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THE KINGSVILLE RECORD
March 2, 1932
KINGSVILLE RECORD
Kingkville Publishing Co., Publishers
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS
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at Kingsville, Texas, under Act of March 3, 1873.
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have FAITH! (JO FORWARD!
One of the most vigorous and courageous i
pronouncements ever uttered by the late
Thomas A. Edison was given out only a
short time before his death. May we not
at this time again quote that immortal mes-
sage in the hope that his inspiring words,
will help us all to maintain our courage anti
faith? This is the message:
“Be courageous! 1 have lived a long time, j
1 have seen history repeat itself again and
again. I have seen many depressions in busi- j
ness. Always America has emerged from,
these stronger and more prosperous. Be
as brave as your fathers were before you. J
Have faith! Go forward!”
If anyone is inclined to doubt Mr. Edi-
son’s prophesy, let him read and consider
the following excerpt from the official re-
port of the U. S. Commission of Labor dat- j
ed 1886: “The nations of the world have;
overstocked themselves with machinery and!
manufacturing plants far in excess of the j
wants of production. * * * This full supply
of economic tools to meet the wants of near-
ly all branches of commerce and industry is
the most important factor in the present in-
dustrial depression. It is true that discov-
ery of new processes of manufacture will un-
doubtedly continue and this will act as an
ameliorating influence, but it will not leave
room for marked extension such as has been
witnessed during the last 50 years, or afford
employment to the vast amount of capital
which has been created during the period—
the day of large profits is probably past."
POLITICIAN OR STATESMAN?
Frank R. Kent, Washington-Baltimore
journalist, who has been lecturing in Texas
this month, appeared before an Open Forum
audience in Houston last week, and among
other things, said “Jack Garner is making
a success of his job, not because he is a
statesman, but because he is a shrewd poli-
tician.”
• * * * •
R. M. Hayes, writing in the Houston Post,
takes exception to Mr. ^Kent’s remarks and
says the Baltimore political observer is in-
consistent and contradictory in his apprais-
al of Mr. Garner. He cites Webster’s and
the Century dictionaries to prove that a poli-
tician and a statesman are one and the same
thing.
Mr. Kent said in his opinion there are but
two statesmen in Congress, Senator Cordell
Hull and Senator Carter Glass. Mr. Hays
contends that if that is the case there must
be a Jot of unemployed statesmen in Wash-
ington, and concluded his article by sug-
gesting “that if Mr. Kent received any com-
pensation for his.appearance ... he donate
the amount to the fund for relief of unem-
ployed statesmen.”
* • * *
In his talk before the Forum, Mr. Kent
had only the highest praise for Mr. Garner
and his work in his role as Speaker of the
House. He did not contend that the speak-
er “is a great statesman, a profund thinker
or a great man,” but he did insist that the
speaker is a clear-headed politician with
plenty of sense, who uses tact, is cool in a
crisis, and is a leader of men.
* # • •
Perhaps Mr. Kent did err when he said
Jack Garner is not a statesman. Perhaps
he believes the speaker is too blunt, too out-
spoken and too much of a fighter to be a
statesman in his definition of the term. But
Texans like “Uvalde Jack’s” style, and ap-
parently the rest of the country is well
pleased with him from the complimentary
remarks made about him all over the Unit-
ed States. Call him what you will—politi-
cian or statesman—it doesn’t matter, he’s
giving the greatest exhibition of handling
men—congressmen, if you please—that has
been witnessed in this country in a long
time.—Editorials of the Month.
unities were heavier. Evidently the Japs
have found another place besides Wall Street
to borrow money. Otherwise, why all the
shooting?
• * * *
In the United States where battles for eco-
nomic existence are being waged in all sec-
tions. it is interesting to watch the milk
“war” now in progress in Houston. So far
neither side has made any notable gains,
but public opinion and the cows are on the
side of the producers, and it is said the dis- j
tributors will soon have to give ground in;
the face of such tremendous odds. To this '
“war correspondent” it seems that the pro-
ducers occupy the most advantageous posi-
tion by having the cows on their side. At
least they control the “ammunition base.”
