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Unlvmtty ol T«*»
AN EPCO PUBLICATION
The Hebbronville News
, VOLUME IX— ESTABLISHED 1922.
HEBBRONVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1931
Number 49
BIMETALLISM
AGAIN STRIDES
ACROSS STAGE
Annual Bazaar
Nets Over One R'“BrK^T™t,
g^KlP VAN WINKLE OF KONOM-
IC ISSUES AWAKENS A ITER
NAP OF 30 YEARS.
By Carlyle W. Morgan
A Rip Van Winkle among eco-
Inomic questions, bimetallism has
[wandered into the center of public
[attention after a nap of more than'art work and «ifts wcre ^ re_
Hundred Dollars
The annual Baptist and Method-
ist bazaar was held Saturday, De-
cember 5, in the Yeager-Stroman
building.
A most delicious plate lunch was
served during the noon hour and
the various booths in which candy,
STONES RUMBLE WHILE
SAWS WHINE AND OLD
J\m CRIST MILLS RUN
thirty years.
Its slumbers were interrupted by
■ the thunder of twentieth century
■ bowls — business curtailment, un-
■ employment, doles, national fir.an-
| cial crises. It has heard the ten-
Kjflbns of currencies tumbling from
MKthe gold standard one by one. Mex-
ico, Great Britain, Norway, Swed-
en, Finland — all these countries
have been obliged to suspend, at
least temporarily, gold payments.
So the time is ripe, bimetallists be-
lieve, for another rally around sil-
ver. They are calling for a world
conference to study the possibility
of setting up a dual currency stan-
dard.
Bimetallists hold that gold pro-
duction has fallen behind the de-
mand for it. The supply is not in-
creasing rapidly enough to take
care of the expansion of the world’s
business. Gold, therefore, is inad-
equate as a base for currency and
credits, they declare. To them, the
solution appears to lie in the set-
ting up of silver along with gold
rar as a standard for money.
Remedying Conditions
The bimetallists believe such a
combination would go a long way
toward remedying current trade
conditions. This belief is founded
on the theory that abundant money
is good for trade. Adoption of the
double standard would add the
world’s huge stores of silver to its
gold as a base for credit. It would
■ insure production of monetary metal
at a rate equal to that of trade ex-
pansion. The revaluation of silver
that would occur with the accept-
ance of world bimetallism would
greatly increase the wealth of sil-
ver-producing and silver-holding
countries. China and India in par-
ticular are regarded as certain to
Jaenefit by remonetization of silver
Vn an international scale.
Bimetallism can become effective
I only through legislation. Following
1 a favorable report by a world con-
ference on the subject, the govern-
ments of all countries represented
* would be expected to pass laws
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mained open until nine o’clock Sat-
urday evening.
A total of $125.05 was reported as
the result of the benefit sales for
the Hebbronville Baptist and Me-
thodist ladies’ auxiliary. The kit-
chen and dining room was in charge
of Mrs. John Draper, Mrs. Retta
Edds, Mrs. John Baylor and Mrs.
Will McMurray, netting $37.55.
Mesdames R. R. Holbien, Jr. and
E. A. Ory, in charge of the candy
booth, turned in $17.80. The Bap-
tist art booth was in charge of Mrs.
J. Frank McGee as chairman, and
led the bazaar in sales with a total
of $43.25. The Methodist art booth
was presided over by Mrs. B. G.
Anderson as chairman and report-
ed a sales total of $26.50.
Benefit Play Nets
$30 Sum for Parent
Teachers Association
The Latin American Parent Tea-!
chers Association of Hebbronville
netted more than $30 during a two
night benefit play at the Mexican j
school hall in Hebbronville.
Games were in progress on Wed-
nesday and Thursday nights which
attracted large crowds because of
the unusually low admission charge.
The proceeds of the two nights’
benefit will bo used by the
Parent Teachers Association, of
which Miss Maria Trevino is treas-
urer.
E-A-T- Station
Gives Information
About Hunting
Hunting information and ammu-
nition can now be secured from Ira
Collins, proprietor of the E-A-T I
station in Hebbronville.
