The Comanche Chief and Pioneer Exponent (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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Special to Farmers!
We have a special fire policy that we offer you at $3.10 par
(100, for*three year* on dwelling* and content#, and (4.10 per
(100 on barn* and content*. You pay one-third of the prem-
fem in caah and we give you one and two years on the balance
at 6 per cent interest. We can give you Tornado Insurance
at 40 cent* per (100 for three year* and on the same terma.
You will also please remember that we have the MOST
LIBERAL terma and rate* on Farm Loans, and we ask that
you see ua before placing your business in either o' the above
Rue*
i. R EANES
J. R. Eanes & Co.
JNO. D. WARING
Phone No. 8
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THE CHIEF-EXPONENT
MjRMolidated September 1st, 1912.
'/(ha Comanche Pub. Oo.,Publishers
matter.
GRADE CALLAWAY, Editor-Mgr
OFFICERS.
IJ. H. Cunningham, Prea.; J. R.
vines, Vice-Pres.; T. J. Cunning-
ham, Secretary and Treas.; Ornde
Callaway, Editor and Manager.
Entered at the Poatofflce v .,w ............ _________
-ttmanche, Texas, as second clasa |,e Hll0we<l by tin- landlord greater
her master, Cotton. 51 per cent
of the cotton in the South is raised
by renters. This class of farmers
all over the country are trying to
break away from the old crop. The
time has come when he must break
away from it. But in order to do
it he must have a longer lease and
freedom in the
crops. As it is
DIRECTORS.
O. H. Cunningham, T. J. Cun-
ningham, Grade Callawr.y, J. R.
Eanes, Paris Smith, E. W. Harris,
V. II. Thodberg.
STOCKHOLDERS.
D. H. Cunningham, T. J. Cun-
ninghnm. Grade Callaway, .T. It-
Eanes, Oscar Callaway, Paris
Smith, K. W. Harris, T. J. Wil-
liams, V. II. Thodberg, L. 7- Cun-
ningham, K. F. Cunningham, Q. A.
Cunningham, J. R. Moore.
planting of his
the South is a
slave to this crop. We work the
year round on this one thing, the
children,of the country are over-
worked and kept out of school.
Thereby keeping In the same old
nit that their forefathers drudged
their lives out in.
Now is the time to reform this
condition. If the farmers over
the country would take hold of
this as the entire people have tak
on hold of the Buy-a-Bale move-
ment, one year would see the end
of this condition forever. Legis
lation cannot help this. It is for
the individual. Each man, land-
lord or tennant, must see that he
does bis part and leaves the other
man’s business to that man.
country htf •*«# i
come to where the people that au*
tain the country will no longer go
•head blindly and stay with the
thing* that their forefather* stood
by. When they loose year after
year, when their childrep are ov
erworked and unatnea raising
cotton, the farmer ot turn day and
time is not going to .stay with the
master who starve* him. It i* a
business proposition. If it pays
better to raise hogs than it does
cotton. If it is less work and
gives the children of the country
more time to go to school and less
gruelling labor. There'are few
fanners in Comanche county that
will not do the wisp thing. The
thing to do now is to feed the
country. First of all a man must
sustain himself, the second thing
is to look after thaJ luxuries of
life. The producing power of the
country is not growing larger, but
the consuming population is in-
creasing by leaps andj bounds.Then
let us prepare to meet the first,
largest and most insistent demand.
Raise food'and wait until the de
maud of the factories of th ' State
of Texas can take care of what we
raise. Then we will know our
market and command the price
that we ought to have.
Bvrita^ ‘diplomat
nets seem to
Cl eat* considerable amusement
among diplomatist# and statesmen
all over the world with their con-
tention that their country was
forced into the war against their
will. It is rather hard to convince
a man after you jfiave hit him in
the face with your fist and then
spit in his eye that he was the man
thrit started all of the trouble. It
is just another example of the ar-
rogance of the Germans and an ev
idence of their agelong doaire to
get into war frdth France -when
they declare war on the French
and then try to convince the wor»d
thet she was not the aggressor
For fhe last half centqpy the toast
(A the German officer has always
been, “To The Day.” Now the day
hus come, and from the locks of
things their toast will continue to
be the same. But now it will not
mean, to the day when she will
grapple with England, but to the
day when peace will be restored,
and the dogs of war of the Allies
called off.
