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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

to the rural exchanges which come to
our desk is like stopping from the
slums full Of vile odors into an old
fashioned garden sweet with honey
suckle and the scent of perennial
flowers.
The pages of the big dailies are 50
the breaking up of home by infidelity
and selfishness. that the better news
is obscured. One puts the paper
aside with feeling Of depression and
heartache that the world is 80 full of
such terrible and unhappy things.
Then, picking up the papers that
record the happenings of the smaller
towns around Us one gains renewed
faith in life. Here are set forth only
that which uplifts q COMMUNICATIVE
activities of the business men, the
church news, the civic good accom-
plished by the women, school items,
the happy social gathering of the peo-
pie, the marriages, births and deaths,
farmers items and all the thousand
and one daily occurrences that make
up the simple annals of the great
common people who are really the
Of this broad country of
ours. Scandals are seldom publish
ed in the country newspapers, but if
it 80 happens that decency SO demands
it, the uglier details are omitted, or
are given kindly touch that is wide
ly different from the unfeeling pu-
blicity of the city press. No wonder.
The offenders may be our neighbors,
or people we have rubbed elbows with
all our lives. They are real human
beings, while to the great city dailies
they are merely grains of sort that
are ground out hourly in their news
mill.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

l5c."
His mother read the bill, but said
nothing about it. That evening vii
lie found on his plate the Is cents ana
also another bill, which read as FOL
lows: willie owes mother for his
happy home for ten years, nothing:
for nursing him through . long iil.
ness. nothing; total. nothing"
When Willie saw the rs cents he
was pleased, but when he read his
mothers bill his eyes grew dim and
his lips quivered. Then he took the
money to his mother. threw his arms
about her neck and begged that she
would let him do lots Of things for
her.
Mothers bill is rarely presented.
but it will pay each one Of us to think
it over for ourselves. and then settle
in love and service.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11
THE COUNTRY BOY

Judge E. H. Gary believes every
young man should get his start in the
country. He is not alone in that be-
Lief. We can find hundreds right
around Julesburg who believe that the
boy who gets his start in the coun-
try starts out better equipped to face
lies battles, and history proves that
the majority of successful men were
reared in rural districts. The coun-
Try boy has to think for himself and
Ae has more opportunities for work
and few for play. Consequently,
when he goes to the city, if he is 60
ing to amount to anything at all, he
regulates his life by what he has
learned out in the open spaces.
= There is something in the city that
stimulates new blood, but eventually
creates q sterotyped character. So
always there must be new blood-the
freshness and enthusiasm for tasks
Old to the city boy but new to the
country boy. This brings new prob
lem. About half of the people of
America live in the cities now, and
presumably more than half hereafter
will be born in the cities. Commerce,
industry and business consequently
will draw less and less upon the
countryside for their new leaders, and
more and more upon the cities. But
here another factor enters. The pres
ent tendency is back to the country.
It has been said of the average busi-
ness man that he wants to make
enough money to go back to the
country and live life of ease. If
this is true, the country will continue
to furnish the leaders, for youth will
spend much of its time away from the |
hustle and turmoil of the cities. To
grow up in the suburbs is not the real
thing in country life, but it is vastly |
better for the future citizen and his
than to grow up without
any of the experiences and environ
ment which created the sturdy stock
which is still the backbone of Amer
lea.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11
PAYING MOTHERS BILL

A n-year-old Julesburg lad over
heard a conversation about certain
bills to be paid and conceived the idea
of making out bill for his own ser
vices. So next morning he laid this
statement of account ON his mothers
breakfast plate:
Mother owes Willie for carrying
coal six times, 20c; for bringing water
lots of times, 30c; for going errands,
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

During the war the slogan for
America was make the world safe
for democracy" but now with $10,-
000,0O0,OO0 owing us from foreign
countries, the motto appears to be
"please remit"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

We defy any woman in Julesburg
to answer this: "Why will q woman
treat her husband like 30c and then
want 100000 damages if some other
woman gets him? 2"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

The kids that got slippers for
Christmas and than had the same
used on them for purpose of chatise-
ment. probably lost their faith in
Santa Claus.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Still another mighty good thing to
remember through 1923 is that this
world doesn't owe any man living if
he isn't willing to peel off his coat,
roll up his sleeves and go to work for
it.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

We are taught that . COW has four
stomachs. That must make the aver
age Julesburg small boy pretty envi-
ous
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

We're afraid that at the present
rate bandits and bootleggers will
have so much Of Uncle Sans money
he won't have any to lend Europe.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

