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THE DAILY COURIFR-GAZETTE, Me KINNEY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 19, 1924.
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McKinney Daily Courier-Gazette
Issued Every Evening Except Sunday.
TOM W. PERKINS
WALTER B. WILSON
Pithy, Pointed Paragraphs
By BRICE COLLINS.
Editors, Publishers and Proprietors.
Greenberry Adams, Circulation and Assistant Business
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I-don’t think these new fangled rubber-tired
specs adds to anybody’s personal pulchritude.
OVERLAND
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“Progressive” sounds nice and hopeful, but
progress may take the wrong road and result
in disaster.
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MeKINNEY, TEXAS, SEPT. 19, 1924.
Ask the first ten men you meet to clearly
state his political or church creed, and nine of
them can’t do it.
A stick in time saves many children.
Plant hay when the sun shines.
Every dawn offers you a new chance to make
good in the world.
A little shower now and then is relished by
the best of—frogs.
Turn your turnip seed under and the turnips
will turn up in due season.
It doesn’t cost you much to wear a smile,
.and it certainly makes your face look better..
Your neighbor can trump your hard luck
story with one twice as good. Don’t tell yours;
smile and pass on.
The best people in any community are those
who regularly engage in some useful occupa-
tion. You are not likely to prove an exception.
Athletes of both sexes appeared on Moscow
streets carrying banners incribed ‘‘Down With
Shame."’ Their virtual nudity so incensed the
public, that the brazen offenders had to flee
for protection from the mob. Even Russians
seem to have some sense of decency and
morality.
Very few of us can be rich, but everyone of
us can be pleasant and agreeable. Not many of
us can own extensive interests and have serv-
ants at our commands, but the least and poorest
of us can conquer his evil impulses and can
add much to the general happiness of those
who live around him.
People who live in the vicinity of McKinney
are among the fortunate of the earth. Good
schools, good churches, good moral environ-
ment free for them and their children. Plenty
of opportunity for the industrious to make a
competence and give their children a chance at
some of the better things of life. Think of the
millions in the world who would count such
advantages as things to be eagerly grasped
at as men might grasp after diamonds. They
are worth more.
The great problem of our complex civiliza-
tion is in distribution. Abundant wealth is be-
ing produced to keep all the people of the world
in comparative luxury. But as things now go,
a few ho really produce little get an inequit-
able share of the general wealth, and many who
work hard and really produce much useful goods
find it hard to have enough to live comfortably.
The task of all of us is to remedy this situation
to where all worthy members of our civilization
may reasonably share its wealth.
Flowers and shrubs around the home make
that place more attractive, and those who
dwell there to care more for the home nest. An
occasional coat of paint and sometimes a new
walk about the premises adds a touch of beauty
that will arouse a new feeling of pride and
satisfaction in the children and make them
more loth to leave home. No healthy -mind can
be attracted by ugliness and disrepair; we do
ourselves and our families good when we
make our homes pleasant,without and within.
Statistics just issued by the Department of
Commerce, Mashington, I). C., show that Texas
is second only to New York in the matter of
export trade. This Lone Star State rating is
on the basis of the value of products shipped
abroad. The states next following Texas in ex-
port trade are in their order: Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, California, Louisiana and Illinois.
Cotton shipments predominate in Texas foreign
trade. Cotton is followed by refined petroleum.
Sulphur and brimstome are also important ex-
ports. Texas is an imperial state whose varied
resources give it a great advantage in the
struggle for foreign trade.
The Mt; Vernon Optic Herald says: I‘write ■
many fine things,"’ for this column which in,
spires me with gratitude and encouragement.
I hope to live long enough to see “govern-
ment by injunction” as dead as the dodo. The
time’s coming.
It has got so that latter day conventions
mildly indorse the constitution, but down here
in Texas we’re quit indorsing the Bill of Rights
specifically.
“The best you can write will be the best you
Hre. The author's character is read from title-
page to end. Of this he never corrects the
proofs.''—Thoreau.
Er _____
No man afflicted with hysteria or brainstorm
ever achieved the reputation of an oracle. En-
thusiasm, however, may accompany calmness,
the only mental attitude which is permanently
impressive.
"Hell and Marie" Dawes • won’t appeal
strongly to the church and labor element. His
profanity will disgust the one and his "labor
baiting” will antagonize the other. Still, I be-
lieve the ticket is stronger than the platform.
I am in revolt against the sluice of bunk
about “pitiless publicity’ punishing betrayers
of the people. What do these male-factors care
for “pitiless publicity” after they have “got
theirs” by betraying the people or looting the
government of money or other resources! What
we need are more effective and pitiless laws,
more honest and pitiless prosecutors and juries,
more and stronger jails, and more pitiless men
among those who hold to pardon.
George W. Dixon’s exposure in the Houston
Chronicle of the treatment of convicts on the
farms reads like a report of the atrocious
cruelties devised by a Caligula. Men are beaten
daily with a three inch strap till blood flows.
