The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1919 Page: 4 of 12
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erroneous reflection upon the
ter of any perspn or firm ap-
pearing in its columns will be gladly
and promptly corrected uppn calling
the attention of the management to
the article in question.
,t ~Na-
are now blockaded
offer. Allowing 4c
$20 per bale for trans-
insurance, the offer is
it to 16c per round in Texas.
The market price for cotton in Texas
is 12c, or around that figure,' or 4c
below the alleged offer. Now, the man
“Honest men esteem and value
nothing so much in this world as
a real friend. Such a one is, as it
were, another self, to whom we im-
part our most secret thoughts; who
partakes of our joy, and comforts
us in oiir affliction; add to this,
that his company is an everlasting
pleasure to U3.”—Pilpay.
Every person you meet has
grippe or is going to have it
Vital statistics for Coleman county
for the year 1915 show 62 deaths, 221
marriage permits, 389 births, ten sets
of twins and a rainfall of 23.89.
When in doubt cut down the gaso-
line
Congressman Britton of Chicago
has introduced in the national con-
gress a bill to prohibit the slaughter
and interstate shipment of cattle un-
der two years old. Congressman
Britton is prompted by good inten-
tions if not good sense. He would
conserve the meat supply. Pei haps a
mere practical method than his would
be to compel every man, woman and
child in the United States to raise a
steer. If there is a possibility oi
(Congressman Britton’s bill becoming
q law we move an amendment that
wVjjld compel the Lord to send »air.
in times of drouth when the cattle
raiser is forced to market his calve,
to save the cows.
TICKS ET AL.
The tick eradication measure failed
of passage in Coleman county. The
defeat of the measure may be attrib-
uted to several causes, but the prin-
cipal objection to the adoption of the
measure seems to have been a misap-
prehension as to the cost of eradica-
tion and as to where the greater bur-
den of the expense was to be placed.
Some of those who opposed ' the
measure alleged that it was a move
of the big cattlemen to have the.
county or the small cattlemen help
hear the expense; of dipping and
^cleaning the big cattlemen’s cattle
and range. Others alleged it was a
schern^of-designing perfyis who wan-
ted the jobs of inspecting the cattle.
Still others contended that the plan of
eradication was impracticable and
that the government experts, and live-
stock sanitary boards did not know
what they were about.
The fact that thousands of dollars'
worth of cattle die annually in Cote-
man county from tick fever was not
questioned by anyone. One fellow,
in his opposition to the measure, al-
leged that the tick was perpetual,
continual, inherent in the blood of the
animal-cow and that if killed today it
would be borne again of the blood of
the .animal before tomorrow’s sun, or
words to that effect.
Taken altogether, the tick campaign
was novel, interesting, good-natured
and may be productive of good at a
future time when our more progres-
sive neighbor counties have demon-
strated the efficacy and expediency of
ti»e measure.
In justice to a majority of the lar-
ger cattlemen of the countf who fav-
ored the measure, it should be men-
tioned in this connection that neither
the county, nor anyone else, would
have been put to any expense on their
account They were ready and anxious
to Kuild and maintain their own vats
at their own expense and were wil-
ling to share, a portion of the expense
of building community vats for the
smaPer cattle owners.
Tick eradication will come in time
and it will be worth ten times its
cost,* but unless done thoroughly, co-
operatively and systematically it is
of no avail. As the matter now
stands the cattle industry of Cole-
man countv is worse off for being
partiallv clean. In the future, cattle-
men will hesitate or refuse to buy
clean cattle and suffer the resultant
death loss from tick fever.
is a fool who would offer thirty-three
per cent more than the market price
for any commodity and. qxpect to
get it, He is either a Edol or else he
has some ulterior purpose. No mem-
ber of the Farmers’ Union v.-ruld pay
16c per pound for anv article wh«i
he' could get it for 12c. If any
chaser of cotton m America Witm
get twentv rent cotton „ *ja|rver-
ed in Turkey or in Austria, Jh even
in Germany, there is no reason why
he can not get 16c cotton (equivalent
to 12c cotton here) delivereoMn the
same way. And if he can notVet it
delivered, then he might as weX of-
fer 50c or a dollar per pound, and
make the offer more impressive.
