The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 156, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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RETAIL MERCHANTS Gulf Girl Reserves
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their regular Girl Reserve drive Oc-
the countries of the world.
tober 20. The ceremonial
2,000,000 holes already pledged indi-
south-wide crusade to save the cot-
ion market had succeeded. Although
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does he have to drive several high-
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made all conditions
the annual deficit resulting from in-
the 2,000,000 mark, Mr. Hoopes said.
when
market, was that we would sign up
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FLEXIBILITY!
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have made good, and inasmuch
the other states had less to do
PAY 10 PER CENT
OF U. S. TAX BILL
Maintain your account in this progressive central-
ly located bank.
pendent upon a satisfactory and flexible banking
connection.
figured to an inch. the weight of the
, car and its speed are allowed for and
young American who becomes involv-
ed in political and romantic intrigues
The cry out at the Cat kennel how-
ever, is beat those Rice Birds " Can
TEXAS OVER TOP
ON ITS PLEDGES
TO HOLD COTTON
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Leddie Brent. Reverent
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collec-
Loans and Discounts
Stocks and Bonds
Banking House -....................
Furniture and Fixtures
Other Real Estate
U. S. Circulation Bonds
Bill of Exchange
U. S. Bonds and Municipal
Obligations
Cash and Sight Exchange
October 28 finds the heat wave still
upon us with fans instead of heaters
running. Cut this out for your next
October's bad weather stories.
Business has been doing it during the
last two years. Why should our local
state or federal governments do oth-
erwise?"
Kelly. Lowe. White. Huebner Brough-
ton. Ewing and Bess and Newburn
working for positions.
Fryou is doing some nice work in
the baokfield but the passing attack
is worthless with all of them out of
the backfield who could heave and
. $ 100.000.00
... 25.1X10.00
....... 51.562.32
....... 29,334.46
...... 25,000.00
. 953,730,68
BEAT EL CAMPO
IS THE CRY OF
BLACK CATS
| ceremonial interpreting the Girl Re-
I serve code.
The ladies of the Y. W. C. A. made j
______ Pledges from Texas bankers con-
Victorious; tinued to come in Saturday. with sev-
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Bay City Bank & Trust Co.
BAY CITY, TEXAS
Our Pure Butter*
serve Spirit; Mildred Eldridge, graci- complete figures, tabulations Satur-
ous in manner; Loree Price. Impartial day afternoon placed this state s to-
I find her needs at this time This is all
a good work and we know you want
a part in every phase of the meeting.
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anyone can afford.
bankers would hold one-fourth the
unsold crop, without giving any esti-
mates. In other places, many of the
farmers owe no money on their crops
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quiring large expenditures of public, onefou^ the unsold crop. 1 believe
funds without seeming to consider
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-—are the most up-to-the-minute styles you
have ever seen at
they promise to go fur in putting ov-
77 er a win.
1 The line is showing up well with.
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met at the church Thursday at 3:00 1
i p.m for their regular fifth Thursday
social hour. and in connection with the
social there will be fruit showers for j
I the Baptist Hospital at Houston Pre-
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Patronize The Advertisers.
“Catalina” Sweaters
ours the younger generation is going ecutives learn how to apply the prin-
to hell—just as all of the other gen- ciples of sound business: how to re-
erations preceding. Even in towns as frain from extravagant spending: how
small as our opinions differ as to what to eliminate every vestige of waste:
is good or bad, what is right and what how to operate our government de-
is wrong. Are those who condemn I partments on balanced budgets, then
others right? If so why'1 Aren't the will government be able to reduce its
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Capital Stock .......
Surplus .....—.....-
Undivided Profits
Reserves .....-.....—
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Approximately 10 per cent of all
taxes collected in the United States
I are paid by retail stores, said Chan-
“Graft”
Instead of the regular Girl Reserve
time to tackle this project in a prac-
tical. sane and constructive manner.
Though Regis Toomey's name
just that, his Irish ancestry has
A -URSDAY
Young Dcug as a
Daredevil Lover!
Jane AddamsGets $5,000
“I Like Your Nerve
nue must be found.”
Other Taxes Unworkable.
Mr. Sweitzer discussed the imprac-
tacability of increased property taxes
and of the extension of the income
i tax to all wage earners. and the fact
that the cost of administration of spe-
cial taxes on luxuries has been so
I great in the past that this form of
Reserve .secretary of the
"Nothing's good or bad. but think-
ing makes it so. said the world's great-
est -writer three hundred-odd years
ag oand undoubtedly the wisdom he
used was plagiarized. But in those
many years things' have changed but
very little. Even in towns as small as
a
______ -- With Texas over the top in the cot- . the ladies are expected to be present,
was given ton holding program with more than There will be a letter read from our
Seats were reserved for the Girl
Reserves and blue and white crepe
paper was used to mark off the pla-
Mexican orphanage at Bastrop. You Chapman is also displaying
n longer withitch-
Dandruff, Rashes,
Pimplesandothet
skinirritationsGet
I ( ooling, heal
pendablewaytore-
ienttouseanytime
sts,35c,60c.$1.00.
risky as
scenes ai
pur shelf of the case.
