The West Weekly News and Times. (West, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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The West News
Entered as second class matter Oc-
tober 8, 1909, at the Postoffice at
West, Texas.
ESTELLE HUDSON’
Editor and Owner.
Subscription $1.00 a year in advance
A statistician has been figuring,
and his figures show something that
will make Americans tremble in their
boots. The figures show that if tax-
es increase during the next seventeen
years at the same ratio they have in-
creased the last seventeen years
every citizen will hand over to the
tax collector 50 cents out of every
dollar he earns. The figures of the
statistician will materially weaken
the desire upon the part of the peo-
ple for long life, and intensify the
yearning to get to the better world
beyond, where taxes are unknown.
We are regulating and improving the
world as we go on, but the regula-
tion and improvement come mighty
bi.gh.—Honey Grove Signal.
The editor’s mail is heavy these
days. In fact there are days when
some of the seals on the letters, and
Jthe flaps of the one cent pieces are
not touched, and the desk and the
waste basket gets filled. If you have
ever been without a postage stamp
when you needed one very much, you
can doubtless place some kind of a
value on the stamp, and it is this
suggestion that put the editor to
pondering recently over the wastage
of postage. Hundreds of thousands
of stamps are spent on circular letters
and free advertising matter that
bring no returns.
Editors of papers cannot find time
to read this bulk of mail. In many
instances much of the matter sent
oat in the interest of worth while
projects and enterprises in not suit-
ably prepared for newspaper use.
The articles are us ually too long, and
not infrequently uninteresting. The
editor, however, tries to give an eye
to all, but what can he do when there
da so much to be WTitten about in his
own home town.
An editorial on the country editor
by one dho claims to know', pays the
following tribute:
“The average country editor has
no axes to grind, and he thinks his
thoughts and says them, hewing to
the line and disregarding where the
chips fall. If you want to get the
best thoughts on any subject, and
get them clean and free from prejudi-
cial influence, get the country news-
papers and read the editorials.
** The country editor asks no quarter
and 'gives none when it comes to fight-
ing for the right, for common decency
and community progress. He is a
versatile cuss, too. He knows all
about fishing, corn ticker, chewing
tobacco, the better babies movement,
- scripture, law, farming, sociology,
political economy, weather, crops,
elections, machinery, science, astron-
omy, psycho-analysis,' birds, animals,
relativity, doctrines, etc., etc.
He is the poorest paid, the worst
abused and the best loved man in the
whole country. He may not have
much luck in collecting from his sub-
scribers or getting his townsmen to
jar loose with a little advertising; he
may take his pay in wading boots,
chewing tobacco and sweet potatoes,
bat he does manage to crowd a heap
of living into his years and that is
the reason so many more affluent
men would like to have his place in
the sun.”
There arc many people however,
who do rot agree with this writer.
Try bing a country weekly editor
sometimes and see how it is. You
would doubtless here occasion to find
out that you did not have all of these
qualificatins, in fact there are times
in the life of a country weekly editor
when he feels that he is without
qualifications of any kind. He does
manage to crowd a heap of living
into his years though.
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
“PORCELAIN”
HP HE strange beliefs which *ur-
round substances of un-
known or misunderstood origin
have been responsible for a num
ber of words now used in every-
day language, but probably none
of these is as unusual as “porce-
lain."
When tills material was first
Introduced tnto Europe in the
Sixteenth century there were
many rumors concerning its ori-
gin. The very fact that It was
imported from the Orient cast a
glamour about it, a romance of
the East, an almost legendary
account of its formation. Pragfle
and beautiful, it was supposed
by some to have been made from
the rarest of minerals, tinted
with the colors of the sunset and
molded with the aid of magic
arts. But the story which seems
to have gained the greatest cre-
dence is that the substance was
hurled underground for a hun
dred years in order to Impart the
peculiar translucent anil deli-
cate beauty which Is the mark of
the true porcelain.
