Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 5, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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CLYDE PICKARD
Real Estate
and
Farm Loans
PHONE 22
OFFICIAL NFWSPAPER OF CLEVELAND L- UN A'Y AND THE CITY OF NORMAN.
OIVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE
CLYDE PICKARD
Real Estate
and
Farm Loans
PHONE 22
VOLUME XXVII.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, THUKSDA i. JUNE 5. 1919.
NUMBER 49.
POLISH STRIKERS
KILLED IN BATTLE
AT TOLEDO, OHIO
CIGARETTE LAW WILL BE President Wilson
ENFORCED
City Marshal Sanderson caught j
_ couple of boys, 15 or 16 years
| of ape, Tuesday, with packages of
cigarettes in their possession. On
Overland Employes Still Wait being asked where they got them,
for Their Forty-Four they declined to answer, but when
Hour Week. ! taken before County Attorney
Cheatwood and shown the law that
Toledo, Ohio, June 3—Two would put them into jail unless
men were shot to death and they gave the information, they
two others were dangerously "came through" with it. War-
wounded in a riot late to- rants will be issued for the parties
night growins out of the la- who sold them the cigarettes and.
bor disturbance involving 13,- if convicted, they will be given t le
000 employes of the Willys- penalty.
Overland Automobile compa- The officers are going to see that
ny. The victims, presumably the law is enforced. No one un-
idle employes of the company der the age of twenty-one years is
were killed by discharged allowed to smoke cigarettes or
soldiers Who are guarding have them in their possession, and
the plant. ! penalty is severe upon those who
The killing occurred in front of : sell them the coffin nails or give
a fire station near the automobile them to them. Penalties ate a-
May Set Aside
Prohib. Measur
I efoW CITY MANAGER I Electricians Are Baptists Boosting
1 V/ur.KS IN WICHITA Trained by Govt Uu'""nK 1>roject
Washington, June 2.—Cortgrest r... ... ,
showing no inclination whatever 0ld, unsightly buildings in the bus-
to follow President Wilson's rec- jnei-s district. Thor is a reason,
ommendation to abrogate
Washington, June 3.—A re- Rev. G. J. Rousseau delivered the
A visitor to Wichita is at the turned soldier, whatever his disu- commencement address to the
start impressed by thi absence of bility and whether or not he has ! graduating class at the Ada Nor-
had previous experience, will, if mal on Saturday night and leaves
he is at all interested in the sub- 'today (Monday) for Atlanta, On.,
•onsult with the Baptist exten-
THE SALVATION
ARMY CAMPAIGN
11 O IIII'S-S UiSbl III. imu M nrraov/ii. •*> -
e war Those buildings have been removed ject of electricity, find some job , to c
time prohibition as far as "light [,y the city management. City that will be suitable for him, sion board in regard to getting
• " • — * * * * great is the present demand for | financial aid for the First Baptist
electrical men. It is not
ing that courses
' A man may be down, but he's
never out."—Salvation Army.
Everywhere in the United States
is the campaign to raise the $13,-
000,000 for the Salvation Army
being received with favor, for it
is realized that no organzation in
i is more worthy
-• • - ;hip and deserving; that
meeting of the church last week at formed mor
which Dr. McConnell, secretary of
the state board was present, he ex-
] - « is realized mat
ot surpris- church of Norman in their build- the whole worl
electricity, | ing project. At the membership an(j deserving*
plant where a discharged soldier
guard with a woman companion
had sought refuge from a threaten
ing crowd.
Calls for assistance brought two
motor truck loads of soldier
guards from the automobile j)lant.
most as severe as upon bootleg-
gers.
pressed himself as much pleased war
none per-
eonscientious and
self-sacrificing work in the var
and among the sufferers of the
wines and beers" are concerned, it Manager Louis R. Ash and the city
is predicted in usually well in- commissioners early determined
formed quarters here that if a le- the city should be rid of these ob- ~
gal way can be found to do it, the stacles to growth and beauty. So either in construction, maintenance
President on his return to the they used the direct and effective or repair, are popular with dis-
United States will, by proclama- j powers of the city manager form abled soldiers who come to tin
tion, set aside the entire war time 0f government to accomplish this Federal Board for training. 1 here v..
