Payne County News (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 44, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1935 Page: 2 of 12
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PAYNE COUNTY NEWS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935 ---
One Man’s Opinion
—By Mark—
be
so near at hand.
WARD BUICK - PONTIAC, INC
Ninth and Husband
Stillwater, Okla.
CUTLERY
No
or
Of all the activities of the
Stillwater Rotary club, I believe
fund,
is at-
night more than 50 boys and
girls, between the ages of five
and 12 years, were guests of the
Rotarians. After a turkey din-
ner and a Christmas story, told
by Dr. Allen S. Davis, old Santa
Claus came in and passed out
gifts and sacks of candy to the
happy little guests. The Boys’
Work committee, Robert A. Par-
ker, chairman, arranged the
program.
While it’s too late to do your
Christmas shopping early, you
can do your 'ate shopping with
Stillwater merchants. Read the
advertisements in the News and
your late shopping will be a
pleasure.
Sunday morning. Thirteen per-
sons were sleeping in the house
end six perished in the flames.
A defective flue is believed^ to
have caused the conflagration.
Uav<> you inspected your home
for fire hazards?
Diamond Edge
Keen Kutter
and Universal
Kitchen
Knives
L'TATRO
RADIOS
HEIRING
Service Station
Route 3, Phone 9621-F-21
STILLWATER, OKLA.
PUBLIC SALE
Will sell at public auction, 10
miles east, 2>/2 north of Still-
water, on old Flowers farm, on
Monday. Dec. 23,1935
Starting at 1 o’clock
Two head horses; six head
cows; implements; hay, chick,
ens; household goods; feed.
Terms: 10 months, cash on
sums under $15.
G. C. BALLEW, Owner
First National Bank, clerk.
Otis Grooms, auctioneer
Good Fellows’
Editor Otis Wile
Some reasonable payment may
expected by the aged, but it is illogi-
cal to expect the $200 monthly, out-
lined as the maximum payment un-
der the Townsend pian. From the
outset this plan is misleading. The
plan calls for this maximum amount,
but sets no minimum. Under this ar-
rangement the millions who have
been putting money into this plan
might see it become a law, yet pro-
vide nc more than $10 a month. Cur-
rent government businesslike pro- j
posals could work more to the ad-1
vantage of the aged than the Town-
send dream.
It will take social security meas-
ures to make possible a reasonable
existence for those who, because of
age or infirmity, are unable to com-
pete for wages and income. Another
session of congress 4s expected to
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line, and a reasonable pension
made available to those unable
provide for themselves.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Burris,
and Mrs. Burris’ sister, Miss Lola
Toler, attended the stage presents-1
tion of “Romeo and Juliet,” with
Katherine Cornell, at Shrine audi-
torium m Oklahoma City, Friday
night. Preceding the play, Mr. and
Mra. Burris, and Miss Toler were1
dtimer guest* of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle I
Vermillion of Oklahoma City at the I
Skirvin hotel,
Diamond Edge
and
Keen Kutter
Scissors and
Shears
Diamond Edge
and
Keen Kutter
Knives
It is now said that the re-
gional offices for Soil Conserva-
tion service will likely go to Tul-
sa. The state office will remain
in Stillwater. Tulsa has been
kind to Stillwater on many oc-
casions and I would rather see
Tulsa get the offices for the
new set-up than to have them
"New dollars are coming.”
About $10,000,000 of the new
type of $1 silver certificates are
being put in circulation. This
office will accept any number of
these new dollars on the Payne
County News holiday offer, ev-
en if the price of silver has tak-
en a slump.
Honors continue to come to
faculty members of Oklahoma
A. and M. college. The most re-
cent ones to come to my atten-
tion are the election of Dr. Hor-
ace J. Harper, professor of soils,
not run on the classification sys-
tem as are some other civic
clubs, but it seems every mem-
ber of the new board of directors
has a different vocation. Here
they are: A. B. Alcott, banker;
Peyton Glass, department
store owner; George Flesner,
auctioneer and county commis-
sioner; Kermit Ingham, build-
ers’ materials; Clay Potts, col-
lege faculty; Word Cromwell,
county agent; W. R. Clift, furni-
ture dealer; Harold Goodholm,
flour manufacturer; Hal Mc-
Ntitt, postmaster; Willis F. Al-
len, publisher, and the Rev. O. L.
