McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1920 Page: 4 of 8
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M'CURTAIN GAZETTE
and thereby save coal.
We can pre
is coming to value character.
superfluous
women
, I - — — in England,
and more it asks less about a man's but women are not rendered super-
vent the washing away of soil and the
HOT DAY
Published Semi-Weekly
by the Ga-
other great wastes of fertility. There
technical skill
his fluous merely because there are not
concerning
zette Prinitng Company
real constructive work enough to
character and habits of life.
There ■ men enough to marry them.
do in the United States to keep all
day when a brilliant drunkard
hands busy at labor which will bring
had a pretty fair chance in business
That day is past and gone. One of
the first things an employer wants
us more than two dollars for every
dollar expended and we shall be con-
serving
world
of wealth in re
sources now being wantonly exploit
ed or wasted.—Cappers Weekly
Entered at the Postoffice at Idabel,
Oklahoma, as second class mail
matter
Subscription $2.00 Per Year in Ad-
vance.
W. J. OLD, Editor and Manager
A PATHETIC EAGERNESS
There is going to be a settling
time some of these long sunshine
days and then some folks will realize
.. . * . , «ays anu tnen some folk
is *.^:Lwhere they are sittin*-su<* °ut-
habits. Th„ „ "LT"."_.:i lra«feous Pr,ces cann°t continue al
BEWARE OF PROMISES
All the Latin-American republics
and all national divisions of the
western hemisphere have now joined
the League of Nations, except the
United States and Mexico, and prob-
ably the last named stands aloof on-
ly because of its violent internal dis-
sensions. This is a remarkable fact,
commanding attention. The eagerness
of practically the whole new world—
except the United States—to enter
the League must be due to something
more than the perceptible Latin-
American doubt and distrust of Un-
cle Sam as the custodian and executor
of the Monroe doctrine, doubt and
distrust that have grown since the
Panama incident. Apparently this
eagerness is due primarily to the
same motives actuating the small
European nations that have joined a
League designed to prevent or check
desolating wars. The king of Nonvay
voiced the attitude of the weaker na-
tions in all parts of the world when,
in announcing his country's entrance
into the league the other day, he
said: "The League of Nations repre-
sents the most considerable effort
made up to the present develop the
rule of justice among nations and the
future of the league depends upor a
development based on the accession
of all civilized nations, a general
limitation of armaments and the ob-
ligation to settle peaceably all inter-
national disputes in order to avoid
war."
This eagerness of the similar na-
tions to put themselves under the
wing of the league is pathetic in its
revelation of their acknowledged in-
divdual helplessness as well as signif-
icant of the need of such a combina-1
tion of nations as a force for interna
habits. The first consideration with
a banker when he loans money is the
character of the person who seeks
the loan, for he knows that the man
ways.
The Tulsa World warns Oklahoma . ,, S 'hat the man
City people to beware of Hamon's! ° W'!' pay hi® debts and
business projects while the political ££
ball is still rolling. It savs: 1
The man who has not mastered
himself, who has not learned the
basic control of his own thoughts and
insurance jactions- can "ever hope to control
are keenly interested in I ™er®« has no right to exercise a
Mr Hnmnn " i f / ' • I companies are keenly interested in j ers' ne nas no n*ht to exercise i
.HtLf r, r u I* '" K charact" "t and women who p0Wer of control' > •'< he can be
>litical circles, has suddenly appear- I k„M . .. tnwn°i?in with i,;™„„i „
political circles, has suddenly appear
ed in Oklahoma City after a visit
through the east in pursuit of a vice
presidential nomination. He arrived
in the state capital talking a big, new
hotel and railroad station combined.
Which reminds us that the delegates
to the republican national convention
from the Oklahoma City district are
in dispute, and recalls the fact that
utnder Similar circumstances Mrt
Hamon made the Enid folks wild
promises of three or four prospect oil
wells. Our advice to Oklahoma City
is to have the drafts cashed before
signing on the dotted line. These are
days when prudence should govern.
