The Daily Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 169, Ed. 1 Monday, July 29, 1918 Page: 2 of 4
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Another -way to help win the war
Btpp jnjktng politics and buy more
•nfr savings stamps.
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If Bowels continues to stage her po-
&»ttcal tfsnvulsions, she can soon qual-
arty as Jtte champion St. Vitus dancer
eot the world.
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Any service is threatened for
flfSftrtah .strikers if they refuse to re
•jgjm .to the factories. "Work or
•tseema to be in vogue in Eng-
as well as America.
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'‘TbejprovsSt marshal general seems
fobe under the impression that the
leaguers can render a far more
mbubfe service pitching hand gfcn-
illai m .the banks of the Marne than
gpttehing baseballs.
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' Tl» tele® Ion is over, and the peo
^pla yve spoken. You have just as
.good officers as we, and we have just
good you- The thing to do now
fit to .qeaae .talking politics and go to
vwork for Weatherford, Parker county
cjutd the great State of Texas.
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The Herald has received a copy of
fiparks,” printed in Dallas in
-the interest of good roads. It is is-
By Associated Press.
Sacramento, Cal., July 29.—A sea
of wheat replacing a sea of~water,
20,000 acres in one tract bringing
forth the cereal of which Uncle Sam
and his allies in the world war are
in such great need, is a transforma-
tion accomplished on what was over-
flowed land, near Sacramento.
The huge tract formerly covered
with the flood waters of the Sacra-
mento and American rivers lies in a
fertile basin of some sixty-odd thou
sand acres, mostv of which has been
reclaimed and turned to agriculture
through the efforts of the federal and
.state government, at the cost of
lions of dollars.
The reclamation of this land in per-
manent fashion was made possible
by the progress of the Sacramento
River Flood Control project, which,
after endorsement by congress and
the California legislature, is being
steadily pushed to completion by the
Federal authorities, the California de-
bris commission, on one hand, and
the state authorities, the reclamation
board, on the other. The project even
tually will cost about $42,000,000 and
is designed to take care of the floods
of the Sacramento river; these
amount to five times as much as the
river channel can carry. The inter-
ests of navigation, reclamation and
flood control are so intermingled that
it is necessary to adopt a plan which
will provide for all three.
The partial completion of the big
project, with its accompany putting
to use of the reclaimed land, indicates
in a measure what the final results
will be. This one great tract of 20,-
000 acres, a solid ocean of wheat, is
one of the largest, if not the greatest,
American fields grown to this grain.
WHEAT PLEDGE IS SET
ASIDE UNTIL HARVEST
J.X-
-wued by the Dallas Automobile Club.
current issue it raps Weather-
•ford and Parker county on the condi-
tion ot war roads, which it declares
""are due to be bud for some time,
*400, tv Parker cotinty has a state-
-«ide reputation for doing nothing for
•«or roads.” The trouble has been
sgoads c;re in bad condition, it is not
egroe t,har we ■‘‘are dong nothing for
*4mr mads.” Teh trouble has been
that the Jong continued dry weather
S»«u put road building out of the ques-
tion. Bat Parker county is going to
jptB bauds with the federal and state
governments and build the highway
through the county east and west,
-and we are gaping to do that in the
&ut distant future.
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Tine tong-haired and be-whiskered
doctor of science that developed
*be long range Krupp that bombarded
sParis churches and “sent west” hun-
,dredg pi innocent women and chil-
,-dfe», has been awarded the iron cross
t5n recognition of valuable service ren-
tdeiwd -.the "Fatherland.” Another no-
torious Stun professor, who first de-
veloped poisonous gas, has two or
three iron crosses pinned upon his
breaoL and the sub lieutenant who
oe&t Jhe Lusitania to the bottom to
rtatiafy the appetite of the Beast of
jBevltn. has long been wearing the
too* cross of barbarism. We haven’t
teamed everything that thei ron cross
glands for, but deeds of rapine and
mktrder and wholesale slaughter of
■thelpJess women and children are al-
ways honored with one or two cross-
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By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29,—Release of
hotels, restaurants, clubs and dining
car services throughout the country
on Aug. 1 from the voluntary pledge
to use’ no wheat until the present har-
vest was announced Sunday in a ca
blegram received from Food Admin-
istrator Hoover, who is now in Eng-
land. Public eating places, the food
administrator said, would continue to
comply with the baking regulations
and to serve “victory bread.”
