The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
PAGE TWO
THE GUYMON HEfcALD
THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. ItlS
*o. Bat I could only regard such a :>ecauae I had realised through him THE CULTIVATION
THE FUNNIEST THING
OF SUNFLOWERS
IN THE WORLD
*DorI ijou nraLnfli/
^umftujrv
and
<n
5
Dear Mary:—
You don't mean to tell me that you haven't
got your new linoleums and matting yet. Don't
wait another day. My life has taken on new joys
since I put mine down.
They have just the dandiest patterns in lino-
leums and matting down at Gray's. Go to see
them. You will find that it won't cost much to
fix up the kitchen and bedrooms. And how bright
this will make your home; and how much WORK
it will save.
Your friend— HELEN.
P. S Don't forget the store for linoleum
and matting is
GRAY'S FURNITURE STORE
decision in the l.cht of an irrep*- last the djvu.est th.ng "> k«®*n bfe
ntuatait, IU^k. rftk. k.1 J ^ In tow <*]<*« >. of Tk. Urn* ■ >« -.rid. I
' •I—'*" U J k J — It . . I-™*. i IW "• tU auutofxtorc k„„.
dergor.e. that threshold of opportan- locate the parent, bat this is pre-
rty at wh.r« they h.d at U* arrived, c^y .hat a go^ng on today. Ttej. ^ tW "Cnm* Ptos" |
of oil from ita seed. is conducted on jf watrhin' the monkeys 'at'i in the
th« gentleness of their minds and r.atoral impulse of yoath is tow
tempen. and I thought that, if they the heroic; and the more perfect is a
had to ro. rt would break my heart, oath'. Ration the more vital is bLd. thT.ver
I felt that I coold not larmt it. this impulse The war ■ a call to
I knew it would be impoaaible for me 'he heroic. It a call that has not
the variety frown. This species rises Jumpm' an' ronnin' an' racin' roun',
in a slender stalk five feet high, pro- -Way up the top o' the pole; nen
down.
are yield being as much as 50 bush- pirit they're here, an' nen they're
els of seed to the acre. So says a there.
to conunae my work. What affected we. heard, in any truly imperious ^ vu prepared by the An- ilt amo*t any an' ever'where!_
me most was not the thought of any accent, for two generations in Amer- Ajfreulturtl an<1 Horticu!- Screechin' an' scratchin' wherever
personal peril they might incur, bat, **• , , , tarmI Society." which was printed «J they go,
of the waste of fine abilities, the If our sons had not rMponded t ^ ^ ^ Qbierw ,, {9or go They.re the fon„jc*
waste of intellectual equipment, the 'his call of the heroic, should we ^ ^ ^ — ^ ^ qumntity of j w#pfcJ , know.
thin* in the
throwing away of all the fruit of have been satisfied enth them? We ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ wMe the j
long yean of preparation for a spe- might have been selfishly glad to « * _ _ I
ciftc task in life. On the dark winter have them still with us, wh.le their <xprw*d. weighs 1.500 pounds
day. some weeks later, when my eld- omrades had marched away to cer- (lkn It is
refuse of the seed. after the oil has They're the funniest thin* in the
world, I know:—
le weeks later, when ay eld- com™*, •- -~ wh„ mJul< into cattk e^es. It [Funnv to watch em' eat an' dnnk;
left to begin his m.l.tary Urn penl. bat would il*re not have ^ ^ ^ ^ fa wh(ch
I remember '«en an element of shame in our
est son
training at Kingston, _
that .lmo« th, b.1 thine I rM to rtta-.! Should .. not hnv,Jolt. ^ ^ ^ ,|m, „,<^£11
him was: "What I can't reconcile '-bat their indifference, their prefer- R .tir
•here L money, which is shown by
myself to is the frightful and wicked ence of ignoble security, was an ac
waste of rt all." ! emotion of us, a slur on our own
Si. per ton. in the Baltic
Besides the aeed, every other por
tion of the plant can be utilixed The
I lay -tress upon the~ emotions manhood, a censure on the ideals in ^ ^ ^
and convictions, because I am sure *b'ch we had trained them And ^ ^ ^ ^ julkj ^ priMd
that the* are general amone parent., when these boys of ours showed | ^ ^ ^ ^ which con
THE FATHER OF THREE
BOYS "OVER THERE
Journal.
Are we at home to be less
heroic than the boys who have
gone "over there?" Are we to
mar the greatness of their valor
by a grudging sacrifice? Mr.
