The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 28, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
Dates for Teachers Examinations
are as follows:
May 7 and 8; June 4 and 5; July 2
and 3; August 27 and 28; September
3 and 4; October .1 and 2; November
5 and 6; December 3 and 4.
W. M. CHANDLER,
’’"Th© Chamjpioim
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
THE WATER PROBLEM.
The State Insurance Commis-
sion has put the matter of a wa-
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STRIPLING & ARMSTRONG
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Subscription, per year $1.50
All communications should be ad-
dressed and remittances made to The
Champion, Center, Texas.
of the feet a League of Nations,
steps to-
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hit hard upon all sides in.the
business world. Managers in
offices of the big railroads have
found cigarette smoking boys
and men do not perform their
duties as quickly and satisfac-
torily as non-smokers and
many managers are flatly re-
fusing to employ such. Even in
some places, the cigarette smok
er is being discharged. This is
poor encouragement for our
boys and should warn them to
get rid of this harmful habit at
once.—Ex.
over that given in the past.
A. E. Lawson, replying for
the railroad officials, promised
that the demand for double
daily service would be put im-
mediately before Santa Fe
higher ups with prospect for a
definite answer in a short time.
He characterized the sanitary
condition of the roads as inex-
cusable, stating that all de-
little pa-
extravagant
Meeting at Jasper Takes Up
Conditions on Beaumont-
Longview Branch.
» war and all
through the war was inevitable.
also lenient in the matter and
are willing to be reasonably in-
dulgent as long as some steps
are taken to comply in the mat-
ter. If no steps are taken,
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out a cent on it,
something is done the rates
will be increased and the ex-
tra money will be sent away to
the insurance companies. This
is merely a suggestion and if
considered it should be done at
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Delco Light
We are now ready to announce to our many Delco Light
prospects, the addition to the already numbers, of the Delco
Light Family & K. W. 1 K. W. and 2^ K. W. making three
new additions to the Delco Light Family. We are pleased to
announce to our prospective purchasers that we are now pre-
pared to finance the sales of these plants on deferred payment
plan, terms to suit most any line of business income, within 12
months.
32 Volt, % K. W. gen. only
32 Volt % K. W. 80 amp. battery
32 Volt % K. W. 160 amp. battery
32 Volt % K. W. amp. battery
32 Volt, 1 K. W. amp. battery
32 Volt, 3 K. W. 160 amp. battery
110 Volt, 3 K. W. 160 amp. 56 battrey
110 Volt 2% K. W. 160 amp. 56 battrey
110 Volt, Delco Light Water System
32 Volt, Delco Light Water System
Delco Light Power Stand
Prices F. O; B., Dayton, Ohio.
Select your plant from this list and write or call
J. R. Dickerson, Dealer
Phone 235. P. O. Box 26. TIMPSON, TEXAS.
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the organization of the towns
to co-operate to secure . -
service in the future. With the
close of the meeting a i------ ,
vote of thanks was given to the ®dSj °ythned will be strictly
Ladies’ Civic Club for what was
pronounced by all as an excel-
lent feast. Visitors were as-!
signed to various homes for the
night. The committee of six to
represent the towns met this
morning and prepared its de-
mands and met the railroad of-
ficials. Garland Smith, as;
spokesman for the committee,
presented the demands for
double daily passenger service
between Beaumont and Long-
view to be arranged to give
greatest possible accommoda-
tions; immediate improvement
in sanitary conditions of the
passenger coaches and preven-
tion of dust on roadbed with
cloth covering for the seats;
and regularly daily local
freight service with marked im-
provement in switching service
Jasper, Texas, April 22.—
With the close of the second
meeting of the associated San-
ta Fe towns for the purpose of
securing better service on the
Beaumont-Longview branch, S.
W. Adams, secretary of the as-
sociation, announced the re-
sults as indicating a 100 per
cent success. At the confer-
ence this morning between the
committee of six, representing
the Santa Fe towns and the rail-
road officials, three definite de-
mands were made along the
lines of better service, and an-
swers were given to these de-
mands by the officials, with the
result that sanitary conditions
of the passenger coaches will
be immediately remedied, reg-
ular.daily local freight service
will be maintained along the
line, and definite response to
the demand for double daily
passenger service along the
line will be given within thirty
days.
