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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY. JULY 19, 1934
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY
in front of a desk, pen in hand, with intimate acquaintanceship with this
! which he wrote these words “We hold writer for many year. I too wish he
fice department building adds anoth-state government, and his utteran-cans demand their freedom whether
ces have been the most sane and they want to use it or not.
CAREY SMITH
CAREY SMITH Jr.
Assistant Editor
| Trapeze" because it looks the part,
i Done in brilliant gold it makes me
eringe every time I see it—whether
it is art or not for who am I to
er to the majestic group of structure
which are making Washington what
conservative of any who have ad-.
dressed the voters, but the calmness' Nobody seems to know what the
of his campaign and the soundness odds are against the playwrig ■- WI
of his views may be his undoing, a new manuscript for Broadway, but
Isn’t it a pity that every two years the stakes are certainly high Dods-
we must elect a governor on his abil- worth, eminently successful on
these truths to be self evident- that might have been here.
all men are created equal; that theyA Kansas reader of the Tribune
are endowed by their Creator with writes these words "Like other non-
| certain inalienable rights; that among residents I read ‘Thoughts first I
these are life, liberty and the pursuit cannot understand why the people of
and Business Manager of happiness.”’ No doubt the man be-Collegeport are not all doing their
lieved the truth of the words he utmost to get the causeway. Being
I wrote They were words that rocked able to cross to Palacios quickly is the
Owner and Editor
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress, March 3. 1897.
its planner dreamed, more than a
hundred years ago, the most beautiful
city in the world A good many Re-
publican leaders are gritting pretty
sore, however, over the claims being
broadcast by Democratic partisans
that the present administration is re-
say?"
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or any
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
The paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
Should it become possible that all didate, will pay that buck in two
the theories, the plans, panaceas, cure- | full years We had hoped to see big
alls and proposed laws advanced by money and questionable political deals
politicians could be put into effect, kept out of this campaign, but it
Children now under ten years of age seems as though big business is up
could read and study the balance of to its usual tricks Mr. Allred, in his
their average lives and never get
through. For the past several years
we have had nothing but plans for
our welfare, explanations of cure-alls
for the country, experiments for the
betterment of conditions and so on
and dinned into our ears incessantly
and without surcease. The strangest
part of all the campaign of business
reform is found in the fact that but
few of our teachers and spellbinders
know anything about business or bus-
iness reform. Their stock in trade
consists of merely a gift of gab which
knows neither bounds nor reason, im-
practical and fraught with sophistry.
No country of reds has been har
angued more than ours or agitated
half so much Every man who aspires
to office is going to put everything
back on the mainland. The radio car-
campaign, is using a talking machine,
which we are informed cost $10,000.
If the attorney general’s office made
Mi. Allred money like that, we won-
der why he wants to quit it?
East Texas farmers are returning to
the days of the ‘80‘s and ‘90‘s when
ox teams were common. Ten years
ago high priced cotton gave the farm-
or a chance to mechanize his farm.
The automobile replaced the horse
and buggy, and the horse and colt
raising business waned Gradually the
scarcity of horses was noticed and
now it is found that oxen are in de-
mand because of their low price,
compared with horses or mules. T*
idea of continuing mechanized oper-
ries nothing more nothing less than
reform remedies while the papers are
overflowing daily with the eloquence
of theorists. We will live over it, for
business has a way of pulling through
of its own accord while the politicians
chatter.
Every incorporated town and every
county, every state, the nation and
every subdivision of the nation i
each, within itself, a corporation Ev
ery taxpayer, large or small, of any
division of the government, or of the
government itself, is a stockholder in
the corporation. All officers consti-
tute the board of directors of each
subdivision or of the government It
self. The president, vice president,
members of the cabinet, members of
the house of representatives and
members of the senate comprise noth-
ing more, nothing less than the board
of directors of the corporation of the
United States. What a pity it is we
do not know that and act accordingly.
