The Times--Democrat. (Pawnee, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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PACE TWO
THE TIMES-DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10th, 1918.
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A. M. ARMSTRONG, Editor and PubHaher.
Kntt rfd at the Pontofflce in I’awaee, OkUlioma, an Soc-
„nd CIm.hh Matter, Under Art id Coocreaa of March, 187#.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF PAWNEE COUNTY OKLAHOMA
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE (In adrance), $1.00 PER YEAR
THE WORLD’S FOOD SHORTA(IE
Our people might well reflect on the patient
frugality by which Japan has liecome a great
nation, though living on a small group of islands
with poor soils. They fought and financed a
great war, and have grown to a great industrial
nation, on a diet mostly of rice, loot crops, liar-
ley, vegetables and fish.
In Great Britain the farmers are already
growing six months wheat supply on their cramp
ed territory. They expect to lie able very nearly
to feed themselves in 1918. Yet our country
with its vast acres can scarcely raise its own
food.
Beans with their rich oils and proteins are a
splendid war time substitute for meat. Potatoes
form sixty-eight percent, of the food of Ger-
many, Austria, and Russia. The Germans have
certainly demonstrated on this diet their physi-
cal ability.
Rice is the staple of the Chinese empire, a
nation of hard working industry. Our rice pro-
duction has tripled in five years, and our people
are fast learning its value. Wheat has only
three fourths the nutrition of cleaned rice. This
difficulty is that rice production requires exten-
sive plants for irrigation and other equipment.
In these times it is not easy to find capital for
such development.
In conclusion of this series it may lie re-
marked that the world’s food shortage will not
wholly end when the war closes, though that
will afford some relief. There are causes even
more fundamental than the great war. We need
scientific agriculture, home gardening, inten-
sive farming more food producers. And one of
the greatest needs is the saving of more capital
to put into farm enterprises and equipment. Ev-
ery man who saves a dollar and puts it into en-
terprises that helps agriculture, does something
to relieve food shortage.
RAILROAD OPERATION.
In these scarce lalmr times, a lot of our in-
dustries have got to Ih* manned by women.
The soldiers look forward to the day when
they get wooden guns to drill with in place of
broomsticks.
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Opinions differ very widely on the extent to
which the government should go in its experi-
ment of railroad control. There are certain gen-
eral principles of business success that all peo-
ple of sound sense will want to see recognized.
It will be a big question to decide, how far
the government should interfere with the organ-
ization and executive forces of a railroad cor-
poration. If on some roads it appears that good
results are not being attained, if freight is not
moving as it should, it is to be expected that the
government will insist on changes.
The people will wish to have the element of
politics entirely cut out. They will not want any
man to l>e advanced or retarded because he is a
Republican or a Democrat. Nor will they want
congressmen attempting to interfere and se-
cure jobs and promotions for their friends. In
handling the executive forces of railroads, the
government should be governed solely by the
capacity men have show'n in their past record.
It has frequently been complained that the
railroads, under their old managements, have
l>een too much under the control of the bankers
and financial men who financed the rrrds, and
thst men who worked on the purely qv-ating
ri >e found it difficult to, secure advamen cut. m
did not get the chief prizes. If this U ndu.cv ex-
ists it is one the government should frown upon.
Operating a railroad is as big a task as there
is in the country- It needs the highest type of
men. It requires a great gift for handling men,
organizing business, and controlling activity. It
takes a man who thinks quickly, who can plan
ahead and foresee conditions, and be ready to ad-
vance to meet exigencies, and see all around and
through complicated situations. Any man who
has a talent for this kind of management should
lie promptly promoted, and is entitled to a gen-
erous reward.
The soldiers wouldn’t have suffered at the
camps if it hadn’t lieen for cold weather, and of
course the red tajie officials couldn’t control the
weather.
Of course the big cities must have their
white way a little brighter than daylight, even
if the poor haven’t any coal.
The people who understand the least aliout
the new income tax are usually those who have
just attended a lecture explaining it.
All the small nationalities have got to do to
get their complete independence is to agree to
do everything that Kaiser Bill wants.
UNCLE RAM MUST-KNOW ALL <
FOOD ANO FEED HOLDINGS
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NORMAN. Okla.. Jan. 10.—Every
dealer in food and feed Btufls. how-
ever small, and every hotel, reataur-
ant and conimlitsary, which has aa
much aa $250 worth of food and feed
stuffs on hand, must make a report
of Ills stock at once to Cecil E. Munn,
802 Patterson Builtlinp, Oklahoma
City. Proper blanks will be furniahed
upon application to Mr. Dunn. Fail-
ure to comply with this ruling will
subject the dealer to heavy penalties.
