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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1908-11-25

MISS Aille OdIIctl icll last hi6ht AoA q
visit at Fairland.
Joe Williams and wife are here from
Chelsea for a visit.
Mrs. T. A. Jackson of Alton is visiting
friends here today
Chas. II. Collins made business trip
to Alton this morning
G. H. Harrison. of Harsons Kans., was
in the city this morning
Garland Marrs went to Tulsa today to
spend Thanksgiving day
j. B. Mcmahon, of Nowata, was trans
acting business here today
f. H. DalzelI, of Spring Hill, Kans. is
business visitor here today
Mrs. Rowe Cromwell is here from Alton
visiting j. M. Etter and family
G. W. Snodgrass left today for Wealaka
Mission to spend Thanksgiving.
Mrs. R, J. Wright left last night for a
visit at Seneca over Thanksgiving.
E. ]. Overley went to Joplin today to
spend Thanksgiving with his family.
H. j. Swartz left today for Coffeyville,
Kans.. for a visit over Thanksgiving
Mrs. W. M. Campbell left last night for
her home at Seneca after visit here.
Geo. E. Harris and Dr. Craig have gone
to Chateau for a two days duck hunt
Vann Stewart and wife; Of Miami, were
here this morning en- route to Muskoeee.
Rev. M. L. Butler was here from Chlcka-
sha today looking after property interests
Miss Hazel Mayes left this morning for
her home at Grove, to spend Thanksgiving
Rev. J. E. Pershing and son Arthur
went to Kelleyville today for hunting
trip.
Miss Orpha Bruner. of Ramona was here
last night en- route to Bluejacket for a
visit.
Mrs. r. |. Blakeney will leave this
evening for Muskogee to spend Thanks
giving.
Miss May Carroll is here from Claremore
for a visit with her sister Mrs. M. W.
Harmon.
Jim Crutchfield of Bushyhead returned
to his home today after visit here with
relatives.
Glen Rogers, the well known Cherokee
politician of Claremore. was here this
morning.
Mrs. t. P. Allen and daughter, Miss
Pluma, leave tonight for Parsons to spend
Thanksgiving.
Otis little will 60 to oKansas City tonight
to see the Missouri-Kansas football game
there tomorrow.
Miss Natalie Warren left last night for
her home at Wabb City, after visit
with friends here.
p Y. Smith, young attorney from In
diana. has located in Vinita and will soon
open an Office here.
Miss Nora Moore returned to her home
at Alton this morning after a visit with
Miss Mamie Garrison.
Miss Hattie Haynes and John Do King
will leave this evening for visit at
Baxter Springs, Kans
Joe Hunt jr.. has returned from Spring
field. Mo. where he underwent an oper-
alton for throat trouble.
Chas Hunt and wife went to Sapulpa
today to spend Thanksgiving with Mrs.
Hunts brother and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanmire arrived over the
Frisco today to spend Thanksgiving with
their daughter Mrs. Chas Wasmund.
The Butler place. joining town on the
northeast. is for rent Thirteen acres and
a four room house. S1OO in advance gets
il a year
The Rev. j. X. Thompson. Of MuskOgee,
was a caller at this Office Tuesday He
was en- route to Miami, where he addressed
a mems banquet at the Presbyterian
church.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
THEODORE A. BELL

MIR. BELLS reception in Los An
N geles yesterday was in the ma
AZ ture of big personal ovation.
league at the Westminster hotel and at
the Turner hall mass meeting in the
evening he stated clearly his position
with regard to the Democratic party
and the general interests of California.
He defined himself as an "uncompro-
crat," and said he was devoted to the
cause of clean politics.
This is the noblest political cause
with which any man can be associated.
Mr.. Bell believes the Democratic party
will take the lead in demonstrating
clean politics. and expressed the opin-
ion that inharmony between local fac
lions of the party is not serious, that
differences will be smoothed over and
the party will present a united front
during. the campaign. Herrinism and
the Southern Pacific machine, Mr. Bell
pointed out. are both inimical to the
interests of the state and the interests
Of clean politics, and nothing can be
more certain than the truth Of his re-
mark, which may be taken as the ''sum
of the whole matter that California
is not helplessly enthralled by Herrin-
ism and s. p machine politics, but that
the people have power to effect their
own deliverance if they will use that
power. By bringing about reform in
politics the people can eliminate graft.
Mr.. Bell expressed the opinion that be-
yond any reasonable doubt Mr.. Bryan
will be the Democratic candidate for
president.
1t is probable Mr.. Bell will be tenn
porary chairman of the national con-
yention.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
BELIEVES DEMOCRATS SHOULD
DEFEAT SOCIALIST DEHATERS

