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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

but if we have to take action to ease
over this coal famine we want to know
how to do IT, | shall invite the coal
dealers Of the city to participate in this
meeting"
The mayor stated that the coal sit
uattion was not much better this
morning.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

Classified advertisements, such as
"Wanted," "For Rent," "For Sale.
ETC. Will positively not be received for
the Express by phone. They must be
brought to the office. Please do moi
phone them, II 10 embarrassing to us
to refuse to receive them. 1854
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Hampton and Miss
with Dr. and Mrs. G. L. White OF
Margaret Coleman will spend Xmas
Oklahoma City.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

Mr. and Mrs j. r. Owsley. John and
Miss Hazel and Louis and lnez Lester
viii leave tomorrow morning for Bow
ie, Texas, where they win attend the
Owsley family reunion which will be
held at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Il.
E. Thomas.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23
COUNCIL TO SOLVE
PROBLEM
Continued from Page one)

suffering. City Attorney Grigsby was
instructed to look up the law in the
matter
4We don't want to gouge the coal
dealers said Mayor Coffman today
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

Miss Mabel Byers who recently un-
derwent an operation at the Universe
ty hospital for appendicitis, is report
ed as doing splcndidly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

wANrED-CIean cotton rags at the
Daily Express office. Highest cash
price paid.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23
Short Stories
OF THE TOWN
cuardsman Here.

Boggie johnson of the Oklahoma
National guards of San Benito. Eek
is home on a furlough.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

Are YOT using our classified col
lmns? You ought to-they get results.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23
Hunting Party.

Dr. A. b. Leeds, F L. susher, Or.
Homer Bond and DR. W H. Liyermore
spent yesterday hunting near Norge.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23

Subscribe for the Daily Express.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-23
Holiness Meeting.

A Holiness meeting viii begin this
evening at the Mission hall, ll6 S. 9th
ST., conducted by M w Wilson, Tenn
pie, Okla.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
1T WILL BE ATTENDED TO

TNHERE ought to be some power
or influence in a self governing
country by which the House of
Representatives could be brought to
its senses and made to serve the ma
tional welfare. 1t is intolerable that
a Congress should be so blind and so
stupid, so soddenly indifferent to its
grave responsibilities and duties"
This harsh language is from the New
York World, one of the leading organs
of the Democratic party and regarded
as an especial spokesman for the ad-
ministration. The moving cause of the
Worlds heat and harshness is the re-
fusal of the House to accept the SEN
ate's proposals for an enlargement of
the standing army and the general
attitude Of the Democratic Represen-
tstives in opposition to reasonable
plans for national defense.
However, we bid the World to cheer
up. There is indeed in this country
exactly the power and influence"
which it longs for and which will
bring the House of representatives
to it's senses and cause it to serve the
national welfare. That power will
soon be exercised and that influence
will soon be invoked - at the polls,
next election day. Then the present
majority in Congress will be set aside
in favor of a Republican majority.
The Democrats in the present House,
whom the World so Justly regards as
blind. stupid and soddenly Indifferent,
will give place to Republicans. In
place of stupidity we shall then have
alertness of mind, in place of blind
ness we shall then have clearness OF
vision, in place of sodden indifference
we shall then have sympathetic re.
sponsiveness to the national needs.
What the World is calling for i.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
British Shipping Survives
[ProYidence Lournall


The latest report of Lloyd's register
of shipping shows that the net British
loss due to the war; for the year 1915,
was even smaller than might have
been expected, only 1892 tons. This
tonnage is the equivalent of two or
three moderate sized liners or six or
seven ordinary freight steamers. The
shipping list is reduced in fact by
thirteen vessels, regardless of size or
class.
Thus, British shipbuilding is almost
keeping pace with the destruction
caused by submarines and mines,
serious as the gross loss is-451 ves-
sells, large and small, of an aggregate
tonnage of S14,233, last year. New
construction put afoat 43S vessels,
and 77S,321 tons. And, undoubtedly,
many of the destroyed vessels had seen
their best service.
The hideous submarine campaign
has never promised military results
worth the cost and risk to the Ger
man admiralty And If, as has been
suggested, the promoters of the insen-
safe policy expected that the British
mercantile marine would be seriously
crippled as a competitor when peace
comes, their hopes in that respect
have evidently miscarried, too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
CHINA AND Us

