Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 21, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY
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W. D. HOLLAND - - - Editor
-JRALPH L. BUELL, Managing Editor
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MERCEDES, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1923.
WEALTH IS SPREADING OUT
Loose talk often catches the ear and sometimes facts take a
Hong time to catch up. It is safe to say that most persons have
■the impression that the rich are getting richer and the poor
poorer every day; that the concentration of great wealth is a
growing menace that the United States must reckon with. But
the cold hard truth will not down. The Bureau of Internal
Revenue shows that all classes of Americans with incomes below
$50,000 show increases, while all classes having incomes in ex-
cess of $50,000 show decreases, and this in spite of the fact that
the mass income of $15,924,689,355 in 1918 increased in 1920 to
■■$23,735,629,183.
When the figures for this year are at hand it will be found
That the poor are getting richer and the rich are getting poorer.
Figures show that 64.39% of the aggregate personal in-
comes were in classes from $1,000 to $5,000 a year and 77.32%
in classes from $1,000 to $10,000. Incomes in excess of $10,-
4)00 per year footed up only 22.68 per cent.
These disclosures may be a sad blow to our agitators and
long-haired political economists.
The plain truth is that the American is living on a higher
standard than any man in the world, that his income is far in
excess of the income of any other nataional. If he must pay
Ligh prices he has the money to buy and still have a little left
Tor a rainy day if he exhibits any of the characteristics of thrift,
J
AMERICA BOOMING ALONG
The man who is not sold on America is the man who does
mot think. True we are an electric people, emotional to a
■degree, and subject to all the annoyances of temporary malad-
justment. Now we are joyous, viewing the world from the
mountain top, now we are wistful—in the depths of the valley.
Clear vision, however, sees nothing but the steady advance.
While the blasts of winter have been chilling us, railroad traffic
Las been increasing until it reached the heaviest point ever ex-
perienced for the season. Panic talk about unemployment has
given place to grumbling about the inability to get help. For
the first time in the history of the country the cotton spindles in
use in January have exceeded 35,000,000. Textiles are booming,
.iron and steel reports show enormous activity and automobile
Manufacturers predict their biggest year.
Even with all this improvement conditions are still un-
' settled. There is stilt talk of merchants traveling dangerous
.ground. The Glooms contend that merchants will be caught
with high price merchandise on their shelves that the public will
i decline to buy at the prices asked. More than likely, however,
the alert merchandiser will have, bought and banked his profits
before the Pessimists awaken to the fact that we are living and
working in the greatest country in the world.
We control practically all the gold in the world and what is
more important we are coming to set the moral and business
standards of the world, which summed up in plain honesty,
spells the certain reward of dominating progress.
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THE FARMER MUST HAVE JUSTICE
While labor as a unit is studiously keeping away from poli-
tics, conditions are driving the farmer into politics, this because
the farmer sees no other way of accomplishing anything like
■even justice.
Business generally has started off with a healthy boom.
From all parts of the country come reports of increased activity.
Buying has again assumed a healthy trend. The iron and steel
.industry reports a hopeful outlook, automobile manufacturers
expect a big year; shippers have been benefitted by the cut in
freight rates, gold is piling up, and the road to prosperity seems
wide open to all.
The farmer, however, lags behind, despite the fact that he is
the wholesale producer of food and clothing. Farming and
transportation rest as the final foundation of trade.
'' , It will be regrettable if the selfishness of the money power
■declines to recognize this fact and compels the farmer to line up
in Congress to create a machinery in the interest of agriculture
regardless of its effect on the industrial world.
The money power of the East has frowned on the Farm
Bloc, but it may be forced to look upon these legislators as the
leavening influence that will lead the country into the promised
land. Indeed it is to the vision of Farm Bloc members that
the country owes many a vote of thanks. The farmer must get
justice without being forced to organize for agriculture only.
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POEM BY UNCLE JOHN
OUR HOSST..ESS HOMES
Smith has got a super-six, and Jones has got an eight;
‘Brownson keeps a four-sedan a-standin’ by his gate. . . . Biggs
.has got a tourin' coup, an’ Baggs has got a truck,—Jeff son sez
The ’Lectric is the finest job he’s struck. . . . Thfe butcher drives
a roadsterette, that’s playin’ hell with gas; The grocer drives
a limousine that chokes ye, as they pass! The barber puts his
surplus a seven-seated bus,, O, everbody’s got a boat, an’ that’s
includin’ us! Granny steers her chummy-car with doors of bevel
plate. . . . Baby wants a winter-Ford—he’ll have it sure as fate!
Sister—she’s a suffagette—that lives on rubber tires—bound to
have an auto hearse, the minnit she expires! Makes a feller
figger like he’s never done be-
fore—what he might abount to
if he weren’t so beastly poor.
HOW TO WORSHIP.—God is the
Spirit: as they ithat worship him
must worship him in spirit and in
truth.—John 4:24.
