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THE CUERO, RECORD, CTJERO, TEXAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1*37
■ THE CUERO RECORD
Established in 1*94 .
'■rnblisned Bach Afternoon, Except Saturday, and Sunday Morning by
, THE CUERO PUBLISHING CO. Inc.
Entered in the post office at Cuero, Texas, as second class matter
wider Act of Congress. March 3. 1897.
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Official Organ of the City or Cuero and DeWltt County.
TEIEPHONE NO. L,
$350,000,000 IN
FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT FUND
Every state and territory of the United States now has
an Unemployment Compensation law which conforms to the j
Federal Social Security Act. The Federal government has J
weiT over $350,000,000 contributed by various states. Nearly j
21,000,000 persons are covered by the fifty-one Unemploy-
? ment Insurance laws which provide compensation to em-
it pic^ees who lose their jobs through no fault of their own.
| The amount of compensation and the length of time for
* which it is given varies in different states.
~ ; Only one state, Wisconsin, is now paying benefits to
eligible unemployed. The Wisconsin law -was passed in 1931.
— "♦■reserve fund of more than $23,000,000, Wisconsin has been
called to disburse less than $1,000,000 since it began pay-
ment of benefits more than a year ago.
4 Twenty-nine more states, including Texas, will begin to
p&y benefits next year.
* • In the opinion of this newspaper the Stae-Federal j
unemployment tax is the most discriminatory and most un- |
fair tax imposed on American business. We predict within a
period of two to three years its burden will become so intol- j
erable that this section of the Social Security act will be re- |
pealed or the tax materially reduced.
NOT ALL THE CROP SURPLUS PROBLEMS
ARE !N CONGRESS
40 Years A Peace Office
By LF.WIS S. DELONY ^
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EDITORS ?*OTE—This is an-
other chapter from the story
‘■Forty Year; a Peace Officer."
written by Ranis Defony. vet-
eran Texas peace off jeer. Sub-
sequent chapters will appear
in The Record, each Thursday
and Sunday.
* * *
It was while Captain
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money or. any thing else we could soon as the writer got off the tram,
find. There was nothing to show j the deputy .sheriff would aiTbst the
who he w as. He never was caught, j engineer aud conductor, for pinning
and Wc never did" find out who he ; by a crossing without giving the
waR- ' proper signals. Some times train
* * * * [would go by a depot and then back
The State Capitol at
Texas, burned to the ground cn]nc‘ kuo* the read.
November :he 9th. 1881. Most, if
Peiei ton not all the records were destroyed ^
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was sheriff and I was -deputy The writer so far. has been unable
.sheriff under him. in 1879. T think .to find any records of the daring
it was,-that the railroad was build - deeds done 6v Contain McNally and > ¥
ing a line from San Antonio to Captain T,ee Hall. Red Rudd and *
Kenedy. Near Kenedy a lone tr4ui others' with whom I served as a I
!rcbbor- hekl un the train. and special ranger. Most of mv report* !
: robbed the passengers of all of their was made to Captain McNally but m D
money and jewelry. He then rode I often reported direct to the hI-^f P
[off toward Clinton. Texas. The jutant general at Austin Texas ‘ ' '
I railroad officials wired the sheriff Thp writer in Au -9H
j at Cuero to look out for. him. s
Sheriff Peterson had
.Austin, i UP to il- The new train c#w, did
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J/d
Blows's
Way^rab
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* PUBLIC ItECOl
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OIL AND GAS LEASE w
Dirks, royalty contract to
. c,. r. Ruhnrann, 125 acres of land
| in the Setphen Prather Survey,
lost'consideration $10.00. H
two suit cases, (stoleni out of the* -
I outrun fi'iriHii. Iiaa me <o depot at Waco. Texas. We re- i NEW AUTOMOBILES
[guard the pontoon bridge at Clin- covered one grip, but tl** other1 1937 Chervolet- half Ton Pickup
[ ton one morning. At noon, I rode was never found. It contained ail j to Ed B Dietze. bought of the R.
