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steady contact with the young, but the
person on whom the children make
none of their confident demands, whom
they never consult about the rules of
life and the opening wonders of na-
ture, is all too likely, as he grows old,
to lose the youthfulness that stays
with the fortunate to the end.—Norman
Hapgood in Heart’s International.
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FORDS FOR RENT
With or without driver.
Beck, at Downer Motor Co.
Residence 228; office 13.
Even
recently
came In for some trounc-
one xhinks they are
to usurp the functions of
Newspapers are not try-
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apostles of advertising warm wel-
come.
property, at the time of her death!
of the probable value of $2000.00,1
which will be heard at the next!
term of said Court, commencing on
the first Monday in July A. D. 1925, |
the same being the 6th day of July!
A. D. 1925, at the Court House there-1
of, in Center, Texas, at which time ’
all persons /Interested in the said
estate may appear and contest
said application,' should they desire
to do so.
Herein fail not, but have you be-
fore said Court on the said first day
of the next term thereof this Writ,
with your return thereon, showing
how you have executed the same.
Given under my hand and the
seal of said Court, at office in Cen-
ter, Texas, this the 6th day of May
A. D. 1925. B. M. ALFORD,
Clerk County Court Shelby County,
Texas. dil3-20
/.homes and the preservation of the
bs lutiful relics of ancient cilization. !
The Rice Institute, which the adver- |
tising delegates will visit, is being;
built and maintained out of a $10,-
000,000 fund and is dedicated to the
. advancement of letters, science and
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F list of states.
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THE CHAMPION, CENTER, TEXAS MAY 13, 1925 " i' ~ !
Fine Distinction Made
Between Common Words
“Loan” as a verb is extensively used
in the United States. There is some
authority for such usage since It has
so appeared from time to time in lit-
erature over the last four or five hun-
dred years. Such usage, however, is
frowned upon by grammarians who In-
sist that “loan” is a noun only, says
the Literary Digest.
Dictionaries, which must be simply
recorders of the language as ft is used,
recognize “loan” as a verb, meaning
“to lend money, especially on inter-
est,” and Doctor Vlzetelly in his
“Desk Book of Errors in English” says :
“‘Loan, lend’; one may raise (put an
end to) a ‘loan’ by paying both prin-
cipal and interest, and another may
‘lend’ money to do so. The use of
‘loan’ as a verb, meaning ‘to grant the
loan of or lend, as ships, money, linen,
provisions, etc.,’ dates from the year
1200 and is accepted as good English.
Some purists, however, characterize it
colloquial.” To some ears “lend” may
be preferable, but “loan” is not incor-
rect, and has the support of Acts 34
and 35 of Henry VHI (1542), Langley
(1644), Fossenden .(1729), Calhoun
(1834), Brownson (1847), Bonamy-
Price (1800) the North American Re-
view, February, 1901, etc.
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FOR WORKING PEOPLE
The best of workers get out of sorts
when the liver fails tcf act. They feel
languid, half-sick, “blue” and discouraged
and think they are getting lazy. Neglect
of these symptoms might result in a sick
spell, therefore the sensible course is to
take a dose or two of Herbine. It is just
the medicine needed to purify the system
and restore the vim and ambition of
health. Price 60c. Sold by
JOHN C. ROGERS.
the schools.
ing to ,
but are endeavoring to help them,
ju?t as the
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WALTER CONNALLY & CO.
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and to the safeguarding of publiq :
property. .
Courses in Conservation.
There is a tendency to make all edu-
cation practical. Why not extend it to
include, in the grade schools, courses
in conservation? Children should be
impressed that to waste even the food
that the birds might eat is sinful; that
water waste is wrong; that destruc-
tion of, or injury to, school property is
an injustice to the public; that to
break street lights is criminal; that
saving is just as commendable as mak-
ing; that loss to any individual or to
the community is an injury to all.
Such lessons well taught in every
school in the land would result in the
saving of millions of dollars annually.
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Lookinfl for a Big Texan.
The board of governors of the Tex-
as Centennial at its last meeting ap-
pointed a committee to find the best
man in Texas, measured by the re-
quirements of the position, to be per-
manent president of the movement
which will commemorate the history of
the state, reflect its present greatness,
and build for a future commensurate
with the state’s great resources. The
board decided to go about this selec-
tion carefully and to find a
From Newsboy to Exchange President
In becoming president of the New
York Cotton Exchange, Richard T.
