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THE DPKANT WmttT NEWS
FRIDAY. NOV. 17 loo.
The Durant Weekly Newt
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THE AVEKICANPHF.SS ASSOCIATION
FRIDAY NOV. 17 1922
THE HATE MONGER
A man who robs a bank is a bad
.citizen bui his act is not such as to
do n lasting injury to the citizenship
of the community in which his of-
fense is committed.
The stolen money can be replaced
and the robbed bank reopens for
business as usual.
Even the fiend who commits mur-
der leaves but a comparatively small
circle within which the effect of his
crime is felt with any degree of
kecness for on appreciable length of
time.
But the man or woman who spreads
the propaganda of hatred jealousy
and suspicion class hatred race hat-
red religious hatred and fear and
suspicion in commercial and social
circles of life is a demon who pois-
ons the very life blood of the nation
and whose field for harm is limited
only by the boundaries of civilization.
Even the crime of treason which
strikes at the government is not to
be compared with the HATE MON-
GER who strikes at the fountain
head from which the government de-
rives its very existence.
The HATE MONGER is the heav-
iest handicap carried by our demo-
cratic form of government and our
primary election law is the most pro-
lific HATE MONGER hot-bed of this
generation. The Nation's High-
ways. 8
THE BEST .DISINFECTANT
Soap and water make the best dis-
infectant. If you are in doubt read
the following quotation from the re-
port of a competent civic health com-
mission: "The city health department has
stopped using formaldehyde to disin-
fect homes where communicable dis-
eases have been reported. We have
found soap and water is best."
The information is especially time-
ly just on. the eve of winter when
communicable diseases are most pre-
valent and disinfecting is likely to be
a problem in any home.
Scrupulous cleanliness is the person
and ditto for the house and all of its
appliances is a better safeguard
against infection and the spread of
disease than all the high-priced re-
medics. Soap and water fresh air and sun
shine will kill almost any kind of
germ.
8
SAFETY A SCHOOL STUDY
Thirty-nine children were killed in
accidents in Kansas City in 1021 1G
lifink killed by motor cars; three by
street cars; five by firearms; five by
burns and seven by other unnatural
and unexpected causes. These trage-
dies perhaps partly account for the
fact that the Kansas City school
board and the city council have de-
cided to include a safety study in the
school room.
Safety in the everyday life of the
child in his school hours and in his
play time at his home and on the
streets; the sanctity of human life
and the necessity of constant alert
ness to pres-ervu it these things will j
be taken to the school children and
within the next few weeks the plan
will lie tried out with everybody par-
ticipating to annul criminal careless-
ness on the part of all.
Certainly in view of the fact that
motor travel is what it is today every
city town and village should be in-
terested in the safety program of this
big city and it would seem that al-
most every school could with profit
put on a similar study.
8
THE TRILLIONARIE
The filing of a bankruptcy suit in
San Josa Cnl reveals the fact that
the day of the trillionaire has arriv-
ed. George Thomas Jones has
achieved that distinction. Only he is a
trillionaire on the wrong side of the
ledger. He confesses to owing the
tidy sum of $3' 840332912085.1G
and cannot pay for the perfect-
ly good reason that there is not that
much wealth in the world.
Judgment for that amount has been
rendered by the supreme court of
Santa Clara county. The case is an
Illuminating study in interest. In 1907
Mr. Jones borrowed $100 from Henry
B. Stuart at 10 per cent interest com-
pounded monthly. He failed to pay
and a few months ago the lender
brought suit to recover what was due
him. The string of figures printed
above represents the conclusion of
mathematical experts called to help
out the court.
It is a great thing this thing of
lending money on compound interest
at high rates if you can collect. And
the debtor might be able to pay at
that if it were rubles or marks in-
stead of dollars. They deal familiar-
ly with sums in Russia and Ger-
many. 8
THE PRICE OF COAL
If a merchant or a banker or a
iarmer or an editor becomes inH
volved in a row with his employes
and has to close down his business
for weeks or months he accepts his
loss as a man.
The coal operators however are
VS i i is claS8 Th7 nre saddling
" '"" "" me pumic in tne snape
of enormously increased prices of
coal and are profiteering in a con-
scienceless and outrageous manner.
And since the government seems to
be unable to do anything about it
the public becomes the goat and pays
ta pound of flesh.
