The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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LAWTON CONSTITUTION
Daily and Weekly, Published by
THE CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING COMPANY
TAX PAYERS LEAGUE
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF COMANCHE COUNTY.
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Daily, one week.
Weekly, «n «* year
TKHMH OF HlBHfB1TTION.
Last niprht at the court house, Judge J. R. Keaton,
representing the Citizens Protective League of Oklaho-
ma City, made a talk to a court room full of tax payers of
Lawton.
The object was to organize a branch league for Co-
manche county and a league wbe> organized with about 70
members.
We supposed the league was to agitate the tax propo-
ti on| sition and secure a study of the assessment, tax, and rev-
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11.00 jenue laws of the state, with a view of making them more
Announcements
1IMIGATION MAN AG EM EN T
Auy errmu'ou* reflection on the elm meter, stunilliijr i r repu-
tation of auj person, firm < r corporation which may appear in
in** ntliiurns of ino CoiistltutloL win he gladly corrected upon ltd
l>eliiK brought to the attention of the management.
matter, nt the p« atoffiie at Lawton.
Oklahoma under act of March 3, 1879.
I.
mid
Announcements for county of- ♦
flee will be published in this col- ♦
umn at the uniform price of ten ♦
($101 dollars, (a price of I' is C
fixed for candidates in county ♦
sub-divisions') payable IN AO- ♦
VANCE. ♦
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
The Constitution is
announce these men
authorized to
candidates
fair and equitable and also to study the expenditures foi ?®ce' subject to nomination in
j the democratic primary of August (S:
governmental purposes with a view of enforcing econ
For Congress,
SCOTT FERRIS,
-Tfth District—
of Lawton.
THE SCHOOL OF MINES.
Had not the administration better gather up that
$35,000 worth of machinery laying over at Wilburton for
the school of mines, uninstalled and install the same and
proceed to educate miners in the technical knowledge of
mining, as the law requires them to know, instead of let
ting it lay over there on the ground. Th 1 horrors of thi
recent mine disaster is a terrible argument. It is more im-
portant than the Vinita insane asylum at this time.
THE CHAMPION LIAR HAS BEEN FOUND.
The champion liar has been found at Chickasha.
Tuesday night, newspaper dispatches were sent out of
the "Queen City of the Washita" announcing that Fred
Linton, a Grady county farmer, had been killed in his
'field that afternoon by sun-stroke.
Forty-eight hours later, according to that same news-
paper correspondent, Mike Vaughan, a railway engineer,
was frozen to death in the Chickasha yards.
Any person who has spert one twelve-month in Ok-
lahoma will stoutly maintain that, in the production of
weather varieties as well as mineral deposits or crops, this
state will outrank the best of them. The most susceptible,
however, could scarcely be Induced to believe that a sun
which barely brought buds from fruit trees or a cold which
but little more than tripped the thermometer at 32 degrees
Fahrenheit could, alone bring death to a full-grown man.
Lawton has produced a few newspaper liars who have
been looked upon as holding high rank in their special
lines but these must now step down in disgrace. The palm
is hereby formally yielded to Chickasha.
DRAG VOI R ROA.<.
For District Clerk—
R. A. SNEED.
R. B. COMPTON.
For County Judge—
H. N. WHALIN.
W. C. HENDERSON.
For County Attorney—
A. J. BURTON.
J. A. DIFFENDAFFER.
omy from the governor's office down to the township of-
ficers. and thus aid in stopping any leaks and weeding
out any useless position that might existt in state, county
and township.
In this any citizen can join, and should be interested
in the expenditure and collection of tax money.
But Judge Keatcn, in his address last night emitted
a "veiled" corporation squawk that should arouse every
citizen to the point of examining very carefully what he
is helping do. He said that the state was issuing $2,600,-
000 refunding warrant bonds to take up outstanding state
warrants, but failed to say that the current revenues re-
duced this amount to $1,700,000 in bonds, and when Judge
Keaton was queried about the enjoining of the various
das ,s of taxes in the federal courts, he adc. .ed what the
lawyer terms a "confession and avoidance" by not know-
ing anything about such suits, notwithstanding he is one!
of the great corporation lawyers of the state.
