The Terry County Herald (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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BROWNFIELD, (Terry County) TEXTS
SPAN each of mules and horses for
sale, cash or note. H. D. Leach, 3 mi.
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Gold Plum, Foulgers, Maxwell House,
White Swan and Peberry Coffee..
Call number 4 when your supply gets low.
We are in position to supply the de-
mand and can furnish quite a bit more
than what we are furnishing. In using
a home product you help the deveop-
ment of your home country. The meal
that we put out is guaranteed to be
fresh and ooe and all that you have to
do is to return same to your roceryman
and your money will be refunded if not
ood.
We rind twice each week and by doing
so we keep fresh meal and it is never
over three to four days old when sold to
you.
If you are not using home ground
meal try a sack on your next grocery
order and if not good it will cost you
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The Brownfield Nursery can furnish you with
the following nursery stock, at reasonable prices,
all in good condition for early planting. Do not
wait until the last minute before planting your
trees, start now. Here are some of the things we
can supply you with:
Peach, Plum, Pear, Apple, Cherry, Apricot and
Mulberry trees, Blackberry, Dewberry, Straw-
berry and Grape vines. Flowering shrubs, Climb-
ing Vines, and Rose bushes. Shade trees, Nut
trees and Evergreens, Hedge plants and Bulbs.
Call and see our stock.
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Owing to some misunderstanding
about the law, very few ladies in the
county were assessed last year and
unless they had property, could not
be made to pay. Anyway it does very
well for an off year.
The following figures were obtain-
ed from Tax-Collector Johnson. but
were taken hurriedly and without r
checking, and may 2: off just a little:
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OLD TERRY IN STRUGGLE
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A gentleman by the name of Eng-
lish was here this week and selected
a site upon which he may erect an-
other gin this summer. When every-
thing is arranged, the Herald will an-
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The subject of this sketch died on
Monday, and was hurried in the local
cmetery, Tuesday. Service were con-
ducted at the grave jointly by the W.
O. W. Lodge and E. M. Wheatley.
He was born in 1870; confesed his
savior in 1911, and was a member of
the Spur Church of C.
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with his brother’s family. He is sur-
vived by five children.
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There is a reason why the M agnolia Petroleum Co. sold 8955 gal-
lons of kerosene in the month of Jan. "Everybody who uses it
knows there is a big difference.
Phone No. 10 your next order; we have some left and service that
does with it. We have gasoline that is just as superior as our ker-
osene. Call for the Mad brand. Ask your dealer why Magnolia
Motor Oil is the best.
Just a few of their relatives and
friends gathered at the home of the
sister of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. A.R.
Brownfield, last Monday morning at
8:30, to witness the wedding of Miss
Janie Pyeatt and Mr. Morgan Cope-
land. Rev. C.E. Ball, officiated.
Mrs'. Copeland is the charming and
accomplished daughter of Uncle Bil
Pyeatt, and was practically reared in
Brownfield, and her friends are num-
erous.
Mr. Copeland is the cashier of the
Brownfield State Bank, and one of
the leading young business men of
the city, and has may friends and well
wishers to congratulate him in his
choice of a life companion.
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newspapers, and thousands of the re-
spectable Negro residents have strug-
gled to have the resorts cleaned out.
If the present vice probe is carried
to its logical conclusion the decent
Negro element in the district will de-
serve the credit.
The situation on the South Side
was called to the attention of Chief
of Police Charles Fitzmorris more
than a year ago. Chicago believed in
Fitzmorris. He pledged himself to a
clean city and asked the aid of all the
good citizens.
In response to his call of the city’s
wealthiest and, most prominent citi-
zens stepped forth. Who? No other
than Julius Rosenwald. Mr. Rosen-
wald has devoted a large part of his
wealth to Negro institutions. Indeed
many Negro institutions are officered
by Jews.
The Committee of Fifteen was form
ed as an independent civilian organi-
zation to suppress vice. Mr. Rosen-
wald was its chairman! Many prom-
inent citizens were persuaded to join
it. They are now resigning rapidly,
four having quit in four days because
the couldn’t find out why the Com-
mittee of Fifteen leaders insisted that
there was no vice, while private in-
vestigators imported from other cit-
ies by other organizations found 200
house, nd 1000 inmates in 20 days of
investigation and found that a big
majority of these places were direct-
ed by the syndicate.
And then came the first meeting of
proprietors were frequently backed
by an alien—the aliens interested in
such places were usually Eastern
Jews, South Italians and Sicilians
with a sprinkling of other races.
The situation in this quarter of Chi-
cago is such today that there are
many hard-headed business men who
have declared privately that unless
there is a drastic change Chicago may
well fear a serious race riot.The per-
il has actually be alluded to in the
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but crowded with white women.