NOR ways that are dark and tricks
that are strange, the heather
Chinee is peculiar" but there is
nothing peculiar about the fact that
during the nine months ended March,
1916, China increased her hold on the
American market "A per cent, COM
pared with the similar period ended
March 1915, beause we have a Demo-
cratic near-free-trade law on the
statute books, and with a wage scale
that wouldn't buy a package of
smoking tobacco for an American
laboring man, the Chinese find it an
easy matter to unload on our market.
We imported from China during the
nine months ended March 1915. SAL
100000 worth of goods, compared
with 27,500,000 worth for the nine
months ended March 1915. The
Oregonians and Washingtonians got
their share of these imports in eggs
that were laid when the dodo was the
barnyard fowl of old Cathay. AS a
Chinese restaurant keeper on the
Pacific Coast was heard to say: mo
can catchee flied - can catchee
sclambled." They wouldn't stand the
strain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
WAR AND THE WIRES
BY BRIGGS
By Frederic J. Haskin

asked the hardest questions of the
navy yards, and the navy yards re-
taliated by doing the same thing.
This was all very good for the cause,
since If for any reason a man was un-
able to answer a fair question dealing
with his special line of work, 1t was
referred to a sort of umpire who made
it his business to find out why. Any
apparent lack of efficiency was imme-
diately investigated, for under actual
war conditions the work of each man
is tremendously important and the
slightest mistake may cause the great
est blunder.
Communication was established by
long distance telephone over thou
sands of miles of wire with naval sta
tions at New York, Chicago, Norfolk,
Pensacola, San Diego and Puget
Sound. Secretary Daniels sat at his
desk and called up the U. S. Battle
ship New Hampshire which was sta
toned at Hampton Roads The tele-
phone operator at the Navy Depart
ment transmitted the communication
to the Arlington wireless stations,
where the Secretary's voice was pro-
jected into the ether by wireless and
carried to the battleship where the
wireless operator received it and trans
mitted it through the telephone to the
captain. Thus the voice of Secretary
Daniels in Washington was clearly
heard by Captain Chandler on board
the New Hampshire lying off Hampton
Roads.
The secretary of the navy told Cap
tain Chandler that the enemy had been
sighted off the coast and that he was
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
A Doubtful Policy

One can trace much of the Mexi-
can trouble back to Tampico, where
a little insult to some American SOL
diers. which was promptly disavowed
and apologized for, was made the oc-
casion for demanding the most exact
ing reparation in the form of salute
to the flag. Actually that sort of
reparation was beneath the dignity of
a great nation, which could not easily
have been contented with the acknowl-
edgment of the wrong that had been
committed and the generous apology
that was made therefor. Out of that
has grown much of the Ill feeling be-
tween the two countries. This gem
erous-hearted nation, grand in its good
will to all men. might have omitted a
demand that could have no other effect
that wounding the pride of another The
noble sense of this great republic
doesn't carry a chip on it's shoulder
in a spirit of vanity and defiance. The
integrity of its high purpose ought to
be stronger than a mere resentment
that takes form in the ordeal of self
effacement. We would not have exact
ed that of Great Britain, Germany or
France, and we should have been too
magnanimous to require 1t of a weak
er power.-ohio State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
HILL AND HIS ESTATE

JAMES ]. HILL wrested millions
from the mountains and plains of
the Great Northwest, and he keeps
them. even in death. Hills estate is
to be administered by his family and
he left no will-which means that not
a single one of the many very worthy
public enterprises in the district in
which he made his fortune will receive
from Hill directly one penny of his
vast wealth
In this Hill is unlike almost every
one of the very rich men of the period
1t is becoming moro and more under
stood that great wealth entails great
responsibilities and that the possessor
of the big fortune is merely its steward
and that he owes something to the
community wherein his possessions
were accumulated.
Handing down immense sums to
ones family is often anything but
commendable. A father is to be ex-
cused for placing his daughters beyond
want and in giving his sons a start in
life, but the possession of unlimited,
unearned wealth is more frequently a
detriment than a help to the develop
ment of character and the encourage
ment of those homely virtues that
make for real success in life. The
Goulds. the Vanderbilts, the Thaws
and a score of other families might be
cited as instances.
On the other hand, the public has
a right to expect something at the
hands of it's wealthy citizens, and the
man who in death fails to fulfill his
duty in this respect may expect to go
down in local history "unwept. un-
honored and unsung," self-convicted
money grabber, with thoughts no
higher than the pile of dollars he has
accumulated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
WEST SHORE HIGH SCHOOL

