The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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The' basis of our government being
the opinion of the people, the very ob-
ject should be to keep that right, and
were it left to me to decide whether we
should have a government without news-
papers or newspapers without govern-
ment, 1 should not hesitate to prefer the
tatter.—Thomas Jefferson.
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'(giup tlfm Slight, ani* thru tuill filth tljftr otmt may'
Page Two
Mineola, Texas, Thursday, January 4, 1940.
Editorial Page
Give them a corrput Ho
mons; give them a vena']
Lords; give them a tjrranr
give them a trucking eour
me an unfettered press and
*11 of them to encroach onel
the liberties of England.—|
Sheridan, English Statesman
Sympathy for
The Candidates
%
A ^>t of people usually sympathize with
candidates for public office—both state and
county—because they are subjected to so
many seemingly unnecessary expenses dur-
ing campaign years.
Besides all kinds cf plain and fancy
advertising the candidate is often touched
rather heavily with donation lists, pie sup-
pers and the like. Now publicity is a fine
thing if you happen to be in the need of
it, and most candidates need it, but often
the pressure becomes too heavy, particu-
larly on local and county candidates.
A lot of people sympathize with their
plight and probably a lot more would if
said candidates were able to stand on their
own two feet and take what they might
feel they needed, turning down the re-
mainder.
How Will You
Drive in 1940?
Four people were killed and fifty-six
were injured in traffic accidents in this
vicinity in 1939, and most of these accidents
were the result of negligence or careless-
ness.
It sometimes seems to do little good
for accidents continue to happen in big num-
accidents continue to happen in big num-
bers. There are, however, a few simple
traffic rules that every driver should resolve
keep in mind in 1940.
Don't drive with excessive speed any
time. Don't take chances on hills and
bridges. Be courteous and considerate of
the other fellow. Dim your lights. Observe
city traffic regulations. And never drive
while drinking intoxicants.
Observe these rules and you'll make
1940 safer for everybody.
Voter Should Seek
The Real Thing
Governor W. Lee O'Daniel is a popular
man fn Texas despite the fact that he has
spent a year in the Governor's chair. And
as one of the most popular and respected
men in the state his opinions and wishes
will be given some measure of consideration
by a majority of Texas people.
His recent statement that Texas voters
should be careful to consider the morals and
religious habits of the men they elect to
public office will more than likely become
a cue to candidates to adopt angelic roles
~&Sm~
in their campaigns for votes. Sacrilege will
mean little to the big office seeker if he
thinks he can persuade the gullible public
that he is made to order according to
O'Daniel's wishes.
The voting public should guard against
this "and the candidate who seeks to ride
into office on the Governor's coattail.
Our principal objection to practicing
economy is that it makes us give up all the
things we don't need.
MAIN STREET
THE MIDDLE MAN
BELIEVE IT or not, Mineola had snow last
Saturday. The tiny flakes were barely visible
and were melting even before hitting the
ground, but nevertheless we had snow. Ten
years ago this winter was about the coldest
season Mineola ever experienced. Accord-
ing to files of The Monitor, an eighteen-inch
snow covered this section. Temperatures
in the Panhandle were from fourteen to
eighteen degrees below zero. Maybe this
isn't such a bad winter, after all! !
***
THE BOWL season is about over. More than
275,000 persons saw football games in the
Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Sun, and
Shrine Bowls. Lee O has the Flour Bowl
well in hand. We haven't heard from the
Finger Bowl. And the Hash Bowl, says W.
C. Armour, is doing plenty of business over
in Finland.
***
ONE OF the finest compliments ever paid
a local newspaper was sent last week to
The Sunday Record by the Rev. H. M. Ward,
pastor of the First Baptist Church Pub-
lication day of The Record was changed to
Sunday in an effort to better serve the
community. The response has been grati-
fying to the publishers who feel their ef-
forts are being repaid by an appreciative
community.
***
AT LEAST one Mineola youngster discov-
ered the meaning of the true Christmas
spirit during the holidays. He is Billy Hard-
ing, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Harding. Billy was playing with his Christ-
mas toys one morning when an underprivi-
leged youngster same to the door selling
bluing. His eyes bulged with excitement
when he saw the toys and he asked if he
might come in and look them over. And
when Billy fcund out that Santa Claus
hadn't been to see his new-found friend he
was given the pick of the toys. The boy
went away fairly beaming with joy.
**•*
HE WAS glad he had been able to make
somebody happy at Christmastime, Billy
told his mother. That's the way the Pepper
Cadets (WFAA radio program for children)
do.
