The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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the city.
Executive
university in Washington. D.
and
memorials,
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dieting from these two sites
been
INSURANCE
with
Fire, Tornado, Hail, Automobile
the government one place,
BEYOND ALL
is
EXPECTATIONS
Plaza Theatre
—NOW PLAYING—
Warber Bros. Sensational 100 per cent Talking drama
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Attend this Sale
CARS
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Registered for 1929
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SHOES
ALL NEXT WEEK, FEB. 4-9
Four
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50c Underwear ..
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GEORGE M. COHANS COMEDY
50c Hose
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|1.50 Shirts
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with
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SUITS &
OVERCOATS
The golden voice of the south
GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON
PARIS, TEXAS
“Where you IIEAR-what you SEE”
Bargains were promised! Bargains beyond
expectations are here—Piece Goods,
Shoes and Clothing bought at a
great discount now tagged and marked
at Real Savings. Hundreds have at-
tended; liberal buying has been
the rule—values beyond your
expectations is the reason.
The first ALL-TALKING motion picture version
of a stage production.
250 Suits and Overcoats must be sold if
possible. Cost Prices and Less is the way
we are moving them out.
The Better
Place to Eat
WHEN IN PARIS
IS THE
Don’t
on
RICHARD BENNETT,
ROBERT McWADE,
You’ll hear it word for word, line for line as on the stage!
Washington
wonders,
—singing—
“CHLOE” “JUST LIKE A MELODY OUT
OF THE SKY”
monu-i .
in 1
DORIS KENYON
ROBERT EDESON
and west and north and south
streets—the intersections mark-
ed by squares and circles and
Mrs. Dee Thompson who has
been ill for some time, is re-
ported improving, and is able
to be up some.
M. V. ANDERSON, Agent
GREAT SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE CO.
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Saratoga Cafe
34 Bonham St.
D. W. WAIR, Prop.
ore
On Memorials and Washington
AY, FEB. 1. 1929
■levator for the public buildings, and
is ! here the president and the sec-
WALT ROESNER AND HIS CAPITOLIANS
“Broadway’s Hottest Orchestra”
and
PARAMOUNT NEWS
“CONQUEST”
with
192$ Chevrolet Touring.
1926 Ford Touring.
1925 Ford Touring.
1925 Ford Fordor Sedan.
“THE HOME TOWNEES”
Scarborough
& Caldwell
Dodre Brothen
a.f IfoterCM
‘it
1928 Victory Six Sedan.
1928 Victory Six 5-passen-
ger Brougham.
1927 Dodge Fast
Sedan.
The highest monument in the;
>itiven. 11v kci vt'tt 3w — world is indeed a . v,.v.
, ten months and fourItribute to George Washington, gan in
may be seen the memorials
which have been inserted by As Brownlow, one time presi-
the states of the Union. Look-
ing out of the windows at the
top of the monument a true
view of Washington may be these focal points the city was
obtained. One may see Sugar laid out, diagonal avenues ra-
Loaf mountain, 60 miles to the
northwest, and Mt. Vernon overlying a gridiron of east
(Shrine of liberty, home and
The1 re8t>ng place of George
I had just as well tell you,
although it is with pain, my
banker says these charge ac-
counts are no good, and that if
I want to stay out of the red
(and have my pay to order
honored) that I must bring
home the bacon and deposit it
in their institution to my credit.
And from the way they talk
to me, that means the c-a-s-h.
(And I hope you heard me.)
J. R. Bright, Sole Owner of
Bright’s Drug Store—The place
of Better Health, Fulbright,
Texas.
This device eliminates L’Enfant, an engineer, laid oift
jer of stalling the car ‘
between landings by making
possible the operation of the
elevator at slow speed in case
of failure of the main motor.
There is a stairway in the
monument which, if one seeks
will honor a great man.
man is (
free minded, IEnglish, Federalist, politi-!^0 Capitol City)
cian, Mason, Episcopalian,'"-"- "
farmer, who was a leading have
“dissolving the politic- Jumping out of these windotfs;
” with England. For
the atmosphere of historicity
and politics—one cannot fail to
recall the founder of this city.
The city is a second great tri-
bute to the man we shall honor
on the 22nd of February.
On that day once again will
we see’ the powerful Americans
make room for a bit of senti-
ment.
spots of grass, trees and stat-
uary—the whole giving that
effect that makes strangers say
they can never find their way Ure Mellon said “An example
about in Washington and that for the country”; in breathing
—swear 11 " ‘
easier
By JOHN HAROLD MOORE
John Harold Moore of De-|a statue of him in the famous
port, who is a student at a law Statuary Hall at Washington,
university in Washington, D. When one thinks of Woodrow
C., has sent The Times the fol- Wilson there appears again a
lowing interesting comments on touch of the American senti-
particularly ment. This sentiment is a pro-
those in the capitol city, to cess which will continue on
Washington, our first president, [thru the years, but it is well
whose natal day we celebrate, to look back at its beginning.
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the city of Bourbon)
It may | the squares and triangles were
fivn/1 nnrl tho Qvomina cn urrunnr,
jed that cannons had a clear
when in the course of I range • on the avenues to the
a capitol and the presidential pal-
ace. The idea that the con-
her1 stitution of the United States gross and president might be
. L but the
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capitol. | military reservations'and un-
der the Department of war.
The reason why so many
tourists come to Washington
each year is because it is our
national capitol, and a city of
beauty. William Howard Taft,
1926 Dodge Coupe.
1926 Dodge Sedan.
1926 Dodge Touring —
glass enclosure.
1927 Chevrolet Coupe.
1926 Chevrolet Coach.
on the 22nd. There is also an | Not the ’ true beginning—that
interesting description of the is, not the colonization of the
city of Washington: jnew world, but its beginning in
——— | the sense of men.
