Mayes County Republican. (Pryor, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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THE P R Y O R "E rf» U B LTCfXV
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Children Leam More In Half a Day
Than If Kept In School Room Longer
By HOYT E. DEARHOLT
DinctM Uomoity g| Wwooiii Health Bateau
Two Milwaukee woman teachcrg have been doing gome very advanced
thinking and have conducted an experiment, the results of which offer a
great contribution toward the health of schoolchildren. For years they
have been utilizing their opportunities to observe children, and long ago
came to the conclusion that keeping children in school for long hourB was
defeating its own one object. They saw the “pep” that the children brought
to school in the fall run out toward spring; they saw dancing, Bparkling
eyes, so characteristic of the beginning of the school term, take on an
equally characteristic and disquieting end-of-term look in the Bpring.
This did not seem right to these women. Being themselves vigorous-
minded, they refused to consider it right simply because it existed. They
therefore began a quiet, persistent fight for the life of their idea that a few
hours of concentration in school is worth more than many hours of mere
time-serving.
I have had a chance to observe that experiment closely, and I am no
less enthusiastic than the teachers about the result. I believe that they
are absolutely right when they declare that not alone can as much as, but
more; learning be accomplished in a half-day session than in a whole day.
What is lost in drill-time is made up many times over by the condition of
the children’s bodies, which are kept vigorous by outdoor play.
An equally important factor is that their young minds don’t go stale
by being pushed up to and a little beyond the resilient point each day. I
Children’s minds and bodies are not unlike rubber bands, which work!
best and last longest when neither stretched too far nor left idle for long!
in the storage box.
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\\ALTROCK IS A FAVORITE
Charles Comlskey, owner of
the Chicago White Sox, has a
high regard for Altrock. “He's
always a favorite here," re-
marked Commy. "He did some
great work for us. I remember
that post-season tie we had with
the Cubs many years ago—the
one which was never settled.
"The West aiders thought we
were through us regards pitch-
ers for the fourteenth game. I
went down to the bench and
asked Boy Patterson how he felt.
Before Hoy could answer, .Nick
chimed In and asked If he
couldn’t work.
"I took him up on his proposi-
tion and let him go In. On the
first ball pitched Jimmy Slagle
cracked a terrific single to cen-
ter. Then Altrock wound up and
threw the ball over to first,
as I stood behind the screen un- 1 ’
der the stand. ‘We’ll win now.’ ! I
And we did win. Yes. I've al-
ways liked Altrock and am glad
whenever he comes to town."
1
HOLD REINS SEVERAL YEARS
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Democratic Party’s Change ot
Heart Is Futile.
People Are Tired of Vacillating Policy
Which Haa Characterized the Ad-
minlatration, and Verdict la a*
Good a* Pronounced.
A few months ago, In one of those
frank, open-hearted, confess-every-
Udng talks for which President Wil-
son has become celebrated, the presi-
dent explained to a listening public
that he had changed his mind about
some things pertaining to questions
of national politics. He explained
that for one thing he had changed
Ms way of thinking about putting the
— 601
In Four Staples Alone the Farm*
ers of Western Canada Pro*
duoed 408 Million Dol-
lars in 1915.
The Calgary (Alberta) printers bar#
a fiouse organ, called ‘The Magnet,"
and In its columns a few weeks ago
appeared an article entitled “Who’s Cot
the money?" It wua cleverly written,
and but for its length, the writer would
have been pleased to have copied the ar-
ticle In Its entirety. The purpose for
which this article Is published, how-
ever, that ot letting the readers ot tbs
t mrew me uuii over to nrst, country in a better status of prepared- ever, unit 01 letting tne renders of tb#
• I catching Single asleep by several \ \ ness *’or a possible war Involvement, j puper know ot the great progress that
+ t«et. Having been given the straight tip : ]S being made In agriculture hi West-
" ‘It's all ofT,’ I said to myself, 1| nbom the president's change of mind, | em Cnnadn, will be served by copying ■
1 I stnrni hphimi tim im,un un. : the Democratic majority In congress portion of the article. Many of the
also underwent a change of mind. In j readers of this paper doubtless have
~ uuutfiiess novo
proof there were Introduced approprta- friends In one of the three provinces—
tion hills which, according to a state- I Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta,
ment by Chairman Fitzgerald of the and they will be Interested In feeling
house committee on appropriations,
carried an aggregate of more than
8622,000,000 for defense purposes.
