The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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The Enterprise, Mercedes, Friday, September 12, 1941
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Published Every Friday
PAUL C. NETZ, EDITOR
41,230 persons in the year ending, j them were the Lipans and Tonk-
June 30th. Accidents in the United i ewas, each capable of raising pos.-
1 States, during the same period, | sibly 150 braves. But these two
killed 97,500 persons.
We Were asked what we meant
by ‘‘twaddle.” It refers to argu-
ments advanced by the other fel-
low.
Entered May 22, 1941, as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office
at Mercedes, 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.
CHATTER
BY TOM PHILLIPS
The Sage of Santa Itosa
From a Worcester, Mass., news-
paper we learn what the easterners
think of Lee O’Daniel—-they see he
is' not going to be a rubber stamp.
He will not vote for the draft ex-
tension—rather, he didn’t—What
he did, not slay was that his out-
standing intention was to grab the
spotlight.
Many workers—rather, would be
workers—in Harlingen believe that
when they get through paving off
the union graft they may have some
of their week’s pay to take home
to the wife and kiddies.
An Englishman whilst dining in
the garden of an American friend
in Hyde Park noticed a strange bug
some ten feet distant—he asked his
hostessess the name of the bug.
She gave the bug a glance and told
him it wast a lady bug. Is it any
wonder that the Britishers give
American ladies credit for having
very fine eyesight.
Mrs. Roosevelt writes: “Today
the boy in a ‘gob’ uniform or the
boy in khaki without any stripes
may be your boy of mine.”
He may be one of our boys, Mrs.
Roosevelt, hut apparently not one
of yours.
Although only one had any pre-
vious military or naval experience
—and that at Harvard College—all
four of the Roosevelt sons hol'd!
comissions in the Army, the Navy
or the Marine Corps. Nor are they,
apparently, required to submit to
the usual military and navy discip-
line, even for officers, for they
seem to go about as they please
and bob up in the most unexpected
places.
We overheard Judge Crockett re-
marking, “I’ve half a mind . .
We always knew the Judge was an
exaggerator.
It seems odd to us that the ad-
ministration should get sore about
the post cards Senator Wheeler sent
out. After all the first statement
on the post card was by President
Roosevelt. Trouble was, though, it
was a campaign promise.
still listen to the Burial Association
broadcast.
We have always freedom, even
to the point of allowing freedom
for people to disagree with us.
Roosevelt and Churchill talked
for three days about freedom, of
different kind® but so far we have
no record of a word about freedom
of religion—just freedom of
speech and freedom of fear and
want.
Too bad that Walter Winchell
and Ty Cobb hit the air on Sunday j
at the same time.
It is a bit irritating for the state
or the government to make rules
for business that are ignored by
the government. For example, all
businesses under the wage and-
hour act work only 40 hours per
week. Girls in the local AAA of-
fice are required to work 48 hours
per week.
Gasoline rationing has brought
bicycles back in the front line
now we find that parts used in the
making of bicycles are needed for
airplanes.
Mrs. Roosevelt has mapped out
costumes for working girls—we
note gold braid; is entirely missing
from the make-ups. Probably all
the gold braid has been used on
the Roosevelt boys uniforms!.
Our idea of an old-timer is one
who used to write to his Congress-
men to get Govt, pamphlets—a
new-comer is one who notifies the
representative to stop clutterring
up his mail box.
|
We think it was Paul T. Vickers
who once said that a chairman is<
a man who takes 21 minutes and
13 seconds introducing a speaker
. who needs no introduction.
SIDE GLANCES ON
TEXAS HISTORY
TAKE YOUR CHANGE IN
DEFENSE SAVINGS STAMPS
By Charles O. Hucker
University of Texas Library
When Jack Rutledge comes on
K.G.b.s. with the news he causes my
wife to tune off—he says “Good
morning Gentlemen’’ and my better
seven-eights fearg what is coming
is for Men Only.