[into Cuero to ge* my dinner, and my public documents and letters j C. Flick Auto Co., Cuero. Texas,
jsee if they had heard anything ; This was a great loss to the writer. 1937 Ford V8 DeLuxe Fordor Se-
; rom the robber. Just as I rode [Among them was my commissions j dan to Nic L. Ladner, bought of
ifrom Mam street into Esplanade ] ns special ranger ’under governors DeWitt Motor Co., Yorktown Tex-
strect I not iced a commotion down Hubbard. Roberts. John Irlond and a:.
i near the bank at a restaurant. The lothers. Also mv commission a* j _— __
! °*d P ° wns »<"<** ffrhm the bank, i Deputy United States Marshal in til * «/«- II V* uaiiA
II also no,iro:I an okl ?'•«>• horse j the San Antonio. Texas district Wfl H T IIP TflJIB
j grazing on the side walk. Just then I The writer was sworn in by Sam WWr,llfc IVW"
}I saw a man nm out of restaur- , C. lackey Jr., at Cuero. Texas in, I I If CD DIIT'
ant and jump on his horse, reach 11839 and during the Aransas Pass LIVCH BILE""""
down and throw his reias over his: railroad strike, the writer guarded WitkwJ Calond—And YmiII Jims Out *( B«Lu
i horse's head, then turn and shoot [the mail train from Yoakum, Tex- | the Maraiag Harin' la Ga *Tp
t,
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: + ------- “—1 wic man uain irom Yoanum. Tex- the nwraiag Rarian Ge V
i a Add Kill core. also a deputy as to Waco. Texas, and from Waco! Th# liver should pour out two potfnd» of
[she-iff. but miss him. I then pulled j to Yoakum every day for thre* 1 'gtf If ***•
:out my winchester, and shot his weeks, and never had a wreck ov ' tt ju»t d«*yi in the bowels. G«* bio*t» u»
[horse from under him. he lit a run- [missed a nm. The train was stop- ,
[Dine and ran to this old gray horse jped quite often by the strikers with an<* the world look* punk,
j on the side walk. He jumped on deputy ■ sheriffs, but when they 1
[him and made his get away. We [found a deputy marshal on board i those good, old Carter’s LitUe i^vsr
|^1 ran to his^horse and took his with the mail the deputy sheriffs.!
saddle on. and looked foi money mj would get on the train and go to' yet amazing in making iiSSim
his saddle pockets, and blanket fur j Waco or to Yoakum and just as j
+*•+++*♦»♦♦+++,
37 YEARS AGO
fCONOMY IN REVERSE
BY LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE
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jWNATSWHATATAGQKCE
USTLE OF SILKS
COeW3GHT. KEIXASH) b/ central PBESS ASSOCIATION.
The following interesting items
were clipped from an issue of The
Record of the year 1900:
(AUGUST 26. 1900 D
Manager Welch of the Casino in-
5 “Eteonomy in reverse” is the description given the me- iforms The Record, that the the-
tho« of operation of the legislature in Texas. Appropriations
atre made first, then the taxes are levied, one newspaper
points out as the habit in the last several years.
» “Strange to say, lawmakers who fix the rules and regula-
kions under which the masses must live, go at the financing jin the highest terms of her work,
problem Mntf-end-to from the way the people must work it,” At the Dallas Flair ,she made a
.the Houston Post declares editorially. “If-the private citizen ^ booked ^o^Se^miir^Lst
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Yesterday Cuero bought over 225
with the engagement of Floridini.
America's young but brilliant prima
donna. She has a magnificent
voice, and a long list of press no-
tices from Maine to, Texas speak
has the magic power to command mi increase in his income
|to offset overspreading, he 1s mighty lucky; otherwise, if he
•does not cut down his spending to come within his income,
[he will soon find himself painfully out of luck.
