The Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 12, 1927 Page: 2 of 18
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THE KINGSVILLE RECORD
October 12, 1927
Old Landmark
Consumed by Fire
Tuesday Night
You
Will Never Regret
Having
Dependable
Vulcanizing
Around the
Campus
By ‘OLE HOSS’
1
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MELTING POT
we cannot forbear expressing some-
times just how we think about these
things. May we be pardoned for just
once again referring to this particular
phase of Vmcrlcan life?
(Continued from Page One)
their irresistibility
world.
to the feminine
They our modern magazines and
writers tell us that the youth of to-
day is finer, franker, freer, then ever
before in the history of America. We
| sincerely hope so; we believe they <
Pacing up and down the street "to ;m, nm>r physically than ever before;
give tlie populace a treat,” as they I
surely must have expressed it, this
pair of lotharios aired their most re-
cent amours, neither of them being
even slightly hesitant in using the
fair ones' name. In this one expres-
sion, as used by the young man. may
be found an expression of the times—
fast, furious, free. Today's life -in-
tense, moving, vital, rapid- a far cry
from the sedate formality of earlier
days; everywhere pressure, hurry, a
changing over from the old to the
new; it’s in the quickened way in
which we live; in our theatres, in
our music; in everything.
♦ ♦ *
This young fellow evidently consid-
ered that he had learned all that
there was to be learned about, the
young lady, because he was with her
'LIU after one o’clock the night be-
fore; a longer acquaintance was not
necessary. Perhaps we are old-
fashioned in our way of thinking;
athletics, fostered and encouraged by
our schools and colleges, are making
men and women out of our boys and
girls and they will go out in the world
better equipped, perhaps, than we
were to fight life’s battles. Hut we
are the least bit dubious about this
matter of frankness, plain speaking,
m closer knowledge of sex relations, a
freer discussion of those intimate
things that were once matters to be
discussed only in the closest privacy
of the home.
* # *
Isn't it quite possible that frankness,
admirable virtue that it is, can and
is being just slightly overdone? We
are not preaching ;i sermon; we leave
that to our friends referred to in the
opening paragraphs of this Meltiij
Pot. We are merely suggesting
parents a line of thought
calling their attention to snnm
they may have overlooked in*' their
mad scramble for social prominence
One by <ine the landmarks of the
old Kingsville the Kingsville that
« \U ed away back in Run -f» are Mass-
ing away. In most cases the passing
is better for the town in general, and
perhaps in the present case a vacant
lot will look better than the old, di-
lapidated general office building that
has disgraced tlie lot north of Casa
Kkurdo for many years in fact, since
tin* time that the new general office
building, built of concrete and steel,
replaced this old frame structure.
Anyway, Tuesday night, along about
11 o’clock, the fire siren sounded and
the fire gang answered as usual. Hut
when th'*v arrived the frame building,
once occupied by the St. I,. H. ,<• M.
Railway, was a mass of flames. The
turned on the big pumper, but there
is little left to tell the old-timer that
this building was once pointed to with
prid as housing the offices of the
railroad company, at that time the
St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
Railway Company. The building had
not been in use for many months. At
the time of tlie building of the new
office building it was moved from
Miller Park to a vacant lot behind the
Casa Ricardo, and for a time was used
as quarters for the employees of the
hotel, Inu for the past few months it
lias been vacant and had fallen into a
sad state, and the fire was, perhaps,
a blessing, as it rid the town of an-
other unsightly building.
Hut the old-timers, those fellows
who came here in 1!»0J, will tell you
that at one time the time when it
graced Miller Park, just north of the
present general office building—that
it was pointed to with a great deal of
pride to the more venturesome spirits
that came this way to look into tlie
possibilities of the new Land of Prom-
ise. Kingsville grew; the railroad
grew; in fact, grew so fast that the
small frame building soon became too
small to house till the business of tlie
growing railroad, and a larger office
was planned. The old frame structure
wus thrown into the discard—now it
is a thing of the past entirely.
Hey, look here! The Hogs have
won again. The Victoria Junior Col-I
!< gc gridstos were the victims, W-o. j
And the Pig* aree out to furl the !