Los ANGELES, June 2s.--TEditor
Herald: While evidently decidedly
averse to Soci: ,lism you are at least
sufficiently imbued with the American
spirit of fair play and a free field to
be willing that both sides to this ques-
ton as well as other questions should
be aired l.. the Public Letter Box.
Your suggestion that public debates be
held Is most excellent one. My So
oailists friends tell me the difficulty lies
in getting a member of any of the old
parties to debate with them. They say
that a Socialist having superior logic
on his side is enabled to send his OPP
ponent invariably to defeat and that
1t is becoming increasingly difficult TO
find anyone who, not knowing this, is
willing to engage In an argument with
them. Is this true? Certainly IL the
Socialists are so eager for IL and even
furnish the hall for this purpose 1t
looks rather suspicious that they find
no one willing to enter the lists. That
Republicans should be disinclined to q
public discussion OF anything which
would show up their own discreditable
system is not strange. but your DEM
ocratic readers should feel confident
that they are on sure footing. VIII
no one Of them face the situation?
Let us find out how much of truth or
fallacy is in this bugaboo of Socialism.
FAIR PLAY.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
SCHOOL PATRIOTISM

TN ADDITION to letters which
have been published concerning
u schools and teachers, complaints
have reached The Herald that chill
dren have been assessed for various
purposes and that in one school where
an assessment had been levied for a
picnic a suggestion was made that
children should contribute to a fund
for the purchase of a portrait of an
educational magnate to hang on the
school room wall "to surprise and
please him." It is alleged by a re-
sponsible and trustworthy citizen that
his son was suspended for several days
because he lit a firecracker in the yard
Of that same school. AS Fourth of July
approaches children are eager to begin
the celebration. 1t is hard for boys
and girls to resist the temptation of
buying firecrackers when they are dis
played in tempting heaps in store
windows. Half the fun of the Fourth
is in getting ready for 1t. Even the
grave celebrations of the "grown ups"
are announced in advance, and read
ers know who will speak and the
topic he will discuss, and what songs
will be sung. Americans like to begin
talking about independence day long
before it comes around, and why
shouldn't they? And If young Ameri-
cans wish to shoot a few patriotic fire.
crackers before the exact dawn of the
ia rf-iyo nf
such punishment as that which was
visited upon a little patriot to whose
case our attention has been called?
And the punishment was so odiously
unamerican that it invites especial re-
Duke. Because the boy fired Fourth
of July firecracker in the school yard,
sometimes called the playground" he
was suspended for several days. In
other words, because he was boyishly
and in the austere judgment of the
teacher prematurely patriotic, he was
deprived of part of his education. To
suspend a boy because he makes a
patriotic noise with a firecracker is
Toryism, not Americanism.
Besides, the boys education is paid
for, and the teacher receives salary
for giving education to the boy-for
delivering the goods" In these days,
when there is well founded COM
plant that many American children
are deprived OF school privileges long
before their education is completed, it
is especially regrettable that children
who are allowed to attend school
should be deprived of even part of
their education by way of punishment
for any boyish offense. When that
offense could easily be mistaken for
PATRIOTISM by unprejudiced people
the offense is excusable and the pun
ishment becomes an offense.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
PARENTS DUTY

