The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 7, 1937 Page: 1 of 16
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TO DEVELOP
EAST TEXAS RESOURCES
AND
FOSTER EDUCATION
The Tyler Journal
To “Sell” Smith County's Better Farming Program to Our Own People and to Texas—and Tyler to Her Neighbors
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A CONSTRUCTIVE NEWS
SERVICE FOR SMITH
AND
ADJOINING COUNTIES
VOL. 13. NO. 2
TYLER. TEXAS. FRIDAY. MAY 7. 1937
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Telling It To You
As It's Told To Us
No. 1—Contractor's business fine.
No. 2—Old time high ceilings.
No. 8—“Ceiling Zero” the tops.
No. 4—Invitation from Rural Li-
brary.
No. 1—Contractor, talking over the
back yard fence with his neighbor,
upon being asked how’s business:
“Business is fine; in fact, it’s rushing
me to death. I’ve already used 25
carloads of cement since January 1.
I’m working up at Van now, laying
the sidewalks, curbing, and gutters
around their new school building. I
have just got all the business I can
see to.”
No. 2—Neighbor: “My wife and I
ere building us a new home over here,
and we were just contrasting the
height of ceilings in homes nowadays
with what people used to build. We
visited at her old home place, the
house in which she was born, recent-
ly, and she just couldn’t believe that
it was the same old place. The ceil-
ings were twelve feet high. Then I
told her about the house in Missouri
where I was born. The ceilings were
fourteen feet high, except in the
kitchen. In those days, people didn’t
think much of the kitchen, just a
dark little old shed of a room tack-
ed onto the back of the house. In
our new home, mv wife has given
more thought to plannin'r Ihe kitch-
en than the rest of the house put to-
gether.”
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No. 3—Two couples from Troup
who had seen the press preview of
Tyler Little Theatre's “Ceiling Zero”:
“That's the best acting we’ve ever
seen on any stage! One would think
that everyone of those players had
been on the stage; a professional, I
mean. We wete tired when we came
home from work, and it was some-
thing of an effort to make it up here,
but believe me, we were well repaid.
I’ve never enjoyed home talent pro-
ductions so much before.”
No. 4—Library official of the
county’s Rural T .ibmrv- “We cer-
tainly appreciate the story on our
library’s progress that you are get-
ting up this week. And please tell
the people in the towns and commu-
nities of the county that the library
books and magazines are for their
use, and enjoyment, and that each
branch’s librarian will be glad to
issue to them the library’s material.
We want more persons to have the
benefit of the library, and get in the
habit of using it.”
PHILADELPHIA LADY
WITNESSED VEILING
ZERO” IN 3 THEATRES
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.It Mias the pleasure of a Journal re-
porter to interview by telephone
Wednesday afternoon Miss Ann Clark
of Philadelphia, who is a guest of her
brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Clark, here. Miss Clark has just
come from Shreveport where she vis-
ited another brother, and where she
witnessed the Shreveport Little The-
atre’s production of “Ceiling Zero”.
On her way down she also stopped in
New Orleans to attend “Ceiling Zero”
as given by that city’s Little Thea-
tre. As she was a guest of the same
play given here by the Tyler Little
Theatre, Miss Clark was asked, nat-
urally, which production was best of
the three. She stated, however, that
she did not wish to commit herself as
her brother and sister in Shreveport,
who are interested in Little Theatre
work there, might become offended
If she favored Tyler, or her brother
and sister here might feel the same
wav if she named Shreveport. She
praised very highly each of the three
presentations. Miss Clark is a pro-
fessional and has been with the
Hedgerow Players of Philadelphia,
renouned theatrical group.
While in New Orleans, she met
©f the New
Orleans Little Theatre, and Jack Con-
nell, professional juvenile lead with
the Federal Theatre Plavers. They
sent their regrets to Juan Villasana,
director of Tyler Little Theatre and
•formerly of New Orleans, that they
could not attend his presentation
Tuesday or Wednesday evening. Mr.
to her his great
pleasure at the success Villasana has
attained while in Tyler, and express-
ed the hope that Tyler Little The-
atre audiences will be housed in their
own building for *he new season com-
mencing in October.
