West Texas Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, July 9, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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SEYMOUR AND GRAHAM
WEST TEXAS REPORTER
TEXAS
GRAHAM,
REHDER & SON
and 572 lines of paid reading
Entered as second-class matter, Oct.
It took twelve pages
The Reporter of the same
860 inches of reading matter,
against the Banner's 321
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Weather for July.
DR. W. A. MORRIS
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Graham, Texas
Will Graham Have a Picnic?
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fact that the steady advertiser
town where practically all mer-
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for everyone, in both town and ity-
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Electric Fans
The Archer County News’ has
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C, Boone Taliaferro
Funeral Director
On July 24th the people of the
State will have an opportunity injured.
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or not the A. & M. College and plosives Sunday, was $66,550,
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misunderstandings between the j 14; toy pistols, 36; runaways, 8;
bomb canes, 3.
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each "We also have two PEERLESS 3-SPEED
CEILING|FANS, $9.00 and $11.00 respectively.
New Emerson Oscilators $17.50.
If you don’t want to buy, let us rent you a FAN.
The Baylor County Banner,
published at Seymour, in its
issue of July first, carried 1024
inches of display advertising,
of voting on the “Sackett Res-
olution” to determine whether
The fire loss, due to accidents,
combined with the use of ex-
Reports from Archer City
state that quite a number of
cattle have died from being
One year....
Six months..
Three months
Several business men of Gra-
ham have been agitating the
proposition of having a picnic
Ind. Day Phone No. 88,
Ind. Night Phone No. 87.
$1.00
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C. P. GOODE & SON
Painters and Paperhangers
We contract on any size job.
Paperhanging and
Housepainting
Graham, Texas
fit
Your
Command!
Why not have a meeting of
farmers who grow truck to out-
line a plan for a market? The
out to Madero while professing
to be Madero’s friend.
S. W. Day Phone No. 130.
S. W. Night Phone No. 145.
country (and Graham is known
never to do things by halves),
so let’s have a picnic.
Graham Independent
Telephone Company
W. H. MAYES. Manager
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inches of reading matter.
Seymour is not much larger,
if any, than Graham, and the
as compared with the loss of
$76,035 last year.
Persons injured Sunday were
victims of various kinds of
noise-making instruments. The
causes of injuries were: Fire-
works, 60; cannon, 12; firearms,
19; gunpowder, 25; torpedoes,
The Jno, E, Morrison Co.
GRAHAM, TEXAS
We have an assortment of second-hand
desk Fans we are selling for
Published Weekly by
THE GRAHAM PRINTING CO.
Graham, Texas.
SPORER & McCLURE
Attorneys at Law
Jacksboro and Olney, Texas
38-1c.
While You are About it Get
The Best.
13th and 14th, would be about
the proper caper. chants are advertising, draws
of general news and local news
that can’t be equaled or sur-
resumed publication with Chas, says he has been badly treated.
Martin at the helm. Here’s Unless we break his neck he will
hoping the News will stay “put ’ not get near so severe treat-
and that we will receive it each ment as that which he meted
What is a Fair Division of the
Profits?
A Comparison of Two Papers,
Showing Life and Lack of
Life.
cess.
A two-day affair, say on the
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gets the business, and that a
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A program can be arranged
that will afford entertainment town is on the road to prosper-
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gives Young county 5000 more
population than Baylor.
Are Baylor county merchants
more live than Young county
merchants, or are they just
trying to keep up appearances?
Judging from the looks of the
“Banner” each week, it can
hardly be the latter, for it gen-
erally has a pretty large repre-
sentation of the merchants of
Seymour in its columns.
And if their advertising did
not pay it is quite likely that
in Graham during the month of
August, and it is hoped that the it would be discontinued. When
proposition will meet with sue- all merchants are alive to the
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And now old man Huerta
Mhington and shot J. P. Mor-
Tu«, stating that he was work-
pa in the interest of peace,
unny peace. We thought peace
meant the saving of bloodshed,
and not the causing of it.
When your subscription expires fill out this blank and send to us
at once. Money may be sent later if not convenient to send with
this slip. Paper will be stopped immediately unless renewed.
WEST TEXAS REPORTER, Graham, Texas.
Please renew my subscription for another year.
AND WOMEN, and the BEST,
LATEST AND FULLEST
MARKET REPORTS to be had
EVERYBODY—
when you have our
telephone in your
house and office
-m— --------- haphazard way of disposing of
What we most need now is perishable stuff is much more
a “pull-together” spirit. There expensive than spending a day
will be little progress as long and a few dimes in arranging
as part of us pull one way and for a suitable market to dispose
the rest of us another. of all that is grown here.
THE NEWS spends
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ter Nimmo have all gone to the
wheat harvest.
