The Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 9, 1927 Page: 1 of 22
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IKmnaufUe iKerori)
TWF.NTY-FIRST YEAR
The Melting Pot
M. P. had intended to attend the
protracted meeting (of course this
way of expressing it isn't stylish
any more. I)r. Williams calls it ‘‘Re-
vival Services”) now going on at the
Presbyterian church this and last
week. But last Thursday noon Mrs.
M. P. loaded him into the family
chariot and carried him home, and
with the help of “Kffie.” the maid-of-
all-work, forcibly undressed and put
him to bed, and there he has remained
groaning and cussing and smoking,
until Saturday, when Mrs. M. P. again 1
asserted her rights as boss of the
whole establishment and ordered Dr.
Joe Robertson to come up and see
what was the matter with this raving
man.
* • •
Before I)r. Robertson arrived, M. i‘.
had already made up his mind that
Death lurked just around the corner.
So firmly convinced was he that his
days on this earth were numbered
by hours, even by minutes, that he
summoned Bernard Kenedy, the most
genial undertaker in South Texas,
with the view of giving final instruc-
tions about the disposition of his
(M. P.’s) last remains, if any. (Steno’s
Note—The Boss can't resist bossing,
even at a time like that.) By the ,
way, a tip to Clyde Allen and Ber-1
nard: When one of these guys gets'
a real case of the “flu” it will pay
you to visit, them, for they are mad !
MOUNTAINEERS
DEFEAT S. T. C.
JAVELINAS 13-0
BY JACK MECKLIN
Fighting deperately from the first
whistle to the last, the Javelinas of
South Texas State Teachers College
tasted for the first time this season
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS. NOV. 9, 1927
AN EDITORIAL
LOYAL CITIZENS CALLED TO ARMS
The stage is being set this and next week for a play, or plays, I
that will mean much for South Texas, and incidentally, much for
those towns that evince the greatest interest.
The Intra-Coastal Canal Association met in Harlingen the
first of this week and the South Texas Chamber of Commerce
will meet in annual convention in Brownsville the first of next ;
week. The Intra-Coastal Canal, long considered an impractical;
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tlie bitter medicine of defeat when . ... ,
ent down before dream by government engineers, projected as it was trom tin
the Blue and Gold wo
1 he
the powerful Mountaineers of
Schreiner Institute of Kerrville.
Tito Javelinas rought, and fought
hard, but the mighty machine of the
Mountaineers would not bo denied,
and swept the Hogs front their feet in
a furious line plunging attack that
tlie forward wall was not given time
to solve, and the end of the game
found the torn and tattered Javelinas
with the small end of a 13-0 score.
Heavily outweighed, the Teachers’
line could not stand the trrific pace
that the Mountaineers set, and it was
in the last three minutes of play in
each half that the Cadets, kept fresh
by frequent substitutions, were able
to wear down the Javelinas and push
across their tallies. The whole story
of the Mountaineers’ success may be
summed up in the words, “plunging
the line, and in frequent pass, aim
substitutions."
The game started with the Moun-
taineers kicking to the Javelinas,
who returned the ball to their 30 yard
in stock, to keep somebody else from
spending the money.
at the whole world, and in that humor i ]jne and punted. The Cadets elected
will select the most expensive casket to play the ball and iost 15 yards on
two attempted end runs. It was in
the first part of this quarter that the
Javelinas outplayed the Mounaineers,
Dr. Joe, as usual, waited about five j pushing them back to their own 5
hours to put in his appearance (or | yard line and playing deep in their
so it seemed to M. P.) He told M. P. j territory. However, :n the closing
to stick out his tongue, hold out his minutes of this period, the Institute
hand, and after asking him if he didn’t boys started a drive that carried them
ache all over, calmly and Judiciously down the field for forty yards and
remarked: “You have a slight at-
tack of the "flu.” M. P. at once prov-
ed Mrs. M. P. correct when she called
him insane, for he answered Dr. Joe’s
to the Javelinas’ 10 yard line. With
their backs to their own goal the
Javelina defense stiffened and held
for down, taking the ball and punt-
remark by saying. “Slight, h-! i ing out of immediate danger. The
Fer Gawds sake; what would a real | first part of the second quarter found
attack be?’’ Anyway he mumbled j the Mountaineers unable to get start-
around a bit, looked wise, and went
dowrn to Nick Darrel’s drug store, and
after Nick had examined M. P.’s ac-
count wrote prescriptions sufficient
for the Baptist emergency hospital, or
whatever it may be called, in Dallas.
* * •
Some of the bottles have not, and
never will be, opened. That’s why
M. P. has always suspicioned that the
doctors and drug stores in this town
are in cahoots. But any time you
thing you can fool a woman, don’t
you ever get Mrs. M. P. on the job.
She was trained in Castor Oil and
those old-time remedies, and she re-
fuses to adopt modern measures. You
just gotta take (he durn stuff or get
up and dress and go to work.
ed, and the Javelinas holding their
own, hut unable to do anything
against the Schreiner line, With two
minutes to go. on the Javelinas 30
yard line, a fake line play was con-
verted into a pass to Mueller, directly
over the line of scrimmage, who zig-
zagged through the entire Javelina
team for their first score,
failed to kick goal.
