The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 20, Ed. 1, Friday, October 25, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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affords the smoker everything that is up to date and
best in cigars, tobacco, cigarettes and smoking
articles. ,
We have made a specialty of this particular Jine
and know how to keep our stock in just the right
condition at all times.
If you want to get a smokethat satisfies you in
every way make your selection from our stock.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918
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the boys over there charge
We'll pay it."
When a wise man has found a key
to life he offers it to, but does not
orce it, on his fellowmen.
The man who didn't sow his grain
because he was afraid it would not
rain, wouldn't make a good soldier.
Only those who take a chance, make
good.
We have come upon times when
sanity should become a more import
ant virtue with us. One is never
justified "in rashness of speech or con
duct, especially touching matters of
serious import. Many matters with
which we have to deal every day, and
which seem to be so commonplace as
to become trivial, are when viewed
sanely, seen to be matters of ser
ious import. It is the habit of using
good sense, and intelligant thinking
and acting thrown into the detail,
and the giving proper directions to
the trivial matters of individual and
community life, that guarantees a
correctly poised attitude when really
wrighty matters are to be disposed
of. In a democratic country like ours
the laws governing in all of our af-
fairs have evolved out our thinking
and interchange of opinions, and this,
in turn becomes the motive power of
our nation and community alike. In
these times of stress and change in
so many matters, cpmmonplace and
otherwise, we need to become more
sane and yet more sane in all of our
thinking and suggestion yea, make
it one of our chief virtues.
tain which fell in this section
Tuesday morning amounted jto an;
inch and a quarter, and will be of
reat value to the oat and wheat crop
recently planted.
Thi3 section has been wonderfully
"blessed from a health standpoint,
when it is taken into consideration
that the influenza epidemic is raging
trver the United States.
Too many of us who arc in "the
middle-age class, these hard times
very peculiar, and in to a certain
extent discouraging because we can
lay claim to no victory, direct.
When we were children we set on
our fathers knee and around the fire
side and listened with interest tp
their experiences in war. Now we
are past the meridian of life and are
sitting about our fire sides and
anxiously awaiting the home coming
of our dear boys, who are engaged
in one of the world's greatest con-
flicts. Our fathers walked the path
of action and glory from Ft. Sumpter
to Appomattax, and to them" Is tKe
credit of emancipation. Our boys are"
now fighting the battle, which when
ended, will give "to them the glory of
making the world safe for Democracy.
From October 12th to lGth tho
patriotic people of Liberty Hill and
surrounding country donated and
shipped 95 gallons of butter milk to
the Red Cross at Austin to be given
the Bick soldiers. Index.
Almost every county in the union
today mourns her soldier 'dead. Some
have made the supreme sacrifice, fal-
ing in action, others' no less honored
have paid the price in training camps
of this country, victims of disease.
The graves of those who He in foreign
fields are hallowed to us, and those
here at home we gather about almost
with reverence due our dead heroes.
Within threo short weeks SpanishJ
Influonsn has devolopod and spread
so widely and rapidly that America's
death roll horo at home is groatcr
than that of nil o lior huge nrmios
in Europe. Moreover, tho number of
prostrations from this disease from
day to day in Amorica is probably
groator than the combined casualty
lists of all of the fighting forces en-
gaged in this great World War. The
number of cases in New York City
alone has increased from a total of
47 cases and no doaths reported to
and including September 20th, 1018,
to 4,203 new cases and 303 deaths in
a single day.' Moreover, the state-
ment is said to have been made by
a-prominent physicianDr. Goldwatcr
thafthe actual number of cases in
Now York is about half a million.
This is not intended as an alarmist
statement but is simply a brief sum-
mery of facts currently reported in
the Tlaily press. Whore there is still
no reason for panic there is every
reason for swift action in this erec-
tion of effective barriers against the
spread of this malady.Only yester
day the writer, when about to attempt
to' enter an over-crowded street-car,
balked on hearing some one in tho
car execute an utterly unsupprcssed
sneeze, and decided to walk; and as
he walked, he pondered over New
York's frightful congestion in sur-
face, subway and elevated cars; on
wharves and -ships; in stores, fac-
tories, sweatshops, hotels, restaurants
and even in the many thousands of
other places, sometimes improperly
called homes, where people never
really five but merely exist and where
thousands of them are now being de-
prived, by death, of even the ques-
tionable privilege; and as he pondered
he wondered whether, when the big
death roll of this epidemic is finally
counted, people will still think that
New York with its huge waste1 of
mechanical force, man power and
even human life itself, due to its
monstrous congestion of humanity at
a point where there is economic justi-
fication for only a small city is
really worth while.
Of course, the disease is spreading
elsewhere, but only where here are
overcrowded conditions equivalent of
a deadly nature.
In the interest of national efficiency
and safety the Federal Government
has recently extended its ownership
and control in a mannner scarcely
dreamed of by even the most radical.
