The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1917 Page: 6 of 8
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THE ARGUS, FLATONIA, TEXAS
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! ANY CORN LIFTS OUT,
DOESN’T HURT A BIT!
RED RUBBERS
Thru Fa AU
Standard Jan
Specially racoouaencUd foe cold pack caaninp.
8m2c Ramp f«w new book om pfiwmaj of IOcio
tfaaawfat ope tioxen not* 4 you canaot |H than at
yvaxfcaW*. Addratm Department 84
wosron woven hose * rubber to.
Cambridge, Mm.
OMACH SUFFERERS!!
A stoom. h specialist advise* this <2 J|£
lUmlMirhan . ■ j j.
Aqua Puns --—0 ./1 01 r
Tabli»*poortal after uieals.^ It tuakee a
• hole pint. I»ruatists prepare It —Try it.
It should he prepared for |l 00.
La Vallierc Vanishing Cream
Will Ai4 You to Poetess
A Beautiful Face
It cleanses, whitens and softens
the skin and prevents tan and
nun burn. Pure And absolutely
harmle»* Buy it of jour dealer.
V Ike will not supply you. send 3!S cents to
TW La Vallfere Co., New Orleans
PATSY FLY KILLER
attracts and kills
k It 11 flies. RaiLflMB,
naa«Ul,
rhaap Last# all aaaaon
M ode af meU!
•r tip over ; m
or injure anyth ins Uuar-
■•Ul ran »
mill
i*piil
I soil
I anVeeS affective. Mold by
| dealer*, or S aont by at-
proa* prepaid for $1.0#.
urn** ssmiss. its sc mas aw.. Brooklyn, n. y.
IlffBiTE^SMITHs
v (hollTonic
<Bafd for 47 years. For Malaria,Chills
Fever. Also a Floe General
Strengthening Tonic# •a,£2#*«22£ —
MUL-EN-OL
The Household Anlisepfic
ISE IT^H
For Cuts or Curns
After Shaving
As a Mouth Wash
TETTER,
ringworm, other forms
of ECZEMA quickly
driven out and healed
with MOTHER'S BHUR-SUOT ECZEMA
iUEMBDY. **Acts quickly. Works efficiently.”
Uaoo successfully in private homes over thirty
raana. First time offered to the public. Satis*
Cactiua assured. Price $1.00 postpaid.
SURE-SHOT REMEDY COMPANY
Box til Fort Worth, Texas
TYPHOID
to no mors tieees**ry
than Smallpox, Army
experience hss demonstrated
the almost miraculous effi-
cacy, xad hsrmlessness. of Antityphoid Vaccination.
Be vaccinated NOW by your physician, you sod
year family. It Is more vital than house Insurance.
Ask your physician, druggist, or send for “Have
pun had Typhoid?” telling of Typhoid Tscclns,
uailtt from us , and danger from Typhoid Carriers.
THC OfTTCB LABORATORY, BERKELEY, CAL.
vasascuis vscciass a statins vases s. a esr ucssss
Texas Directory
GENERAL HARDWARE
AND SUPPLIES
Contractors Supplies, Builders
Hardware, Etc. Prices and In-
formation furnished on request
FEDEN IRON & STEEL CO.
■HUSTON SAN ANTONIO
IfcCANE’S DETECTIVE AGENCY
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Rspert Civil and Criminal Inveatirntora.
» AMD FIHALI OPERATIVES.
M. H. U„ HOUSTON, NO. 26-1917.
No foolishnessl Lift your corns ^
and calluA* off wi*h *ngert
It’s like magic!
Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
I any kind of a corn, can harmlessly be
j lifted right out with the tinners if you
| apply upon the corn a few drops of 5
freezone, si^ys a Cincinnati authority. !
For little cost one can get a small
bottle of freezone at any drug store, [
which will positively rid one's feet of
every corn or callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
' It is applied aud does not even irri-
tate the surrounding skin while ap-
plying it or afterwards.
