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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, OCTOBER 1, 1936
McKinney Examiner
CUNT THOMPSON
F. C. THOMPSON
J. FRANK SMITH
Editors and
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Entered at the Postoffice in McKin-
ney, Texas, as Second-Class Mail
Matter.
Judge T. C. Andrews contributes
a timely article on the Pardon Board
Amendment. The removal of the
Pardon Board from Austin to Hunts-
ville would be a great blunder, is our
opinion of the matter. Study the
Amendment. Read what Judge An-
drews, chairman of the Board has to
say about it.
The town was crowded with peo-
ple and automobiles Monday. But we
did not see even one dog in our
rounds. Dogs used to follow! their
owners to town in the good old
horse and buggy day. They trotted
along under the wagon, occasionally
dashing out to chase a rabbit or say
“howdy” to some dog at the side of
the road.
Here is a cat story. It happened
away up in British Columbia. A man
and his family named Hill moved
from Courtnay to Victoria, 150 miles
and took a mother cat with them,
but left behind a family of nearly
grown kittens. Shortly after arrival
at her new home, the cat disappear-
ed and several days later was back
in Courtnay with her kittens.
A crow roost containing 200,000 or
more of the black rascals, was found
near Lupton, Colorado recently. If
those Oklahoma crow-eaters run out
of crows, they might be able to bor-
row a few from Colorado. Better put
in an order at once. Aftor Nov. 4th,
there’s going to be a great scarcity
For lots of u& are going to have to
eat “crow” whether we like it or not.
It happens after every election.
The town was chock full of peo-
ple Monday. The big rains Saturday
and Sunday had made it impossible
to do farm work. The farmers were
unable to come to town Saturday to
do their usual week-end trading, as
it was so rainy. But they came Mon-
day. And the merchants had the big-
gest trade day of the season. Every
store was crowded. Extra clerks had
to be put on duty.
There is a shortage of cotton pick-
ers in some sections of Mississippi.
At Leesville a news dispatch de-
clare that 12,000 cotton pickers are
wanted by farmers to help save the
cotton crop. Chambers of Commerce
and other clubs are working to help
get pickers for the farmers to save
their cotton crop. AH of which spells
prosperity for the farmers,, the pick-
ers and the merchants. Every dollar
paid to the cotton picker is spent
with the merchants.
Honestly, don’t you feel disgusted
sometimes at the measly little insult-
ing flings that are printed in the
editorial columns of many of the
otherwise fine, daily and weekly
newspapers of the country? Just
plain, downright littleness, aimed to
vent spleen and hatred of the op-
position in order to prove one's “loy-
alty” to the party candidates? Often
the editor doesn’t mean it. Just has
a grouchy feeling and wants to toss
a bit of mud. Even some of our so-
called great men stoop to this kind
of politics.
Sir Oliver Lodge, the “grand old
man of science” of England declares
that he regrets that he ever discov-
ered the secret of wireless signaling
if what can be and is a blessing is
to1 be used to send airplanes to bomb
cities and murder innocent Women
and children non-combatants.” He
declares there is a “surfeit of
science,” and that the world is SICK
and TIRED of scientific achieve-
ments. Too much abuse of those al-
ready discovered and that the world
suffering with indigestion and too
much knowledge has already taken
the WRONG PATH!”
The State may find itself in the
liquor business soon. The amend-
ment to be voted on in November
may do the trick. Well, let’s not get
excited over it and vote without due
deliberation. We as GOOD DEMO-
CRATS voted to repeal national pro-
hibition. We now have only “local
option” as it were, in Texas. The
State is peppered with saloons and
groggeries. The State gets a tax from
these and applies the greater part to
paying Old Age Pensions. If we are
going into the liquor business, many
think the State ought to have all
the profit and apply it to pensions.
Think it over. It is a hard nut to
crack and a rotten business to
handle.
For the purpose of making its field
men constantly safety-minded, the'
great Pontiac car organization re-
quires its field salesmen to join
their club, Pontiac Safety Men. The
members of this club travel on
an average of 3,000 miles each and
every month during the year. The
company has announced with justi-
fiable satisfaction that a recent re-
port covering a six months’ period
of the Pontiac Safety Men shows
that 250 of them drove the entire
six months WITHOUT A SINGLE
ACCIDENT. Fifty-one of the men
had only ONE accident during the
time..And there were NO FATAL
ACCIDENTS at ANY POINT in the
country. Three of their zones had no
accidents by any of their men. This
record shows that men can make a
business of driving safely.
