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Stephenyille Daiiy Empire
FRIDAY, MARCH 24. 1950
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A Process Slowly Developed
How long the human race has occupied the earth remains a
matter of considerable doubt but it is apparent that the acquisi-
tion of culture, civilization and intelligence has been a process
slowly developed.
There have been various peoples, in many areas, who for a
time seemed to be on the road to spectacular accomplishments.
For some reason, including the ravages of war and, probably,
of disease, the bright promise of some early history did not prove
accurate. '
There have been those to suggest that man in his quest for
the ideal, is retarded by the drag of inherited inertias and that,
struggle as we may, thfjire’s no way to eliminate this factor in our
effort to create better people Tor a better day.
It is reasonably certain, on the basis of past history, that
those who attain superior development must always be ready to
maintain it against the attack of those who do not share its
ameliorating influences. The only way to do this is with vigor,
courage and faith. It has never been done by compromise, by
accepting the rule of inferiority and yielding to the weight of
numbers.
Looking Ahead to 2000 A. D.
The wise men who look into the future and tell us what to ex-
pect come up with some predictions that look far-fetched al-
though, occasionally, some of the unexpected things actually oc-
cur.
Recently Dr. Gerald Wendt, who was science director of the
New York World’s Fair, predicted that, by 2000 A. D., interplan-
etary travel will be available, electronic thinking machines will
work for people and there will be plenty of free time for every-
body to fill with culture, recreation and sports.
So far we can follow the doctor within measureable dis-
tances but when he assures us of an era of easy money, average
incomes of $12,000 yearly and a life span of 85 to 90 years, we
just pause long enough to wonder what difference it will make
to us, in the year 2000 ArD.
DUPLICATE . . . this one’s too
good to keep . . . but last Monday
in San Angelo I was introduced
to a gentleman as “Parson Potter"
and he looked in astonishment and
said. "When wu* you resurrected?”
. . end Dean Chenoweth told me
the story of another Paraon Potter
years ago who was a Methodist
paraon ... a gun-totin’ preacher
. . . who used to walk in the sa-
loons, lay hia .45 down on the bar,
preach to the fellows, take up an
offering for the new Methodist
church about to be built and bow
gracefully out of their presence
. . . and the boys always put “quite
X lot In the pot” when tne parson
slipped his trigger finger around
that 46 and passed the hat . ^ .
must look up my family tree and
see if we it kin folks.
WELL! , . . what ya know . . ,
up in Syracuse, N. Y., ’tothcr day
they unveiled “Tommy, the talking
traffic light” . . . and it talked
everv time the amber light went
on . . now, if somebody will only
invent a gadget to STOP the back
seat drivers . . . traffic millennium
will have arrived, eh?
AND . . . speaking of traffic
lights . . . got a Southwest Amer-
ican from Fort Smith, Ark., the
other day and on Page One was the
picture of a Model A Ford with a
red l.-ntern for a tail lite . . . and
where do you reckon such an in-
genious person as that would live.
, . . whal. III tell you, bub .. . .
right up thar in Siloam Springs,
Ark. , . . that’s whar! Phelps, the
local photo boy up thar, evidently
caught a farmer parked on Broad-
way, snapped the shutter, mailed
—■ the picture to the paper and wham
Page One, no less.
“Increasingly Illiterate”
College freshmen are "Increasingly illiterate year by year,”
and “unable to read or think,” declares Dr. Ernest Codman Col-
well, president of'the University of Chicago, who, in a discussion
of the American school' system blamed the parents for trying
to meddle too much in the running of classrooms. He also
charged that schools are letting the curriculum get so mixed up
and "watered down” that pupils emerge with only the barest
rudiments of standard education.
Dr. Colwell objects to the popular tendency to regard schools
as "custodians” of children and the a Ilf Wide of parents who are
grateful for schools because they take children off their hands
for a few hours each day. He declares that one of the worst
mistakes schools make is to try teach children political patterns
and other thjiigs far beyond their years.
Forward-looking families are now planning their Bummer
picnics.
stives who work in their suspenders are eligible for
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Don’t jiuj foolishly but, nevertheless, this is net the time to
be niggardly.* .
bfobody can solve a problem like those who live a thousand
miles from it.
An educated person is not one who knows how to read but
one who reads.
At five cents a copy a newspaper is about the cheapest buy1
on the market today. ,
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WE GIVE
S&H
GREEN STAMPS
Ask for them!
