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- .. , . • - ~ , , . - • , '. , , • , • • MRS . ALLRED WRITES From Governor's Wife Real Scrapbook "Salety-Minded" Dear Mr. Chamberlain: , .. I have a big scrapbook In which Your Safety Program? We like It J am taking the liberty of answer I have printed the names of the songs -long may It continue on the alrl Ing your nice letter which has ar and the persons who sang them and It fills a great need in thla country rived in Mr. Allred's absence. You at what time eaCh song was sung. Of where a mechanism Invented tor l a see. he is campaigrung throughout the course, this is the Bam Dance only, cilltating man's work and Increasing state making an average of four and I treasure the book very much. his pleasure threatens to become Pub speeches a day. I was 15 years old this month and lic Enemy No.1 because at hIS own You have wr1tten such an Interest have listened to the Barn Dance for carelessness. U each 11me we get be ing arUcle. "Amba.ssador to Texas," faut and II halt years. I enjoy every hind the wheel, we would just stop a and I Shall save it tor Jl.mmJe to read minute of It. I listen to the lull nve moment and be a btt overawed b, the upon his return. This article contains hours, but t am a little partial to responslblUty that is aura-the safety IpiendJd publicity for TeX9JI and we ward the lut hour.. , . Doris Wil of human Ufe--we would all be more certainly do appreciate your Interest liams, Lombard. Dl. carefu l. In the Lone Star State to which we So, here's wishing you great suc are so devoted, cess In making the motoring public "Safety-Minded". Thanking you for your tine im Extra Speakers Here, too, are a Pet Peeve and a pression of Tenl, I am pint or SO at Laughing Gas. Sincerely, I heard George Bluar being Inter viewed on the Garden program Sat Pet Peeve: Bicycle rldera who don·t Joe Betsy Allred. Austin, Texaa. know their place, or knowing 1t, don·t urday. Por a little money and a little keep It. work he could have a radio speaker outside the house 10 he could bear Of!lcer: "Tire trouble?" Smlle-A-Whlle time aa he worked, Feminine Driver: "O-o-b, N-o-of On Your Toes We say the program 1s worth It. We Just nlllng the' UrN W1th Utll nice We heard your broadcast today as have extra speakers In the garage lresh country air," we do every day and were much in and bam and upstairs. and when the terested and informed by the talks boys had a tent In the orchard, they Hank Johnson said h1£ car couldn't given by the men from the Stock had a. speaker in it. Many radio deal skld; Yards who represented different parts ers have old hom Ipeakers in the A monument proves that It could at the country. basement or storeroom.-Mrs. Clara and dJd. On my way from home to the omce. W. Spearin&,. Rockford, Ill. Agaln we say, Good. Luck and more a dl s ~ance at only a few blocks. t W8! power to you.-Mlu Motorist (R. M . stopped by three different people who :\1tK.I. Oneida, Ill. asked If t had heard the broadcllSl from the Stock Yards. Intimate Touch I think you are on your toes to in No one but WLB would have put. on Complete Report stitute that kind of program. It tells the novel broadcast from the Stock what Is going on right now better "Have been listening to your won Yal'd.~ . It wJ',s a most Intimate touch dert'U1 service In giving the general than government or other reports to the DlnnerbeU progl'am and we en which are from several days to sev public such a complete report 01 the joyed it so very much, and are sure crop situation, 85 eJrected by the eral weeks late. You are to be com everyone listening In appreciated It plimented on your foresigh t lor In drouth. Thanks for keeping us so just as much.-l'ttr. and l\(rs. A. Wood well Informed._Ray McGaulhey, R . stituting such a program as that 01 worth. Tolono. 111. today. t feel sure I am one 01 many 4, Macomb, D1. who hope it will be repeated.-John S. ;\forrison (M. D.