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Fifty Years Ago
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«-;iob of The Galveston
prom <*ie * ' , _ 1W74
News, March 5, 1874.
Theregfball cYub at its hall
T^S^g^iSSS^
satv^-easf savus’
meeting of the
its hall
f
cure a
de-TiShlPWin^losed lot of grourn
suitable inclose return gam,
in which t° P^luh next May.
with the Austin cl^ being. made for
preparation ^ansiis. GaP
preparations census. Gal-
wtf o° “”t. school
+„ ®lav the return game
which to Pia-y ____mqv
,h the
’repari
*2ffio.lowinS Rectors were erlect;
ed y^te^nts,yinsurance Company:
WSiphlnt.Leon
Blum, H.
A. Brown,
Sa5ixty-ntwo prisoners were confined
in the county jail yesterday.
The Texas Pres*.
The AWtta ft^-gan attempts to
SSSy oT^N-ws rejard t^th,
moSs^lec^s of or^n^ce presented^ to
the RepubUc of^Texas WP nQt/that
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tiii l!“l^^ption
of uniform
.n the p»ilonn sof' lS5f..* Dn"
^Ration to create the county of Coke
^lff^S£.SSS“K
•*-'neri from Cameron to Rockdale.
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Journal ofhJducarioii, ^ ,g & neat
JS^^SaSST^KS:
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/By Gertrude Girarde
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On March 31, 192*, the Galveston
League of Women Voters was re-or-
ganized, with Miss Ruth McIntosh, Re-
gional Secretary of the National League
of Women Voters, as the chief inspira-
tion of the re-organizatlon of the Lea-
gue. Prior to the time of the re-or-
angization, the League had been for
quite a while practically dormant, but
with its reorganization came new zest
and interest, and with the help and
guidance of Miss McIntosh and Mrs.
Helen Moore, State Chairman of the
League of Women Voters, the Galves-
ton League has grown in the past year
to a membership of 235 and holds high
rank among the leagues of other Texas
cities ■which are, like the Galveston
League, affiliated with the State
League.
The executive committee of the Gal-
veston League is as follows:
, Officers.
Chairman, Mrs. Walter F. Ay#s.
First Vice-Chairman, Mrs. John vv.
Hopkins.
Second Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Dan V\.
Kempner. m
Treasurer, Mrs. Sally Trueheart Wil-
1 ^Recording Secretary, Miss Gertrude
Girardeau.
Corresponding Secretary, Miss Gladys
Kempner.
LACOUME BAKERY
Announces that they are
ready to make \\ edding and
Birthday Cakes to order and
will deliver promptly.
Butter Krust Bread
For sale at all Grocers. Also
Fresh Rolls, Pies and Small
Cakes baked rl.ajw. ii'
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THE SKYSCRAPER.
(An impressionistic poem by Howard
S. Aronson, who received his inspira-
tion by watching the progress of the
workmen on the new U. S. National
Bank building).
I.
A staccato symphony roars in the air
From chatter-rattle of machine-gun
hammers
On a clanging scale of black steel
beams.
Brute sledges sound the passing hours:
Upward a thousand wond’ring eyes
stare
At the great throb of boom and bang.
Now shrills a whistle, keening the
wind,
And a panting, fuming hoisting-engine
Chutters and rattles in its coat of
grime,
Twists a stout drum, flings up a hoist
Laden with stone, mortar or men.
There go the barrowmen in a long
grim line,
With black marble muscles shiny with
sweat, •
Singing wierd songs all out of time
With rattle of hammers and engine’s
fret.
II.
Perched on bare beams far overhead
The riveters forge their bolts of steel,
Tossing them red-hot with scarce a
care,
Battering them into clamoring beams.
Near at hand with chisel and hammer
The stone-cutters chip and hack a
plinth
To adorn the growing man-made cliff
Wifth arabesques, flowers and Grecian
frieze.
tffcare stands a foreman on a beam
gone a-soaring,
Like a bit of match on a spider’s
x strand,
Here l(inge squat trucks with tons of
stone:
There like a Moloch the mixer gapes
While toiling mortals gorge his belly
The toil and the sound is life s
threnody:
Not among workers does man stand
alone. . . .
