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COMMENT Bn 1. H. LOWRY
RetroHpeetive and Prospective.
RE beginneth year XXX, Decade
III, Century XX. As the day
dawns clear and cool, and the sun
sends his straight and level beams
gild the new year moon. Miss Twen-
tieth Century stepped out upon the
stage of Time, and after adjusting with
jeweled fingers her permanent wave,
addressed the following remarks to the
people of the globe:
know already that this foul-amelling,
quick-tempered liquid can perform more
valuable stunts on the earth, under the
earth, in the air and on the seas than
horse or steam. So far 1 have only
hinted at the powers of radium and liq-
uid air. but already you tremble with
terror before these undeveloped sources
like cowering demigods before a thun-
dering Jove.
‘You w*erc walking and flashing mes-
"I am twenty-nine years old this
morning. Most too old, you say to at-
tract the attention of men or invite the
envy of women, but I’m decked out in
fashion’s latest creations of abbreviated
sartorial glories, and am fresh from the
beauty parlor, and no man will dare say
that I’m not a peach, neither wifi any
woman comment on my age: so hear me
for a minute while I tell you of some
of the things already done and some of
the things to be. Even if the nectar on
liny lips isn’t sought as it once was, and
my hosiery is no longer the cynosure of ; dreamed
all masculine eyes. I’ve shown you a I places tc
aries and factories a full harvest.
Ravenous insects have come to prey
upon the great staple crops, and while
the corn is waving its golden banners
and the cotton is pointing its beautiful
bugles at the sun, they steal away the
fruitage. Surely man, created in the
image of his Maker, is not going to
'stand helpless before an insignificant
bug or worm. There is plenty of toil of
the hand on the farm. twit the farm’-
problems must be solved by the toll of
ed to pull her skirt over her knees, but tually every man who smiles in JamiarvT
in this she was defeated because the is two-faced, for he has either just twill
skirt was too short. Then she smiled his taxesror faces the cruel fact that he
*1 rm,*t P*y them s«H»n,.and the won! taxes
‘It s time for you to go to work not only product's no smiles, but chases
He brave, br good and be patient.
sages with the aid of wires and poles
and insulators when I came, but I have | the brain
shown you that wires and poles are a “Mighty indeed were the warships
useless expense, and that there are you were building A hen I came and
waves ready to carry the click of in- shameful the millions you were wasting
*truments„ the words you speak and the j in this way. Better sense prevailed for
songs you sing from city to city and j a time and a halt, was called on the
from shore to shore. shameful waste of the nation's money,
“As yet your medical science is crude but you are still wasting far too much
and slow, though it has learned many of the monev earned by the people’s toil
things. The human heart, ap organ you on .these instruments of death. I have
dared not touch when I came, believing but one more year to live, but 1 am still
the slightest lesion thereon a passport j cherishing the fond hope that ere I de-
to the tomb, is not so delate as yon part to take my place beside the Can.
mm.
And remember, I only furnish the op-
portunity; the work is yours. The earth
must complete many more diurnal jour-
neys around the sun, there mu*t bj
countless heartaches and disappoint-
ments, millions of wearied fingers and
aching brows ere the world Iwsks in all
the glories hen* foretold; 'and sadder
still, possibly all of you will sleep with
the fathers when I, in the gloaming of
a glorious.eve, behold in full the reali-
ties of this altruistic dream. But keep
it in mind that hundreds and thousands
of years from now the grateful lands
will l)ow with reverent love Above the
clay of the lofty souls who dream good
dreams and make their dn*ams come
tnM.”
away smiles already
time it is mentioned.
produced every
Ip* »y
few things that it may prove interesting
to recount in connection with the greater
works yet to be done.
"When my pink toes were first ex-
posed to the light of day twenty-nine
years ago. all of you hooted at the idea
that human beings would ever navigate
the air like birds and cross the broad [ and short-armed.
Atlantic in thirty-six hours, but right
rmv men and women are soaring higher
in the cerulean vault than the eagle or
the lark, and even the stormy deep holds
no terrors for the flyers. I have laid
great tubes under.your large cities and
yolk deep rivers, and am now rushing
trains loaded with humnri freight
through them at a speed of seventy
miles an hour. I have torn away lofty
You are stitching its tore
places together now, and repairing it.
mounUin peaks and made rivers change
courses so. that the waters of the
Ltlantic and the waters of the Pacific
even as the chauffeur closes punctures
in his tires. Andi you are making ears
and noses and limbs for those from
whom these have been taken away, and
have bottled up m&ny life-destroying
germs and clipped their claws, hut I re-
peat, your medical science is still crude
What about the com-
mon cold, that cometh when and where
it listeth. and you hear the sounds
thereof and feel the aches thereof, but
no man can tell how it cometh or bow it
carries on, or what will drive it away?
