The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1922 Page: 2 of 8
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DUNCAN BANNER FRIDAY DECEMBER 1 1922
-Jtal LECSOil
Posts of the American Legion in
Oklahoma are cooperating with pub-
lic schools and all civic and fraternal
organizations in observing American
Education Week December 3 to 9
initiated by the national organization
of the American Legion
John J Tigert U S Commissioner
of Education in an article written
for the Legion’s news service de-
clares our nation will stand or fall
with its school system He is coop-
erating with the Legion in bringing
to the attention of the entire nation
the need of better schools better
teachers the elimination of illiteracy
the duties of citizenship and the value
of physical training
A chart of the U S Bureau of
Education shows that boys at 25 years
of age with a high school education
were receiving $862 per year more
aalary than boys of the same age
who left high school at 14 years of
age Uneducated laborers earned on
the average $500 per year for 40
years a total of $20004 High school
graducates earned on the avenge $1-
' 000 per year for 40 yean a total of
$40000 This education required 12
yean of schooling of llJo days each
This total of 2160 days in school add
ed $20000 to the Income for life
Thus each day in school added $902
Education pays financially as well
as in other ways
Winners for Oklahoma in the Amer-
ican Legion national essay contest
recently announced by R H Wileon
superintendent of public instruction
who appointed three judges to pass
on the essays are as follows First
prize a silver medal won by Zelma
Wickersham Mangum second prize
a bronze medal went to Estelle Jack-
son Ada These two essays with
that of Ruth Davies of Okmulgee
third were forwarded as Oklahoma
entries in the national contest
Other leading essays were written
by James Franklin R F D 2 El
Reno Margaret Shortall ’ Porter
Daisy Kirk Douglas Bessie Bex R
F D No 1 Reed Ophelia Carr
Kelleyville Ray Merriweather 1210
W 7th St Okmulgee Margaret Trip-
pet 332 W Jefferson St Mangum
George E M Campbell Stillwater
Hugh Spohn Beaver Mona Stivers
630 E 6th St Oklahoma City Chas
Turley Broken Arrow
George Oakley post No 8 Idabel
has' one of the best Legion homes in
the state costing $10000 being cen-
itrally located in the business section
rot the city It was built by the aid
of subscription by patriotic citizens
-added to funds raised by the post
' The Legion operates it as a commun-
' ity building also It includes two
reading rooms auditorium gymnas-
ium stage Idresefag room shower
baths kitchenette etc It will seat
1 600 A radio receiving set is installed
’The up-keep is provided for by home
ttalent plays swimming parties
dances ball games radio concerts
repost activities
Thougn approximately 20000 more
votes were cast on November 7 for
the proposed state bonus than against
the measure its defeat was caused by
the silent vote— those who voted in
the election but who did not vote for
or against the bonus Such votes act-
ed as votes against the measure This
large favorable vote was in spite of
an active organized opposition to the
measure and objections to its form
and amount proposed and the fact
that there was no organized effort to
put it over ‘
The ' American Legion as an or-
ganization took no stand for or
against the proposed measure Mem-
bers were directed to take any public
stand for or against as individuals
and not as members of the Legion
The American Legion remained neu-
traL Public opinion gleaned from the
state press is that the vote shows
that the people of Oklahoma are un-
doubtedly in favor of a state bonus
It has been publicly announced that
a bonus measure providing for a pay-
ment of $30 per month to ex-service
men is to be drafted and presented
to the state legislature which meets
January 2nd where little opposition
is expected
Wirt Gray Post No 116 of Drum-
right bought a church building and
will convert it into a post home ac-
cording to F P Schickram adjutant
The building was paid for out of the
American Legion funds collected
through post activities
The post has Bent several standard
magazines to the Soldiers’ Tubercu-
lar Sanitorium at Sulphur
The Oklahoma Rifle Team recruit-
ed from the Oklahoma Nations
Guard won third place in the nations
contest at Camp Perry Ohio las
