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KNOCKING BUTTERMILK
[Pub. Co. - - Publishers
iblished Every Friday
LOWRY - - EDITOR
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jurteen staes have ratified
Rational woman suffrage
idment. Nebraska ratified
Saturday, and her ratifica-
. was by unanimous vote.
re don’t know how it will turn
It, but right now it look to us
ike all records are going to be
roken this year in the matter of
ishing coveys of crap shooters.
le Federal Employment ser-
says there is a shortage of
ion labor” in the south and
|, but a surplus of office help.
[ goes to show that the swivel
is still more popular in our
good
lies.
iA lapdafA t>£ tone haixr/per cent al-'
c.ofYri: yyriiid prohibit pot only the aa3k
byk the manufacture of butter&ilk
^necessarily ferlriinted and froiP one
to three percent alcphol) ,and, *by in-
ference, the manufacture of butter.
Seems safest to kill off all but the dry
cows.—Wall Stret Journal,
Pore old Jim Ltowery., He has put
in a whole lifetime^preabhing the doc-
trine of buttermilk, Yand now to find
that it is prohibited by the dry laws
THE PROMISED LAND.
the alcohol germs. Something should
be do'ne to save his pet stimulant.
—Garland News.
The whiskey ring and the
great business interests are still
trying to down the world’s
elixir of life, the delightful acid-
ulated lacteal fluid. Years ago,
when we were pounding away on
the buttermilk propoganda, these
interests and their hirelings put
out awful reports on buttermilk.
They claimed that many people
got choked on the wonderful
from Europe and America will go
to Palestine to live. Tens of
thousands are said to be already
engaged in familiarizing them-
selves with the topography,
land than the plow g^d and died,that thousands had climate, soil and business oppor-
Pteen cents was added to the
tax rate this year in order
^furnish books free to the
fool children. We are wonder-
fg what the addition to the tax
Fate will be a few years hence
[when the state decides to furnish
clothing for the school children.
Belgium has been voted dry, so
far as whisky and other heavy
intoxicants are concerned^ The
dry list now includes the Jnited
States, Belgium, Russia and Tur-
key. We are proud of our dry-
ness, but we are not saying much
about some of our dry company.
become buttermilk drunkards;
that it engendered family feuds,
The Zionist plans for the re-
ocupation of Palestine are going the glorious, esteemed, brilliant
right ahead, despite opposition
and delay in determining the
final' status of that, country.
The Zionist resume that the
plans O'f the British, Who took
that Region from the Turks, will
be earned out, probably in the
form of a Jewish republic under
from being manufactured. Maybe they ™*ot pc ti on of the league of
can put Buifnnan bugs in it and kill S«S!!wSSte^L tLXng£
ment, the Jews seem assured of
of pretty complete autonmy,
and freedom from the restric-
tions and precautions so long
imposed by the Turks on Jews
and Christian alike.
Some Zionist leaders say that
less than 1,000,000 Hebrews
no
tunities of the reigon and plan-
ning particularly to in: reduce
fostered socialism, made people modern methods of agriculture.
We do not approve of French
plan to shoot all profiteers. The
world has shed enough blood in
war without killing ten times as
many in a period of peace. So
far as the U. S. is concerned, we
want to make a good showing in
the next census and would
hate to see the population more
than half-shot to pieces.
bowlegged and worked many
other awful atrocities upon the
human family. Now that the
fight has been won, and the
flag of buttermilk waves from
Cape Cod to Iloilo, and from the
aurora borealis to the south pole,
the same interests are trying to
hoist the delightful fludi upon
its own petard-which is to say
they are trying to prevent its
manufacture under the bone-dry
laws. Fight on, ye villains; the
apostle of buttermilk is a war-
rior bold and peace troubles his
mind. There isn't enough alco-
hol in buttermilk to intoxicate
a chigger.
Senator J. C. McNealus of Dal-
las, is one of the first of the lead-
ers to break away from the Dem-
ocratic party and announce his
adherence to the People’s Demo-
cratic party. McNealus says he
Somehow the idea had fastened
the present population. If the
expectation is realized, therefore,
the political and social problems
of the settlers will be simplified
Dy their numerical superiority.
The present inhabitants are
mostly Turks and Arabs, hardly
capable of sucessful competition
with the fresh, vigorous, modern
type of Hebrew who returns as
a pioneer to land of his fathers.
