The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 1924 Page: 4 of 8
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GREAT BIG MAN FOR
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Pratient
certainly
harvest
A
cool kitchen
soothes
troubled nerves
Garland Adair
CREED.
In this issue of the Herald will be
the announcement of Hon. Will
C. Edwards of Denton county for
Lieutenant Governor, together with
his picture.
We have known Will Edwards for
nearly a quarter of a century, since
he was a young fellow, and know him
to be big enough for lieutenant gov-
ernor, and if be, for governor, and
the people will make no mistake in
elevating him to this important office.
His people in Denton County are
backing him to the limit, because
they know him for what he is, a great, A $2,000,000 power plant will be
big he man, with the ability to per- j located near Athens by the Texas
form the duties of the office and the , Power and Light company, a neus
desire to serve his people in any ca-1 story announces. This is an industrial
pacity that he can. He was drafted j item of sufficient magnitude to wai-
two years ago for service in the lower [rant publication, yet scarcely to uai-
house of legislature, and there he j rant editorial comment except foi one
made a record for unselfish work in:thing:
the interest of his people that any Funds for construction of the plant
man might be proud of.
I would be true,
For there are those who trust;
I would be pure,
For there are those who care;
I would be strong,
For there is much to suffer;
I would be brave,
For there is much to dare;
I would be a friend to all,
The foe, the friendless;
I would be giving,
And forget the gift;
I would be humble,
Fori know my weakness;
I would look up;
And lacgh, and love, and live.
—Anonymous.
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Even Big Business Sometimes Helps
Communities.
We heartily com'r.end him to our
readers, and will personally vouch
for him as being the right man for
the place.
A big man—physically, mentally,
patriotically—Will Edwards will fill
have been appropriated as a first step
111 supplying power to a string of
textile mills soon to be located in
Texas.
That sentence makes the announce-
ment particulary significant. If we
may be permitted to say so without
with i having the lash of the demagogue fall
it
How can congress be expected to
reduce taxes when it is spending all
its time in an effort to reduce reputa-
tions ?—Terrell Transcript.
While the investigators are building
up fine reputations as snake diggers.
One Dallas hijacker, fleeing after
robbing his victim, was brought down
by the firing of a bullet which struck
him in the neck. He died. He was a
young man, ablebodied, and had been
working at a legitimate trade. "Stick-
ing" somebody up and obtaining his
roll probably seemed easier, but in
this instance fate played havoc with
the embryo bandit. Possibly this cir-
cumstance will have weight with other
following the "profession," as none of
them care to get it in the neck.—Wills
Point Chronicle.
Won't have much weight, because
the average embryo and would be hi-
jacker does not read the papers and
may never hear of this sudden ending
ot a criminal career.
We know that half our income tax
will be shamefully wasted, but thank
heaven, none of it will go for the free
seed graft any more.—Geo, Bailey.
Yes at least half of it will go for
paying the salaries of swivel chair
collectors and assistants in making
out the returns.
the lieutenant governor's office
credit to himself and satisfaction to!hissing across our editorial back,
his people.
is an indication of the general good
For a pedestrian to be drunk is a
misdemeanor. He is not so much a
menance as a nuisance, but for a driver
of a powerful engine on the highway
to be intoxicated is or should be a
rime because of the peril to the pub-
lic that is involved.—Wortham Jour-
nal.
The law considers him a felon and
that may flow from capital put to i upon conviction he may be sent to the
Mexia is one of the six cities of I productive and progressive use,
Central Texas holding a franchise
in the Texas Association Baseball
League and has one of the finest
ball parks in the State.
