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THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT—NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT m0re dwellings needed
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Published by Transcript-Enterprise Publishing Company
Norman, Oklahoma.
Entered as second class matter at the Cost Office,
Norman, Oklahoma. January 2, 1914, tinder act of Con-
gress
Member Oklahoma Press Association. Advertising
representative: Oklahoma Advertisnig Bureau, Norman,
Oklahoma.
A friend to man usually has friends.
WEEKLY SERMON
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THE LITTLE WORD "IF"
To provide money for the construction of dwell-1
ing houses is one of the most pressing needs in j
Norman today.
Many persons, themselves comfortably housed, |
and none of their friends or neighbors discomr: j
Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sunday Morning moded 1>\ lack of housing accommodations, fail to Text: "Ify.- be will.ng aiid obe_
appreciate the gravity of this house shortage prob- V- '<*« «>■< «00'' lh,n«s of
; lent. It is a fruitful source of domestic trouble, | the '«'£ J;da'„ir a grtll
and has led many a couple to the divorce court i ^ jn Chrh|i,n cxper;,„,. ou
who, had they been housed in their own home and gm| )jrayrrs ,herf is not wold
' under their own "vine and fig tree,' would be to-, wf nge mo.c frequently than "bless"
I getlier and happy today. The effect upon children an(| i(s ,.c|uivalent. It is ever on
i- particularly baneful, as tliey grow from pillow >)t,r |ip^ „ prayer We pray for
Selfishness is humanity stagnated.
Little courtesies don't cost much, but they are
worth their weight in gold.
books made for market
We have wondered if many of the books in this
modern age are not made more for the market
than for the intellect.
Sometimes it appears that our authors are
more famous for royalties than for thought.
Shades of the past! there were days when nun, in
their unconcern for gold, sat in their coffee-houses
and discussed over their cups the pabulum they
would feed an intellectual world for ages. We
have in mind just now some authors of the very
near past, ar.d sent < the present day. whose
comet trail , will shortly disappear to shine no
more. Sometimes we really wonder if we are pro-
ducing any immortelles. Thought has too much
of a canker of gold about it. Have we come to
the age of a literary bellhop?
Money talks louder these days, but its list of
speaking acquaintances is growing narrower and
more exclusive.—Ada News.
Dr. Henry N an Dyke characterizes jazz as "an
invention of demons for the torture of imbeciles.'
But. protests the Chicago Tribune, the imbeciles
seem to enjoy it.—\\ aurika News.
alfalfa-wards
to post, having 110 settled, comfortable home with h,iesainK and wc expect blessings
peace and contentment reigning therein. The j ,ud niten we forget that there is r.ot
dearth of dwelling, houses is having a serious ile-h. single blessing included in th.
moralizing effect upon the families which are the | covenant of grace which is not con-
Unfortunate victims of the house famine. I di'ional. There is an if attached
There has been much speaking and writing about "> Hew
it. but the only help lies in practical doing. 1 nose!
Who have vacant lots should be encouraged to |
build houses upon them. I
The Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary club, j
the Lions club, the Patrons club, and all other
lubs and organizations in Norman should get to-
PADDED BRICKBATS
UST KIDS— They All Full f«f Uniform
By Ad Carlo
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By R. A. Brigham
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If ye forgive men their
trespasses, your Heavenly Father
will also forgive you."
Do we not want to be forgiven?
Do we not want the debt we owe
1'i'ih heaven canceled and held
A large part of the housing difficulty arose from
the abnormal drift of rural residents to the cities
to engage in war production. Farm hands, farm-
ers' sons and farmers' daughters left the farm
home for city life. That left vacant rooms in rural
homes and created an excessive demand for shel-
ter in the congested centers. It is now announced
from various sources that there is a very notice-
able drift back to the farm. A small drift of this
kind into every rural community will mean a large
emigration from almost every city—perhaps
enough to take away the surplus and make t' e
housing problem a very easy one to solve. High
city rents will do much to hasten the back-to-the-
farm movement. Perhaps it is better to let the
law of supply and demand take care of the sit-
uation
"Conscience, after all, rules a democracy. —Dr
Russell H. Conwell, Philadelphia lecturer.
