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The Jacksboro Gazette
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JAKCSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1918
NUMBER 35
RAILWAY
MAN
URGES
BISIRESS_EIUGEI
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE
SHOWS 50-50 BASIC AGREE-
MENT AT FT. WORTH.
S. W. AS LAND OF OPPOR-
TUNITY FOR FACTORIES
EMERGENCY AGENT OF
FEDERAL DEPARTMENT
‘ ’OF AGRICULTURE HERE
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Washington, Jan. 28.—That
Swift and Armour divided the hog
and cattle purchases on the Fort
Worth market on the fifty-five ba-
sis, was charged before the Feder-
al Trade Commission by Special
Counsel Francis J. Heney, in the
presentation of correspondence ta-
ken from the packers’ letter and
record files. It was the practice,
the Government’s counsel charged
to apportion the buying through-
out the country upon a fixed basis
of percentages, which includes all
■yie big packers. This ratio was
preserved save where .there were
but two packing houses, and then,
An organized campaign to en-
courage the establishment of man-
ufacturing industries, participat-
ed in by all Southwestern com-
mercial organizations, is suggest-
ed by C. E. Schaff, receiver of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
way.’ Mr. Schaff’s suggestion is
prompted by the action of Govern-
ment authorities in advising that
new munition and war material
factories should be located in the
Southwest and Middle West. In
a saement today Mr. Schaff said:
“Present conditions afford the
Southwest a wonderful develop-
ment opportunity which progress-
ive business interests should or-
ganize to make the most of. Va-
rious Government agencies are ad-
vising the location of new manu-
facturing plants outside of the in-
dustrial districts of the East, not
only to strengthen our economic
position during the war, but to
permanently improve our position
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he alleged, the division was equal,
i In order to give other packers,!and PrePare us ,or Peace- ' . ,
, what Mr. Henev asserts to have! ‘War “eeds haTC ™Pha™d
•been the agreed' division for the the necessi*y 'veil balanced in-
country over, at centers where ,h,stnal «">w‘h- and '* he ea’
therc were more than two pack-<s,er durm« the next few Kara
ing plants, they were operated up- than ever l>efor<‘ to deTeloP inter'
on a ratio that evened up on the!est ln ,he establishment of new
fifty-fifty division, the whole of it. | manufacturing industries in sec-
Mr. Heney contended, before the
commission Revealed there was no
competition between the packers
Kill
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tions adjacent to *raw materials
and accessible to growing mar-
kes. Too great congestion of es-
anywhere in the purchase of cattle !sential ^du^ries causes conps'
or hogs jtion which interferes with nation-
The same situation existed in >*d efficiency. The United States
Oklahoma City, Mr. Heney eharg-!lias cached a stage in its develop-
ed as revealed by correspondence, ment when bright suggests that
the packing companies there being we encourage distribution of pur
Wilson and Morris, whose buyers i manufacturing industries over a
were instructed not to bid against I wider area. War developments
one another so as to run up the : nave made the soundness of this
price. Also the Oklahoma City P°dcy so obvious that construct-
market was “out of line,” that is ive development effort will meet
that market was bringing prices hearty response,
to the producer of live stock high- ^ ^ Southwest has a wealth of
er than paid on the Northern mar- i material for manufacturing
kets? which furnished the standard I Purposes, its markets are steadily
with freight ami other charges j enlarging, and. in addition, the
considered as determining ele- [Southwest is a* le financially to
ments for the outlying centers, hack her own undertakings. Nev-
The number’ of purchasers were so ! ,,r before was it so easy to finance
regulated af Oklahoma City and iconstructive enterprises locally,
elsewhere, Mr. Heney said, as to bave pasr°d the stage when
balance all the business the pack- we need wait lor someone to come
ers were t odo in from outside to develop our re-
E. ('. Lasater of Falfurrias. Tex- sources. T,he time is ripe for a
as. testified as to the difficulties in co-operative effort on the part
marketing livestock which the live Southwestern commercial or-
stock men long have contended ! ganizations.
