
For District Attorney:
WARDLOW LANE
For Representative:
J. J. OLIVER
For County Clerk:
VOYDE HUGHES
HEARNE POWERS
For County Judge:
OSCAR RUSHING
CLARENCE SAMFORD
R. E. (EMMETT) BURNS
For County Superintendent:
JEFF E. SAMFORD
HARDY HAIRSTON
For Tax Assessor-Collector:
BURKE MORRISON
For Sheriff:
J. B. SAMPLE
JOEL FLEMING
For County Treasurer:
SAM McKEE
(Miss) Eleanor Patterson
FAIRISH J. HAYES
For District Clerk:
C. F. MILLER
For County Attorney
EMMETT WILBURN
JACK McLEROY
For Commissioner, Precinct 4:
ERNEST BOGARD
For Justice-of-the-Peace:
Terror.....no greater
In the whole of a fairly long
life-time I have never known a
time when the world’s mind
was so filled with terror as it
is today. To the reader of the
daily newspaper or the listen-
er on the radio. It seems as if
the whole world were in a tur-
moil, with tragedy stalking on
every side and catastrophe
threatening the security of the
established order from a doz-
en directions.
I am not convinced that
danger and disaster are any
more prevalent now than they
always have been, considering
how many peop’e there are in
the world than there were a
hundred years ago. Today’s
dangers are of a different kind,
because we have so many new
inventions capable of causing
disaster. People do not die by
millions from starvation, as
they did during the Hundred
Years War which ravaged Eu-
rope in the 15th and 16th cen-
turies, when seven-eights of
the people of Germany died
from lack of food.
All the deaths by automo-
bile and airplane accidents do
not come to as high a percent-
age of the world’s population
in a year as the death-toll from
wild beasts, robber bands,
epidemics, shipwreck and
starvation used to come to.
News.....comes (aster
Our minds are confused by
the rapid impact of tragedy.
Our forefathers concerned
themselves little with such
things outside of their own
neighborhoods because they
did not know about them until
long after their effect had be-
gun to subside. Today the
whole world knows what hap-
pened everywhere else only
yesterday. News comes faster
than we can digest it.
George Washington died on
December 14, 1799. The only
existing copy of a newspaper
reporting his death is dated
January 7, 1800. It took more
than three weeks for the news
to reach New York state read-
ers. Imagine how long it
would take for the whole
world to learn of the death of
a Presdient today!
I own a copy of a newspaper
printed in England in 1721. It
contains the first news report
of the conquest of Persia by
the Mohammedans. That had
occurred more than a year be-
fore. Today we have the news
of yesterday’s battles In China
and Spain in our morning pa-
pers. No wonder we get the
impression that the world is on
the verge of destruction.
Speed......is a “must”
The most precious and per-
ishable commodity in the
world’s market is news. The
fresher the news the greater
its value. The Rothschilds be-
came the wealthiest family in
the world because they got the
news of Napoleon’s defeat at
Waterloo a day before any-
one else in England knew it.
That would be impossible to-
day.
Newspapers and press asso-
ciations are paying $1.50 a
word for news dispatches
from the war in China, but a
ton of coal can be sent across
the Pacific for a couple of dol-
lars. The world can wait for
coal; it must have news today.
A century ago a ship was
not given up for lost until three
years had passed since it was
last heard from. Today a
great “Clipper" plane is forced
down in mid-ocean and we
know it the next day. Actual
photographs, motion pF*
of the sinking of the T.uay
were shown in thousands of
theatres within two weeks af-
ter the tragedy had occurred
ten thousand miles away. We
get so much news of tragedies
that we become depressed,
haunted by the feeling that
everything is going wrong ev-
erywhere.
Events .. the “big three”
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the news which interests them.
Definitely more people read
newspapers than listen to news
reports on the radio, and I be-
lieve that will always be so.
People want details which the
radio cannot give them.
In my lifetime I have seen
newspaper circulations
from a few thousand to mi
lions, the number of newspa-
pers climb from a few hundred
to 18,000 in America alone.
This has been due to the dis-
covery that paper can be made
by machinery out of the same
material the wasps make it to
build their nests. The first
wood-pulp paper in the world
was made the year before I
was bom, in my old home town
of Stockbridge. It cut the co~'.
of printed matter and multi-
plied its output
Paper is going to be cheap-
er and more plentiful still. Pa-
per from southern pine is be-
ginning to supplant paper
from northern spruce, at lower
cost and unlimited supply of
raw material.
Safety Hint of the Day
It is not how close but how
far you can get from a pass-
ing car.
And the chief demagogue of
them all is Honest Harold
Ickes. — Buffalo Courier-Ex
press.
R. W. TODD
For Constable, Precinct 7:
R. B. ALFRED
HENRY B. SMITH
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Thu three' most important
events in the life of every per-
son are Birth, Marriage and
Death. The closer to our ex-
periences are events which
happen to others, the more in-
terested we are in them. That
is why reports of births, mar-
riages and deaths are the news
most widely read. People want
to read about such things when
they happen to folks they
know or have heard about.
Death mnks first in pews in-
terest. It is something most of
us fear, all realize it is inevita-
ble. War news, news of ship-
wrecks, or fatal accidents in
which hundreds or thousands
die stirs us to deep emotional
reactions. So does the mar-
riage of famous people, and
the birth of children to distin-
guished couples.
The biggest piece of news of
the past year was the marriage
of the former King of England
to an American lady. The big-
gest news event to which the
world is looking forward as I
write is the birth of an heir to
the throne of the Netherlands.
Will Juliana’s baby be a boy or
a girl But as we grow older
our interest in news turns
more and more to the obituary
notices. Who that we know
or knew about has passed on?
And we wonder, less fearfully
than when we were younger, j
when our turn will come.
Paper ...... .'from pine!
Paper is still the greatest ‘
medium by which people learn
A Better Value
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