The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1919 Page: 4 of 8
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“And the cares that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents like the Arab,
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And silently steal away.”
—Longfellow.
Which reminds us of some styles,—here today; gone tomor-
and leaving the innocent
wear.
While always keeping just a step ahead of the style trend,
thentic, beautiful, and—above all—lasting popularity.
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UOTTON PRICE FIXED
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purchaser with a garment unstylish and unfit to
The Big Money-Raising Sale Will Start
Saturday, Oct,, 4th
and
The
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FOR SPECIAL SERVICE.
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Smith, ex-senator, from Georgia, E. I cost for his cotton.
D. Smith, senator from South Caro-' TT —2 _.i_ :
Many came before that committee
cost of prduction
may be prepared to suit the tastes of
the tost fastidious.
Predicts Keen Competition.
TEXAS
In 1916 the San Francisco office of
the Grace Organization handled over
30,000 tons of rice; in 1917, 60,000 tons,
and in 1918, the largest tonnage of any
importer.
There is no doubt that the rice bus-
iness of the future will be more keen-
ly competitive than ever before in its
history. Prior to the outbreak of the
. In some cases the j war, England, Germany and other Eu-
field is first flooded and then plowed,
consisting of straw,
grass, etc., is spread on the field after
$200,000 to the campaign, the
being A. E. Jennings of Mem-»
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deep, during both day and night. After
that, it is flooded each morning until
the plants are five or six inches tall.
The plants are then pulled out by the
handful and tied with straw in bun-
dles. The bundles are either thrown
out in irregular intervals in the field
or carried on the arm of the planter,
The field is covered with about two
While the Baptist 75 Million Cam-
paign has announced as one of its
aims the enlistment of 5,000 young
men and women for special Christian
service, such as ministerial and mis-
sionary work, and has designated
Sunday, October 26, as a day for “call-
ing out the called,’’ information comes
that many young people have already
volunteered their services under the
spiritual impetus of the campaign.
In the Cullman Association of Ala-
bama alone a total of 125 young peo-
ple have agreed to devote themselves,
exclusively to missionary work, sixty-
one young men and women of Knox-
ville, Tenn., made such declarations
at one service in that city, while Miss
Alice Bagby, field representative of
the Womens ’Training School of the
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Fort Worth, had reported
140 volunteers at the beginning of
September.
When threshed in the field.^
Rice is * sheaves over a barrel or other similar
receptacle. After threshing, the paddy
;s transported to mills in the vicinity
and prepared for cousumption.
The comparatively low cost of rice
has made it the staple article of food
in Asiatic countries. Rice is also ex-
tensively used in all other parts of
the world, as it is easily transported
and can be held for a considerable pe-
riod without deteriorating. There is
no doubt that its consumption will ma-
terially increase with, the dissemina-
tion of knowledge regarding the va-
will be of interest to review briefly riety of palatable ways in which it
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we manage to discriminate in favor of styles that are an-
And will continue for a certain length of time. We are forced to raise
$10,000 in order to purchase a large stock of High Grade Merchandise,
consisting of Men’s, Ladies’ and Children’s Ready-to-Wear.
In order to raise this sum we are going to sacrifice our entire stock of
Merchandise at the very lowest possible prices,—prices that we ourselves
cannot buy for at these times.
We have received most of our Fall Goods and there will be a saving from
35 to 50 per cent on every dollar’s worth that you will purchase here, as
we are very eager to buy this stock.
Do not forget the date of this Sale as you will never get this opportunity
again. Come early as our doors will open at 9 o’clock Saturday morning,
sharp.
THE FIRST TEN LADIES ENTERING OUR STORE ON THAT DATE
WILL RECEIVE A HANDSOME PRESENT
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J. H. xAnderson of Knoxville, Tenn.,
chairman of the commission that is
directing the Baptist 75 Million Cam-
paign, has made a contribution of
$200,000 to the campaign and at the
same time gave $50,000 for the erec-
tion of a new church in his home city.
Of his gift to the campaign $50,000
will go to Carson-Newman College at
Jefferson City, while the remaining
$150,000 will be apportioned among
the several interests of the denomina-
tion fostered by the campaign.
Mr. Anderson is president of the
Baptist State convention of Tennessee
as well as chairman of the Laymen’s
Missionary Movement in his state. He
is the second Tennessee layman to
give
first
phis.
