Lipscomb Lime Light (Lipscomb, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. [33], Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1917 Page: 2 of 4
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Dear Little Curly Head.
[Dedicated to Neill N, Null.l
says the Red Lodge Journal, ac-
cording to the Cody (Wyo.)
| Herald.
Often these '"press" . notices
in the cities each country would contain a veiled offer to the
have a 50 ecre farm, leaving the publisher of an advertising con-
balance of the earth to the wild tract sometime in the future,
beasts and fishes. Sometimes it is a "test to see
Empire, each man, woman
child could have five
land, earth family of five 25 acres;
and if one half the people lived
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^ interurban booster. Let us have
a railroad any way. Letjus build
one. There are enough of good
substantial people between the
three people if they only "get
their necks boed" in the right di-
rection that they can build a
line of their own. It is one of the
ways to have something worth
while. BUILD ONE AND
O^N IT.
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Amon$ the many things that
would put Lipscomb-Higgins-Ar-
nett on the map as. tiade centers
would be an inter-urban. It
would mean some pushing—push
ing for every one, but the effoit
is well worth the price. The intei-
urban would give nearly every
one along the route a personal
benefit. It would be town build-
ers for all three towns. Get busy
gentlemen and organize. Don't
wait until something happens
along. NOW IS THE TIME
to not only promote but do some-
thing. Use steam or gas moters.
The mail, express, freight and
passenger service could all be
handled and the farmer could
have a siding built for the pur-
pose of loading his own grain or
hogs for market, an advantage
that could not be indulged in by
the isteam roads. Why not make
"a noise" like something doipg
and BUILD AN INTER-UR-
BAN? It would be a good in
vestement for the stockholders.
Lime Light would
on publicity and printing for the
occasion.
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Dear Little Cuily Head! Pure as the dew;
We are so thankful that God gave us You.
You make the dull hours pass by like a song,
Voicing your innocence all the day long.
Your childish prattle—your innocent voice
Oftentimes makes my heart refoice.
You are so care-free and happy all day.
Life, as YOU see it, is laughter and play.
Nothing of soirow or CARE do you know,
Ah! How I would it could always be so.
Thinking of Life as a BOOK to be read,
Most of YOUR chapters lie "just ahead."
For in thinking of yours as chapters, you sea,
You Dearest Child have but passed chapter three.
And just as the flowers unfold to the sun,
So shall your YEARS unfold-one by>pne.
Just as the SEASONS of years are CHANGED, -
So are the seasons of LIFE arranged.
FUTURE years Curly Head, soon will have flown;
Presently you will to MAN-hood have grown.
LIFE is a RIDDLE we ALL try to solve,
But it's meaning we utterly fail to evolve.
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You, Little Curly Head, catch but the gleams
Of the brightest dazzle of Life's sunbeams.
Here's to your MAN-hood! Thro' each year of life,
May laughter and joy far o'erbalance all strife.
I would that each chapter might be just as gay
As the present moments you're whiling away.
YOU make OUR lives seem care-free and bright,
Voicing your innocence from morning to night.
Dear Little Curly Head! Pure as the dew:"~
We are SO THANKFUL that God gave us You.
—Lottie Null, Deep Valley, Penn.
both eyes opened and when she
does there seems little doubt that
volunteers a plenty will be fur-
nished by Texas." That's the
way the headquarteis of Brig.
Gen. John A-.Hulen fe^ls about
Texas.
"There has been delay in rea-
lization that the need for volun-
teers is pressing, that men must
be had and at once," it was said
"Seemingly Texas did not ap-
preciate the seriousness of the
matter; did not seem to realize
tfiat thi^awar means life or death
to democracy and that it will not
be won without sacrifice. But
Texas is awakening. Her young
men are beginning to realise the
put in $300 [importance of the call. They
are beginning to see that the na-
tion is confronted by the greatest
three units are being organized in
various parts of the state to help
make up the National Guard of
Texas. Men are needed to fill
these units to war strength.