prohibition measure thus staving rnd. Such buildings were con- are at present 178 men taking the with the project, and assured the
off national prohibition until the demned and the owners notified courses in the general subject of I pastor and congregation that he The amount they sk is to l e
constitutional prohibition becomes ' to remove them within a certain work and ( 1 are preparing to he . would do all he could, personally i used in their reconstruction cam-
effective the first of the new year. ! brief period. The additional state- electricity, 13 are studying bench ( and officially, to secure financial 'jpaign: to assist them in relieving
It can be said that the war time j ment was made that the city would electrical engineers. aid from the Baptists of the state, suffering humanity and uplifting
owners had Disabled men can fill many po- I Rev. Rousseau is much encouraged the falling. It is a glorious work.
nf .itinnc in nnwor iilant.s. such as. I rwri** ti,, ^tinni/ on,i ia certain a and one in which t'V ('r y ntan, WO-
ork com- man and child is interested. The
menced upon a fino new church
edifice.
that demobilization had progressed
l.atcr: Christoper Kilraine, pro-
prietor of the Terminal Cafe at
the Interurban station, was ar-
rested this (Wednesday)i afternoon , ^ point where the measure
when they arrived at the station on two charges of SL' inK ""'J COuld "safely" be repealed as far
one of them fired a pistol into rettes to minors and held in bonds 1
the air. The guards then fired of $500 on each charge d
their rifles and pistols into the rants are also out for Stella Goode
crowd. an('
The riot took place in the Polish the cafe, on same charge.
district. The Polish Overland
prohibition measure, which cover- remove them if the
ed only the period until the troops { not done so by the expiration of sitions in power plants, such as, 0ver the outlook and is certain
were demobilized, is being closely j this limited time. More than one switch board operators, substation Very few weeks will see w
studied and analyzed by lawyers I hundred such buildings have been operators, combustion experts, at-
both inside and outside the govern- j removed since then. In the places tendance of auxiliary machinery,
ment. In his message to congress 0f many of them are going up new Clerks, whose duty it is to analyze
President Wilson stated that he ;llu] substantial business struc- and record the daily operating
had been advised that he had no tures, adding to the city's growth charts, and compile them into cost
power to act, but recommended an,i beauty. records, are being used more and
more in electrical plants.
workers were gathered discussing
the strike situation when someone
sent in a riot call for soldiers.
A squad former soldiers acting
as special police rushed out. They
were hooted by the foreigners and
someone started throwing bricks.
The former soldiers fired a volley
and six foreigners fell. Two were
dead and four were rushed to the
hospital. The crowd scattered
when they saw their comrades fall.
The former soldiers were under
command of Col. L. W. Howard,
as beer and light wines were con
Members of congress
— _ , . , , , . | at the time asserted the President ;• - - i
Cinderella Gabriel, clerks at declare mobili-I soon as we should have notified an red.
j zation officially at an end and in owner to remove an unsightly
asking them to act was simply building he would have gone to his
"passing the buck" to them. Con councilman or his ward boss, and | Mrs.
No thank you, Mr. Trotzky! Tli
world in general at present pre-
Mrs. E. lloltschue and daugh-
ter, Miss Helen, have arrived from
Fredonia, Kas., and are domiciled
at the Mitchell residence, on Uni-
versity boulevard, expecting to
make thir home here. They ire
"That sort of thing could not be
done under the old eouncilmanie
form of government or in a poli-
tics-ruled' city." said City Mana- world in general „ F- thc mother and sister of Mr. F. W.
ger Ash. "In such a city, just as fers spring green to revolutionarj j HoUscliuf Maxwt,n.chalnuirs
1 ent, and Miss Helen is a graduate
of the University.
W. T. Mayfield received |
- | .11U8? 0 tJcccp 1 there. But under the city mana- Mayfield's mother, Mrs. J. T. May-
SALVATION ARMY j war time prohibition. j fo,m-^'u'rea ''',x J' ^^,e '' c
Army works on the principle that
, "a man may be down, but he's
never out," and adapt this princi-
ple to men and women.