Harriss, a former Fort Worth news-
boy, has shown again that poverty
and hard work in youth are not handi-
caps but helps to success. The poor
boy has an equal chance with the rich
in the fight for success if only
he can be brought to think so. Har-
riss would never have attained hss
present position if he had thotrht that
newsboys could not hope to oecome
financial leaders.
land, 28 per cent improved, worth
four and a half billions of dollars,
which is the third valuation of farm
property among the stated. Texas further information,
leads all states in the value of farm
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Of 168,000,000 acres of Texas
soil more th'an 67 per cent is farm
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Spiders in Amazon
Big as Small Rat
A traveler who has recently returned
from an expedition into the forests of
the Amazon tells that he was much
more frightened by the huge spiders
he encountered than by the jaguars,
according to London Answers. There
IS certainly something awe-inspiring in
Application for Probate of Will
The State of Texas,
To the Sheriff or nay Constable
Shelby County , Greeting:
You are hereby commanded
cause to be published once each week
for a period of ten days before the
return day hereof, in a newspaper
of general circulation, which has
been continuously and regularly pub-
lished for a period of not less than
one year in said Shelby county, a
copy of the following notice:
The .State of Texas.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Mrs. Mary McFarland, de-
ceased, Know Ye; that A. M. McFar-
land, has filed in the County Court
cjf Shelby county, an application for
the Probate of the last Will and
Testament of said Mrs. Mary McFar-
land, deceased, filed with said appli-
cation, and for Letters Testament-
ary alleging in said petition that the
said Mrs. Mary McFarland is dead;
that she died on or about the 16th
day of November 1923, in Shelby
County, Texas, that said deceased
was possessed of real and personal
is the leading crop, being
cent of all the cotton
^produced in the United^Shjh
lats, wheat, barley,
flhum and a great
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the respect with which it is held revealed for the benefit of the rep-
by the rest of the world: The edi-
torial follows:
Organized advertising this year
honors Texas with the twenty-first
annual gathering of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World,
meeting next week in Houston. The
host which last year assembled in
stately, ancient halls of London, in
the presence of royalty, now turns to
an
Hh is $15 per annum.
^flgmclude supplemental taxes levi- ■
Aj^tricts and citiies. Her love 1
Brreligion; art and learning is evi-'
B^nced by the magnificence of the!
^architecture of her places of wor-1
’ ship, public buildings, libraries and j
THE FLY MAY BRING
YOU DEATH.
I' ^’n2n fly walks ove£ you baby
capita state allowance for educa-
That does
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Bargains in second-hand Tires,
also trade you new Tires and take your
old Tires in at some price. UNITED
STATES TIRES are GOOD TIRES.’
We sell TEXACO Gasoline, Oils and
The material facts concerning ev-;
ery important community in the Lone
are furnished in other
pages of this issue. The newspaper
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fulness is due largely to indifference
about saving and not to a destructive
spirit. Teach the child that it is as
necessary to conserve as to make, and
he will grow up to practice conserva-
tion, When I was a child I was al-
loWed. in fact was encouraged, to eat
all the food I wanted, but if I took
more on my plate than I could eat, the
plate of uneaten food was carefully
put away for the next meal, and I
had to eat that before getting any-
thing else. To this day I never leave
any food on my plate. Lessons like
that have to be taught early, before
wasteful habits are formed. The place
for such teaching is in the home and
in the school. The teaching should
not only be against personal waste,
but it should be extended to the pro-
tection of the property of other people
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his description of a species of Amazon
spiders as creatures with long legs,
fat, ^ack .bodies, about the size of a
young rat, and the wickedest, most
fiendish eyes imagTnabFeT'1*'^^!®^
These spiders make “trap doors” of?
the ground, beautifully camouflaged,
and so perfectly balanced that they
shut by their own weight. Beneath
them are tunnels or pits in which the
huge spiders watch for their prey.
Another spider is spotted like a
leopard and spins a web quite a yard
across. The strands of this huge web,
suspended between two trees, are so
strong and tough that if a small bird
flies into them it is unable to escape
before the arrival of the spider, which
makes 'Short work of its struggles.
No longer does the Texas cowboy
ride whooping into town on his mus-
tang, except in the movies. “Down
home” he rides to the village in a
motor car and he and his fellow cit-
izens buy at the rate of 14,047 new
cars per month. Automobile owners
in Texas contribute $11,000,000 an-
nually to construct and maintain
I good roads.
Nothing is so surprising to the eye
of the visitor as the “forests of oil
derricks” at nearly 20,000 wells.
