The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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ARTILLERY IS RUST
MANY FIELD GUNS WANTED BY
THE EXPERTS FOR THE
LARGER ARMY.
PLENTY OF AMMUNITION, TOO
Importance of Thla Branch, Foreseen
by General Schofield, Haa Been Ab-
solutely Established by the Great
Warfare In Europe.
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United States attend church.
FOR HAIR AND SKIN HEALTH
Cuticura Soap and Puticura Ointment
Are Supreme. Trial Free.
These fragrant, super-creamy emol-
lients keep the skin fresh and clear,
the scalp free from dandruff, crusta
And scales and the hands soft and
■white. They are splendid for nursery
and toilet purposes and are most ec>
nomlcal because most effective.
Free sample each by mall with Book.
^Rkddress postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
BOStOn. Sold evnrywhorn —Ady,
Near Fropoaal.
"I had a near leap-year scare yes-
terday.”
"What was it?"
“A lady came Into my office and
•aid she wanted to propose to me-’’
“No?”
"A scheme to get up
benefit.”
'7'y • ILOUWV;
Wooden Men.
First Fresh—My father has a-fine
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.—If preparedness legis-
lation goes through, as at present It Is
planned, it Is probable the regular
army will be increased by the addi-
tion of between 40,000 and 50,000 men.
It seems likely that congress will pro-
vide that as large a part of the In-
crease as possible shall be put Into the
field artillery, for it Is established
*that field guns, that is light artillery,
are the all-ln-all of the present war, a
fact that army men say was proved
before the conflict was a month old.
Winfield $cott, Hancock once said
that the tariff was a local Issue, and
for saying It was laughed at and voted
Into retirement. The developments of
the years, many men hol4. have vindi-
cated Hancock's Wtords. John M.
Schofield, major general of the United
States army, foresaw the coming of
the sharp need of greatly Increased
numbers of field guns If wars were to
be won. He was abused and charged
with a desire to help the artillery
branch of the service at the expense
of sister branches.
There are few regular army officers
today who are unwilling to give Gen-
eral Schofield credit for hard sense
and keen foresight. Field guns are
doing the work in Europe today, and
field guns, at the present time, mean
something more than three-inch rifles
and the smaller weapons by courtesy
called cannon. Siege guns have be-
come field guns. Heavy artillery also
can be moved, laboriously It Is true,
but nevertheless successfully, from
one point to another. Artillery seems
to be the prime weapon of modern war-
fare.
Artillery First Requisite.
Army officers In Washington are
alive to the situation. They want a
well-balanced army, of course, and
they will resent any attempt to cut
down other branches to Increase the
artillery, but rather than weaken the
force of artillery they probably will be
willing that sacrifices In other
branches shall be made. What they
j want, however. Is enough field guns,
a war fund ®nd enough ammunition to serve them,
to make certain the efficiency of the
field artillery forces.
oh When - your .'Correspondent • wat^At
the front to France, near the Argonne
!
”*»•*M!-
which every foreign government with
a military Information corps has had
in its possession for a long time. Why
is H said that a foe can smash our
cities so easily? Because, army men
say, there Is only two hours' supply
of ammunition for our seacoast de-
fense guns. It Is held In fact that It is
less than this, for it la said there is
only two hoars' supply of ammunition
fo one-half the big guns guarding our
ports of entrance.
_ There is one curious iesture which
stands out from all the facta which
■have been presented to congress con-
cerning our need or lark of need of
preparation for defense froi: possible
foes. It seems to be admitted that we
have big guns enough for the protec-
tion of harbors and cities, but that
we haven't the ammunition to make
the guns useful. In other words, con-
gress has been authorizing plenty of
money for guns, but has declined to
authorize the money for the purchase
of the ammunition which would make
the guns serviceable.
This is recognized as one of the
most curious phases of the whole situ-
ation. It tak-.-s a long while to make
the ammunition for the big guns and
It is urged by army and navy officers
that what ought to haye teen gone
was to" have ftnrnunltlon making keep
pace with gun making. As things are
now, a large num -«r o' our great
roast-guarding cannon are serviceable
simply a's ornaments, and can never
be serviceable for anythtng else unless
money is voted to buy food to put Into
their miws.
Wilson's Trip to the Capes.
