The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1926 Page: 5 of 16
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PRICE-FIXING DEMAND
A STEP IN SOCIALISM
REPUBLICAN
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STRONGHOLD CAUSES MANY
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TO REGARD IT WITH FAVOR
CONTRARY
PUBLIC INT.
Principle is Socialistic and Would
Work Injustice to County, and
Set Dangerous Precedent
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No definite plan of procedure to
bring relief to the grain growers in
the Middle West was agreed upon at
the conference held in Iowa earlier
in the week, but there was much evi-
dence of sentiment in favor of action
by the government in fixing prices
of grain, thereby guaranteeing the
producers a profit.
In Iowa, in Illinois, in Wisconsin
and in North Dakota, particularly,
this idea of government price-fixing
has taken considerable hold, as the
result of agitation by skillful dema-
gogues, who; have convinced many far-
mers that all they need to make their
farms profitable again is to force
the government to take charge of their
crop* and set up a price. Whether
the government buys grain outright
or*Aierely handles it and sells it at
a price agreeable to the farmers
makes little difference to the pro-
nents of the price-fixing theory,
so the producers are saved from
on their crops, they will be satis-
fied, seems to be their platform.
It would not be surprising if con-
gress were presently subjected to an-
other onslaught from the leaders of
the price-fixing contingent, for the
admittedly serious situation in some
sections of the grain belt has led
many farmers to favor radical meas-
ures in order to get quick relief.
While the grain growers are to be
sympathized with in their plight, this
plan to have the government set up
a price standard for grain is one to
be firmly resisted. It is a thorough-
ly vicious and unfair proposal, and
the country at large should not con-
sider it for a moment.
It is not the province of the gov-
ernment to guarantee to any group
of citizens a profitable business. It
is not the responsibility of the govern-
ment to stand good for the losses that
citizens may incur in the conduct of
their business. The government has
no moral right to take money out of
the pockets of the people generally
nhd give it to those who happen to be
unsuccessful in their private business.
To do so would be to recognize the
principle of class government, which
is the very antithesis of the princi-
ple of democracy. The government
can not exempt farmers from the or-
dinary vicissitudes of business, any
more than it can rightfully exempt
any other Class.
If it is the duty of the government
to fix the price of grain, or to take
the grain crop and sell it for the
farmers at a price that will be prof-
itable to them, then it is the duty of
the government to fix the price of
merchandise, and make sure that the
merchant will reap a profit on the
sale, regardless of his ability as a
merchant; it is jts duty to fix the fees
charged by professional men, and the
wages paid to working people, so that
all of these will reap a profit from
their endeavor. If one class is entitled
to a guarantee price for its pro-
ducts, even if the government has to
take the money out of the treasury
to make up the deficit, all classes
are entitled to such benevolent treat-
ment at the government’s hands.
Such a contention, of course, is pre-
posterous1.
Those, who are demanding a fixed
price for farm products are as per-
1 sumptuous as the seekers after a ship
subsidy, and as the tariff boys who
have succeeded in diverting the gov-
ernment from its true functions and
secured special privileges. The argu-
ment'that the grain growers should
,bave the protection of a fixed price
because some special interests have
the benefit of a protective tariff is
worthy of consideration only if we
are ready to acknowledge that two
wrongs make a right, and that because
one interest enlists the government
in aiding to force its own price an its
produce, every other interest has the
same right.
Doubtless, it will be possible for the
Federal government to render aid to
the distressed corn growers, but that
aid should stop short of converting the
government into a selling agency or
of guaranteeing a price. Any such ac-
tion would be a long step in the direc-
tion of sovietism.—Editorial in Hous-
ton Post-Dispatch. :
COTTON GINNINGS IN
SMITH AND NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES TO DECEMBER 13
E. TEX. COLLARDS WANTED
FOR SAN ANTONIO BANQUET
According to the Department of
Commerce, Bureau of the Census, re-
port issued Dec. 21 shows the com-
parative cotton ginning for the State
as a whole and for Smith and adjoin-
ing counties as of Dec. 13 to be as fol-
lows :
State ginned to Dec. 13, 1925—
3,870,920 bales; same period 1924—
4,570,368.
