Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 269, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 12, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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10
ER 12,1914. -
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Entered as second-class matter at the post-
office at Amarillo, Texas, under the act of March
5. 1879.
, morning Newspaper in the Amarillo
• Covers the Panhandle of Texas. East-
- Mexico, Southern Colorado and Western
na from twelve to twenty-four hours in
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
to Daily News will be delivered by carrier
ere in Amarillo, or by mail outside of the
or $5.00 a year, or 50c a month, in advance.
of peace. And since most of them buy our wheat
and other grains and food stuffs in times of peace,
it stands to reason, that they will be doubly in
need of them in time of war.
in wearing apparel peoples can economize,
but not so in eating bread. Therefore it is reason-
able to suppose that while the European countries
may buy sparingly of our surplus cotton even after
the war, they will have to buy liberally of our
wheat.
Another phase of the cotton proposition is
being presented by some of the newspaper writ-
ers. If the people not engaged in cotton growing
come to the rescue and buy the grower's crop they
are entitled to some protection. In other words, if
men arg willing to invest their money now in the
, staple at a price higher than the market warrants.
• and thereby rescue the cotton growers of Texas
and other Southern States from financial disaster,
it is no mors than fair that the beneficiary cotton
farmer should make an effort to return the favor.
This he can only do by reducing hie cotton acre-
age, thus preventing an oversupply and conse-
quent low price of cotton.
The suggestion of mors wheat and less cotton
is timely. Cotton land will also raise wheat. Too
much of the latter can hardly be produced. The
farmers should follow out the suggestion generally
over the entire cotton-growing area.
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Have you bought that bale? If not, buy it
today. • u
Nothing particularly wrong with those Sep-
tember Mums.
The buy-a-bale-of-cotton movement has s |
regular German army vim to it.
, No matter who originated the buy-a-bale idea.
There is “‘glory" enough in it for all to “get in."
vol Ct----
Good morning! Are you patronizing home
industry? If not, you ought to be—ashamed of
yourself.
The lines of communication between all Pan-
handle State Fair will soon be as busy as those of
a European army.
When "sock repositories’ commence to yield
their treasure we may hope to buy bales by the
hundreds. Let’s dig.
Leave your order for a bale of cotton at this
office, if you wish. We will tend to the rest and
get you a warehouse receipt.
ne real Weather Man seems to be giving out
about as much advance information of his plans as
' do the strategists of the European war.
Austrians say the Russians are liars. They will
discover more serious faults in the Moocovites.be-
fore they do much business with them.
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More people will be in Amarillo during fair
week than the city has ever seen before. Keep
this in mind, and also remember The News told
you so.
Travelers arriving here assert that the Pan-
handle, from a crop and season standpoint, is in
better condition than any other section between
the Atlantic and Pacific. “But look who we are."
The Czar says he will go to Berlin if it causes
the loss of his last moujik. Nick is getting reckless,
since he does not even seem to care to reserve a
few moujiks to protect his whiskers when he foots
it into Berlin.
The accommodation facilities of Amarillo will
- be taxed to the limit in caring for the thousands
of fair visitors. Shape your affairs now so you
will be able to help in the proper entertainment of
our neighbors.
Nothing has been heard from the famous
"English Rifles" for several days. Wonder if the
sports have quit the field snd ars hunting grouse
and pheasants in the private reserves of French
• Dukelets?
A late report from London says the "German
navy ia active," the British cruiser Pathfinder hav-
ing been blown up by a German submarine, and
not by a mine. The world is beginning to think
the great English navy was built for dress-parade
purposes only.
Buy home-made flour, home-made candy,
home-made cigars, homemade breakfast food,
home-made floor compound, home-made soda
pop, home-made butter, home-made ice cream,
home-made bread, home-made tanks, home-made
- signs, home-made silos, homemade mattresses,
home-made doors and sashes, home-made harness
and saddlery, home-made ice, home-made monu-
ments, and everything else home-made that you
can get and may need. We can only build a city
by being loyal to the institutions that employ labor
and swell our weekly pay rolls.
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PLANT LESS COTTON AND MORE WHEAT
Newspapers of the South are engaged in a
campaign which has for its aim a general reduc-
tion in the acreage of the cotton crop and an in-
crease in that of wheat next year.
