The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1935 Page: 2 of 16
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THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO
,THE
Hopkin s County'
> Echo
Established in 1878
[ JNO. S. BAGWELL, Editor
ERIC BAGWELL, Business Manager
Published every Friday at 228 Main Street*
Sulphur Springs, Texas.
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Springs, Texas, as second class mail matter.
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THE ECHO MAN BELIEVES IN
\ TITHING
Soon after the Echo man went
down into his jeans pants pocket
Thursday and dug up the price for a
meal ticket each for two hungry
hitch-hiking girls, as they said, al-
ong came Jack Frost—Happy Jack,
Smiling Jack—and left enough cans
of famous White Swan products to
feed a dozen hungry girls. If that is
what our pastor means by “tithing,”
the Echo man is ready and rearing
to tithe again.
Maybe so and doubtless so, Jack
Frost never saw and never will see
£he unfortunate, hungry girls, and
vice versa. The Good Book says
something about the Lord moving in
a mysterious way His wonders to
perform. Who else wants to leave
something good to eat on the Echo
man’s desk, and trust him to divide
with the down-and-outs?
But here is a good story taken
from the Marshall News about self-
sacrifice, and not a sacrifice that ex-
pects something in return as maybe
the Echo man and others often prac-
tice, and in so doing never fail to
let the right hand know what the
left hand does:
An ex-veteran -vyho went to France
(we are sorry we have forgotten his
name) lost an eye in battle and was
sent home a physical wreck. He was
in a veterans’ hospital at Flagstaff,
Arizona, and heard the doctors at
various times talking about the ter-
rible havoc trachoma was having
with the eyes of the Indian children
in the Reservations around Flagstaff.
Scores vof them were being blinded
for life. He heard the doctors say if
someone would consent to an experi-
ment they believed they might find a
remedy to check the terrile malady.
One day he talked to the physi-
cian in charge and found out that
they wished to inject some of the
trachoma virus into an eye to find
out if it was contagious or heredi-
tary. If contageous they could by
isolation check its ravages. This vet-
eran offered his one good eye for
the experiment. He was warned that
it might mean blindness but he said
he would risk it, that he could not
live long anyway and that if he
could save numberless children from
blindness it would be the only thing
left for him to do. The experiment
was tried and. the fourth day after-
wards the doctor went to the man’s
cot to see the result. He took the
bandage from his eyes. The poor fel-
low was dazed for a moment and
said: “Doctor, it was a failure. I
am blind.” But the doctor replied:
“My dear fellow, it was not a fail-
ure. We have proved trachoma is
contagious and not. hereditary. Now
we can conquer it.” The man turn-
ed his sightless eyes toward the doc-
tor and said: “Then I am content.”
It has been said of old “that he who
would save his life must lo;,-e it.”
This man will go through the. rest of
his life in darkness but thousands of
children may save their si^-ht because
this man lost his. And m the World
that sets this world right, will not
this man who gave one eye to his
country and the other to the alien
Indian children, behold the glories
of the Celestirj?
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PARIS EDITOR TALKING ABOUT
HOPKINS^, COUNTY OFFICERS
A TEXAS WONDER
For certain irregularities of the
Kidney's and Bladder and certain so-
called Rheumatic pains. Sold by
druggists or by mail $1.25. Send for
sworn testimonials. E. W. Hall C©.»
8679 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
Pat Mayse, brilliant editor of the
Paris Morning News, president of
East Texas Chamber of Commerce,
outstanding citizen of Lamar Coun-
ty and leading deacon in the First
Baptist Church (deep-water church)
of his home town, pays a beautiful
tribute to the efficiency and faith-
fulness of Paris and Lamar County
officers. Brother Pat might include
all officers in Sulphur Springs and
Hopkins County in his eulogy of his
home officers. Sulphur Springs and
Hopkins County never in their long
history had more faithful and more
efficient peace officers than at pres-
ent, and that covers a long time and
lots of territory.
The Paris editor was talking about
our officers, too, although he may
not have known it, but the Echo man
suspects the Paris man did, as the
officers of Sulphur Springs and
Hopkins County, leading bone-dry
county of all Texas in fact, as well
as in name, are responsible for en-
forcing liquor laws and all other
laws alike over this way.
Here is what Pat, Brother Pat,
says:
Efficient Officers.
