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TECUMSEH POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY JANUAR if 1928
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VOLUME 34
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WEEK
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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WORST OF ALL CRIMES
THE MICROSCOPE
PAGAN RELIGIONS
THE KING'S PRAYER WOK
California and the whole country
are shocked by a dreadful kidnaping
and murder in Los Angeles The
unhappy father obeying the orders
of the kidnaper handed him $1500
in 'gold certificates and in return
received part of the boi'v of his
twelve-year-old daughter dreadfully
mutiliated
The worst of crimes is kidnaping
since it inflicts upon fathers and
mothers torments most horrible
That crime ahould be punished with
utqlost severity and when quilt is
ceitain with no delay
Dr William J Mayo one of the
famous brothers says science learns
more about diseases from the micro-
scope than in any other way Man's
brain is a "visual organ" and must
see to k now The introduction of the
miCroscope by the Jansses late in
the sixteenth century has done more
to advance learning than any other
agent says Dr Mayo
Beal learning 1 owes more to
Galileo's introduction of the tele-
scope at the beginning of the seven-
teenth century than to the micro-
scope Seeing the germs that cause
disease is important but less so than
seeing distant suns and nebulae Per-
haps as the great German scientht
Haeckel suggested men of the fu-
ture will train one eye for telescopic
the other for microscopic work the
two eyes combined dealing with th4
real world about us
Earthquake in Burmah frightened
inh'abitants— A -lour roar lasting ten
seconds accompanied the shaking
Gautamas finest temple at Rangoon
was badly damaged but that will not
shake faith in Buddhism
That is the convenient thing about
pagan religions When anything
goes wrong the pagan priests tell the
faithful "L's your fault Your dona-
tions have been inadequate" Nothing
is ever wrong with the pagan god
supposed to control earthquakes or
at least protect his own temples
Even fundamentalist Christian chur-
ches put lightening rode on their
steeples which seems strange
Judge Hardy of the Superior Curt
in San Francisco says crime could
be Abolished if mothers would teach
their children in pre-school days
obedience truthfulness honesty and
the Golden Rule That is just what
mothers have been teaching their
children 'for 800000 years according
to the light of their period and they
have achieved wonders already
Intelligent Mr Tel Rickard says
Jack Dempsey will fight Mr Tunney
again next summer Certainly and
each of many Mowing summers until
death do them part if the crop of
$40 a seat simpletons lasts
A cruel government plans to tax
each $40 seat $10 but that can be
made up by speculators' prices Mr
Rickard's good fortune is due partly
to the fact that men dull enough to
enjoy prize fights are too dull to
know when they are being 'lacked"
It is believed in the West that the
Tri-State Colorado River Commission
representling f(lalifornia Aridona
and Nevada will reach an agreement
to start work on the Boulder Dam
project Whatever helps one State
helps the whole country Arizonia
will gain by allowing California to
use water and power now going to
waste
Tha British House of Lords has
approved the new and changed read-
ingain the Church of England prayer
book but it has been disapproved by
House of Commons King George is
Interested becase his oath requires
him to stick to that book
Some low church Britishers com-
plain that the new book is not as
strictly "Protestant" as the last The
opinion of the only authority that
really counts can unfortunately not
be obtaied
Diplomatic circles in Pekin are
shocked by a shipment from Turkey
to Pekin's "Anti-Opium Monopoly
Bureau" The shipment was 52000
pounds of Turkish opium That re-
minds you of our own alcohol propo
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Entered at
TECUMSEH POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY OKLAHOMA
FAAM MIGRATION
IIICHEASED MOST
BY LOW NAMES
Farmers Move the Very Years the
Communities can Least Ilford
The Cost Says Economist
STILLWATER —farm moving in-
creases gfeatly during years of low
form incomes the very years ten-
ants and the community at large can
least afford to bear the cost of mov-
ing says Dr J T Sanders head of
the department of agricultural econ-
omics Oklahoma A and M College
In 1024 a year of good returns
tor Oklahoma cottin farmers there
was only 60 per cent as much mov-
ing among a special group of 500
cotton farmers studied by the college
Es the average amount done during
each of the preceding four years The
overage purchasing value of cotton
per farm in Oklahoma in 1924 was
$644 while the average forthe four
preceding years was only $208 less
than one-third the value per farm of
the 1924 cotton crop -
A close study of the percentage of
moving among these 500 cotton farm-
ers since 1900 shows that there is a
close relationship between the Mount
of moving they did each year and the
purchasing value of the cotton crop
of the average Oklahoma cotton farm
From year to year for every rise
of $100 in the purchase power of cot-
ton per farm there was a decline of
about 5 per cent in the amount of
moving that this particular group of
farmers did If this is representative
of conditions for the state it means
