The Weekly Democrat-Chief (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1919 Page: 1 of 12
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THE WEEKLY DEMOCRAT-CfflEF
Official Paper of Kiowa County. Largest and Oldest Bona Ficfe Circulation oi any Publication in The County.
VOL XVIII.
HOBART, KIOWA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1919.
NO. 10.
FIFTY THOUSAND MEN
WANTED FOR OVERSEA
Government Is Seeking Enlist-
ments to Bring Divisions
Home From Army of Occupa-
tion—Recruiting Office Open
An immediate call for volunteers
for service in Europe, 50,000 in all,
has been issued by the War Depart-
ment. The enlistment in this special
force is to be for a period of three
years.
Excerpts from the telegram from
the Adjutant Genertd's office fol-
low:
"It is desired to enlist immediately
50,000 men for service in American
Expeditionary Forces. Until further
orders you are authorized to accept
for enlistment for this service under
Ithe following special donditions.
First: white men only will be ac-
cepted. Second; enlistment will be
for the period of three years. Third;
acceptance will be limited to infan-
try, cavalry, field artillery, corps of
engineers and medical department.
Fourth; men eligible for discharge
and re-enlistmnt under existing in-
more, Shnwnee and Enid, with
Headquarters Office at Broadway
and Main Street, Oklahoma City. The
men now enlisting are excellent ma-
terial, far above the pre-war aver-
age of men enlisting. The army now
offers an excellent training and the
right kind of men are beginning to
appreciate this. There is little doubt
but that this district will run well a-
head of other districts of the country
in enlistments as it did in most war
activities. The men who enlist now,
outside of the benefit in training,
travel and experience they will re-
ceive, will have the satisfaction of
knowing that they are serving their
country when it needs them, back-
ing our flag up, where it is flying a-
long the line in Germany and reliev-
ing some of those men who have
fought hard, bitter actions, who are
tired and want to see their homes
and families again.
NEW SCHEDULE MAY 11
APRIL RAIN RECORDS
Precipitation To-Date 7.78 Ins.,
With Fall of 5.40 Inches Since
Friday Night — Regular
Gully Washers
The change in the Rock Is^nad
.schedule was not made Sunday as in-
structions may also be re-enlisted unjtimated a few days ago, but will go
der this authority, such men may be jnt0 effect Sunday, May 11.
retained after reenlistment on their
present duty until they can be spar-
ed or replaced. Notation will be
made on enlistment paper and ser-
vice record. 'Enlisted with view of
service with American Expedition-
ary Forces.' "
Fighters Want to Come Homfc
The national army and national
guard divisions of the United States
army now serving with the "expedi-
tionary forces in France and Ger-
many are being put on priority and
shipped home as fast as transporta-
tion can be supplied. The number of
troops being shipped home monthly
is rapidly increasing and • soon will
pass the 300,000 mark. The machin-
ery for the rapid handling of these
men on arriving has been perfected
some time ago; immediately on ar-
rival these men are shipped to demo-
bilization centers in the zone of their
homes and discharged, usually about
forty-eight hours after their arrival.
The men making up these divis;ons
went in to serve for the duration of
the war; they left their homes, their
families and their business and went
gladly and with one purpose,—to
fight the boche and make the world
safe for democracy. How well they
performed their duty is clearly set
forth in the records of Cantigny,
Chateau Thierry, Soissons, St. Mi-
hiel, and that hard going, rough
smashing, drive through the Argon-
ne ending at Sedan and forcing arm-
istice or annihilation' of the Hun.
They accomplished what they set out
to do and now that the fighting is
over the men of these divisions feel,
and justly, that they should be re-
turned to their homes and families
to start in again where they left off.
The government and army headquar-
ters fully realize this situation and
are making every effort, and to in-
creasing purpose, to bring these men
home.
While considering the diesire of
the men of these divisions to come
back toi their homes and families,
and the natural desire of the people
of the country to have them back as
evidenced by the numerous requests
presented by the people in different
sections of the country to thir con-
gressmen and senators, to bring
pressure to bear on the War Depart
ment to bring this or that particular
division home at once, there is a ten-
dency to forget that a number of di-
visions will still have to be held in
the army of occupation in Germany.
—"To Hold the Road to Berlin."
Still Needed to Hold Line
These divisions that will hold the
line are so-called regular divisions,
regulars as far as the men are con-
cerned, in name only. Some of these
divisions are the ones that bore the
brunt of the first hard fighting,
blazed the way so to speak and con-
tinued to fight through—but not as
they started out.
Volunteers Now Coming.
The men of the Oklahoma district
Imagined Fears
Vb.
Good Roads F^acts
The statement by Lee Cruce, for-'sold at $5 per acre, considered here-
mer governor, in opposition to thejtofore, especially by investors out-
$50,000,000 road bond project, has (side of the state as waste lands, and
been published in The News.
