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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18
REFERENDUM ON
GAMBLING BILLS
PETITIONS FILED BY UNKNOWN
PERSON ON TWO LEGISLATIVE
ACTS.

Two referendum petitions request
ing the submission OF the question q
repeating the two stringent anti
Gambling laxs passed b. the legs
la.urs at the next general e.ec'-92
we're filed with Secre-z-E q state
Zen Harrison Thursday y some PEI
son who 90 f4r has suecee3ed L ecn-
cealinz his identity.
A Young man with light cc-1lsT1o-
and neatly dressed called n tie O.
aee Of the secretary s stz;s an
tande5 the petitions 10 Mr- Hz-r-sc---
While Nr. Harrison t1rns5 h-s hez3 .
loor over ..e docz-s--s s-3 rz7l@r
them The bearer q re 7s--ila-s ~
Oh orr.s a. q-lsily and Z--o-ie-- a.
h. catered and a. ys. .-s a.=--irT g
unkacEn
The fac, that he rzlgr o. ths qeti-
.lou dld 10. leave his nzDs z1d a.
dress does not have z-T ettec- o. t1s
validity o. ,he fling % TIE petition
aeoo-oi-g 20 H1gh Hz-Teu, assistant
secretz-v o.. STAKE. While the ctes
usually secures the lans o. the hlsr
OF each petition simply as = matter
Of Information. j; IS DO; uzzdato-y
that +, De secured. according 10 NJ.
Hzrrel
The Measures Referred.
TWO measures 10 be referred are
souse bin 81 strengthening the gen
e-al gambling statute and providing
additional punishment against the
oerson who rents or leases . house for
gambling purposes and prohibits dice
shaking a. cigar counters and stands.
Tas other measure IS senate gi.l -.
~. p-ohl5.ti1. the operation o' Fo9i
rooms where bets are placed On race
events and prohibiting rare track
gambling 10 any ,oru- The tao meas
urss ere said 20 Do the mos, s,rin-
gent Ant- gambling lass ever -
ac--d 5y aag legislature.
As a res1l, o. the filing o. the Ieti-
torg The -s5 laws viii remain !uop-
e-a,ire u--l after the e.ection at
which they are 20 be voted upon, pro
7idet 1900 zigns,-ues are secured
before October 3. when the law would
become et,ect.7s. Had tie bills car
ned the emergency section they would
have become effective with the sig
nature Of the governor and could no'
have been referred. An unsuccessful
attempt was made 20 attach th5
emergency when the bills were before
the legislature.
The action taken 20 refer the meas
ures is clearly designed TO proloni
the time before the bills will becom
effective. according TO the folloWinI
statement issued by II. J. Laugh
Saum. superintendent of the anti
saloon LEAGUE:
At the extraordinary session OF u
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18

Billy Langford well deserves the
appoin ment as referee of four OF the
biggest football games next fall. He
has no equal as an official on the
gridiron
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18
Baseball.

President Johnson of the American
League has renewed his war agains
rowdyism on the diamond.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18
Football.

The New South Wales rugby foot
ball league has invited an English
team to visit Australia next year.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18

4 new $4,000 field is being built
Tor Oberlin College.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18

when the Rugby football season
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SPORTOGRAPHS.
Athletics.

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University OF California is conduct
ing a summer school of athletic in
struction in baseball, football, tennis,
soccer football and swimming. The
students get credit for the various
athletic teams practice when college
opens in the fall.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18

The first annual regatta OF the
Northwestern Canoe Association vii!
be staged at Duluth this month.
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Prince Frederick Charles of Prus-
sia. a nephew of the Kaiser, is in
training for the Olympic games al
Berlin in 1916.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-18

Joe Driscol, the speedy Buffalo
runner, viii meet Abel r. Kivist of
the New YORK Irish American Club
in the games 10 be held at Crystal
Beach, Buffalo, on July 49,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

