The Tulsa Weekly Democrat (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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TULSA WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
Published Thursday Evening of Every Week.
FERN ON L. SMITH .....................EDITOR
H. H. HORTON...........GENERAL MANAGER
SUBSCRIPTION KATES:
One Dollar per year, Fifty Cents for Six Months.
COAL OPERATORS CALLED DOWN.
I T IS A GOOD THING FOR the social safety and
I welfare of the country that the coal operators are to
<t>e called down. They have proved themselves to be
the real pirates of the commercial world, surpassing in
some ways the food speculators and manipulators of
prices. 'The coal operators were out for the money and
they were getting it.
During the first three months after the war reso-
lution was passed about 180,000,000 tons of coal has been
mined in the United States. On this coal an average pro-
fit of $3 a ton has been exacted, according to the confes-
sions of the coal operators themselves. That means a
profit of 1450,000,000 in one quarter of a year, and the
coal operators were doing very well before that time,
too.
This is a profit about thirty times as great as the
coal operators received in the years before the war. In
other words the margin has been more than $500,000,000
greater than it would have been on the old has is of cost
and selling price.
It must not be believed that all coal operators were
responsible for this robbery. It was planned and execut-
ed by a few, and others were glad to take advantage of
conditions when they saw them. Others were swept
into it, perhaps unwillingsly. Some railroad managers
had a hand in it.
In this country we deplore the increase in the social-
ist ranks and wonder that so many are found in the so-
called Industrial Workers of the Wordl. Conservative
Americans argue against these extremes, but there is no
argument that will overcome a profit of 200 percent when
it is filched from people who are forced by dire necessity
to pay it. “On account of the war” is an excuse that
In many instance# is not a basis for holding up prices and
it is causing more unrest in this country than anything
elre. The people know the Sherman law is without
force. They know they are being robbed on every hand,
and that they are helpless.
“In the wars of the European powers in matters re-
lating to themselves,” said President James Monroe, "we
have never taken nny part, nor does it comport with our
policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded
or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or maki
preparations for our defense.” Before the war resolution
was passed Germany had invaded the rights of the United
States; they were menaced and they had been infringed
upon. In fact Germany was then making war upon the
United States in practically the same way that has been
done since that time—and still there are some persons
who say they are unable to see why this country should bo
in the w..r.
THE BIGGEST OF ALL NEWS STORIES.
VAGARIES OF THE SINGLE TAXER.
UT OF WASHINGTON CAME LAST Saturday the
1 I biggest of all news stories. It was the biggest be-
cause it was the most intensely localized. It was
of intimate personal interest to ten million young men
scattered through the United States. It was of intense
Interest to their parents, their wives, their sweethearts,
their sisters, their uncles and their cousins and their
aunts. The drawing of the numbers from the big glass
bowl in the senate committee room at Washington capped
the climax of human interest.
This was a local story in every city, town, hamlet and
crossroads place in the nation. It was not merely some-
thing taking place at Washington; it was something
happening in a majority of the homes of America. For
the first time in newspaper history a thing was done
which made first-page news for every newspaper in the
land. From the standpoint of local news value it was
just as interesting to the managing editor of the biggest
da'ly in New York as to the editor of the smallest weekly
polished at some wide place in the road. The metropoli-
an editor and the country editor both “played it up” on
the first page as the greatest single item of home news
ever supplied by human events.
Tlie drawing from the glass bowl of the first num-
ber was awaited with breathless anxiety by the people of
the nation’s metropolis and by the farmer in the remotest
jegion of the backwoods. In some communities local in-
terest was sated after the drawing of a few hundred
numbers; but in cities such as Tulsa the public was avid
for the numbers up to several thousand. This difference
was due merely to the larger district registration in pop-
ulous centers.
The more one ponders over this news story the big-
ger it grows. The military genius who devised the draft-
ing scheme is entitled to high credit. Had the drawing
been left to local boards, as was the case in the civil war,
each community would have had its own story; but with
the matter reduced to one set of numbers drawn at one
place and applying with equal f< rce to all places at one
and the same time—well, that was the story.
