The Oklahoma News (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 139, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 9, 1918 Page: 4 of 10
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—THE OKLAHOMA NEWS■
Published *t tbi »•»
W.** Sanding, «•?-«•»
W. Onnd -it, Okleho-
im City, by The Okla-
homa News Company.
Entered at OeoonJ-
elm mat).
Walnut 79*4.
The Oklahoma News
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
O. b PARKER........................ Editor
U. CHAMBERS...........Huelneee Uanzfer
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p«r yaar; • moothe,
jl.TIl. om month 16c.
out.Me of Oklahoma.
1 year. Ml •'» month!,
one month. «*.
WHAT
A BANK PUBLICATION SAYS ABOUT THE “WILDCAT’
The “Exchange,” monthly publica-
tion of the Exchange National, Tulsa,
largest Oklahoma bank, gets in on the
wildcat stock promotion subject with
the following good advice:
“A condition in finance seems to he
developing in the Mid-Continent <>il
field that should demand the attention
and protection of every banker, every
civic body and every newspaper in this
state, if wc propose to protect the good
name of Oklahoma investments in the
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eyes of our people who look to this
state for investment possibilities. Wc
refer to the numerous “wildcat” oil
stock selling projects that have sprung
into being during the past few months.
“In this statement wc do not refer
to any concern that can make a show-
ing of properties in keeping with their
investment offerings, hut to pure and
simple wild-cat organizations that have
not one chance in a hundred to give
a fair and just return for the money
money they obtain from the public.
“As a rule this class of concerns ap-
peal to those who have little or no
knowledge of the oil business—people
who, usually, have saved small
amounts of money by much toil and
worry. They are invited and induced
to buy thru thrilling, thru misleading
stories of great wealth a comparatively
few men have made in ihe oil business.
“Usually it is exceedingly easy to dis-
tinguish 'this class of offering, for
usually they offer and by inference, at
least, guarantee those whose money
they seek large returns and they
usually offer their tsock at a par price.
All this, in face of the fact that in
these days of uncertaifty no invest
inent offering can consistently guaran-
tee large returns and confronting the
condition that no investment, even
government bonds, are quoted at par.
“The good name of Oklahoma is in
the hands of the business men and offi-
cials of this state. On them will fall
the blame if they do not insist that
every reasonable safeguard he thrown
around investments offered to our peo-
ple. This is espccally true of the news-
papers that invite their readers tc
make investments thru permitting the
use of their columns by corporations,
unless they have satisfied themselves
thru investigation that the stock so
offered has a reasonable chance o*
paying a just return.
“A person defrauded thru the me-
dium of an advertisement jutsly feels
resentment against a publication which
is the cause of his loss, and against the
community and the business interested.
“In this hour of need the hankers of
Oklahoma should do everything pos-
sible to prevent carrying on of this
form of pilfering.
“State officials owe it to the people
they serve to be sure that every stock
issue authorized by our great state is
in keepink with well defined rules of
investment.
“The public should he made to real-
ize that the oil business is not all profit
and that even the ownership of a pro-
ducing oil well does not mean afflu-
ence. The fact that there arc probably
more individual failures than successes
in prospectng for oil should be gener-
ally recognized. It should be publicly
established that success has come to
most of those who have been sueress-
ful only after years of unceasing eifort
and study of the principals of the oil
business.
“Prospective investors in each com-
munity should be encouraged to learn
the amount of money their banker
will loan on the stock they are about
to buy. This will, usually, lead to an
investigation that will separate good
from bad investments.
Oklahoma cannot quietly pass this
condition by and not expect to have its
name blackened. We must realize that
wc are, in fact, our brother’s keeper.”
DESOLATION IN
FRENCH FIELDS;
LABOR FAMINE
SAMMY LEARNS TO FAN AWAY DEADLY GAS
I WORTHLESS CHECK CAN
flf
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Hjr GEORGE ItANIIOI.nl CHESTER
AM) LILLIAN CHESTER.
