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VOLUME 76—NUMBER 6.
BAY CITY, TXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919.
FIVE CENTS THE COPY.
DO THE WOMEN WANT
RENEWED CONTEST
THE BALLOT?
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Privilege.
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women
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Palacios
Blessing
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Hawkinsville ...
Collegeport
Markham
Pledger
Caney . • •..
Wadsworth
Citrus Grove ...
Ashby
Prairie Center ..
Midfields
Clemville
TO OUR COUNTY, OUR WH OLE COUNTY AND EVERY SECTI ON OF OUR COUNTY. '
“THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS”
Sixteen Feet Wide, Twelve Inches
Deep.
Spinners’ Restriction Removal Gives
Encouragement
CHAMBEROE COMMERCE TEXAS TEACHER 10 MAKE
GOING AGAIN
The following is sent out by Hv
war loan
Mutual Interest Prompts Interest
Both Town and Country.
He pro-
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C. L. Daily & Son Begin Operations
With Cornmeal Mill.
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There will be held a Parent-Teach-
ers’ Association meeting at the school
auditorium next Tuesday afternoon.
Prof. Hibbetts will give an interest-
ing talk on the Demerit System and
cept possibly the cities, merchants are js very anxjous to have
parents of the students
re-
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WOMEN POLL TAX LIGHT.
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Capt. J. Floyd Lewis has returned
from a business trip to Houston.
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AMERICA SUNDAY.
General Paying Up Swelled the Poll
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who are to
3200 women
want the ballot:
Their products at that
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doing more business and making less possible of the
money than formerly. The reason is’to hear him.
plain.
possible doubled in fifteen years.
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COMMUNITY EFFORT
A TOWN BUILDER.
Austin, Texas, January 31.—“Many
; thousands of farmers in Texas know
but
mar-
162 Take Out Privilege to Vote
Matagorda County.
C. M. O’Brian Appointed Secretary.'Retirement Fund and Other Matters
to Be Brought Before the
Legislature.
Registered Poll Tax
1918
... 473
... 52
.... 196
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... 26
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directed to the advertisement of
L. Daily & Son in to'1“J issue-
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PA RENT-TEACHERS’ MEETING.
POLL TAX PAYMENTS HEAVY
rainy day. Before the war some of
us thought it beneath our dignity to
save, but the war taught us it is what i
we save rather than what we spend
that counts.”
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Austin, Texas, February 4.—The
Texas State Teachers’ Association in
i 1917 appointed a permanent commii-
I tee on a teachers’ retirement funa.
The members of this committee are:
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purchase of war savings stamps and
■ government securities, will be
delivered by the pastors of churches
in Texas, Oklahoma. New Mexico and
Louisiana. Appropriate exercises, at
the governments’ request, will be held
in the Sunday schools.
“Three of the biggest factors in the
war savings work are the banks,
postoffices and churches. I am de-
lighted with the response of the min-
isters and Sunday school superin-
tendents of the district to the govern-
ments’ request that they observe
‘America Sunday,’ ” Frank M. Smith,
federal district director of war loans,
declared today. “Replies have been
received from more than 7,820 minis-
ters, saying that they will deliver a
special sermon next Sunday on the
science of intelligent saving and wise
spending.
“The watchwords in the 1919 sav-
ings campaign are “Thrift is Power;
Save and Succeed.” Tt is one of the
expressions of Benjamin Franklin,
American apostle of thrift, whose
likeness is on the 1919 war savings
stamps. The person who saves his
earnings intelligently and invests
them wisely is always prepared to
take advantage of a good opportunity
when it presents itself and he is pro-
testing himself against a
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If the present plans of Commis-
sioner J. B. Hawkins, of Matagorda,
materialize, one of the best roads in
the gulf coast section of the State
will be built, connecting Matagorda
with the Gulf Sulphur Co.’s properties
at Gulf, formerly known as Big Hill,
a distance of four miles.
It is planned to make the road 16
feet wide and 12 inches deep of first-
class mudshell, which will be system-
atically and thoroughly rolled as it is
laid down.
