The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1930 Page: 2 of 16
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THE TYLER JOURNAL
MARCH 7. 1930
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The Tyler Journal
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Issued Weekly By
HENRY EDWARDS & CO.
Publishers
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Fms Esriungw
Editorial and Business Offices
866 CITIZENS NATL BANK BLDG.
Tyler, Texas
Phone No. ------ 1178
Entered as Second-class matter
May 8, 1925, at the Post Office at
Tyler, Texas, under the Act of
March 8, 1879.
majority of the people:
“Dear Mr. Edwards: Congrstnla-
lions. Brother, on the editorial iw»
last week's Tyler Journal on the
need of dean candidates. I am copy-
ing same in the Enterprise next
week; also I am writing one along
similar lines myself. > '-
“If Ferguson » the democratic! y<m „„ ^ to think that
nominee next fall, yon can be a»- t^rA t'm_____„ ■,
sured of one (1) editor who is not• „ taws mean nothing to s hen.
afraid to oppose the democratic j She just keeps cm digging worms
dune, and help in a fight to deet a; «*d laying eggs regardless of what
decent republican. I’ll he with you to is said shout conditions. If the
the finish.” ground is hard, she scratches hard-
Thaaks, Editor Wade. We haven't er. If It's dry, the digs deeper. If
proposed the election of a nrpabfr- tbe strikes a reek, she works around
can—,but we are begging, pleading it. But always she digs up worms
HENRY EDWARDS - - - Editor witil admonishing th^se who are ^ turns them into hard-shelled
.........■■■ -......— -■■■ — • I® official places of party coudcil* profits as well as tender broilers.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (not to bust up Democracy by offer-i Did you ever see a pessimistic hen?
One Year _____________ ... . —1--$1.00 mg inferior candidates—not to try Did you ever kn>w of one starving
Six Months----AO any bull-whip, slave-driving tactics to death waiting for worms to dig
on that great and decent contingent themselves to the surface? Did you
Who re- ' ever ' hear " one 'cackl* because times
podiated their tactics and methods were hard? Not on your life. She
^and “their” candidate two years ago. saves her breath for digging and
1 j her cackles for eggs.—Center Cham-
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WE FAVOR THE PROPOSED $1.46
PER TON SULPHUR TAX TAKE A NEW
- HITCH
This publication believes in being -
absolutely just and fair toward cor- Without a tingle exception you'll
porations in everything, including , find that the man who feels that the
ntbe taxes to be levied upon their F town's business is his business is a
properties. We have no patience good citizen. He usually doesn’t ex-
with that attitude of mind on the peet others to tpend their time and
part of a considerable portion of money building up and brightening
the public that regards industrial, fi- the community while he sits back
the young men how to do something
to end crime."
He is going to build schools in va-
rious parts of the country. Some
of the schools will be very large
institutions. He may invest $100,-
000,000 in the project. These golden
words should be credited to the wiz-
ard of the west classified in the book
as the second American billionaire:
“Society owes It to the young
people to educate them for useful
citizenship, and for my part, I am
going to devote the rest of my ac-
tive days in the interest of ‘trade
schools and teaching."
This latest Ford project is more
than a noble experiment. He has
been a toiler all his busy ife. Less
than 30 years ago he w'as taking
down a wage of $2.50 per day as a
machinist. Now his name is a house
hold-word the wide •world over and
he is planning to dedicate “the rest
of his life to education.” — Austin
American. s
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WHERE TEXAS
LOSES
any other Southern State, our total
having been only 282,240, with 227,-
978 active. North Carolina led the
South with 6,224,972 spindles and
South Carolina came second with 5,-
645,758. Had Texas manufactured a
considerable portion of the cotton
crop grown i within its bounds, the
State’s prosperity would have been
impaired less by the short crop last
year.—Houston Post-Dispatch. :
Read The Journal Want Ads.
The indifferenciT'uf-xTexa.s to de-
ARKANSAS SENATOR TOLD
TRUTH
naneial and other corporation* as a
menace necessarily to the public wel-
fare. Corporations are getting into
some fields of activity which we
think does not augur well for indi-
vidual initiative and progress—par- J
ticularly in agriculture. But we ear.
not get away from the fact that the :
development of our county along in- •
dustrial lines has been more largely
due to corporate effort than to any
and slack* on the job- He knows j
that hi* neighbor's success is also
his success, and that criticising or
condemning organizations that are j
trying to be helpful is a poor way j
of making progress toward the
things desired- If he feel* like find-
ing fault, he usually finds fault
with himself, and lets it go at that.
