The Troup Banner (Troup, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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THE TROUP BANNER
THURSDAY. APRIL 11. 1935.
part
NOW to halt a quick return to
■oal *<-uttle and the destruction
! of *he basis for much of the industrial
and commercial development of the
Ranhanc'le May we count on you?—
. _ ._ ------j From the Ai..arillo Daily News of
Entered at the postoffice at Troup, March 26.
Texas, as second-class
under Act of Congress
1879.
The Troup Banner
HENRY EDWARDS & SON
Publishers
stead it absorbs the stored savings of
centuries, just as a snail absorbs ‘h<
leaf of the plant it finally destroys.
THINGS ONE REMEMBERS
mail matter
of March 8,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year..................— I1.M
Six Months ----------------------»0
Time Months------------------ SO
Formal obituaries, revolutions of
We people of East Texas may not
be as greatiy concerned about thi*
“scandalous and criminal" waste of
one of the States greatest natural re- i
sources as we ought to be. We ought
to write our legislators, Hon. Tom P.
Cooper, Jr., and Hon. Sidney Latham,
and also our Senator, Hon. Will D.
Pace. This wastage is comparable to
respect and personal cards of thanks the condition* of oil production in the •
will be charged for at the regular r.z.f{ Texas field before we had |
advertising rates.
1 any adequate or definite or effective
When requesting your paper ~t7 be prcrst.on laws respecting oil. Oil was
changed from one postoffice address selling at less than 10 cents per bar-f
to another, be sure to give the post re'—and landowner, royalty and lease-
office address lo which your paper is holders were being robbed of their
NOW going as well as that to which hieriUge from Mother
you wish It changed. < Earth-end the entire oil industry
was being wrecked. Had condition*
* remained a* they were in the East
* Texas oil field the state would have
* been robbed of multiplied millions of
* tax revenues. That feature of it, at
* least, was of common interest to every
* citizen of Texas. The Panhandle Gas
* fields present the same problem, there
* beirg less than two per cent of the
* ' gas leases connected up with adequate
* outlets, However, those who are oper-1
ating the “stnnpng plants" are rob-1
* | bing all the fieida and those land and I
leaseholders wdio have no connections
•re suffering irreparable losses.
Whoever your Representatives and
Senators are, write ar.d urge that
they put a stop to this unspeakable bit
of vandalism that robs individual and
robs the whole state. The natural gas
resource, at least ir. so far as it pro-
duces revenues and sustains tax-pay-
ing industries for the whole state, is
our concern.
DISTINCTIONS
The Banner has been awarded
the A. H. Belo A Company Lov-
ing Cups, in all contests it has
ever entered for being “The
Best All-round Weekly News-
paper in Texas." It was award-
ed First Prize in the First An-
nual Exhibit (1924) of weekly
newspapers fostered by the Tex-
as Rural Writer’s Conference.
Recently I talked to a district
manager of one of the largest brok-
erage houses in the country. He com-
mented on the fear and uncertainty
that political investigations of indus-
tries engender ir. thq public mind. As
an example, he brought up the most
recently announced investigation—
that of the telephone system.
He said that shortly nfter the an-
nouncement, which brought a sharp
drop in telephone stock, an old couple
whom he knew, came into ’nis office.
The man did odd gardening jobs
while hi? wife tended a small milk
goat herd. During a lifetime, they had
■sated #3,000 which was invested in
American Telephone & Telegraph
stock. They wanted to know what to
do. They feared for their savings and
their dividends.
What could the manager tell them?
Little or nothing. For when politics
takes the helm, business stability
flits out of the window.
Savings can be legislated, regulat-
ed. investigated and taxed out of ex-
istence.
Who can tel! the old couple what
to do?—R. M. Hofer.
is indifferent. We have often thought
thut the importance of our duties as
individual citizens, and as collective
groups in political units or subdivis-
ions. is not properly appreciated. Oth-
erwise those agencies of govern-
ment set up under our democratic
form all the way from the Federal
government down to the precinct, the
city ward and the school district,
would function more effectively. We
trust the “Triple C Club” will per-
form so well in this field that they
may become a pattern and their ach-
ievements therein an inspiration to
others. Small movements in remote
corners of the country have, not in-
frequetly in our past history, grown
to be nation-wide in scope and in-
fluence. Why can not Sand Flat’s
“Triple C’s” become one of them?
