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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-03-16

duced by J. b. Brooks, al The session
of the Ardmore soc'alis. local, whic'
was held Sunday, March II. 1D5, al
Fore's Store n .ad!) street, Ard
more, Okla
Mr.. Brooks ml1e talk in favor
of the adoption of the resolutions.
Among other things he said that ;be
single tax. if adopted in this state,
would cure fifty per cent of the ills
that now afflicted the poor people Of
this country; that the socialist, rep
resenting the poor, and the working
man. should support everything that
would benefit the poor, and the
working man. and made diagram,
illustrative of how the single tax
would benefit the poor man and home
owner, as against the land speculator
and CRATER"
Mr.. Earlywine made quite an ami
mated speech against the resolutions,
saying the Davis amendment was a
sop thrown by the democrats to try
to heal off socialism. That ne was
opposed to the resolul'O on, and op-
posed,to the socialis $ giving any en-
- whatever 10 t, that if
you did anything to benefit the peo-
pie, they would quit thinking and |
become satisfied, that oppression
made socialists, that the only way
you could reach a man was through |
his belly" | do not know what he
meant by that last remark, but when
hear some men talk, | think that
heir brains might possibly be To-
'ated under the waistband of their
'ants, or at least a good ways from
heir mouth. However, Earlywine's
ak defeated the adoption of the res
'lution by vote of four to two.
'eVen present and not voting either
way.
SO the Ardmore socialist local goes
n record as being opposed to light
ming the burden of taxation on the
oor mans home, and in favor of the
md speculation.
S. ]. WORLEY.
oil Third Ave, n. E.
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U. s. Not U. S. A.

Do you know what is the proper
abbreviation OF the United States? II
is u. S. Ii is not U. S A. There is
widespread and apparently utter ig-
norance of this fact The initials u.
S A. Is the official accepted abbrevia.
tion for United States army. and does
not, under any possible conditions
ever mean United States OF America.
At this time. when so many manufac-
turers in this country are branding
their goods as made In the United
States, this is important. The brand
u. S. A. upon anything means that II
was manufactured in the United
States army. Made in U. S" is the
brand which should be put upon all
goods manufactured in this country
knickerbocker Press.
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ONE ON THE IRISH.

Inasmuch as st. Patrick's day Is
here the Irish will probably pardon
the relating OF a story recently told
on railway train. The sSory, which
is true one, originated at Marshall
Tex. In this east Texas town the
railway companies had employed ne
groes for several years to do sec
tion work and other similar duties.
The negroes felt secure in their
work and grew somewhat careless.
One day a superintendent shipped
in a few Irish and gave them jobs
on the road, Some of the places held
by the darkies were taken from
them. The Oldest darkey on the sec
tion gang became alarmed at the
situation. He saw the work all along
being taken from his countrymen,
and given to the Irish. He called
the men of his color together and
proceeded to lecture them. He point
ed out the danger of careless work,
he told them what it meant to lose
the revenue from the railroad work, |
and wound up with the glowing trib-
ute to the Irish that they were
lust as good as negro, but they
you'd get drunk once in a while"
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Socialists and Single Taxation.

Socialists and Single Taxation.
BE 1t Resolved. by the Ardmore
socialist local, in regular session as
sembled,
First, that we commend The Ard
moreite for the liberal stand taken
toward the Senator Davis single tax
bill. now pending before the legisla-
ture of the state of Oklahoma. and
that We hereby send greetings to
Senator Davis, and extend TO him the
glad hand of fellowship and cooper
alton.
BE 1t Resolved further, that we
urge the socialist and all other mem
bers of the legislature now in ses-
sion TO work and vote for Senator
Davis single tax bill;
BE 1t Resolved further that a COPY
Of these resolutions be furnished 10
the local press and the state secre-
tary of the socialist party"
The above resolutions were !c,ro-
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THE OIL SITUATION

