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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, MARCH 2, 1950
What Do You Say?
with hilarity-
built
Do
All
He got $80. No
i The
That
than registered mail.
Diminishing Returns
On Our Way
■
said.
In the column write-up of
west McKinney.
with the hide,”
Be a good sport.
to
natural re-
Don’t let your Examiner stop.
(Death’s Terrors
Vastly Overrated
An Oversight;
Here’s Correction
Governor Shivers
Hands Legislators
Big 6-Day Job
‘Lost Book’ of
Bible Sought
Greenbug Damage
In Wheat Fields
Unity of Church
On Bombs Urged
Around Nation
Taxi Driver
‘Rewarded’ in
Bank Robbery
WHAT THE POETS
HAVE TO SAY
Stop soil erosion — stop soil ero-
sion.
tion.
limits,
ever go down and see it?
It is worth the trip.
_L, Rockwall’s
in the limelight.
ey would
pockets
Green manure crops improve the
land.
Selfishness says:
I kept all my wealth—and I mourn
my loss;
For Gold, in a skeleton hand, turns,
to dross.
Love, friendship and gratitude
might I have bought—
A
Egg
23.
art
I
Soil is our greatest
source — save it.
Will Horn is seriously ill at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Anthony
Geer, in Anna. Mrs. Ben Oates and
Mrs. Chas W. Graves went to see
him. He is their brother—a son of
the Igte Rev. .R C. Horn.
Are you doing your part to leave
the soil more fertile for generations
to come than it was at your begin-
ning?
Greed says:
I loaned my good money—at grasp-
ing, per cent—
‘Twas I who got all that you kept
and spent;
While I counted my millions, Death
plundered me bare—
And this grave that I sleep in be-
longs to my heir.
religious
hydrogen and
:■ But I kept my wealth till it moulder-
ed to naught.
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Forty-two Years Ago
NO LONGER can the government
claim that it is in the electric power
business as a BY-PRODUCT left
Pleasure says:
I spent all my gold—I danced and
I sang—
The palace I
rang;
Plays, revels and frolics from even to
dawn—
But I lie here with nothing—I spent
it; it’s gone!
THE Paris News prints a picture
of a young woman who won the
prize in a cherry pie contest. Don t
you wish you could have been one
of the judges?
no pain, no ter-
an all-enveloping
Soil feeds our nation — conserve
it.
WELL, Rockwall’s rockwall is
back in the limelight. You can’t
lose Rockwall nor its rockwall. Did
you ever go down and see it? De
so. It is worth the trip.
Greenbug damage to wheat and
small grains have been reported by
several farmers in west Collin Coun-
ty. Paul O’Brien and Mr. Stelzer
of the Celina area report that the
greenbugs have almost killed 20
acres of wheat for them.
County Agent McCullough says
the control for greenbugs is 12 to 15
pounds of 3% gamma B. H. C. per
acre. A 3-5-40 mixture will control
these greenbugs. This 3% gamma
benzene hexachloride—5% DDT and
40% sulphur. Do not delay. It is
time to act.
lation, navigation and water dis-
trict matters, collecting delinquent
taxes, amending the criminal code,
aid for the state library.
It can decide state policy regard-
ing use of parks by Negroes, who
now are suring for admission. Local
court bills for Lubbock and Willacy
Counties are eligible.
Appropriations are sought for
several state departments, includ-
ing the Insurance Commission for
rerating fire insurance risks.
The Legislature can freeze pres-
ent laws based upon population
brackets until 1951, when these can
be revised in the light of the 1950
census. Otherwise, county officers’
salaries may be automatically in-
creased in many places.
Delay Sought
Dallas County officials are inter-
ested also in a prop<?sal to let jurors
be summoned by post card rather
Some indication was apparent last
week end that there will be more or
less objection in the State Senate to
passage of the bill, already passed
by the House, to INCREASE the tax
on cigarettes ONE CENT a package
as the source from which to get the
money, over a SEVEN-YEAR PER-
IOD, for buildings needed for the
state hospitals and special schools.
Money for operation of these institu-
tioins is expected to be obtained by
a percentage increase on items in
what is known as the Omnibus Bill,
says the Paris News.
One opponent of the increased tax
on cigarettes warns that there is
danger of “diminishing returns”,
meaning that sometimes a tax is SO
HEAVY that people LESSEN or
QUIT ENTIRELY the use of the
product or article, thereby reducing
the revenue instead of increasing it.
