The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1924 Page: 6 of 8
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Poetry
Politics! Ugh!
h‘ I’c.iry
wauls
to
tragedy
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fanners
and
called
management immediately adopts In
for all concerned.
Why is it
that
In Commerce.
Fooling The Farmer
Prof. and
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New
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the past three years by the
simple
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n
me
go
COMMERCE DRUG t(!M
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tng
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Men’s and
B. M. Stlpp has purchased
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Young Men’s
SUITS
and
we
. WATCH
Overcoats
VALUE S
$18.50 to
With the new fall an<l
$49.50
Satisfaction, or your mweey beak.
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J. E. Boswell
HESS BROS.
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Th* Maa*i Shop.
In Every Line.
mt
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l
sleeping
our new fall
line
NOTED EDUCATOR
BURIED SUNDAY
Jeweler and Optician.
GBEENVTLLE.
chance U.
Intolerable 1
T. A. Stacy, general claim a*edT
for the Cotton Beit railroad, la traea-
actlng buslneee here.
Talk the fair, boost the fair, help
build the fair by entering something
for exhibition, it will lake all of us
I
So now all times we speaka so
Like gooda ’.Merican;
He say to me, “Good morna, Joe,'*
I say, “Good morna. Dan.”
Stykt
Tailored
DRESS WELL
AND
SUCCEED^
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4
winter merchandise ready
for your inspection we present the ojfportunity to
get clothes at prices that rentier them an asset rath
er than a luxury.
■ Republican
i tors put together.
Republican politicians
( placently prophesying
j grain prices will
Jolly News, Men!*
We are now receiv-
3i
Boswell’s quality assortment nf watches offers a
watch for every need and in accord with every price.
"Thirty Minutes from Your Door to Our Store."
should try to obey them,
------------> as well as motorists. J
Mrs. D. F. McCollum
leave Commerce Sept. 1, for
a two yearn leave of ab-
Prof. McCollum has an In-
structorshln in the New York Univer-
sity, the second largest institution of
higher learning in the United States.
----- —«v.,l enrollment for last year
The admission fee will be only ton
encourage your neighbor? to go, we
j want the people to see it.
Just one week until the comtneroe
Friday. District Fair begins, are you ready?
and It is year fair, set la and make it a
ware Company has been attracting Mrs. I. G. Ra|>e and family, E. E. BIG success,
lagre groups of men tor the last few ^°leman a,ld family, L. F. Welch and
days who stop and discuss It pro and
con. occasionally scoring a point by
Falrlie, Columbia, Jardin and p*r
i haps others will be there with com-
munity exhibits.
Several progressive tanners bars
reserved space for individual tana ex-
hibits. livestock and poultry apace
are being taken rapidly as In aU oth-
er departments.
We have a REAL BIG FAIR, get to
and have a part and not wait until It
is too lata.
be as well adapted to the needs
agriculture i
to the needs of business; and
Governmental encouragement in
necessarily slow process ot 1
. up a system of cooperative marketing
on a sound financial and economic
, basis.
Nothing Doing
Dan n
An angel robbed in spotless white.
Bent down and kissed the
night:
Night awoke to blush; the sprite was
gone.
Mtn saw the blush
down.
. about wasted away shows its popular- 1
| Ry-
McCOLLOMS LEAVE
York, on
fence.
Mrs. Mary Hidden* and iwc daugh-
ters, .Mary Douglas and Zone, have
arrived from Annona for a tew days
■ visit with her sister’s f-unily. Mr. and
FOR NEW YORK CITY --------
I
■ Dean S. H. Whitley o' East Texas
indict- State Teachers College, went to Den-
ton Sunday to attend the funeral ser-
vces for Dr. F. M. Bralley, president
' the I'ollege of Industrial Arts,
occurred at Dallas Satur-
Tlie successful man of today is usually the well-
dressed man. Ho knows through years of experi-
ence that his rise in the world has been due partially
to his good grooming. Therefore, we as clothiers
and haberdashers offer every man the opportunity
of dressing for success.
