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The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
ANOTHER NEW BUILDING

DR.. H. R. Gibson has commenced
the erection of new building 100
feet long between his office and the
ware house building of the Magic
City Furniture Co. 1t will be con-
structed of hollow tile and will be
rented wher lied.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
EASTERN STAR INITIATION

There will be an initiation by the
Eastern Star Friday night, June 18th.
Every member is requested to be
present. Refreshments will be serv-
ed Secretary.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
FAIR MEETING

Remember the fair meeting at the
Court House next Saturday after
noon at 100 o'clock. Everybody is
invited to be at this meeting and help
to make arrangements for fair this
fall
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
MUSIC AND DRAMATIC
ART CLUB MEETING

There will be a meeting of the
Music and Dramatic Art Club Friday
evening at o'clock at the Presbyter-
ian church. All persons interested in
the progress and development Of
these arts are invited to attend this
meeting.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our friends who
were so kind and thoughtful during
the recent illness of our little child
Your thoughtfulness has helped us
to bear the grief of the loss of our
little one.
J. H. Green and family.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
AT PLEASANT HILL

The Ladies of the Pleasant Hill
Baptist Church will render short
program afte. which they will serve
ice cream and lemonade on the even
ing of June 18TH Everybody invited,
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Mrs F. s. Burns and children will
return the latter part of this
week from Sallisaw, Okla, where they
have been visiting. They will be ac-
companied by Mrs. Burns mother
wonderful visit in a wonderful land
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

C. C. Baker left Wednesday morn
ing for Burkburnett to look after the
drilling Of the Burk- k-Eastland Oil
Company's well which is expected to
hit the sand this week.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Mrs. W. S. Newman Of Mattoon,
ILL.,, and Mrs. J. A. James of Renwick,
Iowa, left the first of the week for
their homes after being here at the
bedside and to attend the funeral of
Mrs. ]. II. Tremble. Mrs. Newman is
a mother to Mrs. Tremble and Mrs.
James is a sister.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
NOTICE TO TEACHERS

The Reading Circle Examination
for the past two years and for 1919
will be given at the Court House on
June 18th and l4th
JAS. NJ. Buckley,
1tc County Superintendent.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Miss Laura Walton, who has been
visiting at the home Of her brother,
]. R. Walton, on North Connolly St.,
returned to her home at Cameron.
Mo-. this week.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Miss Annie Lyons returned this
week from a visit of several weeks to
Augusta, Ga, and other points in the
south. Miss Lyons says she had a
wonderful visit,
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

NJ. A. Crum of Fp'ona was Clovis
visitor Thursday of this week. Mr..
Crum says conditions look very fav-
orable over his way.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Joe Lehrer, who lives southwest of
town will have public sale on next
Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Lehrer has
sold his farm.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

o. 0. Skipwith and family will
leave the latter part Of this week for
several weeks trip to California.
They plan to make the trip by auto
mobile.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Mrs John Morris of Melrose, who
came to Clovis the first of the week
for medical treatment is improving
nicely at the city hospital.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

For Rent-7-room modern house,
2 blocks from Main street. Apply to
NJ. f. Anderson at Morgan Hotel.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

For Rent-Four extra nice clean
cool rooms, unfurnishei, modern, rea-
sonable to right party Call upstairs
over Gurley Broom Corn office.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Wanted - Furnished house or
rooms. What have you? Leave ad-
dress with clerk at Antlers Hotel.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

]. Frank Neel this week delivered
i50 head Of ewes to Lee Carpenter
who lives northwest Of Clovis.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
TO LET CONTRACT
NEXT MONDAY

The contract will be let for
the Baptist Sanitarium on next
Monday. Bids are now being
asked for and it is not expected
) that there will be any delay now
in getting the building to going.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12
THE FOURTH
AT RANCHVALE

Big preparations are being :
made for tho big Fourth of July :
celebration at Ranchvale. The
various committees are at work :
and no effort will be spared to :
make the day a success. People :
from all parts Of the country are
expected to be there.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

J. Il. Lindley has returned from a
stay in the oil fields of Texas,
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-06-12

Flats for Observation-Disclosures at
600 Grand ave, or phone 1856 12-2tp
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20
PAGE THREE

