The Foraker Sun (Foraker, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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THE FORAKER SUN
SUCCESSOR TO THE FORAKER TRIBUNE AND THE NEWS
VOL. 6—NO. 24
FORAKER, OKLAHOMA, THURDAY, OCTOBER 5,1911
THE
place that gives you good service and treatment
and where you get the
BEST
in their line for your money. A full line Queens-
ware, fruits, vegetables, staple and fancy
GROCERIES
is at my store. Come once and you'll come again
F. W. EITZMANN
Canada's Verdict.
Builders Material
Handled in Car Lots
Cement, Lime, Lumber, Shingles, Brick,
Sand, Paints, Varnish Screen Doors and
all kinds of Builders' Supplies -
L. O. A11 en
A Kept Promise
When the Democratic house of
representatives convened Speak-
er Champ Clark announced that
a saving of $182,000 would be ef-
fected by the application of eco-
nomical business methods in the
running of the house. Some
said it could not be done. But
on the day of adjournment Chair
man Fitsgerald of the committee
on appropriations announced that
instead of the promised $182,000
having been saved, the amount
was $228,000. "We do not be-
lieve that we crippled the house
by abolishing a place in the house
organization which had been held
for years by a 16-ye^r-old girl
who never came to the capitol,"
declared Congressman A.Mitchell
Palmer of Pennsylvania in ex-
plaining the methods by which
| the amount was saved. "We do
^jjot believe we crippled the oper-
ations of the house by abolishing
the positions of a couple of tele-
graph operators who had not put
their hands to an instrument in
years. We do not believe we
crippled this house by abolishing
about twenty policemen who
never could be found around the
cupitol or by abolishing places
supposed to be held by men in
this building and carried on the
payrolls, drawing $900 to $1,000
a year, who were working at the
same time in real estate offices in
the city of Washington. We
hive simply made the operation
of this house honest."
and growl away one's days be-
cause the public or your neigh-
bors wiH not or cannot do its part
or these things which are so nec-
essary to one's comfort, conven-
and p**ide? A spirit of kindiy
emulation to see who can have
the best roads running by and
through his farm. Everyone
who takes this view of matters
and acts thereon may, without
egotism, pat himself on the back
for being a puplic benefactor,
eqnal if not superior to Andrew
Carnegie with his million of dol-
lars and thousand of public libra-
ries.—Ex.
* Nothing so adds to the favor-
able celebrity of any community
as good country roads. Every
farmer shonld have the pride in
his mind which should impel him
to spend a few days work in
mending and keeping in repair
the public roads that run through
his farm, even if the public funds
will not be sufficient to do the
work. If each farmer would do
this much for his own benefit
and for the beautifying of his
own surroundings, dollars would
be added to the value of his
property where costs were ex-j
pended. and hours of conven-
ience and comfort to his time'
otherwise taken up in work and
and worry over bad roadways.
Why be so selfihs as to sit down j
Newspapers and Homicide.
At the recent meeting of the
National Acadqjny of Medicine
in Los Angeles, a report was
submitted setting forth that
newspapers, in printing stories
of vice and crime are reinforcing
criminal tendencies, that they
are "accomplices in homicide."
The power of suggestion, in con-
stant repetition of these stories,
is dwelt upon. The reality of
this power of suggestion cannot
be denied. No man of city
newspaper experience has failed
to notice that when wide public-
ity is given to a startling or uni-
que crime, similar crimes soon
follow in the same neighborhood.
A'tase of acid throwing in Chi-
cago, which the papers "played
up,"was followed within the
year by eleven similar cases.
The only question left is whether
any useful purpose is served by
the printing of such news. Cer-
tain it is that it has a commercial
value. If the dramatic element
in the crime is seized upon and
given prominence, the public
likes the story and wants more
of it. The publishers then give
the public what it wants. But
is this sufficient justification for
this actual complicity in crime?
The Pacific Printer believes that
it is not. It believes that public
taste and the public morals may
be educated by clean and whole-
some newspapers. The spread
of such poisonous suggestion is
one of the evils for which com-
mercialism, in the rush of com-
petition, has to answer. Certain
it is that if newspapers would
co operate such news could be
reduced to a minimum.
Canada has slammed the dool-
in our face. But as we had been
holding the door shut for forty
years it hardly behooves us to
adopt a very contemptuous atti-
tude. It is true Canada has had
the benefit of experience and
ought by this time know better.
Yet there is a certain splendor in
her folly. Only a people with
the insolent confidence and heed-
less passion of youth would turn
away from such an opportunity -
the opportuity freely to trade
with 90,000,000 of the richest
and most extravagant people on
earth.
Of course the talk of annexa-
tion was buncombe, unfortun-
ately given color by the untime-
ly jocular chauvinism of Mr.
Champ Clark and the possibly
calculated echo of Mr. Mann and
others in congress. And it is
unfortunate that the Conserva-
tive campaign in its lack of sound
economic reasons should have
felt it necessary and found it
profitable to work upon national
prejudice and inflame national
enmity against a friendly neigh-
bor. That is the aspect of reci-
procity episode which is; with-
out mitigation, deplorable.
