The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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At this period of the year much
thought is given to the life and ac-
complishments of Abraham Lincoln,
whose birthday anniversary is Feb.
12th. We believe it can be said in
all safety that no man ever lived to
whom thrift meant more than it did
to this genius of the prairies.
When a young man, Lincoln ran a
small general store in Salem, 111. He
failed in this business with debts of
$1,100. Then he disposed of the store
to two men, taking their notes. They
sold out everything of value and
slipped away. Lincoln, the failure,
was left with his $1,100 debts, which
in that day was a very large sum
of money.
He went to work with thrift and
industry. He skimped and saved. One
of his creditors became obdurate,
sued him and obtained a judgment.
Lincoln’s horse, saddle, bridle and sur-
veying outfits were sold at auction.
Through the entire period of
Lincoln’s early manhood, from 25 to
40, he struggled with this debt. At
last it was paid.
Lincoln could have taken an easier
way like the two men who left him
with the bag to hold. He could have
disappeared from Salem. But the
world would have lost its greatest
statesman and humanity one of its
noblest benefi itors had he done so.
Throughout his entire life up to
the time he became president of the
United States he stood face to face
with failure. Without thrift and in-'
dustry he would have gone down in
defeat.
At this time of the year when the
civilized world is giving special
thought to this man of the prairies,
it is of value to note that the towering
strength of his genius would have
been lost to mankind had it not been
for his persistence in the practices of
thrift and industry.—S. W. Strauss.
ONTARIO MAN CLAIMS
NEVER TO HAVE LIED
London, Ont., Feb. 11.—Geo. Wash-
ington, who-could not tell a lie, has
a living rival here.
During a stirring sermon on sin a
local preacher offered to give $10 to
any one in the congregation who
would swear he never had told a lie.
The Londoner calmly walked on the
platform and claimed the money.
When the preacher reached into
his pocket he found he did not have
$10 and was forcd to defer payment.
4-CENT GAS TAX TO
PRODUCE $25,000,000
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—A 4c per
gallon tax will produce $25,000,000
gross, is the estimation of E. J. Mar-
tin, chief auditor of the comptroller’s
department and, who handles the gas-
oline tax collections. That estimate
was made Monday during a discus-
sion of the expected action of the
house revenue and taxation committee
recomemnding that figure, compared
to the present 2 cents and the 3 cents
which was collected up to Sept. 1,
1928.
Of the total one-fourth goes to the
school fund and three-fourths to the
state highway fund which, out of the
expectancy, would give the former
$6,250,000 and the latter $18,750,000.
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Legislative Sidelghts.
Things are humming along nicely
in the capitol; over 1,100 bills have
been introduced, 75 passed and 25
killed. There are about 1,000 more
to be considered between now and the
closing of the session, which will end
around March 10th, so your readers
will not wonder that some bad legis-
lation is enacted in a rush such as
is on the lawmaker now. Every bill
that is introduced is of “vital” im-
portance to some member. He may
have made his race for office upon
its merits and of course everyone
wants to have his bill considered. We
have a proposed constitutional amend-
ment before us that would lengthen
the regular session to 120 days. Of
course, this would give more time to
consider legislation, and if no more
legislation were proposed than is now,
would probably have the effect of
better legislation being passed, but
it would also mean more laws on
the statutes. Most of the 1,100 bills
introduced are mere changes or
amendments to laws now on the stat-
ute books. Sometimes only one word
of a section of old law is changed,
but the entire section must go the
rounds of a bill before the word is
changed on the statute books.
The house has killed the bill author-
izing a real estate dealers’ board to
qualify real estate dealers. The bond
issue resolution was killed in com-
mittee, but has been printed on a
minority report, and will come up for
a vote. As it takes 100 votes to sub-
mit, it will probably fail as there are
only 83 willing to print it.
Bills of interest to the 93rd dis-
trict are the bill regulating the haul-
ing of livestock by truck (H. B. 510)
which has for its purpose the preven-
tion of theft of live stock by truck
or automobile. As soon as this bill
is printed I will be glad to mail
copies of it to anyone who wants
them. The Fair Commission Bill, or
as it is called the “Racing Bill,” has
been printed and will come up for
a vote soon, but will have a hard
time running the gauntlet of passage
in the house.
