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AMARILLO DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1914.
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THE BIRD MINING HIS OWN NEST
In a recent issue of Farm and Ranch, . Texas
agricultural publication, the Panhandle has been
grossly slandered by some itinerant representative
of that otherwise excellent monthly.
Under the caption, “Prosperity in the Golden
West,” the aforesaid writer, without regard for
National Geographic Society’s War
Primer—No 8
TOO LIE TO CLASSIFY
Be Weathers
Entered as second-class matter at the post-
office at Amarillo, Texas, under the act of March
5. 1879.
Only morning Newspaper in the Amarillo
Country. Covers the Panhandle of Texas, East-
ern. New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Western
Oklahoma from twelve to twenty-four hours in
advance of Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, Oklaho-
ma City, and other papers carrying telegraphic
dispatches.*
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
The Daily News will be delivered by carrier
anywhere in Amarillo, or by mail outside of the
city, for $5.00 a year, or 50c a month, in advance
The greatest of the conflict seems to be in the
official war reports.
Blessed may be the peacemaker, but he is
getting slim results these days.
It seems that time has been called on 'strate-
gic retreats of ths warring armies in France.
The lack of noise on the part of the Japs in
the war is attributable to the fact that they wear
felt slippers.
Buy at home and buy home made products
wherever possible. In this way only can we hope
to build a city.
I he fair is only these days away, counting to-
day. Amarillo people can do much toward mak-
ing it ■ glorious success.
English golf links are being made into truck
gardens. It would be a novel sight to see a binocl
rd dudes golfsr hoeing boons.
The civilizing influences of Europe have made
it possible to bring alien races into a warfare which
for barbarity exceeds all precedents in history.
Baseball and cannonball games vie with each
other in holding the attention of the multitude,
with the cannon ball slightly in the lead.
Large eastern cities have little use for people
of small western cities, except to lure away the
latter s money. The wise men or woman will not
succumb to such • lure.
A city girl applauded the thoughtfulne is and
humaneness of a farmer who had erected a wind-
mill in hie feed lots, which the girl mistook for a
fan operated to keep the hogs cool.
The fair will be the biggest and best week’s
event ever attempted by Amarillo. Will you do
your proportionate share in rounding out this
great Panhandle success.
All business in ths city should be suspended
at least on two or three afternoons during fair
week. The clerks as well as the proprietors are
entitled to these half holidays to attend the fair.
Kansas City has had 14 1-2 inches of rain in
fifteen days, which generally raised cane in Mis
souri. With less than that amount of rain in the
Panhandle since January I. we have raised enor
mous crops of every kind, including cane.
Senator Burton of Ohio, made an all night
harangue in the Senate last Friday night Repub
licans have been compelled to store wind for so
long that it seems like a kindly act to give them a
chance to “shoot off now and then.
The fair management has done all in its power
to bring the people of the Panhandle to the fair
It is now up to the people of Amarillo to see that
the visitors are properly treated while they are
here.
truth or the effect of falsehood, proceeds to give
way to his imagination thus:
“Twenty years from now the people of West
Texas will still speak of the ’great crop of 1914/
For the past six years crops have been almost a
failure throughout the greater part of the semi-
arid West. They have planted, but they have not
reaped—for it has not rained. The farmers have
been hard pressed, the business men have been
just squeezing along.’ and the cattlemen have not
had an altogether easy time of it. The unculti-
vated lands have been almost a barren waste-
no grass, not even any weeds. The farms have
produced a little, to be sure, but so little. None
but the strong hearts of pioneers could have with-
stood the strain of debt and want.
“But the turn came. The winter of 1913-14
was one of the wettest in the history of the South-
west, and the rainy season, without, letting up ex-
tended on into the summer, etc.". t
Had the field correspondent taken the trou-
ble or pains to learn a few facts while he was
touring the Panhandle he would not have so mali-
ciously misrepresented this section of the state, nor
to readily made an asinus out of himself.
Since January I the Amarillo government
weather observatory records a rainfall of 13.60
inches. In 1913 the same bureau gives the pre-
cipitation as 18.97 inches for twelve months. In
1912 it was 15.08. In 1911, it was 22.73. In
19 1 it was 11.15, practically all of it falling in
May. June, July and August—the growing months,
in 1909 it was 19.59. In 19 08 it was 19.0 5. Pre-
vious to this time the same government reports
show a much higher rainfall, running as high as
37.07 inches in a year.