Ammunition of a nationally ad-
vertised brand is being offered for
making silver, as well as gold, legal sale for the convenience of hunt-
tender. lers. Mr. Collins is also directing
Under such laws, silver would be visitors to the favorable hunting
acceptable for coinage at mints just grounds in this vicinity.
as gold is. A legal ratio between
the values of the two metals would
be agreed upon. The most famous
proposed ratio is 16 ounces of sil-
ver to equal one ounce of gold.
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Uclebra
tion For
E-A-T station received a new
coat of paint last week, following
the recent improvements for bad
weather. The building was painted
to match the D. D. David service
station.
Mexican Virgin
in Hebbronville
Vacancies in the
Government
Beginning Thursday, December 3,
“Our Lady of Guadalupe” celebra-
tion and program opened in Heb-
bronville. Father Jose R. Zulaica,
member of the Franciscan order in
Hebbronville, has played an impor-
tant part in the national observance
of the Mexican Virgin’s celebra-
tion.
Saturday, December 12, will be
the day to be most elaborately ob- j
served in Hebbronville as well as!
throughout Mexico. The week of
the Virgin Saint and Sunday, De-
cember 13, when the Rosary will be
sung at the Hebbronville Catholic
^feiurch and a long procession starts
Trom the church to the plaza.
Special rates are offered on rail-
roads to Mexico City, where elab-
orate celebrations will be held.
dis
CHRI/TMA/
The United Civil Service Com-
mission has announced open com-
petitive examinations as follows:
Warder (head of cottage), $1,200
a year, warder (relief class), $1,020
a year, Federal Industrial Institu-
tion for Women, Alderson, W. Va.
An additional $500 a year is allow-
ed for quarters, subsistence, and
laundry. Closing date, December
22, 1931.
Photo-engraver (copper re-etch-
er), Government Printing Office,
Washington, D. C. Closing date,
December 22, 1931.
Senior orthopedic mechanic, $2,600
to $3,000 a year, orthopedic mechan-
ic, $2,000 to $2,600 a year, Veter-
ans' Administration. Closing date,
December 22, 1931.
Principal social economist, $5,600
a year, Children's Bureau, Depart-
ment of Labor. Closing date, De-
cember 22, 1931.
All states except Delaware, Iowa,
Maine, Maryland, Vermont, Vir-
ginia, and the District of Columbia
have received less than their share
of appointments in the apportioned
departmental service at Washing-
ton, D. C.
Full information may be obtain-
ed from the Secretary of the Unit-
ed States Civil Service Board of
Examiners at the post office In any
city which has a post office of the
first or second class, or from the
United States Civil Service Com-
mission, Washington, D. C.
By trading the family auto-
mobile for a cow and mortgag-
ing the cow to buy a steam
pressure canner, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Spragg, tenant farmers in
Elwood community, Van Zandt
county, have reduced their gro-
cery bills from $31 to $36 per
month down to an average of
$8.50 per month. With more
than 300 containers of food on
pantry shelves they find it un-
necessary to go ’to town every
Saturday. The prospect of a
good home and living more
than offsets the loss of the car,
they say.
As reported by Mrs. Mary
Ethel Brandon, home demon-
stration agent, the Spraggs lift-
ed the mortgage on the cow by
working in nearby fields after
their own crop was laid by, and
the pantry for storing the food
was built by a brother with a
$5 purchase of lumber and paint.
In addition to this shift toward
independence Mrs. Spragg, with
the help of her family, improv-
ed the yard about their home
to win a $5 prize in a local
yard improvement contest spon-
sored by a civic club. Asked
how they came to change their
practices, Mrs. Spragg referred
to a neighboring prosperous
tenant family who have con-
ducted living at home and other
demonstrations for the last four
years.
'H/H/H/S/5Z5/S/
Latin American
Citizens Hear
Lecture Friday
Friday nigM Projfesspr J. Luz
Saenz of McAllen lectured to a
large gathering of Latin American
citizens in the auditorium of the
Hebbronville high schoole.
Mr. Saenz is a World War vet-
eran and well known for his public
speaking ability.
Professor Saenz was present at
the special convention of the League
of United Latin American citizens
which met in San Antonio, Novem-
ber 29.
The Hebbronville council of the
League of United Latin American
citizens meets each Tuesday night
and is headed by Rafael M. Garcia,,
the president.
