Arlington Journal (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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There will never again be as good a time as now to buy you
some of that acreag? in the Great Arlington Country for a self-
sustaining home. Only five or ten acres will make you prcsper-
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The Arlington Journal
""T Published Every Friddy by
THA ARLINGTON PRINTING COMPANY.
Wm. A. Bowen, Editor.
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Arlington, Texas, Friday, April 5, 1912.
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High Grade Dissolved Bone
Moisture at 212 F
Phosphoric Acid, Soluble 8.00
Phosphoric Acid Revertible 6.00 .
Available Phosphoric Acid 14.00
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid L00
Total Phosphoric Acid 15.00
Total Bone Phosphate of Lime 32.00
“The name of the above is misleading. The dishonest
agent will tell the farmer that this is a pure animal fertilizer
made from bones, when it is made by treating finely ground
rock phosphate with sulphuric acid. He adds up the per cent
colmun and gets 90 and then telll us that this fertilizer con-
tains 90 pounds of plant food to every 100 pounds. He then
prices it at about $20 per ton and the farmer buys. He has
‘sold that farmer a 14 per cent acid phosphate, or 280 pounds
of plant food (phosphoric acid) worth about 5 cents per
pound, or about $14, for $20.
“There are agents who are perfectly honest, represent-
ing theirgoods no higher than they are. and who try to sell
the farmer goods adapted to his soil and crops at a reason
able price. The average farmer knows but little about fer-
tilizers, and for the most part, buys
and high-pricei agent. A few years
was trying to sell a farmer, when I came up and b? tried to
ded up the per cent column getting 92. When he said his goods
contained 92 per cent of available plant food and that the
price was $35 per ton, I told him I would take 20 tons, but
that our contract must show that the goods ‘contained 92
per cent plant food. Of course, we did not trade and that
fellow has never tried to sell me again.”
Now, practically all manufacturers and handlers of fer-
tili»Ts deal squarely with their customers, and there are few-
fertilizer agents guilty of the dishonest practices our friend
reports. But the point is this—such a confused jumble of
figures as Ke gives is nowise helpful to the farmer, and often
gives the dishonest man a chance to make false claims. There
can be no good reason for any State to allow such branding of
fertilizers. The simpler the statement on the bag, the better
idea the farmer can get of the goods he is buying. In the
writer’.ropinion, all that should ordinarily go on the fertilizer
bag is the simple statement of the plant foeds it contains,
thus:
Available Phosphoric Acid, 10.00 per cent—Nitrogen,
. 1.65 per cent—Available Potash, 2.00 per cent.
To say that a fertilizer contains 4 per cent available
phosphoric acid, 1 per cent unavailable phorphoric acid, 15
per cent total phosphoric acid, 32 per cent tone phosphate of
lime: or that there is 1.65 pq£ cent nitrogen, equivalent bi 2
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^^“Wowt Southern States have laws regulating the analyses
printed on the fertilizer bags, but some of these laws need
severe revision. Only Alabama and Georgia, we believe pre-
vent a duplication of nitrogen as ammonia, while the’Mis-
sissippi law, permits just such a list of percentage as our
fnend quotes. Florida requires that.the per cent of am-
monia, instead df nitrogen be given, and also the x*'
this ammonia. There’is, of course, an advantage in this to
• jn fertilizers, but so few farmers have
studied fertilizers that w iinc
North Carolina law which requires this information
able to all farmers who ask for it.
EASTER SUNDAY—THE RESURRECTION.
(Reproduced at request of our many readers.)
•w t£xt Sunday will be Easter Sunday—celebrating the resurrec-
JN tion of the Savior. It is tlie most universally observed as
7 well as the continuation of perhaps the oldest festal day in the
world.
On the fact of the resurrection hangs all of Christianity—
orthodoxy. St. Paul’s matchless argument in II. Corinthians, 15
chapter, establishes this ground. Skeptics profess to disbelieve
becaue there is no proff of a resurrection, and they boldly assert
that it is impossible. I would inform young people, just fixing
themselves in mind and purpose^ that no truly scientinc, scholarly
person will make such an assertion. There (s no knoten fart of sci-
ence or nature which the doctrine of tho rc*ouerection contradicts.