County Rural Library Circulates 900
Books Weekly to Fourteen Communities
LIVING MEMORIAL
TO BLAST VICTIMS
WILL BE CREATED
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What the Average Person You
Meet on the Streets Thinks
and Says—Public Mind
TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE
PUBLIC INVITED
At their meeting on Monday of
last week, the county commissionei’s
voted that $100 be spent for new
books for the Rural Library, and al-
ready 65 books, purchased with a
part of this amount, have been ob-
tained and will be put into circulation
very soon. These books were chosen
from some of the best literature, with
many beautiful pictures and inter-
esting stories, and will be welcomed
additions to the library.
Work of the Rural Library project
was begun in November, 1935. WPA
supplied funds to pay the workers
and the county commission agreed to
provide a place for the library. Later
the commission agreed to pay for ma-
terials necessary for the work in the
event such materials were not fur-
nished by the WPA. This expense
amounts to $12 or $15 per month.
No money was provided for books
at that time, so a drive was made by
all parent-teacher associations in Ty-
ler and several of the literary clubs.
Collection of about 14,000 books was
soon assembled. Of this number,
many were too old to mend or un-
suitable for use. After discarding
these, some 800 hooks, some of them
reference works, were found usable.
Since, books, a few at a time, keep
coming into the library. At the
present time, there are 2,007 books
in the library, about 1200 of them be-
ing in active circulation.
Sent to Rural Libraries
Books are sent from the county li-
brary to workers in the rural libra-
ries, fourteen in number, and they in
turn issue the books to the people of
their communities. Thus a book may
be checked out as many as fifteen
times before it comes back to the
Tyler Library. In this way an aver-
age of about 900 books per week is
circulated in the county. The total
circulation of books from November,
1935, when the project was started,
to April, 1987, has been 30,420.
Besides books, the library has is-
sued thousands of magazines, and
have done a fine work for the rural
schools in providing clippings, pic-
tures, and special articles for their
use. Thousands of little books hgve
been made from these, and it is felt
by library officials and school teach-
ers in these communities that the use
of these materials had had a direct
bearing on the higher grades thac ru-
ral school pupils have made.
Plan Open House Soon
The Rural Library is housed on the
‘hird floor of the court house in the
grand jury room. Mrs. II. M. Grisc,
mpervisor of the library, announces
that plans are being made to hold
Open House soon, tentative date be-
ng either Saturday of this week or
Tuesday of next week. The public
will be invited to inspect the library,
to learn more of how it operates and
to view exhibits and displays of the
books. The library cleans, mends,
and re-binds books that need it, and
amples of this work will be on dis-
play. Most of the books coming to
the librai’y, according to Mrs. Grise,
need some attention in this line; 285
of the books have been completely re-
bound, she stated. A WPA library
'■xhibit, which was displayed first at
the district Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion meeting held in Tyler several
weeks ago, and which will be sent
thruout this district, will be one of
the many items to claim the atten-
tion of visitors.
Librarians
Mrs. Grise gives the names of li-
brarians in the fourteen branches of
the county library, and invites 'all
those persons in each community and
town who have not already made it
a practice to use the library, to con-
tact the librarian and thus gain ac-
cess to the books, magazines, and
other material of the Rural Library.
The list of librarians follows:
Bascom, Mrs. Opal Birdsong; Bul-
lard, Mrs. Minie Shipp; Dixie, Miss
Carmen Csinter; Flint, Mrs. Izetta
Sharp; Lindale, Mrs. Pauline Hall
and Miss Christine Warren; JamcvS-
town, Mrs. Bessie Lackey; Troup,
Mrs. Frances Bankston; Rice, Mrs.
Beulah Thornton; Sandflat, Mrs. Eth-
el Wiley; Winona, Miss Rene Flem-
ing; Whitehouse, Mrs. Lee Moore and
Mrs. Eula Musick; New Harmony,
Mrs. Opal Estelle; Noonday, Mrs. Lil-
ian Garner; Lake Park, Mrs. Dave
Dean. :
EAST TEXANS TO BROAD-
CAST ON FARM PROGRM
A. F. SLEDGE TO ATTEND
INTERNATIONAL ROTARY
CONVENTION IN FRANCE
WILL SAIL FROM NEW YORK
FOR NICE, FRANCE ON
MAY 29th
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A. F. SLEDGE
A. F. Sledge, who will represent
the Tyler Rotary club at the thirty-
third International Rotary Conven-
tion in Nice, France, June 6 to 11,
will sail with Mrs. Sledge, from New
York City May 29 aboard the Italian
steamer Rex. They will arrive in
Nice June 5, and will stop at the Her-
mitage.
