The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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jf IlUFKIN ROYAL HOST
r
Lufkin was host to the North
East Texas Press Associa-
at its annual meeting last
y and Saturday and the
ber of Commerce, its news-
men and the big paper
did a swell job of entertain-
A most enjoyable and pro-
le meeting was held, and
tion of the reader is direct-
1 to pictures and information
concerning the meeting on page
3. The big six million dollar
mill was of special inter-
to publishers, as were the
idries and machine shops,
itertainment consisted of a
dinner and floor show, a
ie and dance and a break-
The Times editor and wife
rere privileged to attend the
ention, and Mr. and Mrs.
Murrell, former Deport
were exceedingly kind to
We had the pleasure of a
visit in their pretty new
ie, and they attended the
ue and dance to see that
had plenty to eat and did not
out any dances.
m Lufkin we drove on
to the coast to see if the
waves were still wild, vis-
the magnificent monument
the San Jacinto battle field,
great oil refineries around
Creek, and returned home
lay.
green trees and
swallowed in the great green
growth. Down one particular
stretch of road, my companion
stopped the car and we stepped
out under the towering pine
trees r id stood looking up at the
tall tops that seemed to brush
the heavily-clouded sky. There
was a strange sound, like a giant
sigh, and for a moment I thought
it was rain; then I realized it
was the wind piercing the pine
needles. It was mv first time
to listen-in on the wind in the
pines and I shall never forget
the experience.
State Press in Dallas News:
Well, State Press has been in
those identical north woods and
he got no such impressions as
the Deport tourist did. The dif-
ference may be that Number
Seven is sentimental and poetic.
He looked for beauty and found
it. On the other hand, S. P. only
appraised the probable value of
the pines. To be commercial-
minded is to miss many of the
rarest experiences possible to
sentient hearts. The fact that
S. P. attached no significance to
the soughing of the pines may
have been because he owned a
piece of land in the north woods
and it had a growth of telephone
poles on it. When he went to
see the poles he spent his time
calculating what they would be
worth as saw timber when they
got saw-log size. The Deport
impressionist had no handicap.
He was paying no taxes on tele-
phone poles. He had only to
inhale the fragrance of the pine
leaves, to absorb the music in
■ the wind. He had a good day.
We are glad to did, but the next
time he goes to the north woods
it might be all right for him to
look at the timber with sordid
eyes, listen to the wind with cal-
culating ears.
CONGRATULATIONS
y&Jh expressing our personal
Congratulations to and best
~ri«hes for this year’s record crop
4 high school graduates, we are
Illy foil wing the example set
iy their numerous friends—bus-
aess, professional and laymen.
Ife would, however, like to add
it has been a pleasure for
to publicize the varied activ-
of this class during the
, for it has been the kind
hews we like most to give our
news of clean activ-
wholesome entertainment
honest attainment. Our best
is that this newspaper and
newspapers, located wher-
fhiese students may go,
continue to print such news
their activities during the
of each student.
EDITORIALLY
SPEAKING
BURT LOCKHART
in Pittsburg Gazette
Many a fellow has gone crooked
because he was bent that way.
/VL«e People
MAKE MACHINES
TODAY THAN WERe
EMPLOYED IN
^U. MANUFACTURING
IOO YEARS AGO,
AfJTO TIRES, COST1HOX6SS than half as MUCH AS IN 191O, NOW
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America Can Stay
Out of Conflict,
McNutt Believes
Ain’t that Sump’n
By NUMBER SEVEN
KANSAS CITY. — The United
States can keep out of war, in the
opinion of Federal Security Admin-
istrator Paul V. McNutt, former j townful
governor general of the Philippines. \
In reply to the question, "Can we
keep out of war?’’ McNutt answer-
ed:
‘‘Yes, by being so strong extern-
ally that no nation will want us in
a war against it, by keeping out of
the war zones as we now are doing
and by restricting our activities.
I mean by that it is all right for us
to restrict ourselves, but we should
not allow any other nation to tel!
us to restrict ourselves.”
For a new variety of enjoyment,
try wending your way through a
of talking people, every
sense open to sound, color and
movement, getting an earful of con-
versation here, another yonder, and
on and out to a quiet place to tie it
together and see what it makes.
Such a crowd was in Deport Sat-
urday night . . sidewalks jammed
attempt w *«,
low way by way of the
looks suspiciously like an Intrusion
Jesse Gifford of the Shadowland
community, who suspects Sonley
Tidwell of reporting a certain elect-
ion of a mayor, tells this one, which
he says he heard happened while
Mr. Tidwell was working in a dry
goods store. Sonley was stooped
over fitting a shoe on the foot of a
lady who suddenly glanced down
and, mistaking his bald head for her
knee, hastily covered it up. This
column, who is perpendicularly sup-
erior to Mr. Tidwell, has since ex-
amined his bald pate from various
angles and under various lights and
has come to the conclusion that if i
such a head was ever mistaken by
a lady for her knee it must have
been a long time ago and the lady
is entitled to a seat on the present
presidential board of mistakes.
Hello, Will Rogers. This is just a
congratulatory crack on your good
luck to change your hanging-out
place before you were forced to
change your column slogan. You
know, Will, if you were down here
in Texas now and were sending in
jour write-up, you’d either have to
call the governor a liar or start your
piece off with “All I know for cer-
dirert violation
copyrighted law, and it may be a
good thing for us to stop writing
suggestive song titles until Hitler
has stopped rioting Europe.
