The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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>AY, MARCH 14, 1940
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should Ilka to suggest that he start
a nation-wide program of re-ar-
ranging tomb stones in cemeteries,
changing the small stones to the
head and the large ones to the feet;
for it looks like the ultimate debut
of the typical American is feet first.
» heard it before, but it
the truth—beauty is
deep, said the X-ray
M*y operator. That gal
should know,
Our history books, grouping pro-
gress in war and peace periods, are
all wrong. What we need is a his-
tory of the American Dance, with
| each variation representing a per-
iod of progress. Kids would eat it
up better than battles and oldsters
rerqember it longer than corres-
pondence school shorthand.
since her
everything.
For the benefit of farmers who
lit now enjoying electric cur-
■tt hum the new lines recent-
r constructed in this area, we
to this week printing a picture
Mch illustrates what one kilo-
of current will do. An-
will appear next week.
The first chapter might deal with
the pigeon-wing cutters and jig
dancers, whose industrious dust-
raising activities scared the Indians
into reservation huddles and so
muddied the waters of the Great
Lakes, the Mississippi river and the
Atlantic ocean that tea tasted like
turpentine and Cornwallis went
back to England to slack his thirst.
Times would like very
to print an article next
saying that proposed ad-
* 46 miles of electric lines
OffBTve the Rugby and Hales-
areas was a reality. Elec-
takes a lot of drudgery
of work about the house and
Then there was the old Virginia
reel and the waltz-arounders that
got everybody so dizzy-headed they
tore into a free-for-all, in which the
south end quit first becaues it was
selfish and liked that Dixie tune so
well that it didn’t want to take it
north and have those Yankee Doo-
dlers whistling it around like a
common tune.
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Everybody mwh to want to stay
out of war except those who are in.
fl$5a!$pPP? , .
A lot of fellows
hats into the ring >
Others will lose their
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The old fashioned politician who
kept his ear to the ground now has
a son who keeps his mouth to the
microphone.
perfect
No election would <A
without Jim hinting that Ma might
get in the race for governor.
Before those warring nations
make a peace gesture they speed up
their munitions plants and call out
more troops.
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Unless all signs foil, the state
campaign is going to be well worth
the price of a poll tax receipt.
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What this country is looking for
is a man who can get elected to an
office on a tax-reduction platform
and deliver the goods.
Probably another reason why we
don’t hear Opportunity when he
knocks at our door is because the
radio is tuned in on one of those
quiz programs.
Nothing is more commendable
than trying to save our country.
And it takes a mighty good coun-
try to save itself from a fight.
tag
The American voter is not inter-
ested so much in where the two
big conventions will be held as he
is in what the conventions will do
after they meet.
The new governor of Louisiana
promises to make a clean sweep of
graft and rottenness. It will be a
huge pile of political putrefaction
which will cause a decent public to
hold its nose.
Aho NMtMousmes
OP TODAY!
Things look awfully discouraging
for education when an ignorant
prize fighter can make more money
in thirty minutes than a college
professor can make in a lifetime.
The “undeclared war,” an inven-
tion of the present age, appears to
have all the bloody earmarks of
regular warfare. War lords no long-
er wait for a ceremonious start. A
pistol shot or a direct hit by a tor-
pedo and war begins.
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The Times man heard a lot of
compliments on Tuesday even-
eomplwu
ing from visitors concerning the
Decently organized school band.
haven’t had much practice
and practically all are be-
some so small their
will not touch the floor as
sit in chairs, but that
t’t appear to have anything
with their ability to toot
ptpma. That band will really
ripe by the time football sea-
son opens next fall.
Later there was the rag, which we
got so busy chewing that we went
blind and next thing we knew were
waving it all over France and dou-
ble-dog-daring the Germans to
come out and face the music.
Next thing of consequence was
the jazz, when most people got hap-
py, spent all their money with the
bootleggers, danced into Wall
street and woke up with a head-
ache, empty pockets and the bread
line blues.
Yessirmam, it’s here! Spring has
sprung again and, as usual, hit us
squarely between the eyes and a
little to the right of the top left side.
And, as usual, we can feel the sap
rising from our toenails to our top-
knots, our hearts getting thumping
ripe and our heads turning green
as collards. Not mentioning any
names, but a certain fellow who is
not the publisher of this newspaper
and therefore, not a privileged char-
acter, would shine brighter tomor-
row if he Svas haunkered on the
bank of a live stream with a stout
fish hook handle between his fists
today.
One of the candidates for gover-
nor states flatly that he will not at-
tempt to out-promise the promisers.
There is some comfort in that state-
ment, although in recent years it is
the man who does the most promis-
ing that gets the most votes.
