The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 8, Ed. 1, Friday, September 28, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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BARTLETT TRIBUNE I civic centers
AND NEWS
R. F. CATES Editor and Owner.
Entered sb second-class nat-
ter at the post office at Bartlett
Texas under the act of March
1 1S7S.
feat Weeks a Newspaper Month
Subscription $1.0 Per Year.
FRIDAY SEPT. 28 1923.
Scicntiests say "we are what
we eat." If that's true we
know of some people who live
on nuts
t
Some people ought to think
Bartlett a fine place in which to
live as it costs them very little
to keep up its enterprises.
We doubt the Christian char"-
ity of a man who forgives an-
other of wrong doing because he
knows he can't whip him.
We would advise you to play
Bafe when driving around a cor-
ner or crossing the streets of
Bartlett. It is better to be safe
-than to go to the hospital or
court.
This is a peculiar world the
people who compose it. Some
people are fit to get money and
not good for anything else.
Others are fit to work but not
good neighbors. It is a case of
"fit" and "unfit" with the hu-
man race.
It seems that the citizens of
Bartlett do not want to invest
in a public hall and park if the
attitude of those present at the
Casino Thursday evening should
"be used as a criterion. Only
nine citizens out of a possible
400 gave any expression favor-
able or otherwise to the propos-
ed movement. The remaining
391 were silent. The Tribune
believes that the citizens do not
thoroughly understand the prop-
osition or have not given it any
mature thought and that when
they do the property will bo
purchased.
Many towns feel the need of
som(o kind of a community house
or civic center but do not see
how they can finance the same
Below is told the kind of thing
that is being done in some coun-
try villages.
If thp expense of building an
entirely new community house
seems too great for such a place
some towns are buying old hou-
ses in the center of the village
and fitting them up as communi-
ty centers. They will throw
two or more rooms together nnd
get a hall large nough for most
functions.
They will have rooms avail-
able for yiny classes lectures
entertainments that the people
may desireto conduct. There
will be a rest room where people
can make appointments where
they can rest while on shopping
trips and wait for train or cars.
In one such town which could
be nantd the expense of the
place are largely met by running
a tea room and restaurant. The
automobile travel through many
country towns is becoming some
thing enormous. A great many
people stop off for lunches and
they are usually hungry enough
so that they call lor a squaro
meal. A layout of good home-
cooking looks mighty good to
them. While the automobile
crowd will not pay fancy prices
they are charged pretty well in
the cities and towns where they
usually get their meals. Many
a civic center in a country town
I could pay a good part or all of
its expenses by catering to this
element.
A town that gets a good com-
munity house open for all acti-
vities invites the spirit of prog-
ress to enter. A good home for
civic life inspires new activities
of al lkinds to come into exist-
ence and such atown goes on to
a higher level of prosperity.
Just as you need a church
building as a home for a live
church you need a good commu
nity house as the center for a
live town.
ON THE JURY.
The Florence Vidette preach-
es a splendid sermon in a few
words: "If hell were not made
for people who sneer at the ef-
forts of men and women to build
up Sunday schools churche3 and
other religious institutions cur
se preachers who are sacrificing
their lives in a non-renumerat
ive employment because of the
love they have for God and their
tfellow man then what was it
made for? We have no patience
with that kind of individuals.
If you aro determined to spend
eternity in hell go your own
way but for the sake of the
mother who bore you and the
Christ who died on the cross to
give you a chance don't try to
drag innocent boys and girls a-
long with you by trying to ap-
pear smart and substituting
blasphemy for1 wisdom."
There is entirely too much ex-
pected of the ladies of Bartlett
in the way of keeping up the civ-
ic attractiveness of the town.
There is a certain element that
never encourages them financial
ly and yet ready to reap the ben-
efits of the good works. If a
lot of you old tight-wads would
do your part in public enter-
prises by opening up your pock-
ctbooks occasionally Bartlett
would bo a more attractive town.
The load falls too heavily upon
a few and you reap the benefit.
It hurts too.
"No American ever will seek
to try another American for" any
offense in any other way than in
a court house before a regularly
constituted judge and jury
where the accused has a chance
to defend himself" Federal Jud-
ge Atwell asserted before a Con-
stitution Week audience here.
