Hockley County Herald (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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“Moral Recovery Necessary
For Nation" Says London
YOUR
MILEAGE
MERCHANT ADVISES
Aif m. Landon, former Kansas
Governor and Republican presiden-
tial candidate In 1936, said Saturday
that tJw nation must have moral
recovery before there can be an
economic recovery.
.“By moral recovery,” Landon told
5,000 churchmen attending the Unit-
ed Methodist Council, “I mean the
development of all those essentials
nf gfrmcfcsc honesty,de-
cency, square dealing charity, faith
In ourselves, In our fellow men, ancP lust beyond. As a patron approach
God."
Landon said solution of social and
economic problems must be founded
upon "moral and spiritual wisdom.”
Democracy can be retained only
by a vigorous and prophetic chinch,
he said.
Landon warned against the theory
of absolute government which "not
only threatens Democratic and rep-
resentative government but threat-
ens the church itself."
He urged the ministers to think
about character in practical, every-
day terms, and insisted that if the
church is to mould character it must
show regard for it own obligations.
"No church or its colleges or hos-
pitals should lay down on paying
honest debts," Landon said.
"We have—already suffered ser-
iously from our failure in financial
matters.
“Furthermore, how can we expect
our ministers to furnish the right
Kind of leadership when we under-
pay them."
He suggested the consolidation of
churches in communities where they
are too close together, duplicating
each other’s efforts.
“You must remember,” he said,
"that there is a subject that rises
above our most serious . economic
and social questions and that Is the
fundamental character of the people
which in a Democracy is the cor-
nerstone upon which everything else
rests.”
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Germany has the highest percent-
age of all-steel railway coaches of
any nation in the world.
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Joyce Kilmer, author of the poem
"Trees,” was killed in action dur-
ing the World War.
--oOo-
Give one-eyed cars lenty of room.
In the Shadow
Of the Capitol
The old and the ultra-modern In
sharp contrast:
Outer doors of an Austin Bank are
of ponderous bronze with a pano-
rama of cowboys and cattle. By day
these heavy doors—with their ever-
lyl-irtf trihiiG.iaiha mnaanlJf. past—.
stand adjar, with ordinary doors
es the thresihhold, ghosts seem to
open the inner doors and to close
them behind him. It is done by
electricity, of course.
Across the street stands the old
three-story stone building in one
corner of which 6. Henry worked as
a bank teller more than 40 years
ago. A drug store now occupies the
location. Customers consume a
triple deck sandwiches or a straw-
berry malted milk ,on the spot
where the life of the great story
writer dipped into tragedy (flight to
Central America and a term in pris-
on resulted), and, from the shadows
of tragedy, his life never fully em-
erged.
Shakespeare once said, "What's In
a name?” But l,e never ran for of
fice in Texas. A name that is dis-
tinctive, easily remembered and
friendly-sounding is worth a lot when
one is trying to make an impression
on a million voters in an empire
nearly a thousand miles across. Ralph
Yarborough used axmiddle initial—W
—-but, since deciding to enter the
race for Attorney General, he has
dropped the initial. When one re-
members that Yarborough is ranked
as one of the best speakers In Texas
and that the "W” stands for Web-
ster, it can be seen that he made
a real sacrifice
The man had a three-days stubble
and he shivered in the wind which
whisted around the corner of the
Driskill Hotel late on a February
night. He appealed to a passerby for
a dime, and when the coin was given
he added in a brave effort at pride:
"My cousin's picture hangs on the
wall in there,” motioning toward the
lobby where the painted likeness of
statesmen are displayed. * I could
get appointed to a job in Washington
but I’d rather make my living auto-
matically.’’ and come to think of It,
who wouldn’t?
Tractor
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THERESJmtCK
Si
000
Regarding the Ignition ... Insert your key,
but at firct kee^heipiijtkjn switch OFF.
Next—the Choke ... Pull it out (unless it is
the automatic type, of course).
Now for the Hand-Throttle ... Move it to
approximately one-third open position.
Then the Clutch . . . “Put your foot down”
on the pedal and keep the clutch clear out.
Finally the Starter . . . After it has turned
the engine three or four times, switch
the ignition ON.*
If you do this with just anybody’s gasoline,
you will know that you gave it every chance.
But do it with Special Winter Blend Conoco
Bronze and you’ll know you START!
