La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Postoffice as Second-Class Matter.
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By B. F. Harigel.
Democratic in Principle, And a Worker itor LaGrange and Fayette County.
$1.50 Per Year.
Volume 34.
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 20,1913.
Number 47.
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AFTER LONG YEARS
From the Cleburne Enterprise.
Arthur'McCarthy is contributing a series of
most readable articles to The Houston Chronicle,
which are indeed interesting.
He spent, he says, seven years in prison for
forging a check for a few dollars. His impressions
of the world, especially the world of women, to
his Rip Van Winkle, sleep-dimmed eyes appear a
bit curious. Perhaps after he has been inside a
home or two he may change his impression on this'
score; however, he is not wholly to blame for the
following expression of his opinion concerning
them. He says:
“In Houston I saw my first automatic tele-
phone, my first pay-as-you-enter street car. But
the most marvelous change of all is in the new
-women. A new race of women is walking abroad
which at first did not seetn real to me. The
thought came to me that they were automatons.
For seven years the woman of my memory has
been a different creature.
“I had thought of them as fluffy creatures in
full, flowing dresses. They were not too self-
possessed. They were not too gaudy. They were
motherly or sisterly. They had a homey charm.
I had never dreamed in my Van Winklish sleep
that they could change as they have done. And
when I saw the new race I was almost alatmed. It
had never occurred to me that fashions would
change. Though I have been ‘walking abroad’
several days, I have not quite recovered my comr
posure. I have not dared to speak to any of these
strange new humans of the tight-fitting clothes,
the remarkable ‘lonesome pine’ hats, too tinted
checks, too business-like atmosphere. Some day
I may get used to all these wonderful changes, but
so far I am afeared.”
In the above this man who has suffered in
ex,ile, who has been alone with his thoughts trying
daily to reach up after higher and better things
while enduring incarceration, |he blasting of an
ideal means much. He has given a merited rebuke
to the extreme styles which have converted his
“homey” motherly and sisterly ideals of woman-
hood into types which grate upon his finer sense
of things; that and then the treatment which is
generally meted out to an ex-convict—all these
things cause him to say that he is now suffering so
that' he is almost willing to return to prison. All
this causes a thinking person to reflect that per-
haps we ought to as one man insist on having a
different way of treating our convicts.
How many people know that a convict is sup-
posed tp write but two letters a month at the
state’s expense and then to confine himself to two
sheets? This is but one of the few things which
they have to endure. Perusal of the A1 Jennings
letters running in the Saturday Evening Post will
give those interested a clear insighipnto what such
a life is. His was an easy life to what the more
ignorant suffer. I understand that we must
punish men for their crimes when we catch them;
also, if many of us were punished as rightly for
our derelictions as those who are in, that the peni-
tentiaries would be overflowing. But I claim that,
while punishing them, we have no right to destroy
any God-given.spark of manhood in them because
they lAve broken some man-made law. Let us
not forget that every man has some good in him
which may be the saving grace. A penitentiary
ought to be a place of detention where repentance
may begin, not a bastile where we make hardened
criminals out of all alike. Think it over.
TEXAS NEEDS GREAT CAPITAL.
(Commercial Secretaries Association News Service.)
Texas needs great capital as well as great
men. It "will take large volumes of money to de-
velop our mineral resumes, make needed improve-
ments and extensions in railoads, and build fac-
tories necessary to our growth and progress, and
this money must come from outside the state.
Investments will follow lines of least resist-
ance and pursue objects most attractive. We have
the big attractions and our opportunities loom up
in mountainous proportions and when capital feels
more secure in Texes than other states, it will
migrate to Texas in large volumes. i
“THE TIDE OF LIFE.”
Beneath a sunset of azr*-e blue,
‘y That spread far to the westward
And tinted the skyline a purple hue,
Surged the billows in their retard.
Onward they came, nor did they relent,
Until their bubbles touched the shore,
And proclaimed peace gave vent,
To a struggle that is no more.
So it is in life, we have our strength,
And in this strength we are great,
We can accomplish much, but one-tenth
Is left undone, we grow weak—too late.
So if you have a task to do, begin today
While you have strength to steer,
Reach out and help in your humble way,
And brighten lives with your cheer.
IV. II. Blciize.
THINK IT OVER.
The Methodist Missionary Convention at
Decatur, 111.,-appropriated $1,157,000 to carry
on the work of Methodist missions, in foreign
lands next year. That amount of money spent
in alleviating want and suffering in this country
would bring sunshine to many a squalid home
where now the gloom of unbroken wretchedness
prevails. Even in the matter of ‘ ‘saving souls, ’ ’
there is a broad field for missionary effort in
America. —Houston Post.
Here’s something with a ring to it. In
traveling, the tourist is advised to ‘see America
first.” We do not wish to be placed in the
position of being opposed to the good work of
any particular church, in fact we commend it.
