The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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union* you crow cotton.
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Parcel Post
We will return to you tn
a
A tax of
country with a lot of specious advice.
11.50
LEWIS
THE DAILY TRIHI NE
LAUNDRY
above the horizon
Bay City
EVER SALIVATED BY
CALOMEL? HORRIBLE!
best
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brighter for the
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Word was received here yesterday
now
(‘onsidei -1
has subside 1 and the people
war
How
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on
Even now thene advantages and
re-
thi
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WALKER-SMITH CO.
Whole-all' IX“alera
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tice of so-called economy grows ram-
be | pant under the slightest
advice fit only
California the
can
| point of
J fore, w ho
'should go as
'ton and tutu
I III. HltKI.I* BELOAGS TO
EM KGY.
His will gives him new
s expedients and means
none.'
eel f so as to ge
us low a ft titre
Hi Month*
Due Year
to rear its head
right on tliis spot
propel 1)
is a
strange
a
of
in
par
the
farmer.
tax
Of
' with
MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Publtahed Every Frld»r Morning by Tribune Printing Company.
CAREY SMITH, Editor
you.
top
ex cum? for
papers the age of 17 to
| Texas.
en i <■
country.
Enclose 3c for each collar; 2dc
for i . ihlrte. and 6c for mail-
cities.
Iauake
sleepy
Ing.
couple of days. Suits cleaned
and pressed 1100; a.all !0e.
average
exercised
Tiie
are •
It strikes us as very
an. merchant would allow
farmers not , tatives to look over the situation and
If the swamps of
Georgia and the
of Fiori la can be reclalm-
cott to them.
All of which only hurts the town
that real builders would like to build,
and at the same time exhibits an ex-
ample of foolish bigotry, a monumen-
tal prejudice and equally a monumen-
tal ignorance, and adds not one par-
ticle to the town and county in which
we all hope to live and succeed.
Iv7|/Qivl« , tJj»x?!lx"ll 31 VI. I ell Aw v" 1’ l\ 3 cl 111 IX cl 3 Uv v U
The government borrows monev in made a second lieutenant. The com-
this way only after it has been given mand he has been asisgned to has not
the right to do so by act of congress been learned.
_____o-o___
The SAW LETULLE HUIE
SEI OMI LIEUTENANT.
And yet they exist, cannot be peopled?
advise you t > plant le-s of the world's
'neatest food crop (cotton> in order
Ito grow foodstuffs. Have we ever
heard of anything quite
and county to the 1'nder the pre
and, consequently, your own
a shrub commonly known
red haw, whore they re-
co-o peration.
In the territory men-!
truck
States I
The army bill carrying with it the
Roosevelt amendment has passed both
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If Japan does put a million soldiers
in the battle fields of Europe, business
will get lively for the kaiser right
now.
Even the Filipino come to the res
cue of Uncle Sam and tells him to go
to it. It must be. Indeed, dark days in
the Central powers’ countries at this
■writing.
tew?/'
I rules and being such will put the boy-
' their ambiguity and length preclude I
the use of ninety-nine out of one |
! hundred.
repre-j
small [ from
direct and
but what's the farmer
rid haws and bloodweods near
gonna" do. doggone if
whose merchants do not advertise, [seed, and you can't have cotton seed w;lv Caney Valley, where no swamps
Guaging a town by its newspaper is
not a new thing On the contrary it
I is as old as the newspaper business
and will continue to be the method
employed until the newspapers cease.
■ Rush your town
' front.
business by advertising
■
--<«)
Send Your
houses and is now up to President
Wilson. Twenty-eight days have been
consumed in its pa age. and if it is
now signed by the president American
troops will b< on the firing line in
Frame by September.
JS * For
the boys
,’RR;
they ought to get five dol-1 a large number of our big men.
return before the ink dries many of whom were never on a cot-
Makc your newspaper! ton farm and perhaps some of w hom
Bevo is a great favorite in the Army Canteens, where
none but pure, soft drinks may be sold. After drill
or march, you are sure to see a long line of hot and
dusty-throated soldier boys making a bee line for
Bevo. They know that there lies complete satisfac-
tion, full refreshment and pure wholesomeness.
At home or abroad—at work or play—between meals
or with meals, you will appreciate what we have
done for you in making this triumph in soft drinks.
You will find Bevo at inns, reitaurants. gro<-eriet. department
and drug store*, picnic grounds, baseball parks, soda fountains,
dining can, in the navy, at canteens, at mobilization campt
and other placet where refreshing beverages ate sold.