T OST people would say that was the most
VI highly educated of living creatures But such
- is by means the fact. II Is the dog that de.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

treated before his valiant wife, but
the characters in the drama had
merely shifted. Mrs. Drucker sat
opposite his wife at the table drink
ing cup Of tea.
His wife looked up with glance
that Cohen we'll knew.
SAM" she said, 'S,Ssau've got to go
and get that man oG&aof Jail. It's
the cheapest. You'll save money
by It,"
But I won't. He owes me that
money. I'll make him work it out.
He'll stay there fifteen days. I'll
teach him to cheat me-
SAM" The tone was quelling.
The flow of Cohen's eloquence WAS
damned on the instant. Sam. If
you don't go and get that man OUT,
I'll leave you and I'll take tho chill
dren with me. What's more, We'll
stay"
Mrs. Drucker Strengthened the
boys cap. "1f you don't" she said,
well all be back to breakfast"
The next morning Louis Drucker,
paled, chastened but grateful, was
back al his home and his tailor shop.
THAT fellow came and got me out"
he said. HE had to pay to do it.
1t cost So Jail fee, $40 capture fee,
20 cents poundage and Is cents
mileage. Yes, It's all paid and he
paid it and it nearly killed him, but
I'm out"
That's woman's law said Mrs.
Drucker. asserting the family laun-
dry for Monday.
Surely it's woman's law and it's
right she went on. If mans got
enough money he ought 10 support
the family of the man hes sent TO
Jail, and if man kills another one
he ought to be made to support his
family all his life"
at was woman's law" agreed
Mrs. Cohen.
And that's what makes this article
important enough to print. What Is
this "woman's law" that pushed
aside the man-made laws that fitted
tho case. Here an eminent New
New York jurist tells what he thinks
it is.
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Why the Dog Not Man, the Most Educated Creature in the World

dog And it should be realized that the breeding OF the
animal conducted, and has since been con
tnued lines wholly different from those considered
in the breeding of other creature Horses cattle.
sheep pigs and chickens are bred solely for the improve
lnent OF physical qualitiesfor speed size, strength
beauty, woo-bearing reproduction etc. The dog,
the other hand has been bred chiefly the improve
ment and development of it's moral qualities and ntelli-
gence.
Probably this has been going for at least 100 OOo
years During all that period from generation TO
Grafton the gentlest and most intelligent dogs have
selected for breeding And result have in the
dog Of to-day the most faithful and devoted friend
know-an animal which in certain respects is tho
much higher level than ourselves morally speaking
Undeniably the virtues which in human beings
gard as highest and nobes Of all loyalty and unset
fish devotion. In these respects good dog is superior
oven to the best human being. With him disregard
self goes far that at any time he is ready lay down
his life for his master His love and devotion abso
lutte and unqualified.
Human beings have been bred for Intelligence
Neither have they been bred for the improvement OF
their moral qualities 1t is all chance medley from
generation to generation, that tho son of phosu-
pher and philahthropst Is just about as likely any
body else to turn ont useless degenerate 1t is inter
estlng to consider what the human might be like
today and to what heights is might have arrived it
had been subjected 10 OF selection for moral
and mental attrhutss like the genus CAMS for 100000
ysers.
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case would not be the murdererS
own innocent family suffer? Why
should they suffer any more
than the murdered man't family?
There Is utterly no reason. The
old idea of the "sins OF the
father being visited" etc. is
morally wrong and brutal. We
are getting a finer, newer coucep-
ton of justice. Soon, I believe. We
will work out the problem I have
outlined so that neither family be-
and at the same time the guilty
will be adequately punished.
We are approaching this state. For
instance, man is arrested for not
supporting his wife and children. We
put him in jail for 1t. But his wife
and children are not supported any
more by him while in Jail than out OF
it! What an idea of justice! Now.
however, laws are being framed
which will make such a prisoner
work while In jail and the payment
for this work will go to his wife,
Mrs. Drucker did not know 1t, but
she was really applying the old COM
mon law-that a man might send a
man to jail because he owed him
something, but he WAS responsible
for his keep.
Generally adopted and carried to
its extreme, her principle Of an eye
for an eye. tooth for tooth, and
bread supplied for bread denied.
would lead to confused sense of
property rights and to an anarchy Of
possessions. Cohen was within his
rights. Probably Drucker deserved
to go to Jail. Cohen could have had
Mrs. Drucker arrested and could have
arranged to send the children to an
institution, but he may have been a
humane man. But his wife was hui
name and wouldn't permit him TO do
so. 1t gives us vision of the future
"a new matriarchate. Mrs. Cohen
and Mrs. Drucker sitting In the
Kitchen settling point on which
their husbands fought, is a prophecy
of the success Of female board Of
arbitration.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

