The Decatur News (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1923 Page: 2 of 8
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WHEAT COUNCIL IS FORMED
The so-called fifty-four-hour
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It has been decided to put in oper- I
The State Board of Control
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Products Company, Chicago,
Miss Jane L.
because of labor and financial troubles.
MOTHER! GIVE
Because of Increasing literary Inter-
CALIFORNIA
FIG SYRUP
Child’s Best Laxative To
Highway
Clean the Bowels
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Gov. Neff has approved and filed
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°resident Harding Starts on
Tour Through the West
and to Alaska.
SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS
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Conference on the Industry, However,
Rejects Price-Fixing Plan—Mount
Etna Eruption Works Havoc in
Sicily—Frencn Propose to
Make Germans Labor
in Ruhr.
long staple cotton, planted by a num-
ber of farmers this season.
ville to Berclair has been rejected by
the State Highway commission.
i session of the University of Texas,
I the Scribblers’ Club, a writers’ so-
under an order issued by the Rail-
road Commission Dallas has been ac-
corded transit privileges on peanut
shipments.
Explaining a Moral Victory.
“What is a moral victory?”
“Twin to an artistic success.”—New
York Herald,
To enjoy Ute, don’t voluntarily seek
shudders.
and give your
stomach a lift.
Helps ts cleanse
ttie teeth and keep
them healthy.
The great enemy f knowledge Is not
error, but inertnera. Ail that we want
la dlacusaloo. and then we are sure to
do well, no matter what our blunders
mny b». Oue error conflicts with an-
other. each destroys its opponent, and
i hi th la evolved.—Buckle.
The Finest Line In English Poetry.
An English critic thinks that the
flnaat Um in Ktefllak poetry to
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New Depot at Nixon.
Nixon, Tex.—Dirt has been broken
for the ne* depot and work is under
way for the erection of a depot about
the capacity of tho one which was de-
atroyed by fire,
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“Whose dwelling is the light at setting
suns.” Tennyson once raid that this
was “almost the grandest la the Eng-
lish language, giving the sense of the
abiding in the transient.**
ues to the various counties and the
increase of
Intangible
values are based on a five-year aver-
age. Seven corporations showed in-
creases over last year and two have
decreased, all the others being the
same.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
and Greece, permitting demobilization , rates on the Texas Southeastern.
It is estimated that about 3000 bales !
the farmers quite a bit of worry.
The cotton leaf worm has made its
appearance near El Campo and al-
Elgin is enjoying a wave of improve-
ment among the homes as well as the
business houses.
Charbon or anthrax is very had in
I the western part of Brazoria County.
I Many cattle and horses are dying.
I The annual convention of the Yoa-
time in its history.
ty-five students of the summer ses-
sion attending the weekly meetings
and taking part in the programs.
ago.
places and it was thought topping
would save it. a
Private banks existing continuously
two years prior to June 13, this year,
those operated successfully for twen-
ty years and tboae organized now IF
quidating another bank are exempt [
from provisions of the act passed by i
the regular legislature prohibiting or- I x
Ae-niZAtinn nf nrivztn hanko fhn attnr. < total 19 173,141,150, an
Hurry, mother! Even 3 cross, sick
child loves the "fruity” taste of “Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup” and it never fails to
open the bowels. A teaspeonfui today
may prevent a sick child tomorrow. If
constipated, bilious, feverish, fretful,
has cold, colic, or if stomach is sour,
tongue coated, breath bad, remember a
good cleansing of the little bowels is
often all that is necessary.
Ask your druggist for genuine “Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup” which has directions
for babies and children of all ages
printed on bottle. Mother I You must
say “California” or you may got **
imitation fig syrup.
I ney General’s Department to Labor
phalt the highway leading from Bee- Commissioner J. S. Myers.
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The
L. J. Polk. Jr., of Pharr has bee
appointed by Gov. Neff as Judgo o.
the recently created District Court
for Hidalgo county. Mr. Polk is a
graduate of the University of Texas
and the son of L. J. Polk, fromer vice
president and general manager of the
Santa Fe system, snd who is’ still
connected with that system in an of-
ficial capacity. Appointment of the
Judge of the new court had been ten-
dered by the Governor to Judge Hood
Boone but he declined tc accept.