What about infantile paralysis, the un-
seeable germ that
turies gone before I may greet the dsv
when nation will war with nation no
more, and all will be bound by a solemn
January. .
Being the first month of the year,
January is entitled to mention here.
and workable pact to arbitrate their | Probably the best feature of January
little disputes and let the pretty birdii is that it starts the year with a day of
build their nests In the mouths or tho
cannons that once belched forth hell and
destruction upon human beings.
“And let me add that when I cam-*
your women were wearing the badge of
slavery. They were not admitted to the
professions, they were scourged from
commercial circles, they were denied the
ballot, they were not entrusted with the
affairs of state, and they were arrayed
in horrid robes that trailed the dust,
giving no free use of their bodies and
germ that deadens the limbs
mwt closes the door of FIOPP In thou, gathering the germs of disease. What
sands of flaxen-haired tots even while itiinTti'^w hair been wrought Your worn-
the light of heaven is in their eyes and en are thundering great truths rmm the
immortal souls
was
rest--for the postoffice employes snd
the bank clerks. These people start the
year"right bv making the first day of
the year a holiday, and as a consequence
they git more holidays than any other
class of workers. Probably if other
workers would make the same good be-
ginning. red figures on the calendar
would mean something to them and
bring them many holidays during the
year. ‘
ttrr rose-tint of iyeaU-h is on their pulpif and bowing many immortal
cheeks? And what aboutThe great white . before the mangled form that
plague, the awful cancer and the loath- thrown from Catrory’s rugged rn
Januaryi. I am told. ■ takes its name
from the l^tin Jaiilisrin, which Tim it
seir derived from Janus. Janus, as you
already know, was a g«sl. but differed
from pther—god^-in-lhal he.had trtb
Peace. ^ "
There are many things «r all want to
sec done, and ,thaf should be tjone dur-
ing the year that has just dawned, but
as I see it the greatest question eon-
fronting the nations of thV world at
New Year was Peace. Will the nations
be brave enough and good enough to
outlaw war and make it imp«tM.*ilile for
the grim-viaaged monster to ev.gr again
go stalking through the*w*iHd. scatter
ing a baptism of b'ood anil death on
every aidtn Our own dear nation, even
though its chair at the I,ramie of Na-
tions table is vacant, is moving in the
matter and has wrought well, but there
is opposition even here to the peace
treaty we presented to the other na-
tions. ami which has already received
the signature of many. If all nations
sign a solemn compact, during 1928, to
w%r no more, then 192* will go down to
history as the greatest year of the
Christian era. World peace was to le-
the compensation to a world ruined bv
the great war of a down vents ago. We
cheemf ourselves with the comforting
thought ths' the greatest struggle was
so deadly and sa heart-rending that it
would teach men and nations to uur no
more. This hope, this* promise, sus-
tami'll us as we read the stories of suf-
fering and the frightful loss of human
; life in Europe. Fathers and mothers
- lilinl as they pressed the
j. sleepless pjllovvs anil praven
,j Isiyn "over there," by the lyelief that it
was.to be the last war. and at it* close
. »y. ■
few hours the journeys that used to
require weeks.
“You behold these things and say you
are going fast enough, so fast that some
are filled with terror, but 1 tell you
chained Prometheus and sees its vitals
eaten away? I tell you I shall live to
see this hydra-headed agent of the grave
trodden under the feet of men. .
— ---- -— ------------— "In the great science of agriculture
that you are yet traveling at a snail's you ’have gone some.’ but as yet you are
‘ •*»'** •* ' P.t - 4L'.Z& . *
they are framing laWs that are ’.TISLin4hto4 hAvgthe support nf'history
some in legislatures and senates—and and .mythology! But per Imp- it is well
wherever they have appeared their work that I should call attention htre' to the
1“ *w-----‘ *u.......... Truly fact that quite ir few people ah ; In a
|i occasion for .
ly of the boy!
ff the* county.
hav^
and instruc-r
local Chamber
and firms
knd girls and
kirtesies. On
lines held the*
for her 4-H
were shown
in the dty.
girls of out-
|firate of pro-
ugh the day
|f the 526 4-H
to re-
ils. “Achieve-
|n Dec. 10, and
promotions
ie Tyler Jour-
nal Farm Ex-
lof the events
fmes issued a
Sunday ie-
Ithese women.
