Lubbock Morning Avalanche (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 1, No. 291, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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THE LUBBOCK MORNING AVALANCHE, THURSDAY, OCT. 4 1923
Lubbock Morning Avalanche
PublishecTEvery Morning Except Monday by
THE AVALANCHE PUBLISHING CO.
(Incorporated)
IAS. L DOW- -Editor and General Manage*
Neal Douglass. Jr--------- --City Editor
j £ Griffith___________Advertising Manager
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NOTICE_It is not the intention of the Avalanche to
east reflection upon the character of anyone know-
ingly, and if through error we should, the management
will appreciate having our attention called to same,
““ *'*d' POTLflHMG* CO*-
THAT SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS
TALK
There is talk here now of a special session of
Congress to deal with the agricultural situation, but
Senator Borah, who recently dined with President
Coolidge and discussed the matter with him ex-
pressed the opinion that a special session would
be useless unless a remedy first was found which
the Congress could apply.
Prior to Senator Borah’s visit the President's
Cabinet discussed the agricultural situation, but
the discussion seems to have simmered down to
putting the whole matter up to Secretary Wallace
to find a remedy. The Secretary of Agriculture
has been something of a Philestine in the Cabinet.
He has not hesitated to point out the exorbitant
prices the farmer has to pay for the things he buys
and the low prices of the things he sells. He has
called attention to the low purchasing power of
nhe farmer’s dollar and he has talked bluntly of
the high freight rates which have increased from
1 1 cents a bushel to 22 cents a bushel on wheat.
In other words, he has confirmed every fact con-
cerning the disparity in price between what the
farmer buys and what he sells, so frequently set
forth by Democratic spokesmen. He has exposed
the fallacy of a tariff on agricultural products by
saying that we cannot expect our farmers will meet
any less severe competition in European markets
during the coming year than they have met dur-
ing the last year.
A committee of economists under the direc-
i tion of Secretary Wallace made it clear that one
cause of the decline in agricultural prices was the
economic breakdown in Europe, and then declared
against Republican isolation in the following strong
terms:
“The only possibility for an important increase
in purchasing power lies in the ability of Europe to
expand her manufactured exports. It is of the
most vital interest to American agriculture that
the United States lend aid in every way possible to
the settlement of the reparation and other Euro-
pean problems."
This recommendation has been wholly unheed-
ed by the Republican administration. The only
remedy administration spokesmen have suggested
is that the farmer produce less wheat, which, by
economists, is regarded as no remedy at all.
With all of his blunt frankness Secretary Wal-
lace has not yet proposed the one obvious rem-
edy: Reduction of the tariff to reduce the price of
the articles the farmer has to buy, which with a
revision of transportation charges, would material-
ly increase the puchasing power of the farmer’s
products.
So far there is no indication that the present
administration will be any more yielding on the
tariff than the Harding administration. The pro-
tected special interests are the backbone of the Re-
publican party as at present organized and con-
trolled, and so long as this continues to be the case
it may be doubted if anything done by the pres-
ent administration will amount to any more than
another attempt o hood-wink the farmers and
“jolly" them along until after the next election.
FAIR VISITORS, LUBBOCK WELCOMES YOU!
The doors of the city are thrown wide open
on the occasion of the South Plains Fair, and in-
deed and in truth you are extended a warm invi-
tation to participate whole-heartedly in the cele-
bration and are assured that it is the ambiion of
your host to meet your every expectation and
amply justify your anticipation of what the Fair
would be this year.
We want to impress upon the minds of the
people of the South Plains that this is not and has
never been Lubbock’s Fair—it is your Fair—an
occasion upon which the finest products of the
garden, field, ranch and industry are congregated
for comparison and exhibition, intermingled with
which will be the pleasant opportunities for us all
to become better acquainted with one another and
more conversant with the problems that confront
us in the continued development of the great
South Plains Country.
To entertain you in the manner in which you
would be entertained on such occasion as this is
the ambition of every man, woman and child in
Lubbock, and to secure your closest co-operation
in making the South Plains Fair one of the big-
gest and best concerns of its kind in all Texas is
earnestly desired.
Your very presence brings us to a keener ap-
peciation of the genuine citizenship on which West
Texas may rely for her continued growth and de-
velopment, and as your host Lubbock will strive
hard to merit your continued friendship.
THE FLAMING HEARTH.
Negro Population
Increases 250 Per
Cent in 3 ^ears
Arm, intsead of going into his fath- The dead flies drop into a chute
er’s business. j and then into a drawer, and may be
Such were the beginnings of Hugo I emptied at intervals.
Stinnes, who is now ermany’s—j ---
maybe Europe’s—leading industral-1 HUGE STORE BUILDING
lst- 1 COMPLETED AT LAMESA
By the United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—Chicago now
has more negroes than Baltimore
or New Orleans.
