The Decatur News (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1923 Page: 10 of 12
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THE DECATUR NEWS
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U. S. ARMY WON WAR
Conditions
in Europe are such that they have no
That feeling will be voiced in thousands
of homes Christmas morning.
Shopping
EARLY!
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Jewelry as a Christmas gift is of equal inter-
est to men and women. A big showing of Jewelry
at very, very low prices is now to be seen here.
Come in and look over this showing of Christmas Jewelry.
All gtiods are new and many pieces are entirely original in design.
Be Sure and come to De-
catur’s Christmas Party
Dec. 14th, 7 to 10 p. m.
Our Store is open until 10 p. m.
Trolley Cars
Games
Books
Horses
Cows
Harps
Tool Chests
Dominoes
Checkers
Banks
Blocks
Violins
Banjoes
Over and Under
Sanda Andy
Water Colors
Swords
Cap Pistols
Black Boards
Trick Games
Airplanes
Indoor Croquet Sets
Wagons
Radio Rex
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Representative Explains
for First Time How Allies
Admitted Were “Licked ”
—FOR GROWN-UPS
Carving Sets
Seals and Tags
Silverware
Aluminunware
Cut Glass
Dinner Sets
China
Shot Guns
Radio Sets
Targets
Electric Irons
Flashlights
Serving Trays
Gas Ranges
—FOR GIRLS
Dolls
Doll Buggies
Toy Dishes
Furniture
Dressers
Cabinets
Dishes
Games
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Anabas Scandeni Have Thirst
for Palm Wine.
Embroidery Sets
Wash Sets
Pantry Sets .
Table and Chairs
Stoves
Doll Heads
Teddy Bears
Mama Dolls
Telephones
Trunks
Sewing Sets
Books
Doll Dresses
Water Colors
—FOR BOYS
Air Guns
Electric Trains
Autos
Tricycles
Bicycles
Footballs
Basketballs
Mutt and Jeff *
Fire Stations
by means of the ends of the extended
gill covers and at the same time press-
ing the tall fins and anal fins against aem'to bS/.
motion of Its body to hang on and
climb higher and higher.
The Danish sailor did not reveal
where It was seen, but said when
captured It showed no distress at be-
ing out of water and gamboled happily
in the sand for hour after hour.
The assembled naturalists were un-
convinced. They were quite sure that
fish are able to breathe only by gills,
and that when these are dry, as they
soon must be when a fish Is taken out
of water, the fish Inevitably quickly
dies.
Strange as it may seem, however,
the story was true. There is a climb-
ing fish which can live out of water
for quite a long time. This Is the
climbing perch, Anabas Scan dens. To
' >a sure it climbs only occasionally and
then upon palm trunks, which ascend
not vertically but at a convenient
slant It does make a practice, how-
ever, of climbing out of the water and
spending hours in the dry grass on the
bank. This fish has lungs as well as
gills, which accounts for its unusual
powers.—Review of Reviews.
Certain Kind of Porch Performs Re-
markable Feat—Has Lunge as
Well as QI llo.
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Report On Rural Schools
Of Wise County
H*ere baa been very much recent
improvement in the school conditions
of Wise County. The excellent quali-
fications of the teachers shows that
trustees and county superintendent
bew need good judgment in Me
•election of teachers. Much of the
county superintendent, trustees,
trons, pupils and citisens of 1
county. Sanitary conditions
much better and almost 100
of the floors have been oiled,
ed i
•nd ki
much attention to
proper lighting, w
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schools have in-door flower
Last Weeds ef “Beb* tagsrosft.
Robert G. TogrrsoD. th* agnostic,
died suddenly and did aet talk about
religion and the afterdMb Jost before I
Ma death, a* popularly supposed. Ou <
the day be died be anffared aa attack
of acute indlgaattoa sad lag down to
root. About aa beer later be put oa I
bis shoes. Noticing that be looked pale.
Ma wife offered to have bio atone
brought to hin. But bo refused, say-
ing, “Ob, no, I don't want to trouble
you." Than Mm lagaraan offered to
give him some medicine, but again ho
iwfueed with a smile, saying, *Tm bet-
ter now." Those were his last words.
Ho sank down tn his chair, deed.—■De-
troit News.
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You will find almost everything in Jewelry here. RINGS,
KNIVES, CHAINS. HEADS, NECKLACES, PEARLS, PINS,
HAGS, VANITY CASES, WATCHES, CLOCKS, SILVER SETS,
CANDLESTICK HOLDERS and novelties of all kind.