"HUBERT W. BOWIE
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AND CROP IS SHORT. South’s cotton against the speculative
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To vlxc ZJlvox of Tbo TKL— • i A committee consisting of two mem-
* I attended the convention of this bers from each cotton growing state
association at New Orleans, T x_.-, x_
Wannamaker, president. It
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2 1_, ' 2‘ ' ’ ' . The scale of prices
from all the Souther nstates meet- i per pound, basis middling govern-
For September, 1919, 36c per pound.
For October, 1919, 37c per pound,
ropean nations enjoyed practically a
monopoly of this business. During the
war, however, tonnage was gradually
diverted from the Atlantic to the Pa-
cific, with the result that large ship-
ments for the West Indies (the larg-
It ;est consuming section in the Western
Seattle
and San Francisco, thence by rail to
New Orleans and other gulf ports,
from which trans-shipment was made
to Havana, Santiago, Kingston
other centers for distribution.
The magnitude of this trade surprised
even the most sanguine Pacific Coast
importers, but they quickly adjusted
themselves to new conditions and han-
dled the business in a very creditable
manner.
Through rice trains carrying 1,500
tons of the commodity, valued at ap-
proximately $200,000, wer so common
as to be scarcely noticed. With the
recent sharp decline in freight rates,
and the elimination of danger from
lurking enemy submarines, it is not
surprising that shipments are being
made direct from the Orient instead
of by way of the Pacific Coast and
New Orleans.
You Do More Work,
You are more ambitious and you get more
enjoyment out of everything when your
blood is in good condition. Impurities in
the blood have a very depressing effect on,
the system, causing weakness, laziness,
nervousness and sickness.
GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC
restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying
and Enriching the Blood. When you feel
its strengthening, invigorating effect, see
how it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC
is not a patent medicine, it is simply
IRON and QUININE suspended in Syrup.
So pleasant even children like it. The
blood needs Quinine to Purify it and IRON
to Enrich it. These reliable tonic prop-
erties never fail to drive out impurities in
the blood.
The Strength-Creating Power of GROVE’S
TASTELESS Chili TONIC has made ft
the favorite tonic in thousands of homes.
More than thirty-five years ago, folks
would ride a long distance to get GROVE’S
TASTELESS Chill TONIC when a
member of their family had Malaria or
needed a body-building, strength-giving
tonic. The formula is just the same to*
flay, and you can g*** ‘ from any drug
Store. 60c per bot*'
(By E. G. Herr, Manager of Oriental
Import Dept., W. R. Grace & Co.,
San Francisco., in Rice Journal.)
Rice is the chief sustenance of one-
third of the world’s population. It
has been cultivated from time immem-
orial in tropical and semi-tropical
coutnries and over one thousand dif-
ferent varieties have been recognized.
The rice plant is similar in appear-
ance to wheat, but instead of having
a compact “ear,” it bears a head com-
posed of a number of fine stalks, each
of which contains one grain. The
grains are covered with a brown
husk; when separated from the rest
of the plant they are known as
“paddy.”
Rice plants may be broadly divided
into two main groups, i. e., “upland”
or “hill” rice and “lowland” or “wet”
rice. Upland rice can be cultivated
as any ordinary crop, whereas “wet’-’
rice is sown under conditions neces-
sitating the flooding of the fields for
a considerabel time during the grow-
ing period.
Rice is generally considered a na-
tive of China, probably due to the fact
that Emperor Chin-Kong, who rilled
2,800 years before Christ, established
a ceremonial ordinance which pre-
scribed that the emperor should sow
the rice himself, wihle four other
kinds of seed may be sown by princes
of his family.
Rice was also cultivated centuries
ago in India and later in Egypt, after
which, about the year 1468, its culti-
vation spread to Southern Europe. In
1647, Sir William
one-half a bushel of seed in Virginia.
In 1694, a Portuguese bark, home-
ward bound from Madagascar, driven
from her course by tempests, was
forced to take shelter in the harbor
of Charleston, S. C., and the captain,
in return for courtesies extended him,
presented Governor Landgrave Smith
with a bag of rice seed, which Smith
planted that year in accordance with
the captain’s instructions, and from
this crop sprang the present tremen-
dous sourthern rice industry.
Asia js the most important rice-,
growing region in the world. r----
heavy, warm mid-summer rains are
highly beneficial to the growing of
rice, which is the leading cereal of
China, India, Burma, Ceylon, Siam,
Java, Japan and Southern Korea.