Fewer law violations in Paris and
Lamar County during the last few
months may well be considered proof
that experienced law enforcement
bodies are more efficient. Sheriff
C. 0. Shelton and Chief of Police
W. A. Walters 'both have served
many years as peace officers. Their
respective forces are composed
largely of men with many years of
experience in dealing with criminals
and who are familiar with methods
of gaining information, unknown to
the general public.
Decreases In misdemeanor as well
as in felony offenses indicate that
Paris and Lamar County are able to
prevent crime as well as to obtain
evidence which leads to the arrest
of criminals after a crime is com-
mitted. After all, prevention of
crime is of much greater importance
than punishment of criminals. Prop-
erty taken unlawfully is often dam-
aed beyond repair or destroyed be-
fore the criminal is arrested. The
general public should be much more
concerned with crime prevention
than with punishment of crime.
While the peace officer can take
no official action until after a crime
is committed, many misdemeanor and
minor felonies are prevented by the
mere fact that experienced officers
are constantly on duty. When crimes
are committed, again the experienc-
ed officer has an advantage. He
knows the criminal haunts of the
community and knows where to look
for clues. He is in constant touch
with persons who can give valuable
information and usually is able to
concentrate his efforts of investiga-
tion to one or two persons.
Paris and Lamar County are for-
tunate in having men of experience
in charge of law enforcement and
the fact that few crimes have re-
mined unsolved is to their credit.
WILDCATS GOING PLACES AND
SEEING THINGS
“Thirteen to eight in favor of the
Wildcats,” said the referee as the
Marshall Mavericks began a long,
lonesome trek home after doing their
best under the bright lights of the
local stadium Friday evening. Kil-
gore is next to the abt, next Friday,
in our own back-yard and the same
fate awaits them as the Wildcats
have caught their stride and are
going places, seeing things and do-
ing things.
In the meantime, the Echo man is
stacking up an abundance of olng
green on the Wildcat victory to
back the Wildcats against the Green-
ville Lions in the game just around
the corner.
^ % %
ABOUT HIGHWAY NO. 154
A couple of fellows from up north
of town came loping down in No
Man’s Land Monday, wanting to
know when, oh when, Highway No.
154 from Sulphur Springs to Cooper,
would be completed. The Echo man
told the gentlemen that the Echo
man could not tell them when, oh
when the highway would be com-
pleted, as the Echo man was not a
member of the State Highway Com-
mission and not a member of the
executive board for old-age pen-
sions. The Echo man- advised the
men to take up the highway problem
with Representative Johnny Hunt,
Jr., and Judge H. R. Good, as High-
way 154 connected the two home
towns of Johnny Hunt, Jr., and
Judge Good. Maybe so, they can
give the desired information about
Highway 154.
The Echo man also advised his
friends from north of town to go
see Postmaster Russell M. Chaney
or Judge Silas Bullock about when,
oh when the pension money is com-
ing. The Echo man is ready and
rearing for “hisn.” The Echo man is
also Ready and rearing to shoulder
his goose-neck hoe to help finish
Highway, 154, if the highway depart-
ment can’t do it. No Man’s Land has
never asked and never will ask any
favors of anybody anywhere at any
time. However, Jim Ferguson says
elsewhere in today’s issue that every
fellow over 65 will have to take his
old-age pension, and No Man’s Land
is not going to be contrary about the
matter.
Play ball, Wildcats, and stop Kil-
gore.
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NO MAN’S LAND BACKING
THE WILDCATS
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Economical - Dependable - Safe!!
Can You Afford to
Be Without It?
When you can protect your family at so small amount
each month. Death often strikes when least expected and
it should be the duty of every person to protect their lov-
ed ones against any emergency.
Our plan is so simple that any person can protect the
whole family and meet the monthly payments very easy.
With more than Thirteen Thousand Members on our rolls—
should convince every one that we now have an organization that is
Economical, Dependable, and Safe, and no one need have any doubt
of the soundness of this Wonderful Co-operative Program.
BACKED BY ALL HOME PEOPLE
You owe it to your family to join in with us-
with you.
