The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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Wmthtnttv Journal
) Successor to the (Jamicbon Jochnal,
• Established May 28,1892.
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MANCHESTER, GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MAY 1,1914
Volume 21, Number 48
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Facts and Figures
A great many people are afraid
that the Democratic tariff law is
going to make farming in the Unit-
ed States so unprofitable that the
farmers will be obliged to take up
newspaper work or some other very
lucrative profession, to avoid ulti
mate starvation. Some time ago
a man, in whose frenzied imagina-
tion the present tariff law spells
doom for the American fanner,
wrote his views to the Kansas City
Star, and this is what that paper
said in reply:
It is true that about 10 million
bushels of corn from Argentine has
arrived at Atlantic and Gulf ports
in the past few weeks, and it is a
fact, a'so, that Argentine now
promises to have an exportable
surplus of about 250 million bush-
els from the corn crop now matur-
ing. Most of this corn will go to
Europe, though if prices remain
high in this country probably there
will be rather large importations of
Argentine corn for use in the At-
lantic and Gulf Coast areas during
next summer.
No important quantities, if any,
of corn have been imported from
Russia and Danubian countries.
These sources exported only 25
million bushels of corn last year
and 90 million bushels in the pre-
ceding year.
The probabilities are that the
importations o f Argentine corn,
actual and prospective, have Served
to hold corn prices somewhat be-
low where they might have risen
otherwise, but to say that farmers
have lost 200 million dollars be-
cause of these importations is ab-
surd.
To begin with, a great many
farmers were forced to buy corn,
instead of having it to sell, and
whatever effect importations have
had in keeping prices down has
been a distinct advantage to all
such farmers. This is true in practi-
cally all of Kansas and large parts
of Oklahoma, Nebraska and west
ern Missouri.
Again the question arises as to
what effect the addition of 10 mil-
lion bushels of imported corn to
the 2,446 million bushels produced
in the United States, would have
on the price of corn.
Corn is now selling about fifteen
cents a bushel higher than a year
ago, as a result of the shortage in
last year’s crops.
Whether the farmer has been
benefitted or harmed by the aboli-
tion of the duty on corn must give
way to the broader consideration
that all the people consume corn or
the meat from animals that eat it,
while only a part of the people
people produce corn.
No wheat has been imported
from Argentine That country has
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short crop this year. Small quanti-
ties have been imported from Can-
ada, but on all wheat coming in
from that country a duty of ten
cents a bushel must be paid as
long as Canada maintains its duty
on wheat.
Wheat from Canada free of duty
would have no appreciable effect
on prices in the United States
when this country has an export-
able surplus, because the surplus
from both countries must be mark-
eted in Europe. When there is a
short crop in the United States and
a large crop in Canada, the free
importation of wheat from Canada
would prevent excessively high
prices in this country.
A duty of six cents a bushel on
oats is imposed by the new tariff
law. Despite this duty over 5
million bushels were imported from
Canada in November. Cater fig-
ures are not available. Such im-
portations were possible only be-
cause prices were relatively high in
the United States on account of
last year’s short crop.
With respect to the abolition in
important duties on foodstuffs in
the United States it may be stated
in a broad way that under normal
conditions it will have no appre-
ciable effect on American prices,
but in years of short crops in this
country and liberal crops elsewhere
the absence of import duties will
tend to keep prices from going as
high as they might go if import
duties were in effect.
There are 9S million people in
the United States to feed every
day and the variation in home
crops from year to year amounts
to more than any probable importa-
tions. For example the corn crop
of 1913 was 2,446 million bushels.
The crop of 1912 was 3,124 million
bushels and the crop of 1911 was
2,531 million bushels. When there
is a difference of 680 million bush-
els between the crops or two suc-
ceeding years, the importation of a
few million bushels of corn is not
going to make any appreciable im
pression on legitimate prices,
though it may check extravagant
speculative operations.
