La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1938 Page: 4 of 8
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25
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The President and his advisors are said
to be busy on plans to benefit private en-
terprise. the final nature of which has not
been determined. They include, it is stat-
ed, government loans to small business,
for expansion of plants, and the building
up of a national mortgage body, in both of
which there will be opportunity for private
capital to have a part.
Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Hull do not manifest the same degree of
reticence as Japan regarding foreign policy.
It will be recalled that a Senate group of
which Senator Hiram Johnson is the lead-
er and spokesman, has given voice to the
fear that the United States, by tacit agree-
ment at least, is tied up with Britain in
the business of naval armament. To this
suggestion, both the President and the
Secretary of State have replied in sub-
stance that “there ain’t no Such thing.”
The American Federation of Labor asks
Congress to give business a lift by proper
legislation respecting capital gains taxes
and undistributed profits. Other sugges-
tions of the organization have been heard
before, but are none' the less in point. They
include creation of opportunity for work
in private industry, maintenance of wages
and relief for the unemployed; large re-
quests not difficult to make, but difficult
enough to comply with so that Congress
would be kept busy with them even if it
had nothing else on its hands.
Regarding foreign affairs, it is reported
that Japan has drawn up notes to France,
England and the United States, to the ef-
fect that the island empire has no notion
of making public its plans for strengthen-
ing her naval equipment. The requests of
the powers mentioned are set down as “un-
reasonable”. Thus it appears that Japan
is telling the world politely to mind its own
business, a course of action not entirely
unknown to the Duce, Mr. Hitler, and
Soviet Russia. When it comes to trying to
penetrate too far into Japanese affairs, in-
quiring nations will have to fall back on
Milton and recall that “They also serve
who only stand and wait.”
CURRENT COMMENT
By A Journal Reader
THINGS IN GENERAL
Remarks by the Editor
LAGRANGE JOURNAL
ESTABLISHED 188®
Published Every Thursday Morninc st
LaGrange, Texas
B. F. BARIGEL-------------
Regardless of what the nations may do
in respect to a union based on the arts of
war, it is pleasing to note that they do not
hesitate to join in the arts of peace. Rus-
sia, Denmark and Norway worked togeth-
er in an effort to rescue a party of scien-
tists who have been afloat on an arctic ice
pack since last May. So it seems that the
welfare of the unfortunate still is some-
thing which will bind nation to nation.
Probably there would have been no such
mutual concord and assistance if the men
in peril had set out to discover and claim
some new territory.
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Amtnoa Poetry ArMaBtw, l«t
Liberty look Bld,, Palin, T»
The account of the doings of the Senate
opens with the words: “Met at noon,” and
closes with the statement: “Recessed at
5:05 P.M.” Not a bad working day, es-
pecially as to going on the job at noon.
The working hours continue to be filled
with consideration of the anti-lynching
bill. It is to be hoped that before the
spring flowers burst into bloom, the upper
legislative body will have arrived at the
conclusion that its members still stand in
a position to be lynched, or decide that
they, along with the rest of the popula-
tion, need have no fear of the rope. In
the meantime, newspaper writers are hard
pushed for something new to say about the
Senate. •
Increasing The Number Makes
The Ticket Much Longer.
Predictions to the contrary notwith-
standing, the number to enter the cam-
paign for the honor of becoming the demo-
cratic nominee for governor, in July, is apt
to be very large. With a “special friendly
feeling” existing between the present at-
torney general, who is said to be a candi-1
date for governor, and the present gover-
nor, and the charge that the present gover-
nor is backing the present railroad com-
missioner for the gubernatorial nomina-
tion, and with the announcement through |
the daily press that “there are several
others” yet to announce, the list of candi-
dates is apt to be very large.
Last Sunday, from down in the oil sec-
tor, Beaumont, there was born another
candidate, P. D. Renfro, who has a long
article embodied in his announcement and I
who gives to the voters a few pointers I
that are good reading. Which increases
the list; and while predictions are gen-
erally dubbed as offensive, the Journal is
bold enough to add that there will be oth-
ers. Renfro, former mayor of Beaumont,
tells us that he wants to balance the bud-
get and put the State on a cash basis. We 1
believe the idea is good, but incline to the.
thought that this has been tried before.
