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Editorial Page of
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School days for Mexia's 2100 school chil-
dren are just around the corner, Long, lazy
summer days in which local school children
spend most of their time trying to entertain
themselves will end Sept. 9. On that Monday
morning the restless youth of Mexia will a-
gain be engaged in the quite serious task of
equipping and preparing themselves for the
very much unsettled future.
The News, in connection with the open-
ing of school, will print its "back to school"
edition Sunday. Supt. Frank L. Williams and
several members of his faculty are co-oper-
ating admirably in this project. Westminster
college at Tehuacana will also be featured in
the edition.
School for both students in the local sys-
tem and at Westminster college has taken
on a much more serious aspect this year than
it has in the past. Many boys who in other
years have been striving to master the fun-
damentals of foreign language courses and
medieval history will be enrolled in technical
courses in an effort to facilitate our national
defense program.
If pending legislation is adopted, most
of the male students now in our high schools
and universities face at least a year's train-
ing in the army, and, as a result, the schools
will take national defense into consideration
in their plans.
Shop work, science courses and study of
government will probably be more popular
this year in the local school system than ever
before.
Officials of Westminster have been
working to include the Tehuacana school in
the government's student air training pro-
gram.
At the present time, their efforts have
not met with success, but there's still the pos-
sibility that student fliers will be taking off
from the sloping Tehuacana hill within the
next several months. If Westminster should
inaugurate an air training course, it would
probably overnight become the most popular
course in the school's curriculum.
Mexia has been spotlighted in news-
papers during the past two days. T. A. Price,
staff correspondent of the Dallas Morning
News, wrote a splendid article in Wednes-
day's edition of the Dallas publication on
Mexia, but from a publicity standpoint it
was not to compare with the article appearing
in Walter Winchell's syndicated column of
nation-wide circulation.
John Garfield, star of Warner Brothers'
"Flowing Gold," wrote Winchell's Tuesday
column. Winchell is on vacation during the
month of August. Garfield wrote of Mexia:
"When oil came to Mexia, a Texas trad-
ing town of 3000, it jumped to the tenth city
in the state and overnight grew to 25,000 .. .
The demand for sleeping quarters was so
great that it was not unusual for a family to
make their home on a porch, renting every
other room in the house. Kitchens went as
bedrooms at $50 a week.
"There was sudden, undreamed-of
wealth for every one in Mexia. A woman
whose son had been killed in France in the
World war bought a house near Mexia's rail-
road station so she could live near the place
where she had kissed him goodbye. When the
town became an oil bonanza, the house which
had been bought for sentimenetal reasons
brought the mother $100 a day as a boarding
house ... A druggist who had originally paid
$2000 for a 55-acre farm sold it for $1,250,-
000.
"Even the town's post office did a thriv-
ing business. Stamps were sold so fast, it was
impossible to get them from Washington on
time, and post offices in neighboring towns
were called on . . . Mexia's postmaster, Billie
Simmons, anxious to be freed of his duties so
he could cash in on oil, tried to resign repeat-
edly. In desperation, he finally sent the post-
master-general a telegram threatening to
lock up the post office and throw away the
keys unless a man was sent to replace him.
Washington complied, but too lata. Every
vailabie acre of oil land had already been
lee ted, and Simmons was out in the cold.
"L*wiM«teae was as wild in Mexia at in
the g.->M towns. One gambling resort paid
Mexia, Texas.
paace officers $260 a day as protection money
The night spots had checkrooms, not for the
patrons' hats but for their guns ... The num-
ber of killings became so scandalous that the
town was finally raided by federal agents
and Texas rangers. The governor declared
martial law and after seven weeks of nation-
al guard rule during which 8000 undesirables
were tossed out of town, Mexia was eleaned
up.
"Col. A. E. Humphreys, who was chiefly
responsible for Mexia's development as an oil
town, was a colorful character with a love of
dramatic. Whenever he was about to bring
in a well, he put on a brown suit. The custom
became so well known around town that
whenever he wore the garb everyone prompt-
ly knew he had another gusher ... Another
dazzling Mexia character is J. K. Hughes ...
According to legend, when he arrived in
Mexia, his total capital was $3.50 . . . Anne
Morgan once visited Mexia, and Hughes took
her out to his oil field and turned one of his
gushers loose just to show her what it looked
like in action. As the flowing gold* gushed up
the derrick, she asked him how much oil he
was losing by the exhibition. Hughes replied
indifferently, 'A thousand dollars' worth, so
far'."