THERE is some ground for the
criticism of our Letter Box
Il friend who said many parents do
not visit schools, and show no interest
in either the institution attended by
their children or the teachers who are
taking charge of the education of their
children. Parents should visit the
schools. They should make inquiries
about the work of their chill
dren. They should take sympa-
thetic interest in that work and an
equally sympathetic interest in the
work OF the teacher. Many parents
know less about the studies and school
occupations of their children than they
do about tenement house conditions In
New York, on which they may keep
fairly we'll posted by reading the mag
azines. For many reasons parents
should visit schools often, and teachers
should encourage the practice and well
come the visitors. When there are
complaints that school conditions are
not what they should be the complaints
should not form the first incentive to
a parent to visit school. II a parent
is so thoroughly unfamiliar with school
life that reports or tales concerning 1t
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
ANSWERS QUESTION, "wHY DO
NOT WORKERS GO TO CHURCH,

LOS ANGELES, June 2s.--[Editor
Herald: We workingmen do not go
to church because there is nothing In
the church for US. The money chang
ers have again obtained control Of the
temples of religion. AS Rev. George
Lorimer, Baptist minister. once said,
There is too much churchianity In the
world and not enough Christianity"
What good can we get from the doc
trine of a heaven hereafter II we are
suffering hell right here and now? We
are simply crying in the wilderness,
peace peacei" when there is no
peace. 1.-THE kingdom of heaven is
within" Christ said. not, somewhere
beyond the sun, moon and stars. as
theology would have us believe. And
again, he said: by their fruits We
shall know them" If Christianity
means obedience to the golden rule,
then there is not one Christian in this
civilization; nor can there be, as
churchianity has sidetracked Chris.
tianity in the churches and CONNER
cial cannibalism has swallowed 1t up
in the marts Of trade. The Christianity
of Christ and our twentieth century
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
HARBoR DAY

LII patriotic citizens will unite 10
n make Harbor day the most sue
4A cessful California celebration OF
modern times. Why should 1T not be
the most successful? 1t will be the
most significant. 1t will mean more to
Southern California than any festival
or celebration of modern times. 1t will
signalize and emphasize the fact that
owing to the perseverance and patriot
ism of citizens who truly Jumped down
the throat of an octopus" and danced
the stuffing out of it, the determined
attempt of a great corporation to Sc
cure for its private ACKNOWLEDGMENT the
control of the San Pedro harbor was
thwarted. The Harbor day program Is
attractive and includes some unusual
features, among them the start of the
transpacifio ocean yacht race. which
will help to advertise San Pedro to the
world. In this harbor Southern Cali
fornia possesses a seaport which is
equal to any. There is no doubt about
the future or the destiny of San Pedro.
The very stars in their courses indicate
IL Will Dc one u llo 6tSatci SSoPoA -
of the United States and among the
greatest. The orient contains a popula-
ton compared with which that of
Europe is but as drop in bucket.
It is Americas business to train this
vast population to trade with it, Amer
lean style. and to open up markets for
American goods. Trade follows the
flag. 1t will follow the flag from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. through the
Panama canal. across the vast Pacific
to the English speaking islands under
the American and British flags and to
the Asiatic shores. The Pacific ocean
and the Pacific coast will be the scene
of the greatest trade and commercial
development the world has ever known.
A great share of this prosperity will
come to Los Angeles and Southern
California, and much Of it will be at
tracted and indeed much of it made
possible by the safe and spacious har-
Dor of San Pedro,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
DECLARES THE, DEMANDS ON
SCHOOL CHILDREN REASONABLE

LOS ANGELES, June 2a.-[Editor
Herald: Permit me a word about the
demands for school children. My SYM
pathies are with the working parents
who seek to provide an education for
their children at such sacrifices, yet
cannot but feel that some of them are
approaching the subject from the
wrong point of view.
Locking at the demands they are not
wrong in themselves-a blue print for
composition paper or trip to the
canyon, or even a present to q faithful
teacher are all things that people would
like to see their children have. Only
conditions are so bad for industrious
parents that they cannot afford to get
them. The teachers do not make the
demands; the demands come because
customs have grown up among us that
require the things. In Weather dis
tricts the calls are greater, In poorer
districts less. In no case do they
originate with the teachers but rather
in the social life of the people about.
To particularize, in the East Vernon
able. I have child there and ] have
talked with several parents who all
agree in this. To be sure the call for
school books Is needlessly great and a
gross injustice to the parents, but it
would be another gross injustice to
blame this to the teachers. Rather
blame ourselves for permitting neces-
stiles like school books to be made a
subject for private piunder. The Her
AIDS June is editorial. school Ex-
penses." gave the remedy. Let the
books and supplies be furnished for the
schools by the people collectively This
is already done in many places In the
east and middle west and wherever
tried is success. To prevent the calls
for a few things in school isn't worth
while. If you could abolish such needs
at once you would not be much better
off. Rather demand collective owner
ship and democratic management Of
the necessaries of life and you can fur
nish your children not alone with a
few incidentals but with all that is
essential for their good.
MRS. AGNES H. DOWNING.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
PROSPERITY

