The Saint Jo Tribune. (Saint Jo, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SAINT
TRIBU
Established 1898.
SAINT JO, MONTAQUE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUQUST IS, 1919.
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DON’T WORRY.
We can help you beat them high
prices for a summer suit. We
can dye that old Palm Beach and
make it look good.
We offer you unexcelled service in
this department.
Joe Curtis’ Dry Cleaning
and Dyeing Plant.
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
Odorless Cleaning.
Members National Association of Dyers and Clearifers.
We have no agent in Saint Jo. Send all goods
by Parcel Post.
ILLINOIS BEND ITEMS.
A AS AS .
Government Ownership.
Mr. Bryan’s latest idea is Gov-
ernment controlled newspapers
in order that the papers may
give impartially the news of each
political party. Prom the mess
that has already been made of
Government controlled railroads,
express companies and wires, it
would seem impossible that Mr.
Bryan’s brain could ever have
given birth to such a wild idea as
Government controlled newspa-
pers.—Pittsburg Gazette.
Mr. Bryan wasn’t successful
in the newspaper business, there-
fore perhaps he imagines that
the Government wouldn’t make
any poorer out of it than he did. j
There is a tendency everywhere
to make the Government the
goat. A Government press, su b-
sidized sufficiently to make pri-
vate competition commercially
unprofitable, would be about the
quickest way imaginable to adul-
terate the freedom of the press
and destroy independent public
opinion. Americans, being for
the most part a reading and
thinking people, depend largely
upon the unfettered press for
the presentation, clarification and
interpretation of political, social,
industrial and economic matters.
The press is to the minds of the
people much as the railroads are
to the bodies of same. And just
as Mr. Bryan proposes a shack-
led press, so certain labor lead-
ers or misleaders, are proposing
shackled railroads. In one case
perverted facts bearing official
stamps would soon be dispensed
through the official organs, and
in the other case inefficient and
extravagant railroad service
would be afforded. The Govern-
met is the clumsiest and costliest
of all employers, partly because
it is human nature to take ad-
vantages when they may be tak-
en with impunity, as is the case
with much Federal employment
under civil service rules. The
proposal of the railroad men that
the lines be bought by the Gov-
ernment, which is tosay the tax-
payers, and operated for the ben-
efi tof the employees—which the
proposition in effect amounts to
—is nothing short of ridiculous.
We have iti Russia an example
of that sort of railroading, and
we certainly are not going to em-
ulate the BolsbeviKi. The warn-
ing of the self-elected spokesman
of the railroad operatives, a talk-
ative guy strutted with self-im-
portance, that unless this depar-
ture shall be made, his constitu-
ents will '‘tie up the railroads so
tight they can’t move,” may as
well be put to the test now as
any time, as State Press sees it.
If it is the stuffed leader’s idea
to start a civil war in this coun-
try by tying up transportation,
there is no use in postponing
hostilities. —State Press in Dal-
las News.
Dog days are here now in earn-
est and will remain until August
21. This is usually the hottest
and dryest season of the year, so
stories about snakes being blind,
dogs going mad, mosquitoes car-
rying burglar outfits to break
through screens, etc., are now
ripe and ready for plucking. No
affidavit need accompany any of
of these stories, nor need timid
people sign their names to same,
for there are plenty of duplicates
in every well regulated newspa-
per office.—Ex.
BY BLUE EYES.
August 11.—Most of our farih
ers are done with their cotton
and most of them are done cat-
ting and baling hay at present
and some of them are sitting
back fanning and enjoying these
good old warm summer days.
Will Dowd is making prepare
tions for the ginning season.
Mrs. Thorney Huddleston of
Marietta, Okla., was the guest of
Mrs. Will Dowd Thursday eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Perkins
of Ponder, Tex., came in Tues
day to visit Mrs. Perkins’ moth
cr, Mrs. Watts.
Joel Williams and his mother,
Mrs. Morrison, of Fletcher, Ok.,
came in last Monday to look af
ter their farm and to attend the
grave yard working.
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Gosdin
of Fort Worth came in last Tues-
day to visit his mother, Mrs.
Gosdin.
Frank Carroll and family of
Roswell, N. M., came in last
week to visit Mrs. Carroll’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Har-
mon.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Pierce
spent Wednesday night with
Mrs. Tom Snapp, who was re-
ported quite sick.
T. C. Davis and family and
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Scott of St.
Jo came down for the grave
yard working.
Mrs. A. V. Fleming came in
home from Gainesville Saturday,
where she has been for several
days on account of her baby be-
ing sick.
Elsie Dowd, Lottie Barnes,
Myrtis Watts, Harry Barnes aqd
Bunk Preston motored over to
Postoak Prairie Sunday evening.
Many thanks for the space for
my letter in this dear paper.
POSTOAK PRAIRIE ITEMS.
The Balanced Ration.
BY FOROET-ME-NOT.
