Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1915 Page: 2 of 16
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PADS TWO
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jacksboro GJaaEtrm
Thursday, December
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CROP CONDITIONS
OVER THE STATE
During November. Gathering of
Crops and Plowing and Sow-
ing of Grain.
on. morning of 15th, and all grow-
ing stopped. About 10 per cent
of the cotton top crop will make.
Late wheat and oats, 90 per cent,
but early crops of both cut down;
sweet potatoes, 100 per cent;
turnips, 100 per cent; Irish pota-
toes, 80 per cent; tomatoes, 100
per cent. Wheat sowing going
on; land being turned in all sec-
tions.
blame or responsibilities. Why?
Because the average parent has
believed from time immemorial
tery to pay their last respects to
this truly worthy old negro. The
minister began in the usual way,
that education begins with school by saying, “The Lord in his wis-
Crop conditions in San Saba,
County Nov. 18: Cotton will av-
erage about one bale to four
acres; com about 60 bushels per
acre on the irrigated land and
about 25 bushels on the unirrigat-
«d; the sweet potato crop will go
aa high as 200 bushels to the acre.
The pecan crop will fall short of
last year.
The conditions on same date in
Denton, Dallas, Collin and Graay-
Son Counties showed open cotton
60 per cent. There is a proba-
bility that about 35 per cent of
unopened may yet open. Late
corn of which the acreage is
small, yield 75 per cent; late hay,
60 per cent; good seed sweet po-
tatoes, 100 per cent; late Irish
potatoes, small acreage, 75 per
cent; fall gardens, 80 per cent,
a prospective increase of at least
25 per cent.
Houston County, same date
Com, 80 per cent; cotton, 50 per
cent; hay and forage crops, about
‘90 per cent; sweet potatoes, 95
per cent ; ribbon cane and sor-
ghum 95 per cent. Crops about
gathered.
Titus County has the best all
round crop it has grown in sev-
eral years. There is a bountiful
supply of com, hay, sweet pota-
toes, fall Irish potatoes, ribbon-
cme, peanuts, canne fruits and
vegetables to do the county for
another year, and there is more
fat hogs than these people have
had in any one year for the past
ten. The grass is fine and stock
of all kinds is in good shape
S >me small grain has been sown,
ljut not enough, and not enongh
fall plowing has been done.
in Jefferson and Liberty Coun-
ti 8 most of the crops have been
gathered; late rice is being
i rashed. In DeWitt and Lavaca
Counties crops have been pretty
well gathered, and plowing is
W' il under way. In some sec-
The Importance of Giving Our
Girls a Finished Education*
(The following is a paper pre-
pared and read in the Teachers’
institute at Jacksboro, No. 25, by
Mrs. Ida Huckabay.)
Before entering into the sub-
ject let us consider the real
meaning of “A Finished Educa-
;ion.” Did you ever notice that
girls seldom refer to the day of
their graduation as the time when
they finished their education?
They almost invariably use the
expression, “When I finish.”Did
you ever consult the dictionary as
to the exact meaning of the word
“finish”? I have not consulted
Webster, but was amused to find
the word defined in a small dic-
Finish—A complete polish; per-
fect; to kill or render power-
less.” It is a sad but true fact
that many “finish” only to fine
when they enter the world that
they have been rendered “pow-
erless.” I believe that we wil
all admit that the problem facing
the girl of today is her utter in-
ability to realize that her future
can only be a logical develop-
ment of her present.
Girls are great dreamers, they
are always going to do something
some time, maybe,—they are very
slow to realize that the only way
to do a thing is to do it. We old-
er people, parents, and teachers,
are equally as slow to realize that
just so long as we continue to al-
low our girls to pursue this un-
practical course, just so long as
we neglect our duty in arousing
our girls to the realization of the
importance of a finished eduea-
life and ends wi£h schaal or col-
are doing absolutely nothing them
selves for practical education in
the development of their daugh-
,ers they spend much energy in
criticising and finding fault which
properly spent in supplying a
remedy would be of untold value.
A large portion of the time of
the majority of women is spent
in home-making, therefore it is
just as necessary that she be pre-
pared for this her life’s work as
;o be prepared for a temporary
position in an office or school, a
position which she seldom keeps
for more than a few years after
which she takes up her real life’s
work.
I am a strong advocate for
training every girl for some vo-
cation. Personally I regard this
feature as a very fundamental
factor in a practical education.
Not only should our girls be
t the art of hbme making
and home keeping, hut they
should be taught some vocation
which will supply if necessary the
wherewith to maintain a home.