The News says it is of the opinion
that NO SUCH REDUCTION would
follow the one-cent increase on cig-
arettes. The cigarette smoker, or
some of them, will cry out against
it, says the News, but when it is
made law they will go RIGHT ON
BUYING AND SMOKING the cig-
arettes. The increased cost of a cent
or two a day, dependent on how
many cigarettes one smokes or gives
to others, will not have the effect
of lessening the buying.
The NEED FOR BUILDINGS for
the state’s wards OVERSHADOWS
the need for cigarettes, and if the
one-cent increase in the tax will do
the work, the News says the people
of Texas would be for it by a con-
siderable majority. It is either that,
or an increase in the proposed up-
ping of the Omnibus Bill, which
might or might not raise the requir-
ed amount. Income from that bill
has decreased, but it was largely
because of the reduction in OIL
PRODUCTION, which has been
made in order to prevent WASTE
OF THE OIL.
trend in that direction,
only one of the many
e
5>
FRIDAY was “World Prayer Day.”
Did you pray? If not, why not? Try
it. Not too late.
Rev. Ben Gillespie, Pastor
George Apple, Superintendent.
Mrs. Laura Shoan. Denartmental
Superintendent.
Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a. m.
Shop at Johnson Furniture Co.
loneliest place isn’t the desert
waste,
Mid-ocean, or the mountain crest.
These are lonely spots for man to be,
But not the lonliest.
■ ■
' °ne feels alone in a surging crowd
strangers in a large city, too.
But not so much alone, tho silence
shrieks aloud,
As in one lonely spot I know.
ing the baby than these big wig uni-
versity professors ever will know.
Soil conservation is important
every man, woman and child.
THE news reporters say the Big
Town was put on ice Thursday
when sleet and freezing rain literal-
ly turned streets into ice skating
rinks and disrupted transportation
by foot, automobile, subway and
air. Fifteen persons were killed in
the northeastern states, and across
the nation forty-eight died from
highway accidents, fires, exposure
and overexertion caused by the
weather.
HEADLINE reads “Ham and
Price Drops Mark End of
Golden Era on the Farm.” But in
the city markets where people live
out of tin cans and paper sacks such
“catastrophies” are welcomed.
THE good old spring time has
come or is near, March being a
spring month. Come it has, roaring
in as it has been doing for how long
—you say it. But, anyway, at this
time Friday morning it is simply
grand. A howling norther may be
on its way. Don’t take ‘em off just
yet. If you are a Texan you know
this is good advice.
THE Examiner notices that the
Lamar County Echo has passed its
25th milepost of publication. Now
there’s a newspaper that anyone
will enjoy reading if he likes good
editorials ably written on live ques-
tions. Lon Boynton is the editor,
and he never rides the fence on
questions affecting the public. He
upholds the right and condemns the
wrong in government affairs. Lon’s
contemporary, the Paris News, says
of him: “Lon Boynton’s belief and
practice as a publisher and editor
has brought him the respect of all
readers of his newspaper, and the
commendation of most of them,
though they may differ with him.
Lon Boynton’s work in Paris has not
been confined to publishing The
Echo. All these years he has taken
a part in every civic enterprise for
the good of Lamar County and
Paris.” — Flowers for the living.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb.
(UP).—A Harvarrd University
expert has the delicate job today of
attempting to restore a “lost book”
of the Bible.
Rutherford J. Gattens, an arch-
aeological chemist of Fogg Mu-
seum’s conservation department, will
try to unroll the ancient manuscript
which’ may fill in gaps between the
story of the creation and the flood.
If the 18-inch, dried up scroll lives
PRESIDENT TRUMAN has asked
Congress to crack down on abuses
of the GI training program. That
will please Congressmen. After
they get through that big job, they
can wipe the sweat off their manly
brows and consider another hike in
salaries for themselves.
EVERYTHING will be O.K. now.
Dr. Fishbein has told the University
of Nebraska students that “rocking
the baby” is coming back into scien-
tific acceptance. Just think what
heavy thought has been put in on
that subject at that big university.
Ask some of these aged mothers and
they can tell you more about rock-
' " ....... If THIS
IS^NOT/ SOCIALISM, it is a definite
” ‘ ’’ -i! . And this is
Socialistic
schemes practiced by the Queer
Deal, says Lon Boynton in the La-
mar County Echo.
