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VOL. VII. NO. 193.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, NOV. 14. 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
GOOD WORK IN
DRAGGING ROADS
There has been some good work
done in the way of dragging roads
in the vicinity of Norman during
the last week and many of them
are in excellent shape. Especially
is this true of the seven miles un-
der the management of Z. K.
Westervelt and Mr. Roberts—four
miles east on the Denver road and
three miles north on the cemetery
road. Last Monday the whole
seven mile
and then the freeze froze the
ground just in the shape it was
left by the drags, making the road-
way smooth as glass. The road
going to Noble and Lexington is
American Legion COTTON CONDITIONS ("senate has cut the heart
probes disloyal,> m (in inniii out of the league of
IN OKLAHOMA
MOUNTED SECTION TO
PARADE TUESDAY P.
Oklahoma City, Nov 14. —j
Worked up to a fever heat against Cotton Crop Harmed by Recent
nations." - pres. wilson
traitors to the government both in ]
Oklahoma City and elsewhere, by
the outrage at Centralia, Wash, j
the Oklahoma City post of the
American legion, last night in-1
structed Paul B. McCarthy, post |
commander to name an investi-
Freezing Weather—American
Cotton Association is to
Get Busy
A mounted section of forty
men will featu:. i:i the first gener-
i | ..I parade to lie fc.veu Tuesday af-
; Ey a Vote of 46 to 33 the U. S. Senate Makes ternoon on the university drill
grounds by cadets of the R. O. T. 1
C. unit, according to Lieut.-Col.!
Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov 14
freezing weather in the north-
ern tier of counties in the Okla-
gating committee whose duty it homa cot(on |)e1t has done consid.
will be to gather evidence against crahlc (lamagc to the immature
disloyal residents and agitators ih | crop accordjng t0 reports received
stretch^ was"" dragged i °klahoma City for# presentation to oklahoma City by the State
frderaJ authorities and for such '
Reservation in ArticleX of Treaty which
the President Declares Destroys It.
| action as the post may deem ad-
! visable in ridding the city of un-
desirables.
| Many specific instances of lack
I of patriotism were discussed and
| in one instance the post adjutant
was instructed to write the presi-
! dent of a national organization
Board of Agriculture, according to
' John A. Whitehurst.
The
green.
also in fine shape, it is reported, as
is almost all the road from there
to Moore.
Let the good work go on. , . . _. , _.
. . , ... , doing business in Oklahoma Lity,
And, while we are on this sub-; . , . , , ,
ject, would it not be well to have
the dirt streets in Norman drag-
ged? Some of them ar? reported
to be in very bad shape, rough,
and with great holes in them.
Why should not the city streets
be dragged and put in apple-pie
order as well as the country road '
Squared to a Cent
in the name of the 1,600 members
of the legion, to remove from Ok-
lahoma City the company's
branch manager who has shown
what the legion brands a lack of j
appreciation of his citizenship.
The dissemination of bolshe
literature in Oklahoma City ,
i was discussed and steps taken to !
! obtain sufficient information to j
i enable the authorities to put a
j stop to it.
1 Resolutions of condolence for
the families of the soldiers killed
at Centralia and to the post to j
wljich they were members were
responsible.
An auditing committee of the W.
O. W. and Woodmen Circle went
over the Books of Clerk R.. S.
Davis a day or two ago and found
them balancing to a cent. He had
collected since January 1st as dues
something like $1600 from the
Woodmen and $358 from the mem-
bers of the Woodmen Circle, in
addition to the monthly insurance ;
assessments, and all were found j
correct However, Mr. Davis j. Payment of $125 yearly for each
figures he is out about $100 of his j man, to represent commutation of
own money, advanced to members . rations, may be made university
to pay their dues and keep them in students taking advanced military
good standing and hopes all such training, Lreut.-Col. Carl Baehr
will call and settle up. | announced Thursday on the re-
, ceipt of instruction from the War
SHIRT TAIL PARADE Department, Washington.
northern belt staple i:
Many bolls are imma
ture. Samples taken from the I
ton fields near the state capital
indicate that the freeze did great
damage as far south as Oklahoma
City. The weather was even more
severe on a line west from Chick-
asha to Mangum, according to j
weather bureau reports.
Many bolls will never open in
the opinion of experts. Officials
of the American Cotton associa-
tion who have been gathering crop |
statistics assert that further rains j
will damage the crop of hollies. |
. , . , , i senate on I hursday
The crop is short in the United f
States. The crop of long, white j
staple is estimated at 6,000,000
bales. All grades will total
but 9,347,000. Efforts of the
American Cotton association, in
the southwestern states coupled
I with the shortage in the crop have
ARTICLE X—TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY.
