The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1921 Page: 9 of 10
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ALTUS TIMES-DEMOCRAT, ALTUS, OKLAHOMA, AUG. 4, 1921
Ahus Times-Democrat
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Published at 221 N. Main St.
Tel. 221
JACK W. EDNNER, Publisher
BURNEY B. FORGY, lOdilbr
Entered at the Alt us. Oklahoma. Post-
office as second class mail.
Subscripts Rates (Strictly In advance):
In Jaekeon bounty, one year, $1.50; six
months, *jt_ Outside Jackson t.ounty,
one year, f 50. ___
AdvertisbL Rates;—locals 10 cents per
line each ,. .ertlon (no ad taken for less
than 50 f* is). Display advertisements
*6 cents .... single-column inch per week;
special rates 6-montlis contracts; Cards
if Thanks, 1c per word; resolutions, obit-
uaries, lc per weed. Church advertise-
ments. where a revenue is derived 'there-
from 10 cents per line.
MUZZLING COMPETENT CRITJCS
of our
Admiral Sims, who was reprimanded
by the secretary of the navy for hi a-
motis speech in England, has I wkcii
out again—fortunately.
Jn a Fourth of July speech lie calls
attention to the facl that officers of
the army and navy are forbidden
criticise publicly any feature-
system of national defense.
The result of their silence, declares
the admiral, is that we are in a perpe-
tual state of practicil de£en»elessness.
ness is carefuly kept from the public at
large, who might themselves criticise
if they were cognizant of the actual
facts.
Public criticism serves *o bring to
light the weak spots of every subject
under discussion, but in order to ex-
pose undesirable conditions a person
must first have a thorough knowledge
of his subject. y
It is admitted that no one can pos
sibly understand the subject of national
defense better than the anny or navy
officer, whose life work it is. and yet
they are utterly forbidden to discuss
such subjects.
As a matter of fact, the civi'iaii heads
of departments iti Washington, appoint-
ed for political reason and w ithout pre-
vious knowledge or training, are loath
to have their mistakes aired in public
by men who know more than they do
That i> all very well for the depart
men! head who is endeavoring
off adverse criticism of himself and
his department, but it is per conso-
lation for the tax payer who pays for
these mistakes.
What ever may he the right or wrong
of the admiral's famous speech in Eng-
land, he is unquestionably right in th's
instance.
More competent criticism and less
official and congressional bungling is
greatly to be desired.
SMALL INVESTORS OWN
OKLAHOMA UTILITIES
The impression among some that
many of the Oklahoma public utilities
are owned and operated by big capital-
ists living outside of the slate and hav-
ing no local interests, excepting their
properties, is proven to he erroneous
by an investigation conducted by the
Public Utility Information Bureau of
the Oklahoma Utilities Association.
The Bureau found that a majority of
tin public utilities of Oklahoma arc
largely owned by business men or cus-
tomers of the utility in the community
which it serve. I-rum - to 10 stock-
holders. most of them local people, make
up the great bulk of Oklahoma s smaller
public utilities. These owners are busi-
ness men of the community and inter-
ested in its prosperity and all its^ com-
mercial activities in the same degree
as are the hankers, merchants and other
citizens.
There are a few large public utili-
ties in Oklahoma operating with cap-
ital stock varying from $1,000,000 to
$18,000,000. The canvass by the Public
Utility Information Bureau shows that
most of these have adopted the policy of
customer ownership. More than $10,-
000,000 of the capital stock of Okla-
homa public utilities is owned by cus-
tomers and small stockholders.
These figures would he exceeded if
all the facts could he learned but they
are sufficient to show that Oklahoma,
although yet a new state, is rapidly
ON VACATION WITH SMILES
The annual vacation time is one of
the most enjoyable and beneficial per-
iods of our lives. Relaxation from bus-
iness routine and fresh thoughts as a
mental tonic build us up for the work-
ing days of the year. Just as humor
creeps into our business affairs new
and then, so do funny happenings per-
meate those days away from work. At
the movies in the pavilion down hy t'nc
sea. or in the town hall in the little
mountain burg upstate, we find those
jolly "Topics of the Day" Films screen-
ed as successfully a> in the city, this
selection of smiles is offered for your
vacation enjoyment:
LITTLE WILLIE’S VACATION
"(ice, whiz. I’m glad vacation s here!
I’m planning high jinks by the
peck;
But this, you see, most pleases me:
No daily scruhbin’ of my neck!”
New York Globe.
BORN FOR REST
Howard--"What do you think is your
natural vocation, Reggie?”
Reggie—‘‘Haven’t any, deah boy.