>' Lafayette. Ind. ST AND BY Come Again. Slim BURRIDGE 0 , BUTLER, P ublisber Yes, do have Slim WIUlams come eoc>,...IIM. l'l8, Prairie P"l'lIIer P!lblllblDe CD. 1230 W a shl"~on 8lyd ~ Chlcaao again: we enjoyed his most interest Indl.napoll.: 241 N. PennsYlv...... Water lor Dogs ing talk very much and I'm sure he NItW York CIt)': tsO Park AY,nue About the daR-biting menace In could tell us much more, Subscription Pr:lce, $1.00 a Year Chicago and other places: Much And t might say here, Mr, Baker's Slnlle cop),. :; c@nU could be done so easily by putting a program is most Interesting to every Issued Every Saturday pan of water on sidewalks. curbs and one---.we lIke to hear how It is away Enler,d .1 Ifcond-da$s matter February terraces lor dogs and all bl.rd and from home. Keep him on the alr. Ill. l &~, U the pOSt offtc@ at Chlnlo, 1111 _ animal Iile. Moot of these dogs are l'tln. John ReUSCh, ElIznbeth, III. noll. und.t the Act 0:>1 March J , lillY. dr1ven crazed by t hirst and no place (SUm. wfll appear as a guest on thl! JULIAN T. BENTLEY, Editor to drink during thls terrible droulh. Alka-SeUu.'r Barn Dance tonight, August 8, 1936 - Mrs. Belle Kosir, Wadsworth, III AuglUt &. VOLUME 2 NtTMaEJI 26 Texas Centennial Shows Why American Folk Tunes Outlive Tin Pan Alley By GEORGE BIGGAR ITrING In the Admlrustratloll Building of the Texas Centen S nIal, Dallas, I had Just met Cap At I.. n, Ardut Brou_ rd, whD, wilh hb hDmmulll.. 11" 1.. , Iuds th .. BrvalSllrd band tain Dick Maitland, aged resident of Dt ",.n .. , La., In old_tim .. F ..m ..r. (olk tUMt u' dlnen. Above, C.ptaln Dick Malt IlIId (with stnw ,..n, I salt_wlln V.. tu.lI, who h .. lped I.. &eb Ih .. C.I..... lon Wharf Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten Island, Compan,. allon Mm.. old-tim .. .... .. hl nl ..,.., New York. "Yes, sir. I started to sail the seu in '69 and I've visited every country MUes Away" and other typical sea spirltuala, work SOIl8S and dances by and island In the world worth vlsltln', chanteys. They ably represented the colored folka of north Texas. An' I tell you, I've had some funny contribution of sea-men to AmertcEUl Of special interest to this writer experiences," he said. folk music, was the appearance of the Aca<Uans "But what brought you to Dallas?" So well roWlded WIUI the week's (Cajuru;) from the St. Martinsville I Inquired. "It's a long way to New program or the 1936 National Folk and New Iberta sections of Louisiana. York." Festival. that It would have been hard These yOWlg people are descendanta "Oh, Miss Knott and Major Pick to have round any type of folk lore of the famous French exiles, whoee ering of the National Folk Festival untouched. Many of the participants story is so beautifully told In Long asked. me to come out here with Leo had been chosen through competition fellow's "EvangeUne." They sang Reagan of the Jib-Boom Chantey in local and district contests. French folk songs and danced the breakdowns, walt2es, pavanes and Singers (New London. Conn.) and the A state that has been Wlder Six two of us wlll demonstrate how the schottisches at their ancestors. One nags and is rich In cowboy, Indian. marvels to think how such old cus old-time sea chanteys should be Spanish and negro tra<Utlon, Texu sung," he replied. " An' we're sup toms have been handed down from proved a natural spot to hold this generation to generation, from old po.!ed to teach some of the youngsters national gathering of folk musicians, of the Galveston Wharf Company France, to Nova Scotia. and thence singers and dancers. It contributed to Louisiana. how to sing them, too. These modem the Tigua Indians and the Mexican sailors don't know the real sea songs." Tipica orchestra from EJ Paso: cow The "first Americans" were ably boys and their Wives from Anson to represented by the Kiowas or Texa.s Salt-Water Sones reproduce the famous "Cowboys' and Oklahoma: the Tiguas of Texe.s, And teach them they did, for it Christmas Ball"; pioneers from the and Cherokees of North Carollna. was a most presentable showing that famous Old Trail Drivers' AssOCia Their ceremonial chants and dances Capt. Dick Maitland and Leo B. Rea tion: German singers and dancers were most colorful. These CarolIna gan made as they led. the Galveston from Fredericksburg; old-time tl.d Cherokees have a unique hiStory. boys in "Blow the Man Down," "To dlers from Dallas: school pupil.s In About 100 yeaI'll ago the government Boston Come All Ye:' "Ten Thousand folk songs and dances. and negro ' Continued on paae 15 1 II Genuine Service Out of the mass of anecdotes ac cumulated since Columbia's "Com munity Sing" series was started comes a tale of a PawtUcket, R. I. lady who is hard of hearing.

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