And Isn’t that a radical change of , „„„ ui lllllI1K 0I a f
mind for a party which, when It came ga) ln everything that goes
Attendance at Church Can Be Increased
by Thorough and Attractive Publicity
By Rev. PAUL B. JENKINS o! Milwaukee. Wk
The possibilities of promoting church attendance and interest iu the
mere preaching of the Gospel, by thorough, earnest and attractive publicity
work have been no more than barely touched upon in any place.
All this work is surprisingly successful if kept up. The average man
outside the church thinks of the church as a half-dead-and-alive institu-
tion, and is often simply dumfounded at finding it going about its busi-
ness in the same ways which the rest of the world goes about those tasks
in which it is desperately in earnest.
All good religious publicity work is missionary work. It is evangelism.
I wish I knew someone who wanted to spend about a million dollars in
nation-wide work of this kind. I could tell him how that expenditure
would change, reform and elevate public opinion, the country over, inside
of two years.
Pake, as a single illustration, those remarkable temperance posters
so skillfully planned and distributed by a woman in Cambridge, Mass.,
the civil reform posters issued by a few public-spirited men in Atlanta,
which have proved a moral earthquake and house-cleaning to that city;
or, best of all, those billboard pictures of the Nativity, advocating Go-to-
Church Sunday, the Boy Scout movement, etc., which certain great adver-
tising firms have placed by the thousands on billboards from Maine to
California.
There Is at least one manager in the American league who doesn't believe
I the Cleveland Indians are going to "blow” and he is "BUI” Donovan. The
J Indians have impressed the Yankee leader as being one of the strongest clubs
that ever represented that city and Donovan says It Is the most dangerous team
In the league.
When It comes to batting in runs the other members of the Indians must
"kow-tow” to the hard-hitting right fielder, Elmer Robert Sraith-Roth or Robert
Elmer Roth-Smlth, whichever way you prefer, the combination right gardener
having driven in 42 runs for the Indians this season, which Is only one-third
gone at this writing. The Smith half of the firm has sent 20 runs across, while
the Roth half has accounted for 28.
“Chic" Gandll, however, Is the individual leader, having driven in 36 runs.
“Trls” Speaker, though, Is giving him a merry battle, having chased 31 of his
team mates across the rubber. "This," however, is batting some 100 points
better than "Chic." After pas8ing by the right field firm, we find "Jack” Grnney
has driven In 24 men, nn unusually large number for a lead-off man, who is
forced to follow weak batters. In fact, all the Indians are hitting and this com-
bined with the splendid pitching they have had to date has kept them well on
top.
During the last ten years in base-
ball every team in the National and
American leagues, with the exception
of the Philadelphia Athletics and the
New York Giants, have had two or
Play Is Essential to Physical, Mental
and Moral Development of the Country
By EDWINA MARY LAYMAN,
of Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Colliu, Col.
No place needs play more than the rural community. Living becomes
a hard, iron-clad proposition with none sure of anything save the deadly
monotony of the daily grind, unless it be relieved by some form of occa-
sional recreation.
Play was considered by our forefathers to be a creation of the “evil
one,” and to really stop work and to play was a long step on the road to
eternal punishment. The trend of ideas is changing, and today we are
fining in play much that is not only good but absolutely essential to the
physical, mental and moral development of the country.
To the rural community the economic value of recreation is of great
importance. It is not only of valu# to the farmer to keep his sons and
daughters on the farm, but it is of great value to the country at large,
from the rural districts comes the citizenship of our country and if we
r<> fn Uon *1,0 t ...... 1 1 Pitcner BUI Harrington, formerly &
' e to keeP t,ie ldcals °* our nation inviolate, we must keep our country 1 big card ln the New England league,
fouth content on the farm. In any place life must be made attractive to hn* l°lned Lynn, that club satisfying
make it worth living, and to save young people from gaining the false j,he Denver clai,m J° 0hlm'
standards of value and false ambitions which the city offers, life at home, The Boston Braves have another
m the country community in which each farmer and his family live must outfielder. He is Fred Bailey. Mike
be made attractive and possible through some form of home and com- Kahoe dug hlra Up for Stalllngs out
munity recreation.
BASEBALL
STORIES
Outfielder "Greasy” Neale Is playing
sensationally for Cincinnati.