“But the legislature can accomplish that
•legerdemain. If the treasury grab-bag goes empty under the
iever-increasing scramble of hands, all they have to do is to
wave the fairy wand of ‘a bill to be entitled an act,” and
j cotton day so soon after the open-
marvelous ing of the sea on ov-r known in
Cuero. The righ price is doing it.
Seed brought $3.05. No lint sold
to amount to anything.
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.'make some hapless citizens dig down in their jeans for more! have gotten in a fresh stock
and still more taxes, and presto the treasury is replenished vite^h? ^Wfc^tospect.011 -^SmTii
•—until the next legislature comes along.” profits make quick sales." is our
; So the Texas taxpayers face the uninspiring prospect ot motto' ^ * Hoizheuscr-
•a tax session in September to balance a budget upset by ap- Messrs. Walter and Chris Bright-
propriations of the last sessions. And who will be the hapless came down on a visit to their
victims of this next tax raid? Probably natural resources and brother- Exp«*ss Agent c. h
’industry and business first, although there will again be a iBriehtweli ~p^rt ^acean.
group sponsoring a sales tax. There has even been a proposal Si Polk, a negro charged with
iccrease 1;he sales tax on gasoline, already heavily ^beft, caused considerable
j burdened, i ‘ • , excitement Tuesday evening by re-
: ____. ' . sisting arrest, and with a rifle, six-
i U wou^n t it be a better procedure for the legislature ; Shooter and knife, he defied the of-
«to check on the present income and on prospective income ^cers tor a time, put was finally
milder present levies with better enforcement methods?
fThis Is a question the governor should consider • before he I Burkett. Watson '
.calls the special session in September.
And shouldn't the legislature follow through on en-
forcement methods and support the collection of ad valorem; Joe rack ,„d woodward clem™,
• , particularly on personal property which is notorious- |tWo Cuero's society leaders, came
ly delinquent? One way to force a more equitable tax svstem tdown last evenbl£? t0 altend «*e
Aa to vote a institutional restriction on taxes, this Jcurb
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_____ | The New York World, thriee-a-
Jgovernor” and a “tax legislature”-as far as promises to do feh edm°n'’ n furnisbes more
Something about taxes goes. And in all instances the obli- !canon ^*’”’1^ *
gtHm « not met. 81gns_ are _that the "balanced budget” will <>SSf25S5SStt?if
^ have
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
VV A S H I N G T O N, D. C.—A
number of years ago,'when Reed
Smoot was a Republican senator
from Utah, it struck me as re-
markable that he should have
such a teammate as Senator Wil-
liam H. King.
It was not so much that King
was, and is, a Democrat. It does
occasionally occur that one state
is represented in the upper con-
gressional chamber by solons of
conflicting party faiths. It is not
the rule, but neither is it so rare
an exception as to be dowmright
bewildering.
The puzzling thing was that
Smoot was the very embodinjent
of conservatism {almost to the
point of caricature), and was’ so
regarded by everyone. In fact, he
himself never disputed that he was
very far to the ‘‘right’’. King, on
the other hand, was generally ac-
cepted as quite an advanced lib-
eral. It was not my notion alone.
All hands considered him so.
* * •
KING’S VIEW
I wondered and wondered how
It chanced that a single electorate
could indorse two such opposite
spokesmen at the same time.
Finally I asked Senator King
how’ he accounted for it.
The senator immediately agreed
that it was queer. He said he
thought perhaps he and Smoot
were chosen rather because Utah’s
voters personally liked both him
and Smoot than because they paid
much attention to their respective
political or economic views.
The point is that he so readily
acquiesced ^n my estimate of him
as a liberaL I think it pleased
him, indeed. That was what he
intended to be. And no informed
person questioned it.
ticipated
j Times.
anti McGrew par-
the arrest.—Yoakum
¥ * ¥
NOW—!
