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DAILY ARDMORfclTE
DAILY ARDMOREITE
Ardmore Oklahoma
H. O. FPAULDIVG. Editor and Publisher.
TERMS OF Sl'KSCRIFTlON
The Dally Arilnioreite
One year $0.00 One Week ......... 150
Six Months 3.00 The Sunday Ardmorelte
One Month 60c One Year by Mall.-J2.00
Payable in Advance
The Weclily Ardmorelte
One Tear by Mail $1.50 Six Months 75c
Three Months 00c
Entered at the Postofflce at Ardmore as Second-Class
Matter
Member of The Associated Press
TELEPHONES
City Circulator 209 Business Office 5
Editorial Rooms C3S Advertising Dept. 5
Job Printing Department 684
The Ardmoreite Means Ardmore Right!
A BIG MAN HEARD IN ARDMORE
ARDMORE had the privilege yesterday of listen-
ing to four distinguished prohibition workers ;il
as many clinches including the renowned John
i. Woolley who has been a presidential nominee.
Rut of the four perhaps the Rev. Dr. Louis Albert
Ranks of Host on is the most remarkable. Dr. Banks
lor many years has been one of the most noted of
American preachers ami publicists. As an author of
hooks and a lecturer he i known l hroughoul the.
country lie is one of the "bis men" of tin- nation
and when one sees and hear; him in action the idea
i- likely to occur that we should have men like Ranks
in the I'nited States senate for instance instead of
smile of the nai row-minded nonentities who misrepre-
sent their state; in that body.
Dr. Ranks looks like a middle-aged man yet we
are told that during the past forty-six years he has
delivered upon an average two public addresses
each week in support of the prohibition of the liquor
traffic. Thirty-seven years ago in the territory of
Washington he was shot through the body by a
saloonatic but the bullet did not deter him it prob-
ably made him more determined to persevere in his
good work.
The meetings in Ardmore churches were in the
interest of worldwide prohibition. Now that the
United States has won against the booze clement
the Anti Saloon League of Amrica is going abroad to
carry the campaign into every nation. In his address
yesterday Dr. Ranks argued that the habitual drink-
ing of beer by the Hermans men. women and chil-
dren for generations was responsible for the brutistu
displayed by the seventy millions of (iennan people
in the war against civilization. It is a well-established
scientific fact thai lager beer indulged in for gen-
erations so acts upon the brain structure as to pro-
duce changes in thought processes which are inimical
to the well-being of society.
Dr. Ranks stated that the German-American brew-
ers have a fund of a billion dollars and are boasting
that they will re-establish in other nations the brew-
ing businesses kicked out of the I'nited States. They
are building already a huge brewery in China and
it is said that they intend to heer-brutize if they can
die four hundred and fifty millions of people in
China and India.
It the seventy millions of Germans could do what
thev did in the past four vear- what could six and a
hall
t ion '
as many people do
under similar brutaliza-
The problem is worth serious consideration.
We didn't count the wild birds seen and heard
in Ardmore yesterday with classification as to spe-
cies but there was a considerable chorus of them.
The Miami District Daily News being only thirty
miles from Joplin and gin. continues to iiisi.st that
Ardmore's wild birds are made thai way by bootlegger
denaturing which of course i not the ease; but to
id name ot our lair city as a sum-
resort we must he careiui nereauer.
abroad cMcrd'i . v e mav say a lew
conserve the
ircrv winter
There were
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hi
( lulv a
Ferry acting
tu'-rril civil
eoii lYrcnee in
vwi'-l.l iut '. - ::!
We 1 1 ..ill a I
'.he interna! tonal
mi it h t've-dav
trie m'.i
iinle oi generations ago Commodore
for the I'nited States opened Japan to
alion. Now Japan sits in the peace
ol representation Willi the
I'raiuv and Italy. The
lor ward.
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emp'.over remark today that if
co'. teiettc a: I'.enie manages to put
i'.oikiir: weil; throughout the world
hi iusi as well 'hut up .hop. "Hint
would lie in-; IV. ice as nine
; for von to llvnk over but
have Ihtii limes when we
;. Siind.iVs i't everv week.
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rdmore II'
'.e i:i mil'iiar
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ii school hoy- !
iormai'on.
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THE PACK IN CRY
ARDLV had the sound oi President Wilson's
voice in reading the constitution of the League
of Nations died away when the United
States senate pack yelpers began to get in cry.
