The Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 26, 1930 Page: 4 of 12
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THE KINGSVILLE RECORD
March 26, 1930
THE KINGSVILLE RECORD
Kingsville Publishing Co., Publishers
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS
Telephone
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office
at Kingsville. Texas, under Act of March 3, 1873.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY
OF EACH
WEEK
SUBSCRIPTION
KATES
82.00
Six Months
Three Months
*1.00
75c
I at the police in the effort to provoke retalia-
| tion to which they could point as evidence of
| oppression.
Talking hurts nobody unless the effort is
| made to suppress it. Like dynamite, these
' agitators are dangerous only when confined.
Give them a chance to let off steam by talk-
i ing their heads off, if they want to, and the
SLAT’S DIARY
Fly I toss Furquhar
I’VE MOVED TO THE COUNTRY
My wife's complexion began to
tail her and a email army of so-
called beauty experts advised her
to move to the country and live a
quiet life for a while. She at once
made up our minds to move to the
country, hut, thus far, has failed to
rope there has grown up a legend of the
American workingman as a sort of superman
capable of accomplishment far beyond any-
thing the European worker could achieve.
There must be some magic in the air ol
America, Europeans believed, when they
heart! of American wage earners owning
without bothering with them. Try to squelch
them and a good many honest but stupid peo-
pie will begin to wonder whether, after all, wm‘ 1,,arl
proscription. Her tongue has grown
| there isn’t something in their claim that they 3.4 in(.hes during the week we
i are being persecuted. And that is the im-'inm been in the country
pression they are trying to convey. ; proposition of, moving is the
most worrisome question 1 have
------- i witnessed since woman suffrage.
We finally got the lasl installment
of junk moved in last Saturday,
and I still feel like a cow that has
been dipped twice for one tick, i
put in two days getting five joints
of stovepipe together, hut succeed-
000 unfit cars in a year is an example of large jed in finishing the job without be-
scale benefaction which is solidly grounded ! ln« and my doctor says lie
’ * ” think many of the scars
Friday well 1 drulher fite with
I’ug Stevens then with Stinky
Tubbs. Me and Slinky had a fite
this p. m. after
. skool and I found
out tliut he was a
(very eowerdly en-
taggonist hecuz
[he is the kind of
a fellow witcli
likes to kick you
high wages reduce costs
One of the amazing discoveries which has
been made in industry in America is that .the
higher the wages the less the cost per unit
of production. Almost all of the larger Amer-
ican industries have learned this, but in Eu- t.josejv r(jjated. The automobile industry’s
SI5.000.000 FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY
Public benefit and sound economics are
highway safety plan which will scrap U)0,
on business fundamentals.
*
Everyone knows that the used car falls
into two classifications. The first class com-
... (prises the serviceable automobiles which are
automobiles and radios, having m i u m sale<tblo by the dealer and of value to the
their homes, keeping then c , l ien 111 - l ® : buyer. The second class are the rattle-trap
clear through high schoo . anc lav ing c ; usetj.Up cars which are a menace to all users
°t other luxuries whit i vu ic ,<)'< x^ >c- | of the highway and tire an economic nuis-
the reach of the worker in the Old World.
They are beginning to learn that there
isn’t any magic about it. Sir Percival Perry,
chairman of the Ford Motor Company, Ltd.,
which controls all of the European Ford com-
panies, has just issued a report in which he
shows that the European worker can do as
much as the American and do it just as
cheaply, provided he is paid proportionately
as high wages and given as efficient equip-
ment with which to work.
“We are employing Englishmen, Irishmen,
Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Belgians, Danes, Ger-
mans, Italians, Spaniards, Swedes, Finns and
Turks,” says Sir Percival, “working in their
own countries but. doing the same job with
similar tools under equal factory conditions.
We compare how long it takes each respec-
tive man to complete his work.”
And what they found out was this: The
highest wages are paid in the Danish fac-
tory, and there the cost per unit of produc-
tion was lowest. The lowest wages were paid
the Belgian factory, and there the cost per
unit was highest. The comparison was ex-
act, for the same things were being made
under the same conditions, except in the malt
ance. They spell loss to the dealer and loss
to those who operate them.
