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FRIDAY MAY 26 1922
Tfte Durant Weekly News
By tt M EVANS
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Foreign Adveftlalng Representative
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FRIDAY .MAY 20. 1JI22
PRACTICAL EDUCATION
The tnislms of the I'mversity tif
South Carolina haw dune a somewhat
unusual thing in 'electing V. I). Mel-
ton a lawyi-r anil liusincv man. as
president of the institution. The elec-
tion has heen favorably received
however. This aetion may have heen
influcncer to some extent perhaps hy
the frequently-heard eoniplaint that
college hends are not practical men.
As a rule they have devoted their
lives to the cause of education hav-
ing become teachers immediately af-
ter graduation nnd in the quiet
depths of their studies and class
rooms have lost touch with business
affairs and the everyday things of
life.
This complaint may not be alto-
gether well founded but it is one that
1b frequently heard.
At any rote it is a rather welcome
thing that a man who has made a
success of his business and profes-
sional affairs should be selected as
bead of a great university and
should accept. He may be able to
bring to his university some of the
things desired by outsiders without
in any way lessening the high stan-
dard of scholarship.
The experiment in South Carolina
will be watched with a great deal of
interest throughout the country.
DO IT niGHT
It takes very little if any more time
and trouble nnd expense to do any-
thing right than to do it half right
llut many people do not realize this.
And when you do a thing well you
get so much more atisfattion out of
it. Nobody is ever happy over a
slovenly job of anykind.
One of the main reasons why many
neople never succeed in life and are
continually di-contented. that they
have never learned to do their work
.EVERYBODY HUT THE JUDGE
(From Monday's Oklahoman)
Judge R. L. Williams took tn a
lot of territory if he said ns quoted
at McAlester:
"Everybody's just gone crazy.
That's what's the matter with the
world and nobody has grit enough
to get out and stop it. They are
tootin' horns in schools wearin' caps
and gowns supposed to signify hon-
est learning wearin' 'cm in school.
Style! Style!"
The judge seems to imply we are thoroughly
headed straight for "demnition bow-
wows." throttle open and out of con-
trol. Terrible if true.
Hut theie is plenty of room for
argument.
Courts have heen operating for
some decade now. and the old world
is still grinding along at ahou
same old "clip". It is quite as eay
and altogether moie satisfactory to i
believe it i- progressing as it grinds.!
Certainly we are improving our
.tliool system rapidly as the years
roll by. and our public schools audi
college should get the credit for all I
there is of honest learning.
A thing the world needs always I
has needed and probably will need for
some nme io come is mouernuon. i . .. :.. i ;i..
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AS TO VALUES
A one-cent stamp printed by the
government of Ilritish Guinea in 1850
sold the other day in Paris for $32-(177.
For that much money you could buy
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a small hen had laid it.
Value- are usually fictitious im
aginary. So. too. are the mu-.t things
in human life- especially
and so called knowledge.
FARMER ON THE HOARD
The suggestion of R. H. Wilson
Democratic Candidate for Governor
that a farmer he placed on the Hoard
place for the exercise of that virtue.
Federal court judges have acquired
a reputation for "bench philosophy."
much of which is sound but Judge
Williams will do better for the pub
lic weal if he refrains from sensa-
tional indictments of society as a
whole.
THESE MODERN GIRLS
"This new fad of women bobbing
their hair makes me tired is the
remark of many an already tired
crank these days. These blue indi
viduals should try to remember that
bobbed hair is not new. and there-
fore it is not a fad.
Stone-hewn pictures on the walls of
temples erected before Moses of the
Old Testament was known to the
world have found to represent danc-
ing Egyptian girls not only wearing
shorn locks but going through con-
tortions that resemble the "shimmy"
in a startling and realistic manner
i Joan of Arc bobbed her hair though
she probably did it for convenience
while on the field of battle nnd his-
tory tells us of the style being ac-
cepted by the women of certain sec-
tions of France off and on for quite a
while thereafter.