But we have shown that during the six years
in which the Farm and Ranch contributor says ‘it
has not rained,” the precipitation was greater than
in. 191 4. except in 1910. Therefore we conclu-
sively prove that the Farm and Ranch writer’s
statement has absolutely no foundation, and
should be passed by but for its harmful results.
The Panhandle has produced good crops ev-
ery year when taken as a whole. Some less fa-
vored localities have occasionally experienced a
shortage, but all have safely passed through them.
We can produce Panhandle wheat farmers who
can show an average of over 20 bushels per acre
for sixteen years. We can produce farmers who
have never failed to raise abundant crops of Kafir,
maize and sorghum.
If Farm and Ranch would but take the trouble
to refer bad k to 1911, it wand readily recall that
the Panhandle fed practically all of the stock of
Eastern Oklahoma and of lower Texas. It was
Panhandle Kafir, maize and cane that saved your
lower Texas and Oklahoma stock from starvation.
As to grass in the Panhandle-—these has not
been a year in the history of 1 exes when our
ranges were not able to support Panhandle cattle.
Only when some ranchman overstocked his pas-
turns has he confronted a dearth of grass. r
But why should Farm and Ranch send out
some irresponsible ignoramus to gather its agricul-
tural information? It is a Texas publication and
the Panhandle is a part of Texas. Why should
the bird mine his own nest? If the author of the
communication in controversy saw fine crops and
general prosperity in the Panhandle, why did he
not simply say so and let her go at that? No won-
der the people of other sections of our state are
prejudiced against the Panhandle, when represen-
tatives of our own state press publish such culp-
ably false and malicious matter.
’Twenty years from now the people of West
Texas will speak of the great crop of 1914." ex-
claims the rattle brained scribe in his introduc-
tory sentence. He doesn’t know that our Pan-
handle farmers have already forgotten about this
year’s normal crop and are even now at work
planting the largest wheat acreage ever heard of
in this end of the state. And we want Farm and
Ranch to understand that we have ample mois-
ture out of 13 60 inches to bring up the wheat
and hold it until we get mo—rain, which we al
ways do.
And we would kindly suggest to Farm and
Ranch that in order to avoid similar unpleasant
ness in future, it should engage the services of
someone who knows beans from mesquite bushes
to act as its agricultural correspondent.
The British-German society for promoting bet-
ter relations between the two nations has been
dissolved by mutual consent. The "better rein
tion" work is being carried out on a larger scale in
the battle of the Aisne.
"Government Wants Banks to Stop Hoarding
Money,” reads a front page news heading That’s
right; pass on the mazuma, gentlemen. This
hoarding business haa always been viewed with ex-
treme disfavor by ourselves.
Dallas recently was compelled to call out the
fire department several times to repel invasion by
crickets. We would call that the poorest kind of
imitation of real warfare. The best way to put a
quietus on crickets is to out-sing them.
The most prominent horse-importing firm in
the United States will have an exhibit at the fair
this year. In, another year many more of the
fancy breeders and importers will be attrac ted to
our exhibition. The Panhandle State Fair will
assume national proportions within a very few
years. It behooves Amarillo people to lend their
unanimous support to this great enterprise.
The Amarillo Daily News
Guarantees to advertisers more
than fifty per cent greater cir-
culation than any other daily
published in Northwest
as.
SEC RET DIPLOMACY
The idea of secret diplomacy which has ob-
tained with most nations so long, and which is
still countenanced as legitimate, is necessarily bas-
ed on suspicion and distrust.
That secret diplomacy is directly responsible
for those great conflicts which have shaken the
western world during the past 500 years is scarce-
ly provable, bul that the philosophy behind it is.
appears perfectly logical.
Gradually the world has accepted the theory
that the masses of the people are to be trusted
with the affairs of individual governments, but
the world in general has not yet arrived at that
state of confidence and ingeniousness where it will
believe that the people of one government can
be safely trusted with full knowledge concerning
the aims and purposes of another.
The point is that, while we have accepted the
idea of true republicanism so far as individual na-
tions are concerned, we have not arrived at that
level of altruism where we canvacknowledge it re-
garding international affairs.
