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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-13
SAM MAKES NOISE LIKE
PUBLIC BUILDING

That Uncle Sam expects to get busy
on a public building at Chickasha is
indicated by letter received hy POST
master Rose, asking for information
relative to. the needs of the postoffice
here.
The government has already pur-
chased site for a building on Fourth
and Choctaw avenue and it seems that
data is being prepared with view to
an appropriation for the erection Of
the building 1t is expected that this
appropriation will be secured at the
next session of congress.
Following is the letter received by
Mr.. Rose:
Washington, d. G., Sept. s, 1909
Postmaster, Chickasha, Okla: Sir
Referring to the bill introduced in con.
gress providing for the erection of a
federal building in your city. | have tc
request that you will advise this office
as to the space required for the use OF
the postoffice, using the blank form
herewith inclosed, and being careful
to answer fully the inquiries therein
contained.
Are any other government officials
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-13
INJURED BY A FALL.

J a. Leatherwood, a travelling man
from Ardmore, sustained severe in
juries from fall he received at the
rear of the Chickasha postoffice. where
he fell down an S-foot flight Of stairs
He was taken to his home in Ard
more.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-13
STOCKHOLDERS WILL MEET.

The stockholders Of Eyerybodys Ice
& Cold Storage Company will meet at
the City Hall, Tuesday, Sept. IA, at A
p. m. for election OF officers and the
transaction of such other business as
may come before the meeting. Every
stockholder is requested to be pres
ent without fail
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-13

located in your city? If so, please ad-
wise this office as to the space re-
quired therefor; the rent paid, if any,
etc.
AS this matter is or pressing import
ance, ] shall be glad to receive your
repls at an early date. Respectfully,
Jno w. Parsons,
Acting Assistant to Supervising Archi.
tect.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-13

tainly have that number when the tru-
ant officer IS appointed and compuls-
ory attendance is made effective
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-13
RAIN AT VERDEN

A good shower was reported at Yer
den and surrounding country this
morning and the drouth was also bro
ken north Of town.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
URGES CONSTRUCTION OF
NEW HARBoR BOULEVARD

LOS ANGELES, Sept 14.-[Edtor
Herald: What is the matter with the
new Harbor boulevard which is to
connect San Pedro. Wilmington and
Long Beach with Los Angeles? This
highway was to be built out of the
SO, 500 900 good roads fund and was one
of the most urgently needed of the
whole system. From present indica-
tions this road will be completed at
some indefinite time within the next
several years. Is this more of the
work of the Southern Pacific?
The contract for the grading of the
lower four miles of this road through
the Niger Slough country was let
months ago and is slowly dragging
along. Why not have let the contract
for all the balance of ths-work at or
about the same time? This could just
as we'll have been under way long ago.
as to have been let 30 until after the
lower section is completed.
OF all the highways leading out of
Los Angeles the one to the harbor cit
les is by far the most needed as there
is not a road whereby one can drive
either to San Pedro or Wilmington
that is not in a disgraceful condition
today, and describing it as disgraceful
is indeed putting 1t mildly. According
to the present progress being made
with the work portions of the harbor
will be dredged and shipping going on
in same long before the boulevard is
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
FAKE GEOGRAPHY

