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TIIE CUERO RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31) 1931
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THE CUERO RECORD
Established in 1894.
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THE CUERO PUBLISHING CO.
Entered in the post office at Cuero, Texas, as second class matter
under 4ct of Congress, March 3, 1897.
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TELEPHONE NO. 1
NEW YEAR’S DAY
A day set apart, a,little oasis of
time in which the fretful year
pauses briefly in peace and calm, a
day of generous thoughts, of friend-
ly feelings, the best day in all the
year to wish you Success and hap-
piness.—Clipped and Endorsed.
1935 AND THE BIG SHOW
c What promises to be the best “show” of 1935 will start
.early in January. Officially called the Congress of the United
States, there is an excellent chance that for drama, excite-
ment and thrills it will outdo Belasco.
Business is looking to the session with unusual interest.
-The Congress is overwhelmingly Democratic. It is—if cam-
paign speeches mean anything—committed heart and soul to
the Roosevelt policies. But it likewise contains a number of
men, who, had it not been for the potent Roosevelt support,
would never have had a chance of election to a first-class of-
r, who know little of economics, less of industrial problems
practically nothing of monetary affairs. They must be
included in the set-up, but the proble^i is going to be—just
&hei&they will be put. The President is like a ship captain in
an emergency—whatever happens will be pinned on him,
whether he could have taken a different course of action or
•not.
Best guessers believe that one of the big debates of the
■•■^Congress will center around the proposed 30 hour work
weelTTjMany representatives have pledged its enactment, as
have a number of Senators. Business does not want it—nor
does the President. He knows that it would place a burden
oh industry which it cannot afford at this time,
v The bonus, a cross which every President since Wilson
has been forced to bear, will be up again. .
I'- Public works and relief expenditures will also cause a
tussle. A thorough survey indicates that if Congress is left to
its own devices it will appropriate and spend the gigantic to-
tal of $15,000,000,000. The President’s own program calls for
an expenditure of less than half of this amount.
The next Congress will contain many currency inflation-
ists, and it appears the President is opposed to inflation, so
another battle looms.
* The future oi NRA will likewise arise. The chances are
that it will be continued but on a iflfcch smaller scale. It will
stilt enforce hours and wages conditions, but it will probably
drop price fixing, have less to say about industrial manage-
so it goes down a long line of topics. The New Year
e New Congress running hand in hand promise to bring
a bit of excitement in the nation’s capitol.
AN ESTATE
Not every father is able to leave to his son a big estate
made up of lands, Mortgages and bonds, but any father can
biQueath to his children an estate worth indefinitely more—
one for which they will rise up to call his name blessed. He
can leave an honorable name, a good reputation, the mem-
ory of a Godly life and a record of fair dealing. He can teach
h&aon. to have a profound respect for a fact, a deep reverence
for character, a thirst for knowledge and a willingness to
work. If any youth has all this he will not need any money
that^may be willed to him; if he does not have this no money
left him will do him much good. This is an estate any man
can leave to his children.—Bindery Talk.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Susan got up to go with her eye
on the mantel clock like a person
with a dozen important and press-
ing engagements for the day. “I
can’t etay,” she said, fastening the
worn frogs on her coat. “I just came
to let you know that I’m all right
and that you mustn’t worry about
me.”
Her aunt put her plump arm
around her, the look of puzzlement
and worry coming into her face
once more. “I can’t see any reason
in the world why you’d stay at your
Anna’s house when you know you’re
as welcome here as Mary or Sara
unless you don’t really care for us,
Susie,” she said. "And 1 know it
isn’t that. Susan, what is the mat-
ter? You certainly can tell me—”
For a flying second Susan was
strongly tempted to put her,head
down upon the comfort and warmth
of her aunt’s broad motherly bosom
and blurt out the whole story to
her.
But in that swift second soma-
thing happened to stop her. They
stepped into the hall and there in
the corner, hanging on the coat
tree, was Mary’s scarlet hat, the hat
that she had worn the night Susan
watched her go up the street beside
Allen. And on another branch of
the mahogany tree hung Allen’s
raincoat with a corner of his muffler
showing above a pocket. There they
were as if the owners had come in
from outddors together and hung
them there side by side.
Susan shook her head. “Nothing’s
the matter,” she said firmly. The
coat tree was proof enough of her
aunt's statement that Allen and
Mary had “struck up” a great
friendship. It was inevitable that
they would do that in this houseful
of pleasant kindly people where
everything would be made smooth
for them. Allen wopld never be
made to feel that he was an intruder
here as he had always been made to
feel in the Brodericks’ house. He
would be — undoubtedly, already
was—part of the family circle just
as1 Connie had been part of it. Part
of the busy happy life of the Cul
lens, taking part in the games of
cards and backgammon, the putting
together of jigsaw puzzles, the im-
promptu concerts that made up
their evenings.
