The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1929 Page: 4 of 18
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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
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Entered u.s second class matter July 19. lf*02 at
the posted fire at Rockdale, Texas, under the Art il
March 3, 1M7D. Published every Thursday,
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dear that he will probably have tlfe active
opposition of a large trmjority of the lawyers j
of the State. He charges that selfish per-!
sonal interests characterise most of the acta!
of the Legislature, which is composed in'
great part of lawyers, most of whom, Mr.
Senior charges are immature and unqualified.:
He also» intimates that the lobbyists haveji
about as much to do with the pass;*gv of laws,
as do the legislators themselves.
Mr. Senter is entering th«r race fori
Governor in the attitude of a crusader. His
views are “radical.7’as estimated by many,
and for a time hia candulaev wall nrobahlV ✓
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PRESIDENT HOOVER
“The king is dead long live llie king"
or words to that cl feet. The United States
of America has a new president in the
White House since .Monday, and l lie former
president is now just an ordinary citizen.
Herbert Hoover was inaugurated as
president Monday with all the pomp and cer-
emony usually attendant upon such occasions
in this land of the free and home of the brave
hero worshipers. Press reports say that a
couple of hundred thousand people stood in
the driving rain to witness the ceremonies,
and thousands participated in a parade which
required hours to complete, under the most
unfavorable of weat her conditions. A faith-
ful handftill from Texas were present “and
voting,” the paraders from the Lone Star
State being assigned a position two miles
from the reviewing stand, arid going through
with the march regardless. The Simmons
Cowboy Band was the feature of the Texas
delegation.
President Hoover’s new cabinet was an-
nounced the day before the inauguration, as
follows:
Henry L. Stimson of New York, Sec-
retary of State; Andrew W. Mellon of Penn-
sylvania, Secretary of the 'treasury; James
W. Good of Iowa, Secretary of War; Charles
F. Adams of Massachusetts, Secretary of the
Navy; Dr. Bay Bynum Wilbur of California,
Secretary of the Interior; Arthur M. Hyde of
Missouri, Secretary of Agriculture; Robert
P. Lament, of Illinois, Secretary of Bom-
meree; James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, Sec-
retary of Labor; William I). Mitchell of Min-
nesota, Attorney General; Walter l‘\ Brown
of Ohio, Postmaster General.
SENTK IPS A N N 011N (: K !M I ] NT
The announcement of K (I. Senter, of
Dallas, for the office of Governor of Texas,
was given to the state press the past week,
and a synopsis of his platform is given else-
where in this issue. It will be seen that Sco-
ter's candidacy will he based principally upon
the court reform plank.
Senter speaks quite plainly, and it is
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be treated as a joke. But he is a man of in-
domitable will, unusual ability, undoubted
courage and undisputed integrity. He is
a forceful stump speaker and u brilliant
writer. Such a man is quite likely to “start
something” in Grand Old Texas which tfie
“immature lawyers’* will find hard to step.
The Reporter is not ready to announce
its: fealty to .M.c: Sentcr’s candidacy. While
here is without doubt much merit *jv his
platform, we are not ready to admit that
court reform is the outstanding issue nf the
day, nor are we assured that, the fiery Dal-
it man’s method of procedure is the proper
one. When one lawyer ■starts out to scrap
all the other lawyers in the State, he’s cer-
t ainly facing a real batt hr.
LAWYERS WIN
The lawyers whipped the newspaper:
men and women all over the capito! building j
last week. The newspaper folks believe that
•all legrl notices, required by law to be pub-
lished at all, should be published where the
people know something of the publication
and may get some knowledge of the matter
required to be given publicity. The lawyers
believe in putting “the light under the bus-
hel.” Too much publicity seems to be detri-
mental to the business of some lawyers in A' M-
the Legislature. The newspaper men be-
lieve that if it is worth while to publish leg-
islative, judicial, executive or any kind of
procedures of public administration it is
worth while to give the best publicity pos-
sible. We don’t believe that hiding a legal
notice itt the court house morgue, or tack-
ing such a notice on a tree on the side of the
highway or in the middle of a pasture is any
kind of a notice to the reading public of to-
day. Senator Walter Woodward of Coleman,
lawyer legislator, appears to be leading the
l ight for “darkness rather than light.” The
political lawyers have won the fight, so far
as this legislative session is concerned. It
remains to he seen whether or not the coun-
try newspapers have run up the white flag.
Maybe the country press will accept the lick-
ing and. like the Ex-Kaiser, saw wood from
here out, and again maybe not.
Senator Woodward and Judge Jenkins
of Brown wood, anot her criminal lawyer who
seems to know a lot of tricks, are credited
with killing the publicity bill offered by the
farmers and country newspaper men in the
Legislature. We do not know whether this
is a correct credit or not. Senator Woodward
also drove the “pool hall” hill thru the sen-
ate. This hill has been killed in the House.
It is claimed by some that this hill, it en-
acted, would have legalized pool halls in
every community in Texas. A pool hall
would have been a fine place for Lawyer
Woodward to post his legal notices.—San
Saha News.
