The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1936 Page: 2 of 8
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The Dublin Progress
—Published By—
T. B. SULLENBERGER & SON
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THE DUBLIN PROGRESS
Friday July 31,1039
CUPPED FOR
COMMENT
Overton Through the effort* «<
Knter«nl at the Postofflc* in Dublin, Texas, a* mall matter of the second the (ham her of tom mere* wort turn
«lua. under the act of Congress ot March 3rd. 1ST*. ; '«•*»"• »• Hma up the street*
_________;........... . In OiNtiw'i buxine** neetIon and an
Imhlin Territory, One Year, J1U0; Six Moakhs. Mo. effort will lie innate In the future to
! keep Iheiu tree of unxkrbUy trash.
Advertising Kates Given on Application. I Th* W»t l.rournm emit* for
' *«ix-|.ioc and washing mu In Imi-Iim-x-
streets and |>ul lit I nt; new parking
I’llillMIlD fcVfcKY t Hilt V Y
.Koike To The Public Any erroneoux reflection upon the character, stand-
tag or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which may ucear In
anal traffic Hnex.
Itublln has an excellent reputation
colauinx of The Itublln Proirrexx will tie gladly corrected upon Itx, as „ tidy city tm^use of the neat
brought to the attention of the publlxherx.
How to Vote
' appearance ct her streets It wouldn't
do. however, for tourists passing
Through here to muke very claw,- In-
spection of down town street* If this
reputation ts to continue.
I»ld you know that for almost' ;i
Whispering Gallery
You've heard of the man who got
so excited he spit out his false teeth.
IT. A. Webb at the newsboy picnic
at Lake tTltvfth* other Sunday pull-
ed one Just a little better than that, j
Tba| Star-TVdegirutn staff rather j
Strutt d t’ve stuff out there and inn-1
vldid the boys with all the barbecue ]
they' could eat to say nothing of pints j
of- Ice-cream and unlimited supplies
of sod.1 pop Webb, though, must j ^"cariy stHtkVs of Texas was
Texas Legends and Folklore
By
Olive M. Johnson. Director of Speech Artu
Norlh Texas State Teachera College
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SdTKRHTITlOYH
Among the curious superstitions
when there are few
rains to wash away trash, is an easy
time to become negligent about the
has a vtlunleer lire Department j
which functions beautifully. Why1
couldn't we have a volunteer Street'
keep the,
Voters in precinct- No. - arc casting more intelligible1
ballots. This contention was made 1 * v jiii election judge j solid we k« dead c*vk*keniejr on the
in Saturday's balloting, one who has had experience with ««« ant** and fhs«> streets?
utanv different elections. 1 i is assertion was based on the, De’plt* ™r"”r iB
apparent tact that very tew of Sat unlay s ballots tailed ^ tfwwmportBB body lay ^ ln
to COliVey the voter’s intent. • fl.ith ami trash until Delton Hallmark
The tvpe of ballots Vast in,an election reflects the j finally swept otr the curb down that
intelligence of the voters; Main years mho when Amer- {»«• un‘l '■*•*•« «*»» n«» to
ican people were unfamiliar with the practice of voting, k1^tu^ym^t,r^,l“lJj
then* must have been many irregularities in counting and
recording ballots. This may ‘have been excusable with an
inexperienced people. But for a ballot today tx* be so|appearanc of our street*. Dubiiuj
poorly marked as to be unfit for counting is a reflection
on the intelligence of any people. ,•
Presiding Officer of the election is required by law! Anythin*
to post near the polls curds which contain instruction* to nr^t* clean!
voters. These cards were in a conspicuous' place Satur-j -
day, vet they were not read carefully by very many vot-
ers. The condition of a few ballots indicates this fact.
