The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1931 Page: 2 of 11
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the >ub and wind and the sky do
to U*—It is a time for visions and
dreams, for the birth of new hopes
and the revival of oM ones; a saa-
lusnaaa restfts in eanflagraUooa of
horrible proportions. Many lives are
lost each year and an appalRng a-
aeount of property destroyed "as the
result of, fire# which could' easily
have been prevented if someone hfd
in fact, which does .most of thf
things spring is'supposid to do much
beter than spring actually does them.
To be sure, autumn brings death
and decay. But it works with
given a moments thought to -the
danger. "You don’t see boy seowta
leaving a camp fire burning, a* a
_ * u»ni|i me uta* ••••»*, — - —-* ,-■ ~rr~,
menace u*. surrounding, .woods ox clolhcs. slLjXLthe blsutjr
fields. They., are ‘‘fire hazard con- woodland and , misty” fie
scious". • .Someday, perhaps, the rest breath-takingj ‘ it reconc
of us will learn these lessons, and them, bemuses us and per
when that day comes the awful fire as supremely great -hltis
tatiou of an/ parson, firm, or sorpor-
atk>n which may appear In the eol,
■asms Of The header will be gladly
corrected /upon it being brought to
the attention of the publishers.
our cities and pur forests
will be reduced Smsiingly.
THE OLD -SWIMMING Ptlol.
Member lp3lT
incite one ..to truancy; but
art October afternoon, - when the
maize-shocks stand* in uneven rows
like the tepees of an Indian encamp-
ISSOClATnm
PITOR-l
heart is the
rrent on a rolling field, is the timo
brook in the meadow
Tliut quitely ran by the old dis-
when the Red Gods BTe really astir.
For then one perceives that the road
to the erief “of the earth starts wher-
ever one’s feet happen to be. and
there is apt to be just enough of a
_:_ iL.....:«j /» „ ai
trict school;
J\ lien the sun in the west Would cast
| a long shadow,
The spot that was dearest was
the old swimming pool. J
And when "at the end of a day’s,
education
With s shout and a bound we
would rush, from the school _
ijlow the boys would start up a
Thi warmest praise has I
j^esed by local citizens for
And suppose that we are too mun-
dane to be stirred by such fanciful j
* W|lk ||i tha wars meltsc I -~l ~
of matrrial comfort fall offers more 1
flian spring. Spring gats you ready !
for warm weather and then sprinkles, — A
snoW on you. The “spring cold” i»1
proverbial, and the bright days have i
an icy sting underneath the sunshine. „ [ ,
Autumn is more honest. You'' ex- 4 »
pact the worst ■ and;-very often, you---—
get the best '
ti>n of the JGraham teschi
at itarily proposing
shirttail flirtation
Ah each made a plunge in the
old swimming pool.
ganerdus sacrifice, but when one
MMUbrs the fact that teachers gen-
erally receive the most inadequate
The old swimming pool
TSie fresh swimmiim pool
-The..Jively.,Rwimmi^-;-puflt,
That we all had at home.
finane ial compensatkm of any pro-
file old tradition - needs revising.
And then at the end of a day of
' hard labor ',
When the stock was all fed and
......i we ceased from our work,
l low then we would join with our
friend and our neighbor
With never a tine of us known
Autumn, once you get to understand
it, is the-best time of" all the year.—
Abilene Morning News.___ 1
Baird.—6igal Theatre undergoing
extensive repairs. __j.
San Marcos.—Work started on
$30,000 first unit of new college:
completed.
months idleness.
eeitt ««wl the action of the teachers
which was announced last week will
y a big factor in carrying op this
purpose through the present diffi-
Kor there was the springboard so
long and so limber
That hung over, the water so
clear and so cool;
We knew It wss made of' the
toughest of timber
And with a run shd a jump
we would land in the pool.
The dashing °f^ water^ ^
The splashing of water
hidden
There's more. ways than one to
kill a eat and more ways than one
to land ion the front page of the
daily newspapers. Dr. Charles Gray
Shaw of New Yoik University leap-
the Motor and
Never Drains
supplyil
feed su,
NOTH'!
of Youi
Court '1
dittos «
is given to the loser.,, Last weew
death came to a man who by h>*
--agis Worth its Weight
in Gold to Any Motorist!
It's not the mileage your speedometer shows thmi makes your car
weir out quickly, lose power and need coecly repairs. It's motor
wear, caused by friction, that docs u! dtd a/ase At// of nil afn
the. dtle of “the world's best loser”.