Misses Pearl Crum and Ber-
tha Williams spent Sunday
with Miss Edith Leggit.
Mrs. Bertie Pape and Miss
Belma Zellma spent Sunday
with Mrs. Emma Zellma.
Albert Easter, with his wife,
is traveling around for the ben-
efit of the latter’s health. We
IF YOU WANT A NEWS-
PAPER THAT GIVES THE
NEWS, especially the news
from TEXAS and the GREAT
SOUTHWEST, as well as from
all over the WORLD, one that
gives the most of it and in the
best possible way, you can get
it by subscribing for the SEMI-
WEEKLY FARM NEWS along
with The WEST TEXAS RE-
PORTER.
THIS IS A COMBINATION
two schools.
is an affirmation which organ-
ized labor will not indorse for
prudential reasons. But secret-
ly it is apt to accept it, since it
is proof of the efficacy of organ-
ization. For while the increas-
ing share of the joint profits
which come to labor may be
ascribed partly to society’s
growing esteem and sympathy
for labor, the major part of it
undoubtedly has been wrested
WINN HILL
I will try to write this week,
for I have missed several weeks.
This is Monday, and it sure
is a pretty morning. We had
a good little rain Sunday morn-
ing, which was sure fine on the
corn and cotton that the grass-
hoppers have left. The grass-
hoppers • have nearly eaten up
all of everybody’s crops in here.
We didn’t have any Sunday
school Sunday as it rained Sun-
day morning. Next Sunday is
preaching day at Winn Hill.
Bro. Lonnie King will preach.
The picnic at Jacksboro was
sure fine, with the largest crowd
ever known at Jacksboro. All
the people seemed to enjoy
themselves fine. There was
plenty to eat for everybody and
plenty left I guess.
Health is very good at pres-
ent. All who were sick are bet-
ter now.
Gus Amburn from Seymour
has moved back with his folks,
A. M. Amburn and family.
Preston Crum, Sam Easter,
1st to 5th, hot wave; 6th to
7th, heavy thunder storms; 8th
to 11th warm. On the 12th a
storm will advance from the
lower Pacific Coast States and
move eastward. 13th to 16th,
hot and sultry; 17th to 19th,
thunder storms; 20th to 23rd,
cloudy; 24th to 26th, thunder
storms; 27th to 31st, warm.
University of Texas will be sep-
arated as to management and
appropriations. We trust the
voters of Young county will see
fit to vote for this resolution,
thus saving the school boys
and girls of Texas the incon-
veniences brought about thru
With most of our wheat and
sprayed with “Tixol” prepara- oats threshed, a corn crop an
tion. Before using anything of assured fact, other feed already
this nature, be sure to give it a made, and cotton looking as
horough investigation. In fact,; promising as possible, Young
, we had cattle to spray, we county ought to prosper this
Shild make the manufacturer year as never before. In fact.
nificance is to be assigned to
the fact that labor has steadily
been gathering in a larger share
of the profits of industry. For
as the share of labor increases,
so does the need of aggregating
capital into large units. Small
industries must, if they are to
survive, exact a larger return
on the capital employed than
large ones, and this larger profit
must come either from higher
prices for their output or from
lower prices for their materials
and labor. Higher prices they
can not get in competition with
the larger industries, nor can
they get their materials for
lower prices. Their recourse,
if any, must be in cheaper labor,
and failure to extort that ad-
vantage must doom them to ex-
tinguishment. Again, as labor
demands an increasing share of
the profits, industry-, if it is to
accede to that demand, must
effect increased economies in
other directions. Failing in
that, its alternative is either to
refuse the demands of labor or
content itself with a still small-
er share of the profits. And
since it is only by producing on
a large scale that the utmost
economies of production are to
be effected, it follows that only
large-scale production is com-
patible with the demands and
interests of labor. Small-scale
industry can not continue to ac-
cede to these demands without
depriving capital of that incent-
ive which moves it to engage
with labor in production.
Viewed in this light, one can
perhaps see more clearly the
illogicality of those laws that
are animated by fear and jeal-
ousy of large industry. Their
tendency, if not their percept-
ible effect, is to preclude those
economies the practice of which
is essential to the granting of
an ever-increasing share of the
profits to labor. The 20 per
cent of the profits which eapital
takes may be a fair share, or
even more than a fair share.
But if capital’s share continues
to decline in the future as it
has in the past, the point must
be reached before a great while
where only by combining in still
larger aggregates can capital
accede to the demand. The
forces of social evolution are
working for the aggregation of
industry into larger units, and
against this force legislative
fiats will hardly prevail.—Dal-
las News.
trad territory around Graham
is much larger than that around
Seymour. The 1910 census
passed. In addition to its great
news service, THE SEMI-
WEEKLY FARM NEWS has
many special features that en-
tertain, amuse and inform.
