Oklahoma State Register (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 1919 Page: 3 of 8
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OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER
PAGE THREE
When the Well Comes In
Wf-
its toasted
YOU ^IIOW how
much toasting im-
proves bread. Makes
it taste good. Of course
—more flavor.
Same with tobacco
—especially Kentucky
Burle*
Buy yourself a pack-
age of Lucky Strike
cigarettes. Notice the
toasted flavor. Great!
Nothing like it. The
real Burley cigarette.
©
or
Guaranteed by
I've sold my mules and my brindle cow
And my Georgia stock and my turnin' plow,
And my old brood sow that 1 bought last
spring,
A id have U>u>rht some stock in a well, I jing;
They're jroin' to bore somewhere, and when
They fetch her in just watch me then
As I'm shovelin' ill my piles of tin.
A 1' alivin' high—when the well comes in.
"1 was the finest feller you ever see
Ti at sold me the stock, an' he says, sezee,
That a feller's a fool to sweat and toil
Ii stead of puttin' his money in oil
That'll make him rich in a little while,
So his folks can live in the latest style
An' move to town and dress like sin,
\\ ith nothin' to do—when the well comes in.
\\ hen I told Poteet, who runs the bank,
That I'd bought the stock, why the blamed
old crank
Sai'd a feller was just a plain darn fool
To sell his stock and his farmin' tools
And the other things that he's got to sell
And put his money in a wildcat well;
But you just wait and watch me grin
At old Poteet—when the well comes in.
Y\ hen the well comes in I'm a-goin' to buy
A great big car that's geared up high,
And then doll up from head to feet
And drive to the bank to see Poteet;
And I'll make him feel like a ten-cent fool
For advisin' me not to sell my mules
And my farmin' tools and the corn in the bin
And buy oil stock—when the well comes in.
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C. C. CLOTHIER CO.
UNDERTAKERS
Successors to Patterson & Faymal I
Phones1 °"icc
Residence.
86 and 46
1389 and 67
end
by
corpor
wliih ;
habilit
•" ""'rea9c Jf pr<>-1wrl," r' -Poi.:-ible for high livin? coats.
t!rg':g (hat the inople "nut log*
over the situation. Sena-
1 ions
be financed here,
list be
luction
Hoed leferred to the plan proposed I their
1 lorry p. Davidson by which gnat tor Siudo .«aid:
organized. "I took forward to trouble, not only
to re-1 In this country, hut all over the world,
hurope and t„ feed Kuropo; u change comes within a reas-
ipi rations xhich are 'o fur onabl- i me.
money to Karope with which! "Atta.k.ng atleg ,1 profiteering by
American producU, in order, wholesale and retail
t for ! Sena to i
jhan-lged a'
to bin
make
disc,
mom
tin*
ii* said, tc
• r.'fr goods, wares
including farm
y to be loaned t<
s« lilies of Eur
I'* Ml
vrite .1
and nie
products, i lit
• Europe upon
Dpean govern-
ur government, through
f Nations, is to under
lese obligations by gua-antoe-
stability of the European gov-
«mi
RAILROAD LABOR WANTS
TO SHARE IN PROFITS
Washington, Aug. f.—Organized la-
bor sjani j out today with the unequivo-
cal, formal demand that private capi-
tal be retired from the railroad.-,.
A tri-iartite control composed of
the p'iDlic, the operating managein. ni
and the employes is demanded instead.
Adiies3cd to the American public
and sign d by the engineers, Iho fire-
men, tie; conductors, and the Ameri-
can Wde-ation of Labor, a formal
statement was issued announcing this
proposal which will be carried before
congre3o Wednesday.
"It nnrfcs," says the statement. "the
step by which organized labor passes
from demands for wage increases ti
demands thai the system of prollts in
industry be overhauled."
Itemed? for II. of L.
This sentence sums up in a few
words, U.e proposal of which there
have bbints and indication* but
whlcn is now laid before the country
for th'; Jirs* time. Everywhere in of-
iicial Washington it is recognized as
the most serious and far-reaching
proposition the country will Oi called
on to fact.
Characterizing the proposal as
"labor*'? bill," it is put forth as a
remedy for the high cost of living. be-
cause the railroads are the key indus-
try of the nation. It demands the
"genuine co-operation and partner-
ship based on real community of in-
terests ••nd participation of control,"
*>n wh.ch Fresident Wilson spoke to
congress, and which the statement
says, has been ignored by lab. r the
private owners of railroads.
"We ask," it says, "that the rail-
roads of the United tSates be vested
in the public; that those actually en-
gaged in conducting that industry, not
from Wall street, but from the rail-
road offices and yards and out on the
railroad lines, shall take charge of this
service for the public.'
The Four Proposals.
Uriefly labor demands:
That private capital be eliminated
from the railroads.
