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TIB PAMI N1WB, TEXAI THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY Ittt. (AND THE OINNUt HORN) NORTH TEXAS PUBLISHING COMPANY TEXAS Daily Except Saturday A. O. PAT MAYSE RATMO.VD D1XON WiLTSR W. BABSANO, JR.

W. FUTIET A. W. NEVILLE ClrouUtion Manaur Editor Editor Entered as Second Mail Matter at the Post- off at Paris, March, 1879 Texas, under Act of Congress SUBSCRIPTION EATES By Mali, One Month 60c By Mail, Tliree Months $1-50 By Mail, Months $3.00 By Mail, One Year $6.00 Delivered fcy Carrier 15c Per Week Any reflection spoil er npuUtion of Individual, flrtp or corporation whloa In the ot -Nsw, will corrected Upon brought to of City tubKrlberi wbo complaint p. m.

their papers to from If you do not jet yonr complaint. It no complaint prMoraed that to being delivered. WASHINGTON DAYBOOK By PKESTON GROVER promised not to write about war today so that is why you are talking to Melyin C. Hildreth, a Washington lawyer who is president of the Circus Fans of America. We are compelled to state that the Circus are a bit pained that Congress will recess early to tee a baseball game but will not stop a minute when Ringling Brothers comes to town.

We do not own any stock in a circus, so this plug goes for nothing. Nevertheless, since the circus has recently been to town we can report that a goodly number of congressmen go to the circus, although they are not a major source of revenue. Washington is a good circus town in the spring, as Mr. Hildreth will tell you, although for some reason or another you can't bring a circus here any other time of year and make expenses. Bringing a circus to.

Washington is no small task. In an ordinary city you go to the mayor or to the city attorney, post a bond and get a license and maybe a parade permit and that is an end of it. But in Washington circuses have to deal with two governments, not to mention irate citizens. Associated It entitled to of newi to It or not wise IB thli paper and alio local publUhsd therein. not for copy ommlislooa, typographical or anj unintentional that may occur In advertising other thin to correct In nait after It la brought to their attention.

XI) order, are accepted on this basis only. DAILY BIBLE THOUGHT Supplied by Press-Radio BtbU Service Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio THE MAIN ISSUE: Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of Proverbs 4:23. Playing For Votes NB hundred thousand dollars is not much money in the estimate of the average members of the Congress. Consider how much it is to the average individual and how many cases of want it would care for.

Yet there are members of the Congress who ask an appropriation of that amount for this or that purpose batting an eye. Representative Leo Allen of Illinois. Republican, member of the party which rails at, the expenditures of the government, tells the Congress that he has a letter from a group of people in Illinois, who are his constituents, asking him to present in the House a bill appropriating a sum of money for erection of a memorial to Finland, because of regular and prompt payment of that country's "war debt" to United States. He has this letter inserted in the Congressional Record and follows it with a bill which he introduced in response to this request. That bill provides for appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for a memorial to be erected in "Washington.

To be sure it has not been en- -TtiJteil into law. but there is no certainty it will not be just as fantastic have Veen made into law and the money paid. Certainly Finland should be well regarded for meeting her obligations, just as should an individual. But Finland is not paying United States a war debt. Finland, during the war, a part of Russia, and it was after the war, Finland became a republic, that United States made a loan to her as it had made to many other countries.

It was comparatively a small amount, and its installments and interest have been met promptly. But that is no rea son why United States should spend a hundred thousand dollars to set up a memorial, even if it were a war debt. Mr. Allen is playing for votes. Double Protection To rent a piece of public property on which to pitch a tent requires negotiating Secretary Ickes.

The Interior Department owns all the park property hereabouts. Sanitary inspection and approval of electrical installations comes from the city government, but the circus has to hire its ground policemen from Secretary Ickes. For policemen to handle the crowds on The streets outside the circus city police must be sought. And a further trouble is lions. There is nothing so disconcerting to the average Washingtonian as to have a lion roaring under his window.