5%m»n
Ovoid
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Qp£Aatio7id
For years we have been stating in the newspapers of the
country that a great many women have escaped serious op-
erations by taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound, and it is true. - ------—-1...
We are permitted to publish in this announcement ^
extracts from the letters of five women. All have been
recently received unsolicited. Could any evidence be
more convincing? '
Legislation has again gone
down before individual effort.
--j Nothing is heard now of the state
receive j warehouse law and nothing seems
to be expected or hoped from it.
It is.easy to persuade a man to do
a thing but it is almost impossible
Subscribers failing to
(ffir paper regularly and prompt-
will confer a favor upon this
neisisr by calling our attention to
pyss. In changing your location to force him to do the same thing.
!*• address be sure to give old as Everybody now is pushing the
as new address. - Buy-a-Bale plan, ami it is putting
■i i ■ [ heart into the merchants and the
WHERE THE CAUSE LIES. ! farmer* all over the South. Every
paper that comes
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The South today is passing thru towns and cities that, have gone
i into it with their full strength.
the greatest financial depression
in its history. The present calam-
ity teaches a lesson, though, that
may, and ought to prevent the pos-
sibility of a similar recurrence. If
it will prevent a similar recur-
rence the immunity will be cheap
ly ourchased.
Locating the reason for this dls-
And as an. evidence that this is
doing good, cotton is steadily go-
ing up. Every day sees a slight
advance in the price, and every
day sees the determination of the
farmer strengthen and his grip
tighten on what cotton he has
made. It is not legislation that
aster should be the result, and the is doing this. It is the individual
cause is in our agricultural sya-j man, realizing that something
tern. Locating this cause should must be done, putting his shoulder
be the first step for its remedy, j to the wheel and doing his par*
An a matter of fact there are a j and expecting his neighbor to do
great many causes combining to- his. And while our legislature at
gether that make the South so Austin has quarreled over politic-
vulnerable when the markets that ; inn-ridden policies of government
we have been depending upon j and personal ambitions, the eiti-
elose their doors. But we believe j zens have saved themselves. It
the greatest of all of them is the ] is true that the legislature has
tennant system among the farm
ers. ■»
Our tennant system Jias enslav-
ed the farmer to cotton. First be
cause most of tn > land is rented
on one-year lease•>, making crops
that require any amount of pre-
paration in the way of barns,
sheds, or special preparation of
land an impossibility. A renter
cannot put himself in shape to
rniso anything olsp but cotton in
a year. For any kind of livestock
he must have fences, barns, water-
ing places. For any other crop he
must have a certain amount of
special equipment. This is not
profitable wrhen he has only a
year’s lease on his land, or a lease
that is terminable at the will of
the landlord.
Another thing, there is a habit
stronger, than the desire for pro-
fit among landlords to allow noth
ing but cotton to be grown by
their renters. The rent is easily
collected and figured out.. It is
the, only crop sold an.d so is little
passed bills, loaded the statute
books with them. But what good
have they done us? They will
only encumber the state and some
day we will have to have another
extra session to remove them. The
government oft Texas is in the
grip of a crowd ofpoliticians that
are trying to fool the people into
thinking that they are patriots
They seized upon this situation lo
hoist themselves orf a pedestal.
We have not heard the last from
them yet. Nor will the end of
this panic be the last we will hear
They will ask us two years from
now to remember what they did
for us in our dire distress, and to
reward them with a higher polit-
ical job.1
The farmers of (’omancfie'ooun-
t.v are at ICffSt seeing the light.