At last reports the Sultan had re-
duced his total number of wives to
~. That still entities him to be a
movie actor.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Counterfeit $50 bills are in circu-
lation, but that is the last thing on
earth q newspaper man has to worry
about
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

War between the yellow and white
races is predicted, and anyway the
!aps think they can beat us at base
ball and tennis.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

About the only Julesburg man who
doesn't make 4 fool Of himself coca
siOnally is the one that nature saved
the trouble.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Just before q Julesburg mans wife
talks him to death he hopes that his
worst enemy will be the next one to
marry her.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

We see where Washington man
paid $500 for 20 eggs that haven't
been laid. That certainly ought to
make the hen nervous.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Claimed that too many "isn,s" are
being promoted in this country. All
right to go in for patriotism and
Americanism, but better avoid rheu-
matism and communism.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

While some folks are saving their
way out of Jail, others are breaking
windows so as to get committed to a
warm place for the rest of the winter.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Talking about revolving funds"
the consumer has one in his pocket
book. only it revolves SO fast you can't
see it.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

The sewing machine was patened in
1879, and some neighbors have been
dropping in to use it ever since.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Some Julesburg women have such
Keen sense Of humor that they even
take their husbands as a joke.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Every Julesburg woman thinks she
has an ideal husband before marriage,
and very real one afterwards.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Prosperity gives US lots of friends.
But it takes old adversely to prove
that they are real.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

About the fastest thing we know of
is opening window and then getting
into bed before the cold air hits YOU.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Out in the country people must
spend considerable time preparing the
speeches to be delivered when the sur-
prise party comes in
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Experts are predicting great pros
perity this year. That's the only
thing that makes us afraid we won't
have it.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

A Chicago man choked on . button
in his soup. Maybe the soup was
made out of dressed" beef.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

shout business men" who do not ad-
vertise. But if they are real ''busi-
ness men" they DO advertise.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Many dinners have been given in
honor Of the football players, but the
good students usually have to pay for
their own grub.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Sarah Bernhard says that crest is
DEATH, but many people in this coun-
try think that work is more likely to
be fatal.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

The bandits are committing MANY
robberies. but an increasing humber
OF citizens are practising mark,man-
ship. '"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

And speaking Of full measure" {"
many pint bottle holds barrel of
talk,
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

We see an article in an exchange
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

Turning from the city newspapers
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

-OOO-
HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-01-11

JULEsBURG CRlT.ArvOcArE
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25
AN INSIDIOUS PROPOSAL

Governor Pat Neff has spent much Of
his official time advocating measures
whose effect would be TO turn over the
entire machinery of the state government
to the reform" school to which he him
self belongs He made himself unpopu-
lar with the Legislature of his first adj
ministration by urging that he and the
encouragement be empowered-in ef-
iect-to fire" any county officer who did
not perform his duty in accordance with
their conceptions thereof. ~
Now Governor Neff is trying to gain
the same end by taking a different tack,
la his recent message to the Legislature
he made a plea for harmony" For the
lack OF harmony which marked the legis-
iative sessions during his first administra-
ton, ne himself was largely to blame
he went ct the lawmakers with a slcdge-
hammer, trying to force them 10 adopt
his ideas and displaying his wrath when
they refused TO bow TO his verbal cudgel'
ling.
His new method of approach, however
IS no more admirable. Whereas his first
efforts were furious, his present under
taking is insidiouS, in ono particular a
least. After making plea for harmony
plea that he might we'll have addressed
to himself. instead of to the Legislators
he pointed out that the oath OF office re
quired of Texas office-holders is obsolete
in that it initiates against an old prac
tice of which nobody nowadays is guilty
Why, he asked, should an office-holde
be required to state under oath that h
has never participated in duel?
| 1t is true that this requirement n
longer has any practical importance
Reading no further, one might think tina
Governor Neff was merely stickler 10
the practical and the practicable. Blu
there is method in his plan. He is nc
merely expressing distaste for legal ar
achronisms. Having shown that the ant
duel feature of the oath Of office is OF
solete-without however, showing thu
it docs any actual harm-he proceedee
to advocate a remodeling of the oath !
its entirety He particularly recon
mended the addition Of brand-new te;
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25

ture For the anti-duel requirement he
would ubStitute-doubtles he would
use such an innocent-looking word as
Substitute prohibition pledge.
II Governor Neff had his way, no per-
son elected to office in Texas would be
permitted to assume his official duties
without first making oath that he had
not taken drink of Intoxicating liquor
during specified time preceding his cleo
ton, and would not do so during his in
|cumbency.
Thus would Governor .Ncff place the
governmental machinery in the hands OF
the particular school of reform" to
which he himself belongs. Nobody else,
however great his inherent abilities
might be. would be eligible to office. Just
how many men in Texas would be eligible
no one can pretend to know. But if re-
ports made by the prohibitionists them
selves are. credible, the plumber would
be comparatively small.
1t is not only, possible, but a matter
of frequent occurrence, for person to
take drink of Intoxicating liquor with
out violating the prohibition, laws, either
state or national Not all of the pre-
prohibition liquor that was stored in
homes has been exhausted Yet anyone
who had taken drink even from his own
private and lawfully owned stock would
be barred from having any official hand
or voice in the government of Texas.
In other words, the government would
be turned over exclusively to the element
that believes, or processes to believe, in
the sumptuary doctrine. Those who do
not believe in it, but who nevertheless
obey the prohibition law simply because
it is the law, would be outlawed, SO far
as participation in the government was
concerned. And doubtless, if Governor
Neff had his way, they would be dis
iranchised in every sense-7forbidden the
right to vote as we'll as barred from Of
flee. o. n. ~
Such is the spirit that animates. the
governor OF Texas in his attempt to
eliminate from the oath of office an OBJ
solete but harmless requirement.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25
Watching the Parade
BY John Pilgrim.

No home is complete nowadays with
out some sort of and Eat and Grow
Thin" book on the center table. We
all read them. They afford an easy
way of compromising with our con-
sciences. After we have stuffed for
weeks on thick soups and heavy pies
and cakes-to which is added a few
pounds of chocolate creams by the
ladies of our houses-we feel the waist
band tightening and the collar begin
ming to shrink.
Where is that book?" we ask our
selves. IT must read it. The author
has a really sensible plan for fat redue-
ton"
1t is sensible plan, too. The only
weak spot in it is that it calls for semi
starvation. No matter what the eat.
and-grow-thin advocates may say. the
fact is that no one can take off fat
without pain and fasting. But one car
read such a book with immense benefit
and may be that it will help one ia
abstain from that second helping OF
brown gravy.
However. what I started out to say
was that the last time ! took this easy
road to reform / noted pregnant sen
tence in the book / most favor. The
author said:
"Bad tempered people either eat toe
much, or digest poorly, or do not elimi'
nate freely"
Come to think of il, that is the truth
When l go on diet--that is, during
those occasional weeks when l stop eat,
ing potatoes and pie and cookies and
ice cream and pudding and beans-my
temper clears up. Rarely indeed is the
voice Of ]. Pilgrim, Esq, raised in an
! ger in his home. Mrs. John Pilgrim
brightens up and that worry wrinkl,
disappears from between her eyes, and
we go out at night and to the movies
and the theater, and have a good time
generally. Likewise, when Mrs. Pill
grim eats more fruit than she doe:
spaghetti life in our domicile becomes
one grand sweet song.
And no one can be CHEEKY as duty
and be really CHEEKY.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25
From a Seat in the Gallery
By HERBERT COREY.

spent by the government during the
year, and had apportioned this sum
among the various departments. The
Department of Agriculture's desires
were slashed another S2.000,00O. max
ing a total of $4,000, 1000. Usually
Secretary Wallace makes a terrible fuss
when this sort of class prejudice is in
dulged in by the United States treas
ury but the evidence is that he did
nothing this time.
Then the budgets estimate of the
Department OF Agriculture's, needs
reached the Senate, and it was boosted
Just $685.. 900. Democrats and Repub-
licans alike supported this, and the
solid farm bloc left their plows in the
field and galloped in to give the farm
ers a little more money. There is
probably no doubt whatever that the
money viii be needed TO fight insect
and other pests, and none that it will
be well spent. Blu. it looks much as
if the Budget Bureau has been saw
agely dented.
The whole theory of the budget law
is that tho officers of the budget,
having been informed by the treasury
of the amount of money available for
the needs Of the government. shall
then fix the manner in which this
sum shall be divided between the
various departments. The authority
of Congress is in nowise weakened by
the law, but to pyevent precisely what
happened the other day. the appropria-
lions committees of the two houses
were propped by rules designed to pre-
vent a return of the old-style hit-or.
miss money giving. If the deadline laid
down by the budget is to be passed over.
then there would seem to be little need
for the budget committee.
But for once in his life Secretary
Wallace is not being blamed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25

Washington, ID. c., Jan. >25.-Wal-
lace didn't do it. That is not the most
important, but it is perhaps the most
interesting phase of the munificent wal
lop the Budget Bureau has just re-
ceipted for. Wallace didn't do it.
Perhaps that should be amended.
There is nothing in the record to show
that Wallace did it. There are definite
statements in the record that Wallace
didn't do it. But the red-headed secre-
tary of agriculture is the bad boy Of
President Harding's cabinet. He is
suspected Of bird-nesting, swimming on
Sunday afternoon and sucking eggs.
When anything happens, the rule is,
"find Wallace" Usually the searchers
find him, all right, but up to date no
one has known what to do with him.
All this is because of the hefty kick
the Senate took at the Budget Bureau
the other day. Various members pro-
tested violently about the tyranny of
the Budget Bureau in reducing the
sums desired by the various executive
departments. 1t came rather as shock
to the innocents in the gallery, because
il had been believed that reducing was
the job of the Budget Bureau. But
the job does not appeal to some of the
senator's. Pat Harrison of Mississippi
got positively breathless over the out
rage. Usually Mr.. Harrison il a conf
cal kid, but this time he was all spot
ted with tears. $50
This seems to have been the order Of
march. When the Budget Bureau
called on the Agricultural Department
to state what money it needed for the
next year the department obeyed. The
Budget Bureau sent the estimate back
with instructions to cut out two mil
lion dollars. The out was made, and
by this time the Budget Bureau had
discovered what was the total to be
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25
Aids to Alertness
By II. Arlington Bruce.

That well-known orthopedist, DR.. Joel
z. Goldthwait, recently broadcasted
from a station at Springfield, Mass, a
talk of'special interest to all who appre-
ciate the value of mental alertness as a
factor in making life successful.
Dealing in a general way with the
subject in which he has specialized
defects of body structure and posture
Dr. Goldthwait rightly stressed the i'm
portance of physical attitude as help
or hindrance to efficient thinking. To
begin with, as he pointed out:
at looks better to see man or wom-
an standing up straight, rather than
slouched or dropped. 1t feels better.
The person is. more snappy, has more
pep. The endurance is greater, there is
stuff left in the individual even after a
hard game or stiff piece of work.
IF the body is used rightly the head
is held up, with the chin drawn in, and
the blood flows to and from the brain
easily. In this position the wits are
most keen, the reactions are quick. 1t
is the position of alertness."
To be sure, observation shows that
among people who SLOUGH there are not
a few who are uncommonly alert men,
tally. But they are exceptions to what
may be set down as a general rule, and
their alertness is achieved against real
and quite unnecessary obstacle.
In most cases the slouching are the
slow-witted, as compared with their fell
lows. And in all cases improvement in
posture is likely to be followed by more
or less improvement in point f rapid
ity. vigor, and clearness of thought.
So that DR.. Goldthwait's suggestions
as to postural improvement may de
servedly be given practical trial by
everybody aware that he or she sits
stands or walks badly. These sugges-
tons include:
Practice many times a day, drawing
yourself up to your full height. Fee
tall. Draw in the chin, pull up the
chest, draw in the waist so as to flat
ten the back, and feel the weight chief
ly upon the front part Of the feet. II
will surprise You to see how quickly
such a posture becomes a habit.
I'm walking, try to maintain the same
position. Swing along with the body
held tall as if you owned the town, moi
as il you were ashamed Of your town oil
Of yourselves.
"In sitting, keep the trunk of the body
| in the same position as when standing
Do not bend at the waist line, do thu
bending at the hips. Lean backward
or forward as much as you choose, but
do not buckle in the middle"
Also, as DIR. Goldthwait reminded his
radio audience, there is such thing al
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25
WE NEVER KNOW

NScIdom is the uncertainty and fraility
of human existence illustrated so forcibly
as in the death Of Herbert Brown, a
passengcr on Southern Pacific train
out of III PaSo the other day who was
shot and killed by maniac as he sat in
a smoking car But a lew minutes be-
fore the tragedy Brown was in another
car chatting with relative Death prob
ably was jarthest from his thoughts. He
decided to step into the smoking car
and 4 minute later he was stretched in
the aisle with bullet through bis head,
shot down by man he never had seen,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-25

a correct posture for sleep, and this
likewise reacts to promote mental alert
ness. 1t essentially consists in lying as
flat and as straight as possible. Or,
again in DR.. Goldthwait's own words:
."Get rid of most of the pillows. Lie
upon the back, face or side, as best
suits you, but do not curl up. Sleep
will be auieter and you will wake in the
morning rested, with snap enough 10
tackle the tasks of the day and make
hard jobs seem easy"
Copyright, 1923, by the Associated