Dr. I. Q. and other worth while
radio programs are no longer ours
by local dialing — anyway we can^
When not busy in the manager’s
office of K.lGb.s. manager Ingham
Roberts spends hist time on top the
198 foot broadcasting tower.
230 driver’s licenses were suspen-
ded between June 19 and Aug. 22 on
account of intoxication of the driver.
For the same time last year there
were 50 susipensons.
People who live in White Houses
should not throw mud.
Mrsi. Rankin refused to buy a dog
trough with the inscription, “For
the Dog” because her husband did-
n’t drink wiater and the dog could-
n’t read.
We always thought we’d like to
take up poultry farming—the wife
suggests we start with owls—their
hours would suit us better.
Most of our cotton farmers are
living this year on the cotton pro-
fits made last year.
A TEXAS EDITOR LAUGHS
AT THE INDIAN MENACE
‘‘An opinion ha&. been for some
time prevalent in the United States,
that Texas contains many power-
ful and formidable tribes of In-
dians, and that the settlements of
the country even at a distance from
the frontiers, are constantly sub-
jected to their depredations. This
is a gross error.”
That assurance was given tho
American people in 184 0 by one of
the Texas! Republic’s most out-
standing editors, Francis Moore, Jr.,
of the Houston Telegraph and Tex-
as Register. It appeared in a little
book titled “Map and Description
of Texas,’’ published in Philadel-
phia and New York, which is one
of the best-written old books in the
extensive Texas Collection of the
University of Texas Library (. . .
even if, perhaps, a little over-enthu-
siastic.
Moore had no patience with talk
about the Indian menace to the Re-
public; there was no such thing, he
said. The Comanches;, of course,
were strong, and they dominated
the Indian situation in Texas. “The
only tribes that have been permit-
ted to remain west of the Red Riv-
er,” he wrote, ‘‘are such as were
too weak and too imbecile to excite
tribes, he pointed out, were friend-
ly to the settlers, as were also the
Coshattees. the Alabama?;, and the
Bedais, whose 220 braves busied
themselves peaceably in hunting
and fishing for the Texans.
The remaining tribes—the Keia-
chies, Ienies, and Wacos—numbered |
no more than 120 warriors toge-
ther and, Moore believed, could!
hardly be thought of as formida-!
ble foes. The Keachies, especially, I
he wrote, ‘‘are now in an exceeding- ,
ly destitute condition.’’
NO 'MENACE AT ALL
As a matter of fact, he went on,
all of the Texas Indians of his day
were “in a very wretched and desti-
tute condition.” “They are general-
ly armed only with paltry bows
and arrows,” he wrote, and are des-
pised and often insulted with im-
punity by the few roving Shawnees, [
Caddos, Cherokee®, and other In- j
dians from the United States, who j
often frequent the prairies of Tex- j
as for game.” <
So that, according to Moore, was
the truth about the Indian menace
in Texas. ‘‘Even if the Comanches
and all the tribes of Texas were un-
ited in hostilities against the citi-
zens of the country,” he summed j for world adaptation, it will turn
up, “they could retard the exten- sour in frustration, as it has al-
sion of the frontier settlements only j rea(jy .done in Germany. The status
for a brieif period; for the citizens j qUO cannot be maintained in the
have become so fully convinced of j face of this challenge,
the weakness and cowardice of; In tIie second half of this book
these Indians, that they now rather , \yens subjects to searching analys-
despise than fear them.” , js the world movement of today-
_©— j Catholic Christianity, British Im-
,| Perfalism, Nazism, Communism,
j Japanese Shintoism, American New
j Deal-ism, Jewish Zionism. He esti-
! mates their possibilities for good
! and ill. He puts forward no pana-
HEALTH TALKS
“The Venereal Disease Program ;cea, no cure-all. To avoid disaster
of the Texas State Department of we must take thought and act, and
Health, in cooperation with the i there is little time for delfay. He
Texas State Medical Association ] is not without hope, but the species
composed of some five thousand ! man, with his restless intelligence,
Texas physicians;, has rapidly ex- \ may yet fail on the threshold of
panded during the past two years,” success. And the decision is now, in
Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Of-
ficer, declared here today. “And at
present it is reaching 90 percent of
the State’s population”.
