The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1924 Page: 4 of 8
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-THE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS” j twenty or thirty miles after their
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meta school and was awarded ist, for instance the mail carrier, if he
place in that school.) Jdoeg not have g00{j r0ads to travel, he
The value of good roads is a very jhag yery difficult way of delivering
difficult subject for me to write a • ......
composition on. The value of good
roads means more in common sense
than any other subject its length.
There are several very good ways by
which they are of good use.
We will take first travelling. Trav-
elling is a very good way for hundreds
of people to spend their vacation in
the summer. We take for instance
when it rains if the roads are not in
mail, and especially in the country
where the mail is brought to the
people, they have a very unpleasant
time. Then as a whole the value of
good roads is a cheaper way of spend-
ing time, money and work.
“THE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS”
(This article was written by Ralph
nen n, m-- i* ____________ , Coleman of the 10th grade in the
loot conffition'^he "traveler has sev- j Unity school and was awarded 1st
eral hard tasks trying to go from j place m the Unity school.)
one town to the other. Then if the Has it ever entered your mind wha.
roads are in good condition the trav-
eler has a very easy time going from
good roads would mean to Lampasas
county? In the county which we
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travelling is the most moving about
from place to place that is carried on,
and the most difficult manner is build-
ing up towns and trade.
The local people is another point
that can be discussed. If the county
or state does not have at least two
or three good roads the people will
not be of any importance to the gov-
ernment, and laws because the peo-
ple make the laws and government,
and if there isn’t any way for them
to move about to find out the particu-
lars about the county it is not doing
them any good. Then good roads is
men, women, boys and girls, and for
the fine churches and schools, would
it not be wise to think of good roads ?
The various benefits of good roads
may be grouped under two main sub-
divisions dealing respectively with
economic benefits and social benefits.
There are certain direct economic ben-
efits or money advantages which fol-
low the improvement of public roads
:n every community. Those advant-
ages are probably most apparent in
the reduced cost of hauling. The
farm increases in value partly be-
cause the hauling is decreased. Post-
TO BE
STRONG THIS YEAR
In a letter to J. R. Key, Major Desh-
BILL VETO
UPHELD BY SENATE
Washington, May 13.—President
JLI1 <X lctici tU O . XV. Vy d-Snill^ LUU, lXJL<%y XO»-Jl It
ler Whiting, commander of Camp Dal-! Coolid ,s veto of ihe Bursum pen-
las R. 0. T. C., states that he has al- • . , . , ^ , , ,,
ready secured the paid up registra- »“>» *>ill was sustained Tuesday 6y the
tions of 318 cadets for the training ; Senate.
camp at Lampasas this summer which j The action crowned with success the
is to open June 5th and continue to fjrs£ attempt of Mr. Coolidge to block
July 6th. There are a few more weeks ' lation b exercise of the veto
to go on, and the number will be &
likely incresed, and by this announce- power.
ment it will be see that Lampasas is j Like President Haramg, he disap-
growing in popularity as a summer proved the bill, because of the ex-
training camp. . | pense involved. The measure would
Lieut. L. C. Hyssong will arrive in have grafited pension increases to
Lampasas on Monday, May 26th, and
will begin preparations for the es- the veterans of several wars,
tablishment of the camp. Some local! The vote to override was 53 to 28,
help will be provided and the “tent- 0ne vote less than the two-thirds re-
ed city” will be developed in a short j qUired.
“Major Whiting is not altogether a j Thirty-two Republicans and the two
stranger to Lampasas people and | Farmer-Labor Senators voted to over -
those who have the pleasure of his j ride the veto, while sixteen Democrats
acquaintance, are confident that he; voted to sustain it.
will make this year’s training _ camp j _
the most successful in its history. j .
Lieut. Hyssong is a stranger but he j rnijr PTFl TO ACS
will find a cordial greeting and will j | fjj* SlfcH IKUuJ
soon be made to feel at home.
DEATH OF DR. A. A. FIELD
Dr. A. A. Field died Wednesday
night at 8 o’clock at his home in
what is known as the old Strickland
community, and thus ends the earthly
career of a long life, had he lived
to the 30th day of May would have
been 99 years of age. He originally
came from Tennessee, but lived in this
section of Texas for sixty or seventy
years and practiced medicine in this
and adjoining counties, and was well
known throughout the section. He
is the father of Andy Field living near
Lake Victor, and the grandfather of
Harry field and Albert Field of Lam-
pasas. He is survived by his wife
and a number of relatives and num-
bers of his friends. The funeral ser-
vices were held Thursday afternoon
and burial was made at the old cem-
etery at Strickland.
