Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 238, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 1920 Page: 4 of 8
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DAILY ARDMOREITE
WEDNESDAY JULY Ui 1920.
i
Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore Oklahoma.
John F. Easley Editor anj Oene.al
Manager.
George H. Wyatt Manning Editor.
Mrs. Emniltt T. RelJ City Editor.
Afternoon (Except Saturday) and
Sunday Morning.
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Editor 57
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BUSINESS l'lIONES.
Circulation 2EJ
Business Office 5
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WEDNESDAY. JILV 14 1920
They know not how to ac;
agreeably though they have learnt
many things are still ignorant.
Cural.
SOME TRI E Fltil'KKS
Here ore xome figures that are ap-
proximately correct and which are
very Interesting to every citizen of
Carter county.
The Htsvldton field is producing
about 30000 bnrrels of oil a day. This
Oil sells at $2.75 a barrel which gives
a daily Income from that field of
$82 M0.
The Hewitt field is producing ap-
proximately 23000 barrels of oil that
sells at $3.50 a barrel. This field
gives a daily ineome of $S7300.
These two fields give u total in-
come to Carter county of $170000 a
day counting Sundays and holidays
und all alike.
One per cent of thus $170000 which
is $1700 a day goes to the road fund
of Carter county.
One per cent of the same amount
or $1700 a day goes to the schools
of Carter county.
The state receives one per cent cf
the value of all the oil produced In
the state and as a result of this gross
production tax on oil the state will
not levy any ad valorem tux this
year.
Without amy taxation whatever the
county commissioners will have tti'-I-220
to spend on roads alone. The
statutes provide that this money 3ha.ll
be spent in buildinff permanent high-
ways. This vast stream of revenue
gives the commissioners an oppor-
tunity to build lasting monuments
to their administrations. This money
will not come for a neck or two
and then stop but it will continue ti.
come and will continue to get nicre
plentiful throughout the year. Hewitt
is gaining faster than Healdton is
losing and the average figures given
In this article will be less than the
actual amount of money received by
the board of commWsloners.
It seems that under these circuin-
tancea one of two things might be
expected. The people with the oil
money and with the regular tax money
and with the bond money that has
been voted have a right to expect
a vast amount of permanent road
construction or they have a right to
expect a suspension of taxes for the
present year for road purposes.
The oil tax alone for 100 days will
provide all the revenue that the Ard-morc-Healdton
hard surface road pio-
Jeot call for. Threo other project
of the same kind and magnitude can
be given the people of this county
this year from the oil tax alone pro-
vided the government and state aid
is secured to match the county money.
This revenue untitles Carter county
to have a resident engineer to help
lay out the highways and to survey
them and to assist the commissioners
In seeing that contracts are properly
carried out The law does not provide
salaries that kill Justify commissioners
la devoting all their time to this
work and at least one good enginetr
should bo given the county to carry
on this Important wtrk.
on the lust convention lull cull (lid
the 20 delegates from Oklahoma east
a single vote for the main who now
leads the rMiioeratic party.
It Is not the fault of the Oklahoma
delegation that they missed the band
wagon entirely when It wus passing
and fell far afield when tho band
wigon had passed. The delegation
wis composed of splendid citizen.
Many of them urn master politicians
j lint they were tied and gagged by the
most inexorable instructions ever given
I u delegation in national convention.
' Not only were they instructed to vote
i for Senator Owen as long as his name
should be before the convention: even
' after his name was withdrawn they
could not leave him unless by unani-
mous consent.
Thus the delegates from tho '"Lund
of the Mistletoe" sat for 44 ballots
ly tho side of the road und saw the
long procession go by. They had
neither tickets nor conveyance and
could not even purchase peanuts from
the new 8 butch. There was a con-
vention but Oklahoma was not pres-
ent and took no part in the Uelibera
tions. For all the good they did
they might Just us well have been
at home. For nil the results achieved
they might as well have been voting
for Azlmoolah Kahn. They traveled
half across a continent to see dele-
gates from the other states nominate
the ticket. Then they traveled back
j home.
Ken at the best the favorite son
hepie is the game of children in
1 lie market place. At its worst It
means tho disfranchisement of a state.
A federal stotuto forbidding the parti-
cipation of Oklahoma Democrats In
the Pan Francisco convention would
not have more completely disfran-
chised them than the shackles placed
about our delegates by the Muskogee
convention. Such folly should be
guarded against forever In the future.
