The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1937 Page: 2 of 4
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THE ALTO HERALD. ALTO. TEXAS. JULY 1. 1937.
The A!to Herald
Issued Weekly
Alto. Tc\;^
Woodmen Circie Home For Aged
and Orphans At Sherman To Be Dedicated
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srnscnirTION RATES:
One Ye^r $1.30
Six Months 75
Formal obituaries resolutions of re-
spect and persona] eards of thanks
will be charged for at the regular
advertising rates.
A NOTABLE ECLtrsp
The total eclipse of the sun which
vas observed at its best in the mid-
die of the Pacific Ocean on June 8
was one of the most notable in his-
tory. its maximum period of totality
being seven minutes and four sec-
onds. only 26 seconds shorter than
the longest possible. !t will be sev-
eral months before the full signifi-
cance of the new photographs can be
interpreted.
Total eclipse of the sun visible in
the United States are very rare, the
jast being that of August* 31. 1932
while the next will not occur until
]945, when one will be visible in
portions of Idaho and Montana.
In 1954 another will be seen along
a path from Nebraska to Michigan;
in 1970 one will cross Florida, and
in 1979 one will be visible in the ex-
treme northwestern part of the coun-
try.
But the next total eclipse to be
.seen over any considerable area of
the United States will be that of
2017. It will sweep entirely across
the continent, through Oregon. Col-
orado. Tennessee and intervening
states, passing into the Atlantic in
the vicinity of Wilmington. N. C.
But few people now living will see
that one.
Other total eclipses visible in por-
tions of the United States will occur
during the 21st century in the years
2024. 2044, 2045, 2032 and 2073.
Which is far enough to look ahead
for the present.
A PARSONS TRAVELS
Some remarkable facts concerning
the travels of the Hew Lorenzo
Dow, who was born in Connecticut
n 1777, are given by the Christian
Science Monitor, which calls him the
most traveled preacher of his time.
When it is considered that he lived
before the days of railroads or steam-
boats, the records of his travels art
amaxing.
When 23 years of age, he covered,
in seventy-two days, 1.500 miles, con-
ducting 184 services of between two
and (hrec hour? each. This aver-
aged almost twenty miles and three
sermons a day. A year later he
Maintained the same average for a
longer period, covering 4,000 miles
-4n seven months. It is said that he
finished his tour without shoes,
stockings, or outer garments.
For many years he traveled from
7,000 to 10,000 miles a year, holding
from 600 to 700 meetings each year.
He visited England and Ireland, and
on one of these trips traveled fifty
miles and held nine meetings in
fifty-two consecutive hours. On an-
other occasion he traveled 1.700
miles and held 200 meetings in sixty-
^even days, an average of about
thirty miles and three sermons a
day.
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Nine years ago this fall, in the city
of Sherman. Texas, ground was
broken for the first building of the
Home for Aged Members and Or-
phan Children of the Supreme Forest
Woodmen Circle. The official ground
breaking ceremony fell on the birth-
day of Mrs. Dora Alexander Talley.
then national secretary of the society.
Today word is received from na-
tional headquarters in Omaha, Neb.,
that the board of directors has
unanimously decided to name the
administration building of the Home
for the woman whose birthday w'.-
celebrated so uniquely in November
1928—Mrs. Dora Alexander Talley,
now national president of the Wood-
men Circle.
The tribute to Mrs. Talley was
well-deserved, it was said, for the
Home is responsible to Mrs. Talley
for its very existence. It was in her
mind, more than a docadc ago, that
the Home was born. She has fol-
lowed its every step from the time
the land near Sherman was pur-
chased until the present. She has
supervised the Home activities and
is beloved by all of its residents.
The first and largest building of
the $500,000 Home will be given its
new name in a special dedicatory
service in Sherman on or about Mrs.
Talley's birthday this year, the direc-
tors announced.
Thomas Jefferson's dominating
trait was his love ol liberty, and it
was as a champion of human rtP-
dom that he desired to be know.t to
posterity. This was illustrated by hts
tpitaph, written by himself for n-
.cription upon his tomb:
"Here is buried Thomas Jefferson,
author of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; and of the statutes of Vir-
ginia for religious freedom; and
father of the University of Virginia."
No reference is made to his ser-
ices as governor of Virginia, mem-
ber of Congress, minister to France,
scrrctary of state, vice-president
^ and twice president of the United
States. In his own estimation his
services in the cause of liberty stood
I above all these.
Freedom of government, freedom
of education were the paramount ob-
jectives of his life, as epitomized in
his epitaph. Born an aristocrat.
Thomas Jefferson became the ardent
defender of the masses and one of
the greatest exponents of human li-
berty the world has ever known.
