The Durant Weekly News (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 15, Ed. 1, Friday, April 15, 1921 Page: 4 of 10
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The Durant weekly News
'fat HJURANT A'EEKLY NEW
Br E. M. EVANS
ntered aa second-claai mail matter
at the poat office at Durant Oklahoma
aaitr Act of Congreaa of March 1 lttT.
Pabllahad every Friday at 114 North
Third Avenue Durant Okla.
Foreign Advcrtiilna ReprMntllv
THE AMERICAN PftESS ASSOCIATION
FRIDAY APRIL 15 1921
WHAT WE WOULD DO IF WE
WERE GOVERNOR
Governor Robertson has called up-
on the people of the dale to ex-
press their views upon what he
should do In regard to the disgrace-
ful situation brought on the state by
tbe very sudden adjournment of the
bouse of of representatives leav.
log the state and Institutional ap-
propriations not made.
We do not flatter ourselves that
ire are capable of giving the Gov-
ernor intelligent advice but we can
tell him what we Would do individ-
ually If we were In his place.
We would get our fishing pole
and can of worms get off on some
secluded stream bait our hook; and
M we watched our cork we would
let our minds revert to the Repub-
lican party; after we had meditated
on their evil deeds for about an
hour then in our minds we would
take them Individually by sections
precincts counties districts states
and nationally and we would put in
about five solid hours abusing and
cussing them after we had entirely
relieved our system of all the cuss In
us we would go home thank God
for being a Democrat in a Demo-
cratic State kiss our wife gooil night
and go to bed.
The next morning we would call In
the mathematical expeits and would
have them to figure on the cost of
having an election nil over the state
In every precinct to vote upon these
appropriations and also the cost of
holding a thirty day seslon of the
Legislature We put' it thirty day-
session because that will give the
Republican majority in the 'house
twenty nine and a fraction days to
tile and dispose of charges against
every state officer who has so far
escaped their wrath. The remainder
of the time they might earn their
six dollars by passng a few appro-
priation bills.
After the cost of these two ways
of legislating was secured then we I
would feel the popular pulse again
and see how the wind blew.
We bad an imperative mandate
and recall of public offlceis In our
state constitution but we weie forced
to eliminate it under President
Roosevelt's threat of vetoing the
statehood bill if we did not rut it
out.
If Me had this kind of a law now
we could easily fend most of the
political accidents home where they
could nurse their political grudges
to no one's damage hut their own
but as It Is we are going to have
to put up with them until tbey die
a natural death on their paitleH al-
tar. Which event will take place at
tbe next geneial election.
However skipping our eulogies
over the demise of theRe unknown
and unnamed accidents and back to
what we would do if we were Gov-
ernor. After we had felt of the popular
pulse for some time and hud allowed
the beinousness of their crimes to
soak into those Republican repre-
sentatives also the fact that their
different departments and state in-
stitutions could be tun on n lot less
money by tbe uses of a little cruel
economy to sink Into the heads of
these different state department
managers and institutional hdads
then we would call a special session
of the legislature to meet In Okln.
boma City on Monday June the sixth
and we would tell them whnt to do.
We weld further te'l them that
we refuse to approve any bill for
their services until they did the work
for which they had been employed;
if tbey were still obstreperous we
would whisper a warning to all ho-
tels and boarding houses that they
would do well to play "safety (list"
and get their board paid in advance.
We do not know If this will help
the Governor out of his difficulties
but whatever it Is worth he is wel-
come to it.
XX
ANOTHER TALK TO FARMERS
fDy Lewis Paullln
We are Informed that this county
haa placed less than 4000 bales of
cotton in the hands of the Oklaho-
ma Cotton Growers' Association. If
this is all tbe cotton Bryan County
Intends to raise this year then it is
alright.
If tbe farmers cut the cotton
acreage fifty per cent then there
should be at least ten or twelve
thousand bales of cotton that should
be bandied by the Cotton Associa-
tion. Of course some of the farmers
have not tbe ten dollars that tbe
Association has required to be paid
down but now as we understand it
they will take a note for It due this
tall. This is an opportunity that
the farmers have that should bring
Immediate benefit. It is not a will
of the wisp but a cold hard cotnmer-
cial proposition that proposes to or
ganize a commodity selling associa-
tion that sells our cotton alone.
This plan has been tried out it
California and It works out there on
prunes raiBlns lemons and In fact
on all of that state's fruit crops why
won't It work on the South's rot-
ton crop? The West's wheat crop
or be wool crop? These California
people ore getting rich while we
cotton growers an; getting it In the
neck. Are we going to trust a lit-
tle of our buslncs to an expeit or
are we going to keep on going It
ilone. with not even a rhante to
succeed .' We know from dearly
bought experience and a life of hard
'oil mid bitter biting burning nd-
verslty that the old way won't work;
hen why not try the other fellows
way that has been proven a success?