The authorities in this section have
come to the conclusion that most of
the roads heretofore laid are entirely
too light for present day traffic, and,
as a consequence, every effort in the
future will be directed toward the
correction of past mistakes by mak-
ing the roads strong enough to bear
up under rough usage and ponderous
traffic.
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members of the committee
his department
agriculture,
some wanted to abolish the depart-
some wanted
depart-
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Washington, February ’ 4.—Upon
petition of 22 democratic senators fa- ■
voring the woman suffrage resolution '
pending in the senate, Senator Mar-
tin of Virginia, the democratic leader,
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The possible voting strength of the
county, for women, based on the esti-
mated population of 16,000 population,
at the government’s adopted ratio of
5 to 1, is 3200.
These are the figures. Now we see
how much real noise can be raised
iver really inconsequential things,
md how ranting and tearing of the
All
hair can be done when the itch for
office strikes in deep on politicians.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let us
get back to true Southern democracy,
the constitution, our Bible, and give
the women of the South what South-
ern women want—their home, the
real foundation of true reform and
true politics. Let us on May 24 give
the women of Texas what they want—
no ballot. Let us, on May 24, reform
about seventeen thousand reformers
in Texas and get back to common
sense, plain, every day Godfearing
ways of doing things and “yank” the
political spellbinder so far into ob-
livion that he will never be able
find his way back home.
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INCREASED OFFERINGS ARE
FOLLOWED BY SHARP BREAK.
give the entire vote and
show the vote by boxes of the 162
tell the world that the
in Matagorda County
Costs of doing business have, musical program will also be
given in connection with this meeting.
The larger the town the bet-' department of warehouse and market-
And ing, and he opposes the proposition of
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LET FIGURES SPEAK FOR THEM-
SELVES.
The
dose showed net losses of 55 to 61
and points.
Around the opening prices were up
on heavy rains in the belt, resulting in
Out of a total of 2337 poll taxes paid
in Matagorda County this year there
were only 162 women who bought the
privilege to vote. Of this number two
voting precincts, Bay City and Pala-
cios, paid 125.
The number of women who regis-
tered to vote in the now notorious
primaries of 1918 were 997.
Quite an effort was made to .inter-
Indies prior to the• expiration
of the poll tax paying period, but the
■'ult.s were the best that could
Led.
I)c iUiitngovJift (fountn _
TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE, ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT
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“America. Sun-
and Sunday
, schools, it was announced yesterday
: at district headquarters of the war
RECORD FOR OFF YEAR MADE IN
VOTING PRIVILEGE
PAYMENTS.
New York, February 4.—An early
advance met increased offering in the
ness of the new crop preparations,
and the cabled reports from Manches-
ter that all restrictions on the oper
ation of English cotton mills haU been
removed. By the middle of the morn-
ing the marked I0St its good tone
finally enumerable pressure
.nA cma vCa. wiiic> appeared mainly to come from
.meant tresh labor troubles among the mills
' of this country.
Spots were marked up to 25 points
to 27.75c for middling.
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WILL MAKE GOOD ROAD.
the best town, in the best county, in
the best State in the Union. You may
refer to him as “Windy Jones” but
you have to admire his enthusiasm
and his optimistic spirit. Enthusiasm
gets results.
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operation by C .L. Daily & Son, for-!
merly of Lufkin. The mill is located I
just east of the Santa Fe freight de-
pot and lias a capacity sufficient to
take care of all orders.
Daily & Son are not strangers to
the Bay City trade and require no spe-
cial introduction at our hands. Prior
to opening for business in Lufkin they
operated a mill at Sweeny and did a
fine business, especially with the Bay
City trade.
time gave splendid satisfaction,
they are equipped now better than!
ever to give good and prompt service, i
This industry has been needed ini
Bay City for a. long time and now i
Corsicana and Superintendent Tighe
oi| El Paso requesting her to have the
matter proposed as an amendment to
the constitution of Texas. There are
now 34 States in the Union which
h^ve such funds. Those which are
miost successful are funds contributed
td both by the teachers and by the
State.
iOn Thursday, February 6, the ex-
ecutive committee of the State Teach-
ers’ Association will hold a two-day
meeting in Austin at the office of the
State superintendent. This commit-
| tee consists of the president-elect,
: the retiring president and 18 mem-
Rov i, .... i. # ■ , x, ' bers representing the 18 congressional
Hay City is gradually forging to the j
front in matters of enterprise and!
progress, adding here and there one
needed thing after another, all of
which points to an ultimate prosper- ’
ity for the city.