The event will be historic not only because it was of
international importance in a world crisis, but also be-
cause it was the world’s biggest newspaper story as to
>ews value.
—--o--
IlfAR HAS ITS COMPENSATIONS and one of them
W is that the single taxers have closed their shops for
* a time. At least they are not saying as much now
as they do in times of peace. According to the single
taxers the land that remains idle is owned by men who
will not improve it and will not let others do so. They
are dogs in the manger. It never strikes them that the
land is idle because it would be unprofitable to improve
it.
The single taxers overlook the fact that the law of na-
ture never ceases to operate. They ignore the fact that^
the automobile engine never turns so rapidly as when;
the clutch is not engaged, but it does not get you any-1
where. The reaction of the sun on the earth never
ceases, but sometimes it fails to bring rain to regions
which are usually supplied.
Man .s continually fighting nature, and beating her.
According to the law of nature, the potato is a profusely
flowering plant with tubers from the size of a hen’s egg
down. Man has made of it a plant flowering almost not
at all, but with tubers often half as big as one's head.
But nature’s law never ceaBes to operate, and if man will
quit fussing with the potato plant within a few. years
nature will have it back where man found it.
Some natural laws are easier to break down than oth-
ers. When the governments of several great nations
combine to corner the wheat crop, the law of demand
and supply, while operating more vigorously than ever,
does not get us anywhere because a power too strong
for nature's restraint has the wheat and won’t let it go.
The one law of nature which has thus far resisted
all human effort to repeal it is that man energetically
develop and improve a piece of property—a quarter of a
section of land, for example, or a city lot— which he owns,
and from which he hopes to get a profit than a similar
piece which he does not own, but for whose use he pays
rent to some individual or government. That seems to
be nature’s law for getting the utmost possible from the
land for the sustenance, comfort and enrichment of man-
kind.
That is the law which our single taxer friends have
tackled. They may be queer, but no one can say they are
net resolute. Nor do they ever show weariness. They
are always at it, an . their cheerfulness never fails.
The Wrapper German-American Editors Use to Conceal an Insidious
Poison.—By Webster.
AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS IN TULSA.
Plans in Formation
Barn and Dairy—
for
-Will
Huge
Be .
Best Equipped in -Southwest.
M
It was learned Monday from offi-
cials of the Sand Springs Home that
when that Institution constructed its
barn this fall a complete refrig-
eration and cheese manufacturing *
plant will be built In connection.
Plana were drawn and sumbitted to
the home officials for one of the
largest, most up-to-date barns In this
section of Oklahoma early this spring.
The barn Is to be built of stone and ,
reinforced concrete, will have beams
nf solid oak. and will be finished with
the most substantial material to be
had. There will be stalls and boxes
for a herd of 100 milk cows, rooms
for grain and mashes. Ample room
In which to store tons of hay, cement
troughs with running water at all
times, electric lights, etc. This mod- 1
ern barn will be built on North Main
street, about three or four blocks
north of the present home of Mr. Ed "
Page, and will house one of the finest
herds of thoroughbred milk cows In
Oklahoma.
In connection with the large barn
will be construced a smaller structure
of stone. This will house a complete
cheese manufacturing plant, all the
necessary machinery and equipment to
turn out hundreds of pounds of cheese
monthly. According to Ed A. Page,
once the new plant is In operation It
will manufacture almost every variety
and grade of cheese, from that made
of cream to skimmed milk.
In another building will be the ma-
chinery and equipment necessary to
maintain a small refrigerating plant,
where all of the produce of the large
herd will be kept. Here butter and
cheese can be kept for an Indefinite
length of time.
LOOKING UP.
The market’s always looking up for certain sorts of men;
No matter what the market is, it’s getting good again.
They never taste the bitter that may linger in the cup
Because they’re like the market is, and always looking up.