Later as fnr back as 1H00. when
women of certain types then called
"freaks" broke nway from matri-
mony and entered the professions
they not only bobbed their tresses
but had 'em off completely and even
donned trousers.
So. girls you see that you can't
4 start much that is new. This planet
is it pretty old mass and it is almost
an impossibility to pull anything new
that some one else hasn't tried out
centuries or decntes ago
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EXIT AIUHJl rw.r.
The tmlilir will approve the actum.
..'.!. i - . ..hootch than a peck of dm
nf Will II. Hayes former postmaster ' ' . .
oi n ii. ii.tji- ' i even the reasonable certa
general nnd now head of the motion "'-
picture industry in ordering the can-. ''"m!T .!;... .
THE NATIONAL GAME
Americans everywhere from those
living in the smallest hamlet to those
in the largest cities arc now inter-
ested in the national game baseball
Baseball has been our national sport
since the Knickerbocker Club of New
York city started the world's first
baseball club in 1845.
Six years before that Abner Dou-
bleday took paper quill pen and a
ruler and an inventive brain and
maped out the first "diamond." Ab-
ner certainly started something. He
would have heart failure if he could
come back today and sec a big league
grandstand audience in action.
You can never tell what you are
starting. Some of the things recent
ly brought into existence will play as
big a part in future American life as
baseball.
It is fortunate that we have a na
tional sport that combines physical
exercise with the cxecrise of the
brain mental agility and quick decis-
ion. Baseball is of incalculable benefit
to the nation ns a stirrer up of the
liver as a soother of nerves highly-
strung by congested civilization.
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WRONG WORD
The press dispatches the other day
brought this ftory:
"Prohibition enforcement officers
in a raid near Knoxvillc. Tenn. re-
port that they were attacked by a
huge black snake. When they ad-
vanced the snake would lash itself in-
to a fury and would throw itself t6-
ward the raiders. A pistol shot dis-
posed of the reptile and a few paces
beyond the raiders found and de-
stroyed a complete moonshine outfit.
And now they nre wondering."
The Charlotte Observer thinks the
wrong word was used. What they
nre doing the Observer thinks more
probably is getting sober
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LIQUOR
Judging form the chances that
some people take with bootleggers.
they had rather have a drink of
diamonds or
rtainty of u
hacked by honest intentions. The
state buys and sells a great deal or
agricultural products. It deals with
farmers as much as any other class.
There is no reason why the farmers
should not be represented on the
Board of Affairs. A farmer might
prove a very proper balance wheel.
Why not?
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Speaking of para-
phrases you heard a
long time ago about
leading a horse to wat-
er. Well now they say
fcssmm inai voisicuu tun n-uu
(Vin llnlln.l Stntl'4 to
watt . hut he can't make 'em stop
drimrtnk.
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F1S1IIN'
I jt set here a-dreamin'
A .I'camin' every day.
Of v sunshine that's a gleamin'
Of the rivers fur away.
'Anil I Kinder fall to wishin'
where the waters swish;
i he Iird made fishin'
a feller orter fish!
I'm studyin'. or a-writin'
. dusty rusty town
! the fish a-bitin'--!ie
cork a goin' down.
il an' fall to wishin'
i where the waters swish;
he Lord made fishin'
FLYING LOW
.ciln (in n whisner) "Did you git
a peep at the underworld at all while
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you wua in i-icw .w ..-.. .
Ezra "Three times b'gosh! Sub-
way twice an' ratcellar once".
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It won't be long now until some
husbands will be sending their wives
off to the summer resorts so they enn
rest. N. H. You can construe that
sentence to suit yourself.
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Man Needs 'Em Still
The hired men between their shews
had stopped and spat and aired their
views where listening
ROTARY CLUB MEETING
Governor Robertson. Adjutant Gen-
eral Barrett and several other offll
cers of the regular army from pt'
Sill were Rotary club guests Tuesday
noon at the regular meeting. Th
program was cut short one-half hour
on account of trades day. The entire
time was given to Governor Robert-
son who spoke for thirty minutes on
various phases of government.