LONGING FOR THE OLIVE
BRANCH
Furthermore—let us whisper this
lest the professional politicians hear
and expose us to the wrath of the
people—it shows what big business
can do. Judged by our State stand-
ards, the power and light company is
big business; if it were divided into
a hundred or 500 small light and
power concerns independent of each
ether, it would be practically impossi-
In her comprehensive address,
beautifully and inspiringl.v given
the First Methodist Church Tuesday ' hie for those concerns so to pool their
night, Mrs. E. E. Maloney, District I jr.trests as to engage collectively and
President of Texas Federation of :=till as a unit in building the §2,000,-
Women's Clubs sounded the longing i 000 ally in the campaign for manu-
pen, but how often is that law invoked
of mother's hearts everywhere. That
lor.ging is that there shall be no
more war; that mothers will not
have to furnish sons for cannon fod-
der, and therein, no doubt, she struck
the chord that responded so unmis-
takably in the prolonged applause
that resounded through the church
when she completed her address.
Men and women everywhere are
interested in preventing wars. An-
other war within the next few years
participated in by this country,
would drive it closer to the reefs
of anarchy and the shoals of graft,
dishonesty and destruction. The wo-
men are, therefore, not only interest-
ed in the cessation of wars on be-
half of their own offspring but are
rer.dering a patriotic and enduring
service.
Should there ever be another war,
the lesson of the last impresses
those who bare the brunt of the
battle that hereafter the wealth of
the nation should be drafted as well
as tho womanhood and manhood.
It has been said that during the
last war the soldier in the field got
$1.10 for risking his life. The work-
man who fabricated the rifle got $15
a day. The capitalist who owned or
ran the factory got $15,000 a day.
We are paying the bill. Succeed-
ing generations will continue to pay.
Taxes are heavy; everybody is
grumbling for a reduction; the sol-
diers want a bonus but Big Busi-
ness objects; the Department of
Justice is finding the profiteers and
war grafters slippery as eels.
The best way to prevent tho re-
currence of such conditions, is "to
take war out of the market place and
put it on a new basis entirely where
burdens, financial and physical, shall
be distributed equally among all."
This means a federal law draft-
ing, in time of war, not only men
for the armies, but labor and capi-
tal as well. If the government needs
you for the army you go—and get
thirty dollars a month. If it needs
you for a munitions plant—you go
there and get the civilian equivalent
of thirty dollars a month, it being
taken into the reckoning that a sol-
dier's clothes, bed and board are
furnished him. If Uncle Sam needs
your phonograph factory to make
artillery fuses, he takes it and you
get a nominal compensation—based
on the value of the property. That is
the gist of the law that it is pro-
posed Congress shall enact.
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The Department of Commerce an-
r.ounces that according to preliminary
figures 37,742,143 cotton spinning
spindles were in place in the United
f-tatei on February 29, 1921, of which
f&cturing cotton goods in Texas from
the cotton raised in Texas.
Big business is often an asset for
the bromidic, brazen-voiced, bull-
sbngir.g, double-stomached seeker of
the political trough. It gives him
something to abuse. But also it is
often an asset to the community in
which it works and where it spends
its dollars in such a way as to bring
dollars to others in that community.
—Dallas Times Herald.
A PREMIUM ON IDLENESS
The Saturday Evening Post tells a
story of an eastern textile manufac-
turer of middle age who rebelled
against high surtaxes. He closed his
mill, liquidated his capital and put.
the proceeds into tax-free securities.
Former Senator J. Ham Lewis, who
l as spent some time in Mexico on bus-
iness, says Mexico City is as free
from disturbance as Chicago. All of
which may be true but it won't be say
ing much for Mexico City.—Denison
Herald.
Just a difference of what constitu-
tions disturbance. In Mexico City
there may be a revolution any minute,
while in the windy city on the lakes
there is a riot of revelry and drunken-
ness most all the time.
Hon. Cleaence E. Gilmore has made
formal announcement of his candidacy
for a second term as railroad com-,
missioner. Mr. Gilmore is chairman
of the commission. Texas never had
a more efficient or cleaner public of-
ficial than Clarence E. Gilmore.—
Rusk County News.
And he should be elected for a sec-
ond term without opposition. Clar-
ence Gilmore is big enough to be gov-
ernor of Texas, or any other state,
and in time the people may call him
to that high office.