1 he following is Article X of the League of Nations as it appears
in the original treaty
Art. X. The members of the league undertake to respect and
preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and
existing political independence of all members of the league. In case j
of any such aggression, or in case of any threat or danger of such j
aggression, the council shall advise upon the means by which this
obligation shall he fulfilled.
Carl Baehr, commandt.
Within the next ten days har-
ness work in field artillery classes
will be started.
Harreld's Plurality
Oklahoma City, Nov. 14.—Com-
City Boosters iii
Norman 900 Strong |
BULLETIN
Call.-, fcr add tional seats
.w '-CO ru.er.^a by Supt.
Faulkner were made by Ok-
lahoma City football rooters
at noon today—at least 1500
ci.y students expect to see the
game. At 11 o'clock this
forenoon 975 seats had been
sold in the Oklahoma City
high school.
RESERVATION FOR ARTICLE TEN
The article ten reservation as adopted by the senate follows:
"The United States assumes no obligation to preserve the terri-
torial integrity or political independence of any other country or
to interfere with controversies between nations—whether mem-
bers of the league or not—under the provisions of article ten,
or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States
under any article of the treaty for any purpose, unless in any par-
ticular case, the congress, which, under the constitution, has the
sole povwer to declare war or authorize the employment of the
military or naval forces of the United States, shall by act or joint
resolution so provide."
Nine hundred Oklahoma City
i high school football rooters ac-
. te returns on the congressional C0'"Pa"iei1 iazz bami and SPCC
| election in the Fifth Oklahoma j
( district last Saturday Were an- ,
nounced this afternoon by the state
election board as follows:
Weaver, 11,074; Harreld 11,782,
and Turner, independent, 110.
Thus Harreld's official plurality is
708.
Mr. Harreld is in receipt of in-
formation from Washington that jt,,eac,,ers-
congress will adjourn in a short
ial rooting organizations, arrivedl
in Norman this afternoon on spec-
ial interurban cars for the Okla-
homa City-Norman gridiron bat-
tle on Boyd field.
Special reservation o; seats I
were made Thursday afternoon by]
Supt. Faulkner for the Oklahoma|
City rooters on Boyd field |
adopted and a separate resolution th# pre6£nt unpr£Cedented
strongly condemning the persons
FORMER SERVICE MEN
MAY TRAIN ON SALARY
price of staple according to cot-
ton experts.
The American Cotton associa-
tion is preparing for its campaign
for memberships early in Decem-
ber.
Cotton is King
Cotton is king in Oklahoma.
•time until December, and his pres PAPPPR PRFnifiT^
cnce in Washington is not neces 5 L,t 1 • «
SAMLLER CROPS
igton is not neces
sary at this time. He intended go-
ing tv> Washington today, but will
not now go untiJ later.
Norman Hi Ready
Washington, Nov. 14.— By a vote of 46 to 33 the United States
irtually destroyed the League of Nations pact,
: according to President Wilson and the administration forces, bv
making re <#"vation to Article 10, declared by Mr. Wilson and all the
speakers for tlie treaty as the most vital article and most important
pledge in the treaty. Every Republican senator and four Democrats
(Gore of Oklahoma, Walsh of Massachusetts, Reed of Missouri and
Smith of Georgia) voted for the reservation. A orman hi gridsters are dc
Thus, this solid Republican line-up, reinforced by four democratic teJ"mine(1 to defeat Oklahoma City
votes, put the reservation across exactly as it camc from the foreign l'1's rePrescntatives on Boyd field
relations committee, and in virtually the same language which the afternoon. Regardless of the
President declared on his western tour would cut the heart out of the ! hard 'uck that has been camping
covenant and mean the rejection of the treaty. ! on 'he 'rail of Abbott's eleven, ev-
The vote, in the view of the Republican leaders, indicates that the j <>ry member of the team will en-
Lodge majority has the reservation situation firmly in hand and that ter the game this afternoon eag-! third next year and the general
nearly all, if not all of fifteen reservations on its program, will be cr to do his part in bringing the crops are going to be smaller,
voted as a part of the resolution of ratification. central conference football cham-j . j t thing there is any con-
Senator Lodge, commenting on the vote, said: pionship to Normantown. I certed movement among the farm-
"The majority reservations, it now appears, are to be adopted, at All Norman business houses will1 ers a|ong this line. No farm or-
Washington, Nov. 14.—Indica
tious point to greath' reduced I
crops next year, accoring to Sena-1
ror City Battle I tord Capper of Kansas, publisher |
—ABBOTT of several agricultural papers.
Low profits, labor shortage,
high wages and raising costs ot
implements were come of the reas- |
ons assigned.