But we are inclined to the belief that we too
often neglect our home affairs in the desire to
do good to the ignorant. heathens in a far-off
lands. Christ. hath said: “The poor you have
with you always.” If the great efforts to save
souls were divided and the cheerless homes of
of eo many unfortunates in America were in-
vaded \yith |hat willingness that prompts our
sisters’and brothers to go abroad, there' would
be many a heavy heart made lighter, and many
a home brighter. Keep up the ennobling work,
by all means keep it up, but manifest an interest
in the teachings of Christ as he expressed
them: “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
A SLIT SKIRT AT THE FAIR.
' The Sunset railway strike which threatened
to become serious is off and both the unionists and
the railroad officials have acted real nice. The
men have been ordered to return to work with the
understanding that all Who participated in the
“* i service without prfe-
j |i|ice. The"o5mpSiff and &e‘officials have agreed
to adjust matters.
There came a young lady from Crockett,
whose skirt was slit up to her locket; she went
out to the Fair, and the women out there did
jointly and severally knock it. And then the
young lady from Crockett drew a pistol from
out of her pocket, she sobbed and she cried, and.
she tiled and she tried, but was wholly unable
to cock it. At last a cowboy from Knox City
was moved by a masculine pity—with pretense
to assist her, he upped and he kissed her, and
called her his Itty-cazittie. At once her blue
eyes began flashing and promptly her white
teeth were gnashing—she said, “You low
churl, I’m not that kind of a girl” and had him
arrested for mashing.—State Press, in Dallas
News.
Our comment may seem very strange; had
that cowboy come f*em LaGrange, the story
you’ve told in type so cold, would have been
much out of range. For a habit our boys now
possess, is some dear girl to caress; but, not in
the sense, that may cause suspense, would they
their desire confess. He would have stood near-
by, and focused his right eye, on the slit in the
skirt,/ while in his hand a quirt, he’d keep away
the other guy. And instead of being arrested,
in this case he’d have bested, the girl so
strange; and the man from LaGrange—but any
one could have guessed it.
j COMMUNITY CO-OPERATION.
'Copyrighted by PArm and Ranch and Holland's Magazine.
' Not long ago two men were driving over a
Red River valley farm. The soil was a deep,
rich chocolate loam and the cornfield they were
passing, as it proved when harvested later, had
moire than one hundred bushels to the acre on it.
Thfree years before the owner had bought the farm
for-$12 per acre.
I “What is that land worth?” asked one of the
men
“That is a rather difficult question to answer,”
returned the other. “If this land were in two or
three miles of the county seat it would be worth
$200 per acre. As it is, more than 15 miles from
tqpvn and with no roads, it wouldn’t sell for $20.”
Everybody knows that the highest priced
lands in any community are those nearest town
and on roads leading into town, because such lands
are most valuable. The public institutions that
make life worth living—schools, churches, and
trading and transportation facilities—are more
numerous and most efficient in the towns, and
those seeking land for homes are willing to pay a
premium to get themselyes and their families near
those institutions.
The very life of these towns and the existence
of the institutions that make life in and around
them worth while depend on the volume of busi-
ness done by the local merchants. Every dollar
unnecessarily sent away to other markets, there-
fore, takes away from the community’s life-blood
and reduces its efficiency as a satisfying place to
live.
WILL DELIGHT THE CHILDREN.
According to the information received from
Washington, hereafter during December Santa
Claus will be recognized as a real entity by the
po&bffice department and letters for him will be
received and delivered. Postmaster General Bur-
leson has issued an order making permanent the
custom hitherto employed Of. turning over to chari-
tably persons or organizations all nkters received
through the mails from children anxious to confide
their desires to the bewhiskered little <iisperfs£r,of
toys. Each postmaster has been authorized to dis-
pose of such mail, local to his office, in accordance
with the order.
, It seems our present postmaster general is
leaning to the little folks. We feel that for this
he should be commended. And the ruling he has
made will enable all children to write to dear old
Santa. The annual event—Christmas—will soon
be upon us, the hand of the little boy and little
girl is already aching to write that letter, and to
mail it to the one they have always believed to be
their friend. A better order from Mr. Burleson
could not have been made.
Locally, we believe the postoffice will be
flooded. It will be a pleasurable scene to the older
folks to watch the expectant faces of the tots as
they enter the office, and with what step and will-
ingness they deposit their little missives in the
box.
Next February will complete the fiftieth.'
anniversary of the fraternal order, Knights of
Pythias. This order, founded upon the example
of friendship existing between two Romans, has
increased in membership yearly, and as a fitting
sequel to its growth, representatives from every
lodge will meet in Washington in February
1914, and celebrate their golden jubilee. Our
Jocal lodge will, on its next meeting night, Nov-
ember 25th, have a jubilee night, initiate one
candidate, and as guests will expect visitors
from the neighboring lodges.
A news dispatch tells us that Vincent Astor
quietly won “Beautiful Helen OipSmOfe Hunt-
ington.” There 'is some consolation in that
1M4uiet” feature; we wem at»*4 to eqpelude he
had autx^ her wUh a gold tyfcjc.
