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WICHITA DAILY TIMES
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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12,1914
never acquire—the discipline of strug There will be four proposed .amend-
ments to the constitution to be submit-
gle and an almost unlimited choice of
associates among the very best peo-
ple in the land.
Envy Helen? Not a bit. Sorry for
her. Guess we don't feel enough pity
for the rich. They‘re. just as much
victims of a rotten social arrangement
as the so-called poor—the poor who,
however short of cash and the things
that money buys, are really as rich
as anybody in sympathy, friendship,
love; in the '‘durable satisfactions."—0
North Fort Worth News.
HONEST MAN FROM TEXAS.
■fry the year "mall "rrnaaheter
L By the month (mail or carrier)
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heatohar ana Business Office....1«7
(no, nyw
Hon. Morris Shepherd of Texarkana,
Texas, also United States senator
from the Lone Star State, rises to the
distinction that would focus the rays
of Diogenes' lantern, had the old fel-
low not given up his quest for an hon-
Wichita Falls, Texas, October 12
• est man long ago. Senator Shepherd's
claim to the title is beyond dispute,
— sustained by his offer of a bill in the
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TIMES PUBLISHING CO,,
a ED HOWARD, Manager
i Let w remember this: Every time
an enterprise closes its doors and
* moves away, it is a bad advertisement
for Wichita Falls—the kind of adver-
tising that any comercial body, it mat-
ters not how' much strength it may
„, have, numerically or financially, will
find It very difficult to overcome. "
r; The $150,000,000 Cotton Loan Plan,
■ started in St. Louis a few days ago, is
meeting with approval throughout the
cotton States, and most of the banks
of the South are subscribing to the
fund. A letter received from the Ely
A Walker Dry Goods company of St.
Louis by the Colona Togery of this
city says that the plan is meeting with
the approval of St. Louis wholesalers
and adds that St. Louis’ part of the
$150,000,000 loan ($7,500,000) has been
Senate proposing a reduction of from
two to twelve per cent of the salaries
of all United States officials, from
November first next, with s view of
<offsetting the the deficit In the treas-
ury finances. Senator Shepherd would
be one of the losers, with the rest -of
his comrades in the Democratic army
of officeholders, but that is where his
honesty, as well as his spirit of self-
sacrifice, shows. Part of the deficit
in federal finances is due to the Euro-
pean war, for which Democracy can be
charged with no responsibility. But
some considerable part of it, including
the increase in appropriations which
has been made by this Congress is
chargeable to the party, and Senator
Shepherd apparently sees no reason
why a new income tax should not be
enacted to assess some of the surplus
cost of this administration on its
beneficiaries. That is an effective
way of enforcing responsibility for
bad or extravagant legislation, but the
suggestion was not expected from a
Democratic senator.—Philadelphia Bul-
letin. -
THE TWENTY-ONE ACRE CRIME.
(The New York Sun)
We wonder if It can be true, as the
despatches say, that Governor Colquitt
has recommended in a special message
to the legislature of Texas a law re
striding the cultivation of the cotton
ted to the voters of Texas at the regu-
lar election on November 3rd, and
the most important of the four is that
which proposes to pay members of our
legislature $1,200 for the year in which
each regular session shall be held,
payable in equal istallments on the
twentieth days of January, April, July
and October of the year in which the
regular session is held, and five dol-
lars for each day of every specialises-
sion held in the year next succeeding
that in which regular neustons are
held. In addition to the compensation
above mentioned, mileage to and from
Austin to ’allowed at five cents per
mile. The present law provides for
five dollars per day for each regular
session of sixty days, and two dollars
per day for every day the regular ses-
sion shall last over sixty days, and
twenty cents per mile for members to
and from Austin. The salary of $1,200
is not too much for men competent to
enact laws, and as the railroads only
charge three cents per mile for carry-
ing passengers, there is no sense in
allowing members of the legislature
twenty cents per mile for service that
they are required to pay three cents
for. The adoption of the amendment
is calculated not only to secure better
and more able men to maks laws for
us, but at the same time cut off the
mileage graft. If the people of this
State want better laws, if they are
tired of sending politicians of the pea-
nut variety down to Austin to make
our laws, they will not hesitate to vote
for this amendment to the constitu-
tion.
lands of that state to twenty acres for
each grower: and that bills have al-
ready been introduced making a crim-
inal offence for any grower to grow
more than twenty acres of cotton next
season, the penalty being a fine up to
it will be a great help toward relieve $5,000 or imprisonment up to five years
or both.