We have had enough such tactics for
the next hundred years. Ada News.
Be noble! and the nobleness that
lies in other men sleeping but
never dead will rise In mujesty to
nieet thine own.
-Browning.
Oklahoma citl.-s. and that the thefts
come nu regularly and frequently In
Tulsa that the ufflcers teein power-
less to check them aerl:ig that a
rrgulurl) organized band of auto
thieves is working in that section.
If you want to exercise your rights
as a voter in the coming primary you
b-ul better get busy and get your
names on the registration books. This
udvlce does not cost you anything and
applies to the women voters us well
as to the stag element of both parties.
And addressing the lady voters don't
forgot to give your age 11s well as
your name and place of residence. The
age part is absolutely essential.
The Ardmorcite's
HOME FORUM
Allied and German representatives
are at a deadlock on tho coal ques-
tion at Spa. A deadlock? Well if
they've not to have one we want
them to understand that's the side of
the world to have one on. Oriental
deadlocks give us the udvantage of
about six hours In time. They hold
no such nightmares for us as these
occidental deadlocks San Francisco
variety for instance.
Editorial
of the Day
MORAL MEN FOR ITBLIC
OFFICE
The doctrino of good mm only in
private personal morality for public
offices" is a maxim which every voter
otiL'ht to honor in casting his ballot
for candidates for such offices. The
fact that there are no special objec-
tions to these candidates founded on
their public or official action Is no
answer to objections based on their
private character. A man who Is
known to be licentious or dishonest
or untruthful and utterly unreliable
in his words is at heart a bad man
In the sense that he Is governed no-
where by sound principle. If he will
cheat in a private matter he will
equally cheat in a public matter when-
ever he deems It to be to his Inter-
est to do so. Such a man camiot
with safety be trusted. What one
really is. In his ordinary private con-
duct is the best test of his real char-
acter; and if he Is thus shown to be
a bad man that ought to b the end
of all his hopes for public office. The
people cannot afford to honor such
a man with the powers of office;
and if they have right consciences
they will not do so Hy following this
rule they will purify the politics of
the country elevate the lone of gen-
eial morality and teach office boek-
ers and all public men that personal
morality Is a cardinal qualification
for public service. Exchange.
The Shawnee News thinks Senator
Harding has lowered his moral stand-
ard through accepting an invitation
to visit Ardmore during the present
summer. The editor of the News
should know. He was on two seiar-
ate occasions a citizen of Ardmore.
"IIRliiKIt NEWSPAPERS"
"TWENTY VOTERS FOR OWEN"
Of ail the states in the union Miss-
issippi is today closest to the Demo-
cratic nominee for president. And of
the stated in the union none is farther
from the nominee than Oklahoma.
For forty-four long and heated ballots
tbe 20 delegates from Mississippi stood
behind the Ohio governor. Not even
-As the date of the primary draws
nearer with each passing day the
weather gets a little hotter a little
more humid while the hand-clasp of
the candidates grow -warmer more
lingering and more brotherly a peace
and harmony prevails throughout tho
land as tho roosters tune-up their
voices to crow for tho successful ones.
Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cox will hold
a conference during the next few
dnys. Mr. Harding is working behind
closed doors preparing his acceptance
speech. Mr. Roosevelt Is on the
ground and Governor Coolidg9 is try-
ing to devise some means whereby
he can break into the limelight other
than posing for the camera man of
moving picture fame.
Poets say that It Is in tho month of
June a man's fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love. He thut us It may
we luive noticed that the month of
July carries no terrors for the young
men the middle aged men and ail
other men whose thoughts wish to
turn in tho general direction of Juno
and Venus and the other members of
tlie female constellation.
Attention has been tailed to the
fact that automobiles have been stolen
in t!o city of Ardmore. Attention
might also be called to the fact thai
automobiles have beau stolen In other
I
r
Good Judgment
leads thousands of
housewives to serve
GrapeNuts
in place of foods that require
hours of drudgery in a hot
kitchen; Neeas No Sugar
Comes ready to eat from the
package. . "
"TheKbaReasori'foT GrapeNuts
(Lawton Constitution Democratic)
The utility owned paper "openly
charges" that the democratic press ot
Oklahoma has been bribed to support
Scott Ferris. That Is covering some
considerable territory. There are
something like 253 democratic new-
papers in Oklahoma. Of this 253
democratic newspapers 252 are sup-
porting Scott Ferris unequivocally to
the limit. If Scott Ferris were buying
the support of the newspapers with
money which he is not it does
not look reusVmable to the average
citizen that every single democratic
newspaper in the state with one ex-
ception could be bought.
