The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1937 Page: 11 of 16
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Sympathy of a Na
foHE sympathy of a natii
to the little stricken t<j'
don, Rusk county, T«
recent tragic loss
caused by an explosion oi
the basement flooring of it^
ed school building. Men toil
hours in the wreckage with*
By R. L. PASCH;
409 E. Weatherford St., Fort WortJi, Te
n went out
wn of Lon-
cas, in the
455 lives
gas under
consolidat-
ed for long
cKage witnjwout sleep or
food to recover the broker^ bodies of
the little school children. Such an ex-
ample of lofty courage afc^1(j unselfish
service strengthens our fai ,th jn human
relations. This is not so cc ^ a world as
some folk would believe u \ye ]ike to
know there are still jrjien and women
ready and willing to AV-
sacrifice in a cause *
and needful
Claims
en
make a supreme
which was so dire
Old Age
go an old negro died
apers said that his
ears old was support-
nce than his own word,
often about some old
an illiterate, who is
n 100. There is often
bt about these claims of
A few weeks
in Texas,, The
claim to be 117
ed by other evidj
We read rathe
person, usually]
much more th
reason for douT
extreme, longt ,vity. Even birth cer-
tificates may nea,t be conclusive evidence;
sometimes a m other and child of a fa-
ther and son Ir]aVe the same name; it
also happens th at a child born after the
decease of an colder bi’other or sister is
given the nam*e of his older brother or
sister. Confu sion jn finding the prop-
er record of Wurth certificates may re-
sult.
Our life insurance companies exercise
much care in ; selecting healthy, vigorous
people, with long-lived ancestors, as
risks. Of thx'e niany millions holding
their policies during the last 150 years
no one has livved beyond 106. They con-
sider that agi a the extreme limit of hu-
.
man life. Many of their policy-holders
have died between 100 and 106. More
than twice as many women as men
reached that advanced age.
In the time of Charles I of England
there was an old man by the name of
Thomas Parr, familiarly known as “Old
Parr.” The king brought him to Lon-
don and gave him quarters in Westmin-
ster Abbey, where he died in 1635 at
the age of 152, as he himself said and
as was generally believed.' The actu-
aries of the insurance companies tell us
that they doubt the claim, for there is
not any documentary evidence to sup-
port it. These actuaries also tell us
that our life span (since the days of
Methuselah) has not been materially
shortened.
Rivalry
Charles Scwab, the great steel mag-
nate, once said: “The way to get things
done is to stimulate competition.” The
desire to excel the other fellow is a
strong incentive for most of us. Long
ago the Jesuits whose schools have al-
ways been considered among the best,
discovered the value of the right kind
of rivalry as a stimulus to effort. They
assigned to every pupil a rival of equal
natural ability; this rival was called an
emulus. In the competition between
the two they secured the best work
from each. Modern teachers offer
prizes. All school sports lead to cham-
pionships. It is well to try to excel
others in all rightful endeavor.
But rivalry at times seems foolish.
What satisfaction one can get in sitting
on top of a pole or tree longer than some
other one surpasses our understanding.
We note that one man in a competition
ate 300 eggs; another ate 6 dozen ba-
nanas; another drank a gallon of beer,
and still another “hero” ate a black-
berry pie with hands tied behind him
more quickly than his competitors.
Schools and colleges haYe long had con-
tests to decide what girl is the most
beautiful. But, would you believe it,
two of our colleges have already had
contests to select the ugliest boy in the
school, a distinction for which we
should think no boy would be ambitious.
And now we are to have a State contest
in which all these college champions
are to be exhibited to determine the
champion ugly boy among all the stu-
dents in Texas. , It takes all kinds of
people to make a world. These ugly
boys get their pictures in the newspa-
pers, and that may make them feel im-
portant, but it does not show they have
been efficient in any line of endeavor.
Accidents
It is computed that last year we lost
nearly four million dollars and mbre
than one hundred thousand lives
through accidents. The automobile ac-
counted for 38,500 deaths, of whom 16,-
650 were pedestrians. We are accus-
tomed to think of home as the safest of
places, but 39,000 persons were killed
in our homes last year. Burns destroy-
ed 9,000; firearms 3,000. Railroad fa-
talities amounted to 4,000.
