Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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Educator Says Ihiral Education Superior .
In the Moulding of Child's Character
Oa* ol the leading
editors of the United States has
begun to doubt the effectiveness or
desirability at a uniform system of
regimented education. It is his
opinion that the city child is never
to reason from cause to effect be-
cause of the motion, people, and
mechanism too remote from produc-
tion, and artlfldlitiee. He says:
Misguided Zeal
A few days ago I read in my news-
paper that certain leaders in educa-
tion In America are deeply con-
cerned about the lack of educational
facilities In the rural districts. They
want the Federal Government to ap-
propriate two billion dollars to equal-
ize opportunity. Their plea Is that
every child Is entitled to equal op-
portunities.
The Inference to be drawn from
this plea Is that rural children are
doomed to a life of drudgery and
ignorance because country schools
are not the same as city schools.
This is strictly the city educator’s
viewpoint. He is a bookman, a be-
liever In the printed page as the
source.of all wisdom, a regimentalist
who would mold the nation’s youth
to a scholastic pattern. His heart
bleeds for the underpri’/Hedged. He
Is an honest evangelist who has
been indoctrinated in the city
system of education. He believes
truly that he must extend the
blessings of the pavements to the
remotest district.
Shortcomings of Rural Schools
Now let us take a good look at the
so-called shortcomings of the rural
schools. I feel frerly competent to
discuss this subject because I ain a
product of the very poorest of rural
schools at a time when they were
poor indeed, But since that
time I have taught in country schools
and after that became a college
professor. Later I followed careers
of my children through village and
city grade school and through big
city colleges.
I hoped and believed that my
children were getting advantages
that were denied to me, but now
when I have the opportunity to
look back down the years, T am
not sure that the educational ad-
Cenntry Life Not Cluttered
Country life In my childhood days
was simple. It was not cluttered up
with a thousand and one unrelated
things. My little world was a com-
pletely Integrated unit. In the spring
we prepared the ground, planted the
seed, cultivated the growing plants
and awaited the harvest. We learned
cause and effect. The fact was
driven home to us every day of our
lives that we lived in an ordered
world. Cause and effect were In-
separable.
How different the life of the city
child. Wherever he turns there are
motion, people, machines, complexity.
No matter how cnrious he may be
cause and effect are obscured, the
mind cannot grasp It all; In such an
lnvlronment it Is difficult for any
young person to grasp the simple,
elemental relationships of life. Con-
fusion haunts his days. The pro-
cession of the seasons has no deep
significance to him. But worst of
all, he never has a chance to learn
the Inexorable demands of responsi-
bility, no chance to do useful work
at an age when character Is forming.
Spent Life In Educational Work
I have spent my life in education-
al work of one sort or another. I
believe In education, but I sincerely
hope my city friends never succeed
in forcing their Ideas of education
upon rural America. A patter of
book lore is not education. Regimen-
tation of subjects is not education.
Superficialty and glibness are not
education. Somewere in early years
the human young must learn to
work, it must feel the driving force
of responsblity, it must discover the
need to think for itself. These are
character builders and more im-
portant by far than anything lear-
ned out of an accredited textbook.
A rural environment and a coun-
try school do not assure all the ad-
vantages, but they are superior In
the essentials of character building to
the training of urban centers. Rural
Amekla should never permit the
training of its children to be domi-
nated by the big-city pattern.
Shortcoming of Education
Speaking of education. I am con-
stantly reminded of its shortcomings.
revelation throughout the great busi-
ness offices of America.
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Truck Run Shows
Low Cost Transports
Detroit, April 11-^Although It has
condensed into 10 gruelling weeks
more mileage than the average ve-
hicle covers In a year, the Chevrolet
truck which Harry Hartz is piloting
on a long-distance dependability run
Is still writing a remarkable record
of economy and durability. This
fact Is revealed by figures released
this week by the AAA Contest Board
at Washington, under whose sanc-
tion and supervision the run Is be-
ing made since Jan. 11, when it
left Detroit, the truck, a 1 1-2-ton
model carrying a 4.590-pound load
steel, has visited Ottawa, Can.,
Mexico City, Miami, Los Angeles,
and Intervening points. It is now on
the Pacific Coast, preparing to swing
east once more. The 25,000-mile
point was passed near- El Paso,
Texas, March 25.