It, with the statement by Senator
J. Elmer Thomas, published some
time ago, constitutes the chief docu-
mentary expression of the negative
side.
Lee Cruce is a sincere man. He
has the courage of his convictions.
But, in the opinion of The News,
he has missed the heart of the whole
good roads subject, in his discussion
today.
The outstanding feature of the
Cruce statement is this:
That he regards thei whole propo-
sition as an EXPENSE and overlooks
entirely the INVESTMENT.
He warns of the cost.
He fears the debt.
But he doesn't take into consider-
ation the question of whd^her, thru
the expenditure for good roads,
more money will be returned than is
spent.
pract}ibaLly , inaccessible, arfe sell tog1
today at from $25 to $75 per acre.
"In Madison county, Judge W. H.
Powell, a few years ago sold 1000
acres at $6 per acre, and was glad
to get that price. After the roads
were improved, the same place sold
for $35 per acre, and could not be
bought today for $50 per acre.
"Another place in the same county
consisting of 3000 acres, a few years
ago sold for $10 per acre and was
considered at that time a top price.
It was sold after the roads were built
for $30 per acre and is now not for
sale.
In Lincoln country where the lum-
ber and logs were hauled to the rail-
road, the teams employed in this
work hauled three loads to the end
of the hard surfaced roads, and then
took the three loads into one to the
railroad over the hard surfaced road.
"It is plain to all now that it
•ftlE NEWS CONTENDS THAT.tekes less feed to keep up teams,
MORE MONEY—MANY FOLD— and they easily do three times as
WILL BE RETURNED. much work on the same feed.
If the world had followed the I "The wear and tear on vehicles has
Cruce theory of regarding hazardous been so greatly reduced until some
the investment which increases effi-! of the repair shops have gone out of
ciency we would still be using the business.
spinning wheels. | "Since we have been building roads
A newspaper for example, would in this state the schools have been
never spend thousands of dollars for wonderfully improved, because of
linotypes if the investment did not better attendance and the churches
pay. It would continue to set type in the country are becoming as good
by hand. las those in town.
We can 'debate this financial) "Surely it behooves your people to
thing up one side and down the other construct improved roads now while
—wel can pick the bill apart, and put you have at hand the natural v&-
it together again; we can object to sources of the state. Later on, per-
this and commend that clause or par haps it would cost the agricultural
agraph or section—but we can't get interests considerable more money
GOOD GILTS SCARCE
With applications from 56 boys
for pure bred gilts, County Agent
Talley is encountering trouble in
filling the orders for the members of
his club, and after scouring the state
almost from end to end, has only
succeeded in buying 16 head of bred
gilts.
Eleven head was found Friday in
the vicinity of Altus, and eight of
these were brought here in a truck,
the other three being expressed thru.
To solve the problem of furnishing
his club boys with gilts Mr. Talley
will buy spring pigs and fall gilts.
Several of the youngsters are dis-.
playing great interest in the work.
CAPTURED 5 WOLF PUPPIES
D. R. Harrison was in town Wed-
nesday with five gray wolf puppies
captured on the Reuben Guild farm,
one mile east of town. The mother
wolf escaped, but an effort will be
made to slay her as she has already
killed two spring colts in that neigh-
borhood.
BILLION BUSHELS OF
WHEAI IS FORECAST
With deluges Friday, Saturday
and Sunday nights, totalled 5.40 ins.
of rain, all streams in Kiowa county
are now at flood tide, and the rain
fall for April, 1919, has established
a new high record, compared to the
rain of April, 1905, which gauged
6.52 inches against, 7.78 to date this
month.
The rain started falling Friday
night, and at 6 p. m. April 26, meas-
ured 1.70 inches, this was followed
the next 24 hours with 1.35 inches
more precipitation, and in the next
24 hours the surplus was increased
2.85 inches, making the total fall
the 60 hours of 5.40 inches, which
with the rain earlier in the month
makes a grand total of 7.78 inches.
Since the establishment of the
weather bureau here in 1903, April
has been one of the variable rain
months, and the readings each year
follow:
1919 7.78
1918 0.19
1917 2.12
1916 2.79
J915 5.77
1914 2.15
1913 1.70
1912 5.02
1911 — 1.02
1910 0.44
1909 0.15
1908 3.97
1906 4.81
1905 6.52
1904 0.95
1903 0.95
While the flood waters in the Elk
bottoms are not at the high water
mark west of Hobart, below the cor
rection line Big Elk has established
a new flood mark, and farmers early
Monday began moving the stock out
of the low lands. In this section the
stream has never been out of the
tanks to any material extent.
