Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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Honey Grove Signal
I. H. LOWRY
EDITOR
Published Every Friday
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Nearly every man you know
makes a fool of himself occa-
sionally. Of course there are a
few exceptions. Nature, you
know, made fools of some men.
No, brethren, we have never
been able to cure a cold that got
hold of us, but if you are at-
tacked by a cold, drop around
and we can suggest several rem-
edies to cure yours.
Knowing some folks as we do,
we are constrained to say they
are so stingy that if the garages
didn’t furnish free air for their
tires they’d run on flats or rims
three-fourths of the time.
Aunt Alice Robertson, Con-
gresswoman, now owns a large
bull dog. If the pictures printed
in the papers do Aunt Alice jus-
tice, we don’t believe she needed
the bull dog to keep men away.
The tight-fitting coat must go,
and the loose coat is coming
back. We are wondering if the
men protested against the tight
coat because it was impossible
for the wearer to conceal a
bottle.
The thing we can’t understand
is how we have as much air as
we ever had; when so much of it
has been used to fill thirty mil-
lion tires in the country. With
out all the air that is housed up
in tires, we had a good deal more
than was needed this week.
The Legislature has created
one new county, which gives
Texas 250. The greatest objec-
tion to the creation of the new
county is that it’s in a bad sec-
tion for reporting election re-
turns, and we’ll have to wait a
week longer to find out who was
elected.
“You Northerners know no more
about the ‘institution of slavery’ as it
existed in the South than a piccaninny
in Darkest Ethiopia knows of Lord
Bacon’s inductive theory and what is
more, your Northerner, male or
female, can never learn to discern it.
And that accounts for the fact that
your negro has a sovereign contempt
for the Northern man, who beslobbers
him with a sickening sympathy, and
an extravagant admiration for your
Southern man, who never for a mo-
ment forgets his superiority while
daily lending aid to the black man.
It is no secret—what made the so-
called “negro question” so vexatious
in the United States. It all came
from the ridiculous fact that long-
haired men who ought to have been
born women, and short-haired women
who ought not to have been born at
all, continue running up and down the
earth emphasizing the mistakes of
Almighty God and blasphemously pre
tending to correct them. God made
the Caucasian the superior race. The
meddlers, long-haired men and short-
haired women, resented that decree
and sought to nullify it, but not till
it was demonstrated beyond peradven-
ture that African slavery could not be
made to pay at the North.
Nowhere else in all the world in all
the tides of time was there such con-
ditions of household economy' as is
fully expressed in the term “black
mammy.” It was beautiful in the ex-
treme; it was lovely in the superla-
tive; it was radiant in its bloom; it
was precious in its fruition. No
prouder woman ever wore garter than
the old black mammy, who assumed to
hold in benevolent ward the entire
household, white as well as black.
Her authority was unquestioned by
the white children, and they dreaded
her disapproval as a misfortune in-
deed. I know _ what I am talking
about. “All of it I saw, much of it I
was.” In fact I was half raised in
the kitchen by old Aunt Caroline—
God bless her memory. It is precious
to me. And Uncle Archie, her husr-
band,_ father of her numerous family
of children! 'Many were the hours he
held me on his lap, affectionately and
anxiously and gravely seeking to im-
plant moral virtue in my heart ana
impart practical wisdom to my mind.
They had a son, Alec, five years
older than I. His job was to go with
me everywhere and “keep me out of
mischief.” His practice was to get me
into mischief. My father, overflow-
ing with indulgent kindness, yet be-
lieved in Solomon and did not spare
the rod. Almost daily Alec and I got
a licking from him, and I got ten
lashes where Alec got one. I resent-
ed it then. I can see the wholesome
reason of it now.
* * * #
But why pursue the theme? It is
impossible Greek to the North as it is
everlasting joy to the South. Yet
slavery was an evil and doomed to
destruction, not for the sake of the
slave, but for that of his master. Jef-
ferson Davis, after secession and be-
fore Bull Run, declared slavery to be
yet in the experimental stage at the
South and he advised that emancipa-
tion might have to come in the then
not distant future. It was notable
that the slave was what his master
was, respectable or reprobate as his
master was one or the other. And it
was the rule that your slave holder
just had to hold up his head, in char-
acter as well as in gesture, or be
ostracised in the community.