Dawson here describes the
gradual transformation in the
mind of a parent whose three
sons have gone to battle.
that they are general among parents
whose sons have joined the army rapacty for heroism and sacrifice. I ^ #f h
Even an outsider cannot look up*- ™ they not thereby put a new honor ^ ^ N,tu.
a regiment of young men. represent- on our parenthood and « ^o«rfy ^ ^ ^ ^ chjef ^ of the
ing the best physical and intellectual evoke in as a worthiness that shoul wnflow u- in the ojl contained in
wealth of a nation, marching past to be equal to their own. Thj> ^ ^ #f # clear ^
the primitive discomforts of the cam >. When the war is over, among all |
and the not distant blood and ?he peoples who have fought for a
squalor of the trenches, without mn- Jo* <•*« « n** tandards of life will
giving, without resentment at the prevail. Life will have new values;
waste of fine forces and qualities <p ritual values will displace material
which is so tragically apparent I values Millions of men will return
In the commonalty of a soldier', to civil life who have learned, in
life the poet is of no more value than i hardship and misery. ;n pa.n and the
the hodman Spiritual and intelle^ daily contact with death, the supreme
tual values are displaced by physical joy of sacrifice. They will have
values. The father of a gifted son known what it means to give all and
cannot help feeling that it is a kind 1 dare all for a cause. Such men will
of brutal vandalism, which ignores | carry the leaven of spiritual regen-
gifts that may be of great value to j eration with them. They will be very
the future of the nation and sacri-1 contemptuous of selfishness, coward-
fices men of intellect and promise ( <-e. complacency and those ideals of
J j over a job that can be as well or bet- life which are based wholly on ma-
ter done by men whose only efficiency | terial values. Their minds, sobered
yellow color, almost inodorous, and
of an agreeable, mild taste, so that
it is in great request as a table ar-
ticle. Poultry and cattle like the
seed, either in ita natural state or
crushed and made into cakes. No
plant produces such fine honey and
wax; when the flower is in bloom, it
attracts large quantities of bees.
HEARING TWO OCEANS
Funny to watch 'em a-watchin' us.
An' actin' 'most like grown folks
does!
Funny to watch 'em p'tend to be
Skeerd at their tail 'at they happen
to see;—
But the funniest thing in the world
they do
la never to laugh, like me an* you*
—James Whitcomb Riley.
we are all aware today that each one j physical. This plea was made in | and elevated by the tragedy
has been terribly refuted by the logic my hearing many times. Friends and ; have witnessed and undergone, will
of facts. Men have faced the dead relations said, with a kind of horror: | find no point of contact with those
By W. J. Dawson, in Ladiat' Homo {test machinery with the same simple "Surely it is not necessary for boys who think <ft life only in the terms
: courage that they once exhibited in . like yours to go." of frivolity and trivial personal aims
facing bows and arrows, and we have This same thing has no doubt been ' and selfish pleasure.
, discovered that, whatever objects the said to American parents whose sons Foreseeing this, how can we help
j world cannot find money for, it can have given proof of unusual abilities, also comprehending that the chief
find money for war, and in incalcu- The plea, put into plain language, duty of those of us who are "tarriers
I lable sums which reduce arithmetic to means that, while it is quite right by the stuff" is to make ourselves
impotence. But in 1914 I did not that common men should sacrifice worthy of the men who have en-
think or believe for one moment that ' their lives for their country, there | dured so much for our sakes? If we
these things could be. ' should be exemption for genius or ■ have given nothing for a cause to
I I had never thought of war as be- any special form of talent or intel- j which they have given everything;
I have three sons in the war. At' ng waged by nations, but by profes- lectual ability. if in givine them we gave gradg-
the beginning of the war I had four sional armies. To my mind the sol But there is another side to this ingly and still keep our grudge alive
nephews. This is the entire young lier was a specialixed person at truly question: The side of the boy hin\; |and show ourselves incapable df
manhood of our families. One nep- j at the physician «r the policeman self He has his own honor to con- matching their active heroism with
hew was killed in the taking of the He belonged to a class by itself, aider. He has to live with himself, our own passive heroism, we shall
Regina trench. Two others, who had i -penally trained for a specific duty and the worst doom a man can en | find that they have so outgrown us
not seen each other for many months. He was paid for a certain job. and dure is to live with a dishonored self, j in moral stature that any true com-
it was the business o nations to see He may save his life on what appears munion between us and them has be-
that there was enougii of him and to be a most rational justification, | come impossible.
met the other day upon the battle-
eldest son, who was wounded at Lens
was suffering from shell shock. My
eldest son, who was younded at Lens
and has been home with me on con-
valescent leave, expects to be back
in the fighting line in a few weeks.
1 find that my friends, who are aware
that he was properly equipped. It but will he not thereby lose it? Be-
was my business to pay the taxes de- cause I realized this, I dared not op-
manded for his support, and there pose the determination of my sons to
my responsibility to my nation enlist. And here is the point at
en(je(] ! which my thoughts took a new turn.