Candidates have that knack, termed in
the conferences as “formulating an issue” |
and without which they believe the race I
is a mere announcement. Whatever the
average voters may think, remains to be
told at the July primaries. Merely men-
tioning the fact that there is another can-
didate. Since the salary of the governor
has been placed at $12,000—and that is
not too much for a big State like Texas— j
the old contention, so frequently made, that ■
“there must be something beside the sal- j
ary of $4,000 per annum to attract” is gone
with the wind. We will have to be gen-
erous enough to coincide or concur with |
others, that there are many good citizens j
in Texas who are patriotic.
Wouldn’t Call It By The Old
Name Of Coup de Etat.
Stirring days over in the old world; wil-
ling are the majority of America’s citi-
zens to endorse the statement that “we
poem I»
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are glad we are living in America”, and
when we meet with one from our crowd
who recently visited in the old’ world we
are willing to accept the conclusion, from
him and by him spoken, that “if anyone is
not satisfied with things in America, let
him emigrate to Europe.” Nothing in-
tended to be construed as offensive. We
have our troubles in America; fortunately
for the all of us, they have a idfferent
coloring.
Hitler’s control of Austria, in the at-
tempt to “Nazi” that country, should be
taken with a grain of salt. It should also
be remembered, if informed sufficiently in
the pre-world war days, that Austria had
cast her lot with Germany, long before, and
in all things that Germany did, Austria
concurred. It should also be remembered,
if we are willing, that when the slicing of
country was done after the armistice was
signed, there was a feeling among the
subjects of both countries, that within the
time of another generation, Austria would
come back.
Whether the “coup de etat”—believe
that is the correct appellation—now charg-
ed to Hitler, is as bad as the dispatches
seek to have you believe, or is not, we must
admit this act by Hitler is but the sequel,
as was predicted when the terms were
made at the Versailles meeting. Solidifi-
cation of men, primarily for the purpose of
protection, eventually prove to be the first
steps to a more solid front, against those
who are friends, only on the surface.
Countries that must expand, cannot be
isolated; what seems so annoying to John-
ny Bull and his French neighbor, should
not trouble us at all. The United States
can well afford to keep up her fences, and
dispel the thought that we “will be isolated
and experience hard times” because we are
not interested. Rats 1 Let them fight
among themselves, and let us take care of
what we have already jungled.
cation, gains a strong hold on the man and
the woman comprising the jury.
For instance: Paul Wright, operator of
an airport in California, shot and killed his
wife and his best friend—because, as he
said, he caught the best friend and his wife
in an embrace, loving embrace—at his
home one night after the three had been
engaged in drinking, laughing, etc. The
two who are dead, did not retire to their
rooms as did Paul, but sat in the room on
the piano stool and embraced. Take it for
what it is worth. Paul went beserk and did
a little shooting.
Make no attempt to be the judge or the
jury; the jury in the trial said he was guil-
ty, by their verdict that he was insane
when he shot the two. Suppose your best
friend was in your home, and you came on
the scene, such as they described in the
press reports of the trial, what would be
the effect on your brain? Its the brain
that’s responsible for the disease, known
as insanity.
Wright—but then there’s nothing in a
name, paradoxical or otherwise—has be-
come a frfee man, under observation. If his
brain doesn’t crack again, he may live to
become an old man; if it does? Well, you
are as good a judge as the Journal. Re-
member, much as we dislike to admit it,
the history of the Bible convinces us that
the Good Book begins with and ends with
—murder. The brand of Cain? Real hard
task to shake it, even in justification. Im-
partial thought frequently prompts the
conclusion that, to leave the malefactors
Jurors Know More Than Readers
Their Verdicts Final (?)
Interest among the reading public is gen-
erally increased, when sensational accounts
appear in the columns of the daily press,
of a murder of a man and a woman, or a
murder of an infant. Murder cases, here-
tofore looked upon with horror, have be-
come absorbingly popular reading with
both sexes. The more sensational, the
more clamored after; the plea of justifica-
tion, under the “unwritten law” has been
Furloughed, and personal appeal, for vindi-
THE TEACHER
Patiently, valiantly, day by day,
The teacher pursues her way,
Working with diligent, painstaking
Much as the potter with clay.
