The Decatur News (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1925 Page: 2 of 8
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O God of peace, let not this heart-
wound heal;
Let still a reverent memory stir our
soul
May we be not so brutal as to feel
No thought for those who from the
heathen stole
The prize they lusted for—the round
earth’s weal!
May we remember those who, failing,
reached their goal.
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It costs $400 to $3,000 a year to
operate an airplane, depending on the
type of plane used. United States army
estimates show.—Science Service.
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Stock has been issued by the Secre-
tary of State to the San Antonio
Boot Company, promoted by S. L.
Gill. The company now has a capital
stock of $42,700 and Is authorized
to sell stock to increase the total
capital stock' to $505,000.
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Biological survey in tracing the migra-
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the country.-—Science Service.
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Leason of Memorial
“Dulce et decorum est pro patrfa
mori”— a sweet and proper thing it
is to die for one’s country; thus reads
the eternal epitaph of the hero dead.
In Arlington's great bivouac as else-
where. But the sweetest and beet time
to die for one’s country la when life
4>as been fulfilled and the fruits of the
task are, ripe for the enrichment of
that granary of ideal and achlevument
we call the nation..
Memorial day la a day of experi-
ence; it Is a good thing to be thought-
ful of the past; better gtlll to lean
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•tiptied and uufimd from awful h«d«ch«.
~ of B.echam'1 m3
: them on coin* to bed
the morning. I never
Whit* on the
grave*
Undulate like the living wave*
That all that day unceasing swept
Up to the pit* the "Johnnie*” kept—
Round shot plowed the upland glade*.
Sown with bullet*, reaped with blade*;
Shattered fence* here and there
Tossed their splinter* in th* air;
The very tree* were stripped and bare.
And then, above the roar of battle,
the immortal words, “The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated It far above our poor
power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember
what we say here, but It can never for-
get what they did here.”
Surely the slflit of this battlefield
and of Valley Forge, of Lexington, of
Ticonderoga, should help in the mak-
ing of good Americans!
to to fo to wu
Patriotic Lesson
As long as the graves of our soldier
dead are so cherished by the nation as
to claim a day set apart for their dec-
oration in a spirit of proper gratitude
and reverence, there need be little fear
that a life spent for the country is
spent in vain.
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Clears Away Blotches
Of the scores of pardons granted
by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson,
there is one that has not been rec-
ognised by the authorities and the
beneficiary of the clemency proc-
lamation has not yet been given his
freedom as ordered by the Governor.
This unusual situation result* from
the issuance of the pardon before
final action in the case Involved
had been taken by the courts. It is
probably the first time that a par-
don proclamation of a Texas Got
srnor has been ignored.
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Chariee I •tone, •for, and George
R. Merrill, drummer, meovben of too
same flfo and drum oorpe In too Civil
war, rill I whooping It up on th. ..me
Inatrumenta. They butt torn la Boston,
wiNins
"after every meal"
Parents - eruvaraffe the
children to care for their teeth f
Give them Wrigley's.
It removes food particles
from the teeth. Strengthens
the gums. Combats acid
mouth.
Refreshing and beneficial!
cents
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Work of reconstructing the Austin
dam may not be more than sixty
days away, according to an author!*
ed statement by J. L. Arlitt of Austin,
well-known bond investment banker.
Mr. Arlitt confirmed the fact that
Gardner S. Williams, noted hydraul-
ic engineer of New York will be
here next week to make a final
check of his 1919 figures with refer-
ence to the re-construction of th«
dam.
On November 19, 1863, Pr..id.nt
Abraham Lincoln stood on th. battle-
field of Gettysburg, just where the
shaft of this national monument rieM.
On this spot the “Great Emancipator**
made his immortal speech.
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The common headache was char-
acterized as a “white-collar man’s
disease,” and should be carefully
treated, as it may indicate a severe
and some time fatal condition, Dr.
H. M. Winans of Dallas declared
before the State Medical Association
in a plea for more attention at the
State conventions on ttye minor ail-
swii'
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“Proud and Unafraid”
Through the Years
The Boston folk last year were dis-
posed to weep at what they thought a
pathetic spectacle as they saw the
splendid rearguard of the Grand Army
marching in pouring rain through their
streets. In point of fact the last thing
these boys of Civil war days want is
sympathy. They do not belong to the
sob-stuff brigade. Like their Southern
antagonists, they were men from the
crowns of their heads to the bottom of
their feet, and they still march on
proud and unafraid to the last “ren-
dezvous with death,” says the Balti-
more Sun.