This means a job that will bring
in money to supply bacon, bread,
and millinery.
With all due respect to book
knowledge the best part of an
education lies outside of books
and necessity is the best friend
of an ambitious soul. The girls
who by some vocation are self-
sustaining are the best educated
girls of today. Respect your oc-
cupation, whatever it may be.
if you have one.
If you doubt the propriety of
specializing in some vocation in
the finishing of our education;
take into consideration the num-
ber of widows of your persona!
acquaintance; who are in al
probability good housekeepers,
a certain per cent of them are
practical business women, com-
petent to earn sufficient; salaries
to support their families but no'
one in ten has sufficient business
training to take care of what
property their husbands leave
tion, and as mothers continue to
turn their daughters from the best them, much less the business ca-
Department of Extension Flood
ed With Applications for This
Popular Service.
knowledge a woman can acquire
by doing the house work while
daughter cultivates society and so
Wheat sowing is progressing with ca^ed accomplishments, just so
ti- ns of these counties rain is! 85 w® neglect to adopt in oui
badly needed. j homes as well as our schools a
In Frio County cotton acreage j thoroughly practical co-operative
was reduced 40 per cent and ow-j system education, we are rob-
ing to boll weevil and root-rot *** our ^rls of m08t sa-
fe yield was to about one bale cred rights,—“that power of
to seven acres. Com acreage
was increased 200 per cent, and
fbe crop averaged 5 bushels per
Acre; all gathered. The grain
s-rghum acreage was increased!
building for herself a real home.”
A finished education from the
Mothers’ Club view means a prac-
tical education. The great lesson
! of usefulness for truly the real
pacity to add to it materially.
The woman who tries to guide
her household affairs and main-
tain her home without proper ed-
ucation along domestic and busi-
ness lines is like a man who at-
tempts to run his business blind-
folded. Let us include in our fin-
ished education not only home-
making but business training, nei-
ther should be furnished at the
expense and neglect of the oth-
er. Nothing is to be gained by
merely talking ahont the impor-
tance of a practical education. No
$0 per cent, and produced from {measure of education is the meas- one a right to find fault with-
15 to 18 bushels per acre. One of our usefulness in the world'
4cm went as high as 51 bushels, j Intelligence in woman covers a
T)at acreage about the same as wide sphere. It includes all woman-
last year, and all for pasture. W knowledge, this means knowl-
Lampasas County cotton WM! edge of house keeping, knowledge
make about a quarter of a hale to of ^brics, and economy of house
the acre, and com about 20 bush- jhold arrangements. It means the
els to the acre under the dry 'complete understanding of the
farm:ng system and about 60 j preparation of food and particu-
buhcls under irrigation. The My; does jt include the care of
turkey and pecan crops are good.
children. To know how to cook
It looks like the considerable « a great accomplishment, but to
top cotton crop in Lamar County know what and when to feed a
was killed by the heavy rains \<*&d is more important than a
*ud frosts of the 14th and 15th. j:knowledge of where all our
Co t n crop is abosut 55 .per cent; states and their capitol are local-;
of !ast year’s. Hay splendid and ed
potatoes fine. Com, 85 per cent, j
On Nov. 1, Lamar County had
ginned 26,833 bales of cotton
We admit the need of a practi-
cal education. How are we to
meet the demand? There 13 an old
which says * * what
The Verdi section of Atascosa maxim wnicn says "wnat ever
County made a third of a bale of you would have appear iu the life
action to the acre—county aver-y°ur nation you must first put
will not exceed a bale to m your schools.” Therefore if
each four acres. It is practical- we are to maintain an ideal stand-
by all gathered, as is the com. .ard of the American home we
The com yield is very light. Good j must turn out from the American
drops of sorghum and cowpeas, schools real home builders. If
ha e Pen made. So far very lit-! only our schools could react upon
He fali plowing has been done. the home in its efforts for prac-
Crop conditions in Titus Coun- jtical education, we might hope
ty rn the 20th were the same as J for better things soon, but the av-
last reported. The weather has erage parent today regards edu-
e lid and cloudy, some rain
clear and
i u.
and
cation as mere book knowledge,
the majority who do realize 'a de-
fect sit with folded hands and
criticize or lament the conditions.; darkeJ’ ^ad many
never shoulder any of the'friends who went to the
out suggesting a remedy. Your
past year’s work is in the past the
future is yet before you. If I
should define the future I would
say it is the aprpoaching present.
The only way to make the fu
ture profitable is to inject some
thing into it from the present.
