The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1921 Page: 7 of 8
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THE EL CAMPO CITIZEN AUGUST 5, 1921
economical and prudent
would not be long until their
business would decrease. All
of which is by the way of en-
dorsing a little item that ap-
peared in the Cotton Plant
Democrat a short time ago :
“A real slick, pull-the-cord-
under advertising slicker was
in the city Monday working a
church directory scheme. The
last we saw of him he wanted
a sheet of re dcardboard to
map out a statft hotel directory
on. He sa^d that it was a lit-
tle hard to get it started here
but after he got the bank and
a few others, the rest of them
were easy. He had us figure
on the printing, but said our
price was too high, although
he admitted that our price was
about right. He said he was
going to take the work over
into another county where
there were eight papers, all do-
ing work cheap and starving
to death. When a schemer of
this kind comei along, using
the churches, both white and
colored, to promote his schemes
it is time for the business man
to call a halt.
The interesting thing about
this item is that the editor was
not“beefing”about not getting
the advertising » himself. He
probably has all the advertis-
ing he could take care of.- If
the business man wanted to
waste his advertising fund on
such a game1, as old as the
gold brick and three-card mon-
te game, he is willing to let
them ;live and learn, but he
does not want to see his church
es swindled.
Human nature is a complex
puzzling thing after all. That
editor of the Cotton Plant
Democrat would be branded
by his home town people as a
traitor to his community if he
their life’s work to printing bought his clothings of a mail
the interesting things and ev-
eryday happenings that, bind
the community spirit a^d in- :
terest and creates a spirit of
loyalty and devotion to the
home town that holds support
and brings business to yonr
doors? And that fool editor
keeps right on doing it whe-
ther you put your advertise-
ment in the paper or not. \
Why? Because it is his bus-
iness to grind out a paper that
people want to read. And they
read it whether your ad ap-
pears or not. If your ad is
not there, they will read some
one else’s ad.
Got all the business you can
handle—don’t need to adver-
tise ? Don’t fool yourself. One
of the big packing companies
spends $50,000 a year just to
keep its name before the pub-
lic. They have more business
than they can handle now, but
they know that if they with-
draw their advertising that it
if he is
in his business affairs. My in*
formation on that line has more
to do with granting credit than
almost anything else.”
A banker in a neighboring
city has the same views. Npt
long ago a man came to hiii
for a loan. He had securities
worth eight or ten times the
amount of money that he want-
ed to borrow, but the loan WAS
refused. One fef the tiank di-
rectors heard about the inci-
dent ajjd asked about it. “Yes,”
replied the old banker, “the
man had ample security, and
the loan no doubt would have
been safe.
USE YOUR HOME PAPER
OUR FOREIGN TRADE
Stories of
Great Scouts
The slick guy with a smooth
line of talk, greased hair, pres-
res pants and a big card print-
ed in three colors, seems to be
an excellent combination to
separate business houses from
$3 to $10 for box space on a
pasteboard card after the af-
orementioned slick guy tells
you it is advertising. He has
jio interest in your community
or your business. His sole and
only interest is your money
and you will find him perfectly
willing to add one lie to anoth-
er to enlist your interest, for
he [will not see you again after
he has cleaned up the town
and taken the train out.
Sometimes it is a thingama-
jig that he is going to hang on
every telephone in the county
sometimes it is a hotel direc-
tory and other times it may be
some new Wallingford folder-
ol that- will gain the attention
of even more conservative bus-
iness men. They have en ex-
cellent line of talk, these fel-
lows. They have to have, for
that js what they live on. Ev-
er hear of a business man who
had to enlarge his store, or a
town that doubled its trade
territory as a result of this
kind of advertising? I never
did, and I don’t believe that
one of the slick guys ever did
Oither.
But I know of several towns
that have made phenomenal
progress and of thousands of
others that are being boosted
as a result of advertising thru
the home town paper. And
they keep right on boosting,
whether you advertise or not.
Did you ever stop to think of
the number of editors of home
town papers that are giving
idebted to, or
against the Es-
Danielson, de-
©, Western Newspaper Union.
SHARPE GROVER, “BEST SCOUT
GOVERNMENT EVER HAD”
“The best^scout the government ever
had,” said some of the army officers
for whom Sharpe Grover scouted dur-
ing the Indian wars In Kansas In
1867-68, and more than once he showed
hltfiself worthy -of the title. He had
married a Sioux woman, and lived
with the tribe for years. He could
speak their language and knew their
ways. As a trailer and reader of
signs, Grover was without a peer.
