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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940
The Fort Worth Press CLAPPER
A scuirrs NOWsnn NEW*PAPKN
The Grass Roots Sections of the Country
Ara Tak in g A More Alarmed Interest In War
Okay, But Let’s Convoy It This Time!
DUNK WEAVER ... = Kaser
JAMES A VOLTE Business Meneeer
7 Entered as-econd-ons mail matter at the
Postoffice at Fort Werin, Temen off % 10
under act on March 1 1879
YeLurwone EXCHANGE
DIAL 1 M»I
By MAt MOND CLAPPER
EVENT# in Europe may be depended
E upon to give President Roosevelt milence
what he wants in the way of more
national defense, because the shock of
these appalling events is reverberating in
the grass roots with aforce that" in
owned and published
daily temrept Monday)
by The Pent Worth
Press Company, gin
and Jones Sta Fort
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terprise Asen Bei
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By carrier-ner weck IF of am Per month
Mingle copy at sewratande sad from newetora
a By mall is Texas 86 per year $7 Per 14*’
elsewhere
“Give light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way."
carried 95 per cent, of the applause, while
Republicans for the most part sat Ml grim
Republicans will vote for the |
program Indeed, Minority Leader Mar- 1
tin immediately gave it his general okay 1
save, for some questioning of the blank ■
check request for $200,000,000 But it 1
hurts them to have to do it for Mr."
Roosevelt and some of them will insist
upon calling the .Administration sternly |
to account for what they consider the |
Missouri comes word of i woeful inadeqtiet y of our defense today
a decided concern which In fare of an expenditure of some $6,-
has been increasing durri 000.000,000
ing the last two weeks I However the Republicans know they j
If the news from Ku can’t oppose- Mr Roosevelt on larger de-,
rope becomes worse, as . tense appropriations because they believe -
it well may in view of in defense that’s -what makes them, so 1
the obvious state of.. mad that they have to admit re in right ,
The temper of the Republicans about
..__adjourning politics was indicated in the
of the statement of John Hamilton chairman of |
the Republic an National € Committee w hen
this is merely another European war thathe said that there was no reason why the 1
can have little effect upon »• * ..-— 44*4 *24 *------E * l
Hertit HAnyer was reflecting the
grass ronta view last July when he was
saying that, even if the dictators should
force a Kurripean war-and win it, they
would 10 so exhausted that they would
ka r us alone for a quarter of a cen-
causing rapid changes: in sentiment
From much typical in-
elation states as Iowa
Minnesota Kanana and
Mr. Clapper
alarm in Paris there
may be little left in the
Middle West C *
comfortable idea that
United mates couldn’t change horses this *
year since both France and England have
changed horses while actually at war
PECLER
Parachute Troops,
And Civilians
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
WHEN the Germans were smash-
I ing through Poland without
the formality of a declaration of
war, many patriotic Polish civil-
ians were captured and executed
for sniping the invading Nazis As
to whether they actually did snipe
the Germans 1_-------------
| there is only
| the word of the 1
Germans them-
selves. But let 1
i it be assumed. I
; that they did
---take pot shots
at the faceless
men.
Under the.
code ironically
known as the
rules of civil-
SATU
Anr
At I
Anit
Fran
To N
The
Ml
Knox and the ‘Eureka’
LTARRY KNOX Governor w 1"
11 O’Daniel’s Board of Control chair
man, who divides the time for which
Iha taxpayers pay him $7000 a year be:
tween his public duties and writing of
LE also reflected the attitude of most
I 1 Republican leaders when he brushed |
aside suggestions, made by one prom. I
inent Republican, that the party’s national 1
convention be postponed until August |
The postponement was urged on the 1
ground that the situation would not be
so confused by August Hut other lead 1
ere who were consulted could see noth |
ing whatever to be gained by a post
ponement- predicting that it will be just
as difficult in August aa in June for the
| ized warfare.
| civilians who 1
fire on the sol-
Mr. Pegler
ing marr
Shurmon
Stahl w
noon hv
Mrs Ver
Chelsea 1
The we
ceremony
29 at the
tendants
ces Smit
Misses B
tricia Lo
ay political comment for—he #A****4HA
weekly paper, has announe rd a breath-
"taking discovery.