The writers reason, and we believe soundly,
that there will moot probably be a shortage in the
demand for cotton next year, while there is bound
to be increased demand for wheat.
Grenting that the European war will last a
year, the countries engaged in it will not be able
to produce nearly the food stuffs they do in time
ALCOHOLISM AND INSANITY IN KANSAS
Saloon advocates in Kentucky, where a local
option campaign is raging, charge among other
things against prohibition that it fills the asylums
with insane in Kansas. The precise reasoning by
which this peculiar condition is brought about was
not elucidated, the saloon friends contenting them-
selves with the bald statement of fact. No explan-
ation was givsn of how or why a law against sa-
loons should fill asylums. If it should be inferred
that crowded insane hospitals were due to absti-
nence from liquor, such an inference could not
have been in the minds of the saloon champions,
for they asserted at the sam time that the prohi-
bition law is not enforced or observed and the
amount of alcoholism is not affected one way or
another.
We now have facts, against vain inventions
by the imaginative friends of the distillery and
port of the Topeka insane hospital states that in
port o fthe Topeka insane hospital states that in
the last two years but 26 of the 813 patfonts sent
to the hospital from all parts of Kansas owed their
mental infirmities to alcohol. Excessive use of
alcohol was responsible for 3.2 per cent of the pa-
tienta, in a word. This low percentage compares
with 11.2 per cent for New York’s insane asylums,
II per cent for Wisconsin’s, 10.6 for Massachu-
setts, 8.2 for Illinois, and 14.8 for Virginia’s.
Taking 10 per cent as a fair average of the
country, what the low Kansas percentage signifies
is that there came to the Topeka hospital in the
last two years 55 fewer patients than would have
come but for the anti-liquor policy of the State.
Taking all the insane hoepitala of the state to-
gether, these statistics indicate that prohibition
saves one patient a week, year after year, from al-
coholic insanity. It fo said of prohibition that it
does not prevent the determined user of liquor
from finding it. The insanity statistics fail to bear
this contention out.—Topeka Capital.”
MEDICAL MEN* IN WAR TIME
It is a clear duty of all members of the medical
profession who remain at their ordinary civilian
work to see that those medical men who have
pledged themselves in advance to serve the coun-
try in any such emergency as has now arisen shall
not suffer in their civilian practices, and that their
patients shall be looked after. The country has to
meet a situation such as it has never before been
celled upon to face, for events moved less swiftly
in the Napoleonic wars, and we must all stand by
the men who are taking their places in the first
fighting line.
The royal navy is fully mobilized, and the
medical officers—staff surgeons and surgeons-
of the royal naval volunteer reserve have been
called up. This reserve consists of civilian prac-
titioners who have been trained to the special
work of a naval surgeon in time of peace. They
are now on duty, many of them at sea. As the ter-
ritorial force has been mobilized, a large numbyy
of medical practitioners who hold commissions in
that force have left their civil practices and joined
the units of which they are members.
* In Southampton, in Exeter and in London
steps already have been taken which we venture
to suggest might well be imitated all over the
country. In Southampton, where it appears that
about one-half of the doctors in active practice
are liable to be called up, a meeting of the medical
profession was held on August 4, when it was re-
solved: "That this meeting of the medical pro-
fession loyally undertaken to safeguard the inter-
ests of those of their colleagues who are called to
leave their practices in the service of their country,
and also undertakes any medical duties for the
sole benefit of the absentees."
A committee was appointed to carry out this
resolution and immediately issued a notification
asking each doctor liable to be called away for
duty, to make any arrangement he could with
practitioners in his neighborhood, and offering,
should he be unable to do so, itself to make such
arrangements.—British Medical Journal.
HELIGOLAND
Paul P. Steed.)
of Texas is today
m a temporary depres-
by a lack of capi-
t capital a country can
e When the coentry is
s working capital, when
seems to be out of
____________ind when our farmers,
cattlemen and every class of people
on the Plains are forced to look
beyond the borders of the Panhandle
capital it to only naturaly that times
will become hard and trades and
deals of every kind move slowly*
in the same manner that a joint
stock company, which asks its mem-
bers for only aa certain per cent of
the amount subscribed in cash each
year, is usually hard run for a work-
ing capital during the time before a
good portion is paid in, the farmers
of the Panhandle are merely getting
their capital stock, so to speak, paid
up in putting the necessary barns,
fences, silos, ete. upon the farm,
When these things are added the
farmers ia than toady to go to mak-
ing real mesey on the farm.
