Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 165, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1915 Page: 2 of 6
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CLEANING UP THE LANDSCAPE.
Colonel Edward S. Cornell, head of the Na-
tional Highways Protective Society, announces
that his organization is going to fight for a
law providing for a fine of $26 or ten days in
jail for anyone who places a sign on a highway
or causes one to be placed. The law is to ap-
ply equally to the advertiser and the owner
of the abutting property who consents to the
advertising.
It would be an excellent thing if such a law
were enacted in every State. It may be im-
possible at present to prohibit owners from
letting their own property to be defaced bj;
billboards and trade legends, but certainly
communities have a right to keep the public
thoroughfares free from such disfigurements.
And when that desirable aim is accomplished,
perhaps the lesson will so sink into the minds
of vandal advertisers and real estate owners
that both tia&ses of offenders will be less in-
clined to mar the beauty of natural scenery,
jn either5?!^ or country.
It is da#ning on the American people that
landscapes have their rights, and that attrac-
tive scenes free from all sordid reminders are
very much worth while, for the pleasure their
beauty givSs; also, that if profit is to be con-
sidered, it pays better financially for any com-
munity to make its environment beautiful than
to clutter it up with glaring ads. The average
citizen is beginning to feel that he has a right
to look across the street or out of a car win-
dow without having his eye constantly offended
by ugly or incongruous billboards.
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A WOMAN-MADE WORLD ?
Mrs. Belmont, chairman of the women vot-
ers' convention in San Francisco, advised wom-
en to form no alliances with "any existing
man's political party"—which was good ad-
vice—and then proceeded with this dubious
proposition:
"The union of this sisterhood of women vot-
ers is the power politically of the near future.
For twenty centiiries you have been led to be-
lieve your work was to patch up the evils ger-
minated by man's so-called civilization. It, is
time for us women to have a civilization of our
own."
Is it at all likely that a purely woman-made
civilization would be any better than the pres-
ent makeshift which is so contemptuously re-
ferred to as "man-made"? Certainly it would
be superior in some important respects, where
man's prejudice or ignorance or neglect has
blockaded human progress. But when it
comes to organizing one sex into a political
party whose program is to remake the world
in disregard of the other sex's needs or wish-
es, not only every sensible man but every sen-
sible woman must see the folly of it. Even
if the thing could be done—and ot course it
can't—it would mean disaster. No sex, not
even the feminine, can re-mould the world and
perfect human society. It takes both.
These extreme femini.^s had better turn
back to Tennyson, who was a wise man as
well as a poet, and who made "The Princess,
pay, half a century before this feminist move-
ment broke out: i
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"Henceforth thou hast a helper, me, that know
The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.
Yet in the long years liker must they grow;
The man be more of woman, she of man;
He gain in sweetness and in moral height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the
world;
She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care,
Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind;
Till at the last she set hefrself to man
Like noble music unto noble words.
Then comes the statelier Eden back to men;
Then springs the crowning race of human-
kind."
If women are to have the franchise univer-
cally, let us have no men's parties and no wpm-
en'a parties, nor any petty bargaining by male
and female factions, but such a noble co-opera-
tion as Tennyaon portrays, in the big, complex
of bettering the world.
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Lesiie's Weekly.
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writer, in the course
^'ll-NeV^Ppfc/ newspa-
per on a great business institution of the
South, allows himself to speak of "The South,
where men, women and children are 'tired' *
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We think of Washington, the Virginian, as
renowned for his adventurous youth as for the
sustained vigor of his maturity.
It was in the Virginia legislature that Pat-
rick Henry's fiery eloquence lit the torch of
national independence.
It was a Virginian, who, by his dashing cav-
alry exploits in the Revolution, won the name
of "Light-Horse Harry" Lee.
In South Carolina, Marion and Sumter, des-
titute of almost all things except guns and
courage, checked Tarieton's invasion by what
a historian calls "an irregular, harassing war-
fare, that for daring and dash, ingenuity of
plans, pertinancity of purpose, and general ef-
fectiveness, is without a parallel in the war."
