The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PADUCAH POST
Paducah, Tuu, March 14, IMS.
THE PADUCAH POST
THE POST PUBLX8BZN0 COMPANY
I. A. CARLOCK
EDITOR
Entered m second-class mail matter May 11, 1906. at the Poetoffiee
at Paducah, Texaa.
The Padueah Red Cross Chap-! is the only way we will easily go
ter is going right ahead with over the top with the work that
their good work. One of the has been assigned us.
features of this noble orgauiza- - —
tion is that it does not require ^ jierp 's 110 guesswork ?be
a brass band and a full house to ra’td"K chickens. They are
inspire it with energy. After money-savers and money-makers,
the show is over, when the dull " ben lneat*ess da's come round
monotonv of work is all that is Miss Chieken fi,ls thp 8aP niee,-v-
left, these patriotic women go Whe" th,‘ housewife has more
ahead with their plaus and la- ^ian family needs the
bor, filling each dav with deeds P°"1,rv d,'a,I’r always pays a
of kindness and love for sorae! f«'r profit for the surplus. Player
soldier ‘ over there.” I pianos and phonographs make
______ I fine parlor nuisie, but the sing-
It is time that every citizen in! ing of the hen is the best eom-
this county is waking up to the | mereial music on the market
Thrift Stamp situation. The ‘‘kid-j right now.
"dies” ares doing their part in j
most communities, but the older’
“kidds” are not doing what they I s‘>,>n 'n
should. If you bought a 1100 votin? of a road bo,"> for *?nod
secton are ready and willing to do
anything to down Kaiser Bill, and
they comply with the requests of
the government cheerfully and
quickly.
One of the many ways to aid
in winning the war is to buy
eevrvthing posible at home. The
sending away for goods which
the local merchant can supply
is nothing more or less than com-
mercial suicide for the town so
afflicted with catalogue purchas-
ers. Money spent with the home
merchant enables he and His
clerks to buy thrift stamps and
bonds, and the buying of these
helps Clide Sam to put the trim-
mings on the butchers across the
sea. Be patriotic and buy it at
home.
QUESTION
There will be an election called
Precinct No. 1 for the
you bought a
dollar Liberty Loan Bond, you
will have to buy
of War Savings Stamps if old
Cottle County does her part in
this work. The task is seven
times greater upon us than we did
for the Liberty Bonds. Can we
afford to lay down on this propo-
sition? Do we think as much of
the boys in the trenches as we do
our measly little dollars? Are
their lives and protection worth
more than our money? If so, how
much more are the lives of the
boys worth? We fear that we
have not become thoroughly
awakened in some of our com-
munities in this county. We talk
with representative people from
some school districts and they
seem to have the idea that Pa-
ducah is the only community that
should work at this proposition,
and that all organization should
be done here. Why should it?
Are you not as much a part of
this commonwealth as any other
community in the State? If so,
then why not shoulder your part
of the burden? Each community
should have its own organization
and work to outdo any other
Community in the county. This
roads in this precinct. The mat-
* , ter summed up into a few words,
$<00 worth |. * , .
j is: It you consider good roads a
real investment you will vote for
the issue; if you think a town
or community can grow and pros-
per. and the farmers want to come
and spend their money with the
merchants of your town, even
though they have to combat a
team-killing. vehicle-breaking
road, then vote against it. That is
the proposition compactly stat-
ed.
Kentucky is threatened with a
prohibition law which will not
even allow the ‘‘colonels” to have
a little liquor on hand for ‘‘per-
sonal" use. Good night, nurse!
Is the world being turned upside
down for the “colonels?”
While in same counties the
people may have raised a howl
because they were asked to eat
corn bread, in old Cottle the
folks have been cheerfully ab-
sorbing that kind of nourishment.
It is true that to many the rough-
ness was a little odd at the be-
ginning. but like cultivating the
habit of relishing oysters, the
corn bread habit is getting real
popular here. The citizens of this
The political pot is boiling hot
Candidates “literature” is being
produced in abundance, and
there isn't any excuse for the
folks to be without reading mat-
ter just now. This is one thing
that during the extra cost of
living during these war times is
free. Everybody is urged to par-
take of the tendered pasteboards.
