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THE HEREFORD BRAND, SEPTEMBER 4,1919
D BRAND
COMPANY
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which it levin on all that the farm-
m and live stock grower* boy.
It in to that isoue that events art;
tending.
The antagonism is fandatntal,
hut it is made so largely by the at-
{unless this greet decline in the; titudr of labor toward the matter
prieeofthinga they have to seU is 0f production. The farmer strives
constantly to increase his produc-
tion. and he is content that the
the farmers
live
have to
dnetion in ita
or of the
price of what he produce* should
be influenced by that factor. Hi*
does not expect, and certainly does
not get. the same price for a large
If we
they say we lack
that there isn't a dray at patriotic and
in our
If
degenerate
but when they n
la Man everything
incrcaac the sale of hath War 8av-
wo omit jokes* they say we M
arc poor, miserable fossils.
If wc are single they say we are g
si We will ha done to promote
too helpless to get msn ii d.
If we arc married they say it is
a pity on your wife.
If we publish a man who has
brought disgrace upon his family
the friends of the family never for-
give us.
If we decline to Kay anything on
the subject, the man's enemies ar•
disappointed, and we arc branded
as whit< -livered cowards.
We are liable to receive these
raps sud many more, and we are
always ready to receive visitors,
whether accompanied by a dog or
not. Of course wc do not claim
there is any work in running a
r. 'wspap< r. Everybody knows it's
At Monday's mcetini f of commit- followed by a corresponding de
tao chairmen of the Deaf Smith cline in the price of thinpi they
Guilty Chapter, American Bed have to buy. A process which
Gma a strong determination to works an enhanement of the city
affect a change in our present lav man 's labor and depreciates that
attitude toward the physical wel- of the farmer and stockman is
Una of our school children was certain to engender embitterment j production that he gets for a small
evident in the rural sections of the country i But organised wageworker
Practically everyone present a- unless it shall have brought down j rejects that determinant of prices.
greed that the fault lies with the the prices of the things which are ! Irotead of striving to produce the
parcnta—not with the local health produced in cities. j maximum that he is capable of
oAccr. There was no disposition The conflict between the urban'producing. he strives to limit and
to criticise the present incumbent ami rural interests which haa been ; even reduce his production, by de-
of the office of county health of- forming the pressure of organised i manding a shortened workday. ja * jap.—Forney News.
ficar, but rather a self-criticism for labor's demand for higher wages The farmer takes his wages out of i .
our notorious public indifference or lower cost of living is made Men what he creates, as. indeed, both I 8an Marvicl. N. M.. August 30.
toward a subject which is absolute- Hibly more definite. Whether it is he and the city wageworker must. —Postmaster 8. Grry Hanna of
ly vital to the general health of the to become acute enough to make if industrv is to keep solvent. But! *hi* place sold seven of the new
community. One ex-school teacher the producers thoroughly con- whereas the farmer seeks to creat- I *100 Begistei-wl Treasury Havings
present testified that she had ncious of the opposition remains to more as s means of increasing his j Certificates, just issued by the
taught children with communie- he seen. It is the turn of events "
aide diseases, and children out of which must answer that question.
homes which housed contagious Organised labor professes to be-
diseases, and that so far as she that to satisfy its demand for
knew, the teachers were powerless a reduction in the cost of living,
to remedy the situation, although jt wjj| on|v be necessarv to stop
rcognizing the danger to the gen- profiteering, and it is careful to
eral community health. exclude the producers of foodstuffs _
The proper enforcement of any from the company of those whom more decisively than they now are
law depends upon an organised jH suspects of profiteering. It Is (by the quantity of his production.
