The Daily Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 97, Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 1919 Page: 2 of 4
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FOR HIGHWAY* EXPLAINED
every day sxcspt Sunday by
PUL1T»0eXT»hinq co.
Austin, Texas, May 4.—There is an
erroneous impression throughput the
state as to how aid cut be granted a
county (Or the construction of state
highways, according to Chairman
Hubbard of the highway commission.
A number of statements have appear
ed hi the press to the effect that a
county colud receive an equal amount
of state and federal aid ‘to that which
they put up themselves for the con-
struction of state highways. Mr. Hub-
bard explains that this is impossible
if all the counties are to receive a
reasonable proportion of the amount
Hubbard
, .Chicago, May 5.—Wh&t the men still
overseas think of some of the tales
whickratarnMlSfombm Of “the A. E.
F. or special correspondents are in-
flicting on home town newspapers is
reflected in the April 4 issue of Stars
Itt' Yorfc Avenue
and Stripes, official publication'of
Pershing's command. The ’ article
starts out: ‘ y
"When Pi T. Barnum, or whoever
siad it, remarked that each man's
wrist watch is pregnant with birth
dates of suckers, his epigram covered
aptly and fully that great body of
American Journalists who for the past
few months have been filling other-
wise quite readable newspapers with
pictures and interview* Which have
caused in the A. B. F. a riot of hum-
orous disgust."
The article then quotes various ar-
ticles published,in different sections
of the country, starting with one tale
of a captain who is said to have rid-
den back and forth in No Man’s
Land on a bicycle to distribute his or-
ders to bis company, the alleged rea-
son being that he “disliked trenches
because it took time to traverse
them." 'The account relates the fail-
ure of german machine gunners to
“knock him off" and also how the en-
emy, after missing the rider, finally
managed to hit the spokep of the
wheel “and ruined the bicycle.”
Dallas, Texas, May 5.—Let's face
the facts. ; /
The Victory Liberty loan is under-
subscribed. About 120,900,000 has
been actually reported to Dallas by
the banks out of a quo/a of $94,500,-
ooo. ; .
Reports wired in indicate that- an-
other $10,000,000 may be in‘transit.
With two-thirds of the time gone
we are thus $64,500,000 short.
It will be' clear from the above
{acts that no one else is carrying your
load or doing your duty. The Issue'
is right straight up tojevery man and
woman in the district.
They said we wouldn’t fight We
fought. Will we not\pay?
What is your answer?
SMITH,
Tslsphonst
ISO. Independent 280-B
You win find
all three flavors
In tbe scaled
packases-lxit look
for the oaipe
WRIGLEYS
because It Is your
protection adalnet
inferior imitations.
Just as tbe sealed
package is protec-
tion aiaiosf Im-
purity.
waisk tight i
sumacs n w w, fl
SETT MOOT J
The i
Flavor J
MONDAY, MAY 5, 1919.
of money available. Mr.
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦•f
♦ THRIFT PLEDGE. . ♦
♦ -5- V ♦
♦ Because I am a loyal American, ♦
♦ because my country needs my ♦
♦ help, because jrhat 'I save will +
♦ help mb and *hat Is saved 'in ♦
America will belp the whole ♦
A world, 1 prSbike to lire economl- ♦
A osUy and s&vd all that I can; to A
“I would like to correct an erron-
eous Impression tbat seems to be in
vogue in regard to the amount .of fed-
eral and state aid. In 1916 the federal
government first appropriated aid to
tbe different states. At that time
$75,000,000, which was considered a
large sum, was appropriated for the
:es of the
purpose of aiding the si
Union in constructing-good 'roads. Of
this sum, the State of Texas was al-
lotted approximately $4,500,000 to cov-
er the building period of five Wear*
beginning with 1917, in which gefcf
there was available the sum of ap-
proximately $600,000, or one-fifteenth
of the total. -’ In 1918 there was avail-
able two-fifteenths, In 1919 three-fif-
teenth, in 1920 there will be available
.four-fifteenth, and in 1921 the remain-
der, or five-fifteenths.
“Since the highway department
was organised in 1917, and due to the
intervention of the’ war, although we
have appropriated and allotted to the
FRANK M.
District Director War Loan Organi-
zation. <
MRS. E. B. REPPERT,
Liberty Loan
-#||il»vWrnment by investing It in +
War Savings Stamps. ♦
♦ A ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦>♦♦♦♦ ♦'V
Chairman .Woman’s
Committee. *
I _
Get in Debt, Says 8mith.
Frank M. Smith, federal district di-
rector of war loans, said today:
“The result of the Victory load
campaign has bebn disappointing.