PICKUP AND DELIVERY SERVICE
STEPHENVILLE LAUNDRY
AND DRY CLEANERS
239 N. Colombia Phone 254
NNIME
Rental of a Safety Deposit Box is so little, you’ll want one,
I« meet your needs.
The Stephenville State Bank
The Bulk That Bettor Service is Building
Member F.D. I* C.
DEFINITION ... of a grouch
. .. the fellow who can’t even smile
when things go right . . . and
through whose l>ody flows not the
milk of human kindness, but clab-
ber milk.
LEGAL? ... to have the license
tag on yore auto, unsidedown ? .
just a wonderin’ after seein’ a
couply thataway in town!
CLASSIFIED . . . advertising in
the current Editor & Publisher .. .
the newspaper man's periodical ..,
indicates that plenty of good news-
papet editors and reporters are
available ... 37 of ’em in fact
and their modesty in describing
capabilities is indeed modest (?)
• . . one gal advertises herself as
“the best newspaper woman in the
world” . . . such reticence is re-
freshing .. . hmmm!
AI MOSJX-r'rrtune for some new
political announcements ... if the
current crop of candidate rumors be
true I
HFtARTACHE . . . we couldn’t-'
think \of appropriate words to say
to Jeff and Billie Bradley
when we got out thereafter the
fire destroyed their hphie and its
contents
“Tragedy of Monumental Proportions”
Over-specialization in American higher education is termed
a "tragedy of monumental proportions” by Dr, Milton S. Eisen-
hower, president-elect of Pennsylvania State College.
Dr. Eisenhower realises that specialization is an urgent
necessity in our modern society, especially in making poesible
the high productivity required by our democracy, but he insists
that it is likewise essential for students to achieve an under-
standing of all the broad fields of knowledge.
The educatoT reports an awareness of the necessity that ed-
ucation be adaptable to changing social conditions. He expresses
the belief that a “major revolution” toward a more rounded ed-
ucation has begun in most colleges and universities.
The note of warning sounded by Dr. Eisenhower should not
be overlooked by Americans generally. The success of our de-
mocracy depeiyia upon the understanding of the voters and their
capacjty to select and appraise the copious advice that flows un-
to them through the air and in the columns of the press. It is
necessary for individual thinkers to function in our society and
for them to realize that a specialist in one field, however eminent
his position, is not necessarily qualified to speak on other sub-
jects.
By contrast, the individual who has acquired a well-rounded
education Is in a better position to appraise the panorama of
human activities and to attempt to synchronize the various act-
ivities of men and women into a harmonious social whole. In
fact, a technical education, turning out a first-rate specialist, is
not to be confused with the attempt of students to understand
the history of the race and the relative function of various skills
and talents.
There is a tendency in American cities to look up to the
man who makes a business success. Certainly, many individuals
deserve great credit for their accomplishments in this line.
Nevertheless, the possession of a trading-art reflecting the
shrewdness and cunning that makes profits, is not necessarily
an indication that the individual has a well-trained, must less,
a thinking mind. A maker of automobiles, for example, is no
authority an the processes of history or the social relationships
which make up human life. The same observation applies to
brick-layers, ditch-diggers and ail individuals whose training
and experience has been restricted to specific and limited tasks.
With Nichols In Notion's Capitol
troyed their hf
> i and as fiii
ning will soon i
jure hope the
silver iining will soon appear from
behind the current dark clouds.
McGARTHY . . . and his head-
lines . . . apparently is playing;
"Charlie” for the minority party.
HEADLINE . . . “Cobb to Have
Opening” . . . will it be . . . corn
on the—
CHEERFUL . . . that’s “Pappy"
Shelton . . . and with a remarkable
memory as evidenced by his Ma-
sonic lectures.
MIRACLE . . . that more car
acridi nts don’t occur on E. and W.
Washington 8treet . . . the way
some “through The city” travelers
rip up the road and weave Wreck-
less-ly through the narrow U.S.
67 and 377 to the east and west.
Signal Revives
Hope Lost Plane
Has Survivors
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 24
(UP)—A distress signal stamped
in snow raised hopes today that
some crew members of an Ameri-
can C-54 transport missing nearly
two months may still be alive.
A ground search party was being
organized to investigate the signal,
sighted yesterday by the crew or
an American Air Force C-47 flying
from Great Falls, Mont., to Fair-
banks. Alaska.