---llowever H io
thought that mast of ouch needs will
implied with by next term. Plans
being made for tnenesing local
support of the ediooto for next tons,
law requires that school
districts must be levying and collect-
£ I* n -ch<x>1 tax o« the
*100 valuation to qualify for state aid
next term. However there seems to
calling elections in most
dtotmets at an carte date, and H is
that mast of the districts will
in time for receiving aid next
JEFFERSON G. SMITH,
Rutnl Scbool Supervisor.
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NOW—I will know what is going on—
Music. Fights. Basketball, Lectures,
Jazz. Baseball, Football, Stories,—and
—an’ Everything. Oh, gee! JUST
what I wanted most!
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The judge
“In this e
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usybeigh’s
Honesty In khoea.
“No," said the old man sternly, **I
will not do It. Never have I sold any-
thing by false repreeentatlons, and I
will not begin now.”
For a moment he was silent, and the
clerk whe stood before him could see
that the better nature of bls employer
was fighting strongly for the right
"No," said the old man again. "1
wtn not de tL It la an inferior grade
of shoe, and I will never pass It off
as anything better. Mark it A Shoo
and milked for twenty four hour*, to • I
pay a plumber *14 a day.
“It takes a hog weighing ITi||
■ pounds, representing eight months I
feeding and care to pay a carpenter 11
for one day's work.” ;|
What do these figures indKatefjl
Are they not discouraging to the!I
farmer? Will they deter him from I
plowing and planting? What is the I
lesson to be learned from the present I
industrial situation?
In normal times we export from I
* pushed this remarkable feat by at- this country one hundred and seventy I
THE PLACE OF FARM PRODUCTS
IN THE NATIONAL DIET
It is admitted by all well informed
persons that the fundamental indus-
try of America, and for that matter of
all countries, is agriculture. Unless
the farmer prospers there cannot be;
permanent prosperity for any nation, i
For various reasons the farmer is not1
prospering. In terms of barter he is
at a tremendous disadvantage.
1 was much startled the other day
by a letter sent to a New York news-
paper by a Virginia farmer. He has
taken pains to translate the cost of
labor engaged in building into food
values at the farm. If you have not
thought to make a similar comparison
you will be astonished by these ex-!
amples:
“It takes t>3 1-2 doxen, or 76S eggs j
to pay a plasterer for one day of eight
hours work.
“It takes 17 1-2 bushels of corn, or I
J a year’s receipts from half an acre to! I
"It takes twenty-three chickens that 11
.inter for one day's work in New j
u* a..
“It takes forty-two pounds of butter' I
term.
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fi*r. A queen does not havw to do
■Mb walktae “
Shrine Yields Heathen Rellca.
I Relles, estimated to be about 4,000
jrettn old, have been found by scien-
tists in a tomb and shrine of heathen
worship built during the Stone Age.
Located In the southern part of Swed-
en, It lay burled beneath ten different
strata of earth. Constructed of large
rock slabs, Is has a central chamber,
ten by five feet Around this Is s
circular pavement, from which radiate
a number of curious walks marked by
stones. A considerable quantity of
human and animal ones, together with
flint daggers and spearbeada, were
unearthed. Also, there were about
7,000 fragments of ornamented vaseo, I
which had been thickly strewn outside •
the tomb. The shattering of these coo-'
tainers probably took place tn rsmitr I
tlon with heathen religious esrsmostea i
—Popular Mechanics.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Repre-
sentative Julius Kahn of California,
related today some heretofore untold
history which throws new light on the
assertion of European statesmen that
their countries fought the World war
with blood while the United States
fought with dollars.
The veteran chairman of the house
military affairs committee, who, in
spite of ths fact that he la a Repub-
lican, was called upen by President
Wilson to lead the fight for the draft
law, was prompted to reveal what
transpired under the greatest secrecy
by the attitude of the powers abroad
toward their debts to thia government.
. He was particularly exercised over
France's policy of refusing to even
negotiate a funding arrangement,
while “spending money right and left
on a huge standing army, the world’s
greatest aviation force and in other
ways.”
Kahn's Astounding Story
Hare is Mr. Kahn’s story in his own
womto:
“When war was declared by the
United States, England and France
sent missions to this country. Lord
Ourxon headed the English mission.
Vivian! and Joffre who had just re-
tired aa commander-in-chief of the
French army, were among the French
commissioners. The two missions
asked the state department to be per-
mitted to talk to about twenty-five
members of the house and senate. Per-
mission wss granted and that number
of senators and representatives were
invited to the home of Henry White,
former ambassador to France. Joffre
said to us:
“ ‘Gentlemen, we are told you will
not be able to send any men across
the ocean for a year. I want to say
this: “If that ia the case you don’t
need to send them at all.