Only Travis county, Texas, Dallas
county, Texas, and Debaca county,'
New Mexico, went over the top Sat-’
urday. I would feel' very much de-
pressed about the matter If 1 did not'
retain my faith unshaken in the abso-
lute loyalty and good sense of the
people of this district. Nothing can
shake that faith.. But I must point
out in the most Earnest and serious
manner at my command that the fail*
ure of any one citizen to do his duty
may mean th«*ifallure of hip commun-
ity pr county; ^ failure of many
The ben that lays an egg a day is a
aid mine for her owner. Take a lea-
l> from the ben. Lay up for your
■Dire by investing regularly in war
wrings stamps. _
The rain Sunday night will be of
gntt benefit to Parker county farm-
H era. In many places the rain ’ was
badly needed. It will help the grain
mm well as all kinds.of row crops.
different counties the entire amount
available from the original allotment,
there has been only a gmall amount
expended. As a further limitation,
this amount was available only for
post reads.. !;
“This year congress
What about about tbe Victory Lib-
erty loan? Have you done your duty
40 assist the government in raising
money to pay thrldebts incurred by
sanding our boys to France to fight
tor you? Many sacrifices were made
in the Argonne and St.Mlhiel drives.
JWhat have you sacrificed in afi effort
4» #nlah -the Job? The Victory, notes
2ire .;iuore attractive as an fiMjMMft&ent
dban any that the government has is-
, mod. Don’t be a slacker at this lute
Any, but go at once to your banker
Tbe drive closes
ippropriated
$200,000,060 more for the purpose of
assisting the states in the conatruc-
tion of good- roada Of this sum
there is now available and will bb
available this year and next to the
8tate of Texas a little less, than $12,-
000,000, malting a total available from
In addi-
Texas, Louisiana, Oklah'oni
(Mexico and Arizona in the
wrong
light before the country and before
the world. , f"
My earnest advice is to get into
debt. The old-fashioned moralists
used to tell us that debt is a disgrace-
ful condition; neither a borrower or
Modem experience
federal aid of $16,093,000.
tlon the act was amended so as to,
allow a state to expend this sum on
roads that are now used or can be
used for post roads, thereby giving
a great deal more latitude in allot-
ments made to the different counties.
“The original, as well as the amend-
ed act, provided that tbiB fund should
not be used to aid the construction of
any highway not -to exceed 50 per
oent of its total cost. From that pro-
vision the idea has been gained that
the federal aid- could match every
dollar raised by the local community,
and take the limit.
.Saturday.
gaws is emphasized by the army
newspaper.
“Interviews” with some soldiers are
ridiculed, including epedally one in
which the “hero” was quoted as say-
ing that he had been sumomned to
“grand army headquarters at Brest"
to receive the'croix de guerre. Stars
and Stripes concludes its comment
thusly: ' , |. -
“When F. T. Barnum, or whoever
said it, made tbat famous remark, he
uttered the opinion of the A. E. F.
as to perodicals which print such sto-
ries as those quoted."
Tbm subscriptions to tbe hotel in
Weatherford is dragging. Every dtl-
sett ought to volunteer his services to
.otMpt the committee In putting this
proposition over. You' people that
boon talking the nee& of a good
bptel In Weatherford ought to get
tmuf. If you have been in earnest
•Mwetofore, you ought to show your
W(neatness by coming down a'little
fcpavjer on the subscription list.
Tfbver mind the location, raise the
money, elect your board of directors
mad then-select the site. Weatherford
V might to be asbtmed of herself if she
lets this opportunity to build a mod-
em hotel tell. We Just can’t afford
mat to carry .the plans through.
lender be, etc.
showB us that the finest thing in- the
world, morally and financially, is to
be in debt in a good cause. Vhe man
who obligate^ himself to buy notes of
the ^Victory Liberty loan is going to
work harder, save harder, and pro-
duce more, thus serving -Jtiz own best
interests, those of his dependents and
his fellow man. Some men can save
without having some binding obliga-
tion which forces them to' save. Oth-
ers cannot. Everyone can serve bet-
ter when they have an honarahle ob-
ligation to spur them on. Get into
debt to Uncle Spin. He is an easy
creditor and pay's dividends on thrift
in money and solid satisfaction."
Victory Bond Stories.
One finds no slacker districts In
Bryan county, OkRtlWay Although
the tornado which swept this part of
fyie country leas than a month ago re-
cut the fenchs to make
sharp fighting with man
riders’* and the settlers. A
rangers were put into t
the settlers guaranteed j|
and the settlement of tb|
began in earnest >,
While the cattle ranches
somewhat supplanted by f
McNealus, a Texas plonet
Usher, who has closely itt
opinent of the west, says
men are more prosi^rous
He says that when they sa
grazing grounds disappear
up scientific methods of pa
the rangy TeSras steer bdn
for breeds pf far superior'
Farms tbat ,are show j
blooded cattle and hogs a;
grain, now sprinkle the d
nrna Aims a aImIaK nf iln
war’s demands gave the lakes a total
of 112 berths, 79 forcargo ships and
33 for tugs. While the. average total
number of rivet gangs in theXJreat
Lakes district Is only ten per cent of
the nation’s total, they point proudly
to a record of delivering 30 per cent
of the country's total ship tonnage.