Splendid old men are these on both
sides of Mason and Dixon’s line. Army
life did not enfeeble them. Perhaps if
they had not marched so much in
youth they would not have been so
hale and hearty now at an age when
most men must do their marching In a
rocking chair if they have been so for-
tunate as to live so long.
Three cheers and three times three
for these sturdy survivors of both
grand armies. They are of the salt
that never loses its savor. Could some
potent magician of life sprinkle them
with the elixir of youth and set them
before us in the radiant and splendid
manhood that was theirs In the ’60s.
would the picked corps of any armies
of the present rival them in dauntless
courage. In unselfish devotion to prin-
ciple? Of such are the eternal king-
doms of spiritual glory, of such the
human sublimity that shines forever
ilka the stars.
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The work of recovering 99 per cent
of the 15,000,000 pounds of specie
sunk with the Laurentla, in 1917, has
consumed seven years.
Owing to the remarkable clear-
ness of the air in Denver, Colo.,
a stretch of 200 miles of the Rocky
Mountains is discernible almost every
day of the year.
Herbert Quick. 64 years old, of
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia,
author and editor, died at the Uni-
versity of Missouri Hospital, Colum-
bia, Mo., of heart disease.
The tundras, or treeless plains of
the north polar regions, mark the
limit of tree vegetation, and are
covered with a dense mass of lichens
and moss.
California has more national parks,
national monuments and forests than
any other State in the Union, ac-
cording to the touring bureau of
the Automobile Club of Southern Cal-
ifornia.
More than 2,000,000 bushels of corn
and oats, belonging to the Grain Mar-
keting Corporation, were destroyed
recently in a fire, burning two
wooden elevators and threatening an
industrial section on the south side
before it was subdued. The loss is
estimated at $2,250,000.
J. P. Morrison of Selfs has a $10
note issued by the Republic of Texas,
the date of which, filled in with ink,
is May 1. 1833. The bill bears the
signature of Sam Houston as Pres-
ident and Henry Smith as Treas-
urer. Although it has been nearly
eight-seven years since the signa-
tures were attached the bill is In a
good state of preservation.
Automobiles caused 19,000 deaths
and injuries to 450,000 persons in
the United States in 1924, statistics
made public by the National Bureau
of Casualty and Surety Underwrit-
ers reveal. This represents a dally
average of 52 dead and 5,650 injured.
Grade crossing accidents took a toll
of 1,688 deaths, a decrease of 71
from the 1928 total.
For the first time in seven years
the Ballinger, Texas, jail doors are
standing open, the county being
without a prisoner. As the local jail
ttlso is used by Concho County, this
indicates' that county is also with-
out a prisoner. The county is build-
ing a new $50,000 jail near the oki
one and there is considerable spec-
ulation as to who will be the first
to occupy It
Among the new laws affecting
motorists in New York State are:
Diving girls and similar posters are
banished from windshields and rear
windows. A license plate on the front
of a car must be plainly visible. Man-
ufacturers and dealers are required
to register at the Motor Vehicle
Bureau the sale of new cars. It is
a misdemeanor to attach to an auto-
mobile the insignia of fraternal, mil-
itary or automobile organization to
which one does not belong.
We who now walk the shining streets
of life
And quaff the wine of friendship’s
blessedness,
Who know the final glamor of success,
Who feel the bliss of resting after
strife— •
Shall we forget those troops of foolish-
wise,
Love-passioned lads who purchased
this, our Joy,
With youth’s fine gold? To whom life
was a toy
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Extradition of Jack Maynard, alias
’Marshall” Maynard from Paris, La-
mar county, Oklahoma, where he is
wanted on a charge of bigamy, was
ordered by Gov. Miriam A. Ferg’i- 1
son, when she honored a requisition |
from Gov. M. E. Trapp of Oklahoma.
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The name of Simmons College at i
Abilene was formally changed to I
Simmons University when amend-
ment to its charter was tiled with
the Secretary of State. The new
name was adopted at a meeting of
the board of directors in February.
State conventions on the minor ail-
ments of mankind.
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D. A. Gregg, chief clerk and act-
ing Secretary of State, and Lee Sat-
terwhite, speaker of the House, have
announced that the laws, general and
special, enacted by the Thirty-Ninth
Legislature, will be printed and ready
for distribution by May 20; that the
last prooof now is being read on
the general laws and all of it has
been completed on the special acts.