Raising Salaries
(Cumby Rustler)
One of the amendments to the
State constitution to be voted on
in November is raising the salaries
of State offices. But we do not believe
the majority will vote for the in-
crease. Heretofore the voters have
turned them down.
One is to raise the Governor’s sal-
ary from $4,000 to $12,000 per year.
This' would be an increase of 200
per cent. We think the Governor
should receive more pay, but a 100
per cent increase would be too much.
We have too many high salaried
officials now. The State is already in
the “red” millions of dollars. We
need a RETRENCHMENT in the
State’s affairs, but it seems that LIT-
TLE or NO EFFORT is being made
to REDUCE expenditures, cutting
out unnecessary. Boards and the
use of economical methods in con-
ducting our State government. A
REASONABLE: RAISE IN SAL-
ARIES of State officers would pos-
sibly be voted by the people work-
ing on relief it seems to us rather an
inopportune time to think of raising
salaries as much as 200 per cent.”
The above from the Cumby Rust-
ler is an index! to the views of the
masses of the taxpayers we believe.
Very few of the smaller papers of
the State are favoring the amend-
ment as it is written. If the legisla-
ture had been given the opportunity
to set a reasonable salary, with a
maximum above which it could not
go, the amendment would likely have
been voted. For the people want to
do the right thing by their State of-
ficials. But to name a “take it or
leave it” $12,000 salary for the gov-
ernor jeopardizes the legislature’s
opportunity to exercise its judgment
and do anything for the other of-
ficials, some of whom ought, really to
have better pay since there is plenty
of work and responsibility in their
offices, but very little prestige or
honor attached.
We do not fall for the argument
that because some other State pays
her governor huge salaries, that said
State is better governed and that
Texas is measly and stingy because
she refuses to imitate other States
in spending the people’s tax money.
It is an honor to bei governor of Tex-
as, and there will be a dozen fine
men offer to serve her two years
from now whether the salary is $4,-
000 or $12,000. Don’t worry. Let’s
“balance the budget.”
Laziest or Smartest
The Richardson Echo editor “took
a trip” over into East Texas last
Sunday and noted that the people
over there were busy. When he got
back home he declared that the most
interesting thing noticed on the trip
was that Sunday is most assuredly
not a day of rest for the cotton chop-
pers in that section of the country.
And that the laziest, or either the
smartest, folks in the world live
out there. Instead of working hard
as we do to clean up the cotton crop
and keep it clean, they use GEESE
to perform this duty. It is a very
novel and amusing sight to see a
dozen GEESE INDUSTRIOUSLY
CLEANING up the COTTON ROWS.
Incidentally the cotton is almost hid-
den in the sand. Another tiling, the
geese ask such small wages—only a
few grains of corn at the end of the
day. I had heard of this practice, but
it is the first time I had witnessed
such a sight. Couldn’t help but won-
der if it would be possible for the
geese to do this work in our section
of the country.”
Childish
Lloyd George’s criticism of Gen.
Pershing may gratify that great
man’s feelings, but it will not help
him back to the once proud position
he held before the people of the
world. We regret that this once great
and vigorous British statesman
should set out upon such a course. It
gets him no where and may cause
much unnecessary ill feeling at this
critical time when Great Britain and
all America should stand shoulder
to shoulder for peace. Politicians
when they grow old become child-
ish and act like sleepy children to
keep from gracefully bowing to the
work of Time.
The big sulphur interests of
Louisiana threaten to move over in-
to Texas to escape the $2.00 tax they
are paying while Texas has been
getting only 75 cents. Gov, Allred
favors raising the Texas Tax to $2.00.
And so do we. If the big sulphur in-
terests do not like it, let them go to
Arkansas, Oklahoma or Timbuctoo,
where there are no sulphur mines.
They can easily pay the $2.00 and
will do so if we have the right sort
of legislators down there. Big mono-
polistic interests had better listen to1
what the “wild winds of discontent
are saying” before it is eternally too
late. The Old Age Pension must be
paid.
People are again wearing socks.
The production this year is thirty-
six per cent over the previous year,
says the Pittsburg Gazette. A sure
sign that prosperity is coming back
to us.
The legislature convened Monday.
It is going to be one of the hottest
sessions that ever convened in Aus-
tin.