Thousands of delegates from 80
countries will be present at the con-
vention, between seven and ten
thousand Rotarians being expected to
attend. Of this number the United
States will be represented with about
4.000, one of the largest delegations.
Si# large ocean liners have been char-
tered to take Rotarians from the
United States to Nice, according to
information received here from Na-
tional Rotary headouarters.
M. Albert Lebrun, president of the
French Republic, and himself a Ro-
tarian, will deliver the welcoming ad-
dress Sunday, May 6, at 11 a. m.
An announcement made in the Rotary
News Letter lists as two of the out-
standing features of the convention
the “Battle of Flowers” and the
“White Corso.”
Many Rotary clubs and groups in
different countries have requested
the Nice convention office to make
arrangements for them to be repre-
sented by a float in these two pa-
rades, according to information re-
ceived by the local Rotary club from
the National office. In the “White
Corso” the floats will be decorated in
white, and in the “Battle of Flowers,”
the floats and the spectators will be
showered with thousands of blossoms.
In both carnival processions the
floats will be occupied by young la-
dies selected from the delegations re-
presented by the floats.
At the conclusion of the convention,
Mr. and Mrs. Sledge will be members
of a party making a Thomas Cook
and Son Tour, one of the post-conven-
tion attractions for Rotarians. They
will visit northern Italy, going from
Nice to Milan. Places of interest in-
cluded in the itinerary of the tour
are Austria, Switzerland, the Black
Forest and Rhineland, Holland, Paris,
and England. They will sail from
Southampton about the middle of Ju-
ly, returning home aboard the French
steamer, Normandie.
Interesting broadcasts which have
an East Texas locale are scheduled
over WTAW and the Texas Quality
Network on May 10, n»xt Mon ’av,
and on Tuesday, May 13. On Mon-
'*av the Future Farmers of Ameren.
Wills Point Chapter, will broadcast
t Hie first half of the t-vis Fvi" »vo-
s gram, starting at 11:30 a. m. “Dairy-
ject of a talk bv Flmore R. Torn, Ab-
ject of a talk by Elmore R. Tirn, Ag-
ricultural Director of the East Tex-
as Chamber of Commerce, on the
Thursday Texas Farm program.
The Mothers of Earth
The woman who haa borne a child,
We pause to honor her today;
The woman who has lead a child
With patience down life’s broad highway;
The woman who has God’s own heart,
His tenderness, His gentle grace;
Who comes to Him for needed strength;
Who meets Him daily, face to lace.
The woman who a thousand times
Would bear her agony of pain
To save her child from needless hurt
To keep him ejearn and free from stain;
To know that he would walk at last
A man across the earth's bright sod:
A glory to his home — his God.
The woman who has borne a child —
No one may choose a better part;
The woman who is kind and wise,
Who moves with quiet mind and heart,
Whose love surrounds a little child
To meet his daily, constant need,
Who spends her life that he might live
We honor her today, indeed.
Little Theatre Receives Wide Acclaim
for Their Production, “Ceiling Zero”
STUDENT LOAN AND SCHOLAR-
SHIP FUND PLANNED
AT LONDON
A. F. WATKINS’ TEXAS
CENTENNIAL ROSE RE-
CEIVES NATL AWARD
Londan, May 4.—Bereaved pai-ents,
still stunned by the terrible tragedf
which took the lives of more than 300
students and teachers in the London
school, met last week to plan a fit-
ting memorial to their loved ones,
from this meeting of the leaders of
the community drew a plan to create
a student loan and scholarship fund
as a living memorial to those who
lost their lives in the disaster. Citi-
zens. the world over, are asked to
contribute to this worthy cause.
The memorial is to be an educa-
tional foundation — nation-wide in
benefit and under the supervision of
a National Advisory Council. Funds
of the foundation will be used to ed-
ucate needy and ambitious students
who would otherwise be deprived of
a college education.
Surviving students of a typing
class in the school, which was des-
troyed, were this week typing letters
to go out to school superintendents
of Texas asking that they sponsor
contributions in every public school
in the State. i
Governor James V. Allied and
Congressman Morgan C. Sanders
were the first to wire their accept-
ance of places on the National Ad-
visory Council. The Texas Governor
wired other governors in the United
States asking them to declare the
month of May a memorial month for
New London and to make and send
their contributions to Mr. Sam War-
ren, treasurer of the New London
Memorial Association, Overton.