"1ORMLEYSBU has set a good
wv example for other West Shore
school boards by voting in
favor of a central high school for the
towns Of that district. 1t is to be
hoped that Lemoyne, Camp Hill.
Shiremanstown. West F'airview and
Fast Pennsboro township will lose no
time in joining hands with Wormleys-
burg for the creation of a joint fund
for this purpose.
Nothing has held back the West
Shore so much as lack of school
facilities. So far as they go the
schools of that vicinity are good, but
the Three RS" no longer suffice in
the public schools and the parent
hesitates to remove to suburbs that
do not afford educational facilities for
his boy or girl equal to those offered
by the city. A Central High School.
embracing the latest ideas in public
education, would give an impetus to
building on the West Shore that could
not be brought about in any other
way. In a few years it would pay
for itself in taxes raised on newly
built up land. There is no doubt of
this. Harrisburg has proved in dol
lars and cents that any needed public
improvement will more than carry
any investment that may be entailed.
Next week the West Shore Fire
mer's Union-the one real, live or
ganization embracing a membership
that takes in all the towns-will meet
to discuss the Inauguration of a de-
partment to be known as the Public
Forum, which will be something In
the nature of municipal league.
One of the first moves of this
organization ought to be the endorse
ment of the central high school pro-
posal. Here is a fine opportunity for
constructive work.
It is rumored that several school
boards-viewing the immediate effect
on the tax rate and letting the fu-
tUre take care of itself-will decline
to go into the central high school
plan. If those who are pledged to
tho movement are wise they will not
urge the "hold-back' element, but
will go ahead and build, taking in as
many as will come. 1t will be cheaper
that way, for the law permits the
pupils of districts adjoining that in
which such high school is located
to go to school there and the home
district must pay the bills. From
that standpoint alone it would appear
economical for all the communities
to corporate for the erection of one
adequate school, as has been sug-
gested.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
Living Expenses

While the cost of living is getting
higher all the time, it doesn't seem to
reduce the amount of money spent for
fun, fashion and amusement Here is
the great anomaly of modern life-pay-
ing more to live on and having more
money to spend for them. The cost of
the common necessities of life are %
per cent higher than they were two
or three years ago. when we had hard
time getting along, and yet people
spend % per cent. more now for things
they don't need. Where does the money
come from? From nowhere else but
economy and wages.
There are two important helps in the
as much red liquor as they used to and
they don't pay for as much bottled
medicine as they did formerly Both
of which omissions save money and
health, too. But these explanations
don't fully explain why people have SO
much money to spend for follies these
days. And there are the women-they
cost a heap more than they used to,
God bless 'em, and what they want is
more necessary than bread and meat
for the larder.
And so 1t goes, the expense of liv-
ing going higher and higher and the
expense of fun, folly and fashion go
ing higher and higher, too, so that IL is
getting quite impossible to tell any
difference between the essential and the
ephemeral what is real and what Is
volatile.-Ohio State Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
TIME Navy Department recently |

TIME Navy Department recently
played it's second war game"
Il this time for the purpose of
testing the efficiency of the telephone
and telegraph systems of the country
in case of war. Tine demonstration
lasted for two days in which the
United States was supposed to be on
the eve of mobilization. Word was
received that an imaginary enemy had
been sighted off the Atlantic coast,
and Secretary Daniels ordered the
U. S. Battleship New Hampshire on
scouting by wireless telephone. The
naval officials communicated with the
various navy yards by long distance
telephone, and the telegraph wires
were kept busy sending and receiv-
ing war messages.
Among other things, word was re-
ceived from the Brooklyn Navy Yard
that the Brooklyn Bridge had been
blown up by the enemy, several new
ships had been damaged, and they
were waiting for orders. This par
ticular message was so much in keep
ing with anonymous threats recently
addressed to the Navy Department
that it came near being accepted at
face value. AS a result of these
threats Brooklyn Bridge, as well as
the other bridges, is patrolled by a
detective force which looks askance
at every pedestrian with bulging pock-
cts or packages. After the first
startled moment, the Navy Yard got
its orders right back over the tele-
phone.
Since the officials were compelled to
give up their Sunday holiday to the
war game, they determined to get as
much fun out of it as possible. They
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

