The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1935 Page: 4 of 8
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BATES
..$1.50
past forty
’ And he
past forty
bank full at
eh showed ev
northwest, of
the highest the
> anreral years, and
overflow and
. Allred Tuesday
jpropriating $3,000,
Centennial celebra-
» 100th anniversary
Legislature it was
' hl«, to provide the
deficit and then
§& language to re-
to adjourn Sat-
i to Complete unfin-
, naming some of it.
e Meeting of farmers
held at Hillsboro
and it was voted
t R. E. Callandei
, H. Posey of the Hill
iittee ‘should head
Ipiiiers from that
fcio Washington to ex-
in favosr of the
, They will board the
will leave for
Sunday.
e Friday
sndments
* ""Olution proposing
concurred in
to Weaver
a
i devotes almost a
pages of thSSlSrd volume of
his book, “Our Times,” to pre-war
popular songs. He is probably the
first historian to give popular songs
sqfeh a prominent place in the social
evflution of a nation.
The rise of women, the decline
puritanical standards, and the Amer-
icanization of foreign nationalities,
art perfectly trajed'in the songs from
lflgj to 1925.
.The day when mothers and daugh
ters started to work in factories was
celebrated by "Everybody Works but
father.” The popular “In the Shade of
the Old Apple Tree” recalled poign
ant memories to those who had left
farms to work in the cities. “Hello,
Central, Give Me Heaven, for My
Mama’s There” signaled the popular
acceptance of the telephone. “A Bird
in a Gilded Cage” suggests that in
1000 when a young woman married
an old man she expected to stay put.
The “Floradora” song with the end-
ing, “For I must love someone, real-
ly, A.nd it might as well be you,” in
dicated that the public was ready for
touch of humor in love-making.
"The Bird on Nellie’s Hat” and "I
Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”
constituted popular acceptance of the
notion that a girl might flirt without
losing her standing in the commun-
ity. “Heaven Will Protect the Work-
ing Girl,” sung by Marie Dressier,
marked the end of highly melodra-
matic love songs.
Sullivan lists hundreds of songs. To
those who have lived through the first
quarter of this century, they bring
stream of memories.
The history of two remarkably sue
cessful songs is told.
Words and music of “The End of a
Perfect Day” were written by Mrs
Carrie Jacobs-Bond, a widow who had
kept lodgers, painted china, made
dresses, and sung at church enter-
tainments, in order to supplement
meager income from a sheet-music
shop. After motoring one day in Cal-
ifornia, she wrote the words in her
hotel room in less than ten minutes.
She showed them to friends at dinner
and they liked the sentiment. The
song, with music also composed by
{Mrs. Bond, became a quick success
iment to be voted an(j retained its popularity. More
general election ma- than five million copies were sold, and
the pay of State ;t drew royalties from twenty-nine
make the annual j manufacturers of phonograph records,
- as follows: Governor | player-rolls, and other forms of me-
of $4,000; Attorney chapical music. The author became
instead of $4,000 wealthy.
er, Treasurer, Secre- The words of «xhe Rosary.. were
and Land Commissioner, written in 1804 by Robert Cameron
id of $2,500 and $2,000 Rogers, a poet of distinction. A friend
ggjgpivad. of Ethelbert Nevin, an American
BTT:- . composer, read the verses in a mag-
azine and enclosed them in a letter
to him. The day after receipt of the
words, Nevin wrote the music “in
less than an hour, and never changed
a note.” The song was first sung pub-
three inches which fell Hcly in Boston in 1808. It has been
previous, made a to-, popular ever since, more than two and
p ten days of more than a half million copies of the sheet mu-
tes. Most of this rain fell sic having been sold.
that much of it had time Nevin wrote the music for over
into the ground as long as the|Seventy songs. The best known, aside
take it which meant one from “The Rosary,” were: “Oh, That
j *--> "We Two were Maying,” “Mighty
Lak’ a Rose,” and “Narcissus.”—Ex.