Plant a grain of com in season
and the future will give yon the
stalk. Last year this was the fu-
ture and it is bringing to us what
we heretofore put into it. To reap
a harvest in the future we mus
plant the seed in the present. We
have seen that every national,
state, and community responsibil-
ty resoles itself into individual re-
sponsibility, hence the question of
a practical education comes home
to us. What are we going to do
about our responsibilities? I have
never heard a gTeat deal about
the resolutions of the Apostles,
but have read a great deal about
their acts. The motto of the
Mothers’ Club is “Practical Ed-
ucation or bust” What is yours!
In no phase of education are we
more deficient than in knowledge,
of physical laws. We attribute a
lot of our ignorance to the wis-
dom of God. I remember on one
occasion several years ago attend-
ing the funeral of an old ex-slave
dom has called from our midst oui
beloved brother. The Lord giv-
eth and the Lord taketh away.”
Now, I know a few facts concern-
ing that darkey’s death. He had
been killing hogs for some of the
white people and it was top much
hogs-head cheese and pickled .
pig’s feet that killed him and not
he wisdom of God that took that
negro away.
As to the mental side of the
question, keep efer before your
pupils the fact that the thought
is parent to the act. If the mind
is clean the morals will he clean.
As a man thinketh, so is he.”
We certainly need more practical
education along religious lines,
it is so easy to just ask God to
bless the widows and orphans, the
sick and afflicted and go along
with our business leaving it all
with him. Better work as well
as pray! Don’t wait to look up
the pedigree of the poor and af-
flicted,—it will most likely be
found to compare favorably with
that of the heathen whose char-
acter we never question but drop
our pennies in the missionary box
and often right in our home town
we ignore suffering humanity.
Every year monuments are erect-
ed to the memory of noted men
Would it not be more practical
to establish homes for the poor?
Build schools, or factories to be
run on a plan that will pay living
wages to the poor. Another ques-
tion the Mothers’ Club desires
you to take under serious con-
sideration is that of double stand-
ard. “What fools we mortals be.”
We think a great deal more about
our stock and crops than about
our children. We are careful to
not overstock our pastures; we
diversify in crops, but the small-
est hut is filled with children. In
buying stock we inquire anxious-
ly about the pedigree, but if a
young man has the dough he is
considered by anxious mamas as
a good catch although his morals
may compare with a dish of stale
scrambled eggs.
Wild oats and johnson grass
are very much alike, you sow
johnson grass in one part of your
ield and you will find sprigs of
it popping up at the most unex-
pected places on your farm, like-
wise with wild oats the plant may
seem dead but it spreads and at
the most unexpected moment it
springs up and strange to say it
always comes in disguise. Fine
thing for the man that sowed the
crop! Otherwise some fathers
would not have much standing
with their families if the mother
and children realized the real
cause of some of the physical,
moral and mental defects in the
home. Children born blind, idiots
criminals, immoral daughters as
well as sons, is the harvest reap-
ed from wild oats sown and culti-
vated by the double standard
plan.
The Mothers' Club is the boy’s
friend and we are determined that
he shall have his rights and be
taught the truth,—we demand
that the boy be taught to place a
correct value upon himself. What
moral inspiration does the boy
usually get? What does he know
of the effects of wild oats? and
what does the girl know? Just
as long as we continue to counte
nance the double standard there
will be found defective material
in our lives and homes and we will
continue to rob our girls of their
most sacred rights, “The power
to build for herself a real home.”
In conclusion may I ask you
teachers what are you as a teach-
er and citizen worth to your
school community, state and na-
tion! As a home builder what
effort are you putting forth for
the development of not only pure
womanhood but pure manhood as
well! What may I ask of you
young men in particular! Is your
life worth anything as a factor in
mg today for your home of to-
morrow? Remember, boys, if you
would live true to your home of
tomorrow, you must live true to
the girl of today. Living a clean
manly life is the best effort you
can put forth toward aiding some
sweet girl toward building for
herself and for you a real home.
4,000 APPLICATIONS FOR
SCHOOL HOUSE MEETINGS
MORRIS ANNOUNCES
PLATFORM PRINCIPLES
M:
Wimnsboro Candidate Far Gov-
ernor Makes Known Views on
Public Questions
University of Texas, Dec. 2.—
T. N. Carver of the United .States
Department of Agriculture, said
the other day that there is enough
agricultural information, already
in store to increase the agricultu-
ral production of the United
States ten-fold if it were thor-
oughly disseminated among the
farmers.
According to this authority, whe
generally knows what he is talk-
ing about, the problem of agri-
cultural production is not so
much a matter of making new dis
coveries as of getting the infor-
mation already amassed to the
people who can use it.