Some of the old heads in the oil
business are confidently predicting
that before the end of the year, and
possibly by midsummer, that oil will
be selling at 81 a barrel. While il
Is true that oil sells oftener for less
than dollar, II is also true that
there are reasons upon which to
base such a hope this summer. There
has been wonderful increase in the
market for oil. Europe is making
heavy demands upon American oil
fields. The cheap residuum of the
past few months has induced many
railway companies and factories to
use oil As a result of this favor
to oil as fuel, the largest coal
mining company in the state is in
the hands of receiver. The produc-
ton at Gushing has reached its height
and the field is receding from its
high production mark. Scouts in that
field report that many wells are now
making yellow oil. which means that
water is mixed with the oil. and if
that condition prevails to a material
degree, the deterioration will be
rapid
With that condition confronting the
oil men of the state they will lean
upon Healdton for their supply be-
fore the end of the year, and con-
diuons in Carter county will be i'm
proved
OH men generally state that the
thick sands of the Healdton field will
De producing oil for many years af-
Ter Gushing has passed into history.
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THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

From a careful estimate made by
about forty per cent OF the agricul-
tural loans made in this district will
be carried over to the next season.
That means that many of the farm
ers are behind with their debts. 1t
also means that there will be great
deal of energy expended this year in
an effort to clear up this paper which
the banks have been forced to carry
over. 1t also means that there will
be fewer loans made this year. Farm
ers are living on less and working
harder. The year of economy and
the year of industry will not go with
out its reward.
Conditions in the rural districts
are reasonably good. A large acre
age OF oats has been sowed and the
wheat acreage is also materially in
creased The grain harvest will be
on by the middle of July and it is
believed that there will be a ready
Smarke; for every bushe of oats and
wheat at a good price. So far this
season has been favorable 10 the small |
grain crops and there is a reason
able hope that big crop will be
harvested Within four months from |
today there promises 10 be a big
change in the financial condition oi
the country districts and that change |
VII be for the better.
Farmers are grading up their cat
tie. they sre grading u her farm |
seeds. the cotton acreage Hill be
reduced. but with the improved seed |
and better cultivation the cotton crop
of 1915 promises TO equal in pro-
duction the crop of the past year. |
If corn crops come in cycles as some |
say they do, it is certainly time now
for one of the corn cycles to have
arrived and we might hope for bum
per corn crop this year.
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LETTER FROM OLD CHIEF
lO1l Third Ave, n. E.