.=.iae competirlon may be restored
and maintained among businesses hat
are naturally competitive cannot be
discussed here, but the principle is
clear that human beings cannot be
trusted with the immense opportuni-
ties for oppression and extortion that
go with the possession Of monopoly
power. That the owners of public serv-
ice monopolies should be restricted by
law to a fair or average return on
their actual investment has lony-been
a recognized principle of the courts.
the legislatures and public opinion. 1t
is a principle which should be applied
to competitive enterprises likewise,
with the qualification that something
more than the average rate Of return
should be allowed to men who exhibit
exceptional efficiency. However, good
public policy as we'll as equity de-
mands that these exceptional business
men share the fruits of their efficiency
with the consumer in the form of lower
prices. The man who utilized his abil-
it. to produce cheaper than his COM
p%etitors for the purpose of exacting
from the public as high a price for his
product as Is necessary for the least
efficient business man is a menace
rather than a benefit to industry and
society.
"Our immense war debt constitutes
q particular reason why incomes and
excess profits should continue to be
heavily taxed. In this way two impor-
tant ends will be obtained, the poor
will be relieved of injurious tax bur-
dens and the small class Of specially
privileged capitalists will be compelled
to return a part Of their %unearned
gains to society,""
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20
THINK IN
1T ISN'T THE TOWN-IT'S YOU

III you want to live In thS kind Of a
town
Like the kind Of a town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes In q
grip,
And start on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really
new,
It's a knock at yourself when you
knock your town; j,
1t Isn't the town-It's you.
Real towns are not made by men afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead,
When everyone works and nobody
shlrks,
You a raise a town from the dead.
And If while you make YOU personal
stake,
Your neighbors can make enc, too;1
Your town will be what you want to
see,
It isn't the town-it's you." j..
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20

JecuIU1IS apart, SOCIALISM wou1u mean
bureaucracy, political tyranny, the
helplessness of the individual as q fac
tor in the ordering Of his own life and
in general social inefficiency and de-
cadence.
Defects Of Present System.
Nevertheless the present system
stands in grievous need of consider
able notifications and Improvement.
Its main defects are three-enormous
lnefticiency and waste in the produc-
ton and distribution Of commodities,
insufficient incomes for the great ma
1ority of ~wage-earners and unnecessa-
rily large incomes for a small minority
of privileged capitalists. The evils in
production and in the distribution Of
goods would be in great measure abol-
ished by the reforms that have been
outlined in the foregoing pages. Pro-
duction will be greatly increased by
universal living wages, by adequate in
dustrial education and by harmonious
relations between labor and capital on
the basis Of adequate participation by
l1lS Ill I'LL liz 1QuuSlI1dl dSpeClS
of business management. The wastes
Of commodity distribution could be
practically all eliminated by co-opera-
tive mercantile establishments and CO.
operative selling and marketing associ-
atoms.
Cooperation and co-partnershlp.
Nevertheless the full possibilities Of
increased production will not be real
lied SO long as the majority Of the
workers remain mere w~age-earners.
The majority must somehow become
owners or at least in part of the in
struments of production. They can be
enabled to reach this stage gradually
through cooperative productive socie-
ties and co-partnership arrangements.
In the former the workers own and
manage the industries themselves; in
the latter they own a substantial part
Of the corporate stock and exercise a
reasonable share in the management.
However slow the attainment of these
ends, they will have to be reached be-
fore we can have q thoroughly efficient
system of production or an industrial
and social order that will be secure
from the danger Of revolution. 1t is to
be noted that this particular modifca-
ton of the existing order, though far
reaching, and involving to a great ex-
tent the abolition of the wage system,
would not mean the abolition Of pri-
vate ownership. The instruments of
production would still be owned by in
dividualS, not by the State.
Control of M%onopoIies.
"For the third evil mentioned above,
excessive gains by a ssnall minority of
privileged capitalists, the main reme-
dies are prevention Of monopolistic
control of commodities, adequate gov
eminent regulation of such public serv-
ice mOnopolies as will remain under
private operation and heavy taxation
of incomes, excess profits and Inherit
anCcs. The precise methods. By which
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20

operation OF retail and wholesale mer
camille concerns under the ownership
and management Of the
n is no Utopian scheme. 1t has
been successfully carried out in Eng
land and Scotland through the Roch,
dale system. Very few serious efforts
OF this kind have been made in this
country because u people have not
felt the need of these cooperative en-
terpr1ses as keenly as the European
working classes and because we have
been too impatient and too individual
istic to make the necessary sacrifices
and to be content with moderate bene-
fits and gradual progress. Neverthe-
less u superior energy, initiative and
commercial capacity will enable us
once We set about the task earnestly
even to surpass what has been done in
England and Scotland.
Train to Habits of Saving.
"1n addition to reducing the cost of
living, the cooperative stores would
train our working people and con-
sumers generally in habits Of saving, in
careful expenditure, IN business meth
obs and in the capacity for co-opera-
ton. When the working classes have
learned to make the sacrifices and to
exercise, the patience required by the
ownership and operation Of co-opera-
tive stores they will be equipped to un-
dertake a great variety Of tasks and
projects which benefit the community
Immediately and all Its constituent
members ultimately. They will then
realize the folly Of excessive selfish
s and senseless individualism. Until
they have acquired this knowledge,
training and capacity, desirable extern
sions Of governmental action in indus
try will not be attended by a normal
amount Of success. No machinery of
government can operate automatically,
and no official and bureaucratic admin
istration of such machinery can ever
be a substitute for intelligent interest
and cooperation by the individuals of
the community.
Ultimate Reforms.
Despite lue pIdCllCdl anu lmme-
date character Of the present state
ment, we cannot entirely neglect the
question of ultimate aims and a sys-
tematic program, for other groups are
busy issuing such systematic pro-
nouncements, and we all need some
thing Of the kind as a philosophical
foundation and as a satisfaction to our
naaural desire for comprehensive state
ments.
"1t seems clear that the present IN
dustrial system is destined to last for a
long time in its main outlines-that is
to say, private ownership of capital is
not likely to be supplanted by a collec-
Twist organization of industry at a
date sufficiently near to justify any
present action based on the hypothesis
of its arrival. This forecast we recog-
nlze as not only extremely probable,
but rs highly desirable, for. other oh
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20
THEIR POWER IS GREAT
Accomplishments Of Small Saw
ings Is Remarkable.
Ninth District War Loan Organization
Shows Some Astounding
Examples.

what is the power of small saw
ings?"
Wrestling with the problem Of how
best to impress upon the people of
the Ninth Federal Reserve district the
surprising Importance of saving of
every degree, great, small and me.
dunn. the central committee of the
Ninth District War Loan organization
has happened on an astounding case
Of what small savings can do.
This is, according to A. r. Rogers,
central committee chairman, that If
every n of the 10, 600, 900 citizens OF
the United States should buy just one
Thrift stamp a day for a little more
than two years they would have
amassed a saving equal to the entire
national debt of the United States on
January 1, 1918. or $21, 900, oo0, 1000.
That means that the American PEG.
pie, saving Is cents a day for Is
months, or to be exact, 764 days, would
have saved a sum equal to that spent
for the following great undertakings:
The American army which turned
the tide Of victory in the world wal
on the fields Of France.
Additions to the navy since April,
1917, and all ,the4ecosts of maintain.
ing the navy and paying its men for
Fl months.
The merchant marine of the United
States so far as it had been completed
to January 1.
The Panama Canal.
A number Of great dams and irriga,
ton projects.
Scores Of great army camp
throughout the United States.
Payment to Spain for the Philip.
pine Islands, etc.
Scores of items connected with the
great war which could not possibly be
tabulated.
Actually the savings would be a
third greater than the sum spent for
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20

these undertakings because a third of
the money used by the United States
government was loaned to her allies.
This sum, about $1,000, $1,000, will be
returned by the allies at maturity Of
the loan. Meanwhile the United States
will receive interest on the whole
sum.
And the startling fact remains"
said Mr.. Rogers, that Is cents a day
saving by every person in the United
States would pile up this amount of
money in rs months.
This shows the overwhelming in
portance of saving in even the small
est degree. l do not believe there is
anyone who can read these figures
and not realize that small savings are
important. Too many people feel that
when they buy a Thrift Stamp or
even a War Savings Stamp they are
IN child's play, doing the thing on too
small a scale, not being really eff
cient.
GAS a matter of fact just the re-
verse is true. If efficiency means any
LuAr6 IL A1CduS uClllL1u6 oil Lu0 pieces,
saving little odds and ends of time,
Of material and of money. Redeem
Ing and saving the little bits-this is
both efficiency and economy.
"Of course the United States gov
eminent is never going to call on it's
people to raise such sums by purchase
Of Thrift stamps. Part of the money
car be raised more rapidly by buy
ing Liberty Bonds. That, however,
does not change the facts we are CIV
Ing, that saving just Is cents a day,
every day, by every American. would
pile up in a little over two years. q
sum equal to the national debt on
january l."
The total sum each citizen would
have to a v to equal the national debt
is $1s0.91. If only one cent more we're
saved the sum would be $1,10O,000
greater.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20
Farmers Please Note
50 E~ar1y-De1iVery Discount
On Mogul and Titan Tractors

We can, however, give steady work both to
our present help and to the returning soldiers
and sailors, if we can bring about an i'm
mediate increase in tractor production.
In order to do this we must move forward to
the farm some thousands of tractors that are
ordered for delivery at various dates up to
May 1st, and we shall also have to ship a
large number of tractors that farmers intend
ed to order later this season, but could just as
we'll take now. To those farmers who are so
situated as to be able to take advantage of it
we make the following proposition,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20
ECONOMIC EVILS
MUST Be CURED
Catholic Council Points Out De,
fects in Present System and.
Advocates Cooperative
Reforms.

Scoring the evils of monopoly by a
small minority Of privileged capitalists
and advocating cooperative stores, CO.
partnership and sufficient incomes for
the great majority Of wage-earners as
remedies for postwar economic condi-
lions in this country, the Administra-
tive Committee of four bishops repre-
senting the hierarchy of the Catholic
Church in America in conducting the
National Catholic War Council have
issued the following as a part Of an Of
fetal pronOuncement on economic and
social reconstruction.
Reduction in Cost Of Living.
During the wal the cost of living
has risen at least seventy-f1ve per cent.
above the level of 1913. Some check
has been placed upon the upward trend
by government fixing Of prices in the
case OF bread and coal and a few other
commodities. Even If we believe it de-
sirable we cannot ask that the govern
ment continue this action after the ar
ticles Of peace have been signed, for
neither public opinion nor Congress is
ready for such a revolutionary policy.
If the extortionate practices of monop-
oily were prevented by adequate laws
and adequate law enforcement prices
would automatically be kept at as low
a level as that to which they might be
brought by direct government determi-
nation. Just what laws In addition to
those already on the statute books are
necessary to abolish monopolistic ex-
tortion is a question of detail that
need not be considered here. In pass
ing, it may be noted that government
competition with monopolies that an
not be effectively restrained by the or
binary antitrust laws deserves more
serious consideration than it has vet
received.
Cooperative Stores.
More important and more effective
than any government regulation of
prices would be the establishment of
cooperative stores. The enormous toll
taken from industry by the various
classes Of middlemen is now fully real
lied. The astonishing difference be-
tween the price received by the pro-
Queer and that paid by the consumer
has become a scandal to our Industrial
system. The obvious and direct means
Of reducing this discrepancy and abol-
ishing. unnecessary middlem9n is the
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-20

n Yearly FIVE thousand of our boys in
khaki and blue are coming back to work
We shall, of course, make a place in
Our organization for every one of them, but
we wish to do it without throwing out of en-
ploy1nent the men who took their places and
have worked faithfully for us ever since. This
is not going to be so easy for us as for some
others, because the Government designated
ours as an essential industry during the war,
and we actually increased the efficiency of
Our organization after our boys left to ioin
the ranks.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-02-13

ing to the amount invested. The
men who secured the leases, which is
5000 acres, will not get cent more
out of the company than any other
stakeholder, as the leases were not
only turned into the treasury, but
each one of these men is taking
stock and paying cash for it, just as
anyone else, and there is no pro-
motion stock.
This stock is being sold in shares
of not less than $500, and they make
no promises of producing oil. They
are playing the game square. They
tell prospective purchasers they be-
lieve they have leases that will be big
producers, and everything points that
way, still they do not make any
claims they are not able to substan-
tate.
They expect to drill the first test
near Guymon. The lease on which
it will be drilled is but sixty miles
from the new we'll brought in north
east of Amarillo, Texas, and geolo-
gists who have visited both fields
say their structure is superior to that
at Amarillo and Burkburnett.
The matter of raising funds for
this we'll was stopped when the war
broke out, but since hostilities have
ceased the matter is being taken up,
and the well will be drilled. Prac-
tically enough money has already
been raised to finance the test but a
few thousand more is needed, and al
ready this is being placed on the
market.
One of the members of the COM
pany says they are not trying to sell
these shares to fellows whom the loss
of the money would break up in bust
ness. They are not selling small
shares, but have a proposition that
should appeal to the fellow who de-
sires an even break for his cash in
company composed of men whom he
knows will do the right thing by him.
This is the proposition of the Beaver
Oil G Gas Company.
They have a large block of leases
that if proven would mean millions,
and the only way to prove them is to
make a hole. The way the oil ter
ritory is expanding it would seem
that they have every chance to get
production in one or two places at
least, and we consider that better
wildcat proposition does not exist.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-02-13
WE OFFER FOR SALE THIS WEEK

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Just off the sand " mile school, mile nice country
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price Price of 4S0 a.. $9O00.00 some terms.
Fourroom house. porch, hen house and and park,
store-hose trees walks two eastfront lots fine location
near school, This nice little home, 100000.
800 Acres sandy buffalo wheat land draw through
100 acres balance SMOOTH miles good r. r. town, Sew
ard county, Kansas 100000 cash. balance to suit Gus
toner percent Let us show you this. 100000.
800 Acres smooth mixed land 100 in cultivation,
100 pasture broom house. fair barn. granary for 2OO b
40 a. wheat 10 miles of LIBERAL possession March 1879
$750000 terms $20O000 about years at per cent