The Journal (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1916 Page: 2 of 6
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the geary journal
Thejournal
Entered June 13, 1903. Geary. OkU.. <jlu B
natter under the Act of Cofl>rW Of March. 1891.
THURSDAYS
H. Franklyn Benson Kditor and Manager
Koy Benson - --
ONEDOLLAB PBB YKAR
TO ADVERTISERS The Journal Kuarantee-
toreach better than 90 per cent pfthehones
and aroand Geary in what mi«ht be terms
,,, •Gary's trade territory the year round. We
make special rates on advertising contracts ag-
gregating 1.000 inches or more per annum,
Official Paper of the City of G**t7
Telephone I Number 142
GEAUY. OKLAHOMA
Ing the town and community. With j
two papers here much of the effect-
iveness cf both is lost because t ><■
revenue simply will not stand tn«
strain. Every line of type that goes,
into a paper, every sheet of papei
used, every move in connection wit n
the issue of a paper, costs the pub-
lisher money.
The Journal is as "open minded, as
non-partisan, as big spirited as the
business we get will permit. me
Journal is a real newspaper, as near
the ideal, town building type as lo-
cal conditions will permit it to be.
The Journal wants your business re-
gardless of. your political and relig-
ious affiliations. The Journal stands
ready to prove the worth of its ser-
vice and to give full value. The
Journal is building toward a goal,
one day we shall reach that goal.
Why is an advertisement?
The Oklahoma City Times showed
a big spiritednese when it gave the
republican state committee space on
its editorial page to present their
side of the argument. The republi-
can party is without a paper even
pretending to statewide circulation
during the coming election, and like-
i ly never will have one in this state,
and it is generous of the Times,
which is owned and! opreated by
democrats, to play absolutely fair
with the republicans in Oklahoma.
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There is a Growing demand in this
i city for some different and more
wieldv form of city government. Cer
jtainlv our present type is slow and
! heavy footed, and unwieldy. Good
! men and true compose the city gov
renment, so t£hat is not the trouble.
I it is simply the antiquated system
i we are using. At this time we are
not possessed of sufficient facts to
1 suggest a remedy, although we ex-
I pect later to be able to present a
; series of facts and comparisons.
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We know more than one Oklahoma
newspaper, whose life is bound up iu
the result® of the election next Nov-
ember.
* * *
A half witted crowd in New York
culliiiR themselves the "American
Union Against Militarism" has sent:
out circulars, protesting against the ■
United States going to war with ,
Mexico. Their circular reached this
office Monday morning—nearly two
weeks after it became apparent to
j any one who reads the public
! prints that there was practically no
1 liklihood whatever cf the two coun-
tries going to war- if trouble with
Mexico could be dignified with the
name of war. We wonder why some
people feel called upon to "organize
| and attempt to run the country s
! business for it, when the duly con-
| sti uted authorities have Pro™n
themselves t3ie most capable the
! country has had in a quarter century
; This particular crowd fell down par-
i ticularly hard because the president
| beat them to it by about 10 days.
Chautauqua-time is rapidly aPP1"?'
aching and it behooves the public:
spirited ones who made the Chautau-
qua possible to get busy and "put it
over" in the usua'l efficient manner
Further, it behooves those who had
no active part in bringing the chau-
tauqua here to deliver their share bt
the goods with some healthy boost-
; jng and a liberal patronage of the
! ticket sellers.
Pay Your JOURNAL Subscription.
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PARAGRAPHS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
! THE JOURNAL is auitliiomz- I
| ed announce the following
i names as candidates for the
| democratic nomination for the |
| offices as indicated.
FOR CONGRESSMAN (6th Dist.)
HON. SCOTT FERRIS.
Blaine County
FOR COURT CLERK—
E. R. TAYLOR. ^
FOR COUNTY SHERIFF—
C. A. LEACH
FOR COUNTY TREASURER-
BERT R. WILLIS.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER-
IS.. L. BRAND.
J. R. HANKLA.
FOR STATE SENATOR—
H. F. BENSON.
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR—
W. W. PIERCE.
Canadian County
FOR SUPERINTENDENT-
MRS. EDITH M. LAVK)N
FOR COUNTY CLERK-
ALFRED J. WELLS.