Mr. Hamon's visit to the state cap-
ital was made a business one, al-
though the captains and lieutenants
foregathered to learn first hand from
him just what is going to happen in
the afterwhile.
The republican state commitee is
called to meet in the capital city on
May 3, and on that date Jim Harris,
Cincinnatus-like, will leave his plow
on the Wagoner county farm and con-
fer with those who are assigned the
task of wresting Oklahoma from
democratic rule and placing republi-
canism in the ascendency. Harris, a
seasoned farmer, is training up for
pin with
j dian.
himself—Pittsburg Guar-
hold their policies, and they are ex-
treniel}) suspicious of grafters and
libertines. Men and women of known j * * *
character and established raputations ! The report that "they are selling
are always in demand in the business i ' * over the bar" at Ardmore has led
world. I the Ardmoreite to wonder if the fed-
In every city there is a group call- jera' constitutional amendment is
ed "prominent citizens." Most of working in that town. May be so,
them are men and women of charac-
ter. Some of them are not.
There is an "upper ten" or a "four
hundred" in society. In every group,
whether it is in business, in society,
in the church, lodge, store or work-
shop, you will find men and women
of character. They are marked men
and women and they stand out from
the mass. They may not have very
much money, but they have some-
thing that is more precious than gold.
What is superior character?
It is not to be guaged by the mon
but, perhaps, the mash is working
faster than the amendment.—Pitts-
burg Guardian
Today we reproduce the article of
Edith Johnson's in the Oklahoman, on
"Character is the One Great Endur-
ing Power." This article should be
read by every young man in Idabel.
It should be read in the schools of
this city until every boy could repeat
it at home and to his companions. It
hits the keynote and is true. Read it.
""""
if you^r " " ^f \ t''eniUS' jn,onth' The do^keMs^uchThat it"'
Who h e rare persons | expected that the term will last for
special™or ,n talent or any:ahbout three reks-At the rat" —
tv,_ .... sniners are being captured in thi«
«cheai'irxr'trTst,11 win likeiy conti- —
the task, but many of his lieutenants gre^t^actresses 'S "r" ■ * * *
are as yet unseasoned for the duties wholly without char ■ At 'he PreSent rate of unrest in the
set before then,-Harlow's Weekly. Jter the are r , ' C"' C°U"try and the dema"^ "f labor
Jake come to Oklahoma about 15 nothinir worse h„nn f lu ""'L 'f h,prher wapes and k'as work
• maybe 12 years ago, a poor man t-.-i PPens to them, the.v going to disrupt the country. We
Atlanta, Georgia, restaurants have
posted signs advising customers that
they will not serve potatoes in any
form until the "price goes down." If
customers, of restaurants would pla-
card themselves with the announce-
ment that they would not eat pota-
toes in any form, until the "price
goes down," 25 cents-per-order of po-
tatoes would go away back and hib-
ernate in the kitchen departments
Ardmoreite.
* ♦ •
We get so lazy we can't work when
we look around and see so much fine j
polk salad growing and people talk-1
ing about catching so many white'
perch. Its disheartening and really its
a shame an editor has to work seven
full day£ in a week and some box
kneed son of a sea cook then tell
him he don't do anything. There's
a law against murder, but there
should be an open season once in a
while on such occasions.
Specials
for ladies and children
We are offering for a
limited time, our entire
supply of white Canvas
Pumps and Oxfords at a
sacrifice in prices.
Idabel, the enterprising seat of
government of McCurtain county, has
doubled in population during the
past ten years. The papers an-
nounce the fact in great big, box-
car letters. If the census returns
shows Ardmore to have doubled the
Ardmoreite promises a scare head
which will back their head clear off I
the board. Seriously, however, Idabel
has a right to crow. It is one of the
best little towns on the east side of
the state.—Ardmoreite.