«TU!LSA’S POLICE DEPARTMENT admits that it is
a unable to cope with the automobile drivers who vio-
* late the city law. Those who drive automobiles-
some of them, at least—exceed the speed limit whenover j
they feel disposed to do so. They pay no attention what- i
ever to the city law requiring them to stop while pas-
sengers are leaving a street car. There are automobile
drivers in Tulsa who care nothing for human life and
they don’t care who knows It.
A number of boys on bicycles have been killed or
maimed in Tulsa recently by careless drivers of automo-
biles, and in some instances these accidents have been
inexcusable on the part of men driving Ihe cars. One I
notable instance occurred several days ago when a boy on
a bicycle and a man in an automobile were coasting down j
the grade on Elwood avenue. The man did not sound his |
horn Possibly the boy did not know the car was
there. At any rate he turned directly in front of the car
and was killed. j
Some automobile drivers contend that hoys on bi-1
cycles ride in front of them so that their wheels will be
smashed and they will get new ones. In other words j
SSirSKS’Sitr'r A niN@ Mai® Wall Know'Wkdt
The felloAr looking upward sees a lot of pleasant things
That other men arc apt to miss amid their mutterings.
He doesn’t hang his head and howl like some discouraged pup;
He sees a lot of pleasant things by merely looking up.
It may be dark as Egypts night at present where you are;
But, if a fellow will look up, he’s apt to see a star.
When he sits down with other men around the board to sup
It won’t be very long before they all are looking up.
Douglas Malloch, in the American Lumberman.
Y®ot
Ait Work
Others have a theory that the boys get in the way of the
automobiles for the purpose of being run over and injur-
ing their valuable cars.
When the driver of a Ford car ran through a line of
persons who had just alighted from a South Frisco street
car at Third and Main Sunday forenoon at 10:30 o’clock
he was asked if he did not know that it was a violation of
the ordinance. The man who asked the question had es-
caped being run over by jumping backward.
“I don't know and I don’t care,” said the owner of the
Ford. “I know all I want to about it and I don’t let
anybody dictate to me.”
That is the attitude of too many automobile owners
@arts fcrt All W'©Mein-
Will UmsSerstoinid! Esae&lj
BY TILDY WINKS.
Nellie, the pretty little soda water
girl, adjusted her belt. She was
wearing a striped silk skirt, and her
waist line was up under her arms.
Above the skirt a very pink near-
georgette crepe blouse bloused and
of
in Tulsa. They defy the law. The police have no terrors I gn"®tockmgBKwhlch mot "white
for them. They (.imply ignore the authority of the police. | „hues which "may have seen better
They are under the impression that they own the thor
oughfares and that pedestrians have no rights what
eve.
Conditions having reached this point, the result is in-
evitable. Somo one will shoot an imolent automobile driv-
er some of these times and in that way call the attention
days.”
But Nellie was tired. All day long
she had heeded the thirst demands of
n lot of Idle persons who came In to
talk and sip cooling things and just
annihilate time. Nellie had no time
to kill. She had shouted orders until
her throat was sore. Her hair was
“This here aggregation of brick
looks pretty good to me," answered
Nellie, "and, Jack, there comes a time
in the lives of us all when we ain’t
feelln’ just as full of pep as we might.
That there time has come to me. If
you want to take me to supper at some
quiet place and then come and sit
on the front porch with me for a
while, all right, but my speedometer's
registerin' pretty low this evenin’.”
“Oh, gee, I'm sorry. I feel like a
house afire. Just had a swim at the
’Y' and a shave and I don’t see how
I can sit on your porch and hear the
story of your young life tonight. Come
on, Nell, be a sport; we’ll go some-
where and dance. A lot of the kids
of the others to the fact that they should have some re-; stl.ingy ln K,)ite of the liquid curling j are going down to Hazel’s. Come on,
gard for the law. When this has been done there are fluid she had applied and the ribbon kid.
j „ • pi, i , ...Mi .-ii that was tied about her head In a “No, Jack, 1 can’t. I ain’t had no
ten thousand persons in Tulsa who will nse up and call at noon now drooped. 8Wim. and I’m just tired. So here’s
wearly. my corner (ind If you don't want to
do as I said. I’ll just tell you good
night.”
