The Temple Daily Telegram. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 149, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 11, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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PLE DAILY TELEGRAM
DAILY TELEGRAM Established™.! -.1907
DAILY TRIBUNH Established 1894
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1910.
PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY, BY THE
TELEGRAM PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Entered at the Postoffice in Temple, Texas, as Second
Class Mail Matter.
E. K. Williams ..Managing Editor
Ben Haralson City Editor
Nettie Gooch Society Editor
J. Benjamin Mabry ... — _-.-Railroad Reporter
Mrs. Henrietta Sweeney. . -Business Office Manager
Office of Publication 123 South First Street, Temple,
Texas.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ~
Delivered by Carriers, inside City Limits—
Daily and Sunday, per month..-. 50c
Daily and Sunday, per year $5.00
Single Copies . 5c
Daily and Sunday by mail, in Bell county outside
of Temple, per year, in advance ..-$3.00
The Daily Telegram is the Largest and Most Widely
Read Newspaper Published in Bell County.
"telephones.
Buiiness Office and Circulation Department:
Old Phone 586
New Phone 195
IF.
The cheapest pavement, and the easiest built, is
composed of the crushed fragments of the thousands
of Ifs. The great trouble lies, however, in the fact
that that great paved highway stretches behind us in-
stead of into the vista before our eyes. Before us
rise great, and sometimes insurmountable, piles of
boulders, unhewn Ifs, that we must bend our backs
to and experience the pain of the~bleeding wounds
those jagged boulders will tear, almost the instant
we grapple them to—cast them behind us.
Because, with the most of us, that's the best we
can do, and forget, if even so mucr is within our pos-
sibilities.
If! That word has stood like impassable ranges of
mountains between us and our very souls' desires,
how many, many times! Sometimes its form
changes, and it is an imp of the outer drakness, teas-
ing us with grimace and poke of bony fingers to dare
—IF we dare. And it knows that we know that we
can not dare to do. Composed of two letters, one of
the first words we learn to spell, it blanches our hearts
with fear, congeals our blood, and turns to mush our
brains. A phantom of evil by day, a crushing weight
upon our restless souls at night we are slaves to that
tiny word synonymous with bondman, from the first
awakening of intelligence in our brain to the dark
hour of our going out of this world via the tomb.
Ifs! They stretch behind us in breadth and length
concerted with the dust of our crushed hopes. We
can not retrace oi:r steps, besides what would be the
use? And before us, they are for us to wrestle with
and go down, time and again, in defeat.
If—only it were not true.
Regardless of what Temple census figures disclose
our population as being, we'l lall very well know that
we are more.
The state of "disconnected thought and indiscrimi-
nate applause" is reached at 2 a.m., bubble-water hav
ing meanwhile been in delugeous quantity.
Every once and awhile, between the roar of polit-
ical guns, a squeak is heard for good roads. While
there's life there's hope, it is alleged.
Indianians are all puffed up about being the politi-
cal puzzle of the whole world, when in fact they're
pure lucidity compared to Texans and their Guber-
natorial Big Four.
The Santa fe double-tracked from Temple to the
port of Galveston will be brought to pass within the
next thirty-six months, is the prediction freely made
by those who know what they're talking about.
Mr. Bryan is beginning to refer sweepingly to the
press as being "controlled by capitalists and parti-
sans." Manifestly he was really in earnest in declar-
ing recently that he is no longer a candidate for any-
thing.
"A St. Louis horseman bought four kisses from a
girl in Omaha at $5 per. We take it that the man is
• tightwad, else the Omaha girl compares with the
Texas girl about as a raw potato compares with an
Elberta peach," declares the Houston Post. To eat?
girls, we mean. We ask enlightenment because gen-
erally spuds and peaches are classed as food,
"Selling goods is first and last by suggestion" de-
clared a Temple man the other day. Altogether truth
he did utter. And first and last and all the time, there
is only one practical and sure medium for impressing
that suggestion upon the mind of the buyer—the ad-
vertising colums of a morning, and well-edited-up-to-
'hc ir.inute weekly newspaper.
Paso tomorrow will tip the wink off, maybe a pretty
ittle bull fight may be arranged for them across the
river," opinionates the Dallas News. Yes, hmn, and
other entertainment of a kind, this side of the river
as well. But the bankers know; they've been in El
Paso before.
Perhaps not in this Methodist biennial general
conference year, but inevitably in the future unless
thgy are given "laymen's rights' as demanded,
Methodist women will do some tall "insurging" their
ownseives A bunch of Bishops and other male crea-
tions from the dust of the earth will simultaneous be
put to some side-stepping that will make that at pres-
ent of "Unk Joe" and "Piute Aldrich" fade away as
a stunt worth while.
