Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 1923 Page: 3 of 10
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Office Hours, 1 to 5 p. m.
Menton Bldg., Mercedes, Texas
DR. M. H. CHANDLER
DENTIST
Office in Hidalgo Co. Bank Bldg.
PHONE 147
GAUSE & KIRKPATRICK
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Practice In State and Federal
Fred E. Bennett Jas. H. Anderson
BENNETT & ANDERSON
Attorneys-at-Law
General Practice in all of the Courts
OFFICES
Hidalgo County Bank Building
Mercedes, Texas
F. G. MOFFETT
LAW TEE
First National Bank Building,
Mercedes, Texas
I 0. E. TAN BE EG f
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X Municipal Engineering
4* Supervision of Construction .V
Subdivision. Mapping and *t*
X Topography $
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♦j* Second Floor Old Bank of Com- X
X merce Bldg., Opp. City Park i*
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Auditor and Public Accountant
J. R, TOBLEMAN
Pharr, Texas
II.—Philosophic Grounds.
a*'"V N THE philosophic side we can
f 1 agree at once that intelligence,
character, . courage, and the
divine spark of the human soul are
alone the property of individuals.
These do not lie in agreements, in or-
ganizations, in institutions, in masses,
or in groups. They abide alone in
the individual mind and heart.
Production both of mind and hand
rests upon impulses in each individual.
These impulses are made of the varied
forces of original instincts, motives,
and acquired desires. Many of these
are destructive and must be restrained
through moral leadership and authority
of the law and be eliminated finally
by education. All are modified by a
vast fund of experience and a vast
plant and equipment of civilization
which we pass on with increments to
each succeeding generation.
The inherited instincts of self-pres-
ervation, acquisitiveness, fear, kind-
ness, hate, curiosity, desire for self-
expression, for power, for adulation,
that \^e carry over from a thousand
of generations must, for good or evil,
be comprehended in a workable sys-
tem embracing our accumulation of
experiences and equipment. They may
modify themselves with time—but in
terms of generations. They differ in
their urge upon different individuals.
The dominant ones are selfish. But no
civilization could be built or can en-
dure solely upon the groundwork of
unrestrained and unintelligent self-in-
terest. The problem of the world is
to restrain the destructive instincts
while strengthening and enlarging
those of altruistic character and con-
structive impulse—for thus we build
for the future.
From the instincts of kindness, pity,
fealty to family and race; the love
of liberty; the mystical yearnings for
spiritual things; the desire for fuller
expression of the creative faculties;
the impulses of service to community
and nation, are molded the ideals of
our people. And the most potent force
in society is its ideals. If one were
to attempt to delimit the potency of
instinct and ideals, it would be found
that while instinct dominates in our
preservation yet the great propelling
foree of progress is right ideals. It
is true we do not realize the idea^l;
not even a single person personifies
that realization. It is therefore not
surprising that society, a collection of
persons, a necessary maze of compro-
mises, cannot realize it. But that it
has ideals, that they revolve in a sys-
tem that makes for steady advance of
them is the first thing. Yet true as
this is, the day has not arrived when
any economic or social system will
function and last if founded upon al-
truism alone.
With the growth of ideals through
education, with the higher realization
of freedom, of justice, of humanity, of
pear m uie aspirations auu sausiac-
tions of pure altruism. But for the
next several generations we dare not
abandon self-interest as a motive force
to leadership and to production, lest
we die.
The will-o’-the-wisp of all* breeds of
socialism is that they contemplate a
motivation of human animals by altru-
ism alone. It necessitates a bureau-
cracy of the entire population, in
which, having obliterated the economic
stimulation of each member, the fine
gradations of character and ability are
to be arranged .in relative authority
by ballot or more likely by a Tammany
Half or a Bolshevist party, or some
other form of tyranny. The proof of
the futility of these ideas as a stimu-
lation to the development and activity
of the individual does not lie alone In
the ghastly failure of Russia, but it
also lies in our own failure in at-
tempts at nationalized industry.
Likewise the basic foundation of
autocracy, whether it be class govern-
ment or capitalism in the sense that a
few men through unrestrained control
of property determine the welfare of
great numbers, is as far apart from the
rightful expression of American in-
dividualism as the two. poles. The
will-o’-the-wisp of autocracy, in any
form is that it' supposes that the good
Lord endowed a special few with all
the divine attributes. It contemplates
one human animal dealing to the oth-
er human animals his just share of
earth, of glory, and of immortality.
The proof of the futility of these ideas
in the development of The world does
not lie alone in the grimnfailure of
Germany, but it lies in the damage to
our moral and social fabric from those
who have sought economic domination
In America, whether employer or em-
ployee.
