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The Prescott daily news., 1912-04-15
WONDERFUL CHANCE:
 IN STATE HOSPITAL

"Arkansas is the only state in the United States that is pre- pared to care for all her insane. " This announcement can be made not later than July 1, at which time the new annex will be open ed for patients
 It likewise may be announced that at the present time no state is giving it's insane better care or more thorough and scientific treatment than is Arkansas. The Arkansas Hospital for Nervous Diseases is completely equipped for the highest standard of ef- ticiency and service.
 The beginning of the revolu- tion of the Arkansas hospital is found in the appointment of a board of business men-men who did not seek the appointment, but who were selected solely from the standpoint of their fit ness. The board was given a free rein. The first and most important conclusion of h $ State Board of Charities was
The Prescott daily news., 1912-04-15
WARREN WINNER IN
 CAMDEN CONTEST

The fourth annual meeting of tbeTntercounty Contest of South west Arkansas, held last Friday night at Camden, resulted in the awarding of the silver cup to the Warren Training School and the individual medals to Miss Edith Meek of the Warren Training School and Thomas Watt Jr., of Camden
 Fifteen schools sWere represent edwith . contestants. State Superintendent of Public In, struction George B. Cook pre- sided.
 Camden, a three-time winner of the cup, was second.
 The following were the judges: For the boys, Will Steele of Texarkana, Judge Cowling of Ashdown, Professor Herndon of Little Rock For the girls, Mrs. Jennie Myers of Crossett, Mrs. John McRayen of Little Rock, Miss May Little of TeXarkana. 6EES LAXATIVE G0UGh SYRUP
 RELIEVES COUGHS AND caLns
The Prescott daily news., 1912-04-15

plan annex to care for 152 patti ents. Then we can safely say that Arkansas is the only state in the Union that is prepared to care for all her insane.
 A COW shed, which, however, was never used for that purpose, is to become a model hospital for enfeebled and cOnyaleScent elder ly women and for those threat ened with tuberculosis. T h i $ structure is now nearing com pletion and will be the most de sirable quarters at the institu tion. It is only one story, with wide open porch and splendid ventilation in the large dormi- tory. It will be finished inside with hard plaster and on the out side with staff, and presents a very pleasing appearance. It has the most modern arrangement of kitchen, dining room and lava tories connected with the main building only by the housed walllway. A sleeping porch is also provided.
 The great saving in this build ing can only be appreciated by
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The Prescott daily news., 1912-04-15

neSSeS and enterprises hinged on the character and ability of the men in charge and they be- lieved that this principle should apply to the states important business of caring for it's most unfortunate citizens.
 The board selected Dr. ]. l.. Greene for superintendent of the hospital. He has been for 20 years actively engaged in this line of work. First in Nebraska as assistant superintendent, then superintendent of the asylum at Lincoln, later as superintendent of the largest asylum in the west at Kankakee, H., from which position he was made chief phy- sician and alienst in charge of the nine institutions in Illinois.
 The advent of Dr.. Greene marked the beginning of com plete revolution in the Arkansas hospital. This is the third in stitutiOn that he has reOrganized and it is quite a cOincident that the Arkansas institution and the one at Lincoln and the other at Kankakee should all have been exactly the same age when he took charge and instituted his reforms.
 The former place of detention where the inmates were cared for the best the circumstances would permit has become a model modern hospital in every sense of the word.
 One of Dr. Greene's first steps was to establish a complete hos pital, in charge of a graduate nurse, with the best possible surgical equipment, including the highest type of Sterlizing ap- paratus. A laboratory was also established so that every scien- tifc test could beapplied to every patient. Both these new depart ments heve already rendered the state service of incalculable value
 On the first day Dr. Greene began a complete reorganization of the institution to improve san itary conditions-hard plaster walls, fresh paint, clean polished
 floors. more fresh air vented plumbing, concrete surface and Subdrains. Much of this was accomplished by careful plan ming and comparatively little eX- pense for the wonderful change in apparent conditions that had been wrought.
 The board points with pardon able pride to instance after in stance where the experience of Dr. Greene has enabled better service or results to be accom- plished at a greatly reduced cost in money and recurrent la bor. Gas is the only fuel used and all heating and cooking is done by gas direct or steam.
 The centralization of the heat ing plants, ice plant, etc, has re suited in a great saving, One of the unique features is the well for condensed steam, from which the boilers may draw water at boiling point, whereas before an elaborte cooling apparatus had been in use.
 The new steam cooking equip ment that is just now being in stalled is on par with the high standard for other departments Tho immenS so kitchen in which
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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