It will surely take courage, en-
ergy and science to redeem that
little sacred strip of land between
the Dead sea and the Mediter-
ranean. It seems to have been
fertile and well watered in an-
cient times, otherwise it would
hardly have been the “Promised
itself to our dome of thought Land” that it was to the children
will announce at the proper time
as a candidate for Lieutenant of youth were
Governor and will make the race
as the candidate of the new par- There also was the rich, flaming
ty, on an anti-woman suffrage red when the peel was removed,
that the hand of the iconoclast
had been laid on the old-time In-
dian peach and that the world
should know it no more forever,
We were delightfully disillusion-
ed the other day when there
came from the good old county
of Van Zandt a crate of the old-
time Indian peaches. There was
the old-time blush of this won-
derful fruit, there were the pid
ed effects and the streaks just
as we saw them when the dews
upon our brow
and there was hair on om head.
and state rights platform.
Somehow it is very difficult for
the average man to sympathize
very ‘deeply with strikers who
are already receiving about twice
as much for their work as he re-
ceives, and whose work-day is
twenty per cent, shorter than his.
This may be selfishness, but if
so, it is a selfishnes that grows
out of the great law of self-pres-
ervation, and we do not find it in
our heart to condemn it.
and, there was the juice gushing
from the fount of saccharine
sweetness, sweeter and more de-
lightful than any of the brews
of mount Olympus. A wonder-
ful country is the freestate of
Van Zandt, and a wonderful peo-
Twenty educated fleas were
Y arned in California and the in-
surance companies must pay the
owners $6000. You see what a
valuable thing education is. If
all the fleas that are on all the
dogs in this country could be ed-
ucated and insured at these
rates, and then burned, the oil
fields of the west would pale into
insignificance when compared to
rihe riches the flea industry
vould dump upon Honey Grove.
’"'X .
-boosting the price of s
slides, and the workers
The farmer is boosting the
Jnce oPcptton and hogs, the pack
er is boosting the price of meats
and lards, the factory man is
of shirts and
on farms,
on railroads and in shops are
>sting the price of labor. And
^the thing goes on and on, with
side striking this week and
other side pushing up the
price next week. Maybe the
Ice-boosting snake will seize
its tail and swallow itself some
day, and then the world will have
‘industrial peace, provided the
snake doesn’t immediately start
on another chase after its tail.
and they are seeing to it that the
good old things of the fathers do
not pass from the earth. No
man who eats an Indian peach
will ever sass his wife, kick his
dog, cuss a Democratic adminis-
tration or vote the
ticket.
The A. & M. College field men
predict a great scarcity of cotton
pickers in this stste this fall if
■the plant matures as heavy a
crop as is now indicated. These
field men say the situation will
he worse on account of the fact
that picking will begin about the
same time all over the state this
year. Usually most of the south
Texas crop has been picked be-
fore picking gets well under way
tin north Texas, but this year the
Louth Texas crop is very late, and
ticking will start there about the
Ume time it starts in north Tex-
The A. & M. men urge cot-
ii growers to begin cooperating
V with the view of securing
>r. They recommend the im-
itation of large numbers of
Iiilies from Mexico.
There are those who be-
lieve the world cannot get rid of
war, and they oppose the League
of Nations. There are those who
believe the world ought not to
get rid of war, and they oppose
the League of Nations. We
cannot believe that those who be-
lieve war a necessity, am. those
who are so bloodthirsty that they
want a continuation of war are
in the majority in this civilized
land, therefore we refuse to be-
lieve that the United States will
reject the League of Nations.
To believe that we stand for war,
either as a necessity or as some-
thing desireable, is to heap slan-
der upon the best nation under
the sun.
Missed.
Whbt;, oh what, has become of
And scintillating Honey Grove
Signal ? Woe unto us, sayeth we.
lias Editor Lowry melted into a
grease spot under the rays of a
withering sun, has the press
broken down, the copy boy hand-
ed in his resignation, thus crip-
pling the vital part of the plant,
or did some irate subscriber en-
ter the editorial sanctum and
shoot the editor in the midst of
his duties or through the heart ?
Once upon a day, and not so
very long ago, the Signal, shining
in all its glory and good English,
used to find its way into the cage
where the editor of this colyum
grinds out verbose verbiage
which comes out upside down,
sideways, pied or otherwise dis-
figured. We recall that we offer-
ed the editor of the Signal a gen-
uine old Seth Thomas clock,
guaranteed to run as long as he
kept the pendulum moving with
his right fore finger—and then
and there the Signal stopped
This is considerably more than Qan jt be that someone who ap-
of Iseral. If so, the climate has
changed much. Today it is
mostly semi-arid, with a soil,
which even when watered, shows
itself impoverished. There are
big areas of hopeless rock and
sand.