What I was born with is a natural va-
cation. San Francisco Chronicle.
+ ♦♦♦ + + ♦
PLEASURE
+ + + + + + +
* *
* *
N. GRAVER
A
r[ ” • I
Would Teach Girl How to do
the “Shimey Swim" But Gum.
drops says No.________
By B. B. F.
Helen Fail.
Down among the budding tree;.
By the river’s glorious brink;
There on our bended knees
With our hands as a cap, we drink,
A long refreshing draught.
From this white-pebbled stream
Marred not by fish un-auglu,
No other place could i>: supreme.
And with feet, bare to the knees,
Wade in and out—the water cool
Frightening the minnow that flees
To safety, in a distant pool.
And with fishing line and rod,
We sauntered home at evemnle;
As the grasses and flowers nod.
What careth we for wealth or ppride.
Just a rived line and pole.
Just a happy, merry boy.
Good news, fellow! Report has it
that there will be no immediate reduc-
tion in taxation.
LOSING TIME
embracing ownership idea which i- re-
volutionizing tlic public utility industry
of the country.
That the public utilities of the coun-
try, in addition to being controlled by
the people through their utility and
railroad commissions, are also rapidly
coming to be owned by the people in
the sense of individual ownership of
11n ir stock, is shown by a survey to de-
termine the number oi customers of
electric light and jiinver companies who
are also owners of securities of those
companies, conducted recently by John
F. Gilchrist, vice-president of the t <>m-
monwealth Edison Co., of Chicago. He
made a canvass of forty of the largest
the country, serving
}f 1.1,000.000
people.
He found that of the 2.5<X).(JU0 custo-
mers of these utilities, 119,000. or about
5 per cent, were owners of utilities sc-
.Some people go to a summer resort
for a change and a rest. I he landlord
generally gets the change and the wall-
er the rest.
The fellow who is looking for a scrap
is always the last to lay away his gun.
Japan has been hedging on
of disarmament.
tile matter
The person who is wedded to trouble
sltould get a divorce.
Dear Editor: . ... .
Well Ed, as wuz cuming up this morning to do-my darlie duties, i met one uv
the most butifub- looking young ladies what seemed like to me tbet she culdeni
be so purty, but eneywey Ed, she made me fall fur her rite off the hat. 1 liked
her so doggone well thet i ask her wher she lived, l ur sum reason she didurn
like me so mutch. Finalv she replied thet she lived in Greta wher the bnsee
train stops and gets eggs and butter whut cows and hens lay and give. I then
ask her whut wuz she doin here se earlie in the vnornin too, well she- i"le m<
thet she wuz contcmplatin goin to Blare, thet she bed always lied a good time up
thor as ther wuz a good swimmin hole whut she wanted to get into as tliei wuz
no place down at Greta thet bed a place like thet. 1 tole her thet she- wuz alritc
going uj) tlicr. and i wuz always goin ther too and mayhap i mite sea her ’t sn<
happened to go in the sametime i did and i wuld train her if she needed trauun to
swim—the new shinimie swim, Ed, thet i composed myselt. Well siree. she t(. s
me thet frum whut she can hear she doesn’t want to shimmie, thet her parents he«i
tole her it wuz not nice; vulgar like is her words uv expressin her thoughts, ami
i tole her if she wanted to try it i surtainly wuld train her to swim m a manner
thet wuld make all uv the other gurls shamed uv themselves. She wuz tallm M,
f all in hard too, and finalv she sez thet she wuld sure try it wunce, but t musi
never tell her parents as she wuld surtainly get spanked it i did So hrt. i tole
her thet sinse -he wuld thet i wuld train her how. Some how, tho Ed, i he.i tor-
got about gumdrops tellin me thet i wuz never to go with eney body else it i
expected to marrie her, as you knoe gumdrops is verie jealouslike and tries to
make me walk the chalk line, i am not verie mutch of a henpeked guy, but to
keep peace in the familie i give in wunce in a great while. Anyway thet gun e
and when i saw gumdrops i tole her uv our conversation. 'Veil E<k trumc?
she sed it wuld file two large books—and they wuld surtainly be tilled too. She
gave me m understand tho Ed, thet goin up to Blare wuz out of the quest m and
if -he caught me with thet ther gurl showing her how to shimmie, sin wu
surtanlv sea to it thet i wuld never make another call on the swimmin hole. W ,
Ed. smse she feals thet away about it. . guess i hed better let thet gurl alone and
keep peace in the familie witji gumdrops. as ther amt artur all enev thet heats n r
when it cunts to a downrite showdown.
Peacefully vttres,
'N GRAYER.
A United States senator junketing m
Germany writes that the debts owed
us by foreign governments are paraly-
............. zing trade with this country. It that be
Amusement Reporter, the disease, it would seem that the log-
ical remedy would be to pay up.
Convict
FREEDOM
here for hating five
head j electric utilities of
a population in excess
RELIEF IN SIGHT?
H 4 settlement of the Irish question
i-- made that will be reasonably satis-
factory to both sides it will be one great
relief not only to them, but to the peo-
ple of the United States as well.
Our country today is practically
divided into two camps <>n the subject
_a minority of ardent champions of
the Irish cause, and a majority who be-
lieve in letting countries on the other
side of the water manage their own
affairs withaut interference from us.
It i- a source of uneasiness to many
professional politicians, who want to
keep in the good graces of their Ir.sh
constituents, yet fear to alienate the
support of those in the other camp. It
keeps them wiggling and squirming in
an attempt to >a_v something am! yet
at the same time sav nothing..
We have had om great division ot
principle in this codntrv. W < do not
want another.
The Irish question can not In- ami-
cably adjusted any too soon to -uit
our Uncle Samuel.
OPTIMISTIC AMERICA
\V 1YC>.
Visitor—"How are you enjoying yovr
libers : ' New York Evening World.
IN HAPPYLAND
First flea—“Been on a vacation."
Second flea—"No. on a tramp.
The Sun Dodger.
RETURN MALE
1st Postal Clerk "Aha! back from
your vacation, eh : ’
2nd Postal Clerk —"Yup, back to the
old stamping ground "
V ■) Univ. Alumnus.
As an optimist of the tirst water.
Postmaster General Hayes is it. He
believes the public would prefer to pay
25 cents for a special delievery stamp
instead of paying the present price of
If cents.
The world is loud in its demand for
permanent peace and silent in its fever-
ish preparation for the next war.
BABY CONTESTS BE
MAIN FEATURE FOR
FAIRS THIS FALL
PARENTS BECOMING AWARE OF
GOOD DERIVED FROM AN IMPAR-
TIAL ANO APPRAISAL OF THEIR
BABIES: HUNDREDS ENTERED
HAVE BABY SHOWS
About the most notable thing in con-
nection with the general depression in
business is the fact that it is general.
PRACTICALLY ALL FAIRS HAVE IN-
CLUDED PROGRAM FOR BABIES:
OKLAHOMA MORTALITY RATE 73
PER 1000 LIVING BIRTHS
By Dr. A. R. LEWIS
State Health Commissioner.
(by some physical or mental defect, will
I depend a great deal upon the kind of
I care you give your child. Know first
j whether a defect exists, and then strive
j to correct it.
People engaged in health work know
I that physical perfection i- .i rare thing;
j and further evidence of this statement
| is home out by the reco-ds of approx-
I imately 4,000 babies examined at the
State hair Health Conference during
the past nine years. Of this grand to-
tal. only two have made perfect scores.
Equally as interesting figures may b<
obtained, and are, from our public
(schools b\ County Health Nurses.
All babies entered cannot be w timers
i but it would seem that the mothers of
babies who lose would -he qually as
(happy to discover defects, that when
lortected. will make their children v io-
i ncs in the game of life.
West i
The American people are optimistic
Nothing ever appears to cause them
serious alarm or concern. 1 hey can t
see the dark side of anything. The sun
always shines for them.
The long dry summer, costing hun-
dreds of millions of dollars in s*tinted
crops, causes some disappointment, but
no lamentations. The farmer just makes
the best of it and -ail- right along on
his course, firm in the conviction (hat
what be loses this summer be will maki
up at another time.
The business world, at the low ebb
of a long period of depressions, never
hues it- head or makes any serious
‘complaint. Diminished sale' a;ul disap-
pearing profits can not cause it to lose
its supreme larth in the future. It
builds in adversity today for success in
prosperity tomorrow.
It is so in every walk of \nierican
life tn every -phcrc of Aim rican occu-
jiation
It is tlw American sjurit. which never
admits defeat—which see - only future
victory in the midst of resent adver-
sity
This town is a fair sample of the
hundn-ds of thousand that dot the land
of free .America NVe recognise condi
turns as they exist, ami adapt ourselves
to them without wasting valuable time
in bemoaning our misfortunes
Bot we have no intention of remain-
ing in this state of temporary drpres
•ion
We know that a charge »- on the
way and that with a little patience we
will welcome its arrival
The Atnrriran spirit of optimism is
the one that wins moat in the end
Jiff Lt nt| n vi v v# »» .. v . o - • —......
cuntics and that of the number nearly
90.000 had invested their securities in j
stocks since the armistice This owner-j
ship of the utilities by their customers, j
he pointed out. had apparently increas-j
, d the number of stockholders in the h
calities served more than four times
in the period since the war, the total •
number of share* of stock sold by thej
companies being in excess of 1,000,000 >
shares.
