The Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 3, 1926 Page: 10 of 12
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The Kingsville Record
Kingsville Publishing Co., Publishers
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS
Published Wednesday of each week.
Kntered as second class mutter at
the Post Office at Kingsville, Texas
under the fact of March 3, 1878
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year _________ __________ $2.t)u
Six Months __ _______ $1.00
Three Mouths 7be
JUST PLAIN FOLKS
years, has been the fortunate heir of this county? If it is a de-
location of railroad interests and itriment rather than an aid to the
bases its prosperity, both of the
past and present, upon this sel-
ected location of railroad activi-
ty. And while always duly ap-
preciative of this condition, not
until the present, perhaps, has
there existed such a profound
county, why not abandon the
violent excuse and pronounce it
oblelete, closed and abandoned?
Kleberg county is evidently suf-
fering severely by this road’s
evil reputation, and time does
not soften either the road or the
mutual interest, nor have rail-j temper of travelers. We might
! road people of Kingsville ever have gotten by with smug in-
before entered so actively into difference to verbal lambasting
an age or so ago, but people now-
days can’t get by with such
things. Our grandpas might
have steered old Kate and Jane
over such a road and it wouldn’t
affairs of the town and county.
I. M. Brown, field editor of the [ This is true of shop forces, of
Missouri Pacific Magazine, withjr0ad forces apd general office
St. Louis his home, was in town j forces—and particular the lat-
the other day and came around ter named. It matters little, now,
to swap howdy with his coun-[ what that activity may be, if it, have been the thing to cuss any-
try newspaper cousins. That is. j concerns the town’s welfare, or i one—it was just the good Lord’s
figurately ‘cousin.' And though the community’s welfare, rail-! own affair in sending so much
Mr. Brown is lined up with a road folks are more than willing rain. In a jam-up 1926, it has
to shoulder a part of the work come to be known that the good
or the responsibility. That aloof-
ness sometimes existing in ‘rail-
road’ towns, does not exist in
Kingsville—at least to any no-
ticeable extent. Church life, so-
great Magazine like the Mo. Pac.
Magazine he’s not a bit asham-
ed to claim kinship with a coun-
try newspaper office—and that
is one of the many reasons why
the M. P. is winning out in the
pleasant business of making co-!cja] life, industrial or commercial
workers and friends with the life, there is no dividing line
public. Evidently, Mr. Brown j termed town people and railroad
has an abiding faith in the pow-j people. They all meet on com-
er of human interest to accom-1 mon ground for common purpos-
plish things attributable to no'es<
other method—and there he is J Mr. Brown must be right
again right. He claims that Mr. | again. It’s human interest, and
Baldwin started all this human though Mr. Baldwin is a mighty
interest stuff, among railroadj big railroad man, there is plenty
people long accused by the pub- Gf human interest in his presi-
lic of materialism without a sin- j dential supervision of a great
gle showing of sentiment. May-|raji system. Even more than
be he is right, for Mr. Baldwin j this, Mr. Baldwin injects a good-
has done a lot to place railroad-jiy amount of sentiment into both
ing in a new light' before the| h,s m. P. Magazine writings and
world, and that world is seeing his common ground meeting
things in a different light. Mr.
Brown says that railroad people
were always human just like the
balance of folks, but that the
public had been so long set on
having them inhuman until fin-
ally raildom accepted it as a fact
and practiced the preachment of
its patrons. Along came the new
order of things, and such men
as Mr. Baldwin, president of the
Missouri Pacific, is one of the
several responsible for this evo-
lution—or revolution.
It has been the accepted policy
of most towns, and particularly
small ones, to take railroads and
railroad people for granted—a
necessary element in everyday
existence, yet tolerated only and
by reason of necessity. The
theory was one of rob and be
robbed, according to the public,
and as a corporation, or body of
financiers, to prove heartless in
with forces of his road.
COMEDY-TRAGEDY
The calichie road, leading
west from Riviera, and indul-
gently called a part of Highway
Number 12, has ceased to be a
popular joke with the traveling
public and become almost a tra-
gedy—a tragedy in that it
would be better if the road were
not there at all, for its very ex-
istence, in the present state, is
a menace to the good name of
Kleberg county. This statement
will no doubt be resented by
Lord still sends the rain and
reckons his obedient children
have sense enough to use the
water on tilled lands and pastur-
es rather than in the middle of
an automobile highway—or low
w’ay as this is said to be. If
Kleberg county does not consid-
er this road as worth the while,
then it is no more than common
sense and good judgment to dis-
courage all trafie coming this
way. Public is the greatest ele-
ment in modern community de-
velopment; the wrong sort of
publicity is certainly not to be
desired.