The constitution does not clothe of-
ficial Washington with anything else
than the duties mentioned here, even
though for years official Washington
has taken upon itself to be and act as
directors, stockholders and anything
else that comes along. In the state
the governor and his official family
art. the directors, the people the
stockholders. In counties the county
judge, the commissioners and the
courthouse officers are the directors,
—the taxpayers the stockholders. In
Incorporated places, the mayor and
the city council are the board of di
rectors and the taxpayers the stock-
holders. In each and every case no
board of directors should consider
anything other than the merest rou-
tine of business until each and every
stockholder could be fully apprised
of the case in hand and its impor-
tance In no other way under the sun
can any semblance of a democratic
form of government be maintained
The writer has one ambition and that
is to be a member of the legislature
long enough to get a law, with teeth
in it, compelling every board of di-
rectors of every subdivision of gov-
ernment to publish fully and com
pletely everything it does. We would
have a law compelling commissioners
courts and city councils to lay he-
fore their stockholders their every in-
tention by publication and to give
full and complete official reports by
publication of each and every meet-
ing held. The legislatures do this in
a way, now, and have always done
so. So does congress. It is not a
question of right and wrong, but it is
a something the stockholders have a
right to full and complete knowledge
of the o ficial acts of its directors.
ation of cotton farms is proving too
costly. Good horses and mules are
priced at $75 to $100 each or more than
double their price of a year ago,
while a pair of steers ready for “yok-
ing'' can be had for $17.50 to $30. W.
W. Sandifer, former sheriff of Rob-
ertson County, is using 40 head of
oxen on his farm. Meeting a two-
wheeled ox cart on a county road
is again becoming a common sight in
East Texas, it is said. Old "Buck and
Broad" can't make 50 per, but they
can turn over a lot of dirt in a day
Mr. Pessimist, mull over this for a
while. Our county taxpayers came
within a mere fraction of only 10 per
cent of paying their tax 100 per cent
this year, a record for perhaps the
whole state. Within the past fifteen
days 28 new cars have paid license
while 156 new ones have been licensed
since January I. A county of no more
population than ours is not broke
when its people can buy 26 new cars
a month, or, practically, at the rate
of one a day. This does not account
for new cars bought and registered
in other counties and brought here to
be used. Another more than unusual
healthy sign is pointed out in the
condition of our banks, two one mil-
lion and more institutions in a town
of a little less than 5000 population.
This bank’s condition is unbeatable
in the state. This week's splendid
rains have cinched the crops of the
county at a time when prices are
rising, and plenty of water is or will
be available to finish the rice. Pas-
tures will soon be much better now
and cattle already in good shape will
carry on splendidly. Oil development
is playing a great part while business
continues good. No room to be a
grumpy, now. Ont he contrary, we
have every reason and incentive to get
up on our toes for the greatest via
of progress we have ever seen. What
an opportunity we have now.
the world Kings, Emperors stood
aghast at such insolence and as a re-
sult n new nation was born. As time
went on, we found that all men were
not created equal and to day we know
that the statement is untrue and we
know that no longer are we free to
pursue life, liberty, happiness.
Golden shackles have been placed
about our limbs, our speech has been
locked in, at present a slight degree,
our actions limited from the waking
hour until slumber closes our eyes.
We are a band of slaves nodding and
kneeling to a power which we in ab-
ject foolishness placed on the throne
This power informs us of its desires
and we blindly hand over our free-
dom until to day every man, woman
and child in America is bound up and
charged with debt of $806 00. This
debt is increasing second by second
until some of us can see the day of
retribution and then indeed, we shall
feel that the golden chains will he-
roine cruel shackles that will lead us
into bondage as the slaves of some
more cruel power. Is the boy born
free? Far from it for from the first
diaper, to the rubber nursing nipple,
the poor child is taxed, aye from his
first breath. During his adolescent
years into manhood, to middle age,
to old age and to the final resting
place in the grave he has never been
free. He has never enjoyed the free-
dom promised by that man who wrote
so many years ago, holding out such
tempting promises.
Does the grave finish and at last
give the poor Soul freedom? Nay!
Courts reach out their hands and
take from his estate the fruits of his
life attempts to enjoy what he dream-
ed was freedom and some time this
reaching out continues until only
when bones have mouldered into dust,
does freedom come Lets us not fool
ourselves into the belief that we are
all equals and free men. Freedom for
us Americans is almost a forgotten
word.
"So Thought flung forward is the
prophecy
Of truth’s majestic march, and shows
the way
Where future time shall lead the
proud array
Of peace, of power and love of lib-
sponsible for all the new architecture.