The latest, and a most welcome in-
Only 162
At the risk of bringing down wrath,
indignation and dire condemnations
on its head The Tribune has contend-
ed all along that the Southern women
do not want the ballot. We have, also,
repeatedly said that if agitators and
weak-kneed politicians would leave
the women along but very, very few
of them would ever qualify.
The recent test, the payment of poll
taxes, proves beyond any question that
woman suffrage is not popular with
the Southern women of Texas,
over the Stale the same story is told, i cotton market today and was follow-
From every county comes this same
silent, yet convincing, rebuke to the
professional agitators, the “I-want-an-
office,” political spell-binders and the
unreformed reformers of Texas.
Figures are embarrassing at times,
but the}7 always tell the truth when
handled properly, so let us permit
them to speak for themselves.
In the primary election of 1918
when every persuasion, coercion, ar-
gument, and device known to the mod-
ern politician was brought into play,
when the gate was wide open and.no
limit was set, when automobiles and
every conveyance was used in wild
rides for voters and $84,000 was spent
in Texas in the name of reform 997
women of Matagorda County regis-
tered. Of course, not near that many
voted, but 997 of them registered with
a supposed intention of voting.
But all of a sudden it developed that
this vote was illegal and no such prac-
tice could safely be perpetuated in
Texas, so it. became apparent that if
the women would vote and a later law
woMd make it possible for them to
vote, they, too, should pay their poll
tax.
Therefore enter the poll tax paying
period of 1919. \is0 enter every
fatvning, popularity-seeking, money-
grabbing big daily newspaper in the
State. Also enter all the “i-want-an-
office” politicians,, every agitator, ev-
ery innovator urging, pleading, scaring,
begging and haranguing the women
to pay their poll tax, and what do we j New Orleans, La., February 4.—
find? ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-1 Wide declien« were forced in the cot-
TWO (162) women poll taxes paid in; ton market today, following an early
Matagorda County! j
Does this look as if the Southern!
want to vote? And, remem-, noon, short, offerings being liberal,
ber, the entire State of Texas, every while a considerable volume of liqui-
county in it, has the same story to dation came from the long side,
tell!
But let us analyze the vote
place the responsibility where it be-
longs.
In Matagorda last year 52 women J renewed complaints of the backward-
registered; this year 2 paid their poll
tax and one of these was a new
eomer.
On the other hand 196 registered at
Palacios last year and 45 paid their
poll tax this year.
Last.year in Bay City 473 registered
and 80 paid their poll tax this year
Is there anything s^”*
all this?
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ed by a sharp break in prices. The
general list closed steady at a net de-
cline ofl5 to 53 jpoints.
The market opened steady at an
advance and sold higher during early
trading on a renewal of yesterday’s
buying movement which found en-
couragement in relatively steady ca-
bles and reports that restrictions on
Lancashire spinners were to be re-
moved. The market met. a good deal
of realizing at these figures, .while
there also was considerable specula-
tion selling which was evidently tak-
en as suggesting that the higher
prices were bringing out increased
spot offerings. The talk of this sort
was considered partly responsible for
a renewal of more or less general
selling as prices eased off and the
break was accompanied by reports
that the labor troubles were spread-
ing in some of New England and
Southern mill centers. The market
then steadied on covering and the ’ ]'s Gto cornmeal mill now in j
close showed rallies of several points T
from the lowest on reports of an im-
proving export demand and private
cables claiming increased activity in
Manchester. Private wires from the
South said there was a. decidedly bet-
ter demand from Liverpool and there
were reports that more ocean tonnage
was being booked for cotton ship-
ments. Private cables said the early
advance in Liverpool was partly due
to continental buying.
should meet the ment of agriculture and
country people more than half way in to combine the agricultural
fosteiing the community development ment, the warehouse and marketing
spirit. Community building, while it department and the sanitary livestock
takes in the entire surrounding conn- commission.