H. W. Koehn of Mexia, who is engaged
in farm improvement work in this section,
visited this office Saturday in company with
C. D. Anderson, route 8, Groesbeck, who
farms a 58-acre plot in the Fallon commun-
ity.
Said Koehn: "You write a lot about na-
tional defense and what this country should
do to protect our way of living and our cher-
ished democracy." Turning to Anderson, he
continued, "I've brought in a man who is real-
ly doing something to see that this county
remains prosperous and that our system con-
tinues to function. I'll let him tell you his
story."
And Anderson proceeded to tell a story
of laborous effort, perseverance and deter-
mination!. It was a story typifying the Amer-
ican way of life and a story that holds our
hope to every person living under the pro-
tection of the Stars and Stripes. Summed up,
the story goes:
Six years ago Anderson was on the re-
lief rolls. He moved with his family to the
little farm in the Fallon community. The soil
there was depleted and eroded. The tenant
before him had made only 700 pounds of cot-
ton the year before, had produced very little
grain and feedstuff and had been unable to
make a living on the place.
Today he no longer depends upon gov-
ernment assistance. He is able to support
his wife and five children. Not in luxury, he
points out, but he says "we're not without
the necessities of life." In fact, this past year
in order to pay his poll tax, Anderson cut
cord wood all one day. He now owns two cows,
a yard full of chickens, some turkeys and
guineas, and, as he puts it, a "house full of
kids," the youngest of whom is five weeks
old.
In May of this year Anderson raised 80
bushels of potatoes on a plot of ground. After
harvesting the crop, he plowed under the
vines in the water furrows, and planted June
corn is the furrows. He expects to produce
30 bushels to the acre on the corn, and is
gathering from 40 to 125 ears each day
from the field, most of which his wife is
canning. He has planted black-eyed peas in
the rows of the corn patch, and will plow up
the peas and corn stubie later in order to
build up the soil.
He has raised the productivity of the
farm eight or ten fold; he has built up the
fences around the place, run terrace lines,
cleared a pasture of brush and now has a
good grazing spot. Too, he's going to make
four bales of cotton this year.
Anderson did all of this with one team
of mules and the help of his four children,
all of whom, even the teen-age boy who lost
an eye last year when a nail glanced off the
hammer he was using and into his eye, have
certain farm duties to perform.
Anderson has built up the soil on his
farm because he realizes that his children
and his children's children must make a liv-
ing on it long after he's departed from this
life. He's encouraged his neighbors to help
along, and he's preaching soil conservation
everywhere he goes.
This columnist experienced a thrill in
conversing with the Fallon farmer. It is re-
freshing to meet somone, who, in this aay
and time of wanting to get something for
nothing, has gone back to the fundamental
principles of life and democracy and is earn-
ing his subsistence from the sweat of his
brow. Anderson believes that it is his duty
to support the government and not the gov-
ernment's obligation to take care of him. His
determination to get off the relief rolls and
support himself and his family by his own
efforts ought to shame many Americans who
have have their hands out for assistance
from various agencies. He's a better citizen
than many a man who sits at a nigh gov-
ernment post in an air-cOoled office and en-
joys the comforts of life with a minimum of
physical and mental effort. C. D. Anderson's
kind are the salt of the earth.
Mexia Weekly Herald
FRIDAY, AUG. 30,1940.
Backing It Up
"1 wholly disapprov# of what
you tay but will defend to tha
death your riglu to aay it."
—Voltaire
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SURROUNDING COMMUNITY NEWS
WORTHAM NEWS
—AUGUST 23—
Miss Ruth Beall and Mrs. John
L. Wright of Pasadena, Calif.,
were guests of their relatives, Mr.
and Mr.s John Bounds, this week.
Miss Cellar Jean Miller left
Monday morning for Sanatorium,
Texas, where she will remain for
some time. She was accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Bennie Miller,
Clifton Miller and Mrs. Charles
Bounds.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Joekel and little
daughter, Kay Shearin of St. Jo-
seph, Mo., are visiting Mrs. Joe-
kel's mother, Mrs. Kate Hackney.
Kay Shearin will remain in Worth-
am with her grandmother, while
her parents visit in New Orleans
and other southern cities.
