The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1919 Page: 4 of 12

                                
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Published every Thursday at Ca-
nadian, Hemphill County, Texas.
L. P. LOOMIS Publisher
Entered at the postoffice at Ca-
nadian, Texas, as second class
mail matter.
McLean has just closed a big
revival meeting held under the au-
spices of the Methodist Church.
Deponent sayeth not whether Edi-
tor Moody hit the sawdust trail
Harking Back to Jefferson
The
The Sears & Roebuck mail order
firm is accorded in the printing! .p^g Woodward Democrat must
fraternity as having one of the be a joe Bailey organ. The
best and most complete printing £>emocrat says that the Democrat-
ic party was founded on the prin-
plants in the world, and many
printers place it as the very best.
Printer's ink pays and that is why
thi.-j firm has built and equipt so
complete a plant. A Chicago visit-
or in the Record office recently
stated that they employ about
three hundred printers and own
the best printing machinery manu-
factured. Every foot of space in
their plant is utilized some way
and every second of an employe's
time is charged against the par-
and sang in the choir, but since ticular job he is employed on.
the meeting is over he comes out vVhen he picks up the copy for a
to qualify as the biggest news- job punches a time clock and
paper liar in the Panhandle. That when he lays that ticket down
evangelist better go back to Mc- atfajn he punches out on the job
Lean and finish his job. on the ciock, thus keeping an ac-
curate record down to the second
as to the time cost on that job,
and enabling the firm to estimate
from a most complete cost system
just what a job costs even down
to the fraction of a cent. A prin-
ter's time cost, in Chicago is $2.48
an hour, and that is what they
figure the cost of work on.
There are two or three good
morals in this. In the first place
the time cost of $2.48 an hour in
the city shops for work gives the
country printer who thinks work
in his shop is worth only about
fifty cents an hour something to
think about. It also gives the fel-
lbw who thinks job work prices in
a country print shop are high a
chance to compare the prices with
those in the largest mail order
concern in the world. The fact
that they put such a large invest-
ment in a printing plant is a
strong object lesson to the mod-
ern merchant who doesn't think
there is any virtue in advertising
the goods he has for sale.
Jess Adams says in the Plain-
View News that his trip to the leg-
islature to fill a fat clerical job
cost him $100 more than the salary
amounted to. The deficit between
salary and expense was due to the
cost of high living. It also ex-
plains why Representative Lee
Satterwhite pulled off his society
rags and crawled into some union-
alls and made a full hand in the
harvest field just as soon as he ar-
rived home froni Austin. No little
old legislature job could keep
those gay old birds in chewing
gum money.
And now they say that prohi-
bition will cause a raise in freight
rates because the railroads will
lose the business of shipping the
grain to the breweries and then
shipping the fire water back to
the consumers. If the railroads
Will just furnish cars enough tc
ship the grain and the livestock
which the country has raised this
year and then ship us coal enough
to feed our stoves this winter we
may not miss the booze shipments
so much. The railroads have
been crying car shortage for a de-
cade and if the stopping of the
booze business will release a few
more cars that the public needs
then we won't miss the alkali ir-
rigation water so much. And just
how the railroads can claim a
raise on freight rates when they
have more business of the "neces-
sities of life" than they can haul
another spike driven into the
H. C. of L.
The editor of the Clarendon
News was agin' women's suffrage
and it toojt the steam roller to
flatten him out and make a be-
liever of him. But a brave fighter
dies hard. He has just begun to
become reconciled to the fact that
Women maybe have a right to vote
When, by hec, his patience is
again riled by the appearance of;
women tourists wearing pants on
the streets of Clarendon. We sup-
pose he compels his wife to work
in the garden wearing skirts too
narrow to walk in when she might
do four or five times as much
Work in a day if she were gowned
in a roomy pair of unionalls. Get
up in the band wagon, Sam. This
is a modern era of progressive,
modern America, and if we allow
the freak notions to shock us, our
nerves will be jarred so much
We will become a nervous wreck.
This is woman's era. Let her
lreign.
Will those papers who copied
the Quanah Tribune-Chief's swat
at us on the state division queston
be fair enough now to print our
answer? It is easy to make a
charge of unfair methods like
Harry Koch did when he said that
we evidently do not care much for
figures, but it's a different thing
when you treat his "come-up-
pance" with incontrovertible facts
and statistics. We always like to
get all the evidence before we
form a conclusion, especially if we
are on the sidelines.