Additional contracts for 346 ships
Of 4,200 tons each have been placed
but as the state has only $16,000,000
of federal aid available for Texas and
about $4,000,000 state aid, and in rec-
ent months there have been voted
$2,530,000 in bonds and $34,000,000 to
be voted upon in the near future, it is
readily seen that tbe state and federal
aid can not begin to match these
enormous sums.
“There is only one way that the
State of Texas can keep abreast with
the times and keep step jAth the
progress of the nation. Th&t was is
to provide a sufficient amount of
FIRST HONOR8 IN 8HIP
BUILDING TO GREAT LAKES
snlted In a great loss both in life and;
property. For instance, ih the school
district of Highvlew, where only 25
families Hved, eleven were killed and
practically^ every resident was injur-
tons as other seethnais, but outstrip-
ped all Other districts in the number
of ships. In one year it nut Into Ser-
vice 125 more vessels than were de-"
livered from all American yards in
the year before the United States en-
tered the war. r
At the outbreak of war, 'Great Lak-
es yards, which had developed a high-
ly efficient type of cargo carrier, were
at work on 100 bottoms for foreign
account. All were jprequisUioned by
the Shipping Board and the first ship
turned over to the board under its
war program was the Limoges, a 2,930
ton freighter, built at Toledo. T^enf
ty-seven ships were finished and put
to sea before the canals froze in 1917.
While winter gripped the lages new
work was continued and-' the, existing
fleet, even eld boats which had been
Summer
NEGROES HAVE R
LYNCHED list THIS
New York, AMay 2.—*
Association for the Adav
Colored People, made pub
today showing that 3,224 ]
been lynched in the last I
The North has had 219 '
South 2,834, the West 156,
and other localities IS.
ed. Many are still in the hospitals
and several were, permanently crip-
pled. Every home and building was
laid to the ground and farming imple-
ments were twisted into masses of
ruin, but in spite of this disaster the
district refused to accept the Liberty
loan committee’s offer to lower their
quote. The local chairman, J. R. Boy-
•tt, said: “Although we have been
hit harder than any of the eighteen
districts in our county, we will raise
our quota regardless.” Tbat Is the
spirit of the whole coupty, according
to A. B. Davis, county chairman.
any district.
Tomato Plants.
Stone-and Acme tomato plants, 25c
per hundred, $2.00 thousand, delivered
anywhere in the city or by mail post
paid. Home phone 277, S. W. 112-J.
114 E. First
PANHANDLE HA8 PROSPECT8
OF ENORMOUS WHEAT CROP
JOE WITHERSPOON,
street, Weatherford, Texas.
Georgia leads the list with. -
Texas is third with 335 victim
Dallas, Texas, May 5.—The Texas
Panhandle, once a desert over which
cattlemen and early settlers fought a
protracted war, will have 770,000
The Mothers’ Club
Ward will giro an
Thursday afternoon at
College auditorium. Pn
pear in Wednesday’s D
Adv.
In a single generation ~*he desert,
over which cattlemen often drove
great tyerds of longhorns a hundred
miles in search of grass, has beep
transformed into prosperous farms.
The death recently of Bryan T. Bur-
ry, in 1886
Here is the sort of Americanism
that made Germany • ask for peace..
Read this, all you fellows who “can’t
afford It:}’
C. A. Moore of Hopewell, a small
seboolhouse community near Corsi-
cana, is chairman of the Victory Lib-
erty loan in his district. There are
farmers In his community who are
really ’hard up" and unable to raise
tbeArst 19 per cent payment bn a Vic-
tory note. Mr. Moore if lending them
the 10 per cent so that they may buy
a Victoary note. He has sold RJPk
than $2,800- worth of notes in this
manner. “I am with you on and on
ant} over the top," said Mr. Moore
when he accepted the chairmanship
for his. district, and he is sticking.
Come on patriots, K can be done.
laid up, were overhauled,
saw every available craft worked and
overworked as never before, keeping
the stream of grain, iron ore, coal and
manufactures moving toward the
east, for shipment to the men in Eu-
rope. At the opening, of navigation,
20 ships slipped from the ways and
work was carried forward at increased
speed. In November & total of 28
ships—nearly one a day—was put into
Service by Great Lakes yards.
The total for 1918 was 163 new
chairman of the state
democratic executive committee, re-
called the days when West Texas was
known as the/ Cowman’s Paradise;
when half the state was a grazing
ground and when cattlemen claimed a
natural right to free grass and also
declared wheat could never grow In
tbe state.
Free grass was the
lue in the
state convention that year, and when
governor
John Ireland was elected
after a bitter fight laws were passed'
charging the cattle raisers six. cents
an acre rent for the grazing lands,
then passed as tree school lands.
It was,then that the first settlers,
or pesters, as they were called, begap
to come. Amarillo was a cow ranch
before the ice dosed navigation, be-
tween tbe end of November anti the
end of March, six more were launch-
ed. All wfere 4,200 ton boats.
One yard built a 3,500 ton ship in 84
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