Buccaneers' sails next Saturday. Re ;
: : mh*o the Pirates have beaten
Main Avenue this year. Let's go over
si udes.
The Victoria game cost us this: j
Ruyiuon Fitch, end par excellence, is
out with a broken collar bone. The
poor guy can’t do parlor duty, either.
'Vital a shame! A bad break, Ray-
mond, old kid!
"I he ‘'fish” have their caps uow,
and till of them know how low down
they are, and “buttons up,” and their
by-word is “Heat Edinburg"
i see that Pinkie Cage is hack on
the football field. Disappointed in
love, perhaps.
* * <»
SAY, l'oloks,
* * *
DID you know
* * *
THAT we have a
(ireat
grow.
fires from little embers
FRESHMAN out at.
SCHOOL who litis a
BRAIN?
YES, a brain!
THE other day
I WAS talking
TO this Shine.
AND 1 said:
•Around the Home
[ By MARGARET BRUCE
XX)
H'NT Wervlct,
Our Comfortable Clothe*
We women ought to he very grate-
ful, it sceiiif, to me, #<>r the Increased
comfort of our clothes as compared
with the fashions of tlie past. The
March magazines of a generation or
two ago bristled with illustration* of
pretty girls being driven along before
a brisk wind like a boat under full
nail, their wide skirts blown over their
heads and thwlr petticoats, many in
Dumber, resembling tlie myriad petals
of n huge rose! Nowadays tlie snug
young woman In her straight, narrow-
sport coat or fur Jacquet and slim
Skirt, cleaves the stiffe.st gale without
so much us the flutter of a hem.
It has Interested me to see lu>w per-
sistently woman has rejected attempt-
ed styles that made her uncomfortable
t/r hampered her movements. Prob-
ably our growing love of athletics,
outdoor life, and greater physical ac-
tivity have been the cause of this de-
mand for freedom in dress. Long
trains that sw-ept the ground, corsets
that hound the waist, layers upon lay-
ers of underclothes, are not to the
taste of the woman who likes to take
a brisk walk, play tennis or golf, und
dance with the abandon of a young
nymph.
When, early this last winter, long
skirts made their appearance, with
panniers that dipped to the very dust
(and accumulated It), and the era of
street-sweeping seemed about to re-
turn. some women friends and I mode
Bird's were not so omuch in styl^
WeduesdM) morning or this week,
when the first real cool spell of the
season swooped down. Older persons
j aiid those cold-blooded fellows whose
! habits before coming to the Kings-
ville country made them change to
long-sleeved and long-legged undies,
hunted up their last winter's supply
and chunged over: but the old-timer,
j the real South Texan, knew that this
i was just an early morning cool spell.
■ and made uo * hange.
Farmers are hoping for just a little
more moisture and not so many dry
northers. The gouud has not all been
broken and it takes winter moisture
to make spring crops. Tlie ducks and
geese have begun to fly and sports
men are wishing for some real cool
weather.
/
perhaps very much out of date, no an,| selfisl\ pleasure. Most of us are
matter how much we try to adapt j llot |)ejt)K pa|s wjth our boys and
ourselves to the trend (of modern
living. Perhaps wo should have died
years ago, before the old order
changed.
girls; not discussing with them the
things they are entitled to know.
We have our own card game, even-
* * * j ing at the country club, or a dance
But, ii; our meekness and humility, j somewhere, a pink tea or luncheon;
acknowledging that we belong to an j we forget the boy and girl; don’t ask
age that is past; that our ideas are I them where they are going or how
not ideas fitted to this day and time, j they are going to spend the evening.
IA.5 an!), i
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O’COA TS
Setting Fashion’s Pace!
J
Swagger double-breasted
O’Coats, luxurious in warmth,
full in cut, fashionable in
style, and durable of fabrics
$
V
Men’s Suits in browns, grays,
blues and Oxford grays, in-
cluding tweeds, homespuns
and diamond mixtures. All
in hues to blend with the Fall
ensemble.
.50
an
to
$47-50
Barnett & Laws
“Try a Man’s Store First”
When they arrive home about 2 in
lh<* morning, we sleepily rub our eyes
(if we have gotten home by that
time) and wonder where they have
been. An inquiry the next morning
brings on a storm of protest from the
boy or girl and they finally hush us
up by asking us where and what we
were doing.