Bevo—the all-year-’round soft drink
Guard against subatitutet. Have the bottle opened in front of
first seeing that the seal is unbroken and that the crown top
bear* the Fox. Sold in bottles only, and bottled exclusively by
ANHEUSER-BUSCH, ST. LOUIS
Say what you please, it la impas-
sible to develop a country as it should
be developed without co-operation,
organization, patience and hard work.
And the greatest of these is patience.
No man or collection of men ought
to ever go into any scheme of city or
county development expecting to ac-
complish it all in one year, for time
is the essence of any success attained
along these lines. In our county are
some of the best lands in the world
and these lands can bu developed,
but it will require a thorough organi-
zation of good business men and pa-
tient ones, mon who can take the dis-
appointments and
as the successes
America is there
.than that, which
being
The cost
this word ba compared to the results.
' this land is intensely fertile and sus-
gained their normal equil't'irum ! ceptible to the highest, possible degree
•• nf i of development, but It will require or-!
ganizatlon. co-operation. publicity |
and patience.
who
has been in the officers’ training
camp at Leon Springs since it was
dispellin-! any poss" He'.
In inunstviul centers wheto|
•■.r? bu- ue«s l as
cm pr'Hpt
is find-1 farmers
business these
placed on that land. Italians, Bel-
gians. Bulgarians, Poles or Bohe-
mians can make one big garden of
the Caney Valley, but. it. would nec-
essarily have to be colonized to them.
One or two families here and there
would avail nothing, for each of these
nationalities arc a homogeneous lot
and thrile and do better where they
r tinned there is room for 5000
and <n the United
truck farmers can be found and
Italians,
Poles
women
a musket and ko t > the front.
: women w
business
the beginning sented in it
war tax that may subsequently be
perfect substitute for ; levied. ,\0 state, city, nor county may
|tax them. The inheritance tax of
, tiie United States and of some States
I may affect them, or rather, affect
transfer after death of the
'owner by will or by inheritance.
Another advantage these Liberty
■Vk'o sending In
fTh.RRqm'stlng change of address on paper, give both old and new iddress.
NUBS4 KIPTION RATES.
WEEKLY
One way to bring Russia up to war
footing is to stand pat on a refusal of
any sort of assist nice until she
teaches her soldiers the art of trigger
pulling There ar° many ways to per-
suade. but tight n iw ,t is the monev
route that will count the fastest on
that eastern front
vert is in g
Someday it will be done and 1ms in
will begin to forge to the front on the paper.
rapidly. Three big railroads do not alive with ads and your business will would not know cotton, except In that of truck growers decided upon, etn-
build Into a central point unless those increase, your town grow and your, they occasionally expectorate it. are'power 'h"m tn t ng their repreaen-
rrilr'inds see a good future. Circum-
Btrncca. unavoidable In every phase,
have had their effect upon tin. but in
the course of time these will pass
inrn the bvuone and a city will begin ja
reverses
Perhaps
better truck
lies along
| Caney" from Sargent and Gaine-more [
j to the county line. Every foot of'
A fair look at General Cordona's
picture will convince the
reader that tiie Austrians
good judgment in retreating.
Austrian prisoners, however,
booked for man a ii.ght .are
think enough of your business, (ng their people that business will re-[
town and your county to ad- main good and in doing so place -owe
Many people think that stability in their communities
hen they spend one dollar for ad-
they might to get five dol-1
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< alumel Is Quicksilver and Acts l ike
Dynamite on lour
Liver.
an not enough With such
a condition existing, is there any rea-
son why business should not be good
:ml remain good’ However, in the
smaller places where p.^iple are more r ut
as well
not in
land
"Old
mtersd at the Postoffice at Hay ( it Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Under Act of Congress, Man h 3. JS7»
▲ny erroneous reflection upon th- character or standing of any person or
business concern will !<■ readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers
[Th* paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspaper business.
We could fill up our paper each
week with the different bulletins
sent out by the government and
different concerns in connection
with the campaign for a greater
food production and, while we con-
sider it th<‘ duty of a newspaper
to give publicity to articles of this
kind, our space is limited so we
just print, as much of it as we can.
Luling Signal
There is an enormous tonnage
wasted by the government
way. Millions of envelopes con-
paper are sent out .
the |
And
jit is all because of the lack of knowl-
| edze on the part of those in charge'
of these bulletins as to the equip- i
i nient and requirements of the press,'
not in one locality, but all over the
country. Besides this the manner in
| which these bulletins are gotten up,
approved by the president, and the
terms of the loan are set out in the
act.