A NEW argument in favor of state
IA division is supplied by the fake
IA geography which paints in glow
ing words the glories of North Califor-
MIA and tells the children South Cali
fornia consists of desert, in which there
are oases. The principal oasis Is Los
Angeles.
Since this is but an oasis in a desert,
the efforts of the state board Of un-
equalization to create huge values on
which taxes may be levied must be re-
garded as mastery. The work of the
unequalizers could hardly be called a
labor Of love, but it bore the stamp of
genius One would have expected that
in a geography-dese they would have
found at most a healthy cactus and an
iridescent mirage, but instead they
found-strange product of the desert"
"a huge, busy, metropolitan city. the
natural capital of a vast stretch of
highly cultivated territory, bearing all
manner OF wealth-producing crops and
fruits, and served at the seaboard by a
magnificent harbor, part Of Greater
Los Angeles, and destined to be the
principal port Of the west, and to make
Los Angeles the maritime metropolis
thereof.
Overwhelmed by the prospect, the
unequallzers went at South California
tooth and toenail, and estimated and
assessed it in jot and in TITLE in article
and particle. Verify we believe that
by the northern assessors the very
hairs of our heads were all numbered.
and tax valued hair by hair.
The state geographer and the state
board of equalization should get to-
gether and form the Northern Ananias
club.
AS one Of the results of their efforts,
the movement for state separation is
gaining force daily and formed the
subject Of an address by former state
Senator r. N. Bulla. Mr.. BulIa voiced
public sentiment when he said that in
South California the people with prac-
tical unanimity have accepted the
opinion it will be desirable and advan-
tageous to the southern section to ef-
feet a logical division of a state that,
undivided. is as large as all the New
England states, New York and Penn
sylvania combinedi
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
SEES AN END TO THE
REIGN OF IMMORTALITY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15.-[Editor
Herald: From the controversy In the
Letter Box on the subject of morality
one is led to infer that many of these
writer's have failed to grasp the deeper
meaning of this ethical word. Not only
here in these columns but also in the
drama of what is termed life is this
made perceptible. From the express
sions given out from life on this stage
it would really seem that but few
realized that morality is composed Of
many cardinal virtues. And he who
prides himself on being highly moral
and forgets to be just and kind cannot
lay claim to any of these. Hall Caine
has declared the world is made up of
make believe" And when we see the
weak and the helpless sacrifice by this
moral class on the ALTAR of mamnfon"
one must believe there is much truth
in this. Not only in the humber walks
of life do we perceive these moral de-
linquencies but we see a government
that claims to be most Christian and
moral giving greater protection to its
landed possessions than to its human
possessions. But IL the world at pres
ent is made up of many moral short
comings let us believe there is a good
time coming, for the public seems TO
be at last raising cry for an active
morality and is demanding the same
code of morality for both sexes and for
the rich as for the poor.
Surely, too, it must in time decree
that he who places stumbling blocks in
this pathway to morality is the greatest
of sinners. Yes, this earthly valley, so
full of discord and injustice. rs promised
a light-a light to guide where no good
fame can help or bad fame can hurt
or hinder. This light will lead where
each can organize victory out of mis-
takes. G.. B. e.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
MASS MEETING

A CCoRDING to resolutions adopted
"a by the City club, the board of
Ia governors of the club will make
arrangements for a mass meeting of
citizens at which existing conditions
in the school department will be con-
sidered and action tending to bring
speedy relief will be taken. The City
club commended the suggestion that
the people themselves subscribe for
the issue of $72O,OOO Of school bonds
now offered and that available moneys
in the sinking fund of the Los Angeles
aqueduct be applied by the city in the
purchase of the bonds.
Upon all members of the City club
and citizens in general is impressed the
necessity of hearty cooperation to the
end the bonds may be speedily sub
scribed for and the school board per-
mitted to proceed with the construction
of the necessary school buildings.
A mass meeting is desirable not only
for the purpose of taking action to
save the cause of popular education
in Los Angeles from the attack of its
ruthless foes, but for the purpose of
giving the leading citizens of this mod
ern, progressive metropolis chance of
freeing their minds on the subject of
the astounding and unpatriotic OBJ
struction that was placed in the path
of progress by the champion mischief
maker of the age.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
LET US HAVE PEACE