Twelve saloons where the barkeep-
er after selling a drink voluntarily
recommended some vice resort to the
customer. h+
Thirty-three “hotels” devoted to
vice.
Dozens of street corners picketed
by “cappers” who sought business for
neighboring vice resorts, openly and
in hearing of policemen. • • •
—Alfred Buckner in Dearborn Inde-
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in the United States are dependent on others at Sixty-five
years of age. Ten years hence will you be prospering in bus-
iness or looking for a job? It depends* on whether or not
you have started to save. .
Make our bank the recipient of your savings where they will
be surrounded with every protection we can afford. We place
at *your disposal courteous, efficient and appreciative banking
service.
The Terry • County Chamber of
Commerce was born one morning of
last week, and by noon had around -
400 members. A growing youth, we j
claim,- and whatever of other good
Capt. Nasbaum may have done, this
will be to his credit—if the baby lives
and keeps growing. That is the job
on the hands of our citizens, and if
it was worth the price of the horning,
it deserves to live bn and on.
We understand that no permanent
organization has been perfected yet,
but this is for the future. If live men
and women are chosen, it will mean
the life of the organigation.
Hail to the Terry County Chamber
of Commerce.
[ don’t go far.
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BROTHERS a Broee5
the highest market rpricet
poultry, eggs and eream.
THAT EVERY MAN IS THE ARCHITECT OF HIS OWN
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FORTUNE. WASTED TIME TODAY MEANS EXTRA
against some of these resorts under I the committed to make its plans to
the Volstead Act revealed that Negro {curb vice.
There was much talk and no action
The Dearborn Independent, Henry
Ford’s weekly magazine, recently had
-a splendid article on the exposures
of graft and white slavery recently
unearthed and started by the Chicago
Tribune, and incidently it brought ou
the fact that one of the richest Jews
in the United States, and who has a
host of customers right here in Terry
county, has had a big hand in it. It
is not the intention of Dearborn In-
dependent or the Heral to hurt any-
one’s business, but people ought to
know with whom they deal. The Her-
ald reprints the following extracts
the article in question.. -If readers
want to see more of the article, call
at the Herald office:
Real Estate to Negroes
Julius Rosenwald,president of.Sears
Roebuck & Company, and one of the
wealthiest men in America, is credit-
ed with the negro exodus to Chicago.
There would have been a very heavy
movement no doubt without any en-
couragement other than economic
conditions. That occurred elsewhere.
But nowhere were the newcomers so
enthusiastically welcomed and made
“at home" as on Chicago’s south side.
Jewish real estate agents bought up
block after block of residential prop-
erty occupied before by white citi-
sens of long standing and installed
Negro residents. The newcomers
covered Grand Boulevard, Prairie av-
enue and similar streets, only a short
time before the residetial quarters as
such people as the Armours, Pull-
mans and others whose names are
synonymous with the building of the
second city of America. Leaders of
the migration extended their lines
farther and farther—going to Rosen-
wald for help. They were sold $5,000
pieces of property on an initial pay-
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Program of the Monthly Workers’
Meeting to be held with the Brown-
field Baptist Church, beginning Mon-
day night, Feb. 25th, 1923.
7:30 P.M.—Sermon; Subject—Bap-
tism.—Rev. J. M. Doshier.
Tuesday
10:00 A. M.—Devotional—Rev. C.
Stokes.
10:15.—Salvation by Grace.—Rev.
W. K. Horn.
10:45.—Does the Bible teach the Se-
curity of the Believer.—Rev. J.P. Har-
desty.
11:30—Sermon.—Text II Thess 2:3.
—Rev. J. F. Curry.
12:15 P.M.—LUNCH.
1:45.—Devotional.—Mrs. L. B. Nev-
els.
2:00—Our Associational W. M. U
Work.—Mrs. J.P. Hardesty.
2:30.—Some Plans for Creating and
Maintaining intterest in Local Aid
Work.—Mrs. Bourlin.
3:15.—Board Meeting.
7:30.—The Identity of the New Tes-
tament church by its Characteristics.
—Rev. Chas. Burnett.
There will be no regular printed
program.—Cut this out and preserve
it.
C. E. Ball for the Brownfield Church.
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WILLIAM PACE
BEOWNFIELD, TERRY COUNTY, TEXAS, FIDAY FEBRUARY 16,1623
A good top season is in the ground
as a result of the snow Saturday night
and Sunday. At Seminole the snow
of both days measured about eight
inches, the heaviest fall of snow in
this community in several years.
The farmers have never stopped
breaking land in Gaines County, as
there was enough moisture for this,
and with the snow will make farming
prospects at this season look good.
The snow, from reports, although
varying in depths, seems to have been
general over West Texas.
