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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
Public opinion and BllIboards.

Springfield is one Of the first cities
If not the first-to demonstrate the
power of public sentiment in bringing
about a desirable change in the bill
board situation.
In the Massachusetts city a few
days ago a sign described as "hideous
and affective" was painted upon the
side Of building. 1t was on private
property. and could not be reached by
existing law. But the people of Spring
field who objected to the obnoxious
display were not discouraged. They
appealed to the owner of the build
ing, and convinced them. that the
substantial citizens of Springfield were
opposed to such dsfigurements of the
streets. The result was an order for
the removal of the haunting offense.'
The success of this appeal to prop
erty owners should encourage the
large part of the public that 1t Is op-
posed to faring billboards to have
conferences with the owners OF land
upon which the signs are erected.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
Mary Elizabeth Inn.

The Mary Elizabeth Inn, San Fran
cisco, has rendered a very beautiful
service to our foreign missionaries
and to number of those of other
boards. All those who enter the port
of San Francisco or who sail from
San Francisco spend from two to five
days in this home. They are met
by our superintendents of Oriental
work on the coast and by the deacon
esses. The welcome that they recei7e
in this Christian home means much
TO those who are returning on fur
Tough. The Godspeed that is given
to the outgoing missionary gives new
strength for the work to which they
go. More than forty missionaries
have been entertained there. There
is certainly a circle of prayer al!
around the world for the Mary Eliza
beth Inn and those who abide thece.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY COUNCIL
M. e. CHURCH SOUTH
Some Stirring Facts.

Japan still has 25,0O0,000 uncon-
verted farmers, 100000 unconverted
fishermen, 100000 unconverted
tradesmen, $4,000 unconverted fac
tory employees, and 100000 children
out of Sunday school. A great null
titude have never yet heard of the
gospel. Prominent Japanese say:
"There has been no time in the his
tory of Japan when the people were
seeking the gospel so sincerely and so
eagerly as now' The Christians there
ask for three things-believing pray.
er, more missionaries, and more mon
ey fer the enlargement of the work,
The Independent Japan Methodist
church, with nineteen hundred mem
bers and twenty conference preachers
supported almost wholly by them.
will do well if in this generation it
builds up strong church in the pla-
ces already touched. 1t considers
that its task is to touch 100000 Of
the unevangelized. Three million
three hundred and thirty-seven thou.
sand fall to the share of the Southern
Methodists. What shall we do about
it?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
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(Talk Two)
(By j. H. McBrien, School
Extension Agent, U. S. Bureau
of Education, Washington

The deplorable conditions existing
in the rural schools Of Arkansas on
account of the short term of school
are pointed out in our previous talk.
Let us hope, however, that a better
day is dawning for the rural schools
Of Arkansas. There is a statewide
campaign now on in Arkansas to
amend the constitution so as to make
the maximum school tax II mills, in
stead of Z mills as at present. DR..
Charles II. Brough, the newly nomi-
mated candidate of the democratic par
ty for governor, pledged himself be-
fore the state teachers association
at Little Rock in April to tour the
entire state in a campaign in favor
of this amendment for higher school
tax. There is now a well organized
campaign on in Arkansas among edu-
Gators, business and professional men
in favor of this amendment.
As we have noted in previous talks
in this series, regarding the length
of the school term, there are rural
school districts in California with only
a 5O-day school term; IN Colorado
with only a 55-day school term; in
Florida, with only 30-day school
term; in Georgia, with only 25-day
school term: in Illinois, with only
44-day school term; in Iowa, with only
a 4O-day school term; in North Da-
kota, with only a 20-day school term;
in South Dakota, with only a 50-day
school term; in Tennessee, with only
a 55-day school term; and in Texas,
with only a 3O-day school term. And
there are other states in which the
campaign for a longer rural school
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
CONVICT LABOR SOLVING
CALIFORNIA; ROAD PROBLEM

Washington, July 22.-Convict Ia
Dor on state highways is one means
of solving California's tremendous
mountain road problem, which has
been beyond the states resources
since the "early days Of gold" The
convict takes work from no man, but
builds roads that otherwise could not
be built.
The law providing for convict road
work became effective in August, 1915.
In a bulletin of the California high
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24

