McCurtain Gazette. (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 68, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 15, 1919 Page: 4 of 8
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Visitor We
Welcome
You
Moris
Idabel, Oklahoma
Make McCurtain gazette
MorisStorc 1 ^bushed semmveekiy by the gazette printing co.
Your
Headquarters
I Postoffice at Idahcl.Oklahoma, asl^Tclass mail matt^
Moris' Removal Sale
Here's Your Chance
To Save
BIG
MONEY
Ladies
Greatly
and Children's Cloaks
Reduced Sale prices.
Clothing Bargains
Men s and Boys' Clothing
Superior Quality Standard Makes
All Models
All Sizes
Any Style—Slim,
Regular, Short
S1BS( RII'TIOX $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
| W. J. OLD. EDITOR AND MANAGERT
WOULD MEAN RUIN \X YWAY.JFARMERS AND LABOR UNIONS.
I Nicholas Marry Butler, President1 The farmers- have 7o quarrel with
[Columbia University, in an address organised labor, and arc in full sym-
in New York, said: Must the Amer-|p,thy with its legitimate aim,, but
lean form of government commit sui-j they fel a little dubious abut the
cide in order to give to industry bet- more radical measures .which involve
,ter and more satisfactory organiza- the production-stopping strike the
lions'" He further said: "When in-'decreased workings andno dis!
dustry is viewed as a co-operative en- crimination in wages for efficiency
•terpme m production then it follows Figures carefully gathered have
that those who work with their hands, proved that the average farmer after
like those who work with their brains paying his expenses receives for his
land those who work with their sav-| personal labors, a lower wage than is
ugs aie entitled to take part in the demanded by many unskilled union
organization and direction of the in-jworkers at trades in the city. Yet the
dustry and to have a voice in deter-1 farmer must wrok on in the face of
. mining the conditions under which rising cost cf production, or what
their co-operation shall be given and would be the result?
U'The"6'''!,!! k ' Moreov*. 'he continued forcing of
The gentleman may be a learned wages in town is having its effect up-
manand would be more able to han-jon the farm wage. As an editorial
^le the school children and the foot-, in the Country Gentle-nan points
, baU games then some others, but he out: '.Under present conditions
(certainly has not given the labor, farm warges are 'sky high' and still
problem much study. We can see no 'going up. Three, four and five dol-
dtfference in the government com- lars a day asd board-and why not
mitting suicide through the unreason- when masons are getting cigh dol-
abe demands of iabor than to makp lars and the only .Salification 1 the
share holders in your busi-jpossession of a union card? But if
demand r6ThS "° '"I"0" !?!' 'ab°r' "T6 Prites are t0 Penail the land,
I demands. They want everything and what about the cost of food? If the
j give just as little servioe as possible, farmer pays these wages, then food
, fen^" conten'led a" along the flood will of necessity go up because of the
■half th t M8 COrUn',y 15 musing increased price of production. If he
half the trouble. Labor should be refuses to hire, asd gets alon- hv
i paid their worth and no more and himself, then he will produce less
some men are worth more and should and prices will rise from sheer scar
receive more. city." r Bcar
?1000 FOR LOAD COTTON ,i,Perh1PS- " better un(lerstanding of
! lea' situation on the farm would
I Memories of the old five-cent cot- bofnrnbl bt'tt<!r "di08tmcnt of the la
I ton days were suggested vesterday ■
when J. E. Sloan of Center .old a or. organization which
I load "f cotton on the streets 'of Ada fare"*for "in" "h"1""" W"r-
'for $904.38. Men who saw the mark- , f°'' increased wages without
jet advance 13 points yesterday paid !i" '""T tcIy also for incrcas-
little attention to stories demanding
!for cotton, but many farmers were1!! . ' , worker, is at the
in town who could recall the time! 0f"'hV " r the very source
when nine hundred dollars would buy i it. if' SUpp es a slluat>°n which in
two entire crops of cotton Y M m "'"I"1* ,he S°'Ution of his
Sloan brought in on"n, wagon a! t ; °:, ^ PrCSS'
load of cotton that brought him ex I i f8rm hand to
■ actly $904.38. Some of us who quiiisee u" isT' ^ " WC
growing cotton along in the nineties ' ' ' advances.
Fat T hardly understand the sensation; So as prohibition prevails
of receiving nearly a thoiwi.n,i
Overloaded
There is a limit to the load anything can carry.j/lt
is easy to see the overload when some one is trying \o
get it on a wagon. There are other burdens far more
difficult to handle, but that are not so easily seen.
The greatest burden any business ever has to strug-
gle with is that of trying to keep on its feeta when its in-
come fails to meet expenses.