But why should the Grand Army of
the Republic put its oar in about this
tribute the Southern people are firmly
resolved .to pay to the memory of the
aggression. Eflrope is in need ttoenttnHntoll Joel- “ impel"
The cushionites’ troubles are
not so bad as they appeared last
week. The Legislature made the
tax on gasoline 1 cent a gallon in-
stead of 2 cents a gallon This
bill has received the approval of
the Governor and goes into ef-
fect at once. But a new auto
license act has also been passed.
This, however, does not go into
effect until next Janutry, and a
great deal of riding can be done
before that time.
We have all been hoping the
cold would kill the boll weevils
and we would be free from the
pests this crop year, but it seems
that cold has little effect on low
forms of life. People in America
are now shipping frogs to Japan
for breeding purposes, receiving
a dollar for each frog. The
frogs are shipped packed in ice
and when they reach Japan they
are apparently frozen solid. The
Japs thaw them out and the
frogs go their way hopping and
happy. Little chance, it appears,
to freeze out the weevils.
BLACK MAMMIES AND THE
SOUTH.
Recently Senator John Sharpe
Williams of Mississippi suggest-
ed that a site be set apart some-
where on the public grounds of
Washington City on which to
erect a monument commemora-
tive of the love of the people of
the South for the old black mam-
mies of that elder day when the
relations between the whites and
the household slaves were one of in srouP acti?n of this character,
the transcendent beauties of civ-
ilized society, the cost of the
monument to be defrayed by the
people of the South. The sug-
gestion stirred up the ‘Woman’s
Relief Corps of the Grand Army
of the Republic,” which organi-
zation denounced the proposal as
a “sickly, sentimental proposi
tion,” and many other bad
things. The action of the
“Woman’s Relief Corps” stirred
up “Savoyard,” a Southern man,
and one of the country’s ablest
writers, and he handed the sis-
ters one of the hottest packages
any organization ever received.
There isn’t space here for all
that Savoyard said, but we give
it in part, and truly it is splendid
reading:
The
French continue to oc-
py more towns in the Ruhr dis-
trict of Germany. Daily there
are clashes between German
civilians and French soldiers.
Already many Germans and a
few French soldiers have been
killed, and it looks now like the
situation will grow worse every
day, Germany is suffering more
and more, and France is gaining
nothing. ^ The Franco-German
situation is causing bad feeling
between France and England,
and there is danger of a conflict
between these nations, which
fought so nobly against German
TOO MANY GROUPS AND BLOCS.
of a peace-maker.
The Kansas Industrial Court
stands. Kansas led in the mat-
ter of establishing a court for
settling disputes between capital
and labor, and, while assaulted
from every side, the court did
the work. Certain capitalists
and certain labor leaders, who
wanted to fight each other with
strikes and lockouts and let the
“public be damned,” fought the
law viciously, and an effort was
made to have the Legislature re-
peal the law creating the indus-
trial court, but when the vote
was taken there was only one
vote for repeal. Kansas has
shown the other states and the
nation how, and it remains to be
seen whether they will follow her
good lead.
Prohibition is not thoroughly
enforced, but observation con-
vinces us that it is as well en-
forced as either of the Ten Com-
mandments. These command-
ments have been in force several
thousand years and no message
has come from the Lord to re-
peal either of them.
Speaking of the organization
of the Texas Citizenship Bureau,
the latest organization in Texas,
one of its objects being to op-
pose the Ku Klux Klan, the
Houston Post says:
In spite of good intent, speaking
broadly, group action in the United
States is creating more problems than
it is solving and breeding more strife
than it is allaying.
We are confident that the highest
welfare of the country does not lie
We
need a broader citizenship than that
which is bound by minor organiza-
tions, cliques, blocs and classes.
Group action usually results in move-
ments for group benefits and priv-
ileges at the expense of others, or for
immunities under the government
that are not expected to be univer-
sally enjoyed.
