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PAGE SIX
THE ABILENE. REPORTER., ABILENE, TEXAS
It is more easy to praise poverty than to bear it.---Italian.
THE WEST’S ALIVE.
From time to time and place to place, somebody
rises up to remark in open meeting, or spread on
the pages of newspapers and may 7 the sad, sad
story that the old West, the rip-snortin', bellowing,
hell roarin' West of the cattle ranches is gone for-
ever, and in its place has arisen a new order of
things, including cowboys that are a weak imitation
j of the real article and ranch owners that wear wrist
: • watches and play polo and mah jongg.
Don't you belfecve it! It ain’t so.
“: The old West hasn’t gone. It’s still a reality, as
colorful (poor old overwrorke a word, don't you cry;
we won’t use you any more!) has a Navajo blanket,
as full of pep and fire as a cornered tomcat, and as
* businesslike as a machine gun. Yes, sir, she’s still
it alive and kicking, and don’t you forget it!
E: Where a this notion that the old West is gone
E: get started, anyhow? Probably by Easterners, who
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VIEWPOINTS
THE WORLD’S GREATEST ENIGMA
came
West expecting to find cowboys with soat-hair
THE HAZARDS OF BUSINESS
cebro E Roberts i the Nattons Bustne.s:—
You 50 into a store to buy an overcoat. Is the |
dealer who sells it to you a speculator? He certain- ’
ly is—one of the/most common in the business world
He speculates on the number of overcoats which the I
men in his locality will buy; he speculates on the l
styles and colors which they will prefer; and he spe-:
culates heavily on the weather. If winter is late, as it ‘
often is. and the weather continues moderate anal
backward, people will not buy overcoats during the
regular buying season. Dealers who have big stoeks’
in their stores will be “stuck."
If however, winter comes on promptly, you and
everybody else will turn to the dealer for heavier
clothing, as regularly. Assume, then, that in a de-
sire to play safe he has only stocked a few overcoats. |
in a narrow range of styles, prices and patterns. Ir }
ISNT HE
GLORIOUS AND
ROMANIC
OF COURSE THERE'S A SANTA CLAUS.
. . you can’t find what pleases you, you won't have a
: breeches, twelve-inch six-shooters, eight-allon hats high opinion of that dealer. You will take your trade 1
J and an insatiable thirst for liquor and fracases. What elsewhere, thus penalizing him for his judgment.
: they found is what such tourists have always found. The clothing dealer is in the position of most other
• a real businesslike thrifty, hard-working community | men in business. In practically every line. They must
- of sober, sedate and sensible people. Just folks make some speculations in order to be in business
: Forthwith the tourist conerudes that the old West is at all. The public is the first to blame them ir,
gone, and sets down to his portable typewriter to through conservatism, they will not assume the or-
sing a song of sorrow and regret dinary hazards that go with their particular field.
2 What he needs is a short, quick kick. He doesn’t. Throughout business, dealers buy from wholesalers
of course there to a Santa Claus •
| Who finds the chimney to the!
hearth
Of fellowship and kindly mirth.
And tumbles down from kindlier
skies
To light with love all weary
eyes!
He finds the smoky chimney
flue
Black with the selfish deeds we
do,
And down he comes, and hearts’
display
Their love for all on Christmas
. Day.
Of course there is a Santa Claus
Who comes on Christmas eve and
takes
The selfishness which struggle
wealth
And makes of us in some strange
way
Good fellows all on Christmas
Day.
4 Edgar A. Guest
Copyright 192
WEATHER -
Winter started mildly, more
warm days than cold. You recall
the old saying, "A green Christmas
makes a full graveyard.*' The per-
sistence of this adage suggests, that
it embodies the learning of long ex-
perience. It also proves that mild
winters are not peculiar to our
times.
Climate is not changing as much
as people believe, if at all. They had . “
"green Christmases" .long Ago-
mild winters.
makes.
The hurt of failure, and the
frown j.-------. -
Of ceaseless toiling in the town, or leather shoes by sponging with *
The petty malice and the sheer j gasoline.