Mrs. W. B. Toone and Mrs. Harry
Porter will give a joint recital Friday
night at the high school auditorium
and the program is elaborate in detail
The curtain will rise at 8 p. m.
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tie farms, and small herds of sheep
and cattle. Now what good will it do
them to raise their farm products if
they can not get a market for them?
If the roads are good they can take
them to the city where the consum-
ers who do not have place enough to
'raise their vegetables; then the farm-
er can sell his produce at a reason-
able price and then come out in the
long run; because it does not cost
much to truck his produce to the
market when the roads are in good
condition. The farmer can get his
vegetables to the market early every
morning and then by the next day
will have another truck load.
As to the value of land that will
be raised, we take for instance near
the river where the people can irri-
gate their farms. People will come
along and buy the land and see his
profit that can be made on the land
within a few years of good care. Then
where it is connected up with a good
ro8d the producer will make a profit.
Then there are just lots of acres
of land that are not worked every
year, and if there were good roads
where the buyer could make a good
profit from the land it would be all
worked in a few years.
The help of towns, and the widen-
ing of trade territory. Take a little
town like here the merchants do not
have the goods half the time that is
very fresh and recommendable. If
the roads were in good condition the
merchant could have their gopds
trucked to them and would not cost
as much as having them shipped to
their towns, and would be fresh.
If the roads are good the trade
territories are so much wider and is
better because they have fresh goods.
The education that we have in our
school today and also towns people
that will say that they did not have
as good a chance then to graduate
then as we have today. Why? It is
just because the roads and schools
were not buUt up to where the people
couid get to school. If the roads are
in good condition the schools will be
better and there will be more boys
and girls graduate.
The religion is a good point that
is of a good value. We have often
heard of people that have never seen
a church building. That is because
the people did not have any way to
go, and they were not religious. Now
if the roads are in a good condition
the people can go to church, where
then people were not able to go. There
ere more people today who have re-
ligion than there were a half cen-
tury ago. It is just today the people
hare taken more interest in travel
fog, and going to church. The min
ister has to have a way to go, and if
he has a way and goes bumping and
jumping over about twenty miles of
rough road, and if he isn’t a pretty
go«<l fellow, he will lose all his re-
ligion by the time he gets to the
place. While if the roads were in
good condition it would save time,
cost and would be so much better.
There are people who have to come
actual condition. A farmer in Sulli-
van county, Tenn., in nineteen hundred
eight, had to haul barbed wire from
Bristol to Kingsport, a distance of
twenty-three miles. He found that
with a two-horse team his maximum
load was five hundred pounds and
that three days were necessary to
make the trip. To haul one ton,
therefore, required twelve days and
at three dollars a day, for the man
and team, the cost was thirty-six
dollars. They have issued good roads
bonds from Bristol to Kingsport, so
the same team can now make a round
trip in two days at the cost of six
dollars.
In determining the economic advant-
ages to any community there are
several items which must be consider
ed. The wear and tear of the harness,
wagons, trucks, and all highway ve-
hicles.
Good roads have a relation to ag-
rigultural conditions. The business
of farming depends on county roads,
for what the farmer does not p?*o-
duce on the farm must be hauled to
the farm and many crops of the farm
have to be hauled to the local market.
It is a common observation that, when
any community has passed from a
condition characterized by bad roads
to a condition which is characterized
by good roads, land values in that
community advance.
Taking up the social advantages,
it will be well to consider the improve-
ment of schools. The rural popula-
tion is apparently more willing at
present to support better schools than
at any previous time. The place of
the one-room school is being taken
up by larger consolidated schools
throughout those portions of the coun-
try where conditions make it prac-
ticable to convey children to school
at public expenses. Bad road con-
ditions make twofold hardships on
the one-room district school. Where
the school is situated on bad roads,
it is a common practice to keep the
children at home in severe weather.
The condition of these roads pre-
vent economic consolidation of these
smaller schools into large, strong
schools with high school courses.
Social activities in rural communi-
ties need all the encouragement and
stimulus that can reasonably be given.
All social activities take time and
energy, and the country road condi-
tion therefore is a prime considera-
tion to enable farmers and their fam-
ilies to afford time for social inter-
course. The unnecessary sub-di-
visions of the church into numerous
small churches throughout many
portions of the country have neces-
sarily tended to weaken the attendance
but the concentration of church funds
and church attendance is dependent
upon improved road conditions.