***
AN OPINION expressed this week which
sounds reasonable is that Governor O'Dan-
iel will run again next year with prohibition
as his No. 1 platform plank. This, no doubt,
would be welcomed by a majority of good
sober Texans, but he could not overlook en-
tirely the unfilled promises of his last cam-
paign.
***
THIS ISN'T original. We clipped it out of
the State Observer:
Some women were sitting around catty-
ing while their husbands were playing golf,
and the conversation got around to topic
number two in the feminine repertoire:
childbirth.
The discussion led to obstetricians, and
one woman commented that she did not pre-
fer this fellow Moses who took forty years
to deliver the Children of Israel.
Another said humph what about this
Roosevelt person, he's kept Madame Perkins
in labor for eight years.
albe UJttmila Monitor
Published Every Thursday In Mineola, Wood County, Texas, by the
Wood County Publishing Company
Entered at the postoffice at Mineola, Texas, as second class mail matter, under
the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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LOOKING BACK
in files of the Monitor
DECEMBER 26, 1929
Bud Moody, Star quarterback
on the Mineola Yellow Jacket
football team, was named on
the All-State Class B team,
according to a story appear-
ing ir The Monitor ten years
ago.
Santa Claus came to town
on December 24, and spent the
day giving out fruit and candy
to the children.
The Mineola Chamber of
Commerce completed its or-
ganization and appointed com-
mittees to function in 1930.
The heaviest snowfall in fifty
years fell over East Texas.
Eighteen inches was measured
in Mineola. Twenty-five inches
fell at Hillsboro.
Miss Juanita Huff was slight-
ly injured in a fall from a bob-
sled.
Automobile accidents were
keeping wreckers and garage
service cars busy, according to
a story in The Monitor ten
years ago.
. Mineola water was being
shipped to Van where it was
being sold to Van people for
drinking purposes.
Coach Ben Copass' Min-
eola Yellow Jacket basketball
team was scheduled to open
the 1930 season Jan. 3 against
WoJdrow Wilson High of Dal-
las.
The Southwestern Gas &
Electric Company completed
construction of a new line sys-
tem here.
OTHER EDITORS SAY
LESSON FOR AMERICA
Findland's helplessness should
carry a lesson to Americans. It
is not as the "realists" would
have us believe, that it dem-
onstrates that a people must
be strong in the modern world
in order to be free. It is that
the world should be free in
order that the weak may be
secure. It is that the idea of
every nation for itself and the
devil take the hindmost will
not work, that it is the form-
ula of international anarchy.
The lesson the plight of Fin-
land teaches is that collective
security, the supremacy of the
common will in the world, is the
only alternative to internation-
al anarchy, disintegration, and
the ultimate destruction of
civilization: And it is toward
the learningxof this lesson that
our sympathy for Finland
should direct u^ Our indigna-
tion over the cowardly attack
of Russia upon tlWs peaceful
people should be converted into
a high resolution on\juj part
to line up our country>on the
side of international ordefc and
the supremacy of law, 1 and
against international ana rchy
and the supremacy of f< >rce,
in the world of the futum. It
was the violation of the neu-
trality of Belgium in 1914 that
aroused the American people to
the support of such a move-
ment as the Leogue to Enforce
Peace, which was headed by
former President Taft. The
cowardly attack on Finland
could serve a similar purpose
today and could generate a
similar spirit among the Amer-
ican people. If this should
happen, it would give us a
high and valid reason for re-
maining out of the war. We
must keep ourselves strong in
order to help to build a peace-
ful and secure world after the
fighting is over.—Texas Week-
ly.
Hints On Eiquette.
In signing legal documents a
man drops the Mister from his
name and becomes simply
"John Smith." His wife drops
the Mrs. and signs "Mary Brown
Smith."
The meek, says the Bible,
shall inherit the earth. But in
Europe it begins to look as
though they'll inherit only what
is left of it.
Legal Notices
SHERIFFS SALE
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Wood.