WENT ABOUT DOING ROOD:—
And Jesus went about all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, and
preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing all manner of sickness
and all manner of disease among ,the
people.—Matthew 4:23.
GREAT POWER FROM GOD:—Be-
hold, I give unto you power to tread
on serpents and scorpions, and over
all the power of the enemy: and
nothing shall by any means hurt you.
—'Luke 10:19.
REPENT, REPENT: — John the
Baptist came, preaching, saying, Re-
pent ye: for the kingdom of heaven
is at hand.
Jesus began to preach, and to say,
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven
is at hand.—Matthew 3:1, 12; 4:17.
GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROM-
ISES:—Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious prom
ises; that by these ye might be
partakers of the divine nature, hav-
ing escaped the corruption that is
in the world through lust.—2 Peter
1:4.
A COMPLETE SALVATION:—The
very God of peace sanctify you whol-
ly; and I pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ,—1 Thessalonians
5:23.
THE CHRISTIAN MISSION. —
Preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand. Heal the sick,
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,
cast out devils: freely ye have re-
ceived, freely give.—Matthew 3 0: 7,
8.
Richard Lloyd Jones
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Determination Is Priceless
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THE SORROWS OF THE
LEGISLATURE
(Houston Post.)
The controversy between the legis-
lature and Governor Neff with re-
spect to the time of holding the spec-
ial session has ended in both stand-
ing pat, whatever that may mean.
Governor Neff adhered to his call for
March 3 5, and the legislature assem-
bled in compliance therewith and
then adjourned without a day, on the
assurance from the governor that
Re would convene the body some time
between April and June.
To have responded to the gover-
nor’s call and proceeded with busi-
ness would have deprived the mem-
bers of their mileage, the constitu-
tion providing that no mileage shall
be paid for an extra session that may
be called within one day after the
adjournment of a regular called ses-
sion.
Unfortunately, ,the mileage allow-
ance of $5 for each twenty-five
miles traveled in going to and re-
turning from the seat of government
must now be regarded as a part of
the legislator’s compensation, though
never so intended. ’ Traveling expen-
ses, of course, now require no such
outlay as when that allowance was
first made, nor did the State’s busi-
ness in the earlier period require the
time that the legislature must no v
devote to the public business.
The people refuse to increase the
Singleness of purpose is the
foundation of all success It is the
man who knows exactly what he
wants and insists on getting it who
usually gets it.
We are too prone to look upon
money rather than mind as our
goal. Money harms only the man
who has not learned to- help himself.
It is the mind that mints money.
Money never makes mind.
To be born with a silver spoon in
your mouth is not a handicap un-
less you let.the spoon gag you.
Poverty is not a virtue. It is
nothing to brag about. It is an as-
set only as a compelling power to
drive you out of it.
The poets praise a false philoso-
phy when they sing of the glory of
poverty. Be honest and admit it is
It is the man who has found how to
help others- in the march through
life, who wins the admiration of
others.
Youth’s problem is not what are
you starting but where are you start-
ing for .
Your fortune depends not upon
whajt you have in hand but what you
have in your head.
Real nobility is the fruit of heart
culture, no less than head culture,
and your heart grows big only as
you force it into the affection of
other hearts.
Determination is a richer asset
than dollars. It is [the one indispen-
sable tool that is needed for the
successful completion of every job
you may desire or are compelled to
tackle.
Emerson reminded us that “keep-
Atta Roy Literal
Lecturer—“We’ve go,t to help
infant industries.”
Voice Farback—“I’m helping broth-
er. I just bought stock in a safety
pin company.”
a glory nobody wants. Everybody, | ing everlastingly at it brings suc-
who is covered with that glory is i cess.”
trying to get rid of it. The whole] Determination forces you over the
road of concentration. Concentration
is the forces of intellect thrown like
the searchlight upon just one thing
struggle of the world is to scramble
away from it. It is a hideous thing.
But the test of men comes not
vdrile enmeshed in poverty but when
freed from its fetters.
The man who doesn’t know what
to do because he has no money is
hardly less well off than the man
who doesn’t know what to do because
he has money.
The young man who facing life has
to be fed and clothed by a rich
parent may command a measure of
thoughtless envy' but he commands
no more of the world’s admiration
than the young man who has to be
clothed and fed by charity.
It’s the man who stands alone and
does not use others as a crutch to
hold him up who commands respect.
and held there.
The searchlight gets control of all
the rays of light and purposefully
directs them.
Concentration is the control of the
cultivated mind .
Nobody cares whether Lincoln or
Edison, Emerson, McCormick or
Agassiz had a bank account because
everybody knows they had a brain
account. They cultivated and con-
centrated their brains upon a great
determination to do something so well
worth while that they rose above
the poverty, above the fickle fortune
into the indestructable wealth of the
world.
Office Tamp Opines
“When the boss can’t come down
to work, hers indisposed; when a
clerk can’t come down, he’s drunk.”