Republican
FOR COURT CLERK—
T. P. QUAYLE
ADVERTISEMENTS
Whv is an advertisement? i maiite -----
Is it a Diece of charity designed | rP8entaticn in the
n tVF_ . ... ... fhp ;♦ In., n^rsii
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During the next five years probably
25 per cent of the small town news-
papers in Oklahoma are g<-ing to go
under. The average country news-
paper has as many lives as a cat and
will continue to exist in some man-
ner long after any other sort of en-
terprise known to the business world
would be in a receiver's hands or
stored in a barn, but all the same
where there is simply not enough
business even a newspaper will give
un the ghost in tinn Ttis means
merely t! at the bocm days are over
in Oklahoma and that lienceforh a
n'>wtpaper must win on its merits
and not on its politics, cr worse on
the crazy obsessic n of some jasper
that he is a natural-born and heaven
intended editor. In other words the
inflation is gone fromi the publishing
business and it is down to a solid
business basis. By the, ®™?v h5?
in tcwi s where there is only busi
ness for one paper, and scarcely that
the logical survivor should not be
blamed for wha< happens to the oth-
er guy. In a sense he is fighting for
his business life just the same •
the other fellow. Nine times out ol
ten the second party came to town
with a full understanding of the
situation ami knewirg full we ha
his only hope of ultimate success
was in Putting the man who was al-
ready there, out. of business
f re he has only himself to blaine if
he finds himself overmatched.
At Watonga one day last week, Ed
Lookabaugh, republican candidate fox
coun'.y judge, made this remark, i
used to say when Iannis Flynn wa
r nnirg ftr congress that it wa
idiotic to send a democrat to a P
llcan congress, and i ts a poo
tha' "went work bctli ways. It
rank foolishness and totally unao
as a business propefcitkn to send a
republican to a legislature ^ that i
overwhelmingly democratic. That
so concise and logical that c0"®^
is scarcely necessary, ^la^ab^
ne<s ag -and politics is polities-
Blaine cunty never .J,^1 £
;ind intended to help to prolong the
life of a given publication through
a certain period cf time for a given
resentaucn in my , mM1
ea se it has persistently j jen
there wlvo voted with the miner
the hopeless minority. Ben the
a certain period of time for a given thfi hopeless n-n.K-.i- . t0
Murnose— say of a political nature? B„lt, Mr. Voter, you ba^e only <
if it is bhere is rio use wasting time ,,., k at the things our county ha^
discussing the matter. , So long as ,,0, r iVed at ^e hands of^ ^
wo naoers remain in a town they legislature and then compare
.w*•?<•>w ■ "•>• <"thinss "'•!>ihi"88stj^miwc"-
lioun'i to lint up politically one way llilVe re fly'd Pclltica is P
or another , . regardless of which party w f
But H rhaps you are one ot the er
persi ns who advertise in a certain 1 + ♦♦
aner because your competitor ad-1 .
r'SJe"Uh n^' J'i<*" "5 bTJo-r.
off common intelligence to the wJ prove very mcrauveuo ^
ter. A newspaper is a public utility. fcr the coiri fJL the l)am. year since
more or less, just as Hs patwns r it hasn t for the past y ^
make possible very much the Bfcme the city has had all its p
Zthe post Office is. except that pe- the past year a tiie. rl>^Jre a
uliar cnndjticne make it possible, but we ve a notioni it willI P ^
for persons to go mad and climb ov- good deal more eXpe™lJ® * al had
er the fmce into a Held that is al- than it will for us. The Jo
«.'o If your compet- no very .erious objectlcu, to livid
it or uses a certain paper and you illE the city prin> ing w i h 8o
have confidence in his business sa p, titer had we be asked t ^
gacity why not investigate his rea- trj fact it has come businea8
sons for so doing. You have a c ntly to thnw him some u
right to demand information concern- that we could as well invited
mg a pair's ability to bring you from him but we were JoUnvlted
r. suits on your adverisirg. to divide the' P • b j •fram-
\K.in pcs?lblv vou are misled an inborn dislike for Deuig
„ which of two papers can bring ed". more especially where the rea
vou the best advertising results^ 80ns Iniek of the framing a e
Vou owe it to veurself not to g^ personal nature. Ah. well our K
,t these things. Know' The Jour angel will a^*^ us a h ' bad I
ual has repeatedly mode the state- ready have the .issuranc ini
ment that it had far the largest eir- luok is goirg to cam^n
, ulation and offered to prove it ^^ of our persecutors In fh
have alwavs gone unchallenged and + + ♦
^
'imlTar of "the" othw paper erencetodrawMng ^oasfr^n^
sut we do knew that in each in Joun^l if ho will adhere a d i
'jsz no ss ru^wr^i XZ£Z
prove to anv b^ire.s n an sufficioni Mr Brand had rto chamr of c ;
„usm«s Ir f!ear>> f< r jest ore pa a. this p.rsrn alleged n U* J™™
per—and one pap.r with ;«11 t h e effort last week nor «d we say S7
business would still b. a very long thing else that could be ko
ime grewirg rich frcm It. One pa as mea. tng sm h a thing Two gWKi
,7 can Zrre Geary far and away democrats are before the• pwts f«
than «wo papers ran. ft.r th. a selection and thai selection is in
-imple r. ason ihat with all 'h^ bnsl- the hands of the V
..eM me ranrr could afford to put In August The Journals part
",n ..xeelW-nt, paper all the tim. consist of helping to elect that noin
the equal In eVe^ way of any ineo in November I f our eontenv
Oiintrr w^-klv in the *tat. pa j>orary offends in this
hat would be a credit and an ulver we shall perhars tell %hlther th
iseiri^nt to and for the t< wn where wind blows with reference^ a sin
. ver it went. It could and would be liar siiu«t on in the r. puhlican eom
bt greatest single factor in upbuild ( missl. n^r slt'-ation j
Three Million Auto Tires made—
1—bv GOODRICH, in year 1915
STUDY the Price-List publicly printed below. ^oqztp
Compare with the List-Prices of other Tires made in Lhbbhh
Observe° that competing Prices are higher in almost the exact proportion
that VOLUME of production is smaller. .
This, when Quality approaches the Goodrich Standard. . ,
Cut our 1915 Tire Output (of 3,000,000 Auto and Truck Tires> to One-third,
and !t W<Bat that hugrredlt'ntToCl we made
T.resi at th.s necessari,y
higher-cost to Us, and higher-price to You. «n- wn to
Because. —Goodrich Tires are not made up to a price, —nor down to
a price."
Wi
-E, first of all, make the BEST Fabric Tires that our 47-year Experi-
ence in Rubber-Working, our huge Purchasing-Power, and the
, . most Advanced Equipment, renders possible.
Then we let Cost fall where it will. „ „ ^ , , ,
To that Cost we add a moderate, and fair, Profit for Ourselves and for our
Tire COSTS us t„ prod^.-and
t,u '' Th^mor^Tires we Sell, the less profit, per Tire, WE NEED, for dividends
The more Tires we make, the letter we KNOW HOW to make them, the
more w_ have at Stake on Quality, - and Satisfaction to Consumers.
The BEST^Fabric Tires that Skill,— Experience,—^^oodl-FaithuandMaximum
Volume, can build, are now available to YOU at the \ER\ MODERATE B air-List
Prices here quoted. .
Whv pav more for ANY Fabric Tire ?
THE B. F. GOODRICH CO., Akron, 0.
Goodrich "Fair-List" Prices
to Owner is i„vi,«l.
and that *Fair,eSquare, "and'uBERAL1 treatmeiu will always be extended, on all
proper adjustments. Tff£ R R GOODRICH CO., Akron, tt
30x3
Ford Sizes
30 x 3 i , ) • •
32 '3t;J (Safety-Treads)
33 : 4
a.)
$10.40
$13.40
$15.45
$22.00
34x4
35x4'-
36 x 4'j
37x5
(Safety Treads)
$22.40
$31.20
$31.60
$37.35
GOODRICH
•Black "Barefoot" TIRES
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TEXT AN
9}—Does for your SHOE Soles ZL'hat black "Bare-
foot'Rubber" does for Goodrich Tire Soles.
k — Wear* longer than Leather'
—U Waterproof*
—h Non-tlipperv!
—Is more Flexible than* I cat her!
—Is EASIER on your l eet!
—Is Lighter than leather'
Ask Vixir Shoe Dealer, or Shoe Repairer, for Textan Soles on your next pair of Shoes. ||
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Benson, H. Franklyn. The Journal (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1916, newspaper, July 13, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc183882/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.