Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1924 Page: 4 of 12
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PAGE FOUR
MERCEDES TRIBUNE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1924
MERCEDES TRIBUNE
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY
BIBLE THOUGHTS
For This Week
Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a
priceless heritage in after years.
W. D. HOLLAND ____________Editor Local
RALPH L. BUELL, Managing Editor
Entered as second-class mail mat-
ter at the post office at Mercedes,
Texas, January 23, 1914. under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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MERCEDES, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY B, 1924
HOW TO LOWER TAXATION
Increased taxation following barometrically the rising cost
of government is causing alarm in every state of the union. It is
a peculiar fact that despite repeated warnings the people are still
grasping at the shadow and missing entirely the struggle with
the substance.
The people of this community and hundreds of like communi-
ties will be better off if they take their eyes off the millions
squandered by the national government in time of war. If we
want to cut down the amount of money each man and woman
actually pays out in taxation then the thing for us to do is to
look right at home. There is not a township or a village in
America where the expenditures could not be materially less'ened
without restricting in any way the improvements and advantages
we enjoy.
This arraignment is not written without a full apprecia-
tion of the men who serve. Every man who serves in an official
capacity is deserving of praise rather than blame. At the same
time the people must consider local government from the angle
of. the results obtained rather than from the angle of service ren-
dered. If we bring our local expenditures down to the minimum
the cost to us of state and national government, though perhaps
excessive, will appear light as the proverbial feather.
Our Country
By Arthur Brisbane.
The airship Shenandoah, sailing
toward Albany, above the Hudson, ^E THAT TRUSTETH IN HIS
last week, passed the Twentieth own heart is a fool. Prov. 28:26.
Century, the fastest New York Cen- LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUF-
tral train, coming from Chicago. The FERING, GSNTLENESS, GOODNESS,
airship carried 120 human beings^,! FAITH, MEAKNESS, . TEMPER:
the express train many more. The j ANGE: AGAINST SUCH THERE IS
passengers on the fast train bent NO LAW.—Gal. 5:22, 23.
their necks looking upward, and j EET THIS MIND BE IN YOU,
thought how strange it was traveling j wbjch was aiso )n Christ Jesus. Yet
up there in the air. \ nothing be done through strife or
In a few years that well-appointed j vainglory. but in lowliness of -mind
express train will be out of date as. je^ each esteem other better than
the stage coach is now. | themselves.—Philippians 2:5, 3.
The young Vanderbilt boys and i ' m _
~ 'HE THAT BY USURY and unjust
he
j shall gather it for him that will pity
You Need Not Fail
Whit Hadley
George F. Barker, real boss of the,
New York Central, would do well!Bam. mcreaseth. hl.s. suKstanc<:’
to begin planning now for transpor , „ ... ^ ,
tation through the air. They have j; ____ ^
the terminals, can raise money, and;
should see the warning written in the >
that maketh
haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
sky by smoke from the exhaust
pipes of the big flying ship.
President Coolidge [tells real estate
men he wants to see this country a
home-owning nation. That’s better
than Henry Navarre’s wish that ev-
ery Frenchman should have a chicken
cooking on the stove. La Poule, au
poto.
Frenchmen, seven millions of them,
own the soil of France, thanks to
the revolution.
That’s what helped them to hold
Verdun.
The peasants own Sweden. That
enabled Charles XII, to march with
only. 12,000 of them through Peter's
great armies.
Too few own their homes and the
land, in this country.
The Agricultural department re-
ports the worst crops in many years.
That’s bad news for those who eat
the crops, but may mean better pric-
es for farmers not able to make a
THE PLANTING TIME OF HONESTY
Not so long ago Dr. Edgar J. Swift interrogated more than
a -hundred business and professional men as to the lawless acts of
their boyhood. He sought to get from their opinions as to the
best way of dealing with such infractions of right and justice.
The unanimous opinion was that reasoning proved the most ef- living recently.
fective means of steering the youthful along straightforward The Chlcag° Board of Trade ex-
j-nes pects higher prices for gran, an.1
’ • . ... . ...... , with the wheat crop cut more Iban
This revelation is interesting particularly at this time when forty million b„sheis sometM„g ought
the country is seething with politics, when almost every lip bends
in scorn when the moral fibre of our politicians is considered.
Evidently if we would obtain honesty in government we must
start further back than the primaries. We must implant a
more complete understanding of what actual honesty consists. In
our school if a child fails to grasp the principle of an arithmeti-
cal problem we drill until the principle is firmly embedded in the
mind.
In morals we announce the principle but once and expect the
standard to be reached instanter, and maintained.
Until we implant a better standerd of honesty in the walks
of everyday life it is difficult to see how from the ranks of
such loose morality we can recruit governmental officials likely
to reach that standard of integrity for which the country seems
to cry in vain.
-Proverbs 28:8,20.
O LORD THOU ART MY GOD; I
will exalt thee, I will praise thy
name; for thou has done wonderful
things. . . . Thou hast been a
strength to the poor, a strength to
the needy in his distress, a refuge
from the storm, a shadow from the
heat.—Isaiah 25: 1,4.