Studying geography and writing
books about it was the hobby of the
late Lord Curzon.
The highest summit of the Andes
Mountains, in South America, la
Aconeagus, in Chile, 23,083 feet high.
A machine to “make your own
butter in three minutes” has been
demonstrated at the Ideal Home ex-
hibition in London.
Lord Devonport, who recently re-
signed as head of the port of Lon-
don, served sixteen years without
pay.
Dr. William McGovern, the English
explorer who recently startled the
world by penetrating the Forbidden
City of Lhasa, Tibet, disguised as a
monk, is arranging a trip across the
Andes into the unknown regions of
Peru.
The Belgrade police unearthed a
plot to assassinate the former Bul-
garian Minister to Serbia under the
Stamboulisky regime, according to
advices from the Jugo-Slav capital.
The proposed victim is alleged to
have assisted in promoting the Sofia
Cathedral outrage.
Germany’s payments to the repar-
ation account made through the
agent general for reparations during
April amounted to 75,500,000 marks.
Of this amount Great Britain re-
ceived 25,500,000 marks, of which
16^00,000 marks were credited to
payments under the recovery act.
France’s share of the April payments
was 33,000,000 marks.
In South Africa, where plagues of
locusts are often fought with arsenic,
it has been found that these in-
sects, even though they have suc-
cumbed to deadly poison, can still
be used safely for cattle food, ac-
cording to Science. Experts of the
Department of Agriculture of the
Union of South Africa have deter-
mined that in order to obtain a fatal
dose of the poison, cattle, sheep or |
horses would have to consume, 200 > '
to 700 pounds of the locusts. Indi-
cating that none of these animals
are in danger from the poisoned in-
sects. For poultry and pigs, how-
ever, there Is not such a wide mar-
gin of safety.
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A LL those who have visited the
Z\ battlefield of Gettysburg know
[ \ its fascination. First, as one
drives about the forty square
miles of battlefield, his interest is in
Lhe monuments, the beautiful markers
and statues erected by the various
states of the Union in memory of their
dead on this battlefield. Then, the ex-
tent of the field impresses one and he
endeavors to reconstruct the battle
lines of the Union and Confederate
troops.
A cloud possessed the hollow field.
The gathering battle's smoky shield:
Athwart the gloom the lightning
flashed.
And through the cloud some horsemen
dashed.
And from th*
pealed.
Above the bayonet*, mixed and crossed,
Men saw a gray gigantic ghost
Receding through the battle cloud.
And heard aero** the tempest loud
The death cry of a nation lost!
Even better than Will Thompson’s
famous poem does Bret Harte's “John
Burns of Gettysburg*’ paint the picture
of the battle:
And it wu t*rribl*. On the right
Raged for hours the heady fight.
Thundered the battery’* double ba**.
Difficult music for men to face.
A formal resolution, urging con-
stituent members to use* *11 their In-
fluence to procure the speedy in-
clusion of *11 nations into the League
of Nations was adopted by the Inter-
national Council of Women.
Texas postmasters who desire to
attend the convention of the Texas
branch of the National League of
District Postmasters at Galveston on
May 26 and 27 will be grafted leave
of absence without the necessity of
making application therefor, it has
been announced by John H. Bartlett,
First Assistant Postmaster General
The time taken will be charged
against the postmaster’s annual
leave.
Frank P. Lockhart of Pittsburg,
Texas, recently appointed chief of
the division of Far Eastern Affairs
of the State Department, has been
transferred to Hankow, China, as
Consul General. Tn his new position,
Mr. Lockhart will have jurisdiAion
over a territory containing aome 90,
000,000 people. The city of Hankow
la about 600 miles from the coast
on the Yangtse-Kiang river, and is a
deep-water port In a district with
which the United States has con-
siderable trade.
