The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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The Houston Chronicle's
Christmas Offer Rate Is
$5.95
Daily & Sunday
ONE YEAR
Regular Bute
$y.oo
BY .MAIL ONLY
IN TEXAS,
AKK. &
LA.
SIX MONTHS
Daily AL $3 45
Sunday
A,, V $2.25
ONLY
$4.50
DAILY ONLY
ONE YEAR
Regular Kate
$6.00
GOOD ONLY UNTIL DECEMBER 2S 1931
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ion exsi ts in other counties, and,
in every other branch of government.1
The >>ff;cer an hardly to >><• blamed
for following precedent* that have W
been followed for y> .u> at..: i special (JBKfe
1> where they track the law.-. The
laws md prccedet ts are at farit,
y to
'.bouv'*. in I i re - u lik' '
any lelief until th>* taxptyer- rai-t
vigorous protests. To u > this effei-
I tively, those who pay tho expen.-es
j of government should fin i out just
where the leaks are, in i then should
apply the reme Iy. Williamson coun
ty has pointed the way for others to
follow. It is up to the people to put
a stop to wasteful practices in govern-
i ment.
Over-Supplying Teachers
A writer in the San Antoni i Ex-
press, calling attention to the fact
that Texas is now training about ten
teachers for every one that can hope
to secure a position, urges that this
! wasteful practice be stopped by elim-
1 mating teacher-training courses from
a number of the State supported
| schools and increasing the efficiency
I of the others. Texas had, in 1929 30,
(>H senior and junior colleges for
whites offering work leading to tea-
cher:-' degrees and glutting the tea-
cher market at an immense expense
to the State. The extra expense of j
i summer schools for teachers is a bur
den that hardly seems justified when
the small demand for teachers is eon
sidered. Besides the huge item of :
| cost to the State in training ten times
as many teachers as aiv needed, it is
! unfair to prospective teachers them-
selves to encourage them to spend
their time and money in special pre-
1 paration to enter a profession known
i to be so overcrowded.
Texas and Texans
"ALL TEXANS FOR ALL TEXAS'
By Will H. Maves
Wasting Tax Monies
study, a Williamson county committee
In many Texas counties, taxpayers | has reported that the present coun-
organizations are now looking close- ty tax rate of Oil cents can be reduced
ly into costs of county government from 30 to 50 per cent without im-
to see where savings may be made, pairing the county government.
After several months of intensive Doubtless the same wast, ful condit-
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Well Dressed
with places to go
IN the Ray '90s a chicken didn't go very far,
no matter how good it was! The "marketing"
of poultry was pretty much a local activity and
a daily "cash market" was unheard of. One lo-
cality might have an acute shortage while
another not far awny might be watching its
chickens grow old and stringy. There was no
highway between supply and demand.
Swift & Company, thirty years ago, bent its
energies toward making a national market for
poultry, butterfat and eggs. That national
market exists now. Northeastern States consume
each year 350 million pounds of poultry their
own people do not produce. Eleven states in the
Middle West sell 200 million surplus pounds an-
nually outside their own borders.
Two hundred thousand farm patrons sell
poultry, butt a fat and eggs for cash to Swift &
Company at more than 100 produce plants. In
place of the one town market of spring wagon
days, they have thousands of markets. Every
one of approximately 400 branch houses, every
one of 10,000 towns on refrigerator enr routes is
a potential outlet for every chicken dressed in a
Swift plant.
All dressed up and 10.400 places to go!
Leaser! wires everywhere keep our executives
informed where produce market s :tre best. Supplies
are hurried to these points. Dement: is enhanced
by advertising brands of high quality, Premium
Milk fed Chickens and Golden West Milk fedFowl
among them. Service is complete and charges
for it are low. No other system returns a larger
share of the consumer's dollar to ti e producer.
Swift Sr. Company profits for y • •• have aver god
less than one-half cent per j ounu of product .old.
Swift & Company
Purveyors of fine foods
739
Gift of Fine
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Too Many Journali>tK
Eight or ten schools of journalism I
could easily train all the journalists
needed to fill all the positions in jour-1
nalism in the United States. When
the first schools of journalism were!
organized in this country, it was with
the idea of giving journalism profes
sional standing such as law ami med- j
icine have. The instruction was large-
ly postgraduate at first, and every
head of a school of journalism hoped
to make it entirely so after a few,
year- of experimenting in the new
field. Instead of that, the teaching:
of journalism has become a high
school, and in some places even a
ward school fad. and "courses in
journalism" are given even in the pub-
lic school grades, thus destroying all
hopes of dignifying journalism as a
profession. Practically every State ————————
supported school in Texas now has a ,
journalism department, conducted by | in nearly every part of the State.
inexperienced teachers, largely as a i
source of publicity copy for the in-' Roads Give Employment
stitution, and most high schools are! Every road contract let in a coun-
doing the same thing. I his is a t,, prjV{,g employment to many who
needless expense, unfair to taxpay-; , .. . , ...