EDITOR ARDMOREITE:
Your editorial of the 5th, headed
Senate Wears Fighting Clothes" was
sound logic There is not a senator
so young, so old or so ignorant, but
what he should know that gradual
ed land tax in Oklahoma is not need
ed. and is unjust. There is not an
individual in the whole state who was
lead to accumulate lands before state
hood thinking he would make a barrel
of money by so doing, who would now
refuse to sell it at a sacrifice. 1t has
become a burden on his hands. The
revenues do not pay the present high
taxes and the upkeep of the farm.
Owners of land are not encouraged to
make better improvements. If he does,
higher tax is put upon him. A pen
atty is put upon thrift. An instance of
this kind came under my own OBJ
servation. Two men owned tracts of
land adjoining. There were no houses
ever built on either. One planted his
40 acres in an Elberta orchard at an
expense of $500 per acre; the other
continued to grow cotton on his 40
In a few years these peach trees
grew and paid the owner from $25
to $50 per acre rent, some years The
commissioners of the county in which
these tracts were located, taxed the
peach land three times as high as
they did the cotton land of the other
owner and held out for it, claiming
1t right and just. The fool-killer has
not come along or has overlooked a
good job.
This part of your editorial is gol-
den, Crop failures and fear of titles
have cheapened lands in this country,
and excessive land holders can not
dispose of their lands. Since the state
now has plan to help farmers own
their homes, il certainly has the right
to pass some kind of measure that will
compel soil conservation and such
measure as that is many hundred
men who have thought enough of the
country to buy large acreages of land"
tt,t, h., l.,
wrong in our system of selecting our
law makers. We have so much tommy.
rot, SO many freak laws presented, so
much time wasted and money, too.
over frivolous matters in our legis-
latures. The fault lies with us. There
must be great revolution of thought
and the manner of selecting our pub
lie servants We have let the poll
tician rule the day He ii is who has
made a business of it and is honored
for his sickness and not his brains
and ability. Look around you and see
il these assertions are correct. We
had Tour years or Doolin as game
warden of the state. Thousands of
sportsmen of the state know he was
a failure as a game protectionist, We
know that a senseless legislature rob
bed the game fund of its wealth, yet
leaving game law on the books that
could not be enforced for want of
these very funds. We see where the
legislature turns down an agricultural
institute, yet has appropriated large
sums for state university for the pur.
pose Of making more lawyers and poll
ticians. when one man educated in the
science OF agriculture is worth more
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to humanity than a thousand shystel
lawyers. The one stands for better
conditions, moral uplift and feeds and
clothes the world, and the other, the
best that can be said of him, is that
| he fattens upon the woes of his fel
low man, disrupts communities, be-
comes a politicians and goes to the
legislature. Count the noses in any
Legislature and you will find that the
people have selected large majority
of men who have no experience in any
line of business except that of politics,
such as young lawyers striving to get
themselves before the public old poll
ticians hunting an easy appointment,
and failues in other lines of business.
Such has become the stigma and cor
ruption and graft that attaches to all
things political, and the low things
required to become a successful office
seeker, that our best men and brains
Wv NV ohNi DIS
for office. If they do, the scheming
politician beats him at the polls. Then
again, our democratic party has gone
largely to socialism. Even our judges
upon the bench are not all free from
prejudice, largely attributable to the
thought that the majority of voters
would sustain his views, and he is
more about votes than just
ce. Even so with our lawmakers, the
are playing for votes-busi.
men see the trend of these things Ev-
'ry railroad in the state is on the
'erge of bankruptcy, corporate capital |
S jumped upon and taxed and lawed |
,ut of existence. The very things that |
make for good, that give employment
o the people and make a country
prosper, are hampered and driven out
" the ignorance and prejudice of our
lawmakers who were selected by the
'eople. Who were these people?
What matters it, who they are, so
ong as we have the present system of
election in force. No good business
nan will offer himself for office, SO
here is no choice of selection. The
olitician or chronic office seeker Of
ers himself, with blare of trumpets,
nd with what | have done for the
party and what | will do
Or the people if they but elect me-"
hus it is. This condition prevails in
lrgely republican states as we'll The
Ocialist party offers no remedy. It's
ell. There is, however, a way out
it. Things never get so bad but
hat there is a remedy
"OLD CHIEF.
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Governor Johnston states in an in
teryiew that he doubts the resolution
passed by congress in its closing
hours to include the Chickasaw pay
ment.
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Return TO democracy in Tennessee
has meant a return to a higher civil
tzation. The lower house of the leg
islature has voted against capital
punishment.
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Abe Martin says If the czar wants
to review his troops he must go to
Germany to do so.
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The man who can't prosper on
knocks is too thin skinned to occupy
a public place.
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FOR RENT
FOR RENT-NiceIy furnished front
room, close in. Phone 64l. 6tf

Foh RENT-Four-room house on
sixth Ave. between Washington &
A. Phone 504. r. T. Dallas. 14-3
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with flour s. hundred the aver
age man would like to see the Rus
sian wheat rescued.
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your earnings. Learn
the barber trade. for which there is
always demand. Many jobs wait
ing al wages higher than you
would expect. Taught in short
term by our system. Earn while
learning Write today. Moler Bar
Der College, Kansas City, Mo. l4-6
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FOh RENT-Southeast suite of rooms
with bath. furnished or unfurnished.
Washington Apartments. Off
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BE good lrishman and equip
yourself with a sprig OF green.
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FOR SALE

FOR SADE|Entire stock of house
hold goods, including piano. Mrs.
G. T. Vernon, 7O3 B St, N. w. 14-9
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p. S.-My remedy would take too
much space to put it in this letter,
and the dose severe on politicians.
Corpus Christi, Tex, March 10.
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FOR RHNT-Furnisned rooms, mod
ern; board if desired. Mrs. Bell.
222 Stanley Blvd. 14-6
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to do your auto and gas
engine work; weld your broken cast
ings; electric starter and magnetic
work: all kinds of light machine
work will receive our careful atten-
ton. All work guaranteed. Oxy
Welding and Auto Shop. Ritter &
Sizes. 24-1m
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FINANCIAL.

