The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1918 Page: 6 of 12
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. THE CHRONICLE
Published Every Friday. .
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/ Oldest. Pahkh in Tkaqu*. *
Official Organ ^k. the City.
Habecriptiau prioe, #1.60 per Year.
Payable In Advance.
Entai'uS at the postofflre at Taafiic. Texai. for
transmission through the mail* at second las*
rata of postage. undo* tha Act of' Congroaa of
Match 3rd. 1879.
Obituaries, resolutions, ciyiis of
thanks, and othe* such matter v>f
no news value is Charged for at ad-
vertising rates.
Wm. STRINGER, Editor ai)d Proprietor
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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918c'
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with the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war.......
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~ KEEP THE CHILDREN IN
SCHOOL.
With the many.pressing matters
claiming the attention of the peo-
pl^Uinjl-the urgent need of every
hand at the plow that can possibly
be mustered, the temptation is
great to slack up oq school at-
tendance. This temptation should
be registed. No child of school
age should he permitted to absent
himself or herself from, the school-
, room. The urge of education was
never greater than at present. The
absolute inability of the uneducat-
ed to meet present' day .conditions
was peyer more apparent. And
not only'is this true hut the educa-
tion must he more thorough now
than was ever before demanded1.
The probable duration of the war
is a matter of much uncertainly.
A slackening qf the educational
drive would be most unfair to the
young people . and.....would place
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them at a terrible 'disadvantaged
’would impose upon thorn ii .handi-
cap kwm which many oft tljem
would never r^cjvcr.
If we would hate arr object les-
ion of the effects of abuhdohing the
educution of the young during the-
Iwar times', we have only to look to
the Southern States }of this*. Re-
public. During the unfortunate
war between the States, when the
people of the South were fighting
fjr their very life' education was
permitted to languish. The pres-
ent he* school system was then
unknown, all schools'being of the
“subscription” class. These were
largely abandoned, aud the young
people permitted to grow up practi-
cally without education. The
r^ult is still to be seen in many
sections of the Soutlu Men who
were in their “teens” when the war
broke out, just at the age when
they should have been applying
themselves diligently to securing
an education, were drafted for
work on thq'farms, and from there
graduated to the ranks, with the
result fhat they, have gone through
life wiffetnltthe education that by
rights should have been theirs.
There are thousands of these men
throughout the South today-^meti
of great natural lolents who. had
they gotten. the training they
should have had, would, now be
occupying high positions. But
their illiteracy hae been fatal to
any real progress. They are
honest, pains-taking workers in
whatever fiefd they may occupy,
but their handicap places them In
the ranks ot the mediocre, and
struggle as they may, they can
never go higher. . .
As illustrative of the point, we
wish to impress, let us state that
of the entire country the.'. South is
today more (ban any other section
preeminently a young nian*S" Coun-
try. . It is so from the fa£t that
such a large ner cent of the . older
people are so deficient in educa-
tion. .
The boy or girl can find time to
do all the work in other lines fhdt
should be imposed upon them and
still keep up their studies. A few
hours each day given hV real work
will only nerve them the better for
their studied. And a few hours of
work each day is all that should he
required of them Under any circum-
stances..’
Keep the children in. school.
They are our future citizens, an'd
we can’t afford to lower the stand-
ard.
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Service Which Saves Lives.
Nothing illustrates bettor what the
It.-d Cfi'oLs imbAns to the soldiers In tl.o
Southwestern camps and cantonments
tiqtn an occurrence at Cump Bowie,
Fort Worth, Tex. When the-December
blizzard' struck the camp it found tlie
man unprepared'for It. One thousand
sqldlors fell iil in 24 hours.. More than
2,DOO w^-re ill 72 hours after the bliz-
zard hit. Many of thorn were threat-
ened with pneumonia. Many had pneu-
monia. There was insufficient bedding
The government was unable to take
care of the situation. Charles W. Con-
•R«ty. field director for the Red Cross
at -Camp Bowl* bought'eVtfy blanket
he could get in Fort Worth and other
Texas cities and wired Red, Cross
headquarters at St. Louis, for more.
-Within 48 hours after the blizzard
struck, Connery turned over 20,000
blankets to Hhe commandant of the
capip, without any soat to tjie govern-
ment whatever. Undoubtedly this
<iu!< K work saved the lig*^*. of many
soldiers.