HOLD YOUR T0E-H0LT!
That the Cotton Belt Railroad, Waco and a few in-
dividuals have acknowledged themselves booted out
of the Temple-Gatesville-Hamilton-Comanche rail-
road development field, it will be the part of wisdom
for the four place smentioned to be duly diligent and
tnergetic, as well, in seeing that the toe-holt they
have gained is not budged or weakened.
They are a crafty set, those Cotton Belt and Waco
folk. While telling you, to the white of your eyes,
that they are the original packages of well-wishes,
they are looking for the chance to bat you one on the
thinker, and chances are, before you wake up to
what's landed against you they're off with the loot.
It is therefore meet and right, and wise besides,
for us to be on our jobs day and night. Any winken
and blinken and nod indulged in by Temple, Gates-
ville, Hamilton and Comanche is likely to end like a
spasm to our purposes now so well in hand. It is
wise, also, to remember that we have been thru a ter-
rific scrap with those arch enemies of ours, and they
will attempt some sort of a flank movement unless we
are wary and awake in the trenches. Waco continues
the game of bluff; but those folks up there are daily
growing more desperate.
Guard closely against the rat and the snake when
it is cornered and there is no alternative but fight to
the last breath—or die.
Mrs. Clara Seveier of New York represented Gov.
Campbell at the banquet given the States' Governors
Monday night by the New York World's Fair Com-
mission at the Hotel Astor. Of course some not-near-
diciples of Governor Tom's now will rise to remark
that "no doubt the substitution was better than the
original could have hoped to be."
The Houston Post referred all Spring poets and
their crop of effusions to the Richmond (Va.) Times-
Dispatch as a publication specializing such moor.y out-
puts. Judging from the verses diversifying the col-
umns of exchanges coming to The Telegram's table,
a large quantity of that fore-runner of the silly sea-
son was sidetracked this side of the Mississippi. May-
be, though, the poets thought The Post was just
joshing.
Great, piping times of change, these be. "I am
not ready to commit political suicide or have the
Democratic party commit suicide because Bryan de-
mands it," vouched County Commissioner Fashenau
of Otoe county, Nebraska, as his reason for refusing
the Great Commoner the use of the court house in
islature to enact the initiative and referendum, Right
islature to enact the initiative and refereudum. Right
under the mouth of the gun, too, as it were. And the
Democratic hosts, including the Legislators, say "go
it! We're with you."
Fifty Years the Standard
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Baking Powder
Made from Grapes
Highest award Chicago
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"Helping the Editor"
GEORGE ADE TELLS HOW SOMETIMES IT ISN'T EVEN ATTEMPTED.
"If *.e Tex.
MOKt
*re to assemble in El
Every time a paid representative of a fire insur-
ance company jumps into public print with a long
unfolding of how the National fire waste is a calamity
and all that sort of thing, the tale generally is adorned
with a cracker reading about like this: "Just at this
time, when the State of Texas has undertaken, thru
the State fire rating board, to reduce the enormous
fire waste of the State"—it's time for all good men
to come to the aid of the fire rating board, or words
to that effect. And all the while, the fire rating
board is occupying almost as much space in the news-
papers explaining itself, as the Gubernatorial candi-
dates in telling the dear people why the other three
should qot be elected. The annual fire waste is, in
truth, enormous, and a waste in every sense of the
word. But about this fire rating board, it's beginning
to be quite a different matter with the boys at the
creek forks, including of such ennobling streams as
the Trinity, Brazos, Buffalo Bayou, San Pedro, not to
say, also the Leon.
BRAIN LEAKS
After seeing a man "raise" on aces and eights after
the draw we feel that we indeed have found a man
with fool courage enough to raise the Maine.—Buffalo
(N. Y.) Express.
Cone Johnson, Major Hemphill's candidate for gov-
ernor of Texas, says Poindexter has no prohibition
record to speak of. That's quite a complimnet, from
an oppontent, too..—Houston Post.
President Barrett of the Farmers' Union is making
a noise like a man who has four aces up his sleeve.
On with the play.—Houston Post.
Many are guessing that Dr. Rankin will be elected
a bishop at Ashville at the general conference of the
Methodist church. What will Texas then do for polit-
ical leadership?—Brownwood Bulletin.
Those Nebraska barbers who are prohibited by the
new law from eating onions ought also to be required
to take the pledge or chew cloves.—Houston Chron-
icle,
We are patiently waiting for a baby to be named
Theodore Roosevelt Napoleon Bonaparte Henry Wat-
terson Jack Johnson and to be called Rastus for
short.—San Antonio Express.
