The Chandler Tribune (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CHANDLER TRIBUNE
O* Largest TaW-Up-in-Advance Subscription in the County—Bar None.
Baterrd as second class matter February 1908 at the post office. Chandler,
Oklahoma. Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
G. A. SMITH, Editor
Published Every Thursday, in Chandler, Oklahoma
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PEK YEAR IN ADVANCE
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“Beware the entrance to a quarrel; once in, so demean thy-
self that thine adversary shall beware of thee.”—Polonius to his
son Laetes.
No sane and reasonable American will accuse President Wil-
son of having been rash or precipitate in dealing with Mexico.
He has not been impulsive or in the slightest degree querulous.
If war ensues l>etween the United States anti Mexico it will Ik:
forced on us. Mr. Wilson has maintained rare poise, kindliness
and prudence in his watchful waiting policy towards a country and
a people that have been in the throes of anarchy and treason for
four years. Once into war, however, he will “make his adversary
beware.”—Oklahoma Clipper.
GET READY TO CELEBRATE.
Chandler will celebrate the Glorious Fourth. Many strangers
will visit our town. Old Glory will be flying from the business
houses and many homes. But how about that weed patch around
your home, are you proud of it? If every person will cut the weeds
about his premises, and the city take care of the streets, alleys and
lots of non-residents, we can show the strangers a pretty little
city, ready to celebrate. You start this, set a good example for
your neighbors.
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EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
Equal suffrage has perhaps never received more encourage-
ment than during the present year. Every National platform of
every party now endorses the measures and all of them recognize
that it is a matter for the states to deal with and endorses it with
that understanding. But every student of the times must admit
that if equal suffrage gains with the same rapidity during the
next five years that it has in the last five, there will hardly be a
state in the Union left where equal suffrage has not been extended.
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PATRIOTISM.
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
‘This is my own, my native land ?’
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there be, go mark him well.
For him no minstrel raptures swell.
High though his title, proud his fame,
Boundless his wealth as wish could claim—
Despite those titles, power and pelf
The wretch concentrated all on self.
Living, shall forfeit fair renown;
And doubly dying shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung!”
—Sir Walter Scott.
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The 'Guard owns three quarter sections adjoining
•Chandler, or rather tiney have a fifty-year lease which
was gives, at the earnest -olicitation of the officers of
the National Guard bj thv tate legislature several years
ago, and the advantages of having a permanent home was
pointed out and agreed upon between the National Guard
and the legislature. These lands are the permanent home
of the Oklahoma National Guard until the Legislature
and the V ar Department decrees otherwise. Besides the
three quarter sections of school land set aside for their
use and benefit, upon -which they are paying an annual
rental, the National Rifle Range is located at Chandler
upon which thousands of dollars have been spent and
r here every Guardsman in Oklahoma has received his
instruction in rifle practice, and outside of the military
posts it is the only rifle range in the state. If our troops
are sent too Mexico their efficiency will rest largely on
their ability as riflemen, not only as a matter of offense,
but of defense, and if there is one thing above all others
that our troops are neevfmg it is rifle practice and the
targets are now up, ready for immediate use, on this
range.
A small creek runs through these grounds, and, like
all other small creeks during the recent unprecedented
rains, left its banks and inundated the surrounding bot-
toms and washed out a concrete bridge, but the National
Rifle Range is covered with a luxuriant growth of alfalfa
and the water did not stay up long enough to seriously
damage this crop.
As one who thoroughly knows both the National
Rifle Range and the State Fair Grounds, I want to say
that the Fair Grounds overflow very much easier than
d6es the Rifle Range, and it remains yet to be discovered
by any wise medical man that the typhus germs of the
Rifle Range are any more deadly than those of the Fair
Grounds. In fact, the State Fair Officials have recently
brought to bear such pressure upon the School Land
Board as to cause the Board to order a re-appraisement
of the Fair Grounds on the theory that every overflow-
inundated a large portion of the said grounds, and no
such complaint has ever been made of the Rifle Range.
I am sure when the people know these facts they
will not feel aggrieved that mobilization has been ordered
at Chandler.
Very truly yours,
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Editor, Chandler Tribune.
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YELLOWER THAN YELLOW.
It gives an excruciating pain to the average country publisher
to see the false and misleading statements that are sent out regard-
ing national and miitary affairs by some of the pellowr daily papers
of the country.
They are so false and misleading that the devil himeslf would
blush from shame if he were compelled to assume their authorship.
