The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1917 Page: 2 of 12
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The Chief* Exponent
Consolidated September l«t, 1912. ,
Chief EsUbluhcd 1873, Exponent Established 1887
cir’culation OVER 3,000
THE COMANCHE PUBLISHING CO., Publishers
Entered at th«- Postoffice at Comanche, Texas, as
second-class mail matter. _______________
y ]I CARPENTER - Editor and Manager
Officers: d R. Kanes, Pres.; W II. Carpenter,
8so.-Treas.; Geo. Sullivan, Vice Pres.
Directors: W. H. Carpenter, .1. R. Banes, Geo. L.
Sullivan, fl. A. Cunningham, E. W. Harris, >5. P.
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^Stoc kholders 1). II. Cunningham. T. J. Cunning
w H. Carpenter, J. R. Banes, Oscar Callaway,
a r’ Smith, E. W. Harris, T. J. William*, L. T. Cun
niaglmm, 0. A. Cunningham, J. R. Moore, Geo. L.
BqJJivan, Mrs. Bertie Wynn.__________
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM
LOUIS J. WORTHAM, former ranger and bor-
ier fighter is not allowed to lead 50,00(3 men from
Texas (who want to go) to war. Yet th|s number
of men are asked from Texaa who do not want to
go g/)d are to go led by men who laek Louis ,LW0r-
thani’s military experience, natural ability or un-
qualified courage.
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MERTON L HARRIS
Attorney at Law
COMANCHE, TEXAS
Practice in all Courts. Office N. side Sq.
WHERE was your wandering boy last Sunday
from 10 to 11 a. in. ?
IT IS TIME the people should know that neith-
er married men or tanners nre exempt froll* the
selective* draft plan.
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NO EDITOR'S WIFE believes it takes a smart
man In be an editor. Nor does the editor when he
reads his competitor’s paper.
THE CHIEF EXPONENT reaches the man you
want to reach. Its rate* per subscriber is the lowest
of any paper ever published in the* county.'
WE WERE FORCED to drop lour or five hun-
dred names from our list and only between 3150
and 3200 remain on—but it is growing every day.
IE ONE PER CENT of the effort used m study-
ing minor differences about creeds were directed to-
wards getting everyone into Sunday school, they’d
all be there.
a sheep in Wolves clothes. Th<* zone
postage bill on newspapers is so framed as to be a
great aid to small daily and country newspapers.
It is aijiireet thrust at magazines of national eir-
eulation. By failing to hurt the business of fhe
small papers they are not expected to “holler” and
they are the only papers that reach the masses.
This bill promotes sectional antagonism more than
any l>jll ever considered since* the famous-tariff laws
of 28 and 32. It tends to prevent papers of remote
sections circulating in the* far away places. Every
section needs the thought, ideas, ideals and view-
points of every other section. This js the greatest
power in preventing sectional growth and feeling.
The zone idea of postage makes it difficult for the
Eastern paper to circulate in the West, and it is
necessary that it he allowed fn order to prevent sec-
tional stagnation. The national papers and maga-
zines are what can really educate, uplift and en-
lighten the people, and their use should he promot-
ed—not curtailed.
IN A RECENT SUNDAY SC HOOL session where
three hundred wor* present less than a dozen were
between 18 aed 30. Not where’s the fault, but
what's the cureT
IF TEN PER CENT ONLY of Comanche people
•rein Sunday school, remember it is not the people’s
fault. The harvest is plenteous
reartity of labor?
are we facing a
WHY NOT NO^TI Why not push a vigorous
Sunday School campaign throughout the summer.
The Sunday Schools need a larger enrollment.
T%o8e outside need the Sunday. School. Put your
Reads together.
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NOT SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED. Theo-
dore Roosevelt is a great man and an able soldier.
"Why should lie he denied the privilege to lead
231,000 men who want to join the army to hatth*
while 500,000 who do not want to go are led by
Home man of unknown ability, untried valor and
untested skill into the fight?
