The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1939 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Thursday, July 27, 1939
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
and Thursday
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Published Every Monday —- ----- •
Afternoon by The Shamrock T»x»n_Puh-
Leads Baptist
Conventioners
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Arval Montgomery
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Dalhart’s Fourth Annual
XIT Celebration Will Be
Held On August 7 And 8
could be near "my Mickey." A few
months ago, after friends found that
rattlesnakes had crawled through
breaks In the walls of the old house,
Prenchy was persuaded to move to
Charming, where she lives with a
friend, Mrs. Fred Blackwell. But
every night, before she drops off to
sleep, the 78-year-old woman takes
Mrs. Blackwell by the hand and
says: "You won’t forget, will you?
If I die tonight you will bury me
by my Mickey."
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The zebu is the Orient's principal
yielder of milk.
Texas is ninth among the states
In the number of national land-
marks "preserved” by the Library of
Congress with blueprints and photo-
graphs. Of the State’s 270 shrines,
San Antonio and vicinity counts
20, Samuel E. Gideon, University ol
Texas architecture professor, states
DALHART,—Headed by 83-year-1 branded the first
Blocker, men and women j
NOTICE TO PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon the char-
acter, standing or reputation of any per-
Sw V™here^mM,o?ntht8hp»prr will be j pictured at Baptist World Alliance
ge 583 i convention In Atlanta, Ga is Dr.
u 407 North Main St., 81iamrock. Texas. 1 QeorB(, W. TfUCtt, president Ol me
—-— | AjIlance Ten thousand delegates.
INSURANCE FARM | representing 12.000,000 members of
OWNERSHIP STILL Baptist persuasion, gathered to for-
* PRORI FM Imulate church’s views on present-
a rnuDLLra day questions.
It is now about six or seven years |--
since the great deluge of insurance (he other day. when Times people
since uie greai uciub«- ...........— other aay, wnen xuuca
company foreclosures descended on were c]eanjn(! out the personal files
the fai-m belt. The situation was a I f thc late yvclolph Ochs were the
critical problem then, and Is a some-1 letters note.s, and memoranda of
what less critical but none the less Hal(1 uncovcred. and the unvarnish-
—i —m.™ . truth iearneti. There could no
| old Ab ~ ------ -
who helped build the cattle industry
! In the Texas Panhandle and sur-
rounding regions will be the guests
| of honor at the Fourth annual XIT
reunion on August 7 and 8.
j Blocker, whose home is at Big
I Wells, Tex., rates the No. 1 place
of honor because it was he who
trailed herd to the XIT ranch. That
was fifty-four years ago this month,
i xhe Funvell Brothers of Chicago
Iliad just built the present Texas
| capital at Austin and had been giv-
en the three-million-acre ranch In
1 payment, and Blocker, a trail driver
of Tom Green county, delivered the
initial herd of cattle to the No. 1
division headquarters at Buffalo
Springs.
Blocker also designed the XIT
brand which became famous
throughout the cattle country.
Blocker marked out the brand with
the heel of his boot in the corral
dust, and “Barbecue” Campbell, the
first general manager of the ranch,
okayed it. Then Blocker roped and
Two other honor guests at the
reunion will be John Armstrong Jr.
and ills widowed mother, both of
Farwell, Tex. John Armstrong Sr
was the only foreman of the XIT I
who was ever shot down and killed
in the line of duty. He was foreman
of the southern half of the ranch,
supervising four divisions, when he j
was shot and killed in 1808 while
engaged in a campaign against
rustlers.
A fourth honor guest will be
Frenchy McCormick, the belle of
Old Taseosa. Frenchy was a Creole
beauty from Baton Rouge, but she
eame west in the ’80s to live at
Dodge City when that was a hcll-
roarin’ town at the end of the rail-
road. A few years later she went
by ox cart to Taseosa, where she
reigned as queen of a dance hall.
It was there that she married Mick
cy McCormick.
Mickey died In Dalhart in 1909,
and was buried In Taseosa. For 00
years his widow lived in a little rock
house near the cemetery, where she
DON’T BE
real problem now.
