WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.800 Good morning everyone. 00:09.800 --> 00:14.480 Directly from the front steps of the Governor's Mansion here in the city of Austin, the Texas 00:14.480 --> 00:18.960 State Network takes pleasure in presenting another friendly chat with your Governor, 00:18.960 --> 00:21.960 W. Leo Daniel. 00:21.960 --> 00:26.320 How do you do ladies and gentlemen, and hello there boys and girls, this is Governor W. 00:26.320 --> 00:32.240 Leo Daniel of Texas speaking, direct from the front porch of this stately mansion here 00:32.240 --> 00:38.800 in the friendly city of Austin, the capital city of beautiful Texas. 00:38.800 --> 00:45.080 Another fine group of lovely friends has gathered here on the mansion lawn to witness this broadcast, 00:45.080 --> 00:48.440 and we are very happy indeed to have company. 00:48.440 --> 00:54.320 We hope that all you folks in Radioland who can will drop by the mansion someday and pay 00:54.320 --> 00:57.680 us a visit here in our home sweet home. 01:24.320 --> 01:50.360 Thank you boys and friends. 01:50.360 --> 01:54.240 Before getting started on this program I want to make an announcement. 01:54.240 --> 01:59.120 The duties of the Governor's office are so heavy during this world crisis that I have 01:59.120 --> 02:02.440 had little time to devote to the campaign. 02:02.440 --> 02:07.560 In fact the speaking tour I had planned to start last Monday was postponed, at least 02:07.560 --> 02:09.040 temporarily. 02:09.040 --> 02:14.600 In times like this I feel that it is far more important that I stay in my office and do 02:14.600 --> 02:20.560 everything I can to assist the President in carrying out the great defense program, and 02:20.560 --> 02:25.000 that I intend to do regardless of politics. 02:25.000 --> 02:30.400 Politics seems so unimportant as compared with the great world crisis like we are now 02:30.400 --> 02:32.360 witnessing. 02:32.360 --> 02:38.560 I would like to make at least one personal appearance however before the election. 02:38.560 --> 02:43.040 Because there are many things I would like to report to my friends in Texas, and unless 02:43.040 --> 02:50.840 something unforeseen happens I expect to have one grand state rally at Waco on July 2nd 02:50.840 --> 02:52.720 at 8 p.m. 02:52.720 --> 02:59.280 That may be the only appearance I will be able to make before the election. 02:59.280 --> 03:04.680 However if time and conditions will permit there may be other appearances and talks after 03:04.680 --> 03:05.680 that. 03:05.680 --> 03:12.300 Waco is centrally located and I want to invite all who can to come from far and near to Waco 03:12.300 --> 03:14.580 on July 2nd. 03:14.580 --> 03:18.720 That talk at Waco on July 2nd will not be broadcast. 03:18.720 --> 03:23.080 It may be so hot that I would not want to put it on the air. 03:23.080 --> 03:28.400 I want to tell the citizens of Texas a few things that have been going on and want to 03:28.400 --> 03:32.600 look you right square in the face while I make my report to you. 03:32.600 --> 03:37.440 Remember the date, Tuesday July 2nd at 8 p.m. at Waco, Texas. 03:37.440 --> 03:39.160 Be sure to be there. 03:39.160 --> 03:44.400 Bring your dinner and horse feed and stay all day, all night. 03:44.400 --> 03:49.640 You know friends in these days of hurry and scurry and speed and excitement it seems like 03:49.640 --> 03:55.440 this old world has got to going so fast and furious that we're just going around in circles. 03:55.440 --> 04:00.180 Sort of like the fidgety man who rushed out of his home in such a hurry that he forgot 04:00.180 --> 04:05.480 his hat and with his clothes flying in the breeze jumped into his high-powered automobile 04:05.480 --> 04:11.080 and started at breakneck speed in all directions. 04:11.080 --> 04:15.760 We are going at such a rapid pace that we are getting nowhere fast. 04:15.760 --> 04:20.680 Of course there is no chance to change our pace or at least not much chance. 04:20.680 --> 04:25.280 But we do look back in bewilderment sometimes and wonder how in the world folks used to 04:25.280 --> 04:31.600 get anyplace in what is sometimes referred to as the good old days or might I say the 04:31.600 --> 04:34.640 good old horse and buggy days. 04:34.640 --> 04:40.000 Those we try to stand still or sit still long enough to visualize the good old horse and 04:40.000 --> 04:45.760 buggy days as the boys sing an old song by that name which they ran across in their collection 04:45.760 --> 04:47.780 of good old time songs. 