Tn the meeting last Tuesday a vote
was put to the farmers of the
meeting.ealling on all of those tha«
would reduce their acreage by 50
per cent to stand, and almost ev*
trouble for the landlord to eol- i ory one in the meeting stood up.
lect his exact rent. Consequently J whd almost every man there was
? they demand that their renters! a farmed.or owned farms.
grow cotton and nothing but cot-
feu. Landlords of this county
and all over the South only allow
thei
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am
r renters to plant enough feed
fe keep up teams enough to cnlti
fUt* t*M»r eropN. and the balance
luust be‘I>lanted in cotton.
I These two causes or conditions,
•ne’year’s rent, and the demand
©f ^he landlord' that tluir* teo-
fiants plant nothing but cotton nr. |
the ebalris that bind the South to est
Then
another vote was put calling on all
of those that did not intend to
plant a stalk of cotton to raise in
their seats, and about 20 per cent
ol the farmers in the1 meeting rose
in the affirmative. If they will
stick to this and this was a 'rep-
resentative body of farmers, and
the farmers of this county will
all either quit cotton
or.rt
reduce pr
their acreage it* will h* the great*" oi the Daily Light,—Ft
industrial revolution this Record.
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The administration has surren
dered to the opponents of tjie riv-
ers and harbors bill. This bill was
the child of the administration-
they were determined to put it
thru. It did go thru the house
and everything indicated that it
would go thru the senate three
months ago. At that time sen-
ators and representatives thought
that they could not vote against
it and survive the elections. But
after the primaries showed them
that not only could a representa-
tive fight the bill and survive, but
that that was what the people
wanted a iuun to do. Notable
among them was this, the twelfth
district. They showed the men
in the national congress that what
the people wanted in Washington
was a man that stood for what
was right, regardless of who was
for or against it. A great deal of
credit is due this district for the
present wholesale reduction in
this rivers and harbors steal, and
the w-ave is just now started. Thus
district has started a demand for
determined men tin congress that
will spread over the union nntil
the jellyfish statesmen will no Ion -
ger control affairs at the National
Capitol.
New York newspapers chronicle
the organization of a huy-a-bale
club by Hudson street grocers.
Thirty bales were purchased on
the first day. And New York
wholesalers are said to be organ-
. izing to'aid the holding move-
ment of the cotton crop. These
wholesalers are urging all cus-
tomers to join in the purchase
plan. The man who said the buv-
a-bale plan is chimerical has an^
other say coming. If properly di-
rected by intelligent men it is cer-
tain to sweep the eouutry.—Fort
Worth Record.
After the experience of this de-
vastating and brutally cruel war
on life and property, no perman-
ent peace can be effected unless it
provides for disarmament of all
the nations involved, and a bind-
ing peace compact made between
them for a pro rata combination
of forces ample to police both land
and sea of the entire combatants,
also to include all other nations.
If that is accomplished as a re-
sult of the'war, then it will be an
important gain .to humanity, and
in part some compensation grow-
ing out of the costly and dreadful
slaughter of human life will be do
rived. If such a settlement is not
accomplished, then recuperation
with vindictive intentions will be
likely to bring about another sim-
ilar war in due course of time
which may include our continent
and the whole of Asia, thereby
making a greater deluge of blood
and destruction of property than
the present upheaval. The only
possible gain that this war can
produce is what is proposed, as
stated above, and the people of
nil nations should rise up jiml in
sist upon it.
Tom Belt has been made man-
aging editor of the Wuxahachie
Light. Mr. tyell is an experienced
newspnper man, and lie will make
the Light shine. He has recently
been connected with the Coman-
che Chief, but sold his stock to
Grade Callaway who has assumed
the management of the paper. Mr.
Bell is very deservedly popular
among the newspaper men of Tex
as, because he has taken his call-
ing seriously, and is sincere and
dependable. — Cleburne Enter-
prise.
A nominal federal tax on the
1915 cotton acreage, for raising a
small amount of war revenue, and
a prohibitive tax on all acreage
in excess of 50 per cent of the eur
rent year’s acreage for fetching
about sharp reduction has not met
with emotional support on the part
of senators and representatives
from the South. . Keep diversifi-
cation of crops out of the fat stat-
ute hooks, Federal or state, lest
iniative and independence break
into the suspended animation
ward.—Star Telegram.
