Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE FOUR
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L. T. HOYT
Manager and Editor
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Entered as second class mail matter at the
post office at Mercedes, Texas, January 23,
1914, under the act of March. 3, 1879. *
Friday, November 23, 1917
CITIZENS MEET
NEXT WEDNESDAY
A number of tbe business men got
together at the Queen theater Wed-
nesday morning and arrangements
•were made for a general meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce and citi
zens at the same place next Wed-
nesday at 10 o’clock a. m.
There are a number of questions
vital to the community which will
he taken up at that time.
One of the important ones will be
the discussion of some means to
induce the construction of > new
houses in Mercedes.
Many families are waiting to move
here if they can only find a house
to live in.
Rents are high and the investment
in rent houses will prove very at-
tractive.
Another question to be considered
is the hurrying up the work of the
improvement of the county roads
known as the Diamond Loop. A
quarter of a million of dollars was
voted by the county for this purpose
nearly two years ago and the people
are commencing to wonder why the
work is not progressing.
Conserve the Humus.
As we go afarming let’s put our
very best information about this all
important business just now into
practice. Just now farmers are
breaking their land, preparing an
early seed bed for the coming crops.
But many are destroying the heat
substance to be had which makes
for success on the farm more than
any other; a substance that can
never be replaced; that cannot be
bought; that at once opens up a
tight soil, compacts a light soil, and
adds immensely to the water hold-
ing capacity of any soil—in fact is
the life of the soil.
Yet what is becoming of this val-
uable material on the vast majority
of our Magic Valley farms? What
are the reputed good farmers from
the noi'th doing with their humus-
forming material? Well a few of
the wiser ones have added to their
earning power and their value as
patriotic American citizens by pur-
chasing sh,eep and cattle from the
drouth-stricken districts of Texas,
and are utilizing this otherwise
waste material. From refuse to
meat is a quick transformation, and
altogether profitable one. Others
have not progressed so far in farm-
ing and who have not livestock of
any kind to consume this stuff, are
doing the next best thing, chopping
their corn stalks, broom corn stalks,
grass, weeds, etc., up and turning it
under. This insures a storehouse
for moisture, and abundant food for
the bacteria. And others, who could
hardly be classed as farmers, are
cutting, raking and burning theii
stalks. Thus absolutely destroying
the life of the soil, robbing the bac-
teria of their beef-steak, and ulti-
mately ruining their farms or the
farm rented. Finally, the whole
problem, when solved leads to an
impoverished nation.
How long is this unscientific prac-
tice going to continue? So long as
the tillers of the soil are unaware
of the harm they are doing their
soil, their chances for success on the
farm, and the chances for their chil-
dren to get ahead and educate them
selves front the earning power of
the soil on the farm.
Call such a farmer a good patri
otic American citizen helping to win
the fight? Deeds, not words now.
The time for wind-jamming is past.
Let’s do our part in the struggle by
practicing sane, safe, sensible farm
ing methods.
W. Z. MILLER,
County Agent.
Rev. Mr. Boyd, the pastor of the
local Baptist church, conducted the
high school chapel exercises on
Monday morning. He gave a very
interesting and inspiring talk to the
pupils, using the life of John, the
Apostle, as his theme.
Friday, November 16, the following
program was given by the Athen-
aeum literary socifety.
Song—America.
School paper—John Harzig.
Piano solo—Mamie Timon.
Recitation—Dora Emmons.
Current Events—Laila MacSpad-
den, Henry Irby, Ruth Kelly and
William Bradford.
Vocal solo—Vera Borchelt.
Recitation—Mary Villareal.
Piano solo—Beulah Blackwell.
Reading—Beatrice Baxley.
Debate—Resolved, that moving pic-
ture theaters offer a desirable and
beneficial form of amusement.
Affirmative—Vera Bower and Carl
Swaney.
Negative--Florence Settles and
Roy Turley.
Almost every pupil was, of course,
interested in the debate and s were
glad to hear that the judge’s decis-
ion was 2 to 1 in favor of the af-
firmative.
The judges were Mrs. G. K. Riess,
Mrs. A. Freeman and Miss C. Rich.
The Parent-Teachers will have a
meeting at the high school audito-
rium, Thursday night, Dec. 6. Ev-
eryone interested in this organiza-
tion is urged to attend.
Another new pupil has entered our
ranks. This mite is Vida Fair-
childs from Alice, Texas. She is
doing freshman work.
The sixth grade pupils were in-
vited to listen to the exercises of
the Athenaeum literary society of
the high school last Friday after-
noon. Many of these children had
never before heard a formal debate,
so the hour proved profitable as
well as pleasurable.
