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THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
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A FACTOR IN SUGAR PRICES.
Congress is being told on the one hand
that the price of sugar is high because the
supply is less than the demand and. on the
other hand because the demand is greater
than the supply. Congress can take its
choice of the two viewpoints or accept
both of them. There is a difference between
them and it is not entirely specious.
Our supply might be either ^greater or
less than it used to be; but if it were greater
it might still be inadequate to meet the
demand. For the world is demanding more
of various commodities than it ever did!
before— demanding them from us and from I
the sources upon which we are accustomed
to draw. If conditions in this country
alone be considered it must be apparent
that the demand for such commodities has
increased.
Whether our capacity has been enlarged
or we are suffering from an attack of
“psychology” we do not know. Perhaps
both factors are at work. There is un-
doubtedly much truth in Mr. Baruch's state-
ment that fear of still higher prices has
stimulated the demand for the present sup-
ply of many commodities.
But there is a factor which has nothing
to do with either the supply or the demand
except in so fat as it enables jobbers to
take the maximum advantage of the rela-
tionship between supply * and demand.
As a result of this factor old sugar
although it was produced at a lower cost
and bought by the jobbers at lower prices
is offered to the public at the same prices
which are charged for new sugar. This
applies to many other commodities as well.
. Sugar bought by the jobbers several
months ago when the cost of production
and consequently the price to them were
considerably lower than present production
costs and sales prices was in some instances
placed in storage. Not necessarily that
it was hoarded; dealers have to maintain
their stock in order to serve the trade with
any degree of continuity. If a jobber should
run out of sugar entirely his business
would become demoralized.
With every advance in the quotations
from the refiners the jobbers increase
their prices horizontally to conform to the
new figures. If this practice were not
general there would be a difference in
prices from day to day; some jobbers
with old stocks on hand would be selling
below the cost to them of new stocks.
Thus In some instances the public would
be getting sugar at less than wholesale—-
less than the jobbers themselves would
have to pay for replenishment stocks.
It is hardly to be expected that any job-
ber would sell his wares for less than he
himself would have to pay. although in
so doing he would be making a profit
above what he actually paid for the old
sugar. Although in selling old sugar at
new prices he may be making a double
profit he might contend and not with-
out some reason that he could not do
otherwise without running risks incompati-
ble with the principles of sound business.
But whether the practice is justifiable
from any standpoint or should be con-
demned and stopped one cannot escape
the fact that it tends to keep prices up.
It explains why there is no such thing as
an average price: the price in every case
is maximum. The latest price controls the
entire market. The tendency would lie re-
versed if the producers increased the sup-
ply above the effective demand. Then the
dealers would begin to lose instead of
making a double profit on the stocks they
had on hand.
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REVOLTING AGAINST CARRANZA.
The Mexican revolt continues to spread
in all parts of the country and may be
declared even this early to constitute a
general uprising against the Carranza ad-
ministration. It is an interesting fact that
in all the pronunciamentos that have lieen
issued by the Sonora armies and those that
have followed their lead tliere has lieen
no word about altering the constitution of
gaining more liberty for the people or of
making any change in Mexico of any kind
except tlie one of eliminating the Carranza
administration. It is a personal revolt
against I'rcsideut Carranza and the actions
SATURDAY.
that liave of late characterized his conduc
of Mexican affairs.
The change in President Carranza's poli
cies seems to have taken place shortly aftc
• the United States entered the war. Foi
’ some time even after that event Carranzs
seemed to be pro-ally but he later turn^
to the side of the Germans por a mar
who had on so many occasions revealec
' supreme political judgment this was a re
markable performance. It was so plair
» that Mexico's great advantage lay witl
' I the cause of the allies that it is incompre-
jhensible why President Carranza did noi
। see it and act accordingly. He had every-
• thing to gain for his country by coming in
J with the allies and nothing whatever tc
• gain by siding with Germany. However
he went with Germany and that is the
end of that part of the story.
The great mass of the Mexican people
• was not so greatly concerned with the issue
1 of the great war that they would have
taken up arms against the national admin-
istration because of its attitude upon that
question only. There had to be other
causes.