positively asured. If this plan succeeds
ing the present distressed cotton situa-
tion,
. Forty years ago the cry was: "Lo-
cate the cotton factory on the edge of
the cotton field." But the advice was
unheeded. The result is that there are
but comparatively few cotton factories
in the South. The factories are lo-
- eated in the Northern, and Eastern
States. They come South and buy our
cotton, pay the freight, manufacture
the raw, material into cotton goods
and ship as much of the finished pro-
duct to us as our needs require, and
we pay the expense. There is a cause
for this and that must be met. It has
"often been proposed that cotton fac-
tories in the South be exempted from
taxation for a period of years, but
under the constitution of the State or
Texas this cannot be done, |t is, there-
fore,' proposed that the next legislature
have submitted to the people an
amendment to the constitution exempt-
ing from taxation for twenty-five years
all cotton factories located and to be
located in Texas, and the proposition
is meeting with almost universal favor,
if we can judge by the press of the
State. It would make it possible for
the location of a cotton factory in
every cotton market in the State of
any importance.
1- ’ A SAD FLIGHT,
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- Sad wasn’t it, the plight of IB-year-
old Helen DeWitt, New Yorker, heir-
. ess to millions, in boarding school and
couldn't get along on a paltry $12,000
a year—so went to court and had it
raised to $20,000.
4 ' We're not joking when we say a sad
plight.
of course, not as bad as the plight
of a good many hundreds of thousands
> of girls humanely just as valuable as
Helen-girls in the want lines, strug-
gling to keep head up on pay so little
it forces many Into shame. <
But—sad, nevertheless. 'Cause al-
ready. almost at life's beginning, It is
1 cutting Helen off from natural human
relations, from association with folks,
and thrusting her into a set where
what she does is measured by what
she has, and whom she goes with by
what they'have. 1
in being poor you have at least two
advantages which the born rich can
If this is the fact there is manifestly
need in Texas for elementary instruc-
tion about the fundamental rights of
citizenship.
Such restrictions of industry, such
impairments of invested values, such
interference with the owner's legiti-
mate control of his own property, are
contrary to the first principles of the
social compact.
If this law should pass and if a cit-
izen of Texas owntag. let us say, forty
acres of cotton land should be put in
jail for five years or five days for
planting twenty-one acres next season,
what would happen when his unique
and astonishing case came to the Su-
preme Court of the United States for
review?
The Constitution of the United
States expressly prohibits the passage
by any State of any law impairing the
obligation of contracts. The purchases
ofe forty acres of cotton land, under
the law of Texas at the time of the
transaction, was an implied contract
by which the purchaser acquired the
right to cultivate all the forty acres
In cotton if he say fit to do so. Gover-
nor Colquitt's proposed law impairs the
obligation of that contract.
The Supreme Court has held in sev-
eral cases that even a grant of land by
the State itself is a contrac t within the
meaning of the Constitution, and as
much within ths reach of the prohibi-
tion as contracts or grants of private
persons. Grant of land once voluntar-
ily made by a State, by a special law
or under general laws, can no more be
revoked by a subsequent law than
those founded on a valuable considera-
tion. In the case of State granted lands
in Texas the curtailment of the use of
the land to an attempt by the State to
resume control by subsequent legisla-
tion
But .it would probably be said by
Governor Colquitt and the contract Im-
pairing statesmen in the Texas legis-
lature that all contracts are subject to
the right of eminent domain; that this,
entry by the State upon privately own-
ed land is for the public good: for pub-
lice use, and therefore constitutional.
The Texas Bill of Rights used to con-’
tain the provision that “no person’s
property shall be taken, damaged or
destroyed for or applied to public use
without adequate compensation being
made, unless by the consent of such
person.” The same prohibition .is
found in the Fifth Amendment of the
Constitution of the United States.
The constitution bulwark against
the invasion of private property rights
for purposes of supposed socialistic ex-
pedience to pretty solid. So much for
the proposed enactment of a new
crime the twenty-one acre crime.
BRAVE MEN, ANCIENT-MODERN.
(John Temple Graves, in Atlanta Geor-
gian.)
Every age has had its heroic sol-
diers. The phalanx of Alexander, the
Spartans at Thermopylae, the Tenth
Legion of Caesar, the Old Guard of
Napoleon that "dies but never sur-
renders,'' the Light Brigade at Balak-
lava, the Scots Grays and the High-
landers at Waterloo, the Alamo, which
’surpassed Thermopylae, and Pickett’s
charge at Gettysburg—each in turn
have thrilled .their times and taken
their places among the immortals of
history.. ,
The taunt has been flung into the
face of this commercial age that ma-
terialism has tatted our soldiers into
tradesmen and our heroes into shop-
keepers, and that the splendid courage
of the battlefields belongs to ancient
history.