The ground hog this year proved
a wise weather prophet when on mak-
ing his appearance on February 2 saw
bis shadow, and went back to bed to
lie now spends his time in travel and sleep for six more weeks of winter
recreation. This is what he says
about it:
"Why should I keep factory hours,
subject my capital to the risks of
business, wear myself out in the daily
grind, and then hand o^er fifty-eight
per cent of my profits to the federal
government, and another large slice to
the state and local tax collectors? My
tax-free bonds yield me more dollars
that I can call my own than my busi-
ness did before I gave it up. The
government that penalized me when I
was a useful and productive citizen
now puts a premium on my idleness."
The Green Amendment to the Con-
stitution which has been before Con-
gress, to do away with future issues of
tax-exempt bonds, was defeated on
February 8th, 1924, by the narrow
margin of 7 votes less than the two-
tnirds required.
Many speakers who opposed the
amendment spent more time abusing
those who favored it than in present-
ing economic arguments against it.
Lazy wealth will enjoy another year
of idleness in tax-exempt bonds, but
public demand for a square deal in
taxation grows stronger every year.
CONTESTS IN SCHOOL SUBJECTS
ARE FEATURED AT STATE FAIR
Believing that the educational value
of school exhibits is in the attendance
of children, contests with children from
other schools, and new friendships
formed, rather than in the usual ex-
hibit work for display, the Nevada
State Board of education featured in
school subjects at the educational ex-
hibit of the Las Vegas Southern Ne-
vada State Fair.
In the sewing contest dresses for
little girl models were made by high
*rhonl girls. At the close of the con-
test the little models appealed before
weather.—Fairfield Recorder.
And if he is not still in his hole he
is liable to get frost bit if this cold
srap continues much longer.
Funny things happen in the news-
paper game, sometimes. Some two
or three months ago, word came to
the Messenger that a certain gentle-
man and his wife had remarked some
very unladylike and ungentlemanly
remarks about the good and reliable
Messenger. They told Mrs. So-and-So
that they "did not like the Messen-
ger," etc, and so-on and they didn't
even like the editors of the splendid
publication. That was their right,
constitutional right, to express their
dislikes, and the Messenger editors
granted 'em those rights. But, when
he lady apporached this editor one
day recently, smiling, gracious, and
patronizing, and asked: "Please don't
publish that report about my boy,"
and so-forth, we wanted to swoon and
tumble in it. And, the report was
not published. Yes, funny things
happen—sometimes—in this news-
paper game.—Wise County Messenger
That's right. Funny things do hap-
pen in the newspaper game. Some
people ought tq thank the editor for
not printing all he knows, for often
it is the withholding of an item from
publication that saves the feelings and
pride of some one. And the newspaper
nan, as a rule, usually knows what
to leave out of the paper.
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NEW CITIZENS REACH
MEXIA DAILY TO MAKE
THEIR HOMES IN CITY
John Jones of Ohio has just arrived
in Mexia. With him came hi3 family
consisting of his wife and five splendid
boys and six lovely daughters. He
states that he will make Mexia his I
ltOaie, having been attracted to this:
locality through reading in The Mexia !
try are traversed by
highways, according to the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce.
The soluton is the consolidation of
one-room school and the use of mo-
tor transportation to carry the child-
ren.
Much illiteracy still exists in the
United States and one of the grav-
est of our economic problems is edu-
cation, according to statistics com-
piled by Frank P. Graves, New York
Commissioner of Education. Accord-
ing to these statistics as yet about
one-fourth of the total rural school
enrollment and 45 per cent of the
rural teaching corps are housed in
one-room schools of the crudest sort.
There are upward of 200,000 of these
one-room buildings in the United
States, and a fairly large percentage
of them were constructed at least 40
years ago, despite the fact that
school architecture and equipment
have been advancing by leaps and
bounds during that time. Four-fifths
of them have no provisions for heat-
ing and ventilation, except the old
unjacketed stove and the rickety
windows and nine-tenths of the build
ings are not properly lighted.
