The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 24, 1927 Page: 2 of 8
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income tax Which reminds us of
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start and the time you hope to be back
home again. Mention the several im-
portant places on the route that you
want to visit The Club, will then
send you complete detail route maps,
selecting the go and return routes so
that the journey will be. pleasantest
from a weather standpoint. Say
whether you are going to camp out,
camp in motor camps or stay in ho-
tels. If specific information is want-
ed, make the reqest definitely in
the communication. On arrival in
Southern California the Automobile
Club will make the visitor a guest
member without charge. These cour-
tesies are extended in return for the
courtesies invariably nhown to Cali-
fornia motorists when traveling in
the other parts of the United States.
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Then let us bring the daily flowers
to these sweet mothers of ours,
The flowers of kindly words and
deeds, being always thoughtful
of her needs,
And in every little way and how,
show her that we love her NOW
And not just wait till Mother’s Day
to make a yearly, annual, grand
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Latin lovers weren’t so much. He
demonstrated his versatility in two
of Corinne Griffith’s films. As for
Trevor, those who saw “Beau
Geste” need no remined of his act-
ing ability.
In diameter and with five thousand
trees greater than ten feet in diame-
ter in an area of two miles square,
Los Angeles, Hollywood and Old
Mexico. Then on the Sothern route,
Zion National Park, Brice Canyon,
the Kaibab National Forest, the Pet-
rified Forest, the Grand Canyon and
the residences of the pre-historic cliff
dwellers, and .Indian pueblos where
the native American still lives much
as he did before Cortez came to the
shores of North America.
If any of our readers wish to make
a motor journey to the Pacific Coast
that touches Southern. California on
either the going or return journey, by
special arrangement, the Automobile
Club of Southern California will act
as their guide and servant without
charge.- Write or telegraph thq club,
mentioning this paper, at its head-
quarters, Twenty-sixth and Figueroa offer,
streets, Los Angeles. Say from what cidedly more pleasant and workman-
point you will start, give the time of like than if they pioneer.
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THE ELECTRA NEWS
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$’■..published Tuesday' and Friday at
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Entered as second class mail matter
August 2, 1907, at the postoffice at
Electrh, Wichita County, 'Texas, under
Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
The wide world beckons and the
motorist is answering the vacation
call. New roads, new conveniences
and new services have made the
whole United States almost as close
ns the wheel of one!s car. Thou-
sands and scores of thousands mo-
torists all over the land are respond-
ing to the travel lure. They are go-
ing from each place and in all direc-
tions.
New roads in the far West this
year and improved old roads have
made practically every national
beauty spot pleasantly accessible and
there is already an Indication that the
great national parks will make rec-
rds for visitors this year never be-
fore approached. But no matter how
-r.any cen'e the parks will not be
vrow<’ed Jo the man in the East,
iark mean a green spot in a city. *To
he Westerner it means a great pre-\
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The U. S. Supreme Court
that bootleggers must
tax
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Mother’s Day—can it be that we
have dedicated only ONE day
in all the year to thee?
Oh Mother, so kind, loving and true,
can’t we do more than this for
you?
Thou the author of our being, whose
sacrifice we are daily seeing;
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won’t go.
But it’s when the shadows are the
deepest that mother’s love is
always sweetest.
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And now a word for the fathers, too
The fathers, loving, loyal and true,
sharing the burdens that moth-
er’s bear,
Of daily toil and loving care.
Let’s bring a bouquet of rarest
flowers to these hard-working
fathers of ours
The flowers of love and kindly thot,
and living the life, true to
ideals,
And living the life that father has
given, • when his footsteps have
led to heaven.
And all the while keep doing our
part, to lighten his burden of
hand and heart.
God bless our mothers
fathers too,
And help us to honor them in all
that we do.
Not just today—but throughout the
' year,
Help us to love and cherish them>t
while they are here.
—Mrs. W. C. True,
Graham, Texas.
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M. C. Culbertson, a member of
the Hillcrest Country Club of Ver-
non, telephoned G. R. Davidson,
ihairman of the Greenbelt Golf
Association Tournament to be held
in Electra Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week, and stat-
ed that fifteen players from Ver-
non had signified their intention of
entering the tournament.
Mrs. Robert McGann and little
daughter returned Saturday from
Olney where they have been visit-
ing Mr. and Mrs. D. W. McNamara.
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a political issue for 1928. Certain
it is that the nation has suffered
one of its greatest calamities during
the last few weeks. It must not
occur again.
Whether or not the people should
demand a special session of Con-
gress to take immediate action, is
a question. We are so fearful such
session might run off into political
jockeying, maneuverings, filibuster
or what not that we hesitate to
advocate such session. However:
For wenty years Congress has
known this condition must be faced
and action taken to eliminate a flood
of this kind. It was, only a ques-
tion of when all head waters would
be high at the same time. That
condition came about this year. You
see the results.
President Roosevelt’s Conservation
Commission engineers urged that
Mississippi floods be abolished by
storage reservoirs at the head
Waters and its main tributaries.
That was twenty- years agQ;—and
Since then Congress has evidently
had more important business than
t ©protect the thousands in the
Mississippi valley against devasta-
tion.
Whether it be in special session
or the regular session in December,
the first thing Congress should
consider and adopt is Secretary
Hoover’s national plan for water
conservation and distribution. One
project therei ni designated to bar
any repetition of the Mississippi
z disaster by building thirteen stor-
age dams in the headwaters of the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers,
incidentally developing unknown
horsepower of electric energy. When
these two rivers are controlled, the
Mississippi will be harmless.
