The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 3, 1926 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CHAMPION, CENTER, TEXAS.
EMBER 3, 1926
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SPECIAL DISCOUNT
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WEAVER BROTHERS
Center, Texas
Phones 139-443
Center, Texas, Nov. 2, No. 1
Vol. 1
far has won most of the capital!
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rell, commissioner of agriculture.
He called attention to thejhigh pro-
Center Chamber of
Commerce
East Texas Pictured
As Garden of Eden
In Lone Star State.
East Texas To
Set Farm Pace.
has East Texas sandy land been the
laughing stock of other sections o,f the
reason
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day, November 18, 1926.
First Prize, $15; Second Prize $10; Third $5
POINTED PINE
PARAGRAPHS
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O. H. L. Wernicke
President
Pine Institute of America, Inc.
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East Texas embraces some of the
best farming and fruit and vegetable
lands in the state, and is more nearly
self-sustaining than any other section
for this area can produce practically
everything that man i
erly developed, and factories are es-
tablished to convert the raw material
into the finished products.”
great production of ! ty
among our greatest
FOR SALE: 50 or 75 White Leghorn
pullets, Johnson Strand. $1.00 each.
Mrs. Willie Jetton. 13-3p
was broadcast from Station WFAA.
“There is no limit scarcely to the
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Wanted.
“I don’t know fliat there is any hap-
piness on earth worth having, out-
side of the happiness of knowing that
you have done your duty, and that
you have tried to do good.”—Henry
W. Grady.
BY THE WAY.
WANTED: Two boarders. See
or call 127.—.L. L. Chadwick.
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When a farm is too far from a
forest in the coastal states of the
South, the crops on that farm suf-
fer. When crops suffer, the whole
community is poorer.
I' When rains come, the forests
! help to stop the washing away of
' soluble salts in the soil, which
farmers call “fertility”.
■When drouths come, the forests
are a sponge which Holds the extra
moisture needed to keep crops
around them healthy.
When winds come, the forests
break their force. When frosts
come, the ^orhsts ■ temper them,.
and in the heat, the forests help
to keep the neighborhood cooler.
Your community needs forests
for the sake of its farms, if for no
other reason.
Judge Fitzgerald Has Vision of
Prosperous Agriculture; Dis-
cusses Overproduction.
to the acre, 50 to 75 bushels of oats,! Weeklv News Bulletin
$500 worth of ribbon cane syrup, 200 I
to 300 galons of sorghum syrup, $400 j
to $600 in strawberries, $150 to $200
in peaches, $200 to $300 in plums,
$100 to $200 worth of blackberries
$200 to $300 worth of sweet potatoes
to the acre and many other truck and
vegetable crops on a similar scale.
I know’ of no other country that can
come so nearly raising on the farm
everything that the family and the
stock need to eat, and when our farm-
ers fully realize and put into practice
that the first purpose of a farmer
should be to produce a living for the , The other day Jim and I
family -and stock, then to raise sev- ! Stopped in a store
The Merchant Members of the Center
Chamber of Commerce.
Realizing the present condition of the cotton
market, have determined to meet the situation
by a special slash price on such staples as are
daily needed in the homes, staging on Novem-
ber 1 8th the
We are giving a special ten per cent discount on all Oliver Farm Implements, also a special discount of $ 1 0.00 on all Springfield Wagons
during the months of November and December. These special prices will be quite a saving and should you need Farm Implements or Wa-
gons it will pay you to buy now as we are making these special prices to avoid paying the high City, School, County and State Taxes and this
Special Discount will be withdrawn by us the last of December. Buy your requirements now and save money.
corn, with some to spare his neigh-
bor in the spring; who has raised
plenty of food for his family and Such
money crops as a few sweet potates,
strawberries, blackberries, peaches,
plums, tomatoes, etc., and enough of
these to pay his debts and put some
money in the bank, such a farmer is
not much distressed now by the fact
that cotton is selling at 11c and 12c
a pound, because his cotton, when pro-
perly stored, will be just as good five
years from now, as it is now, and he
can rest reasonably sure that the
price wil come back after a while, be-
cause it is an economic truth that
when a great product like cotton falls
far below the cost of production the
acreage planted will be reduced for a
few years until the price goes back to
where it is profitable.
