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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1924
MERCEDES TRIBUNE
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MERCEDES, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1924
TIME TO LOOK FACTS IN THE FACE
The outstanding- disclosure which comes as a result of the
recent naval maneuvers and which should command serious
thought from the American people are, first, that the Panama
Canal cannot withstand assault; and, second, the statement of
Rear Admiral Plunkett, Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, that if our battle fleet were ordered to the Philippines it
would be able to get there but that it could not operate or get
back home again unless some friendly nation sold to this govern-
ment enough fuel to enable the ships to move.
This statement, the Admiral explained, is not a theory, but
a condition demonstrated by events leading up to the .battle of
Manila when only the fact that a British coal-laden ship was
purchased saved the day for Uncle Sam.
There is something wrong somewhere when this country
must depend upon the friendship of any foreign nation for its
naval operation. Friendship between nations hangs on a thread
oven thinner than that which binds the individual relationship.
It is always taut and ready to snap. Indeed recent exhibitions
demonstrataing that the stern grim power behind the call of the
dollar made a blind man see that even noblesse oblige is no
more existant.
This background throws into bold relief our situation in
.reference to American merchant marine. If we must look for-
ward to future wars then the demand for a powerful merchant
marine is imperative to our safety. If on the other hand we
may look fowrard to the elimination of war then our prosperity
and development will be measured largely by our position on the
seas.
It is a peculiar fact that America can find the money to
finance other nations, which in turn use our money to develop
their shipping power, but that when it comes to the production
of money for the development of American ships upon the sea
the purse strings are pulled tight.
In the light of present events the words of Admiral Benson
uttered when he was in charge of the United States Shipping
Board are almost prophetic. Benson said that putting the Amer-
ican flag back upon the seas was dependent on the understanding
of the farmer. His program of enlightenment was rudely shat-
tered, and in the whirligig of political scramble which followed
his retirement, the spades were stuck deep into the ground which
formed the foundation of American peace and safety. Perhaps
it is not yet too late to save ourselves maritime extinction.
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POEM BY UNCLE JOHN
I’ve a mighty good opinion of the plain, old-fashioned plan,
that they should not run.for office till the office seeks the man
—for, it’s mighty nigh disgustin’ when we contemplate the mob,
that cavorts around the country huntin’ fer a job!
Of course the princely salary’s a mighty temptin’ bait to
the crooked politicians that would like to serve the state,— but
I call to mind the doin’s of some over-trusted men who would
serve the country safer—if we had ’em in the pen!
I’ve watched the game impartial—and I’ll state in white and
black, that we better watch the candidate that’s first upon the
track. . . . And, when I cast my ballot, as I’m mighty apt to do,
you’ll see me scratch the feller that has the least to do!
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‘‘And now are there any questions?” asked the presiding
officer at a public village meeting after announcing what he in-
tended to do. A man in the audience arose. “Mr. Chairman,”
he said, whereupon the presiding ofifcer smashed him on the
head with a chair.
“Are there any more questions ?” asked the presiding officer
Which is one way of conducting a political meeting.
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We are told that 25 per cent of the public school pupils in
New York have defective vision. What about our government
officials when they are looking at contracts?
Sing Sing reports that Anderson, convict prohibition leader,
gets very thirsty breaking rock. Sing Sing of course is dry for
the prisoners.
The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee votes unanimously to give
farm products the lowest possible
transportation rate on railroads. It’s
a good idea, for farmers, and good
for those that eat farm products.
Our Country
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l^JLr BIBLE THOUGHTS !
—For This Week— 1
By Arthur Brisbane.
|
Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a 1
priceless heritage in after years.
HOW TO GET ON.—Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek and we shall
fin d.—Matthew 7:7.
I JUST AND RIGHT. — A God of
j truth and "without iniquity just and
But what about the middleman? rlSht is he—Deuteronomy 32:4.
