The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1928 Page: 2 of 8
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FAGC BIGOT
THE SHAMBOCiyTEA^N
Thursday, August 9, 1928
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
Published Every TTiureda.v By
BONES & BONES
ALBERT COOPER, Editor
_ as Second. CUaa Mail Matter at the Poetofficc at Sbemrock,
Texts, Under the Act of March 8, 1879.
■becription Rates: One Year, $2.00; Six Months $1.00
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION
WHO IS BENEFITTED?
Without the open gambling or gyp games and a few
other objectionable features its predecessor had. the carni-
val which played here last week did not provide very whole-
come entertainment. Members of the Volunteer Fire De-
partment and county authorities are responsible for the
outfit Acting as clean as it did.
The Fire boys found out what the Band learned—that
it does not pay to fool with a cheap road show. The best
of them are a poor substitute for entertainment and the
good ones are in such minority drastic measures to keep all
of them out of a city seem justifiable. If they can’t be
kept out, at least we as organizations do not have to invite
them in. There are better ways to raise money than by
importing these rotten outfits and so often they wind up
with nothing to show for several days hard work on the
part of the local management but a lot of criticism.
The Band and Volunteer Fire Departments are deserv-
ing institutions and this newspaper and every one in the
city appreciates them and is always willing to help them in
every vr&y. But we do not like to see them bring to our
city carnivals like the last two we have had.
COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
The three-story brick hospital which Dr. J. W. Gooch
is building when completed will be one of the city’s biggest
assets. An up-to-date hospital is second only to good
churches and schools.
Hot very many cities this size have anything that will
compare* with Shamrock General Hospital, and fewer still
have a physician and surgeon willing to personally finance
a $75,000 institution. The fact that a local man is doing
it is apt to keep us from appreciating it as much as we
ahould. A hospital is a community institution and Dr.
Gooch is entitled to the hearty support and co-operation of
his fellow townsmen.
THE GREAT AMERICAN FjCME
JVC-
tamiuy
SPRIGS OF
SHAMROCK
MUST REGULATE THE DRIVER
Some affirmative legislative action must be taken to
abate reckless driving and safeguard against automobile
accidents on the highways.
In 1927, excluding accidents at railroad crossings and
with street cars, 22,251 fatalities occurred from automobile
accidents. One out of every four fatal accidents involved
automobiles.
An analysis shows that in 5,581 instances the driver
disregarded signals; 4,280 resulted from cutting in; 3,859
drove off roadway; 7,451 exceeded speed limit; 7,247 on
wrong side of road; 1,281 in passing standing street car;
691 passing on wrong side: 938 making wrong turn; 631
passing on curve of hill; 574 disregarded officers’ signals;
382 drove through safety zone; 19,720 did not have right
of way; 1,720 disregarded arterial stops.
The usual remedy suggested by , those unfamiliar with
the situation is elimination of railroad grade crossings.
But none of these accidents occurred at grade crossings and
grade crossing accidents are responsible for but a small
proportion of total fatalities. Removal of all grade cross-
ings would further burden the people with taxation without
remedying the main causes.
If accidents are to be reduced and driving on the high-
ways made reasonably safe, there must be written into our
statutes regulations which by driving qualifications will
prevent the reckless, inexperienced, or physically incapaci-
tated individual from obtaining a driver’s license.
Railroad crossings, boulevards and densely traveled in-
tersections and highways should be made arterial stops.
With nearly 24,000,000 licensed automobiles in this country
and increasing every day, and with about 95,000 accidental
deaths occurring in 1927, of which 22,251 resulted from
automobiles on the highways, the time has come when, for
' the public safety and welfare, definite and remedial action
must be taken to curb primary conditions responsible for
such results.
By P. W. B.
Well, readers, if any, this highly
literary department of the paper
was crowded out last week by ad-
vertising. I had a number of
things I wanted to say, but for
economic reasons I forbore. Ad-
vertising is bread and butter t >
newspaper man, and we’ve all
gotta eat.
I Did You Ever Stop
i To Think
By Edson R. Waite
Shawnee, Oklahoma
' Victor M. Cutter, president of
the United Fruit Company, says:
That it is a fact at the centen-
,, nial exposition at Philadelphia in
L1878, bananas wrapped in tinfoil
were sold as a rarity. Today
' bananas are sold in every city,
town, and hamlet in the United
States. The development of the
barjana trade is one of the ro
mantes of business. From small
. beginnings hardly more than a
generation ago, it has developed
into a great industry which em-
ploys more than 68,000 men, has
under actual cultivation in its
(Various plantations tracts of land
which, placed together, are half
, again as large as the state of
Rhode Island, and has nearly
'every phase of human activity
(,from aeronautics to harness-mak
:ing represented on its roster,
jj The growing of bananas in com-
mercial quantities presents numer-
§01
>ub interesting problems. In the
.North profitable fanning consists
f grouping acreage so as to keep
wn overhead. This procedure
impossible in banana farming,
plantation may be ready to
rvest, and a windstorm may
,y the fruit flat on the ground,
year’s labor is gone. But ex-
rience has shown that, in the
Topics, windstorms and excessive
linstorms are usually local, and
erefore plantations nre scattered
_ wide areas in order that at
ill times fruit may be secured in
’ that steamships may be
filled and Northern markets sup-
plied.
