The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
Heart-to-Heart Talk*
Are Lauded
By Wiliam J. Stewart, Charleston, S. C.
It is wonderful the
amount of good that a
straightforward, heart-to-
heart talk does sometimes.
And yet, realizing this fact
as well as we all say we do,
it is strange how often for
nriA reason or another we neglect many opportunities of having an under-
standing with those with whom we may not at times be on the very best
of terms.
It may be that we go on for some time apparently content in the
companionship of someone for whom we have a high admiration, then for
some unaccountable reason our companionship becomes clouded, and we
soon find ourselves on rather uncomfortable if not embarrassing terms.
We do not understand the reason and reach a hasty conclusion that
if the other party has anything against us and is not man enough to come
forward and say what it is, why, we can afford to forego the pleasure of
his acquaintance, when perhaps he thinks very much the same way
about us.
Persons have been known to act in this manner for a long time with-
out either one making the first step toward an understanding, and as a
( consequence much pleasure and even mutual' profit is foregone because
of their thickheadedness.
Perhaps unwittingly one may have given some slight offense to the
other, or vice versa, and because neithdr has common sense, or courage,
enough to demand an explanation their relations become more or less
strained and they feel uncomfortable and ill at. ease in each other’s
company.
A few words spoken at the right time and in the right way would
pave the way for a better understanding, and after a while a plain talk,
straight from the heart, would naturally follow.
Great “City Beautiful” Movement in Birmingham
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Keep Pronunciation
Up to Standard
By John R. Brennan, Brooklyn. N. Y.
The art of conversation
may be lost forever, but its
sister art of correct pronun-
ciation will, not slip entirely
away from us if a western
■\ newspaper is able to hold
its readers up to its own
high standard in this respect. Mingling wisdom with zeal, it does not
attempt to do everything at once, but singles out as a strategic beginning
a-few of the words locally mispronounced.
“The ruler of Japan,” for instance, “is the mikado, with the accent
on the second syllable, and never the mickadoo.” A bit of geographical
lore is neatly tucked in one hint: “Thfe antipodes—Auroralia, you know—•
is pronounced ‘aptipodeez.’ ”
History is represented by the information that when you have any-
thing to say about the Renaissance, you should speak of it as the <rRene-
8&ns,” with, the accent on the last syllable, and not by any chance as the
“Renaysans.”
Nor should one be betrayed into saying “gmatoor” or “amachoor”
when one means “amaturr.” And when the wind sougha through the
branches, we read, it “sows,” but never “suffs.”
All this ig excellent, but we fear that it will not entirely do away with
what the English lady called “your horrible American ahccent.”
j The more knowledge a man acquires
the less It seems to him.
No man can keep a stiff upper lip
If his moral backbone is limber.
Leaving the world better for your
having lived In It—that Is success.
If you want everything to your lik-
ing, leam to like things as they are.
Every moment that is not used to
the best possible advantage is wasted.
Efficient management is the most
I important factor in successful farm-
ing.
It does not take much of a farmer
to grow two weeds where one grew
before.
You can teach any man something
except Mr. Know-it-all. Don’t waste
breath there.
Bad luck in any kind of farming
work is more often the result of
neglect than of chance.
There is no farm-hand so faithful
as your own boy, if he has a share
in the crop, or farm. See that he gets
it.
The highest duty of state and fed-
eral governments is to place agricul-
tural education within the reach of
all.
The farmer cannot be helped until
he organizes, and the government can
best help the farmer through organ-
ization.
If some farmers put the same in-
terest in their farms that,they do in
other people’s business, they would
be better off.
Some men will not heed advice,
through stubbornness or carelessness,
and then wonder why crops or stocks
do not do well.
For some years the American farm-
er has distinguished himself by an
Philadelphia Cow That Knew What She Wanted witt,bi,to«XiS^poUt,“ ‘ntcr’
The trouble with many folks is that
the ten-dollar-per-month income man
is trying to live as high as the flfty-
dellar man-—and can not do so.