We say that the causes of these
deaths are accidents. They are not ac-
cidents in the sense that they “just
happened.” There was an underlying
cause for every one of them. If a wo-
man pours coal oil on live coals, or a
child swishes a cotton dress into a
flame, or a man sitting in a tenth-story
window loses his balance and falls, the
resulting catastrophe is not an accident.
Nature works true to form and law.
We always suffer it we violate her laws.
Parents have to look after their chil-
dren, but those of us beyond childhood
should have learned that nature is not
Grass Root Reveries
4
By* JOE GANDY
^Vinnuboro, Tcx.an.
(Copyright, 1037,^ |jy the Home Color Print Co.)
jMM^FTER th<3 jce js an gone and “old
mother 'nature” kicks the cover
off and ‘beckons to all her chil-
dren tha^t it is time to get up,
how good it ^win feel. But to live
where it is perpetual summer would
be monotonous.! We would never know
how good a fir|G feels when a blizzard
blows, never jknow
the flavor of fleshly
killed spareribs; an(j
backbone and jiever
know what advi|e to
follow in the treat-
ment of colds f,and
frost-bit feet. &
•
Some people tffink
they have a vjj|rd
time making a liv-
ing when they h|»e
the whole govi^n.
ment to depend on.
Think what our fore-
fathers went through
when they had noj|k
ing but a bull-tongue
plow and calomel ;o depend on.
8 feet per year. Those Scots are canny.
They know if they come in under full
steam with banners flying and bands
playing the immigration authorities
will stop ’em, but if they slip in at the
rate of just 8 feet a year nothing will
be done about it.
Modern scientific methods has step-
ped up egg-pi’oduction to A surprising
degree, but 'if the
hens get next to the
scheme of lighting
up hen houses at
night to increase
egg-production they
might stage a “set-
down” strike.
“Trying to keep up with the Jones’.’
People used to pray for “peace on
earth, good will to nen.” But England
Is going to spend s»vep and a half bil-
lion dollars on armanent, probably with
the thought that it vj§| be safer to raise
that vast sum of noney for war de-
fense than have her people pray for
peace. We still thine prayers would
get better results.
A * *
We have become sich fiends for
everything modern and up-to-date we
are surprised at the opposition stirred
up to stream-line and ar-condition the
Supreme Court.
One nation-wide strav vote showed
52 per cent agin’ it and 18 per cent for
it. Tf the next straw vo;e shows 50-50
we’ll know it’s a tie and nobody licked.
Geologists tell us that Scotland is
drifting toward America at the rate of
A man asked the
writer if he was
sent to the legisla-
ture to enact laws to
stop automobile ac-
cidents what laws
would he enact? I
told him I would
not enact any, that
we already have
enough laws, but if I really wanted to
stop auto accidents I would make a law
for only one auto to operate in a county
and the rest of us ride in ox-drawn wa-
gons, for you never heard of an ox-team
climbing telephone poles or trees, flop-
ping over in the middle of the road, go-
ing around curves at 60 miles an hour
or running down pedestrians. This
may sound ridiculous but we are talk-
ing about stopping auto accidents and
nothing else will do it.
A man who was never known to own
two pair of pants and who never had
over three meals ahead in his home said
for the first time in life he experienced
a sense of comfort in being poor when
he watched a man, who got rich in oil,
trying to make out his income tax re-
port. Being poor has its compensations,
and nature evens things up pretty well.
About the only difference in being poor
or rich is that the poor wonder when
theirs is coming and the rich wonder
when theirs is going.
I came upon a man recently in a
broke down model “T.” In the back of
the car was a set of radio batteries, two
automobile casings and a second-hand
incubator. I asked him if he was go-
ing into business and he said no, that
he had been trying to keep up with the
Jones’, but the Jones’ had done gone out
of sight in a V-8 owing $400 on it, and
when he cooled off he was going home
and never again attempt Cadillac speed
on a wheel-barrow income.
< This is probably the solution to about
98 per cent of our economic pains. If
we could get the Jones’ to slow down
and a law passed to put tacks in the
seat of overalls to prevent sit-down
strikes, we might be able to make the
grade.
And now some one, by cross-breed-
ing, has been able to take the odor out
of the onion and the cabbage. But who
wants an odorless onion or cabbage?
It’s the smell that nuts a kick in these
two succulent vegetables. Might as
well take the perfume out of the rose
or the fragrancy out of the honeysuckle.
