The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 65, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 21, 1930 Page: 3 of 4
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Give The
Graduate a
Corona
Vte PORTABLE TYPEWRITER
If they have any writing to do—either social
or business—they will be delighted with a
Corona—especially one in blue, green, laven-
der or scarlet Duco.
Compare all the portable typewriters and
you will know that Corona is the one to choose.
If you have a girl or boy in school or col-
lege nothing would be more suitable for
them than a Corona. Everything on
Corona is standard, so once they learn to
use it they will be able to operate any
office typewriter, and it is a great help
in college, too.
Lampasas Leader
PEOPLE ARE SO CARELESS
(Editorial from Holland’s)
“Last year,” writes a Southern
landholder whose property is thick
with timber, “campers twice set our
place afire. Birds, flowers and ani-
mals were decimated unbelievably.
What .a tribute to the American
camper. If it were an isolated in-
stance, it would be bad enough, and
to spare. But it is not. Last year saw
hundreds of forest fires in the south,
started by campers, destroying thous-
ands of acres of valuable timber, char-
ring tens of thousands of mating and
) brooding birds, wiping out hordes of
small furred inhabitants of the woods,
marring for decades great stretches
of timber unsurpassed anywhere for
sheer loveliness.
Why? Because people are careless.
Simply that.
Because the average vacationist,
through some mysterious inner change
from the considerate citizen he is at
home, utterly disregards the property
rights of those who live in the country
through which he passes. Because he
t^kes not only an economic and physi-
cal but also a mental vacation.
He simple-mindedly throws his cig-
arettes and cigars into the dry grass
of roadside ditches and starts the
worst kind of fires. He lights his camp
fires on the tops of hills, and then
leaves them burning there, where
winds can, and too often do, spread
the flames in every direction. Being
on his “vacation,” and therefore un-
able to exert any effort other than
for brief walking and eating, he re-
fuses to bare the ground on which he
builds his fires; and so ignites thick
carpets of leaves and pine needles,
leaving them to smolder, to flame, and
to start more forest fires.
It was estimated in 1928 that more I
than thirty million acres of Southern
timber land had been laid waste by
fires up to that time. The natural
cause of such fires are; few, and their
toll comparatively inconsiderate. The
chief-almost the sole-offender is the
camper.
The approaching season will no
doubt bring its annual trek of South-
ern and other tourists to these moun-
tains and forests, for there could be
no pleasanter places in which to while
away the hot days. It is most earnest-
ly to be hoped that these visitors will
bring with them enough common sense
not to destroy that which they find
and enjoy here.
WANTED—Clean, white, cotton
rags wanted at this office. Will pay
5 cents per pound. Do not want any
knit goods.
Best to Register Bond*
Registration protects the owner of-a
United States bond from loss or theft,
and holders generally, are urged,
wherever practicable, to take advan-
tage of the privilege of registration.
In case of the loss or theft of a reg-
istered bond, unless assigned in blank
or for exchange for coupon bonds
without instructions restricting deliv-
ery, the Treasury department mil give
relief to the owner in accordance with
the provisions of paragraphs S3 to So
of Department Circular No. 300. Hold-
ers of registered bonds receive inter-
est checks drawn on the treasurer of
the United States in payment of in-
terest as it falls due, and their names
are all recorded on the books of the
Treasury department.
Birthplace of Banana
The original home of the banana Is
believed to have been in India, where
it has been cultivated from remotest
antiquity. Even before the time of
written history, the edible banana had
been spread over the Old world by
cultivation and other agencies, from
southern Asia, westward to Africa
and eastward to the islands of the
Pacific. Bas-reliefs on the monuments
of ancient Assyria and Egypt indicate
its early culture. The first known
importation of the banana into the
United States was in the late sixties.
As late as 1879, the banana was
looked- upon as somewhat of a curi-
osity in the United States.—Detroit
News.
