The Cushing Independent (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 18
l SHlMi. PAY XK tXU XTV, OKI IKIDAV, SEPT. H. li>Ki
M MIiKIt :I2-
(TSHiy; OAs WOHTH
A HALE TIMES
III
TO ( HAKI-KS E. Hl'OIIKS
, Knock, knock, knock, ratth
. bone
sonic more
('4>n>civiili<>ii
Millions Co
I Has IJecn Worth
ople or Okliilio ma
your tongue and
And I would that
pen would tell
\T'hat plans you have in shire.
Kick at the CHIEF andhis party
And kick at the way it was done,
Hut how would you do, w.ere it
•to you
FROM THE'BOY ON
THE BORDER UNI1
rate of interest.
V \< I I'M PI |I >
'««l Ml-: « SED I >
The democratic party believes ti
Tiiment should
< i SHIM; I iii.it
the National llovern
operate with the states in t.lje
('orporation < 'oiniiiissii
in Siart*
up
.The loss of natural gas in the ('ush
• ing oil field in 1015 was more than
two and a half times the vali^; of
(B, produced in the state dur- You Toxy son-of-a-*im ?
ing that year, according to infor- Had you your way In the midst of,
mation given by the corporation 1 the fray
commission in special instructions When the foray was just begun,
to Cti#wvt|gn officers to obtain cer- Would WE be today its we are.today
tain information felative to th% pro- At peace —or behind a gun
duction and consumption of pus in Would prosperity smile with
Oklahoma.
The iformatiun is desired by the
jtcommissimi to be furnished to the
<*governor and legislature for consi- How'd you hav
^leraitian in connection with any four years?
plans for strengthening the conser- How d you have steered the Sh
vwtlon law that might be considered
necessary.
Law Saves Millions.
The operation of the gas conser-
1 rials and Tribulations of soldiery Life as Experienced
by Sergent Robert D. YVhitmai.,JVlember Com-
pany E. First Oklahoma Infantry
No orde
olm li s Money
grin
Had he been fiut
| Speak out bodly.
nd vou been in?
please beclear;
done in the last
Soldiering, in the full meaning of
the word, was experienced by both
I officers and men last Friday when .
i great our camp was swept oy a hurricane Now that John I). Kof'kefell
o that blew down the cook shacks,' wealth has Reached a billion dollars press ur
>therwiy created destruction. ** angles from wtiicli im. V1,t t)l,. d mocr«
struction of National highways.' and
th present session of congress, under
democratic iwdtn ha- pHt^d a Mil
which will provide funds for this
kind of work, and it will only be a
short time until wonderful develop- SIK>' 1,1
ments will |>e made In this direct-
ion.
Probably one of the most benefi-
cial laww ever put into effect was the
one establishing th parcel post sys-
tem and increasing its usefulness.
The big express companies owned
by the big #interes|s brought every
possible tb defeat llii- MOM
I'dinrty did its
Era In Oil Industry
. IN STATE
there are many angle
The men were alfle to remain ,>lle nui.v view the pile in an effort to duty, and today rated have been re-
ith their tent«"until -t P. M . when obtain a faint Idea of what 1Mb a dUoed, and any party tii;?t would ad
i they marched out in perfect order sumreall.v means. Eor_ instance if vocale the repeal of this measure
of at the commands of their superior the total sum were in silver dollars would face sure defeat..
State? officers, to be housed in school stacked as such silver coins are jn Oklahoma, we are handicapped
"Ditch the bull" and tell us straight houses, churches anil empty build- usually stacked, the pile would be because wo have no marketing systm
Just a word of your plans ami ings kindly furnished by the # ctti- 248 Allies high. To count the toud and each year thousands of dollars
don't abuse a 1 zens of San Benito, to whom we are amount fhto dollars would require worth of different kinds of products
" | V — ..V,
vat ion law, which has been rigidly We're waiting for you, Charles K. truly grateful 'for the many courte- 31,260 otns of silver, and would need are sold at a much lower price than
«nforced by the ootnmisqjon. has had Huglies. * : sies of the past and present. There 2,083 cars drawn by 104
the effect of navlng producers mll-
lionis of dolalrs worth of gas, accord-
ing to the convmissjon.
Denver Post.
issued tCuring the exlst-
oorporatlon commission,
is of more importance than that pro-
mulgated which permits the use or
vacuum pumps in the entire Cushing
oil field. This will give the great-
est stimulate yet to the manufacture*
of casinghead Kasoline, provided th«-
c.ompanies applying for the benefits
under the order comply with the
law in c<^iserving the gas after hav-
ing been used in the manufacture ■
of the casinghead gasoline.