Well, Senator King classes now,
by New Deal standards, as an
arch-reactionary.
He fights most, if not all, New
Deal policies.
Has he changed? Or, perchance,
is he the same old thing?—and Is
it that the New Deal, in disguise,
is reactionary?
Echo answers—nothing.
<*>-
You’re Telling Me!
*-
By WILLIAM RiTT
Central Press Writer
ADOLF HITLER and the Ku
Klux Klan have become issues in
the New York mayoralty cam-
paign. However, to date, none of
the candidates has committed
himself on the problem of what’s
to be done about the Brooklyn
Dodgers.
• * a
A survey shows that men can
handle an automobile wheel much
better than women. However, as
the man at the next desk says,
the gals are still tops at back
seat driving.
a a a
The Japanese, we understand,
declare they are only trying to
give the Chinese a break. But
they fail to mention what part
of the Chinese anatomy is to be
fractured.
a a a
CHAPTER 32
SLIPPING the key to her jewel
case—loaned "for the occasion—
into her bag, Mari Barat pulled
«n soft doeskin gloves. Her eyes
traveled swiftly from tbe bare top
1 of her dressing table to her re-
flection in the mirror.
She saw, with approval, the
; perfect lines of her beige tailleur,
> the flattering arrangement of tbe
six sable skins thrown about
j her shoulders, the sophisticated
j droop of the brim of her felt hat.
A diamond fob gleamed on her
breast pocket.
“The dressmaker becomes
mannequin,” she said.
“Clarisse, you may take the
small case and tbe jewel box to
the car,” Larry Hoik, the pub-
licity man, said to the maid, wait-
ing in her dark blue traveling
clothes. .
Mari's rented motor, the long
;ream colored and chromium
town car, was at the door. The
time for her departure for a week
in London had arrived. Her trunk,
filled with a hastily accumulated
but nonetheless dramatic ward-
robe, had gone on before.
“All I have to remember is that
j my furs and jewels are borrowed,
J that I am a woman of some mys-
1 tery and what else?” Mari de-
! manded.
“That you have certain obliga-
tions to keep the appointments I
!
The Chinese certainly slashed j ££ ma^ fV7^1«lSi^o-
their way through yesterday. You
should have seen that shirt of
ours when it came back from the
laundry.
• • •
We read that the north polar
Ice cap is melting slightly. It’s
a 10 to 1 shot that somebody will
blame it on those Moscow flyers.
* • •
It doesn’t seem possible, but
we can remember when the thipg
that frightened Europe most
was the ’ annual appearance of
the Loch Ness sea serpent.
• • •
“Madrid Civilians Victims of
Shell Fire”, “Foreigners Shelled
In Shanghai”—as in any other
shell game, the ordinary fellow
gets it in the neck.
appropriations and to enforce collection of those levied.
Ev*ry governor and every legislature has been a
ed bv that of tew dailies. Its
pointed out ; reports from the Boer war hav^
I not- been excelled in thorbashiKS*
and promptness, and with the pres-
idential campaign now in progress
it is of special value to you at this
time.
____ _ ^ you want to watch every move
Thlx estimat-e was made by the U.'s. National woT'Tr
mg want to know all 'foreign de-
| velopments. taTiFllu^Tlirice-a-Week
ftp as much a myth as the alarmists
feherman Daily Democrat.
The electric generating capacity of the United States is
approximately one-third greater than that’of Great Britain.
Canada. Germany, France. Russia, Italy and Japan combined.
The U.
el^CtriC P°wer industry has grown from an [ The Thrice-a-Week World’s reg-
putput of two and one-half billion kilowatt hours in 1902 to ular subscription price $1.00 per
Inore than 92 billion kilowatt hours in 1936. vear- We offer this un quaied
Although many Soviet Union women are doing “mascu-
line” work, the nation’s cosmetic demand has been rising j
steadily.
The average American business woman purchases
pairs of silk stockings each year, statistics show.