The various peoples and countries are still sus-
picious of each other. This is evidenced by the
process of secret diplomacy more strongly than
by the maintenance of vast military establish-
ments.
An army and navy may suggest preparedness
and hostile intent, but these are open to the knowl-
edge of the world:
Secret diplomacy bespeaks a baser quality of
thought and a vastly more restricted vision.
Distrust breeds distrust, and antagonism. ;
though blind and unreasonable, is the natural out-
growth, a
Disarmament may come, and an international
tribunal for the arbitrament of world affairs may
be established; but so long as the political philos-
ophy which countenances and encourages secret
diplomacy prevails little -progress will be made.—.
Houston Chronicle.
AMIENS, LAON, REIMS—The
country between Amiens and Reims,
within earshot of the greater por-
tion of the fighting armies in France
today, is populous and contains
many of the most prosperous of the
medium-sized towns in France. Tea
railes east of Amiens is Villers-Bret-
onneau. an industrial town with
about 6,000 inhabitants, which was
the scene of one of the main on-
gagements in the battle of Amlene
in which the French northern army
was routed by the Germans in 1870.
The rente now takes one through the
fertile district of Santerre Ham.
with a population of approximately
3500 stands in n marshy district
36 miles from Amiens. Its castle,
now used as a barrack, ties fre-
quently been used as a state prison,
and haa held many of the most noted
people of France. ‘The list of those
incarcerated there includes Joan of
Are, Louis of Bourbon, and Louis
Napoleon . The latter, after having
been a prisoner for six years es-
caped in the disguise of a workman.
LaFere, 16 miles further on, cap-
tured by the Germans In 1870, has
one of the oldest schools of artillery
in the world. It was founded in
1719. Laon, 15 miles beyond La-
Fete, situated on an isolated ridge
some 350 foot above the surround-
ing plain, forms with LaFere and
Reims a triangle of important fort
resses. Napoleon tried In vain to
dislodge Blucher from the town in
1814. Between Laon and Reims
the Aisne and the Suippe are cross
ed.
Paris, Solssons; Reims, Charle-
ville- The route from Paris to
Charleville, by way of Soissons and
Reims, takes one through a terri
tory rich in historical and present-
day interest. Six miles out from
Paris is found La Bourget, where
the Germans repulsed the French in
the sanguinary struggles of 1870.
Twenty miles farther on. In the
park of the chateau of Ermenonyville.
is the original tomb of Jean Jacques
Rousseau, whose remains were re-
moved to the pantheon at Paris In
1794. Crepy-en-Valois, the ancient
capital of a district which belonged
from the 14th century to a younger
branch of the royal family of
France, and with a present day pop-
ulation of about 7,000. lies 16 miles
to the north Villers-Cotterets, with
about 6,000 inhabitants, 8 1-2 miles
away, waa the birthplace of Alexan-
dre Dumas the Elder.. A little fur-
ther on is Longpont, which has a
rained abbey dating from the 12th
century. Sixty-five miles from Paris
Solssons, an ancient town formerly
fortified, with a population of about
15,000, is reached. Here is the
Abbaye, Notre-Dame, now used as
s barrack, founded originally in:
660. In 858 it contained no fewer
than 21H nuns, who possessed a
valuable collection of sacred relies.
Including a shoe and girdle of the
Madonna. The route from Soissons
to Reims takes one up the valley of
the Aisne and its tributary .the Veles |
Reims is one of the most interesting I
cities of France. Christianity was
preached here in the 4th century. .
About 20 miles out of Reims, half ,
way to Charleville is Rethel, an in- [
dustrial town, with about 7500 in-!
