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Vol. XXXV, No. 13
ALBANY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918
Whole Number 1780
THE POLITICAL EVOLUTION
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?
THE OFFICE OF IMAGINATION
WHEN God created man. He endowed him with many facul-
ties-he's a many-sided creature, and one of the rarest
gifts, is that of imagination. There is no profession or calling in
life that ran attain or reach the highest pinacle of success, with-
A GREAT political evolution is now pending, or rather, it has A SK Sears-Roebuck Co. It's true, out here in West Texas, con-
already arrived. The Taylor County Times, a rabid Per- ditions are not normal, besides manufacturers and jobbers
guson advocate, has climbed out of the masculine political corral are curtailing the output, and Uncle Sam has got his eagle eye on
And aligned itself with the petticoat wing of this great big Demo- excess purchasers but Sears-Roebuck are sending out catalogs by
cratic government. Yes, it has taken time by the forelock read the train load and fishing for the sheckels on the commons, that out a good stock of imagination. This is a materialistic age and
the hand writing on the wall-anticipated the impending evolution by the right of occupancy and by every other right known to com- the trend of modern day thought is away from the office of imag-
that's coming two years henc like an avalanche, and nominated mercial ethics, belong.-! to the home merchant. Are thoy burning irmtion. We do not believe or give heed to anything, except that
Mies Annie Webb Hlanton lor Governor. Among other qualifica- money to put on a costly show, by sending out their handsome which we can discern with the natural eye-that is to say, what
tions, he mentions the fact that he is satisfied that she will keep illustrated catalogs, which makes the filthy lucre burn and the wo can see, feel, touch and analyze and comprehend. And yet,
the governor's man ion in apple pie order that will help some, to frisky dollars dance in the pockets of the buying population for a the mightiest forces in the Universe of God are the unseen things
say the least of it. Now, in this connection, we want to put the joy ride across the bargain counter? Ar,- they getting returns for and the imagination of man has dared to penetrate the mystic
masculine pie counter mongers on notice that they had just as well the output for printers ink and postage? Stand on Main street' veil and browse around in the valley of hidden jewels—and thus,
Bet their houses in order and adjust themselves to the new condi- every afternoon about five o'clock and watch the mail boy bring scientific research, through the office of imagination, has invaded
tions that are coming. Henceforth, women are going to be a fac- down cart loads of merchandise, shipped by parcel post from Chi- the sacred precincts of Nature's storehouse and revealed these
tor in the politics of Texas. In normal times, she is in the ma jor- ca/o and Dallas, hundreds of miles. Then we again ask the ques- truths. In childhood we are just one big bundle of imagination,
ity in this state, and especially during this war she is going to tion: Does it pay to advertise? The trade territory contiguous to In the playhouse, we see marble palaces, sky scrapers, and city
have a handsome overplus at the ballot box. Therefore, she will every town belong ; to the home merchants. They have the right blocks of stone and mortar. In the toy pistol and tin soldier, we
be queen of all she surveys out yonder on the political commons, of way. if they will occupy it. Oh. but they say that it's- dull and hear the tramp of armies and the booming of cannon. In the flut-
There's just one thing that will bar them, and that will be a split there ain't no money in the country. Just step down t • the post ter mill an I mud pie stunt down on the spring branch, we behold
in their ranks. If they organize and stand together, ;n the year office and take a luok at I ,cle Sam's ni mey or ler st To nook, and dam.-.tes and hear the whir of machinery down there in the worlds
1920 they will capture every office in the state from constable to you will find out who's harvesting your crop of scanty dollars, industrial centers. lathe country parson's eloquent peoration,
United States Senator—and thus, they will give Congressman Tom They never sleep, and the dryer and t!:e scarcer money becomes, the school exhibition, we see and hear the gladiators contending
Blanton and Senator Morris Sheppard a dose « f their own dope, just that much harder do they p ish the go-cart of publicity. And in the r im, see th vorld's stage stars before the footlights and
In our humble judgment it was the wroni; move to ^ive women when they slow down and cease to buck the game for the ex- lit i1-the acclamation of the multitude—and these day fancies are
the ballot. We believe in the years to come, that it will be a fire change of rags for the ready cash, then it will be time fr r you to the babes that were rocked in the cradle of imagination. And
brand that will undermine the American home, not that we think throw up the sp >nge, close your doors and take a summer vaca- some day the old folks or the country school teacher will catch the