Net operating Income of the Texas
railroads has continued on the up-
ward course this calendar year, ac-
cording to figures made public by
the Railroad Commission, which
showed it to be $5,593,472 for Jan-
nary and February and of thia year,
sn increase over the same two
months of the preceding year of
$2,018,264 or 66.28 per cent. For the
two months named the total op
crating revenue was $87,855,712, an
Increase over January and February
oC 1924 of $8,680,958, or 10.98 per
cent
Seven Fasctatl have been tried for
compelling three men who were not
Fasctatl to go with them to head-
quarters at Villa Collemandlna. in
the Tuscan district, and kiss Mus-
solini’s portrait. He<vy sentences
were Imposed. Pennacchi Dino, the
FascirU leader, was sentenced to ten
imprisonment
Marshal Von Hindenburg's
to the Presidency has boon
1 by th* committee appoints
tlon had b**n waa by ear-
The first time $20 yellowback
gold certificates were issued a Gov-
ernment engraver esceived his salary
in these new bills and decided to
take a short trip to New York. When
he paid his hotel bill he gave the
clerk one of the n*w bills, where-
upon the clerk scrutinised tt, say-
ing that he had never see
bill, and it wasn’t good,
graver assured htai it wae
he had made tt himself
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I* h* rang for the house
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John B. Stetson Jr., Philadelphia \
son of the hat manufacturer, baa
been appointed Minister to Finland.
President Coolidge feels that the
study of aviation should be en-
couraged further at the West Point
Military Academy, along lines as out-
lined by Secretary Wilbur for the
naval academy.
President Coolidge is unwilling to
make any temporary disposition of
the power products of the Muscle
Shoals dams uatll It is shown that 1
by doing so he will not hamper tho
establishment of a permanent policy
which the government can follow in
dealing with the property.
Elimination of static, the torment ’
of the radio fan, by using live trees 1
as an aerial, is being worked out
by Maj. Gen. Geo. O. Squier, for-
merly chief signal officer of the
army. There is a spot on a tree,
about two-thirds of the way
where an aerial can be atached
as to tut* out the static, Gen Squier
has discovered.
The American Cotton Shippers’ As-
sociation and the American Cotton
Growers' Exchange have been in-
vited by Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine to have representatives pres-
ent at an international conference
to be held in London May 25 for
further consideration of the univer-
sal cotton standards agreement. Other
American cotton men in Europe at
the time also will be welcome at
the meeting.
Railroads on April 22 had 344,193
surplus • freight cars immediately
available for service, it was an-
nounced at the American Railway
Association. This was an increase of
1,150 cars over the number reported
on April 15. Surplus coal cars in
good repair on April 22 totaled
173,455, a decrease o( 4,461 cars with-
in approximately a week while sur
plus box cars in good repair totaled
126,031, an increase of 7,237 during
the same period.
A bronze memorial tablet bearing
the names of twenty-three Army
chaplains who gave their lives in the
World War, is to be placed in Ar-
lington National Cemetery in the
near future, according to plans an-
nounced by the War Department.
The proposal is an outgrowth of
the action taken by the Reserve
Corps and Regular Army chaplains,
in council here recently when an
advisory committee was
to carry out the project.
Plans for reorganization of the
Kansas City, Mexico A Orient Rail-
road which were approved last March
by the Federal District Court at
Kansas City have been filed with
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion for Its scrutiny and action. The
plan Involves a $1,000,000 loan from
the Government extension of time
of payment of a $2,500,000 Govern-
ment loan previously obtained and
various exchanges of securities.
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It was held by the Attorney Gen-
eral that where a widow waives her
right to her community interest in
th* property of her deceased hus
band and elects to take epecial will
bequests offered a* alternative, that
th* Stat* InhdHtanc* tax must be
paid on the transfer mad* to her
under the will. This ruling was made
by Assistant Attorney General Ernest
May in an opinion addressed to
Comptroller 8. H. Terrell and means
the collection of $8,000 inheritance
taxee. Under the law no inheritance
tax la paid on community property
PMWtag^to th* surviving member of
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44-p»s« Cook &■
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left—where now th*
Capt G. T. Walker, 85, oldest em-
ploye of the State of Texas, Is dead.
For the past nine years he served as
a member of the State Capitol police
force. He was a native of South
Carolina and had resided in Texas
66 years. He was secretary of the
Texas Senate of 1858.
• • •
Motion for rehearing has been
filed In the Supreme Court In th*
case of the Dallas Railway Company
vs. Geller, wherein, on a former day,
the court sustained the action of
the Dallas City Commission in al-
lowing a 6c fare without having it
submitted to a vote of the citizens.
• • •
Application for permission to file
a writ of mandamus to force rec-
ognition of a contract made with
the state highway commission to
maintain commercial advertising on
the state mile posts has been filed
in the Supreme Court by H. Stoack-
ol of Houston, doing business under
the firm name of Texas Road Mark-
ing System.
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