habitants, situated on a hill to the
right of the Aisne. Three miles fur-
ther on Is Amagne, a railway junc-
tion with a large sugar factory aa Its
principal industry. A few miles on,
the road enters the wooded and :
mountainous district of the Arden-
nes, and the scenery increases in
beauty. To the right is Boulizi-
court, with its large powder factory,
and nt ‘Mohon, another village are
large work shops Two miles fur-
ther on la Charleville, an uninter-
esting town, with about 20,000 In-
habitants and nail-making, type-
founding. and hardware goods far-i
tories. e I
ARGONNE- A rocky, forest-clad i
plateau, extending along the borders |
of Lorraine, Germany, and Cham-
pagne, France. it has a length of
about 63 miles, an average breadth |
of 19 miles, and an average height
of 1150 feet. There are few good
roads in this district, and it is hard
territory through which to carry on
military operations of large propor-
tions It lies between the valley of
the Aisne on the went .and the val-
ley of the Meuse on the east, and Is 1
one of the natural bulwarks between |
Germany and France. There are
numerous forests clothing both the
east and the west slopes of the pin- |
teau, the chief of them being that
of Argonne, extending for 25 miles I
population in Saxony, Germany, on
the Loubau water, 40 miles east of
Dresden and 100 miles west of Bres-
lau. It is but eight miles from the
Austrian frontier The town manu-
factures agricultural implements,
pianofortes, sugar, machines, 1 and
buttons, and has a trade In grain,
yarn, linen, and stockigs. Lobau
suffered severely during the Hus-
•Me War, and was deprived of its
rights in 1647. /
MITROVICA (Hungarian, Mitro-
vicz: German, Mitrowitz)—A Hun-
garian town of Croatia-Slavonia, 38
mites north of west of Belgrade and
two miles from the Servian border,
on the River Have. Its population
is about 13,000. The town occupies
the site of Sirmium, the chief city
of Lower Pannonia under Roman
rule, where the Emperor Probus
(232-282 was born and buried and
where the emperor, Marcus Aurell-
us 121-186) la said to have died.
The city was sacked by the Huns in
441, and by the Turks, who destroy-
ed all its ancient buildings, in 1396
and 1621
SUWALKI—A town of Russian
Poland, the capital of the govern-
ment of the same name, 65 miles by
rail northwest of Grondo and 18
miles from the East Prussian bor-
der. Its population la approximate-
ly 30,000. It has a trade in timber,
grain, woolen cloth and other manu-
metured woods. Bee-keeping is on
of the industries of the district.,
CALOMEL MAT
■ HURT TOUR LITER
Every time you take this powerful
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WANTED Position by competent,
experienced, male bookkeeper, for
temporary work, during Fair consi-
dered. Address Box 358.
277-2p
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FOR TRADE- 160 acres farm all 1m-
provements, will exchange for city
property Address 502 North Lin-
coin street. , 277-3p
—^Lii—
WANTED Small furnished house
by couple of October lot. XYZ care
News. 1*5 277-5p
-mute -
WANTED To exchange for Amaril-
lo property, 320 acres first-class.
South Plains farming land in Lynn 1
county V. R. K Care News.
T 277-30
WANTED—To buy or trade for resi-
dence in Amarillo. Preferably an old 1
house, but must be in good residence
section. Answer, giving price and
location and state if willing to ex-
change for South Plains farming
land or for first class rental property
la Amarillo. P. O. Box 363.
277-3p
w ANTED—Nice appearing young
lady to be in charge of high-class
display booth at Panhandle State
Fair Nothin to sell. Begins Friday
morning Address Box 695, City.
FOR SALE at $75.00 cash —A 3 year
old horse, weight ‘1150, will make
good farm or draft horse. Call at
905 Buchanan Also saddle and bri-
dle, $15.00, 277-32
FOR RENT—Two large furnished
rooms for housekeeping, gas and
electric lights. 901 Fierce street.
Phone 793. 277-3p
WANTED—Pcsition by competent
bookkeeper and office man, six years
experience Address, D. C Care of
News, 277-3p.
andehroud. Comal a
soak up water and y
get heavy. Our lnk
patented Reflex
Edges stop water ;
from running in where /
tree*:::
weather coat your /
money can buy.”
$100 EVERYWHERE •
COWERS SATISFACI
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, Calios Fore
A. J. TOWER CO.
BOSTON
LOOK AT THIS—360 acres highly.
Improved $125.00. Land 50 miles
son’s Liver Tone instead. Calomel from Kansas City to exchange for
is made from mercury, and while four sections Panhandle land. War-
mercury has many valuable uses. It i ner with Dockray Land Co.
is a dangerous thing to swallow. If
calomel stays In the system very ----------------------------
long It salivates. Even when it WANTED—Ranches: large or small
works naturally, its after-effects are in exchange for good Kansas City
often bad. .- income property. Warner with Dock-
The Amarillo Drug Store will sell ray Land Co. 277-41
277-4t
you Dodson’s Liver Tone, which is -----—........ —‘
positively guaranteed to take the WILL EXCHANGE for Amarillo resi-
place of calomel. Liver Tone stim- dence. 160 acres near Portales, N.
ulates the liver just enough to start M. Well improved, good buildings,
it working, and does not make you
sicker than ever—as calomel often
does. You feel good after taking
etc Price $30.00 per acre. Warner
with Dockray Land Co. 277-41
Dodson’s and it won’t force you to
stop eating or working after taking
it. It is as beneficial for children
as for adults.