Manager T. E. Clement has ten-
tatively picked upon Thursday,
June 12th, for the campaign in
Cleveland county, and a meeting
of workers will be held at his of-
fice tonight (Monday) to ar-
range plans. The returned sol-
j diers will be enlisted in the work
wherever possible—and every one
i if them is heart and soul in favor
of giving the Salvation Army ev-
erything they ask, for all of them
know of their good work during
the war.
pnnn lA/HRtf OP THF j "passing the buck" to tnem. won woulj have stopped right1 news today of the death of Mr.
bUUU WUnK Ur I lit | grress has refused to accept it and , But under th. city mana- Mayfield's mother, Mrs. J. T. May- Mexico is very short
..._'hmond 1 First she was unable to recognize
hist as a'big business firm is gov- Mo.,' on Sunday. The body will j the rights of American property-
erned, there was no appeal to pol- arrive here on Wednesday, accom- j holders and now she ( oes no
1 itics no delay, no escape from 1 panied by relatives and she will recognize the Monroe doctrine.
what ought to be done." I be laid to rest in I.O.O.F. ceme- j Uncle Sam may have to furnish your part when the committees
And Wichita's city manager and tery by the side of her husband, her with the spectacles of the U .S. call upon you. Keep the matter
city commissioners, who are just who died some years ago. | army and the U. S. navy. in mint
The Reverend Harry W. Jones, • Kvprr'ises
a well known lecturer, former <- lOSlIlg fijXerClbeS
Navy chaplain and the New York
State Chaplain of the Elks lodge,
has arrived in Oklahoma and is
making a speaking tour in the in-
terest of the Salvation Army
Home Service campaign now irs
Cleveland county's quota will be
:about $1800. Be prepared to do
~ , progress.
county treasurer-elect. The crowd wh.]e abroad chaplain Jones is
of idle men were menacing work-
ers leaving the Willys-Overland
plant today.
Sixteen troopers, armed only
with clubs, were follewed by three
truck loads of infantrymen, with
rifles pointed at the crowd. Two
troopers were beaten into uncon-
sciousness and a score or more of
Overland workers were injured.
Three shots were fired into the
air by the soldiers. The charge
followed the stoning of three
credited with having spoken to as
many as half a million of the men
of the American forces in France.
He has spoken to the men of every
American camp in France and in
Germany and in his travels covered
an average of a hundred miles per
day.
Chaplain Jones says that the
' work of the Salvation Army over-
seas is being continued on a laige
authorities
of Second Year
of University ,wv,
of Oklahoma the sanie as the direct°rs off an.y I
big business concern, plan to do I
Norman xrans^Tjune s. .81,.. Now Make Arrangements to se
On Wednesday of this week the billboard, have ^en encroaching
University of Oklahoma located «P°" th« reSldenCe i
it- No Raise in Prices-
University ot uwanoma locateu -■ . .
.... , ■! iii areas, ruining the scenic beauty ot
at this citv closed its second school •"c"s , . .. R,,(
• . . ., , the city s choicest sections. But
year. The attendance in the af- ...
•ternoon was good. Those who
Wichita is not merely talking of
what ought to be done; it is going
ahead and doing what ought to be
done.
have witnessed these exercises
and examined into the methods of
conducting the University re-
turned home deeply impressed : «\\'e already have an ordinance
with the efficiency of the faculty. 1 compellinj? billboard men to put up
Many of the departments are sore-|on|y metal signs," said Mayor L.
ly in need of apparatus, —'' "" ' " ™
pecially is the library
^BERTYf
: nt!\i h*
■ ,M',; f
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
and es- Clapp, whose position makes
lacking. ! him practically chairman of the
scale. Thc military t j mm
— turned over to the Salvation Army j However, the University has done board 0f directors. "Now we a
street cars where many workers twenty_fjve airplane hangars and remarkably well under the exist- pian„inir to do one of two things
were cut by stones and flying „„„ v,oin,r used for meeting ing circumstances. About 150 Pjther restrict the billboards
"TEMPTATION
glass. An aged man and a girl places and recreati0n centers, hav-
were badly injured. j
The soldiers were acting as spe-
cial police, having been discharged |
from the army. It was the inost
serious trouble since the plant
reopened last week after having
closed since May 8. About 4,000
of the 13,000 employes who struck
have returned to work. The oth-
ers are holding out for a forty-
four hour week.
ing an aggregate seating capacity
of five thousand soldiers.
Letters from his son in the army
are what impelled Rev. Jones to
take up the work he is doing.
"Dad, you do not know what the
war is," wrote the son early in
1918. "You don't know what it
means to come out of the muck
and hear a sweet womanly voice
say, 'here, sonny, have a drink of I
ing circumstances,
students have been
ing the session.
In the afternoon
this, it is so good.' Then in the (life
FREE LOVE DISCUSSED darkness you see a Salvation Army
IN NESBIT PHOTOPLAY to" You Cet
all about what you have just been
through and only remember that
some one is there to comfort you.
