Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 63, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 24, 1919 Page: 4 of 8
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DAILY ARDMOREITE
Ardmorc Oklahoma
JOHN F. EASLEY Manager BERT LOVE Editor
GEORGE H. WYATT City Editor
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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CHIEF HANDING OF BUCKEYE REPUBLICAN CLAN SENDS UP THE
SMOKE SIGNAL OF WAR
AltKWIVM LINCOLN' said: "Let every American every lover of
liberty every well-wisher lo his posterity swear by lire blood of the Itevo-
lirtion nit it to violate in the It-a-.l particle (tie laws of the country anil
never to tolerate I heir violation by others."
Tuesday December 23 1919.
It is never too late to mend nor to buv and use Red Cross!
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OPPORTUNITY ALWAYS A KNOCKER
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L.R CJFTFD FR110NI) the editorial writer for the Muskogee
Phoenix makes this remark: "Opportunity knocks once at
every man s door i ea verily I'neomx once and man'' many i
many times more. j
Opportunity is always a knocker. !
So far as we are aware Opportunity is just about t h
persistent insistent knocker there is.
Opportunity does the knocking; it's up to you to do
boosting.
When Prof. Bvron W. Kintr was delivering interesting
Fihakespeariac lectures at the Ardmore High School recently
he told the editor (hat the late John J. Ingalls really was the
author of the celebrated sonnet "Opportunity" attributed to
the Kansas senator. The matter had been in dispute. Pro-
fessor King said that Ingalls to whom he had taught some of
the arts of speech showed him the original manuscript and
orne correspondence from the Century Magazine which first
published the sonnet.
A brilliant orator was John J. Ingalls. and a long-time
senator of note; but he will be remembered for centuries very
likely as the author of the opportunity sonnet when his states-
manship career is forgotten. And that's a pity for "Oppor-
tunity" is the loveliest and most insiduously dangerous lie in
literal ure .
According to the Ingalls notion Opportunity knocks once
:nd once only and then goes anil returns no more! All of
'vhich of course is the veriest rubbish so far as it relates to
l;u-t.
Opportunity knocks so hard on the doors of many of us
hat he will pound the panels to pieces unless we wake up and
;ake notice. The trouble with a lot of us must be that we are
full of dope and drowsing and can't hear old Oppy knocking.
Or maybe we fear it's the landlord knocking for his rent or the
milkman with his bill or a book-agent!
There's nothing wrong with Opportunity. Old Op oper-
ates day and night brother lie comes not once alone but he
is at your door always. Me works and knocks while you sleep.
The only time that old Opportunity will "go and return no
riore" is when he lays his little sprig of remembrance upon
our new-made mound in the graveyard; and maybe who
rrnows? maybe Opportunity even then is but just beginning
lo tan-tap-tap at the windows of your soul!
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MRS. WILLIAM H. PREHN
GFNTTNF SORIIOW came to many persons in Oklahoma
and particularly to the staff of The Ardmoreite when in
yesterday's news dispatches was announced the death in a
Frisco railroad wreck of Mrs. William H. Prehn devoted Red
Cross worker on her way home from this state to Webster
Croves Mo. to spend Christinas with her loved ones..
Only a few days ago Mrs. Prehn was in Ardmore giving
I -or lime .-mil talent and her great woman-heart to the work of
the Red Cross. She had been here several times and upon
each visit she widened the circle of. those who held her in high
esteem. A woman of most charming personality Mrs. Prehn
made friends for herself and for the Red Cross cause wherever
she went.
Less than a week ago Mrs. Prehn called to see the editor
of this paper and other members of the staff. As she was
departing from the office the editor happened to remark that
a certain young woman in Oklahoma whose name had been
mentioned had a most interesting line of work. Mrs. Prehn
admitted it but she exclaimed: "Oh but I also have a most
interesting line of work ! Isn't mine really the most interesting
in the world !" Then she passed downstairs and out of our lives
but not out of our memory and our reverence.
She was an enthusiast in Rod Cross endeavor. Her monu-
ument she builded for herself in the hearts of those she helped ;
i'.nd surely that is more beautiful than marble and more endur-
ing than bronze.