Tax Natural
Resources
The Old Age Pension is here to
stay. It is going to be paid. But not
to all who apply. Many are going to
be refused. But if their claim is just
they will eventually be placed on the
pay roll. The point is—there is a,
a shake-down coming. Those who are
really entitled to the pension, those
who are actually needy, are going
to be taken care of in due time. It
takes, hard work and lots of it to ad-
just this great movement. Gov. All-
red has put his shoulder to the
wheel. His heart is in the work, and
it might be added his political future
is at stake. He is going to see that
something is done if it is humanly
and poltically possible. He stands for
a levy of taxes on natural resources
and the liquor business that will
raise sufficient funds. He is absolute-
ly against a sales tax that will reach
into the pockets of the wage earners,
the day laborers and the poor. He is
for taxing the natural resources of
the State, such as sulphur, oil, gas,
etc But he wants to be REASON-
ABLE. What is, reasonable? of
course.
This legislature has a job, and in
the next 30 days the people of the
state will know just how many real
friends they have down there. Al-
ready, it is said the big natural re-
source interests have their represen-
tatives (lobbyists) down there at
work. Well, let them work. They
have a right to present their side of
the matter. But every legislator who
stands in with the big oil and sul-
phur interests andi lets them get by
without a heavy, worthwhile levy to
raise this Old Age Pension money,
might as well bid goodbye to future
respect and political preferment.
The Examiner stated many months
ago that it believed the oil com-
panies should be assessed 15 cents
per barrel on their output. We still
think the oil companies should be as-
sessed heavily and all industrial or
utility institutions given lighter treat-
ment. Oil is a natural resource. The
companies who are draining this
liquid gold from underneath our soil,
can easily pass the tax, if necessary,
over onto the consumers. But not so
with the utilities, of which our gas
companies and our electric light and
power companies are the principals.
The public depends on them, and
they must be permitted to make a
profit. Oil companies can get by. So
with sulphur companies. We favor
15 cents a barrel on oil and $2.00 a
ton on sulphur, and hope our repre-
sentatives, Hons. Grover Burton and
Byron England and Senator Isbell
stand four-square for a real worth-
while he-man’s tax on these natural
Resource companies.
Judge F. W. Fischer did a great
work in educating the people on this
natural resource question. He was
and is right about it.
Gipsy Shames Them
When a town or city gets thorough-
ly ashamed of itself, there is always
a remedy. It does a fellow good to he
told straight from the shoulder just
how he stands in the estimation of
the speaker or those he represents.
That is, it is supposed to do so. Well
when the pastors of a town or city
have exhausted themselves trying
to arouse a lost world to its danger,
and it refuses to budge, except to
continue to do nothing about it or
worse, the remedy is to get some
straight talking evangelist from a
distance to come over and help them
straighten things out. The evangelist
comes and he sails into the entire
outfit. The members of all the
churches. He holds all of them up and
gives them a dressing down that
fairly makes things smoke. Every-
body goes out to hear the great
evangelist who really doesn’t deliver
any better sermon than the good
home pastor. But his salary doesn’t
depend on what he says or how he
says it. So he skins the old and
young sinners alike. All like it, of
course. For what the evangelist says
fits the good neighbor, or the amen
members in some other church.
Doesn’t mean me at all, oh, no. It is
the one next to me. Result: The
evangelist stirs up the dust, does a
whole lot of good and goes to the
next town.
Down in Dallas they have the
famous Gipsy Smith. How he has
stood those people up and dressed
them down! How he has skinned the
duty shirking law-enforcement of-
ficers! And if they had any feeling at
all, they would get busy and stop
standing in with the underworld. Of
course this applies only to those
who are guilty. The one who takes
offense is the one to be watched.
Dallas has scores of the finest kind
of pastors. But they needed Gipsy
Smith to tell the whole city of Dal-
las from pastor to gutter-snipe just
what they really are in the sight of
the Lord and good citizenship every-
where.
Mark Twain used to say that there
are three kinds of lies: “Lies, damn-
ed lies, and statistics.” A good time
to think this over is during cam-
paign years, says Bert Lockhart in
his Pittsburg Gazette.
