The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1932 Page: 6 of 8
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WE HOPE 1933 WILL MARK THE BEGINNING |
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OF A NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY f
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FOR OUR FRIENDS i
A New Year is always welcome be-
cause it gives us a new clean slate upon
which to write a record. As for us we
are going to try hard to establish a new
record for FAULTLESS SERVICE and
GREATER VALUES for our patrons.
Let us thank you friends, one and all,
for your 1932 business and ask that you
continue With us during the coming
year.
Millican Produce Co. j
E. B. MILLICAN, Owner.
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REDUCTION OF DISTRICT
JUDGES FROM 127 TO
105 TO BE URGED
AUSTIN, Dec. 23.—The joint leg-
islative economy and efficiency com-
mittee will recommend that the dis-
trict court system of this State be
reduced from 127 to 105 judges, ac-
cording to reports in circulation to-
day, several members of the legisla-
ture saying they understood such
would be urged upon the legislature.
The committee clings to its policy of
giving out nothing. It also is ex-
pected a less number of civil appell-
ate courts will be sought, of which
there are 11 in Texas.
There is no surprise element in
this reported recommendation, for
members for several months have
been declaring the number of courts
should be decreased. In the Forty-
second a measure was offered by
Representative T*. H. McGregor of
Austin to eliminate all courts of civil
appeals. Each session of the legisla-
ture has witnessed the creation of
one to four new district courts.
Important changes in the judiciary
system and judiciary procedure will
be recommended not only by this
committee, but by the fee investigat-
ing and judicial investigating com-
mittees, the fee investigating point-
ing out certain defects that cause
waste of state funds, dealing with
the habeas corpus indictments and
fees.
Elimination of courts will develop
a hot fight, it is predicted, for heavy
pressure can be brought to bear by
attorneys and chambers of commerce
in the towns affected, but specified
courts on the elimination list will not
be known until the legislature meets.
Su-uport of the judiciary system
costs 'the state about $2,502,000 an-
nually, this exclusive of local costs.
SENATE STOPS PROMPT
VOTE ON BEER BILL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The sen-
ate smothered an effort today to force
immediate action on the house 3.2 per
cent beer bill, throwing the contro-
versy into the new year with assur-
ance of prompt consideration there.
A single handed attempt by Sena-
tor Bingham, Connecticut’s republi-
can, to put the bill before the senate
failed by a vote of 23 to 48, with
democrats taking the lead in oppos-
ing the maneuver.
Defeated, Bingham drew applause
from the galleries by hailing the vote
as the death knell of hopes for “beer
by Christmas” and adding: “We will
be lucky if we have beer by next
Christmas.”
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas,
leading the democratic opposition,
charged Bingham with seeking “par-
tisan advantage,” adding he was war-
ranted in saying the bill would be
given prompt consideration.
Senate leaders asserted the vote
was not a test of strength on the
beer issue, but merely meant the sen-
ate wanted to consider the beer legis-
lation in the usual manner, after study
by its committees.
The house bill has been referred
to the senate judiciary committee and
chairman Norris has called a meet-
ing to begin its consideration next
Monday.
Homer Haby, who is attending
school in Dallas, is home to spend the
holiday period.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Appleman are
home from Dallas where they visited
for a few days with relatives.
THE FIRST HURDLE
(Dallas News)
The beer bill, after heated contro-
versial debate, has passed the house
in the form recommended by the com-
mittee. Three hundred and ninety-
five votes were cast, forty short of
the whole membership, and the ma-
jority of sixty-five votes was a sur-
prise even to those who advocated the
bill. Ten of the Texas delegation
voted against or were paired against
the bill, including Hatton W. Sum-
ners from this district. Party lines
were disregarded, as they should be
on such a measure. The lame duck
BEER ADVOCATES
MAP NEW FIGHT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A sub-
committee of the senate judiciary
committee was set to work Monday
on the constitutional phases of the
house 3.2 per cent beer bill to speed
up consideration of the measure when
congress returns.
