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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Friday, September 9, 1938 (
*»ubltahcd Every Afternoon Except Sunday
toy The Shamrock Texan Publishing Co.,
ftttc., 407 North Main Street.
7H!C CURIOUS WORLD
By William
Ferguson
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Albert Cooper
Percy Bones
Arval Montgomery
/. C. Howell
Ted Rogers
PHONE 160
___________Publisher
_________ .Editor
National Advertising
Local Advertising
Mechanical Supt.
MEMBER
Panhandle Press Association
Texas Press Association
National Editorial Association
Sntered at the post office at Shamrock,
Taxas, as second-class matter under Act
Of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate By
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Delivery, 10c
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subscribers prompt and satisfactory
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NOTICE TO PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon the char-
acter, standing or reputation of any per-
son, firm or corporation, which may ap-
In the columns of this paper
gladly corrected upon due 'notice being
tall;
given to the editor personally at the office
at 407 North Main St., Shamrock, Texas,
National Representative-.
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEACK7E, Inc.
Headquarters Mercantile Bldg., Dallas, Tex.
BLUE UNIFORMS ARE
MORE UNIFORM
WANT’ADS
ONE FAMILY OUT OF EVERY TWELVE
RATES AND INFORMATION
10c per line first insertion, 5c
per line tor subsequent Insertions.
Count 6 average words to the line.
FREE FARMERS EXCHANGE
Fanners who are paid-up sub-
scribers may run ads free of
charge to exchange, buy or sell
anything except real estate and
oil and gas leases, and royalties.
All ads will be run 6 times.
Gas and oil cook stoves. Many
other household goods. Two milk
goats, bargain. Brooking, 407 N.
Choctaw. ltp.
LAVA
STREAMS
If you care to get mildly senti-
mental about the United States
army, you might be interested
know that Uncle Sam’s soldiers are
once more going to be “boys in
blue.”
The olive-drab service uniform
familiar to this generation is soon to
he discarded. Army experts have
decided to give it up for a uniform
of blue—not the deep, navy-blue
tint of Civil War days, to be sure
but a lighter, hazier blue which will
look nattier at close range and, at
the same time, have a lower visi-
bility at ordinary shooting distance.
It is principally a matter of eco-
nomics and military efficiency that
causes the change. The War De-
partment explains that the regula
tlon olive-drab khaki Is hard to get
In a hurry. If the need for uniforms
suddenly increases overnight a hun-
dredfold—as it did early in 1917—
the new recruits are more than
likely to find themselves wearing
outfits of subtly differing shades,
ranging from an almost-green to
an almost yellow. This irritates col-
onels and top-sergeants and is apt
to confuse the rookie.
So the army will presently be go-
ing back to blue, and the soldier
will cut a more dashing figure on
parade.
All of this, to anyone of a senti-
mental turn of mind, is a good
thing. By all our old traditions the
American soldier is a fellow dressed
In blue. It was so in the Revolu-
tion—when he was dressed in any
■art of unifonn at all—and it was
ao in the Civil War; It was the
blue-coated trooper who sweated
across the plains in pursuit of the
Indian, and even in the war with
Spain the blue shirt was still regu-
lation.
But if a mere civilian may have
Opinions on army efficiency, one
might wonder why the War De-
partment didn’t go a bit farther
when it was making the change.
A retired general of the U. S.
army recently wrote a book in
which he suggested that the army
throw away all of its present uni-
forms and simply clothe its soldiers
in blue dungarees, of the kind fa-
miliar to doughboy working parties.
First of all, said the general, blue
denim can always be bought in
SELDCW\ MOVE DOWN
A MOUNTAINSIDE
FASTER THAN
7MO AAU.FS
pse /-routs..
FOR RENT—5 room modem
house. 210 S. Main. See Harris Til-
ley at Shamrock Poultry and Egg
Co. 104-3tc.
FOR SALE—3-dlsc International
breaking plow with tractor hitch. In
good condition. J. M. Morgan. 104-6E
FOR SALE—One-row wheat drill,
nearly new. Mrs. T. E. Trostie, Rt.
2, Shamrock. 104-6E
NOTICE—Positively no hunting
on V. W. Shoemaker Farms. V. W.
Shoemaker. 103-6tp.
WHAT'S WRONG l
WITH THIS PICTURE!
COWt 1»» BV HE* SgRVICE. INC.
FOR SALE—2 farm wagons, $30
for the 2. See them at O. B. Har-
vey’s, 18 miles west of Shamrock.
A. W. Martin, Ridgway, Colo. 103-6E
FOR SALE!—3 choice Jersey bulls,
ANSWER: Rainbows can occur only in the morning or afternoon
. . . never at midday . . . for the sun must be rather low in order
lo set the stage for this phenomenon. Sunlight enters the filling
raindrops, is refracted, then totally deflected . . . and each . Tac-
tion separates its spectral colors.
NEXT; What bird eais more than its own weight in tool
night?