Representative Fly has a proposal,
lending it to the government in the | fits the town most. And yet the town however, which, the committee will
can reciprocate, for good roads, nicely probably decide
graded and dragged after each rain, to get rid of a riot of duplication of
Good rural work no wbeing done and to save the
telephones, rural mail delivery, a tax state about $100,000
levy that is fair to land owners, good poses the creation of a board of
schools,-good churches, all these come trol of nine members, to serve with-
to communities that have optimistic, out pay, similar to the board of
enthusiastic leaders living in both gents of the State University,
town and country. j have direction of the department of
If you can’t be a booster in com- agriculture, the work of the Agricul-
munity development work, don’t pull tural and Mechanical College, the bu-
back. If your town and your com- reau of warehouse and marketing and
munity is trying to build itself up the livestock sanitary commission. It
don’t throw bricks. If your home Wjn eliminate the great duplication of
town has provided a strong cotton WOrk now being done, give to the A.
market with adequate ginning facil-!and M. College the educational work
ities, and is able to take care of cot-. in agriculture and to the State depart-
ton at the highest market price, as ment of agriculture the police and sta-
compared to other towns, if the mer- tistical work, and also eliminate much
chants are appreciative of your trade, duplicate work done by other depart-
and go out of their way to make you ments dealing with farm problems,
feel at home when you go in to spend i
your money with them, and you are I
certai nthat conditions justify the i
prices asked for goods, be a booster.
Don’t carry a grouch around.
The Express has made a study of
merchandise conditions in 40 coun
ties and finds that in all towns, ex-
in the payment of poll taxes, the num-
He faer> as given out by Collector T. H,
says it, and he believes it—that his is Castleton being 2337, which, with.
overs and unders and the exempted
soldiers vote will give the county &
voting strength of perhaps 3500,
The increase is due to many causes,
chief of which was thekway the gen-
. era! taxes were paid up, it being nec-
The person who says uncomplimen- essary when these are paid to also pay
tary things about his town is pulling P°B tax, if one is not over the age.
back instead of pushing his town for- Another reason is in the increased
ward. The person who says that the population and still another the num-
merchants in his home town are prof- >;)er the women of the county added to
iteering and growing fat at the ex- tt. Mr. aCstleton was not able to give
pense of the public is spreading dis- this number out yet as he has a great
content and at the same time is es- amount of surplus work to attend to.
tablishi-ng a reputation for himself He will be able to furnish it in a short
that is bad. It is also bad for the while, however.
town. Good towns are invariably good As nearly as could be ascertained
trading points. A rundown, frazzled* this morning the different boxes paid
up as follows:
Bay City
Matagorda.
Palacios
Blessing
Van Vleck
Hawkinsville ....
Collegeport
Markham
Pledger
Caney
Wadsworth
Citrus Grove ....
Ashby
Prairie Center . ..
Ohio Colony
Midfield
Clemville
out town is generally found in a
mighty poor neighborhood, among peo-
ple who have an inward feeling that
if a retail merchant is successful in
business and can afford to send his
children away to school, he is a profit-
eering merchant.
The fact is that the Smallest store
in the smallest town charges a slight-
ly higher price, on the average, than
does the merchant in the larger town
for the same standard articles of food,
etc. He has to. The volume of his
trade is not sufficient to maintain him
if he should mark his wares at the
regular price established by the trade
So in selling farm pro-
duce. The smaller the town the less
the farmer will get for his produce.
That is the rule. ; rotai
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building, from all anges, and especial-( V) EINERT FIGHTS TO SAVE BOARD
ly from the community interest point
of view, every family is interested in
the home town, whether they live in
block from main street oi* five miles, hbw to grow a bale of cotton,
The growing, pros- mighty few of them know how to
perous town, is the right kind of a ket it.”
town for the farmers and the town
folks,
ter trading point it should be., x
good trading points are a benefit to combining bis department with
everyone. You notice that we say State department of agriculture,
“should be” the better trading point, appeared before the house committee
There are some large towns that are on State affairs yesterday to
not good trading points. Why? Be- a bill which would make that depart-
cause the community interest has ment subordinate to the agricultural
i never been fostered The country ( department. eH declared the problem
I peopel make eve^-y possible purchase of marketing the crops of Texas was
; in other towns, or by mail order, and the biggest problem in the State and
<ne merchants are not on speaking his department should be extended
terms with each other. One faction in and more provision made for it, in-
the town is fighting another faction, stead of making it an adjunct of tlu?
