The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1920 Page: 4 of 16
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THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE—100 Per Cent American
A HUNDRED YEAR
OLD EDITORIAL
It isn’t often that an editor can
write an editorial good for a
hundred years, says the South-
west American of Ft. Smith, Ark.,
but it has been done a few times
One can go back through the files
of the early newspapers and pick
out an occasional preachment that
is as good today as it was when
turned loose to the winds. By
way of illustration, let us quote an
editorial from the London Observ-
er of June 20, 1819, to-wit:
“America, above every other
country, is interested in maintain-
ing the peace of the world. She
has indeed prospered by the
trouble of Europe, but it was only
so long as she kept herself free
from hostilities with all parties;
and as far as she has received any
check, it has been owing to her
having forsaken the -course which
Washington, the greatest character
she has produced, both prescribed
and followed. It is especially her
interest to keep on friendly terms
with this country, if she wishes to
preserve and extend her commerce
and to find a certain market for
her domestic produce. On the
other hand, it is the interest of this
country, and we safely add, the
wish to preserve with America. It
is to her interest, because that
great continent bids fair to become
the best mart for her manufactur-
ers ; and she cannot possibly harbor
a thought to disturb the general
peace so necessary for all Europe
and more especially perhaps for
herself. ’ ’
The writer of the above has of
course long since gone to his re-
ward. But after all these years
that which he wrote may very
profitably be read by another gen-
eration, and with slight amend-
ment can be accepted as being as
good today as it was a hundred
and one years ago.
ONE BURDEN THE
CITY HAS TO BEAR
Times certainly have changed
and the boys have changed with
them. Twenty years ago a boy
was willing to spend a year, some-
times three learning a trade. Do
you see them doing that now? Not
much. A lad strikes you today,
for a job, and if y6u suggest that
he work for a week or a month for
‘ ‘ experience ’ ’ he ’ll give you the
laugh. He must have wages from
the moment he doffs his cap, and
half the time he don’t even do that
but loafs around the store or shop
with his hat on the back of his
head and a pipe between his teeth.
He can get $1.50 a day washing
your windows or carrying the
ashes from your cellar, so what
is the use of wasting time learning
a trade?
There isn’t a business in Fair-
view today that isn’t yearning for
one of the old-fashioned boys who
will treat his elders with politeness
and take an intefest in Ms work
beyond waiting for the clock to
mark up quitting time.
It’s Saturday afternoon off and
double pay for every minute over-
time. He doesn’t want to learn
the business; he has no ambition
to own it some day. He makes fun
of the dull town and hikes to the
city at every opportunity.—Fair-
view (Oklahoma) Leader-Enter-
prise.
FRICASSEED FANATICISM
favor everything in a business way
closing on that day, as far as that
is concerned, but are not in favor
of any law enforcing anything of
the kind, for it would be uncon-
stitutional, un-American, a restric-
tion upon the God-given liberty of
every man, and an autocracy on
the part of the State.
Any law-abiding citizen who
attends to his own business, sup-
ports his family and pays his just
debts has a right to rest as many
days a week as he can afford and
wants to, pick out- the particular
days for himself, and work any
other day, or all days, as may best
suit his convenience and pleasure,
and he does not need a jaundiced-
eyed fanatic or zenutheaded pol-
itician to tell him anything about
it whatever. The State has no more
right to pick out a day of rest for
its citizens than it has to pick out
certain days or nights and say he
shall toil instead of sleeping. It
has just as much right to say when
a man shall go to bed and when he
shall get up as to say when he shall
work and when he shall rest. It is
aimed at places of amusement,
theatres, ball games and similar
things, but is' also favored by cer-
tain crafts, like barbers who can-
not agree among themselves, and
seek a law to force others to think
and do as they do, but it has no
more right to close any such place
than it would have to close down
every big industry, stop Sunday f thiijk Sunday the best day for it, j
issues of the newspapers, stop and all that. The Sabbath day!
trains from running and paralyze j should be kept holy, according to j
the mail, express and telegraph. | holy writ, but if the Seventh Day j
far as this scribe is eono.p.rn- ! Adventists, foi instance, believe
.TLOIVIDUALITY OF THE
ONE • MAN* PAPER
large
As far as this scnoe is concern
ed he proposes to work as much or
as little as he chooses and rest as
often as he is lucky enough to get
the chance, mollycoddles and
political peewees to the contrary
notwithstanding.
