The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
Friday, November 2, 1923
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
On* Year__________________________|1.50
Six Month*.......—--------------- .85
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ADVERTISING RATE
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The Bosque river was reported out
of its hanks in the north end of the
county Wednesday, caused by a rain
aetimated at five inches.
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U. S. Weather Obaerver E. S. Parks
reports 187 inches of rain for this
section daring October, which id a
did season as it fall slowly in
instances and thoroughly soaked
earth.
Whitewright Sun remarks that
Walton, of Oklahoma, now
bow to sympathise with ex-
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Another delay ia anounced in the
inatalling of the electric chair at the
Huntsville State Prison. The chair,
when completed, will be used by the
State in executing condemned crim-
inals, instead of hanging. At present
the state can not legally execute s
prisoner, and will not be able to do
so until the chaif is completed, as
hanging ia now illegal.
The City Council with the aid of an
engineer last week decided upon sev-
eral things in connection with the
extension of the city water system;
among the things decided upon wss
the location for the reservoir, and that
is on a high point on the mountain
side west of the Clifton College. This
location, with its high altitude, will
give every section of the city splendid
water pressure at ail times when the
reservoir is filled. With this exten-
sion the much needed mains for fire
protection to the residential section
will be a part of the work installed.
Prosperous times as well as times
not so prosperous are no doubt felt
by the little weekly newspaper first.
The way subscribers pay up their
subscriptions and order the paper sent
to their homes is, we believe, one of
the best barometers known to the con-
ditions of the times. And, just here,
we will say that the barometer shows
good times in this section this fall, for
the above mentioned reason. During
the many years the Record has been
published, we believe this is proving
one of the best it has ever had in the
subscription business, as well as all
other lines, and for which the man-
agement feels very thankful to its
friends and customers.
FAST ON HIS FEET
“Ain you a good runner?” asked a
farmer of a student applying for a
job on his ranch.
The student said he was,
“Well,” said the farmer, “you can
round up the sheep.”
After several hours the student re-
turned, perspiring and out of breath.
“I got tee sheep all right,” he re-
plied, “but I had a fierce time getting
the lambs.”
“The lambs,” said the farmer. “I
haven't any lambs.”
“Well,” replied the student, “they
i ip the corral." Thereupon the
fanner went to investigate. In the
corral with tee
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SPEAKING OF PROFITEERS
By Rate Cameran
Speaking of profiteering—not that
people do quite so often as they used
to, but the word still echoes through
the conversation of those who are
wretchedly trapped by the high coat
of living and want to find someone
to blame—what constitutes profiteer-
ing?
I wish someone would make that
plain to me. I, too, crave someone
to blame and I don’t know just where
to turn.
A friend of ours is planning to sell
his house and build a two apartment
house. Ke was telling us what the
new house would cost and what rent
he expected to get. “I think I can
easily get |60 for these five rooms,”
he said. “I know a lot of apartments
not half so good where they get $65."
At a time when he had been con-
templating renting an apartment him-
self, I heard this man rave against
the profiteers who charged such out-
rageous prices for a tiny apartment,
and so I was interested when I heard a
mutual friend say to him:
“Do you have to charge that to get
clear on your investment?”
Evidently a memory of his own pre-
vious remarks on profiteers echoed
through his mind for he answered
hastily: You“ bet I do. The fellows
that are building new apartments
can’t help charging these big rents
when they have to pay plasterers f 15
a day and all that outrageous kind of
thing. It’s the people who built their
apartments years ago when it didn’t
cost so much to build, teat are doing
the profiteering when they charge
these high rente. They haven’t got
to charge them. They are just trying
to get all they can.”
The mutual friend had a twinkle in
his eye as he listened to that. “By
the way,” he went on, “I hear you are
going to sell your house. I suppose
you’ll want five or six thousand.”
“Five or six thousand,’ exploded the
builder to be, “what do you mean?
Houses like that are bringing eight
and nine. I shan't sail for a cent less
than eighty-five.”
“But I thought you told me it didn’t
cost you but fifty-five hundred,” sub-
mitted the mutual friend mildly. “I
know yon aren’t a profiteer but I never
thought you’d expect to get today’s
price*.”
The builder-to-be looked startled and
baffled. “Seems to me thate kind of
different?”
“Ia It?”
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Cleburne, Texas, Oct. 30.—Lillian
Eary, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. 0. Eary, was run over by an
automobile and instantly killed at the
family home here Sunday afternoon.
The car was driven by the child’s
mother, who was starting to the cem-
etery to place flowers on the grave of
another little daughter, who recently
died from influenza.
"FOR SALE CHEAP
Extra large second-hand wood heat-
ing stove. Phone 140. 34-2tc.
The Clifton B, Y. P, U. will render
a program Sunday afternoon at 2:30
at the Bergman school house, after
which Rev. C. F. Brown, pastor of the
Clifton Baptist Church, will preach.