Now let us see about delivering
this sixteen-cent cotton. We will pre-
sume, for the sake of argument, that
it is to be delivered to Germany.
What stands in the way is the fact
that England has declare 1 cotton con-
traband, just as the North declared
Southern cotton contraband during
the Civil War, and maintains a block-
ade over German port,s. How are we
to get over this difficulty? Either
by threatening reprisals in the shape
of an embargo on ammunition being
shipped from this country to Great
Britain, or by declaring war on that
country and sending our navy to fight
the English navy. England might
prefer to maintain the embargo rath-
er than let Germany have so much
cotton to make explosives with which
to blow up Englishmen. It might
choose t'o stand pat anyhow. Wha*
then? Shall we send our navy to
fight England? AH right. But Ger-
many has larger navy than we have,
and yet it is no match for the Eng-
lish, since it can’t help itself* from
being bottled up. Is it probable tha*
we can smash the English navy on
its own sea with a smaller navy than
Germany’s? And if we can not, if
we are unable to force an entry into
German ports, and at the same time
make an enemy of Great Britain,
what will become of our cotton? At
present our greatest market is Liver-
pool. Germany and Austria are no
circumstance to it. Shall we throw
away the bigger market in the attempt
to-get access to the smaller? That’s
the question.
as we 1
rat
and hot
ing at
is the
lars
f<i extei
West
squiri
fMff
ales and are not bad eat-
Overcoming the prejudice
thing. Thousand- of dol-
not now have to be spent
mate the oroi.no dogs of the
they had been called prfflrie
eaven is Working,
mple Telegram. The postage re
;s of the Chicago postoffice were
isened last year through the influ
'nee of Texas people who have begun
to build up Texas industries by buy-
ing it in Texas instead of Illinois.
he
no use
nounce;
man
given
busy
swats
ike’
don
debts.
lightiy
for thi
pel Rio Herald: “There arc too ma-
ny churches in Del Rio” say some.
This may be true but if you-have not
subscribed 'to the church building
funds, or helped to pay the poor
preacher, you have no kick coming.
It is an old saying and substantial-
ly true—if you dance you are expect-
ed to pay the fiddler. If you would
dance in the next set, pay your poll
tax before February 1st.
Vital statistics furnished by the
physicians of Coleman county show
only 62 deaths in the county during
the year 1915. As Coleman county has
a population of approximately twenty,
five thousand, this report would show
the mortality rate of the county to
be less than to the one thousand
population. Either the doctors are
woefully derelict in their reports on
vital statistics or th's is a miehty
healthy country. Come to Coleman
and live'a long and happy life!
If Congress should place a war tax
of $1,000 a gallon on liquor, as the
prohibition committee desires, some
of the boys would be forced to take
to vanilla extract or gasoline.
A New York dispatch, January 3Fd,
informs a lost and ruint world that
“Mrs. Anthony J. Prexel, Jr., forme"-
!v Mi«s Marjorie Gould, arrived In
New York, from England, a few days
ago. She was accompanied by her
husband, Anthony J. Dtexel, Jr., and
her favorite dog, “Bella.” All three
at once went to their home in Phila-
delphia.”
Owing to the war having cut off
potash imports tfrom Germany the
Federal Department of Agriculture
announces that fertilizer will be
M-arce in 1916. This is not bull.
An optimist is a person who
have the grippe and a smile iat
same time.
can
the
Daring 1915 one Coleman county
firmer raised and sold turkeys to the
value of $250 and has on hand sixty
turkey hens, which he -is selling to
his neighbors at 1214c a pound. The
"^exwmse attached to this turkey trans-
action consisted mainly of rounding
vp the birds and taking them to mar-
? ket Tha wise farmer will include
more turkeys in this year’s budget.
Just to keen the record straight it
may be stated that just now the peo-
«i of Colemarf county are not enthu-
itie over the question of tick erad-
Kx-Governor Tom Campbell has
definitely announced that he will be
a candidate for the United States
Senate in this year of our Lord. The
list row includes Henrv Brooks, Rid-
dle. Davis. Colquitt, Campbell and,
perhaps. Culberson or Burleson. Have
you paid your poll tax?
Two days have passed and
homans haven’t robbed % bank,
situation is improving.