The dolls were made and dressed
by the 13 kindergarten majors Each
doll which was made from a cotton
Shows 2:311— LOO —1: 00— 9:00 P. M.
be met.
"Right now seems
The co-operation of the Bay City Bank & Trust
Company is progressive yet conservative and is
always at your service, which is proved by our
thirty-two years of continuous existence.
many retailers.
her ami ition of six imported dolls on the up
Healti. in Disguise. A truly nu-
tricious pleasant surprise.
WOM N S mission ARY MX II I N
of THE ii ArrISr t in nt ii
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS SEPT. 29, 19.11
tunes. sizeable promises from the smaller
After the ce remonial. Miss Carter counties.
cc to show the people of Gulf. Matagor- ,
ining E, Sweitzer. managing director of da and Wadsworth the meaning of cations Saturday night were that the
the National Retail Dry Goods Asso- I the Girl Reserves. The following girls | eth-wida erneada i» enve the cot-l
elation. in an interview received by were in <he ceremonial:
success of the drive that the definite
amounts be furnished Sunday Mon-
day. they will be valueless.
Other Stilles' Totals Less.
"Although I have had no reports
from the other states, they are in a
better position to succeed than we are.
Their cotton counties are not so scat-
tered or so enumerated and their crops
Mr. Sweitzer sug-
will want to hear loom
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Meharg sent his charges through
a stiff work out and about an hour
of scrimmage yesterday afternoon in
preparation to the game with the Rice
Birds from El Campo this Friday.
The Cats are badly injured and three
of the first string backfield men are
out of the lineup On the other hand
El Campo is in the best shape this
year. At the first of the season the
Rice nun were in a bad way due to
injuries When they met Eagle Lake
00 The town boys are bent on showing ' way of taxes to his government?
, yp** the school boys and a special loot- 'in these days of rapidly diminish-
‘G’oall game for the purpose of raising ing profits in retailing, the merchant
A money for charity is going to be can not absorb more taxes without talk on What Girl Reserves mean to
* ■ played. The school team will be bols- threatening the very existence of our a community."
tered by "Toad" Crofoot. all-Ameri- retail institutions. We hear about the
I meeting for the past week, we had
a theatre party Monday night and a
definite fir ires on the amounts were j Games Annie Jewel Mantooth Er-
available. It is not possible to say । mm Rock, Leona Insall, Lydia Totten-
exactly how mans bale- have been ‘ ham. Maurino Staley. Helen Seymore.
considerably smaller.”
The total for the state is to be calculated in advance, the car brakes
compiled Sunday by Mr. Hoopes and , are tested and nothing is left to
turned over to Nathan Adams, leader ; chance
The famous head of Hull House
von a big cash prize for her work
or international peace. She will
zive the money to the Chicago
i0or.
$ 612,231.97
................ 38.735.92
................... 10,000.00
..................... 1.00
......................... 9.704.00
......................... 25,000.00
$ 86.041.49
Campbell, Bullett Baker. Outdoor snatch the ball. If the Cats fight Fri-
Franklin or any other of the fearless day, a good game will be greeting
fraternity of stunt motorists. , the spectators. If they don't (and
Dougs new picture. "I Like Your there are many times this year they
Nerve" calls upon him for several " ...
haven’t we don't know what will
feat- of daredevil speeding. Not only happen This kan be said about El
....... .....-..........- ..... o Campo however, they are always
th,. Powe red cars at reckless speed, but fighting and fighting hard.
has to spin them around corners on
shown in the matted. It's just like
the wartime days of Liberty loan I
Easy to digest. Hr bake none
but the best.
President J. W Hoopes of the Texas
Bankers' Association did not have
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 28 —Prices
were about unchanged with Blue Rose
quoted at 2%4613; Early prolifics 2%
61212: Ediths. 414614 3-8; Fortunas 4
114: Lady Wrights 3*434 second
heads, 1*2 nad screenings 10011.
Receipts totaled 4269 pockets of clean
rice and 5518 sacks of rough
New Orleans Rice
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 27 Rough
rice nominal; sales none; receipts 5518.
Clean rice quiet. Sales Blue Rose
3972, early Prolific 1887; Edith 1100;
Lady Wright 125: second heads 20;
screenings 283; receipts 4269
with
Loretta Young
I This rec'-’ s rascal’s gol maidens
sighing, wives guessing, husbands;
I burning, armies fighting, empires boil- .