How easy it would be for Mary
to see to it that their friendship
deepened into affection, encouraged
on all sides by the Cullens, as Susan
felt sure it would be. She could tell
by the pleased tones of Aunt Nell’s
voice when she spoke of him that
she felt certain he was the very
person for Mary.
She opened the front door and
stepped out on to the porch. Behind
her Aunt Nell’s voice seemed to be
trying to reach out and hold her.
“Do you have to go, Susan? Surely
you can stay and have lunch with
me. Why, you’ve just come and now
you’re running away before you’ve
really told*me anything about your-
self. . . . Susan, what IS wrong?”
She put out her hand and caught
Susan by the shoulder. Her eyes
were like bright drills trying to get
ipto the girl’s mind to find out what
actually was the matter.
“Oh, I just feel that I ought to
get-right away from everybody and
wdYk things out alone for myself,”
Susan said suddenly. This much
was the truth, at any rate. “You
know how I’ve always wanted a job,
don’t you? I’ve always blamed Dad
and the rest of the family for hold-
ing me back and not letting me get
one. And now that they’re all gone
I've made up my mina to find out
whether it was their fault or mine
that I’m no good.” She opened her
gray eyes wide. “I’m not any good.
I haven’t even been able to find work
yet—in all these weeks.”
"Have you any money?” Aunt
Nell’s voice followed her down the
front steps. “Now, tell me the
truth, Susan.”
“Oh, yes.” Susan smiled over her
shoulder. “Aunt Edna gave me
some before she went away. Good'*
by. HI come over again soon.” And
she waved her hand, ending A con-
versation that had been as uSatis-
factory to herself as it had bSt? to
Aunt Nell. She could tell bl her
last glimpse of her aunt’s troubled
face that she was still mystified,
still at a complete loss, concerning
her behavior. Well, there was no
help for it.
• • •
“Susan didn’t tell me anything
about herself except that she’s liv-
Newest business reports show an up-swing in trade in
every part of the country. Christmas business set a new high
,for recent years. The South appears to be in the best con-
dition. Business gains of from 50 to 100 per cent were re-
ported throughout the South during December. It appears
we have much more to be thankful for this year as we greet
•1935 than we have had to be thankful for in the past three
years. Optimism is in order.
ing with the hired girl that the
Brodericks used to have and is
looking for some work to do,” Aunt
Nell told Uncle Arthur that night.
“I forgot to ask her about her Mr.
Steffen and she never mentioned
his name. Maybe that’s what’s
wrong. She may have broken her
engagement to him, or perhaps he
broke it when he found out there
wasn’t so much money among the
Brodericks as he thought there
W3S ”
At bedtime she thought of some-
thing else. “I don’t remember see-
ing that headlight of an engage-
ment ring on her finger today,” she
said thoughtfully, “and if it had
been there I would certainly have
noticed it. * _
"Still,” she murmured musingly,
“even if she has had a quarrel wfth
that fellow it wouldn’t explain her
staying away from us and going to
live on the South Side with a family
of foreigners.”
• • •
It was through old Mrs. Herbst
that Susan finally found a position.
The old lady read “The Waechter
and Anzeiger,” and one day she
came to Susan with it in her wrink-
led hand and pointed her forefinger
at an advertisement on the back
page.
"It is for somebody to sell the
music by the Eagle Store,” she ex-
plained in her awkward English.
“He should nice clean work be, ja?”
Susan thanked her and carried
the paper to Herbst.
“‘Girl to sell well-known makes
of musical instruments and sheet
music. Must have some knowledge
of music,’ ” was the gist of the ad-
vertisement as Herbst translated it
for her.
"You know where the Eagle
Store is, don’t you?” he asked her.
Susan knew exactly where it was
It stood between Huggins’ Cut Rate
drugstore and a public market on
the west side of wide Twenty-Fifth
Street. She had come to know
every foot of the neighborhood by
heart, it seemed to her, during the
weeks when she had tramped the
streets in search of work.
At half past eight the next morn
ing she stood in the rain outside
the employees’ entrance of the store
with a little box of lunch under her
arm and hope in her heart. She had
arrived at the store at seven, and
she was first in the line of girls and
women who stood waiting at the
entrance.