that Oklahoma should pay particular
attention to her farm moving prob-
I( ms during the years of depressed
farm conditions
Years hen cotton farming is not
paying try alike the patience of ten-
entslandlords bankertrand busliesa'
men furnishing farmers credit Like-
wise they are years that call for the
greatest consideration and sympathe-
tic cooperation of all
In such years if the tenant has re-
quested his landlord to let him try
other crops than cotton if he has had
some other small dkagreement with
the owner of the land or if he has a
lurking desire to try "greener pas-
stures" they all flare up into strong
desires to move If the tenant fails
to do some very calm and hard hink-
ing on the question he proceeds to
give over to these feelings and oftenl
makes a useless and costly move
Likewise landlords who possibly
may have no great fault to find with
the tenant's farming during good in-
come years may make a mountain
out of a mole-hill fault when the
rent is not enough to p ay taxes dur-
ing The bad year Weeds that the
landlord took no note of during good
years may seem in large part a cause
of low returns on bad years yi poor
stand of cotton during good return
years may go unnoticed by the land-
lord but may be an unpardonable
piece of inefficiency during years
when the bottom has dropped out of
cotton prices
Bankers and business men may
pass over slack habits of business
dealing by tenants as trivial and
utterly inconsequential during good
years when such habits would appear
as inexcusable business carelessness
during years when returns do not
enable the tenants to meet all their
debts
These conditions are all wrong In
fact they should be reversed If there
MMOMPN
is any time in the world when Olda7
homa tenants should be held to a
-trict business account if there is any
fimt that justifies landlords tenants
!lint" that justifies landlords tenants
banks and business men in general
in beig hyper-critical i their dealings
with each other it is during years
when all are prosperous If there are
any years when they should keep
their heads cool and when they should
be very considerate of the economic
misfortunes of each other it is during
years when returns are low and bard
times are trying the patience of all
Failure to follow out this line o of
f I w—a-to-m- re-co-u-n-Cy15 e-nt- e-ring---a-e-
action is causing much of our useless unlimited prosperity era
farm moving and is costing tenants ----4---
landlords and people in general in I There may be much joy in Wash-
Oklahoma much dung years when I ington over the new record for the
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crop yields or crop prices have un
- 1 number of Christmas packages hand- 1 est is will the growth of this policy
avoidably brought 'depression to Ok- I led but the mail carriers who hand- ' give the people more and better ser-
lahoma agriculturt led but the mail carriers who handled vice or will it gradually discourage
&Won in spots One New York cab- the packages haven't been heard industry and stifle progress?
sending forth any gleeful shouts
eret keeper asked if prohibition On the opening day of Congress
agents bothered him replied "Yes Money is the greatest linguist of 5490 bills were introduced and that
I had to 'give one of them $200 just -them all for it speaks in all langu- I will give them something to talk
and hour ago" ages about for a while
the Tecumseh Okla postoffice as second-class mill under the at of March 3
THE OKLAHOM
Randall Pittnián County
Attorney Pre4icts Better
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CO II 0 I 11011 S
Harmony and Hearty Cooperation
Amotmg County Officials
Play Important Part
We are pleased to have County At-1
torney Randall Pitman's news on con-
ditions as they appear to him as
shown below Mr Pitman sees better
things for Pottawatomie County
I can see nothing but prosperity in
view for Pottawatomie Cotinty for I
the cominy year All of the various
departments of the County Govern-
tnent are in splendid condition with
rrospects of eaeh growing better as
the new year progresses
The discovery of oil in the County I
has been a great advaotal in a 1
financial way to both the citizens
individually and to the county as a l
municipal coiporatititn end while the
oil boom with its influx of a large
number of transient people brought l
the bad as well as the good the first
stages of that contion are about
over and the bad have been stifted
front the good and have either been
sent to the Penitentiary or have drif-
ted on to other fields where they are
not so well known so that most of
the business that we have now from
the oil industry' is of a good substan-
tial character
That the people of Pottawatomie
County will not tolerate oil field law-
iessness was foreeable demonstrated
during the recent term of the district
court when juries of this county re- l
turned verdicts of guilty in all of the l
art: tried except one penalties were l
inflicted from one year in the pen-1
WPF1MeM
itentilry for violation of the liquor
xcellant taste in the ftrnishing of
laws to Death in the Electric Chair thir flome everything being of the
for Murder in connection with the j °
ery Iltest desikn The house from
Asher Bank Robbery Fifteen men tobottom is modern to the last
haven already been tratiported to '1411)
thePenitentiary 44-MoAlester -by tile 4-4- 41-e
is J)rke of heo best'- built'
homes in this section of the Country