When burned in a limited amount of oxygen, a ton
ioft coal will produce 120 pounds of coal tar.
By LOGAN CLEXDENING, M. D.
CHILDREN MAY BE unable to
speak properly because of physical
one. A
child's articulate speech usually be-
gins at the age
of nine months,
but parents need
not worry if the
child does not
talk before the
age of two
years, provided
the delay is not
due to impaired
hearing. After
two to two and
a half —years,
however, there
is somet hing
wrong if the
child does not
begin to speaY.
Sometimes the deficiency is due
to defects in the central nervous
system, or muscular inco-ordina-
tion of the vocal cords.
A pleasant speaking voice de-
When Buttery’s Ant Killer will ex- Pen<ls upon good hearing and the
25 j terminate them. Just put around envir°nment of pleasant speaking
on sponge or cotton where the! VOi<'cs‘ As to vvbat is a pleasant
ants can get to it. They canw*it to ’**; W<’„h,,vo tbe votes of a nura-
their den ami feed it- to their nis’
Child’s Speech Affected
By Physical Handicaps
World.
newspaper and the Weekly Record
together one year for $1.50. The
regular subscription price of the
[two papers is $2.00.
Dr. Clendening
!
WHY BOTHER WITH ANTS .
Of , young, in a few days your ants
| arc gone. 25 cents per bottle atj
1 Buttery’s.—(advt.)
I
Answering the question: "Are
you well satisfied with your speech
as-, it is?" about one-fourth of any
gioun responds ‘'yea” and about
three-fourths “no”.
“In what way would you like to
improve it?” was answered, aside
from a small number who stuttered
or lisped and naturally wanted to
eliminate those faults, by a desire
for these qualities: Enunciation,
voice and tone quality, slower
speech, distinctness, poise, clear-
ness, diction, volume, fluency, lower
pitch, pronunciation.
Folk Like to Talk
“Do you like to talk?” is gen-
erally answered in the affirmative.
The peculiarities in the voice of
others most readily noticed is in
the order named: Pronunciation,
personality, foreign accent and
loudness.
“What can you tell about a per-
son from his speech?” is answered
thus by a group of college stu-
dents: Education, affectation, cul-
ture or refinement, where the
speaker comes from, character,
breeding, environment, training,
intelligence, interests, social status,
sense of humor, interest in subject,
moods, politeness, type, leadership.
“The pleasantest voice you
know?** has the following charac-
teristics afccording to different peo-
ple: Low pitch, clear, soft, well
modulated, animated, mellow, vi-
brant, rich, resonant, expressive,
quiet, slow, good enunciation, dis-
tinctness, good diction, musical.
graphed and not to talk too much.
It *will be enough for others
merely to see you and talk about
you.”
“Good or bad, I suppose it
doesn’t make much difference?"
Larry laughed. “Not a bit!
But, my dear, if it reassures you,
you look the part. Fm counting
on you to remember that you are
not really playing a part. You
ARE what I am trying to make
you. You have already become
an interesting, important figure.
Yeu will continue to be one.”
Mari was beginning to realize
tbe importance and truth at what
he had said. The miracle had
come about in less than two
months. Already the shop was
beginning to assume important
proportions. Gargantuan orders
—gargantuan for Mari who had
heretofore bought fabrics by the
yard and not by the bolt—had
been filled. Already a score of
seamstresses in hastily rented
quarters were at work on the
sketches of models that Mari had
prepared for her opening.
It was not to be a formal open-
ing in the sense of the larger
showings, but a distinguished list
of guests from the social and
press worlds of Paris had been
invited. A staff had been selected,
mannequins had been engaged.