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PRESIDENT HARDING has begun
* his journey of more than two
months, through the Middle West and
West, to Alaska, and through the Pan-
ama canal to Porto Rico. AI.eady he
has delivered, in St. Louis, his main
addreas concerning American member-
ship In the world court. He set forth
at length the reasons why he favors
such membership and has now left tho
matter to the decision of the American
people, who, before deciding, will have
plenty of opportunity to hear or read
the views of the opposition. Mr. Hard-
ing could not be Induced to abandon or
be silent about his advocacy of the
world court membership by those who
feared it would cause a party split,
but It Is not likely that he will dwell
on the subject in his future addresses.
Mr. Harding still insists his trip is
in no sense a campaign tour in the
Interests of his renomfnation. On the
continent he seeks to get in close
touch with the people west of the Mis-
sissippi on paramount issues. In Alas-
ka he desires to learn at first hand
what is the matter with the govern-
ment of the territory and why Its de-
velopment Is retarded. In Porto Rico
he probably will have to take a hand
in straightening out the administra-
tion of the island, for already the new
governor. Horace M. Towner, is being
subjected to bitter attack for the al-
leged offense of favoring too markedly
the faction thnt recently succeeded In
ousting Governor Kelly.
Mrs. Harding accompanies the Presi-
dential party, and seems now to be in
the best of health.
Seven permits for diversion of watei
from Texas rivers have been granted Commissioner of Insurance.
r'ROM across the water the most sen-
A1 national news of the wieek told of
the terrific eruptions of Mount Etna.
Vast volumes of molten lava (lowed
down the slopes of the Sicilian vol-
cano, utterly destroying a number of
towns and rendering homeless many
thousands of persons. For some days
It was believed the larger towns of
Llnguuglosaa and Castiglione ulso
were doomed, but as the lava river
flowed Into the valley between them It
was said by experts that they would
be saved. King Victor Emmanuel hur-
ried to the scene of disaster to cheer
up the sufferers and promise them re-
lief, and Premier Mussolini later
dropped ail other business and also
went to Sicily. United States Ambas-
sador Child and Hear Admiral An-
drews arrived on the cruiser Pittsburgh
nnd were greeted with almost hysteri-
cal gratitude, for Si.'lly well remem-
-------------------------■ ” ---r- Fifty-three carloads of Tom Watson
from Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”: watermelons have been shipped from
Sandia the past week. The first car-
load brought only (440, but tho price
has climbed steadily until each car of
36-pound average or better is bringing
around |700.
W. W. Boyd, State Game, Fish and I
Oyster Commissioner, says that be I
—.411 .AaAIaw ^aaz.AIa.. all /fokfnn A i a,
1 tricts under the new law prohibiting j
the sale of bass, crappie and satfisli j
in thirty-eight counties and in some I
I districts two deputies will be on dut;jj
I to see that the law is not violated.
meets to determine Its policy toward
Bulgarin, Poland nnd Rumania will de-
clare in favor of the new regime, tak-
ing the position thnt the revolution
was purely an Internal nffnir. This
attitude, presumably, will be due large-
ly to the belief that the Zankoff gov-
erniueut will not runke any all la net
with the Bolshevists.
her on the board of nurses.
As approved by the 'railroad com-
mission, Houston will be considered
in direct line of transit on shipments
of sugar, carload?!, originating at Sug- ost among students at the summer
arland, to Texas points. The Dayton- ‘ ’’’
Goose Creek railroad is authorized to
on
J. D. Fountleroy, State
| Engineer, has been appointed mem-
ber of the executive committee of tho
American Association of State High-
way Officials. He has also been ap-
pointed chairman of the program com-
mittee for the December meeting of
the American Association of State
Highway Officials, to be held in New
Orleans.
MIFHEAT marketing nnd wheat
v v prices were discussed thoroughly
for two days Inst week by a large
numlier of prominent men w!m> met in
national conference In Chicago. There
were governors ameng them, nnd n n-
greramcn, formers, railway men nnd
PRESIDENT* HARDING has com-
1 muted the sentences of 24 of the
48 “political prisoners” still in prison
for conspiracy^ obstruct the conduct
of the war. Clemency Is denied the
others because their offenses were
“vicious in the extreme,” in the words
of the attorney general.
ney general’s department held in an
opinion just, given to Bank Commis-
sioner Chapman.
Members of the state board of
health and the state board of nurses*
examiners were appointed by Govern-
or Neff Friday. Board of health mem-
bers are: M. F. Bledsoe, Port Ar-
thur; A. F. Beverly, Austin; W. H.
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There is only one medicine that really
atanda out pre-eminent as a medicine for
curable ailments of the kidneys, liver and
bladder.