"The American farmer won't go I
on stri' e, li.1t he is gettinj mighty
sullen C.:, or declare!. "Wheat
. reage will f.i". off probably one-
Next to petroleum it is our great- j least nearly all of them, just as they were drafted by the committee, j close at 3 o'clock.
i est source of revenue.
j wheat.
| Despite this the cotton farmer
j as a class is the most miserable in
the state. He is forever in debt.
PRECEDES BATTLE Advanced standing was defined j j.j)e grocer and the bank has a
as the equivalent of training given | mortgage on his crop. It is not
Pep overflowed Thursday night in the R. O. T. C. basic course in | ^ grocer's fault—neither is it the
in the Norman high school audi- the service during the world war. ^ j,anicer,s- They must have collat-
torium and a shirt tail parade was Previously this payment was eraj an<j where cotton is king it
staged followed by a bonfire and i made only to students who had j must j,e taken as security.
Hasty action on the part of the
It outranks | If the Democrats vote down the resolution of ratification with the
reservations embraced in it, as they threaten, they will vote down
the treaty. They will have no way, after that, of resurrecting it."
| ganizations, so far as I know, have
adopted resolutions, urging a tU-
of produc-
farmers are
was
who had 1
storming of Norman picture hous- done work in R. O. I". C. units,
es. Windows were broken in one j A joint resolution of congress
showhouse, but a collection was ' anting authority for the pay-
taken by high school students j mcnt was passed recently.
Friday morning to repair damage.
LIBERTY
THEATRE
Friday and Saturday
Starting 1 p. m_ Continuous
PARALTA PLAYS
Present
Bessie Barriscale
in a play that will captivate
the hearts of every one in the
audience—
"Within the Cup"
A seven reel super-produc-
tion, a story of a real woman
who scatters to the winds,
prejudice, slander, calumny,
by the force of her great
good character.
The Added Attraction is
BABY MARIE OSBORNE
Supported by Sambo, the little
Coon, in
"Daddy No Two"
It's a scream from beginning
to end.
Also a new chapter of
CRAIG KENNEDY'S iserial
de luxe
• "The Carter Case"
With Margaret Marsh and Her-
bert Rawlinson.
—Coming—
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
J Warren Kerrigan in "A White j
Men's Chance,' a six-reel super-
production. A Big V Comedy,
"Soapsuds and Sapheads" with the
starting of Vitagraph's wonder
serial, "Smashing Barriers," with
William Duncan, Joe Ryan, and
Edith Johnson.
Burglars broke into the Palace
drug store and the J. B. Collins
clothing store in Lexington on
Wednesday night, but took only
what they could use and wear.
farmer is the cause of the low
price. Millions of bales of cot-
ton call for billions of dollars in
the hands of the spinners. They
do not have the money. They buy
a temporary supply and the cotton
speculators get the rest.
Farmers must hold their cot-
FRIENDSHIP
A friend in need is a friend
indeed.
When an opportunity
arises and you need money
to put a deal across—can
you turn to a friend and get
the accommodation?
You can if your friend is a
hanker.
Us get acquainted.
Start that friendship hv
opening an account with us.
We extend all courtesies
consistent with sound hank-
ing principles.
The Farmers National Bank
The Bank of Personal Service
Capital and Surplus $50,000
Norman, Oklahoma.
ton and market it over a twelve Woodmen Officials
month period. Individuals can-
not do this unless a plan is pre-
sented. The American Cotton as-
HOLIDAY FOR GAME , liber?te curtailment
DECLARED FRIDAY ,ion- Nevertheless,
individually sizing up the situa-
Because of the Norman-Oklano- Uion and are deciding to go slow
.. ma City football battle Friday af- nexl year.
Coming tO Meeting ternoon, Supt. A, S. Faulkner de-1 "I receive many letters daily
i lan d a half-holiday vacation for, from farmers complaining about
all Norman high school students, nearly everything. Hog prices
Many students were so interested . are down, wheat will probably be
. . , , _ Oklahoma City, Nov. 14.—A. N. |
sociation presents the plan. Farm- , r , ,
, , ,1 Leecraft, state treasurer and head
ers, merchants, bankers, profes- i , , ... , , .,
, consul of the Woodmen of the .. ... , ,,,i,, irr,st< I
sional men will build warehouses, i ... .'he game they did not go home lower next year, wnilc labor co.t. |
, I World in Oklahoma was notitied I r , , , .
se cotton as the , , . ,,, ' ^ tor lunch, but gathered around , arf going up.
They will sell cotton
spinner needs it.
In the meanwhile the farmer
will buy the necessities of life
with his warehouse receipt. The
banker will give him money on it.