Ho was referring to the funda-
mental law's provision that "No
person shall be deprived of
life liberty or property without
due process of law" and also
that "the accused shall enjoy the
right to a speedy and public trial
by an impartial jury." Those
are sacred rights which the Con-
stitution guarantees to even the
humblest person. No power
however exalted not even Con-
gress the President or1 the Su-
preme Court may take them
away from him. When a citizen
is sworn for duty as grand or
petit juror he takes a solemn
oath to support and defend the
Constitution. That involves ad-
herence to the propositions set
forth above.
It follows that no believer in
lynch "law" no vassal of a
masked organization that takes
the law into its own hands or
hrazpnlv nrroorates unto itselt
thn disnonsinir of "justice." is
qualified to sit on any jury what-
soever. His creed and his
deeds as well if he has partici-
pated in any such activity is
directly contrary to the Consti-
tution. If he takes oath to up-
hold the document this is done
in ignorance of what the pledge
means or with mental reserva-
tions. In either case he is get-
ting close to perjury. Such a
man on the jury defeats the ba-
sic law and nullifies its guaran-
teean "Impartial" trial. That
explains why in charging the
grand jury commission in Wich-
ita Falls.Judge Martin demanded
that men be selected for jury
duty "who do not believe in any
other kind of law exept the Con-
stitution and the written laws
of our State and Nation." San
Antonio News.
fttENDID RACE OF AFRICANS
Watiral Trios In the Territory Former-
ly Known Qerman Et Africa
Athltllc and lnUlllent.
In a booklet about Urundi tlie
northwestern corner of tlio Into Qer-
man East Africa and its territory
and people H. L. Shanta of the bu-
reau of plant industry United
States Department of Agriculture
telle of tbe wonderful Watusi which
conititute tlie dominant race. Doc-
tor Shants spent 18 months in
Africa. The Watusi men are tall
5 feet 10 inches to 7 feet 2 inches in
height. They are slender with long
faces aquiline notes and relatively
thin lips. Their color is a chocolate
brown to almost black. They are
clean-faced and usually have shsved
heads. Their ayes are clear and full
of Ire and the eipression is ani-
mated. Tlie Watubi are wonderful ath-
letes. They excel in jumping and
are also capable runner. In the
high jumpx with a small trroit hill
as a start they clear a string at a
little over eight feet. They can
easily jump over a tall mau and over
Feveral cattle. An lowraen they shoot
with terrific force hut not very ac-
curately. This lack of accuraoy may
be partly due to direction of atten-
tion to their prayer which is chanted
dramatically while they hold the
drawn bow. They also hold the long
spear in the hand which draws the
bow. In throwing the spear which
alto is done with great force they
are much more accurate.
There is considerable repri-
mand of the young folks corr-
I duct nowadays but what about
some of the older ones? The
conduct of some married people
is enough to make the single
ones place a low estimate on the
marriage vows. Had you
thought about that?
The way divorces are increas-
ing nowadays it would not be a
bad idea for bridegrooms to lay
aside a sinking fund for alimony.
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WHY PAY MORE
Risk Move Increase Your
Troubles and Expense
and Deal With People
You Do Not Know or
Who Are Not Interested
In You or Your Community??????
When You Can Get the Very Lowest
Interest Rate Obtainable
In Tenas On Your Williamson
County Land Here at Your Own
County Seat and Through People You
Know.
OUR CONNECTIONS ALLOW US TO
GIVE AND GET FOR YOU THE BEST
There is a reason why some people who have
money to loan themselves endeavor to prejudice
you against your own best interests.
The imprest they criticise so much are the in-
terests that save you money annually on your
land payer.
It will pay vou to investigate our saving to you
' tfeforo closing the land deal.
Guaranty Loan and Realty
It is gratifying to know that
the public schools of Bartlett
opened this session with an in-
creased attendance and a higher
grade of instruction. It means
a growth in citizenship as well
ns in the number of pupils and
also an admirable expansion of
the desire of the people for the
btter education of their children
This later is a potential factor
in the progress of the city. In
the race for leadership among
the cities of Texas it will be the
winning element. It also fore
tells better homes better busi-
ness higher ideals of life and a
helpful participation in munici-
pal county district and state
governments. It is a guaranty
of a wise Solution of the intri-
cate problems that come before
the public in these modern days
of new ideas and new plans.
These pupils of today are the
men and women upon whose
shouders will rest the future re-
sponsibilites attaching to wise
government. Their better edu-
cation means the peaceful and
wise adjustment of serious ques
tions that might otherwise mean
var..
Bartlett's mosquito-fighting
campaign was not altogether
without results notwithstanding
the mosquito is still with us.