He <*rald tell how long since the
tracks had meen made; whether they
ed a $100,000.000* corporation
to'finance exports, but this will
be slow ip functioning and its
possibilities are overestimated
according to big exporters.
The result of this situation,
says John McHugh, a New
York banker, is that our for-
eign. trade is going on a primi-
tive barter basis.
The barter system works
something like this: Cotton
growers formed the Mississippi
Delta Export and Trading com-
pany. Their first shipment ip
50,000 bales of cotton. It is
sent to an 4merican agent in
Hamburg. He distributes it to
textile mills in Germany and
Czech o-Slovakia. These mills
turn the*raw cotton into finish-
jjBfeyiods, a satisfactory por-
tion of wdiich is sent back to
Mississippi to pay f6r the cot-
An American manufacturer
of electrical equipment is ship-
ping his wares to Europe and
taking bristles and eggs in re-
turn. Another manufacturer
swaps American pottery for
unty, Texas, by W.
idge of the County
tid county on the
July, A. D. 1021,
gular term of said
>y notifies all per-
id to said estate to
ird and make set-
nd those having
list said estate to
n to hiin within the
bed by law at his
El Campo, Whar-
Texas, where he
mail, this 28th day
D. 1921.
Frank G. Bard, /
rator of the Estate
Danielson, deceaa-
But I happen to
know that he is leading a very
wicked life; he is doing things
which will involve him in dis-
grace sooner or later and 1
would much prefer that some
other bank handle his bu^-
ness.” .
A man’s good charactr is fepi
best asset Reputation is bas-
ed upon character, and busi-
ness men judge a man by b
reputation. This has alwa;
been the case, hut never mo:
r . ~ ~ •>»
A man’s got
mined to have It..-. When the scoats
left the camp seven Cheyennes rode
away with them.
While engaged in friendly conversa-
tion, the Indians suddenly dropped to
the rear and opened fire. Comstock
was killed Instantly and Grover badly
wounded, but lying on the ground and
making a desperate defense of Com-
stock's body, he fought off the Indians
until nightfall and escaped.
The next month Grover Joined Gea.
G. A, Forsyth’s band of scouts and
was with them art the celebrated
Beecher’s Island fight. As Roman
Nose’s warriors shouted to each other,
Grover understood everything they
said, and told Forsyte what they were
planning to do. After the biggest
charge of the Sioux and Cheyennes
had been turned back, Forsyth turned
to Grover and said: “Can they do bet-
ter than that, Grover?' ; ;
“I have been on the plains, man and
boy, for 30 years, and I never saw such
a charge before," was the scout's reply.
“I think they have dpne their level
best."
“Ail right, we’re good for them,
then,” said Forsyth.
For years the fact that Grover was
with 'Forsyth that day was kept from
the Indians, for he was friendly with
them, and they woultJ^Ave killed him
svithout mercy.' bad th^r known. Later
they did learn It and attempted sev-
eral times to kill him, but he always
escaped. • Unfortunately Grover drank
heavily, and a few years after the
Beecher fight be was killed In a
ro* at Pond CSty. near Fort Wallace,
an Inglorious end for so great a scout
so than now
character tried and proven,
his best asset and his b<
friend. .
ystem of barter, or
£ is taking us back
many thousands of
years to the days before mon
ey was invented as a medium
of exchange.
i It seems primitive, but ex-
, port trade is an ultimate loss
1 unless we eventually balance
our books by getting back an
W . A ' . 1«4. J* - j •% •
£ equivalent amount of commodi-
ties in the form of exports. .
d Gold received in foreign trade
* is merely a form of note calling
* for reciprocal shipments of im-
* ports in the future. We can’t
n r;
__
A MAN’S BEST ASSET
Stories of •>£•
Great Scouts
If you have a mind to adorn your
city by consecrated monuments, ttret
qonaecmte In yourmelf the moat beau-
tiful monument of *entleneae and Jus-
tice and spbhevolence. — EpIcbggU^'
SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS.
©. Western Newspaper Union.
SIMON KENTON, THE AME*1
CAN MAZEPPA !U
Second only to the name of Daniel
Boone—whose life be ottee »ave<P--la
written in the annals of Kentucky the
name of Simon Kenton.
A delicious dumpling to uae in chick-
en soup la prepared as follows:
Dumpl Inga^—
Take one cupful
of melted chicken
ijr^^ fat, two cupful* of
Kenton was
a Virginian who served as a scout In
Lord Dunroore’s war shortly before
the outbreak of the Revolution and
who crossed over the mountains Into
the “Dark and Bloody Ground” of Ken-
tucky in search of advebture. His ex-
ploits there soon won for hltu the un
dying hatred of the Indians and no
less than eight times be was raptured
by them and sentenced to death,.