Peace advocates should pray
for the defeat of the Germans in
the great battle, now on. There is
only one way to obtain peace.
Fight for it. After a man has
fought a dozen buttles and been
thoroughly whipped in the last
one, he is much more amenable to
reason. Napoleon said that God’
was on the side of the general
with the most guns. Germany has
the guns.—Ft. Worth Record.
1 Aldska reports a gold strike at
Broad Pass that promises utt rly
to eclipse any discovery of the
last half century. Wherefore
Broad Pass should be in receptive
mood, not only for Buy-a-Bale, but
What’ll-you-take- for- the - whole
crop.—Star Telegram.
The idea that crops must be
marketed as soon as they are gath-
ered is erroneous. Merchants sell
their goods when there is h de-
mand for them at profitable prices.
Banks lend when thore are calls;
manufacturers sell when prices
justify, hold when prices are low
~We are not forced to sell our cot-
ton and we will be foolish when
we offer it When prices are ruin-
ous. Let us sell the products that
are saleable at good prfeps and
bold the cotton till offered a fair
price for it.—Farm and Ranch.
Thomas II. Bell has been made
managing editor of the Waxnha-
chie Daily Light, and Waikly En-
terprise. Mr. Bell w»s lor years
editor and manager of th« Conian-
che Chief. lie is a first-class
newspaper man and should mnlte
good in his new position," Editor
Bell is a fair player, lie does not
bslieve that a newspaper should
be an oTgan. He* knows Row to
make a newspaper, nmPff given
full arting, he will surprise the
ropriotors as well n* the readers
Worth
State Press of the Dallas News
is evidently harboring the delus-
ion that governments are institut-
ed to furnish jobs for the jobless.
That might be all right if only
w*e could all live on George Bail-
ey's Climate.—Waco Times-Her-
ald.
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REMEMBER YOUR LA8T >
DOSE OF CALOMEL?
You probably recall the bad af-
ter-effects of the calomel more
than the sickness you took it for.
Yon need never again go through
with being “all knocked out fot*
a day or two by calomel,”
Next time your liver gets slug
gish and inactive* we urge that
you go to Paris Smith for a bottle
of Dodson’s Liver Tone, a splen-
did vegetable liquid medicine thrtt
will start youd livbr as surely as
calomel ever did Hnd with none
of the after-effects of calomel. It
is absolutely harmless both
children and adults and demands
no restriction of habits qr diet. :
A large battle of . Dodson ’* Inv-
er Tone coits only flOc ami ,the
druggists who rcII it guarantee it
to take the, plae,e of calomel, and
w ill refund your money if it* fails
t in vour case or if y<m are uot aat*
' i'tied. ,
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1 Hodqdon, Mm—“I had pains in both sides and such a soreness
A* I could scarcely straighten up at times. My back ached and I
'was so nervous I could not sleep, and I thought 1 never would be
any better until I submitted to an operation, but I commenced takhra
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and soon felt like a new
woman.”—Mrs. Haywabd Sowbbb, Ilodgdon, Me.
o Chaklottx, N. C.—“ I was in bad health for two years, with
As* pains in both sides and was verr nervous. I had a growth
n the doctor said was a tumor, ana I never would get well unless
A friend adi
I never would get wel
me to take Lydia E. Pink-
hamki Vegetable Compound, and I gladly say that I am now enjoying
fine health.”—Mrs. Rosa Sims, 10 Winona St, Charlotte, N. C.
whicl
I had an operation
experienced great relief In a short time. Mow t reel like a new person
and can do a hard day’s work and not mind it”—Mrs. Ada Wilt*,,
196 Stock St, Hanover, Pa.
A Decatur. III.—“I was sick in bed and three of the best physi-
*• cians said I would have to be taken to the hospital for an oper-
ation as I had something growing in my left side. I refused to sub-
mit to the operation and took Lvdia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound—and it worked a miracle in my case, and I tell other women
pound—and it worked a miracle tn my case,
what it has done for me.”—Mrs. Laura A. Griswold, 2300 Blk. East
William Street, Decatur, I1L
C Cleveland, Ohio. —“I was very irregular and for several years*1
my side pained me so that I expected to have to undergo an op-
that
©ration. Doctors said they knew of nothin* 1
' would help me. I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege-
table Compound and I became regular and free
from pain. I am thankful for such a good medi-
cine and will always give it thc' highest praise.”—
Mrs. C. II. Griffith, 7306 Madison Av., Cleveland, O.