WHEN THE EAGLE SCREAMS
IT IS EVERYONE’S BUSINESS to guard the
safety of our people. People whose actions are sus-
picious should he reported to the proper authori-
ties. The postmaster is that proper authority
and not some self-appointed savior of the land.
Care should he taken that there are REAL
GROUNDS for suspicion and not merely the idle
gossip of some one who should (jo producing some-
thing Great rare should hr exercised along that
line.
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A TRIBUTE TO THE INSTABILITY OF PUB-
LIC OPINION. No hill was ever before congress
as important as the selective draft hill and ftbout
which was so little known, and yet this whs the
Rill that would !>• wiseacres wired their Wingress
men to support One man in Brown-wood wired
Congressman Blanton that four volunteer compan-
ies could be raised in Brown wood, but he didn’t say
he’d enlist. The man without the courage of his
own convictions is always ready to be governed by
-public, opinion.
BUY SANELY AND BUY SLOWLY. Wheat
gdvauced in the market und the, news spread that
Hour would gfi up in the market Immediately ev-
eryone began to buy. Men bought hundreds of
pounds of flour who bought only 50-pound sacks be-
fore. Many farm homes house a half ton of the
staff of life. Every small merchant whose usual
stock was 25 sacks bought half a ear. The conse-
qnence floiir made the most sensational rise in its
history. Then* is no scarcity of flour except in the
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open market. Usually it is in the hands of jobbers,
today it is stored away iu households. Rapid buy-
ing and insane buying caused the rise. It is as nec-
oasary now for the fanner to bQy slowly as it once
wpi to market slowly. Buy sanely.
R. C\ Diefcnder of the North Side Waterworks
Station is no hyphenate. He believes that the Unit-
ed States will soon end the World War, arid in the
following poem he pleasantly portrays the pleasing
future of the German Kaiser.
The Devil was seated upon his throne;
With his Imps all gathered ’round;
For the news had come to the gates of his realm;
That the Kaiser, to hell was hound;
The Kaiser, who had set a world aflame.
With hiH lust for power and blood;
But who met his doom when the Eagle sereamed;
And the Yankee had stemmed the flood.
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Nick’s heart was heavy within his breast;
For he feared a riot in hell;
His Imps were demanding purer air,
And the Kaiser, was sure to smell;
He’d smell wkh the stench of a million men; ,
Men sacrificed to his dreams;
From which he awoke when the Engle screamed;
At the sting of his submarines.
“Now. heat me a grid,” the devil said ;
„ "To a heat ne’er before known;
1 would sear his frame; that the stench might pass
Before it o’erturns my throne.
I’ll have no such murdering, ravishing wretch;
To create a disturbance in hell;
If h'’ bail only let that Eagle alone;
Ami Belgium and l'ranee as. well.
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Then the imps piled high the fuel op the flames,
As a knock was heard at the door;
And the devil tested t|ie temperature;
While the Kaiser pleaded and swore,
‘ * Please let me go hark, good devil,” he said :
“There are ships yet sailing the sea
There are w omen and children still smiling on earth.
And the Eagle is screaming at me.”
But the devil was honest., (for once in his life.)
“Nay, Nay, good Kaiser,”,quoth he;
“You have filled all the world with starvation ami
strife;
And now you must answer to me;
Upon yonder grid, so cheery and red;
I’ll toast you for millions of years;
Mv Eagles shall serenm, just over your head*
And all hell shall mock at your tears.”