Requests (nr blanks, and all corres-
pondence with reference to this food
survey, should be made to Mr. Munn.
The object of the war emersency food
survey is to inform the government
of the amount of food and feed stuffs
now available so that these may be
pro|H-rly conserved and distributed,
and proper foods snd feeds produced
next season.
SUGAR PROFITS ARE TOO
HICH, SAYS FOOD CHIEF
NORMAN, Okla., Jan. 10. Dr. 8. I).
Ilrooks, federal food administrator for
Oklahoma, has sent notices to seven
retail grocers that their prices on su-
gar have been in excess of the margin
charged in normal times, lie warned
them to reduce their prices or their
licenses would be revoked. Two of
the firms do' business in Oklshoma
City, anti one each in Cushing. Morris.
Illarkwell. Muskogee and Sapulpa.
TEN TONS OF COTTON SEED
MEAL IS A WHOLE SALE LOT
NORMAN. Okla.. Jan. 10. The
food administration has issued a new
ruling to the effect that any quantity
of ten tons or more of cotton seed
meal shall be considered a wholesale
lot. and the buyer of that quanti;\
shall not be charged more than the-
agreed price, plus drayage or cart
age. that may be necessary to make
delivery. All sales of less than t* n
tons may be considered as retail sales
for which not more than $2.50 per ton
above the agreed wholesale price mav
be charged. Dr. Hrtxiks feels confi-
dent that the mills will avoid crltieisi i
and misunderstanding if they always
quote the price f. o. b. at the mil s.
instead of at |>oints of delivery.
—
Mrs. J. T. McKibbin of Lansing. 1
Michigan, is visiting her -brother. T.
Z Barnes and family. She will'prob-
ably remliin with them the remaind-
er of tlie winter.
Start New Year Right!
Gather up your watches, clocks or jewelry, either
bring or send them to us for repairs. The busy season
will soon be here and a time piece is a real necessity.
We Nave a Good Force ef Workmen
Ready to serve you at any and all times. Let us have the
opportunity to serve you.
Thanking you for your business during the year 1917
and wishing you a prosperous New Year, we are,
A. Y. Boswell Company
123 South Main Street, Tulsa, Okla.
OFCOURSE!
Most people don’t heed the appeal to teed
the birds in winter liecause they are too busy.
Next summer they will also be busy, trying to
kill the insect pests that flourish owing to the
scarcity of birds.
Why not ? But you can't blame us.
We have been begging and pleading
with you to equip your car with bet
ter tires. We guarantee that the (Jen
eral tires will not puncture, rim cut
or skid. I,et us prove it to you at our
expense. Repairing of all kinds
promptly and satisfactorily done.
Shupe & Son’s Garage
Phone 180
Pawnee Okla.
All that Secretary McAdoo now has to do
in a day, is to raise a billion of dollars in Lilier-
ty bonds, revise the rules and time cards of all
the railways, attend to several million workmen
who demand more pay. get every kind of freight
moved ahead of every other kind, and talk with
all the people that want jolxs and contracts.
--PU--
THIS WAR OF SCIENCE—PHOTOGRAPHY.
Science brings forth one wonder after an-
other from its arsenal of warfare. Who would
have thought five years ago that harmless and
diverting sport like photography would lieconv*
one of the great accessories to deadly combat?
Y'*t so it is, in this war.
The accuracy of the camera in re|»orting
enemy movements is something marvelous The
sensitive plate opens up concealments that would
deceive the eye. Attached to the airplane, th«
camera gives a complete survey and exact dia-
gram of enemy territory. Photographs from
.“(000 feet high show minute features of the Irtno
scape.
When the Bodies rush a force of men into
the front line trenches the camera detects them
crowded into the ditch, ready for assuult. With-
in fifteen or twenty minutes after the film is
snapped, the aviator has landed, his plate has
been developed, and prints given to the intelli-
gence officer. Before the preparations can lie
completed for an assault, tlu* warning has lieen
telephoned ami defence preparations !>egun.
The big lesson for our war preparations, is
the overpowering necessity of speed in ^ii-plane
work, also the need for the very l»est photogra-1
phic experts. The Germans, realizing the threat
of our aviation program, have stronger air
forces now than evei before. ()m allies are still
stronger, but they cannot completely control the
air.