Your telephone company has to buy labor and mater-
ial; and it must meet these expenses by selling service.
It you overload it with operating expenses that are great-
er than its income, it can't keep going.
You certainly want the girls and men who are de-
voting themselves to giving you telephone service to have
fair wages. And you know how much it costs to buy any
kind of material these days.
So, you see, the telephone can only operate if its in-
come is sufficient to meet present expenses.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL
Telephone Company
GJwi—i
f
at
BETERSHOES
AT
LOWER PRICES
Winter Underwear, Hosiery, Sweat-
ersy Skirts, BIousss, Wool Jerseys,
A11 Kinds of Dry Goods, House Dresses
Same Goods-Less Money
Come and See Our
Sale Prices
Big
Removal
Sale
Moris
Idabel, Oklahoma
The place
where you
i SAVE
DOLLARS
I of receiving nearly a thousand dol- j strikes will be in order, remarked
;lars for one load of cotton.—Ada I gentleman the other day. In former
s" lycii,s a mail could get rich on a pintl
' of good booze, that cost 50c, now it
j The piesent wet spell is damaging takes $10 to get rich, hence the ad-
| all unthreshed wheat. Hundreds of,vance in wages.
acres still remain in the shock, to say T,
nothing of the stacked grain. The . "'an who l10W-a-days gets by
farmer is in a bad condition an'd un- the fal<e schemes, is lacking in wealth
less fair weather is ushered in again
| thresh^np*Thi'-! hJs ^en'an^nusMl' jusTatT"'!'ak8 * 'lry Weather
' place" th°r hk'ah0ma tHe fi-^forapiir3„fTh«sr. al<ean0t8
I place, the wheat acreage was very!
[ large—a hundred per cent greater
than in any preceding year. In the1
second, the straw was very heavf and
j nearly all of it lodged before harvest-'
ing could be done. In the third, har-'
I vesting machinery and threshers were
inadequate to handle the big crop in1
jdue season. A shortage of labor fur-!
jther complicated matters, and to cap|
j the climax there was a shortage ofj
cars in which to ship the grain to mar-
ket. All these adversities have tend-
ei to ''elay the farmers in getting!
their grayi on the market, and as a
result many of them have sustains j I
seious losses—Hobart Renublican
I" ' I
ii every newspaper in the coun-!
try would Stop printing a word about i
; these intermindable strikes and lock!
—uts and squabbles generally, there I
i would SOOS be an en,I to the wholei
troublesome mess. Publicity is
I life of strike.—Bennigton Tribune.
In some particular cases you are
: ™rrect. But, in others you are wrong
The printers have a right to strike
lor they are the poorest paid peop',
of a I mechanics. We don': mean the
blacksmith printer, nor those who on-
j ly wait for Saturday night. The man-
agers or owners are to blame for not
< harging the price so they can pay
the printer like other mechanics. Pa-'
j per Stock about four times higher, ink
the same, wages twice as high, yet
the average country editor charges
he same old price he got before
these advances. If there was any
good sense or business in cutting:
prices and fighting each other it
nutfht be different.
Public Sale
Will have a public sale at my home near Cisco, 5 miles
west of Idabel on
Saturday, Nov. 1st
\Yill have for sale the following articles:—
1 WASHING MACHINE
1 COOK STOVE
2 BEDSTEADS
1 SAFE
3 ROCKING CHAIRS; 5 DINING CHAIRS
1 HIGH CHAIR '
2 WASH TUBS, 1 WASH KETTLE
3 SETS BED SPRINGS
FARM IMPLEMENTS *
AND'C^Txnte°RHN DKEEE: Rm"iG C0EN
1 JOHN DEffRE RIDING CULTIVATOR
1 9-INCH BREAKING PLOW
} QrnNiCIL?H,V55£HILL BREAKING PLOW
1 STILL BEAM GEORGIA STOCK.
1 SCRATCHER
1 GO-DEVIL OR DISK HARROW
LIVE STOCK
1 MARE AND 2 18-MONTHSOLD COLTS
c. s. morrell
Near Cisco, 5 mile? west of Idabel.
the'
Vice President Marshall, in an ar-
ticle published in the New York
thinks the great organized
middle class is bound to be heard
from if conditions of living get too
hard for them. Well, strikes and
higher wage demands are in order
and this class would be out of line if
they didn't get in. the push and make
it known they are poorly paid.
Many of our farmers are so far be-'
with their cotton picking they
would mis, the fair if the weather'
should clear up.
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Old, W. J. McCurtain Gazette. (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 68, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 15, 1919, newspaper, October 15, 1919; Idabel, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc141571/m1/4/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.