Let this truth fasten itself upon your mind. It may be against-our
experience and observation—but so was ice to the savage king in
Africa, which Doctor Whatley so forcibly used to destroy the so-
phistry of Hume’s assertion for argument. But it is not ag inst
our observation to see death become life. This is common in every
seed that germinates. Every bursting flower of springtime shows
us this. The unfolding of the leaves from their deadly dry stems,
the grass peeping from beneath the sod whence it was buried for
months; the silk worm coming ip splendor from the grub; the
twigs that spring from the drt’, bursting bark of the tree—all
these are ever-recurring revivifications °f an annual resurrection.
No physologist worthy of the name will assert that he knows a
single fact to dispute the doctrine of the resurrection of the body.
We simply are not accustomed to it. But, in the seven-year, the
seventeen-year, the twenty-one-year locusts we have facts of life
lying dead for years, yet becoming quick with inherent power.
No one has found the real fact of life—except all experience
proves the truth that life comes from the dust Hence, that same
dust, though it sleeps for millions of aeons, may awaken in God’s
own time.
How happily appropriate that Easter comes in the spring,
amid the resurrection of flowers and plant. Flowers have ever
been God’s sweetest messages of love in Nature’s volume. They
are associated with every’ phase of our lives. Flowers were twined
about our cradles, they bloom and blossom all along our pathway,
they are the chaplet of beauty on the brow of the fair1 bride, they
make redolent with type of joy the marriage altar and they are
the garlands of the tomb. The Indian child of the far West claps
his hands in glee at the first sight of the illuminated scripture of
prairies; the Persian of the far East writes his love to his adornod
one in the nosegay, and we have found a language in each flower
that speaks of better things to all of us. And in the still vesper
hours the soft zephyrs come laden with the delightful odors they
stole from the heart of the violet as they swept over the banks
down by the brook.
Go read what the greatest of earth have testified as tx> the
fact of the Resurrection of Jesus. Ask Rousseau, the French skep-
tic; ask Napoleon; ask Renan; ask even Strauss; and what an
unanswerable picture of l°gic does Heinrick Heine, the Great
German poet, give us:
“There <vas a fest in the halls of the Immortals—the gods of
intellect, science, of the world. It was to be the culmination of
the triumph of mind over spirit. But look! in the midst of the
feast, while the gods each held his golden goblet ready to quaff
in honor of the overthrow of the rule of the spiritual, behold a
stranger enters. He is a despised Jew. On his shoulders he
bone a mighty cross, on his*head was plaided a wreath of thorns,
great blood-drops trickled down his brow, he was pale and trem-
bled. The gods looked speechless. High on the table he flung
his
Cm»h! went each goblet from nerveless hands. As the gods amount °f grlrft wh,ch h“ been worked an the International and
gazed, the Jew grew taller, his face became radiant, light glowed
from his person, he became incandescant with the dynamic glory
of his inner power. Paler and paler grew the gods, until one by
one, each vanished—and beholjl, the man of Galilee, the man of
Sorrows, sttod alone in the halls of IftWhyx I
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May we each catch His spirit this &aat3vtiu<*.
non. Wirev Miangunh Imboden is “rounding-up” his friends
—and they are legion in Texas. He is a candidate for lieutenant
governor of Texas. He, like Hon. Will H. Mayes, of the Brown-
wood Bulletin, is a newspaperman—only Wiley went from the,
tripod to the greenbag while Wilj Mayes went from the greenbag
to the tripod. And each makes the newspapermen of Texas sorry
they can’t vote for two men for that office. Friend Imboden is
a true man, able, experienced, will make an ideal presiding officer
if elected and, more, would make a good governor “and safe and
capable should chance place him there while he is lieutenant gov-
ernor. This editor has known Wiley Ma-ngum Imboden inti-
mately, closely, fpr thirty years, and is glad to pay him a merited
tribute. But why, 0, why, does two* such favorites run the same
year. ’ Mayes says he has the office cinched. Imboden says he’s
before now busted the buckle on many a cinch. So there you are.
Both are good men, true. Come around often, Wiley, and drink
our incomparable mineral water. Its’ good for candidates.
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DM you notice the improvements going on? Arlington is
rapidly joining the Civic Beauty class. Keep up the good werk.
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’ PARCELS POST-
From Farmer*' Fire* I de Bulletin: ,
rpHE Farmers' Fireside Bulletin believes in a Parcels Post, but
1 the question is, what kind of a Parcels Post is best?