*In 1778 Kenton with two compan-
ions went north into Ohlo to spy upon
a tribe at war with the whltps. Whlje
returning, Jbey eatne upon a herd of
Indian horses. The Kentuckians re-
solved to take some of the animals
along as trophies of the successful ex-
pedition. The Indians quickly discov-
ered the theft and overtook the scouts
Just before they crossed the Ohio
river.
One of the Kentuckians was killed,
another escaped but Kenton was taken
prisoner.
“You steal Injun hoss?” they taunt-
ed him. “All right, we give you ride
on him I”
po they tied the scout on a wild
young horse and set It, free in the for-
est. He finally wus token from ^ie
horse’s back more dead than alive.
At the first village the Indians
reached, they condemned the scout to
run the gantlet. When the .signal was
given, KeDton sprang through the line
of warriors, armed with clubs and
hatchets, and reached the council-
house, bis goal, almost untouched.
Near Zanesfleld preparations were
made to bum him at the stake, but the
arrival of Simon Gtrty, the “white
renegade," who recognized Kenton as
an old friend, saved him.
- His freedom was short-lived. Tt^ree
weeks later the Indians again vote<l
to put him to death. Again he was
saved by a frienjl—Chief Logan, the
noted orator of the. Cayugat. When
the Sandsky towns were reached, the
Indians held a council and once more
decreed the death penalty. Kenton
was tied to the stake. Just as the
torch was being applied, a British of-
ficer appeared and demanded the sur-
render of their prisoner to his com-
mander at Detroit
Kenton was kept captive in Detroit
until 1779, when through the eld of «o
Indian trader's wife He escaped te
Kentucky where be died In 1836.
milk, two cupfuls
of flour, a pinch
of nutmeg and a
tearpoonful of
' salt Heat the fat
and milk; when belling, add the flour
to which bas been added the nutmeg
and salt cook until it leaves the bot-
tom of the saucepan; cool and add the
eggs one at a time, beating well be-
tween. Drop by spoonfuls into the
boiling soup.
Honeycomb Pudding,—Take one
cupful of’molasses, one-bdif cupful of
sugar, one-half’ cupful of swaet milk,
four eggs, one teaspoonfut of soda.
Mix as usual and balm forty-five min-
utes In a moderate oven. Sauce:
Take one-half cupful of brown sugar,
two toblespoonfule .of butter, one to-
bleepoonful of cornstarch, one-half
cupful of water; cook until thick; then
add one pint of whipping cream.
Emergency Dish.—Put a capful or
more of roast beef through the meat
cbepper, add a small onion also ground
throogb the chopper. Peel and grind
four to six potatoes. Grease with
sweet fat a deep granite or earthen
baking dish, put In tha potatoes, sea-
son well, add the meat and onion, cov-
er and cook until nearly done, then
uncover to brown. This makes a very
appetising dish and one which uses
all bits of cold meat.
Shrimp Wiggle.'—Take one can 'of
shrimps, two cupfuls of milk, one-half
can of peas, ooe tablespoonfbl of flour
and seasoning. Make a cream sauce
with the floor and milk, add the peas
and shrimps cut in pieces. Bake In
goes
A WHO WAITS
ho has ever
sb will shout
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
sctor who waits
office for Mr.
that gentleman
side door, will
e “mumbled a
This splendid car is growing more popular every day, becausd
every day the demand for the enclosed car increases in volume, and
when you think that the Ford SdarC with all its comforts and cohven-'
iences—an enclsoed car, handsome in appearance, roomy for five
passengers, nicely upholstered, v sliding plate glass windows which
make it an open car in a minute or so or a tightly closed car that is
dust-proof and water-proof—ready for service every day of the year,
rain or shine, sufhmer or winter, and then think that this car is lower
in price than any touring car (except the Ford car) and you will not
wonder that we ask you to leave your order for a Sedan as soon as
possible that we may be able to give you reasonable prompt delivery.
Of course you cannot forget that matchless and reliable “Ford
After-Service,” that follows every Ford car the world over—always
within arm’s length a reliable Ford dealer or authorized Ford garage
that can tune up your car and keep it inr unning condition every day
in the year. We want your trade.
:he rice industry
the old maxim
evened. It waited
go, even if it wa*
dng, and now rice
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Ballew, W. L. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1921, newspaper, August 5, 1921; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009701/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.