The pack is not in full cry as yet perhaps owing in
some degree to the president's cabled appeal that
congressional discussion of the league constitution
await his personal explanation of each article therein.
Rut it will not he long until the yelp-yelp of the
togaed bloodhounds on the trail of world federation
will be heard from Maine to Mexico.
Already starting from the state of Washington
in the voice of Senator Miles Poindexter the cry
is heard faintly. Senator Poindexter finds the con-
stitution of the League of Nations unconstitutional
as applied to the constitution of the United State?.
The paragraphs relating to disarmament and to the
munitions trade he calls unconstitutional; the arbi-
tration clause he terms ''unconscionable" whatever
that means; ami the article relating lo mandatories
along will) several other provision; the Washington
senator calls "abhorrent."
Senator Poindexter is worried lest the League of
Nations constitution if accepted by the United
States will impair the sovereignty and independence
of this country lie appears to overlook the fact that
there are no longer any "independent" nations in the
old sense. New world conditions have made it im-
possible for any one nation to stand afar off from
all the other nations and tell all the other nations that
it has nothing to do with them and never will have
that it is absolutely "independent" of them and doesn't
care a linker's cuss-word what they may do. Instead
of being independent nations have become interde-
pendent. That does not seem to have percolated to
the Poindexter brain. Very likely there are oilier
senators Johnson of California undoubtedly is one
who take the .same insular view who are unable
to keep step with the progress of the world toward
co-ordination of authority for the mutual good.
A big fight is coming in the United Slates senate
for the ratification of the League of Nations program.
The opposition is massing' its forces. There are some
senators who for partisan reasons alone can see
nothing good in an "administration" measure. There
are others who belong to dead and done ages and are
incapable of advancing with ilie .splendid procession
of progress. Their minds are provincial they do not
think broadly they think in barb-wire entanglements.
The war is won so far as field fighting goes but
now comes the war to make the field victory worilt
while. The "next war" in which America lakes part
will be fought out in the United Slates senate.
America will win too despite the yelping of the sen-
ale pack in full crv on the trail of world federation.
President Wilson at Chateau-Thierry
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UNDER THE IMAGINARY
STATE HOUSE DOME
By CHARLES H. ADAMS
Staff Correspondent
Campbell Gait nephew of Rep
John L. Gait of Ardmore who re-
cently resigned his position in the
lease department of the school land
commission has become associated
with C. II. Hyde of Alva in the
oil business at Frederick. Hyde
and Senator Thomas Tcsterman
as trustees have let contracts for
the drilling of oil wells in the bed
of Red river on tracts the owner-
ship of which has been in dispute
because of the conflict in the
claims of the two slates in the Oklahoma-
Texas boundary.
on the Norman in-
dispute it developed
Shartel vice nresi-
iuanager of the
At a hearim
Krurban fare
that John W
dent and general
OklahoiiKi Railway ("nmnnriv
paid twice as much as the salary
received y Governor Robertson
.shartel gets $0000 a year. The
hearing was before the state cor-
poration commission and involved
the raising of the Oklahoma City
-Norman rate from 31 to 43 cents.
term
Tulsa
it 'I rmlorivooil tf- T'niWwond.
President leaving I lie railroad slalinn lo enter his aiitu for a drive arminil
I lie fanitiiis lily. In we witli liis on eyes where I. S. soldiers made history.
Mrs. Wilson is eiilerini; the Kalt'Way.
Samuel Robert serving a
iu the penitentiary from
county after conviction on a charge
of embezzlement was given a sixty
day parole in order to have his
teeth repaired. According to a re-
port to (inventor Robertson Rob-
ert cooked up the "teeth excuse"
in order to get a parols so he might
be married.
THANKS TO UNCLE SAM
S1
cine reforms. Kven the ministers
called on him at the jail anj tried
to point him to a better life.
The penetentiarics and jails are
full of men just like John who
never received a wind ot praise
for the thousands of kind deeds
they had done ; but jis wail till
they go to jail and some folks
will even send I hem flowers and
something good to eat. lo show
how i.'ood thev are themselves.
l.CRKTARV HAKI'R did well to call public at
tention lo the war-risk insurance provision lor
the American soldier as "the most generous
and most forward-looking in its policies of any ex-
periment ever tried by the government." Let us
tpiote briefly from what he said last Saturday':
"It is fair to say that in spite of the large army
we summoned into the field the largest army the
United States ever has had by many times the sum-
moning of this army and its separation from its home
caused les distress among the women and children
of the country lhan any previous experience of the
kind we ever had."
