Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 260, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 2, 1914 Page: 4 of 6
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AMARILLO DAILY NEWS,
AMARILLO DAILY NEWS
ML AL WILLIAMS
Office—471 Editorial Rooms.472
Entered as second-class matter at the post-
office at Amarillo, Texas, under the act of March
5, IS79.
Only morning Newspaper in the Amarillo
Country. Covers the Panhandle of Texas, East-
ern New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Western
Oklahoma from twelve to twenty-four hours in
• advance of Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, Oklaho
ma City, and other papers carrying telegraphic
disontchen_____U____.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
The Daily News will be delivered by carrier
anywhere in Amarillo, or by mail outside of the
city, for $5.00 a year, or 50c a month, in advance
KEEP OUT THE GRAFTERS
- Those who watched the maneuvers among
real estate dealers in the Panhandle some years
ago are aware of the fact that our country has
been harmed more by grafters then by unfavor-
able Masons.
The tide of immigration back in 1905 to
1910 proved a vertiable harvest for the unscrupu-
lous land agent, and the unsuspecting prospector
was robbed in nearly nine cases out of ten. With
- the decline in business during recent years the
real estate grafters nave' hied themselves to new
and greener fields. It is up to our people to see
that they don’t come back.
A new wave of immigration is about to break
for the Panhandle. Within the -next thirty days the
land seekers from the northern and eastern states
will commence to arrive here, and we should see
to it that they are fairly treated.
The Daily News iproposes to raise its voice
against all graft in land sales. When good agricul-
tural lands can be bought here at from $10 to $20
per acre, according to location and improvements,
there is no reason under the sun why the prospec-
tor should be asked to pay more.
We want actual settlers in all sections of the
Panhandle." We want them badly. What sort
of an impression would we make on these new
neighbors if we would allow them to be robbed
when they buy the land on which they- intend to
live as our neighbor)
The smooth-tongued land shark, who has no
further interest here than an exorbitant commis-
* aionn he hopes to make, should be.barred. We
have real Estate dealers of good reputation who
will be fully able to take care of all land business,
r A Owners of land# who wish to sell should insist on
fair dealing on the part of their agents.
The question of terms will also need some at-
tention. It ia criminal to lead immigrants to be-
lieve that they can pay for their lands n it of the
crops in two or three years. Here and there
someone may be fortunate enough to do it, but as
a rule it requires longer time to life the mortgages.
The new comers should be given ample time in |
which to make their deferred payments, and the
rate of intereat ought to be "human."
Legally some men have acquired vast acres
on these plains; morally they may be said to have
stolen them. Many a hard-working man and his
family, who paid every dollar they had on a piece
of land and trusted to the Lord and crop# to pay
, the balance, have been ejected and turned out
upon the world empty-handed and despoiled of
their life's earnings. Shall such practices be per-
petuated in the Panhandle? Not if The Daily
News can talk .loud enough and get the attention
of the newcomer#. We expect to be on the job
aa soon a# the first homeseeker train arrives, and
we ehall have a special epistle to deliver unto the
strangers looking for thepromised land.
The land grafter ■• the abomination of civili
zation. The Shylock who gets the whole carcass
under the guise of "legal" procedure is a hell
* bred curse in any land. Panhandle atmosphere
• should be made unhealthy for the existence of
either of these evils.
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THE KAISER *
Since he is the most talked about man in the
world today, it may not be inappropriate to offer
a remark or two concerning William of Germany,
possibly the most cordially loved and at the same
time the most cordially hated human being alive.
He is h king and that militate# against him per se.
He has organized ia wonderful war machine, and
that causes him to be discountenanced by many
of those who believe universal peace contingent
on disarmament. -
That he ia a constructive statesman, however,
is evidenced by the manner in which for the past
quarter of a century he haa developed the resour-
ices of hia country. That he is not afraid to share
with hia- people those hardships and tribulations
incident to waa ia indicated by hist conduct with
reference to the great military campaigns which he
ia reported to the personal directing. That he ia
supported by the German nation is told in the war
dispatches that come to our shores.
In this country he is exposed to all kind# of
praise and criticiam. Some extol him as the great-
cat genius of hia time, while others contend that,
like Napoleon, he is but the devil incarnate. Time
and future historians will decide in which category
he will be placed, if indeed he should be placed
in either. The only certain thing at present is that
his personality overshadows the entire situation,
and that by friend and foe alike he is accorded
the foremost position in the marshaling of the em-
battled nations.