“You’d better take your dinner
with you every day,” Anna had ad-
vised her several days before. “In
case you should get a job and go
right to work you could not go all
day without anything in the stom-
ach. You might faint away, dead
like. And if you don’t get the job,
still you got to eat.”
At twenty minutes to nine Susan
stood in the employment office on
the top floor of the store talking to
a sharp-faced young man who was
Mr. Morrill, the employment man-
ager. He was asking her questions
and she was answering them, try-
ing not to seem too eager.
Yes, she did know something
abont music. She could play simple
things like popular music without
much difficulty.
No, she was not married. No,
she was not thinking of getting
married. . . . No, she had neves,
worked in a music store.
“Well, I’ll send you to Mr Lesser
who’s in charge of our music de-
partment and see how you get
along,” Mr. Morrill said when she
had answered all of his questions.
I see you have on a black dress.
We require all our women employ-
ees to wear black. You can go right
to work now?”
Oh, yes!” said Susan breath-
lessly. Excitement, so keen that it
was like happiness, rose in her. She
had a job I She had made her start
at last!
With feet that felt as if wings
were attached to the heels she fol-
lowed Mr. Morrill’s stenographer
down to the girls’ rest room on the
next floor below. She was shown
where to put her hat and coat am
lunch box and then the girl, a thin
lipped blond who.wore glasses and
spoke in a precise clipped fashion,
took her past the floor-covering de-
partment with its rolls of carpet
and linoleum standing on end
the music department, a space
hedged in by upright pianos and
radios and phonographs in polished
wood cabinets.
Mr. Lesser was gray and middle-
aged and gentle looking. His eyes
were blue and mild behind silver-
rimmed spectacles and in all the
time that Susan worked for him he
never gave her a single order. All
day long it was, “Win you please
dust the record boxes. Miss Broder-
ick?” of. “Would you be so kind as
wait on this lady who is'just
coming in, Miss Broderick? I must
go over to the stock room for a few
minutes.”
The first morning she came tc
work he asked her to play a little
for him, and he smiled over her
rendition of a Waldteufel waltz and
To A Wild Rose.” “You will get
along all right,” he said when she
had finished. “Hardly ever do we
sell anything here but ten cent
sheet music. You will be able to
play it well enough. You will ‘get
by,’ as they say.”
By the end of a week he and
Susan were old friends and Susan
knew his whole history. He had
come from Bavaria thirty years be-
fore, and he had played the cello in
the old Euclid Avenue Opera House
until it was torn down. Then he
had played in the Orpheum moving
picture house until talking pictures
came along with their musical ac-
companiment and there was no
longer need of an orchestra at the
Orpheum. Since that time he had
worked at the Eagle Store. He had
a wife, crippled with arthritis, who
was in a sanitarium at Santa Rosa.
California, and he lived alone in
half of a small double house that
he owned in Trowbridge Street «
few blocks away from the store.
There surely seemed to be very
little in his life to make him cheer
ful. But cheerful he was, neverthe-
less. Susan decided, * after a long
time, that it was because he had *
great interest in music. It was the
thing that he lived by, evidently
Very often at noon she would
come back from the girls’ rest room
where she had eaten her lunch ard
find him sitting at one of the pianoo,
swaying* from side to side on the
bench in time to one of the piece r
he was playing—soft lovely things
of Schubert or of Chopin. And she
could tell by the look on his face
that he had forgotten for the mo-
ment whatever sadness was in his
life.
He belonged to a club, the Ger
mania Turnverein "Vorwaerts, and
on Monday morning he always told
her with great enthusiasm^about
the sing-out they had had the night
before and how much he had en-
joyed it.
As the weeks of the warm and
windy Spring went by Susan’s
spirit rise high. She found a great
satisfaction in her ability to pay
Anna seven dollars a week for her
room and board and to put aside
three of her weekly twelve into the
Twenty-Fifth Street Bank to help
pay for the secretarial course that
she had set her heart on so long
ago. She had made up her mind
that a3 soon as she had saved fifty
dollars she would start the course
and pay for the rest of it as she
went along, for she intended to keep
her position at the Eagle Store un-
til she was ready to look for work
in an office.
One Saturday afternoon she went
down into the hot crowded base-
ment of the store and bought a
Spring hat to take the place of the
rusty old turban. It was a little
straw beret, black and very shiny,
and it cost only a dollar. But for
Susan it was a crown of victory be-
cause she had earned the money
for it herself!