Gibson, pastor of the Baptist
church. That bunch ought to do
a little something next year.
Business Week will have to
to the presidency of the Okla-i
homa Academy of Science; H. 1.1
I’eatherly, professor of botany,!
named assistant secretary of the
same organization, and J. A.
Beall, instructor in animal hus-
bandry. chosen superintendent
of the 1936 hog carcass show in
Chicago, which is held in con-
nection with the meats division
of the International Livestock-
exposition each year.
The $2,500,000 initiated relief
measure seems to have carried
in the state by a small plurality.
The vote was the lightest ever
cast in a statewide election. The
measure found more opposition
in the rural districts than in the
towns and cities. Perhaps the
rural voters were not so well
aware of the fact that no addi-
tional taxes were required for
the state to assume the burden
of caring for the unemployables
for whom the federal govern-
ment will no longer provide,
campaign was made for
against the measure.
•-VOL1 ^2 volt
Mayor Harry Jones complains
about business men parking
their automobiles in front of
their places of business all day
long. But 1 find I have to get
down town about 6 o’clock in the
morning to find a place to park
in front of my place of business.
But no business man should lie
gtiilty of parking his car on the
principal business streets on
Saturdays. Our country cousins
need these parking spaces on
that day.
The local Red Cross is faced with
the necessity of operating on a
smaller budget this tear hut mar be
expected to do its part to relieve
suffering in the local community.
This organization is bound by no red
tape, and needs only the proof that
need exists to act. Naturally it must
be careful with its expenditures,
since it must consider its budget.
Likely it will do most of its spending
for relief of those who are ill.
Members of the Red Cross may
feel certain that every dollar donated
this organziation will be spent on
worthy projects. Present workers
give their time without cost, and are
called upon to neglect tfieir business
on many occasions to do Red Cross
work. Barely do they receive thanks
of those they aid for their efforts,
and it is rare for a show of appre-
ciation to come from those who sub-
scribe to the organization. Theirs is
a thankless job, but a worthy one.
The Union Pacific railroad has
placed orders for 100,000 tons of
steel rail and fittings at a cost
of $4,000,000, which will cover
the company’s rail replacement
program of about 340 miles, for
the next 18 months. Some
$2,000,000 also was appropriated
for replenishing stocks of mis-
cellaneous materials and for
ties. Expendtures for a car
SOMETHING
To Think About
By R. E. C.
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Aa independent newspaper of general circulation ia Stillwater and
Fayne county. Published Friday of each week and eatered as second-class
uau matter at Stillwater poetoffke.
WILLIS F. ALLEN, Editor
The
which
tempting to raise through his
“A Little Daily” column, is not
increasing as it should with
Christmas
While it is true that Main
street has been called upon to
dig in the cash drawer many
times in recent weeks, Stillwater
has much to lie thankful for as
old 1935 nears its end. Let’s get
the wrinkles out of our hearts
and remember those in the com-
munity who are not so fortu-
nate. How easy it is to hand a
dollar or more to Otis, which he
turns over to the Good Fellows,
who in turn will prepare baskets
of food and perhaps a few toys
for the families that otherwise
might be missed by Santa Claus.
T can’t see how any one can en-
joy a big Christmas dinner and
ioin in the happy Yule festivities
in his own home if he has taken
no part to bring a little joy to
the needy homes of this com-
munity.
finish work already started in this
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to
The Payne County N ews
Published by The StillwaUr Publishing Company, Ine.
were we.
It was oar custom to go to tne lit-
tle church on the hill every Christ-
mas eve. I reckon the preacher told
us the story of the Christ Child, and
why we criebrated His birth date, but
I remember chiefly the big tree that
was there, the Santa Claus, that sel-
dom looked ’.ike his picture hi the
Chicago Tribune, and the thrill of
his handing me personally a sack
containing hard candies, an apple, an
orange and a wooden whistle. It was
all very grand. Then the walk home
through the snow and cold, there to
hang our stockings before the fire-
place in the parlor. To bed to dream .
about the wonders that the morrow
held for us.