Whether he leads his columns and squadrons
to seemingly impossible victory/ or whether, like
the great Corsican, he is but hurrying forward to
a Waterloo, the chronicles of this disturbed period
in the world's career will carry his name in brazen
letters as the chief conqueror or the chief victim.
For him there is no middle course. Either he
wins all or he loses all. This does not refer so
much to material possibilities as to the abstract
reputation which he will leave behind. He may
be defeated and still be emperor, or he may over-
come and still not be the master of Europe. The
name he leaves behind, however, will depend upon
the outcome of the present war.
Colonel Henry Watterson cheerfully consigns
him to the scrapheap, on the ground that this con-
flict marks the passing of crowned heads, but it is
to be feared that Maree Henry is getting overly
optimistic in his old age with regard to the partic-
ular direction in which civilization is about to
jump.
Herman Ridder thinks he will come up at the
head of a great Teutonic coalition, but Mr. Ridder
may also be guided by fanciful visions born of na-
tivity and environment.
In the meantime the Kaiser, prince though
he is, and believing in the divine right of kings
though* he does, stsnds out sharp and distinct
against the horizon of human thoughts, a hercu-
lean figure in the molding process through which
this troubled age is being forced.—Houston
Chronicle.
AMERICAN PRESS INSANE
The New York Morning Journal, in com-
menting on the tendency of the Anglo-maniac
press of the United States to favor the cause of
the Allies as against Germany, thus tersely con-
eludes: ,
“In connection with the prejudiced attitude of
the American press in favor of Russia, England
and France, it occurs to us what has appeared to
escape general observation; the avowed friend-
ship for Russia. Russian despotism haa expatri-
ated hundreds of thousands of enslaved people;
Russia’s blood-thirsty Slavs have instituted hor-
rible massacres, and amuaed themselves with cases
like that of the Beillis trial. These people have
suddenly become angels in the eyes of the Ameri-
can press. The assassins of helpless women and
infanta, these pitiless oppressors of .innocent,
harmless people, the tools of racial hate and reli-
gious fanaticism, these champions of the most in-
human government in Europe, there last pillars
supporting a half-oriental despotism of the mid-
dle ages, the Empire of Nikolas II, suddenly re-
ceives a certificate of honor from the American
press, which tells us that a Russian victory is for
the best interests of civilization.".
The Anglo-maniac press of the United States
pretends to reprove Austria and Germany for the
former’s absorption of Herzogvina and Bosnia,
when to do otherwise would have abandoned
there provinces, which Austria had administered,
liberalized and civilized, under the treaty of Ber-
lin for more than thirty years, to the ambition of
the Young Turks; “but it remains utterly silent on
the annexation of Cyprus by England: it makea
no pretense to chide England for stealing Egypt,
for holding India in bondage and destroying the
independence of the Boer republics. By what
strange logic, can thia press explain the circum
stance that it waa almost—if not quite—aa unani-
mous in its support of England in the Boer war as
it is today in support of England against Germany
and Austro-Hungary? < %
THE KAISER'S LUCKY RING
Does the Kaiser take with him to the front the
famous Hohenzollern "luck?" Frederick the
Great, on his accession, found among his father's
belongings a small box containing a ring set with
a peculiar black atone and a note by Frederick 1.
stating that the ring had been given him by his
father on his death bed, with the injunction that
to long aa it remained in the family the fortune of
the Hohenzollerns would prosper.
The ring was stolen from Frederick William
II by his mistress, the Countess Lichtenau, and
hence, say some, the Prussian disasters of the Na-
poleonic wars. It was restored in 18 13, the year
of Prussian liberation, and Schneider, the bi-
ographer of William I. declared that he saw it on
that monarch’s hand during the great war of1870.
—London Chronicle,
CLOUDS
, (By George Matthew Adams)
Your time won't be wasted in studying
__________________- -__- the
Clouds. For, haven't you ever realized that there
are other places than books from which you may
learn) In fact, where did the people get their
ideas and knowledge first)
The source of all knowledge is in Nature.
It's good to get acquainted with the Clouds.