THE Federal Government is aw-
fully worried over the post office
deficit. Yes, sir. The matter is so
serious that Congress is going to or-
der a raise in postal rates—a 2c pos-
tal card would bring in hundreds of
thousands of dollars. And the mon-
come right out of the
of the WORKING PEO-
PLE of the nation—those to whom
these small bits are needed in their
daily niving expenses.
over from a flood-control project, up to^expectations^it will bethe^most
Uncle Sam has built a number of ” ’ nkTrn t
steam power stations throughout
the country to COMPETE with pri-
vate industry—and with the_tax-
payers must foot the bill.
A LAMAR County boy, Jimmy
Rothwell, won the 4-H Clubber prize
$200 scholarship by the Clayton-An-
derson Co., a big cotton firm which
provided seven of these scholarship
prizes.
IMPORTANT BIBLICAL DISCOV-
ERY in modern times.
The 2,000-year-old document is
owned by Archbishop Athanaseus
Yashue Samuel, Syrian orthodox
metropolitan of Jerusalem and
Hashemite Jordon who bought it
from a tribe of Bedouins.
Written in the language of Christ,
it tells of the Prophet Lamech who
was the son of Methuselah and fa-
ther of Noah. Lamech supposedly
lived 77 years and this “lost book”
is expected to detail more events up
to the time of the flood as well as
Noah’s early life.
The manuscript was found in 1947
by wandering Arabs in a cave near
the Dead Sea. It was one of eight
scrolls, including a 24-foot long
manuscript on the book of Isiaah.
“I don’t know whether this fourth
Aramic manuscript—as we call it
now—can be unrolled,” Gettens
“Glue in the leather has be-
come so solidified that none of the
normal chemical solvents seems to
work.”
If he succeeds, the scroll will be
translated by the American School
of Oriental Research at Yale Uni-
versity.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Inside Collin County (1 year) _$1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) _$1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.) —75c
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $L5U
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) $1.00
PHONE 233
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter. ____
Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb.
18.—A thwarted gunman with sirens
wailing on his trail Friday parlayed I
a cabbie’s wisecrack into a $3,800 i
bank robbery. Then he gave part of
the loot—$854—to the taxicab driv-
er.
The gunman leaped from a police
prowler car after he had been i
picked up for investigation, ex-
changed ineffective shots with the
driver and dodged between some
buildings.
He came across taxi driver Dick
Telford, who was loading a fare’s
luggage, and forced hi mto use his
cab as a getaway .car.
Telford was scared, but he decid-
ed to stall for time. “Why don’t you
rob a bank, wise guy,” he cracked.
And the gunman did.
He forced Telford to drive him
to a suburban branch of the Canadi-
an Bank of Commerce, which he
looted after threatening a cashier
and firing one shot.
The bandit ushered the cab driver
into the bank, holding the gun on
him. He forced the cabbie to scoop
up the loot.
Then he ordered Telford back in-
to the cab.
“I thought he was going to kill
me,” the cabbie said. “Trying to
convince him I was on his side, I
said:
“ ‘How about a split?’ ”
The bandit THREW HIM PART
OF THE HOLDUP ROLL and fled
from the cab.
AUSTIN, Feb. 23—Gov. Shivers
has tossed our Texas legislators a
full work program for the last six
days of. the special session.
Hopeful legislators dumped forty-
eight bills into the House hopper
and thirty in the Senate. Some got
immediate committee approval. The
House voted 31 to 86 against ending
the session at noon tomorrow (Fri-
day).
Governor Shivers submitted thir-
ty-three topics, listing these first:
1. Increased economy and effi-
ciency in the State Government.
2. Emergency building needs for
Southwestern Medical Foundation
at Dallas; the M. D. Anderson Hos-
pital, State Dental College and Tex-
as State University for Negroes.
3. Allowing Texans to form tele-
phone co-operatives, to buid rural
systems with money borrowed from
the Federal Government.
4. Making stronger laws against
sex crimes.
5. Validating acts by cities, coun-
ties and school districts.
6. Authorizing the Attorney Gen-
eral to use funds from court judg-
ments to defend Texas’ tidelands
claim.
Thrown Wide Open
Listing thirty-three topics, Shiv-
ers T
wide open.
The Legislature now can consider
complish this end.
First, we should enact a full,
stand-by mobilization plan under'
which emergency laws would be
passed AT ONCE and HELD
READY for instant operation upon
joint proclamation by Congress and
the President. “To wait UNTIL
WAR STARTS before we begin to
legislate is to invite DISASTER, for
Washington itself may be the target
for destruction.”