The State Teachers’ association
meets in Waco from November 29 to
December 1. Two of the teachers
are planning to attend, Miss Layne
and ' Miss Buck.
The Cactus ,club gave a literary
THE GREAT
QUESTION
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fr-'V »< ’'S'”
PART L
WSmU ia my duty; what Is tha
■mat economise and save in tha
| borne. You wealthy automobthsta
must curtail your extravagances and
! |st the Automobile Manufacturer be
free to make trucks and cars for the
I Government. You society women
I paust realize that it is vulgarity and
M»»sst treason to keep an army ©i
; Workers making your clothes when
they could be doing useful work for
tbe Government. You children must
help with the housework and free
men and women to fight and pro-
duce goods needed by the Country,
We must get together for greater
most sensible and profitable course efficiency.
We must save or perish.
for me to follow in my private and
bueiaess affairs during tbe continu-
ance of tbe war?
This is tbe great question coni
fronting every American citizen.
Here is a common-sense reply:
Before we oaa settle tbe matter ifi tbe conclusions in Part 1,
detail, we must gra*p those element "^^ave resolved to produce more
___ „„„„ ... . wealth, to work harder, and to deny
ary principles which govern national __ ,. . „ . .
pourself in the matter of food and
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will assume that yon have
affairs.
This does not involve great learn
luxuries.
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edge is little else than common-sens* er> aGCUmuiating money at a much
applied to big subjects.
The war waH be won by the Na-
tion which can place the greatest
Dumber of men, the greatest amount
of material in the field, and produce
the greatest amount of foodstuffs ta
'supply its military and civilian
forces. This fact is so generally
recognized that it is not necessary
to bring forward elaborate argu-
ments to prove it.
We are a wealthy Nation, and the
question arises as to whether or not
we can win the war by throwing oui
surplus wealth into the struggle.
We cannot.
Why? Because our savings, as a
Nation, amounted to about 5 Billion
Dollars annually before we entered
the war, and our war estimates for
thp first year's operations call for
an expenditure of about Eighteen
Billion Dollars, or over 3^4 times aa
greater rate than ever before.
Your duty and your common-sense'
demand that you loan this money to
your Government.
By doing this you win make a
very definite contribution to the sue*
cess of the war. The additional
crops you grow, the additional hours
you put in at your work, the little
hardships you endure as you econ-
omize, will feed soldiers, will buy,
guns and ammunition, build air-ships,
will crush Germany, will make the
world safe for business and safe for
democracy.
How can you best lend your
wealth, the product of your labor
fcnd self-denial, to your Country?
By buying Liberty Bonds.
“But,” you say, “The Campaign
for the Second Liberty Loan is
over.”
Yes. The flags have ceased to
Automobile Numbers
License and
Tags
Crawford's Garage
In Mercedes
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much as we have saved ever before wave, and the bands have stopped
la. one year. j flaying, but. have you a Bond? Or
Now, there are three courses open ' you have- have you purchased to'
i’le us. We can endeavor to produce , kbe limit of your abUity?
§*/& times as much wealth this year! In those sections where people
program on the afternoon of Friday, as ever we did before. We can em were indifferent to The Loan,
TALLEY FEDERATION MEETS
IN DONNA DECEMBER 4TH.
The Donna Woman’s club is mak-
ing preparations to entertain the
Valley Federation on December 4th.
There will be the usual business
meetings in the morning and in the
afternoon and luncheon will be serv-
ed in the Donna hotel. The pro-
gram will be arranged to enable tbe
lower valley people to get the train
down. Some of tbe ladies will ar-
llre the night before and be the
guests of Donna women.
D. A. Williams, one of the new far-
mer residents of Donna, made the
Tribune office a pleasant call Tues-
day and added his name to our
subscription list
E. Gv Mason returned Monday from
Ft Worth, where he went with three
•ar loads of hogs shipped by him
and Henry Allen. The hogs brought
m high price on the Ft. Worth mar-
ket as the Lower Rio Grande Valley
frogs always do.
November 23.
Mrs. Copeland, Mrs. Riecs and
Mrs. Knowles visited the last pro-
gram.
Saturday afternoon Lyford and
Mercedes played volley ball. The
boys’ game was played first. The
players on the Mercedes team were:
Fay Fikes, Malcolm Riess, Coleman
Fikes, Harvey Diehl, Sam Emerson
and Roy Turley.
Throughout the game the boys
played well, and for this reason the
Lyford team was defeated. This was
one of the championship games.
The players on the girls’ team
were Relda Freeman, Vera Bowen,
Edna Groves, Helen Schmitter, Ruth
Bazar and Serena Tumlinson.