Sheriff and two are now in jail await- E M Evertt of Tecumseh was the
lug transportation The credit for all
contractor and the lumber was furn-
this largely belongs to the men who I ished by the Weleeka Lumber Co
composed the vari-us juries at that
term of Court they had the couragt BOOL WEEVIL RESOLUTIONS
to meet out proper punishment --
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From a financial standpoint the 0 KLAHOMA CITY This Is the
county is entering upon -a new era time of th year when most people
thousands of dollars are being added PrP making New Year's resolutions1
to the tax rolls of the county due to ' and the Boo' Weevil Extermination
new and permenant imporevements
Committee of Oklahoma with head-1
in the county money is coming into i quarters here has proposed a set of
the county treasurer y almost daily !resolves for the cotton growers:
from the tax on oil mduced in the ! 1 I will immediately clean up and
country this tax known as the gross I burn all brush piles weed fense
production tax is distributed equally ' 1 ows and other places where bool
weevils
between our schools and roads and hibernate
our schools and roads will show 2 1 will ask my neighbor to do
marked improvement on account of likew i se
the same during tlas coming year will plant an early-maturing
The county has recently build and I variety of cotton in the spring chop
equipped a new modern jail withoutito a stand as quickly as possible and
the aid of an ad valorem tax This apply Calcium-Arsenate Molasses
was badly needed an all are justly mixture at frequent intervals cluiing
proud of it the growing season
Road conditions in the county Are If these three resolutions are kept
improving steadilY all of the towns
a tee every farmer in Oklahoma—no
to members of the commit-
in the c ounty have done more or less
paving especially is this so of Earls-
matter if he is in the center of the
bore and Maud The county roads
! district of worst bool weevil infesta-
are being graveled at a rapid rate tion—will be able tc) raise
factory crop in 1928 a satis-
and it seems now that our differences
with the State Highway Department ' The rommittee points out that rak-
have been amicably settled and that ing and burning debris now will not
constructioh of hard surfaced roads only kill large numbers of weevils
on State Highway will begin immedi- but will disturb their hibernation
ately and proceed to completion dur- Places in such a way that they will
ing the coming year fall prey to "pneumonia" during the
All of the various' departments of next severe cold spell
the County Government are function- Complete methods of bool weevil
ing at a high rate of efficiency and control have been printed in a book-
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especially is this so of the County et which will be sent free to any
Treasurer and County Clerks Offices I farmer bank chamber of commerce
at which offices the bulk of the Coun- or other organization individual in
Ity's financial affairs are hanaled The
County Commissioners are working
together for the welfare and common
1 good of the county and are working
bsn"4 LUC V1- I UHL jf UU CIL VW WILL THE PEOPLE BENEFIT
hand in hand with the Township
Boards and such conditions and liar-
The Tnterstate Commerce Commis-
mony crti in 'my opinion redound
sion will ask Congress for greater
only to the benefit of the people in
power to control and direct rail-
general ! road consolidation policies It would
There are many Wier favorable
I conditions that could be mentioned make un lawful "any consolidation or
1 acquisition of the control of one car-
there are also some conditions that
tier by another in any manner what-
could be improved upon but taking it
soever except with our specific ap-
all in all it seems to me that Potta-
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FRIDAY JANUAR
1928
i or o till ty
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KNisfiT
ioutlfirtIL
Erected on West Washingta Street
At a Cost of 0700000 '
I At a uost 01 4110IMAM
! Mr and Mrs Knirl 4 are now at
:home to their ntanl ciends at their
L:lantiful home on W Washington
The house is of a French normandy
arChitecture two stories with full
(concrete basement and two Itarge
porches On the first floor are the
boll the living room with large fire
place and french doors on the south
I 4 1) at open on a large porch The
'dining room breakfast room kitchen
1 lavatory room and broom closet
The second floor is reached by a
tovely stairway leading up from the
hall There are three spacious bed-
looms both linen closet and hall on
this floor These rooms are finished
in enamel woodwork with mahogany
doors art ! oak floors Each room
having a different finish to corros-
pond with the furniture and draperies
I osed in that room
The lower floor is finished in dark
mahogany with white oak floors the
i draperies used in this part are cerise
colored velvet with silk net inside
1iirtains Handsome light fixtures
are used throughout the house in
novel arrangement
I Mr and Mrs Knight have used
1 terested in bool wevil destruction
1 The committee's address is: 1004 Oil
I Exchange building Oklahoma City
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proval and authorization" This is
in line with the tendency of official-
ism to tighten its grip on the affairs
of private industry and private cit-
izens The question of public inter
A OIL REV!