Texas produces more tthan 160,000,-
000 barrels of petroleum per year,
a gush each day valued at approxi-
mately $700,000. This is one-sev-
enth of the world’s supply. The val-
ue of oil producing, transporting
and refining properties withhin Texas
is estimated at $750,000,000. This
includes 72 refineries, handling half
a million barrels of crude oil per day,
coming from the United States,
Mexico and South America. Oil has
been produced from the breast of
Texas for 60 years and the treasure
Gibson Bros.’ Filling Station
FOR SUDDEN SERVICE
Center, Texas
King Nursery, Tenaha, Texas. A
i complete line of fruit and ornament-
t al trees, shrubs, roses, evergreens,
pecans, etc. Everything guaranteed
to give satisfaction. Highest quality,
lowest prices. Buy from the home
nursery and save money. 15tf
ses. Barnyards, stablels, and chick-
en houses should be cleaned at least
| twice per week during the summer
products, the latest official figures CRAWFORD sells
Granite and Marble Monu-
ments. Also cleans and resets
t Corq^H>uIded and . dirty marble,
fay’..^or-l Bodies removed. Let me serve,
KT'^fruit-s .
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Prospects for good crops in Shel-
by county have seldom, if ever, been
better than at the present time. The
short winter season afforded an op-
portunity for early planting, which
was taken advantage of by most
farmers in the county. Since plant-
ing time rains have been scattered,
and more rain would greatly benefit
the country, but what rain has come
was just at the right time, and did
the maximum good for the farmer.
There is more corn planted this year
than last, according to competent
authorities, and what has been plant-
ed is now making a good stand. Cot-
ton, even that planted late, is doing
well, and other crops are in good con-
dition. The scarcity of cane and po-
tatoes planted is the one discouraging
outlook. But, taken as a whole, 1925
gives promise of being a banner
year.
Children
Some people without little children
seem to have complete lives, but they
are only a few. In these days, when
we are so keenly interested in the fu-
ture, in new forihs of education, and in
the actual Instincts of the species, it
seems as if children have more to add
to our lives even than formerly. No
parent who gets away with the job
can be an egotist, a neurotic, narrow,
vain or weak. No parent with any
mind at all can help feeling close to
the springs of life, and in touch with
the cradle of the race. The same ex-
man of i tended reality’ may be obtained by
the financial strength to be able to de- I teachers, or by others in helpful and
vote his time and his means to the
accomplishment of the purposes of the
exposition; of the influence to get,the
ear of congress and of the legislature
and to secure the co-operation of Tex-
as and other states and nations; of
the ambition to make theJTg^as Cen-
tennial his great culminating life
work; of the vigor to give untiring
effort to the great work. In other
words Texas is looking for a leader
with qualifications commensurate with
the great undertaking before it.
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Exigencies Develop Leadership.
In studying the immensity of the
work the Texas Centennial board was
at first fearful that Texas has no man
who can measure up to its require-
ments, but more careful consideration
convinced the governors that Texas
has citizens big enough to accomplish
anything that people anywhere can do. 1
The history of the world shows that |
there has never been an exigency, how- ;
ever great, that some person has not
been discovered to meet it; and Tex-
ans may feel sure that in this case
the best leadership will be found,
leadership of which the state may be
proud. The governors of the Cen-
tennial have-gone about their selec-
tion in a way to insure that no mis-
take shall be made, which reminds me
to say that the board has also shown
much wisdom in planning a great edu-
cational campaign to “Texanize Tex-
as” as a preliminary step. Get Texas
thoroughly enthused, and the Centen-
nial will be put over in a splendid way.
and other farm products swell the
rich annual yield of the state.
Texas is rejoicing as this is being
written because of sousing Spring
rains, the forerunner of bumper
yields.
Ignorance as to Waste.
The Fort Worth
Star - Telegram, a t-
tributes waste t o
lack of early train-
ing in conservation.
The more you think
of’ it the more like-
ly you will be to
agree with the Star-
Telegram. Waste-
The chief supply of helium
some day give all
in the clouds on
WILL H. MAYES
Department of Journalism
University of Texas
resentatives of big business who at-
tend this convention or stay at home,
but who must, wherever they may
be, reckon with this huge state which
challenges the admiration of the
world for its civic triumphs and ma-
terial power. No business man
making the trip to Houston can fail
to receive new inspiration from fresh
■ impressions of America’s greatness.
American commonwealth of five | From the tropical Rio Grande to the
million souls, living in the midst of j softly chilling hills of the Upper Pan-
modern plenty, on soil of inexhaust- ; handle your Texan and his wife value
ible resource and imbued with a win-: the amenities and hospitality is a
ning spirit of youth and driving pro- grace never neglected. Houston
gress.