No Increase
The Trenton Tribune says no,
thusly:
“Again they are trying to vote an
increase in the salaries of governor,
attorney general, comptroller, land
commissioner, treasurer and secretary
of state of the State of Texas, but
we are against it. These offices are
or should be more honorary than
remunerative, according to our way
of thinking. We never have a scar-
city of candidates for these offices,
regardless of the small salaries that
are paid. Remember the argument
was advanced that legislators’ pay
should be increased from five to ten
dollar per day in order to get better
men. This was done a few years
ago, but judging from the amount of
cussing the Legislature gets wp still
have about the same kind of [repre-
sentatives.” I
Postal Savings
System
Tuesday, September 15, marked
the twenty-fifth anniversary at the
McKinney Post Office of the institu-
tion of the United States Postal Sav-
ings System locally. This facility of
Uncle Sam’s Postal Service was in-
stituted under the Postmastership of
Sam H. Cole, who held the office
from May 15, 1908 to May 1, 1913. Mr.
Cole is still an honored resident of
McKinney, engaged in the work of
surveying and abstracting—his life-
time calling. The first account open-
ed was that of Assistant Postmaster
Oscar E. Smith, which has never
been drawn out and is still held here
by Mr. Smith, who is now a Postal
Inspector with office headquarters
in the Dallas Post Office Building.
The McKinney Office has 122 ac-
counts at present, totalling $54,250,
on which the Government pays two
per cent interest. Perhaps the great-
est advantages of the Postal Savings
System are derived by communities,
villages and towns that have no
banks. Under the present banking
system, Federal regulation and bank
insurance policy inaugurated by
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administra-
tion, banks are now1 regarded a s'
safe for depositors as the Govern-
ment itself. Bank Failures have prac-
tically been eliminated. In event a
bank were to close its doors and fail,
all depositors would be immediately
protected and paid off by the Gov-
ernment up to and including $5,000.
When convenience is taken into con-
sideration, our national and state
banking institutions stand at the top
to our way of thinking and richly re-
serve the cofidence of the masses now
reposed in them.—Daily Courier-Ga-
zette.
Sound Advice
The Scottish News Bureau, Wash-
ington, D. C., sends us a little clip-
ping as follows which is so full of
wise advice that we reproduce it.
What is the use of getting all heated
up in this political campaign? Study
the questions and try to' vote right.
Then you will have done your duty.
The item:
“A large insurance company of the
United States has the following ad-
vice to each of its employees:
“There is a. side to this matter of
politics, however, that we are at lib-
erty to write about. The indications
at present are that the campaign
may be one of much bitterness, a
campaign of crimination and recrim-
ination. The views of the two domi-
nant parties are far apart on some
of the most important issues. Dis-
cussions of these differences may ex-
tend down to the voters in an un-
pleasant way, and just here our poli-
tical advice comes in. DON’T IN-
DULGE in SUCH DISCUSSIONS.
They do you NO GOOD, you change
NO ‘ ONE’S MIND, and such discus-
sions actually HARM the business.
Ours is the insurance business, and
the proper conduct of it in every de-
partment, or in any position, de-
mands all that we can give it and
requires the making of ALL THE
FRIENDS WE CAN. Political discus-
sions are ENEMY-MAKING and are
HARMFUL. So let’s reach our own
conclusions, vote according to the
conclusions we reach, and give the
OTHER FELLOW THE RIGHT TO
DO THE SAME.”
How Will He Do It?
Editors Examiner:
Had a great time visiting friends
and relatives in Texas and seeing
the Centennial. I greatly regret that
on account of my time being limited,
I did not get to see as many of my
old friends as I would have liked.
Hope you had plenty of rain. It is
still dry here, but we are hoping for
rain soon. It is cloudy most of the
time, but does not rain. I have gotten
back into my old habit of thinkin’.
The Literary Digest and the Lib-
erty League with the aid of William
Randolph Hearst seem determined
to put Landon over. I have been try-
ing to vision the political condition
that would prevail in that event
Governor Landon has. pledged him-
self to correct what he calls thei
abuses of the “New Deal.” How he|
is going to do this in the face of an
opposition majority in Congress, he
does not tell us. That the democrats
will control the Senate for at least
two years to come is a mathematical
certainty, andi that the House will be
democratic there is little doubt. No
administration has ever succeeded in
constructive policies with the legis-
lative and executive branches work-
ing at cross-purposes. Co-operation
of these two branches of the govern-
ment is necessary if we are to recov-
er from the effects of the depression.
Th record of the two last years of the
Cleveland, Wilson and Hoover ad-
ministrations prove this beyond ques-
tion. Whatever merit there may be
in the proposed policies of Governor
Landon, he can not hope to put
them into full effect with a Congress
out of sympathy with them. A dead-
locked government which can neither
go forward or backward for at least
two years, it seems to me might be
fatal to business and economic re-
covery. I think the business interests
of the country would do well to con-
sider this probable condition before
deciding to “swap horses in the mid-
dle of the stream,” however, they
may disagree with some of the
Roosevelt policies.