Yes, Henry received six cents
damages, and the now Fords sell
for $625 instead of $495. It's
lucky for the common folks that
Henry didn't receive a fairly re-
munerative sum as damages, or
the jitneys would have been in the
$1,000 class.
ciples of Jefferson which are as
everlasting as the granite moun-
tains because they are founded on
justice and the rights of humani-
ty, arid there is no likelihood of a
dissention from the organization
of new parties that will split the
old Rooster's crow. Also that the
Republicans will sooner or later
return to the fold from their re-
cent diversion after the Rough
Rider and will again line up under
the Eagle; that the Republicans
become load heavy every few
presedential terms and while
somebody spills the beans, the
Democrats take charge of affaris
de government.
Wonder if the Woodward Demo-
crat knows the two great princi-
ples of Jefferson. In the first
place he was a great State's
Rights man; ditto Joe Bailey. In
the next place he was a high tar-
iff man, and said that he never ex-
pected to wear a suit of clothes
that were not made in the United
States; ditto Joe Bailey.
The whiskey bunch also quotes
Jefferson freely on the personal
liberty idea; ditto Joe Bailey.
All of which is not an opinion.
It is merely a statement of politi-
cal history of the dim, distant
past. Wilson democracy has long
since drawn the curtain over the
past and established a new era in
politics.
The inheritance tax on the
Carnegie estate amounts to $144,-
181,000. That will help a little in
carrying out Andy's wish to dis-
pose of his fortune. The balance
will be distributed among the
heirs and in three or four genera-
tions it will also be distributed
and the Carnegies of a hundred
years hence will be grubbing just
like the rest of humanity. The
pendulum of fortune swings back
and forth thru the ages. For in-
stance, where is there a dollar left
of the immense fortunes gathered
in the middle ages?
The attack against the cattle-
fever tick has reached unprece-
dented proportions in Texas. That
is shown by reports to the Bureau
of Animal Industry of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Which is co-operating with State
and local officials to drive out the
enemy of the live-stock industry.
An incident reported from Tar-
rant County shows the menace
that will remain so long as ticks
are not eradicated. A stockman
anxious to raise registered cattle
imported a herd of good animals
ahd placed them in a tick infested
pasture. Eleven cows, valued at
$10,000, died from tick fever. He
has now constructed a dipping yat
of his own and is dipping his cat-
tle every nine days instead of
«very eighteen days as he did be-
fore. His cattle are now in good
condition. So long as ticks and
tick fever are allowed to remain.,
cattle brot in from other sections
Will be under the constant danger
Of dying from the disease.
That Vernon Record needs
watching. One of the editors,
B. O. Brown, is president of the
Panhandle Press Association, and
the other editor, R. H. Nichols, is
president of the Northwest Texas
Press Association.
In a certain town, not a thous-
and miles from Shattuck, a gov-
ernment inspector went into a
store to buy a pair of shoes. The
merchant asked $12 for the shoes,
"lie inspector paid it and called
ar the bill showing the cost of
le shoes. It iB needless to say
it the merchant went to jail for
ofiteering. A butcher, it is
ned who Was selling meat at
cogls a pound was treated in
mannen—Shattuck Monitor.
Memoirs of A Baby
I came to this world a month ago
And the Angel that brot me
down
Forgot the tag that would tell
the folks
That my eyes were blue or
brown,
So they took me out from a cozy
bed
And into the glaring light
To see if my eyes were brown or
• blue
And of course I cried with
fright.
The next that comes mus^t see
So they pulled me out again,
Till blankness filled the place up
there
Where my brain power might
have been.
They doubled me up and stretched
me out
And pulled me here and there,
They talked of the size of nose and
ears
And the color of eyes and hair.
Their ogling eyes and twisted
mouth
Was enough to drive me mad,
And the line of talk they handed
me
Would ruin what sense I had.
If they would face the mirror
there
And grin that awful grin
They'd be so shocked they
wouldn't live
To torture me again.
They poke their fingers in my side
And bounce me up and down
And seem to think it "O so cute!"
If I perchance should frown.
O, why am I so helpless now
When I so need to fight?
There's nothing, nothing I can do
But cry the blessed night!