The west end of Highway No.
12 in Kleberg county is a Kle-
berg county problem—and one
of the biggest ones. It is actual-
ly dangerous to let the proposi-
tion ride another year or anoth-
er six months. Something ought
to be done, one way or other. At
least that’s the opinion of many
people in Kleberg county. Those
who have finally come through
lately will not bother us again.
But others will live to cuss us
another day. We can stand the
cussin’, but can we stand the
rotten publicity?
A NATIONAL SHRINE
The local Stone Mountain
Memorial organization has ex-
tended the drive for sale of coins
some person whose loyalty to until the First of March, with
Kleberg county is blind to the j the full expectation of raising
actual facts as they exist—in, Kleberg county’s full quota by
evil weather such as has been j that time. The chances are that
visited upon South Texas for sev I it will be done, and the county
oral weeks, or months, straight j go over the top in this, as it has
running. The calichie road can always done in every other ob-
be navigated in splendid dry jective where patriotism or home
any dealing made necessary by; weather, such as we unwillingly
the dire urge of necessity. The enjoyed last year. So could have
awakening, o:
necessity,
the light, has
and is proving a very pleasant
re-action; both public and rail-
roads are coming to understand
each other, and in the under-
stand there is the gracious ele-
ment of human interest.
Kingsville, for a number of
BREAD
Pure and Wholesome
CAKES
Light, Fresh, Sweet
PIES
America’s Favorites
COOKIES
Your Favorite Kinds
Baked Every Day
THEO. DIETZ
The Model
Bakery
any pasture trail also have been
town pride or duty was concern-
ed.
The Stone Mountain Memor-
negotiated by flivver or proud i ial stands alone for uniqueness,
limousine. But, according to i for patriotism, for love of hero-
vigorously swearing statements
of many who dare attempt the
piece of road, there was just
about an equal chance on the
wide, wide prarie—with all odds
ism and for the glory of this na-
tion of ours. History does not
chronicle a dream, not to men-
tion an undertaking as this; it
is a mighty inspiration, of a
There surely must be some
wonderful satisfaction in know-
ing that the least of us arc offer-
ed the opportunity of sharing in
the creation of this work destin
ed to amaze the world now anc
those to come after us for all
the days of time. There must be
some pride in knowing that we,
as a great in the whole, are re
sponsible for this splendid image
of nobleness and valor as is to
be seen in the marching army
of the Confederacy. None of us,
Northerner or Southerner, but
that must glory in the courage
and the chivalry and the faith
of such men as Robert E. Lee,
leading his gallant army to cer-
tain defeat—a cause already
lost before the guns of Sump-
ter had died in echo. Today, the
things wonderful that were Lin-
coln’s are just as much the glory
of Southerners as claimed by
Northerners; the mightiest man
of history and his tragic story
works deeper and deeper each
year into the hearts of Ameri-
cans alike. The South has come
to glory in the name of Lincoln;
the South holds his memory in
reverence. The South has always
loved the name of Robert E.
Lee, and always will. The North
has come to respect that love of
Southerners for the gallant and
brilliant leader. Stone Mountain
Memorial is not a tribute to the
Southern army, the Southern
cause, or to the Confederacy
that was; it is a tribute to the
things all Americans hold most
dear: courage and sacrifice for
a principle in the face of all
odds.
The South, in time, would pos-
sibly forget the name of Davis;
the South would never forget
the name of Lee. The North in
time might forget the name of
Grant, but the North and the
South would never forget the
name of Abraham Lincoln. The
Stars and Bars have long since
become as but a vision of this
Lost Cause; the Stars and Strip-
es shall not perish from this
earth so long as men and women
look to the lives of men like Lin-
coln and the life of a man like
Lee. History has never told us of
greater valor than displayed by
the Southern soldier; history has
not told us of greater general-
ship that displayed by the im-
mortal Lee. They are of Ameri-
ca, even as Lincoln is of Ameri-
ca. There is North and no South,
no East and West, when we
would leave to the world this
mightiest of all man’s undertak-
ing—Stone Mountain Memorial.
in favor of the open spaces, pro- j mighty project, by a mighty
vided the wire fencing were not
in the way. The Record makes
no (swearing) statement to this
effect; fortunately, we <ire old-
timers in the county, and have
enough sense to patronize the
local bootlegger rather than
harken to the seductive siren of
Matamoros. Our information,
therefore, is secondhand, by
word of mouth, and by evidence
in white and black as it appears
on these same humble flivvers
and proud limousines, if they
are fortunate enough to make
the pavement at Riviera up and
the real highway to Kingsville.
