Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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I»AGE FOUR.
THE BRENHAM DAll.r BANNER
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1012.
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BRENHAM DAILY BANNER
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CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN BEGUN-
FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.
CAUSEWAY ACHIEVEMENT
The clean-up campaign has been inaugurat-
ed in Brenham. The condition of the streets
and alleys bear witness to that fact, and, to
their credit be it said, some of the Civic Club
ladies went out upon the streets themselves
with brooms in hand to work and direct the
work of others. When the ladies are so determ-
ined to accomplish a cleaning up of the town
that they go out themselves and work, it is
pretty safe to assume that their grit will get re-
late. The spirit manifested by the Brenham
ladies seems to have given inspiration to some
of the men who have been careless or thought-
less about cleaning up, and now they are all
boosters and advocates of a clean-up campaign
and are co-operating with the Civic Club and
the Young Men's Business Club.
The streets of Brenham present a very re-
spectable appearance after the clean up they
have received, and the Civic Club ladies are de-
termined that they shall stay clean and the
city ordinances forbidding the throwing of rub-
bish about the streets are to be rigidly enforced.
Brenham is now in line for a prize in the
clean city contest offered by Holland's Maga-
zine, but in order to derive benefit from the
clean-up campaign the work must be prosecut-
ed still further and the town must be kept
clean and free of flies. It will just be neces-
sary to keep up the good work all the year
round.
Publicity in newspapers and magazines to the
amount of 1,500,000 inches a year on tubercu-
losis and its prevention is being given by the
press of the United States, according to an esti-
mate issued today, by The National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
If all the publicity on tuberculosis given by
the press of this country in the year ending
April 1st were gathered in one paper, the Na-
tional Association estimates it would make a
paper of over 6250 pages. In the last four
years, during which time an active publicity
campaign has been carried on, the National As-
sociation estimates that over 5,000,000 inches
or over 90 miles of press notices on tubercu-
losis have been published.
"Publicity is the very heart of the education-
al campaign against tuberculosis," says Dr. Liv-
ingston Farrand, the Executive Secretary of
tiie National Association. "Largely because of
the intelligent co-operation of the press, has the
anti-tuberculosis movement in this country
been able to become, as it is, the greatest or-
ganized movement of its kind in the world.
When tuberculosis shall have become a rare
disease, the American press may justly claim a
large share in this gigantic movement."
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LET THE CHILD GROW UP WITH THE
FLOWERS
Don't you know that a little child whose mind
from the begining is filled with beautiful and
interested things concerning the growing world
about her will not grow spiteful or envious or
anhappy? She will be so busy and happy grub-
bing and singing in her garden that she don't
have time to speak ill of her neighbor. When
she thinks of her it will be to carry her flowers
and fruits. Of course my system of child train-
ing has drawbacks. You never saw a lovlier,
clump of Chinese sacred lillies than I had been
saving for an entertainment. I heard Mar-
4jaret singing down by the cow lot and went
4own there for her, just in time to see the last
sacred lilly bud disappear down the Jersey's
throat, and by the way,I never saw a cow smile
before, but I give you my word that beast was
so pleased, she was smiling. I was there and
I saw her.
Of course the child knew no better, so I tried
to explain, telling her that a cow didn't eat
flowers, that for her dinner she had grass.
"But this isn't her dinner, you know, Aunt
Lucy; ifs a cow party and at cow parties, cows
always eat lilies."—Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, in
Hie Progresive Farmer-
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Now that Brenham has clean streets a move-
ment for more shops and factories is in order.
Galveston News ^
Houston people are preparing for the Gal-
veston causeway opening in a thorough manner.