It is extremely probable that the chief
of these was the evident intention shown
by the Carranza administration to attempt
in the grossest manner to control the com-
ing national election. As soon as General
Obregon announced his intention of be-
coming a candidate for the presidency the
Carranza administration set out to prevent
his election. It secured the passage through
a subservient congress of laws that gave
to President Carranza the absolute con-
trol of every election booth in the country
and complete possession of all the machin-
ery for counting the votes. Under such
circumstances there could be no possible
doubt that Obregon would be cotmted out
no matter how great was his actual ma-
jority —and it is generally estimated that
about ninety per cent of the voters of
Mexico were favorable to him.
Then came the announcements of such
candidates as Gonzales and Bonillas neither
of whom had much standing with the peo-
ple at large. In fact the great majority
of the Mexican people had never even heard
the name of Bonillas. He was nothing but a
stool-pigeon for Carranza who hoped
through some means or other to remain
in power even though the constitution
of Mexico which was largely his work
provides that no president shall serve for
more than one term.
The persistently unfair tactics followed
by the administration and its intention
clearly revealed through them of prevent-
ing Obregon from becoming president of
Mexico finally drove the people to revolt
against a government that was so appar-
ently determined to violate the national
constitution and deprive them of their
just rights.
There may be other reasons given for the
opposition to the Carranza government but
lack of confidence in its integrity or even
belief in its lack of integrity wax the rea-
son for the uprising against it.
The whole affair is to be deeply re-
gretted. Mexico has every need of peace
and peace of Ipng duration but it will
never have peace until its government is
conducted according to its own laws—and
the people had come to believe that the
Carranza administration was not so con-
ducted.
As to the result of the uprising there
can lie small doubt. The Carranza gov-
ernment will in all probability go down.
It may be able to put up something of a
fight for a time but the chances are that
its strength will fade away steadily and
that it will dissolve in its own weakness.
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RELIGION BY LAW.
How people can favor loJal option on
one subject and demand that there shall
l>e no self government on another prop-
osition has just been given an interest-
ing illustration in a small island in Chesa-
peake Bay.
Tangier Island which lies off the coast
of Accomac county Viriginia is a part
of that state. 'I he residents are not many
| in number and do not have any great amount
of communication with the mainland al-
though there is no reason why they should
not do so whenever they wish weather
liennitting.
Tangier Island went strongly for prohi-
bition. That is. it declared fervently for
the proposition that the law making powers
of the United States should decree what
men shall eat and drink. It was. of course
their right to hold such an opinion.
It happens that the residents of Tangier
Island are an extremely religious commun-
ity. One of their local statutes is that
everybody shall attend church if possible.
Their law com;>els the attendance. It fur-
ther provides that no person on the island
shall on any Sunday show himself on the
street in his yard or on the port h of his
residence unless he shall be on his wav
to or from churclp The act constitutes
a clear case of religious observance enforced
by law.
Such a law is of cour-e in • con-
flict with the constitution of the United
States which provides in the first amend-
ment "Congress shall mal <• nr; law regard-
ing an establishment of religion or prohi-
biting the free exercise thereo'."
The "free exercise" of religion means
that every man is free to exert ise his idea
of religion provided that he does not in
in so doing interfere with the rights of
others. Any law conqxHing attendance at
any religious service is therefore interfer-
ence with the right to exercise a personal
religious preference and is in direct con-
flict with the constitution.
The people of Tangier Island therefore
who did not believe that any community
should have the right to decide for itself
what it should drink claimed the right to
decide for itself that all residents of the
community should render obedience to an
arbitrary and unconstitutional law. 1 hey
denied the right of local option to others
but claimed it for themselves. In the mat-
ter of drinking liquor other communities
had no right to exercise their option. In
matters of religion Tangier Island had the
right to exercise its option. A more glar-
ing inconsistency could not be imagined.
The religious Jaw of Tangier Island had
never been brought before a court because
such people as did not like it went else-
where to live and such people as remained
on the island approved of it; nobody else
cared anything about it.
It happened however that on a recent
Sunday a young man sat upon a front
porch. He was ordered by a police offi-
cer to go inside. He refused. The .officer
sought to arrest him and a struggle ensued.
The officer deliberately placed a revolver
against the back of the young man and
fired inflicting what is believed to be a
mortal wound. There was no argument
as to the facts when the officer was ar-
raigned in court and he was released on
a nominal bond. This action aroused the
resentment of the younger element of the
island and a political campaign is now in
progress with the avowed object on the
part of the younger people to make Tan-
gier Island a community more in harmony
with other parts of Virginia and the na-
tion. and the determination on the part
of the elder people to retain their institu-
tions as they now are.