So for all that the Democrats have
only hope for a modern town as I see
it. If it cannot be linked up with a
coast highway in the near future, all done is to continue to carry out plans
hope is lost for development there'" which were completely formulated
The writer cannot understand, be- years ago and to finish some ot the
cause she does not understand how buildings which had been begun un-
thoroughly our folk enjoy lethargy, der the previous administration.
inaction, indifference It is a difficult Some of them are not quite fin-
task to move the lazy, indolent, slug-
gish souls, who rather dwaddle along
the line of least resistance. Resistanec
to the present situation requires
strength and nerve and guts. These
things our people do not have. Fred
Ballhorst’s bright, intelligent dog Nig-
ger is no more, much to my regret
His was a bright do soul. He liked to
play on the highway and there he met
death under the wheels of a heavy
truck I am sure that his soul rests se-
cure in dog heaven, the place where
all good dogs go.
The school board received an appli-
cation for a position on the local fac -
ulty The applicant has a Texas Life
Certificate, a Master's Degree from a
northern university, has had fourteen
years teac hing in High Schools of the
first class and in a Teachers College.
The applicant is a Collegeport prop-
erty owner, pays taxes in Matagorda
County, and desires to live here and
establish a home. I wonder if the
board will employ such teacher tal-
ent or will it give the job, as usual, to
those who own no property, pay no
taxes, do not hold first class certifi-
cates and with limited experience.
Josh Billings if alive to day would
say "School trustees is queer crit-
ters.”
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
erty.
Sir Jolin Bowring.
ity to arouse voters, rather than on 1----------—
his merits.” We then wonder why the wood for the movie rights at the nea
figure of $100,000, or more.
| Press is not openly supporting Witt?
We appeal to the voters of the
county to inform themselves as to
the qualifications of the different!
candidates, and their ability to per-
form the things they so lavishly
promise if elected. — Witt Campaign
Committee.
ished yet. The contract for window-
hades for the new post o fice depart-NLLHE A
ment got tangled up in government RamnlinO OPOHEA
red tape somewhere so Jim Farley 11U III M11II £ UESU
and his aides keep the glaring sun out
New York
After the great to-do about the le-
of their offices by the simple, if not
decorative expedient of pasting sheets
of typewriter paper on the window
glass!
Many of New York's Chinese have
moved over to New Jersey but the
Broadway, has been sold to Holly- sight-seeing buses blithely the
showing the credulous sight-seeraIne
so-called dens of iniquity of New
York's Chinatown. I wonder it
wouldn’t pay the sight-seeing busi-
ness to make up special tours to ca-
ter to people with special interest, en-
gineering features of New York for
the interested engineer and so on?
If you’re driving in New York,
don't ever try to bluff a cab-driver!
They have the sturdiest bumpers I’ve
I ever seen on passenger cars anywhere.
I They’re meant to be used—and to ex-
amine the dents and scratches on
them is convincing proof that they
More echoes of repeal: Ann Middle-
ton, well-known in Washington, D. C.,
wearing a pair of slacks, yet attract-
ively feminine, has added her prestige
to the brewing business in New York
| by driving one of those big five-ton
| White beer trucks as a regular occu-
pation. And she maintains that she
doesn’t get tired any faster than in
driving her big passenger car—her
truck is as easy to drive. That makes
three women truck drivers we've ,
heard of—though we’ve seen several are
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THOUGHTS ABOUT
FREEDOM
Jimmie Allred .it is said, has se-
cured exclusive lease on all radio
hook-ups in Texas, from 8 until 11
p.m. on the night before the prima-
ries on July 28. This service cost $8,-
000 for three hours. The office of gov-
ernor, for which Mr. Allred is a can-
ity HARRY AUSTIN CLAPP.