04:47.780 --> 04:52.680 Those good old horse and buggy days. 04:52.680 --> 05:04.640 And the countryside we used to ride behind our trusty steed that was long ago but even 05:04.640 --> 05:09.240 so it was a joy indeed to drive along so dately. 05:09.240 --> 05:13.560 I've missed it so much lately when you smiled at me demurely. 05:13.560 --> 05:21.240 You brought gladness to my heart in those good old horse and buggy days. 05:21.240 --> 05:27.200 And I held your hand securely and without it never part in those good old horse and 05:27.200 --> 05:30.560 buggy days. 05:30.560 --> 05:32.560 Many years have hurried by. 05:32.560 --> 05:34.560 Many storms have swept the sky. 05:34.560 --> 05:36.560 One through laughter, tears and sighs. 05:36.560 --> 05:39.560 We're still together you and I. 05:39.560 --> 05:44.560 Now your hair has turned to silver but we're still the same sweethearts. 05:44.560 --> 05:51.560 Those good old horse and buggy days. 06:14.560 --> 06:27.000 When you smiled at me demurely. 06:27.000 --> 06:34.000 You brought gladness to my heart in those good old horse and buggy days. 06:34.000 --> 06:40.320 And I held your hand securely and without it never part in those good old horse and 06:40.320 --> 06:41.320 buggy days. 06:41.320 --> 06:45.320 Many years have hurried by. 06:45.320 --> 06:48.320 Many storms have swept the sky. 06:48.320 --> 06:50.320 One through laughter, tears and sighs. 06:50.320 --> 06:52.320 We're still together you and I. 06:52.320 --> 06:57.320 Now your hair has turned to silver but we're still the same sweethearts. 06:57.320 --> 07:01.320 On those good old horse and buggy days. 07:01.320 --> 07:08.600 Yes sir, thank you boys and those were grand old days and while people did not go so fast 07:08.600 --> 07:14.680 in those good old days yet it seems that they got there just as well if not better than 07:14.680 --> 07:16.760 we do nowadays. 07:16.760 --> 07:19.560 Especially as far as getting to church is concerned. 07:19.560 --> 07:25.640 It seems that getting to church is more a force of habit than it is a matter of speed. 07:25.640 --> 07:31.440 And this can better be illustrated by a little poem entitled Horse Sense which is supposed 07:31.440 --> 07:37.440 to be a true story about a faithful old horse that actually went to church all alone without 07:37.440 --> 07:39.000 a driver. 07:39.000 --> 07:44.040 Incidentally it's not hard for me to believe this story I'm going to read because I know 07:44.040 --> 07:49.640 from experience that an old gentle horse learns the road pretty well after much travel and 07:49.640 --> 07:53.260 does not require a lot of driving. 07:53.260 --> 07:58.920 And as big and fine as they make the shiny easy riding automobiles these days we must 07:58.920 --> 08:05.320 admit they haven't made one yet that will get very far without a driver as old Auburn 08:05.320 --> 08:06.320 did. 08:06.320 --> 08:10.360 And here's the poem titled Horse Sense. 08:10.360 --> 08:16.880 His owner had the custom, a good one I should say, of hitching up and driving off to church 08:16.880 --> 08:18.820 each Sabbath day. 08:18.820 --> 08:24.280 The horse acquired the habit and seemed to really know when Sunday came, just what to 08:24.280 --> 08:27.360 do and where and when to go. 08:27.360 --> 08:32.800 One summer Sunday morning some friends arrived and they, compelled to change their schedule, 08:32.800 --> 08:35.320 stayed home from church that day. 08:35.320 --> 08:39.640 So over to the pasture the faithful horse was led. 08:39.640 --> 08:45.440 They bars put up, they unaware of what was in his head. 08:45.440 --> 08:51.360 Before his master reached the house he out and on the road without a bit of harness on, 08:51.360 --> 08:53.880 no buggy and no load. 08:53.880 --> 09:00.580 He reached the church two miles away, went in the shed and there as was his weekly custom 09:00.580 --> 09:04.200 stood till closing hymn and prayer. 09:04.200 --> 09:11.640 Then backing out in dignity, his Sabbath duty done, went homeward having borne his cross, 09:11.640 --> 09:14.120 his crown was fairly won. 09:14.120 --> 09:20.560 He stood beside the stable door, proud as a horse could be, at the example he had set 09:20.560 --> 09:23.200 there Sunday company. 