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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01
For sale

This years crop OF corn at &c per
bind delivered. or i2e per bind In
the field at my place in south part OF
town. Nothing less than 100 binds
delivered. A. J. Towle. &c
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01
CLASSIFIED ADS
Want Ads Bring Results-lOc line each Issue i U
minimum price No Classified Ads Charged Il Gas"

FOR sALE-Registered Poland-Cni-
ma pigs. $1,000 Also one resisteFsd
big-bone Poland-China boar weisut
$50 lbs. $4,000 f. P. simpson,
Camp Springs. Texas. %
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

A. NJ Penman of Rochester, Texas,
was here Tuesday making arrange
uents to move here this fall to bny
cotton for Bryant-Link Co.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

TOR SALE-This years crop OF
corn at Sc per bind delivered or
2 Lee at my place in south part oil
town. Nothing loss than 100 binds
delivered. A. J. Toyle. &c
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

.kOR TRADE-One Pilot Speedster
auto. good condition, 20 trade for
Ford. Call at white & White. east
side square
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

Mrs. Emma Baker Is visiting her
brother. DR.. A. o. Scarborough, and
family.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

FOR sALE-My home place In east
snyder. E. E. Brumley phone 40
4s Il.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

DR.. May and family left yesterday
or 4 visit to relatives at Lamesa.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

FOR sALE-My home place, with
part down. balance on payments
Address Z. T.. Brumley, Cisco.
Texas.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

Fresh car -four just arrived. spe-
c'al prices. j. F.. Ketner.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01
League Program.

Subject-"Thy Will Be Done With
Our Strength"
/. Song.
2. The Lords Prayer.
3. Song.
4. Luke X:25-37 - Marylouise
Autry.
s. Leaders address.
s. What Is Our Strength
Flossie Farmer.
Z. How Shall We Find Our
Strength?-Georgie winston.
8. THE Motive Back OF Our
Strength"-Mary Strayhorn.
Q. Prayer.
10. League benediction.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

Good coffee at ]. f. Ketner's, D
pounds to the dollar. 3
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01

Fresh water melons on ice at ]. r.
ketners
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-07-01
o. r.. S. News.

q. r.. S. News.
June was the time set for the
official visit of our Assistant Deputy
Grand Matron.
After the Chapter was opened, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
UBIQUITOUS MIR. TAFT

at $S the suit. But our admiration for hin-and we twice voted for him for President-was based on his mas tery of railway time schedules and his ability to designate every train in the country by it's number
 Mir. Bryan is the only man who ever approached Mir. Taft in the fla cility with which he tackled back and forth across the country. But Mr. Bryan lacked MT. Taft's finesse. MT. Bryan's attempt to reach Jeffer- son City, Mo, from Marquette Wis, in oue day was a failure because he figured on the wrong connection at Bushnell, III. Once, due to the ba- lated hour of his arrival, he kept an audience of democrats at Gallup, N. M., waiting until II o'clock at night. And the incident of leaving his pa- amas in in the drawing room of sleeper in the union station in St. Louis still is fresh in the public mind, although it happened dozen years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18

It will turn out IS to 25 standard steel freight cars day. They will be a constant influx into the trans portation facilities of the district. and so capable is the ponderous but smoothly operating machinery that economy of operation will be an out standing feature.
 It is just another of the big things which have been done for the dis trict since the coming of the Steel corporation in 1908, and is in full operation at time when many in- dustries are not going at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
Attaining the Heights
From the Florida Metropolis.