You bet this is true. You, Mr.
Father and Mrs. Mother, know it Is
true; you went somewhere last night
and the boy and girl went somewhere,
too. Did you know where they were
going? Did you have a good time?
They did. Youth will always have a
good time; youth knows how to en-
joy every fleeting moment; the “good
time" may not he all that it ought to
he, hut youth reckons not of the fu-
ture. Youth has been told that one
must pay; somewhere hack In the
dim recesses of its mind there is a
remembrance of a Sunday School les-
son, and now and then, when the play
may become just a little hit too much
risque, there will come a thought of
how Daddy and Mother were once
pals with him, and he will hesitate—
just a fraction of a second then laugh
and go on.
* * *
Melting Pot would not lecture the
youth of the land—they are not to
blame. We parents are not and can
not he blameless. The boys and girls
will not he any better than we are and
any better than we try to Help them
to be. Our example is their guiding
star; they reckon only in terms of
what some one older says or does.
Their action is justified because some
older persons has done the same thing
and got away from it.
* * *
Melting Pot had occasion some time
ago to listen to two or three members
Of-the DeMolay In Kingsville discuss-
ing the order and explaining why they
drank. They were very frank to state
that they had seen and did know
that some Masons, men who had been
pointed out to them as perfect ex-
amples, drinking. These boys had
been led to believe that they could
follow the example of the men. Won-
der if these men ever stopped to think
that if these boys make drunkards
and end in the penitentiary, that they
might be largely to blame.
* • •
And as we watched theso two lo-
tharios, we could not, and did not
criticize them so much as we did
some father and mother; perhaps our-
selves. The youth is not to blame.
Times HAVE changed; the old order
is no more; we must adapt ourselves
to the new order; but we do not have
to forget our boys und girls complete-
ly that we may ourselves move in new
order.
a prediction thst this fashion would
never see the seuson out. And It
hasn't! Skirts are u little longer than
last yeur, to be sure, but the ultru-
long ones have oeen barred, and they
have now settled upon that stuge of
comfort and grace combined that was
not found In either the extremely
short or the excessively long ones.
Small, close-fitting hats for winter
i are another of the comforts which
women have made popular. Hatpins?
Never! Broad-brimmed picture bats
to catch the vagrant gusts—not at all!
Austin, Tex., Oct. 11.—Enrollment in summer the wide shade hat may be
in classes in journalism at the Uni- j comfortable, to shut out tne sun, hut
vorsity of Texas lias seen nearly 100 ; don’t try to force them on 11s In win-
"W1IAT price, Glory?’’
♦ * 4i
AND she said:
* * *
“BEAT EdiitWg.’’
* * *
NOW what do you
* * *
THINK of that?
CLASSES IN JOURNALISM
SHOW HEAVY INCREASE
per cent increase over last year, ac-
cording to Paul J. Thompson, chair-
man of the department. The most
significant thing about the increase
according to Prof. Thompson, is that
the greatest increase has been in the
enrollment in the news gathering and
reporting class, which is a required
first course to be taken by students
in journalism. The large enrollment
in this beginning class points to an
increased enrollment in all journal-
ism classes next year.
The Increased enrollment In jour-
nalism in the University can be ac-
counted for by tlie favorable atten-
tion given to the reinstatement of the
department with the opening of this j
year and the agreement of the do-'
partment with The Daily Texan, the!
campus newspaper, whereby the class!
in news gathering and reporting col-;
lect news for that publication.
>___
Even the snfrllest. fire destroys com- j
pie tel y something that civilization has i
gained.
ter.
The manufacturers nro growing
wise. They know that when an un-
comfortable style is introduced, only
a few silly young girls will adopt It.
(Copyright.)
Good house slippers for every one
in the family Bobbin's $1.00 Store.
Record classified ads pay.
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ALL
GARMENTS
Fall brings with it many
social engagements that
place quite a strenuous de-
mand on clothes. But our
service will keep your ward-
robe ready for any emer-
gency.
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For Our Driver
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SOU TH 7th STREET
Phone 468
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