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THE CANTON HERALD
FRIDAY JANUARY 9, 1931
For Van Zandt Count
Co. and entered tho postoffice at Wills Point, Texas,
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but Joe isn’t hopeful. He has been watch-
ing these annual resolutions the women
make to reform and it has been his obser-
the producing business, and when the sta-
tiscians tell us of famine conditions in the
oil industry we should think of those who
are producing the raw material rather than
nor -unemployment relief her score in order to win bridge prizes. It
ently, one family whose looks as if the family is to be old-fashioned,
the finished 1
suggest a prol
Beginning the New Year Uncle Joe’s old-
est daughter has gone on the water wagon
and his wife has made a resolution not to
get a divorce this year, particularly so,
since Joe isn’t able to pay alimony. Uncle
Joe’s youngest daughter has resolved to
quit swearing and his mother-in-law de-
clares she isn’t going to add anything to
ELLIS CAMPBELL, Owner
A. O. LIVELY. Editor
Subscription Rates:
Agricultural Problems
One year ______
Six Months ______
Three Months ____
to be spattered with oil as a snowbird to be
pelted with celestial flakes. Maybe more so.
The snowbird has never believed it could
fatten on snow, but the oil seeker continues
to have faith in the enriching power of
petroleum.
Venezula is said to be laying down crude
oil at ports along our Atlantic seaboard at
75c a barrel, freight included. From this
as second-class mail
March 3, 1879.
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1 Thrift Week are trying to teach.
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ONLY A FEW IDEAS.
Liquid gold from the petroleum beds of
Texas is in a fair way to demonetize itself,
we are told by authorities having to do with
the producing and merchandizing of that
mineral. Too much of anything contributes
to an impoverishing superfluity. There is so
much silver, its money value has reduced to
31c an ounce. And the liquid gold, for which
our abounding State is famous, has become
measurable in Mexican dollars rather than
by the dollars of our daddies.
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la month, but who was
e had committed himself
ments on an automobile.
There will be few who will scoff at the
award of the prize of $10,000 for the great-
est "surrent achievement in the field of
science”’ to the two eminent medical men
whgdiscovered the cure for pernicious ane-
m§e-„Qnly three years ago physicians knew
that* every victim of that terrible disease
was doomed to early death as certainly as if
fie'had been sentenced to the electric chair.
In the best hospitals only two or three out
of every hundred cases of pernicious anemia
admitted ever left the hospital alive. Now
the whole picture is changed. Many physi- I
cians have reported 100 percent of cures; a
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Texas Power & Light Company
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—li.oo fire to a store whose owner has refused
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shipments, have already had a wholesome
effect in putting many crooked commission
houses out of business, or holding them to
the straight and narrow path.
Now the government proposes to follow
this up by making it a Federal offense to
interfere with interstate shipments in any
way. The gangs which demand that their
friends and they alone shall have the pri-
vilege of unloading and trucking produce
at certain terminals, and who beat up and
sometimes kill those not members of their
gangs who try to handle produce at termin-
al markets would come under the inhibitions
of this law.
Every move which will reduce the toll
taken by middlemen between producer and
consumer is a good, move, and when that toll
is an illegitimate one, as in the case of the
racketeer, it is essential to the welfare of
the nation that it be eliminated.
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TWO GREAT MEN.
proruct. This picture would
hibitive tariff to protect our
oil farmers against the pauper oil of South
eteers who prey upon the commission hous-
es and dealers. The Federal laws requiring
every commission merchant handling perish-
able foods in interstate commerce to have a
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We had so much “farm and drouth re-
lief” during the latter part of last year,
the wonder is now, will we need any more
of the same.
America. On the other hand, we have a 40c
a bushel tariff on wheat, and a leading Bak-
er recently declared that if the millers gave
flour away, and the railroads hauled it for
nothing, a loaf of good bread would still
cost 4.2c to produce. Is there any place
where the primary producer can get off
without breaking his back?—State Press in
Dallas News.
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The use of these
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Electrical Servants
is made possible by the
5 cent step
in our domestic service
rate. Begin taking
advantage of it
in your home today.
Uncle Joe thought of making a few resolu-
tions himself, but when he considered how
broke he is he decided it would be impos-
sible for him to do anything very wrong
during the new year.
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TARNISHED GOLD.
It may be coming a little awkward to
write it “1931,” but you’ll get used to it
- before another Christmas shopping time.