Bananas are invariably gather
ed green because there is no such
thing, even in the tropics, as ripe
edible bananas taken from the
plant. If a banana ripens in the
field, it develops so much fruit
sugar that it early bursts its
skin, and flies and birds attack
it, so that the Jamaican or Hon
duran who desires to ripen i
stem of bananas for his own use
carefully cuts the green fruit and
hangs it' up in his veranda so
that it will ripen under exactly
the same conditions as those used
in a more northern latitude.
It ig interesting to note that
when this country was discovered,
civilization along the littoral of
the countries surrounding the
Carribean had reached a' high de-
gree of cultural development. This
civilization was destroyed by the
Spaniards, and for over three hun-
dred years these lands reverted
to the jungle. The success of
banana culture, coupled with the
employment of thousands of men
and the use of modern transporta-
tion and communication facilities,
have once again made these lands
necessary in the scheme of modern
civilization.
A fleet of ninety steamships;
a system of railroads, which, if
laid in a line, would reach from
New York to St. Paul, Minnesota;
innumerable tramway systems;
thousands of locomotives Bnd cars;
radio stations that rim the coun-
tries of the Caribbean—all con-
tribute their part to tha swift
and certain delivery of this fruit
from the tropics to the markets
of tha north.
Have you noticed that on
North Main Street the weeds
are so thick along the curb
in some places that they hang
over on the pavement? The
weeds are sure; flourishing
since the recent rains. They
aren’t good for anything, but
they haven't been cut. It
must be the labor involved
that keepa people from cut-
ting them. Folks can scarce-
ly be blamed for not liking
to man a hoe handle in August
but really, thoae weeds ought
to be cut.
The theory has been advanced
that the luxuriant weeds over
town are responsible for the
mosquitoes being so bad. Don’t
know about that, but a good thick
crop of weeds is about as bad
advertising for a town as one
could think of.
THE SYMBOL OF PAUL
Let’s Cut the weeds.
Gene Howe, publisher of the
Amarillo News, is a man. Having
made a mistake, he is not afraid
to get right up in public and ad-
mit it. His mistake was a recent
attack on Lindbergh, America’s
Idol, in his “Tactless Texan”
coluajn, charging that the young
Flying' Colonel had the big head
because he didn’t answer a tele-
gram from Mayor Bivins and
bawled out an American citizen on
the flying field.
Lindbergh paid a second
visit to Amarillo laat week.
Asked by an Amarillo aviator
what he thought of Old Tack’s
tirade, the Colonel laughed and
Baid that if Howe thought no
more about it than he did,
the affair had been forgotten.
Lindbergh said he probably
brought it on himself, as he
did speak sharply to a man
who got too close to the
propeller of his plane.
The International Uniform Sunday
12. Paul Stands for Christian Liberty.
Always in the Christian Church !
there have been problems of eon-!
duet and of attitude which have i
oceasioned controversy. This is |
more or les inevitable wherever |
spiritual principles and convictions I
come nto the realm of practical j
life. '
How are ideals to be reieted to
action in a world that is still far
from the ideal? H >\y is new
truth to be related to old truth,
not only in thinking, but in the
practices and forms which the old
truth has established, and which
the individual has been accustomed
to observe with prevision and de-
votion ? , '
• Vjkt) of Belief
Such problems brought out all
tlje variety of opinion and nttitu ’
which they produce in every age.
When certain people came from
Judea and found the work that
Paul and Barnabas had been doing
upon a broad basis and saw that
this work was effective in ti'c win-
ning of Gentiles to the Christian
way, they immediately insisted
that the salvation of these new
converts could not be dissociated
from the performance of certain
Jewish rites, particularly the rite
of circumcision “after the custom
of Moses."
But what age can point in crit-
icism to these men of Judea?
Have there been in every age
those who have shown more en
thusiasm in keeping the new spirit
of Christianity in old forms and
molds than for extending and in-
tensifying the power of new
truth?
With great clearness the fore-
most disciples perceived in their
finer moments that the supreme
authority was the Gospel of Grace
—that this new experience of re-
ligion had to create its own laws
and its own demands upon the
souls of men. /
Finding the Beauty
It were well if we could share
the saner and clearer moments of
these disciples and could see in
our own time without unfortunate
School Lesson for August
Acta 15:1-11.