The condition is similar with re-
spect to livestock and meats. No-
vember imports were 10.800,000
pounds of fresh beef, the product
of about 18,000 cattle, chiefly from
Argentine. The monthly consump
tion of cattle in the United States
is about a million head so that the
importations of meat added less
than 2 percent to the total supply
The importations of live cattle in
November were 123,000 head, al-
most entirely thin stock for fatten-
ing in the United States and there-
fore it is difficult to estimate how
much of an addition they made to
the meat supply. The importations
have been very large in the past
few months owing to the disturbec
conditions in Mexico which have
forced the removal of cattle from
that country to keep them from
falling into the hands of the con
tending armies.
A fact which must be kept
mind in considering this subject
that any important shipments
meats from Argentine to the Unite*.
States would be diverted from Eng-
land, and the effect would be to
advance prices in England, result-
ing in increased competition for of-
Base Ball News
The game played on the local
grounds last Sunday between Man-
chester and the Linwood team of
Wichita was a more exciting game
even than the one played two
weeks ago, and resulted in another
victory for Manchester, the score
being 6 to 5 in ten innings.
It looked for a while like there
would be no game, as it began rain-
ing a pretty good downpour at
about the time for play to be called.
This however, did not last long,
and within twenty minutes after it
quit raining the boys were in the
game.
In the first inning Bailey walked
the first man up, and caught Clark
at second. Atkins singled and
Nicholson forced Mullin out at
third. Rubles fanned. One hit, no
runs.
Savely walked, but went to sleep
at first. Miller fanned, and Haddi-
can got on by an error. Watts fan-
ned. No hit, no run.
2nd. Clover fanned and Walker
was out at first. Laughlin walked
and scored on a three base hit by
Montgomery, who was caught nap-
ping at third. One hit, one run.
Snyder fanned, and Cary and
3ailey were out at first. No hit, no
run.
3rd. Mullin fanned and Clark
singled. Atkins walked, Nicholson
struck out and Rubles lost a fly to
second. One hit, no run.
Gillespie and Williams got on by
oad errors at short and second.
Savely struck out, Miller and Had-
dican were caught out. No hit, no
run.
4th. Clover was out at first.
Walker connected for two sacks
and Laughlin drove a long one to
eft. Both runners tried to stretch
the hit, and were put out. One hit,
no run.
Watts struck out and Snyder
walked. Cary was out at first and
Bailey struck out. No hit, no run.
5th. Montgomery struck out and
Mullin was hit. Clark and Atkins
were out at first. No hit, no run
Gillespie struck out, Williams
lost a Hy and Savely struck out.
No hit, no run.
6th. Nicholson and Rubbles were
out at first. Clover singled but was
caught doing a tango around sec-
ond.
Miller struck out. Haddican got
on when second booted a roily, and
stole second and third. Watts
struck out. Snyder singled, scoring
Haddican. Cary singled advancing
Snyder to second. Bailey got a
long single, scoring Snyder. Cary
was caught off of second. Three
hits, two runs.
7th. Here Wichita found Bailey
and pounded him out of the box,
the first bunch that ever did such
thing. Walker, Laughlin and
Savely fanned. Second booted
Miller’s roller and let him steal sec-
ond. Montgomery dropped Haddi-
can’s pop up, putting two men on.
Then Watts broke up the game by
sending a smashing line drive over
the left field fence. One hit, three
runs.
It is certain that, while this
was a close game, it would have
been much better had it not been
for the muddy diamond and wet
bats and balls. The first two in-
were played during a nice shower,
and all the players were wet.
But it was a pretty good game
any way, and shows again that if
Wichita wants any scalps down
this way they had better round up
their best players and have them
practice some.
BCORK BY INNINGS
Will be on sugar-cured, skinned hams, on Saturday, May 2
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Wichita........
