The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MINEOLA MONITOR
FEBRUARY 25, 1937
THE MINEOLA MONITOR
Published Every Thursday, in Mineola
Wood County, Texas
By the Wdbd County Publishing Co., Inc.
One Year (In Wood County) $1.00
One Year (Other than Wood County $1.50
Bntered at the Postoffice, Mineola, Texas, as
Second Class Mail Matter UndA- the Act of
Congress, March 3. 1879.
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TEXA
Member—North East Texas Press Association
Any erorneous reflection upon the character
•tending or reputation of any person or
firm or corporation which may appear in the
columns of this paper will be gladly corrected
apon being brought to the attention of the
publisher.
Enough Confusion Here
Chaotic formlesness of Texas; government
is shown by the fact that there are at least
six different kinds of boards and com-
missions administering public affairs now.
This list may not be complete.
But there are at least these: *
1. Advisory boards, such as textbook com-
mission.
2. Ex-officio boards, such as automatic
tax, banking, canvassing, depository boards'.
3. Supervisory, unsalaried boards, form-
ing politics and selecting administrative per-
sonnel. This is the most usual form of
agency, such as the prison commission.
4. Supervisory board, with chairman ex-
ecutive officer of a department, such as un-
employment compensation commission.
5. Board of employed commissioners, such
as the insurance commissioners, board of
control, and pardon board, giving full time
to duties. The board of insurance com-
missioners differs from others in that each
member is head of a separate department.
6. Board of elected members, such as the
railroad commission, giving full time to
duties.
There is really a seventh, the form of the
board of education. In this case, instead of
the board's selecting the administrative of-
ficer, he is an elected state official, who may
fce# along with the board, or may not, and
^countable to the voters, rather than
to the hoard charged with formulating
policies.
Not only all these different kinds of boards,
but the method of their being formed de-
pends on appointment by the governor, or
on divided appointments by different au-
thorities; by ex-official membership because
of either elected or appointed position.
Through changes in existing law, there
still is reference to the "relief commission,"
and to the "old-age assistance commission"
which in the present status of affairs are
just extra-handle titles for the board of con-
trol, which assumed these two functions,
along with others already held.
I:
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State Planning- Board
Seemingly the Texas State Planning Board,
which was appointed by the Governor in
1934 in compliance with a suggestion from
President Roosevelt that all States name
such boards, has been making better than
average headway. It gets better than average
commendation from the natural resources'
committee in its recent report.
The Texas State Planning Board has great -
er responsibility than any other similar body,
because Texas is the largest and most di-
verse State. A constant drawback to the
progress of Texas has been the inability of
the State's component parts to hang to-
gether. City fights city and region fights
region. To some extent this rivarly is stimu-
lating and helpful. Competition is the life
of other things than trade. But Texas has
always needed a central planning body to
co-ordinate the efforts of cities' and regions
when co-ordination was best. There is a
time to lay down the tomahawk.
In a vague way the people of the State
have been conscious of this need. There have
been a number of attempts to form State-
wide commercial and civic associations for
the purpose of furnishing the necessary
leadershp. The three large regional chambers
of commerce maintain an All-State Council.
In the past no organization has ever had
quite the prestige or could command quite
the influence to accomplish fully the task
ahead of it. This nonpartisan State Planning
Board has an opportunity to render this/
great service. Apparently it is making head-
way. It should receive the encouragement of
all the people in all parts of the1 State.—Dai-
las News, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1937.
MAN
MAINE STREET
COUNTY AGENT Jack Hudson is all
enthused these days over the gratifying
manner in which farmers of the county are
taking to the rural electrification program;
which has been outlined for their approval.
In fact, Jack himself is an electrification
project in human form when it comes to
speaking on this subject which is close to
his heart. He knows, more than anyone per-
haps, just how much the realization of the
project will mean to the farmers throughout
the county. Having their interests at herat
he is naturally eager to put the thing
through as it should be and is- happy when
able to see that the thing is going like wild-
fire. Good luck Jack and we hope that you'll
be able to light up every home in the coun-
ty with electric power at a price that will
more than justify the zeal which the farmers
are displaying in signing up for the pro-
posed current.
* * *
O. O. McINTYRE, the New York columnist,
whose manipulation off the English language
in his syndicated column, New York Day By
Day, added a boost for Texas Saturday when
he columned: "Texas strikes me as the
most hospitable State for the total stranger".
O. O. hit the nail on the head with that
remark.
O. O. is certainly correct about that as all
Texans are proud to admit, however, that
hoslpitality to strangers that he mentioned
becomes a mere intimate hospitality—it de-
velops into a grand degree of friendliness
the longer the stranger remains in Texas.
If the stranger dares to tarry too long he
will find himself in danger of becoming in-
ooculated with the consuming desire to re-
main within the State and live among such
people who so heartily understand the mean-
ing of the word hospitality. Come down
again O. O. and when next in Fort Worth
or Dallas drop over to Mineola and test the
East Texas variety of hospitality. You'll
like it!
* * *
HE WORE A little fuzzy cap perched upon
a head of carrot-red. He stood there, out-
side the rail in the Monitor office and
peered at us through the benching as one
of the job presses in the back of the shop
droned out a montonus Song of printing ac-
tivity. We looked at him and his pudgy,
freckle-specked little face broke into an in-
fectious grin. He spoke. "Can I go back and
see that thing go?" Thus, did we meet Paul
Smith, 12, who was out to explore the mys-
teries of the printing press that was whirl-
ing in rhythmic excitement in the rear of
the shop.