The fault does not lay at the
doors of our officials that they
wore not driven from our town.
The mosquito is a community
enemy and every resident of the
community owes it to himself
and his neighbors to help charge
the common foe. While the sum
mer sun was hot and the skies
were never wont to weep Bart-
lett citizens should have desti'oy-
ey every vestige of the breed
that wrecks its vengeance on hu-
manity in so many ways that
even the scientists have trouble
in keeping the count. But what
should have been done is as no-
thing to what ought to be done.
To the organized war on the mo-
squito in Bartlett there must
come help from every owner1 and
every occupant of every premise.
Conditions are worse perhaps
than in other sections of Texas
butrthey are such asjo demand
this sort of a contest "The Tno-s-quito
is a ruthless enemy and
ruthiessnesH must be the char-
thim
BEFORE HIS DAYS OF FAME
Caruso Not Always the Spoiled Child
l of Fortune That the World
I Now Romembor.
Caruso undoubtedly made more
money than any other singer the
world has ever known but thers was
a time in the early days when he
probably made lens than most.
"How much do you receive for nn
appeurance?" a friend asked before
he had been advanoed to the Lirico
theater in Milan.
"Twenty lire" he replied.
"Then how do you manage to
ttrv
"Oh that is easy" replied the
tenor. "The people liko me. I sing
whunuer I am asked and in return
I am gien luncheons dinners and
oftimes presents."
"Ent well" replied his friend
"but do not be too generous with
your voice" to which Caruso re-
plied: "Don't worry about that; I
can give my voice to all the world."
( IMPOSSIBLE LAWC
Barney Oldfleld thS racer said at
a banquet:
"We are all against tho road hog
that goes without paying but
some of the laws governing the au-
iomobilistraaie me think of Sid.
"Sid was "applying for a chauf-
feur's license and he was mighty
anxious to got it too; so when tho
examiners asked him what he'd do
if he met a skittish horse he an-
swered :
"I'd stop my oar. Then I'd stop
my engine. And then if the horw
kept on being skittish I'd take tlie
car apart and hide it in the grass till
the nag got by.' "Detroit Free
Press.
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appearanceadds measurably to individual cohumC
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Coupe.
Streamline body windshield vieor and nlchsJtd
ittinst nuke this new Coupe hJhly attractive
Deeply cushioned scats improved interior arraMt-
sentandcowlvendIatbrprovi(kincreeedeeaJott. Wide doors that open forward revolving type
window lifters enlarged rear compartment awl a
recess shelf lor parcels back of the eeftt Make m
greater convenience.
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H
STRINGENT FRENCH LAW
The Code de la Route recently
put into force will have to he
studied hy Americans who under-
take to drhe automobiles in France
living ery comprehensive it under-
tnkes to regulate pedestrians and
stray animnlfi on tho highways as
well as automohilt'H but it line auto-
mobiles oiprebtily in iew. Persons
under eighteen ycais of age cannot!
obtain drivers' permits except for
motorcycles. Etery automobile must
be equipped with a "sound-muffling
system and the system must be
UFed in agglomeration and at inter-
sections." The Nation's BusineMi.
NEW PLATINUM FIELDS
Iteports have been mode fhot now
and promising fields of platinum
hine been found in the Honda moun-
tains in Spain. Before the war Bus-
sia furnished about 9fi per cent of
the world's platinum. It is stated
that at presout Uie Quiha district o
Colombia pfoduowi an average of
80000 troy ounces of platinum a
ytar And that thin proniiw to be a"
jtMi fWlO in tlie Jutur Prospect-
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Pure Milk and Cream
Any ainountdelivered in any part of city i
ratronrze the Dairy
Prompt Delivery. Courteous Treatments
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S. W. McGINNIS Proprieio. y
COUNTRY FORUMS
Most of the larger cities have
regular meeting places arranged
called forums where thpy hear
speakers on topics of the day and
chance is given for discussion
The objection is sometimes
made that nothing" is accon
nlished bv such an institution
I but talk th&t cranks and on
ideas will join in such fat
places they can Oxime Ui
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ui uiu jjurj-uw nunueu
and help spread helpful
Every country town
some kind of a forum a
meeting place where pfcopJe
got together and exchange
In. that fcyay all typH of
aret a chance to express
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Cates, R. F. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 8, Ed. 1, Friday, September 28, 1923, newspaper, September 28, 1923; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth76001/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.