Durant Weekly News (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 36, Ed. 1, Friday, September 5, 1919 Page: 4 of 10
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Official r.inor of llryan County.
Swift & Company largest of
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Pubiuhca inv Krlilny at 114 North1 advertisement headed as th
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less than one vcar except In .ones 1 I
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end of (lino paid for
Any error .sons statement icx.irdliu:
iny pit."oii. firm or corporation an-
.Karim: In these columns will he
wllllmilv corrected when brought to
she attention of iho publisher
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER f UH'.i
PAROLINC CRIMINALS
A life tenner from th? Okla-
homa Penitentiary on a ire-
text of wanting to earn eniitr.''i
money to -et a patent on soine-
thii.g that he and another con-
vict had invented asked and re-
ceived a sixty day parole. The
parole was up and as custom-
ary prison officials hunted for
him hut lie had flown far away
no douht the man was Paul V.
Hadley who was serving sen-
tence for the murder of a Tex-
as sheriff while being taken to
Texas to answer for other ag-
gressions against the law.
In the days when capital pun-
ishment was meted out for a
nuniher of different crimes all
murderers paid the supreme
penalty. As we hecame more
enlightened sentiment decided
that it were hotter to handle
criminals some other way and
imprisonment hecame more in
vogue the idea hcing to lock-
up the dangerous ones so a.i to
afford socitey protection liom
their activities. So long as the
dangerous criminals !! kept
locked up where their power
to harm is destroyed the plan
works well. Just as soon tho
as a practise heconies general
of turning all sorts of criminals
loose on the public on all soil
of pretexts the very idea of
penaservilude is dcicatcd and
the prisons had as well he abol-
ished for all the protection the
public receives thru them.
In the i'ii.st pace a man ha i
enough to commit the ae.- for
which lki'lley was convicted
is a mental degenerate and a
menace as long as he is free
Prison officials must surely he
aware of this. A clean prison
record is no ground for a dan-
gerous criminal's release before
his sentence expires and any
convict with an ounce of tho
matter we call brains know.-
that the better lie behaves th.
easier he gets along in the pri-
son while lie is there.
Hadley's record was clean
he and a negro convict invent-
ed something or other and on
aflimsey plea that he could get
a job and earn money enough
to get a patent on it he was
released just as a free law it-
hiding citizen for sixty days.
when he raised money thru a
series of crooked deals and
then disappeared altogether.
What right has an state of-
ficial (save the governor exer-
cising executive clemency) to
release for sixty days a cold
blooded murderer of the Had-
fouud deserving of a long term
le stripe whom (lie courts had
in prison for the public good?
What right has a dangerous
criminal of the Hadley stripe
to procure a sixty day release
and secure eniploment from o.
mingle with law abiding citi-
zens? Of what protection to the
public from dangerous crimi-
nals is a penal institution if
any prisoner within its walls
can procure his liberty for a
greater or less time on any
pretext whatever?
Oklahoma citizenship is wil-
ling to be taxed to operate the
palace at McAIester called a
penitentiary. Oklahoma citi-
zenship we feel is more inter-
ested in having its dangerous
criminals kept locked up than
it is in whether or not that pen-
itentiary takes a loss or earns
a profit. This same citizen-
ship we feel is pretty well dis-
satisfied with the conduct of
the state's penal institution
in view of past events. Just
when pray may we hope that
our dangerous criminals are to
be handled as the courts have
decreed and the people of the
Klate be given the protection
from them which Is due?
business do you want a
(Jovernnient employee to
tell your executives how to
run our business?
If your are a loyal em-
ployee do you want a pol-
tlcal appointee to have the
liower to injure your con-
cern by hampering its op-
erations or by interfering
with its effeclency?
Perhaps you have nod-
iced the effect of Govern-
ment contiol on the rail-
roads telegraph and tele-
phone. Mills have b"en intro-
duced to license and logu-
late the packing industry
perhaps your business will
be next.
You would probably dis-
like to have this hapen to
your business even more
than you would dislike to
have your daily supply of
meat interfered with."
There is nothing to it tho
cost of living is too high and
although remedies many are
advanced prices soar. .Many
evils are laid at tho doors of
the packers. Whether it is the
packers who are to blame has
not been established although
many believe that there is
where the cause lies.
Yet. is government control
going to help matters? There
is yet to lie found an example
of effeciency of anything under
government operation. Th's is
in living examples before the
country. Who knows that a
system of federal control of the
packing industry would not pu
matters in even worse shape
The Swift ci Company adver-
tisement gives us something t
thing about.