Five times Sir Thomas - Lipton, Brit-
the Ameri-
ish tea king, comi
ca’s Ctip in the annual1 yacht races
and five times hn smilingly con-
ceded the victory U> others while he
turned his hopes and pinna toward
-rer TMrm-iir
venerable old merchant pries by the
School boys arid girls of the United
States. -They should be taught to
put forth their best efforts In any-
thing they undertake, but the signif-
Thai’s just whsi the "hidden quart” of Conoco Germ Processed
Motor Oil does* It stays up in four motor and never drains sway
and thus rat* ism OnrUmg wear/ Ordinary oils drain away, leaving
working pans unprotected, until oil k pumped from the crankcase
CONOCO
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more folks a chance
TO LEARn.HOW TO- j
PARAFFIN D*
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enjoy ■Their ieiS^ret
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ed into print last, week by declaring
~ OWt—Whistlers—are. morons. '?he
professor may have been trying some
eep-t. of experiment Ko see fih&X re-
action he would get—like thf phy-'
schology student who assembled a
mob by standing quitely on a corner
at a busy , street intersection and
gating intently into the sky while
'curious parsetw-by_ stopped to find
out the object of his gaze. At any
jrite Dr. Shaw has everybody talking
about his' statement. Personally
we don’t think our feeble and off-
key efforts at whistling have any-
thing to do with our failure to qual-
ify for the ranks, of the intelligensia
- liT.fact we’ve always had the great-
est admiration for folks who can
i and do-whistle:-, It, is probably true
that affairs at great import are not
accompanied by whistling, as the
mer* act bf Whistling signifies
state of,
road paving
The-aOf
, so shady,
Though the stm was so hot yet
the water kept oool; ,'
And to sing of its praises we ever
were ready
When splashing around in the
jild swiming pool.
►h, were I now-back to the scenes
of my boyhood,
, And seeking a place that was
shady and cool,
I'd seek not the place ol' the fern
and .the wildWood, ,
But would take a big plunge
in the old swimming pool.
whistle;! in
ing,' howay,
relaxation. The man who
in fhe bathroom in the morn-
V*r probably digests his
^breakfast better because 'of his
relaxed ' and happy mopd, and.
this in . turn sends 1i 1 m k
bia tasks of the day ITT a ’ men-
tal and physical condition to
bia work ifficiently. Having done
an honest days work he goes home
with a clear conscience and a happy
heart that are-apt to find expression
in whistling again. In this age of
complexity and hurry we try to
cover too much territory, and too
often we lose the capacity for re-
laxation between tasks.. What this
country needs it more-
-ti—r
Winners in any field of endeavor"
dually get their full measure of
praise, while as a rule little thought^
And I Would keep singing,
_ With sweet melody ringing’
’As I Would be praising >
That old ! swimming pool.
GLQRY OF AUTUMN
It is a little bit'odd that spring is
generally supposed to be jmpr* of a
d* Hopeful, restless and unsettling "'sort
of. season than autumn, —... ...
Nobody expects much of fall. It
is a collection of melancholy days, it
abounds with chilly rains and raw
winds, and;It has a funereal overtone
that sets poets and other sensitive
people besting their breasts. Spring,
on the other hand-thejirthe young men
tec visions and tffd bid men drealty
dreams, and each awn wants to leavy
’hj pljw: where he is and go places
wl\ere'he has not been.
That, at any rate, is the tradition-
_____ But it doesn’t jibe with the facts.
i treekl Rutumit has been frightfully mali-
gned. Jt is time justice was dona.
In most parts of the country, autumn
provided the nicest weather of the
whole year. Furthermore—since our
piooda depend so "greatly on what
Ja
pound
for nn
livestocl
In ad
making
given t
better I
of hi*
. mand ■
ing a a
■ Grain
produce
be sup|
milk to
meal ti
ration i
vious tc
finish i
of corn
-V ghums,
ur short
4 pound
7“ o* aalfc
If th<
to the
be left
be avai
times a
" and k
pounds
, ~'srmtn
be fed
grain t
but car
have to
loy.r
- Turk*
confined
turkeys
fined a
- custom
house I
At *4
would |
divide
marfteti
as bra
the fin
ther f«
the sm
the one
in fab. ML
thf era
4aalaa..a
ft pa
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to nisi
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or said
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-Effort
said Cc
of wiafling is over emphasized
often at the expanse of sports mi
■hip. Victory is sweet, bat defeat
seed net.' be bitter if the game has
lean played fairly and aqnarely.
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Tfiis wash has ^ssn designated as
“Fire Prevention Weak", and the
annual effort is being mad# ft la-
The "hidden quart" ■> worth Kt weight in gold to you’ From
the Im hit with Gaaodo Germ Procceecd Motor Od. you'll have
thM "hidden quart" up in your motor, giving lair lubrication at
all times, lengthening your motor's lift Drain your crank rest
now . Ml with Germ Processed.Oil w any entlon displaying
the Conoco Red Triangle
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OIL. WOULD BE BETTE R, Oil IF O.ERM.
OIL
PROCESSED
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Spears, George T. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1931, newspaper, October 8, 1931; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884089/m1/2/: accessed May 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.