Although the northern migration
of negroes is ebbing now, negro
job hunters have poured into the
North all Spring and Summer, and
Chicago has become a “distributing
point’’ from which labor hunters
take the negroes for ihdustrial
work thruout the Middle West.
Conservative estimates are that
the negro population of Chicago has
increased 250 percent in the past
thirteen years and 100 per cent in
the past three years. Some estima-
tors place the present number of
Chicago negroes at 200,000. The
“black belt” on Chicago’s South
AN ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR The Fred Bone Construction Com-
THE COMMON HOUSEFLIES Pany has just completed a one story
_ ! brick building at Lamesa for W. S.
VIENNA, (By mail to the United j Moore, prominent merchant of that
Press.)—An Austrian inventor has. city. Room has been made in this
built an electric chair for the ex- spacious building for five stores,
press purpose of electrocuting the
common, ordinary houseflies.
The contraption—on display at the
Vienna Fair—Draws the flies up to
it by means of an electric light, when
the flies light on a charged wire
they are immediately electrocuted.
The machine is encased in a pro-
tecting framework so that it cannot
harm curious children or careless
grownups. The inventor claims that
the electric chair left in a roomful
of flies overnight, will draw every
single one of them into its death-
trap.
It is pointed out that this method
is the sanest on record—practically
A noted writer Charles Dudley Warner, once
wrote a book called Backlog Studies. It was
an imaginative record of conversations supposed
to have taken place before a fire on the hearth.
It brought out the fact that the open fire, which so
many people are kindling on these cool fall nights,
is a promoter of conversation. It seems to lead to
reflection and expression. It provokes a dreamy
and unworldly mood, in which people drop for the
moment their reticcences and absorptions and ex-
change interesting thoughts from their innner ex-
perience.
In these days of efficient heating apparatus,
some people complain that in cold regions the fire
on the hearth is not a scientific heating method, and
does not generate as many heat units as a stove or
furnace. But it gives its own peculiar sense of good
cheer, and stimulates thought and draws friends to-
gether, which are values not measured by any kind
of thermometer.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR LUBBOCK PLANNED.
THE MEANING OF CO-OPERATION
means standing
means standing
means standing
means standing
means standing
The Farm Bureau News says: True co-operation
means to be willing to stand together with your
neighbors and to share equally with them, at all
times, on an equal basis. It means standing to-
gether when times are good; it means standing
together when times are bad; it
together in good crop years; it
together in short crop years; it
together when pices are high; it
together when prices are low; it
together in prosperity; it rrieans standing together
in adversity.
Co-operative associations have a long term,
legally binding contract which has been upheld in
all the Supreme Courts where they have been
tested. The contract is essential for the protection
of the association; and to its members to give
the leaders a basis for carrying out the program.
But the contract is not the thing that really binds
the members together. The thing that binds the
members of any co-operative marketing associa-
tion together is “co-operation’’ in its fullest and
best meaning.
The members of the Texas Associations under-
stand what co-operation means. It means not only
to boost their association but to work for it; co-
operating with their neighbors.
Our members are working in bringing in new
members. In securing releases from mortgages so
that they can put their crops through the associa-
tion. In controlling “distress" crops that would
otherwise be dumped on the market in competi-
tion with the members’ crops. In lending timely
help to members who are in financial stress and
need a helping hand to deliver their crops to the
association. All of these things our members are
showing in every community in Texas.
That is what co-operation means and that is
why the marketing of the crops through the Farm
Bureau Associations is going to be a big success.
Lubbock people continue to manifest a lasting
confidence in the future of their city, and at this
time prearations are being made for the calling
of a bond election to vote upon the construction
of a city hall, the improvement of the city light
and power plant, construction of more pavement
and storm sewers, and extension of light and
power lines throughout the city.
The petition which is being circulated for this
election has met with much liberality among the
citizenship, and when the proposition is finally
placed into the hands of the voters of Lubbock
its passage is assured.
It is indeed no small task to keep a town ahead
of the developments that are being wrought by
the people of this city, and it is up to the city
dads to take the lead in all development programs,
and thus far they have proven themselves fully
capable of maintaining this leadeship despite the
magnitude of the demands that are placed upon
them.
Lubbock is an institution. A great big business
that has as its managers a board of commissioners
who were duly elected by the citizens, and they
in turn have as their supporters a host of tax pay-
ers who realize that they have something to do
to keep Lubbock in advance of the fast develop-
ing plains territory.
These things that are to be purchased by the
tax payers of Lubbock are absolute necessities.
Things that are the foundation of every big city,
and that must be built in Lubbock at once if her
prestige as the hub of the plains is upheld.