Senator Blaine, Wisconsin republi-
can, who heads the sub-committee,
promptly announced a plan for re-
vising the house measure so that it
would repeal, rather than amend the
provisions of the Volstead law jump-
ing the alcoholic content in bever-
ages to one half of one per cent.
This would result, in case the su-
preme court held 3.2 per cent beer
unconstitutional, in leaving the sta-
tute books clear instead of revert-
ing to the present Volstead limita-
tion of one half of one per cent.
Formal action on, the beer bill was
blocked when a quorum of the sen-
ate judiciary committee failed to ma-
terialize for the meeting called by
members also divided, eighty-one vot- j Chairman Norris to take up the
ing against and sixty for the bill.
The bill now goes to the senate,
first for committee action and then
for discussion from the floor. It is
measure.
Blaine asked Norris to refer the
bill to a sub-committee, but the chair-
man objected, saying he thought it
possible that the senate may accept ! would expedite consideration of the
the house bill without change so as ; measure to have it considered by the
to save time, thereby eliminating ref- j full committee.
erence to a joint committee. On the ] Norris said he would call another
other hand, the opposition in the | meeting of the full committee for
senate by protracted debate mas7, drag Wednesday in another effort to get
out discussion, or even may have votes , a quorum and begin formal consider-
enough to amend the bill, necessitat- ation of the bill.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED
ing a return to the house.
Should the bill pass the senate as
the second hurdle, it is almost sure
to meet the president’s veto, to over- HOUSTON, Dec. 27.—Two youths
ride which would require a two-thirds ; were arrested today after highway
vote of both houses. This it would patrolmen halted them near here and
be almost impossible to secure. 1^ by j discovered two bullet holes in their
chance the congress did override the machine.
Strange Trick of Mind
That Has Puzzled Many
The condition that causes a person
to feel that he has had exactly the
same experience before when he knows
that it is not possible is known as
paramnesia. It is a common experi-
ence, and, briefly explained, the reac-
tion depends upon a little trick of the
mind manifested by a momentary loss
of a sense of time and space. The in-
dividual enters into an experience or
a situation, obtains a fleeting impres-
sion of this situation, then the atten-
tion is momentarily attracted to some-
thing else. The period of time may
be almost infinitesimal. Then upon
the return of the attention to the orig-
inal situation this lapse of time is lost
to the individual and the period be-
tween the two experiences seems occa-
sionally to expand into a long period,
even into the remote past. Another
explanation, which is based on more
recent psychological investigations,
holds that one’s unconscious mind
sees much more than the attentive con-
scious one, and that a situation, even
to its details, may be taken in without
paying direct conscious attention to it.
Then a moment later when the facul-
ties of the conscious mind are at work
on the situation the experience seems
to have been experienced before. Here,
again, the lapse of time between the
two impressions may be greatly over-
estimated and expanded.—Washington
Star.
COLLIER SAYS MAY FALL
BACK ON SALES TAX
veto, a test case would probably
speedily be brought before the Su-
preme Court to determine whether or
not the bill, as finally passed, is con-
stitutional.
On the whole, the chances are that
beer legislation will have to go to the j under sentence of four
new congress, when called in special burglary.
session as it undoubtedly will be. i Captain Young ;said he believed
Breakers ahead for democratic har- . that the other recently was indicted
ipony. by a grand jury at Dallas.
Detective Captain Roy Young said
they would be held until officers from
Temple arrived to question them
about a shooting there.
One of the youths said he escaped
from Corpus Christi, where he was
years for
Funeral Made Occasion
for Joyous Ceremonies
Veronica Kantor, a wealthy old peas-
ant woman of Temerin, in the Bacska,
had her “wedding” celebrahJd by
scores of guests who attended her fu-
neral, says the New York Times. As
a young girl she vowed never to marry
and kept it to the day of her death at
ths age of eighty-two years. In her
will she ordered that she should not
be buried with funeral services but
with marriage rites.
