The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], June 04, 1919, Page SIX, Image 6

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Midnight, June 5,1919
EL PASO DUKE will be advanced to $2.00 per
share. Even at that price it will be the best buy
in the TEXAS OIL FIELDS.
$109 Per Share While They Last
Only a small block left but we agreed to sell a cer
tain amount at par and we will do it, although I
sensational developments all around our holdings
during the past week and rapid progress of our
drilling operations have caused EL PASO DUKE
stock to be worth easily $3.00 per share.
128 ACRES. 10 SEPARATE TRACTS
Checkerboarding the heart of the Duke and Des
demona Oil Fields. AND NOTE THIS: THE EL
PASO DUKE OIL CO. PAID CASH FOR AND
ACTUALLY OWNS THE OIL AND MIN
ERAL RIGHTS ON ALL THIS LAND.
El Paso Duke Terrell Well
I Is located on the same tract of land and is within
a stone’s throw of the famous Magnolia Petroleum
Co.’s TERRELL WELL which is now making
over 8000 barrels per day. 3
Cur
Second
Derrick
Now Up
On El Paso
Duke
Terrell
No. 1
in
the
Magic
Duke
Circle.
BURN THE WIRES UP
I If you want any EL PASO DUKE stock at $1.00
I per share. WE DON’T CARE WHO GETS IT.
I It will all be gone by June 5th anyway.
Orders will be entered as received and all over
subscriptions returned.
Let certified check or postoffice money order fol
low your wire for reservation of stock PROMPT
LY, otherwise we will be compelled to cancel your
order in favor of someone else.
Make checks payable to
El Paso Duke Oil Co.
Capital Stock $260,000.
J&qqm 401, Mills Building
Shares $1.00 Par, Non-Assessable
El Paso, Texas
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This
Clipping
Shows
We
Mean
Business
• From Desdemona Oil News, May
24, UVJ )
Another Oil Company
Beginning Operations
In Desdemona Town
Company Composed and
Known as the Soldiers
and Sailors Co., is to Be
gin Operations on Small
Acreage at an Early Date.
The K1 Paso Duke Oil Company,
which is known as the “Soldiers' anti
Sailors’ Oil Co-,” are drilling' their
first well on the French survey and
are making good progress in their
drilling, but realizing the great op
portunity in getting a small acreage
near the Great Cnas. TerieU \> eii
No. I, they have purchased the west
acre lot of the F. M. Daniels two acre
tract in the Town of Desdemona.
This acre adjoins the Terrell tract
on the north and is surrounded hv
drilling contracts on every side,
which means that they must get busy
at once and get their well down or
the other fellow will get all flush
production. It is rumored that they
are buying some acreage in tb^> town
of Desdemona. but at this time we
are not in a position to report any
such buyings.
The extensive drilling operations
that are going to take place in the
Town of Desdemona within the next
sixty days make it a good proposi
tion to buy any royalty on anv of
these small acreages and reap a
goodly harvest when the rigs go up
and drilling begins, for then the roy
alties will advance bv leaps and
bnond«
OFFICERS:
Col. F. W. Glover, U. S. Army, President.
Maj. T. B. McCown, U. S. Army, Vice President.
Lieut. Col. John Pullman, U. S. Army, Secretary
and Treasurer.
P. L. Harnes, Expert Geologist and Mining Engi
neer, Trustee.
Capt. C. M. Meares, U. S. Army, Trustee.
T. C. Manning, Expert Mining Engineer, Field
Superintendent.
We
Invite
the Most
Thorough
Investi
gation
By MRS. ii. H. MATHIS. |
i The ane4ent plan of inergring individual
responsibility into government responsibil
ity, hoping thereby tc avoid all responsi
bility, is gradually falling into disre
pute, and in this day of intelligent in
dividuality the old subterfuge will not
work.
People are thinking in terms of justice
and right. Service rendered must be ser
vice rewarded, or the people will know
v hy it was not.
A right spirit will show itself in right
acts. If it fails it has uncovered a bad
purpose, or mistakes;" however, allowance
must be made for mistakes and blunders
in new and untried fields; none of us
know everything.