measurably bettered physically, which
means mentally and morally. Con-
structive work instead of the jute
mill: under the blue skies and among
the beauties of mountain California
instead of behind stone walls; coop
Grating with the state instead of being
outcasts of the state these things
are alone worth the doing.
But there is another side without
which the scheme would not solve
the problem for which It is intended.
These men have come soft from pris-
on to a new work under almost impos-
sible weather conditions. We have
supplied them with everything they
have or use-clothing, transportation,
guards, food, beds, medical attention,
as well as the ordinary expense FOR
materials and equipment for road
work-all this many miles of transpor-
tation-and the winters work shows
a profit. Through the winter eight
miles of difficult canyon road has
been built for % per cent less than
the estimate, and little more than
half what similar work has cost on
contract in the same locality. AS
Gather conditions improve, costs are
falling and yardage increasing.
"The success of the work in Men
docino led to the placing or a crew
from Folsom on section of the
Placerville road, near Shingle Spri.S g
Only an inadequately small amount of
maintenance funds were available for
this section, but this eypa1!ent Will
give the equivalent of $1S,030 in work
for an expenditure of $1,000 and make
possible an improved section CT a
needed road which otherwise must
have waited for the next bond issue
"The commission is now preparing
to attack the Sierra lateral question
by placing convict camps on each OF
four of these roads Tor active con
struction this summer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
WORLDS GREATEST HIGHWAY
A Twenty-Foot Road IS Miles Long
Reaches Up to Pixies Peak.

Five score and ten years ago Lieu
tenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike dis
covered the famous mountain that
now bears his name. After making
several attempts to reach the summit
on foot he was forced to give up, pre-
dieting in his diary that no human
being would ever be able to scale its
rocky heights. For 13 years there
after the great white mountain hurled
defiance at many other sturdy pioneers
who made similar attempts to reach
the top. In August, 1916, the speed
kings of the world are going to race
up the rock walled sides of this giant
sentinel of the Rockies over a double
track motor highway that has been
pronounced by eminent engineers to
be one of the greatest road building
achievements of the age.
To scale this mighty mountain with
twenty-foot highway, Is miles long
and reaching into the clouds 14,lO9
feet above the sea, required engineer
ing skill, push, dynamite, men and
money. Government engineers had
predicted that it could not be accom-
plished in two years, but the builder
did it in five months between the
SHOWS of 1915.
Early in January OF last year Eu-
gene A. Sunderln of Colorado Springs
secured pledges of financial support
and in May he began construction OF
the worlds highest highway to the
summit of Pixies Peak. Large con
! struction camps were established eV-
! cry second mile. Expert rock workers
were brought in from the mining dis
ticts and with Is twenty-ton cars OF
/ dynamite the road was blasted
through fields of massive boulders and
up the precipitous walls of the peak.
From sun to sun for five months a
ceaseless roar of tons of explosives
was re-echoed by the grim old noun
tain to the valleys below. Great boul
ders were lifted from their anchorage
and thrown down the mountain side
two thousand feet below. Giant pines
were lifted up by the roots with pow
der to make way for the road.
Specifications called for minimum
width of twenty feet, on tangents
with curves from 26 to so feet as re
quired and super-elevated, so that
two machines might pass at any point
with safety. The grade has been held
to an average Of per cent, with a
maximum of 10 per cent, which Will
permit any car to negotiate the sum
NIT with ease. Masonry parapets, 2K
feet high and Is inches wide, for
guard rail walls on curves which av-
erage 40 degrees, are provided where
needed.-Baltimor American.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24

term should be waged in season and
out of season.
As a rule, when we speak of leng-
thening the school term, it presup-
poses the need of more money. But
in our next talk we shall endeavor to
show how the school term may be
heightened without voting another
mill of school tax If the patriotism
of the taxpayer will not prompt him
to do this, he should do 1T for the
sake of enlightened selhshness if for
no higher purpose. He should know,
with Edward Everett, that Education
is a better safeguard of liberty than
a standing army" with Benjamin II.
Hill that mo nation ever yet paid
too much for the education of its
people, and the more it pays for this
purpose the richer and the more pow
erful it will become
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
Should SIoan's Liniment Go Along

OF course It shOuId! FOr alter
strenuous day when your muscles
nave been exercised to the limit. an
application of Sloans Liniment will
take the soreness and stiffness away
and get you in fine shape for the
morrow. You should also use it for
sudden attack of toothache. stiff
neck, backache, stings, bites, and the
many accidents that are incidental to
q vacation. 1--WE would as soon leave
our baggage as go on a vacation or
camp without Sloan's Liniment' y
Writes one vacationist: 1--WE use 1t
for everything, from cramps to tooth
ache" Put a bottle in your bag, be
prepared, and have no regrets.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24

way department sent to the national
committee on prisons the progress of
the work since that time is described
as follows:
thirty men was established in north
ern Mendocino. The scope of the
work was gradually enlarged on a
safety first basis. We carried two
camps with 125 men through the win
ter working every day but Sunday
through a rain and snowfall of sew
enty inches. The men have been
given sanitary camps and food that
at least equal the best free labor
camps. We have given them better
living and working conditions, large
measure of personal freedom, and,
under the law, the crowning incentive
of one days reduction of sentence
for every two days of loyal work.
"The laying out and direction of the
work has been in the hands of the
highway commission, as well as pro
viding camps, commissary, etc. The
discipline of the men has been in the
hands of the board of prison directors,
represented by three guards, without
arms, in each camp-one acting as
captain of the camp, the others as
cuh foremen on the work
"The humanitarian side or the work
Is self-evident. The men are I'M
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24