Under an eight column banner in the
"W. Lee O’Daniel News," Knox tells in
ton signed article about finding a 814,000
yacht belonging to the Texas National
tury at least
But pow the Middle West probably is
more in accord with the views of Gov
A if Landon and Col Frank Knox two
Republicans who have in general felt
the same concern about developments in
Europe that Mr Roosevelt has felt . They
are warning their Republican friends not
pular strength
. Premi ent Roosevelt’s attitude In Kan Republicans r Oh
has for, instance sentiment is growing 1 foreign affairs
for extending credits to the Allies The j The difficulty of the Republic ana is
—mfution—has—Lletl-d-t—ordinarynoL
ities and national defense is overshadow.
ing everything else in interest
that Mr. Roosevelt has been so right 11
expecting- the worst In Europe it has
been worse even than he predicted So
. when he talks over the heads of Middle
F . Guard.
Miscreants unknown had hidden it
away in a barn, but Knox; the super
sleuth, ferreted it out, according to the
“article. With burning indignation, Knox
demerihea ill the equipment for which
. the taxpayers coughed up their sheckels
and “Better late than never," probably
a was the thought of Knox in announcing
this discovery, because he had served
"as adjutant general and officer of the
- .Texas National Guard and knew all
• iabout the "Eureka" more than a yrar
laiago,.
Western Congressmen and tells their con’t
stituents, as he did in his defense mea
sage that St Louis Kansas City and
< maha are only a few hours by air from
Tampico Mexico, and suggests thus the
possibilities that might arise from hostile
air forces obtaining a foothold in the
Western Hemisphere, he is apt to get
TNEVITABLY the demand will arise for
I A coalition, or an adjournment of pol-
item but. there are no immediate signs
that the Republicans will fall in with the
idea Ir there isgong to be ■ third
term politics won’t be - adjourned you
can bet on that/ said one Republican
Congressman
When President Roosevelt delivered his a hearing Particularly fh such in,
defense mnewnage, in person at a joint ses- credibly appalimg ne s coming out of
stem + the.H4pune. and Benate. Democrats LEMrepe jet now . . ■■..,,
diers of an invading.army are sub-
ject to the death penalty, but only
if the invader has declared him-
self. The Germans had not de-
.: elared war on Poland nor have
, they yet done so. Their method
| has been to invite an invaded na-
I tion to "co-operate," which is
their word for surrender. They
obtain a certain advantage by this,
but the people, including the
women, of the invaded nation by’
the same process deserve the right
to alum! them on .xleht 11__the_
* ] Germans were a civilized people,
, the civilians would enjoy the sta-
tus of captured soldiers should
, I they fall into the hands of the
faceless men
TATHY he maintained a year for silence
< VV about the National Guard’s lux
' ury Illtor we do not know, but we can
help Knox with one detail
_ He wonders darkly mid deeply in his
_ article about the purpose of the craft.
We can’anawer that
ahi It to for the pleasure of such brass
hats as your boss, Governor W Lee
‘ O Daniel, and you, of course Mr KOx
If you were a closer follower of the
, governor’s speed hem you would know
this, Mr. Knox, hecauar in his Auguni
"-20, 1939, Sunday radio mldn* 1
nor O’Daniel told all about a cruise on
—the "Eureka He mentions that you
Life Goes On
I NIFFICULT as it may be to believe,.
17 a few things continue, to happen
here and there which have only the
remotest < onnec tion, if any, with events
in Europe,
. Thirty-three members of the team,
ster’s union in New York City are
picketing the headquarters bl their own
union contending that officials have
JOHNSON
Appropriating Money
Is Not Main Problem
were along also Mr. Knox
Here’s what Governor/O’Daniel said
about the “Eureka"
“sold them out" to an employer. If
picketing fails, they say they’ll stage a
sit ui,an strike in the union offices
Twenty furMilwaukee-firemen, ans-
wering an urgent alarm, found they
had been called to release a robin, en.
tangled in a string with which it was
building a neat.
Martin Schneider to recovering in a
Minneapolis hospital from an opera-
lion to remove a full sized toothbrush
from his stomach. He coughed while
scrubbing his teeth Dr. G. L. Cross,
botany teacher at the University of
Oklahoma has announced that stu-
dents may bring written notes to rx
aminations He gave up lua long strug-
By HI GH N. JOHNSON
THE Preaident’s speech on armaments
1 was excellent oratory and a great
show The stage-manages ent was intend-
ed to impress Mussolini. The news from
Italy and the Swiss frontiers is menac
ing “The Germans have 210 divisions
Probably: only about 100 of them are
yet engaged Mussolini has another 100
+Ivislonu-----A amaah
through Switzerland of
combined German and
Italian forces will.
threaten the Allies with:
the—----------------------
attack on record They
are in a precarious po-
I kition now This strat
egy of enveloping hoth
their flanks must be
. tempting to both. Hitler
and Mussolini
Doubts of this devel-
opment would have cen Mr. Johnson
wacun.