The United States has been the most lib
eral and unselfish nation the world has
ever produced, and is a living demonstra
tion of what a people will do who are
permitted to think and act for themselves,
within the bounds of mutual helpfulness
and national security. We have cheer
fully given the most fabulous sums of
money in order to win the war ami relieve
the oppressed nations, yet we are not
poorer for the giving, the rather we are
-richer in spirit and co-operation. The j
very giving has broadened most people,
arid taught them the beauty and sublim
ity of service. It has taught them that
selfishness is the curse of life, and gen
erosity is its crowning virtue.
Those dwarfed souls who have failed to |
i learn in this great school of human suf
fering will find that time has made its
last great offer to them, for the world
has never seen the like of this before
and people have never needed help as
they #nced it now.
Responsibility cannot be pushed away
for a more convenient time, now is the
time to show our spirit by our works.
I.et us rejoice and be exceedingly glad
that there are so many willing servants
nrtswering the call of sympathy and
love. Behold millions of people striving
♦ o render the best possible service! Tsn't
it great and glorious to be in such high
company?
We have not suffered the ravages of
war, neither have we felt the stress and
strain of threatened destruction as other
nations. We have felt comparatively
safe, even though we really were in great
danger. This war shows us the appalling
extremes to which selfishness and cov
etousness will lead even intelligent human
beings. It makes ravenous beasts of men,
morally and spiritually unfit for resi
dence upon the earth. The United States
had a close call; we scarcely realize its
gravity. We did not hav# ammunition
^enough to defend us one day a*s this war
was being fought. General Sibert says
we would today be dominated by Ger
many if it had not been for French can
non and the Rritish navy keeping the
seas safe for us to ship nitrate from chili.
Think of that narrow escape'. What would
property be wrorth if Germany was dic
tating this peace?
She intended to make America pay all
of the war debt or crush us. What would
our money be worth if we had not won
the war? What would our land be worth
if we had losjt the war? There is not
an acre of tillable land that could hold
half of its present value if we had lost
the war; in fact, the decline would more
likely have been 75 per cent of present
value, if it bad not ben confiscated en
tirely. These are the facts that would
' have confronted every land-owner, in
a direct way, whether the owner was
a corporation or an individual. What
kind of a service did our brave soldiers
render to us when they entered that in
ferno of Europe to protect and save
America from what France and Belgium
were suffering? It was our turn next to
receive the same treatment from the same
This has been the worst war the world
has ever seen, and the cyclone was head
ed straight for us until our noble young
men answered the call of civilization and
humanity and by courage and suffering
turned the storm back onto those who had
started it. By that we escaped. It was
no easy task. It was almost a super
human task, ft took all there was in hu
man life to face that inferno, but by that
sacrifice the beasts were conquered and
caged. America, more than any nation, is
dictating peace terms to make war an
impossibility in the future. It is great
to have saved ourselves: it is greater
j still to bring permanent peace to an
I oppressed world, to a world sick of sin.
cfisgUness and injustice. What do we
i owe those brave soldiers? What can we
i render unto them for all of these bene
tits?
The more property we possess the great
er is our indebtedness to them, the great
er our debt of gratitude. Panada is giv
ing her returned soldiers 320 acres of land
j each and $3000 in money as a token of
| gratitude for the defense of the realm.
What are we giving ours? Plenty of ap
| p’ause, plenty of good cheer, pientv of
j heartfelt welcome home. That is good
| but short!
Those things don’t last long enough to
repay the debt we owe. We can't pay
the debt, but we can approach it. We
can give a substantial evidence of ap
preciation. We are tlm richest nation on
earth, and the most liberal, yet we are
neglecting a very great duty. Costly
monuments are all right, and beautiful to
look upon, but they are poor things for
j comfort to the disabled men who have no
big land estate to rely unon for a living,
j We are not doing our duty by the sol
diers, especially the disabled men, and
i they feel it keenly, and will feel it more
i as they face the disadvantages under
which they live.
I Able-bodied men can find a way to help
• themselves if given a chance, but the
feme, she’l-shocked and gassed men can
see very little in life for them. They
are all shaky and burnt out on the inside,
and can never work indoors again. They
| must stay in the open air to live. Vo
; national training is certainly all right,
and should be continued, but a few
j months at school is not sufficient pay
for a lost limb. A man who has lost the
use of an arm or e.r is fully 75 per cents
v disabled soldiers with land enough to
so rewarded by the war risk insurance.