FARM LOANS-Plenty OF money al
low rates. w. B. Frame. 6-1m
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FOR RENT-Three front Office rooms
In Carter-Booker building. Apply ].
C. King & Co. 13.tf
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WANTED-To rent, two or three
modern, close in, unfurnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Refer
ences furnished. Address Box 2SS,
City. 1873
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WHO WANTS TO OWN two good
homes at Nos. 9O2 and 9O4 N. Wash
ington street. Cost $3,5OO. VIII sell
for $4,000 on terms; part down, bal
ance like rent. Will sell separate.
Write Urban Grocery. Co., 400 West
Locust ST., San Antonio, Tex. slim
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FOR RENT-First class furnished
rooms for particular people. 222
N. Washington. 13tf
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FOR RENT-Furnished room for
light housekeeping, modern home
221 5th Ave, n. w. Phone blue
Isl. 14-3
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suits 10 clean and
press. S1.00 each, all other work in
proportion. Phone 301. London
Steam Dye Works. Aim
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do your stenographic
work. Abstract take-offs a specially.
Myrtle Baum, Phone 33. office over
First National Bank. Tim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-30
BERLIN ADMITS LOSSES.
War Office Says French Captured Hill,
and Gained Near Souchez.

Berlin. Sept. 3O.-Loss of another
position in France to the allies as a
result of the great battle in progress
is announced in official statement
lost hill No. 191. Hill No 191 is a
position in the Champagne region,
north Of town of Massiges
Battling For Lens.
London, Sept. 30.-The great strug-
gle on the western front has now re
solved itself clearly into a battle for
Lens, in Pas De Calais nine miles
northeast of Arras. The capture of
this town, with it's radiating railways,
would bring into the foreground the
possibility of retaking Lille.
Both north and south of Lens the
allies hold high ground dominating
the town-the British on hill No. 20:
the French, on hill No. 14O-the high
crest between Souchez and Viny. The
OFFICIAL report from Paris last night
said merely that this crest had been
reached, so that presumably a ter
rirlc counter attack is raging there to-
day, with final mastery of this i'm
portant position at stake
Bad Weather Hampers COntenders.
Rain, fog and soggy ground have
been hampering both the contenders
and limiting the activities of air craft.
A few days of clear, dry weather
might have a marked gearing on de-
velopments.
The offensive of the allies thus far
has been confined to stretches of the
front amounting to less than thirty
miles in all. The general belief in
England is that these attacks are only
the prelude to what is coming Al
any rate, the public would be cisap-
pointed If the movement We're not sus-
tanned.
Won Hindenburg Reinforced.
There is the usual speculation as to
the shifting of German forces from
the east to the west, although any
thing like reliable information is lack
ing. AS against the report that some
Prussian guards have been hurried
west, there are rumorS that Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg, still bent on
taking Dvinsk, has been reinforced
heavily. Moreover, the Austrians
Judging from their new successes in
the south. apparently have received
fresh troops.
The victory of the British over the
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butIOF HIIu AIseSs
nished by The Continental Creamery
Co. Topeka. kan.1
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VETS RECOVERING
No Fatalities Due to March in
Grand Review.
Patrick i'll. COney, Topeka, Can
didate for Commander.