For thirty-two of the first thirty-six years
after the organization of the United States
Government, the presidency was held by na-
tives of Virginia—Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Monwiib^all men of action.
That Southerner, Andrew Jackson, who fol-
lowed them, was never suspected, either before
or during his eight years in the presidency, of
being "tired". The successful defense of New
Orleans was ascribed, more than to any other
cause, to Jackson's "almost frenzied energy".
"Davy" Crockett, the tireless explorer and
dauntless soldier, and Decatur, the- conqueror
of the Barbary pirates, were Southerners.
Taylor, the driving force of the Mexican
war, with his victories of Palo Alto, Monterey,
and Buena Vista—the last-named against
odds of four to one—was a Southerner.
In the war between the States ,the vigor,
energy, enterprise and resourcefulness of the
Southern men were as remarkable as their
courage. It needs only to mention Robert E.
Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson. Tennessee
gave also to the Union cause the Nelson of
modern American history, David Farragut.
Even now, we have in the White House a
Southerner, who held the Sixty-third Congress
in continuous session from March 4 to October
24, through a blistering Washington summer,
when he was, to all appearance, the only per-
son not "tired".
* Of Southern activity in the pursuits of
peace, we need no other testimony than the
tremendous energy that has recovered from
the utter wasting of the Civil War—lands de-
vastated, houses destroyed, or dilapidated,
farms gone to decay,, the men who might have
restored them killed or crippled*—and out of
the desolation, somehow, the men of the South
have built up wealth and prosperity again."
One is indeed ignorant who supposes that
Southerners are not active or vigorous. In
fact, the Southern people seem to be rather
conspicuous for the very activity and vigor
in which their critic assumes them to be lack-
ing
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LOGICAL.
A live grasshopper will eat a dead grasshop-
per. A Missouri farmer mixed peris green
and bran together and let a grasshopper eat
it It died, and twenty ate it up, and they
died. Four hundred ate those twenty, and
they died. Eight thousand ate those 400, and
they died. A hundred and sixty thousand ate
those 8,000, and died, and the farmer was
troubled no more.—Exchange.
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Buy It Made in Texas. *
There are lots of things one needs to buy
which are not manufactured or produced in
Texas. On the other hatjd a surprising num-
ber of the things that Texas people buy which
are produced in our home State. As a matter
of business, not of sentiment, ask for Texas-
made products, and thus help to keep Texas
money in Texas.
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A Plain Case.
Where the inducements are even approxi-
mately equal to those of av^ay-from-home com-
petition, the State, the municipality and the
individual should patronie Home Industry and
the Home Merchant to the fullest extent pos-
sible . Par, the money that is sent away from
home for purchases of any sort is drained from
the local channels, and never comes back, ex-
cept for raw materials.
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It's a good maxim that says "Don't believe
anything you hear and only half of what you
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The opening meeting or the Fort-
nightly club for the iH5-'I6 season
was held at the public library rooms
Thursday afternoon with a large and
enthusiastic attendance. The fol-
lowing officers were installed: Mrs.
S. Bowers, president; Mrs. T. J. Pier,
first vice president; Miss Netta Botts
second vice president; Mrs. J. W.
Tottenham, recording secretary; Mrs.
J. S. Olddings, parliamentarian; Mrs.
A. D. Mllroy, the treasurer, resigned
and Mrs. B. Eldridge was elected to
fill her place. Mrs. J. C. Harris, the
corresponding secretary, having mov-
ed to Houston, Mrs. L, P. Amnions
was chosen for that office.
Annual reports were made by Mrs.
J. W. Tottenham, the recording secre
tary; Mrs. S. Bowers, the correspond-
ing secretary; and Mrs. M. Hetty
Curry, the library treasurer. The
latter report the funds for the main-
tenance of the library to be quite
low, and it was decided to hold the
Annual Tag Day nest Saturday, Oc
tober 16, when it is hoped the clti
zens, will be very generous in the
purchase of tags, as money Is needed
badly. The annual report of the
librarian, Miss Annette Ray, follows:
3694 books let out, 181 magazines
let out, 126 new borrowers, 224 visit
org, $5.94 fines collected.