THE Germans have threatened
1 1 A reprisals at the rate of 10 to
i | 1 for the killing of their para-
: ■ chute soldiers who fell into the
: hands of the Dutch, but the para-
j chute soldier creates a new prob-
lem, even though his country shall
- have formally declared war He
is dropped in communities where ..,
there are only civilians, and his
mission includes the killing of
civilians, who probably will be un-
armed, in order to spread terror
and permit the capture of a few
■ men at important points in the——
rear What else would he be do-
ing there? *
To localize the problem, let it be
assumed that a group of German
■1parachute soldiers suddenly ap-
_ pears in the outskirts of some
- peaceful city such as Fort Worth.
Comment On Roosevelt Defense Program near, for this is a blitzkrieg, but,
• by way of admonition, the Ger-
mans shoot a few American civil-
New York Times—There can- cluded. Yet the experts tell us the challenge of modern warfare.
not Jig the slightest doubt that that our defenses are in danger- The Kansas City Times—In re-
the country experts Congress to ously depleted condition.—is it not—sponse—to—the—President’s recoms___
respond promptly to the appeal the part of wisdom to pause mendations, in times like these pistol, a hunting rifle or old mili-
by the President for meas-. and determine what has been quibbling and politics are out, tary weapon would try to draw x
ures to strengthen the defenses of done ... so that we will get the Congress should give the world bead on a faceless man, or that
theUN.-Mr Roosevelt did not maximum benefits from the new a demonstration that in an emer- some local bad man, in a passion
overstate the potential dangers emergency appropriation? gency a democracy can act
with which we are confronted in
a time ami a world when aggres-
ians. In these circumstances
would it be unreasonable to expect,
that everyone with a household
Best n
Stahl of
the brid
will be N
Shoup ai
Miss :
Mr Stat
Lee Mor
makes h
Ave Hi
of Kansa
Oklahoma
member
Ion Frat
Guests
by the 1
assisted
mon of :
the bride
mon. gr
elect and
The te
Norman
with a 1
garland
hues. Ir
tor was
pte in a
by flowe
ding bel
renter o
lighted v
tal cand
bons, to
were tie
ter of t
Mrs (
Nothera
Wright
presided
Little
of the
'lute ar
which 11
couple a
engra ved
Mrs. 1
—One)
called.
"TIO inspect the Texas National
* I Guard, I left Austin Thursday
“‘morning and drove to Port Lavaca,
where I was met by Adjutant General
Knox and other officers, and I was es
corted to the guard boat, ‘Eureka,’
"which carried us to Camp Hulen at
i Palacious.
* "It was a grand sight ■* we sailed
.• away from Port Lavaca with the army
planes of the TNG soaring overhead
and it was a delighttulwoyage nil th'
e way to Camp Hulen where as com
mander of the TNG I was received by
gle. against ' ‘er ibbing" when he found
that young women were reporting for
tests with notes written on their bare
k turns
* Field communications in the Army
war, games in Louisiana have been
handicapped because cows, relishing the
salty mold which forms on the insula-
tion of field telephone lines, have been
licking the wires and causing short-
circuits
defenses But if a fifth column or a
Trojan Horse could destroy the resist-
ance of non-German countries like Den-
sion has gone mad
Baltimore Willi Mr Roosevelt
revealed full understanding that
the United States has been over-
taken by the danger that isolation
will lie IMPOSED upon us isola-
tion on the terms of conquerors
in Europe and in Asia Mt
Roosevelt’s emergency arms pro-
Philadelphia Record --- Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s magnificent mes:
sage to Congress is both a call for
action and a warning to our peo-
ple The President minces no
words, sugar-coats no bitter pills
Hr tells the truth that our country
is shockingly unprepared, to meet
gram is sound it should be en-
mark or .Norway what could it do in acted with unflagging zeal by the
Switzerland, with a population NO largely war and navy departments
either of German or Italian stock? We. **-------- n ra
could do with less ballyhoo and whoop-la.
but maybe for this and other reasons It
was justified
Washington Post — it would
have been better if President
Roosevelt’s special message on de-1
tense needs had been presented to
Congress Ion gago Every point I
which he now makes regarding |
the susceptibility, of the United
Statesto attack was equally true
last September
New York Mirror—NoAmeri-
This Is Life
By JACK M ANWELL
TODAY S
SHORT, or some-
gency a democracy can act as of honest patriotism, would whip
swiftly and overwhelmingly as a his Thompson gun out of the golf
dictatorship. hag or fiddle box and strike s.