T OUfS DRUCKER was down in
Ludlow Street Jail. where New
York sends the gentlemen who
won't pay up their alimony and other
gentlemen who won't pay less un-
usual debts. Mr.. Drucker owed Mr..
Samuel Cohen a matter of $40, and
Mr. Cohen. failing to collect. had
sent Mr.. Drucker TO Ludlow Iail for
two weeks to wipe out the debt. Mr..
Cohen wouldn't get any money by
doing It, nobody would get any
money and Mr.. Drucker wouldn't
be able 10 make any money for
his wife and children while in jail.
but that was the law, and Mr.. Cohen
at least got satisfaction Of sort.
Mr.. Drucker. pacing his cell. pom
dered over the foolisnness OF law
that puts man who owes money in
a place where it's impossible TO
make any money.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

Gated thousands of years before the horse or
the sheep any other living Furthermore,
its domestication accomplished the outset by
in all likelihood, who brought home occasional
wolf pups and raised them pets.
Wolf pups OF any breed rather inclined to be
fierce when they have got beyond early puppyhood
this fact necessarily resulted in wedding of the
fercer ones those of genes disposition being saved
to become in their the parents of other puppies
destined to undergo the process Of selection.
1t through such artificial selection that the
fercer wolf qualities gradually eliminated Doubt
less the for taking much trouble in the breed
ing of the earliest types Of dogs that primitive
found them very useful. They may have been more
less servceabe in the chase, their principal useful
doubtless for guarding the other dwell
ing against surprise by enemy.
Primitive himself a rather ferocous animal.
We to-day plentiful evidences OF the survival of
this ferocy in crimes Of violence and most strkingy
in the fact that civilized nations, for the settlement
Of their dsuptes customary the expedient Of
Wholesale murder and equally Wholesale destruction Of
property, calling it GLORIOUS war"
Primitive knew such thing peace. He
in constant apprehension OF attack by people OF
by and rival settlements BY night and he obliged
to be on the alert lest he be killed his children MUIR
dered and his women carried away. Hence the value
to him OF fourfooted guardian who could be counted
upon to be always on the alert and ready to give g
prompt alarm In OF danger
Such was the beginning OF the domesticaton OF the
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How Two Wives
Solved a Great
Social Problem

rights in property sense than the woman
who has Tho law regards the last as a. whole
woman, the first as half woman
The young woman usually receives g larger
allotment of property than the old one These
crookednesses women will speedily straightcn
and we need not fear for long the confusion OF
property rights which will at first ensue.
Mrs. Drucker's Portia-like wisdom has made
me stronger suffragette. With thsir help
lave no doubt that the just principle of max
Ing man who has widowed a wife and Or
phaned a family work for both State and that
family will be carried out. If. for example, a
mans earning capacity in prison is sl20 a
day, so cents of that should go to the State
and 90 cents to the family he has bereaved
More than anything else, though. Cohen's
lost case and Mrs. Druckers victory are i'm
portant because 1t shows us the feminine
viewpoint applied to the problem of harmon
1zing the law with the conditions Of life.
Every law is the result of human prompting.
Her human prompting was for the welfare OF
her children. She took the short cut to it,
Women will do that when they have a part in
the administration OF the law
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leW York Jurist)

George did, and / looked after the neat
young woman with admiration.
| had not noticed that the culvert was un-
clean. With woman's keen eye for detail and
her beautiful sense Of fitness, she knew.
learned that she was a street inspectress.
One day there came up before me in court
200 policemen. There was chaos about street
signs. Some were hung too low, some too
high, some were too large. The men tried
and bungled and numbered into court. Women
with their eye for form and proportion would
have settled that without coming into court
Certain inharmonies in the law they will
adjust. For instance, as man made the laws
there arc strange inequalities and inconsist-
encies about the property rights of women.
The woman who has no children has fewer
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