A Parcels Post, which would eventually put every kcal mer- * t
chant out of business may not be best, or it may be best, according j
to the view one may take.
It is a very important question for farmers, who should study
it carefully and then communicate their wishes, after they are Y
sure they know what they want to Brother L. J. Brooks, Farmers’
Union Legislative Representative, National Hotel, Washington,
D. C.
It has been suggested that the Rural Parcels Post, as advo-
cated by the United States Postoffioe Department was l>est.
Let farmers study carefully and then decide.
If all local merchants are put out of business to whom would
farmers sell eggs, butter and other farm products, even the
quantities which local merchants can now purchase. Farmers’
Fireside Bulletin would like information on these lines, but no
theories. We have plenty of these. But this is a paper of and for
facts. Let farmers decide only on facts.
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"AN' OLD FRAUD BOBS UP AGAIN"—'FERTILIZER ANA-
LYSES, HELPFUL AND CONFUSING."
From Farmers’ Fireside Bulletin!
Under the alxive two headings, we find two splendid articles
regarding two articles (really both intended for the same pur-
pos?—fertilising) which farmers are being “worked” on by both
individuals and firms. Regarding commercial fertilizers, Farm-
ers’ Fireside Bulletin calls attention to the advertiseent in this
issue of a reputable, reliable company which farmers may patron-
ize with confidence. The two articles referred to are from the
Progressive Farmer, one of our most valued exchanges, dated
March 30th, and they follow:
Some months ago a Tennessee friend wrote us in regard
to some fertilizer agents and their tactics. Among other
things he said:
“Below I give th? analysis of the common brand of acid
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ffled with the CommiMioner ifA^nitaV^’eteltto
able to all fairmers who ask for it. . ' .
?? S10?’ if f*™rs had studied fertilizers as they
should, the form of the analysis would not matter much, but
since they have not, we feel sure thAt the wisest plan is to
good. Additional rtiformation could well be given on a sen-
-airate sheet or be otherwise made available to the fanner who
wishes to know more than the simple analysis tells But
must be remembered that it is the average fanner for whom
the analysis » put on the bag, and that if this average farm-
r^Zinf ? thp5ntJrf buyin« f€rtili“rs by thTactSl
amount of plant foods they contain he will *
groatjadvance. The analysis on 1
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m coming from men who make hats, and claims no pratH^M||.‘ Jr ,
knowledge on hat making. x > u
Again, those hat makers say all hats are made from felt BNy;•
from Belgian and Austrialian rabbit (or hare) fur and anyone
who visits Farmers’ Union headquarters in Fort Worth can apt
directed to where they can see this felt, iqid also p '/rtuns of ha/t^^
in different stages of finishing.
It is educating, instructive and interesting, and will pay
those who investigate. Cotton farmers should kn w all of theM
facts.
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What do yx>u think of putting down that sidewalk now?
Also removing the fence and having an attractive lawn? Also,
having some trees and ornamental shrubbery on the sidewalk and
flowers in the yard? Touch up things and help nature out.
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Arlington will soon have the new deep well in. Then we
will beat even the Rocky Mountain country for water. We are
ahead of any city east of the Rockies now. Hurrah for W. C.
Weeks and his associates.
They are Arlington builders.
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Fanner* should be encouraged over the recent advance in this “enormous
crop of cotton.” Let farmers use all cotton goods they can. Bicrraae con-
samptloq means inrense in price. Let all Farmers' Vnion Ijocals remit
•1.50 to State Secretary-Treasurer C. Smith, Fort Worth, to purchase cot-
ton bagging. .Farmers can teach cotton beam a lesson. lk> it.
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"ROAD MAKING PROGRESS—I. & G. -N. PRAISED BY
TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS,"
From Farmers Fireside Bulwln:
“San Antonio, Texas, March 20.—Splendid and unremit-
ting work by Thomas J. Freeman, first as receiver and later
as president of the International and Great Northern Rail-
road, has won for that system the outspoken prais? of the
members of the Texas Railroad Commission. No man ever said
meaner things of the International and Great Northern than
Chairman Allison Mayfield, standing between the public and
the public service corporation, he thought and felt he had a '
right to abuse the International and Great Northern.