O! my. I nevvn hear bayfore
is h langwadge like he say;
An he don’t look at me no more
For mebbe two. t’ree day.
Bur pretta soon agen I see
Dees beeg poleecaman
Dat com’ an' grown an' say to me:
' Hallo, Eyetalinn.'
Nov. mebbe so you gon’ deny
Dat dat’s a name for you.’*
I smile hack an’ r.'ak' reply:
"No, Irish, dat’s a true.”
Ha! Joe,” he cry, “you theenk dat
Should call you ’Merican?”
“Dat’s gocila nouxh,” I say. “for me,
Bet dat’s w’at you are, Dan."
For about tt year now. The
Daily Journal has been print
ed on pajier made right here j that
it in (’ommerce. This fact may
not be generally known by this
‘jiajier’s readers.
arc
that
cause the farmers tendent of public instruction
' given to the cotton farmers by
bol! weevil than by the present
ministration, and more help has been
• given to the grain farmers by a
■ spell of bad weather than by all the
• Republican Congressmen and Sena-
Here is another poem of Miss Mil-
lays:
Hew shall I know, unless I
To Cairo and Cathay,
Whether or not this blessed spot
I- blessed In every way?
It may be the flower for
Is this beneath my nose;
How shall I tell unless I smell
The Carthaginian rose’
Alas for pious planning—
It mattered not a whit!
As far as gloom went in that room.
The lamp might have been lit!
My little Sorrow would not weep,
My little Sin would go to sleep—
To save my soul I could not keep
My graceless mind on it!
.Mrs. C. R. Farrar who has been vto-
gravely Iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Intelligence Lewis on Greenville street, returned
to her home in Fort Worth Tuesday.
that <
1 gaining the rapport ot enough of the
So up I got in auger,
And took a book I had.
And put a ribbon on my hair
To please a passing lad.
And, "One think there's
by—
I've been a wicked girl,” said I;
“But if I can’t be sorry, why.
I might as well be glad!"
Two 'Merieana Meo
Thomas Augustine Daiy
B ’ - Irish cop dat walk hees beat
By dee pcanutta stan'.
Rist, wo, t’ree week .’en we are meet
Ees callem “Dagoman.”
An’ w’en he see how mad I gat,
Wheech eesa please heem, too.
Wan day be say: “Wat’s dat.
Ainf 'Dago’ name for you?
Dat’s ’Merii-a name, you know,
For man from EetaJy;
Bet res no harm for call you so.
Den why be mad weeth me?”
First time he talka deesa way
1 am too mad fo- a speak.
But nexta time I justa say:
“All rights, Meester Meeckt”
jFnf w
Democratic ] The student enrollment tor last
Republican reached more than six thousand.
j 1‘rof. McCollum has been with East
— I Texas State Teachers College since
toT | !t became a State institution seven
— I years ago. He is head of the Depart-
ment of History. During his leave ot
imperative, absence. Prof. C. T. Nue will be act-
ol which' Ing head ot the department and Prof.
- — -— ---J of the Southwestern
University takes Prof. Nue’s place. |
Following the death of Judge Per-’
Prot. McCollum j
president of the Hunt
his '
successor being Prof. C. V. Hall of
E. T. S. T. C. Perhaps the greatest
niece of work in point of accomplish-
ments undertaken by Prof. CcCoIIum
to forget the three years of wholly 1910 to 19913.
I unnecessary crucifixion through widow and four
which they have just passed, and to
; rote the Republican ticket as usual.
I These political forecasters
; underrate the farmer 1
Farmers know that the value of Am-
over
over h. m. supp has purchased a new
over six Ford son tractor and Ford truck ana
five sent them up tn Me farm at Texar-
the kana.
The fabric of nty faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here, but O, ray dear,
If i should ever travel!
POETRY
Annie I.. Laney
The magic light that springs
From the deep soul of things
When, called by their true names.
Their essence is set free;
The word, illuminate,
Showing the soul’s estate.
Baring the hearts of men;
Poetry!
as they
the
j statesmanship be imagined than
! involved In the fact that, during the of
past three years, more help has been whose death
the Lay morning atfer a brief illness from
ad- pneumonia.