Texan£ between the ages of 18-
45 years have the opportunity of
erving their country in'-the Na
tional Guard of Texas. They are
needed. The doors are still open
to volunteers. Men are urged to
volunteer that they may choose
the branch of Service they desire,
that they may be among friends
and that the state may not lag
behind other states in meeting
the Nation's call.
"Texans must be men, and
man is not worthy the name un-
less he is willing to defend the
principles of liberty, justice and
humanity."—Press Bureau, Na-
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Assembling a Mighty Army.
Houston, Texas, July 6.—
America is rapidly assembling
a mighty army to throw into the
battle for justice and humanity.
The tramp, tramp bf marching
millions will soon resound
throughout the land. You can
almost hear the beat of their feet;
the tap of the drum; the bugle
call. There's something magical
about the sound. It makes the
heart beat time with the right,
left, right, left swing of the mar-
chers. It sends a thrill through
every listner.
America's men ara coming to
America's in the time of need.
Soon a million and a half of the
nation's sturdy son's will be
ready to take up the battle.
Texan's will be among them.
"Texas is stirring in her sleep.
Texas will soon be awakened.
Already she has opened one eye
to the realization that her aid
and the aid of every rone of the
great states of the nation will *be
" needed. Soon Texas will havej
Freedom of The Earth.
opportunity God ever gave to any tiona] Guard of Texas>
people to help their fellow man to
help poor staggering humanity to
a new and brighter future.
"They are about to see they ! of the causes for our en-
are living in the greatest age of trance into the great war was our
human history. And they are l°ng and persistent contention for
beginning to realize that if they the |freedom of the sea. The
If all the people on earth were
in Texas there would only be ten
on an acre of land.
If the entire population of the
United States lived in Texas we
would have an acre and a half for
each citizen, and would be about
as thickly settled as Massachu-
setts.
Rockwall County, Texas, is the
smallest county in the State, and
yet every man, womon and child
on earth could stand in that small
county and have two and a half
square feet to stand on.
Why then should men fight
about a place in the sun? Prov-
idence has provided for all, and
the questicfc is not how shall we
find -a place for the people, but
how shall we conserve human life
so that they may be men and
women to occupy and develop
this vast planet.
As there is room enough for all
we should organize for the great
battle which must be fought for
the freedom of the earth. We
should never rest until the pirates
are driven from the seas and the
land hogs from the land.
We should see that no man
shall have the legal right to rent
land to his fellow man and exact
toll from his toil. The man who
lives only for himself, and who
never cares for the millions about
him, will not appreciate what I
am writing.
Texas has 365,780 square miles
of territory, which amounts to
170, 099, 200 acres. Of this vast
domain only about 32,000,000
acres are.in cultivation; more
than 138,000,000 for mountain
and unproductive land, (no one
estimates so much worthless land
in Texas), we still have 100,000,
000 acres of good, virgin soil,
which is three times as much as
is now in use..
Shall we continue to permit a
few men to control this vast and
valuable acreage? Shall we suffer
them to exploit the people for-
ever? Or shall we adopt the
Single Tax and compel these
parasites to turn loose?
Shall we do nothing to help the
250,000 renters, who are the real
wealth producers mi our Stats?
Or shall we continue to. legislate
in the interest of the land
monoplist? ^
Texas can be free; the world
may be free; the seas may
free; and ^jl men may have a
"place in £he sun", but the issue
do not do their duty now their
conscience all their lives will
trouble them.
"If they do not do their duty
now they will never be abl to
reason why Germany went to
war was the demand of her peo-
ple for a "place in the sun."
These are great issues, but the
greatest question and the most
hold up their heads among friends important issue is, the freedom of
and homefolk in the days to
come. The men of the old world
have given their lives and their
lives and their all in behalf of the
cause which is recognized a? just
which we should press to the
front and drive into the minds
and conscience of the people AT
THIS TIME is, make Texas free
FIRST. Study this question and
help to solve it. THE SINGLE
TAX Will SETTLE IT RIGHT.