Which mark our labors through
the year, ,
And leaves us big enough to say:
“To all a Merry Christmas Day
REMOVING GREASE
. Grease may be removed from kid
A know anything about the West, old or new, and he what they think the people will want; a wholesalers
ought to be kicked on general principles, as a means order from manufacturers what they think the deal-
Of grace.
ers will want; manufacturers order from other man-
: Tour genuine cowboy never was a hell-raiser. Oh, ufacturers, and from the producers of raw mater-
cn^e in six months or so, in the old days, he'd come ials.what they think their customers will want. No
to town and get a bit tight just to let off excess once can be sure that the final product will be taken
.: /steam. But he never was a roughneck. Genuine when it is ready for de Styles may change.
bad me were as scare as he = teeth, nen in the
old days, and generally of few days and full of trou-
ble.
When they overstepped the bounds of what
E: the West considered public safety, somebody unos-
=: tentatiously put them out of the way, in a quiet ef-
E: fieient and-impersonal - anner. Generally th. bad
E. man was somebody from farther East, who came
EI West with false ideas about Western conduct and
5 want was expected of a true genticzan. Generally
weather may change; funds of purchasers may fall,
due to crop losses and other reasons; there are scor-
es of conditi ns that may upset the calculations all
down the line. All these the dealers, wholesalers,
and manufacturers must take into consideration, for
whatever losses result will be theirs.
FUTURE CITIZENS AT THE MOVIES.
E: some soft-spoken, inoffensive old-timer set him on John L. Elliott in the Century Mazazine:
E. the sight track in a fatherly sort of way, and ini- ’The open air movies in Chelsea Park (New York)
2. tiated him into the mysteries of frontier etiquet. have helped me to learn what I believe to be the
53 The cowboy to just as real today as he was thirty deepest fact about human beings. It is that what
E years ago. He doesn't wear a six-shooter now, and they want more than anything else is some kind
E he didn't then expept on rare occasions. It has been of adventure or romance—a chance to see some
E against the law to wear concealed weapons in Tex-meaning in events. More people go to the movies
t as for quite some years, with hundred-dollar fine and than go to worship or even to work, and the secret
) —THE-
Abilene Reporter
Published Afternoon. Night sad
Sunday Morning by
REPORTER PUBLISHING CO.
Abilene, Texas
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Entered as Second Class Matter st the
postoffice Abilene, Texas under the
Act of March Ind, 1879.
AISTORY D
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Of course their is a Santa Claus
Or we should wake on Christ-
mas Day
In just the same old selfish way.
We’d make no gifts our love to
show,
There’d be no gifts from those
we know.
The day would pass like all the
days.
The lips that sneer would scorn
— to praise.
_ And how this old world would t
seldom see
How generous we long to be.
Of course there is a Santa Claus. |
His spirit moves us once a year
To light the world with smiles
of cheer;
To wish for all who pass along
A life time free from- hurt and I
wrong.
The joy of peace, the boon of
health,
A purse that holds enough of 1
The Cheerful Cherub
Along the street the a
people walk.
They look complacent,
free and wise —-
And yet I sometimes
think I see
A prisoner
behind their
eyes.
R°1cN
6
DOG HILL
R GEORGE BINGHAM --
E thirty days in jail the usual portion dished out to
— offenders.
1 The 1924 cowhand is apt to own an automobile
of their power is that they give a vicarious life
which is interesting.
The accessories of musie and songs are only the
: of his own, it is true, but he also rides horses as trimmings.. What really draws is the romance. The
ef eld. He rides, too. He isn’t afraid of anything shadow people on the screen are telling of events, of
on four feet. He considers himself disgraced if he: action, and for better or for worse they touch on
has to “elaw leather,” that to.'swing onto the sad-the most real thing in lite—action as it affects the
die horn to keep from being thrown. And he can relation of human being to one another. If only this
use . rope as well or better than the original cow- Pied Piper could lead as well as assemble!
Business
a L it
1Telephones
and Circulation .
Editorial Room -----
Society and Personal
Radio Department ...
