The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3149, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 30, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader.
Eighth Year
TUESDAY
Lampasas, Texas, January 30, 1912.
TUESDAY
Whole Number 3149
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Mildred Lee Chapter.
“Let every state preserve her
own Confederate history.”
The chapter will meet Thurs-
day afternoon at 3 o’clock with
Mrs. A. J. Mackey. Study of
Texas and her Confederate his-
tory will be topics for Chapter
discussion.
Roll call—Give a reason why
you are a Daughter of the Con-
federacy.
Music, (instrumental) “Ripples
of the Alabama,” or selected—
Miss Browning.
Reading, poem selected from
Miss Daffan’s book entitled, “As
Thinketh a Woman,”—Mrs. Mc-
Kinney.
Paper, The Political Agitation
in Texas irf 1859; Gen. Sam
’Houston’s campaign and election
It an independent candidate for
governor of Texas—Dr. Read.
FOR DISCUSSION,
position of prominent men on
separate state. Action in regard
to secession.
Special session of legislature,
Jahuary 21, 1861..
Recession convention called by
citizens one week later.
Ypte of people on secession.
Independence declared. State
government continued. Governor
and secretary decline to take
office.
Houston retires. Clark declar-
ed governor. 'Vote in convention
resulted in 167 for, 7 against se-
cession.
Music, (song) “Old Folks at
Home”—Mrs. Key.
Reading, selected from Mollie
M. Moore Davis or Sidney La-
nier—Miss Hughs.
Paper, Gen. D. E. Twiggs,
(commanding Federal forces in
Texas) and his attitude in regard
to surrendering military supplies,
forts and troops on the Texas
frontier—Mrs. Mills.
FOR DISCUSSION
Committee on Public Safety.
Organization of Confederate
Government. The Blockade.
Why Texas was slow (as a
state) in sending troops to the
front. Election of delegates to
Secession Convention in Mont-
gomery, Alabama. Members of
Congress elected.
For authentic details of the
topics for chapter discussion see
Reagan’s Memoirs. Texas, by
Oran M. Roberts, in 11th Vol. of
Confederate Military History.
Hood’s Texas Brigade Scrap
Book, by Horace Chilton. Miss
Daffan’s “Texas Hero Stories.”
Twentieth Century Club.
The Twentieth Century club
met Friday and was called to or-
der by the president, Mrs. Smith.
Response, (‘Tennyson’s literary
friends,” was given by a small
number, as there was doubt ex-
isting in the mind of some of the
members, as to whether or not
the session would be held.
After the regular order 6f bus-
iness, the lesson from “In Memo-
riam” was thoroughly exhausted
under the comprehensive leader-
ship of Mrs. Valliant. This part
of the poem showed the strange
combination of nearness and re-
moteness in the poet’s feeling
towards Hallam. But the sub-
stance of it all is in the assurance
that he is “friend past, present
and to be.”
Tabie talk, “The Bible in Ten-
nyson,”/showed us that we must
be faithful to'our appointed task
and to the end abide in Him,
believing where we cannot
prove”.
Reports of executive commit-
tee parliamentarian and critric
were given.'rf’Club adjourned.
Born, Saturday, January 27,
to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Black-
shear, a son.
Mrs. Ellen Rogers, of Lometa,
is here to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Ed Fulton.
The ladies’ bridge club will
meet with Mrs. Dan Culver
Wednesday afternoon at three
o’clock. Members please phone.
Mrs. F. L. Bean, who has been
with her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
W. T. Bean, left Tuesday morn-
ing for Waco to visit her daugh-
ter.
on
Two thousand dollars to loan
unincumbered real estate,
three to five years. Apply to W.
B. Abney. d-w-tf
Mrs. Henry Sanders twill en-
tertain the young ladies’ bridge
club Thursday at 3 p. m. Please
phone.
Scripture Quotation.
“Whosoever transgre s s e t h,
and abideth not in the doctrine
of Christ, hath not God.”