II
1879
7Ne
EYES OF YOUTH
By JOHN LAKE FORTSON
There is an old adage hat runs
something like this: "There t is always
0 n a 1 m of al! n atnrm " WA hiava hnti
our days of merriment in the Christ-
ma1 holidays and enjoyed all the
festivities that the season usually
Irvings
and now we are trying to
uNastem ourselves to the calm of
hundrom tronotomy of school life af-
ter the hilartoto storm of the Christ-
mas lloliciayi We tact together in
MKS 11011thkri
comparative ti'‘7111Ltth tnugoternegr 111-11
view outside the ordinary rw -f
school life -
IP IF M 2N I di n V' A ' ' I ' L0) fil
This has been aress-up week for V'te:toni heyt the —
Tecumseh High school The occasion President Cout :! aor4:ohz
has been quite timely too on account Sivth International Conference of
of the zero weather that has prevail-
American States when it opens in
ed for the past week The Football Havaa Cuba on January 16 He will
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Squad has been making itself quite leave for Havana January 13 on what
may prove the most fateful mission
noticeable by the remarkable fine
since Woodrow Wilson crossed the
zweaters which were given them
Atlantic to git in the great peace
during the Christmas holidays The
gold letter "T" is boldly displayed on eonference at Versailles
a 'black background across the front President Coolidge's decision to
of the sweater with the gold stripes lend the dignity of his high office
to the opening of the conference and
AL represent service worked in the
sleeve A rally is scheduled to take the outstanding caliber of the delega-
place in assembly some time soon at ton named to represent the Unitk
States at the -conclave indicated th(
this time the young gridiron Savages
will change into young Demosthenes impor attached to the conference b3
and "Tell the World" just how warm the Administration
and comfortable their sweaters are Charles Evans Hughes heads till
and how much they appreciate them
delegatiton for President Coolidgl
The members of the Debating Club
are werking diligently on the UT out
for the team which will represent the
hirhschool in the debating matches to
et held later in the spring Tecumseh
has some good material and should
make a record for the school
WEEKLY RADIO PROGRAM
A and M College Farmers' Hour 11
to I at Noon Monday Thursday
and Friday
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KV00 "The Voice' of Oklahoma'
Tulsa and Stillwater Broadcasting
from the Stillwater Studio
STILLWA TER—Music by mem-
bers of the Oklahoma A and M col-
!ewe 4-11 club will be the opening
feature of the "Farmers' Hour" radio
proTram broadcast from the college
by remote control over KV00 The
race of Oklahoma Tulsa Monday
January 9 Numerous other topics
tiealing with extensionwork are also
scheduled Among these are two
special talks on home improvement
and county agent problems in Noah-
astern Oklahoma
Thursday January 12 will present-
topics more technical in nature Sub-
iects for discussion will be poultry
farm buildings home economics die-
tetics agronomy and the farm school
Friday Jan 13 will be Dairy and
Home Economics day with appropri-
ate subjects discussed by competent
Gpeakera
MONDAY JANUARY 9 1928
12:00—Boys and Girls Club Program
Music by Members of Oklahoma A
and M College club
12:15—"Aunt Sammy"
(a "When "When We buy Furniture
(b) "Shall we Budget Our Radio?"
