Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Monday, February 8, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN DAILY INDEPENDENT.
VOL. 1.
NORMAN^ OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1909.
NO. 31
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State Insurance Commissioner Has Such
a Bill Before Legislature—Already
Passed the Senate and Is Now In
Committee on Insurance In
House--Mr McOomb Con-
siders Ib Imperative
That Traveling
Agents.
STATE INSURANCE OFFICE IS
RANKED AMONG COUNTRY'S BEST
Benerally Conceeded That Oklahoma Of-
fers More and Better Protection To
Legitimate Insurance Companies
Than Any State In the Union
—H#r Laws Being Pat-
terned Aftec By
Many Legisla-
tures Now.
Mere Youngsters Allowed To Smoke Cigarettes--Parents
Don't Seem To Care-Allowed Also To Swear and
Romp About In Indecent Places On Sunday—
Some Very Sad Tales Will Be Told to Moth-
ers and Fathers Later On-All Might Be
Prevented By a Little Diligence Now
—Better Put That Bojr To Work
At Something Instead of
Letting Him Gallavant
The Streets After
School Hours.
Our attention was very forcibly that unless things change about that
called to an evil Saturday which we youngster's home, that little girl
have already found it necesary to J will be smoking the vile things her
mention several times. We were go-! self some of these years before long,
ing along Main Street about our reg- j It is nothing more tkin a reason
ttlar business when we met a youngs-I able statement to make to say that
ter not more than ten years old, rag- '; this youngster became sick shortly
ged, dirty, and from his looks, hun- ' after he reached his home and per-
irry, smoking a cigarette. Ht was j haps told his mother that something
poking alone with a wee sister by ' else was the matter with him. Per-
Guthrie Okla., Feb. 8.—Before the
legislature now is a comprehensive
insurance bill by Senator Roddie
which in9orporates many of the
ideas of State Insurance Commision
cr T. J. McComb. The bill has al
ready passed the Senate and is now
pending before the House commit-
tee. 1
Commissioner McComb is strongly
urging a residents agent's law. On
this'Subject lie says:
"If there is one thing we need in
Shis state in the way of insurance
legislation, it is certainly a stringent
resident agent's law. Companies
tome into this state, meet the require
ments as to capital, pay their losse
promptly and appoint agents and pay
the fee of three dolars .for each li
eense, as required by the coustitu
lion, and the local agent, armed with
liis commission from his company
and his license from the State In
surance Commissioner, is equipped
hi a legal way for busines. He live
in the state, obeys the laws yet wake
«p to the fact after awhile that he-
is being robbed out of that whic
jpastly belongs to him, a law-abiding
fcusines man, by some non-resident
agent or by a wild-cat company.
The people of this state should
require the agent to display his li-
cense before giving him any busi-
ness. This is protection. Unless the
public assists this department we
Ai'll be powerless to prevent some
wildcat concerns from capturing
victims.
his side. The youngster was evident-
011 some er.a:ii as he ^fried a
bucket. Shortly he disappeared in a
store, first throwing the almost whol-
ly consumed cigarette away. The lit-
tle sister looked wishfully at him as
he puffed away and it is a safe bet
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haps the little sister told what made
her brother sick. The mother said
that he has had punishment enough
and that wil end the episode. Or
rather that is the way it has already
been ended by this time. How sad
(Continued on page 8.)
Found Work for More People During Last
Six Months Than Any Like Burea In
the United States During Twice
the Lenerth of Time—Common
Labor Most In Demand
—Over Seven Hund-
red Persons
Placed.
AGENC* HAS BEEN IDLE ONLY
TWO DAYS SINCE ORGANIZATION
State Labor Commissioner Is Recomding
Branoh Offices Be Located In the Larg-
er Oities of the State—Head Office
Is At Guthrie—One Branch
Office Already At Okla-
homa City- Growing
Popular All the
Timp-
Campaign for a More Beautiful Norman Taking On
Some Varied Phases and Bringing Some Unusal Re-
quests-Friend of This Paper Says Hog and Dog
Nusiances Greater Than Chicken and Cow
Nusiancas-First Requisit of All Beauty
Is Cleanliness; Then Let Us Get
Things Cleaned Up, All of Which
Will Help to Make a Beau-
tiful City. *
A friend of the Independent's came
to the office Saturday evening and
asked of us that while we were talk-
ing about nuisances to say a word
about the hog nuisance and the dog
nuisance as well as the chicken nuis-
ance and the cow nuisance. The
friend has some chickens; he also
has a cow. He says that his neigh-
bor's dog comes over and sucks the
eggs his chickens lay. We told him
to get rid of his chickens and he
wouldn't have any eggs for his
neighbor's dog to suck. He answer-
ed that if his neighbor would get
rid of his dog he wouldn't be bother-
ed with having his eggs sucked.
Dogs and hogs in town are, how-
ever, nuisances the same as cows
and chickens not properly cared for.
There are a few kinds of dogs which
are not nuisances, but they are few.
The average old lean looking hound
is a disgrace to his owner. He drags
his owner's yard and his owner's
neighbor's yard full of stinking old
bones and the like, and what good
does he do? Out of every hundred
dogs in Norman, fully ninety-five
(Continued on page 8.)
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 8.—Remark-
able as it may seen, the state of Ok-
lahoma has a Free Employment
Agency, as a branch of the depart-
ment of labor, that has since July 1,
1908, attained the largest percentage
in the placing of unemployed than
any state in the union.
Reports from other states on lile
at Commissioner Daugherty's office
show up the number of applications
tiled and the number of positions se-
cured to be decidedly less than Okla-
homa, although the employment de-
partment in' this state has been in
operation only since last July.
This record has been made in spite
oMhe fact the usefulness of the Free
Employment Bureau is not generally
appreciated by the employers of la-
bor in Oklahoma.
In the official reports of Commis-
sioner Daugherty all kinds of labor
applying for positions is shown by
professions with the cause for non-
employment. Change of location has
caused 498 men to apply. But one ap-
plicant attributed his idleness to a
strike.
Common laborers were the most
numerous. Cotton pickers and chop-
pers came next. Stenographers were
third in the list with school teachers
next.
Commissioner Daugherty recom-
mends the establishment of branch
agencies at Tulsa, Muskogee, Mc-
Alester, Durrfnt, Chickasha, Shawnee,
El Reno, Law;tonf Hobart, Enid and
Guthrie.
There' is already a branch office
located at Oklahoma City. . ?
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Danner, V. E. Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Monday, February 8, 1909, newspaper, February 8, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc106713/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.