• • •
The Red Sox don't miss Speaker
any more than an auto would miss a
spark plug.
• • •
Ping Bodle, with an average of .365,
In leading the Pacific Coast league bat-
ters ln hitting.
• • *
Chicago newspapers have learned
that Tinker would like to get Johnny
Evers from the Braves.
• • •
McGraw has decided to make a
pitcher out of George Kelly, the Giants'
extra first baseman and outfielder.
* • •
Speaking of encouragement, there is
the headline: "Brooklyn Rooters Won-
dering Whether Team Will Crack.”
• • •
Gilhooley of the New Yorks, Is be-
ginning to hit as he did In the Interna-
tional league. He Is a capital lead-off
man.
McGraw and Mack Have Piloted Re- Into pow#r In 1913 cut down the navy
spectiv* Team* Longer Than Any program to one battleship n year and
Other Leaders. scrimped and squeezed and pared and
haggled over every proposition to
strengthen the army anil navy. The
president, back In those days, was the
main spokesman for the little-army
and the little-navy people. He has
not only changed his mind on this
I question of preparedness, but his
1 Ideals have expanded continuously.
! If there Is lurking somewhere In
the recesses of this same Democratic
t mind, that has been subjected to such
1 astounding changes, the idea that the
aforesaid changes will save the afore-
mentioned Democratic party from the
down-and-out verdict, the Idea Is mor-
tal error. The Democrats in congress,
and tike president along with them,
have hit the sawdust trail and hit It
hard. But the fruits of repentance
are toe late for'salvation.
According to Importers, Ivory is
growing scarce, but you'd never be-
lieve It after attending a few baseball
games.
• • •
Brick Owens Is doing sterling work
as umpire In the American league.
One thing about Brick—he’s on tie
square.
• • •
They are saying that Danny Shay,
who once played short for the Cardi-
nals, Is liable to get let out as mana-
ger of Kansas City.
• • •
Pitcher Bill Harrington, formerly
PATIENCE OF BILL SULLIVAN
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Incident Illustrating Determination 1
and Tenaeloutneu of Veteran
Tiger Coach.
A little story Is told of the patience
and determination of Billy Sullivan,
ihe veteran catcher and Tigers’ coach.
The Tigers were In San Antonio,
Tex., this spring for a couple of ex-
hibition games. The' mornlng of the
first day Sullivan started to clean an
old pipe. He shoved a match ln the
stem, and the wood was caught In the
curve of the ember, where It stuck.
Sullivan worked on the pipe all morn-
ing. He used half a dozen strips of
wire In a vain attempt to force the
match on through. He failed, how-
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John McGraw.
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Bill Sullivan.
Economic and Social Liberty Are Of As
Much Importance As Political Freedom
By DR. EDMUND J. JAMES
President Unimaity of Illiooit
dug him Up ______
of Washington nnd Lee university.
• • •
Manager McCredie of Portland, Ore.,
makes his players walk to all parks
•t which they piny ball. This is a
means of keeping the men in condition.
• • •
An umpire ln Little Rock has been
sentenced to two years Id prison for
bootlegging. Which same oughta get
more than a passing guffaw out of
, Johnny Evers.
• • •
And speaking of whiskers, there was
1 a time ln the early days of baseball
when big leaguers performed on the
« dlnraond adorned with facial fringe
No man 13 a free man who is so confined by the mere effort of earn- - - --------
which men are so bound down by the mere fact of keepiug body and
i together that they cannot live lives worthy of human kings.
Political liberty is not by any means the only liberty for which the
han being is anxious and toward which he is aspiring. Economic
lrty and social liberty are just as fundamental and all-pervading neces-
s« of the free human being as political liberty itself.
AVe must look forward, therefore, to the realization of this end as tbs
irate ideal of the republic, and to this ideal we claim that all men who
o into our midst and become a part of our society shall be devoted, and
ti this aspiration shall become theirs.
A1 Demaree has only won seven oat
of eight games from the Giants since
McGraw gave him the gate. Tills
merely proves that pitchers cast upon
the water return In the form of tor-
pedoes.
• • •
Oscar ITorstmnn has taken the place
of "Speed" Martin as the pitching
youngster of the Pacific Coast circuit
ever, and was still working on it when
the call came to go to the park. Sulli-
van put the pipe away. That night he
worked again, and the next morning
he was out In front of the hotel—still
working on the pipe. Along about
noon he started to grin, nnd persons
interested knew the end was near. A
few minutes later the broken match
was driven out and Sullivan, taking
the stem between his teeth, blew long
and vigorously.