Read the want ads.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure catar
rhal deafness, and that is by a consti
tutional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness
is caused by an inflamed condition of
the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely
closed, Deafness is the result. Unless
the Inflammation can be reduced and
this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed for
ever. Many cases Of deafness are
caused by catarrh, which is an in
famed condition of the mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure acts
through the blood on the mucous sur
faces of the system.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Catarrhal Deafness
that cannot be cured by Halls Ca
tarrh Cure. Circulars free. All drug
gists, 75c.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24

Doing hard work in bent or stoop-
ing position puts stitch in the back
that is painful. If the muscles have
become strained, you cant get rid of
1t without help. The great penetrating
power of BALLARD'S SNOW LlNl-
MENT will appeal to you most strong
ly at such times. because 1t is the
very thing you need. Price 25c, DOC
and $10O .er bottle. Sold by Ringer
Drug Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24

Stings or bites OF insects that are
followed by swellings, pain or itching
should be treated promptly as they
are poisonous BALLARD'S SNOW
LINIMENT counteracts the poison. II
is both artiseptic and healing. Price
25c., soc. and $1.00 per bottle Sold
by Ringer Drug Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24
ChamberTain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy.

Every family without exception
should keep-this preparation at hand
during the hot weather of the summer
months. Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy is worth
many times it's cost when needed and
is almost certain to be needed before
the summer is over 1t has no super
ior for the purposes for which 1t Is
intended. Buy it now. Obtainable
everywhere.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-24

Many of the abutters on the highway
can live comfortably without the rent
ais paid by billboard agents, and if the
public side OF the question is present
ed in tactful and convincing way,
more than one neighborhood may be
relieved of nuisances which as yet
can not be reached by law.-Proyi-
dence Journal.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-01

stuffs. Taxes are high and may be
higher, and with Norway at least
partially modified, some of the pro.
ductive earning power of the country
is, for the time being, eliminated.
1t should be remembered that be-
fore the war Norway was one of the
cheap countries in which to live: 1t
was not so many years ago that a
crown, worth about twenty seven
cents then, was looked upon and used
just about the way that Americans
look at a dollar. Today a crown is
worth about thirty cents and as far
as Christiania is concerned, will buy
just about what Americans can get
for that amount. A young clerk or a
young engineering graduate looked
forward to being promoted to 100
crowns a month just about the way
American boys look forward to 500
a month. A man who got six thous-
and crowns per annum or five hun.
dred crowns month was considered
Well-off. The trouble now Is that the
young man in Chrstiania is still get
ting not very much more than his
hundred crowns and the older man
or emplOye is getting only little
more than his six thousand per year.
1t can be seen that when these
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-01

amounts can only buy what one can
buy in the United States for thirty
dollars and eighteen hundred dollars
respectively, there is some reason for
complaint about the increased cost OF
living.
Prices have increased about as fol-
lows: Carfare is the same, as the
company gets its power from noun
tain streams which run all the time,
war or no war. Reduced to United
States currency, coal costs about ten
times as much per ton as before the
war. Milk has gone from five to
eight cents per litter; bread from
eight to eleven cents per loaf; eggs
from twenty-five to forty-eight cents
per dozen. Meat has doubled in
price; it now sells from thirty-three
to fifty five cents per pound. Pending
and projected strikes and lockouts in
the various trades have not tended to
help matters much, however, the gov
eminent has interceded in these mat
tiers now and hopes are entertained
that these questions can now be ad.
justed.
Secure Vacant Lots.
To encourage thrift, the municipal
ity has secured control Of most OF
the vacant lots in the city and has
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-01
BUSINESS UNSETTLED
IN CHR|ST|AMA
Norwegian City Suffers Combina'
ton of Bad and Good
Times.