FRIVOLITY
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A GRAVE DANGER THAT CONFRONTS US
is the alarmist. We are entering into the most
strenuous tiinea of our history. We must all re-
main cool and sane with our dealings with om* an-
other. We must hear with one another and be free
from suspicion of our neighbors. THERE ARE
THOSE WHO STAND BY READY TO CRITICISE
THE DEEDS, WORDS AND ACTIONS OF THEIR
NEIGHBORS and to attach motives to their words
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and deeds. We are going to differ with one another
and many are going to exprew opinions which is
their right under the fundamental principles of our
nation. Freedom of speech is an American right
and no man can abridge it. if we were not to lie
allowed that right we would be in the same situa-
tion as are the subjects of the Kaiser, who in this
land typifies ignominous absolutism. We must ex-
ercise the greatest care along this line and be en-
tiely sane and reasonable, or we may do an irre-
parable injustice to our neighbors and to opr com-
munity. Remember that if you do your country
full service you will have little time to criticise the
deeds of your neighbors.
Tha Trouble.
A young mother juat returned
from India had engaged a new
name for her baby. The nurac*
came to her and said: “I don’t
know what’s the matter, madam,
hut the little one cries and cries, I
can do nothing to quiet it.”
The mother thought a moment.
Then, brightening up, she said: “1
remember now. Baby’s last nurae
was a black one. You wil) find the
stove polish on the third shelf of
tha kitchen cupboard.*’—rTit-Bita.
All Swede* .
The Mayor'of Boston while trav-
eling in Minnesota found himself
one day m a northern town, inhab-
ited entirely, it sebmCiJ by Swedes.
To satisfy his curiosity he address-*
ed himself to om* of the citizens :
“Have you *ho English in this
towhf”
“No, sir ("there ban no En-
glish.”
“And French, German, Rus-
sians ”
“No, nothing but Swedes.”
“No Irish, I suppose?”
“Oh, yes; there ban two Irish-
ers. One, he’s the Mayor and the
other, lie’s tip* Chief of PolietKT—
Irish World.
Telling a Good Story.
A khaki-clad warrior with a
wounded arm entered a train and
sat down opposite an inquisitive
old gentleman, “Oh, Tommy, you,
are wounded!” exclaimed the lat-
ter pleasantly. “How did it hap-
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“Well, it was this way,” began
Tommy, wearily, “I was told to
get even with a Gorman nt>i{>cr.
He was stuck up a tree about a
mile away. He was a Sergeant, as
I could see-”
“As you could see?” interposed
the old gentleman. ‘‘At that dis-
tance?”
“Yes, 1 could sec his stripeR.
Well, we hired at each other, lie
got one ip at me that broke my
bayonet and hit me in the arm.
But I soon settled him.”
“With a wounded artn?”
“Yes, easy. Suddenly i heard
a yell, and a whole lot of them
started to climb out of the tren-
ches.,! fired as quickly as I could
and fifty of them went down.”*
“Fifty?” saiij the old gentle-
man, doubtfully. “That’s a lot,
isn’t it ’’ - :
“Yes, fifty,” said Tommy, who
was getting annoyed. “Then I fix-
ed my bayonet-
“But you said your bayonet was
broken.” This was the last straw.
“Look here,” said Tommy, an-
grily. “you don’t want a story;
you want' an argument.”—Argo
naut.
Self Poise.
(fid Davy Skinner, a fisherman
on the Cape Cod coast, was noted
for unfailing poi/ie and economy of
words. No one ever knew old Da-
vy to become in theleast excited,
nor did ho ever waste a word.
One summer day he was rowing
along in his boat when a dory con-
taining five or six young summer
people was capsized near him.
Naturally there were screams and
wild ton fusion, in the midst of
which Davy rowed over to the
scene of disaster and said placidly
to fly* young people, who xvere
clinging to the boat, screaming
for help:
“Hadn’t yet better get in?”—
Chicago Herald.
Come, to Our
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and Kodaks.
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WE CAN SELL YOU THE CAMERA OR KODAK AND IN-
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“An old scrubwoman fell from
the eleventh story of an office build
ing. The fall killed her, of course.
Her pastor said on the occasion of
his consotation viisf to the family.
“Was she prepared? Oh, I do
hope she was prepared. ’ ’ ’
“She was prepared all right, par
•son.” said her son-in-law, “for as
(die dropped past Lawyer Shark’s
second story window the lawyer
distinctly heard her say * .
