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THE BOWIE NEWS .
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Glenn Trout
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Lumber Co.
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NOW NOTHING NEED
HOLD YOU BACK
Some few Bowie girls have a fine sense.of humor, but
most all of them have a fine sense of rumor.
There is still a lot of fun in running a weekly newspaper
—for the fellow who never had it.
Another thing this country needs is more salving of
problems and less surveying of them.
' A Kansas woman's club debated for four hours the most
dreaded disease among women, and then reached the con-
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• REMODELING
• MODERNIZATION
BYRNE COMMERCIAL-
COLLEGE-
S.G. Norris, M.D.
BOB’IK. TEXAS
Rectal Diseases and Varicose
Veins a Specialty
E. Tarrant Street
Office Phone 192
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Bowie Trade Territory, One Year-
Other Ptaces, One- Year - :——
Single Copies
Coy Parry
Mrs. M. A. Bryan
NOTICE TO T1
character, standio
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Mrs. Phillips
TAILOR SHOP
20 Wise Phone 1M
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TRUTH about ADVERTISING
By CHARLES B. ROTH
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Get a good Position
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Egypt.
In fact, I find a number of
ideas in my study of the man who
lived before Christ that might
solve a lot of problems for us
today if we would put them into
use, The land was not planted
Jo crops, qne year .out. of. seven.
That year was given to the land
for rest. Another plan that they
_____ AN EXPERIMENT IN HORSE-FEEDING
^FlULHE’S an old story I have al- robust health and full of energy and
---|_ways liked. It is about the parsi-
monious Frenchman who rued the
money he spent in feeding his horse.
After scheming and planning he
hit upon an idea which would en-
able him to stop all that.
It was beautifully simple: Each
day he would gradually cut down
the amount of f?ed .
he gave the horse. I
He would cut It I
down so gradually, I
in fact, that the ani- I
mal wouldn’t ever I
realize he was being I
cheated. I
The horse would I
thus become used to I
getting along on I
less. Eventually he 1
would need no feed ’
at all. Think of the
money that would
save!
The French genius scientifically
set about carrying on the experi-
ment. Several months later he was
telling about it with pride in his
[Voice. Did it work? asked a friend.
• Work? Oh. yes, indeed, it did!"
-|he exclaimed. "It worked perfect-
ly. Beautifully, The only trouble
was that just about the time my
horse got used to going without feed,
he died.”
We laugh at the benighted condi-
tion et a man with an Men as tool-
hh as thia, but many business men
try to stop feeding their bnainess
“terse” by eliminating or cutting
down on Uieir advertising.
The fact is that advertising is the
feed which keeps their business in
^5 years in Bowie
Satisfaction Guaranteed
PRICES .50 AND UP TO $17.50
We Make I nnerspring
Mattresses
BOWIE MATTRESS CO.
C. N. DICKEY, Prop. PHONE 139
comfortable as a four week’s growth of beard makes a man.
TKeTnevTtable result of stopping ad-
vertising. Two will do. Forty years
ago there Was a remedy on the mar-
ket which was America's biggest
seller. It was widely, intelligently,
consistently advertised. Its name
was a household word. Then the
founder of the business died. His
heirs decided to cut out advertising
because “our product is so well
known people will have to buy it.”
The product passed out of the pic-
ture entirely.
Another was a fine, honest, well-
made, well-advertised toilet soap,
with all the good will any product
could possibly need. The manage-
ment of the business changed. The
advertising stopped. Soon the prod-
uct was no longer on the market.
The reason why advertising must
be a continuous process is that we
human beings need constant remind-
ing. We're not fickle. But we are
so filled with our own ideas and
plans and businesses that if a man
who wants our trade doesn't ask for
it regularly and often, we drift else-
where to the man who does.
The advertiser is faced by the
problem of asking his customers to
buy from him, but he also has to
consider the most economical way
of extending his Invitation.
Be finds the answer to troth parts
nt Ulis problem in the newspaper.
No ether form of advertising has
ever been discovered which will
carry his message so effectively fr-
ee UtUe cost.
Only-one-half of the world knows how the other half
’ lives, but only one-half knows why.
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,_____arette.s. then the men will know how to get even with them ! I
on Christmas. • , [
There was a Time when half the people in this, world
didn’t know how the other half lived But that was before
the government began passing out doles.
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Since officials at Washington have listened to just about
everybody else in the land why not call in a few taxpayers
and see what they have to say. .
joyfully lay it down, triumphantly.
—Gail Hamilton.
Don’t stay where you are and
what you are—Get started on
the road to Success.
We are told that there are 293 ways of making change for mattera,’"!
a dollar. That’s interesting, but how'do you get hold bf the
dollar?