Washington, Sept 30.-Most Of the
200 Civil war veterans taken to hos
pitfalls yesterday when they became ex-
hausted in the G. A. r. parade had
fully recovered today and were ready
for participation in the remainder of
the annual reunion program. n ma
jority of the aged men stood the
march from the capitol to the White
House well, but others we're forced to
drop out of line because of eXhaus-
ton. Hospitals and emergency relief
stations established along the route of
the parade on Pennsylvania were kept
busy. but there were no fatalities.
Most of the cases were treated and
imme diateIy dismissed.
AT the general meeting of the vet
Grams at Camp Emery last night adj
dresses were delivered by Secretary of
the Navy Daniels and Assistant Secre-
tary Roosevelt. Mr.. Roosevelt made
a plea that the veterans write their
personal experiences for the navy de-
ment, he said, were dry, and he felt
that history could best be written
from personal accounts. He offered
to place the files of the department
at the disposal of tie old soldiers for
reference purposes.
five candidates for the office of
commander-in-ch OF the Grand
Army, low occupied by Colonel David
]. Palmer of Iowa, had been an
nounced early today. They We're:
Captain Elias p. Monfort, Cincinnati,
Ohio; Frank o. Cole. Jersey City, n.
j.; William j. Patterson, Pittsburg,
Pa; Orlando A. Somers, Ko<Cmo.
Ind, and Patrick H. Coney, To-
peka, Kan.
1t was said that Atlantic City, N
J., would be selected for the next ma
tional encampment. AT a banquet
held yesterday by the Mccall of Honor
Legion, the following officers of that
society were elected:
Commander. William L. Hill. chief
boatswain; senior vice commander,
Ca plain Orville t. Cha mberlain, Elk
hart, Ind; junior vice commander,
George Rose, New Haven, Conn;
cha plain, Captain William S. Hubbell,
New York.
Those reelected were: Quarter
master Corporal Alexander A. Forman
and Adjutant Sergeant john Brosnan,
both of Brooklyn. n. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-30
PICK FIGHTER BY VOTE
Kitchener Urges Ballot in Compro-
mise With ConscriPticn.

London, Sept. 3O.-Preference for
continuation of the volunteer system
is said to have been expressed by Earl
Kitchener Mt a meeting of labor exec
utives yesterday which was addressed
by the war secretary. He said, how
ever, that the present rate OF recruit
ing was not equal to the needs.
Earl Kitchener explained that his
own plan. which had not yet been
authorized by the government was
to apply the system of the military
ballot Every district would be re-
quired to furnish it's quota of men. In
case this quota could not be obtained
by voluntary enlistr ent, the required
number would he selected by ballot
from among the men of military age
and the enlistment of those thus
chosen would be compulsory.
The secretary announced there had
been no slackening of the pressure to
bring out recruits.
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A ROAD BOOSTER
Ex-Governor Bailey Is Strong
for a State Highway.
Good Roads Would Make State
Worlds Garden Spot.

Willis J. Bailey of Atchison, former
governor of Kansas, is strongly in
favor of a state highway. Bailey
came to Topeka Wednesday to deposit
some bonds with the state treasury as
a guaranty for state funds
Discussing with Earl Akers, state
treasurer, the plan for permanent
state highways, Bailey declared that
he was strongly in favor of the plan.
He expects to attend the road meeting
in Topeka this fall
kansas could be made the garden
spot of +he world with such roads as
those in southern California" Bailey
told Akers Southern California is
nothing more than a playground, but
Kansas would be a garden spot. At
least four state roads should be built
in a period of five to ten years. Then
the counties might build similar con-
Meeting roads,
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RAISE CLUB FEES
Commercial Organization Plans New
Method of Producing Revenue.

To do away with the annual mem
bership campaigns which the CLUB has
been forced to hold for the last sew
eral years, the membership fee of the
Topeka Commercial club is to be
raised from $12 to $50 a year. The
plan has been definitely decided upon
by the directors and executive officials
of the club.
The new move on the part of direc-
tors is approved by the majority of
the club members. Before taking
final action on the question the mem
bers were given an opportunity to CEN
sor the membership incline. The rates
will not affect those who have their
fees paid up for this year.
The incline will. not only eliminate
the membership campaign this year
but is expected to solve the financial
problem of the organization in the
future.
To inject pep" into the campaign
which will begin in a few days, a
Twenty Cylinder dinner VIII be held
at the club rooms Wednesday even
ing, October 6, at $50 O'Clock. Fol-