Your business success is in a large measure de-
with the federal
it contingently
in purpose:
knowledge:
Putting Dollars W
To Work /L
Galveston-Houston district. gave
from the states and notify the farm i _ _____
I Ru®eeaJmOrTThaoee2taS298
If this is 3,500,000 bales, the board
will bring about extension of loans to 4
hold at least an equal amount of the . L 2
cotton controlled by co-operatives and ■
by the farm stabilization board. ‘ 2
until July 1 of next year if acreage 8 ft
reductions are effected, a sizable pin ; W
tion of this amount will be held for! "
me early Sunday. I have telegraphed ,
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eaauy now many -mes a -s.............. -............. —they do it is the question. And the
pledged but if 2,000,000 is the unsold Elsie Biondi, Daisy Lee Hicks. Anna answer lies within their own power,
portion, then we are iver the top. Belle Haynie Roberta Edens and Hal- if they put up the fight that they
" e " ' "’*) showed against Rosenberg last week
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Geraldyne Ryman. Girl Reserve
gested retrenchment of governmental Spirit. Trude Ann Duffy. Girl Re-
expenditures as a means of answering
the opportune than we did. it looks as if the cam-
' paign has succeeded.
“Some of the reports I have re-
ceived have simply been that the
drives when we all united to put over
a great cause I've enjoyed it like I
did the loan campaign I conducted in
the Southwest during the war
Piedges Must Be In.
"Of course, with the federal farm
board, to which we must turn in our
total Sunday only signed pledges
count and it is essential that the
counties which have indicated they
would handle the one-fourth of the
unsold crop get their total pledge to
carefully considered. Distances
ake the most of it. None yet has
seen a flop and this promises to be
the best yet. Push the Trades Day all
/ you can.
' representing 35 per cent instead of
25 per cent of the unsold edop, while
( Red River and Houston Counties
agreed to finance the holding of like
amounts. Bell pledged 5.000 bales,
and Caldwell 2.500. Two banks in
Kenedy promised to hold 2,000 bales
between them. Fannin County pledged
it would hold its share, estimating its
crop would be 70,000 bales.
"Although I do not know the exact
amount of the unsold crop in Texas,
reports which have been received so
' far indicate that we have gone over
Junior kindergarten majors under
Miss Iva Chapman have an exhibit
over self; Ethel Oliver, Ever depend-l era 1 large pledges in addition to
able; Allyne Raymond. Sincere at al’ raises in some previous pledges, and
two wheels, then through gates. fenc- i
es and into bridge railings wtih nicethe highway it is described as an ac-
judgment of camera angles and safe-l tion -full story of an enthusiastic
again those who have not sent
their totals, and it is vital to
seriously how these obligations are to "
in the south-wide holding campaizn; This picture is not a story of an
Mi. Adams and E. F. Creekmore 'em automobile race driver nor is it pri-
of the American Cotton Co-Operative , marily a story of recklessness on
Association, are to receive the baleage . —-------
the wonderful spirit Texas
। America. Loretta Young supports
Fairbanks The cast includes Claude
Allister, Andre Cheron. Henry Kol-
ker, Edmund Breon, Boris Karloff
and Luis Alberni. William McGann
directed.
can quarterback and Coach Eat i Me-| revision of taxes upward, but we hear
harg. crack linesman in the South- little about the revision of the cost of
western conference some seven years government downward. If govern-
ago The town boys will be : ( adj and mental expenditures are to continue
willing to tangle with them about the to increase, some new sourec of reve-
Worth, which had originally pledged
i 13.500, raised its pledge to 21.000 bales.
Lubbock County topped its quota
i with a pledge of 10,000, while Hill
i promised to hold 10,000 bales, and
Runnels County 5.000 A similar
is i pledge was made by Milam County.
1 here is Nothing I 00 Good For Our Friends"
rchants keep in mind that next taxation could not be depended upon
arday, November 7 is Trades Day to produce a large amount of net
serve .md jellies, not fresh fruit All, in the Administration Building of
•— ' ■ 1............-......• 1.............. > handmade dolls representing all of
| the taxation problem.
"As this amount is included in the
cost of operating our retail business."
Mr. Sweitzer said, "it means that the
consumers are payinfg, in addition to
, all other direct and indirect taxes. 2c
on every dollar's worth of merchan-
dise they purchase, including food,
wearing apparel. and everything
bought at retail. Should the consumer
! be asked to contribute more in the
s? 1. hssncetin--Our aereement
creasing steadily, yet our legislators arm. ‘’al
. . ; i.I promised to hold 3,500,000 bales off the
continue to vote appropriations re- , " 7 . 1 __
icy of live and let live, play and let people and on American business will
play, would sometimes be the very cease."
