The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-25
BUSINESS MEN RETAIN
THEIR OLD OFFICERS
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the officers and members in the sue
cess of the style show, and stated
that he desired to be counted in
on any movement in the future for
the benefit of the organization and
the advancement of Ardmore.
Mr.. Levy, of the Style Shop, a
new member, and Miss Abbie Bailey
also made short talks for the good OF
the association.
After the election of officers, Secre
tary Gilbert was called, and in short
address outlined the future work OF
the organization, what he hoped to
accomplish, and what the organiza
tion had done in the past six months
Mr.. Gilbert said in part:
There are three problems which
Ardmore must face and must solve
No city was ever builded until its
people had wrestled with, and to a
greater or less degree solved these
problems.
"They were never solved except by
cooperative effort-by organization
They were never solved in day
or year, and their solving was and
always will be attended by difficul
ties, disappointments and loss.
They were never solved without
the aid of the merchants, but the
merchants never did and never can
solve them of themselves. They are
but cogs in a great wheel, the slip,
ping of one retarding the end sought
"The problems are roads, payrolls,
good government.
Each one of these problems offers
what always looks like unsurmount-
able difficulties, and my experience
has been that the difficulty was nj
ways in getting started right.
ROADS.
The road problem in Oklahoma has
been made a little easier, but is still
Il hard one - by recent legislation
which provides at least some ways
and means, and some system. SO far
as Ardmore and Carter county is con-
cerned, my advice would be that
concentrated effort be made to OBJ
iectiye points - to the oil fields, Ber-
wyn, Madill and Sulphur. These are
the great trade arteries and the great
est need for work right now are the
roads to Madill and toward sulphur.
Ardmore is losing thousands of dol
lars worth of business every year
from these two sources. Rome was
not buided in a day, nor was it all
built at once. but step by step was
taken until it became the greatest
empire that ever existed. If Ardmore
will take up this road problem step
by step. results will follow, but if a
campaign for several hundreds of
miles of road be made, but little re
suits will be gained,
More Payrolls.
THE creation of more payrolls is
an essential which must be grasped
and solved. We are not looking for
another explosion his fall. We can
only guess as to what the price Of
cotton will be, or Of the number Of
bales that will reach Ardmore.
"The city Of Atlanta. the greatest
manufacturing city in the south to-
day. is founded on beehive industries.
While other cities were reaching ont
for the 'million-dollar industry At
lanta was gathering in, fostering and
helping the little concerns which only
cost a few hundred to start, and
which in the beginning only employ
ed three or four or ten men.
when the United States Steel Cor
poration in the Birmingham district
shut down and threw two hundred
thousand men out of employment 1t
a single stroke. Atlanta's wheels of
industry went merrily on. When the
coal fields of Pennsylvania were torn
with strikes and shut-downs, Allan
ta's wheels of industry never ceased
their busy hum,
Let us outdo Atlanta. DO not
let the lack of gas, fuel. water or
facilities stand in the way. Those
will come with the demand, and not