Rev. W. B. Preston, Pastor
Evangelist of Waco Presbytery,
was here to visit Rev. I. N. Clack
in regard to the work here. He
left on the next train for Temple.
Telephone Courtesy.
Would you rush into an office
or up to the door of a residence
and blurt out, “Hello! Hello!
Who am I talking to?” and then,
when you received a reply, fol-
low up your wild, discourteous
salutation with “I d'on’t want you
—get out of my way—I want to
talk to Mr. Jones.” Would you?
That is merely a sample of the
impolite and impatient conversa-
tions that the telephone trans-
mits many times a day.
There is a most agreeable!
mode of beginning a telephone
conversation which many people
are now adopting because it
saves useless words and is, at the
same time courteous and direct.
It runs thus: The telephone
bell rings and the person answer-
ing it says: “Blank & Co., Mr.
Brown speaking.” The person
calling then says: “Mr. Doe of
Wood & Co. wishes to talk to Mr.
White. ’ 1 When Mr. White picks
up the receiver he knows that
Mr. Doe is on the other end of
the line, and without any unnec-
essary and undignified “hellos”
he at once greets him with the
refreshingly courteous saluta-
tion: “Good morning, Mr. Doe.”
That savors of the genial hand-
shake that Mr. Doe would have
received had he called in person
upon Mr. White.
Undoubtedly there would be a
higher degree of telephone court-
esy particularly in the way of
reasonable consideration for the
operators if the “face-to-face”
idea were more generally held in
mind. The fact that a line of
wire and two shining instru-
ments separate you from the per-
son with whom you are talking,
takes none of the sting out of
unkind words.
Telephone courtesy means an-
swering the telephone as quickly
as possible when the bell rings
not keeping the “caller” waiting
until someone gets good and
ready to answer.
In a word, it is obviously true
that tha£ which is the correct
thing to do in a face-to-face
conversation, is also the correct
thing in a telephone conversa-
tion and anyone has but to ap-
ply the rules of courtesy, pre-
scribed long years before the
telephone was first thought of, to
know the proper manners for
telephone usage.-—J. M. Carroll
in Temple Mirror.
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A penalty of ten per cent will j
adhere to your taxes at once, un- j
less they are paid by Wednesday
night. Why throw away your
money? Pay your taxes today,
and be sure to pay the poll tax.
If you don’t pay your poll tax
before Wednesday night you had
just as well live in Alaska as in
Texas, as far as your right to
vote in any election this year is
concerned. The officers are ready
to wait on you now, and you will
have the tax to pay in the future.
Get busy and attend to this mat-
ter now.
The Ladies’ Cemetery Associ-
ation will give an oyster supper
Tuesday evening, Feb. 6, at the
Acker building, corner Third
street and Western avenue, be-
ginning at 6 o’clock, serving
stewed, fried and raw oysters
with coffee, pickles, lemons and
sauces,."fell for 30 cents per dozen.
They will also have home-made
candies for sale. (d49) (54)
Alfred J. Brown, who claims to
be one of four champion walkers
who left Fremont, Nebraska, last
fall, was here Monday and Tues-
day. He expects to make Hous-
ton, Texas, this week and will
then start on the return trip to
I Fremont. He claims there is a
| wager of $10,000 up and he ex-
i pects to claim the prize on or be
! fore the 4th of July, all others
being out of the race. He has
newspaper clippings and other
evidence from the various places
he has visited.
About Road Building.
Brown wood Bulletin.
