Mexia Evening News (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 275, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 20, 1919 Page: 2 of 4
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EVENING NEWS
Published
Every Afternoon
Sunday
FORT & SMITH,
Owners and Publlslvers
Strictly In Advance
Subscription, EO cents per Month,
)£Vered as second class matter
February 2G. 1919, at the postorfice at
Mexia, Texus, under the act ol
March 3, 1879.
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11 a. m.
Germany uys we tuusi help Germany
not for her sake, but for ours. "You
can't let hell 'oose among 70.000,000
people right in the centre of Europe
and not expect it to spread," Is his
doctrine.
GERMANS COMING TO AMERICA
A REWARD FOR VIRTUE
It will surprise many people to tearu
that a party of German business men
are on their way to this country, with
the consent of our State department,
in an effort to buy raw materials for
German industries. Lack of these
materials and coal is haudic&pping
trade, but orders are reported "pour-
ing in."
There will be a sentiment on the
part of some citizens to refuse any-
thing that the Germans want, but W.
P. Hamilton, editor of the Wall Street
Journal, who has just returned from
Richard Spillaue points out in Com-
merce and Finance, that for many
years in France a jury of eminent
men has been investigating and pas-
sing on reports that come each year
of lives and works of persons of hu-
man station, lives of self sacrifice and
devotion, of simplicity and nobility,
and each year out of the hundreds of
cases the Jury decides on the ten
most worthy. These ten are summon'
ed before the Jury and the man or the
woman who ranks highest has his oh
her virtues proclaimed in an address
by the President of France or some
eminent personage and a sum of mo-
ney is bestowed upon the person. And
then the other nine in turn come be-
fore the jurors and their works of
good are told and sums bestowed up-
on them. And then their names are
recorded among those who deserve
and have won the admiration of the
nation. They are the minor immor-
tals in the temple of fame in France.
The money out of which they get
their awards was given by some one
long ago and the Crowning of Self
Sacrificing has come to be second on-
ly in the republic to the admission of
une of the Great to the Circle of the
Forty Immortals.
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DISTILLERIES ARE PREPARED
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to make 'em. Good flour, baking powder, Crisco, salt, soda,
seedless raisins, desecated cocoanut, chocolate, bananas,
apples, dried and fresh; oranges, potatoes, Irish and sweet;
turnips, onions, pepper, canned goods, hams and bacon.
Come to see us!
Free city delivery.
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Phone
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Christmas
Gifts....
Mary Garden, Djer Kiss and Mavis Toilet Sets; Durham Duplex,
Enders and Gillette Safety Razors; Cigarette Cases and Pipes; Per-
fumes and Toilet Waters of all kinds; Ivory Brushes, Perfume Bot-
tles, Mirrors, Combs, Puff Boxes Jewelry Cases and Baby Sets; Bi-
bles all sizes; Thermos Bottles, asst. sizes; Christmas Boxes of Ci-
gars and Cigarettes; Parker Fountain Pens, all prices; Box Station-
ery all colors, sizes and prices; Manicure Sets, Flash Lights, Kodak
Films, Razor Straps and Dominoes. Christmas Cards and Seals of
all kinds.
Mexia Drug Company
A special dispatch says that throe
thousand freight cars stand empty on
a siding near the large bonded ware-
houses of the government, while the
Louisville distillers vainly watch for
a rift in the dry law. Should there
be the least let-up the whiskey will
be loaded on the cars as fast as rev-
enue stamps can be affixed, and dis-
patched by special trains to the reg-
ions of the thirsty. Each engme will
pull thirty cars, and each train will
carry six heavily armed guards, who
will patrol the cars while in motion,
and protect the train when the engine
stops. This is a sign that the distil-
lers know how bad some of the public
wants the stuff they sell. All in all
96,500,000 gallons are waiting a
chance to be shipped. Each train will
carry 450 barrels of booze and each
barrel will hold forty gallons. As the
government tax amounts to $6.40 a
gallon each train will be worth in
taxes, without anything for the liquor,
more than a million dollars. What
the booze will bring depends on the
place where it is sold.
The most energetic workers feel la-
zy and low-spirited at times. This
condition is caused by impurities in
the stomach liver and bowels, which
should be gotten rid of before they
bring on a sick spell. A few doses of
Prickly Ash Bitters, the remedy that
men use, cleanses the system and it
sends new life and vigor to every part
of the body. Price $1.25 per bottle, at
Mexia Drug Co.
BARGAINS IN
Wood Cook Stoves, also all kinds
of Wood Heaters—Stove Pipe—
Wash Pots—Barb Wire—Hog
Wire—and don't forget ous Home
Made Harness—Bridles—Lines.
Good values In Collars—Hames,
and Traces.
We sell the Hersules Buggy and
they are good ones. Come to se-
us for all kinds of Hardware.
KLOTZ AND
YELDELL
Your
Holiday
Trip
Should be made via
The road of courtesy, service
and convenience.
Denison-Sherman-Dallas
Waco-Cor8icana
and intermediate points
Direct connection for
Fort Worth.
37 YEARS-:-
37 years of successful experi-
ence in the Banking- Business.
Prendergast, Smith & Co., Banking
STRONG-LIBERAL
Jewelry In New Designs
For Christmas-:-
Add to the pleasure of your Christmas shopping by coming here to
view our displays.
Gathered from the foremost manufacturers are the best of their
showings. Articles unique- yet useful and of a quality that will
withstand the wear of years.
Our assortments comprise ample selections in a price range that
provides gifts for every taste and pocketbook.
W. D. PITTMAN JEWELRY
SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN JAPAN
Changed Conditions of Recent Years
Have Brought Vital Questions
Prominently to the Front.
Social questions have come to at-
tract increased attention in Japan of
late. "Ifelief of the poor" formerly
meant charity by the upper classes,
but no voluntary charity is now suf-
ficient to relieve the poor. All so-
cial questions have thus greatly
changed during the last few years.
The relations between the house
owuer and the lessees have hitherto
been of a private character, but the
latest tendency is that they are taken
as a social question of public impor-
tance.
In view of this great change in
social affairs, it is very satisfactory
to learn that the Tokyo authorities
are arranging to establish a social
bureau in the city office to deal with
domestic questions. There are Tianv
things to be done by the social bu-
reau. It should establish cheap eat-
ing houses, provide free medical
treatment and establish an office to
give aid and counsel to the people
on all their affairs.
It is also important that the au-
thorities should provida healthy
means of amusement. To the upper
classes amusement is nothing more
than amusement in its literal sense,
hut it is a necessity of life to the
lower classes. The question of food
and nourishment also calls for
urgent attention on the part of the
proposed bureau.
BLACK LETTERS, AND WHiTE
Scientific Reason Why the Former Are
Better Adapted for Being Read
at a Distance.
There is a tendency on the part of
railroads to adopt signs with white
letters on a black background, not
realizing that the black letter on a
white background is easier to read
and can be seen at a greater distance.
This follows in an interesting way
from the structure of the retina of
the eye.
Black letters grow thinuer at the
limit of vision and are still recog-
nizable, while at the same distance
white letters grow thicker and can-
not he distinguished. There are cir-
cumstances, however, when it is nec-
essary to use white letters, but in
such cases legibility will be improved
if they arc made with a thin stroke
and strongly lighted. Black letters
are more distinct if made with a
heavy stroke.
SURE OF GOOD JOB.
Rome was burning.
"I may be a llivver as an em-
peror," chirped Nero to Petronius,
"but you've gotta hand it to me as a
producer of lighting effects. In my
next incarnation I'll probably have a
real job."
"Whaddyamean, i^al job?" asked
I'etronius. #
"Motion picture director, of
course; whaddva think I mean?"
And with that lie readied for the
.•spaghetti.
A sample copy of the News
j w!ll be sent to anyone who de-
sires to subscribe. Let us know.
THE FOREMOST CRITICS HAVE
SAiorr.
"THE SCREEN IS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE STAGE."
"GRIFFITH HAS EXCEEDED THE POWER OF WRITTEN WORD"
MR. LOUIS GARDY
(New York Call, May 16. 1919)
"He has far exceeded the power of the written word. It would be
impossible for the greatest master of language to picture the emo-
tions as Griffith has perpetuated them in "Broken Blossoms."
MISS AMY LESLIE
(Chicago Daily News, June 7, 1919)
"David Griffith has spread his wings out into the open theatre, in-
to the very ether of dramatic adventure. Words, could they be made
of spun silk and point lace, of poison fruit and foul vapors, never could!
have produced the storm of expression, Uie electrifying dramatic cur-
rents of the Griffith pantomime. IT IS AN ELOQUENT AND 1)^
CISIVE FLIGHT BEYOND THE SPOKEN DRAMA. Griffith
most imaginative and sane American who ever revolutionized the
atre when it needed an emancipator."
MISS HARRIET UNDERHILL
(New York Tribune, May 14, 1919)
"While we always have been devoted to the pictures, we never re-
ally liked them nearly so well as the spoken drama, but "Broken
Blossoms" never could be done so appealingly in any other medium."
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE
(Editor, McClure's Magazine)
"For what you have done to make this picture the living thing
that it is. I have no words to express my admiration. It is the great-
est step forward that we have known. You have immortalized your-
self. I feel that a new era has dawned. With "Broken Blossoms" a
new art has arrived, an art as important as Poetry or Music."
MR. MORRIS GEST
(Brilliant Producer of Stage Spectacles)
"You have given America an art of her own. Broken Blossoms is
as important in the art history of America as was the creation of the
Russian Ballet in my native land."
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THE LITERARY DIGEST
(June 14th, 1919)
"In one day the screen jumped five years."
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FOR TWO DAYS, STARTING MONDAY
Heinz dill, sweet and sour pickles in barrels.
Sour Kraut in barrel and a nice line of Heinz
bottle Roods—olives, relishes, chili sauce,
sweet and sour pickles. Phone No. 3—The
Old Reliable Grocery.
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Mexia Evening News (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 275, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 20, 1919, newspaper, December 20, 1919; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299229/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.