The Panhandle of Texas has “had
the reputation of being a poor maa’s
country, that is, a place where the
poor man, or the man of moderate
means could secure a home of his
own and pay for it from the pro-
ducts and profits of the soil. This
brought a great army of men to the
Panhandle, -who were forced to rely
upon borrowing their working capi-
tal until they cos Id make a success
here in the Panhandle That wo
many have came to the Panhandle
under such conditions, and that they
have remained indeed speaks will
for the Panhandle. Few men who
have worked and used their brains
here is the Panhandle have failed,
although they were fighting ten per
cent interest a great deal of the
time too. The man who earns to
the country with capital has under
ordinary conditions for exceeded his
wildest expectations. So many
splendid opportunities have been
open for him at all times And such
opportunities are awaiting him even
today na much as they have ever
been.
The new-comers who have had to
borrow money to get started in the
Panhandle have in the majority of
cases' borrowed it ’back home’, con-
sequently when they make the
money it does not stay in the Pan-
handle to ease conditions here, but
to drawn out of the country to pay
debts in other countries. Hence the
The Pa
suffering
drained of
all the m
circulation
money that should be In circulation
here in the Plains country is taken
out of the country almost entirely.
Some claim too that too many auto-
mobiles have been bought, and other
such things, which carry the work-
ingcapital out of the country.
This year however with the pre-
sent outlook for bumper crops a
greet number of the above class will
pay out, and have a working capi-
tsi left to operate upon This will
have a wonderful influence upon the
Panhandle and its prosperity. The
debts of the-Minhandle •■” nowt,
but surely vanishing and ere long
will be a thing of the forgotten past.
From what has been said, then,
It clearly appears that one of the
greatest seeds of the Panhandle is
for an elastic currency, that Is a
working capital, in circulation at all
times, which will benefit the farmer.
Bankers and capitalists are alright,
but the farmer who wishes to make
thandl
ire slowly
the most money must get out of
debt and stay out of debt and cease
the paying of interest. What we
need is more money in the hands
The island of Heligoland, in the North Sea.
opposite the mouths of the Elbe and Wesser, and
the great ports of Hamburg and Bremen, is begin-
ning to figure in the dispatches as an important
German naval base. The fact that it belongs to
Germany is due to the new foreign policy that fol-
lowed the dismissal of Bismarck, says the Kansas
City Star.
, in its policy of promoting good relations with
of tho farmers, who are in a posi-
tion to make it toll for themselves
snd for the Panhandle.
What step, then, can be taken to-
ward bringing this about? There are
many, which would ease the situa-
tion and bring to the former a help-
ful working capital. In the older
States many farmers sre paying all
the expenses of the farm and house-
hold with the profits derived from a
dairy. If the Panhandle could es-
tablish a central creamery, which
could me#s a nice profit from He
wares and benefit the farmer as well
cream stations could be established
at all shipping points, and the farm-
er would always have money com-
ing, whether he made big crops or
not. No farmer in any country can
expect to make money every year on
one and only one crop. He must
have several means of making his
gains.
Again, poultry is not looked after
as it should be. Some farmers are
forced to buy eggs and chickens the
year round. This should not be the
cnee on any Panhandle farm. It
can be grown right here as well as
anywhere, if only the former will
take the time to do the work, which
work will pay him as well for the
emount of time thus spent as well
any of the farm work.
Then cornea th growing of pro-
duce. The farmer should not only
load his own table with vegetables
from his own garden, but should be
table to increase his bank account
from the same as well. Fruit can be
grown in the Panhandle with only
a little care. Without the proper
cure it cannot be grown anywhere.
Thus we me that the country would
noon be in a prosperous condition
from every standpoint if the farmer
would cut his grocery bill in half
each year by raising his own garden,
and at the same time have an in-
come from the dairy and poultry
department of from $10.00 to $60.00
per month. This would hoop the
whole country in a good condition,
and when the wheat harvest came
round the farmer could lay it away
In the bank or put it into live stock
and other things instead of being
forced to pay his entire earning out
for debts made while making the
crop . This is worth considering.
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Opens a Charge
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Account With Us.