that woman is inferior to man in natural endowments; why should tion. Publicity is a scince and a modern day dragnet for business, kid sitting under a tree, playing hookey, and building empires and
•he be?--she is the mother of the race. But we object to it on All department stores in the larger towns havu a publicity depart-' peopling them with giants, and they will box his ears, and tell him
this ground: we do not think that politics is woman's sphere. The ment, and a man especially equipped in charge. He knows the to hike out and go to work, learn to figure, write and parse, plow
greatest institution and it was the first one-that God ever insti- business, the stock, what needs to be pushed; he knows men and and hoe and slay and eat-and then, the budding flowers of imag-
tuted on this earth was the Home. And a state or a nation never he's got the dope that catches their attention and his business is, ination wither and die. Had not the Bard of Avon broke his
rises above the home—it's the barometer of a nation's morale fibre, to make the world his market place or trade territory. Mr. Home mother's apron string and hied himself away to the city, the swell-
But folks the thing has already happened; this is the age of Had- Merchant, that trade territory out there belongs to you. and your ing buds of his virile imagination would have never flowered and
kalism, in fact the b idding of this complex democratic structure facilities for reaching it are the best in the world The Country fruited in the realm of posey and drama. Yes, in the divine clois-
to a great extent, has been an experiment, as we had no pattern .Press. It covers the ground like a saddle blanket. It touches ter, away from the daily grind of trade and the college of parrots,
to go by. We have made a move on the political chess board and every phase of urban life, laughs with those who laugh and weeps he plucked the heroes enshrined by Plutarch and other ancient
woman has won in a measure her political freedom. Is it a bad with those who weep, announces the advent of the stork at the historians from the silent tomb of a bygone age, put flesh on their
law? The only way to find out is to put it to the test-try it out. home altar, antf at the grave it plays a conspicuous part, bones and marshaled them before the footlights glorified the
We are willing to weigh woman in the political balances, and if Yes, it's a picture gallery wherein the pmula'ion move an 1 have
■he proves that she can run governmental affairs better than she their being and "o-.e. 1. .1 t h t:ie I -st . Iv. rlising medium in
can the home, we ar « willing to yield her the sceptre, that is, if the realm of journalism. And its space n yours for a moderate
she can give us clean, sane politics and a better system of laws price, Mr. Home Merchant. 1 he cry of the Press and those who
than man. Time alone proves all things, and we are not afraid of are concerned about the Nation's welfare is; "Back to the soil."
the consequences. iust so long as the school house doors stand open City life is demoralising, there the seeds lurk and germinate that
and the ballot is free and untranuneled. Man is a greedy animal destroy republics, and if the alarm is not sounded, and the urban
and a child of habit, and when it comes to making concessions and population do not heed the warning, the big department stores and
the lure of the city is going t:> depopulate the rural districts.
Folk1*, this ideal life is ourn, let's occupy and possess it. Out here
in the valleys, woodlands and rolling pruiri s of the West live th.'
children of Nature, sun burned and sun crowned, the heirs . t'
switching from tin.* beaten paths of his ancestors, he never yields
the sceptre without a battle, tor centuries woman has been tug-
ging at the chains an I trying to break alouse from what she con-
sidered the thraldom of the home, and in the past half a century,
■he has made great strides, but it has been a battle royal, and
grudgingly t e sterner sex have yielded to her demands. Today,
she is admittt d to all our colleges. Yes. she has equal rights at
the Bar of Knowled ge. And not satisfied with college degrees,
strictly literary, she has invaded the sacred precincts of the pro-
fessional worid, and she has also be.'omeu great factor in tin* com-
mercial fibre of the Nation. Hut her advent into this new sphere
is still in the experimental stage and time only will prove her fit-
ness for the new duties that she has fought for and won. And
time alone will prove whether or not woman is man's equal, in the
forum, on the stump, or in the marts of trade. Tlie strong al-
ways survives, to the victor belongs the spoils. Fliis is the man-
date of the gods and men it runs through all Nature, in the veg-
etable and animal kingdom. Woman, you are on trial, and at the
bar of 1 'ublic Judgment. The verdict will be handed down, and if
in the shop of statecraft you can equal or excell, man will divide
the honors otherwise, the God that rules the destiny of iiis peo-
ple will lead vol back to the home, to mother the race and be the
queen of the great" t institution in the Universe of God The
Home.