This announcement will interest
many of our readers. If your druggist
hasn't any freezone tell him to surely
get a small bottle for you from his
wholesale drug house.—ndv.
Studying Snow Depths.
The United States weather bureau
at a number of points is making ex
tensive studies of snow ■ ■depths and
densities in the higher mountain dis-
tricts both to be able to anticipate
Hood conditions and also to give cities
which get their water supplies from
these sources advance knowledge of
the volume they may expect from tlieir
watersheds.
STOP THOSE SHARP SHOOTING PAINS
“Femenina" is the wonder worker for all
female disorders Price $ i. oo and Joe. Adv
His Wife’s Support.
‘■Did your husband claim exemption :
from war service when he registered. ;
Mnndy?"
“'Deed he did, ma'am, lie done told
them officers that if he was taken to
war Ah’il have nobody to take home
the washings All do every week.”
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what yon are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is *
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system, jo cents.
Seems Strange.
Cholly—lfut, nil. you see; It isn't
possible lo become intoxicated oh wa-
ter. you know.
Holly—Oh; it Isif’t. elt? Did you
ever watch an excursion. Hoot docking
on it* return trip?
Indigestion produces disagreeable and
sometimes alarming symptoms Wright's
Indian Vegetable Pills stimulate the dlget*
five processes to function naturally. Adv.
Their Wishes.
The two smaller children of the fam-
ily were discussing the latest arrival
“I wish it wuth twinths," said Betty.
I “Twins!" echoed Bobby, loftily. "I
don't; I wisli it was a triangle."
DEATH LURKS IN A WEAK HEART,
so on first symptoms use "Renovlne"
and be cured. Delay and pay the awful
penalty. “Renovlne" Is the heart's
remedy. Price $1.00 nnd 50c.—Adv.
One kind of a poor housekeeper is
a woman w ho runs her house on busi-
ness principles.
9co tf
He Work
Many Women in this Condition Re-
gain Health by Taking Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Convincing Proof of This Fact.
Ridgway, Penn. — “I suffered from female
trouble with backache and pain in my side for over
seven months so I could not do any of my work. I
was treated by three different doctors and was
getting discouraged when my sister-in-law told me
how Lydia E. Hnkham’s Vegetable Compound had
helped her. I decided to try it, and it restored my
health, so I now do all of my housework which is
not light as I have a little boy three years old.*
— Mrs. O. M. Rnnoca, Ridgway, Penn.
Mrs. Lindsey Now Keeps House For Seven.
Tennille.Ga.—“I want to tell you how much I have been benefited
kf Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. About eight years ago I
got in such a low state of health I was unable to keep house for three in
the family. I had dull, tired, dizzy feelings, cold feet and hands nearly
■11 the time and could scarcely sleep at all. The doctor said I had a
were case of ulceration and without an operation I would always
he an invalid, but I told him I wanted to wait awhile. Our druggist
advfeed my husband to get Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
and it has entirely cured me. Now I keep house- for seven and work
h ik* garden some, too. I am so thankful I got this medicine. I feel
m though it saved my life and have reoommended it to others and
May have been benefited ”.—Mrs. W. E. Lindsey, R. R. 3, Tennille, Ga.
If yea want special advice write to Lydia E. Plnktaam Medi-
ahaa Co. (confidential) 1gmm, Ff— Tour letter will be opened,
Md imsmiI by a woman and held la strict confidence.
DRAFT TO BE FAIR
METHODS OF SELECTING MEN
FOR NATIONAL ARMY WILL
BE ABOVE CRITICISM.
NO CHANCE OF FAVORITISM
--- i
Rules for Physical Examination of !
Volunteer Recrulta for Regular
Army Will Be Modified for the
Young Conscript*.
By EDWARD B CLARK.
