Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 193, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 24, 1916 Page: 4 of 14
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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1916 , PARTONE
WICHITA DAILY TIMES
Published Every Week Day Afternoon
(Except Saturday)
— By
• TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
(Printers and Publishers)
Times Bullding, Corner Seventh Street
and Scott Avenue
MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Entered at the Postoffice at Wichita Falls
as second -class mail matter
' SUBSOMPTION RATES:
By the year Bnall or carrier) ......$5.00
By the month (mail or carrier) .....1.506
Phones—
Business Office ....
Editorial Hoorn ....
these statements show that these pur
poses are so near the some thing as
those in authority have declared in
general terms, peace will be inevita-
ble, for there la a great yearning for
peace and a great weariness of war
among the people# of all countries at
that would have greeted it only a year
or two ago. 7 .
“There are facts before us" says
the Houston Post “that we cannot
brush aside as we formerly brushed]
aside the theories of our generals.’ ,
Continuing The Post says:
They have taken us retrospectively
into our own experience and shown as
.that our volunteer armies were expen-
that this country may become involve sive in the matter of blood and treas ,
ed. The position of all neutrals is be-Iure. They have agreed with us that
the volunteer is not lacking in patriot-
ism or courage, but they make a clear
care against the volunteer’s efficiency.
The volunteer becomes efficient in
time, of course, but time is a vital,
element in war, and Europe has shown
us that the loss of time in creating
trained armies is attended by great 1
disasters. . 1
There are some questions which we
must answer intelligently, One is, will
the present conflict in Europe and war
for all time?
All of us sincerely hope It may, and'
we feel that at least there is a long'
period of peace ahead of the world,
And yet, the war is almost certain to,
leave the world situation as much com *
war. But the war may go on, and if
it does, there is a grave possibility
coming interestingly difficult and at
any time we may be forced to enter
the conflict. President Wilson’s note
Is a warning to the belligerents that
iliis may happen. If this contingency
must come, we ought to
know as
.....167 finitely as we can learn the purpose
.....1671 les and aims of the belligerents. From
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Wichita Falls, Texas. Dec. 24, 1916. the viewpoint of our own Interests,
. -------------------------1 therefore the note is timely.
772.777
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i in connection with what the Times
Ind to say Sunday in reference to J.
I A. Kemp’s gift to the city, it ought to
6 Li t t in Berlin that be added that if the people of Wichita
Betting Is reported in Berlin the Falls were picking the man whom they
peace will be signed by Christmas, would most want to have give them a
for some of "Hughes" Wall library, they would unanimously decide
t ham e lor some 01 AL " upon Mr Kemp. Wichita Times,
street- backers to' recuperate,It must be a wonderful thing for a
________________________- town to have a library presented to
The federal court isn’t quite enough them gratis, but it is certainly still
, n Wichith Putts deem I I wonderfuller to have it presented by
of a cinch for Wichita Falls to deem 1 the right man. it would be awfully
a Christmas present, but the situationcasy for the wrong man to present a
ought to add something to the Christ-'library, though we don’t really feel it
, . , , , politics to go too deeply into that mat
mas happiness of those who have been "ter just now, with Denton standing
working for it so long. I around on one foot and then the other
__1 ____I waiting for somebody to rush up and
co . . ... e 1.1... er hand her a library. The only thing we
With Germany accusing him of try can’t understand about Mr. Kemp's
ing to help Great Britain, and with library is, where he got it. The Times
I’ll.him with play goes on to say that Mr. Kemp is one
Great Britain charEinE him with may I of the most beloved of Wichita Falls
ing into Grmany’s hands, President citizens, and if he is beloved, how did
Wilson has some excuse for feeling he rake up enough money to get a
'library for himself much less one for
right on his peace note. j Wichita Falls? Beloved people never
------------------------------------- have any money; they have big hearts.
There are scores of Wichitans who but empty hands. Of course, there must
... , .d be exceptions to this rule, but it does
ought to belong to the t hamber of| seen that the heavier folks' pockets
_______get, the lighter their hearts get: the
hershin be started Early bigger their bank rolls, the smaller
bership tampiiir.il to.m un " their souls. We certainly would feel a
In January has plenty of jects up weight off our mind if The Times man
would explain the anomalous situation
to us, right off.—I. M.‘D. In Denton
Record Chronicle.
— It is often true that the accumula-
that tion of money makes men close fisted
.and hard hearted. But there are ex-
she has fallen considerably short of ceptions, and Mr. Kemp is one of these
what she might have done in that re, exceptions. If J. M. D. knew Mr.