noble sires let's roll up our sleeves an 1 in spite
setbacks, let's conquer d stiny and m u" it in il>
al
drouths at
>1. ■ • to live
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Albany NewsTwo Dollars Per Year
A Terrible Accident in Which
Alei Spears Was Dadly Hurt
A very sad accident happened
Monday evening in which Alex
Spears sustained injuries that in
all probability will cost him his
life. The way it happened was
as follows: He boarded the west
bound M. J\. & T. passenger
train at Acampo to secure a Dal-
las News, and while doing so.
the train Rtarted up and was
moving at a pretty rapid rate.
The conductor cautioned him not
to jump, sa>mg that he would
flow down, but he took a chance
morning early that his condition
was a little better, with a faint
hope that he may survive. His
sister. Mis* Florence, is at his
bedside. The sad accident cast
a gloom over the entire commun-
ity as Alex is an honored citi-
On and after November 1st, 11)18, th" subscription t< the Al-
bany News will be raised to two dollars per year. We haven't
elected to do this on our own initiative, but on account of condi-
tions that prevail throughout the world, and an order from the
United States Government, we are forced to act in thi matter.
After November the first, every subscription en our books wi'l
have to be paid in advance, and we have to make oath t this ef-
fect. Besides, we are ordered to rut our subscription !■"> pfr cent
and the output of our paper 1"> per cent. Not a single paper can
be sent out unless it's a bona fide subscription, paid in advance.
All exchanges must be cut off instanter, except those within a
radius of forty miles of plaieof publication. On July 1st, 1018, the
new postal law went into effect. It's graduated, and in its finality
in some zones, the pric • will be ten times higher than the old rate.
drama, jird I :elded a 'aire that has boen the model of the cen-
tur - or-richr-d t' ■ Kngh'h language an 1 made it preeminent in
the world letters. Wnv Cod bless your soul, man, if you are run-
ning a peanut stand an 1 yru are void of imagination, see nothing
but pa; i r sacks, parched goobers and jingling coins, you will be
i.i t a common str i huckster all the davs of your life. But oh,
live in ti.e world of imagination, fly away from the dirt and filth
of the street and th" :i\>ma of roasied peanuts; and couple these
day .in. ms on to in u-'r , ambition, and a deathless determina-
tion and the god of fortune will build yo i a palace and crown you
,ae i : ince ■ nit. cii.nts. Now we come to the office of Journal-
i in. i field fra 'gh' v. i 'i ,:mitk-.ss possibilities for the exploitation
n the divine afflatus a: IG>dhave mercy on the man, and es-
•!ai! ' the c !.;mu:.V. w!v> accidentally gets unloaded and ties
the profc
r garden J
in th* tempi". wherein brain * and imagination grapple and
tie a it .i the problt .as of civilization, lie grovels in the dingy
shop, >ees nothing but the shooting stic!{. shears and paste pot,
G. Wash and hell-box -Squire Jones' sow had pigs, Mary Ann Sin-
giet >n ran aw.;y with fie liired hand, please pay up, a load of
..ijol on sub.-vript >n, dc inquent subscribers, poor business and
o.i i<>
(i ,iV0
borer
Are.-.
s'oa of jojraalism. lie's like a hog in a beautiful
r a mi!
among the u Is. He's just a day la-
hard times. That .!:• sum total and extent of the little world
i the exercise of l,.s gray matter in other words, he has no im-
agination, don't build aircastles and sail among the clouds. The
i ,11-biIly ov. i in the C rnberhind Mountains on the Atlantic Slope
- an illustration f the proposition at bur Imagination. He was
■ M.a of a .' : lis*, ; 1 s i far as bookharning was concerned, his
mind was a* vacant as a last years birds nest. He was a diamond
in the roj„li, a day dreamer and a magnet in the midst of a moun-
tain do • i t >es, like "loadstone amongst splinters of steel." And
away out there away from the surging throng, hemmed in by
mountains and babbling brooks, he established his little print shop,
:! ated his fir.-t edition, put it in a gunny sack and carried it on his
News print has doubled and thribled and still a climbing. Iwo back across tha IIMHlfltain to the post ofl&oa, In his boyhood days
ie had chafed the mountain cat. tested the metal of the bumble
thousand publications in the U. S. have gone out of business in
the past seven or eight months. Tin1 Albany News has now been
running, going on thirty-five years it may die in this financial
scramble, but we don't think it will, as we are going to give it th.