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New York Sunday newspapers will cost country buyers ten
cents a copy beginning January 4. The price is to be doubled in
-r5 s.-'-w.
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j. ood news stock on their comic supplements. The Sunday Ard-
moreite will continue to sell everywhere "at a jitney a joy-read.
It is a much better Sunday paper than is either of those pub-
lished in New York not being burdened and blighted with a
comic supplement.
Only one more day after this one take advantage of The
Daily Ardmoreite's special Christmas offer of reduced sub-
scription. Don't you want to save $2 and get the best daily
paper published in Ardmore for a whole year? This depart-
ment presents the circulation department this free advertise-
ment and remarks to the c. d. that The Ardmoreite is going to
be better than ever we'll say it is this coming year and if
folks don't read it 'twill be because their early education was
neglected.
The editor of this newspaper wants about fifty or fifty-
seven more authors of "The Kaiser's Dream" to turn in orig-
inal manuscripts of that illustrious pome. You know the thing
-that one about the kaiser dying and going to hell and the
devil saying to him "Well Willum you're It I abdicate in
your favor" or words to that effect. The "Dream" is by all
odds the rotten est pome ever pomed and it has more devotees
apparently than any other piece of punk literature extant.
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The private notion of present company who in his callow
j ears had some modest and inconsequential things to do with
the noble art of prize-fighting always has been that Jess Wil-
j lard belonged to the profiteering school. His case as to alleged
j profiteering in the sale of his wood in Kansas caused this reader
j and writer no surprise whatever. Jess profiteered mightily
i every time he stepped into a prize-ring. Present company said
j so at those times and never yet has changed his mind. Willard
j was absolutely the punkest fourflusher that ever wore the.
padded glove. The way the sporting public stood for that
phony gink was pitiful. But the public loves to be prof-
iteered !
THE PRIMACY OF OKLAHOMA
(From the Tulsa World)
Tin) ailvaru'i' in lli; ii;i" u
p.'t I'uli'iim in a t'i in 'i nri' I iu' s
nato as to I'M'ile no division of
whatever. The eeorii'iriiie reason
pro luel mi
a.irw the
P'-lroh urn
i!i il (thi! rapitl ileelino of
In tint Texas I elili provi'
primary of Oklahoma in Wi
itiilustr.V.
It h.n t.:en only n lew Wi-Vf
thu rapidly ine.riasinn pmilu -Ir
tho T.-i.-. fii'M .iir '.ii' iii il I v
Not jileasi! iii..M"a'Vi' Ui.ius" .if.: e'i al-
ly eMnhlish'-il "iijiply in ex s r de
mand lint liei'Mlse lure was .1 snpniy
ecnsi.int ly inere.istnu. the inaxii"i:m i t'
whieh was an imkrn All far. or. App.tr
ntly thoMipply w is bent on out runri inj;
stnrane and marketing finalities. Con-
seiiieruly there were days when exisl-
inn values trvmMed. H is true that n
drop in the market p: iee was exported
by those bi st posted 0:1 petroleum
eeolloniie
It is no: sinlieient to measure oil val-
ues by the broad law of supply and de-
mand. In a very fjerier.il sense that
!a.w governs values hi peiroli urn. as all
else liut there are fartors vliie!i can
and do upset U temporarily. When a
new !iol is suddenly opined ;md wells
be'in to entire in showing sensational
prodnetion an unknown laetor is pres-
ent that of neei'ssi'.v threatens. If the
flelil noes on lnereasina prodiietloii and
ih" initial llow ot Wilis i-ontinues to
hold up; and if trie new prospects eon-
thine to come in regularly showing no
limits either as to area or resource tho
stability of the industry is threatened.
Men Hk one a not her : "Where is the
limit'.'" .Manifestly if the limit is far
enotje.li away values will tumble. Should
tho fabled mother lode- of noli! be (its-
covered suddenly values all over the
earth would tumble precipitately; com-
merce and industry would down in
a tremendous crash. The production of
I 1. new Held may riot have reached the
1 point where added to existing pnnlue-
j lion the supply is in excess of tho de
mand. Ihlt tliero is created the un-
known factor.