In at least 90 per cent the seat-
ing is poor and unadjustable, and
often where the seats could be ar-
ranged to suit the pupil, thi3 has
never been given consideration.
Where in the cities some four-ffths
of the teachers have had at least
the minimum amount of standard
training—that is, two years beyond
the high school—in the country less
than one-twentieth have so qualified
and the turn-over in rural teachers
each year is just about 50 per cent.
Consolidated Schools
One of the most effective answers
to such conditions has been found in
the consolidated school, in which
many children can be accommadate,
brought from miles around and re-
turned to their homes by the motor
bus.
But thi^ solution to the problem
of how to get good rural education
is possible only where there are
good roads. In the days to come,
when national highways gridiron this
country, as they undoubtedly will,
there will be no problem of rural ed-
ucation.
According to the National Auto-
mobile Chamber of Commerce, the
consolidated school movement began
in Massachusetts in the early '70s.
For many years horse-drawn vehi-
cles were then used in carrying chil-
dren to and from school within a
radius of seven miles. Parents grad-
ually began to see the many advan-
tages of the larger schools over the
old "little red schoolhouse."
Motor Bus Use
With the motor bus children are
now transported for fifteen or eigh-
teen miles in an hour. School dis-
tricts have increased in size, extend-
ing to 50, 75 or 100 square miles in
area. With this development has
come large modern school buildings,
improved equipment and specially
trained instructors equal to that of
the best city schools. Motorized
school busses make possible these
large, modern rural "school plants."
They tend to reduce the costs and to
give children better opportunities for
education.
The consolidation movement has
grown to such proportions that manj
normal scholos and colleges are giv-
ing special courses preparing super-
intendents to manage fleets of mot-
or bussess transporting children to
and from consolidated school.
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CARRYING SCHOOL TO
SHUT-IN CHILDREN
To enable children temporarily con-
fined to their homes by reason of acci-
dent or illness to keep pace with their
legular classroom work, and to enable
children permanently removed from
school to receive instruction notwith-
standing crippled limbs or bodies, the
school superintendent of Pasadena,
Calif., has worked out a plan for send-
ing school to shut-in children, accord-
ing to School Life, a publication of
Bureau of Education. The work fol-
lows closely the subjects of the cur-
riculum, but handwork is stressed in
most of the special cases. This
method gives opportunity for correct-
ive work and the development of such
muscles as need exercise. This part of
the work is under the direction of the
physician who has examined the case
before the pupil's enrollment.
Children considered hoplessly crip-
pled find under the special tutoring
that they may contribute to the work
of family and community in spite of
their handicap.
Every school day the home teacher
is busy from six to eight hours, visit-
ing the homos of the smaller children
e'aily, the others every other day, out-
lining lessons for the latter during the
intervening time.
"If we had a tax whereby on the
first working day the Government
took 6 per cent of your wages, on
the second day 10 per cent, on the
third day 20 per cent, on Jhe fourth
day 30 per cent, on the fifth day 60
per cent, how many of you would
continue to work on the last two
days of the week? It is the same
with capital. Surplus income will go
into tax-exempt securities. It will
refuse to take the risk incidental to
embarking in business. This will
raise the rate which established bus-
iness will have to pay for new capi-
tal, and result in a marked increase
in cost of living.
"The high prices paid and low pri-
ces received on the farm are directly
due to our unsound method of taxa-
tion. I shall illustrate by a simple
example: A farmer ships a steer to
Chicago. His tax, the tax on the
railroad transporting the animal,
and of the yards where the animal
is sold, go into the price of the- an-
imal to the packer. The packer's tax
goes into the price of the hide to
the New England shoe manufacturer.
The manufacturer's tax goes into the
price to the wholesaler, and the
wholesaler's tax goes into the price
to the retailer, who in turn adds his
tax in his price to his purchaser. So
it may be said that if the farmer ul-
timately wears the shoes he pays
everybody's taxes from the farm to
his feet.
"It is essential, therefore, for the
good of the people as a whole that
we pay not so much attention to the
tax paid directly by a certain num-
ber of the taxpayers but we must
devote our efforts to relieving the
tax paid indirectly by the whole peo-
ple."