Dr. Bralley was one of the out-
standing educators of the Sttae. He
haw been president ot the College of
Industrial Arts since 1914. Previous
to that he was prominently In the
coni- forefront of the educational work ot
higher the State, having been State superin-
from
He is survived by his
sons.
--- i h’ !'.’.iry For J wants
Here U a little poem which reveals make himself reallv popular,
" ‘ “ "ue ‘X**- Paal I-aw- let him go to makinig gasoline
nt a price to match his fliv-
vers.
four
none
conflict with the legitimate interests Edwin K. Wood
of any other class--(l), foreign mar-
kets for his surplus crops; (2). low-
er freight rates on the bulky, cheap] kins at Greenville,
commodities that he sells and buys, I was elected
County Historical Association,
FREAK WINDOW FAMILY REUNION COMMERCE FAIR
DISPLAY ATTRACTS | AT CITY PARK OPENS NEXT Wl
RAILROADMEN , The city park was thb scene of an
------ interesting family reunion
A freak window at Youngs Hard- Tho*<‘ Participating were .Mr.
ware Company has been attracting . T”-----
• By Carl Vrootnan. former As-
sistant Secretary of Agriculture.)
A lot of political forecasters and
fourfiushers are fooling themsehes
but they are not tooling the farmer.'
recent
re-
nor
Act of Coolidge, but of an Act | an,‘ er°n<)niicallj sound
I . ____ _■ I u rir»n 1 tn wo I rob-
: lines laidd own in
platform, millions
farmers and
*Td rather have these good old Eberhard Faber penrila, than
your old marbles and penknife. See this good old Stationery
Set. Chock full of Eberhard Faber things for schooL”
Tom ind Jerry are showing a lull line of school supptas
in our window They offer P.mphfe< Aow ng “How a
be*d Pencil io Made Come in and pet one — no chafge.
The farmers all know that the
. rise in the price of grain is the
i suit, not of an Act of Congress,
of an .
wssm&U, MUI Ml ilU
, of God. namely, a crop shortage
, • anada, Europe and elsewht re.
| Indeed, pre -nt grain prices are
an indictment of the present Admin-
getting jstration. They demonstrate the ease
and dispatch with which the prices
of farm products could have been'
similarly raised at anytime during
; the past three years by the simple ‘"““t
expedient of disposng of our surplus ’naJ°r requiremeuts,
■ crops abroad
The ruinously low prices of 1921,1
i 22, nd ’23 were caused by a slight
over-production, resulting in a sunall
; surplus of grain. Instead of passing
, “The Farmers Relief Bill’’ in 1921,!
and thus creating a Federal Export
I • orporation to dispose of that surp-
lus to the best possible advantage, all
that Republican statesmanship has
been able to do durnig the past three
’ tragic years has been to stall, de-
plore and excuse, until the accident
! of unfavorable weather conditions
finally brought the farmer a measure
j of relief. Such an attitude is on a
, par with that of a City Council that
[ would lef.ise to provide fire protec-
tion to its citizens on the grounds
I that each one should look out for
himself—blindly trusting to luck that
| in case of a general conflagration
i the windows of heaven would be op-
ened to put out the flames. '
(ould any more damning i ” ’
‘ ’f'.-nt of the bankruptcy of Republican
, statesmanship be imagined than is
Howard Prim. Brodie Dejernett
<uid l hink Pennington have return-
ed from a trip into East Texas where
they spent the first part of the week
on a fishing trip. A careful search
of tbe car by friends upon their re-
turn yielded only two small cans of
sardines, and everyone is hereby
warned to pay no heed to any big
fish stories which any of the trio may
tell.
family. Dr. E. E Addy and family of
, Nevada, Rev. J. W. Beck and family
making suggestions which the store "eatherford. and Mr and Mrs. to make it a howling success,
management Immediately adopts In Nlcl1 J’ D“vl* ot Nevadt. Needless toj -y
the way of additions to the display day was * v*ry P1**8®*** onc cento. Attend as often ne possible
which makes the idea carried out more
realistic.