President Wilson has been looking
over one of this country’s greatest
fortifications, the guard over the sea
entrances to three great cities, one of
which is the capital of the United
States.
When the president announced his
intention of going to Fortress Monroe
to have a few days time in which to
think on whom to appoint to succeed
Llndley M. Garrison, his former sec-
retary of war, he had one other object
in view, namely, the inspection of the
defenses at Fortress Monroe and of
TEXAS NEWS
Two cars of eggs were shipped from
Flatonia last week to the'markets.
The road bond election recently held
at Midway was defeated by a vote of
2 to 1. .... —_______
I *
Fire Saturday destroyed hay worth
$36,000 in a local dock warehouse at
Galveston.
Surveyors for the lnterurban line
between Houston and San Antonio are
busy this week.
The great irrigation plant at San Be-
nito, Texas, Is to be taken out of re-
ceivership’s hands.
The farmers of Webster are well
alohg with their work and have plant-
ed Irish potatoes and garden truck.
The University of Texas alumni and
ex-students throughout the State cele-
brated March 2 Independence Day
with reunions.
/
toore than 150 Texas towns partici-
pated in Baby Week on March 4, when
various phases of child welfare re-
ceived attention.
The citizens of Zionvllle have voted
a special tax of 15c on the $100 for the
purpose of continuing their rural
school another month.
GALOMa SICKENS! II SAUTES!
DON’T STAY BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED
f Guarantee “Dodson’* Liver Tone” Will Give You the Best Liver
and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had—Don’t Lose a Day’s Worfcl
, Nine veniremen who failed to appear
In the district court last week at Bel-
ton were fined $20 each by Judge
.. .. . .. . ..... . . , Spann, recently appointed by Governor
the site of the proposed additional de- pergUBon
fenses at Cape Henry. He wanted to
learn at first hand something about
the big guns and the water approaches
which they command.
‘ There Is one element in the prepar-
edness plan upon which army officers
and legislators fixed their minds prior
to the great war in Europe and, of
course therefore, prlaa-to the time of
the arousing of Interest In this coun-
try in the subject of quick preparation
for defense. About two years ago
plans were laid to build a big fort
at Cape Henry to help Fortress Mon-
roe guard the entrance to Chesapeake
bay and to the James river.
Up the Chesapeake at its farther-
most point lies Baltimore. Running
Into the Chesapeake about midway
entrance .and its high
point, is the Ifotomac river, arid up the
Potomac lies the city of Washington.
The Texas Farmers’ Union, through
Its president, has requested cbngresa
to demand the sea be kept open to
cotton trade as well as to, travelers
and tourists.
The merchants of Flatonia have
adopted the early closing hour, begin-
ning March 1 and continuing until
July 31 will close their places of busi-
ness at 6 o’clock.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the Texas Postmasters’ Association
will be held May 23, 24 and 26 at Fort
Worth. Eight hundred postmasters
are expected to attend.
"“The state fire insurance commission
^ajmouncwlthefoUow
Calomel makes you aick; yon lose a
day’s work. Calomel Is quicksilver
and it salivates; calomel injures your
liver.
If you are bilious, feel lasy, sluggish
and all knocked out, if your bowels
are constipated and your head aches
or stomach is sour, Just take a spoon-
ful of harmleas Dodson’s Liver Tone
Instead of uatng sickening, salivating
calomel. Dodson's Liver Tone la real
liver medicine. You’ll know it next
morning because yon will wake up
feeling fine, your liver will be work-
ing. your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
bowels regular. You will feel like
working. You'll be cheerful; full of
vigor and ambition. 4
Your druggist or dealer sella you a
60-cent bottle of-Bodson’-s Liver Tone
under my personal guarantee that 1$
than nasty calomel; It won't make yoa
tick and you can sat anything you
want without being salivated,. Your
druggist guarantees that each spoonful
will start your liver, clean your bow ala
and straighten you up by morning or
you can have your money back. Chil-
dren gladly take Dodson's Liver Tone
because it la pleasant tasting and
doesn’t gripe or cramp or make them
sick. L
I am selling millions of bottles of
Dodson's Liver Tone to people who
have found thAt this pleasant, vege-
table. liver medicine takes the plaoa
of dangerous calomel. Buy one botUa
on my sound, reliable guarantee. Ask
your druggist or storekeeper about ma.