Mrs. W. H. Dodge and children,
Abagail and Billy, and her neph-
ews, Bobby Chancellor and Lee
Chancellor who have been visiting
in Jackson and New Orleans, re-
turned home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wasson and
daughter, Miss Wanda Wasson, of
Fairfield viiited friends and rela-
tives here Thursady.
Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Nabors
and children of Red Bay, Ala., who
have been the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Calame, returned
home this week.
Mr .and Mrs. Garey Summers of
Kaufman -were visitors here over
the week-end.
Mrs. W. O. McDaniel of Street-
man and Mrs. Bessie Clark of Fort
Worth were guests of Mrs. K. W.
Sneed Wednesday.
Miss Nellie Haskins, wno has
been attending summer school at
HwntsviJle, returned home Wed-
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carter and
son, Sam, of Kirven visited in Wor-
tham Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bounds
and children, Johnny and Betty, re-
turned this week from a week's
visit in the following Texas towns:
Arp, Selman City, Henderson,
Beaumont, Port Arthur, Houston,
Galveston and Sugarland.
Dr. M. J. Kuykendall and sister,
Miss Reta Kuykendall, have as
their guests this week, their moth-
er, Krs. J. M. Kuykendall, and
daughters, Misses Sappie Kuyken-
lall and Gracie B. Kuykendall, and
Herald'
Weekly Sunday School Lesson
Those Who Have Fallen Into Great
Depths Can Find Salvation in God
Text: n Samuel 12:13-14; Psalms 51:1-3, 9-13; 33:5
BY WILLIAM E. GILROY. D. D.
Editor of Advance
A MAN of generous spirit, no-
ble thoughts and virtuous
deeds may none the less be ca-
pable of succumbing to gross
temptations, and once caught in
the toils of sin he may descend
to shabby and even criminal
things. All this is strikingly il-
lustrated in the history of David,
the shepherd boy and psalm-
singer who became king of Is-
rael, and particularly in the sor-
did and tragic story that lies
back of this lesson.
David, contrary to his visual
character, was staying at home
while Joab was leading the army
In the field against a menacing
enemy. If he had been out
where he ought to have been,
leading his troops, the tragedy
might never have occurred. The
allurement of a beautiful wom-
an, whom he had seen from the
roof where he had gone for the
siesta, proved sufficient to entice
David into adultery. Then, to
cover up his sin, he suggested to
Joab that the innocent husband,
Uriah, should be put in the thick
of the battle and then deserted
so as to make sure of his death.
♦ * *
WITH the husband out of the
way, David married Bath-
sheba, tor whom and for whose
child he evidently had a very
sincere love, but the foul deed
he had committed was by no
means wiped out. The cl)ild died,
and a year afterward Nathan,
the prophet, dared to rebuke
David in a plain and exceedingly
courageous way.
Nathan's rebuke was ingenious
as well. He told the story of a
rich man who had everything,
but who had nevertheless stolen
the ewe lamb of a poor neighbor.
What, he asked David, should be
done with the man who would
do such a contemptible thing?
David denounced him and de-
clared him worthy of death, and
it was then that Nathan, point-
ing his finger at the king, de-
clared, "Thou are the man."
Here again, however, that finest
quality in David came to light.
He might have destroyed Nathan,
but he acknowledged the great-
ness of his guilt and confessed
his sin.
♦ *
WHETHER or not he wrote the
" 51st Psalm, in which the
writer calls for God's mercy and
pleads to be cleansed from his
sin, we do not know. But much
in this Psalm would have ap-
plied to David's case, particularly
where he says, "I know my
transgressions and my sin is ever
before me." The Psalm is a
clean and noble prayer for sal-
vation from sin and from past
wrong. "Create in me a clean-
heart, O God; and renew s right
spirit within me."
If the Bible is a book of sin
and tragedy—in this case, of
adultery and foul murder—the
Bible is a book that is magnifi-
cent in its revelation of forgive-
ness and In Its teaching that
even those who have fallen to
the greatest depths can find
restoration and salvation if they
seek God in the humility f sin-
cere and true cepentfence.
niece, Miss Charline Williams, all
of Beckville; a sister, Mrs. Lida
Overstreet and son, James Wilton,
of Bowie, and brother, Mr. and
Mrs. E. Kuykendall and daughter,
Miss Margaret Kuykendall of Tea-
gue.
Mrs. Jake Stubbs of Mexia, Mr.
and Mrs. John Sims Stubbs of Wa-
co, were visitors of H. B. Stubbs
and other relatives here Wednes-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Meador are
visiting in Houston as guests of
their children, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn
Meador and Mr. and Mrs. Wilton
La Rue.
