Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 164, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1933 Page: 1 of 4
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MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1933.
NUMBER 164
Amateur Horse
, Races Featured
Fair Thursday
A feature of the Fair Thursday
afternoon was several races by local
riders on Titus County horses.
A track was roped off in the base-
ball park, giving about a quarter of
a mile run. Thei'e were about twen-
ty-five Horses entered for various
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ent to witness the repps, which were
free to those who were in the grounds.
The races were promoted by Thom-
as Caldwell, assisted by Buck Raney,
and proved to be such good attrac-
tions that it is planned to make them
permanent features of the fair in
the future.
Winners in the various events were
as follows:
Running—J. C, Murphy, first;
Fletcher Hanks, second; David Roach,
third.
Fox Trotting—L. L. Thomas, first;
Fletcher Hanks, second; Carl Hark-
rider, third.
Shetland Ponies—Buck Self, first;
Efton Redfearn, second.
Boys’ Pony Race—John Moore,
first; Argle Barrett, second.
Many amusing occurrences took
place during the races.
Stimulate your business. Advertise
Small Appropriation
For Road Topping
In Titus County
The Highway Commission made an
appropriation at Austin Thursday of
$3,905 for double bituminous topping
on Highway 49 near Mt. Pleasant.
The commission did not announce
just where the topping is to be ap-
plied, but it is supposed that it is for
the stretch of road from Hart's Creek
bottoms southeast town to DuBose’s
store, where an oil surface was ap-
plied earlier in the year.
AUSTIN BOY DIES IN
LIGHT TOWER FALL
Austin, Sept. 21.—Austin’s unusual
street lighting system—150-foot tow-
ers scattered throughout the city—
had taken another victim Thursday.
Fowler Moore, 16, who stopped for
a few minutes to climb one of the
towers on his way to the library, fell
from 75 feet and was killed Wednes-
day afternoon.
A man was killed during construc-
tion of the same tower, and some
time ago another boy tumbled from
near its top, narrowly escaping death.
The towers are a constant tempta-
tion to climbing small boys. Police
often chase them off the tower near-
est the university stadium, which
provides a convenient view of foot-
i ball games.
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Farm Union Wants
Wallace To Quit;
Threatens Strike
The address of Congressman
Wright Patman of Texarkana drew a
crowd estimated at about fifteen hun-
dred people to the fair grounds Thurs-
day night.
The speaker was introduced to the
audience by L. E. Keeney, prominent
attorney of Texarkana, who is a na-
tive of Titus County. Mr. Keeney
was introduced by Bascom Perkins.
Mr. Patman’s address was along
economic lines, and was begun with
the announcement that the price of
cotton had gone down Wednesday and
Thursday because of an assertion by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in-
dicating there would be no immediate
inflation of currency. The speaker
paid a glowing tribute to President
Roosevelt, who, he said wanted to
know the cotton farmer’s problems,
and would assist them when acquaint-
ed with their plight which is worse
this year than last, according to Mr.
Patman.
The cotton plow-up campaign is
the only time in history that the
farmer of the South got a “break,”
said Mr. Patman who then launched
into the subject of inflation of the
currency, a plan which he has advo-
cated for somfe time in order to raise
the price of commodities. He also
said that if the Federal Government
can issue tax-exempt, interest-bear-
ing bonds to back the issuance of
currency, it can issue the currency
without bonds and save the interest.
Both would be backed by the resour-
ces of the entire country.
According to Mt. Patman, the gov-
ernment should get out of business,
and business should get out of gov-
ernment. He said that the Federal
Reserve banking system has been
largely the cause of the present
plight of the nation, because the re-
serve banks are private corporations
using governmental powers, and have
been the cause of fozen credits, par-
alyzing currency.
The cottonseed code was discussed,
the speaker contending against a fix-
ed price for processing unless the
farmer is first given a set price for
production. Mr. Patman closed his
speech with the assertion that an ed-
ucated citizenship, such as has been
produced during the past fifteen
years, is the only salvation of this
country.
At the close of Mr. Patman’s
speech, a resolution was adopted by
the gathering requesting the presi-
dent of the Fair Association Lo send
the following telegram to President
Roosevelt, which was done Friday
morning:
“Two thousand farmers and busi-
ness men in mass meeting pass reso-
lution urging and requesting that you
set a price of fifteen cents per pound
for cotton or inflate currency so that
cotton will sell for at least fifteen
cents now. We are asking for new
deal.”
Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 21.—A
resolution demanding the resignation
of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
was passed Thursday by the Farmers’
Union of Iowa.
A short time later Senator Louis
J. Murphy told the farmers’ conven-
tion that Wallace was being made the
goat for things for which he is in no
wise responsible.
Tiie things for which Murphy indi-
cated Wallace is nut responsible in-
clude rising prices of commodities the
farmer busy, without proportionate
increase in the value of those he
sells.
The convention also resolved in
favor of inflation, with which Wal-
lace has declared himself sympathet-
ic. Murphy also pledged efforts to-
ward inflation.
Inflation has been one of the
dominant notes in the convention,
Glenn B. Miller, president oi the
organization, having declared that
unless the dollar is inflated a farm
strike would be declared to overshad-
ow anything ever seen before.
Murphy linked inflation with mort-
gage refinancing with the declaration
that “Farm mortgage refinancing
must fail of complete relief without
inflation. It is impossible to refi-
nance inflated debts on deflated
prices.”
GOES TO PARIS FOR
TREATMENT THURSDAY
Mrs. George Lilienstern was tak-
en to Paris Thursday afternoon in a
Masters & Thomas ambulance for
treatment in a hospital for a rup-
tured blood vessel, which caused
bleeding at the nose for sevei-al hours.
She was accompanied by Mr. Lilien-
stern and George Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Lide, Mrs. Norma Martin, Dr.
W. A. Taylor Jr., and Floyd Thomas.
South Africa’s railway system is
government owned.
Cocoa is one of the most import-
ant exports of Jamaica.
Cotton Ginnings
Slower Than Last
Year For Season
According to a report issued by the
Department of Commerce, through
the Bureau of the Census, cotton gin-
nings in this section of the State are
much lower for the period ending Sep-
tember first than they were at the
same time last year.
Much of this is due to the plowing
unde of a large portion of acreage
during July and August, although the
State as a whole ginned more this
year than last for the same period.
Ginnings in the southern part of the
State had already begun when the
plow-up campaign was started.
The ginnings for Titus and adjoin-
ing counties, as given by the report,
are as follows, with Morris and Ma-
rion Counties omitted:
County
1933
1932
Bowie .............
......... 505
2,939
Cass ...............
......... 375
2,232
Delta ...............
....... 1,454
2,631
Hopkins .........
......... 804
1,418
Lamar .............
.........3,516
9,156
Franklin .........
......... 235
427
Red River ....
.......1,894
.3,245
Titus ...............
.......... 82
470
Upshur ...........
........... 167
791
Wood .............
........... 1496
983
NOTICE
All storage is strictly cash on de-
livery. No exceptions. — Thrasher,
Phone 86. 19-tf
The Weather
The weather for the past 24 hours
according to readings made at 6:30.
'“'Maximum .................................... 89
Minimum .................................... 52
Temperature 6:30 .................... 64
Wind from ................................SE
Sky ..........................................Clear
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 164, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1933, newspaper, September 22, 1933; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth800135/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.