Southeast of Hobart a few miles
the hail done considerable damage
to grain crops, some estimating the
loss to wheat as high as 50 percent.
Little damage was done row crops
as the season is late and but few far-
mers have planted their cotton and
feed cropsT* The alfalfa, except
which comprises the state of Okla- [where covered with water is not dam
homa are responding to this call, jasred, but in many meadows the le-
Nireteen men were acceptel Monday gume is waiting for the sickle, and
at the Army Recruiting Station at as soon as the fields dry off enough
Oklahoma City, and were immedS- J cutting will commence.
ately forwarded. ; The rain was accompanied by an
Army recruiting offices have been 1 electrical display and some wind, but
opened throughout-the Oklahoma dis except for a small strip of land in
trict at Altus, Muskogee, Tulsa, Mc- the hail belt, and some damage to
A tester, Bartlesville, Chickasha, Ard- the approaches to bridges and cul-
Drink on Us
Our new drinking "stand" is now
ready. Distilled water from the
%ce Plant.
City Guaranty
Bank
away from the fact that good roads. to build the roads.
when we once get them PAY. "I wish that it was possible for me
How they pay fan be found in to show your people what an import-
hundreds of public records, from the ant part improved road construction
capital at Washington on down. | would play in the life of your state.
We could print this paper full of j It means health, comfort and riches
examples showing how money is | to its people. Everybody can use a
saved, time is saved, man power, j highway and all classes are served
horse pOwer, and motor power are .by it, and it relieves to a great ex-
saved by good roads. tent the burden of the poor man and
We choose to give a bit of proof in j helps to reduce the high cost of liv-
the form of one statement—from X. j ing. Good roads mean that food can
A. Kramer, state highway engineer.be brought to the markets cheaper
of Mississippi. This statement, un-jand that supplies can be delivered to
like the Cruce statement, doesn't the farms cheaper. Good roads will
miss the heart of the subject. On
the other hand, it hits the heart, be-
cause it has to do with actual re-
sults from good roads already built
and conceived in the mind of a false
prophet of economy who has lived
most of his life in a state that
knows good roads not.
Kramer says:
"I sincerely trust that your elec-
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Ex-President Taft After Week
Spent in State Says People
Should Have Good Highways
and Not Delay Getting Them
bring people to your already pros-
perous state. It means that they
will become better acquainted with
you and you will become better ac-
quainted wih each other."
This letter also answers another
of Cruce's main contentions, namely,
that the proposed bill is unfair to
the farmers.
Do you suppose the Mississippi far
r:>er, whose land, by the coming of
Oklahoma City, April 28.—"Al-
though I am not familiar with spe-
cific provisions of your road bijl, I
believe the people of Oklahoma
should spend $50,000,000.00 on hard
surface roads. I believe they should
spend it now, and I believe they
should spend it on a statewide sys-
tem, as your present bill provides."
William Howard Taft, ex-Presi-
dent of the United States, made this
statement Sunday morning as he
passed through Oklahoma City, af-
ter spending a week in Oklahoma
studying conditions and making ad-
dresses for the League of Nations.
'I am glad Oklahoma is preparing
to meet the road problem in the prop
er way," Mr. Taft continued. "Ex-
perience of other states has shown
that if the building of roads if left
to the different communities, or the
counties, not only will progress be
much slower but never will the state
have a complete and well organized
system. The state plan is a better
one.
"No, I do not think $50,000,000.00
is too much to put into this invest-
ment at this time. I am in favor of
large bond issues for such projects,
and it seems to me that Oklahoma
should not delay the beginning.
Your state is rich now. Your farm-
ers have in prospect a wonderful
crop. You have great oil fields with
new derricks going up every day and
with new fields being opened up.
"You have large wealth coming
now, your oil fields will be less large
some day, and I hope you will not
wait to do this important work until
this great source of your wealth is
gone. If the State of Oklahoma does
not provide now in the day of the
state's wealth for a road system, I
fear you will not build them.
"I hesitate to take sides on any lo-
cal question," Mr. Taft cor^^ded,
"but I do hope that Oklahoma will
not put off at this critical time a
matter that means so much to the
future growth and prosperity of
your state."
Storage Congestion Feared by
Department of Agriculture—
—Urges Preparation to Mar-
ket and Handle Great Yield
Washington, April 30.—With a
wheat crop of over a billion bushels
in prospect in the United States this
season—the greatest crop the coun-
try has ever produced—the need for
efforts by farmers and elevator
companies to market and store the
grain with the least possible loss and
congestion of traffic is impressed by
the Bureau of Markets of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
In calling attention to this great mar
keting problem the department says
that every possible measure should
be taken to insure the safe storage
and handling of this enormous crop.
