La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1922 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Makcnic Building. Published Every Thursday Morning and Entered at the Poat Office aa Second-Class Matter
By B. F. Harigel
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Democratic in Principle and a Worker For LaGrange and Fayette County
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$2.00 Per Year
Volume 43
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, January 19, 1922
Number 3 ,
THINGS IN GENERAL
Remarks by .the Editor
Commenting upon the removal of the war
tax upon the many little luxuries which cus-t
tom and habit have caused us to enjoy, is now
to be found among the other present day feat-
ures. It seems that the consume* in this in-
stance is the more prolific in his ecstacy than
is the dispenser at the cold drink stand. Whe-
ther this means that there will be more of the
stuff drank or whether there is a great re-
joicing over the fact the one cent on every
one of the' drinks will be saved is for the av-
erage man to determine. One cannot refrain
however, from encouraging the idea that it,is
the saving of the cent that appeals to those
writers. Why? I can’t say unless, it be the
idea that they think the nickel is again being
recognized as the current that causes the
goods to move their way. This I believe
is nqt an idle statement. During the war per-
iod and after, when everything you ppshed
down your throat and everything you put pn
your head and body, had to be, decofated with
a stamp for luxury duty, the nickel was noth-
ing more than a mint product that looked nice
when new and wasn’t worth a continental
without the blamed one cent copper hanging
on its coat tails.
As the most of you know, suspicious char-
acters in a'city manage to attract the atten-
tion of a copper; providing, of course that the
one under suspicion does not resemble an in-
strument of ability and leads the copper to
believe that he can take care of himself even
in a tussle with an upholder of the law. This
is the name in application with the cftppel-
that has been dangling on the tail of the
buffalo nickel. You couldn’t buy a decent .ci-
gar unless you pnid twice the amount it was
voirth, and tifen sRlSyS the blahiSd "copper* hr
order to make the purchase attractive. You
couldn’t buy a ticket from your home town to
a village a few miles distant without blurring
the landscape in between by adding the
blamed copper. Ordinarily the little insignifi-
cant thing isn’t worth the time to handle its
removal from the dppths. of your pocket—pro-
viding of course that you had a pocket—but
it had a prestige in the last four years that
almost equalled the swelling of a street car
hog on a dreary day. And even when you
rode on a street car you had to dig down a
little deeper and place the copper into a re-
ceptacle which stood near the entrance, while
a lynx-eyed conductor, with a feeling of im-
portance because he could ride along with you
without paying, stood ready to eject you from
the platform if you failed to come adless.
When you think of all this and further
when you consider that in your dire necessity,
for funds you could not even issue a note or
buy a little chaser at the drug store without
having to witness the painful performance
of the clerk rubbing his saliva on the back of
a blue stamp, you have the thought that the
privilege is yours to heave a sigh of relief.
The -nickel, especially, howevef, is on the
throne again. Watch "Some of the boys as
they enter a cold drink stand, as they pull out
the faced nickel and place it upon the coun-
ter with an air of superiority of command
and order the maid or man behind the counter
to dish up« foamer. After you have watch-
ed the purchaser for a while, turn your op-
tics upon the party behind the counter and
note with what a sigh of relief she or he
punches the cash drawer and turns up the Old
pad of one centers with a feeling of disgust
and relief. The employee, too, is one of the
many who are enjoying the change—I mean
the change of business, <not the amount re- 1
ceived. The return of the nickel is but a cor-
robaration of the historian wl)o said that the
more you persecuted one race, the more cer-
tain is it that that race will come back into
its own, and the persecutor brought to account.
Let us therefore doff our tile to the nickel and
welcome its return to .a position alongside
with its^colaborers for pleasure, the dime, the
quarter, the half dime and the dollar.
Even unto the least of these brief enjoy-
ments, comes a pain. Just as I had concluded
that the boys would feel the better for the re-
moval of the war tax, comes the report from
Washington that they have another chain,
with a new link, to fasten upon all who are
bent upon enjoying themselves. They want
three cents on each gallon of gas you pur-
chase. It was plainly stated in the news dis-
patch, that the tax would fall upon the. con-
sumer. You will have to admit that this news
is very refreshing, for the most of you have
have always had a constant dread that the
burden might fall upon the manufacturer for
good and upon softie of the innocents who do
not use gasoline. Foolish, of course to en-
OUR WEEKLY PpEM
THE 3UNSET CITY
There’s a city that lies in the kingdom
of clouds,
In the glorious country on high,
Which an azure and silvery curtain en-
' shrouds,
To screen it from mortal eye;
A city of temples and turrets of gold,'
That gleam by a sapphire sea,
Like jewels more splendid than earth t
may behold,
Or are dreamed of by you and by me.
And about it are highlands of amber
that reach
Far away till they melt in the gloom;
And waters that hem an immaculate
beach
With fringes of luminous foam.