The rest at the half did the Javelin-
as good and they came back figlit-
elina’s best threat
From this point
to tally,
on through
the
But what we started out to say was game the Mountaineers took the of
that M. P. has been in bed ever since
last Thursday and has had not oppor-
tunity to visit around and peep in on
the affairs of the town and get any
new ideas for Ibis column. His whole
territory has been limited to his
(Continued on page 21
.Tensive and held it, and late in t ho
fourth period, smashed their way
through the line for six first downs
and a touchdown, Dabbs kicking goal.
The trip was made in the new Col-
lege Inis and two cars. The team
spent Thursday night at Boerne, ar-
DON’T FOOL
YOURSELF
You should not put off buying your gas
stove until the last minute. You know
that cold weather is going to be here soon
so why not prepare for it?
Come in and let us show you the fam-
ous Detroit Jewel Gas Range, the stove
with porcelain lined oven and positiive
heat control.
Gas Heaters. Gas Ranges.
tURM/Tm
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mouth of the Mississippi at New Orleans to Point Isabel, the ut-
termost southern point of the United States. These idealists and j
dreamers kept dreaming and working until the project has been!
assured under Federal aid from New Orleans to Corpus Christi.
and the last session of Congress voted sufficient funds to complete
the survey through to Point Isabel. Incidentally, this most im-
portant inland waterway will pass within fifteen miles of Kings-
ville. Seemingly, Kingsville and Kingsville’s business interests,
do not give a pusilanimous dam whether the canal came within J
fifty feet or five million miles of Kingsville.
Out of the total of ten or twelve delegates appointed from j
Kleberg County to attend the convention at Harlingen, E. B. I
Erard, secretary of the Commercial Club, alone, went. Now, the
Record concedes that Ed Erard is a good Commercial Club secre-
tary; that he, alone and unaided, can put over many projects;
but in this instance Ed. really needed help; he cannot accomplish
what Kingsville needs to have accomplished.
Perhaps more important than the above mentioned meeting,
is that of the South Texas Chamber of Commerce, which meets at
Brownsville during the first of next week. Kingsville is vitally
interested in this convention, inasmuch as she has put in her bid
for permanent headquarters of the organization. To most of
us, interested as we are in our own little selfish enterprises, dis-
trict golf tournaments, high school football games, or perhaps
something even more important than any of these, we cannot
visualize just what the location of the South Texas Chamber of
Commerce would mean to Kingsville. Nor do we propose to sae-
rifeie any of our individual selfish pleasures or ambitions to ex-
ert ourselves in any way to help locate this institution here. But
the Record will tell you that you are making a stupendous mis-
take. Other towns are spending thousands of dollars and sending
large delegations to Brownsville to secure that location; they
know just what it means to them. Some effort has been made?
to induce our citizenship to attend this convention next week. If
we believe in Kingsville, believe in investments we have made
here, we cannot afford to leave any stone unturned to build a
greater Kingsville.
We have already allowed some opportunities to slip through
our fingers. We complacently allowed the tourist traffic to he
diverted to the west of us. It is no secret that one of our South
DhI)I)h | pexas neighbor cities aspires to become the educational center of
this section of the State. Should she succeed, our South Texas
State Teachers College at Kingsville would undoubtedly suffer
inp, sained possession of the ball and greatly ill consequence.
ean-k'd it So ya,-<l» down the field to Th f us who arc famili;ir with the West Texas Chamber
Schreiner s 12 yard line. It was . . .
fourth down and about a foot to go,! of C ommerce htc ciwarc that it has been <i most powei I til dc v(
and a line play missed making first {oper of that section. West Texas 'Tech., a school in its infancy,
down by inches. This ended the Jav- but under the protecting hand of the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce, has already far outstripped many other schools and
colleges in the State, and bids fair to become the outstanding col-
lege of the West.
With the South Texas Chamber of Commerce located at Kings-
ville, all of its activities centered here and radiating out from
here, it would he no great task to have it underwrite our own
S. T. C. and make of it the outstanding school, of South Texas,
at least.
There are many other advantages to accrue from the location
I of this body in Kingsville. It seems foolhardy that Kingsville
should pass up the opportunity of attempting to secure the loca-
tion here.
Mr. Erard, who was present several weeks ago at a meeting
of this body in San Antonio, gained the impression from conver-
sation with other secretaries, that Kingsville stood an equal, if
■ | not better, chance t han many other towns in the race. But Mr.
Erard knows, and the Record knows, and you know, that Mr. Er-
ard cannot go to Brownsville by himself and put the proposition
over by himself. If about nine-tenths of you fellows who con-
stitute the business world in Kingsville, will forget the almighty
dollar for three days next week, and pile into your cars and go
| down there with Ed .Erard (but stay on this side of the Rio
Grande until the location has been decided), there is more than
an even break that we will be awarded the honor of being select-
ed headquarters for the organization.
