The Hebbronville News (Hebbronville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 28, 1929 Page: 2 of 4
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THE HEBBKUMV1LLE
NEWS
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Entered at the Post Office at Hebbronville, Tex., on Oct. 15, 1922, as second
class mail matter under act of Congress March 3, 187$.__
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MRS. JEFF McLEMORE, Editor
Go little paper, from this thy solitude!
We cast thee on the waters go thy ways!
And if as we believe, thy vein be good
The world will find thee after many days
HEBBRONVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929
SHALL WE PAY TOO DEARLY?
In such swift succession do giant mergers follow one another
.that Editors find much difficulty in keeping up with them. It has
become almost a daily habit for the metropolitan papers to an-
nounce the merger of great concerns and interests.
Where will it end ? Are the people of the United States ready
and willing to accept the business principle that all business ought
to be merged or consolidated into great combines?
There is much to be said in favor of the combine and much
against it. If combines are permitted to continue all business
will change and change rapidly. Each year it is becoming harder
and harder for the individual or small corporation to stand out
alone. Each year pressure on such institution is becoming greater
and greater. Unless combines and mergers are checked individual-
ism as we now know it will be a thing of the past. Do we want to
check the combines?
Frankly I don’t know.
From the standpoint of economy of operation and the capaci-
ty of doing big things the merger is far ahead of the small indi-
vidual unit. Considering only the dollar and cent there is no doubt
but what the merger or great combination of business interests
has far greater advantages than does the individual and small
business man.
Looking at it from the standpoint of what is best for the peo-
ple as a whole is a different question.
If you are ready to answer this question in either way you
can do more than I. Yet it is a question that must be answered and
answered right away.
Shall we curb mergers, chain stores and group combinations
or shall we accept them ? Shall we as a nation relinquish our in-
dividualism and the right to conduct our own business in our own
way for the benefits that larger organizations will bring us, or
will we pay too dearly for those benefits ?
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Judge Perry Klatt, says Solomon may have been a wise old
guy but he would like for him to decide a case that came up be-
fore the Orange Grove justice the other day. The case was this:
A woman gave birth to triplets and then in ninety days she had
twins. How did she do it?
-t'oNE FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Good Thoughts
For Meditation
SELECTED
There is another danger the pedestrian may be called on short
Jy to encounter. When the new $200 auto gets on the market there
will be probably double the number of autos he will have to dodge.
••• •••
"There are lots of people who do not know where their next
check is coming from," declares L. A. Walker, Alice- "Also there
are a few who do not know what day their check will get back,”
avers. H. J Bryden, Realitos. ,,,,,, ,en
• * * **• * * *
Many good people are spending much time and worriment
over the problem of the young. The proper use of a good peach
tree sprout or its equivalent would do much towards solving this
problem-
* * * * * * * * *
A half billion dollar merger of the backing powder and yeast
people has been announced. Wonder if they will have any trouble
in raising the dough ?
* * * * * * * * *
Times have changed. Yes; girls once used dumb bells to get
color on their faces. Now they but color on their faces to get dumb
bells.
And Tis Said
Giicajro Is In
United States
LONGEST LONG DISTANCE
CALL ON RECORD WAS
OVER 8,000 .MILES
Chicago.—English as she is spoken
becomes daily more intricate.
A policeman today was explaining
one of the stunts on the program fr
the police field meet at Soldier Field
next Saturday, and this is what he
t>aid:
“A cannon fades a mark and takes
it on the lam with the boodle. He is
trailed by the bulls, dunce-capped,
given the weeps by a Niagara pine
apple and hooked for the rap.”
Translated for the benefit of the
kiddies:
“A gunman holds up a citizen and
runs away with the man’s money. He
is trailed by the police, cornered, driv-
en from his refuge by tear bombs and
Raptured for punishment.
ELECTRIC OPERATION
The longest long distance call on
lecord, by a circuitous route, 8,000
miles and was between San Diego,
California and Stockholm, Sweeden.
The sound of the voice of the speak
er in San Diego was carried thru a
carrier current channel from Los An-
geles to St. Louis at a speed of 110, ;
000 miles per second. From St. Louis I
to New V’ork it passed thru a cable
which slowed it down to 20,000 miles
per second. On reaching New York it
leaped across the Atlantic Ocean on a j
radio wave at a speed of 186,000 miles;
per second to Cupar, Scotland. From
this point it traveled thru cable via
London to the North Sea. thence thru j
submarine cable to Holland; passing
thru Germany via Hamburg, it pass- i
eel under the Baltic Sea via submarine
cable, a distance of 73 miles to Ewee-
den, from which point the message
was carried to its destination at Stock
holm in land cable.
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ILLUMINATED MOVIE PROGRAM
New Outlook, Toronto, Canada:—
The other day one of our Toronto
judges, who has been on the bench
for thirty eight years, was being con-
gratulated, . . . and in response to
the congratulations he referred to the
fact that probably he had had over
two hundred thousand people to deal
with during his long term on
bench, and his conviction was that
‘'most people want to be honest and
most people want to tell the truth."
This is raher noteworthy coming from
a judge who had had such extensive
experience, and it is rather a rebuke
tc those of us who are ready to say,
not in haste but with deliberation,
that “all men are liars." We are too
ready to assume that because we have
met some very poor specimens of hu-
manity that all men are just equal to
the poorest samples we have met.