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CEMENT AND MARBLE
Judge R. McMillan, assistant attor-
ney general, but writing as a private
citizen, makes an appeal for construc-
tion of a sidewalk on Lincoln boule-
vard, so that capitol employes may
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waWlf they tare to, without fighting
either mud or dust.
He points out that office workers
need exercise; and that, since salaries
There seems to be much merit in the
suggestion.
In/ fact there is a ridiculous aspect
in the fact that our beautiful state
home, with its marble halls and its
granite glory, isn’t even connected with
the rest of the city by so much as
cement.
Country life has its charms, but one
of them isn’t getting there and back
afoot. Accordingly,, the suggestion by
■of state employes have remained sta- aiuui. *,*.w. —•e>v>.
tionary despite rising costs, there is Judge McMillan should be taken sc-
an economic reason for walking._lrously.
“I ordered a blackberry pie in a res-
taurant the other day,” writes C. S.,
“and when I tried to eat it I found it
was full of apple cores. This was the
firat inkling I had of the government
asking that blackberries be conserved.”
Most facts were once only theories.
You cannot blame Japan for wanting
to get busy in Eastern Siberia. \ iadivo-
stok would be a fine place ■ or German
plotting against Tokio.
The fellows that say “Well, the line
must be drawn somewhere,” always
want to draw it themselves.
THE TOWN CRIER
?■
A nu named Yount, from old
OkaotO, «U robbed tut night by
J. F. G.
A lawyor boro boa fllod a «ult in
which appear tbo qulpa, that min
who eoM a mining Uaao to him
with promlu groat, mlalod him
■nob and ohoarod hi* nooco—alto,
a oorry fate!
And two young mon, who drank
a brand of fire-water strong, woro
wldo world la nutty and,
l‘m acarod of aqulrreli myaclf!
• ••
Ton years ago, John Wright, lo-
cal blacksmith, started a fight be-
cause a streetcar conductor re-
fused admittance to hla bird dog.
go the klU-lhe-doga-and-wln-the-war
advocates may know what they're
up agalnat now, that civilisation
has advanced 10 yean.
flood In ooyrt, some nineteen and—
and told to run aioi
i along.
An auto sitting by tne curb, was
stolen off by thieves. And now
the owner does disturb the neigh-
bors while ho grieves.
And il drivers who did break
At city laws, were yanked before
Hla Honor to—er—ah—explain th*
causa
And everybody turns hla hand
to raking In the pelf. The whole
■latent with anything In thla col-
umn, wo wish to commend the
street car conductors and motor-
men.
e • •
Aelde from not knowing the
names of the etreeta they pass,
they are an accommodating lot.
Paris There creeps u shadow over
the land. The fields lie broad and
clean and thick with turf, but even
in their rlchneia there Is a sort of
desolation. Why? Come with us
for a day In the country, and set,
what war can do, even when war
Is muny miles away.
The firat Impression of tha coun-
try la that of cleanllnesa. for the
stumps and atones were all removed
centuries ago, and wulln and hedges
marked form from farm und field
from field with profoundly orderly
accuracy. Hut there Is more than
mero neatness In all thla; there la
a vague, Indefinable something
which strikes the eye uneasily, and
presently the answer comes—mo-
notony!
l-’roin horizon to horlaon It Is
all one color, one texture; from
the hills over there, lacing their
bar trees against the morning sky
like a sort of glorified Val-
lenclenncs, to the brook way
yonder, Us hanks lined with ten-
der-sprouted willows, It Is all the
eamn unvarying green.
It Is ilh If the food of man had
not trod here.
AVhat is wrong? Again the
vague, uneasy puzzling.
In this field the cattle had been
used to graze the grass to brown
rooted ehortnezs; In that, where
the brook runs thru, to trample the
ground Into a yellow morass. Over
there, at this Reason, the vivid
color of the coming grain had al-
ready made Its cout-ostlng checker,
and, still beyond, the plow had
turned the mat of nature under
fresh black loam!
