The Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 55, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 27, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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THE BRYAN DAILY KAOLE
TUESDAY JANUARY 27. 1814.
Cooper & Cole
Quality Grocers.
Towle'a Log Cabin Maple Syrup.
Club House Maple Syrup.
New South Pure Ribbon Cane Syrup.
Velva Pure Ribbon Cane Syrup.
Everybody's Sugar Cane Syrup.
Penlck & Ford's Syrup.
Karo Syrup Crystal White.
Karo SjTup Dark.
Wild Rose Syrup.
Two Phones
THE BRYAN DAILY EAGLE
AND PILOT.
Published Every Day Except Sunday
By THE EAGLE PRINTING CO.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
V J. BUCHANAN.
K. I. WALLACE
-.Editor
..Manager
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I 1911) at the pos toff Ice at Bryan
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
' The Eagle Is authorized to announce
the following candidates subject to
the action of the July Democratic prl
marles:
FOR CONGRESS:
HON. RUFUS HARDY Corslcana.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
HON. J. L. FOUNTAIN.
LANE'S DEFI DIDN'T GO.
Not one of us but that can recall
on short notice the ancient recital
about the pastor who objected to the
headgear of a member of his flock
only to be told that be must fortify
himself with a passage from the
Scriptures. So the next Sunday be
announced his text "Topnot come
down!" The brethren were astonish
ed of course but Investigation showed
that the pastor was within bis rights
the full sentence reading "Let him
that is on the housetop not come
down."
Water Power Lane went to the Fort
Worth conference with the full sen-
tence before him. Being on the house-
top ahead of Mayes or Thomas or any
of the rest be is determined not to
come down and he so informed the
brethren.
But here's a prediction that Water
Tower will eventually hear and heed
the command "Topknot come down!"
or float away on the rising tide. Waco
Times-Herald.
A few days ago the Review received
several columns of plate matter free
of charge with carriage paid. It was
a lengthy argument in favor of the
farmers holding their cotton for fifteen
cents. It Implored them to wait wait
till the price went up. We didn't run
tbe article at all. We want the farm-
er to get fifteen cents for every pouni
of their cotton but it doesn't lock
right now as though this doctrine of
holding cotton has worked advantage-
ously this year. Farmers of Johnson
County have lost tenB of thousands of
dollars already because they have held
their cotton. Cleburne Review.
Talking about fifteen cents for cot-
ton The Eagle would like to know
how those farmers came out who paid
a dollar a bale for the privilege of sell-
ing through the Southern States Cot-
ton Corporation on a guaranty that
they would get fifteen cents. This is
not intended to stir up anything; we
really want to know if they got the
fifteen cents.
If you have a Ford bring It to us; we will wash
and polish it free of charge one time. We are
giving this willingly and ask that every Ford
owner take advantage of the opportunity but to
do so you must have your car in our place within
ten days from date.
Brazos Valley Ford Go.
Three Wagons
A slate and pencil In the school
room is not permitted theBe days. The
slate and pencil have been driven from
the school room by a commercialized
system organized for the purpose of
selling tablets and lead pencils and
other things. The strange part of this
fact is the idea that a community of
intelligent men and women will stand
for this hold-up. Tyler Courier-Times.
But you forget Col. Green that
when we were boys there were no
microbes and such things then as
there are now. Athens Review.
It there had been every fellow had
his own slate and monkeyed only with
his own microbes so what difference
could It have made? We suppose
however the slates were left way back
yonder in the time when we carried
our dinners In a tin bucket and staked
our buttermilk bottles in the spring
branch with our top strings to keep It
cool. We are moving far away from
those dear old memories.
There are many who believe the
eliminating program of tbe prohibi-
tionists Is going to be a success and
the nnmber who believe this is grow-
ing every day. Tbe hlgb standing of
tbe leaders of the movement backed
by the great army supporting them
together with tbe Intense earnestness
of all create a dynamic force which
it is believed will sweep all opposition
before it There is no question but
what the pro candidates for Governor
are themselves convinced of this and
they are now figuring and triggering
as to how they can succeed in having
the pro standard placed in their hands.
There are many who believe that
neither Lane Mayes nor Thomas will
land; but that the honor will go to
the Hon. Tom Ball of Houston.
The Attorney General's Department
at Austin has handed down a new
ruling in regard to the payment of poll
taxes which lets down the bars for
the payment of the poll taxes of ne-
groes and others who do not usually
pay by designing men or special in-
terests who may want to use them for
election purposes. Heretofore poll
taxes had to be paid in person but
rnder the ruling referred to they can
be paid in person or by agent in cities
of ten thousand Inhabitants or less.
