Published once a month for
the benefit of
OUR CUSTOMERS
We distribute this publication without
cost, to tell our patrons facts about our
selves which will be of interest to them.
While its chief purpose is to adver
tise our store, it is Intended also to
entertain and to instruct—to tell you
about things in general and about our
store in particular.
Additional copies may be obtained at
the store for the asking.
Our Side
We are Right With Our Customers
In Fact You Have a
Little the Best of It
Quite a number of our friend, and
customers every once in a whili may
be heard complaining very bitterly
about high prices and what they can
not afford to buy, and when it comes
to a matter of comparison, prices are
considerably higher.
However, when you come to figure
it out, let us call your attention to the
fact that we, together with possibly
every other retail interest in the
United States, are really suffering
more than our customers. The rea
son is that we cannot possibly in
crease the figure at which we can sell
our goods, with a reasonable profit,
in direct proportion to the price we
are forced to pay for these same
goods. We arc doing our level best
to be honest with ourselves and with
our customers, and, to be candid with
you, we find it a real man-sized job
to price our goods properly and satis1
factorily to you and still retain for
ourselves a sufficient margin on which
to do business.
We are in hopes that before long
the general market will adjust itself.
We believe it will, and we can assure
you that when that time conies, we
will continue to hold a reasonable and
just proportion between what the
goods actually cost us and the price
at which we are able to sell them.
We want you to understand that we
are not speculating in any sense, nor
are we taking any advantage whatso
ever of national conditions which are
responsible for present prices. You
may rest assured we will take advan
tage of any development which will
allow us to give our trade anything
better in the way of prices. We be
lieve such a policy is the only sound
one and want our customers to know
that we are trying in every way to
protect their interests as well as our
own.
CHAMP CLARK
Tells What It Means to Be
an American
Speaker Champ Clark of the House of
Representatives, noted as a great ora
tor, delivered a magnificent speech on
Americanism at the Monmouth Court
house Battlefield on Labor Day. In
part, he said:
“It is a great, a glorious thing to
be an American citizen; greater than
it was to be a Roman citizen when
Rome was mistress of the world,
which the Romans claimed was
greater than to be a king. Our Gov
ernment should be so conducted that
the sentence ‘I am an American’ would
have more potency the wide world
round than the far-famed 'Rotnanus
sum,,’ when Rome was in the plenitude
of imperial power. I think sometimes
that we do not sufficiently appreciate
the blessings of our system of govern
ment. We too frequently take it for
granted that achieving freedom was
natural and inevitable in the evolution
of things, and therefore easy. As a
matter of fact, the men who pro
claimed our independence at Philadel
phia, July 4, 177(4, performed that im
mortal deed with halters about their
necks—as did Washington and his
men who made Jefferson’s declaration
good on Yorktown’s blood-stained
heights.
“When they had signed, old Ben
Franklin, the greatest wit of that age
— perhaps the greatest wit of all the
ages—cheered up his companions in
glory, by remarking: ‘Now that we
har e signed, we must all hang together
or we will all hang separately’—a
statement as true as the Gospel. I
wish that he could return to earth for
at least one night to some great city
New York. Philadelphia, St. Louis,
Kansas Citv, San Francisco—and
learn what Ins experiment witn me
kite has clone for the happiness and
comfort of mankind.
“Gov. Ren Harrison, of Virginia, a
great big, burly man, punched little
Klbridge Gcrrv of Massachusetts, who
weighed less than 100 pounds, in the
ribs, saving: ‘When the day of hang
ing comes, I will have one great ad
vantage over you. Mv weight will
make me die quicker.’ That was the
spirit in which they signed; and that
should be the spirit in which we live.
“Just after the close of the war be
tween the States Admiral Farragut
made the circle of the globe in his
flagship. Tn every civilized country
he was received with the honors due
to a hero, which he was. When he
was cruising in the Aegean Sea he sent
word to the Sultan of Turkey that he
wanted to call on him to pay his re
spects. The Sultan sent him word
back that no battleship except one
commanded by a prince of the blood
royal could enter the Dardanelles.
This made Admiral Farragut’s Ten
nessee fighting blood boil, and he
promptly sent this message to the Sul
tan, ‘I have on board my ship 700
American citizens, every one of whom
is a prince of the blood royal in his
own land. I am stripping my ship for
action and will call on you immedi
ately in force,’ Suffice it to say, he
had no trouble anchoring in the
Golden Horn.
“I will tell you how I feel about
being an American. A few years ago
a party of Americans were traveling
in the Old World. They had a boy
with them about twelve years old.
In the Pyramids of Egypt he was
weary and he fell asleep. A wag
thought he would have some fun
out of him, so he surrounded him
with grinning mummies of dead
Pharaohs and blew a horn in
imitation of Gabriel’s trumpet. The
boy waked up, didn’t know where he
was, but swung his cap over his head
and shouted, ‘Hurrah! It is Resur
rection Day and an American is the
first man up.’ In very truth we are
the heirs of all the ages. Splendidly
does Emerson say:
“ ‘We live in a new and exceptional
age. America is another word for
opportunity. Our entire history ap
pears to be a last effort of Divine
Providence in behalf of the human
race.’ ”
THE ONLY ONE
John Garner, who represents a large
and flourishing district in the State
of Texas, seems to have inherited
from the Elijah of Texas politics the
mantle of continuous service in the
Mouse of Representatives.
A constituent of his was telling
stories of John’s popularity.
“A stranger came down there once,”
said the constituent, “and asked who
the Congressman was.
“ ‘John (iarner,’ answered the man
at the crossroads store.
“ 'Whom did he succeed ?’
‘“Whom did he what?’
“‘Whom did he succeed? Who
was in Congress before Garner?’
“ ‘Oh,’ said the storekeeper, ‘he
didn’t follow nobody. He was al
ways the Congressman from here.’”
A FISH STORY
Senator Kern got a letter from an old
friend who has a little country place
and wanted fish to put in a cute little
pond.
“Send me a school of bass,” re
quested the friend.
’Tm not sure about getting you an
entire school,” Kern wro»e back, "hut
I’ll try to send you a few grades.”