The Sunlight (Carmen, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1915 Page: 1 of 6
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Representing the Interests of
ythe Working lassin this Con-
gressional District
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Uncompromising Unmuzzled
and uncontrolled by the legal-
ized octopus
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successor to THE GOLTRY NEWS- established in ins-
CARMEN ALFALFA COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY August 13 1915
VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 1
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That Judgment
THE JURY in the case of
Mildred Parks against the
Socialist Publishing Company
Judge R P Boyce's court
a$t Friday awarded a judgment
against the Publishing Com-
pany of one half the amount
sued for or $7500 and court
osts
In order that the public might
understand the position of the
socialist Publishing Company
n this matter and not be misled
oy malicious reports circulated
by the enemys of the Socialist
movement we wish to say that
1st The Sunlight did not pro-
mote the contest it was pro-
moted by Lyon-Taylor as an ad-
vertising scheme and we wish
bo say here that if we had the
money to promote-such a stu-
pendous scheme as the Golden
Gate contest was we would send
all the young ladies in Carmen
to see the golden gate rather
than have a law suit on our
hands “ '
2nd The certificate issued to
Miss Parks was not issued by
The Sunlight but by tbe'Lyou-
Taylor Core pnny and all parties
to the deal at least in - Carmen
thought the matter settled to the
satisfaction of all concerned and
Miss Parks so understood it for
she informed the editor of the pa-
per and' asked that w? thank her
many friends for the assistance
they bad rendered her in securing
the prize
3rd The Socialist Publishing
Company docs not wish or have
they tried to shirk responsibility
in tact the Socialist Publishing
Company never even saw the con-
tract until after thte suit began
There may ' be some technical
point of law that wilt make ns
liable for the acts’ of Mr tStrus-banBrhr-sbo-
at ihe-lioieJiad the
plant leased he having'tun'charge'
and oontrol and who may not
have used sufficient care in read-
ing the agreement before signing
same
Mr Strasbaugh denies i-on-tracting
to pay the Lyon-Ts ’lor
Company $40000 or any other
specified sum and claims to be
able to prove this saying Lhat
the agents of the company agreed
to furnish one transportation if
he would agree to carry the" ad-
vertising and give them 50 per
cent of all subscriptions received
during the contest they telling
him that they had induced two
other firms to fall for their scheme
and tlu what they wantad Irom
him wasthe advertising and from
the luoks of the files of this paper
' they got the advertising all right
whether Mr Strasbaugh got any
thing or not
We consider that we are about
as well informed as to the merits
of the case an auy two-by-four
cross roads lawyer whose only
mode of getting a living in to stir
up strife among his neighbors in
order that iie may get a little fee
or satiefy some fancied grievance
The matter is being submitted to
a careful legal study and if 1 lie
advioe is such that for any reason
the Socialist Publishing Company
should be held responsible the
settlement will be made with Miss
Parks No one has denied that
Miss Parks should uot be paid for
her labor in the interest of the
firms interested in the Holden
Gate contest the point to decide
is whether the Lyoo-Taylor Com-
pany or The Sunlight are tiie ones
liable for the debt To us it looks
as though the Lvon-Taylor Com-
pany were liable to Mies Parks
for transportation upon the cer-
tificate issued by them to her aod
if the Sunlight has failed to per-
form its part of the contract with
1 Lyon Taylor thev should tae
aotion against the Sunlight to
collect whatever may be due them
upon contract But there is no
good reason why thev should re-
fuse to honor their certificate is-
sued by them to Mies Parks who
had worked for all three of the
firms jointly interested in the con-
test If the Sunlight must pay
Miss Parks now after having car
ried five err six hundred dollars
worth of advertising for the com-
pany that issued the certificate of
transportation it will be another
instance ot capitalist oourts rul-
ing in favor of their class placing
the burden of getting justice np-