Euuopeans are amazed at the
progress and revolutionary dar-1
mg of the' American people,
the American is
gifted in the field of organiza-1
tion, he is, on the other hand i
the most conservative when it
comes to things having senti-1 , r,e >n
mental value for him. It has a* bonds
been said that if he had con-|
nected some sentiment with the,
stairways, he would have been
the last to build elevators; but
he did not, and he was the first
one. The American Worships,,
his past! It is often interest-i,^8'
ing to look into the reasons
why a certain thing in America
has sentiment attached to it. ir
During the summer of 1927 i'°° H "
the editor of The Times took a |
trip, a trip much different from
his usual fishing and hunting!
trips into the wilds of pkk'hq-
ma. In his paper he had watch-]
ed every house
site rise; he
weddings; he
the birth of babies, but
consequence of the 1927
he introduced something differ-'
He transmitted the tra-
Democratic
it the r
exercise, is an interesting way House,” but Jackson named it
to return from the top. On the “The Executive Mansion,”
inner walls of the monument which was changed by Roose-
‘ velt to “The White House.”)
Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, ex-
A hill was found for the cap- president of the United States,
author, ex-newapaper reporter,
ex-professor, said, “Every Am-
erican who enters Washington
----has a sense of proud per-
sonal ownership in the scene
and is rejoiced at its dignity
and beauty.”
As to the future of Washing-
ton to the Sixty-Nineth Con-
gress said Coolidge, a Massa-
chusetts Republican, “Let it ex-
press the soul of America.”
To the visitor obviously a
good job has been done in mak-
ing Washington a . beautiful
city. There is no city in the
world that can be compared to
it. It is unique! In seeing the
wide streets_ which seem all the
wider because here in Wash-
ington very high buildings have
never been permitted; in seeing
the heart of America; in see-
ing as Secretary of the Treas-
j beginning.
-- ' , When “
S;m human events-------” was
Antonio with her memorials—.young declaration and the con-
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a monument was an experiment, several cit-j mobbed is forgotten, but the
, has been erected to our first ies were rivals for the honor of. triangles and squares are still
president. The idea, for a being this Republic’s cI -Q„,i
monument was born in 1783, New York and Philadelphia be-
but it was not until 187G that ing the chief ones.
. the government assumed charge ! Alexander Hamilton, general
|of the monument upon its com- and Federalist statesman, want-
The monument is 555 ed the government one place,
feet high, weighs 81,120 tons, and Thomas Jefferson, the spir-
u* land the thickness of each of it of today’s Democratic party.
I the four walls at the base of wanted to have_the capitol fix-
the shaft is 15 feet. i
• timated that this bit of Amer- ] the result was the capitol on
dn< ican sentiment cost over $1,- the Potomac. S'1”"”4”
It is es-]ed at another. They traded andj ^,llllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllll||||||f|||||!llllll|||||!llllllll!lllll!lllllllllillllllllll||||||||!l!lllllil|||||||||||lill!lllllllllllllllllll^
sentiment cost over $l,-j the Potomac. Seventy square
500,000. ' miles were taken from Mary-
To the visitor the monument land on the north and thirty
a sentinel which greets, yet from Virginia on the south for
reminds. It has no equal in the Federal district, later nam-
the history 6f monument build-jed the District of Columbia,
ing, and it easily takes rank as,The Maryland side was chosen
a world wonder. An e*
has been installed which
equipped with a micro leveling retary .of state, with the aid of
If Possible
itol and another height for the
presidential palace (and presi-
dential palace it was called un-
til the Democratic Jefferson
called it the “President’s
was the reason
MONTE BLUE, TULLY MARSHALL,
II. B. WARNER, LOIS WILSON
dent of the Board of Commis-
sioners of the District, des-
cribes it: “Working from
On February 22, the nation;
~.~n is George Washington, Washington and the mecca for . .
Virginian born, paternal ances- a" make the pilgrimage triangles that are now beauty
) to the r
I southwest. Two or three men
leading nave committed suicide by
*z.I?For but as a precaution against
his efforts which seemed to bei?thers who might seek notor-
guided by something, perhaps, jety, safety railings have .been
a little more than human, he installed across the windows,
was elected president of the
United States. He served sev-
en years,
In the number of years but it is not the only tribute, reign of kings from the House
of service he set a precedent j There is another,
which ■•bar~been abided by by I which bears his name.
(our present president, Calvin I be in point to look at its early ]fixed and the avenues so arrang-
As in Utah where
merits are erected; as
City, in Utah, he would
numerous monuments
memorials to the sea gull. We
learned the reason from the
editor in an interesting way.
We heard the tales that live in
the hearts of people from Utah.
How during the western ex-
pansion the pioneers’ crops in
the Great Salt Lake Valley were
being destroyed by the crick-
ets, and starvation was at hand.
How the Mormons prayed end
one day out of the heavens
came sea gulls that dipped
down and ate the crickets.
Thus the gratitude and senti-
ment as expressed by the mem-
orials.
The deeds of Sam Houston,
who was luirn in Virginia and
one time Governor of Tennes-
see, but noted as a Texan
fighter and as president of the
Republic of Texas, is the rea-
son the state of Texas placed
69c 98c
Over 500 t pairs at these prices,
pass this chance to Save Big Money
Shoes—entire stock reduced, also.
makes residents swear that
Washington is easier to get
about in than any other city.”
. The fresh memory of the
magnificent • French Revolution (which be-
1789 and ended the
'.the government assumed charge:
ent. He transmitted the tra- M ° ’
ditions of other pastures in our(
country.
If one should go to Salt Lake
City, in Utah, he would see
so in
i many
on the town- ]
had written up
had chronicled
as a
trip
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