La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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Fifth Annual Fayette County Fair at LaGrange, Texas, October 10, 11, 12, 13, 1928.
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THINGS IN GENERAL
Remarks by the Editor
Religion and politics are nob good mixers,
neither is oil and water a good combination,
hence we should be granted the right of plea for
abatement, if the charge is made against us
that we have, without good authority, put re-
ligion and politics together. We have in mind
the results of the big pow-wow down at Hous-
ton, and which came to a close Friday after-
noon when the platform had been adopted, when
Alfred Smith, governor of New York had been
named as the standard bearer for this coming
campaign, and Senator Robinson of Arkansas
Jjad been named as Smith’s running mate. There
were many of us who had to buckle down to real
work, and pass up the pressing invitations to
“come down and see the show” and who feared
that the weather man would give us a raw deal.
Those silent prayers, to give us less static—
laugh if you wish—must have been heard, they
had the desired effect and the news came over
the radio very nicely at a time when it was good
news. In fact, we believe that, in the cool
rooms here, we had as much kick out of the
convention, in a sense more, than did those who
had formed a shirt-sleeve brigade.
And, how that the excitement of a conven-
tion has passed—and it was excitement, for men
Would rush home from their work, tune-in and
give a listening ear—we can make a summary
and commend the decision of the democrats who
had come to the border state, in the extreme
Southland, to nominate a ticket that shall lead
at-'the November election, and%rcstore a party
to power again, after eight years, that will ex-
ercise the right to administer for all alike, and
not favor the few, as has been charged in cam-
arugment. And as we scan the tjcket,
and call to mind the career of the two who will
lead it to victory, we feel that the democrats of
the Nation and possessions, have done well.
True, this is only the beginning, we have four
more months to go, during which time there is
going to be pressed into service, the best ora-
torical and legal talent by both parties, to go
before the people and place the proper claims,
and then we shall have to prepare for either of
the two possibilities: rejoicing or teeth
gnashing.
This democratic national convention at
Houston has left a very agreeable flavor with
us; the prediction one makes if borne out by
later developments, create the feeling that
things have been run to suit. The prediction
that Texas democracy—now, we do not want to
rub it in or be obnoxious in the least—would
have little to do with the results of that con-
vention, has come true, very much true. That
bitter (?)- and most resentful determination
manifested at Beaumont, in which it was shown
that we must take the dictation from a few, or
get out, has proven to be nothing of value to
the delegates, and that second bit of determina-
tion, to keep the vote of Texas away from the
nominee—at the time a supposed to be nominee
—has also availed the ^‘unimmortal forty”
darned little. We believe it is meet and proper
to honor a man in our state, and have nothing
to offer as a substitute; we believe also, that,
after such a nomination becoming recognized
as a mere by-play, with no possible good to
come therefrom, and with a doll house holding
only, a democracy, that prates about its deter-
mination to save the country, can do service for
that country better by unifying or assisting in
unifying a purpose, than by remaining glued to
a convention seat.
Texas delegates did that; Thursday after-
noon Hon. Thos. H. Ball, formerly a congress-
man, placed in nomination the name of Jesse
H. Jones, for president. Aside from the Texas
delegation, everyone of the delegates in that
convention hall knew that this was merely a
last effort to show to the friends of Smith, that
they, the Texas bunch, could vote for another.
This may be challenged. The governor of Tex-
as, the Hon. Dan Moody, whose name appeared
daily in the press reports of the convention, did
seek to have his way at the meeting of the
committee on platform, and that infernal dry
plank, about which they have fussed so much,
and for which prayer service was held at Hous-
ton—again trying to mix religion with politics
—remained a dry obstacle so far as its insertion
in the platform is concerned. It might be in-
teresting to some ta know that this convention
is the first in twenty-five years, where a minor-
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Democratic in Principle and a Worker For LaGrange and Fayette County
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, July 5, 1928
OUR WEEKLY POEM
THE POSTULANT
Receive me back, who silently return
And kneel again in my accustomed place.
Know me despite the things I went t«> learn,
■ Remember this heart, these fingers and this
face.
Let me come back in silence; there have been
So many words for every other thing;
I am as tired of words as of towns and men
Tired of the sound of shouting and whispering.
There is no proof I’ve walked the world around,
I have roused no love that has not reached
its end.
I have built no house on any solid gTound,
I have made no solemn vow to any friend.
Give me the mourning garments, cut my hair.
God of my dreamy youth, I have heard Thy
call.
Lean to me once again, though I bring no
prayer.
My silence and my tears will tell Thee all.