Moulding and shaping ideals and aims
After the PATTERN divine,
Lifting the soul from the depths of the
night
Into eternal sunshine.
Oh what a challenge! What privilege
sweet—
Fashioning a human heart,
Building and forging a character fit
For God’s Great Gallery of Art.
No just compensation here she receives,
Duty well done, her reward;
But when the ledger is opened up there
She’ll be laurelled by her Lord.
—Bessie Hale Everett, Weatherford
CrjY LIGHTS
While walking from the silent hills one
dusky night
The gay lights of town
Stretched forth the gleaming arms of
their delight
To draw me down.
But turning to the hills from whence
I came
The clearest ice-blue sky
Was twinkling, laughing at each danc-
ing flame—
And so did I.
—Ola Hamblin, San Angelo
HERITAGE
I have been wilful ever
But seldom wise,
Prone to wake from dreaming
With tear-dimmed eyes.
I have had my dancing feet
Light to leaden turn:
But a Romany sire
Watched campfires burn.
So as long as trails call
I’ll follow after,
And moye often than tears fall
Know dreams and laughter.
—Marjory Smith, Alvarado
LA GRANGE JOURNAL
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FEBRUARY 24, 1938
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SOCIAL SECURITY FORM
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The Journal and the Dallas Semi-
Weekly Farm News, $2.60 per year.
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You are referred, good people, to
the minutes of the Commissioners’
Court for my record as to how I rep-
resented, not only the people of my
Beat, but the county as a whole.
It is my ambition to build and grav-
el every first and second class road
in Beat No. 2, thereby enabling you
to travel on to the highways in all
kinds of weather, and I feel confident
that with your co-operation, and the
assistance of my operators, this task
can be accomplished in the near fu-
ture.
Please judge me by what I have
accomplished during the past, as your
commissioner, and if you then see
fit to re-elect me as your County Com-
missioner, I assure you that you will
never have cause to regret it.
Sincerely yours,
R. A. RICHTER,
Com. Beat No. 2 And Candidate
For Re-Election.
A. RICHTER ANNOUNCES
FOR RE-ELECTION AS
COMMISSIONER BEAT NO. 2
Wage and salary records with em-
ployees’ receipts; very simple for
only $1.50. This book contains enough
to last an average business for four
years. See the Journal Stationery
Department.
Herewith my announcement for re-
election for County Commissioner,
Beat No. 2, to succeed myself. It is
still my policy to let the work that
I have done in the - past, speak for
HEN FRUIT
early
(By Lloyd Fellows)
Our American language, although
taken from the English whom we
made behave back in
1776, is about as flexi-
ble as a inner tube,
after a nail has been
' thrust through the
t t casing. We m^ke it
V- apply and use our own
' jBkh expressions to suit.
There are almost as
" “ many new words since
the language was formulated as there
are Chinese characters. And yet we
all do well with the language.
One bright morning, in
Spring, and while out at my uncle’s
farm, for a week, I heard for the first
time the words “hen fruit”—and
while I surmised, I could not under-
stand the parlance. It was Uncle Har-
old who said: “Bah, he’s hen fruit!”
He was talking to a neighbor, and
was referring to a man who had an-
nounced for office.
For a long while I studied over that
remark; finding myself at no conclu-
sion, I walked to the barn and asked
Uncle Harold what was hen fruit. He
looked me over, smiled and said:
“I see, Lloyd, you are too young;
when we say “hen fruit” we refer to
tho eggs that we gather. When we
refer to a man being “‘hen fruit” it
has a different meaning.
“Yes, I know, Uncle Harold, but
why did you call that candidate by
the name of “hen fruit?”
“Well,” and he frowned a wee bit,
“I really can’t say that it fits, but I
know the fellow and that he is not
the man for the office. In this sum-
mer weather we have to market our
eggs early, otherwise—well, you know
an egg that is more than a day old,
loses its market value, and when two
days old, it retrogrades. When three
days old, and not kept on ice, it starts
to decay. Rotten eggs are no good.”
“Yes, that’s true, Uncle Harold, but
what has that to do with this candi-
date?”
He smiled again, and said: “That
candidate is more than a week old,
and he hasn’t been on ice neither.”
Have you EVER had to stand the
odor of such an egg?
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