They are forced to “ride the pole”—sit astride
three six-inch planks nailed together—until
they grow sick and faint. And just recently one
convict from Van Zandt county, sent up for
possessing whiskey, was forced to work under
a hot sun in a field while he had a high fever
until he died. Are we civilized! No! Are we
Christians! No! If we were, every church and
community in the state would send committees
to the managers of the penitentiary farms and
say! Stop it!
/
The Bible doesn’t record that either of the
Ancient Christian churches resorted to box sup-
pers, vaudeville shows or swimming contests
to raise funds to expand the Lord’s cause. In
those days when a soldier of the cross passed
through the accolade of baptism, he gave of his
substance “as the Lord had prospered him.”
buckled on his armor of righteousness and
went forth to wage battles for his Lord as best
he could. Those old timers were not “progres-
sive” and "cultured." Probably if they were
reincarnated they would refuse to see a rotten
picture, attend a modern dance, go to a gambl-
ing party or a Sunday baseball game or read
a salacious novel or butcher their fellows in
war. It is possible that with clasped hands and
would murmur, 0 temporal 0 mores!
Oppression, burdensome taxation, compla-
cent carelessness of the welfare of the lower
strata preceded the “casting into the outer
darkness” of the governing authorities of Rus-
sia, Rome, France and all countrie in the
world’s history where patience ceased to be a
virtue with the "submerged" proletariat. All
over the world the ‘masses’ are awakening to
the fact that the intelligence in place and pow-
er are not always altruistically intelligent. But
still we have too little individualism—too little
thinking for self—too much hero-worshipping
—a redivious of mug-wumping in both old par-
ties would tend to make both ‘walk straight.”
The name does not tickle the tympanum, but it
stands for courageous men and women who
defy partisan ostracism for patriotism and
honesty’s sake.
"Bring
on those Kellogg's
Corn Flakes. I'm
a hungry man!"
Kellogg's Corn Flakes is the
name to ask for—say it all.
Re0toy9
CORN FLAKES
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By THOMAS A. CLARK
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(©. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.)
FIRED
T HE boy dropped his head and cov-
I ered his face with his hands to
hide the tears which he could not keep
back. He was trying to realize what it
all meant.
“Can’t I have another chance?" ‘he
asked.
“You’ve already had many chances,"
the older man answered, “and you’ve
let them slip by."
He was not a bad boy with vicious
habits. He had simply wasted his time
foolishly, thoughtlessly, with silly girls
and purposeless, lazy boys. He had
meant to work, to do the job assigned
to him, to change his methods. There
was still plenty of time, he was sure,
In which to fix it all up; and then he
awakened suddenly to the fact that he
was badly in debt, that his work had
not been done; temptation came, and
he was not quite honest, got quite
square; he had stolen to make good
his obligations. * t
“I had to pay up," he explained, “and
I didn't stop to think.’'
Now he had lost his job, and he was
facing his failure and hix disgrace. He
had done more hard thinking in 24
hours than in all the previous years
of his careless thoughtless life.
“I do not mind the punishment or
the humiliation for myself," he said.
"I deserve It all and more. If it can
be so fixed thst I can bear It alone I
shall be satisfied. I want to keep it
from the folks, and especially 1 want
to keep it from mother. Someway, 1
don't believe she could bear to feel
that I had been dishonest."
It is a fallacy of youth that the In-
dividual alone suffers for his own
sins and delinquencies. What happens
to you happens in equal measure to all
those related to you. Your family,
your associates, your friends, your
neighbors, all suffer with you.
"Your penalty falls more heavily
upon me and upon my boy’s mother,"
a father wrote only this week, “than
upon him." Thia doesn’t seem fair,
but it’s true and it is the way of the
world. “No man lives unto himself
slone."
It is a fallacy of youth, also, to de-
ceive himself Into believing that one
can evade paying the price of loafing,
and laziness, and neglect of obliga-
tion, and of dishonesty, and dissipa-
tion. One always pays heavily. If
there is delay in the rendering of the
account, if one seems to have escaped
the penalty one may be sure that when
he is finally called upon to pay, as
he ultimately will be, generous Inter-
est will be added. There is no es-
cape.
The Local Market
What the Farmers Are Being Paid
For Their Products—Corrected
To Date.
Feedstuffs and Grain.
Shorts, per cwt.......$2.00 to $2.25
Oata, per bu.............50c to 550
Chops, per cwt. ...$2.40 to $2.60
Wheat per bn. basis No. 1.$1.26
Millet hay, per ton .. $15.00 to 120.00
Johnston Grass hay, ton. $14 to $15
Prairie May, per ton ..$14.00 to$15.00
Bran, per cwt...............$1.75
Ear corn in shuck ............S5e
Produce and Provisions.
Fresh eggs ...........
Infertile eggs (stamped)
Spring chickens .......
Old Roosters ........
Hens .................
Bacon, per pound ......
Butter ...............
.80c
.Me
. 200
. Ge
15c
500
SARA
BILL-BARBER
SAYS
THE SHIPWRECKED SAICOR, 1
I NOWADAYS, IS NOT ANXIOUS
ABOUT REACHING DRY LAND
“BROKEN OUT" FACES .