■■••tlier and devise plans whereby those who de- more against is? Do wc want
sire to build homes and are not financially able to'move out into the freedom oi recon-
do so could borrow money that their dreams oLcilement? Then "if" stands at the
a liappv home might come true. | .V
Norman is building very rapidly, but this build- ETKT, into
ing boom will be checked unless those who now christian ufe then knowledge is the
desire to build can borrow the money. Perhaps 'g(.con(j; knowledge leading to many
ninety per cent of the homes erected in Norman anot|,er Btep. i„ the heavenly lad-
were built on borrowed money. As much can be (ler which the Apostle Peter builds
said of all other progressive towns. j for us in one of his epistles, he
There is plenty of money in Norman to carry makes knowledge the third step in
on the building boom if it can onlv be gotten to- j |i,e pilgrim's pathway to perfection,
aether and put into a building fund. As the 'Add to your faith virtue and to v.r
Transcript sees it the Norman Building and Loan tue knowedge. Vie -c^t.
association should increase its capital stock or a ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
new building and loan association should be or"! .hapter of Jo|ini seventeenth verse:
ganized. ..|f any nlan will do my will he
What will the Chamber of Commerce and the j sha|] know
other organizations mentioned do in the premises' there is hope here for struggling
O souls. We may fail in obedience at
Henry Ford's Independent has been banned difficult times, but if the spirit
Henry l-ord s independent "as oeen uanneti thc f|esh be
from the streets of C hicago, which ought to make | *1«■ Me q{ knowledge
it sell like hotcakes elsewhere. And will probably ha)) |k ours
be bootlegged with beneficial returns in Chicago ''
itself.—McAlester News-Capital.
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weeks after grover
V4 owe com/m
'It has been my observation tha'
very man who is tied strongly ti
the political party of his own faith
feels a personal responsibility anil
obligation to support the acts of that
•i.T-fy in the same way that a mother
defends the arts of her son when the
whole world turns the finger 'of
scorn upon the one who is near and
dear to her
There is before the people of Ok
hhoma a crisis which has no paral-
lel in the h story of the state The
state legislature closed without pass-
ing . the necessary appropriation
measures, and politicians 011 both
sides are throwing the respo"sibil-
iiy at the feet of the opposite party
As long as this sort of fiiiht is kept!
up we will never get very far 011 the
i road of success and progress which
'to I leads to the final goal, success.
' Bo'led down to it? final analysis
it seems to me that the lower house
was, in a large measure, justified in
its acts in closing its session. It
had passed upon and signed all the
measurcB, save one, sent it by trie
upper house- The upper house had
in its possession for several days 29
bills from the lower house and
through negligence or for political
reasons failed to sign theiti. expect-
ng, no doubt, to use this as a wea-
pon to force the lower house to pass
favorably upon the one senate bill
in its possession. This measure had
to do with thd appropriation of some
| six million dollars, and as members
oi the lower house were elected on, a
platform pledg ng strict economy,
thought they were carrying out the
wishes of the people in trimming the
bill over a million dollars.
But—
Regardless of r ght or wrong, re-
gardless of what you or I think of
the acts of the members of either
branch of the legislatu-e, we all will
110 doubt agree that the legislature
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DISCORD IN THE HOME SPOILS LIFE
By Orison Swett Marden
NORMAN'S PRIDE
,p it of public improvement
is adjourned.
