The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1916 Page: 7 of 8
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THE PADUCAH POST
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We Are Full
OFBARGAINS
And, unlike most people who get full, we would like to unload.
Again, unlike most people who get full, our load is attractive to
others. We have a house “jam full” of Christmas bargains, and
the goods are just what you want to make your relatives and
friends presents of. We have bargains that will gladden the
heart, and at the same time deal lightly with the bank account.
No use to go elsewhere to look for Christmas presents, or bargains
in Dry Goods. We have them.
TEN PER CENT DISCOUNT
Listen to this: On all Ladies’ Suits, Cloaks, Skirts, Dresses, Chil-
dren’s Coats, Men and Boys’ Suits, Overcoats and Mackinaws,
etc., we are going to give a 10 per cent discount on during the
holidays. And when we say 10 per cent we mean what we say.
Come in and see for yourself. You will find what you are looking
for here, and just at this time, when prices are soaring “sky high”
10 per cent means a big saving to any family. These bargains are
goingtomove. You had better investigate them before it is too
late.
GROCERIES
Christmas would not be an enjoyable affair if you did not have a
good Christmas dinner. We have the freshest and niceset Gro-
ceries money can buy from which you can select. We also have a
big stock of t of all kinds, Nuts, Candies, etc. In other
words, your Q, *istmas wants can be filled to the letter at our
store.
G. N. Robertson
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♦ LOCALS AND PERSONAL ♦
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$1 00.00 Reward for the watch
that I can not make run. Meek,
the expert watchmaker, Aiken’s
Drug Store. 4-tf.
Uncle Thad Stinson of Chalk
was here Saturday. He is doing
all he can this year to get a num-
ber of his friends from the East
to locate in Cottle county. And
he is succeeding, too.
W. R. Stewart returned from
Dallas and other Texas points
last week after having been away
for the past several weeks visit-
ing. He has seen many portions
of the state, but does not like
any country he saw as well as
he does Cottle county. He re-
ports that he had a splendid time
while away.
Tom Mowers of the Plains
country was here several days
last week looking at real estate
in the country. He says that-he
is convinced that the possibilities
for the farmer are far greater
here than they are on the Plains.
He will likely locate here within
the next few weeks.
GOVERNMENT BEGINS FOOD [due to natural economic laws, to
PRICE INQUIRY j the warranted action of individ-
- jual dealers and produces in ad-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The | vanring prices, or whether th'-re
Federal investigation of the high j c.'vist agreements among groups
cost of living began today to take | °^alers or Producers to boost
definite form, with indications prosecution of pe„
NOTICE
No person has my permission
to shoot quail, rabbits, or ducks
or to hunt with gun or dogs in
my pasture on the north end of
my premises, or to haul any wood
or brash from same. Please keep
out and save worry and trouble.
Respectfully,
30-tf. TIP JONES.
n,000.00 REWARD
Will be paid by the Matador
Land 4 Cattle Co., Ltd., of Mata-
dor, Texas, for the arrest and
conviction of any person or per-
sons who did, since the 1st day
Toly, 1916, pr who may in
ure wilfully £nd maliciously
burn any of said Company’s
grass, or may wjilfolly'cut any
&s
of its fences.
matador
CO., LTD.
M. JA«
14,1916.
little coni
large coffin.
CATTLE
nil
often ends
that it would be one of the most
comprehensive ever undertaken
and would extend to every sec-
tion of the United States. Not
only is a sweeping inquiry into
the cause of the soaring cost of
foodstuffs contemplated, but the
recent pinch in the coal supply
and its resultant price advances
also will be made, in all proba-
bilities, the subject of a broad in-
vestigation.
From President Wilson down,
officials began to cope in earnest
with the problems presented by
the situation. The President took
under consideration preliminary
reports, which, with others yet to
come will form the basis for rec-
ommendations he may make to
Congress.
Resolutions in House
A dozen speeches on the sub-
ject Wbre made in the House and
several resolutions proposing in-
quiries were introduced. These
were referred to committees with-
out discussion, most of them going
to the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee, of which
Representative Adamson, who is
opposed to embargoes, is the
chairman.
Department of Justice officials
held all-day conferences with
members of the Federal Trade
Commission and District Attor-
ney Anderson of Boston, who is
in charge of the Department’s in-
vestigation, who is here to formu-
late n definite plan of conducting
the Nation-wide inquiry.