Women's Apparel—
requires great care in
cleaning and pressing.
Many local ■ women have
• learned of our special care
aridrbring us their work.
style le
down, $1
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high. $
My equij
authority
as autho
years in
sed and
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Baby Chicks
Sept. 1st.
Heavy breeds. $5.50 per 100
Light breeds. SLSlTperlOO
Heavy mixed. $4.50 per 100
Light mixed, $4.00 per 100
Leghorn pullets, $10.00 per 100
..Cockerels $2.00 per 100
If you wish started chicks add $1.50 per 100 for each
week. *
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Big business wants you, but
i t wants y o u technically
trained.
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store regularly we car-.
dially invite ybu to come
in and see our line of pas-
teries.
Another trouble with the soft answer is that while it
may turn away wrath it won’t turn away a hardTuck story.
I have taken a course in poultry and will be more than
pleased to help you with any sick birds you may hTtve.
Bring them tn any time. We carry a full line of poultry
Medicine.
Come in and Lets Get to Know You.
Hamilton Hatchery & Feed Store
Bowie, ' Texas
2 PUBLIC: Any erroneous reflection upon the
or reputation* of any person, firrn or corporation
which may appear in the columns of this paper will be gladly correct-
the notice of same being given to the1 editor.
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himself. The reporters didn’t get
to talk to the Governor about
the matter, and the radio micro-
phoneTlTanT’ask"any embarrass- ;
ing questions.
Press Still Potent
The radio is a comparatively
new -agency of communication,
having come into general use
only within 'the past decade. The
press, since Guttenberg and Cax- ,
Austin.—The contempt in which ton began nearly four centuries
..... 'agO( producing printed words in :
quantity, has been the agency
which pioneered the breaking ;
down of monarchies and dictator- '
ships, and building up freedom '
and democratic institutions. Un-
til printing came, there was vir- '
tually twrHiteerty in the- world; J
since it came, the printing press '
has been more potent than artil- 1
lery in every battle .where liberty
has. bben at stake. The first act
of every dictator has been to sup- '
press or control the press. The
pet hate of every demogogue has
' 1 the newspaper,
People have long since formed
the habit of believing what they '
see in their "newspapers. The !
psychologists tell us that a man '
remembers seven, times as much
of what he reads' as of what he
hears.
The governor; if he actually
believes what those near him
say _he does—-anti Tiis ...relations
wftfi the press would indicate ,
that he does—may learn yet that :
the press is a symbol of a very
sacred and jealously guarded
Oil Crisis
—The ml industry in Texas toda'y 1
faces what many oil men declare
to be the most serious cricis since .
the days of martial law in East ■
Texas. Federal court <’ ’ '
•ewr-ruljig the allowable‘granted ■
in East Texas by the Railroad )
Commission to Rowan & Nichols,
and later to the HGmble. Texas'
largest producer of crude, were '
. followed -immediately—by.—price i
this visit except near the coast.
I have heard reports frbm oth-
er sections that are very similar
to the above. It looks like "Crop
Reduction" is being taken care
of in a much better way than
Congress has been able to do. 1
often wonder if it -would not
have been better for the United
States Government to have
bought the surplus of cotton: and
wheat etc., and have stored it
Z THE BOWENEWS . -
Published Each Friday by Coy Perry, 8 Smythe Street,. Bowie/Texas 1
Editor and Manager j
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Entered at the postoffice in Bowie, Texas, as second class mall under
the act of March 3, .1879- .
For the first time in over two
years. East Texas crude - price
fra* s:;
Tot-gasoline and less-fof-crude
policy of the major companies at
the peak consumption period of
the year. The entire proration
structure may be undermined as a
Uii'' law suits, and if
gasoline price hikes continue,
while crude prices fall, it seems
inevitable that the Federal gov-
ernment may revive the move-
of the present national admini-
oii business. The hot oil scandals
in Louisiana, with indictments in-
volving both the Huey Long politi-
cal ring, and some Texas opera-
tors. has not helped the situation.
Greed may yet kill the goose that
lays the golden oil eggs in Texas.
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See Lyon & Matthews Co. lor
the New Title I FHA Loans.
A Boston editor says ‘‘We owe a great deal to the Pil-
grim Fathers." Yes, and the best part of it is we don’t have
to pay it
’money!
AVAILABLE
A simple Finance Plan, avail-
able through us, makes possible
immediate improvements in
your home or business prop-
erty. Complying with all N.
H. A. regulations, the Plan
offers every advantage to the
home owner (1) Low interest
rate (2) Repayment in monthly
installments. Come in and let
ns give you the fall story.