Washington. — Washington knows
that there I* anxiety throughout the
country lent in the drawing* here nnd
there there may be some "trlek of the
trade" hy which certain men may he
drawn for the new army nnd certain
other men not drawn by means of
some deft sleight-of-hand performance.
The ln*t Registration dn.v report*
have come Into Washington. There is
not enough concern left in the result*
of registration to shadow the rapidly
looming Interest In the methods which
will he adopted to choose the service
men by use of the rule of chance.
The country can at once give, over
finv apprehension that the drawings
will not he fair. A method will he
adopted by which the drawings will
he lifted from out of any shndow of ;
suspicion n* to the fairness of methods, j
There will lie no possibility that any-
one can enter a legitimate objection to
tile means which nre to he employed
to give nil men equal chances In the j
matter. ,
The chances seem to he that for tire j
new nrniy there will he some tnodjfl
ention of the rules which now are in
force for the physical examination of i
volunteer recruits for the regular j
army. It Is not believed Mint young
A merlon ns for the new forces will lie
compelled to measure up to the stand- |
nrds set for rperultliig for the regulars. *
When It was declared a day or two
ago. seemingly hy authority, that regu-
lar army standards would he main- \
tnined for n physical examination
croakers instantly began to say. “This
will not leave one really stalwart ycfiing.
American In the country.”
Why So Few Are Accepted.
It Is pretty generally known that out j
of every five men who have applied j
In the past at regular recruiting offices, j
only one man has been accepted. No
one lias seemed to realize the real
reason for this condition of tilings. In
certain districts In the United States
fully 50 per cent of the volunteers of
the regular army have been accepted.
In some other districts only 10 percent
Of the willing ones have been accepted.
It Is a matter easily explained.
In the past, notably In the city dis-
tricts, there have applied to the re-
cruiting officers thousands of men of
whorq by far the greater percentage
were seeking enlistment because they
had come to the conclusion that they
eould do nothing In civil life. Army
officers, If they would talk, eould tell
tales of hundreds of down and outers,
physical decrepit*, who. tired with the
struggle to get a Itvtng, perlinps not hy
the labor route, have applied for per-
mission to serve Thole Sam. with good
money, good hod. good hoard, good
clothing and good care thrown In. It
was the down nnd outers and the men
who. not willing to consider themselves
down and out, yet through adverse con-
ditions had become run down physical-
ly, who. applied in largest numbers to
the recruiting officers for regular serv-
ice.
It was the Inevitable thing, there-
fore. tlmt, the recruiting office record*
In the great cities should show only
about one enlistment for about four
or five applicants. In the country dis-
tricts the percentage of acceptances
was much higher, because away from
tile cities living conditionswere better,
and moreover mnny sturdy young
Americans w-pre willing to enlist to get
a chance to see life under new con-
ditions.
To Keep Alive Service Spirit
And still the wonder Is growing here
at the results of registration day.
There Is an Inflowing strentn of tele-
grams nnd letters from the country,
most of which give In enthusiastic de-
scription the marked service spirit nnd
service desire with which the young
men of nil sections of the country went
to their duty.
Relief Is strong In Washington to-
day that the war department will take
advantage of the patriotic psychology
of the occasion to move quickly with
selections and exemptions nnd thus to
give the country its new nutlonnl army
In short order.
It Is known that officials believe In-
stant preparation for the rest of the
work should he made nnd Mint no more
time than Is necessary should be given
to allow the ardor of youth to cool.
There was a volunteer spirit evident
everywhere Registration day, and It Is
this spirit which quick action. Wash-
ington believes, Will keep alive.
It Is realized that President Wilson
has a difficult and delicate task In the
outlining of Industrial class exemp-
tions. Unquestionably he studied the
matter for a long time, advising almost
dally with l’rovost Marshal General
Enoch II. Crowder nnd other army
officials ns to Just what form the reg-
ulations of industrial exemption
should take. ______________
No Classes of Industry Exempt.