It was for this reason that the
French applied to it the phrase
"pour cent anness”—for a hun-
dred years—Ihter combined In
the single word “porcelain"
which was Imported Intact
across the channel and finally,
stripjied of Its Gallic pronuncia-
tion. found Its way Into accepted
English.
t© by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
TIKE MAN ON
THE CORNER
Th.ngs of Interest Heard and
served on West’s Busiest
1 horoughfares
! some mother says. Oh, sure, but I
! remarked before human nature is
; very frail, and hi the male species is
something darned brittle. A mother’s
I little grip on the reins will enable the
Q(j daughter to take care of herself
; still better against the breed of Jelly-
j bens that are running around in
! automobiles on nice evenings.
When one stops to think of it, he
can get quite a lot of things by
“hanging around the corner”—prin-
cipally a bad cold, if the weather
makes a kick. 1 once knew a man
man who first met his wife while
on the corner. He doesn’t hang
around the corner any more. But
one can see and hear much
“on the corner,” a spot where much
pholosophy can be learned and much
; more or less important information
can be gleaned. Of course it is the
! ethics of the “Corner Club” that you
do not always tell what you sec or
hear there, in fact, some things or bet-
SEED CORN
GARDEN SEED
A
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the Voters of the Independent
School District of West.
The school children had a “Buy
More Books” tag day this week. The
thought came to me that we ought
to have a “Read More Books” tag
day. If the younger generation, both
male and female, would start in and
read more good books our “corner
clubs” wouldn’t be so w’ell patronized. I _.
There was « time not so long ago, Afu.r care'fu, consideration , deem
when it was a common question UQWjge t0 permjt my name to be
Have you read So anti So s a^s 0^erec| as trustee of said district,
book?” If you hadn’t you were con- , had nQt given it much thought unti,
sidered behind the times. How much after the clection> but have now
profit our young people could accrue made up my mind fu„y not to pennit
by taking some of the time that they my name as a candidate for trustee.
M. C. Wood Seed & Floral Co.
Interurban Bldg., Hillsboro, Texas
dawdle and dwindle away on the
ter untold, and some happenings that street corners and devoting it to some
| I occur are for some persons at least, j educating and intellectual reading.
Respectfully,
E. H. BRESLER.
f be
! dt
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Something to
Think About
By F. A. WALKER
CHURCH PAPER FOR APRIL
MOVING FORWARD
T ET no day of your existence pass
■L' in which you do not proceed to-
ward loftier thoughts and higher
ideals.
Keep thinking and pressing ahead.
Let neither fear nor doutit of ability
retard you.
Growth, activity of mind and body
are essential to the proper ilevelop-
ment of the mental and physical
forces which have been given you to
mnke them fit to battle with and over-
come the obstacles that impede your
path to greater efficiency and larger
achievement.
All nature calls for activity. Noth-
ing Is dormant. The winds and the
tides are in constant motion. The sun
and the stars are always shining, per-
forming I heir part In Hip marvelous
scheme of tilings, of which scientists,
with their great worldly knowledge
know but a smattering.
The idle pool of watpr becomes
stagnant, hut within it there is an In-
sidious activity, producing foulness,
decay, disease and death.
To he active in the right direction
ought to lie the chlej purpose of every
human being.
The habit of creative activity, when
once it is formed, soon becomes ns
tenacious as the begetting practice of
Indolence, w ifii nene of flip letter's
tendencies to tenr down, demoralize
and destroy.
All the world's industries, all en-
during literature and art, all that con-
tributes to happiness, all the advance-
ments made In Hie thousands of won-
derful fields of human endeavor, had
their beginning in the minds of men
and women who kept pressing toward
n definitely defined object, determined
In their purpose to overcome.
They could vision the sunlight
through the darkest clouds.
They refused to falter in their
course though often worn and hungry.
They locked arms with Faith and
Faith never forsook thorn, giving them
strength, cheer anti courage ns they
pressed forward.
Trials and discount cements, of which
there were many, were brushed nslile
never being permitted to cool their
ardor or weaken their spirit. In the
(Inn! hour of their struggles they stood
with Joyous hearts among fho victor)
ons, beck mlng you to follow!
((ft. tS23. hr McClure -.-wsr«per Syndtrntr.l
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WITH YOU
:--;
« By DOUGLAS MALLOCH ■
a ...........
QH. TO have a Spring with you I—
That would be a Joy—
“The Revealer, the church paper faring every thiDg with you,
J t‘~ ** “ “ “***'■“ Just a girl and hoy
Through the woodland wandering
Where the rivers wind.