And ammunition is the big thing in any
war. • * * *
The producers have also enlisted the at-
torney general to investigate alleged anti-
trust law violations. Between oil trusts and
milk trusts, Attorney General Allred is hav-
ing a strenuous year of it. But he doesn’t
seem to mind; he was in the “big war,” and
a little thing like having gasoline poured
down his back or being slapped in the face |
with a gallon of buttermilk is not likely to
stop him from trying to do right by his con-
stituents.
* * * *
Maybe that would be a good way to settle
all wars—even better than the League of
Nations, if it worked. Every time a war is
started let the attorney general act as ref-
eree, and whenever too many generals get
their heads together penalize that side for
violation of the anti-trust statutes. When
three or more second lieutenants are seen
huddled together whispering to each other—
send an investigator to look into the mat-
ter. Whenever one is found going “over the
top”—stop the war, by all means. Nobody
wants to see a second lieutenant get his suit
messed up.
* * * *
Seriously, however, it’s hard to find log-
ic in the position taken by the distributors.
Surely, the distributors dbn’t object to the
producers organizing for their own welfare
and protection—the distributors have done
the same thing. And if they don’t there
isn’t much reason for the controversy. We
must all go up the ladder together if we
hope to make any permanent progress.—
Editorials of the Month.
Ml
ROGERS
BS2ri
THIS AND THAT
By Jimminy
The Chinese-Japanese dispute continues,
with the Japs showing some progress and
the Chinese a great deal of determination.
Last week the bombarding was a little more
terrific than usual and as a result the cas-
KEEP T1IE COUNTY AGENTS
The increase in farm efficiency in the
United States the last fifteen years has been
due in no small measure to the county ag-
ricultural agent system. County agents are
men trained in the art of agriculture. They
are part of the agricultural extension ser-
vice of the United States Department of
Agriculture and the state agricultural col-
leges, and a most effective part, since they
meet the farmer on his own ground and
their advice to him grows out of an inti-
mate understanding of his problems.
Just now there seems to be a more or less
organized attack on the county agent sys-
tem. Part of this comes from farmers them-
selves, who in present straits are willing to
sacrifice almost anything to reduce taxes
Part comes from opponents of co-operative
marketing.
As a matter of fact, while some county
agents have been of assistance in the devel-
opment of co-operative marketing, most of
their activity is along production lines. They
form the most effective link that has been
discovered between agricultural research
and farm practice.
Every natural scientist knows how long
he must wait for the public to come to his
mouse-trap. Many important contributions
to more efficient agricultural production are
now in extensive use on the farm which
would still be in the laboratory were it not
for the effective missionary work of the
county agents.
Experience has shown that the advantage
of every improved- agricultural practice ac-
crues to the public far more than to the
farmer. It is true that the first farmers to
adopt an improved method may profit large-
ly thereby. But as soon as the new meth-
od comes into general use, the highly com-
petitive character of agriculture translates
the benefit into lower prices to the consum-
er.
Farmers can survive the loss of their coun-
ty agents. They will miss this help on
which they have come to rely so largely, but
without it they may not have so large a sur-
plus to trouble them. But the consuming
public, dependent on an abundant supply of
food now and in the future, cannot afford
to dispense with so important a factor, even
as a measure of temporary economy.—The
Christian Science Monitor.
Mukden by Mail.—Well all I
know is Just what I read in the
papers. And sav llrother Its ao
cold out here In ____
this Manchuria
that you cant
read even i f
you had some-
thing to read
which you have
not Sitting
here in Mukden,
thats the town
that all the Jap-
anese and Chi-
n e s e War
News comes
from, you know
its been on the front pages of
every newspaper for months and
months. It used to be the old
Capitol of Manchuria when Man-
churia was really a Kingdom.
They have had Emperors and
Hulers here for about 2 or 3 thous-
and years. Its kinder in the range
of that old Hepscallion Gunghls
Kahn, he ranged up and down
these parts, lie captured every-
thing from Japan clear on right to
the very gates of what Is now Ku-
rope. He got clear to Vienna, and
did it ail horseback.