Leaders signing the charter for the
educational memorial are M. H. Mar-
wil, Mayor of Henderson, president;
John Lumpkins, London, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Fay Beidleman, secretary;
Sam Warren, Overton, treasurer;
Mrs. Claude Jacobs, Mrs. Polk Chil-
dress, Mrs. H. R. Whittington, W. C.
Shaw, and Claude Jacobs, all of Lon-
don.
Headquarters for the Memorial
have been established in Henderson,
in the High School building.
Superintendent W. C. Shaw of Lon-
don school requested Dr. L.A. Woods,
State Superintendent of Public In-
struction in Texas, to write other
State Superintendents thruout the
United States asking that they coop-
erate in this project, which is a living
memorial to those who died in the
world’s worst school disaster.
Announces Purchase of Henson-Fair
Interests in Dixie Rose
Nursery
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GOV. ALLRED PROCLAIMS
NATIONAL TOMATO WEEK
Jacksonville, May 5.—The week of
May 30 to June 5 had today been pro-
claimed by Gov. James V. Allred as
National Tomato Week in Texas as
Jacksonville prepared its fourth an-
nual Tomato Festival which pays
tribute to the famed East Texas to-
mato crop.
In his proclamation, the governor
pointed out that Texas has taken its
ulace as one of the principle tomato
producing states in the nation and
urged that the citizens of the State
observe National Tomato Week in an
appropriate manner in order to call
attention to the superior quality of
the Texas product.
The annual Texas tomato harvest
is vauled at between $1,500,000 and
$2,000,000. East Texas, with Jack-
sonville as its hub, produces more
than half of the total crop.
In competition with 143 other new
varieties of roses in the national con-
test to select the outstanding new
creation, the celebrated Texas Cen-
tennial i-ose, originated by A. F. Wat-
kins of the Dixie Rose Nursery, won
the coveted first award. Entries
from all over the world were made in
the contest, and thus winning such a
field cai’ries with it more significance
and distinction.
Watkins is one of the leading rose
growers here and is prominent over
the nation as a leader in rose culture.
He came to Tyler in 1924 and with
R. W. Fair and W. V. Henson organ-
ized the Dixie Rose Nursery. He has
had full charge of operations, includ-
ing production and marketing since,
and during this time has successfully
propagated a number of rose varie-
ties.
The American Association of Rose
Growers named him on a committee
of five in 1928 to perfect a stand-
ardized system of rose grading. In
American Rose Society for a two-
1936 he was elected a trustee in the
year term.
Announces Purchase
Mr. Watkins announced Monday
the purchase of the interests owned
by Fair and Henson in the Dixie Nur-
sery. With the purchase he acquired
some 118 acres of rose acreage. The
firm name will remain the same, he
stated. John C. Watkins, his son,
will be associated in the business
with him. The latter served as as-
sistant to Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, plant
pathologist at the Texas experiment
station. Attending A. & M., ho spec-
ialized in the study of diseases af-
fecting roses. His studies afforded
him field as well as laboratory prac-
tice. Offices of the company will be
nnened in the Blackstone Hotel May
15.
C. OF C. AGRI. DEPT.
MAKES FIELD TRIP
—GRACE NOLL CROWELL
Members of the chamber of com-
merce agricultural department, com-
posed of the four committees, live-
stock and poultry, field and truck
crops, rural development, and conser-
vation of natural resources, made a
field trip Wednesday afternoon to
the farm of Gus F. Taylor, ten miles
southwest of Tyler. The trip was
planned by V. F. Fitzhugh, agricul-
tural director of the chamber, and the
chairman and co-chairman of the four
•agricultural committees, and will be
one of the several trips which the
group will make to see the applica-
tion of some of the principles the
department is hoping to put into ef-
fect in Smith county.
Mr. Taylor’s farm was selected as
the first to visit because he has a
soil conservation program in effect,
a well-developed pasture, trench silos,
a dairy farm program in operation,
and has glowing on his place a soil
building crop that the agricultural
department is particularly interested
hi at the present time. This crop,
hairy vetch, has only recently been
introduced into this section of the
countrv, and is used primarily for a
soil builder.
Actors, Technicians, and Director
Share Plaudits of Excellent
Performance
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Acclaimed as the Lest and most fin-
ished production that the Tyler Lit-
tle Theatre has ever done, “Ceiling
Zero” was received very enthusiasti-
cally at the special press preview
Monday evening, and at performances
on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
Applause marked the exits of sever-
al players on outstanding interpretea-
tions, and repeated curtain calls at
the close of the play were given.