Okla-
The
It is stated there were sixty-nine
Ivnchings in the United States" in
1915. fiftv-five of the victims being ne-
groes, fourteen whites, including
toree women. Georgia took the lead
with eighteen, Texas had five. This
was an increase of nineteen lynching"
over the previous year. The record
> deplorable but no more so than th=
record of criminal assaults upon
white women by negroes, which was
the cause of the greater number of
lynchings.
If the price of peanuts and peanut
products continue to rise, the names
of some politicians we know should
be changed.
Getting No Better Fast.
Dallas News: Washington had no
sooner reduced the Lusitania case 'to
an adjustable status than the Arabic
was sunk under circumstances when
seemed to forfeit all the pledges Ger-
many had given to win our forbear-
ance. Now, on the very day that vjc
get assurance from the press dis-
patches that the Ancona case Is
brought to a satisfactory settlement,
comes news that the British ship I cr-
sia has been sunk by a submarine of
unknown identity^ntailing the loss of
many lives, among them that of at
least one American,- a Consul en route
to his post of duty. The excuse of-
fered in tlie case of the Arabic was
that it had been sunk before time had
been given to instruct the German
submarine commanders in accordance
with the agreement reached in the
Lusitania case. If it shall transpire
that the Persia was sunk by an Aus-
trian submarine, and in a manrei
that contravenes the promise given in
the Ancona case, the exebse will
doubtless be the same. And the plea
may bean honest one. But it will tax,
the credulity of this country to ac-
cept that excuse. Its impulse will be
to believe that Austrian promises are
worth considerably less than par. It
is only heroic patience that is not al-
ready exhausted, and men of heroic
patience do not make the majority in
this country. There can be no doubt
that the United States has shown a
forbearance that meets all the re-
quirements of duty. There may be
some question if it has not shown a
forbearance that exceeds, and, there-
fore, violates its duty.
The directors of the Dallas free ba-
by camp, an important philanthropic
institution of the city, announces that
the work of the camp for the year
hap- lowered the infant mortality
rate about fifteen per cent for the
city. One hundred and thirty-six
cases of major infant mortality were
treated and only thirteen of the chil-
dren died. The Dallas County Nur-
ses’ association members give their
services free to the camp, taking
turns about. The city hospital Staff
gives treatment. Other cities could
veil afford to aJo.L the Dali is plan.
swears and
thousand faults
scan, but there’s no par-
e man who doesn’t pay his
If I had seven silly sons, I’d
om
hand/them counsel tons on tons, to
help them on their way; the bur-
den of, my spiel would be, “My batty
boys, on land’ or sea, be prompt
your bills to pay. You may have
stacks of sterling wotrh, and seem to j
good for this cheap earth, but If you
dodge your*bills, the wprld will strike
your balance sheets, and set you down
as chronic beats, which reputation
kills. (Jo forth, my beamish boys;’
I’d say, “and always be as prompt to
pay, as you are prompt to buy; and
you will flourish then, and thrive,
and men will boost you while alivi,
and praise you when you die.”—Walt
Mason.
Beginning'
JANUARY, 3rd
191
and continuing for the next
TWO WEEKS
we
will offer every piece
Furniture in the house at
Rev. H. A. Jones, a negro evange-
list engaged in a meeting in Austin,
was shot by a member of his congre-
gation while on his knees conducting
prayer.
John D. Woods of Fisher county,
Speaker of the House during the 34th
Legislature, has formally announced
as a candidate for Attorney General
of Texas.
ACTUAL COST
CRACKS AT THE CROWD.
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Something to worry over: An acre
of good fishing ground at sea yield?
more food in a week than an acre of
land will in a year.
Joseph Buckner Lamar, associate
justice of the United States Supreme
Court, died in Washington January
2nd at the age of 58. He had been
on the Supreme bench five years. He
was a native of Georgia. Justice
Lamar had the distinction of bcine
one of the few members of the court
apnointed by a president of onpositc
political faith. President Taft ap-
pointed him in 1910.