..... 010 000 200 2
-5
Manchester
.......000 002 100 3
-6
Wichita
AB
R H PO A
E
Mullin 3b
5
0 0 2 0
0
Clark lb
5
110 4
0
Atkin? cf
6
0 10 0
1
Nicholson If
5
0 0 11
0
Rubles rf
5
110 0
0
Clover ss
5
0 111
l
Walker 2b
5
2 2 0 2
4
Laughlin c
5
2 2 11
0
Montgomery p
5
0 2 0 3
1
Totals
45
5 10 5 li
7
Manchester
AB
R H PO A
E
Savely 3b
5
0 0 0 2
2
Miller ss
5
110 2
0
Haddican 2b
5
2 0 3 2
0
Watts cf
5
110 1
0
Snyder c
4
110 2
0
Cary if
4
0 10 2
0
Bailey p
4
0 12 7
0
Gillespie lb
4
0 0 17
0
Williams rf
4
10 0 0
1
Totals
40
6 5 6 24
3
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Haddican 3; two base hits, Walker 2,
Laughlin, Montgomery; three base hit
Montgomery; home run, Watts; bases
on balls, off Montgomery 3; off Bailey
3; off Miller 1; struck out, by Mont-
gomery 14, by Bailey 5, by Miller 4;
my grades I have on my certifi-
cate” The letter is typewritten, is
unsigned and has no return on the
elope. The wording of the let-
ter implies that said grades are
wanted immediately, and a stamp
is enclosed for a reply. We sup-
pose there is no other way for us
than to assume the "watchful wait-
ing” attitude until something hap-
pens.
The school exist primarily for
the pupil. Any element that enters
into a school that does not take in-
to consideration the welfare of the
pupil should be eliminated. An
ample length of term should be
provided. The course of study pre-
pared for the common schools con-
templates an eight month term.
All rural schools should have an
, eight month term if their financial
hit by pitcher, Mullin; hits, off Mont-1 conditiong wi„ permit u The
gomery 5, of Bailey 8, off Miller 2;
double play, Haddican unassisted.
school board will, no doubt, employ
the very best teacher available un-
Montgomery each connected for
two sacks, scoring the first two up.
Mullin was out at first. Nicholson
sent a line drive to Haddican, who
pulled an unassisted double. Three
hits, two runs.
Gillespie lost a pop up and Wil-
liams took advantage of an error.
Savely fanned and Miller hit, scor-
ing Williams. Miller was caught
stealing third. One hit, one run.
Sth. Miller went in the box and
the first man up singled. A bad er-
ror not only lost a double, but put
two men on with none down. Mil-
ler tightened up, struck out Walker
and Laughlin, and Montgomery
lost a long fly to right. One hit, no
run.
One, two, three for Manchester.
9th. Ditto for Wichita.
teacher’s certificates at the
er's examination held last Thurs
County Superintendent’s Column der l?xl8ting circumstances. After
By Law Dervage the board ha8 done thl8 11 means
There were fifteen applicants for disaster to the sch°°l for ‘he Pa*'
teach- ron3 no* *° 8lve teacher ™eir
unqualified support. There are few
day. Friday and Saturday. |t<!scbers 80 '°"»peteat that their
The nest pupils examination will worb can b« al“°8t *nt'rely
beheld May 14th and 15th. A11 neutralized by lack of the parents
applicants on this first examination "“PPort and1.tberc are tew ““'bf'8
whose qualifications are so low
that the hearty co-operation of
the parents and board will not
. . n j u | make the school a success. It is
Applicants usuallv do better on I , , , .
.t i ., .. r- . useless to demand better teachers
the second than on the first exam- , „
ination. We will try to announce tban "« n°\bav'' ones
the places next week. While it will can be bad bra>u8e “any °f
the best young men and young
A Quiet Wedding:
Mr. A. W. Linn has been making
very frequent trips to Anthony for a
year or more, and It has been thought
by his friends that some of these days
he would return from that city with
a bride. Some have even gone so far
as to venture a guess at the date set
for the big event. However, when he
got ready to go for that bride he just
slipped quietly away, and even his
closest friends wont know anything
about it until they read this paper.
Mr. Linn went to Anthony Wednes-
day and was married at eight o’clock
that evening to Miss Elsie May Waite
the ceremoDy being performed by Pro-
bate Judge Hawk. The young couple
will return to Manchester today and
will make their home in this city.
Mr. Linn is an exemplary young
man, sober and industrious, and the
bride is to be congratulated upon her
choice of a life partner. We do not
enjoy acquaintance with Mrs. LiDD
but will say without hesitation that
that if Mr. Linn has chosen as wisely
as the bride has done, the union
should result ia much happiness for
both.