“Now* for a hump!”
Noatural Job.
“To. instil a spirit of brotherly
love instead of savage militarism
into the hearts of the Germans will
he a hard job,” said Adolph Ilay-
man, a Sacramento fruit grower
just hack from the Vatfrland.
“The militaristic Germans will
misunderstand the teachers of bro-1 health to the cheek,
therly love as Wash White irtisun- Sold by S. P. Smith,
derstood the missionary.
Whenever You Need a General Ton
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove'* Taatele
chill Tonic i* equally valuable aa i
General Tonic became it cot
well known tonic properties of ___
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives ]
out Malaria, Enriches the Bleed
Builds up tha Whole System. 301
of rare merit, who has had excel-
lent. training. Her technique is I
good and her interpretation very'!
artistic. Possibly the rendition of |
the waltz and Nocturne by Chdpiit
were the best. The chorus by
Misses Brin, Hoff and Donaho was
beautiful and Miss Farmer's solos
were highly appreciated. ' 'j
A missionary was sent down
South to a godless region of chick-
en thieves and boozers, and, find-
ing that there was no churchy he
got permission to use an old hen
house.
“He said to an old negro who
was always loafing around the ho-
tel :
“Washington, you go down
bright .and early tomorrow morn-
ing and clean out that hen house
hack of Sinnickson's ham.”
“But sho’ly, parson, sho’ly,” he
said, “yo’ don’t clean out a lien
house in de day time!”—Detroit
Free Press. '
Sallow complexion is due to a
torpid liver. 1IERBINE purifies
and strengthens the liver and bow-
els and rerftores the rosy bloom of
Price 50c.,
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Dizziness, vertigo, (blind stag-
gers) sallow complexion, flatu-
lence are symptoms of a torpid
liver. No one can feel well while
the liver is inactive. IIERBINE
is a powerful liver stimulant. A
dose or two will cause all hi lions
symptoms to disappear. Try it.
Price 50c. Sold by S. P. Smith.
Lamldn News.
(Too late lor last week.)
The Mothers Club had their reg-
ular meeting last week. Aft inter-
esting program was rendered.
Gayle Scott of T. C. U. came in
Friday to visit his parents before
going to the training camp at Ban
Antonio.
Mrs. Minnie Forrester has re-
turned home from Briar Grove
where she has been teaching. >
Mr. and Mrs. Bacon of Waco
visited ' in Lamkin Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Nell Mitchell is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Day this week.
Messrs Byron Grainger and Ev-
an Palmer of Comanche visited in
Lamkin Tuesday night.
Mr. und Mrs. C. I. Wilkins visit-
ed Mr. Wilkins parents Sun
Misses Berta Kelley and
iy
West were in Comanche from Fri-
day until Sunday:
Miss Roxy West of Comanche
spent the day in Lamkin last week.
iday.
ri Zona
Prepared
.Most of these preparedness
[schemes are idiotic,” said the late
iGfnerrd Fiiiiston on one oiTn^iou.
“Conscription is the only thing.
If wo adope anything else we’ll
l>e ro more prepared really than
the old scrubwoman was.
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Then he east the soul on the sizzling grate,
And chuckled with friendiah glee;
(Woim)n, wLH.iOjiile as they sit by their henrth;'
jHonorjBxd tmth will return to the earth.)
“You'D flay for Belgium and Framm” he sneered;
“For Poland and Serbia, too; rjjj&J,
As ybu might have known, when the Eagle screamed
That it spelled the finlah of you.*’
•1 —Big Springs Herald. .]
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There are thousands of
children who are bright
but frail-—not sick hut
underdeveloped — they
play with their food—they
catch colds easily and do
not thrive—they only need
the pure, rich liquid-food in
scorn
EMULSION
nutritive qualities to their blood
Ekmwi and gives them flesh-
food. boneJopd and i
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Carpenter, W. H. The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1917, newspaper, May 11, 1917; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth876519/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.