month This is quite an honor for t
state Richard F Jones adjutant
Haynes-Finley post No 153 of Wago-
ner was a member of the team
Klingensmith post No 126 of Bris-
tow with the aid of citizens built
and dedicated a city park according
to Wm Courtney post adjutant
which was named Klingensmith Park
It is one of the best in the state The
park pavilion alone cost $50000 a
lake $10000 and road3 $5000 The
park covers five acres space
The city of Indianapolis and the
county and state have appropriated
$10000000 for the construction of
the most magnificent memorial build-
ing in the country as the national
home of the American Legion Four
solid blocks in the heart of the city
have been condemned for the building
site '
Plenty of Canned Tomatoes
Shortly after midsummer this
year the Canning Trust mournfully
announced the year’s pack of toma-
toes would either be a third or k half
less we do not recollect which Now
the Department of Agriculture esti-
mates more than one million tons of
tomatoes have been canned or about
132 per cent more than last year
which was 432756 tons Indiana
leads all states with 271584 tons
Will the Canning Trust please ex-
plain? At an all day meeting of the De-
partment Executive Committee of the
American Legion held at Oklahoma
City November 26 the following res-
olution was adopted:
WHEREAS the American Legion
of Oklahoma through its Department
Convention is committed to a legisla-
tive progra mf or the relief of the sick
and disabled ex-service men and
WHEREAS to the Department Ex-
ecutive Committee has been entrust-
ed the duty of securing the enact
ment into law of that program and
WHEREAS the vote in the recent
Oklahoma election indicates that
there is in this" state a favorable senti-
ment toward a state adjusted com-
pensation measure and
WHEREAS the Department Execu-
tive Committee of the American Le-
gion of Oklahoma is without author-
ity at this time to announce a policy
with reference to state adjusted com-
pensation now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED
FIRST
That the Department Executive
Committee considers the enactment
of its hospitalization program into
law to be its first duty and
SECOND
That a referendum to the membership-
of the American Legion of Ok-
lahoma be made through the posts to
ascertain (1) whether the members
of the American Legion are in favor
of a reasonable state adjusted com-
pensation measure and (2) whether
the Department Executive Committee
shall be instructed to support such a
measure
Since the last Department Con-
vention legislative program contain-
ed no reference to a state bonus the
Department Executive Committee de-
clared it did not have' authority to
announce any policy regarding it But
in view of approximately 20000 more
votes for than against the bonus of
those who voted on the question in
the recent election the Committee
believes that it indicates the people
want Oklahoma ex-service men to
have a bonus hence decided to refer
the matter to the posts for instruc-
tion whether the Committee should
support a measure providing reason-
able relief The referendum will be
taken by 280 posts not earlier than
December 15 with reports sent to
State Headquarters by December 26
The State Executive Committee of
the American Legion declared its first
purpose was to secure State legisla-
tion further providing for care and
relief of disabled ex-service men The
legislative program adopted by the
Department Convention at Bartles-
ville includes the following items:
Appropriations for grading and im-
proving the hospital grounds at Mus-
kogee and Sulphur for a new tuber-
cular wayd building at Sulphur for
fund to provide transportation of
State patients to State hospitals an
idditional $100000 for the relief of
sick and needy disabled ex-service
men their wives widows and minor
children
The Soldiers Tubercular Sanator-
ium at Sulphur is now almost full to
capacity A new building is badly
eeded The present relief fund will
be exhausted by the end of the year
The Executive Committee urges
that all Posts secure one hundred per
cent renewal of this year’s member-
ship before December 31 and decid-
J to award some suitable prize or
rophy to the Post first recording at
Apartment Headquarters 1923 mem-
berships equal to their present 1922
trength provided however the 192S
otal equals the post high-member-lip