Cut the freight rates all you please,! BE YE DOERS.—But be ye doers
and that won’t help the farmer if .! °f the word, and not hearers only
the middleman cuts the reduction m ^ deceiving your own selves.—James 1:
freight from the price he pays the 22.
farmer.
And it won’t help the consumer if
a middleman adds to the cost of food
what is saved in the freight rate
WHY NOT?—O ye simple, under-
You Need Not Fail
By Whit Hadley
Somebody must be “It” in every
walk of life. James Logan, mil-
lionaire General Manager of the
U. S. Envelope Co., of Worcester,
Mass., says: “The day always comes
for those who hang on tight. You’ve
got to find the way to 'hang on,
that’s all.” Logan started life 72
years ago in a pocerty stricken but
in a tiny village in Scotland. Out of
work and with a wife and four chil-
dren to supoprt, Logan’s father
At the little ferry that crosses
the Hudson River opposite Kingston,
N. Y., farmers were unloading mag-
nificent apples in barrels. The price
at which the farmer sold them was
about 3 for a cent. At a little
stand inside the ferry house a lady
with a pleasant face was selling .ap-
ples not so good—price 10 cents
apiece.
You can’t do much for that situa-
stand wisdom: and ye fools, be ye of j brought his family to America when
| an understanding heart. Proverbs ■ jfm was three months old. The
18:5- j father paid the passage over by
GOD CREATED ALL.—All things j working as a coal heaver. Settling
were made by him; and without him in Worcester, the family lived in a
was not any thing made that was
made.—John 1:3.
HEAR, O ISRAEL.—The Lord our
God of our Lord. And thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy might.—Deuteronomy 6: 4,5.
CHOOSE YOUR ASSOCIATES. —
Be ye not unequally yoked together
tion until you do .something about j with unbelievers: for what fellowship
controlling middlemen.
Scientists fear the approach of
another Ice Age. The last one last-
ed 1,000 years, long enough to make
human beings forget almost all they
had learned.
It would be hard on business, real
estate and prosperity generally, if
we should 'have two or three years
of Winter, with no Summer between,
and then ice gradually creeping down
from the Pole, covering the conti-
nent, as far south as San Francisco,
or Santa Barbara.
hath righteousness with unrighteous-
ness ? and what communion hath light
with darkness.— 2Corinthians 6:14.
and products are included among ithe
corporations that will discontinue
disfiguring the landscape with bill-
board advertising.
This is more than a concession to
public opinion and good taste; it is
also good business. Roadside adver-
tising, is wasteful advertising.
But perhaps it won’t happen, or
science might handle the situation j ocean
with artificial heating. Anyhow, it
would not disturb old earth. She
Learned Harvard gentleman —
who might be more usefully em-
ployed — will undertake thought
transmission, or telepathy, from
Harvard to Paris, across the Atlantic
It’s a harmless pastime, and
if the gentlemen on both sides have
hut three miles from town for which
they paid $2 a month rent. When
Jim was ten, his father was a night
watchman. Then the elder Logan
lost his job and the landlord took the
cow and horse for rent and ousted
them. Jim went to work in a wool-
en mill at $8.50 per month. When he
was eleven, his right arm was
crushed in a machine and he was
crippled for life. But he stuck to his
job. After 14 hours’ work in the
mill he studied bookkeeping. Then
the Civil War broke out; his age
and his crippled body prevented his
enlisting. Working holidays, Sun-
days and until midnight his pay
jumped to $31 a month, and the
whole family lived on it. At 16 he
was a finished bookkeeper and got
a job at $150 a year in a dry goods
store.
A firm, crippled by the war, heard
of Jim and hired him as bookkeeper,
salesman and manager at $700 a
year. Three years later he formed
an envelope company of his own. His
reputation for honesty became a
by-word. The banks loaned him
money. His business became the
YEP - A FAT PURSE
IS A 600V THIN6
TO LEAN ON
Wisest Man in the World
There is a man in our town
And he is wondrous wise;
He kicks out all his troubles
And laughs at other guys.