If the State can control the
private acts of a citizen and the
use of his time on Sunday, it can
do it on any day, or every day, de-
prive him of the right of contract
for his labor or the privilege of
using it to his own or other ad-
vantage, thus reducing him to a
state of peonage to the state,
Such regulation by law would
be class legislation from A to Z
and a srank a patchwork of freak
folderroll as was ever hatched in
i the morbid imagination of a dis-
| ordered mind. If it was placed on
; the ballot and submitted to a vote
| of the people ninety per cent of
I them would vote against it. Such
- Puritan puerility can never be any
| thing else but a wabble-pated, club-
| footed, politico-religious monstroc-
ity, conceived in iniquity, sired by
freaks and damned by everybody
with the sense of a shrimp.
We thoroughly believe in the
proper observance of the Sabbath,
and know that a day a week is nec-
essary for rest and recreation, and
Saturday is the Sabbath, no law
can change their belief. No law can
change anybody’s religious creed
or convictions, and no law should
seek to. And to say that it is
wrong or wicked for us to write
| these editorials on Sunday, yet in-
sist that trains be run and gaso-
line be made and supplied to joy-
riders, is a rank hypocrisy, born of
stupidity and deserving of nothing
but a swift kick. And that is what
it will get. unless ' legislators are
as silly and Stupid as some people
believe them to be.
j democratic institutions is
one. Frequently it is work which
is not fully appreciated in a n
The Springfield Leader through financial way, but it is good work
nevertheless.”
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
WANTED
Wanted: We -want 100 more subscrip-
tions at our special price of $7.50 for 5
years. Save money on your paper and help
us build that new brick business house. 19
Wanted: To buy clean cotton rags. Will
pay 5 cents pound for rags we can use, if
brought to this office. 19tf
Good load of wood wanted by Enterprise
Editor at Olney, Texas.
WANTED: To buy headed feed such as
maize, kaffir or feterita. Will pay the mar-
ket price for two or three loads. See Editor
The Olney Enterprise.
Good load of wood wanted by Enterprise
Editor at Olney, Texas.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES
We make no secret of the fact that we
want and are determined to have more busi-
ness. We don’t conceal our ambition be-
hind well rounded phrases, but come right
out and say that we want you to come to
our store and see whether we Bell such goods
as you want, at such prices as will save you
money. We’re getting more business every
day, and getting it on merit, not newspaper
bluster. Our stock of groceries will tell its
own story if you will drop in and let it talk
to you. S. A. STOWE & SONS. 17-tfc.
We carry a good line of Phonographs and
keep all of the newest Columbia Records,
t.f. Harmon Bros.. Graham, Texas.
TIRES! TIRES!! TIRES!!
Tyrian Tires, most miles per dollar, abso-
lute satisfaction, 6,000 miles guaranteed.
SOUTHWEST TRAIL GARAGE
22-8tpd. McCarver and Luce, props.
Dangle your dollar before us this month
signify your desire to buy groceries and we
will warrant you that your dollar will go
; further than it has been going when you
traded elsewhere. We carry a complete
stock of standard brands and sell at live
aiW let live prices. Call Phone No. 91 and
get quick delivery service.
17-2tc. GILBERT & SON.
Diamonds are among the best investments
and we keep a big stock for your selection.
Harmon Bros., Graham, Texas, tf.
So-called and alleged “weekly
rest day” bills are already stick-
ing their heads up out of the pol-
itical grass in a number of states,
and will blossom at the next ses-
sion of various legislatures. Like
the mule or the mulatto they are
proof positive of adultry, being a
cross between a pecan-headed pol-
itician and a fanatical freak.
