The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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' HE DEMOCRAT-VOICE, COLEMAN, TEXAS.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1914.
THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
By tho Democrat-Voice Publishing Co-
Coleman, Texas.
Entered as socond-dass mail matter
at the postoffice at Coleman, Tex t
under act of Congee., of Mar. li, 1879
Subscription rates:
One Year 51 00
Six Months 50c
Payable Strictly in Advance,
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character of any person or firm ap-
pearing in its columns will he glad
ly and promptly corrected upon call
ing the attention of the management
to the article in question.
good picking.
The Coleman Chamber of Com
merce was instrumental in bringing
from 700 to 1,000 cotton pickers int'
Coleman county t,, gather the , fal'
crop Many of the pickers have re
turned East while others will remain
indefinitely or until the cotton is al’
dot. The picking has been good and
there is yet a iot of cotton to pick.
One batch of negroes, after a three
weeks’ campaign in the cotton fields
ctf the county, returned from whence
they came with $60 clear -money to
the head. Coming under our notice
i* one cotton picker, h whte man,
who is so well pleased wth the coun
try that he ig negotiating for the
purchase of a Coleman county farm
and will become a citizen taxpayer of
the county. This man made and sav-
ed a nice little sum of money from
his wages which will be used in mak-
ing part payment on a small farm.
The Doint we started out to make
in thiwshort story, and from which
we digressed, is the fact that the
Chamber of Commerce has served a
good purpose in using its or-
ganization to bring in pickers
to gather our cotton, without which
service much cotton would have -lam
aged in the fields.
Will some of the wise members of
the Texas press advise us what is
the best thing to do for our ' cold?
And in prescribing it would b. well
to take into consideration our longi
tude and latitude W- live ibout
equi-distance of the 3fHh anti 1 ‘Hith
"meridian and the sale • o-lka
prohibited
COTTON HOLDING i ),.t Its.
Organization of entton hobjinr ob
in under way. in Texas.1 H. E. .Single-,• I
ton has finished organization in Wi
chita county and is now jn M >i .
and from Montague he will go to Wi
county. ,1. < Mender i n has the
ganization of club- under way i
Limestone and Navarro couttlies. ,-i
Aerordir r ! ,J II
in charge of the urganizatiim work
representing the executive ommit .j
tee of the Texas Barfkrrs’ \ ->« intion 1
and the Texas division of the South
em Cotton Association, the organiza
tion work is progrecang rapidly and
it will be but a matter of liflt a short |
time until state has boon organized
Following is a copy of the resolu-
tions adopted in Wichita count
"We, the citizens of Wichita ouh
ty, Texas, .favor the organization of I
farmers and business men to o-i ur-
better prices for our cotton and pro
tact the cotton growing interests of
our community during 1915 There
fore b*> it
"Resolved, Thai we favor holdmi
cotton for at least *c pel pound, Olid
dling basis; a fifty per cent reduction i
in the acreage for '>■ i>r*.',e.
tion of cotton against weather d-m
age-, til** sel v t in! ,
food stuffs m the most -itcil:
mtnni-r
“We further . •-•- . -■ -
hers of the local , VoUoo i , - .t,. ■
apd lend our influence h,
the interest of Texas'!'„?!
WHAT "THE EXCHANGE RATE*’
MEANS.
■ (Leslie’s Magazine.)
I presume that many of my read !
era pay little, attefitiou to “the ru\c '
of exchange*’ -and^ave no idea tbai it
i... mi important, factor bearing on the!
question of the opening of the NewT
\ nrk stock exchange. When the Old
j World wants our gold, as it does now
it bids for it and exchange rates go
up as they have been doing since the
opening of the war.
We are a debtor nation and must
puy our debts abroad in gold. The
warring nations all need gold and to
get it are willing to sacrifice enorm
i us holdings of American securities
If the stock exchange were to reoperi
foreign holders would liquidate the'1-
securities and the drain upon our gold
resources would be heavy.
On the other hand, foreign nat(o» c
need our i^otton, wheat, corn meat
and now especially arc calling ui.n<
uX for extraordinary supplies in *h'
way of clothing, shoes, ird product
that they usually-produce at horn-
For these commodities the foreigner
must, of course, pay us in gold. T-’
we can sell more to them than the
can sell to us, the golden stream wi1
flow inward and not outward.
Whenever conditions are cqpaliz
ed, exchange will go hack to a norm-
al basis and then the stock exchane
will be opened and we can meet s’
the demands that may be made. Hence
the reason w-hy thy rate of exchang*
has such an important bearing on the
opening of the stock market.
Press Paragraphs
THE BLIGHT OF WAR.
