The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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The Enterprise, Mercedes, Fsiday, August 22, 194!
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Published Every Friday
PAUL C. NETZ, EDITOR
The Deluge, A. D. 1941
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Entered May 22, 1941, as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office
at Mercedes, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 18 79.
Any erroneous reflection upon the standing, reputation or character
of any person or persons will be gladly corrected if brought to our at
tention.
CHATTER
BY TOM PHILLIPS
The Sage of Santa Rosa
Canada
15 c.
wet. The ferry fare was
Today is the first anniversary of
the German radio broadcast to the
world that the British navy was' at
the bottom of the seasl—but it
■wasn’t. Then we turn to the Herald
and find just as crazy re-prints
of word coming out of Nazi head-
quarters.
In an effort to present informa-
tion which has not appeared in any
American paper we tried to get a
list of the New Deal alphabet agen-
cies. Prom the United States Infor-
mation Service we learn that it
Would be impossible to comply with
our request for several reasons, one
of them being that it would: be out
of date before the stenographer had
finished typing it.
Our President said, quote, “Many
nations have been wrecked upon
tjje rocks of loose fiscal policy.
Seems to us that the New Deal has
taken our country upon the same
rocks—the old ship of state is
humping along on these same rocks.
Every time a broadcast from
Britain is heard it carries messages
from the boys over there asking for
cigarettes—many have asked us the
way to get a carton over there. Just
buy a carton, address it to anyone
you know across the pond, paste a
14c stamp on the package and give
it to your post master. Address to
Bundles for Britain, Care B. B. C.
Broadcasting Station, London, Great
Britain—if you need a place to send
them.
The nearest thing to the three
aces that we have visited with lately
is the three “K’s”—Kennedy Kel-
ley and Karter. Mr. G. C. Kennedy
is Supt. of the Missouri Pacific
R-R, G. W. Kelley, Supt. of the
Southern Pacific System and Wills
Karter the Valley’s top representa-
tive of the S P- in the Rio Grande
section. These gentlemen were in-
vestigating the gravel situation
around here as it concerned the
Harlingen army posts.
We used to inwardly wish every-
one might listen in on the broad-
cast, every once in a while, telling
of the life of Spur and his efforts
to refresh us all. We got so friendly
with the old horsie that we tried
liqiud Spur and now we wish ev-
eryone might inwardy benefit by
trying a bottle—-two large glasses
to the bottle.
We well remember the days when
on the northern border that instead
of Canada Dry it was U. S. Dry and
On November 1st 1939 the Rolls-
Royce Automobile in England quit
production and the factory turned
over to the Govt, for the making of
Defense products.
In Valley newspaper after news-
paper we read congratulations to
Gorge Wright for having stepped
into the full sized shoes of Doc
Oborn as Sports, Editor on the Val-
ley Morning Star—we believe the
people of the Valley should receive
the congratulations, seeing that
Doc is now rendering the swimming
enthusiasts a real service and
George is taking over a job which
supplies the sports column with
news worth while. We looked in
vain for the old “Dug Outa the
Sports B,ag” column, and in our
search we missed the header “In
This Corner”. From now on George
is going to tell us all about the
sports of the Valley—we trust he
will leave us out.
The first black jack rabbit to be
reported to the Texas Game Dept,
was recently killed by J. C. Caudle
up in Willacy county.
Since January first a Texas sol-
dier has been killed every three
days in automobiles collisions.
State Police Director Homer Garri-
son Jr. .finds the typical soldier-
accident was when Mr. Soldier is
rusing back to camp between Up.
m. and 2 a. m.—after an evening
out.
Considerable interest has been
shown for the Bill Foster variety of
cotton of the male variety—one ag-
ricultural enthusiast writes that he
has a variety of the cattle variety,
the steer kind. He says that this
is no bull.
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SIDE GLANCES ON
TEXAS HISTORY
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By Charles O. Hucker
University of Texas Library
SMITHWICK’S NOTES
ON COMANCHE LIFE
to the same Comanche tribes of old
Texas who played so prominent a
part in those bloody events.
The witness was old Noah Smith-
wick, author of a book of memoirs
called ‘‘The Evolution of a State”
which is one of the most human and
most popular in the Texas Collec-
tion of the University of Texas Li-
brary. And Smithwick ought to
have known whereof he spoke, for
in 1837—“putting my life into
hands red with the blood of my
race,” as he said—he visted the
Comanches of Central Texas for
three months as a Texasi peace com-
missioner.