Aug. 11.—We had a nice rain
Saturday.
The revival meeting at the Bap-
tist church closed Sunday. Re-
sults: One conversion and four
additions to the church.
Mrs. Porter, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. S.
Matney, for two months, left last
week for her home in New Mex-
ico.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Morris
of Rubottom, Okla., visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Miller, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Flem Gregory
of Bowie visited relatives on the
Prairie last week.
Mrs. R. H. Hurley and little
daughter, Lena Bell, left last
Friday for a month’s visit with
relatives and friends in Kaufman
county.
Mr. and Mrs. Wes Soulsby of
Rubottom, Okla., visited her par-
ents, G. W. Morris and family,
last week.
Little Miss Jewell Denning is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Kennedy this week.
Mrs. Charley Morris of Wayne,
Okla., visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Ligon, and family
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harell of Marys-
ville were week-end visitors of
her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. M.
Chapman.
Misses Elsie D.owd and Myrtis
Watts of Illinois Bend were
guests of Miss Bill Matney Sun-
day eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Perkins
of Ponder, Denton county, visit-
ed his sister, Mrs. Lee Matney,
last week.
Mrs. Less. Lewis, who was op-
erated on at the Gainesville sani-
tarium Friday, is getting along
nicely.
The High Cost of Living.
You can accurately figure what it costs you for such
items as clothing, luxuries, entertainments, chairity and
household expenses by depositing your money in this bank
and paying all your bills by check. When your cancelled
checks are returned you can get the information in a very
short time from them. This gives you a close tally on your
expenditures and enables you to reduce a part of them.
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK.
In Buffalo the cops use a
searchlight to help spot the
spooners in the parks. No trou-
ble to spot the married folxs
without a searchlight.—Ex.
DR. M. G. KAHN,
SON OF
DR. B. KAHN,
OPTOMETRIST OF DALLAS,
Will be here every Tuesday, until the
recovery of his father, at Dort &
Moore’s drug store.
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JAS. It. WILEY, President.
EWIN JOHNSON. Vlce-I’ren.
U. S. Government Still Needs Helpers
We have just received a very
urgent request from Mr. Martin
A. Morrison, President U. S.
Civil Service Commission, Wash-
ington, to begin looking ahead at
once and encourage young men
and women to take up Stenog-
raphy, Typewriting and Book-
keeping that there is a constant-
ly increasing demand for them
in the Government service, as
well as in all Commercial ave-
nues.
Better salaries paid for all
kinds of office work now than a
few years ago. In most branch-
es of the service in Washington,
a stenographer will be paid $1,-
400.00 a year, a typist $1,340.00,
and bookkeepers as much to be-
gin with, and no limit to salary
up to $4,000.00 per year.
Some of you may argue that
you do not want to go to Wash-
ington. You don’t have to, for
there are hundreds of calls re-
ceived by our employment bu-
reau every month that we can-
not fill.
This school has attracted to its
doors the type of young men and
women that you would be glad to
associate with. If you earnestly
seek business success, you read-
ily see that this is the quickest
road to it.
Because ws have promoted our
S. C. ROACH,I'OHhler
business the past 20 years in an
energetic and aggressive manner,
advertised our school and its em-
ployment service everywhere,
have graduates holding the best
positions the business world af-
fords all over the United States,
we have added hundreds of busi-
ness firms to ouFlist of patrons.
Some of these firms will want to
employ you —that is a certainty.
If you are still unprepared, you
will not get the position—that is
another certainty.
Write BOWIE COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE, Bowie, Tex., for full
particulars. It costs you only a
one-cent postal, and may mean
the "turning-point” in your life.
(Adv.-37-2t)
There Is a demand for cabbage
at fancy prices. Is the demand
greater than the supply? A cab-
bage grower not two miles dis
taut from the boundary lino of
the city of Fort Worth says the
price offered him by city dealers
would not pay for the picking
and the hauling of cabbage to the
market. He was tendered three-
quarters of a cent per pound.
An indignant subscriber says
that he has been paying 7 1-2
cents a pound to the retailer. Is
this profiteering or the lack of
an intelligent marketing system?
-Fort Worth Reoord.
Everyone has noticed the phys-
ical development of our soldiers.
It is stated by an army officer
who had charge of hundreds of
men; that the average increase
In weight of the soldiers was
twenty pounds per soldier. Boys
who lied not grown a pound since
the days of youth, in a few
months became symmetrical,
well-developed men. Mon who
had tipped the scales at the same
uotch for a score of years, forced
the balance notch up fifteen,
twenty, twenty-five, thirty and
thirty-five pounds. Notwithstand-
ing the hardships, the exposure,
the danger, anxiety and suffer
ing, most of tho men who have
returned from the training camp
of the trenches overseas are big-
ger, stronger and heavier than
when they went away. Why is
it? What did it?