The various companies participating ’in
this program estimate that they will spend
a total of $15,000,000 for sending such cars
to the scrap heap.
Those who are concerned with the national
problem of accident prevention—and the mo-
tor executives are in the forefront of that
movement—will greet enthusiastically this
activity to clear the roads of unfit vehicles.
Alvan Macauley, president of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce, which
fosters the project, characterizes the effort
as “perhaps the greatest single safety move
in industrial history.”
The fact that the highway safety plan is
good business sense strengthens its humani-
tarian value. Economic soundness is usually
essential if any move is to lie continuous rath-
er than sporadic. The use of the automobile
constitutes a vast democratic transportation
system in which the maker, the dealer and
the owner have a common interest. The
removal of unfit cars will serve to clean up
a situation prejudicial to the industry and
„„ .... ... the trade. It will be a boon to the nation
ter of wages. They raised the wages in the « , . „ .. , . ,
* j 4 _ ________! 0* car owners by removing from the high-
ways a huge amount of undesirable rolling
production
Belgian factory and instantly
costs dropped.
That sort of demonstration is going to rev-
olutionize industry all over the world. The
old theory that labor was a commodity to be
bought in the cheapest market has been pret-
ty well exploded in the United States for a
decade. Now the rest of the world is learn-
ing our secret. That won’t hurt us, but will
help everybody. Anything which increases
the buying power of any people is of benefit
to all the other people who have goods to
sell. And prosperity depends upon the inter-
change of commodities.
stock.
doesn’t
will be permanent.
Ma lias become interested in ani-
mals other than myself since we
moved to the farm, and has ordered
me to gel a cow so we can have
milk, and a bee to produce honey
for us. The cow may prove profit-
aide but I'm afraid we’ll get stung
on the bee proposition. The day
after we moved out here, the Mrs.
remarked that she hud heard that
the vilUans who assassinated the
poor dumb brutes at the slaughter
houses always saved everything
about tht> animal and wanted to
know what became of the cackle
when the hen was executed. 1 in-
formed her that the cackle was
preserved for manufacturing radio
static. The swelling lias receded
enough that I can see a little with
my left eye.
As I said, my wife is “citified”
and has been accustomed to order-
ing her groceries and meats from
the market. Last Sunday she de-
cided to have a big country feast
and insisted that I call the under-
taker to prepare the chicken for
dinner. I finally convinced her
that she should prepare the fowl
herself, which she agreed to do.
and after we had eaten the thing
I began to think that I would final-
ly need the services of two under-
takers.
Regardless of the discomforts of
country life, it seems like home to
me. It’s wide and free out here. A
fellow can change his underwear
here practically every Saturday if
he wishes without pulling the
shades down, and can sneeze and
blow his nose without a permit. I'm
tired of living in cigar-box apart-
ments that are so tight that a guy
lias to poke his feet out the win-
dow every morning to put his shoes
on.
I was “fetched up" in the coun-
try and am accustomed to seeing
the chickens associate with the
owls and listening to the frogs
whistle several stanzas of "How
Dry I Am’’ before bedtime every
night. Tills is the wife's first
term in the country, and, although
she claims to like the experience
well, i am of the opinion that, after
a while,
we’ll throw those joints fit stove
pipe away and move hack to town.
LETTING OFF STEAM
Every human bein# has a ritfht to say
what he thinks, and so long as in saying it
he does not directly incite others to crime or
offend public decency, nobody has a right to j V .V '' 7.........." ^ , »• "i j
. .* . , . . . [through the use ot government trank and
stop him trorn speaking Ins mind. .. , .. ,. . , . .... , •
r' I the wide publicity which his title gives rum
That is the sum and substance ot oui Lon-; jn press? can ^ trusted to under take
stitutional guarantee of freedom of speech., th(J formation of public opinion.
WHEN REASON TAKES WINGS
Radical changes in age-old ideas of pop-
ular government appear in startling doc-
trine emulating from Washington. The An-
glo-Saxon blinks his eyes and only by hark-
ing hack to King John can he get his bear- j we’Ve been out here for
ings.