619 or 194
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But shadows can ne ver lead, can never create. The
boy.1
And as tor the modern cattle being as lazy and-realromance to in the people who wateh The
say did you ever get caught afoot in a ‘19,3 chance to grow and change is there. The heroism
gee acre cow lot and run across a erumpledhormed and the crime are there From among the children
cow with a young calf at heels? In such a case, a the future looks you in the face. Here are the
mesquite bush four feet high looks like a million saints and the criminals of the years to come,
dollars And have you ever roped an old poor cow: Just in front of th, screen the future state sena-
with the screw-worms, With intent to doctor her up tor with the prosperous trucking business is whis-
some: Try it some time. It's lots of run, and not perins deep secrets to the future hobo of the park
quite as dangerous as roping %. grizzly bear with a bench and railroad yard. 1 1
core foot 7. ' - children, who will bring up her family In the fear
one of the funniest sights in existence would be of the Lord and educ ation, sits with her arm around
to one of the fellows who believes the modern Convict, No. 742 la the woman’s prison. The man
cowboy is a namby-pamby sort of dry-nurse for mild who will live under the shadow of the chair at Sing
mannered bovines streaking across the corral back Sing is telling the basejall score to the priest who
a the horse pasture with a 2,100-pound Hereford will hear him confess.
Muin not and intentional pursuit. | The future is about you in its varied shapes what
nowas: that would alter his notions of the (t is likely to be you can know almost to a certain- -
ty. for in a few years the little babies of two and
three who have pushed themselves up to within a
modern Wert conside rally
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copy omissions, typographical errors,
or any unintential errors that may
occur, farther than to correct in near
issue after it is brought to their at-
tention. All advertising orders are
The mother of a dozen accepted on this basis only.
The mail carrier was so wrapped
up wih quilts and clothes to keep
warm when he arrived today that
everybody at the post office
Member of The Associated Press th ught it was the week’s wash-
The Associated Press is exclusively ng.
entitled to the use for putication of ------
all news dispatches credited to It or The proprieor of the Tickville
not otherwise credited in this Paper Hotel never did have any love for
and also the local news published his competitors and today he was
m n looking through his eyebrows
MEMBER AMERICAN NEWSPAPER t the man who rune the Palace
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MORE WEATHER—
What’s the use of grumbling?
The weather is just what has been
expected. Balmy “even days” have I
: greeted us for three months. Come
down to Old Texas—"and lived
happily over afterward.—HAM-
LIN HERALD. .
No doubt about it this section of
the State has been having some un-
usual weather for this time of the
year relative to warmth. But as
this is being written there is a nor-
ther forecast and it may not be
| so balmy for the next week or so
But the fact remains nevertheless
* that for weather you can’t beat this
part of the State with any other -
j part of any other State in the Uni- ■
ted States.
, KIND WORDS—
Show us a man who can see no
good in his fellowman, and is dis- .
trustful of everybody, and we will
show you a man who has missed -
all the joys of life. It should be
considered a privilege to be able
to speak a kind word for and about , i
your fellowman. Give it a trial and 1
we feel sure you will receive any
inspiration to cultivate the habit.— i
ROBY STAR-RECORD. =
Those folks say that they know
what they are talking about declareI
—It costs so little to insure against fire
one cannot afford to take the chances
The possibilities of fire from many causes face us
every hour. Inquire about the cost of reliable
Insurance with
MOTZ & CURTIS
INSURANCE SERVICE FOR YEAR
Phone 655
few fee of the screen and sit in rows, with their
heads thrown back and a leek of wonder on their
. , . .. No.ase. or the charge of the Light faces, trying to see some meaning In the story, will
Last - died President L.n- be like the men and women behind the.benches who
a nod. Guards sou 1 the net, however, with look at lite and try to ' h some meanine from 3
. total or T» Lost Survivors. However, these last events. :
Survivors stories are pikers. It - estimated ar.
are living in America today A987 persons 1
claim-descent from Pocahontax and that * v.
require eighty-one freight trains * haul all the 1
furniture and bric-a-brac that were brought over •
JUST A LITTLE FUN
The Be“t of Lurk
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
in Abilene Mail Edition
Single Copies ..Se Single Copies .
One Month ..60c One Month
Throe Mont ha $1.75. Three Mor.the $
Six Months $3.60 Six Months $2
One Year ...$7,001 One Year ...1
that the saying of a kind word
about one's fellow man is largely
a matter of habit. That is to say
war fit we are in the habit of saying
145 ’ _ • kind words, the matter resolves it-
The Ribs self down to # very easy matter
1 TSbwdow had an ar while if the contrary is true, then
se E yesterday and not it becomes a difficult matter. The
t Nth 4t perpetrator of this column does
e Ram and not vouch for the accuracy of
Css TOT licht careful to that statement, but he believes It
P TE , is true in most cases.
10c per month additional to all in
subscribers outside Zones 1 and 3
from Abilene.