But do they call the city cops about it? Nay, nay. They call a member of Congress. The circus here had its lions and elephants all boxed up for the night on one side of the yard right across the street from a row of houses. The natives didn't mind the elephants, but in the middle of the night a lion roared. Lions are just like congressmen.

When one lion roars they all roar and it makes quite a noise. Next night the circus moved the lion wagons over to the other side of the park, several hundred feet away from the houses, a change requiring no end of circus re-arrangement. Things Good Mr. Hildreth is jubilant about the prospects of a good season for circuses, but we might just as well tell you that he was the same way last year and the circus business went to pot in double time. the Circus Fans of America work principally for perpetuation of regular road circuses, but lately they have interested the WPA in supporting a WPA circus in New York.

Hildreth is almost tearful about the old gray-haired clowns and acrobats "on the road" again, some of them for the first time in a dozen years or more. The circus sticks pretty close around New York, charging 15 to 25 cents admission. It has an animal act which included an elephant until a few weeks ago. The elephant got a job, however, and took his keeper with him. We'll bet Congress will get fidgety as everything when it learns WPA had an elephant.

They will maim each other to be the first to get into the Congressional Record with some wise crack about a WPA white elephant. Liquor People Worried OME people connected with the liquor traffic, who can see further than the end of their noses, are showing signs of fear that the country may be tending toward another prohibition of that traffic, and they are getting all possible publicity for their assertions that conditions now arc much better than under the era when liquor was outlawed. They have no figures to provp their assertions, nor can they get such figures, because there "ain't no such Conditions are far worse now than during prohibition and even worse than the saloon era preceding prohibition. In that era there was a species of regulation that worked when the enforcing authority wanted it to work. Many saloon keepers obeyed the law in the main, and many who did not do so were fined.

Some of that is being done today, but there are other features now that did not exist then. The reference is made the presence of women in saloons which was not allowed, at least not outside New York and other large cities, during the era of open saloons with government restrictions. They were allowed in speakeasies during prohibition, for the speakeasy was a law violator, able in many cases to buy oFf the officials charged with enforcing the law, and if women wanted to resort to them and spend money it was all right. There was comparatively little selling to minors, and other objectionable features of the saloon today were fortunately lacking. So if should be a return to prohibition the liquor people will have no one but themselves to blame.

They manufacture and sell the stuff and many of them have no regard for the law nor for common decency. So long as this continues they need not be surprised if the people outlaw them again. TEXAS TODAY By The Associated Press Home seekers or adventurers travelling light to Texas at the time Stephen F. Austin's colony was begun could have stocked up on cigars at 25 cents a dozen and whiskey at 20 cents a pint, but would have hade to pay $3.50 for a pound of tea. This spread in prices probably explains why eurly Texans were not free tea drinkers.

Price lists kept by Stephen Austin in his early colonial days reveal many more interesting variations on the same theme. For instance, an odoriferous leather jacket could be bought for less than two dollars, but a yard of the cheapest cloth probably cost more than one dollar. A pattern from which a dress or a vest could be cut cost more than two dollars, but even so, the pioneer woman wore skirts two inches below her ankles, taking as much as five yards of material for the outer garment alone. And her voluminous petticoats probably totaled another 10 yards or more. A pound of nails costing two-bits in Missouri couldn't be had in Texas at all unless one knew a friend who would bring them in, and then the cost would be the greatest portion of one's building expense.

Tt was easier to nick the logs and overlap them so that no more than a bucket of rain could seep through in an hour. Many roofs were built of parallel logs over which sod was placed. If the rain longer than a few hours the roof gave up the effort. But land was cheap. Austin received only 12 1-2 cents an acre for his first colonial land, and even Lnen the settlers squawked about the high price.