HOW TO DEVELOP COMMUNITY
IRMINGHAM, ALA.—This city is conducting a remarkable “city beautiful”
movement, initiated and encouraged by the city government, but actually
carried on by the people generally. Soon after the first appeal, the boys in
all parts of the city were cleaning:,
planting and caring for the trees and
flowers and hedges. From the indi-
vidual efforts of the boys the work
was taken up in an organised way by
the Boy Scouts. One of these com-
panies was instrumental in calling tA
Birmingham Warren H. Manning, the
well-known landscape architect, and
as a result of his visit he was retained
to draw plans for the civic improve-
ment development of Birmingham
and the country surrounding it for
many miles. Large corporations and manufacturing plants caught the spirit
and expended large sums in improving their properties. Miles of fences
necessary at furnaces and railroad yards were whitewashed and painted;
weeds were cut and in their place grass was planted; ivy and vines were
planted to cover brick walls and ugly buildings. The street railway system
co-operated by making its right of way as clean and pretty as possible. Not
only were the properties of home owners improved, but the movement spread
to the improvement of vacant lots, which in Birmingham as in other cities,
were an eye-sore for years. Permission of the owners was secured to clean
up the lots and many of them were transformed and not a Sew of them
turned into playgrounds for the children.
George B. Ward, president of the board of city commissioners, says:
'Today there are few houses in Birmingham among the white population in
which there is not at least one person actively engaged in the city beautiful
movement and doing something to further the work. Among the negro
population the city has met with hearty and useful response The basis of
the movement is found in individual endeavor, but assistance is rendered by
women's clubs, professional organizations. Boy Scouts, railroads, manu
facturers and corporations.”
, Important emphasis is given the movement as a part of a city govern-
mental function.
Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters sf Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Country Schools Should Be Developed
Until There Is No Need of Send-
ing Children to City.
(By JOHN FIELDS. Editor Oklahoma.
Farm Journal.)
The concentration of facilities for
transportation, communication, and
education, has built cities and town*
at the expense of agricultural develop-
ment.
The diffusion of these facilities
among all of those who live on the
land and farm it will build the whole
community, and there will then be
agricultural development to keep pace
with the growth of commerce.
Rural telephones, parcel post, bet-
ter roads, and motor vehicles make It
possible for a man to stay on his farm!
and do business. He has almost tha-
same facilities for carrying on his!
business as are enjoyed by those who
live in town.
But the business farmer cannot conn
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tinue living in the average country;
community.
He must “move to town to send the
children to school” just about the time
he gets properly organized for busi-
ness on his farm. And he moves by
the thousands every year, to the great
loss of the country communities and
of the towns as well.
There is the real problem of com-
munity building which every banker
should study. Increased production,
more profits from farming, will not
solve it. The prosperous farmers are
those who are lured from the \land—
not by the city’s bright lights, but by*
the city's well organized schools.
The foundation of our government
is the average intelligence of all of
its citizens. As a measure of self-
protection, if nothing higher, the state
should spend at least as much money
to advance the opportunities for i
mentary education of all children
it does to provide facilities (or higher
education of a very few.
If you would build the whole com*
munity, begin with the country
schools. Develop them until there
no reason whatever for moving
town to send the children to schobL
Help to establish country schools
such as you would willingly use for
the elementary and high school educa-
tion of your own children w'—
quickly find that many other* prob-
Yon w® ^
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Make Young Girl's
Summer Profitable
By Moaa Vena Lace. Fort Coffin*. Colo.
Every young girl looks
forward to a, summer of
rest, but after the first few
weeks of vacation are over
she begins to find time
hanging heavily on her
hands. There are many
interesting ways in which this time may be profitably spent. Here are a
few things*some girls are doing: Collecting art copies and writing a short
history of each; collecting authors’ photographs and learning their life
histories, and prominent books they have written; making a scrapbook
and forming a history with cartoons from the leading magazines; making
scrapbooks with pictures from magazines for little children in the winter,
(if any girl is so fortunate as to have access to an attic full of old maga-
zines she may make an interesting collection of pictures of women and
,dating each, which will show the extremely varied and rapid style changes
of years. Some girls are busy on their fair work; making jellies or
canning fruits and labeling them attractively. Others are busy with
faneywork. j
j These hints will probably suggest others to anyone interested, and
every girl who will try some means of passing her summer will find she
has a feeling of satisfaction when schooltime comes again.
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Something Besides
Glaciers in Alaska
By R. J STANLEY, OcTaUnd, Ohio
One thinks of Alaska as
the abiding place of rugged
mountains, frozen streams,
undeveloped mineral re-
sources, of cold and desola-
tion. Agricultural possi-
bilities, truck gardening
and similar activities are commonly considered as belonging to more
favorable climates.
Surprise is in store for many who read a recent bulletin of the United
States Agricultural department. Wheat, oats, rye, barley, potatoes and
a variety of vegetables have matured every season since experiment stations
were established in the northern section of the territory. One of these
stations is within 75 miles of the Arctic circle. Chicken raising is profit-
able, while forage crops are grown in the central and southwestern parts.