All my life, 1. in common with oth-
or ignorant Americans have bragged
of freedom, liberty, independence and
in common with the others I believed
it. When I come to analyze what the
words free and freedom mean, I am
forced to believe that never have I
been free and that year after year
new and fresh shackles have been
forged about my limbs until now my
movements are slow and very much
circumscribed As I take it, a man to
be free, must be free from that which
confines, limits, embarrasses or op-
presses and freedom is a condition or
state of being free; exempt from the
power and control of another; liberty,
independence. This is freedom, pro-
vided, it takes nothing of that virtue
from another. More than one hundred
and fifty years ago, a man sat alone
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President Roosevelt is no doubt
making an earnest effort to improve
conditions for every individual Amer-
ican. Be is working under a terrific
strain, fighting for the people and
fighting opposition. In my opinion the
agency that has done more than any
one government agency to precipitate
the depression and keep it in power
has been the ICC whose administra-
tion of the railroads has bankrupted
them. This commission exercises more
power than the president ever ven-
tures to assert. It has bound the
transportation agencies in hands of
red tape rules, until no railroad may
buy even one spike without permis-
sion and often the permission is not
granted until the spike is useless. No
organization can function properly or
exist for long under such impossible
stringencies The only time the ICC
halts, is when it attempts to dictate to
labor. Certain laws should be rescind-
ed, releasing the railroads from such
imperial regulations and then we may
expert for some definite relief.
Now that the depression has been
disposed of, here is something else.
When 1 had an of ire in Chicago
many of my country clients used to
| visit me One day I received a letter
‘notifying me that one of my valued
correspondents would call on me on ?i
certain day When I opened the of-
fice that morning Mr. and Mrs. Client
were waiting. They were more than
seventy years of age and from a back
woods section of Indiana. After asking
about their health and the trip, the
old gentleman said he wished to wash
up, so I gave him the key to the
toilet and they departed. When they
returned he said "Well we feel bet-
ter now and ready for business, but
please tell me why they put the wash
bowl so close to the floor?"
I am giving bare facts and Mirth is
at liberty to supply details and use it
in his humorous column.
Last Sunday fifty two attended the
church service and listened to a
splendid sermon delivered by Rever-
end Aiken. I told a sister, that if
ministers understood psychology, as
did the old time saloon men they
would provide a free lunch and at-
tendance would at once triple. Jesus
understood this when he caused five
thousand folk to sit on the grass and
after he fed them he did his preach-
ing. To day it would not be wise to
feed them first. The same night where
County Highway No. 3 joins State
Highway No. 35 a free barbecue and
wrestling match was given and I am
informed that about two thousand
(26d&w)
Brenham, Texas
people attended. Tlus was a grand
opportunity for a preacher but not
one grabbed it. Just illustrates the
fact that people now days care more
for good substantial belly fodder than
they do for the weak brand of men-
tal soup which is served as a rule
from church pulpits.
WASHINGTON. July 19.—When the
secretary of the interior, Harold Ickes
called his staff of 4000 employees to-
gether the other day and warned them
against “soldiering” on the job, it sent
a cold chill down the backs of nearly
half a million federal „job holders,
even though the thermometer in this
hot and humid city stood at 100 de-
grees in the shade. The idea that the
departmental staffs are expected to
do any real work in the summer is
shocking, even to the seasoned civil
servants. To the recent political ap-
pointees, who got on the federal pay-
rolls because they were efficient
workers in the campaign of 1932, it is
almost paralyzing. What sort of a re-
ward is it, anyway to have to do some
work as well as drawing a salary?
The idea is gaining strength here
that Mr. Ickes is about as efficient
an administrator, within the sphere of
his depertment’s activities, as has
been seen in Washington for some
time He intends to get things done if
everybody in his department has to
sweat to get 'em done. What started
him off on his disciplinary program
was an incident that occurred when
he went into the office of a minor bu-
reau assistant and saw the occupant
of it with his feet on his desk, reading
a newspaper and smoking a cigarette.
How Work Drive Started.
The young man didn't know Mr.
Ickes by sight, so when the secre-
tary of the interior asked, mildly: “Is
this the way you usually receive vis-
itors?" the nonchalant reply was:
"What’s that to you?’ ’
Then the secretary identified him-
self, and one young man in the fed-
oral service has been shaking in his
its ever since.
That incident started Mr Ickes on
a quiet tour of inspection of the in-
terior department. He found, as he
told his assembled staff, many men
and women in the cafeteria, after the
time they were supposed to be at
their desks, eating their breakfasts on
government time. He found many
others spending more time in the rest
rooms than in their offices. Some of
the feminine employees had got the
feet-on-the-desk habit. Those things,
he told them, must stop. The heads of
departments and bureau chiefs are
working overtime, days, night and
Sundays, in all of the federal offices,
and he expected the subordinates to
at least put in a full day’s work. The
hours are not onerous, seven hours
a day for five days a week, and he
didn't see any reason why they could
not stand that amount of work.
