Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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OKLAHOMA.
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. NO. 48.
Oklahoma State
Conscription Must Come
Says U. S. Senator
Washington, Dec. 15.—A United
states army of 5 million anen in two
years was forecast today by chairman
Chamberlaain of the Senate miliary af-
fairs committee in a statement urging
compulsory service.
After going over his citizen army
bill with army officers the senator esti-
mated tihat 2,318,883 men between 18
and 23 would be trained under it the
first year, and t.iat the increase of
those coming into the army from cadet
classes would more than flouble it tne
second year. Thereafter the increase
probably would .be in proportion to
the increase in population.
Murder to I'se In trained Men.
"Compulsory service is an idea we
must come to," said Senator Cham'b- I
erlain. "it is nothing less than down-
right murder for the Nation to con- !
tinue a plan which may at apy day |
send untrained troops against t.ie skil-
led veterans of other nations.
"The people must be educated to see
that this plan, or some plan like it,
lias the merits of keeping tiieon in
civil life most of the year and yet giv-
es them valuable military service. A
French officer wiho served at the Mar
ne, and Swiss officers who have stud-
ied their own and this system, have
told me it would give a vast number
of men w.io, under skilled officers,
could quickly give a good account of
themselves.
Con I,| Abolish Standing Army.
"I believe that in time the system
would lead to the abolition of the
regular army altogether. We would
have simply skilled officers and a vast
number of fairly prepared men. The
Swiss have no standing army.
"The men themselves would be
greatHly benefited Iby tie ^training,1.
Senator Cnamberlaln continued. "I be-
lieve the plan would prolong the life
of the average American many years.
And with so short a time of service
each year there would be no danger of
arousing 'the militaristic spirit,' so-
called."
The estimate of 5 million in two
years is based on the theory that 50
per cent of tlve eligible male popula-
tion would be able in some plea to get
excused from service.
Snator Chamberlain plans also to
give additional financial aid to schools
and college® which train cadets.
ASKS U.S. MUNITIONS WORKS.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Representa-
tive Tavenner of Illinois made the first
preparedness speeoh of the session in
the House today, urging government
manufacture of all war materials. He
attacked the navy league as being
composed in part by me who profit
from the sale of munitions.
Since 1887, Tavenner declared, four
firms in the U%ed States have vir-
tually had a monopoly on war orders,
dividing millions for munitions that
might have been produced from 20 to
60 per cent cheaper in government
arsenals or navy yards.
Representative Tavenner charged
the founders of the Navy League are
the Midvale Steel Company, Charles M.
Echwalb and J. 'P. Morgan. Munition
companies controlled by these men,
he said, have a monoi>oly on armor
plate since 1887 have sold the govern-
ment 102 million dollars of their prod-
uct.
"We have paid for armor plate an
average of $440 per ton when we
could produce it in a government plant
for $238 per ton," said Tavenner. 'Of
the 102 jnillion dollars spent since
1887, we could have saved approxi-
mately 35 million dollars by govern-
ment manufacture. 1 contend that we
could have a oneJforth larger navy
without the levying of an extra cent
of taxation if the United States made
its own armor plate and munitions."
Tavenner named the contributors to
the Navy League Fund, showing the
relations of a number of them with
munition companies and charged that
Colonel Thompson, president of the
league, is a director of the Interna-
tional Nickel Company, which sells
nickel in enormous quantities to ar-
mor plate makers.
When Tavenner charged that Amer-
ican armor plate companies sold its
oroduct to Russia for $240 per ton,while
the United States paid them $616 a ton,
"Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, shouted
"Amen!" with campmeeting fervor.
PACIFIC MAIL SHIPS PASS TO
NKW OWNERS.
American International Corporation of
New York PtirelmscN Fleet.
New York, Dec. 13.—The American I
International Corporation, controlled
by Interests connected with the Nat-
ional City Rany and other prominent
financiers, today announced the pur-
chase of the entire remaining fleet of
the Pacific Mall Steamship Company,
consisting of seven steamships.
In this venture the corporation has
secured the co-operation of William
R. Grace & Co., importers and export-
ers between the United States and
South America, who Hre represented
on the board of the new corporation.