- rs and students alike. Not one in1 sPend tht',r m(,ney wh,'re they e,a,n
twenty of these students ever find j it- Uvalde reports that the employ
employment as a result of what they ment of 50 men on
are led to believe is training for the ] gives noticeable
profession of journalism. ' ployment situation. Austin has stored
its ditch-digging machinery to give
two-day employment each week to
200 laborers with picks and shovels.
JEWELRY
.. is a joy forever
A large Variety of the
NEWEST QUALITY GIFTS
You will find here a most suitable gift and
at just the price to suit your purse and
REMEMBER at
a saving of
2050 %
Jas. P. Wood
Jeweler and Optometrist
thru the winter than was
able to go
expected.
Little Alice Stagner
the sick list for a few
improving at this time.
has
day
been on
but is
the roads there
relief to the unem-1
Tax Supported I.aw Schools
Lawyers were once regarded some-
what as officers of the law, train- _
; I to - e that all citizens get justice. ; Everybody Busy _
I hey were expected to keep the seal Spinach growers at f rystal < ity .re
es of justic, evenly balanced. Law- rn-w busily cutting and marketing the
yers themselves have exploded that \ crop, shipping from 30 to fiO cars
theory, and law practice has largely
become a battle of wits to see who
can i;vt the greatest advantage for
hi client -. Their.*- is no longer a pub-
lie service, and all too often of a
questionable kind. Why should the
eacn day when the weather is fav
orable. Fall tomato shipments are
to the town's daily re-
also adding
venue.
j State continue to train them at pub
! lie expense, and especially to prepare
i a greater number than can find pr.ic-
I tice of a kind that reflects cre-
dit upon the Stat* and the
institution that graduates them?
J Many ar asking this question. That
it is not necessary, it is shown that
in practically every city in Texas
there are privately conducted law
schools, taught by experienced law-
yers, whose students cope successfully
with the very best in law examin
ation*.
Curbing The Air
Every owner of a radio will con-
cur in the- effort to be made by Con-
gress to restrict the time that broad-
casting stations may use in adver-
tising. It is true that the stations arc
Pecan Exhibits
The Llano Chamber of Commerce
will arrange a permanent pecan ex
hibit showing about 100 varieties of
pecans grown in the county. A1
though price are unusually low, the
pecan crop is giving employment to
large numbu-s of people this win-
ter in gathering and shelling the nuts.
There is need for each continuity to
find the best and most profitable pe
can for that section and then to dc
citle upon sum ■ plan of uniformity in
planting and in top-working old trees.
Only in this way can a pecan mar-
ket be successfully stabilized.
Asbestos Development
Eastern financiers have leased a
1:5,000 acre tract of land near Fred-
| erieksburg, on which they will mine
'and prepare asbestos for market. It
School News
Friday night, a trustees' meeting
was held at the teacherage. The fol-
lowing things were attended to.
Christmas Committees were ap-
pointed.
Curtis Fleming, together with a
helper that he chooses, gets the tree.
Mr. Arthur Hancock and Mr. Edgar
Owen were oppointe i to purchase the
fruit, candy, etc.
For trimming the tree, the com .
mittee was left to volunteers. All)
ladies are invited to help.
The committee, to take up the
money, for the purchase of fruit etc.
was not appointed. It was decided to
let the children act as a committee.
A discussion of whether to draw
all water from the cist' rn or to purify
it was a topic for a while. It was
decided to put charcoal in the ci. torn.
The hot dish for the lunch was "te
chief topic of discussion. It was de-
cide i to follow the method we have
followed the past two weeks for a
while longer. The hot dish for lunch
is for the health of the children. It
also should help the mother, too in
not having to prepare as much lunch
as she previously did. The question
of meat came up. Some one sug-
gested that we buv a beef and let the
mothers can it. We "figured" on the
cost and found that it "might" be
about 3a cents per child. We left this
for later work until after Christmas.
Oak Hill needs to revive their I'. T.
A.
The date for the Christmas tree
was changed. It is to be Wednesday
night in place of Thursday, Christmas
Eve. Also, our program will be Wed-
nesday night.
Three boys Woodrow Dunkin, bar-
rel! Hancock, Lawrence Dunkin put up
stops for the volley ball court. They
were assiste. 1 by Mr. Arthur Han-
cock.
