The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1927 Page: 5 of 10
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A LOTTERY WITHOUT A WINNER
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By w. R. MOREHOUSE
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MORROW’S VICTORY GIVES
ANSON HI FIVE POINTS
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Aiwa Western-Enterfcrjse
Friday and Saturday will be the
^LMOST unbelievable amounts are^loat to the American people • Meet! The
ty one Wllion dollars a year, is accounted for when you take" in to --1" °" Tn
consideration that practically all of the money
'‘invested” in numerous fake schemes and
half-baked projects is forfeited by the invest-
ors. In presenting this series of articles re-
garding sharp. pracUced and various kinds
l\Wn nntvn mwA^tnatl AL .ft a r
‘"‘e-1 —- , * * tvun-ftitrao counry juages.<cine e
^ hope to prevent thouaaiuR of pm. open to Friday
WTvH': Worth,
One of Fort Worth’s most famons plo-
.. , n®er .peace officers died when Ben U.
big days in Anson on account of the' Bell Si* died here Wednesday morn-
Jones County Interscholastic League ■ ing at his home, 1000 East Jessamine
f ™e Liu,rary events will be street, after ji_n illness of several
Friday and the track events 1 months. His seventy-first birthday
on Saturday. • was ^ have been celebrated Thurs-
School events will be. displayed in day. He has been ^holding the law
the district court room during the here for the last forty y*|ite.
4‘”,“4U“ A c'“‘ ‘ Bell’s most famous gun fight was
yith a hoted gambleT-fltto**
PIONEER PEACE OFFICER DRAD Sarah J. Bell; tiuws
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track meet, judgihg to be done Fri-
day morning by three out-oHhe-
*ons, Harry *, Tbompeea and District AHemey Ms>
if IL J. BeH of Lean He.
nghler, Mrs. J. -— ’
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------. —---- , Mias Rose Lee Andersen, ef Stain-
thers, Charles and Lon- Bell of Woos- ford, has entered_ Rraughen’s Bust-
ter, Ohio, and one sister, Mrs. Han- ness College at Abilsaw for a Busi-
nah Miller, also to Wooster. — I ness Adminstratiea doune.
Mr. Bell will be buried Friday in | __
East Oalrwood Cemetery, where both Subscribe for The Leader.
into the traps already set for
^^e and unscrupulous pfo-
’rom fail
them by i;
motew.
Through the use of only actual cases se-
lected-iron! several thousand, it is hoped to
prove conclusively the futility of taking a
\/ ‘gambler's chance” with your savings, for as
in a lottery without a winner you are bound to
lose. Much of the material here used has been
-. r-.ed by the Better business Bureaus
throughout the United States which are non.,
profit organizations serving the investor
^ p, more hoo6 e charge and acting wholly in the
.. ., .' Pub‘»c interest. Head these cases ami
tnen Ale them away for future'reference, for sooner or later you
may find yourself on the verge of “taking a leap in .the dark”,—of
speculating with your savings as the people here told about were
inveigled Into doing. +-—_____
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A “good front” bee put over more
crooked denis than any other one
Batanlc cunning they fal/ln line with
■ - - --- their Intended victim's likes and dls-
thlng. Every Irresponsible promoter likes, his viewpoint and his hobby
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specialises In putting on a “good
front” In his dealings with those
whom hp fleeces out of their savings
Whether or nqfJha-is Nuccesaful ls due
*® » large degree on how good a front
he Is able to put on. In motion pic-
tares, the sets, or “props“ ss they are
callad. eupply the setting for the
They sre seed to portray
things that seem large, things that
seem grand and beautiful. Peer be-
hind those seta and what do you see
there? You see that the attractive
fronts are supported by braces
aiade of the cheapest, knottiest
and poorest timber Imaginable
They serve their purpose la the
World of. make-believe, but ltrresl
Ufa you cannot afford to buy
and when they have gained his favor
and trust they grow more and more
confldentl.il, presently taking a great
Interest In his welfare and happiness.
Before long they nrfe offering advice
and pointing out how he can better his
own Interests by making a new ill*
position of his available cash or by
selling his present gdod securities and
buying othera,recommended by them
Your promoter iKW idJiw upon'your
imagination and paint ajpTcWMrbf a
scheme by which you can make^hou-
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all day Saturday.
Girls’ running events will be held
Saturday morning at the Legion park,
beginning at about 9 or 9:30 All
other athletic events for girls will
follow immediately on the high
school campus.
All the junior boy track events wiil
> | be
gion Park. Senior Bays' Track, both
■A a'lid ^ B, wiir be held at the park
Saturday afternoon, beginning at 1 p.
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The committee asks that contes-
tants be on time and place designated.
Stanley Morrow possibly saved the
day for Anson High School last Mon-
day evening when he won the cham-
pionship of Jones County in boy's
singles in tennis from Pryor of tSam-
ford. If I he had not won this battle
Stamford would have been in the lead
by> 25 points, but as it is they only
lead by 15 points therefore the Ti-
gers still have u fightinj^.hance.
Anson must win alaiost every lite-
rary as well as Athletic event next
Friday and Saturday in order to be
victorious in the county meet. Every
one connected with the meet has work-
ed hard at practicing and are sure to
do their best to the finish. If Stam-
ford wins it will be because their con-,
tesiants are the better. -
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Fort Worth's criminal history.