The mean annual temperature of Sitka, savs the bulletin, is about
the same as Washington, D. C., which the North considers a southern city.
- One hundred thousand square miles of the territory are suitable for
farming, while garden vegetables and small fruits are profuse.
PHILADELPHIA.—Mounted Policeman William Major was at Harvey ave-
nue and Bay Fiftieth street when he saw a cow standing in the middle of
the avenue. Behind her stood fifteen automobiles filled with Coney Island
goers. There is no record that the
cow was doing anything but just
standing and looking.
None of the conversation ad-
dressed to the cow by men autoists
waa preserved by the police, but it
was said to be in a language no cow
can be blamed for not understanding.
After the cow had refused to be
pulled or pushed by the motorists.
Major showed her his badge and
asked her to move on. She tried to
lap him behind the ear, but that is
all the moving she did. Then a woman who had been watching from a big,
dust-covered touring car bearing a Connecticut license number, said sud-
denly:
‘Why, I know what the poor creature wants. Won’t someone please get
me a pail?”
Well, to make a long story short, a pail was brought and the woman,
who Major said later wore diamonds and most expensive summery garments,
sat down on tjie curb beside the cow.
She sat there twenty minutes, according to Major, and tbo longer she sat
the fuller of milk waxed the pail and the more cheerful grew thff cow. Both
the cow and the woman were smilling, it was said, when those twenty min-
utes had elapsed, and the cow gratefully moved aside and let the waiting
automobillsts start again on their way—after they had cheered the woman
from the Connecticut automobile.
Gotham’s Costliest Apartments, $25,000 a Year
MEW YORK.—The highwater mark In rentals fn New York is reached by a
ll suite of apartments in a Fifth avenue building that rents for $25,000 a
year. To explain how an apartment can be made worth such a sum, it may
be said that the building is located
on the most costly land available
for such houses and that it contains
every known device to render life
safe and comfortable.
There are two passenger eleva-
tors to serve the tenants and these
are a solid case of metal lined with
French walnut exquisite in grain and
finish.
Stepping from the elevator one
finds himself in an outer corridor or
hall, from which he enters a vestibule
with floor of marble, but walls paneled to the ceiling with English oak. Be-
yond the vestibule is a conservatory 25 by 34 feet in size. At the front of the
house are living room, dining room and billiard room, with fireplaces in the
first and last named. The dining room is a perfect example of the seven-
teenth century Adam rooms. The wall are solid paneled with five-ply veneer
wood to prevent warping or splitting. The walls are painted with nine coats
of paint as carefully as the work of finishing an automobile body is d6ne.
From a private hall leading from the vestibule oqe enters the sleeping
rooms. Most of these have private baths; all of them have closets, and in
the wall of each closet is built a jewel safe.
Every bit of hardware in the apartment is gold plated. All radiators
are concealed inside the paneled sections below the windows, the heat es-
caping through grated openings.
Farmers' Club* Are One of Most Effec-
tive Agencies in Improvement
Work of Most Vital Kind.
One of the well established facts is
that the development of a community
must come from within. Outside agen
cles may give the start but the peo-
ple of the community mrst supply the
constant energy needed in carrying on
the development.
Farmers’ clubs are one of the most
effective agencies in developing a
community. There were but few of
them until the county agents began
their work. They not only started
the farmers’ clubs but keep in touch
with them, giving suggestions and aid-
lems, such as diminishing production
and increasing tenantry, will cease to
exist.
Build the whole of your conmnmftir
by making all of the conditions
life as desirable on farms as on
pr city lots. Leas than this will
work for permanent agricultural
community betterment.
WORK FOR FARMERS’ Cl
One of Most Effective Agencies In
veloping Community—Social, Edu-
cational and Economic.
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One of the well established fa
that the development of a coi
must come from within,
agencies may give the start
people of the community must
the constant energy needed in
lug on the development.
Farmers' clubs are one of
effective agencies in developing a
lng in arranging and providing pro-1 munity, say) Farmers Mail and
grams. There were but few of them
These farmers’ clubs are enlisting county agents began their work,
the people of the community in 1m-1 not only started the farmers*
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provement work of the moat vital
kind, says Farmers’ Mail and Breeze.
It is social, educational and economic,
in a way bringing back the social life
that used to be supplied in the husk-
ing bee, the barn raising, the singing
school and the spelling school; edu-
cational, in that most of the numbers
of the program are on farm, home
and kindred topics, and economic, in
that the members of the club are com-
ing to see that the farm products are
worth more when a considerable quan-
tity of uniformly high quality is pro-
duced in the community, whic’* means
community planning In production.