Kansas City Journal — Presi- blow for freedom' And if this
dent Roosevelt s message marked happened would these civilians
a turning point in American his- subject themselves to execution by
lory The United States has the invader if they should be can
abandoned its historic policy of tured and eventually squealed on
isolation, dating from Washing- | by the local Nazi bundsmen?
ton’s farewell address. The age in
• which we live has reduced isola-
I lion to a foolish pretense
St. Louis Times-Star — What
It would seem to make a dif. *
Beth
At B
The 1
will cl<
luncheor
in the
Blackst
Mrs
charge
ference, but, to comply with the
| old formalities, it would be pos-
sible. in war with the chosen peo-
ple of the Reich, to swear in the
Gov
To
ever regret we may feel about the
necessity of militarizing, it is the
price we must pay for living in a
world .dominated by- aggressors
and for our unthinking refusal,
entire American population, male
and female, as members of the
armed forces, with only a uniform
along my uninteresting career Iand for our unthinking rerusal, brassard for identification, thus
while there yet is time, to take in- | reserving for the civilians in their
sistent leadership in a program home communities the rights of
whisper It easy it took 214 years of collective, security which might combatants.
"Per easy, 10" 42 ye have spared the earth this car-
thing
Away back, somewhere
headed into a Nerve Garage to get
The 1
eas -
1
Shoema
Mrs
Dr H
Mrs
• Moo
eon.
And
a bit of repairing' done.
NEVERTHELESS, let’s not fool our-
LIV selves with those fireworks Congress
should act promptly, but the Dfisiness of
bum a rushing a billion dollar bill through
. without looking at It is the same old stuff
especially since It gives the President a can in these critical days will
ed K1000 le/Paul Nottilaro, W I' %a be spent to de.
such haste as that The money an’t fend America, but every Ameri-
lie gotten into action in the rush that
It can be appropriated. It is doubtful
If the Navy money can even begin to
be, spent within the year of its appro-.
priation
This situation could tie remedied, but
not with the. present system The Presi-
LHoboken N.
J--has award.
tends that he Tost a fine head of hair
' General Birkhead and his officers and
men, while overhead 10 guard planes
soared and dipped in salute and while
19 cannon shots were fired in salute”
it was to give such persons as W
* Lee O’Daniel and you the pleasure of a
: sea-going inspection trip at the annual
National Guard encampment that the .
Eureka was built, Mr Knox
The time for you to have gotten in-
dignant, Mr. Knox, was when you first
were invited aboard to cruise the cool
Gulf waters as a paid employe of the
State. You should never have put your
and a bristling mustache as a result of
shock in an automobile collision. •
And Fire Captain Henry Spannen
berg of Chicago rescued a three-year-
old boy, whose leg had been wedged in
a sewer drain pipe, by pouring .two
quarts of motor oil down the pipe to
lubricate the leg 4
dent gave no indication of any change in
his present attempt to combine in him-
self the powers and luties of Ser retary
of State War and Navy Indeed, the |
can will, or should ask:
We have, already spent eight
billions for defense under your
Administration. Mr. Roosevelt.
Don’t you think we should inves-
tigate and find out why we got no
more from our first eight billion
.dollars before we feverishly hurl
to fix up the human bus, a heckuva
Heaver to put over
got the job done, in a fashion, and
went on down the line. And, that's
nothing to bust out in a cold sweat
about.
Now, here s what I’m gettin’ at:
During my stay at .the Repair
| Shop, some guy slipped me a little
plaque on which were these
words: The way ain’t SUNNY,
but don T you FRET Just try to
CHEER UP, Thoney, you'll get
there yet.” Now, wasn t them
comfortin' words, with me not
foot on the luxurious thing Tut, tut.
1 Mr Knox.
, •
Defense Is Not Free
. . CENATOR BYRD suggests that Con-
D gress forthwith eliminate all un
"' necessary" government spending to
make way for “imperative expendi-
—uren fornational defenses and at the
same time revise the federal tax sys-
’em to carry a greater share of .the
burden the war crisis has imposed
That, to atate it mildly, to a timely
—suggestion.