Among these are THE FARM-
in any newspaper, hot off the Dentist
Office over Graham Nat’l. Bank
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many thousands of dollars a
year for these telegraph mar-
ket reports, and they are reli-
able.
ANOTHER splendid feature
of THE SEMI-WEEKLY FARM
NEWS is the DIVERSIFICA-
TION IDEA OF CROPS, which
will be more INTERESTING
than ever before for YOUR
BENEFIT and the benefit of
all the PEOPLE of TEXAS and
the SOUTHWEST.
The price of THE SEMI-
WEEKLY FARM NEWS and
THE WEST TEXAS REPORT-
ER is only $1.75, a year. You
get the best of everything that
is good reading matter from
every standpoint.
Send in your order now and
take advantage of the next few
weeks posting yourself on mat-
ters of deep concern the coming
year.
WEST TEXAS REPORTER I
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All advertisements will be run and reading matter,
charged for until ordered out, unless —
contracted for . specified time. week carried less than one hun-
for the first day he traveled!
with her her fever went to 105
degrees. He said if it went
that high the next day he was
coming back. Broncho Bob.
No copy for advertisements or re- dred inches of advertising and
perts of Clubs or other news items
will be accepted later than 12 o’clock
on Wednesday before publication day
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Licensed Embalmer and
What is a fair division of the
profits of productive industry
as between labor and capital, is
an interesting question. And
also it is an important one; for
if an answer which would re-
ceive general acceptance could
be given, we should have a
datum that would simplify most
of our labor controversies, and
somewhat facilitate their settle-
ment. It would not, of course,
supply a formula which would
reduce every labor controversy
to a mathematical problem.
Labor might get not merely a
fair share, but an inordinate
share of the profits, and yet be
getting a wage both inadequate
and unjust. But if the answer
to this ancient and vexing ques-
tion would have no such sov-
ereign power as this, it would
nevertheless be of great value,
for a majority of industries are
profitable to a degree which
would render a fair share of the
profits adequate and just as a
wage to the labor that, in co-
operation with capital, produced
them.
An inquiry whose results
may somewhat advance us in
the quest of the answer to that
question was set on foot several
months ago - by the National
Civic Federation, and the result
has been • recently announced.
After an investigation that, we
are assured, has been the most
widespread ever attempted on
this subject, the Federation has
concluded that labor and capi-
tal share the profits of their
joint industry in the proportion
of 80 to 20. Of every dollar of
profit earned, labor takes 80
and capital 20 cents. Those
figures, of course, express the
average, the division varying.
If one may assume that this
finding is approximately correct,
the answer is interesting, and
of no little value. It does not,
as has been said, answer the
further and more difficult ques-
tion, what is an equitable di-
vision? Perhaps that question
is unanswerable in a way that
would receive general accept-
ance. So many factors enter
into it that it were utopian to
hope for any agreement as to
their several values. What, for
example, shall be allowed for
the risk of loss which capital
alone assumes? And what is a
proper premium to put upon
the industry, thrift and self-
denial which were causative of
the capital employed? And
what, to suggest but one other
of these recondite questions, is
to be allowed for the intelligence
which creates the opportunity
for the employment of both la-
bor and capital It were vain
to hope for agreed answers to
questions so elusive and chame-
leon-like as these, questions
which color themelves with the
prepossessions and prejudice of
every one who approaches
them. But if these questions
are unanswerable with any ap-
proximation of finality and ac-
ceptance, it is nevertheless pos-
sible to contract the area of dis-
agreement, and the information
which the National Civic Fed-
eration has gathered ought to
be conducive to a further con-
sideration which will have that
effect.
Another scarcely less impor-
tant finding announced by the
National Civic Federation is
that steadily for a number of
years the share of labor has in-
creased and that of capital cor-
respondinglgy decreased. This Jim Crum, Ben Wilton and Ches-
DR. ROY W. RUTHERFORD
Graduate of Kansas City
ER’S FORUM, THE WOMEN’S j Veterinary College
CENTURY, OUR LITTLE MEN Ind. Phone. Graham, Texas.
Injured.
Eight persons were killed
and 177 injured as a result of
Fourth of July celebrations
throughout the nation Sunday,
according to figures compiled
Monday by the Chicago Tribune.
In 1914 the total number of
victims was nine killed and 601
qrantee that his preparation the sign board of prosperity
' Id not kill, before using it. looms up large every way you
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city
ter, college teacher named Holt Eight Killed in Celebrating, 177
dd a bomb in the capitol at
from capital. A further sig- don’t know how far he will go,
W. H. MARTIN
Veterinary Surgeon
Office at Union Wagon Yard.
Calls Answered Day or Night
Ind. Phone 54. Night 98-2r.
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