Mr. Ickes, however, reckoned with-
out the Washington climate. Every
new administrator who comes to
Washington, especially from the North
always tries to speed up the federal
machinery. Hundreds of earnest men
have tried it ever since the national
capital was established in this swamp
on the banks of the Potomac. All that
any of them have ever succeeded in
doing was to wear themselves out and
finally succumb to the climate
Air-conditioning Essential.
Some of the new federal buildings
arc air conditioned, equipped with
modern mechanisms to keep the tem-
perature and humidity at a comfor-
table degree all the year around. But
THE BOOK
in the Wilderness.
John drew great crowds. He must
have been a powerfully dramatic fig-
ure, his leathern girdle about his
loins, eating his locusts and wild hon-
ey, and denouncing the eminent Phar-
isees and Sadducees as a “generation
of vipers."
Who hath warned you to flee from
the wrath to come?
Bring forth therefore fruits meet
for repentance: And think not to say
within yourselves. We hear Abraham
to our father: for I say unto you, that
God is able of these stones to raise
up children unto Abraham.
Jesus felt the contagion of the
movement. He also went to John and
asked to be baptized, and John look-
ing up and seeing Him on the bank
uttered a noble testimony to the sort
of boy and young man that Jesus
must have been:
I have need to be baptized of thee,
and comest thou to me?
It is notworthy that no sense of
guilt or shame appears to have had
a part in His religious experience at
this point. He did not argue with
John about their relative fitness to
baptize each other. He felt that the
spirit of devotion which was in Him
demanded some outward expression,
and John's way, through baptism,
was the way that presented itself.
It was a wonderful day for Him. He
had made His decision. He had put
the old life behind Him. John, His
popular and powerful cousin, had
recognized His inherent power. From
thenceforth He would be a carpen-
ter no longer, but a preacher like
John, rebuking men for their sins,
calling them to repentance. The day
ended, night fell and with it came
the reaction. He went away into the
wilderness and remained for more
than a month in solitude, tortured by
questionings and doubts. He felt pow-
er stirring within Him. How should
He use it, and for what? The gospel
narrative dramatizes that period of
self-searching by the appearance of
Satan in person, with a three-fold
temptation.
And when the tempter came to him.
he said, If thou be the Son of God.
command that these stones be made
bread.
The temptation to use His power for
material success money, comfort,
ease.
Then the devil taketh him up into
the holy city, and setteth him on a
pinnacle of the temple.
And saith unto him, If thou be the
Son of God, cast thyself down.
The temptation to achieve cheap
fame by performing wonders.
Again, the devil taketh him up into
an exceeding high mountain, and
sheweth him all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto him. All these things
will I give thee, if thou wilt fall
down and worship me.
The temptation to become a political
leader, to use the popular discon-
tent and His strategic position as a
working man’s leader as a tool for
His own advancement.
galization of bars in the state of New
York and permission to drink verti-
cally instead of seated at tables, it N. J.
seems that many of the hotel bars in
town find that their bars are patron-'
ized only when all available tables
are filled. If there is any moral to
the finding, I’d say it is that Ameri-
Do We Drink Wet
And Vote Dry
The time has come when the voter!
must do his own thinking, and not be
led by propaganda and false public-
ity.
We quote from an editorial several
weeks ago in The Houston Chronicle
by its editor, Judge Huggins. In this
editorial he lambasts Edgar Witt for
what he terms his radicalism and un-
safeness because of his belief that
perhaps again can industry absorb
the unemployed of today, and that
Mr. Witt's idea of security for this
unemployed would be to aid them in
securing land and equipment by
which they can earn their own living.
The honorable judge forgets that
most of this unemployed was taken
from the farms in the war and post-’
war periods when we had gone wild!
on expansion. Production was then!
wild.