FUU. INFORMATION AT
Texas community were selling
did not find any good crops on their corn at thirty-five to forty-
this visit except near the coast.Ifive cents a bushel, by hauling it
to the shellers. Other farmers
in the same community were
feeding the same kind of corn
to hogs and cashing it in the form
of pork at ninety cents a bushel.
Many of those who sold their-corn
on the “cash market" bought
bacon from Iowa or Wisconsin,
and probably never tasted ham
the year round!
, . . . When we, in the Southwest, be-
after the wise play of Joseph jn -gin to wr'ap our feed crops up jn
EevDt- hides, or turn them into dairy and
poultry products at home, before’
sending them to market, we will
live better on home-grown fresh
and cured meats, milk, butter and
eggs, and will have more net pash
income in the year besides.
— SwUing feed crops “m the raw”
is poor economics for several rea-
, » j 1 • 11 .ui r sons. Feeding them at home gives
used was to declare all titles to employment of time that would
Innd null voW ouch f.Ftv otherwjss wasted. Feeding
them at home reduces the volume
to be- hauled to market. Feeding
.them at home spreads the income
and the labor over a langer per-
iod-.
We produce, in growing cotton,
one of the finest livestock feeds
----INSPIRATION. Lift- is a burden imposed upon you by-
God. What you make of"it, that will be up to you.. Either a'
millstone around-your neck or a diadem on your brow. Take
it up bravely, bear it on
leaves.
On the other hand, either sweet
or grain sorghums which are to
be used for ensilage should be
permitted to stand until the seed
are fully mature, since fne seed
constiutes an important part of
the feeding value. The silo will
preserve all its—untritional ele"
ments in the most palatable form',
and ensilage will “keep” indefi-
.nitely without deterioration. .
Most of the Southwest has pro-
duced good feed crops this sea-
son, and the next concern is to
save them and turn them into
money. All “roughage” must be
fed as. close to whre it grew as
. > in order to get the most
value from it; on the same farm, •
s'o that the manure_will_go back
to the land, is the best place. It
is cheaper to bring the livestock
to the feed than to haul the feed
to the livestock,
-There is no “perfect” -feed
alone; though good. alfalfa hay
comes about as near as possible,
x-a even it should be -supblemented
'Uld by carbonaceous feeds, either
grain, grass or ensilage, to make
a balanced ration,
Non-legume hay and ensilage
must be matched up with protein
elements, such as cottonseed meal,
alfalfa or. other- legume hay; and
when OTur is .on hand the other
elements should, he bought if
necessary in order to make a bal-
anced ration.
The "cash market” for corn and
other feed grains is keeping many
Southwestern farmers from prof-
its they might as well have. Last
land null and' void each fifty'
years. This cared for the fe-
, distributions of the land when it
‘S°‘ in the hands-oL-a few. This
is one of' our greatest problems
today. ' ‘ . '.
We are prone to think of these
early people as being Without
education or civilization, . but
rthpy never had the problem pf a
surplus in a land filled with peo-
-ple-who did not have the neees- -
sary things of life;
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Well, folks, the rain’ has re-
vived the crops a great deal..
Feed that had burned tips on the
leaves is now greening up and
looking pretty again. This will
not continue unless we have more
rain in the near future.
I have seen some of the big-
gest watermelons, this year that.I
ever, saw outside of a fair. Many
of the watermelons weigh sev-
enty-five to one hundred pounds.
The price of watermelons • has
been extremely low. A friend of
mine . told- -me that he - sold one
hundred arid seventy watermelons
at Alvord, that would average
thirty pounds, for three cents
each. He told me' that the truek-
ers seldom payed more than five
cents for any watermelons, except
the extremely large melons.
For the last year. or. two,.I have
noticed a new kind of qdulon in
this country. The rind of this
melon is a deep yellow, resemb-
ling the pumpkin. The meat of
the melon is rerj and, I believe
of very fine texture. Not many ted as. <
of these melons are being sold; possible
For, some reason they do not ap,
peal to the public.
I talked with Mr. Sherbut, a
farmer of the Park Springs com-
munity,' who told me that he had
just returned from an extended
trip ,through eastern Oklahoma.
He reports that-crop conditions
there are very much the same as
here. He would go through
small section where there woi
be sufficient rain and then
through a_dry_section where the
crops were burnt up. He gays
that the farmers in general are
no better off there than here. i
I also had a pleasant visit with
Tuck Shaw of Stanfield -Ranch.
He had recently made a trip
through West Texas into New
Mexico. He reports that crops
show little promise in that part
of .Texas. And that many of
the crops were in a pitiful con-
dition. Since that tim ehe has
sections of Southeast Texas. He
An athletic man, nowadays-is one who hires a boy to cut
the grass while he plays.golf to obtain a little exercise.