Limit Farm Credit
“The agitation now going on to
boost the price of cotton is good, and
will help some, but East Texas and
the South will never have any perma-
nent prosperity until all the people,
farmers, mechanics, artisans and busi-
ness and professional men (
come 1
first purpose of a
living for the family and all the stock
on the farm, and the man who doesn’t
do that or show a good reason why he
did not, is not entitled to credit and
should not get it. When East Texas
and the South raise all their food and
feed on the farm, even for the lean
years, and have some surplus for the
good years, there will not be enough
land left on which to make an over-
production of cotton, and the most
men of East Texas, of whatever avo-
important task that lies before all
cation, is to organize and bring about
in 1927 and each year thereafter, a
condition that East Texas farms will
produce all of East Texas’ food and
feed. This is true because for years
at least, our prosperity must- depend
on agriculture, and having soil and
climate so well suited to raise all our
feed and food and many different
cash crops, we will, be prosperous
when that is done.”
Doan’s, DeWitt and Foley Kidney
Pills, fresh today.—Stripling & Arm-
strong.
Wins News Prizes
.er. Cotton | “All the world now knows that in
factories to i 1923, Mont Adams, on a Smith eoun-
farm worn out tlr/rty years ago,
made more than eight bales of lint
cotton on fivb acres; that John W.
McFarlane of Anderson County, in
1924, won The Dallas News prize by
making ten bales of lint cotton on
five acres and that in 1925, this same
Mont Adams, on this same worn-out
farm, made more than sixteen bales
of cotton on five acres.
“In last year’s Dallas News cotton
contest, out of 166 farmers in. the
whole State who made large yields of
cotton, 154 of them did so on East
Texas soil, and the 35'< ;->s farmers
in that contest who made more than
two bales of cotton per acre on five
acres, 18 of them were from Smith
County, and Smith county soils are
not different from nor better than the
counties surrounding it. Now these
facts as to cotton production have
been demonstrated, and while we
have thus proven our superiority in
cotton production, yet it isn’t known
abroad that our soils are just as re-
sponsive to corn, oats, and all other i
field crops.
In East Texas farm contests the
last two or three years many of our
farmers made 100 bushels of corn
Greatest Bargain Day in the
History of Center.
Watch next week’s Champion for the big bar-
gain list of Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Groceries,
Stoves, Floor Coverings, Toilet Articles, Etc.,
and the names of the merchants making this
great bargain possible.
The Center Chamber of Commerce.
At the same time having made arrangement
with a prominent Nursery company, will offer
for sale a complete line of Fruit Trees at only
25c, and make the occasion all the more
attractive and enjoyable, offers the Old Fid-
dlers contest as an entertainment for the Bar-
gain Hunters and Visitors.
Every Old Fiddler wishing to enter the contest
is invited to send in his name ta the Chamber
of Commerce for publication along with the
% big announcement in next week’s Champion.
Thursday, November 18, will be a bargain and entertain-
Watch for particulars
‘ Because it don’t rfever pay me
i No sick benefits.”
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Every Member Get A Member
If every member would carry an
■ application card in his pocket and try
I to have just this one card filled out
during the week, we’d 104 new mem-
bers before next week, and possibly
some fellow’s sick business might get
a benefit.
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It’s Your Move
i Your city your chamber of com-
merce are just as good as you make
1 them. Don’t sit back and selfishly
' share in your neighbor’s work in be-
half of Center, but help him build for
i you. Drop your little, jealousies and
' get acquainted, with your neighbor.
You may like him. Will you be BIG
enough to be little enough to be BIG?
There are two kinds of people in
Center—Chamber of Commerce mem-
j bers and others. In which column do
| you register?
surplus and send them to other sec-
’tions of the country.
“East Texas possesses wonderful
natural resources. Her oil fields of
Spindle Top, Sour Lake, Humble and
others are among the richest of the
world. Her iron ore of Cherokee and
other counties is of a high quality and
unlimited quantity. Her pine forests
and hardwood timber are unsurpassed,
and the saw mill industry is in a pros-
perous condition. Her greatest need
is capital and the hand of industry to
develop the wonderful resources.
“Texas has only about 25 cotton
I factories and not one of them is lo-
cated in East Texas proper,
factories and canning 1
take care of the g
this section are
needs.