It was along this same route that
the C-64 with 44 persons aboard
disappeared Jan. 26 in the sub-
Arctic wilderness.
The C-47 crew said the area
looked deserted. But officers be-
lieved the sign must have been
made Recently in view of heavy
drifting of snow.
• A lone R.C.A.F. craft based at
Fort St John, B. C., 20 miles
northwest of where the signals
were sighted, was ordered to fly
over the area today to search for
signs of life. Officers at Fort St.
John said there were no persons or
planes missing “lately” in the area
where the signal was seen.
The sign formed the letters “IF”
which, according to the internat-
ional air rescue manual, stands for
“serious injuries, doctor required,
food and water needed.” The Am-
erican fliers reported the signal
was tramped out In the snow and
lined with brush and branches.
The C-54, loaded with Alaska-
based servicemen being returned to
the States, was reported missing
Jan. 26 on a flight from Anchor-
age, Alaska, to Great Pals Mont
Ita disappearance touched off one
of the greatest air searches in the
Canadian sub-Arctic history.
Building New Home
Mr. and Mrs. Autis McMahan
have let the contract for a three-
bedroom house on West Sloan
Street and will occupy same when
completed. Mr. McMahan it an
instructor at Tarleton Stats CoL
lege.
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prees Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 24 (UP)
—In France the skies are pea
green.
At least they are in paintings at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art where
the prize-winning works of 70 con-
temporary artists are on exhibit.
Among the French paintings,
there isn’t a blue sky showing. .
John Leeper, a quiet little man
in a yellow bout tie, royal blue
sport coat, and gray slacks who
•works for Corcoran, said he didn’t
know anything about the skies in
France. George H. Hamilton, of
the Phillips Gallery of Art, who
has a French background and a
goatee to prove it, said:
Ex-Grand Dragon
Ku Klux Klan
Free On Parole
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March
24—(UP)— D. C. Stephenson, one
time iron-handed ruler of the Ind-
iana Ku Klux Klan, is free after
25 years in prison.
Stephenson walked over the
threshold of the Indiana State
Prison at 6 p.m. last night.
He was bundled into a waiting
automobile and whisked away by
“unidentified friends."
identified friends.’
The man who bellowed to klan
audisnees in the 1920,s that "I
am the law in Indiana” will be on
parole for the rest of his life for
the murder of pretty, 28-year-old
Madge Oberholtzer.
It was understood Stephenson
would go to live with a daughter
at Tulsa, Okla., where he has been
offered a job. Warden Alfred
Dowd. said last night he did not
know Stephenson’s destination.
Stephenson was convicted when
Miss Oberholtzer died after a vici-
ous sexual attack by the former
.grand dragon.
Although thq former klansman
made more than 60 legal ’maneu-
vers to gain his freedom, it was not
until Gov. Henry F. Schricker com-
muted his life sentence to a time-
served-to life that the porole board
took up his case and granted him
freedom.
got
but
Use Daily Empire want ads
"Well, er-r-r, sometimes a sky
looks a little green, like the water
on Lake Michigan.”
The exhibit is sponsored by the
Hallmark people, who put up $28,-
000 in prizes. The idea was to come
_BR_with some new Christmas
scenes which might be used
greeting cards. The artists
their prizes, as advertised,
there is hardly a Christmas scene
in the lot.
None of this “over the hills and
through the woods” stuff.
You find things in oil which are
labeled ds church steeples but
which look something like tele-
phone poles. There is another
thing with a title about Christmas
flowers which doesn’t have any
flowers in it.
Another one shows a small boy
looking out of what is supposed
to be a frosted window. He has
drawn a pig, a fish and a couple of
other characters on. the window
with his fingernails.
Leeper is a little upset.
“Here we have 10,000 people
competing for these prizes,” he
said. “People these days paint for
money—not for the love of paint-
ing. Grant you, some of these are
excellent. Some are not.”
He pointed to a picture in oil of
a kid wearing a round hat, a black
suit with no buttons, and beside
him two apples and a cherry. There
was a sparrow beside the cherry,
violating the first rule of any
newspaper picture editor. The bird
was looking OUT of the scene.
leeper says he thinks comio-
strip artists have a slight influ-
ence on modern art.