--•
* Tom Sims Says
neeree
PY Albert Ample
GROWING-
Some time between the twilight
of 1924 and the dawn of 1925, the
Sweetwater Reporter will be print-
ed upon a big modern eight-page
flatbod Duple r press. It will be
issued from the former home of
one of Sweetwater’s banking insti-d
tutions, which at the time it was
♦
in the Mayflower. Will C Barnes in the Saturday Evening Post:
Vanity, vanity, an i vanity. with the Preacher. year. party of men in. western town made
People-like to rummage around in thete old trunks . . Jurty to hunt bear.—xmong them was the
and things and brink to Her famous or in Amous principal of the local high school, a man of seden-
persons in their fan Y tree It w *** 1 tary habits, not at all used to camping, and morbid-
nothing when it comes to borrowing menex so fly afraid of bears. He was anxious to have the out-
the great-gront-s and nephew of som Net ling, however, so went with the crowd:
bold, or pirte of the Main. When they 1221 All day long the men scouted for bear signs and
Peter Mt the pearly atet they Fin not sbe a ment they a. about the camp nre and spun
cause their sreast-ereat steal etandme * "wonderful bear stories until the professor had cold
W esley persona • . ebite
. Yet we all like to do it. We like to faner oursel. Returning to town he was met by - friend. “Deen
v. M wiongine to 4 — line. when w A near muntins. 1 nemr.-
smitten with the reine armnation theory, as some of u’t "Yea- repuet the prof.
are apt to do when our minds Become Highti ott what 1 x did you havor the selena asked,
balance, we never pick out • common Egyptian Tab- “Pest luck in the world—earnestly. “We never
orer as our prototype, or original manifestation in sne . single bear.
the flesh. No indeed. We pick out an Egyptian prine
cess, or an Indian Maharajah, at least. None of us
reincarnation believers ever chooses to be the rein-
carnation of one of the bricklat rs who buitt the
: Homie- though When it comes right down to
• brass sacks, the work of the bricklayers la still to be
seen while the princesses and kings and potentates
Government bonds are being s
to raise three or four billions, in '
eating Uncle Sam may buy sor
Christmas presents.
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French don’t want to pay us ant
thing for 10 years? The French
seems, think Uncle Sam is Sar
Claus.
1 04.
tex
5 have gone the way of all grass
* Existence would be pretty near unbearable. I we
L man’t get around behind a bush sometimes and
watch ourselves parade by in all the mp and pan-
Painful Reminders
..From Answers, London:
“Don’t you enjoy those slow motion pictures of
horse races?”
“No, they remind me too much of the horses I
always bet on.”
At Last
From Punch London:
*
eply of Imagination But bushes are scarce in some
parts of West T-*as. so *SR tieht along and neve:
realize how vain we can
moot
1":2P 45 the "M to hern * o
Won seme eonruea .hour -hr- wet T-
as really “at.” Fort Worth isn’t in West Tex
neither is Ware nor San Antonio. The 98th merid
to takes in too much territory that really belong
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built In the not ao remote past,
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dition to the modern machinery
and equipment already in the po-l
session of The Reporter, will give |
Sweetwater a newspaper plant see-
ond to none In Texas, we believe,
in a city the size of Sweetwater
SWEETWATER REPORTER 4
... . 3 The Sweetwater Reporter is
to the millions And in 20 years branching out Soon that news,
he yearly deaths from tuber e-Iper will be in a new building And
2 what is true of the Sweetwater Re-
are porter Is true of all other papers |
In West Texas. And what is true
of newspapers in West Texas is 9
true of all other lines of industry =
, . CHRISTMAS
Twenty years ago Elinar Hol-
boon, a postoffice clerk in Den-
mark, originated Christmas seals.
The money derived from the sale
of these seals goes to fight tubercu-
losis___:-----—
In 2° years the sale of Christ-
man seals in America has multiplied
And -
Silent air lanes are not the great osis have dropped from 200,000
eat threat of the next war Th to 100.000. Christmas seals ____
thought that the Red Cross m not altogether responsible. But
issue crossword puzzles scares us hey help mightily. Buy them thia
, “ear. Help th. good work.
It’s funny how some respecte .
citizens regard. Please Remit” or TRAGIC
an overdue bill as nothing she rt of Hard toll shortens workers’ lives
blackmail. according to Dr. Louis I. Dublin,
the insurance statistician He finds
office workers live eight years
longer than industrial workers on
the average. z .