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He waves b.fs long arms as in anger
He glares at the’earth'and the sky.
His face is the face of a maniac;
There’s murder and hate in his eye.
There’s purpose in all of his madness;
His birth was not ordered by chance.
He knows no retreat or surrender r ^i\ *L1K|
The scarecrow we made from Pa’s pants. ffiLk
He’s only a form and a phantom r-
But how the birds chattel* and caw.
To them he’s a terrible thing
This yroature we stuffed full of straw.
We folks after all have our scarecrowajv^jjJ#'
How often wo shiver and shake
At trouble that never arrives
Or things that are only a fake.
It pays in this life to have courage * r. „
And use it wherever you go;
Don’t be like the birds in the garden «[l(1|Ky
Bluffed out by a simple scarecrow.
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Reporter Special Correspondence
Austin, March 4.—The Legislators
returned to Austin Sunday from a
junket to San Antonio, having been
accorded an entertainment by the
International Exposition and Live-
stock Show, ready to begin the
of last-minute legislation..
Sterilization Passes
Perhaps the most important bit
of social legislation to come b*d!br®
the 41st Legislature has been a
measure introduced by Rep. R. L.
Kincaid, a physician of Crowell
The bill provides for the sterilisation
or inmates of state institutions, be-
ing designed to prohibit the propa-
gation of idiotic,* feeble-minded or
epileptic children. The House of
Representatives voted 101 to 27 for
the passage of the sterilisation mea-
sure. Such a law is already in ef-
fect. in 19 states, explained: Dr.
Kincaid, who charges that more
than halt of the inmates of the
state insane hospitals are children
of
lions.
sent* fives Purl of Dallas *nd
win of Waco ace backing the
sure.
Moody Uses Vet*
Governor Moody has used
executive veto on a bill by
Joseph McGill of El I**,,
would have exempted tnt
personal property of a i»n-r
of a certain Idnd from inherit!,
taxes. Gov. Moody argued that t,
bill would a Sow an anticipation"!
death, whereby a person might i
vert all asset* into perwmal pron
and move to another state;!
passing on his estate to heirs
of inheritance taxes.
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No Judiciary Reform
Hon . C, H, Jenkins, member ol
the legislature from Brown county,
one of the ablest lawyers of the
State, who introduced u number ol
court reform measures In the House
in line with resolutions adopted by
the Texas Bar Association, Ims
abandoned all hope of any sub-
stantial court reform so long as the
legislature Is so hugely composed ol
young lawyers. In a letter to the
press he states that the judiciary
committee of the House, composed
of 21 lawyers, killed all his bills
looking to reforming court pro-
ceedings. without, giving any rea-
wons, and without offering any
amendments or substitutes. A few
of the older lawyers strongly favor-
ed all the medsures, but the young
attorneys of the kind usually sent
to the legislature evidently do not
want and will not have court pro-
ceedings simplified In the interest
of those who are forced to resort to
the courts. The present, almost un-
bearable conditions will continue In
Texas ns long as the people con-
tinue to send fledging lawyers to
the legislature. From Judge Jenkins’
experience It would seem that. Tex-
as courts are suffering from lawyer-
made laws.
Cisco’s New Hotel
Cisco Is doing the things that
make it look more and more like
the city Its progressive people arc
determined It shall be. That new
8 story hotel is about completed and
those who have seen It say that
there will be nothing In Texas
hotel architecture or equipment to
beat It. The Cisco News, which
fosters every worth-while local en-
terprise, is going to help commemo-
rate tin? hotel completion by is-
suing a special hotel edition.
West Texas town to raise even $!>,-
(Hit) or $10,000 for its chamber of
Commerce, but Abilene has decided
that it will need $40,000 for that
purpose this year and will go to
work with that amount ns the goal.
As this is only $7,000 more than was
used In 1I12B, the undertaking Is
nut so difficult as It first appears.
loo Much I'olltles
One ni the greatest obstacles In
the way of remedial or constructive
legislation of any kind In Texas
is that too many legislators are more
Interested m politics than In legis-
lation Before any regular session
is over I here are scores of wire-pull-
ing candidates at work in both
houses, and nearly half the mem-
have, It seems, more schools than are
needed. Some are self-supporting
and others are not, and both denom-
inations are now planning consoli-
dations or removals. The localities
in which these schools are situated
have put their money Into them In
good faith with the churches, and It
looks like bad faith on the part of
the denomination to abandon or re-
move a self supporting school built
up largely on ihe gifts and enter-
prise of a community. It is even
worse when a church puts such a
school on the auction block and
sells It to the city that will pay
tlie highest price. Churches should
be careful, even more than Individ-
uals, to maintain their business In-
tegrity.
bars are prospective candidates for
some position. Under such email- Carlsbad Cavern lload
lions the Interests of ihe Stale arc I Carlsbad Cavern, which is partly
subordinated to personal ambitions, in Texas. Is to be made more ac-
teacher went to Brazil to
experiment In that country for a
railway company In the raising oi
cotton. Returning tn 1926, he
brought with him some cotton seed
that Is said to produce twice as
much cotton to* the acre as' that
grown on surrounding land and that
sells for four cents more than the
best staple. Experiments conduct-
ed with this cotton In Shelby coun-
ty are so satisfactory that a large
acreage is being grown this year for
seed.