BOOTLEGGER PROTEST
ASSAILED AS A FAKE
Washington, May 14.—A recent pe-
tition from the “Bootleggers Union
of America,” protesting modification
of the Volstead Act, was assailed to-
day by Wayne B. Wheeler, general
counsel for the Anti-Saloon League,
before the house judiciary committee
as “a sample of the lengths opposi-
tion goes to make people believe that
prohibition is a failure.” He branded
the petition as a “fake.”
Wheeler told the committee, which
resumed hearings on bills proposing
modification of the prohibition laws,
that “there never has been as deter-
mined and widespread an effort by
bootleggers of beer, - rum runners,
brewers and their allies, to discredit
any policy of government, as that
used to break down the enforcement
of prohibition.”
The beer bill, if enacted, he as-
serted, would mean “multiplied mil-
lions” to brewers whose silence “is
golden especially when others plead
their cause ”
A WORLD AGENCY
ESTABLISHED IN MIDDLE AGES,
IT STILL RENDERS AID.
Some Facts About History ar.d Man-
agement of the Organization.
FOR SALE—712 acres of land,
about 180 in cultivation, subdivided
into 3 pastures. Fine everlasting
pool of water on Lucy creek, and
splendid well of water at residence.
Residence and barn and orchard on
premises. Plenty of timber for fire
wood. Located about 8 1-2 miles N.
E. from Lampasas, with entrance to
premises from lower Gatesville road.
Federal loan at 5 1-2 percent interest
now on part of land and can be in-
creased to $5000, or more if desired.
I will accept $3000.00 cash and allow
ten equal annual payments on bal-
ance above Federal loan at 8%, notes
payable on or before.
(wtf) W. B. Abney.
BOY SCOUTS TO GET
$10,000,000 ENDOWMENT
St. Louis, May 12.—Arrangements
for the establishment of a $10,000,000
Boy Scout endowment fund, the in-
come of which is to be used for the
promotion of all phases of the Boy
Scouts’ program in every section of
the United States, will be made at
once, Scout executives of the Boy
Scouts of America announced here
today.
A committee of leading bajikers,
business and professional men of
America, led by Clarence H. Howard
of St. Louis, will conduct the campaign
for funds.
HAILSTONES BEAT
CHILD TO DEATH
Joe Brown, who has been here for
several days visiting in the home of
his daughter, Mrs. D. W. Taylor, left
Thursday morning for his home at
Itasca, and was accompanied as far
as Temple by his grandson, D. W.
Taylor, Jr.
Clairemont, Texas, May 13.—A de-
structive hail and windstorm visited
Dickens, Kent and Stonewall coun-
ties, yesterday afternoon about 4 p. m.
Heavy clouds began gathering with
strong winds and a downpour of hail
and rain, extending from near Spur,
in Dickens county, in a southeast di-
rection through Kent into Stonewall
county, covering the towns of Gilpin,
Girard, Jayton and Peacock in Kent
county, and on into Stonewall county.
A child of Mr. and Mrs. Curley,
near Spur, while returning from
school was killed by the hail. Two
other of their children are in a sani-
tarium at Spur in a precarious con-
dition. The hail killed chickens and
young stock, beat crops of all kinds
into the ground, stripping fruit trees
of their foliage and fruit. Fruit will
be a total loss in the path* of the
storm.
The storm covered forty miles from
northwest to the southeast, the path
ranging from four to sixteen miles
wide. It is impossible to estimate the
damage. At Clairemont and south
only a slight rain fell. Hail and rain
was very heavy on the west line of
Kent county. Phone wires are down.
A noted sociologist has said that the
American Red Cross probably is the
only organization in the United States
which can be looked to to co-ordinate
public welfare effort. In the language
of a noted writer, it is the world’s inter-
national ideal of mercy, knowing no
bounds of racial, religious or political
separation, but being ready to serve
wherever and whenever war, pestilence,
storm, flood or disaster has wrought
suffering, wherever there is want or
distress, and wherever there ic an op-
portunity to promote health and public
welfare.
Established during the Crusades, it
came into prominence first in the
Crimean War, when Florence Nightin-
gale was sent by the British War Of-
fice, in 1S54, to the hospitals, at Scutari.
It first became international when Hen-
ri Dunant, a Swiss physician, organ-
ized on the battlefield at Solferino.
Italy, in 1859, a group of volunteers to
help him ministei to the wounded. In
1884 an international conference of 14
nations, held in Geneva, Switzerland,
drafted the Treaty of Geneva, after-
wards known as the Red Cross Treaty,
which made the Red Cross a non-com-
batant international organization, re-
spected and undisturbed ih its.work of
mercy by the forces of friends and
enemies alike.