That he private owners receive for
them government bonds "with a fixed
interest return for every honest dollar
that they have invested.
That the tri-partite ontrol, nereto-
fore referred to be established in cor-
porations, which shall lease the roads
and in which the public, the operating
managements and labor shall be re-
presented equally.
That the public, the operators and
the wage earners share eqully all re-
venue in excess of the guarantee to
private capital by granting to il"e op-
erators and the employes one-half tho
savings which are expected to b1 made
by such l perfected organization and
to the public the other half as con-
sumers, either by increasing tervice
without adding costs or by reducing
costs.
"Tnis role originates with labor,'
says the statement "because labor hap-
pens to ha>e firm organizatioa thru
which it may become articulate."
The trainmen are not represented
in the statement because W. C Lee,
president of the brotherhood, was out
of the city, but it was said they would
join in it.
#I,OOO.o<)< HON'FIRE
MADE OF 100 ARMY
PLANES, SOLD IE Ik* SAY.
Destruction of Property Under Orders
of Officers Dared by Congressmen.
New York.—A "milion-dollar fire"
in which 100 or more servicea'de air-
planes were destroyed by order of
Ame4i2an Army officers was described
by several witnesses who appeared to-
day before the House subcommittee
which is investigating cruelties to
prisonois and other alleged army ir-
regularities. The hearing wrs con-
ducted by Representative R «yal C.
Johnson of South Dakota and Repre-
sentative Oscar E. Bland of Indiana,
Repub.icans. The third meml er of
the subcommittee, Representative
Henry Flood of Virginia, Democrat,
was not i resent.
The destruction of the airplanes
took place at Colombey-les-Belles,
near To ti, and details of the f."e were
supplied Yy several former noncom-
missioned officers and men of the air
service who were in the French vil-
lage at the time. None of the wit-
nesses could give any reason for the
bonfire or tell under whose orders it
had been onducted.
At tne opening of the hearius Ro-
lJ*«sentaUve Johnson announced 'hat
a cab'e message from r en. Peishing
to Geo. Marsh, chief of sta*. in which
the ) fi ^ of the Ameri expediti-
onary iorces denied that any destruc-
tion had taken place, would be read
into the record.
Tin cable message wa? not avail-
aole urtil after the hearing had
clo-cd i ucl proved mereiy a denial
of a reported burning automobiles
d o. mage to other wor material at
Pt. Navr.ire.
The I., ♦•t.glion into the alrp'.ne
fire r.j.fd the hearings of the rub-
coinittee !o the United States. The
inquiy wil be continuel in France
next month.
Never anger nor ridicule a rriend.
Witty sayings and gossip please some
men and hurt others; silence dots
not require an answer nor does it
injure.
! HOARD TO REPRESENT ROTH
PUBLIC AM) HAIL ROAD M IN
\'EEI)KD, HIM;* ASSERTS
| Wasnington, Aug. 1.—It was a let-
' ter from Director General Hines of
the American railroads, reciting the
1 different demands of the railroad em-
| ployea with regard to tne high cost of
; living and the necessity of further in-
j creases in pay, to President Wilson
I that compelled the latter to forward
his communication to the houve ask-
. ing it to remain in session until the
oost of food problem and wage situa-
I tion hau been adjusted.
| After reciting the many demands
J for i.nct rases from practically all
classes of railroad employes, Mr
Hines' letter referred to by the presi-
dent says:
**00,000,000 increase.
"Thi situation thus presented in-
volves the following considerations:
"Wj have received the most posi-
tive assurances that any general in-
creases to shop employes will result
in demands tor correspond;ng in-
creases to every other class of rail-
way employes. The situation, there-
fore, cannot be viewed except as a
whole for the entire 2,000,000 rtilroad
employ. Viewing it as a wLole ev-
ery increase of one cent an hou- makes
an increase of $50,000,000 per year in
operating expenses for straight time
with a substantial additional 311m for
necessi-.ry overtime. An inert ase of
12 cents per hour as asked for by the
shop employes would, il applied to all
employes, mean (including necessary
overtime) an increase of ' probably
$800,GCOtOUO per year in operating ex-
penses.
Tell* Wilson to Ho Slow.
' Th * government is already incurr-
ing a deficit at the rate of several
hundred million dollars per year in
operating the railroads, because the
increase in transportation rates has
been pioportiontely less than the in-
creases in prices which have taken
place.'
Mr. Ilines advises the president
against use of his war time power in
inreasing freight rates so lhat the
wage ir leases may be granted. On
this point he says:
Speiflc Authorit} Needed.
"The question * * * is a peace time
question between the entire Ameri
can public on the one hand and the
two million railroad employes and the
member a of their families on tne other
hand. It is a question which I do
not believe the executi* e ought to un-
dertake to decide unless specific au-
thority is conferred upon him for the
express purpose of deciding it
"The fact that these demands are
made and are so urgently pressed
emphisbes the great necessity of hav-
ing fur their delslon legislation
which will provide machinery repre-
senting both the public and the em-
ployes. Obviously any such machin-
ery should include a method whereby
revenues will be provided to the ex-
tent : f quired to pay the increased
wages awarded."