Hither-inf and yonder-in*.
All the world behind!
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issued by Rev. M. M. Chunn of- the
Methodist church, was of especial in-
terest this month.
There were many items of interest
to Methodists, ami of especial note
was the program for the Easter
church services carried on the front
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mr. Vince Urbnnosvby who lives
Bear town was given a surprise
birthday party last night The oc-
casion being his fifty-fourth birthday
anniversary. Members of the family
and those, whp attended the party
■wet at the studio at Daa Urbaawvky
and fron there went oat to the
heme where the evening wee spent
Oh. to hsve a Summer, dear.
Hand In hand with you !—
Greeting every comeT, dear.
Every bird of blue.
With a song together, dear,
Strolling here and there
In the Summer weather, dear.
World without a care!
But, if not the merry way
Ours the Joy to know,
Any way’s a fairy way
We together go;
I could walk the dreary roud.
What the weather be,
If yon went the w-#*y: road
Hide bv el to with met
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better hid from common observation. I Not that “The Man on the Corner”
is the intention of the “Man on the j wants to take away the liberty of
Corner” to chronicle from time to the young folks, but less time on the
time some of the incidents coming! streets and more in the realm of good
under his observation and to pass literature would help to put down
along some of the “Corner Philoso- “Auto Flirtation” and other radically
phy” that is sometimes spilled un- wrong and useless amusements which
awares. All in good part and friend- young people term good times,
DON’T TAKE A CHANCE
West People Should Act In Time.
ship to all, but if necessary at times,
the axe may cut pretty clean.
Now that election is over the cor-
ner is pretty quiet. Still there seems
to be an undercurrent of something
unseen, dissatisfaction sprouts out of
certain remarks, an underlying feeling
that things might and ought to have
been better. How unstable and frail
is this human nature of ours. The
other might 1 heard a man “on the;
corner” make the remark, speaking
of a certain candidate that “1 would-
n’t vote for him if he gave me a
thou.-and. He isn’t fit.’ This candi-
date was elected, and since, I have
heard this man say, “Well, what
are you going to do about it. lie’s
just as good as the other.” “Sour
grapes," of course, and determina-
tion to make the best of it, although
it swallows hard. Well, it’s all over,
they say, let’s go and have af game
of dominoes. I remember the time
When they would have said “let’s go
and have a-but who doesn’t?
but
which, in the end, usually run the
participator into a peck ‘o trouble.”
If you suffer from backache;
If you have headache, dizzy spells;
If the kidney secretions are irregu-
lar,
Don’t Delay—likely your kidneys
Oh, yes, you can get more than are sjck.
the air while standing on the corner. West people recommend Doan’s
Sometimes it’s good and sometimes Kidney Pills.
it’s bad, but, of course, that’s a mat- Here’s a West woman’s experience:
ter of opinion, if it’s hot air you Mrs. R. O. Evans, W. Davis St.,
want and can stand some of that savs; “As a kidney regulator there
which is handed out just come and js nothing as good as Doan’s Kidney
hang around some night. I’ll be pj]]s. i have them for an irregular
around there some place ready to condition of my kidneys and for back-
catch all the words of wisdom you ache and they have given splendid
Wanted: Men or women to take
orders for genuine guaranteed hos-
iery for men, women, and children.
Eliminates darning. Salary $75 a
week, full time, $1.50 an hour spare
time. Beautiful Spring line. Inter-
national Stocking Mills, Norristown,
Pa.
666 cures Malarial Fever.
iS» Worms in 4 Healthy Child v
Ail children troubled with Vrorms have aaon-
neuiihy color, uinca indicates poor blood, and as a
*ule, there b more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVES TASTELESS chi.l TONIC given regularly
lor two or three weeks will enich the blood, im-
prove the digestion, und act as a General Strength-
ening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then
throw off or dispel the worms, and theChild will be
in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle.
WANTED—to buy fat cattle, hogs
and heaxy bulls. Will pay top mar-
ket price.—F. L. Uptmore, Route 4,
West, Texas. tf
may let fall on the subject.
Enlarge the membership of the
Mothers’ Club with your name and
membership, fee only fifty cents for
remainder of year.