Later the price was raised to 50 cents an acre but that included partial clearing and the assurance of good neighbors. Tnis same land has sold for more than 5200 an acre since. Missouri or Louisiana flour was a bargain at S12 a ban-el, weevils and all, but Texans preferred their home-ground variety which could be guaranteed to exercise teeth and gums in the modem manner. Drouth frequently affected ths source of supply, and Austin's records reveal that many barrels of flcur were imported in the early days of the colony. Number ot Florida attorneys-at-law recently i a petition to the legislature asking passage of bill to authorize the plowing under of every third lawyer, twice a year, why not make it three times get rid of the entire Shreveport Besides the flowing skirts, women-folk bought tiny silk bonnets, almost as extraordinary as present day styles, for $7 each.

But they served venison ham on the table and this commodity sold over all the southwest for 25 cents a ham. If the husband could afford gun powder and knew how to melt a round lead ball, it might even be possible to cut the budget on food to a mere pittance and then more hats. an old story. Those able to read had to pay a lot of money for even the cheapest books. These intellectual stimulants had an awful habit of mildewing, water-logging or burning, and their intrinsic value increased in direct proportion to their scarcity.

Five dollars for a short book on anything from philosophy to religion would be reasonable. It was cheaper to go out and study life in the raw than to re'ad about it. A few persons maintained correspondence with the folks back home. Paper good enough to write upon cost more than one dollar a quire of 24 sheets, but for a quarter one could buy a cheap pulp paper that looked as though it had been Journal. Mayor LaGuardla denies his adminlstra- pUnninf to levy fix new lor Can't think of that many new ones? fix-thinji left to Cleveland faetiblor fa a war, it usually another generation of spldten Ma who in in rain overnight.

Are You Listening? LAST WG5V, WO RfASOW AT ALL 0CXJOHT HGK. FOUR BLIND DATES By Edwin Rutt Most of all, machinery was the bugaboo of small time farmers. They had as much as 5,000 acres family but they couldn't raise the price of machinery. A plow was transportable but all other contrivances were too unwieldy. Resourcefulness was a Texan's virtue and to supply the work ot a cultivator he drove into a long narrow log and dragged over the field.

The barter system was in full and a pair erf might jet one a couple of ears of cOrn, tut the wouldn't jingle with at any First at currency were very unsatisfactory because everyone discounted the per cent or mort. So when the above art eonaidcrtd buflt dleeouat cut CHAPTER 10 Face On The Nlfht Club Floor "Pull up in front of this place," Tacks ordered his driver. "I want to speak to the Emperor." The driver complied. The doorman, hand outstretched to assist a supposed patron of The Heel Tap to alight, paused suddenly. A kind of terrible fact that, in the shadow of a muddy and rain-soaked hat, looked as if it had spent the early evening stopping a few of Joe Louis's efforts, was peering out at him.

Noting this, the doorman's attitude altered visibly. He withdrew his hand, folded his arms and awaited developments in unen- couraging silence. Tacks cut short an embarrassing interval. "Listen," he said, "who was that young ladyV" The doorman appeared to sse no reason why he should pamper the curiosity of a streetrbrawler. "Who," he demanded, with a trace of truculence, "wants to know?" Tacks started.

From doormen, waiters, bartenders and such, he was accustomed to a becoming servility. He now forgot that he looked like something ripe for the broom and dust-pan. "Keep a civil tongue in your head," he warned the doorman, "or you might get into trouble." This seemed to amuse the vast Cerberus. Behind the bulwark of his mustache he shook with dignified mirth. "Ho!" he ejaculated at length.

"Is that so?" "Yes, that's so," snapped Tacks. "I suppose the management of this dive parks a statue like you out here just to sible patrons?" The doorman ceased to shake and regarded Tacks with hostile eye. "Fat chance of you being a possible patron," he observed. "What the er began Tacks and stopped suddenly. He was remembering at last that he had spant a good deal of time this evening jlithering around in gutters.

There was just a chance that the doorman was within his rights in refusing to rate him among the customers of The Heel Tep. Drawing himself up to his full height the doorman extended a stern finger not at Tacks, but at the cab driver. "Move on!" he ordered majestically. "Just a moment!" cut in Tacks. "Are you going to tell me who that girl is and what she's doing hsre or aren't you?" The doorman favonsd him with a frosty stare.