Various agencies exist in Tex-
as having this purpose in view,
view, and one of the happiest de
vices for the dissemination of ag-
ricultural education is that of “th
schoolhouse meeting” adopted
and used by the Extension De-
partment of the University of
Texas.
The plan contemplates the use
of the rural school as the basic
organization for reaching the
farmer with scientific information
concerning his work. A bulletin
giving the full scientific data con
ceming a particular problem is
printed and distributed every two
weeks to the rural schools of the
State that promise their co-oper-
ation. Questions designed to
bring out all the information
which the best informed of the
community have on the particular
problem are also printed and dis-
tributed to the schools. The co-
operating teacher places the ques-
tions on the blackboard for the
students to copy and take home
to their parents during the first
of the week, so when the commu-
nity meeting occurs on Friday af-
ternoon all the participants have
had an opportunity to think over
the questions which will be dis-
cussed. Thus the mommunity in-
formation has been mobilized, so
to speak. The teacher, as leader,
presents the information of the
bulletin as the contribution of ex-
perts to the discussion.
So successful did this plan
prove last year in a few hundred
communities, that this year more
than four thousand applications
for the work have poured into
the Extension department. A full
outline of the work is fumishec
free to anyone upon request. The
subjectxnow being discussed in
school house meetings is “cover
crops for Texas farms,” and the
bulletin on the subject is the re-
sult of the oollagoration of the
University School of Agricultua
Education and the authorities of
A. & M. College.
Winsboro, Wood Co., Texas,
Nov. 27.— The following is the
platform of C.H. Morris of this
place, who recently announced hii
candidacy for Governor against
Governor Furguson:
Opposition to the Gibson bill or
any legislation having for it’s ob-
ject the enactment of a similar
law.
Opposition to the expensive
features of the present law known
as the permenant warehouse law,
especially that part of it affecting
ginners and sampling of cotton
and will insist on such modifica-
tion of this law as will relieve the
ginners and farmers of the whloe
burden of the extra expence.
He favors taking the State Uni-
versity and A. and M. College, as
well as the State normals, out of
politics.
He favors taking the Insurance
and Banking Department out of
polities and placing cthe bank ex-
aminers under a form of e^vil ser-
vice.
He is in favor of making all ap-
pointments to positions of trust
from the standpoint of qualifica-
tion and service to the people
and not from a partisan point of
view.
He favors a modification of th#
usuary laws of the state which
shall have for it’s object the pro*
vention of exhorbitant rates of in*
terest.
He regards the present finan-
cial conditions of our penitentiary ~
system and of our eleemosynary
institutions as a cancer on the hoc
politic of Texas and will labor
diligently to place these institu-
;ions on a basis commensurate
with the dignity of our great State*
and at the same time consistent
with common sense and business
economy.
He favors legislation providing
tor the prompt payment of pen-
sion warrants.
He favors legislation whereby
school teachers may receive mon-
ey for their work at the end of
each month.
DON’T MISTAKE THE CAUSE
Many Jacksboro People Have
Kidney Trouble and Do Not
Know It.
Will Try for Oil Near Wichita
Falls.
Wichita Falls, Dec. 3.—P. H.
Griffin of California is expected
to submit a proposition to the
chamber of commerce for the
drilling of an oil well within a
short distance of this city. All of
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the oil discovered in this county
so far has been at a distance of same that Mr. Phipps had.
Do you have backache!
Are you tired and worn out!
Feel dizzy, nervous and de-
pressed ?
Are the kidney seerel^rirreg-
ular?
Highly colored; contain sedi-
ment?
Likely your kidneys * are at
fault.
Weak kidneys give warning of
distress.
Heed the warning; don’t delay-
Use a tasted kidney remedy.
Read this Jacksboro testimony.
T. V. Phipps, Jacksboro, says
“The kidney secretions were too
frequent in passage, • breaking
my rest at night, as I had to get*
up from six to tentimes. Doan’ii
Kidney Pills acted as a tonic to
my kidneys and this trouble stop*
ped. I believe Doan’s Kidney te
Pills are a good kidney medicine,
for they lived up to all the claims
made for them in my case.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don *
simply ask for a kidney remedy
—get Doan’s Kidney Pills — the
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twelve miles or more from Wieh- ter-Milburn Co, Props., Buffalo,
ita Falls, and a few years ago
the chamber of commerce offered
$10,000 bonus for a well within
five miles of the city. Several
white jideal home building? What kind wells have been drilled near this
N. Y.—(Advt)
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