/
As Burt Lockhart of the Pitts-
burg Gazette would probably have
put it if he had thought about it:
Now that Hitler is invading the Low
Countries, it is apparent he is not
above attempting to stoop to con-
quer.
It is said that some time ago a
Deport couple awakenqd in the dead
of night to find a cow lazily hunch-
ing herself against one of their prize
shrubs and placidly munching their
favorite flowers. The man leaped
out of bed, made a frantic dive for
his gun, which he was unable to
find, and grabbed up an armf of
fireworks and rushed out into ,ne
yard. In a short time he found 1.
self two blocks from home, panting
and pantless, with the bright lights
from the homes of aroused neigh-
bors streaming about him.
T- ke it from one who has seen
the insides of quite a few night
clubs and honky tonks that a sud-
den call to arms in this country
would not raise an army nearly so
quickly as a call from arms.
A WONDERFUL SELECTION OF
GRADUATION GIFTS
Which he will appreciate and always enjoy.
Graduating Gift in an Exclusive Men’s Store.
Buy his
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JOE W. WUNSCH
PARIS, TEXAS
S. E. Corner Plaza
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As the world’s Public Enemy No.
1, Germany appears to have little
competition.
A medical survey of 100 low-in-
come farm families in the South-
eastern section of the United States
revealed that among 575 persons ex-
amined there were 132 cases of
rickets among children; 31 cases of
suspected tuberculosis; 14 cases of
pellagra; 288 cases of diseased ton-
sils; 350 individuals with defective
teeth; and 124 with defective vision.
People and Spots in the Late News
Another thing
war propaganda:
either side.
about European
We don’t believe
Pictures should be properly
hanged. This applies also to the
artists who feature some of the mod-
ern pictures.
m RIVER CO.
+RATS NAME
miTTEEMEN
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filling of five vacancies on
River county Democratic
committee, members for
liwest part of the county
announced as follows;
P. Keeton,
tltftin Bishop.
9: C Mauldin.
A. Watts.
H. Wilkinson,
ita—J. D. Wilkinson.
A. Griffin.
Scaff.
L. Deviney.
Council].
Hobbs.
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county quota
Spring storms will soon be over,
but there will still be the political
whirlwind to disturb our peaceful
dreams.
Now is the time for everybody to
lay in a few grams of radium. The
price has dropped from seventy to
twenty-five thousand dollars a
gram.
The Chicago publisher who made
millions disseminating racetrack
news is now having the time of his
life trying to out-run the income
tax collectors. He has lost the race
and dear Uncle Sam stands to cojP
lect several million dollars in taxes
at the pay window.
The president of the Federation
of Labor urges a thirty-hour week.
What would our forefathers have
thought if someone had told them
that the less they worked the more
they would have? Millions of Am-
ericans still think that the idea
doesn’t make sense.
The United States is building an
airplane that can make a non-stop
round-trip flight to Europe. Who
wants to stop in Europe, anyway?
Uncle Sam is backing up his com-
mon sense with boats, contrary to
the European plan, which relies
solely on boats and bluster.
The most common mistake made
in election years is not in voting for
a man because he promises the peo-
ple a lot, but in believing him when jto pay the bil1
he makes such promises. ’
For three years forty-six thous-
and school teachers in Texas have
been paying 5‘i of their salaries
into the teachers’ fund at Austifl,
which the state, by amendment,
agreed to match. The fund now
amounts to $6,300,000 and it is still
unmatched by the state. The mon-
ey is invested at 3'/, . Texas teach-
ers are still waiting and paying and
hoping, but they are apparently
getting nowhere. Naturally they
are irked. All of which goes to
show that we can vote anything in
Texas without the faintest idea
where the money is coming from
One of Hiller’s organs says Ger-
mpny is seeking new gods. If she
had been fa) closer touch with the
real God Her plight today would not
be marked with so much bloodshed
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‘SUBWAY NOVELIST’...
Confounding the newspa-
per jinx whereby editors
traditionally talk about
“writing a book” but nev-
er find time, Bert Pierce.
New York paper auto
editor, scribbled chapters
of his forthcoming “Dry
Socket,” earthy thriller
of newsroom life, while
cn route to assignments
on subway.
‘IRON MIKE’ RIDES AGAIN . . . Jack Dempsey,
ex-world heavyweight champ, is shbwn as. in role
of boxing referee, he uncorked “haymaker” to
chin of Cowboy Luttrell in Atlanta show when
Luttrell set upon Dempsey after his opponent.
Dory Roche, had been awarded match on a foul.
Manassa Mauler twice drove the pudgy grappler
to the ropes.
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ducing taxes, proper city planning
pays other dividends, Mrs. Melville
Mucklestonc, president of National
Consumers Tax Commission, demon-
strates with chart. To obtain better
and less costly municipal govern-
ment the NCTC, nationwide women’ll
organization, is conducting economy
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FIT FOR A FIGHT AT It .... Gen.
Paul Frederic Rollet, 71, “fightin’est
man in all France," turned twinkling;
eyes on French army doctors and de-
eded war duty. Ife vHA retired in
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The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1940, newspaper, May 16, 1940; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth902032/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.