Rather than group action the na-
tion’s greater need is for a citizenship
ennobled by a finer type of individu-
alism, with its solemn sense of indi-
vidual responsibility. After all, good
citizenship is a matter of individual
demeanor. Indeed, it rests entirely
upon the individual, whether he be a
law-abiding, constitution - respecting,
well-behaved citizen. No organization
or group, either through ritual or
acts, can impart good citizenship to
a member. It can not expand his
patriotism, but it is 'conceivable that it
might seriously interfere with his
most sacred responsibilities of citizen-
ship.
It is the law of every organization
to strive for advantage and benefit
for its members. That is true of
labor unions, , fraternities, brother-
hoods and every species of organiza-
tion. We see blocs and organizations
striving in congress, legislatures,
councils, commissions and other agen-
cies of the public service for special
favors—for themselves and surely
special favors enjoyed by one class
must necessarily be at the expense of
other classes.
The inevitable trend of latter day
groups is in the direction of political
endeavor, and if they are to be effec-
tive they must restrict in an im-
portant degree that individual free-
dom of their members that is neces-
sary for them if they are to exemplify
the best citizenship.
Organization is useful in too many
ways to admit of a statement that
they are hindering progress, Put it
can be said that the organization
which is not constructive, or which
does not strengthen individualism, can
not aid true progress much, and cer-
tainly can not exalt citizenship in the
degree that it needs to be exalted.
Citizenship must be unfettered and
imbued with a solemn sense of indi-
vidual responsibility to reach the
higher planes of patriotism and in-
telligence.
In saying this much, and in agree-
ing with the position of its Galveston
contemporary, the Post impugns the
motives or patriotism of no organiza-
tion. Even some blocs and groups
that do not make any secrecy of their
purely selfish and impossible aims
mean well enough, but, wittingly or
not, those who segregate themselves
from their fellow citizens are not as
deeply concerned for the welfare of
all as they might be. When the
blessings or aspirations of citizenship
lack the element of universality, they
are very apt to lack the element of
complete justice.
Citizenship is liot likely to find its
noblest expression in groups, but in
unfettered endeavor and in the indi-
vidual nobility and patriotism that
summons each and all to the common
ground of the constitution, the bill of
rights and the law.
A bobtlegger was arrested in
Washington the other day dnd
his books were captured. On
his books were found the names;,
addresses and telephone num-
bers of five admirals, four gen-
erals, thirteen commanders,
twenty-five colonels-, one lieu-
tenant colonel, twenty - seven
majors, twelve captains and ten
lieutenants. Evidently our army
is trying to turn itself into a
navy.
The Supreme Court has finally
passed upon the dispute of
Texas and Oklahoma over the
boundary line, 1 Nobody paid
a,ny attention to the boundary
line until oil was discovered in
and near the river. Oklahoma
then set up the claim that the
south bank of the stream was
the line between the states, and
laid claim to all of the river.
The lower court sustained Olda-
homa’s contention, but the Su-
preme Court says the middle of
the river is the line, except in a
few cases where the stream left
its old channel and started a new'
one.
rig up a pitching station, and
the wonder to us is why people
ever left the noble old demo-
cratic game for such insipid
sport as tennis, golf and chess.
A horse-shoe pitchers team will
be organized in Honey Grove
soon, and when the weather gets
so people can knock around in
their shirt sleeves there will be
a joint meeting of the team and
Gibbon Poteet’s Rabbit Twisters
Association.
A Parker county woman re-
fused to pay her poll tax. The
fair creature said she didn’t
want to vote, and wouldn’t pay
the poll tax, but the Supreme
Court has ruled that the hus-
band of the woman must dig up
the poll tax money. We are not
saying anything in particular
about woman suffrage, but to
date we see nothing it has ac-
complished further than adding
a neat sum to the taxes of
women, or their husbands or
fathers. It takes a little longer
to count the votes, but we have
not noted any particular im-
provement in the officers chosen.