How It’s Rone
Mrs. B.—‘I wouldn’t doubt but that
Grace Rodgers will be a June
bride.”
Mr. B.—“No doubt of it. If she
can make up her sweetie’s mind.”
Long Term Loan
If one’s a ten spot in his pay
That he will kindly loan us,
We’ll pay it back the very day
The soldiers get their bonus.
Weekly Lesson in Etiquette by
Miss Vera Renee
When taking a young lady to a
church social and she insists on pay-
ing her own way, do not argue with
her. Show that you respect her
independence and let her pay for
both of you.
HOMEY PHILOSOPHY FOR 1923
’When a fellow’s late for business and offers as an excuse
the fact that he put his teeth in water which froze in the night
and so it took him ten minutes to thaw them out before he could
eat his breakfast, it speaks wen for his imagination, and maybe
better for his sense of humor. What’t more, we can all laugh.
But when the laugh is ended we come to see that excuses are
poor crutches on which to lean. That chap grows who, when
wrong, admits it. Excuses are ugly patches on an ill-fitting
suit that can be made quite dapper if its faults are seen and
a hitch taken in here and there.
legislataive compensation, so legis ] latures worked in an extra mileage
latures long since have ceased to1 for its continuous session,
remain in session much beyond tho; But in that time the compensatio n
only $2 is allowed, and they provide: allowed by law had twice its pur-
sixty days, after which a per diem of; chasing power, and sines a majority
She-
bad.”
He—“Yep,
evil.”
Agree Quickly
“Tobacco in any form is very
it’s the cheroot of all
’Twas Ramp Anyhow
Careful Karl—“I’m saving up for a
rainy day.”
Blooie Bliss—T did that once—but
it turned out to be a wet night in-
stead. The bootleggers got mine.”
’Rah for the Movers
Old King Tut never lived ,to see
the day—but he’s had bis furniture
moved carefully at last.
for adjournment at /the end of sixty
days, having in mind an extra ses-
sion, which will restore the $5 per
diem, with an interim at leasit of
sufficient durataion to enable a sec-
ond mileage allowance.
If the legislature had complied ful-
ly with Governor Neff’s call, it would
have been deprived of a considerable
mileage allowance.
To show how times have changed,
the Twenty-second legislature re-
mained in regular session thirty-one
days beyond the $5 period, members
drawing $2 a day for the thirty-one
days. The Twenty-third legislature
remained in regular session 121 days,
drawing $2 a day for the last sixty-
one days. Neither of these legis-
uf the members were farmers, who
lived a boarding houses which
charged from S3 6 to $25 a month for
board and lodging, they managed to
do very well even on the $2 per diem,
and many of them were in the habit
of saying even that pay was better
than raising cotton at 8 cents a
pound and the work wasn’t so hard
Many reforms in our legislative
system are possible, and probabl>
are needed. Certainly the reform of
reasonable compensation is, but the
constitution will have ,to be changed
to bring that about. The recesses do-
no harm, and besides there are State
problems that can be solved to better
purpose if considered in special ses-
sions, when legislative attention is
Forward March
H' ^
Logic.?! Conclusion
“I see Congressman Spoof has
get the presidential bee in his bon-
net and has tossed it into the ring.”
“Yep, but it is the public that will
get stung.”
Rum Ran
He’s so stupid he thinks—
That Liverpool is a swimming
tank.
That Sing Sing is a grand opera
production.
That Long Island Sound is made
with a fog horn.
That a jail bird lays striped East-
er eggs.
Why, be even thinks King Tut is
a new movie star.
not diverted by a multitude of local
bills and other measures of minor or
of no importance.
The crowded condition of the cal-
endars in the regular session usually
results in the passage of bills that
ought not to become laws, the defeat
of bills that ought to become laws
and insufficient consideration of
many measures that are of genuine
importance.. As a rule, therefore, ithe
special sessions are more effective
than the regular sessions.
But we must face the fact that the
mileage allowance, which is above
five or six times the actual cost cf
traveling to and from the seat of
government, is regarded as compen-
sation, since it aids in at least a
slight degree in making up for the
insufficiency of the constitutional pei’
diem. And in these days of high
cc st of living, it is not fair to blame
members so regarding ii
Reduction of the membership to a
more wieldy basis and payment of
$15 a day for the regular session, or.
better still, a salary of $1,50 for a
regular session of 100 days .the first
year, and $500 for a thirty-day ses-
sion the second year, might improve
the personnel of the lawmaking body
as well as the quality of its services.
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But Price of It Is
(From the Boston Transcript.)
Not the least interesting aspect of
the cost of prohibition is the fact
that prohibition is not prohibitive.
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As we understand it the German’s
idea of shrewdness is to beat his
bets by losing everything.
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Holland, W. D. & Buell, Ralph L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 21, 1923, newspaper, March 21, 1923; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003283/m1/4/?q=peddler: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.