"That must be a valuable pipe," re-
marked a bystander.
"Nope; It cost 50 cents,” replied Sul-
livan.
"Why didn't yon go and buy an-
other? It wasn't worth while to Work
that long on a 60-cent pipe.”
"Maybe not, but I’m not going to let
nny 50-ceut pipe get me down. I start-
ed to get that oat of the stem and 1
Intended getting It out if It took me
n week or a month.”
The Incident Illustrates the patience,
the determination and tenaciousness of
the man.
more managers. Ten years ago John
McGraw was managing the Giants and
Connie Mack was leading the Athletics.
These two men are still piloting those
teams and bid fair to do so for many
years to come.
McGraw started his career with the
Giants in 1909. Under him the New
Yorkers won the National league pen-
nants ln 1904 and 1905, and the world's
title ln 1905. They lost the National
league championship ln 1908 because
of Merkle’s famous "boner" and fin-
ished third in 1909. In 1910 the Gi-
ants finished second, and were first in
1911, 1912 and 1913. The Giants lost
the world's series with the Athletics
in 1911, and in 1913 were again beaten
by the Athletics for the big honors.
In 1914 the Giants were nosed out in
More Independence.
The end of the war does not seem
In sight, yet agents of Europe are al-
ready at work seeking to prepare for
the restoration of Its former trade
In this country when peace is estab-
lished. But they are meeting witb dis-
couragement
For instance, Glovervllle, N. Y„ Is
now producing a thin kid glove which
hitherto has been manufactured exclu-
sively abroad. One of these agents has
discovered to his chagrin that tt Is
not only better but cheaper than the
Ijjported article. A fine grade of
laboratory glass heretofore obtainable
only from European manufacturers, is
being made at Corning, N. I. At pres-
ent the cost of production exceeds the
cost in Europe, but with the proper de-
gree of protection there Is little doubt
that the American article would in a
short time command the home markeL
These are only instances of what is
happening in American trade and In-
dustry as the result of the stoppage of
much American importation from Eu-
rope. This Is a movement that can be
made permanent and will result ln
great profit to the country If congress
will but enact the legislation necessary
to foster it
Business and Politics.
With the opening ot the campaign
President Wilson will find that busi-
ness and politics are one and cannot
be separated even to re-elect him and
try to save his party.
The politics that makes and keeps
lau me uiants were nosed out in bus*ness and gives prosperity to the
the pennant fight by the Braves, after and the countrY ls the politics
the latter had made a whirlwind fin. the American P^P1*5 waat *nd will
have.
The prosperity for people and coun-
try thut comes through the business re-
I enforced by a protective tariff is the
condition the country needs, the peo-
ple must have—and will get.
The election of Mr. Wilson came
about because of the faith the coun-
try has In the protective tariff princi-
ple.
The politics that makes business, aud
the business that makes prosperity, is
the politics they want In their business
and the kind of business they must
have in their politics.
Connie Mack.
Bull Mooce In Retrospect
With the definite return to the Re-
publican party, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Per-
kins, Mr. Garfield, and other leaders in
the movement of 1912, the Progressive
party has come to Its end. A few fa-
natics may contrive a pretense of sus-
taining the Progressive name and or-
ganization a little while longer. But
it will be less the real thing than an
echo. It will have no vitality, no re-
l spect, no power of effectiveness. Pro-
I gresslrism as a political party, like
Knownothingism, Populism, nnd half a
run
Tameett Returns to Game.
Jimmy Tamsett who announced
- - ------- •<»“» unm ago that he had retired
Horstman Is the kind of a twlrler that | from baseball, has consented to play
lives on hard work and gets better eome semi professional games lu
»ith each perloruiaace. ( Schenectady.
