The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. THIRTY-FIVE, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1920 Page: 6 of 8
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TIIK SNVD10II SIGNAL 8XYDKH 1KXA8 FRIDAY FEB 13 HhiO.
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Not 16 cent
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But 15 cent
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Whafs the Hse.Folks-
What's the Use f
WHY take honest -Jto-John Tobacco that
nature grew for us all and then "spill
the beans" by messing it up with lolly pops?
Velvet isn't fooled with that way.
Velvet has just naturally relied on Nature
since it was knee-high to a grasshopper.
First off it was bred in old Kentucky won-
derland cf Tobacco.
Next come it was cured in the open air
right out with the good ole sunshine. Yes sir.
THEN it was gentled along by its lonesome
for two years while it just kind of thought
things over and decided to have no bad qualities.
After these two years in wooden hogsheads
it was packed in the jolly red tin you see
everywhere if you're not color blind and we
hope you're not
As Velvet Joe says:
The way Nature does things is best for
man and his tobacco. You. can 't fool Nature
an ' she won 't fool you. '
FIFTEEN cents seems a pickayune price
doesn't it after all that?
Can you think right off of anything more
or better for a dime and a nickel? And for
cigarette smokers there are 45 mellow ciga-
rettefuls in every Velvet tin.
Velvet sure will be right glad to meet you
this very day.
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-the friendly tobacco
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Grand Prizellaj
rire&mu a Ammunition
Remember We nnswer no letters
unless you send one dollar to remit-
ter yourself as a correspondent and
friend of the Company. (Wo will
send you one share of stock for the
dollar you send.
S. We want to employ a repre-
entatlve.th each County in the
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Notice.
H'n nr. In tlm tnnrb&t tn hnv vniir
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mineral rights under your land. We
. wian to near irora .every iana ov .ir
i in Texas.
(Jid.-on Oil CohI and V-1 I'c.
t.im St. D.illnn TcxaM.
Cant of TluinkM.
WAlc method of expressing
oir appclation and pfatltuJo to the
peoplfl ho woro ao kind unit helpful
during thf lllnena and death of our
dear wife daughter and ainter.
Maytwe ever rememoar to' return
the kodnesaaa we linre the opportun-
ity. J. W. Urownlns ' 'i
Mr. and lra. J. A. 'iWeems.
Beulah Wefms. '
PROBLEMS FACING
STRICeWORLO
Shall Ch:.os or Reconstruction
in Europe Fo'low the Great
World War?
NOW WEAK AND HEARTBROKEN
In Mourning and Poverty Ghe Count!
Iter Dead and Looks With Eyes of
Sadneis Toward tha Threat-
ening Future.
Article II.
By FRANK COMERFORD.
August 1 1011 wus the tiny. .On
that tiny (eriiinny declared war on
Husslu. The fire alarm rang around
tho world. l'euHUiits It) the field
atralehtened their hacks listened and
looked into the kuu coufused wonder-
ing. Flngs were unfurled bands
played faces were white tense and
serious. Men left their work und
talked In groups ou the street corners.
Women luld down their brooms put
aside their wathlng. and talked In
whispers; sad lights were In their
eyes. Children stopped playing. Some-
thing hud linppciicd. Evil thing were
ahead. August 3 and 4 found France
and Great Hrituln mobilising their
Motis. The torch was sweeping Eu-
rope the Are of death hud started.
For four long years heart-sicken-Ing
your the world ran red. Men
waded through mud and blood fought
suffered cursed prayed while back
home In the mauless houses women
and children worked cried prayed
and waited. The world was mini.
Death poisoned every breath the
people breathed.
It Is over now It Is finished. A
stunned numbed weak heartbroken
Europe is ngulu silting In the sun of
peace. Europe 1s lu dirty bluck rags.
The black it mourning the rsis are
poverty. Her fm-e Is deeply lined
trenches made by suffering. Her eyes
are downcast and dead. Hope flutters
weakly In her breast ; faith has faded
from her soid. Her home h a house
of dMrkncrt. The fire on the hearth
has turned to cold gray ashev The
kettle no longer sings it moan. Her
mind Is weary her body Is wasted.
Hunger has robbed her of her strength.
Her stock ItiKless shoeless feet are
blue from the cold. Her Hps wear
starvation color. Ice lu the winter's
wind lashes her shivering hulf-uuked
body. She mumbles as she stares va-
cantly Into apnee she Is tired so
tired. As I beheld her It seemed to
me that a face so troubled and sad
must never have known a tintlle.
I listened to her muttering. I found
that she was counting. Over and over
again she counted on her thin tired
worn hands she was counting her
dead.
Thinking of Her Loss.
She was thinking. Her eyes looked
over the hundreds of thousands of
square miles of war tone slashed
with trencher pitted and Hickmarked
by shells. She sees where they fell.
No tears are In her eyes. Long ago
the hurt had reached the point where
tears dry up. How upon row line
upon line mile upon mile white-
painted wooden crosses mark their
graves. For the mosLjjart they were
her youngest born her most beloved
who dug deep In the soil to sleep for-
ever In the dark dugou's.
As they fell bleeding from steel and
lead choking from gas writhing In
agony from tire they proved In the dy-
ing word they spoke that they were
mere boys as they had shown In their
fighting that they were brave men. To
the popples they intrusted their mes-
sage and the red popples remember
the last word of Europe's dying ions
who went out Into the great beyond
with this last word on their lip'
"Mother."
She has finished counting; an ache
shudders through her bent body. She
sighs and sobs "Seven and a half mil-
lion of my sons are dead."
Her thoughts turn to the living her
anus open to receive them she holds
them to her heart. They have come
but hew?
gome with slghlles eyes doomed to
grope through the world in a never-
eudlng darkness night without gtars
r moon' sunless black hopeless days
and these too young men In the very
morning of their day.