Is it working that wav? i fear not. We
must not rely upon the government to
do everything; we must see to some things
The government has no money to do
anything except as Congress sees tit to
appropriate it. anrl party rivalry kills
many good intentions. The boys are not
all home yet, and things can be done that
are not being done. It is time as a na
tion. as states, as counties, as individ
uals that \\e set some plan to help our
boys. This is everybody’s business, and
j everybody should take interest in it.
| States having midions of acres of idle
land, whether it is state-owned or not.
should devise some plan to furnish the
disabled soldier swith, land enough to
make them feel that their sacrifice was
j not unappreciated by the states they hon
ored with valiant service. People and
corporations owning thousands of acres
of land can well afford to donate to a
i cause like this a part, if not all, of the
i hind for a colony of disabled men. The
J colony of 100 men. under direction, would
| prove an enormous benefit to the sur
. •cl tiding territory, and would be the
• means of putting the land in the market,
j Liberality carries its own reward, and
, whether the reward be in irvjeased value
J or not, the thing is right and just,
and should he done. We must be above
extieme selfishness, arid I believe we will
be, but it is time we began to think in
turns of human life and service rendered,
and not wait to do a generous act until
urrest and 111 feeling have gotten in
their deadly work. There is always a
recoil to injustice and sometimes it is
merciless.
This thing happened here in an Ala
bama. town, and its like has been repeated
i in every state and almost every county
in the Cnited States. Two returned sol
i l.ers met on the street, one on crutches,
{‘he other shell-shocked and gassed, - heir
J ''aces told of suffering. Tfiey were
i friends. The lame man said: “Well, old
boy, 1 guess we have seen enough of
war to satisfy us for this life.” “Sure.”
*vas the reply. The lame man smiled and
raid: “The people are glad to se# us
hack home, and are speaking words of
cheer. I appreciate it very much, but 1
I
What Is It To Us?
I
I
can’t see how I am going to make a liv
ing:. You see it takes both hands now
to hold crutches, so that I can walk.
This thing is hard on us: we try to be
cheerful, but when we sit down and think
of the fix we are left in, then we say we
have won the war, but what is it to us?
YVe can take a turn at school and that
will help, but I am lame for life, and
have no property and no home to go to." |
Tears were in his sad eyes. The other j
soldier replied: “I am in no better shape ;
than you are. If I could stay at a desk
or any place indoors and work. 1 would
be all right, but that gas burnt me
all up on t^e inside, and I get deathly
sick every time I get away from the open
air that I have to stay outdoors all of
the time to live at all. Day and night
I must stay outdoors, and that shell
shock keeps me so shaky, too. T don't
know anything to do outdoors, and if I
did, I have no land and no money to
oc.uip myself. Yes, we did our part to
win the war, and I am glad we did, but
what is it to us now? What I want Is
a chance to do something for myself. 1
don't want to spend the balance of mv
life at a hospital. I want to get out and
forget my condition, forget the war an^
try to live for the joy of life, but T can’*: |
see my way clear yet to do anything
but go back to the hospital.'’
And they walked off in silence.
These are the things, dear people, that
depress and grieve our blessed boys. Let
us share their sorrow by trying to re
lieve it in a practical way.
They came from our state, they call this
home, and by all that is high and holy,
it is home. They arc ours and w*e are
theirs, and we will show our love by our
deeds of generosity to the living as web
as by costly monuments to the honored
dead.
Yes, we will not let them say, “What
is it to us?’’ in that sad, regretful tone.
We will realize what it is to us to have
won this horrid war. Tt is everything
to us who have stayed at home. It is
everything to us to be dictating peace
terms instead of being dictated to. It
is everything to us to love and help
and honor our suffering hoys, who have
paid such a price in our stead and for
us. Come let us plan to do our dpty, and
do it now.
A’. J. ARRANT ELECTED
DISTRICT GOVERNOR
OF THE KIWANIS CLUB
A. J. Arrant, manager of the Georiga
Casualty company has. been elected
district governor of Alabama for the
Kiwanis club, to fill the vacancy made
by the election.of .T. Mercer Barnett to
the office of first vice president. This
action was taken by the local Kiwanis
club at the luncheon yesterday and will
be ratified at the meeting next week.