popular demand for it. There are the profits of those numerous a- or the farmer must be allowed to
many statutes on our law books g«>ncies intermediate between the (get as high a price for a good crop
that are dead letters so far as en- producers and the consumers upon i as he gets for a poor one. So long
forcement is concerned. Officials which it has directed the warfare j as the wages of the farmer are de-
charged with the enforcement of of the Government. That profits' termined by natural economic
the law are largely governed by which are thus levied on foodstuffs forces and those of the citv worker
the popular demand regarding the during f|,eir movement from pro- are determined by artificial uneco-
enforeement or the noii-enforee- ducer to consumer are unduly j noinic forces, they will he in ail-
ment of these laws. If they stick jH probably true. But it is tagon ism to each other, and what
to the letter of the law. regardless doubtful if they are so excessive as, in (rained by the ogani/.cd wage
of local sentiment, and insist upon popularly imagined. It is prob-| worker will be largely at the ex-
' uforcement. then their shrift is able. too. if indeed it is not certain pense of the producer of food.
short. that prices might be freed of all j —Dallas News.
Talk does not get us very far, < UBl|U(. pPofits without bringing the! - o
except to lay the foundation for -
future action. Wc have talked.
Now let us act. No man or woman
in Hereford wants their children
wages, the organized wageworker
without being willing to create
more, while often he insists on be-
ing allowed to create less. To be
put into equitable relation to rela-
tion with each other, either the
city wage-worker must consent
Government, in one day. Miss
Vicla May Hanna bcught one of
them and l)r. .1. E. Agee the other
six. By purchasing them in Aug-
ust. the buyers got $700 worth of
Certificates for s|sf M6.60. the differ-
< net being the in . crest they are
Again wc My—hotter lay in that winter's mppty while It
here, for no man knows what is coming this winter.
Grain of All Kinds
We carry a general line of everything a first claas Grain and
Coal business should handle.
Your Businesa Appreciated.
McQueen Grain & Coal Co.
Phone 1
that his wages should he measured I making on the transretions.
Many it fine field of com in the
South Atlantic States is broken off
by hervy winds during the later
growing season. Exam'nation will
show that the stalks had been j
weakened by insects boring into
them. The damage was done by a
pale dark-spotted caicrpillar, the
larger cornstalk borer.
Aliht.ugh grasshopper are not
usually uotiecd by the farmer un-
til they have reached a consider-'
able size, they begin to injure his!
crops immediately upon hatching
F"0in the > gg. Th; y should be de-
f The Two
Essentials
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'cost of living down sufficiently to Nobody could possibly be as in jfected and combated, therefore,
cancel organized labor's demand nocent as the beef packers appear J while young and small, so that
for an increase in wages. What. [ to he in the literature they distri- time, lalmr. and materiel, as well
then, would be the attitude of bute. ! ereps. may be saved.
labor? If it should persist in itsj « • J Houston. Texas. August ^0—All
demand for au increase of wages. Speaking of profiteers, how a-j schools in Harris county will be
it must bring itself into sharp an-;| out those Senate republicans who j thoroughly organized for the
tha . •„ . producing inter- would spend the peace of the Thrjft Campaign when they open
irct to^ether^nd creat^that orLan !°, ^ eo,int??' The farmers world in order to save Shantung? Ilwxf mMlfh. H. A. Halverton.
get togetner anrt ireate tliat organ- j the live stock growers would O rhairmnn of the n rris Conntv
;^rfCneriir;^r Ht ,5aw ^T'! tlu: ]T r"H"UinV A f«'tor in ,hp SariS. Division. sa?d yesterday,
start of our new school \uar. from (j„, ,inline in the prices of ed economic condition is thaViThc Boy Scouts will also help in
the things they have to sell, while strange as it may seem, wages the local sales campaign. Mr. Hal
instead of getting any recompense j have outrun salaries in going up. j vcrton said.
in the form of a decline in the o
It is not apparent'to what extent i price* of 1things they have to buy. Former Senator Bailey s plat
the great decline in the price of they would have their loss increas-, form contains one thing to whic'i
live stock and of nrovisions and ed as a result of advancing the j everybody who stands for democ-
wages of organized labor. To, | wil1 * baeribe. We refer to
his resommendation that the pen-:
pie should vote directly on amend-
1 merits to the federal constitution.
to he exposed daily in school
rooms to possible contagion. The
remedy ia to show our health au-
thorities how we feel about it and
AT THE EXPENSE OF
THE PRODUCER
to produce perfect tire vulcanizing
are equipment and experience.