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“Short Summer
Wasn’t It, Kiddies?
And, now that school begins pretty
soon, we imagine Dad and Mother, who
must pay the expenses, think so too.
Being deeply interested, both in young
folks and their parents, we hope you will
let us help make the burdens of school
days lighter.
If you have problems of this sort, bring
them to us.
First National Bank
Old Tack now admits that he
misconstrued the Colonel’s actions.
He further admits that Lindbergh
is a broad gauge young man,
whom he finds entirely admirable,
and apologizes through his column
for his former attack. And that,
my friends, is a pretty good
measure of a man. ✓
Conditions in the Shamrock
country point to another bumper
crop. Good rains, followed by
hot sunshine, make the "cotton
and the- com and sweet pertaters
grow.” With a fair price for
farm products this fall, this sec-
tion will be prosperous as nevsr
before.
Regardless of markst conditions,
litn Mucl.aren is shown as he
appears as the Christus in Holly-
wo ! h annual 1’ilgrimage Play.
with Adda Gleason as Mary of
Bethany and Mildred Wheat as
Martha. This is the ninth season
for the play, presented in the out-
door amphitheater in Hollywood’s
hills.
lapse and reaction to narrower
views and ways the largeness and
beauty of the Christian experi-
ence, the liberty that it inevitably
brings to the souls of men where
it is allowed to be free and un-
hampered.
If we were only to think abuot
the matter, we should realize
quite easily how much larger God
is than our view of him and how
r..uch greater is Truth than our'
conception of it.
It is interesting to see how much
Paul has to say about freedom
and liberty, and it is equally in-
teresting to compare all that he
says with the spirit of the teach-
ing of Jesus and the supreme em-
phasis that Jesus laid upon the
heart as distinguished from its
outward forms.
however, it’s always a good thing
to diversify. The arguments in
favor of diversification are so
overwhelming that it seems
strange any farmer would depend
on the one-crop method. Yet they
do. Suppose a dry goods mer-
chant handled only one kind of
piece goods. How much money
would he make? Suppose a hard-
ware store offered its customers
one line? How much business
would it do?
Farming is a bigger business
than any mercantile line and
fanners should have more than
one kind of product to sdll.
Let’s cut the weeds!
A magistrate in Wildwood, N.
J., refused to go up in a plane
to marry a couple. Probably be-
cause he was not a sky pilot.
Girls, we are informed, are not
marrying so early as they used
to. Still, they aja marrying more
often.—Punch.
“I’ve fought my last bout,” de-
clared Tunn^y the other day. But,
proving that rumors of his coming
marriage may be true, added, “as
a professional boxer.”
Something to be thankful for:
there probably won’t be so many
French phrases in the movies now
that talking pictures are here and
the actors will have to pronounce
them.
And, speaking of talking your-
self out of a job, how about the
movie star who got a part in the
“talkie”?
Linguists are puzzled over a
South American boy who speaks
no known language. If he isn’t
any relation to the fellow that’s
been calling on the flapper next
door, we can’t help them out.
. .-(v-v-if-.C-L
What’s wrong with this sentence:
“Monkeys are highly intelligent;
in fact, almost human.”
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TEXAS
“Shamrock's Modem Theatre"
FRIDAY—
“The Devil's Trademark”
How many girls are doomed to wear the Devil’s Trademark?
The brand of evil burned deeply into the soul of a beautiful
girl. A brand she did not deserve. A fate she could not
escape. You should see it.
Comedy, “Starting Something”
On the” Stage: Don’t fail to see LANE’^MUSICAL REVUE
playing return engagement
SATURDAY—
Tom Mix in
“Daredevil’s Reward”
Also Comedy
MONDAY—
Norma Shearer in
“The Demi-Bride”
With Lew Cody
She wasn’t going to have bouquets before marriage—and
brickbats after. You must see how Norma Shearer works
it in her greatest starring triumph. A gay marriage of
love and laughter.
Also Collegians in “Relay”
TUESDAY—
Daredevil Wilson in
“AIR PATROL”
spectacular filming of an exciting, colorful romance.
Collegians in “Relay”
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY—
THE BIGGEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR
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CHARLIE CHAPII
** Hie Circus *
He’s back again in the greatest show of mirth—the picture
you’ve been waiting to see. Chaplin, king of comedy, back
again—still smiles and smiles ahead of them all. Right
this way to the big show. See the greatest collection! at
laughs, gags and giggles every assembled under oh canvas.
Freaks, fun and frolic—they’re all here. All right, professor,
strike up the band,
step this way.
The show is about to
Comedy, “Rabbit in Tall Timbers'
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Cooper, Albert. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1928, newspaper, August 9, 1928; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528412/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.