-let us talk it over
Hopkins County Burial Ass’n
Organized Solely to Help Each Other
Home Office: TAPP FURNITURE COMPANY
^ * Thirty-Four Years of Satisfying Service
Phones: .186, .192, 386, 301, Sulphur Springs, Texas
A fellow came loping down thru
No Man’s Land this week, all het up
because No Man’s Land was not
“whooping it up” enough for the
Wildcats, as he said. The Wildcats
are doing their own whooping this
season, as they go places, see things
and do things. The Echo man is sit-
ting on the sideline backing the
Wildcats with the long green, and,
as a result, is feeling like a New
York banker. In the meantime he
is getting ready for and pointing to
the Greenville Lions-Wildcats game
on November 8th in 'the Lion’s own
back-yard. The Echo man is backing
the Wildcats with spot cash on the
barrel-head, and no one is barred.
For the unsophisticated and those
who want to get the low-down and
a little money over the week-end,
here is the correct dope: S. M. U.
will stop Jimmie Pounds Ill’s Long-
horns, T. C. U. will wallop the Bay-
lor Bears, the Aggies will stop Ar-
kansas and Rice will trounce Wash-
ington—and, last hut not least, the
Wildcats will pour it on Kilgore.
Money and money alone talks down
in No Man’s Land and there is no
bet too small and none too large to
be taken or appreciated.
“HE THAT WILL NOT WORK
SHALL NOT EAT”
One hundred and fifty-two young
men whose families were on relief
in Tarrant County, were offered the
opportunity to enlist in the CCC last
week, but they turned it down.
Those who enlist in the CCC are fur-
nished good clothing, good eating,
and comfortable shelter. They are
paid $30 a month, $22.50 of which,
must go to their dependents. But
they must work and that’s what
these 152 young men have no idea
of doing so long as the government
relief will feed them and their fam-
ilies. The CCC is one new deal ex
periment that has not been criticized
even by the severest critics of the
administration. It has done a great
deal to boost the morale of thou-
sands of jobless • young men. It has
improved them physically and given
them an . independent outlook on
life. The pay is not large but with
board, lodging and clothes a dollar
a day is above the customary wage
for; common labor. And this pay has
taken thousands of families off the
relief rolls and in every instance so
far as we have, seen the work they
do is worthwhile work.
The Denison Herald wonders if
there is very much of the spirit
abroad in the land like that the
young men in Tarrant County have
evince-d. And if there is, the gov-
ernment is going to have to put such
fellow^ in this place by telling them
either to accept jobs as offered them
or starve. “In handling this relief
business,” the Herald says, “the gov-
ernment has a bear by the tail. In
trying to find employment for the
worthy but needy man, the govern-
ment must also deal with the incom-
petent and lazy individual who
wishes to avoid work.” These are
the ones who will probably give
some trouble when the authorities
are finally forced to kick them off
the relief rolls, but the sooner they
are kicked off, the better it will be
for all concerned. It is reported that
these young men inquired very spe-
cifically about the work they were
expected to do and when told it
meant sure enough work they decid-
ed it was easier to remain on the re-
lief rolls.—Marshall News.
ETHIOPIA
Aye, lift the sword that once in
Pompey’s hand
Carved from the south the granaries
of Rome
And let old Tiber, rolling in his sand
Bear to the sea an even angrier
foam
Now is a darkness gathered on the
deep
And all the winds are hurrying to
war;
The thrush of peace is silent in her
sleep,
The lark of liberty will sing no more
O Ethiopia, O lonely ground
Where lies the lion of your freedom
now?
The vultures gather with greedy
sound
Alert and hungry on the <empty
bough,
Awake, you poets! Drowsy-headed
throng—
If freedom dies you will not sleep
for long!
—Robert Nathan, in The Atlantic
for October.
’TWAS EVER THUS
The Tyler Courier-Times is after
the county officers to enforce the
law. It points out that the people of
Smith County voted the county dry
and then says:
Smith County is reeking wet.
Smith County has been betrayed.
Whisky is sold here openly—is
flaunted in the face of the voter.
The voter has been done a sorry
injustice.
The will of the people is supposed
to express the desire of this civiliza-
tion.
This county expressed its desire at
the polls, a desire overwhelmingly
dry. That was the will of a sovereign
electorate.
Depending upon its constitutional-
ity elected officers, the electorate of
this county settled back, more or
less comfortably, after the election.
Here is what happened:
The whisky business took on a new
lease on life after the election. The
product was sold openly, over the
counter, just as a grocer passes out
so much salt and potatoes.
In other words, we’re trafficking,
in a calloused manner, in a product
that has caused humanity much suf-
fering and sorrow.
Whiskey is ont a forbidden fruit
in this city.
