The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 39, Ed. 1, Friday, March 8, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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FRIDAY, MACH 8.
"Glean up Texas", seems to
be the slogan of the Texas Legislature.
"The woman spy bill." which
gives the President power to
deal with unnatarulized women
of hostile countries as it does
with men, has been passed by
the lower House of Congress,
and may become a law.
A .bill making it a crime to
willfully make or convey false
reports of statements to ob-
struct the Government sale of
bonds or other securities or
loans by or to the United States,
has been jiassed by the House of
national representatives.
Hon. Clarence Ousley, assist-
ant secretary of agriculture,
says that city vagrants and id-
lers should be mobilized for har-
vesting food and feed crops, and
he is correct. If they can't -go
to at, let them be forced to
serve , their country in some
manner.
Nature has implanted in cv-
ory human being a sense of
justice. This sense of natural
justice does not emanate from
any religion or creod; it is the
common possession of human-
ity. It constitutes the one
great distinguishing mark be-
tween man and the animal.
And the more highly educated,
the more highly refined a man
becomes, the stronger is his
sense of natural iiisH w
condemn a violation of natural
justice, not because we learn
'from a man or a book that such
an action is worthv of condnm-
liation, but because it violates
that conception of justice which
was born in us.
We do not have to be 'told
that it is wrong to torture a
helpless child. We do not have
to be told that it is wrong to
go to a farm house and burn it
to the- ground, torture its -inmates,
and then throw them in-
to the burning ruins of their
own -home. Such things are
repugnant to our sense of nat-
ural justice.
It is this elementary attri-
bute of humanity, this quality
which distinguishes man from
the beast, which has been vio-
lated by Germany. Not only
has natural justice been violat-
ed, but its violation defended
by emperors, preachers, philos-
ophers, teachers, and that mass
of individuals who sympathize
with the German cause.
kings of .England .off whom it
was said: ' ,
"H'llfe Was gentle, and the
elements 'so mixed in him
That nature might stand up
and 'say to all the world
"mis was a man'."
It is for such an eulogy we
all yearn, unconsciously, if not
consciously, and those who
would lay restraining hands
upon us as we aspire are our
mortal and immortal enemies.
- There is a practical side to
every question, however 'great
and aDiritual that minstiinn mnv
be. The warfare on behalf of
your better self, for your high-
er interest, and that of your
children, is beinir watred bv
brave men who have the pr-o-foundest
claims upon your sym-
pathy and assistance. It "seems
a pitifully small and totally in-
adequate thing thatjrou can do,
but yet if that is all do it,
and do it to the limit of vonr
ability. Place on record your
purcnase ot a Liberty Bond
when the Government calls up-
on you in the very near future.
TO THE OLD WOMAN
ANDTHENEWWOMAN
rif 1 I
Of These Waists Wm
MllllliB in iEr.. ' wtt" fill WM
The pluck and skill of our boys
"over there" have already made
the war lords of the world sit
up and take notice. The armies
o Young America, protected
from vice and the lower deprav
ities, will prove invincible. To
the American home and parent-
hood be all honor. "
Clean up all the premises that
have been made the dumping
ground for accumulating waste
and plant it in something to eat
or feed. And let the cleaning
extend to the alleys and streets
that there may be no filth in
which flies, mosquitoes, and dis-
ease germs may breed.
Capt. W. H. Coder, of Burnet,
is dead. He passed to his re-
ward last Sunday morning at an
early hour. Capt. Corder had
beep a prominent;man in the af--ftfeJBWi
county for a
numoeri'of ,y6ars and at one time
r&fr&efitea the people of Bur-
net aijd Williamson counties in
thqJTxas Legislature.
fHpt. Corder was buried in
the Q&T Fellows Cemetery at
BuiTie3ftonday at 10 o'clock
with MlJstmic honors. Rev. R.
E.. aDce, of the Methodist
church, conducted the funeral.
M&blg Kails Messenger.