Jarvis E. Bell of New York, who
helped distribute the first cargo of
relief supplies sent to the Belgians,
has given the Associated Preys a
description of conditions in the
stricken country, in which he says,
in part:
‘Nothing that has .been written
could exaggerate the misery of Bel-
gium. We drove for miles through
graveyards. Stakes, on some of
which were soldiers’ tattered coats
ami helmets, were the tombstones
deserted fields of cemeteries. As we
entered the villages, women and
children sought refuge in the ruins
of roofless homes, terrified lest we
were some fresh visitation of war,
"The Belgian peasant has in many
districts no home in which .to ep.
no seed to sow, no implement.- with
which to , work, no transpor
ket, and, finally.
nea r.i
table
Tlu
(’rib:.,!!-,! (•> ’
? conqueror. It
(kilo i'■ o |
ghtv- per cent
Belgian counti
t - u .!'y - It i i, f i *■
tr raw' vegetabb
had little e
A wife can’t see how in the work)
body can economize unless a body
buying something to ectfnomize on.
' al Ian in Stni Telegran,.
it’s the truth. We know of u worn
; M who bought a nut ci : at
'•argaiu sale and didn 't Ituve a fly n •
to crack. J
The American Good It Tads ' co
gross in session at Atlanta adopte'
resolutions favoring Federal aid f
the c-onstfuctiomif main highways
If the Federal government had am
thing of its own without first tak
ing it from the people at considerable
cotfl for collecting, it could give aid
to so many worthy' enterprise
Houston Post.
I h edging the Trinity river to Dal
las, for instance, or making Hord'-
reek navigable*
Fort Worth Record: A mild wv
ter is predicted by tha old-timers in
West Texas, who say that the ground
squirrels and prairie dogs are no*
digging deep in the ground this fat!
as (they do when n hard.....winter i
coming. Now. let us hear from th
old lady with the goose hone.
Houston Post: We suppose the
New York World ami the New York
Evening Post will soon adorn their
mastheads with their ticket for 19J6-
“For President, Mi stub Trotter of
-Boston; for Vice President, Mishin
Jack Johnsing of Paris. Platform: To
hell with white folks.”
Man's Base Nature.
Says the Comanche Chief: “It :
remarkable with w-hat avidity people
will devour the news of the degrad-i
tion of another fellow mortal. Wi:l-
what morbid curiosity people will
crowd a court room to hear the reci-
tation of the details of another’
downfall. In Comanche there was
trial of a downfallen woman in tin-
court house and there was not a
moment of the time that the court
room was not crowded to capacity
with men and boys. Interested peo-
ple come to sympathize and help? No
Idle scoffers come to laugh and wink
and add to the shame of the accused
And when the woman started front
the court rooin with h-r'babv chi!
dren by her side people drew away
from her as if afraid of being you
': - ;; ;i.cij \\, ,, man...
the crowd vvMr'caitu- there full -of I
NEWSOM’S
BIG C0MPETTII0N SALE
<»
Have you bought all the goods you need for
this winter? If not, V/e Can Save You Money.
We will not be undersold. Look over the re-
duction list below, then come and look over
the goods.
Suits and Overcoats,
33 1 -3 per cent off
All Skirts,
. 25 per cent off
AllCloaksf
25 per cent off
Boots and Bootees,
25 per cent off
All Shoes,
. 20 per cent off
All Piece Goods
. 20 per cent off
We have a clean high grade stock of merchan-
* '
dise to offer you, so come on and get what you
need before cold weather comes.
NEWSOM’S DRY GOODS STORE
Wt
ODD HITS OF \F\\n
L
'Where Priet 7 ells and Quality Sells'
J
< K \ < KS VT THE ( ROW II.
i i (ftllan in Star-Telegram.)
In human btiinifK the effwt of t)r
mouth- disease iir a continuou
'/my of th« lower jpw. W her
!•
An ingenious method has been
adopted by a California fruit trowel
| for utilizing, steep hillsides for th-
planting of fruit tree.- . At regular
pacing# he built semicircular walls
the of cement and cobblestones, the walla
ag I curving.outward from -the hillside and
p i-j forming retaining walls for holding
they soil to a level sufar*-.- Trees were
then planted in the centers of these
It Vel spaces. .
i \pps’ (iirmx pi,an.
it should ‘-e required. This woubl!
make a stable market and a just1
and reasonable return to cotton grow
tn-nt ha.,, a real had case he’is likely
to stir up mow* trouble in a day than
he - an settle during’the balance of
the ’ week
If the world wa really civilized An electric-lighting attachment*
the immens
for great r
produce na-
ro,
As aii an
bear
pot
••mount .-f money spent whn h may Ik- litts-d to any . shotgun
ies could Ik- used to j or rifle, enabling accurate shooting
iv y t• -I-:i\ j after night without necessitating the
j purcha-e of a special firearm, has
it- tor g'">d roads we been devised. The nrojector illtimi
to what Satan has | nates objects at a distance of sp-
ilt a lovely highway to proximately one. hundred yards in
h> i. getting the busi fr-mt -,f the sieht. which.make,- it-
The must
eortd to a i
•
H He
i pris
possible for' a hunter to aini at hi.t
eg t) ,: i u. the! target instead of firing blindly into
if- is to see a business J the darkness.