mark for 1921 and 1922 A1
ates have adopted the plan Mem-
era have been urged to hunt uj
leir Post Adjutant and hand hin
es for 1923
The first act of Alva J Niles rc
ntly elected commander of Jo
COMMUNIST PARTY
LEADERS WILL GO
TO TRIAL MONDAY
Gases Called in Circuit
Court Berrien Co
Michigan
St Joseph Mich Nov 25 — Twen-
ty alleged leaders of the Communist
Party of America — representative in
this country of the Third Intemation
al and' the Russian Soviet govern-
ment — are scheduled to go on trial in
Berrien county Circuit Court Mon-
day charged with teaching Bnd ad
vocating the overthrow of the United
States government by force and vio-
lence ' '
Their arrest grew out of a meeting
held in a wooded gorge in the wild
sand dune country ' twenty miles
south of St Joseph on the shores of
Lake Michigan last August The
meeting the government alleges was
the national convention of the Com
munist Part yof America
‘ Arreet 4 At Meeting
Although the warrant on which
they were arrested names seventy-
six men and women aa having been
present at the meeting only sixteen
j were found there when federal and
state agents led by Sheriff George
Bndgeman swooped down on the syl-
van retreat in the early hours of
August 22 The others government
agents claim fled when 'they were
warned
A farmer boy whose curiosity had
led him to spy on the sand dune con-
vention told the raiders he had seen
the prisoners bury something in the
woods and he led them to a spot
where under a carefully arranged
covering of fallen leaves they dug up
three barrels filled with typewriters
duplicating machines books papers
letters reports manuscripts brief
cases and pamphlets
Arrest Three la Chicago
On the strength - of information
found among those papers W Z Fos-
ter leader of the 1919 steel strike
and two other men were arrested at
Chicago and extradited to Michigan
and Joseph Zsak was arrested and
brought back from New York bring-
ing the total of prisoners up to twen-
ty Because of the expense involved in
hunting down and bringing back the
fifty-six others who this government
charges attended the convention no
effort has been made to locate them
Among the fifty-six for whom war
rants have been issued are Rose Pas-
tor Stokes who was pardoned from I eating advising and teaching the
Leavenworth penitentiary by the doctrines that industrial and political
president!' Alfred' Waggenknecht' of reform xhouldbe brought about by
Cleveland convicted during the war crime sabotage violence and other
under the espionage act Edgar Ow- ’ unlawful methods of terrorism” '
ens of Moline convicted in Illinois
under the anti-syndicalism law and
now out on bond Ben Gitlow and
Harry Winitsky of New York who
according to federal agents fled di-
rect from the Berrien county conven-
tion to Sing Sing prison where they
surrendered to serve out sentences
imposed in New York Robert Minor
New York cartoonist and jurist who
was arrested in France for preaching
sedition to the American army Boris
Reinstein of Buffalo Max Bedacht
Cleveland Ella Bloor St Louis G
A Schulenberg Chicago Joseph Pog-
ney L E Hetterfeld and Edward I
Lindgren New York and many oth-
ers equally well known in radical cir-
cles Gubernatorial Candidate Held
The twenty prisoners here include
besides Foster and Zsak Charles E
Ruthenberg of Cleveland executive
secretary of the Workers Party the
legal branch of the underground
Communist Organization William F
Dunne former editor of a radical pa-
Carson Post fJo 1 of Tulsa was to
urge citizens of Tulsa to have nothing
to do with propositions presented to
them in the name of the American
Legion unless proper credentials are
presented signed by the Post Com-
mander Niles is president of the
Security National Bank Several
fake magazine schemes have been
tried in Tulsa The public should be
advised that the American Legion
Weekly is the one off Ida! organ of
the American Legion
The Department Executive Com-
nittee of the American Legion has
'equested each post to contribute to
i fund with which to provide every
Oklahoma ex-service man who is lo-
cated in a state hospital or those in
surrounding states with some small
lift at Christmas tune A minimum
f $200 from the smaller posts of 15
o 25 members with other posts con-
ributing in proportion to their mem-
ership Several posts will probably
ontribute $10 to $25 or more The