A score of hues the labor and |
the enterprise of man had made
on tho cruet of earth by now; but i
today there Is only one—the em- 1
erald of moist outdoors. The fields
are slipping back to the monotony >
of desolation, and the shadow which 1
creeps over the land la desolation
Itself. It la the war.
Like a Village.
To enter the barnyard of a well-
to-do French farm Is like entering
a village; for all the building*, the
residence, the eheds for grain and
hay, the workshops, the barns and
th* Implement shelters, are built
around a big courtyard, the en-
trance to which la by way of a
heavily barred gat* thru a thick
wall: relic of medieval day*, when
wars were local, and every man's
house won his fort.
Industry and frugality made this
place prosperous, and erected this
picturesque eky-lln* of tiled roofs,
but the teeming life of the epaclous
court Is gone, and the great barns
have less In them with each paeelng
year of the war. In this big etone
barn, long rows of beautiful, thick-
necked Perclieron draught horses
once filled the now empty eUlls.
The war took them.
There aro only three where score*
had been before. A fourth one
stands In the courtyard, a great,
white, sleek, heavy-rumped fellow,
his ponderous foot between the legs
of a Boche blacksmith, and his
bridle held by nnother lazy, content-
ed-looking Boche. Th* most fortu-
nate men In Europe, these fellows,
and they know it, men In the prime
of sturdiness, who have no cares,
who ore certain of good food and
lodging, and who do not need to
risk their lives. Safe from the war
are these Orman prisoners.
There are 14 of them employed
on this farm, and they are locked
up each night as a matter of for-
mality.
Prisoners of the allies are con-
stantly escaping out of Germany,
■pending months In the unceasing
attempt, and risking their lives
every minute of the time to get
back home, because death would be
better than their condition; but these
plump German prisoners stay where
they are put, and thank God.
Cows Disappearing.
Across the court the long, low
barn where fine milk cows once
munched their hay In
German prisoners and refugees.
In •ptto'of^ah'the efforts which 1 GIVEN FOR A BRIDE
both official and Individual Franc* -
have mad* to supply the deficiency, j
there le not enough labor to till, «• «• "•**'
• all the soil, to plant and raise and Detroit, Mich.. March I- U
1 ! reap all the crope which used to wife were goods, commodities
Is
be* grown "out *of "this fertility, and j The' Rsv. Edward Collin-
Whlch now so urgently needs to mlfht .wear out s w.rrent for
he grown; eo more and more of j Alton A. llupp. to whom he de-
the fields have been left for ns- , uvcred bluehlng Hazel 1 fgo
ture to do with as she will. os a bride. '
Bravely France struggles on; xhe minister told ‘J*
with desperate courage she hM At- pro#ecutor that he had be n *
. tempted to keep alive her fields so a worthless ** cheek by warrant
! that she may keep alive her heroic Kroom and a.ksd for a warrant
— people; and while she strives to | He was told that It wasi flrat noe
I j help herself, ehe looks across the es-ary for h.m t0 d*11' r * . J
• seas to ue with grateful eyes, for chatties, or money before b* h*
^ 1 seal 10 Ul Willi ■ < « J * LIIOIUVWI --
■ > I I her need was Imperative, and »« criminal recouree.
** H hav. heard har call! Pr. Collin, grieved th. fact that
sr.rrss: sj “ “Lsi's
s, ■mirs.nar r
mightiest of all munitions, while
our soldiers fight side by side with
the soldier* of thla greatest ah
nines of the world, we ehall the
sooner conquer the moil danger-
oue foe which civilization has ever
known, and when tha victory Is
achieved, and humanity may once
more turn back to peace, the
be the subject of his discourse
Sunday.
golden grain will again wave upon 1
SYRUP OF FIGS
FOR CROSS, SICK
FEVERISH CHILD
this beautiful land, and lowing :
klne will dot the broad pastures, | --
and the shadow will be lifted from j LITTLE STOMACH IS SOUR*
the green fields of Franco. j j jyj.^n TORPID OB HOW*
CLOGGED.