When war was threatened in 1914 The moment I saw the question from
of these circumstances, are disposed ! I was on a beautiful ranch in British the point of view of my sons' honor,
to credit me with unusual qualities Columbia, spending the summer with I not only approved their decision but
of fortitude, which under no circum- my family. My three sons were with I was proud of it. What 1 had called
atances, they say, could they hope to me. one a writer, another a lawyer, waste I now began to see was a sac-
attain. They appear . specially sur- the third engaged in bringing the rifice If these boys of mine were
prised that I should be able to con , ranch to productivity To none of nobly glad to make the sacrifice, I
tinue my work, which has nothing to us did it occur that the war could should be contemptible if I were un-
do with the war Now, I am not ultimately concern us Even when
phenomenally courageous, and I am Canada began to reeruit an army we
sure that I am not criminally light-j did not reali/.e any personal relation
hearted. I know as much as any man to the unfolding struggle That
what wearing anxiety means, and
the daily suspense which fears that
willing to make my sacrifice in sur-
rendering them to the call of impera-
tive duty. I had become the father
of soldiers and sailors, and I must
be worthy of them. The occasion
called for new qualities of father-
hood in me. I had gone to school to
Lord Northcliffe has had many in-
teresting experiences, but he will
never forget the astonishing experi-
ence he had the other day, when he
sat down in an office in New York,
took up a telephone receiver con-
nected with the shores of the Pacific
Ocean at San Francisco, and another
receiver reaching to the shore of the
Atlantic, and listened first to the
roar of one ocean and then to the
roar of the other, and then to the
deafening roar of both together. It
was a rare and impressive and won-
derful experience, says the Little
Paper, London. •
IN MEMORIAM
In loving remembrance of our
dear father and husband, Mr. J. T.
Dixon, who departed this life Janu-
ary 3, 1914.
Just four years ago you left us—
How we miss you darling dear;
Many persons are puzzled to un-
derstand what the terms "four
penny," "six penny" and "ten penny"
means as applied to nails. "Four
Denny" means four pounds to the
thousand nails and "six penny"
means six pounds to the thousand,
and so on. It is an English term,
and meant at first "ten pounds" nails
(the thousand being understood),
but the English clipped it to "ten
puns," and from that it degenerated
until "penny" was substituted for
pounds.
WANTED
Can pasture 100 head of stock, or
more. Have 100 acres stock field,
also fine grass. 2 miles west and 7
miles south Guymon. Phone 201-G.
44t4 W. A. BENEDICT.
BROOM CORN
We will buy any and all broom
corn offered every day. We don't
buy one day and stop the next. The
Guymon Warehouse Co., Miller.
Taken Up—Nice black mare, about
4 years old, with star in forehead.
Also mouse colored mule. Came to
my place Saturday. 0. S. Ferguson.
II miles south of Banner school
house. 43tf
there should be many youths eager
for adventure and ready to enlist was
every ring of the telephone bell may j a natural thing in such a country as
mean bad news. Canada. I was perfectly content them. They were educating me
No one was less prepared for the | that they should go to war as su- heroism.
call of sacrifice involved in a great preme adventure. But it was quite This result was not immediate. No.
war, waged not by professional sol- another matter with youths like my „o! The hardest time through which
diers but by armed nations, than 11 sons, who had dedicated many years I passed was while my sons were be-
was when the war broke out in 1914 to training for civil and professional jn)t trained for service, through the
I was, at least, a tentative pacifist. I ( duties. To them war was no supreme same period that so many American
had come to think that war was an ' adventure, but a world disaster, and fathers are now passing. I know-
anachronism and that the millen I said it was to be viewed with horror something of the freshness of these
nium would come through a highly j and dismay pangs of parting; the poignant lone-
rationalized sense of self-advantage Then, slowly but surely, I beean to 1^** of the separation. But it is my
I agreed with writers that militarism perceive that the war might involve experience, and it will be that of the
had broken down with its own i the lives of my own sons. I was in- American parent, that when once the
weight; that the more deadly were i ,lignant in a way that many an Amer- gon j„ 0n the actual battle line, para-
the weapons of destruction invented | ictn father is indignant today. It toxical as it may sound, a parent be-
the leu likely were men to encounter
them; that the finances of the civi-
lized world were not equal to a pro.
appeared a perfectly monstrous thing! gins to think of him more cheerfully,
that my sons should be soldiers and ' because he thinks of him more
sailors. I knew they were thinking J proudly.
longed war, and that the financiers j seriously on the subject. But I l^st January I parted with my eld-
would have the power to prevent it ] avoided it as much as possible. I est son at Folkestone. He had been
and would forbid it. could not restrain them, if they . then under fire for four months, had
These and other teachings were to ! wished to enlist, and I had made up | gone through all the horrors of the
me convincing and final. Of course | my mind that I would not try to do Somme, and was returning after a
j brief leave, to the Front. It was a
,jay of bitter cold. We parted at the
Harrison & Stephens
Feed and Sale Barn
One Block Weil of
Langston Hardware
Always In the Market for Horses, OQ
Mules and Cattle. We Buy and Sell. *"006 LO
dock gate, for no civilian was allowed
to go farther. Just before we parted
he said to me: "Confess now,
father, that you would rather see me
what I am than what I was. Aren't
you glad I am a soldier?" I replied:
"Yes. boy, I am glad and proud."