09:23.200 --> 09:29.240 They saw and everybody heard in regions all around about the horse that went to church, 09:29.240 --> 09:31.720 his piety so sound. 09:31.720 --> 09:33.760 A fabricated story? 09:33.760 --> 09:36.120 No, gospel true. 09:36.120 --> 09:42.960 And hence I tell in verse that horses have a keen intelligence and what is more a moral 09:42.960 --> 09:51.280 worth to mortals somewhat dense, the value of the virtue known to us as good horse sense. 09:51.280 --> 09:56.800 If anywhere in God's wise scheme a heaven for animals is planned, that horse that went 09:56.800 --> 10:01.320 to church alone belongs at his right hand. 10:01.320 --> 10:07.600 And now that we are, have read the little story about horse sense, perhaps we need a 10:07.600 --> 10:14.260 little more horse sense today instead of so much of this other stuff we have. 10:14.260 --> 10:19.840 Maybe if we had more good old Dobbins trotting down the road we could all thumb a ride and 10:19.840 --> 10:23.980 get where we ought to be instead of where we are. 10:23.980 --> 10:30.000 But in the absence of old Dobbin let's do the best we can and imagine we are now back 10:30.000 --> 10:35.920 at that little old church, that little old country church where old Dobbin went all alone 10:35.920 --> 10:38.680 in that little old church in the valley. 10:38.680 --> 11:08.600 In the little old church in the valley, where I first learned of sorrow and joy, 11:08.600 --> 11:18.240 I can see Mother there with her head bowed in prayer, 11:18.240 --> 11:27.080 As she prayed for her wandering boy. 11:27.080 --> 11:43.080 It was there that I first met my Sally, Like an angel on earth, for it seemed, 11:43.080 --> 12:01.520 As she sang sweet and low, in the long, long ago, In the little old church of my dreams. 12:01.520 --> 12:05.200 That little old church, I remember it well. 12:05.200 --> 12:11.240 I think of it yet and can most hear the bell that hung in the top of its belfry so tall 12:11.240 --> 12:15.680 and sent forth its peals all the people to call. 12:15.680 --> 12:21.760 And the good folks would come from miles all around to list to the preacher the gospel 12:21.760 --> 12:23.440 expound. 12:23.440 --> 12:30.800 Some came in buggies, some in wagons and hacks, and tied up their horses to old hitching racks. 12:30.800 --> 12:37.240 The women brought baskets all laden with food and we all ate together and say, wasn't it 12:37.240 --> 12:38.600 good? 12:38.600 --> 12:44.520 In big meeting time when the weather was warm, we had a brush arbor and the crowd sure would 12:44.520 --> 12:46.120 swarm. 12:46.120 --> 12:51.840 The boys brought their sweethearts, they all liked to sing, 12:51.840 --> 12:55.320 And the sound of their voices to heaven would ring. 12:55.320 --> 13:01.480 When little folks nodded and babies would weep, the mothers made pallets and put them 13:01.480 --> 13:03.220 to sleep. 13:03.220 --> 13:10.000 In this little church all our young folks were wet, and outside in the graveyard we 13:10.000 --> 13:13.080 buried our dead. 13:13.080 --> 13:17.840 The men folks who didn't have tailor-made suits, they just came in their jeans and a 13:17.840 --> 13:25.520 pair of work boots, cotton dresses and hose, a sun bonnet too, anything clean and neat 13:25.520 --> 13:27.520 for the women would do. 13:27.520 --> 13:34.920 For it wasn't a question of what you should wear, the thought uppermost was the preaching 13:34.920 --> 13:35.920 and prayer. 13:35.920 --> 13:54.920 In the little old church in the valley, where I first learned of sorrow and joy, I can see 13:54.920 --> 14:10.840 Mother there with her head bowed in prayer, as she prayed for her wandering boy. 14:10.840 --> 14:26.840 It was there that I first met my Saviour, like an angel on earth, oh it seems. 14:26.840 --> 14:44.640 As she sang sweet and low, in the long, long ago, in the little old church of my dreams. 14:44.640 --> 14:49.360 Thank you boys and friends, while we are in fancy in that little old church, let's again 14:49.360 --> 14:53.840 listen to some of the old time songs that we used to hear there. 14:53.840 --> 14:59.000 Let's start out with one that is familiar to most everybody, Shall We Gather at the 14:59.000 --> 15:02.000 River. 