The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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The Enterprise, Mercedes, Texas, May 23, 1941
Mipmm
(Formerly The -Edcouch-Elsa Enterprise)
Published Every Friday
PAUL C. NETZ, EDITOR
Entered August 8, 1927, as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post
Office at Edcouch, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon the standing, reputation or character
of any person or persons will be gladly corrected if brought to our at
tention.
A FINE
RECEPTION
Since publishing our first issue
foy the Mercedes community last
week, we have had scores of people
to drop in at our office or hail us
on the street to make some type of
complimentary remark or to wish us
well. While we are human enough
to appreciate the pats on the back,
we believe we can honestly say that
they will never go to our head but
rather serve us as an indictment
to better work.
We come to Mercedes to serve—
to serve in the capacity for which
y?e are fitted—thajt of newspaper
work. We want you to put us to<
work 'and we believe we can satisfy
you. We want to give Mercedes a
good newspaper. A newspaper that
any citizen can point to with pride
and say, “This is our newspaper.”
We believe that with the coopera-
tion already indicated that we will
be able to do just that.
? Again, we thank you for a very
fine reception, now let’s get to work
and make Mercedes and surrounding
territory a finer community in
which to live.
CHASING THE
FIRE TRUCK
Last Saturday the Mercedes Fire
Department answered an alarm. The
fire was a small one, however, in
viewing the situation our attention
was forcibly called to one thing in
particular—the fact that a number
Of persons who followed the fire
truck either in car or by foot were
not nearly so interested in being of
being of assistance to the Fire De-
^artment as they were in satisfying
free sway of the situation? Just
a few minutes and even a few
seconds in some cases makes a big
difference. While we are reprimend-
|.ng, we can also. compliment the
Mercedes citizenry by large for giv-
ing free reigns to the fire depart-
ment. We have seen situations much
worse than we witnessed here. Mer-
cedes has a very creditable and en-
viable fire insurance rate. This ra'
is the outgrowth of the cooperation
of the citizenry of Mercedes. The re-
sult in huge savings to insurance
policy holders.
Let’s keep the good work up.
— @ —
SIDE GLANCES ON
TEXAS HISTORY
By Charles O. Hucker
University of Texas Library
DUVAL TAKES A DIG
AT FENIMORE COOPER
A TRIBUTE TO,
EMMETT REASONOVER
Everyone lives an alio ted time
Till his miseion on ehrth is done i
Many things must be acomplished |
Before becoming a Heavenly Son. |
Many years HE left your loved one j
On earth, a duty to do
In fact HE watched over him
And kept him just for you. i
The Lord needed a truly fine man !
He locked, us all over |
No better man could HE have
found
Than my friend, Reasonover. j
Right now he’s looking down at us |
With a big smile on his face
Enjoying Eternal life Up There
Having gone to a Heavenly Place
And if you stop and think a while
You’ll know he’s happy there
Spreading sunshine all around
As he (always did., when here
Only sometimes its hard to realize
Just why he had to go
No one knows when GOD will call
The Bible tells us ;eo.
Only HE knows who, and when to
call
Not to death but eternal life
Very sad it makes the most of us
Especially a loving wife.
Each moment tho, you spent with
him
I’m sure you’ll live over and over
Right now, looking down from Hea-
ven above
Is everyone’s friend, REASONO-
VER
A Friend
THE LOW DC VN
from
THE
HITCH-HIKERS
their curiosity.
We happen to have had some'
twelve years experience on the Ed-
coudh Fire Department and this
should justify our plea which we are
about to make. Once in our lives we
saw a woman killed in her wild and
reckless (fash to get to the fire and
absorb all the excitement thereof.
We have experienced innumerable
cases where parties in cars or other-
wise impeded the free movement of
the fire-fighting equipment to or
from the fire This thing will go on
forever, laws or no laws, but the
situation can be improved. Your
thoughtfulness and word of re-
proach will help.
We all know that in the fif'd
stages of the fire, the fire depart-
met have many times the advan-
tage of overcoming came as they do
when the fire has made its gain.