By virtue of a certain Bill of
Costs issued out of the Honor-
able District Court of Wood
County, on the 16th day of
December, 1939, by A. L. Cal-
houn, Clerk of said Court,
against Arnold Nuss for the
sum of Twenty-Seven and 85-
100 ($27.85) Dollars and costs
of suit, in cause No. 7,821 in
said Court, styled Mrs. Patri-
cia Nuss vs. Arnold Nuss, and
placed in my hands for service,
I, J. O. Puckett as Sheriff of
Wood County, Texas, did on
the 18th day of December, 1939,
levy on certain Real Estate,
situated in Wood County, de-
scribed as follows, to-wit:
The undivided 6-10 interest
of Arnold Nuss in and to the
following described property,
to-wit: All that certain, lot,
tract or parcel of land lying
and being situated in Wood
County, Texas, being a part
of lot No. 7 in Block 90 of the
City of Mineola. Texas, and
more fully described as fol-
lows: Beginning at a point 25
feet West from the present N.
W. Corner of the Miss Willie
Powers lot. on the S. B. L. of
West Kilpatrick Street; Thence
West 60 feet to a stake for
corner; Thence South 208 feet,
to stake for corner; Thence
East 60 feet to corner on the
Street; Thence North 208 feet,
to the place of beginning and
being the eastern portion of
Lot No. 7 of Block No. 90 of
the City of Mineola, according
to the map and plat thereof
recorded in Vol. 55, page 553
of the Deed Records of Wood
County, Texas; and being the
same land as that conveyed to
Arnold Nuss by deed from R.
M. Jorden and wife, Jimmie
Jorden, dated September 26th,
1929, and such deed being now
duly shown in Vol. 157, at page
421 of the Deed Records of
Wood County, Texas, to which
deed and the record thereof
reference is hereby made, and
levied upon as the property of
said Arnold Nuss. And on
Tuesday, the 6th day of Feb-
ruary, 1940, at the Court House
door of Wood County, in the
town of Quitman, Texas, be-
tween the hours of ten A. M.
and four P. M. I will sell said
Real Estate at public vendue,
for cash, to the highest bidder,
n the Nation's
CAPITOL N
Sweeden, Norway
Seen Next In Path
Of Russ War Machine
By CHARLES F STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Rumors are current th^
Fuehrer Hitler would like
make peace, but nobody sur^
mises that Comrade Stalin
thinks of any letup in HIS
campaign.
It's understandable that
Adolf realizes he's in * posi-
If
jQer-
t's
in tb
tion of plenty of
the Allies can't beat '
mans in the field, at
pretty certain thi
starve the latter
long run. Furthermore, there
are multiplying stories of dis-
satisfaction toward the Nsai
boss among his home folk, lie
must know, too, that the area
he has gobbled, by conqctf:
or diplomatic maneuvering, wt
turn ugly again the minute'
that luck begins to set in
against him. li is also ob-
vious that he is desperately
afraid of Russia. Naturally,
he would like to come to terms
with the Allies. Of course, lie
would want them to be HIS
terms. Still, cramped as he is,
he might be willing to make
some concessions, or to prom-
ise them, anyway.
Joe Stalin is about as inde-
pendently situated as the tra-
ditional hog on ice. He
no immediate neighbors
are strong enough to trouble
him for long. Hitler, having *j
overplayed his hand, can't men-
ace him seriously for the pres-
ent even by flopping to the
Allies' side. Italy hates him,
but can't get at him except
through the Balkans, and the
Balkan powers are feeble. Ti*y
and Italy plus Turkey could
not attack the Soviets fc
ably. They might resist)
a little, but just now
tivities aren't pointed in
direction. He can affc
leave them untSl later,
is a safe bet that they
start anything voluntarily.
pan's a potential threat,
only to the eastward, and|
aggressions new are to\
opposite end of the
What Joe obviously is
is to grab northern
via. In that corner of
world the little Scant
have got to do their own
ing. No big civilized natic
geographically fixed to
them.
Odds Are Overwhefc
Apparently Dictator
people are very solidly
him. It seems strange, con-
sidering how bad his regime ^
is. Nevertheless, it is to ~
remembered that the
which preceded him, undc
czars, was about equally
ful. The Russians probat
accustomed to that kin<
thing—take it as a matte!
course and dor't pay mi
attention to it.
Incidentally, foreign milit
experts say that Russia's an
navy and aviat'on corps
the limit as to inefficiency-
discipline, no equipment,
anything worth having,
the same, they're numeric
approximately sixty times^
strength of Finland.
pretty disproportionate.
Having attended to Fin]
the assumption is that
Stalin will proceed to scoo^
Sweden and at least nort
Norway.
as the property of said
Nuss by virtue of said levy
said Bill of Costs.
And in compliance with
I give notice by publication^
the English language,
week for three consecutive
immediately preceding
sale, in the Mineola
newspaper pubi
County.
Witness my
day of December,
J. o. PU<
Wood County,
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