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The man, woman, boy or girl who reads
this paper for the next twelve months .will
get more than their money’s worth so, there
is another sating for you. Thanks to the
many,ftho hee already renewed, and those
y‘ ‘ ndi done so should lose no time.
matter under the act of
Twenty years ago I heard a famous
editor deliver a talk on advertising before
the Chicago advertising club. I was just
out of college and had seen very few great
men, so the talk made a deep impression. T
remember the editor said that “reputation
is repetition,” and he told some stories to
illustrate the point.
The other night in New York I heard
the same great editor speak on the same
subject. To my surprise it was the very
same speech.
Another speaker was a celebrated bank-
er whom I had heard on two previous oc-
casions. He, also, repeated himself.
As we left the dining room one of my
friends who had noted the repetitions re-
marked on them gloomily.
“Rather discouraging to see that even the
big minds have so little in them,” he said.
“Makes you wonder if human ingenuity is
coming to a end.”
“They say that though the stars appear
so numberless, you can not count more than
a thousand,” he said. “Well, there are few
thoughts. Count the books and you would
think that there was immense wealth; but
any expert knows that there are but few
thoughts which have emerged in his time.
Shut him in a closet and he could soon tell
them all. They are quoted, contradicted, mo-
dified. but the amount remains computably
small.”
It is a good thing for humanity that this
Among the old ideas that have been ex-
plored by scientific research is the belief
that soon after maturity one’s ability to
learn is seriously lessened. After a long
series of experiments, Dr. Sorenson of the
University of Minnesota declares one may
learn as readily at 50 as at 15.
To those who have had the will to learn
in later life, this is nothing really new. In
fact, it is suspected that the plea of “too
old to learn" was invented for those too
lazy or too indifferent to try.
Persons who have attained marked suc-
cess in any calling which involves much
mental effort have been obliged to go on
learning from year to year in order to keep
abreast of new developments. Many have
changed to an entirely new line of work
and have won distinction in it after reach-
ing middle age.
Because of rapidly changing conditions
in an ever more complex civilization, it will
be even more neccesary in the future than
ately, increased facilities for adult educa-
in the past that education be continued dur-
ing the entire period of active life. Fortun-
tion make this possible for any who have
the will to take advantage of them.
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Real estate values will likely never be so
low again as now. Tenants should take ad-
vantages of this opportunity to buy a farm
or a town home at a time when values are
lowest and terms and interest rates are
most ad vantages.—McKinney Democrat Ga-
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is so. Nature apparently designed the
game of human progress to last a long time,
and provided that only a small advance
should be made in any one generation. Sup-
pose one mind should suddenly discover
everything. How it would take the zest out
of the game!
Moreover, it is decidedly heartening to
us average folks to know that only a very
little difference separates us from the
apastime for you during the
the year, if you are seeking
Mpure -start: a, guessing con-
h.gr your Community, as to
EKw. oil wells-that will he
Zandt countg during 131
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Federal license, and giving shippers a re-
_ . „ medy in the Federal courts if they do not
Christmas Eye in your neighborhood, how obtain the proceeds from the sale of their
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guencos that it i harmful.
the normal Im uh eon'll
t few year., will dep1id b .
ht payments and mom upon
of earned money, put out at
vings banks or in mortgages
do not believe we shall see
n of the speculative wave in
Body seemed to be gambling on
arket and trying to get some-
thing.
■ as we understand it, means
Ess than one earns, buying care-
r value and also as to ability to
f surplus earnings, and building
ye that will tide one over a period
Generally speaking, the great achieve
their greatness by industry rather than by
mere brilliance. The editor whom I quoted
is said to be the highest paid in the world.
But if you divide his salary by the more
than two hundred newspapers which print
his editorials, he is the lowest priced work-
er whom each of those papers employs. He
produces more than anybody else and
works longer hours to do it.
I was glad that I went to that dinner. It
reminded me how little wisdom and genius
really rule the world; how.far industrious
effort can stretch the few ideas, or even
one idea.—Bruce Barton.
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NONE TOO OLD TO LEARN.
Rag through a year of
ose hard time were
■* part of unthriftiness.
3 injurious, to be sure,
■hat ’hoards money in
■ it out of circulation
■is a definite detriment
Riat is not the cause of
ssin .which now seems
ch of our trouble has
k spending.
pney and still be thrifty.
|ho insists upon getting
Pis thrifty so long as he
• promise to pay more
he will be able to pay.
| &re those who obligate
"rgard to their ability
atiops. In the investiga-
grow enough feed to take care
— of all the live aock with even a
- (surplus. Each farm should be pro-
1 perly fenced to economically han-
dle the live stock and crops.
