The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER, BASTROP. TEXAS. Till RSDAY, KEBIU AKV 11#, Ut.U
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INFLUENZA
SPREADING
I Check Colds at once with 666.
Take it as a preventive.
USE 666 SALVE FOR BABIES
HEAD HI NTERS SHU' AGAIN IN
MARTIAL FLEET
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Rattle canoes which u few years
ago swarmed out of remote bays in
the South Sea Islands, filled with
varriors seeking heads and the bod-
it s of enemies to eat, are again
making martial voyages.
Manned by native crews in full
regalia, eleven of these fantastic
ihell-decorated crafts took part in
filming of Paramount';* new talking
j icture, "The Sea God". This pro-
duction featuring Richard Arlen, Fay
V. iay and Eugene Pallette, and film-
«•<! partly on a.i island in the Pacific,
Ss shewing al the^ Dixie Theatre, Sun-
Hav and Monday.
The war canoes are from thirty to
fifty feet long and have a capacity
of twenty to seventy-five warriors.
They are made with three planks on
each side and two narrow boards
forming a flat bottom. All the
beards have bevelled edges and are
pewn together by cords made from
the stems of vines. Th seams are
calked 'with a material something
like rosin, obtained from a jungle
tree.
Pearl shells in weird designs dec-
orate the sides of the canoes. At
both stern and stem are high beaks
ornamented with conch-shells. At
the bow, just below the line of shells
and close to the water, are heads
carved of wood. These are supposed
to watch for hidden reefs.
These clumsy appearing boats are
said to be remarkably sea-worthy
and natives have voyaged as far as
1 .r>0 miles in them. They are pro-
pelled by paddles and guided by a
steersman who stands in the stern.
In the scenes depicting an attack
upon a sailing schooner for which
they mnn their war canoes, the na-
tives carry carved spears eight feet
long. These are made of palmwood
and decorated with bands of colored
liemp. Many of them also carry
►tone war clubs.
PAIGE NEWS
(Too Late For Last Week)
The 4 11 Club had its regular meet-
i g Tuesday.
The president called the house to
or-!< r. and the secretary called the
roll and read the minutes. Five of
the girls sung "Grown in Dear Old
Texas."
Mrs. Vest got some of the girls
stalled on their pillow cases. A few
of the girls have already started.
Mr. Millington talked on grafting
grapes and gave each member some
grafts to take home.
The members then gave a yell and
the meeting was adjourned,
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I i:\DS N VTION IN KEPI\FRIES
I ■ >.a leads the tjon in timber
of |if.tr> leum r.^itn ri> s, but a t>.s
low among tIn- states in production
of valuable by-produc*« of its p> -
troleum output. (Authority: I>■ pint
inent of Commerce.)
"Remember Trade in your old
tires on new ones at Flzners."
Now is the time to prepnr,. your
INCOME TAX REPORT
Individuals - Corporations - Part
nerships.
Charges Moderate.
IAGO MEUSEBACH.
P O. Rox 211 Rastrop, Texas.
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MARIA RS
It was once my j rivilege to wit-
ness the establishment of a new
religion.
I he tounder was John Alexander
Dowie, who first appeared in the
< hicago newspapers as an obscure
ex hoi ter with a talent for strong
'anguage. Though lie went through
the city and suburbs hoding out-
door meetings, he attracted eompar
ativcly lijtle att> ntion until > on>-!
night a hoodlum hit him in the eye ,
with u rotten egg.
At once he assumed a new charac-
ter and importance. Instead of being
merely a sensational denouncer he
! came an incipient martyr a pro-
phet persecuted for his faith, ('(in-
verts Hocked to his banner, money
poured in, he founded his own city,
and finally proclaimed himself the
reincarnation of Elijah.
He had undoubted talent, but it
was the stupidity of his opponents
which persecuted him into success.
The fiery old doctor, with his pic-
turesque white whiskers, has long
since passed across the river, but
I think about him whenever the
newspapers begin to talk about the
danger of "Red Riots" and the police
break up a harmless mass meeting
with their clubs.
England, older and wiser than
we in many respects, manages these
things much better. Sin knowi timt
nn agitator is harmless nnk-ss you
try to suppress him. Only then dots
he become a menace. She sets aside,
one end of Hyde i'ark for the ex-
clusive use of th • agi'ntors. There,
every afternoon and especially on
Sunday, they mfc'et <and shoot off
their faces against the government,
the church and whatever else they
dislike.
One of the wisest things President
Hoover has done was to release the
foolish young men and women who
were arrested for picketing the
White House. He said that he did
not propose to let any silly folks
achieve "cheap martyrdom" at the
government's expense,
A wise man of an earlier day was
a Pharisee named Gamaliel. When
the first persecution of the Chris-
tians began he protested.