We in America have had too much
experience of life to fool ourselves
into pretending that all men are equal
in ability, in character, in intelligence,
in ambition. That was part of the
claptrap of the French Revolution. We
have grown to understand that all we
can hope to assure to the individual
through government is liberty, justice,
intellectual welfare, equality of oppor-
tunity, and stimulation to service.
It is in maintenance of a society
fluid to these human qualities that our
Individualism departs from the individ-
ualism of Europe. There can be no
rise for the individual through the
frozen strata of classes, or of castes,
and no stratification can take place In
a mass livened by the free stir of its
particles. This guarding of our in-
dividualism against stratification in-
sists not only in preserving in the so-
cial solution an equal opportunity for
the able and ambitious to rise from
the bottom; it also insists that the
sons of the successful 'shall not by
any mere right of birth or favor con-
tinue to occupy their fathers’ places
of ppwer against the rise of a new
generation in process of coming up
from the bottom. The pioneers of our
American individualism had the good
sense not to reward Washington and
Jefferson and Hamilton with heredi-
tary dukedoms and fixtures in landed
estates, as Great Britain rewarded
Marlborough and Nelson. »Otherwise
our American fields of opportunity
would have been clogged with long
generations inheriting their fathers’
privileges, without their fathers’ capac-
ity for service.
That our system has avoided the es-
tablishment and domination of class
has a significant proof in the present
administration in Washington. Of the
twTelve men comprising the President,
vice president, and cabinet, nine have
earned their own ,way in life without
economic inheritance, and eight of
them started with manual labor.
If we examine the impulses that
carry us fonvard, none is so potent
for progress as the yearning for in-
dividual self-expression, the desire for
creation of something. Perhaps the
greatest human happiness flows from
personal achievement. Here lies the
great urge of the constructive instinct
of mankind. But it can only thrive
in a society where the individual has
liberty and stimulation to achievement.
Nor does the community progress ex-
cept through its participation in these
multitudes of achievements.
Furthermore, the maintenance of
productivity and the advancement of
the thirds of tire spirit depend upon
tka pvai'-renewea snrmlv from the mass'
of those who can rise to' leadership.
Our social, economic, and intellectual
progress is almost solely dependent
upon the creative minds of those in-
dividuals with imaginative and admin-
istrative intelligence who create or
who carry discoveries to widespread
application. No race possesses more
than a small percentage of these
minds in a single generation. But lit-
tle thought has ever been given to our
racial dependency upon them. Nor
that our pi*ogress is in so large a
measure due to the fact that with our
increased means pf , communication
these rare individuals are today able
to spread their influence over so en-
larged a number of lesser capable
minds as to have increased their po-
tency a million-fold. In truth, the vast-
ly greater productivity of the world
with actually less physical labor Is
due to the wider spread of their influ-
ence through the discovery of these
facilities. And they can arise solely
through the selection that comes from
the free-running mills of competition.
They must be free to rise from the
inass; they must be given the attrac-
tion of premiums to effort.
Leadership is a quality of the in-
'dlvidiial. It is the individual alone
who can function In the world of in-
tellect and in the field of leadership.
If democracy is to secure its authori-
ties In morals, religion, and statesman-
ship, it must stimulate leadership from
its own mass. Human leadership can-
not be replenished by selection like
queen bees, by divine right or bureau-
cracies, but by the free rise of ability,
character and intelligence.
Even so, leadership cannot, no mat-
ter how brilliant, carry progress far
ahead of the, average of the mass of
individual units. Progress of the na-
tion is the sum of progress in its in-
dividuals. Acts and ideas that lead
to progress are born out of the womb
of the individual mind, not out $>f the
mind of the crowd. The crowd only
feels: it has no mind of its own which
can plan. The crowd is credulous, It
destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it
dreams—hut it never builds. It is one
Let Me Kill Your
wm
or rne most proiounu ana important of
exact psychological truths that man in
the mdss does not think but only feels.
The mob functions only in a world of
emotion. The demagogue feeds on
mob emotions and his leadership is the
leadership of emotion, not the leader-
ship of intellect and progress. Popu-
lar desires are no criteria to the real
need; they can be determined only by
deliberative consideration, by educa-
tion, by constructive leadership.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
N (Copyright, 1923, by Doubleday, Page &
Co. Published by arrangement with
Newsmacer Union.)
Mercedes, Texas
PAGE THREE
NOTICE OF SALE OF REFUSED
AND UNCLAIMED FREIGHT
State of Texas.
County of Hidalgo.