$3.50 value
$3 value
$2 value
$2.65
$2.25
$1.49
at the
For more than fory years we have
studied the newspaper game from ev-
ery angle, yet in spite of these years
of experience, every once in a while
some young sprout will bob up and
tell us how to make money out of the
business. This same guy oft times
Moris Store
where values reign supreme 'j
Horn for whales; I am now in the
Northern Pacific Ocean after whales.
I think of nothing but whales. I fear
your labor would be entirely lost up-
on me, and I ought to be honest with
you. I care for nothing by day but
■v rs~j un iiiiii'A iur iiuuung Dy day but
could not repeat the first line of the whales, and I dream of them by night
multini lfn f «/>n . . «. ... J
or maybe 12 years ago, a poor man 1^1 in°? .'j"""' "ley[gomK to d'S™Pt the country. We
has grown into millions. He potenLmie, °" ' f°r Wa^ at this
it and we like Jake because - * ; time who are livincr
and
made
tion of nations as a force for interna- . , . ^ause; In a great financial nan
tional righteousness. This hope of j ake 's a bl* n:an- not a bi* rePubi- mi(idie of the last century all thelif. , f, . ,
nrotection on th* nnrt nf tho n-«oi-flr Ican' u* a kig fiancier and he de- hank nmirimifc ^ they howl and talk about
. . . . , lime who are living better, their fam
great financial panic in the ilies have more than ever in their
protection on the part of the weaker ' " '.K "e ue- bank presidents of New York ritv I 1 , 1 talK 36
people ought to put the stronger na-: ™ jrecognition. Don't be uneasy | heI(1 a meetj 0 ^ C,t 'ess. hou,'s "<! >°re pay. Let
tions on their honor to make all pos-! abon* J'ke P'jU""-' Oklahoma in the exchanged experiences on the amoum S°°ner ^ be'ter'
tions on their honor to make all pos- about Jake putting
sible effort toward its gratification. < RepubI'can column
But will it? Prediction along this
line, in the present state of the world,
is idle of course yet optimism is bet-
ter than pessimism. To hope for good
results may help to secure them.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to ob-
serve that, in spite of the assumption
in this country that with the United
States holding aloof the League of
Nations is and must be a complete
failure,' the peoples of the world and
of our own hemisphere are rapidly
joining with hopeful hearts this com-
bination that proposes to prevent or
check the hell of war.—Four States
Press.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
t . , VA"'""6ro cAjicxieucBs on tne amount
way, Jake is better off as " 1 « thathhad "een drawn from I
stands and JSke is not going to hurt dUnng the day~ j
Jake's financial interest for a little Tcent IfTh l Kh 35
honor. So let Jake build the big ho- ,„J °f " V ^elr.'de|)os'ts Moses Tay-
tel, he will be the proprietor. r-- rcported: "We We are authoized to announce the
had $400,000 in our bank this mom- following as candidates for the var-
MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD in"' Toniph^' wc have 5470,000. So 1 ious offices subject to the action of
ALONE P"6® ^'as the con^ence of people the Democratic primary, August- 3
|,n the character of Moses Taylor that, 1920:
Twenty-three firms and individual, T deposited in FOR STATE SE\ATOR OP MTW
in North and South Carolina h v, ^ C'ty. bank m0ney theV had drawn A ' E SENATOR OF 24TH
multiplication table. God endowered
some folks with brains and some
nerve and some wise man has said,
every man to his own trade." Ev-
ery once in a time you will see a few
men in a town start up a paper, hire
a printer, get skinned out of several
hundred dollars and then sneak out a
much wiser, and not near as rich,
If you should open my heart, I think
you would find the shape of a small
sperm '.vhale there."
PITCHED BATTLE
W. R. Morgan, J. J. Bomer and C.
C- Bonier, who were arrested near
and quietly unload a junk shop upon ®rokcn Bow ,ast Friday night by
an innocent bunch of folks. Ta Tn Stamper, deputy United
get there Eli. " ' '[States marshal, and W. W. Thoma-
I son, special enforcement officer,
i were carried to Hugo Saturday
i night. A pitched battle occurred
i north of Broken Bow between the
■ officers and these men who were al-
leged to have been engaged in illi-
A PRE-OCCIPIED HEART
North and South Carolina have^ f," T"
been indicted by a federal grand jury ,, an s'
wow many young people realize!