There are still evidences In Wash-
ington that men engnged In certain
pursuit* In life take It for granted
that they will not be called to the col-
ors. In some sections of the country
fanners have been told by persona
Ignoranf of the facta In the caae that
they will not be called.
No classes of Industry are to he ex-
empted. ns a whole. The law Is man-
datory only ns It affects persons of
religious creeds which contain definite
pronouncements against arms bearing
That many industrial workers will he
exempted Is eertalii,- hut every means
will tie taken to determine definitely
that the exempted ones will he of
more use at home lo Mie army and the
country than they will lie in service
nliroml.
From some of the Industrial centers
where munitions, machinery and tex-
tiles are manufactured there have come
reports ..that a large percentage of the
workmen expect the nature of tlieir
calling to exclude them from the army
ranks. The percentages will not he
heavy anywhere. It Is only those
whose services cannot lie spared from
tlie plow, tlie bench or the desk who
will he told that until another day
they need not carry Mie rifle.
Army official* already are looking
forward to the day of tlie raising of
tlie second army. Washington real-
izes, If tlie rest of the country does
not, that the strong probability is
America must send contingent after
contingent across the water to mnke
certain the triumph of democracy.
For n long time in tlie capital there
was,keen anxiety because of the re-
curring evidences that the country ns
n whole did not realize flip immensity
nnd tlie intensity of the war thuT Is to
come. Since Registration day the
minds of the officials seem to have
been lifted from their depression.
Washington officials desire that the
work which begun on Registration day
shall tie completed quickly. The pres-
ent spirit they sny Is the spirit that
honors, and quick action will help to
keep the flame burning bright.
South to Get Training Camps.
Every man In the new National army
that soon Is to be organized for service
will go Into tout or Into barracks early
in September. Tlie original plans for
tlie encampments have been changed.
It is entirely prohnble that inter they
may undergo another change. Climate
eventually may prove to be the ruler in
the ease,
There has been a demand from near-
ly every section of the country that
one of the training camps be given to
the petitioning community. Selfish-
ness to a large extent is at tlie bot-
tom of some of the requests. Benefit
to local trade conditions lias been the
first consideration in many instances.
The good of the service has been the
second consideration If It has been
given, tiny thought nt nil on the part
Of tlie petitioners.
Men cannot drill out of doors under
had w eather conditions. Some persons
seem to think that troops are harden-
ed l>y subjecting them to conditions
which would send the ordinary civil-
ian on sick report Inside of tin hour.
Troops are softened, not hardened, by
adverse climatic conditions. In the
northern section of the country the
weather Is bad In November. Outdoor
drills cense nt West Point on the last
day of October or nt the latest on
November 15. Why! Simply because
outdoor drilling Is Impossible.
Can’t Drllj In Snow or Hard Rains.
’rhe recruits for the new National
army of course cannot he hothouse re-
cruits. nor on tlie other hand can they
be Icehouse recruits. They must be
trained up to the point of resistance
to climatic Influences, hut fitting the
body to resistance in one thing while
the drilling of the men so that they
can take part In proper maneuvers Is
another thing.
Infantry drill largely Is impossible
when the snow ts on the ground, when
heavy rain Is falling, on when tlie mud
is deep. The new nrtny must have
quarters in places less likely than oth-
ers to experience sudden changes In
weather conditions. The North is an
Ideal training place for recruits from
April 1 to November 1. The South is
n fairly good training place from No-
vember 1 to April 1. although It is not
always Ideal by any ihnnner of moans.
It is believed today tliat the army
officials finally will determine that the
new army should he trained largely In
the South, where In September the
weather Is Inclement enough nt times
to give the men a certain amount of
restating power without being severe
enough to put tin entire camp of green
troops on the sick list.
Washington waited with llttlp anx-
iety but with deep Interest the reports
from the registration districts. Ah
soon ns they were received they were
Studied closely and there was particu-
lar Interest In the number of answers
received to Question 12 which con-
cerns Itself with the desire of the re-
cruits to claim exemption at the out-
set.