And in addition lo this marketers
ha.vi) presented to them the real and
iiterial necessity of investing new
1 crude I funds in additional ei aipuient. In face
1 form-j of the unknown factor such Investments
opinion j an- unusually ha.atdous. The money to
mipeil-1 tory have know 11.
make tht.-e improvements arid exten-
sions cannot be picked out of the air.
The suppiy of petroleum at the point to
be s'-rveil by 1 ho new improvements he-
since I 1 11 if 111 excess
!l of I redtli eil even
dues j cumulated; sin
1 at- I All of thas.
exist in To Me
k.'1'udnally tho
had 1 11 sh.j4
Properties whii
noun rial proline
each year to lirlp with the assembling
and packing of the poet's Christmas
boxes. r wan no small task either
for the candy must be just so rind the
dates just a certain .size and the nuts
of a distinct kind. And when they were
at last procured they must be assem-
bled after a set fashion and packed
in an oddly attractive way that marked
the Kilcy Christinas boxes as dis-
tinct. No one who ever received one
of these boxes can forget it any more
than be can forget the friend who .sent
t. From "I.izabeth Ann" to the "liaij-R-cty
Man" they went their joyful way
the boy-heart of the Uoosier poet c'ot-
faeililles tile price is linir ceo rooi-. i.li.nn.-. In tl..l. o.Ir.1.
chance of any ac- jn;. tjKii the recipients did in receiving
in excess of demand. hern.
conditions bade lair to; .'Hv people knew how much .lames
a. tew weeks .ai;o. Put j Whiteoinb Itiley really did for his
unknown laetor which i friends for he was not the kind of man
in; i-o.t disappeared. 1 who talked of these thirips. Put at
1 hail show 11 a phe-j heart ho was boyish and generous and
in; ability began to do- : Impulsive and in a thousand 'little
sensationally. New I ways passed aloni; happiness to tiiosi"
I the tit-Il was limit- for whom he cared
lble to fairly estimate Always Krarf DieKens
rion of the iieiv . ( 1KJt i.i;.Vo .lames Whiteomh
aiin.ale ineasur juicy even spent a Christmas ilav 111
I the I his Krovvn up life without readin'
I'lekens Christmas Carols" Mr. Dickey
continued. "This he did if he did notii-
Int; else. It was a ritual with him.
lliley was particularly fond of every-
thing Dickens wrote hut the Chrb'.tmas
Carols was the book for Christmiu
day. I'sually the lloosier poet had u
late breakfast and 11 big one read the
morning paper opened the innumerable
gifts that were showered on him then
to his beloved volume whieh always
occupied il convenient plnoe on his
bookshelf. He said this story of Dick-
i ens invariably revived his youth. In
j the middle of the day he wouid dine
I always at borne if possible then to his
! study to write the letters that were
The Sunday Oklahoman came to this city minus its edito-
.1 page. We incline to wonder if Mr. Harrison and Miss
i Johnson otherwise Walter and Edith were so overwhelmingly
overcome by their reception at the Ardmoreite Readers' Kound
Table last Thursday night that they couldn't contrive an edito-
rial page for Sunday. Or was Harrison conserving print
paper? Probably not for we observed the c. s all right -
which initials stand for comic supplement.
1 chno even more
prospects intlicat
ed. It became po.-
the total possible produ
Texas lieids and this 1
ed against world demands disclo.
fad that production was still behind
demand. I leuco the appreciation in pe-
troleum values as indicated by the price
advance of Thursday.
Texas is not what the oil vernacular
calls a "blowd up sucker." Jt is produc
ing a tremendous amount of oil. It wiHJ
continue to do so. Operations there will
continue to offer reasonable prolit to
tho skilled producer financially able to
play tho gam". Put as a factor it is
known and measured against Oklahoma
this state wins. No state of the union
no country of the world compared to
Oklahoma as an inviting Held for the oil
producer. There has never been any-
thing wildly sensational about Uklaho-
France's heavyweight champion G. Carpentier refuses to
run for election to the French congress. G. should come over
to this country and run for the United States senate. That body
needs somebody in its midst who could knock out a few of his
cluttering colleagues for the good of the service. And if M.