“The opportunities open to the mass
of people for making safe investments
on a basis which is within their meat:-
arc very limited.’ Mr. Gilchrist says, j
"When the elements of a suitable ai: ! )
safe investment are considered there i> j
no form of scurity which fills all the
requirements t<> the sauu- extent as T-(
the securities hy the utilities of their ^
own communities. Iheir money is
placed m home institutions operated by
their friends, the physical properties of
which they can see all around them and
w ith regard to which they can exercise
tluir own judgment t<> whether or not
the money K wisely and economically
expended.”
HUMOROUS TWIST TO
AESOP CLASSICS
HER OWN IDEA
Tim "My wife’s gone to the
Indies to spend a few week. “Jim—
"Jamaica ?”
Tim—"Nope. She went on her own
accord." Tennessee Mugwump.
If wood alcohol produces bltndne
j w ould seem that a lot of people prefer
j not to see the light.
That parents are becoming aware oi 1 Purity and healing power are the
the good derived from an impartial and ; chief characteristics of Liquid Boro-
’ r : zone. It mends torn cut burned or
scalded flesh with wonderful prompt-
ness. Price, 30c, 60c and $1.20 Sold
by Geo. D. Pendleton
I sup-
AN EARLY BIRD
Stranger "Healthy place this
! pose ?”
Native—"Sure, when I first came here
was too weak to walk.
Stranger—“Really ?"
Native—“Yes, 1 was born here."
Standford Chaparral.
—"Topics of the Day" Film-.
SUGAR
COATED
PILLS
OF WISDOM
Compounded on the Typewriter From
“Aesop’s Film Fables.”
By Aesop, Jr.
THE LIONESS AND THE BUGS
Nowadays, parents are
the children they raise.
"shown" by
» f •-
Quality is better than quantity—is the
moral of "The Lioness and The Beg-
in “Aesop’s Film Fables."
scientific apprai-al of their babies ;s
no beter demonstrated than hy the fact
that hundreds <>f babies have already
been entred in the various conferences
to be held this fall at County and State
Fairs.
\„d Mill, we are not entirely with-j Practically all County Fairs have in-
. . :. 'eluded a baby show m their program
N.me day it i. su < ian(j eariy reports show that the names
of many babies have been officially en-
tered. Winners at County Fairs will.
Hats cleaned and reblocked see V. P.
Porter at Moss Barber Shop.
out hope.
The most brilliant fool we know of
G the fellow who drives with his muff- no doubt, rank near the ton when the
lor cut out.
Mother Eve set the fashion in ah
breviated dress, and a few of her fem-
inine descendants are striving m bly to
teach even her a few tricks.
The efficiency of some people con-
sists principally of the recommenda-
tions of their friends.
The Russian holsheviki. having tail-
ed to annihilate the world, is now beg-
ging the world to prevent starvation
from annihilating them.
There are’people, of course, who live
to learn, only to die and be forgotten.
The fortunate man is generally the
last one to recognize the fact. He is
always yearning for something better
judges announce their decision at (he
State Fair Babies’ Health Conference
to he held at Oklahoma City in Sep-
tember. ts
Oklahoma's infant mortality rate_tor j
1920 was 73 per 1000 living births This
is not alarmingly high yet the f’gui ■
j might easily be lowered. Seven out
'of every hundred babies are being sac-
rificed needlessly. The saving of ev-
en lives arc pronounced improvement in
the physical and mental growth of 93
others would he a goal worth striving The woman who marries her
for. ; friend is in grave danger of losing him.
Mo*t parents guard their children's
lives with devotion, hut this not neces-
sarily inteligence. Whether your baby
It’s a funny sort of combination but
the man who paints a town red often
a black eye during the perfor-
mance.
A man is not necessariy a fool be-
cause he acts like one. Some women
could make a wooden Indian sinile.
b*st
The sun must love u- dearly , o.hcr-
wise it would not waste it- raws upon
will grow up to he healthy and strong wjth such prod,ga1ity
to he handicapped throughout hit j
Some people are so stingy they are!
unwilling to part with their own uv an-
jiess. ►
Faint and fortune Wkon to every
man. and keep just out of the reach o.
most of them
One bulls-eye is worth many a mouih
full of “bull.”
