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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1923
Page
4
Indications point to a strong year for Reeves County as unprecedented rains bring happiness and an optimistic mood among residents, signaling potential prosperity for the season and local livelihoods.
The Enterprise has two good Linotype machines and only needs one at present. The paper offers to bargain with a Texas newspaper in need of a reliable machine for straight matter that will deliver results.
Election will choose three trustees for the Pecos Independent School District. All town citizens are urged to vote at the ballot box to express their sentiments and fulfill their duty.
Town businessmen have leased three recently vacated business houses purely for speculation, paying rents while leaving them idle in anticipation of an oil strike. The writer urges optimism for a quick well and notes those unable to pay rent could sell goods or consider selling property, hoping to join any forthcoming boom.
An April election will select two aldermen to replace the outgoing two year terms. The piece urges voters to choose property owners who will judiciously manage taxes and public funds, and to study candidates before voting.
A U S Savings System booklet explains government efforts to encourage economy and thrift. It recalls the Postal Savings System established about twelve years ago to promote saving among the public.
The article explains postwar savings plans replacing war bonds, urging education to prevent swindles and offering safe investments in small, convenient denominations. Lew Wallace Jr. notes choosing the paper as a medium to spread the thrift message to the public.
The Dallas News laments the $10,000 issue of the Congressional Record printed from unseen speeches. It notes funds pay for undelivered orations by Blanton Heflin and others, with about $5,550 in undelivered rhetoric across forty one and a half pages. The piece critiques moneyed interests and urges accountability for public expense.
A clever burlesque circulating widely notes a dry goods merchant urged by his wife to order a new radio outfit for Sunday while their old victrola wanes in usefulness. Nearby a Victrola and furniture dealer shares breakfast with his family as the morning conversation unfolds.
George Bernard Shaw argues poverty is a destructive force rivaling disease and calls for abolishing poverty rather than tolerating it. He critiques churches and society, contrasting wealth and need, and cites Major Barbara essays on critics and reform. The dialogue questions the ethics of poverty and the role of civilization in preventing famine and crime.
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