“ ‘Gentlemen, we are licked. Eng-
land and France an licked. You alone
can save them. The only way you can
save them is by coming to our relief
immediately.
“ %)ne of your American divisions
under your army regulations, has 87,-
000 men. That’s double the number
of men in an English or French di-
vision. Take your finst division. It
is made up of men who have been in
the army at least ono year. Tbeir
morale is established.
Division ia Hurried Across
“ ‘Send us that division. Let one-
half of it parade down the streets of
London and one-half down the streets
Paris. England and France then
will kattMthat the American's are
coming in earnest The English and
French soldiers will then be willing to
die in their tracks before surrender-
ing <me foot of land. i
" Thot’o the only way you can be of
■W service to us.’ * I
Mr. Kahn continued:
“This meeting took place in the lat-
ter part df May, 1917. Aa a result
the first division sailed for France on
the sixth of June and paraded down
the streets of London and Paris on
July 4. The people of both cities
cheered themselves hoarse at the mere
sight of American soldiers, and the
word of their arrival was flashed
among the allied troops at the front.
“Thte one fact restored the courage
of the English and French and made
it possible for Americans to win the
war.
“When they talk of having won the
was without us, they are simply disk-
ing themaelros ridiculous. The inci-
dent I have related occured in the
strictest secrecy but the time is now
ripe to tell it alk"
She Had Company.
Thompson was coming bouse from a
dance, when all at a sudden be esOMk
ed with some one who was raoata*
wildly in the opposite dlrsrtloa. When
the two had sorted themselves ear he
saw that the other was Ms friend,
wmm.
“Why. WUksr ho exclaimed.*
“Where are you going to efl (Ms
hurryT
“1—I am going fat the policy" re-|
piled Ms Mend.
"For the police! What is the mat-
ter 7'
“We’ve got borgtara In oer bonne.**
“Bur rarely yoe haven’t left ywsr'
Wife stoner
“OK no 1 She's holdtag the burglar f
ewelry
Several hundred yeara ago some
European travelers returning from a
visit to India told a flab story rivaling
some of the animal fables Invented by
Baron Munchausen. They affirmed
that they had seen, or at least beard
of, a fish which apparently feeling the
need of a bit of stimulant now and
then, emerges from the water near a
convenient coconut tree and then < c s .. - .
>■ , .. I !•»>' * bricklayer one day.
climbs the latter to have a drink of • '
palm wine. j wejjj]j three pounds each to pay a •
The learned men of the day scoffed I paintt - j • ----*- J- —*
at the absurdity of this nature tala York.
but about the beginning of the Eight- “It takes forty-two pounds of butter I
eenth century the story was repeated, ! or the output from fourteen cows, fvd!
with some modifications, to be sure, 1 “n*' for iu. ntv four hours., to I
by a more reliable authority.
A certain Danish lieutenant, named I
Daldorf, made a formal report to the
newly-founded Natural History Soci-
ety of London, named in honor of the
famous Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus,
that he had really seen in the waters
off the coast of the East Indian city
of Tranquabar a fish which left the
water at intervals and actually climbed
the stem of a palm tree. It aecom-
tacMng itself to the trunk of the tree, million bushels of wheat,
r________________» -v__in Europe are such that t
money to pay for our products. Their
poverty and depreciated currency
the bark,‘thus managing by suitable £he result is that in graneries of the
Northwest and in vacant lots along
the railroads are piled quantities of
gram for which there is no demand.
The effect of this stagnation is not
confined to the farmers of the North-
west It reaches into the South. If
this grain is not sent to Europe, there
is no demand for the cotton sacks in
which to ship it. The result is the
cotton former suffers along with his
colleagues of the North.—U. S. Sena-
tor Royal S. Copeland, of New York,
in a speech made at the wheat con-
gress in Chicago, June 20, 1923.
Trying to convince on e against her
will is as useless as trying to make
one believe she snores.
It is not always best to say what
you think because it is not proper to
cuss before women.
Be careful with a man who is too
glad to meet you. He will try to sell
you something some day.
eant
b^ng RtaStod
d hbrainos are bang increaaad, and
bwnff given to the
vunttlakion, aod suit-
•He dreks for the cHMren. Many
wtora ii n k.—1— M—ra__
•nd flower* an btooadng in Bid-
winter. Moat aetMola have ooma play
ground •npMxtaa. Thare haa bean
new •choH houaea constructed in some
districts.
There is need for
•ome of tha school*.
ba com]
are I
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