RESERVE BANK LOANS
STILL ON DECLINE
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hear the news. So Jersey Jane nudg-
ed (iuenpcy Ann shifted her sud and
The Federal Reserve system's vol-
ume of loans to member banks de.
clined from $474580000 to $408G96-
000 in the week ending last Wednes-
day the decline being $5880000. The
volume of Federal Reserve notes
declined 12530.000 in the same .e-
ilnil. Loans to member hnnl-c v-
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l1' """' the ueserve uanK oi uauus declined
$515000 and the volume of Federal
Reserve notes $;uuUUl). The rate of
There is nothing so hard to mend as
a broken promise.
x
Some people say they don't like
onions and others are truthful about
it.
Fear of wood alcohol has made
about as many total abstainers as
prohibition.
x
A man never realizes how poor he
is until he starts to make out an in-
come tax return.
x
Some people says an exchange.
would be better off if they were not
so well off.
x
The party in power is never as good
ns it says it is nor ns bad as apposi-
tion says it is.
x
The call now is for red-blooded
Americans. The old blue-blooded
crowd nre out of date.
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W v a feller orter fish.
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THE LION TAMER
Gladys: "Would you marry a wid-
ower. Muriel?"
Muriel: "No I prefer to tame my
husband for myself."
o
Bryan from the deuth of his wis-
dam. shifts the pitcher and with his
right hand tuAcd in his coat says
"Any man who thinks he' is descend-
ed from a monkey should try to hide
the fact rather than tell the world
he thinks so." We agrees.
STOP!
"Well! What are you stoppin for?"
asked the young man as the tax
came to a halt in the middle of the
block.
"I heard the lady say. 'Stop' "said
the taxi driver "Well she wasn't
talking to you."
o
"The lightning bug is brilliant
But it hasn't any mind;
It wanders through creation
With its headlight on behind!"
Over in Paris the latest dictate of
Dame Fashion is for shaven eye
brows. Sort of clearing away the
underbrush so as to look better!
o
Old time politicians bought votes
with flour and new boots nowaday
they biiy'cm with face cream and
Ford accessories.
o
NOW WILL YOU WORRY?
Worry poisons the system kills
love Kindness nnd generosity de-
stroys the ability to think logically
make- the best food taste like Dead
Sea fruit fills the road to Slumber-
land with briars and brambles and
tacks that puncture and is never
found in the kit of the men bent on
discovering the pole of success.
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HIS ADVICE
"Your rifle" said the military in-
structor "is your best friend. Take
nVniMf fnin rf it tvnn if na unit
j-avj 4w IV fcivuv al OO JfVU
thu- began. "I hear that Henry lord t..line for both the system and the
allow- that he can fnake some flivs-er. i)auas mnk on oans irui n(Jlll is
cows and since he never woik by s than the average since the first
halves no doubt some motorcycle f ((H year.
calves. Do you believe good sister '
Ann that we shall lose our use to (ADDO KLAN VISITS A
man? Is our long history complete' CHURCH SUNDAY NIGHT
and will they make us into meat :
Said Guernsey Ann to Jersey Jane Twelve robed members of the Ku-
I share your fears. I share your Klux Klan of Caddo visited the Caddo
pain." To hold his place no longer ' T)nDtist Church Sunday night dur
able thus spake old Dobin from his j ng the progress of revival services
stabic:"U pray excuse mis norse i conducted by Kev. iiyiant. As the
laugh grinny but wouldn't Lizzies
milk be tinny? It makes me smile it
makes me snicker it makes me whin
ny neigh and nicker. Your dams
have worn the herdsman's care
since Eve was young and Eden fair.