We must get a large force of airmen ami
planes actually at work next summer. With ex-
pert war photography, we will have a complete
information of everything doing by daylight in
their lines. Ami with a sufficient force of bat-
tle planes to drive off their camera fliers, they
will lack this information. Their artillery and
infantry will fight blindfolded.
While our industries are crying and weep-
ing for able liodied men, a lot of sleeping car port
ers are kept busy toting around little bags for
lazy passengers.
It is denied that congress is not giving prop-
er attention to the railroads, as the congressmen
are already looking for jobs for their constitu-
ents under government railroad control.
THE WALKING POPULATION.
A great deal is said aliout good roads. It is j
a grand subject, and none too much can lie said j
aliout it. But meanwhile we must not forget the.
pedestrains. It is a bigger population than the
owners of horses, motor cars and trucks that;
use the roads. The interests of this walking ele j
ment should lie looked after by a satisfactory |
system of sidewalks.
Some towns assess the entire cost of side-
walks on the abutter. They regard it as his fair j
contribution to town life. This theory secures
the prompt construction of walks as soon as a|
municipality decides whnt streets are entitled1
to them.
In other places it is felt that this policy
creates a burden on real estate and so tends to
discourage improvement of same. They prefer
to see the costs placed on the tax?payers as a
whole. In still other places there is a compro-
mise and the cost is divided up. This policy
seems a fair one, but is open to the objection
that it is often hard to get the tax payers to as-
sent to walks on new streets.
It will sometimes happen, when the layinc
of walks is conceived as the duty of the munici-;
polity, that a town will make a spurt and lay (
some strips of costly walk on a few streets. Then i
the tax payers will take alarm at the cost, and |
stop the work entirely. If a little leas expensive
walk had lieen laid, it might have been possible
to get more of it done.
Whatever policy may seem liest in Pawnee,
a consistent plan should lie formed which within
a reasonable time would provide walks for the
whole town, or such parts of it as are fairly en-
titled to same. A system of good walks adds as
much to the good appearance of a town, its com-
fort of living and reputation for progressiveness,
as any improvement thnt can lie named.
Now Is the Time to Buy
Maxine Mining
Company’s Stock
TO WAIT LONGER MAY COST YOU MOIiE MONEY. IT IS CER-
TAIN THAT THE FIRST ALLOTMENT OF MAXINE COMPANY’S
STOCK WILL BE SOLD OUT IN A SHORT TIME. WHEN THE FIRST
ALLOTMENT OF STOCK AT 81.00 PER SHARE IS SOLD. THE PRICE
OF MAXINE MINING COMPANY’S STOCK WILL BE ADVANCED.
MORE THAN $20,000 WORTH OF STOCK HAS BEEN SOLD DURING
THE PAST WEEK. SOME OF THE REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF
CLEVELAND DECIDED TO VISIT MIAMI A FEW DAYS AGO AND
LOOK OUR PROPERTY OVER. THEY DID SO. THEY ARE WELL
PLEASED. AS BEST EVIDENCED BY THE PURCHASE OF CONSID-
ERABLE SHARES OF MAXINE MINING COMPANY’S STOCK. ASK
ANY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE OUR PROPERTY IS LOCATED, AND
SEE WHAT THEY SAY. WE HAVE THE LOCATION. WE HAVE
THE ORE. OUR PROPERTY IS THOROUGHLY PROVED BY TEST
HOLES, SHOWING A HIGH PER CENTAGE OF ORE. ALL ON THE
SOUTH TWENTY. THE NORTH TWENTY IS YET UNTOUCHED. IT
IS IN THE VERY HEART OF THIS GREAT WEALTH PRODUCING DIS-
TRICT. TEN MILLS OPERATING WITHIN A RADIUS OF ONE-HALF
MILE; FOUR MILLS OPERATING ON ADJOINING FORTIES.
OBEY THAT IMPULSE. DO IT NOW. DO NOT MISS THIS OP-
PORTUNITY TO BUY MAXINE MINING COMPANY’S STOCK WHILE
THE FIRST ALltOTMENT OF STOCK AT $1.00 PER SHARE LASTS.
REMEMBER IF YOU HESITATE. IF YOU WAIT IT MAYBE TOO LATE.
IT IS THE BEST INVESTMENT YOU CAN MAKE. THE OPPOR-
TUNITIES FOR LARGE RETURNS ARE ALMOST UNLIMITED.
THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO CALL AT OUR OF-
FICES IN THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING. PAWNEE.
...Maxine Mining Co..
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Armstrong, A. M. The Times--Democrat. (Pawnee, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 1918, newspaper, January 10, 1918; Pawnee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc907543/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.