The Meridian Tribune (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937
The Meridian Tribune
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appearing in these columns will be gladly
and promptly corrected upon calling the
attention of the management to the article
in Question.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.50 PER YEAR
Make Auto Killing Unpopular.
When the final figures are tabul-
ated and released, it will probably
be found that 1936 was the worst
year in our history so far as auto-
mobile accidents were concerned.
More than 35,000 men, women
and children were killed. Hun-
dreds of thousands were injured.
Property damage ran into the bil-
lions.
At least 90 per cent of this
ghastly destruction can be ascrib-
ed to but one thing: the human ele-
ment.
It is a telling commentary on
our driving habits that the worst
accidents commonly occur on good
roads under favorable conditions
of light and weather, and involve
cars in excellent condition. The
reason for this is simple enough.
Drivers exaggerate the “safety
factors” of roads and weather and
cars. They take chances. They
succumb to the lure of speed be-
yond any reasonable need. They
pass other cars on hills and curves,
weave in and out of traffic and
zoom around corners at a horrible
cost in life, health and property.
Efforts to educate these drivers,
to appeal to their senses of reason
and fairness and courtesy, have
failed practically 100 per cent.
That being true, the next step is
a massed public opinion that will
strengthen traffic laws and traffic
patrols, and strictly punish those
guilty of driving errors that cause
accidents. If the reckless driver
refuses to mend his ways, he must
be forced to. And if, after a-per-
iod of time, he has shown that fines
and other pnuishments won’t do
the work, he must be deprived of
the right to operate a car on public
streets and highways.
It is estimated that 10 per cent
of drivers are reckless, while 90
per cent are reasonably capable
and cautious. Will that danger-
ous 10 per cent continue to be al-
lowed to imperil all the rest of us
and to make slaughter houses of
our public roads?
Meridian’s No. 1 public enemy is
the Whitney road and it is one of
the most important roads in Bos-
que'county and can be built cheap-
er and easier than any road in Bos-
que county.
Meridian’s unfinished state park,
well she just ain’t what she ought
to be and just ain’t getting no-
where with it.
But on the other hand a bunch
of Bosque county citizens have
blood in their eyes and are going
to lick one mudhole that has been
a honey for a long while. The
Ferris, Conrads, Helms, Kruegers.
Hafers and other Garnersville com-
munity residents, with their mail
carrier Tucker and Meridian mer-
chants and citizens, are going to
put one foot of gravel on road
from Whitney road to Garnersville
school and by Mr. Spitzer’s mail
box, make this an all-weather
road, as it is impossible after a
shower and with the rain of past
couple of months, it has been any
National park experts have in-
formed the Texas Planning Board
that the proposed Big Bend Nation-
al Park is the most interesting re-
gion in the United States.
Ask your Meridian merchant for
Good Will Tickets. Trade, in Me-
ridian. .
B.A.U. Program.
Sunday, Jan. 24, at 6:15 p.m.:
Topic—Ye Are Bought with a
Price.
Introduction-E. N. Smith.
The Price That Others Have
Paid—-Miss Bertha Baxter.
To Whom Do You Belong—-Mrs.
J. Lee Smith.
God’s Claim on You as a Christ-
ian—Jack Houston.
The Price That Christ Has Paid
—Bro. Crutchfield.
Burrell F. Word
Announces His Return to the
. General Practice of Law
Office Southeast Corner
Courthouse Square,
Former Rudasill Building
workers, mechanics, swell ginners
and lumber yard, swell. Need a
large implement house and furni-
ture stock and store and a live
awake hustler in charge of it and
then we will go to town. Honest,
good folks, Meridian is on a boom.
Population has increased 30 per
cent in last few years but she just
has got to get bigger to do any
good, so for the time being let’s
set the mark at 2500 population.
It’s not too high and should be easy
and it’s just got to be done. You
will find that small towns are go-
ing to get smaller and large
towns larger and if we don’t get
up to the 2500-mark in the next
few years we will start losing pop-
ulation again. There are no coun-
try rubes left any more and people
are going to the larger places to
live and trade, better living condi-
tions and more to select from plus
volume merchandise for larger
stores and volume prices will draw
them and the larger viewpoint of
citizens living in larger communi-
ties over the smaller viewpoint and
scandle of the small stay-at-home
community citizens, will draw
trade.
trading and buying fool, and old
Cotton Sam Lawson, our ginner.
As I see it they are Meridian’s men
of the year.
Meridian’s hospital is doing, one'
nice job and a long-wanted need
has finally become a reality.
Talk about speed—5 miles per
minute from California to New
York; in other words, east break-
fast in Los Angeles and dinner in
New York.
Something well worth seeing:
Colleen Moore’s Doll House in Ft.
Worth.
Another cold snap and best sea-
son in ground in years. Well, any-
way, we saw the sun for a few
hours again this week. Makes
four times this year so far.
Started to think I was losing my
tuneck, come almost losing myi
pants and people have been fol-
lowing me for years expecting to
get them but it was fright only.
Papa Joe had a birthday this
week—first in years.
Pres Hornbuckle confined to his
home with flu. The doctor is hav-
ing a hard time keeping Pres in.
Remember your poll tax.
We will have four more weeks
NOBODY'S
BUSINESS
BY JULIAN CAPERS JR.
expect that his warning that such
legislation was “out” right at the
start, might hamper progress of
some of the other legislation—
particularly tax measures—which
Allred favors.
The tax recommendations in
the message threw the lobbyists
into a furore, strongly in contrast
to the last special session, when
representatives of various special
interest accepted the omnibus
tax bill without resistance, in the
hope that would ward off further
revenue demands at this session.
The message put them on notice,
however, that Allred seeks much
more tax revenue, and they im-
mediately began forming their bat-
tle lines to keep the taxes down.
Many observers here believed the
governor has taken a leaf from
the book of Roosevelt, the master,
and is asking many times more
than he hopes or expects to get,
on the theory that if he gets a
fraction of his “asking” he will
achieve more.
The first week brought no test
of sentiment in either house, and
it is much too early to make any
predictions about final legislative
action. Harry Graves, of George-
town, an administration friend,
threw into the hopper a resolution
to . investigate expenditures for
“public relations” by the Texas
Gulf Sulphur Co., and Roy Miller,
its vice president in charges of pub-
lic relations, and politician extra-
ordinary. The resolution is said to
have the support of many univer-
sity friends, who resented the
abortive “red probe” of the last
session, said to have been inspired
by resentment of attacks by cer-
tain political-minded students on
Miller’s Democratic political activ-
1 ities. Simultaneously, Allred sug-
gested higher tax on sulphur, in-
dicating no truce in his long feud
with the sulphur company. And
there were many who believed
Graves’ resolution and Allred’s
recommendation were purposely
timed together.
Austin.—Swinging slowly into
motion, the 45th legislature dur-
ing its first week took no hasty
action upon the score of highly
controversial subjects tossed into
its arena by Gov. James V. All-
red’s message, but manifested a,
disposition to acclimate itself to
the Austin atmosphere, and delay
serious business until after the in-
augural festivities this week.
Reaction to the governor’s mes-
sage was varied. Most members
believed the governor showed
commendable courage and frank-
ness in outlining the state’s need
of more than $12,000,000 a year of
additional tax revenue. Some
were critical, because Allred had
consistently assured the state that
there would be no need for new
taxes, and only nominal need for
increases in existing taxes. The
governor, quoting Emerson, “kiss-
ed off” these campaign promises
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THE NEW CAPITOL
or 1 . in our business of marking -time
Meridian has one thing that very : .1 .
few towns have—the friendliness and then we will have to go to
of her merchants and citizens or work. Sort of getting used to be
ing lazy and doing nothing but will
be glad to hit the ball again when
the time comes.