You topped with cream man's coffee
cup ere good old Hector was a pup
and folks won't risk their lights and
livers by drinking milk that comes
from flivvers. So Jane and Ann pray
cease to weep swallow your cuds
and go to sleep. You still shall serve
your human lords in spite of fifty
Henry Fords."
BOB ADAMS.
robed figures entered the building and
reached the front of the house they
all knelt while the pastor offered
prayer. They were loudly cheered by
the congregation it is reported. An
envelope containing a letter and a.
contribution was handed the pastor.
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MORRIL that if they tell lies
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a truth but the real guilt of lying a
tt lies in the fact that we believe tt
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WE MAKE SOME PROGRESS
Forty-six years ago this May Alex-
ander Graham Bell had his telephone
patent. No. 174465 only two months
and was talking himself blue in the
face trying to interest capital in his
"toy." Today youngsters no taller
than a yardstick are successfully
making wireless telephone outfits.
Capper's Weekly.
OSTEOPATH
DR. A. L. STOUT
First State Bank Building
Phone 388 Res Phone G60-J
It would help the government treas-
ury some if congress would put a
luxury tax on divorces.
x
It is proposed to train reserve offi-
cers by mail. But will the future
wars be fought that way.
x
It has happened that a man has
gone off on n vacation and got mar-
ried and never had a vacation after-
ward. x
The New York zoo has a monkey
that eats like a man. Wonder what! would your wife; rub it thoroughly
he thinks of men that eat like mon-.with an oil rag every day.
keys. I 0
x No woman saw public opinion re-
President Harding's income tax fleeted from her mirror.
was $18000. and one of our ex-1 o
changes thinks the law may be chang-! WOOF! WOOF! BOW. WOW!
od soon. j "How I love dogs!" the maiden cried
x i And then her suitor solfty sighed:
It won't be long now until some of "1 wish I were a dog you know "
the old geezers will be going around "Oh. well" said she. "perhaps you'll
town bragging on their wives gar- ( grow."
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DER INSPECTOR
We will have to be careful how we A Durant man was describing his
collation of the "Fatty ai-iuckiU
film contracts.
Arkuckle may have been directly
responsible for death of Miss Pappe
at any rate a jury acquitted him of
the charge.
But it was brought out at the trial
that Arkuckle and his friends had
been leading disgraceful lives the
kind of lives that are not discussed
in the homes of good people and es-
pecially before children.
To throw Arbuckle pictures on the
screen in the future would bring back
to all who saw them memories of the
whole unsavory mess in which Ar
buckle figured arid this of itself
would be hurtful nnd demoralizing.
Arbuckle's pictures will not be
shown on the motion picture screens
again nnd now let's nil try to for-
get him.
x
WHEN JOFFRE NODDED
Marshal Joffre. hero of France is
big enough man to do nnything he
wants to do any get awny with it.
Joffre wns a guest at a formal lun-
cheon in New York city the other day.
at which many local celebrities were
present. It wus a tiresome affair
as such things usually nre and the
great Frenchman was bored. He nod-
ded while some old blunderbuss was
making a speech and fell asleep.
A friend at his elbow nudged him.
He opened his eyes grinned yawned.
and fell asleep again.
Nobody made unkind criticism. It
was Joffre and whatever he did was
all right. A lessor man would have
been socially damned forever nfter-
ward but not Joffre He has been as
eagerly invited to public functions
since as before.
It must be a fine thing to be bit?
enough to do anything you want to
do.
den.
The bootl'.'gger too runs risks
though of a different kind than his
eustoinei". High prices of illicit!
liquor i. due largely to those risks.
The Anti-Saloon League checks up
and reports that in New York state
last year H.r25 were convicted out of
1.205 placed on trial for violating the
prohibition laws.
This is probably typical of other
states. The figures answer the popu-
lar question. What becomes of all
the bootleggers that nre arrested?
LANDLORDS
One of the lnrge nuto companies
announces that it has cut its inventor-
ies in hnlf "the high water mark be
ing round $1-1.000.000.