This European war—monstrous in
ali its sanguinary scope—has yet re-
deemed in martial heroism the best
traditions of the race. Day by day we
read the record of individual and col-
lective daring and of unsurpassed en-
durance. Never in all the wars of the
world have there been braver soldiers
following with more unflinching cour-
age the several flags under which they
fight. .
The Prussian Guards, flower of Ger-
man soldiery, flinging themselves In
dauntless abandon upon serried ranks
of steel, cut to pieces, decimated, and
yet forming their shattered ranks and
riding on to glory if not to victory.
That splendid infantry of France
marching with a song over trenches
end endurance which, from Liege to
Brussels, has been one long record of
flawless, courage and devotion.
* (When the history of the war is writ-
ten it will be seen that all the hero
deeds of history have been duplicated,
if not surpassed, upon the battlefields
oi Belgium and of France.
So the fact stands attested that men
are as brave, soldiers as heroic, as
they ever were before in the annals
of the race. l
If- anything, the rivers of blood and
the sweep of carnage that roll every
day before the eyes of the soldier
ranks in Europe, upon which they look
undaunted and go out tomorrow to
light as fearless as they fought today,
makes their courage more astonishing,
if not greater, than the courage of
their ancestors upon fields less bloody
and facing a death less appalling.
Whole armies fall today where battal-
ions fell 100 years ago:
It is impossible for, the civilians,in
peaceful homes to realize how much
less to understand, how the soldiers
on either-side who fight through a
living inferno every day go out with-
out shrinking to fight through the same
inferno tomorrow. 1
What is it that sustains these clti-
sens—half-civilian, half-soldier—these
merchants and tradesmen, these scient-
ists and scholars, these artisans and
agriculturists of Europe?
Is it a higher intelligence that de-
stroys the fear of death? IS It a more
comprehending patriotism that makes
It easy to die for one's country? Is it
the greater strenuousness of daily live
ing that makes less terrible, the
thought of dying and resting—any-
where—in trench or grave? Is imagi-
nation and sensibility dulled to the
thought of sudden and swift oblivion?
Or is it the system which has made
the modern soldier not an individual,
but part of a machine—a unit in the
wedded and martial aggregate, an
atom in the sacrificial mass?
Some philosophy must explain the
daily phenomenon of the matchless,
uncomplaining steadiness with which
these composite millions day by day
hurt themselves upon bayonet and can-
non.
It is the psychological and phenome-
non of the war.
CENSORSHIP IS. RIGID
(Continued from Page 1)
evitable. Today's reports indicate
that the German cavalry advance to
less than thirty miles from Ostend,
Their strength is unknown. It Is pos-
sible that British reinforcements
which were unable to reach Antwerp
will participate in the defense of
Ostend.
TWO GERMAN'AVIATORS DROP
TWENTY BOMBS ON PARIS
Paris, Oct. 12.—Twenty bombs,
launched on different quarters of
Paris by two German' aviators Sun-
day, killed three civilians and Injur-
ed fourteen others. The property
damage was small.
The airmen appeared after noon.
One bomb landed at the rear of the
Cathedral of Notre Dame. A house
was set on fire, but the loss was not
great. One of the missles struck
within 100 yards of an office occupied
by American newspaper men. The
second aeroplane also flew over the
cathedral, dropping four bombs, one
which lighted on the roof of the
nine miles long and five feet deep in on the
bloody slain to fight and endure a of which lighted on root e
deadlier strain than fell upon Napo- church, but failed to explode. The
Icon's guard 2 second taube appeared to aim at the
_ cathedral, while the other machine
The Scots Grays, with the Highland- attempted to hit the Notrehrn and
ers at their stirrups, riding into every
English-German battle, as gallantly to
mortal combat as their ancestors rode
at Waterloo. Those hero Belgians,
lighting the siege guns and the mighty
machine of Germany with a courage
St. Lazare stations.
The Germans flew very low. Af-
ter they apparently had ′ exhausted
their supply of missiles, French aero-
planes ascended and pursued them to-
ward the east.”
* At the Lydia Margaret three days only, Stanley
& Low, Musical Entertainers De Luxe.
DO YOU KNOW WHY- The Most of Us Always fall for the Fads?
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FER. THE LOVE A
MIKE! THERE '5
- PETE IN THE
• SAME DIG :
AN’ LoOK
AT OLD
Depicts Hatred
of the Belgians
Toward Germany
1
Antwerp was called “the city that
hates" by Jos. Medill Patterson in a
dispatch from that place, to the Chi-
cago Tribune, dated September 25.
Continuing Mr. Patterson says: T
"I doubt if ever in the world's his-
tory one people have hated another
with a hatred as dreadful and as deep
as that the Belgians in Antwerp have
for the Germans.