show an undersanding between | ^ dependable survey should be
the big packers to k£ep prices low. (made ot natural resources availa-
Lasater said he sent a shipment of |hle for manufacturing industries,
cattle to Fort Worth and received,and favorah!e conditions should
only one. hid, from the Armour jbe taken advantage of to establish
buyer. He decided Jo send the Ion solid basis 8Uch Planta as !oca-
eattle to St. Louis and received on !tiorb resources aud markets make
]y one hid there, from the same I practicaI. Haphazard methods
firm. The cattle were sold to Ar- |and half W information will not
mour there for less than had been <b>- Accurate knowledge of praeti-
offered in Fort Worth. He said hejral advantage and complete un-
had no doubt that the Fort Worth del-standing of obstacles to be
buyers telegraphed ahead. j overcome is required. In thjs work
Lasater declared that wiring there is need tor the co-operation
ahead such information was a^ commercial organizations
common practice with the packers. iand business men who are inter
Heney yesteryay placed before iu Southwestern develop-
the Federal trade commission evi-'men’-
denee that the nation’s eattle bus ! “Th<* opportruiity is so big that
mess is entirely in the grip of the ; wiU mifortunate if only
so-called meat trust, f<‘\v communities, each seeking
' > special development for itself,
take advantage of it. An earnest.
O. H. Robbins, Emergency agent
appointed by the Federal Depart-
ment of ’ Agriculture, is' in 'Jacks-
boro this' week"looking over the
agricultural conditions and will
probably remain ~ here for about
six months. His work will be for
tlje betterment of the agricultural
conditions in helping along the
work of soil conservation and
food and feed production and con-
servation. This work is planned
by the Government to give all pos-
sible aid and encouragement to
the farmers under the present
great need of raising greater crops
of all kinds of valuable crops
needed for the people of our own
country and also for our allies.
LONNIE FILES WRITES OF
WORK IN CAMP TRAVIS
1st Co. 90th Riv Tr'ng School,
Camp Travis.
Dear Parents.—This finds me
feeling fine. Have justxgotten back
from town. Certainly did see one
grand show, wish you all could
have been with me. 1 nearly al-
ways get homesick when I go to
a show. They always sing some
song or say something that makeg
me homesick.
I heard a fellow recite a poem
this afternoon that struck me very
forcibly. It was about a feather-
bed. Ha, ha. One of Mother’s
featherbeds would feel fine to-
night. It is pretty cool here. 1
have not been out in the cold any I
today, much, just going and com-
ing from and to town, which is
only about 20 minutes each way
and then was in a car with cur-
FORMUNED
CARDS WILL SOON BE DIS-
TRIBUTED TO HELP HOUSE-
KEEPERS OBSERVE DAYS
BERWICK NEWS. FARMERS
READY TO BEGIN PREPA-
RATIONS FOR PLANTING
Washington, Jan. 28.—The new
home card of the food administra-
tion has been issued and shortly
will be distributed throughout the
United States to help housekeep-
ers in observing the 1918 conser-
vation program of two wheatless,
one meatless, and two porkless
days a week is announced in Pres-
ident Wilson’s proclamation.
A card carrying an explanation of
the weekly plan will go into effect
today when the bakers begin the
manufacture of the Victory loaf, a
war bread containing a five per
cent substitute for wheat flour.
Bakers are to increase the substi-
tutes for wrheat flour until a twen-
ty per cent substitution is reached
February 24. At the same time
grocers will sell household wheat
flour only when the purchaser
buys an equal amount of some
other cereal. The food adminis-
tration cards ask “every loyal
American to help win the war by
maintaining rigidly as a minimum
of saving the following program:
“The two wheatless days (Mon-
day and Wednesday) in every
week and one Avheatless meal in
in every day.
“Explanation—On ‘wheatless
^ i
day and in ‘Avheatless’ meals of i
oth
Berwick, Jan. 28.—We are cer-
tainly having some eold weather
but we suppose spring will be ap-
preciated all the more, when it
comes.
We are sorry to report that Mr.
Cull Baker has pneumonia, but
hope for his speedy recovery. /
Mr. Jim Hanna and family have
been visiting Mr. Hanna’s father,
Mr. F. M. Hanna, since Saturday.
Mrs. Learn Durham and mother,
Mrs. Green are visiting Mrs.
Green’s Brother, Mr. Obe Melton,
in Young County, since Friday.
Mrs. Myrtie Derrick and little
son, Lee, of Mountain Home com-
munity spent Sunday with Mrs.
Derrick’s mother, Mrs. Wm. Clay.