BEUEV!NG NONSENSE
WEALTHTEST WOMEN
As the result of a survey made by
Fortune magazine, it has been dis-
closed that only about one-third of
the country's greatest accumulations
of private wealth is in the hands of
men. the remainder being owned by
23 women, each of whom is worth
more than 25 million dollars.
Perhaps the two best known to the
public are Doris Duke Cromwell, the
tobacco heiress, and Barbara Hutton,
now the Countess Ilaugwitz-Rcvcnt-
low, whose fortune came from the
Woolworth five and ten-cent stores.
These are also the youngest of the
country's extremely rich women.
Five of the 23 arc inheritors the
estates of the late Payne Whitney
and Harry Payne Whitney, three
share in the Dodge automobile for-
tune. three derived their money from
the Woolworth stores, three have in-
terests in the Atlantic and Pacific
Tea Company, and the rest are
widows or daughters of financial
giants in various lines.
Only one. Mrs. Matthew Astor
Wilks. is heir to a fortune made by a
woman. She is the daughter of the
late Hetty Green, from whom she in-
herited about 80 million dollars. Mrs.
Andrew Carnegie, widow of the
famed steel magnate, is one of the
wealthiest 23.
About half of these rich women
take an interest in their business af-
fairs. and more than half engage in
philanthropic enterprises on a large
s?a!c, . _
RATS CAUSE TYPHUS FEVER
THE INVENTORS
Bed Cross Nurses Combat
^ Disease on Wide Front
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^ At the close of the fiscal year ended
June 30, there were 673 Red Cross
nurses bettering health conditions and
caring for the sick in 604 communities.
These Red Cross public health nurses
cared for a total of 233,614 persons
during the year and made more than a
million visits on their behalf.
The annual report of the American
Red Cross states further that these
Burses cooperated with doctors In ex-
amining 671.057 school and pre school
children, with 342,861 physical defects
found and curative treatment ar-
ranged in 209.hso cases.
In 979 Red Cross chapters 1,733 grad-
uate nurses taught Red Cross home hy-
giene and care of the sick, issuing cer-
tiBcates to 53,126 persons completing
the courses. In addition, L777 Red
Cross reserve nurses were called upon
during the year for disaster and epi
demic control work.
Two policemen who arrested the
wrong man were sued by John A.
Tryon of Boston and had to pay him
$500.
Of eight inventions which Dr. C.M.
A. Stinc calls "milestones of railroad
progress," none was invented by a
man whose business was railroads
Morse, who invented telegraphy
was an artist. Pullman was a Chicago
street contractor and the railroads
were reluctant to adopt his sleeping
car. Eli H. Janney, who patented
the first automatic car coupling was
i clerk in a drygoods store. The au-
tomatic block-signal system was or-
iginated by a retired textile manu-
facturer. Thomas S. Hall.
Westinghouse was a 23-year-old
carpenter-machinist when he invent-
ed the air brake. A physician in-
vented the vestibule buffer, eliminat-
ing open piatforms. The refrigerator
car was largely developed by pack-
ers. And the first electric locomotive
was designed by Moses G. Farmer, a
school teacher.
Charles F. Kettering, head of
General Motors' research depart-
ment and one of America's greatest
inventors today, says a man seldom
ever invents anything in (lie fiola
jn which he is trained—he knows too
much about the obstacles.
Kettering, incidentally, helped de- }
veiop the fever machine now used
by physicians to cure pneumonia, !
paresis and St. Vitus' dance.
Austin, Texas, June 21.—Texas
sustained a fifteen million dollar loss
last year, on account of rats, declared
Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Of-
ficer. The figure is a very low es-
timate based upon the probable num-
ber of rats in the State, two for each
person. No doubt many suffer losses
that would pay their taxes, and thi.^
does not take into consideration the
losses from diseases, time, and
money, caused by the rat.
Typhus fever is on the increase in
Texas, said Dr. Cox. and the rat i:
the cause of its spread. Old World
typhus fever has a high death rate,
while the type we have in Texas,
sometimes called Brill's Disease, lu^
a low death rate. It occurs among
persons who work or live in rat in-
fected buildings. It was the observa-
tion of this fact that led to the dis-
covery th:tt rats are carriers or trans-
mitters of the disease. It appears that
the rat suffers attacks of this form
of typhus fever and that the fleas
harbored by the sick rat bite man
and thus human infection results.
THE ANTIQUE RACKET
In an effort to stimulate the in-
terest of the American people in
historic objects, such were placed
on the duty-free list by an act of
Congress in 1906. The plan has not
worked out so welt, and now the
Treasury Department is advocating
the imposition of a duty again.
It is declared that between 75
and 80 per cent of so-called antiques
imported into the United States dur-
ing the last 30 years have been fakes,
and statistics are quoted to substan-
tiate the statement.