Not That Kind of An Auntie
Margie (who is a movie fan)—•
“Did you ever seen Oliver Twist,
auntie?”
Ould-fashioned Aunt—“Hush, child
You know that I never attend any of
those modern dances.”
| enough imagination they will believe j largest in the United States. In
has still several hundred million ; that they have accomplished some-11898 the U. S. Envelope Co. merger
years to live. We are nearly 12,000 j
years from the Stone Age. It mat- j _
ters little to Mother Earth whether MeanwHile it is fortunate for the
we become civilized now or forget human- race that slow]v> through the
our lore and postpone civilization ageg> men have learned with the
100,000 years moie. Nature ia no spoken and printed word,, that they
in a huiry. There aie living ani-■ can transfer thought from one brain
mals whose evolution represents ten to anpther satisfactorily. There nev-
million yeais, the whale, foi in- er be any thing as tele-
stance, that used to live on land and j pathy on thig limited planet.
was smaller than a gray squirrel. i __
Colonel Bryan need not believe
that, if he doesn’t want to. It’s only
what scientists say.
AIRPLANE DUSTS POISON ON
MALARIAL MOSQUITO LARYAE
In the course of experimental poi-
son dusting by means of airplanes
for the control of boll weevil in
Louisiana, the Bureau of Entomolo-
gy, of the United States Department
of Agriculture, recently made an ex-
periment with the use of the same
method of the control of malaria-
hearing mosquitoes.
The region around Mound, La., is
very swampy and badly infested with
malarial mosquitoes. It is only about
about 18 miles from* Tallulah, where
the boll weevil poison dusting was
carried on. The Air Service of the
United States Army supplied the
same specially equipped airplane
used in the boll-weevil campaign.
Paris green was the poison dust
used to attack the mosquitoes. It
was heavily diluted with Tripoli
earth.
The experiment proved very suc-
cessful. The planes could fly over
parts of the "swamp which otherwise
were inacccessible. The trees did
not interfere with the spreading of
the poison dust, for the machines
flew sufficiently high to avoid con-
tact and circled them to apply it to
the surrounding bog.
The use of Paris green, highly di-
luted with road dust or some similar
substance, is recommended in certain
cases by the United States Public
Health Service. The airplane offers
a wholesale method of application.
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A conference of city supervisors
of home economics in the United
States has been called by the United
States Commissioner of Education to
be held in Washington, April 22, 23,
and 24. Headquarters will be the
auditorium of the Department of the
Interior. The chairman of the con-
ference will be Miss Emeline S.
W|hitcomb, Specialist in Home Eco-
homics, Bureau of Education.
William Ferree, war veteran, has
had two-thirds of his stomach re-
moved and gained thirty-five pounds
in weight. He is now able to woi'k
and enjoy life.
Nature and science combined work
wonders, and will take care of us,
if we give them half a chance. Many
a man with his stomach whole would
be better off with half of it if he
learned to take care of what he had
left. If men, occasionally, would
throw into a pail what they throw,
half chewed, into their stomachs, and
then look at the pail, they would
know why so many die soon.
With Standard Oil setting, the ex-
ample, fifteen great corporations have
agreed to discontinue roadside adver-
tising that disfigures landscapes.
Manufacturers of tires, automobiles,
soap, flour, motor parts, oil, yeasts
Most foolish activity is the attack
made on Mr. Mellon, Secretary of
the Treasury. Those that attack him
should thank him for his service to
the Government.
No longer a young man, over-
worked, with gigantic interests of
his own that needed his attention and
that nobody else could attend to, he
dropped his own business and took
up the financial affairs of the United
States.
He did this at a time when, as
everybody knows, the eb.st brain in
the country was needed .to manage
United States finances.
He has managed finances well,
has made possible reduction in tax-
ation, has cut down by hundreds of
millions yearly the national debt.