The Berwick W. 0. W. Camp
WAR PREPARATIONS
GIVEN COMMITTEE
SECRETARY BAKER FULLY
ANSWERS CHARGES MADE
BY CHAMBERLAIN.
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Washington, Jan. 28 - America
will have an army of half a mill-
ion men in France eariv this year,
with a million more trained and
equipped ready to follow as quick-
ly as ships can be provided to car-
ry them—and the outlook for
ships is not unpromising.
Secretary Baker gave this infor-
ationmation to the Nation and to
the world today in a statement
N.. 8129 yt sturdy 2*
now has been carefully guarded
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electing and installing officers for
another year.
The farmers of This community
liaAre their plows in readiness to
begin farming as soon as the
ground thaws.
BRITAIN SENDS URGENT
APPEAL FOR MORE GRAIN
Avith the army’s military seerets,
in answering charges that the
Government has broken doAvn pre-
paring for war.
From earl}’ morning until late
afternoon the Secretary addressed
the committee and a crowd, inelu-
m
if!
Washington, Jan. 26.—Urgent
appeal Avas made to the United
States by England yesterday for
more wheat. Wihout it, Lord
Rhonda cabled the food adminis-
tration, the allies may not haAre
food enough to Avin the war.
Lord Rhonda in a cable to the
, I food administration says:
“ Unless you are able to send
the allies at least 75,0000,0001
i ding many members of both hous-
es of Congress, gathered in a big
I hearing room of the Senate office
building. v * ,
Then toAyard the close of the
day the Secretary delivered a dra-
matic general statement of the
coming of the allied missions, of
the day and night conferences
with men from the scene of battle
!
in which the plans noAv being ex-
i ecuted were adopted, and of sue-
j cess beyond the most sanguine ex-
in a ear
j cereal
use no
i, Ivreakfast foods or other
! bushels of wheat over-and abo\re
’•iys use no crackers, pastry, |pectations in building the army
, land its industrial supports at
4. containing wheat, affljlf"*" *>» have exported np toL._. .......B------------■
heat flour in any form
Chat you ha\e t Ajjtjjitu ..(» .>< ]loraetransporting men across the.
Jan 1. and m addition o the total1 * • . *
! ocean, constructing
railroads in
strike
curtains up. It is easy to keep! , ,, , exportable surplus from Canada. ,, j .
. . , I except t* small amount that may ' 1 i France and preparing to
comfortable m om- barracks and ,w ,r thiekeni s0„ps Jl can not take the reepon*»b«y L eMmy with' everv r(.source
when I get my bed fixed .Meal........... fo,. a in c.„n..jof »ssurmg onr people that therej,^ coimt„..s ,.ommand. V
" ” enough to wm the | mei Mr. Boker'. closed it wao
apparent he had created a pro-
found impression. ChairmanCham-
compe s me , berlain said so before he left the
No
fixed it is a
snub little home.
As to the work T am doing—Ave| , . ...
are studying several books. In- i *° ^ J 1
fantry drill regulations. Small
Fire Arms, Musketry, Field Ser-
vice, Articles of War. In addi-
tion to this hook Avork we do com-
pany drill, bayonet drill and hand!
grenade throwing. So you see we
ha ye considerable to do.
I will close by hoping when this
has reached its destination it will
find all AA*ell. With love to all.
Son.
be needed
i gravies, o:
I bread and ' ! er cereal brrads. As !
u bake it at home,!
use other cei !s than wheat and i
1
if you buy it : v only war bread
Our object is ■ d, we should buy
and consume or hird less wheat I
Avill be food
Avar.”
“Imperative necessity,
sage continued,
cable you in this blunt way
the mes-
one knoAvs better than T that the
American people, regardless of na-
stand. There was no attempt, at
fional and individual sacrifices,
j products than we did last year.
“IIaAro one mes;'!,’ss day (Tues-j
, \ • . j___ihaA^e so far refused nothing that
day) in every wee.< ml one meat-1 &
v. Have two
Hotel Garage Is Now Open For
Business.
p| t
T. N. Brown of Loving has
bought the Hotel Garage and is
uverliauling it and *is ready for
business. Mr. BroAAit is an exj>e-
riencml garage man and has with
him W. E. Alexander, also of Lov-
ing, who wili h<> head mechanic.
Mr. Brown will receive a cordial
welcome from the business people
of Jaekshoro.
Secretary McAdoo Warns Public
to Hold Liberty Bonds.