Her instructions were carried out
according to Serbian wedding customs.
Her body was arrayed in a wedding
dress and a crown of myrtle leaves.
Horses decked out with white and sil-
ver ribbons drew the gayly decorated
hearse to the cemetery, followed by
scores of peasants in their rainbow-
colored festival garments singing gay
wedding songs of love and romance.
All carried multicolored bouquets.
After the burial the guests returned
to the dead “bride’s” former home,
where music, dancing and feasting
were kept up until a late hour.
Emerson Up to Date
Nowadays, “if a man makes a better
mouse trap,” (even though he live in
the midst of a wilderness, etc.), he
will put on a big national advertising
campaign, and his sales manager will
dispatch high-pressure salesmen into
their respective territories, and the
salesmen will work themselves all up
•into a lather offering little traps, me-
dium sized traps and large traps,
offering plain traps, gold plated traps
and diamond-studded traps, offering
cash terms and trade-in terms and dol-
lar down terms and any old terms you
can mention—and still a large part of
the prospective buyers will decide to
get along without a mouse trap for
another year, or will say that they
prefer a cat.—Detroit News.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The like-
lihood that a general sales levy would
come to a vote in the present session
of congress arose Monday with a
statement from .Chairman Collier of
the house ways and means committee
that he would resort to it to bring the
Federal budget into balance for the
incoming administration.
“We are going to balance the bud-
get at this session of congress if we
have to resort to a general sales tax
to do it,” said the veteran Mississip-
pi democrat, long an opponent of the
legislation. He said he hated “the
sales tax like the devil,” but “frank-
ly I can’t find any other source of
revenue to balance the budget.”
Collier estimated that in addition
to the revenue to come from the beer
bill, if it is enacted, and payments
amounting to $329,000,000 from for-
eign debtors, about $500,000,000 would
have to be raised to make Federal
expenditures meet revenue during
the fiscal year 1934. He will lay the
whole question of Federal finances
before his committee Jan. 3, he said.
Sales Tax Last Resort.
“I’ll support the sales tax as a
last resort,” he emphasized. “I want
the new administration to have a
clear sheet March 4. I think it would
be unjust to have a new administra-
tion come into power with the Fed-
eral government running $100,000,-
000 behind a month. No business,
however big, can function by put-
ting out when nobody is putting in.
Collier said, “I don’t think the pres-
ent session of congress can cut ex-
penditures enough to balance the bud-
get,” and predicted that all of Pres-
ident Hoover’s proposals for reduc-
tions would not be approved.
Expressing a belief that self-liqui-
dating Federal construction should be
borne by bond issues, and that only
the actual operating expenses of the
government should be included in the
budget, the Mississippian said:
“Future generations will get as
much out of the buildings as the pres-
ent, and we should not pay for them
out of current income.
Must Balance Budget.
“I hope the i-evenue legislation we
propose will be nonpartisan and I
want the republicans to vote for it
as well as the democrats. I also
want to get rid of as many nuisance
taxes as possible.”
Ancient and Modern Violins
Experiments made in London sup-
port the contention that the present-
day hand-made violin is quite as good
as those made by any of the famous
makers whose names are household
words. The tone produced by the pres-
ent-day instruments was as strong and
pure as the best Strad, and the most
experienced listeners could not distin-
guish which was the Strad, and which
the modern violin. If our greatest ex-
perts cannot tell which is the better
instrument, why pay a fabulous price
for prestige?—Exchange.
Tricks of Earthworm
The earthworm has only one head
or front half with the organs essential
to continued life. This is the smaller
pointed end. If the worm is cut in two
near the middle, the front half will
usually grow another tail; the hind
half will usually produce a second
tail, but such a worm is incapable of
ingesting food and will soon die. When
only a few of the front segments of the
worm are cut off, say less than five,
the remaining part of the worm will
usually repair the injury by producing
a new head.