"Refrain from these men and let
them alone, for if this counsel or
this work be of men. it will come
to naught. Hut if it be of God. ye
cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye
he fnnnd even to fight against God."
If the Pharisees had taken his ad-
vice the new and struggling 1 it11>•
sect might conceivably have passed
out in obscurity. Rut thev went on
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TEX \S A L.MAX At' OF Itt.'U IS-
Sl El) R\ DALLAS .NEWS
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of t)i>
per-'1 cut ions an
>1'"rt vr■ be. anie t h seed
The Texas Almanac and State In-
dustrial Guide, edition of lli.'H, which
has just been issued by the Dallas
Morning News, might more properly
be called an encyclopedia of Texas.
Nearly everything one might wish
to know about Texas is found in this
new volume. Among the subjects
covered in articles and statistics are
agriculture and live stock raising,
manufacturing, commerce, finance,
minerals, railroads, highways and
automobiles, aviation, foreign com-
merce, geography and physiography,
forests and lumber production iiti-
gation, history, govenment, 'educa-
tion and churches and religious or-
ganizations.
New census figures are given.
There are several hundred articles
and statistical tables containing se-
veral hundred thousand facts about
Texas. There is a full text of the
State Constitution, with explanation
of each of the fifty-one amendments
that have been ratified since adop-
tion of the Constitution in 1K70. Con-
stitution of the United States is in-
cluded also, A folded sheet car-
ries on one side a political and rail-
road map and on the other side a
highway map. There are about
8,000 names and addresses of Fed-
eral and State officials, county and
district officials. Mayors, school su-
perintendents, chamber of commerce
secretaries, writers, painters, musi-
cians and others.
Questions such as the .following
can he answered from the Texas Al-
manac: When was Fort Phantom
Hill established? Where? What is
the deepest canyon in Texas and the
highest mountain? What was the
acreage production and value of
broom corn in Texas in 1! :!0" How
many airplane landing fields are
there in Texas? What railroad pro-
jects are to be under construction
in ltCll ? How many kinds of native
oak trees are found in Texas? What,
was the 1930 census population of
Winters Texas?
1 he new I exas Almanac contains
an article about each of the 254
counties, also brief 'articles about
the more important cities and towns.
While the primary purpose of the
Texas almanac is to give informa-
tion about I exas, certain other in-
formation of general interest is giv-
en. The new edition has 3K4 pages,
is printed on book naper and is illus-
trated with a number of half tones,
file price is 60c a copy by mail.
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VARIED SETTINGS
IN 'WAR NURSE'
Scenes Shift Front French Village
To "No Man's I.and."
"War Nurse," M-G M'* picture of
the woman's side of the war, which i
will In at the Dixie Theatre Thurs-
day and Friday, I-ehruary in and 20,
has several locations which add j
greatly to the color and atmosphere
of the frank and realistic story.
The dash of an ambulance full of i
war nurses across a shelled area oc- !
curred on "Hollywood's battlefield,"
an area of hundreds and hundreds of
acres. about thirty miles from Los
Angeles which has been made into
an > xact duplicate of "No Man's
Land." With its deep shell holes,
its barbed wires, and its technically
correct trenches, it has been used
time and time again for war pictures
For the romantic scenes between
.tune Walker, the stage star, and
Robert Montgomery of "The Divor-
et e" and "The Rig House", a com-
plete French village was built under
hig trees at the banks of a smoothly
flowing stream. A section of som-
nolent rural France was duplicated
in every detail, including an old-
fashioned Wooden water wheel.
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Hints for Homemakers
By Jane Rogers
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FRAN!; 'A,Ri\E.R
5TOCKBR1D6E
OPERA
Deem.- I aylor, American composer,
has had another opera produced in
New \ oi k. I hat doesn't mean much
to most people-. (Irand opera is a
form «> 1 musical entertainment which
appeals to only a comparatively few
people, with highly developed musi
cal tastes. One reason is that the
theme of grand opera is always
tragic. Most of us prefer so-ealled
"light" opera, which is tuneful and
amusing.
IO be accepted by any of the
world's gr> at opera-houses, of which
there are not more than a dozen, is
liowt vi r, a great triumph for any
composer. For only musical com-
positions which are purely original
in every phase and bar can pass the
rigid tests. h > w composers of po-
pular music are original. Nearly all
of them rework old musical themes
most of them originally composed b>
the composer of grand opera.
It is said to cost Otto H. Kahn,
patron (if the Metropolitan Opera in
New \ ork a quarter of a million a
year to make up the company's
losses. When Mr. Kahn passes, un-
less some new* "angel" with a taste
tor musical and a bottomless purse
comes to the front, grand opera in
New York will h>- a thing of the
past. it will continue in Europe,
w lere opi ra is supported by the tax-
payers' money.