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thousands
upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root makes frientD quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is
soon realized in most cases. It is a gen-
tle, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug storee in bottles of two sizes, medium
and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer A. Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.—Advertisement.
Want Never Fully Supplied.
Hazel came to apend the day with
me. and aa she did not eat much for
her dinner I asked her In the after*
noon If ehe wanted anything, to which
ahe answered, “Oh. yee, I’ve got an
awful want tor candy.”—Sxcha&gw. *
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j Scene during the great flood that swept over Tulsa, Okla., oil center of the Southwest. 2.—Blrd’a-
eye view of Juneau, where President Harding will make his first stop in Alaska. 3.—Historic old Tammany
hall tn New York, which la for sale.
suits. Once tried always used.—Ad-
vertisement.
grain traders. The proposition of a
minority group for the fixing of wheat
prices was voted down and a plan was
adopted for the organization of a per-
manent National Wheat council, and a
boarfl of directors was named to carry
out the work. Resolutions were adopt-
ed Indorsing co-operative marketing.
The convention favored the stabili-
zation of wheat prices. The investiga-
tion being made by the interstate com-
merce commission as to the reason-
ableness of existing freight rates on
grain and grain products was Indorsed,
increase of domestic consumption of
wheat and wheat products whs urged.
Fifteen men from various branches
of industry und agriculture were
named directors. Among them are O.
E. Bradfute, head of the American
farm bureau; Daniel A. Wallace, Min-
nesota, publisher and brother of the
secretary of agriculture; Julius Fleisch-
mann. Cincinnati, president of the
Fleischmann Yeast company; Alexan-
der Legge, president of the Interna-
tional Harvester company; F. Edson
White, president of Armour & Co., and
H. E. Byram, president Chicago, Mil-
waukee & St. Paul railroad.
The rejected minority plan was that
a grain corporation be formed, sup-
plied with money from the United
States treasury, to buy all the Ameri-
can farmers' wheat as soon as the
price dropped to $1.50 a bushel.
Senator Capper of Kansas was one
of the most vociferous of the con-
ferees, as might be expected, and at
ths opening session he seized the op-
portunity to denounce the Chicago
board of trade, asserting that it has
become the world’s greatest gambling
place and fixes the price for the bene-
fit of the speculator and against the
producer and consumer. He added:
"In May, 1922, a half dozen grain gam-
blers cleaned up something like $2,-
000,000 in 24 hours, which was more
than al! the farmers of Kansas made
out of their entire crop In 1922. This
will not be possible with the Capper-
Tincher law in operation."
Vice President John R. Mauff of the
Chicago board of trade hotly resented
Capper’s charges, denying them abso-
lutely. Afterward he said the board’s
directory would soon decide whether
the Kansas senator should not be sued
for damages on account of defamation
of character of the 1,598 members of
the board.
'T'HE cartoonist depicts France as
seated upon the Ruhr food supply
and saying to the passive-resistance
Germans, “Now work, starve or fight,"
and then asks which would France
prefer the Germans to do? It appears
that France Is about to answer tho
question, for dispatches from Dussel-
dorf say the French are preparing to
confiscate and requisition u f
Germans to operate all the Ruhr valley
| State Fire Insurance Commission |
i which Is to make workmen’s compen-
State Reclamation Engineer Arthur
A. Stiles left for Wichita Falls to re-
sume marking the boundary line
along Red River. He will go to the
river near Bridgetown where are lo-
cated oil wella and where the Texas
Rangers were stationed at one time
to prevent the incursion of Oklahoma
claimants. There is a sharp conflict
in the boundary claims in this area.
, i iiu su-caiicu iUQ-ium-nuui
though not in numbers sufficient to do | passed by the Thirty-Fourth 1-egisla-)
x jx., It L i lature, limiting the working hours of; '
Romolo omnlovaa nt nina hmira nor' {
Many farmers are I day in certain lines of business, does1
force of ■ buying insecticides for poisoning. I not apply to county officers, accord-'
uermnns to operate ail tne uuhr valley | Befl county.8 application for aid nec- in« t0 an °Pialon given by the Attor-I
industries, th£ output of which may be | -------TA-— ---- *- ’ •>K—
turned to the account of reparations, j
Germans who refuse to do this work ;
will receive jail sentences up to 15 j
years, and sabotage may be punished
with death sentences on conviction by
court-martial.