From the Florida Metropolis.
 "The heights by great men gained
 and kept
 Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions
 slept
 Were toiling upward in the night"
 When Henry W. Longfellow wrote the verse above he did not have par ticular reference to the prominent men of earth. because the world has many successful men who are not ia nous, but who have toiled to suc- ceed while their companions engaged in procrastination.
 The Illinois Central railroad has issued a pamphlet which includes sketches of it's officials, and the re- suits of their toilng are interesting
 President c. H. Markham served the railroad first as a section hand Senior Vice President Kittle entered the service of the company as sta tion master. Vice President Baldwin was chairman. Vice President Bowes was an office boy in the gem eral auditors office. Vice President Blauvelt clerked In a freight office. stenographer in commercial agents Vice President Mann started off as a office. Call boy and brakeman were the first jobs of General Manager Gift.
 These men did not just happen to be where they are today. There is reason. It is work. Work Is the bridge between failure and success. It is the ladder on which one ascends from insigniIfcsnce to prominence, ton to success. It is the only safe means of travel, whether across or up.
 Abraham Lincoln said: T don't think much of man who Is not wiser today than he was yesterday" And Goethe said. ''One cannot always be nero put one can alWays De man. Dryden said. "Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would seek for pearls must dive below"
 There are few geniuses i'll the world. Thomas Edison Is credited with saying, Genus is 90 per cent
 
 tion,'' and those who look to the heights must begin at the bottom to eventually arrive there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18

Jay E. House. in the Philadeiphia
 Public Ledger
 M R ANY have written in pleasant llWlI and commendatory vein or SVS our late editorial coad1utor. Chief Justice Taft. His very emi- nent qualifications for the position he has just assumed have been wide ly discussed. His qualities as man and a citizen won volley after voiley of encomiums. But it seemed to us that those who sought to gild MT. Taft's career with showy words missed the essense of his story.
 For MT Tafts fortlssimo note was catching trains. His most outstand- ing performance was expressed in ms ability to decipher and annotate railway time table. MT. Taft was the one man of his time who could catch local freight out of Lower San dusky. following his address to the chamber of commerce, and make the proper connection in time to reach Richmond, Ind, for an evening meet ing. He could so exactly time his speech from the capitol steps in Jackson, Miss, as to catch the train which would land him at Rogers. Ark, in time for the annual picnic dinner of the old Settlers associa- tion on the following day. He could find his way from Pana, H., to Cres- ton, la, without asking a question. He could lay out an itinerary which called for speeches at McCook. Neb., Deadwood, S. D.. Helena. Mont, Gle Ellum. Wash. Corvallis, Ore. and Sacramento. Cal. within period of six days without missing an appoint ment. hastening his footsteps or dis commoding himself in any way. And he could do it without losing tooth brush en route.
 Mr Taft had also a knowledge of geography which was diverse and intensified He could find the lunch counter in Honolulu; he knew the number of the islands that compose
 the Philippines and the name and ad- dress of the Chinese tailor in Hone Kong whose speciality is silk suita
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
HOW TO BREAK BUYERS STRIKE From the Chicago News.

Recently many manufacturers of automobiles have advertised material reductions in the prices of their cars. The large number of new automo- piles to be seem on Chicago's streets and boulevards, many of them bought so recently as to be still unprovded with license plates, indicates that the price reductions brought generous amount of new business.
 If there is a buyers strike, the way to break 1t. as the experience of au- tomobile manufacturers shows, is to lcwer prices to reasonable level
 Notwithstanding dullness in busi- ness and widespread unemployment there is abundant evidence that the people have money. One authority declared the other day that more than so per cent of the original pur- chasers of Liberty and Victory bonds still owned them But the people are no longer willing to pay wartime prices for which there is no good ex- cuse. The sooner those makers and dealers who have been and are still charging too much for their goods realize what the situation calls for and take action appropriate to that realization the more quickly will the buyers strike come to an end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
SHUTS, OF SOUTH AFRICA