This means that the company re
cognizes thnt materials which it
bought nt high prices have depreciat-
ed in value. In listing its assets it
marks warehouse stock down to what
they nre actually worth swallowing
a loss of over $20000000.
Landlords where property has de-
preciated in vnlue from the high sell-
ing value of two or three years ago.
will have to do the same thing by
lowering rents to the basis of a fair
return on the shrunken valuation.
What will make them do this?
Answer: New houses built at low-
er costs providing competition.
treat those South American repub- .experience at a banquet the night be-
lies if we keep on reducing our army fore nt Caddo. "One of the most beau-
anil navy. tiful women I have ever seen sat
x across the table from me. It was
Tom Watson has been silent for hard to tell whether she had a dress on
quite a while now but there is a gen-' on or not. She was a regular Vc-
eral suspicion that he is plotting nus."
something. ! "How did you know that she hnd a
x 'dress on?"
The time of year is coming when it) "I dropped my fork."
won't be so hard to believe the man I o
who says he takes a cold bath ever' j The only ideas in the world worth
morning. mentioning accordin' to some folks
nre the ones that begin with a capital
"I."
We'll tell the
World.
The fellow who married 15 wives
has been sent to the penitentiary.
Some of us thought he was headed1 WEEKLY BROADCASTS
for the asylum. Parapraph 1 If you don't know
x i where you are going you're not go-
Some people may rejoice to learn ' ing fnr.
that the paid reformers and upliftcrs j Paragraph 2 Gasoline makes a car
are suffering from the general busi-' go 'tis true but that's not the half of
ness depression. it dearie.
x Paragraph 3 Mistakes are the
The campaign is approaching and common heritage of opportunity
some of the prospective candidates j they are the paving stones of pro-
are beginning to discover what a fine gress.
fellow the editor is. ' Paragraph 4 A man may lie and
x jlie and so keep still successfully.
A Chicago woman complains thnti Paragraph 5 What a man knows.
men will trust a woman individually not what he tells is what makes him
but not collectively. There is some- successful.
thing in thnt. too. ! a
x I "I love to idle by the sea
Now some congressman claim that And spend the day in reverie
SQUEEZED.
In one year the 12 Federal Reserve
Bnnks of the country have reduced
their commercial loans from $1224-
533000 to $302002.000. The reduc-
tion is more than two-thirds.
There seems to be little human in-
terest in these figures. Back of them
though is the greatest tragedy of our
generation the story of defalcation
with its hurricane of desperation
fear despair and necessity.
they nre underpaid. But they will not
get much sympathy until they can
snow tnnt they are overworked.
The papers tell of a couple who
have been married for seventy years.
But they do not claim that they never
exchanged a cross word in their
lives.
Thero'ri the coolest best tailored best fitting two
I'to.c'e Summer Suit In the prettiest fabrics you
ever had on your back right here waiting for
you at the store where good style good quality
and reasonable price go hand in hand.
A Hnrvard professor says the aver-
age man has n vocabulary of 2500
words. And he needs twice ns many
when he stumbles over a rocking
chair in the dark.
And dream of glories yet to come.
And so does every other bum."
o
THE WEAKER VESSEL?
She may shed tears in tribulntions.
But she can come triumphantly
Through twenty-seven operations.
While one would do for your or
me.
o
They're building houses now with
kitchenettes large enough for pre-
paring salads and making fudge
which seems to be about all some of
the modern wives need kitchens for.
Zef firietee Worsteds
An all wool fabric that tailors like a spring suit.
Its all wool and light as a zephyr. Here it is in
light colors and dark colors and in regular
stouts and stubs.
Gabardines
All weights solid color grays tans and browns.
Herringbone invisable stripes in tan and brown.
These are tailored as you never saw a light suit
tailored before.
These Suits will give long service
besides the fact that they're made
RIGHT.
K;ltibrAnd-StAton&
The Best Appnrel under the Sun at the Most
Reasonable Prices
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