Hon. John N. Garner, who was
elected speaker of the house this
week, recently presented the local
council with a large picture of
George Washington. A personal let-
ter was sent by Representative Gar-
ner for Mr. Garcia, suggesting that:
the picture of the first president of
the United States would be suitable
for framing and placing in the
meeting hall of the Hebbronville
council, reports Alberto W. Sal-
dana, secretary.
Alice B Y. pIl
To Give Special
Program Sunday
Members of the Baptist Young \
Peoples Union of Alice will pre-1
sent a special program on Sunday!
evening, December 13, to which the j
young people of Hebbronville have j
been cordially invited.
Everyone who desires to attend
the meeting in Alice will meet at
the Hebbronville Baptist church at
2:30 o’clock. Cars will be provided
for those who do not have a con-
venient way to go, states Rev. David
E. Moore, Hebbronville pastor.
Following the Alice meeting, a
Hebbronville B. Y. P. U. will be
organized, at which time members
of the Alice union will assist them.
“Custom grinding soli ited.” Thus
reads an advertisement in an Ar-
kansas paper, from a grist mill.
In the same paper appears an ad-
vertisement from the local grocer,
who advertises “fresh home ground
meal, made from new corn.”
It has been forty years since the
old-time corn grist mill was in gen-
eral use, supplying the locul trade
with fresh ground meal. In the
general prosperity that the world
has experienced, foodstuff made at
home was forgotten. The old-time
customs were forgotten.
Scattered through the South now
Certificates Are
Presented Three
Rotary Club Men
Certificates of membership were
presented to Paul W. Minter, Clar-
ence Jeffries and George Weed at
the regular meeting of the Rotary
club held Wednesday of last week.
Don Marsh was chairman of the
program committee and acted as
master of ceremonies for the pres-
entation of the special awards. The
Rotary attendance contest is well
under way, with Dr. Tom Stetson’s
side four points in the lead.
With an appropriate address, P.
W. Minter, Hebbronville’s whistling
attorney, presented a certificate of
membership in the society of Liars
and Prevaricators to Clarence Jeff-
I ries.
V. R. (Buddy) Simons, proprietor
of the Simons Drug Company, pre-
isentcd George Weeds local hardware
j dealer, with a membership certifi-
I cate in the society of One Arm
Drivers.
P. W. Minter was presented a
certificate of membership in the so-
ciety of Spanish Athletes of Amer-
ica, by Alex Busby. The certifi-
cate was lithographed on a good
grade of paper with attractive mon-
ogram and seal of the society, to-
gether with the signature of the
secretary and treasurer. The Span-
ish Athlete membership certificate
read as follows:
This is to certify that “Pablo” W.
Minter, who by his unrivaled prow-
ess in the ancient sport of “throw-
ing the bull” has fitted himself to
rank with the professionals in this
line of endeavor, is now an enrolled [\^OrM Milk R<?COr(l
and uncredited member and proper
assailant of this notorious organi-
zation founded by the famous Bry-
an Munchusen.
As a rejoinder, Jim Hogg county’s
prosecuting attorney replied that
Don Marsh had confidentially in-
formed him that he was the field
secretary for the three organiza-
tions presenting the certificates of
membership.
may be found these little mills run-
ning full time, or in accordance;
with the supply of corn available, j
They are the medium that the1
farmer may use to afford bread
I with no outlay of cash money. Just
ns they were in use in the old days,
the little grist mill has come into
existence in almost every neighbor-
hood.
Old-timers remember the days
when it was customary to go to
mill once a month, taking a sack
of corn along, which was hung
across the back of a mule. After
taking out the toll the miller would
return to the farmer a certain pro-
portion of meal in exchange for this
sack or com.
Another old-time system that has
returned is the old-fashioned sor-
ghum mill, and its system of custom
grinding and making of sorghum.
The little sawmill also is replac-
ing to a large extent, the big ones
that went out with the new era of
economic readjustments or from
other causes, in the piney woods
sections of Louisiana and Arkansas.
More small mills are operating
through this region than in many
years, it is reported. Many are
running day and night, filling or-
ders for carload shipments from the
central states.
Traveling in the wooded sections
of Arkansas, one is likely to run
onto one of these outfits almost
anywhere, even far off the beaten
pathway of highway or railroads.
