The El Reno Daily Democrat (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 280, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1925 Page: 2 of 4
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THE EL RENO DAILY DEMOCRAT
ELBENO DAILY DEMOCRAT
MAHER BROTHERS. PUBLISHERS
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Pull United Pr**a Rapert.
T W MAHER......EDITOR
J R MAHEn.....BUS MOR
OLD AGE ANNUITY—
Thai "imuiil and rtorlous feeling,"
an employe of thr Lincoln postnffhe
eai<l the other day, is the feeling a
pnslal rmplovo no» has from know-
ing hr will havr woiimthlng lo llvr
on when hr Is retired for age
Beginning wiih Ihr year l!»2n. the
treasury department has retained 2'v
prn ent of thr pay of postal and other
elvll servlrr employes. Tills amount
gees Into a retiring fund nr old age
annuity. When the retiring age of
ft!i Is reached. the employe may be re
tired with a monthly annuity of si*
ty dollars It Is not a fortune, but it
abolishes actual waul If the rm
plnye sooner leaves the service, he
may draw nut all he put In vv’ih If.
terra! at t percent added
This old ago provision Is ie»t ;i
pension It la a method of saving
The employes themselves furnish the
funds from which the annuities arc
paid The system gives them a safe
and easy method of hulldlng up a
rompetence for age. The employes
adjust themselves to an income 2L,
percent below their nominal sahr
and the annuity puvmcnt Is not ml*
eed The process Is so satisfactory
that a movement is now afoot amour
the government employes to In luc<
the government to raise th< an ouni
deducted to 3'2 percent of their pay
The effect of this modest employe
system Is, as the postal employe
quoted Indicated, to lift from the
people affected tlisf fear of old a?.*
indigence which shadows the minde
of most of us. That fear ''aS prob
ahly hardened more arteries, short
ened more lives, than any other sin
gle cause.
It hardly needs be said that hv ev
cry practicable means some old ng<
annuity system should he made uni
versal. Note that this is not a ben-
efit charged to industry. It is a hen
efit conferred by the beneficiary a*
his own cost. It is self support. Th<
government. In this case, merely sup
plies the convenient agency and the
touch of pressure needed by the less
thrifty. In the public schools a point
is approaching? where a retiring an
nuity is essential to the welfare of
the schools. The system is spread
ing among business and industrial
corporations. Life insurance, of
course, is doing a vast work in ti ts
line in its own way.
In an age and in a nation as pro
ductive as ours, there is no need for
any normal person to he haunted b>
dread of a dependent old age. To re
move that occasion for a proportion
of our human misery which can hard
ly be exaggerated is merely a mat
ter of going about it In properly de-
vised ways. The “grand and glorious
feeling” of the postal employes beck
ons us on.—Lincoln Journal.
FREEDOM—
There was a certain man who was
a slave. At 4 o'clock in the morning
he was awakened by his master an<.
iold to do the* chores. He pot out
of hed with a heart foil of bitterness
and dragged rebellious feet to the
barns, where he fed the horses and
milked the cows by the light of a
dingy lantern.
Before the sun came up he was
afield with a plow turning furrows
to which lie gave no thought. His
eyes were dull; his shoulders droop
ed; he was sullen.
At noon he stopped to eat; at night
he went back to the barus when titer
ciful darkness brought him promise
of rest. Again lie milked the cows
and fed the horses, and when he had
satisfied his own hunger he went
morosely to bed to mutter in his
sleep against the tyranny that chain
cti him to menial tasks.
One day his master died and was
buried and the slave inherited tin
farm, as the law provided. He was
no longer a slave, but a citizen.
At 4 o'clock the next morning he
was awakened by the crowing of
cocka. He dressed hurriedly and
started for the barns to feed the
horses and milk the cows. On the
way he stopped to breathe deeply
of the scented breeze lhat came out
of the east; at (lie barns lie sang
among the astonished cattle.
Before the sun came up he was
piowiug and listening to the birds
that sang in the hedgrows. He rest
ed at noon, hut his labors were not
finished until twilight drove him
from the fields lo milk and feed.
ltc was tired, hut his heart was
light. He ate heartily; sat on tin
porch a little while to smoke and
r**Jc> the peace of the starlit night
and went gratefully to hed.