Incidentally by this step the last fleet
under the United States flag on the
Pacific Oceann will not suffer com-
plete disintegration.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1015.
m'aces service a bote
party politics, friend
u-iA- ()p SCHOOL LAND LESSE8
11.00 PER YEAR
Guthrie Christmas trade Center
Tor fifty miles Radius (Ubere
Vou Get more for Cess money
11LKLD NY MUCKlNG.
'i/hrwrs wuids?
Guthrie is having' the biggest 'outside the city' holiday trade in its his-
tory, said a merchant to the editor of the State Register a few days ago.
There are the best of reasons for this condition of trade for Guthrie.
Guthrie is the best situated city for retail trade of any within a fifty mile
zone. Only one city within that radius is larger and it cannot sell the same grade
of goods as cheap, and hence it cannot compete with Guthrie. The other cit-
ies are too small to hold as large stocks of goods and as high grade as is in de-
mand by all classes of people. This unique condition of Guthrie's advan-
tage in retail trade is due to the fact that it still retains more lines of railway
and has all of the varieties of stocks of goods of the larger cities, and has as
high grade of goods as is carried by any of the cities of the country without
having the high costs, either of rentals or of clerk hire, or of living, which
makes it necessary for the stores in big cities to charge an excessive price in
order to reach the same profit that Gu thrie merchants can secure on their
goods.
In dry goods, in clothing, in shoes, in hardware, in drugs, in stationery, in
furniture, in printing, in all lines of groceries, Guthrie has all that any mark-
et furnishes, both in the costly and the cheap wares. In some of these lines it
is supreme of any city in Oklahoma, especially so in dry goods. When the cap-
ital was removed from Guthrie there was a temporary feeling of the old
friends of Guthrie that it might have shrunk in business lines, as well; but
in the years since they have gradually become increasingly assured that in all
the advantages of retail trade if they must go away from home to buy any-
thing they cannot get at home, that Guthrie is the best city to go to of any
within reach of fifty or a hundred miles, if not the best of any in Oklahoma.
Guthrie has four music houses, one the greatest piano emporium in Okla.
It is due to this fact that this year's holiday trade is filling the city with
purchasers. Guthrie merchants hive for many years now organized a bur-
eau by which outside buyers can save their railroad fare on the purchase of
goods to and from Guthrie, and then buy the goods cheaper than they could
either in the larger metropolis, or in any one of the small towns close to
them. The truth of the matter is, that the number of trains running on the
nine different railways coming into Guthrie, are virtually interurban lines of
accommodation. Besides the main line of the Santa Fe coming in from the
North and South, there is the Denver, Enid and Gulf coming from the North-
west; the El Reno & Western coming in from the Southwest, the Kingfisher
line, connecting the Rock Island through Seward, the Katy and Ft. Smith
connecting the south and southeastern portion of the state through Fallis; the
Eastern branch of the Rock Island going over to Chandler; and. again, the
Eastern Oklahoma going over to Cushing and the oil region towns surround-
ing, as well as north east by way of Stillwater and Pawnee.
The Parcel Post makes Guthrie virtually a mail order city for those who
haven't time to come personally and select their purchases. Guthrie merch-
ants are so long established here, and so reliable that anything ordered with-
out personal inspection can be depended upon as to its quality as well as if the
person were here to select it with his own eyes. This is another assurance
that has established Guthrie's reputation as a dependable retail city for the
Cimarron Valley towns. Anything that cannot be bought in a neighboring vil-
liage is secured from Guthrie by merely dropping a letter and describing the
article wanted and is sent to them by the return Parcel Post. Those having
large families of children have discovered that by buying Christmas presents
in Guthrie they can frequently buy for three what would cost them to buy for
one elsewhere, and then they get a higher grade of goods.
Even the hotels of Guthrie are feeling the Christmas ebb and enthusiasm
that comes with the glowing heart and rapturous vision of the happiness that
a few Christmas presents can make to the friends and relatives we have.
Guthrie is once more covering an her old territory as a trade mistress
that she did at the beginning of the settlement of Oklahoma. From Perry to
Oklahoma City; from Stillwater to Kingfisher; from Enid to Chandler—it is
natural that this region should come to the central place, with so many rail-
rcrd®, wr' icb is GUTHRIE.
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