La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1931 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE FOUR
LAGRANGE JOURNAL
THIN6S IN GENERAL
(Continued from page one.)
shall cease—came up in the lower
house, it was defeated by a narrow
margin. One of the main supporters
of the submission question, a good
loser, made this statement to the
writer: “Those opposed to submia-
e'on have made a serious mistake,
thpy have thwarted the will of the
people.” Events that followed, proved
the contention of this man to be
true, and we all know what we have
to contend with now.
Now get that, the people were de-
nied the right to vote on a question,
and to determine its settlement; here
is another opportunity to vote, and
yet the opponents, either through
fear, or bent on convincing them-
selves that they are the guardians of
the voters’ conscience, do not want
the question to be submitted to the
people and either adopted, or killed
for all time, by their vote. What has
this to do with the “better times"
slogan? Why, bless your little heart,
it has everything in the world to do
with it; to place the bond issue be-
fore the people and let them vote,
will settle agitation and give us all
time to study the elimination of hard
times. To thwart the will of the peo-
ple by legislative action, and by urg-
ing such action, is a candid admis-
sion that they, these caustic agita-
tors, are afraid to let the people de-
cide, or they are afraid the people
are not intelligent enough to decide.
• • •
Gangster Draws a Compromise
Verdict—14 Years.
The world of the United States
can now turn its attention to any
ether sensational happening the ma-
jority of the people may decree that
it should, we have had the verdict in
the trial of a man by the name of
Brothers—there is nothing in a
name—who was charged by indict-
ment with the killing of Alfred Lin-
gle, Chicago newspaper reporter, a
killing that portrayed the manner
and habit of the men who are dubbed
“gangsters.” Lingley was shot to
death last June as he was in the sub-
way to take the car and ride to the
race track, both as a spectator and
reporter for the paper he represen-
ted.
The illustration furnished to the
reading and interested public in this
trial and its verdict, is easy to com-
prehend; it shows beyond the perad-
venture of a doubt that testimony in
a case when tried in Chicago, does
not bear with the strong influence to
carry conviction, sufficient to be
classed as “commensurate with the
crime committed. The murder of
Lingley was one of the most delib-
erate, most calm and the most cold-
blooded that has come under the eyes
of the commonwealth. Lingley knew
too much of the gangster plans, and,
himself having accepted some of the
loose money, and having gambled on
the races, yet hired to report for his
paper and bring good stories, based
cn fact, was a detriment to the gang-
sters and to some of the men in pub-
lic office.
That a jury should deliberate on
such testimony as was introduced,
that the prosecution should have
failed to show “why” the newspaper
a protectorate be thrown about the
tepublic in order that the “threaten-
ing menace” be kept back.
We do not believe that sinster mo-
tives have prompted the two coun-
tries — Germany and Austria — to
TEXAS AND TEXANS
(Continued from page one).
500 in building contracts let for the
, first two weeks in March in the 37
align. This eo-caHed recognition an«fj states east of Rocky mountains.
placid praise for the “come back” i These figures do not include road and
that both have staged, is likened to bridge building and atreet paving,
the crow-eating contests one reado | l-nt cover merely building con sir uc-
about when a bunch of willful agita-: tion. They are nearly $8,500,000 in
tors are relegated. The progress, the ■ excess of figures gathered in the
advance made and the commercial same way for a like period last year
reporter waa shot to death, and that I activities of Germany, together with | and represent a 45 per cent increase
a compromise verdict—one between I that of Austria, fighting to keep alive over the same period in February
death and acquittal—should be ren- and meet the obligations imposed are and 29 per cent gain over a like per-
mere sequels that will present them- j iod in January of this year. All of
selves in any country or countires1 which shows the upward trend in
where the heavy burden of responsi
dered, are the “whys” for a people
to ponder over. The best opportunity
tnat can be given the defense to ask
for another trial, is offered in this
verdict, and the defense has taken
advantage of the loop hole. There is
n fair sample of justice in Chicago.
The man can kill, but he smiles and
denies, he is identified as the man
who fired the shot, but the motive is
lacking. And unless he is eventually
given his liberty, some man, higher
up, is going to be taken out for a
one-way ride.
Lingley was shot as he walked
through the'' subway, the last thing
known for him to do, was to wave
his hand to some parties in a car as
he entered the subway, this was be-
lieved to have been the signal for
identification so that the assassin
made no mistake; suddenly a man
was seen to throw away a lighted
cigarette, and in company with an-
other walk up behind Lingley, pull
out a gat and shoot the reporter in
the back .of the head, throw away his
bility has fallen. To work alone is
heavy, to work together is encourag-
ipg.