Some of the highlights of the
truck’s performance, as revealed'by
the AAA report, are an average speed
of 31.87 miles per hour over the
entire run, and a gasoline consump-
tion economy record of 15.31 miles
per gallon. The total cost of oil
and gasoline actually consumed,
lubrication, mechanical work and
periodic inspection was $363.59, the
official report showed. ton miles
per gallon, figured on gross weight
of 9,260 pounds Including driver
and observer, were stated at 70.89.
Total cost per mile was $.0145, and
total cost per ton miles, $.00313.
W. E. Fish,, manager of the Chev-
rolet truck department, expressed
gratification at the official figures on
the run. "The truck,” he said, "has
traveled a distance equivalent to
that around the world, at an expense
the average motorist would not think
excessively high for a journey a
fraction that long. Moreover, It has
not been coddled or favored In any
way. It has followed a predetermin-
ed route, regardless of surface con-
ditions and of weather. It has been
serviced with oil and lubricants only
at the Intervals recommended to
owners in general, and all fueling
and other service has been perform-
ed under official supervision.
"Such thrifts as the truck has
registered on both gasoline and oil
vantages were not all on my side. I
doubt if the best modern city schools many conferences with business lead
today can match my early training
in fundamental knowledge and ef-
fectiveness, and what I got was
available to all the rural youth of
simiar environment.
Constructive Effort
Let me relate just a few of the
early incidents of my boyhood. The
winter succeeding my 8th birthday
I determined that in the spring I
would make maple sugar. We had
no buckets, so all winter I chopped
troughs ou/t of pine logs. By spring
I was ready to tap the trees. I learn-
ed a great deal that year. I learned
to work. I learned to overcome ob-
stacles. to persst on a given course.
I learned about trees, and that
birch trees, for example, produce
plenty of sap. but no sugar.
As the years of childhood rolled
along I learned more about trees,
how to fall them, how to skid logs
and load them on trucks or sleighs*
I learned the names of the birds,
when they migrated, where they
nested, what kind of eggs they laid. I
also learned woodcraft. How if I
always kept three points in line
I would never travel In a circle, never
lose my direction in the forest. One
could build a philosophy for life on
that simple idea of always keeping
three points in line. It is an effec-
tive rule for nearly every circum-
stance
,1s proof not only of economy but of
During the course of a year I have durability as well, since it is largely
by reason of the engins capacity to
ers. Invariably they are sauve, in- stand up under continued punish-
telligent and energetic. But very ment that fuel and oil consump-
seldom among them do I meet one tion are kept down.
who knows America. To be sure they
know all the big cities and probably
most of the good eating places across
the continent But few of them
know the small towns, the rural dis-
tricts and people who are heaviest
buyers of their products.
In short, they do not know their
geography. Rural America to them
is a terra incognita, a land populated
'by an inferior tribe of people. Of
course, when a depression comes
along and sales fall off, they hear
vague rumors of distress in the .______.
hinterland. But even then, vnth tvi- JPP
Mr. Fish expressed himself es-
pecially pleased at the proof of effi-
cient cooling, as furnished by the
AAA report. In spite of considerable
mountain and desert driving, only
three quarts of water were added in
the entire 25,000 miles.
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New Blight Resistant
Milo is Distributed
College Station—Some 20,000 pounds
of the new strain of blight resistant
Jimttiitixiu . out t vru uicn, wiuii vi- , _ onn r____ . . .
dence of the dependence upon rural I . ., ... , es n ct]un KS
where it will be grown for demon-
stration
America forced upon them, it is
never first in their consciousness. To
them It is still an alien land.
Has lack of education anything to
do with such an attitude? I strongly
suspect that it has. Not long ago our
advertising department printed a
political map of the United States
showing what parts of America are
rural and what parts are urban. It
shewed, too. how many members of
congress represented rural eomrnun-
ties, how many urban. Naturally the
figures showed Congress overwhelm-
ing rural. That simple elementary
fact should be known by every school
boy. Yet I am informed It was a
and further distribution
purpose, according to E. A. Miller,
agronomist of the Texas A. and M.
college Extension Service.
The soil-borne disease, called Milo
blight, became a commercial threat
in 1935. Since that time it has
spread over the Red River Region,
the Edwards Plateau, and much of
the high Plains section, and has cut
yield in half in about fifty percent
of the vast milo growing area, Mil-
ler said.