SefcWary Houston of the de-
partment of agriculture, has
issued a call to urban people to
study, the farm labor situation
and to render assistance to
farmers during the coming crop
season. "If soldiers are willing
to serve in the trenches and risk
their lives," declared Houston,
many civillians can well afford
to spare a nart of their tiQ t
serve in the furrows and the
harvest fields." Leaders in the
towns and cities depending on
regions where farmers are not
abje to obtain the necessary la-
bor, should communicate with
representative farm leaders and
see if they cannot assist irt solv-
ing the problem, Secretary
Houston suggests. Government
and other agencies are making
every effort to assist the farm-
ers and are making a survey of
the labor situation, assisting
again this year inshifting labor,
making available, so far as pos-
Kib, school boys in rural dis-
tricts and removing obstacles
in the way of production of a
larger fcuichinery supply and its
fuller ue to jrupploment hand
labor. .,,
While the most enlightened
teachers -of humanity are tell-
ing us that man bv asniraioft
and effort can raise himself to
partake of the Divine nature,
I Germany is teaching and prac-
, ticing the doctrine that man
j should invert the theory and
take his place amongst the low-
est types in the animal world.
j They hold forth as the goal of
human ambition, after centur-
ies of upward struggle, the fig-
1 ure, type and mentality of a
beast rather than that of a find
(The animal whioh lives on the
flesh of others, whose right to
existence is based only upon its
strength and its ability .to
crush its prey, would appear to
oe tne uerman ideal.
It is largely because the Ger-
man idea is so repugnant to us
as enlightened Americans, be-
cause their, practices send a
shudder through, every fibre of
our bodies and produce such
nausea in our souls, that we
are at war with Germany to-
day; and it is because of these
conditions that every decent,
honorable, thinking man must
pledge, if necessary, his for-
tune, his life, his all, to eradi-
cate this unspeakable thing
which has fallen like a curse
upon the sons of men.
Conceive, if you can, the con-
dition of this world if we al-
lowed such doctrines to prevail.
Property would go to the man
with the strongest arm and the
most unscrupulous mind. Lib-
erty would die a shameful
death. Freedom would shriek
as Justice falls. Religion would
perish from the eart-.Vi an A o
false God one of blood, iron
and beastiality, would be set
up for the worship of a cring-
ing, cowering humanity.
There are indifferent nnoa
who say that such things can
never happen in this country.
These people do not realize
that one of the penaltiesrthe
greatest of all penalties which
we should pay for defeat would
be the Gormanization of our
people. One of the terms of
our defeat would be the privi-
lege of Germany to trade, teach
ana colonize treely in this land
of ours. One of the things
coveted most by the German
mind is the souls of men, for
when they have these they
have their bodies, their wealth
their all, and if during the
course of the next generation
the Germans could capture or
even deeply influence the soul
of America they would consider
that they had won the great-
est victory in the history of
their Nation.
As citizens 6f an enlighten-
ed democracy wo mut fight by
every moans in our power this
menace which would steal our
souls and those of our children.
No Greater tribute was pvav
.paid to a human being, than
max paid to one of the old
Greeting. The best kind of
men, the men who count for
most in the world, the men
who have "done things", al-
most without exception have
been inspired by women. Dante
was inspired by Beatrice
whom he saw only once. Soc-
rates was insnired bv a Inrtv
of whom he saw and heard too
much. Henry VIII of England
made historv at the insHcrn.ton
of a number of ladies. Shelley
wrote some of his best work
under the influence of Marv
Wolstanecraft before she be-
came his wife. But these
women never did anything.
They stood on pedestals and
radiated inspiration.
Times have changed, and ap-
parently women have changed.
I do not know today of a single -woman
of my acquaintance, nor
do I read of one in contempo-
rary history, who is willing ito
be a silent partner in the bus-
iness of a man's life, whether
that business be running a
kingdom, writing poetry, think-
ing jrreat thourhts. or rtmiinr
a business.
The influence which women
now exert and the inspiration
Which thev orter to tho mnlo
the species comes fjbm" their
leadership in human activities.
Those of us who are inter-
ested in the raising of the Lib-
erty Loan in this, section glad-
ly accept the new order of
things and call upon the new
order of women to inspire and
influence the men of the dis-
trict by their actions and their
example rather than by any at
tempt to stand on a pedestal
and let somebody else do the
work.
Woman todav is Inimmo-
equal rights with man, and
cannot expect to enjoy these
unless she is willino- rf-n tnVn
her share of the responsibilities
which rights and privileges al-
ways carry with them. The
woman who believes in the
equal civic right of the sexes
is bound to take at least as ac-
tive "a part in the war as -do
the men. She can do no less
unless she wishes to violate
her own creed.
Let no one suppose for one
moment that the , writer of
these lines imagines that the
modern woman is less ap-
proachable on the grounds of
her womanhood and her moth-
erhood than the old fashioned
woman who was content to
knit socks, wash' the children,
and inspire .her husband ; but
it is Dermissible tn nnint ni,f
that the newer type of woman
snoum help m the Liberty'
Loan Movement because she is
a woman, a wife and n mnfiK
and because in addition to all
these things she is bound ab-
solutely bv the creed of thn
new womanhood to vie with
men lor supremacy ""in the
realm of initiative and action.