Last year, with a crop of about
900.000,000 bushels, the rushing of
the jxrain to market immediately af-
ter harvest caused a congestion all
the way from the terminal markets
to ihe farm. The wheat "backed up"
after the terminal elevators were full
and congested the railroads and all
country elevators. The result was
dat embargoes were placed on fur-
ther shipments until the terminals
could be cleared. Fortunately, the
winter was an open one, or the loss
due to lack cf proper storage would
have been heavy.
Dakota Congestion Recalled
Attention is called by the Bureau
of Markets to the situation that pre-
vailed in North Dakota in the win-
ter of 1915-16, following a crop in
that State of 150,000,000 bushels.
Owing to a congestion of elevators
at country stations, due to the inabil
ity of the railroads to carry the
wheat away as rapidly as the farm-
ers hauled it in, platforms were built
and hundreds of thousands of bush-
els of wheat were piled up in the
open. In addition, great quantities
of wheat were stored in improvised
bins.
One result of this condition was
that during the following summed
many farmers pfovid,ed themselves
with galvanized-iron storage tanks
on their farms.
In Washington and Oregon, last
year and in 1917, many farmers built
portable wooden storage bins to hold
about 1,000 bushels each.
Stacking a Partial Solution
In some parts of the country last
summer, especially in Indiana, for
example, stacking was a feature of
crop handling where it never had
been before. Stacking is a partial
solution to the grain-congestion prob
lem which every farmer can apply.
Furthermore, he is likely to be a
gainer by the practice, for wheat
that sweats in the stack, except dur-
ing an unusually dry harvest season
will be of better quality than if it is
thrashed from the shock. If stack-
ed at once after harvest, weather per
miitting, the farmer may then thrash
and market the wheat at his con-
venience. There is the further ad-
vantage that the wheat will not de-
teriorate should rains come as it
would in the shock. As a marketing
proposition, stacking as soon as the
after harvest is "good business," par
ticularly with a billion-bushel crop
and congested storage facilities in
sight.
Offers Plans for Granaries.
Farmers should consider the ques-
tion of providing themselves with
storage facilities. Provision may be
made to store wheat in buildngs al-
ready constructed or farm granaries
and portable bins may be provided.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has specifications for a
portable farm granary, issued as
Markets Document No. 11.
tion on May 6 willI cairy in favor of p j Qa ' increased in' value
the bond issue. If the citizens of ' - - ■
the wonderful state of Oklahoma
could only see some of the remark-
able developments that have follow-
ed in the wake of improved roads in
Mississippi ar.d other Southern states
there would hardly be a vote against
your bond issue.
Ir-m $b to $50 per acre otjects to
the part of the pood road cost he
pays?
We have in mind a farmer, who
once sold his land to avoid paying
taxes on a new drainage ditch. He
got $25 per acre. If he had kept the
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. .hind until the drainage ditch was in
"Even m the hill counties of this; nreratipn he could have sold for
state, where the average land is not ^qq pcr acre p0 you think ti r.i
fertile, being for the most part cut- ,,n who sold for ?25 now thanks the
—_ .... . over pine lands, a remarkable en* I harbringer of woe who advised him
verts, the bounteous rains will more |hancement of values has immediate- !t0 sejj anj avo;d t^,e tax?
than offset the losses. jly followed the construction of hard
Every portion of the country and (surfaced highways. Among
a big scope of southwest Oklahoma
reports fine rains.
that have built systems of hard sur-1 — —
faced roads. Lands that could not be fContinued on Last Page.)
SIX RECRUITS ACCEPTED
The temporary recruiting office,
in charge of Capt. Sabin, has accept-
ed six more men, as follows:
Clifford E. Hendrickson, Purcell.
Robert Grant, Buffalo, N. Y.
Noel W. Carbaugh, Hobart.
Guvie G. Simpson, Hobart.
John Wright, Hobart.
Richard Linville, Hobart.
BRINGS WIFE HOME
COMES FROM MUSKOGEE
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Reed of Mus-
kogee, arrived in Hobart Sunday and
will make their home here. Mr. Reed
is traveling salesman for the Liggett
& Myers Tobacco Co., and has been
assigned this territory. After secur
ing information about all the leading
towns in his district Mr. Reed de-
cided on Hobart as being the best
one in which to locate.
J. L. Curreathers went to Clinton
Sunday and brought Mrs. Curreath-
_ . , , • ers home. For seven weeks Mrs.
The fact^ of the matter 1,^!' Curreathers was a patient in a hos-
The total rainfall since January 1,
11.22 inches.
niah. Hinds Madison, aad other,; road i/b„iU by ata.o ™ 23 «S
the
read to recovery, and stood the trip
heme exceptionally well.
Mrs. Frank Meadows of Muskogee
arrived here from Mangum Wednes-
day afternoon for a few days visit
to friends before returning home.
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