The Junction Eagle (Junction, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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IHL JUNCTION EAGLE, Fa: DAY. JUNE 10. 1921
THE —- ;;
JUNCTION RAGLE *
Published Every Frida\ by
The JUNCTION PUBLISHING l*
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HI K VI. REGIONS SUFFER
II I1IIX IS NOT AMENDED
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Sub*cription,„.*$1.50 per year
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HOW TO HONOR THE
FLAG OF OCR COUNTRY
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“Humir
end h va*
rural ton
Impendent upon motor trucks
to move their products, live-
and perishable goods, to
it ie
lg IS pMSHI
id»' or in review, if v
liking. halt ; if sittii
and at attention, a
——* uncover.
The American Flag, the em- I he Flay should never
blent of our country, is the third w<*m as the whole i»art ot
oldest national flair in the world costume. As a bad** it should market and for carrying t<
‘The Stars and Stripes," "The l*‘ worn over the left breast them the many tons of mer-
Star Spangled Banner,” and the In decorating, the Flag should cnandiae consumed annually
"Red, White and Blue." By nevdT 1»* festooned or draped. | Motor trucks are to them wha
whatever name we describe it. Always hung flat. If hung no the railroads are to the larger
it represents liberty-and lilierty stripes are horizontal, the Union (cities, their only adequate means
means obedience to our laws, should l»e in the left upper cor-'of transiiortatioii.
The Flag contains thirteen ner. If hung perpendicularly,l “rhii ,aw* enacteo. im-
stipes, alternate red and white, the Union should be in the right s an annual license tee ot
representing the 13 original' up?**** corner. * ,u t0 ^l«d on motm !*m*ks
states; and a star for each state When the National Flag and ranging in capacity from 2001
of the Union. The Field of the another flag fly from the same to 10,000 pounds. In addition
P'lag is the stripes, and the l*ole there should la* double B imposes a mileage license ten
Union is the blue and the stars..halyards, one of each flag. The t*f 1 to H cents jiei niiic traxel-
The colors of the Flag are red,(Bag should never be placed be- * b the iatr (itqieitdutg upon lift;
valor, white RRP! RNV MRM NNMNRRi
never be used in such a way 'This law further provides
that it might become soiled, that each motor truck must be
When carried in |>arade or when equipped with a mechanical
crossed with other flags, the »peed governor to prevent it
Stars and Stripes should al- from being operated in excess
ways be at the right, the place of the ver-v sIow speeds pro-
of honor. scribed. Furthermore that each
When the Flag is used in un- motor truck owner must keep
veiling a statue or monument, a separate book or set of books
it should never be allowed to and an accurate account therein
fall to the ground but should of tht‘ number of miles travel-
be carried aloft to wave out ed in each country in which his
forming a distinctive feature truck is operated,
during the remainder of the “A $200 fine or thirty days
ceremony.. When the Flag is imprisonment is the maximum
placed over a bier or casket Penalty provided for failure to
the blue field should be at the comply; with this law.
head. If used as an alter cover-, Instance of Injustice,
ing the Union should be at "As one instance of injustice
the right as you face the alter, imposed by this new law, the
row, the 28th state to ratify Iand nothing should be placed motor t ruck ow ner is comp died
the Constitution and become on the Flag except the Holy,to pay the sane mileage license
pari of the United States and F»J»le. The Flag should never! fee whether his truck is loaded
the only state to enter by an*; he reversed except in case of or unloaded, or whether travel-
ing on a concrete highway, an
unimproved highway, private
roads or across the |>astures
and fields of his own estate.
"Certain interests, in their
desperate attempt to eliminate
motor trucks from a few high-
ways paralelling certain rail-
road and interurban lines in:
this State, are responsible for
this new law. To accomplish
their purpose on these few high-
ways they would, apparently,
strangle motor truck transporta-;
tion throughout the State.
’Advocates of this law claim
ot insanity
.»f war days.
f profligate
We have had our <
upending* of the easy won
But that era is being replaced by one ot sanity
and common sense.
People are not spending their money recklessly
now. They are saving it instead. Much of it finds it*
way into the vaults of this bank, where it growssteadi-
ly for the depositors from to day.