This Is one of the most effective
means of Increasing the returns.
but kept in touch with them,
suggestions and aiding in
and providing programs.
These farmers’ clubs are enl
the people of the community In
provpment work of the most
kind. It is social, educational
economic, in a way bringing back
soeial life that used to be supp’
in the husking bee, the bam
the singing school and the s;
school; educational, in that most
the numbers of the program are
farm, home ahd kindred topics,
economic, in that the members of
club are coming to see that the farm,
products are worth more when a con-
siderable quantity of uniformly high
quality is produced in the community.
SWEET POTATOES FOR SWINE | £££
Exercise Faculties
in Making Choice
By Joha Stuart Mill, New York
The human faculties of
perception, judgment, dis-
criminative feeling, mental
activity, and even moral
preference, are exercised
Dnly in making a choice.
V*® He does anything
because it is the custom makes no choice. He gains no practice either in
discerning or desiring what is best.
The mental and moral, like the muscular, powers are improved onlv
by being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing
merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only
because others believe it. . . .
He who lets the world, or even his own portion of it, choose his plan
•f life for him has no need of any other faculty than the apelike one of
\mjtation.
Aore of Tubers Will Feed Eight to
Ten Hogs for Sixty Days—Best
Crop for Fall Grazing.
(By W. R. J)ODSON, Louisiana Experi-
ment ‘ Station.)
Sweet potatoes planted in June and
effective means of increasing the re-
turns.
Straw Aids Potatoes.
If you have more straw than
know what to do with, try some
the potato ground. Plow it under.
early July will be ready for feeding wil] give you a nlce> loose BOil. and
Chickens Are Honor Guard for Pittsburgh Man
JJITTSBURGH, PA.—A flock of fine Plymouth Rock chickens, headed by
I their big barred lord, march from their yard every evening to meet their
owner, J. L. Armstrong, a railroad conductor, when his train on the Wabash
comes into Rock station, a suburb of
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this city. They then escort Arm-
strong to his home, the big rooster
leading the procession, which marches
by the side of their owner in single
file.
Dozens of people, attracted by
the remarkable intelligence of the
Plymouth Rocks, watched one night
to discover how the feathered tribe
knew when It was time for their mas-
ter to appear. At six o'clock an ear-
splitting whistle sounded on the rail-
road. The b!g cock threw up his head, w^ile the hens stood at attention.
After listening a moment, the cock contentedly began scratching again. At
t>:18 o’clock another long drawn siren sent its noise down the valley. This
time the cock quickly marshaled his hens about him, wended his way to the
depot, met Armstrong with fluttering \yings and cries of delight and proudly
escorted him home.
Armstrong says: “I believe in t^ie Darwinian theory and I know chick
ens have brains."
about the middle of October. Hogs
turned in them at that time will prob-
ably root out more potatoes than they
will eat, but there will not be very
much loss from this. An acre of po-
tatoes will feed eight to ten hogs, one
year old, for 60 days, If supplemented
by such feeds as rice polish and bran.
I believe that the sweet potato is the
best root crop for fall and winter graz-
ing for hogs, and that the cutover pine
hill lands will likely develop as a hog-
raising country for the reason that
the soils are pre-eminently suited to
the production of sweet potatoes, pea-
nuts and cowpeas, and also produce
fairly good oats for winter grazing.
dryest, mealiest potatoes you ever
Print Butter in Summer.
It 13 not an easy matter to print
butter nicely in warm weather, but it
can fee done if the butter is firm
enough and the print well scalded and
sufficiently cooled.
Unprofitable Cow,
There really seems po longer an ex-
cuse for the unprofitable cow, since it
is now so easy to ascertain whether or
not she has the goods on her.
Concrete Floors Help.
Concrete floors In the barn help a
great deal in saving manure.
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“CREDIT” FARMER NEEDS
National philanthropy for tha
farmer is neither necessary or
desirable. The chief “credit”
\yhich the American farmer
needs is the credit for having
common sense and norma! de-
sires for a pleasing and satisfy-
ing llAe on the farm.
Point out by example the ben-
efit that will naturally accrue
to all If he will merely help
himself by working with
neighbors, both in town and
country, and you will go a loi
way toward solving the* rui
and social problem, the
economic problem and, in
cidentally, a most impoi
national problem.
If the American people
learn to live with the farmer
instead of trying to live off the
farmer, the entire business of
agriculture will have received
a most stimulating redirection.
—D. A. Wallace.
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Morton, J. B. & Edmonds, W. C. The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1915, newspaper, August 6, 1915; Cumby, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth769965/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.