Mr. Hoover, in his telegram, con
gratulated the proprietors of public
eating places upon their patrioffid
service and expressed appreciation of
the substantial savings effected and
expressed confidence that the Ameri-
can people will build up a great food
reserve against the exigencies of the
future.
Though exact figures have not been
compiled, it was estimated by the
fodd administration that through the
voluntary pledge made by hotels, res
taurants, clubs and dining cars, there
has been effected between Oct. 1,
1917, and Aug. 1, 1918, a saving of
between 175,00^000 and 200,000,000
pounds of wheat and its products,
150,000,00 pounds of meat and 50,000,-
000 pounds of sugar. The action of
the proprietors of public eating places
it was said, also has been of great
educational value in carrying to the
homes of the nation the necessity of
food saying.
Approximately 5,000 hotel proprie-
tors have observed the principles ot
the wheat saving pledge and all of
the 200,000 proprietors of other pub-
lic eating places have observed the
regulations of the food administra-
tion.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.—Writing of a
German air raid on Paris, one of the
American Red Cross inspectors gives
thrilling account of how American
troops and Red Cross workers gives
aid to the city in such -desperate mo-
ments. He describes an air raid in
this fashion:
‘Nowhere is there any sound but
the echoes of footsteps. Not a street
light is to be seen, not a single ray of
light—nothing but the inkiest and
most impenetrable darkness. Then all
of the noise of the world seems to
break loose. Clang clang, clang booms
the tocsin—like a gigantic pneumatic
riveter working on a colossal bell.
Whoo-e shrieks the siren, running up
and down the scale in an awful wail.
‘The streets come to life. Doors
open and slam shut. The sidewalks
are full of ghostly figures hurrying to-
wards the caves, where the Inhabi-
tants have fitted up cots and bunks.
They get up now to make a sitting
place for the newcomers. The place
fills up. Everyone looks apathettic,
sleepy and bored. The children go to
sleep with their heads on their moth-
PLAN FOR RE-STOCKING THE
DROUTH STRICKEN DISTRICT
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An Apprcciation.
1 adopt this manner of expressing
xjny thanks to those voters, male and
female, who saw fit to honor me with
their support as a candidate for com-
as issiimer of Precinct No. 3, in Sat-
-Urday’s primaries. While the support
•extended was not sufficient to insure
,*ny election , it was enough to dem-
•ensirate the loyalty of a body of
.friends of sufficient magnitude to in-
• duee a feeling of pride on the part of
stay citizen of Parker County. I am
cinder a sense of profound obligation
to every one who supported me, as 1
Joare ever been to those who honored
fete
-so/‘^hat preceinct, and this feeling of
sybiigation and appreciation I will
-carry in my heart always. As to the
I entertain no feeling of re-
lt and no desire to get even,
date is perfectly clean so far as
concerned, and If I can be of any
to the new commissioner or
during their term of op
always' count on my
tfully.
By Associated Press.
College Station, Texas, July 27.—
Plans for re-stocking the drouth strick-
en sections of Texas with meata pro-
ducing animals, inducing farmers to
build silos in order to save feed crops
that have been ruined by three sue
cessive years of drouth, increasing the
yield of staple food crops in the state
as a means of helping to win the war,
combating the pink boll worm andrchandme
conservation in food, are some of the
major problems to be- given consider-
ation during the twenty-first annual
session of the' Texas Farmers Con-
gress, which convenes here at A. & M.
College today.
Practically all of the organized far-
mers and lfve stock producers of the
state will be represented at the meet-
ing.