• STAMP NEWS
DHILATELY acquired a rare
1 batch of covers from Howard
Hughes’ round-the-world flight.
Officially, Mr. Hughes carried no
covers, turned down more than
1500 requests by collectors for
these postal specimens. But it is
now revealed that he did carry
several hundred covers “to pro-
vide souvenirs for those persons
without whose aid and co-opera-
tion the flight would have been
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impossible
Eventually some of these exclu-
sive covers may get into the phila-
telic market and when they do
they should prove relatively rare.
* » *
A U. S. Postoffice Department
is planning to initiate a new ex-
perimental air mail service to
rural points in which specially-
equipped planes will pick up and
deliver mail while in flight. In
vitations for bids on four proposed
routes have already been sent to
airlines, will be opened Sept. 15
Such a plan if adopted widely
would revolutionize air mail serv
ice.
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Marking the 125th anniversary
of Commodore Perry’s victory on
Lake Erie, a cachet printed in
color will be mailed from the
Put-in-Bay, Ohio, postoffice on
Sept. 10. Send covers not later
than Sept. 4 to H. D. Hubbard,
119 S. 39th street. Philadelphia.
Forwarding postage is not re-
tquired.
quantity without difficulty. It is
cheap and it is durable; expand
your army overnight, and you can
have the whole gang in uniform
once.
at
Secondly, continued the general
today's soldier spends a good part
of his time sc rouging around in the
dirt and mud. No matter what you
put on him, he’s going to be well-
soiled as soon as he gets Into ac-
tion; why not give him the kind of
clothing that Is suited to that sort
of work;?
Whether the army will ever get
that fax is a question. Given the
brass hat’s love for parade-ground
trimness, it probably won’t. Mean-
while, it is rather pleasantly inter-
esting to know that the "boys In
blue" are coming back. j
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BARBS
I ATE news from the European
countries seems to indicate
subject to register, ages from
months to 2 years. Pair of heavy
mares, wagon and plow tools. J. E.
Tindall, Twitty, Texas. 103-6tE.
FOR SALE—Young, white guin-
eas; extra fine for baking. B. D.
Howe. 102-6E.
WANTED—Man and woman,
white or colored, to work on farm.
L. W. Purcell, Lela. 101-6E.
Social Security-
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OWNER CHARGES PET
DUCK DIED IN OVEN
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.—Mrs.
Sadie Stewart held “Knock Knock,”
the duck, in her arms today as she
stood before Magistrate James W.
McBride and accused a neighbor,
Mrs. Loretta Fox, of stealing the
duck's duck friend, “Big Guy.”
“And 'Big Guy’ died in your oven
that night," Mrs. Stewart exclaim-
ed.
"That’s a lie,” countered Mrs.
Fox. “I took him to a man who . . .
said he was sick. He killed him.”
Mrs. Stewart showed two pictures
of Knock Knock and Big Guy.
“See, Judge,” she said, “how gor-
geous Gig Guy was?”
The magistrate nodded and or-
dered Mrs. Fox to pay $15 for the
duck.
that it may be months before they
actually get down to.brass hats.
* * *
A strike st an eastern tannery
has finally been settled, and all
the workers have gone back into
hiding.
* * •
German soldiers have been for-
bidden to do any applauding, and
the women have been ordered to
give a modified version of the Nazi
salute. He seems to be sure of
everybody now but the male pri-
vate citizen.
• • »
A psychologist announces that
the rocll-to-do worry more than
the poor. Of course the poor
have nothing to worry about—
practically everything has al-
ready happened.
» * *
The Japs and the Chinese seem
lo be applying old-fashioned in-
dustrial methods to warfare. The
former go in for the speed-up, and
the latter counter with the stretch-
out.
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wives and widows and young chil-
dren of insured persons who die be-
fore reaching retirement age.
4. A change in the present meth-
of of investing the accumulating
security taxes in a reserve fund be-
fore old-age annuities begin.
5. Downward revision of the in-
dividual and employer tax rates un-
till the program reaches the peak
of its operation in four or five years.
The advisory council, selected at
the request of the senate finance
committee, consists of five represen-
tatives of labor, six from employ-
ers and 11 from the public gener-
Copyright, l»1 A. NKA
ally It rejected the proposal of Sen-
ator Vandenberg of Michigan to re-
duce payroll taxes as a recovery
stimulant. It approved the present
handling of the reserve account.
MAN HIKES 600 MILES
TO ANSWER SUMMONS
BEAUMONT.—B. Johnson has
sincere respect lor the courts.
His feet blistered from 600 miles
of intermittent “hitching” and hik-
ing, Johnson trudged into a court-
room here in answer to a summons
to appear and show cause why he
had not supported his family.
When Johnson asked for a hear-
ing, he was Informed that all judges
.were on vacation, so he was forced
to wait until court sessions would
be resumed.
Johnson received the summons at
Bruni, Tex., 600 miles from here.
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)e honoring Francis Scott Key,
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Bones, Percy. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 105, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1938, newspaper, September 9, 1938; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth526302/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.