It is said that Memphis, Tennes? |
leads the world in the percentage iff
murders, 63.7 persons out of every
one hundred thousand losing thei-
iives by violence in that city for the
decade of 1904-1913. Next in order
are Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta,
New Orleans, Nashville, Louisville
St. Louis, San Francisco, Cincinati,
Chicago, Seattle and Spokane, The
number of murders in the United
States was about one hundred for ev-
ery thirteen committed in England
and Wales, thirty in Austria, thirty
in Prussia and fifty-six in Italy. An
insurance journal gathered the statis-
tics. • t
PARAGRAPHORISMS.
(Geo. M. Bailey in Houston Post.'
A manifesto issued by London ban-
kers tells the people that $9,000,000,-
000 will have to be raised to conduct
the war through 1916. A mere trifle,
boys, only $260 per capita. Go to it!
So far as we know, no girl who np-
nears on the streets modestly dressed,
her face unpainted and her conduct
discreet, is ever called a chicken.
If the church and the home will
keep the conscience and hearts of
humanity right, it will not be acces-
sary for foolish legisators to wirt.e
so much time on human viscerae.
Sometimes it happens that a woman
will not leave home because she has
nothing to wear, while her husband,
wants to get a wav from home lie-
cause he has nothing to eat
(Claude Callan in Star-Telegram. 1
During December wife had to go to
the stores to transact her business,
but during January the stores will
get out on the street and hunt for
husband.
In returning heme for the holidays
the college girl is glad to see her
pareft#3 also
Somebody is forever poking fun at
doctors, but as a matter of fact they
know just as much about sickness as
anv of the balance of us.
The Party should not quarrel too
much over preparedness. United we
stand; divided the Republican? lick
us .
The tariff question should not be |n
issue in the next campaign. Both par-
lies have proved that, they know noth-
ing about it,
While we do not belipve in divorce,
if a fellow is determined to quit his
wife, now is the proper time. If he
waits until the Christmas shopping is
over he will not have enough to em-
ploy a lawyer.
TTie British government has refus-
ed American tobacco concerns the
right to ship licorice root from Tur-
key and it is thought that the manu-
facture of chewing tobacco will be
greatly hampered. This war is begin-
ning to be a serious affair.
When daughter marries she has a?
many clothes as were worn by all
the people who attended mother’s
wedding.
Grandpa and grandma try to appear
absolutely neutral, but they feel just
a little partial toward the grandbaby
on daughter’s side.
Official government ^figures made
nublic in Washington at the close of
the year disclosed that in the face of
rising prices of gasoline, production
of crude petroleum during the last
year was greater than in 1914, altbo
production was “purposely retarded
as far as practicable,” that reserve
stocks of crude petroleum now being
held in the country are the larges*
ever recorded and that exports of
gasoline, to which the rise in price"
freouently has been attributed, were
in the last ten months of, 1915 less
than the exports during t he corresoon-
1 ng period of the two years previous.
Both the Department of Justice and
‘he Federal Trade Commission are
preparing to investigate gasoline
prices.,
MURDER IN TEXAS.
The
In its issue of December 20th,
Dallas News says:
“There were, during the fiscal year
ending August 31st, 628 indictments
returned in Texas for murder, of
which 434 were brought to trial, re-
sulting iri 294 convictions and 141
acquittals. Of thoRe convicted only
fifteen received the death penalty, bn
whether this number paid the death
penalty one is left to guess, since the
statistics given out by the Attorney
General’s office are apparently made
up of the record of trial courts. But.
even if none escaped, if fifteen were
hanged, the number is certainly not.
excessive. During the year there were
more than fifteen cases of murder
eommittted in circumstances that
called for the infliction of the su-
preme penalty. The fact, that the per-
centage of convictions was greater
>p the case <.f crimes against property
‘h*n in that of crimes against persons
is too natural to merit the emphasis
given to it. If there were no other
'easop^the fact that property can no’
be charged with aggression or provo-
cation would explain why there crimes
are more successfully punished than
are the graver ones against life and
limb. This record is not peculiar to
’he courts of Texas.”
This will - ”de all Dressers, Wash
Stands, Chilfk^rs, Kitchen Cabinets
Buffets, Library and Dining Tables, Rock-
ers, Stoves, Art Squares, etc.
This stock must be turned into money.
Do not miss the opportunity. There will
be a big saving to you if you buy during
this sale.
•&>!
C. H. COLE
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COLEMAN, TEXAS
THE YEAR ROUND SCHOOL.