It will come as a surprise to the people
of the United States that there is anywhere
in the country a community where people
are compelled by law to attend church or
remain inside their homes. The incon-
sistency of the laws of •’Tangier Island are
however another matter and before they
have been put through the courts it is prob-
able that the community will be instructed
that a man has a right to move about his
own property as he likes on every day of
the week. X
ELIMINATE THE PROFESSIONALS.
A dispatch front Columbus says that in-
complete unofficial returns indicate that
Senator Warren G. Harding's campaign
manager has been defeated in the Ohio Re-
publican primaries for the position of dele-
gate-at-large to the Chicago convention.
With no ill will for the campaign manager
and without any political malice whatso-
ever one may well hone that the complete
official figures will tell the same story. .
Senator Harding's campaign manager is
most likely a very estimable gerttleman.
Even as a professional politician he may
have virtues which are lacking in some per-
sons who would never "mess with politics.”
But personalities do not enter into the ques-
tion which the candidtcv of Senator Hard-
ing's right-hand man raises.
It is a question of methods employed in
transacting the people's ' ness. For what
takes place at a national convention is cer-
tairriy the people’s business. But the peo-
ple have little part in transacting that busi-
ness when campaign managers and other
professional politicians make up such a large
part of a convention Not only do profes-
sional politicians make up a large part of
our national conventions but it is they who
take control of the affairs of such meetings.
They are practiced in the are of maneuver-
ing and they direct the framing of the
platforms upon which the candidates are to
stand.
A national convention should be in the'
nature of a jury. The various candidates j
should go before it with their respective
claims and the convention should render
its decision without bias or prejudice. In
no other way can the people be represented.
But we have fallen into the habit of send-
ing professional politicians as delegates to
our conventions. It is not possible for them
to be unbiased. They have a definite pro-
gram to carrv out liefore thev learn '’ hat
is in the minds of the other delegates. 1 hey
are on the job from start to finish for the
Ipurpose of promoting their own ends. They
iare the strategists and "leaders" in every-
! thing a convention docs.
\t how manv national Democratic con-
ventions has W illiam Jennings Bryan been
a delegate? It would be easier to count
those at which he has not been a delegate
since the time he began his political career.
On the other hand how many business men
land farmers for instance have participated
in the framing of national platforms and
the nominating of presidential candidates?
If the number is small it is largely because
^uch men take comparatively little effective
intere-t in political affair-. The profes-
sional politicians gain control of national
conventions by default of other men.
It would be gratifying if the apparent de-
feat of Senator Harding's campan'gn man-
ager represented a tendency. That Mr.
Bryan who had lieen accustomed to carry-
ing his own state without question came
near being defeated in the recent primaries
in Nebraska for delegate-at-large to the
San Francisco convention mav add to what-
ever gratifying significance one may at-
tach to the unofficial returns in the Ohio
election.
oo
A judge in Ixiuisville. Kentucky ruled
that the food control act is too vague to be
enforced. There is nothing vague how-
ever. in the prices being charged by the
food profiteers.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
POMERANIA IS
POTENTIAL RED
OF MONARCHY
Despite Official Contradic-
tion a Reactionary Coup
Is Contemplated.
ROYALIST PLOT FORMED
Plan Would Establish Pan-
German State With
Royal Leader.
By (.EOBGE WITTE.
Special Cable t u The San An'onlo Light
and th»« Chicago Dailv News.
Copyright 1320. by Chicago Daily New*
. Foreign Service.
Greifswald. Pomerania April 20.
(Delayed*.—From evidence I have gath-
ered here and tn Stettin the capital of
I cmcrnniQ on a acorc or more of the
large e*tntr« belonging to some of the
most prominent land barons iu this the
most reactionary of the old German
provinces and in Greifswald. I am thor-
oughly convinced that the German roy
□lists are plotting another “putsch”
d'etat) this time with a view to
breaking away from the Berlin govern-
ment and establishing a monarchy with
I mice Henry (he ex-kaiser's younger
brother as the most likely ruler.
May 1 was the original date set by
the leaders but on account of some
vague information leaking out it was
put off indefinitely two months hence
being the time kept in view at this mo-
ment. The coup d’etat is being plan-
net] by the royalties of Mecklenburg
Icmcrnnia and Hast and West Prussia
with Koeuigsbcrg whence came the
Kapp crowd as the capital of a new na-
tion the name of which has not been
chosen.