The trouble with such statistics
is that length of life depends on he-
redity and what we do outside
working hours, quite as much as
on work. However, the old saying.
The postoffice lost almost forty Hard work never killed anybody,”
millions in 1923, mostly on second probably was Invented by an em -
and third class Being below first- ployer,
class never pays. -4 ----------
The carol. “Silent Night. Holy that
Night,” is 100 years old this Chris
mas, which should be celebrated.
Steamboat load of autos sank in
Lake Erie. All the crew and may-
be a few pedestrians were saved.
While looking in * shop window •■ Southall two
women were injured by a falling street sign. Hus-
bands have tor years been warning their wives about
the danger of looking in shop windows.
- FRANCE
They say poets are born Now France does not expect that ‘the
doesn’t that sound like a poet? Try- danger of another war will be elim-
ing to dodge the blame. inated in our generation. Her new
-----— naval program is being laid out
All the world is a stage upon carefully for the next 20 years,
which “If Winter Comes” is pla During that time, the French will
Ing its annual engagment now, spend 10,000 million francs for new
——— ships, not including upkeep
Just as we were feeling some bet- The financial burden Europe in-
ter a N*w York woman up and curred in the World War will
died and left $5000 tora pet cat.
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GEMS FROM BIBLE
• ------------e —•
They that dwell under His sh low shall return;
_ _ they shall revive as the corn, and gr ns the vine:
it Texas. The 99th meridian bgabout the pro- scent thereof shall be as the of Lebanon
Hosea 14:1. y
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Texas Mill & Elevator C
As a man thinks so is he until,
somebody who thinks otherwise
gives him a poke in the nose.
This reducing business is being
carried entirely too far Why, ever
the milk F getting thin -
_____-— _- - ____I not
be touch greater in the long run
than a permanent continuance of
competitive armaments — naval,
military or aerial.
MORON
This part of West Texas we are
speaking about, although the rest,
of the great empire is advancing
also.
MEETINGS ,
It was finelwonk on the part of
the delegation from Coleman to the
District West Texas Chamber of
Commerce in landing the next
meeting for this city. Those live
Boosters with the superb home
band did the work Just let that
victory spur the citizens here on to
other achievements. It shows what 1
ran be done by cooperation that,
participated in this meeting as rep-l
resentatives from I Coleman. They
did themselves proud and honor to
their city.—COLEMAN NEWS
Holding of meetings of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce or
meetings of similar organizations
are a good thing for any town. The
meetings serve to show that the
town in which they are held le a
progressive town from the fact that
the meeting was sought. No un-
progressive town would try to get
the meeting, for It would be too
much trouble. Coleman has dem-
onatt ated ‘ hint • " very much alive
Send it
For Your Healths sake let ns do the Washing for the entire
Family. We think you will like our ROUGH DRY service
CLARK’S LAUNDRY
J. C. WALKER, Manager, Phone 228
Only 30 per cent of the country's
nd a It population has a mental age
more than 13 years, claims Pro-
- . ressor Goddard of Ohio State Uni-
The burning question is n Iso y raity.
much the price of coal as it is “ *
“who will build the fire? ’
This is just another way of say- I
ing that 1* out of 100 people are
animated primarily by emotions 1
Give her an cleetric waffle iron instead of intellent That’s a con-
for Christmas so she c an me Me you servative entire
some hot cakes wit h non-skid - — t
Treads nur - OUT apN
(Copyright, 1924, Nea Service, Inc ) i Exports et farm products from
our country in October were the
largest in volume of any month ’
since June, 1919 By volume is,
meant actual quantity—bushels,
bales, tons, etc *
This means that our agricultural
foreign trade market to definitely
improving Measuring exports in
terms of dollars is apt to be decep-
tive, for high prices are mistaken
for increased sales. In the main,
our supposed export boom In war
time was largely a price hoax
ANNOUNCEMENT
——OF THE--
OPENING
---OF A---
DRUG DEPARTMENT
1 ---IN THE---*
ADAMS CONFECTIONERY
A New Clean Stock of Drugs have been added to our Con-
fectionery, and we invite every one In Abilene to visit us
before Christmas and see us in our new field as-— :
ADAMS DRUG & CONFECTIONERY
Corner of South First and Chestnut Streets
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