ARE NOT IN STYLE
The girls who can't wear clothe
which are in style because they have
eczema, rash, tetter, scrofula or a
"breaking out" where it would show
are, more to be scolded than pitied,
because there is no need for them to
be unattractive in out-or-style dresses
when the can get rid of these skin
troubles so easily now.
Black and White Ointment, and
Sonp. are surprising thousands of
girls who have had to deny them-
selva the attention which more attrac-
tive girls get, because they quickly
remove all trace of these skin trou.
bles.
They are economically priced, in
liberal packages. The 60c size Oint-
ment contains three times as much as
the 25c size. All dealers have both the
intment and the Soap.
WALTER R CHRYSLER'S
LKS
THE CARELESS SPLATTERER
The careful motorist is always, or
should be at leant, a courteous and
thoughtful motorist. Thoughtfulness
will prevent such a thing as pictured
above.
When You Oreder Bread Say
Aunt Bettys
It Toasts so good
KNOTT’S BAKERY
PhonT 513.
Turkeys ................
Lard per pound .........
Livestock.
Hogs, per cwt...........
Sheep, per owt. -....
Beef cattle, per cwt.....$
Cotton Products.
.......12c
.....20c
.17 to ,3
.16 to IS
I to $6.00
CROSLEY RADIO
Better—Cost Less
Fresh Radio Batteries.
Hunter Furniture Co.
Cotton Seed, per ton ........$32.00
In every major feature, one by one or altogether. Over-
land is several lengths in the lead when it comes to
sound, satisfying value. Examine Overland—take it out
on the road—shoot the hills in it—give it every test you
know how to give a motor car—and you will find that
it gives you a whole lot more beauty, comfort, action,
reliability and economy than you ever dreamed you
could buy for so low a price.
HAMILTON-PATTERSON MOTOR CO.
Phone 355.
McKinney, Texas.
A. & M. Registration
Opens Wednesday
College Station, Texas, Sept. 16.-
New faculty members have taken their
places, new equipment has been in:
stalled and Improvements started aft-
er the close of the past term in con-
templation of a larger enrollment
completed, so that there will be no
hindrance to the beginning of work
on a full schedule wth the arrival o'
new students at the A. & M. College
of Texas on Wednesday, September 17.
Freshmen will register Wednesday
and old students will not be re-enroll-
ed until the following day. While they
are matriculating the new men will
attend a series of conferences with of-
ficials of the College to acquaint them
with the many new phases of their
college life and give them advance
knowledge of the problems of their
new life and work.
Expansion of the teaching depart
ment of the biology, entomology and
geology departments into the building
formerly occupied by the Extension
Service forces. The Extension Service
is now housed in the new building re-
cently completed. The new gymnasium
now under construction at a cost of
$150,000 is the only other large build
ing project of the year, but a great
number of minor Improvements In-
cluding several hundred feet of con-
crete streets and sidewalks will great
ly facilitate teaching ths year.
With Martin Moses Co.
L. L. Bowen lately of Hillsboro,
has accepted a position as sales-
man in the Martin Moses Co. store
and has assumed his new duties.
FRESH
OYSTERS
AND
FISH
You can always get the “sea-
sonable” things here In Fish,
Oysters, Special Cuts of Meat
and anything a first class mark-
et carries.
When ordering your supplies
just tell your grocer to get your
meat at Aliens and you will be
assured of the best.
Allen’s Market
Phone 35.
Old Ties Made New.
Send that old felt hat to the Mc-
Kinney Steam Laundry and have It
cleaned and reblocked, A new hat at a
small cost will be the results. MeKIN-
NET STEAM LAUNDRY CO., Phone
•«1.
Good Shows
in Dallas
Ask the Agent.
He can tell you about
the shows for the week
and reserve good seat
tickets for you. This serv.
ice is offered without
charge to interurban pa-
trons. Avail yourself of
it frequently.
TEXAS
ELECTRIC
IT DON’T PAY
To worry around trying to buy
really high grade, dependable
groceries for less money than
standard stores like ours offer
you.
True grocery economy lx best
secured where you know that
only the best and freshest table
groceries are sold and where
the prices are no higher than
the quality of the products jus-
tify. Our service is dependable
and our policy makes friends
with every customer.
Not a Customer? Try Us.
HIGHT & MARTIN
Phones 718 and 919.
SATISFACTION-CONVENIENCE
Only the housewife who has to do the cooking appreciates
the Satisfaction and Convenience of Natural Gas
because it’s realized EVERY DAY
by Her.
MUNICIPAL GAS CO.
= Phons 737. See
NAIL & RUBUSH
MEMBERS NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE
We solicit orders for Cotton, Grain and Stocks.
Correspondents for E. B. NORMAN & COMPANY of
New Orleans and New York. : 1
Located in the Giles McKinney Building. .
Telephones S. w. 771, Long Distance No. 7, Postal Phone
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