15:02.000 --> 15:19.920 Shall we gather at the river, where bright angels' feet have trod, with its crystal 15:19.920 --> 15:27.440 tide forever, flowing by the throne of God. 15:27.440 --> 15:38.840 Yes we'll gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river, gather with the saints 15:38.840 --> 15:46.320 at the river, that flows by the throne of God. 15:46.320 --> 15:54.720 On the margin of the river, washing up its silver spray. 15:54.720 --> 16:10.200 On the river lay we every burden down, grace our spirits will deliver, and provide a robe 16:10.200 --> 16:13.200 and crown. 16:13.200 --> 16:24.720 Yes we'll gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river, gather with the saints 16:24.720 --> 16:37.400 at the river, that flows by the throne of God. 16:37.400 --> 16:42.440 Friends I surely do appreciate the many fine letters that you folks in Radio Land write 16:42.440 --> 16:44.680 in about these Sunday programs. 16:44.680 --> 16:49.560 I am glad that they seem to please so many of our listeners, and we are mighty glad to 16:49.560 --> 16:53.360 sing the numbers that you folks suggest in your letters. 16:53.360 --> 16:59.380 The next song is one for which we have received so many requests lately, a very consoling 16:59.380 --> 17:20.840 song at this particular time, Whispering Hope. 17:20.840 --> 17:50.080 Hope with a gentle persuasion, Whispers her comforting words, 17:50.080 --> 18:09.880 Wait till the darkness is over, Wait till the tempest is done, 18:09.880 --> 18:26.480 Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, After the shower is gone. 18:26.480 --> 18:42.880 Whispering hope, Oh how well from God, Welcome my heart, 18:42.880 --> 18:59.160 Making my heart, Making my heart, In its sorrow rejoicing. 18:59.160 --> 19:14.440 If in the dusk of the twilight, Dim be the region of fall, 19:14.440 --> 19:30.000 Will not the deepening darkness, Brighten the glimmering stars, 19:30.000 --> 19:46.280 Then when the night is upon us, Why should the heart sink away, 19:46.280 --> 20:03.640 When the dark midnight is over, Watch for the breaking of day. 20:03.640 --> 20:19.840 Whispering hope, Oh how well from God, Welcome my voice, 20:19.840 --> 20:36.280 Making my heart, Making my heart, In its sorrow rejoicing. 20:36.280 --> 20:47.400 Amen. 20:47.400 --> 20:53.120 Dear friends, in these trying times when there appears to be so many enemies and it is so 20:53.120 --> 20:59.280 difficult to know definitely just who our friends are, it is comforting to know that 20:59.280 --> 21:04.560 we have one friend on whom we can always rely. 21:04.560 --> 21:27.120 What a friend we have in Jesus. 21:27.120 --> 21:40.640 All our sins and grief to bear. 21:40.640 --> 22:04.320 What a privilege to carry, Everything to God in prayer. 22:04.320 --> 22:23.600 Oh what peace we offer and forfeit, Oh what needless pain we bear. 22:23.600 --> 22:46.240 All because we do not carry, Everything to God in prayer. 22:46.240 --> 23:03.720 Have we trials and temptations, Is there trouble anywhere, 23:03.720 --> 23:08.720 We should never be discouraged. 23:08.720 --> 23:24.360 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 23:24.360 --> 23:41.840 When we find a friend so faithful, Who will all our sorrows share. 23:41.840 --> 24:01.200 Jesus knows our every weakness, Take it to the Lord in prayer. 24:01.200 --> 24:20.000 Are we weak and heavy laden, Compered with a load of care, 24:20.000 --> 24:38.800 Pressure Savior still our refuge, Take it to the Lord in prayer. 24:38.800 --> 24:57.520 To thy friends despise forsake thee, Take it to the Lord in prayer. 24:57.520 --> 25:19.160 In his arms he'll take and shield thee, Thou will find us, hold us there. 25:19.160 --> 25:25.200 Friends it is becoming more and more apparent to most everybody daily, that we as a nation 25:25.200 --> 25:30.960 have been somewhat negligent with respect to keeping prepared for the defense of our 25:30.960 --> 25:31.960 country. 25:31.960 --> 25:38.080 It seems that we were somewhat complacent and felt a sense of security which must have 25:38.080 --> 25:45.200 been based on confidence in some other nation fighting for our protection. 25:45.200 --> 25:50.880 Almost in the twinkling of an eye we are suddenly awakened to the fact that although we thought 25:50.880 --> 25:57.800 we were living in a fast age and traveling a rapid pace and keeping up with the modern 25:57.800 --> 26:04.760 swing, yet we instead appear to have been somewhat asleep. 