The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 22, No. 35, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 27, 1921 Page: 4 of 10
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1 1 IK I L'niKX K AVA1.ANC HI. IH.SDAY. Dr.C t.Mm.U 27 19 j I
THE LUBBOCK AVALANCHE
Published t'vriv Tuesday and I'rul -y by
THE AVALANCHE PUIUJSHING CO.
(Incorporated)
JAS. LTD O W . Editor and General Manager
Entered at the Postoffica at Lubboclc. Texas for
transmission thru the mailt as second class matter.
Subscription Price Per Yeur
"life is cheap in the united states
The Houston Chronicle calle attention in a
very graphic manner to the fact that we are rapid-
ly coming to look upon homicide not as an of-
fense against the State but as individual mat-
ters between the parties. It is often an occurrence
in our courts that lawyers offer as the chief de-
fense for persons accused of murder that the de-
ceased should have been killed. This is bad
enough but it seems that juries are beginning to
accept the reasoning of lawyers foe the defense.
In other words they try the slain rather than the
layer. Here's what the Chronicle has to say:
"Everything appears to have risen in value in
recent years except human life. It doesn t cost
so much to kill as it used to. therefore there is
more killings. Approximately 100000 persons
die violent deaths in this country each year twice
as many as died violent deaths during our army's
stay in Europe. Speaking roughly we have 12.-
000 suicides and 10000 homicides annually.
Quite a few of the homicides are committed by
men. or mobs of men. with the alleged motive of
upholding the law. The number of persons who
are excused from jury service because of disbelief
in capital punishment is increasing. As a general
proposition we are growing less and less inclined
to see the State take life but among ourselves
we are taking more of it. As citizens we shud-
der at the gallows or the electric chair but as
individuals we have come to look on several
things as worse than homicide. One wave of re-
form after another each accompanied by prew-
some pictures of the evil d be repressed has
tended to convince us that quite a number of of-
fenses justify the taking of life. The bootlegger
has taken the pK.ce of the hoethicf in this re-
spect. He is now looked upon as legitimate prey
for the gangsters who operate in the name of law
and order. Women have reacted to the sug-
gestiveness of the situation. There are many of
thin awaiting trial ri&ht now for homicide. An-
other consideration worthy of note in connection
t with our increased murder record is the fact
that in the public mind at least we are coming
to view the offense not as against the State or
society but as a matter of individual justice be-
tween slayer and slain. It turns out that more
than one trial is converted into an inquiry as to
the victim's character and that more than one
verdict hinges on the proposition of whether he
or she ought to have been kil'ed. Strange as it
may seem we are getting back to the primitive
viewpoint. Although all low is designed to pro-
tect and improve society and is based on the
theory that crimes are to be dealt with as of-
fenses against society we are coming to look upon
it more and more in the light of a method of
doing justice as between individuals. In other
words we are taking the element of revenge into
account and if we find that if a particular act
seems to conform to the average desire for ven
geance we are inclined to ignore what the law
provides. This of course tends to justify persons I
who on one pretex or another prefer to take the
law into their own hands and is yielding us an
unprecedented murder crop."
The above taken from the Houston Chronicle
in a dark nicture. but it only portrays the real ;
conditions and it is time that the people of Texas
and in fact the entire United States were awak-
ing to the awfulness of the times and bring about
reforr.i. There seems to be no way to do this
except at the ballot box. and the people who are
against crime in any way must vote solidly for
men who are willing to enforce the laws and are
uncompromising with those who violate them.
We are of the opinion that this trouble exists
from the highest tribunal to the lowest official
to a certain degree and as long as this is true
the land will be full of criminals and crime. Even
our governor who was so hardboiled on the par-
don problem has drifted from his avowed plat-
form and is turning criminals out on the world
after they have been sent there upon evidence
and by men whose sworn duty it was to act.
according to the evidence given them. Let s
put a stop to so much crime by dealing out
punishment according to the crime committed
and let those who comiv.it same know that they
are sure of punishment and we believe that our
condition will improve very materially.
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"The only power on earth that can enforce (he
law of public opinion" says the Memphis Com-
mercial Appeal. ""I hat state of public opinion that
looks with indifferent regard upon infraction of
the law is the greatest obstacle to the enforcement
of the law by those charged with its execution.
Too often influence stands ii the way of the pro-
cession of law."
"I he pits! year has been a pree.t on in ninny
repe ts. It has been a year of unsettled condi-
tions and people hardly knew where they were or
what to do. but the l.ubhotk bum h have kpet pret-
ty well on the right course and have accomplish
e"d many great things for the town and the entire
Nu'h Plains It .a made splendid progress. I here is
still larking of sufficient homes in Lubbock to take
care of those who want to come here and make
their home anil we hope that our people will con-
tinue to build and if possible speed up their build-
ing program to where it will something near fill
the requirements. The beginnings of the new year
is a kind of starting point in a life's relay race and
let us take up the race where 1921 dropped it
and go on in greater accomplishments and keep
Lubbock well in the lead of every other town in
the South Plains.