The dirt road to the a. & M. College
after you turn into what is known as
College lane is so rough for either
buggy or automobile that it would
loosen the horns of a billy goat. There
don't Beem to be anybody however
losing any sleep over the proposition
to convert this road Into a first-class
highway.
The tangometer attached to the
tangoer or tangress records the dis
tance tangoed. If your tangometer
registers 16 miles in one evening you
qualify as a tangofan. Syracuse
Standard.
If Carter Glass and Bob Henry would
put a period to their nauseating con
troversy over the currency bill we
feel sure the public would give them
a vote of thanks.
The oak trees in our back yard are
leafing. We opine they'll bave to do
tbe job over some time after the Ides
or march.
The Houston Post would welcome
cold weather enough for the ladies to
wear their Christmas furs and to ma-
ture the sausage crop.
BIG"
REDUCTION
IN ALL
GOODS
One-third off on all
Men's Suits
One-third off on all
Men's Overcoats
One-fourth off on all
Men's Trousers
One-fourth off on all
Sweaters
One-fourth off on all
Winter Underwear
One-fourth off on all
Flannel Overshirts
A. M. Valdrop
&Co.
THE CLOTHIERS
The Texas cotton crop laid it over
Georgia's in just about the same pro-
portion as her Democratic majority
outranks that of the old Gopher State.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
And many a hungry man Is in tbe
soup.
Man has always a tendency to go
up in the air.
Stretch the truth and it will fly back
and sting you.
The one sure thing that comes to
him who waits is old age.
Be sure the fire is out before jump-
ing from the frying pan.
Few young men rise in the world
until they settle down.
A woman's husband sometimes
causes her almost as much worry as
ber dressmaker.
A woman knows her new hat isn't
becoming to her because ber dearest
enemy tells ber It Is.
When you see a woman wearing a
clinging gown' it's a sign that she is
willing to admit she has a good figure.
A TASK FOR TEXAS.
Two hundred known dead and more
missing.
Property worth $25000000 wiped
out
Land values depressed for a far
larger amount.
Hundreds of home-building settlers
ruined and driven away.
Twenty thousand people driven from
flooded homes and fields In town and
country.
A thousand miles of fertile coastal
plain and 500 squares miles of river
bottoms; a land of farms gardens
odchards and ranches transformed for
several days into a fresh water sea
three to eight feet deep.
This Is a part of the price the people
of Texas have Just paid for having
political instead of business manage-
ment of the State's affairs during the
past quarter century; for being gov-
erned by lawyer-politicians instead of
by engineers builders and skilled
business men.
Texas has three rivers the Colo-
rado Brazos and Trinityf-each ap-
proximately 500 miles long which
drain its central basin's rainfall Into
the Gulf of Mexico. Their watersheds
have a combined area of over 150000
square miles. Their valleys embrace
the richest lands within the State. In
tbe districts they drain most of the
State's $750000000 of farm crops Is
WINTER
produced. More than two-thirds of the
State's $2250000000 of assessed And
$10000000000 of real value Is found
there. .
In their upper and middle reaches
these rivers offer sites for hydro-electric
power generating stations capa-
ble of providing a vaBt quantity of cur-
rent for Industrial uses. Damming and
diversion of them at normal flow In
reservoirs at various points In their
courses would afford a supply of
water available to Irrigate very large
tracts of arid and semt-arld land now
unproductive. These works combined
with levee systems in the lower
reaches where the rivers travers a
low rich plain could be made to con-
trol the waters d'rlng flood periods
and conduct the surplus harmlessly to
the gulf.
New revenues and new taxable
values thus created would within a
few years repay the State for the in-
vestment. An undertaking of. this kind is too
big for the lawyer-politicians who
dominate the Texas State government.
They have neither the taste talent nor
training for such tasks. They prefer
to "run for office" on the old National
or sectional issues or on the new
"moral" Issues or these falling on
tbe perennial Issue of "lower taxes."