Mama and papa arose verv early,
I imagine, to bu>ld up the fires and
prepare the breakfast of country ,
sausage and buckwheat cakes, with
pork gravy. And then, after we had |
dressed and eaten, we all entered the i
parlor together for the exchange of i
gifts. Simple gifts they were,. and i
costing precious little of the king’s
money, but useful, needed and ;
greatly appreciated by all. A store ;
watch and a book were there for me, |
and to me that much was absolute,
utterly inexcusable extravagance. I
was happy and satisfied, and it all .
cost probably less than $2. A red |
sled or a pair of red boots were the ' f
last word. |
The tree was a beautiful thing |
gaily decorated and festooned with ,
popcorn and cranberries strung on a
thread. Then there were a few store-
bought decorations th»t were simply
marvelous, and that we used from
year to year. The candles were real
and only allowed to burn long
enough for the first general effect.
Later in the day, dinner. And what
a dinner! All the things that I have
been telling about, and much more. I
Aunts, uncles and cousins came, as
always. Usually the preacher and his
wife were there. After a long bene
diction we started in on this great
bank of food. After dinner the men
smoked and talked in one room, and
the women only talked in another.
There was singing in the parlor. No
one could sing “Larboard Watch”
like Uncle Ira. I showed the cousins
my gifts.
I aiways ate too much as a small I
little amount of the food was in-
tended for the bellies of the town
I drunkard’s children, and possibly
I others who weren’t as fortunate as
boy, and still do. I remember tw
stuffy, overfed feeling. A sort‘of
sleepy dtow;„ness, not nleasant bu’
not unpleasant; a sort of comfortable
feeling that there is security that
all is well, and hoping with mama
and the preacher that there really ‘«i8
peace on earth and good will toward
men,” and feeling that Christmas
a grand day, and that it ought to
come oftener—and fighting to stay
awe.ke so 1 could t- j the n?^ sled
and do a little whittling with the
new knife.
Ingham Lumber Company
“Anything to Build Everything”
Someone has said that if Her-
, bert Hoover had put up the
fight in the 1932 campaign he
does now in opposing the New
Deal, he would have polled more
votes. In 1932, Hoover was car-
rying the load that President
Roosevelt now is shouldering.
You know it is much easier to
criticize than it is to carry on a
constructive program. The G. O.
P. must offer something con-
structive if it defeats Roosevelt
next year. It ^eems to me that
Hoover missed his opportunity
to put the nation on the road to
recovery.
Mayor Harry Jones tells me
that several tons of dirt and
trash have been removed from
the streets in the last 10 days
and the clean up campaign is
just getting under way. How-
ever, I believe it is impossible lo
keep the business streets and al-
leys free from dirt and trash
with hand labor and so long as *jes Expend tures for a car
the merchants carelessly dump building program aggregate a
refuse in open containers. Lhe further $4,000,000, bringing the
objection to a mechanical street |0^a| eXpen(|jtures to almost
sweeper seems to be that it $i0)000,000. Lumber and mate-
would hit the working man. ] rja]s ^ave ajrea(]y received
Only two or three men are em-|for rebuilding some 2,000 box
cars and installing Evans auto
loading devices in some 750 auto-
mobile cars. Orders like these
go a long way to solve the un-
employment problem in this
country.
. Stillwater’s armory project
has been put back in the list, but
according, to Commissioner
Hugh Nester, it may again be
abandoned because Stillwater
has not sufficient skilled labor
un the local relief rolls to con-
struct the building. Stillwater
regrets to lose the armory, but
on the other hand it is encour-; -
aging to have no idle skilled, S°to Kansas or Nebraska,
workmen in the city. This was
not true in 1933 and 1934.
My first recollections of Christmas
carry me back to a very small town
in a state very much further north
than here. We always had a whit*
Christmas, and I recall that among
the older ones in my family there
was lots of skating on the river and
bobsledding from the top of the hill
by the Methodist church, down
through the town, across the railroad
tracks, and finally out onto the
glassy surface of the frozen river.
Big bonfires had been built upon the
banks to keep the skaters warm. It
was a beautiful river, with real
water in it, few dams or obstructions
in those days, and they skated for
miles in either direction from our
little town.
