La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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By B. F. Harlgel.
Volume 36.
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HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.
Sherman’s march to the sea was completed on
December" 21st—50 years ago, and while there is
so much criticism of what has been done by the
German army at Louvain, in Belgium,' the people
of the South can readily remember the action of
Sherman in Atlanta—where, under the command-
ing general's personal supervision, not a church,
nor home nor public building was left standing.
* ’ On that march to the sea the army of Sherman
>! lived off an already impoverished people, and it
was boasted that over his line of march not even a
crow could fly without carrying his own rations.
Chickens, cattle, horses and everything else mov-
able was taken, and at Savannah, when it was re-
ported the roads had been mined, Sherman marched
V all his Southern prisoners in advance of his army
in order that they might explode the mines intend-
V*. ed for his soldiers. It is thus that it is demonst-
rated that war is really and truly hell on earth,
and there is precedent in our own history for a
great deal of what has occurred at Louvain and
other points in Belgium.—El Paso Times.
The Times should be a bit more careful,or it may
be subjected to the severe criticism other papers,
notin sympathy with the allies, have been receiving
—in the past. Beside, the Germans at Louvain and
in other parts of Belgium have given sufficient ex-
planation of their conduct to a nation which had
sold out to France and England, to partly excuse
them.
What Sherman did, in the way of forcing his
prisoners to go in front, has been done by the
chief power of the Allies, and yet that power is
still dictating to our government, the best on
Earth, what it should do in the premises, and
Secretary Bryan most graciously accedes.
If the neutral countries of the world could but
realize what the real meaning of that European
war is, if they could realize that, by permitting
the industries of their country to manufacture
articles of destruction and send them over to those
belligerants, they are aiding in the making of
widows and orphans, the trouble might cease. The
real hell in the situation might be stopped.
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Postofficb Ws Second-Class Matter.
Democratic in Principle, And a Worker For LaGrange and Fayette County.
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 14, 1915.
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GETTING THINGS IN SHAPE.
' Following the recent visit of W. J. Edgecombe,
Secretary of the Retail Merchants’ Association of
Texas, the local organization of that association has
taken a jump forward and within the coming week
LaGrange will rank as’one of the chief rating sec-
tions in this part of Texas.
In order to make this possible, Delwin J. Wei-
kel, secretary of the LaGrange Association is now
being assisted by A. B. Hillan of San Antonio, as-
sistant secretary and organizer of the Retail Mer-
chants’ Association. Mr. Hillan is giving Mr. Wei-
kel a good start in that direction by installing an
up-to-date card rating system and will complete
* his work along that line about January 20. Speak-
ing of his work in LaGrange and other matters
pertaining to the Retail Merchants’ Association,
Mr. Hillan said:
“Sipce arriving in LaGrange, on the evening
of January 5, Xhave been busy with Mr. Weikel in
instructing the new secretary in the latest meth-
ods regarding credit information and I have reason
to believe that the business men of this city have
been very fortunate in procuring the services of
one so quick to absorb his instructions, and I feel
. satisfied that he will make good in every respect.
“It is, and has been the aim of the Retail Mer-
chants’ Association during the past two years, to
organize as many county organizations of the asso-
ciation as possible and to have the secretary make
l)is headquarters at the city containing the county
seat, This is suggested for the reason that the
secretary has easy accessto the court house records,
all of which are of great value to every business
man in the county in the way of credit rating in-
formation. During December the right start was
made in that direction by Austin county, when
three of the towns were organized and within the
next thirty days it Hi expected that the organiza-
tion will be complete with every business man en-
listed as a member.”
With the object of organizing Fayette County,
Mr. Hillan accompanied by Mr. Weikel, Will visit
the various towns in the county between now and
January 20, and will urge every business «man to
enlist as a. member of .the new proposed county as-
sociation of the retail merchants. It has proven in
the past and will do so more in the future, that the
Retail Merchants’ Association of Texas has done
more to harmonize the business man and farmer in
their dealings than any factor of recent years.
Mr. Hillan states that he is charmed with La-
LaGrange from what he has already seen of R and
predicts that it has a great future and that all that
is needed is publicity abroad to attract the home-
to this section of the State.
WHO CAN TELL?
We, as a nation, pray for peace,
Vet furnish sinews for the fray;
From Europe’s wars we court increase—
A thing for which we dare not pray.
AU honor to earth’s prayerful sons,
Whose noble lives reflect their prayers,
Yet, in the ranks of praying ones,
Alas, how many Deacon Hares.
On Sunday did the Deacon kneel
And pray that bloody wars might cease.
“Thy Kingdom come,’’ was his appeal,
“And bring its thousand years of peace. ”
The loud amens of fervent souls
Gave his petition sanctioning grace,
And voiced the impulse which controls
Our reverence for form and place..
On Monday wore the Deacon’s brow
A crafty, speculative frown;
Millennium’s dawn forgotten now,
He’s driving to the county town.