Good crops of feed sometimes in combination with the forage
turn out to be poor food for live- and grains we grow, it should be
stock for no other reason than used here, instead of shipping it
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at their best, and not properly I carry fertility to foreign
All hay and ‘ The most prosperous commu^B
are more nu- ■ ties are those which are turning
palatable if their raw products into butterfat;
Sweet sorghum for hay or”bundle able products instead of peddling
feed should not be permitted to-their feeds as soon as harvested
creases th,e
a,fiuadtSt'MSECT,
By T. C. Richardson, Breeder-Feeder Association
JGOOD FEED-feed
turn out to be poor food for live- arid grains
that they are not harvested when! to Europe or the Corn Belt
at their best and not properly! carry fertility to foreign sc
cured or conserved: A " ' , "" . . _______
dry forage crops are more nu- ties are those which are turning
tritious and more flLt;”’: -----;----=-x- ■-
harvested before maturing seed, quality meat, and other consum-
Sweet sorghum for hay or bundle able products instead of peddling
feed should not be permitted toHheit feeds as soon as harvested
stand until over-ripe, which in- and because more of their time is
creases th-.- ‘ woodiness’’ of the profitably employed than is posr
stalk and usually results also in sible "in a sfraignt crop-farming
the drying up of part of the system.
'------ . Thee Breeder-Feeder program
is nothing more or less than bal-
anced farming—balancing crops
with livestock and poultry, a nd
Vice versa.
of the people—it is the only
. dgency which can ask questions
~I about matters of public policy.
and which is equipped and in-
clined to present both sides of
_ . coiiLruversul.issues- .„
The newspaper reporters, when
they interview public officials,
listen carefully to the statements
of the governor, or whoever the
particular official being inter-
viewed may be. They accept Msr
when there are obvious ornmii-
„—e—or—controversial issues.
they ask the questions which these
issues suggest, and record the
answers.
Asks No Questions
A radio microphone asks no
questions It merely takes what-
ever the governori or any other
speaker) -pours into it, and trans-
mits that to the people, or at least,
to whichever of the people may
happen io be listening at the mo-
ment. If the governor sponsors a
certain piece of legislation, for in-
stance. he selects all of the fav-
orable aspects of that legislation,
and discusses them over the radio.
If ,he desires to tell half-truths,
or downright misrepresentations,
or if he omits explaining at all,
certain spetions of the legislation,
the radio makes no complaint and
jasks no questions. Neither can
the people who listen ask ques-
tions.
For example, Gov. O’Daniel in
a recent radio broadcast, urged
the people to attend the hearings
upon the county budgets in their
communities, in the interest of
economy in government. The fol-
lowing week, the Automatic Tax
Board, which includes the gov-
ernor. the State Treasurer,* a nd
the State Comptroller, met in
the Capitol—behind "locked doors
—and increased the State ad val-
orem tax rate about 60 per cent.
The public was not invited, nor
permitted to attend and hear
the board's discussion. News-
paper reporters, if there had been
•> press conference, would have
, asked the Governor to explain
thia inconsistency in what he tells
I the people, and what he does
Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel holds the
press of Texas is one of thy singu-
lar phenomena of an administra-
tion that has been marked by the
smashing of precedents.
. Inspired, no doubt,-by the spe-
... ctacular success which: rewarded
—ThinkHto her nowo uv^ming tnaketv-a-womau tw- -hia- freakish radar ewTTTywign- n
—. . •» . . . . — year “ago, the Governor is ,said
by those in his confidence to re-
gard the printed word as unim-
portant, arid rapidly growing less
important, in the conduct of state
affairs. The governor held two
or three press conferences after .
his inaueuraL and then coUcd-thc always been
whole thffig oft". Since early ” ' ~
January, he has not received the
representatives of the newspapers.
If a correspondent wishes to ask a
specific question of the governor,
; any particular public
. le, may write out his
question, and send it into the
chief executive, by one of the
secretaries. If the governor wants
Jo, lie answers. If he does not
(and he usually does not), he
^doesn’t answer. Personal- aud-
iences have been granted to ■ a '
Jew tril'teBpohdenta; bh rare nr "
casions. •
Why He Prefers Radio #
A great many people . dn not
understand why the press has
a vested right, well recognized
by the statutes and the constitu-
tions of both state and nation, to
inquire into public affairs and
the official acts of public ser-
vants.. It-"is not that the news-
paper business is singlpd
any special favor or consideration ruts.ledJ>y Sinclair, and
made. It is because the press is
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