Rice is also grown in Australasia, Cen-
tral America, Mexico,
D. Smith, senator from South Caro-! We agreed unanimously that every
lina, and other governors, senators effort should be made by members
■.and representatives. Thomas J. Hef- of the association
lin of Alabama, Hon. Harry Jordan ' membership, organize in each locality
and J. J. Broyen from Georgia, sup-j and place themselves in position to
ported locally by Mayor Behrman,1 protest the price of cotton by ware-,
■Frank B. Hayne, John M. Parker, W. i houses and banking facilities, and that
B. Thompson and many other New a fair minimum price be recommend-
Orleans men. i ed as follows, and their action was
While the convention was composed confirmed by the convention without, was he_ made a good business jnan.
of cbtton producers, owners and bank- a dissenting vote. x,
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ing there to organize and secure a ment standard class, are:
fair price for the South’s cotton j ~
‘ crop of 1919, and it was the consen- j , x
sus of opinion that organization was i For November, 1919, 37c per pound.
the general method of cultivation fol-
lowed by the Chinese.
In China, the preparation of the soil
presents many tedious details, as very
little modern machinery as yet has
been introduced. The land is either
worked with hoes, spades or mattocks,
or plowed to a depth of about 10
inches with an antiquated contrivance
usually drawn by a water buffalo.
Water is supplied the field by means
of a water wheel until the soil is thor-
oughly soaked. In some
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[iti s needed and worked into the soil
with the feet. A piece of board about
six feet long, two feet wide and three
inches thick is used as a harrow.
is pulled by a buffalo and a man i Hemisphere) moved through
stands on the board to buide the ani-
mal and at the same time to add
weight to the board in order to level
the soil. After the harrowing, when,
the water is clear, the field is ready
to receive the rice plants.
Seeds are generally selected by sift-
ing the paddy. This operation, which
is performed in a sieve constructed of
bamboo, eliminates effectively the un-
desirable and small grains.
A seed bed separated by boards
about five inches wide, one-half inch
thick and as long as the bed itself,
is constructed in a corner of the field.
. When boards are not obtainable other
’ materials are used, and sometimes the
L bed is placed in the center of the fiel£
, or at whatever spot it is most con-
' venient. The level of this bed is slight-
. ly higher than the field itself. The
; seeds are packed in a straw-matting
bag and soaked in cold water for
about five days, until they begin to
sprout, when they are sown broadcast
on the bed, which is then covered with
rice straw ashes to a depth of about
one inch. Sometimes they are sowq ,
in the bed with no covering whatever, j states has handled the greater part
American Firms Should Hold West
Indies Trade,
England and Germany were the fac-
tors in the rice business prior to the
i war, since which time the United
For the first five or six days the bed j of the business, with Japan, lately,
is covered with water about one jnch, | making a strong bid for supremacy.
The United States of America, how-
ever, enjoys as no other nation the
friendship and good will of the peo-
ples of the West Indies, and it would
seem, therefore ,that with a proper
fostering of the existing re-
lationship we should r^uwnue to en-
joy a substantia1 amount o fthis lu-
crativ<> buowess. w.x,* ..
inches of watei' and the plants are
stuck into the soil about one and a
half inches deep in regular rows.
The plant takes root in about ten
days, after which a tong consisting of
an iron comblike head is used to har-
row between rows. Every effort is
made to maintain a uniform depth of
about two inches of fresh water, which
is drained off when thfe head of the
rice comes out.
Early rice is harvested about
days after transplanting, and late rice
takes about 150 days to mature. Ripe-
ness is determined by the color of the
head. The rice is cut about one inch
above the ground by a hand scythe,
and after the field is dry it is spread
in rows until ready for threshing. If
* ; the field is wet, the rice is hung on a
Tbe\ bamboo frame to allow it to dry.
The rice is threshed by using two
small pieces of wood about six invhes
long, one inch thick and one and a
half inches wide, having one side flat
and the other round, which are con-
nected with the handle by a rope about
Brazil, Peru,(one foot long. With this contrivance
Argentina and other South American I they beat the sheaves on a bamboo-
counties. The states producing the j slat floor. *xx vxx^. xx^xv,^
largest crops in this country are Lou-; the common method is to beat the
isiana, Texas and Arkansas. r„— .
also grown in California, South Car-
olina, North Carolina, Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama and Missouri.
Of special interest is the I’apid
growth of the industry in California.
In 1912, elaborate demonstrations
proved that rice could be raised profit-
ably, and in 1918, six years later, the
crop was conservatively valued at
$15,000,000.
