The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1931 Page: 2 of 10
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th«t w# brine upon mdmIvm time*
of trial. TiatM that tact us.
Wo do not like to bo tooted. ' But
wo will stood to it end agate through
it, ead wo will be » bettor nation
for it. And wo >hall find, i» Hto
crucible of the fifcfct, more and
different thine* for thanksgiving
than Swinburne did when bo eaid:
From too much loro of Urine,
from hope and fear tot free.
Wb thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever rods map be
That no life Urea forever;
That dead moo rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Wind* somewhere safe to see.
^Member
Hmtohai Editorial iatio*
PRICE Of(XL APV*
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SEEK. IKIVESTHE^
OPTIMISTIC HOlfM
^VER-TWHERyj*
Since the Lord quit maklne *oil
six thousand year* of sweat and
toil, have passed, but don’t foreet
that Ha is making people yet. Then
fortunate is th* man who’s got the
sand to buy himself some East
Texas land.—Overton Press.
1 Mors truth then poetry, although
it is not our intention ter discount
your value at a poet. No more is
it our wish to unduly sxalt your
foalty to truth. It ifst happens
that you are right in‘saying that
the land is not expanding while
the population is. There has never
been a bettor time than now, since
the Indians were shooed out of
Texas, to become owner of good m
Oct me my gun and a bunting coat.
And a box of .number fives,
And a live decoy with a noisy throat.
For the colder weather drives
Wild duck* ih flocks to southern
streams, •- ■ ,
For food and shelter, too,
And the roar of their wings in t)|
twilight seem*
Merciful heavens r6uS,-that* f
Every one is to K4ve suck
To a blind where I may hide,
And wait as the sun is sinking low
For the duck* to downward glide;
Let me hear the bang 6f my trusty
And see the wild ducks fall.
All other sports I now will shun,
thick hunting bents them alL
- —Pari* News.
farming ground. There is no sound- one
ar security than a farm ovntad by a witht
capable fanner. Bad farmers era woul
no more successful than bad met- I dc
chants or bad gamblers or bad sing- kind
era. They simply can’t" make a have
living at it. If every jobless man thoro
today had. owned his job, what a pitalt
different story there would be to
tell! The best way to own a job PYT1
is to own forty acres of arable land,
« weather tight house, and a plow
Haim. Easier salt) than done, a Th
thousand answers will be. But la tome
it very-hard to do? Your grand- njnfi
father was equal to the assignment.
He could buy cheap land, improve it, memi
build a house, make a living and or if
raise ri- family. He could and
did. But your grandfather; didn’t to b<
spend mpeh time worrying over his “4J«
standard af living. He went ahead An
and lived, leaving the standard to the 1
take care of itself. It still can be a tv
done. But soft-minded one need- evenii
n’t undertake it. It will be too
Odessa—J. A. Holt purchased Var-
It will be a sad day in the his-
tory of this nation when its peo-
ple no longer find, on every hand,
cause for thanksgiving. For we
have been and are a country and
a people singularly biassed in so
many wsys as to defy complete
blind Destiny
so long accustomed to abundance
and to agrade of living so far
above the rest of the world that
we are inclined to exaggerate our
circumstances. We" are ape not to
for new hospital to be built
of courthouse on Birth* Street.
( I.ALD CALLAN AAX8
Our wife has the satisfaction of
feeling confident that she never
got the wrong child, at the hospit.
al, “These children are all ours”
she says to us frequently. “There is
little probability that I ever got
thaimseng-ono.' Hverydne of them
is. sp much like you that I am sure
t Verve V# Mm ---
of poRD Economy
itron; friendships.
i hey are ours. If one of them ever
picked up anything after himself
com? arrogant before th# God of oui
fibers. We become soft. Wi
drift sway from the very founds
1 would Immediately say that he
Ike "Hidden Quart"
of Germ Processed Oil that
stays up in your motor and
twnopoly on improvement *.f
•urroundinfc.v in thin pcction the
protection against motor
wear—protection no otker
Wsb
OUIAM LEAKS rJV
speaks,
th# lam at
a narrow dam
pin abaU bay
merely baenuna they are made in
Triton. Very few people buy good*
far such a rsasnh alone, aad
tainly nobody could expect the
chants of Tanas to attempt to aaU
goods on that basis alone. But
it is a fact that there is much good
merchandise being produced in Tex-
as which has not aa pat found *
very wide market within the state.
I doubt v«ry much if the majority
of the merchants of th* state
iae how much such good merchandise
of almoet every kind is being
frifrtiyiy) Ip the itlll,
offered at prices in lfne with, or
even lower than, goods manufactured
in other states.”
<■- -«—
DUCK BUNTING
Ww«i£u.’.
■**■**1 *' V.
Today is Thanksgiving Day, end
rim nation pauses again to breathe
a prayer of gratitude for the joys
that the year has brought. Mhny
changes have been wrought since
that first Thanksgiving when a
little band of pilgrims knelt on (he
Mask New England shore and thank
ad their Maker for life and food
aad the privilege of taking up the
task of establishing homes in a
asw land where they would be free
, to worship God according to the
dictates of conscience. Children and
grandchildren of the pilgrims, gene-
ration after generation, pushed the
frontier westward until the cloak
civilisation had been flung from
Atlantic to Pacific. Today a mighty
nation stands as -the fruit of tha
•aad planted by the men and women
Who observed tha first Thanksgiv-
ing. The average citixeh of the
United States enjoys comforts and
pieasarcs that would have
Hha aa Aladdin fable to the pilgrim
fathers had they envjsioqcd such
luxuries. One thing has not changed,
however, and will never change,
list is th* Source ami Giver ot .
lit good. We become so accustom-
Od to the enjoyment of good things,
that we- sometimes lose sight of
the origin of life ai)d all of the
pleasures thereof. liy this good
year of 1#32 we have much more
fur.which to be thankful than had
these pilgrims who poured out their
gratitude so fervently, and we should
pause for humble and sincere thanks
giving to the Father whose love
never fails.