Judge William Poindexter will not yield to the dic-
tates of what his lieutenants believe only a motive to
discourage the judge and cause his resignation from
the race for governor. Mr. Poindexter stands as solid
on the track as he does on the prohibition question,
and he, in our opinion, will never be hunched out of
the running unless it is done at the polls.—Killeen
Herald.
THE DAUGHTERS QF THE GOVERNOR.
(Houston Chronicle.)
The letter of the officers and executive committee
of that most worthy guild, the Daughters of the Re-
public of Texas, addressed to Governor Campbell, is
felicitiously phrased, and in simple, earnest language
makes plain to the governor their meaning and clear-
ly states their purposes and desires. It is just such
a letter as might have been expected from such a
source. It is marked by entire absence of anything
Ike dogmatic demand, and at the same time there
is to be found in it no suggestion of absequiousness
or fear of offending a sueprior.
While paying to the governor proper apd deserved
raespect, the ladies do not forget their own dignity
nor hestitate to ask what they feel is clearly their
due. The women who sent the letter are exponents
and representatives of the very highest type of the
womanhood of Texas. In the viens of each and every
one of them flows the blood of soldiers and gentle-
men, whose name3 and whose deeds are woven in the
very warp and woof of the history of Texas and
they are worthy of the ancestry from which they
are descended.
Governor Campbell is himself a native Texan, and
no man doubts that he glories in her past, so radiant
with heroic deeds, and cherishes with unfailing pride
the memory of that dauntless band which bapai^ed
with patriot blood the mission of the Alamo and
made it forever a shrine to which pilgrims will bend
their steps through all the coming years, to pay rev-
erence to matchless valor.
Every building or part of a building that was not
a part of or appurtenant to the mission of the Alamo
on March 6, 1836, should be removed, and only the
walls and remains of buildings be left which receive-
ed the baptism of patriot blood or which sheltered
those who fought there. '
The women who ask the privilege of performing;
that sacred task are moved by motives as noble as
ever prompted human action—love of country and
pride of ancestry. Their prayer should be granted.
New York, May. 10. George Aile
was among the speakers at the joint
banquet of the Associated Press and
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association delivering a brief ad-
dress on "Helping the Editor." Mr.
Ad* said:
"Mr. Toastniaster aud Gentlemen:
'The A. P. is a great institution.
Around a newspaper office we always
felt easy in our minds if we knew the
A. p. was on the job. My out-qf-town
assignment was usually given to me
in the following words: 'Send in a
good story—the A. P. Will cover the
facts.'
"1 respect the A. P. because it lias
nothing to do with the Sunday sup-
plement. The A. P. never sent a
heavy editorial at 10 p. m. and mark-
it 'must.' It never ordered pictures
to go with the stuff and it never came
around the next day to inquire why it
had not been played up. The A. .P.
bears the same relation to the mod-
ern American newspaper that the sol-
id business man does to the modern
American family. It stands In the
background and provides the where-
withal, keeps out of the spot-light,
takes all of the blaine and gets migh-
ty little glary. Respected but not
featured on the front page. When
there is a grand jubilee, father and
the A. P. are behind the potted palms
with the orchestra checking up the
expenses.
Sales »f Vernacular.
"I am glad to be here for several
reasons. Now that you may have for-
gotten what you paid for it, I am wil-
ling to meet the gentlemen who
bought my merchandise. I sold you
an assortment of capital letters and
a job lot of Chicago vernacular, aud
you thought you were getting a new
brand of humor. Very often I would
weaken when it came time to sign the
vouchers. Then I would read some of
the other syndlc|te stuff and take
courage.
" Every man who has not tried it
thinks he can 'edit a-newspaper, write
a comic opera and manage a hotel. I
still believe I know a lot about the
hotel business.
"When I went to Chicagoo to help
Victor P. Law bob uplit a community
that did not want to be uplited, I
noticed every day, in going to the
roof garden, a laarg« and well-light-
ed apartment in which a unmber of
nobby gentlemen were seated at roll-
top desks talking about circulation
Most of them were smoking and the
more they smoked the more enthusi-
astic they became about the circula-
tion. I learned that these aristocrats
of profession were what are known
as the business end of the paper.