THE BEE'S INTELLIGENCE
J. M. Cutter. & Son of Montgom-
ery Ala. paid $100 for one-half in-
terest in "Achievement Girl." The
"girl" is a queen bee raised at Aber-
deen N. D. and her children have
beaten all records for honey produc-
tion. The queen was sent by mall regis-
tered and insured to Montgomery to
spend the winter producing young
bees and then return to Aberdeen
to continue her work on a G0-50 basis
for the double ownership.
The record price for a luiecn bee is
more interesting than any race horse
price and the bee is n more extraor-
dinary animal than any horse. The
worker bees take the young of that
queen and make of any one a fertile
queen spending her life in mother-
hood or a sterile worker lo gather
honey.
Bees know things that humans
don't know and in some ways they are
wiser. They sting to death all the
worthless drones as soon as the queen
has made her choice among them for
a husband. We feed our drones in-
definitely. 8
FOR SALE THE BLUE SKY
Barnum is right. One is born every
minute. But even at that we do not
believe many suckers will bite at the
bait offered by circulars coming out
of Chicago to this effect:
"In order to quickly introduce
into every community we will give
for a limited time to any person who
will send us $1.00 to cover the cost of
a liberal sized package absolutely
free 50000 Russian rubles. The Rus-
sian ruble recently was worth 55
cents a ruble giving the above a
value of $27500. Save this money;
many a great fortune has been built
up by .buying foreign money after
wars. It is rumored that $50000000
worth of radium has been discovered
in Russia and the press is calling at-
tention to vast American projects in
oil and other industries that are be-
ing directed toward Russia."
The only thing about the adver
tisement that appeals to us is that
it "will only be offered for a short
time." The government should see to
that part of the deal.
TIME AND MONEY
A six-mile tunnel is to be bored
through the Continental Divide that
twelve to twenty-thousand-foot ridge
of the Rocky Mountains which is
America's eternally snowed back-
bone. The vertebra which has been
chosen for perforation is James Peak
Colorado.
Last spring the Colorado legisla-
ture is special session authorized the
issuance of bonds of $G000.000 to
cover the cost of drilling the hole. A
commission was named and an engi-
neer Major L. D. Blauvet was hired
and all through this winter steel and
dynamite will eat their way through
the living rock.
When the tunnel is completed Salt
Lake will be six hours nearer to Den-
ver. One hundred and seventy-three
miles of the distance will be cut off.
That shows how the present railroads
twist and ziczatr and corkscrew and
loop the loop in the effort to sur-
mount the barrier of the Continental
Divide.
With one tunnel in operation com
peting railroads will construct others
anil travelers will presently become
insured to six or eight or ten-mile
passage through the "hall of the
mountain king.
Six million dollars to save siv hours
shows rnther vividly the value of
time in these United States of ours
8
YOUR JUDGEMENT
Are you always right in your judg
ment : .Many people thiiiK they are
but no per-on ever is.
Nineteen hundred years ago we had
one perfect num. who-e judgment was
never a fault. Because of His per
fection. He died upon a rro-.s His
agony shared by thieves.
Since then the world has never
known another.
Why then should we humble mor-
tals that we be imagine that our
judgment is never at fault or that
we are incapable of falling into er-
ror? The next time you get into argu-
ment and lose your temper and are
on the point of resorting to force
stop and think of the years that have
flown since the manger ennobled the
beginning and the cross witnessed
the end of perfection in mankind.
It is barely possible that you may
be sometimes in error.
8
WAR DOES NOT PAY
The government's half billion dol-
lar bond offer was oversubscribed by
more than a billion dollars. There is
some money left.
When France had to pay one billion
dollars to Germany in 1870 the
French people subscribed the amount
fourteen times over.
Germany is now paying back that
money with pretty heavy interest. If
France proves too militaristic and
unreasonable she in years to come
will pay back with usury all she gets
now from Germany and more.
And so it goes. Victory or defeat
war does not pay.
PROHIBITION GROWS
While there is discussion in this
country in some parts of it at least
as to whether prohibition really
prohibits the sentiment for laws
against the manufacture and sale of
intoxicants is growing in other coun'
tries of the world.
In England the liquor interests have
raised an enormous sum of money and
have started an ae-eressive enmnnlo-n
to offest the effects of the work of
the prohibitionists.
In France the wine growers have
combined and formed an organization
with ample financial backing to fight
prohibition sentiment at home and
abroad. The wine growers see ruin
ahead.