BUT THOU, WHEN THOU PRAY-
EST, enter into thy closet, and when
thou hasit shut thy door, pray to thy
Father which is in secret; and thy
Father which seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly. For your Fath-
er knoweth what things ye have
need of, before ye ask him.—Matt. 6:
6, 8.
REMEMBER NOW thy Creator in
the days of thy youth, while the evil
days come not, nor the years draw
nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no
pleasure in them. Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter; Fear
God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man.—
Ecc. 12:1, 13.
POEM BY UNCLE JOHN
No shadder of excuse to make—sobbin’ as if yer heart would
break, sobbed out syer woes in her dear lap—a mighty contrite
little chap. . . . That dirty face against her breast, a thousand
vagrancies confessed. . . . What soothin’ power in that tone
—“There, there, dear heart—it’s all—all gone!
She patted ye with soft caress, and quieted yerohild-distress,
-—and rocked ye back an’forth the while, and fed ye with her
heavenly smile. ... O, how yer little heart would turn an’ nestle
near that heart of her’n! All frettin’ ceased . . . forgiveness
won,—“There, there, dear child, it’s all—all gone!”
So, when, in after years ye erred,—when unkind fate or
weakness led to dire disaster by dread despair—then, sad heart,
is when you learn the solace of them words of her’n,—you
seemed to hear ’em through the tears,— though she’s been gone
these many years!
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
By the United States Department of
Agriculture
The southern pine beetle outbreak
developed into an epidemic of unus-
ual. proportions in the vicinity of
Covington, Va., during 1923. In-
vestigations made by the Bureau of
Entomology in April showed that at
least 25 per cent of the pine stands ' culture,
have been destroyed. Only the finer
and better older stands have been
attacked, while in no case was the
beetle found in any pines under 30
years of age. Paper and pulp com-
panies drawing their supplies from
this region will be seriously affected
during the next few years through a
shortage in material resulting from
the work of this beetle. Considerable
effort is being made in salvaging the
killed timber, although the greater
portion of it will deteriorate too rap-
idly to be utilized.
is being established on Shimaref Is-
land, the other at Teller.
The formation of cooperative grow-
ers’ associations, the improved credit
facilities made available by the Gov-
ernment, and the attitude of large
banks are all encouraging producers
to hold crops from a darger period
after harvesting and thus encourag-
ing more orderly marketing, says the
United States Department of Agri-
The propagation of white foxes in
northwestern Alaska is being tried
out for the first time. During the
past month two permits have been
issued by the Biological Survey for
the capture of fifty pairs of these
important fur bearers. One fox farm
Although 128 pigs were farrowed
on his farm during the year, William
Grush of Richardson County, Nebr.,
had to buy hogs to butcher for hiB
family meat supply in 1922, because
of severe infection of his herd with
necrobacillosis and other diseases.
When the county agricultural agent
asked early in 192 for volunteers who
would be willing to demonstrate rais-
ing hogs under new improved meth-
one of the first to sign up. With the
one qfthe first to sign up. With the
same equipment that ,the had the
year before and not over three days’
extra work, Mr. Grush was able, ac-
cording to reports to the United
States Department of Agriculture, ,to
bring all of the pigs in the demon-
stration to market age without in-
fection.
to happen.
Federal District Judges Carpenter
and Wilkerson set aside President
Coolidge’s pardon of Philip Gross-
man, in Chicago, denying the Presi-
dent’s power in civil cases and ad-
ding: ‘ To allow such power to the
Executive is to strike a death blow
ata the independence of the pudici-
ary.’
That’s a good saying and coura-
geous. All Federal judges depend on
the President for appointment and
promotion.
It’s also a saying for the people
to remember in case they happen,
some day, to get rulers that repre-
sent them, and nobody else.
At present our system “Allows
such power to the judiciary as to
endanger the independence of the
people.” You see it when the
ing of one single appointed Supreme
Court vote, in the majority has
power to over-rule an elected Con-
gress. And when Congress is ruled
by a bare majority, in a court be-
yond the people’s control, that is not
democracy.
If there exists any power greater
than the people’s power, then what
we call self-government is a joke, as
when a farmer lets his baby “drive
the horses,” the farmer, however,
holding the reins while the baby on-
ly thinks he is driving.
Well thought out power to recall
every one of their public servants,
whether elected or appointed by an
elected official, is what the people
will have eventually. That will come
when they really take an interest in
their government and thus prove
their fitness to govern themselves.
-o-;
To a Jersey Mosquito
He presented his bill,
And I could not evade it.
In valley, on hill,
He presented his bill,
With stinging ill-will;
So with blood, sir, I paid it.
He presented his bill,
And I could not evade it.
Tom Rankin was born in the har-
ness room of a stable on Monroe
street, in the heart of the Chicago
stockyards, forty-nine years ago.