The Acting Secretary of Agriculture has
issued an order releasing, on November 17, from
federal quarantine for cattle scabies (also called
“cattle mange”) the counties of Howard and
Borden in the state of Texas. The release of these
two counties is the first visible effect of the gener-
al dipping order recently promulated by the State
Live Stock Sanitary Commission requiring that
between the dates of September 1 ana December
1, 1913, all affected herds in the quarantined areas
should be dipped twice, and all herds exposed to
the parasite dipped once, under state of federal
supervision. The Department of Agriculture
through the Bureau of Animal Industry is co-
operating actively in the enforcement of this order,
ipd since September 1' approximately sixty state
“ ......* * the
Cattle
___ ______ couhtry of Texas. The Pan-
handle Cattle Raisers’ Association is also co-operat-
ing with the state officials. It is expected as a
result of Shis general dipping of cattle that within
a short time additional areas in Texas will be
released from quarantine for cattle scabies.
IS IT AS HE SAYS?
Epia since syptemoer i approximately sixty s
abd federal employees have been engaged in
inspection and supervision of the dipping 6f c<
in the Panhandle country of Texas. The 1
dleCa
With t
llttfi
We quote the following from Peter Radford,
believing it to be of unusual interest. “We have
had a certi famine in Texas for the past fifty years
and 1 want te appeal to the Texas farmers to pitot : ht
more corn, ft dhuSes an aMuaLdfoiri of mdre atJd j't
than lfiO,000,000-upon the refoyrifes df the farmer,
and Ategpeet&tff want though* driven from the
« k rhor*^.”
As Mr. RadfortlU not atireamer, but a practical
man of experience, it may be beneficial tomany to
follow hii advice.
Current and continuous as the comment
has been in magazines, periodicals and from the
pulpit, that the world is daily growing better, a
difference of opinion is certain when many of
the recent, harrowing scenes are recalled, and
the little petty jealousies and pistol crimes are
brought to view. Scenes and incidents have
come home to us that left in their wake quiet
reminders—reminders which compel us to lean
to the gentle and also the ruthless touch of
time, to forget. Naturally we are inclined to
the belief that the world could be better, and to
have.it so we must seek the cause of its dis-
turbing zephyrs, and conclude that mayhap we,
you or some other may be able to do something.
We reproduce the following extracts from the
pen of Alfred P. Kurtz, Rector of St. Luke's
Brotherhood, Baltimore:
•
Never before, since the days of the- dark
centuries, have murder and crime become so
rampant as it seems to be at this time, and what
is most deplorable, that even some of the clergy
are amongst the guilty ones.
My dear reader, we stand on quickstand;
the advent of something, a calamity, the judg-
ment of the Almighty. In the ages of the past
our forefathers did not need a vice crusade to
keep down prostitution; they taught their chil-
dren the rudiments of Christianity and pointed
out the dangers which confronted them if they
violated the laws of nature, and their sons and
daughters grew up to be honorable men and
women.
Can we say this of the world at large to-
day? If not, why not? Because the parents
alone are to blame in many instances. It is* not
the resort, the saloon, the dance hall, if con-
ducted orderly and in compliance with the law,
that is the prime cause. Many begin at home,
in the parlor, under the parential roof and
parents seem not to care until too late. * * * •
The reverned gentleman said many other
good things in that sermon, but the foregoing is
sufficient for our purpose. It is also sufficient
for some who may seek to solve Jhe contending
mystery. Force won’t do it; history furnishes
an indisputable proof that where too much
force, too much legislation or too much govern-
ment is exercised, crime is rampant, and inno-
cents are hiade to suffer. Think of its readers,
add ask youeself if this is not true.
We shall not question the reverend gentle-
man’s opinion anent the resort, the saloon, or
the dance hall, for in many instances they were
directly responsible; but—God save the mark—
that motherly advice, that Christian teaching
for which the child yearned, for which the
daughter unconsciously craved, was not tender-
ed. Is this true?-You can answer as well as
the wi iter. The headlines of the daily press
tell a similar story each day: “joy riders come
to grief.” What is the prime cause for such?
And what is the inevitable result? “Opportunity
makes thieves”—a literal application—and
humanity is weak.
Take the issue home. When the likeliness
of a discussion presents itself, Mr. Father, act
upon the suggestion: “Am I raiding my boy
and my girl right?” That’s one of the best
propositions. Are you teaching them the dif-
ference between pleasure and so-called pleasure?
Are you encouraging them in their belief that,
a pure, Christian life is the essential virtue for
a better citizenship? Do not point to necessary
evils and then violate the moral laws yourself.
Do not leave the burden entirely to the mother
on account of business cares and worries. It is
the coming generation we are looking to in the
hope of bettering the conditions in furtherance
of our work, hence we are burdened with the
task to set the example-
We are informed that the city council has
yielded to the wishes of our citizens and that
the carnival company, due here nextxmonth,
will not pitch tent upon the public square. This
is the right spirit, and we feel that a vote of
thanks is due the gentlemen who preeented the
petition to prohibit to the council. The com-
pany wfil have to take some side street if they
desire to exhibit here.
The committer selected by the first
ment to visit Cuero to look at
trucks, and ascertain if the* i
the use \
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1913, newspaper, November 20, 1913; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997848/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.