One of the many arguments
against the drinking of intoxi-
cating beverages is that Uncle
Sam will not permit them to be
sold or given to his soldiers.
Why? Because in the first place a
drunken member of the greatest
army in the world is a dis-
grace to the uniform he wears
second, while under the influence
<>i‘ such drink his mind is not
capable of taking in and under-
standing the orders given, and
the exact performance of such
orders is imperative. Every na-
tion at war has either cut out
the booze ration altogether or put
such a limitation upon it that
the effect is the same. “The per-
sonal liberty” along the liquor
route has faded so far in the
background that the children of
the present day are trying to dis-
cover it in volumes of ancient
history.
GOODYEAR TIRES
MORE MILEAGE—LESS MONET
THE TIRE THAT 18 BUILT FOR SERVICE
CORDS, NON-SKID and PLAIN
ALL SIZES
JORDAN & SMITH
Distributors - - Paducah, Texas
BUILDING f
D MATERIAL
Wm. Cameron & Co., Inc.
;i, , J. F. DAW, Looal Manager
Phone 190
The local showers which have
been falling in this section dur-
ing the past three weeks have
proven a great benefit to every-
one. It will enable the gardner
to plant his seed, and the farmer
man is making the earth turn
over in a hurry. The prospect in
Cottle looks fine right now.
Almost every day’s mail brings
to this office literature from the
United States Agricultural De-
partment urging the farmers and
people living in the cities to
raise big war gardens. The gov-
ernment officials are aware of
the fact that unless the people,
as a whole, raise what they eat
at home this year that someone is
going to have to go hungry.
Which shall it be—the soldier
boys or us? We do not have
space each week to publish all
of these appeals to the people re-
grading the growing of gardens,
but the patriotic man or woman
does not need to be appealed to
very much. They are going to do
their duty anyway.
The recent*Jgoo?fshowers and
rains have put ntw life into this
old country, and it will not be
long before one would not recog-
nize it as the same place. The
farm products will soon be com-
ing up. the trees will be in bloom
and the pastures will look like
fields of green. There is no coun-
try in the world that is prettier
than this under conditions that
exist here in springtime.
The present snperintedent and
principal of the high school at
this place have been re-elected,
and we understand that most of
the teachers will be offered a
plaee again. This means that we
are going to have another good
school next year. The present one
has been the best Paducah has
had for a long Hue, and there
has been less disturbance than
; ever before known. If the people
will stand by the sehool next year
aa loyally as the? have this
•imfiJ Pidufiftk
Touching is a noble, charitable
profession, but are you content
to work in the charity department
of your state when they allow
you no pension or protection in
old age? Or will you go into the
great broad fields of business,
where you can lay up something
for a rainy day, and provide
your own protection for old age?
The draft has crippled the teach-
ing profession some, but the
state has made no provision to
increase the teacher’s salaries,
although the high cost of liv-
ing has increased between fifty
and one hundred per eent. Ail
eorimero.ini concerns have real-
ized this condition and have in-
creased salaries in proportion to
the increased cost of living. Six
thousand teachers quit the pro-
fession in Texas annually: Can
you blame them when you com-
pare their annual earning capaci-
ty with that of any other class
of educated men or women?
Bookkeepers. Stenographers, pri-
vate secretaries, or operators, as
beginners, get from $75 to $100
per month, twelve months in the
rear, and soon receive advances
in salary and it is not long, if
they are made of the right kind
of stuff, before they are promot-
ed to assistant managers, or
managers of large business con-
cerns. or engage in business for
themselves and are thereby en-
ihled to lav up a comfortable liv-
ing for old age. Compare the
‘cMcher and the commercial stu-
dent afteer they graduate from
the high school. The teacher must
spend at least one or two years
in a state normal, while the com
mereial student spends only three
to six months in preparation, and
must wait several times as long
before beginning to earn. Each
year the business man increases
his earning power more and forg-
es father ahead of the teacher.
Alore evidence on this subject can
ho had by writing the Tyler Com
mereial College at Tyler. Texas,
for a large illustrated catalogue
giving full particulars of Ameri-
ca’s largest commercial training
school, with more than three
thousand enrollments last year,
ind reading what teachers who
have attended this institution say
of the advantages it offers to
those entering the business world,
where they can greatly increase
their earning capacity, enable
them to own homes of their own
and enjoy the comforts that
should rightly he theirs.