Suppose every farmer in the state could go into ihej
federal court and enjoin his taxes, like the great cor-
porations have done, would there not be a shortage ofFor County Superintendent
For County
HARVEY
W. J.
JOE L
Treasurer—
MILLER.
DONALD.
PORTER.
The financial success of an irriga-
tion project depends on its mainten-
ance and operation as well as on its
design and construction. The engineer
in charge mutt therefore not only de-
sign and construct the system Cor-
rectly, but must also pay ve-y careful
attention to maintenance and opera-
tion to insure a profitable income on
the investment.
The problem of maintenance is com-
paratively 'e after the system has
| been propi-i,,. constructed, though of
j i ourse it is of primary importance to
keep canals and ditches in proper
| order so that each consumer may at
J all times get a proper amount of wat-
' er for his land.
j The proper distribution of water is
realized, in large projects, by an or-
! ganization consisting of a field force,
j an office force, an administrative force
! all necessarily working together. The
field force is composed of ditch riders
and water masters. Each ditch rider
ed only the main canals of the:r sys-
tems' leaving it to the farmers to con-
struct and operate the smaller canals.
This system required only a small op-
erating foree< but later this system
has been found unsatisfactory owing
to the ineffecient crganization of the
farmers and the larger companies are
now beginning to operate and main-
tain the entire system. This of cour se
increases the operating force and tho
cost of maintenance, but it also in
creases the efficiency of the system
and is coming to be considered much
more satisfactory and economical
than the older system.
The problem of measuring water is
coming to be one of great Importer. • •
to the irrigation engineer. In the
earlier days when there was an abund
ance of Avater, it was necessary to pay
very little attention to this phase of
the subject. The present units of
measurement for water are the min-
er's inch, the second-foot, and the
acre-foot, none of these are at all ac-
curate under the varying conditions
For County Clerk—
SANDY W. GREGORY.
DICK HARRIS
I has supervision of 10 to 20 miles of
I ditches and each water master has 10 in which they must be used and due to
't° 20 ditch riders under him. It is the,the difficult formulae which must be
used in figuring them are very un-
satisfactory. Various self-registering
devices for giving the quantities of
F'or Register of Deeds—
MISS CHARLA CRITCIIEI
For Sheriff—
WALTER E.
NIX.
revenue :
In territorial days the corporations controlled the tax-
ing power. Since statehood the corporations have been
taxed just the sa.ne as the farmer and the m:rchan,.
The difference is, the farmer and merchant are paying
their taxes, while the great corporations are going into
the federal courts and enjoining the payment and fighting
it so far as they can.
J. A. DICKSON.
W. E. G. HUMPHIMFS
HARRY E. THOMP.vuN.
J. A. HUTCHESON.
CLARENCE RYCOLT.
MRS. JENNETT S. CROSBY.
Judge Keaton suggested the employment of a law-1 JAMES A. ADAMS.
For County Assessor—
E. L. GORDON.
II. B. ROBERTS.
For County Weigher—
In many localities in Garfield county, farmers hav
been dragging the roads with the result that in those lo-
calities the roads are very much better than they usually
are at this season of the year, in spite of the hard weath-
er and more than the average of rain and snow.
Dragging is the most economical way for Improving
the ordinary dirt road.
Evidently It is going to be some time before this
county undei Lakes the construction of modern macadam
roads. If the farmers wait for this it will be necessary for
them to contend with the mud for many years to come.
This is the season when the dragging of roads is of
the greatest advantage. The Constitution is informed by
persons who are qualified to express an opinion on this
r subject in many parts of Comanche county cenditions are
„ *liow ideal for road dragging.
Whenever possible farmers should spare a little of
their time for the improvement of their roads in this way.
Drag your road- and get your neighbor to do likewise.
QUEER THINGS HAPPEN.
It must be admitted that odd things happen, some-
times, in the field of politics.
For example, there was a republican state convention
at Guthrie the other day which declared for the Hon. Ted-
dy, who is now championing the Initiative, referendum
And recall.
