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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27
Automobile Must Be Given Full Credit for Road Improvement

states the improved roads number less
than five per cent. And, had II not
boen Tor the motor ears. this percent
age would be still lower. for during
the past ten years we have built more
good roads than in all our previous
history.
In the report of the United States
department of agriculture Ii is est-
mated that the farmers of this country
are losing $3.50, 100000 annually on
account of the inaccessibility of their
products at certain times of the year,
dut To bad road conditions. This loss
To the farmers is equal 10 the amount
spent last year in road Improvement
work and II Will be Interesting To note
the next government report to see If
the farmers losses have not been
lessened materially by this huge cX-
porditure for better roads.
TOO much credit cannot be given to
the automobile for the road improve
ments that are going on all over the
country. The town or village that
hcSlccts us streets or roadways is
given n wide berth by tourists in gen
eral. The ability of the motor car to
coNch long distances and economi-
cally enables its owner to do his trad
ing IN the town that offers the best
approach to its stores.
That is the chief reason why the
more progressive towns today are pay
.ng strict attention To the roadways
mat lead into them. Competition be-
tween cities and towns has forced
them To take care of the needs Of the
motorist and by improving their thor
oughfares they have benefited the
whole community.
Newspapers and magazines are do
N hnt l.. l..
GOOD roads movement. Many of them
are going so far as to publish auto
mobile routes that tell at glance
which towns are to be avoided and
which ones are TO be recommended
for tourists The town or village that
is advertised as ~ hard place to reach
by automobile has little chance to gel
out OF the rut. Its neighbor may be
less than five miles distant. but If
the roads leading into it are in good
shape it is bound to grow and pros
per-
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27
AUTO MAKES FOR
BETTER ROADS
$25O,00O 1000 Spent for Good
Roads in This Country
Last Year.

The awakening of public inteest TO
the importance of good roads in this
country was given its chief impetus
through the agency of the autom obile
according to John \. WHY'S, president
Of the Willys-O Overland company, who
has made an exhaustive study OF the
good roads subject.
y "The amount of money spent in TINS
country last year on highway con-
struction amounted to approximately
S250,000,00 but this huge eXpenditur'
was more than offset by the fact that
land values In most localities were IN
creased anywhere from 100 to 400 per
cent by the road Improvements. If
an equal amount of money is put into
road improvements each year for the
next ten years. the United States will
be able to boast of more than half
million miles of good roads represent
ing a cost of $500, ,00O 200 and an APP
probation in land values of fully $25,-
600. .000, 900.
The big trunk lines such as the
Lincoln highway and Dixie highway
never would have been started had it
not been for the motor car says Mr..
WHY'S. And these two, | believe to
he hut the forerunnerS of others that
in tipie will give the United States as
fine a system of highways as can be
found in the world.
"What the coming of the automobile
has accomplished in the way of road
improvement work during the past
ten years is nothing compared to what
1t will do in the future. When you
stop to consider that there is more
than one motor vehicle to every fifty
people in this country, II is easy TO
understand the tremendous interest
taken i'm the good roads movement.
with over two million cars in use
at the present time and with an ad-
ditional 100000 planned for the year
1916. II is only logical to believe that
in the years to come the proportion
of good roads in the United States will
be far in excess of what it is today.
Figures compiled by experts show
that only ten per cent of our public
roads are improved, while in many
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27
OLD BUICK WINS
IN HYATT CONTEST
1909 Model Credited With
261,SO0 Miles and Is
Still Running.