Never before has the commission
allowed the use of these pumps as
.1 general tiling over au entire field
In some respects it may be taken to
mark the beginning of a new era in
an industry in the oil fields that has
not heretofore been ob.« «rvedo to the
I ocomo- they shoultP normlally bring. Then- fu" <lo*rt'" 'ri « becomes ef-
to the mint. If a is at this time pendng a measure to f",c*lve on November 1.
'"'ire sum before provide a system of marketing which
8TATE BANKERS WANT PHAMIK
* IN VflCKV LAW
was nq dis-satisfaction among the tives to haul 1
men, and It can be said without person had th
equvication that they took the af- him and started to count it dollar will put the producer in touch'wltli
fair as an ordinary experience Ho be by dollar at the rate of 5 a second, the consumer resulting better faci-
ncountered many times iu the life It would require him to work day litles which will mean much to the
new repubUcan organ of Oklahoma of a K°ldier, under such trying cir-#ai?d night for six years and four agricultural class.
i Citv savs: "When Huerta salutes: eumstances would have delighted mounbhs. Working on union hours For a quarter of a
HIOHES HAS AN ASSISTANT
The Oklahoma State Capital, the
lOIII I'AI'EH IS W ATI 'HEI>
State hanks in Oklahoma are xtll the flagl the Oklahoma State Capital the heart of an old campaigner
>£,t£nTto at chT™Z 2S ' «*" 'ake it upon itself to answer all The «orm raged for eight hours, years,
pHeparins to attempt changes in the ,enio- ancl we experienced "a wet sh
new usury law when the Sixth Legis •lnT! tom fool questions tnat nny demo
prn« mav a_sV of Mr Hughes " flowing sea and a wind that f
lature shall mean They are urging crat nla> ""i 01 Mr .,
And why, may we a.sk. does t Ire
vno way, may we a.sK. aoes i ire ^ m , •
editor of the Capital arrogate* to °ur t>r'eade was greatly strength-1 would be \forth $62,000. Therefore bill standardising cotton grades, newspapers from, all over the country
himself the task of answering quest-:"ned the recent arrival -of three if Mr. lUx kefeller s wealth were and there is now pending before' ,m not a M of an oonHe_
ions for Mr. Hughes? *Is he better machine gun companies; each comp-*done ffp in two hundre.1 pound pack- congress a measuw that will glv this , our lrnde 1errl.orv thll,
qualified? Has Mr Hughes appoinr- any has charge of four savage Lewis ages It would require 1 ti,300,men to same relief to the producer of the
ed him as his official question an-1 PiP°es- sai<* to be the most deadly Hft it. In the United States there 'grain These mea.sures are hailed we 1,0 not BThh bureau looks
swerer? Has the Capital editor,' weapons of modern warfare. Cap- are about one hundred thousand per^ with deight by the tillers of the'soil over the*e papers and when we find
' ~ jM r min- sons and in the entire world thero and the democrats are being praised** town where the merch
like the rest of us decided that Mr ble*of firing r,0 rounds per min- wn «■ m ■ « ™ure wunu uuwrw ...... umuwiw rr> oeing praiseo * town where the merchants do n
^ Hughes is not capable of answering• ute. and kills at a distance of 2,- arc- considerably less than two bit- for their thoughtfulness along this ln the ,ooal pap,ir
"^ the few questions that have been 1800 ^ards. Those pieces are loaded Hon people • line, -Bristow Record * mediately fl«od that territory w1
put to him already? (>n n1*1'®8 ,n charge of a squad of To the former Mr. Rockefeller — - ry
that the law is unjust in that
does not effect national banks as
drastically as it effects state banks.
In this connection the statement
made by the comptroller of the cur-
rency in a eroent report to the ef-
fect that usury by national banks
has practically ceased is of interest.
H is alfio to be rioted that although
the new Oklahoma law that (Jea.
down heavily upon usurers has been*p a n^these is reallv the ten men, who have attained such a would be able to give ten dollars
lt?Tar°^hfen -r7 7T' Sot T the ^Len! '^ree of efffblency that they can un- each; from bis fortune and morot
there have be.en fewei liquidations j* , buncombe Tiie meaning: Hmber a Piec0 anrt eommence firing than > ifty cents to each person on
',£■ £52=^ *
neither wMll the question submitted of war ^ame, one must be able
to Mr. Hughes by the magazine to strip and then re-assemble his «H *I I HE IIEMOdSATN
wo y^ars^pnoT wrRers( (n<jt necessarlly de.m„cratsi Pipce pitch-dark night or blind-
ever be answered. If this is not the' folded
b«r of state banks has been the
average for the last two years and
much less than
to that date.
