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The Canadian Record
Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
L. P. Loomis, Editor and Publisher
P. H. Loomis Associate Editor
Published Every Thursday
Entered at the postoflice at Ca-
nadian, Texas, as second class
mail matter.
The editor of the Quanah Trib-
une-Chief had his breath taken
away last week by a customer who
came into his place and purchased
one hundred subscriptions to the
T-C. We'd like to cultivate that fel-
low's acquaintance.
The Panhandle needs cars today
to market the grain crops, but the
world is standing' still while thej
brewers are using the cars to get !
their whiskey out of the United
States before January 16th. * We
8re beginning to think there must
be a connivance somewhere be-
tween the railroad administration
and the brewers.
The proposition of securing the
fiction if the interstate commerce
commission in placing the Panhan-
dle section back in the Central
Time Zone has met with universal
approval and the Panhandle-
Plains Chamber of Commerce is
now patiently waiting for the com-
mission to set the time when a
hearing will be held.
H. B. Beach was down to Sham-
rock this week on the D-C-D high-
way and when he came back he
said that it is the finest highway
he had been over. Several times
lately the Record has heard re-
marks about what a magnificent
stretch of road the D-C-D is. These
comments are indeed gratifying
to the officials of the D-C-D, and
to Canadian as well.
Newspaper reports state that
R. M. Johnston of Houston will be
appointed chairman of the board
of prison commissioners, succeed-
ing R. L. Winfrey of Dallas, whose
resignation will be accepted Jan-
uary 1st. Well, Colonel Johnston
Von the appointment. He is the
man who, while lieutenant gover-
nor under Hobby, and acting in
Hobby's absence, pardoned the
Teague banker who murdered the
State bank commissioner who was
about to close his bank because of
fagrant violations of the state
banking laws. In Hobby's admin-
istration of opening the doors of
the penitentiary he couldn't have
a better chairman of the board of
prison commissioners. Peniten-
taries are built for two purposes
One is to protect society from the
danger of injury by a criminal
mind and to put the mind with a
criminal tendency where it can't
injure society. The other is to,
teach a person that if a criminal
act is committed that person must
endure the penalty of being con-
fined in a penitentiary; they must
pay the price of their folly.
More Interesting Figures
The Record recently made the
statement that the taxable valua-
tion in Oklahoma amounts to $1,-
700,000,000 and the state tax levy
is 3J/a mills, which produces $5,-
950,000 in tax money.
Also that the valuation of taxa-
ble property in Texas is $3,101,000,-
000 and the rate !V-> mills, which
produces $23,257,000 in taxes.
That Texas is four times as large
as Oklahoma and pays four times
as much taxes as does Oklahoma.
To which the Quanah Tribune-.
Chief adds that to keep the record
straight we should have stated that
taxable valuations in Oklahoma
are several times those of Texas
and that fact makes Oklahoma de-
serve the title of "High Tax State."
Perhaps the valuations in Okla-
homa are placed higher for taxes
than they are in Texas; undoubted-
ly they are. But it is hardly fain
to compare taxes in Oklahoma on
land that has a market valuation
of $100 per acre with Panhandle
land that has a" market valuation
of $25 per acre. Oklahomans do
not pay taxes on their property on
a valuation more than its worth.
Again, to whose credit is it if
the big land owner can list his
holdings for tax purposes at
about one-sixth of its value in
Texas?
To make a just comparison on
taxes, take some, of the Oklahoma
farms worth $100 an acre and com-
pare them with the black land Tex-
as farms, worth $200 an acre and
see who pays the most taxes..
Tt is to the shame of Texas that
we have the most unfair system of
assessing and collecting taxes in
the United States. Texas is forty
years behind the times in assess-
ing and collecting taxes. Each
county places its own valuation on
land for taxation purposes and one
county may be paying on a very,
low value while another county
may be paying on a high valua-
ton.
Again, when a man pays taxes in
Oklahoma he pays all at once. He
pays county, state, school, precinct,
city and all at once to one person.
In Texas he pays county and state;
then he pays school district; then
if in town he pays a city tax; three
different sources to look to.
The population of Texas is only
twice that of Oklahoma. The per
capita tax paid in Oklahoma is
$2.40, based on a population of
2,500,000; the per capita tax paid
in Texas is $4.65 based on a popu-
lation of 5,000,000.
Are we keeping the record
straight, Mr. Tribune-Chief editor?
goner is perhaps correct in some
individual case he has in mind
when objecting to legislation clos-
ing the pool halls, claiming that it
is wrong to try to legislate good-
ness into men, yet when the busi-
ness is considered all over the
state, and the fact that operating
pool halls is open to any class of
men who want to engage in the
business, and the possibilities that
might arise thereby in the cities,
you can appreciate the fact that
pool halls were closed. It injures
the honest and upright man who is
engaged in the business, and yet
the misconduct of others is the
cause of pool halls being closed.
So often it is some lit'cie foolish
notion that stands in the way of a
big man becoming great. Joe Bail-
ey can't get over his love for the
booze gang, his prejudice against
women voting, nor his states
rights hobby. If Joe could have
been right on those questions he
would be a national figure. But
the world has moved away from
him. The tallow dip age has pass-
ed, chin whiskers are no longer
popular, hair hanging down the
coat collar is too bothersome for
modern society, and the moss can't
grow in the road that the Ford tra-
verses. Joe can't get away from
these antediluvian fantasies, how-
ever. But take these away, and
you will have to acknowledge that
he is something of a statesman
and able to make it interesting for
the best of them. Joe says enough
good things for a person to really
wish that he could modernize.
There were a few papers which
joined the Record in blacklisting
the advertising sharks trying tc
run a mammoth mail order scheme
advertisement thru the local pa-
pers.
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IN LARGE OR SMALL TRACTS
For Sale Near the Deep Test Now Go-
ing Down on the Shaller-Tubb Lease
Buy now while a small amount of
money well invested might make
you rich within a few weeks. A few
days delay may mean that what
you can buy now you cannot buy
for many times over what it will
cost you now.
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We know now where all the box
cars were this fall when the Fan-
handle wanted to move its wheat
crop. The breweries were hoard-
ing the box cars to ship their whis-
key to the coast for transportation
to the countries which permit the
sale of liquor. Sixteen hundred
freight cars were held at Louis-
ville, Ky., pending the supreme
court decision. No matter how
much money the farmers of the
Panhandle lost thru inability to
market their grain, no matter how
much the people of the Panhandle
suffered for lack of coal, the cars
had to be held to meet the greed of
king alcohol. Greed has always
been behind the booze business
and this last act shows to what ex-
tent it will go to gain its ends.
Greed can't any longer steal man-
hood by selling booze but it can
rob women and children by making
the world stand still while it trans-
ports its nefariuos product.
The Quanah Tribune-Chief and
the Clarendon News printed arti-
cles last week about the wonderful
growth in population which North-
west Texas will show in the 1920
census. We are pleased to see the
boys taking this position after call-
ing the Record's hand an our state-
ment that the census would show a
census. We are pleased to see the
decided increase. Every little
hope helps.
THE GREATEST INVESTMENT OF THE DAY
The Baker Steam Motor
Car and Mfg. Company
Pueblo, Colorado
Steam Autos, Trucks and Tractors
Let us show you the greatest
opportunity of the times.
H. H. SHOLLY Representatives H. B. BEACH
If you are not ashamed of your
visitors report to the Record about
them.
Brother Waggoner of the Miami
Chief takes rather a determined
position over the closing of the
pool halls. It isn't the pool tables,
the games played thereon, nor the
proprietor of the pool hall which
has invited the censure of legisla-
tion. It is because the lawless ele-
ment will take advantage of the
pool hall proprietor by making his
place a loafing place; and this
naturally makes it looked to as the
headquarters of law violation
This comment does not apply to
any one pool hall or to any one
town, but applies to the business*
as a whole. So while Brother Wag-
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MILLING COMPANY
Dealers in
Grain, Flour, Feed,
Coal, Salt and
Field Seeds
Goodyear Tire Expert
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Free Demonstration
Saturdati, Januaru 19^
Don't miss this demonstration on tire conservation at the Canadian Buick (jar-
age. The demonstrator comes here to help you get more mileage from your tires.
ILLUSTRATED LECTURES
illustrated lectures, informal discussions and actual demonstrations of the use of
lire savers will go on thriiout the day. You can drop in any time and hear him.
HOW A TIRE IS MADE
He will, show you how a tire is made, why it js made that way, why tires wear out pre-
maturely; he will tell you about the different tire abuses and how to avoid
them.
PROPER LOADS AND INFLATION
There are many other points that will be touched upon during the day. Proper loads
for passenger cars and trucks, proper inflation of tires, how to care for tread
cuts, faulty wheel alignment, and how to treat a stone bruise will be described.
MANY HOURS AND MANY DOLLARS SAVED
A half hour spent with this man will save you many hours and many dollars in the
future. Don't fail to attend this free demonstration. Remember the date Jan-
uary 9, 1920, all day at
Tjf|e Canadian Buick Company
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Loomis, L. P. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1920, newspaper, January 1, 1920; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125430/m1/4/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.