"I am not," he said, decisively. "Because, young fella, it ain't none of your business." He turned to the driver again. "Come on, buddy! Stjp on it!" The gorilla in charge of the cab, who had been enjoying'this bit of byplay immensely, looked at his temporary employer for confirmation of these marching orders. Tacks snarled at him, managing to incorporate the address ot the Penguin Club in the snarl. He was feeling baffled and worsted.

Well, he was a fool, that was all. Just a plain damn fool. Nevertheless, he intended to hunk with this doorman if it took him a lifetime. No doorman, he assured himself savagely, could highhat an aad apt away with it She was in white. At a piano played, it seemed, with only the tips of the pianist's fingers.

Miss Packy North, in her low, throaty voice, began that same song number to which Tacks had listened outside the door of to speak to you." her apartment. It was a snappy tune and Packy Mr. Adams again presented him- walking that Mr. Adams had ever self at the door of The Heel Tap. The behemoth with tha mustache was still at his post.

He did not, however, recognize Tacks. In the interval that had passed since his former visit Mr. Adams had wrought noteworthy changes in his appearance. True, his jaw was now liberally plastered with adhesive tape. But, aside from that, in his perfectly-cut dinner-jacket he looked to the doorman like any of the other young gentlemen who frequented the Heel Tap.

In no connecting him with the disreputable face which had grimaced out of a taxicab an hour ago, the doorman bowed him politely into the night club. Tacks suffered the ceremony in silence. Sometimes he was going to square accounts with this doorman. But not tonight. Tonight graver considerations were at hand.

This very Heel Tap had Miss Patricia North. If it still held her in its toils Mr. Adams was going, if humanly pos- sibla, to get her out of them. And when that had been accomplished, he intended to demand how-come in a big way. He was getting exceedingly tired of being booted about like a soccer ball.

The Heel Tap was a place of little white-clothed tables, soft lights and thick gray carpets. At one end, just off the usual postage stamp dance floor, a very bluey orchestra was dispansing very bluey rhythm. The head waiter approached Tacks deferentially. "Good-evening, BACKWARD GLANCES By A. W.

NKVZ1XI LIQUOR CONTROL LAW HAD TEETH They Were Sharp Enough But Saloon Keepers Seldom Were Bitten By Them Thirty-two years ago, July 12, 1907, what was known as the Baskin-McGregor liquor law became effective-in Texas. It had no bearing in Lamar County, for prohibition had been voted here and was in effect, but it was the tightest liquor law enacted in Texas. The State license for a saloon was increased to $750 from $600 if liquor, was sold and beer joints were charged $125. Dealers in liquor were required to giw bond for $5,000 and bondsmen could be sued if the seller violated the law. Applicants for license first had to get a permit from the State Comp- and then apply to the County Judge, swearing he had been a resident of the State two years.

If his saloon was in a block where there were more residences than business houses, or any block with a church or school, a majority of the property owners had to give written consent for the saloon. Saloons had to be closed at midnight until 5 o'clock in the morning and Saturday midnight until Monday morning. Screens that obstructed view of the bar from outside were not permitted. No'woman could be employed as servant, bartender or waitress, except members of the saloon keeper's family. No obscene pictures talking, or any other noise which might disturb persons near the were allowed.

Forfeiture of the license was to follow conviction for tiling to minors or allowing them in the saloon, or for permitting games to be played on the premises, including cards, dice, dominoes, billiards, pool or any other game of skill or chance. Lewd women were not to bo allowed in the saloon nor sales to be made to them. Penalty was provided for selling at any place where people assembled for religious services or educational or on an election day penalty being tin? of $50 to $200 or six mpnths in jail or both. Other acts ot the Legislature at the 1907 session included prohibiting railroads issuing passes except to employes or members of families, prohibiting drinking liquor on train, making non-support of wife by a husband a misdemeanor with fine from $100 to $1,000, probihiting cock fights or betting on baseball games or shipping of game from the state. One nuisance tax law repealed was that which levied occupation tax on merchants, lawyers, dentists, physicians and other professions and The pal nor.

keepers observed this law about as they had all other could bo displayed in the saloon. laws regulating their business No music, or loud or boisterous I which was often very little. In The News 1 3 Years Ago From The News' Fllei IS Years Ago Tucsdar, July G. 192S Car! Tanner. County Agent, said the cotton crop was in danger of serious damage from tr.e cotton flea, which was making inroads nil over the state.