with a record of 2Gt.So0 miles.
equal to more than ten times around
the world, to it's credit 1909 Buick,
owned by +. f.. Slason of PlainNille,
Kan. made the most remarkable
showing of any car i'm the mileage
contest conducted 10y the Hyatt
Roller Bearing company. The object
of the contest was TO learn how far
automobiles have run in every day
service upon their original equipment
Of Hyatt bearings. Mr.. Slason was
awarded the first prize, $500 More
than three hundred tires, costing
$4,000, were worn out by the car
Buick Has Great Record.
Slasons old white Buick, which
is known all over that part of Kan
sas in which Plainville is located.
has been driven by more than %
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27

with most of us the grim necessity
OF purchasing coal is no joke. Yet n
Boston maI found at IA coal emporium
IN that city u cEap who managed 20
irfuse a degree of Righteousness into
the transaction.
How much is chestnut coal?" TIM
toner
THAT depends said the salesman
"a la carte. it's IS; cul-de-sac, it witt
cCst you 80 cents extra. '--EVery-
body's.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27

prize winner. During one week seven
trips averaging 20 miles each were
made at night after the ear had been
used throughout the day Since the
contest closed the ear has been driven
thousands of miles. and II Is estimated
that II Will be able to cover AT least
another hundred thousand miles be-
fore il has outliVed It's usefulness.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27
Mere Mechanics.

"My WIFE" said the. celebrated pur-
veyor OF Indifferent sellers, cant be
made to understood that writer has
his off days"
MOI"
"Shc thinks ought to be able to
write freely as long as there is ink In
the fountain pen"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27
STUTz WILL STAY
OUT OF RACING
Not to Race Again Unless
Their Own Worlds Rec
ord Is Beaten or Tied.

Harry StutZ, president of the Stutz
Motor Car company of Indianapolis,
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
Many Merchants Enter
Protest On Auto
Parking Ban
CALL POLICE
HEAD A "CZAR"
Discrimination Alleged
Before Council
Committee

In the presence Of It's sponsor,
Police Commissioner Couzens, the
new trafic regulation prohibiting
the parking of automobiles In the
downtown district was attacked
Tuesday morning as measure
which robs merchants OF their trade
and depr1ves citizens OF their rights.
Business and professional men Join
cd in the protest, which was made
in meeting of the common co,1cil
committees on ordinances and traf-
fic regulation.
After he had heard himself de-
nounced as czar. Commissioner
Couzens was called upon 10 make
a few remarks by Aid. fTeiwald.
who presided.
Il haven't anything TO say Ia the
people who protested" said Cou-
zens. but ! will say few things 10
the aldermen"
Talk to us, too was the heated
protest from a few OF those who
had attacked the regulations.
We're citizens. We have as much
tCo-ttpued on Psge EIevenb
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
Taken From Bed Soon
After They Plunder
Pool Room
EXPECTED TO GET
$500; FOUND $24
Young RObber Sleeps
On Stolen Knife
and Revolver

Harry Monohsn. 1s years old. and
Anthony Green, IS. both living at
No. 81 Iovett-s'. were arrested at
I o'clock, Tuesday morning. by De-
tectives John Gllnsky and Charles
Donovan, CHARGED with breaking
into the barber shop and pool room
O. Anthony Meyer at No. 147l
Michigan-ave. shortly after mid
night, Monday, and robbing the safe
of s24,56, revolver, knife and
rome papers.
The two are said 10 have entered
the place thru rear window and
moved the safe from the front tc
the rear OF the place. where they
broke II TO pieces with burglar
tools
The police were notified OF the
robbery shortly after IL occurred
and Inspector GeoUo Larkins pu,
Detectives Doncyan and Glinsky OF
the case
without any clues TO work on
the offbcers called Mayer and noti
fed him or his store being entered
and asked him TO name some OF the
persons who nad been lettering
around the place Monday night He
named Monohan and Green and
several other Lien The officers
went 10 the home of the two boys
and searched IN place The money
revolver and knife were found under
? pillow on which one OF the boys
was sleeping The boys, the police
say. then confessed TO having com.
mitted the robbery. saying that
they had been out OF work for sew.
eral days and bad thought that
Nager's Fafe contained about $500
wher he closed up Monday night
and that the chance was worth
taking
Monohsn and Green are charged
with breaking and entering in the
night time.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
Frank Kerczynski Is
Held By Local
Police
DECLARE SUSPECT
HAS CONFESSED
Detectives Get Clue
Thru Employe Who Re-
fuses to Steel Cars