The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission probably will - be called
upontto aid by furnishing data
relative to shipments of food-
stuffs! Grand jury investigation
York or Chicago, or both,
reasons for rising prices
to he under eonsidera-
ith the program still* in
of formation there were
n indications that officials
'dr “hg the situation
nal
sous or firms, if any, who by vio-
lation of existing laws in making
agreements to raise prices or oth-
erwise have contributed to the up-
ward trend of prices.
3. Enactment of legislation to
remedy the present situation and
to prevent its recurrence.
The situation is in the first of
these stages, so far as the Depart-
ment of Justice is concerned. De-
partment officials are understood
to be considering the advisability
of investigating such organiza-
tions as the Chicago Board of
Trade, the Chicago Butter and
Egg Exchange, the Elgin Board
of Trade and the New York Pro-
duce, Sugar .and Coffee Ex-
changes. An inquiry into the
amount of foodstuffs held in all
the cold storage establishments
of the country and possibly as
to the volume of grain stored in
elevators, also is said to be under
consideration.
Complaints as to Coal Prices
Complaints have reached the
Department that coal prices were
advanced* recently, because, in
large measure, of the activities
of certain independent dealers not
heretofore in the business, who
are reported to have contracted
with .the chief coal companies for
virtually their entire unsold out-
put for the winter. It was also
charged that these dealers, scent-
ing fat profits, had tried to cor-
ner the available supply, and
thus forced up prices.
Proposals in Congress looking
to a remedy for the problem
ranged from a discussion of the
omnibus hatcheries bill, wh’ch
would provide for fish hateheriea
in twenty States, to a declaration
by Chairman Henry of the Rules
ittee after a conference
with | the President that he
thought Congress would conduct
vestigation of the high coat
bill by RvepesenVtive Sabath
was deafened to aid
i-emnlrasi to/meet the sit-
i from .
cent tte satalgte of (hi
1 up to $11°°''
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| New York Evening Post: Much
controversy has raged over what
i will be the effect of the huge war
loans on Europe. One group al-
leges that Europe after the war
will stagger under her enorrauos
war debt; that it will take her
years to recover. Another group
contends that this is all false and
silly, because an internal war debt
does not make a country any
poorer; the people pay the money
in taxes, and then they get it
back in interest on their war
loans; they pay the money them-
selves; they take the money out
of one pocket and put it into
another. Both groups are right.
Both are wrong.
A priori reasoning must lead us
to sympathize with the first group.
The second, group talks as if
Europe would be no poorer after
the war than bdfore it. This
one can not accept. One can not
spend money at a. prodigious rate
and have it, too. One can not
blow one’s money up in muni-
tions and be none the poorer for
it. The first- group is nearer the
truth than the second group. But
the first group is wrong.
There is a loss. The fallacy of
the first group is that it counts
the loss twice. The fallacy of the
second group is that it docs not
couut the loss at all. A member
of the first group will tell you
that Europe will suffer from its
depletion of capital by war, and
from enormous taxes. Europe
will suffer from depletion of capi-
tal. She will have to pay enor-
mous taxes, but she will not suf-
fer from them.
A member of the second group
could easily explain why Europe
will not suffer from her taxes.
Let us assume, merely to simpli-
fy the argument, that all the in-
habitants of a belligerent nation
are of equal wealth, to begin with.
Let us assume that they all sub-
scribe to the war loans, equally.
Say the war loans pay 6 per
cent. Now, if they were all taxed
equally, which under the condi-
tions assumed would be only just,
then they would pay in additional
taxes $6 a year for every $100
of the war loans outstanding. But
each man who pays a tax of $6
a year has also a $100 war loan
bond which entitles him to $6
a year. lie pays the money to
the Government in taxes. The
Government pays it back to him
in interest. He is even. Where
has lost? (We may waive the
ion of equal wealth now.
In actual practice, some subscrib-
ers to their own country’s war
loans will pay more in taxes than
they get in interest; others will
get more in interest than they
pay in taxes. There will be some
redistribution of wealth within
the country. But the wealth of
the country itself will be unchang-
ed.)
This is bewildering. Does the
country wage war and yet lose
nothing. No. Then if the coun-
try loses something, the loss is
paid by its individual citizens, is
it not? Yes. Then how- much
does your citizen in the above il-
lustration, your citizens who owns
a $100 war loan bond and gets
$6 a year interest, your citizen
who pays $6 a year taxes—how
much does that citizen lose? He
loses $6 a year; or he loses $100
capital, whichever way you want
to express it.