It may not be long until all civili-
zation joins the Mohammedans and
other non-Christian peoples in adopt-
ing total abstinence as a policy as
well as principle.
8
Since Mr. Hoover couldn't avert the
coal shortage he might use his in-
fluence with the weather man and
induce him to give a mild winter.
That fellow Kemal fecms to be the
Judge Landis of the Near East.
8
Save your stole eggs. A Russian
play is coming to this country.
8
And apropos of the season Turkey
has something to be thankful for this
year. . wtt
In these automobilious times the
world nho needs to be made safe
for pedestrians.
8
The Greeks ought to know by now The lightning bug is a funny bird
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THE LIMIT OF ARMAMENT
Anyhow the increase
in armaments must stop
'some time. There's a lim
it to the number of ships
the ocean will hold.
UNNATURAL HISTORY
how n four-card
show down.
flush feels at the
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A black sheep is a black sheen.
but as likely as not he is a subject.
of envy rather than pity.
8
A spiritualist says he will play
golf in the other world. But does he
know where he is going?
8
And think what will happen if the
Turks ever begin operating restau-
rants in this country.
8
We still cherish the hope that some
day the press dispatches will tell of
an Armenian killing a Turk.
n
Most of us are beginning to rea-
lize that the end of the fighting does
not mean the end of the war.
8
Nobody has as yet accused the Irish
of having helped the Turks run over
the British.
8
Anyhow. Mustapha Kemal furnish
ed us a welcome relief from the Irish
situation.
8
Roosevelt used the big stick but to-
day most politicians seem to prefer
the big mouth.
8
Those European nations seem to be
willing to do almost anything except
the right tning.
JJ
Our British friends may be slow
but they can have lively politics when
they are so minded.
8
The coal situation has been blamed
on nearly everybody except the Ger-
man sympathizer.
8
As we understand it these Anti-
Saloon Leaguers are now trying "to
make the ocean dry.
8
And sometimes a politician who
fails to land at the pie counter winds
up in the bread line.
8
Washington correspondents claim
that Washington is dull without con
gress. Think of that.
8
Now that the supply of cotton seed
has been cut in half what are we
going to do for olive oil?
8
If the pronoun I were taken out of
the language how many people could
carry on a conversation:
8
Some collece boys mabc the foot
ball team. And others are just as
well satisfied to shoot craps.
8
One branch of the government is
trying to improve the public health
while another keeps us coughing up.
8
No matter how good the picture
show may be a woman doesn't enjoy
it if she gets there before the rest
of the crowd.
8
And now one half of the people of
the country nre wondering how the
other half managed to win the elec-
tin. 8
The ex-kaiser's memoirs are a fail-
ure from two standpoints. They are
not truthful anil they nre not even
interesting.
8
Fashion writeis predict that the
hoopskirt will come back but the 'lived?"
Columbia Record says they reckon
without the flivver.
8
The poor thing has no mind:
It goes on stumbling through the
world
With its headlight on behind.
Pessimist "What's your greatest
example of optimism?"
Optimist: "Why a woodriecker
trying to peck a hole in a concrete
telephone pole.
LET BYGONES BE BYGONES
"You don't call me cutie any more"
"No girlie that word is too much
reminder of life in the trenches" he
replied.
Amos Tash Says Hold your tongue
almost everywhere but not in praise.
o
Bill Splvcns says mosquitoes aren't
interfering with petting parties any
more.
Wonder what would happen if Hen-
ry Ford would get into the gasoline
business. The makers of gas have
something to fear then and their
profits would be much less.
HIS DEFINITION
Elder Watkins. of Muddv Hollow.
just back from the city was telling
nis wue ot tne cnurcn he nad attend-
ed. "Did you know 'any of their
songs?" asked she.
"No" replied the elder; "they
didn't sing anything but anthems."
"Anthems! exclaimed his wife.
"What on earth is an anthem?"
"Well" answered the elder "I
can't tell you just exactly but if I'd
say to you 'Betsy the cows are in
the com that wouldn't be an anthem.
But if I'd say 'Bctsy-Betsy-Betsy
the cows the cows the Hohtein
cow the muley cow the Jersey cow
the spotted cow all the cows are in
are in the corn corn corn.
Ah-mcn! Why that'd be an anthem."
o
Mrs. Smoke Button went down
town yesterday to buy a pair of
shoes but couldn't remember which
of her stockings had the hole in it
and postponed the purchase.