In Des Moines, Iowa, the offi-
cials are trying out a new plan
for dealing with drunks. When
a man is found drunk, he is ar-
rested and marched or dragged
to a photograph gallery. At the
gallery his photograph is made,
and when he sobers up he is
given the photograph so he can
see what he looked like when he
was drunk. If the scheme does
not increase drunkenness we will
acknowledge ourself a poor judge
of human nature. The man who
sees what a fool he made of him-
self, and what he looked like,
will seek to drown the remem-
brance of his folly in a new
drunk.
Reformers in Massachusetts
are trying to pass a law making
activity of any character illegal,
whether it be selling bread or
playing checkers. Utah is jail-
ing men who smoke cigarettes in
public. New York reformers are
seeking to make certain kinds of
dancing unlawful. Texas comes
forward with a law prohibiting,
the teaching of evolution. South'
Carolina solons have passed a
law against playing billiards or
pool, anywhere or at any time.
Speedily we are making the
world good by law. The golfers
and domipo players may rest as-
sured that the law will stand be-
tween them and their favorite
games soon. We even fear that
the law’s iconoclastic hand may
be laid upon the noble game of
horse-shoe pitching, but when
such a prohibition comes look
out for us to head a bolshevistic
movement.
Among the eases disposed of in
the recorder’s court Monday morn-
ing was one against a. defendant
who was charged with cruelty to
animals. It was claimed that
while he was trying to back a
team hitched to a wagon he be-
came incensed at one of the mules
and struck it on the side of the
head with a stick of cordwood,
knocking it over the wagon tongue
against the other mule. He was
convicted and fined $10. This
was the first case of the kind
that has come up in the recorder’s
court in a longtime.—Paris News.
We don’t know the name of
the man convicted, and don’t
want to know, but if he was
guilty as charged he got a very
light fine. The mule had doubt-
less helped make bread and but-
ter for the man and his children,
and was helpless in its owner’s
hands. Surely it isn’t brave to
abuse a helpless creature, and we
have never been able to believe
that a man’s heart is right that
abuses something that can’t de-
fend itself. Some men do this
who pray loud and long in the
churches, but we doubt whether
a prayer is heard when it is
uttered by a man who regards
not the beasts over which God
gave him dominion.
The people prefer to use the old
constitution rather than risk a
chance of taxes being raised un-
der a new one.
There will be no vote on a new
constitution for Texas this year
or next. There has been much
agitation for a new constitution,
and the Legislature has spent a
great deal of time discussing and
voting on the proposal, but by a
close vote the resolution to sub-
mit the calling of a constitu-
tional convention to a vote of
the people was defeated Satur-
day. It is well that it was. It
would have been expensive, and
nothing would have come of it,
as the people would have defeat-
ed the convention at the polls.
Today, Thursday, the day the
paper is put to press, is the
anniversary of Andrew Jack-
son’s birth. While Andy drank
a little and cussed a great deal,
he was a jim dandy when it
came to guiding the destinies of
a nation. He ran the public
debt down to nearly nothing and
reduced the per capita expendi-
ture to $1.25. Wish we had
some Andrew Jacksons in charge
of the state and national govern-
ments now. But the people can’t
stop and pay tribute to Andy
now. Many of them must file
their income ta^ reports and dig.
up the first payment on the tax
today, or the government will
jail them,
Prohibition, or rather the en-
forcement of prohibition, is cost-
ing the United States fourteen
and one-half million dollars a
year. In addition to this it is
taking perhaps half the time of
district attorneys and their of-
fice forces. A very expensive
undertaking, to be sure, and
some are saying the cost is too
high and the country can not af-
ford it. But the country can,
because the country is getting
much in return. Nothing is too
expensive that returns more
than it costs. Statistics show
that crimes traceable to liquor
have been reduced from 30 to 60
per cent. This item alone is
worth the money spent. Ar-
rests from drunkenness have de-
creased 50 per cent. How much
is this . worth ? Thousands of
families that used to suffer for
the necessities of life are being
well fed and comfortably
clothed. This alone is worth the
fourteen and a half million dol-
lars. But perhaps the coming
generations will receive the
greatest returns for the money
the_ country is spending on pro-
hibition. They will come to ma-
turity without a desire for
strong drink, and escape the hor-
rors of strong drink worked upon
the present generation and gen-
erations of the past. Prohibi-
tion is expensive, but it pays.