Important among the many regulations for Texas
elections is the following clause: “When a voter desires
to vote a ticket straight, he shall run a pencil or pen , yeunger, being ;• jrar* old ami iiw
through all other tickets on the official ballot, making ;i!<«m*nrbe ,M''1 •* fouruwn ymrx
distinct marked iinc through siprh ticket not intemletl t<>
he voted: and whetrhe shall desire tn vote a mixed ticket,
he shall do so by running a line through the names of such
candidates as he shall desire to vote against in the ticket congratulations are due t<* our
he is voting * neighboring city, county, and publl-
A knowledge of this regulation will make for svste- «l‘°",uf
matie balloting among American voters, hleetion judge* BBd pr„,p„;»u« history it lx*.*.* of
an* required by law to count all ballots where intention; having o.mtinu*it through its entire
of the voter can he determined, hut ill some ballots this history under the name name,
cannot at all be possible. A few ballots were marked with cominrh* chief having been »ug-
... . * . A* — * — .J .„,. t„w,li i I, avu haa, Ann i\t I hit
cross marks. No names were marked out, anti a tew
names had cross marks by them.
A cr*>ss mark usually implies the idea of wrongness
Comanrhe -4 omanehe count) In
fhlx jrar celebrating Itx stllJi mini-
»erxnr>, being Jaxt Sit yrar* younger
than the State i>f Texna. The City
of Comanche lx only three years
youmrer than the Hty. tatting Iwn
fouoiled In tnmixt, 1M7S hy 0. I.
Heenmn.
grated way back there by one of the
old-timer* in that section.
Uni,It That tier pecan on>|i of
or disfavor. Such a method m’ voting is entirely out of
ordt*r and indicates negligence on the part of the citizen, j ^'n ^wrn( ^."^ngMce upon
Sonic luillots were marked with almost impereeptihle lhr |Mh MnnMMi convention of the
pencil marks. More than likely they- represent the votes j Texas recan Growers taxorlallon at
oT'aired person* who do not ilohl the pencil Steadv ay ; Sh" Saba on lui-xda), Modnexday
rtamev, are lieing scratched. * and Thursday of thl. week, indivl.
. . || .. . . . .. dual report* were that the crop wax
Persons who are not m the, habit ot writing heavilt („m „ ,^r r<>n| u, l6 ^ r,.nt lr, n„r. j
with |»en Of pencil should In* especially careful to scratch j mil|. aith Hrlullonrh and Tom Green
with firm strokes the minus of those whom they do not j roMOw making the most favorable j
want in office, leaving without any kind of mark tin*
names of those whom they prefer. The ideal situation in
a Texas election would Is* for every single ballot to be so
marked that the election judge would not hesitate a
moment in tallying the votes.
havi become excited over the bar-
becue. • ^
He cauie back here Monday with
his false teeth broken half in two.
We haven't learned whether the bar-
becue was really tough or whether
W bb Just become over anxious in
the eating,
The edllor-ad gatherer whateve
his title is, was otnonil the 1,000
Texas newspapermen who whooped
It up at the FYontler Centennial op-
ening night. The Old Reliable had
to be represented, but its represen-
tative moped In the following Sat-
urdiy looking sa^lly beruggled af-
ter the all-night affair.
The KY nttler SJwvw. the editor
said, wux ail the spectacle it Is rc-
putrsl to he the biggest thing of it*
kind the only thing of tts kind lhal
has ever otimo to Texns. Surpris-
ingly inoffensive it Is. too. he *sld.
considering all the reports. Xews-
nien, guests of Aman II. (Tarter, jam-
med the Midway to censor the at-
traction. IVut about ail the censor-
ing they were supposed to do was
praise. Our own editor is merely
wondering how the show wifi ev**r
pay out.
The National Conference of State
Liquor Administrators met In Pro-
vidence. R. I., this month and made
a gesture which should appeal to the
Woman's Christian Temiterance t’n-
lon. They adopted a code of adver-
tising ethics.
The code calls for a restriction
against Illustrations in liquor ad-
vertising of women, youths, aviators
ships' officers, locomotive -ngim-era
and Army, Navy and Marine Corps
officials The liquor men say they
don't want to appeal to college
students; they don't want to adver-
tise In Sunday papera or In religious
publications; they don't want to as-
sociate liquor with Santa Claus,
Kastvr rabbits, cherry trees or sim-
ilar symbols of national holidays.