In the first place such a law is
a lie on the face of it, for it is not
a weekly rest day but a Sunday
closing law, pure and simple,
especially simple. We are in favor
of a weekly rest day, and think
Sunday the best day for it, and
JOHNSON’S WORK WILL STAND
CLOSE INSPECTION
Before building give close inspection of all
work done by me or anyone else.
TRY ME
T. P. JOHNSON
Building Contractor—Olney, Texas
Watch next weeks advertisement.
consumer
its editorial columns speaks of the
country weekly in this vein: “Back
of the country paper is always an
individuality as most of them are beast of burden the world over
what might be termed a “one man j and al] governments overload him.
paper.” The editor of the home | ^ ___
paper is rarely a man
if
of wealth,
but he is almost invariably a man
of integrity and distinction. His
influence is always for the com-
mon good and his friendship a
thing to be prized. The debt which
we owe the country weekly and its
editor for the preserving of oar
With all the drives against him
for coin, for everything imagin-
able, followed by wholesale prof-
iteering, the average American
man is suffering from an elonga-
tion of the leg—it has been pulled
all out of shape, and no liniment
helps it.
We do welding and make Ford motor ov-
erhauling a specialty. City Garage, tf.
Sonora and Columbia Phonographs and
Records ai-e the best on the market. We
have a machine at the price you want to pay
Harmon Bros., Graham, Texas, tf.
Warning: -People are warned to stay
away from the church building when men
are not on the job. It is dangerous for
you and disagreeable to us.
22-tfc T. H. BURTON.
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS
If you are in the market for a good farm,
80 acres, 60 acres in cultivation, all could
be put in. $75.00 acre. Good 5 room house,
good out side buildings, orchard and water.
About 8 miles West Olney. Write or see
3tpd. W. R. SWITLIK, Rte. A., Olney.
If you wish'to buy a home at a reason-
able price see me for I have some splendid
homes to sell that are bargains.
22-tf. MRS. ALMA MARTIN.
The first seventeen car loads of onions
marketed in the United States last spring
were grown in the section of the RIO
GRANDE VALLEY that I represent. Our
land is a chocolate loam, sells at $95.00 to
$125.00 per acre, and is as rich as any land
on earth. Before you pay $300.00 to
$400.00 per acre for land anywhere in the
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, see me and let me
go over the particulars with you.
22-3tc. W. P. Stinson, Graham,. Texas.
If you have a farm or a residence or any
kind of real estate for sale, see me before
listing. MRS. ALMA MARTIN 22-tf.
FOR SALE
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Will have a car of nice apples to arrive
in a few days. C. H. WHEELESS.
FOR SALE: I have some good mules.
18tf. \ L. O. Anderson.
FOR SALE: Good Jersey Cow fresh with
calf will sell at reasonable price.
18-tfc. W. N. LUNN, Olney.
Apples are all the fruit we have this
year, buy while the price is reasonable. Car
coming soon. C. H. WHEELESS.
Your Word
is Law
We think every article we
put up for sale is A-No. 1
in quality.
But, if for any reason it
fails, we urge that you
bring it at once to our
attention.
If it doesn’t meet your
standards, it won’t meet
ours.
And incident!v : ’s a whop-
ping big concer ' hut backs
the tires we seal, and both
make good. That’s why
we se'i 'estone.
Olney Hardware Com’y.
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^Guarantee-
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DRUGS
In fact your satisfaction is our first con-
sideration in each sale made at this store.
Our experience enables us to buy right. We
know how to sell to give you the greatest
amount of satisfaction-
When you make a purchase here, backed by
our guarantee, you are taking no chance.
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Yule Specials
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I have charge of this depart-1
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Only the best Service. 1
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’Phone 23 or ’Phone 591
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We are offering a complete line of these Wagons, and
have some exceptional values. .Note these:
3 inch complete............... $195.00
3 inch gear«.................... $140.00
3y4 inch complete............... $200.00
314 inch gear...............,........$145.00
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OIL SPECIALS
3% inch Oil Special.................$225.00
314 inch Oil Special.................$175.00
If interested, write, phone or come to see
THE CASH HARDWARE
CHAS. S. RICHARDSON
Archer City, Texas
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1920, newspaper, October 1, 1920; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113801/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Olney Community Library.