.T<HAT was a ringing call to service
which President Howard c. Fry
gave to members of the Harris
burg Rotary Club Tuesday night when
he said in his inaugural address:
From time to time in our city and
onc,Ir ndclnity % mere arise pro}eGtSs s S "a ana
sufficient to warrant organized and
concerted effort in order to accom-
be: Publicity is the most power
full force that acts to-day in the
world of public affairs. The pub
lie wants to know The public
facts enter into every public af-
fair. Our Rotary Club should take
an active part in these affairs. Our
club is not what we say 1t is-it is
what we, who are members of 1t,
make 1t. Our meetings should at
all times be a forum in which to
hear public affairs discussed and
with untiring vigor and zeal should
we get behind such measures as are
for the. public good, and. with equal
force decry sinister schemes that
should be made unable to stand the
public limelight, at the same time
taking advantage of the opportu-
nifty to broaden the general publics
concept Of Rotary and our own local
club. In / civic way, let's resolve
to do something big for dear old
Harrisburg next year.
President Fry scored a bullseye in
every sentence. Harrisburg is very
badly in need at this very moment of
the efforts for civic betterment of some
such organization as the Rotary Club
can be If it puts its heart into the
great work of arousing the people to
the deficiencies and needs of their
city. The spirit of municipal progress
that has done so much for Harrisburg
is not dead. But it is asleep. 1t has
no leader among the people. The city
is standing still for the lack of indi-
vidual interest and activity. The Ro-
tary Club can do little of itself. per-
haps, but it at least can point the way.
And it can get behind every plan for
city betterment that arises and it can,
with perfect proprlety, suggest such
things as are for the public welfare
and take means to create public senti-
ment in their favor.
He profits most who serves best" is
the motto of the club. This is no
man who served best" during the
critical period when Harrisburg was
in the process of being made over has
profited thereby actually in dollars and
cents. What is true of the past will
be true of the future.
The Rotary Club can play big part
in the further development of Harris
burg along proper lines and it is to be
hoped that the new president will
waste no time in putting his service
ideas into effect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members Of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."I
What was the cost of the Paxton
Creek Interceptor and its purpose?
Cost, $4,000 Constructed for
the purpose of relieving the Paxton
Creek of sewerage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
OUR DAILY LAUGH
NO CAUSE FOR


WORRY.
I hear your son
who Is in the war
Is wounded.
Yes. but he
writes now that
he Is out OF dam
ger.
That's encour-
aging.
Yes indeed! He
says he's back in
t he nrs thine
trenches again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

rot being overlooked by the people of
the country. 1t is an important mat
ter-but 1t will be attended to at the
first opportunity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

Samuel Gompers says that man who
is not ready to fight for republic is
not fit to live in 1t, which is a singing
rebuke to those labor unions that have
been opposing preparedness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

Harrisburg is badly in need of a
housing code. This long self-evldent
fact is emphasized by the inability of
the Health Department to make certain
property owners improve unsanitary
houses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
Editor Has Caller

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer
If a bore had the intelligence to know
that he is he wouldn't be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

After watching the sturdy forms and
the quick step of the veterans as they
passed, we understand why the Grand
Army is opposed to abandoning the pa
rade feature of their State encamp-
ments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
First Time He Ever Mentioned 1t

IFrom the New York WOrld.l
I was in the Spanish American War.
Colonel Roosevelt at Kansas City. 1t
was only innate modesty that kept the
Colonel from referring to this matter
before
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Not without Its Popular Appeal

The physician of Amos Emo, a mill
honaire who died recently in New York,
patient had an extremely bitter hatred
of the income tax. The truth of the
matter is. the income tax has very few
friends except among the $4,000, 900
people who pay none
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
UnuaunIIv Grnfifvinr Rennrs

[From the Indianapolis News.1
Everything considered. we did pretty
well between February Is and March
cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 8.

Tomorrow is not, yesterday is not,
Tomorrow is not, yesterday is not,
Today alone iS-and today is thine.
Ina Coolberth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

The South has some able statesmen,
but they hamper their usefulness to
tho nation by hanging to the old, rot
ten hulk of Free-Trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

Free-Trade taxes home industry to
make up for the present 1t hands to
foreign industry. Why not reverse
such an un-American scheme?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
War and Free Trade

WAR is He'll" but job-destroying,
home-wrecking, happiness-demolish-
ing, comfort-killing is Free Trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
TELEGRAPH PERlSCOPE

President Wilson may be a Chris
tian man. but we bet we know how
he feels about peace and harmony at
Chicago.
The recent sea fight seems to dem
onstrate that the German fleet is good,
but not quite good enough.
"A friend of Justice Brandeis pre-
diets thai he will become the main
spring of the Supreme Court-with the
rest OF the members as balance wheels,
we suppose.
The "decadent French" appear to
be putting up a good bluff of being a
strenuous people.
The season approaches when the
average man has the choice of run
ming off to the trenches or taking the
family to the annual Sunday school
picnic-and we look for a rapid in
crease of American enlistments in Eu-
rope.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

If Enola doesn't watch out. Ruther-
ford is going to take her railroad yard
laurels away.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

How much better it is to support
the government on Protection wages
than be compelled to keep the pot boil
ing from the savings out of past
wages?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
PLEASE REMIT

EhGAo6 4 RbMI lie
Baby arr iv 9 d
u p on t b Q
first,
His dad, as jok-
ers will.
Got off this joke,
a b ut hi s
worst:
He named the
baby Bill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08

An empty Treasury is a Banquo's
ghost hat rises up and confronts the
present Free-Trade administration.