Back of the promise of the govern-
ment stands the honor of the govern-
ment and all its taxing resources.
Really the whole wealth of the nation
stands behind this solemn promise of
the government to pay.
This makes a United States gov-
I eminent bond the safest investment
Calomel loses you a day! A'ou know 1 ln ttle world. If the bond of the
--------------... ... It’s mercury; quick 'united States government is not safe,
silver. Calomel is dangerous. it no property in the United States is
crashes into sour bile 'Ike dynamite. safe. if tlie United States cannot
cramping and sickening you. Calomel pay jts bonds, it is hardly probable
| attacks the bones and should never be that it wnl be able to protect the cit-
put into your system. ' jzens [n their other rights.
When you feel bilious, sluggish, con- ; Th,. Liberty Loan Bonds of 1917
stipated and all knocked out and be ine especially attractive investments.
J .M you need a do-, of dangerous |}<ot on)y t,ave they this absolute sate-
remember that you' ty characteristic of all United States
mingle and fraternize. But we
easily frightened and where the pric- are. told the undertaking is too big
If so, why is the very thing we men-
provocition tion being done all over the country?
.verified In this office as long as any [the necessity of It vel-heade In and ■ Prep ,re the land and cut. it into small
interested party wants to investigate [foresight is impi rative. especially or ' farms put good houses as they are
V man added to your community the part of those who ire In a position ' called for on this land, assure these
moans more trade for you. Mr. Mcr-1 tn advise and keep things on the tn .
chant but you are not going to add ] Men of business success and attain
W. A Wright, a prominent farm-
er living in Hie Highsmith section
west of Lulini:, believes that he lias
found a way to cut, down the ac-
tivities of boll weevils in this ter-
ritory and possibly all over the
State. After several years of study- [the use of ninety-nine out of one i
in - their habits, Mr. Wright has [hundred. Again. South Texas will re-[
found that boll weevils stay in the 'celve farming
high blood weeds along creek and [Wisconsin
river banks during the winter and
in the spring they go into the her- [to Maine,
ries of a shrub commonly known does not know It. but it can save the
as the red haw. where they re- ! price of a good size war loan every
main until cotton begins to fruit, year, by putting some
when they begin their depredations [some knowledge of the
on the cotton plant. Mr. Wright
has opened the red haw berries and
found as many as five and six v
developed weevils in one of them,
and has come to the conclusion that |
if all the farmers will cut down
these shrubs and burn them now
tli“ weevils will not be so had this
season.—News item.
All good and well so far as it goes,
who has no
o—----—
From all over the country
comes the business revival idea and
fortunately from men who are in a
position to do a vast deal in keeping
business good at.d active. And why
[ should there not be good business?
him ! Within the next four months vast sums
I of money will be turned loose for al-
| most everything grown or manufac-
The wheels of industry will
as the result of gigantic orders
bill would be easier.
we prone to begin bickering ana criti- cajon)£q
! using tho moment some individual |
'.. hows that lie has spunk and gump-
it ion enough to make some progress
|and success.
Too often are we prone to taboo
the man who does not agree with us
(politically, or" who does not affiliate
us. or who does not run with i
our crowd, or, rather, who does not
have time to or perhaps does not
care to.
Too often we think because the oth-
er fellows do not sneeze every time
we take snuff that they are our ene-
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Plant and keep on planting. Then
after the stuff yon have planted comes
up if you will intelligently work it it
will do all that on. might require of
It. The trouble with lots of crops is
that they arc left to grow and thrive
as best they can without care or at-
tention.
world tion. We got letters requesting pa-, >|oyed? There is now not the slight-
Evil chatter has thwarted many pe: ■, every day from all sections of I st excuse for a single man from
but the country. When these papers [the age of 17 to 50 The cry is Inces-
the reach the prospector, about the first, sant for more laborers everywhere and
try thing he looks for is the number of still there an not enough
of advertisers If the paper is "alive"
with them it doesn't take long tor
him to make up his mind. If the
paper does not. contain tho ads of its
merchants the man never comes nor
does ho make any further investiga-
tions These are facts that can
Some of those days the location of
Bay City, the canal systems surround- ’
Ing the town, her agricultural re-
sources and railroad facilities are go-
ing to attract, attention of others and
the town will take on a growth that
will surprise even tiie most optimistic .... , ...