FLYERS STRIKE TOO.
The
predates the Signal better than gers,
ourselves deliberately swipes it,’
thus depriving us of its wit, hu-
mor, philosophy and other good
stuff that emanates from its
pages? Or can it be that Burle-
son has plugged up th. mail
chutes ? Allah be praised, we do
not think such things have hap-
pened. Again we ask, OH what,
has become of the Honey Grove
Signal, whose editorials were
meat to our very souls, permeat-
ed our being and were darned
good at all times? Concluding,
we are reminded of the sweet
and comforting lines of a famous
poet:
“Serene we fold our hands and wait
Here beside the garden gate.”
Beaumont Enterprise.
We knew it was coming, and its
here. The flyers have struck.
We take the following from the
St. Louis Republic of recent date :
“Asserting they are forced to
fly not only in bad weather, but
also in unsafe machines, 20 aeri-
al mail pilots, at Belmont Park,
N. Y., served notice on
Assistant Postmaster General
Praeger at Washington that they
would refuse to fly unless rein-
statement was granted to two
brother pilots who, they assert-
ed, were discharged because they
refused to take the air on ac-
count of a fog.” To be sure the
flyers are novices in the art of
striking, but they will soon know
better. They lost their- strike,
because they did not strike at
the psychological moment. Not
long since the grave diggers of
Chicago won a strike, but they
showed wisdom in choosing a
time to strike, They waited un-
til the cemetery was full of
corpses. The time for the flyer
to strike is when he’s 400 feet in
the air with a car full of passen-
OUR WARSHIPS IN THE PACIFML
So far as we are aware, no defi-
nite statement has been made as
to why the United States fleet
has been sent into the Pacific
waters. It is not a far guess,
however, to say it is for the pur-
pose of warning Japan. There
have been some tendenies on the
Second part of Japan that have made
painful impression upon this
country. The way in which she
has taken over the interests and
claims in the Shantung Peninsula
has left the impression that she
is dominated by an imperialistic
spirit. The disturbances in Korea,
in which American missionaries
have been involved, native?
Christians have suffered martyr-
dom and all manner of indigni-
ties and abuses heaped upon
federal treasury _ an-
nounces that a new $100 bill is
to be issued, and the announce-
ment will be hailed with joy by
the shoppers. People who must
go to the groceries or dry goods
stores to purchase a week’s sup-
plies can not carry enough notes
of small denominations to pay
the bills.
ORGANIZED LABOR’S LATEST
DEMAND.
Organized labor has demand'
ed that private control of rail-
roads cease.
This late demand caused no
great surprise. Organized labor
has made so many demands of
late that people are prepared to
expect any kind of demand, even
that property belonging .to oth-
ers be turned over to the organ-
izations, to run as they may
elect.
Organized labor has virtually
for operating the railroads of the
ables every new thing that’s good country.
The organized railway labor
organizations now demand that
the railroads of the country be
taken entirely out of the hands
of private ownership. In the
words of the street urchin, this
Socialist is going some.
The people of the United
States have tried private owner-
ship of railroads. Under that
system they got fair service at
reasonable rates.
The people of the United
States have also tried govern-
ment operation of railroads.
What they received under that
plan they don’t like to talk
about, and can’t talk about and
stay in a good humor.
We do not know, and dare not
attempt to guess what the next
demand will be. Possibly it will
be a demand that the farms of
the country be turned over to
the organizations. Who knows?
The time has now come for the
public to speak, and the public
will do some speaking.
(Note—This brute shall have
another paper, even though his
subscription is a month in the
red.
THE
PRESIDENT, THE LEAGUE
AND THE SENATE,
Nations, has not been productive
of any decisive results. Ex-Presi-
dent Taft had written a personal
letter to Will H. Hayes, Chair-
man of the Republican party,
which was not intended for pub-
lication, but through some unex-
plained means, it got to the pub
lie by way of the Associated
Press. It suggested certain ex-
who make that choice snot fixed its own wages, but is not of cotton another bc
of earth their habitation They satisfied with the scale it fixed ?1?1^aJ1?ns aj ® iSS th„^ few who have staple on hand are
have added to their list of eat
Many of the papers that reach
the Signal desk are complaining
at the light attendance upon the
church services of their towns,
especially on Sunday evenings.