Ibout 100 Ulus-L
knd 4-H Girls’*
IFshn Extan-
467 of these
luests at a
otel, whera-
s and leading
m paid them
theater party
f the city. A
which appear-
s large dailies,
t etion of some
has estab-
arket in Tyler
to which the
members can ,
cakes, butter,
idry products
d find for the
the people of
of itself would
dory. Two of
lave built snd
"lub Houses.’’
i provided for
ol houses. Five
way building
(unity club
ed.
Aunty’s Home
isa Huffhines
ppy faculty of
kkiitf good
rganixations,
men of affairs -
Kiwanie Club
factor -
• srec-
houAes, and jr
gement to the '
has been such
refers to them
pacf when compared to the speed that l
and my successors w ill introduce. Break-
fast in New York snd supper in London
is soon to be a reality, and will satisfy
for a time, but it’s possible that I may
speed things up until people of one hem-
isphere may leave home in the morning,
transact business in the other hemis-
phere and be back home at bedtime. If
I do not my immediate successor will.
* “I have pulled the curtains aside far
enough for you to sec something of the
powers wrapped up in gasoline. You
.only playing with the soil. A bale of
cotton or sixty bushels of corn per acre
was something to brag about when I
came. To double-these yields has been
easy, and many of you will see another
doubling or two. But don’t forget that
the farm presents more problems and
greater problems than ever before. It
is weary and worn with age. yet every
year more and more people cry to it for
bread. Many of its properties are ex-
hausted and must be restored before it
can again give to the world's grain-
very two-faced way during the month
that was.named for two-faced Janus. I
have known of men going to the post-
office and mailing very pretty cards to
acquaintances wishing them "A Happy
New Year," and posting at the same
time, to the very same people, state-
ments of their past -due^wccftgnhr.. ^If
that isn’t Two-faced ness, you name it.
Of course no one ran have s happy new
year if his morning mail brings a cruel
notice of his indebtedness, and I can not
have very much confidence in the man
Who wishes me a happv new- year and
duns me at the same time. And vir-
Wm (‘■tvary’s rugged tree tpr ’Taces. Understand, I do not *av~ all I rinrTmpietneHi^ufLdPsI met ion wnt.id I*.
umvir^t* of ( the healing of the~nstions. They are : peop'e >vh9„ were-horn'in January arc «—»------- * ——
---—- •• • mmmmmmmrn
flirted the soldier bovs as they offered
their liodie- a living sacrifice to the
war god. It was glorious to suffer, even
to die, for such a happy consummation.
Surely.such an awful thing as the World
War was enough to t.-ach the nations
sanity', and I am optimistic enough to
believe it did, even though the notes of
militarism have nol fully died a wav, and
there are a few to whom the notes ar<-
yet musical. If the nations covenant
WttH Wtetr nther*!n settle all their dis-
putes4 without resort to arm*, and send
"forth the glad news during 1929. poet*
will sing the sweetest song yet given to
the world since the eventful eve when
the angelic choir chanted the glad re-
frain, "Peace on Earth; Good Will
Among Men,"
is the marvel of the century,
have I taught you that there is no
avenue of usefulness so high or so low,
so broad or so narrow, that tinman may
not enter to gladden and to bless the
w’orld. You scoffed when you first saw
her ankles, and threw a whirling Dervish
fit when her knees were exposed to the
light, but even as woman has shown that
she has ankles and knees, so also she
convinced you that tjhc has talents for
usefulness beyond the kitchen, the par-
lor. the nursery and the back yard,”
Miss Twentieth Century paused, clev-
erly powdered her nose, smoothed s
wrinkle from her stocking and attempt-
'
■
’v’
itanding
Is for th€
!sy,;
By WILLIAM C. STEWART.
ITH cowhands bawling the "Texas
♦till I ll» l I , horH nf ?nnnmivo,t
cattle kicking up a stifling dust,
— Colonel Charles Goodnight and
TJliver Loving marched on past Fort
Phantom Hill, through Buffalo Gap.
and up the Middle Concho River. It was
June, 1866.
J Straight in the path of the setting sun
lay grim sfrethbek-ot sand and cactus—
96 miles of s/kali plains—to the Pecos
River. But am empire was at stake and
there could be no halting.