Others sentence te silence desf
and dumb. Never again will she hear
their voices nor will they hear hers.
Still others In w heel chairs dwarfd
legless.
More hobbling on crutches limping
on canes.
Some with empty sleeve.
Many with great sears where ones
wa a handsome face.
She sees them all. her heart bleeds;
tho twisted the mangled the torn.
She Is counting them the 1.619011
the wounded of the war.
War's Frightful Cost
Her voice Is husky her hands ure
tired but she mnst count on. Six and
half million of her sons were imttked
"missing and prisoners" In the official
war score. Many of the-e have rnmn
back to her. but she does not iievion
tttem die dure not. Their f:iv tell
of the unspeakable horrors they en-
dured. She sees In their eyes a deprh
of pain that Is unfathomable She Is
n mother she knows.
The war Is over but she Is not over
the war. Must she never stop count-
Ing? Is there no end to her basest
The graveyards are crowded. Her
thoughts turn to the dead who. vrfitlo
they did not die In the war dlwbitoe-
cause of the wnr. Those who went out
In buttle left life n n burst of glory.
Others there were wltt Ml In l heir
trnclrs exhaustion broken hearts sent
litem "west."1 She hn hot forRollcn
how the home llmik ku.TcnmI. ThesW-at-homes
were not all shirkers. They
fought hunger and cold bent their
backs beyond the slniiiiing point.
WorsT of all they wulted. It Is esti-
mated that 200"IO000 civilians died
from weiikness fatigue strain broken
hearts the horror of walling de-
stroyed resistance. These were the
underfed older men and women the
scared undernourished children. Is
there any wonder that Europe bus a
denth look In her cyosT Oeiilh has
been her morning thought It has been
her night sob and for four years made
up of months weeks days hours
minutes and seconds death has been
her Nemesis.
She Is now totaling. The tlu'ines are
appalling. They htogtrr her Imng'na-
Hon. It Is easy to write them. Im-
possible to understand their full mean-
ing. The mind can't grasp It; Hie
world Is bewildered by the number. It
Is too stupendous too horrible for un-
derstanding. Think of it. seven and n
half million young men. for the most
part between the agea of eighteen and
thirty the youth the strength the
spirit the man power of Europe dead
ltwentv million from civil life dead
over twelve and a half million wound-
ed. Who enn measure this 1o?
War brought -death. It did more-
It stopped birth. In the devastated re-
gions of Belgium France Italy. I'o-
land parts of Hussla and the I'.alkan
countries the birth rate fell to al-
most nothing. In England and W. fes
the birth rate In the last part of lOl.t
was 10.fi. the lowest on record. Mai-
lett calculated that the birth rate had
fallen 12 per ceut lo England and
Wales by 101(1.
The Journal of Heredity quotes Sav-
orgnnn as having estimated that It will
take England at least ten years Oer-
many 12 yeurs Italy !W years and
France 3d years lo recuperate their
populations. These calculations by
Savorgnan were made before the fc:ir-
ful losses of the campaign of 1018.
A village lu France Ulerancourt.
tells what the war has done to the man
power of Europe. This village which
Is In the Chateau Thlerry-Solss..ns dis-
trict hud a 'imputation of a thousand
people before the war. Its 1ose have
been tabulated. Twenty-six soldiers
from this village were killed In the
war. Ninety seven of the villagers
died from wnr privations. The total
of 12.1 Is the death toll of a village
of a thousand.
The figures I have quoted frm the
calculations of Savorgnan and Mallett
were made before the war was finished.
Since the war. estimates have been
made and these estimates show the
situation to be even worse. In France
I was told that T.7 per cent of the men
between twenty and forty years were
listed as dead or Incapacitated for
work. Further that It would take
France over "0 years to recover her
normal population. '
It Is Mild that It will take Italy BO
years and England 2. years to regain
normality of population.
The biinuin waste of the wnr Is more
than sad memories. The loss of man
power makes a grave problem it has
thrown out of bulnnce the domestic
scheme of the world. It will be felt
for years. There nre a great many
more young women 'ban men. Home
life is" bound to snffer. There will be
fewer marriages fewer children. Sta-
tistics only tell pin t ir the story.
CpyrlM. Wtrn Nwappr Unloa)
Mistakes Men Make
In Buying Tires
Perhaps the greatest misuk
it trusting to luck. For who
can tell when he looks at a tire
whether it will run 10000 miles
or fail at 1000?
Take the safe course a
proved by thousands of others
come here for the Miller that
is built by uniform workmen to
a championship standard. They
are the only tires Geared -to
ihJtoad. If you will try Mil-
lers once they will win you
'orever.
AVIATION GARAGE
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. A Bt ranger camo Into a I lo
drug store Wednesday evening v
an injured arm and was looklr
a doctor to patch him up. He su
bolievod Ms arm was broken
when asked how It occurred sa'
had been In a llttlo fight. It is U.
btood that he la a transient I
trader. It was said at police I
tjuarlfrsi tho other fellow was
one to ace. From the bruise on
head and tho traces of blood It ae
ed he hadgotton a broadside.
For
Weak
Women
la use lor over 40 years!
Thousand! of voluntary
letters from worm tell-
tag of the goo. Cardul
has done them. This Is
the best proof of the value
of Cardul. It proves that
Cardul is a good medicine
tor women.
There art no hinnful or
habit-forming drugs b
Cardul. It is composed
only of mild medicinal
Ingredient with no bad
aher-ettects.
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The Woman's Tcz
All Druggi:b
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what it has done for so j
many thousands of other i
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took 3 or 4 bottles tl
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