•action
should now be thor-
ked as far as rainfall is
The rain of last Friday
Saturday amounted to ap-
!y four inches, and the
Highland Park (Calif.) News-Her
aid: Co-operation always has been
the dominant note in America’s Na-
tional anthem. It was so in the days
of the country’s cradling and it is so
now in the days of its vigorous prime
—the dominant note.
In the beginning it was, of course,
a note of necessity. The colonists, and
after them the frontiersmen who
pushed our boundaries steadily west-
ward to the blue Pacific, banded
themselves together for the common
purpose of mutual protection and mu-
tual advancement.
In union they found strength, and
through union they built .America,
Today the call for those same vir-
tues that actuated our pioneering
forefathers is no less urgent. We are
passing through a time of transition
in which, if we are to emerge safely
and go on building, the note and spir-
it of co-operation are as vitally need-
ed as they ever were in the era of the
colonist and the frontiersman.
The difference today is that instead
of facing a known physical foe, we
are embattled against a mental ene-
my more subtly dangerous and yet
much less difficult of conquest.
That enemy is our own fear, our
own distrust and our own selfishness
Our war against the depression is
not a single-handed affair ... it is
everybody’s fight for the reason that
everybody’s welfare is at stake; and
it has not yet beeh won, after five
bitter years of battle, because our de-
fense against it has lacked the una-
nimity of old.
How much better indeed if instead
of continuing to harbor petty enmi-
ties and indulge in petty feuds, we
all of us, admitted the impotency of
our divided attitudes of aloofness
and here and now banded together
for the common purpose of mutual
protection and mutual advancement.
How much better if all of us—the
strong and the weak, the rich and the
poor, employer and employes particu-
larly—met upon a plane of com-
mon understanding, recognized that
the malignancy in our midst is sap-
ping the strength of each and all of
us alike, and henceforth should fight
shoulder to shoulder instead of face
to face.
Perhaps when all other means have
failed it is the course to pursue. Even
then, if we must wait until that ex-
tremity, we will have made no dis-
covery. We will merely have recap-
tured something of the will and spirit
of our forefathers, the will and spirit
that overcame far greater odds and
triumphed over far more formidable
foes—the will and spirit that made
America!
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: No one
doubts that Mussolini had determined
to force a war on Abyssinia and to
make the great African Empire an
Italian colony. Now Italy formally
agrees instead to submit her “dis-
pute” with Abyssinia to arbitration
The African war is definitely “off”
for the time being.
The “dispute” with Abyssinia con
cemed attacks by tribesmen on Ital-
ian expeditions which were wandering
about on the Abyssinian side of the
frontier. Abyssinia, in disclaiming
responsibility, took occasion to em-
phasize the fact that if the Italians
had kept ont of Abyssinia there would
have been no trouble. The only real
Italians concerned were officers in
command of native troops
With a great parade of national
enthusiasm Mussolini sent shipload
after shipload of troops to Africa
And then the German Chancellor an-
nounced that he had scrapped the
Versailles treaty.
Since Hitler’s announcement not
one Italian soldier has been sent tc
Africa and no more Italian soldiers
will be sent to Africa for a long time
Mussolini can not indulge in the lux-
ury of a private war on another con-
tinent. For the sake of appearances
if for not other reason, Mussolini
needs most of his soldiers right at
home. So it happens that Adolf Hitler
by making an army, has prevented a
war.
But other developments have con
tributed. The role of France has not
been heroic. To purchase Italo-French
accord she agreed to give Italy a free
hand in Africa, even to the limit of
Abyssinian conquest; Great Britain
said nothing at the time, but she did
a great deal of thinking. She thought
about a number of treaties guarantee-
ing Abyssinian conquest. Was Italy
going to scrap these treaties? Per-
haps more important was the consid-
eration that by acquiring Abyssinia
Italy would control the source of the
Nile and that any power in control
of the Nile could at will play hob
with the prosperity and threaten the
very lfe of Egypt.
It is not to be doubted that at
Stresa Mr. McDonald asked Signor
Mussolini some questions about Ab-
yssinia. And there is every indication
that the signor answered amiably
Within 24 hours after the Stresa ad-
journment Italy announced that she
will arbitrate.