Christiania, June 24.--Christiana is
having combination of good and bad
times. Shipbuilding and marine
freights cause the boom, while the
difficulty Of securing supplies from
aboard and the failure Of ordinary
wages to fit the prevailing high prices
cause the hard times.
People who have shares in ships
and the various shipbuilding concerns
are having everything their own way.
Many persons who have held stock
which paid nothing at all or else very
nominal dividends Of from three to
five per cent a year for many years,
now have, in some cases, received
cash dividends OF from twenty-five to
fifty per cent.
One night not long ago there was
excitement down around the Grand
Hotel on the main boulevard of Karl
Johans grade. Some new stock had
been issued on the instament basis,
whereby a purchaser paid about one
third down and agreed to pay the
other two-thirds as the money was
needed by the companies Concerned.
The stock, one-third paid for, began
to rise in value as general freight
rates advanced, but as the companies
began ealing for additional payments,
many owners found themselves com
PEELED to sell at least part of their
holdings in order to pay obligations
on the remainder. The result was a
conflict between rising prices on the
one hand and forced sales on the
other. All sorts Of people were buy
ing and selling, from news boys up;
crowds collecting on the streets and
| in the Hobbies of the hotels in order
to close their transactions. However
| the values of this kind of paper after
the war is over is problematic, fol-
| with vessels selling at about five
| times their intrinsic values based or
1914 prices. it may be inferred that 9
general decline will occur. However
many conservative people here say
that freight rates viii continue to be
| high for a long time after the wal
IS ended. and that present rates viii
not decline to any great extent.
| Dealing in stocks or shares hert
they call "jobbing," pronounced ''yob
bing' and nearly every one is "yob
bling" The manager Of big Anglo
Norwegian shipping concern was call
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-01

ed up by telephone one day by brok-
ed who wanted to learn something of
the credit of a certain employee who
had obligations amounting to about
thrty-thousand crowns coming due.
"Why," said the manager, "you
don't mean Karl, our messenger boy,
do you? Hold the phone minute.
I say Karl come here. Are you the
one this man is talking about? He
says you owe thirty thousand crowns
on some shares. You don't mean to
say you are 'yobbing' do you?"
"Why yes sir, that's me- answered
Karl "Well how are you going to
raise thirty thousand crowns to pay
the obligations" "Why l have it
right here" replied Karl, and taking
bank book out Of his pocket, he
showed the astonished manager bal
ance Of some forty-five thousand
crowns. "The thirty thousand is not
due till tomorrow and have not yet
been around there, but you may tell
him will pay it all right"
The way these young fellows got
their start is about as follows:
An advertisement appears in the
daily papers inviting the public to
subscribe to a certain issue OF stock.
A young clerk, with barely enough
cash to pay for the necessary postage
stamp, writes and says he wants
hundred shares. Maybe the issue is
oyersubscribed so he receives reply
to the effect that, according to the
pro rata, he is entitled to fifty shares
Of the hundred requested and is in
vited to settle the account at par with
in five days. AS the issue is over sub
scribed it is not difficult for the hold
er of this letter to sell his right to
fifty shares at anyWheres from l02
to 1O5 per share. He does this. so
with the par value of the shares at
five hundred crowns each, he pockets
a neat profit of anywhere from five
hundred to twelve hundred and fifty
crowns. This was about four months
ago. Subscribers now must enclose
at least ten per cent OF the face
value of the number of shares re-
| auested, otherwise the letter or ap-
| plicant will not be considered.
It is reported that millionaire ship
owners in Bergen, NorWay's big ship
ping center, have increased since the
war began, from six or seven to over
forty and that Norway now has the
| largest merchant marine OF any
country in the world. Before the war,
England was her only rival in this
respect.
The hard times talk comes from the
! people who either have not gotten
in on the shipping deals or perhaps
got in on the wrong side of the profit
column, for notwithstanding the up
ward tendency in the prices OF stocks
there have been enough fluctuations
to cause many people to lose heavily
However, prices of the necessities OF
life are raising. and good many
things cannot be secured at any
price. Salaries and wages have kept
up with the increased cost of food
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-01

let them to Industrious citizens in
small tracts for very moderate sum
for the present summer season on
the condition that they be planted to
potatoes of other staple foodstuffs.
During the past month, the holders OF
these tracts could be seen industri.
ously working in the evening twi-
light, for at this latitude, even as
early as May !, it is not dark until
after nine in the evening. In June
and July there is quite enough Light
to read by all night
Another matter which may be not
ed, is the high rate of interest which
banks here pay on saving accounts;
viz, four and One-half per cent Ameri-
can gold is selling at very low
figure at the local exchanges. Previ-
ously one could get about thirty-eight
crowns for ten-dollar gOld-piece;
now, one can not get more than thir-
ty-three or thirty-four crowns. Eng.
lish pounds, sterling, are not any bet.
ter off, while German marks are still
lower. Russian rubles, due it is
understood, to having been placed on
paper-or-promise to pay basis, are
lower than any of the others.
All sorts of financial adjustments
have to be made on account of pres
ent unusual conditions. Banks which
heretofore have provided funds for
building operations, in the shape OF
first mortgages now find it more
profitable to buy up government obli-
therefore not aiding house construc-
ton as heretofore. On account of the
rapid growth of Christiania, this has
made the housing question rather
serious one to the inhabitants. House
rents have increased at least fifty per
cent and as leases expire they are
generally renewed at the higher
figure.
In order to raise funds for new
buildings, builders and property own
ers are now inviting prospective ten
ants to subscribe to shares in new