And we’ve observed that he seems
to live happier and to get more out
of life than the other kind—of whom
of <we *ri)) have a few. There’s an old
' adage to the effect that "It is never
lowed his name to go cc the tail of
the presidential offering they gave
us down at Houston. And yet when j
a member of the "presidential tick-
ifc»t swallow | eordir.g to statement of the mine j
: owners) only $14.00 per ton a tax of j
you
Senator Joe Robinson is quoted as
saying if he had not been on the
Democratic ticket for the vice-pres-
idency that Hoover would have car-
ried every Southern state and that
the G. O. P. majority in Arkansas
would have been not less than 75r
000. Which statement leads the Den-
ison Herald to remark that “To say other one factor,
the least the Senator doesn't hat* «- riw.r
himself." — The Marshall Morning ^ ' ‘ ,
Sewa ■ $1-00 per ton on the sulphur prodoe-,
Senator Joe Robinson of Arkan- of th“ •*•»*. There is a “fight”. too late to learr,” And we are devot-
sas, fine clean man that he is, doubt- on m **** ^giaUtun as between the .this brief to urge those
less told the truth. He also knew and lbe Hou*<“ on «**• P"*- who *****1 ret 1“rned. thiit **
Why the wet Eastern democrats al- <**“>“- House favor, a tax of town. buinnem » tbeir bus.nes, to
11.00 per long ton (2200 pounds) onr;P«Il °P and take a new b.tch now,
this sulphur—favors it by a vote of **d not leave the entire job of mak-
92 to 12. However, the Senate is op-f * * better community to the
posed to that tax and has not indi- j fellow.—Rusk County News.
«t" of the democratic party makes|»tod th*1 il “ Arable to a tax
that admission — and in spite of of more tban 50 cenU ton- *
Our own able Senator, Hon. Tomas; COMES
G. Pollard, apparently is favorable > -
to only a 50 cent tax. Personally he j Wfcy *o worried when periods of
stated to our Editor that he feels; deprenion come to you ?
that, since the sulphur brings <ac- j When you feel that something ter-
rible I* going to happen.
It is just a natural condition for
7 1-7 per cent is too much. He feels
this way about it particularly in
view of the fact that the oil tax is
so much less. But here are some
facts which our Senator and his col-
leagues ought to consider: [frequently mean* son* physical con-
dition that shook! be improved and
possibly it indicates that you are
burning up your nervous forces too
fast. But if you begin to worry
about your uphappy thoughts you
only intensify them and prolong the
spell-
If you know that you are physi-
cally rundown consult a physician.
Don't keep worrying without do-
ing something to learn your real
cause of depression and weariness,
sulphur was cut off, these coast *ul- The more you favor such conditions
phur beds began to be drilled,
j “Two of these large companies
tie states in New England that have whose stockholders are largely the
rarely, if ever, shown any sympathy stockholders of great oil companies, J
with the true principles of democra- produce and control ninety per cent
of the sulphur of the world. In elev-
en years they have paid a profit of
f158,000,000.00. One of these com-
panies which receives $96,000,000.00
of these profits has only $6,000,000.-
00 invested. Yet today, counting, the
profits paid and the properties now
owned, the wealth produced from j _
this capital stock amounts to nearly! „ ,, , . ^ ... ,
$200,000,000.00. Certain member, of Henry Ford “ dedicate the rest
the Legislature, upon the matter be- j ®f b’* *«• ko education. Schools to
ing submitted by the Governor, con- help' boys to learn trades are to be
ceived the idea of taxing sulphur at established. His slogan is “Teach
the rate of one dollar per ton. As i
there are nearly 2,0C0J)00 tons of j - —-----------1------------i
sulphur produced each year, this
exa:
velopment of the cotton Textile man-
ufacturing industry is brought out
in the February, report of the bu-
reau of the census dealing with ac-
tivity in the cotton spinning indus-
try in January. In the whole coun-
try, there were in place during that
month a total of 34, 630,866 spindles,
29,198,134 of which were ip opera-
tion at some time during the period.
The cotton grgyritfg States reported
19,081,032 spindles in place, with
18,008,392 in operation, as compared
to 14,116,298 spindles in New Eng-
land, with only 9,926,662 active in
that section. The active spindle hours
for January in the cotton growing
States numbered 5,881,326,432, and
ip the New England States, 2,047,-
601,795. Those figures reveal the
greater activity of the textile in-
dustry in the South than in New
England. But (Texas made little con-
tribution to the compiling of the
South’s textile record. With the
exception of Mississippi, Texas re-
ported fewer spindles in place tjian
that admission—there are some hot-
heads in places of leadership in the
democratic party in the several
Southern states who want to penal-
ize and ostracise the voters who I
could not and would
the dose Tammany offered them.
If Democracy expects to win vic-
tories in the future, why Democracy
by whomsoever led, and howsoever
led, must give us candidates who ^
represent at least a reasonable
some natures. Just as at times
feel over-joyful.
You can not explain either emo-
tion.