A nit mm dug Our Spring
One-Cenf Sa
THURSDAY, FRIDAY lull SATURDAY
MARCH 22, 23 and 24
We will offer BIGGER, BETTER MONEY-SAVING VALUES on NEW, FRESH MER-
CHANDISE. During our One Cent Sale one item is sold at regular retail price and then
we can sell you another just like it for 1 cent. Here are a few of the most popular items:
George W. Dixon is the early
bird in the campaign for Gov-
ernor. The primaries will not be Should a fellow whose pants are
The noble organization of
horse-shoe pitchers is growing
by leaps and bounds. There are
now 145 members of the Horse-
Shoe Pitchers Club in the city
of Houston, and new members
are being taken in every week.
Any man is eligible to join the
Horse-Shoe Pitchers Association
who loves democracy and hates
aristocracy, provided he chews
tobacco and wears galluses.
held until July of next year, but
Mr. Dixon has already announc-
ed his candidacy. Mr. Dixon
made some charges against the
penitentiary system two years
ago and caused the Legislature
to make an investigation. The
legislative committee recom-
mended a change in the system.
held in place by a belt present
himself for membership h e
would be black-balled without
the least hesitation. Horse-shoe
pitching was the sport of the
daddies in the grand old day’s
when men were honest and ap-
pendicitis was unknown. It
costs less than twenty cents to
60c
STATIONERY
Lord Baltimore
Box Paper
.....-................................................2 for 61c
50c Cascade Pound Paper........,2 for 51c
10c Envelopes,................2 for 11c
35c Cascade Envelopes...............2 for 36c
$1.00 Symphony Lawn Box Paper
----------------------------------2 for $1.01
TOILET ARTICLES
25c Rexall Tooth Paste....._........2 for 26c
$1.00 Bouquet Ramee Face Powder
..........-—..................................2 for $1.01
$1.00 Truflor Toilet Water__________________
...................................................2 for $1.01
25c Corylopsis Talcum____________2 for 26c
15c Toilet Soap.______________________________2 for 16c
30c Rouge.________________________________________2 for 31c
50c Violet Dulce Face Powder.__________
......—..................................._....2 for 51c
50c Jonteel Comb. Cream........2 for 51c
50c Jonteel Cold Cream.............2 for 51c
50c Cocoa Butter Cold Cream____________
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30c Dresden Face Powder.______2 for 31c
50c Klenzo Dental Cream........2 for 51c
30c Rexall Cold Cream.............2 for 31c
50c Bouquet Ramee Talcum......
.....-----..........-..........-..........................2 for 51c
30c Gorgia Rose Talcum...........2 for 31c
CANDY (Fresh for this Sale)
$1.00 Dainty Dutch Delights, one
Pound.....................................2 for $1.01
60c Dainty Dutch Delights, one-
half pound....;.........................2 for 61c
50c Wrapped Caramels, one pound
......................................................2 for 51c
SUNDRIES AND HOUSEHOLD
NEEDS
15c Velour Powder Puffs........2 for 16c
50c Tooth Brushes........................2 for 51c
$2.00 Maximum Hot Water Bottle
.............. ..................................2 for $2.01
$2.00 Maximum Fountain Syringe
...........------— .........2 for $2.01
(One of each if desired)
35c Vanilla Extract____________ 2 for 36c
40c Lemon Extract................ 2 for 41c
30c Cocoa.......—----------------------------2 for 31c
25c Spices............... 2 for 26c
10c Epsom Salts................. 2 for 11c
25c Castor Oil...................................2 for 26c
10c Hair Nets, Single______1.......2 for 11c
15c Hair Nets, Double...........:...^ for 16c
Other Items Too Numerous to Mention.
We trust to have ample merchandise for every one. Better come early for better selection.
REMEMBER THE DATES—MARCH 22, 23, 24
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1923, newspaper, March 16, 1923; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621384/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.