on The Sunlight where it doeB
not belong for The Sunlight will
then have to sue the Lyon-Taylor
Company for the amount due for
advertising done Some people
are overflowing with glee all be-
cause the Socialist Publishing
Company has been sued But we
wish to say right here that there
is not a Socialist in Alfalfa Coun-
ty whether owning stock in the
plant or not who would refuse to
assist Miss Parted in securing her
pay for work performed and
that it matters not how - the final
decision may be rendered we be-
lieve the - Socialists -of this com-
munity will 8e ' that justice is
done her
Came Alive
1 Tuesday night local Carmen of
the Socialist party held a meet-
ing at the office of the Sunlight
Several comrades were pres
ent and considerable business
was transacted Dr W H Me-
Greevey was elected secretary
Those present were of the opin-
ion that the time had arrived to
get busy doing things for the
movement A committee was
appointed to take some action
toward having a big meeting in
the near future at Carmen
Next Friday night is regular
ffieeting night and all members
areyrequested to be present if
you have been a member of Car-
men local and are one of those
who have neglected to come out
to the meetings now is the time
to get busy there is need of your
your presence -Friday night
August 20th at 8 - P- M at the
Sunlight office- Let us put local
Car iaeli afthe- bead jsii the list
in Alfalfa County
Camen Vs Arkansas City
One of the best bine ball games
of the Beeson whs plnyed Thursdey
between Arkansas City Kan and
Carmen Carmen’s battery was
Sullivan and Moss Arkam-HH
C'ity Obern and Fourney A
special feature for carmen wa
good work of Newberry as second
baseman who in addition to put-
ing two out and assisting in eight
brought in the winning score by
a two base hit Errors Arkansas
City 7 Carmen 1 Score Arkan-
sas City 2 Carmen 3
LOST — A pair of lineman’s
pliers with isolated handles be-
tween the post office and Lov-
ers’ Bridge on Main Street Fin-
der please return to Fred N-
Coffman and receive reward
Socialist Locals
OFKICKItS or ALFAIFA COUNTY
County Chairman Geo A Duel
Carmen Okla
Secretary Joe Otti Cherokee Ok-
borna Organizer Fred Gutli Driftwood
Oklahoma
Looal secretaries should send
time and place of meeting to the
Sunlight 80 as to be listed in this
oolum
Local Ingersol meets every two
weeka on Friday night
J B McGinnis Sec
Local IJyron meets every
weeks on Saturday night
O R Dibble Sec
Local Goltry meets every
weeks on Saturday after noon
R A Hendricks Sec
Local Helena meets every
weeks S H Colwick Soo
Aline Local meets first Sunday
in eaob month at 2 p m
J R Barrows secretary
Local Carmen meets every Fri-
day night at 7:00
John L Pickens Seo
Looal Eagle Chief meets eVery
first and third Sunday at 2:30 pm
C A Duel Seo
Looal Cherokee meets every
second and fourth Sunday 2 pm
VV D Johnson Seo
Local McWillie meets each sec-
ond and fourth Sunday 2 p m
O V Daily Sec
fit : f)
f$ Comrades ! ! Get Busy ! !
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By your actions within the next twenty days you
Will prove whether you are ‘‘A live wire” or just ‘‘dead
wo d” in the movement Have you heard that tlsro
is being circulated a petition for a fair election law?
Thousands of you have not signed this petition as yet
What are you thinking of ? ” 'WAKE UP ! ! j
The enemy is laughing in glee over ‘‘your” inac-
tivity concerning this matter They have chargetNyou
with being indolei t with not grasping your opportun-
ity with being in provident Are you going to prove
to the win Id that l iey have told the truth ? Is it pos-
sible that 14 000 red card members who call themselves
Comrade- will fail to do their duly for the moverbent
when the test comes? Will 53000 who voted t-he
Socialist ticket se3 this petition go by default? If so
then you deserve your chains and the only pity is
that your women and children must suffer becajfke of
vour indifference -
Again I say “COMRADES” WAKE UP ’ ! GET
BUSY! ! ! ' Do not go to sleep after reading th rtn
you havedone something for the success of thii pe-
tition if you have one in your 1 possession get it filled
nbW' if not get some as noon as possible and go to
work For years- I have been proclaiming we
Socialists do things it’s up to YOU to prove "wiidatfier
I -was right or wrong “DO IT NOW”-
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Carmen Drug Store is head-
quarters for “Flyo Curo” It
will keep the flies off your colt
and horse
Call on Smith Crain and Co
for prices of poultry & eegs
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THE CHAUTAUQUA SINGERS
M H TEETER
Carpet Weaver
12 and 15c per yd work guaranteed
McWILLlE : : OKLAHOMA
WATCHES
MPgjgwyuwnww
PRICES SPECIAL
In order that we may reduce our large siock of
watches we quote the following fitti active prices
on WATCHES for the next 10 days ending at-
urday August 21st
17 Jewel Hamilton 18 size fit with 20 year gold
hunting case special price $1600
17 Jewel Waltham 18 size 20 year gold
open lace case
21 Jewel (Father Time) Elgin 18 size 25 year
Boss gold case special price
21 Jewel Hampden 20 year gold case
special price
Ladies’ size Watches 20 year gold case
complete with chain or pin special price
All other watches at equally low prices during this sale
I L WORDEN Jeweler and Optometrist
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If you are uot a fcobwei iher for
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the loser for the Sunf ght prints
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For best prices poultry
call No 75 Smith Grain & Co
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Old Wheat
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Takes Lives of Her Children
Rather 1 ha n See Them j
Starve
Mrs Anna Zeider killed her
two children and herself by as-
phyxiation when her funds were
exhausted and she was no longer
able to fee d them Such crimes
(if crime it can bo called) are
a daily occurrence and you who
vote to continue this hellish sys-
tem are accessories to them the
blood of these innocents are up-
on your souls
Carmen Vs Ciierokee
The I ong anticipated pitcher
battle was pulled off Wednesday
between Gang for Carmen and
Beutly for Cherokee in one of
the heal of game on the Carmen
diamond A special feature was
t he continuation of Ilaa pitch-
ing us well as batting in fact
both pi tchciu fought a good tight
Catches Moss for Carmen ami
Markel for ( Iil rokea Score Qiirr-
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j Yages $2CGJ Fer if car
by ALLAN L BENSON
vS'o Socialists tolii mi tliiit under a
just system of e'en lUc low
liest wnrkiiiau nets 1 not lack a decent
living You hooted at us You said
we won l'ools The rich inau suitl we
were crooks What does Henry Ford
say? Ford says he can afford to pay
and will pay lioor sweepers not less
than $5 u day
What do you think of a minimum of
$5 a day? You Mr Average American
Workingman who receive less than
$ohj a year what do you ihink of $1-
0i5 a year? Could you live in compar-
ative decency on that? Would your
family fad a liulo mpre comfortable
than it now feels on less than $r00 a
year? How would you like to work
for Ford? Would you accept a job iu
his factory if ho were to telegraph
you? Would you suspect his moupy of
heintf counterfeit?
some ntlmr ticket and put it up
Hut we should uk too much of Mr
Ford if we wre to require him to
pull us through the crack which he ha
made Ford lias done enough for us
Wo should now do somethin for our-
Reives Ho has shown us that half of
his profits are enough to enable him
to riluce daily hours from nine to
eight and increase the pay of all men
more than twenty-two years old to $f
a day You should ho able to do the
rest of the problem yourselves It is
nothin but a problem in mental arith-
metic We have only to divide the re-
mainder of Ford’s annual profits by
the number of his employees to as- I
certain how much more socialism I
would Increase wages
Ford gives his employees only one-
half of hfs profits The remainder of
the profits Is $UoOOnuo The number
of Ids employees is 25000
Tnoiigh protit are left to Increase j
by $V)0 a year the wages of each man 1
woman and child who works for Ford
That would be a little mole than
f yur for tleor aweepers and still more
for others
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS
Aur30-31 Schools land pale Alva
oept 1 -1 School luml sale C?herok6
Sept 11-23 School land salt riml
£cpt 22-Oct 7 School land sale Med-
ford Oct 9-12 School land sale Newkirk
Oct 13-15 School lain) sale Perry
Nov — Stale ibiiucawomU Associa
tion Oklahoma City
Fairs Picnics and Carnivals
Aug 17-19 Old Settlers and Old Sold-
iers Reunion Arapaho
Aug iy-20 Old Settlers Association of
Greer County Jlangum
Aug 20-21 Cleveland County Old Set-