THE OTHER PO.INT OF VIEW
During his stay Smithwick natur-
ally learned much of the wdys of
Comanche life, and the more he
learned the nearer he came to a.
true understanding of the nature
of the inevitable struggle between
his people and the Indians. He saw
clearly that it was a struggle for
subsistence by the Indians against
white men whom they thought of as
poachers on their inherited proper-
ty and ruthless destroyers of their
God-given herds. He gave that
point of view perfectly in the words
of an old chieftain:
“We have set up our lodges in
these groves and swung our child-
ren from these boughs from time
immemorial,’’ the old chief said.
“When game beats away from us
we pull down our lodges and move
away, leaving no trace to frighten
it, and in a little while it comesi
back. But the white man comes and
cuts down the trees, building hous-
and fences, and the buffaloes
actual life.—'Smiles
Let us not say, Every man is the
architect of his own fortune; but
let us say, Every man is the archi-
tect of his own, character.
—Boardman
The actions of men are like the
index of a book; they point out
what is most remarkable in them.
-—David Thomas
I have never heard anything
about the resolutions of the apos-
tles, but a great deal about their
acts.—Horace Mann
Deliberate with caution, but
act with decision; and $.eld with
graciousness, or oppose with firm-
ness.—Colton
It is vain to expect any advantage
from our profession of the truth if
we be not sincerely just and honest
in our actions.—James Sharpe
The chief value of superior know-
ledge is that it leads to a perform-
ing manhood.—Bovee
CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
TO THE SHERIFF OR ANY CON-
STABLE OF HIDALGO COUNTY—
GREETING:
YOU ARE HEREBY COMMAN-
DED to summon P. H. Sproul, and
if he be dead, the unknown, heirs,
and the unknown heirs and legal re-
presentatives of the unknown heirs
of said P. H. Sproul; the unknown
heirs and the unknown heirs and
legal representatives of the un-
known heirs of Roseta Sproul, De-
of Gen.. Houston’s newspapers have
dropped Anson Jonesi, as candi-
date for Vice President, his chance
being looked' upon as worse than
hopeless. We further learn from let-
ters from the lower country, that | ceased; and the unknown heirs and
Gen.
Burelson’s election is consid- j unknown heirs and; legal re-
presentatives of the unknown heirs
ered certain, even by all parties.’
of John Doe iSproul, Deceased, hus-
“Postscript.—Next week we will; band of Rosieta Sproul, Deceased,
pay our respects to the Gazette’s! by making publication of this Cita-
attack of yesterday, upon the mili- J ^on once in each week for foUi
. ... . . , consecutive weeks previous to the
tary order authorizing the people | return day hereof in gome neWspap-
of Victoria to defend themselves, j er published in your County, if
against kidnappers, abductors and j there be a newspaper published
murderers of our Western citizens. j therein, but if not, then in the near-
,., _ ... „ ,, . 1 est. county where a newspaper is
The editor of tne Gaze d© is m good ; published; to appear at the next
coiqpany with his Matagorda co-j regular term of the 93rd District
laborer in abusing his government j Court in Hidalgo County, Texas, to
for repelling such outrages.— j be held at the Court House thereof,
^ - r n i xt w -in Edinburg, on the first Monday m
Queie. Iei Col. H. Millard, the let- | September, A. D. 1941, same being
ter writer of the Gazette, the same j the lgt day of September, 1941,
who ran for Congress in Jefferson | then and there to answer Plaintiff’s
county, and recieved two votes, and j First Amended Original petition,
one of them his own? If so, he ls j filed to «M Court on the 14 day of
a sagacious observer of public sen- j
timeni!”—The Texas Centinel (Au-j
tin), August 5, 1841.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
June, A. D. 1941, in a suit number-'
ed on the docket of said Court, No.