•Write to LYDIA E.PISKHAM MEDICINE CO.
(CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS., for advice.
Tour letter will be opened, read and answered
by a woman and held in strict confidence.
Annual Meeting of Boys’ and careful in preparing your history
Girls’ Clubs October 1st. | or written essay. Write with pen
We are looking forward with and ink and be very careful about
much eagerness to the annual j your spelling, punctuation, capi-
meetifig of the boys’ corn, maize, > talization, paragraphing and ar-
and cotton clubs, and the girls’
tomato clubs to be held in Coman-
che October 1st, 1914. The ex-
lubits will be placed for inspection
in the Chamber of Commerce
building. We are expecting the
best collection of exhibits so far
offered in Comanche county, and
the management has arranged for
an interesting program'and spec-
ial entertainment for the hoys and
girls. The fathers and mothers
also have not been forgotten, so
there wilH>e something of interest
for all. f '*
The State director of girls’
clubs, Miss Bernice Carter, will
be present, and so will Mr. J. U
Quicksall.
The boys and girls are asked lo
bring in their exhibits Saturday,
Sept. 26th, if possible, so that all
can be. arranged beforehand. If m1"8*
the boys will bring more than
their ten ears of com we will show
them how to select the best ears
from the lot. The illustration of
various points by which good com
is selected will he one of the prin-
ciple features of the program.
We believe that every boy ought
to take home with him something
practical that will help him to
know when he is growing n good
quality of corn or other crop. So
our program has been arranged
to that end. Be sure ajul have
your reports all ready to hand in
on or before the day that you
bring in your exhibit. Be very
rangement of subject matter and
neatness. There will be several
prizes on* vield, exhibit, composi- I
5 fr*
serve all rules sent out in the in-
tion, etc. Be very careful to Ob^
struction so that you will be eligi-
ble to receive any prize.
Mrs. Larry Kittle, Collaborator.
D. F.'Eaton, Special Agent.*
Cotton Oil Mills Increasing.
Greenvillg, Texas, Sept. 23.—
The number of cotton seed ojAJ
mills in Texas increased from 22(7 I
in 1912 to 229 in 1913, according
to a re&qrt just issued by the Cen-
sus Bureau. There were 1,166,000
tons of seed crushed by these es-
tablishments. The total cotton
seed production during that year*
was 1,755,000 and all except
411,000 were crushed by Tex&
COMANCHE FOLKS
ASTONISH DRUGGIST
We sell many good medicines,
but we are told the mixture ol
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc,'
known as Adler-i-ka, is the best
w*e ever sold. Comanabe folks
astonish us daily by telling how
QUICKLY Adler-i-ka relieve*
sour stomach and constipation.
Many report that A SINGLE!
DOSE relieves these troubles al-
most IMMEDIATELY. We are,
glad we are Coipanche agents lit
Adler-i-ka. M. W. Carroll, Drug- |
gist.
Howard Payne College
The Central College of Texas \
With a Glorious Past and a Promisitig Fature
Now a Full Senior College
Literary Department; Twelve Teachers. Nine years
of work beginning with the seventh grade. *
• A. B. Degree to Graduates.
Fine Arts Departments; Piano, Voice, Art, Expres-
sion, etc , as taught in the great conservatories
Eight trained teachers.
—dhi
Home Economics; This practical subject taught by
expert, free to regularly enrolled pupils.
Commercial Department; Taught by two specialists,
Bookkeeping or Shorthand free to Liteiary
pupils.
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THOS. H. TAYLOR, Registrar;
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