Such a resolution. If adopted and
practiced tn good faith, might pre-
vent the recurrence of a public oo-
tlictr belief in Iliad stones, a kind ,of
light-colored, porous rock out of the
stomach of a white deer. Applied to
a hydn pimple wound, the stone
would stick on for twenty or thirty
minutes and then drop off, showing
that tile poison bad been extracted
from the wound. H'or indigestion, the
sovta.lgn cure w.u made hy boiling
the dried lining ot a thicken gixiard.
The early setrters always planted
sunflower* around the house as a
preventive of fever; and when the
American woman She may think hy
now that she took up smoking l*e-
cause It was a pleasant diversion or
because she, likes tije taste of tobac-
co, but the American woman took up
smoking becauee she »•» herself
pictured on a bill board with one of
the famous brands in her hand.
No one with the least knowledge
of crowd • psychology will discredit
this, Hnd no one with the least moral
fortitude will hesitate* to say that
Ameiloa can’t affoid to have the
same thing happen with respect to
liquor. Liquor men. themselves,
know this. They know that extremes
Iq the sale of liquor will serve soon-
er than anything else to bring hack
public stnttment In favor of prohibi-
tion.
fever sometimes came despite uw
amt flowers' they alirtlnlgtered
bark of * redbud tree as a substitute
for quiahrbo.The panacea toP*wart»
was to steal a nelgliietr's diaii rag
and rub the warta with If and itu9
bury (he rag under a peach tree.
For sties, the rhyme "Sty, *ty
leave mye-eye and catch the fjrM
person who panne* by'* was In uni-
versal use Kor atammertng, the beat
t ore was to rub t.h« victim's face,
especially near the mouth, with th«
lights of a freahly-kllled hog And
ul) of our .inCentura wore lump, /tg
as*foetlda urouml thotr necks to
w-ird off diseases tn general. TJits,
along with rest flannel underwnar-
the color was thought to be especial-
ly^conductve to good health.undoubt-
edly laid many an evil spell.
Tha settlcra believed tn Joint
snakes arid hoop snakes, many an
old settler declaring that he hdd
seen snakes unjoin! and then Jots
up again. Here is the testimony of
one concerning a hoop snake.
"He .curia himself Into a hoopk
takes his tall In his mouth, raises up
like a wheel, and here be comes hell-
raising.’
it >was the belief that a snake
-would straighten himself with tall
foremost, which he drove like s
spike into his victim. He was so
poitrnous that if he drove this wea-
pon Into a tree, the leaves would be-
gin to wilt and the tree would soon
die. j
--- i "Why. I was hoeing one day.' eon-
('andldates at the political rally j tlnues the oldster, "and here c
here last Friday night seemed to be : a hoop snake rolling down the
actually afraid they would "sling at me. I bid behind the hoe handle’
mud.'* Several of them haunted the
realms of the rowdier type of cam-
paigning. assuring their audience all
the time they weren’t trying to stir
up trouble against their opponents,
all of w-hom were good men. they
s ild.
Tills situation—and the campaign
every where seemed conspicuously
lacking in scnndolous stories —• is
complimentary either to the candi-
dates themselves or to the attitude
of the puhlic. We may have had
Candidates who refused, to strop to
the mud slinging tactics, or we may
have had audiences who w'eren't in-
clined to listen to such stuff. Cam-
inlpn wave which swept a package i patgnitvg for the run-off may deter-
ftf cigarette* into the hands of the mine which.
and he drove hia tail into the sea-
soned wood. That hoe handle swelled
up and bust right out of the hoe!"
I'att) S|K-ntlx Snndtiy at Glen l<ot»
A number of Dublin people were
members of a party which spent
Sunday In Glen Roae. The group was
composed of the billowing; Mr. and
Mrs. Max Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Nbvit. Sol ltOffman, Mrs. M
Hoffman, and Harry Melowsky. all
of Dublin; Mr and Mrs. .Morrii
Novlt. Stephenvllle^ Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Maisnian. Comanche; Mia* Fan-
nie Mae Hoffman and Miss Minnie
Novlt, Martin Henno, Nnthal Scigal.
and Miss Fannie Ncvit. Dallas; Miss
Ilex* Anton. FYirt Worth.
reports.