Into the desert spurred Colonel Good-
night and his partner, leading a caval-
cade of fearless pathfinders. To the
north was the ever-present menace of
the Comanche Indians, cunning in am-
bush and deadly in attack.
• Ragged, footsore, but indomitable, the
pathfinders finally made their way into
the adobe walls of Fort Sumpter, two
months after leaving Texas. A new
trail, through 600 miles of uninhabited
wilderness and desertg, had been
biased. »_
Ranges Were Crowded With Cattle.
H The Civil War was over and the Texas
ranges were crowded with cattle. Cat-
tlemen from South Texas sought a
northern market and found it in Kan-
sas. Colonel Goodnight looked to the
west Straight across to New Mexico
and up to Colorado he could not go. The
Comanches barred the way and only an
army would vanquish them. The only
route remaining was to the west. Risks
and dangers of this route were appar-
ently insurmountable, but Goodnight
plunged into the desert, came out win-
ner and sold his cattle for eight cents a
pound, “on foot.” It was an almost un-
heard of price in thoee days.
Colonel Goodnight, whose home is at
Clarendon. Texas, is one of the most
ragged pioneers now living. Fron-
tiersman and trail blazer, active at the
‘ age of 92, he recalls the days of
and Jim Bridger with
experience of hardship and
adventure to «udo}v material
’ / -
But when he attended the recent an- own right. During the Civil War h«
was a scout with the Texas Rangers.
Ijte Otii Miiw Cattle Trails.
In tfrr | i ill I I * "i 1 f II —1 rl br ||irl nut
nual convention of Old Trail Drivers in
San Antonio he brought withluoj__a-
r
It is his young wife, whom he
married on his 91st birthday.
.Romance RIoMaoms at 91.
This tielatcd romance came
as the result of a Butte, Mon-
tana, girl’s interest in the dis-
tinguished plainsman after
she bad read of his life on the
frontier.
Goodnight celebrated his
91st anniversary March 5,
1927, by taking as his bride
Miss Corinne Goodnight, pret-
ty 27-year-old telegraph oper-
ator. who had been his eon-
stant companion for f i v e
months preceding the mar-
riage.
Three years ago. following
the death of Colonel Good-
night’s first wife, the veteran
trail blazer settled down to
the lonely life of a bachelor
in the little village of Good-
night, in the Texas Panhandle.
Out in Montaha, as she sat
at her desk. Miss Goodnight
read the tale of Colonel Good-
night’s life at intervals when
her telegraph instrument was
silent. There was no blood
relationship between them,
but intrigued by the name,
similar to her own, she wrote
to the aged Colonel. They
corresponded for several
years. Then Colonel Good-
night wrote, asking her to
visit him. She came. They
married and moved to Claren-
don, where they spend their
summers. In the winter they
live in Arizona. *
His marriage surprised his
friends, but Coiooei Goodnight has been ' mpny cattle trails. He pushed ahead and
established ranches in Texas, Colorado
■*rrfc4 March S, 1t*7. at ChfwSii, Traaa.
surprising people during most of his tur
bulent and varied life.
He hit the frontier at the age of nine1
res a readier in his
and New Mexico, at a time when it was
a foolhardy journey that took one out
of sight Of the home range. He en-
tered into a treaty’wRh the blnothirsty
Comanche Indians and organized the
cattlemen of the Southwest. He is known
as the “Burbank of the Ranges" be-
ing cattle.
The exploits of Jim Bridger,
who discovered great Salt
I^ike; Kit Carson, John Chi-
fum, Joe McCoy, Jim Berk-
wourth and Captain Drnnnan.
are but tales from the bright
page.* -of hist«)ry, but Good-
night was on the spot when ,
those pages were written in i
blood.
The first Goodnights rame
to America in 1708. They
looked over the new country,
as represented by the eastern
seaboard, decided it was -too
quiet and peaceful and
plunged into the wilderness..
The first white child born in
Kentucky was a Goodnight.
The family pushed still far-
th«r westward.
Charles Goodnight was
born in Illinois, then an ex-
treme frontier, in 1836. His
father died when Charles was
five. Four years later, Mrs.
Goodnight having remarried,
the family migrated to Texas,
‘ in Milam County, men-
aced at. all times by Indians
and marauding renegades, and
began farming.
The Tales of ’49.
The hundrum of farm life
didn't appeal particularly to
Chzrlea. He listened to the
tales of California, the land
of gold over the hills to the
west—tales that had been
-*-£■ hm drifting back to Texas since
the roaring days of '49.