1 did not intend to make this ar-
ticle u long one but the more I think
the greater appears the possibilities
for the (aimers and through them
for the country. We do not oppose
the organization of the Fanners
Labor Union as some suppose we do
oppose federating in with the Am-
erican Federation of Labor.
Thp question presents Itself to my
mind why could not the Farmers
Labor Union and the Cotton Growers
Association work In harmony to-
gether. One Is an organization to
sell a commodity; the other is an
organization of men. The Union
could ascertain the needs of the
world for cotton Its ability to buy
and pay for it and exactly how many
bales of cotton It would take to sup-
ply the world's probable demand. It
could then figure up what decrease
In cotton acreage was necessary to
produce this amount of cotton and it
could say to Jim Jake and Jack
you raised too much cotton last year
this year you must cut your cotton
average 20 per cent. Jack might not
like to obey ordeis but he would be
too good a union man to disobey and
besides he would know It was for
his own good.
The Union could control produc-
tion and the cotton Association could
name the price which would be cost
of production plus a good decent
profit.
Fainter think of these things and
see if we can't produce something
besides fighting each other.
xx
Self determination of people as
expressed In world affairs by Presi-
dent Wilson during his administra-
tion should have some weight In
tills country in grunting indepen-
dence to the Philllplne Islands. We
could letoln a mandate over them to
keep Japan or some oths'r country
from annexing them.
xx
these frequent northers frost
freezes and general bad weather
seem to Indicate that the ground hog
knew his business alright when he
ranie out In Februaiy and saw his
shadow. However his six weeks Is
about up and we may yet save a lit
tie of our garden stuff and some of
our fruit.
xx
n Kueriiiin war in ireiind a
ainln- in India a conspiracy In
Kgvpt a strike of the coal mineis.
and u sympathy stilke of all i.til-
ro.nl employes threatening a tie up
of eveiy load in the count i.v Kng.
land can be described as a bodv of
land entirely siiriounded by trouble.
xx
The waive of proMieiitv. that was
going to sweep over this country as
Minn as n safe nnd sane Repub
lican iiflinlnlstration was elected is
routing all right but most of us
have our heads out of the water and
none of us are in danger of drown
ing as yet. The only fear is that
many of us may dlo of thlist.
unused 'empties" In the country on
March 1 indicatted 14000 idle train
crews. On the minimum basis of
5 men to a crew this would mean
70000 men out of a Job and loss of
$588000 a day In wages. Tbe fig.
ures are thoe of the Foreign Trade
Finanring Corporation.
Sthooirt for Bride.
China the world's oldest land
has been fltst to establish the newest
school of all a nhool of mother
rraft a hchool fer wive" nnd itb
plate Is the Baptist million at Hu-
chow. Chinese women are enthtis.
lastlc pupils of this srhool which
while it also teaches them the three
Its. teacher them to sew to cook
new and highly appetizing dishes and
to give proper caie to the warm
wrlgp'lng little brown bodies of Chi-
nese babies. They fire taught rules
of health and hygiene the correct
way to give the baby a bath and all
the Important problems of a young
mother.
Might It not bo worthwhile to
have a bride's school in America?
The modem American bride often
bos to solve her housekeeping prob.
lems as Lest she can out of an appal-
ling ignoiance. Cappers Weekly.
Considering that they have prac-
tically ruined the credit of the State
of Oklahoma we wonder If that nar-
row partisan Republican House ma-
Jurlty even won't admit that they
went a little stiong.
The Office Cat
Here's an honest confession. We
aie firmly convinced that prices in
general should be reduced but can-
didly we prefer to let you do it first.
We ain't no George. Kiowa Chronicle.
If your guldens got frost bit plant
another. It is just the first of April
and lots of things can be planted now
and will make a crop Ardmore
Statesman.
The Madlll Record uses the fol-
lowing language with reference to
the Eugene V. Debs episode:
"It seems so unkind to tbe little
white crosses of Flanders Field and
the veteerans of Europe's battle
plains that the years would forget
and wash away the sins of those
whose ideas were too high and too
proud to fight those who sent out
gas more poisonous to tbe men who
took our flag across the seas than
any Hunnlsh compound. Yet
this is what time does." Madlll Rec.
ord.
tSBBBBaHHrBlBBBBBBaCr '
All the proflteeis
what we have left.
want now Is
Time brings changes; It used to
be the bright lights that dazzled;
now it's the moonshine that blinds.
C. W. U.
A falling star is like prices; It
makes a great show of falling but
never lands anywhere.
woman with bobbed hair whether
she Is Just recovering from typhoid
fever or trying to keep up with the
styles.
Which Is the busiest person In the
world a one-eyed man at a three-
ring circus of a tongue-tied woman
at a chatter party?