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PASTEURIZING MILK j _
KILLS DISEASE GERMS j Mothers can rest easy after
giving "California Byrup of
Figs," because In a few hours
all tho clogged-up waste, sour
buildt:
Milk may be i
menace to health! i ait ion c.ussc-ui, - —--» ——
Of all diseases transmitted by; (,ue and fermenting food gently
milk, tuberculosis 1» the most | moVo§ out of the bowel*, and
dangerous. you have a well, playful Child
Tuberculosis from milk Is either j again. Children simply will not
of humnn nr bovine origin. Hu- take the time from play to empty
their bowels, and they become
tightly packed, liver get* elug-
gisn and stomach disordered.
I man Infection of milk la rare.
■ The most luiimrtnnf .source of
milk born tuberculosis comes thru
the tuberculous cow. Careful j
studies by physicians Indicate that
When crosB, feverish, restless,
Bte If tongue is coated, then give
about 25 per cent of all cases of
tuberculosis In children under IB
are due to Infection from milk.
Studies of tho milk supplies of
this delicious "fruit laxative."
Children love It, and It can not
cause Injury. No difference
what alls your little one—If full
I Studies of tho milk supplies of what alls your little one—tr tun
i cities In all parts of the world have! of cold, or a sore throat, dlnrr-
! shown that from 5 to 15 per cent.hcea, stomach-ache, bad breath,
of the raw milk sold contains j remember ,a gentle "lnsldo
tuberculosis germs. Tills makes It 'cleansing" should always be the
I — «.ul« m I .L ... M11 11 ft. V. fleet t W/IO t m C n t irl VDtl V till tlla
Sammy, above, Is beating off a
gas attack—that Is, he's learning
how. In addition to the gas masks
the American soldiers are provided
with these "flapper" fans. Ths
handle is about two feet long. The
fan part la about two feet square
and is made of stiff canvas. By
rhythmic beating of the bottom of
the trench, throwing the fan up
well over the shoulder after each
blow, air current* soon displace the
gas.
i Important that all milk he pasteur-
I lzed.
The testing of cowa with tuber-
culin has shown that from 15 to
40 per cent of the milk cows are Ire
footed with tuberculosis.
they do the most of the work on | been adequately replaced by the
old men and women and boya and
this farm.
Over there, lh front of the clean
stucco cottages, stands a rad-cheeked
toddler, grinning ehyly at the
visitors; a refugee baby, born here
since the war.
Just The Same
Life goes on Just the some, eo far
as It knows, and Is normal, and aa
life should be.
Out there the eoup garden, Its tall
stalks of Brussels sprouts as bright-
ly green as If this were mid-summer,
but only the fourth of the one*
spacious vegetable garden Is under
cultivation, for only a fourth of the
labor Is here to feed.
On the small Individual farm It Is
the same.
Chickens and rabbits have become
a more important crop each year,
since they multiply rapidly and earn
a living without much assistance.
Here, behind Its paneled wall of
grouting and stucco, a gentleman’s
country place, Its dignified columned
and porticoed house set in a gravel-
ed court, end surrounded by count-
less sugar-loaf trees.
Fruit Is the Industry of this
place, and the orchard Is a garden, i
where peaches grow against the
walls, and the pear trees are hand-
trained to stay low and spread
their few branches straight, out
like a board fence, and the apple
trees are criss-crossed In hip-high
trellises which lino the garden
walks.
No Luxuriance.
No flamboyant luxuriance of
branch and leaf and wasteful bios- ;
aom here, for only half a dozen
branches are allowed to each tree,
and those branches are devoted
Tulsa—A. B. "Shake” Morris Is
awaiting trial on a charge of break-
ing the prohibitory law. Three
hundred, thirty-six half pints of
whlaky was found In a raid on
hla place.
____ ______ ______ are
strictly to the business of growing
IW* large, luscious apples, the sale of
munched their hay In enviable j wl)leh now gpoa t0 tlie support of
serenity. But those velvet-coated, France.