E. C. FORBES,
Greenwood, Ark.
Frogs for breeding sell as high as
$50.—Pittsburg Gazette.
Bullfrogs, of course.
J
The Pittsburg Gazette calls this
the “pension and alphabet era.” Can
you beat it?
Once Upon a Time
J. J. Taylor, in Dallas News:
"Once upon a time there was an
American citizen named William
Henry Dizzy. One bright morning,
when everything was lovely, he went
out to milk his cow to get cream for
breakfast. The beast in the pen, see-
ing the milk bucket and knowing
what William Henry came for, butted
him down, flat of his back, then
jumped the fence and disappeared in
the distance, leaving only a madden-
ed moo to lie remembered by. Mrs.
Dizzy dragged William Henry into
the house and. put him to bed. He
was in a. bad way. Old Dr. Hooeyver
came and gave him a pill, saying the
patient would be well in a day or
two. But the poor man gradually
grew worse, week by week, and Dr.
Hooeyver didn’t know what to do ex-
cept give him another pill, saying
always that good health was just
around the corner. Dr. Hooeyver did
his best. He consulted all the wizards
in Wall street, from whom he had
always had advice. But the wizards
were as helpless as he was, and no
wiser as to what to do for the
sick. So William Henry Dizzy, who
had been long abed, called his tear-
ful wife and said: “Susan Jane, I’m
a dying man. Bury me in a shaller
grave, in a pine box without no cof-
fin. Our pastor will preach me a good
funeral, even if I am behind with
my church payments. And tell Dr.
Hooeyver not to come back. I want
to die cheap. My life insurance policy
may not be no good. The company is
like to bust any day. And if you do
collect and put the money in a bank,
the bank’ll go pop before you can
turn around. I see only a life of
misery for you, Susan Jane. You’ll
have to live on crickets and wild
greens, and when all your clothes are
wore out you may have to join a
nudist colony. I’m awful sorry things
got in this fix, but nothing can’t be
done.” But the weeping wife, who
didn’t like wild greens and crickets,
was not disposed to be a widow, al-
though she sometimes thought she
would look nice in an allblack out-
fit. So she sent for Dr. Nudeel. As
soon as the new doctor saw the
feeble patient he said to himself, “The
old fool’ll die if something drastic
isn’t done.” So he shot a heavy
draught of anodyne into William
Henry and said that would keep him
asleep for a week, meanwhile he
would close all the banks to keep
the noise of their popping from
waking the sick man. And soon W.
H. Dizzy got better. He got better
and better. And as the months and
years went by he bought a gentle
cow, a new car, sold his hogs at a
nice price and put the money into
an antibust bank, after paying $2 to
his pastor. “I’m well fixed now,” he
said proudly, to his faithful wife.
“Have you paid Dr. Nudeel?” she
asked, doubtfully. “Who? Him? Well,
I hain’t and I won’t,” replied William
Henry. “He run me into debt at the
drugstore and made me pay $48 for
nurses. Most extravagant doctor I
ever seen. I’m agin him,” declaimed
William Henry. “Won’t you seem
ongrateful?” asked the wife. “Me on-
grateful? What did that wasty doctor
do for me? I would of got well any-
how,” Mr. Dizzy answered with
finality.
About the Pardon
Board Amendment
Editors Examiner:
The pending Constitutional Amend-
ment about convict pardons is not
clear, but its proponents claim it will
limit the pardoning power of the
Governor to only cases recommended
by the Pardon Board. But if the
Pardon Board is moved to Huntsville
as per the law pending in court,
where it cannot get the material
records at Austin to acquaint it with
the facts in the case, said pardoning
power might as well be abolished.
A Board similar to the New Jersey
Board, with full power to grant or
deny clemency and with the Govern-
or having no power except one vote
on the Board, would be better than
said amendment although you might
concede to it some merit.
All cases are not appealed, but a
learned judge found in the pending
injunction suit that there were
thousands of records in the Court of
Criminal Appeals and in the Secre-
tary of State’s office which the
Board must have access to if it does
its duty as the law directs; and the
Attorney-General has rightly ruled
that said records cannot be carried
to Huntsville. To give the Board the
power to prevent all pardons and to
deny it access to the facts in the
case would be a dangerous anomaly.