About the time we began to diagram
the daily murder they would put on
their top coats an^ dog-skin gloves
and saunter over to the Auditorium
hotel. In those days if a young man
from somewhere out in the corn belt
came to the office and applied for a
job he was asked if he had attended a
first class Western college. If he an-
swered 'yes' and could produce a let-
ter from the professor of English
showing that he had written articles
for the college paper, he was put on
the editorial department at $15 a
week. If he could prove absolutely
that he hail not attended any college,
he was assigned to the business de-
partment at $40 a week.
Discovered Hig Mistake,
"I learned upon investigation that
I had made a mistake in taking up
the literary end of the game so I
resolv«d to go in for advertising.
Therefore I becama an author and a
playwright. After ten years in the
rarefied atmostphere of dramatic art
ag practiced today at $2. a seat or
$4 on the sidewalk, I feel that I am
peculiarily qualified to discuss Am-
erican newspapers. I can proceed
with safety because if I can say any-
thing uucoraplementary, I have a
scrap book to prove that they began
it.
""Everybody want* to help the ed-
itor. Not as regards cheaper wood
pulp or keeping down the payroll,
but with suggestions for filling up
the paper. Most people still believe
that every newspaper must hustle
every nifht to get enough copy to
separate the advertisements. Being
a past-graduate I know that you are
compelled to throw columns and col-
umns of stuff on the floor. Very of-
ten, in glancing over a long tariff ed-
itorial I wonder what was thrown on
the floor—however, 1 am not here to
upset any tradiions—merely to of-
er a few helpful hints.
"In the first place the city news-
paper of today as compared with the
Indian newspaper of the '70s is tame,
inveterate, colorless and apologetic.
The first newspaper with Which I
was associated came out every Thurs-
day from a room over the hardware
store. The fires of Civil War were
still smoldering. Indiana's chief oc-
cupation was politics. Nearly every
man was voting as he Shot and some
of them a good deal oftener. Our of-
fice equipment consisted of a Wash-
ington hand press, a foot power Job
press, a perennial towel aud a few-
fonts of type—mostly italics. Ah,
but we had an editor! Those were
the palmy days of journalism of
which we hear so much at present.
No taint of commercialism, no sub-
servience to the counting room (be-
cause there wasn't any counting
room,) no cogwheels or card indexes
—simply a majestic figurehead of an
editor who was animated by a high
and patriotic resolve to promote man-
slaughter as often as possible. When
he opened up on a man, the man's
only escape was to walk outside of
our circulation, which he could do in
about ten minutes.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
"If you hear a man raving about
the golden age of American journal-
ism, when each editor exercised an
individual influence and lpd the way
through the darkness with a flaming
torch, above his head—let it go at
that. Don't take the trouble to ex-
amine the files of that wonderful
peiod or you may be discouraged ov-
er your present efforts. 1 plead for
a return of thoBe heroic days when
every editorial was a trumpet blast
and every paragaph was a fiecack-
er. We used to go to press at 2
o'clock, aud by 4 o'clock the whole
population would be on the streets
waiting for the sounds of assault and
battery. The old-timp editor, the one
we ail read about, who stamped his
individuality on every issue of his
paper and din't bother about' the
presswark, do you remember what he
called a man if he didn't care much
for him? He didn't call him a molly-
coddle or antlinsurgent or a malefac-
tor of an undesirable. He said that
the man was a poltroom, a hellhound,
a pusilanimous liar, an unmitigated
horse-thief, a jackal, a marplot, a
caitiff, a reptile, a viper, a cur and a
whelp. Here are a lot of valuable
and expressive -words that are grad-
ually being eliminated fom our vo-
cabulary because the editors of to-
day, steeped in commercialism, have
abandoned the methods of Wilbur F.
Storey and accepted the leadership
of Edward W. Bok.
"Also, the newspapers of today are
criticised because they are kind to the
big advertiser. I thinlc newspapers
are somewhat under the domination
of the big advertiser. In fact, the
big advertiser has got them so
worked up that many of them want
to run him for a third term.
IN THE POOR HOUSE.
"I read not long ago that down In
Brown county, Indiana, the front
room of the county poor house—a
large cheerful apartment with south-
ern exposure and plants in the win-
dows—is occupied by a man who for
many years conducted a newspaper
tah tpleased everybody.
hand. It's hard to be *
out dlsappointmentl
best friends. So if
all your critics, do
thing and please yo
Firemen.
