La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday Morning and Entered at the Post Office as Second-Claaa Matter
By B. F. Harigel
Democratic in Principle and a Worker For LaGrange and Fayette County
$2.00 Per Year
Volume 42 LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, August 11, 1921
Number 32
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REDUCED SALARIES
For University and A. & M.
Perhaps no act of the legislature in recent
years has created so much interest as the one
of reducing the salaries of instructors in the
state’s educational institutions. In speaking of
this legislation, the Brownwood Bulletin says:
“The Lower House of the Texas legisla-
ture voted decisively in favor of a reduction of
the Salaries paid to the University professors.
It voted twice on the pleasure Thursday, and
again on Friday morning registered a two to
one majority in favor of reductions, and sliced
nearly half a million dollars from the Uni-
versity appropriation bill. It was the most
serious blow at the University since the mem-
orable days of Governor Ferguson’s warfare
against the institution, and may mean that
some of the University professors will leave
Texas and find more satisfactory employment
in other universities. But the fact of the re-
duction is less serious than is the spirit which
apparently actuated the House of Represent-
atives in voting for it. It is one thing to seek
economy in the management of a state institu-
tion, and quite another to seek to persecute
a state institution through inadequate sup-
port. Ever since Governor Ferguson dragged
the university into the mire of patisan poli-
tics it has been the subject of attack; not be-
cause its enemies sought to destroy it as a
great state school, but because they were will-
ing that if it be destroyed, if necessary, in
order that those who direct it and those who
occupy professorships in it might be destroyed.
Friends of the university on the other hand,
have been led in their enthusiasm to the op-
posite extreme in many instances, and have
aggravated the opposition instead of trying to
establish a common ground of understanding
and of sympathetic support for this institu-
tion.”
To which the Comanche Chief replies:
“There has been a universal demand all
over the country for a reduction of taxation.
Of course a reduction of taxatidn necessitates
a reduction of appropriations for running the
state government, as well as the federal gov-
ernment. And the legislature has gone
about the task with commendable courage and
determination. But there is a great tempest
raging among the state capitol because the
legislature, in its capacity as representatives
of the people, has had the timidity to apply
its policy to reducing the salaries of the 'pro-
fessors’ in one of the state’s educatonal in-
stitutions. The president of the State Uni-
versity and many of the ex-students of that
institution seem to regard the university as
above the law and as belonging to a few peo-
ple who have received, and are receiving, the
benefits of the immense 'appropriations out of
the public treasury for its support.
“The salaries of the ‘professors’ were
raised during and after the war on account of
the rising cost of living, and the last increase
was made specifically on that account. Now
that prices have dropped and the load of tax-
ation seems greater than the people can bear,
the legislature, in response to the universal
demand for retrenchment, has, in the appro-
priation bill adopted by the house of repres-
entatives, put the salaries back to what they
were before the last raise, and President Vin-
son has threatened to resign and predicted all
manner of dire calamities to the university
should the legislature carry out its ignoble
designs snd cut the salaries of the ‘professors,’
'associate professors,’ ‘adjunct professors,’
‘instructors,’ and their assistants.
s “Since the house has by a large majority
shown a determination to reduce the salaries
of those now in charge of the various state in-
stitutions of learning that are supported by
taxes on the people, telegrams have been pour-
ing in from individuals and various ‘societies’
of ex-students, protesting against such action,
and denouncing all who dare lay vulgar hands
on these sacred institutions as enemies of
higher education Who are engaged in an effort
to destroy the university.
“The Brownwood Bulletin, in the item
above quotod, says ever since Governor Fer-
guson ‘dragged the university into the mire of
politics it has been the subject of attack.’ In
what way did Governor Ferguson ‘drag the
university into the mire of politics?' It was
by demanding that graft be eliminated, and
that competent men who were willing to give
value received for the salaries paid them be
placed at the head of the various departments
of that institution. Governor Ferguson was
unquestionably representing the great mass of
tax-payers of Texas who furnish the money to
run the university, in that demand. Governor
Neff has stated that the state departments are
OUR WEEKLY POEM
SIR GALAHAD AND THE TAILOR
My scissors carve the coats of men,
My needle thrusteth sure,
At pressing I’ve the strength of ten,
Because my art is pure.
When clients have one shoulder high,
Or other queer defects reveal,
I smile with conscious pride, for I
Deformities conceal.
I challenge Nature in the lists,
And fight with firm and dexterous
hands;
A few short hours suffice my powers—
A perfect man before me stands!
How sweet are looks that ladies bend
On whom their favor falls!
To dress their Bwains I condesoend,
Else they’d not look at all!
’Tis joy to me, all joys above,
When legs are bowed or bent the spine,
To rectify such things I love
To know the power is mine.
And, when pleased patrons on me beam,
Their pleasing transports move—yes,
thrill,
But greater far my transports are,
When they are pleased to pay the bill!