Governor WOODROW Wilson'S clear
cut stand against the reactionaries in
the fight for control Of the democratic
organization exactly meets the esti-
mate the country had formed OF the
New Jersey man.
The progressive democrats are not
left without candidate who has the
courage to oppose the surrender OF the
party to the interests that controlled
the republican convention at Chicago.
At the risk of inviting the opposition
of Tammany and the men who control
delegates in the Baltimore convention
he has taken his stand with Mr.. Bryan
in whom the rank and file Of the dem-
Eocratic party have the utmost conf.
denoe.
The issue is as clearly defined In the
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

He personifies the for
malism of law courts and the New
Yorkish adherence OF every innoya-
ton. His election as temporary chair
man might not signify, but it would
suggest. that the temper of democracy
Is somewhat in consonance with what
he personifies, and the prevalence d
that notion would be heavy handicap
TO the democratic party in the battle
which it will have to wage. But
worse objection to the election Of
Judge Parker to be temporary chair
man of the convention is the circum-
stance that he was in reality nOminat
ed for that position by the Hon. I
Charles F. Murphy. Who the Hon
Charles F. Murphy is and what ae
signifies in politics are too well known
to make any explication necessary.
The point is that the selection of
man who so faithfully epitomizes the
New York idea and who is so unmis-
takably impinged by the Hon. Charles
r Murphys approval, would be most
absurd lsolecism, unless it is the Ddr-
rose of the party to come out IN
lecuivocally as the champion OF tory
ism. If that is Its intention, there is
lrcne so suitable for temporary char
man as Judge Parker is. He is, in
that event, the one man with wh& e
line democrats can best match Sena-
tor Root( who enjoyed the Ike honor
| from the Chicago convention--Dallas
News.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28
rAE TARlFE.

In the coming campaign the under
living ideas of the two great political
parties will be definitely snd clearly
revealed 1t will be seen end under
stood that republicanism stands for
system Of extreme protection that
is destructive and demoralizing to
every right and interest of the Amer
iean people. while democracy stands
uneauivoeally for a program of tarlff
reform and deduction which is essen
tiat to the prosperity and happiness
of the people and to the growth and
expansion of American commerce and
industry.
To charge that democratic tariff re-
form will be detrimental to American
wealth producers and wage earners,
whether on the farm or in the factory,
lis to talk cant and hypocrisy The re-
curing anniversary of Thomas Jeffer-
sons birth reminds us that the Amer
lean Republic was founded, and its
true greatness developed and estao-
iHshed. by democratic statesmen and
democratic leaders who have unfalter-
ingly fought the heresy that tariff
tax levied not for revenue, but to in
crease prices and augment profits, ever
was or ever can be beneficial to the
people who must pay the tax.
why should intelligent Americans
give heed to the selfish elamor Of tarie
lscaremongers? They have been pam
pered ard coddled until they regard
themselves as owners OF the natior
and masters of the people. With un
warranted arrogance they threateI
disaster and destruction ii their ca
pacity suffers the slightest check, or
IA veto is placed on their tariff licens'
to rifle and empty the pockets Of thei
, fellow citizens
1t has been truly said that "Th'
, Tariff is the Mother of Trusts" Nor
important and far-reaching than thi
i accurate indictment of republican pre-
J lection is the tact that the tariff j. th
! parent OF practically all the corruI
| Ition that exists in our national Iii
. and politics.-B Hon. John A. Di'
4 Governor of New York, in Norman /
1 Mack's National Monthly for June
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28
DEMOCRACY UNDER TEST.

Mr.. Bryan says, in effect, that thef
issue is the people against the organic
ed forces of plumber. So it is, but the
fact does not take us far. How are
the forces organized, and how must{
they be met?
The citadel of organized plunder Isl
legislation for the benefit of special in
terests. Behind the trusts, the MOneyf
Power, the buyers of legislatures ami
the corrupters of government are bads
laws. The forces of organized plunders
will continue organized and keep ONT
Numbering until driven from thel
strongholds which the laws have rear-s
ed for them.
The chief of these bad laws is thel
protective tariff, making it possible TOT
tax everybody for the sake of somel
body.
The tariff is the mother of the trusts, !
Its exactions are the foundation on
those great fortunes which, through
groups of federated banks and under
our imperfect currency laws, hold the.
credit of the country by the throat
the Money Power. The connection be-
tween the tariff and the purchase os
senatorial seats by millionaires is al
clear as the relation of the commodity
and the price. And it is the tariR
which has so swollen the revenuestl
government as to breed thousand ed
trayagances.
1t makes no difference who is presi
dent of the United States unless thl
legal standing-room of organized plum
der is destroyed. The tariff magnatsi
will snap their fingers in the face Of
the best of presidents SO long os the
protective tariff stands.
The republican party stands sponsor
for the present tariff. The Roosevelt
party according to one of Rooseyelt'f
closest advisers, will likewise be
party of protection. The democracy i
the party of tariff reduction The
greatest chapter in the recent histoF,
Of political progressiveness contain
the text of the tariff bills passed by tn
present congress and vetoed by re
publican president.
This is no time for democracy to 2.
Ito war with itself or to look for foe
t., within its own household. Let the feaI
full democrat hunt up the roll calls O
the tariff bills passed at WashingtOl
since Champ Clark lifted the gayel an
scrutinize them They give us tn
: measure Of present-day democracy, TO
they show how democracy's represeI
Etatives bore themselves when the DE-
mocracy charged the citadel or orgaI
lied plunder.-Republic.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28
cENTERvIEW ITEMS.