26:04.760 --> 26:10.940 We had sort of forgotten the admonition and the practical examples set by our forefathers 26:10.940 --> 26:14.080 in keeping our powder dry. 26:14.080 --> 26:21.320 And while we are now so abruptly awakened in that respect, is it not proper that before 26:21.320 --> 26:29.320 we get another jolt that we recall some admonitions of our forefathers with reference to keeping 26:29.320 --> 26:36.480 our religious lamps trimmed and burning, especially should we refresh our memory of what George 26:36.480 --> 26:42.520 Washington, the father of our country, said about it. 26:42.520 --> 26:48.280 Nobody can deny that George Washington lived in the horse and buggy age. 26:48.280 --> 26:55.600 Nobody can deny that he had common sense which we now refer to sometimes as horse sense. 26:55.600 --> 27:03.000 Here is what George Washington said in his farewell address, quote, morality is a necessary 27:03.000 --> 27:06.460 spring of popular government. 27:06.460 --> 27:15.760 Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. 27:15.760 --> 27:22.320 Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar 27:22.320 --> 27:31.960 structure, reason and expression both forbid us to accept that national morality can prevail 27:31.960 --> 27:38.360 in exclusion of religious principle, unquote. 27:38.360 --> 27:44.520 That my friends was the admonition of George Washington, the father of our country, the 27:44.520 --> 27:50.960 father of America, the beautiful. 27:50.960 --> 28:11.160 Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties 28:11.160 --> 28:27.120 above the fruited plain, America, America, God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy 28:27.120 --> 28:34.840 good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. 28:34.840 --> 28:48.480 Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet, though stern in passion's dress, a thoroughfare for freedom 28:48.480 --> 29:05.800 be across the wilderness, America, America, God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul 29:05.800 --> 29:14.720 in self-control, thy liberty in law. 29:14.720 --> 29:21.240 And so my friends in these dark hours of world crisis, here in America, the beautiful, let's 29:21.240 --> 29:26.920 return to some of the fundamentals upon which happiness and prosperity are built. 29:26.920 --> 29:33.280 The fundamentals taught in the Bible, the teachings of Christ, the same rules and teachings 29:33.280 --> 29:41.560 which were also recommended by George Washington and our forefathers, the only enduring principles 29:41.560 --> 29:49.320 which civilization has evolved and which time has proven sound and true. 29:49.320 --> 29:56.840 While our nation spends billions of dollars for our defense and protection, let us, figuratively 29:56.840 --> 30:03.960 speaking, get off the soft cushions and rubber tires and off the smooth gliding detours that 30:03.960 --> 30:11.320 have been getting us nowhere fast and swing onto the old horse and buggy at a slower gate. 30:11.320 --> 30:17.080 On the bumpy road, yes, so bumpy that it will keep us awake. 30:17.080 --> 30:23.720 And if we are short on horse sense ourselves, old Dobbin, good old Dobbin with his horse 30:23.720 --> 30:30.640 sense will get us to church at least in time to hear the sermon. 30:30.640 --> 30:32.440 That's what we need, the sermon. 30:32.440 --> 30:38.880 Go to the church of your choice every Sunday, friends, and listen to the preacher. 30:38.880 --> 30:45.880 This is Governor W.E.O. Daniel of Texas speaking. 30:45.880 --> 30:51.200 Goodbye. 30:51.200 --> 30:55.120 From the front steps of the Governor's Mansion here in the city of Austin, the Texas State 30:55.120 --> 31:00.400 Network has presented another friendly chat with your Governor, W.E.O. Daniel. 31:00.400 --> 31:04.280 The views and opinions expressed by the speaker on this broadcast were his own and do not 31:04.280 --> 31:20.680 necessarily reflect those of this network or the station to which you're listening. 31:20.680 --> 31:21.960 Yours truly, Conrad Vernon. 31:21.960 --> 31:26.600 This broadcast originates through facilities of KNOW, this network's affiliate for the 31:26.600 --> 31:34.760 state capitol in Austin.