—Selected.
honeycombed with graft, and has advocated
a cutting down of expenses in order that the
burden of taxation might be reduced. The
legislature is righteously trying to effect the
reduction in the interest of the people.
It is well enough for the special group
who seem to think they alone should be con-
sulted in matters concerning the university,
to remember the greqt mass of tax-payers
who never go to Austin or send any represent-
atives there, except those duly elected to re-
present them as members of the legislature,
have a very deep interest in the expenditure
of public money. The people will appr<*e of
the action of the majority in the house who
refuse to be diverted from their efforts to cut
down appropriations and who are not to be
swerved from the path of duty by telegrams
and petitions that represent but a very small
per cent of the citizenship of Texas. It is
to be hoped those men who have had the cour-
age and patriotism to vote for a reasonable re-
duction of expenses of our educational insti-
tutions will stand firm in their determination.”
The Fort Worth Record seems to be much
against the reduction, for it says: \
“It is largely the loyalty for Texas uni-
versity felt by the member* of the faculty that
has kept them at their post here. Many of
them are recognized as having no superior in
the country and if cuts are to be made in their
salaries that will make it difficult for them to
live as they should, they are very likely to
accept offers from colleges and universities
that will pay them in proportion to their
ability.”
And in another article on the same sub-
ject the Record states:
“If Texas is to maintain her place in the
forefront of the states of the union and is to
advance and extend her sphere of influence it
is very necessary that her sons and daughters
be given the best education that can be given
them. Many of these, if they can not obtain
here in Texas the education they want, will
go to universities in other states. This would
be regrettable, not only because it would take
money out of Texas, but because it might wean
some of the young people away from the state.
They are needed now and will be needed more
in the years following fast to make Texas
greater.”
The San Saba Star has little to say, but
says it strongly:
“Those highly ornamental adjunct profes-
sors of the university work fifteen hours per
week, and we’ll bet that nine-tenths of them
can orate for fifteen hours on why a laboring
man should work forty eight hours per week
instead of forty-four hours. This kind of bunk
and graft is what makes I. W. W.’s and an-
archists and discontented wage earners.”
SINGING PRAISES
From The Dallas Timea-Herald
The papers have been full of the court-
room antics of Mrs. Kaber. She was “front
page stuff.” We desire to sing the praises of
Mrs. Housewife. Mrs. Housewife has never
murdered her husband. She would probably
decline to put arsenic in his. iced tea. She
never gets in the limelight. But she sheds
a gentler radience of her own. It is the ra-
dience that arises from purity. It is the ra-
dience that streams from unselfishness. It is
that immortal light called love-of-others. It
is the soft rose glow that comes from daily
planning, not to perfect selfish ends, but to
accomplish happiness for the rest.
When, weary of work and the seeming
futility thereof, the sweat spent husband
comeB home of an evening who but she greets
him with such cheerfulness as is like balm to
his body and like incense to his soul! She
alone never tires of listening to the honest-
hearted boasts, to his little, little ambitions,
to his stupid Canterbury Tales of his daily
pilgrimage in the journey of the job.
If he falls to ailing—my God, how a man
moans and groans over such smallness of pain
as would never cause-Mrs, Housewife to stop
smiling!—she alone is ever ready to soothe
his heated brow and his agitated mind. She
never belittles but rather enlarges the gravity
of his ailment. She feels sure that never a
hero on the stricken battlefield showed more
sublime courage than this feCble-hearted
wretch writhing over some half-fancied
frightfulness of. disease. Though she may be
even then suffering greater pain than he has
ever known, it is he who must “see the doctor
right away.”
A poet once wrote in wonder words of
“the light that never was on sea or land.”
Such a light is written on the face of the true
housewife.
It is compact of self-sacrifice. Its pri-
mary rays are: Faith, love, charity. And
they weave themselves into such a wonder
glow as surpasses the pens of the greatest
poets who ever wrote in the finest frenzies.
No, Mrs. Housewife is not good news-
paper copy. She is better; she is good. Did
you ever dream a happy dream and awake
smiling? The housewife is the dream come
true. All honor to her wherever she weilds
the broom of domestic felicity.
The Dallas Times-Herald gives its views
as follows:
“Many have been the protests against the
legislative action towards the reduction of
professors’ salaries at the University of Tex-
as, but there is another educatonal matter
which is just cause for even greater alarm.
That is the matter of the length of rural
school terms. ‘The situation Is alarming and
deplorable,’ says County Superintendent Mc-
Donald, ‘especially in view of the fact that so
few of the rural districts, whether common or
independent, voted to increase the school tax
and thus to provide a local revenue for main-
tenance.’
“The University of Tezas is an important
state institution, Jrat after all, the most im-
portant educational problem to solve is the
problem of furnishing adequate education to
the great majority. The great majority are
found in just such schools as Superintendent
McDonald speaks of. To this great majority
the rural school education irf the only educa-
tion. This great majority goes to the neither
university nor to college. If its education in
the common school is cut short by the shorten-
ed term, it has no chanee to make up that
education elsewhere. The Times-Herald be-
lieves in the education of the people. It be-
lieves that such education is an aid to good
citizenship. It wants to see the day come in
Texas when there will be no shortened terms
in rural schools.