At times, you will be able to see the inimitable
castles around which your imagination may trot
and play. And then there will be times when the
massive canopies of the Clouds are bound to blot
out all the fanciful and suggest solely the sturdy
and the serious. „And then, at other times, per-
haps in just a few moments of change, there will
be the silver and the crimson and the golden and
the purple—a vertiable magic of colors suggest-
ing all the Optimism and. Hope and Aspiration
possible to a human heart.
What a changing Library of Knowledge dare
the Clouds!. .
Here is something else that the Clouds sug-
gest. Not a Cloud ever remains long in the same
place. And never has there been two Clouds the
In fact, the glory of the Clouds, their fasci-
same.
Dr. Alexis Carrel, Now in Charge
of the French Wounded at Lyons
Dr. Alexis Carrel, one of the fore-
most investigators in physiology in
the world, who became famous by
his work at Rockefeller Ingtitute in
New York City is now in charge of
the ambulance service In connection
with the treatment of the wounded
in the war at Lyons, .France. No
sooner had the doctor. Who is a
W
thorough Frenchman, learned
his country could use him than be
left the institute and hurried home.
He was assigned to Lyons and
there has been working sight
and day to aid the wounded. In the
meantime science in the -United
States loses one whose discoveries
have been of incalculable value.
TTEXANS 1
NES
The Amarillo Daily News
Guarantees to advertisers more
. than fifty per cent greater cir-
culation than any other daily
paper published in Northwest
nation and their usefulness as brain stimulators,
lie almost wholly in their variety—their change-
ability.
But, as you glory in the beauty of' the Clouds,
do not forget what they do. how the sprinkle the
earth and freshen it, and how they make it’ pos-
sible for you to live from the harvests of the fields.
Remember how in snow the formulate the myriads
of intricate crystals, mor enarvelous than the hu-
man hand has ever been able to fashion, and do
not forget how at times they shield the burning
sun thus protecting millions of lives at critical
periods
me u. r2A=S ■
the most valuable Breen. MA IDE
can well be grown dure"
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en impetneshacom % sen now
ever upon the best somdant 1™
tically refuses to do an-tnine "Reo
poor land. A patch of one OeS -
acres of this plant upon the nest
soft, within easy reach O ALT
stick will be found or inestimaoe
was counted upon for a profit in their
yield grainearly next summer.
. : to it. Senand ust or winter srow.
tag legumes the South is particul-
arly blest. Not only are these
specially valuable for feeding both
as pasturage sod as hay, but at the
we tease time they are the greatest fac-
tors ta the building up of the soil
if we will properly utilize them. Al-
though it is doubtless an old story
to most of our readers, the fact can
never be too strongly impressed Up-
I on them that the legumes are the
I only class of plants that actually add
I plant food to our soils Without
1 nitrogen neither. Plant nor animal
K . could long-survive and these alone
I of all plants are able to gather the
I atmospheric nitrogen, in which from
I tt hi entirely useless to both animals
■ and pints, and-convert it into a
L form by which both can utilise it.
I If we appreciated, this fact in Ita
I full significance it would not be nec-
I essary to urge the universal planting
1 of these crops. The legumes that
I It will particularly pay to plant this
I fell are chiefly crimson and blue
■ clovers and hairy vetch. With the
I summer rains there will be an abun-
I dance of moisture to bring them up
■ and that is the only difficulty that
■ usually confronts us in the fall,with
I such crops. " '
I If tbs land has been in corn there
are two ways in which these crops
can be pleated. If the corn land is
I fairly clean the middles can be well
I harrowed during early September
I and the clover or vetch sown broad-
I cast. Or with a drill specially de-
I signed for this purpose, the clovers
■ can be drilled in between the rows.