He also criticizes Mr. Witt for his
belief in unemployment and old age
insurance and he fails to recognize
the fact that many of the country's
larger industries are effecting these
conomies and they consider them
economies.
women taxi drivers. Frances Kemp
drives and operates a dump truck in
San Francisco and Emily Libe oper-
"Did you ever hear anything so per-
fectly stunning!" exclaimed the
daughter of the house as she turned
ates a fleet of fifteen in Phillipsburg.-----
i the radio on to a new jazz tune.
That much criticized statue in Rock-
efeller Center Plaza is called "Prome-
theus Unbound,” but it is popularly
known as “The Man on the Flying
"No," replied her father. “The
nearest thing I ever heard to it was
when a train loaded with empty milk
| cans had a collision with another train
[ that was loaded with live ducks."
or
too
Bie
in
A Real Bagain For Hogs or Cows
We are Offering For This Week As Long
As Present Stock Last
WHEAT SMORTS........$1.45
- Buy Feed From -
CARTER GRAIN CO.
BAY CITY, TEXAS
none of the old ones have yet set up
this modern method of enabling peo-
ple to work in comfort. Both houses ________... ..... ..
of congress have air-conditioning sys- dates in the race, he says this of Ed.
terns, and so has the president’s pri-
vate office. Mr. Hoover had that done
when the structure was rebuilt, after
the fire that destroyed it in 1930.
Now President Roosevelt is having
his offices enlarged, and the whole
wing of the White House will be air-
conditioned. Some parts of the new
Commerce Building, the offices oc-
cupied by the secretary and some of
the higher officials, are also so equip-
ped, but congress has never been wil-
ling to appropriate money to extend
the system to entire buildings
Under the present governmental
system, whereby the president is
handed a few billions to spend about
as he pleases, it is expected that a fair
There is a void in the Mowery home slice of the public works administra-
caused by the fact that Ruth com-ton funds which Secretary Ickes
pleted her vacation visit and taking! manages, will go toward removing the
her two sweet kiddies with her de- , ist excuse of government clerks for
I parted for Longview where Mr. Bar- ' oafins on the job. Not that it will
ker is now stationed. If the Mowerys put an end to loafing, but they will
| never have known the meaning of have to discover new excuses, No bus.
I void they do now for a place is va- iness institution in the world operat-
I cant, a corner is empty and they miss ed for profit could keep out of bank-
| the laughter of children. | ruptcy if its employees did not work
From New York City comes this Eos or three times as hard as most
"I read your articles on your birth-work eral civil servants ever
day party. It was good and I only 5 ™
wish L could huv been there to cele- |
brate with you.” Having enjoyed an The completion of the new post of.
Feed the brutes until
they lay
around half conscious and then pump
religion into them.
I am informed that the Brownwood
water reached Lane City at noon, July
10, and pumps began picking it up.
It is expected to reach this county
the same night. All day Tuesday this
section was visited with heavy rains
| which were of great value to the rice
industry, also much aid to corn and
I feed crops. The Brownwood water
traveled about 450 miles to reach our
rice fields It cost the sum of $10,000
and is an illustration of the vigilence
| exercised by the water company. This
I water plus the ram, no doubt puts
the rice crop outof danger much to
I the delight and relief of the rice farm-
Quoting from the same editorial, in
which at the time he believed Allred
and Witt were the two high candi-
gar Witt:
“As • lieutenant governor and
throughout his long service at Aus-
tin before that, his kindly manner!
had endeared him to people through-
out the state. He is a cultured and
scholarly gentleman, and all who
meet him respect him for it. There
is that in his bearing which makes
you feel that first of all he is safe,
sound and conservative man."
Another paragraph from the sam
editorial is as follows:
“As a learned man, versed in the
fundamentals understanding of the
government of Texas, a real famil-
iarity with all its parts, an under-
standing of the elements of progress)
and an appreciation of the untouched
resources of this great state. Edgar
Witt needs to yield to no man." And
yet the Chronicle and the judge are
opposed to Edgar Witt, and accord-
ing to their own admission he seems
to be the perfect candidate. It would
seem that voters should do their own
thinking, ns it would not be safe to
follow the metropolitan dailies in
their advocacy of any candidate
Quoting from The Houston Press
of July 10, in an editorial they
have this to say of candidate Witt:
“Edgar Witt knows the problems of
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1934, newspaper, July 19, 1934; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696348/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.