France should devote itself to the
intelligent effort it has been shown
in t.he past she can manifest, and
r.ot appeal to the world as she does.
Her action, post-war, is sufficient to
give even the least intelligent the
impression that her gratitude is
more superficial than real. She is
willing to take all she can get, and
takes it when offered, but hesitates
to reciprocate, when reciprocity is
essential. France should also take
cognizance of the fact that the boys
who lay in the trenches in her for-
est and open country, still have a
memory.
ALMOST SUFFOCATED
Mrs. Earhardt Sander came near
suffering a fatality Tuesday after-
glove and make a run out of the tun- noon. She was at work in the clothes
nel. Identified later by responsible
parties, witnesses to the crime, and
given a compromise verdict.
This shows, without argument,
what life is worth in the great crime
city of Chicago.
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Alliances Are For Protection
Commercially Speaking.
Fear seems to be entertained by
the French that the reported alliance
between Germany and Austria broods
evil for the republic of France. Cen-
turies seem not to dispel from her
the fear that the countries aligned in
the late war are not her enemies,
enemies that will lurk at the border,
tcady to strike when it becomes ne-
cessary. The late treaties furnished
are regarded as not severe enough,
that Germany still nurses a grudge
and is bent on getting back the ter-
ritory that rightfully belongs to her.
France, the mecca for the tourists,
and living on the money they can
exact from those tourists, the coun-
try where one can live and spend to
a heart's wish, is ever in a quandry,
and is ever seeking to advise the
world the same alarm it feels. The
grqat bug-bear seems to not die
down, there is ever a life to the vis-
ionary enemy and that life is cher-
ished and kept active, to the end that
NASH
Quality Bodies for
Quality Cars
closet of her home, the Waitman
house, when her little child closed
the door, trapping Mrs. Sander, be-
cause the latch was on the outside.
She remained there for about two
hours, and was rescued when two
young lady teachers who room at the
same place, came in from school.
They accidentally heard a faint
noise, investigated, and called the
neighbors who opened the door, find-
ing her in a swoon. The young ladies
generally go by town on their way
from school, and had they done so
that afternoon, the probabilities are
that Mrs. Sander would have been
dead.—Giddings News.
Instead of transportation
We give you refrigeration—
This keeps our meats cold,
Which makes our story
To you well told.
—Kreuz Market.
Purina Cow-Chow and other
feedstuff s at Ehlers Grain Co.
building activities and indicates bet-
ter times.
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Canning Factories
A can manufacturing plant to cost
$150,000 is being established at
Houston to supply largely the can-
ning trade of Texas and Louisiana.
A number of new canneries are be-
ing built now in Texas, among which
U a large packing and canning plant
at Mission to handle the enormous
vegetable and citrus tonnage of that
section. The constant increase in can-
ning plants and in home canneries
creates a large demand for Texas-
made cans.
• * •
Building Under Passes.
The Southern Pacific Railway an-
nounces that it has planned to spend
$3,900,000 on under passes in the city
of Houston. The attention of Presi-
dent Hoover’s unemployment commis-
sion is respectfully called to this item
of construction in Texas.
. * * *
Weatherford Brick Plant
It is reported that Weatherford
will build a large brick plant to help
supply the increasing demand for
Texas brick. The plants throughout
the State are reporting that the use
of brick in building is expanding
steadily.
* • •
Del Rio Theatre Building
That Del Rio is now in the “city
class” is shown in the report that it
is to have a new $150,000 moving pic-
ture building. That sum of money is
never spent for a theatre building ex-
cept in thriving towns.
• • •
Some Tomato Plants
Grapeland tomato growers have
bought 6,000,000 tomato plants at
Mission to take the place of plants
killed in a freeze. Evidently Grape-
land growers are expecting a toma-
to market which they intend to sup-
ply. It is estimated that there will
be 33,000 acres in tomatoes in Texas
this year, compared with 42,000 acres
I in all other States combined.
Text* Onions, Too
Texas will have an onion crop this
year of 21,000 acres, which will be
more than twice as much as all other
states combined, according to esti-
mates made by the Market News Bu-
reau at San Antonio.
• • *
Getting Natural Gas
Alpine and Marfa are two progres-
sive towns of West Texas that ex-
pect to have natural gas in a few
weeks. The apparently unlimited sup-
ply of gas in Texas is justifying the
extension of gas mains to all sections
of the State.