More than sixty visitors from
other towns were the guests of
the Jasper Chamber of Com-
merce. Upon their arrival
Wednesday they were taken to
the hotels for lunch and then
entertained by the Jasper citi-
zens with auto rides over the
town and upon the^ newly com-
pleted highways west and
north of Jasper.
The first meeting of the com-
mittee to report on railroad
traffic from each town was
held in the afternoon, and the
committee embodied its report
in one statement, concretely
presented by the committee of
six to the railway officials this
morning.
In the evening all guests
were taken to the banquet giv-
en by the Ladies’ Civic Club un-
der the direction of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, at which
more than 175 were present.
After the banquet addresses of
welcome were made by L. M.
Autrey, president of the local
Chamber of Commerce, and
C. C. Ingram, former Jasper
attorney. C. R. Markley, sec-
ertary of the local Chamber of
Commerce, presided. The rail-
road officials present, includ-
ing Superintendent Gleen, As-
sistant General Manager W. E.
Maxson, W. S. Keenan, gener-
al passenger agent, and J. S.
Hershey, general freight agent,
[ assured the representatives
that the railroad is willing to
do all that is possible to help
develop Southeast Texas, since
both personal and company in-
terests are invested in this
country. They voiced their ap-
preciation of the excellent spir-
it of the towns in working for
better service.
S. A. Bland, Beaumont traf-
fic expert, presented Beau-
mont’s views on the matter of
better service on this line,
pointed out the advantages of-
fered to all concerned in help-
ing along the speedy develop-
ment of this portion of East
■ Texas. S. W. Adams, secretary
of the organization of the
towns, presented the purpose
of the meeting as that of desir-
ing to work in harmony with
the railroad officials to secure
The cigarette fiend is being better service, pointing out the
l i j great development of the coun-
try in the past several years as
compared with the develop-
ment of railroad accommoda-
tions in the sarrie time. Other
addresses were made by A. L.
Burg, secretary of the East Tex-
as Chamber of Commerce,
shpwing possibilities of devel-
bpment of truck gardening and
stock raising in Southeast Tex-
as and the relation of the rap-
id development of these indus-
tries to the railroad; L. P. Head
editor of the Beaumont Enter-
prise, expressing confidence in
the success of the meeting;
Field Manager Watson of the
Texas Chamber of Commerce,
urging, all towns to affiliate
with the Texas Chamber of
Commerce for greater develop-
ment; Garland Smith, Jasper
attorney, giving traffic figures
to show the exceedingly large
County Superintendent, amount of business done on this
The Supreme Court has over-
ruled a rehearing in the woman
suffrage case. This case has
been upheld by all the courts
and this is the last step that
can be taken in the matter. It
means that the women can vote
in the party primaries this
year. It is generally under-
stood that if one more state
ratifies the Federal amendment
to the constitution that the mat-
ter of women voting in all elec-
tions will be in force and in
this event women who have not
paid a poll tax will be entitled
to vote. As it is now, however,
it is understood that only wo-
men who have complied with
the state law and have paid a
poll tax can vote in party pri-
mary elections only.
TAKE IT AS A WHOLE.
No well informed Democrat
may be expected to endorse all
the acts of the administration
State or National. As long as
men are imperfect there will be
mistakes and errors. The fair
and honest way is to consider
the administration as a whole,
and measure the good against
the bad. It was the opinion of a
large majority of the statesmen
of America that the war could
not be avoided. This opinion
was not shared by Democratic
statesmen alone, but by Repub-
licans as well. All the war
then hey will increase the key the world of all political faiths.
It is believed that a League of
Nations can be so framed that
war between civilized nations
i „„1 soon become obsolete.
out, but it will be in the neigh- ( That there should be a diversi-
borhood of 14 cents on the ty of ideas on this question is
$100.00. More or less. |not surprising in view of the
Regardless of how much the innumerable interests of the
increase will be, it will be different nationalities of the
enough to justify the citizens i world. It will take time to per-
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The Democratic party is on
Withdraws from Race
for Commissioner Beat 1.