You have no idea of the good work
that these women are doing here,
and if there is a single thing you
can do for them at home I want
you to do it for me."
Chaplain Jones, who up to this
About 150 .either restrict the billboards to
enrolled dur- the business section only or make
it necessary that the unanimous
Hon. B. M. | consent of all property owners in
Dille of Oklahoma City delivered the adjacent blocks be obtained be-
a very fine address. He spoke in fore a billboard can be erected,
a straight forward manner and | This latter step, we are informed,
told of the benefits accruing to | wm conform to such legal restric-
the graduate of today, and made | tions as govern the circumstances,
a plea for the complete and fin- ! while the first one may be a bit
ished education of the young men too radical as viewed by the court,
and women, so that they might ! gut you can see how difficult it
not have a mere keyhole view of i would be for a billboard man to
LOVE
Shall it be free love or mar-
riage? Authors, scientists and
philosophers are racking their
brains these days trying to dis-
cover which will be the best for
the world.
The problem of free love is
dealt with in "Woman, Woman
7 V llll]lllllll —1-
the William Fox photodrama time, had known nothing of the
which opens tomorrow at the Lib-
erty Theatre. Evelyn Nesbit stars
in the part of Alice Lindsay, a
young girl who has her choice be-
ful
war work of the Salvation Army,
investigated and found that war
correspondents and soldiers were
giving the same testimony as his
son. He offered his service to
the commander and was instru-
mental in interesting the Elks ac-
tively in the Salvation Army's
campaign to support the warwork.
Afterward he went abroad to ob-
serve Salvation Army work and
to talk to the soldiers.
Incidentally, Chaplain Jones has
White Way. Free love beckons antlounced his intention
tween marriage and free love.
Woman, Woman!" is a power-
photoplay that analyzes wo-
man's heart and soul. It tells the
story of a young girl who be-
comes dissatisfied with her monot-
onous existence in a small country
tewn. She comes to New York
and feels the lure of the Great
glimpses here and there of ! Ket the unanimous consent of all
distorted shapes, but that they ' property owners affected—it
might be placed in a position 1 Would be virtually impossible. And
where thay might have a general, | where the city is a property own-
c)ear and comprehensive view of ers and the proposed billboard
all about them. Everybody who ; would injure the scenic beauty
attended enjoyed the address. In there never would be any question
the evening Prof. Newton and i 0f the result. We have no doubt
Mrs. Viroqua Newton gave their we can control the matter, and
closing Musical concert, which wjH control it."
proved to be the finest thing of it might be added that Wichita
the kind ever attempted in the i ,,ians to nroceed with the develop
...ISS INNOCENCE MAS HER. EYES OPENED
AS THE YOUTH WHISPERS HIS CUNNING
WORDS TO HER
Evelyn Nesbit
w&m an ,wam an!
THE TALE OP A WO MAM S TEMPTATIONS
,imx A WILLIAM FOX PRODUCTION
O IR.HCTEO BN
plans to proceed with the develop-! story of a strange woman with a loving heart. A pictuie
Territory. They were assisted by ; ment of its parks and boulevards p]ay that will tell
Prof. Phillips, Prof. Secumdino; al0ng much more
to her, but she resists. The moral
discipline she has received at
home prevents her falling.
Then she marries. Again she is
tempted. Her husband grows ill,
she is penniless, and he is dying
coming permanently
with that organization.
of be-
affiliated
Rev. Aszman Buys Lots: Mrs.
A. Koepke has sold a pair of lots
from neglect. It is then that she on DeBarr avenue to Rev. T. 11.
forgets her principles and yields Aszman who is figuring on build-
to temptation. She makes the su- ing upon them. They lie just
preme sacrifice to save her hus- south of the Beta House, and are
band's life. And here the story very desirable. Vinccnt & Mul-
only begins. drow made the deal.
Sipulveda, of Oklahoma City, and ]jnes than most cities of 75,000.
Prof. Richseher who arc the fin- \ downtown park and playground,
est musicians in this section of the available to all in the greater bus-
country. The Glee Club simply ;ness section, is one of the pro-
outdid themselves. In fact every jcCts now being discussed. The
one who had any connection with beautification of Little River,
the affair did splendid. The Mus- which separates main Wichita
ical department of the University from West Wichita, is something
has been a very important factor j eise which is to receive early at-
and has drawn many students here tention. These things may not
that would not have attended had have to wait for the city planning
the University been without it. commission.