Texas “Staggers" Visitor
A traffic representative of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, making
his first visit to Texas since 1917.
says: “The development since then
has been such as to stagger the
imagination, and Texas' greatest
development is yet to come." He
adds that “principle of sound busi-
ness forced us to establish a Texas
office.' ’
Many of u.s who see Texas grow-
ing all the while fall to see any-
thing remarkable In that growth.l
but the occasional visitor ts Im-1
pressed with the progress that is
everywhere so evident.
If the groundhog comes out of
his hole again this year It’s a sign
skirts are going to be no longer.—
Clarksville Times.
vetoes Mote Fees
The Governor also- vetoed Sen
Woodward's bill providing
sheriffs and constables receive'
same fee* for services in exaa
trials as in district court cases.'
great expense to be incurred by,!
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former patients of thr mstitu- j Moody declared that It meant th
doubling of the- appropriation
payment of fees of sheriffs antf<
stables in felony cases, with % i
tain duplication of services.
The more money a fellow gets the
less he brags on Its power to bring
contentment and the more he talks
about the blessings of poverty.—
Pittsburg Gazette.
Sunday Movies Optional
A step to legalize Sunday movies
was taken by the House when it
voted 70 to 36 to pass u bill making
regulation a matter of rocal option.
At. present motion picture shows are
operated In a large number of cities
and' towns throughout the state, al-
though a blue law passed in 1671
serves as a legal prohibition of the
shows. This law would be amended
to place the regulation of Sunday
shows in each locality in the hands
of city councils.
Divide School Royalties
A proposed constitutional amend-
ment would divide equally between
the University of Texas and Texas
A. & M. College the large oil royal-
ties accruing to the former. Repre-
Fmk Anti-Net BUI
Awaiting action of the Gov
is a bill iwtssed by the Legislatt
which prohibits fishing with netai,
truwls in tin* bays on a large areaotl
the Gulf Coast.
Raise Salaries
Resolutions proposing constiti
'.tonal amendments ta raise sal*
of the State Comptroller. Treasu
and Land Commissioner from $2,M
per year to $6,000 salaries, havi
been passed by the Senate and i
to the House for action.
Exempt Legion Property
Another proposed constitution!
Pecan Duly Sought
Pecan growers in session at
Junction City discussed at some
length the competition with pecans
Imported from Mexico. These pe-
cans are In appearance much like
the Texas nuts, but are Inferior in
quality and are a large factor In
keeping down the price of Texas-
grown pecans. An effort will be
made to get Congress to Increase
the present 3 cent duty to 6 cents
a pound and to place a 12 cent a
pound duty on shelled pecans.
Water Rate Reduced
No. It was not done by a corpora-
tion, that owned the city water-
works. Where corporations con-
trol public utilities, rates are seldom
reduced and then only when they
are forced down after hard fights.
But quietly and without any public
demonstration the city council at
Midland has reduced water rates
25 percent, after finding that the
city could afford such a reduction.
West Texas Enterprise
That West Texas is developing
rapidly and that there Is strong lo-
cal rivalry between the towns is
shown In the Increased activities of
the chambers of commerce, A few
jyenrs ago it was difficult for any
Hpeetftl sessions later In the year
are even worse, for fo,v liml time
almost everything else seems to he
forgotten and politics reign supremo.
Buying Church Schools
It Is had that In their denomlna-
Honal efforts churches establish
schools that ennnot he properly
supported, hut It seems even worse
that In admitting their poor busi-
ness Judgment tn starting too many
schools, the successful school should
have to suffer along with the un-
successful. Both the Methodist and
the Presbyterian churches In Texas
cesslble to visitors from this State
by tne bunding or a state highway
from Pecos, a distance of til miles,
to a connection with the New Mexi-
co highway. Improvements being
made within the Cavern will make
li more easily explored, and this
now roadway connects with the
Broadway of America, Incidentally,
It will also help along the big boom
at the enterprising Pecos City.
More and Better Cotton
Seemingly, Texas dose not need
more cotton, but it does need better
cotton. Some 20 years ago an A
Cows. Sows, Hens
A Mitchell county farmer, who
has five cows, a few pigs and some
| chickens us a sideline to his farm-
ing. has been keeping bonks and
I .ndr. that he has had within a year
a gross Income of $1,425.00 from the
little sideline, practically all of
which Is profit, This Just shows
what a farmer may do anywhere in
Texas.
Another time when we’d like to
apply for a change of venue Is when
a ten-ton truck double parks along-
side of our flivver at the curb.—
Dallas News.
Put your foot on an annoyance
if you don’t want It on your hands.
—Denison Herald.
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approximately $160,(XX) in required to complete the Fund. This money is being
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