The advertising men who who go
to Houston are individuals to appre- 1
ciate Texa^-—the romance of her’
incredible' commercial and industrial'
development under hands that truly
vaiueld the foundations laid by Ste-
phen Fuller Austin and Sam Hous-
ton and their hardy descendants.
How magnificently has man wrought
the changes! The savagery of the
aborigine, the imperialism of old
England, France and Spain, the ty-
ranny of Mexico, the brutality of
pioneer life, the armed man on horse-
back, the stubborn wilderness
stretching over 265,896 square miles
—these are the background shades
^Ooday’s brilliant setting of human
prosperity, activity, in a
rich and promising that it
rivals under the sun.
vast majority of Texas people
^■^Mrnative white, and they control
■^^^^■-rnment, business and the social
Tv/o-thirds are dwellers of the
^Bal districts. Every man of family
^^»-uaranteed the right to possess a
and the tools of a work-a-day
exempt from any form of legal
fixation. Texas provides lavishly
■lor the education of her youth. The1, ' , , .
J | hand while it is peaceful^ sleeping
| there is probably more harm done
; than the mere awakening of the ba-
! by. The disease germs clinging to
; the fly’s legs may have been depos-
I ited on the baby’s finger and from
the fingers reaches the mouth.
If a wasp should enter your home
a great commotion would be raised
until it was expelled, but the fly be-
comes your guest without fear of
j molestation. Yet, the wasp is a
harmless insect when compared with
the housefly as he can only cause
you temporary discomfort, while the
fly is capable of pernamently disabl-
| ing
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. The Assessed valua- destroyed.
tion of her realty exceeds two and rubbish shouldl not be left on premi-
a quarter billions. Her net state
debt is less than $5,000,000.
marvelous bank resources are
‘ statistics elsewhere
in this issue of Editor & Pub-
THE CHAMPION
Published W ednesday .Afternoon.
Entered at~ the postoffice, Center,
Texas, for transmission through the
mails as second class matter.
WENDELL W. MAYES, Publisher.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES^One Year
$1.50; Six Months $1.00; Three
Months .60
ADVERTISING RATES: Local read-
ers 2 cents per word; display rates
made known upon application. All
resolutions, cards of thanks, pro-
grams and other matter not general
news, will be classed as ad\ ertising
and charged for at the rate of one
cent for each word, and the sender
will be held responsible for payment
of bill.
In Houston this week the advertis-
ing clubs of the world are in conven-
tion. The meeting is of great value
to Texas, for it is bringing to this
state hundreds of advertising men
from almost every section of the
world. These are keen-sighted, for-
ward looking business men, who will
take back with them to their homes
the message of progressive, prosper-
ous Texas. It is impossible to esti-
mate the value to the state of this
convention; it is far reaching and
long lasting. But of almost as
great value is the publicity given the
state in advance of the opening of the
convention. An idea of the atten-
tion given Texas by the advertising
fraternity is contained in the follow-
ing editorial from Editor & Publish-
er, leading newspaper --------
ing magazine of New York. It
might be well for Texans themselves Star State
to review the achievements and ini-
portance of their own state, and to and advertising statistics are aBso
see 1
The strongest and lightest running Tractor Mill
the Market. Let us send you detail description t
specifications.
Until further notice we will add 25 cents in addition to the teg-
ular interest, provided the account remains with us for a period
of not less than one year.
Criticising the Newspapers.
Criticising the press appears to be
a fad. Even at the Parent-Teachers
meeting recently held at Austin, the
newspapers
ing because some
threatening
take the place of the schools,
Parent-Teachers are .try-
to help. Too. often the loudest
^pf the press are those who are
debtors and who do least
uient. ...
that still exists beneath her surface
is beyond calculation.
Sulphur, coal, lignite, clay pro-
ducts, asphalt, cement, natural gas,
limestone, salt, granite, mineral wa-
ters, quicksilver, lime, plaster, lead
fuller’s earth, silver and small quan-
tities of gold are other mineral re-
sources. '---- —
gas, which may
mankind a ride
heavier-than-air craft, is supplied by
this state. i
and advertis- i
of New York.
Her
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months, and the manure thus collec-
ted placed in screened bins or in
piles and treated with chemical sub-
stances which will kill the eggs and
maggots. Your city or county
health officer will give you the for-
mular for such, treatment or you may
write the state board of health for
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