oney will be sent to Bernard A
Milner state service officer at De
srtment Headquarters and propor-
aned among the various hospital:
cording to the number of patients
sts or individuals contributing par
1 or boxes should send them direc
the hospital desired
per at Butte Mont and candidate
this year for governor of New York
on the Workers Party ticket Norman
H Tallentire an Englishman Max
Lerner of Seattle Earl Browder' of
Chicago Zeth Nordling Portland
Ore Alex Bail Philadelphia Cyril
Lambkin and Wm Reynolds Detroit
Elmer MacMillin James Mikelie and
Thomas R Sullivan of St Louis
The case here has attracted nation-
wide attention because it is the first
test of 1 Michigan’s anti-syndicalism
law passed as a war-time measure
apd also the first “red” case of prom-
inence since the widespread prosecu-
tions during Attorney General Pal-
mer’s regime While this is a state
case the raid was engineered by fed-
eral agents and they have been in-
strumental in preparing the evidence
for the trial
Deny Committing Overt Act
Ruthenberg Foster Dunne and
their associates contend they are
charged only with advocating and
talking about a change of govern-
ment and not with the commission
of any overt act Their arrest they
say violates the constitutional guar-
antee of free speech and free assem
blage and It is indicated the defense
will be that the Michigan statute is
unconstitutional when it seeks to
deny the right to meet and discuss
political reform
The state on the other hand
chargee that the defendants proposed
to change the government by invok-
ing sabotage and violence and that
they were without the pale of the
constitution because they urged com-
mission of crimes to accomplish their
aims Change of the form of gov-
ernment is legal only when accom-
plished by legal means the state will
contend and such change admittedly
legal in itself can not be brought
about by illegal means
! Conspiracy Claim Pushed
The state’s line of argument fol-
lows closely that employed' by Attor-
ney General Daugherty in his injunc-
tion suit against the railroad strikes
where Judge Wilkerson supported the
government’s $iew that a conspiracy
existed in violation of the law when
unlawful acts were committed in the
attempted consummation of a lawful
purpose
The specific charges on which' the
defendants will be tries are that they
“did by word of mouth and writing
advocate and teach the duty neces-
sity and propriety of crime sabotage
violence and other unlawful methods
of terrorism ad a means of accom-
plishing industrial and political - re-
form” and that they “did print pub-
lish edit issue and knowingly circu-
late sell distribute and publicly dis-
play books papers documents and
written matter containing and advo-
Sabotage and Violence Charged
Two additional counts charge them
with “openly wilfully and deliber-
ately” justifying “by word of mouth
and writing the commission and the
attempt to commit crime sabotage
violence and other unlawful means
of terrorism with intent to exem-
plify spread and advocate the pro-
priety of the doctrines of criminal
syndicalism” and with voluntarily as-
sembling “with a certain society
group and assemmblage of persons to
wit the Communist Party of Amer-
ica ‘formed to teach’ and advocate
the doctrines of criminal syndical-
ism” The present Communist Party of
America includes most of the old left-
wing Socialists who left their party
at the convention in Chicago in Sep-
tember 1919
A BARGAIN THAT’S HARD
TO SELL
'
Every tenth funeral in the United
States is due to tuberculosis Tuber-
culosis is preventable and curable
Experiments in Framingham Mass
indicate $1 per capita can buy com-
plete protection from tuberculosis for
a community r
There’s argument enough for the
liberal purchase of ' tuberculosis
Christmas Seals this fall The state-
ments are backed by the Oklahoma
Public Health Association which di-
rects the annual Seal Sale and spends
the funds derived in an effort to make
Oklahomana healthier ’ happier peo-
ple '
It’s hard for the healthy two-thirds
of us to look ahead far enough to
see the necessity of an investment in
health preservation The mite of the
other third in most cases a sacrifice
is not enough Eradication of tuber-
culosis can be accomplished just as
eradication of leprosy and the black
lague has been accomplished and a
surely as eradication of smallpox and
yphoid fever is being accomplished
AND IT’S MIGHTY CHEAP Al
51 PER
The highest point of Mont Blanc-
he highest mountain in Europe is i
'ranee It has an altitude of 1570
eet
COUNTY HAS FUND
OF $150000 FOO
START ON ROADS
State Is Ready to Start
But Tax Injunction
Causes Delily
Stephens county has the sum of
$150000 in cold hard cash with
which to start the 1 3 0-mile( system of
hard surfaced ’ roads ready for the
start just as soon as Judge Cotteral
and the railroads get through their
jockeying with the funds so they can
be paid out! -
According to County Clerk J A
Carnes the state highway department
is ready to begin work and has 'noti-
fied the county officials that they are
ready to start at any time -on the
roads The county can do nothing at
present because the county funds are
tied up by the injunction which has
been granted the railroads
This injunction has been in force
since August last and not a single
progressive step toward settlement
has ever been madej There seems to
be no likelihood of a settlement soon
and nothing can be learned as to the
cause of the delay
SOME SMILES
Bargain Hunter
At a colored Sunday school picnic
two darkey boys operated lemonade
stands one on each side of the en-
trance The pastor came along and
going to George’s stand said:
“Well my little man how much do
you charge for your lemonade?”
“Five cents a glass” said George
“And how much do you charge?”
he asked turning to Henry
“Two cents a glass” said Harry
The pastor looked froig one to the
other of the boys and turning to
Htyry said: “I’ll try a glass of
yours my boy” As he gulped the
fluid he smacked his lips and said:
That’s good I’ll have another” and
he smiled when he thought he was
getting two glasses at less than
George asked for one
“Tell me my little man” he said
to HarVy “how you can afford to sell
your lemonade for two cents a glass
when George is asking five cents”
“Well you see” said Harry
“George and Me is partners but the
cat fell in my pail bo we thought we’d
better sell this for two cents”
MORAL — You don’t have to go to
a picnic and drink lemonade to find
that you can’t get something for
nothing
Diner— -“This coffee looks muddy”
Waiter— “It was ground this morn-
ing” Mr Grouch — “Weil let it rain I
don't care”
Valet — “Very good sir I shall do
so sir”
Citizen — “Your Honor I’m too sick
to do jury duty I’ve got a bad case
of the itch”
Judge (to clerk) — “Scratch this
man out”
“You bore me” said the cork to
the corkscrew ‘
“Never mind I have gotten you
out of a pretty tight place” was the
reply
Keep the Car
Automobile and suitcase lost or
stolen from Forty-third and Michi-
gan liberal reward for return of
suit-case no questions asked — Class-
ified Ad in the Chicago Tribune
2-Year Old Child
Struck By Auto
Injuries Slight
X-Ray Examination of Injuries Being
Made at HoepitaL
The 2-year old son of Mr and Mrs
M P Fox of 812 Sycamore avenue
was struck by an automobile which
WM driven by Mrs Clauda Wilkinson
this morning and sustained a Slightly
injured leg The child wm taken to
the Weedn hospital where an X-ray
examination of the injured leg wm
being made this afternoon Inquiry
at the hospital received the informa-
tion that it was not - believed the
child’s injuries were anything more
than a severe jolt and a few bruises
No details of the accident could
be secured
Stalls
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TEACHERS’ SALARIES
Salaries of Rural and
In 1913 the average salary of all
public school teachers both elemen-
tary and high in urban and rural
districts was $515 With what feel-
ing of elation (?) therefore must
the teachers of the country have ex-
amined the statistics of the Bureau
of Education for 1918 to find that
their average salary for that year
was $635 ! And what must have been
their feeling in 1920 when they found
that the average salary was $871 an
increase of 69 per cent over the sal-
ary of 1913! But after looking over
a column of figures relating to liv-
ing costs and the purchasing power
of the dollar the feeling of elation
and gratification no doubt subsided'
to the zero point for they found that
the cost of jiving had increased 74
per cent between 191$ and 1918
and that the purchasing power of
their salary was only 71 per eent of
what it was when their salary was
$815 In other words the teachers
in 1918 found that the average sal-