It is a heinous offense now for an Ameri- j
can to hire a hall to agitate for Lhei establish-1
merit of right or the correction of wrong, j
No more public discussion. Minds once made ,
up are fixed for eternity. Democracy, with j
its give and take, flies out of the window,
and from legislative action we have no ap-
peal. The ligislator becomes an autocrat and
the repository of all knowledge. Only he,
d ^ is in#
• * iiotlqes
NOTICE
Minnie Brown Rebekah Lodge
s’o. 215 meets every Saturday night
at 8 o’clock. Members requested
to be present: visitors always wel-
come.
Emma Nash, N. G.
Edna Adams, Pecy.
32-27t-pd.
There is hardly a person living who does not
at times yearn for an opportunity to “let off
steam” by expressing his opinion of the way
tile world is run, and of some of the people
who have a hand in running it.
A good many people are fanatics on the
subject of speaking their mind. They love
to attract attention to themselves, and to
abuse those in authority. When officials
try to suppress them, these vociferous ones
;.ie happy. It proves that the world is all
wrong. They immediately become, in their
own minds and in the minds of others like
them, martyrs to the cause of free speech.
There is only one intelligent way to handle
such people. That is to let them talk, pre-
serve order in the crowd that is listening to
them, and pay no attention to what they say.
And that is the way in which the Communist
demonstrations early in March were handled
in most American cities and elsewhere in the
world.
That didn’t suit the Communists. There
is no glory in being allowed to talk. What
they want is to be prevented from talking.
That gives them a high degree of satisfac-
tion and gives color to their claim that free
speech is not allowed in this country. So
when they found, in New York, Chicago and
elsewhere, that they were not going to be
interfered with, they began to throw things
Vox populi requiescat in pace!
Perhaps we must become adjusted to these
modern times. If a bill is introduced to
take away our rights, t here is no alternative.
Like meek-eyed oxen we must submit to the
yoke.
If we send out letters, paying postage on
them, to the masters of our public “ser-
vants," we are buying a law.
If we approach our public servant, that
is an even worse offense—lobbying.
If we are hauled into the police court for
punching a fellow citizen on the nose, we are
estopped from informing the court that said
citizen first spat in our eye.
Perhaps this criticism of our public ser-
vants is treason. We may be called, as were
other public citizens, before the Inquisition.
If so. we shall quote Henry Watterson, who
was lambasted by the Governor for criti-
cising his administration. Marse Henry
sadly replied:
“Things have come to a helluva pass
When a man can’t cudgel his own jackass.”
—Merle Thorpe in Nation’s Business.
Uncle Si Tinklepaugh says one reason why
some folks would rather listen to a poor ra-
dio program than a good piece of music on
the phonograph is that they’re too lazy to
change the records.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
In accordance with an order,
passed by the City Commission of
the City of Kingsville, Texas, at a
regular session of said Commission
held on Thursday, March fitli, or-
dering an election for the purpose
of electing three City Commission-
ers for the ensuing term of two
years, one of whom shall be desig-
nated as Mayor. Now, therefore.
1, Herbert Andrews, Mayor <?f
the City of Kingsville, in compli-
ance with said order, hereby give
notice that an election will he Held
on Tuesday the 15th day of April,
A. D. 1930, at the Fire Station at
the City Hall, In the City of Kings-
ville,between the hours of S a. m
and 7 p. m. of said day, for the pur-
pose of electing for the ensuing
term of two years three City Com-
missioners, one of whom shall be
designated ns Mayor. That B. C.
Brookshire is presiding judge, and
L. C. McRoherts is associate judge
of said election, and Ben T. Laws
and B. D. Ferrell as clerks thereof.
Said election shall he governed
by the general election laws of the
State of Texas and all persons who
are qualified voters residing within
the territorial limits of said City
of Kingsville for the length of time
required hv law are entitled to
vote in said election.
H ERBERT AN DREWS.
Attest: Mayor.
MRS. CARRIE B. SIMS,
City Secretary.
”0-4t
Buia3aitan
“THEREWITH TO BE CONTENT’’
with ma and pa.