Pecan crop* come tn up* and j
downs, and .this seems to be one of
(be down years. Growers In this
•exiion have already Intimated that
the crop will be short here also.
Only two voters in preeinet No. 2 took advantage of
the privilege nt writing in a name. In one of these in-
staneeH, the art seemed to* lie more of a joke than it was a
serious attemtpt to vote. Such an attitude toward public
elections is childish and despicable, and a person who
would resort to it, if he could he ascertained, should he
denied the privilege of hnllot.
Blanton vs Garrett
The Congressional race in the 17th district is about
to afford to citizens of that arear a taste qf the old style
of Lincoln 1 iniiidas debates. Tluunas L Blanton has
challenged his runoff opponent. Clyde L <larretf of
Ea*tland, to a series of debates on (Kilitical issues to lie
held in the county seats of the district. <»rtrrett has not
yet announced Ins answer.
A part of Blanton's letter (iarrett is as follows:
“Bear Clyde, during my enforced *b*en$e from the dis-
trict I represent, when it was necessary for me to re-
main in Washington to attend to official duties, you. for
about six months, have Wen intensely i ampaigning the
twelve counties of this disteirt. Whether intentionally
or otherwise, you have misrepresented me in many ji^rti-
culars. The people of this distriet have a right to hear
your claitm and to hear my ckiini, with both of us Itefore
them where yon . an answer my contentions and 1 can «rtr
«wer yours, bo that the people’thereby thay gain a true
iuhI intelligent idea .of the issues of ttia- ejrtnjmigii. ^
“1 'challenge you, therefore, to meet me irt joint de
hate l>efore Hie people and to have one joint deflate in the
county seat of all twelve enmities, such joint debates to
be conducted strictly in .accord with Robert’s Rule
Order."
There it is—one of,the iiM>st unusual political move*
in many vears. Outwardly, it seems to lie a splendid one.
Blunt on has been involved in many muddy stories during
__his many years of eaui}>aigning. Oarrett hasn't refused
to tell all the vicious practices he feels Blanton guilty of.
To make these accusations tre Blanton's face and give him
m chance to answer them wduld offer the only opportun-
ity for discovering the real truth concerning him.
For the most part, Blanton has campaigned on his
merits and on his own record. Such a series of de«
would not deprive that ctaipatai of any at
Kmntiwood — ’ Typical of
fnun oihvr Toxas manthw, Bmwn
count) xbonx a xrwer Hum tor tin*
first six monthx »f 1W<1 of Itx oper-
ation undvr the new xalarj xjmlran
of rruiunrrathig former fee offlrlalx,
arrordlng to a statement re I rased by
the count) treasurer. . .. -
l*>»rmer foe officials seem to be
profUJng from the amendment pass
<xt two years ago to alter the sys-
tem of their retnuoeraUon. At the
time of «H»n»tdertng thv amendment,
there was some question s» to
whether fee officials with a mer
renary Incentlvw to attend to thetr
duties might not fair better under
the old syatem
It now scents, however, that the
offtrlala ate making more money and
that the duties t»f their offices are
no longer preexed by that mercenary
tnoentisc.
Gtte&U/Ki&apMW
SEE IT WITH TOUR OWN EYES!
Political
Announcements
The Progress (a authorlagd to an-
rtMDo* the following rand I dates (or
jrabty* of fir a la h)r*U> County, sub-
ject to the srUos of the DemoeraUc
prtmsrivs tn July'.
Fur gksrtff
MONT THOMAH
(JU-oloeUoaV.
LOC IJCWH8
Mr Tax Asosuour-Oollector
JIM FINCHBR
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The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1936, newspaper, July 31, 1936; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth561487/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.