Eugene Hawkins and Hiss Anah
Thomas surprised their friends -
ing to Claremore and being marries
Roy and John Harris and Todd w
liams are putting back culvert Il
high water washed out on cur roul
line.
Roy Harris and Miss Agnes Nair 8
tended church in Big Cabin Sundi
night.
Mrs. A. o. Harlin and son are yis
ing in McAlester this week.
Couch played ball with the Cente
view boys Sunday. Score 10 20 II
favor of Couch
Frank Billingslea and SON Joe T
turned to the farm this morning aft
a weeks stay in Vinita.
Jack Hall went to White Oak Sa
day evening. tolmeet Jim Blew.
Willie Nair spent Sunday eyeniI
with Alvie Shaw
John Carley is in Big q abin III
evening loading out a car o9 hay
J. W. Harris had six teard turnii
sod preparing to SOW millet, asst wee
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

Advices from the ring side at Chi
cago indicate that no nomination will
be made before late Saturday. The
cool headed members of the republican
party are waiting for the delegates to
cool OFF before attempting any OF the
real business of the convention. They
see clearly that to nominate Taft at
this time while every body is mad
would mean defeat When sober rea'
son has a chance to assert itself the
better Judgment of the convention may
be appealed to.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28
THE MILK OF THE WORD.

Mr.. Bryan called the attention of the
democrats to the "Pillar of cloud by
day and the pillar of fire by night,
and Colonel Roosevelt reminded the
republicans that they had reached
"Armageddon, while "a plank in the
progressive party's platform is: Thou
shalt not steal The Bible promises
to be a greater factor in the present
campaign than the old tariff textbooks
kansas City Star.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28
lit is not for me to praise Or blame

1T is not for me to praise or blame |
my work.
1T is. however, duty and pleasure
to say that in the vicissitudes of
thirty-two years have been eneour-
aged and assisted by my readers. On
beginning, my work, wondered where
and how | could secure material for
editorials, but for many years it has
been difficult to find room in the paper
for what seemed TO be necessary. Some
of the germs of editorials have been
suggested by bishops, presidents OF
colleges. judges. physicians. merchants,
public school teachers. Sunday school
teachers, and laymen of every degree;
other themes have come from the sad
and lonely, from the poor and Isolated,
from prisoners, from sailors, from
workers in the farthest mission field,
from young men and women. and from
parents and children. To the above
unpaid helpers | am thankful.
Occasionally friends and some per-
iodicals have asked whether the edit
ing of a paper owned by church is
| not a kind of slavery. Had l found it
so. should not have been a candidate
+ for a second election.
cThe book committee has not once
criticized to me the contents of the
Christian Advocate. The book agents
under whose administration each num-
Der of the paper passes for printing
and distribution, have never interfered
with my freedom of thought and
speech. On the other hand. they have
always given me such additional facil-
tiles as were asked
Not one of the bishops ever inter.
fered or preferred hints, without my
first asking their yiews-not to com
) mand but to enlighten me.
Freedom is necessary to an editor
without it he is a slave even the
: fear OF freedoms loss paralyzes his
pen. When the general conference
re-elects the editor of a paper owned
z by the church it lifts him above re
t strieted localities, above small bod!
+ which may remove him from office b,
2 a majority of one. During all thes'
/ years have been free. When the con
e ference reelected me, | returned t
e the work with more zest than before
S Had they selected another | shoul
o have willingly returned to the minis
i try, which l had found, when blest b
t the Holy Spirit, the most delightfu
e of all human occupations.
= ION one occasion Generate Grant wa
S incensed at an orator who addresse
n him on festal day, because none {
II his subordinate generals, majors, co
r onels, lieutenants and men in the rank
e were mentioned. The general broB
u out: What could l have done withol
Of their help? Never commend me wit
Ig out commencing them!' The successiN
" assistant editors and office force an
m the regular correspondents are to
r. considered in any estimate Of the VOL
H. of the editor. In this respect he WI
OF now descends from the tripod has bee
ne very fortunate"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