Among the distinguished speakers
who will address the meeting are’Clar-
ence Ousley, assistant secretary of ag-
riculture; Dr. George M. Rommel,
chief of the animal husbandry division
of the United States department of
agriculture, and Dr. W. D. Hunter of
the federal horticultural board.
G. COFFMAN
If hot weather stops your energy
and you can't work well, it is a sigh
that your system is full of bilious
impurities. You wUT be sick it you
do not do something. Take Prickly
Ash Bitten.; it eieahses. the blood, ]
| liver and
and
jber bottle.
1 Drug Co., r®——
ers’ shoulders, and a girl in the uni-
form of a street car conductor swaps
war yarns with a poilu in dingy blue.
In the last air raid the front trucks of
her car were thrown from the rails by
the displacement of air caused by an
exploding torpedo. The car and its
inmates were unhurt. The poilu looks
a mite incredulous and murmurs, *1
can well believe you, Mademoiselle.’
“Outside the noise continues for
about three or four minutes and then
subsides as a new noise starts—the
Archies, or anti-aircraft guns, which
commence to bark furiously from half
a dozen different points. Searchlights
rarke the sky. The Archies continue
their clamor, but they are not firing at
anything, merely keeping up a barrage
fire to prevent the Boche from flying
over the city.
“Suddenly there is an earthrocking
whoom. No more doubt as to where
the Boches are. Whoom, whoom,
whoom! One involuntarily ducks and
tries turtlewise to cover his head with
his shoulders. A hideous noise re-
sounds up and down the deserted
street—falling walls, and the tinkling
and crash of showers of broken glass
■and roofing tiles.
“Through the glass and litter of the
street an American Red Cross camoi-
nette comes ploughing its way. One
of the city firemen stands on the run-
ning board. They stop and the fire-
man Hashes an electric lamp Into the
ruins, makes a hasty inspection and
then runs up the street and dives into
the redlight ‘cave.’
" ‘Anybody here from numbers 49
to 51 he calls? A half dozen voices
yell out that there is.
' “ ‘Is. everybody here from those
numbers? Was there anyone left in
either of those buildings?
“There is an anxious calling back
and forth and a rapid counting of
noses. ‘All here’ is the answer.
“ ‘Good! Not much left of those
two buildings. Don’t enter the ruins
until they have been inspected by the
engineering department. Go to the
Sisters of the Poor if you want food
or a place to sleep.’
“A wail and several curses compete,
but the fireman is gone.
“The Archies have stopped and
there are no more whooms, but peo-
ple stay in their cellars. It is only 9
o’clock, and experience has shown
that the industrious and methodical
Boches will keep coming back again
and again until after, midnight.
“A half mile away a bright red glow
gets larger and larger and lights the
sky. A fire has broken out In the rail-
road yards and is making great head-
way. Several cars of oil are burning
fiercely and spreading to cars of mer-
Half a dozen American sol-
diers are working feverishly trying to
get the untouched cars away from the
fire.
“Two of them got hold of a switch
engine and are shunting out whole
strings of cars.
" ‘Do you know anything about
these French engines,' sir?’ asks the
impromptu engineer, ‘I can’t find the
damn brake.’
“The fire is eating its way towards
a pier on which stands a line of drums
of gasoline.
"Come on, boys! roll them kegs o’
gas outa here,’ yells the corporal, and
the lit^e of drums stars trundling down
the pier. It is Infernally hot, and the
average man does not know Just how
hot gasoline can get before it begins
to misbehave, but thejine never waf-
ers. ^ • ' •'£' ,*. Vi'
" Rell ’em along, boys! Keep ’em
going. Everybody has got to die some-
time.'
' “Little by little tilings become qui-
che '
are
To Our Customers:
Manager T. J. Woods of the local South-
western Telephone Exchange, announced to-
day that the 2-party service would be in-
creased from $2.50 to $2.75 for multiparty.
