Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. [24], No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1936 Page: 4 of 8
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Crystal City, Texas, May 1, 1936
GAVALA COUNTY
UtMERS GETTING $1500
County Agent Fred LeCrone had
checks Wednesday totaling $1500.94
to be distributed to 50 Zavala Coun-
ty Cotton farmers, being their share
from the special Bankhead pool.
[ \This money is considerably over due.
Moat of it goes to La Pryor farmers,
since that section grows practically
all the cotton grown in this county.
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C. OF C. NOTES
of the
papved
Wednesday’s meeting
Chamber of Commerce
cjuite interesting.
Judge A. C. Mogford reported the
progress on road work but said they
had about run out of road building
material and wanted to know where
new material might be found.
Judge N. H. Hunt thought it an ap-
to fill a train of freflht cars long
enough to go around*he earth It
times at the equator. Such losses, if
ignored, cause irreparable damage
over the years.
/ Soil can be used and yet con-
served provided the right farming
practices are followed. Why these
practices have not been observed in
the past is due in many economic
causey Some of our land was ob-
tained and has since been bought by
people who wished to speculate in
its values, not to keep it as a source
of inceme to be passed down to their
children and grandchildren. Specu-
lators in land have little interest in
its long time conservation. Impa-
tience to expand their acres, increase
their whole property. From owners,
they have become tenants, and ten-
ants who are unsure of their tenure
have little interest in conservation.
Over half of our farmers operate
some leased land, and 42 percent
lease from others all the land they
operate.
Other reasons lie behind soil wast-
age in the past — *he roving spir-
it; the relatively greater comfort of
city, as against country living;
“Keeping up with the Jonses,” and
so on.
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A PACIFIST
“I don't bear sons to be made into
fodder for cannons,” cried Sister Sob-
well at the meeting of the Anti-War
League. “If another war breaks out,
they can fight it out for all I care. I
tell you, my boys are not going into
>ropriate time for the Chamber of | the armyt and what is more, they
immerce to begin agitation for re- neecj not ask me for help or sym-
uilding of *the highway bridge over | pathy ”
TO Nueces river at the Uvalde ^ ... . .
Old Tige McDamitt was a spectator
at the meeting, and although he had
had his fill of war, yet he had his
pssing.
resident Holsomback was given
|jty to appoint a director for
'Texas Chamber of Com-
[followed a discussion of the
JTof raido advertising in which
statements were made, such
fily Crystal City Chamber of
fierce directors can make and
taway with. Such frank discus-
|fs, made in the finest sort of spir-
it T?nade the Crystal City Cham-
uer t)f Commerce the outstanding or-
ganisation of its kind in all South-
west Texas.
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COUNTY AGENT’S COLUMN
tsoil
(Contoued from page 1)
ionuei^jr’.f and that a neutral
jeation has been set up to in-
’idle land, fallow land, wood-
pastures, vineyards, tree
its, small fruits and so forth,
'ayments will be made to farmers
ion proof of having cooperated in
program. This money, which will
paid in one check, will include
yments for replacing certain per-
intages of soil depleting crops
h soil conserving crops and for
hg soil building practices,
ases established on the old re-
jtion contracts will be taken as a
ide for establishing the base for
6 on the soil conservation pro-
wl, with due allowance for crops
included in former contracts.
lAbout 20 percent of the base ac-
age in soil depleting crops in
6, must be replaced by soil con-
; crops in order to qualify
'ticipation in the program,
soil conserving payments will
ised on the productivity of the
'or cotton it will be five cents
und; all other crops receiving
ata payments based on the pro-
Ivity of the land,
te of payemnts for soil building
tices is being approj^K, accord-
to officials of the pn^ram.
Our Misuse of Land
(^nly 75 years ago, as a Nation, we
rowned three-quarters of the whole
area of continental United States.
Today we own one-quarter, hut
those are lands held as forests,
parks, reservation, or used for recla-
mation, national defense, or other
purposes. Relatively only a thimble-
ful of this nationally owned soil
might be used for agricultural pur-
poses.