In the multiplicity ot matters engaging our atten-
tion some of us might have overlooked this import-
ant fact had not the secretary of war thus called at-
tention to it. There has been more or less of ad-
verse criticism of the handling of the troops both in
field and camp but the insurance protection for the
soldiers and sailors and their families should go very
far toward tiiieting the critics. In this war the
I'nited States has done many things never dreamed
of in any previous war. but perhaps the most amazing
new thing was the insuring of the fighting men and
the provision for relief of their families at home.
With four millions of men mobilized necessarily
there has been some delay in looking after all cases
of home distress but the general scheme is deserving
of high praise. Only a highly enlightened ami hu-
mane nation would have undertaken such measures
and only a rich country like this could have carried
them out.
In former wars i lie thing was lo get the men to
the fighting front and the home-folks were left lo
take cue of themselves altogether. A possible pen-
sion of inadetpiaii' amount iu case of death or
wounding was the only prospect for the soldier oi' his
family. In this war every soldier had life insurance
privilege anil now this insurance is to be made perm-
anent at the will of the holder-lifelong protection at
a low premium and u good snug sum lor dependents
or heirs at death of the iu.uied.
1; was unavoidable that many thousands of good
men go; killed or disabled but Uncle Sam surely
should he commended for having made provision
against distress o1" dependents through his remark-
able war-risk i l s'.irae.ce phi i. This is one of the
things always to he remembered when ou begin to
feel that niareis might have been handled more skil-
fully during the war.
a rike
it is
;tood
i THE SEATTLE IDEA.
! Portland Oregonian: 'The
'at Seatlic is as disipiieihig as
astounding. Union labor ha s
(irmly for the right of collective
' bargaining. Now a sec; mu of iiniot'
I labor having entered into a certain
'bargain to work iu the shipyards at
j a cert a i wage for a certain time re-
: pndites its own contract.
! The contract was made on behaif
of union labor by its leaders and
! authorized representatives. The
terms of the award were made by
j the M.'icy board of which one mem-
: her was appointed by the president
' representing the people one by the
i United States navy and the I
i genev Meet Corporation anil-our
I by Samuel Gonipers for the Amer-
ican 1'ederat ion of Labor.
'The strike is a repudiation of ar-
bitration. It is a repudiation of the
I policy of collective bargaining'. I;
the government had practically for-
bidden. All the way from Maryland down
to 'Texas and out into Oklahoma
there is a quickening not only o;
road building work but of the spirit
which makes for vastly greater
road building activities in the fa-
tine. 'The revival of house build-
ing the renewed activity in the cou-
truction of municipal buildings and
churches and iu the betterment of
sewerage and water systems all
speak well for what the near future
will develop.
'The suddenness of the armistice
brought about a change which nec-
essarily halted war activities and
made it impossible to take up im-
mediately the aetiviiies of peace
davs. No one should have been
surprised at this interregnum be-
tween war activities and the re-
vival of peace work. The south.
apparently catching i:s
Governor Robertson plain to
make a thorough inspection of the
penitentiary at McAlester soon.
It is understood that he is well
pleased with conditions at the pris-
on and it is thought that Warden
Samuel Morley will not be displaced.
PiESSMAKEH
SAVED FROM
OPERATION
By Taking Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound
in Time.
Ithaca N.Y. "Three years in I
utlered from pains in my right tide to
severe that I could
not raise my feet
from the floor. Pains
would shoot down my
limbs and through
my back and tho
doctor said 1 had
an abscess. I was in
bed two weeks with
an icebag on fny aida
and expected any
day that 1 might
have to go to a hos-
pital for an opera-
tion. A friend came
to see me and told me of your won-
derful medicine Lydia K. Pinkham'9
Vegetable Compound. 1 began taking
it and after taking six bottles 1 feel
well and strong do my own work and do
dressmaking for others. 1 cannot speak .
too highly of your medicine and recom-
mend it to others who Buffer with female
trouble. It is a Godsend to ailing
women and you may usa my name at
any time.' Mrs. PERMIU.A HuLKtzEB
218 E. Fall St Ithaca N.Y.
Women who suffer from any such ail-
ments should not fail to try this famous
root and herb remedy Lydia K. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound.
IllilllllllillliUllillllllllll
Cotton county
man count v.
and thirteen in Till-
The conference of cotton grow-
ers of the state called by (jovernor
Robertson several days ago has
been set for 'Thursday Feb. 20.