, that t is the little dissensions, the
little scrappings and fault finding,
the little flings and rudenesses, the
.witting one another, 'he domineer-
ing, the bossing attitude, the con-
stant bickering, scolding, nagging,
the little disputes over money mat-
ter the I'ttle unkindnesscs of every
lay. A'hicli cut down the eff cie'.icy
i .... i" j* of fifty or seventy
A young girl who recently lost her
father, said, in response to expres-
sions of sympathy, that she did not
grieve very much for him because he
had been the cause of so much
bitterness in her 'ife. Instead of con
.ributinf? 10 the home harmony, t
was generally discord when he was
around. His children did not love
hint: they only feared him. He was
i:lways scolding, nagging, criticizing, five per cent.
or finding fault ' with 'then about; , > : sirange ti mg thd. a man
something or other. They never u,H dream for years "f ^ ^
seemed to be able to do anything I of ; paradise on earth, his home
quite right. He was always tell ng and then when, after tremendous ef-
ihcin that they would never amouni f.>rt, ue ets it will begin to .101
Now follows the popular question:
will our state institutions close down?
It is my opinion that they will not.
for the reason that all state institu-
tions. including? state offic als, are
affected. The same steps taken to
secure funds to feed and care lor the
mnatc of the Oklahoma State hos-
Germanv is still sweetly waiting for the Allies
to come and apologize to her and pass her a con-
solatory check for a million billion marks.—Bos-
ton Transcript.
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they kept it up.
During the world war no civilian could buy a
sack of hull Durham smoking tobacco for the rea-
son the government contracted for the entire out-
put of the factory. Did the company quit adver-
tising? No, it put 011 a more aggressive and ex-
tensive advertising campaign throughout the na-
tion than it had ever conducted before. I he reason
is plain. The company knew that after the war
it still would be making and selling Hull Durham
tobacco, and the advertising was kept up through
tht war period so that smokers would not forget
Bull Durham tobacco when the war was over and
they had an opportunity to buy a sack.
Everv progressive citizen ought to be vitally
concerned in the growth and prosperity of a home
paper.
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successful newspapers
Secretary Weeks says "the war department is
going to get Bergdoll if it is a possible thing."
That's the stuff. That miserable slacker has
flouted the United States government abont long The
enough. The world is not big enough for him j jg gwct[_. o
to hide in if the United States really sets itself to | rie firc'' qij landmarks are disap-1 p-|a','7(>r the Insane must be taken to
get him. ipearng. falling before the march of sl,pply funds ™rrv on the work
o progress like the ripened grain be-
DIFFERENCES IN ABILITY I fore the sickle
1 The first settlers who saw the
Wc still need a fresh interpretation of the Par- desert lands where Sor"™" "°*
able of the Talents-special privileges to none j stands they cou ^ ^ w|(h
equal privileges to all. 1 hat s sound doctrine and " ^ a, ,hc new paved
yet. because some men have not the ability to use ] gtree<s alld shadv Ways that were
all their privileges, they pass on to another. I here
..i. ertrrnu/ with no in
can be 110 waste in this realm. If God takes any-
thin
Are
to condemn another because he happens to have twenty years, then awoke to look up^ ^ ^ ee ) crjticjse(|
to anything, would never be any-
body if they did ihis or did that, so
when he passed out of their lives,
in tead of mourning, there was a
ense of relief The members 01 the
amily breathed eai<er. for thiy
knew 'hat it meant more freedom
less restraint, less forcing, and more _
harmony, more peace in the house- ' business, m their
hold I tl-ey are visiting
"t all to pieces, to ruin its possibili-
t i s by 'riffling things which in a
short time destroy its harmony and
S"eetness
The majority of men do not seem
t<. lee! the -atne obligation to be
coirteous alld agreeable in their
bonus that they do in their places of
clubs, or when
other people'!