We were rich enough to retire
one billion dollars of our national
debt last year- We are talking
about another three hundred million
dollar tax cut next session of Con-
gress. Therefore, we are too rich
to keep congressmen in office who
will not protect our fellow citizens
and home builders, but instead,
spend their time playing politics
for corporate interests.
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Putting the horse before the cart
has now been changed to “quart
before the hearse’ by obliging the
bootleggers.
“Children of Divorce”, reaching
the Liberty Theatre Sunday, brings
Clara Bow and Esther Ralston to-
gether for the first time. These
two stars, both comparative new-
comers on the screen, have in the
past few years proved their ability
and talent in a number of produc-
tions. Miss Bow won fame in
“Dancing Mothers” and “Mantrap”
while Miss Ralston for her work in
“The BI)i‘nd Goddess” and VThe
Quarterback” attained equal acclaim.
Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson and
Norman Trevor are the three lead-
ing men who head the stars’ sup-
porting cast, r "
mount pictures, first flashed sky- tyses with dumbbells,” says a Wash-
[ington dispatch. How can he, with
„/Congress not in session?
Doctors are urging we have laws
.. .. •• „ n"|to curb the sale of cosmetics which
son came all the way from Scan- are<> dangerous to public health. Ev-
idently some of the M.D.’s have
gone home with powder onx their
shoulder .and rouge on the lip.
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Read The Electra News, S2 year.
Try a News Classified Ad.
Your toiling seems to have no end,
Still, in joy or grief, you’re our
dearest friend.
There’s no depth you will not go,
to lift us when we’ve fallen
low.
And there’s no light you will not
send to help encourage us
the end.
Oh there’s no place so high or low
darling mother’s love
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This bank is a part of
nation-wide system of ser-
vice and usefulness, offering
safe depository for the
funds of depositors, and qx>'
tending credit accomoda-
tidn to worthy customers.
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Courtesy, Service, Coopera-
tion, Accomodation—these;,
few of the benefits
afforded by a
with this bank.
stances containing thousands of
square miles. And it is equipped to
take care of visitors. The visitors
may either camp or may stop at moun-
tain lodges as fine as any.
Some of the points that are now
included on a complete all summer
motor trip to the Pacific Coast alter-
nating as between North and South
on the go and return journey are:
Glacier National Park, Yellowstone
National Park, the Columbia River
Highway, the Snoqualmie Falls and
Pass, Rainier National Park, the
Mount Hood Loop, Crater Lake Na-
tional Park and then the famous-
seriep in California—Mount Shasta,
th*e Mount Lassen Volcanic National
Park showing the only active volcano
in the United States, the Redwood
Highway, Muir Woods, Yosemite Na-
tional Park with its matchless water-
falls and rock formation, the Sequoia
National Park with its General Sher-
man Tree, thirty-six and one-half feet
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If this were *a presidential elec-
tion year we no doubt would be
coming up to Republican and Dem-
ocratic conventions wherein Presi-
dent Coolidge would be nominated
to again lead his party and Govern-
or Alfred Smith of New York would
be chosen to carry his party ban-
ner.
We say this because a most in-
teresting nationwide straw vote has
just been concluded, wherein a total
of 362,210 votes were cast, shewing
Coolidge-Smith preference- The vote
is from states throughout the na-
tion, the balloting being conducted
by some 2,000 weekly newspapers.
Publishers Autocaster Service of
New York City which serves these
papers with editorial and advertis-
ing features, agreed to act as a
national headquarters and tabulate
the vote.
The most interesting feature to
the vote is the fact that the re-
urns are an authentic cross- section
of political sentiment outside of
the cities. Virtually all of the news-
papers participating in the ballot-
ing are publishers in towns of less
than 10,000 population and a ma-
jority have widest circulation in
rural districts.
President Coolidge has .a worthy
opponent in former Governor Low-
den of Illinois. Governor Smith
could easily lose the nomination to
Senator James Reed of Missouri,
McAdoo of California or Ritchie
of Maryland.
Of course many things can hap-
pen within the next twelve months
to completely change the complex-
ion of things political. Still
straw vote shows that voters
interested and thinking. Also that
our
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Mrs. C. K. Carroll and little
daughter, Birdie Gladys Carroll, re-
turned Wednesday from Robert Lee,
Texas. Mrs. Carr oil has been at
the bedside of; her mother, Mrs. S.
F. Eubanks, who is past eighty
years old. Mrs. Eubanks has been
seriously ill, but is slightly im-
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accomplishments ofthe/''Chamber
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on which the Chamber- has^-..bfeen
working and which .-has, .-.attr^cte^
attention of business .leaders ‘ thrqoht:
Texas, is the Pease^aqd /Red^ River
Valleys Irrigation /Project';
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report of what ’ has. heen accontplish-
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Mr. and Mrs. ,^T.' E. ^haw-X<qf
Noijth' Waggoner/Street, left’ earlj^
Thursday morning, by f auto'^fqr
Leonard T,exas, in response to'^Ja
message received at 6 A. M., Stat-
ing that Mrs.’.Shaw’s* father, ;Ciayin-
Moore, age 84, had been stricken,
suddenly ill and ;not expec* ed Zipf
live. Mr. Shaw is. ‘ superintendent
of the Texas Company Gasoline^
plant at Electra.fr ' ‘ 3^
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Herbert Flemming of, Wichita was;'
in Electra on business ..Thursday, *
J. L.. Clayton of the Electra ' Ba#
tery Station, is attending a convent
tion of the Willard Battery .dealers
at the Kemp Hotel -in Wichita
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