... .Kemp, she could readily understand
gard. The January campaign ought why Wichita Falls would rather re-
to end with every business man in the ceive a library as his gift than from
any other person Until I. M. D. knows
Commerce who do not, and the mem
on which to work Wichita Falls has
always taken pride in the way
which she has supported the Chamber
of Commerce, but the truth is
city definitely lined up with the or
ganization. ’"r- Kemp and his relation to Wichita
lulls and its people, she will never !
fully understand what The Times said. 1
Yes, Mr? Kemp is an exception to the
rule noted by I. M. D. He is loved j
by his fellow townsmen, yet he is a|
man of wealth./ Many of his closest I
finer again, ‘for the third sucres-
sive time, the world faces Christmas
with half of humanity embroiled in war
and with those sentiments seemingly
uppermost that tend to make a traves
ty of “peace on earth" in a way, it
seems a grim joke that on the day
when all Christendom honors the
Prince of Peace, His precepts should
plicated. "
Disarmament is yet a dream which
promises little of reality, and if Europe
finds peace in a deadlock, as appears
highly probable, how long may we
hope for peace?
The prophets tell us that the next:
war to follow the present European '
struggle is bound to involve the United:
States, aim e It has already annihilated
almost all the natural defences which
have heretofore afforded The basis of
our national security. We are even con:
fronted by the possibility of an alliance
of nations now fighting each other,
bound together by a common Interest,
as against the vaulting power and
world consequence of the American
Republic. ,
The Japanese menace is becoming
clearer, and there will be no exhaus
tion in that empire to guarantee secur-
ity for us. It will be in a comparative
sense a rich Japan that will /emerge
from the present -war, as well as a
martial Japan and an efficient Japan.
First-class powers are prepared to
strike rapid blows, or ii they are not I
prepared, they suffer when the clash
comes V
If we are to need an' army of de-
fence. we shall need a good one, and
one superbly trained and equipped, and
easily mobilized where the danger ex-
ists.
Experience shows that our present
system makes Hie enlistment of a
Targe regular army impossible.
There is no getting away from that
conviction The question is, does the
national security demand a system
that would enable us to assemble upon
a moment's notice a large, perfectly
trained army?
If it does, the present system must
be voted a failure. 1
REPORTS ROBBERY
.WITH CROWD NEAR
friends have wondered at his success Burkburnett Man’s Story of
in a financial way, for he has succeed.
Down.
Christmas Greetings
We thank you, our customers and
friends, for the liberal patronage ex-
tended us during our Removal Sale-
which closed Saturday night. Wel
Wish you a merry Christmas.
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WICH I7A FALLS
town Affair I# Doubted By
Police.
ed financially without repressing or
strangling those warm hearted impuls.
ex and those sympathies which make
Complaint that he had been held Tip
at tiie noint of a revolver almost in
the heart of the business district at
seven o'clock last night and relieved of
127 was made to the city police by
a man from Burkburnett but after a
thorough investigation, officers del id
Ga that the complaining witness had
den “seeing things."
According to the man's story, he
was standing in front of the Newport
liar on the corner of Seventh anil in
diana and was "braced" by a party
for a “feed." He said he was walking
on Indiana with this party to a cafe
on Indiana, back of the Newport bar,
and when abreast of the alley in the
rear of the saloon • his companion
poked what looked to the about a 32
automatic in his ribs and
ordered him to band over what he had.
He says that $25 in bills and two
dollars in silver was taken. He denied
having seen the other party before
this occurrence. The other man was
described as about five feet six inches
in heighth, from 20 to 21 years of
age, smooth shaven, slender, weighing
in the neighborhood of 180 pounds,
dressed in blue overalls with a blue
jumper and a brown woolen shirt, with
a big white slouch hat decorated with
a narrow band. Night Chief MeDon-
ed many mercantile firms to place will it return to Germany with an ald questioned the complainant at
some length and found several con-
tradictions in the telling of his story.
be so far forgotten that nations are al
each other's throats and that blood
.men beloved by their fellowmen.
shed and hatred, plunder and conquest , PEACE OR WAR?
have become commonplace things, and Germany has uncaged the "Dove of
that the civilization that Christianity Peacor and, like Noah of old, has sent
brought to the world should be on the
rack. America and the world can
only hope that the efforts of Wood
row Wilson to bring an end to the
great tragedy will prove successful by
another Christmas.
it forth with a message to the nations;
of the world.
The timid bird has risen above the
war cloud# that envelope Europe, and
Is now poised on circling wings un-
certain where to find a perch undis.
BELIEVE FIRE WAS
INCENDIARY WORK
Members of Sheriff’s Department
Investigating Travis School
Burning.
-----------— curbed by the clashing arms and roar-
The Times wants to join with ing cannon that are sending thousands
many oilier firms and business houses of brave soldiers to an untimely | calibre i oli
in Wichita Falls in wishing the people I grave. While the "Dove of Peace"
of the town- and-surrounding country wings its flight from nation to nation.
a joyous Christmas and a New Year looking for an open dove cote, the
of happiness and continued prosperity, sound of lamentation is heard from the
Here at home we have peace and desolate, homes of the people, where
prosperity and above all a generous | the messenger of death has arrived,
and progressive people and all of us The eyes of all nations watch the pro-
should feel grateful. The generous gress of the bird, as it hovers o'er the
trade they have enjoyed has prompt-jeapitol domes of the warring nations.
cards in today’s Times, expressingofive branch, or will it return weary of
their gratitude and wishing
their its flight, and with drooping wings
friends and natrons the complimentsr enter its cage, to await a renewed
of the season. That all have not season of carnage?
• done so is probably because they have
in the meantime, President Wilson.
not been able to spare even a few on his own inititive, has made an ap
moments time from the crowds who peal to the warring nations, "to stop
thronged the stores from eorly morn-land let us reason together." Will they
ing until late last night. The senti-heed his appeal, and meet around a
ments which all express testifies to council table to discuss terms of
a genuine good will. Several of the-peace? Let us hope that they will.
cards show that at this Christmas As we approach the closing days Of
time the thought of Wichita Falls busi-I1s16, there can be no greater boon
ness men are not entirely engrossediconfered upon mankind than a lasting
Members of the sheriff’s depart-
ment are-quietly working on the
theory that the Travis school, which 1
burned Thursday morning, was fired I
by incendiaries, and it is not thought i
unlikely that the next few days will,
see developments in this conned tion 1
However, it is stated that so far
the officers have found very little to
guide them, but hope soon to strike!
a trail which will enable them tol
reach the guilty parties should Im en
diarism prove to have been the origin'
of the fire. 3
FOOTBALL GAME TO
BE PLAYED MONDAY
POLL TAXES AHEAD
OF 1915’S SHOWING
Indication# Are First of New Year
Will Find Substantial
Increase.
Former High School Players to Meet
the Present Team at Katy
Park.
with their own business affairs but he j treaty of peace.
clude all men in their good will and | is there a prophet among our states-; regulars^
that they hope for a peace that will men, v ise enough to’foretell the end
encompass the whole world of the negotiations? If there is raise
President Wilson’s note to the bellie
erent powers is much more likely to
result in some misunderstanding, than
is the German note suggesting a peace:
3, your hand’. .
EDGAR RYE.
game. -
Several players who have made col-
lege teams, will be In the Alumni line-
tie including "Chief" Colburn and Jolin
Tevis, both of Castle Heights, and
W illiam Ward, former Castle Heights
player who this year has been In
Georgia Tech The high school line,
up will contain the leading players and
substitutes on the regular team.
Local boys who have at one time or
another played remarkable . football,
and who will take part in the Monday j
game on the Alumni side, are: Leon
nd Smith, William Skeen. Brack Haw 1
o thorne, Bob Tevis. Clarence Moore
the position of the United tates is government are indorsing It and I Test Harvey Vincent, Norman Bachman,
such that it is altogether likely thatIdent Wilson himself is said to be of Tom Courtney and the three above
the information will upon the sub- mentions ______.
COMPULSORY TRAINING'
Four years ago the man who advo-
conference. The German note concated universal military training
"taind a great deal of Lombast and would have been hooted out of court
probably bluff and the most it was as a (rank and a jingo# even two
likely to bring forth was more bom-years ago lie would hardly have been
bast and bluff. On the other
President Wilson's note - calls
hand accorded a hearing: now the idea not
for only receives serious, thoughful con-
straight and definite information, and side ration, but high official# of our
the information will be forthcoming, an pen mind, as yet, upon the sub-
Prospects were Saturday that poll
taxes this month, in common with
the other months of the year will
Monday afternoon at 3:30 the time' run considerably in excess of the sine
honored Christmas Dav football game liar period of the preceding year, 247
will lie staged at the Katy park, the having been issued so Car, execlusive
Alumni team to oppose the high school of those which have probably been
The Alumni team Is coin issued at Burkburnett today, which
posed for the most part of high school are probably estimated to have been
graduates and ex high school students. 50 or 60. y
who were on Ilie team in their school “Oily 300 were issued altogether in
uays and the line up though not wholly -
completed, promises a worth-while
December 1915, and as the tax col
lectors date at Iowa Park does not
come until next Friday and Saturday-
where a heavy payment is expected,
a gain seems a certainty.
Up to this week only 90 poll taxes
had been issued with the exception of
those issued while the tax collector
was at Electra, where the payment
Was over 100
Track Chambermaid
Is New Designation
For Railroad Snipes
American FEW ARRESTS MADE
,OF DRUNKS YESTERDAY
come to believe that President Wil-tradition is against it, but war has a 1
The more we think of ft it he more we feet It is true that every
son’s not was a timely and right way of upsetting traditions wholesale,
one. Those in authority on both sides and Hie parent of today may content-
in the conflice speaking in general plate thoughtfully the possibility that
terms, have created the impression this sons must be trained as soldier#
that both sides have the same general
objects. If they have and will make
these objects definitely known there
is a chance for the getting together
for a discussion of peace. The people
of the belligerent countries themsel
ves are entitled to very definite state-
ments of the purposes of the war. If
when they approach manhood. Univer-
sal training is the logical sequence to
preparedness, which Itself upset a few
ideals in this republic, and with no
guarantee of peace for future years,
rather, in fact, the possibility of being
involved in war. universal training is
not to be dismissed with the laugh
For the last business day before
Christmas, the number of drunks ar
rested on the streets was unusually
small, only little more than half a
dozen being taken in by the city lay
lice up to a late hour,laat night. Many,
however, were warned to go home
and stay off the streets, being in the
near stages of intoxication. Fourteen
prisoners were released from the city
jail last night and the officers stated
that there were four or five more
there to go as soon as they sobered
up. The prisoners on the misdemean:
or side of the county jail will also be
released. In order to allow them to
spend Christmas in freedom.
I Have Enjoyed a
Prosperous Season
I am deeply, grateful to my many friends
for having favored me with ‘ so liberal a
share of their patronage.
With the advent of the New Year I shall
endeavor more and more to make my
store more than just a place to trade in.
It shall be my constant aim to make my
, store an institution that will represent the
true spirit of Wichita Falls, an institution
to be proud of.
/ Wish You One and All
A Merry Christmas
Wichita Falls is responsible for a
new classification foi railroad _
“Snipes" now rapidly becoming known --===
"ma intone tominecmalr in The" tol senug this vincktbourd......iked
lowing fashion in the December Katy in about as follows
employes magazine:
The Scotch have a well deserved
reputation for canniness and gentler, hambarsta
men of Hebrew extraction are seldom] 1 chambermaid 1
known to overlook an opportunity to Three Mexicans entered the employ
turn an honest dollar to good ad ment agency in search of work The
vantage But for real craft and a kav agent told them he could place them
ing sense of, thrift this story of Mex-Ion railroad section work, but would
lean Ingenuity, coming from Cal have to charge a $1 fee. The three
Owens; maintenance clerk at Wichita sons of Montezuma wanted work but
Falls, Texas, takes the cake, they were decidedly averse to paying
There is an employment agency in a tee to get it, so they went out in
Wichitr Falls that posts on a large front of the employment agency and
blackboard the jobs it has to offer, copied off onto a piece of paper the
after the custom of the trade. Rejjot they wanted—at least they
le men wanted for section work
I. dishwasher for lintel
2 men on dairy,
thought they did . Shortly afterward AUTOMOBILE ROBE IS ,
they appeared at the grill of Owen’s PRESENTED MAYOR SATURDAY
window and their spokesman pushed ___-
their piece of paper through to him. Mayor A. H. BritaintSaturday morn-
waving "Me no have dollar, but met ing was presented with a handsome au
"Owens Benea the paper and found tomoblie robe by the members of the
laboriously st raw led on it
1 chambermaid.”
Wanted fire police and sanitary departments
together with City Clerk V. G. Skeen.
Mayor Britain was telephoned Satur-
Needless to say, they got workand day morning to come down to the
as a consequence of the Incident, " " -
“Snipes" are now designated locally
as “Track Chambermaids."
city hall on important business. On
his arrival he was prevented with the
robe. Fire Chief J. L. McClure mating
, the press ntation speech. Mr. Britain
At st. James Hotel, New Year’s night i responded his appreciation of the
— Jan. 1st, dinner. $1,00. Music. | gift in a brief speech of thanks.
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Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 193, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 24, 1916, newspaper, December 24, 1916; Wichita Falls, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1697200/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.