We knew we were going at a fast
clip, but when a lady drives up to a
cleaning and pressing establishment,
pulls down the curtains in her car,
takes off her skirt, sends it in to be
pressed and waits for the job to be
done, I believe we are going too fast.
Had a trailer been attached to the
lady’s auto, equipped with cleaning and
pressing, she would not have had to
stop, yet we will get all these things as
we go along. Men wore two-piece un-
derwear a long time before they dis-
covered that a one-piece suit would do
just as well, and the first socks didn’t
have supporters to hold ’em up, and
the first shirts didn’t have collars at-
tached. We will finally get to where
we won’t have to stop for anything but
our own funeral.
^Quite a bit is being said in the news-
papers about young girls marrying,
some marrying as young as 9 years. A
girl 9 years old is still in the spanking,
not the marrying age. But a man who
has had plenty of experience told me
once that you could put off marriage
until you was 40 and still make a mess
of it.
going to look after us or set aside her
laws to shield us from harm.
Pictures
Not long ago a librarian remarked:
“What is the matter with 12-year-old
children these days? Most of them
cannot read; they can only look at pic-
tures.” A glance at the display of
magazines on the racks of newstands
would offer evidence that the same
criticism would apply to a large part of
adult readers. On these stands you
may see numerous picture magazines—
not only for children and women, but
for men as well. Turn the pages, and
you will find a few of them devoted to
pictures of current happenings, some
to fashions, and many more to Holly-
wood and other beauties that are nude,
or nearly so. One of the most popular
of these magazines, in a late issue, had
pages of sculptured pictures by a great
artist who must have visited numerous
nudist colonies in his search for models.
Magazines of mystery and detective
stories are not so bad if sparingly read,
but many readers seem to become glut-
tonous for this kind*of thing, and never
develop a taste for good literature.
Then there are magazines displayed on
newstands that appeal to sordid sex in-
stincts. Pictures on the covers and the
suggestive titles of the stories indicate
what you may expect to find within.
Dealers say there is a demand for these
things and that they are selling what
the people want.
All of us like to look at pictures; they
have educational value. But interest
solely in pictures indicate a degree of
mental inferiority. Reading is a de-
termining factor in our social, moral
and intellectual lives. It moulds char-
acter for either good or bad.
The Number of Necessary Words
Those who have investigated tell us
that the ordinary individual uses not
more than 500 words in conversation.
The conversational vocabulary of even
a well-educated man is rather limited.
We use the word “I” more than any
other. This is natural, for to-everyone
our own self is the most important
thing in the wrorld. The various forms
to the verbs “be” and “have” are much
used, and the verb “got” is overwork-
ed by almost everyone. We are so
fond of it that we throw it in where it
is altogether superfluous.
The creators of various artificial
world languages, such as Volapuk and
Esperanto, recognized that a compara-
tively small vocabulary will suffice for
social and business needs. Due per-
haps to the fact that they are artificial,
these languages have not had great
vogue.
There is greater hope that Basic Eng-
lish will become nearly universal. Basic
English consists of only 850 words, all
English. English is spoken by more
people than any other language in the
world. It is good to know that Basic
English is making rapid progress.
Classes in it are now being taught in
places as widely apart as Copenhagen,
Singapore, and Buenos Aires.
* * *
Chemists Find More Uses for Cotton
“American industry had found more
than 10,000 new uses for cotton, back-
bone crop of Southern agriculture,” said
Dr. E. K. Bolton, chemical director for
E. I. duPont de Nemours Company.
“The average person thinks of the
crop as only the base for textile pro-
ducts, but research chemists have been
quietly working toward expanding do-
mestic demand through new uses.
Among the new uses, far removed from
textiles, are costume jewelry, fishing
tackle, spare fingernails, X-ray film,
shatterproof glass, smokeless gunpow-
der, artificial sponges, fountain pens,
book covers and thousands of other un-
related things, tracing their ancestry to
some Southern cotton patch.
“The chemist has made his products,
for the most part, not from the cotton
staple, but from the plant’s cellulose
and from linters covering the seed.
Cellulose is the fibrous structure in the
cotton stalk.