This is not true of Honey Grove.
It may be that the attendance
does run light at some of the
churches, but taken as a whole
the attendance upon Sunday eve-
ning church services in Honey
Grove is great. At the Holy
Roller meeting, near the railroad
track,you‘11 find enough blacks
and whites every Sunday even-
ing service to bring up a fine av-
erage for the town, even though
there are notf a baker's dozen at
any of the other churches. We
are told that the congregations
at this partcular place of worship
are so large that many cannot
even see the preacher. Sermons
and songs and prayers may grow
dull and uninteresting, but it
seems that many people will nev-
er grow tired of seeing others
dance and roll.
Around Bonham terrapin are
said to be destroying the new
com crop. Doubtless the sand
fiddlers are also working great
injury to the cotton crop in that
section. Be of good cheer, ye
dwellers in this garden of our
Lord. Not until the terrapins
and the sand-fiddlers leam to
walk on stilts ten feet high will
these destroyers be able to reach
an ear of com in the wonderful
Honey Grove country.
We want to give the people of
this country a little advice. The
next time a medicine show comes
along go out and buy a big lot of
medicine. Don’t stop with the
purchase of a few bottles—you
may have to be cured many
times. We have been giving ad-
vice contrary to this, but fhe ad-
vice we gave was not heeded, and
we want to feel a little more in-
them, according to the testimony
of missionaries themselves, indti-
cates that Japan is not in sym-
pathy with our Christian ideals
and that she is inclined to resort
to any kind of means in order
stay the progres of the Christian.;
religion and to enslave certain of
her neighbors. Uncle Sam hj£
come to know Japan fairly welL
and he looks upon the Japanese
just as neighbors looked upon Jo
Bogstock—as “devilish sly.” If
Japan wants to be peaceful and
behave, all good and well, but';
if Japan is to nurse the imperial-
istic spirit and get ready to im
rough shod over a portion of the
world, Uncle Sam’s big ships wil
be ready to meet her when she
starts her work of conquest.
President Wilson’s conference
with the Republican Senators,
while clearing up certain points _ ...
in the treaty and the League of every line of trade and industry.
Day by day the strike situa-
tion grows worse. The country,
it seems, has
and there are grounds to fear
that we are rushing headlong
toward the awful conditions that
have long cursed Russia. Fine
crops have been made, there is
work at high wages for all, and
the country appears to be facing
an era of unprecedented pros-
perity, and yet all the bright
prospects of today may be
blighted by strikes. If trains are
stopped merchants cannot get
goods, neither can mechanics get
material. If trains cannot be
run cotton and other prod-
ucts of the farm cannot be ship-
ped, and soon there will be a tie-
up that will bring stagnation to
____________ Many of the breweries and dhv
gone strike mad, tilleries of the United States have
- ’ ben turned into ice cream factor-
ies. Ice cream has grown so pop-
ular in this country, and is now
os Aq Ajissaoau u su uodn po^oof
many, that Congress has voted
to remove the war tax therefrom
and let it go on the free list. We
are told that ice cream was in-
troduced in this country during
the administration of Andrew
Jackson by the Widow of Alex-
ander Hamilton. Poossibly this
was the beginning of the end of
state rights. Jackson was strong
state rights, but Mrs. Hamil-
ton was the widow of the mam
who stood out for centralization
and organized a party with cen-
tralization as its chief plank.
Possibly the delightful cream
cooled the ardor of President
Jackson for state rights, and
thus began the destruction of
this old-time Democratic doc-
trine. Anyway, we have mono
ice ceream now than ever before,
while the doctrine of state rights
is only a memory.
We shall hope for better things,
but right now a threat of ruin
faces all industry. It is easy now
to see that drastic steps must be
taken by the country for the pro-
tection of trade, life and property.
The report of the Department
of Agriculture, which was made
public last Friday, gave the price
of cotton another boost, and the
might be adopted without real
force of the present constitution
of the League. Mr. Taf: is in
favor of passing upon the Lea-
gue as it is now constituted,
trusting to the future for such
modification or additions as may
be necessary to perfect it. The
Hon. Chas. Evans Hughes is also
out with rather a lucid statement
on the matter in favor of the
League, but he feels that ft least
four reservations should be
adopted by the Senate along with
the League. The President plans,
we are told, to take the whole
matter to the country, so we may
expect in the near future a series
of presidential speeches covering
the whole League situation. It
is explained that within a few
days Japan will make a statement
clarifying her position with ref-
erence to the Shantung Peninsu-
la.