—Helene Mullins, in New York Times.
ity report was not acted upon in a democratic
national convention. It also means, that there
are some things a Texas governor can learn,
when he throws down the gauntlet to the old
war horses of democracy. Age has something
to do with it. ’
We follow in this random manner the work-
ings of the convention and learn—as the plat-
form committee, through its accredited spokes-
man, makes its report—that, after the minority
report of th^ Texas governor is read, that has
ended its purpose. What little consolation there
is to that knowledge may, we sincerely hope, be
beneficial to the dictatorial bunch from Texas
who feel that, because of a former lime-light
showing, have been feeding themselves in a
gouging manner to become- big enough to tell
just what shall be done in order to save the
country. Apparently, the country will be saved
without them. We were not down at Houston
to swelter and to fret about things that better
democrats can settle, yet we did find time to sit
at the radio and hear distinctly all that was
done on Thursday, from five-thirty to recess,
and then from eight-thirty to the time that Hon.
John W. Davis was offered to the convention to
speak. And, while there is nothing to be gained
in voicing a feeling of disgust or encouraging a
sentiment adverse to praise for a man, we felt—
purely imaginary on our part, because it was
only our feeling—that after the wonderful
speech made by Mrs. Lee Roundtree, seconding
the nomination of Jesse Jones, the curtain could
have been drawn, so far as Texas was concerned.
Hopes of a small potato do not bring in the
spuds for action. Governor Dan also got on the
platform and, as stated by the chairman, would
second the nomination of Jesse Jones. For a
while we were much in the air, we didn’t know
whether we had dreamed all the previous hap-
penings or not, the governor was welcoming the
delegates again, and then made reference to the
nominating of the Houstonian for the presiden-
cy. The speaker following him, a man or re-
markable diplomacy, was genteel and courteous
enough to state that he hoped Governor Dan and
the people of Texas would not deem him un-
grateful of the many hospitalities extended, but
he had a different idea as to who should be
nominated, and there was a roar. Traveling on
we learn that the platform, with its dry plank—
perhaps we should put the "dry” in quotation—
was readily adopted, and later we learn that the
nominee was satisfied with the plank. Perhaps
the bones in the dry had been fleshed properly
and were not as shiny as first suggested. And
then we heard the names of the states called,
and the story of their vote.
Everyone knew, or should have known, even
the Texas delegation, that* Governor Smith
would receive the nomination; favorite sons had
to be placed in ^nomination as a matter of cour-
tesy, to be sure, and when the name of Texas
was called, the forty votes were entered for the
gentleman from Houston, Hon. Jesse H. Jones.
The Smith vote grew, it kept on growing, and
demontrations followed. The announcer in the
glass case at the convention said: “They are
giving a demonstration fas Smith, but the Texas
delegation remains seated and undisturbed.”
LARGE-SCALE FARMING
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Since the farm problem became acute with
the deflation of produce prices at the close of
the war, no end of remedies have been suggest-
ed for relief. First the tariff, then price-flxing
more or less of the McNary-Haugen type. In
the last year or two, with large-scale production
and distribution becoming more widespread, it
has been suggested that the solution of the farm
problem might also be found in farm mergers
and large-scale management.
A considerable acreage has been purchased
'in Iowa in the last year by a large corporation
with that thought in view. Thomas D. Camp-
ball, already a large-scale farmer in North Da-
kota, writes in the Magazine of Business that
agriculture's salvation is to be worked out by
the engineer and the industrial chemist; that
prevailing methods of agriculture are obsolete
and that farming must be made more of a busi-
ness and less of a hit-and-miss occupation.
It will hardly be doubted that farm meth-
ods should be improved. But how much im-
provement is possible consistent with our pres-
ent organization of agriculture is a question.
The principles of business as practiced in cor-
porations whose assets run into hundreds of
millions obviously can not be introduced on a
farm of 80 acres worth $100 or $150 an acre.
Neither can large-scale production of the kind
that is now lauded to the skies.
Converting the business of farming to a
large-scale enterprise would necessarily involve
abandonment of the single-family farm, the so-
cial advantages of which are entirely clear,
whatever may be said of it on the economic aide.
It would lead also to increased tenancy, which
agricultural economists
desirable,'*nd to large
sentee ownership, also regarded with disfavor.
Thus much of what might be gained on the
other side of increased efficiency might be lost
through changes in organization that would
neeessarUy come at the same time......__.
Very goocl. And when the last name of a vote
right possession was called, it was found that
the New York governor had more than enough.
Ohio’s delegation immediately asked for the
right to change their vote and that went for
Governor Smith. The man in the glass case
again made the announcement as the delegates
gave vent to their enthusiasm, that the boys of
the Texas delegation were undisturbed. And
they remained that wiay until the last demon-^
stration. Perfectly all right, nothing to com-
plain about, only it looked odd to us.
Passing on until thd session of Friday af-
ternoon when the nomination of Senator Robin-
son for vice-president followed, we And that
Governor Moody received a complimentary vote;
no, he didn’t' get the forty Texas votes, only
nine and one-third votes from North Carolina.