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AN TO
Washington.—A 7-month search
of the deserts and foothills of Rus-
sian Turkestan and Turkey for
drouth-resistant plants to control soil
erosion has rewarded H, L. West-
over and C. R. Enlow, plant explorers
of the United States Department of
Agriculture with nearly 1,800 lots of
seed.
The seed of a grass that may he
uprooted by wind, but grabs hold of
the soil when it lands, is one of the
unusual plants found by the explor-
ers. Most of the seeds are grasses
and legumes which form a thick turf
close to the ground, enabling them
to bind the soil and hold it against
the ravages of wind and water. Oth,
ers represent soil-binding shrubs and
a few tree seeds were brought back
to the United States.
The settlement of the West with
its intensive grazing so changed the
environment that many of the best na-
tive grasses are practically gone. De-
partment officials are hopeful that
some of this material from regions
where climatic conditions are even
more unfavorable may help to restore
the ranges of the West.
The explorers penetrated far into
the foothills of some of the republics
of Turkestan. At the village of Tad-
jikstan, they were the first Ameri-
cans to visit the village and the na-
tives were so delighted that they pre-
pared a feast for their guests. These
villagers had Seen their first automo-
bile only a week before.
Officials of the Soviet Government
gave the explorers every possible
assistance, as did Turkish officials,
they reported. Botanical experts
were able in almost every instance
to give the Americans all the neces-
sary information on plants of the re-
gion visited, enabling them to avoid
undesirable plants.
One of the most promising collec-
tions is seed of the bunch grass, Aris-
tida pennata, which grows in scat-
tering clumps in the dry, wind-swept
sands of the Kara Kum desert. It will
take root in moving sand and when
the winds become too strong this
grass, through its ability to “land on
its feet,” may be blown for consid-
erable distance and take root where
it lands. If it will grow in this coun-
try, the scientists said, it would be
extremely valuable for areas where
there are sand dunes.
Another unusual plant is Carex
TO U. S. tensively for grazing h
Kum desert. Rarely producing viable
feed, the plant is propogated by '.root
cuttings. Roots collected in June and
arriving in this country last October
now are showing signs of growth.
From the dry, rocky mountain
slopes near Issyk Kul, the largest
fresh-water lake in Turkestan, West-
over and Enlow brought back two
bunch grasses. One, a species of Ag-
ropyron, is a relative of the wheat
grass which is winning favor rapidly
on the great plains since its introduc-
tion a few years ago. The other, a
species of Hordeum, is a wild peren-
nial barley.
Throughout Turkestan the explor-
ers found many species of stipa
(feather grass), all of them much
more hardy than those grown in the
western parts of the United States.
Another special of Agropyron, found
on the flat desert lands near the Aral
Sea, provides good grazing over a
large area. One of the blue grasses,
Poa bulbosa, was discovered grow-
ing throughout Turkey.
Dr. J. W. Griffin, a former Clifton
citizen, was here from Waco yester-
day for a short business visit.
Gary, Indiana, has the largest steel
plant in the world.
DEPENDABLE
1930 Dodge Sedan
1929 Ford Pickup
1926 Dodge Coach
One Pontiac coach
Fast wrecker service
Phone No. f or 119
VOY G. FORT
Plymouth and Dodge
Dealer
nd-soaker and just what
' crops, and especially the
oats and corn needed. The
have a right to feel cheerful
'e have often heard of a man look-
for his hat when he had it on his
ad—but a very unusual thing hap-|fears
in the city of Clifton the oth-
when Bruce Parks lost his
<w.ijjarly Thursday .morning when
r. Parks went out to milk his cow—
fee was no cow to be seen. He im-
mediately set out to search for her and
by nine o’clock he had half the town
out looking for Magnesia, but to no
avail. Finally, about noon when all
hopes of the cow’s recovery were al-
• vanished, he heard a terrible
out in his garage. He
the door, and to his great
there stood Magnesia—
mournfully for Bruce tc
_ his bucket and milk her—says
who tells this story for the
The male gorilla generally sleeps
at the foot of a tree to guard his
family against the leopard. This beast
is practically the only foe the gorilla
Clifton is showing the people liv-
ing in every section that they a
welcome to our city by promoting
the building of better roads leading
out in every direction. Clifton has al-
ways been the trading center of a
large territory—and will probably
continue to hold that distinction.
