The Liberal Democrat from Liberal, Kansas • Page 2

THE LIMEhAL DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1919. GUYMON INTEREST GROWING IN THE OIL TEST WELL Local interest in the work of put- tine down a test well for oil and tras on the Miller antecline southeast of town is steadily growing. The Beaver Oil and Gas Co. has not pushed the work of getting the balance of the machinery out during the harvest rush, but the freighters will be ready to resume work again now shortly.

J. B. Craig of Liberal, who is superintending the work, hopes to have sufficient capital raised to drill a depth of four thousand feet by the time the derrick is up and the machinery is placed in position and ready to start drilling. A point of interest to local investors in connection with the company's holdings was explained to us last Saturday by Mr. Craig.

He says the Southwest Oil Co. has closed a contract with a Tulsa drilling concern to drill four thousand feet on a location on Jackson creek just twenty miles due east of the Beaver Oil and Gas company's well on the Miller antecline. The latter company has six quarter sections forming a triangle about the Jackson creek "well and all within a mile of it. Should the test on Jackson creek prove successful in finding oil it will mean that the Beaver Oil and Gas company's adjacent holdings will immediately become valuable. Guy-mon Herald GATHER LOOSE WHEAT BY VACUUM SUCTION TOWN OF OCHILTREE WILL MOVE TO PERRYTON The first vacuum suction machine to be used in western Kansas is sal vaging the wheat heads from the ground, cut off by the grasshoppers has been designed by B.

L. Reynolds, a Colorado man and is in use at Dodge City. Reynolds was working in the har vest fields in i Ford county when he read a story in the newspapers about the possibility of using a vacunin suction machine in saving whj.it. He got busy at once, and- has rigged up an outfit with an 8-hotse power engine and high power fan. He is confident it will gather up the loose wheat.

Editor D. Brazell, of the Ochiltree (Texas) Herald paid the Democrat office a pleasant visit last Saturday morning. He was enroute to Hutchinson and the eastern part of the state. Mr. Brazell and his brother, who is his partner in the Herald are so enthused over the good prospects of his section of the country that they are arranging for the installation of a new typesetting machine in their ulant.

The steel rails on the new branch of the Santa Fe Railway are now within a few miles of Perryton, about six miles north of the Ochiltree town. site. The townsite Company of Per ryton has made a gift of town lots to the people of Ochiltree with the result that all but five of the business building and homes of Ochiltree will be put on wheels and moved to Perryton now within a very short time. The town of Gray, Oklahoma, a few miles north, will also be practi cally moved to Perryton. Editor Brazell also reports tnac Ochiltree county has three oil wells beinir DUt down.

One of these is be ing put through by Pennsylvania Company on a plan out of the usual They have contracted to drill the well and do not even get a lease until oil is found. They have asked nothing of the people, and have sold no stock in that section. Simply made con- tracts for lease if the oil is produced. Mr. Brazell also reported the bring-insr in of a biir eas well at Amarillo, Texas, last week, at a depth, of 800 feet and great excitement as the result.

FORGAN EAGLE HAS NEW TYPESETTING MACHINE LIBERAL SHOULD GO AFTER THIS WAREHOUSE The Farmers Equity Union is plan ning the construction of a big broom factory and warehouse somewhere in reach of the southwest Kansas broom corn district. Growers of the southwest sec tion are getting but 40 per ton for their brush, it is claimed, which the buyers in turn sell for $100 per ton, and on which the speculators and manufacturers clean up $100 more. "We are organizing a broom corn grower's union now, and we expect to have 7,000 broomcorn growers of southwest Kansas united in owning their own factory," writes an official of the Equity Union. "The fact is that the broomcorn which the grower has to sell for $40 a ton is being sold to the people who buy brooms at $1 a broom or 60 cents a pound for the brush in it, or $1,200 a ton for the broomcorn." FORD PRICES AND PROFITEERING IN WAR TIME. DOUBLE and single bustcrj.