The members of this legislature are
staffing on the job better than they
have for a long time; there are al-
ways from 115 to 130 present at all
roll calls and everything is moving
smoothly. Speaker Barron has the
house under good control and is
giving the people a straight business
man’s^ job of presiding. We have
shut out of the hall all visitors or
lobbyists and have a nice place roped
off in the “buzzard roost” where they
can enjoy the scenery and the flow
of oratory from a respectable dis-
tance, which leaves room an<L quiet
for the members. The house on
Thursday and Friday made a special
rule to allow members o fthe news-
paper fraternity the privilege of the
floor, and most of those attending the
meeting here availed themselves of
the opportunity of seeing the work
of enacting law. Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Schweker of Brady and “Billy” Smith
of San Saba were visitors at our desk
during the meet. The newspaper men
and women are always welcome here,
especially are the so-caller “country
editors” welcome, as it is through the
country press that most of us get
our “impressions” of what the peo-
ple at home want us to give them.
. JAMES FINLAY, Box 261,
Capitol Station, Austin, Tex.
BILL PROVIDES STIFF
ELECTION WAGER PENALTY
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—Echoes are
still being heard from the tragic
Dallas election bet case and the bet-
ting two years ago on the Marshall-
Seale sheriff’s race in Dallas county.
On Monday there was turned into the
house bill hopper a measure signed
by Representatives S. E. Barnett of
Greenville, Ray Holder of Lancaster
and Harry N. Graves of Georgetown,
raising the penalty for betting on
public elections held in this state re-
gardless of what kind of an election
it is.
Under the present law it is only a
fine. The bill started. on its course
Monday adds a jail sentence of from
10 days to one year. The fine ranges
from $25 to $200.
The Birth of Christ.
(B.I.B., Beaumont)
There are some strange and appar-
ently mysterious facts connected with
our Savior’s birth; leaving out the
prophecies of His coming, works,
gifts and the awful tragedy of His
atonement for the sins of humanity,
it is well to remember, among other
things, that the very stars in the
glorious constellations of the zodiac
(by their peculiar positions in the
heavens) lent their testimony to the
fact that He was the true Messiah,
the Christ, the Virgin born Redeem-
er, the Divine Son of God. It is a
matter of record among both Gentile
and Jew, that the patriarch Seth,
gave out a prophesy, that at the
period in which the Messiah would
appear there would appear “a very
bright star” in the heavens. Now if
we remember the fate that the sign
of Virgo (the virgin) to all ancient
people, represented the mother of
“the Dearest One” and the Star Coma,
represented her infant, we will see
that four strange happenings took
place in Connecticut with our Savior’s
birth and life; for it is a matter of
astronomical record, that “a new and
peculiar star” did appear in the first
decan of Virgo preceding Christ’s
birth, and it was so bright it could be
seen in daytime, and continued in
the sky during the whole period of
Christ’s lifetime. (The Chinese also
mention this “bright star” about the
time of our Savior’s birth.) Now
there are three other astronomic facts
connected with our Savior’s birth as
follows: “At the precise hour of mid-
night, winter solstice, last week of
December, in the period in which
Christ was born, the sign of the
Virgin Mother (Virgo) was just ris-
ing on the eastern horizon, and at
the spring equinox of the same per-
iod (just nine months earlier) this
sign of the Virgin at midnight was
on the meridian, Avith the line run-
ning precisely across her bosom, and
at the same date at midnight, the
stars cf the little constellation Coma
(sign of the infant seed of the
NEFF IS WINNER
OVER MAYFIELD
Washington, Feb. 11.—A favorable
report on the nomination of Pat M.
Neff of Texas, to be a member of
the United States board of media-
tion was made to the senate today by
its interstate commerce committee
over the pfotest of Senator Mayfield
of Texas.