The gentlemen who were rooting hardest for Teddy
were the same fellows who were throwing all kinds of fits
a few years ago when the Oklahoma Constitution was be-
fore the people for approval.
There was Capt. Charles Hunter, foremost in th,
Roosevelt bandwagon, who conducted the losing fight
against the Constitution. And there was the Hon. B. M.
Parmenter, now a "prospective" for senatorial aspiration,
who made speeches all over Oklahoma denouncing the
constitution as "the most vicious document ever written
by the hand of man," much less proposed as a charter of
government for an enlightened people.
They told us then that, the Initiative and referendum
system was a populistic vagary, contrary to the republi-
can form of government and warned us that the president
would turn down our constitution if we adopted it with
such a crazy provision in it. Because the constitution pro-
posed by the democrats paved the way for the people to
rule and to curb the powers of corporations to do evil,
they declared it to be a highly obnoxious document and
with all the specious arguments at their command en-
deavored to persuade the people to reject it.
But lo, now they swallow Teddy and his whole
"Charter of Democracy," end hers is where every demo-
crat has a good laugh coming. At last the Oklahoma
Democracy is "vindicated" by Republicans.
Comanche county should be made the greatest dairy
county in the United States—and the silo will help do it,
and then the dairy farmers will be the plutocrats of the
i?*iru
yer to dig into the revenue laws and make drafts for the
consideration of the next legislature, and he also men-
tioned that one >f the corporations in which he is inter-
ested, had paid over $50^000 corporation tax last year
and would pay more this year.
Now we want the corporations treated just as well'
as any one else but no better.
No doubt there are many things that can be improved
upon, and made better, and we arc dead anxious to do it,
but the Citizens Protective League of Oklahoma City
enoc out its literature with a "non-partisan" printed
boldly across it and then the speakers commend the ter-
ritorial lawsi relating to corporations, and criticise the
administrations since statehood and propose a rewriting
of the revenue laws and in this the people must look out.
and see that one is not put over on them.
We must commence to cure taxation troubles at home
and enforce economy from constable to the governor's
office.
Comanche county welcomes a tax league and a general
discussion of the moneys collected and expended, but
we do not welcome a corporation squawk from a bunch of
fellows, who seek to put one over on the people generally.
Commissioner, Lawton District—
I?. F. HALL.
JOE T. CHEEK.
duty of the water master to report to
j the administrative officer any com-
plaints from his division and to ad-
| just them so far as possible, and to
j furnish the ditch rider with their daily
I schedule of work. The office force
works out the program of deliveries
j for the water masters, keeps all re-
cords of deliveries, handles corres-
I pondence, C' Meets for * the company,
etc. The administrative officer ad-
justs complaints either through the
water master of directly and has gen-
era! supervision of th< system.
There are two methods of water dis-
tribution: the continuous flow method
and the rotation method, each of
course possessing its advantage and
disadvantages. Ths continuous flow
method seems best adapted to use on
large tracts, while the rotating
method is better for the smaller
tracts'.
water used have been tried, but so
far have not given entirely satisfa"-
torv results.
The management of a large irriga-
tion system involves personal dealings
with a large body of men or various
classes and exceptionally good busi-
ness ability must be exercised to terve
consumers satisfactorily and to the
best interest for both parties. Besides
this the irrigation engineer must
know something of agriculture, the
water requirements for various crops
the units of the different methods
of water distribution and then adapt-
ability to different soils and crops, and
he should know the source of water
loss on a faint an dshould strive to
reduce this loss to a minimum.—J. K.
Commissioner, Western District—
S. L. COX, Mangan township.
J. J. DAVIS, Lincoln township,
Commissioner, Eastern District—
W. O. WEAVER, Brown township.
J. E. KILPATRICK, Crosby Twp.
AUG. Q. DICKSON, Geronimo.
JAS L. WILLS, Texas township.
J. lI. CARTER, Brown township.
Justice Peace, Lawton District—
SEBASTIAN ARMSTRONG.
Jones, Department of Mechanical En-
In the earlier irrigation days, canal! gineering, Oklahoma A. & M. College,
organizations operated and maintain-1 Stillwater.