Read the home paper.
relief. 1 think any one in need of
a kidney remedy should try Doan’s
Kidney Pills.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t j
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Evans had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv.
Colds Caus“ Crip anu u’.fiurnza
LAXATIVE ERCM0 CUININE Tantets rvro w
'Mum: There is cnly one ’BruiiiO Quluia'-
e. W GROVE'S signature oo box. 341c.
“Did you notice” said an old-timer
“on the comer” to me the other nigh
when a ear driven by a local speed-
fiend buzzed past at a forty-clip,
“that them there guys down at Aus-
tin have passed a bill allowing them
to drive at thirty-five miles an hour
on the state highways, and Gov. Neff
signed it, too. Easy to know they
all own cars. What in tarnation do,
they want to rids so durned fast for,
is more’n’ I can see. Seems to me
like as if there was enough humans
being slaughtered at the old rate of
twenty-five miles without bustin’ the1
air thataway.” And 1 sincerely I
coincided with the old-timer. Twenty-
five miles an hour is fast enough for
any one to drive, and too fast for
some of the irresponsibles that drive
cars these days. No doubt, had that
driver that whizzed past Old Timer
and I been a stranger passing through
he would have been caught up with
and we would have heard of him in
local court next. So it is with the
Solons at Austin. They have cars
that must be driven fast, let the
women and children along our high-
ways lookout for themselves.
We have a special price on the
Oscar Ware home, see us at once as
this is one of the nicest homes in
West. Denton, Willis & Co.
WANTED- Man with car to sell
complete line low priced TIRES AND
TUBES. $100.00 per week.
Sterlingworth Tire Co.,
3t-17-p Sterling, E Liverpool, O.
6 6 6
Just received a large shipment of wj|] break a (;<,]<] Fever and
ST Griw quicker (ban anythin, we
,. , V,, .’, _ know, preventing pneumonia.
kinds.—Christian Hardware Co.
IN YOUR BREAD BOX
keep the City Bakery & Confection-,
ery bread and it will keep fresh,
pure and sweet. Made of the very
choicest quality ingredients, our
bread naturally stays fresh and pala-
table longer than inferior loaves.
Particular housewives perfer our
bread for quality.
City Bakery
and Confectionery
WfiWj j
You know the Old Timer spilled
some more .very fine logic the other
night while 1 was talking to him “on
(he corner.” For example: There
were two girls, I would judge about
the age of sixteen, standing nearby,
when along came a car with two
young men. “Take you home,” they
shouted, and the girls got in. Old
SwTSSf JlteYforeTowlS * The old Cultivator was a good one too, but it has seen its best
(it was nine o’clock) and they’d wair.’Mr J days, and with the prospects before us of a high price for all farm
“Oh, come, I said, don’t be too hard.y J
you were young once yourself." “I’m
watching," he said, “to see if they
turn in the right direction.” And so
we continued philosophying on Flap-
pers and their ways, I contending
that the American girl of today is
mighty able to take care of herself,
in almost any position she may find
herself, and he waxing wrathful at
the way in which they “bob” and pow-
der and one-piece dress. “It’s the
fault of the parents, he said,” they
stay at home or go to some new
fangled club or somethin’, and —,
their girls do.as they please. They’re,
to blame for all the trouble.” Then,
1 asked him if the car in which they
•eere riding had taken the direction
for their heme, and he turned to me |
and ft seemed as if he was saddened,-
when he replied “No, it went just;
the oppv^te, as I reckoned it would,
and it’s half-past nine.” I wonder, like
Old Timer, if parents are not care-
less of their daughters’ actions. “My
daughter caa take care of
i j products, why not get the best Implements to be had, and thereby
[ j increase the yeild of your farm. Labor will be higher, and by us-
ing the best Cultivator and Planters, you can save a great amount of
i | money, as well as troubles,
f I The P. & O. line of Cultivators and Planters have stood the
test of time and usage, and today you will find them better than
ever before, and the price is right, backed by the best guarantee to
be had anywhere. We have a full car load of them, come in and
j look them over, and place your order early, for there is going to be
a shortage and somebody will not get theirs.
Reagor Co.,
IWr "'i ri '
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Hudson, Estelle. The West Weekly News and Times. (West, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1923, newspaper, April 6, 1923; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth588933/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting West Public Library.