On account of being busy
looking after my farms and
other private business, that
takes practically all of my
time, I have decided to with-
draw from the race for com-
missioner of Beat No. 1. Not
having time to devote to the
duties of the office as I would
like to do, and should give, if
I were re-elected, hence my
withdrawal. I take this meth-
od of thanking my friends for
their loyal support and co-oper-
ation during my term of office
and hope some day to be able
to show my appreciation of
same, I am,
Yours gratefully,
J. J. OLIVER.
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and property owners
town to take some
wards complying with the reg- record as having enthusiasti-
ulations of the Commission, cally endorsed the first four
The water supply and equip-(years of the administration, a
ment for the town is not suffi- matter that seems to have been
cient. It canot be expected entirely overlooked.
that any person supply the wa-1 A sober adjustment- of the
ter necessary from a plant of momentous questions that have
its size. We have a good start appeared during this adminis-
and the system can be made tration, and a just weighing
adequate by the expenditure of and balancing up of its merits
some money. So far as we are as well as demerits, will we
advised there is no way td vote jthink entitle it to the endorse-
and issue of bonds for the pur- ment of the Democracy of the
pose and if the bonds could be country. We have
issued there is no sale for them tience with the
at par at this time. There is praise of any man, and no dis-
one way that the citizens can position to extol the
finance the matter and that is, above their true value, but the
to voluntarily pay over now the administration of the Demo-
amount of the increase that will crats has upon the whole been
come later. The commission as good as could be expected,
will gladly inform us of what and that was a great
that will be. Those carrying in- Busk County News,
surance can make the calcula-! : ’ ——
tion and pay in the difference . A farmer-banker organiza-
from the present rate and the tion was perfected at College
increase. Pay the difference at Station last week. The meet-
once in money and let the mat- in£ was attended by as many
ter of doing the work begin at as 400 men of the.two branches
once. This will not be sufficient of the great business of the
money, it is true, but will be a country. These gentlemen were
starter and will be sufficient to m deep seriousness and the
enable enough to hold the rate farmers who were present out-
to what, it is now. If the insur- numbered the banker. The
ing public would enter into the banker is the great friend of
agreement, it is more than like- ^e farmer and the farmer
ly additional money could be makes the bank a possibility,
borrowed on a joint note, and This meeting was made an an-
in this case there is a probabil- nual affair and the permanent
ity that the system—and other officers have not. as yet been
requirements—could be met elected. The object of the
and the present rate materially meeting is to try and bring
, about a closer co-operation as
between the farmer and the
business world and bring about
a condition to better equalize
( the present differences as be-
the sys- i tween farm products and the
tern is put on a standard basis tiigh priced articles that
- - i the farmer has to buy and use,
| as well as to bring about a con-
dition where tenant farmers
w.M.u can own homes and make it
while and will not have been Pos^t>le for the farmer to get
' a better support from the
banks. It is a splendid organi-
no
first four
iW
rate charge. In their communi-
cation they did not indicate just
how much that would be and
this writer has not figured it r will
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borhood of 14 cents
the ty of ideas on this question is
reduced. j
The gentleman who made
the recent inspection here,
suggested that this plan had
been worked successfully at I
other places. When the sys- i
tern is put on a standard basis
it will become self sustaining, j
and within a few years the!
town will have builded them a
water works system worth
for unless
zation and one that wilf
doubt result in much good.
branch, and O. M. Stone, who
prophesied better service in
every department and read a
message from Earl Mayfield,
Texas railroad commissioner,
stating that he was ready to
co-operate with towns in any
way possible.
Upon motion made by S. W.
Adams it was voted to continue
better mands along that line will be
rising th01* promised that all freight
attended to.
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ter supply for Center right up ’ measures were supported by
to the citizens. They point out! Democratic and Republicans
the matter in detail and showiaiike# ____
what will be necessary in order' should result in the hurry to
to get a better rate. They are prepare for the
A League of Nations to pre-
vent the frequent occurence of
war is demanded by a large
majority of the best thought of
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The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 28, 1920, newspaper, April 28, 1920; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1326807/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.