Danger Is Present.
Having read in the left wing Ger-
man newspapers tumerous stories of
conspiracies going on in Pomerania I
determined to iuveatigatc for myself.
In previous dispatches 1 have already
iwinted to this plot but now’ after sev-
eral days of careful inquiry I have
reached the conclusion that the most
far-reackiug prediction* as to the dan-
ger of a new royalist upheaval have
under-estimated Its extent and immi-
nence. The evidence I have found up
to date while circumstantial is from re-
liable sources. Tonight I talked to sev-
eral rcichswchr officers here in Greifs-
wald who are to get their discharges
April 29. After several bottles of wine
they became loquacious and told me that
they would never change their vocation
and would rather die fighting the Ber-
lin government than see themselves re*
tired.
t With them were the leaders of the
Greifswald university volunteer corps
and of two Baltic corps and their tale
corroborated in every detail-what I had
seen and heard in other parts of Pome-
rania. The name of Gen. von der Goltz
was mentioned as one of the principal
leaders of the new reactionary move-
ments which also seemed to have the
support of Gen. von Watters command-
ing officer of the reichswchr in the
Khr district. The epalettes on the
reiebswehr officers present bore the in-
signia of tbe Sixth Division—Gen. von
Watters’.
Things Are Not So Calm.
When the topic of the new’ coup
d'etat first came up the officers com-
mented laughingly on the report in the
papers tbit the commi«Mion sent by the
Berlin government to investigate reports
concerning a new royalist outbreak iu
Pcmerania had returned with the con-
elusion that there was no foundation
for tbe stories. Then one of the offi-
cers casually mentioned that while in
Dr. Kapp’s own country the Baltic
troops had been demobilized and tbe
Ebert government seemed back in the
saddle firmly enough things were not
quite as calm as they seemed to he.
“We were born to be officers” he
said “and will remain officers no mat-
ter what the Berlin government orders
us to do.” Then all joined in deciar-
It's Just a Case of Some Do and Some Don 9 t
iiig that none of them would nce.pt a
discharge.
"We do not heed Berlin remarked a
6th Division man. "We can get along
nicely without it and its Jews. We want
a pan-German state without any Jews
and if we ean get Mecklenburg Pome-
rania and East and West Prussia to
come in with us wc will break away
from Berlin. The real Germany is up
hero and in Westphalia along the Rhine
and not on the River Spree or iu Frank-
fort or Cologne.”
“Two Months From Now—”
Then they said that it was very un-
fortunate that through the indiscretion
of some one in their midst their plans
had become known and they were com:
polled to put off their coup. They want-
ed to “put it over” on May 1 they said
when he govenment was watching the
rods and would not look for a coup from
the right. Prince Henry was mention-
ed in the conversation as one of the men
slated for the leadership but they did
rfot seem sure. One of the officers
when asked whether it was true that
.">OOO Baltic troops were under arms
in Pomcrnnia boasted that there were
a great manv more in the other three
provinces and especially iu East Prus-
ala.
“Two months from now—” said one
of the officers significantly when I
left them.
Charters Filed.
Austin Tex. May I.—Chartered :
Petroleum Producing Company of Hous-
ton ; capital stock $25000. Incorpora-
tors : F. L. Phair E. H. Jackson and
E. D. Joost.
Security Finance Company of Fort
Worth: capital stock $50000. Incor-
porators: T. F. Tobin M. L. Mas-
singill and A. J. Belew.
Amendments to charters were filed
by Dallas Trust Company of Dallas
changing name to Provident Trust Com-
pany; A. B. Frank Company of San
Antonio increasing capital stock from
$700000 to $1065200; Frantz-Pick-
ard Hardware Company of Weather-
ford changing name to Frantz Hard-
ware Company and increasing capital
stock from $15000 to $40000.
An amendment to the charter of the
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of
Dallas increasing its capital stock from
SIWUM)O to $1000000 and the board
of directors from seventeen to twenty-
five was approved by the commissioner
of insurance and banking.
Kenedy Geta New Industry.