Know all men by these presents,
that in conformity with laws govern-
ing, there will be sold for freight
and storage charges, at public out-
cry to ithe highest bidder, for cash,,
unless previously accepted ■ and
charges paid thereon by owner or
consignees, between the hours of 10
a. m. and 3 p. m. on the 23rd day
of April, A. D. 1923, the following
described property, at the St. L. B. &
M. Ry. freight depot warehouse. Mer-
cedes, Texas, to-wit:
Shipment hilled as three Fordson
Tractors shipped by C. A. Pate, Luf-
kin, Texas consigned ,to shippers or-
der notify Tolson Motor Company
Mercedes, Texas, on or about Octob-
er 25th, 1922.
Witness my hand this the 20th
day of March, A. D. 1923.
G. K. Riess,
Agent St. L. B. & M. Railway Co.
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY 1
CULTIVATORS]
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4 and 6 shovel walking and riding cultivators,
14-tooth Fowler cultivators, Georgia Stocks, 1
Go-Devils, cotton chopping hoes and culti- 1
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vator sweeps.
BORDERLAND {
HARDWARE CO. I
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Boll Weevils
My name is L. D. Hill. My lather wa* Dr. J. C. Hill, of Drone, Ga. The
Hill family have been living in Georgia for 71 years, and I have been raising
cotton, corn and hogs, since I was old enough to hold the plow handles. During
the last 25 years, I have run my 14 plantations at Gough in Burke County, Georgia,
near Augusta, and in 1922 raised 604 hales of cotton on 812 acres planted is
cotton.
By close observation, unceasing effort and practical experience, I have per-
fected what I believe to be the most successful of alf boll weevil poisons-
Go Ahead And Plant Your C&ttort
And Leave The Boll- Weevils To Me
and you’ll be raising more cotton to carry to the gin than you ever dared hope to
raise since the Mexican boll weevil moved into the Southern. States. You can
kill off the weevils on a year’s CTOJ? 0| at £, small cost acre, and
the only machinery you'll have to have will be an old tin can or bucket,
a mop made of a stick and a rag. ,
Now Let's Get Right Down To Business!
machinery which did not work, and their time and cotton in methods
which were experiments, and jiid not protect their cotton.
But I have proved on my own 812 acre farm, and on the farm*
of scores of my neighbors in Burke County, that you can beat the
boll weevil by a sure, cheap method, and that is by the application «£
H
The real money crop of the South is cotton, and the way to make
money in the South is to raise cotton. But—how are you going to
raise cotton with the boll weevil, is what every farmer in the South
wants to know.
Many methods of controlling the weevil have been tried, with
varying euosess. Thousands of farmers have invested their money in
ILLS
Hill’s Mixture is manufactured in the South’s largest boll weevil
poison plant.
The calcium arsenate, molasses and other ingredients are accurately
measured in the'exact proportions, and thoroughly mixed by machines
which distribute the poishn evenly in the molasses. Every mix is
chemically analyzed before shipping.
Hill’s Mixture is approved by the Georgia State Board of Entomol-
ogy as a boll weevil poison.
mixture:
Hill’s Mixture is a liquid poison, composed of calcium arsenate,
molasses, water and secret ingredients which form a combination
that we are convinced, from results obtained, attracts the boll weevil.
You can put Hill’s Mixture on in the daytime, without mar
chinery, with inexperienced labor. One colored boy or girl can cover
six acres a day. A rain of under one-half inch has little effect on it»
and it costs from one-half to one-fifth of the dusting method.
* -■ ■;■!
On 1%of the Acreage I Raised 4 of
The Cotton in Burke County in 1922
My neighbors first used it in small quantities, but the news
of its success spread so fast that hundreds of farmers used it last
year, and hundreds of acres in Burke County were protected from
the boll weevil by Hill’s Mixture last year,
it last year are going to use it again.
The farmers who used
LET ME SHOW YOU THE PROOF!
A'*?:-.
If yon want proof of Hill’s Mixture before you buy, my agent
will show you copies of wonderful letters of recommendation, from
yYpmi of the oldest and ablest farmers in this section of the State.
EJA. .SWEENEY
SAN BENITO, TEXAS Agent for
Hidalgo. Starr, Cameron & Willacy Counties
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March Jtd, 1923.
The price of Hill’s Mixture is 82c per gallon, delivered in Ark.,
La., Okla., and Texas in 50-gal. bbls., plus small cost for container,
which cost will be refunded to you when the barrel is returned in good
condition. Small freight charge to other states. L. D. HILL.
HILL’S MIXTURE
for the <! CORPORATION
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 1923, newspaper, April 11, 1923; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1002821/m1/3/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.