The Tyler paper then proceeds tc
name the places where whiskey is
sold by the drink, openly and above
board. The next step we shall see is
that some officers will have the edit-
or of the Courier-Times before the
grand jury to prove the condition
that every officer in Smith County
knows to exist. It’s an old trick to
try to shift responsibility.
The Courier-Times calls attention
to the increasing number of drunken
drivers. Good authorities, including
Dr. Walter Mills of Yale University
and Robbins Stoekel, motor vehicle
commissioner for Connecticut, put
the part that alcohol plays in auto
fatalities at 33 per cent. There have
been killed 388,936 persons in motor
Clyde Williams is visiting with his
sister, Miss Cleo Williams, who at-
tends school at ETSTC, Commerce.
accidents since 1920. Presuming the
estimate of these authorities is cor-
rect, we can charge John Barleycorn
up with the death of 129,645 per-
sons.
Repeal has not balanced the bud-
get as promised, has not reduced tax-
es, has not protected the people
from saloqns but has increased
drunkenness in every wet State and
as a temperance movement has prov-
ed a ghastly failure. Some States and
counties like Smith and Harrison,
have voted overwhelmingly that they
did not want this evil in their midst.
And if such conditions as the Couri-
er-Times says exist in Tyler, then
there are a lot of perjured enforce-
ment officers in that county. And in
any other, dry county the selling of
liquor can only go on because the of-
ficers permit it.—Marshall News.
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WHO OWES YOU A LIVING?
Millions of people are being edu-
cated- in our country today to be-
lieve that someone owes them a liv-
ing. The laws of nature do not seem
to recognize this -doctrine.
Just go out into primitive country
and see who owes who a living—you
will soon find that your existence
depends on your ingenuity and in-
itiative.
Governments were organized to
go nature one better and make it a
little easier to live and to take care
of the helpless whom nature would
otherwise unceremoniously remove.
But today millions of perfectly
healthy, able-bodied people are be-
ing taught to loaf at the expense of
others, instead of to rustle for them-
selves.
Such a system can endure only so
long as there are stored-up savings
to confiscate, then the inexorable
laws of nature will prevail.
An epidemic of pests completely
devours a tree, or a field of grain,
and then the pests -die. Nature does
not owe them a living.
The same thing can happen to gov-
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We Buy Eggs, Chickens, etc.
ernments and to the human beings
who make the governments—if they
eat up their capital to maintain idle-
less, they will eventually find that
nature refuses to hear their de-
mands that “someone owes them a
living.”
This may not be a pleasant-sound-
ing philosophy, but it is a fact which
honey-coated, political cure-alls try
to hide.—Clarendon News.
Mrs. S. M. Gibson of Winnsboro
visited here for a while with Mr. and
Mrs. Scott Gibson today, en route
to Muskogee, Okla., to be with her
mother, Mrs. Wooten, who is sick at
her home there.
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What was your first adventure as a
customer before the world? Possibly as
a very tiny tot . . . with a penny' in your
fist, and your nose flattened against a
show window. Long you debated with
yourself . . . cocoanut strips, or licorice
pellets, chocolate soldiers? It was serious
business for you and the storekeeper. But
he put his best values before you, and in
the end everybody was happy—you, be-
cause you’d made a satisfactory purchase;
he, because he’d made a satisfied cus-
tomer.
TODAY, when there’s something you
need or want in our line . . . clutch your
pennies and greenbacks in either hand;
study the good values offered by this store
and surely be guided in the direction that
leads to most for your money.
—SPECIALS for SATURDAY and FIRST MONDAY-
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MEAT VALUES
APPLES Nicesize do, 10c
BOUGNA Large lb. Sc
ORANGES 12c
WIENERS u. 14c
IRISH POTATOES R,d1 On,. 15c
BRICK CHILI Home Mad*b 18c
LETTUCE “dT 4 c
MACKEREL '*&ka &J25e
PINTO BEANS 23 $1.00
ES TOBACCO 10c
LARD 8 Lbs. $1 *80
COFFEE E~y Lb. 15c
PRUNES l. 5c
BRAN per sack $1 .00
VANILU EXTRACT 10c
MOSTARO quart jar 1 OC
COOKING OIL 95c
RAISINS 4 3E? 29c
MATCHES 3 boS 10c
GENE WILLIAMS’ STORE
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THE FRIENDLIEST PLACE IN TQWN’
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Bagwell, John S. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1935, newspaper, November 1, 1935; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1128103/m1/2/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.