Jeff McLean, brother of Wild Bill
McLean, famous Fort Worth criminal
lawyer, had just been made District
Attorney of Tarrant County and had
determined to clean up gambling. He
personally led the raids. The crimi-
nal element, led by Bill Thompson, a
_ and.....gunmen, 'resisted llRT
raiders, and a general pistol battle
took place, during which the gambler
shot and killed the young District At-
torney. j
Bell was then a city detective. He j
pursued Thomuson, who hid in a lum-
ber yard, where the two exchanged i
many shots. Bel) succedded in wound-1
ing the gambler fivrTimes, and then,1
after Thomuson, outfought and out-1
generalod, had*-given up, Bell held off'
the mob who wanted to lynch the dy-j
ing man. Thompson died shortly af-
terward in the local jail.
Bell was retired from the local po-
lice force kt half pay during 1925,
the only pensioned member of the
force.
He also held the ofice of fire chief
for five years, being the last volun-
teer fire chief of Fort Worth. In
1894 he was presented with a gold
medal during the State firemen’s
convention for being the most popu-
lar fire fighter in Texas. He return-
ed shortly afterward.
He is survived by hi* wife, Mrs.
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will be open fo/thueiDOBH
Monday; March ’^8, with
MISS FAY HANDER ’
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as operator. She is an all
round opjerateft- of years
of experience. She will
gi^e~Vou\service that
will ptfcM*.
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otily good fronts Your
house must have real
rooms behind It. your purchases and
Investments real values In the'Held
of wildcat Ananelnft If you peer be
bind the “good front” which (he pro
moter puts on you will find that It Is 4-over night.' As a climax he may paint
supported only ,by deception, dtshon
•sty and fraud
Unscrupulous persons of the "good
front" type are expert actors In the
role of "big brother'' to Inexperienced
Investors with ntaa£y at their com
mand Ae protector and advisor to
the wjdow and the inexperienced,
which they claim to be. they are In
reality wolves In sheep's clothing.
Gaining the Victim's Confidence
In personal appearance (hey are
Impressive. As conversationalist*
they are convincing As students of
the traits of human nature they rate
high. In short, they know bow to
stalk llieli prey successfully' With
The Lure of Easy Money
satols ot dollars without effort
or $isk,- he may describe
tome Invention selling for an astound-
ing sum, or depict the prospects of a
fabulous mine or oil company that is
going to double and treble in value
the picture of a vine covered cottage
which is tp be yours In your old age.
with Us radiantly burning tire on the
hearth and with all the luxuries that
go with a happy home. And dually, he
may paint you sitting before this fire,
happy and contented—independent for
life, ns the result of an investment
made according to Ills ad vie*. ~
But there Is a great- difference be
tween wl^at you get and what the
wild cat promoter paints In the tmag
(nation of hi* victims By the lure of
easy money he leads them over the
precipice of flnanclal ruin Instead of
old-age ease und comforts there usu-
ally results poverty and privation
li'Kt artute Is1 Ihtt arris* will tell of a clever acSemr practiced b» many
pari* at ihe country t>y u Hick the umiturp are robbed ol their money )
have been the mam obstructions to
lower production costs, larger power
units are doing mu.^b to decrease labor
factors, Also, larger~T»W$r units if
liked over larger farm •rras can do
much to lower .tfte p&ttor percentage.
Pcofets»or J. B. Davidson, senior ag-
ricultural engineer, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, summing up
Investigational work “In 3(1 states, of-
fers thin equation for farming:
MORE HORSEPOWER
FOR FARM RELIEF
All proposed plans nave thus tar
failed to provide the farmer with farm
'relief by Increasing hi* selling prices
Industry, however, met a somewhat
similar situation by lowering IhcyoiHt
of production. A similar ttftUlMdn can
be successfully applied to agriculture
The Increasing of production per
worker OB the farm I* being met to a
certain extent by using larger units of
power, whether horse or mechanical
Where mnmnrn was using a single
horse or team he Is now using from
3 to 8 horses, thus increasing the
"(round covered from two to five time*
By the use of larger power unit* hired
labor can be reduced or eliminated.
An analyala of raising corn divides
|Boat* according to the following:
Land
Labor
Power ......
Miscellaneous
percent—
theee Item* one can be eonald-
‘onary, namely, the land coat.
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lim "1" ruuals Imuno
”H" is selling prior
C" I* cost of production
"Q" is the quantity of produc-
tion
Profe*sor Davidson state*: ''Whern
qmntlty of production 1* held upper-
most one.'finds prosperous farmers
who plan to farm more acres without
Increasing the overhead."
Corn controb* central western agri-
culture in that arng"t1rmcreage ohe
man can, form Is dependent on tha
number lie tan cultivate. With tha'y
•Infflo row cultivator he was unabls
to cultivate more than four to seven
acre* per day The two row cultivator
doubled (hi* amount Three arrd four
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tion for years.
Remember that the attractive outward appearance
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Inglish, G. L. The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1927, newspaper, March 25, 1927; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890450/m1/5/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.