Community building is town building, department of agriculture.
People who taek pride in the home
town merchants, and its schools and wanted to combine
its social affairs, etc., are the real with the department of
town builders.
The town people
Following a temporary lapse of in-
activity due to the absence of the for-
mer secretary, the Bay City Chamber i
of Commerce has become operative
again with Mr, C. M. O’Brian, a former
army officer from the State of Mas- i
sachusetts, as secretary, who took { ,
charge on February 1. ! Supeiintendent J. E. Blair, Corsicana;
Mr. O’Brian is now engaged in get-! SllI>erintendent A. N. McCallum, Aus-
tirig the business matters of the or-! SuPerintendent R. J. Tighe, El
ganization straightened out and will : “as0’ -^ss Hoss Richardson, Tex-
soon be ready for business and new; u,kana> aD<^ Aligs Katherine Gray, Dal-
members. It is his aim to greatly in- Ilas’ i committee prepared a bill
crease the effectiveness of the organ-1 esta^^s^^n® suc^ a fund for Texas;
ization and to make it a virile, sub- I >vas rePorted unfavorably by
stantial asset, in keeping with the|llje ^10Use committee on State affairs,
progress of the city. j Annie ebb Blanton, State su-
The Chamber of Commerce had i1 inteudent, is in receipt of tele-
quite a number of active paid up mem-1 £rams ir01n Superintendent Blair of
bers who held on after the departure
of Dr. Kelly, but in addition to these,
Mr. O’Brian intends to add many oth-
ers, and bring the organization into
being rapidly as a potential factor in
the upbuilding and advancement of
Bay City and Matagorda County. The
public will soon be notified by Mr.
O’Brian, personally, of the purposes
of the new order of things,
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NEW ENTERPRISE FOR BAY CITY.
: Matagorda County broke the record,
Everyone admires the enthusiastic, especially for an off year in politics,
energetic person who always has a
good word for his home town.
publicity department ot-tJ-*
organization »<uias:
rm*x vrughout the eleventh federal
period of firmness.
Selling was general in the after-
districts of the State.
The purpose of this meeting will be
to select a place for the next conven-
tio nof the State Teachers’ Associa-
1 i tion, and to bring before the legisla-
, ture matters of importance to the
! teachers of the State. President T. H.
Shelby when in Austin last week stat-
ed that htis committee would probably
center its efforts on several important
measures, increase the salary for
teachers, the establishment of a teach-
ers' retirement fund, the election of
county superintendents by a County
board of trustees and a constitutional
amendment proviaing for county tax
for school purposes. The committee
at its meeting will determine what
steps shall be taken towards the ac-
complishment of these and any other
change which it may advocate. This
committee is to have a hearing in the
rihouse of representatives Thursday
* I evening before the committee on edu- !
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that the want has been well filled ltlcatlon of the se“ate 31111 h'11133 »f
. ,, , , . , , i resentatives.
is the duty of everyone who believes
in the upbuilding of the city to give I
it every particle of patronage possible, I
and we feel sure that the people loyal!
to the city will do their full share to-1
ward making a bigger mill. }
The attention of Tribune readers is i rPUxu,ugnout tne eleventh federal war
savings district, Sunday, February 9,
’ will be observed as
,.k.«ocr7iS iday” ,in tl,e churches
ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE.!
; savings division of the war loan or-
ganization.
A special sermon, having for its
I text “Save and Have,” pointing out the
i continued need of saving money and I try with the town as the. center, bene-
Tuesday called a conference of demo- j.
cratic members- for Wednesday night j othe“
to consider the question.
The conference will be the first
held by a democratic majority since
the United States entered the war.
Senators opposed to the resolution
served notice that they would not he
bound if any caucus action should be
attempted.
Former Secretary Bryan was at the
capitol urging democratic senators to
support the woman suffrage resolu-
tion.
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