Teaming up with a boy of
the same .calibre, named Sheek, he
bought a bull team, a wagon and three
horses, and started in March of adven-
ture at the age of nineteen.
The you the treked over barren
stretches of prairie until they reached
the San Sab.t River, 600 mile* from
home.
__ California wa* still a long way off,
-■T* LJl.S "flHlItlWf good ItliO llj'l'llll'lt
large enough for Just two laiys. They
pondered and decided to stirii to Texas.
Retracing their step* to the llra/bi
River, they mH Claiborne Varney, a
rancher with 430 head of rattle, of
which he wished to rid himself. That
wa* too many cattle for Mr. Varney.
He proposed to the youth* that they
take the CV herd to some other |s»rtion
of the Htatr—all the gra«s wa* free
then—care for the rattle, take each year
a fourth of the calves for thrmsclves,
and at the end of ten years deliver back
to him 430 head.
The boys jumped at the chance. They
drove the herd to Falo Pinto county,
just then being reached by frontiers-
men, and made themselves at home at
Black Springs, near K cor hi Creek.
There was no market for calves, the
youthful ranchers learned, so they had
to earn a living while waiting for the
cattle to multiply and reach maturity.
Turna to Freighting.
Goodnight then l»erame a freighter.
Driving ox teams, he hauleVI supplies to
the frontier from faraway railroad ter-
minals, braving icy northers and fight-
ing «ff4ndian*. Plowing through a freez-
ing. wet norther one night, the young
bullwhaeker boa* |n*t hla toenails. Thoae
portions of his anatomy were frozen as
he pushed over the prairies, heading for
timber, afraid to make ‘camp for fear
the cattle he was conveying would
freeze unless sheltered by trees.
With prosperity for the CV ranch
Just around the corner, the Civil Whr
broke out. That doomed the cattle busi-
ness for a while at least. Goodnight be-
gan to look for a job.
He joined the Texas Rangers and
fought Indian*, cow thi*v^s. Mexicans,
and escaped convicts for four years on
the border.
“We furnished our own horses, food
and ammunition and were suppoaad to
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Ie President
For Year 1929
r tMMKKS Cl'KHTg AT
. KR OP COMMKRCB
MR KT1 NO
of a >i'*r u f unmuel
•ml K»)wrii for .Stai4fO*U
snd prvparwtitm* madr
«>n during tho n«w jrenr
I meet ing of tho m-mhor
.Stamford Chamhoe of
J tho Central fhriatian
»jr rvonlng,
no wa* rloiird- ptoaident
anisati<<n for th* yonr .
U|>*haw wa* rlrctod flral
t and K P. Townsend,
preaklent. Twoloe di
Olectod to nerve during
mar. i
tsly 115 prraon* attend
ng and ben<|Uot, included
r being IS visiting farm
number of officials nf *
Chamber* of ('nmnwrc*
dtora.
g farmers were 0. T.
II. Wersebe, Herbert
ix, Jim MrCullourh, Hon
Carlton William*, ft. p.—*
W. Jared, Karl Wolff,
t C. |1. Hullo way, Dove
>n recently token by the
octors, farmer* n a d
•n ore permitted to I*.
•o 'of the 'Chamber of
o -‘-ir........ mb sinter
liar a year.
g opened with tho h|oo-
r: W C. Moffett, sorter
Baptist Church. ’ Ao os-
y dinner was served by
4 the Christian Church
he meal music woo fur
• Rotary Orchestra, 4b-
k Rowland.
lesion of the meal. W. C.
ring president, rolled Mb*
dor and rolled for no lo-
th# farmer visitors. Mr.
I welcomed oil tho nhd-
reood Ms apprrcistloo to
tip for tho spirit of ea-
I teamwork shown dor
f his administration. Ms
loo* (master until mar
the meeting when Mm
fled uvor to the n O W
. Payne.
1a oo Highways
•n •ailed on Warren R
rman of tho hlghwoj
f o report on N tom food's
« on Righting
•hell. Abtlrnr, repve-
• West Texas l'tillM*o>
■ed on the importoore
ing ton city He men
•d on page sixi
W “WEAR AND
CHI Rf’H MKMRKR*
• morning U. K. Wo)- -
•f tho Charch of Christ,
subject of "Week and
o of the Chart*.*
• nsomlng xt 11 a. m
•ill hr “Giving
preaching that night
hoar The' house Inst
V was prartkdfly fUWd
•gstion heard a good
will soon bare far
foxa*. to conduct a
bur- for tho
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