Santa Claus was in the land and he seemed
to be particularly busy around Lubbock last Sat-
urday. I le visited the widows and orphans and
the poor and needy and scattered good cheer
throughout the old town and made the season's
greetings real. The Elks and the Red Cross and
many others put in a good part of the afternoon
Saturday in the distribution of Christmas packages
to families who were unable to enjoy Christmas
from their own small income and would have
spent a gloomy Christmas had the thoughtful peo-
ple of Lubbock been thoughtless. But not so and
we believe that most every family in Lubbock was
made to enjoy the pleasures of a real Christmas.
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We have not forgotten the great need of a
tabernacle or an auditorium of some kind that will
fill the requirements of large gatherings in our city.
Possibly a real honest-to-goodness auditorium is
not within our reach at this time but we believe
that we must have some kind of a place provided
before many months. The churches clubs and
commercial organizations should join in the promo-
tion of a proposition of this kind. It has been
suggested that a tabernacle that will sei twenty-
five hundred or three thousand people and con-
structed so that it can be used in summer winter
and for all occasions that it might be used.
o
Petitions are now being circulated asking for an
elect on to vote bonds for the erection of a new
High School Building in Lubbock. Nothing is
needed worse than this and no good citizen will
surely oppose this issue. If Lubbo k is to grow
and our children are taken care of in pn educa-
tional way we must make additional provisions
for teaching them. This is not a matter of today
but it will mean much for the children of the
South Plains in future years.
o j
The Stamford Leader is now issued twice a j
week. It is even better now than it used to be j
as a weekly and the people are appreciating the!
efforts of the management of that p iper in giving j
them a paper twice a week. Stamford has a daily j
paper too but it is too much for the merchants
of a town the size of Stamford to carry an ad '
every day and they are patronizing the semi-'
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For After -Xmas Buyers
Our Christmas Deposit Plan
A HEARTY welcome to the 'many people who did
not get in before Christmas. Our stocks have
been newly replenished. Our smice instead of suffer-
ing f'roni the usual end-of-December let-down is alive
with lirst-of-the-year freshness.
We are still prepared to supply you with the Phono-
graph Comparison Card which helped hundreds of
shoppers to make scientific comparisons end score what
they heard. And we are glad to extend for your bene-
fit our wonderful Christmas Deposit J'lan.
7ic mansions Netf Edison
delivered for $
weekly in preference to
the
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daily.
The roads of Lubbock county should have
very attention possible. The funds available for
road work are not adequate to the needs and ad-
ditional taxes hould be levied for this purpose.
If a man shoots at another in attempt to kill
and his bond i $1.01)') and another deals a Ford
and his bond is $JS0O whiih is most valuable
life or Lord -l-ame. Keportrr.
No one has he.srd ol a convention of vege-
tarians protest gmnst the strike in tlie packing
plants.
o
T hot poll Ut receipt have you setured one
yet) I ha tax collector h ihetn fur sale.
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Your auto t.. ILv yu pid n)
You will hkrly want In vols on th haul
Lonl luuo and fur your I viit i n. lnl.it ui t.4.
and i nuiil y ollues lie it )rm u. i yn il.i nut buy
una ill lh U iillitr .oll Us fr ripls ymi will
t. tflld pf this IIVllrBs
The Attorney General has turned down the
pavtne bond issue of Canvon City on account ni
technecalities of the election. loo bad. People
should be exceedingly careful in the matter of
elections and see that everything is strictly in a -
cordance with the law so that there will be no
additionaLo.pen.se and delays that sometimes come
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when it is fiiscoverea mat mere is renny some ir-
regularity about the election.
o
The Lamesa Reporter was among the number
of exchanges that put out an extra large paper
last week it being a combination booster and
Christmas edition. It contained twenty pages in-
cluding a veiy pretty Christmas cover and will
be of ureal value to the community as it por-
trays Lie many advantages of that splendid com-
munity and introduces to the public many of the
live wide awake enterprises of that city.
o
Lee Satterwhite editor and publisher of the
Plains Stockman Farmer has changed the name of
that publication to the Texas Panhandle Journal.
Announcement of the change was made in an
issue published this week. Mr. Satterwhite said
that the paper would be published monthly at pres-
end but a little later he intended to issue weekly.
o
It is Lubbock's big task now and a real duty
as the trading center of the great South Plains to
provide a real market for everything that the peo-
ple raise in this great country. More factories are
needed to take up the products and convert them
into the finished product. This will stimulute busi-
ness and help the producer wonderfully.
f Fill in your on First pnvmmt )
-Many people lontr to have this marvelous instrument ahich smtaint
t!ie test of direct comparison with living artists. and brmp- M Kd
Mu-oc the nv.iMc hu-h soothes them lien nervous cheer them
when sad refreshes them when tire.! Mm t!irr Ix-lieve the New
Ikliion tMM'ond tlifiriiifwis U-caiiveiieiist Mr. Kdison three mil-
l;o:i dullnM to perfect. If toil feel this way come in now. Name
the amount von fs'l aMe to pav. As long as it is suflicirnt to in-
dicate good faith we'll accept it (is initial deposit and deli ver jour
New Ktlison n lure. The balance ou WBJ bildtjet according to
voik cKinen; i e. S hv ih lav nnj uvgcT. You can make ue
Sew Ldi'im jour uo. Come iu.