At Toledo, Ohio, the people are
up in arms over the high prices
of bacon. We should like to see
the price of bacon reduced about
thirty cents a pound in other
places, but if the Toledans are
rejoicing. The report showed
the condition of the plant to be
poor in Mississippi, Georgia, Al-
bania,Florida and the Carolinas,
due to too much wet weather and
to the ravages of the boll weevils.
A smaller acreage was also
shown, this being caused by un-
usually heavy abandonment of
cotton fields that had been aban-
doned on account of wet weather
and the scarcity of labor. The
report, as a whole, is very favor-
able for extra high prices for the
crop that is now growing.
Shoes are selling at a higher
price than any person now liv-
ing ever saw them sell for in
sound money. Notwithstanding
these fabulous prices, shoe manu-
facturers and shoe journals keep
giving the heart-rending news
that prices must go higher. The
public wants to know why the
prices of footwear have been
threbled, and men have kept ask-
ing for the information until Con-
gress has taken up the matter
and is trying to ascertain the
cause of the great advance. The
information gleaned shows that
we shall not shed any briny tears
over their sorrowful fate. They
broke each other’s shoulders and
hips in their mad rush to the
grand stand to pay fifty dollars
for a ticket to the Willard-Demp-
sey fight.
Ex-Governor Ferguson has
sued the Beaumont Enterprise
for damages in the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars. Not
long since he was given a
verdict against the Houston
Post for ten thousand dollars
damages. During the campaign
last year many papers pub-
lished articles which Mr. Fergu-
son says were slanderous. Far-
merJim is now entering suit a~
gainst all these papers. The San
Antonio Express and the Hous-
ton Post must pay him ten thou-
sand dollars each, and if he wins
fluential, so we have changed a few more suits against the pa-
over and from now on will try to pers he will be much bettr off fi-
give the kind of advice people nancially than if he had contin-
want and will take. [ued in the governor's chair.
forced to pay fifty cents a slice the price of hides, from which
The scientist who recently pre-
dicted that this earth is soon to
dry up and blow away must have
just emerged from a cyclone and
learned the result of a prohibi-
tion election.
Nobody in this country is bar.
favor of mob law, but if tfise
scoundrels who robbed the Petty
bank are caught we are going to
put in a lot of time rejoicing over
the fact that we didn’t insure
their lives for a period of ten
minutes beyond positive identifi-
cation.
shoes are made, has advanced
but slightly. It shows a material
advance in the wages of the em-
ployes who make shoes, but the
advance in wages does not begin
to equal the advance in the price
of shoes. Why, then, has the
price of shoes soared until the
world seems facing barefooted-
ness? One Congressman has
found the answer. He has found
that the earnings of the Central
Leather Company were 100 per
cent, greater for the second quar-
ter of this year than for the first
quarter, and that the increase in
the same period over that
of last year was 99 per cent. We
judge that the Central Leather
Company has concluded that its
earnings are yet too small, and
that it will add another 100 per
cent, for the coming quarter, and
tack on three dollars to the price
of each pair of shoes. Why not?
It seems that there is no power
to say to the big trust musn’t do
so.
Public School Faculty.
The faculty of the Honey
Grove Public Schools is not yet
complete, there being several va-
cancies to fill, but the following
teachers have been elected lor
the ensuing term:
Edgar McLendon, Superinten-
dent.
I. K. Stephens, principal High
School.
D. W. Garland, principal Grade;
School.
High School
I. K. Stephens, Mathematics.
Miss Jessie Stapp, English.
Miss Thelma Stephens, History
Mrs. J. F. Kennedy, Household
Economics.
Miss Velma A. White, Latin,
and Spanish.
Miss Tobie Morris, Piano.
Grade School
D. W. Garland.
Miss Mamie E. Smith.
Miss Monte Hutchison.
Miss Jessie Wilson.
Miss Mary Harral Crawford,
Miss Verdie Fisher.
Miss Ellie Gibson.
Miss Louise Booker.
Miss Irmine Hayes.
Miss Jessie Cook.
If you have town property you
want sold see me. I have several
buyers on my list. No sale bo
charge.—P. P. Gibson.
Sterling Wood and Jewell Ev-
ersole received ugly wounds in an
automobile accident Saturday
night while coming from Wolfe
City. The driver, who lives in
Wolfe City, was seriously ia~
jured.
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