They make their strongest appeal not
to the State'B constructive imagina-
tion but to its primitive passions and
our common human stinginess In re-
spect to taxes. They have made the
State with the largest permanent pub-
lic school fund one of the poorest In
the Union in Its public school equip-
ment. Tbey have sold most of the
State's vast fortune in timber lands
for a tithe of its real value to lumber
companies which having taken off the
timber now hold the denuded areas
for sale to settlers at five to twenty
times the price tbey paid the State
for it. They bave bawled and bellow-
ed year in and year out from the
Panhandle to the Gulf and from the
Red River to the Rio Grande about
the vice or virtue of Joe Bailey and
other quondam heroes of partisan poli-
tics. If they had vision for it they
have feared to go to the people with
any big scheme of development and
conservation of the State's immense
resources.
So the rivers have run past the
power sites untroubled the arid and
semi-arid plains have remained uncul-
tivated for want of water wasted with-
in easy engineering reach and the
lower valleys have been periodically
swept by destructive and death-dealing
floods. That of the current month
is only the latest of a series; certain-
ly not the last unless Texas people
decide to retire the breed of lawyer-
politicians for a while from control
of their State government and com-
mit its business into the hands of men
big enough to do what needs to be
done.
They will never get it done either
by paying for it piecemeal in a little
unco-ordinated local levee districts or
by begging the National government
to take it up. The task is one in
which the State must assume leader
ship control and financial responsibil-
ity. Uncle Sam has his own like task
Immensely larger and more costly
confronting him In the valleys of the
Missouri Ohio and Mississippi.
Frank Putnam.
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS
Colorado women are going to fight
for Nation-wide prohibition.
Earl Gray the Duke of Connaught's
predecessor at Ottawa is off on an
ocean voyage to Australia and New
Zealand for the benefit of his health.
Seattle has found a way of dealing
with the problem of marital nonsup-
port The Indolent husband Is sen
tenced to work on newly acquired city
territory at the rate of $1.50 a day
and tbe money goes to his wife.
Married men according to General
Miles are better fighters than bach-
elors. Experience scores again.
It Is said that the next Nebraska
Legislature will be asked to enact a
law barring from future competition
any contractor who "skimps" on pub
lic work contracts.
In the speech from the throne at
the recent opening of the Swedish
Riksday it was declared that the well
being of the country demanded that
extension of suffrage to women should
be at once undertaken.
Abbe Lamalre of Paris has been
elected one of the new vice presidents
of the French Chamber of Deputies
and this has causd his suspension
from his religious duties by the Bishop
of Lille.
At the Crystal Tonight Miss
Florence Lawrence in
A Girl and Her Money
Two Parts; "A Military Judas"
three parts strong military
drama with an all-star cast; also
fine Nestor Comedy tonight
CROPS FOR SILAGE.
By C. H. EVANS
Superintendent Agricultural Extension
Department A. & M. College.
As planting time comes nearer to
hand I get a great many Inquiries
about which are the best crops for
silage In various parts of the State.
No definite answer may be given
that will fit all conditions of the State.
In general it may be said however
that sorghum will give the largest
yield In most every part of the State.
The quality of sorghum though 1b not
as good as some other crops because
it does not usually contain as much
grain. For Eastern Texas a mixture
of either corn or sorghum with cow-
peas has given very good results. In
the middle western part the same may
he said of either sorghum or Kaffir
mixed with cowpeas while In the ex
treme west it may be too dry for the
cowpeas and milo or feterita alone
would give the best results.
The silage Is desired simply tor
roughage or as a maintenance ration
for Btock cattle it will often pay to
sacrifice quality for quantity. If
however it Is needed for work stock
or for fattening cattle it rarely pays
to produce quantity In place of quality.
Besides the kind of crop used the yield
may often be increased at the expense
of quality by planting so thick as to
increase tbe amount of forage pro-
duced but decrease tbe quantity of
grain produced.
THE ISOLATION OF THE RICH.
Several years ago the late J. P.
Morgan In Berlin was engaged in con-
versation by an eminent statesman
of the German Empire who assum-
ing that the banker was familiar with
political thought In the United States
endeavored to gather some information.
Apropos of the large representation
of the Social party In the Reichstag
and the adoption of tbe Socialistic
principles in municipal administration
in tbe Kaiser's realm tbe German
asked Mr. Morgan if Socialism was
exerting any influence on the internal
policies of tbe United States.
According to an authenticated ac-
count of the incident tbe American
banker raised bis eyes in surprise and
answered "Socialism? Why 1 don't
know anything about It. I have never
beard It discussed in America."
This story was published In time
not to show Mr. Morgan's ignorance
but as an Illustration of the literal
isolation of a wealthy and powerful
man whose sources of information
should be so abundant that of neces-
sity he must be familiar with the sa-
lient features and effect of any politi
cal movement in his country even if
it were only incipient.