One way business phones would be discon-
tinued and residence phones, 2 and 3-party,
would be increased from $1.00 to multiparty
$1.50. In referring to the increase and the
conditions demanding it, Mr. Woods said :
“We have been constantly confronted
for the past few years with the necessity of
obtaining additional revenue because of ris-
ing costs and fixed rates. Public utilities
by law the only class of industry in the
United States being required to sell their
products at a pre-war price. In this in-
stance that which we have to sell is SER-
VICE, and we have been selling il at the
price asked before the war. Public utili-
ties have been confronted by the extraordi-
nary increase in the cost of material and
labor and the telephone companies have been
no exception. We have been paying from
40 to 200 per cent more for the material used
in onr plants ancLmuch more for the money
used in making extensions.
“We do not make extensions to the plants
out of our revenue. We get money for such
improvements and extension in the form*of
new capital, even if we add new poles or new
sw itchboards. That new’ money is secured
where best we can get it and we have to bid
for it. Such being the ease, we are able to
get new' money only so far as we are able to
show that the money already invested in our
exchange is yielding a fair return. Our ex-
penses-have been mounting higher and high-
‘ ‘ The necessity for protecting the public
utilities and the credit of these institutions
has received nation-wide recognition and
President Wilson has strongly urged that all
utilities be maintained at a maximum effi-
ciency in this time of war. ‘I hope,’ the
President has said, ‘that the state and local
authorities, w'here they have not already
done so, will, when the facts are properly
laid before them, respond promptly to the
necessities of the situation.’
‘ ‘ Relief has been granted throughout the
United States by local and state officials to !
the overburdened utilities in the form of in-
creased rates. Something like 87 per cent
of more than 500 requests for such increases
have been granted. w ':ji’
V >. •
“The new rate schedule for Weather-
ford will not enable the exchange to yield
anything like the return considered ade-
quate because there will be further and per-
manent increase in the cost of furnishing ser-
vice. However, the^iew rate will lessen the
burden and give us a better chance to conr
tinue to fulfill our obligations.
“Of course, you know it is our duty to
furnish the best service to the greatest num-
ber at the lowest rate. It is also^mr duty to
fix that rate so as to pay adequate wages to
our employees and earn a return on the in- -
vestment sufficient to attract new money.
The gravest danger to this Community is
that eapitaLfehould lose confidence in ouHti-
dustry, making it impossible for us on
tain additional funds for extension of the'
plant,”
er while; with the fixed rates, our revenues
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party still continues its labors in the
ruins. Someone is missing, and they
want to get him out of a cellar. Now
the tocsin sounds again, this time with
slow, stately, mesaured beats. This
is the ’all’s clear’ signal. No ihore
enemy planes are flying between here
and the fighting lines. People come
out of their cellars and go home. A
few captious souls are busily putting
sheets of paper and pieces of bedding
across their broken windows to keep
out the dreaded ‘courant d’alr.’ Now
and then there is a small group in a
doorway, recounting experiences.
“The Boche has dropped more 1,han
one hundred bombs tonight, many of
them of the 660 pound size. The net
damage Is not very great. A few hous-
es destroyed, many windows broken,
a few victims—very few, but all too
many; a few holes blown in the
streets, some trees uprooted In the
parks and some pansy beds obliter-
ated.
“I Imagine that back in his quarters,
the Boche escadrille komandatur, af-
ter sadly cataloguing his own wounds
is writing up an account of his glori-
ous night’s work for the edification of
the reader of the ’Nolnischezeitung,’
His ductile pen is reeling off; ’The
earth reeled and rocked --and while
rows of buildings went down like card
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E Pluribus Unum.
The American Indian who forces
his wife to do the drudgery and look
after his general upkeep without hope
of reward, is passing with time.
The Jap and Chinese theory c ’til-
ling the female children o* selling
them into slavery has about been ex-
ploded. ’
^he African chief and the Moro
Datto, who struts about on his native
heath followed by an admiring retinue
of female slaves and a pungent odor,
will soon be no more.
But that relic of barbarism, that
fossil of a'prehistoric age, that Save
Man, that unsentimental Lochinvar
known as the Anti-Woman Suffrage
Man, is still with us.