It Just as reasonable to assert
that every minister every doctor r
every other business or professional
man cr institution could be bought. It
is possible that the owner of the
utility organ believes that It Is pos-
sible to buy all of these.
An affidavit from Rubo Geers about
attempts to buy the support of his lit-
tle paper over at Tishomingo is hardly
becoming. Rube has been bought and
paid for by Senator Gore. For com-
paratively Insignificant appointment
as census supervisor Rube would be-
tray the people of Oklahoma by elect-
ing Gore to the senate.
The democratic newspapers of Ok-
lahoma are squarely behind Scott Fer-
ris for the United States senate be-
cause they know he will be true to his
country and to his constituents as
Senator Gore has not been. They know
life has the ability to represent the
people of Oklahoma in the senate.
Scott Ferris does not represent
merely himself or a small group or
socialists draft-Dodgers and conscien-
tious objectors as did Senator Gore
prior to and during the war. They
know Scott Ferris represents Ameri-
canism as opposed to un-Aniericanlsm.
He has proven his honesty integrity
and ability during the twelve years he
has been in congress. During the
same time In the senate Gore has
proven himself the opposite. These are
the reasons the press of Oklahoma Is
for Scott Ferris.
Not once during this whole cam-
paign has the supporters of Senator
Gore been able to find one flaw in the
record of cott Ferris and back it up
with the record. They make state-
ments they imply many things and In
many cases deliberately lie but not
once have they ever backed up their
statements declarations and screams
with one single bit of irrefutable
proof. They have nothing on which to
base a campaign against Scott Ferris
or for Gore. Words mere meaning-
less words most of which were epi-
thets have made up the campaign
waged locally by Senator Gore.
No the newspapers of Oklahoma did
not sell out to agents of the kaiser
during the war and It Is not reason-
able to suppose that they will after-
wards. All the money In the world
couldn't buy the support from the
press ot Oklahoma that Scott Ferris
is getting.
L'uthoughted!
Ada Newn: Senator Harding says
that be always writes editorials as
he thinks. So many editors have the
habit of writing without thinking
Why Call Illm Succotash?
Chlckosha Express: Senator Succo-
tash says If he can kick up enough
dust to keep the dear poepul from
following his trail he Is confident
that he'll be elected again.
News Man Should Know
Shawnee Morning News: When a
man enters Politics ho loses all dis-
cretion as is shown by the fact that
Senator Harding has gono so far as
to promise to visit Ardmore.
Home Small Fry
Durant Democrat: Tho Frisco con-
vention developed the fact that there
are still a surprisingly large number
of "little Americans" In this country
If one may Judge by tho way some ot
them stuck to their delegates regard-
less of the small number of the
votes cast by them. N
Notice
Our work pleases every body; you
will be well pleased If you patronize
us. First class barbers and expert
manicuring. Children's worV a special-
ly at the l'alace Uurber Shop. 13-6
LKTTKIt TO THK I'EOFLG
Whose daughter Is safe when men
can come to Oklahoma City In auto-
mobiles and influence girls under the
age of 18 years by offering them
transportation hotel bills und ten cents
each dunce and take four girls from
the city to Purcell to dunce for them
ut u public dunce hall or under a
tent commonly known as a ' "19
show?"
This was done last Friday July 2
and the mother of one of the girls
knew nothing of the whereabouts or
her daughter until she returned from
l'urcell on the Santa Fe train ar-
riving here at 4:21 Sunday morning.
Another time a man came here
bringing a prostitute with him from
Denver Colo. and stopping at a
hotel or rooming house on West
Grand avenue put an advertisement
In a city paper for girls to go with
a show offering to pay them $25 per
week. He with three other men got
two young girls to leave here with
them. The mother of one of these
girls came to my office and reported
the matter to me und through the
aid of Mr. Fate Sanders who wus
JLhen ucting as probation officer we
succeeded In locating these men with
the girls at Sparks Okla.. where
they put on a show Thursday night.