Alexander the Great, Caesar, Han-
nibal and Coming down to modern
times Napoleon Bonaparte, are a few
of those who have won eternal re-
nown because of their ability to com-
mand man to murder his brother
man on the battlefield. To wound,
to maims, to kill, if you do it in a
wholesale manner, will insure the
chronicling of your deeds in the pages
of history, will win the plaudits of
men for all time, for in the last an-
alysis we are all barbarians, the prim-
itive man has had an overwhelming
influence In our mental makeup and
we thrill with emotion as we read
of the heroic deeds of a Richard ('our
de Leo, root for our favorite as the
battle axes or swords clash .and yell
with exultation—mentally —when
the sharp-edged weapon bites into
the flesh of a man created in God's
image and the glow of satisfaction
permeates our being as the life blood
of a father, a son or a lover enriches
the soil for to be able to kill in com-
bat means heroism.
But if to aid death Is heroic, to
combat death and combat him suc-
cessfully, is God-like and our fire-
men are waging an unending war on
that death-destroying property, on
that death destroying human lives,
i\nd, frequently, while saving others
from death the fireman becomes the
victim of the desolator of humanity,
coming to their end by that most hor-
poor huuianit
Etch und dVery man
badge of a fireman Is a hero worthy
of eternal renown, but who among
ua can mention the names of ten
firemen who have gone down to
death that others could live?
We sleep in security, defy the fir*
fiend, because we know there are un-
known heroes who are willing to of-
fer up their lives so that our homes,
our wives, our children and ourselves
will not be devastated by the fire
king.
We do not know of the enormous
debt of gratitude we owe the fire lad-
dies, but we all know we are indebt-
ed to them and this feeble effort of
mine Is written to show in a slight
way that I have a small knowledge
of the enormous debt humankind
owes to our firemen, as a slight trt--
bute to that magnificent heroism
finding lodgment in the breast of
every man wearing a fireman's uni-
form. FRANK V. CORR.
THE HIGH COST "OF LIVING
Increase the price >>f man'/ necessities
without Improving the quality. Foley's
Honey and Tar maintains it* high stan-
dard of excellence and its great cura-
tive qualities without any increase In
cost. It Is the best remsdy for coughs
colds, croup, whooping cough and all
ailments of the throat,chest and lungs
The genuine Is In a yellow package
Refuse substitutes. W. E. Willis. X
\:
Effective Influence
A strong progressive
bank is a powerful influ-
ence in the business af-
fairs of any community.
The officers and directors
of this bank use every
means possible in protect-
ing tae interest and gener-
al welfare of the custo-
mers of this bank,
Safety First; Liberality
Next
Guaranty Bond Bank
Temple Stete Bank
STATE AND COUNTY
DEPOSITORY
THE TEMPLE SANITARIUM
A. pHva.e institution built and equipped especially for the ears ot
patients requiring surgical attention. Contagious and infectious dis-
eases not admitted.
The main building is a substantial brick structure, item heated
doors doubled and rendered noiseless, and inside walls plasten4 with
cement and enameled with many coats of hard paint. Electric call
bells, electric fans and telephone connection are a part of the gen-
eral equipment of each room.
The operating department consists of six magnifioently lighted
rooms, with tiled floors throughout. The main operating room is
tiled with non-porous white glazed tiling, which covers ceiling and
side walls, The surgical equipment in these rooms Is ths best and
most modern to be had anywhere. The Institution has a capacity
of fifty patients.
A LARGE CORPS OF TRAINED NURSES IN ATTENDANCE,
Miu Wilna Carltoa
TEMPLE, TEXAS
Mn. A. M Parioai
THE NEWPORT
Temple's Best And Most Popular Cife
New Location on South
Main. The Daily bill in
eludes the best of every,
thing the market affords
Kansas City meats every '*
day, 3P A ^ w 3
J. H. HAGEINLOCHER
PROP.
Moss Rose Restaurant
)dy. on tt
)e sim.eeRgf
#
•oif^nbsc
On the other
■Bsful with
of our
't please
xt beet
'bscrlhers."
JOE STACH,
Prnpr.
_ New Phone 257
The BestM«als In Town
Short Ordara and GENUINE IRISH iTrw . „ .
Ev«rythln< Maw. CI 7.™" " *tmUy>
THE END OF THE WORLD
should It rome tomorrow would find
fully 1-3 of the people suffering with
rheumatism of either slight or serious
nature. Nobody need suffer with
rheumatism for Ralard's Snow Lini-
ment drtves sway the trqjible, relieves
the pain Instantly and leaves the ueer
as well and supple as a two year old.
Sold by Reynolds Drug Store. O'
A Cool and Reliable Place to Eat
Under new management-the E. K. restaurant
successor to Y. P. Ling. Open day and night-
good service guaranteed.
YEE LING. PROP.
t8p0nslbl,J Kor Blllg Con'rilct*d by Former Owner.
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