I A Mr’ KcmP*»er.
*o^af c«tt aJS‘r,h°ef h?3ler<iay,s
her brother compliment to
ner, in recG^il Eugene Kemp-
The hosnftamJ^k of ,hfs b‘rthday.
country ^>iace nf^ e2cteaded at the
in Dickinson «L¥rs’ R°uis A- Adoue
and hostess thp’8n«i °f t}?e hon°ree
including thefr fnH™?1 Quests
The party mado +u nV™ati? friends,
bile. y *58 hZ a,lto™-
TTU ttu Nfc 4-|3D^t/
Club Directors
Elect Officers
c’Ssrs.;'.? I
er I H. Kempner was elected vice
presidfent. Raymond C. Stone was nam-
ed chairman of the house committee
and Eustace Taylor chairman of that
greens committee .
omen
mze
And the pounding on the beams
Becomes the sounding of a gong
Whilst a lean scimiter gleams
’Midst a priestly throng,
And the whistling and the banging
Tunes the sacrifice- song
Heard above harsh cymbals clashing,
And the roaring of the trucks
Becomes the groaning of the oxen
Driven t^p the altar of the God,
And the- smoke of the engines
Is the pungent incense
Curling pale into the darkness
From fitful flaming censors,
Flanking the altar’s either side,
Smouldering in the forest’s gloom,
Chant, lean negroes, your Afric tune.
Again are you grim Congo priests
Slaughtering beasts for an ancient rite,
Clad in feathers and ivory white:
Lithe black bodies in the fire’s red
light,
A-dance on the- throbs of the tom-tom’s
boom.
TV.
There grows in the city a new temple
of commerce:
Here shall come seekers and givers
numberless,
And through the corridors shall pass
lovely women,
Vestals that keep alive the flame of
life.
Youth passes, singing; bent age mumb-
ling ever:
Man passes to his own pew to wor-
ship his ov/n God......
And the old black priests shall have
gone,
And all the living shall have passed
(nto silence
And skipping children grow to sedate
manhood.
Lifting their eyes to the great mass
of stone......
Man passes quickly, his life a queer
dream;
His hands turned to fitting stones and j
metals......
Lifeless things that eternity does not
absorb.... i _
S
Scribblers make their books and poets { g
their songs
Of the Helen that never dies but lives
as Love j
The works of man as are the wine of J H|
the grape
And man like the pulp floats into the j
darkness......
Riveters pound steel to eternal rest- j
ing places,
Man passes silently, his hands touch- j
ing atones,
Making his own peculiar mark, a I
scratch, a line,
Or aimless all leaves no sign of earth- j
ly life....
The priests, the old black priests, soon I
go,
Fading into the night like wisps of I
steam: j
Man dies; what he makes stands j
through the ages.
Now looms the monolith, stones fit- 1
ted as one,
A sturdy white milestone along eter- I
nity’s way....
Brute sledges sound the passing hours: j
Clang ...... clang ...... clang......
She- reports that the expansion
i of the Texas league, which
run about two months ago, is
showing results, and that many
[jes are asking for her services,
of the state pr&sident, Mrs.
f Texas City, to assist them in
organizations.
Use of its non-partisan, non-
|i policy,” Miss McIntosh said
iming, “and because it is the
■anization designed to take the
as a voter and fit her for her
,e League of Women Voters is
as no other national wom-
;anization has grown in the
of our country. In the four
ice its inception it has expand-
it holds the second number
n who are being reached and
(, since the league is on the
missionary organization and
confine its efforts to its own
hip.”
ritation will be extended to
ending Thursday’s meeting to
;harter members of the orgar.-
Active memberships are- $1.00
This will entitle the holder
:r‘s subscription to the New
he official organ of the Texas
f Women Voters, which ts is-
i month. It will also entitle
er to access to the national
erature, which c.ove-rs in con-
eve.ry iihase of city, state and
government and our national
alicy.
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