County 1925 1924
Anderson ....................24,093 20,671
Cherokee ........... 29,497 17,824
Gregg' ..........................24,296 10,121
Henderson .................t26,397 20,489
Rains 9,330 4,681
Smith ................ ......53,285 25,411
Rusk ..........................53,944 22,266
Upshur .....................33,745 14,178
Van Zandt ......................45,703 28,333
Wood ............................36,414 17,088
B. J. BEASLEY’S “BOYS” WRITE
A LOVE LETTER TO THEIR BOSS
Down at the Cotton Belt shops is a
bunch of the finest fellows in forty-
nine states. They have a boss down
there, B. J. Beasley by name, whom
they believe to be the finest boss on
the whole continent. Lots of those
boys reffl! The Journal; and some of
them are close personal friends of
our Editor. They have an organiza-
tion known as the Associated Car De-
partment of the St. Louis Southwest-
ern Railway Company of Texas. The
boys and their boss maintain the
friendliest relationships and they like
what their boss does for them and
they try to do the things their boss
assigns to them just like they owned
the whole works themselves. Our
editor happened the other day to see
a copy of a New Year greeting which
the member of the Associated Car
Department prepared and sent to
their boss thru a committee, as ex-
pressive of their sentiments. The
Journal thinks that it shows such a
fine relationship between employer
and employees that it is printing it
as from a member of the committee
which drafted it. The communication
follows:
Mr. B. J. Beasley, Supti Motive
Bower, St. L. S. W. Uy. Co., of Texas,
Tyler Texas,
Dear Sir
We, the members of the Associated
Car Department of the St. L. S. W.
Ity. Co.,of Texas, desire in this way
to express to you our sincere appre-
ciation for the favors which have been
extended to our Craft by yourself and
all other officials during the past year;
and we further desire to say that we
crave your hearty good wishes for the
new year which has just been ushered
in; and will certainly appreciate any
favors which you may see fit to grant
us during the coming year which lies
out before us.
Assuring you of the heartiest coop-
eration on our part as a body of car-
men, we wish to extend to you this
token of our apperication by saying
that may the many good wishes for
your happiness and general welfare
be realized, and may the horn of plen-
ty be your splendid portion is our wish
for you, your family, and all other
officials.
Respectfully,
TOM HAZEL,
J. I). SHAW.
T. E. KOON,
Committee of the Association of
Car Department Employees.
VAN ZANDT COUNTY STARTS
SPECIAL BOULTRY BROGRAM
Wills Boint, Jan. 4—Van Zandt is
one of the nine Texas counties in
which special -poultry programs will
be conducted this year under super-
visions of the extension service of the
Texas A. & M. College. Four farms
have been selected for the demonstra-
tions.
V. It. Glazner, poultry specialist
of the A. & M. College, has complet-
ed two days of work with Van Zandt
county poultrymen in preparation for
the 1926 program. :
It appears that no function any-
where in which there is eating involv-
ed can be held properly unless East
Texas contributes to the menu. There
is a certain East Texan sojourning at
San Antonio who writes the supjoined
letter which, when read between the
lines, tell how he longs for the great
delicacies of this blessed, democratic
East Texas country. The writer of
that letter is Hon. J. J. Strickland,
former resident of Omen and student
of Slimmer Hill Select School. He la-
ter served the State as Senator from
the 13th Senatorial district of which
his native county, Anderson, forms a
part. His letter follows:
1211 City Nat’l. Bank Bldg.,
San Antonio, Dec. 31, 1925. .
Mr. Henry Edwards,
Dear Henry :-Blease send me a sack
full of collards. I suppose they still
grow this delicacy in East Texas.