The disease is most virulent In wet,
cold seasons. In such cases the
plants affected will show a reddish
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A.A.A. Certified Test Run
Again Proves the Outstanding
Economy and Performance of
CHEVROLET TRUCKS
AT A COST OF LESS THAN
1/3-CENT PER TON-MILE, stock
model l1/2-ton Chevrolet truck travels
10,102.4 miles carrying 4590-lb. load.
15.07 MILES
PER GALLON
of gasoline
ONLY
*1.35 FOR
ADJUSTMENTS
"VTO TESTS are more rigidly supervised
’ and exacting than testa conducted
under the superviaion of the Conteat Board
of the American Automobile Association.
All figures listed in the column at the right
are Jodi—certified and convincing proof of
the great performance qualities and dollar -
saving economy of Chevrolet trucks!
Modernize your truck e<piipment now.
Save money all ways with Chevrolet trucks
— with low first cost, low operating cost,
low maintenance expense—and with rug-
ged, durable Chevrolet construction that
gives extra thousands of miles of capable,
satisfying operation.
CHEVROLET MOTOR DIVISION
General Motor* Sales Corporation
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Central Motors Instalment Plan—Convenient, Economical Monthly Payments.
SANCTION No. 39*2
READ THESE AMAZING
PERFORMANCE FACTS...
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A General Motors Value.
“THE THRIFT-CARRIERS FOR THE NATION
Moore Chevrolet
T. W. MOORE, Proprietor
South Side Square
LEVELLAND
tinge, will practically cease growing,
and finally die. In normal seasons
the disease attacks the plants more
slowly and Is not readily apparent,
except by an examination of the
pith near the roots, which will be
found to have turned red, and by a
greatly reduced yield.
Farmers at first were inclined to
blame the lowered milo yields to
drought and chich bug damage, but
milo which produced only twenty
or thirty bushels an acre was found
growing alongside kafir and hegari,
which are not susceptile to the dis-
ease, and which yielded from fifty
to sixty bushels per acre.
The problem was attacked by the
Agricultural Experiment Station aa
soon as the disease was reported.
From 800 plants growing in the
diseased soil, R. E. Karper, in
charge of sorghum investigations,
selected 20 plants which were re-
sistant to the blight. Use of a green-
house allowed the selection pro-
cess to be speeded up, and within
two years the stations at Chillicothe
and Lubbock were planting the new
strain for distribution.
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The total value of all crops, live-
stock products, mineral and values
added in processing the crops and
minerals of Texas last year was more
than 1,500,000.000, according to the
Texas Planning Board'.
Higginbotham-
Bartlett Co.
Phone 5
Building Material
Store
J. C. PEELER, Manager
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
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TYRONE POWER • ALICE FAYE • DON AMECHE
Alice Brady • Andy Devine • Brian Donlevy
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nnO the surprise of everyone, Gil Warren (Brian
1 Donlevy) put up no fight against Dion
O'Leary'* (Tyrone Power) bid for political leader-
ship. Instead. Warren came to Dion with a pro-
position chat Dion might have control of the poli-
tical machine If he woidd lack Warren for mayor.
Readily Dion agreed. The deal was sealed, making
young 0’Leary political master of Chicago. From
then on, he would control the outcome of elections.
Dion, with an eye to the rising resentment of
Jj the city’s respectable class against the corruption
in City Hall, had his own plans. Secretly, he caused a
group of apparently upright citizens to approach his
hard-working, honest brother. Jack (Don Ameche), with
a plea that Jack run for mayor. Surprised, and Ignor
ant of his brother’s part In the move, Jack accepted.
The political enmity of Dion and Jack was well known
In Chicago, and turns thought Dion might aid Mm
JACK’S earnest campaign for clean government was
I met with cynical smiles by the opposition. The night
* before the election, Warren and his cohorts held
a triumphal meeting, confident of winning. Dion, osten-
sibly supporting Warren, aKended. But, secretly Dion
already was setting In motion a daring coup that would
frustrate Warren’s powerful political machine In Its battle
against Jack. Within A few hours, Warren’s sway was
to and. The "double cross’* who • common do vice.
QlIDDENLY, a fight broke out at the
CT Warren rally, engineered by toughs
"planted” there by Dion. An army of
policemen, waiting his call, rushed the
place and arrested all hands. Next day,
the amazed Warren found his ward
and district leaders. In fact all his poli-
tical workers, behind the bars. Jack,
easily won: (To be continuwt)
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Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1938, newspaper, April 29, 1938; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1152803/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.