Carpentier will act upon this suggestion we'll tell him where to
begin putting over the kayo.
ma producing areas. They start conser-
vatively; there arc tho usual percent-
ages of failures. Put oil properties here
continue to produce. A fortune may not
be made in a day by a single well--as
in siiiim other sections. P.ut neither is
a fortune lost in 24 hours by some well
suddenly subsiding forever.
The possible. Oklahoma area is prac-
tically unlimited. What has been done
in oil and by oil in this state is inllnlt-
eslimal compared to maximum possibil-
ities. The next three years will witness
greater activity in the Oklahoma oil
IH Iils than any three years in their his-
I so dearly prized often illustrating them
and sometime poring over them until
j mill-night."
I There are not many people I imtig-
j Inc. who will think this for themselves
an id. al Christmas day program llul
lit is sure that those who received lip'
letters thought it a perfect one for the
friend who wrote them!
"We. shall rejoice if you are glad and we shall weep if 4
you are sad" rhymes a Christmas pote in The Oklahoman. So
far as we are concerned the present we there will be plenty
of rejoicing if you are glad but we're saying right now that
we shall not weep if you are sad that's your funeral. Two
weeps never make a laughter and it is to laugh!
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We hope Emma and Aleck will be deported before Christ-
mas; and out of respect to the happy season we express also
the hope that their ship won't be Lusitaniaed.
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You still have time and opportunity to contribute of your
abundance to the Goodfellow fund in Ardmore. The notion
;at prosperity is general is a most erroneous notion. There is
much need for immediate aid right here in Ardmore the far-
famed oil city. There are women and children who won't know
it's Christmas unless you help 'em toward knowing. They'll
be like that fellow out in the Healdton oil field who never
knows it's Sunday until the comic supplement comes along.
A PERFECT CHRISTMAS
DAY
V roll's Idea of What il Ouglil to Ite
.Marcus Dickey Author ml' "The
Youth of dames Whiteomh Kilcy"
Talks About His Friend and the Way
the llnosiir Poet Spent Christmas.
i; i'.i.iz.m;rn mok(;.v
Nearly every one has bis own pecu-
liar ideas of what constitutes an ideal
Christmas day and so far as condi-
tions will permit usually spends the
day after the fashion of bis choice.
James Whiteoinb Kib-y was particular-
ly insistent on enjoying bis Christmas
after a given plan said -Marcus Dick-
ey the poet's biographer in a recent
interview about Kilcy. .Mr. Dickey
who was the poet's secretary and
friend for marry years is the author
of a volume entitled The Youth of
James Whiteomh Kilcy Just published
by the Pobbs Merrill Company and his
knowledge of the llnosiir poet is an
Intimate and an interesting poet.
"Christmas was a very (b ar day to
Mr. Itiley" Marcus Dickey said reniin-
lscrnlly. Possibly this was because he
never unite got away from his own
boyhood that age when the mid-
winter holiday season dominates every
other holiday ltiley's Christinas poems
have for years been the delight of chil-
dren and sjrown-ups all over America
SWereil: "lie
quietly. Kilcy
home on that
to see people
away from h
ru
1
erder to save print paper
(See Last Column)
" ' "J lican wno a jet ..
this .
to u heavy to
jeis Will die.
Those papers will con;o-.. v-iin ."'! lh'" 'n"n "I"' Z"'x' U"n
1 1 ' -'l lllg . !; reverence for the day.
I ".lust bow did Mr. Kilcy fpend his
j own day?" .Mr. Dickey asked und un
spent it quietly very
always wanted to be tit
day did not oven like
Put it was hard to get
In the afternoon they
would call many only leaving their
cards because they knew how he felt
about it- others insisting on seeing
him if only for a moment. When bis
guests were very persistent Mr. liib-y
would coin' down stairs from bis study
shako bands. exchange the seasons
gi-eetines and thin excuse himself on
the ground that In- bad some very im-
portant letter Unit must be written.
For letter writing odd as it would serin
to most n' us. was his way of spending
an ideal Christmas afternoon. To Kilcy
it. was a (lay in which to get in touch
with dear but far away friends ami so
be wrote each year to a little group of
his most cherished correspondents.