Aerial bridges of pearl there are,
And belfries of marvelous shapes, -
And lighthouses lit by the evening star,
That sparkle on violet capes;
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And ihanging gardens that are far away,
Enchantedly float aloof;
Rainbow pavillions in avenues gay,
And banners of glorious woof!
When the sujbmi»«»
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fires
Are aglow in the western sky, ,
The pilgrim discovers the domes and
spires >. *
Of this wonderful city on high;
And gazing enrapt as the gathering
shade
Creeps over the twilight lea,
Sees palace and pinnacle totter and fade
And sink in the sapphire sea;
TilJ the visiqp loses by slow degrees
The magical splendor it wore; ,
And the silvery curtain is drawn, and he
sees •
- The beautiful city no more! » _
Henry Sylvester Cornwell.
THE PRODyCE SALE
Merely A Friendly Discussion
tertain such a notion, that it would, but we
still have a right to think. So we will have
to pay three cents upon every gallon of gas
that we purchase. As one retailer recently
' said to me: “I had about concluded that I
was relieved of the one cent annoyance, when
thiB thing came along.” But fte is not alone
in the proposition. When automobiles were
first brought into practical use, few were sold.
When they became luxury because of the fact
that they were that, the incidentals of ex-
pense were added by the various forms of
governments until now you are already paying
more than a luxury tax. This last addition
of three cents a gallon odds to your misery.
Owners of ordinary vehicles will appreci-
ate the situation even better than those who
own automobiles. They will still have old
Dobbin to feed and occasionally pay for a
slight repair on the phaeton or have a new
shoe put on the animal’s hoofs, but they will
not be taxed for the feed. I am not inclined to
encourage the idea of being called a calamity
howler, but ie does occur to me that this fed-
eral taxation is no longer an in/ant. It has
grown with surprising force and with a stride
that stands without parallel in the history
of the government’s expense account or with
its tax levy. I have also contended that when
we refer to the luxuries of a people in a for-
eign country we are only teasing ourselves in-
to a good humor, for he who lives in a glass
house should pull down the shades. We are it
now, and we are it strong. We might clamor
for many tilings in the line of pfogress, we
might encourage the idea that our progress
is the. greatest on earth, we might even lay
claim to the fact that our immunity is great,
but when we do It is only because we stand
the prodding and are willing to move along
with the vast throng who are slowly taxing
themselves to death for the sake of democracy.
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And in the midst of tt all we listen to the
siren song of the politician who is willing to
serve the dear peepul and to save the country
Many, of the Journal’s exchanges have
given space to quite lengthy articels about the
amount of produce marketed at their port, and
the amount oi money paid for turkeys during
the season just closed. In our endeavor' to
do the same thing, and to show that LaGrange
does receive a large amount of this produce, it
was found that the matter of getting correct
details was too complicated, in fact it made
necessary the interviewing of every merchant
who buys produce and that would incur a
large amount of them. Still it cannot pass
without merely a friendly suggestion being
made. As we have never sought to outline a
program for the merchant to follow, believ-
ing that he was in the bet$fer position to know
how to run his business we shall not attempt
to do so now. But we will say that this pro-
duce purchase may be relegated to one man.
Speaking to several farmers we learn that
they are, in a great measure, indifferent about
the matter. Yet they have stated that inas-
much as the merchants have ceased to buy'cot-
ton, and that the fleecy staple is now being
purchased by the buying representative direct,
the same could apply to the purchase of coun-
try produce, which would include chickens,
turkeys'and eggs, in which hens and roosters
would be included as chickens. The merchants
of LaGrange have been reared in the act of
buying the produce, direct from the farmer,
in fact it has been the drawing card for' the
trade from the soil tiller; the small merchant
who failed to buy the produce generally found
himself wondering why the trade of the far-
mer was given to the larger concerns. But
he learned and added a coop behind his store-
houseand placed the chickens anH at.Rar fowl«
M«*nn~*Some aiea, some were sotf to the
town customers of the merchant and some
jWere sold to the produce buyer exclusively,
and in,that way the coop was cleared.
As stated, the buying of country produce
has ben followed here for years, it will be a
decided change should the practice be aban-
doned. Some farmers have said that they
would prefer to Sell direct to the produce man,
get his cash therefor, and spend the cash
where they desired. Others, as stated, have
simply shrugged the shoulder and signified
their intention to letting the queston rest
where it was. Naturally, you who read this
will want to know who appointed the news-
paper as the chief puzzle solver and directed
him to end thd argument. Nobody, the rea-
son for this article is to merely answer the
questions which have been propounded, and
whiefi are directed to us because the folks
who did so encourage the idea that the news-
paper should know it all. We make refer-
ence to this as a duty, but will answer fhe
questions simply, and plainly by stating that
the man-on the farm should decide for him-
self. If he prefers to handle the produce di-
rect to the wholesale produce, it will leave an
open market; if he prefers to sell it to mer-
chants outside the city who in turn will sell
to their favorite dealer, 4 will leave the old
method in vogue. >
Candidly, if the question would be care-
ftitty studied, it would result in making the
man on the farm decide for himself, and make
him more independent in all matters. Selling
to ji produce wholesaler would not create a
drag market, tffere are too many men engaged
in tfie same business in other surrounding
towns, and they would certainly get the pro-
duce if LaGrange did not meet the price. The
danger of the combination is too 'small to ar-
gue. Without wishing to incur the displeas-
ure of anyone, yet desiring to place the matter
on thp same plane with the cotton market, we
believe that the merchant-would be better off
without making purchases of country produce,
in fact his lpsses and labor hire/would mater-
ially decrease. Local patrons could be sup-
plied without much trouble by trading with
the wholesaler. Think it over, but do so in
the same friendly manner that this is intend-
ed to be, will you?