Kenedy. Tex. May I.—The Kcucdy
Cotton Oil Light Ac Power Company
was organized with the following offi-
cers and directors: 11. R. Russell pres-
ident : Fred Schroeder vice president;
L. H. Browne secretary-treasurer;
C. A. Webb geneal manager: directors
R. R. Russell C. A. Webb. L. H.
Browne of San Autouio. J. W. Nichols
and Fred Schroeder of Kenedy. Appli-
cations for charter and options on a
suitable location are being made. Vj>ou
return of the charter the laud deal will
be closed machinery ordered and the
building of both light and oil mill will
be pushed as speedily as possible.
St. Louis Paper Advances Price.
St. Louis Mo. May I.—Tbe price
of tbe Globe-Democrat tbe tuorniug
newspaper.here will be advanced from
two to three cents for the daily and five
( to ten cents for the Sunday issue ou
I May 1. publishers announced.
i »Shc!by Read Bonds Approved.
Austin. Tex. May 1. — Two issues
lot Suelby County road bonds have been
; approver! by tbe Attorney General's Dc-
( partment one of District 4 for at
[5l-2 per cent and the other for $50.-
I (XM! of District 7. at 51-2 per cent both
.maturing serially. The department also
i approved an issue of $25000 city of
! Beltou fire station bonds and an issue
of $25000 of water works extension of
' the same city both bearing 5 per cent
• and maturing in 40 years with a 20-year
। option.
Where To Go.
I Majestic Theater: “Whirl of Variety.” >
: six other vaudeville acts and photo-
i play “The Tower of Ivory.”
। Grand Opera House: Motion pictures.
' Beatriz Michelcna in “The Flame of
I Hellgate.''
Empire Theater: Motion pictures.
I “Why Change Your Wife” Cecil B. De-
> Mille feature.
Royal Theater: Pantaxes vaudeville
and picture Houdini in "Terror'
Island."
• Princess Theater: ixiew vaudevilh
< and Corinne Griffith in "The Garter
I Girl.”
Palace Theater: Motion pictures.
I Norma Talmadge in "The Isle of Con-
। quest.”
EXISTING UNES ARE
CHARGED WITH PLOT
TO BLIGHT RAIL PLAN
Gulf Coast Road and Oth-
ers Said to Be Opposing
Valley Project
San Benito Tex. .May I.—The visit
this week to the Magic Valley of State
Railroad Commissioner Earl Mayfield
and the coincident presence of J. S.
Pyeatt president of the Gulf Coast
Lines has been cause for caustic com-
ment from the valley press. Mayfield
came here to investigate the recent loss-
es of cabbage due to the car shortage.
The Brownsville Sentinel charged
Pycott with taking the commissioner
and bis party to Matamoros the day of
their arrival in tbe border city for en-
tertainment and with ''engineering”
their trip through the valley with a view
to preventing the farmers from airing
their grievance. The Sentinel the fol-
lowing day carried an interview from
Pyeatt in which lie outlined the condi-
tions that caused his road to fail to
carry the cabbnge crop repeating his
claim that government ownership so
handicapped the line that it could not
secure the cars. The next day Judge
Harbert Davenport had a signed article
in the Sentinel charging Pyeatt with
being “paid to prevent” the direct lino
to Sau Antonio the standard guage road
to deep water at Point Isabel and the
elimination of the "differential.” In
his attack Judge Davenport charges the
St. L. B. & M. railroad officials with I
fighting to maintain the valley as non-
competitive territory for the Gulf Coast
lines by "(al strangling Point Isabel
as a port (b) by traffic arrangements
with the S. A. TJ & G. which makes it
to that road's interest to accept what
the Gulf Coast lines give it rather than
build to the valley (c) by maintaining
the ‘differential.’ which in effect is a
swap with the Southern Pacific which
controls tbe S. A. & A. P. whereby the
hitter road leaves the rich valley terri-
tory. with its high freight rates to the
Gulf Coast lines while the Gulf Coast
lines are kept by tbe ‘differential’ out
of serious competition with the Southern
Pacific in Northern Mexico.”
And he continues "San Antonio
which is suffering from this situation
has just learned that neither of the
north and south lines out of San An-
tonio will enter the valley iu competition
with the Gulf Coast lines; and if Sau
Antonio wishes a valley connection it|
must be built outright.”
The other valley papers'are printing I
"hot shots” in their nows and editorial!
columns showing that the Magic Valley
is ripe for connection witli the Alamo
City.
Pointed Paragraphs
Many*a man who has his price gives
himself away.
A man’s greatest success in life is
generally unexpected.