Congressman Slayden, of the
San Antonio-Brown wood district,
is opposed to federal aid in public
road building, and gives some
mighty good reasons for his op-
position, reasons that can’t be
controverted, and that^might also
be amplified, to federal aid in
manufacturing (through the
means of the tariff), federal aid
to steamship builders (through
the maintenance of a needlessly
large navy), and federal aid to a
great many other things that
readily suggest themselves. The
Fort Worth Star-Telegram has
this to say of Mr. Slayden’s at-
titude toward road building:
Hon. James L. Slayden is a
plain, blunt man and makes no
claim to hjghbrow, aristocratic
distinction, yet he is liable to
have the title of philosopher-
statesman thrust upon him if he
keeps up his present manner of
life and thought.. That he has
what we plain people of the South
call a “cinch” on the drift and
tendencies of human nature, es-
pecially public or political human
nature, there can be no rational
doubt. His latest word on this
subject—that the more people are
helped from the outside, the less
they’ll help themselves—is prac-
tically all pure, solid truth. In
turning down the request of the
Texas Automobile Association
that he advocate and work for
good roads, Mr. Slayden said:
“I am unalterably opposed to
federal aid in the construction of
roads, because I think- with the
first appropriation of that nature
the good roads movement will
die. Experience has taught that
no state, county or community
will do anything for itself if there
is any reason to believe that a
federal appropriation can be had
for that purpose or any similar
thing. Those who advocate fed-
eral appropriations for good
roads seem to think the cost of
construction will not come out of
the pockets of the people, but it
will, and will cost more than if
they did the work themselves
and kept it under local super-
vision. If federal appropriations
are once made for roads the cost
of this movement will increase to
an almost inconceivable sum
each year. There will be a big
scramble between various sec-
tions of the country for these ap-
propriations, and the South and
the West With a smaller popula-.
tion would get nothing like a
proportionate share of the spoils,
and spoils it would be.”
Whether the principle of fed-
eral aid in this direction be right
or wrong, can any reasonable
and practicable man doubt that
the result and tendency would be
very much like he here states?
As he told the doctors in the fed-
eral board of health controversy,
he now tells the automobile peo-
ple that the cost of government is
already too high, and that in-
creased extravagance in appro-i
priations and expenditures can
not be made to square with dem-
ocratic standards of just and im-
partial government impartially
and economically administered.
Good roads we need, and need
badly, and good roads we must
have* but the states, counties and
communities [should build them.
If the people raise the money by
After Antiseptics
Why not a more agreeable
taste
Our Fresh Bulk Chocolates
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They leave a delicious and
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taxation % and contribution they
know where it comes from, and
will take a direct and intelligent
interest in its economical and re-
sult-giving expenditure. It’s the
lark and the farmer story over
again. The shortest way out
when the people of a county in
Texas want good roads is to go to
work and get what they want.
The laws of Texas now provide a
way to do this, and the people
should rise to the occasion and
proceed to help themselves.
There is too much paternalism
already, too many hands ex-
tended and eyes turned to gov-
ernment and law for all things.
Some state ought to set an ex-
ample of independence and self-
reliance. Why shouldn’t that
state be Greater Texas?
Allow The Leader to remark
that the Lampasas county people
began the work of ihaking good
roads in 1899, and without fede-
ral or state aid or the issuance of
bonds, the county has become
known far and wide for its splen-
did roads in every part of the
county. The same local tax and
proper management which built
these roads keeps them in good
order. Two sets of hands, teams,
tools, etc. are kept busy the year
round. “The Gods help those
who help themselves.”
Some excellent work is being
done in the way of graveling the
streets, and two sets of hands are
kept constantly busy on the
roads of the county. There is a
wide difference in the streets of
Lampasas and the roads of Lam-
pasas county today, as compared
with their condition fourteen
years ago, when the public
square was one of the worst
pieces of road in the county and
some of the streets of Lampasas
were almost impassible, in a wet
spell. County roads were also
in an awful condition, but thanks
to the foresight and energy of
the city fathers and the county
commissioners, the streets and
the roads are getting to be the
best advertisement the city and
county have, and all of us are
pleased. The cost has been so
light that no one has felt the tax
as a burden,/and the work will
be kept up with the endorsement
of all the people. Let it go on
indefinitely.
Weather Report.
The following is the weather
forecast as reported by the gov-
ernment:
Tonight and Wednesday fair.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3149, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 30, 1912, newspaper, January 30, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889640/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.