Frank Kerczyaski. alias Fred
Fisher. was arrested last Friday,
hut not until Tuesday morning did
Il become known that he is sup
posed by the police to be the head
ci a big plot 10 steal automobiles
all over the country Kerczynski,
who lives at No. 16 McBrearty-ave.,
the police believe, is the leader OF
an automobile trust that had for its
chief idea the stealing OF cars from
coast to coast. Thru this arrest
local detectives expect to line up
other members OF gang who are
taid to be participants In the most
ambitious plot OF Its kind yet
foated.
Fisher is said to have confessed
To the police that he had stolen
three automobiles and had served
terms In prison for automobile
thetts.
According to the police, Fisher re
Gently inserted an advertisement
in Detroit paper asking for a
driver for Fred Fisher. No. 40 Pi
Guette-ave A man whom the po
lice know only as Meade applied
'or the Job and was told he was
wanted 10 drive an automobile
truck. Fisher appeared TO be in
charge OF n garage at the Piauette
address.
The police Say that Fisher
brought the applicant downtown
and confessed TO him that he was
not in the trucking business. but In
the business Of stealing sutomo
biles. He pointed out a car. II IL
charged, and asked Meade 10 dhv,
II away. He started TO do 80. be
came frightened and jumped from
the car He told a friend OF his
adventure and the friend notified
the police with the result that
Fisher was arrested.
II IL alleged that In the Fisher
garage were found a counle Of
stolen cars.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
BRITISH WAR MINISTER QUITS POST
WHEN ASQU|TH REFUSES TO AGREE To
RELIN0UISH SEAT ON WAR COUNCIL
Attempt to Settle Cabi-
net Crisis Is
Failure
RADICAL SHAKE-UP
SEEMS CERTAIN

LONDON, Dec. 5.-On the high
est authority IL was made known
this afternoon that David Lloyd
George had resigned from the cab
met.
His resignation was drafted and
sent to Premier Asquith after he
received an intimation that Asquith
was unwilling to agree to the plan
for a war council of which the
premier would not be member.
In announcing that Lloyd-George
had decided to resign. the Ex-
change Telegraph company added
that formal announcement os hts
severance OF relations with the cab
inet would be announced tomorrow,
II was conceded today that out
Of the crisis" would come organ
ization OF compact war council
probably OF not more than five
inembers-to be eiven supreme con-
troll in the direction OF England's
war energies. Whether this wouit
mean a change in the personnel d
the cabinet or simply designation
OF certain members OF II 70 act as
the new council was matter OF
speculation London newspapers
beld the main d'fficulty in the WY
Of settleemnt OF the matter arose
thru Premier Asquith's feeling that.
as prime minister. he should be
chairman OF the new war council.
Asquith Ia known as one Of the
greatest "paciiers" and "placaters"
in British politics. He has until
Thursday and possibly until Mon
day TO exercise this ability-ths
house OF commons having adjourned
untrl Thursday in respect 10 his
wishes. thus staving or formal an
nouncement OF any reconstruction"
until that time Many members
are in favor OF still longer post
ponement until Monday.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

That the high cost OF living is
not only not calamity, but a bless
ing in disguise. is the belief OF
Health Officer Price. Not only that.
but n will save a good many lives
II people will only learn by ~.
The chief articles OF food that
have gone sky-rocketing are eggs,
butter and potatoes. Humanity is
better on without them and will live
longer ~ IL leaves them alone. the
health officer declares.
will the sudden stopping Of the
use OF eggs, butter and potatoes in
jure the public health by upsettins
the ordinary habits Of man ." q
Times reporter asked Dr. Price.
"On the contrary" he replied. 1T
will benefit Il immeasurably. Peo-
pie will be better on for cutting
these articles from their diet. ~
they do The men who corner
these commodities for the purpose
CONTINUED on PsGe Eleven
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
stockholders
SEE PROSECUTOR
Purchasers of Harroun Stock
Ask How to Get Money
Back