The foregoing seems like good
common sense whether proposed by a
Republican or a Democratic presi-
dent. If the tax question could be
considered as a business proposition
affecting all the people equally and
removed from the realm of selfish
political activity, it would be a bless
ing to the American people.
How much longer will we have
to pay excessive taxes in order that
this national subject may be used
as a political football in Washing-
ton?
The woman who has to spend
summer days cooking over a sizz-
ling hot range has plenty of reasons
for losing her amiability.
If men had to stand over the
heat, they would know why cook-
ing in hot weather makes their
wives nervous and irritable. Yet a
kitchen need not be so hot in
summer.
With a Florence Oil Range the
kitchen can be kept cool. The
burners deliver tne heat only where
it is needed—close up under tha
cooking. The flame is a gas flame.
It is not a wick flame such as you
see in the ordinary oil lamp or at
the end of a candle. The Florence
operates at low cost. It is good-
looking enough for any kitchen.
Come in and let us show you.
with no obligation to yourself,
how the Florence can do all your
cooking and keep your kitchen
cooler and cleaner.
FLORENCE
OIL RANGE
J. I. Riddle & Co., Inc.
GEOLOGISTS SIDELIGHTS
Geologists are no longer gray-
beareded patriarchs who tap on a stone
and listen for the gurgle of oil be-
low. They are more apt to be of
that festive type which breaks into
song at any moment and some of
whom will inquire cautiously as to
ftie name of the prohibition enforce-
ment officer.
L-'.-
more festive ones
at the Rice hotel
Two of them blew
Several of the
were in a room
Wednesday night.
horns of some kind and fondly thought
they were making tunes.
But they add grow serious enough
when their profession is mentioned.
They said that 75 per cent of all
wildcat oil wells are drilled following
recommendations of geologists who
have been over the ground and who
have reasons to believe that oil will
be found.
Also they agreed that the easily
defined structures had all been dis-
covered and that henceforth it would
lequire acute discrimination to define
surface indications that would lead to
the discovery of new oil pools.
They Cost You Less Than Any
Other You Can Buy!
WILLARD Batteries with THREAD RUB-
BER insulation do not have dead cells. Should
they have they will be impaired FREE of
charge. No other battery guarantee is equal
to that.
Carter Battery Co.
Commerce and Paris Sts., Mexia, Texas
storage;
BATTERIES
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Mexia, Texas
riembcr Federal Reserve System
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, ,We respectfully solicit the accounts of those who a]
predate a careful and efficient service and safe and con-
servative banking.
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Geologists, it might be stated, do
not all tramp over hill and dale seek-
ing structures. Many of them remain
in their offices and tell oil companies
and individuals approximately how
much oil that may be expected to be
deevloped from a given lease in a
given length of time under described
conditions.
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WHY BUY FROM AGENTS*
When you can buy direct and save
thei* commission?
Mexia Marble & Granite Works i
P. O. Box 237 Mexia, Texas
In this profession women have made
f.n invasion as they have in others.
Three women seologists are on the
program for speeches on a subject,
the title of which, to the layman, would
Le as enlightening as the Koran would
be to Bill the bootblack.
the audience in their new dresses,
.N2,#SS,"8'3 were operated at senm time ; Winners in the shorthand and typing j Daily News of the progressive spirit
curing during the month. ompared rontests were two girls who had come jflnd growth, as well as the possibilities
*;ith 53,339,806 for January. M.04-L-1 --'I miles across the desert to take here for the homesecker and prospec-
S70 !cr December, 24.101,452 for No-' 'art. in the event.
vernier. 34,378,(502 for October, "T - j Ar. unu ual opportunity for social
9S9,385 September, end 3!,8G4,123 'r.ontcct «as afforded by the tented
frr FtV.varj', 1 jcomtw.ity on the fair grounds, which
-o j::ro/i;!od living quarters for the visi-
County Clerk .T. L. Day cf Croea-I'ors and brought together children
beck w 3 ir. Jlexin in ths intrm of'from widely separated and isolated
ris campaign Wednesday. ]regions.
