The Simmons Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 32, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 26, 1923 Page: 4 of 4
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Summer's
Favorite
Footwear
Rarely have we shown such a splendid variety of styles a
more up-to-the-minute stock of fine shoes. Even the newest of
the new the slashed side effect and lattic work. Everything
to delight women who love good style.
White Kid and Linen Strop Pumps Sandals Suede Straps
Sport Oxfords Satins and Patents. In fact you may choose
from so many styles you will not have to go outside of our
moderate price range to ohtain the very style you have hecn
wanting 85.00 to 89.00
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THE MOTHER TONGUE
(Continued from page one )
1'REXY.
Abilene a Great Western
Trade Center
(Continued from page one.)
half dollars is now furnishing current to
some twenty-seven towns within a wldo
radius.
Also Abilene has solved her water prob
lem for all time by the building of a gi-1
gantic resorvoir in the mountains seven-
teen miles South of the city. This great
resorvoir knewn as Lake Abilene has an
ultimate capacity of seventeen billion gal-
lons of water. This inexaustiblo supply
is available in the city mains coming
from the great lake by gravity flow and
is delivered to the customers at a very low
rate it is the ambition of the city govern-
ment to make the water in Abilene abso-
lutely free to domestic users within a very
short time.
Then too Abilene is a college town be-
ing boasted of by many as the Athens
of the West and she owes much to her
schools for they have really made her what
she is today and will continue to be an
outstanding factor in the making of her
a real city and a real trade center. They
are: Simmons the oldest and largest
which is an A plus Senior College with
an annual enrollment of more than a thou-
sand students heavily endowed and repre-
tentative of the Baptist denomination.
Next is Abilene Christian College with
an enrollment of more than six hundred
and is considered the best school of its
denomination In the South. Then to the
South of the city can be seen the mag-
nificent administration building now un-
der construction for the new McMurry
College. Besides these there are two of
the best commercial colleges in the State
and all Abilene is anxiously hoping that
the new Texas Technological school will
be located here.
You may ask why and how there schools
can make Abilene a great Western trade
center? It is because these schools draw
students from all parts of the State and
from other States and where a person' or
community or even a city has boys and
girls offff it college they are all interested
in them and their schools and would na-
turally be interested in the town in which
the school is located. They therefore see
the great opportunities of not only the
schools of Abilene but industrially as well
and the more they investigate the more
they are interested for Abilene really has
something to offer them and it is easy to
see the effects of this as year after year
her commercial interests are broadening
more and more. The town itself is grow-
ing all the time as can be seen by the
hundreds of new homes being built and
the scores of new business firms which ore
continually locating here.
The program which Abilene has laid to
be fulfilled in 1923 is first a railroad to
Cross Plains. This will open up a vast
amount of new and undeveloped trade
territory to her which as for os she has
been concerned has been wasted and mil-
lions of dollars of new business is there
waiting for Abilene to come after it.
Second is the building of a municipal
building. Every day that passes in some
way further developes and brings out the
great need for an adequate public audito-
rium. The municipal auditorium not
merely a playground nor an ornament but
is a vital municipal necessity and without
the accomplishment of this part of the
program A bilene'a march to the front will
be greatly hampered.
Some of the minor details of the pro-
gram are: the further development of
elty parks a city beautiful campaign and
the better maintenance of county roads
and city streets.
Another vital point in her program is
the establishment of at least three new.
industrial plants for the time has come
when Abilene needs more payrolls. She
has pasted the stage of an agricultural
center and increased population hinges on
the opportunities offered to the wage
earner. Therefore Abilene must have more1
mills and factories. Abilene can have and
it is a part of the years program to have:
Another college a cotton seed oil mill
and a cotton mill. These three things arc
all sane logical and safe.
The last part of Abilcnc's 1923 program
is an effort to have one hundred thousand
pcoplo come to the West Tcaxs Fair next
fall and thus put Abilene before Texas
and the world and let them sec what she
really has and is.
BUILDER'S OF PYRAMIDS.
(Continued from page one.)
as you have done it unto one of the least
of these yc have done it unto me." It
is the strong arm of revolution that holds
the steps and guards the pyramid against
every opposing interest of life. So wo
realize that life pyramids are not complet-
ed with foundations and the various steps
of progression: but by unending persever-
ance directed by intellect made stablo by
indomitable courage; and realized by the
intuitive powers of man; made beautiful
by love; and using the initiative that
builds national progress. Tennyson says
of the Duke of Willing ton: "He stood
four-squaro to all the winds that blew";
and so do we withstand all the evil jn
fluences incident to our positions. " Thus
pyramid making is not merely an intel-
lectual concept but a positive force in
ethical life.
In all nature there is a similar change
the potential oak is in the acorn; but the
force that urges growth is the germ itself;
it bursts the acorn and pushes downward
and upward grappling the earth beneath
and braving the storm above until it be-
comes the strength and majesty which
were only potential at the outset.
There is only ono perfect pattern that
man may use to build the pyramid of his
life if he shall be able to withstand the
storms that every life must meet; it is
that of the Christ. We must realize that:
"Life is not living
Just for today
Life is not dreaming
All the short way.
To live is to do
What must be done;
To work and be true
For work is soon done.
'Tis living for others
To lighten their load
'Tis helping our brothers
And trusting in God."
world. It went from prow to stern and
guided the ships that found their way
into the seven seas and hack again. It
has echoed in the mountains mingled with
the call of the locomotive the whir of the
saw the roar of the waterfall the mur-
mur of machinery the sound of pick deep
in the mines. It has gone into many times
a thousand school rooms its has made its
plea from as many pulpits and trumpeted
forth its messages from the press the
platform and the stage. It has finally
confused its many voices in the whir of
modern life until wc are oflcn prone to
shut our cars while each screams the
louder so that his volco may ho heard
It is the languago of youth. In the
four corners of the earth there aro na-
tions young in point of years and young
in tlio strength and virility of the man-
hood that makes their citizenship. At
least four young empires speak as wc do
today. Wc have only to name the Domin-
ion of Canadu the Commonwealth of Aus-
tralia the Territory of Alaska and the
United States of America and wc have
let from between our lips llio password
in a large measure to the future destiny
of the world.