KA KM KKS AKE 11 HA It D
"The llural Credits Act which lias
just become a law together with the
The failures and liquidations that#; •meaning . Probably «n no other unit of the what has the democratic ♦party e tahllsh a system of farm market of munitions stops, is blown.higher
nvi «> .Let , /! ii'nul.l ♦'.vll ami Il>,. An "J r • - V . ... . 1 . .. ,1. I Jn .. . i i ■ i . • ■ . . . .. .. .
were asserted would follow the en
actmenit of the usury law have not
materialized. The dire forebodings
that were ha.nded out by the bank-
ers' lobby about the legislature
been shown unjustified.
The usury law apparently has not
1 affected *he state banks of Okla-
*homa, nor lias it discriminated in
actual practice against state banks
as compared with i^tion^l hanks in
this state. The reports verify this.
i to the assertion.
no 'u.v.n,, .!«„ q
The author of the army. Is s"ch a dejfree of efficiency ac,
•ouiplished? If
i wise (?> saying simply selects an 1 required as in the machine gun com-1 tttke time to run through Hies* line« cotton rutures, the Grain tirades bill industrial agencies that only 8 per
impossibility and agrees that, when Pany- Each man is given a specific | and for*yourself.
this impossibility is performed
ave .„ , o
— - ins of
he
IT CAN'T BE DONE
"I am simply' King of Rumania
and must follow the nati«n*il will,"
is the way Ferdinand explained it.
• Is there a suggestion in this to Ferd-j than the little fellows
inand of Bulgaria and Constantine g6j tjle WOrst of It in
#of#Greece? | Pawhuska Capital *
Isn't this
One by one the violators of the ment?
liquor laws in Pawhuska ara fall- j _
ing before the arms of the law
will answer the questio:
democrats.
I We confess considerable disap-
pointment at finding *the editorial w
utterances of the new paper pitched have organized
on such a low plane. It only goes
to show what we have said before,
viz., that the republicans are cer-
tainly hard put to it for an issue #
iluty which he performs with
lightening-like rapidety. •
Employes of the Pioneer Tele-
phone and Telegraph company en-
listed in the 1st Oklahoma Infantry
lub, the present
membership consists of J, L. Parks,
omp^iy B; J. F. Gulley, company
A": A. C. Kennard, company 10: J.
C. Culver, company B, and G. F.
Keller, company ,\l •
One of jthe first things it did was
to deal the money trust a solar plex-
us blow by enacting a law that made
It impossible for amy set of men to
ever combine together and hring
down on the people a disastrous"
panic *
For the past, four months the
steel trusts have been throwing a
new fit evei^l few days, begging the
These gentlemea w
on ;i kodak-
but they all
the end.—
ing trip Sunday
of their club life.
The Pioneer company
great corporations
thft initial event
the great corporations that have
new method of treat- ^ shown a patriotic spirit by allowing
thir men full
! service of Un
while in
_ Tell the man you saw his adver- .
The big fellow lasts a little longer' tisement in the Independent—please ItOBEUI 1)
AND HE 1AINTED
We Do First Class
Job Printing
Get Our Figures on That
Next Job
Cushing Independent
Never before in
Yale Recrod, did
"occur. Altho the
democratic" administration not to
dist.rub.their pet industries by build-
ing government plants for the manu-
facture of armor plate. The demo-
crats went straight forward in- the
performance of their duty, and the
millions the trusts have been receiv-
ing as profits will soon be a thing
of the pa*t.
The shipping trusts eriitl loud
and long; they petitioned and wrote
every kind of argumenttnnl tliey
could«think of to get the lav paused
by the democrats safeguarding the
; lives of passengers on the ships re-
he history of the pealed. Then came the
creating public warehouses, where
the farmer can Store his cotton and
where warehouses certificates areis-
sued, which can be used as collateral
by the farmer; constitute the legist
lative program enacted by the dem-
ocratic administration which Is un-
equaled in the history of the country
The farmers havf
for this legislation
wagei
e Sam.
Respectfully,
WHITMAN
E, First Okla. Infantry
promises"
Thompson.
Congressman Joe B.
W ITH THE EM IIAMiES
Poor Villa
"this time
Capital.
Don't waste your sympathy;
Eastland oomo back.
anything like it disaster
9h«
i: the home of Yale citizens for nigh
I onto 16 years an entirely new and
Chicago, with the
loss
t has .graced of nearly two thousand .-mils be
cau^.' this law- not in effect.
