The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-30

The big noise Is all over hoW-We
are right up to the point where action
is the only thing that will count. For
ten days or more we have been making
hurrah about the road building bee
on January and and now It is up
to is as community to deliver the
goods
AS Mr.. Hollingsworth has pointed
out, IL we make fizzle Of this Oil
Fields highway enterprise, we might
as well shut up shop and quit talking
about roads The proposition before
us calls for actual road construction
and If we don't have real results to
show for all the to.do we have been
making, nobody is going to have the
nerve to attempt to start anything else
OF the kind in the future.
Some very earnest and effective
work has been done cy a number of
our citizens in getting our forces or
ganized for the campaign which is due
to start early Monday morning. Mr.
Hollingsworth and his assistants have
had a huge task to perform and they
have been on the job constantly since
they received their commission. Eleven
men to whom the title of lieutenant
has been given have been appointed
to direct operations and they too have
heavy tasks beforp them. II is need.
less to say, however, that captains and
lieutenants can do little unless they
are backed by faithful privates. Grant
ing that the expedition is well organ
lied and that the officers will be at
their posts when the hour for action
arrives, the success of the whole
thing still depends upon the men be-
hind the guns" 1t would be cruel
joke II the commanding officers should
find themselves without adequate fight
ing forces when the signal to advance
Is given.
Many other towns, some of them
much smaller than Chickasha, have
built roads in day Chickasha can
do the same thing II we will it. Have /
we resolved to sacrifice our private
interests and personal convenience
for a day or two IN order to perform
a public service? Are WI sons OK Old
Man Indifference who was supposed
to have died the other day or do we
belong to the wideawake family Of
public spirited citizens
who do things? Next Monday viii bring
the answer to these questions.
Even though we can't devote the
whole day to the work, let us make
up our minds to do something to show
our interest in the road building enter
prise. II you have a car and can't do
anything else. you can at least help
to transport the workers to the scene
Of operations and that will be a very
useful service indeed. Any man who
Is caught loafing or playing around
1hickasha during the first two days
next week ought to feel that he is in
iisgrace, or better still, he should be
'aught by the cops and vagged.
II is useless to argue the necessity
'or the road which it is proposed to
build or to point out the benefits which
will accrue to Chickasha from it. If
he Cement oil field develops accord.
ng to present prospects, Chiekasha
has chance to become center of oil
operations but there will be nothing
ioing for us unless there is good road
rom here to Cement. Already there
5 much travel to the field which
ihould come this way but which we
IRE missing on account OF that miser.
lble road We cannot afford to let
his condition continue any longer
even without any oil field. we ohould
'e ashamed to have such road with.
n forty miles Of Chickasha.