In 1906, the last year that duty
was charged, imports of antiques to-
talled only $478,000. In later years,
imports have at times gone beyond
600 million dollars. Tha Treasury
-ays that obviously no such store of
eal antiques could have been found
by collectors in England, whence
most of the imports originated.
Whether the renewal of duties is
the best solution is a question, but
at least there should be increased
vigilance by inspectors, and by pur-
chasers as well, to curb the antique
racket, whereby the government : nd
American suckers are defrauded of
- n' t sums.
Most high school graduates turned
loose upon the world this year, and
every year, look upon life with mind.*
befogged with superstition, accord-
ing to Dr. II. J. Arnold, eminent
psychologist of Wittenberg College,
who recently enumerated a few of
the silly beliefs he found prevalent
among them.
Upon asking freshmen entering
psychology classes last year to sub-
mit to examinations on their beliefs
and disbeliefs, he discovered that 50
per cent of more than 200 believed
that women have powers of intuition
with which men are not equipped,
that expectant mothers can mark
their unborn by frightening exper-
iences, that beavers know when to
prepare for a long, cold winter, that
ted makes a bull wild, that chess de-
velops powers of concentration.
Nearly half of them believed that
dogs howling foretold death, that
I long slender hands indicate an ar-
tistic nature, that civilization is al-
most entirely a product of the white
race, and that if you stare long
enough at a person's back you will
force him to turn around.
As many as 25 per cent still cling
] !o the idea that a receding or stream- !
j iined chin denotes lack of will power,!
j that silent men are deep thinkers,
that fat ones are always good-
j natured, and that you can read
character by bumps on the head, or
by depressions in the skull.
And every one of the ideas men-
tioned arc without the slightest foun-
dation in fact. All are sheer non-
sense.
TRY
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Your Locai Merchants First
!f They Don't Have !t—You (
Get What You Want in
LUFKM
sons of
Rogt"
and Mrs.
Mr. an
The Merchandising (enter of East Texa;]
juarles ^
Less PrittR
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More Quality
Greater
Easily Accessable
Variety
Better Servit
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Merchants Division—Chamber of Comnm
tecessity for special attention to dull
hildren, and every aid which may
je given these unfortunates ought to
je given. But a lot of bright ones
leed some thought and practical as-
sistance, too.
Education of the masses to a cer-
tain common level is to be desired,
but unless the boy who shows ex-
ceptional talent can be given special
opportunities to develop his talent
powers, not only he, but the world
at large, is the loser.
Thousands of mediocre boys gc.
through college with little benefit to
themselves or to society, while other j
thousands who have great gifts arc i
denied the privilege, through lack}
of means.
That any boy with exceptional
talent for creative work, scientific
Dr. Dan Tucker
DENTtST
PHONES:
Office 58 Residence 176
OVER THEATRE
ALTO - - - TEXAS
THE GHFTEM CHH !)
We hear a good deal about the
BETTER LAYERS )
Chickens and Turkeys Drinking
SULPHO SOLUT!ON
are free of parasites and are
healthy, better layers. Use Sul-
pho sprayed on roosts and nests
once a month.
Free your fowls of lice, mites,
fleas, blue bugs. etc. Introductory
offer on H.00 size for only 69c.
Sold by
ALLEN DRUG STORE
Alto. Texas
DUDLEY LAWS0N
ALTO. TEXAS
Attorney Md Ctmnsttor 2t t:w
MOTARY )N OFFtCE
research or leadership
the opportunity to make the
that talent is a tragedy.
boys and their proper traia
pends the progress nf the w:
same is true of especially :
girls.
When our civilisation in
farther advanced, means t
provided that our bnghtts:
shall have every opportmi
their highest development
means should be provided:
AS RELIABLE AS W]
OW N FAMH V DOCD
Low Prices anj
Dependable Sw
Choose your druggi. t
your doctor. Choose cr.t;
you can rely upon fori
honesty and reliai
Allen's your drug
Through the m;;t
have served Alto, our H]
tion has been built om
and fair dealing. Next tot!
own doctors, our customm!
pend on our dm^
liable service.
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The heavy copper door on a
C.t'holit shrine in Lackawanna,
N. Y.. was recently removed from its
hinges by thieves.
nay winyyw
PLAVtMB
AGA!N OiHmoRGtNMAi
Giulio Nardini of London, pe-
titioning for the annulment of his
marriage, testified he thought he was
only getting engaged.
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PAUL WHtTEMAN and BAND
AL! CHO'" Of !'x! ? ?OU*
Seven days after a gnl weighing
ten pounds was born to Mrs. E. R
Ashton of Davenport, la., a nine-
pound son was born to her at a
hospital
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Fairbanks, Alaska, has an ordt
Tiancc "to keep moose off the side-
walks
( Houlk of Satillo, Mtss., has
transplanted more than 100 trees
from foreign countries on his front
lawn.
a
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1937, newspaper, July 1, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214854/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.