Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1919 — POTATOES vs. OIL [ARTICLE]

POTATOES vs. OIL

- Five thousand bushel? of potatoes in one year is better from evdn a banker’s standpoint than 5,000 bushels of potatoes in ten years. Where, then, is the harm in getting rich quickly? Is it in potatoes? No one thinks it a crime to get rich quickly in potatoes. Why is oil “frenzied finance” more than potatoes? Oil is as useful, as respectable, as reputable as the Irish tuber. Prejudice is dishonesty. Horiesty in oil pays better than honesty in potatoes. and neither oil nor potatoes pay without honesty. * Four acres of proven oil land in any of the five best oil fields in Texas will pay better than 400 acres of potatoes in any land. „ See U. S. statistics. Compare oil in Texas in labor, time, land as producer of $5,000 worth of oil with same Items of time, labor, land in the production of $5,000 worth of potatoes. Admitting that the expert producers of oil and potatoes are equally honest, is the potato with all its eyes a conservative investment and the oil a speculative investment because it helps us break the silly laws that man must earn his living by the Vweat of his brow? Who made such a lacking, limited law? Is an honest oil proposition “frenzied finance” or a get rich quick scheme of speculation because it is oil? Is the honest potatfc slow in results. the modest Murphy, though in bumper crops and under the most conservative management —or honest oil, bounteous, quick in results (because so much more useful than the potato), a sure solution of the much “overdone scarecrow” of “high living?” Which will break the superstitious spell regarding the question, which is best for the investor, the so-called conservative or speculative investment? Potatoes come out of the ground, so does oil. One in bushels and pennies, the other in barrels and dollars, yes. thousands of dollars In a single day—perhaps tens of thousands. A ytoir is consumed tn producing one crop of potatoes, however larg(? or small. Is this because the farmer, the granger, the agriculturist, is more honest or stupid than the oil operator? We need oil, and we need potatoes. Will you continue to be a potato plodder and an honest brow sweater, but in addition become now an equally honest oil investor? Who would invest in potatoes except a speculator? . You don’t produce potatqes for fun. but for money—that is exactly the position of the honest oil producer. I wish to make the two points only, honesty and money, and they should be one. Oil IS worth now. such as we mean, $2.25 a barrel. What does the farmer get for his hard earned potatoes a barrel, and how many does he get from a four-acre tract of land? We might get at the price oil is now as high as $25,000 from four acres of land, and all this inf one day. We know of several wells in Texas that gushed from 5,000 to 10,000 barrels of oil per Hay. Now think, and think hard. Here-

after, shall -ali your money go Into potato ground, or shall some of It go into our oil ground. Our policy is quick honesty not slow honesty. Potatoes are gambled in. like oil — crop is short, a failure, frozen, stolen, rotten, and lost, but is that a proof of anything wrong with the same old friend, the potato? Why not accord the same just treatment to our greater and equally honest friend, Oil. The tongue of a dishonest potato operator is quite as oleagenous as the tongue of the oil operator. If you wish a practical demonstration of the safety and profit in oil comparison with our dearly beloved potato, make an Investment in the Bill Davis Oil Association, a company named after W. D. Davis, Mayor of Fort' Worth, Texas, who is also president of trie company, while James Liston, secretary of the c|ty of Fort Worth, is secretary of our oil company, and over 150 associates, many of whom have made a success in Oil. Invest your money with these men and you will get as square a deal as if you invested in your own, potato plot, while the difference in your profits will convince you it is just as honest to get rich quickly from an investment in oil as slowly in potatoes. _ Send for free map and prospectus. Thoroughly responsible agents wanted. BILL DAVIS OIL ASSOCIATION. Temporary headquarters in the Director’s room of the Continental Bahk, Forth Worth, Texas. Liberty bonds not taken. Copyright applied for.