The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1931 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MXTLUN EJfffltl
THE MULLIN ENTi...i ***&&
Published W eekiy at Muilin,
Mills County, Texas
R. 11. Fattfcifeoii, Editor
entered, as second class mail
matter January 1, 1902
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TEXAS MONEY
FOR IOWA HOGS
The d'oom of a bill passed by
the senate but put to death by
the house for the re-apportion-
ment of the state into new con-
gressional districts was sealed
Saturday when, on its first bal-
lot of the day, the house re-
fused to adopt the senate reso-
lution to suspend the rule pro-
hibiting consideration of bills
within the last twenty-four
hours of the session.
Homicidal deaths numbering
254 were reported in Texas
in the 273 days of the three
quarters of 1931 ending with
September. Violent deaths at
the hands of others claimed the
lives of 36 women and 218 men-
Bullets ended the lives of 30
■women and 170 men. Two wo-
men and 15 men died from stabs
tw cuts, June was the leading
murder mouth, its 30 days pro-
ducing the slaying of 46 per-
sons, 11 of whom were women;
A strong plea for the inter-
state commerce commission to
reverse the findings of Examin-
er Sullivan in its application
for authority to acquire stock
control of the Cotton Belt, was
filed with the commission by
the Southern Pacific. An oppo-
sition brief was filed by the
Texas & Pacific. Examiner Sul-
livan recommended that thO
commission find that the ac-
quisition would not be in the
public interest and that the
.Southern Pacific proposed to
pay too much for the property.
A series of 28 turkey grad-
ing schools, designed to aid
Texas poultrymen to seeure
better prices for their turkeys
by furnishing the market with
better quality birds, has been
announced by Paul A- Cunyus,
assistant poultry husbandman
in the extension service of Tex-
as A. and M. college and the
United States department of
agriculture. The schools will
be a continuation of the work
Btarted by the extension service
and the Texas department of
agriculture during the past sea-
son. V
Demand for labor in Texas,
including calls for cotton pick-
ers, railroad construction in the
western part of the state, and
highway projects, has absorbed
thousands of jobless and the
need for workers is unfilled,
C. W. Woodman, state director
of the government employment
lgeney, says. Thousands of cot-
ton pickers have been sent all
over the state and recently
about 500 men were added to
those already working on high-
way construction work. Several
hundred laborers are earning
good wages grading railway
rights of way, he pointed out.
The called session of the
forty-second legislature, which
began with the enactment of a
bill to restrict the planting of
potton, ended Saturday evening
with the enactment of another
bill which, if it but half fulfills
Ibe hopes of its sponsors, will
prove to be a much larger meas-
ure of relief to the taxpayers
Of the state. This is the bill
Which looks to the obtainment
for the state whatever oil and
gas may be found deposited be-
Beath the river beds that be-
long to the state, more particu-
larly the bed of the Sabine,
Which for nine miles meanders
through the largest oil field in
the country.
5%
FARM AND RANCH LOANS
Eaay Terms—5 to 36 Years
Dependable Service Throurh
—the—
Federal Farm Land Bank
of Houston, Texas
See—
W. C, DEW
Mr; Charles R. Tips of Aus-
tin, vice president of “Progres-
sive Texans, Inc." returning
from a stay in the middle west,
-i* quoted by the Austin States-
man in a. few significant com-
ments upon the fact that Iowa
farmers are expecting the ap-
petites' of Texans for pork to
supply a good deal of cash in-
come to help tide over the ag-
ricultural depression in that
corn belt state.
Texas this year, as in other
years, will send millions of dol-
lars outside the state to pur-
chase the hogs which Texas
packing houses will supply Tex-
as dining tables. It is a poor
economic arrangement from
standpoint.
Of eourse, the Texas packing
houses have to have the hogs,
and it is better that they ship
them in from other states than
that the whole pork business,
packing as well as raising, be
transferred to other states. But
Texas ought to be growing its
own hogs-
Texas might afford to hire
others to raise its hogs in years
when cotton is bringing good
prices. With 6-cent cotton, it is
certainly a poor bargain.