Are YOU R savii^Ftraveling the road that leads
VOU to ultimate miswrity?
Steady adv^fement is better than spadmodic
spurts. This barm encourage® safe advancement. It
discourages disastrous splurges.
ADVANCE WITH US.
presenting purity, truth and
home; blue representing loyal-
ty, sincerity and justice; and
its stars representing the feder-
al union.
The arrangement of the stars
on the Flag is regulated by law
and executive order. An ex-
ecutive order, issued October
2H, 1912, provided 18 stars ar-
ranged in six horizontal rows
of eight stars each. Starting
in the upper left-hand corner
And reading each row from left
to right, gives the star of each
state in the order of the state’s
ratification of the Constitution
and admission to the Union.
The star representing Texas is
the fourth star of the fourth
nexation. distress at sea.
The dimension of the Flag
are fixed by *an executive order-
issued May 26th, 1916. The!
length should be just 1. 9 times
its height. The Union, or part
of the Flag on which the stars i
appear, should be seven stripes
high and its length .76 of the
height of the flag. The stars |
are five-pointed, with one point
directly upwar I. When a new
state is admitted the star is,
not added to the flag until the1
Fourth of duly next succeeding
the date admission. The Con-
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JUNCTION STATE BANK
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits
$220,000.00.
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33 lbs.
New Potatoes
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stitution is the basis of all law, /\ Ipv i HamPlf ( r\ that motor trucks damage oui
and the Flag is its symbol. Al- /*1^A * * 1 Aaill^T *...... ..
Get this Bargain
1 920 Dodge
Roadster.
Mec
highways. This is true to a
certain extent. It is also true
that heavy steel-tired wagons
drawn by mules and horses are
infinitely more damaging to the
road surfaces, yet such convey-
ances are exempt from all
license fees. Is it not rank
-■■■■■■■• ' ■ ....... discrimination io tax one and
« let the other go?
* “Is there anything just and
ways respect it.
How to Respect the Flag.
The Flag should be raised at
sunrise and lowered at sunset.
It may be raised at other times
but should never be left out
Junction Grocery Co.’s
Specials for Next Week.
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■ Blue Ridge Corn No. 2-
:: 25 lbs. Corn Meal
| Del Monte Peaches 2 I -2
• Colton Peaches 2 1-2
barrel 10c.
i. 3 Hominy
Levi Garrett Suuff
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reasonable about taxing an emp-
ty truck as heavily as a fully!
loaded truck, even granting that
the mileage tax is the properj
method of taxation?
“Where is the justice in com-
;; polling payment of the mile-
< • age fee when trucks are not
i r !!j operated on public highways,!
I AC ;; but across fields and pastures,
7A I! or unimproved country roads?
/ UC !! "Where is the logic and com-
4 Ar • ’ mon sense of restricting the
I! light one and a ton truck to the
7f|r ;; same rgjte of speed as the heavi-
er five_ton truck?
20c ’ ’ ' * am heartily in favor of
** \ J motor trucks being taxed along
A | | q ;; with other vehicles using our
<»l public highways, but the tax
! I should be reasonable and applied
R with common sense and with-
Qc ;j out discrimination.
< * “The excessive fee provided
4c ' * in Ibis law. if it should not
.j - R result in the restricted use of
. L JC ; | motor trucks throughout our
- *! State, will result in higher liv-
. JC P ing costs gnerally. If it does
& 1 7A ' > not re**trict the use of motor
q) I .ZU ; | trucks, as it is sure to do. still
<> higher living costs will be the
LJC \ \ ult.
| ^ Hurl Rural Regions.