These stand-by laws would cover
an “impartial” selective service; the
prevention of profiteering; the pow-
er to give military needs priority, to
ration scarce materials, and to im-
pose higher taxes and price con-
trols. Such laws would prevent the
“wait and see” attitude of the fall
1941 which, Baruch says, prolonged
the war at least a year.
Creation of a permanent mobiliza-
tion agency, composed of civilians
and capable of SWIFT EXPAN-
SION, is the second step to insure
that there will be no future “too lit-
tle and too late” period in which we
might be overwhelmed. “It is time
we stopped treating the task of
MOBILIZING America as a job for
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN,” Baruch
observes.
The third major requirement is “a
CONSTANT, VIGILANT INVEN-
TORY of our natural resources in re-
lation to the PROBABLE DE-
MANDS of another war.”
The essence of the American
DILEMMA, Baruch emphasizes, is
that TOTALITARIAN COUN-
TRIES ARE PERPECTUALLY MO-
BILIZED, while a DEMOCRACY
sudch as OURS tends to RESIST
THE NECESSARY MEASURES un-
til the EMERGENCY is at hand.
THE Paris News’ traveling rural
reporter says thieves are again raid-
ing hen houses in Lamar County.
We have heard of a few cases in Col-
lin County. Would be glad to have
our reporters note such devilmept.
It will help our officers, also. Some-
times people think it not necessary
to report a raid on a chicken house.
A man who will steal a farm wom-
an’s hens ought to be sent to the
penitentiary just as if he had stolen
a hog, a cow or a mule.
Someone left us a torn copy of
the Examiner of July 11, 1918, in
which the Ex-Confederate and Old
Settlers Picnic was being boomed
for July 24-26. Col. E. W. Kirkpat-
rick was one of the outstanding
boosters, and entertained the Ex-
Confederates and Daughters of the
Confederacy at his home in south-
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 19.—Protes-
tant churchmen from across the na-
tion Sunday asked for “the widest
possible co-ordination of ]
forces in the country” to consider
implications of the
atomic bombs.
Some 450 delegates from thirty
states overwhelmingly endorsed a
resolution in the last hour of a
4-day session here on the church and
economic life and sent it to the
Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America, sponsor of the
conference, asking the council “to
take such steps as may be neces-
sary to carry forward the MOST
INTENSIVE PROGRAM of study,
meetings and conferences” to dis-
cuss “the IMPLICATIONS of the
PRESENT WORLD SITUATION
with special reference to the atomic
and HYDROGEN BOMBS.” It also
asked strengthening of the United
Nations as “an agency capable of
ACTUALLY PREVENTING WAR.”
Earlier the churchmen voted
that “extensive use of taxation to
reduce inequalities that now exist”
is desirable from a Christian and
economic viewpoint.”
But, they added, a tax policy
should be evaluated for its effects
„ _ . upon incentives, production, the
threw the final days virtually j welfare of low income groups and
■----. | the standards of living.
______‘ . ’ I The delegates from twenty-two
local game laws ,road bills, protec- denominations, councils of churches
tion from rabid foxes, changing the and allied organizations took this
school fire escape law, school legis- majority stand after lively discus-
lation, navigation and water dis- sion.
The conference will send the con-
clusions of the delegates to the par-
ticipating organizations for dissem-
ination to millions of Protestants.
The conference findings are not
binding on any of the organiza-
tions.
The churchmen also approved:
nrnl nirl drill
tion with a maximum of local and
state controls.”
2. “Positive action now to assure
all our people without discrimina-
tion full access to adequate, mod-
ern medical, surgical and other
health services.”
3. A proposal for “industry coun-
cils” in which representatives of la-
bor, management, agriculture and
the professions would meet volun-
tarily as a means for “securing mu-
tual understanding among leaders
of power groups.”
The general theme of the confer-
ence was that Christians must look
beyond the barriers of their econom-
ic or occupational levels, and work
for the overall social benefit of their
communities.
MORE than 21 billion dollars are
poured yearly into betting on -one
thing and another, according to a
survey. It looks like the country is
doomed! You can spit at a crack,
but you can’t bet a dime on it. It is
so discouraging.
AT this writing it seems to be “nip
and tuck” between “democracy and
what have you” and Socialism in
Great Britain.
B. M. Hamilton of Weston gave us
a call. He is one of the old-timers.