A year ago today, Victor Sniggs
precipitated a near riot In Dis-
trict Judge Clark's court, when
ha declared a deceased man a
freak, as could be seen by his
living relatives. "Lawyers ora still
Some barbers may at 111 b* garru
lous. But avery now and then we
meet up with on* aa gloomy aa a
nlgbt In February. Particularly
when w# aak for a neck shave—
which is free with a haircut.
• • f
Just think. It will only bo a mat-
ter of about eight months until we
careful about what they say in! are again face to face with the
final argument*. ' moet serious ga* famine In th* hie-
• • • tory of th# city.
Germane take Pskov on victorious | • • •
march, says » Timas headline. ■ Have you heard of the O O. and
There' We told you there was1 p>. taking any steps to avert It?
sickness In the Teutonic ranks! . • •
• • • Or. when we Bhlverlngly realize
Or perhaps It's a stimulant? we're itung again, will th# cheerful
• • ♦ 1 successor to W. R. Mollnard tell us
News Item referring to Charles , the company la doing everything
Cooper. Tulsa negro, says: "He possible? Oklahoma City: BEK TO
dieted on a hat pin, safety pin, and it NOW that the O. O. and B., or
• V_____ nln n> AlilaVinma Va(.
arfety razor blade, an X-ray pic-
ture showed. Now he Is out, rec-
onciled with Ills sweetheart and on
a human diet." Cannibal?
• • •
By the way, anybody wlio can
swallow wh*» that man swallowed
ought to enjoy LaFollett* ■ epeechee-
• ♦ • | We don't know. Hlndy may not
An Intelligent perron may earn | ilk* hla meat well done, but th*
$100 monthly corresponding for ' Paris chef hasn't put It In the pot
corresponding for newspapers, for him yet, despite th# fact that
warns an ad In the Hobart Dally April I i« but tl day# off.
It's buck basket, th# Oklahoma Nat-
ural. start# work for relief. They
nay be planning It. But there’* a
ehance there'll be another "pipe
shortage" when they start to lay tho
line, next October. SEE THAT
THET DO IT NOW!
aristocrat* of the dairy are fast dis-
appearing, nnd in their places stand
a scrawnier breed; beef cows, eat a
coaser food and grass in constantly
decreasing numbers on n constantly
decreasing acreage of pnsture, for
these beeves are being eaten faster
than they can be raised.
Down In the Implement shed,
great two-wheeled wagone, built like
enormous boats, stand empty, and
enormously wide rakes nnd harrows
and seeders and reapers stand rust-
ing.
Across the wall stretch those
broad reaches of monotonous green
which the plows will not turn this
year, nor the harrows rake, nor the
seeders seed, nor the reapers reap.
A particularly thick wall, that,
and at Intervels holes at half the
height, It was built more than three
years ago by the military, for de-
fense against the possible romlng
of the Boche, nnd the holes are for
machine guns.
The war dispatches have been
full of Important engagements
fought on Just such farms ns this.
It Is th# table In the adjoining
farm, where a few milk cows sre
still kept, though both their quality
and their output Is steadily dwindl-
ing.
A ruddy-faced woman Is carrying
water, nnother 1* wheeling a barrow
toward the cow barn: refugee's from
the devastated districts, these, and
warring France
At one end of the garden, where
the peach branches are trained
against the wall as rigidly vertical
as a row of hollyhocks, works a
pink-cheeked boy, trimming and
pruning and fastening, his white
teeth flashing ns he meets n smile
of comprehension, for the tending
of peach trees Is the thing he was
born to do, and does best.
Hut ho Is only a Iwy. and one
| boy!
At the other end of the garden,1
where tho old pear trees are thick
as an arm und have thrust out
their six branches, three each way,
like the arms of a telegraph pole,
works u plump-cheeked nnd white-
boarded old man, Ills eyes spark-
ling nnd his skin criss-crossed by
the countless little bright red veins
which outdoor life brings to the
sktn.