We rftay be altogether wrong in
our accusations; the road may
be a paragon of smooth vertue.
If so, all apologies are due the
stretch of road, and those who
might so vigorously contend for
the honor of Kleberg county.
But circumstantial evidence is
agin the road; it is dammed
most vigorously and most often
in the greatest court of the well
known world—that of the pub-
lic. What are we going to do
about it?
If it is not consistent with
better business to keep the road,
why not deny it; why not con-
demn it as an orphan, and no
people; it is the strength of
America carved in everlasting
stone—the dream of all memo-
rials massed into one. It is not
the South, though of the South;
it is not the North, the East or
the West, though all of these.
In the Stone Mountain monu-
ment, carried out to the last
detail of tremendous effect, there
is no North, no South, no East,
no West. The Mason-Dixon line
has faded from the minds of
Southerners and Northerners in
the greater achievement of giv-
ing to the world its greatest tri-
bute to bravery and to sacrifice.
There is no blue and no gray,
for the colors have blended in
the making of this, the world’s
greatest effort of man. The most
of us will never see the complet-
ed memorial; our days are too
short; many of our children will
never travel across half a con-
tinent to see it, but Stone Moun-
tain Memorial shall remain for
all the generations to follow, un-
til the end of time. It is to be as
eternal as the hills, everlasting
and majestic. It is to be young
America’s mightiest gift to all
the world—symbol of faith in
the divinity of God and the glory
that is dauntless courage.
DPY
CLEANERS
FRESHENING UP
a temporarily discarded coat or
other garment often gives it a
new appearance. To prove this
it is only necessary to have an
old soiled garment dry-cleaned
here and then note the wonder-
ful change in its looks when re-
turned to you, spotlessly clean-
ed and every wrinkle eliminated.
Just Phone 39
The Toggery
Dry Cleaners and Gents
Furnishers
Valentine’s Express Love’s
Sweet Thoughts!
No matter for whom the selection
may' be—mother, sister, friend or
sweetheart—here are the valentines
that have been especially made for
this important occasion. Each
bears a sincere message of love
and friendship.
PRICES 5c TO $1.50
FULL LINE DECORATIONS
MILADY’S
TOILETTE
No better or more varied line
of Toilet Goods can be found
anywhere than in our big
Drug Store.
Nationally Used
Nationally Recommended
Send Her a Box of Chocolates
It’s Cupid’s First Choice
MEMBER
TEXAS QUALIFIED!
DRUGGISTS’LEAGUE!
Legally
Registered
Pharmacist,
Harrel
rug
Phone 121 Free Delivery
r-~
WARNING TO DOG OWNERS
Buy Jewelry Here
Don’t be mislead. True we have only a small jewelry
stock—but you would be surprised how easy we can
please you even with this stock. That’s because of its
quality and newness. But if just the item you desire is
NOT in our stock, we’ll have it for you real soon.
Section G of Dog Ordinance:
"It shall be unlawul for the owner
or keeper of any bitch to permit the
same to go while in heat within the
corporate limits of the Town of
Kingsville and any person violating
the provisions of this section shall be
fined in any turn not exceeding One
Hundred ($100.00) Dollars. It Is made
the special duty of the poundmaster
knowing of any hitch running at large
in said condition to kill said bitch un-
less she is kept out of reach of other
dogs."
The above section of said Ordinance
G. B. Rhoades
at Harrels
i
is published for information of all
concerned and if such named animals
are found running over town while in
this mentioned condition, charges will
be filed against the owmer. So it be-
hooves the owner of valuable doga
to keep same locked up until such
titne as Is prnppf in release her. If
for no other reason, do this so that
your neighbors may sleep at nights.
J. S. Scarborough, Jr.
Chief of Police.
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