IIIIIIL
No bother to
get summer
meals with
these on haul
Vieina Styb
Sausage ai4
Patted Meat*
Just open and >ervay
Excellent (or sandwiches*
league, and John Ferguson, said to be captured the world s title in 1910 from I “° "’ l,0n’f ? alarmed ot 1 " e(
the best ln the Ohio State league, j the Cubs, and from the Giants In 1911 I b per.‘ to Ami‘ricaa ; ymtgmctt't.
lohl certainly will need more pitchers 1 and 1913. Last year thev finished last Ilndustries, "hicl» have been Invited by
If he intends to keep his team np at for the first time in their career ’ Democratic meddling with the tariff. Libby, McNedI A Libby, ChicafJ|
the top of the list __ 'an(1 convinced that while the most
Another Pitcher Flaherty. I dlrefU‘ CODse?uelltes. of recklea.
Mcijrsw’8'management, £y finish* j Knownothingism Populism, and h
In the cellar. j dozen other siunlar Isms." has
. Fohl SiO"* Tv»o Pitchers. Connie Mack organized the Athletics |IU C0Urse'
Lee Fohl has added two more pitch- In 1901. They won the American [ _ , uy.11 „ „ „
ers to his staff in Dana Filligira, the league championship in 1902 1905 I „ Peopl'* W‘" C.aM RePub,i«™*-
star hurler of the South Atlantic ( 1910. 1911. 1013 and 1914 Thev also ! Buslne8s raen ,he country over, al-
that their friends are enjoying a
portion of the wealth that has coma
to Western Canada farmers ns a re-
sult of careful tilling of a soil prodl-
to make
good grain, cattle, bosses, hogs and
sheep.
Reproducing from the article:
The Government does not product
money. It can stamp "One Dollar" on
a slip of white paper, nnd we accept
It at a dollar’s worth, hut neither tha
paper nor the printing are worth a
copper. What giver It value Is the
promise of the people of Canada which
stands behind the printed slip, and our
faith in that promise.
Now do you know who’s got tha
money?
Let us put it Into figures. The farm-
ers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba last year raised 342,948,000
bushels of wheat. If we take for au
average 85 cents a bushel ln Manitoba,
81 cents ln Saskatchewan, and 79 cents
in Alberta the season’s wheat crop was
worth $280,629,000. Add to this as
oat crop of 334,840,00C bushels,
worth $95,457,000; a barley crop of 35.-
254,200 bushels, worth $15,871,000, and
a flax crop of 10,559,000 bushels worth
$15,843,000, and you find that on theso
four staples alone the farmers of West-
ern Canada produced a wealth of
$407,800,000.
Please note that this wealth Is la
money. It ls not ln real estate at In-
flated values, industrial stocks that ar«
half water and the rest air, fictitious
goodwills or unsaleable merchandise.
It Is In hard cash, or—which Is better
—hard wheat.
These figures are only for the staple
grain productions. They do not in-
clude the millions of dollars represent*
ed by the live stock and dairying Indus-
tries, or the additional millions Includ-
ed In the root, fruit, and garden crops.
The creameries of Saskatchewan, for
Instance produced more buttermilk
and Ice cream last year than their
total production amounted to six years
ago. The milk, butter, aud cheese pro-
duction of Alberta for 1915 was valued
at over eleven million dollars. The po-
tato crop of the three provinces was
worth five millions and a half. Cora
and alfalfa—comparatively new crops,
charged with tremendous possibilities
—amounted to over a round million.
Even honey—you didn’t know w«
raised honey (the bee kind) ln this
country, did you? Manitoba produced
106,000 pounds ln 1915, and there Isn’t
■ bee In the province that doesn’t
swear he's a better honey-sorter than
anything In California or Washington.
That's where the money ls; ln tha
Jeans of our honest friend the farmer,
who was too slow to get Into the aides
when the rest of ns saw short-cuts to
wealth; who hadn't Imagination enough
to think a man can make money with-
out earning It, and who was too doll
to know that hard work Is foolish.
Well, he has the laugh now. Likewise
the money.—Advertisement.
Sometimes the village dub migrates
to a city and develops Into n real man.
NO MALARIA—NO CHILLS.
“Plantation" Chill Tonic is guarantee)
In drive away Chills and Fever or yoai
money refunded. Price 30c.—Adv.
Some men work harder to get even
than to earn money.
There’s another pitcher Flaherty In !
ti.e American league. He w a young- L, rea(ljustins the ‘8ehedules to Z
rter from Deau academy taken on by , Ilwls of protection. For this lordnel •
Hugh Jennings. His first name Is Ed- | the country has learaed by
a nephew of PaL der’ ? ** ***' U I t0 trMt Ke‘mWic*n and to l
* j distrust the average run of Democrat* I
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