As to the purpose of the new or-
ganization to nuture the Farm Exten-
sion clubs and enlarge their accom-
plishments every one who knows our
own friendliness toward these clubs
knows that we commend this object-
ive of the “Triple C’s.”
The«e editorial observations are
made here and now to commend our
young friends of Sand Flat and en-
courage them in their worthy efforts
for spiritual, civic and material ad-
vancement and service to others. :
Buy Advertised Products — They’re Best
iC-Ti
i SAND FLAT “TRIPLE C CLUB"
U. S. Buys Notorious Bandit j I
Hideout for Game Preserve
From Sand Flat one of our regular
The notorious Cookson Hills of Eas.1
tern Oklahoma, bandit rendezvous1
correspondents reports the organiza- since the days of Belle Starr, train-
tion of the “Triple C Club,” and or-! robbing outlnw queen of the Seven-
ganization formed by “twelve enthu-! f’es\ar£ V* be promptly depopulated
... . j , „ bv the Federal Government and trans-
siastic and interested young people.’ forme(l tat# a Karne refufre, according
The club, the news item stales, will to announcement by the Rural Rehab-
three major fields of com- ™
.. pUiige.. -
f toOZ think—talk—writt . . .
Ttx« Ctnttnnial in 1936/ This
is to bi my ctlthration. In iti
gloria that art to ht.
M
PANHANDLE GAR WASTE IS
SCANDALOUS AND CRIMINAL
One Panhandle “stripping plant”
alone wastea into the air some days
twice the gas used for domestic pur-
poses in all of Texas! Yet it is only
one of more than fifty such plants
that are blowing our irreplaceable
natural gas to the winds in such gi-
gantic quanities that it is nationally
known as the greatest and most ruth-
less destruction of a natural resource
In the history of the world! Secretary
of Iinterior Ickes has been so concern-
ed that he labeled it in a recent ad-
dress “an example of such cruel and
devilish waste that it almost stag-
gers the imagination.” He called up-
on the people of Texas to stop it
promptly and effectively.
These plants blow1 away 97 per cent
of the heating value of the natural
gaa to get only one-third of a gal-
lon of natural gasoline worth, whole-
sale, about 1 cent, from each 1000
cubic feet of natural gas run through
their plants. The dry gas they discard
into the air is perfect fuel—and ev-
ery 1,000 cubic feet so wasted must
bo replaced some day, probably by
coal—and you will have to buy your
share, as well as suffer the inconven-
ience, soot, changing over of heating
equipment, and higher fuel costs
which coal means.
In the Panhandle today, a ton of
soft coal—the cheapest kind—costa
about fir.no a tod for lump coal.
kou know how little your gas bill is
in winter months In comparison—and
remember that it includes gas range
and water heater gas as well as room
heating fuel.
In view of the tremendous quanti-
ties of gas now being wasted into the
•ir—plus the startling increases in
this wastage—this is not the prob-
lem of the future. The ill-advised law
passed by the Texas Legislature last
year must be repealed—and repealed
quickly, if we are to save our nat-
ural gas reserves, and our oil field
which depends on the gaa for pres-
sure. It is up to you, and up to ev-
ery other thinking citiaen to do his
TRUCKS OR PASSENGER CARS,
WHICH ?
labor in
munity interest, namely, church and
club activities. By the latter term we
presume that the “club activities" the
promoters of the organization have
in mind are the activities of the 4-H
and WHD clubs operating under
plans and directions of Farm Exten-
sion.
We can not forecast just what me-
itation Service. Since the Civil War
this trackless fastness has harbored
the famous outlaws of the Southwest
and many who have found refuge
from other regions. These include
Jesse James and many others.
Frequent raids into the hills were
consistently without result. Officers
complained that residents resented
official invasion aind sheltered the
criminal element through abject fear.