This work is vital to National De-
fense and hag been highly com-
mended by those in charge of Sel-
ective Service. Young men infected
too weau aim iuu uuucuic - —~ with a venereal disease are not ac-
the fear or jealousy of the Goman- j ceptable for training in the armed
Judge Gus Butler is not only a
leading legal light but from the
demands he makes on the Signal
he has varied interests. The latest
request comes for copies of the Sig-
nal which carry reference to hogs
and their various sicknesses.
ches.”
THE COMANCHES
But even the Comanches;, he hast-
ened on to say, weren’t so bad.
There was a Comanche population
of about 11,000 in the state, he es-
timated ; but if all the shattered
Comanche groups came together he
saw no possibility that they could
muster more than 1,000 warriors.
And it seemed to him that they had
been so often and so disastrously re-
pulsed from the Texas settlements
that by 1840 they were content to
“confine their depredations to the
Mexican settlements west of the Rio
Grande; where they find an enemy
more cowardly than themselves,
and who has been long accustomed
to permit them to ravage the coun-
try with impunity.”
| To the others . . . the “weak and
imbecile” tribes . . . Moore gave
forces for the defense of this Na-
tion. Every effort is being made, in
cooperation with military authori-
ties, to keep venereal disease in-
fections to a minimum. The need of
this work in National Defense and
in civilian life is apparent when the
records of the draft boards in Tex-
as show that six out of every one
hundred men examined are rejected
for military service because of a
syphilitic -infection.
At the present time 90 venereal
disease clinics are in operation in
62 counties; and in an additional
130 counties treatment is available
to the indigent patients through
service given by the physicians of
Texas. In this latter case, through
our lifetime—perhaps the most sig-
nificant crossroads in the whole of
historical progress.
New library readers are Marian
E. Carlyon, Denny Eckelberger,
Jimmie Lee, Harry Eckelberger.
DEFENSE BOND
QUIZ
! NOT E.—To purchase Defense
Bonds and Stamps, go to the near-
est post office or bank, or write for
information to the Treasury of the
United States, Washington, D. C.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
There never was a person who
did anything worth doing that did
not receive more than he gave.
—Henry Ward Beecher
The man who does not work for
the love of work but only for mon-
ey is not likely to make money nor
to find much fun in life.
-—Charles M. Schwab
I look on that man as happy, who,
when there is question of success,
looks into his work for a reply.
—Emerson
•
The right thinker and worker
does his best, and does the think-
ing for the ages . . . He improves
moments; to him time is money,
and he hoards this capital to dis1-
tribute gain.—Mary Baker Eddy
God has sio made the mind of man
that a peculiar deliciousness re-
sides In the fruits of personal in-
dustry.—Wilberforce
— • —
No more important duty can be
urged upon those who are entering
the gye-at theatre of life than simple
loyalty to their best convictions.
—Chapin
Q. I would lilke to provide a reg-
ular income for myself when I re-
tire. Can this be done by buying
Defense Savings Bonds?
A. Yes. If you purchase a Bond
for $37.50 each month, each Bond
will mature in exactly 10 years.
Thus at the end of 10 years you
will have $50 payable each month
as each of your Bonds reaches mat-
urity.
Q. But I will need more than $50i
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plana worked out between the State * “0”hen ghould Invc8t a larg.
Health Department and local medi-
cal societies, drugs are supplied
Nazi air raids on England killed little attention. Strongest among
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
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ON THE BASIS OF C05T. U-S.
INDUSTRY AT PRESENT HAS A TASK
EQUAL TO BOUDINS F/V£
PANAMA CANALS EACAMONTl
t SHIPBUILDING
CARACliy WILL REACtf
5 MIL LION TONS annually
By 43--EN0U6H
TO MATCH IN TWO YEARS
•j] OUR TOTAL AT TrfE WAR'S
START
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HATS
WERE A
FEATURE
Of THE First
REGULAR.