In this new world of the Eagle
Store and the South Side, peopled
almost entirely by strangers, she
began slowly to stop brooding over
the things that had happened in the
Center Street house during‘the last
few weeks. She stopped thinking a
hundred times a day, “If only I had
walked out with Allen that night
when he wanted me to”—“If only
I had done everything differ-
ently—”
It was all over now, and the
thing to do was to look ahead to the
new life. Other people—people like
poor old Mr. Lesser—had unhappi-
ness too, and they managed to lead
happy and useful lives in spite of it.
“And so can I,” thought Susan
hardily, “if I just put my mind to
it.”
She put her mind to it. J
(To Be Continued)
Cocrritht. 1133. bj Kin* future! SyndletU. la*.
The following Interesting items
were clipped from an issue of the
Record of the year 1897;
DECEMBER 31. 1897.*
We are hugging a hope that the
j nine-day spell of cloudy, cold, wet
i weather has paralyzed the bo’.l
! weevil. If such weather doesn't
| get: him he’s here to stay.
* * *
The premium on gold dollars in
Chicago is $1.75, at least this was
the price paid recently in that
city. These dollars are wanted
mainly for bangles for children's
rings, hence the price, due to their
scarcity also.
♦ at the back, and on this, directly
+ in front another small flat bow
4 with a fancy buckle in the center
is attached.
, * ¥ *
Molesworth & King, the cigar
manufacturers, have a regularly
employed solicitor on the road in
the person of H. Laxer. an experi-
enced cigar man. He is now in
the city to spend the holidays, but
will go out on January 3. The
it
K. propose to push their bu*ii£J|
from this on. Let every Cueroite
patronize home industry • and aU
will be well.
* * *__
Tomorrow from 12 o'clock until
closing time I shall be glad to sec
all my friends at my new bar in
the Muti Hotel, where they will tot
welcome to come sample the best
in the house, and it’s all the fery
best.
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build despite the fact activit-
ies in most sections was cur-
tailed to almost no progress.
The year was a year of
v u. ic. achievement. Even the most
T T T
There are now in this country pessimistic must admit that,
j $900,000,000 in gold. $740,000,000 in The purpose of this edition
the treasury^ No country on earth (therefore is to acquaint the
has so much gold and probably
never* will have if the world lets i People of the outside world,
TOWN TALK
club. This organization played
uncle Sam continue to feed and] and even many of those at
clothe its people.
* * *
Familiarity breeds contempt,
When we was in Memphis last
Tuesday we stood in front of a
vacant lot and a doctor drove up
in a rig, got out and hitched his
horse ta us. We like to serve our
fellowman, but when they spread |Per on to friends in Other Cit-
it on too thick w£ invoke the Mon- j ies, other states, after you
home, with the progress made
in Cuero and the Cuero sec-
tion. It is well worth your
careful jstudy and consider-
ation. It might be a good idea
to pass your copy of the pa-
roe doctoring.—Hardemann (Tenn.)
Free Press.
¥ # *
Black and colored velvet ribbons
less than 2 inclTes wide form the
latest thing in neck novelties to
cover the plain collar band. A yard
and a quarter of ribbon is tied
have enjoyed it. We feel
they’ll find it interesting.
* * *
We wish to pay one more
tribute to the Cuero Business
and Professional Women’s
a most important part In the
rejuvenation of Cuero in 1934.
Their 1934 Turkey Trot
tured Cuero into the limelight
of world wide publicity. It w&s
a great success. And the 1934
Turkey Trot did more than
any other thing to wake
Cuero business men and shdw
them just what can be acoota^
plisheti by city-wide coopera-
tion. The spirit existing
Cuero following the close' of
this most enthusiastic and
most successful , celebration
was a spirit that money ccpild
rot buy, and it brought a,tQ
Cuero a world of good. Con-*
gratulations Business 3c Bra*
fessional Women for the par#
you played in Cuero's progress
during 1934 and may you
tinue to contribute to CuferO*if
welfare in 1935.
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Qne thing we are hoping the New Year will bring is a
more peaceful atmosphere in Europe. As long as there’s talk
of war there will be preparation for war, and as long as
;there’s preparation for war the danger of war increases. May
we learn the true meaning of “peace on earth” during the
,'year which begins tomorrow.
The Record’s wish for your New Year is that between
tomorrow and the next New Year may you enjoy three hun-
Idred and sixty-five days of happiness and prosperity.
A busy tongue, an idle brain.
Failures reveal the secrets of success.
The hardest work is dodging work.
If there is no devil, many things are unexplainable.
Be sure your wedding knot is not a slip knot.
Better be wrong sometimes than always undecided.
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