In those 75 years, we gave away
one billion acres to individuals, to
corporations, and the States, with
lavishness and impatience. To those
who promised to fell the forests and
till the soil we said; Take them; they
yours to use or dispose of as
i.uvlsh. The Nation needed settle-
it and revenue and it gave away
kds to increase both. It handed
the rights and privileges of
Irate ownership and retained only
[right to tax, the power of emi-
domain, and the police power,
to these private owners we
now for the conservation
winch has been both used
and abused to out loss,
of a century ago our
producing food and
sly 31 million conaum-
year now more than
' soil are washing and
ideas about things. He arose and
asked the chairman for permission to
say a word. The permission was
granted, and Old Tige said:
“Sister Sobwell, do I understand
you to say that if our country went
to war with a foreign country, that
you would not let your boys answer
the call to arms, and that you would
refuse to do your ‘bit as we said
when the world war was on?”
“That is right, Mr. McDamit. I
am opposed to war under any cir-
cumstances, no matter what the pro-
vocations may be. I say that war is
uncertain, cruel, inhuman and con-
trary to religious ideals. I teach my
boys this, and tell them that if they
] are ever called upon to fight, to resist
all authority and have nothing what-
ever to do with helping to carry on a
war.”
“I see you are one of the local Cen-
tennial committee working to help
bring about the biggest celebration
Texas ever saw, aren’t you?” said
old Tige.
“Yes—but”
“Now tell me what do you propose
to celebrate, Sister Sobwell?”
“One hundred years of Texas in-
dependence,” ansewered the sister.
“Now, another question: What
brought about the independence of
Texas?”
Why, the war of 1836 when Sam
Houston’s army overwhelmed sAita
Anna at—” V
“Yes, yes, I know, but you say^ou
are opposed to war under any cir-
cumstances, no matter what the pro-
vocation may be. Now suppose you
had been living in Sam Houston’s
day and everybody would have re-
fused to have anything,^ do with
the war as you are now proposing to
do, what do you suppose would have
become of you and your boys?
Where would Texas have been had
those brave old patriots been like
you? You would not have anything
to celebrate or be proud of, would
you?
“Where do you suppose the United
States would have been if the people
of the old thirteen states had been of
your sentiment?
“My sister, you live in the greatest
country that the sun ever rose and
set upon. You enjoy more freedom,
more opportunities and more security
for yourself and property than any
other people on the globe. Don’t you
think that if your country was en-
dangered by a foreign power that it
would be your duty to help defend
it? Don’t you think that all these
blessings that I have named would
be worth a sacrifice?
“I note you are very pious and put
great store by your religion. Now
suppose you lived in Germany where
you had to worship God according to
the dictates of Hitler or some other
Godless despot, instead of worship-
ping Him according to the dictates of
YOUR OWN conscience as is guaran-
teed by the law of this great coun-
try in which you live, what would
you do about it! What would your
religion be worth to you if it were
not safe guarded by the army, the
navy, every citizen and every dollar
in the United States.
“Suppose that you were a German
citizen as you are fortunately an
American citizen, and that you were
Ginger Rogers fans are handed a
treat in RKO Radio’s musical, “Fol-
low the Fleet,” at the Guild Theatre
Saturday midnite, Sunday matinee,
Sunday nignt and Monday, May 2
and 3, in which the vivacious titian-
haired star dances four times and
sings two of Irving Berlin’s haunting
melodies.
Three of Ginger’s dance numbers
are done with her bewildering part-
ner, Fred Astaire. They perform a
sizzling hot collegiate ballroom rou-
tine to the tune “Let Yourself Go."
Later, they dj a screamingly hu-
morous eccentric pantomine dance
to “All My Eggs In One Basket,” and
they also join in a vocal rendition of
this number.
For the finale, Miss Rogers and
the
DRINKS
I went to the annual luncheon of
the Associated Press the other day.
At my table were ten men, among
them some of the most distinguished
publisters and editors of great news-
papers%i all America. Beside every
plate, as we sat down, was a cocktail.
As we got up from the table after
luncheon I noticed that five out of
the ten cocktails were still there, the
glasses untouched.
I think that is about the percentage
! of drinking in these days, among men
| whose business calls on them to keep
1 their heads clear. I have noticed the
same abstinence at several other re-
cent public and private dinners at
which drinks were served. I think
there has been a change since repeal.
People no longer drink as a gesture
of defiance of an unpopular law.
Neither do they take a drink when-
ever they can get it fjm fear they may
not soon have a clfl^ce to get an-
other one.