This to the season of. an election
• year when Congressmen start itching to
, get out ofWashington and back home
to their constituents But thia to no time
for Congressmen to leave their posts of
:duty.
We are now in the eleventh y ear of
“government-on-the-cuff, the legal debt
limit to uncomfortably close. Unantici-
- pated expenditures which may run into
billions have loomed suddenly. The in
evitah|e reckoning should be no longer
. postponed.
y Our government hasn't a dime to
Louisiana Nourishment
THE “greatest barbecue ever seen In
1 Louisiana" has ushered into office
that state’s new governor, Sam Hous-
ton Jones A thousand fancy steers
were slaughtered and rich and poor
alike were invited to feast in celebra-
tion of the promised return of demo-
cratic government. .
Meanwhile, Governor Jones has ap-
pointed a new • public tela
lions tn Washington," to replace the
representative of the Long regime, who
resigned recently. Barbecues, after all.
are old stuff much older than The idem
that a state muat have a public rela-
tions man on the job in the National
Capital to look after appropriations,
projects and other favors.
Evidently, Governor Jones is a man
of foresight, alert to seek nourishment
for his new democratic government
from the Federal Treasury after the
thousand steers are but a memory
Almost Too Long
TE THINGS go on as they are, in
I less than a hundred billion years
requests for personalized appropriations
indicates he intends to carry It still fur-
ther He is fitted neither by training
nor experience to do this present job.
and he has far too much to do already
if we have: not enough plant and
another -three billions down the a I
. . knowin when I was gonna get
"Cleveland Plain Denler—Frank- going 7 However, I gleaned from
t , the above we get into a
tin D Roosevelt never appeared
of larger stature, has never spo-
ken words of greater import to
his country than when he ad-.
dressed the House and Senate
urging his countrymen to look dire
fa ts the face
€ hieage Daily Times — Events
of the past week destroyed the 11-
shipbuilding capacity the job la to go out
and create them That is purely an in-
dustrial job and nobody in the Admin-
istration is equipped to undertake it If. __.nu. .____. ___, ,
we have I st ------------------------equip won thet.pemce.cen.hr.pemerEA
ment, the task is to set up a system of
priorities right now As was suggest-
ed yesterday similar action in priority
of use would release all the skilled work-
men from less essential jobs Defense
requirements come before all others. Put
that principle into effect and there is
no difficulty
I rubber, we ought to begin now con-
serving them for defense A large per-
centage of our normal use of both comes
from reclamation We should begin re-
strictions on the unnecessary use of both
and stop at once theastage of tin and
rubber scrap 7
.All these suggestions are merely by
way of example There are scores of
other ways to get this job done quickly
and far more economically than it has
been done or than there is any prospect
nt doing it If our whole problem is.
at this stage, industry now just an
Solely by a strong determination
to have nothing but peace And
there can be no doubt that the
American people have been shaken
and scared by the destruction of
that belief
spare for needless expenditures. And.
„., to get the money which muat be provid-
wed for needed expenditures. Congress
or will have to levy taxes harsher than any
yet proposed. The fairest and most
.courageous tax program, we think, is
- one which makes the taxation direct, on
the largest possible number of citizens.
2 and from each according to his ability
D to pay. And that means broadening
the base and stiffening the rates of the
,* Income and inheritance taxes.
us Bundle Vase.. = THAT provision would seem to
but I Oklahoma City Oklahoman— I cover the case very neatly, and
Congress should vote the money the distribution of a few arms in
that the President has asked for, the household would help.. True,
And Congress should see to It that the civilians would assume the
the money thus voted shall not be risks of soldiers, but don't they,
misspent.; P anyway? Aren't they bombed
Portland Oregonian,—Mr Roose-f and shelled and subject to shoot-
velt’s message was reasoned, mod- ling by the parachute troops ?.
crate and to the point through-. As to whether the parachuta
out . , where the defense of soldiers met death in action or
America to concerned, there our after surrender there would be no
party system should end and our immediate need for discussion. It
unbroken patriotism begin is a fine point, anyway, and one
---— | that would have to be worked out
TODAY’S COMMON ERROR later. The important thing at a
Words ending in silent "e' keep critical moment would be to re-
into a the "•” before a suffix beginning move the danger in a town peopled
with a consonant; .as, lore—lone- by civilians and having a capacity
ly; love—lovely. The following for patriotic indignation.