Concerning Earth’* Orbit
The naval observatory says it has
been proved, first by Sir Isaac New-
ton, that a spherical body attracted
gravitationally only by another spher-
ical body will move in a circle, ellipse,
parabola or hyperbola, but this proof
Is a matter of higher mathematics.
The orbits of the planets are not per-
fect elilipses, because the elliptical
motion of each of them that would
result from the attraction of the sun
alone is disturbed by the attraction
of the other planets.
Viking History
All the vikings to about the year
1000, with few exceptions, were pa-
gans. The wicings (more southerly
people) were also pagans but they
were Christianized at a much earlier
date in Great Britain, where the Jutes
(Jutland, Denmark) fii*st landed in
449. while the vikings in greater num-
bers began invasion of the British
isies in the Eighth century.
Some Are Uaeles*
A philosopher wonders why nature
gave the thickest skulls to those who
have the least to protect. Probably na-
ture thinks that If a good brain can-
not protect itself it is not worth bone
armor.—Boston Transcript.
J0IKM
HELD JR
Ihjraver
OLD GOLD
ing him from interfering with the sale
and shipment of citrus fruit trees
from Florida into Texas.
KOHLER VINDICATED
(Wacoi News-Tribune)
Governor Walter Kohler of Wiscon-
sin has been vindicated by a jury of
his peers. He was indicted and sent
to trial for violation of the election
laws of Wisconsin. He was accused of
having spent large sums of money in
order to bring about his election. A
friendly judge ruled at the beginning
of the trial that a candidate was not
responsible for the money his friends
spent in a political campaign, and the
sum or sums should not be charged
up against him as election expenses.
This gave Kohler a clean bill of
health from the start.
If the friends of the candidates for
office are at liberty to open barrels of
coin to put their candidate over, law
or no law, then why limit the amount
an office seeker is legally permitted
to spend in his race for the prize ?
However, Governor Kohler was vindi-
cated.
Twelve good and true citizens of
Wisconsin declared he had not violated
the election laws of the Badger state.
Now the La Follettes will carry the
case to a jury composed of all the
people of Wisconsin in the coming pri-
mary and general election.
Mrs. M. T. Taylor is at home from
Port Ai’thur where she has been visit-
ing in the home of her daughter, Mrs.
E. W. Vaughn.
SIX MISSING FROM
OHIO PENITENTIARY
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 20.—At
least six convicts escaped or are un-
accounted for, Ohio penitentiary of-
ficials said today following the first
complete check of the prison popula-
tion since the fire of April 21 when
320 convicts perished.
Names of the missing persons will
be available as soon as another com-
plete check is made at the end of this
week, officials said.
STATE OFFICIAL FACES
CONTEMPT OF COURT ORDER
SAN BENITO, May 20.—George B.
Terrell, state commissioner of agricul-
ture, is to appear before the federal
district court here May 31 to show
cause why he should not be held in
contempt of court, Judge R. T. Ervin,
federal judge, said Tuesday.
Judge Ervin, presiding for Judge
Duval West, signed an order citing
Terrell Monday and forwarded it to
Austin. As a result of mass meeting
held in the Rio Grande valley last
week, Terrell is charged with having
violated restraining orders prohibit-
ton RE mt A MULE,”
'jelled UMPIRE FINNIC AN
**'You’re as blind as a bat,” roared Muggsy Mulligan.'
“That may be,” smiled the umpire, “but you heard me, for I
smoke OLD GOLDS and speak with authority. Now you can
run out and buy a pack. They’ll soothe your nerves. Not a
bark in a bleacherfuL”
BETTER TOBACCOS ...THATfc WHY THEY WIN
NOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD
GASOLINE
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At the Sign of
the Orange Disc
ANTI-KNOCK
400° F. End Point
At No Extra Cost
THAT GOOD
Gulf
Company
Refining
THOUSANDS of new customers have tested
the quality of this new gasoline—they all
confirm every claim we make—MORE POWER,
Greater Mileage — Quicker Pick-Up—1
No. 216—May 21, 1930
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