“Thousands of bushels of fruits and
I vegetables waste in the fields nearly
every year for the lack of profitable
markets, and this surplus should be
canned and preserved for future con-
sumption, instead of having to pur-
| xhase these canned goods from Mary-
z.land, California and other states as
! is now being done.
! “North Carolina is the Wealthiest
and most prosperous of any of the
i Southern states, and the sole reason
is that she has so many factories.
She/ft-jzs’ more izjcome taxes than
lOkp^xaJdoes. Texas produces five mil-
^^lion bales of cotton and has scarcely
any factories, and North Carolina
produces less than one million bales
F of cotton and has 311 cotton mills.
“Massachusetts prduces no cotton
i at all, yet she has 191 cotton mills,
| witih the largest amount of capital in-
vested in cotton mills of any state in
the Union. Therefore, Massachusetts
has reaped the greatest profits from
the cotton crop of any state in the
Union.
“Texas is now the greatest agricul-
tural and live stock producing state in
the Union and is destined to become
the wealthiest arid most populous
when her natural resources are prop-
Calling attention of the world to
the possibilities of East Texas as an
and beast can ' agricultural empire, Judge J. W. Fitz-
consume, according to George B. Ter- i ge^ald, vice president of the Citizens
National Bank of Tyler, recently de-
livered a stirring address on East
duction records of East Texas farm- Texas day at the State Fair which
ers who last year made from one to!—- ’-----J—x ----a
three bales of cotton to the acre. It!
has been clearly demonstrated, he de- productivity of" East Texas soils,” the
dared that East Texas makes the ’
highest yields of any section of the
state except the rich, irrigated lands
of the Rio Grande Valley.
East Texas, he said, is an
fruit and truck growing section and
can be made the most independent
and self-supporting section of the
state. Lands are cheap and produc-
tive dnd it should become the refuge
for happy and independent home
owners.
iast'Texas is blessed with natural
|iercial opportunities. She has
)f the greatest ports in the South,
tuston and Galveston—besides
kdid ports at Beaumont, Sabine
■HTs, Freeport and Texas City.
’■“This section Usually has plenty of
rainfall and produces splendid grass
in abundance, and one acre of land
will support as much live stock as ten
acres in other sections. It is the best
part of the state for dairy farming
and should not only produce its own
dairy products, but should produce a an(j energy to their farming that ev-
.1 -4. successful man ought and must
give his business if he succeeds.
When the great majority of East
Texas farmers have fully realized the
importance and necessity of a farmer
in this day reading up-to-date farm
papers, and using his brain as well as
his brawn, and then puts in most ev-
ery work day in the year, as every
mechanic, artisan, business and pro-
fessional man in town must do if he
succeeds, then, and not until then,
East Texas farmers will be the most
prosperous people in the United
. States..
will keep on having them for a good
many years but the East Texas farm-
country. I think I may say the reason er who has this year raised plenty of
is our faction was largely settled
thirty to fifty years, ago by farmers
from the Southeastern States, and
I sandy soils there and came to East
Texas to find similar soils which in
their virgin state were rich and pro-
ductive; and the great majority of
these farmers made a living so easily
that, before they realized it, their
soils were wearing out and washing
away, and production decreased, so
that for a period of years our acre
production was very low. The major-
ity of these farmers made a living
from our virgin sbils so easily that
they did not give their time, thought
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eral such cash crops as he can, then, j And asked the proprietor
and not until then, will East Texas ' If he had ever belonged
come into her own. ; To a Chamber of Commerce,
Overproduction of Cotton I Alid he said something
“We have often had these off'years ! That was truly amazing.
prizes hi The Dallas News cotton con- iin overproduction of cotton, when the ; I thought I had heard
test has opened the eyes of everyone. P^ce went down far below the cost of; Every reason fornot being
“Yet up until a few years ago why production, and I very much fear we A member, but this man
i___i™u will keep on having them for a good Taught me something.
He said: “I don’t never belong
To a Chambei" of Commerce
_______ merit day you will not soon forget,
Crosley Radios for the Millions of next week.
people. Better—Cost Less.—Strip- j JHpj].
ling & Armstrong. ‘
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Judge stated, “when properly terrac-
ed, drained, fertilized and intensively I
cultivated, The fact that East Texasj
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ideal prizes in The
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