Doing a language of perpetual youth
it lends itself to weaving the fabric of
nations and establishing tlio principles by
virtue of which they exist hut yields to
the graces of literature in poetry and
song as none other has done. Wc have
only to turn tlio pages of our books to
find the wings that hear messages from
soul to soul or the romance and beauty
and love or joy or pathos or hope or de-
spair that throbs in every human heart.
I love the old English language the
tongue of my fathers. I rejoice in its
heritage of liberty of progress and of
youth that it has gathered from the dia-
mond fields of the ages. I like to listen
to its music as it flows from the lips of a
cultured man. I love the old songs as
they ring out their beauty and truth on
the Sabbath day. I love the old lullabies
your mother and mine used to hum in the
evening time. I call it a sacred hcritago
given us to write in our books to speak
to our people to sing in our churches
and to breathe back in prayer to our God.
As such let us cherish it. Let us keep
it rich and beautiful and pure. As it
leaves our lips may it tell the truth may
it come from our hearts undcfiled by
those things that may so easily mar its
beauty and blight its vigor and keep it
so far as the speaker is concerned a tool
of blasphemy and an instrument of deceit.
By Ulmer Bird.
A great big soul and a heart of the West
And a mind that towers abovo the rest
That searches and serves and gives its
best
That's Prexy.
That searches deep to the heart of a man
And finds good there if a mortal can
And fits that good to a Master's plan
That's Prexy.
Who gives his best in his cheerful way
Who stands four square and serves his
day
Whose wages the coin of tlio ages repay
Thai's Prexy.
Ho presidents this and presides over that
With little increase in the size of his hat.
There's something doing wherever he's at
Yea Proxy I
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MY PAL.
By Myrtle 0. Barber
I love thy lips they smile thine eyes
I love thy voice thy kindly ways.
These arc the least; for in thee lies
A noblcsncss too deep for praise:
My Pal
I love the Soul I met once in thine eyes
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Let another man praise thee and not
thine own mouth; a stranger .and not
thine own lips. Proverbs xxvii 2.
PUBLIC SALES!
Wc have purchased 122000 pairs
U. S. Army Munson last shoes sizes
5y2 to 12 which was the entire sur-
plus stock of one of the largest U. S.
Government shoe contractors.
This shoe is guaranteed one hun
dred percent solid leather color dark
tan bellows tongue dirt and water-
proof. The actual value of this shoe
is $6.00. Owing to this tremendous
buy wc can offer same to the public
at $2.95.
Send correct size. Pay postman
on delivery or send money order. If
shoes arc not us represented we will
cheerfully refund your money
promptly upon request.
MAKERS OF AMERICA
(Continued from page one.)
the finger steady on the trigger that
created a flame in the heart that caused
a flash in the eyo and gave strength in
time of need.
Go with me to Flanders Fields. Behind
us our guns arc raoring in their fury; be-
fore us lie the enemy ready to charge and
beyond them their big guns boom and
thunder out their leaden messengers of
death at us. From our general comes this
word: "Prepare for a charge it's coming."
There is a rusli from the enemy; the sound
of lead and steel against flesh mingled
with the groans of the wounded yet each
man stands unshaken the line holds and
the enemy is repulsed. Was it the word
from our captain that caused that line to
hold? Was it the roar of the guns be-
hind us or was it the thought of his moth-
er fighting beside him in the trench that
caused him to choose death rather than
to retreat. No a thousand times no! It
was the memory of his mother as she
stood at the station with tears in her eyes
yet a smile on her lips and said: "Good-
bye son God bless you." With that vision
before him how could he retreat and show
less courage than his mother showed in
the departing hour?
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WE TAKE THIS METHOD OF THANKING EACH
AND EVERY STUDENT OF SIMMONS COLLEGE
FOIt THEIR LIBERAL PATRONAGE IN THE PAST
YEAR AND HOPE YOU ALL RETURN TO OUR
FAIR CITY NEXT YEAR.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR FINE
FOOTWEAR AT A VERY LOW CASH PRICE
WHEN IN NEED OF FOOTWEAR AND
HOSIERY COME AND SEE OUR STOCK.
WE ALWAYS HAVE THE NEWEST AT LESS
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The Pretty New
Footwear
Practically every day's express brings us pretty new
styles in Mid-Summer Footwear for our popular Shoe
Department. If you need Shoes for Sport wear street
wear or dress come in and sec the pretty novelties that
wc arc showing. Sandals in many cut-out styles in
black white and combinations arc here. Alsa dainty
black white and combinations are here. Also dainty
strictly dress.
EXPERT FITTING SERVICE
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PLAIN CREASE TOE BUCK OXFORDS FOR MEN
SHOES REPAIRED WHILE YOU WAIT
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SIZES 34 TO 37 $30 TO $35.00
Ajnother .shipment ot Whip Cords in Sport Models 35 to 40.
Price S35.00.
EVERYTHING A MAN WEARS
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Compton Bldg. Abilene Texas
ATTENTION STUDENTS!
We wish for you a pleasant and profitable vucution and confi-
dently expect you back next September.
As a student of Simmons and a patron of ours those of you
who remain for the summer are respectfully urged to let us
supply your needs at all times.
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The Simmons Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 32, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 26, 1923, newspaper, May 26, 1923; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth96599/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.