To have fo-*-boding thoughts too
measure of the ideals and principles i
of the common voter*. Democratic "For the past eleven years Texas
i__,_ /___ _ u. . -1 has been the home of a great ro-
leaders (no we won t say “leaders,”. duatry ** from tf*
but those in official place in party one of nature's deposits and funish-
councils and organizations) owe' ed that deposit to the countries of
something to the mass c£ the vot-' the world. These deposits of nature
ere. They mu-t give us clean and de- th* immensely Urge sulphur
east candidate*. Otherwise these fel- ‘ *
which are under the dome
, . _ , , , , . 'structure of our Gulf Coast. In drill-
lows in official place in party coun-1 ing foT oiI< m nambfT of the oil
cils are going to destroy the demo-1 companies found sulphur beds, but
cratic party in the South. They gave they did not resize bow important
it a stab two y^are ago that lost to these sulphur beds were. However.
when tne war came on and foreign
it all of the Solid South except six
states—and nowhere else did Dem-
ocracy gain a thing except two Kt-
democra-
cy.
We repeat that it was the so-call-
ed leaders two years ago who
brought disgrace, defeat and anguish
to the democratic party— and not
those dissented from purposes of!
those named for the ticket. The spec-
ter of post Civil War reconstruction
has passed and been forgotten. We
democrats have swallowed the doc-
trine of a protective tariff, the only
thing of late year* that has differ-
entiated the two parties. And thus
the people of the Solid South do not
fear the party lash, nor party pen-
more you
the faster they will take definite
, J form and the harder for you to get
I rid of them.
Imaginary troubles, the things
that never happen, do more damage
than actual misfortune. — Houston
Chronicle.
Oil
Maps
Of Smith Co.
LIFE INSURANCE
District Agency Opening
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to make appointment of District Agent for territory includ-
ing Smith and adjoining counties.
A FEW- OF OUR FEATURES:
—Guaranteed Low Rates.
—Age limits, one day up.
—Full second year values in
first year.
—Disability and Double Indemnity.
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and their Beneficiaries.
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Follow the Crowd
TO
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THERE’S A REASON
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EDUCATION
SEND ONE DOLLAR for
SMITH COUNTY OWNERSHIP
MAP showing FEE OWNER-
SHIP, OIL OWNERSHIP,
TOWNS, STREAMS, RAIL-
ROADS, any OIL WELL DA-
TA, etc.
Snce the opening of the fam-
ous “VAN POOL” in Van
Zandt county there has been
great oil leasing activity in Smith
County.
The county records show you
as a property owner in Smith
county. Get our Mhp and See
where the major company lease
blocks are, see how near your
land is to these blocks, etc.
This Dollar Map is an exact
reproduction of our large scale
oil field map which sells for
$25.00.
Our Dollar Maps completed
are: Van Zandt, Henderson, Ec-
tor, Andrews, Brewster, Pecos,
Reeves and Upton counties.
Logan Map Co.
P. O. Box. 431
FORT WORTH, TEXAS
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TYLER, TEXAS
will produce $2J)00,000.00 which will
: go into the treasury if the state,
__. . . • n . and will reduce the ad valorem tax
albes, nor political oatrecism. They! nU, fm ^ two.nilTth8 "
ore not going to follow unquestion- j
ing, like a bunch of “dumb, driven
cattle"—nor will the rank and file , And some of you won’t like this i
of the men and women who hither-; either: You can't expect much of
to have been the glory and the pow- j the Legislature so long as R has so
er of Democracy stand to be kicked much of the "lawyer complex;" nor
around like a lot of outcasts. * so long as we send down to Austin ’
This may be treason — but Mr. j to make our law* a bunch of fellows |
Wilcox and the 19 other members who regard the place as but an op-1
of the State Executive Committee portanity for gaining a "more pay-
who agree with him had better ing place at the public pie-counter."
think it over. They are doing more ’ —nor so long as we pay no more for
to keep Texas under the banner of j the services they are to render than
national republicanism than all the a negro cotton chopper could get
old line republicans in the state during the era of World War rafia-
combined—and they can smoke that tion. After all the pfabUe is to blame
Quality Tomatoes
ARE PRODUCED BY
Quality Fertilizer
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HANDWimmio-OM m wall
some big men down there; Imt the
State, as a whole, has entrusted a
This from Editor L R, Wade of
The Polk County Enterprise- snd if
more of the editor* of this state
would apeak out now (this early in
the game, apeak), apeak eut the
_ that their hearts are impell-
ing them tiTdo, so-relfed de
ocratic leaders would not offer to
the rank and file a candidate who is
A Boston nun promised to retire
when he had made a million, and be
kept his word. We are
tempted to make a smilar
least acceptable to a
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Edwards, Henry. The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1930, newspaper, March 7, 1930; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth619902/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.