CUCUMBER SALAD
'i envelope gelatin.
2 cups chicken stock, well sen
1 slice onion.
1 sprig parsley.
2 cucumbers.
Green coloring.
Soak gelatine in one cup stock.
le J.
To
Oddly enough, the majority of them
are a retiring sort. They will talk
ireely, but they don't like to have
their names printed in connection with
what they say. Probably because too
many fakers have set themselves up
as the world's best.
A jovial young fellow explained all
about the attempt being made in the
Powell field to find oil by measuring
in sound waves. The theory applied is
the same as that applied in the war
when sound waves were measured to
locate the depth of a submarine. It
/< also the same as that used by the
government to measure the tremors
of the arth during an earthquake.
The Powell field has practically no
surface indications whereby oil might
be- discovered. To overcome this
dynamite is buried to sonsiderable
depth and cirolodcd. The sound waves
arc measured.
It must be explained that the struc-
tures run in waves, the high
veals where the ledge is high and
where it is low, because the waves
do not penetrate the crust.
Geologists do not scorn these ex-
periments. In fact, they are working
with them or any other device that
may eventually tell where oil is lo-
cated.
But they say it may require years
for a final result to be obtained. Those
attempted thus far have been failures.
It is believed that such a device
would cause many new oil fields to
be found in the coast country which
does not have a great many surface
indications of oil.
Monday the geologists will go to
New Iberia, La., the ho.^s; of the
Acadians made famous by Longfellow
and his "Evangeline." Thfey will go
through the salt mines at that point,
—
J live business man. He is looking for .
a large farm in this immediate section ' remaining stock add onion, parsley and
and also plans the construction of a J cucumbers, pared and grated. Cover
i.pw home here where he may take'and let stand two hours. Hoot gradu-
full advantage of the public school ally to tho boiling porit, add gela'ipe be under them.
system, churches a-d other oul t v.vl- and color light green. Let sUw.l until j The.-o h'gh spots, which are a
ifg institutions an 1 pmvisiins of t lis' nearly cold, then strain in.o i:i I!, i.lual of a cm' imi le lge, have r.
community. jpr.pcr cases or molds. |nu t. X..« sound \\a\e insure,
spots J i ho school board or
! indicating to a geologist that oil might at the City HnM.
SCHOOL CENSUS IS
BEING FINISHED
It is stated thii afternoon that the
work of taking '.he Mexia School Dis-
trict gcliolaet'c cetuu3 has Just about
been completed. All parents no: seen
regarding their ehi.VV.in are ursed to
report the fact t? tome member c f
'o Ji.-i .V.-inglon
WASHINGTON, March 28.—For-
mer Representative Vanvechten 01-
cott of New York today told the
Senate committee investigating the
Department of Justice that Wayne
Wilson, a member of the national
republican club two years ago, of-
fered to secure his appointment as
federal judge for $35,000. Olcott
said he rejected the offer and felt it
his duty to inform the committee of
the incident.
WASHINGTON, March 28,-The
Jone3 bill, appropriating $1,000,000
for drough relief _ in New Mexico,
was reported favorably by the House
Committee on Agriculture. The bill
has already passed tho Senate.
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Better than One-IIorse Shay is the
vehicle that Charles E. Hodgon of
Rochester, N. H., is using. It is a
sleigh mado 175 years ngo by one of
his ancestors and has always been in
the Hodgdon family.
James ,T. Hill, railroad builder,
wanted to be n doctor, but had to go
to work to support his mother.
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W A SHINGTON, March 27.—Sen-
itlor La Toilette, progressive leader,
h.v, developed pneumonia, it is an-
nounced.
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nnri Mr. and Mrs. J. O. ITarrism mot-
ived a:.-.1 to Waxahachie Friday to spend
i re ,a few days with relatives.
Chief of Police Mace was a Groes-
bec!; visitor Friday.
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