V. lia'v. row ridge Pt2 The last issue of the Forgan Eagle announces the installation of a Model A. Intertype in their composing room, an evidence of prosperity we are glad to note. This will enable Mr.

Rice to get out a paper that is right up to now. HAVE you something to sell? The Democrat's "Want Ad" column offers a cheap method of letting the buyers know about it. Try it. Ice creuni is a good, healthy food to eut during the hot weather, for both you and your children. Buy mi ice cream freezer from us and make your own ite cream.

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Bakery stand. V. C. HAHN The Memphis Commercial peal from investigations of its own, makes a striking contribution in the discus sion of profiteering. The statement has been made that the government gave the contract for cylinders for Liberty motors to the Ford company at Detroit, the estimated price being $19 but the Ford plant made them so fast and so good and at so reduced a cost that when billed to the govern ment the price charged was not $19 but $8.25.

The Commercial Appeal goes on to say: "This statement is so different from business transactions that most men and firms had with the United States government that the editor of the Commercial Appeal wrote to ask if it was really true. Here are the facts: "The Ford people were approached early in the Liberty engine campaign and asked to take a contract for cylinders. At that time a contract had been placed with a concern in the East for these cylinders at $19 each. The experimental cylinders which were originally made were drilled from solid blocks of steel and cost about $40. The Ford people took a contract for 400,000 cylinders at $8.25 each.

The company proceeded to design jigs and dies and the cylinders were forged. When this contract was completed the Ford people received another contract at $8.25. The firm returned the contract and stated that the price should be $8 which would let the company out, in spite of the fact that labor and material had rapidly fisen. The cost of the changes and extra equipment was charged off in the first contract. "At the time of the armistice Ford had manufactured 69,000 cylinders at the cost of $8 each.

Thus the Ford firm was able to save the government $11 a cylinder, or on the contract. "The government usually paid $1,200 for caissons. The Ford firm took a contract for 9,300 and billed them to the government at less than $400 each. "The Ford firm sold to the government 29,000 Ford motor cars of different styles and types at a dis count of 15 per cent off of the regular price. "We presume the Ford company made a fair profit on all of these un dertakings, but in these two instances the government saved $10,000,000 on its contract.

"If other firms in the country and other individuals had dealt with Uncle Sam as did the Ford motor company our supplies for the war would have cost us about 50 per cent of the actual amount paid out" These are interesting statements to the public. What they amount to is to say that the ord ptaat differed from the business rule adopted in war-time of profiteering on the peo ple, and what does this come to but the equivalent of stating that the Ford outfit now on trial as are in fact patroits not merely in word but in act Is an "anarch ist" a manufacturer who reduces prices in wartime Profiteers in wartimes there are millions of them may howl their heads off about standing by the flag and about love of country and 100 per cent Americanism, but whether they have patriotism at heart, genuine sacrificial love of country, appears not by their noisy professions but by their acts. The Ford plant tried to sell to the government below the contract figure. The Ford outfit are not popular in business circles, and stand outside the charmed ring. They broke the rules of the game.

They refused to goifter and get all that the traffic would bear. During wartime they were not in business for profit first, last and all the time, swelling the public's cost of living, but to render the greatest sen-ice at the lowest price. Such is the signifance of the statements made about the relations of the Ford outfit to war and the public. We can not vouch for the truth of the statements. They are set forth by the Commercial Appeal in detail, with figures given.

It is up to indignant Drofiteers to disprove them, for if the Ford attitude towards prices and profits is correctly stated, it condemns most industries in the United States, whose prices scandalize the nation. If the Ford figures above printed are correct, profiteering in the United States during the war cost the government and the public not less than 40 billion dollars. Capital. OFFICERS PLAY HARVEST HANDS; GET 600 QUARTS There is a new crop in Kansas. The first harvests are reported at Wichita and Emporia.

The harvest hands are officers. The crop is out lawed liquor stored with farm wealth At Wichita, the harvesters spent an entire day. They returned at dusk with 600 quarts largely from the M. L. Underwood farm.