CAN WE AFFORD IT?
In these times of lively hus-
tle for something to eat, we are
afraid our Uncle Samuel and ev-
erybody else, is overlooking some-
thing worth while.
The homely “goober,” for in-
stance, is rich in everything that
makes a beefstake good to eat;
in fact, outranks the beefstake in
high nutritive value.
With the excess of oil extract-
ed, the meal is more valuable as
human food or hogfeed. It is also
very agreeable to the human
palate. Put up to them in the
right shape, our soldiers no
doubt would “fall all over”
preparations of peanut meal, and
so would everybody else.
The Tepary bean in food value
is the peer of the navy or any
other bean and appears to be
well adapted to semi-arid con-
ditions. The value of the hay as
stockfeed has also been well es-
tablished.
To the naked eye, there appears
no difference between the navy
and the Tepary bean except that
the latter is a little under regu-
latiou size. The claim that the
Tepary is as good a table bean
as the navy, has never been dis-
puted, we believe.
Therefore, as Zavalla and other
If, as we hope, these new lines
may stir up buying interest in
the Tepary bean, the Texas Food
and Food Production Campaign
at Austin will take pleasure in
connecting the demand with the
supply available.
Let Us Resolve
To Make This a Year of Saving—
To Save Something Every Month—
To Save Something Every Week—
To Save Something Every Day.
THIS BANK WISHES TO AID YOU
IN YOUR SAVING
The banking habit is the greatest aid
to saving. It helps you to establish a
nucleus, a nest-egg, and then you take a
pride in watching its growth.
Your Government will need your
savings, not as a tax, but as a loan on the
beest security. Bank with usand we will
place you in position to be of help to
your country.
First State
Bank
The People Were
Skeptical
About the first locomotive, but who would go back to old
horse-power cars? They said Fulton’s steamboat was a
failure, but look at the big liners of today. They said
Wright brothers couldn’t fly, and Marconi couldn’t talk
through the air, but the airplane and wireless telegraphy
are leading features in the great world-war. Some people
are skeptical about Tractor farming! Here are a few
things the Avery line will do: Burn coal oil or distilate:
perfect break 1 acre 6-inc .lies deep on less 2 gallons of fuel,
list one acre on 1 gallon offuel; plant one acre on 1-2 gallon
of fuel; cultivate one acre on 1-2 gallon of fuel. They will
pull drag or disc harrow, binders, mowers, rakes; grind
feed; pump water; cut ensilage, or do any other job re-
quiring tractor or belt power; they do not eat when not
at work. It will cost you nothing to have these facts dem-
onstrated to you, and it may mean a big saving. There is
an Avery for any size job.
Hughes & Campbell
PADUCAH, TEXAS
Americans who are worth kinds of people in the United
fighting for are willing to help States. Savers, whose dollars are
pay the bill. There are just two doing patriotic service, and wast-
Drops of water, grains of sand,
Made the ocean and the land;
A nuarter here, a dollar there
Will help the country win the
war.
It’s a poor penny that won’t
work both ways—for you and
for America. Put your pennies
into Thrift Stamps.
What good is money going to
be to you if we don’t win the
war? How are you showing your
Americanism? Patriotism taken
out in talk won’t help, but real
service is done when Thrift and
War 8avings Stamp# are'- pur-
ABOUT SAVING
MONEY
By economical operations inside your kitchen, or by
careful handling of the money which you have accumu-
lated, will uot help you generally if you are losing money
in storing and caring for your farm products.
LET US INVESTIGATE
The weathering of your Farm Implements, the decay
of your Feed in the field, and other losses accrued from
unsheltered products, are as much and more loss to you
than is sustained by throwing of biscuits in the pig feed
during these wheatless days.
We have the Lumber. You have the stuff to care for.
Why can’t we make a deal? Come in and try us.
R. D. Jones Lum-
ber Company
jlPaducah, Matador, Roaring Springs
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1918, newspaper, March 14, 1918; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth755928/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.