PUTTING AWAY THE EVIDENCE
Colored Man Ready With Ingenious
Excuae When Caught Making
a Meal of the Ham.
The other day a colored porter in
a certain West side store was dls-
patchfed upon an errand which he was
not In sympathy with, that of toting
a well-boiled ham down the street. The
butcher noticed, upon giving the col-
ored man the ham, that the paper was
torn.
"Sam," he said to the porter, *‘be
careful of that ham, as the paper ia
torn and you might drop it in the
street.”
"Aw right, boss,” answered Sam,
"I’ll be purtlckurly cab'ful not to drop
it."
Not a long while after the butcher
found Sam in the basement of the
■tore, chewing away on a small piece
of ham.
"What are you doing there, Sam?"
asked the butcher.
“Well, boss," answered Sam, “I
dropped the ham and Ah didn’t want
you to know it, 8o’s Ah Jeat figured
Ah’d bettah eat it and destroy the
evidence.”—Chicago Dally News.
As Johnnie Heard It.
Little Johnnie had been accustomed
to go to sleep during every sermon,
despite the scoldings of his mother.
One Sunday morning she sent him
off to church and intimated to blm
that If he went to Bleep they wouid
go into executive session in the wood-
shed on his arrival from church.
As & test of his being awake she re-
quired that he tell Jtier tbe preacher's
te*t whence went homb.
Johnnie's natural propensity to
He came back conscious of the fact
that he waa on the safe aide, and
when hla mother aaked him what the
text was tie unblushlngly accused the
■preacher of the following text: “Moaea
was an oyster man and made oint-
ment for the shins' of hTs people.”
The real text was: “Moses waa fia
austere man and made atonement tor
the slna of hla people.” )
Wise Constituent.
A congressman received, almost
dally letters from a constituent asking
for garden seed, with emphasis on
peas. The demand for peas got ao
heavy that the congressman waa
moved to write this letter:
"I am sending you a half dozen mora
packages of peas as. requested. Bay.
wbat are you trying to do down tbar%
plant the whole state in peas?’-'
The reply came a few days later.
It read:
"No, I’m not planting them, but tbay
make bully soup. Send along aoma
more."—Kansas City Star.
Then He Left.
He was telling about all the tbtnga
he owned, his prize bulldog, hla bunga-
low, his touring car.
‘.'But you don't seem interested," ha
complained.
“Yes, I am," responded the other
chap, “but I’m rather occupied to-
day. Tell you what. You Just mail
me a statement of your assets and
I'll read it with all the admiration and
awe you could possibly desire."
I I
Extraordinary Youth.
"Father,.” said little George; "1 can-
not tell a lie.” ,
“Very.good, my son: But thq re* ‘
markable feature of thla hlatoric epfc_
.....
i.—Dartmouth Jack-b'-LanternT
Stand Pat.
“Did you make any resolutions New
Tear’s?"
“No; all my bad habits are ao de-
lightful that I don’t even like to fool
myself with the idea that 1 am going
to break them off.”—Judge.
Discreet.
“Didn't the groundhog prophesy
good weather?” inquired the forgetful
man.
"Yes. But like other discreet proph-
ets he refused to be interviewed any
.•further.” ------- .
Called.
Hubby—It is my principle to give a
man or woman rope enough—
Wifle—All right, dear, give me that
rope of pearls I want, It is enough for
me.
A specially prepared banana flour la
being used by French doctors as a
tonic.
THE FIR8T TA8TE .
■Learned to Drink Coffee When a Boy.
If parent! realized the fact that cof-
fee contains a drug—caffeine—which
Is especially harmful to children, they
would doubtless hesitate before giving
-them coffee to* drink.
"When I was a child In my mother’s
sums and first began to nibble things
at the table, mother used to give ma
alps of coffee. And so I contracted
the coffee habit early.
“I continued to use coffee until I was
$7, and when 1 got Into office work I
began to hava nervous spells. Rape*
.dally after breakfast I waa so nerv-
pous I could scarcely attend to my cor-
respondence.
“At night, after having had coffea
for supper, I could hardly aleep, and
on rising in the morning would feel
weak and nervous.
“A friend persuaded me to try Poa-
tum.