But I could not have said that when
he left home to Uke up his military
training in Canada. I was then too
bitterly conscious of the personal ele-
ments—all that separation after
years of life together and common
work would mean and has meant. But
I could say it then because his hero>
ism had educated me. 1 could say it
If we are really to keep our sons,
to keep their respect and love, we
can do so only by becoming like them
in spirit. It would be tragedy indeed
if the sons should return to us after
the war so much greater in soul than
ourselves that they were no longer
our sons.
This elevation of spirit and ideal
among us parents whose sons are at
the war is characteristic of all the
families I know. I cannot recall
without tears many of the things
said to me by fathers and mothers of
soldiers. Some had lost their first-
born; young widows whose husbands
lay in the soil of France moved
quietly about silent houses. But
wherever I have gone I have heard
no complaint, no upbraiding of un-
equal destiny. Yet these people were
all quite ordinary people before the
war, leading ordinary lives, and
never guessed themselves capable of
heroism. They had grown into hero-
ism through contact with the heroism
of those whom they had sent to the
war. So it seems to me that the
right attitude of the American father
who has given his son to the service
of his country is a kind of solemn
pride in his son's worthiness and a
humble prayer that he himself may
not fall below the level of his son's
example.
Now. I know how hard it is to at-
tain this attitude, for I have experi-
enced it. But I have found,
countless others have, that the fear
of sacrifice is more paralyzing to
one's courage than the reality. The
words which I spoke to my son on
that winter day at Folkestone Dock,
when he was returning to the Front,
still hold good: I am prouder of
what he is today than of what he
was before the war. I recognize in
him a nobler quality of character, a
higher spiritual efficiency, which set
a standard for my conduct and would
make especially shameful in me
either complaint or cowardice.
FOR SALE
My residence lots lying directly
west of high school building, lots 1
and 2. block 44, original Guymon,
j Must sell at once. For information
. 1 write Mrs. Ella B. Summers, Farm-
And remembering all your kind- hamvi,le Iowa 45t4
ness as we drop a silent tear, j
More and more each day we miss ( Chamberlain's Table «
you; When you are troubled with indi-
Friends may think the wound is ^PSJ'?n or_c°"stipati<?n,
, . , berlain s Tablets. They strengthen
the stomach and enable it to perform
But they little know the sorrow jts functions naturally. Indigestion
that lies within our hearts is usually accompanied bv constipa-
concealed. tion an(* 's aggravated by it. Chara-
vp« r t niYftM berlain's Tablets cause a gentle
• mTiinmjv' 1 movement of the bowels, relieving
AND CHILDREN. the constipated condition.
See WM. EWING for
Saint Paul Insurance
on your farm or city property.
Money to Loan on Farms
L.
Offic in Room No. 6, lat Nat'L Bank Bldg.
PHONE 72.
GUYMON, OICLA.
Prompt servici
Harry Clark.
loan*—hi
29tf
When you have backache the tiver
or kidneys are cure to bt out of gear.
Try Sanol, it does wonders for the
liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial
85c bottle will convince you. Get It
at th« drug store.
For Little Folks
Milder Ills
—when the food disagrees, the play
has been too strenuous, or the dreaded
colds arc taking hold—the housewife
of experience has a tried remedy at
hand. It has proved her helper for
many years, and she knows its value.
Peruna Tablets Are A
Quick Aid
They regulate the disturbed diges-
tion, free the overloaded stomach,
overcome the cold, remove the catarrhal conditions and re-
build the strength.
Peruna Is A Reliable Family Remedy
It has proved that in innumerable
households from Maine to Califor-
nia, and in foreign countries. It
is the chief reliance in the Ameri-
can home for all catarrhal trouble
and wherever a tonic is needed, in con-
valesctnce and as a preventive.
In tablet form it is ever -ready-to-
take, a real life insurance. If you
haven't used it in this form, get a box
today.
THE PERUNA COMPANY
Cili > n.OMa
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Denny, J. Q. The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1918, newspaper, January 17, 1918; Guymon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc273360/m1/2/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.