Passive resistance Is steadily weak-
ening, and this is due In large meas-
ure to the food situation. One of the
German government orders already
has been repealed and firms are now
permitted to pay freight ratee on food
transported on lines operated by the
French. One of the latest seizures by
the French was that of the sugar fac-
tories at Frankenthal and neighboring
villages.
The French, who would :
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plan of payment, will not agree tc it, cotton will be ginned in Laredo this
and presumably will have the luke-
warm support of Great Britain and
Italy.
I not apply to county officers, accord-J
Bee county’s application for aid nec- ing an 1
essary to top with Uvalde rock as-
| ciety, Is continuing as an active or-
The ganization this summer for the first
of ’ time in its history. There are thir-
1NSISTENCE by the Turks that their |
A country’s bonds be paid in Turkish
paper money is expected, at this writ-
ing, to result in the breaking up of
the peace conference at Lausanne.
This, however, does not mean resump-
tion of warfare. The negotiations will cancel special differential rates
be carried on through the legations, rice, rough, and seed, carl ads.
and It is taken for granted a separate commission suspended Its order
inc date xugunaj vuuiuudoiuu, inn ,
highway was constructed by Bee coun- ation on Sept. 1 the two recent acts
ty at a cost of $71,000 some three years separating the State Department of
It is beginning to give way in ■ Banking and Insurance into two de-
■ partments, one of banking and one
: of insurance. The laws become op-
: erative before then, but the new ap-
propriations will not become avail-
able until that date.
a great deal of damage, it is feared I ' ‘ ..... ' ' ’ _ ' '
that once they get started it will be female employes at nine hours peri !
hard to stop them. Many farmers are day in certain lines of business, does’
This serious food situation Is af-
fecting all of Germany, especially be-
cause of the further decline of the
mark, which is rapidly approaching
the worthlessness of the Russian
ruble. Flour Imports from the United
States at Hamburg have stopped, and
impoters there have lost heavily be-
cause buyers refuse to take shipments
they ordered. '
fish, too, and the German high seas gau Antonio; A. C. Scott, Temple, and
fishing Industry is about to suspend , t. B. Fisher, Dallas.
J Duffy of Austin is the only new mem-
Fearful to Contemplate.
A^oirdiog tn n ci»ntnn|>orary Znlu-
land catneJa becniuv i^nic-strtckrn at
Hi* nctnt of n white tnnn. Imagine
what nlll h«pp<ti tn the ftonr bon st >
ff ffrtr limy get a nanrful of the white
women wte tn«r.er») thetnselves in
that tlu*VMialloiia*for-a-«h>llar perfume
(bat Io so xaueb fo vogue for street-
and the uiovlee.—Ituffolo
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force have been moved to Austin to- j
I gether with all records and files, to |
i become part of the division of the j
; Fire Insurance
has made its appearance, and should |
they become numerous, likely will give "t" under the faw which' be-
----- •• ! camo effective June 13.
j on the Pearsall entoMf
A work train has lim
I other necessary equipment beside the
track.
Reports being received at Wharton
! from all surrounding territory is that i
the prospects for a cotton crop this
year are brighter than since 1918, I
when Wharton County produced about | will station deputies in all fishing di»-
48,000 bales.
Two terracing schools, the first to
J be conducted in the state, were held
1 In Williamson County the past week, |
instructions being given to a select’
number of men who are able to do
terracing for other farmers in their
I communities.
State Superintendent MaTrs said
the State Boa'rd of Education will on
Aug. 10 make an apportionment for
1 making preparations to lay heavy rails the ensuing year aud that it will be
“ ” ---the division. ! $13 per capita, unless the December
the rails and ! textbook contracts are held valid by
the Supreme Court in the mandamus
I case submitted, in which event it will
be $12, he declared.
A MONG the participants In the
4A wheat conference was Gov. J. A.
O. Preus of Minnesota, who had just
received the Republican fioininatL-n
for United States senator to succeed
the late Knute Nelson. He defeated
eight rivals in the primary. The Farm-
er-Labor party nominated Magnus
Johnson, and the Democrats uamwi
.1 nines A. Carley. Preus is more of a
practical politician than is Frank B.
Kellogg, aud may win where Kellogg
failed. His advent in the senate would
not be vastly moje pleasing to the con-
servatives than would be that of’au-
other Farmer-Labor senator.
season. Approximately 6000 acres of
cotton are planted in Webb county, i
4000 of which are in the dry farming
belt and 2000 in the Irrigated regions.