Most of it was found in a granary. At Emporia, the harvest was found, appropriately hidden in a wheat field. WHISPERS VS. YELL Arthur Brisbane was recently addressing a Chicago body of business men on the subject of advertising. He wanted to bring out the point that advertising should be of com manding size to attract attention, and said: "Suppose a man comes into this room and wants to reach all of you as I am doing.

He goes to the man at the door and says: 'How much will you charge me to whisper 7 The man says, 'I will charge you two dollars to 'How much will you charge me to yell 'I will charge you ten dollars to This man buys five whispers and nobody knows he is here and he thinks he is adver tising. If he had bought one good yell you would have said "that is an awful bunker, but at least he is on earth." If any person thinks of something unpleasant that ought to be done, he or she asks the newspapers to do it. Globe Sight. FOR SALE $50 Scholarship Credit in a good Business College or Automobile School. If interested, it will pay to see the editor of this paper.

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Also receipt for same. Do It Now o) o) fa 55 I will sell at my farm eleven miles west of Liberal and eight miles northwest of Tyrone, on ooday, July Beginning at 10 o'clock, the following property, to-wit: 28 16 HEAD HORSES AND MOLES 1 Span of Mules, mare and horse, 8 and 9 wt. 1800. 1 Span of Brown Mare Mules, 3 yrs. old, wt.

1600. 1 Span of Brown Horse Mules, 4 and 8-yrs. old, wt. 1400. 1 Bay Horse Mule, 8 yrs.

old, wt. 1100. 1 Brown Horse Mule, 4 vrs. old, wt. 900.

1 Dun Mare Mule, 3 vrs. old, wt. 700. 1 Grav Horse Mule, smooth mouth, wt. 1000.

1 Span of Brown Mares, 8 and 9 wt. 1700. 1 Gelding, 5 yrs. old, gray, wt. 1200.

1 Horse Colt, gray, 1 yr. old. 1 Horse Colt, black, 1 yr. old. 1 Saddle pony.

CATTLE AND HOGS 1 Jersey Cow, 3 yrs. old. 1 Holstein, 5 yrs. old. 1 Jersey Heifer, fresh in winter.

8 Head of Shoats, 100 lbs. HOUSEHOLD GOODS 1 Range Stove. 1 Kitchen Ipe Chest. Other articles too numerous to mention. FARM IMPLEMENTS, ETC.

6 Sets of Harness. 3 Saddles. 1 Ford Car, 1918 Model. 2 Double-deck Grain Wagons. 1 Double-deck Wagon Bed.

1 Feed Wagon and Rack. 1 Low-wheel Wagon. 1 Top Buggy with shafts. 1 McCormick Header, 14-ft. 2 Header Barges.

1 20-Disc Hoosier Drill. 1 5-Disc Drill. 1 Two-row Corn Lister. 1 McCormick Corn Binder. 1 McCormick Mowing Machine.

1 Rake. 3 P. O. Sod Cutters. 1 P.

O. Sled, double-row. 2 Disc Plows. 3 Cultivators. 1 3-Scction Harrow.

1 Walking Stirring Plow. 1 P. O. 12-in. Stirring Plow, with braker bottoms.

1 Five-tooth Cultivator. 1 Storage Tank, 6x16 ft. 1 Stock Tank, 12-barrel. 1 2-Horse Gas Engine, Detroit. 1 Feed Grinder.

1 Set of Blacksmith Tools. 1 Sharpless Cream Separator, No. 3. TERMS OF SALE: A credit of twelve months will be given, purchaser giving note of approved security, notes bearing 10 per cent interest, on all sums over ten dollars. Cash on all sums under $10.00.

Five per cent discount for cash on all sums over $10.00. No property to be removed until settled for. J. C. Fl R.

W. DICKERSON, Auctioneer. SK, Owner I C. E. WOOD, Clerk.

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