Since that time they have been as
silent as a tomb on this subject.
! strange record was set last Monday! The lives of passengers are now
| ; Even the office cat is a little dippy sefegnarded, thanks to a democrati.-
I j from fh5 effect of the scene. The congress.
editor fainted and the office force The millionaires are sore, and
that hered the story have been hav- claim that the income Taw put into j
ing strange hullunications ever effect by the present democratic ad- j
since. We have all just pulled . ministration Is unjust. The samel
ourselves together enough to get old story--the more they make, the j
this sheet to you this week. Please m„re they want, and the peculiar
excuse us this time. Were you ever; thing about politics is that they
llghtining struck? Well have you have a candidate -by the name of j
ever been love struck? To be sin- Hughes who when governor of New j
cere, we felt like a combination of, York issued a message against tfhe j
the above and now we are just re-' enactment of this kind of leglslat-1
viving. We'll probably feel better ion Birds of a feather will flock)
next week, that is, if the act is not together.
duplicated before that time, which The big investment companies
may never happen .".grain within n which have had a monopoly on the |
I thousand y«ars. Qlyde • Goodall,' farm loan business for years and |
: bless his generous soul, stepped in-1 which-have been able ' to maintain
to our private chamber last Monday' high rates of interest, disliked very j
! and "shfelled" out for The Yale Rec-' much to see the democratic party
; ord, Five years in advance. Oh,'come to the front by passing a Rural
'ord. rto obtain money under government
supervision for a long term of years
DENT WILSON'S
OE NEI'TIIALITY.
POLK V.
This policy may not satisfy those
who revel in destruction and find
pleasure in despair. It may not sat
i«fy the fire eater ar the swasbuckler
but it does satisfy those who wor-
ship at the altar of the God of Peace
It does satisfy t'h.e mothers of the
land at whose hearth and fireside no
jin^ostic war has placed an empty
chair. It does satisfy the daughters
of this land from whom bluster and
brag has sent no loving brother to
the dissolution of the grave. It does
satisfy the father sof this land and
the sons of this land who will tight
for our flag and die for our flag
When reason primes the rifle, when
honor draws the sword, when jus-
tice breathes a blessing on the stand
ards they uphold.
■
This is what Herman llosefield.
advertising manager of Sears, Roe-
century the buck Ai Co.. recently told the mem
would require more than eighteen farmers have lost thousands of dol- ^ of th<1 Amer)ciM, Ad nhlb iU „
The average man is credited lars because, there was no standard
wet sheet, a with the ability to lift about two system for the grading of cotton tonventi°n-
ollows huudred pounds. A package of#$l and grain. The democratic party1 "We have a bureau whose duty-
bills weighing two hundred pounds lias come to the rescue bv passing a " read each week the country
me rchan t« d o not
im-
wtth
our literature. It always brings re-
sults far in sxcess of the same effort
put forth in a territory where the
local merchants use their local
Good Roads Hill, the Post Office Ap- papers."
propriatlon bill which extends mail
delivery to practically all the rural. The Hughes fallacy that our
HAVE ACCOMPLISHED population of the country, the bill country's present prosperity is tem-
ereating a bureau to investigate and porary and will end when the sale
don't know, ' *• bl" Prohibiting dealing in than a kite by the statement of the
which makes grain grading uniform cent of the present tremendous trude
throughout*the country and Hi* bill of tTiis country is In war munitions.
And the Arkansas Gazette clinches
the argument by suggesting that
"When we cease selling Europe
munitions we shall begin selling her
building materials."
We believe in honesty, truthful-
ness, energy, perseverance, home
been petitioning industries,, home people, and the
->r a quarter of :i prompt, payment of subscription to
centu-ry and it remained for the deni this paper.—-Chandler Tribune,
oeratic administration to enact, it. A good creed,1 that. We notice
The administration in appealing also that the Tribune believes in the
for votes can point to a program of democratic doctrine, which is anoth-
performanc and not t<^n platform of er" pretty good silgn.
A certain man was nominatted and
elected for county office ln Pawnee
county on the democratic ticket a
—i ! few years^Bgo, so the story goes. He
Hev dead again - came to I'ayne county and was noml-
polsoned.--Pawhuska nated on tjie republican ticket. This
year he'is a candidate on the social-
hf'll 1st. This man surely Is a politician.
' -—Perkins Journal.
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Miller, Otis M. The Cushing Independent (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1916, newspaper, September 8, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc276796/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.