The Chandler Tribune (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1918 Page: 6 of 8
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PAGE SIX
Thursday, November 7, 1918.
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INFORMATION CONCERNIN'!!
THE COAST AUTll.I.KRY.
First State Bank
See Us For Farm Loans
We Clerk Public Sales
This branch of the Military Train-
ing Camp Association has been given
the important responsibility of se-
curing from Oklahoma men qualified
to enter the coast artillery school at
Fort Monroe, Va. The only way this
information can be disseminated is
through the various publications of
the state.
Any citizen of the United States
between the ages of 18 and 45, in-
clusive, who has registered and is
qualified for general military service
except those who have or will re-
ceive deferred classification on in-
dustrial grounds, is eligible for in-
duction into the coast artillery corps,
mathematical review and then take
the examination.
For the man who does not believe
that he can, cover the subject satis-
factorily in two weeks, a six weeks’
courst will be run and he will be
given an .opportunity of taking the
examination at the end of that
period.
An engineering or other technical
training is not a prerequisite for a
man entering the school as many of
the best records of the school have
heretofore been made by lawyers and
business men who have not had such
previous technical training. Such
training, however, is a distinct help
to a man in the school and an asset
to an officer in the service.
Men between the ages of 30 and 45
are preferable, hut those between
the ages of 18 and 20 are not disquali-
fied because of age, if the possess
the required education and other
qualifications.
This office is supplied with appli-
cation blanks and any one desiring
to enter this school may make re-
; quest for an application blank by
writing the M. T. C. A., No. 605,
Security building, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. Immediately upon re-
ceipt of application, accompanied
with three letters of recommendation
from responsible citizens, this com-
mittee will make investigation of ap-
plicant and in the shortest possible
time have applicant appear before
the examining committee for rating
and recommendation.
M. T. C. A., C. E. C.
JOHN H. SHIRK,
Chairman.
By order of Col. Welshimer.
Deposits in This Bank
Are Guaranteed
First State Bank
with the view of entering the coast
artillery (officers’ training school).1
This is located at Fort Monroe, Va.,
and is under the jurisdiction of the
coast artillery training center.
The coast artillery corps handles |
all the heavy artillery of the United
States army. This includes all guns
of six-inch calibre and above and1 all
the heavy Howitzers. In addition,
the coast artillery corps mans the
large trench mortars and anti-air-
craft batteries.
The course of instruction in the
school proper will be three months,
candidates are taken into the school
on Saturday of each week in quotas
of approximately 200 and upon suc-
cessful completion of the course, will
be graduated lieutenants in the
heavy (coast) artillery.
The popular impression that men
in the coast artillery are for home
ruty chiefly along the seaboard coast
defenses is entriely wrong. As a
matter of fact, practically all of the
men being recruited are for over-
seas duty. The policy is to use the
coast defense posts and forts for
training purposes merely for men to
be shipped overseas and not for per-
manent duty.
Ford so ii Tractors
ARE HERE
STATE TRANSPORTATION COM-
MITTEE MAKES PROGRESS.
The work of the highways trans-
port committee,, council of national
defense, which is now being conduct-
ed upon regional lines and extends
down to the state, district and county
workr is developing to a point where
this nation-wide organization is be-
ing called upon day after day by var-
ious executive departments, bureaus
and commissions of the government to
take on vital activities of an allied
character in connection with the pro-
secution of the war.
Reports coming in from state high-
way transport committtes nre to the
effect that excellent progress is be-
ing made in connection with the de-
velopmtnt of rural express lines, re-
turn loads bureaus, the relieving of
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terminal congestion, etc. Many prob-
lems are involved in the execution of
the plans of these committees as they
extend down to the state and locality,
thus taking in a proper system of
roads for truck hauling; investigation
and recommndations of insurance for
rural express lines; uniform bills of
lading, plans for metting the snow
removal problem through states in
which convoys of government trucks
pass, the providing of transportation
in communities where local facilities
are not available and similar lines of
endeavor
might be said inevitably—linked
with transportation by rail and
water.
CROP REPORT.
A recent activity upon the part of
the highways transport committee is
at the suggestion of the United States
fuel administration, which has called
upon this organization for help in the
optration of highways transportation
to and from so-called wagon-mines
Again, the Illinois State Highways
committee, working out a plan of co-
operation with the electric lines run-
ning out of Chicago, has started a
route with motor trucks whereby
they make deliveries until late at
night to electric lines, these in turn
making early morning deliveries to
other towns.
While instances in detail of success-
ful cooperation as between the state
and national highways transport or-
ganizations are many, gratifying re-
ports also are coming in as to the
completion of the state organizations
up to date, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Delaware, New Mexico, South Dakota,
Alabama and still others are typical
of those which have recently entered
with enthusiasm upon practical work
along lines laid down in the platform
of the national highways transport
body.
California reports that its state or-
ganization has succeeded in arousing
such interest on the part of the public
as to produce offers of financial as-
sistance from private sources which
promise to keep the work of securing
the most efficient use possible of all
forms of highways transport up to
a high pitch in that far western com-
monwealth.
The Indiana State Highways Trans-
port committee has inaugurated an in-
tensive campaign for telling Indiana
merchants how to get goods uickty
from Indiana wholesalers and manu-
facturers “and help win the war by
doing it.’’ Folders are being sent
out, accompanied by endorsement
cards in which the signers pledge
themselves not to “wear the roads
without a load.” In other words,
not to run their trucks empty at any
time. This campaign is being con-
ducted under the return loads bureau
of the highways transport body of
Indiana
The prospect for a full crop of
cotton is 36 per cent. The prospect
last month was 39 per cent and on
the same date in 1917 the prospect for
a full crop was 59 per cent. The
estimat of the average yield of lint
cotton per acre this year is 84 pounds.