Why not then let the firemen have
One of the memorable things a-
bout John C. Duval’s “Adventures
of Big-Foot Wallace,’’ which ranks
among the most popular books on
Texas ever written, is its ridicule
of James Fenimore Cooper and si-
milarly well-known chroniclers of
frontier life.
Duval’s objection was that Coopr
er, whose “The Last of the Mohi-
cans’’ is still a favorite today, was
hopelessly ignorant of the actual
conditions of life in the west. So
in his biography of Wallace, several
early editions of which are in the
Texas Collection of the University
of Texas Library, he introduced a
writer of his own creation who is
one of the most comic characters in
all Texas literature.
This “Mr. Author’’—a scholarly
individual with a stove-pipe hat, an
unmbrella, and an unshaken faith
in the reliability of Cooper’s west-
ern lore—was himself writing a no-
vel about a noble Indian of the best
Cooper tradition, Hopi-Tuki-lika-
hajo, by name, who, among other
things, “never says two words with-
out (beginning, ‘Brother, listen.’
The title of the book was “The Way-
worn Wanderer of the Western
wrilds.’’
The story of “Mr. Author s
friendship with Wallace is a history
of his gradual disillusionment. It
begins the first night they are to-
gether, when the little stranger
learns, greatly to his amazement
and dismay, that the old Indian-
hunter’s opinion of Cooper’s Indian
character is scarcely a complimen-
tary one.
In the first place, Wallace didn’t
care for their dress, their bearing
or their conversation; and in addi-
tion he recalled that they ‘‘never
laugh nor steal horses, while I
have found Indians to be uncom-
HICKORY GRCVE
A couplla ladies were talking a-
pout spring styles. I overheard
them. Brown and tan are the co-
j lors, as I get it, for this .season. I
am not exactly 100 per cent sure
it is brown and tan, because they
also said something about light
green, so anybody reading this,
should check up. It would be a dis-
aster if some lady would come out
in brown when it should be light
green.
I have always craved to know
what kind of an hombre it could be
who can tell our fair sex what they
gotta wear and do—and have ’em
do it. I have researched around, and
none of my neighbors have the least
idea either. They are all in the dark,
too, like my ownself.
This Style Gent, when he says,
“Gals, this spring you wear brown
clothes and red hair,’ it is brown
| clothes and red hair from Arizona
to New Hampshire.
Brother, we gotta track down
this person. Once we get his sys-
tem, boy, are we setting pretty.
Hot ziggity!
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA
CHATTER
BY TOM PHILLIPS
The Sage of Santa Rosa
Radio broadcasters are having a
heck of a time trying to invent rea-
sons for the vacation Herr Hess is
taking in Britain. H|ad he remained
in Germany we might have consider-
ed him insane—with summer com-
j ing it would be hard to find a bet-
] ter summer climate than Scotland.
enjoyed hunting
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monly fond of joke, especial1.? oi a
certain kind, and the most arrant j Hess has always ------
and expert thieves that ever went and shooting in among the heather
—maybe that is why he’s there.
Many wonder what Ty Cobb would
do for news on his broadcast if Moe
Stein would publish the Brownsville
Herald in his native tongue—we
think Ty would be plumb out of
luck.
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
B/
TOPPS
ho pounds of formes,
■ 2 so POUNDS OF PAPER.,
600 POUNDS OF 57EEL , - ~
2,500 POUNDS OF OIL PRODUCTS', i
AND 7. SOO POUNDS OF COAL
APE CONSUMED ANNUALLY
PON EACH PERSON IN THE
UN/TEP STATES
strawberries
ARE
90%
WATER.
. JOHN QumcyAPAMS,
fe-r* PRESIDE!tr.
