The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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Time Table
SOUTH BOUND
Dallas A Wichita 5:42 A. M.
M. K. & T. No. 3 6:02 A.M.
Katy Limited No. 209 7:21 A. M.
Dallas & Wichita 11:25 A.M.
T. & P. No. 31 3:05 P. M.
M. K. AT. No. 1 2:32 P.M.
Katy Flyer No. 205 6:36 P.M.
NORTH BOUND
Katy Flyer No. 206 10:17 A.M.
T. & P. No. 32 11 ;00 A. M.
M, K. & T. No. 2 12:23 P.M.
Dallas & Wichita 5:10 P.M.
Katy Limited No. 210 9:05 P. M.
M. K&T. No. 4 10:25 P.M.
Dallas A Wichita 10:30 P. M.
NEWS IN BRIEFT
The leaf worm is reported do-
ing some damage to cotton in
different localities in the state,
and also in this vicinity to some
extent.
The Governor's conference is
in session this week at Spring
Lake, N. J. There is expected to
be about thirty-five Governors
in attendance.
New Orleans had a sweet time
afew days ago when a large tank
containing a million gallons of
molasses burst and the sweetness
ran down Market street a dis-
tance of 1500 yards.
The Brooks comet recently dis-
covered is now visible to the nak-
ed eye. It is almost over head, a
l little north, and appear as a great
j nebulous star. Because of the
direction of its movement no tail
is visible.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey has accepted the invita-
tion to be one of the speakers
at ths Ter-centenary of the
American Bible Society celebra-
tion at Dallas, Oct. 28, at the
Fair Grounds.
Flower, the aviator, left San
Franciso Monday in an attempt
to cross the continent in an aero-
plane. He made 126 miles on his
first day, and expects to make
the entire trip to the Atlantic in
twentv-six days.
Since the recent announce-
ment of E. H. R. Green that
he expected to quit the
bachelor life before long but that
he did not know who the bride
would be, the heir to Hettie
Green's millions has recieved no
less than 6,242letters from wom-
en stating that he would be ac-
ceptable to them as a husband.
He certainly can find a suitable
companion in that lot.
The Recall.
Peoria Star.
Taft is a lawyer andhas been a
judge, and he is disposed to
magnify the office. Common
people do not see anything so
very sacred in a judge. A meas-
ure that can be applied to sena-
tors, representatives, governors
and all other officials ought cer-
tainly to be applied to judges.
We have seen how justice has
been denied and the very intent
and meaning of the laws pervert-
ed in interest of the trusts by
judges who were secure in their
seat and who became the subser-
vient tools of the money power,
and whose bank accounts show-
ed how profitable it had been to
them to "crook the pregnant
hinges of the knee that thrift may
follow fawning." The recall ad-
justs this difficulty by giving the
people the power to punish an un-
just judge. It is held that this
will result in electing demago-
gues to the bench, but experience
has shown that despotism and
rascality in all ages have buttres-
sed themselves behind the courts
and that the danger is much less
from reserving to the public the
power to punish wicked judges
than to give these officials an
unlimited lease of power and un-
restricted authority.
The Parcels Post Situation in
Washington.
From Merchants Trade Journal.
During the first days of July
the editor of The Journal was
requested to appear and speak
before the committee on poet-
offices and post roads in our na-
tional congress. At the time the
request was received, owing to
health conditions, it seemed im-
possible to be there, but after
considering the seriousness of the
present situation, it was decided
to go.
If possible, we want to cause
every reader of The Journal to
realize what the conditions re-
lating to the parcels post really
are. We are convinced that not
one merchant out of a dozen,
and possibly not one out of fifty,
fully realizes what the situation
actually is.
Now merchants, what we have
to say here about the parcels
post is a summing up of influ-
ences at work in Washihgton, as
we saw them suggested by the
committee, both in their attitude
and by the question they asked.
First, the committee on p )st J
offices and post roads is inclined
to be critical, that is, they do not
hesitate at all to ask questions j
of those appearing before them
and if anyone imagines the in-
dividual members of this com-
mittee are backward in digging
deep into this question, you have
another guess coming. The
facts are, this committee seems
to want to go to the very bottom
of the thing, and in the asking j
of their questions they do not
spare anyone's feelings. It does1
not make any difference what
questions you think the commit-
tee ought to ask, or whether or
not you think their questions are
digging into your personal af-
fairs, the committee digs just the
same. It is no boy's play to ap-
pear before this committee just
at this time, when they are eo
insistent in finding out every-
thing you know and, if possible,
learn what you do not know.
The fact9 of the parcels post
situation are that the spirit
of Washington and of the com-
mittee seems to be that it is gen-
erally accepted that the retail
merchants are u nnecessary, that
they are exacting too much prof-
it, and that in almost everycase
the mail order concerns can
and do undersell them.
Merchants, do you realize that
the matter as it stands before
this committee is simply a ques-
tion of catalog houses and ex-
press companies and retail mer-
chants? You would be supprised
to know that it is more a ques-
tion of what the catalog house
can do and as to whether express
rates are too high and whether
or not the retail merchant is a
necessity than it is a question of
formulating a system of delivery
that is demanded by the people
generally.
Nine-tenths of the questions
asked by the committee were
questions that had to do with
catalog houses, express rates and
merchants' profits rather than
questions leading to information
a3 to what percent of the farm-
ing community was demanding
a parcels post. There is a reason
for this. And the reason is that
the proponents of a parcels post
have put the matter before the
committee in the light that the
catalog houses are the saviors of
the people, and that the express
companies were supporting the
opposition to the parcels post for
their own benefit, as is the retail
merchant. This phase of it has
been hurled at this committee so
many times and, in fact, the
thought of the United States is
permeated with it, until you re-
tail merchants are up against a
condition which demand* your
very best activity.
Retail merchants, let us tell
you once for all that unless you
men wake up and get busy, un-
less you begin to breed public
sentiment on the other side of
this question, it is only a matter
of time, and not so very long
time, when the majority of you
are going to find that it is a ques-
tion of either staying in business
a little longer and going into the
hands of a receiver or going out
while you can. Now, remember
this is no jumping into the dark
because this condition exist*. It
does not make any difference
what you think about it, and it
makes no difference what your
conception of the thing is, the
facts are that the whole organiza-
tion is against you as a retail
merchant and it is against you
because you have never stood for
your rights.
The majority of you merchants
are too much inclined to be ser-
vants, to become niggers in your
stores, trying to do manual labor
not thinking for yourselves, un-
til the whole business fabric of
the country has so warped it-
self, making you the butt of all
jokes, until you are the ones
who are looked down upon and
insulted and sneered at.
Some of you merchant* are too
everylasting stingy to help your-
selves; you are too afraid of
spending a dollar unless you can
see ten of them coming back,
and mighty few of you ever get
two dollars back when you spent
one in the conducting of your
own affairs.
Now, see here, merchants, you
simply must, if you want to take
care of yourselves, get busy.
You must begin a campaign of
education, you must take your
stand as a man among men and
you must begin to show the peo-
ple that you have a place in the
business world. You must show
them that from an economic
standpoint there is a place for
you, that you can fill this place.
It is going to take a little money,
it may cost each of you from two
to ten dollars, or possibly twenty-
five dollars, but take our word,
for it, this educating must be
done or you are a "goner."
Now, some of you who have
been quite prosperous are going
to imagine that this talk is not
for you, and that this developing
condition cannot hurt you, but
you are mistaken. It can hurt
you and it will hurt you. The
facts are that no man in business
can prosper as he ought to pros-
per with the entire public senti-
ment against him. When every-
body outside of your business is
teaching the people that you are
a robber, that you cannot be
trusted, that you have no place
in the world, you can readily see
that it makes it hard for you to
make a sale. You cau see that
the very moment your customer
enters your door that there is a
barrier up between you and your
customer.
The Journal doe9 not care how
big your business is, or how pros-
perous you are, this thing ex-
ists; you as well as others, and
really the larger your business,
the larger your stock, the more
you have at stake.
It is astonishing for one to go
to Washington and find that the
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spirit of the entire organization,
that the spirit and thought of
every move is that the cata-
log house does sell cheaper
than you do and that you do take
too much profit and that there
really is no place in the world for
you.
Do you imagine for a minute
that this sentiment simply hap-
pened to exist? If you will and
think for a moment you know
that this sentiment has come
about because of public educa-
tion. With the exception of
Farm Sense every farm and mail
order paper and almost every
large magazine has for years
been educating the people along
this line, and you, in the narrow-
ness of your conception of things
have kept still. You have
permitted yourself to be villain -
ified and falsified against until
you really are c jrnidired a dis-
reputable person.
What the committee on post-
offices and post roads needs is
to understand that you are hon-
orable men, that you have a
place in the business world. They
need to understood that you do
sell honest goods and that your
profits are not too large. Fur-
ther, they need to understand
that the public at large is not
demanding a parcels post. The
facts are, the farmers are not
demanding it. True, we have
two or three farmers' organiza-
tions whose officers are demand-
ing it, but ninety-nine times out
of a hundred these officers are
men who buy practically all their
goods from mail order concerns.
They are the enemy of the local
merchant instead of a friend in
the building up of their commu-
nity. The rank and file of these
organizations are not demanding
this thing. Farmers outside of
these organizations seldom men-
tion it at all, and yet here you
merchants are, some of you, not
doing one thing to protect your-
selves. You act as if you did
not care how disreputable you
were considered,and if the bring-
ing of this matter in this way di-
rectly to your attention does not
arouse you, it is proof that you
have not the spirit of manhood
in you which causes a per3on to
stand for his rights and reputa-
tion.
Concluded next week.
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The buffalo gnat is believed by
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disease pellagra, which has been
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