Did vou ever realize, my friend, homes. They seem to think that
tint I is the little things that make because they pay the bills tiny have
carry on the work|or spott the home? If you will just' a. special license to be disagreeable
once streets of sorrow with no in
viting ways leading to their humble
out of one pocket He slips it into another. homes ,i,at stood in sunburnt fields,
ou, because of one's sheer incapacity, going 1 Rjp Van Winkle who slept for
condemn another because he happens to have \ twenty years, then awoke to look up-
more than his fellow s? You might make aii equal I on strange surround ngs. this legend
division of the world's goods and in a while there j -.vould be enacted again, it t ie us .
would be millionaires again. It is not a question 1 ^"v birth emerging
of the loot and piracy everytime. More often it of the past,
i, the capacity of one and the incapacity of an- I (he ^ waya and br.ght
other to handle nature s equally distributed riches. , sunjj(rht 0[ the future. Speed on
0 , VT and meet the higher ideals that arc
Plant a few shade trees and thereby keep Nor- ,he city that never looks
; man in the same class it has stood for lo. these backward
111am vears the best shaded town of its size in ^ pride is the flower to culti-
( iklahoma. vate. it brings refreshing thoughts to
dormant m nds. it fills the heart with
of the Oklahoma State University,
and who would say that the gov.-
nor, at whose feet the responsibility
will now rest, will fail to act?
The feeble minded, the blind, the
deaf, the man in prison, must bl-
eared for. therefo-e it is up to the
governor to call a special scss on of
the legislature.
The governor has had but little
support or encouragement from
any source Every step he has taken
stooPfor "'"minute and think of what j in their homes, to boss everydory:
upsets the peace and creates fric- that 'hey have a right to
•ion in the tnaio. ity of homes, and their grouches, thetr peevishness "SWJ
what, on the other hand, makes for irritation, to their sellishness, al
harmony, for efficiency and happi- brutal moods, just as they teel like
r.css in every successful home, you jt In other words, they do not ex-
,11 iit-.d in each case that it is the 1 t.rc;s(j ,)le ganie restraint in the home
: uemingly little things.
Vou will f nd that it is the little,
thoughtful attentions, the little ex-
pressions of affection and l"ve. the
lutie intimacies, the spirit of coni-
thc
the two standards
It is very noticeable that successful newspapers
over the country are conducting their busiius- on
business principles, while on the other hand those
that are conducting theirs on ancient methods are
failing.
A poverty striiken newspaper is a poor adjunct
to a prosperous community.
There are still a few who think because they
happen to throw some business to the home paper
that they should be given some free advertising
or not be charged for subscription. If the news-
paper is prosperous it is certainly in a position to
be of service to the community. A sick newspaper
is never strong enough to do very much for its
town.
joy Farewell to the past. Good
morning to the rising sun that will
The world as it is constituted today, has two j p""ew°^^muddy streets, iarewell
standards of morality—the one for man. the other ^ ^ (hat fe„ fr„m ,he an-
for woman. If a man outrages the so-called rules ^ jn (hc o]d t)iacuSmith shops. Fare
| of society, even the worst sin is catalogued among we)) to the C0W5 coming home
I "wild oats." The merest deviation upon the part ,hrollgh the open fields where the
I of a woman puts her under the ban artd makes of j University now stands, farewell to
1 her an ostracized, social outlaw. The "prince of j ,he old town pump, where saints and
■ midnight lair" is none the safer because he happens sinners used to gather to get a rm •
it in \our parlor. This is one of the supreme out of the old rusty tin cup. a -
' uie's social custom. The whole thing is | well ancien^ Norma, and he^ways.
freaks
an unspeakable travesty 011 justice.
"In recent years we have devised tests
that have been blended from
I the pairlor. Farewell
. ^ The present appearance
of our
needs w.lling
'""•"""S - I hands and loyal hearts, to raise the
inglv little intelligence to measure. —Dr. \\ tlilam t-ia^ stiu higher Take hold of the
L. Burnhatn, Clark university.
I city, good as it is.