Try a large bottle for fifty cents
under the guarantee that your
money v III be given back cheerfully
If you’re not satisfied.
HAVE cash buyer for good 4 or 5
room house to be moved. Dockray
Land Co. 277-41
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lubricants for
Specify
Amalie Hard Non-Fluid
- Oil
for Transmissions (it quiets the
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and
for Differentials (lubricates thor-
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end of the axle.)
For Sale Exclusively by
Sam B. Vaughn.
Northwest Motor Co.
Amarillo
Sonneborn Bros. Manufacturers ,
sonable. Business phone 79.
217.3p
FOR RENT— Two story twelve room
house on Buchanan street one block J
1 north of Denver depot. Terms rea-
Apples, apples, apples, Wine Sap
one dollar, one twenty and one fifty.
Buy these now. We will deliver them
from one bushel up. R. N. Smith.
277-4t
FOR SALE -Cheap for cash, my
bay mars, phaeton, harness and sad-
dle. ET Reynolds. Phone 798 .
277-2p
Try.Daily News want Ads.
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Are You Ready tor
'a
dle State Fair?
% You’d better be getting ready by having all your lamp
sockets filled now with EDISON MAZDA LAMPS—the
lamp that cuts your light bill. Just think, three times the
light for the same money you used to pay.
between the Aire and the Aisne.
ARDENNES A department of
France on the northeast frontier,
with an area of 2,028 square miles |
and a population exceeding -350,000. 1
Its rivers are the Meuse and the
Aisne Its agricultural products are 1
wheat oats, potatoes, rye and many
kinds of forage. Ardennes is to
France what the Blue Grass region
of Kentucky la to the United States
— its horses are known throughout
the country. Flour mills, saw
mills, sugar works, distilleries and
-leather works are scattered over
the department.. Among its minor
industries is the making of wooden
shoes, Sedan, where the famous
surrender of the French to the Ger
mans took place, is located in Ar-
dennes, The chief cities of the de-
partment are Mezieres the capitial.
Charleville, Rocrol and Rethel.
LYCK. cr Lyk—A German town
of East Prussia, ten miles from the
border of Russian Poland, 115 miles
southeast of Konigaberg, on a lake
and river of the same name. Its
population is close to 14.000 Lyck
is the chief town of the region
known as Masuria. A castle form-
erly belonging to the Teutonic order f
and dating from 1278 is still stand-l
ing on an island in the Lyck Lake
and is now used aa * prison. There I
are iron foundries, distilleries,
breweries, tanneries, paper mills and
flour mills.
LISSA-X town in Prussian Pos-
*n. 25 miles northeast of Glogau
and 48 miles from the Russian Po
land border line. Its population is
approximately 18.000 and its manu-
Pfactures are shoes, machinery, Nqu-
erers and tobacco. During the Thir-
ty Years' War the population of
the town was reinforced by other
refugees, and Lissa became an Im-
portant commercial town it was
burned In 1656 and again in 1707.
LOBAU— A town of about 12,000
2.o.a--.---—noseeinenude
If you’re still using the old style cord drop, why don’t
you become modernized and get some up-to-date ELEC-
TRICFIXTURES? In the past few weeks we have added
a great many new designs in fixtures and at prices that
you can’t refuse. Anybody can afford good fixtures at
the prices we are offering. Drop in today and look them *
over.
. Another article of value around the house is the
DIM-A-LITE and HYLO LAMP, unexcelled for a night
lamp or the sick room. No more putting paper around
the lamp with a chance of fire. Just pull the string and
get any light from one to sixteen candlepower.
Visit our store and find anything you want electrical,
for ours is Amarillo’s most interesting store.
snn H lA/tyyr I
IVuli DICCUIC
417 Polk Street.
Telephone 79
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