RIX
BIG SPRING
FURNITURE AND
UNDERTAKfNG CO.
THE MOLSE OF SATISFACTION"
LL'BBOt
It rnn esn't eome. mll the eoupim. tt
hrWijt f.i I ri-tsil of th n.lrrful
ClirttMiiK t"t".'t I1ti sml tr!l vnu ho
ju in v t I ito'io ynur Nr K.iimn
Good impressions are worth while. This is nrtt
ncresvar.ly confined to individually but towns and
communities should also bear this in mind and
keep the house in orderd that those who go and
come through our town will be so favorably im-
pressed with it that they will want to come back
and even want to make it their home.
The South is in deep sorrow even during the
yuletide made so by the passing of one of here
foremost and highly appreciated editors Henry
Watterson. Mr.' Watterson played a conspicuous
part in helping his country get back on its feet af-
ter the Civil War and reconstruction periods and
his place will be hard to fill.
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Hundreds and hundreds of new farm homes
are being built and are being built the past year
and thniMunds of acres of new land will be pu!
in cultivation and the prospects are that the great
South Plains will produce one of the most won
brful crops that has been known in the history
f the Plains.
'I he people of the South Plains wrre sliglillv
disappointed that th'V ill I not get M youd Miiiv.
r ram. but in.iv be It will come as a New Year's
v I ilhet way Will do and if net ru. try nil April
tool will bo appret ialrd.
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'I ha iiiakt tip man says hn niU tins imii h to
fill this i"!unin. but aliniil all we imii sty we
4V0 pl't palt.tktfll of a real luiLny dinner Ml lh
'ii.Iii ol OMI hhiiiI liirud I'l.'l M M lupl Mini
lie. and to l i.u full lul uIUmii
! renkfasi he suffered nn seute hron-
ci:il attn.-lt and wss ordered ti his
i hi d t'V his hyi inn. Hs condition
grew wnrs-e duririr the !hv and r;vrht
until the end ame nt 6;l.' o'clock
this ni"rnirir. The immediate eaiise
(.f h's den'h his nhyiii ian said was
heart failure stipe ruidured hy ron-gi-MMnn
of thf lv:nifs.
1 him 'Mre lleerv' raised ta
Jacksonville Us Per. ('id. h.-it heatittful hnrr" where last ()-
Henry Watterson known to the Am- t..ler. he wrote his comrades of the
eriran people as the nestor of the confederate Armv during the Chat-
surviving members of the old d'hrml nm retinmn he was sure "The
or journalism and to his Inenrts as Honnie Rlue Hag will he flying at
.iiarse nenry men eariy looay si the fore and the hands will be play
noiei nere.
Henry Watterson
Veteran Editor
Died In Florida
ABER N ATMY MEN VISIT
LUBBOCK fRIDAY AFTERNOON
Death came peacefully the ven-
erable editor retaining consciousness
almost to the end and conversing dur-
ing his last half-hour with his wife
son and daughter.
Colonel Watterson came to Jack-
sonville several weeks ago in accord-
ance with his annual custom of pass-
ing the Winter in Honda usually at
Fort Myers. He contracted a slight
cold Tuesday and whiie seated in a
rhair yesterday morning soon after
ing Pixie on parade and tn pret-
ty girls will he distributing The
Chattanooga Rebel" the newspaper
puhlirred by him during the war be-
tweer the States to srroups of rsgged
red-nosed angels who have not for-
gotten the rebel yell."
J. T. Runnels of the Bird 4 Pean
Pry (ioods Company of Brownfield
passed through Lubbock todsy en
route home from Kails where he
spent Christmas.
('. (!. (I xidmnn and Editor Red-
man were here r'ndiiy from Aber-
ratliv loe ing after business. They
are Loom iiiit their town to the I a ft
tliti h and declare there is going to
be something to the oil business thers
yet. Thoe A'-rtiathy men ars to he
admired for the courage with which
they are ging about their business
of developing that part of the plains
and here is hoping that thy will
meet with success in their every un-
dertaking There is goirf to be a
lot of publicity given Abernathy
through the recently orgnired Cham-
ber of Commerce an account of
which was in our last issue and wa
are sure that all those men are after
is for people of other localities to
know the truth of their country. I
J. B. Morrlssett student in Lub-
bock Business College left Saturday
to spend several days with bomefolks!
at Beard.
Simmons'
Wishes that all friends will enjoy much prosperity
in 1 922 and that we will have a part in making the
year prosperous for you.
0
Simmons Furniture & Under-
taking Company
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Dow, James L. The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 22, No. 35, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 27, 1921, newspaper, December 27, 1921; Lubbock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth288500/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .