The Daily Standard from Sikeston, Missouri • Page 3

TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS THE TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21 The Buick Double-Service Sedan Another 1924 Buick six-cylinder double-service has been especially created for those who wish a combined practical business car and family sedan. Its upholstery is comfortable, yet sufficiently serviceable to withstand severe daily usage. The power provided by its new Buick 70 H. P. valve-in-head motor is more than enough to carry it over the heaviest roads.

Its staunch Buick four-wheel brakes assure ample safety whatever the driving conditions. The admiration which you may feel for its service utility will be matched by the pride which your family will take in its comfort and suitability. Taylor Implement and Automobile Co. SIKESTON, MO. When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them ECONOMIC OF THE NEGRO EXODUS is peaches down in ays the well-known ditty, of what we are pleased to call but which are almost necessities.

if Portsmouth, Virginia, said recent- ixrui TTV fcut read that in Baldwin County, 0. tu near Macon, boH-wwvito "The question of labor, after all and the negroes are leaving that court- economic one, and negroes, the try at the rate of from fifty to a workmen, wrll go where dried a week. Already one out of ev- Cnancial and ery four tenant houses is vacant. As was acknowledged by a conference of educated negroes reoently Atlanta, the ss their conditions, failure to cope with the boU-wootdl. Quoting negro press opimon, we Last year th lost iM) per cent of the take from the Norfolk Journal and tton nop So the boU-weevil is in this denunc.ah.on of urban llv a sense the negro Moses-a mighty tag oond.dons aa welle as rural: instigator Of the mighty exodus.

For! is a fact that the average color be impoverishes not only the black I ed man hopes and stnves to have h.s ttnant, but the white plantation owner as well, and this calamity adds to conditions in the negro soctions of our town and oStiies must be improved by the authorities. educational facilities must be increased, I believe that the Georgia Legislature should establish a commission with suitable power and funds to establish, at a convenient point In the State, a real industrial school, where the negro boys and girls can be trained at a minimum expense. peaching from South Carolina show that 48,000 negroes have migrated from that State since November 1, The negro goes North because at this time unskilled labor is worth more than it is the South, remarks the Atlanta Journal, continuing, is worth more in the North because there is a larger profit in the industries that employ it than there is in any field of Southern at this time. In sort, tie is governed by the same law that peopled the American colonies, for the greater part, and which today brings the immigrant to our gates. That he goes because his schools are not the best, or because he fears mob violence, or wants to sit on the white front porch and be fanned, and tisnT invited to, are hailacunations that have become part of the psychology of editorial sanctums up Various Southern States have passed laws to restrain agents from tempt- ng negro labor to emigrate.

Such laws not stop the migration of the says the Journal. higher wages will affect that. In the meantime the South is not suffering greatly. And when the demand for lier products at remunerative prices arrives, the law of Life that moved the colored brother will bring him somebody in his Gently amused by such legislation, especially in Georgia, the Houston, (Texas) Post observes, I of the present session of Gt-neral J. P.

Jervey, city manager Georgia Legislature fail to dis- kerrw.jith said recent- 1 any effort as yet to repeal the law of gravitation, but Georgia states- I BAND FROM MEXM ARRIVES A STATE FAIR latin Musical Organization of 85 Pieces Adds Unexpected Feature To Program of Exposition. Sedalia, Aug. lice Band of eighty-five pieces has just arrived here to add an unexpected series of concepts to the musical, program of the Massour State Fair, which opens here tomorrow for the annual eight day festival. The musicians of the organization are of very high clans, for the requirements for entrance into the band are Prof. Velino M.

Preza, author of many opperatic and military airs played everywhere by military and orchestral bands. The band was organized tin September 1901 and has not appeared in the United States since November 1921. It sponsored by the Mexican government, which presented the organization with a cemplete new set of in- ami four new uniforms for each member just before it left Mexico Glty. The brass instruments alone are wort $5,000, and the uniforms are valued at $15,000. The government presents $2 in gold to the family of tadh member on every day that the band is on tour.

The band will go to Milwaukee from ikdalia, and from Milwaukee to Min! neapolih, Profussor IVera states that the purpose of the present tour is to promote friendship between Mexico and the United A SUMMER BUILDING PROGRAM Some of the ii terns on the farm program now are these: 1. Build a silo, or if you already have one, clean and repair it. Tighten the hoops. 2. The diversified farm has real chicken, hog ep, and milk houses not shacks or shanties.

Glean, repair, and paint these. 3. Build a grain house that will cure grain and protect dt from every thing that may injure it. i 4. Build a modern sweet potato curing and storage house.

A concrete floor saves money and makes money 1 in the long farming in a long run buiness. 5. Put runrnng waiter in the house I and barn lots. 6. Put in sewerage Progressive Farmor.

The Fordson Tractor output for the week was 1,882. At the Iincoln division of the company a new' production mark was established with a totalu of 210 cars for the week ending Tuesday. ire best, it is a simple matter to keep pnem Only two things are needed, simple justice and better living the negro's misfortune. Says an Atlanta dispatch to The hr rati an family live in a decent home in decent surroundings. The want mven iences, such as electric lights, bath tubs, gas and other things conductive Science Monitor, from which to eatiUry Kving.

But it ia sadly ad- we have already quoted: receives a wage of only $1.25 a day through middle Georgia. In the past the plantation owners have furnished ti.m with a cabin live in, every week he got as rations three ri.unds and a half of bacon and a peck of meal; he also usually had a little and so are wages, vegetable patch, and could keep a cow'. bad crops of the past mitted, that with rents at top prices for shanties in these cities, is entirely out of the question for the average negro family-head to ever, think of enjoying these conveniences at the prevailing wages in this section. Rents are high tin the. North and West Again, you get However, the two years reduced the plantation ability to finance such labor, and eliminated the A negro the Atlanta Independent, features a cartoon with the caption, and race labor have killed the chief money-making And if this means wretched living conditions for the negro, they were bad enough before, it would stiem, tor the Columbia S.

Record says, the average tenant house, and the hovel in which the lured laborer must live. In ninety- nine cases out of a hundred, both are las re shacks, often with nothing but shutters (to the window's that ai innocent of wilth absolutely none men are not idle. Other laws less fundamental are not escaping and the session is young yiet. is bothered by the migration of the negroes, so to put a stop to this practice of the negro looking for a better job somewhere else, one solon has (introduced a bill making it a felony for any labor agent, licensed or unLioenstd, to recr uit labor in Georgia for out -of employment. the face of the need to retain its negro workers, neither the law of supply and demand, nor the little matter of the right of private contract is to be allowed to stand, if this statesman has his w'ay.

The expansion of industry shall not affect Georgia. The influence of the growing demand for labor wall be stopt at the Georgia line. The category of crime will be enlarged to encompass the offense of offering a Georgia citizen a better job outside the State. State, in case the bill were to become a law, would take up a form of peonage. Georgia would out-isolate the the Senate enders would fasten on ttie United States.

the bill is not so Ridiculous, pay. IN THE is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Those subject to frequent in the wilt tind that the use of HALL. CATAKKH MGDIC1NE will build up the System and render them less liable to colds. Kepeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh.

CATARRH MEDICINE is taken Internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous surfaces of the feystem, thus reducing the Inflammation and assisting Nature in restoi ing normal conditions. All Druggists. Circulars free. F. J.

Cheney Toledo, Ohio. something for your rent there. Peo pie will pay the rent because they can live in comfort and decaney. Nobody objects to paying high rent when wages high, arai they get Aren't the legte- commensurate with what they I ami courts caJled upon a. I.

I to remedy ail ills, real and fancied James S. Peters, preso en phe Georgia proposal is in harmony Georgia ssociation. in a I spfirit of the times. It is on published teport on negio ex I manifestation of the mania declares, for Georgia needs these negro Our substantiate rge I Therefore, put the man in measuie dhe nia i un penitentiary who would give them supervision r. rew job elsewhere.

If that stop of the State ege ttiem from leaving perhaps an injunc- eooducted under sinnlar He found that gpproxam I enough, nobody seems nngroes had left have suggested the only plan that inquiry discloses 1 he ctniOT- i wgroeg at ence might be explained tt arKj living conditions to meet ency on the part of bankers to be more of conservative in their estimate. The I 0m is much aaier to reg- faet that more than om-third ot those miafcters by law have left within the past three months UowexeVt lthe Post observes, in an that the exodus is on the in-editorial printed a few days later, crease. that their experiences in the North seems apparent that this wau may tbe negro to appreciate the continue so long as conditions remain Mr. Glancy of The MARQUETTE 18th St. and Ave.

St. Louis A Refined Hotel for Your Mother, Wife and Sister Rotes: Room with Private Bath One Per ton $1.50, $2.00, $2.50. $3.00 Two Persons: $2.50, $3.00. $3 50, $4.00 Rooms without bath, 1 and 11.30 ieaaag as they are at present, and the industrial North and East offer higher wages and better living conditions. loss of wealth from its farms this year will amount to more than This will be a tre mendous loss in wealth to the merchants, jobbers, railroads, and othei business Interests of the State.

believe that the negro had rather remain in the South. 1 he South needs him. We are tils best friends and he is our best source lof labor supply. The question of how to keep him is largely a local one must, necessarily in crease to par with those of the North and East, with proper allowances for the difference in the cost of living. It South.

We read: That organization which speak ing to Southern negroes for funds with wthich to assist negroes in distress who have migrated to Northern centers is likely to set the Southern negro to thinking. The returning gro emigrant, with his story ut hardship and disillusion, will doubtless do more to content the negro an the South and keep him at than all the laws Georgia and Alabama can pass to check the Digest. NOTHING PERSONAL Farmer used the word several times in the last few minutes. Am I to understand may be said that we can not pay the you mean anything of a personal na- wages offered by industrial centers, ture and if lit ks true, then the emigration Farmer course not will continue until -the oversupply There are lots of donkeys the world either brings the wage level in beside Bulletin, the North and East, or the undersup ply here justifies an increase. The Standard $1.50 per year.

Only 22 More Wh is Going to Get Them Do you realize the short space of time left to get tickets on the four Fords which are going to be given away. With every purchase you make from now until the Fair, ask for your tickets. When you your account the first of September ask for your 4- AUTOMOBILES -4 ONE EACH DAY WEDNESDAY Sept. 12 THURSDAY Sept. 13 FRIDAY Sept.

14 SATURDAY Sept. 15 ASK FOR THE TICKETS THEY ARE FREE TO YOU At Sikeston ANDRES MEAT MARKET. BAKER BOWMAN HARDWARE CO. THE BIJOU. BUCKNER-RAGSDALE CO.

CITIZENS STORE COMPANY. ALF CARR. THE CASH GROCERY. CONFECTIONERY. DECKER KELLER.

DEMPSTER FURN. UND. CO. ENERGY COAL CO. ELITE HAT SHOP.

FARMERS DRY GOODS CLO. COMPANY. FARMERS SUPPLY CO. DAISY I. GARDEN.

S. HARDWICK MERC. Bertrand and Sikeston. COLE FURNITURE COMPANY. H.

H. GROCERY. HOTEL MARSHALL. M. E.

MARTIN. THE SfKESTON HERALD. JOHNSON JOHNSON. LEHMAN-FOSTER CLO. CO.

H. LAM PERT. McKNIGHT-KEATON GROC. CO. TAILOR SHOP.

P1NNELL STORE COMPANY. RUSSELL BROTHERS. E. C. ROBINSON LUMBER CO.

SIKESTON MERCANTILE CO. SCHORLE BROS. BAKING CO. SIKESTON GROCERY COMPANY SELLARDS MEAT MARKET. STUBBS-GREER MOTOR CO.

SIKESTON CLEANING CO. SANITARY BARBER SHOP. THE SIKESTON STANDARD. SIKESTON ELECTRIC LAUNDRY HEBBELER ICE CREAM CO. S.

N. SHEPHERD TAYLOR IMPLEMENT AUTO COMPANY. YOUNG LUMBER YARD. C. H.

YANSON. The following firms give one ticket with each 50c purchase or payment on account: DERRIS, THE DRUGGIST. EAGLE DRUG STORE. HESS COMPANY. AT CANALOU MILLER LANPHER.

WALTER MOORE. P. L. McLAURIN. AT KEWANEE McGEE-HETLAGE CO McHULLlN M.

JEWELL SON. Now For Sport of Racing We are offering to the patrons of this fair this year the greatest program of racing it has ever been the pleasure of any management to offer. Under the present system there will be six Harness Heats daily, each heat a race in itself and two Running Races daily. A total for the entire four days of the Fair of 24 Harness Races, 6 Runs, and we will have more horses than ever this year. $200 350 350 400 2:20 Pace 200 Free-for-All 350 2:25 2:16 Free-for-All Trot 2:12 Trot 2:17 2:12 400 One-Half Mile Dash 75 Two 3-4 Mile Dashes 100 Two 5-8 Mile Dashes 100 Mile Dash 150 E.

Missouri District Fair SIKESTON, MISSOURI September 12, 13, 14,15, 1923 W. H. SIKES, President. C. L.

BLANTON, Secretary.