“Not that the people who are
turning out art today don’t try—
OBITUARIES
BOB TINDALL
News has been received in Steph-
enville of the passing of Bob Tin-
dall, aged 76, at his home In Tulia
Saturday night from a heart at-
tack. Mr. Tindall was a brother of
the late Mrs. Hays Anderson and
Walter Tindall.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Guerra who
were visiting in the home of Mrs.
Guerra’s aunt, Mrs. Lee Burnett
in Oklahoma City, received the
news there and attended funeral
services for Mr. Tindall.
Mrs. Burnett also is a sister to
Mr. Tindhll.
they do,” he said. “But they take
a'Tbok et the fast-selling comics
and wonder how a guy can turn
out a daily panel plus a page strip
on Sunday. So what happens?
They hurry their work. The comic
artists are on contract and they
don’t catch too much thunder if
they turn out a stinker once in
awhile.”
As Leeper looks at it—and his
friend Hamilton agreed—the art-
ists of today have a couple of
strikes on them in the beginning.
“They don’t live today In a cre-
ative world,” he said. “Things are
static.”
’ Leeper said that the life of the
creative artist is a rough one in
the United States. There aren’t
many, who make a living.
Mother Walks In
Creek To Drown
Three Children
WINSTO N-SALEM, N. C.,
March 24— (UP)— Sheriff Ernie
Shore said today that murder char-
ges will be filed against a mother
who admitted that she walked In-
to a creek with her three youngest
children “until I thought they were
dead.’
Two of Mrs. David Debusk’s
children were drowned. Another
suffered exposure from water and
is in serious condition.
The bodies of Iva Lee Debusk,
six months old, and Charles Frank-
lin, about two and one-half were
found, after Mrs. Debusk turned
up at the home of a famer carry-
ing four-y^ar-old Ruby Lea. a
daughter. Both were dripping
muddy creek water.
Mrs. Debusk, Shore said, “Will
be charged with murder.”
Shore said the woman told him
she had been “going with” a mar-
ried man for “seven or eight
years.”
“He’s a home-breaker. He bus-
ted up my home and then threw
me aside," the sheriff quoted her.
I decided to end it all.”
“We took our eoats off and laid
them on the bank,” officers quoted
her as saying. “Then I told/the
older ones to hold hands and 'not
to let go. I carried the baby and
held Charlie’s hand. Ruby Lee
held his hand, and we Just walked
in. We went in ever so far. We
were all together. We walked un-
der the water, and we still held
hands until I thought they were
dead.
“We were goin’ a drownin’.
There’s no use in lyiq’ about it I
was worryin’.”
in’ al
New Residents v
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Daniels
have recently moved here from
the West Texas plains. They are
making their home on West Mc-
Neill Street. He is a carpenter by
profession.
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CIVILIANS WILL SUFFER MOST IN
NEXT WAR FROM MODERN WEAPONS
LONDON, March 14 (UP)—If
there is another war, you might be
saferi at the fighting front than at
home. ,
A United Press survey of secret
and semi-secret weapons ready for
use or in the laboratory stage
shows that the art of killing civil-
ians is far outpacing that of kill-
ing soldiers.
Soldiers would have plenty of
trouble in a new holocaust. They
always do, and more or less expect
it. But next time, if any, civilians
are expected to take the heaviest
beating and the heaviest casual-
ties.
Tho hydrogen bomb would be a
terror weapon far too vast to use
on the lighting front. If it is ever
dropped, it almost certainly will be
aimed against a great metropolis,
or possibly behind the lines of an
advancing army to devastate their
communications lines over huge
areas.
Only a Few Targets
Actually there is only a handful
Of targets laigr enough to warrant
its use. Places like New York, Chi-
cago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Philadelphia or Boston.
A British scientist told the Unit-
ed Press that, barring the hydro-
gen bomb, he rated the terror wea-
pons of any new waT in this order:
Germ bombs—to spread plague
and panic in big cities.
Atomic bombs—For use against
cities or large concentrations of
troops.
Radioactive clouds — To lay
waste to agricultural areas and
cities.
“Sound Bombs"—To break civil-
ian morale. “Sound bombs” ia a
term used for the employment of
prolonged high-pitched noises, the
full effects of which are not known.
Poison gas — For use against
either armies or civilians. There
are new "heavy” types which are
not dissipated by light winds, as in
World War I, and for which there
are no known antidotes. Some of
them dissolve the materials usual-
ly used in gasmasks.
And any or all of these could be
carried to the target by guided
missies as well as by conventional
planes. “ ——
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