"I can now get good sleep, am free
from nervousness and headaches. 1
recommend Postum to all coffee drink-
6TI.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Postum comes In two forms:
Postum Cereal—the original form-
must be well boiled, 15c and 25c pack-
dlliolv
latent Postum—a soluble powder—
ves quickly in a cup of hot war
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a dellcioua beverage Instantly. 30c and
50c tins.
Both forps are equally delicious sad
ist about tbs same par cup.
"Tiara's a Reason" for Postum. —-
- sold by Grocers.
tillery'metfhs 4n this war, and." more-
over. he learqed definitely the neces-
,alty of unlimited ammunition for the
guns in service.
The cannonading from both the
siege guns and the seventy-fives of the
French and the^seventy-sevens of the
Germans was virtually incessant.
There was a lull at night, but all
through the day the cannon roared
along the forty or fifty miles of front,
for on a still day it is possible to hear
the gunfire for many miles*on either
side of the listener.
Every foreign officer who spoke on
the subject at all, dwelt upon the ne-
cessity of field pieces, “shells and still
more shells." Shrapnel for certain
4ues Is going out of date, and before
lOTg It may take its place with the
arrow of the ancients. High explosives
are the proper projectiles for warfare
aa it la carried on today, and It is cred-
itable to the American service to be
able to say that Uncle Sam’s army of-
ficers realised this fact before General
French had succeeded in making his
chief, General Kitchener, yield his pref-
erence for the well-nigh useless shrap-
nel
Are Coast Cities Safe?
Sharp knowledge may be had of the
diametrically opposed views in Wash-
ington on the subject of preparedness
by comparing some of the things that-
the anti-preparedness folks say with
things said by the champions of prep-
aration. ,
There ia an anti-preparedness com-
mittee here which is putting out many
pleaa against the enactment of any
preparedness legislation this winter
and, by intimation at least against
any preparedness legislative plana for
any winter to come. Those anti-pre-
paredness advocates, virtually every
one of whom is a pacifist, hold that
we do not need any more ships and
that the army ia big enough as it la
and that nothing should be done to
create a volunteer force, nor to In-
create the strength of the militia.
It Is through the antt-preparedneas
committee that one bears that our
coast cities do not need any further
means of defense than they now have,
and .that no enemy ever will try to
place our big towns under tribute, nor
to molest tbs good American people
tn *ny way. On the other hand, the
advocates of a plan to put the United
States Into a position to defend Itself
against aggression say the condition
of things la such that any foe that can
overcome our navy can lay New York
under tribute In two hours, Or in rulna
in the time that It would take a bom-
bardment to batter the city to pieces
and the Springing fires to burn It up.
Ammunition for Two Heura.
ft Is said this condition of thlaga la
attested by facts which congress haa
had la Its possession far years and
.of Norfolk. And up the James- river,- v*. ; 7 ’
which empties into the ocean n-ar Nor- WR ******* 3 Per cent, loss ratio,
folk, lies the city of Richmond. All
of these cities must fie guarded by the
.525;’ Plano, 9 per cent, loss ratio .908.
forts whpse guns command the pas-
Lee Walton, a graduate of the
sageway hq^weeh Cape Charles and~ ®rown,v^® High school, haa been ad-
Cape Henry T vised by the nayal department at
Really Two Forts There. | Washington that he successfully pass-
In reality there are two forts at Old
Point Comfort. There is the old For-1
tress Monroe built a hundred or more I
ed the examination for entry to the
United States Naval Academy at An-
napolis. 1 *
years ago and which resembles to
some extent the fortlhcatlons of ths
medieval period. There is the mason-
ry fort with its embrasures through
which poked the muzzles of now anti-
quated smooth bore guns, and there
Is the moat fed by the waters of the
bay and which.was Intended to em-
barrass if not to. stop a land attack.
Today as a companion to the old
fort Is a new fortrees, unlike it In all
particulars. It Is modern and Is
equipped with the most modern high-
power rifles. Electrical and somewhat
Intricate machinery has taken the
place of the old sponge and rammer
staff which was used to charge the
muzzle-loading smooth bores of the
old time. Range finders and new in-
ventions for sighting have superseded
the old system of aiming the smooth
bores which, as a matter of fact, were
pointed to a considerable extent as
an ordinary rifle is pointed.
