La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1922 Page: 1 of 5
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THINGS IN GENERAL
Remarks by the Editor
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After devoting almost two columns to the
necessity for a new Constitution for the State
of Texas, in whieh is presented some very
able arguments the Houston Chronicle of Sun-
day permits a very short editorial squib to
follow at the conclusion of its summary, for
the reader to reflect and ponder over. Here
we have it: “Woman was made out of a
bone taken from a man’s side. There are
times when we harbor a wish that some of
the bone had been taken from man’s head
for the job.” Encouraging a friendly feeling
for the gentler sex, and for the mah who pens
the editorials for the Chronicle, places a
damper on my indignation over such attempt
at ludicrity. Following so closely after a
splendid argument about on almost obsolete
document for th$ State’s .welfare, makes it
border on the ridiculous to even attempt to
cite a- truth of that nature. Woman, as stated,
was made from a man’s rib; men, recently
converted to the religious side of life, con-
tend that the reason woman was made from
man’s rib was, that the nearness of the bone
to the heart, should have its influence upon
woman for generations to come, that her love
for man should also come from the heart.
That -argument should hold, it did hold in
the p«st. but it has slipped a gear and things
work differently nowadays.
Taking it for granted that the Chronicle
man has absorbed a new method of learning,
it might be pardonable to permit his wish to
be recognized and have the bone with which
woman is made taken from the head of man.
This is merely a friendly acquiescence on ac-
count of argument, it does not bind me to
the notion that the substitution of the bone
breeds well for the future generations. No
man is so ill-informed that he does ndt know
»H»1 bnnahad means, there Avea r > man wb«
~J- has not been within hearing distance when the
.expression “blockhead” was used. I take it
. reader, that you can see the danger of such,
•without further'argument. It has also been pro-
ven, since the beginning of time, that the
improvement upon the handiwork of God and
Nature has been without great merit, except
in commercial circles. Still, we might con-
jeture a little, and come to the conclusion
that the editor who wrote that short squib
had been out the night before, and visions of
things that had come under his scrutiny dur-
ing that time had not been forgotten. As in
— everything else, the same routine is not gen-
erally observed. When God * put Adam to
sleep and made woman, it was decreed by him
that woman should be a companion to man;
< centuries ago, this was fulfilled, better than
even the prophesies of the learned men; since
that time, this compainship has gone with
many, on a prolonged vocation, or man has.
Without the attempt to place myself up-
on record as having introduced a new mat-
ter, the suggestion is made that we let the
wish for a change and the obection to the
method of the, Creator remain unnoticed. The
wisdom of that suggestion is readily recog-
bized when we take cognizance of some of
the lecent happenings that have been publish-
ed for our digestion, mental not stomachal.
Take for example the crack shooting of some
of the women who have killed their husbands,
and th6 expert manner of handling a car-
penter’s hammer by the California woman
who disliked the idea of having her husband
vamped by a pretty little woman of her neigh-
borhood. What conclusion is yours in this
instance ? Can it be intelligently charged
that a necessity existed for such wanton dis-
regard for the life of a fellow creature?
What could have been the result had woman
been created from bone taken from the head
of the man? You would have subjets similiar
\o some of the reformers who have traveled
every path of vice and debauchery, and are
now endeavoring to eliminate the Catholic,
the Jew and the parasites who have turned
their back upon him. You would have, a daily
dose of the worm turning and .destroying the
little, gentle vamps who have yielded to a
passion pressure because some bonehead, with
coin and liquor had turned her head.
Pardon me while I yawn, this thing of
thinking up new versions is very tryirtg on my
nerves, and some of the.happenings of recent
days have also claimed a severe tax upon
them. Taking into consideration the already
established, fact that the woman can go to
the polls and vote and have a say-so about
who should further encroach upon our con-
stitutional liberties, leaves us* all holding an
empty bag in which to catch the snipe. Dic-
tations have been made in the last two weeks
OUR WEEKLY POEM
YOU’RE ANOTHER EH?
Senatorial Aspirants Getting Peeved
HOW DO YOU STAND?
Thatls The Local" Question Now
TELL HIM NOW
If with pleasure you are viewing
Any work a man is doing,
If you like Tiim or love him, tell '
him nowl *
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Don’t withhold your approbation
Till the parson makes oration
And he sleeps with snowy lilies on
his brow.
For no matter how you shoout it,
He won’t really care about it.
He won’t know how many teardrops
you have shod.
If you think some praise is due him,
Now’s the time to pass it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone
when he’s dead.
More than fame and more than money
Is the comment warm and sunny.
And the hearty, warm approval of a
friend;
For it gives to life a savor. «.
And it makes you stronger, braver,
And it gives you heart and spirit to
the end.
If he earns your praise, bestow it;
If you like him, let him know it;
Let the word of true encouragement
be said.
Do not wait till life is oyer.