At a meeting held in that city Tuesday it de-
veloped that upward of one thousand automo-
biles are to be in the procesion that will come
from Houston over the magnificent shell roads
to engage in the magnificent opening celebra-
tion. These machines will be decorated in a
manner suitable to the occasion and there will
be many Houston banners in the line. Organi-
zation of this Houston contingent to the cause-
way celebration is being arranged in amanner
that is sure to make the showing very gratify-
ing to Houston and Galveston alike. With 1000
automobiles in line it may easily be figured out
that the Houston visitors will extend along the
road for more than half the distance betwen the
two cities. It will take more than one hour
for these machines to cross the causeway even
if they make good speed and move.at a reason-
ably short headway. There has never been a
longer or better parade of automobiles in Texas
than this from Houston to Galveston promises
to be. When it is considered that other cities
will be represented in the parade and that the
Galveston automobiles will be out in full force
the magnitude of the pageant over the cause-
way on the opening day will be appreciated.
Houston has been active with Galveston in
causeway since it became visualized by the en-
ergy of the News in urging its construction
and insisting upon the great value it would
be to this city and the territory contingent
Houston joined with members from Houston
in securing the necessary laws preliminary to
construction of this work- The causeway is
going to be especially useful to the people of
Houston who own automobiles. It is a valua-
ble utility also to other people of that city who
use it only through its facilities to carry the
railway trains and the electric cars. But the
causeway was almost a necessity for the elec-
tric railway and the two are to be considered
together in estimating the advantages they of-
fer to the neighboring city.
Preparations for celebrating completion of
that great work recall the story of how the
causeway came about and bring remembrance
of the excellent teamwork that marked the
great activity was shown by Mr.Colquitt, then
a member of that bod}'. Among other things
progress of the enterprise from the time it took
tangible form. Many thinge were to be done
before the causeway could be built. The rail-
road commission took interest in the matter and
that had to be accomplished was the enactment
of a law to enable the interurban railway to
join in the construction, the right of eminent
domain at that time not applying to electric
railroads. Bills for this purpose were intro-
duced in the senate by Senator Grigs of Hous-
ton and Masterson of Galveston. A similar bill
was introduced in the house by representative
MacGregor, Hume and Brown of Houston and
Representative Maclnernay and Briggs of Gal-
veston. Opposition to the measure developed
in both branches of the legislature. The senate
bill was finaly pased on February 26, 1907.
In the meantime bills had been introduced in
both the senate and house providing the way
for construction of the causeway. The senate
bill was introduced by Senator Masterson and
the house bill by Representatives Maclnerney
and Briggs. When this bill was called up for
final passage in the house Maclnerney, in re-
sponse to a query as to the object of the meas-
ure replied that it was "to annex the United
States of America and the empire of Texas 1)
the free republic of Galveston." The cause-
way bill was finally passed February 19, -907.
After this bill was sent to Governor Campbell
it was found to contain errors and was returned
to the legislature in pursuance of a joint reso-
lution, where corrections were made and the
measure finaly pased M<irch 15. This bill was
signed by the governor March 16, 1907.
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Now that the axmen have been caught and
the negroes can rest in peace without being dis-
turbed by horrible visions of black monsters
with uplifted axes preparing to split their heads
open. Not since the days of the Klu Klux has
anything terrified the negroes like the axmen
have, and whether these midnight murderers
be crazy fanatics or fiendish demons, it is con-
soling to know that some of them, at least, have
been placed behind the bars where they can do
no more harm.
Now is the time for all good men to come to
the aid of their country in support of the
good road movement.
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The Young Men's Business Club is a tower
of strength for Brenham that will surely assert
itself in many ways. Three hundred boosters
constitute this club and the well directed ef-
forts of 300 boosters are bortld to count.
WHY DOES MAN WORRY?
Madero the man that made himself president
of Mexico last year is , occupying an uncertain
seat and his restlessnes is making him irrita-
ble. He is even cross to Uncle Sam.
Dr. William S. Sadler.
Now it is a curious fact that man is the only
animal that makes himself ridiculous by wor-
ry. The biologists teach us that intelligence—
the liability to worry—exists only in those ani-
mals that possess associative memories. And
so the higher we ascend in the scale of animal
life, the greater the tendency to worry, that is,
to borrow trouble, to look with.fear and mis-
giving upon that which the future hoi !.-> in
store, or to be unduly apprehensive concerning
the difficulties and problems of the present.