tlers Picnic Norman
Auk 3i-Sept 4 — Eighth anual reunion
southwestern Blue and Gray Association
BridKeport
1-3 Pontotoc County Fair Ada
Sept 7-9 Hinder Fair
aept 7-lu Kingfisher County Fair
Kingfisher
Greer County Fair Mangum
Sept 9-lo Johnston County Fair Tish-
omingo Mutual Woodward County Fair
Alester Pittsburg County Fair Mc-
Sept 14-17 Cimarron Valley Fair Guth-
rie Sept 15-18 Bryan County Fair Durant
Sept 1-17 Tulsa County Fair Tulsa
Sept 15-18 The Sterling Fair Ster-
ling Sept Iff Cherokee Celebration Perry
Us”Cpt 16-17 Harmon County Fair Hol-
Sept 16-17 Kiowa County Fair Hobart
Sept 16-ls Cleveland County Fair Nor-
man Sept 16-18 Jackson County Fair Altus
hept 16-18 Lincoln County Fair
Prague
Sept 16-18 Washita County Fair Cor-
dell Sept 17-18 Tillman County Fair Fred-
erick Sept 17-18 Coal Ootmty Fair Coalgnte
17-1S Marshall Countv Fair Ma-
aill
Greek County Fair Saputpa
Sept j-0-22 Atoka Cuuntv Fair Atoka
bept 21-22 Pottawatomie County Fair
Shawnee
21-23 Peanut carnival Duncan
Sept 21-24 Pawnee County Fair Hal-
let t
Sept 21-24 Beckham County Fair File
City
Sept 22-24 Canadian County Fair KI
Reno
Sept 22-25 Kiamlehl Valley Fair Tall-
hina Sept 25 Football State University vs
Edmond Normal
25-Ch’t 2 State Fair Oklahoma
27 Old Soldiers Day State Fair
27 Tnrllana Dtiy State Fair
--pt 27 Fraternal Day State Fair
pt28 Kntuckv Day State Fair
State Fair
fate Fair
Nev-Stnte Fair Muskogee
The Collinsville Auto club has been
orcinized with twenty-eight charted
members
The market fnr Oklahoma petroleum
tas advanced ten cents a barrel the
quotation now standing at 50 cents
Profits for operating the municipal
water plant at Tulsa during the fiscal
your ending June 30th amounted to
MR 43047
Tulsa business-men have pledged
$10000 to entertain the:llTl8 anirua!
conclave of the sovereign gTand lodge
of Odd Fellows
On a bid of $29900 the Lisle-Dunning
Company of Oklahoma City se-
cured the contract for building a new
school house at Antlers
Archie L Mitchell well known Guth-
rie electrician is at MsAlester where
he will install the new electric chair
at the state penitentiary
Members of the city council and
the mayor of Norman are discussing
wavs and means looking to the erec-
tion of a new city hall and fire station
at a cost of about $25000
The speed program at the Oklahoma
State Fair will include a 50-mile mo-
torcycle race for the cahmplonship of
the southwest to be raced on Satur-
day September 25— —opening day
Claude Sawyer convicted in the dis-
trict court at Chandler as a member
of the bandit gang led by Henry
Starr which recently robbed the banks
at Stroud was sentenced to a term
of five years
The B O Cator Grain Company is
erecting an elevator at Texhoma with
a capacity of 35000 bushels of wheat
Another elevator that of the Pattr-n &
Rardin Company hi a capacity of 55-
000 bushels Wlmai in that locality is
averaging 25 laisheN lo tin acre and
recent ruins have assured a bumper
corn crop
Vurder com : i i ted i
I n Tub- i coi: 1 1 1 v rui-
A Ibert T:i h a nr
know n i- " i duck Cat
ck The ariist was made by the
fuelling chief of police and the negro
was brought lo Tulsa lie was lodged
in tin county jail anT will he held
without hail lie b charged with the
murder of John Karnest a deputy
sheriff the killing occurring in tin
early part of the winter of ltilo
The Reunion at Cliiekasha of Gen
Joe Shelby's brigade was marked by
addresses by Gen Shelby's whfcow
Gen S’lh I Mills and Kepresentativo
Scott Ferris of Lawton While uot
largely attended the reunion proved
decidedly enjoyable to the remaining
veterans of Shelby’s old command
A movement for union meetings on
Sunday evenings with moving pictures
showing Liblical stories illustrated
with a pastor from earn church having
charge of the services is the plan that
is now under consideration by the Pas-
tors Union of Norman
County superintendents are entitled
to $300 a day extra pay W’hile serving
on examining hoards according to an
opinion furnished by Assistant Attor-
ney General R E Wood to Assistant
State Superintendent 12 A Duke
Twenty students in the summer ses-
sion of the University of Oklahoma
were granted degrees by the univer-
sity August 6 when the annual com-
mencement exercises were held on
Boyd field Seven students enrolled
in the school of education received
recoihmondations for a university Ufa
teacher's certificate
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News