Don’t Pay All Cash for Furniture:
We Sell at Cash Prices and
Give Easy Terms.
rcon OrOS (
—ALME NI HOUSE FURNISHERS
6ll POLK STREET
Let us start you housekeeping,
or sell you any article you may
need in the house. Our stock is -
the largest in the Panhandle and
you will find what you are look-
ing for at this store, g *
“Our terms are the easiest of
any Texas house and We invite
the strictest investigation of our.
easy payment plan.
Will pay cash or exchange, for
second-hand goods. Phone94
and our buyer will call at your
home.
have taken shelter in the Baltic. The
British Admiral has orders to seek
and destroy the German fleet. But
how shall this ‘ be done? Wilhelm-
shaven and the mouth of the Elbe
are thoroughly protected by coast
fortifications and mines. These con-
sist of heavy, long-range guns and
mortars whose shells would fall with
great accuracy over the course which
would have to be covered by a fleet
that streamed in to a range at which
its fire would be effective. The Jap-
anese attack on the inferior Port
Arthur defenses proved the futility
of n naval attack upon such fortifi-
cations as those at Wilhelmshaven.
Heligoland and Cuxhaven.
Equally disastrous would it be for
the English fleet to venture through
the narow straits which must be
The Amarillo Daily News
uarantees to advertisers more
an fifty per cent greater cir-
in Northwest
England in $890 the German government made •
a treaty by which it ceded England territory in
East Africa in return for Heligoland. The island
is only a mile long by a third of a mile wide and
Stanley, the African explorer, said England had
got a new suit of clothes in exchange for a trouser
button, and German politicians were bitterly dis-
appointed.
A German historian wrote of the matter for
the "Cambridge Modern History' 'a few Gears
ago that the island “might attain great strategic
importance for the defense or attack of the Ger-
man coast,” but that “its practical value was not
at all apparent at first" Ths practical value is
GERMANY ON THE SEA
What has become of the German
fleet? - - .....
is is hopelessly bottled up
------- 1 it issue forth
ent now.
and send the other half around Den-
mark Into the Baltic. This would
mean that, so far as her dreadnought
strength is concerned, Germany
could elect to fight either fleet un-
der equal conditions.
Recent raids by German cruisers
on English fishing vessels suggest
that perhaps the Kaiser’s warships
may take advantage of their strong
position to detach email squadrons
for the harrying of North Sea ship-
ping under the very notes of the
British dreadnoughts. At any rate,
it is evident that the British Ad-
miral has been assigned one of the
biggest tasks of the war, the destruc-
tion of the German fleet, intrenched
aa it is behind formidable land bat-
teries and aided by the strategy of
the Kiel Canal.—Dallas Eevening
Journal.
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the narow straits which must
passed in catering the Baltic. These
would be heavily mined, and in their
connnod Waters the fleet would lose
heavily also from destroyer and sub-
marine attack. * • 4C
Another and most important
strategical advantage tn the German
situation is the Kaiser Wilhelm Ca-
nal, which affords quick passage for
the largest battleships from ths Bat-
tle to the North Sea. This canal
practically cuts the British fighting
Mas in half. It waa built for this
very purpose. 3.0
For if the British should force
their way into the Baltic the Ger-
man fleet could pass to the North
Sea through the canal and the Elbe
steam to the English Channel, sink
the vast float of transports that are
carrying men and supplies to the
English army 1a Belgium and harry
the whole English and French coasts.
MM a Concrete Silo with a ten
years guarantee. See L. P. Hearn nt
Braselton-Pryor Co. 166-tr
Dany News Want Ads mast bn am
companted by the CASH.
Try Daily News Went Ads,
by the British or will it issue forth
st an opportune moment and strike
the foe? These are questions uni-
versally asked since war began and
la answer to them to learned the
interesting fact that Germany is for
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The Germans have either retired lienee, in seeking to bring the
behind the heavy coast fortifica- ----------2225a----=
tons of their North Sea ports and
on the sea. On the
aparently has a strong
=" through th. build.
German fleet in action, it would be
necessary for England to leave half
her fleet at the month of the Elbe
To any one sending us the name and addraw of any
one who will ship one or more cars of cattle, hogs or sheep
within one week, we will send them by mail one of our beau-
tiful memorandum books. Give us the date when shipment
will be made. "
DAGGETT-KEEN COMMISSION COMPANY,
Fort Worth, Texas.
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