M.
1". Benton former congress
man from the fifteenth Missouri
district was a visitor in the senate
and house Saturday.
Governor Robertson has issued
a requisition on the governor of
Missouri asking tor the extradition
of James Jones and Frank F. Lew-
is held in custody at Joplin on a
charge of having stolen an auto-
mobile the property of 11. 11.
Woods of Oklahoma Cit.f. It is
claimed that they drove the car to
Joplin and sold it.
however is
gait ami leading ott partly by rea-
son of the fact that it can do road j
vvoik ilnring the curly snrinir to!
advantage than other sec-i
and it is now planning ag-.
! grcssively tor an immense amount!
of road building and road repairing.1
'The South has awakened to the
' great task of road building and it I
! appreciates now as it never could I
'have done before the necessity for
j Saturday was the fortieth legis-
j lative day of the Seventh legisla-
hire and only twenty days of the
i statutory period of the session re-
main. After March 8 members of
J the two houses will receive only
! $2 a clay and it is estimated that
j a least fifteen additional days will
I be necessary to complete the work
of the assembly. Governor Kob-
: ertson Iris signed eleven bills.
Because Saturday is Washing-
ton's birthday and a legal holiday
and also 'he date of the convention
of the Oklahoma League of Young
Men's Democratic Clubs it is ex-
pected that the house will adjourn
Friday afternoon until Monday.
better
tner- i (lulls.
The senate'
sion was held
has been meeting at 1 a.
several davs. ''he senate
1 :30 p. m.'
Carter and .Murray counties have
had only one senator and two rcp-
i rescntatives on the elgislature most
of this week. Judge John I.. Gall
of Ardmore. D. S. Hoover's eol-
- . league m the house has been il!
; tirst torenoon ses- a . . .
I tor more than a week and enator
Saturday. The house !.. hrNili nllcl m h.
home at Davis early in the week
because of illness in his family.
m. for
rule is
is a retiihli itiou ol tne bargain it-1 good roads.
self. It is a repmn.itiivi of thej We shall sec in this section a fuil I
president. It is a repudiation ot ;i;7: ;. die eaoiial :i mni.!
lated during the last two veai's p'.it I
Only eight bills four in each
house were introduced at Satur-
day's session. The total introduc-
ed in the house has reached 4.iJ
and the senate's total is 276.
Thursday and
Friday's ses-
Se
nip. represented
and the intcr-
who subscribed
It is a repudta-
aud the orderly
differences. It
tAOVKRTISE THE GOOD
Hy Phebe K. Warner
In Fort Worth Star-Telegram
i
rid
he j'
' 'v .'eat am
.csi loilowed
'ien s;K. did
or of her te
i'cr and Ins
lather was a
'iev worked
i'. II is home
.c.i ;.'; nioveu ironi
I s ; he'r home follow -
I I is mother w .is ii.iili
uietu.i! invalid. She
tiieiii to ill.";' w oi k
not she sat in the
and watched them.
fng.it and at lea-t one niehl in' l):iv" in do
every week he would have to roll within two
ed c.d go for a doc-1 churches.
( Mice iu a wiiiie ;'ie doctor would ;
s l.uhcr broke down. give John a friendly pa; on the I
wandered awav. loim-back rid sav "loim vou'll get i
not leave his mother lo ;o vour reward some day for heim'
look ior his father that night but I good to your mother." Jim I
he found him the next day ten j that was all the encouragement he
miles inn home. 'The poor old man's j ever received from anybody. Not
mind could not endure such a life! even his father seemed to annre-
KUiany longer and he liad decided (olciate that lohn was a voting bov.
1 1
hoard
Oil
or.
I no nigh: i
gave up. and
con.
llie missionary
blocks of
wo i K
tiieir
i'U' it was always staked I ) a
-o near their work tney could see
her or hear her call.
No matter how hard or how hot
tiie day John worked with his
mother uppermost in his mind lie
prepared his own meals and his
Mather's meals and was always
spending his spare time ami money
for some delicacy for his mother.
Whei night came John helped his
mother into bed and tucked her in
like a el'ild and when he was sure
she was quiet for the night then he
tired and weary from the physical
and mental strain of hard work and
worry would roll tip in a blanket
and lie down on a shirt waist box
roach to sleep. Seldom ever a night
passed that he was not awake and
up several times to wait on his
mother because his father was too
nearly worn out to work all day
and be up at night. John's mother
had a way of always feeling worse
leave for good llui lohn reasoned
with him and finally persuaded him
to come back to his miserable little
home with a promise he would try
to do more of the husevvork nights
anil mornings and take more care
of his mother so that his father
could get more rest.
