The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 18, 1932 Page: 2 of 4
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THE TEXAS "STEER"
THE TEXAS STEER
E The weekly newspaper of the U. S. S.1
TEXAS, printed on boardtunder the
direction of the Commanding Officer,
Captain J. C. Townsend, U. S. N.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Supervisory:
Chaplain Emerson G. Hangen
Associate Editors:
J. T. Smith- -------__------------- Ensign.
H. T. Johnson-------------------Ensign.
R. R. Sampson-------- --Ensign.
J. P. Hetzler --------------Chief Yeoman.
J. O. Coe-Corp., USMC.
B. K. Heath - Pvt., USMC.
PRINTERS
H. E. Dillahunt------------------ Prtr. 1c.
J. M. Ruchter-------------------Sea. lc.
J. J. Burns ---------------------------------- Sea. 2c-.
R. H. W agner --------------------------- Sea. 2c.
FRIENDSHIP
If nobody smiled and nobody cheered,
And nobody helped us along;
If each, every minute, looked after him-
self,
And the good things all went to the
strong;
If nobody cared just a little for you,
And nobody thought about nie,
And we stood all alone in the battle of
life - -
What a dreary old world it would be.
* * * * *
Life is sweet just because of the friends
we have made.
And the things which in common we
share;
We want to live on, not because of our-
selves,
But because of the people who care.
It's giving and doing for somebody else -
On that all life's splendor depends,
And the joy of the world, when it's all
added up,
Is found IN THE MAKING OF
FRIENDS.
A BRIGHT FELLOW
A fellow by the name of Moon, living
out in Michigan, got married. That was
a change of Moon. After a while his
wife presented him with a daughter.
That was a new Moon. He went out
and got drunk for joy. That was a full
Moon. When he sobered up he had 25
cents left. That was the last quarter.
When he got home his mother-in-law
met him with a rolling pin and there was
a total eclipse and he saw stars.VETERANS OF
FOREIGN WARS
The following notice is forwarded for
information of the Battle Force at the
request of the Deputy Chief of Staff,
Department of California and Nevada,
Veterans of Foreign Wars:
"ATTENTION FOREIGN SERVICE
MEN! We desire to call the attention of
all members of the U. S. Fleet who have
received, or are entitled to receive, a Ser-
vice or Campaign Medal for active duty
rendered during the Spanish-American
War, World War, Mexican, Nicaraguan
or Yangtze River Campaigns, to the
various Posts of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars in Long Beach. These three Units
of the V. F. W. are manned by present
or former members of the classes of
eligibles listed, and are designed to
provide a shore contact in the City of
Long Beach for those who desire to
establish a base in this city. An Aux-
iliary for the ladies is being formed in
Golden State Post to which the wives,
mothers or sisters of active or deceased
members are eligible:
For the Navy Personnel-Cyclops
Ship No. 490 (All-Navy) Thorne M.
Stickney, Captain, U. S. Naval Aviation
Base Municipal Flying Field, Long
Beach, California.
For the Marine Corps - Golden State
Post No. 279, Howard G. Cleveland, Com-
mander 1209 East Broadway. Phone
331-498.
For Colored Personnel --Chartered
Post just being instituted to include the
harbor area and the Fleet. In charge of
the Deputy Chief of Staff. Charter now
open.
All members of the U. S. FLEET, who
hold membership elsewhere and are
stationed at this port, can be admitted to
any of the Long Beach Posts by transfer,
request made personally to their Posts.
All communications should be addressed
to Deputy Chief of Staff, V. F. W. 1209
East Broadway, Long Beach, California.
Howard G. Cleveland, Department
Deputy Chief of Staff, 1909 East Broad-
way, Long Beach.
C OLDEN STATE POST meets 2nd and
4th Friday - Patriotic Hall; City Hall.
"Hey, you can't dance that way in
here."
"But this is interpretative dancing."
"Then I'm interpreting it the wrong
way."
SEND THE STEER HOMEDIVINE SERVICE
--
June 19, 1932.
10:00 o'clock
Sermon Subject:
"The Man Who Took First Choice."
All Men Invited
TODD STILL ON THE SPOT
In reply to all questions concerning
the clerk who staged the now famous de-
bate with Lt. David Wooster Todd Jr., of
the U. S. S. TEXAS, as reported in our
last issue of this journal, we would like
to make the following statement:-
As far as we can ascertain, at this
early date, the clerk mentioned in the
story never was, or had the intention of
being, a ship's cook. It has, however,
been noticed that he Associates with
people of this type, which might account
for his peculiar ideas upon the culinary
art. Sleuths are at present in the trail
of our own ship's cooks and startling re-
velations are expected in the near future.
"Cats children in the oven called
biscuits"-hrrmph, every child knows
that they are called "Animal Crackers".
SALE OF U. S. S. HELENA
According to the Navy Recruiting
Station, Detroit, the U. S. S. HELENA,
gunboat which has been in the service
since 1897 and the next to the last
sui-vivor of the American Fleet which
was under enemy fire during the Spanish-
American War, was placed out of com-
mission on May 27, at Cavite, P. I., and
will be disposed of by sale. The Helena
was authorized by Congress in March,
1893, launched January 30, 1896 and first
commissioned July, 1897. She was built by
the Newport News Shipbuilding Co., is
251 feet 10 inches over all, 49 feet 2
inches extreme beam, and 1280 tons dis-
placement. Practically all the Helena's
duty has been in the Asiatic station.
A visitor to a city in Scotland was sur-
prised to find the streets deserted, and
asked the reason.
"Tag day," he was told.
Two weeks later he returned to find
the streets jammed with people.
The tag day was a failure, so they con-
ducted a house to house canvas.Page Two.
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Texas (Battleship). The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 18, 1932, newspaper, June 18, 1932; United States. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1161761/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.