Even now these advantages and re- chant, but you are not going to add Men of business success and attao
sources should be given due publicity him to your list of customers unless , meats should w aste no time in assur-
in every conceivable w-ay. and our you t
people are losing the very best bet of your .
their lives when they fall to employ vertlse
a system of judicious advertising that
the town and county might be ex-
ploited
we
Mini I. TO si B>< RIBER.S.
remittance for subscription, always state whether new or
mean
more than half
in the country and
would lose its cheif as- [
a sorne-
'thing It cannot possibly get along
I without. The newspapers, magazines
and periodicals and publications of
ail kinds are contributing more to
inform tin Publi' t(lfi government now than all tiie in-
dustries and enterprises in the United '
States, and w hy any curtailment of'
their efficiency to render such im-
portant services should even be con-
sidered passes the comprehension of'
anv sober-minded, patriotic man. No
one but one entirely ignorant of the
(condition of affairs or else extremely
i prejudiced against the newspapers
l? (could have thought of placing a
against the advertising columns
the newspapers of the country.
Japan Indicates a desire to put 1-
UOO.OOtl soldiers on Hie battle fields of
Surope if tiie ' nlted States will help
to transport and convoy them An-
other way of adding weight to the
pressure against Germany is thus of-
fered.
Wheat and floui have tumbled some,
tn price. The people have been ap-
prised of the fact that the ahortage: bis
made* so much of in
does not exist Besides
gone out that, after all the news to the itidirect. to be obtained that it occur-' immediately following the declar tion
contrary th? wheat crop i consider-[ to us that no rv 1? live wide-awake | ()f
ably better than at first claimed. In iih ius- man would miss such a bus-
other words the market is shaping It- mess opportunity Aside from this,
•t tho fanners’ crops at however, there
as possible. , variably a
' newspaper.
prospector first
newspaper.
that , tured.
merchant would allow a s'ngle'hum i
newspaper to leave his town without from clothing to ammunition and these i
orders will pour into the United States [
ery country in tiie world. The l
hysteria, which became si rampant
Congress, very properly, defeated
ie bill to tax newspaper advertising
from 25 to 30 per cent. The fact of
the business is it seems that con-
gress has been playing hide and seek
with a lot of tax matters that con-
~ I gross knows nothing about. A tax of advertisers that are now infesting the equality with
: any kind on newspapers at the pres-i
[ent time would mean tiie total de-;
struction of more than half the
I newspapers in the country and the I
government
—. set in the matter of publicity,
possibly get
No women, according to Captain
Have we ever Herbert Dargue. chief inspector
so ridiculous, tbe army aviation school at San |
emt circumstances our niego, Cal. can be taken into the avl-1
greatest apprehension insofar as cot- ation branch of tiie service. And no
ton is concerned is the labor question, women will be allowed to shoulder
and for the lack of labor it might be t musket and go t the front. No
possible to raise too much cotton, women will be allowed in the navy,
but certainly not from an over-supply t]1(. cavalry or artillery service. Worn-
view You farmers, there- en H not to serve on juries In this
are sure of your labor, country. They cannot act as sheriff
far as you like on cot- or constable, and yet in the face of
a deaf ear to the paid a]| tbi8 they are being placed on an
i man at the ballot box.
It is true that in hospital. Bed Cross
and in m mv other branches they are
indis; «■•r.sable. but these positions are
not fraught with the dangers inci-
dent to the other services mentioned
and are largely of a charitable nature,
and can only be filled by women.
( while the men are fighting to defend
[all that there Is in life fit for woman
or man. But. then, there are many
extant, so on with
From a standpoint, of 'abor, it now
looks as if Texas will raise a great
deal more than si., -LI
harvest this year The farm
situation all over the State is very
grave.
Now comes forth Marconi, the wire
less wizard with i perfect device for
dstroying tiie U-boat ineiiai e These
reports are all interesting enou-'h,
but what we want is to see some of
’em shoot once
nil? live
aid miss
Aside from this Hereby
h another reason. I n-j a panic.
town is gauged by its condition was
Almost without fall the settled down to i c ml
Should every man trlopt t’ polici prosaeetor first writes for a copy of ii;. and ery ava.li J? .mn
of speaking well only of thing! and the newspaper, before concluding to I jng employnient. How can
especially of his fellow-man how much m ike a move tn a contemplated loca- become bad with the people all em-
easier and better would the world tion. We got letters requesting pa- 'ployed?
move Evil chatter has thwarted many I pern every day from all sections of I
a man. The habit is repulsive
thrives on being cultivated by
gossip and loafer. Quit it and
the charitable way of «p< .king
others as vou would have others speak
of you.