• hie-fuu d " i ''Uric of tin greatest single niece
th*- F.....a-- nations j of cofferdam work'ever uiMk-rtakey n
Thanksgiving this country,” say*, the December
to thank'- I Popular Mechanics Magazine, “is now
In tin* rour.se -if colist r lit-1 ion in N--w
it- ti’H, h \ ork Harbor, where the Hud
i, o>j» ti..tilde, j er is being dammed prelirtinar
all our -.p-ii • building of three 1,050 leet si
• e e-.t oey *ne l piers f,,r the acconiniodution
-rvi-
thin.
Ri
TIM K;
As evident
.vhieh app<-
"Public
Tounty of
-m. The
.lU’puhlt*-
VS mhxtrv «
^Vf is-.iun
tultf, tow it
two Hgor
werurht^
p<| ml*bun
fvn#* jot ni
wbfK*l, QM
fat W em
ft ltd ft lot
to Calif<wi
E ( H i?
i Fort Worth Record.)
Tht'* plan submitted by Williani e,x-
( apps, president of Tin Record to.. Lalx.i iiiiions fix the scale of wag-
fort lie relief of cotton growers would j-es. Tbi> is lawful. Why shouldn’t
be for the nine states which produce j cotton growers organize and fix the j
the bulk of the cotton crop to form- price of cotton through their state J
ulate an agreement which .would agents ?
make of the state > the governing ; l nder the ( apps plan the surplus ,
-body, and which would market the could be bought and stored. Under!
crop to the best advantage to the the (’apps plan the greatest money i
grower The states could establish l crop in the world for the spinners:
factories for tht- manufacture ’ of
bagging from cotton, > inaugurating
an initial saving toAho-cotton grow-
er of $15,000,000 on a 15,000,000-bale
crop through the use of cotton grown
at home instead of the jute butts of
India.
These factories could be operated
successfully. They would be the peo-
ple’s factories. They could be pro-
vided with capital by bond issue or
legislative grant, justified through
the fact that then- is no possible
prosperity in the South when disaster
overtakes the cotton crop and no
country is so prosperous as the cot-
ton growing states when a fair re-
turn is -nwCived for their one great
staple,*? 4
The Lapp- plan provide- foi thi-.
The ( apps plan in its last analysts
would provide for a state Controlled
market. The state is the people or
would be the greatest money crop
in the world for the producers.
Why shouldn’t the. South organize
and'work out its own financial salva-
tion?
Southern cotton growers should
study the Capps plan. It paves the
way for prosperity, not for a day but
years to come. There must be intel-
ligent action, compact organization,
careful marketing, sane price fixing
and a cotton acreage which will meet
the demands and no more.
Whei
the people are. the state. Why
shouldn’t they control it?
11- -lid f.ruVfik- .1 k-.ai.l be
named by the state subscribing to tl e
regulation- i - lie imp-i • d. to deter-
punning n ■(,
lo-'.mntu-o »
Bill Ensilage say*- he fen 1K:
•bat th-' tnqrned nflan e .<■. i r?p
c*». batten# 'off h!
nmi'ts is m*t„ «• rule an .
• at w<*mcr'.-i c-Ieta.
NINsl RF.I)
j mine Imw, m i< h‘ 'Ml..ti bould br
4*litutiu] (in t'-.-n 'b-- i rd?> bavrii
! been made The Mmr bow'd to fix the
price at which t
Ju cotton states
n rU-vorii.)
“Hmild 1ftty for tin
mv lactone- _
: J These agents i
n fixing u price
i ay<knhl Im* vid
a tine- the Sherman
ai.iitru.-d
The) woubl not i e
in n cpn>pii*aev t<i
hammer down the
u id ofT the murk.
■
The*, would ftY
1 which wnuhl gfiv# :
1 ;|?td this would «Ui
the vTOwery a profit
if ii<- will fi«»1 Uit
. ' ' • ‘ ’ : ■
c spinners of tho
r himNetf; ;
i world/
' j These mm hem
j v'i'v** irrnot * wo-nhf
■ h<. for uae in -th.e
; * j,eottOfl psotiudui! 1
alone, The
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nt w '* 'tt-’i.' w'ould
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-id* < :h»t Ho b ■'
ten x law nor- t\."
- er i fficu! bUy-r, -ft
' ’ -ipir
'j tub **f the crop
4■ ATf :.i • ’ 54! > •; “•
mo re t \
i j -night lie. dec lured
a. i-tirplya' Eeyow!
im
. thw }t»m'->Hatc yl
• -"l- . n-d ;’rh ,
I ept|oti. to'.b# held a
The •market uutli
SALE OF
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
W. N. Cameron s entire household goods
consisting of Furniture, Rugs, Druggets,
Carpets, Dishes, Etc., are for sale; all of
which not disposed of privately before
Saturday, the 28th of this month,-will be
Sold to the Highest Bidder
at the residence. No by-bidding. Come
prepared to carry anything purchased
away, as the house must be vacated at
once. 1 will be at the house every day
next week from I p. -in. until" night to
show vou what I have.
W. N. CAMERON
Coleman,' lexas, November 20th, 1914
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