Stay home, play golf, or go to a football game; gather in a few
| shekels from a fake sale, or keep that Monday night engagement
' your wife made for bridge, and Corpus Christ i will get the loca-
1 ! tion, just as she has gotten everything worth while in South Tex-
as_by going after it. If you want to continue to be in a small
town class, then just stay away from that convention in Browns-
ville, and all other conventions that mean the building of towns
and communities in South Texas.
The time has come when we must forget the theories and go
Big Men Will Compose
Big Delegation to
Brownsville Monday
Never, since the first train over the St. L. B. <t M. came puffiing into
what WAS TO BE the Kingsville of today, has there been a more vital
time for concerted action, real action, than on next Monday morning, when
at *4:30 o'clock another train on the same railway, now a part of the great
MoPac System, will puff out of Kingsville on its way to Brownsville, carrying
a delegation of true-hearted, loyal workers, who are determined that Kings-
ville IS TO BE kept moving forward until it throws off its swaddling clothes
and emerges as a full grown, virile city.
What Kingsville HAS accomplished in its short span of life is visible
to all. Twenty years ago. a barren spot, used only for grazing purposes;
today, a busy, prosperous little city on" some eight thousand souls. What
it CAN accomplish is also visible-to some.
And those of our citienship who are broad-minded, big enough to look
into the future, can vision a city of several times the present population of
the Kingsville of today in the Kingsville of tomorrow. They will compose
the delegation aboard that train when it pulls out for Brownsville, where the
first annual meeting of the South Texas Chamber of Commerce will be held,
and at which time plans will b- laid to populate the waste places and pro-
mote the industrial enterprises that will make South Texas equal, if not
superior, to California and Florida.
Kingsville, the geographical center of this favored land, seeks to become
permanent headquarters of the South Texas Chamber of Commerce—to be
the central point from which will radiate all the activities of this important
organization. We have a good chance to pluck this luscious plum. But
nothing worthwhile can be gained without effort. And those loyal, big-
hearted, big-minded, big MEN, who will compose Kingsville’s delegation, are
prepared to put every ounce of themselves into the fiight until victory crowns
their efforts.
Kingsville wants to become headquarters of the South Texas Chamber of
Commerce.
It CAN be done.
It WILL, be done.
Will YOU help do it?
Lest We Forget
In Flandersf ields the Poppies blow,
Between the Crosses, row on row.
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
Take up our quarrel with the foe,
To you from tailing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, tho Poppies blow
In Flanders field.
Tomorrow, November lltli, an lias
been the custom since ilie establish
incut of the South Texas Stale Teach
ers Colloge, memorial services will he
held ;it the College Auditorium lion
oring the hoys who made the great
sacrifice in lie* World War. The
local post of the American Legion
will join the College for the service,
which will be held at lo o’clock in
tie* morning.
Addresses will be made by Sard.
J. D Gregory and Dr. Ira Bundrilh,
noted Chautauqua lecturer. Dr. Ban-
drith is widely known as a lecturer
of ability and il is with extreme pleas-
ure the Collcgr faculty present 111i..
opportunity to the students of the
College, the members of the la-cion
I and the friends and patrons of the
• Collette.
1 There will lie music by the College
j Orclu slra for the occasion. Songs
that were made sacred by their use
J in (lie lute war will he re-sung, and a
; program rendered Hint will benefit
all vs Im are able to manage to attend.
The public is cordially invited.
American Legion Gets German Gun
.1 M. Scarbrough, Jr, and B. II.
Frills, returned Tuesday from Austin
where they had tier n sent try the local
post of tin* American Bcgion as r«p-
n seniatives to choose the Gorman
machine gnu presented to the post try
Governor Moody.
Tin- Finest B. Anderson Post, it will
b<- of much interest to know, has been
Urn first post in Texas to “go over
the top” for the 11)28 quota; in fact,
they have gone over to the extent, of
20(1 pet cent, with fair prospects at
tho pre.ii-nf for making the very mi
usual n coid of 300 per cent.
Mr Sam Fimhle, commander, « • IrI
that the Brnesf B Anderson Post is
being rpioted all over the State as a
model post in tin- matter of pep and
(Continued on Page 12)
:ir-ngiti.
..—gjxde-r 'srgasnz.r^jrjt ify ; t
after things.
riving at Kerrville at 0:30 Friday j the game from the sidelines,
morning, and returned to Kingsville; The Javelinas are fast getting over
Saturday. Mr. Harper Alien, in the their depression over losing lh»* game
absence of Coach Smith, who was ill ard are hard at practice for their
and unable to make the trip, had! next game, which will probably be
charge of the boys, and with the as-1 played here on the 18th.
^stance of ('apt. Frank Warner, B C The Pigs have a game with Laredo I
Roberts and Doug Monroe, directed . (Continued on page 12i
When you form the savings account hab-
it, your bank balance grows amazingly.
Before you realize it you have a dignified
line of figures in the little savings hook.
Start an account this month.
Robt. J. Kleberg & Co.
(Unincoropratod)
“Bankers Lor All the People.”
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