That Is' ttiV, sort of work the J?ed
Cm»:i is doing for 350,000 American
^idlers in the SouthwaSt&WTftmps
Wt’d cantonqjents, like\vj|jy? in every
miftp >«*><■ cantonment 'in the United
’Ktajes. That is how moif?5r"glven to
the’Red .■Cross is spent in military
relief. '< ■
>tgJ,„-&h<np.p.ing Personally Conducted.
The American soldier In France Is
a 8ood fighting Man. nut when he
faces the French Shopkeeper—that
qulek-tongued, sharp-eyed- little wolri-
an who keeps the Hildas full as she
can while herlfusband fights, he is
glad enough ^o? have an American
woman beside him. So the Red Cross
womeij at \ the llno-of-communicaHon
canteens have a new Job. They take
the boys out shopping.
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ADMINISTRATION 8AY8:
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There Is no royal road to food
conservation. Wo can only ac-
complish this by the voluntary
action of our whole people, each
element In proportion ,to Ita meant. -
It la a matter of equality of bur-
den; a matter of minute saving
and substitution' at sVery point In
the 20,000,000 kitchens, on the 20,-
000.000 dinner tables, and In the
2,000,000 manufacturing, whole-
sale and retail establishments of
the country.
Buy War Saving Certificates.
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Gasolene Reduced
We are now selling the best
GASOLENE you can buy for
24c per Gallon
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Every Gallon Guaranteed.
Fill up your tank.
R. ANDREWS GARAGE
IE 33
“Every Bank Should;
Sell Stamps; Every
Texan Should Save’
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Smith.
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I‘ri‘niden,t.,.Xt,.XH8.’ Bankers Association
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In purchasing Thrift Stamps
and War Savings Stamps Tex-
ans not only show th$Ir loyally
to the Government, but they
are feathering their own nests
and making <t,he test kind of'an
investment. Victory is brought
nearer. This-is the way that
Howell Smith of McKinney,
President of the Texas Bank-
ers’ Association, regards the
thrift movement'of the Nation-
al War Savings Committee.
“They are splendid’ invest-
ments—these little dividend-
paying stamps which have been
placed on s£e at bargain count-
er prices,” declares Mr. Smith.
“Every banking houjse in Texas
should carry a stock of them
for sale to its patrons and ev-
ery Texan should buy a stamp
every time he can.
“It is to the interest of Lone
Star bankers to see that the
people become thrifty by buy-
ing Thrift and War Savings
Stamps. It is to their interest
to do so. Of course they ought
to be for it enthusiastically be-
cause of the patriotic signifi-
cance; but one of the big ad-
vantages in getting their pa-
trons and frieVids to buy the
stamps ii that they ac£, making
these people more prosperous.
As a community saves and
prospers, the banks and all ’buis-
ineas houses will prosper. Thrift
begets prosperity. This buying
of Thrift Stamps is good busi-
ness anyway you look at it—
the Government is helped and
all kinds of, businesses are
helped and tha individual pros-
pers.
‘‘If the bankers of Texas
have any fear that their sav-
ings deposits will be decreased
if their people biiy Thrift
Stamps and War .Savings
Stamps, they are mistaken.
Just look at what happened in
England during t'he first eigh-
teen months of the thrift cam-
paign over there. Within a year
and a half the people of Eng-
land purchased, $650,000,000
worth of Victory Stamps and
during the «ame period the sav-
ings_4eposits in English banks
increased over 100 per cent
The little Thrift Stamps and
the principlesi of thrift learned
in the campaign did that. Not
only did the. people buy as
manv Thrift Stamps as they
icould purchase, but they saved
and deposited with the banks a
100 per cent more money than
they had ever deposited.
“The banker who does not sell
Thrift and War Savings Stamps
and push their sale Is standing
in his own light and keeping
prosperity from his patrons.”
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Your Welding!
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We have installed an Ox-Acetylene
Welding Plant in our Garage apd we
are now prepared to weld any kind
of metal that can be welded.
We are also prepared to repair and
recharge any make of storage bat-
teries. A specialty -of Ignition and
Starting-Lighting troubles.
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Maxwell Cars and Maxwell Trucks
jnmM* * 4 1,1
in stock. .
Mosbaugh & Saunders
GARAGE
FOURTH AVENUE, TEAGUE, TEXAS
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Every War Savings Stamp
you buy brings the end of the
war that much nearer.
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h your county going to make
its quota of War Savings
Stamps? Help puah it over
the top.
-W.3.S.——
„ < A Thrift Card in your pocket
| T>eats a dozen flags on your coat
lapel.
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If we win our flfht at home
our soldier* will >vin theirs ip
Save wifely, not mie-
in
Teague, Texas
That Block System Farce. ..