But he Is only nn old man, nnd
one old man!
These, and the German prison-
ers, and the women, are the answer ]
to tho monotony of green turf
which covers the once-checkered
landscape, are the answer to tho
dwindling agricultural output of
France.
Labor, that Is tho difficulty.
The millions of men In the best
years of life who have been taken
A S a married woman you’ll
lA, appreciate what prompt
laundry service means to a man—
also to have shirts and collars done
just so—you know.
Why not please him? It’s easily
done if you patronize King's Laundry
out of the heart of France and
massed on her borders, have not1
4 nundA^nceCooke>
WG.M •
Republican. You've noted, of course,
how prosperous they all are.
- pm MnmunqLE SL UM BUMBLE
"The way to best them U-boate,"
1 aaya Und* Ichnbod,
"Id simple, lor the preb-Mem'a Just
aa tab* aa It la brand.
r$r ain't It plain to anyone a U-
beat baa no hop*.
U yeu can spot the thing before It
gbtwe Ita periscope?
then, tha way to get the drop
an avery darned submersible
tat ta turn our periscope* ao
that they'll be reversible
I poke 'ara thru th* bottom* *f
aw beau and then, by thun-
aa* tbo U-boata firat
darned thing*
Uniformed women have been re-
fused permission to drink In New
York cafe*. How rude! Why It'*
an Insult to deny a lady the priv-
ilege of drinking occaalonally!
see
WIHCn WAY WAS IIK LOOKINflf
"There were few report* concern-
ing hie act Kit Me during Itti,” says
th* Time# of Prince Oscnr of Hohen-
sollern, "hut early In 191* he was
■lightly wounded In the head and
thigh on tho eastern front."
* • *
Perhaps you know th* reaeon:
when the now* pc per mao filed Into
th* flavor cafe, on* by one, Thurs-
day night for dub dinner, th* wait-
er could alwaye ptok them ,out with-
out asking.
-0*0
Right new while It Isn't taeon-
Ah, now the Gaul can hav# hie
revenge by cooking H Indy's goo**!
PERUNA—The Greatest
Human Vitalizer
Milwaukee permits the eale of
horse flesh as food. Are there any
restrictions on cat meat?
• • •
There er* still some other kind*
of moat that haven't been suggested
as food substitute*. Town Crier
will wecom* any grtwslme recom-
mendations, Thay help to reduce
(ha national appotll*. Which Lono
Osborne aaya I* too big, now.
* * •
Now dty ordinance to ho drafted
provide* for th* arrest of all per-
sons In questionable pursuits. What
about tho Information bureau at
th* unnlnal?
see
111
even more than n
It * a hunt. But rash aa
aa on* can got!
pursuit,
satisfaction
Mr. Wm. A. Hartman, 217H
South Becond St., Muskogee. Okla.,
writes:
“During the winters of 1897 and
1*98, I was so badly afflicted with
catarrh of the head and thought I
must aurely die from It. 1 Wh*
Induced to uae reruns. I waa
cured entirely by using twelve
bottles 'of Peruna and one bottle
of Mnnaltn.
Since that time, I hav* never
been without Peruna. I use II for
odd* and aa n general Ionic dur-
ing Spring and Fall months and
find It the greatest human vltal-
l*er."
Them who object to liquid medi-
etas* smi secure Penn* Tablet*.
That little matter of having the tie
slide easily through the collar—it’s
also a matter of proper laundering
and ironing. ■ Means a lot to a man.
Try King’s-Careful and prompt.
King’s Laundry
J. L. King, Manager Tel. Wal. 962
ENTIRELY WELL
y 1 r
first treatment given. Full di-
rections for bablea, children of
all ages and grown-ups aro
printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit for
6yrups. Ask your druggist for
a bottle of “California Syrup Of
Figs," then look carefully and see
that It is made by the "California
Fig Syrup Company." We make
no smaller size. Hand back with
contempt any other fig syrup.—
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