Opposition to the appointment was
voiced by labor organisations on the
ground that Neff was not “tempera-
mentally” suited to act as a mediator
in labor disputes. Neff himself tes-
tified that in the past he had always
sought to exercise fair judicial de-
meanor.
Chairman Watson announced the
vote as 86 to 6 in favor of confirma-
tion, but did not make public the com-
mittee roll call.
The vote was 8 to 5.
Although a fight against Neff’s
confirmation is expected when it comes
up on the senate floor, the opposition
made no announcement of who would
carry it on.
Neff had begun serving on the board
and the nomination would continue
him for another term.
For Saturday-16tli
Damnable Blackmail.
Forgeries, are extant seeking to
represent Senators Borah and Norris
as on the Soviet payroll. Exhibits
submitted were represented to be
photographed copies of documents
purporting to show that these two
senators have received $100,000 each
from the Soviet Embassy at Paris.
The high reputation of the two
men might have seemed to make any
investigation into such preposterous
charges unnecessary, but the senate
committee made as thorough an in-
vestigation as though the charges had
been credible, and were unable to find
the slightest corroboration of them.
The originals of some of these docu-
ments were offered to the committee
for a price, but the person offering
them admitted he had no proof of
their genuineness.
As the charges had never become
public the committee was inclined not
to broadcast the baseless slanders by
revealing the fact that they had been
under investigation, but the two sen-
ators very creditably and properly
insisted that the entire affair should
have the fullest publicity. Thus the
danger of a whispering campaign
based on the exploded forgeries was
avoided.
There is increasing evidence that
the forgery of documents affecting the
credit of public men has become, as
Senator Robinson of Arkansas says,
a “business.” Its evident purpose is
political and personal blackmail. But
perjury and forgery are impotent
weapons when directed against men
of the character and courage of Borah
and Norris. The arm of the law
should reach out and seize and pun-
ish the blackmailers and character-
We Will Give
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Double
Green
COMMISSIONERS COURT
IN REGULAR MEETING
The Lampasas County Commission-
ers Court met Monday morning, Feb-
ruary 11th, in quarterly session at
the courthouse and went through with
the regular routine business of going
over accounts and reports of the offi-
cers of the county.
The Peoples National Bank was se-
lected as the depository for the county
funds for the year.
Angelo Man Buys Ranch Here.
A deal has just been closed in
which J. W. Evans of San Angelo
uurchased the A. C. Allen ranch, 12
miles north of Lampasas. This is
known as the Col Beardon ranch and
consists, of 3,000 acres and is a well
improved place. The ranch sold for
$25 per acre and the deal was made
by J. B. Coockrell, local real estate
dealer ,who was assisted in the sale
by T. L. Luke of San Angelo. Mr.
Evans may become a citizen of this
Mace, however he has not made
known his intentions at this time.
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woman) was along with the Virgin gu]jet[n
directly on the meridian, and it mark- j ’ ___
ed the very head of the “infant,” and
these facts can today be verified by
any competent astronomer. There
are hundreds of other facts regarding
our Savior’s birth which are a warn-
ing to the true Christian to absolutely
refuse to discard God’s inspired word
for the idle hypotheses of fallible
man, and which are forever imprison-
ed in the realm of speculation from
which they can never escape and be
proved to be true.
CROWD DEFIANT AS MEXICAN
SLAYER RETURNED TO DUST
Mexico City, Feb. 10.—The body of
Jose DeLeon Toral, executed by a
firing squad yesterday for his assas-
sination of General Alvaro Obregon,
was buried at 5 o’clock this evening
in the Spanish cemetery on the out-
skirts of the capital. Three persons
were killed, 30 injured and about 30
arrested, according to police reports
of the struggle of thousands to see
the cortege as it passed or to witness
the brief service at the grave. Only
a few persons were admitted to the
cemetery, blit probably 100,000 lined
the streets shouting “Viva Toral” and
throwing flowers on the procession
as it passed. Several thousand police
lined the route. Firemen frequently
threw hose on the crowds and the
crowds retaliated in a few instances
by throwing stones.
Catholic priests in civilian dress
conducted services beside the grave.
