The Chandler News (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1904 Page: 1 of 12
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The Official Paper of Lincoln County.
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The Chandler New s
First Paper published In Lincoln County. H. fe. Gllstrap, E-dltor and Proprietor.
VOL. 13—No. 38.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, JUNE <>, 1904.
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$1.00 A YEAR.
IMPORTANCE OF ROAD WORK.
THE following editorial from the
Meeker Herald has our hearty-
commendation : "The roads in
South Lincoln are now in a bad con-
dition, on account of recent heavy-
rains, and a united effort should be
made by farmers and business men
to repair washouts and make general
improvements as expeditiously as
possible. "A stitch in time saves
nine," is an adage which applies.
Now, when the ground is soft and
easily worked, is the time to fill
ditches and mud holes and smooth
down the hills. Second in import-
ance to raising abundant crops, is
the establishment and maintenance
of good roads over which to haul
them to market. Considerable at-
tention to the methodical improve-
ment of the roads has been given by
the commissioners of Lincoln county
during the past year, and it is hoped
that they will proceed with the good
•work, and that road supervisors and
the people generally will encourage
and assist in the movement. The
county that has the best roads will
attract the most attention, induce
more rapic^ immigration than its
neighbors, and make rapid advance-
ment along| agricultural, manufac-
turing and commercial lines. A Chicago paper
furnishes a strong argument in favor of load-
building, under judicious systems and direction, t
in the statement that many farmers in eastern
Illinois are selling out and moving into Indiana
on account of the fact that better roads are found
in the last named state. This should prove a
valuable object lesson to territories and state?
that are desirons of attracting new settlers, and
of course every state would be included in this
list. When it is fully appreciated that good
roads are not only an advantage in the line of
actual saving and convenience, but arc also a
valuable asset in the shape of advertising to !
attract new settlers from other states, there will
be more of an effort to improve the highways and
bring them up to standards of modern excellence.
JCor can it be c: icsti.>ned that when thr id. i tr.
■firmly rooted in the minds of the people there will
grow a spirit of actual rivalry between the vari-
ous states and especially those whose borders
adjoin each other In order to keep up the pro-
cession of good road building. In other words
it will be impossible for the residents of one state
or locality to sit complacently by and see an ad-
joining state or locality attract farmers and others
to such localities on account of superior roads,
and the result will be that every community will
do its best to improve and maintain its highways
in a manner that will furnish just as mucl advan-
tage to its locality as could be found in an; - other
part of the county.
A GREAT TRUTH.
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N° MAN can ever succeed who hopes
to get a better position by defaming or
dragging down the reputation of another.
There is onlx one way to win and that is
to do your work well, and speak ill of no
one, not even as a matter of truth. Any
other course leads to fears, tears, woeful
waste of life-force and oblivion. There is
only one way to win the favor of good
men—an<4 do you care for the approba-
tion of any other?—and there is only one
way you can secure the smile of God, and
that is to do your work as well as you can,
and be kind, and be kind.—Hubbard.
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' 1 "HE good people who are looking for some-
thing to criticise might give their atten-
tion to the recent payment of the traveling ex-
penses of the members of the governor's staff
on their trip to St. Louis to ^ee the big fair.
The amounts.ranged from $58 to SI 15, and the
territory received no benefiit from their attend-
ance that we are able to see unless the presence
of a little gold lace around the Oklahoma build-
ing would be counted an advantage. These
staff officers are probably able to pay their
own way, and even if they arc not it is hard to
understand why they should take in the Pike at
the territory's expense. The auditor probably
found that under the law the claims would have
to be paid, and the go^ ernor perhaps could not
be blamed except for an error of judgment in
having chosen men for his staff who had the gall
to take advantage of such a law. Undoubtedly
something should be done to fix the law of these
staff officers, for it is only a short time sine •• the
papers told about the territory paving the e--
penses of a trip to Florida for some of our offi-
cers. What a snap to be a staff officer!
THE suggestion concerning the establishment
of a cotton mill at Chandler has met with
general approval. The average yield of cotton
in this county for the past three years, fts shown
by government reports, was 27,400. This
ought to be cotton enough to supply a mill.
GOVERNOR CRITICISES CRITICS.
E have read with satisfaction an
interview with Governor Fergu-
son published last week concerningthe
criticism of the Oklahoma exhibit at
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
The governor truthfully says that
these criticisms all come from peo-
here at home—that the people from
other states are surprised at the
magnificent showing made. He
might have added that most of the
criticisms came from people who
had not seen our exhibits and who
knew nothing about them. Some
who saw the exhibit in the Agricult-
ural building did not know that there
was another in the Horticultural
building and another in the Mines
and Mining building and another in
the Education building. Wre. know
of one editor who criticised severe-
ly the educational ^xhibit and who
did not learn until afterwards that
he had seen it on the day that the
carpenters finished their work and
when Prof. Temming had only be-
gun to install the exhibit. Another
kicked about there being no cotton
in our agricultural exhibit, only to
learn afterwards that the Oklahoma
cotton had been lost in transit and
that our commissioners, after six
weeks' searching, found that it had been deliver-
ed to the Texas fellows and was being proudly
exhibited by them as a Texas product. It seems
that in most cases the critics have spoken with-
out first having investigated. There are two
reasons why Oklahoma does not make as big a
showing as some of the states: First, the ap-
propriation available wns much smaller; second,
the space allotted to Oklahoma was much less.
Some states with appropriations ten times that
of ' )klahoma excel our exhibits only in .quantity
and extent not in quality. A member of the
management of the exposition said to Gov. Fer-
guson that if they they had known that Oklaho-
! ma could make such a creditable exhibit they
would have given us much more space. The
governor suggests that if any person sees any
respect in which the exhibit could be made more
creditable to the territory he should, if he is a
loyal Oklahoinan, notify the commissioners, so
that the improvement might be made. It is in-
tended by the commissioners to make as big a
showing of this year's products as possible. The
appropriation has been but little more than half
expended, and non^ of the expenditures have
been unreasonable except as to the c < st of build-
ing, and that was something that could not be
avoided under the existing conditions. One dis-
appointment to The News was that there were
so few photographs on exhibition. In no other
way can so good an idea of the territory be giv-
en at so small a cost.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1904, newspaper, June 9, 1904; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117786/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.