measuring human intelligence but we find alarm-
taxes are growing evil
Unless we can reduce' taxes confiscating and
dissipating our annual surplus production we are
headed for manv kinds of disaster. Retrenchment
iiau oi 111 ingnvi
rope and help pull for a better Nor-
man. Looking forward the road will
sometimes lead up the hill, then
down in the valley. Bridges will
have to be built and crossed, but in
the end the city will be built, as a
et upon a h 11 that cannot be
a case of "be darned if you do and
be damned if you don't." until the
man is no doubt afraid to step one
way or the other for fca some one
■lias laid a trap for him
I admire any man who has a hum-
an heart. Because Governor Rob-
ertson has had a heart that could be
touched with the feeling of human
interest and sympathy: because he
has been willing to give some men
another chance 11 life, there have
been those who would lurk behind
thc hush and with the foul tongue of
slander try to tarnish bis fair name,
and oust him ironi the official posi-
tion which he holds.
The governor has been most un-
mercifully abused, branded as a rep
robate. a diabolical scoundrel and a
hypocrite and this abuse has come
from members of his own party as
well as ironi those of other parties,
so that, after all. who could blame
him for being a "little sturbborn.
now and then?
1 am not trying to defend the gov-
ernor in any act wherein he has fail-
ed to discharge his duty as a sworn
officer of this state, hut simply try
ing to have charity at a time when
char ty should be extended, and no
doubt would be appreciated I can
criticize a man's official acts much
ne naa •• -
It looks like radeship, the little compliments
1 .. ' . t nn^roriafinn t'.u (1* G'
words of appreciation, the d-eds of
se v'ce, kindly acts of every day that
make the ideal home
or put the same curb on their
tongues and tempers that they are
obliged to do outside.
There is nothing that can take
the place in your life oi your home.
If that s not a success, your busi-
ness *or 4r,Jfpssi-oval V'i> cess will
ake tne uieai numc.
On the other hand, you will find mean comparatively little to you.
ADVERTISING CREATES BUSINESS
Persons who have not -riven adver-
tising seiious thought may be in-
clined to believe that standard pro-
ducts could be sold cheaper if the
manufacturers did n"t spend so much
money in advertising them. The con-
trary is the truth.
Every concern which seeks a ger.
e-al market for its goodg finds it
necessary to set as de a certain sum
each year for advertising, and this
r.es-. he
article is
■ vcrhead
ine-s i
can create thc less per
charged for thc payment of
costs. This volume of bus-
jbtained only by creating a
d.-mahd fo: the goods, and it is most
quickly and cheaply done by direct
appeal through the newspapers.
The same principle which obtains
11 the ca>e of the general advertiser
could be applied in the bus ncss of
tne smallest merchant. The quicker
The Stillwater Advance-Democrat announces
that its anxiety as to how Manuel Merrick* may-
fare in Washington has been eased by the appoint-
ment of Maj. Harry Gilstrap to be his secretary.—
Tulsa World.
headed for manv kinds of disaster. Retrenchment . m b callt.d N-0r.
has got to be the order of the day with the United h\A and ,hat J
States Treasury, or taxes, living costs and interest
rates will remain high, new capital will be scarce
and unemployment and discontent will spread.
GAMBLING PERMITTED
NORMAN AND ITS ADVANTAGES
Norman is so beautifully located as to attract
attention of any casual passer-by and as soon as
the improvements now under way have been com-
pleted. which includes *ewer extension and many
blocks of pavement, the town will be second to
none a* a desirable and ideal p ace in which to live.
Norman is a city of opportunit> and all who
will consider this city as their future home will
find a real citv for a home and business. 1 lie town
is located in a rich agricultural region, with splen-
did prospects for oil.
AH the late gambling devices were in operation
at thi I.iggette carnival which closed a week s ses-
sion here last niylit. The first steps in gambling
were taught the children who frequented these
places More was torn down during this one
week than the churches of Norman will be able
to build up in six months, and no doubt seed was
sown in the minds and hearts of some which will
result in a crop of gamblers in the future. Too
bad. and \ et w e stood ttll\ by without throw ing
up 'nir hands in protest. Slay Gor help us, for it
looks like we can't help ourselves or else we don't
, give a snap.
mon.