soothing syrup of get up and get and b ost, and in ca< it does
zon. one of the county's pioneer turn up its toes, it will be the hottest funeral ever staged in Shack-
stockmen, and has a host of rel- elford county, and (iod Almighty have mercy on the guy that
atives and friends throughout would dare to preach its funeral. You can help it if you will hut
West Texas. The News extends after November 1st it will be two dollars in advance. Renewals
condolence to the family with and new subscriptions up to that date will be $1,50, Thank you.
the earnest hope that he may
survive.
Shackelford County Oil News
bee, hornet and yellow jacket in many a hard fought battle, and
he wanitd a i tine for his little four paged sheet that was charac-
ti • i-tie of the Mtrro•.mdings and the fie!. 1 that he proposed to oc-
cupy mething that meant fight, never die, and he called it the
"Ye 'inv Jacket." Did he succeed? Oh yes, out there in a little
inland \ illave of less than fifty people, buried in the fortress of
the mo -.trim, i* to ; its h -i for the success of the Republican
part:. . i a • ' ' a -.! three handrti
t . an As F,;n' r- - t. *. . :.te u i.i ff Ojok, .-lag a new song
or i", ike something, tin it be a mouse trap and you live in a dea-
J. H. Summons was in town
Monday. He says that lie got a
fair rain, but it did not come in
time to do his crop any good.
and jumped off and fell, striking ||e says the crop will be shorter
his head against a rock, sustain- than last season, will possibly
ing severe injuries. The pas- Kjn tWo hundred bales. Off of water mains laid, drilling
aenger train stopped, and he was forty acres he says that he will >tart.
conveyed to the Stamford Sani- Ket about one bale. They are still fishing f ir tools
tarium. He has been uncon- and casing in Reynolds well at Mrs. Wade McUmore vTsited
acious ever since the accident. (5. K. Morgan came in from 3165 feet, still fishing for tools the city this week
K. Bosphth. who will have
charge of the Sinclair well at
Acampo, is on the ground, and
as soon as all machinery is in
place, camp established and the
oil just us soon as rig and ma ert, the world will hea* out a path to your door steps. Look up,
chinery can be placed.
Black well in Stephens county,
section -131. 15 miles north of
Breekenridge, struck top of oil
sand 3200 feet, 110 barrels c >m-
young man, and with the lasso of imagination maverick a star.
Aim high, son, it ain't n> harder on your gun to bring down a
mountain lion than it i> to wing a mud hen. Let your imagina-
tion soar among t! stars g.«t knowledge, sit at the feet of the
i-tors and itnb; tin a* wis 1 > n. th m hike tJ the desert, put it
ing in heads. This is good news all behind you, be your own individual self, live in the world of
imagination, court the gods and build you a structure of your own,
stay on your job. toady neither t > men nor devils and fight to a
.. _ ,, , finish "It's the mongrel's holt that slips, but it's only the crowbar
Mrs. S. h. Mihken. mother of (hat linloows ,ht> bulldog's grip." 1
wj|| i as it widens the Stephens coun-
ty oil field 18 miles.
m
since the accident,
with one side pnralized. The at- l uisiana this week. He says and casing in Sun well. The
tending physicians have little that conditions are fine down Sun Company have leased sec
hope for his recovery, although there, plenty of rain and crop tions 31 and 32 from F. W. Hey-'day for Waco. Mrs. Foage and they had a tine rain up his way homa, via Mart, where she will
news was received Wednesday | conditions are good. nolds and will drill for shallow | children are still at the ranch. Friday. teach the coming year.
Capt. Bill I'oage left Wednes-
Farker Vickers was down from Miss Mildred Manning left
Lueders Monday. Parker -avs Wednesday morning for Ok la-
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McCarty, Richard H. The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1918, newspaper, August 30, 1918; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393276/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.