When I get them I want to get a few
“refugees” from East Texas who are
sojourning in these parts and give
them a dinner of hog jowl, collards,
and corn bread. Judge W. B. Teagar-
den, formerly of Mineola, will sit at
the head of the table.
Your friend,
J. J. Strickland.
What farmer among our readers can
supply us the collards ? Let the Edi-
tor know if you have some of those
OUR BASIC FARMING
SOMETHING WRONG WITH
IS THE ONE-CROP SYSTEM A
SURE WAY TO SUCCESS? DI-
VERSITY OF CROPS BETTER
FOOD AND SHELTER
A Few Have Succeeded With One-
Crop System; But Greater Num-
ber Win by Diversifying
jJy Rowland, Agricultural
Agent, Mo. Pac. R. R., Little Rock,
Arkansas.
The hundreds of people working for
agricultural development in our great
South are universally agreed that, in
the man, something is wrong with our
basic farming principles. There is
some difference of opinion, however,
as to the real cause of our troubles.
Of course, the broad statements coh-
cerning the disadvantages of one-crop
systems in general, and our cotton
growing activities in particular, are
East Texas delicacies for 'sale 'and he {heard on every hand and doubtless are
will advise you how many and when to measure,
ship—and pay you for same. If you -
hav.e none, please advise us who has
if you know.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
M°HEReVfDNESDAY^mCHT buy his living necessities from anoth-
hcut. WEDNESDAY NIGHT er producer, better trained and equip-
On the other hand, there are many
high-class business men and outstand-
ing farmers who insist that the suc-
cessful farmer should be a specialist
—that he should concentrate his ef-
forts on some one profitable crop and
The first meeting, of the Chamber
of Commerce for th\ new year was
scheduled for last night; and to this
meeting President Still and Secretary
Cox specially invited and urged all i =
members to come. Our forms closed j zzz
before the convening of the meeting; -EE
but it was “upon the cards’” for this ! ==
session that the Chamber would re- ——
commit itself to the work of the Ag- j zzz
ricultural Committee of which Judge ™
Fitzgerald is Chairman, and vote its ==
endorsement and further support of =
the work of the Smith County Agri- i zzz
cultural Council in the further prose- i ——
cution of its ten-year better farming 1 ——
program. j zzz
The Chamber is likewise endeavor- j zz:
ing to promote a ; better and more ! rzz
equitable marketing system for all ag- j —
ricultural products, and has this very i ==
important matter in the hands of an zz
efficient and hard-working committee rrr
of which C. J. Brogan, Vice Prqsident ~~
of the People’s State Bank, is Chair- E~
man. zz:
As it did early last year, the Cham- ZZZ
her of Commerce will within , this •—
month map out certain definite objec- —
tives the attainment of which will zz
represent its major activities for the 1 zz
current year. What these will be are zzz
not fully known at this time. - —
should see a widespread prosperity
with one plan of the other because
both are being extensively tried. In-
stead, we find outstanding examples
of success and failure in both camps;
and a tremcr.dous advantage obtained
by those practicing sensible diversi-
fication.
The Farmer and the Land
What is it thht a farmer has above
all other things? Land! What is it
that he desires above all othel: things ?
Food and shelter. Land has for cen-
turies produced the material neces-
sary for living and will doubtless con-
tinue to contribute its share. Not
that the farmer should return to the
old days of homespun cloth and wood-
en plows; but there is something
wrong when thousands upon thousands
of families living on the land buy
eggs, and meat, and vegetables, and
milk, and fruit from retail merchants
the year round.