Many good people entertain the false notions
that the possession of material riches can be-
stow happiness upon the soul. They are fully
possessed of the idea that riches are essential
to the joy of living. Accordingly they toil in
anxiety, endure hardships, and experience
much mental torture in their efforts to provide
themselves with these supposed essentials to
life and happiness. Some people constantly
worry because they are "criticised" either just-
ly or unjustly. They are always being "neg-
lected" or "slighted" even by their best friends.
Other people are depressed and dejected be-
cause they are sure their great worth is not ful-
ly appreciated by their associates or employers-
Many persons fret and fume and worry because
they feel that it is their duty to resent some
supposed or real injury or injustice which has
been done them.
Other people worry because they are inordin-
ately timid—backward. Now worry grows by
what it feeds on. , When we nurse and nourish
this spirit of dissatisfaction it acts and reacts
upon ourselves until the very soul is filled with
discontent and the mind is permeated with com-
plaining. However small and trifling the mat-
ter over which we begin to worry, the insignifi-
cant cause of our mental dissatisfaction will
be found entirely sufficient to feed and nourish
the spirit of uneasiness until it gains posses-
sion of our minds, threatens to wreck our ca-
reers, and constantly harasses the soul to the
point where life is unbearable. That we can
absolutely cure worry admits of no question.
The first important truth to learn is that we
can not escape from worry so long as we per
mit the causes for worry to remain active in
our lives. We must first trike hold of the
causes; do away with what causes us worry.
And the way to do this is, first of all, to train
the mind to think positive thoughts. The secret
of the self-treatment of worry is the cultivation
and acquirements of self-control. You must be
captain of your own mind. Abraham Lincoln
had a splendid motto for every trouble that
came to him. He would simply say: "And this,
too, will pass." There is a good deal of com-
mon sense in that saying of the street: "Never
trouble trouble till trouble troubles you." I
know of a great many people who have cured
themselves of chronic worry and despondency
by simply enlisting in the "cheering-up busi-
ness"—that is, going about sympathetically and
persistently cheering other people up. A con-
stant effort to help other people cease worry-
ing is sure to react favorably upon ourselves,
and prove of great assistance to us in our bat-
tle to banish thought and worry. And last, but
not least, if you would be successful in com-
pletely and finally overcoming worry, do some-
thing helpful for your neighbor now and then.
Live the golden rule. Do not allow your arti-
ficial needs to accumulate unnecessarily and
demand all your time. Reserve a little energy
for Good Samatrian work and you will finish
the day's task refreshed and satisfied, instead
of hungry, thirsty and dissatisfied-
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TOMORROW.
King Hassam, well beloved, was wont to say,
When aught went wrong, or any labor
failed,
"Tomorrow, friends, will be another day!"
And in that faith he slept, and so prevailed.
Long live this proverb! While the world shall
roll,
Tomorrows fresh shall rise from out of the
night,
And new baptize the indomitable soul
With courage for its never-ending fight.
No one, I say, is conquered till he yields,
And yield he need not while, like mist from
glass,
God wipes the stain of life's old battlefields
From every morning that he brings to pass.
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New day, new hope, new courage! Let this be,
O soul, thy cheerful creed! What's yesterday,
With all its shards and rack and grief, too
thee?
Forget it, then; here lies the victor's way!
—Selected.
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Boost for the betterment of Brenham.
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In every progressive movement for the bet-
terment of Brenham the Banner may be count-
ed on as a booster, and when the interests of
Brenham are jeopardized the Banner will be a
knocker.
THE WAY TO REDUCE THE COTTON
ACREAGE.
W. F. Massey.
We urge the growing of more cotton per
acre, because there is no profit in taking five
acres to make a bale at 10 cents a pound, but
because there is profit at 10 cents in cotton
where a farmer makes a bale or more an acre,
and does this by having a good rotation of
crops, plenty of oats, and corn and peavine hay,
and feeding cattle.