jail-and the truth is that there was
not a thing TO eat in the house!
Now 1t can readily be seen that
neither the Druckers nor Cohens are
what is called important people"
No one outside OF their own little
sphere would even have heard OF
them If it hadn't been that Mrs.
Drucker, much worried over the sit
uation, suddenly encountered real
~ important idea. When an unim-
portant person gets an important
idea they become noteworthy-likea
coal scuttle that is full OF diamonds
or piece OF old paper with a SON
net by Shakespeare in his own hand
writing. Hence this raising of the
Druckers and the Cohens into the
limelight.
II was very late-or very early
when Mrs. Drucker got the idea,
Not long after-"Rap, rap. rap" went
somebody or the Cohens' door,
Samuel Cohen sat up in bed. His
wife, her curl-papers awry, sat be-
side him. They stared. 1t was half
past five O'Clock in the morning.
= Rap, rap, rap.
Mrs. Cohen pointed to the door.
Go. Sam" she commanded.
Shaking in his red bathrobe with
yellow stripes. Mr.. Cohen obeyed.
From behind the door he peeped into
the hall at the wife Of Louis Drucker.
Mr.. Cohen tried to shut the door.
Mrs. Drucker pushed past it, She
strobe into the room Her daughter
Martha followed. They sat down
without invitation, but with a deter
mination to stay SO strong as to be
audible.
You put my husband in jail and
taken our support from U.s." said
Mrs. Drucker, Now support us!"
Go. woman!" said Mr.. Cohen.
But Mrs. Cohen stopped in her
task of taking down her curl papers.
You have how many childron?"
she asked.
Eight answered Mrs. Druoker.
"Fhis is Martha, the oldest. The
youngest isn't weaned yet. We're
coming to live with you unless your
man gets my man out of JAIL"
MIR. Cohen retreated into closet.
He came out in street attire.
I'll have the police lock you up"
he said. He went out Soon the
stairs creaked. In came Mr.. Cohen
and policeman.
Get along here. You're disturb
ing this mans peace!" cried the po-
liccman
"Ho disturbed minc FIe locked
my man up because he owed him
something he couldn't pay!"
Everybody talked.
Talk it over among yourselves"
the policeman advised at last in dc.
spalr, and the stairs crcakcd again.
They talked until it was time for Co.
hen to go to work.
"I'll be back soon and bring tho
other sevon," Mrs. Drucker assured
Mrs. Cohcr. Mrs. Cohen, preparing
her two for school, permitted tear
Of self pity to trickle down her
cheeks.
"Tcn children in this fiat, and we
were crowded before" she sighed
"Therell ba clatter from morning
till night. And the cost"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11
BY Judge Wauhope Lynn,
The DISTINGUISHED New York I,,ristl

Mrs Drucker and Mrs. Cohen settled the
matter on the common ground of household
necessities. That is what government will be
when women share in it-smply an extended
housekeeping. The principles OF the we'll reg
uiated household will reach into all branches
OF the government and better them.
10 illustrate this: I was walking along the
clean streets of Denver recently keeping a
wary eye on the sign, Don't expectorate," for
sometimes chew tobacco A neat, well
dressed woman passed me and heard her
speak TO street cleaner She spoke In a
kindly, admonitory way
George" she said. that culvert back there
is quite filthy. That must be kept as clean az
the rest of the street. Will you please attend
to It at once?"
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Observe the curious fact that Mrs.
Cohen is already accepting the thing
AS certain.
That evening Mrs. Drucker came
back bringing most OF the children
with her, five to be exact. The
Cohons. sitting at their quiet evening
meal. paled as they heard the de-
termined tramp, tramp Of six pairs
of feet on the stairs. heard Mrs.
Drucker's unmistakable rap upon the
door, heard the childish voices In
long sustained speech.
We haven't had thing 20 eat
since you sent Pop to JAIL was the
burden of their cry.
For five minutes they sat at the
table, the meal interrupted, their ap-
petites gone. Then Mrs. Cohen re-
peated her order Of the morning.
Let them in. Sam"
Mrs. Drucker marched in as
general marches at the head OF his
army. She deployed the army to
various points of vantage:
Here, Martha, take Pearl and sit
on that chair by the window. Aaron,
you stand By the door and let no one
get out. Give me the baby, Eva, and
You take that stool by the stove"
Mr.. Cohen profaned Mrs. Cohen
placed her hands on her temples and
burst into tears. Mrs. Drucker and
me children sat and looked at the
table.
ITS justice. Your husband owed
me the money! said Cohen.
He didn't" cried Mrs. Drucker
But that doesn't matter You've put
him away where he can't earn any.
thing and you've got to feed us, yes,
ana when the months out at our
nat. you've got to sleep u.s."
Cohen started to walk the floor.
But Martha was in his way to the
window and when he turned TO walk
the other way he tripped over Eva.
Baffed. he went back to his chair.
Go out and take walk, Samuel"
his better half issued her command.
This woman and I will try 70 set
tic IT,"
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By Rene Bache.