When the government took all ]
the gold away from the people and j
buried^ it in Kentucky and other |
places, a lot of folks now act as if
the government also buried the
Golden Rule.
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rican women more than
other are motivated in
living by advertising. To
B to do more than a hole in-
C-wall business without ad-
rtising is as faulty as trying
introduce corncob pipes to
!e society. Advertising is a
kfession and a science. It is as
senary as rent, as unavoid-
le as the income tax. But if
1 are in a business and do
| advertise you won’t owe an
mne tax.—State Press in the
Uas News.
But right along here is where
plenty of students will get stuck
and flunk out on an E minor. A
new record was put on, bank doors
opened, people danced in, borrowed
money to buy picks and shovels and
had a big ditch-digging dance, sa-
luting partners with the ABC’s and
getting paid on every corner. Then
a woman started something and
nearly stopped everything with a
fan dance that fortunately soon
went with the winnings. The apple
was then rolled out and doctors
nearly starved to death trying to
keep people from getting too
healthy. So somebody invented the
jitterbug which ate the apple and
As a fine sport, fishing is a board
walk and a hundred running feet
ahead of football, but it has its
problems. A reader offers No. 7
the following cowlick curler: “Sup-
pose you caught a fish whose head
was nine inches long, body as long
as its head and half as long as its
tail and tail as long as head and
body both—how long would the fish
be?”
If a bill introduced by Senator
Wagner passes Congress the gov-
ernment will engage in the life in-
surance business. Probably Senat-
or Somebodyelse will then intro-
duce a bill providing fire, accident
and hail insurance. Government
control of private business seems
to be gaining by inches, and a Dem-
ocratic Congress is at the helm, too.
There have been three suits for
divorce in the Roosevelt family, and
now comes the Republican party
with plans to divorce F. D. R. from
the White House in November.
Nobody has to guess whether
Senator Sheppard is going to run
again when his present term ex-
pires. He sets other officeholders
a good example by announcing two
years in advance.
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Get a Lovely Spring
PERMANENT
It will delight your friends.
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Pwo news items in last week’s
occupying half a column i drank up so much of the good liquor
(OOd pew; to citizens I that oldsters had to be put on pen-
>ne of them said the' sions and young ones guaranteed a
at the City lake would j happy ending. That jitterbug, which
affording plenty of ; is the latest, is far ahead of any-
thing yet. The orchestra goes loco
and the dancers hop out on the floor.
This column scratched half its
head bald trying to get that tail
figured out and will print its answer
next week, along with others, if
any, sent in by readers. Next time,
though, it advises its readers to
bring in more practical proble us—
fish instead of figures, for example.
TOU EVER SAW
IN A SIR S CU. FT.
1 v this summer, and the
article dealt with the corn-
organization of Deport’s
len Club, and appoint-
committees. Then there
article dealing with
tup campaign, which in-
tes the light against mos-
Such news indicates
has every modern con-
including electricity,
jgaSt paved streets, wat-
and a desire on the
citizenship to make
» healthful and beauti-
lllfettie - 'rich fanning
“ pRiigby community
roved the adapt-
k soil to produce
heavy corn, but
• two Rugby 4-H
d Wi
ayne
cham-
make i. nny faces, bump heads and
hug with hands and feet.
No telling what will come next,
but it will probably be the dance
of the WPA, where the orchestra
will snore through its instruments
and the dancers lean one upon the
other ahd breathe ever so lightly
and languidly.
The above list of dances is, of
course, not complete. It just hits
the high spots and doesn’t pretend
to get around. You know—like a
man’s money at the flyst of each
month.
Those who think the old hen
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crossed the road because one end j
of it u as under water and the old
hen, being unable to swim, natur- (
ally couldn’t go around it, are |
wrong. Wrong, that is, according
to the strange story of one man in )
regards to the odd behavior of one
hen. Ted Westbrook says that last 1
week he saw one of his chicken hens
sitting serenely and squarely upon
the water of a pasture pool. He de-
clares that she did not seem to be
swimming, but rather appeared to
be floating, in which manner she
was wafted across the pool by the
wind. He says the hen is of mixed
stock, has a streaked neck and is a
good layer and setter.
Down at the fishing hole on my
knees.
Spitting in the water and finning
the breeze.
Texas has 141 oil refineries
capable of refining 1 386,000 bar-
rels of oil a day, or 58,212,000 gal-
lons daily.
their dad and other Rugby
farmers /who a year or so ago
won first place in the one var-
iety cotton contest and who
have been placed on the per-
manent honor roll by the spon-
sors of that contest ftugby is
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