You’ll notice you are always through with
the starter and choke much sooner, saving
your gasoline, your oil, your battery.
Know what? . . . Conoco Bronze. Know
where?.. .Your Mileage Merchant. And ask
for his simple, helpful Complete Winter
Care Card—FREE. Continental C^l Co.
* If your starter is of the type that does not spin
with ignition off, consult Your Mileage Merchant
SPECIAL
WINTER
BLEND
CONOCO BRONZE
GASOLINE
On The-
,The Minneapolis-Moline 1 win City Tractor
is the most economical, the best performing
as well as the most modern, best looking
Year Around, All Purpose Tractor that
the market affords. Built by one of the
outstanding implement builders of the
world.
Everyone is invited to attend this demon-
stration and see how perfectly, the Twin City
performs under actual field conditions.
J. P. Shofner
Implement Company
Located In Bear
Modern Food Store
LEVELLAND
J. B. Shofner Farm
Two Miles North of Levelland on the
Littlefield Highway, on -q
Friday, February llthj
BEGINNING AT 1 O’CLOCK P. M.
j ——--Conoco Service Station——
| Northwest Corner Square LEVELLAND, TEXAS
We Are Made
Of Inferior Clay
(By Jeff D. Ray in Star-Telegram)
“The vessel^ which he made of clay
was marred in the hands of, the
potter.” That is a graphic picture < f
evj“ry human- life—a thumbnail bio-
graphy of every living man,
Fither by heredity, by environment,
or by actual wrong doing, and usually
by all three, every human life is
marred. The heredity water has
already run under the bridge and
we cannot bring it back to make it
better. Environment in an atmosphere
made in a large measure by others
and usually we can not control it.
Our own wrongdoing we may be able
to quit now but here we have al-
ready planted seeds that inevitably
bring forth a noxious harvest.
Look at the marred lives about
us. The cringing victim of an in-
feriority complex, the blatant bold-
ness of inordinate self-conceit, the
otherwise good man with an un-
controllable thirst for drink, the
man or woman obessed with a bor-
ing sex Impulse, the person un-
able to distinguish what is his from
what is his neighbor’s—in plainer
words, the common thief, whether
it is a loaf of bread or a railroad.
So box the compass, go clean’ around
the circle—physical, Intellectual and
moral—and you discover that we
mortals are clay—very common clay,
sadly seamed and marred. When
the Great Potter determines to make
something worthwhile with the mat-
erial we furnish he finds the clay
permeated with flaw and fault so
that without violating the laws of,
nature he can not make with such
faulty material what he might oth-
erwise have made.
I So what? Does he threw the clay
j out in the junk heap and abandon
it? Not at all. The text (for it is
i holy writ—Jeremiah 18 4) goes on
say that when he found the flaw
(that hindered him in one direction
| "So he made it again another ves-
sel, as it seemed good to the potter
so he made it.”
I If you and T had been blessed with
better heredity, better environment.
land better personal conduct we could
h?ivo been something worth wile far
more so than is now possible. Thank
God for the text for it talks about
"another vessel.” There is our hope
—our one hope. Confessedly we all
bw so-crippled xinrerves t hat we can
never have the noble career that
might otherwise have been ours, but
| the all wise Poller can. and if we
, will now at last yield ourselves to him
he will make us another vessel -not
j so spectacular perhaps, but in the
.long run just"as useful ns the ca-
Ireer of our early dreams.
Th0 clay is so seamed and coarsen,
ted that it cannot be made into the
j delicate vase to sit on the dresser
in the lady’s bed chamber to hold
the beautiful geraniums, but perhaps
the Potter can make of it an earthen
Pot to sit out In the yard and hold
the soil that grows the lady’s gera-
niums.
Sometimes T fiave tried to decide
which I would rather be the vase
holding the geranium while it with-
ers or th" rough pot ho’ding the
geraniums while it grows. Even if one
can not decide that question there is
certainly food for reflection and a
'ssible grain of comfort there.
The
188fi.
suez canal was opened In I There are 19,000,000 acres of land
(under irrigation in the west.
COAL
We Have in Stock at All Times a Good
» Supply of—
Lump, Egg and Nut
Coal
-ALSO-
Sacked Coal
Lay in a Supply of Fuel Now for that
Cold Snap that is Just around the
Corner.
Cicero Smith Lumber Co.
FRANK L. ADAMS, Local Manager
Phtoae 7 LEVELLAND
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