His eyes closed; he relaxed, sleei
was upon hint. But before he lost
consciousness he smiled iu complete
consent and murmured: “It has been
a wonderful day! What a blessed
privilege to do Just as one pleases!'
—Baltimore Evening Sun
Getting Into
the Game
By J. A. WALDRON
if *P} t « ht I
• •T WISH paps had leaa money,'' asld
Marjerl# Patton to Ouy Mar-
tin. They had met by plan elan
deatlnely, against parent*' wlehes, hut
they were In love "He would be
more reasonable shout you, dear, !f
he had less;1’
“Well, I've got enough money for
us to start on, darling. If you want
to take a chance with me."
“Oh. no! I Just couldn't elope, or
anything like that! We must wait,
if I dared tell him we’re really en
gaged you might have Thanksgiv-
ing dinner with us!’*
•'Small rhance of that, little girl!
Thanksgiving Is only a few- weeks
aw ay!"
“But who knows? Really, though,
how much money have you. dear!"
They were having luncheon In a
quiet restaurant. Marjorie, aa she
a«k*d the question, sipped her tea
chiintlly. lie adored every tiny move-
ment her rare grace formulated,
"Well, I rould raise twenty thou-
sand dollar* on a plnrh, from what
has been left me And I think I have
v knark of getting along"
“Of eottrse you have! But twenty
rhontHnd dollara! Papa would rail
that ‘chicken feed!’ Why, only last
night, at dinner, when he had Mr.
Strong, one of his partner* in busi-
ness. they talked of apendlng twenty
million dollars on one spot!"
"Some spot, I shonld say."
“They are quietly buying that
block on Green. Hudson, Clinton and
Vander afreets for a new soap fac-
tory—one of the largest in the world !"
Soap! What wonders sreschlaved
m thy name! Well, little girl—my
little girl!—we shall wait a while,
as you wish. Hut we ran’t wait for-
ever, you know !"
Two weeks afterward, having Bent
in hi* card, Ouy waited In the ante-
room of the elaborate offices of the
t'nlversal Soap corporation of which
lllratn Paxton was prealdont Ouy
hardly expected courteay, but he was
asked in
Hiram Paxton awnng In his easy
chair and faced hla visitor “Well,
yonng man, what is it?" he asked
raspingly.
"I want to marry your daughter
Marjorie," Ouy bluntly replied
"Yon do, eh? Rather ambition*.
What is your vocation. If the ques
Mon la not impertinent?"
‘Tin experimenting, sir. Haven't
yet Axed upon what 1 may really do."
“A dllly-dalller, eh? Well, yonng
man, my daughter, for whom I have
amhltloua plana, may think aomethlng
of you. I should worry about It if
I were not convinced that a girl'* fancy
l« ephemeral. I heard you play the
piano «ud sing to her one evening
when neither of you knew I was In
the house. A mere girl thinks » lot
about such thing* I have casually
asked her about you, though with no
desire whatever that you shonld be-
corne my son-in-law. Rhe says you
are also a beautiful dancer. And pos-
sibly you play games as well—say
poker, for instance?"
"Oh, I have played poker In a
strictly aoclal environment. And I
also play tennla. golf and bridge.”
“Ah! Quits accomplished! Ap-
parently a young man of leisure But
from my alight knowledge of the art*
in which you assume to he proficient,
! doubt if yon ever become a virtuoso
in any of them Douhtles* you imag
ine that yon can take the place of
Paderewski—who has become a poll
tlclan—as a pianist?*'
“Oh, no, air.”
“Posalbly you think you can be a
Caruso?"
“Hardly. I'm a baritone."
"Maybe you can dance as well as
some of the persons who are said to
tommand large aalarles In that field?”
“Mr Paxton, you’ll excuse me—I'm
sn amateur In all those things And
I have no ambition for public ap-
plause .”
"Then what ia your bent?"
"I’m thinking of going Into real es-
tate"
"‘Going into’ is good!" Hiram
laughed cynically.
“But one has to start In anything,
you know.”
Hiram* Isttgh became raucoua.
• Say, young man. I'm busy, but I want
to gir* you a pointer. Tou've heard
of Wall Street sharks?*
"In a general way"
“Well, they’re simply sunflsh com-
pared with the sped#* In real estate.