ary had been reduced to $365 In
1920 the purchasing power of the
teacher’s dollar was still Iosb than 85
per eent of what it was in 1913 for
the cost of living had increased ex-
actly 100 per cent in seven' yean and
that munificent salary of $871 was
worth only 435 as compared with
what the $515 would buy in 1913
Complete statistics for 1921 and
1922 are not yet available but ac-
cording to an estimate made by the
National Education Association the
average salary for 1$22 is only about
$1000 which without doubt is a very
liberal estimate : In Borne parts of
the United States especially in the
cities teachers’ salaries have been in-
creased somewhat since 1920 but in
some of the rural districts there has
been a reduction and unless strong
efforts are made in their behalf many
thousands of country teachers will
find themselves in worse condition
than in 1913
It is true that the index of the cost
of living is now about 175 as com-
pared with 100 seven years ago but
it ia highly improbable that the down-
ward trend will within the next de-
cade justify any reduction of salary
of the long poorly paid teacher The
Literary Digest for June 10 states
that “all price indices tiiow little
change of late and some indicate a
slight rise”
When we say that the average sal-
ary of the 680000 public-school
teachers in the United States wm
$871 in 1920 and not more than
$1000 in 1922 it must not be forgot-
ten how unequally the salaries are
distributed
In 1922 the Bureau of Education
computed salary statistics for about
43 per cent of the rural-school teach-
ers and for about 60 per cent of the
Buy the best!
Way Batteries
—the hMtkmae
they Utthttget
More Columbia Batteries are used in the
United States than All other makes com-
bined because —
Columbias have been manufactured cm a large
scale considerably longer than any other dry
battery -
They have over 30 year of battery manufac-
turing skill and improved equipment behind
them
Every improvement of any account has been
developed in the Columbia laboratories
The Columbia “Hot Shot was die first suc-
cessful assembly of dry cell In one package
And ogam Columbia ha demonstrated it
leadership through the development of the
new Steel Case “Hot Shot” Battery
Wherever a dry battery is needed Columbia
will always give the best service
i t
For sale right near you by
NATIONAL SUPPLY COMPANY
DUNCAN OKLAHOMA
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Look for the name Columbia
EDsy ' Batteries
—they hat loagar
AND THE COST OF LIVING
City Teachers Compared
urban teachers It was found that in
19 states there were teachers in one-
! room rural Schools receiving less than
1 $300 a year There were six states
where teachers in the one-room rural
schools received a median salary of
between $300 and $400 five states
where the median salary was between
$500 and $600 and six states where
the median salary fell between $600
and $700 In only five states did
the median salary exceed $1000 In
the schools with more than one teach-
er the salaries generally were higher
In a state where the median salary
of teachers in one-teacher schools is
between $600 and $700 that in the
two-teacher schools is between $700
and $800 and in the three or mere
teacher schools in the open country
between $800 and $900 and in the
consolidated and country village
schools between $900 and $1000
The median salary for city elemen-
tary -school teachers ia $1524 Ia
the group of cities from 2500 to II-
000 population the median salary ia
$1097 la cities from 10000 to £-
000 population $1241 in titles from
25000 to 100000 population $1379
and in cities 'of 100000 or more pop-
ulation $1848
O’
Some who decry paternalism in
government do not object to a nice
fatherly tariff
Time for Testing
The time for sight-testing has
arrived when a conscious effort
must be made in order to see clear-
ly when the eyes ache water or
smart— especially after a spell of
close work ' Also when attacks of
headaches become frequent when
any difficulty ia experienced in
seeing clearly — such as occasional
blurring of print or needlework
difficulty in seeing very near or
very distant objects with distinc-
tiveness a desire for stronger
light etc — all point to the need of
eye-testing and the kind of help
we can give you
G A HOWE
Jeweler A ' Optometrist
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