Proper distribution of labor and
income throughout the year will
only come about with a balanced
farming program. Cotton alone ha®
at your own door?
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For ideal weather, last week could not
have been improved upon. But it won’t be
that way all the year; we’ll have to take
the bitter with the sweet.
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All the new county officials are on their
jobs, and here’s congratulations to every
one of them. Also, to all the hold-overs.
They are all a fine bunch.
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In counting your blessings one by one, as
the sacred song runs, you’ll probably dis-
cover that you’ve had but little to com-
plain of during the year past.
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South American republicans have been
having more than their share of revolu-
tions for the past few months, but out of
such tunnoil and strife stable government
will come, and a more contented people.
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The railroads organized, and now the
bus people are organizing. Between the two
there’ll be some interesting newspaper dis-
cushion and perhaps more or less actual
legislation during the year. The public needs
„both utilities.
not and will not do this. After a
sufficient food supply for the fam-
ily and feed for the live stock
have been taken care of hen the
farmer can turn his attention to
ao-called cash crops in Van Zandt
county these include: cotton, oats,
sweet potatoes, tomatoes and oth-
er truck crops, dairy cattle, hogs,
poultry, beef cattle, ribbon cane,
it may get so before long that nobody
will want an oil well. We have it on high
; -some of the cataclysmal
gushers at Oklahoma City which have been
it sort of thrift which those back running for months have not yet paid out.
l Still our East Texas friends, of Van Zandt
and Rusk and Gregg counties, are as eager
rment or illness and eventually authority that
old age.
fruit, peanuts, planting seed and
others. Choose from these crops
and live stock several that are
known to grow well on the farms
and that the farmer understands
how to grow and handle. After se-
lections have been made don't
try to plant the world in them,
disappointment will be less on a
few acres or with a few head.
In the past, farmers have often
swung from one extreme to an-
other usually landing back on
cotton. Joe M. Chamblee, Van
Zandt’s master farmer and many
other “balanced system’’ farmers
are consistent year after year
planting about the same number
of acres to about the same number
of crops and keeping about the
same number of live stock. If a
change is made it is done gradu-
ally and not aimlessly or spas-
modically. Why not follow this
consistent system and be safe
rather than sorry.
Not Enough Feed Grown.
Van Zandt county farmers are
to be congratulated on growing
more feed. It has been proven
that feed can be grown in suffi-
cient quantities and cheaply on the
I farms in this county. Around a
half a million dollars are spent
each year for farmers for feed
that they could grow on their
farm. From all indications there
will be more feed grown in .this
county this year than ever before.
The farmers can and should grow
their feed and save that half mil-
lion. This would be half as much
as the entire cotton crop of the
county was worth in 1080. Grow-
ing all the feed used on the farm
will go a long way toward put-
ting the farms of this county on
a paying basis.
The cheapest feed crop grown
in 1930 was hegari. This qrop av-
eraged 1 3-4 tons per acre over
the county and was produced at a
cost of less than $5.00 per ton. it
is worth $20.00 per ton as a feed
crop. The yield in 1930 was high
the land and conditions taken in
considaraton. Farmers are urged
not to grow com and other feed .
crops. On the best land corp
should be planted and grow hegari
on the lighter solla. This crop
should not be planted before May
or until after the soil is warm.
Poor stand will result if the soil
is too cold. Plant five pounds to
the acre and plant the best cer-
tified seed as the Increased yield
will make poor and cheap seed
too expensive,
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for only 15 cents a day! First . . the Electric
Cooker preparing one meal a day for you by
the finest type of cooking in the world. Second
.. the Electric WashingMachinecleaning your
clothes thoroughly and gently, at home. Third
. . the Electric Iron ironing for you quickly
and automatically. Fourth . . the Electric
Percolator preparing coffee at the table, quickly
and with a flavor all its own. Fifth .. the Elec-
tric Toaster browning your toast just to a turn
as you need it. Sixth . . the-Electric Sweeper
cleaning your floors with scarcely any effort on
your part in but a fraction of the time required
by old methods, and cleaning your upholstered
furniture, too. Seventh .. the Electric Radio
bringing you the finest musical entertainment,
educational and amusement features, news and
sports from all parts of the world. Eighth
EleclricLigbtin each room of the home,enough
to give complete eye-comfort for reading,
playing games, or just "visiting.”