*%t\ ' *1 “This law if not a mended or
30c «• r«»fwaied, will work a hardship
J | on the development of our rural
40c ! ! comm unit ie*, upon which we are
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“After all, are we paying tax-: subject in a special made suit
es for the purpose of building of clothes. “Rewards, Offers
highways fit only for very light and Collections.” We know that
traffic and joyriding, or will wre they are beginning to be a joker
build highways over which rub- hut we are going to try at this
ber-tired motor vehicles of meeting to play the game with
reasonable capacity may be the joker discarded, and, there-
operated to carry forward our fore, Sheriff Binford of Harris
commerce and the development County is going to tell us how.
of our resources? Of all these subjects there will
“Motor truck owners, as a be a thirty minute discussion,
general rule, are appreciative of There will also be a question
good roads. They are willing box, and other interesting talks
to pay their share of the cost >he main one of which will be
i 1 expense, proportionate to i eulogy on your departed I • »
the lienefits derived but they brothers by Dr. A. J. Caldwell,j Looks
have .just cause to protect who is capable of making Webs-; .
against the over-burden and ter appear like the little school ffOOCI, $97 5.
discrimination manifest in the boy in the spelling match, as!
new truck bill.” compared to his control of the "TYarmc if \rr\n uronl it
_O_ flowery language. | 1 ermS lf >OU W3nt U-
SUBPOENA IS ISSUED Now fellows, can you afford1 . i i j j x-,
o miss this kind of a business A SPY I *—P.mPT l
FOR W. \>. l’A\LOK. urogram, and just listen what * J *
_ is coming for the ladies and
men. Democrats, Republicans
Dear Sheritt: and Suffragists alike. There
You are hereby summoned are two line 'parties at two of
l > appear in person with your the theators, to be given com-i-
vvite^nd family at Amarillo, plimentary; then there is an Get busy. Keep busy. Is your
1 exas, on Jul\ l-th, l >th,^ and automobile ride to the “J Y” job unsafe? Is it permanent?
You want a life long business.
Yrou can get into such a busi-
ness selling more than 137
Watkins Products direct to far-
mers if you own auto or team
or can get one; if you are un-
der 50 and can give bond with
14th, at the County Court House Ranch, which is one of the larg-
of Potter County, to face trial est in this section of the coun-
before your fellow Sheriffs, but try, being composed of 90,000
we assure you it will be one ol acres. Upon this ranch used
the most pleasant trials you t0 roam the buffalo, deer, ante-
have ever experienced, and we |ope and the Indian, but now it
believe that you, as a juror, will has reached that stage that
agree with us after the iinal only the ingenuity of mankind personal sureties. We back you
words ot the Judge will have :ould make possible where it is with big selling helps, 52 years
T?_Said an_ aave dePart- one of the garden spots of the in business, 20,000,000 users of
our products. Write for in-
formation where you can get
territory. J. R. Watkins Co.,
Department 112. Winona.
Minn. 2-4tr
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ed from our nndst- State and at this place you are
President Bob Buchanan will to be served with all the bar-
be here up to his neck. He has hecue, beer, roasting ear wine
already made arrangements for that you can drink. So far we
the use of both the City and have failed to find in the statut-
County jails for the convenience i es of this State anv law forbid-1
ot his fellow officers, and just ding the making of roasting ear: A knowledge of the law of
listen to his tontative program: wine. Some people call it! health does not come by in-
and Aims of the Association” “White Mule,” com liquor and ‘st*ncC s»ys » leading authority.
“Object of the Convention the like, but we do not recog- jH must taught. Every child
by W. W. Hollingsworth, Gates- nize it here by that name should lie taught to desire clean-
ville; “Liaison and Co-operation w’ill von not talk thin ov*r'klWflB instead of accepting it
M,v«n ho,ocU.mF Attorney wlth J of vour frjeml, am, I under protect for cleanline,,
t mted .State, Diatnct Attorney makc everv effort t0 1)e pre9en, l--«d, to health, and health en-
. .°«*rtment.", Be,trie, makin* your depart-' "Che, the power of mind and
Horn Uyod Fletcher Now that more efficient, you wi„ pave, the road to succea,
u'»rd Liaison is Trench, but recejve many personal benefits
ve are jrotn* to dcputtie it and Youn, ven. tru|,
make it mean closer understand- yy * jj E«tes
ing and an mpregnaNe line of Secretarv*
»f c“>
vention." Preaidcnt Luca* of ^77“^ I . ^ ------------- -------- -- —-
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A ncientist arises to report
the discover)’ that the earth is
,‘160,000,000,000,000,000 miles
from the center of the universe
Happily, however, that fact will
not effect the number of emr»
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The Junction Eagle (Junction, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1921, newspaper, June 10, 1921; Junction, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth801047/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .