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SECTION TWO—PAGES 5 TO 8
ft LUTHER REGISTER, ft
yoj Entered g^second-class^inauer at ^the ^i*ostomce^at
Luther, Oklahoma, Thursday, June 10, 1920
Chester A Keyes. Editor an«TOwner
ubscrii'tion: S1.5*» in Oku. Co.. $2 Elsewhcr
No. 47
Population 1000 ; 997 live ones.
Beet Schools in tiie State.
On Frisoo and Katy Railways.
Good Highways All Directions.
Five churches, one hotel, two
garages, two ootton gins, two
banks, two drug stores, two hard-
ware stores, two lumber yards,
one teed mill, ten stores, three
restaurants, four meat markets,
jeweler, many other enterprises.
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Mrs. Bert White is quite sick with
au ulcerated tooth.
Wm. McCorkle and family spent
Sunday in Oklahoma City.
Loyd Crum has accepted a posit-
ion in the Taylor drug store.
Gladys Reward visitad Olive Cros-
by in the country last week.
Dan Wade of Tallequah is visiting
his sister, Mrs. A1 V. Fields.
Dave Gingrich left last Thursday
on a business trip to Galveston, Tex.
John Bednar and family speut
Sunday with relatives near Oklaho-
ma City.
Miss Edith Seward went to Okla-
homa City Saturday for a visit with
relatives.
Mrs. Ed Regers and children spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Buzzard.
The memorial services were large-
ly attended Sunday afternoon at
Valley View cemetery.
II. II. Brooks. Mrs. Til Snider and
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Huntington spent
last Friday in Gnthrie.
Prof. T. W. Abbott and Loy
Dawson motored to Norman last
Thursday and spent the day.
J. J. Wade was home last week
from Hennessey, where he has been
visiting II. L. Cloud and family.
A number of the business men of
Luther were in Wellston Monday
night in the interest of good roads.
Mrs. Blanche McNeal and daugh-
ter of Oklahoma City spent the week
end with the Morgan and Arthur
families.
Dr. G. It. Norman and wife have
moved from their former home to a
neat little bungalow recently vacated
by the Rogers family.
Miss Nora Rogers and Mrs. T. W.
Abbott and daughter were in Okla-
homa City last Thursday night at-
tending the Billy Sunday meeting.
Couch Bros, do a general jitney
service. Will drive you an}’ where
at any time, either day or night.
Call Phone 80 and we will be there
quick. Adv
Jess Lawyer and family of Maud
moved into the Dr. Norman home
lost week. We are glad to welcome
the Lawyers as citizens of our town.
We receive new goods almost ev-
ery day—Dry Goods, Shoes, No-
tions, Trunks, Suit Cases, etc. See
us before you buy and save money.
—Jacob Lomun. Adv
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huntington
ate expected here in the near future
from Mississippi. Geo. Huntington
will look after^he show during U±eii
absence.
We feed ’em morning, noon and
night,; we feed ’em good and they
always come back. Try us once and
YOU will also come again.—LEE
CROSSLEY’S Dairy Lunch.—Adv
Prof. K. R. Thompson left Sun-
day for Stillwater, where he will at-
tend school for a mouth. He was
accompanied by his wife and son,
and also T. B. Thompson and fam-
ily, who will visit friends there uu
til Wednesday.
There is nothing worse than bad,
foul smelling breath; get rid of it
for your friend’s sake anyway. Hoi
ister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, will
clean and purify your stomach and
bowels; your breath will be sweet,
your disposition improved, your
friends increased. 35c. Tea or Tab-
lets.—Cox Pharmacy. Adv
lu by-gone days daughter would
play the piano while mother washed
the dishes. Times have changed.
The girl’s no longer play the piano;
its the ouija board now.
REAL TURK NOT A BARTEREfi
Refuses to Go Out of His Way to
Make a Sale, and Is Apt to
Ignore Strangers.
Love of baksheesh (gratuities) be-
trays the falsely named Turk. Facer*
• °ss to do something for you or husl-
.jess with you Is another sign of the
Hiongrel Turk. Some real Anatolian
Turks are merchants and sit In the
bazaars. Rut they will not go out of
their way to make n salei and they
really do not care if you buy or not.
Often they Ignore strangers; some-
times they rebuff them. When you
run up against this type in the
bazaars, where all the Jews and Gen-
tiles are after your money with an
insistence that we call oriental, It Is
like a dash of cold water In your face.
Once in a little open shop 1 saw a
mg that attracted me. I started to
enter. Rut the crouched figure on a
mat put out n long-lingered left hand
grasped firmly my ankle, and removed
my foot outside t lie threshold. 1
thought there must be some supersti-
tion about which foot went first. So I
tried the other. The same left hand
proved again its strength. All the
while the merchant did not speak or
look up. His right hand was string
ing heads and he was smoking a
narglle. He simply didn't want to
bother with me. and my shoe told him
that I was a frangn (European). Later
I got to know that old bird, and we
laughed over stories together. Rut he
never asked me to l»uy anything, and
I did not want to risk Ids friendship
by making a second try for the rug
There are other things in life than
selling and buying. And much more
important! Rut the mongrel Turk
like the Christian, does not understand
fids. It isn’t in his blood.—Chicago
Post.
Originator of "Bread Line."
John Leake, a wealthy New Yorker
Revolutionary days, was respon-
sible for the “dole of bread” distribut-
ed weekly by Trinity parish, provision
for which lie made in his will. A por-
tion of his will said :
“I hereby give and bequeath to the
rector and vestrymen of Trinity par-
ish, New York city, X. Y., 1.000
pounds, put out at interest, to he laid
out in the annual income in sixpenny
when ten loaves of bread and distribut-
ed to such poor as shall appear most
deserving.”
The dole’s “wheaten broa.d” has been
distributed for 128 years. Originally
18 poof families were provided for,
hut only 10 are being taken care of
now, due to the high cost of living,
and the fact that the same time pros-
perity has reached out into more
homes, and there is less need of it.
Each family gets from four to six
loaves. St. Luke’s chapel parish
house lias been the scene of the dole
for four years, the charity having been
distributed before that time from St.
John’s chapel. Originally its home
was Trinity church, where the poor
had to apply for it at the altar after
the Sunday servi<*.
She Comes No More.
My little friend in the apartment
across the hall was a studious pupil
who hud come to my apartment for
n few hints in the execution of her
studies when a mutual friend of ours
who was known as a chatterbox was
seen coming down the street headed
for my apartment.
My friend, being more anxious to
spend an hour studying than talking,
said, "Tell her that I am not here,”
and hid in a fair sized clothes hamper,
expecting the talkative party to leave
in a moment or two.
Forty-five minutes passed and to my
horror the hidden one sneezed, while
in the clothes hamper. I could barely
keep from' laughing; in fact, a little
smile from me seemed to give away
the entire proceeding. The talkative
friend evidently had discovered the
Intrigue, for she left Immediately, and
although tills happened some time ago,
we have never seen her since.
This certainly was my most embar-
rassing moment.—Exchange.
EMPLOYEES’ SHARE
OF RAILWAY
REVENUES.
Year
Number of Men
Payroll
Average earn-
ings per man.
1909
1,502,823
$ 998,323,694
$ 657.64
1910
1,699,420
1,143,725,306
673.01
1911
1,669,809
1,208,466,470
723.72
1912
1,716,380
1,252,347,697
729.64
1913
1,815,239
1,373,830,589
75G.83
1914
1,695,483
1,373,422,472
810.05
1915
1,524,978
1,260,186,340
826.36
1916
1,700,814
1,506,960,995
886.02
1917
1,732,576
1,739,482,142
1,003.99
1918
1,820,660
2,581,884,559
1,418.10
FREIGHT LEAST
H, C. L. EXPENSE
Director General Hines Says Rail-
road Transportation Costs
Are Lowest in History.
RETURN OF ROADS
PLEASES FARMERS
Urge Policy to Insure Best Serv-
ice at Lowest Cost Consist-
ent With Fair Returns.
NOT CAUSE OF HIGH FRICE3. OPPOSE NATIONALIZATION.
Freight Advances Compared With Rise
in Value of Goods—' ransportation
Cheapest Thing Public Buys.
Charges on Some Articles.
Portuguese Feminism.
Recently the diploma of doctor of
agronomical engineering was for the
first time conferred upon a woman
in Brazil. The recipient, Maria Ade-
laida Pinto do Magtillanes Quintanilla, j
Is a young woman of Portuguese birth.
8ho comes from one of the most noted |
of the Iberian families, being a direct, j
descendant, as her name would ball-, i
cate, of tin* famous sailor Magellan.
Miss Mngnllnnes Is* the third woman
In the family to have received the
doctorate, her two elder sisters having
been graduated us experts in law and
pharmaceutics. She has made a spe- i
clnl study of tropical plants and con-
ditions.
FOR SALE
Fourteen Years Experience in
General Practice of Medicine.
Or. 1j. H. Henry, M. I)., who is
now located in Luther, olllce up-
stairs over Cox’s Pharmacy. Phone,
No, 7; residence No. 02. Call me
at either and get me i|uiek.
The Hr. will devote two days each
week—Tuesdays and Saturdays—at
Arcadia. * Adv
Extra Quality Kafir Seed
$5.00 per 100 lbs.
Just received a car of
Hominy Feed which we
can sell at S4.00 per 100
pounds.
J. S.
Branigin £ Sons
Jones, Okla.
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Data compiled from authoritative
sources shows that railroad freight
rates are the least factor in the cost
of living. Although tlie proportion of
the total cost of goods that can bo
charged to transportation is riot known
with statistical accirrucy, it is estimat-
ed that the average transportation cost
of things produced in this country is
a very small percentage of their total
cost to the consumer.
Freight Cost 2.4 Per Cent of Total.
In a letter to Representative John J.
Esch, chairman of the House Commit-
tee on Interstate and Foreign Com-
merce, Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman
of the Southern Pacific Company,
points out that in the last live years
the value of goods increased on an av-
erage of $63 a ton, ' while freight
charges advanced only 60 cents a ton.
In five years, lie explains, the aver-
age value of freight carried by the
railroads increased from to $111) a
ton. The cost of carrying tills increas-
ed from $2 to $2.80, paid to the rail-
roads. In 1914, lie adds, 3.G per cent
of the total cost of ttye goods was
spent for transportation. In 1919 only
2.4 per cent was spent.
“In other words," Mr. Kruttschnitt
writes, "only 80 cents out of $63, or 1.3
cents out of every dollar of increase in
value of commodities in 1919 was caus-
od hy Increased freight charges. The
responsibility for the remaining $62.20,
or 98.7 cents out of every dollar, must
he sought elsewhere. It was rot caus-
ed by freight rates."
Rates Lowest in History.
Comparison with transportation
charges in oilier countries shows that
in no other country of tlie world is
transportation furnished at so low a
cost a* in the United States. Compar-
ed, too, with the cost of other goods
and services today, railroad transporta-
tion is the cheapest thing the public
buys. It is sold for less than tho cost
of production, considering ull the ele-
ments of cost.
In a statement on tills subject to the
New England Rankers’ Association
Walker I >. Hines, Director General of
Railroads, said:
‘‘I think it is a fair statement
that at the present time, despite
the increases which have taken
place in freight rates, a ton of
steel or a ton of coal, a bushel of
wheat *>r the unit of any other
commodity ims to pay for thins-
portation a loss percentage of the
price of that commodity than ever
before in the history of the coun-
try.”
Charges on Some Articles.
Before the war a suit of clothing
from one of the Chicago factories, sell
ing for $30 in a retail sliop. was car-
ried from Chicago to I.os Angeles for
10H cents. The suit of clothes now
retails at $.">0 or $60, but the freight
rate on that 2,265 mile haul has in-
creased only 5% cents, while the price
of the goods Ims gone up $20 or $30.
The 22 cents does not cover ail the
transportation cost In a suit of clothes,
the transportation charge f<# carrying
the wool from the ranges and the
cloth to the clothing manufacturer and
other minor carrying costs enter into
the consideration, but the final trans-
portation charge is the principal one.
and the other charges udd only a few
cents more.
New England shoe# are shipped
from Boston to Florida at a cost of less
than 5 2-3 cents n pair. This is an in-
crease of only one cent over the pre-
war rate. The railroads also carry
beef from Ghieago to New York for a
charge of about two-thirds of a cent
n pound. Typewriters are carried from
New York to St. Louis for 60 cents. A
$150 phonograph is carried by freight
from New York to Atlanta for $2 85,
A grand piano is carried clear across
the continent for $39 and in carload
lots for $28.
These are typical freight rates, and
they make it plain that American rail-
roads give the lowest cost service in
the world.
Even with a very considerable In-
crease in rates to iqake the roads self-
supporting, transportation will still be
the cheapest thing the public buys.
Representative Agricultural Organiza-
. tions and Rural Press State Farm- k
ers’ Attitude Toward Railroads.
Want Private Operation.
2ND MISSION
GOMES FROM
PHILIPPINES
Body Headed by Senate Presi-
dent Quezon Reiterates De-
mand for Independence.
That the Filipino people are in earn-
est in their demand for immediate In-
dependence Is indicated by the coming
to the United States of a second Philip-
pine mission to work for independence.
Coincident with this announcement the
War Department received a cable from
Manila stating that the all-Filipino leg-
islature had adopted resolutions re-
iterating its plea for immediate inde-
pendence.
The second mission, like the first, is
composed of tiie loading men of the is
lands and will work In the United
States not only for immediate inde-
pendence, but also to bring about "bet-
ter understanding, greater confidence
and closer economic relations between
the United States ann the Philippines.”
The mission is again headed by Man-
uel L. Quezon, president of the Philip
pine Senate, who is well kno\vn in
America, having been for six years res-
ident commissioner to < the United
Private ownership of tiie railroads
under a policy of government regula-
tion which will insure tiie best possible
service ut the lowest cost consistent
with fair returns on money invested in
them is favored by representative
farmer organizations throughout the
country. This policy also is supported
generally by agricultural newspapers,
which state emphatically that tiie
farmers are opposed not only to gov-
ernment ownership of ru^roads, but
also to all nationalization plans.
In a letter to tiie members of the
United States Senate T. C. Atkeson,
Washington representative of the Na-
tional Grange, which is said to be the
largest organization of Its kind in the
world, representing more than 1,000,-
000 farm owners in the United States,
states that the agricultural interests of
the country approve of private owner-
ship of the railroads and further de-
clares that person*; purporting to speak
for the farmers in support of govern-
ment ownership are neither farmers
nor representatives of 'any considera-
ble number of farmers.
Favor Private Operation.
"The Grange,” says Mr. Atkeson,
quoting tiie official action of liis or-
ganization; "approves of tiie general
principles of railroad legislation now
pending in Congress to return tiie rail-
roads to their owners, to bring about
the reorganization of tiie railroad com-
panies into strong systems with capi-
talization based on actual value, and
to create a control commission which
may enforce the superior interest of
tiie public to that of any other interest
in the operation of railroads as com-
mon carriers and effectively prop-'
the* puldlc against exploitation or in
Just ice.”
Many state and sectional agricul-
tural organizations take a simiiai
stand. Immediately after tin* Nation:
Grange expressed its attitude lov.an!
tin* railroad question the American
Farm Bureau, meeting in Chicago, v*»
od for private operation, and the Na
tionnl Farmers' Congress, in session a
Hagerstown, Mil., voiced like s-nii
meats. The New York State Federa
tlon of County Farm Bureau Organi
zations and the Indiana Federation of
Farmers went beyond that and join* ’
Hie Grange in repudiating the allege
farmer representatives in Washington,
who said they spoke for an “over-
whelming majority of tiie farmers.”
Urge Reasonable Heturns.
Tin* railroad policy favored by the
New Yo^k State Federation of <**.imty
Farm Bureau Organizations was stat-
ed in tin* following resolution:
"Whereas, There have been conflict-
ing statements published regarding ti.
nttltuoe of farmers upon tiie question
of tin* future ownership of railways;
therefore he it
"Resolved, That the New York State
Federation of County Farm Bureau As
soeiatlons, representing 70.000 mem-
bers, in annual session at Syracuse, N
Y.. December 19, 1019, hereby indors- s
tiie action of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation in urging Congress to
promptly return tiie railways to their
owners under such conditions ns will
insure reasonable returns on tiie value
of the property and reasonable rules of
transportation throughout the coun-
try.”
Views of Farmer Papers.
Tiie American Agriculturist states
editorially that the farmers are "dead
set against” the “scheme to enmesh tin*
farmers In the web of radicalism.”
The I'ennsylvD ; i Farmer. di-‘tiss!m;
tiie general demand for private opera
tion of the !'■ Hr Is. says: “It Is e pe
dally true of fenners, In spite of tin
to tiie contrary.” The Stockman-
Farmer adds :
"Farmers almost unanimously ap-
prove the return of tiie railroads nnd
tiie express cm i- inies to their owners
Tiie reason Is that farmers, as well as
other huslnes men, want service of
those Institution- and they cannot get
sucli service under puldlc operation as
they can get under tin* operation • f
corporations, which have a direct finan-
cial interest u performing It.”
Senate President Manuel L. Quezon.
dates. Mr. Quezon and tlie Hon. Ser-
io Osmena, Speaker of the Philippine
douse of Representatives mid Vice
"resident of the Council of Stale, are
he leaders of tiie Naeionalisla party,
vliirh lias been in power since 1907.
While Speaker Osmena is not so well
mown In lie United States a- Quezon,
i<* i- eon s i do rod one of ilu> nblesr*meii
•i tin* islands. Senate Pres dent Quo-
ton recently referred to Osntemi as
Min* givate t Filipino since Ili/.al.”
The personal relations between (>s-
aena and Quezon are probably without
i parallel in modern politics. They
have been the leading political figures
in the islands for 12 years, yet there
has never been the slightest indication
uf rivalry between them. Throughout
their college life as well as their long
political service ouch has refused to lie
it candidate for any position that the
other aspired to.
During the years Quezon was the
Philippine deb gate in the American
Congress In* won tiie esteem and con-
fidence of both the Republican and
Democratic sided of the chamber.
Whenever he spoke he was assured of
a good attendance. One of the official
short hand reporters once declared
Quezon used tin* purest English of any
member of t he 1 louse.
Osmena, as president of tin* Naeinn-
nlista party, is the hauler of the na-
tional movement for independence.
"Osmeii i Is ibe premier ‘de facto' of
the l'liicrpines,’’ said u leading Filipi-
no journal! t. t
grugplr _ tin* bij
education u. de* p hit i »r, an • loqurnt
speaker, a polished writer, a keen oh- j
server of men such Is i > uiena.”
Both tbulletin ami Que < n have been
consi ten' ud\'"<at< of Philippine In*
MiHtnlod It they have nevt r be-uinied to
1 ' "li t le • \ Hi' i u i Mid
Uiichi iciijj toward the FUioiuo neonla.
A. L ALWARD for Commissionei
A. E. AlwarjJ desires to announce that he is a
candidate for Commissioner of the First District
of Oklahoma County, subject to the action of the
Republican primary, August 3. Mr. Alvvard has
been a resident of the County for 30 years and
has always been a Republican. He is a farmer
and property owner and lives near Luther. He
solicits the vote of all Republicans and promises,
if elected, to give the tax-payers of the county
and this district a business like and economical
administration.
Mr. Alward has had an opportunity as a publio offioial
to show his ability to successfully oonduot the affairs of tha
public. He for 8 years was Trustee of Dewey Township but
at the expiration of that long tenure of office he resigned.
He is at present a member of the Hi|-h School Board at
Luther, and has always ■. . n the re p. t of hie constituency
in the handling of their aff airs.
A. E. ALWARD.
(Political Advertisement)
The Shortage of Farm
Help Can be Overcome!
Farmers can overcome the serious
shortuge of farm help. The remedy is
right at their doors, ready to be used.
Better, more modern, greater labor
saving implements and machinery will do
it. They will INCREASE production and
REDUCE rhe cost of same.
We sell all kinds of machinery and
implements for making farm life easier and
more profitable.
A visit to our store will be inter-
esting and instructive.
See Us For
Building Material, all kinds!
Full line* Painls and Garnishes
LUTHER
T. H. RAY
OKLA
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Day and Night Service.
Tires and Accessories.
Repair Work a Specialty!
\ Clyde !HL Dowell,
; Manager.
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