We sure want your business and
appreciate it.- .—
The merchants drawing will be a
dandy Saturday-—a three-timer.
couple of mourns, it nas been any a giad hand to all who come to Me-
thing and every thing else but a vidian—-in other words, it’s
This is the best job being enough welcome and you
put over that 1 know of or have have to trade here to get it.
heard of in some time. Hope they heard this mentioned more than
all stay mad till it’s finished and is
road.
Mr. Tucker going to be proud of it.
He says there is a Santa Claus af-
ter all. Besides all the folks that
live in this territory will be able to
crank up Old Liz and know they
can get to town when they want
to.
Last call for poll taxes. Only
seven days left to get them.
Sidewalk project getting along
swell and getting Meridian look-
ing better each week. Need the
street paving next and sure hope
we can get it.
Weather has slowed up building
in town.
- Large ranches east of town have
changed hands at fair
Watch land’s advance.
Groceries are advancing.
prices.
Even
potatoes are king again.
About 10,000 union automobile
workers in a strike, will throw
about 1,000,000 workers out of
employment if it keeps on and the
joke will be on the union because
the public will not stand for it, as
the strike will affect from the rail-
roads on down to salesmen, garag-
es, filling stations and reach to
every town in the U. S. A. and Gen-
eral Motors pay roll alone was 375
million dollars a year.
State and Federal investigations
this week and the President with
house and senate at work will have
a job and Gov. Jimmie in Texas
has a harder one with state house
and senate. The President will
come closer to getting his job done
than the governor.
Dub Ray has added a stock of
groceries at his filling station.
Open nights and Sundays.
Eggs unsettled. Poultry higher
and cream weaker and lower.
Double dam these markets the last
few weeks. Making an old man
out of us.. But don’t lose any
fat.
Next a new Masonic building
and lodge rooms, stone and brick,
and another old landmark will bite!
the dust.
We have picture show, swell;
cafes, restaurants and tavern,
swell; grocery, meats and general
merchandise, swell; all kinds of
buyers, swell; Odle’s and Stockard
for gents’, misses and Mrs., swell
filling stations, oil and auto acces-
sories, swell drugs, barbers, clean-
ing and pressing, swell; doctors,
dentists, lawyers, politicians, swell;
public utilities, swell carpenters,
contractors, masons, painters,
plumbers, iron workers, wood
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you
a sure
don’t
Have
anything about Meridian.
"We
like to come to Meridian because
her merchants and citizens are so
friendly.” Then to show you they
are shrewd traders they tell me, of
course, we get bread cheaper at
Iredell, cabbage cheaper at Gap,
syrup cheaper at Whitney, flour
cheaper at Clifton, shirts cheaper
at Valley Mills and sugar cheaper
at Walnut Springs, better test on
cream at Hamilton, and eggs high-
er at Houston, but the main thing
I like is they come back and trade
at Meridian.
And I believe the two men most
responsible for this year’s increas-
es are Red Nichols, Meridian’s
Tickets must be put in stores. No
tickets received at truck. She is a
honey.
Well, the main idea of all this is
trade where the blue trucks call.
They are the leading merchants
and produce dealers in your com-
munity.
Meridian, the old town with new
pep. If you. see it in our mer-
chants’ ads it’s so.
SEMI-WEEKLY FARM NEWS
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[by declaring the state’s financial
I situation was more grave than he
had previously known, and declar-
ing he would “rather be right
than consistent.”
Message Confident.
He indicated great confidence
that this legislature would be
more harmonious and more co-
operative. than the previous one,
when he put the solons on notice
he would veto any attempt to lib-
eralize the old age pension act;
veto any appropriation measures
which did not carry with them
' revenue-raising provisions to meet
the expenditure; and veto any
public utility regulation act that
carried a provision requiring
municipalities desiring to estab-
lish municipal utility plants, to
offer to buy existing privately own-
ed plants first.
His critics, recalling that many
of the 73 new house members ran
on a liberalized pension platform,
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