Well this is right up his alley
this place, its got an old walled
city here, where' they close the
Gates at night. Went down there
yesterday with some Newspaper
men to buy some Curios, that is
rare Jade.
They had some wonderful old
Curios In ihese old shops. Course
they might have been like ours,
made the week before someplace
but they looked pretty ancient to
me. You know what these Chinese
was nutty about was clocks. They
say most of them were made in
France and Switzerland, as they
never did make any our here,
hut they sure was cuckoo about
em.
They live in the hack end of
these places. The way they work
the heat or the stove is they have
a little hit of a thing like a fire-
place. Its generally right under
their lied, and their bed is built
down solid to the ground. Its not
a bed. its just a high platform
built against the back of the wall.
Well they 'have little openings,
not pipes, hut just little long
troughs, or alleyways running thru
the masonry that makes the foun-
dation of the bed, and this little
heat from this dinky little stove,
it runs on through these little
passages, and that is what heats
the bed.
The Japanese they sleep on a
mattress on the floor, hut the
Chinese get up on this shelf. We
also went into a fur store as they
wanted to get a kind of u lap robe
to ukq in a Ricksha.
Well you ought to have seen
these Furs, if they diilent have
some of the queerest looking old
Pelts In there, and what do you
think they were, well they were
every kind of fur in the World,
hut they were all dog fur. Thats
what they really were. Of course
there was Fox and Beaver and Ko-
linsky and Mink, but all made
from practically the same dog. You
see those old dogs up there are
kinder semi wild, and they roam
the country and they are raised in
the Villages, then when the family
gets broke why old Fido Is exe-
cuted, and his hide brings in some
rice, and his meat brings in all
the nelghliors, and' they have a
feed, "Come tonight we are eating
the Flee Hound."
There is no two of the mutts
cokfred alike. They look like
everything that ever wore hair,
and on these Chinese Streets, they
dont sell har-lly anything in the
stores, they move it all out on
the streets. Of all the junk they
are cooking right there before you
Ion a little Charcoal fire. All kinds
! of fish, and queer do dads. Then
| the Burbers are out there. The
i Tonsorial Parlors are right In the
- middle of the road.
Did 1 tell you how they traded?
j Well they wear great long Kl-
monas. with sleeves about six in-
ches longer than the hand, and in
cold weather they run each hand
up each sleeve, like a Muff. Well
If two of them
are trading, one
each runs his
hand up the
others sleeve,
and by feeling
each others fin-
gers they tele-
graph how
much Is offered
and the other
one how much
he will take.
Well If they are
a couple ofg o o d quick
bring traders they can get the
price of a Pair of Sox agreed on
along about the middle of the af-
ternoon.
Course the time means nothing
to em, neither one Is going any-
where, they are everybody says the
sharpest Traders that there is In
the World. There used to be a
Jewish Settlement many yeara ago,
and these just finally wore ein out
and gobbled em up. they couldent
start with the Chinese. No Pigeon
Kngllsh up North China where we
are. That is down south at Can-
ton, there Is where all the Ameri-
can Chinamen come from Is Can-1
ton. I sure am going down there.;
1 want to see the home Town of j
some of these. They are a great j
people, they dont care who has got
Manchuria, all they want to do is
Just to get you In a trade of some
kind and they are fixed. They
are , not what we call "Sharpers”
they are Just good legitimate
traders. You got to be good to
live among 400 million others
COUNTY AGENT EXPLAINS
USE OF FERTILIZER ON TREES
A tree has no way of getCng
food other than hy putting out
feeder roots in the soil near where
it must spend its life time. The
soil near the tree therefore be-
comes lacking in the necessary
food supply that the tree requires.
It is quite necessary that this be
replenished by the application of
a balanced fertilizer. For each cit-
rus tree three years or more of
age one should apply eight pounds
of a 6-10-7 commercial fertilizer
each year. Apply five pounds
about the 20th of February and 3
pounds about June 1. This fertilizer
should lie worked into the soil
around the tree about where the
limbs extend. If the limbs extend
out five feet from the center of
the tree then (he fertilizer should
be placed in a two foot strip
around the tree about five feet out
from the trunk of the tree.
