Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1934 Page: 4 of 8
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Appomatox Shaft
Some dissension is fomenting over
At Arlington Races
Fund at the Post Orfice at Decatur, Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
DICK COLLINS. Editor-Owner
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Dallas-Wichita Falls Coaches
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“Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign natiens, may she always
be in the right: but our country, right or wrong."
—Stephen Decatur.
Thursday Morning, March 15, 1934
SCHEDULE
Political
10:35 p. m.
3:15 p. m.
Leave Decatur 9:15 a m.
Announcements
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Arrive Decatur.. 8:45 a. m.
For Sheriff:
Express Si
will bid for every vote possible.
may not
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Of course, there will be many side is-
NEW BUSSES NOW IN OPERA TION
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For County Treasurer:
Roger Barfield
J. Wash. Davis
For Justice of Peace; 1-6:
W. 11. Stroud
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The Candidates
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For Publie Weigher Prec. 5:
Kemp Slimp
Boyce B. Stewart
B. II. (Brawley) Oates
Knox Hutchison
For State Senator:
Grady Woodruff
For Local Representative
Joe I- Woolaver
Jack Pruett
For County Judge:
F. Arnold Davenport
L. D. Kirkpatrick
B. F. (Frank) Roe
Commissicner, Precinct 16:
Jim Bool li
Henry Walker
\. M. (Auz) Shaw
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1 for no greater reason than the respect
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— star-Telegram.
Office of Publication—Messenger Building, 206 West Walnat Street,
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refrigeration in actual operation
before you buy any automatic re-
frigerator. Compare it point for
point with all other types on the
market and see why the GAS Re-
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon the character. stauding or reputation of au
firm, person or corporation which may aDpear at any time in the columns of
the Mzessenger will be gladly corrected uPon its being brought to the attention
ot the publisher — DICK COLLINS. Publisher.___________________________
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A tiny gas flame, automatically
controlled, keeps a constant,
steady cold in the box and a boun-
tiful supply of ice cubes always on
hand. No other method of refrig-
eration can give you all the ad-
vantages of the new Air-Cooled
Gas Refrigerator at such low day-
to-day operating cost.
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trouble-free refrigeration at an
operating cost of LESS THAN 25c
a week.
FARES:One Way—Decatur to Dallas $1.25—Round Trip $2.25
One Way—Rhome to Dallas .95—Round Trip 1.70
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final results of the great adventure.
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TUB MONT WIDKLA CIKCU-ATED NEWSPAPER IN WISE COLNTI
-TMEE Is No SUBsTTUrE Fon Circulation’
Tlise nunty fessrnger
ESTABLISMID IM 1eso
PUBLISHED IN THE DAIRY CENTER Of THE GREAT SOUTHWESI
marking the ending place of the civil
war—such monument to contain the
figures of Generals Iee and Grant.
Voices are raised in protest for no
Municipal
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figures ever emerged upon history’s '
pages than those of the man who 1
proffered Ms sword in token of de- j
feat and the other who refused with
superlative magnanimity to accept it.
No more worthy monument to Am-
ericanism—the species later to pro- |
duce the Unknown Soldier—could be ।
erected than one distinguished by the
statues of General Ulysses s. Grant
AGAIN natural gas appliances
prove their superiority for sim-
plicity of operation and Econ-
omy. The new Air-Cooled Gas
Refrigerator is the Simplest auto-
matic refrigerator made. No Ma-
chinery! No Motors! No Noise?
Nothing to wear out!
ready facing a .$32,000,000,000 debt,
and already dangerously cutting down
usoyipoyment relief for lack of funds
it is obvious folly to propose- an ad-
code authority of
hundred lumbermen and more than
200 coal dealers were present.
140 trucks
problem of taxation at any time in- (
voices a cross section of every phase .
of government. The increased tax
load of state and counties and cities For District Clerk:
north. The alchemy of war produced
two commanders-in-chief at the place I
of cessation of hostilities. When the K
surrender came, no more gallant two @
it if there was any danger of the
the lumber and
FuiEDoS-- MAN No Beer To Be Sold
Dolls are the eB
They have been used it
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continue so for years to come. The For County Superintendent:
, , ... 10... a soon-spent bonus, but upon national
The total number of people ining recovery. wth the government al
in the world on January 1, 1933, was • ---------
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son for these advance notives.
We are very fortunate in one
at the United States Military Aca-
demy at the same time—Cadet Lee
mand the attention of readers With
but few exceptions they give liberal
space to their correspondents. The •
papers are again open forums for the t
No beer will be sola at Arlington !
Downs during the spring meeting, it
was announced yesterday afternoon
by Resident Manager Trav Daniel.
• ' 2,010,000,000. according to an estimate
' recentiy completed by the statistical
. deartment’of the American Telephoue
, ' and Telegraph Company. The num-
1st of telephones in service in —h - {
world on the saue date figures up.to
the men who "went west" as sons ami @
grandsons of the men who followed 5
Lee and Grant through the four years F
of travail which ended at Appomat- -
tox. The spirit of Fan Juan Hill and S
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long family line, dating back to the @
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be approved by the For County Attorney:
from the experience W. K. Sampson
of many years in Texas that seems to
be the right word in our campaigns. For Assessor-C ollector:
Mrs. Bettye Duckworth
Clyde Slimp
DIRECT CONNECTIONS AT DALLAS IN ALL DIRECTIONS
ice on All AllShedules. Ship via. Bus
the proposa1 to,erect a monumeut DECLARES LUMBER CODE
at Appomatox Courthouse, X irginia.