Most corn however is amply dry by
toe middle of September for gather-
Ing and it is1 better to gather the
corn, break the land and harrow
I It well and then sow the legume on
I the prepared land. It is not possible
I to get cotton land in as good condi-
I tion as corn land for winter clover
crops. On the other hand the con-
■ tinned later cultivation of the cot-
ton crop insures the land being in
better condition to receive the seed
of these plants. In sowing clover
crops in cotton land the specially de-
signed drill is almost a necessity
By running this through the rows
immediately after the picking of the
open cotton no damage is done the
crop and the seeds are placed where
one can feel assured they will come
up. This is equally true for the
winter grains. If a drill is not avail-,
able then the seed can . be sown
broadcast between the rows and cov-
ered with a barrow. There is one
precaution that must not be neglect-
ed if we are going to plant the win-
ter legumes and that is to be sure
that ths sell upon which they are
to grow is provided with the bac-
teria that supplies them with nitro-
gen. If the land has never grown
this particular crop, then we must
either buy inoculated seed or some
of the inoculating cultures that are
now upon the market and by follow-
ing directions insure the presence of
this germ. How this can be done is
more fully set forth" in the Henil
Exall Farm Book and all who are
contemplating the growing of le-
gumes are referred to it for more
specific information:
Bur clover is an exception to the
necessity of soil inoculation, provid-
ed it is sown in the bur as these
burs carry all the inoculation neces-
sary. 90
Another plant which it will pay
well to plant on a limited scale, es-
pecially as a hog feed is dwarf ‘es-
sei rape. This plant is a first cou-
that
GROW NUMEROUS WILL BE HIGHER
GREGORY MAKES THREE OF
MEMBERS ORIGINALLY FROM
LONE STAR STATE
AUSTIN, Texas: Sept. 1 The
announcement of the appointment
of T. w. Gregory Aa cabinet posi-
tion has set patriotic Texans to spec-
ulating upon the unfortunate condi-
tion which the government of the
United States would find itself in
had it not been LA Polk’s victory
over Clay, meanin,“ the acquisition
of that territory lying between Red
River and the Rio Grande, Texas
has now three men in the cabinet,
counting David Franklin Houston,
who was president of the University
of Texas, and the A. and M. College,
and taught In the University from
the time of his beardless youth until
he came to a, man's estate. Texas
has never thought of giving him up.
His residence simply happened to
be St. Louis when the appointment
was made. ■
it is pointed out to the Univer-
sity of Texas that the institution is
furnishing Its quota certainly to the
Federal Government, it is general-
ly known that Dr. S. E. Mezes,
president of the University, was of-
fered the position by the Wilson ad-
ministration of I’. E. Commissioner
of Education. A. S. Burleson, who
was graduated from the first law
class of the University, is now at
the head of the biggest, and by all
odds the most serviceable, business
in which the government engages.
The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission has required the service# at
about ten thousand a year, of R. A.
Thompson, an engineering product
of the University ofTexas. Otto
Praeger, another alumnus, is now
postmaster at Washington, W. C. R.
E. Crawford, a graduate of 1892, is
now assistant Attorney General. M.
M. McLean, another alumnus. Is
head of a division in the postoffice
goneral's department. The fllbw-
Ing graduates are U. S. Attorney
Generals: J. C. Wilson and John
Green; B. H. Carroll, ‘94. is consul
to Venice; while Emil Sauer and H.
C. von Struve both hold import ant
consular . positions The University
Is represented in the United States
Senate now by Morris Sheppard,
and in the lower House by the fol-
lowing: Oscar Calloway, Jack Beall
R. L. Henry, -Jack Dies. Sam Ray-
burn. J. P. Buchanan and Claude
Weaver, who represents an Oklaho-
ma district.
There to no other state institution
of learning of like age in the United
States, whose graduates now occupy
such important positions, and no
other giving its state such predomi-
nate weight In the national coun-
cil#, as the above mentioned illustri-
ous alumni of the University of
Texas are now giving the Lone Star
State in Washington.
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WESTERN UNION HAS NEW
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT
"Trte appointment of F. C. Cole
as district commercial superintend,
ent for the Western Union Tele-
graph Company with headquarters
at Dallas, Texas, was announced to-
day by 8. M English, general man-
ager He succeeds L. K. Whitcomb
who has retired after forty seven
yeer# of service
Mr Cole takes office immediately.
His. district embraces the states of
Texas and Louisiana. He hat been
in the telegraph service for twenty
years in Texas, having had the man-
agership of various offices. Previ-
ous to his appointment he was di-
vision cable manager.