The American Red Cross began its
career during the Civil War and has ex-
isted up to the present time. In July,
1881, the American Association of the
Red Cross, with Miss Clara Barton as
president, was formed, and in June,
1900, the American Red Cross was in-
corporated by act of Congress. In Jan-
uary, 1905, it was re-incorporated and
granted a new charter, the one which
now is In force. The present charter
provides for a permanent governing
body, called a Central Committee, of
18 persons, with subsidiary affiliated
organizations known as chapters.
Is Under Government Sanction.
The American Red Cross is not a
government department, but a relief or-
ganization with government sanction,
and, as such, assists the army and navy
of the United States whenever called
upon for service, '’’he President of the
United States is, by the Constitution of
the Red Cross,* the president of the Red
Cross. All Red Cross accounts are
audited by the War Department and
an annual report thereof is made to
Congress by the Secretary of War.
The Red Cross organization, as at
present formed, consists of a national
headquarters in Washington, six divis-
ion headquarters in six centers of the
United States. It comprises approxi-
mately 3,600 chapters with about 15,000
branches. There is an adult member-
ship at the present time of about 3,500,-
000 and a junior membership of ap-
proximately 5,200,000.
The Red Cross does its work through
its various service divisions, which are
as follows: Nursing Service, Public
Health Nursing, Home Hygiene and
Care of the Sick, Life Saving, First
Aid, Home Service, Volunteer Service,
Production Service, Canteen Service,
Nutrition Service, Disaster Relief and
Junior Red Cross Service.
Its membership Is made up of all
classes, races and creeds. There is an
annual enrollment, conducted during
November, and the membership ts $1.
In addition there are contributing, sus-
taining, supporting, life and patron
memberships, of $5, $10, $25, $50 and
$100, respectively. Membership fees
are the entire source of support of the
Red Cross and finance all the work it
does throughout the world. Donations
occasionally augment this in various
communities, and collections sometimes
are taken up in case of emergency,
where extra sums are required to do
an Immediate piece of work which can-
not be financed otherwise.
Lee Walker was over from Belton
looking after business interests, and
returned to Belton Thursday morning.
Roy Davis went to San Antonio to
attend a meeting of the Knights of
Pythias lodge, and is expected home
on the Thursday evening train.
Mrs. P. H. Taylor and her daughter,
Mrs. Albert Herbst, of Hereford, went
over to Temple Thursday morning to
spend a few days as the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Wade Taylor.
Mrs. M. Y. Stokes and daughter,
Miss Mary, and their guest, Mrs. En-
nis Munger, returned home Thursday
morning from Brownwood, where they
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. Y,
Stokes, Jr., for a few days during the
big celebration in that city.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Mayfield and
two daughters, Donna and Mona, of
Medina, visited Claud and Clem May-
field here for a few days, Mr. and
Mrs. Mayfield being parents of the
two young men. They left Thursday
morning for their home.
Mrs. M. E. Williams, accompanied
by her niece, Miss Juanita Taylor,
left Thursday morning for Fort
Woiftjh, where they will visit >, her
daughter, Mrs. M. E. Probst, and will
later go to Dallas and Corsicana, Miss
Taylor’s home being in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Abney arrived
at home Thursday morning from a
trip to South Texas, and while visit-
ing in Brownsville had a delightful
time in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Faulk, and while on the trip
went over to Matamoros, Mexico. The
border town did not have any attrac-
tion for them as a place of residence,
and they were glad to get back to a
“clean” country.
D. D. Woods, whose home is at Hub-
bard, has located in Lampasas and
he is the prescription clerk for the
Lion Drug Store. Mrs. Woods will
be here shortly, as soon as a house-
keeping arrangement can be made.
Miss Nell Berry, who has been here
for the past few days visiting in the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. H. Berry, left Wednesday night
for McKinney.
HAIR DRESSERS PREDICT
PASSING OF BOBBED HAIR
Cleveland, Ohio, May 13.—Predic-
tion that bobbed hair will be passed
in another year was made by leaders
of the Ohio Hair Dressers’ associa-
tion at its annual demonstration here
last night.
When the knell is finally sounded
the “girls” will find the hair dressers
ready to make the transformation
from shorn locks to don-up tresses in-
stantly and satisfactorily, they said.
A few strands of extra hair skillfully
placed over the loose ends will do the
trick.
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The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1924, newspaper, May 16, 1924; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth885553/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.