Hoard Should Have First Say.
The director general plan of mak-
ing ine interstate commerce commis-
sion—the rate making power of the
country—subservient by the statement
that nothing should be allowed to in-
terfere with the powers of the pro-
posed board. He sets out his con-
clusions as follows:
"I, theerfore, respectfully recom-
mend that congress be asked prompt-
ly to adopt legislation providing a
properly constituted body on which
the i>uHic and labor will be adequate
ly represented and which wii' be em-
powered to pass o nthese and all rail-
road v age problems, but not on rule
and working conditions (because th3
latter cannot be satisfactorily sepa-
rated from the current handling of
railroad operations and therefor j
should continue to be dealt with by
railroad administration). Such leg-
islation should also provide that the
wage '"nreases shall I e deided upon
it shall be mandatory upon 'he rate
making body to provide, where neces-
sary, increases in the cost of operating
expenses.
"I do not think that we ran prop-
erly deal with this gre.it problem with-
out a fi ll recognition of the fact that
the cost of living is rapidly rising and
that ever> month that passes promises
to impai' still further the purchasing
power O; the existing wages of rail-
road employes unless the rise in the
cost of living can be successfully re-
strained (as I earnestly hope in the
general public interest it an speedily |
tie). I therefore further recommend J
that congress be asked to provide
in any such legislation that any in-
crease in railroad wages which may
be made by he tribunal constituted for
that purpose shall be made effective
as of August 1, 1919, to such an ex-
text thbt the tribunal may regard as
reasonable and proper, in order to give
railroad employes from that date the
benefit the tribunal thinks they were
entitled to. In this way the delay
necessarily incident to the creation
of such a tribunal and its ation will
not be prejudicial to the railroad em-
ployes."
Attention DI wattled Soldiers.
Mr. Jas. Morrison, special agent for
Federal Board of Vocational Educa-
tion, will be at the Red Cross rooms
Thursday and Friday and Saturday of
this week. Please call and complete
your application for compensation and
vocational education so that you will
be ready to enter training this fall.
OLIVE M. McCONNELL,
Secretary Home Service.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature of
BETTER M l II HOME
JIOUTIIS t\l> LEI ECROI'E
SAVE .SEI.E, REED SAYS.
Senator Trolests A-roinst Policy 01
Sending Eood and Money Wiroud
W lieu Nut ion Ik StriiKKliiii;
Will' High Living Cost.
Washington, August 4.—Senator
James A, Reed of Missouri in a de-
bate on the high cost of living in the
Senate today declared:
"I aui of the opinion that we would
be better looking after great prob-
lems that concern the bread and but-
ter, the fuel and housing of lur own
Country, lhan to be undertaking to
look after the spiritual and physiaal
and financial welfare of the gentlemen
from Timbuctoo and other remoto
parts of the world."
"One thing is unquestionably true.1
said Reed, "if we cannot feed ourselves
we ouUit not to be undertaking to
feed Ihe world. If we annot keep
prices here within the limits of our
peoples purchasing ability we oug'it
not to te spending our money and giv-
ing our goods to people who are tec
thous.icd miles from our shores and
who brought their misfortune.! upon
their own beads."
Reed Cantioim Senate.
Reed cautioned the .Senate lo refraii,
from adding fuel to the fire and turn-
ing it into a great onflagratlon in its
discussion of the cost of living prob-
lem. 'if the Senate loses its head
it will have a bad effe'. 011 the country
if we undertake to follow the methods
uf the agitator and grow exited, we are
liable mi.ke conditions a great deal
w orse I ban they now are," he said.
"Theie is one lesson we ought to bo
able tj get out of the present situa-
tion. i. i!, that the American people
and t.i,i American Government have
nearly all they an attend to at home
without spreading themselves oi-t over
'he world and trying to take care of
the go' il lord's creation.
Reed could not give statistics in an-
swer to a ouerey from enator Brande-
gee as to the amount of food we had
exported to European countries.
"One thing I do know,' he said, "is
that Wi appropriated $100,000,000 to
send fo«.d over to Europe and did it
without tatting an eye. We handled
it a sthough it were 100,000,000 leaves
from the trees and we owned tLe for-
ests of the world. We sent it over to
feed oMier people, not exactly 'hat we
appropriated it for the purpose of tak-
ing American foodstuffs out of Ameri-
can markets by the hand of the gov-
ernmer l and transporting them to for-
eign terms to feed the mouths o? other
people.
One Item Alone Not Vital.