PRESIDENTS ... of Ours
Partly by accident and partly in
the course of my newspaper work I
have had the opportunity to meet
and get more or less acquainted with
. 2$ ' k
SIHK
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A steer weighing me
and a half will be exhl
Astaire perform a different inter-
pretative dance to "Let’s Face the
Music and Dance.”
Dressed in rehearsal shorft, Gin-; every President of the United States
ger establishes the fact that she has I since Gen. Grant. Lately I have been
no peer as a tap dancer as she goes meeting some possible future Presi-
through her solo routine to the <*en*S-
strains of . “Let Yourself Go.” A couPle of weeks a«°- 1 went
Ginger’s opening song number,
“Let Yourself Go,” is sung in a San
Francisco dance hall and in the sec-
ond chorus she is backed by a girl
trio.
Miss Rogers and Astaire are sup-
ported by a “top-hole” cast including
Harriet Hilliard and Randolph Scott,
and Astrid Allwyn. Mark Sandrich
directed.
to make public the declaration that
you have just made at this meeting.
What do you suppose would become
of you? Hitler would send his men
after your boys and put them to
goosest'epping in his army, and put a
gag in your mouth and send you to
jail.
“Sister, I do not think you are in-
tentionally yellow. In my opinion,
the trobule is that you are ignorant
and refuse to think. You have lis-
tened to some whitelivered, mush-
hearted, brainless parody on man-
kind rave and rant about war until
you have lost all pride in your coun-
try. Your mother selfishness is mak-
ing slackers of your boys whom the
world will point the finger of scorn,
and ostracized by all decent men as
unworthy of a country whom they
are unwilling to defend in its hour
of peril. In a critical hour, my sister,
you and your boys wouldn’t last a
holy minute.
This League, I notice is strong
against war, but I have never heard
one of you say one word against
reckless driving which kills more
people than all the wars put togeth-
er.
The daily tolls on the highways of
the United States today, is greater
than that taken in the war of Ethi-
opia, and yet you say not one word
against it, or do onything to stop
this terrible slaughter.
“Sister Sobwell has a holy horrow
of this “cannon fodder” business, but
she seems to take no interest in pre-
venting making automobile hay of
her boys, because she drives with a
heavy foot on the gas herself.”
Old Tige sat down amid an oppres-
sive silence. He had said something.
Uncle Bill in Sterling City News.
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CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations as fol-
lows:
Junior forester, and junior range
examiner, $2,000 a year.
Medical officer (specialist in ven-
ereal disease control) and medical
officer (specialist in cardiovascular-
renal disease), $3,800 a year.
Principal agronomist, and prin-
cipal oleoriculturist, $5,600 a year,
Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
Assistant architect (industrial ex-
hibits), $2,600 a year, Division of
Labor Standards, Department of
Labor.
Federal agent for agricultural edu-
cation, $4,600 a year, specialist in ag-
ricultural education (part-time and
evening schools), $3,800 a year, Of-
fice of Education, Department of the
Interior.
Full information may be obtained
from B. A Crowder at the post office
in this city.
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CATTLE MOVING
!OPAY«»d
mr
(BANK PARKER
fJOCK BRIDGE
ALCOHOL . . from U. S. Crops
Mussolini rides in a motor car
which uses alcohol for fuel. Italy can
produce alcohol but it cannot pro-
duce gasoline. In America we have
been talking about alcohol as a motor
fuel, or a mixture of alcohol and gas-
oline, for a long time. This has been
put forward as a means of helping
the farmer.
ago,
with some friends to the White
House, where we had a two-hour talk
with President Roosevelt. The next
day I had a visit with Senator Dick-
inson of Iowa, and met for the first
time Col. Henry Breckenridge, who is
an avowed candiate for the Presi-
dency on the “Constitution Party"
ticket. The next day I had luncheon
with Senator Arthus H. Vandenburg
of Michigan, and a couple of days
later, lunched with Col. Frank Knox
of Illinois.
Some one of the men I have just
named is quite likely to be the next
President of the United States. I
don’t know which one has the best
chance. I do know that they all have
less aloofness and more of the man-
ner of ordinary human beings than
some of the Presidents I have known
in the past.
I think the time has passed when
a statesman can get anywhere by
posing heroically in dignified atti-
tudes and refusing to unbend in the
presence of the common people.
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—Genuine Maytag Washing Ma-
chines at Wallis on easy convenie
Terms. Ask your Doctor about
trouble ahead when your Wife wash-
es the old way.