No mere reduction of the cotton acreage will
ever brin grelief if the reduced acres are not
accompanied by better farming on the fest of
the land. Time and again, when cotton has
reached a low figure, there have been efforts
to get the farmers to agree to reduce the acre-
age, and every one of them will assume that
the other fellow is going to reduce the acreage
and he will get in all he can to take advantage
of the reduction, and the result is just as many
acres as ever-
Cutting the cotton acres by adopting good
methods of farming and developing the pro-
ductivity of every acre cultivated is the only
road to improved conditions in the cotton coun-
try. Agreements to reduce acreage and then
to keep on depending on cotton alone for every-
thing else will be of no help to the cotton
grower. It is by reducing the cost of growing
the crop that more profit will come to the grow-
er, and the cost can be reduced by good farm-
ing and greater production per acre not only
of cotton but of corn an doats, and wheat and
hay, and the turning of the roughage and the
cottonseed meal into manure on the farm.
The man who sells cottonseed and then buys
2-8-2 for another cotton crop on the same land
is going backwards. The man who trades the
seed for a fair amount of meal and feeds it
with good hay and oat straw and corn stover
is going forward to success and a cash basis...
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RESCUE WORK OF THE WIFELESS.
I January 23, 1910—1650 passengers and crew
of the Republic saved by wireless after collision
in fog with the Florida. "Jack" Binns wireless
operator on the Republic, won fame by heroic
conduct. Wrecked vessel rescued by the Baltic
of the White Star line. •
September 9,1910—Thirty-three persons res.
cued by car ferry summoned by wireless to
wrecked Pere Marquete car ferry steamer No.
18 off Sheboyan, Wis. Two passengers and
thirty-one officers and crew drowned.
July 29,1911.—Canadian training ship Niobe
assisted in response to wireless signals of dis-
tress when wrecked off Yarmouth, N. S-
August 30, 1911.—Twelve passengers of the
steamship Lexington rescued from wrecked
vessel off Hunting Island through wireless mes-
sages sent by 16-year-old "Jack" Sheets.
The loss of life on the Titanic doubtless would
have been been much larger but for the wire-
less appeals for aid. The wireless operator
on the Titanic who sent out the S. O. S. when
she struck the iceburg was J. G Phillips, for-
merly employed as a wireless operator on James
Gordon Bennett's yacht. Later he worked on
the steamer Oceanic, from which he was trans-
ferred to the new Titanic.
All steamships of consequence are required
to be equipped with the wireless, which only a
few years ago seemed only a fanciful dream.
By an act of Congress, passed June 24, 1910,
all ocean-going steamers carrying fifty passen-
gers or more are required to have wireless ap-
paratus capable of transmitting messages at
least 100 miles. The Canadian law is applied
to all passenger ships.
The total oil production of the state in March,
according to figures furnished by the Oil and
Gas Journal, was approximately 961,000 bar-
rels. This is an excess over the February out-
put of 91,000 barrels, or 10.4 per cent- A num-
ber of new wells were reported from the Gulf
Coast field.
^Whether Roosevelt ever does anything else
in this world he is entitled to the thanks of
! every advocate of good government for putting
Penrose on the shelf in Pennsylvania, and
Lorimer out of business in Illinois, for Roose-
velt s victory in those states means the retire-
ment of Penrose and Lorimer.
—o
While some parts of the country are suffer-
ing from famine and flood, Brenham is suffer-
ing from the fly pest.
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Any systematic transportation is incomplete
unless there are good roads to reach the rail-
way and canals.
Start work now on the public highway so
that you may convey the coming crops to mar-
ket in double-quick time.
WhiJe Taft is getting the hard hits from
Teddy s big stick he doubtless feels like Caesar
when his old friend Brutus gave him a fatal dig
in the ribs, when with an agonized expression
he exclaimed: "Tt tu Brute."
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Eberle, Frank. Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1912, newspaper, April 19, 1912; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth482965/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.