It seems not unlikely that
the women of the Eleventh
Federal Reserve District will
be the determining factor in
campaign work during the
Third Liberty Loan Campaign,
and these remarks are arMresta-
ed to the women of the DistrioU
in tnu nope mat tney will take
in this important work the po-
sition which they have claimed
as their own; namely, that of
comrade, co-worker, oven lead-
er, in all matters in whioh both
men and women are jointly
concerned for the nnHnnni
good.
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in a'ualitv of materials sinne fh war. , Jit
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Go where you will the Nation over and you will no-
where find waists that in real servicefeiving and val-
ue giving qualities, rival the Wirthmorjthatlwe-and
we alone in this city sell at $1.00. Add to this
quality excellence the fact that these Blouses always
embody the newest and most wanted style Motes-rand
you will readily understand why" the' -Wirfihinor
is the most popular and fastest selling Dollar Waist
in America.
BARTLETT, TEXAS
i
THE BOY IN THE TRENCHES
'I
I am a mother's son, Lam the
pride of a family and a part of
'a home. I love my life as you
'love yours. I am a youth in
'years and experience in life, yet
'I am a gambler, betting the
highest stake a man can wager
m'y life. If I win, you win";
If I Jose, I lose all the loss alone
is mine. And then there is a
grieving mother, a saddened
family, and a broken home to
iwhich I can never return. . I
'ask only for the God-speed and
support ot my natipn in return
for laying upon the altar my all.
For my service and for my of-
fered blood I am only asking
bread and bullets. Will you
pawn your money while I nawn
myself? Will you bet your gold
while I bet my blood ?
Hon. Clarence Ously our
own Clarence made a great ad-
dress to the members of the
Texas legislature last Friday.
He used plain, chaste speech,
but he dealt m facts and truth
not only the people of Texas,
but the entire nation. His ex-
tensive travel and contact with
the people all through the coun-
try has discovered the fact that
great masses of supposedly in
telligent Human folks have never
awakened to the gravity of the
conditions and the demands
confronting every able bodied
man and woman in the nation,
at this time. To mobilize and
maitain an army in actual con-
flict, thousands of miles across
the sea, like it has fallen Our lot
to do, is an undertaking that
staggers all of us when we think'
ot it, but the task widens m rap-
Will vou
hazzard m'v life? I am the flow-! id nvrmm-Knn whovi i, Vi.mmnr
er of a nation's manhood, the empty handed armies of our al-
glory of a noble race and may be hies, and their broken homes cry
a tithe to this terrible war I j out for a hand of heln and 'de-
am the boy in the trenches. ; liverance. They have come to
FLOUR SUBSTITUTES
see us as their "Big Brother".
Let every man do, not only 'his
"hit". hllfTlifl rlenrl lownl Vinat"
Postivelv none other than o
listed below can be produced at County Judge David J. Pickle,
a .United Cash Store as a subs-s acting upon word received from
tituto for Flour. Corn Meal, tho Sfntn TTirrWrmr nnrvimiavir
Hominy, Grits, Corn Starch,; has nstructed county officers
Corn Flour, Barley Flour, Rice to enforce the State law with
Rice Flour, Oatmeal, Rolled Oats rogard to the number plates and
Buckwheat Flour, Potato Flour, ' shields upon motor vehicles.
Soya Bean Flour, Fpterita Flour I "The provisions requiring the
ana ivieai. nyo iiour is noc a shield on the radiator w be
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Political Announcements
.The Tribune is authorized to
announce the following candi-
dates for office, subject to. the
democratic primaries in July ;
(Bell County)
Fqr Comity Clerk,
: E.I. Hall.
For Weigher. Holland-Bar,tlett.
. DAN OLIVER.
J W. Surghnor.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR:
Jake Nelson, (Re-election)
n Frank Carter.
FOR DISTRICT CLERK:
Gene Upshaw, (Re-election)
FOR TAX ASSESSOR:
Ernest L. Walters.
For, Sheriff-
Hugh Smith.
For Commissioner, Beat No. 2
J. P. Edwards.
(Williamson County.)
For County Attorney
,, H. N, Grav.es.
Dan Moo'dy.
flour substitute
U. S. Food Administration.
strictly enforced," states the
judge. Austin American. '
A New York man was recent-
ly convicted of assault and bat-
tery for kissing his wife by
force. A suggestion for the
Texas solons who want to "re
form", qui' great Lone Star state,
on many questions that are
about as unreasonable as the
case above referred to.
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Cates, R. F. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 39, Ed. 1, Friday, March 8, 1918, newspaper, March 8, 1918; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49065/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.