SENATE WON'T SENIOR CLASS
TAMPER WITH OF HIGH SCHOOL
ARMY'S POSTS NUMBERS FORTY
For Constable, Lawton District-
D. MONCRIEF.
••'•USES TO CUT NUMBER
FORTS AS ADVISED BY
WAR HEADS.
LARGEST IN HISTORY OF LAW-
TON SCHOOLS; WILL HOLD
1-3 OF ALL DIPLOMAS.
INCOME TAX BILL.
The democratic income tav bill passed the lower
Home of congress by a vote of 249 to 41.
Seventy-nine republicans voted for the bill and there
were no democratic votes against the measure. The bill
would extend the existing corporation tax law to include
a tax of one per cent on the yearly net income of all firms
or individuals in excess of $5,000.
The democrats assert the tax is one on "doing busi-
ness" despite the fact that it would include salaried per-
sons, and say it would bring in sufficient revenue to offset
the estimated loss of 60 million dollars resulting from put-
ting sugar on the free list.
TWO SUGAR TRUST CHECKS.
When the bill to repeal the tax on sugar was up for
discussion in the House, Asher C. Hinds of Maine, arose
and loudly proclaimed that a certain ledger in the office of
the sugar trust in New Y'ork would show that the trust
had sent checks to the campaign managers of both the
democratic and republican parties. Mr. Hardwick of Geor-
gia replied. He said that what Mr. Hinds stated was true,
but that the same book also showed that the check which
had been sent to the democratic campaign headquarters
had been returned uncashed, whereas the one sent to the
republicans had been cashed and spent.
TEDDY MISTOOK THE SIGN.
The results in New York and Indiana, following im-
mediately upon the heels of the North Dakota primaries,
leads one to believe that Teddy, like the negro preacher,
mistook the "P. C" sign in the heavens and finds, after it
is too late, that, instead of command to become "Presi-
dential Candidate," it meant "Plow Corn."
The McCurtain mine disaster, where so many lives
were snuffed out, is a very potent argument against the
Akin bill, which destroys the school of mines at Wilbur-
ton. Every widow and every orphan is an argument.
county.
* i
Sam Byrd of the Devol Dispatch is getting out a
splendid local paper that speaks well for th* town in
which it is published.
UNCLE EZRA SAYS washihuiuh, Alarch 22.—The from Friday's Daily.
If all members of the senior class
"It don't take moren' a gill uv ef 'to abo'is11 about twenty-five army of th>e high school complete their
fort to git folks into a peck of Pos's declared by the war depart-
ment to be of no use, and when It re-
trouble" and a little neglect of con-
stipation, biliousness, - indigestion or
other liver derangement will do the
ame. If ailing, take Dr. King's New
Life Pills for quick results. Easy,
safe, sure, and only 25 cents at Jones
Bros.
ports the army appropriation bill
Friday that and and other provisions
will be stricken out.
The house preposition to cut the
cavalry down to ten regiments, make
all enlistments five years and con-
solidate several bureaus In the w
department, all will be reported ad-
I AVMCM fiDf AN17E versely. The senate military affairs
LA I lTlLn DIvI'iIIIliL committee adds $750,000- for equip
FOR GREAl REVILAL TJLT"""""
PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS
MADE LAST NIGHT FOR MEET- j
ING TO COME IN UNE.
I Breathe Soothing, Healing Hyomel—
Preliminary arrangements for the Relief in Five Minutes.
great Methodist revival meeting, to I Where there's catarrh there's thous-
be held during the month of June un-[ Ends of catarrh germs. You can't get
der the management of the two | rid of catarrh unless you kill these
Methodist churches in I.awton, were germs
completed Monday night at a joint
AWAY GOks CATARRH
You can't kill these germs with
meeting of the ministers and lay- j stomach medicine or sprays or douch-
two es because you can't get where they
are.
men's committees from the
churches.
What is termed the executive com-
mittee of laymen which will act as an OMEI a penetrating antiseptic air
advisory board with the two minist- that you breathe a few times a day
Y'ou can kill these germs with IIY
ers, Rev. J. S. Lamar and Rev. R. O.