WAS SECRETARY
To TA£ AMERICAN
legation in
RUSSIA, WHEV
HE MIAS OMIV
IN-YEARS OLP.~
AT THE AGE
OF 8/ HE
WAS A
MEMBER OF
CONGRESS
TIME NECESSARY
TO BO/LP MEVf
DESTROYERS HAS
BEEN CUT FROM
MORE TARN
20 MONTHS
TO
to MONTHS
6 U
'A
E LARGE AUTOMOBILE COMPANY, By CONTINUING ITS
pefeatsf work
unhung.”
Now Mr. Author, who was at
least open-minded, began immed-
iately to consider the posibility of
revising the portion of his book
which was already written. He was
determined to change it if neces-
sary, for the Wayworn Wanderer,”
he declared, “is not intended for a
sensation novel, and its scenes and
characters must be true to nature. ’
Another part of the little man’s
“Cooper code” was “the nights are
always serene and clear, the stars
twinkle overhead, the turf is'green
and soft, and everything is pleasant
and agreeable.’ But one night pas-
sed in a puddle of water during a
roaring Texas norther dispelled this
illusion land brought from him a
voluntary confession that, ‘I’m Us-
ing confidence in Mr. Cooper rapid-
ly.”
COOPER A HUMBUG
The last straw were two experien-
ces with animals, a buck deer and a
band of ferocious Mexican hogs;
from each he barely escape 1 with
his life. Of the deer—Cooper’s “ti-
mid, innocent animal that is start-
led by its own shadow in the sun”
.—Mr. Autihor observed, “I never
saw so furious a beast in ail my
born days.” And when, while the
hogs slashed at his leg with their
tusks, Wallace reminded him of
Cooper's observations on animal na-
ture he exploded, “Oh, brother
Cooper, I £(ay! Cooper is a hum-
bug!” And soon thereafter he took
his leave determined, insofar as
Cooper was concerned, that “‘He has
imposed on the world long enough.
“I parted with our little author at
iSdn Antonio,” Duval had Wallace
say in concluding the story of the
stitange friendship, “and he pro-
mised me faithfully to send me a
copy of his book as soon as it was
published; but I never got it, nor
I do I know to this day whether
or not he has ever exposed, as he
threatened to do, the ‘humbugeries’
of Mr. Cooper, in his great novel of
the “Wayworn Wanderer of the
Western Wilds.’ ”
The Stjate Fair of Texas plans to
enlarge its dairy shoow for the 1941
exposition. The meeting has re-
cently been held with Texas dairy
leaders to begin formulation of
these plans.
Cotton is grown on a commercial
basis in more than 20 of Texas
254 counties and to take care of
'this crop there are 4,000 gins, 150
cotton seed oil mills, more th|an 100
cotton compresses and hundreds of
storage warehouses.
The hog industry brought Tex-
as farmers nearly $50,000,000 in
1940. The sale of pork products a-
mounted to more than $31,000,000
end the sale of hogs for brooding
purposes amounted to more than
$18,000,000.
Have you noticed that some banks
prepare their borrowers by air-con-
ditioning the loan department.
If our future is really as glooomy
as Col. Linberg seems to believe it’s
high time women were getting or-
ganized for some Defense-for-Ame- __
rica project. So far all the ladies l an(j cereals,
have done is to show a, willingness
“In a camparative study made on
the health of school children in
two. widely • separated districts—one
in an agricultural community and
the other in an industrial area—a
large percentage of the children
from the farming section were found
to be malnourished, while those
form the industrial area were in
better shape physically.
“Although milk and other dairy
products, fruits, and fresh vegeta-
bles—all of which are essential to a
well-balanced dietary, were readily
available in the farming sections,
the children had been allowed to
indulge their preferences for less
nourishing foods, with the results
already mentioned above.
“Certain factors that affect nu-
trition—and not all of them apply
to food—must be given considera
tion in Reeding for fitness.’ The
State Health Department would
stress the importance of the follow
ing:
“First, the diet must be ade-
quate; it should include on a day-to
day basis a generous supply of the
protective foods—-milk, fruits, vege
tables, eggs, whole-grain breads
to dance with the draftees, and we [
“Second, sufficient sleep and rest
\to maintain a good physical condi
suspect matrimony, not patriotism, j tion
as the underlying motive
We have heard some say that if
they needed the attention of a doc-
tor that they would call a vetinery
we’d make sure and call a taxiderm-
ist.