“For these reasons Chairman Mayfield aroused far more
than passing interest today whert he remarked: 1 have never
seen a railroad come out of the kinks faster than the Inter-
national and Great Northern has done during the past years.
I am not saying this because of any kVe I borne the
corporation, but because it is a fact and beSipse I believe it
doing justice where justice is due.”
“Commissioner Williams, who has also sharpened official
spears for the International and Great Northern, is as phas-
ed with the new order of things as is Chairman Mayfield.”
The above news item was clipped from the Houston Post, and
possesses a histoiy but few have seen and still fewer even know.
It is a fact that the people at large can scarcely realize (but it
is a fact all the same) that the International and Great Northern
railroad has been the victim of grafters and politicians ever since
the death of its founder, Dr. C. G. Young, who met a tragic end
in the early seventies, long before the road was completed accord-
ing to plans formed by Dr. Young and associates.
Dr. Young was backed financially by Congressman Galusha
Graw of Pennsylvailia, and who was in touch with millions of
wealth, and who had unlimited faith in Dr. Young and Tom
Scott, who was building the Texas and Pacific at the same time
Dr. Young was building the International and Great Northern.
Tom Scott afterwards returned to Pennsylvania ad became the
head of-the Pennsylvania railway system.
The above tribute to the International and Great Northern rail-
road is not only a fitting recognition of the ability of President
Thomas J. Freeman, but it shows what an honest and capable re-
ceiver and general manager, (as Judge Freeman has proven him-
self to be) can accomplish when the object is to give the public,
and owners of the property capable and honest services, instead
of graft and laying of political foundation stones for future use.
It is a co-incidence that ^Thomas M. Campbell, ex-Governor of
Texas, was the last receiver of the above railroad prior to Judge
Freeman.
It will be illuminating for any one to compare the records of
those two men, as to their railroad stewardship.
Coming, as the above is said to come, from Texas Railroad
Commissioners Allison Mayfield and'Wm. D. Williams, it is de—
serving.of special notice as their antagonism to the International
and Great Northern railroad in the past has been very marked.
Shortly after Dr. Young’s death, the above property began an
experience that fe.w investments could live through at all.
That railroad seemed to be a special target for spoilsmen and
politicians, and more than one employee who had long been trust-
ed, is said to have been dismissed for taking “graft at the com-
pany’s expense.”
The editor of the Farmers’ Fireside Bulletin was employed as a
newspaper correspondent in Austin when the former receivership
of Judge Felix J. McCord took the International and Great North-
ern railroad from its owners, Judge McCord appointing Mess’rs.
Bonner and Finley of Tyler, his close friends, receivers and spec-
ial friend and townman and brother lawyer, Thoma Mitchell
Campbell, as master in chancery.
Finley soon retired (within a week) and when Mr. Bonner died.
Judge McCord appointed his friend Tom Campbell receiver, (it
is said the receivership wear granted upon the request of some
one who held only a nominal number of shares of stock) and Mr.
Campbell remained until the end of that receivership.
If all the facts concerning the International and Great Northern
railroad could be given the honest people of Texas would be
amazed.
- In facL honest, uninformed people simply cannot realize the
Great Norther railroad in past years by smiling politicians and
dishonest employees. ' r - .
And the people pay for it, and farmerapay more than all others
and the people, as well as the owners of the property are to be con-
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‘WaYTftf fheTiead of Texas railroads guarantee them to us, for he
himself, like Yoakum (the Texan is a Southern man, from a
farm and knows the greatest needs of-Texas farmers to insure
their great warehouse holding movement for marketing products.
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LET FARMERS GET ONLY CORRECT INFORMATION.
From Farmer*’ Fireside Bulletin:-
N several occasions some parties have made assertions
V-z at meetings of farmers, which were misleading and which
had a tendency to create wrong impressions and eonfusiom in the
minds of farmers.
It has been asserted several times that practically all felt
hats were made from linters and some have gone so far as to
propose that the Farers’ Union start a hat factory and make hats
out of cotton linters.
The Farmers’ Fireside Bulletin has investigated this and
learns from practical hat makers that comparatively very few
hats have any cotton in them at Mil, and even those few do not have
linters; and these hat workers say, further, that no hat that sells
for so much as $2 retail has any cotton at all in them.
The Farmers’ Fireside Bulletin gives the above information
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