The 400 families, 336 white or In-
. _ ___i or
During the year 1933 there were in
Texas 1,487 accidents on our high-
ways in which trucks figured. In ---------------»— ------— i ,.---- , .... ___ .
these accidents 362 persons were kill- thods the Triple C club will utilize h. Muskogee
ed and 1,972 injured. The year 1934 the prosecution of treir plans andjeounty when the Federal government
the attainment of their objectives, completes the purchase of the 50,000
But we can not imagine three finer acres for $400,000. There are 12,000
atten- acros ’n *be resettlement area, to cost
shows an alarming increase in such
accidents. Last year there were 1,701
accidents, causing the death of 515 { objectives to which study and
persons and wounding 2,315.
During these two years the Inter-
state Commerce Commission’s report
shows that the railroads of Texas did the 4-H and It HD groups,
not kill a single passenger. Suppose ! The church, viewed in the larger
the railroads had killed 515 passen-: a«pects of non-iectarian nuturing
gers and wo'nrded 2,315 others last i and support, offers an inviting field
year, oh what a howl would go up! It [ for service; because, through it, ore
. . . . , about $360,000. In some cases the
tion might be given with hopes of pjjjj owners are exchanging their
usefulness tnan the church, civic mat- present acreage for the new. Braggs,
ters and the growth and usefulness of the only town in the area, population
j 350. is not included in the removal
project. t
Welcome to
Troup's New
PLYMOUTH
AND
DODGE
DEALERS
UNITED SALES,
Our good wishes are offered to the members of this new
Troup firm; E. H. Harris, Rosa White, Ted High, Ward
Birdwell.
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL OF YOU
Phillips-T aylor,
SUCCESSORS TO NORMAN’S VARIETY STORE
TROUP
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may avail himself of opportunities
for larger i-piritual development for
himself and for larger usefulness to
others. As to civic studies and activ-
ities, there is a field for usefulness
that we havq often thought—and yet
to our
person
might be well to add that for every
$1.00 paid by the trucks on ad valor-
em taxes that the railroads paid $132.
The railroads of Texas contribute 96
cents in taxes for every school child
in Texas. The big truck pays one-half
as much gas tajq as you pay for your think—lies almost fallow. As
small car, while occupying four times civic obligations, the average
the space on the highways. Trucks «——— .■—» ■—■ n
are a necessary part of our transpor-
tation service but they should be re-
quired to build their own highways
and return our tan built roads to the
passenger cars for whom they were
constructed It must come to this, or
■s the truck business increases, pas-1
senger cars will have to abandori the
highways.—The Marshall Morning
News. ;
THE POLITICAL SNAILS
The continued political agitation to
confiscate capital under the guise of
redistribution of wealth and income,
to increase taxes to the breaking
point, to compete with private enter-
prise with government business un-
dertakings in many lines of edeavor,
ad to destroy holdings companies and
the saving of millions of helpless
Investors, is bearing fruit—it is dis-
couraging, if nob actually preventing
norma! business recovery.
Unemploymenb continues at a peak
figure according to official reports,
and the number of families on relief
rolls is at n record point.
How long before the great mass of
Amercan citizens will realize that
their livings, their jobs and their
savings come only from industrial ac-
tivity, individual opportunity and pri-
vate enterprise, remains to be seen.
Political doles, political jobs, poli-
tical control of business and the in-
dividual, result in wholesale public
charity, destruction of opportunity,
exhorbitant taxation.
Politics produces no wealth. In-
BLACK-DRAUGHT
“Such a Good Laxative,” Says Nnrae
Writing from bar home In Fes-
tus, Mo., Mrs. Anna LaPlanta says:
"I am a practical nurse and I rec-
ommend to some of my patients
that they taka Black-Draught, for
it la such a good laxative. I took
It for constipation, headache and a
dull feeling Utah X had so much. A
few doees of Black-Draught—and
X felt just fin*."
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Congratulating
Our Good
Friends
We congratulate our good friends, Roas White, Ted High, E. H. Harris and
Ward Birdwell on the opening of their new firm, United Sales, Inc., Dodge
and Plymouth dealers at Troup. Troup Motors, Inc., extends'its best wishes
to its friends and neighbors who make up the new firm, trusting that success in
abundance may be theirs.. We gladly welcome you. our friends, and we again
express our wishes for your prosperity in* large measure.
TROUP MOTORS, Inc.
Joe H. Baker, Mgr.
SALES
SERVICE
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