The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1931 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MINEOLA MONITOR
Published Every Thursday, In Mineola, Wood County, Texas
By R. H. CARRAWAY
Entered at the Postoffice. Mineola, Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Under the Act of Congress. March 3, 1879.
How Hhe
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Gets
;r Racketeers
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputa-
tion of any person or firm or corporation which may appear in
the columns of ttjs paper will be gladly corrected upon being brought
to the attention of the publisher. ■
One Year
SNBSCRIPTION RATE
(In the Wood County)
£1.00
WHEN CRIME WAS HAZARDOUS
By Helmanj
tor
tal, M.A., Direc-
las"" Laboratories
This is the story of nitrogen,
who is the world's best fighter be-
cause he is so much afraid. He. is
a cringing, unsociable;. cowa|gg||it
because of the very 'fact, h&W'riec
The Desert News of Salt Lake
City takes a strong stand against
anti-revolver laws—a favorite nos-
trum of our crime reformers.
When a revolver was part of the
equipment of the pony express
rider and the cowboy, says the
News, "when the shotgun was car-
ried on the driver's seat of the
stage coach, and when the mer-
chant at the cross-roads served
goods over a counter that- covered
sudden death under a trigger, po-
lice protection was desired, $JUt
not absolutely necessary. Robbery*
was hazardous in the extreme.
Men were not held up and slug-
ged for a little small change."
In other words, the anti-gun
laws—obeyed by society, disre-
' garded by the underworld—are
the criminal's ally. They make it
: possible for him to carry on his
i-work" with a maximum of suc-
i
jcess and a minimum of danger.
; They prevent, by penalty of the
i law. the good citizen from pro-
jecting his home, his business, his
! family and himself. \ • .
\v ■ * •
V Te live in an age when- Whole
cities are terrorized by bombs and
: machine guns, when ii> is said a
: person can be hired to commit a
! murder for as little as seven dol-
Wters. when, apparently, the police
j aiid4iJQt|i'ts are impotent. And—
[to: cffi'e all this—we suggest that
I the few-abiding citizen be not pro-
| hibited from owning a revolver or
1 pistol.
is firgd.
sg, to' load
ere as the
t in the ;Sx-
IpP
reputation
essary every timi
No matter whi
your gun, Nitrogt
most important elel
plosive.
Nitrogen has a
among chemists of being lazy and
so he is. But when he is bothered
taken out of company of his own
family or out of solitude and mix-
ed with other kinds of gasses, he
begins violent action because he is
afraid of everyone, except other
Nitrogen atoms. Put him in a
mixed company and he will break
up the meeting every time like the
confirmed trouble maker that he
is.
There are only two other fel- j
lows who are less sociable than' . .. ... , ,
Nitrogen and they are Argon and ™tlm °f the *« P^y
upon the commission houses and
The "racketeer" is a com-
'ai-ativel^new one but the thing
self is as old as* aJrty other foam
f robbery. The racketeer preys
pon -> legitimate business Bjjyg
trz'.z of damage to life or pro^B|v
2fty if his demads for Ifribute i .c **
not^ajet. He levies an illegal tax
upon the privilege of doing busi-
ness.
In the big cities the recketeer
v.ho sets lire to a store whose
owner has refused to pay for "pro-
tection" is usually organized in
gangs and so far police and citi-
zens organizations have been pow-
erless to curb him. 'Pew men will
risk their lives for the sake of
their dollars and enough business
men have been hiurclered by rac-
keteers to make otiKsrs fearful of
resisting their demands.
The Federal Government is tak-
ing steps to curb some forms of
racketeering, which can be reach-
ed by Federal laws and agencies.
Every shipper of farm products to
the larger markets is a potential
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NOTICE
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ONLY A FEW 101,48
Helium, gasses also, who are so
fond of their own company that
they refuse even to marry and
thus remain old bachelors all of
their lives. They are such hermits, , , . .
that they will have nothing to do j ,
with anybody, even members
their own families.
dealers. The Federal laws requir-
ing every commission merchant
handling perishable foods in in-
terstate commerce to have a Fed-
GASTON BUICK COMPANY
Tyler Texas
( am interested in buying a new Buick; a good used..
(State what kind)
. * have a car to trade. Plea.se
•I send me list of your ears and prices. This does not obligate
tne in any way.
"■ Signed
"■ Address
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By Bruce Barton
Twenty years ago I heard a fa-
mous editor deliver a talk on ad-
vertising before the Chicago ad-
vertising club. I was just out of
college and had seen very few
great men, so the talk made a
deep impression. I remember the
editor said that "reputation is
repitition," and he told some stor-
ies to illustrate the point.
The other night in New York I
heard the same great editor speak
on the same subject. To my sur-
prise it was the very same speech.