Juan Villasana, director of Tyler
Little Theatre, and the entire cast
are being highly praised, the former
for his excellent direction, and the
latter for their distinguished portray-
als and fine character delineations.
The group of Little Theatre workers
certainly merit the congratulations
and commendation that they are re-
ceiving upon their successful presen-
tatiin of so ambitious and technical
a play.
“Ceiling Zero”, a three-act drama
by Frank Weade, depicts the passing
of the old pioneering, barn-storming
pilots with their roving dispositions,
their daring bravery, and sportive
abandon, superceded by transconti-
nental aviation with ‘swivel chair’
executives to give orders and take the
initiative. Described as essentially
a he-man’s play, with 18 of the 22
members of the cast being men, the
play lacked nothing in interest and
suspense that that might at first im-
ply. Each actor individually played
his part with verve, suitable to the
fast tempo of the drama, and as a
whole, there seemed to be no line
of demarcation between actors and
audience; it was if the actors were
totally obvious of their presence. In-
deed, the audience was so enthralled
that they seemed not to know the act-
ors were there; they themselves were
the actors playing the parts; their
eagerness embodied every emotion,
every action of the players.
It would be difficult to pick out the
star, for each player gave such a
good account of himself, but not to
mention several conspicuous'y out-
standing perfonners for putting all
the feeling and realism into their
parts would not be giving the proper
credit. Such a list would certainly
include Billy Howell as Dizzy Davis;
C. J. Lauden as Jake Lee: JnvoDh J,
Stephens as A1 Stone; John Womble
as Pilot Tay Lawson; Sam Browne,
r., as Texas Clark; Miss Iredell
Brown as Tommy Thomas, hostess;
Murry Butler as Buzz Cordon, radio
operator; and Ozbert Hamilton as
Mike Owens.
Altho it might be a subject for
controversy, "Ceiling Zero” is a play
in which setting and sound effects
lent as much to the success of the
presentation as did script and act-
ing efforts. The Little Theatre felt
indeed grateful and indebted to every
firm and individual assisting with the
operation and set-up of the mechan-
ics, particularly to Radio Station K
GKB for radio equipment and the
transmitter panel board which was
built by them and which is an actual
operating unit, for their time and
technical advice; and to Jimmy Cole
who proved himself invaluable in the
production. Mr. Cole, who had charge
of sound effects for Cavalcade at the
Texas Centennial, drew plans for the
sound machines and installed his own
invention, the remote control system.
Delegates from Dallas and Shreve-
port Little Theatres attended “Ceil-
ing Zero”, and nothing but the high-
est praize was heard. It is the in-
tention of the former group to pro-
duce this play before the current sea-
son closes. The Shreveport and New
Orleans players have produced it al-
ready with a marked degree of suc-
cess.
J. H. Calhoun is vice president of
the agricultural department and the
following is a list of committee chair-
men and co-chairmen: livestock and
poultry, Gus F. Taylor, chairman and
E. P. McKenna, co-chairman: field
and truck crops, Guy V. McNallie,
chairman and W. V. Henson, co-chair-
Committees Begin Plans
For J’ville Tomato Show
Jacksonville, May 5 — Jacksonville
bristled with activity today as the
manv committees in charge of the
fourth annual Jacksonville Tomato
Festival Mav 31-June 2 got down to
the work of preparing an elaborate
three-day program for the celebra-
tion that pays compliment to the
famed Fast Texas tomato crop.
Committee appointments were com-
pleted during the week, and they im-
mediately began the task of for-
mulating a program and arranging
for decorations, float." for a spec-
tacular parade, special events for
Tomati Gro, and accomodations for
the princesses, special delegations
and thousands of visitors expected to
participate in the fete.
Meanwhile. C. K. DeBusk, general
manager of the Tomato Festival, re-
ceived letters from all sections of
the nation promising that, hotels,
railroads, commercial businesses and
other organizations would agam lend
support in publicizing and participat-
ing in the Jacksonville Tomato Fes-
tival end observance of National To-
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man; rural development, Tom DeLay, All of Texas will be invited to
take an active part in the program
chairman and Roy Smith co-chair-
man; conservation of natural resourc-
es, C. B. Spencer, chairman and P. K.
Birdwell, co-chairman. Each com-
mittee has from eight to twenty-three
members serving.
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here while everv tomato producing
county of the state is exnect-ed to
have exhibits in the Tomato Show,
In which the h“«t of the current crop
will vie for various prises.
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