A
newest and smartest note In
entertaining the over-night or
week end guest The guest Is
served a demi-tasse of black coffee
ju >t before nrlsiiii;.
If y< ur cellar stairs are badly
lighted, as most of thern are. It
lx a wise precaution to paint the
top and bottom steps white. The
whit" s'eps will show up In the
dark and ro far toward reducing
the possibility of a fall
CHAPLIN
Tt.e funny litti English Jew who
has for years been the world's most
popular entertainer has proved om
more that, in the hands of really
competent utists, pantomime is «\
effective as words. Charley Chaplin's
new picture is a "silent"' film, one
of the kind that needs no transla
ti< n to make it intelligible to ever-,
body, whatever language they ma;,
speak Long ago Chaplin began t
discard "ti'.hs' from his pictures
relying on the action alone to tel'
the story. And he has a larger fol
lowing and has made more money
than any other figure in the picture
There was a time when it seetr>-
as if the movies would make it nec-
essary for actors to learn the art
of expressing emotions by action, but
the talkies have dispelled that hope
It is so much easier to do it with
words, but also so much less effec
tive. It takes a real artist to be a
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"First in Peace"
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We bow our heads in tribute to the memory of the founder of
the greatest nation in the world.
I he Loyalty and Justice supreme in his soul mark the height
of honor toward which we shall strive, for recognition of true worth
is the greatest tribute man is capable of paying to man.
And First In I he Hearts of His Countrymen I"
First National Bank
good pantomimist, and except for
Chaplin and W. < . Field I think of
no first rati' pantomimist playing
> ithcr (ui the stage or in the pictures.
SI LVFU
Forty years age tin- dominant po-
litical issue in the l.'nited States was
whether we should put silver on an
equality with gold as tIn• basis of
money, by coining silver without re-
striction at the ratio of sixteen
■ 'nice- of silver to one ounce of gold,
i hat would have given silver a stable
price in tIk world's markets of SI.2a
being
silver
That
two
an ounce, or thereabout, gold
worth about !?20 an ounce.
Only once has the price of
reached tie- artio of 1(> to I.
was in H:ir. l!<2o, when for
years the price ranged between
$1.25 and $1..'M an ounce on the Lon
don Market. F.arly jn February
this year silver was sold in London
and New York for 2<> 1-2 cents an
ounce! The principal reason for this
i- the establishment of the currency
of India on a goal basis, in 1 !'2'>,
leaving in the hands of the Indian
government some five hundred mil
lion ounces of silver bullion to dis
nose of, of which only about a fifth
has found a market.
There is not enough gold today to
meet the world's needs a< a basis
of money. There was a long period,
af'>T the gold discoveries- in the Rand
and the Klondike*, when there was
more gold than was needed. Probably
thi present situation \s 111 revive the
movement for bimetallism. Rut in
time we shall measure money values
neither by silver nor gold but by the
average supplv and demand of com-
modities and labor."
thing reckless driving. Not fast
driving, neci. sai ily, for one may
drive recklessly at 20 miles an hour.
Turning a sharp corner at even that
speed is i eckles driving. Almost
half of the deaths occurred when a
I car struck a pedestrian. Sometimes
it was the pedestrian's fault, of
course. A quarter of those killed
1 wen- crossing streets in th> middb
1 of a block. Less than a quarter of
j the deaths occurred from collision j
i with another car.
The pitiful thing about the figure-
j for lU.'iO is that the number of ehil-
<1 ■ >-ii between five and ten who were
killed in motor accidents wn - nearly
ded during the year.
Two things may help this useless
slaughter. Fvery state should require
a license after an examination, before
anyone is permitted to drive a car.
And every person convicted of reck-
less driving should have his or her
licen •' revoked, and in aggravated
caess be sent to prison without the
option of a fine.
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ONLY "COTTON ("LOTH" ROAD
Texas ha the only 'cotton cloth"
road in the world—on Highway No.
.'1 near ^Gonzales. Cotton ^fabric is
used as the base for asphaltie ur-
facing. • V
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It's entirely
DEATH
The automobile death toll for lW'ft
lui - been compiled and it i« a ter
rifving record. \mericans
were killed in motor accidents, an
avi rage of almost a hundred a day.
Nearly a million others were injur
ed, !lfi2,32.r> to he exact. Total num-
ber of automobile accidents reported
for the year was- S.T.r>,2!>0.
These figures mean only one
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Standifer, R. E. & Standifer, Amy S. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1931, newspaper, February 19, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206729/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.