Wolf Hunt Is
Staged Sunday on
Nearby Ranch
Several young Hebbronville men
enjoyed a wolf hunt Sunday on a
ranch about sixteen miles from
Hebbronville.
The chase was participated in by
Aurelio Gutierrez, Gilberto Tovar,
Amando Basquez, Acampo Barrer-
ra and Jesus Ruiz, who followed;
the coyotes on horseback and in >
automobiles. J
Firearms of every description
were used in killing the “wolf af-
ter several hours chase.
Despite the many years of open
life in the saddle claimed by these
young men, their friends were
aware of the careful manner in
which they walked, following Sun-
day’s chase.
Autobiography
Gives Lipton’s
Business Motto
Sir Thomas Lipton, who
made a fortune in tea. had a
verse for a business motto.
His autobiography, just pub-
lished, reveals that his belief
was: “The man who on his
trade relies must either bust
or advertise.”
Work on New Gulf
Filling: Station Agrain
Gets Under Way
Work is progressing rapidly on
the new Gulf filling station in Heb-
bronville. Several days delay was
caused by inclement weather.
C. F. Luque has constructed a
large cement tank measuring 12 by
30 feet on the A. L. East ranch.
Pedro Lyra is making some ex-
tensive repairs on the J. A. Canales
home in Hebbronville. The work
was started the first of the week.
Work has again been resumed on
the Morris Benson residence in Bos-
Senator Kill"
P
Seeks Ousting
Of Farm Board
UTAH MAN HAS BILL TO ABOL-
ISH IT AND TO LIQUIDATE
HOLDINGS.
Senator William H. King. Demo-
crat, of Utah, started what may de-
velop into one of the most contro-
versial issues in the next Congress
recently, when he announced he
had ready a bill to abolish the Fed-
eral Farm Board and set up a body
of three members to liquidate its
vast wheat and cotton holdings.
Describing the operations of the
Farm Board as “extravagant waste-
fulness,” Senator King said he be-
lieved the idea behind the Farm
Board was uneconomic, and that it
has resulted in an abuse of power.
Cutting the board off without fur-
ther appropriations would not be
sufficient, he said, adding that re-
peal of the Federal Farm Market-
ing Act is necessary.
This attack by Senator King fol-
lowed a similar attack by Repre-
f"k. talUtag "“I"'"1 Jan,el M. B,ck- B U1.
«nd bu.ld™, hardware are be,r«j £
Chicago Board of Trade two days
ago, at which time Mr. Beck charg-
ed the Farm Board with having,
by its speculations, driven prices
furnished on the above contract by
Grant Lumber Company, states
Clarence Jeffries, local manager.
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Rising: Gasoline Taxes bdow uT^t TprXaon.1
, The farm situation
“Living costs may fall and gaso-
line prices are constantly fluctuat-
ing, but gasoline taxes seem to
know no other direction than up,”
says the Middletown, N, Y., Times
Heruld. “This year ten states boost-
ed the gasoline levy another notch
or two. Florida is now collecting
seven cents on every gallon. Five
states have a six cent levy; eleven
collect five cents; sixteen, four
cents; eleven, three cents, and five
let the poor motorist off with a
‘cut’ of two cents on every gallon.
"At the unusually low prices paid
for gasoline this year even a two-
cent levy for tax purposes was ex-
orbitant as taxes go, while a seven-
cent tax might come under the
heading of confiscation of property."
Leon Ray Loses
Finger While At
has been
growing more acute daily with the
return of Senators and Represen-
tatives from the agricultural states.
Now the malcontents have been
given their issue and a standard
around which to gather. Abolition
of the Farm Board, which was the
Republican farm relief remedy in
1928, is to be the objective. It is
expected the major support will
come from among Democrats, but
Senator King’s group is also count-
ing on some support from Progres-
sive Republicans.
The board is not without able de-
fenders. Mr. James G. Stone, its
chairman, met Mr. Beck's attack
with the charge that he was spread-
ing “grain trade propaganda” and
that the grain trade was agitatii^
for the board's overthrow because
the board had checked speculative
operations and thereby reduced the
operators’ profits.
A Sister's Need
MRS. BOYD GUILFORD
ENTERTAINS BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. Boyd Guilford entertained
the contract bridge club of Heb-
bronville at her home Thursday af-
ternoon.