And yet this aggregation of conglomerated bunk is swallowed by
the public without a murmur of protest.
If this paper, or any other self respecting country newspaper
were to disseminate such falsehoods, perversions and absurdities
the editor would soon be invited to move on, for the public we have
learned, looks for truthfulness in the country press.
Just why this double standard is countenanced and encourag-l® braver soldier,
ed is more than we can say. But it is so. f We have watched many of those boys grow from almost baby-
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NO. 6.—CAPT. HARRY GILSTRAP.
CHANDLER’S SACRIFICE.
Few towns of the size of Chandler have been stirred to the
depths or have made a greater sacrifice under the present call to
arms than has the little town of Chandler, and it is more in a spirit
of pride than of boast that we mention the fact that if all other
towns had have sacrificed in accordance with their numerical
strength as has Chandler more than 2,000,000 men would now be
under arms.
Not alone in numbers have we sacrificed but from the best
blood of our splendid little city has been picked the boys who will
uphold the honor of Old Glory and the defense of our homes. Cap-
tain Gilstrap is a splendid type of American manhood, a repre-
sentative Christian gentleman, just the kind of a man to lead a
company of young men, to instill into their hearts lessons of pa-
triotism, honor for the flag, duty to their country, and love of
God. The fathers and mothers who have given up their boys that
go with Captain Gilstrap can temper their grief with tfie thought
that no company will be led by a better man, a truer citizen, or
HOGISH OKLAHOMA CITY.
For once the hogish disposition of Oklahoma City over-
reached itself and all that it accomplished was losing what it went
after and taking a well deserved patronage away from a town that
has always stood by Oklahoma City in her ambitions and desires.
The orders for mobolization came from the War Department with
the name of Chandler as mobolization point, but were so drawn
as to permit of some other place if Chandler was not desirable.
Had the Adjutant General so elected he could have had the troops
all mobilized at Chandler within three days after the call, but
the Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma City immediately got
busy and sought to bring influence upon both state and national
authorities to the extent that mobolization would be made at Okla-
homa City, and these efforts resulted not in any good to Oklahoma
City but as a loss to Chandler as the point of mobolization.
Before the order had come to mobilize at Fort Sill and while
it was still thought that Chandler had been successful, the editor
of the Tribune directed a letter to the Oklahoman with the sup-
position that it would be printed immediately, but before the
letter was printed, orders changing from Chandler to Fort Sill
had come and the letter was not printed until Sunday’s issue of
the Oklahoman. While we most severely condemn the disposi-
tion of Oklahoma < ity in this instance, we do desire to thank the
Oklahoman for its courtesy and fairness in publishing our letter,
ot which the following is a copy:
Editor Oklahoman, JUn6 28l'li’ 19_H
City.
Dear Editor:
The Oklahoman as a newspaper published in Okla-
homa City has naturally very much favored the idea of
t , moboilzing the Oklahoma National Guard at Oklahoma
'tty, for which act no one will censure the Oklahoman
As publisher of the Chandler Tribune 1 have been very
much interested in mobolizing the state troops at Chand-
ler, and I am sure that you will commend me for loyalty
to my home town.
The matter appears now to be settled by the War
Department and the object of this letter is to state a few
lacts so that the people of Oklahoma map know the truth
of the ability of Chandler to cope with the situation and
» the advantages of the preparations that have been made
lor many years towards hastily preparing our troops for
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I from Chandler the very flower of its young manhood, and that
j while the loss to Chandler is great, we need have no fear of our
representatives at the front, well knowing that our honor will be
maintained. We sincerely hope that Captain Gilstrap can return
with the same number with which he left, and that no chairs will
be left vacant after the bugle sounds the re-call from a victorious
mission.
There are those besides the men who are making sacrifices
and the streaming eyes, the quivering lips, and the clinched teeth
of those who are giving up loved ones speak in mute but emphatic
language of sacrifices that cannot be described but are most keenly
felt and to Mrs. Gilstrap and other brave and courageous women
of Chandler we extend our most sincere sympathy and yield to
them the honor and homage to which their sacrifices entitle them.
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THE SPIRIT OF THEN AND NOW.
When war with Spain was declared in 1898 thousands of
young men loft their employment and went to the front in defense
of their country. When the war was over, these young soldiers
returned homo and in a majority of eases found their jobs filled
b.v other people and themselves out of employment and without
prospects for the future. Such was the reward of valor in 1898
Tbday thousands of the principal business institutions of the
country are announcing that all members of the National Guard
who have responded to the president’s call will not only find their
jobs waiting for them on their return but will have their full sal-
aries paid to their families during their absence. Such is the
spirit of 19H>.