During intermission in the con- i Wichita had a boom once ar.d
cert, a gold medal offered by Rut-; the sad experiences which usuallv
ledge the Jeweler, to the student j follows a boom that did not have
making the best grades in the Uni- j careful, thorough and intelligent
WUl'lall vr i in a •• r
pIrty „iai. you why. The great mystery of a woman's soul-
comprehensive reveals why woman loves and sins. A tale of love written in scarlet.
revCdib wuy wu'iiau ' -
A drama of the shadows of the Great White Way.
When lovely woman stoops to What charm can soothe her
*n]!y melancholy?
And 'finds too late that men What art can wash her guilt
versity was presented to Miss
Katherine Pennystone, by Mr.
Rice.
R. McMillan Jas. M. Gresham
mcmillan & gresham
Attorneys at Law
106 1-2 E. Main St. Phone 265.
Practice in all Courts of the State
Norman, Oklahoma.
planning back of it. Long since
Wichita has recovered from the
effects of that boom and conse-
quent crash. It feels secure of its
future now, because that fut lire
has been studied and planed for.
That is why another skyscraper i
announced every now and
(Continued on page four)
betray, away?
Also a Mack Sennett Comedy
"The Snow Cure"
Twe Reels of Good Clean Fun
Also a new chapter of
"The Terrorof the Range"
With Betty Compton and Geo. Larkin
Dear Friends: ,7... ,
Where would you rather live—in Japan or Greenwich Village
In japan, every woman is her husbands' slave, and if he grows tired
of her, she may be cast aside like a broken doll. In Greenwich Vil-
lage. woman is free to love a dozen men in addition to her husband.
Of the two extremes, which would you prefer ? _
Yon V i'l not he competent to judge until you have seen "Woman.
Woman" in which Evelyn Nesbit is starring. As the heonne of
Greenwich Village, she finds that in spite of her freedom she is as
much a slave as the woman of Japan.
The picture will tell you a remarkable story of a woman, who
tries to be pure in spite of temptation. At last, to save her husband s
life : c makes a great sacrifice, and then finds herself no better off
than the poor little woman of Japan.
You will be charmed with Miss Nesbit, and you will be thrilled
ti , bv this William Fox picture. I am showing "Woman, Woman" at
1 ^ «h..tre Friday and Saturday. JAMES^BtL^INGS, Mgr
20 Keels of Action
Crowed into 7 Reels
BIG MOMENTS
In Woman, Woman
The tempter leers at the in-
nocent young girl. "Come with
me," cry youth and love. 4 Come
with me!" But she resists the
call of free love for she remem-
bers her mother's teachings.
* * *
Thc door is locked. The man
has lured her into a deserted
studio, and now she is at his
mercy. But some one is beat-
ing down the door. Sampson
Rathbone is coming to her res-
cue.
♦ * *
He does not mince matters.
Roy Mackay tells Alice Lindsay
what he wants of her. He is
showing her diamonds and
pearls. All these shall be hers
if she will yield to him.
♦ ♦ *
Anger wells up in the pure
heart of Alice Lindsay as she
hears the millionaire's arrogant
proposition. She rases her
hand and dashes it across his
face. Her fjingers leave five
red streaks on his cheek.
* * *
Roy Mackay does not wince
under the blow. He bows the
woman out of the room, in a
calm, even voice he mutters.
"You'll come back to me. You
will come back."
* ♦ •
Debts, debts, debts. They
pile upon her shoulders and she
stumbles under their weight.
Her husband is dying. Money
and care alone can save his
life. She is determined to get
the money in the only way open
to her.
* * *
The words of Roy Mackay
ring in her ears day and night:
"You—will—come—back." And
she goes through the streets in
a daze to make 'the great sur-
render."
* * *
A little child is born, and its
eyes are daik, its face is Ori-
ental. Roy Mackay is its fath-
er-
Samson learns the truth. The
child is the living badge of his
wife's d'shonor. He orders
the broken-hearted woman,
who sacrificed so much for
him, to leave him forever.
* * *
The story of her disgrace fol-
lows Alice Lindsay everywhere.
She tries to hide her shame in
the shadows ot New York But
i\oy Mackay finds her and lifts
her out of her misery.
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