And he’s underneath the clover,
For he eannot read his tombstone
when he’s .dead.
—From An Exchange.
by women politicians as to whom we shall
send to the United States Senate for the -next
six years, and this prompts the query: “What-
would be the command were women to have
been made from the bone taken out of man’s
head?” Evidently the Chronicle man had an
idea that he was gifted with humor, or one
of the readers of his daily dope had differed
with him on some local question. Either of
which fails to change the other. As was the
mission of the Creator fulfilled, and woman
became the most glorious of all his creations,
so will His work be recognized and revered
by me; those few who have temporarily lost
sight of the real purpose in life as intended
by the Creator, and who have delved into the
political pool deep enough to get their stick
tarred with the evils thereof, and of whom it
might be said without attempl to injure, that
they have become political, must be offered
in the course of events as necessary adjuncts
to a game that man has, until recently,
played alone.
That new Constitution for Texas is a
good thing, however, and my congratulations
upon the splendid article written Chronicle
man are herewith tendered. Advice general-
ly comes cheap, and generally amounts to. lit-
tle, yet sometiVnes has proven a blessing
when taken in broken doses. That being ac-
cepted as true, I would suggest to the Chroni-
cle man to let the matter of where the bone
was taken from be not further discussed.
There are already too many weaklings in
this world, too many bones have been re-
moved and our institutions are overcrowded
at present. The public has had to contend
with so many reasons for the general de-
pression and conditions, that they have lost
sight of that bone as readily as old Mother
Hubband when she went to the larder to ap-
pease the canine’s hunger. And further, al-
so in the form of a suggestion, permit me to
state that the bonehead in yOur employ who
evidently angered you into that admission
about the bone, can be given a walk, and the
atmosphere about your bailiwick restored to
normalcy. That is about the truth of the
whole thing, anyway, normalcyTB missing
down your way.
During the week just closed several of
the senatorial aspirants have lost sight of the
reason for their touring the §tate, and have
said in speeches real unpleasant things about
one another, in fact the short and ugly word
has been used but it was veiled, yet it had a
signified meaning in that veiled offering.
These boys are losing sight Of the fact that
^buse is not what the people want to hear,
they ars anxious to know what they can ex-
pect from them should it be decreed by the
ballot next. Saturday that this or that candi-
date has been selected for the Senate for
another six years. And having thus failed
to note their dereliction are snorting like
a corn-fed race horse. Bettor stick to your
oat: boys, they do not bloat.
Texas’ daily papers are _ seeking to get
opinions from over the State as to how the
result is likely to be recorded, and are asking
their correspondents to not overlook the im-
portance of an early repy to their question-
naires. They are alsd spreading the dope
over the pages so that the people can read
what the candidates are saying and why they
think that they will be elected^ Cullen Tho-
mas has stated that “I am for the eighteenth
and nineteenth amemdments and the rigid
entorcement of the Volstead act on every
acre of American soil and every American
sAiip. If sent to the Senate I would amend
this law so every violator and bootlegger
would go to prison.” Do I hear someone
yelling “Amen!” to this? No doubt Thomas
meant that if sent to the Senate he would
endeavor to get the law changed, that he
would enlist the interests and services of other
senators to the end that this would be done.
He did not, certainly not, mean that he would
do it. That’s a good promise, all right, and
R. was heard with srreat favor by some; but
our wiley friend will have to get the nomina-
tion first, a possibility that seems very im-
probable just at this time. .
Henry has Baid ugly things about Thomas
and then romped all over Mayfield because
someone has caused to be circulated the ru-
mor that Henry is beginning to see the hand-
writing on the wall, pnd not caring to have
exerience of six years ago, and say: “Yes, I
made the race but lost” is going to eliminate
himself and have the courtesies handed to
Mayfield. It is a tough thing to handle, can-
didates generally look upon such rumors with
great disfavor, but in spite of all precaution
and all denials, such things do get in a candi-
date’s way; the worst feature is that some
folks believe it and thus defeat the candidate.
But it should also be remembered, Henry
said some ugly things about Thomas and his
county attorney record, and how he aided the
red light districts in Waco town, which has
made Thomas red-headed and almost forced
him to visit the barber and have his scraggly
hair trimmed. Thomas said he made one of
jf not the best county attorney Waco ever
had, and proved hiB statement by himself, but
that does not help, his cause in the least.
Whenever men begin to get on the defensive,
it causes the voters to look in another direc-
tion, and decide differently.
Ousely isn’t giving his oppenents much
attention, yet now and then he calls the at-
tention of the voters, as he makes a speech,
to their behavior and urges them, the voters,
to let his opponents continue their squabble,
and give a willing ear to him, with the sequel
showing that they are doing just that, and
causing Ousiey, in a rather modest / manner
to add: “If you desire an extension of our
financial and credit system, so as to provide
operative credit for agriculture and live stock,
then I say to you frankly, ’though it may
seem immodest and ’though it may.cause the
hypercritical to" repoach me, that I am your
only hope.” Boom! it is not to be wondered
at that democracy sits upon her throne with
furrowed lines upon her forehead, flow and
then casting her optics Upon this bunch of
aspirants) sighing deeply as she utters: "I
shall have to spank the hull blamed bunch.”