The gurl witch
the party was
give in honor of
her is a getting
reddy to go away
to study hospi-
Btalily so she cun
ack like a train
nurse*when they
round or cronlck
I ran across ibis paragraph in
in the Stumniick i the notebooks of Samuel Butler:
when yure hack 1 “1 imagine that life can give no-
is turned j thing much better or much worse
Saterdav went what 1 have myself expert, nc-
to a party ionite * should
pretty well the extremes of mental
pleasure and pain; and so 1 believe,
each in his own wuv, does almost
every man."
Charles M. Schwab, at last re- !
ports, hud more money than I -hut 1
just what can he buy with it?
Three meals a day. They will
cost more to serve than my three,
hut it Charlie enjoys them any
more he is going some.
A roof over liis head. It will he
a wider and steeper roof than mine,
and more rain will run off; but the
rain tHat runs off mine will he
just as wet, and underneath I shall
he just as dry.
A good night’s sleep—if he’s
factor. A happy man or woman is
a better thing to find than a five-
pound note. lie or «h»* is a radiat-
ing focus of good will, and their en-
trance into a room is as though an-
other candle had been lighted.
It Is strange that contentment
i should not he more widespread,
j considering how very common and
close at, hand are the elements that
I go into it
Work is oil- Idg ingredient. Sim-
ple tastes the power of finding
great satisfaction in little things
is another.
The power to take things as they
come, and enjoy them to the limit,
is another. St Raul, for instance.
sav“T have "proved-fdld u «ood sl/, <l j‘>,)’ und k*ft *
shining record.
He was forever “pressing forward
to his goal.” Yet it was lie also
who wrote:
“For I have learned, in whatso-
ever state I am, therewith to be
content.”
are sickness
dissahillaty and ect.
Sunday The preecher at are
chirch give out some hallits for
the people to vote on what they
thot was the best feeture of the
Sunday sirvice and today when
they counted them up why the
Benedickshun win about three to 1. ! lucky
Monday i’a give a lunchen to
sum noose paper men witch called
on him today so tonite I ast him
what was the different,s between a
lunchen and a lunch and he reply-
ed and answered about seventy 5
cts per each guest.
Teusday Ant Emmy has ben
sick here at are house for a few
days and she is well agen but she
says she wont get up out of bed
till her medisen is all gone hecuz
she was all ways lernt to not let
nothing go to waist.
Wensday—i rote Jane a letter on
a tipe liter the uther day and she
has hen mad about sum tiling ever
sence and now I have found out
what is the matter with her. Elsy
told me i had started out the letter
with D-e-e-r I’-E-S-T. she dussent
believe 1 ment to say deer pet. Pa
says lie gess 1 will make a good
noose paper man all rite. Im rong
so mutch.
Thirsday—The teecher acused
me of putting sliellack in Verginias
hair in skool today and she made
me stay after skool. But I give
her the la i f hecuz that is a jok on
the teecher hecuz she punished the
rong man. it was Slimy Glunt
witch went and done it.
He can own more of the world's
surface than I. But, try as he may,
he can not breathe up any more
of its air; he can not absorb any
more of its sunshine; he can not
bribe the ocean to give him any
more invigorating bath; nor the
evening stars to shine any brighter
over his estate.
The world is full of pleasant
sights and sounds and smells, and
Ills ears and nose and eyes do not
bring him any sensation a particle
more sweet than mine bring to me.
Compared with the blessings we
have in common, the few blessings
which he has and I have not are
insignificant.
The habit of contentment, is com-
mon. the few blessings which he
has and I have not are insignifi-
cant.
The habit of contentment is form-
ed. not from without, hut from
within.
“There is no duty we so much
underestimate,” says Stevenson,
“as the duty of being happy. By
being happy, we sow anonymous
benefits upon the world which re-
main unknown even to ourselves;
or. when they are disclosed, sur-
prise nobody so much as the belie-
Hello Buddy!
TEN REASONS
Why to Buy a Ford
1. Less first cost.
2. Less upkeep.
3. More miles to the gallon.
4. It “gets you there and brings
you hack.” with SPEED.
5. Has greater trade-in value.
6. Can bo serviced everywhere.
7. Is COMFORTABLE and SAFE
to ride in.
8. Is a GOOD LOOKING CAR.
9. You can own a HOME and
own a FORD.
10. It is a COMMON Sense.
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Company
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