sSCtoNDOR" BEREsFORD, more
politely known as Lord Charles,
~ may be accepted as the unoffi-
cial mouthpiece of the British and CO.
lonial governments when he suggests
the English-speaking nations should
unite to keep the peace Of the world.
Like every other student of the ques-
ton, Lord Charles realizes that if the
great comercial nations should police
the world and introduce an interration-
al system of peace preservation similar
to the system in use in every munich
pality, an orderly, industrial CONNER
cial civilization, with a reasonable
guarantee of life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness, would be substituted
for the present higgledy-pig sys-
TEN, for which the division of the Eng
lish-speaking race into six parts, each
to some extent rival of all the others,
may be held largely responsible.
Lord Beresford talks about the Ave
great English speaking nations" but
either he has been unsupported or is
overlooking some member of the fam
lily. The nations which have their own
parliaments or congresses and their
own institutions are the United States,
the United Kingdom, Canada, Austria
liza, New Zealand and South Africa-a
very palpable SIX, not five. Under the
control or influence Of this half dozen
is vast area Of conquered territory
and a huge tributary popularion-Hin-
dustan, Burma, North Africa and the
Soudan, Rhodesia and the Transvaal,
parts of China, parts Of South America,
the Channel islands (1'rance), Gibral-
tar (Spain), Hawaii, the Philippine is
lands, the Suez canal. the Panama ca
nal (soon), the south pole (shackleton
expedition) and the north pole (Cook
and Peary expeditions).
Lord Charles says 1T is most impor-
tant for the English-speaklng nations
to PREVENT war.
"The English-speaking nations are
trade nations. When the time comes
when the great English-speaking ma
tions get together there shall be no
war. 1t would be a simple matter for
these great nations to unite to protect
bonds existing between them, thereby
benefting humanity and greatly adding
to the happiness of tens of millions Of
people,"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
BELIEVES TAX RAISE is
BOOST FOR LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, Sept 16.-[Editor
HERALD: Just a few lines of sugges-
tion relative to the recent act of the
state board = of equalization whereby
values in this city and county have
been raised 40 per cent. If the people
of this county and city have the wis
dom they are given credit for they will
just simply use that raise in values
as the best booster proposition they
have ever had Spread the news to the
four corners of the earth-and spread
1t fast-and the name of Los Angeles
will be upon the end of more tongues
than ever before since Los Angeles
was founded. 1t is simply great
Months ago in San Francisco and Oak
land 1 made the statement that in
area and population Los Angeles had
San Francisco beaten as the larg-,
est city on the Pacific coast. And now
comes this assessed valuation to add
one more condition to your greatness.
Keep it up. You can't stop it, So
make it as great as possible The fu-
ture of this city is not a problem to
solve. You can see it with your eyes
shut.
Printers ink placed on phite paper
and placed in the hands of thinking
people will now more than ever before
place Los Angeles in the front ranks
of American cities. So turn loose the
printers ink You have the goods be-
hind your ad.
ED r. WEBSTER,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
SAYS SMOKING ON CARS
CONSTITUTES A NUISANCE

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14.-[Editor
done by many of the good and liberal
citizens of our fair city to prohibit
smoking on cars. Or. Haynes speaks
my sentiments so nicely when he says,
Although 1 smoke myself" 1 think 1t
q most excellent plan to prohibit smok-
ing on the street cars. To many the
smoke habit IS very offensive, espe-
cially so to ladies and children who are
not accustomed to smoke at home.
They are being shamefully imposed
upon. I have read Dentists argu-
ment that no one has ever objected to
his smoking. What would have been
the use? / have witnessed several
times where an insolent reply was all
the objector received, the smoker con-
tinuing as before. Perhaps Dentist
would have been more courteous.
Personal liberty is all right in it's
place, but personal liberty must not be
turned into public nuisance. Just
think for a moment of scene on
street car. Last week two ladies
having the appearance of refinement
boarded a car, taking seat in the
rear. Soon other passengers came on
board. In front of the ladies two
passengers were seated, also two in a
seat behind the ladies. The. two pas
sengers in front were old smokers,
Judging by appearances, ons with an
antiquated pipe, the other d poor Gig
arctic. The two in the rear seat were
putting away with two for nickel ci
gars. If such conditions on our street
cars do not constitute a nuisance for
all people with sensitive olfactory
nerves will some one tell us what
will?
The Herald has been doing a good
turn in publishing the statements of the
people. We hope the good work will
continue until there IS an ordinance
smoking on street cars.
Z. z. EADS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
DEFENDS THE WOMEN WHO
APPEARED BEFORE COUNCIL