"Many people have thought that,
hatred has become an archaic, out-
worn passion. That la a mistake.
Here, in Antwerp today the passion of
hate is as pure and unselfish as the
passion of love.
“By that 1 mean it is not calculat-
ing. The Belgians wish to injure the
Germans primarily not to help them-
selves, but to injure the Germans.
"Belgium to bleeding from many
savage gashes, but it .would rather
have-dermany bleed as deeply than
stanch its own wounds. ’
Belgians Believe Atrocities Stories.
."As to the truth in the atrocity stor-
ies, It would take an all seeing eye to
know the utter truth; but as to the
unquestioning sincerity of the Belgian
people in believing the most terrible
ct the stories in all their phases there
can be no possible question. ,
“The Belgians as a people hate
the Germans as a people, and all Bel-
gians as individuals hate all Germans
as individuals. So penetrating has
this passion become that a hundred
years will not banish it and the great-
great grandchildren of the congrega-
tions that pray in the lovely cathe-
dral of Our Lady will hate the great-
great grande bildren of the crowds I
saw cheering the captured guns in
Unter den Linden or standing star-
ing silently at the lists of the dead
and dying and wounded posted on
the brown grandnite walls of the hos-
pital.
Crown Prince Most Hated.
"While the Belgians hate all Ger-
mans, they hate the army officers
most terribly, and among them the
Hohenzollerns most terribly of all,
any away even before the kaiser him-
self the crown prince, Frederick .Wil-
liam, stands on the uttermost pinna-
cle of infamy.
"In all the world today there is
probably no human being who is so
much loved in his own land and so
much hated outside it as this young
fellow."
THE LUMBER BUSINESS
ds EXPECTED TO PICK UP
Beaumont, Texas, G d 2/A" cur-
rent issue of the American Lumber
man, a leading journal of the nation,
says: she BIqJRT
“The Texas lumber situation is
about the same as it was thirty years
ago. Most of the mills are curtailing
considerably and some have closed en-
tirely. Prices are holding their level,
however, and lumbermen still enter-
tain hopes of an early improvement.”
We are Going
to Help you
Economize
Watch this Space for
Tomorrows
Announcement
COLLIER &
NENDRICKS
The Rohali h Mineral Water 1
Acts directly in the digestive organs
r the stomach, strengthening the tod-
fratessneneriienca
or constipation, rheumatism and the
nly way the system" has to throw off
germs that cause typhoid, smallpox
an dother loathsome diseases. Four
years in the water business in Wichita
Falls has taught us precaution during
epidemics of loathsome diseases. We
are not strangest in Wichita Falls.
We have been here fifteen years and
are here to stay. We have always met
our obligations. We are equipped to
furnish our trade with a clean, whole-
some vessel and the beet water in the
state. Fall in line and share good,
health with us. Special attention
given fivve-galion phone orders. Our
wagon leaves the well at 7 a. m. and
2 p. m. Two tripe daily except Sun-
day. Phone 9001-ring 14. G. J. Ro
hatoh. Proprietor.
etat
Hwy
omnomhi1
—Mr. Farmer and You City Folks:-
We want you to glance at these prices and you will see that we are offer-
ing you the best high class groceries for the least money.
LARD AND MEATS
Large Crisco .. .................
Medium Crisco ...............
Small Crisco ..... ........
10 lb. pail Compound ...........
50 lb. pail Compound........,..,
...85c
.1.46
. :.25c
.$1.00
.$4.40
Swift Premium Bacon by the strip, per lb. ....33c
CANNED GOODS, HIGH GRADE
.3 cans corn
3 cans tomatoes
25c
.25c
3 cans hominy...................
6 large cans peaches ..........
Raceland Salmon, 2 cans .... ......
MISCELLANEOUS
13 pounds sugar .. .. .....-.....
Irish Potatoes, per bushel ........
Cabbage, per pound...........-••
Sweet Potatoes, per peck .. .....
Sour Pickles, per gallon............
Pinhead Gunpowder tea, per lb ....
Crystal White Soap, 6 bars ........
Fels Naptha Soap, per bar..........
..25c
.$1.00
..25c
.....$1.00
.......90c
2.2 12c
......30c
......60c
......50c
.....25c
...... 6c
The store where your trade is appreciated and where you receive courte-
ous treatment. Nothing misrepresented. Tell the truth grocery.
Model Grocery
UNION STORE
We close at 6:30 at night except Saturday at 9:00 p. m. —
814 Scott avenue.
Phones 1551-1531
PATE1 S. P. A.
- Drawn for this paper By-Frank Leet
AND EVEN MF)
OLD FRIEND
FATTY’
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Too MUCH!_
I DON’ T
kNOW You
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AIN’T GON’TA
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