At Gary, Indiana, the public schools
are open the whole year round. Npw
York City is at present engaged in the
process of installing the Gary plan
in its schools end the prediction Is
made the Gary system will eventually
become the prevailing school system
of the United §tates.
Under the Gary plan the schools are
open the whole year round. Thp year,
however, is divided into four quarters,
during three of which the children are
required to attend, attendance during
the fourth quarter bping optional.
Within certain limits the students are
left free to choose which of the three
quarters they will attend- The advan-
tages of this plan are obvious. Many
children can morp profitably attend
school during the summer months
PREPAREDNESS.
(Claude Callah in Star-Telegram.)
Colonel Bryan and ourself never
have had a cross word, and we feel
sure he will not denounce us as a
tool of the big interests because we
disagree with him on one point. He
says: “If there is any truth in our
religion a nation must win respect as
an individual does, not by carrying
arms, but by an upright, honorable
course that invites confidence and in-
sures good will. This nation has won
its position in the world without fo- J
sorting to the habit of toting a pis-/
tol or carrying a club.” Now, in thy
first place, Colonel, we feel that
are just as tnuch opposed to wai
you are. In. case this country
becomes involved in'a great strui
we shall be among the first to rei
sather than the winter, because it is 1 at home. But We do not believe that
conceivable that constitutional weak- ; this nation .has won its position in
ness or susceptibility to colds and win- j the world without resorting to the
ter ailments may make winter at-1 habit of toting a pistol. It was not
tendance undesirable. On the other I an appeal to justice, but the guns of
hand, other students find it more to • the Continentals, that secured
their convenience to take their quar-
ter off in the winter months. The re-
sult of this is that instead of all the
children being thrown on the market
tor jobs at one time, a fourth of them
our
independence. It was not an appeal to
right, but American arms, that saved
us in 1812. It was power that hum-
bled Spain. And it was force that
enabled Uncle Sam to keep us from
on the market al! the year round, ‘hrashing him in the sixties. Natlon-
Thus four pupils working alternately
can take the place of one regular ap
prentice in the shop and at the same
time four will be getting laboratory
practice. The plan, therefore, in one
stroke makes school laboratories of
the shops, makes greater the capacity
of the schools and lowers the per
capita cost of education.
The Gary idea of a school is a play-
ground, workshop, garden, social cen
ter and traditional school combined
under the same management. The
elementary and high schools are in
the same building. This keeps ! c
pupils from looking upon the comple-
tion of the traditional eight grades as
a convenient place to stop their edu-
cation; it gives a certain sense of the
essential continuity of education
which psychologically has its effect
on those who would otherwise seek
jobs at the completion of (heir elemen-
tary schooling
State Comptroller Terrell has filed
his annual report with Governor
Ferguson and it shows a total valua-
tion of assessable property in Texas
for 1915 of $2,755,171,793, which will
produce taxes to the amount of $16,-
151,879. In 1914 the valuation of as-
sessable property was $2,748^)73,976
and the taxes amounted to.$11,278,881;.
This gives an increase for 1918 of
*11.092,817 in valuations and $4,875,-
S93 in taxes.
al preparedness and individual pistol
toting are not closely related to
each other. If the comparison is of
any value, it is better suited to fron-
tier days, when carrying a gun was
the part of wisdom. The gun did not
bring the Indians. True, they often
came in spite of it, but the settler
W8s better prepared to defend him-
self and his family, and without this
protection he might have been troub-
led more by the red pien. Even now,
if all our neighbors were armed todthe
teeth, and if we were in danger of
being fired upon when our little Bry-
miscreated some other child, we
could either arm ourself or move.
Well, we would move. But the trouble
with Uncle Sam is that he can't do
this. If some European or Asiatic
neighbor falls out with Samuel, the
warlike power is not likely to leave
us alone just bqpause we are unarmed.
Why would a nation that is willing to
sacrifice its own sons for gain have
such a fine sense of honor that it
would hesitate to attack a weaker
power? It is unfortunate that anr
country must prepare for defense,
but it is not likely that the world
soon wiH reach the ideal state when
might will surrender to right. Now
do not understand that we are quee
tioning your' right to hold the views
yod have made public. Go ahead and
express yourself just as freelv as
you would have done if we had not
spoken.
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