Senator France of Maryland
ascribes the high cost of living
to thre causes under-production
of food over-production of
of money and faultv distribution.
An eastern periodical says:
"hi the fifteen years of Its ex-
istance the Interstate Com-
merce Commission's annual ap-
propriation lias grown from
$355000 to $57.11000 and i(-
employes from 179 to 1:!33 and
it has done nohllng to rc'iew
(lie railroad situation."
Investigations into the war
are popular with the present
Republican Congress because
they offer a hope of distracting
the public mind to the past
Why don't Republican lead-
ers show an equal interest in
the high cost of living and oth-
r problems at present.
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SCOTT FERRIS CANDIDATE
FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
FOR UNITED STATES SENATE
AUGUST PRIMARY 1920
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No candtdaU far the highest office Democratic parly in tho whole United
within tl gift of th people of a i iliatfa.
8taU wor entered the Held with more n the presidential campalun of
flattorin prospects of bucccm than 191C Ferris was proniinent in the man-
.". . . 'iiEcment of Fres dent Wl son's Chicago
Scot! Perrte. -who recently announced . . . .
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andldacr for the Democratic .. of ho Ua . mhllB
nouafaation for the Unltod Stales lauda commits of lhe House of Rep-
refaontatlvea. In 1018 he was chosen
chairman of the Uot :ucratlo National
Congressional couimllteu and during
the momentous e;-j.i of the war ho
was recognized iw otic of the ptrongOHt
administration men In tho Iloune of
Representatlvep leadlnis many a fight
for the uduilulfUiatiou'H war incisures.
UnswervluK loalty to the ideal j and
Bonai at th- August 1920 prlmar.
if tb aooreo of teJegrama nnd lettei-3
wMoh aave beon received by friends
who are looking after his affairs in
Oklahoma City are a fair indication
of tho aeatlment of the voterB of tho
EUU.
Aithough this ia tho first time that
Mr. Korrls ever hat) been a Stato-wlda i
caadMate during his eighteen yoars program of TreKldeut Wllvun from tho
in Oklahoma be bai devoted himself day war was declared throughout the
o whole-heartedly to the intresta of I trials of two arduous years endeared
tho Btate at large that he today lias rts Ferrta to thouHRndH of Oklahoma's
large a state-wide acquaintance hud
aa gioat a personal following as any
man who ever held public office In
Oklahoma.
Ferris spent bis boyhood on a farm
In UUhotiri. He come to 01:laho. a
in 1901 at the Ijiwtcr. opining and
pftehed a tent with the bundled of
other pioneers who came to the young l'residint himsoll.
state at that time filed on a homo-. Ills record in th past Is the best
stead and later bean the practice of i evidence that I1I3 future course will be
p:iiilo:Ic mtn and women who do not
know him pcrjon.illy. On eyery
measure thut wab proirasod for tho
bebt IntcroKU of the armed forces of
the t'nlted Stuteii; on every bill that
had lor its purpose th quick defeat of
our Gernidn foes r.-iris' record la as
clear ntul aa Ameiiran as that of the
So the railroad shopinen pri
pose to give Congress ninit-
days in which to reduce the
cost of living. We'll agree tha'
the cost ol living is too high
and we do not believe that con-
gress has been diligent in seek
ing and removing the cause
The point in the case is thN
however: it is a pretty turn in
affairs when any bunch of peo-
ple representing an infinite
nial part of American citizen-
ship can issue an ultimatum te
the Congress of the Tinted
States under threat and get
awa with it.
Let us assume that Congress
can't (even tho it wants to)
move the universe in nlneiv
days to please the whims of a
small part of the railroad men
Then if they make their bluff
good they strike and while
the strike lasts get N'O WAGKS
AT ALL which is the worst
condition of all. and in their
action stop up the arteries of
transportation and place a
strangle hold on the neck of
all business. Suppose they do
this have they improved the'r
own working conditions? Have
they reduced living cost? llav
they not hurt all other interests
and every other class of work
in America?
It may he that the rail men
cannot live on their wage
Their wages have gone up bv
leaps and hounds under govere
ment control and we'll venture
that the average railroad man
is getting more money today
living costs considered than he
ever earned in his life before
There are other wage earners
whose wages are in truth pitt
mice compared with those of
the railroad emplo. es but wiMi
law.