This is not fair, and it is not true.
Men are both good and bad, and the
best are not devoid of some- weakness
and the worst are not without redeem
ing traits.
The strangest feature in connection
with this is that the very men who
are the most certain that all other
men are rogues are often the very
cnes about whose own character there
ic some just suspicion. The good man
is apt to judge all men by his own
standards and to conclude that they
are all as honest as he; and, inciden-
tally, this is the very way to keep
them honest. But the man who knows
that he would be a rogue K it were
sufficiently profitable, will, conclude
(very naturally) that other men are
just like himself. And so ihstead of
calling men everything that is bad,
and suspecting the very worst of all,
we had better decide that they are
very much like ourselves, ^nd some-
what a mixture—with the good pre-
dominating. Most men really desire
to be honest and true, and there is
none to whom there cannot be some
method of approach, if we take time
to discover it. .
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Dr. James F. West, in San Fran-
cisco Chronicle: “ Keep to the Right”
may seem to some a stern rule for
the road of life. On the other hand,
those who follow it will find in the
course of a lifetime that it turns out
to be the way of larger peace, safety,
happiness and even profit. . . . No mat
ter how hard the right side of life may
be, in the long run the wrong side is
always at least, a little harder . . . .
This rule may seem to interfere
with our personal liberty, but as a
matter of fact the only way we can
have any liberty is by everyone sac-
rificing something of his own liberty
for the common good. In the long run
cne is not hindered but speeded in
the progress of his life by obedience
to this law. Think of the confusion,
loss, suffering that would result on
Market street any day that all traf-
fic laws and regulations were suspen
ded! The Ten Commandments are
God’s great moral traffic laws, and
the one great rule of the road is “All
things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to
them.” If everyone truly tried to keep
this rule there would still be evil with
its sad consequences, but it would be
tremendously reduced, and progress
the would be made in the direction of
permanent safety, happiness, and sue
cess for the individual, the state and
the nation. It is the glory of Christi-
anity that, when truly accepted, it
creates a disposition in the heart to do
right, out of which grows increasingly
a right life.
Abraham Lincoln was sued for kill-
I ing a dog by jabbing a pitchfork into
| him. He told the judge the dog had
[ attacked him.
“Why didn’t you use the other end
of the fork?” asked His honor.
“Why didn’t the dog come at me
with the other end?” retorted Lincoln
—-o-
A clergyman was warning his con-
gregation of the evils of strong drink.
He wound up with: “I hope the day
will come when every bottle of boot-
leg liquor will be taken away into the
nearest river ....
We will now sing Hymn No 204,1
“Shall We Gather at the River?” the|
congregation sang it with gusto.
There is no moral difference be-
tween the person who contracts debts
he does not intend to pay and the thief
who steals money he aoes not intend
to return.
Rev. W. C. Isett, in Log Angeles
Times: What are some of the spirit-
ual things which the man who has
not the spirit cannot understand or
reason out? I think one that concerns
ut- most is the way to overcome crime.
All our great educational system has
done is to reveal what crime is and
how it operates, and ail our law courts
do is to regulate it and restrict it.
But neither one eradicates it. Spiritu-
al knowledge has devised the only
way which has proved effective: a
change of heart. The churches stand
for that method of dealing with
crime.
E. J. FOSTER
CONSULTING AND CIVIL
ENGINEER
LAREDO,
TEXAS
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catching
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LAWYER
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A. M. BRUMFIELD
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Practice in District and ApJ*
pellet Courts
Office in Court House
Hebbronville, Texas
ICE
Protects the food of the Nation
LET LOW COST ICE SAVE YOUR HIGH
COST FOOD
It is economy to keep your Refrigerator well filled with Ice
American Service
Company
(Home Ice Company)
taredo, Mirando City, Hebbronville,
Realitos and Benavides
Finnigan Mexican
Co.
} HIDES, SKINS, FURS ETC
P. O- BOX 185, PHONE 73
Laredo, Texas
| Hicks, Hicks, Dick- £
son & Bobbitt £
Attorneys at Law
S OFFICES
£ Hicks, Bldg., San Antonio,
Laredo, Texas S
NOW ON 19 RAILROADS
It took the English to solve the last;
Up to date there have been instal- problem in movie going. Programs i
lations of electrical operation on 19 have heretofore been unreadable in
railroads in the United States, accord- the darkness of movie houses, but Lon ;
ing to the 1928 report of the Commit don reports that the problem has been1
tee on Railroad Electrification of the solved by a new paper and ink now
National Electric Light Association, under practical trial. The letters are ;
The total mileage operated by elec- white and printed on a black back- i
tricity it about 1800 miles of line and 'ground so the pragram looks much the 1
4,000 miles of track. Of all the roads same ns a photographic negative,
concerned, this is about 2.5 per cent The white ink, howevet, contains
of miles of line and 3 per cent of the a trace of radio active element which !
miles of track. For the whole United makes the letters luminous on thej
States it is about 0.7 per cent of the black background even in the darkeat
miles of line. For comparison with the! room. Another rhemical'ls U*ed in the
United Stetes, there are in the world1 ink which shines in the iflfcrk'krMbh'nq*
about 100 railroads with electrified i led on by rays emitted fby%4heHrMto
sections in operation or under con-' active element.
■♦ruction, distributed thru 35 coun-J No doubt tho same principle Will
trio* in all continents. soon appear in American theatres. *
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