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Some say one thing and some an-
other. If it is the old fashion grippe,
it has a good grip on us, and if flu is
much milder than the seige we had
during the world war. They get up
and about too quick after taking it.
Be what it may, some member of
nearly every family is sich or has
been sick, though few are seriously
so when the total number sick are
considered. Those who are seriously
sick usually have pneumonia, some of
which are double pnemonia, and are
in dangerous condition.
We hope the epidemic will soon be
over, and old Terry will be at itself
once again. Sickness is not only dan-
gerous, but costly.
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ment of $50 and permitted to move in
after making the initial payment.
This practice and the loss of older
owners was one of the causes of the
race riot which flamed out in 1919—
although there were clear indications
that Bolshevik propaganda inspired
from New York’s east side had a big
share in the castrophe.
For awhile after the riot the tide of
dispossession that had been rolling
out the original white home owners,
was stilled, but it began to flow again
and there were indications that it had
strong financial support from Jewish
men of wealth. The Negroes were
encouraged from some quarters, any-
way to go into politics. Soon their
lower element were prominent in vice
and crime. But this time they had
complete control of what had been
one of the best residential sections of
Chicago and while many of the better
Negroes who bad moved in struggled
against the degradation of the district
it began to TiVe ’bn 1 kn flttlrrty new
। tone.
Resorts, caberets, cafes, saloons,
gaming dens and vice houses opened
up. Soon the district was notorious
for its “black and tan” caberets,where
white women, many voluntarily de-
graded. but many forced into such a
life originally, were to be seen night-
ly dancing new dances with Negro
men. Raids on these places have
made up the bulk of routine police
reports in the newspapers.
Federal court injunctions obtainec
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—and then the money came from a
source which might have been con-
sidered entirely unexpected then, but
which is causing considerable com-
ment now.
Chief Fitzmorris stepped in and vo!
unteered to supply the funds.
“I can furnish money for a commit-
tee of this kind from my contingent
fund,” he said. His offer was accept-
ed. and. acording to committee mem-
bers. $8,000 was turned over to pay in-
vestigators. So the civilian commit-
tee, formed to act as a check on the
police department and to see that it
curbed vice, began work with funds
furnished by the police department.
“We had better announce this with
some kind of an explanation,” Mrs.
Joseph T. Bowen told the committee.
“No, if we do, we will have trouble
getting any funds at all from private’
citizens if we have to ask them," Mr.
Rosenwald is quoted as saying.
“That’s right," was Fitzmorris opin-
ion. “And I might have trouble in
getting the appropriation I want if
the council finance committee hears,
of it."
It was kept quiet, but made public
during the present investigation. And
then came testimony that investiga-
tors for the anti-vice Committee of
Fifteen were protecting vice themsel-
ves and accepting bribes!
Formation of the Committe of Fif-
teen. with Rosenwald as chairman
and Samuel Thrasher as manager, had
apparently meant nothing to the vice
lords, for their activities only spread
farther and farther and became more
and more open.
The Juvenile Protective Association
learned of the slavery of 14, 15, 16 and
17 year old girls and immediately
started to find out why, and to at-
tempt to answer the muchly jockeyed
question, "Who is responsible ?"_To
make they were not double-cros-
ed they sent to New York for a train-
investigator.
Investigator Kinsey,who has been the
star witness of the present probe, ar-
rived in Chicago with no previous
knowledge of the city. Where Chief
of Police, Fitzmorris and all his men.
State’s Attorney Robert Crowe and
all his henchmen and Julius Rosen-
wald and his Committee of Fifteen,
with its battery of sleuths, had found
only “traces" of "causual vice" Kin-
sey in 20 days found:
Two hundred vice houses conduct-
ed on business principles, in charge
of Negroes with white girls for sale
Twenty-five streets on which vice
openly flaunted itself.
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Last night he was on a “high lone-
some.” Today he is just lonesome
The city has the cash and he has a
headache. Doubtful corn is given as
the cause.
When arrested everything was love
ly, even the city jail, but when he was
lead into the court room early today,
everything was dark and murky. But
he ws a good sport, he didn't cry and
promise “never again." He just grinn-
ed and said, “I’ll be d—And after
all it was not the man, but the com.
Desdemonia Gusher. •
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EVERBEARING Strawberry plants
$7.00 per 1000; $1.00 per 100. Write to
J. R. Whitley, Tatum, N. M, or leave
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Nineteen twenty-three will be S2
weeks of work and to be worked. *
AT EIGHT O’clock P.M., Feb. 22nd.
the ripping hurrah and good timeyi
to start at the school auditorium34
it takes a wise person to know
when to begin, when to stop, and
what to say in between.
MATTRESSES renovated and re-
built at the Sanitary Wagon Yard,
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We handle the P &0 Lis-
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If you need repairs tor your
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