I'll tell you something: My company
has been trying to get held of * rer-
fain block on the TTakt aide of town
where lax Improvement ha* kept the
prices low We worked quietly, and
bought three-quarter* o f the block,
only to find that the mo*t dectreM*
quarter had been tied up an an op-
tion There’* no recerd of the mat-
ter yet, and w* can't Imagine who
tha devil could h*v* got wind of our
plane You see what an opulent op
portunlty you have to 'get Into real
estate ‘
"In the language of the Htraet. you
mean what they c*n •* far chute*?*"
“Exactly that A fat efcenr#"
“Well, Mr. Paxton. I'm th# one wh*
tied up that quarter of the block I
hold the option ”
Exactly
"Why did you never marry, Bmlthf'
"I thought several tlmea of doing
so, hut finally decided not to."
“The victory of mind over matrl
mony, *o to apeak.”—Boston Tran
script.
NAVY'S LAST MONITOR
GOES TO DAVY JONES
Cheyenne Type of Ship*
Famed in Civil War.
Washington—Coincident with the
dedication of a Washington memorial
to John Ericsson, inventor of monitor*
the United Statoa monitor Cheyenne
Inst of a naval type which gained fatrt
In the Civil war, will atart on Its voy-
age to oblivion, says the New York
Times. Its passing marks the advance
of a new era, and although the last
survivor of one period in naval prog
res* the Cheyenne was foremost in
another: it was aboard her that suc-
cessful experiments were first made
with the oil-burning engines.
It Is front Baltimore that the la«t of
the monitor* la to sail for the “ahlp'a
bnneyard" at Portsmouth. For a brief
period monitor* mnde the United
States navy the most powerful In ths
world. Now they have all disappeared
but the Cheyenne. Even her three
sister ships, laid down In 1W04, long
since have been thrown Into the dls
card.
Machinery Below Water.
All the Cheyenne's mechanism, with
the exception of the guns, la below the
level of the water. Th« house struc-
ture above could be shot away In an
engagement with an enemy and still
the fighting qualities of the unit would
not he impaired. The Chevenne.
originally the Wyoming, was built for
coast defense— a sort of floating fort.
In 1{*17 the Navy department at
Washington began to consider the ad-
visability of converting real burning
vessels into oil burners. Engineers
were consulted. Navy officials decided
an experiment would be worth con-
ducting. It so happened that the mon-
itor, then the Wyoming, was available
for the trial Installation. The vessel
was ordered to the navy yard at Mare
Island in lDOf) to lie fitted with the new
electrically driven nil burning engines.
Navy officials follow ed the move-
ments of the ship closely as she began
a series of teat cruises under the new
power. After two years a final report
on the tests was submitted. The'#
were declared successful. It was not
until years Ister that oil burning en-
gines <**r* Introduced Into tb* larger
v easels. Now the Navy department
Is taking steps to convert all ths re-
maining cost burners In ths nary Into
all burner*, with electrically driven
propeller*.
Apparatus In deed Condition.
Engineer* of the Navy department
made s survey of th# Cheyenne's power
plant recently and fonnd that the elec-
trical apparatus Installed nearly a
acore of years before was In perfect
working condition.
Because of the coming of slrplsnee,
huge capital ships and sleek, fast
crulsecs and destroyer#, there is no
further need for monitor# The sole
purpose of these was for roast de-
fence. They were floating fortresses.
Not only in America, but In other
countries, la this type of vessel now
obsolete.
There are several reasons why this
type of ve«*el Is ohsole'e. First, it
enn participate in offensive warfare
only when It It facing In the direction
of th* enemy being attacked It car-
ries a revolving turret battery of two
12-Inch gun* forw ard. The remsinlng
armament consists of four 4 Inch guns
and two alr-poundcre. The latter are
too small to be n*cd In attacking snd
are brought into piny only when In
defense.
Then the slow speed of the ship-
only 12 knots-served to make it
merely a target for speedier craft
more heavily armed. A fast vessel
with greater range guns could easily
outmaneitver the unwieldy monitor
and sink or disable it. The monitor
type Is difficult to manage because
most of Its hull I* below water.
As the last of the monitors nears
ftjs end a monument Is being erected
on the shore of the Potomac at Wash-
ington to John F.rlcssnn, the man who
scrapped wooden warships for Iron
clads.