“The Times Herald wants to see the day
come in Texas when there will be better edu-
cational facilities in the rural schools. This
is a problem which our educators should not
overlook. The higher education is valuable.
But the ‘lower education,’ the education which
is the only kind for the vast majority—is it
of a less importance?”
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“Spotlighting,”' a recreation enjoyed by
“jelly beans’’ and callow non-productive youths
who drive their father’s Automobiles about the
city streets after dark, has reached such pro-
portions as to call for action on the part of
Police Commissioner Louis Turley. Powerful
spotlights affixed to automobiles are flashed
in the faces of approaching motorists by the
“spotlighters” or else are used to invade the
AIDING MR. DEMPSEY
From Tie New Ulm Enterprise
Now that Mr. Dempsey has knocked out
the champion prise fighter of Europe it is con-
sidered improbable by many that thefe will be
any other puncher willing to take him on.
That would be sad§ for Mr. Dempsey. \
Having achieved fame greater than that
of any king or emperor, it is not to be con-
sidered that he would sink to the level of a
mere moving picture star in order to remain
in the fickle public eye, which bo bften forgets
its heroes. What, then, can we do to aid Mr.
Dempsey? Let him enter the ring and punch
himself in the absence of any other opponent?
Not at all. These powerful blows might hurt.
There remains but one other suggestion
worthy of a gentleman of the prowess of Mr.
Dempsey. Pull of another war with some
foreign country. Mobilize the flower of our
young manhood and send them ahray to do or
die, or both. Let the red blood of America
flow as the waters of the sea, with the super-
blood of Mr. Dempsey anchored safely In th®
harbor of a shipyard.
It is undignified to fight and run away.
Therefore, the great of the earth should not
fight at where sprinting may become an ur-
gent necessity. The shipyard turns out noble
palaces of the deep. It is a convenient place
for Mr. Dempsey to turn in. Adieu, Jackie!
privacy of sleeping porches and rooms of resi-
dences where curtains have been raised owing
to the heat. Commissioner Turley has order-
ed the arrest of “spotlighters.” It is doubt-
ful if they can be prosecuted under the state
highway law, but perhaps they can be fined
for conducting s public nuisance. We believe
that a jury would acquit any victim of a “spot-
lighter” should he use a shotgun or pistol with
accuracy. “Spotlighting” is a dangerous gam?
for the confused motorist into whose face the
glaring searchlight flares. It should be made
dangerous for the imbecile behind the rays.—
Dallas Times-Herald. / • i
We have been hearing this question of
marketing discussed since we were a small
boy. One day when we were just large
enough to drive a wagon we were waiting our
turn to have a load of hogs weighed. One
farmer stepped up to the scales where another
was weighing and Baid: “What are you get-
ting?” The man weighing replied: “Foot
twenty-seven.” Then the inquirer threw a lit.
“The scoundrels are paying me only three-
eighty.” Then the fun started. There was
no middling or other class to hogs. They were
just hogs to the man who received the low
price and the difference was robbery. The
buyer showed that the high-priced hogs were
uniform in weight and even in color, while the
low-priced ones were in different stages of fat-
tening and were of all sices from three hun-
dred pounds down to less than two hundred.
The high-priced man showed the aggrieved one
how he had a load for which he was receiving
even less than the load that started the row.
It was all interesting to us and also Interesting
to see that some farmers took the side of the
buyer and some the side of the farmer. Hog
flesh was hog flesh in whatever sise package
it was delivered in, or whatever color, thought
some farmers. Hogs are easier to grade than
cotton, and long before we left the hog.country
such disputes were rare.—Lockhart Register.
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On page two of this weak’s issue of The
Journal appears the sdvertdmnent of one of
the biggest events Fayette and the adjoining
counties have had in years. It is the Ninth
Annual Flatonia Fair. It is not necessary to
say much about this annual event, as all the
fairs held heretofore by this association ha v<*
always been a success—and success follows
success. Cut this sd and hang it ou the wall
in your office, and when September 28, 20 and
30, and October 1’ roll around, hitch up your
jitney and visit our neighbor city. That you
will have a good time and be treated right
is self-understood.
SM Hatfield, former chief of police of
Mattewan, West Virginia, and member of the
famous Hatfleld-McCoy fued family, was shot
to death on the courthouse steps of Mattewan
during a quarrel. No member of that family
expects to die any other way.
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Taxes are troubling the republicans con-
siderably. Their trouble lies in levying taxes
while at the same time trying to hoodwink th®
people into the belief that they are running the
govemmeht economically.—Temple Mirror.
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1921, newspaper, August 11, 1921; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1006619/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.