B-12465, wherein Hidalgo & Cam-
eron Counties Water Control & Im-
provement District No. 9 is Plaint-
iff, and P. H. Sproul, and if he be
dead the unknown heirs, and the
unknown heirs and legal representa-
tives! of the said P. H. Sproul, the
unknown heirs, and the unknown
heirs and legal representatives of
the unknown heirs of Roseta Sproul,
Deceased, and the unknown heirs,
and the unknown heirs and legal
representatives of the unknown
heirs of John Doe Sproul, husband
of Roseta Sproul, Deceased, ar© de-
fendants, and the cause of action be-
ing as follows:
Plaintiff sues on an account in.
the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty
seven and 75/100 ($575.75) Dollars
representng flat rat© assessments
duly assessed by paintiff for the
years 1930 to 1940 inclusive and
the first quarter of 1941, from Jan-
uary 1, 1941 to March 31, 1941, in-
clusive against the tract of land
described as follows:
All of Lot Six (6) Block Sixty-
nine (69) containing Forty (40.-
OO) acres more or less, out of the
Capisallo Subdivision of the Llano
Grande Grant in Hidalgo County,
Texas, a |map and plat of which
is of record in the Map and Plat
records of Hidalgo County, Tex-
as to which reference will be fur-
ther made upon the trial of this
cause.
Plaitiff further alleges that it is a
duly defined water control and im-
provement district, lawfully created,
and that pursuant to law it main-
tains andi operates an irrigation sys-
tem in the eastern part of Hidalgo
County, and the western part of
Cameron County, and that it has
fully complied with the law in levy-
ing and assessing flat rate assess-
ments sued for, and that such
charges constitute a lien against
said land and premises, and plantiff
seeks to have its lien against said
land foreclosed for the payment
and satisfaction of the account sued
for.
HEREIN FAIL NOT, But have
you before said Court, on said first
day of the next term therof, this
Writ, with your return thereon,
showing how you have executed the
same.
WITNESS MY HAND AN OFFI-
CIAL SEAL at my office in Edin-
burg, Texas, this 14th day of June,
A. D. 1941.
K. C. Boysen, 93d District Court,
Hidalgo County, Texas.
By A. N. Vela, Deputy.
A True Copy I Certify, W. A Tul-
lis, Constable Precinct No. One, Hi-
dalgo County, Texas.
Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22, 1941
“Taking them all around they
were the most peaceable community
I ever lived in.”
Regular readers of this column,
remembering the stories recently re-
told here of the Council House Fight
at San Antonio and the great In-
dian invasion of 1840, may be sur-
prised to learn it, ‘but the testimon-
ial quoted .above—the testimonial
of a respected white man—refers
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get frightened and leave and never
come back, and the Indians are left
to starve', or, if we follow game,
we trespass on the hunting ground
of other tribes and war ensues.”
THE COMANCHE AT HOME
Against these white men there-
fore, the Indians fought with every
weapon and with every bit of cun-
ning he could command so that he
and his people might survive. But
in his own tribe, he was as good a
citizen as you could find, accord-
ing to Smithwick. For the Coman-
ches lived together ;at peace among
themselves)—lived according to a
religion, a rigid set of common laws,-
and a traditional of communal co-
operation that are seldom under-
stood and appreciated by moderns.
Besides, Smitwick found, the ter-
rifying Comanches had many little
human habits to which his own peo-
ple were—and are—devoted. For
instance, he wrote, whenever neigh-
boring tribes got together for a
friendly visit a tremendous ‘‘bull
session” soon developed at which all
of the braves swapped lies most
seriously. Qaintly enough, too, the
i warriors of different tribes often in-
sisted on carrying on these sessions
in the sign language, “not seeming
to understand each other’s language
at all, though it all sounded the
same to me.”
“That the Comanches were
brave,” Smithwick summed up, “no
one who had occasion to test their
courage will deny. I never knew
a warrior to submit to capture:
they fought to death. On two dif-
ferent occaions ... I saw a wound-
ed buck lie flat on his, back and
fight till dead. And in spite of all
that has been told of their treacher-
ous nature, I hav© good reasons for
asserting their claim to some noble
traits of fidelity.”
— 9 —
100 YEARS AGO IN TEXAS
‘‘We percieve—with the exception
of the Gazette of this city—that all1
When the late J. P. Morgan was
asked what he considered the best
hank collateral, he replied, “Char-;
acter.”—Ramsey MacDonald
Character is the result of two
things: Mental attitude and the way
we spend our time.
—Elbert Hubbard
A good character is, in all cases,
the fruit of personal exertion.
—Joel Hawes
As in the floral kingdom odors
emit characteristics of tree and
flower, a perfume or a poison, so
the human character comes forth
a blessing: or a bane society.
-—Mary Baker Eddy
To' be worth anything, character
must be capable of standing firm
upon its feet in the world of daily
work, temptation, and trial; and
able to bear the wear and. tear of
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Netz, Paul C. The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1941, newspaper, August 22, 1941; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105974/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.