The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [47], No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1935 Page: 4 of 6
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VALUE OF INTOXI-
CATING LIQUOR
(Note—The following article re-
cently appeared in the Dallas Semi-
Weekly Farm News and was given
us for publication by a . lady who
states that it expresses her senti-
ments exactly.)
1. It is valuable to those wishing
to make fools of themselves when
they haven’t sense enough otherwise.
2. It is valuable to motorists wish-
ing to take their own lives, the lives
of others, or the maiming of some
one for life.
3. It is valuable in helping a man
get into condition in which to beat
up his family, and then offer as an
excuse, he was drunk.
4. It is valuable in the hands of
some young man to help bring about
the ruin of some poor girl.
5. It is valuable, as an excuse, in
the hands of some crooked lawyer,
where some one is being tried for
murder, under the plea the murder
was committed while the defendant
was drunk.
6. It is valuable in making dere-
licts of boys and girls, who would
have otherwise made fine men and
women, of whom the world would
be proud.
7. It is valuable in making wrecks
along the shores of time; in filling
paupers’ graves and almshouses.
8. It is valuable in wrecking homes
and in bringing sorrow to the hearts
of parents.
9. It is valuable in bringing pov-
erty to the home, and distress and
disappointment to the family. Many
a little child was expecting a pair of
shoes, when instead the father brought
home a bottle of whisky.
10. It is valuable in bringing many
to our penal institutions, our insti-
tutions of charity, and in taking
many a youth and sending him to
the electric chair.
11. It is valuable in depriving the
mother and little helpless. children
of food and clothing that the hus-
band and father might satisfy his
appetite for strong drink.
12. It is valuable in causing a man
to lose his position, his self-respect,
and bring contempt and disgust to
the friends of the drinker, and to
cause him to be shunned by society.
13. It is valuable in causing a man
to wreck his own life, that of his
family, and to send his immortal soul
to hell, for we are told in God’s Word
that “No drunkard shall enter the
Kingdom of Heaven.” (1 Cor. 5; 11).
Many of our business men are
strong antiprohibitionists, but I have
yet to find one who would employ a
drunkard, or who would call in a
drunk man to introduce to his wife
and daughters. Still they will vote
for the damnable stuff, realizing at
the time that they are helping wreck
some life or home. Many claim as
a reason for voting as they do, that
they don’t want to take away a man’s
personal liberties. But not many, ex-
cept criminals, would vote for the
repeal of our other criminal laws, so
that becomes rather a weak argu-
ment. A man has as much right to
kill someone by shooting him as a
drunken driver has to run his car
over someone.
Intoxicating liquor is the only evil
in the world that can stalk broadcast
over the land, leaving in its wake
wreck and ruin, and have the sup-
port of men who claim respectability.
If someone were to brutally murder
a little innocent child, that one guilty
of the crime would be mobbed if the
infuriated citizens could reach him in
time, but when some drunken fool
CORPORATION COURT
JUDGE TOURS UNDERWORLD
TO AID JUSTICE
Dallas, Aug. 9.—Judge King Wil-
liamson of the Dallas corporation
court said today he believed that a
series of visits to underworld haunts,
which he began last night, would in-
crease his efficiency on the bench
from 25 to 50 per cent.
“This is purely an educational mat-
ter,” he explained, “but I shall keep
up the visits so long as I believe I
am learning better how to cope with
these people when they come before
ne in court.”
Judge Williamson, who visited sev-
eral houses of ill fame last night,
said he planned to visit the various
“night spots” and that he would talk
with drunks, peddlers of narcotics,
addicts and any other underworld
characters, a better understanding of
whom would aid him in dispensing
justice.
“After all, these people are hu-
man,” he exclaimed, “and the more
we know about them, the better we
can deal with their problems. Even
learning their slang makes it easier
to deal with them.”
Unlike the famous Harun-Al-Ras-
hid, who disguised himself as a beg-
gar for his noctural prowling in the
poor quarters of Bagdad, Judge Wil-
liamson made no attempt to conceal
his identity on his tour last night.
Rather he carried along a veteran
police sergeant, Louis Spencer, as a
guide.
The judge is 45, married and sev-
eral months ago celebrated his twen-
tieth wedding anniversary. Before
becoming judge of corporation court,
the city bench, on May 1 by appoint-
ment of a new administration, he en-
gaged in the practice of civil law.
He began his law career in January,
1913.
Judge Williamson said that his first
visit to the underworld haunts made
him believe a “red light” district
should be re-established here.
“Perhaps we should have federal
supervision,” he said. “At any rate,
there should be frequent health ex-
aminations given these women, may-
be every 24 hours.” He said the
women he talked to agreed on this
point.
“Spencer and I found the women
very ready to talk about themselves
and anxious to cooperate in improv-
ing their condition. I have found
that they are willing to have physi-
cal examinations at the suggestion
of the court.”
Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Abney and two
sons visited Sunday in Brownwood in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
Beckham.
J. Tom Higgins and J. J. Byrne
made a business trip to Brady, Mon-
day. '
runs his car over a child there is
not so much said about it; “it was
an accident,” the “driver was drink-
ing,” and of course we all regret it.
The driver may get a light-fine and
that closes the incident.
But there is one thing to remember:
God is not mocked, “for whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also
reap.” (Gal. 6, 7). Every man and
woman who veil'd for the repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment will be
held responsible in the day of judg-
ment for every drop of blood, and
every tear shed by reason of that
vote.