Two tables of players enjoyed the
afternoon of bridge amid most plea-
aant surroundings. Mrs. George
Edds won high acore.
Refreshments of cake and hot tea
were served the club members by
the hostess.
San Mateo, Calif.
A girl who was helping to
earn her way through college
by waiting on tables in a
prominent sorority house re-
cently met with a mishap and
was taken to a hospital with
the prospect of bring away
from her work for three or
four months.
However, she will receive
her monthly check, and when
she is able, her position will
be open. The president of
the sorority is a girl who has
been surrounded all her life
by servants and luxuries;
nevertheless, when she heard
of the misfortune she applied
for the disabled girl’s position
and is now working in her
place, and having the check
made out in the girl’s name.
Many might have done this
act of kindness for a friend—
how much higher is the deed
when it la done for a strang-
er. This young woman's path
is very different from the
working girl's, yet she has
realized a sister's need and
supplied it
Set By Jersey Cow;
139 Lbs. in 2 Days
Lady Spotted Pearl, a Jersey cow,
won the Champion Challenge Tro-
[ phy at the annual British Dairy
Show, Agricultural Hall, Islington,
establishing a world’s record in do-
ing so.
In two days’ milking, Lady Spot-
ted Pearl's yield was 139 pounds,
a record for Jersey cows. She also
established a world’s record for but-
terfat, and in so doing won the Na-
tional Butter Cup, and the National
Milk Challenge Cup.
A feature this year was the entry
of 105 goats, the largest for 10 years.
The excellence of British goats has
become so well known abroad that
the demand exceeds the supply.
Work on Oil Ri.r Telephone Exchange
work on Ull mg Garage Now Being
Constructed Here
Leon Ray of Petroleum, Texas,
wrkt■1*rtedFrid"y t
the Ins, „( the third fintter on hi, * !,ucco “*ra“c ,or ^
left hand, Thursday, while at work
on a rig.
In some manner Ray got his fin-
ger entangled in a block on the |
drilling machinery
of twenty-eight miles from the oil
field to Hebhronville was covered
in approximately one-half hour.
Hebbronville telephone exchange.
The young man was brought to
the Viggo Hotel where medical at- i
tontion was given him.
The building will be constructed of
stucco on metal lathe at a cost of
approximately $250.
... i The garage will be used by L. R.
K ( Gance, chief lineman, and is locat-
ed on the rear of the premises of
the telephone company.
G. W. Ezzcll, contractor, of San
Antonio, was awarded the contract.
Building material will be furnished
by the Grant Lumber Company.
Saving Our Country
From Destruction
TFHN65 GO-
More Laws-
More Crime
There will be no solution to the
crime problem until it is attacked
from the standpoint of fundamen-
tals. So long as political-criminal
associations are possible, so long as
technicalities make It easy for
clever lawyers to gain acquittals
for the most dangerous law-break-
ers, so long as conflicting laws and
dubious legal procedure is permit-
ted to impede justice — crime will
continue rampant.
Those who advocate more re-
strictive laws as u cure seem to
fail to realize that nothing sound
can be built on a shaky founda-
tion. A multitude of authorities
have attempted to point out the
flaws In our legal system, our pris-
on system and the like—but for the
most part they have spoken to deaf
ears. Our much vaunted American
efficiency la apparently Impotent in
the matter of crime correction.
Tax reduction must be accomp-
lished.
No other problem, except employ-
ment, so vitally uffects every citi-
zen. It strikes rich and poor alike,
the small business and the large
one. It is directly related to the
business depression in that it dis-
courages industrial activity and in-
vestment of capital. High taxes are
the great enemy of progress of all
kinds.
Leading foreign nations of the
world are staggering under intol-
erable tax burdens. That fact alone
is a powerful argument to try and
keep this government from being
submerged by a similar burden of
public debt. If we are to remain
the economic leader of the world
we must have a government that
is run efficiently and at the lowest
possible cost. Otherwise, we will
sink to the common level of other
debt-ridden nations.
It is trite, but true, to say that
there is but one way to lower tax-
es — for government to spend less
money. The crestion of new forms
of taxation, of special or clasa taxes,
solves nothing. It should be the
duty of government, local, state and
national, to aid the general econo-
mic recovery by adopting stringent
economies and tax reduction pro-
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