Rumaging among his papers he ran
across a sales bill, receipted, in
which the bill was paid to R. M.
Mugg with lumber 1x6x16 from all
heart in 1850, at $4.00 per 100.
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A nation destitute of its top soil
is a weak nation. Conserve your soil.
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
A PROWLER shot a Paris couple
last Monday night. Both were hos-
pitalized. The assailant was prob-
ably a beginner, as he used a small
.22-calibre pistol. He got $80. No
arrests just yet.
SOME of our exchanges are al-
ready beginning to talk about “go-
ing fishin’.” Try some of our fine
fishing streams. There’s East Fork,
Wilson, Honey Creek, Pilot and
many others. You just ought to
come down and try for the wonder-
ful luck you will have. Plenty of
fish worms, too.
Love says:
It was little I had, but I gave all my
store
To those who had less, or who need-
ed more;
And I came with Death laughing,
for here at the grave
In riches unmeasured I found what
I gave!
—Author Unknown.
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The Loneliest Place
TEXAS has plenty of money if
called in out of “special funds” set
aside in banks to be used “if and
when.” We have been told that
there are funds now in banks that
were set aside, years ago and never
have been used. Having been nam-
ed for these special purposes, these
funds “just lie there” and the banks
get the benefit. If this is not cor-
rect, will someone who KNOWS the
real’ FACTS GIVE us proper infor-
mation. There is so much grafting
going on that the public wants the
FACTS. Don’t be backward about
giving the voters the truth.
DALLAS is bursting her belt
again, having taken 2,000 acres more
land into the city limits. The own-
ers, farmers we suppose, are scrap-
ping mad and declare it is confisca-
tion. That is east of the Dallas city
limits, the Pleasant Grove com-
munity, and was annexed by an or-
dinance. When you happen to live
near a city’s corporation line, and
use the city’s streets and other con-
veniences every day, you may ex-
pect to be “taken in” most any time.
It will not cost you much m taxes
and certainly you will be repaid.
Come across. Be a good sport.
The surest deterrent against
another war is to narrow the time
lag between our normally peaceful
ways and the mobilization that war
requires, declares Bernard M.
Baruch in an exclusive article in the
Reader’s Digest. If the’ gap is bridg-
ed, no enemy will gamble on over-
whelming us with a surprise blitz
such as Japan attempted at Pearl
Harbor.
But that time lag is being neglect-
ed, Baruch warns. “Such neglect,
becoming EVER MORE PERILOUS
as the potential enemy acquires a
stockpile of ATOMIC WEAPONS, is
all the more tragic because it can
be remedied so easily.”
Stating that the cost of full mobil-
ization measures would be slight,
Baruch contends that this small ex-
penditure would STRENGTHEN our
DEFENSES far more than would
the larger sums spent for OTHER
MILITARY PURPOSES. If we can
reduce the time lag by ONE YEAR,
the margin “might save the whole
democratic world.”
aBruch urges three actions to ac-
complish this end.
First, we should enact a full,
“Look death in the face,” coun-
sels J. D. Ratcliff, in the February
Reader’s Digest. “His countenance
isn’t so terrifying as we are led to
believe. All available evidence in-
dicates that death is generally wel-
comed by the aged and infirm, offers
merciful relief to the sick. Al-
though they have feared death all
their lives, the overwhelming ma-
jority of people are willing to meet
it when it comes.”
Testifying to the absence of agony
and terror in death is the experience
of thousands who have “died” by
drowning, electric shock, asphyxia-
tion—only to be relieved by prompt
medical attention. These people,
Ratcliffe points out in an article con-
densed from Liberty, “have indeed
returned from the dead ... and
invariably they report that there
was no anguish, no pain, no ter-
ror — merely
peace.”
The great physician, Sir William
Osler, studied 500 deaths. Only 11
showed mental apprehension, only
two showed signs of terror. Dr.
Arthur MacDonald adds his testi-
mony: “The belief that dying is ac-
companied by severe suffering may
arise from misinterpretation of out-
ward physical signs. The act is con-
fused with symptoms of the disease
which preceded death. There seems
to be a pause in nature—the disease
has conquered, the battle is over.
The body, fatigued by its efforts to
sustain itself, is ready to die. All
is tranquility.”
Dr. Alfred Worcester, professor
emeritus of hygiene at Harvard,
says: “Death is almost always pre-
ceded by a perfect willingness to
die. It is EASY AT THE LAST . . .