Dr. Osier thought that when a man
reached the age of sixty he had lost
his usefulness and ought to be,shot.
Osier probably did not take into con-
sideration the A. W. S. man. If he
had he would not have set this age;
he’d have stated that such a man is 1
slightly bowed and he would think
I that Presdent Wilson had dragged us
into this war."
Of course this does such a. man
more than justice, as it doea not bare
the blackness of his soul, but it con-
veys & general idea as to how the
tribe is regarded by the average un-
married lady, or a married one, whb
is so fortunate as to have gotteir a
man who is in full sympathy with her
or the needs of the world.,
“He’s getting ready to run tor
some office and is after the vroman’a
vote,” says an enemyjjBf
. r-
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I’m already In, Mr. A. W. 8. Ma$,
and unless you reform you couldn’t
sell your vote to me next time,
you did the last.
W. E. RICHARDS.
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never useful and should be taken out
4,000 Negroes Entrained for Camp.
By Associated Press. |
Austin, Texas, July 29.—Four thout
sand negroes selected for military ser-
vice under the draft law la Texas to*
day were entrained for Camp Tfavis
where they wfl lundergo training. The
call for this movement was issued by
Provost Marshal General^Crowder of
June 22. Today's movement makes ap-
the
behind the barn and knocked in
head as soon as apprehended.
The sad thing about life is the fact
I proxtmately 21,000 men that have been
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inducted into the service in Tegg»9|ur|
ing July.
the streets toward the open country; Jand woman n*ver befomf sadd6r and
the railroad depots were leveled to|wiser until has been cof
(he ground and many munition dumps ruminated. In this day of woman’s
were blown up, and severkl fires were emancipation there must be many a
seen to break out in the barracks and wonian who’ when ahe finda the prln
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DAILY HERALD, 40c Mf* MOHTI*
NEW RAILROAD TIME TABUL
military warehouses.’
The escadrille kommandatur would
be grieved beyond measure could he
but walk through the streets tonight
and take an inventory of the net re-
sults and see the effect produced on
the population. He who is now house-
less shrug3 his shoulders and says,
ciples, or rather the lack, of them, in
been
'her spouse, feels that she has
badly deceived.
j It must be blamed rought to have
your husband come home at night,
pull off his shoes and after crossing
his sock feet on the table, remark;
j I think woman’s place Is in the
home.”
Texas A Pacific Station.
EAST BOUND.
No. 6—El Paso to New OrlsMS.
6:00 a. m. * •
No. 810—Mineral Wells to DallM.
arrive 7:55 a. m., depart 8
•No. 2—El Paso to St Louis
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“C’et le Guerre,’ and once more the ^ ^ ^ of a rube t„at for.
peaceful stars shine down tranquilly l.
sblne Special) 1:40 'pf-’kfcj
No. 4—Sweetwater to St Louts aM
New Orleans; 4:55 p. m. ,
No. 804—Mineral Wells to
on the silent streets.”
gets that the hand that rocks the era- J
Campaign for 8tudent Nurses.
By Associated Pr*9*.
die rules the world.
If there is anything that makes a
lady sore-it is to think that her friends
Austin, Texas, July 27,-Under di- are at her husband behind
rection -Of Dr. W. R. Collins, state her back- or 8a>’ln*- is 8Uch a ^
health officer, Texas today opened its tbat Mrs
carapai
It is a
gn to
pari i
recruit student nurses.
such
So-and-so should be tied
Thing.”
ford, 4:43 p. m. . ^_____________
WE8T BOUND.
8-St. Louis aad Nnw.OrtMOif
No.
to Sweetwater,,8:65 a.
No. 803—Weatherford to ;
Wells, 10:16 m JA. sgs3gg|g8j
•No. 1—SL Louis to El Paso
•bins Special), 4;2(hisr;
No. SO9—Dallas J
arrive 6:86 p. m., depart
No. 26-rNew
r't of the, national campaign1 Tbt oth«r 1 “N a lad^ to df
to recruit 25,000 student nunes, both
scribe what her ideal Anti-Woman’s
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