—Cooper Doubleby.
There is something mysterious
about the Amarillo oil field. There
have been several wells of strong
gas, more locations are made
every week for new test wells, and
now the city is boasting of the in-
stallation of a refining plant. All
this, and not a dr9p of real greasy
oil yet. It does beat even the
boasted vauntiness of West Texas.
There never has been such prepa-
ration in the history of the oil
game. If they shouldn't get any
oil? Save the city from such a
catastrophe!
Along with the excess profit
profiteers is the camouflage
profiteer who is a short weight
guy. When a maunfacturing
concern puts up a package for a
pound and it really contains only
twelve or thirteen ounces they
should be fined pretty heavily for
it. When they put up a gallon of
syrup and leave it a pint short
they are cheating the people.
P-P C C Panhandle Statistics
A letter sent out by Secretary
Jamison of the, Panhandle-Plains
Chamber of Commerce, holds
much of interest to the citizens of
West Texas cities. Jamison says:
"The introduction of the Pan-
handle-Plains Chamber of Com-
merce has already been made and
is taking its place in the promi-
nent affairs of this section of the
state where activities are designed
to serve those developing agencies
meritorious of our best efforts.
"We want to give you a slight
glimpse of the condition that ex-
ists within the territory encom-
passed by our jurisdiction as an
oganized body based upon autheu-
tic data which has been compiled
at this office:
"Assessed valuation.-$200,000.00C
Per capita of above 230
Value of present wheat
crop conserva-
tive est  30,000,000
Value of all products for
year, approx.. 300,000.000
Per capita of above.. 350
Pect. of land tillable
in Panhandle  71 per ct.
Per ct. of tillable land
in cultivation
1-3 or  27 per ct.
Per ct. tillable land not in
cultivation  . 73 per ct.
Per ct. in hands of non
residents..._ 42 per ct
Average population
per mile  8per ct
"The prevailing price of land
per acre obtained by striking the
average between the two extremes
$26.
"Wiser and more mature heads
than ours, perhaps, have seen for
many years the great need for an
organiation just such as is found
in the Panhandle-Plains Chamber
of Commerce. We are the servants j
of that need and upon us is placed!
the responsibility to which this
movement can lie projected, Will
you help this movement by giving!
it some of your time, mental ener-j
gy and careful thot? |
"We will bring the eyes of the!
world to view the Panhandle and
Plains of Texas How?
"Exhibit at International Soils
Exposition.
"Exhibit Dallas Fair. (Spec-
tacular.)
"Advertisement Saturday Even-
ing Post and other mediums of
publicity.
"Activities in road builidng and
in thousands of other ways.
'The activities of our organiza-
tion will ultimately benefit the
acreage owner, 42 per cent of
whom are non-residents."
THE HERO AT HOME
Out where the laundryman is the
banker's brother-in-law
Sergeant McCoy is describing the
things he saw.
lie was at Chateau-Thierry—right
in the thick of it, too—
He captured a hundred Bodies,
also he slaughtered a few,
And Adams and Jones and Perkins
are murmuring, "At-a-Boy!"
As they gather and linger and lis-
ten to doughty Sergeant McCoy.
Out where the grocer's daughter
is "the stylishest girl in town"
Sergeant McCoy is tearing the
wire entanglements down;
Disregarding his orders, he leaps
over No Man's Land,
Killing some seventy Germans and
doing it all by hand,
While the boy who was hoping
fondly only a month ago,
Sees the grocer's fair daughter
passing, and nurses a rankling
woe.
Out where the little druggist has
secrets he will not tell
Sergeant McCoy is giving an ac-
count of that firev hell;
He was gassed, but he did not
mind it; he rushed where the
sharpnel flew,
He shielded three wounded cap-
tains and rescued a colonel or
two,
And into his eyes there always
comes quickly a knowing glance
When Adams or Jones or Perkins
refers to the girls in France.
Out where the blacksmith's lady
lends eggs to the preacher's
wife
Sergeant McCoy is having the time
of his proud young life;
He lies, but who shall deny him
the joy that his lying brings,
For still he would bask in glory
if he stuck to truthful things?
And who can be swayed by pity
for the lonely and beardless
boy
Who sighs while the grocer's
daughter feeds candy to Ser-
geant McCoy?
—S. E. RISER.
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