GALIFORNIA contributes large
1 proportion of. the wealth of the
entire world. With three tremen-
dous sources OF revenue, minerals. oil
and fruit, the material production of
the state Is phenomenal No other
country in the world of equal area can
be compared with 1t. And this wealth
which the state owes to mans endeav-
or. aided by sunshine, soil and the hid
treasures of the earth, is increasing
fast. The state mineralogist says the
mineral output for 1907 will exceed
S50,000,0o0, and will be nearly s7,000,000
more than it was during 1906.
For the same year the oil produc-
tion was 100000 barrels. which was
an increase of more than 100000 bar
rels over that of 1906. California is one
of the richest states in the Union and
the often repeated statement that it
lives on tourists and climate is abb
surd. Not only does its production OF
minerals, oil and fruit make 1t one of
the foremost wealth producing states,
but It is turning its attention to indus
trial and manufacturing development
and every year there will be more
wealth producing activities. San Pedro
harbor, the opening up of the Orient,
the completion of the Panama canal,
and many new lines Of Pacific steam
ships carrying passengers and freight,
combine TO make a picture of ABSO-
LUTELY CERTAIN FUTURE PROS
PERITY unequaled by any other state
In the Union, unrivaled by the history
of any other state in the Union and I'M
equaled and unrivaled in civilization
or In the history of civilization.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

Harvard professor is said to have In
vented q machine called The Truth Com
peller.-paily Paper.
Now here at last we have indeed
An article we sorely need: 4A4
small machine that doth compel
Us all the naked truth to tell
Altho' hope I'll never see
One OF them In my family
Pd like to place It in between
Bill Taft and Root. perchanoe to CLEAN
Why they are trottipg around the GLOBE
with no one left at homs but Loab
To mind the helm and run the ship
while Teddy's on the Mississippi.
rd like to have It in nay fist
when Doctor Long, the Naturalist,
Debates with Theodore the Great
The question that doth vex the state,
or whether CLANS, deprived OF legs,
Climb apple trees to lay their eggs.
rd like TO take one to the sea
And try II on our big Navee,
And ana out II it's going west
It's coal capacity to test
or merely seeks the Philippines
TO get load OF fresh sardines.
And finally ia like to try
It on Rersonage Up High,
And ask II, when his term is Ger,
Down by the green Potomac's shore,
He really means to go In peace.
or bankers to renew his lease
John Kendrick Bangs, in Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

'Oorah, 'oorah, 'oorah! With the
approval of King Edward and Queen
Alexandra the daughter of Ambassador
Reid was married yesterday to his ma
jesty's equerry, whose title is 'Hon.-
John Ward Brother Of the Earl of
Dudley" Mr.. and Mrs. Hon. john
Ward Brother of-the- Earl-of Dudley
will live in England, and the D. o.
Mills fortune. which bought the Tri-
bune for Reid, will soon be talking with
a cockney accent.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
SOON POSSIBLE

MI 7ST OF our readers will live to. see
VE the day when they can buy a
49, through ticket in Los Angeles,
board car for San Pedro, take pos
session of their stateroom on a steamer
and make the trip from Los Angeles
to Australia or New Zealand as easily
and more comfortably than they can
now make a journey to Chicago or
New York. Wonderful, indeed, are the
vistas of travel as we look down the
long lanes of the future. Like South
ampton and Liverpool in England,
rather than like New York, San Pedro
will be a central harbor from which
steamships will come and go to all the
ports of the world. plying in both
hemispheres, in both great oceans and
in 'the seven seas"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

Rockefeller churchianity are two en-
tirely different things.
In May, 1908, Broadway Magazine,
Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr., writing on the
question, us Christianity on the De-
elmer" among other things says:
1.-THE progress of the world is stead
lily and rapidly toward democracy,
while the tendency of the church is
stupidity, blindly, persistentiy toward
the maintenance of an aristocracy.
Crowds of workingmen in New York
frequently hiss the name of the church
and cheer the name of Jesus Christ"
AS vitalizing force in civilization
the curse of churchianity has spoiled
religion; and hence some of US, like
the German poet Schiller, must say:
at hurts my religion to go to church."
NORWEGIAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

There is not any doubt about the
justice. Righteousness, merit and neces-
sity of the proposed ordinance forbid
ding children under sixteen or eighteen
years of age from frequenting dancing
halls If the dance hall men know
which side their bread is buttered on
they will support the ordinance and
assist the authorities to enforce 1t.
We are astonished that any of the
astute dance hall people should be SO
shortsighted as to fight this ordinance.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
warmest sympathy with Mr.. sher-

Warmest sympathy with Mr.. Sher-
man will be felt by all classes of the
community. By one of the ironical
caprices of fate the candidate for vice
presidency on the Republican ticket
was stricken with severe, painful and
dangerous illness before he had much
chance to enjoy the distinction Of his
nomination. The Republican cause. not
very promising at the best. would be
hopeless without the active help of
Sherman.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24
AT LAST

kiss down my eyes
lest they should wake
Upon the vine shade of my village wall;
Lest as in parted dawns the slow day break.
And heartless pleasures, weary duties CALL
Kiss down my eyes
lest far from thee,
Along some Turing. unsupported way.
A new delight or glory-hash see,
This one impassioned blindness to betray.
Then cease to kiss
that my eyes o
May rise to thine and know the past IL past;
Beyond the tyranny OF waking lies
Our loves far dreamland- king dom--won at
Iasti --,Afnslee's.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

Elaborate preparations are being
made to assure the complete success
of Tag day. 1t is certain the taggers
will be able to Gift" dime from
almost every man, woman and child in
the community The cause for which
the tags will be sold is that of the
Associated Charities, than which there
is none more deserving. Owing to the
Associated Charities many of the citi-
zens of the United States have been
prevented from dying miserably in the
gutter during the Republican prosper
ity years. Tag day is most convine-
ing argument for the election of a
Democratic president.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

President David Starr Jordan has
been appointed United States repre-
sentative on the international commits
sion which will investigate American
Canadian border fishery laws. He has
gone to ueet the British commissioner,
Unless the Britisher is possessed of
unusually nimble wits. he will soon be
singing "Jordan's a hard road to
trabble!"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

Of life among the in
fants of this county.
In nine large cities
Of the United States
800 out of every 1000
babies die before they
reach the age of one
year. New York city
alone lost 17.437 last
year. The chances
for each new-born
oabe to live for one
week are less only to
those Of a man OF 30
y ears, an d t h 9
chances for 1t to live
q year are less only
than those of a man
of so. According to
DR.. Winters of Cor
nell medical college,
one-third of all chill
dren born do not
rea three months
in age. Among the
states the mortality
of babies under a
year ranges from
27Ah nar 1nnn In the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

mo party can hope to accomplish
any good purpose unless it rests upon
a moral principle says Theodore Bell.
This is an aphorisrn well worth bear
ing in mind. 1t Is good test of poll
tics, policies and platforms.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

Nobody has yet said that the Fries
harbor lines have been cast in pleas
ant places. We think it is pretty good
joke to anticipate the man who would
be guilty of such bad joke about such
a good subject.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-24

Theodore Bell "honors and admires
the men who have enlisted under the
banner of the Lincoln Roosevelt
league" and is such a good Democrat
that he is not afraid to say this right
out in meeting He realizes the fact
that an enemy of the machine is a
friend of Americanism.