The memorial will stand overlook-
ing the spot where the new bridge
will span the Potomac, linking the
national capital by a boulevard with
the National cemetery at Arlington
Ericsson's invention met an Important
situation; his Iron-clad Monitor
marked a turning point in United
States naval power.
NOT EVADING TAXES
in support of their denial that th#
sale of thp palatial homes of the
elder Rockefeller to his son was made
to avoid being subjected to the in-
heritance taxes, federal and state, the
Rockefellers point out that the price
paid was in excess of the assessed
valuation of the property. Under
those conditions the transfer of the
property was not a gift by any means
It is said that the estate for which
little less than !pJ.ikki.t«Ht was paid, is
actually worth about S.Y.tkkt.otkt. That
1 may nr may not be true, says the
Houston Poet-Dispatch. Recently some
| very handsome estates of wealthy men
! have been sold in the East for much
le«s than they cost their owners. On*
of the homes upon which the late
Wnolvvorih chain store magnate had
spent more than S2,000.<KkJ was sold
for approximately SHOO.tsiO. There
were not many bidders at the sale. A
I long list of such sales could be cited
I which go to show that an estate that
Is worfh million* to one owner, when
put upon th# market brings very much
leas than Its apparent value So. in
the light of these other sale#, John D.
Rockefeller Sr. may nd have made
auch a had bargain, after all, when ha
add out for more than the amount at
which the tax assessor had assessed
the property.
ff von could bring heaven dogsr
you'd get a Mg gr«uch on hv discos
erlng that you are not on speaking
terms with the angel*.—Atlanta *'on-
atltutlon.
Motora for Many Purpoita
The Wool worth building In New
York ha* a total of i con electric mo-
tors, used for various purposes. Ore
thousand of tbe«* motors are rated at
one eighth horsepower or I cam.
Earth Flrtt Cauie Alarm
Villagers are alarmed at Pnammtia,
Trane*, hy a natural phenomenon oe-
rnrrtng In a raOn* clo** to th# reti-
med of Restore, where th# ground has
become so hot that tt burn* the feet
of anybody trying to stand atlfl. Oiouda
of heavy black amok* are rtalng from
fissures In th# rock*, while In aonon
spots s fh'ck, o|ty substance onees
from cracks in ths ground and erap-
, orates sa anon a* It get* in contact
with the air, leaving everything cor-
! ersd with a ahlny Hack, bard coating.
Th# geological formation of th* Avey-
ron district 1* volcanic In origin, bnt
this appear* to b* the flrat sign of aub-
terrsnean srfMfy ainc# prehiatorie
thus*. Scientist* are proceeding to
the epo* to Investigate. Tending a re-
report. It la auggested that a stratum
of lignite which exist* In many part*
of Areyron may bar# become Incan-
descent Family Herald.
|’t' preparer] for your holiday baking. Order
a supply (if 1I0NFST ADK 1* LOUU today. ^ on
will be delighted with the many good things made
—with—
HONEST ABE
FLOUR
“Honest Making Insures Perfect Baking”
Canadian Mill & Elevator Co.
El Reno, Oklahoma
Phone S For Best MeAlester Hump Coil
Green Tradm
TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE THE STAMPS, NO MATTER
HOW MANY, OR ANY OF OUR DUPLICATES CALLING
FOR STAMPS, SOLD BEFORE AUGUST 1, 1925, WE WILL
REDEEM THEM IN THEIR VALUE, ON THE PUKCH VSK
OF MERCHANDISE FROM THIS DATE UNTIL
December 25th
WE ARE ANXIOUS TO HAVE THEM ALL IN ItKI OKE
CHRISTMAS.
WE POSITIVELY WILL NOT ]REDEEM THEM AFTER
THE ABOVE DATE.
at FRYBERGERS
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THE FEATHERHEADS
By L F. Van 7aU
fit****** He*a««f#f • *IM
The Bluffers
56NQR UNTEGSCE,
ONE OF The
FOfilKM <SU€STS
AT The
Shallow lake hotel,
HASTILY CHALLENGED
FELIX FTATHERHEAD
T> A DUEL
YmC OTWfR D*N.
BOTH MEN
AQ£ A LITTLE
AFRAID OF
EACH OfHEH,
BUT BOM
ARE PUTriN6 IP
BOLD FRQHT3
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