For if the war had not broken
out this citizen would still have
had his $100. Instead of invest-
ing, it in a war loan, he wnuld
have invested it in some industrial
security. He would have gotten
his $6 a year, and he would not
have had it taken away from him
i-i taxes. We can think of the
Government taxing its people
merely to pay its war interest.
We can think of it also as paying
its war interest only to take it
away again in taxes.
But this whole discussion shows
the futility of the talk that the
huge burden of debt may make
it necessary for Europe to “re-
pudiate” its debt. Europe may
indeed, repudiate its war debt.
But it will not make it any rich-
er to do so. It will not enable it
to recover any quicker if it does
When millions of men have
mil till !♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ m i *******
THIS TRADE MARK
I IS YOUR GUARANTEE::
THE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY
MADE FAMOUS BY GOOD IMPLEMENTS
We sell John Deere Implements and Modern Farm Machinery a
Chalk. Let us figure with you on your Implement needs.
John Deere gave to the world the steel plow
in 1857, and since that time Implements bearing
that name and trade mark have been superior
in design and material, in quality and service.
WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS j;
And will appreciate the chance to show you
our goods and to name you prices on your re-
quirements in our line. See us first.
FORREST GROCERY CO.
Chalk, Texas
Harness and General Repair
Shop
E. W. EBLEN, Prop.
Shoe Repairing a Specialty
1I East Side Square
Paducah, Texas
URGES USE OF JACK RABBIT NOTICE
FOR FOOD -
- No wood hauling or hunting al-
The latest attempt to popular- lowed in the Matador pastures,
ize the jack rabbit for table use Trespassers will be dealt with ac-
ts made by the Department of Ag- j. M. JACKSON, Foreman.
rieulture of the State of Texas. _
In a letter to the press of Texas, NOTICE
Commissioner Fred W. Davis sets -—
forth the fact that for many years [ will be back in my office a.
, . . Aiken s Drug Store from Decem-
Australian rabbits have been can- ber 5th to 25th prepared to do
ned and shipped extensively to aU kinds of optical work. AU
England. His letter is an mvita- k uarantped. Remember the
+ + rv n Inn r Wnhhlt IllinOW T A r . _
tion to a Jack Rabbit Dinner to
be held at the Driskill Hotel, in
dates and call on me when I re-
turn.
Austin December 6 at 1 o’clock. [ 29_2t DR CL1pT0N HOWARD.
Says Mr. Davis: “The rabbits| _
of Texas and especially the jack NOTICE
rabbits, have long been consid- j _
ered pests, but this department; Notice is hereby gw %
ot lute has undertaken to pop- , Z
nlarize them for table use. The i Compulsory Attendant ,il-
investigations have disclosed that | dreQn 8«h<>o1 a8e w.a tart
iu manv parts of the world the ln Sch°o1 Strict, Precinct No. 1
so.
not been producing for & couple
of years, when these men have
been blowing up costly munitions
at a terrific rate, this loss can
not be made up by any legislative
sleight of hand or financial ma-
nipulation. The only reault of Eu
rope’a'{repudiating its war debt
would De to redistribute its wealth
b*- confiscating the money of thoae
o were patriotic enough to
cribe to war debts in order
mailt thoae who *
rabbit is already considered as
a table food. Australian rabbits
•ire canned and shipped extensive-
ly to England, Canada and other
places.”
Produce houses are now quot-
ing prices on dressed jack rab-
bits, the demand for which on
city markets, at good prices, is
almost surprising.
JESSE FRENCH PIANOS
Cottle County, Texas, on the 1st
Monday in January A. D. 1917.
All parties interested will take
notice and prepare to comply with
the requirements of this law.
W. G. WALLEY,
Superintendent School.
G. A. LEE,
J. L. HEIM,
JAMES M. WHATLEY,
Board of Trustees.
A shipment of the most attrac-
tive styles of the Jesse French
Player is now en route from the
factory to Paducah. These beau-
tiful instruments will be on dis-
play at my office. You are cor-
dially invited to call and look
them over. Prices reasonable.
G. Y .BOWMAN, Dealer.
Phone 107.
Paducah, Texas.
vigor protects against
Bodily
colds.
Careless sneezing, coughing,
spitting spread colds.
Open air exercise cures colds.
Overheated, air-tight rooms be-
get colds.
Neglected colds often forerun
pneumonia.
Your Hides Wanted!
We want to buy all the Hides, Furs, Chickens, Turkeys,
Eggs, etc., thst yon can bring to Paducah. We will pay
you more than anybody in Cottle County. Try us and see
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1916, newspaper, December 14, 1916; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth755938/m1/7/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.