SENATORIAL DISTRICT:
JOHN W. SCOTT, Idabel
(From Baptist Informer)
A profane sea-captain came to a
mission station on the Pacific, and
the missionary talked with him upon
religious subjects. The captain said,
I came away from Nantucket after
whales; I have sailed round r,„„
cit liquor traffic. None of the of-
ficers were injured, but it is believ-
ed one or more of the alleged illicit
distillers were wounded. A bier
*:n * "
the charge of consoiring to in-1 i, . ,. . 77. * -
that substantial success depends more ..nD
" upon character than what th v REPRESENTATIVE:
squandering our
ance.
INHERIT-
JAS. DYER, Jr.
BAUL C. THORN
^. H. HUNT, of Cisco.
(a farmer)
W. A. CARTER
crease the price of bread. The nen- , .
alty is a fine of $5,000 or 2 years n !" ^TT ^ they k"°W
the penitentiary or both. ! a"dt What 'hcy have'
Any activity against the profiteers 1W'L^to Tr""- '"f b°'h
is commendable. But the price of ^ashlngton *nd Lincoln to the pres-
brcad is the least of the average fam- T SmCer!'y be'ieVe that "
lily's troubles. What it costs to buy " charac'er- more than any one oth-
' a suit of clothes or two good pairs of q ! °n that the People of
Who would believe a newspaper shoe5 woui(J ^ the ave-age family1C°Untry want ln their ne*t pres- FOR COUNTY JUDGE:
>uld ever ask its readers to borrow in bread for nearly two 'year, I' ' They want honesty and sterl-1 J. WILL JONES.
It is the 300 per' cent increases in I"* ,.^fy Wanl.no trickster' j D. PARKS
clothing, 400 per cent increases in the1" "h' P ^ey want one
price of shoes. 400 Der cent inrrpnsp °.m 11 may be 8ald' that' (for county attorney:
would ever ask its readers to borrow
the paper of their neighbors instead
of subscribing for it? A big news-
paper in a big city was compelled to
do that very thing a recent Sunday
because of the paper shortage. Near-
ly all big dailies are limiting the
space of their advertisers. One Kan-
sas City paper is using small type.
Two years ago newspapers could
buy paper for 2 cents a pound. Now
it is 12 cents and one of the biggest
paper mills predicts it will go to 15
cents by June. Americans use pa-
per in so many ways that it takes 9,-
000 acres of forest daily to supply the
pulp.
We are using up all our natural re-
sources rapidly. Our oil will be gone
in about 20 years. We have been ex-
ploiting and rapidly impoverishing
our wheat ground for years. Coal and
steel are to fail us at no very distant
time as ages go. The intelligence of
man is already being put to the test
to find substitutes that will keep him
alive and comfortable and fed
clothed.
price of shoes. 400 per cent increase: °',m " 68 sa,d' that'
in sugar, the 500 to 600 per cent in-i !'V? him that
crease in cotton goods, that either | ™ fn?, ■ —
singly or combined are driving house-! man " ' 6 WOf ' 's a|FOR SHERIFF:
wives and providers to distraction! T. ' ... . ! ~
and are the causes of a thousand J£r th t- T ^ " "H
strikes better than his achievements; some-j
Yet. we are a most patient and en- '"f" hi« materJal wea!">; |
more county clekk:
humble dandelion." Therefore if he ^ ^ a,,d "ulture an,! I DERRYBERRY
Government wishes to encourage us TI'"" T", , """T °f Un'l0UM"j LE°N A" WHITE
only capable of limited action' cha™eter is
let it make a , dependable source of power FOR COURT CLERK:
C. D. WILKINSON.'
N. PARK
A. W. (Bud) FELKER
JOHN STEVENS
Use
against the gougers, let it make a ye,terday, today and forever It is
drive on the worst offenders-start both , raus(. am| resuIt _E(Jith c
at the top and come down the line— nl.i ,
i i , , , Johnson, in Oklahoman.
instead of working from the bottom
upward.—Capper's Weekly.