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The Deand, Apple House. Phone
797, • S ,. 259.60
ARRANGEMENTS SHOULD
MADE TO UTILIZE ALL KE
SOURCES OF FARMS
BE
With the present outlook the pros-
pects for high prices for foodstuffs
of all kinds during the coming win-
ter and spring were never more cer-
tain. To those who will have to buy
them this is not very cheering pros-
pect but there is no reason why the
farmers should not reap a rich pro-
fit from these conditions. The crop
year about to close, upon the whole,
has not been a bad one for the pro-
duction of feed for man and beast
and with the summer and fall rains
that have fallen there is no reason
why the farmer should not take ad-
vantage of our mild winter in mak-
ing his land continue to produce
more crops in order to meet the in-
creasing demand. The farmer who
fully appreciates the advantage that
these' high prices will be to him will
let no opportunity pass to sow some
of the many winter feeds with which
our country is so blessed, to the end
that he may not only have feed for
sale but also that he may be able to
raise more livestock, for it is a well
recognized fact that as the value
of feed crops goes up so must the
value of livestock of all kinds. Again
t-e same conditions that assure high
prices for feed also insure an In-
creased demand for livestock of all
kinds, so he who plants an abun-
dance of inter feed is at the same
time getting himself in a position to
reap the benefit of this increase.
There “is still another and very
important reason why all farmers
should take steps to insure the grow.
Ing of crops upon their lands during
the winter, because it is intimately
associated with the preservation and
improvement of the soft's fertility.
While we boast that our soils and
climate are such that we can pro-
duce crops twelve months in the
year, as a matter of fact, most of
our lands are idle for a period fully
as long as that In less favored sec-
tions further north. But in such
sections, while the soils are not pro-
ducing anything they are inactive
and are not undergoing deterioration
as what plant food they contain is
locked up and remains unc. the next
spring. With us however soil ac-
tivity is rarely interrupted for any
length of time even during the win-
ter This means that plant food to
constantly being rendered available
actively benefitting by this available
food it is leached out of the soil by
the rains and carried down our
creeks and rivers and is lost to us
forever. In this way the soils of
the South actually lose as much or
more fertility than to taken out of
them by growing crops. The advan-
tage that our climate gives us be-
comes a source of loss by reason of
its neglect. If the crops were kept
growing upon these land* during the
winter as well as in summer the
lands not only would not deteriorate
so rapidly as they now do but would
actually improve and at the same
time the products of our farms
would almost be doubled.
Just as ve possess an advantage
over the oth er sections in climatic
conditions we are equally favored be-
cause we have a large list of the most
Valued feed and noil improvement
crops that grow to perfection dur-
ring our winters Any of the small
grains. It sown under proper condi-
tions in the fall will insure splen-
did cover crops during the whole of
the winter and early spring, thus
preventing loss of fertility by both
leaching and washing. At the same
time there erope will furnish pas-
turage during winter to livestock
which alone will return many times
their cost and can still further be
en proper attention to given
during the fall to the planting of
feed crops and the raising of live
stock to convert these crops into
more valuable food productsShe
farmers of the South have it within, ,
their power to not only reimburse
themselves for any probable loss on
cotton but at the same time to in
sure that their lands will be In bet-
ter condition and far more ferula
next spring.
Buckeye State Fair Opens, with
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 1 with
prosepects most flattering for
cessful exhibition, the sixty-fourth
annual Ohio State Fair was inaugu-
rated today and will, comeue
through the week. Everything from .
racing airship# to fatted calves is in-
eluded in the elaborate, display. EX
hibits Of machinery, life stock, agri-
cultural and horticultural products
are numerous and of high class An -
elaborate racing program and nu-
merous other amusement features
have been provided by the manage-
ment. Indications point to a large
attendance of visitors during the
week.
Dr. E. A. Johnston has moved his
office to rooms 3 and 4 Puckett
building adjoining telephone build-
Ing. _______________200-4
DR. PENNOCK, at 80« Taylor.
Phone 183. . 259tf
HORSESHOES
Weare in position to furnish
Blacksmiths and Merchants the
genuine Juniata Shoe at very low
prices.
Our stock at present is complete
—also Wagon Wood, Mild Steel
Tools and other B lacksmith’s
Supplies.
Send U. Your Orders.
MORROW-THOMAS
Hardware
pany
Workmen’s Compensation, Automobile Lia-
C bility
And Accident Insurance.’ Also Bonds.
F. M. LEFFORGE, Phone No. 55.
BANISH BROOM AND DUST PAN—KEEP.
YOUR HOME REALLY CLEAN
Electric Cleaners are "ow very moderately priced and at a
cost within your reach. You can save labor, time, carpets and
money. ( .
CITY LIGHT & WAT
COMPANY
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