It is easier to dodge responsibility
than it is to dodge the result.
The summer girl can’t appear on the
stag** of action any too soon.
If it was not for their famous wives
many men would never he heard of.
With the exception of trouble the
more the average man has the more he
wants.
It is far easier to coax n poor per-
former to tackle a piano than it is
to chase him away from it.
A widow always tries to console her-
self with the belief that she can’t do
any worse the noxt time.
A woman is willing to admit a man’s
superiority when it comes to translat-
ing a railway time table.
Once In « while a man achieves fame
io this world without makirj any un-
necessary fuss about it.
The poor man has two advantages
over his rich neighbor. He can wear
out all his nld clothes and he is seldom
troubled with tiresome callers
Brownsville Board Reorganized.
Brownsville. Tex.. May I.—The
Brownsville Board of City Development
has been reorganized by the appointment
of John Grogg. W. G. Willman. C. L.
Jessup J. B. Scott and I*. M. Lamber-
ton as the board of directors. The «p-|
polntments are made by the city ad-;
ministration. C. L. Jessup who headed
the*former board was re-elected chair-1
man.
MAY 1 1920.
A Laugh or Two
"WitneM" asked the attoruey for
the defense who
was tyring to prove
» he temporary in-
’ I sanity of the prls-
r oner ‘‘was it this
man's hnbit to tajk
Uy's to himself whsu
alone?"
“Just at this
time” returned the
; * witness "I don't
recollect ever bein' with him wheu he
was alone.”
A few weeks ago the mayor of Los
Angeles slipped away from business
and made a personal tour of "Sonora z
. town” to get a line J-
on conditions there. -A. X
During the tour his aA
! eye was caught by ZrfX jj'l
A trinket in a shop yCJKgSLjwi"
window and he
stepped ‘in to pur- ZjT
chase It. The pro- rw
prietor was just
about to close up Oy
and in fact had —— l
already taken his cash box into the
back room. As he had to bring it
back in order to make change he
called his young son and perching
him on the counter whispered in his
ear to keep bis eye on the customer.
A moment later he returned with the
change and the boy blurted out: “He
didn't steal anything daddy: 1 had
my eye on him every minute.”
A drunk taken to the police sta-^
tlon recently was allowed to sleep®
;off his jag and then set free because*
I ■■ he gave the night
» squad the best
laugh they’ve bad
in a long time.
A "How d i d you
(y happen to be lying
there in the gut-
ter?” demanded the
Jzhfl I sergeant severely.
b-1 ’"Sall right.
~”~~“~~ J boss. I jus' hap-
pened to walk between two lamp posts
and leaned against the wrong one.”
When mother and her brood started
for town the weather was threaten-
ing so she did not go unprepared.
In due time they -
stepped off the /”
crowded train at rakx IV
tbe Union Station J” 1 y *
"Have you got / x
all the umbrellas vl-XAZU
Johnny?” was her
first question.
"I should say I
had.” said the boy. *
I "I had three when
; I started and now I’ve got five.” V
“ 'Tis done 1” he cried as he slowly
i — -i raised a revolver
_ to his temple. The
A odor of freshly
JM) Ing fried sausage
i t/j cJ rea'hed his nos-
tri Is.
"Yes. It's done!”
IV he cried again
" dropping tbe re-
volver and bolting
I for the kitchen.
“How can I go about it to get a
drink in this town?” asked a recently
arrived gent who — ■ -
looked as if he
needed irrigation.
“Well” replied the
landlord of the I’e
tunia Tavern "I'll
tell you what you
might do: Go to '
the second corner
I up the street pass |
I around it and to *
the alley about half way and you'll
Gome to a gate standing open a crack
in a f.n<e made out of old billboard
I lumber. Go in through the gate and
; along to a cellar back of the shanty
'standing in the lot lift the cellar
[door and go down the steps whistle
three times and a dirty old feller will
come with a lantern and look you
over and tell you that there ain't noth-
in’ doing in this dod-blasted town
since the blankity-blanked prohibition-
ists got so sizzle-fired active. That is
the best I can do for you Mr. Dryer."
State Treasurer Asks Re election.
Austin Tex. May 1. — John W.
Baker state treasurer has announced
his candidacy for re-election. As this is
j his first term he anticipates no opposi-
| tion. Baker's homo is at Crosbyton.
I v her." he was for many years engaged
I in the banking business.
—By Briggs
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