I'he girl- made corn muffins the
past week. The boys are still work-
ing on the wa >te baskets.
The children are taking monthly ex-
aminations this week. We are afraul
their grades will not be as high. Too
many programs bring the school work
down sometimes.
Every purchase of $1.00 entitles
you to a fish in the Hig I'oncl, on Dol-
lar Day at C. Erhard & Son.
Make our paper yo.ir pap"r —
phone us your locals and news itemi.
Read the ads—Save money
able to put on better programs be-ji* claimed that the product is of long
1 fiber and excellent quaity, and a pro-
cause of the revenue secured from ad-
vertising. but too much time given to
advertising talk> or propaganda of
any kind is an imposition that most
listeners resent.
fitable business is expected.
Cattle Judging
It is to be expected that the sec-
tion that produces the best cattle in
the world should also have the best
judges of cattle. That distinction at
the International Livestock Show, in
| Chicago, went to II. F. Kothmann, a
Mason boy trained at A M. College
to know cattle. Two other members
of the same judging team; L. Han-
som of Lamesa, and C. M. Caraway,
Jr., of De Leon, also won individual
honors. These young men, proficient
in their studies have done something
of which to be proud.
Drrw Factory
A dressmaking factory, formerly
operated in New York, has secured
a location in Brownsville, and ex-
pects to employ 1",0 workers in n ek-
ing women's dresses.
Generosity of Right hind
Appreciating the fact that he was
being provided for at the State Or
nhan ••' Home at Corsicana, and that
otlit rs were more needy, Abner Hags-
dale, an inmate of that home, raised
a hog in connection with his agricul-
tural course, fatt ned it and sold it,
[lending the money to buy groceries
for fiv needy families of tin- com
inunity. Can you beat that?
Valley Boat Shipments
The fir t commercial shipment of
fiti'it fruit from Corpus Christi to
\'i \\ Orlenn directly by boat was
made recently. Regular shipments
a v to hi made on this route under
a hour refrigeration service. It
will not br long un'il citrus load .1
boat going up the Mi'-sis.-ipp river
ill be a- usual a .--ight as b tnaiia
OAK HILL. December 13—Lots of
rain, and now a cold norther is blow
, ing. We imagine hog killing will be
the order of the day. Some beef has
i been canned recently, and more will
be canned during the winter.
Mr. and Mrs, Albert Cottle and Mrs,
Ellen Jarrell spent Thursiay at Mr.
Grover Scott's in the Wayside Com-
munity where they attended a meat
canning and canning lemonstration.
Mr. and Mk. Kenneth Moore of
! Young* Prairie community, have ju t
| nwed into our neighborhood on the
1 Hancock farm. \\ <■ all join in wel-
coming this newly W<' couple to our
j midst and wish th m much happim
and success.
Mr. and Mr A. II. Hancock, and
j little daughter Jo< nell and Miss <•/, I
Fort were visiter in Bastrop Salur-
j day.
' The Methodist minister of Bvtrop
fill.
: ft.
d hi-
rnoot
wife.
M-
i rell lin.i-
n McDa
boat-,
!I. |,er
Train load
North are
Eight car
recently and stated
would be coming
wint r. Land sal.
- Coining
of home -eekei
again coining
loads w re in
s from the
to Texas.
K ingsville
that many other-
Tcxasward thi~
s are picking up
all
Pie \
the |
Mi
Elvin visitors
Quite n few
keted hen
appointment here Sunday
lie was accompanied by
P.uffa l ;i Hi
lusine; s \ i it or-
Mi . Henry Wolf >f >
i re hi: in< vi it■ ■ hi
oek.
Mi . Albert C. tile w.
Friday.
turkey- h.
the past we.
fairly good price that
for them, th. people
ve
k.
has
will
b"«n mnr-
With the
been paid
be bett.-r
U i VA
fl.v ft
"Shucks . • I'm
Rich Now . ."
SEE WHAT
COUN I IN
PROUD?
HIS
HIS
HE'S
DADDY GAVE
OWN NAME.
HIM?
AND
ALREADY TOLD HIS
A BANK AC-
IS THAT BO\'
PALS HE'S GO-
ING IO "SAVE EVERY
EROM NOW ON."
DIME AND NICKEL HE GE fS
A SPLENDID, THRIFT-TEACHING, CHRISTMAS GIFT
IDT'A FO RANY PARENT.
THE FIRST
NATIONAL BANK
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Standifer, R. E. & Standifer, Amy S. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1931, newspaper, December 17, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206770/m1/3/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.