What Texas farms are to
produce instead of eotton is a
problem that is worrying all
who are thinking seriously
about the future. One answer is
•logs. || ^
The hog supplies an admir-
able method for marketing feed
crops. He fits in perfectly with
any farm arrangement.As a ma-
chine for converting waste or
semi-waste farm products into
marketable meat he has no
equal.
More hogs - on Texas farms,
and fewer carloads coming into
Texas from other states: That’s
a good farm relief plan- —
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
JEFFERSON’S VISION
I look to the diffusion of
light and education as the
sources most to be relied on for
ameliorating the condition, pro-
- meting the virtue, and advanc-
ing the happiness of man. And
I do hope, in the present spirit
of extending to the great mass
of mankind the blessings of in-
struction, I see a prospect of
great advancement in the hap-
piness of the human race, and
this may proceed to an indefi-
nite, although not an infinite,
d.cgree. A system of general in-
struction . which., shall reach
every description of our citi-
zens, from the richest to the
poorest^ as it was the earliest,
so it shall be the latest of all
the public concerns in which I
shall permit myselt to take an
“ < ! •'?. Give it to us, in any
shape, and receive for the in-
estimable boon the thanks of
the young, and the blessings of
the old, who are past all other
services, but prayers for the
prosperity of their country, and
blessings to those who promote
it.—Thomas Jefferson.
HOME BOSSES
The wife who insists upon
being the boss about the home
can hardly expect to have a
husband with the aggressive-
ness and the progressiveness to
go far in his special line.
If he permits her to domineer
him he has not the backbone
required in the business world-
A man accustomed to take
orders at home remains an or-
der taker in his workaday life
outside.
The wise wife manages her
husband, perhaps, but does not
command him.
She influences by way of
suggestions, given so skillfully
that often the man thinks he is
carrying out his pwn desires.
In martial relations there
should be a desire on the part
of each to please the other and
to a great extent this is the
general rule.
There will be differences of
opinion dispassionately discuss-
ed.
Each should be big enough
and fair minded enough to be
governed by proof in the politi-
cal and logical arguments pre-
sented. •
In this way the home gets
along without a self-appointed
i boss.
Each /partner retains self re-
spect and has an incentive to
think and the force and plan-
ning which are required to
meet a desired objective- —
Houston Chronicle.
LIVING AT HOME
One result of the farm we-'
men’s club work is the fact that
it is removing the distinction
between rural and urban wo-
men. For as the club members
develop their talent as home
makers in their organized
groups, they are broadened in
their views and become more
disposed to give attention to
appearances. Often it is the
case that members of the dem-
onstration clubs also belong to
the women’s literary clubs and
social clubs in the nearby towns
And a girl who has been train-
ed in farm club work has had
the opportunity to enjoy prac-
tically all of the advantages of
her sister in the city. The cul-
tural influence of the clubs is
becoming more apparent as the
work becomes ingrained in the
counties-
If throughout its twenty
years of life in Texas, the home
demonstration work had never
before been of benefit to the
state it has more than repaid
the effort and money it has cost
by the good work it has brought
about during the last two years
of chaotic farm conditions. It
is a matter of regret that at the
present time the work is not
reaching a greater percentage
of farm families. A great many
counties do not have demonstra-
tion agents, and it is estimated
from the best data obtainable,
that only about 30 per cent of
the farm families are being
reached in the average county
in which the work is being car-
ried on.The work should be ex-
panded to reach a greater part
of our farm people,for it is now
appreciated that a sound' be-
ginning in changing a one-crop
farmer into a farmer in the true
sense of the word, is the train-
ing of his wife in home mak-
ing and in the home industries
and getting him to apply the
live-^at-home practices on his
farm. — Henry T. Crosby.