W. L. Wilkinson,
County Agent.
Fighting Locutt Plague
In countries where visitations
from locust hordes are to be
feared, research bureaus have
been set up, and it is now possible
by various methods to keep a cer-
tain check on them. Stern meas-
ures are necessary if a sera]) of
vegetation is to lie saved, and the
few that are fried <>r roasted by
the natives, who consider them a
great table delicacy, is absolutely
useless in decreasing their millions.
Won Fame in France
The Forty-Second or “Rainbow
Division" of the American expedi-
tionary force in the World war was
organized August, 1P17, at Cauip
Mills, New York. The name was
derived from the composite char-
acter, sinee the unit was composed
of selected groups from all sec-
tions of the epuntry.
PROOf* OF CITIZENSHIP
The State Highway Department
has established a minimum wage
scale for laborers working on Tex-
as highway construction work. It
also requires that only Texans be
given road work. Recently It was
announced that employes in the
highway department would be call-
ed upon to show poll»tax receipts
as evidence of Texas citizenship,
and ordered all division foremen to
accept poll tax receipts as final
proof of citizenship.
Much criticism has been heaped
upon the highway commissioners
for some of their actions in the past
and not all of it Is undeserved.
Like most commissions and boards,
the commissioners have formed an
oligarchy that is oppressive to free-
thinking and liberty-loving men
and women. But the highway com-
missioners are due a great deal of
commendation for their decision to
use only Texas citizens in build-
ing Texas highways. At a time
when so many Texas citizens,
many of whom are home owners
and taxpayers, are In reduced cir-
cumstances, we should exert ev-
ery effort to see that they are giv-
en preference over transient and
out-of-state workers. Especially Is
this true on public works.
Requiring a poll tax receipt as
proof of citizenship is one way to
prevent floaters from taking jobs
that rightfully belong to citizens of
Texas. It also serves to build a
stronger citizenship.
If Mrs. Sam Sellers will call at
the Record office she will receive
a pass to the Rialto Theatre good
Tuesday, March 8.
Ancients Spared One Ordeal
Prehistoric people hud their den-
tal troubles, says a popular his-
torian. But they did not have to
read prehistoric magazines while
waiting ' for treatment—Lowell
Evening Leader. (
Early English Proverb
"You can't make u silk puree out
of u sow's ear,” Is an early Kng-
llsh proverb, and the tlrst use of It
appears to be in "The Pigeon of
: Cotgrave". (1738). It appears also
In Swift's "Polite Conversation”
(17Ini and again in Richardson’s
Clurissa” (178o) and repeatedly
I thereafter.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS
AND CREDITORS
'The State of Texas
! County of Kleberg.
To those Indented to or holding
claims aguinst the Estate of Ti-
burcio Rodriguez, deceased:
The undersigned having been
duly appointed administratrix of
the estate of Tiburclo Rodriguez,
deceased, late of Kleberg County,
; Texas, by Ben F. Wilson, Judge of
I the County Court of Kleberg Coun-
j ty, Texas, on the 29th day of Feb-
j ruary, A D., 1932, hereby notifies
J all persons indebted to said estate
to come forward and make set-
tlement, and those having claims
against said estate to present them
to her within the time prescribed
! hy law at the office of Gus L. Ko-
, walskl, attorney, In the Flato
j building, Kingsville, Texas, or at
her residence in Kingsville, Texas,
where site receives her mail.
This 2nd (lay of March, 1932.
Isabel R. Mendez,
Administratrix of the Estate of Ti-
burclo Rodriguez, deceased.
29-4t-np.
Announcement
M. R. OTTO
Has Taken Over the Plumbing Business
Formerly Owned by the Kingsville
Lumber Company
PHONE 604
Harrel’s
Offers
Honest Merchandise
Honest Values
At Prices Consistent With Quality
Unexcelled Service
Free Delivery
Anywhere in Town
Complete Drug Service
Harrel Drug Co.
Complete Drug Service
The Rexall Store Phone 121
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