GOOD thing to do. It would be novel Declaring that few people are fa-
anyway. • miliar with the income and expense of
—-------- the various branches of government.
We predict an economy campaign Mr. Sweitzer showed that expendi-
for the local governments, from theltures of the federal government for
local governments, from the city the fiscal year 1929 amounted to
through the county .including the S3,932,000,000, as compared to $3,885.-
school The taxes can not be raised, 000,000 in 1923, while 1929 federal tax
valuations are at the height, money collections were $3,328,000,000, coin-
must1 be obtained, but delinquents pared to $3,032,000,000 in 1923. The la-
will/be plenty. The only solution is test available statistics on state fi-
a slashing program of expenditures, nances, he said, showed expenditures
Tle budget system will wisely be the in 1928 of $1,826,000,000 with an in-
a cap “P" in
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come of $1,507,000,000. Expenditures
, o--------- Un 1923 were $1,242,000,000 and collec-
d Cotton has been about all gathered tions $917,000,000.
P, nd the rice is in. The county is ready Increases in All Divisions.
Itfor rain and quite a lot of it is "In the case of our state govern-
Mil needed. ments, both expenditures and taxes
-----——-0—o--, have increased in each instance al-
Mr and Mrs F. O. Jennings and most $600,000,000 in this six-year pe-
Mr R. J Simpson of San Antonio, riod." Mr. Sweitzer pointed out. He
arrived Tuesday for a few days visit showed also that increases hud ap-
to friends in Bay City. Collegeport peared in local governments, an
^d Palacios. ; summarized as follows for all govern-
ments: . 1 ..
1 "Every year from 1923 through 1928
middle of November or the latter part
of November. Every cent collected
from the game will go to the rhari-
table organizations in the city. Tick-
ets will go on sale as soon as a defi-
nite date is set for the game. When-
ever it is be sure to see it as it will be
worth the price.
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‘Transatlantic’
Five crowded days of love on an
ocean greyhound.
EDMUND LOWE, Lois MORAN
mid J(I1IN HOLLIDAY
El Paso Tops 1.1st.
El Paso County bankers reported
they will hold 95,000 bales, which
places this county in the front rank
of Texas counties Houston bankers
pledged 90,000 bales to be held off the
market until July 1, 1932 .and Fort
they sound. Before such while making n motor tour of Central
ty for others as well as for himself.
These fonts, however, are not as
boys who do the unorthodox or what expenses and the demand for in- it should lx- tackled from the point of
they please sometimes right ? The pol-; creased taxation on the American view of the present and the future.
The bankers and farmers me pledg- display represents three weeks' work
ing themselves lo carry as much .is , and will remain in the Administration
half the unsold portion of the crop. I Building throughout the week
revenue.
"It seems to us that the answer to
the taxation problem is in a sane and
practical retrenchment of govern-
mental expenses," Mr. Sweitzer said
"A business could not long exist
which incurred a deficit year after
year without impairing its capital and
credit standing. This will readily be
conceded by any group of sound-
thinking business men. When we, our
legislators and our governmental ex-
OLONIA
THEATRE L
Dolls Exhibited by
Kindergarten Dept.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. featured in
First National's picture, I Like Your
Nerve " showing Thursday at the Co-
lonial Theatre, is ready to match his
skill as a driver against Malcolm
; sock has a hand-painted face The
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in some districts We have not' The junior kindergarten majors ure the second game of the season six
counted these, howevet except when Nell Margaret Standlee. Virginia regulars weie out due to injuries
227,930.27
174.982.81 488.954.57
in judgment; Vivian Rudin, ready for tai somewhere above the 2.000,000
service; Bessie M.ie Baxter. Loyal to bark, previously estimated as Texas
friends: Gene Lawson. Reaching to- quota of the 3.500,000 bales to be held
ward the best; Iris Cooper. Earnest off the market for a year by South-
-Illis been the key to success I ////////I/INM
lor nine out of every ten indi- V////////AB
viduals who have achieved “((/
riches. Sooner or later every W//2/UM
young man must learn that he WMAA7
cannot do it all with his
hands . . . that he must have "212
dollars working for him too. 4 W
Putting dollars to work is the E, N
stock in trade of a bank . . . |
and this bank compliments it- $43sd
self that its record of per- 5235
formance tor its clients has <74
cemented hundreds of strong SR
business friendships. q
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suited in his being nicknamed Put.
the name by which he is known to all
his intimates. Playing what he himself
admits is his best screen role. Toom-
ey comes to the Colonial Theatre on
Saturday in Universal’s exciting news-
paper drama ‘ Graft,” in which he is
seen as a nervy cup reported who
wages a single handed battle against
the corrupt political forces of a great
city.
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