I,ast year on the same date the esti-
mate of lint cotton per acre was 171
pounds. The acreage planted to cot-
ton this year was estimated at 2,770,-
000 acres or an increase of 1 per cent j
over last year’s acreage. Our pre-
liminary estimate of the total pro-
duction for the state, in bales of 500
pounds each, is 465,000 bales, as com-
pared with last year’s production of ]
851.000 bales.
There is an increase of 17 per cent |
in the acreage sown to what this fall I
as compared with that sown in the!
fall of 1917. The preliminary esti-
mate of the 1919 wheat acreage is 3,-
291.000 acres. The condition of wheat
is 85 per cent. In some counties
where the acreage has always been
small the increase is more than 100
per cent, general rains during th past
month have been of great benefit to
wheat and the acreage may be in-
creased some on this account, over
the present figures.
The average yield per acre of al-
falfa this year is 2.1 tons, prairie
hay .6 tons and peanuts 21 pushels
per acre. Last year the average yield
per acre of same crops was: alfalfa
2.2 tons, hay .9 tons and peanuts 28
bushels.
The farmer still has on hands from
this year’s crops 62 per cent of corn,
16 per cent of wheat, 37 per cent of
’oats and 83 per cent of milo maise
and kafir. He has consumed and
marketed 7 per sent of wheat and 7
per cent of oats during the past
month.
To help out those men who are in-
ducted directly into the coast artil-
lery school from civil life, especially
the older men who feel rusty on alge-
bra, geometry and trigenometry, the
coast artillery school at Fort Mon-
roe offers the following opportunities
of obtaining admission to the camp.
Taking the examination in mathe-
matics upon arrival at Fort Monroe.
If the candidate believes that he
needs a short review he can remain
in the reservoir company two weeks
and receive military instruction and a
Call at our Garage for Demonstrations
I CLYDE CRANE GARAGE
Chandler, Okla., Phone 182
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OVERCOATS
You will be proud of the coat and the price
Overcoats require fabrics of
heavy weight and the long
models take more cloth than a
suit.
That is the reason why good
overcoats as a rule cost so much
now.
ANOTHER LIBERTY LOAN.
The transfer of short haul com-
merce from the railway to the high-
way is being successfully accomplish-
ed in many states, this work of the
highways transport committees being
closely related to that which looks to
the relieving of terminal congestion,
especially in the great centers.
An instance of the remarkable
work done in relieving terminal con-
gestion is that being brought about
in New York City, where Judge Jas.
S. Harlan of the Interstate Commerce
commission is giving his entire time
to the project. Judge Harlan was as-
signed to this wark directly by Secre-
tary McAdoo, director general of rail-
roads. It is the intention to transfer
such activities to other centers as soon
as a complete program is worked out
by Judge Harlan in New York.
’ Therefore, it is being evidenced
daily that the big subject of highways
transportation is now inalienably—it
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
has announced that, no matter what
the results of the pending overtures
for peace may be, there will be an-
other Liberty Lo^n. To use his ex-
pression, "We afe going to have to
finance peace for a while just as we
have had to finance war.”
There are over 2,000,000 United
States soldiers abroad. If we trans-
port these men back to the United
States at the rate of 300,000 a month
it will be over half a year before
they are all returned. Our army,
therefore, must be maintained, vic-
tualed and clothed for many months
after peace is an actuality.
TN; 'American people, therefore,
having supported the Liberty Loan
with a patriotism that future histor-
ians wifi love to extol, will have an
opportunity to show the same con-
clusive victorious peace whenever
comes.
Not for a moment, however, is the
treasury acting on any assumption
that peace is to come soon. Until
peace is actually assured the atti-
tude of the treasury and the attitude
of the whole United States govern-
ment is for the most vigorous prose-
cution of the war and the motto of
force against Germany without stint
or limit will be acted up to until peace
is an absolute accomplished fact.
One more Liberty Loan at least, is
certain. The fourth loan was popu-
larly called the "Fighting Loan”; the
next loan may be a fighting loan,
too or it may be a peace loan. What-
ever the conditions, the loan must
be prepared for and its success ren-,
dered certain and absolute. Begin |
now to prepare to support it.
The Styleplus idea of concentra-
ting big volume on a few grades
puts extra value into the clothes
because it reduces costs.
This explains why Styleplus over-
coats are possible this year at
prices never considered < unrea-
sonable even in normal times.
Styleplus Clothes
$25-130~$35
"Each grade the same price the nation ever
Three grades in Styleplus over-
coats, $25, $30 and $35—the lat-
ter including the longer and
and heavier models
WAR SAVINGS SALES NEAR THE =r
Two grades in Styleplus suits,
$25 and $30.
You can dress well and still be a
thrift-patriot—if you wear Style-
plus garments.
Stylep
Clothi
BILLION MARK.
Including cash received in the
treasury department on October 21 ! ss
from the sale of War Savings securi- —
ties, the total treasury receipts from sss
this source amounted to $801,453,-
415.86. This represents the purchase
of War Savings Stamps to the total
maturity value of approvimately
$950,824,474.10.
A. H. Farnham and son, Walter,
went to Camp Pike, Ark., Friday for a
short visit with Mr. Farnham’s son,
Harry A. Farnham, who will leave
soon for over seas service.
Jacobs’ Department Store
WE CONTROL THE SALE OF STYLEPLUS CLOTHES HERE
CHANDLER,
OKLAHOMA
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