Secretary McAdoo has warned
liberty bond investors to beware
of irresponsible |>ersons offering
other securities in exchange. In
a statement appealing to bond
holders to “hold fast to the best
investment in the Avorld,” Mr.
McAdoo said:
“It has been brought to my at-;
tention that a large number of pa-
triotic citizens Avho subscribed to
Liberty loan bonds of both the first
and seeond issue are being ap-1
preached from time to time by j
agents who Iiha'c, with too fre-
quent success, induced them to
sell their Liberty loan bonds and
take hi exchange securities which
jin a number of cases have been of
very questionable value. I there-
int 'Uigent, co-operative effort on fore warn investors in Liberty
the part of -the AA'hole Southwest loan bonds against exchange of
is needed. If such an effort can he i these evidences of’ their patriot-
organized, it will he successful j ism for any securities or socalled
ml the whole Hauthwest will ben- securities. While some of the se-
Industria! development isleurities. or so called securities of-
less meal in every «
porkless days (Tuesd v and Sat-
urday) in every Aveek
“Explanation—‘mealb,s«’ means
without, any eattle, hog or sheep
products. On other days ;se mut-
ton and lamb in preference to beef
or pork. ‘Porkless’ mea: ; with-
out pork, bacon.’ ham. < • *>ork
products, fresh or preserved. Use
fish, poultry, and eggs. As • pa-
is needed for the Avar, but it now
lies with America to decide wheth-
cross examination. The chairman
proposed that the Secretary be
given a rest, and it virtually
agreed to recall him for furt 1
examination later after the coi
mittee has completed its hearing
le.- or not the allies in Europe slmll,f of ,he ,nedicalii M
| ha\re enough bread to hold out un-
til the United States is able to
throw its force into the field. 1
have not minced words because T
am convinced that the American
people, if they know the truth,
will not hesitate to meet the emer-
gency. ’ ’
aviation section and other hr
es of the service.
While many things disclosed im-
pressed, the committee was frank-
ly amazed when told the men of
the thirty-two National Guard a
. National Army divisional c
i are ready to go today at need.
tion Ave eat and waste nearly twice ;--- m T-
as much meat as avc need. Change in Superintendents of the why such things had not been giv-
Wheu members wanted to knoiv
,
n giv-
en publicity before Mr. Baker
Antelope School. spoke of the reluctance of.milita-
W. E. Miller has resigned his po- rv men to reveal their war plans
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“Make every day a fat sav'
day (butter, lard, lard substitut
etc.)
“Explanation—Fry less, hake sition as superintendent of the-An-j and quoted German re
broil, broil or stew food instead, jtelope school and O. H. Foster has about America’s advertisement
Have meat drippings; use these been elected to fill his place. Mr. j her preparations.
and vegetable oils for cooking ih-jFoster comes from Panhandle _, T__
8t™d Butter food where he WW superintended of|Twch(ffs Vo)unteer t0 Assigt tha
values vital to children, therefore, the school, and where he was very!
give it to them. I se it only on the popular. He resigned there to en-' Local Board.
table. Waste no soap, it is made ter other business but the ivarj A .. ,
Be eareful of all fats, i ■-------------------- ...I Qu.te a number ot
from fat.
•changed conditions so that be re-
We use and Ai-astc tivo and a half turned to his old profession of
: oArer the county are
the teachers
volunteering
times as much fat as Ave need.
“Make every day a sugar sav-
ing day.
“Explanation— use less sugar.
Less sweet drinks and candy con-
taining sugar should be used ill
Avar time. As a nation we have
used twice as much sugar ai-
teaching. He comes highly recom-
mended and will doubtless give
perfect satisfaction.
their services to assist the Local
Board in their work. This patri-
otism on the part of the
is much appreciated.
teachers J
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agious and once
started i
iloijg fered in
l ight lines, it aa i
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sufficient supply of every essen-
tial fodstuff.” Warning against
limiting the food of growing chil-
dren also is given. The reverse
side of the ard outlines the rea-
sons for the necessity’of food sav-
ing, emphasizing the Allies abso-
lute need of wheat, meats fats and
J. W. Knox Improving Residence.
•J. W. Knox is preparing to re-
del and enlarge his resiiiriMNpfifB
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The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1918, newspaper, January 31, 1918; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth730301/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.