And Mari, allowing herself only a
few hours of sleep each night, had
worked tirelessly with a hand in
every move. Between the duties
of organization, she had submitted
herself to preparing for her Lon-
don excursion. »
The shop of Maribarat—the
name was fused—was to be ready
to open on June 15. "An ideal
time to catch the incoming trade
from other countries! Mari could
not have worked another day at
the feverish pace that she had set
for herself. Shadows beneath her
eyes made their gray depths
greater. Some of the roundness
had faded from the contours of
her face, stretching tile skin over
her cheekbones and lending her a
new kind of sharper beauty.
"Sutherland is meeting you at
the airport. There'll be a few re-
porters but later . . .”
“I know,” Mari answered, cut-
ting in on him, “I have the list.
L only hope that my first air trip
won’t make me ill. It would be
“The dressmaker becomes • mannequin."
arrive wrapped in a glow of pale
green! Larry, pray that nothing
will happen to these jewels or else
I’ll be back in New York doing
illustrations of happy little fam-
ilies enjoying their garden tools
for tfie United Lithographing
company. That’s what I did, you
know, the first year I was out of
art school.”
Larry tore his hair and took a
great gulp of ioe water. He com-
posed his face painfully and led
Mari to a sofa. Sitting beside
her, he took both her hands in his
and spoke very gently:
Please, please, Madame! You
NEVER did anything but design
clothes! You gave up a social
life in America for your career!
Your father was a mining engi-
neer, and when be died he left you
little money with which you
embarked on your meteoric career
in Paris! Don’t mention Brook-
lyn! As far as you know, it’s
only a place that was necessary
for the other end of a bridge. You
belong to the world, not to New
York!”
Mari smiled wanly. “I’ll re-
member, Larry, but I won't tell
lies. I’ll merely keep qniet.”*
“If only you can!”
The chauffeur came in to take
her suitcase.
Mari got up, rearranged her
scarf and held out her hand.
Goodby, Larry. I’m going to
London to see the queen.”
“You’re going to London to be
the queen!” he corrected.
And so she was.
The moment that Ellen, Vis-
countess Verlaine, welcomed her,
coming across her drawing room
with both hands outstretched to
her, Mari’s fear that she might
not “fit” dissolved.
Ellen was like her brother—
large, handsome, assured. She
had, in addition, the quality of
sincerity which Mari felt at once.
Wherever or under what circum-
stance Mari might have met her,
she would have wanted her to be
her friend.
Having her first tea the after-
noon of her arrival in the drawing
too terrible for a femme fatale to room of the house in Berkley
Square, Marl felt as though dhs
had come home to the kind of
house that she meant to have mm
day. It was a room oat of an
English drawing sooaa pUy.Thm
were wide spaces, large diMs-
covered chairs, gleaming mawhi
and the flowers that Meant in
England in the spring.
In that short, filled weak, KM
and Ellen came to know each
other and Mari had ao n^od dn
call upon the lines that had beflp
prepared for bar. Larry H*w
tad advised her well not to S]
unless she had something to
Her gracious attention^
queenly manner of
attention that canoe to
her favor at once.
Her beauty and bar
were the talk of London,
secretary was called tn to
her engagements, for Mast
self, could not have
clockwork management
to keep them straight.
She wasn't presented at
It was almost the only thing
didn't have on her calendar,
went to teas, to the theater
the opera, to the House of C
mons and to the House of I*c
And, like any tourist,
her new English friends tty
ing to be shown tbe Tower, 1
minster, Hyde park and
Cheshire Cheese.
She found in London an
phere that blended the Victorian
era and the modern world sad
felt akin to it. She was as thrilled
by the Changing of the Guard at
Buckingham Palace as she
the ball hastily arranged far
and magnificently staged
H., the Maharaja of Rajsi
But when the last day casae
ther? was a cable to say that the
decorators were ready to ge do
work on the shop, she was rasfljr
to leave.
She’d come back soon, she
promised.
But thereafter her life was not
to be her own. Marl Bunt had
become a part of a plan and eke
was to learn tbe price of her neai-
tion.
(1% Be CeattnuedJ
ni ky «.
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