On Nav 30 this appeared in the che'-
sea Reporter. a paper which is devot-
ing its extra energies in an endeavor
to beat James S. Davenport for Cor
gress: Last primary Davenport was
nominated only By small majority
able to get out only about third OF
the democratic voters in the primary" /"
The official vote on the congressional
race in the district shows that there
we're 21,134 votes cast in the demo-
cratic primary divided among the can
didates as follows: Davenport, 10,25S;
johnson. 1857; Russell, 4,4s5; Murchi-
son. S24. 1t will be seen that Dayen-
port lacked but a few votes receiving
as many as the combined vote of the
opposition, and the opposition was
much stronger than now. The official
vote in the district also shows that
there were 25,S12 democratic votes
cast showing that fewer than 1000
voters failed to express a choice FOL
congress. Instead of fewer than one
third of the votes being cast for con
gresham as alleged by the Reporter
there were more than so per cent cast
of which Davenport received almost
so per cent in field of four strons
candidates. -Claremore Progress.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

The best man in newspaper busl-
ness is not the forceless fellow who
expresses no opinions of his own; and
so it is in many other lines, including
that of school teaching. If initiative
and freedom of opinion are to be sac
rifeed on the altar of ignorance and
politics, nobody needs be surprised TO
see the young idea shooting in the
wrong direction in due time.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

1t is usual for the temporary chair
man OF a national convention to make
the keynote speech, but If Judge Par
ker is selected for that function at Bal
timore he will make no such speech.
While Parker is a great democrat he
does not belong to the progressive
school Of 1912 democracy and could
not therefore sound the keynote of the
convention. But the keynote will> be
sounded later and by someone in har
mony with progressive views. The Bal
timore convention cannot be bound by
reactionary speech by anyone.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

Big Cabin is not a village, It is
country settlement, a four corners, a
place with no local protection against
postoftlce robbers, peddlers, promoters,
ball bats, street distractions, in fact
we have no streets, they are country
roads. If we chose to put up a tent
anywhere on the south half of what
we call Main Street" and move the
Sentinel Office into it. what could you
do about 1T? How long would 1t take,
by process of law, to compel us to re
move that tent? Something like five
years Sentinel.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

The democrats of the Whole country
have their eyes on Baltimore this
week on the outsome Of the conven-
ton will depend the hope Of success.
The spirit of the progressive move
ment must prevail at that convention
If the democrats are to reap the bene-
fits of the opportunity thrown at them
through the nomination Of President
TAFT by the republicans. The demo
orats are first of all progressiyes and
any attempt to placate the reactionary
or conservative element of the party
will detract from the strength OF the
party. The people are tired OF prom
lses. They want action and the way
to get it is to nominate and elect
democrat who is a progressive through
and through.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28
NOBODY will RE FooLEp.

The democrats ought to know that
the people will not be fooled by pro
gressive" platform for reactionary can
didates. The republican national plat
form of 1908 and the results that fol-
lowed put an end to that old system
of hoodwinking the voters. The re-
publicans promised revision of the
tariff downward, but the reactionaries
elected upon that platform gave the
country revision of the tariff upward
and laughed at the progressive plat
form.
A progressive" platform adopted By
the Murphys, the Taggarts, the Bel
monts and the Ryans at Baltimore will
be received by the country as worth
exactly as much as the platform OF
Barnes, Murray Crane, Guggenheim
and Penrose adopted at Chicago last
week.
The reactionaries will not be able
to fool the people twice by the SAME
trick. ~
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

Gratis, and with thanks from giver
to givee, we hereby tender TO the
democrats assembled at Baltimore the
prescription of victory: Reject by an
emphatic majority the nomination of
Judge Parker to be temporary chair
man. and elect instead Mr.. Henry Of
this state. or some one of his political
temper. Make Mr.. Bryan either per-
manent chairman or chairman OF the
platform committee, preferably the
former: and then nominate DR.. Wood
row Wilson on a platform that is ag-
gressively progressive. No great eX-
penditure of nervous energy is needed
to discover both the smartness and the
wisdom of that course. Chief of the
considerations arguing for it is that it
would be at once the course OF prln-
ciple and eypedience, and rarely favor
ed is the party or man who is urged
to the same course by both the ad-
monitions of principle and the seduc'
tions of policy. The rejection of Judge
Parkers nomination for the temporary
ehairmanship would convince the coun,
try as nothing else could that the
party has renouneed its special priv
ilege affiliations and Is ready to es
pouse the cause of the masses, what
ever the consequence. The election Of
Mr.. Bryan to be either permanent
chairman or chairman of the platform
committee would somewhat furtheAre
move the possibility of his nomination
for the presidency, and the nomination
Of DR.. Wilson on an aggressively pro
gressive platform would destroy what
ever reason and occasion there nigh
otherwise be for the organization o
a Roosevelt party News.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-28

The Chleftain today received a copy
of the handsome book Notable Men
of Illinois" issued by the Chicago
Daily Journal. This book contains the
.halftones of all of the noted men OF
Illinois together with biographical
sketches that make it a very valuable
book in the library of a newspaper
office.