The reserve bank system makes
this possible.
When the cotton is all sold to
the spinner the farmer will get his
profit. It will not be taken by a
lecherous profiteer or a specu-
lator.
JUNIORS WIN FROM
PHARMIC TEAM 14-0
| Junior class football players at
the .university defeated the Phar-
j mic team Thursday afternoon on
Boyd field 14-0. Juniors outweigh-
| ed their opponents at least ten
' pounds to the man. The victory
| Thursday leaves the juniors and
j sophomores from the college of
| arts and sciences the sole contend-
ers for the class championship.
| These two teams will clash Wed-
j nesday afternoon, Nov. 19th.
last night that W. A. Frasier, sov-
ereign commander of the order,
and D. E. Bradshaw, general at-
torney, will be here to attend the
state meeting called by Leecraft
for November 24.
The meeting has been called for
the purpose of discussing the in-
crease made in Woodmen insur-
ance rates last summer. Leecraft
says Frasier and Bradshaw will be
prepared to answer questions of
Oklahoma Woodmen as to the
rate increase. Another meeting
of Woodmen, calle<rl unofficially,
will be held here Saturday.
district and speculated as to the
outcome of the championship
clash.
the interurban station and in front Ex-soldiers are refusing to go
of various stores in the downtown back to the farm and are flocking
to the cities, Capper asserted.
Luring wheat harvest it is almost]
impossible to get help, he said
The farmer is therefore turning I
roin wheat to corn and othei |
rops which do not require har
'esting during a short period ii |
'he middle of the summer. He i
listributiiig his crops so that h<
can do most of the work alone.
Higher flour prices may resul
•rom the diminished wheat sup
ply, although lower meat price
may offset this, Senator Cappe
■aid.
In compliment to Miss Myrle
Pierce of Chicago, Miss Pauline
Roberts will entertain at luncheon
today in the Pi Beta Phi chapter,
house in Norman having as her
guests from Oklahoma City, Mrs.
Lon O. Malcom, Mrs. Roy Car-
ter, of Dallas, Miss Veronica Sta-
pleton and Mr. Walter G. Pierce.
—Oklahoman, Friday.
NOTICE TO SUNDAY SCHOOL
OFFICERS
Beginning with Sunday, Nov. 16
credit in all grades of the city put>:
lie schools may be earned through
attendance at the various Sunday
schools. This is to encourage
Bible study, without which there
can be no education that is even
approximately complete.
The details of the plan adopted
will be made known at an early
date. Meanwhile Sunday school
officers should keep an accurate!
record of the attendance and work j
If each student to be used as the I
basis for certain reports tht will
be called for from time to time, j
A. S. FAULKNER, j
Supt. City Schools. I
Mrs. Samuel P. Martin of Kansas
City, Mo., who is visiting her sis-
) ter, Mrs. J. P. Dellinger in this
city, will be the guest of Mrs. E. J.
Keller at Lexington the coming
week-end.
Tenderfoots Take
Seout Examination
The Boy Scouts in the universi- j
ty section, with Bennie Owen and j
A. C. Parsons as scout masters,
have recently organized three pa-!
trols, scout leaders said Saturday j
I The Flying Eagle patrol is com-!
posed of Lynne Mapes, patrol lead-
, cr, Hollis Brunskill, Edward
j Grigsby, Harold Vanderpool, Gen-
| try Kidd, Dick Oliphant, Charles
j White and Reagan Perkinson. j
I The Wolf patrol with Dick j
j Downing as leader, js composed j
j of Price Gittinger, Linne Holm- i
, berg, Phil Kidd, Egbert Clement (
'' and Bill Buchanan.
j Jack Orenbaun is leader of the
I third patrol which has not yet
chosen its name. Other members
! are Johnnie Greenfield, Virgil
| Oliphant, William Inglis, Teddy
Maloy, Walter Baker and Wil-
liam Morrison.
A tendetfoot scout examination
was held recently in the university
gymnasium. Scouts who passed
arc Egbert Clement, Linne Holm-
berg, Gentry Kidd and Dick Down-
ing.
Regular meetings of the Boy
Scouts are held every Thursday
evening in the university high
school rooms for the business ses-
sion, and in the gymnasium for
play, from 7 to 8 o'clock.
j Union services at the Universi-
ty Auditorium on Sunday night.
The Guarantee
The shoe that is guaranteed to give
satisfaction. A popular seller and when
it comes to style, it is in a class by itself,
a straight last shoe.
We have them in black kid and Havana brown kid.
No shoe built will furnish more comfort and wear at the
very popular price—
$15.00
Cliff Turner
CLOTHIER
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