But it is a different problem. One
of the curious aspects of it is this:
the insurance companies, pitchfork-
ed into widespread farm ownership
against their will, are now some-
what reluctant to get out. The rea-
son is simple: they have found that
their large farm holdings are a
sound asset, and almost the only
one they can hold that provides
any security against possible infla-
tion.
So now Insurance commissioners
in various midwestem states, engag-
ed In trying gradually to wean farm
property away from the insurance
companies, are meeting resistance.
Many of these states, the Wall
Street Journal points out in survey-
ing the situation, have statutes lim-
iting the length of time insurance
companies may own farm property
in those states. Such laws have sel-
dom been enforced, and there is re-
luctance to enforce them too dras-
tically at any one time, lest the
dumping of many farms on the
market at once break down land
values.
Further, the insurance companies
longer be any objection to publics
tion for the very government which
had caused their suppression no
longer exists.
The kaiser, Hale's notes now re-
veal. had ranted and raved against
the English as “the traitor to the
white man's cause." He viewed Jap-
an's victory over Russia as a tragedy
to Europe, and insisted that “the
danger to us is not Japan, but Japan
at the head of a consolidated Asia."
He wished close relations with the
United States, especially in Asiatic
affairs, saying “Germany has no
ambitions that traverse or even ap-
proach the spheres of American
activity." (This was at a time when
the kaiser felt very close to Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt.) He in-
veighed bitterly against the "English
ninnies."
Even Roosevelt, on hearing from
Hale the content ol the interview,
agreed that publication would be
tad. and commented. “Bill is a
thought jumpy." So the famous in-
terview was suppressed, to come to
light 31 years later.
indeed interesting if
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may not be able to pay taxes.
But on the other hand, of course,
there is pressure In every such state
to reduce farm tenancy, and one of
the most easily available ways is to j people
get those farms out of the hands of China
temperament. And second, that of
Adolf Hitler, the kaiser's ex-corporal
who sits in the kaiser's place and
torments an axis alliance with the
who are trying to absorb
"the worst calamity that
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the insurance companies and back j could threaten the worm
into the hands of farmers. In one > mind of the man cf Doom
’■* state it was found that 15 per cent j
of all farms were in the hands of
insurance companies, an unhealthy |
situation in a country which aims at |
the widest possible personal owner-,
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ship of land by those who use it.
The problem now is. gradually and
without disturbing unduly the land
market, to get these instttutlonal-
owned farms back into the hands
of men who will personally till them.
Insurance companies will then
have the problem of what to do with
the money received from them, in-
vesting It In a market which offers
all too little chance for new invest-
ment.
But that is tomorrow's problem.
Today's is the graceful easing out of
the farm-ownership problem which
arose in the depths of the depres-
sion In 1931-1933.
A STORY HITLER SHOULD
READ WITH INTEREST
The story of history Is never com-
plete. Little footnotes keep cropping
up, years after the event. Some-,
times the new knowledge is so im-
portant as to change whole con-
cepts long accepted.
How long it takes the New York
Times to be delivered to Doom, Hoi- ,
land, and Berchtesgadcn. Germany, I
we don't know. But there are read- |
ers in both those places who will :
want to read the sensational foot- i
note to history revealed by the
Times last Sunday, clearing up a
point that has been clouded in mys-
tery tor 31 years. Kaiser William II
and Adolf Hitler are the men lor
whom it should have an abiding In-
terest. ...
In 1908. when Europe was setting
on the war which it hatched in 1914.
The Times sent William Bayard
Hale to Interview the kaiser. Hale,
who had intimate German connec-
tions, found the kaiser s yacht Ho-
henzollern at Bergen, Norway, and
the kaiser stalked up and down the
deck tor two hours, giving Hale the
stormiest kind of an interview.
But the interview was never print-
ed The German foreign office sup-
pressed It, and even a diluted v®*'
r.on printed later In Century Maga-
zine was killed at the last moment.
A German warship called at New
York for the unreleased copies of
the magazine, and burned them n
her furnaces on the way back to
Gr ’ many, so explosive was the in-
any speculative accounts of
Hair’s historic interview were print-
ed, largely guesswork. Not until Just
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1939, newspaper, July 27, 1939; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528433/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.