All summer long this went on.
It had been going on for years.
Hut no one knew how much the
heart-aches and self-sacriiiccs
A'ithin that little tent except the
doctor who made his irregular
night calls. Very few people knew
the community heartaches like the
doctor. There were one or two
neighbors beside the doctor who
tried to brighten up that little
home. But that was all in a town
full of church and missionary so-
cieties and good-meaning folk?
But this missiomry societies were
loo busy studying "China's New
living an old mans lite and doing
the work of a man by day and a
woman by night.
At last temptation came as it is
sure to come and John nude a
mistake. To hide it he deserted
his tent house and his boxed bed.
In less than two days everybody
knew who he was. 'The country
officers were out after him with
their guiis. Everybody was talk-
ing about him now. Everybody
knew him now. He was that trif-
ling good-for-nothing fellow who
lived in a tent and was always
prowling around nights. Several
folks gotild remember secin? and
meeting htm out in the middle of
the night. They finally rati him
down and rut' him in.
nd while he waited for trial in
the county jail the good folks kept
him supplied ' with leaflets and
tracts and all kinds of patent medi-
union labor leader-
in Saniin 1 ( ioinper
I nat ional president s
! to the agrccineni.
j t ion of good fait h
i ad justment of w agt
j is an announcement that union la-
bor iu making a contract can nor
i be compelled by moral power or
by law. lo carry it out. It is a
I deelarat ion that union labor reserves
the privilege and right when it
makes a bargain to withdraw l'toiii
it at will.
The larger interest of labor ev-
erywhere in the Seattle strike is in
the integrity of labor's covenant-.
Shall the whole principle for recog-
nition of union!. .in and iis right t.
speak for labor and to bargain for
it. be maintained bv labor itself of
shall il be throw il ov erboai d for
some new idea m policy? Hut what
idea or policy? I
: Mas ac ion vv liaU ver that is per-j
i haps lint w hat i v er it is it is not '
I an orderly process heretofore conn- j
i tenanced by union labor and not I
' countenanced now by any of them ;
j except a few hotheads at Sealfe !
and other Washington cities. j
finite e'eat'v if labor eenerally i
yields ;o ill - demands of the radi-
: cali -in . i: is an end ot unionism'
the unionism which has made great '
i gains during the List several years ;
and which has found acceptance of
j its principles or inanv of them bv i
'employers and public. Now the old'
policies the old leaders the old
siriiciitrcs ot unionism are to le
pushed aside and labor is to take
new wavs if the Seattle idea pre- '
vail-. ' !
It is a grave ciisis for the public.
It is a graver crisis for labor itself.
Shall the Seattle tail of. radicalism
and revolution wag ihe great animai
of labor throughout the nation?
into substantial development activ-
ities into road building into man-
ufacturing enterprises into the
opening up of mineral and oil in-tere-ts
and in the building of dwell-
ings in the cities as well as on the
farms. The South is on the hig:i
road to great activ ity.
The senate at the Saturday ses-
sion killed the hones bill by which
it was sought to increase the pay
of district court reporters.
t
I sions many delegates tn the sev
enteenth District conference of the
I Rotary Clubs were visitors in both
i houses. Governor Henry f. Allen
I who was to have addressed the
Rotary convention 'Thursday ai-
I ternoon ?nd a joint session of the
legislature Friday afternoon wa-
i unable to come to the state.
The school land commission 1;
advtjising for bids for leases on
sixttracts of land in the bed of
Red river There are sixteen tracts
in Jefferson county thirty-one in
'The advance of the jitney hill by
the senate has again brought bet-
ter city-to-capitol street car ser-
vice. The bill has passed Ihe
house.
l
SOUTH OI HIGH ROAD
TO GREAT ACTIVITY
(Reprinted from Manufactures
Record Feb. ( 10101
Xo one can turn to the con-
struction department ot Ihis paper
and read the items which tell of
road w ork of si reel improvements
of municipal buildings of great
manufacturing and mining enter-
prises without being impressed with
the rapidity with which the south
is adjusting itself to peace .condi-
tions. The revival in road-building work-
is as rapid as could have been an-
ticipated. Indeed it is almost as
rapid as could have beet asked con-
sidering the difficulties of taking up
work which for the last jear or two
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