Texas Centennial Ex
opOns in Dallas June 8.
once owned by the late
is said to be the biggest
world. He .weighs 31
stands five feet four 1
withers and is ten feet
head to tail.
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—Typewriter ribbons and
paper at Sentinel office.
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—Rubber Hose for the
genuine cotton Fabrie into
$1.35 fur 25 feet. Wall* L
have it. •
Political Announcement
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For Dist. Judge 38th Judicial
K. K. WOODLEY
For Dist. Attorney 38th Judicial
R J. NOONAN
For Representative 77th District:,
JOE W. CALDWELL, Jr
(re-election)
JOE MONKHOUSE
For Sheriff:
EVERETT ANGLIN (re-election)
C C. BUSBY
For County Judge:
A. C. MOGFORD (re-election)
For County Attorney:
R A. TAYLOR. Jr.
For District Clerk:
J. M. EVANS (re-election) K
For County Clerk:
J. N. SAWYERS (re-election)
For County Treasurer:
Mrs. ELMA IVEY (re-election)
MRS. RUTH BIDELSPACHER
For Tax Assessor and Collector:
H. P. WALKER (re-election
For Justice Pear^“
JOHN A. LA1
E. B. TAYLOR
For Commissioner fct. No.
lection)
ct. No. 2:
\ D. G. SHEARER
iC. A. BROWN
For Commissioner
E. W. HAYS (re-ele?tion)
NORMAN ^W. JGATES
For Commi<&(pngi' Prect. No.
W. M. UQN'N&LL (re-elect!
A. F. RUI&SUGE
H ^ COX, Sr.-’
We still have plenty of oil reserves
and cheaper gasoline'than anywhere & ^
f* t ,
We maintain ^ ^
During the past week or so 60
carloads of cattle have moved from
Crystal City, some going to market
and others going to grass or the feed
pens in Oklahoma and Kansas.
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—Wallis have Fishing Lines with
Cord, Hook and Cork for n Nickel,
cna yon beat it?
else in the world. We also have
cheaper alcohol, mostly made from
imported molasses, for which we pay
about 2V2 cents a gallon. Alcohol pro-
duced from American farm products
would be several times as expensive.
Moreover, practical automobile en-
gineers say that nobody has yet de-
vised an engine that will work as
well on alcohol as the present en-
gines.
I don’t think we are going to get i *<£
very far in that direction. | v
GAS .... Many Sources $
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Up in the country a good many of }«
my neighbors are using a “bottled |
gas” for cooking. It comes in long
cylindrical tanks, some of it just or- &
dinary coal gas and some natural gas
under pressure.
The other day an automobile ran
through the streets of Detroit pro-
pelled by natural gas. Two small
tanks carried enough gas to run a
heavy car 70 miles.
That is another interesting experi-
ment. Also it is something that would
be more useful in countries where
cheap gasoline is not available every
where In London they are running
busses on ordinary illuminating gas
in tanks. Gasoline costs one-and-six-
pence a gallon in England. That is
about 38 cents. It costs about the
same in Germany, where they are
running some trucks and busses car-
rying their own gas generators, using
wood, coal ofi charcoal to manufac-
ture the gas inside the vehicle.
All of those things are expedients
which do not seem economical from
the American point of view.
CLASSES .... Not Here
Ours is the only country in which
humanity is not divided into distinct
and usually hostile classes. We have
here no peasantry tied to the soil as
they (have on the continent of Eu;
rope;, no working class hopeless of
ever getting out of that class, as in
England.
I see and hear of many efforts to
make groups of Americans class-
conscious, but I don’t think any of
them will succeed in setting class
against class, because it is so easy for
any American to remove himself
from one social or economic group
into another.
If we ever do succeed in dividing
Americans into Uvo classes, I think
they will be the wlf-reliant class and
Druggists, a well
partment and
for the sick.
You are in
vantage of our
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SHIRTS
Summer weather means more c
es in shirts—That means most of
will need new shirts—we are ready
serve you with
A Real Shirt
Good quality broadcloth in light
tan, whites, and grays—All sor
kinds of fancy patterns; dark
browns and dark fancies—wit
collar that does not wilt—som
toned down collars. And best
these shirts will not fade or
Two hifndred patterns
to choose from—
CHOICE........................
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