Mr. Arrant has been a member of
the Kiwanis club since it was organ
ized in Birmingham and has always
taken an active part-in its affairs. Dur
ing the recent international Kiwanis
convention he had charge of the infor
mation booth which was opened in the
lobby of the Tutwiler hotel. When the
local organization decided to invite the
convention to Birmingham. President
Mercer Barnett. Mr. Arrant and the
Rev. M. S. Barnwell were sent to Provi
dence to represent the club and suc
ceeded in making Birmingham the
choice for the 1919 convention.
Returned Soldiers
Enter Navy Service
Elmore Jackson Story, a sergeant in
the 167th machine gun company, Rain
bow division, enlisted in the navy yes
terday at the local recruiting station
Young Story enlisted in the army when
only IS years of age and saw active serv
ice on the Lorraine, Champagne, Chateau
Thierry, St. Mihiel and Argonne fronts
and was never wounded.
Roy Ammsv Smith, who served four
years in the army, the greater part of
which was in Panama, was accepted in
the 1'nited States navy yesterday. Both
men were sent to training stations.
SUITS FILED
I.aura Alexander filed suit in the cir
cuit court yesterday as administratrix of
the estate of George Alexander, against
Walter D. Hines, director of railroads,
United States railroad administration,
operating Southern railway, for $3000 for
injuries received by the deceased.
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For the Good of
the Community
TT IS estimated that 1,000,000 new dwell
ings are needed in the United States
properly to house the people.
In Birmingham, it is estimated, 3000 are
needed.
War conditions and the necessities of
the government put an end to building op
erations all over the country about three
years ago.
Two years ago the government put a ban
on all new construction work not essential
to the winning of the war. From then un
til quite recently only such houses as were
needed for employes of so-called essential
industries were permitted to be built.
But the population continued to in
crease.
So serious had the situation become that
the United States Department of Labor
two or three months ago undertook to
•work out a solution. Shortly thereafter
the “own your own home” movement was
inaugurated and it has since spread
throughout the country.
Next Friday L. R. Putnam, regional di
rector of the information and educational
section of the Department of Labor, will
be in Birmingham to talk the matter over
with local people. He comes fresh from a
tour of the southern states where he has
organized committees to push the cam
paign.
The following- is quoted from a bulletin
just issued:
“Progressiveness and expansion is the
keynote of progress being shown in the
‘Own Your Own Home’ campaigns in Ok
lahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, the
seven states of the Mid-Southern division
of the United States Department of Labor.
Three of the states have already formed
statewide organizations following mass
meetings held at Oklahoma City, Jackson
and Baton Rouge, where Regional Direc
tor L. R. Putnam explained the govern
ment plan to have each and every Ameri
can own his or her own home.
“In each instance the interest of the
civic and commercial organizations has
been keen, leaders uniting in the booster
drives to encourage the building of homes.
Governors, too, have done much to give
impetus to the campaigns, issuing procla
mations and calling upon the citizens to
aid in every possible way the government's
plan for speedy post-war reconstruction.
“The next large meeting to be held will
be at Little Rock, where Governor Brough
has issued a proclamation naming June 5
as ‘Own Your Own Home Day’ in Arkan
sas. Governor Brough’s proclamation
calls attention to the fact that Arkansas is
greatly in need of increased building activ
ity. not only as a means of providing
needed homes, but also as a medium to
give employment to soldiers and boosting
7 the prosperity of the state.
“On June 6 Alabama will celebrate‘Own -
Your Own Home Day’ in the state with a
mass meeting at Birmingham. The Ten
nessee meeting will be field at Nashville,
where Governor Roberts has issued a
proclamation naming June 10 as ‘Own
Your Own Home Day’ in the state. The
Kentucky meeting will be held in Louis
ville June 17, where arrangements are
now being made for a gigantic meeting.
“As a result of the meetings already
held several cities have started intensive
advertising campaigns, the ads urging the
citizens to take advantage of the oppor
tunity to build and aid the government in
hastening the return of normal conditions.
These campaigns are now going on in Ok
lahoma City, Tulsa, Muskogee and seve
ral other cities. Mississippi cities are also
planning campaigns and if keen interest
displayed at Baton Rouge is any criterion,
Louisiana, too, will soon join the ranks of
the ‘build now’ boosters.”
Yours for upbuilding,