Dill S.ivens says that few things
are so quickly forgotten as a cam-
paign Issue after a campaign Is over.
There Is something wrong with the
fellow who-e heart doesn't beat a
.iltle faster this time of year
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We don't know whether to be flat-
teied oi peeved when somebody slips
us a squib with the remark "Here's
something good for your column"
and then find It's one we ran three
weeks ago.
The world Is growing better we
don't caie a hang what all the dam-
phool reformers say.
Watch Your Step
A drunkard of long standing has
lerently been reformed by an opera-
tion which removed a bone which
pie-sed against the brain. A promi-
nent citizen of Durant also reports
i number of cures affected by the
removal of a brass tail that was
pressing against tbe foot.
Hill Spivens says that women are
like market quotations always
changing.
There is some complaint about
the weather but we suppose this
conhitlon will always exist.
Dill Spivens says that before he
married Mrs. Spivens he thought her
the moat Intelligent person he ever
saw but that now after a few years
of wedded bliss he finds her so dumb
that he doubts if be could make her
agree with him even by using a
club.
It seems like we ran the above
seveial weeks back but to play safe
we'll shoot her in again.
FRIDAY APRIMk
was announced by the BoardTI'l
fairs as another step in the I
'"tltutls
ment to Invoice state
following failure of the Uh.uTI
to appropriate money fnr .v.... 1
in tiAA aDalLaa
tenance
Just how
much money
- w u.mu money a
available to each Institution fc.r
the end of the present ri.i .0:
present fisc.i ."
June 30 will be ascertained hS
expected this information will 11
been secured from nit i ...
.n.i c.o. j....... """Won
nt
departments
In accepting a wage reduction of
from 12 to 15 per cent under an
agreement reached this week the
workers in the packing industry have
shown sound Judgment. With stock
men and farmers sustaining huge
losses as a result of falling prices of'
their products with profits of big!
business cut in many rases to notbr
Ini nnd large corporations passing!
IIiaIh .11tlinJ ..t.ll nal... ...fit!
tut-ii uiviiitriiu.. jjiiuiir E"'iiiujit:iii will
not approve that attitude on the
part of any class of workers which
makes them unwilling to share in the
losses incident to the readjustni"nt
of business. Grady County Expus-s-
Notice is hereby given that If a
Durant. man who Is making a fair
grade of home brew doesn't get
neighborly pretty soon we will not
be responsible for what may happen.
Our old hearts Jumps and palpl-
i tates when a movie vampire oscu
lates.
Rill Spivens says It Is hard for
him to tell when he sees a young
and State
days.
1TM 4kn I......I-1 . .
UUM1 IMC lUIUICIHg Of thP I.-L-
tlon Is completed the Board of ii
fairs will not know If any
them Is likely to be closed for
ot supplies or funds. Every etjZ
will be made to continue all niS
a definite move Is made toward nZ
plying the additional needed tnt
GOVERNMENT ARMS MEN AND
OltKIW KUWAItD FOR ROBBgM
Postmaster General Hay tkk
week announced that hereafter
shooters will be part of the eodi.
ment of all postal employe.! i..i
ling valuable mall and that a reww
of $5000 will be paid for the apji
hension of every mail robber
The day before this announcem.
was published a mall clerk fom
that a sealed mall car had a brola
seal and Investigation revealed witt.
in the car John Parker alias Itfo
Schenk notorious crook whom
a lot of valuable mall In txniti.
. where he could kick it off the tn
! nf nnv flualpoft nnlnt PI..
- Hu uu...u jiwau.. iue man
A woman often goes shopping found at Ft. Gibson Oklahoma.
witnoui ner money out never wiin- crook was arrested.
out her pocketbook.
ALFALFA BEST COW FEED
Alfalfa hay Is a high protein tet
for dairy cows. It will produce nit
almost as well as bran or mlll.ru
When fed with good silage it mil
a balanced cow feed. Very link
grain is necessary If eood altm
hay is aval"ble except for high pt
duclng cows.
A successful dairyman writes u
with alfalfa hay at $30 a ton a J
The most abused thing on earth is
the flivver yet it Is among the most
universally used. Moral: Every
knock Is a boost.
The office cat was asked this week
if he knew the difference between
a cootie and a snake. No he didn't
know and here Is the answer to tbe
conumdrum furnished by our inform- lai's worth of butter fat can beprt.
ant. "A cootie will crawl on any-lced with 60 centa worth of aldJi
bodv's bellv while a snake ci awls ' h.".y- Every dairyman who can pet
. " iris wonuenui leguminous era
only on his own. Bhould store it carefully fnr th Z
BUYING FOR INSTITUTIONS
HAS BEEN STOPPED
Tbe condition pf finances stocks
of supplies and bow long they will
last will be ascertained of all insti-
tutions in which the State Board of
Affairs has to do with the buying
The NEWS will buy an unllmltdl
quantity of clean cotton rags and till
before anything will be purchased If pay the hlghtst market price.
winter's feed for his cows. The hid
price at which alfalfa bay brings a
the market is a great temptation to
uatry-men to sen tne crop as htr.-
A. C. Bear head of Dairy Departing
Oklahoma A. and M. College.