The display is a “miniature railway
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Blount and
daughter, Miss Thyria Mae of Hugo,
Okla., en route to Dallas were early
morning visitors at the home of her
stater, Mre. W. R. Cate. Tbe trip is
being made by motor.
Edna St. Vlnceut Millay is consid-
ered by no small number of critics to
I* the greatest living American ly-'
rlcist. She expresses tor us various
.emotions and mental states, but when increased Yearning’s*
-he tells us of the c.re-free Ameri- Commerce’s new traffic reg.
van girl, she is inimitable: ,
Ths Pesltrat -ulations apjiear to meet with
r had a little sorrow. general approval. Everyone
Dorn of a little Sin. 'should try to obey them, ne-
I found a room all damp with gloom destrians "" "
And shut us all within: 1
And, “Little Sorrow, weep,” said I,
“Ard. Little Sin, pray God to die,
.' nd I upon the floor will Ue
: 1 think how bad I've been!”
erica farm products shrank
rout billion dollars in 1920,
right billion dollars In 1921,
billion dollars in 1922 and over
billion dollars in 1923, below
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such as hay. cotton, grain, lumber,
coal, fertilizer and agricultural Im-
plements; (3), an agricultural sys-
tem of banking and credit that shall
of
as is our present system I has been his work ■ in connection with
.. business; and 4),| “The Negro Problem.” offering con ra-
the j *’s for a number of years on this im-
bullding! Porlant problem nud has also deliv-
—1 ered numerous lectures on It.
Leaving Commerce Sept. 2. they
by rail to Galveston from which place
they Will sail via the Mallory steam-
ship line for New York.
During their absence. Prof. McCol-
lum will receive his Ph.D. degree and
Mrs McCollum will study singing,
continuing the development of her
voice.
concrete, practical,
1 program of I
agricultural rehabilitation along the'
the
fo
farmers’ wives gladly
will follow their leadership, as off-
: eting them their best
speedy relief from an
I situation.
The farmer has
1319 evel. a total deflation of approx )
imatdly twen y-tivc billions lulltus
tn four years. In the face of this
stupendous shrinkage the recent rise
in the price of grain looks to them
too accidental, too belated and too
tc-iporary, to cause them to forget:
tl past four years of demonstrated J
R publican Incompetence and callous!
indifference to the tragedy of the
fr rmer.
Moreover, most fanners realize.
—. even though grain prices sky- .
rocketed twice as high as they are
today—if the railways, the middle
men, and the tariff protected manu-
factures were still to be coddled and
subsidized by paternalistic class leg- I
increased j isiatlon. and slowed to profiteer on
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wallace ot
and train” constructed from bits of MJnden- L*., enroute home from the
stock taken from tbe company’s large ‘‘a“tern markets where they pur-
stock of supplies and spliced togeth- cha4«’J U>eir fall stock of goods, atop-
er. Any railroad man who picks a flaw over in Commerce and spent Fri-
in the makeup and suggests a remedy night with Mrs. M. E. Knox and
for making the display more suggest- txx>lt t,me to ren«w old acquaintances
tive wins a smoke on the house. The *“ Conmerce.
. • 11 u,<u tncieaseu islatlon. and slowed to profiteer on
earnings nearly always bring j the farmer practically without limit
' ’ ■ as at prewant, it would not matter
haw much money the farmer made—
It would promptly be taken away
from him.
Probably the most important task
before Davis and Bryan during the
coming campaign will be that of fact that a £ |
six or seven million disaffected Re-
publican faroiers and farmers’ wives
west of the Alleghaniea to carry the
election. Fortunately they can
this without making any promises
they cannot fulfill, without feighnm*
a radicalism they do not favor, and
without resorting to the patently dis-,
honest Repabllcan device of taking j
l>oth sides on vi'al campaign issues.
As during the campaign they
come out, as I have every assurance
they will, for a
THE COMMERCE JOURNAL, COMMERCE, TEXAS, FRIDAY AUGUST W, 1934
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