, ature and thus adds the charm of
 scholarship to his power as leader. l Trained observers of world states
 manship cannot discern in any coun-
 try a figure excelling the promise l of Shuts at this critical stage in the history of our planet.
 After his university career in Eng l land he returned to South Africa to
 write articles, practice law and work his way in Transvaal politics. h those days President Dom Paul Kru- ger said of him
 "Jans Christian Smuts will yet play | & great part in South Africa" How great part, not only in South did not dream. The Jameson raid turned Shuts against the English, whom he had liked since his cam bridge days. As Dom Paul's states
 attorney he addressed notes to tfe British government which helped to bring on the war.
 Shuts went into the war private | soldier and came out of it a general and peace commissioner. He helped his conquered country to rise from it's ashes and expand to greater power and freedom as a self govern | ing nation of the British empire He worked hand in hand with Gen. Louis Botha to suppress the reactionary
 Boer element, and contributed ali the
 benefits of his vision and energy to
 the building up of flourishing con- federation of nations in South Africa.
 The great war brought him to the front in the councils of the empire.
 First he fought brilliant campaign to bring German East Africa under the British flag. Then, visiting Eng land for the imperial conference in 1917, he made such a commanding im- pression upon the English people that by popular exclamation he remained. joined Lloyd Georges war cabinet
 and proved of invaluable service
 through the darkest days of the con flict. He played an authoritative part in the peace conference and without him the League of Nations
 would not have been born.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
Pntronizing inc Warrior

Tt has simply been a matter of bringing the Warrior to them" said Newton A. Guice, commercial agent of the Warrior river transportation lines. Merchants in the five states benefiting from the 20 per cent freight rate saving are using the river more and more as they learn about it. It was our duty to go to them and give this information.
 The Warrior, like everything else new. has experienced the necessity of being advertised to the people The press has been very generous and has been the mainstay of the line, but 1t has also been necessary to go to the merchants and explain in per son how the rates operate to and from their particular towns.
 Tt is not right to criticise folks for not taking on to what they are not familiar with. If they fail after being informed, that is another mat ter, but l find the merchants in the favored territory glad to embrace the opportunity as soon as they fully understand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
THE AIR MAIL

cultivate to the utmost any and all avenues which lead to good machines and good pilots. While the air mail (which has frequently been several days slower than the railroad maiD does not yet fill a long-felt want, it should be the foundation for a service at once dependable and the swiftest. Thus far the pneus-atic- tube service divides honors with the plane for speed; let the cost of tube of any considerable length. say Chicago to New York. is prohibitive.
 What is there, then, about mail carrying which makes the undertake ing so perilous? As far back as 1910 to 1913 the Germans operated line of Zeppelins (see Arise America'G which travelled sS,100 miles, carried 26430 passengers and crew, without a fatality or injury. This, too, was 10 years ago. The passenger air service-planes-be London and Paris is as regular as the trains and boats, and as safe; the passenger service between Key West and Ha- vana has operated now daily for sev- eral months without a death, and scores of planes at dozens of winter and summer resorts carry thousands without killing S passenger. Why. then, is it that when few hundred pounds of mail are substituted for often. a heavier load of passengers. the risk becomes so much greater? In less than four months eight pilots have lost their lives while flying mail planes. What is the answer? Either the mail pilots are grossly careless of their own lives, where the passenger pilots use every caution, or else the machines are unsuited to the work. Against this, look at the Heterogeneous assortment of planes represented in the resort flying fleet. Do the passenger planes receive bet ter inspection and repair? If so. why? Whatever it is, tffe postoffice depart ment should lose no time in arriving at the cause which is responsible for two deaths a month against 10 times as many planes flown in other busi- ness in safety
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
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s@------------------'e'-- MRS, HARRIS AND THE LAW

From the Chattanooga Times.
 Mrs Corra Harris, the famous nov elist. author of a number of popular books and we'll known, especially to southern readers. visited Nashville the other day in her car from her Alabama home. Her Thauffeur was arrested for speeding, and was held on a charge of carrying weapons, pistol having been found in the car. If is not held that Mrs. Harris or her chauffeur was guilty of intention ally violating the law against con cealed weapons, but just the same the majesty of the law must be main tained. Mrs. Harris hit off the ab- surdity and the injustice of the af- fair when she said: T thought it was best to bring 1t (the pistoD to Ten nessee, as when I was resident here eight years ago, the noblest men of the state. including the legislators. freely shot at one another" True for the lady, but just the same 1t would not be healthy for her to be caught carrying a jiggec of whisky and seek to justify it on the ground that legislators, justices Of the courts and men of renown and high standing in the state carry liquor and drink it. We very much fear that the dis tinruished lady writer is about to discover some of the incongruities ana inconsistencies iof regulating every sort of human conduct by statute. We should say that the at tempt to make the law fetich by q "Be It Enacted" has become dem onstrated failure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
The Inevitable

"1t is pretty easy to adjust ones feelings to the inevitable after all. said Phil Edwards. T was one of the many present to enter protest on paving Seventeenth street some time ago, when the Nty hall was about full of residents of Seventeenth who did not want the street paved at the present prices.
 T soon learned that that street was going to be paved over any pro- test that could be made. They are removing the present curbing now and l find myself pretty well sats fled that we are going to have a well paved street and a broader sidewalk find myself taking as much inter- est in it as if I had gone 10 the com missioners with a request for paw ing instead of a protest against it.
 Truly. it Is human nature to ac- cept the inevitable agreeably if one is healthy in mind and body"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Nights Are CO0I

People who complain of the hot days we have had in Birmingham during the past few weeks should not forget the cool and pleasant nights" said Judge J. P. Stiles. That Is the beauty about our southern climate, no matter how hot the days may sometimes get, the nights almost without exception are cool.
 It's quite different in many parts of the north and west where they have hot days and hot nights, too. One of the Shriners who attended the convention in Des Moines said the thermometer registered 10l in the hotel lobby at 3 o'clock in the morn ing. People who have cool nights for sleeping can stand the hot days. Perhaps that's the reason you almost never hear of sun stroke in the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
KEEP BOYS our OF PARIS

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 The letter of Mrs. Clara Hickok of the Eagles Paris bureau, pub lished in the Eagle yesterday, con- cerning the hardships and tempta- tions which beset American ex-sol- diers In Paris, is of importance to hundreds, and possibly thousands, of families of returned soldiers.
 The desire to stay in Paris among soldiers who have been quartered there and who, under the protection of their uniforms, found that city de- lightful, Is widely known. Mrs. Hc- kok points out that the desire fol- lows some of the soldiers after they come nome, and that in case they fail to ind work here some of them re- turn to Paris to share the demoral- ization, disappointment and suffering which are the lot of so many of those who failed to come home after the armistice. She cites the case of one of these soldiers who went to Paris with $500 to get a start and was beg ging the price of meal after one week. And then follows a statement by Mrs. Hickok, whose experience with these boys gives her knowledge of the situation:
 Tt gives me sinking feeling every time one of these lads comes into the bureau and announces that he has come over to stay, although he has no definite means for a live lihood, that he was here during the war, loves Paris, and hopes to find something to do which will enable him to enjoy the life of this city for there is pretty sure to be sad ending to the story. In America, un- would probably become good citl- 'zens; but here amidst strong tempta- tions, and with no restraints, they become disgrace to America and menace to France.
 T wish that something could be done to stop this steady stream of American boys who are coming over with every ship to France. There are a great many Frenchmen out of work, and so little chance for them. If only the fathers and mothers would keep tn sm at home, even at great sacrifice, it would save much pain and sorrow"
 This should be published from one end of the country to the other. It the suffering which she seeks to les sen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
< * < Panama Canal As
a Factor in Commerce

SM IRMINGHAM has already be- ID come familiar with the part being played by the Panama canal in intercoastal transportation. The eastern seaboard is also taking cog nizance of it's growing importance. So far as the transeontinental rail- roads are concerned, it is a condi- tion and not a theory. It is a nat ural development following the util- ization of a natural resource.
 Speaking of the growing business between New York and the Pacific coast, the Wall Street Journal ob- serves:
 Oranges and lemons can be shipped from southern California to New York through the canal in fs days. The freight rate is 70 cents 100 pounds compared with s1.66h by rail, while decay is negligible compared with that resulting f-om the jouncing by the rail route.
 Not only Is the water rate cheaper, but the fruit arrives earlier and in better condition, due to avoiding of long delays re- sulting from overloaded termi- nals east of the Mississippi.
 When speed and good condition are the result of transporting a by-product, along with lower freight charges, there is no choice for the shipper but to make as much use as hes can of the mode of transpor- tation affording him these advan- tages.
 Interior points will find it to their advantage to have their fruit routed through the non-congested ports of
 
 Mobile and New Orleans after com ing through the canal. These cities are Already being recognized in this particular.
 Northwestern apple growers and California citrus fruit shippers have guaranteed one steamship service .9,50U cars of perishable products this season.
 The canal is not only vehicle of foreign trade, but has become a pro- nounced factor in domestic com meyce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
Reauirc Attention

While I have heard from many in almost a failure" says Mrs. B. Wal ker of Lewisburg, 'I am glad to state that the crop on our place this year has been unusually fine and we have gathered and marketed it success fully.
 Some people complain that the peaches are such an uncertain crop in these days, marking back to the days when the trees were longer lived and the friut freer from worms. Peaches, like anything else, require attention. If one expects to get good results from fruits, it is necessary to cultivate and spray
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18
A DUST STORM AT SEA

From a Bulletin of the Department
 of Agriculture,
 Recently one of our American mer- chant vessels, the Santa Rosa.ia. sent in three successive reports to the weather bureau of the United States from Karatsu, Japan, to Taku, China, and thence to Shanghai, en route to Port Townsend. Accompanying it's May report was small envelope fui. of fine. yellowisn gray dust gath cred up from the decks where 1t had fallen.
 A note on the subject explained that the air was so full of the dust that sailing was hazardous, owing to impaired visibility. This was on April 13, in latitude 37 deg. 25 min. N, longitude 122 deg. 50 min. E.. a point in the Yellow Sea near Port Arthur, on the peninsula now called Chosen, formerly Corea,
 Investigation revealed that the same week there had been e violent continental cyclone or dust storm many miles to the north in Moi solia, on the border of Siberia Corrobora- tion of the fact that quantities of this dust sufficient to impede vessels could be blown as far south as the East China and Yellow seas was val uable and interesting to scientific workers in this field all over the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-18

From Popular Mechanics Magazine. TN ISCOLoRED with smoke, deep II y ly burned on three edges,
 what remained of once large envelope, the postmark still readable as San Diego, Cal, May 3, reached our office on May 12. A rubber stamp explanation conveyed the brief infor- nation: This letter salvaged from air mail plane, which was destroyed by fire at Rock Springs, wyo. May D. 1921" What the notice failed to tell was that the pilot, W. B. Bunt- ing, lost his life in the wreck and fire.
 Progress in the transportation of mails has ever been at the price of human life. The runner, the rider, the stage coach driver, each had his perils from Indian and bandit. Ever since the railway postoffice was started the mail car has occupied A relatively dangerous position in the train. Many can remember when al- most every issue or dally paper carried the account of train wreck somewhere and the injury or death of the mail clerk. Air brakes, better rcadbeds, stronger bridges and safe ties first have now combined to rob the work of great part of it's form CT dangers. But running true to form, our air-mail service seems to have inherited all the risks to life and limb which characterized pre- vious systems of transportation Ad- mittedly, we are away behind other large countries in our air standards; we-who gave the others wings-our- selves frequently flutter, and flop and perish in the attempt to carry few pitiful mail sacks. Letters post marked lair maiP' have already lost their novelty, nor has it yet devel- oped to a point where there would be great public outcry if 1t were suddenly withdrawn. The expansion and perfection of the telephone has, in fact, relieved the mail service of great part of what was formerly rush" matter.
 With our backward position in in- ternational aviation it behooves us to