About a year ago our versatile
signer of, county warrants, the
cotfnty judge’and candidate for the
legislature, made a “trade” witli a
party without competitive bids or
publicity—competition is so vulgar
don’t yer know—to put in a “Block
System” 6f Land Registration at a
cost of $15,000 to the taxpayers,
and was to use his trusty trenchant
pen in signing county warrants to
pay the bill.
Well, a hue and cry was raised
by men who had some sense, and
an injunction was obtained
against allowing the contract, but
not to be out done in his effort to
assist his friendi ’attthe expense of
the people, another contract was
made for the Bame work at the
reduced priefe of only $10,000 and
the accommodating judge turned
over his abstract office etc., to the
Block artist. Jhst what consider-
ation in the way of rent, if any, the
judge received, we have never
heard. '
Now when the present $326,000
absurdity is knocked out by the
court will not another contract just
as absurd be let?
Will not the architect who help-
ed oondemn the old building still
get his $3,000, as the prder Qn the
minutes of the commissioners
court .show was graciously and
grandiloquently handed him at the
instance of his royal highness.
But the assessing of taxes was
going to be made easy and the col-
lection-sure. *
The people were supposed to
forget the cost in the multiplicity
of other troubles then in contem-,
plation by the*Grilliant jurist. ,
And the assessor was told that
All his tioubleB were over. That
assessing taxes would be a real
picnic with fried perch, ’tatef salad
and iee cream.
Well, a«copy of hiB rolls shown
the Progress are a scream, a lolla-
yatlue as a last year’s weather fore-
cast. . v
In one precinct there kre 242
errors.* . ..... \ .
Men’s names arelisted as owners
of real estate who have been dead-1_The censorship of foreign language
2p years.
And their lands have J^en ^ren-
dered and taxes paid on them by
other parties for 15 -years.'' V
O, you $10,000!
To what fool uses were yoq put!
Jt has proved a chimerical ex-
travaganee^
Sired by Ignorance,
Damned by egotism.
Paid by the people.
It now raises its flaccid fade,
wriggles its deformed body *and
grins leeringly at its sponsors.
Ten thousand bucks gone to the
demnition bowwows!
Paid for by the sweat of labor,
A stepping stone to the .greater
monstrosity of the $200,000 court-
house.
With interest amounting to
$126,000. o ■'
Without so muc,h as letting them
know.
On this record ybur vote is de-
manded to send the great “tie-
beaker" to the legislature.—
Kirven Progress.
Money placed at interest works
day and night,in,wet and dry weath-
er. Buy War-Savings and Thrift
StampB. ._ ^ ■
Kuykendall does all kinds of
auto top repairing. Also an up-
to-date Safety Razor Blade Shar-
pening machine.
UNEARTHLY WAS THIS MUSIC
German Publication Reprimanded by
Press Agent for Mistranslation
of Adjective “Heavenly."
publications by the post office depart-
ment won’t, be at all offensive to one
of ’the musical comedies which re-
cently opened In New York. And If
the censorship can extend to the
lolnt of gathering altogether a certain
’termnn periodical, then the press
■nt will be even stronger for the
government
animosity dates back to the
hundWilnted account of the opening
of hlsvplay, which he wrote nnd sent
out sortie twelve hours before* the cur-
tain waa raised on the premiere* How-
ever, him description
the chorda, the
the persoi
suffer oa account of _____„ _________
On the question of the beauty of the
music he wt^s especially grandiloquent,
and when-he called up the German edi-
torial offices the next morning he felt
that his grievance was Just. But there
they told him he had used a part of
his own copy, without changing a
single word, merely translating It into
German.
“Oh, you did!” raved the young press
agent, nud his voice instinctively told
that he was tearing his hair. “I wrote
ttiat'the Music was heavenly—and your
blamed translation made It say that
the ‘muslfc was unearthly I’”
Thrift Stamps are the way the
Government has to help you save.
Have you bought some?*- —
Teague Rebekah Lodge. No. 466
I. O. O. F.. meetB the 2nd and 4th
Thursday nights and 1st and 3rd
Wednesdays 3 p. m. of each month.
Visiting Rebekahs cordially invited.
Mrs. Rosa Pingleton, N. G.
A. M. Hartley, Sec’y.
WARD ELECTRIC COMPANY
Storage Batteries, Electrical Supplies
and Repairs.
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Stringer, William J. The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1918, newspaper, March 22, 1918; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1048391/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.