Anotner sepaker was a celebrat-
ed banker whom I had heard on
two previous occasions. He, also,
repeated himself.
As we left the dining room one
ei my friends who had noted the
repetitions remarked oil them
gloomily.
"Rather discouraging to'see that
even big minds have so little in
them," he said. "Makes you won-
der if human ingenuity is coming
to an end."
"They all say that though the
stars appear so numberless, you
can not count more than a thou-
sand," he said. "Well, there are
few thoughts. Count the books
and yau would think that there
was irmnense wealth; but an ex-
pert knows that there are few
thoughts which have emerged in
his time. Shut him in a closet
and-he could soon tell them all.
They are , 'quoted, contradicted,
modified, hut the amount remains
computably small."
It is'a good thing for humanity
that this is so. Nature apparently
designed the game of human
progress to la%t a long time, and
provided that tinly a small ad-
vance should be made in any one
generation. Suppose one mind
should suddenly discover every-
thing. How it would take the zest
out of the game!
Moreover, it is decidedly heart-
ening to us average folks to know
that only a very little difference
separates us from fhe smartest.
Lincoln remarked on it. "I have
talked with great men," he said,
"and I can not see wherein they
differ from others."
Generally speaking, the great
achieve their greatness by indus-
try rather than by mere brilliance.
The editor whom I quoted is said
to be the highest paid in the
world. But if you divide his sal-
ary by more than two hundred
newspapers which print his edi-
torials, he is the lowest priced
worker whom each of those papers
employ. He produces more than
anybody else and works longer
hours to do it.
I was glad that I went to that
dinner. It reminded me how little
wisdom and genius really rule the
world: how far industrious effort
can stretch the few ideas, or every
one idea.
Argon is so lazy that he won't
work for anybody. Helium works
indirectly as a lifting power for
airships, and nitrogen, because of
his cowardice, is valuable to hu-
man beings. Millions of atoms of
Nitrogen lie packed in a gun car-
tridge. If you let them alone and
do not ask them to associate with
anybody else, they will remain
quiet and peaceable. But in the
primer just outside the cartridge
is a lively fellow named Mercury
remedy in the Federal courts if
they do not obtain the proceeds
from the sale of their shipments
have already had a wholesome ef- j
feet in putting many crooked com- :
mission houses out of business, or j
holding them to the straight and'
narrow path.
Now the Government proposes
to follow this up by making .it a
Federal offense to interfere with
interstate shipments in any way.
The gangs which demand that
their friends and they alone shall
have the privilege of unloading
WHY EXPERIMENT?
Fulmigate. When somebody pokes i anc^ trucking produce at certain
him from outside with a gun ham- [ terminals, and who beat up and
mer and pushes him into Nitro- sometimes kill those not members
gen's room, he begins to do a!of their gar-§'s who try to handle
dance or his dailv dozen like the Produce at terminal markets,
merry chap that he is. Now Oxy- j would- come under the inhibitions
gen is the one that Nitrogen fears j °- this law.
the most when he begins to dance, Every move which will reduce
about, Nitrogen gets frightened. I the toll taken by middlemen be-
They are too close together for tween producer and consumer is
comfort all crowded up there ir . a good move. And when that toll
that little space. , j is an illegitimate one, as in the
And when Nitrogen starts to ! case of the racketeer, it is essen-
tremble. He trembles and shakes | tial to the welfare of the nation
SUPER-HETERODYNE
at such a violent rate that every-1
body else in the vicinity gets
scared too. Word goes all along
the line, "What's up? Danger?"
and pretty soon they all get the
same feeling of fright that Nitro-
gen has because fright is conta-
gious among human beings, ani-
mals and even gasses. It is not
long till the whole bunch is ready
to stampede if only they knew
where to go. There is no exit ex-
cept the mouth of the gun, so
they all crowd toward that, push-
ing forward that ball that is stop-
ping up the exit. They shove and
trample on one another in their
crazy effort to get out, and by
this time they are all terribly hot,
and of course more than bothered.
When they have pushed and mil
led about a small fraction of time
there is enough hot gas in that
cartridge to send the cannon ball
miles before it stops. In other
words, the ball sometimes can't
rest until it has gone for ten miles
so terrifiied were the inhabitants!
of that cartridge that pushed out;
the projectile.
Nitrogen is undependable and j
unsociable and cowardly. But
that it be eliminated.
without his aid, people might
have to stop stooting at one an-
other.
In nature Nitrogen has a very
important function, particularly in
the production of food, but this
phase will be discussed hi another
article.
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If your battery is undependablcs, i
don't speculate about your need for
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1931, newspaper, January 8, 1931; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth286142/m1/2/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.