Not long before Registration day an
order was Issued that answers to Ques-
tion No. 12 nre not obligatory. T.hls
meant simply that no young man was
compelled to Hay whether or not he
claimed exemption, hut could postpone
his derision In the matter to a later
day when the question of exemptions
specifically w-ns to he considered.
This fact made It Impossible for
Washington to determine definitely
Just how mnny men for some reason
or other would claim exemption. It
is expected that about 50 per cent of
the men who are exempted on no oth-
er ground will bo exempted on physi-
cal grounds, but it ts believed that
there will be enough young Americans
physically sound nnd with no depen-
dents to fill the ranka of as many
nrmles ns tt will be ueeessary to send
to Euroiie to old in the fight for demo-
cratic principles.
Some of Them.
"I tell you, the horrors of war are
coming home to us women."
"I should sny so. Here the women
in France hnve to go without powder
nnd the women In Germany hare to
have their hair cut"
*S
Fourth of July
By HEZKKJAH BUTTRRWORTH
FIJ^ODAY the birthright of her hope*
J th« inarching nation Mings,
1 And o’er the arms of laughing
forts tlie banner lifts her wings
Today In honor of the flag the myriad la
bors ceayc,
And breathe the silver bugles low the
mellowed notes of peace.
Ho, bugles. ho! Ho, glimmering hands!
Ho, veterans old and true!
Ho, children marching for the States, ’mid
roses wined with dew!
Behind ye thrive a hundred years, be-
fore, a thousand grand.
What »ays the Pant to you today, O chil-
dren of the land?
What are thy legends, O thou flag, that
gladdencst land and sea?
What Is thy meuning In the ulr amid the
Jubilee?
Flag of tlie hum that glows for all.
Flag of the brecco that blows for all,
Flag of the sou that flows for all—
The silver bugles blow and blow across
the silver sea.
What Is thy meaning in tlie air? O ban-
ner. answer mo!
No azure pavon eld art thou, borne on
the palmer’s spear;
No orlflamme of Ked Cross Knight, or
coiffured cavalier;
No gold pomegranates of the sun burn
on thy silken cloud.
Nor shamrock green, nor thistle red, nor
couchant lion proud;
No golden bees of purpled Isles on red
taffeta wrought.
Nor eagle poising in the iky above the
ocelot.
No gaping dragons haunt thy folds us In
the white sun’s spray,
When westering Vikings turned their
prows from noonless Norroway;
No double crowns beneath the cross are
in thy hues unfurled,
Such as the Prophet Tllot led toward the
sunset world;
No Golden Virgin, circlet-crowned, such
as with knightly pride
Old Italboa threw upon the air o'er the
Pacific tide.
Not e’en St. George's Cross Is there that
led tlie Mayflower on.
Nor old St. Andrew's Cross of faith—the
Double Cross is gone.
The silver bugles blow and blow across
the silver sea.
What Is thy meaning, O thou flag! this
day of Jubilee? . ’
Papa Pays
m mm
6Av/i
What Are Bandaged Hand* In the Sum
Total of a Glorious Day?
WWWW'fWWWWWW
Urges All Citizens to
Peruse the Great
Declaration of
Independence
(By GAILLAUD HUNT, LL. D . Chief of
the Division of Manuscript, Library ofj
Congress.)
W^JVKIiY citizen of the Unite*
StuteK should read the Detiara**
^ tl'on of Independence once every'
year. It Is u thoroughly American*
document, and the principles It em-
bodies cannot be too firmly impressed1
upon our minds.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Decla-
ration of Independence, and he alone Is
its literal* author, hut there were a
number of men who expressed the sen-
timents, almost In the words lie uses,
O children of the States! yon flag more
./ happy lusters dock
■ Than oriilammes of old Navarre, or Crea-
sy, or Rewebeq.