VITAL SPARK SLOW
IN LEAVING BODY
A PLOT AGAINST
THE PHILIPPINES
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hill and son
Charles, of San Antonio are visit-
ing at the home of Mrs. Hill’s mother
Mrs. Geo. Probst. Mr. Hill is division
signalman for the Southern Pacific
railway company.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
As the old year goes out and the
New Year comes in we take thisop-
portunity to wish you the age-old
greeting, Happy New Year. It is
your friendship and loyalty that make
our business possible. We appreciate
the liberal support you have given us
during 1932. If we have pleased you
and our work has been satisfactory
we will be happy and grateful for
your patronage during the coming
year. We are here to serve you and
will do our best to please—Wolf-Mc-
Lean Automotive Repair Co. “Your
Satisfaction our success.” (w-d)
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Goodwin of San
Antonio are spending the holidays
with Mrs. Goodwin’s sister, Mrs. Geo.
Probst.
THOUGHTLESS CRUELTY
Accidents frequently happen in
which the victim seems to have been
fatally injured, and yet the vital or-
gans have not wholly ceased to func-
tion. Respiration may cease and the
heart stop functioning, producing a
state of physiologic death, during
which time the victim may sometimes
be revived by the proper administra-
tion of artificial respiration.
This may occur in such accidents as
drowning, electrocution and asphyxia-
tion, and in some motor car accidents.
The unfortunate and apparently dead
victims may not actually die for some
time following the accident.
Von Hoesslin reported before the
Berlin Medical society that the elec-
trocardiograph has demonstrated reg-
ular contractions of the heart continu-
ing as long as 30 minutes after phys-
iologic death occurs. The contrac-
tions are strongest immediately fol-
lowing the accident, and grow weaker
gradually until the heart ceases en-
tirely to function, except for occa-
sional contractions, which occur at ir-
regular intervals. Therefore, it would
be the period immediately following
the accident that normal life may be
restored by artificial respiration.
Dr. Samuel R. Benedict of the Ala-
bama Power company believes that
many persons have died following in-
juries when they might have been re-
suscitated if artificial respiration had
been promptly administered.—Journal
of the American Medical Association.
FIRST RURAL FREE
MAIL BACK IN 1896
Rural free delivery of mail originated
from the suggestion of Postmaster
General John Wanamaker, who incor-
porated it in his annual report for tire
fiscal year 1891.
The following year, on January 5,
James O’Donnell of Michigan intro-
duced a bill in the house of represent-
atives authorizing rural mail delivery.
His bill carried an appropriation of
$6,000,000, and did not pass. Later
Thomas E. Watson, a congressman
from Georgia, sponsored a bill which
apropriated $10,000 for experimental
rural mail delivery. This was passed
by congress March 3, 1893, and on July
16, 1894, a sum of $20,000 was appro-
priated for the same purpose. But
the postmaster general did not deem
these amounts sufficient for the proper
introduction of an experimental serv-
ice, so they were not used.
On June 9, 1896, the sum of $10,000,
together wTith the former appropria-
tions of $30,000, was made available,
and the first experimental rural mail
delivery service was established on Oc-
tober 1 of that year, simultaneously on
three routes, one from Charles Town,
one from Uvilla, and one from Hall-
town, all in West Virginia.
The results wrere so satisfactory that
nine months after the establishment
of the first routes the service had
grown to 82 routes, and by 1902 there
were more than 11,000 in operation.
Boston Transcript: The Transcript’s
cartoonist today sizes up the Philip-
pine situation with deadly accuracy.
Congress, through the emasculated
Hawes-Cutting bill and the sordid
statesmanship of Huey Long, would
make our Filipino wards a Christmas
present of a rope with which to hang
themselves. The Louisiana sugar in-
terests, thanks to the “Kingfish” and
Senator Cutting, have rendered the
Filipino people the service of demon-
strating to them in all its nakedness
the plot to wreck the islands of which
their real friends have been warn-
ing them ever since the recent sugar-
sponsored movement for Philippine
independence began. In its fina"
stages the bill was so amended tha
it provided for immediate indepen
ence, as soon as a Philippine const!
tution could be formulated and rati
fied. The trial period of eight to
foui'teen years before a plebiscite
should be taken was eliminated, and,
under amendments proposed by Sen-
ator Cutting, the exports of the is-
lands to this country were so restrict-
ed that the islands would enter at
once on a period of slow but certain
starvation.
The house can not and will not ac-
cept the senate amendments. The bill
was sent over from the senate in a
hysteria of confusion, and it is evi-
dent that no acceptable compromise
Golden Knife for Unveiling
To unveil a statue to his ancestor,
the first king of his dynasty, Phar Bud-
dha Yodfa, and to open the first road
bridge across the Chow Phya river,
the king of Siam used a golden knife.
The ceremony was held recently at
Bangkok, Siam. The king inserted the
knife into an electrical apparatus in
the form of a box and this caused the
drawing apart of the curtains of gold
which veiled the statue. The knife
was a gift from the firm which built
the bridge, and the box had been used
at many notable openings in other
parts of the world. The bridge is the
most artistic in Siam.
with a fatal veto in the White House
Its whole conception was murderous
from the start, and for months the
Filipino politicians, whose insistance
gave the excuse for bringing up the
subject again, have been shivering in
their boots for fear independence
would win in the American congress.
They hardly need fear that they will
be called upon to reject the measure
in their own legislature, but they al-
ready have indicated that if it should,
they would kill it. Selfish American
interests have overplayed their game.
The Filipinos are the only persons
who have reason to be thankful for
the presence of Huey Long and Bron
son Cutting in the United States
senate.
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‘MERRY CHRISTMAS,” RE-
PLY OF MOORE WHEN
TOLD ABOUT CRITICISM
Too Much Pie
The teacher was very young and
not very experienced and she realized
the moment she said “pies” in explain-
ing an example that she never should
have said it. However, she went along
with as straight a face as she could
muster. The idea she was trying hard
to convey had to do with quantities.
“Now, Esmeralda Mae, you know
you would really rather have nine
pies than seven.”
“Oh, no, I wouldn’t. No, indeed, I
wouldn’t. I just know even seven pies
would make me sick.”
The Lark’s Song
The song of the lark is a continu-
ous torrent of contrasted guttural and
clear, shrill sounds and thrills, so rap-
idly emitted that the notes, so differ-
ent in character, yet seem to inter-
penetrate or to overlap each other;
and the effect on the ear is similar to
that on the eye of sober or dull and
brilliant colors mixed and running into
one another in a confused pattern.—
W. H. Hudson.
A news dispatch tells of Teresa
Corona, of New York, 14 years old
and six feet tall, who ran away from
home and school to get away from
the ridicule of her fellow pupils.
Thoughtlessly her associates have
made her the victim of a heartless
tragedy.
It was hard enough to bear the
self-consciousness and embarrass-
ment which the child’s abnormal size
made inescapable, but those who made
her burden greater by their derision
were unspeakably cruel.
Many instances like this occur,
where some physical defect or pe-
culiarity of sensitive persons is used
as a pretext to torture them with
unkind remarks, which cut to the
quick. We read sometime ago of a
young girl who finally committed sui-
cide because she had been driven to
desperation by ridicule of her family
name, which had a suggestive mean-
ing to evil-minded persons.
Children will seize upon such op-
portunities to harass their associates,
sometimes in a spirit of fun, but of-
ten with vicious intent. While most
parents would disapprove of such
conduct, many do not take the trou-
ble to explain to their children how
really cruel it is, or to appeal to
their better natures to induce them
to refrain from it.
Unnecessary infliction of mental
suffering is as bad or worse than in-
fliction of physical pain, and children
should be earnestly admonished to
avoid both forms of cruelty.—Kerr-
ville Mountain Sun.
“Humanitarian” Dog
An unusual dog is owned by a
farmer of Bajarg, Ayreshire, Scotland.
He is a black and white collie. He
was seen catching a rabbit; but evi-
dently was sensitive as to the spilling
of blood and refused to worry the rab-
bit to death. Instead of that, he
hauled his captive to. a burn, where
he held its head under water till it
was drowned. He has never, the
farmer says, done other than drown
his rabbits.
Ancient Bean Sprouted
A large white bean, picked up in the
ruins of Grand Quivira and believed
to be 300 years old. has sprouted into
a living stalk at a museum in San
Antonio; Texas. The bean was found
in an excavation 70 feet from the sur-
face at ruins near Santa Fe. The bean
was soaked in water for five hours and
less than two weeks later a stalk six
inches tall had grown from the seed.
TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 22.—A free
citizen of New Jersey, Robert El-
liott Burns, Georgia chain gang fugi-
tive, remained in seclusion Thursday
while Gov. A. Harry Moore, whose
decision saved him from return to
the South, -read congratulatory mes-
sages and waved aside an attack on '
his judgment by Gov. Richard B. Rus-6. t
sell Jr. of Georgia.
“I wish the Governor of Georgia a
very merry Christmas and a happy
New Year and respectfully refer hi
to the Fuller case,” was Moore’s only
comment when informed of Russell’s
criticism.
The Fuller case, it was understood,
involved the refusal by Georgia au-
thorities to release to New York State
a man charged with absconding with
$100,000.
“A brave, independent thinker,” and
“courageous and just man” were
among the laudatory terms used in
messages congratulating the gover-
nor.
Prison Chaplain Praises Moore.
The Rev. Cornelius J. Mclnerney,
Caldwell penitentiary chaplain, wrote
he believed the decision was based
“on the moral law, God’s law, which
is higher than man-made law.”
The governor had nothing to say
of these messages. So far as he was
concerned, the case was ended.
And Burns, with the governor’s in-
junction to lead a righteous life and
avoid publicity, was not to be seen
by strangers. In Palisade, his sister-
in-law, Mrs. Vincent Burns, wife of
the fugitive’s clergyman-brother, said
she did not know where Burns was.
James Harrington, his partner in
an East Orange toy shop, said he
had not returned to the shop and he
did not know when he would. His
plans for the future are uncertain. ;
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Drowsy Chatter
“Have I had my afternoon nap yet,
dear?”
“Certainly, dear; you just woke up.”
“I thought so, but I wasn’t certain
whether I’d been asleep or just dreamed
It.”—Exchange.
Right in Line
New Boss—Strange as it may seem,
I’m a crank on simplified spelling.
Lady Typist—That’s O. K. with me,
chief. I’ve never been particular
either.—Glasgow Times.
Never Idle
“I am annoyed by idle gossip.”
“There’s no such thing as idle gos-
sip,” said Miss Cayenne. “Gossip is
always most industrious.”—Washing-
ton Star.
Couple of Other Guys
Accused—How could I commit forg-
ery when I can’t write my own name?
Judge—You are not accused of writ-
ing your own name.
CASS COUNTY MAN
WRITES DEBTS OFF
ATLANTA, Texas, Dec. 27.—J. A.
Stone, who believes there is no bet-
ter way to cure present economic ills
than by forgiving others their debts,
has presented many Cass County citi-
zens with an unexpected Christmas
gift by striking their debts to him
off the books.
Stone made public announcement
of his action by publishing an adver-
tisement, an excerpt from which
reads: “I know of no better way to
be instrumental in helping to cure the
depression than to forgive others
their debts. I hold accounts, notes,
mortgages and court judgments
amounting to $526.57, all of which is
hereby forgiven and canceled. I will.
carry no hatreds, no animosities into
the new year and all that any one
will owe me is good will.”
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