During the first game we girls
were scared—the score was fourteen
to nine in favor of Lyford. But when
Relda Freeman got her nerve things
began to look good for us. When
she got through serving the score
was fourteen to thirteen.
The referee called “side out,” and
then it was Lyford’s serve.
Over the net the ball came, but
Edna Groves ^turned it. Thanks
to Edna she saved us.
The second game was not so
thrilling, as the score was fifteen
to five in favor of Mercedes.
Mr. Parks of Raymondville ref-
ereed both of the games.
Miss Mary M. Pritchett of Edin-
burg visited our school last Thurs-
day. The purpose of her visit was
to organize girls’ canning and poul
try clubs.
A number of our girls joined the
clubs and we wish them great suc-
cess in their now enterprise.
Mr. Trasiano, who is representing
the New Edison* visited our school
Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Trasiano
played a number of pieces and
among them were, “Annie Laurie,
“Home Sweet Home,” and “The Star
Spangled Banner.”
It is needless to say that the
music was enjoyed by the whole
school.
the
ieavor to save 3% times aa much i Bankers came forward, shouldered
money as ever we did before. We
Ban lie down on the whole proposi-
tion, and let Germany win.
Having described this article *■ lieved that sooner or later, their ous-
zs a common-sense reply to a great
question, we will eliminate the last
mentioned possibility.
We cannot produce 3*4 times as
much wealth this year as ever be-
fore. It will take several years to
adjust our affairs so as to produce
luch results.
To save 3*4 times as much as
ever we have before is quite possi-
ble, but would mean actual hard-
, ship for millions of our people.
The most sensible solution of the
problem is to aim at a combination
the responsibilities of their custo-
mers, and bought Bonds far in ex-
cess of their share, because they be-,
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Has secured an agreement with the
Galveston Brewing Co., for handling
“GALVO”
a Temperance Beer product put up
in a 5 cent and 10 cent bottle for
the retailer.
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Texas Boys’ Campaign Y. M. C. A.
On Friday, Nov. 16, 1917, Rev. Mr.
Pharr introduced to the high school
boys and tbe boys of the fifth, sixth
and seventh grades, Mr. Gansby, the
outpost Y. M. C. A. secretary- Af-
a. short talk by Mr. Gansby on the
the Y. M. C. A. work in Europe, the
boys with tbe aid of Mr. Gansby
elected Malcolm Riess president and
Harvey Diehl secretary and treas-
urer. Each boy present received a
card on which were blanks to be
filled out by tbe boy and approved
by bis parents and he was to earn
or save and give as much as possi-
ble to the Y. M. C. A. work. There
is a choice of where the money is to
go, either to our prisoners of war,
the American soldiers or the soldiers
of our allies.
On Monday Mr. Gansby came up
from Brownsville another time to get
the report of how much the pupils
had appropriated to the fund.. Over
fifty dollars was promised, but the
local secretary reports that only his
own appropriation has been received
and he requests that the parents
take some interest and urge their
children to hurry the cards a little.
Last Friday, Nov. 16, Mr. Miller,
county agent of Edinburg, visited
this school and gave the boys an
interesting talk about farming, a
corn and pig club. He was ac-
companied by Miss Pritchett of Aus-
tin, who talked to the girls about
home economics.
Mr. Miller urged the school boys to
make their club the largest in the
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:omers must see reason, and would
be anxious to purchase Bonds. If
iron have no Bond, purchase one from
four Banker just as soon as you are
&ble. You will be doing a .man’s
part, “doixxg your bit,” shouldering
four own responsibilities, instead of
ill owing the Banker to do your duty
for you.
Some men seem to regard the pur-
5hase of Bonds as a mysterious bus*
in ess. and feel that they are sinking
their money forever in the purchase.
A Bond looks like a great big
19f production and self-denial which 550.00 or $500.00 Bill, and is wonder-
1 will find us at the end of a year j ful-ly HR® one in its uses. Therfi is
i it least 3*4 times wealthier as a sne great difference, however, a
aation, than ever before. i 550.00 or $500.00 Bill bears no in-;
The method indicated has been fol- ;erest- whereas, a Liberty Bond
lowed by our Allies with results that l>ears 4<% interest.
Iiave astonished the world. After How easily can a Bond be turned
years of physical and financial into money?
loan of 5 Billion Dollars, ^^raient Alm°st eas^y “ a BiU of larga
to Ten Billion Dollars in tbiT Goun- *an°miaat*<fa- yoy buy your
try, owing to the fact that w* have B°nd "V* the °* lendin« ^
; about double the population. Bng Gov®rnraent’
land has speeded up her p^duWu f t*miBands#of P**1* ^dy re*
•f wealth, denied herself so mmL y°U * yof responsibility,
that despite the fact that miHion. *^ld y°U flnd SW!h * neoea’
bar finest specimens ef human ma- I y'
terial are fighting, despite the fact ! M*Bions of Dollars worth of Lib*
that she had raised previously about i ^y ®ond“ change hands ovary
a like amount of 5 Billion Dollars la i *^ek- Everywhere, Commercial
'loans, and is paying 2% Billion Dol- ! ar® beginning to .advertise
Ian yearly in taxee, she was able !fcat wlu aoc«Pt Liberty Bonds
•till to produce this enormous amount i n payment of accounts.