Mrs. Neal Brown of Richland
was a Wortham visitor Wednes-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Wright and
son, Billy, of Cisco, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Kirvin of Jackson, Ala., and
Mr*. Ben Nepheys of Denver,
Colo., who were here during the ill-
ness amd death of their father, Mr.
F. D. Wright, have returned home.
TWO-MINUTE SERMON
Empty Pockets and Full Hearts
By E. H. HUDSON
"Silver and gold have I none
but such as I have, I give."
y I
Jack Sellers and Robert Mere-
dith of Coolidge spent Sunday in
Mexia.
Miss Betty Jo Quillen and Miss
Elinor Bounds spent the week-end
in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cooper of
Fort Worth spent the week-end in
Mexia.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carpenter and
little daughter, Bennie Lee, of
Prairie Hill, spent the week-end in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
A POOR MAN'S GIFT.
One day in Jerusalem, Peter and John were on their way; j
to prayer meeting. j
A crippled beggar asked for a few cents 0r food.
Peter and John were poor men; they had no money; not
a dime between them.
But they did not look the other way and hurry on, shak-
ing their heads.
They stopped, went over and talked with the beggar,
heard his story, saw his need, explained that they were broke,
Then Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, -but such
as I have, I give." *. ,
And he took the beggar by the hand and lifted him up.
To that beggar the hand of a brother was worth more
than a handfull of gold.
A lame man was lifted to his feet and given life and hope
by a poor man who had no money. !
Count Tolstoi on a winter day met a barefoot begga*
who asked aid. j
He replied, "my brother, I too am barefoot and have no
money to give."
With shining face, the beggar answered, "You have giv-
en me more than money; you have given me your hand and
called me Brother." ....
Here is a lesson for all of us.
Many have no money to give, but we have other thing*
to give, and our duty is to give such as we have.
We think of charity too much in terms of money. cL
Because we cannot give money, we may give nothing. j
Because we cannot do big things, we fail to do little r
things.
MONEY IS GOD'S LAST DEMAND. j
He says, "Son, give me'thine heart."
He says, "Man, give me thy strength."
He says, "Minister to the least of these in my name."
He asks for others, our love, time, talents, sympathy,
service.
Money is the least thing the church needs.
In these hard times, many have quit the church because
they were unable to give anything to its support.
Now, your money is the least thing you can give the
church.
The greatest need is not more money but more loyal men
and women.
You can give your presence, counsel, sympathy, influ-
ence, prayers, service. ;
Full congregations are worth more than full collection i
plates.
Go back to your church and give such as you have.
Money is often a man's least need.
Discouraged men need the heart of a brother and the
hand of a friend.
He needs kindness, cheer, encouragement.
He needs faith, fellowship and friendship.
Few of us have much money to give, but all of us ean
give these things.
We can give understanding, counsel, courage, hope.
We can give worthier purposes and higher ideals.
We can hold out the comfort and promises of God.
We can help the lame man to his feet and set him on the -
way to find God,
GOD MAKES NO IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS.
We are not asked to give things we do not have.
"Give alms of such things as ye have," is His word.
We arc never asked to do what we are unable to do.
We are simply to give of what we have and to do what
we can.
The world's benefactors have done just that.
Moses gave his leadership.
Paul gave his intellect.
Peter gave his warm heart.
James gave his business ability.
John gave his heart full of love.
A widow woman gave a handful of meal.
Another gave her two mites.
A boy gave a few loaves and fishes. j
And each one helped others and himself was blessed. |
What we would do if we could, it not important.
What we do with what we have counts.
Most of us have some power to set lame men on their
feet if we would only use it.
Cooper.
Miss Joyce Holley has returned
to Coolidge after a visit here with
friends.
Miss Patsy Ayres and Miss Lou-
ise Vickers visited in Groesbeck
Sunday.
Herbert Wallace and Miss Wa«
neta Northern of Coolidge spent
Saturday in Mexia with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wh« fcley
have returned to Houston after
short visit with Mrs. WheetleyV
grandmother, Mrs. Jackie Cook,
who is ill in a local hospital.
OUT OUR WAY
By Williams
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MONEY-* SHE OWJES ME
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GOIN' TO GET IT FROM
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TH\NK SHE CAME FRC*A A
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