are exceptions Acknowledge- There are two problems here:
JAM fretting’ unduly is not go- ■
ing to better our condition On
tpot whereder# row people win. ment argument. Guly, try. Juag One is the ground soldier of any 1
want to mess with us for folks I ment,
army not formally at war with
soon become weary of listening to
what la commonly called Belly-
Aching
SIDE GLANCES
— . ..: ,the invaded country. Any civilian
MDainot Mv W.aar done, ad. has * right to kill him, and if a
Y. advertently or German platoon were to walk
I intentionally down an important street of, say,
| Fort Worth at high noon today,
j shooting promiscuously and set-
j ting fire to the buildings the
■ civilians would react as the young
Poles did.
We believe the
President’s speech has restored
resolution to the nation
Tlaburgh Post Gazette--The
bill for national defense so far
during the two Roosevelt Admin-
istrations has been nearly nine bit- 1
| lion dollars: if the appropriations |
requested for next. year are In-
Today's Poems
or K AMERICA
There s never been a land so fair,
in all this wide, wide world:
It seems- that skies are more blue
The other is the parachute sol-
dier in a civilian area, regardless
of whether a formal state of war
exists. Being landed among civil-
ians, his mission obviously is to
kill civilians and help capture
their country. There being no
soldiers about, the civilians surely
will do their best, and the ques-
| tion of the invader's rights will be
• put on the spike until civilization
| can get around to it
Little Lines
an arm of national defense as The Army
or the Navy, it is a job of industrial
the spiral nebulae will have receded out strategy it requires experienced Indus,
of" sight the radio-active atoms will trial strategists and taetielans Just aa
/ signt. - * m mu much as the Army need s generals and the
have run down: all but the fainter Navy needs a
They do not exist in government 1
stars will be going out, and the uni-
verse will be thoroughly uninteresting."
- Dr. Henry Norris Russell, Princeton
professor of astronomy.
• Well, in a universe which just now
is as excruciatingly interesting as a
permanent attack of acute delirium
would as quickly comment to entrusting it
to a soldier sailor or politician as I
would let one of them cut off my leg.
or ask an industrialist either to do that
amputation or to run the Army
We can get the job done, but not
merely by appropriating money no mat-
.....___ ____- _.__ter how much noise wo make about it,
tremens, that prospect la attractive, and not with the present men and or-
What worries us to that we may not be ganization without expert industrial ad-
able to otick around for a hundred bil- vice and direction '
lion years
. - - — About one farm in four in the Unit-
One leading wartime use for mer- ed States now is served by electric pow-
| eury is in making shell detonators. er lines.
here.
And flowers brighter grow-
There’s peace and comfort so Tong
sought.
By other nations far
We blest of all the people are.
with freedom, health and
wealth
we dare to do and live our lives:
The weak, the strong the rich.
the poor,
without a fear of homeland foes.
We dare to epeak our thoughts.
To hope and build and plan.
There le, no, fear when dark
night comes.
We have no enemy at hand
And 1 am sure God blessed us
all
In giving ue this land.
MISS CARRIE PALMER.
3001 Ellis Ave., City.
“I can’t stand it any longer—I’m going to show those
whippersnappers how to dive!”
By MARGIE B. BOSWELL
Mischief la a mouse-footed imp:
“Easy-chairs” are mostly in the
mind.
Sometimes garlic is found in
flower gardens!
Promises, planted in possibly,
are easily uprooted
Few people find pass-keys to I
prosperity.
To iron out error-wrinkles’ isn’t
easy.
Beauty, without a brain, is a
balloon without ballast.
Foppery is a prancing pony that 1
ages rapidly, I
The fountain of selfishness over- 1
L flows frequently ]
TO A LOVELY BABY
Dainty little fairy creature, 1
Dusky eyes, and milk-white skin. 1
Much beloved by all who know 1
-her. 1
Lovely little Sherol Lyn. I
i NELL HORTON. 1
• Box 427, Cleburne, Texas. 1
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Mrs
the Be
Kings
terday
Those
Wilhite
Davenp
Brock.
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and a
Mrs.
Mrs
the R
party"
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Bart y
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Vernie
Othe
Helen
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fast
CIA
en
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tiens
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ear.
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other
girl.
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two ]
shirts
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lost a
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