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in a SO day campaign.
Germany is speeding up her pro-
duction along the most scientific
lines, and is starving herself. That
is the sole reason Germany exists
today.
Are we super-men that we can do
things differently to others?
“Why,” you say, “I might as well
»wn Bonds as money.”
i Better; far better.
' “Why then, do you make this
sial appeal, and beg of me so earn*
sstly to buy Bonds?" you may ask.
Because, when you buy these
L« u, toreet til. talk of “Uncle S’”*' SoYemm.nt h.» the nee
Sasn soon cleaning up the Germans
when he gets there.” The Germans
will not be “cleaned up” by talk, or
Hven by bravery alone. They must
to fought with their own weapons,
hard work and self-denial—the
things that win wars.
Again, the man who cries, “Lot
the rich man pay,” has not grasped
the elementary facts of the situation.
The rich man IS paying, and WILL
pajr, for the Government already is
caning for as much as 5(1% of his
profits in the shape e# Income and
War Profit Taxes.
It is true that Hie Government is
■qt taking away the rich man’s cap-
ital. but neither is it aeWag the less
producer to part with bis
•*5****- All alike must retain thefr
to order to ran factories,
tfet laa4, biili shipfl, Muip
wnUee, and provide wages.
R would be an entirely mistaken
P'oUey to attempt to nee the capital
of the Country to finance the
w*r- What you need, what the gov
snsment needs, what the whole world wHhlag but the good of oar beloved
noeds, is an tosre&se, a very great Country »t heart—no one makes one
Inereaae, in the IMOOMI of rich and ®o«t out of your Liberty Bonds but
*°*r allka* yourself. Earnestly, sincerely, as one
Ton farmers mnot produce morn, American to another, he bids you
must work harder; the uncultivated ^member tots message and warning.
—CO*nty a 8tand4a* We *•* together lor greater
ch to ua. You working-men, HBctonor."
work over-time. Yon Tims a v _
• _ - ^ pertotoT
»f your money; can use it to win the
war. If you from fallpre to under-
Hand the situation, insist that your
money shall not be used by the QoW
eminent, you are taking up a selfish
attitude, lacking in both common-
lease and patriotism.
It may be your money was not
available when the last Loan Cam-
paign was in progress. It may be
you intended to 'buy a Bond, but
allowed Hie lists to close before you
got around to it.
Here is your chance. Go now to
your Banker, ask him whether this
little article contains Hie truth, ask
him whether he has Bonds on band,
or will obtain one for you, then buy
to the limit of your ability.
Whatever you do, whoever you
are. and whatever your business,
«tRrt working, saving, economizing,
aour for future Loans. There will
be ethers, one probably early next
yeer, for ifre end of tbe groat strap-
|*e Is by no means to sight.
'writer of these lines x*«*i
QUALITY STORE/
GOODIES for THANKSGIVING ‘
Trade with Our Advertisers-Keep your Money at Home
Casaba Melons
Cauliflower
Grapes
Cranberries
Lettuce
Mince Meat
Citron
Lemon Peel
Orange Peel
Candied , Cherries
Almonds
English Walnuts
Brazil Nuts
Filberts
Pecans
Cocoannts
Raisins
Figs
Dates
Swiss Cheese
Brick Cheese
Roquefort Cheese
Full Cream Cheese
FRESH YEGETABLES
HOME GROWN
Okra
Squash
Green Beans
Egg Plant
Mustard Greens
Chinese Cabbage
Green Peppers
Tomatoes
Green Onions
Cabbage
Pumpkins
Sweet Potatoes
Radishes
FRUITS
Oranges
Lemons /
Bananas
Grape Fruit
EYAPORATED FBUITS.
Apples
Apricots
Prunes
Peaches
Apples.
Falfurrias Butter, Armour’s Oleomargarine, Del Monte-
Preserves and Jams, Beach Nut Jams and Jellies,
Burnham A Morrill’s Cranberry Sauce,
Cross A Blackwell Chow Chow
Pickles, Maxwell
House Coffee
JUST RECEIVED
Stetson Hats direct from the factory
Endicott-Johnson Shoes for Men.
Co.
MERCEDES, TEXAS
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