But “v*n democracy has been compelled to
take a hint. Will the voter?
' The esteemed Temple Tribune sayz:
“Sdme unique happenings have resulted in the
discovery of makers of ‘home-brew’ and their
arrest. There has been the water meter
which told of excessive water consumption
for a small house; the gas meter which re-
corded more than $100 for a gar bill in a
month for a three room shack; excessive
electrict current bills and eXtraordinay sugar
purchases, but the latest is the choiring up of
sewers with prune pits used in manufacture
of illicit liquor. This clue to the operations
of a busy home brewer was disovered in New
York when s sewer inspector for North Tarry-
town found the mains cheked so that they bad
to be torn up and it was found the obstruc-
tions were prune pits. This inspector, in jor-
der to prevent s recurenee of this sort of thing
Published in another column will be found
the copy reproduction of the mayor’s veto of
a resolution passed by the City Council, re-
lative to the establishing of a camp site and
making sought-after improvements at the
old city park; there will also be found In this
isgue a short statement from the mayor in
which he solicits expressions from the tax-
payers of LaGrange. Your attention is call-
ed to these two articles, and the request is
made that you read them carefully. If you
are Intertsted in the question at issue, you
will not be satisfied with tha reading of them
alone, you will want to discuss them and you
will also want to give your reasons if you find
the veto objectionable; likewise, if you agree
with Mayor Rosenberg that the improvements
are not asked for by petition, and further that
the phoney is lacking at this time. Since the
mayor has asked for your opinion, you have
a good ftnd sufficient reason for stepping on
the gas and telling about it.
For some time articles published in~this
paper, chiefly reports of proceedings of the
LaGrange Chamber of Commerce, have re-
ferred to the probable change in the city
park, and reference has been made to what
these changes were. In those reports, as has
been stated, were expressions from the mem-
bers of the Chamber of Commerce, reduced
to mention only, which gave the reader the
impression that the business men of the city
were behind the demand for a- change in the
city park. The Chamber of Commerce went
on record as favoring the establishing of a
rest room and camp site at the park, and the
members had a committe to so report—this
we believe is true—to the City Council, so
that the proper steps could be taken toward
that change. Unless entirely misinformed, this
giv#s a reason for.^sertion of the council.
Should It be construed at the Correct me-
thod of procedure, that a petition, properly
signed by the tax-payers be made necessary
ere this improvement at the park can be
made, then the mayor is in the right, and
should be upheld. Should it also be deter-
mined that the mayor is only heading off a
debt, and the expenses that cannot be met
with the funds set aside for the current ex-
penses, then we must commend his economic
spirit. Should it, however, be determined
that he is in' error in his veto because no
petition was filed with the secretary and read
in open meeting or regular session, then the
matter of making those improvements be-
comes an accepted necessity and will be car-
ried into execution over his veto. The voters
and the aldermen should look into this.
Further, inasmuch as this park is known
as the city park, that all improvements, it
matters not of what nature—unless the pro-
position of a bond issue to build a hall is
asked for—are looked after by the park com-
mittee of the council, and are acted upon in
the absence of a petition signed by the tax
payers and filed with the secretary, this ex-
penditure for improvements at the park can-
not be an exception, dnd should be left to the
discretion of the aldermen who, by a vote
will determine whether this committee shall
act. Yet, it leaves open the impression that
the action of the Chamber of Commerce'com-
Uiittee, who are tax payers, and who have
asked that the change be made, would suffice.
However, the public, will patiently await the
results. It is not a bad move on the part of
the mayor to enlist the interest of the people.
more than with a view to catching offenders
put a notice in the newspapers warning all
makers of hooch to refrain from throwing
prune pits, corn, oats, rice and such ingre-
dients down the sewer. Then the ‘revenooers’
got busy and followed up the trail and caught
several manufacturers of moonshine.” Now,
it is not my intention to get funtjy, but La-
Grange folks will please remember, we had
a dikens of a time with our sewer reently,
and were puzzled to know the reason. As
Alex Sweet used to say: “I ain’t making
any charges, but something was wrong with
our sewer recently, that’s certain.”
-Lo-
Caterpillars interrupted operations on the
Hetch Hetcby Railroad in California recently
The inaects crawled along the rails, covering
them for a mile and making them so slippery
that the engine could not get traction up the
grades. It was necessary for the crews to cut
the engine from the trains and run over the
caterpillar-covered rails and coat the rails with
sand betpre the train coukl be moved.—From
The'WeakJjr Dearborn Independent.
JK
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1922, newspaper, July 20, 1922; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth999068/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.