His father, “Bull” Rankin, was a
blacksmith town bully, off-and-on
priz fighter an da drunkard. His
mother was an outcast. He was
reared in filth, disease and ignorance
and at 11 became a ‘killer’s assist-
ant” in the steer pens of the stock-
yards. Because he didn’t kill fast
enough his boss stabbed him and Tom
was taken to a nearby hospital. Stub-
born, brutal of instinct, dull of mind,
he was nevertheless touched by the
sweet appeals of a visiting social
worker and upon his release was
“presented’’ to the worker by his
father. The worker arranged to send
him to a farm in Montpelier, Ver-
mont, and he^ was “taken in” as a
green farm hand by a family named
Taylor. He rose before dawn and
worked until long after dusk at a
monthly stipend of $12 and keep,
but his life was made mellow and
soft and sweet by the kindly treat-
ment of the Taylors, especially Mrs.
Taylor. Encouragement to save,
encouragement for his work, watched
over and educated by the farmer’s
wife, young Rankin grew to man-
hood. When he was 35 years old he
had $1,200 in the bank, During that
year the Taylors died of diptheria
and the small farm they had left to
him he sold for $2000. With $3,000
he moved to Burlington Vt., a city
of 19,000 inhabitants, and there bought
a small chicken farm in the out-
skirts where he began specializing in
white and black leghorn hens and
eggs. Five years later he owned
1,500 such hens, seven Jersey cows
and a few prize-winning hogs. He
had developed a butter, cheese and
egg trade not only in Burlington but
in Boston, that netted him $10,000 a
year. Four years ago wl’p-
forty-five he was said to be worth
close on to $100,000, the proceeds of
the sale of his business to a large
syndicate m.ilk concern.
INCOME INCREASES i iTEREST
NOW READ JT BACKWARDS f"
A New Arrival
Governor (on secret inspection
trip)—“'Open the gate, please.
Gate Keeper (asylum)—“Whatcha
want?”
Governor—“I want to come in.”
ate Keeper—“Sorry, sir,—but .it’s
against the rules.”
Governor—“But, I’m the governor
of this state.”
Gate Keeper—“Come right in —
you should have told me that at
first. You’ll find Napoleon, Helen of
Troy and Louis XVI right over there.
They’ve been waiting for you.”
Worth a Toot
She—“Ruth refused Freddie two
weeks ago and he has been drinking
heavily ever since.”
Cynic—( That’s the trouble with
Fred—he never knows when to quit
celebrating.”
ETIQJ
Readers desiring pei -
tonal points of Etiquette
or heart affairs map
■write Flo, care of this
newspaper, enclosing
self addressed
stamped envelope.
and
Jr
Dear Miss Flo: When introducing
two people, is it correct to refer to
one as “my friend?” For instance,
Mrs. -, may I present my
friend Miss -?” (2) When
vegetables are served in side dishes,
should they be eaten from the side
dish or taken on the plate? (3) When
corn is served, should it be eaten
with a fork or with a spoon. Thank
you. G. M.
It is not* good form to say “my
friend” when making introductions.
Purdy’s Philos
“My entrant for the laziest man in
the world is Bill Spivens, who bought
a Lizzie so he wouldn’t have to shake
the ashes off his cigar.”
With No Place to Go
Professor—“This mad haste of ours
will in time destroy the race.”
Business Man — “That will be a
strange sight in a few generations—
nothing left but messenger boys.”
Encouraging
Tourist—“I don’t think much of
this boaf. It has been leaking ever
since we left shore; Has any one ev-
er been lost here?”
Guide—-“Oh, no. We’ve always
found them again in a day or two.”
Ask Ma—She Knows!
Guest—‘ I understand you have an
old city ordinance here which pro-
hibits a man kissing his wife on
Sunday. What is the penalty?”
Hubby—“Why—er—
Wife (quick like)—“No husband
has as yet ever been arrested on that
charge.”
Widx,
- >x.:'
mUmM
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From Washington
Congressman’s Wife — “Wake up,
George, there are robbers in the
house.”
Congressman— “Impossible, dear,
There may be robbers in the Senate
—but not in the House.”
(2) Vegetables should be eaten from
the side dish in which they are
served, Potatoes, however, are taken
on the dinner plate. (3) Corn should
be eaten with a fork.
Dear Miss Flo: When two boys
and a girl are walking together,
should both boys walk on the out-
side or should the girl walk between
the boys? (2) When asking a girl
to dance, is it proper to say, ‘Have
you a partner for this dance, Miss
-or is it better form to say
“May I have this dance ” J. S.
The girl should walk in the miudie.
(2) It is better form to say, ‘May
I have this dance.”
Dear Miss Flo: When salad Is
served, should it be placed to the
right or to the left of the dinner
plate? (2) When giving an afternoon
tea, and there are no gentlemen
present, should the hostess carry the
tea to the guests, or should the
guests get up and take it. Thank
you. A. K.
Salad- should be served to the left
of the dinner plate. (2) The guests
should get up and take the tea as' the
hostess serves it.
SoasasBa -u ay
Dear Miss Flo: Should a table
napkin be completely unfolded or un-
folded only half way when dining in
a restaurant? (2) Should lettuce be
cut with a knife or folded up with
the fork? L. G.
The table napkin should never be
completely unfolded, whether dining
at home or in a restaurant. It shoul
be unfolded half way and pi
across the knees. (2) I.t is ve’
form to cut lettuce. Th
should be folded with the
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1924, newspaper, July 3, 1924; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1002680/m1/4/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.