“The automobile industry has fur-
nished a market for other developments
of cotton, chief of which were coated
textiles and varnish finishes. Manu-
facturers in painting their autos were
(Copyright, 1987. by the Horn* Color Wot
formerly at a disadvantage in mass out-
put, because it took twenty-two coats
of paint to varnish one auto body. Thisbf
required six weeks’ time. With the in- '
vention of nitrocellulose duPont chem- ■
ists found a way to convert it into a®
fast-drying lacquer that could be ap-
plied with a spray gun, cutting the time
pnea witn a spray gun, cutting the time U
for varnishing an auto body to one day. ||
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The Rearmament Race
All nations are rearming—some with <
feverish haste—getting ready for the |
day of battle, which may come at any f
time. They have trained large stand-
ing armies and a still larger number of [
reserves. Huge sums are being ex-
pended in this rearmament program.
Japan has appropriated for her army
for the next five years $1,808,250,000,
to say nothing of her navy. She h.
280,000 soldiers in active service, and a
trained reserve of 1,895,000 soldiers.
We do not know the number in her air ’
force. Nor do we know how much [T
Russia, Italy and Germany may be
spending in preparation for war. Rus-
sia has an active force of 1,185,000 and
a reserve of 14,590,000 men. She has |
announced, officially, that her air
force numbered at least 150,000. This
statement was made in reply to a Ger-
man boast of 70,000 aviators. Italy
has under arms 1,111,593 men, a re- j
serve of 5,214,368 men, and claims to ]
have more than 200,000 aviatdrs. f'
France has in active service 600,505 and j
a reserve of 5,500,000 men; she also i
has a separate air force of 34,352 men. :$>
Great Britain, (not the British Em-
pire), has 205,454 men under arms and _
a reserve of 278,847 men; her air force
numbers 44,407 men. In the fall of
1935 she could not call Italy's hand in
the Abyssinian War because her air
force and her navy were deemed inade-
quate. For the same reason, apparent-
ly, she has temporized with Germany.
Determined not to be caught napping
any longer, the British Parliament has
passed a bill appropriating $7,500,000,000^
for preparation for a war looked upon
as inevitable. This means that for the i ’
next five years England will spend more (
than $4,100,000 a day, $170,000 an hour, [
$2,850 a minute and $47 a second for 1
war material equipment. The peo- 1
pie of England do not want war; nor do
the people of any nation. But England
wants ships, guns, ammuntions and 1
armaments to protect herself, and she I
is spending this immense sum for that
purpose.
In 1936 the United States spent
$445,900,068 on her army and <t9ni
};a
$391,- m
424,217 on navy, a total of more than ■
half of what England expects to spend .
each year during the next five years,
or about $25 a second. The United States !
now has an active force of 137,960
men and a reserve of 300,104 men. Both
army and navy are qalling for more
men, more guns, more ships, more war !
planes, more war money. For instance, i
our navy wants $500,000,000 for next i
year’s budget. We are slow to censure, j
for we believe our army and navy of- ■
ficeir to be true patriots, and are not J
asking more than they consider neces- \
SJirv fnr mir irm 7-1
sary for our protection
scared world.
this war-
The foregoing figures are taken, with
one exception, from the World Almanac
1937, and from the Army and Na\
Journal.
Airplane Routes in Texas
m
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Ten of the fifty-five airplane trans-
port routes in the United States touch ill
Texas. These routes are: Chicago-
Fort Worth via St. Louis and • Tulsa,
miles, two round trips a day;
York-Los Angeles via Mem-
940
New
•phis, Dallas, and Fort Worth, 2,649 air
miles, two round trips a day; Chicago- j
Los Angeles via Nashville, Dallas, and
Fort Worth, 2,649 miles, daily; Chicago- ■
Dallas via Wichita and Fort Worth, 965 !
miles, two trips a day; Amarillo-Dallas- >
Galveston, 618 miles, daily; Dallas- 1
Houston, 225 miles, daily; Dallas-
Brownsville, 546 miles, daily; Houston- i
Corpus Christi, 186 miles, daily; Dallas- f
Corpus Christi, 413 miles, daily; Fort V
Worth-Allanta, 784 miles, two' daily.
LAST INDIAN BATTLE SITE ||
MARKED m
The site of the last fight in Texas be- .1
tween U. S. soliders and Indians has
> been ntaU'ed by the
Texas Centennial
Commission, on the
summit of what is
now known as India*
Mountain, in Irioi
county, about 30 miles I !
southwest of San An-
ITolo. TVw* 1 uoron rl r\ 1l
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