XX
Chamber
As we Come to this Thanksgiving
Dty sf 1931, w* know there are
many in whose hearts are bitterness
and resentment against a seemingly
nd its working. We
woo Id not depreciate their want,
their privations; but wy would polar
out that we uf America have bee*
"Whan" the Graham
Commerce gets behind a
tt generally goes over in s big
Way Two years ago the organi-
sation launched a city beautification
campaign. The success attained
*thwfsr ttss Bsrrf v vttetif to alU-who
noticed the neatly kept and at-
tractively planted lawns during the
past summer An enthusiastic re-
sponse was made to the, call for] . ’.T IT " . . .,.
entries in the 1931 yard contest! and Pf ble*,n*": K0*1
appreciate how much w« really have. [T**0 n"u,
Pr0jeCt We* are prone to overlook the f.cts
that ./wealth, all position, are “
relative; and that, compared with * *’
other nations, we are yet In comfort.
Wo. have got away- from—the.
simple /things, and it is hard tot
bring iorscivts to return to them.
W«f bribe me in times of ease, un
orisekh* of that finest and first
Wie, cease
oven mote interest is expected to
be shown in the 1932 contest, Plans
be/grateful for warmth, for good
____ ^ ^ podr for snug shelter, for comfort-
,..-MMJ-^.kCT„IM»W coxBBlcia..faw..Jsi|inykiag -4be --JS&fSe ««nPaflionslup
third year’s campaign Committees tor f.ne and
have been appointed for- each resi-
street and within a few days
will begin the work of enrolling en
trants in the yard contest. Compe
tit ion adds xest to any line of en
"ritoVc-r, and participation in the yard
Contest promise* tjie reward of
buariwrer surroundings rrgardlfe-s of
Whether or not a prise is won. 11
CSPy citizen joins in the 1932 con-
test- with genuine interest Graham
will be the prettiest small town in
Texas next, Summer. •
—1-jj-
While on the subject of yard
baautifiration we might aidd that
Graham citizens will not have a
surroundings
county. With the encouragement of'
the state extension service farm
yards are to become something more
than a depository for unfixed imple-
ments Through the efforts of the
local home demonstration agent some
vory effective work has already been
.Pane along this line, and much more
Is planned for the future. In order
*» assist and encourage this work
• yard school is to be held here next
week by a landscape specialist who
will give practical instruction both
!• planning and in section and
the past few month* we
have heard mash about boasting the
“ toe made products, and wa
wo Sri 11 hear more m the
to coma. Ban vary per-
oa this movement
in an article by A. M.
I af tha Texas Be
Gaada Atoaeiatioa, hi tha
I at tha Tana JToskly. fa
Dry
"^CONOCO
quart GERM PROCESSED
- - — pa a Affix ante
MOtOR OIL
nil w> wHHtvii row ttt this cmm caoemtp on raiAwit
BULLETINS
*H. fARM COMMODITY
fR‘CCS OOINQ 3KY-WAB.P.
Employment opening up.
textile mills booming wsww—
22 INOUSTWES
FULL BLAST.
•oust
Waco—Construction
factory bring starts*.
JOHN E.
7B*
MORRISON CO.
CALL US BT
IS DAT OR NIGHT
DAT PBONB ...
NIGHT PBONB
““—etty^fyl>igi¥Clr~purctia»eB Tfrf-ncw-for^ cars
- Hundreds now in use prove low cost of operation
' THESE 137 new Ford cars represent one
ot the largest deliveries aver made to a
municipality nt one time.
21 radio-equipped Ford scout ears were
traded in on this purchase. Thej Bad been
operated day and night for two yearn in
heavy traffic and all kinds of weather.
Their individual record# ranged from
78,434 miles to 143,723 miles with a gram!
total of 2,283,097 miles, The operating
cost of the 21 cars was 2.284 cento a mil
— lea# than 2 1/3 cents. TUe coat include*'
all fuel, oil, time, repairs and every otbc
Of 377 Ford earn in Detroit Oty service
the 300 in the Police Deportment travel**,
a total of 6^591,937 nrilm during (her par
Bieal yeor, id an average mat of 2.9 cent ’
a mile.: - - * •
Many claims have been made on opera!
•Ug «»«t*, but bare fa the carefully bop;
motor ear record* of the City of Detroit is
---tat--------* _ H J_____ ' -
P«iiutc pfBfi m fora economy.
In the paragraph* above. It la seen that
21 Ford scoul cars averaged leas than 11/3
cents a mile and 300 Ford curs fa all
branches of Detroit police work averaged
2.9.cento a mile!
' Day and night, twenty-four hoars a day,
these Ford cam am fa operation. Few
branches of transportation demand sneh
grueling service. The records show that
low fuel and oil consumption is fast one of
the Ford’s many economies. Ford ma-
terials, simplicity of design and aecsuney
in manufacturing provide unusual strength,
stamina arid freed am from rcplaeamsnto
*ad repairs. ' ~
hriysr as well a* the
economy hriNi Ford ear.
PirrBBN BIPPBBINT B9BY TYPtt
*430 *° *640
<f. O. B. Deri, plm. /rrigto
Banger* sod spa* Nr# esriw a* I*
riaadtod Nam garment* through the
Farit n»ose* Flam af the thdsareri 4
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Spears, George T. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1931, newspaper, November 26, 1931; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884153/m1/2/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.