All competent observers agree that
except in imagination there is NO
SUCH THING as ‘DEATH AGONY.’
Contractioins of the dying body are
merely the contractions of reflex
muscles. Facial contortions are in-
voluntarily and not indicators of
pain. Remember, faces are often
contorted in sleep.”
One physician, carried to the
brink of death by a severe heart at-
tack, reported his sensations as those
of “mild intoxication.” Three others,
who drowned but were revived,
found only peace and pleasantness
after the initial struggle was over.
William Hunter/ 18th-century anat-
omist, murmered with his last
breath: “Had I a pen I would write
how easy and pleasant it is to die.”
The final flutters of a failing heart
pump an ever diminishing supply of
blood, Ratcliff says, and pain at-
tending the final illness disappears
as sensory perceptions fail. Oxy-
gen starvation that accompanies fail-
inig circulation affects the brain;
the patient DRIFTS INTO DARK-
NESS WITHOUT PAIN, without
sensation. The final blacking out,
preceding death, is no NO WISE
DIFFERENT FROM FALLING
ASLEEP.
TWO
McKinney Examiner ) Baruch’s Plan
CLINT THOMPSON ■ T
WOFFORD THOMPSON 10 lieVenL VV dl
Editors and Proprietors ______
‘Tis the place you visited once with fl
a loved one, ^^fl
Sometime, — somewhere, jfl
And visit once again, when the years, fl
have fled, /
And the loved one is not there. 1
—Author Unknown.
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No Tramps
Nowadays as
In Former Years
One day last week an oijMiian
called at my home soon after break-
fast and asked for something to eat,
says A. W. Neville of the Paris
News. He told my daughter he was
trying to get to Tyler, Texas, where
he had some folks, and that he had
come from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He
had spent what little money he had,
was hungry, and the only way he
, could eat would be for someone to
; give him food.
; Breakfast at my house is a rather
I sketchy affair, and there was no-
thing cooked that would have done
■ a hungry man much good, so my
daughter gave the old man (he said
he was 76 years old) half a dollar ....
and told him to get something to eat '
at a restaurant, where it would be I
hot and satisfying. He thanked her
properly but not too profusely and
went on his way.
The old man was not a tramp or
hobo. He was just an OLD WORN-
OUT HUMAN BEING dependent on
the bounty of someone who was
more fortunate. Not many now-
adays are in that condition, but there
are some, and they must be helped.
The incident recalled to my mind
the days when TRAMPS, as we
called them, were FREQUENT vis-
itors to the homes all over the coun-
try, asking for food and sometimes
offering to do some work in pay-
ment. Some of them were tramps
from CHOICE, others from NECES-
SITY. The freight trains usually
carried one or more until they were
discovered and put off, and the rail-
road yards often saw groups of them
waiting for a chance to get aboard a
train and go somewhere With the
hope of bettering their condition.
Those who had become profes-
sionals, so to speak, and preferred
the wandering life to settling down
even if given the opportunity, were
the real hoboes. They had a system
of chalk marks on the fence or gate
of a house to indicate to one who fol*
lowed what might be expected
when application was made for food.,^^
I do not think that was done here
in Paris to any extent, but it was
common in the larger cities, or so
reported by officers.
The day of the old-time hobo has
passed. There is a new dispensation
now, and unemployment pay keeps
some men who might be otherwise
tramps from doing so. Also it alj
lows them to get by without work.f-
ing, which is possible because of the
way the law is framed and admini-
stered. Whether this is a good
change is still being debated, with
some evidence on both sides. Per-
sonally I have an opinion but will
not air it here and now.
One thing, I believe, is that we
will never again hafl the proces-
sion of tramps that flkd to travel
the country. There will be instances
of people asking some help, but the
day of mass unemployment, which
produced the tramp and compelled
men to depend on the bounty of oth-
ers, has gone. It was just another
of the changes that we have made,_
but of which we have yet to see tbJ^B
result. I hope it will not be for th.Hr
worse.
our
McKinney Fire Department under
the heading “Get Acquainted with
Your Firemen,” by Clint Pace in
Dallas News last week, the names of
Isaac Crouch, chief, Woody Rains,
assistant chief, and A. M. Scott, Jr.,
were omitted. These had been left
out of the Dallas News report. And
we copied the errors along with Mr.
Pace’s fine report.
“The hair goes
you know.
TEXAS has plenty of money
in banks to be used “if and
We have
there are 1-----—
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