The mother of one of these girls
went after her they had however left
Sparks but were found In Prague
where they were scheduled to pull
off a show Saturday night. As soon
ns I learned that they were at
Prague I got the deputy sheriff there
over the phone and requested him to
arrest the four men. Which he did
and locked them up. I took the mat-
ter up with Mr. Selby who was then
county Judge and we found that there
Is no law on our statutes under which
we could prosecute these men unless
we could prove that they and the
girls had occupied the same room to-
gether. This we could not prove and
the result was that the men were
turned loose
Is there a remedy to relieve this fear-
ful condition? Yes to a considerable
extent and if the good people of Ok-
lahoma will give me their support I
will get whnt Is known as a contribu-
tory delinquency law passed by the
next legislature which will give ail
In saving the Juveniles of our state
from going to shame and ruin.
WM. D. MATTHEWS
State Commissioner of Charities
and Corrections.
LOCAL MEIERS Of
AMERICAN LEGION
WILL TAKE PART
III THE BIG SHOW
the Herman guns urn
is the time for some "pep" on the
part of Hie Yanks. It is forthcoming.
With a cheer they rush the German
trenches. The Germans whom they
have not killed they send home with
the bayonet. They win the day.
That's the sort of stuff they went
silenced. This I through In France u year or so ui
Tin- home town Boys voucn no u
uccuracy and need no rehesrsu.l to
produce the pluy. It was real witn
them once.
ISK THK ARH.MORK1TK WANT
ADS FOR Sl'KK RKSl'LTS.
RKAD AKDMOKEITK WANT ADS
j How would you like to be an Atner-
lean soldier called upon to volunteer
for a deed of heroism which though
merely in the path cf duty means al-
most death? Thousar.'- of gallant hoys
In O. D. volunteered for similar tasks
during the wur agali sr Germany. Most
of their exploits - wer unsung und
most ot the adventurers were burled
beneath the soil of France
"No Man's Land" opens with the
typical story of an American volun-
teer. He was called upon to estab-
lish a machine gun post near the
German lines In "It- Man's Land"
or die In the attempt.
It was tho adventure of this lone
American machine gunner thut started
the battle depicted in the great pyro.
technic spectacle of "No Man's Land."
Tho story of the m ichlne gunner and
how he precipitated one of the most
terrible conflicts of war will be shown
In vivid detail by the fire works
display which w 'l be given ut Car-
ter county fair grounds Friday and
Saturday night. Men who have seen
tho real stuff overseas soldiers o:
George R. Anderson post American
legion will take part In the presenta-
tion. It Is for the benefit of the local
American legion post that the spec-
tacle is given here-
An American volunteer Is called
upon to advance a machine gun to a
place where it will make the German
lines uncomfortable by direct fire. Inch
by bich he crawls out In an appar-
ently quiet sector. The rising moon
does not give sufficient light to be-
tray him to the enemy. His posi-
tion is almost attained when a
treacherous German star shell making
"No Man's Land" as light as day.
betrays him.
A mathlnf gun plays on his post
behind a tnarled tree stump. He lies
flat nnd prays. His comrades back
him up 'vkii an obstlna 0 rifle .'ii'-.
The Germans reply with machine guns
und light artillery. The big Ameri-
can guns in the rear come into play.
The boy who started the battle lies
still while the limbs of irees are
whipped off above him. The Amer-
icans get a bead on a German cha-
teau and send It tumbling with di-
rect bis about the Prussians' heads
as a mass of ruins. The machine
I gunner Is lost In the main engage-
ment. After a terrific bombardment
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THE OTHER day"
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I WAS la a cigar storo.
AND A man came In.
JO BUY cigarettes.
AND HE bad a cold.
AND WAS so hoars
HE COULDN'T make.
THE CLERK understand.
JU8T .WHAT ho wanted.
AND HE got madder
EVERY TIME
.
HE DREW a brand
HE OIDN'X want
HE POUNDED tho case.
.
AND TRIED to talk
BUT HE only wheezed
'
AND HE made signs
WITH HIS fingers'
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BUT) THEY didn't get oyer
AND FINALLY.
HE THOUGHT he'd trr .
TO ACX it out.
AND HE closed his eyas
AND. MADE hla face
SERENE AND calm.
AND SMILED and looked.
ABSOLUTELY CONTENTED.
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AND HANDED him
A PACKAGE of.
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