—Kicharp iPotts; Single Tax
League.
Free Advertising.
Applications for free advertis-
the earth, because the earth com-
prises and includes all the land,
all the seas, and all that it con-
tain.
The earth was here befora the
and right.* Can America's men first man appeared; no man made
do less? America is the recogniz- it; it belongs to all men. No
ed champkm of freedom and man can live without land, water,
liberty, and America's men must air and sunshine, and every baby
champion this cause today as in is born with an equal right to all
the past if democracy and free- of these that it can use. No
dom shall survive. Texans are man, no set of men, no corpora- ernmental abilities of ambitious
just realizing this and is con- tion has a right to monopolise politicians or giving other in-
fidently expected when they do 1 any of them. 4 formation from the circulation
realize the situation there will be j Think of this; if all the people of which somebody hopes to
no lagging, Already seventy- on this earth lived in the Russian glean a financial or other gain,
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ing are always at hand. Every
newspaper editor throws into
the waste basket each day
great quantities of "reading mat-
ter" intended- to inform a hungry
public upon the merits of this
or that kind of an automobile,
or boosting a certain brand of
baking powder, or relating the
exploits of a moving picture
actress, or mentioning the gov-
Notice.
I still have a few small ranches
to sell. Am handling same on a
small margin and no partners to
divide with.—W. E Merydith.
Lime Light want ads are a good
investment.
is
how much the newspaper is
read" and "favorable results
will convince the (invisible and
somewhat mysterious) advertiser
with a probable result of great
quantities of advertising."
The attitude of those who
distribute such stuff to the va-
rious newspaper offices in the
country, and hundreds of tons
of it go through the nj^il every
week, is beyond the comprehen-
sion of an intelligent person
appear to think that the news-
paper is An institution of charity
and that its columns are intend-
ed to be exploited for their own
advantage and without remuner-
ation. ,
The automobile company which
offers! its stuff for free publica-
tion would be highly ' incensed
if the publisher asked them to
forward him a car wittf the
promise that if it proved satis-
factory, he might consider the
purchase of one after the
first was worn out. The* poli-
tician would frown on' a sug-
gestion that he mention to every
person he addresses the great
value and merit of the newspa-
per which he has just asked to
give him a free puff.
It is not to be understood that
these ar^ the only • offenders. ^ It
would be hard" ~to-_ formulate a
statement which frduld cover the
whole field of publicity beggars
with which the faverage newspa-
per office is afflicted. Where it
is a matter of news concerning or
interesting local people ttje-
Journal can usually find spade for
material of the sort. We never
accept pay for publishing the
news. But when there is a finan-
cial gain to redound to someone
through the publication of this
material, the Journal requires its
reqular advertising^rates.
Much worthy news material
comes into this office without
solicitation and this paper wel-
comes all news information of
reliability and consequence. We
publish tte news.t But the line
dividing news matter from adver-
tising is being drawn more closely
than ever. The newspaper plant,
this one at least, represents a big
investment in machinery 'and
equipment; the operation of this
plant requires the services of
highly paid experts, men whose
training has taken as long as the
doctor or the lawyer took on his .
profession. The only way the
enterprise can be maintained is
through the sale of the products
of this plant. These products are
advertising space, printing, and
the newspaper itseif. Publishers
in the past have allowed them-
selves to be imposed upon until
they came to be looked upon
as the most gullible of the gullible.
The requirements of this day of
high costs and scarce materials
compel an alteration of this good-
natured policy. We shall continue
to publish the news without
abatement, improving and per-
fecting our service at every
opportunity, but we draw the line
on free advertising or anything
which appears to be free advertis-
ing.
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Lipscomb Lime Light (Lipscomb, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. [33], Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1917, newspaper, July 12, 1917; Lipscomb, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth387977/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Higgins Public Library.