— w —
HEALTH TALKS
Gems of Thought
PRAISE
The praises of other may be of
use in teaching us. not what we are
but what we ought to be.—Hare
— ® —
Phaise, like gold and diamonds,
owes its value only to its scarcity.
It becomes cheap as it (becomes vul-
gar, and will no longer raise expect-
ation or animate enterprise.—Sam-
uel Johnston
— • —
As the Creek said, many men
know how to flatter; few know how
to praise.—-Wendell Phillips
-0-
It is difficult to say which may he
most mischievous to the human
heart, the praise or th dispraise.
—Mary Baker Eddy
— <* —
Think not those faithful who
praise all thy words and actions, but
those who kindly reprove thy faults.
—Socrates
It is not a merit to tolerate, but
rather a crime to be intolerable.
—Shelley
The responsibility of tolerance
lies with those who have th wild-
er vision.—George Eliot
Austin—“The importance of ‘feed
ing for fitness’ as a part of the na-
tional defense program cannot be
over - emphasized because proper
nutrition is tbe basis of health and
physical fitness,” states Dr. Geo. W.
Cox, State Health Officer.
“America is beginning to realize
that intelligent selection of the pro-
per foods necessary to maintain op-
tiimum health .is more important
than merely eating food without re-
gard to. its nutritive qualities.
“Third, remediable physical de-
fects, such as decayed teeth or di-
seased tonsils, should he corrected
in the individual to insure the best
utilization of food.
“Fourth, correct elimination is
essential in the utilzation of food.
“Fifth, exercise and fresh air are
needed to stimulate the appetite and
give tone to the physical condition.
“Sixth, good posture aids diges-
tion.”
Plans are made to enlarge the
State Fair of Texas. More than 250
school contests iand exhibits for the
schools participated in the 1940
State Fair, and booth exhibits and
contests are becoming more popu-
lar. More than 215,000 school child-
ren attended the State Fair on
Children’s Day, last year.
I have learned silence from the
talkative, toleration from the into-
lerant, and kindness from the un-
kind; yet strange, I am ungrateful
to those teachers.—Kahlil Gibran
— •
Toleration is good for all or it is
good for none.—Burke
©
The more we know, the better we
forgive; Whoe’er feels deeply, feels
for all who live.—Mme. De Stael
The right way to resist tyranny
is not to kill the tyrant, but to re-
fuse to cooperate in his tyranny.
A. Fenner Brockway, M. P.
The true nature of home: It is the
place of peace; the shelter, not only
for all injury, but from all terror,
doubt, and division.—Ruskin
m
ib0FFAU3
W.LUAM F. CODY, famous
WESTERN SCOUT AND IN01 AN
FIGHTER,EARNED HIS PICTUR-
ESQUE NICKNAME OF,lBUFFALO-
8ILL"AS A RESULT OF HIS CONTRACT
TO SUPPLY BUFFALO MEAT TO
THE CONSTRUCTION FORCES
BUILDING THE FIRST
TRANSCONTINENTAL
RAILROAD.
&
Uss^4
Hard Work, Cooperation and
Charity are three great institu-
tions. Maybe if us cotton farmers
had a little more of the first two,
we wouldn’t come so close to need-
in’ the last.
QUd^PER CENT OF
THE TOTAL POPULA-
TION OF THE UNITED
STATES LIVES IN THE
73,981 COMMUNITIES
SERVED DIRECTLY
BY ONE OR MORE
railroads.
/^DOLLAR WILL TAKE THE AVERAGE
AMERICAN RAILROAD PASSENGER 57 MILES
TODAY, AS COMPARED WITH 32 MILES IN 1921.
,57 MILES
(FUSTE BDdDIL'n+SJR'S
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS l
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Netz, Paul C. The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1941, newspaper, May 23, 1941; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105534/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.