Everybody invited.
A. E. Jackson, who has been in West
Texas visiting relatives since selling
his bakery some days ago, is back in
Clifton this week for a few days busi-
ness stay. He wants to sell his home
here before leaving permanently.
J. T. Ford was in town Tuesday and
drove home in a new four door Ford
sedan; and he was feeling so good
he handed the Record a check to pay
for his paper and one to his son, Clay
Ford, at Cleburne for a year.
A new army rifle, the Garand, is a
sort of a one-man portable machine
gun.. It can (.an? sixty shots a min-
ute, as against the twenty-five a min-
ute of the Springfield, and has nearly
25 per cent less recoil than the older
type of rifle. It weighs a trifle over
a pound more than the old gun and is
about four inches longer.
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Well mayble, though it doesn’t seem
so to me. But suppose you were go-
ing to rent that house and go- to live
somewhere else. Would you rent it
for a fair return on your original in-
vestment, or. what you could get now
with rents as they are?”
The builder-to-be is a sport Ho
proved it when he smiled and an-
swered: “You win.”
What is a profiteer? It is one who
takes advantage of supply and de-
mand? Are we all profiteers? Or
are none of ns?
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MAYFIELD’S SECRETARY
OFF FOR WASHINGTON
Mineral Wells, Texas, Oct 31.—W.
H. Mercer of this city, private secre-
tary to Senator Earle B. Mayfield, left
Tuesday morning for Washington,
where he will poin Senator Mayfield.
M. R. Smith of the Clifton Boot* A
Shoe Shop announced that he now has
a good shoemaker helping him, and
hopes to be" able to keep up with the
work from now on. ltc
It has been truthfully said that
neither the rich nor poor can go to
the markets and purchase happiness.
People will forget the price they
pay for an article but they will never
forget the quality.
A very clear and nearly tasteless
vegetable gelatin of high quality has
been developed from the sea weeds
in Lower California.
In California, every auto owner
must have his headlights tested at a
regularly designated testing station
and receive from the station a cer-
tificate which must be countersigned
by a traffic officer.
Americap-made, steel-braced fire-
proof buildings in Japan proved their
superiority during the recent catas-
trophe by being the only structures in
the afflicted areas to withstand the
earthquake and fires successfully.
A prominent Paris daily paper, de-
ploring the corruption of masculine
styles and behavior by Americans in
Paris, says that although Britishers in
Paris “remain gentlemen, with ..waist-
coats and yellow kids, many French-
men follow the lead of Americans who
have left their vests in New York,
their Gloves in Washington, and ar-
rive with naked hands and floating
cravats."
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The largest artificial lake in Europe
ia located on tee island of Sardinia
A hydroelectric development has re-
cently been completed on the Tifiso
River, near Oristano, in which 420,-
000,000 cubic meters of water have
been impounded; and this is but the
first of a series of seven artificial
reservoirs included in the project The
water will ba used for irrigation and
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TWO TYPICAL AMERICANS
Lives like Warren G. Harding’s and
Calvin Coolidge’a are America’s an-
chor to windward. They are the final
answer to the foolish talk of class
distinction in this country.
Most of uor presidents have come up
from the soil of simple, humble be-
ginnings, none more than Lincoln, the
immortal. x
So long as that can happen there
can be no such thing as class dis-
tinction. So long as any country boy
with grit and gumption may rise to
the presidency of this Republic, class
distinction is impossible. That ought
to be apparent even to the wild agi-
tators who are so busily seeking to
undermine faith in America.
Harding was a true type of the
plain people. So is Coolidge. Truth
indeed seems stranger than fiction in
the circumstances of his “inaugura-
tion.” It is a tonic to our patriotism
just to stop and visualize this simple
scene. At 3 o’clock in the morning a
New England farmer boy, in the dim-
lighted parlor of his father’s farm
home, attended only by his faithful
wife, raises his right hand and re-
peats after his father—farmer, coun-
try merchant, notary public—the oath
that makes him the official head of the
greatest of nations, the moat power-
ful, yet most democratic ruler of the
world.
Isn’t it amazing that men will talk
of class distinction in a country where
that can happen?
America is all right to those who
live right. Let ns thank God and
take courage in such leadership as
Harding lays down and Coolidge takes
up. If every patriot will accord the
highest respect to tee Presidency and
unflagging devotion to the President,
he will help to make that leadership
moat effective, and possibly lighten
tee tremendous load laid on the
leader.—Public Service Magazine.
Judge Utley has sentenced 40,000
drunks during his career in Worcester,
Mass. Drunks have been filing before
him for forty-one years. When you
consider that ha is only one judge of
what havoc John Barleycorn worked
in America. You also realize why we
have prohibition.—Capper's Weekly.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1923, newspaper, November 2, 1923; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth774998/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.