Cooper had three religious revivals in progress, two by the Methodists and Church of Christ glimpse of Packy, dressed for the 3p the third by a traveling long- street, slipping unobtrusively up aired band calling themselves one side of the room. Israelites. Flinging money at the dumbfounded waiter, Tacks bounded in hot pursuit. He passed the check-room girl running strongly, whirled out into the realm of the snooty hewhiskered doorman. Packy, nautically speaking, lay dead shead, making, it appeared, but a stick of furniture.

Now she was gliding gracefully across the floor, bringing her song to an end. It ended near the domain of the orchestra. Packy smiled in a general, all-inclusive fash- ion, bowed quickly and disap- peared. For an hour Tacks, sat there, consumed by disappointment. Everything, everything in the world was just plain rotten.

He knew now how a fellow felt prior 10 the moment of hanging himself to a rafter in an old barn with a pair of suspenders. Ho knew and then he was on his feet so quickly that he almost overturned the table. He had caught a head waiter. sir," said the "Table," growled Tacks, "near the dance floor." for the curb lca.st i taxi. in order to get a Tacks supposed it would be white, crieri Tacks ex if truth were known.

Right now citcd i -Qh it was violet, due to the spot- i the sound of Packy turned, hesitated a I ond. "You?" she said coldly, "Well, I might have known." "Yes," panted Tacks, "it's inc. I mean. I. Listen, want Be Reno People Vi.it right in amongst Tacks Adams, Houston.

Galveston He sat there goggling at her, for- getting his travail of the evening. Out on the floor the spotlight, changing intermittently, put Packy through the gamut of thn spectrum. But it mattered not to Mr. Adams. He was looking at Packy North, listening to her, and whether it pleased the management of The Heel Tup to have her lavender, crimson, sky-blue- pink or green-gniss-yellow, Mr.

Adams was satisfied. 'Oh, RENO. (Special). D. Bybee, Miss Blanche Lasater, Miss Mary Lasater, Miss Leola Drako, Miss Biggers, and Miss Thelma Biggers spent the weekend in Houston and Galveston.

Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Rico, of Hugo, Mr. and Mrs.

Jim Que.iry, Jim Rice, snd Sam Rice all of Charlotte, North Carolina, Mr. and Mrs. Snm Biggers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs.

Fate Bray and The song finished. The Heel daughter, Robbie, Miss Lou Ellen Tap snapped back to its normal Re and Miss Pauline Roid spent illumination. And there was Packy, revealed in all her proper loveliness, tall and slim in a shimmering gown of white and smiling her golden smile. Then applause burst forth, led by a young gentleman who seemed to go in for dodging behind adhesive tape. So loudly did Mr.

Adams state his approval by smacking his palms together that even Packy i shot a hasty glance in his direc- i tirm, A startled expression raced Arriving at a ringside table the across her face. Tacks, whose umwA.4 PVPC hnH npvpr Ipfr hprs. ratiirht head waiter waved a majestic hand. Like genii, two lesser waiters appeared. It seemed to need the combined efforts of all three of them to get Tacks safely into a chair.

"Don't want anything to eat," Tacks snapped to the huddle of waiters. "Scotch and soda." The waiter scattered, convinced that the surlj young man with the bunged-up jaw was out to do soma serious drinking. Tacks lit a cigarette and glared about him. No Patricia! No Patricia at any of the tables or among those lop-sided idiots careening around what was laughingly called the dance floor. This was certainly not his night out.

Presently, however, his attention was diverted by a sudden darkening of The Heel Tap. This darkening occurred simultaneously with the end of a dance number and the dancers, shadowy figures now, sought their tables. Then the beam of a spotlight, violet-colored, played over the dance floor. Straight into this cornucopia of brilliance AMtte 1 awt ktar eyes had never left hers, caught it. He ceased applauding abruptly.