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.-[Editor
Herald: After reading the article in
Wednesdays Herald regarding the mo
smoking on street cars petition and
its sidetracking by the council / feel
obliged to say something in defense of
those women who had the courage to
persevere for the principles of common
decency in the face of such opposition
and discourtesy as they met at the
hands of at least one of the councilmen
and I'll wager they maintained a sweet
and ladylike dignity throughout the
entire campaign that was a credit to
their sex. Does the councilman in ques-
tion realize that the men Chose par
ticularly in authority who by lax law
or non-enforcement of ordinances) so
lower the standard of morality that it
becomes necessary for the mothers to
take a hand in order to protect their
children and their homes? They are
the very best mothers who are on the
alert. Would not these same mothers
gladly rest in the comfort of their
homes instead of making appointments
with councilmen who keep them wait
ing two or three hours, then without
apology or excuse put them off little
longer by saying: "I'n see you tomor-
row at o'clock"
I refer now to the real mothers who
produce sons like unto our mayor, for
instance, who are not afraid to stand
for right and principle, not the society
women who are off to the card party
or matinee while their children run the
streets and become prey to the many
temptations which beset them on every
hand, most of which the men are re-
sponsible for. They make it absolutely
necessary for the mothers to go out
and fight these battles, and on them
fall the responsibilities of the rearing
of their children, who are the men and
women of tomorrow and must needs be
trained for the various positions in life,
while the fathers, many of them (not
all, thank God), sit around and play
politics and smoke. Fathers, if you are
not in this list get busy and let your
councilman know where you stand be-
fore the next meeting of that honor
able body ALPHA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
SAYS CHARITY FOR MALE
SINNERS OUT OF PLACE

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 1S.-[Editor
Herald: 1t is true there are individual
cases where the male is not alone to
blame, but the fact is overlooked that
the crying need is raising the moral
standard for the male as a sex. The
male sex has not suffered for lack of
charity. AS sex the male has done
as he pleased and dared woman to Obj
ject, while demanding of her the high
est standard of purity. The standard
for the male sex must be raised-pub-
lie opinion overhauled, and it requires
harsh measures to bring this about
Severe criticism in these columns is
entirely appropriate, and women are
iight in pronouncing harsh judgment,
as the time has come when we must
set a high mark and live up to 1t, even
as we demand the same from women.
charity for man sinners is out of place.
SAMUEL SPENLOW.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
SUNNY JIM

WI HEN Sunny Jim Sherman, after
w making vain attempt to see
the chief executive, who might
almost be called his official colleague,
and leaving flve-pound box of candy
as a birthday present for his excel
lency, hoped off the presidents train
and disappeared among the crowd, he
reminded the public of the fact that
never was a president less hampered
by a brilliant and we'll known vice
president than is Mr.. Taft.
We do not believe all American his
tory affords another instance in which
a vice president tried to see a presi-
dent aboard a train, and was prac-
ticaIly hustled off, leaving behind him
a package of sweets.
Many remarkable incidents may
make the Taft trip memorable, but We
believe future historians with a sense
Of the humorous win take pleasure in
giving prominence to the adventure OF
Inc unknown vice president at Utica
She home city Of that vice president
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

Newspapers published in other cities
should be careful to inform their
readers Los Angeles is not at all to
blame for the hitch in the educational
program. The citizens of Los Angeles
believe in providing the best and most
abundant educational facilities money
can buy, and they gave the money with
which to buy them; but the supply Of
money was held up by mischief makers
and a condition of confusion and dis
tress produced. This condition must
be overcome soon, if children are not
to be deprived of education; and no
doubt Los Angeles will be able to deal
with the emergency, for that's "the
Los Angeles way" But the emergency
was so unnecessary that its spiteful
provokers ne'er forgot shall be by a
Justly resentful public.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

Let's see-Peary. Peary? Peary!
Where have we heard that name be-
fore? And Cook? Isn't he the gentle
man who says Mr.. Peary is incorrect
when he says DR.. Cook is incorrect?
People for awhile took more enthusias-
tic interest in the Peary-Cook row than
in the north pole, mention of the dis
covery Of which no longer causes ex-
citement. But now the public is fast
losing interest even in "the row."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

completed, thus still holding the
freight monopoly in the hands of the
railroads, as it is absolutely out of the
question to drive an auto truck
through to Wilmington at this time.
Also under the present deplorable road
conditions it is indeed discouraging to
the auto pleasure and business traffic
to the harbor cities, being ruinous to
the machines and disgusting to the
occupants.
Let us hope enough pressure be i'm
mediately brought to bear to hurry
this particular highway to early COM
pletion even though it may upset the
good thing of the railroads.
GEO. w. VANSYCKLE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
Calls Enthusiasm