■ The guns of Fortress Monroe can
hurl projectiles across the entrance to
Chesapeake bay as far as ths shore
waters of Cape Charles. Enemy ves-
sels In, Order to get Into Chesapeake
bay proper and to head toward Balti-
more and Washington must pass with-
in range of the Fortress Monroe guns.
However, If a feg ia on, or If the ene-
my's ships are willing to take chances,
they could pass up Into the Chesa-
peake, hugging the Cape Charles shore
and be In comparatively little danger
of disaster from Monroe's guns.
To Fortify Capo Honry.
In order to make such a passage for
the enemy’s ships more hazardous
batteries have been placed on what
are called the RIp-rapa which lie In
the waters of Hampton Roads to the
right of Fortress Monroe as one looks
seaward. This makes two fortifica-
tions In place and ready to defend the
bay and river approaches, but these
two have not been considered suffi-
cient to meet all the possibilities In
the case.
Therefore It waa that congress pro-
vided the means some tints ago for
th 3 purchase of land for a fwt on
Cape Henry, tha more southern of the
two capes between which tne channel
Into tha Chesapeake and Hampton
Roads runs from tha ocean. This fort
whan It ia completed will hava the
moat modern guns and It seams llkel?
that tha government will place one
or two of tha 18-Inch monstars an this
nawtr-oeonlmd land.
A petition has been circulated gnd
signed by a large majority of citizens
living in the proposed addition to the
Independent Giddlngs school district
to Increase the size of Giddlngs dis-
tricL making It extend a mile further
In each direction.
Johinr Burns, Mexican consul at
Galveston, has been named aa consul
general for Mexico' at New York to
succeed Dr. Alfredo Coturelly. He will
be succeeded at the Galveston . con-
sulate by Juan A. Mateos, consul at
San Diego, Cal.
For the first time in his wrestling
career, Elmer Brown of Taylor, mid-
dleweight wrestling champion, failed
to secure a decision from an opponent
at his own weight at Houston Friday
Clarence Eklund, tha Iowan, held the
the Taylor man to a draw in two hours
and thirty minutes, and by declining to
continue the match secured a.draw
with Brown.
“Th “ssentlals for pure - milk are
cleanliness, freshness and cold,” says
a bulletin. “Pure Milk and How to
Get It,” recently Issued by the Univer-
sity of Texas. “No milk,” the writer
continues, "can be pure unless pro-
duced In a cleanly manner, and the
number of bacteria In milk la an Index
to the manner of production and han-
dling. A high bactterlal content shows
that either the milk was badly con-
taminated stl^ie outset, or has been
allowed to become warm, or la old."
The bonea of a prehistoric animal
were unearthed recently In a gravel
pit at Rosser, near Terrell.
By an act of the last Texas legisla-
ture Governor Ferguson celebrated In-
dependence Day last week by pur-
chasing on behalf of the State fifty
acres of land to be used as a Stats
nark, and by dsllverlng near the can-
«r of this tract at (Ad Washington on
the Praam, within tha shadow of a
simple granite abaft commemorating
Texas’ Independence, a historic speech.
It was at this spot eighty years ago
that these gathered who affixed their
names to tha document which declared
T#xaa to ha a free and talependeat re-
A Leading
Pood Expert
stood before the big battery of milling machines in the
Grape-Nuts factories at Battle Creek, Mich., and after
inspecting both the wheat and flour said to the miller:
“That's selected wheat, and no ‘patent flour’ stunt,
either. That wheat comes out of tne rolls as honest
and unrefined as it went in. Where did you ever make
flour before that retained the true mineral content of
the grain?"
And the wise miller replied: “I have worked in
a good many mills, and 1 am no youngster, but let
me tell you, 1 never made whole wheat flour like that
until I came with this company.
The truth is, white flour is wofully lacking in certain
essential mineral elements which are thrown out in the
milling to make flour white and pretty, and its use
frequently results in impaired health and activity.
The famous pure food,
Grape-Nuts
ia made ctf honest whole wheat and malted barley; and
supplies in splendid proportion all the brain- and nerve-
making, bone- and muscle-building elements of die
field grains, including their mineral dements.
‘ ‘ I w '
Rich, nut-like flavour, ease of serving, and quick
digestibility have made Grape-Nuts a household word
the country over.
“There's a Reason” lor Grape-Nuts
Sold by Grocers everywhese.
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