Read by E E Shot! Radio Director
12:3G -"Home Improvement in North-
eastern Oklahoma" Anna Lee Diehl
District Agent
12 :40—"The County A gent's Problem
in Northeastern Oklahoma" A F
Houston District Agent
i2:50----"Farm School" C P Thomp-
son and E E Scholl
THURSDAY JAN 12 1928
12:50—"Hen Talks" R B Thompson
Head of Poultry Department
12:10—"Farm Building for Livestock
Protection" L E Hazen Head of
Agricultural Engineering Depart-
ment Prof of Household Arts
12:20—Vurnishing the Child's Room"
12:30—"Concealing Extra Pounds"
Mildred Smith Instructor in House-
hold Arts
12:40—"Crop Rotation Plans" H
F Murphy Prerfessor of Agronomy
FRID4Y JAN 13 1928
Dairy and Home Economics Day
Nancy Jane Talks add Dialogue A
C Baer Head of Dairy Department
"Field Nutrition Work in the Pub-
' lic Schools" Florence D Schertz
Prof of Household Science
"Why Not Serve One of These at
Your Next Meal?" (A story of Pud-
dings) Millie Pearson Instructor in
1 Home Economics Education
Now that Boston has demanded a
boycott on beef Texas will probably
e
come through any day now with a
!demand for a boycott on beans
NUMBER 13
COOLIDGE GOES TO
C11011 TO CEMENT
OUR GOOD WILL
Will Deliver Address On Opening Day
of Sixth nternational Conference
of American States At Havana
January la
(Written Specially for the Democrat)
By Robert Stiller
Through the Autocaster Service
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Stir ' 1 I '
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American States when it opens in
Havaa Cuba on January 16 He will
leave for Havana January 13 on what
may prove the most fateful mission
since Woodrow Wilson crossed the
Atlantic to it in the great peace
conference at Versailles
President Coolidge's decision to
lend the dignity of his high office
to the opening of the conference and
the outstanding caliber of the delega-
tton named to represent the United
States at the conclave indicated the
impor attached to the conference by
the Administration
Charles Evans Hughes heads the
delegatiton for President Coolidge
and Seeretary of State Frank B Kel-
logg go only as guests President
Gerarod Maehado of Cuba came to
Washington in February 1927 to de-
liver a personal invitation to Presi-
dent Coolidge to attend the confer-
ence Colleagues of Mr Hughes include
such men as Henry P Fletcher Am-
bassador to Italy Dwight W Morrow
Ambassador to Mexico former Sena-
ton Oscar W Underwood James
Brown Scott Secretary of the Car-
negie 'Endowment for International
Peace Judge Morgan J a'Brien -
Ray Lyman - Wilbur President of
Leland Standford University and Dr
Leo S Rowe Direct General of the
Pan-American Union
President Cooligge will go to the
conference to ask closer co-operation
between this government and the
governmients of later republics of
the New World The President is
anxious that one of the achievements
of his admfnistratiton to go down in
history shall be the inauguration of
co-operation and good will between
the nations of the Western Hemi-
sphere President Coolidge with full re-
tinlle is to go by special train to Key
West where the Presidential party
will be conveyed to the Texas flag-
ship of the fleet for the trip to Cuba
His address to the conference is to
he delivered January 16 and in all
Lrobobility President Coolidge will be
homeward bound the following day
Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Pen-
tane marked the first time a President
of the United States ever ventured
Ebroad while in office Since then
each President has gone beyond the
borders of the United States at some
time in office
William Howard Taft went as far
:ts the middle of the International
Bridge Woodrow Wilson made his
famous visit to Europe Warren G
Harding spent one day in Vancouver
on his way back from Alaska
And now President Coolidge is to
visit Cuba In shattering one prece-
dent Theodore Roosevelt seems to
have set another
THE PEOPLE NOT
ASKING CHANCES
It is reported that a move will be
made before Congress to bring about
t he calling of a Constitutional Con-
ventiton to undertake a general over-
hauling of the nation's organic law
The people of the United States
will he slow to permit any change in
cam basic law although they have
favored some amendments to it They
fear experimenting
Reports on gasoline taxes show
that the District of Columbia and all
but four of the States levied gasoline
f axes in the first six months of 1927
ranging from 1 cent to as high as 5
cents a gallon The total of taxes
collected after allowing for refunds
were slightly more than $100000000
colected from users of nearly 4000-
000000 gallons of gasoline The four
states that did not tax gasoline—
Illinois Massachusetts New York
and New Jersey—are estimated to
have consumed 947000000 gallons
bringing the total gasoline consamp-
tion for motor vehicles in the first
ix months to nearly 5000000000
gallons
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