So far as the failure of the con-
vention if concerned it will please
millions of Americans and be
of advantage to at least thou-
sands. But as the benefits to be
expected by the United States
would have been very gradually
registered and very broadly, dis-
appointment can not be very
keen. The reciprocity measure
was one of broad, beneficent,
and farseeing statemanship, cer-
tain to work to the advantage of
the two peoples without any of
those sinister complications
which Conservative chauvinism
imagined. But since it is beaten
the United States will continue
to thrive and Canada will con-
tinue to thrive, despite the stupid
commercial barrier between us.
Eventually when Canada has
learned her lesson that barrier
will coi.ie down. But this cannot
be expected for many years.
President Taft and Premier
Laurier attempted a piece of
constructive statemanship. It
is nothing to their discredit that
it failed. History will honor
them for it.—Chicago Tribune.
He Paid
The business man showed little
appreciation of the editor's con-
sideration of him by carrying
him as long as he did. But he
should be thought kindly of for
he paid. Recently we asked a
man to subscribe and he gave as
an excuse for not doing so that
he' Was not very well acquainted
here. Up to date he has not
shown any anxiety about getting
acquainted. Such men do not
add much to a town's welfare.
Several merchants are not get-
ting any or very little of our pat
ronage because they do not show
any sign of wanting it. We hate
to patronize a man who will not
patronize us and don't when we
can help it. The Taloga brother
has no cause for complaint; re-
member, he paid, joyous rapture
he paid.
I
H. H. Brenner, President A. N. Ruble, Vice-president 3
W. H. Metcalf, Cashier
CITIZEN STATE BANK.
Foraker, Oklahoma
$1.00 PER YEAR
Has Money for Their Customers when they need It.
PAID-UP CAPITAL $15,000.00
Individual Wealth More Than $1,000,000.00
Foraker voted down a water-
works proposition last summer^
Recently they had a big fire in
the $ity and it opened some of
their eyes. Now a call for a
mass meeting has been made to
try and get the proposition be-
fore the people again. Pretty
much like locking the barn after
the horses are stolen only there
are more horses which some one
could steal, - Belle Plaine, (Kan.)
News.
Yes but the trouble lays now
that they would not come out to
a mass meeting. We are held
back like you are, a few are a*
fraid that if the town grows they
will lose out as new enterprises
may start up and hurt their busi-
ness. Of course, it don't hurt
any one personally until it bums
them out, then they awaken to
the fact that a water works sys-
tem would be a big help. It
looks like we are in a rut and
can't get out. Some day mavbe
they will see the light.
S
of
Osage Lumber Co. Fairfax, Okla.
LUMBER CHEAP
20.00 per M.
19.00 per M.
18.00 per M.
.35 each
1.85 each
1.00 persq
Look At These Lumber Prices
Shingles, extra A. R. C, - - $ 3.00 per M
2 x 4, 14 No. 1,
2 x 6, 12 No. 1,
1 x 10, No. 2, Boxing,
Barn Sash, 8 x 10, 4 1.
Glass Doors. -
Roofing, 1 ply, durable,
Note v/e specify grades
The quality will please you
Let us figure on your bill. Bring it in or send it by
mail. It will pay you.
We have been in business here five years and have built up a rep-
utation for square dealing and for handling high grade material.
We have one of the largest and cleanest stock of lumber in Osage
County. We are the only independent lumber company in this
section and we want you to investigate what lumber prices have
been, so that you will know that we can save you money.
THE OLD RELIABLE
OSAGE LUMBER CO.-
C. E. RILEY, Manager Fairfax, Oklahoma.
The Taloga, Okla., Advocate
tells of a merchant down there
who owed for a year and a half
subscription and when he was
asked for the money he paid it
and stopped the paper to his ad-
dress. Notice "he paid it."
The Advocate should rejoice.
Suppose ho had stopped the pa-
per and had not paid for it, or
thrown it back in the postoffice
marked refused, or had moved
away and said nothing about it
or the one of dozens of ways
some people use to beat the
printer out of his money; that
would have been sorrow, my
countryman. But he paid. There
is joy. Sound the tom toms,
blow the pipes. He paid. But
really shouldn't the merchant
hang his head in shame? He
must know that in accommodat-
ing him the editor run a risk of
being jacked up by the depart-
ment for sending the paper for
more than twelve months. Some
even on our list are causing us
just such trouble and if they do
not pay soon we will be compell-
ed to cut the name off the list, i
v-' r > . '"
EVERT flAITYME
IS A BANK AGEO^NIF
Copyright 1QOO, h> C. I.. Zimmerman Co. No. 15
No true happiness can ever come unless
the fact of possible dependency has been
entirely eliminated, and this can only be
done by means of a bank account. You
should acquire one, and once started you
will be surprised how easily and rapidly
it grows.
The Bank of Foraker
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