I suppose my father would bo the
last man to think that he was rich in
those days, about the turn of the
century, but looking back now we
were rich in many things and at least
very comfortable in the material
things of life. We lived in a big two-
story house in the center of a big ______________
yard, at the back of which was a ! toy> a'kn:fe with a chain, possibly a [
large barnlot, fenced off and out of
view, that held so many things of
interest to a boy my age. Barns,
sheds for the carriage and sleigh,
wagons, harness, etc., an icehouse, a
place to smoke meat, a place to dry
potatoes, a laundryhouse, horses,
mules, cows, chickens, turkeys. Only
the banker had a belter house than
our own. and even we’ put in electric
lights and a telephone before them.
In the parlor, a room seldom used,
was a piano, chairs with plush on
them, Gibson girl etchings, a set. of
steriopticans, and green, plush-
backed family albums that were ex-
tremely :ntttesting to us children
The tree was put up in the parlor,
but for weeks ahead Christmas in-
terest centered in the kitchen.
There mama labored over the
woodstove, with the sisters helping,
of course, preparing food for the
p-reat day. Ilick.irynuts and walnuts
dies of every kind were made, mince-
meat, cookies, cakes, brown bread,
pumpkin pies and <lum puddings,
pared for there was always a lot of
I
s>
Christmas will dawn on a world
financially better off than it was a
year ago, but a world that appar-
ently has forgotten about “peace on
earth." It is likely that Christmas
day will bring no lull in the fighting
in Ethiopia, and world diplomats
will be too blinded by greed to re-
dedicate their efforts to peace.
More “extras" will be on more
Christmas tables this year than last,
judging by business indices that
show an enormous decrease in unem-
ployment figures under last year.
Still there will be many who will not
have even the bare necessities dur-
ing this season of festivity. It is
hoped that each succeeding Christ-
mas will see the number of hungry
people decreased.
Oklahoma went to the polls Tues- .... . , ....
day to show its responsibility to the bad be cr?ckP.d and p,cked’ .can-
. . • * HlAa nt ovorv VinrI tvA rn mn/la »vtmnn
needy. Not all those who voted were
people expecting relief checks. Any
person near enough to the relief or- : u ■ jr . . . , . - .
ganization will vouch for the need of Ha™ ,and*urkevs had to be pro-
additional funds to carrv destitute P^ed for there was always a lot of
families through the present winter. ’ company during th* holidays, and no
George Flesner, chairman of the
board of county commissioners, can
cite numerous instances where the j
small monthly apportionments to I
county families mean life. There are
a number of families who receive the
hulk of their income from this source,
yet no payment exceeds $10 a month.
A majority of these checks average
$4 a month, with approximately
1,500 individual checks being issued
monthly.
Two and a half million” dollars,
considered collectively, it a lot of,
money, but divided among 77 coun- |
ties, and then redivided among
thousands of individuals, it is a small
amount.
There is a Christmas tree in
„ .1 the Stillwater National bank. I
The Chamber of Commerce is suspect that Major Berrv iy
provide a new business indicator( hopeful that Santa Claus* will
for its front page if business i hang a governor’s toga on the
conditions continue *o travel up-. trce for hjs use if Governor Mar-
ward. The present indicator is land resisms to run for the sen-
made to show 7 i per cent nor-|a(e or take a place in the
nial, and the red line is about to. pj-^guj^ut’s cabinet
go over the top, showing 73.8 1
per cent normal last week. ■
p--~ President Roosevelt expresses
Fire destroyed a little four-! his personal appreciation to Fin-
Foom farm house ne*r Carnegie land in paying its regular in-
stallment to the United States
on December 15. A dozen other
war debtor nations continue to
default payment but would like
to borrow mor^ money from this
nation to be in position to stage
another war.
$10,000,000. Lumber and mate-
rials have already been received
ployed regularly in cleaning the
business streets. Surely it would
not be a great task to find
other employment for these
men, especially in a city that is
not getting many WPA projects
because of the lack of a suffi-
cient number of men on reliei
rolls. Mayor Jones favors a me-
chanical street sweeper, th?,---------- --------
Chamber of Commerce indorsed | that its annual Christmas party
the purchase of one at its Fri-1 for under privileged children is
day meeting and the good women the most commendable.^ Tuesday
have gone on record on numer-l
ous occasions for cleaner streets.
It has been demonstrated for
some time that the present sys-
tem of cleaning the streets just
doesn’t do the job in the proper
way.
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