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REDUCTION OF WAGES
The action of the United
States Steel company and other
large concerns in inaugurating
a general reduction of wages,
marks, it may be hoped, the fi-
nal step in the process of in-
dustrial readjustment to meet
and cope with present condi-
tions. It was regrettable that
this had to be done. That it was
done reluctantly, rand only in
response to what was regarded
as stern necessity, is shown by
the fact that wages have been
maintained for almost two years
since the beginning of the de-
pression in 1929 and in the face
of -constantly increasing diffi-
culties. Only a short time ago
the head of the United States
Steel company spoke strongly
in opposition to reduction.
The theory that high wages
contribute to general prosper-
ity is a sound one, but its appli-
cation is entirely dependent up-
on sufficient profitable business
to pay such wages. No concern,
however great its resources,
can carry on indefinitely with
constantly declining income,
without an adjustment of its
costs of operation to correspond
in some degree to its reduced
revenues. The ’effort to do this
ultimately defeats its own pur-
poses in the breakdown of es-
sential resources under the
pressure of such times as these-
Labor will best serve its own
interests if it recognizes the
necessities of the situation and
a-cquieces in fair adjustments of
wage scales.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
COOLED HOMES COMING
The American Gas Associa-
tion predicts that within five
years the better class of Ameri-
can homes will be cooled in
summer, as they are now heat-
ed in winter.
Negotiations are now under-
way to arrange for the manu-
facture on a large scale of gas
operated summer air condition-
ing equipment. Four residences
in localities of varying climate,
were cooled wtih gas this sum-
mer as part of the Association’s
research program.
This is real domestic prog-
ress. Fifty years ago, had any-
one suggested that gas would
soon be used as a cooling and
refrigerating agency, he would
have been regarded as mentally
deficient- Today it is a proven
fact.
oUr gold standard
The National administration
sees no reason for tampering
with this -country’s gold stand-
ard or the return to bi-metall-
ism.
In official circles, where this
position was made clear, such
agitation as is going forward
for a return to bi-metallism was
described as coming chiefly
from senators representing sil-
ver producing states-
Gold was characterized as
the most satisfactory base for
the country’s monetary system
and the temporary abandon-
ment of the gold base by Great
Britain and several other Eu-
ropean countries was regarded
as not reflecting a permanent
policy.
From Capitol Hill in recent
days, there have come predic-
tions that bi-metallism would
return as a public issue. The
latest came from Senator Shep-
pard of Texas. Although not
advocating bi-metallism, he
said it might grow into a full-
fledged issue by 1932.
Senators Borah of Idaho,
Walsh of Montana, Shipstead
of Minnesota and Couzens of
Michigan have discussed the
possibilities of bi-metallism re-
cently.
The temporary abandonment
of the gold standard by several
countries has given heart to
some of those most interested
in silver and they have renew-
ed demands for an internation-
al conference to discuss the re-
habilitation of that industry.
The United States had a bi-
metal cuiVency system early in
its existence. The first mone-
tary system established by law
on April 2, 1792, set two units
of value, one on the gold dollar,
containing 24.75 grains of pure
gold, and the other a silver
dollar containing 371.25 grains
of pure silver. The ratio of gold
to silver was 1 to 15 and both
were legal tender.
In various changes in the
monetary system which follow-
ed, the gold dollar remained as
the chief base, but in 1878 Con-
gress directed the coinage of
silver dollars and provided they
should be legal tender at their
nominal value for all debts un-
less otherwise expressly stipu-
lated in contracts.
When the gold standard was
adopted in 1900, the law pro-
vided that nothing in it should
effect the legal tender quality
of the silver dollar or any oth-
er money issued by the United
States. The federal reserve act
of 1913 raffirmed the parity
provisions of the previous act-
The word “progressive” was
honest, honorable, respectable
and useful until it got into
politics. Now we would not be-
lieve it on oath.—Houston Post
Dispatch (Geo. M. Bailey, 20
years ago.)