Singing won't cure obesity says
beauty expert. What he really means
is that obesity won't cure singing.
Beckie I won't marry a man who
won't look me straight in the eye
wnuc ne is taiKing to me.
Charlie Then you will have to
wear them longer dearie
o
Not only is the little red school
house painted white nowadays but
Bill Spivens notices that in mo.st
cases it needs a new coat.
WHAT EVERYTlUSBAND KNOWS
When a woman goes away from
home the first thing she talks about
on returning is not her trip but the
awful condition the house is in.
o
Bath tubs are becoming so common
and familiar that talcum and per-
fume do not bait the men like it used
to notes Bill Spivens proudly.
o
Many a man has lost his reputation
for veracity by going on a fishing
trip according to Bill Spivens.
THE GREAT FINANCIER
Smithsnn. "Do you know that Noah
was the greatest financier who ever
QUESTION
"When you are trying to kiss a
girl-"
"Yes?"
"And she says you nre stronger
than she is"
"Well?"
"Is that a hint to stop or go on?"
Because his car is polished is no
sign the man who drives it is girls.
An anarchist agitator says there is
a slow fire burining under America.
Mnvbo that accounts for the excep
tionally warm August and September
we ve been having.
o
As we understand it there is not a
Thrace left Greek rule in Turkey.
ATWOOD HOTEL MAKES
SOME IMPROVEMENTS
Manager Kelly of the Atwood Hotel
is this week completing a new brick
smoke stack at the hotel which will
mean much to the heating system of
the hostlery.
Over all the stack measures 74
feet in height 14 feet under the
ground and GO feet above the high-
est brick stack in this county.
II. S. BEATEN AT ARDMORE
Durant High School football team
was decidedly defeated at Ardmore
last Friday by the high school team
of that place the score being 27 to
U. Ardmore has one of tne iastest
high school teams in the State and
have had easier victims than the lo-
cals proved to be.
THE TELEPHONE GIRL
The following was recently con
tributed by Jonas Cook to the Chick-
asha Daily Express:
"If the telephone girl would tell
half she hears of gossip on the wires
each day it would stir up a muss
that would end in a fuss and the dev-
il would be to pay. So she sits in
her seat and will never repeat the
message the wires convey for she
knows if she blows anything but her
nose some people will say 'She's too
gay!'
"She knows many men who talk
sweet now and then but their wives
are not on the line for if they were
there theie men would swear and say
things that wouldn't sound fine. She
listens all day to what people say
and seldom receives any thanks; but
when the line does not work she's
brought up with a jerk and they
snort and cut up some pranks.
"It seems even thus those who
serve us are freaucntlv treated un
fair yet it pays to be just and not
kick till we must but try to be na-
uciib niiu squure.
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ruaw I'ANTS AND
PATCHES. AWU
I've won success beyond mv .
ne- and wealth hLi .y Sc.?em-
dreaming. Whatever fate TLT ffi
chance. I now hnvn t.. .i. kt
of pants. That is I feaC E
iuu iiiuuj mute some good brt
have not any. I do not hesitate I
thot I hove often seen thn
have known n vonr nr .. ! i '
wTnl nnlr 1 "1".? MS0neJ
long o'er hill and plain I'd cn3
wieni muse punis Dy Hannah's skill-I
ful art were patched upon their wid-
est part. I wore that patch ind t
"" v "" "" ii'Hiiy a rhyme
and sonnet. Those early rhymes Vrl
still unmatched by later ones that I
..... ..ovw.vu ... cute ivb work
with pants Unpatched. O every mon
Ing just at dawn before I nut ...
britches on my wife looked over thea
iu nee n nicy were naie ana Sine i
me. Ana iaier ere to work I we
at her command I often bent to i
if I had sprung a rent. And tt
saw. as I was going a strin of n
D.'s was showing I'd yank them 'of
ngni men ana mere ana shiver h
the chilly air. the while she mail.
quick repair. Unless I work my rush
pen inose panuess umes may
aeain: but. for the present. I t.
and sing with loud melodious rclc
enjoy my trousers wnuo I've got tl
before hard wear and weather
them. BOB ADAMS.
DURANT AND CADDO HIGns
TO PLAY HERE FRIDAY
The Durant and Caddo High Schonll
football teams are to tangle he
Friday afternoon at the Legion Pa:
in their annual gridiron battle ba
teams working very herd this week I
a determination to win. Duraal'j
aggregation has been strenethenn
by tne return to an end position
John Cnder last year's star
who has been In the east so far I
season.