Mr. Morgan never had heard So-
nuiieiu aiscussea necause he never
came in contact with men who were
competent to talk about It and be-
cause bis associates were as Ignorant
of many vital movements as he was.
Most of the information which came
to J. Plerpont Morgan was "hand-
j picked." selected by subordinates with
the intention of communicating only
that which would please and not an-
noy the chief or hy companions whose
avenues of Information were as nar-
row as his own. Mr. Morgan like
most rich man associated only with
bis own kind.
Although according to Charles S.
Mellen Mr. Morgan dictated the policy
of the New York New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad during its recent years
of expansion he never had an oppor-
tunity of coming in touch by direct
contact with the public sentiment of
New England. He never could get
close enough to realize how people
served by the railroad thought about
that corporation.
Not more than three years ago at
a meeting of tbe United States Steel
Corporation a Boston stockholder
asked that tbe directors be instructed
to investigate conditions among the
workmen In the company's plants. He
offered as a reason for this action the
report of an unofficial inquiry which
had been published under the title
"Old at Forty" and which had been
widely read and discussed.
The directors of the company all
wealthy men were amazed that such
revelations could have been so exten-
sively known and yet escaped their
knowledge. The Inquiry which the
Boston stockholder instituted happily
enlightened them.
Isolation appears to be one of the
penalties of great riches. The rich
man although he may refuse to be-
lieve it is never an intimate moving
part of the great emotional and in-
spiring world about him.
This Is a philanthropic age and
some valuable settlement work may
be accomplished by a society which
undertook the public duty of enlight-
ening rich men and. bringing them
Into more intimate relation with the
live progressive thought of the Na-
tion. Boston Globe.
$10.00 REWARD.
For one brown mnre mule five years
old branded BV on shoulder; has one
eye out Last seen at Koppe bridge.
T. R. BATTE.
H.&T.C.
"Oil Burning Route"
National Corn Exposition Dal-
las greatest agricultural exposi-
tion the world has ever known
$50000 in prizes. To occupy the
buildings and grounds of State
fair of Texas. $5.95 round trip.
On sale Feb. 9 11 13 14 16 18
20 21 and 23; limit Feb 25.
Mardl Gras New Orleans
$15.13 round trip. On sale Feb.
17 to 23 inclusive; limit March
6 with privilege of extension to
March 23 by deposition ticket
not later than March 6 andpay-
ment of $1 fee.
S. H. HARRIS
Ticket Agent.
' S553B
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I Have Three Cars Both
Hard and Soft
COAL!
Alabama and Illinois
Delivered Promptly
C. L EDEN
Phone 518
LA FRANCE
DECORATOR
Phone 620 .
FRESH DREAD
ROLLS PIES
GRAHAM BREAD
CHOICE
FRUIT CAKE
Give us a trial and you will
become a customer
MRS. OTTO BOEHME
Given Away
la lb Indiana and Ohio
goodi.thocyelonaalOmaba VjIalLlS
Iba Mittiaeippi overflow and
otbar diMMart of the jraai ISIS ibonaasda ol
17 1?D17b7 sewing
lbe r t.tLE MACHINES
were destroyed and new mar Mnri riven away
without coil la bolder! el Tba FkiiB iniur-
ugi policy.
See Pictures In our Windows
flay Tba FREB Sewini Maehlna and aaenra
fnlier which nrotecte the machine aeainat loaa
r flood tornado erclona fire breakage or
any other causa. Tba only Insured machine.
WE SELL IT
E. F. PARKS & CO.
Cement Walks Around
your Home Means a
BETTER BRYAN
Don't criticise the walks of your
neighbor or of the city until you
have them built around YOUR
home. Increase the value of
your property and help to build
up the town.
Phone 172.
W. H. O'BRIEN
Successor to W. P. Wallace.
A. S. ADAMS
Civil Engineer
and Surveyor
Office: City Hall. Phone 424
Second Hand
LUMBER FOR SALE
$10 and $12 per Thousand.
See W. F. Holly Main
Duilding College Station
Texas
Glenview Dairy Farm
. Phone 1438
Aerated Sweet Milk Cream Butter.
Eggs and Other Dairy Products
Deliver Twice Daily
L. M. GANOY Manager.
JOE B. REED
Life and Accident
INSURANCE
Fraternal a Specialty "1
Office Masonlo Temple
Hours 8 to 10 A. M. Bryan Taa
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