A little reflection should convince the most skeptical that not
all ot the patriotism of this country flows in the veins of the man
with a gun. 1 he civilian has his duty to perform, and he, too, per-
forms it as the man he is.
’Ihe one grasps his gun and goes out to fight the battles of
his country, while the other supplies the sinews of war with which
to fight.
It is a combination of valor and fidelity which in time should
prove invincible. Let us hope that such it may be.
SWEEP OUT THE FILTH.
When a house floor is covered with filth all decent and self
respecting people get a broom and commence to sweep.
Mexico is the house floor today nd the United States is the
man with the broom. It is time to sweep.
For five years anarchy has been prevailing in that country,
and for five years each day has seen the prevailing condition just a
little worse than the day before. It has been a retrograde move-
ment since the day of President Diaz fled to France.
Today we are witnessing the assembling of a new- army of
nearly a hundred thousand men, called to the colors because the
president deems it wise to sweep the dirty Mexican floor.
This movement of the troops to the Mexican border may be
but the prelude to a general war with Mexico. If such it is to be,
then the American army should not be withdrawn until every ves-
tige of filth has been swept from the republic to our south and a
land once fair shall have been made over into a place of habitation
for rational human beings.
It is not a pleasant task to undertake, but it seems to be a
burden placed upon the shoulders of the American people. It will
Ik? accomplished without fuss or feathers or bluster or blow—ac-
complished as the people perform their routine duties of life, for
such is the American spirit.
The Stars and Stripes should be respected wherever and when-
ever they are unfurled. Let us see that it is so.
Sweep out the filth.
Big rourth of July
Celebration at Chandler
Lay aside work for one day and en-
joy the hospatality of the big hearted
people of Chandler, before this event
takes place. Come to THE PEOPLE'S
STORE, and see the many VALUES in
DRY GOODS that will make you LOOK
NICE and PLEASANT and SATISFIED
HOT WEATHER HAPPINESS
To look well and feel comfortable through the hot sticky
da>, that s \ OUR problem. Come in^—see how we solve it.
“KEEP KOOL” Palm Geaches—“KEEP KOOL” Mohairs—
I-EATHERWEIGHT WORSTEDS—Will bring you Hot
Weather Happiness-Will help YOU smile at Mr. Sun. There
is a fresh dapper style about “KEEP KOOL” Clothes that
makes purchasers of passerby—We haven’t forgotten either
—that VALUE IS A VITAL POINT—you will like the
prices—They are figured on a “COME-AGAIN” Ar
basis; Men’s Suits, at_______________________
ANOTHER CELEBRATION ITEM
Is those nice new blocks in PANAMA HATS, we have them
with the slightly raised crown, and others in many snappy
styles, get one if you would look well dressed, they are
within reach of everyone’s purse. TO tPCT
Special at ________________________oO
ANOTHER CELEBRATION ITEM
Isthose nice shirts for Men, in many beautiful patterns,
with out collars, “You know it will take more shirts for the
HOI WEATHER, get yours now when the f‘Ci
$1.00 ones are going for only____________________C
ANOTHER CELEBRATION ITEM
Is some pretty Crepe de Chine Dresses for the Iadie- these
embrace the very latest styles, and colors, and .‘Oh you will
look so cool and pretty” and to help you we are going to give
you 25 per cent discount off of the regular prices.
ANOTHER CELEBRATION ITEM
Is nine Ladies’ pretty dresses in white and voile, $5.00 to
$7.00. For small Ladies only.
How's this price_____________________
HOT WEATHER CALLS FOR LADIES’ WAISTS
You know they are like handkerchiefs you never have
enough, we have some special numbers in white organdies,
with large collars, in white and colors, long sleeves, they
are full of snap and individuality; -t
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AND OTHER CELEBRATION ITEMS
Some notions, that make life pleasant for everyone, and
you smile and the world smiles with you, look pleasant, but
then you cannot help it when you look at those pretty
Ladies' Crepe de Chine handkerchiefs, beautiful white para-
sols, pretty fans, and long gloves for the hands that need
them.
THINGS ADMIRABLE BOUGHT WITH SOUND JUDG-
MENT AND ECONOMICAL FORESIGHT W ILL ALWAYS
MEET THE APPROVAL OF THE PEOPLE—IS W HAT
WE BELIEVE.
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The PEOPLE’S STORE
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