NEW CATHOLIC PRIEST
Rev. Father W. L. Hall has
selected as the Catholic priest fo:
Catherine's Parish here and is
a resident of Durant. Rev. Hall to
raised at Poteau Oklahoma
since attaining the priesthood
held other charges in Oklahoma. '.
cal Catholics appear well pleased il
the selection of their new pastor.
One of Mr. Wilson's frisnds Mr
that "Tumulty is a dead issue.'' '
Tumulty and the shouting dies.
"How do you make that
There is ono lawyer for every 1.702
people in South Carolina. Do you
suppose that is what Is the matter
with the old state?
8
Many a man has got married be-
cause he thought a wife was cheaper
than a cook only to find out his mis-
take when too late.
Women seem to be in earnest about
equnl rights with men. Look at the
number of women murderers on trial
throughout the country.
8
And it sometimes happets that the
man who didn't vote in the election
complains most loudly about the kind
of men who were elected.
8
You may not vote for him but you
nre bound to admit that if Henry
Ford does run for president he will
make a rattling good race.
8
"Ford to run for Senator." says a
headline. And the Seattle Times re-
marks that this is more than they
will sometimes do for the rest of us.
8
A good mony Americans have been
wanting to send troops to whip the
Turk but those who went into the
trenches during the world war were
not among the number.
8
Some men do have the worst luck.
For instance the fellow who had two
new automobiles stsiUn. J ...
bought a second hand one and had it:
insured ana he's got it yet.
There will be dissatisfaction in the
world as long as the man who drives
a G0-horse power automobile and
stands off his grocery bill and gets
away with it.
8 .
The candidate who declared "The
ship of state would sail more steadi-
ly if some of the branches of gov-
ernment were lopped off" may have
mixed his metaphors but he had the
right idea.
8
The league of Nntions isn't getting
along very well with the United
States. And the United States isn't
getting along very well with the Lea-
gue of Nations. And there you are.
Dibbs
nnt.''"
Smithsnn: "Well he was able to
flat a company when the whole
world was in liquidation.
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Bill Spivens says the gas and light
meter is the nearest thing to perpet
ual motion he has tound.
SUSPICIOUS
"Why do you close mv nlace? You
ain't never caught me doing noth
ing.
"Too much arcument in here for
near-beer. '
SAME IN EVERYTHING
Bill Spivens says no matter how
carefully you pick apples off a tree
tncres a tine one away up there at
tne top tnat you missed. In life it's
about tne same way.
Love Is blind and with neonle mar
rying in times like these we suspect
it is also wholly ignorant of nrith-
metaic. A NEW "WAN" ON PAT
Mr. Patrick Callahan the well-
known plasterer was discovered
standing before the Corner Drug
Store which displayed a large sign
"Nut Sundae."
Pat gazed at the sign a long time
and then said to Hennessey who had
come to the door.
"Ash Wednesday Shove Tuesday
Good Friday say this is a new wan
on me.
o
Here's a Durant copy who deserves
a promotion for bravery. He sug-
gested to women who complained
that men stood in the streets at night
and watch them disrobe that they
pull the blinds.
THE MAYOR AND THE UPLIFT
Wellsville (Mo.) Optic
Mayor Elisha Portie went over to
the jail yesterday anj entertained
the guests by playing "Turkey in
the Straw" on the harmonica.
CHIVALRY
He rose with much alacrity
And offered her his seat.
The question was if she or he
Should stand upon his feet.
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OVERCOATS
And Hiltibrand-Staton Co. has coats worth talk-
ing of. When Men who know want a good coat
they first come to the place where they get
other good garments.
HERE'S THE NEW WARM BETTER MOD-
ELS IN AMERICA'S FINEST COATS
Tailored as all H-S Garments are tailored in
the shops of Hart Schaffner & Marx Styleplus
and others of known worth.
New Camel's hair fabrics in light or dark pat-
terns most have fancy backs so popular this
season.
Other fabrics and models of a more conservative
type.
YOU CAN WEAR AN H-S COAT AS MANY
SEASONS AS YOU CARE TO.
Prices $25 $29 $35 943 $45 and $48
iMMim-STkron
The Best Apparel Under the Sun at the Most
Reasonable Prices
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