"Well good night," he said reluc-
tant, “awfully sorry you aren’t up to
standard. See you again some time.
the shooter blessed.
But Nellie, in the cloak room, of j
the store, inserted an electric curling
Iron ln the socket and recurled the
little tendrils about her face. She
ANY FARMERS HAVE DECIDED to store their: pulled her skirt still further up,
STORING CROPS ON THE FARM.
I am for the suggestion, fathered by
Herbert N. Fell of Philadelphia, to
make the national government our
savings banker.
In selling Its war bonds, the gov-
ernment has created—and will to an
even greater degree create ln the
future—a tremendous saving spirit.
People will get used to saving in
order to buy Liberty Loan bonds.
When the war ends, and no more
government Issues are put out, shall
we relapse into our former state of
national Indifference to Thrift?
Mr. Fell suggests that the govern-
ment tackle the Job of helping Amer-
icans to build old-age funds, say.
Suppose you want $1,000, available
in ten years. Go to a government
office and pay ln toward the pur-
chase of a bond If you like $82.36
every year. This sum at compound
Interest, at the rate of 3 H per cent
a year, will provide your $1,000 in ten
years.
In fifteen years. $50.07 a year will
amount to $1,000; and by paying
$34.17 a year for twenty years the
same gos.1 will be reached. In thirty
years an annual payment of $17.72
would become $1,000—twice what Is
actually saved ind paid In. ln forty-
five years, for every $4 5 saved under
the suggested plan the thrifty patron
of the government would draw $100.
and so on!
Can the government use that
money? That Is the only uncertainty
of the future. Certainly more Ameri-
cans would respond to Uncle Sam’s
appeal to save than to any other.
Why not build broadly on the solid
foundations of the already estab-
lished postal savings banks? Why
not try to make permanent the peo-
pl’es present willingness to save and
lend to Uncle Sam?
Will Build Supply House.
Notice has been given by the lessees
on the land directly east of the Sand
Springs station to move within the _
next 30 days, that this land ma> be *
cleared ready for construction of a
brick or stone supply house, Immedi-
ately. ^
The old supply house now located
east of the Band Springs machine
shops, has for some time proven far
too small to efficiently handle the
great amount of business that Is done
through Its departments.
The new building will have a 60- -
foot front on Main street and 200
feet frontage on the Katy railroad,
thus making the handling of heavy
freight comparatively easy, as freight
platforms will be built from the build-
ing to the car level. The structure
will be modern ln every respect, as
nearly fireproof as it Is possible to
make It and two stories high, giving
a floor space of some 10,000 square
feet, for office and storage room.
Not what a man glvSs, but the way
he gives It, shows his true character.
Some girls who profess to be highly
educated have been merely Immersed
ln a weak solution of accomplish-
ments.
Hurt Sliding Home.
The first serious accident contrib-
uted to Sand Springs sports was
marked against baseball Sunday after-
noon. when C. W. Barnes broke his
ankle ln an endeavor to steal home.
Barnes had singled to shortstop,
who missed a throw to first, landing
Barnes on second. The game was t
close and Barnes decided to steal
third. He succeeded, and on an over-
throw to second he ran for the home
plate. When almost at his destina-
tion the ball was thrown to the
catcher and Barnes decided to slide
Into the base feet first. He caught *
his spikes on a corner of the plate .
and a broken right ankle resulted.
Baby Is Dead.
Baby Dave, the five-months-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Robins, of
Sand Springs, died at the Robins
home at First and Wilson streets, Sat-
urday morning and was buried Sun-
day morning at the Oaklawn ceme-
tery, Rev. D. C. Mallory preaching
the funeral ceremony.
'
matter of patriotism, but in order that they may re- \ and with a sigh of relief stepped out
ccive th.‘ highest prices for their products, to which Iinto the Btreet-
they are entiled. There is not enough of this being done
though, in Ok’.qhoma.
The forehanded farmer is able to do this without dif-
ficulty, but all frrmers are not forehanded. Too many
At the door she was met by a dap-
per young man.
"Well, look who’s here, said Nel-
lie. as he fell In step with her.