A squadron of mounted police with
drawn sabres charged into the ceme-
tery and galloped up the main drive-
way just before the body was lowered
;nto the grave as a precaution against
last minute disorders.
BILL TO INCREASE CONFED-
ERATE PENSIONS IS VOTED
Austin, Tex,, Feb. 11.—Hornsby’s
nil, which would permit the increase
■>f Confederate pensions to $50 a
nonth, pursuant to constitutional
mendment, adopted last year, was
>assed today in the senate.
Mob Menaces Northcott.
Riverside, Cal., Feb. 11.—Gordon
Stewart Northcott, convicted of slay-
ing three boys on his Wineville, Cal.
chicken farm, saw, the shadow of an
untimely noose cast on the walls of
his cell here early Sunday as 250 men
surrounded the jail and N. R. Wines-
low demanded of Sheriff Clem Sweet-
ers that he be allowed to see the
prisoner to “get the actual truth.”
Through a pall of smudge smoke
at 2 o’clock Sunday morning 55 auto-
mobiles suddenly appeared on the
streets by the county jail.
Wineslow, for the murder of whose
sons, Lewis and Nelson, Northcott
will be sentenced to hang Monday,
walked to the jail door and rang the
night bell. Sheriff Sweeters and three
deputies answered. Wineslow offered
quit ■ claim deeds to all his property
as security that the men would not
harm Northcott, and asserted that he
wanted to get the truth from the
prisoner concerning the burial place
of his boys.
Five armed men had advanced from
the crowd in the street, and followed
Wineslow into the jail.
“I know we are outnumbered 50
to 1,” Sheriff Sweeters said, “but you
men can get Northcott only over our
bodies. We are here to safeguard
the prisoner. The same law which
demands that we will do that will take
Northcott’s life. Bloodshed now would
be foolish.”
Northcott, who had been awakened
by the noise, began shrilly pleading
for protection.
“Sheriff, we believe you are right,”
Wineslow said after conferring with
the others in the corner of the jail
waiting room, and he shook hands
with Sweeters and left the jail. The
mob dispersed shortly.
Sheriff Sweeters summoned twenty
additional deputies and a constant
vigil was maintained throughout the
night.
RECAPTURED CONVICT
GRANTED FURLOUGH
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—Alva Towns-
ley, serving life sentence .for mur-
der committed in Williamson county,
who recently was recaptured after es-
caping from the penitentiary, was
granted a two-day furlough by Gov-
ernor Moody Monday to allow him to
visit his sister, dangerously ill in a
hospital at Temple. Townsley will
be accompanied by two guards.
Townsley was convicted of slaying
Representative Charles Field of Lee
county at a football game played at
Georgetown between the Georgetown
and Giddings high schools.
KEROSENE FIRE BURNS
SEVEN MEMBERS OF FAMILY
Miss Lorena Field returned to Dal-
las Monday morning where she is
a student in a busienss college, after
a visit at Lake Victor with her par-
ents.
Logansport, La., Feb. 11.—A father
and daughter were perhaps fatally
burned and five children were slightly
burned early Sunday morning when
A. Z. Runnels, 40 years old, the
father, poured kerosene on live coals
in attempting to start a fire to heat
up the family’s home.
Miss Rosemary Hoffman To Wed.
Lampasas friends have received in-
vitations to the maiTiage of Miss
Rosemary Hoffman of Houston to
Michael Joseph Levitin, on the nine-
teenth of February at the Warwick
Hotel in Houston. Miss Hoffman is
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Hoffman, who formerly made their
home in Lampasas and were engaged
in the drug business here.
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Mrs. Frank Snell has returned home
from a visit in Houston with her
1 daughter, Miss Bernice.
Lampasas Chick Hatchery
24,000 Egg Capacity
Experienced management; custom hatching a
specialty. Setting days, Monday and Thursday of
each week. Can furnish baby chicks of the most
popular breeds, from pure-bred, accredited flocks,
white diarrhea tested. Baby chick prices, eleven
to fifteen dollars per hundred.
Lampasas Chick Hatchery
611 W. Third St. — Rural Phone
Lampasas, Texas
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