Perhaps this matter of Government
control has gone too far in some di-
rections; but there is obviously one
direction in which it has fallen far
short of the goal which it should
reach in the interest of the general
welfare, and that is in the matter of
providing for the security of tho pub-
lic health. The fact that the happi
ness, strength and even the very ex-
istance of the nation depends absolu-
tely upon the maintenance of the
public health and the prevention of'
all conditions which menace it, is by
this 'epidemic being demonstrated
more clearly than ever before; and,
terrible as is the death-roll of this
plague, if it awakens the American
people to a relization of the fact that
the preservation of the public health
by a perpetual welfare against dis-
ease is as clearly and absolutely a
function of the general government
as is the control of the army and
navy in this Great War for the pre-
servation of democracy, the result
will fully justify such cost. Ex.
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No doubt you are expecting to pur-
chase something in the furniture line this
fall; and while the prices have advanced on
furniture as well as every other line of
goods, we were very forrunate in placing
our order early in the year and have the
goods in the house, and will be able to save
our customers the late advances in prices,
which have been frequent in the last ninety
days.
When you get ready for your buying of furniture e
want the opportunity of showing and pricing you our
goods. Remember this, we want the pleasure of show-
ing you; whether you buy or not. 1 hat's our business;
then it's up to you to decide on the quality of our goods
and our price.
We Have Just Received a
Carload of Furniture
Come and make your selection while our stock is
complete.
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NATION-WIDE DRY ACT
RATIFIED BY 11 STATES.
WHEN WE SELL YOU
Remedies or Toilet Preparations
we feel confident that you will continue to use them
becacause we know the quality each of these repre-
sents. We selected this line after very careful investiga-
tion and you can take our word for it that you receive
the very best that money can buy when you make your
Selection from the Rexall line.
We want an opportunity to tell you more about
these preparations, for we know you will be Interested.
CONDRA & BLAIR
"THE REXALL STORE" BARTLETT, TEXAS
The Milwaukee Journal recently
had tho following to say concerning
the famous Old Rebel Yell: "Those
who heard it will never forget it
During the Civil war the outcome of
many successful charge was mater-
ially affected by that nerve-shattering
battle cry. Wo do not profess
to know anything about methods of
attack and defense in "the present
conflict in Europe. We dare sug-
gest, however, that the famous old
rebel yell might often prove effective
on the European fighting line. The
Sammies could easily learn the cry
Thoir doing so would tend .to unite
more closely the boys of the north
and tho south. And if the yell has
anything of the effect on the Ger-
mans that the Yankee boys say it
had on them in the sixties, it will
prove a valuable aid in taking tho
fighting spirit out1 of many a Prus-
sian soldier. It wil do ImoroJ It
will instill courage into the souls of
tho Sammies themselves. Many a
fainting soldier in days gono by has
received new power from hearing
that yell from a victorious comrade,
in another part of the field and' has
fought his way to victory. And the
same effect might be oxpectod of it
today in the hand-to-hand fighting
in France."
Three fourths of the forty-eight
states of the American Union must
ratify the nation-wide prohibition
amendment if the same is to bo
given effect. The proposed amend-
ment to the federal constitution was
adopted by congress last winter am
the required number of states must
act favorably on it within seven
years to make the whole country
dry. The ratification must be by
majority votes in tho respective state
legislatures. A number of the states
already have acted on the amo -d
raent and tho records now-stands:
Number necessary to carry amend-
ment, 3G. '
Number that have voted in favor,
14.
Number that have yet to vote, 34.
Number needed of those yet to
rote, 22.
States that have ratified, in order
of ratification, with date:
Mississippi January 9
Virginia January 10.
Kentucky January 14.
South Carolina January 23.
North Dakota January, 2
Maryland February 13.
Montana February 19.
Texas March 4.
Delaware March 18.
South Dakota March 20.
Massachusetts April 2. ,
Arizona May 24.
Georgia June 26.
Louisiana August 8.
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WRIGLEY GIVES TIN-FOIL TO
THE GOVERNMENT.
In addition to the immense
"WIN THE WAR PROGRAM"
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which the Government will present at the Texas Cotton
Palace Exposition, the management has secured the
greatest collection of International Vaudeville Artists
who will be presented in the Coliseum each-afternoon
and night, and there will be no axtra charge for" any
Coliseum attraction.
Automobile Races, Areoplanes
and Special Animal Acta
before the Grandstand'
together with War Exhibitions by Uncle (Sm's men
from Camp MacArthur, both night and day,
Special Rates on all Railroads by ocder
of, the United States Government.
Oranges are selling in San Antonio
at $1.50 per dozen, which is bringing
about a protest from the food ad-
ministrator. The fault is said to lie
with the growers.
To help meet the needs of the
Government, Wrigloy's will discon-
tinue tho use of tin- foil as a wrap-
ping for "Juicy Fruit" chewing gum,
in "order to release "" this valuable
material to Uncle Sam.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds
per week of tin-foil will thus be made
available to tho Government, it is
said. "Juicy Fruit" will hereafter
aripear in, the hermetically sealed
pink wrapper same as "Spearmint."
"Doublemint" Avill also bo wrapped in
waxed pink paper, instead of green.
Milam County Gooa "Ovef Tho Top"
Cameron, Tex., Oct. 20. Milam Co
Liberty Loan quota of $44,000 has
been over-subicribed by $6,000, it was
announced to night at hpudqunrters of
the local loan committee.
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Cates, R. F. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 20, Ed. 1, Friday, October 25, 1918, newspaper, October 25, 1918; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49098/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 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.