One without the other cannot give
satisfactory results. We have one
of the beat equipped vulcanizing
plants in the Panhandle and our
workmen have the. experience and
skill which is making their work so
popular with those who have tried
it. "Quick Service" is our motto.
TELEPHONE 28
Hereford Garage & Machine
Works
EVERYTHING FOR THE AUTOIST
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live stock and of provisions and
grain is due to the efforts of the
Government to reduce the coat of
liviug. The indications are that it
is attributable chiefly to causes
that relate to the financial and ec-
onomic embarrassments of Europ".
But doubtless the Government's
campaign against the high cost of
living has been contributing in-
fluence. ami hence the great
shrinkage in the value of these
prime articles of foot I may. to some
degree, be thought to murk the
success of that undertaking. It is a
triumph which will be hailed only
in the cities. The farmers and live
atook growers will contemplate i
with radically different emotion.
Furthermore, they can not be ex-
pected to contemplate it long with-
out a certain sense of resentment,
DELCO-LIGHT
Tk complete Electric Lir
Powpi Pl.ir'
Self-starting,
matieallv. So
can operate it.
Stops
tiinple
auto-
a chilil
systr7*d(3U*FCK?e
Row
Binders
The tjpie for cutting your row crops
is near. Better investigate your ROW
BINDERS. We are prepared to take
care of you in this line; also with
plenty of the well known brand of
Plymouth
Twine
Garrison Brothers
It has been said of the republi-!
can Congress that it has provided
for the finest collection of expen-
sive investigating committees this
or any other country has ever pro-
duced. What we would like to
know is. who is going to investi-
gate the investigatorsf
IV —
Beyond the fact that the inci-
pient demonstrated the purpose of
' Texas to adhere to a policy of self-
determination with respect to the
| race .problem, we see nothing sig-
nificant in the thrashing which
several gentlemen administered to
•Tohu R. Shillady. of New York,
'who visited Texas to teach us how
to handle the negroes.
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The I'nited States has never
been considered a tea drinking na-
tion. Yet official statistics show
that 114.000.000 pounds of tea
were consumed in this country in
191#. Any housewife in Hereford
^•an tell how many cups a pound of
tea will make, and von can figure
out for yourself whether Ameri-
cana are tea drinkers.
it
EDITING A NEWSPAPER
Editing a newspaper is a pleas |
ant business—if you can stand t. t
If it contains any advertise !
ments the subscribers claim they j
take too much space.
If then- is a scarcity of advertis-'
iiur. it is mifmpulnr. and the people j
i won't have it.
If we attend church regularly,
jthev say we do it for effect,
j If we stay away from chureli j
I they sav we are monstrously;
I hcNtheuish.
j If we accept an invitation to n (
' wedding they say we are invited i
j to write i tin.
! If we are on the streets much
v we nee' t our business i
i If we avoid sroi,,, on the street
jtbev sav we don't hustle around j
after the news.
If we reieet a 1onr-wind« 1 com
J munication. r its author beeom sj
jfurionsly enraged and diseontin
uea his paper.
If we publish lengtbv commnnl-,
cations, onr subscribers say w« j
lack discretion, and put it in to fill i
up. 1
THE BANK WHERE YOU
FEEL AT HOME
The co-operation and assistance of our
customers has helped build our business.
We want more customers for the Bank
of Personal Service.
First State Bank
& Trust Co.
Gapitef Over $100,00C.0H
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The Hereford Brand, Vol. 19, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1919, newspaper, September 4, 1919; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254015/m1/4/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.