Having received permission to inspect the
monster, Paul vanished through the door
leading from the office. We found him stand-
ing before the press as the operator deftly
inserted and withdrew the paper sheets. As
we watched his eyes dance over the spinning
wheels our thoughts raced back to an
earlier day when we too had been engrossed
in the wonders of such marvelous bits of
machinery. Our greatest delight was felt
as we returned home from school during the
noon hour and ipaused, to ait on the cool
green grass at the lower windows of the
Technical High School and watch the em-
byronic cabinet-makers within as they deftly
applied chisel to the wood blocks revolving
furiously on the power driven electric lathes.
That was real sport! To see those curling
tendrila of wood fly from the block and
go spinning into space! A maze of pulleys
composed the ceiling of that magic place
and there were numberless leather belts to
delight the eye of a lingering school boy fast
becoming late for a dinner that was already
awaiting his tardy foot. Could Paul look at
that machine? Why we hadn't even noticed
the romance attached to the cumbersome,
bulky thing until we stood there with Paul,
and for a precious instant saw the whizzing
wheel, the inky rollers, and the jumping
electric spark, through the eyes of a 12-
year-old boy. Yes, Paul was more than wel-
come "to see the thing go"—for he showed us
that boys, little boys in particular, do not
change through the years, but just go on
being boys and finding so much fun in
such little things as a printing press that
until Saturday, and Paul's visit, had been
a thing of little life. Thank you Paul for a
look at ourself as we used to be!
* * *
I WONDER if Mack Bogan knows that chick-
ens with wonderfully colored plumage may
be raised by adding artificial dyes to their
food? Let's try a red, white, and blue hen
next week, Mack!
JUST HUMANS
Bv GENE CARR
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"What's th* Trouble?"
"He's Upset About His Teeth."
Laughing Around the World
With IRVTN S. COBB
The Burden of the Black Brother
By IRVIN S. COBB
(f^NLY recently I told a story relating to Booker Washington. Today
I crave consent of the readers to tell another. It was a favorite
anecdote of the great negro educator. He said that the citizens of
a remote Southern community got interested in a project to import
some Europeans to the neighborhoood and colonize them upon the fer-
tile but gone to seed farmlands and truck patches which dotted the
district.
A meeting was held at the country courthouse to discuss ways and
means and to raise funds for putting the undertaking through. In the
audience sat an elderly and highly respected colored citizen.
After the meeting adjourned the chairman of it hailed the old negro.
"Hello, Uncle Zack!" he said, "I was glad to have you with us
tonight. I take it that you endorse the project we've put under way?"
"Well, Kunnel, I wouldn't go so fur ez to say dat," stated the old
man. "To tell you de Gawd's truth, theys' already mo' w'ite folks in dia
county than us niggers kin suppo'te."
TEN YEARS AGO
Paul Neyman, 11 month old
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ney-
man who live just" outside the
city limits to the northeast of
Mineola, escaped death Thurs-
day afternoon when he tipped
a pan of scalding hot water
over his neck and arms. At
press time he was reported to
be resting comfortably.
The condition of Judge
Puckett and Jim Coker, of Yan-
tis, who were painfully injured
on the Quitman road last week
is steadily improving.
The heavy ranis of the past
few days here and up the Sa-
bine River and the Lake Fork
Creek, this week sent both
those normally placid streams
raging from their banks to
overflow many plowed acres
along their course. No lives
have been reported lost but the
property damage will run to a
considerable figure.
Mr. C. C. Sisler, proprietor of
Sisler's Store returned here for
a business visit Tuesday after-
noon and will spend a few days
looking after his business in-
terests before returning to his
home in Duncan, Oklahoma.
Fifteen Mineola merchants
met Tuesday night at the Beck-
ham Hotel in a business meet-
ing of the Retail Merchants
Association. J. B. Whitten is
president and H. O. Rogers,
secretary.
At the regular meeting of
the Mineola Board held Mon-
day night it was decided by
the trustees to instruct the
East Texas Power and Light
Company to install lights in
the old grammar school build-
ing.
The Merry Maids and Matrons
met Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. H. L. Lott.
J. L. Shipp is among others
who renewed their subscriptions
to the Monitor this week.
The Texas Woman's College
orchestra under the direction
of Dean Carl Venth will be
heard in concert in the High
School Auditorium Friday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. -
THE MAYOR SEZ-
I received a letter from lone-
some Ladd of Route Two, Min-
eola, who says that he wants
to get married, but don't know
how to get the job done.
Dear Lonesome: This is a
very simple matter if handled
judiciously. At least it's simple
to get the dame but the grief
will come later. Just follow
theye simple directions; send
her a questionaire as follows:
1. Will you obey your hus-
band?
2. Will you support your hus-
band in the manner to which
he is accustomed?
3. Will you "refrain froim1"
buying his neckties?
If the prospective bride an-
swers all of these questions,
and especially numberr three,
in the affirmative, then grab
her for she is O. K. but in case
you can't find one who knows
how to appreciate her oppor-
tunities just come up here for
we have the world's famous
Old Maid who has been saying
yes to every male for the past
twenty years.
Folks, I have about decided
that Crow is the garden spot
of the world. At least it's the
easiest cultivated that I know
of- as was proven by a citizen
of that place who was showing
his oat patch, and remarked,
"Those are the finest in East
Texas!" But when he was ask-
ed, "How do you plow in such
a steep field?" replied, "We
don't plow it, when the spring
thaws come, the hocks roll
down the hill and tear it up so
we can plant the seed, tho we
dont really plant it for I just
stand in my back door and
shoot the seed in with a shot
gun.
That Yantis widow says
when an unmarried couple holds
hands it's a case of love, but
when a married couple holds
hands it's usually a case of
self defense. Which brings; to
mind the following thought.
Beware of the girls who act
kittenish before they are mar-
ried; they might become cat-
ish when they grow up.
Mayor of Yantis,
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