"How are you, Nell? How would
Nellie walked on with her head bent
thoughtfully. She met Mr. McDougal,
who was dabbling ln oil.
"What’s the matter, little girl.’ he
asked genially, "aren't you feeling
well?" .
“Oh. just fine,” fibbed Nellie, “be-
cause I got to. In fact, Mr. McDougal,
man might be a wonderful crechur,
and all that, but sympathy with a
woman Is one string on the harp of
, ,, . , 1 vou like to stay down town tonight. , --------- —---- -....... ........... --
of them are compelled to sell their wheat and oats crops j wlgl) we were jn BOme big town his emotions that was broke before it
as soon as they are threshed, as they have no means of i where we could go to a cabaret. Don’t (was ever strung.
storing them. That is the reason the wheat specula- you? (I don’t see how you stand this
tors thrive so amazingly. I place
And Mr. McDougal
what she meant.
is wondering
FOR WAR GARDENS.
Water may do the garden more
harm than good. That may seem
a strange statement, but If the
ground Is merely sprinkled the
oots will be coaked to the sur-
face and the sun will scorch them.
One thorough watering every ten
days Is much better than a sur-
face showering night and morn-
ing ln the average amateur's way.
The water ought to soak through
to a depth of two Inches to do the
most good. After all, a good hoe-
ing Is often just as valuable as a
wetting down.
Clamps have been put upon the Irish convention,
which is to be secret, and no reports of the speeches will
be published. Nobody can prevent the noise from being
heard in that immediate vicinity, however, the imme-
diate vicinity being about a mile around in every direc-
tion.
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The value of garden products in the United States
this year is estimated at $350,000,000 and the garden
ing area is three times as large as usual. That goes to
show what the amateur can do when he buys a hoe and
makes up his mind to help his country win the war.
This year is different from any that has ever gone [
before it. On account of the delay by congress in pass-,
ing the food control bill the farmers were all at sea. No-1
body knew anything about the pr’ce of wheat and the Chi-
cago board of trade was afraid to bear the price down as
is usually done. The wheat gamb'ers in Chicago have
not had much to say, although there is no way of knowing
how active they have been through agev'ts and how much
of the wheat has been contracted for at a low price. The
farmer with no means of storing his wheat end in need of
ready cash was in no position to command the price.
This is where the merchants and bankers may be of
Boys and Girls of Three Coun-
* ties Study Poultry at An-
nual Demonstration.
great help to the farmers in their community. By extend- j lln^lt^h,LCk“%r^Wlnf^sr<\ookl^
ing credit they can tide them over the necessity of sell- I tn g^ht and vegetables and pro-
ing wheat and other products at once. Then the farmers . visions for the canning demonstra-
will be in a position to sell when the market ha< reached pr£*,t e™**farm*
a point that is satisfactory. They m#y he sure the gof- „kp BC.(lne Monday morning to the
eminent is not going to rob them and that the food control j 50 or more boys and girls who came
bill is not going to result in prices that will compel them l^^^^^'^r'shorT^ourse Jhlrt
to sell below the cost of production.
fr----
TRYING
—
By DR. FRANK CRANE.
(Copyrignt, 1917, by Frank Crane.)
-J
The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
G. J. Morgan, who died at the Mor-
gan home Saturday morning, was In-
terred ln the Oaklawn cemetery ln
Sand Springs at an early hour Sunday
morning. The funeral services were
held from the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Morgan. —
Tin© GibrFs Job
It’s all very well to try, but you [who are kind, honest, generous, help-
never do really great work until you ful, dependable, and clean, and don’t
realize It. you feel at once a delightful
atmosphere.
are able to do it without trying.
The finest quality of work is only
found in work that is done easily.
All genuine greatness is a kind of
play.