* • •
Flowers Advertise Texas
Spring flowers are now in a riot
of bloom in Central and Southern
Texas and are winning the admira-
tion of Texans and tourists alike.
Visitors from the North especially
wonder at the marvelous beauty of
the flowers , seen from every roadside.
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American Legion
Dances
Saturday, April 18—Modern
Dance—Music by Babe Schind-
ler.
Wednesday, April 22—Old-
Time Dance—Music by Sirocka’s
Orchestra.
Progression is here,
On with the times,
Its Kreuz’s Market
Always in line.
APRIL 9, 1981
E. H. PATTON QUITS TEACHING
Prof. E. H. Patton has announced
that he is quitting the teaching pro-
fession and will henceforth enter the
insurance business.
We understand he has taken the
agency for the Sterling Mutual Life.
That he will shortly move to La-
Grange to make that city his head-
quarters and -that he will work in
and around all of the towns of this
section of the state.-
We regret losing this splendid
family frpm our city. We sincerely
hope that Prof. Patton more than
realizes his fondest hopes in the in-
surance business, and that he grows
rich in his new location.—Schulen-
fcurg Sticker.
THANKS FOR POEM
The Journal has received, from its
friend Houston Wade at Houston, a
poem believed to have been written
during the progress of the civil war
by a little Louisiana girl who was
nursing in a Confederate Hospital
and had a Northern boy soldier
brought to the institution one day.
The poem is thankfully received and
will appear on the front page of eur
next issue, in the column usually
used by our weekly poem. The fact
that it fits in so well on our mem-
oral day—decoration day under the
auspices of our noble organization,
Ladies’ Cemetery Association, found-
ed over fifty years ago—makes the
poem more interesting.
L-U-M-B-E-R
If its Lumber, Builders’ Hardware, Galvanized Roof-
ing, Paints, Oils and Glass you are needing—don’t fail to
figure with us. We have it as good as any on the market
—at live and let live prices.
SCHUBERT LUMBER CO.
“The Home Builders”
TW TASH employs the most advanced prin-
JL v ciple of steel, wood and composite con-
struction—the same kind of construction
used in bodies for the highest priced cars.
Interiors are tailored in quality mohairs,
whipcords, broadcloths or genuine leather.
Seat springs are exceptionally deep and
restful, while arm rests are so built as to
afford unusual comfort. Interior and exte-
rior hardware is executed in chaste design,
complementing the body design as a whole.
Insulation against heat in summer and cold
in winter is of course provided. Come in—
drive a Nash; but don’t permit its remark-
able performance to overshadow the
equally notable excellence of its body.
Delivered Prices— Cars Fully Equipped —
Nothing More to Buy!
Winter’s Inclement Weather
Presages...
Many little ills such as Coughs, Colds and LaGrippe,
which, if not checked in time, may develop into a pro-
longed illness. See your doctor, bring his prescription to
us. Only the purest of drugs sold here; all physicians’
prescriptions carefully compounded.
A Registered Druggist Always in Charge
MEYENBERG DRUG STORE
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SERVICE GARAGE
JANSSEN & PETZOLD
and E
ANOTHER REAL
OLD-TIME DANCE
Will be Given by the
FIRE DEPARTMENT
At The Legion Hall
La Grange, Texas
| TUESDAY, APRIL 14th
Music For the Occasion
Furnished by
SIROCKA’S OLD-TIME
DANCE ORCHESTRA
No modern dances allowed; strictly AN OLD-TIME
DANCE with “quadrilles or square dances”; schot-
tisch, two-step, polka and waltz. Save your energy
for the big dance, help your Fire Boys.
(MW)
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Trip Rates
NOW!
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With limit to return in 30 days
From any station on the M-K-T. Lines
in Texas.
To all points in Texas and Louisiana.
ONLY ONE AND ONE-THIRD FARES
FOR THE ROUND TRIP
STOPOVERS! YOU CAN STOPOVER
AT ANY POINT EN ROUTE EITHER ON
GOING OR ON THE RETURN TRIP.
Good on all Trains and in sleeping cars
on payment of Pullman fare.
Ride in comfort; save time and expense.
Comfortable coaches and chair cars
Peaceful Pullmans
Excellent Dining Car Service.
Try this new innovation in low
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or write
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Passenger Traffic Manager
DALLAS, TEXAS
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La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1931, newspaper, April 9, 1931; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997921/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.