from eternal damnation. We witness the won-
derful spectacle of a man pounding the edge
of a board table and hear his theme of ora-
tory and eloquence as he.'denounces another
of his kind who has been trying to get atten-
tion from the interested parties and get them
to assist him in putting out of practice, a
habit that draws heavily on the tax payer.
It’s all a great game, it matters little how you
look at it But—and here Is where I am going
to stop—you may just as well make up your
mind that the mad rush will continue, that
the people of America are not going to let a
little thing like the return of a cent—whether
UNEQUAL DIVISION
From The Brownwood Bulletin
Referring to a speech made by Cullen
Thomas, candidate for the United States Sen-
ate, *the Brownwood News say3 the major por-
tion of his speech was devoted to theories
concerning disarmament among nations of the
world. The subject of Mr. Thomas’s speech
was "School Houses or Battleships/’ He said
he was for putting money in school houses and
less in battleships.
That would be the preference of eveay per-
son, but Mr. Thomas forgets that putting
money in battleships is not a matter of choice
with the United States government, but a mat-
ter of necessity when the nation’s prestige
and safety are considered. The man or the
candidate for office who says he believes the
United States can atop building battleshipa
is short of good horse sense.
Look at the figures.
The population of the world is increasing
at the rate of $15,000,000 people a year. In
fifty years it means the world will contain one
billion more people than it contains now, and
one billion more competing for the right*to
live*arid prosper. And in a hundred years it
means that existence on earth will be largely a
matter of the survival of the fittest. We have
had wars since the origin of man, and the
world will continue to have wars, only more of
them, and the American nation is doomed if
it does not keep prepared.
Mr. Thomas speaks of the Christian
principles putting an end to war, when the fig-
ures tell us that only one-fifth of the present
world’s population believe in the Christian re-
ligion. Wars formerly came about through
the jealousies of the fancies of ruling despots,
ft11 nromr mi‘i 1 i I........ mnn Mia IMrV
for world trade and , racks!i hatreds. V /
We have 105,000,000 pebple in the United
States who demand the right to live and pros-
per., To permit us to live and prosper the
government at Washington is obligated to
keep the channels of world trade open. That
our farms and factories may run it is neces-
sary that we sell to the world at large; it is
necessary that we insist on the open door pol-
icy, on the right to sell in China and every-
where in the world that American goods are
wanted. And we would be in a devil of a fix:
commercially and indr/.trially without a,
strong navy to back up that insistence.
Mr. Thomas’ theories are the vagaries of
a dreamer. He says he had rather build school
houses than battleships. But the practical
man, the farseeing man knows that we must
continue to build both. The United States
must develop its strpng arm of gun power at.,
the same time that it develops the mind and'
the capabilities of the coming generations. It
need not rattle its sword, but its sword must
be there, visible and handy. We do not build
battleships for aggression, but for protection,
and with every year that passes now the neces-
sity for that protection will be more positive
and acute.
A man or a candidate for office who,
preaches pacifism in this stage of the world's
unrest,in this stage of its overpopulation, its
hates, its jealousies, and its infidelity, is no
safe adviser for the health and hope of the
American people.
you spell it with a “c” or preface it with an
“s”—interfere with their program of pleasure.
In view of this undisputable fact, and in view
of the othgr fact that this cent is soon to re-
turn, let us bow our heads—not in prayer and
thanks to God—but in submission, and invoke
the blessings of Him who would have us know
that It is ever better to give than receive. We
have a national congress W the purpose of
fixing our burdens, large or small, and we are>
a people who must be gracious and submiss-
ive at all times. And as we are now about to
journey hence, to another paragraph, let us re-
solve right now to smother the editorial man
who further comments upon the fact that the
nickel has returned to its prominence. It was
a return, true, but it was and will be, only
a brief visit.
Says the Columbus Citizen: “When Gov.
Neff refused to interfere in the case of the ne-
gro, Grace, who had been convicted of a hein-
ous crime by two juries and in both instances
sentenced to pay the penalty with his life, he
merited the thanks and applause of every citi-
zen of the state of Texas who believes in the
protection of the womanhood of our land. Had
his hanging been prevented every mother and
sister and daughter in our state would have
had just cause to consider it an insult, certain
women of San Antonio to the contrary not-
withstanding.”
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