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Apoprep8/
ANy
PASESAU.
'VEMA
PocTors of the /7wceKURy
CONSIDERED COFFEE A VALUABLE
MEDICINE AND OffEN PRESCRIBED.^
CUPS A PA/ FOR THEIR PATIENTS
65
MINUTES
SPEEDING DEFENSE—
TIME NEEDED TO BORE HOLES IN
THE CRANKCASE OF ONE LAR6E AIRPLANE
HAS BEEN Cl/T FROM 6% HOURS TO 65MINUTES !
through the State Health Depart-
ment to assist the physicians, in giv-
ing service to the indigent pjatients.
Of the 44 cities in Texas with a
population of over 100,000 only a
few are without available treat-
ments, and in these venereal dis-
ease services are being rapidly dev-
eloped. When this is accomplished,
Texas will be among the leading
states in meeting its venereal dis-
ease problem.
LIBRARY NOTES
“The Fate Of Man”
By H. G. Wells
You’ll thrill to the ex-
ploits of Capt. Allan
I jnning, U. S. G-2
Operative, to the clever
wiles of Mile. Lucette
Ducos, beautiful French
secret agent; to the
ruthless murder in the
heart of Van Hassek,
incognito head of Euro-
pean armies masquer-
ading as Mexi-
can troops!
Twelve regular
army officers checked
the tactics. Read this
terrifying but enlight-
ening serial—
er amount each month. Every $75
you put into Defense Bonds will
pay you $100 ten years from now.
Meanwhile, your money serves your
Government during this period of
national emergency.
Sympathetic Bond
A silk hosiery manufacturer and
an aluminum household utensil
manufacturer sat next to each oth-
er at the club. Both remained quite
for many minutes, gazing with wor-
ried and beaten expressions into
sp'ace. Finally one of them gave
vent to a long-drawn-out sigh. The
other looked around sympathetical-
ly and said:
‘‘You’re telling me!”
What has an individual gained by
losing hisi own self-respect? or what
has he lost when, retaining his own,
he loses the homage of fools, or the
pretestious praise of hypocrites,
false to themselves as to others?
—Mary Baker Eddy
The hope, and not the fact, of ad-
vancement, is the spur to industry,
—Sir Henry Taylor
— © —
Self-respect is the tnoblest gar-
ment with which a man may clothe
himself, the most elevating feeling
with which the mind can be inspir-
ed.—Samuel Smiles
It is certainly a very important
lesson, to -earn how to enjoy or-
dinary things, and to be able to re-
lish your being, without the trans-
port of some passion, or the grati-
fication of some appetite.—Steele
That Full,
Choked Feeling—
after eating and drinking usually
comes with acid indigestion and
heartburn. Have ADLA Tablets han-
dy, they contain Bismuth and Car-
bonates for quick relief. Your drug-
gist has them.—Alston’s Drug
Store.
This is probably the most closely
reasoned and most comprehensive
book that even. H. G. Wells has ev-
er produced. Tautly written, pas-
sionately conceived under the stim-
ulus of present-day realities, it
sums up the world situation and
sets out in full the social, political,
and scientific implications of the
Wellsian philosophy, interspersed
with brilliant portraits of world
personalities . . . Roosevelt, Stalin,
Chiang Kai Shek, Hitler, Chamber-
lain, etc. Lavishly sprinkled with
epigrammatic wisdom, the book
makes a tremendous and decisive
appeal to the intelligence of the
world.
In a striking passage which goes
to the root of the modern world
problem, he establishes that nei-
ther peace nor a collective economy
are by themselves sufficient.. AI
spirit of enterprise, adventurous
progress, something to hope for and
to work for is essential to the
young. Youth today is restless. If
it is denied the murderous release
of war or the progressive struggle j
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Netz, Paul C. The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1941, newspaper, September 12, 1941; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1106022/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.