[that to build, to grow, to get new I q • • ■
[people, it must ever be alert tiie bet-[w|)at cajoinei is
ter off il will be and the sooner it I
will reach that stage w here all its!
people can point to its growth and (
■i ery achievement with pride.
Nor can any town become a
"Tiie world belongs to the ener-
getic man
ey es. He s
were we saw none.’’—Emerson
And just so with the towns and the
The energetic are a'ways inconsistencies
to expedients and where the!tiie battle,
ones sleep on the live ones'
! build, expand and grow great in all!
.that tends to create business and draw I
: new people.
But after all the towns and cities I
belong to their people and if the peo-1
| pie are energetic the world be-1
longs to their town, tor the |
very simple reason that they go out [
infter what the world has and get it. |
| The quicker a town grasps the idea i
it t/x I.till cl ♦ /"x nr n* ♦ zx rr rxS tt a 11' I
■
One of the gravest conditions which (
the South will have to face, exceeding
in severity even the food shortage, is
the farm labor question, which Is even
it this early date assuming alarming
proportions. Thousands of negroes
have left the Soutli for the fictories
in tiie North, principally from Ala-
bama. Georgia. .Mississippi and the
she will be able to | Carolinas in Texas the selective'
labor conscript act is running Its hundreds!
| of Mexicans back Into Mexico, but, paper
even before thle exodus set in this this
class of labor was getting short. The-taining tons of .... .. ...
condition to be met by the Southern ; by both the State and national
farmer is the most perplexing of any ' inent annually, only to reach
that he has been up against since tiie waste basket and be destroyed,
eginning of war.
city, I
whose citizens are eternally jealous,
of their neighbors. To force water up- I
Too often are
prone to begin bickering and criti-[calomel just reracnlber that you’
some individual ;arijggist gells for 50 centH a large bot-[bonds but they are tax free not only
t'c of Dodson’s Liver Tone, which l’[f,.om all existing taxes but from any
I entirely vegetable and pleasant to [ war jax t]iat may
take and is a r " ‘
calomel. It is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring you up in
side, and cannot salivate.
Don’t take calomel! It makes you’!tbejr
sick the next day; it loses you a day’s i
work. Dodson’s Liver Tone straight- [
ens you right up and you feel great > Loan Bonds possess is that if the gov-
Give it to the children because it is (ernment issues bonds later on during
perfectly harmless and doesn t grip®, [this war at a higher rate of interest
-------o—e-------- : the holders of Liberty Loan Bonds
1 (GOVERNMENT BOND IN. will be allowed to exchange at
their bonds for bonds bearing
The government of the United, higher rate of interest.
States has two methods of raising [ -------o—o--------
money. One is by taxation. * '
other is by the sale of bonds, which !
is a method of borrowing money. |
The government bond is the printed
promise of the government to pay (to the effect that Sam LeTulle, son
back the borrowed sum of money at [of Mr. and Mrs. Louis LeTulle.
a certain time, and to pay interest!
on it at regular intervals until it is
repaid. opened several weeks ago. has been
■ expand. Just put thin down [. ,,rsf lh| ly uhbhi.’ oul*|
and let it soak In! No man. not. to plant too much cotton, as though' land the farmers
even you. will go to a dead place If.tt were possible to do such a thing M ssisslppi Valley,
you know it, and nothing resembles ' The biggest food crop for both man , Everglades cf ?'!. .
corpse more than a town, ‘and beast is obtained from cotton ed and peopled, wbl someone tell us
Market reports
that there is no rough rice offered
Tills means that practically the en-[
tire surplus of rough is this early
used up. which, in turn, means that
milled rice will be exceedingly short
'■»y the time harvest season opens up
The rke section-, therefore, have ev-
er'. reason to believe that the
prices ever paid for the cereal will
be paid out on this years' crop
-itnation as forecasted now could not
or brighter for the rice
for
and California the same
for stuff that can be applied only
The government evidently
! price of a
year, by putting some man, with
[some knowledge of the newspaper
[business and the country in general
[in charge of its bulletin service. This
well [advice is also applied to the State of
' • ■ . > I I X M I ' • I « » 11 « 1 I I I Oft 1 M • CHS OUl V vux^nx..
• '; > de of liberal terms and good ship-
! • i ■ fo ’iit >'s and you will find with-
' >n the < o irse of five years that you
will have one of the richest truck
regions In the United States in the
territory mentioned Those who own
this land can easily form such an
organization lay the foundation and
launch their publicity campaign. They
can send out their ccouts for the class
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