The people of Lubbock are taking to them-
selves the responsibilities of building a great city
here, and they may be depended upon to do the
big thing whenever the opportunity is presented.
Side is a mile wide and five miles, instaneous and painless, leaving no
long, with other colonies in differ-! smeary fly corpses about the place,
ent parts of the city. | , i ■.... i ——. —, —■
Not all the buildings in this “city” I___
of negroes inside Chicago’s limits j
are shacks or unsightly tenement ^
firetraps, but some of the Michigan
Boulevard “mansions” of world’s fair;
days are homes of negro profession !
al men, business men. etc.
In the majority of the negro sec-;
tion, however, conditions are little j
better than in Southern “string- j
towns.” In spite of the fact that,
the border of the “black belt” is;
steadily pushing outward, the hous-1
ing shortage is serious.
Shortage of European labor is j
deemed responsible for the exodus \
from the South, as well as the more j
tolerant attitude of the North, bet- i
ter wages and school facilities.
with basement under all.
Good paper can be made from
banana refuse. The trash or re-
fuse, consisting of the stems of ba-
nana trees from which the fruit has
been cut, is run thru crushing rolls,
which produces a mash in whick
the moisture has been reduced from
90 to 55-75 per cgnt. A pulping
machine reduces the mixture to pulp
and the pulp and juice are boiled ana
beaten. The removal of the fibrous
material from the beater completes
the process, in which no chemical is
used.
The Avalanche Delivered 70c per
month.
HUGO STINNES DUG COAL
FOR TEN HOURS PER DAY
BERLIN, (By mail to the Unitedf
Press)—Hugo Stinnes demanding
the ten hours’ workaday knows what
it means by personal experience.
Unlike most other German cap-
tains of industry, he is a self-made
man.
Although his father was a weal-
thy industralist, young Hugo wanted
to begin at the beginning.
After finishing college he first
became an apprentice in a Coblenz
business firm.
He was eighteen (in 1880) when
he left Coblenz and for ten months
dug coal like any other miner far
under the ground, which was at that
time a ten-hour job.
After this experience he took suc-
cessively a position as workman in
smelteries and cokeries.
Only after going thru such prac-
tical experience Hugo Stinnes went
into a technical high school. In 1893
he considered his education finished.
With 50,000 marks which he had
inherited from his mother, he then
proceeded then to found his own
Bowen’s Drug Store
CONGRATULATES
—^The—
\
Lubbock
Morning Avalanche
and welcomes to Lubbo<fk the many
visitors who are attending the Pan-
handle-South Plains Fair. \
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REMEMBER!
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“Bowen Has It”
WE DELIVER
The low prices the farmer receives for what
he produces and the high prices he pays for what
he must buy involve several problems. But a
more vital problem is involved in the cheapest
thing the farmer uses. That is the country school.
It is too cheap. Reports received this year from
about half the counties in the United States show
that there are 98,000 one-teacher schools in these
counties and that the average salary paid the
teacher is $729. The pity is that thousands of
teachers regard even that low average as prince-
ly. In 20 States 3,100 teachers of one-teacher
schools receive less than $300 a year. In 32
States 4,580 teachers receive between $300 and
$400; in 34 States 5,589 receive between $400
and $500; in 40 States 8,367 receive between $500
and $600; in 42 States 16,525 receive between
$600 and $700; in 45 States 16,432 teachers re-
ceive between $700 and $800 a year, or some-
thing near the average of $729. More than half
the teachers are thus accounted for but is little con-
solation to them to know that the other half re-
ceive more than $729.
A circular on the salaries of teachers in rural
schools in 1923 is nearly ready for printing for free
ditsribution by the U. S. Bureau of Education, De-
partment of the Interior, Washington.
So far the young crowd are not so prejudiced
against farming that they won’t attend the bam
dances.
Fomerly childen walked to the schools, now
they are transported, and in a few years probab-
ly the teaches .will have to walk around to the
homes of the children.
The'Largest Banking Institution
on the South Plains
Congratulates
The Lubbock Morning
Avalanche
For paving the way for a Greater Lubbock with a news-
paper of the first order.
The service the New Morning Avalanche will be able
to render the City of Lubbock can only be measured by
the whole-hearted co-operation of all the citizenship.
This is practically assured!
The building of a Greater Lubbock means we must
have men at the helms of business with vision of the
possibilities offered. This bank, modestly we claim,
the leading banking institution of the Great South
Plains country, is trying hard to help the worthy insti-
tutions in its endeavor to render valuable service.
THE L UBBOCK
STATE BANK
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Dow, James L. Lubbock Morning Avalanche (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 1, No. 291, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1923, newspaper, October 4, 1923; Lubbock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660267/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.