All is in good condition and from re-
U petering out, though the “Yellow ports the Irrigated section will yield
Guards” of the peasantry have not yet close to a bale per acre, while the dry
given up the fight. In Sofia It Is us- forming section a bale to each five
serted thnt when the little entente acres. Laredo has three gins, one of ‘
is so hard upon the
The woman
law i woman.
by the state board of water engineers
following hearings. They include 8.
L. McDowell, Wichita Falls, divert
water from Brazos river for farming
purposes; Mutual Oil fiiompany, Fort
Worth, from Brazos, Young county;
J. M. Skraganek, Houston,, from Fores
bayou. Brazoria coquty, for irrigation
purposes; Texas Pacific railroad,
two permits. Trinity river, Tarrant
county, and Wagner creek, Bowie
County, for mining purposes.
Just say to your grocer lied Cross
Ball Blue when buying bluing. You
has "ill be more than repaid by the re-
awarded contracts to the Continental ■
■ ... —. ; Metal Products Company, Chicago,
There Is a shortage of I Holla'd, Santa Anna; Frank Paschal, for 700,000 motor vehicle seals, 300,-
i 000 pairs of number plates, 12,000
' pairs of dealers’ license plates and
100,000 commercial motor vehicle
seals, to be delivered next Septem-
ber and October for use in 1924.
TA R. ANDREW MEIKLE-
A-'JOHN, retiring from the
presidency of Amherot college
at the request of the trustees
because they coneidered him too
liberal, declares our colleges
should not be run by trueteee
becauee they are buey men and
do not know what le olng on.
Of America and democracy ho
hae thia to ray: "America la
trying to bo a democracy, and
AoiojIm doesn't know hew to
be « domoeraoy. America can't
think in democratic torma.
America still thinks In terms of
privilege and possession and po-
sition and social clique. Amer-
ica must learn to think In other
terms than those, and It hae a
long task.**
What have you and your ac-
quaintances to ray to these
statements?
kum District Ginners’ association will
j be held at Yoakum July 25.
Ground has been broken and work
started on the Dayton high school
brick building. The structure is to
cost $17,000.
The oat crop of Navarro county is ,
turning out from 50 to 60 bushels per
acre, and a few farms report making
from 75 to 80 bushels.
The $4,000,000 issue of Harris Coun-
1 ty Houston ship channel navigation
district bonds have been approved by |
the state attorney general's depart- i
; ment.
The I.-G. N. Railroad company is
Saw mills and nitroglycerine plants
are to be required to observe the new
anti-pollution law, according to an- I
nouncement made by G. F. Simmons, ;
Deputy Game, Fish and Oyster Com- i
missioner.
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The Railroad Commission will hold ’
a hearing soon to consider the appli- ;
cation of Greenwood and Burnett to j
drill four wells on the Fort Worth |
| & Denver Railroad right of way in
the Electra field in Wichita County.
Adjoining leaseholders are contesting
it.
which is for the exclusive handling of
j the bill passed at the third called
session ot the Legislature changing
i the name of the Department of In-
surance and creating the ofice of
. It be-
comes effective Sept. 12. The sal-
ary of the Commisser of Insurance is
$4,000.
bers what America did for her whe:
Messina was destroyed by an earth
quake. The forces of the Red Cress ;
were in action promptly, as always, I
and there was plenty for them to do '
among the throngs of refugees, most
of whom were gathered in Catania.
Vesuvius ulso has become more ac- |
tlve and the villages alpng the Bay of :
Naples are badly frightened. There j
have been severe earthquakes in Si-
beria and South America, as well as
the frightfully destructive quakes In
Persia recorded a week ago, nnd
Mauua Loa, Hawaii's famous volcano,
is in eruption.
TTULGARIA’S civil war seems to be
KJ petering out, though the “Yellow
W. C. Burns, who was assistant j
I manager of the Texas Compensation j
’ TI A < a nA TAnllnn n nnVrnan aF 4 V> A
’ The cotton crop around Edna is look- |
Ing fine now, and the plants are mak-
ing good growth. However, in some
sections of the county the leaf worm
State Tax Commissioner Willacy
’ has certified the intangible tax val-
the regular legislature prohibiting or- |
agnization of private banks, the attor- | 5(J2 over Jagt year
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peace treaty will be signed by Turkey June 21 applying certain rough log
OrtAw*** iiprmltfiner rimnnhlliv.ntInn rates on the Texas Southeastern.
In Thrace. '
be the main sufferers by the Turkish
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