Which, in the classification of honors, looks
rather small compared to the votes given to
Jones for the presidency. Seems to us that our
governor wasn’t treated exactly aright. Imma-
terial, those forty men, represented the State of
Texas, represented them by reason of the Beau-
mont convention deliberations. It was a small,
very small part of the Texas voters at that
Beaumont convention, but they had the right,
by politics, to do what they' did. When the vote
is counted next November, the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of that month, we will
have the proof of choice, the state will go for
Governor Smith. And, between now and the
July primaries, we shall heart much talk about
the gubernatorial campaign /or the democratic
nomination. We hope the boys will not feel bad-
ly toward Governor Dan about all this, yet we
can hear much rumbling and the cry of putting
Wardlaw in the executive mansion.
Deliberations of the Houston convention
having come to a close, and the nominations of
Governor Smith and Senator Robinson having
been made, interest will center on this campaign
with much vigor. Each of the two great par-
ties, after all not so far apart, have good men
leading the flght. The one party has much to
answer for, the other has to watch and keep
the recalcitrants in line. To us the victory of
the democratic party seems assured; albeit, if
they stop wrangling among themselves. And if
they can remove the intolerance and the prac-
tice of flaunting that red flag o( prohibition^
constantly, and let the rigid appeal fi
NEWS FROM THE SUN
From The New York Herald Tribune
Interesting bits of solar news came to light
at the recent meetings of the Astronomical So-
ciety of the Pacific, the Pacific Section of the
American Physical Society and other scientific
organizations at Claremont, Calif. That pleas-
ant university town is so near the foot of Mount
Wilson, where stands the greatest solar obser-
vatory in the world, that the meetings inevitab-
ly heard much of the star which makes the
climate of Southern California so bright. Pro-
fessor Fernando Sanford discussed electric ef-
fects of the sun on the earth. Dr. Harold D.
Babcock and W. P. Hoge reported measurements
of the sun’s invisible Jieat rays. Mr. Ferdinand
Ellerman" recorded enormous speeds for the
flames which jut out from the sun’s surface and
which astronomers call prominences. Some of
them moved, Mr. Ellerman reported, at velocities
of over a million miles an hour.
The ever-interesting sun spots at last are
on the wane. For two years their number has
been above average and the blame for all kinds
of terrestrial effects has been laid on them,
some with much plausibility. R. S. Richardson
reports the descending curve of the sun spot
cycle now clearly under way. Sunburn will be
less violent this summer than last and still less
troublesome next year, for Dr. Edison Pettit
reiterated at Claremont his conclusion from pre-
vious measurements that when sun spots are
numerous, the ultra-violet rays which cause
most of the sunburn are also plentiful.
The chemistry of the sun is slowly yielding
to that marvelous analytical instrument, the
spectroscope. Another Claremont announce
i I ”k*'
’not’previo^MT
the element boron, present in ordinary
This element lurks, it develops, in the darker
portions of the sun spots, where it exists as
gaseous chemical compounds. Although a sun
spot is cooler than the average surface of the
sun, it still is far too hot for any known chemi-
cal element to exist in it as anything else than
gas. Spectroscopic analysis of these sun spot
gases, of which Dr. Nicholson’s discovery of
boron is one fruit, may be the path to better
knowledge not merely of what composes these
remarkable spots but of what causes them.
ment prevail, and let the minds of men remain
free from internal strife and dissension, the
result of the big fight cannot be doubted. It
depends, however, whether these fanatics in the
party can be kept away from the cess pool. So
far as Texas is concerned, no one need worry,
it will go democratic; the danger lies in the
spreading of discord by the disgruntled and
holier than thou bunch, among the hundreds of
thousands of independents in other states, who
believe they can settle upon Smith without fear
of having made a bad deal.
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Passing of Railroad Passenger Trains
Predicted to Happen.
From the primitive mode of travel—the
covered wagon—the people have learned to ride
in rubber-tired buggies, automobiles and in aero-
planes. If it were possible for the pioneer who
lived in the wide open range where grass was
more valuable than city prosperity, and where
the freedom of the citizen was far more accep-
table than the drudgery of a small city or large
city life, to come back and glance at the prog-
ress of years, it is probable they would seek to
return to their places of rest and sleep on until
the time when they could live in forgetfulness
of worry, scramble and greed. And now the pre-
diction that the railroads will pass into history
in the larger commercial centers and give way
to the faster and more economical travel of the
airship.
When it became possible to talk with ><
friend in another city, the world believed
the greatest achievement had been
they had already become used to the teles
Then came other discoveries and ac,hi«
the small, wind tossed ships passed
timber was not much in demand bee
had taken the forehold. The world
to bring on large populations, the peoj
the idea of roaming, and common tt
be abandoned. Day trips had to
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La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1928, newspaper, July 5, 1928; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth999159/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.