I Tlie Covenantors’ field of blue, caught
from .the clear sky. see,
i And Lyra's burning stars of peace and
endless unity. i
The morning beams across it stream In
roses red and white,
| As though ’twere outward rolled from
heaven by angels of the light.
All hail to thee, celestial flag, on this
prophetic morn,
That mlngloRt with the light of heaven-
hail. flag of heuven born!
The silver bugles blow and blow across
the silver sea.
And speakest thou to every soul this day
of jubilee!
I Flag of the battlefields with pride be-
neath thy folds I stand,
j While gyveless Freedom lifts to thee her
choral trumpets grand,
j Thou stand’st for Monmouth’s march of
fire, for Trenton’s lines of flame,
For ripping Kutaw s field of blood, for
Yorktown's endless fame;
For Cepe de Gatt, and fierce Algiers, and
Perry's blood-red deck.
For Vera Cruz, and Monterey, and white
Chapul tepee;
Thou stand’st for Sumter’s broken wall,
ns high above Tybee
The shouting forts* uplift again tlie Stars
of Unity; *
For Chattanooga’s rain of fire and that
grand echelon
The deep drums led at Gettysburg be-
neath tlie smoky sun;
Thou stand’Mt for Progress and the yeurs
all golden-orbed to be.
For earth's new Rome upon the land.
and Greece upon the sea.
Thou stand'st that all the rights of men
, „muy every people bless.
And God's own kingdom walk the world
In peace and righteousness?
0 my America! whose flag we throne
amid the sky.
Beneath whose folds 'tls life to live and
noblest death to die,
1 hear the sliver bugles blow across the
■liver sea.
And bless my God my palace stands a
cottage home In thee
So speak the voices of the Past, ye chil-
dren of the land.
Behind us thrice a hundred years, beforo
a thousand grand.
Such are the legends of yon Mag that
gladdens land and sea,
Such is the Hand that scrolls the air this
day of jubilee.
Flag of the sun that shines for all.
Flag of the breeze that blows for all.
Flag of the sea that flows for all.
Hall! flag of Liberty! all hall!
The Festal Day has come!
m
V.
Thought for Nation's Birthday.
That thorp am many of our people
who hold their blessings cheap, or at
least take them as a matter of course,
cannot lie doubted. It Is well, therefore,
that we should all be reminded that
they were won at great cost, and have
been preserved hy men and women
who counted no sacrifice too painful If
it were made In the cause of liberty.
The comforts aud luxuries tlmt we en-
joy, the peace nnd security that nre
ours, nnd the liberty of whleh we are
bo proud we owe to those who were
wilting to Buffer and die in order to
win them for their posterity.
'Worthily Celebrate Independence.
If you will be your best you will
help others to he theirs. The sum of
the Individuals Is the nation. In>t us
moke July Four a glorious holiday.
loom
Thomas Jefferson.
before they nppeured in ids great docu-
ment, and Jefferson never laid claim
to originality In the Ideas expressed.
There were several men who, yeurs
before, Imd expressed themselves pub-
licly ns to American Independence.
They were all good men. nmny of mas-
terful intellect und men without feur,
but the mass of manuscripts this li-
brary owns which came from the hand
of George Mason make It plain that no
man could be called the father of the
Declaration of Independence more
Justly than he.
As enrly as 1709 a prolonged and
serious correspondence—kept up for
many years—was going on between
George Washington and George Mason,
the one In his official position as mem-
ber of the house of burgesses, the oth-
er the unseen hut no less potential ully
of his friend nnd of his country.
George Mason was from early life a
friend of George Washington, nnd their
intimacy, both as fellow workers and
as congenial neighbors, remained un-
broken until Mason’s death in 1792. Ho
nlso knew Jefferson well and was old
enough to give him the benefit of his
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Hurr, Henry. The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1917, newspaper, June 28, 1917; Flatonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth989780/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.