X n osT people would say that the most
jNE highly educated of living creatures. But such
is by no means the fact It is the dog that de-
serves thus to be characterized
The dog has undergone certain educational
to which has been subjected So extraordi-
nary effective have these been that to-day
the brain of the dog is bigger by something like
fourth than that of wolf OF equal weight and size
AS everybody knows dogs the direct descendants
OF wolves. But let see to begin with exactly what
meant by this statement For the precise significance
of it is not generally understood.
Scattered over the earth many species Of the
genus CAMS Wherever Of these species has been
found possible to tame 1t has been domesticated The
species which have proved susceptible Of domescaton
are called dogs Those which, like the coyote, have
proved ncurabiy wild are called wolves.
That is all the difference there is between a dog
and wolf at the start. But the difference between
the wolf and the dog find them to-day is cnor-
nous. The former is enemy of man; the latter is
his most faithful and devoted friend
1t is all matter of education But in order 10 realize
how through education the. dog has been evolved from
inc WOLF WE must go back to period long before the
earliest dawn OF the most primitive civizaton-to the
DAYS, in short of the Troglodytes, Cave People.
For it should be understood thai the dog was the
first domestcated animal 1t was certainly domesti-
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Mrs. Drucker and
the eight little
Druckcr children
were all sitting
h I'm Q thinking
much the same
thing. y o b o d y
knows better than
Mrs. Drucker how
hard il is 10 keep
eight children from
being hungry. Yet
here vas Mr.. Druc-
ker in that foolish
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11
1.-THE Won1an,s Justice u1hch LCM Rule the Future,

yu7HEN Mrs. Druckcr forced the man
w who put her husband in Jail to feed
her children she reached out with
one hand into the custom of the bygone
patriarchate and with the other she touched
the very near future when an entirely new
conception Of justice will reign and women
will be its guardians.
In the ancient patriarchate when man
killed by another, or was injured by an
other, his wife widow or children could claim
and certainly get certain compensations. IN
our civilization II man kills another man
the law executes or imprsons him, but the
widow and children must go to almshouse or
asylum if they cannot support themselves.
The ideal law, c: course. would be to make
the murderer work the rest of his life to sup
port the family he had wronged But in that
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

Gladly Cohen es-
capped. my wife's
a smart woman,
most as smart as I
am" he said to a
friend, whom he
met on the corner.
She'll fix her"
When he assembled
the stairs an hour
later quiet had fall
len upon his home.
The enemy, he
thought. had re-
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
Blue Laws Stop Newspaper

Portsmouth, o, May 4.-The ex-
pected ''Blue Sunday did not ma
terialize today, although one news
paper, several drug stores and all
the moving picture theaters were
closed as the result of a fight, former
Judge A. z. Blair, who disfranchised
1885 voters of Adams county for
vote selling has opened on Sunday
picture shows.
Proprietors Of picture theaters had
Blair arrested last week for operat-
ing the plant of The Portsmouth
Blade, morning paper, on Sunday.
A general closing down of all bust
ness had been promised for to-day.
Virtually all the cigar and drug
stores were open, and a baseball
game was undisturbed. No work
was done, however, on tomorrow
mornings issue Of The Blade until
after midnight.
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q. m.
Bible school, 9:45.
Public worship, hoo.
At the regular church service hour
we shall have Mothers Day services.
Sermon and special music for the &C.
casion. Fathers, mothers, brothers
and sisters are all invited to join in
honoring their best earthly friend.
p. m.
Senior c. Endeavor, ZOO.
Union service at the Opera House
at 500.
Midweek service Wednesday even
ing 8 p. m.
Sunday School workers meeting
600.
Everybody invited to attend these
services. C. H. Ticknor, Pastor.
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Lyon yesterday when she proved to
him that Lyon had maintained anoth-
er wife and three children during this
time, in addition to supporting her
and their four children, the Oldest Of
whom is q years.
Il just became suspicious recently
when l found a note on an envelope
in his pocket reading: Stockings for
the kids. !"