"That one item by itself would no:
have arreted in any great degree the
question o. prices, but it was of the
rumulutve processes, or an ttem o!
the emulative processes, that have
been so.'r g on for many months. I
teg of the Senate to keep its head, to
keep its judgment, to look at this sit-
uation -n broad lines. And it they
do I hute no hesitancy in saying that
the real solution of this question in
-ii# th
i rnnients.
Relation ol* the pri<?e of wheat to the
< ost of living was debatod by sovqtmJ
S. nato'-: Senator Gronna of Neorask*
denied that the govci nment's wheat
,price * uatantee can. cs undue prices
lor bread. He was supported by
Senatois Kellogg and Nelson, Repub-
licans, of Minnesota, who said when4
was being sold far above the go/oiu-
Kent's guarantee at the prinipal ter
minals
The three Senators predicted I bat
this e*r s crop would be low a * tban
the p. vernment estimate, S« r . or
Grnnp. samg it wou'd be 650,000,000
bushes end not 1,2.><5,000,000 as re-
ported by the Department of Agri
culture
Senitoi Gronna declared thai tin
packcrs and all dealers in food pro-
duts "nc er made higher profits'' than
they Jid unuer the Food Administra-
tion's I censing plan during the war
Senator Kirby, Democrat, of Arkan-
sas asked if the Government
Corporat'on was not now manipula-
ting pric< s.
Inquires Into U. S. <>ralu llc^is
"What i> this man Harnes doing?'
be asked.
Mr. Parnes has been criticised in
the wheat states," Senator (iionna
wered, ' for bearing down *he price.
He has made every joisible effort to
reduce prices."
Deploring the general tendency "to
run to « ongress to pass laws lor the
regulati -n <•! everything," Senator
Smith (Dem.) of Scuth Carolina de-
clared ot al authorities have ample
power lo combat th? high cost of liv-
ing "hysteria."
Senati •• smith said if there was prof-
iteering, the Sherman act afforded an
opportunity to break it up. He added
that extravagance by most persons
was oi.', cause of present concitions.
Senafr McCuinber (Rep) of North
Dakota said flour at $14 a barrel was
the ''cheapest thing on earth today."
Senator Pittman (Hem) of Nevada
told the henate wheat and Hour prices
could not be blamed on the preseat ad-
ministration. He pointed out that
President Wilson had vetoed a bill to
fix whea* at $2.50 a bushel, lorcing
the $2 2>'i guarantee, and declared the
administration had opposed the "/heat-
fixing legislation.
Condition Is World-Wide.
Senator Thomas (Dem.) of Colorado
observed that the high cost of living
was wo 'd-wide and asked if any Sen-
ator cjuld suggest how one nation
alone could change conditions.
Senaior Sherman (Rep.) of Illinois
said the meat packers were not re-
sponsible tor high moat prices.
"The Increase in price of meats
comes attei they lea\e the refiigera-
tor car." he said.
Senator Smoot iRcp.) of Utah de-
clared inflation of currency and ex-
orbitant profits of food distributors
food dealers,
Smoot said ibo former avera-
n 20 per cent and the latter
0 per cent in Washington. He de-
dared he lind been charged $1.25 for
u sinal' watermelon and $1.50 for a
chicken "no bigger than ones hand."
Senat'u Borah said it would be no
task to find the profiteer.
"Wo knew where the profiteer Is,"
he saio ' We don't
him. And lu
next four
last four.'
to bunt for
will he Just as safe the
J ears as he has been the
U(THINK TO HAVE
SI'KAKI.MJ DRAMA
I"our l.ik'ilimate Plays (•uaruufved llf
Rotary Club During Winter
Season.
The Rotary club has signed a guar-
antee with the Chas. P. Horner Oper-
atic and Dramatic productions of New
York for four first class dramatic
plays for Guthrie during the season.
The first, "Cheating the Cheator," is
to show at the Guthrie Theater Octo-
ber 25, "Gypsy Trail" November 29;
13th Chair," January 29; "The Duly
Girl," March 4.
The club has made guaranty of 400
tickets for the season, at $5 a season,
whihe will be a little more than ono
dollar a ticket.
The p'ays are to be produced by
the best troups of New York actors,
such as hold audiences in that city,
is promised by Miss Hoover, who ap-
peared at the noon-day luncheon of
the Rotary club, at lone notel Wed-
nesday.
The whole county is trying to get
back to Ihe legitimate stage of the
legitimate stage of the "speaking"
drama, and the Rotary Club feels it
has d'.nc Juthrie a favor by securing
these plays Now it is up the people
to support the movement. The 400
tickets foi the season should be dis-
posed of without trouble.
WANTED—A Dodge car for Red
Cross Service. Call P. II. McGulre,
financial chairman. Phone 225 or Red
Cross Phone 273.
As Fall approaches, one may pre-
ceive that the oromised new over-
coat receres once more— the ignis
fatuus overcoat.
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