Review mg “Aesop’s Film babies,
Edward \\ eitzel of the Moving Picture
World says: "it t- no mean feat to take
one of tile short tables of that wist old
Greek who furnished so many of the
copy book quotations, and turn them j
into a one-reel cartoon of unalloyed hu-1
nior Paul Terry has done done this |
very thing to a whole series <>f Aesop s j
lu st brand of w it and wisdom chunks j
and given them a modern setting and)
application that will msure their wei- ,
come.
REVERSE OS AESOP MORAL
After seeing "The Ants and the
Grasshopper," of the “Aesop's Film
I Fables” series, at our favorite movie
I theatre, we chanced to read thi follow
mg wording in the evening paiier.
Teacher "There is a wonderiul ex
ample-ui th( life of tin ant. Every day
j it goes to work and w
I the end w hat haj*p«ns ?
\\ illie . Somebody -let>- on him
American Legion Weekly
in the film table, tiu ant- are shown
lo be
lt‘s a big family
needs no spanking.
oi children that
The rca-on that the bug- arc in the
bug-house and the lion is in the zoo-
is ’cause the hugs raised mi many chi!
dren they didn’t know what to do.
As ye raise a big family of youngsters
so -hall ye have to raise heavy dough.
Truth is mighty, but it is often cir-
cumvented by a sneaky little be
Thus far the summer has been quite
in keeping with the prohibition ac‘.
It is a littj
moist, but infernally dry.
"Kissing i- forbidden in Japan."
chirp- an exchange. Doesn’t do any
good . to forbid it here.
large families one older
alter the next younger.
They say a woman can't drive a njd,
but most of them can drive their Ini-
child * l>an,G lo do it for them.
The lion had one little bin i fairy
in her home; while the bugs had
“oodles" of buglets—each one airy in
In- dome.—"Aesop’s Film Fable* '
Seems to us it is about time for -omk -
one to begin talking about proittrer-
again. Or has everybody concluded to
join in the game ?
rk- all day In i The wise man keeji- his thougts to
j himself. The fool lets him keep his,
too.
The road to ruin is a well trodden
trail. You can't ini-- it if you want to
find it
Opportunities are never without v.vi-
ne. although many people are unable to
fix the price.
That Atlantic City mixup can hardly
be called « priz< tight, alter all Pay
ineilt u-
guaranteed in advanc
you
If each eitizen had one of those gun-
a thrifty, nappy, and pro-jsertHis |*hont three hundred miles we mignt
group of insect- Somebody might 1° j |Ml| „j, the battery and drown nut sum*
take little Willie to the movies ami l»t congressional noise,
him see w-hat the ants do m the screen . ____
If that Washington conference sue
cecds in selling the far eastern questk
isn't the best of policy to lak all
can get. You may get more than
you want to take.
Congress verv probably threw the
hook- into that medicinal beer sugges-
tion--or possibly it wasn't congress,
after all At any rate we can't affotd
to have a nation of invalid-
trauslati'Hi of old tatlur Aesop's tale _______
We term them the weaker wx. 1
.ecus 111 scum* III* ><■! rwina . ,
True vourtrsy demand* that you laugh jit is prr*uined the people of the far «a*t j many a poor devil wi»he* they w
when your friend repeat* hi* favorite! will he advised of the fact j no* half *o strong
joke Intt not at him j , ■ - ■ ■ —
......... I It is UMvcrvalty admitted that th. j Of course, there may be method
Even the most confirmed “wet" - an i Lord created but one perfect man. but j the madness of some women
that thi* has been a remark-j the re arr many million* who claim to1 continually putting their hand
m
who are |
not deny
ably dry
utnmer.
be No l
• back hair It might fall oft.
—a man
goes into a dry goods store or a
gent s furnishing store when he
wants a certain made collar. Hehas
his mind made up before he goes
into the store, of that certain Brand
that he has been wearing.
Likewise, a man will go into a
job shop with his mind already-
made up for a certain style he
wants his Letter Heads or his Enve-
lopes or anything in fact that he
wishes in the printing ]ine, and he’
wants that style carried out. “
That is alright.
But, there is another thing that
he must take into consideration
and that is WHO WILL DO THE.
WORK; that is the main item that
MUST be considered if you are to
get the best workmanship.
For many years this job shop
has always taken into considera-
tion. first, the Workmanship and
Quality of each job no matter
what size or price.
Our years of busines will suf-
fice.
Let us give you an estimate on
the job you must have done.
He Times-Democrat Job Shop
Phone 221
Altus. Okla.
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