The French need horses for the war,
Their agent buys at town today—
The Deacon’s bought a motor car,
What need for driving-horses, pray?
“Thy Kingdom come.” He had forgot—
’Twas but a form for those who kneel—
He sold as food "for shell and shot,
As shuddering mark for ball and steel,
The faithful, docile team of bays
Who’d served him well for many a year!
Ah, how the lust for gain betrays
The shallow-souled pretenders here.
Would every horse but had a soul
(Shocking, to formalists, my prayer!)
To make God’s Judgment-bar its goal,
And meet each earthly master there,
To tell by whom these faithful dumb
Were sold into that earthly hell.
There’s justice in the world to come,
Perhaps, for dumb brutes. Who can tell?
— Will P. Lockhart.
CASINO BOWLING CLUB.
The following gives the average of the in-
dividual bowlers of the Casino bowling league:
NAME. GAMES PINS AVER.
F. J. Lidiak.......... 12......2042... 170 1-6
LeeHausler.......... 12......1956...163
H. M. Presun........ 12......1853... 154 5-12
Rev. O. Bauer....... 12......1835... 152 11-12
Dan Reiss........... 12......1768... 147 1-3
A. F. Presun........ 12......1671... 139 1-4
12......1660... 138 1-3
12......1607... 133 11-12
12......1607... 133 11-12
12......1611... 133 5-12
12......1600...133 1-3
12......1590... 132 1-2
12......1585... 132 1-12
12.....*1563... 130 1-4
12......1523...126 11-12
E. T. Lueders........ 12......1497.. .124 3-4
Louis Voelkel........ 12......1490... 124 1-6
Geo. Hausler________ . 12......1462...121 5-6
Gus Speckels.......' 12......1459...121 7-12
Otto Willrich........ 12......1458... 121 1-2-
Robert Zapp......... 12......1443. ..120 1-4
Louis Wagner........ 12......1417... 118 1-12
Otto Hinke.......... 9......1066... 117 1-3
Frank Reichert_______ 6 ...... 657... 109 1-2
Aug. Ruhmann...... 12......1277... 106 5-12
M. F. Granville......
Alex. Madsen........
B. L. Zapp...........
Louis Hausmann.....
C. G. Zapp.........
Chas. Kainer........
Will Lampe......:
Alfred Voelkel.......
J. F. Kainer.........
Next Wednesday evening at the mayor's
office, A. B. Hillan, who is in the city to assist
Delwin J. Weikel, secretary of the Retail Mer-
chants’ Association in getting the affairs of office
in running order, will address the members of
the Association on matters pertaining to their
welfare. We express the hope that the mem-
bership will be in attendance, because what the
visitor will have to say, will be of great import
to all. This being the beginning of the year,
and every effort being put forth to do something
for the welfare of the city, it remains for the
concerted action of all interested to become par-f
amount Admonishing all interested to keep
the date—Wednesday, January 20—in mind, we
also suggest that they arrange to be on hand.
One of our young ladies in the city says she
steams and sweats her face regularly once a
week over her mother’s washtub. She says
wringing out clothes makes her arms plump and
hanging out clothes has enlarged her bust
measure several inches, while the exercise of
stooping and lifting clothes, makes her waist
line smaller and don’t cost anything.—Harper’s
Weekly.
BROKEN VOWS.
AMY PEARL COZBY.
And so I pass
Last night I dreampt that the dying year, in
the form of an old man, stood before me. A bony,
index finger of his palsied hand pointed at me ac-
cusingly, and his feeble voice
quavered with strong emotion.
“You are glad to see me
die,” he said, “there will be
smiles and laughter on your lips
when the bells peal joyfully to
welcome the New Year. You
say I have been false, that I have
broken all the golden promises
which my young lips framed
when I stepped upon my throne,
away unwept, unsung.
“But stop! Am I the only one who has broken
promises? What of the beautiful, long list of re-
solutions which you wrote when I was young?
Which you read and re-read for a week or no, with
a self satisfied smirk, then, one by one, began to
break, till in disgust you put them all out of your
sight!
“How about the first one, to curb your temper?
Was it one week, was it two, before you gave your
hair that vicious little jerk, in combing it, because
the ‘witches’ stirrups’ would not straighten out!
What of the second one, to ‘speak no evil?’ How
many days elapsed between the penning of it and
your (?) Christian-like remark that 'Mrs. Johnson
never would have caught her husband had he not
been crippled!’ And the third-”
“Hush, hush!” I cried, putting my hands over
my ears. And just then, I awoke.
Needless to say, I felt very humhle, very
much ashamed. Immediately, on arising, I sought
the list of resolutions, which I had pigeon-holed
almost a year before. A feeling of resentment
against them swept over me, as if they, and net
I, were the offenders! They were beautifully
penned. I had evidently taken time and pains in
forming the words and sentences!