Wip.
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roughly mad
■ ever legalize
would be no
, Downs," said
must reach out for new sources of re-
venues in order to carry the extraor- i
dinary expenses of our reconstruction
program and provide for the many ।
billions of added national debts. The
slate is still short of funds and will
it 1 private that they would vote against
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fact the chief one is going to be that
of taxation. The federal government
revolution and the "Cavaliers of Vlr- I
ginia." The other was the son of a I
tanner in Galena, Illinois. One was
graduated with honors at the head of
his class. The other merely managed
to accomplish graduation. During
the interim between their cadet days
and the outbreak of the civil war.
one served with such distinction as
to earn the rank of colonel. The oth-
er resigned his captain’s commission
and retired to obscurity on a farm
aptly named "Hardscrabble" near St.
Louis.
In 1861 the south claimed the one.
The other was issued a commission
as colonel of a volunteer regiment of
Illinois troops in the army of the
voters to begin Io ask questiotas,
requires careful consideration
program very few will hold candi-
dates for local offices strictly to ac-
count. None of us can be sure of
House passage of the bonus bill
does not mean anything. It is a poli-
All candidates for state offices this
year will start even on two planks.
They will all be for economies in
government and reduced taxes. That
plank has been so long used that it
is worn thin and the voters are not
impressed. The other plank they will
all have in common is approval of the
New Deal. To question the policy of
the national administration will be
considered as dangerous as carrying
a bottle of T. N. T. in the vest pocket.
•While thousands of voters are ques-
tioning the future under our federal :
notable thing
iy. He favors a maximum of relief to
veterans with service connected disa-
bilities. In addition lie has gone a
long way in liberalizing the veterans'
relief ratings for the benefit of ques
tionable cases.
The Philippine Islands imported
sues introduced but as a matter of
itional and blanket bonus.— Fort
greater reason than remnant of see-
tional feeling giving expression to
itseif. I — — ■ ■ *
„„ ' , ... +,n, * timber products industries, declared
The two personages were students 1 1 .
! the lumber code "is iron-clad protec-
RHOME—North exas Coach Depot at Cafe on Highway.
NOTE_Service Decatur to Jacksbero and Denton Started Mar. 1st
tax offered. The so-called "severence
tax” is almost sure to come up even
though it is yet to be defined by any i
state leader. Its application up to
this time has not been a severence
tax but literally a tax on industry.
Nevertheless, It furnishes good mater- j
ial for the stump. We must not over-
look the vell organized propaganda !
for the ad valorem tax on property.
Real estate boards and large property
owners are very active for Ilie aboil- '
approximately 33, 400,006. Censeguen-
lv there is an average of one tele-
phone for every sixty-one persons 401, passenger ears and
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the world.
the Argonne partook of the "stock"
illustrated by that statue-crowned
monument. It should be erected—if
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and General Robert E. Lee. Nowhere
else in the world could lie pictured so
striking a likeness between greatness
in defeat and greatness in victory.
The opportunity should be the pro-
duction of a valuable lesson. The
ancient fued should lie buried with
But the bonus is class legislation
of an entirely different character -
, ........... • not in favor of the injured or of the
frank discussion of iues 1Inemlv but a blanket raid in favor of
try weeklies have a so assumed A . ri 5 veterans as well as poor,
more generous attitude toward pub- .
lie opinion. Whatever position an Altozrether apart from the rik
editor may take on any publie ques-izreenbaek features of the lon13 Dn,
tion He allows his readers to com it we.....I be grossly unfair to injured
ment frankly cither for or against veterans, ,o the unemplojgxl veterans,
the stand taken Any question look to millions of victimized bank derosi
ing toward the abridgement of a free , tors, to bankrupt farmers, to home
press arouses more protest than any owners receiving mortgage ail, to he
thing else. This atwve all is the most many-sided relief programs by which
Lopefui sign that democracy is Sts the government is trying to tide the
. country over the depression. Inc
_____ veterans* future does not depend upon
tion of this direct tax and it seems tical gesture in a congressional cam-
they are the chief proponents of thepaign year. Congress has been told
sales tax to take its place. The poor • that the president will veto the bill
home owner is put forward as the j if it comes to him. Congress knows
chief beneficiary of such a change. that it cannot be passed over a veto.
It looks now as if this would be the I rrnerefore a vote for the bonus is
most delicate issue for. candidates, an easy way • for* representatives to
The wisest of them will avoid taking make campaign capital without ex-
a positive stand on any of these pro: pense to the jovernment. Indeed,
posed tax measures so it is up to the [ some bonus representatives admit in
ion for the small consumer an an as- 1
sura nee to the small dealer of being I
able to do business profitably.** Five ;
thought to really ask of a candidate
sweeping questions. That is the rea- |
to its credit. li has brought about ,
almost a revolutionary change in the (
American press. The editorial pages
of the metropolitan press again com-
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judgment. It is a mess.
Suppose we list some of the pro- (
posals for the voters to consider. It
is better for the voter to get these
tax questions in mind before t hoy are
influenced by personalities and the
be as inte Hlire nt and just to the
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is mainly due to extravagant expendi-
lures and ill-advised sources ol reve-
nue. Every candidate and every voter
will have to interpret that "ill-advis
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