It may be very commendable for
Tulsa highly011 t0 m«ke a tremendous effort to
Of course it is necessary to pass
through the stage of struggle before
you can arrive at the high level of
mastery. And it is better tg wrestle
and strive than not to try. But the
point is, that if you are still in the
struggling plane, conceal It. as it Is
more likely to give offense than to do
BUSINESS GIRLS WILL
GIVE ANNUAL PICNIC
produce music on the violin. But do
that In your own room With the door
shut. We don’t want to hear you un- |g0od.
til you can play. j The egotists are they that have not
........ _ ___ Any conscious effort spoils art. Mas- [yet arrived. Says Bishop Bashford:
I the countv home demonstrators niejterv is characterized by ease, light-; “Self-consciousness inevitably arises
offering for the members of their [ness, grace. V\e Mke to see actors play from those achievements which strain
picnic supper, which will be provided
jLny Girl Who . W ishes
Member of Party May
Applying.
to Become
l>o So by
by the Y. W
between 6 and 7
who wishes to be
party should not
! Hanson. Y. W. O
will
amount. A
conference
be served
clock Any girl
member of th“
Miss Florence
secretary, before
lbuting the stlp-
| caused grief for s.
! iffs the other day
' In Judge Hickey’s
j of stealing two pi
Justice Hickey Wa
: week and the cas<
■veral deputy sher
has been released
court on the charge
lirs of pants. As
t out of the dtv all
was billed for his
By JESSIE ROBERTS.
Managing civic orchestras Is work
that will Interest musical women
everywhere. There will be much de-
velopment tn civic entertainment aft-
er the war, or such, at least, Is the
prediction. People will have got used ..
to working together and to working
for big Impersonal things. And there
will be a great desire for the artistic
and the beautiful things.of life, after
so much of the tragic and the terri-
ble. *
Women are becoming more able to
manage and to frain than they have*,
yet been, because It Is becoming a
general habit for them to do so. They
are learning that they can trust them-
selves in new directions,’ and partic-
ularly ln directions that appeal to
them. Civic work of all sorts is offer-
Ing a field that attracts women. It
pays well enough, it is extremely In-
teresting, and women are at no dis-
advantage largely this Is the result
of the work of the women’s clubs all
over the country. Women have done
an Immense amount of civic work
through their clubs; they have inaug-
urated and carried through reforms
regarded as Impossible before they
grappled with the problems .nvolved.
And so, when a woman starts In a
business way to do something of a
civic character she finds that the pow-
ers that be are perfectly willing to
help her.
Miss Maynard carried through one
of New oYrk’s most successful civic*
musical enterprises last year, and this
year she is starting with even bet- *
ter prospects to give the people cheap
music of the best type and with the
highest grade of artists to work with
her. *
Many women with strong musical
repo
ollls
of the
court, the county attorney decided
that a week in jail was sufficient pun-
ishment and so Justice Hull, acting for
(boys and girl clubs. The morning [a piece, not work at It. jour powers. Whenever a man’s char-
’ was spent ln organizing and in exam- | And the most artistic thing in the (acter and genius are greater than his j
Inin* the exhibits. After luncheon ■ world is being good. , achievements his deeds will make nojgentusl are not fitted for concert or
poultry and egg Judging was the It is well to struggle and pray ind impresslfln upon his consciousness, he operatic work, but they could make,
program for the poultry club mem- exert yourself to resist temptation, but performs them as unconsciously as the ja sucess of conducting or of manag-
bers. The better bred and canning i hat sort of goodness is not pleasant flowers blossom and the birds sing. His i ing musical enterprises.
to_others. ,achievements are simply the inevitable j-----
ire not actually good and your [expression of hts character. On the CHICAGO QUOTA PLACED
AT 24.982 BY ADJUTANT
clubs were busy with making hot j
breads and canning vegetables
Monday evening various features .
of entertainment were given for the j
young visitors, including the
ties and a vlctrola concert. TI
roodness never takes on an attractive other hand, whenever a man's
luality until you are Just naturally 'achievements strain his ability or his
ter par-
strugg
for
to the
Tut
BELGIANS IN
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and '
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CAN KEEP Till
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Smith, Vernon L. The Tulsa Weekly Democrat (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1917, newspaper, July 26, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1076201/m1/4/?q=coaster: accessed June 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.