I looked from the beautifully written sheet to
the flames which leaped up in the grate, and was
just about to sentence the resolutions to the “fiery
furnace, ” when my dearest friend ran in for a
morning chat.
I told her of my dream, and showed her the
offending promises. She never smiles when she
should not smile, and this is one of the many
reasons why she is my dearest friend. Her face
was sweetly serious as she listened.
“I wouldn’t burn them,” she said slowly,
“instead, I think- I’d frame them. They are
beautiful resolutions, and they have done you
good.”
“Done me good?” I cried incredulously, “How
can a broken vow do anybody good!”
“You tried to keep them, ” she continued, as
if not heeding my interruption, “and you failed.
This failure brings humility and sympathy for
other folks who fail. You needed this perhaps, to
keep you from the attitude of the proud Pharisee,
the frame of mind which says: ‘I thank thee that
I am not as other men.’ Besides, you are a better
woman for having kept these resolutions even for
a little while. Next time you’ll keep them longer. ”
“Next time?” I cried bitterly, “There isn’t
going to be a next time!”
, “Yes there is,” she said, nodding her head
empathically, “there’s going to be a next time,
and a next time and a next, and all the while
you're going to be growing stronger and more
sympathetic, with a broader comprehension of the
failings of mankind, and greater possibilities for
usefulness!”
And that is how it happened that I re-wrote
the old vows, with fewer embellishments, perhaps,
but very legibly, and “without mental reservation
or purpose of evasion,”- framed them and hung
them just afibve my desk.
And that is why I am repeating these words
of another friend, a brave, sweet girl, who lived
and loved and sang, and over whose silent resting
place, bleak January soon must throw her mantle
of white snow!
“Be the storm-clouds my comrades, the lightning
my lamp,
Though my castles be never complete!”
The United States government, it is ap-
parent, is not altogether satisfied with Die note
of Sir Edward Grey, England’s foreign
tary, giving a preliminary reply to President Wil-
son’s protest concerning the treatment, of Ameri-
can Commerce by the British fleet.
The entire south is face to face with a prob-
lem that demands the earnest consideration of
every farmer and business man, This problem is:
“What shall we plant for cash crop—and
how shall we market farm products profitably?”
We must reduce the cotton crop acreage at
least 50 per cent. Every thinking man realizes
that fact. Over production of cotton the past
two years together with the war situation, has
resulted in millions of bales left over for market-
ing when the next crop is due; statistics prove
this beyond question. Conservative estimates
show that with a normal production for 1915 the
price of cotton for the next two years must
drop to 5 cents. To depend on cotton as cash
crop for 1915 will mean financial ruin and
starvation.
THE REMEDY.
The remedy is in the hands of the farmers
and business men:
We must produce ALL the feed crops need-
ed for our farm animals.
We must produce ALL or as much as pos-
sible of foods and foodstuffs for home use.
We must increase and improve our farm,
live stock, the beef cattle, the dairy herds, the
hogs, sheep and poultry.
We must produce not only all that we need
of feed and foodstuffs, but we must produce a
surplus.
Why? Because foodstuffs and meats are
steadily increasing in price; because the rate of
production has not even kept up with the rate
of increase in population; because the country is
being drained by exportation of foodstuffs and
meats to a degree that is alarming. ’
Because while cotton in normal production
will be unsalable, feed, foodstuffs, meats, etc.,
are steadily increasing in demapd and in price.
But, Farmers and Business Men:
With these conditions confronting us, with
great possibilities of placing the farm and the
farmer on a sounder financial basis than ever
before, there is still a great lack that must be
corrected. This is the lack of effective organiza-
tion and co-operation among farmers.
We must unite in strong organization; we
must work together for the common good. W«
must formulate plans for community production
and sale of farm products. One farmer in .a
community may raise the finest of crops or live-
stock without being able to reach a profitable
market; but if each farming community unite*
upon what to raise in feeds, foods and livestock,
so as to be able to offer larger shipment’s suc-
cess will be assured; individual farmers are
often at a great disadvantage; community action
and co-operation makes for welfare of all.
It is to the interest of every business man
to help the farmers to success, for without suc-
cess on the farms, business will be at a stand—
still.'
Therefore—Leit us have a rousing organiza-
tion meeting at LaGrange, Thursday, January
21st, at 10 a. m. in the court house.
Every farmer in every part .of Fayette
county must join in this movement. Come and
bring your neighbors. Farm women and boys
as well as men are invited to come and help.
The meeting is free to all. Signed by
The Committee op Farmers and
Business Men.
One of our citizens who occasionally ...
the dishes for his wife, became tired of the
and refused, saying that “it is not a
work. ” Not feeling disposed to lose
she brought the Bible out to coi
his error and read as follows from
18: “And will wipe Jerusalem as
a dish, wiping it and turning it i
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