Baseball is good, clean sport and 1t Is the
game 1t is proposed to keep
people from betting on the sport. and ]. Cal
Ewing, president OF the Coast baseball
ieaEue, had two more men arrested Friday
for betting on the game ana announces
gets them in jail, II 1t can be done. Inci-
dentaliy he expressed an enthusiastic desire
to punch their Jaws.-san Luis obispo Tri-
bune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
The State Press
Mars a Has-Been

sentient beings cannot exist on Mars, ao-
cording to the latest dictum of science That
popular theory held tenaciously by Per-
cival Lowell and other noted astronomers
has been knocked into a cooked hat by
the observations of Prof w. w. Campbell
and Prof. Alex. McAdie and other noted
astronomers, who have been viewing Mars
from the summit of snow-capped Mt. Whit
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-"The Witching
Hour"
MASON-"The Fighting Hope"
BURBANk-"The Three Of Us"
BELASCO-"Clas lassmates."
MAJESTIC-"The Politicians"
ORPHE HEUM-VaudeVil
GRAN ND-"Across the Divide
LOS MISUNDERSTANDING.
UNIQUE-Vaudev and Comedy.
FISCHER'S-Bur
EMPIRE-Musical comedy.
ARROW-Variety.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
Where We Are Slow

1t would have been easy to prove that
the telephone, the wireless and the dirigible
airship are scientifically impossible, II now
we could only make corresponding progress
in social and political science and practice
and in the moral uplft and conduct OF the
masses this old world would become a
pretty satisfactory place TO live in.-san
Jose Mercury
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

1t is reported several citizens who
inadvertently perused the editorial page
of a great Republican morning daily
paper became wry-necked through
twisting their heads in the endeavor to
follow" the attempt made argumenta-
lively 10 prove the presidents out
spoken praise of the labor unions was
really subtle blame of the labor unions.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

Let's hope the school bond disgrace
will be removed from the fair fame OF
Los Angeles before President Taft
reaches this city. Like every other
sensible man, he sees the America of
tomorrow in the schoolrooms Of today;
and the social troubles Of tomorrow in
factories and stores where children
work. and on the streets in which
children of school age run wild.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

It is possible legally to divide Cali
fornia into two. Therefore it would
anpear the Shakespearean motto fits
the case: IF it were done when 'twere
done. then 'twere well 1t were done
quickly" There is nothing but more
trouble to be gained by procrastination.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
Near Enouah

After all, the pole is only an imaginary
point, located beneath a sea of floating Ice
bergs in the land of the midnight sun, and
If either Cook or Peary can satisfy his
critics that he approached within a mile
or even two miles of the mystical spot. 1t
would satisfy the world.-Modesto News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

Among California dried fruits, the
c,,t and dried caucus and convention
cannot be recommended. But these
fruits do not represent the state. They
represent a graft on the state.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
He snatehes Them

The editor of the Delta excuses his absurd
editorials by explaining that he writes them
IN a few minutes of time snatched away
from other duties.-Visalia Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

Yes. the protective tariff on citrus
fruit seems to protect the gougers.
Same old story.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
The Public Letter BON

Letters b
OF
bu assume no rapon
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

If YOU don't REGISTER you cannot
VOTE. Therefore, REGISTER, and
DO 1T NOW.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
Merry Widows

'Why do men admire wldows?" inquiries
Dallas, Texas girl 1t is not probable
that the men know exactly. but the widow
could tell. If she would.-Riverslde Morning
Mission.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

The necessity for the education of all
children of Los Angeles is condition,
not a theory.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
Far and Wide
White Garments

First Mark Twain wore a white even
ing suit Then Banker Vanderlip aided
the press agent to boom new summer
rasort nv donning one. Now white fan
mel appears in a pulpit Why should
the painter of the joys of religion wear
undertaker's colors New York World.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

South California will be the Sunshine
state.