Sometimes he wrote until late In the
night again he would top with the
coming of the evening. Hut always
on Christmas there would be a licit
tale of letters done in bis beautiful
script and r'ady to moil to the people
he cared rrusl about. Among these in-
timate friends there were usually sev-
H'al children a fellow port or two and
always a number of the 'liule-boys-that-used
to be' companions of his youth."
The !uaint Ilexes
It was tins same group too which
regularly received a'4;lft box from the
friend who never forgot those for whom
ho cared. Kiloy's gift boxes were fa-
mous for he bad a boyish habit of giv-
ing other people what he liked him-
srlf. l or instance Kiley liked a cer-
tain kind of stick candy dates and
nuts. So a friend of bis was called In j
WOI.I' J 0 1A0N KAKK
FAUST IX T1IK MAKIXTS
r.uffalo N Y. Dec. ".:!. "Wolf Fox
Lyon" called the sergeant as he usher-
ed three recruits into the Marine Corps
fteeruiting office h'-re
"it sounds like a menagerie" said
the recruiting officer to the sergeant.
"IK) you think we're signing un animal
acts fi. r a circus?"
"No sir" r plii'd the sergeant "but.
there is still oik more man to sign i
lip. c.'tpta;;-. '
"Pring him in."
" Paer!" shouted the sergeant and !
the fourth recruit entered. I
The four recruits Wefe -. lames !'!. 1'oX ;
of dates X. V.. James i'aer of Krie
Pa.. Oeorge K. Wolf of-Warren Pa
and Char! -; Dyon of Koclrester X. Y.
To achieve the Christmsfeeling
Do a bit of Christmas Sealing!.
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The Ardmoreite going to observe Christmas and conserve
paper by suspending publication for one day December 25.
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Christmas comes but once a year and the clerks at the
Ardmore post office are mighty glad of that fact. If it came
twice they couldn't stand it.
I.ONDOX XKWSl'AI'FKS FAVOR
;ovF.itx.iicvrs xkv idkv
of jkisii si;lf-(;ovi:knmkxt
London Dee. 2:1. Aside from two
irreconeiliahle anti-homo rule Journals
London newspapers this morning irive
on. tho whole a favorable reception to
the government's new scheme for Irish
self government. None however ex-
presses genuine expectation of the suc-
cess of the plan.
White it is expected that such a bill
as Premier Lloyd George outlined yes-
terday the fourth home rule meas-
ure to be presented to parliament-
will be absolutely rejected by a large
section of the Irish people and regard-
ed with suspicion and distrust by oth-
ers It is contended it deserves to be
fairly considered and tried.
COTTON SKKD KXCH.WCK
KNOrGIl ITKK PIANTIXG SF.F.I)
TO I'LAXT 4(1 ACKF.S FOR OXK TON
MOOD I.ATK SF.FI) NF.XT 'I FN
PAIS. OIL .MILL. 1M0
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What Happened December 23
(Copyright 1919 New Era Features)
1914.
Germans in advance on Warsaw
cross the Bzura and Kawka rivers
also advance In lialicia Allies
launch new offensive from Rheims
to Verdun on (10 mile front France
votes 11700000 war creuit.
1915.
French and Germans in severe lo-
cal action on Vosages front Gener-
al de Castelnau Chief Of Staff of
French Armies arrives at Saloniki
lirltish lost 112.921 men ut Dard-
anelles; 23279 killed.
I'JKi.
Secretary of Stale Lanslnf? ad-
mits that 1. S. abandoning tradl-
tionul policy of isolation may join
League of Nations Count Czerin
succeeds Baron Bur inn u.s Russians
defend last of Dobrudja against
JIackenseu's armies.
1917.
Germans advance northeast of
Ypres; take first British lino on 700
yard front aided by a heavy barrage
General Allenby captures six more
ll.'lls in l?t!ino campaign
French General Guillaumat succeeds
Sarrail as Allied Commander in
Chief at Saloniki.
1918.
V. S. Senate passes six billion tax
bill after long debate.
1919.
Americans are buying Red Cross
Christmas Seals."
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