He is giving to the public, for
the salary of a junior clerk, the
service of one of the ablest busi-
ness and financial minds on the
United States. He should be
thanked, not nagged.
was consummated. He was made
vice-president and general manage?
at $100,000 a year. That was 26
years ago. Today he worth mil-
lions. And he still lives in Wor-
cester.
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES
Gossiping Firemen
Husband (Rushing into room) —.
“Come out quick.”
Wife—“What’s the master?”
“The house is on fire and we will
be burnt to death ’if we hesitate a
minute. Run, run for your life.”
“Alright, dear, I’ll be out in a
minute. I’ve got to tidy up this
room so it won’t look so bad when
the firemen get here.”
Just Like This
Anna while in school one day
Ate bananas, so they say.
Her teacher, in a haughty manna'h,
Said: “I really must ban Anna.”
One-Minute Novel
garet Briggs — Darling Margie —
Margaret Briggs—Darling Margie —
Sweetheart—’the Missus.
The End.
By the United States Department of
Agriculture
* Maybe He Mea'nt It
Doctor—“Well, Mr. Johnson, how
are you today?”
Mr. Johnson — “Much better sir.
The only thing now is my breathing,
sir.”
Doctor (in a force of habit tone)
“Yes-yes, well, we will have to see
if we can’t do something to stop
that.”
More than one-third of the men
formerly employed as county .agri-
cultural agents in New York are now
successful farmers, according to a
recent survey made in that State,
the results of which have been re- The Linquist
ported to the United States Depart- Teacher—“Now, Willie, you may
ment of Agriculture. tell us what is zinc?'
Willie — “Aw, I know — that’s
Soy beans as a soil-building crop j French pronunciation of think.’
which would also furnish an econom-
ical protein feed supplement have
been given a thorough trial by Block-
ford County, Ind., farmers, on the
advice of fheir agricultural extension
agent. The rapid increase in the
acreage planted to the crop in the
county indicates that they found it
a valuable addition to their cropping
system. Five- years ago, according
to reports to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, only a few
farmers in the county grew soy
ebans, but in 1923 approximately
3,850 acres were grown with corn
and 500 acres were grown alone for
1924 EASTER BONNETS
doess i'll have
to WEAR. THIS
ONE ALL
YEAR./
CO*'
COURSE
AN EASTER. SONNET
F0R. MOTHER. A NR
PAIXjHTER. -
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AUTOCA5TEC-.
Blonde Bess Opines
Sarah never misses a thing—not
eve n a step when she falls down
stairs.
Just Like Dad’s Auto
Old Lady Visitor— “Did you have
a good time in the country—learn to
milk cows, etc.?”
Little Tom—“fYes-um — first you
catch the cow—take her in the gar-
age—give her some breakfast food
and then drain her crank case.”
Unmasked
Little Mary was out in the yard
the other day when old Tabby came
around the corner of the house car-
rying a kitten by the nap of the
neck. “You aren’t fit to be a moth-
er,” she cried, rushing to the rescue.
‘You aren't haidly fit to be a fath-
er.”
It’s Different Now
Oldtimer—“In love huh! — and I
suppose you go around at midnight?”
Youth— “No, dogoneit — that’s
what is breaking my health. She
ain’t even home at that hoiir.”
seed and hay.
From a 3 per cent to a 20 per cent
purebred dairy-sire county in seven
years is the record completed in 1923
by Webster County, Utah. In 1916
there were only .six purebred dairy
sires in the county. As there is a
good near-by morket for milk pro-
ducts, the county agricultural agent
and progressive farmers of the coun-
ty felt, in planning their agricul-
tural program, that the dairy output
could be advantageously increased.
They decided that this could be done
most satisfactorily through the in-
troduction of better sires, and have
been working on that line. By 1923,
according to reports to the United
States Department of Agriculture, 80
purebred dairy sires were owned in
the county, all of them from dams
for three generations back with an
offical record of at least 600 pounds
annual butter-fat production.
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 16, 1924, newspaper, April 16, 1924; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1002692/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.