Good night to the old
Good morning to the new.
THE CIVIC COMMITTEE.
SARAH'S A WONDER
Fraiicc s grand old woman. S.irah
<e-nhardt is 76. Six years ago lie
right leg was amputated Next week
< p will :o from Paris to London by
-Iving machine to play the part of 1
love sick boy of 25 in a new play
^" charged as a part of the operating I the turnover which a dealer is abl
' ' to make, the sooner his profit is ob-
tained and thc cash is put in the till
for new purchases. Advertising of
the practical kind will help to make
quicker sales and more frequent
1 ofits. The result is that the re-
tailer, w th the aid of thc ueneral
advertiser, is able to maintain stand-
expenses the same as rent, fuel or
insurance. The aim of the adve tis-
ing manager is to buy thc laruc>t
possible circulation anions persons
who would be interested in his pro-
duct.
Every manufacturer ha certain
iixed charges which must he paid
out of the receipts from the bu -'ness.1 ard prices and quality in the widely
and thc larger the volume of busi-! advertised articles.
FRIDAY'S BAD REPUTATION
lucky day. for it was 011 Friday that
was inaugurated President. Let's
■ ■ ■ official acts mucn - Friday's reputation as a disastrous hope that particular Friday proves
£"h"„T«n point out the true day apparently originated in ihe ,a, as lucky for the nation as it did for
.. .1. • U„ 1 linn FrinaV \ (i
urse he should pursue
However—
It s my opinion that the governor
will call a special session of the leg-
islature, and that everything will
come out all right in the end
So mote it be
That
ne\ e-
why the grim reaper
catch up with her
can
GOOD PLACE TO BEGIN
New Y'irk announces a nati'm wide
movement to promote a higher re-
gard for the reputations of men and
,i better plate • r such i
movement to begin than New \o:k
PUBLIC MADE HIM A NUT
When Everett A. Harding, a Chi-
cago yoiiiiu man, made it kn nvn lie
was a cousin of the president, he
became a social li"ii I hen the
stores proved too ready to cash his
checks "The boy has been a little
daft\ for years." aid his father. F.pn
Harding, "but the public made a nut
,.ut of him." As too often happens
A MODERN MIRACLE
The Texan who died and came to
life after his widow collected $10,(MM1
from the insurance company. s the
first dead man to be -entniced to 2
years in the penitentiary.
days of the church, when Friday
"a> set as thc date of the Crucifix--
k-n. Rtis'ness men's aversion to Fri-
day is traced to the Black Fridays
on the New York stock exchange
Ti.i' panic of 1873 started on Friday.
It was on a Friday in 1869 that
G old :.nd Fisk cornered the ,told
market and shook Wall Street to its
foundations.
But now comes a calendar sharp
who says that Friday is Amerca s
lucky day. It was 011 Friday, he
points out that Columbia sailed f r
and diso'verod America The May
flower po ted at Provincetown on
| Friday. It was on Friday R chard
Henry Lee introduced the res lution
by which tile Thirteen Colonies de-
clared their independence. The
Revolutionary Wa was decided 11
an bis' iiial Friday when Cornwallis
surrendered.
Woodrow Wilson asserts that 13
is his luck> number. President
I Harding will declare Fr day as his
IN JUSTICE'S NAME
A young fellow of 11 who had an
invalid father, a dependent mother
a young wife to support 011 a small
salary, stole and rifled two trunks ot
< ier elry salesman and lias just been
sentenced to seven years in a re-
formatory That's his punishment
and he can stand it The severest
penalty is inflicted 011 this poling
man's helpless dependents which the
law shouldn't punish at art. What's
going to become of them?
N.-arly always the family of the
criminal is punished more than Ik-
's. There is no. justice in it, 110
mercy. 110 Christianity.
WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW
The most interesting detail in the
-tillman c.ise has not yet been touch-
ed upon. How d d the Stillman
yacht come to be named Modesty,
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