Callahan, is composed of the follow-
ing men: M. E. Church—J. W. Crab-
tree, F. 11. Rugh, T. A. Runnells, C. S.
Betz and E. C. Westenkeehler; M. E.
Church, South—C. W. Jones, L. Bur-
ton, Homer Andrews, H. A. Cherry
and J. W. Perry.
The committee organized with J.
directly over the raw, tore, germ in
fested membrane.
For catarrh, asthma, croup, coughs,
colds and catarrhal deafness Hyomei
is sold on money back plan by Jones
Bros. Complete outfit $1.00. Extra
bottles of HYOMEI if afterwards
needed only 50 cents Rememher, HY-
OMEI does not contain morphine, co-
ON FOUR NEW CHARGES
W. Crabtree chairman; J. W. Perry,] caine or any drug that could pc?sibly
secretary; and H. A. Cherry, treas-j
urer. A finance committee composed' _
o, „. a a,,,,,-, c. & .„S , OUT ON BOND; IS BACK
Burton was named; likewise a com-1
mittee to select style and location of
a tabernacle. This committee is com-
posed of F. H. Rugh, C. W. Jones and| WALTER MAN MUST FIND NEW
Homer Andrews. The. question of
whether a board or canvas tabernacle
will be used is to be settled by this
committee.
The Rev. A. C. Holder of Shreve-
port, Louisiana, has been engaged as
evengelist for the coming meeting.
The next two months will be occupied
in getting the two I.awton churches
thoroughly organized for the revival.
You can say goodbye to constipa-
tion with a clear conscience if you use
Chamberlain's Tablets. Many have
been permanently cured by their use
For sale by all dealersi
BONDSMEN ON CHARGES
OF BOOTLEGGING
From Friday's Daily.
Henry Beasley of Walter had just
got home, Thursday after a trip to
Lawton to make bond in two cases
wherein he was charged with violat-
ing the state prohibition law when
county officers placed four new
charges of bootlegging against him
and brought him back to Lawton to
answer for the alleged offences.
He was brought up this morning
and expects to ba able to make bond
sometime this evening.
work this tip ring, there will be forty
graduates who will receive diplomas
commencement week. It is the lar-
gest class in the history of the local
high school, in fact, so large that the
one class will hold one-third of the
diplomas thus far issued from the
city schools.
These are the present members of
the class: Donald Blanding, Laura
Bullard, Vera Cox, Vista Couch, Ma-
rie Dunn, Gladys Gray, Ada Lewis,
Cora Ray, Daisy Ralston, Mae Scho-
field, Mildred Timmons, John Wil-
hite, Mabel Tincher, W. C. Brann,
Helen Records, Quincey Roberts,
Flossie Kindt, Fay Babbit,Mary Wol-
verton, May Stubblifield, Eugene
McMahon, Lela Herndon, Ethel
Overton, Clifford Crosby, Fletcher
Riley, Ruth Strother, Lionel McClure,
Marguerite Berry, Fannie McKenzie,
Pauline Riely, John Tague, Wright
Mosher, France LeMayne, Bess Grif-
fin, Paul Holt, Jay Keegan, Freda
Tague, George Morgan.
DESCRIBE WORK
IN AGGY SCHOOL
LECTURER FROM STILLWATER
TALK ON FARM WORK; PIC-
TURES TO ILLUSTRATE.
From Friday's Daily.
Last evening at the high school
auditorium, there were more than
two hundred gathered to see the
moving pictures am' h a' the lecture
by John C. Elliott cn whet the state
agricultural schools are doing and al-
so to give the public generally a good
idea of the class of work done at the
A. & M. college at Stillwater.
There were more than three thous-
and feet of film and had just been
taken last week, showing every
part of the college work and what
each student had to do. The pictures
and lecturers were very interesting,
and were thoroughly enjoyed. Mr El-
liott stated last night that arrange-
ments were now being made whereby
these pictures would be shown in
everj moving picture show in th<-
state so that all may see them. O. F.
Brewer and W. O. Corley, members
of the board of agriculture were here
also.
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