There is but one answea: "Tho
Balanced Ration.” And hereby
is revealed one of the most es-
sential lessons and one of the
greatest opportunities that has
ever presented itself to the wo
men of America. Once upon a
time we heard a Fort Worth wo-
man say that any woman who
had a long, lean, lank husband or
a great big, fat, bulky husband
ought te be ashamed of herself.
At that time wo could not under-
stand. We thought that she
must mean that wo should first
be ashamed of him for being
such a creature and secondly be
ashamed of ourselves for being
such a man’s wife. The state-
ment worried us considerably,
and wefneverdid realize its full
meaning until our own husband
came home from the army, a
gfcflAiin*, good-locking man, wear
ing thirty extra pounds on his
long, lean, lank form beside his
uniform. Since that day we have
been firmly convinced that any
woman and every woman could
have a good-looking husband if
she only knew how to feed him
and dress him. Nor is this any
joke. It’s the truth, and reveals
one of tiie greatest needs of the
American home—a trained dio-
trician in every home, in tho per-
son of the wife, mother and man-
ager of that home. We believe
there are as many people in tho
United States suffering from
overeating and wrong eating as
there are from lack of food. This
may not be true of the nations
where food is scarce, but in this
big, rich, food-producing, food-
wasting nation of ours, where
often people eat things to keep
from throwing them away. There
are millions and millions of dis-
eased people who have ulmost
eaten themselves to death. Their
digestive apparatus is absolutely
worn out by trying to handle the
rich and indigestible foods their
body does not need while parts
of their body are being starved
and dwarfed for the plain, health-
giving, nerve-restoring, body-
building food that every human
animal must have to keep it
strong and vigorous and in good
growing and working condition.
It was hard for the boys to go
without the loadeded tables of
good things their mothers had
trained thurn to think were nec-
essary for their happiness.
Ever since they were born moth-
er had cooked and sweated, can-
ned and baked, pickled and pre-
served just the things she knew
they liked best. She did not
know it made any difference.
She did not know there was such
a thing as a balanced ration for
children, working men and boys.
She did not know there was food
for the muscles, food for blood
and food for bone. She thought
food was food, and the more abe
gave a child or man of what he
liked heat the better mother and
wife the waa.
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been killed by feeding them the
thing than there had been men
killed in the army, but she did
not know you could gradually
kill a man by feeding him the
wrong thing. When he died pre-
maturely she felt that it was just
because he got sick and the doc-
tors did not know how to cure
him, or gave him the wrong med-
icine. Doctors and the Lord get
blamed for lots of things we wo-
men have done through our In-
nocence and ignorance, neither
of which is an acceptable excuse
in human law. What we women
need to know is how to prepare
three balanced meals each day
that will nourish our family, and
keep them well and growing.
Give them what they need and
not burden their system with a
lot of highly flavored trash that
is a detriment to them every
day.—PheboK. Warner.
Advertised to Save Time of Gerks.
New York: A big New York
drug store has been advertising
that it will sell no more liquor
until the law against tho sale of
intoxicants may be repealed.
The purpose of that advertise-
ment was interesting. The store
wanted to save the time of its
salespeople —the time it required
to explain that the store was
obeying the law.
These adtertlsoments, like all
store advertisements, saved the
time of the store's salespeople.
Advertisements, nays the bead-
quarters offices of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World,
save the time of salespeople by
"sorting out” customers for the
store. Men and women who
want certain things do not have
to go’tsw’ store to stone la
search of the articles of their
choice. They learn where they
can find the goods they want—
the style, color and kind, and at
the prico they can pay —from ad-
vertisements. That saves their
time, and saves the timo of store
clerks.
This, says tho advertising as-
sociation, is one of the reasons
why truthful advertisements pay
for themselves and more. A
salesman or salesgirl in a store
that advertises can, as a rule,
sell more goods in a day than
those wiio work in stores which
do not tell Mrs. Housewife about
their goods in advance of hep
trip downtown. They sell goods
faster. Their day’s pay is dis-
tributed over a greater volume
of sales.
The fuel Situation.
Tho fuel situation has been
much below normal so far as
production is concerned since the
first of the year, and tho bitum-
inous market is dull, due to a re-
duction in stocks and the fact
that industrial consumers are
coming to the conclusion that a
tight situation in the production
of coal will exist next winter,
A great deal of high-grade
bituminous coal is now said to
bo covered by contract up to
next April. A very large de-
mand for anthracite coal for next
winter is now predicted.
Increased production of both
bituminous and anthracite coal
during May is reported, the out-
put of the former being 37,547,-
(XX) tons during the month as
compared with 32,104,000 tons
during April, the respective in-
dex numbers being 101 and 87.
Anthracite coal output for May
is 5,711,916 tons as compered
with 5,224,715 tons during April,
the respective index numbers
being 101 and 98__Weekly Finan-
cial Review.
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The Saint Jo Tribune. (Saint Jo, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1919, newspaper, August 15, 1919; Saint Jo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1107766/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .