Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1931 Page: 2 of 14
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n> Russia couples may be di-
vorced at a cost of only $2.50.
No wonder they have no depression
over there.
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The country Is full of community
chest workers, unemployment re-
lief commities, and our big men
are telling us how to cure the
depression, but nobody has come
farward as yet to help us pay
off our mortgage.
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Utilize silver on a proper basts,
and you will stop hoarding. If
President Hoover and Secretary
Mellon will realize that and act
energetically, and promply, they
will start business going, encour-
age trade all over the world
and especially amoung 1.000,000.000
human beings that have no gold.
And incidentally they will meet
wisely a very big danger for the
Republican party in 1932.
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After most of the farmer's wheat
and cotton is out of their hands,
wheat goes up from 21 cents a
bushel to 60 cents, while cotton is
advancing rapidly. It was ever thus,
and will remain so until our farm-
ers prepare themselves to hold the
cotton and not say: "What will
you give me for it", but say: "This
cotton is worth 25 cents a pound,
and you will not get a dam bale
until you pay us twenty-five cents
for it." The wheat farmer should
say:"This wheat is worth $1.00 a
bushel and no private individual
or corporation or mill will buy a
single bushel until they pay a
dollar a bushel for it."
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Senator Borah of Idaho wants
silver made into money at the
rate of 14 to 1. That won't happen.
But the amount of silver pro-
duced during the last ten years
has averaged less than thirteen
times the amount of gold produced
weight for weight, and gold is
selling at almost 70 times the
price of silver, weight for weight
That will not last. All th"
gold in the world amounts to
about 11 per cent of the year's
income of the U. S. in good
times. The world cannot do busi-
ness on that amount of money,
hokus-pokus or juggle it as you
will.
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The Groom News, published in
a town half the size of Claude, is
earring twice the amount of dis-
play advertising that The Claude
News carries. The Groom mer-
chants know that the more ad
vertising they carry the more
business they will bring to Groom
Not only that, but by giving their
home town paper more patronage
they make it a much better paner.
which in turn makes a better
and more prosperous Groom The
merchant who advertises even-
week in his home town paper
receives direct result;, and besides
this, he is aided indirectly by
making a better paper which
always makes a better and more
progressive town.
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Write this on your tablet:
The money system of the world
will be modified.
Ninety per cent of the world's
people and nations are off the
gold standard, two countries have
gold, the United States and France
The others must use something
for money, and will use silver
the only other precions metal.
The average human being knows
what silver is, or thinks he does.
When a Chinese got an English
bank note, even in days wher
it was supposed to represent gold
he hurried to the bank and chang-
ed it for silver taels. Then he
knew he had money.
Incidently. with all her civil
wars and troubles, China's ex-
change stands very high.
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No editor can publish a paper
in any town over a number of
yars without making some ene-
mies, if he has convictions and
stands for them. It is not hi-;
Intentions to make enemies. In
fact he reather prefers the love
and friendship of everybody, but
don't get it. Most papers have an
open forum in which any sub-
scriber can say what he thinks
and have same published in thr
Home Town Paper without cost
to him. This is what any business
man and others should do who
differ from the editor and never
never dislike the editor because
of What he writes. His intentions
are always to build a better
a better citizenship and
prosperity to the county. He
at all times receive the
of every subscriber
to', nominate William G.
or. some other DRY Dem-
ocrat for this office? It is up
to the rank and file of The Dem-
ocratic party to get busy and see
that a DRY Democrat is elected.
To nominate a WET Candidate
means that the party will never
get in a thousand miles of the
White House. We can take our
choice—elect a WET which means
sure and sudden defeat—or elect
a DRY with the best ahances in
the world of victory. This Repub-
lican PROSPERITY (?) which has
brought the nation to its knees
means millions will come back
home to roost, while thousands of
Republicans will vote the Demo-
cratic ticket as a rebuke to the
party that has brought misery,
decay and ruin to a nation that
has produced Billions of wealth in
the production of plenty to eat and
plenty to wear, while—after pro-
.iucing it—they stand by neckcrt
and hungry, while it was gobbled
ip by the MONEY GAMBLERS.
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Even thota who don't care so
much about Hoover h^ve a strong
and wistful feeling that he ought
to win that argument against
the "big navy" fellows, hands
down.
The Claude News Editor has
made mistakes and is a long ways
from perfection, yet. our subscribers
will bear evidence to thy fact that
•his paper has always stood for
Prohibition and a clean town. They
vill also state that this paper
stands for all churches and pastors
A'ho have for their work the mak-
ing of better men. better women
oetter boys and better girls
I'his paper is Democratic—an In-
.lependent Democrat, and don t
care who knows it. The pape:
has also faught the battles of tlu
poor farming class and will con-
tinue to do so. It stands for
and will continue to stand for
the Cause that needs assistance
the wrongs that need resistance,
the future in the distance and the
good that we might do. Coopera-
tion is what we need and what
.ve must have to make a better
town and county. With it we
can accomplish wonders, without
it we con do nothing. May we
cooperate.
. 1 JRm un-
der the dtraettMM of the new
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ANOTHER NOTED Bll.L
We had our Wild Bills, our
Buffalo Bilk our Pawnee Bills and
numerous other Bills, all of whom
made history during their spec-
tacular careers in the wild and
wooly west of former days.
But the west is no longer wild
and woolly. It is quite tame. Its
civilization and observance of law
ind order are equal to that of
any other section of the country
or of the world. It yields pre-
cedance to no other section in all
that is finest and best in this
life of ours.
And as the wilderness disappear-
ed. and the wool was transformed
into the finest of silk, and the Bills
ascended upon high to recei\ e theii
rewards, we entered upon an eia
if Tom, and Dick and Harry, and
Jim. Civilization had claimed its
brightest jewel.
But another Bill has arisen to
•jive us thrills, to serve as topics
of conversation around the camp
tires of the home, a Bill as famous
is those who trod the six gun
trail in the days of old.
He is Alfalfa Bill of Oklahoma.
When Alfalfa reared up on his
gubernatorial legs and threatened
to close the oil wells of this
-tate in order to force an increase
in the price of crude oil. the
country smiled, some laughed,
others snickered. To them it was
a huge, bombastic joke.
Huge undertaking it was, but
there was no bombast, for Al-
falfa did exactly as he threaten-
ed to do. and he did it with
the guns of the Oklahoma National
Guard. The great oil companies
were brought to their knees, the
price went up, and more gold is
flowing into Oklahoma as the re-
sult of "Alfalfa" nerve and states-
manship.
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Talking to man the other day
who stated that he and his wife
had be<>n ,T,age workers for a num-
ber of years, and had by economy
and denying themselve of many
things they needed, had saved up
three thousand dollars
'te said: 'Must I give this money
in. and allow it to be taxed? Or
must I send it out of the state
ind not pay taxe;: on it? If T
'ender it for taxation, it will only
!>e a question of time, when this
money, wife and I toiled for and
lenied ourselves manj pleasures to
losse-s will be taxed away from us
>nd our labors will have been
ipent in vain" Our advice was
to invest it in a track of land
near a go^d town, or invest same
in a good home while lands and
other property are down to the
?.OTTOM in price; that this pro-
nerty will come back some day
and be worth more than $1,000
>■} liiii and his wife. But if you
will not invest it, and want to
keep it. thon. let your own con-
cienco be your guide as to whether
Why pay out from four to six
times as much CASH for stamps,
envelopes, circulars or cards, to
reach the people in your trade
territory, by mail advertising, when
you can reach them—EVERY ONE
OF THEM—in a well displayed ad
in The Claude News, for ONE-
i'ORTH the price, or, in other
words, make two bits uo a dollar's
worth of advertising for you In the
Claude News, while This paper
pays all postage to reach every
one of your customers?
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If those whose Income Is $1,000,-
000, on up to a million or more
dollars a year, were taxed in pro-
portion to the farmers and others
worth $500 up to $10,000. this
government would have so much
money that It would not know
vhat to do with It. In other words
if those Immensley rich were taxed
in proportion to the poor men.
the poor men's tax would be
reduced now to ten dollars where
he usually pays $100 taxes every
year, or a reduction in taxes of
NINETY PER CENT. Does the
ooor man and farmers need this
reduction? Yea, Verily.
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Remember you will be allowed to
ote upon whether or not you
want all Taxes Elimated from
the poorer class whose land or
home is worth $3,000 or less next
year. If the rich continue to
grow richer and the poor
poorer we predict that the
time will come when ALL
property owners whose property
is valued at $5,000,or less will
have said taxs removed: that is
.my man or woman owning $5,000
worth of taxable property or less
will go TAX FREE. Naturally most
-very right thinking poor man will
vote to have taxes removed from
all property owners who own $3,000
or less, when the Constitutional
Amendment comes up for their
consideration next year. They would
be foolish not to do so, when
•axes are growing, especially on
the poor man, by leaps and bounds.
A subscriber remarked the other
day, "When I read something
which says Absolutely FREE," I
know they are lying about it and
10 not Answer them." This sub-
scriber further stated: "You will
notice that ladies answering cer-
■.ai:i advertisemente in contests;
t may be making certain letters
spell so many words, or some
ither contest, wherein you are to
■>et a car free, or some other
prize. The puzzle, if it could be
called a puzzle, is very simple and
most any one can unravel it."
Just as soon as you send in your
answer, you are immediately in-
formed that you are THE LUCKY
ONE—you won th° prize, but.
,iow, it will be necessary for you
to send in some money, sometimes
it is ten cents, some times 50c
or a $1.00 or more than a dollar.
Any way you arc the lucky guy
and as soon as you send
'hem this money you will be in
line to win the prize. Should you
he fool^h enough to senu tnem
any money you will then be higher
up and by sending in some more
money vou are almost sure to
win. This is kept up until you
will not send out any more money,
and then you may receive a minor
prize to keep you from "squeal-
■ie" about it. The prize will be
worth one-fourth to one-tenth the
money you are out on this Get-
Rich-Quirk Skin Game Operation.
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SCREENING OFF THE BILL-
BOARDS
The Long Island State Park
Commission has successfully under-
take a method unique and satis-
fying to banish the billboards
from the Southern State Parkway.
A large movable screen, artistic-
ally made of lath or lattice-work,
is placed on public property di-
rectly in front of the billboard.
A neat, sign in the middle of
the plane lattice-board informs the
passer-by as follows: "This Tem-
porary Screen Hides A Sign De-
facing The Southern State Park-
way."
As noted, the screen, being
both movable and located on
public property, constitutes a
perfect and inexpensive means of
advertising interests that spoil the
1 indscape and deface the work
of nature.
That the billboard is fast be-
coming nationally regarded as a
business unnecessary to civilization
is evidenced by the fact that
the President of the United States
recently wrote to Mrs. W. L.
I.awton. of Glnns falls. New York,
l ead of the national organization
f,r the protection of roadside
beauty, in the following language:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Mv T>nr Mrs. Lawton:
The beauty of the American
r oadside is an asset to the whole
country and should be preserved
for the enjoyment of all the
people. The efforts of the Nation-
11 Council for Protection of Road-
F'de Beauty promote the preser-
vation of natural scenery and aid
in preventing unnecessary deface-
ment-. Its objectives merit the co-
A mistaken Idea with aomo peo-
ple la that the newspaper to an
Individual proposition. If tboy don't
like the editor they feel they must
knock the paper and stand in the
way of its sueeess whenever pos-
sible. They do not realise that
the local paper is just as much
a part of the community as the
schools, churches or anything else.
Tfce newspaper is different from
any other business—it is a com-
munity affair. It Is for service
to the people and not for any
individual.
You may not like the ed£or
and the editor may not love you
any too well—but the paper he
is responsible for does just as
much for you as the service ren-
dered others. There is nothing per-
sonal with it, it Is here for a
purpose and that purpose Is to
do what good It can In every
way u can and the greater the
-support of those It undertakes to
serve the better service It can
render. It takes the people to
make a good newspaper and with-
out the help of the people no
one can run a successful news-
paper. It requires money to oper-
ate any kind of business—even
the churches and the papers are
no exception and for this reason
they must have the1 financial
support of the business interests
as well as the good will.
Pew newspaper publishers make
more than a confortable living
and scarcely one is reported weal-
thy from money made in the
newspaper business. They deserve
to be trusted and to be under-
stood by the people—it is the
editor and not the plant that
makes a newspaper useful in a
community, though liberal patron-
age is necessary if the paper is
to be a credit to the town.—
Covington Virginian <Va.)
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Many of the best books that
have come out in England of late
have been made up of radio talks.
I offer as examples Sir James
Jeans. "The Stars in Their Cour-
ses," and Dr. C. Leonard Woolley's
Digging Up the Past."
Both books now are being read
very widely in the United States,
and deservedly so, but nothing even
remotely comparable to their con-
tests is ever herd on the air on
this side.
Instead, we have an almost un-
broken s'-ries of propaganda ha-
rangues by quacks with something
to sell, and of idiotic comments
upon public events by i>ersons de-
void of both information and ideas.
—H. L. Mencken in the American
Mercy.
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Another reason it is so difficult
to adequately punish A1 Capone
is that no matter what prison
they send him to. he will be
amoung friends.
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A worthwhile marathon right
now would be to see which one
of Che country's mllloinaires can
put the most money into circula-
tion.
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The League of Nations held
a parly as to whether or not the
U. S. A. was to have a listener-
in. Say. who started that League,
anyway?
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Might as well have a war now
and then, for if we don't have
anything for our army and navy
officials to do while they are in
the service, they start fighting their
own country after they retire.
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Righteous
Economics
Or Relief For
Our People
THE RECURING QUESTION
, ■
' fix
Los Angelei firemen are being
equipped with breathing apparatus
•<o they can walk through oil well
flames.
Anne Morgan, who established
Mary Bruehl's photograph of Wil- and supported many units of the
liam Deno, a Highcliffe, VVis., farmer, American Ambulance Corps, dedi-
won the $500 first prize in an inter- cated a monument to its members
national amateur photographers' com- who lost their lives during the war.
petition.
Most Beautiful Model
Washington's Successor
Warrin
Senator
Harriet Byeri was awarded a trip
to Europe and a $2,000 wardrobe by
the American and French Dress- tograph of William E.
makers Association. * *lls heen taken in many years.
The above is the first gallery pho-
L Borah that
John R. Voorhis, Grand Sachem ot
Tammany Hall at 103, is to be made
Great Grand Sachem, an honor Pres-
ident Washington alone has held. ■'
Ms paper. All business men
bad a helping hand to
by their com- j you will allow the Government' operation of the public,
advertising i to tax it away from you, after; Yours faithfully.
By P. A. SPAIN, M. D.
Acutely coming home to farmers
now is the annually recurring prob
lem. What can be done to keep
the price of cotton from dropping
below cost of production?
Every year at a certain season,
the wheat raisers in desperation,
ask, "what can be done to keep
wheat from dropping below the
cost of production?" Likewise the
corn growers' oat growers, and rice
growers, become fanatic at their
harvest season, and seek to know
how they can prevent their out-
put from selling at a loss to them.
No answer satisfactory has yet
come to any of them. Sometimes,
especially In war times, prices
approach cost of production, but
usually in each year every class
of farmer feels that they are
sacrificed on the alter of price
manipulators.
The main cry with every one
of these producers Is "How can
I prevent the loss of my year's
work?" I must sell at or near
harvest to get money to meet my
debts, but how can I keep the
other fellow from taking my crop
at prices which Impoversh me as
a worker, but enrich him as an
idler? Such farmers are up against
a fatality which they, of their
I you have labored for it
HERBERT HOOVER, own accord,
n sy
have no power to name the price
of sale so that their labors shall
not be in vain.
In the fall of 1927, the cotton
farmers began selling at a fair
price, 20, 23 and 24 cents. Every-
body was very hopeful that the
country would soon have a good
floating money circulation as the
result of such prices. They had
been fed all during the yean
while making the crop on the
dope which says: "If you raise a
big crop, your price will go down.
If you raise a light crop, the price
will go up," but what did they
find? As the evidence came heavier i
and heavier to show there was a ;
small crop the price went down,'
instead of up. as they had been |
told to believe. The so-called law j
of supply and demand was shown
to be a dilusion at least in many
instances. As the proof increased
to show a short crop, down went
prices, lower and lower, until the:
bulk of the yield of 1927 went out
of the farmers' hands at nearly
half of the cost of production, ;
and left him penniless, in debt and \
discouraged. Somebody was respon-1
sible for this robery of the farmers,,
but who was lie? And where was j
he? He needed to be caught and j
executed, but he was in hiding |
somewhere and the officers could j
not. or did not catch him. I
The world knows that a grevious ^
wrong was put upon those cotton ,
raisers, but the executive. Judicial'
and legislative branches of the
whole government have all failed
to apperhend the criminal, and stop
his operations. The "nigger in the
woodpile" is still hiding
Here we are after another year
of hard times, and a year of
congressional wrangling, and now
the old recurring question comes
up, what can be done so the
farmer can get a proper price
for this year's work, for thus he
can pay his debts and lift the
mortgage on his land?
Many wise guys have an answer,
but they all tell him to do some-
thing which in the very nature
of things, he cannot do. He can-
not hold his crop, or profitably
pay any other private company
to hold it. His government is his
only course to help him ont.
No one seems to be heralding the
thing that can be done and would
be a remedy. Such things as
the McNancy-Haugen bills are
fraudulent and useless. It wuold
be foolish to depend on any such
pretenses. They are not built right.
They are built for the private
speculator, and not for farmers.
The government of the United
States is big enough and power-
ful enough to Issue the necessary
money, and buy this year's crop
of cotton at a proper minimum
price, If necessary, and hold it
until it can be sold at that price.
The individual farmer cannot do
that. Wheat, oats, corn, and rice,
could likewise be handled in their
turn. Then the "nigger in the
woodpile" wouldbe smoked out and
be made to show himself or else
j he would cease to operate: then
! the farmer class of people would
' be redeemed, and all the world
j would be made prosperous. The
! voters should command Congress
to act. Let's do it
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