All these things month after month can be
enjoyed by the average home for only 15 cents
a day. Many of our customers are now experi-
encing these services.
rator, which called for
’ than his total salary!
example of thriftlessness,
uying in itself is not
raw material Eastern refiners are taking .
but gasoline at the rate of something like1 smartest.. Lincoln remarked on it. “I have
70 per cent, with the residue merchantable talked with great men,” he said, “and I
in other forms. This must mean that the can„not see wherein they differ from oth-
refining business is more profitable than
to pay for “protection” is usually organiz-
ed in gangs, and so far police and citizens
organizations have been powerless to curb
him. Few men will risk their lives for the
sake of their dollars’, and enough business i
men have been murdered by racketeers to I
.. , . . make others fearful of their demands.
If there s stika new year resolution that j The Federal Government is taking steps
you have not broken, hold fast to it, it may to curb some forms of racketeering, which
can be reached by Federal laws and agencies.
Every shipper of farm products to the larg-
er markets is a potential victim of the rack-
some of the hospitals have had a similar ex-
perience.
The man or men who makes a dis-
covery like that, which lengthens life and
relieves suffering, is surely entitled to hon-
or above the mere inventor of a machine,
no matter how useful the machine may be.
He is doubly to be honored, for his work
is unselfish and without pecuniary reward.
Under the code of the physician, he may
not take money for his discovery, except
as it may come in such form as the prize
just awarded to Dr. Minot and Dr; Whipple.
The medical man may not patent his dis-
covery, or take a fee or percentage from its
sale, directly or indirectly. He must publish
it to the world, for the benefit of his fellow-
practitioners and the public whom he serves.
The inventor of a new machine is en-
titled to make all the money he can from its
development and use. It may revolutionize
the world, but the motive back of the inven-
tion was a selfish one. He is entitled to hon-
ors, but not to the degree to which the me-
dical discoverer is entitled to them.
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CLAUDE CALLAN SAYS
(By W. D. Seats, County Agent.
| Anyone who will carefully an
nalyze the agricultural situatior
of Van Zandt county cannot helr
but see the major problems. It is
easy to point out problems but ifl
Js very difficult to offer a work®
able solution. It will be the pur-1
1 pose of this article to offer pnfeg
methods of procedure that willl
have for their ultimate en the
soluton of our major problems.!
Depleted Soil First Problem. I
On every hand farmers point |
out that the land in Van Zandt!
county does not produce as much I
per acre as it did a few years!
ago. Why? If a man were to put I
a certain sum of money in the I
bank and continue to write checks
on it without making further
posits he would soon be faced with '
a notice 'insufficient funds" from
the bank. That is Just what ha.
happened on most of our 5282
farms in Van Zandt county. We
have for years drawn drafts, In the
form of crops, on our original cap-
ital stock, the land Without adding
plant food to replace that Uken
up by crops. -Along this line we
are faced with another serious
case of depletion, that of erosion
or washing of our hillsides. For
solution of the above problems
terrace the land properly with
broad mangum terraces 21 to 40
’ feet wide. Plant 100 pounds of
small grain as oats, wheat or bar-
ley with 15 pounds of hairy win-
ter vetch on cotton land in Sept-
ember to be turned under in
spring. Plant peas, soy beans or
other legumes with corn or alone
in the spring at least once every
two years. Be it also suggested
that the average farmer cultivates
too many acres. Improve soil fer-
tility and Increase acre yield on
fewer acres.
Wrong Princigies o' Farming.
One crop system is responsible
for many failures. It has been
proven for many years that farm-
ers cannot grow cotton alone and
buy necessities that might be
grown on the firm and be suc-
cessful. Every farm must become
as far as possible an independent
unit. A garden and orchard of
sufficient size to furnish, all veg-
etables and fruit required for the
table during the year either fresh
or canned with a reasonable sur-
plus for the market. A flock of
well bred and well managed hens
that will produce enough products
for the famil with a reasonable
surplus for the market. Enough
I high producing cows, not low or
'medium hut high producing cows,
that will furnish all necessary
' products for the family with a
(reasonable surplus for sale. Each
i farm should support enough pigs
to furnish all products needed by
‘ the family with a reasonable sur-
plus for sale. Now the farm should
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CANTON HERALD -pfsMAEsn"ACKETEEEs.
Published weekly by the Chronicle Publishing L The word racketeer ’ is a comparative-
Co. and entered tho postoffice at Wills Point, Texas, new one, but the thing itself is as old j
as any other form of robbery. The racketeer;
, preys upon legitimate business by threats of ।
'damage to life or property if his demands
! for tribute are not met. He levies an illegal
(tax upon the privilege of doing business.
In the big cities the racketeer who sets !
maweek.
J. H. Stralt
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