Mrs. J. W. Tottenham was electcd
delegate and Mrs. Boiling Eldrldge
alternate to the annual convention
«f the Texas Federation of Women's
clubs to be held in Brownwood No-
vember 8.
The feature of the meeting was the
splendid talk made by the president,
Mrs. S. Bowers, whose beautiful and
appropriate inaugural address fol-
lows:
"Perhpas there are times in the
life of every one when words falter
upon the lips, and we are sadly in
need of language with which to ex-
press the feelings of the heart. If
such a time has ever come in any
one's life, it has come in mine on this
occasion.
"When 1 did not decline to serve
in the capacity of the high position
to which you have honored me, it
was not because I believed that i
could maintain the high standard of
executive authority and leadership
that has characterized the services
of my able. predecessors; not because
of the honor attached to the office,
though I assure you that is not with-
out appreciation; it was because I
believe the object for which we are
striving worthy of nothing less than
our best effort.
"Duty is the sublimest word in the
English language, and to shirk duty
and responsibility in an organization
in which its members have honored
one with membership is akin to per-
fidy. •
"Realizing that much may be ac-
complished through the combined ef-
forts of our few; but little, if in-
difference to the cause permeates the
actions of our member, I come in the
spirit of the Apostle who said, "Sil-
ver and gold have I none, but such
as I have, give I thae."
"'And since 1 have n'o gold to give,
Arid love alone can make amends;
My only prayer, is, 'While T live
God make me worthy of my friends.'
"The work this club has taken up-
on itself—the maintenance of a pub-
lic library—was a very great under-
taking. How well it has been ac-
complished, is not necessary for one
to say. The Brenham public library,
with its thousands of volumes, will
stand , for years and years to come
as a monument to tbelr endeavor.
"I hav# good authority for saying
that the people and the library do
not come together often enough;
that not anywhere in the United
8tate» have the two. great forces of
popular education, the schools and
the library, been brought into enough
intimate contiict If this is true of
the en*ire country, surely it Is true
of Texas, where the library has been
iS. S.S.
Ton have noticed the little fester-
ing pimples on the face and body—
iWeWhg ot the glands—soreness ito
the legs aril arm muscles. These are
the symptoms of Scrofula. You
may have some of these symp-
toms, possibly the taint if ^ Scrofula
Infection. But la either case, it Is a
dangerous condition. Y*ur Wood Is
Infected, impure, and you can never
«o.
blood by taking S. S.
years it has been the
purifier. It relieves
renourlshlng the blood,
strength, and stimulating
that the blood regains its li
and throws off the poison,
long-standing cases respond;
you must use S. S. S. Take it forj-i
blood infections, ' Oct It at your
druggist's today. ,
If ^n need special advice, writ#
the S. S. S. Co^ Atlanta, Ga.
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considered of secondary importance Ing the Summer in California and
Hansford, has returned home. ,
Mrs. LIUeon Adams of Cuero is a
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Lllleon Hines.
Mrs. Emma Thornhfil and Miss
BesBie spent the week-end with her
brother, W. B. Rayoor.
Mrs. R. Fiskbeck has returned
from Llano, where she was called by
the dangerous lllnesc of her sister.
Miss Bessie Thompson left fer
Galveston Thursday to attend the fu-
neral of her cousin, Mr. Spenser.
Mrs. R. K. Felder entertained
In the educational world. This maj;
be due largely to the fact that the
public library is a recent arrival in
the educatio®sl world of Texas
those of Dallas and Fort Worth b«-
'F'M t »*'•* ' y, it
ing the first to be supported by their
municipalities. Both were organized
In October, 1901, that of Fort Worth
being about two weeks the elder.
"These libraries have done well
and the libraries of the different
communities of Texas have done as
well as could be expected, handi-
capped as they have been by lack of
money and books, and in many plac-
es with an indifferent public that Jo
not understand the function of. the
public library. . •
"The public library has been de-
fine! as a great persistent, continu-
ous means of education through life,
the schools giving, the foundation,
the library rounding it out and com-
pleting the circle of activity., 'The
schools give the beginning; the libra-
ry says there is no end.'