£
If all tfc* careless drivers in
ji'exas put vieir heads together
'’their skulls^ would make won-
derful higlhi^ays and • thdre’d
be enough concrete ieft over te
1 pave Lubbock’s lovely center
parkways.—Lubbock Journal.
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1. How many counties are there in
Texas?
2. What is the largest county in
Texas?
3. What is the Texas State tree?
What is the Texas State flower?
What is the Texas State bird?
4. Name two Texans who have serv-
ed in the President's Cabinet?
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OIL: How the Geologist Hunts for It
CHAPTER XI
fipHERE is an adage in petroleum
1 circles that “oil is where you
find it.” Only the drill boring its
way into the crust of the earth can
determine whether one of Nature’s
treasure troves known as an oil res-
ervoir, or an oil pool, will actually
be found.
Yet the modern search for oil is
conducted along scientific lines, and
the application of the sciences of
geology, paleontology, and geophysics
is helping to remove many uncertain-
ties.
Divining Rods No Longer Used
Vanished are those romantic days
of early petroleum history when oil
men invoked the aid of “oil witches,”
“peach twigs,” and other supernat-
ural devices for “divining” the pres-
ence of oil. To the same romantic
past belong their superstitious pref-
erence for drilling sites close to ceme-
teries or on the right-hand forks of
certain creeks. v
“Playing hunches” in the search
for oil is still sometimes in evidence;
indeed, it may never entirely disap-
pear—at any rate not so long as
Mother Nature continues to play her
capricious pranks on the findings ef
even the best scientists. However, it
has long since ceased to hold a seri-
ous place in the calculations of an
industry called upon to find the hid-
den deposits of a natural resource
so vital to the needs of modern times.
The Geologist Does Not Locate Oil
The geologist does not locate eil;
he attempts to locate the position of
formations which he believes favor-
able to oil accumulation.
The geologist makes calculations ef
formations four, five, and six thou-
sand feet—and often nearly two miles
—below the surface of the earth; and
it is in accordance with these cal-
culations that dfijlir" sites are Io-
cs ted. It remains for the drill to
1 .'o the accuracy of h!s deductions.
■ the Umu-d Stales a let-.to part
c the mors:pronfl -mg structures that
s.ov thfemr-.f...- cs at the surface of the
/ L.’.'md l :.'.'e I- .-u fauna r. drilled.
1. v - n'.ethc - i sc 'o come i:c-v ci'
Urwere tc he* ! ■ und -vl— go&Iog-
A Field Geologist at Work
Special wells of small diameter are
often drilled, and a core (a cyiin-r
drical segment of the rocks) secured
to furnish the geologist with informa-
tion.
Study of. Fossils Under Microscope
Thus has arisen the associated ac-
tivity of -what is -sometimes termed
“sub-surface geology,” which is as-
sisted by core drilling and by the
science of paleontology (the study of
fo.r-s.iJ remains in the rocks). Tiro
v~2 of the microscope in the siudy
:;f fossils sr> sroe.-l that '.'ey ran rot
be seen, by t he n: eye, and in the
study cl r tn; :?;’ -rains, hes added
r,7 forma.ion.
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Delicate instruments of the mMl
refined precision measure variations
and differences from point to point!
in gravity, density, conductivity, and
magnetic susceptibility of the rocks,
which compose the crust of the earth.;
From such data the slope of deeply!
buried beds of rock is computed—a:
picture of the structural pattern at
such depths is deduced.
There are several instruments em-
ployed in geophysical work, the most
widely used rf. the present time being
the torsion balance, the seismograph,
and the rj.tyr.clomeLer. "With dyna-
mite the gerlogist supplies his own
' car;' .ake” for seismograph record*
ng, w ‘ch is made possible by tha
ur-o ed ri>:. rr
T..' eg- '.-a’ instruments da
t Ice. :’c. c • t’-.-y simply assist in
o ?• .-mining the structure of layer*
, f rocks cr.d hence, in locating tb*
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Patterson, R. H. The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1931, newspaper, October 8, 1931; Mullin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115865/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.