F. M. BROOKES
MAYO JAMES
OUR OFFICE HONORED
EDITORIAL NOTES
FOR COUNTY TREASURER:
R. C. OLDHAM
FOR TAX ASSESSOR:
b. t. brown
s. K. young
delbert s. randolph
Our office was honored Wednesday If some folks put as much time at |
evening with a call from Judge A. C.I work as they put in trying to get out!
and j Brewster, of Pryor, Mayes County, j of work they would earn more
j Okla., who is sitting on the bench at . . .
1 et we are never supposed to be so Hugo instead of Judge Barrett, whilr- wu, „ „„ ,
prosperous as when our export ship- Judge Barrrett moves to his new J Pe°P'e COnc"iv,> th" F0R ('OL'-S"rY WEIGHER:
ping fills the world's trade routis. home he has recently purchased hf f . A. R. WILLIAMS
Stimulated production helps to make Judge Brewster is an able Jurist ami ptlnL to ston voHn"'' "" h""e,t I J' W' SKELT0N
times good," to make the people a ■ is a candidate for Judge of the Crimi- ' ' N. H. BRIDGES
little more "prosperous" for the time nal Court of Appeals. He is a nice I ,, * * *
Labor can howl all they want to FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER:
Stork Brand
Fertilizer
Look the country over and the
majority of the prosperous farmers
are the ones who use fertilizers.
Stork Brand Fertilizer for sale by
McCurtain Cotton Oil Co.
Idabel, Oklahoma
« «««««• w v*. fijifjcajs. UK IS a
cing, to create three score or more polished gentlemen and a lawyer of .
great fortunes a year and a new crop renowned ability. He will try to meet Ut are heing paid better Than
of millionaires, but in the long run the voters later and explain more ?T •bef°r<! an<l <,<>n,C kind o! lnbo'
we are parting with something that!fully his wants. He may be here to " * pa'd more than they ''ain.
cannot be recreated for us or for hold a part of our next term of court. ..
those who come after us. We are cx- — ■■■■ Now comes the report that ov< rails
ploiting priceless treasures for a tin- ( HABA'"vrER's THE ONE GREAT, soaring higher each day. Since the
fad the working men are having to,FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER-
pay exorbant prices. Every fad ha- (District No. 3)
,tsb,tter- . _ ; g.G. MERRY
(District No. 2)
H. x. WHITTEN
J. E. HENDON
W. F. POWELL
W. A. LOFTIN
ENDURING POWER
sel prosperity.
forTththem°ldthWOrldA eXperie"Ce bf'! "We would raThe7have a small ac
shmdd h v h . Pe°Ple count with a BOO<l behind it
should have begun to develop a con- than a large account in the name of
servation policy 50 years ago. Roose
vett as President strove for such
policy, but many of the things he did
have since been undone.
We can use the billions of horse-
power going to waste in our streams
a man who does not stand , too easy to £t Md of T fn' F°VlST,CE °F ™E PEACE;
best things," declared one of the lead- unrest among th^ lading cUs^ of " W J°NES
rag bankers of th.s city. "The bank people. Money should be worth 100 FOR CONSTaIEIT"
account that is backed by character cents on the dollar.
is the account we are looking for." | .
More and more the business world There are said to be two million
B. F. RICE
HUBERT ALLBRITTON
ERNEST S. LANDRETH.
Increased cost of Labor and Material
since 1915 is about 175 to 20o per ct
K8.^C0MPARED With your
INSURANCE at this time.
.&whWu 'S"ce j
MUELLER & RONE !
GENERAL AGENTS !
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