Wlir-n he was twenty-four yeais old
ho waa. elected a State representative
from Comanche oounty and senert
one term In that office. Pour yeais
after being oloctod to the Jx-gislature
he became a candidate for Congress
from the then Fifth district and after
a convention fight which remains un-
paralled In Oklahoma history won the
nomination nnd suhxequently the elec-
tion. Since 1905 Ferris has been icturncd
to Congresa six times. Ills strength
developed so tapldly after his (list
election that theie never has been any
seriouR opposition to his nomination
In the district. During thlitocn yeais
of untiring work at Washington
Ferris has held many of the most im-
portant i-ommlttei) assignments In the
lower house and has rlsr-n to bo one
lM the rrl!nowleil;ed leaders of tho
guided enllicly b the JenVrsonlan
IdeaiR ol democracy for the beht In-
terests of the whole people aud not
for any faored --.r.
Ferris Is not a 1 icli man. He cannot
spend a gieut sum of money seeking
the nomination foi the United States
Senate but he does :ely upon tho
active aeslbtunce of tho thousands of
f 1 lends who have .no loyally Btood by
him in the patt to aid him In making
this campaign.
While the Important ptoblems of re-
construction remain unsettled before
Congress KcrrU will remain at his
post in Washington. Once the crista
Is over he will return to Oklahoma
and thiow every ounce of his great
energy into a carapttlgn the outcome
of which with the assistance of the
men and women who have pledged
him their support will mean his nom-
ination by an overwhelming majority.
There's
Clothes Satisfaction.
In t'M'ry Suit box bearing the K. C. Co. Uruml i
When you carry one home you know that thci
tents will give you satisfaction or Kendall Clothing n
will.
- -And you know that you left no profiteering M
with the. Firm you bought it of. We have no sales!
sell at fair prices the year round.
Make up your mind to try our service this fall g
we'll both prolit.
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"A .Man's Store For A .Man's (inrmviit"
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Farm Loans
Frank Lewi
Forrest II. John
LEWIS & JOHNSON
Office in Firt State Hunk
Dtirnnt Oklahoma.
We wish to announce that we have made arrangemi
to lend small or large amounts of money with farm 1
for security on liberal terms. We inspect the land 1
selves draw up the loan papers have the abstracts ex
ined by Durant attorneys and give you the check as qj
the title is annroved. Our terms are liberal and we la
plenty of money on hand to handle all loans promptly!
the exception of itolaled 'n
stances they are trying :.
make the best of it. kuowin-
well that present price level
cannnot last.
Thet-e railroad men will d
well to remember that the re
construction period following
the war has created hardship
for us all to bear with more d .'
ficulties prolnb'y in stoiv. II nv
well we survive economically
depends upon how courage
ously we meet the issues face te
face and try intelligently and 1
honestly to solve them. Stop-
ping operation of roads clogg-
ing the channels of trade won'
help but will hurt and hurt bad
Railroaders have shown us bad
faith once already -when the-
cajoled the (iovernmeut into
an eight hour law und.'r threa
of a tie-up. at a time when th"
country needed thob trvleo
worst of all. The puhii 1. .
stand for always.
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Hobart Republican: Rail-
way employes woulddoiibtles
be willing to siUTe'ider ". :.
sinned rights in profit-sharing
they have or hope to have if
they are given full rfght to fix
' their own wages
Shattuck Monitor: "With
the press as It now stands in tin
state Gore will look like 30
cents worth of bologna al
chewed up tweve months from
this date"
For Your Considerate
New shipments have been received of the toml
"Range Eternal" Saddles and Harness Prices are as I
as we can make them and live.
E. G. McKINNEY
Hardware Co.
drove Sun: "Let's not only
advocate good roads .but. build
'them We must get out of the
rut."
Eufaula Indiail- Journal:
"When Scott Ferris is elected
to the United States Senate
neither Oklahoma nor tho Dem-
ocratic party will be ashaine 1
of their senator."
trouble. Others say tbjjt it
creates a super state taking
away our individuality as a na-
tion and making us subject to
1 the will or other nations. The
fact is it does neither. It is
j just a plain honest earnes'
effort to get al the mitiors" o?
1 earth to come to an agreemen'
b ywhich they will bojireyent
McAIester News Capital :
"You have probably noticed
that when a man marries a
good woman he is lucky and
when a woman marries a
worthless man she ought to
have better sense."
The Dearborn Independent:
"Some opponents of the Leagu?
of Nations say it is .a. weak
thing that can do uVhoooi
and is likely ta bring'us into
ed from robbing and killing
one another."
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KSTKAV NOTK'i:
1 liave this the ltith day o
August 191JI in Colbert Town
ship Bryan County Oklahomi 1
at Kemp Okla. in said Bryan'
County taken un as a stray the
following described animals
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