Mrs. Earl U. Henry of Beaumont
this week sent in her check in pay-
ment for the Record two years in ad-
vance. Mrs. Henry formerly, Miss
Grace Shefstead of this city, lived
here all her life before marriage; has
SIDELIGHTS
It is a curious historical fact that
the five presidents of the United
States who died in office were elected
in 1840, 1860, 1880, 1900 and 1920, at
intervals of 20 years. Wonder if this
will cause superstitious aspirants to
say, “I do not choose to run in 1940.”
It appears that there is really such
a thing as second childhood for some
people, among whom are Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Brawner of Excelsior
Springs, Mo., aged respectively 83
and 79. Brawner has just cut a tooth
and his wife recently had whooping
cough.
One Sunday morning recently a St.
Louis lady called across the yard
fence to complain of loud swearing
emanating from the house of her
next-door neighbors. A small boy ex-
plained: “Aw, that only dad; he’s
late for church and can’t find his
prayer-book.”
Hoyt Houston, 10, of Booneville,
Ark., was skeptical when told that
one’s tongue would stick fast if ap-
plied to frosted metal, so he tried it
on a frosty rail in the railroad yard.
switch engine was held up several
minutes until his tongue could be
thawed loose.
Inaccurate bookkeeping has caused
plenty of trouble, but in a case re-
SUNDAY, MAY 12
MOTHER S DAY
| if you are blessed with a living Mother, remember her
| next Sunday, Mother’s Day. You will be thinking of your
| Mother and naturally want to give her Something. We
I mention a few of the Many Gifts that She will appreciate.
i
LINGERIE
Of all kinds, made from long
wearing quality of Rayon or
Silk. Priced to suit every-
body.
SILK HOSIERY
In all the new shades.
All pure silk, full fashioned.
Per pair 79c, $1.00 & $1.25
SHEETS, PILLOWCASES
In Sets
1 Sheet, 81x90; 2 Pillow
Cases; per set—
$1.87 and $2.25
EMBROIDERED PILLOW
CASES
Per Pair '
$1.00 to $2.25
mother, numerous relatives and|P°rted from Missouri it is prolonging
a man’s life. The execution of a mur-
derer and bank fobber is being de-
layed until his income tax accounts |
can be straightened out.
Some of our professional reform-
ers might take a gentle hint of warn-
ing from a school-boy’s essay on Soc-
rates, in which he wrote: “Socrates
was a great man, and tramp. He went
around telling people what to do, and
they poisoned him.”
A woman’s missionary society in a
Kansas town publishes this attractive
advertisement: “The women of the
society have cast off clothing of all
kinds. Look them over in the chureh
basement any time this week.”
Henry Ange of New Jersey planned
to a 32-year-old mare a kindness by
shooting her. The mare had a similar
[idea about Henry, and when he ap-
I preached her on hia errand of mercy*
she kicked him to death.—Mary
iDamall in Grapeland Messenger.
A S---!- i
friends yet living in Clifton, and en-
joys reading about friends and rela-
tives each week.
D. C. and M. J. Caraway left by
automobile Thursday morning for a
trip through northern and eastern
states, using about two weeks to com-
plete the trip. Their main and longest
stop will be in Minneapolis, Minn,
i where D. C. will spend several days'
quite so nice as these liaving his artificial lower limb worked
over or a new one made to special
requirements. They expect to see much
of the country while on the trip.
LUNCHEON CLOTH
All pure Linen. Per set from
87c up to $2.25
LADIES’
HANDKERCHIEFS
From 10c to 50c
.
LADIES’ KID GLOVES
In Black or White
Per pair $1.95
MOTHER’S DAY Cj
Beautiful Selections
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1935, newspaper, May 10, 1935; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775064/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.