The removal law said that its pur-
pose was to put the board in im-
mediate contact with the prisoners
and their records; but data furnished
the Board by the prison officials show
that in August, 4633 convicts, or
seventy-five per cent of all, are locat-
ed on nine farms ranging from forty-
five to one hundred fifty-four miles
from Huntsville and averaging one
hundred and three miles therefrom.
And the records mentioned in said
law mean the prison records which
do not give any facts about the con-
vict’s crime or his past conduct. The
Board could no more render the
proper verdict in such cases with
nothing but the prison record and
the convict’s ex parte statement than
a jury could by trying a convict at
the jail on his own statement and his
jail record without any other evi-
dence.
The cost of certified copies of the
records at Austin and a fireproof
building for them would be prohibi-
tive. With increased responsibility,
more people would want to appear
before the Board than formerly. If
the Board remains in Austin, inter-
ested parties could get others who
come to Austin on business to con-
tact the Board without any cost; but
if the Board is located as far away
as Huntsville, many interested par-
ties could not pay their way and
Baby Starts to School®
I stand at the door on a. September
day
And watch as she goes through the
gate.
I answer the wave of the little brown
hand ,
That clutches the tablet and slate. W
A primer is pressed to the fast beat-
ing heart
With a pencil, eraser and rule.
1 am only a month, so pardon my
tears
My baby has started to school.
So often I’ve stood by the cradle
at dawn
And again in the darkness of night;
So often I’ve prayed to the Father
of all
For strength to train her aright;
And now as she marches away with
the rest
To learn by example and rule,
I go to my work with an ache in
heart,
My baby has started to school.
No, I would not stop one moment of
time;
The tried ways of nature are best.
My baby must lose all her innocent
ways
And become worldly wise like the
rest;
Must prepare for the time when her
mother is gone
And into the throng she is hurled;
But, I’m only a mother, so pardon
my tears
My baby has gone out into the world.
—Eunice Elmore Heier, in Marshall
News.
Little English
Good English may not mean as mucjjj
As purists think it should;
But folks will never be in Dutch
Whose Scotch is always good.
We call it Mother Tongue because
The' women,—so we’ve heard—
According to Dame Nature’s laws,
Must have the final word.
We have our to’s and too’s and two’s
In all our daily prattle;
And folks still use both “youse and
ewes—
While cows are classed as cattle.
If ought is AWT, and south is
SOWTH,
We’re prone to pause and ponder
Why shouldn’t drouth be good for _
drowith, \
And drouth be DRAWTH —We
wonder!
And there are words we sometimes
use . / ^
That bankers still refuse;
They’re what, the Gentiles give
Jews,
And known as I. O, U.’s.
Now may we add this MAIN STREET
talk
To the summer’s Campaign
FUN?—
They’re saying Al Smith took that
walk r
Because he could not run.
:—C. N. Click, in Mineola
Monitor.
Little Field
The Carnival has gone—
And once again the little field
Resigns itself to dusty musings.
Here stood the ferriswheel
That carried breathless children up
To share a brief vacation with tlie
stars.
Here galloped dainty hoofs,
Of painted horses, to song
Carefree and rhythmic with an end-
less joy.
What matters now if summer sun
Scorches the trampled grass, or
winter adds
A plaintive note of sooty snow.
For two charmed nights its face has
known
Such bright abandon as will last
The season’s span.
Until again the Carnival returns
To plant anew the color and the
light
Ah. yes, the little field can wait!
Virginia Grilley.
PROFITABLE WAITING
Two pickpockets had been trailing
an old man whom they knewi had a
large roll of bills with him. Suddenly
the old man turned into a lawyer’s
office.
“What’ll we do now?” asked
Sneaky Sam.
“Wait till the lawyer comes
replied. Slippery.
/
they would not have friends going
there on business to appear for
them. How1 could they in that event
contact the Board without hiring
some one near there to do it for
them? This is an unanswerable rea-
son for keeping the Board at Aus-
tin.
Most of the cases could be handled
by mail, but the expenses should not
be so high as to prevent parties from
appearing before the Board. Govern-
or Allred sent the Board a letter he
wrote to the Governor of Virginia in
June 1935 which said in substance
that he had approved over two hun-
dred recommendations of the Board
and only one had to be recalled. The
prison officials wrote the Board that
only one hundred three of three thou-
sand eighty-two convicts paroled
had been returned. Other clemencies*-
were not so good. Cast your vote f;
the good of the state and be caret
how you vote.
T. C. ANDREWS
Chairman Board of Pardons, Aust
Texas.
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