Wholesale prices of commodities
have d"creased .'!S.5 per cent from
the peak prices of May 1920 and
farm products 45 per cent. The dtop
i'l food prices Is not as great as the
percentage of 21.5 appeal'- to show
because of the exorbitant prices at
which sugTr and potatoes were spil-
ing as late'as last June but the drop
in farm products Is all theie. Cali-
pers Weekly.
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J OUR EXCHANGES
caaanoaoaaaattn
The News. Capital has taken tbe
position all along and sees no rea-
son to change it. that while formers
may solicit and do deserve support
of every class that they themselves
must needs present such a solid front
thnt jjiey "ak and lecelve seek
mid find knock and it will be open
ed unto them."
All the political pat.ioni.go In the
world isn't going to resuce the farm-
er from the slough of despond. The
farmer through his own agencies is
his own brother's keeper. McAiester
Xevvs-Capital.
The snitch committee of the legis-
lature are derelict in their duties.
We understand that several state of-
ficials patronize laundries that Geo.
Smith even goes fishing occasionally.
Why Is such rumpant wickedness al-
lowed to flourish in the domain of
Judge Mathews Cam Russell nnd
Bill Hinds? Hominy News.
Parcels post which opponents
said could not succeed last year car-
rled two and one.quarter billion
packages on which the government
made ten millions profit. Chocka-
sha Express.
The Idle Railroads.
By February 15 the total num.
ber of idle and empty freight cars
was 392000. By the first week in
March the total had grown to 425.
000. By early April it is estimated
the number of cars loafing on the
Job will exceed 473000 the record
I attained in March 199 at the timeJand a smile ana things will come out
of the after-Armistice lull. Divided alright and we'll all be better for
iuw train oi ou carscacfi the total our lessons
SEEN IN PASSING
..
One could write editorials by the
yard about our erstwhile Legislature
with very little fear of libel over
what he might say. Space being st
a ptemium this week the News edl-
tor Is content to let the matter drop
with the one assertion that the Re-
publican House of Representatives
has perpetrated upon the three mil-
lion people of Oklahoma the most
ignominious disgrace which any
commonwealth has ever had to suffer
In these United States.
Malt they say is used in making
Choctaw beer. Choctaw beer has
a kick. Prohibition enforcement of-
ficers are taking nil the malt they
can ficd In the name of the law.
Grape Juice with other simple ingre.
dlents will produre a fine grade of
"borne brew." Why not confiscate
all the grppe Juice and make a good
Job of it?
Th lesult of the would-be lm-
penrhnient of the Governor of Okla-
homa leaves that official iu much
the same position rs one charged
with felony and never tried the
cloud still hangs over him. The fact
that the House turned down the re-
port does not exonerate the accused
in tbe eye of the public. The Re-
publicans in the legislature. In an
attempt to discredit everv thing and
everybody Democratic have thrown
their darts afar perhaps they will
boomerang one day.
Centuries ago there were folks in
every country on earth who knew
to a certainty that things were en.
ing to the bow wows. Those same
kind of folks have lived forever un
til now nnd are still In our midst
uui mis uiu wuria nas done a lot
of Improving every year in Bpite of
them. Things look sort of cloudy
right now to most of us. We cannot.
deny that. Courabe faith hard work
There's real value here in these
Spring Suits of guaranteed Worth
s
35
A VOLUME PRICE ON
DUALITY CLOTHES.
They're the real Clothing Buy of the sea-
son. Nothing their equal have been offer-
ed for many seasons and may not again
for several more.
We're taking tbe short end of profits to
keep up tbe biggest clothing volume in
Southern Oklahoma We're doing It.
Fancy Cashmeres hard wearing Worsteds
silk decorated Worsteds blue and gray
Serges.
Styles are those that any man will like.
Extreme new styles semi-conservative and
conservative.
Any wanted color sizes from the smallest
to size 40.
Hart Shaff ner and Marx
Society Brand Styleplus
md Michael Stern contri-
buted to this wonderful
showing.
Each and every suit bears our guarantee
of absolute satisfaction or your money
back.
TO OUT OF TOWN
CUSTOMERS
In ordering suits sent you on approval
give chest waist and lengtb measurement
and model you'd prefer.
BETTER STILL COME!
Over 300 Mal-
lory Spring Hats
at $5
HiltibrAnd-StAton
A Man's Store for A Man's Garment
: bo i
Miles of Ne
Neckwear
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