Good heavens, had he put his foot in it again? Could it be that, in abandoning himself to wild approbation, he had caused her embarrassment? It would be just like him. Where this girl was concerned Fate seemed to' have decreed that Tacks Adams was to make a mess of things. Packy, without another glance in his direction, began an encore, threading her way between the tables as she sang. Tacks waited hopefully. He noted that, every so often, she would pause momentarily at a table as if singing to its occupants.

Surely she would look in at his table and give him an indication that she was grateful for the way he had established himself as a one-man cheering section at the end of her song. Ah, she was coming. Instinctively he had known she would. She was almost at his table now. He raised his eyes, smiled.

And then, suddenly, a stricken goldfish expression superseded the smile. Packy had came the nearest thing to a dream 'swept past him as if he had been STYLE COMFORT ALL THE WAY When you're wearinf a cool, comfortable riit Individually tailored by Wunach, you have that tain independent, well groomed that is vttal to every man's SUCCESS. ahlpnwnt of air-conditioned ahlrts juat arrived. Straw hats -half JOE W. WUNSCH Lhe week-end with Mr.

and Mrs. Will Bray in Hot Springs, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brown and daughter, of Fort Worth, spent the with Mr, and Mrs.

Mart Brown. Miss Evelyn Bybee and Miss Robbie Bybee entertained with a party Tuesday night. Misnellanpous Shower Is Given At Faiighl FAUGHT. (Special). Mrs.

Fred Smith entertained Monday night with a miscellaneous shower in honor of Mrs. Leo Roberts, the former Miss Wilma Upchurch and Mrs. Herman Mclntyre, th-3 former Lenoa Roberts. Cake and punch were served to more than 75 guests. Safes 5n the storage plants ot the Magnolia, Gulf and Texas Companies, on Texas Midland right-of-way, were opened by knob-knockers in the night ind $235 in cash and $300 taken.

Annual picnic by Dsuzhters of the Confederacy for Veterans was held st Wade Park, having been postponed because of inclement weather. Several Veteran? fror adjacent counties attended and had a chicken dinner. Sam J. Lattimore, 42, died denly at his home Fort Worth'l where he had been engaged business 15 years. He wax borij in Rox-ton.

Still playing In Paris baseball team lost the to 4, after leading until the seventh Inning. Ed 1 Price, living near Talco, reported the Sheriffs office that as he was driving from Paris to Talco Monday, accompanied by his wife and an adopted boy, he was fired on when on the road by a man whom he Identified, and he filed complaint charging assault to murder. Two Drown, One As He Tries to Rescue Other HONOLULU, Two men drowned off Rock Waimanalo Wednesday, one attempting to rescue the other. Luciano Pena, 36 year old sailor of San Antonio, plunged into the surf and drowned trying to rescue an unidentified man who was washed from the rock while hiking. One of the largest congregations of the series heard Evangelist Crimrn at Blossom, several Paris pcopln being present.

Atlas Club Holds Meeting Monday ATLAS. Business matters, with every member taking part in the discussion. the main business at hnnd as the Atlas Horn? Derr.onAtration Club met Monday, July 3. in the home of Mrs. Harrison Wooldridge.

Miss Geneva Brown was elected to go to the council meeting Saturday to the Atlas Club in the voting in which some delegate will be chosen to attend the state convention in Lubbock. Six members and one visitor attended. Next of the club will be July 19 at the Atlas School. The meeting will be a joint affair with Ambia Club. Fugitive Wanted In Canada Taken In Texas SAN ANTONIO, J.

Bates, 49, of Vancouver, B. in alleged fugitive from Canada, charged with theft by swindling of approximately $9,100 in the Dominion, was surrendered Wednesday to Sgt Archibald Plummer, chief of detectives of the Vancouver police, by United States Marshal Guy MeNamart. LIKE THIS I eaJled 32 or before It m. Pridar and mr. IMUI.

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