Here’s hopin’.
who feel that some of tneir grades
will be doubtful should make an
effort to write on this examination.
be impossible to have as many ex-
amination places as we had April
16th and 17th, we wiU try to lo-. , , ,
cate at leaat twelve in the county. P0'D*me“* 10 emplo>r facher8 l’°m
women of our country are teaching
school. It is generally a disap-
The number and location will de-
pend altogether on our success in
getting teachers to conduct them.
The county treasurer informs us
outside the county and state unless
more than an ordinary reason ex-
ists for their coming to our county.
This is so nearly self-evident that
that some of the district treasurer. *be 8tate 8uperiQteDde,lt, is8u'd a
have not yet made final settlement la‘ter ‘° tbe COUDt>: 8'‘P'rm““de“‘8
as required under the new law. All
of the treasurar’s reports were ap
proved immediately after they
were received and the treasurer
notified of the amount due the
asking them to refuse to approve
the certificates and contracts of
teachers from outside their respec-
tive counties unless same were ac-
companied by letters from their
county treasurer. The balance was bome count>’ 8uPe"“tenden‘' ,rba
due the treasurer within ten days b<*‘ wa>’ t0 ral8e tbe 8tandard °f
alter receiving the county superin. H ***** 18 ta“ake tbe»MS
tendent's notice of amount due as | we av® . ^er' e a^ 18 01t1^
shown by approved final report. lbs part ^ ,?ia ln® ‘ e reSalre
We do not have the powers J ■neut for MrtiticatM higher and we
prophecy. Unlike Daniel of old ws doubt “ot b“* tbat tbe. patron8
cannot tell either the dream or tbe 8cb°°8 wUl eontmxae to do
We do write Itheir part by glving the teftcher8
their hearty support. It is a pleas-
Oiganize Oil Comp my
—A party of Anthony business men
met in the Citizens State bank in this
city Wednesday afternoon and organ-
ized what will be known as the An-
thenian Oil & Gas Co. A charter was
applied for and the capitalization was
fixed at 115,000. Practically all of the
stock is owned by Anthony business
men and it will be an Anthony com-
pany, but their headquarters will be
in Manchester because of the Okla-
homa law requiring corporations to
maintain offices within the state.
Those of the organizing party, and
who will probably be the officers of the
new company, were B. Sloop, J. P.
Mulholland, J. C. Verser and J. P.
Verser, of Anthony, and H. H. Pat-
ton, promotor, of Gage, Oklahoma. In
addition to the above W. E. Humph-
rep, of this city, will be secretary, in
charge of headquarters.
The company has a drill going on a
lease near Haskell, less than a mile
from a 300-barrel well.
Cary and Bailey fanned, Gilles
pie walked, and Williams lost a rule of the office to answer
foul back of third. No hit, no run ters requiring an answer within one
10th. Nicholson was out at first, day from tbe time received, about
ferings, so as to maintain a normal ^ut an error pUt Rubles on. Walk- 90 per cent being answered the
fZPJy !h,?reo‘,ixTahnl° in°UTmrr?nUan I er walked and Laughlin sent one same day received. However. we the welfare of the 8chool and
over left, scoring two runners, received a "poser” Saturday. Some, ,
Montgomery was out at first. One one wrote us from Wichita as fol-, munity. (Except fjom
the interpretation,
letters, however. We make it the
all let- i ure f°r teachers to teach and for
the superintendent to supervise
schools where all are interested aud
put forth their united efforts for
force a n advance in American
prices if buyers in this country
wish to continue to get meat from
Argentine.
hit, two runs.
lows, ‘‘Will you please send me
com-
the county
superintendent annual latter.
J. W. MALLORY
at Citizens State Bank, will re-
ceive all watch and jewelry
pairing left with him, and give
prompt and careful attention.
All work returned to him for
collection charges. All work
guaranteed.
F. E. PIRTLE & CO.,
Jewelers and Music Dealers,
ANTHONY, KANSAS
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Thomas, L. K. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1914, newspaper, May 1, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497612/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.