"Had I the sacred responsibility
of a part in the moulding of a child's
life, I should a thousand times rath-
er that children were able to coin
a thought than an eagle.
' "While our club has not been free
from adversity during the past year,
the blessings we have enjoyed as a
nation, as a club, as individuals, are
manifold. The white banner of
peace floats above us. The good
feeling which exists among our mem-
bers is marked. No personalities,
jealousies, envies keen have entered
our circle to impede progress toward
virtue and happiness, and sow this
life with thorns. For these mani-
festations of His favor, we owe to
Him who holds-our destiny in His
hands, the tribute of our grateful
devotion.
"To that mysterious exercise of His
will that has taken from us the loved
members who were but lately val-
ued co-workers, we bow in sorrow
and submission. The memory of
their exalted characters, of their no-
ble achievements will be treasured
forever as a sacred possession of the
whole town.
" 'To err is human', but I promise
that during this administration, to
the best of my ability, this gavel
shall not go down in dishonor.
"M"f. S. Bo*»*.$."
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Thursday in honor of her
Mrs. Ethel Webster. Her.
suburban home was artistically dec-
orated In the color scheme of green
and gold, which was carried out In
golden rod, yellow asters and ever-
greens. ■
The personnel of the Invited
guests were Mesdames B. C. ChajJ-
pell, E. R. Felder, Burton Reutt, W.
R. Campbell, Gayle Mercer, Roy
Carlisle, Dan Matthews, Fannie A.
Campbell, J. R. Routt, Sterling '
Smith,, G. C. Booth, Richard Fish-
beck, F. O. Prescott, J. B. Matthewf,
H. Wood, W. D. Crockett, Mary To-
land, Jesse Crockett, Wm. Reinstein,
Misses Bertba Brandt, Anne Lide,
Elolse Mercer and Nannie Adams.
The out-of-town guests were MeS-
dames Ethel Webster of San Francis-
co, Claud Dawson of Port Arthur,
H. K. Jones of Mississippi, Johu
Mathis and J. P. Buchanan of Bren-
ham. Forty-two was much enjoyed,
after which ice cream and angel cake
were served,
Mrs. Claud Dawson and children
left fart Port Arthur after an ex-
tended visit to her sister, Mrs. W D.
Crockett.
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Adolph Weiss of Osage, Texas,
transacted business in Brenham
Thursday.
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8ignatatn of
Mrs. Woodie Fife and children
have returned from Bryan.
Mesdames Budora FIndlay of Sher-
man and J. P. Davis ojf^Qalveuto.i
came down with W. W. Searcy from
Brenham and spent a few hours with
old friends.
Mrs. W. H. Langhorne spent Mon-
day and Tuesday in Brenham, the
guest of Mrs. J. E. Chad wick.
Levin Routt has left for Clay
Station, where he has accepted a po-
sition as bookkeeper with Mr. Koppe.
Mrs, Sterling Smith spent the
week-end in Houston wltl' Mrs. Flint
McGregor.
Mrs. L. P. Cherry and daughter,
Eugenia have returned to Elgin, ac-
companied by her sister, Miss Bess
Routt.
Mrs. J. R. Routt spent Tuesday in
Brenham. •
Mrs. A. W. Brantley of Somervllle
is a guest of Mrs. P, N. Alexander.
Mrs. **red Brandt,of Hansford is
vlsitinf her'ais|$r, Mrs. G: C. Booth.
Miss Valeria Brandt, ,a**r spend-
The Telephone Joy
of Fun lift.
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Life on the farm
made pleasanter and more
secure by Bell Telephone
Service.
Pleasanter, because it
brings messages of cheer
and companionship from
fHends far away, more se-
cure because it brings
help immediately when
there is need.
Write our nearest office
for information.
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Shepard, Nelson M. Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 165, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1915, newspaper, October 8, 1915; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth490507/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.