Fighting of extreme violence baa de-
veloped In the Vosges mountains In
consequence of a German attack Tbe
official announcement from tbe French
war office says this attack bas been
repulsed but concedes that minor ad-
vantages have been gained by the Ger-
mans in the Argonne
d-
The Germans continue to make prog-
ress in all directions In their efforts
to cut off retreat of ftie Russian army
from the Polish salient They have
commenced an attack on the fortresses
of Kovno and Ossowetz which are
among their obstacles
I 4
A land and sea attack on Wje Turk-
ish positions on Gallipoli Peninsula is
announced in an official communica-
tion The Turkish war office admits
loss of ground but asserts that in an-
other engagement the Turks captured
trenches from the AUies
Violent onslaughts against the
French works around Verdun have
been launched by the armies under
the German crown prince Beginning
with intermittent bombardments in
the Argonne the Germans are now at-
tacking on the whole fiont extending
from the Western- Argonne to the
heights of the Meuse
ir 1
The Austro-Gernian army has cap-
tured Warsaw ancient capital of Po-
land and with the city about 5000
Russiuns who had stayed to cover
the retreat of the main army Many
buildings all -factories and many
bridges leading from the city bad
been destroyed by the Russians The
Germans believe the capture will has-
ten the war's end in their favor
4
Daring English submarine com-
manders by burrowing beneath the
thickly mined waters of the Darda-
nelles and eluding the Turkish fleet
have created a reign of terror from
the western entrance to the Sea of
Marmora to the very gates of Con-
stantinople 4 4
Twelve thousand Italians now
prisoners in Siberia will be released
by the Russian government The
Italians were residents of Austrian
frontier provinces art were forced to
fight wdth the Austrian armies on the
Russian front
4
ttdfpkTtt ttreVosge literal--
ly swarmed over the French trenches
on Lingekopf in overwhelming num-
bers and forced the French to retire
at certain points it is officially ad-
mitted in Paris
4 4
England will not be able to use
Kitchener’s army for an offensive
drive against the Germans this sum-
mer and probably not in the autumn
If the coming winter is severe enough
to interfere with effective military op-
erations there may be no major Eng-
lish attempt to drive the Germans
back to their own frontier until next
Bpring
4 4
Washington
Representative Joseph Taggart of
Kansas City Kas is here preparing
a bill he will introduce in the next
session of congress to provide for the
establishment iu Kansas City ot a
central ordnance and ammunition
Plant by the United States govern-
ment 4 4 4
Just how England would go about
buying all the cotton crop of the
United States which is usually ex
juried in order to avoid complica-
tions is causing considerable specu-
late n in dijdnmutic and financial cir-
cles in Washington
j
Maj Gen !1 iph L Scott chief of
i Slates Army has
ran border einplmti-
liis ability to do
the ’varring factions
m public into agree-
s to accomplish his
personal friendship
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4-4-4-A
Eying squad of government com
menial scouts will prepure the way
fnr Anteiiran invasion of world mar-
kets heretofore dominated by Europe
Under plans perfected recently by Dr
K 10 Pratt chief of the buieau of
foreign and domestic commerce
agents will be sent to South America
Atriea Australia and the Far East
4-4-4-America
probably wtU accept Ger-
many's proposition to submit tbe Frye
case as a general test of the Prus-sian-American
treaty of 4 828 to The
Hague High officials say while the
controversy was not of a kind to war-
rant a break a settlement is imi
five The question hiuges on Ger-
many’s right to sink contraband-carrying
American ships
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The cotton industry is recovering
from the war slump of last year ac-
cording to analysis of the situation
by P G Harding of the reserve
board in the current issue of the fed-
eral reserve bulletin The position
of cotton today is much stronger finan-
cially and other conditions are much
better than a year ago
4-4-4
Immigration was at its lowest since
1899 in the twelve months ended July
1 and the net increase In the foreign
population for the year was less than
48000
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