Method of Cultivation in China.
As rice is the staple food of China
with its 400,000,000 inhabitants, it
S.iwas appointed to recommend to the
was a convention a minimum price for the
most, enthusiastic and determined set crop of 1919.
of men composed of representatives i
like Governor Pleasants of Louisiana and claimed the
who presided the first day, Governor j voiced in the different states from 32
Dorsey of Georgia, the second day, to 45 cents per pound for lint cotton,
with splendid speeches by Hon. Hoke and that the producer should have
Turning his attention to commerce
and industry he became necessarily
practical. He planted large acres of
i;ice and erected, with associates, a
big rice mill. He went through the
exhilirating experience of hustling up
a -pay-roll on Saturday and assumed
the burden of paying eight per cent
dividend to a bunch of eager stock-
holders. Laying aside the impractical
visions of the .politician he got down
to dollars and cents facts about the
cost of growing rice when confronted
with the demand of American labor
for a decent living. He studied out
the uroblems of buying and selling at
a legitimate profit after paying taxes
to maintain the local and national
government.
He has made good as a business
man but in undergoing the transition
he underwent a change of economic
ideas. The last time we saw him we
asked him what he thought of the
tariff by this time.
“Well,” he drolled, “I rather think
we need it.”—Rice Journal.
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SIDELIGHTS ON THE
GREAT RICE INDUSTRY.
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—--- For December, 1919, 37c per pound.
For January, 1920, 38c per pound.
For February, 1920, 38c per pound.
For March, 1920, 39c per pound.
For April, 1920, 39c per pound.
For May, 1920, 40c per pound.
We believe the peace treaty will
soon be accepted and settled and that
with the heavy deterioration in the
cotton crop throughout the South, that
the next government report will be
way below 61.4, the August figures,
and cotton will come very near taking
(care of itself in the near future at
! the minimum price as recommended,
j When visible stocks seem to melt,
away, and the sellers of October con-
tracts at low prices had bettei' be
getting their contracts back and the
spinner takes advantage of the sale
price to buy his October needs in
September.
This southern section of Texas has
a bagatelle of a cotton crop. We have
ginned at our plant 10 bales to date
against 1000 last year. Of course
this is exceptional, still I meet men
from every section of the cotton belt
and no where will they make as much
cotton as last year except 'West Tex-
as where nothing was made.
It is unquestionably the one time
and opportunity for the farmer and
owner and merchant to name a price
for his cotton and demand it with
success. Wil lhe do it? Caution is
his watchword. We will see and
know by his action he can stabilize
the price of cotton without regard to
the speculators or the New York Cot-
ton Exchange. When every feature
of crop conditions combined by nature
—rapid reduction in stocks of cotton
and the world markets opened to sale
and demanded favors his side and a
prospective yiel dof under 11,000,600
bales. It is his chance. He is in the
saddle, will he ride a winning race?
Tlw question he must answer. Yours
truly, Robert R. Daucy.
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GUEYDAN AND THE TARIFF.
Our friend Henri L. Gueydan has
made a very successful rice miller
and incidentally, as a side issue, a
very successful rice grower.
Mr. Gueydan has had an unique and
interesting career. He started out as
a politician and up to a certain point
was very successful. He was promi-
nent in state and nation and had he
not made one mistake it is generally i
conceded that he would have rounded
out his career in the United States
senate.
Mr. Gueydan was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth, so to speak; at
least his father, the founder of the
town of Gueydan, was well-to-do; he
owned in Vermillion Parish great
stretches of land that later became
very valuable.
As a young man Henri Gueydan did-
n’t have to work, so he didn’t work—
he went into politics. As a politician
he was rather a dreamer; he was vis-
ionary. And so it happened that one
year he became the democratic candi-
date for congress in the Third Dis-
trict. It looked like a cinch because
the Third District was in the habit
of electing democratic congressmen
with painful regularity. But right
there is where Guyedan made a mis-
take. He came,out for free trade. He
said that he was a, democrat, that he
would stand for the national demo-
cratic principles and that he did not
thinl* one district had a right to ask
for special favors at the expense of
all the rest of the country. But the
sugar planters and the rice growers
did not think so; They were pretty
certain that if their tariff was remov-
ed the public was not going to buy
sugar and rice any cheaper; all of
which later proved too true. They
got together and put up a Bull Moose
; candidate and Senator Gueydan went
■ down in defeat.
, But however, poor a politician he
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1919, newspaper, October 3, 1919; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1294566/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.