W. M. Spence.
Windom, Fannin Co., Texas.
1-MINUTE SAFETY TALKS
By Don Herold
WORSE
THAN
WAR
5(5000
KILLED
LAST YEAR
MAKE AMERICA
SAFE- FOR MOTORISTS
and PEDESTRIANS
ENLIST TODAY
If some other nation struck suddenly
at our shores and killed 36,000 of our
people and injured nearly a million
others, how quickly we’d FIGHT!
We’d crush each other in the jam at
the enlistment stations.
Our patriotic blood would geyser
like Old Faithful. Bugles would sound,
bands would play, orators would orate,
we’d give up sugar and wheat, and
women would start to knit socks by
the million.
Yet an enemy worse than any war-
rior-nation is at our doors today and
we YAWN with indifference.
Automobile accidents^ killed 36,000
people last year and injured nearly a
million, and we don’t bat an eye.
Will you get a war-like spirit toward
this great enemy of our population—
will you fight—will you boil your blood
a little about this—OR will you try to
"get it fixed” the next time you are i
handed a ticket for speeding—will you
giggle at traffic regulations—will you
drive while under the influence of in-
toxicants—will you drive with selfish
recklessness and darn-fool abandon—
will you consider automobile safety
^ Which? Which side are you on? In
the last 10 years automobile accidents,
according to The Travelers Insurance
Company, have killed 291,061 persons.
The loss of life and limb from automo-
bile accidents is “Worse Than War.”
SOLONS HOPE TO AD-
JOURN AT END OF WEEK
Washington, Aug. 10.—A weary
congress turned down the home
stretch today hoping to reach the ad-
journment goal next Saturday, but
more optimistic over the prospect of
ending the gruelling session the fol-
lowing week.
With the social security bill out of
the way, and the revised tax pro-
gram expected to reach the senate
Monday, leaders believed they could
at last sight the long-waited ad-
journment.
A few predicted the session would
end Saturday night, unless unfore-
seen obstacles arose, but most of the
seasoned campaigners believed it
would be possible to finish in a sin-
gle week. The more generally ac-
cepted date was “sometime before
August 25.”
There were a few unpopular voices
warning that congress could not even
finish in two weeks and would still
be grinding away on the gigantic
irogram laid down by President
Roosevelt when Labor Day arrives.
Several possible bars in the way
of an early adjournment confronted
leaders. More than 80 members of
the house had signed a petition urg-
ing that congress stay in session un-
til the inflationary Frazier-Lemke
$3,000,000,000 farm refinancing bill
and rail pension measures had been
acted upon.
Chief threat in the senate was Sen-
ator Long, democrat, Louisiana, who
will offer his “share-the-wealth” pro-
gram as an amendment to the tax
bill. Leaders declared themselves
ready to hold night sessions if the
Louisianan should try any filibuster-
ing tactics.
There was a “gentlemen’s agree-
ment” among most other senators to
cut short debate.
Aside from the tax bill, the chief
obstacles to adjournment were con-
ference differences between the two
houses on the utility holding com-
pany bill, the banking bill and the
TVA amendments. All, however,
were reported to be on the path to-
ward settlement.
President Roosevelt was reported
in high quarters to have told Chair-
man Wheeler, democrat, Montana, of
the conference committee on the util-
ity measure, that he wanted a bill
at this session even if a compromise
was necessary on the disputed sec-
tion calling for compulsory dissolu-
tion of the holding companies.
The Guffey coal bill has not passed
either house, but Chairman Dough-
ton, democrat, North Carolina, fore-
cast the house ways and means com-
mittee would act Monday and it
would be sent to the senate before
the end of the week. There was
some sentiment in the senate to let
it die, rather than hold up adojurn-
ment.
Wade Taylor of Temple visited
here Sunday with his sister, Miss
Missie Taylor.
# Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Dieter and three
daughters, Kathryn, Allene and Mar-
jorie Ellen, and C. J. Burne of Aus-
tin were guests in the home of Mrs.
M. E. Parker for the week end.
Lee Moffett of San Antonio came
in early Sunday morning from San
Antonio and was accompanied home
by his wife who spent a week with
her mother, Mrs. B. J. Northington.
They were accompanied home by Ben
Northington.
Jimmie Applewhite, Joe Edwin
Brown, Garland Edwards and Na-
than Woosley of Tahoka are guests
here in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Peak.
Mr. and Mi’s. H. R. Perry and two
children arrived here Sunday from
San Marcos and were joined by Mrl
and Mrs. Frank Baker and went to
Fort Worth to attend the funeral ser-
vice of Rev. J. T. Ferguson. Rev.
Ferguson, a brother-in-law of Mrs.
Baker and Mr. Perry, was killed
Sunday in an automobile accident.
Funeral services were conducted Mon-
day afternoon in Fort Worth, and the
body was taken to May Purl for
burial. Jane and Bobby Perry re-
mained here with their grandparents,
Dr. and Mrs. D>. W. Black.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Florence left
Saturday night for a vacation trip
to Galveston.
L. A. Stephens spent the week end
in San Antonio visiting with friends
and relatives.
Miss Cora Barber is taking her
vacation this week.
Mrs. G. E. Huckabee of Temple is
visiting here with her sister, Mrs.
D. T. Briggs. ’
Miss Audrey Beale spent the week
end in San Antonio with friends.
Miss Athene Ramsel returned Sun-
day to San Angelo after visiting here
several days with friends.
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