Almost any farm in the country
could be made to produce some, if not
all, of these general commodities with-
out serious interference with the farm
program now employed. Common
sense and hard work would play an
important part in the successful car-
rying out a plan to grow the food and
feed necessary ^w-h©aie_consumption
on the farm; bunrwho expect^ to ^at-
tain success without these two facul-
ties. The grower having a living at
least partially assured for himself
and family would be better able to
withstand the failures which ■ are
bound to come to his cash crops now
and then. Also, the production of a
large number of crops on a small
scale, as suggested by the live-at-home
plan, would educate thousands of far-
mers in the culture of these crops
VAN ZANDT COUNTY
POULTRYMEN ELECT
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Wills Point, Jan. 2—The Van !i
county poultry association has <
officers for the ^ensuing
lows: J. C. Hardy, president;
Mitchell, first vice presid
McMahon, second vice presic
R. E. Stroup, secretary.
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For District^Attorney
7th Judicial 'District composed of
Smith, Wood and Upshur counties.
WALTER RUSSELL
(of Wood Co.)
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For County School Superintendent
MRS. CLEN (MAY) RICE
R. S. BOULTER
(Re-election)
For Tax Assessor
W. B. McDOWELL
J. L. W. KEELE
(Re-election)
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IT’S ALWAYS BAD LUCK-
Having a Black Cat cross your path
may
be an omen of bad luck-
but having your car fixed by any ex-
cept a capable mechanic is certain
Had luck. We guarantee our work
satisfactory in every particular.
Classified Ads
BROADWAY GARAGE
== N- Broadway
MACK V. REEVES
Phones 35—300
HONEY BALL CANTALOUPE seed
for sale—famous East Texas Honey
Ball Cantaloupe seed $3.00 per pound.
One pound will plant an acre. Yoti
can buy cheaper seed; but Oh the dis-
appointment. J. C. Taylor, Bullard,
Texas. 34t4.
FORD COUPE—One Ford Coupe for
sale; in good mecnarileal condition.
Apply at Standard Mercantile Co., op-
posite Tyler Hotel.
FARM FOR SALE—25 acre farm, 10 j =Z
minutes drive on prominent highway, j zzz
6 room residence, a good meadow, - zzz
plenty of pasture and well water, i —
Improvements are worth as much qs j zzz
price of place. $2,500. H. C. Bates, ; zz:
phone 1660-W, Tyler. 36tf zzz
FARM FOR SALE OR TRADE—96 EE
acres of land located five miles of zz1
Tyler, on lavender road. Roil is very 1 ;zr
productive. Two sets of rent houses. zz:
II. C. Bates, phone 1660-W, Tyler. 36tf i ss
FOR SALE OR TRADE—One of the
most popular pleasure lakes in Tyler.
Apply H. C. Bates. Phone 1660-W, or
owner, T. D. Westbrook, Tyler, Texas.
36tf.
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■ nd-.-nsid Official Statement
The Peoples State Bank
Of Tyler, Texas
Made to the Commissioner of Banking at Close of Business December 31, 1925
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts ..... $443,609.53
Over Drafts .................................. 600.04
Cotton Over Drafts ............... 28,716.44
U. S. Liberty Bonds .................... 355,000.00
U. S. Treasury Notes .................. 80,000.00
Commercial Paper ........................ 110,000.00
Other Stocks & Bonds ............... 10,318.81
Smith dunty Warrants ............ 41,745.42
Bank. House, Fur. & Fix......... 98,467.84
Other Refil Estate . 0,788.150
Int. & Assmt. Gty Fund .......... 23,994.31
on Hand ........................ 372,187.61
Other Resources ............................ 1,086.86
TOTAL
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$1,575,515.36
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LIABILITIES
Capital Stock ....................... $ 100,000.00
Certified Surplus ......... 40,000.00
DEPOSITS ................ 1,427,246.26
Dividends Unpaid .................... 100.00
Cashiers' Checks .................... 1,487.87
Certified Checks .................... 1,789.75
Reserved for Taxes -------
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$1*575,515.36
YOU’VE WAITED
Better Come in
And Save the Difference
Hart Schaffner
and Marx
Clothes
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$25-$33-$39
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THESE PRICES MEAN INVESTMENTS
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THRIFTY BUYERS
Caldwell Hughes, DeLay
TYLER
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Edwards, Henry. The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1926, newspaper, January 8, 1926; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth619856/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.