Many purchases Of stock in the
Harroun Motor corporation continue
to seek the advice OF Prosecutor
Jasnowski's Office as TO the best
method of recovering their money,
according 20 Chief Assistant Prose-
cutor Paul VOORHEES,
"A man was IN this morning 10
End out how he could proceed 10
get his money back" MIR. VOORHEES,
aid. Tuesday. but we are not Civ
lug any advice in this matter now"
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
Urges Strikes Be Made
to Await Public
Investigation
URGES ASSISTANCE
FOR PORTO RICO
Would Allow Business
Firms to Combine
For Trade Abroad

WASHINGTON. Dec. 5.--Urgins
upon the nations law makers the i'm
mediate necessity for the passage OF
legislation which will make impos-
rible an industrial calamity such As
was threatened In the recent rail
way strike crisis President Wilson
today read his annual message be-
fore a Joint session Of the house
and senate.
The president began his address
NJ O'clock
The high cost OF living. measured
10 alleviate which promise TO oc-
cupy much OF the congressional ses-
Fion now beginning was not referred
TO by the president, but II Is under.
stood that he will take up this is
sue In later address 20 congress-
The presidents recommeDdation
for railroad legislation largely fol
lowed those which he made ID re-
Questing the passage OF the Adam
bon bill
They include as their cardinal
principles the approval of an In.
veftigatlon by the interstate com
merce commission of an investiga-
ton to see whether or not the rail
roads must be allowed increased
freight rates 20 meet the additional
expenses incurred under the Adam.
son Law. and providing for n full
public investigation OF the issues in
VOWED before a strike can be called
The president made It very plain
that he would not approve law
providing for compulsory srbitra-
ton.
TO pass a law which preyented
OF forbade the individual workman
10 leave his work without receiving
the approval OF society before 80 do
ing would be TO introduce new
principle into our Jurisprudence
which. take II. we are not prepared
20 introduce" he said But the
proposal that the operation Of the
railroads OF the country shall not be
stopped or interrupted by the con-
Verted action Of organized bodies OF
Continued on rsHe EIeven)
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
THE WEATHER.

For Detroit and vicinity TUESDAY
pswtfy overcast and coidrrg wedae~-
dsy. fairI fresh to stroDs westerly
winds.
For lower Michigan psir ana eoIa-
er Tuesday rishtI "Wednesday fair.
Yer the upp~v lakes yresh -
moderate strona westerly vfnAs this
sfteruseu snd te.tght. dip.is ishinG ~
Wednesday merstnHl fsiv SD ceidcy
Tue.tsy niEkti Wsdnesd.y fafri small
eruft warning Indicated.
FER the lower lakes Fresb ard
moderately rtvOea southwest $50
west winasJ colder ard generally fair
Tuesday Might sad Wednesday small
craft wsrainm Indicated.
Highest Temperature this tete In
psst ~ yssrs, 50. In iSFe anA tsseI
lowest. 2. ts ieea
Ose yssr are tedsyt Hishssf tenn
persture, ssI lowest. Hai =seu, Nj
cleudy weather.
The sua s>ts ruesdsy ~ Syoi .. -
ana rises wednesday at Tea a. ~.
The @e~a sets st o. ~
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The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
CROWLEY TO Get
HEMANS' PLACE

LANSING, Mich, Dec. Gov
Ferris today appointed David II.
Crowley. assistant attorney general,
who resigned yesterday. to the Office
of railroad commissioner made va
cant by the death of Lawton T. He
mans His appointment runs only
to Jan. l.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
u. S. MARINES
WOUNDED IN
SAN DOMINGO

WASHINGTON. Dec. g. Estab-
lIshment OF American military gov
ernment in Santo domingo was at.
tended by lighting in which several
marines were injured Eleven DO.
minicans were killed and six wound
ed.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
CHIHUAHUA
HAPPENINGS
STILL DARK
Washington Asked To
Demand News of
Americans

FL PASO, Tex, Dec. 5.--Ths
first authentic news from Amer
leans in Chihuahua City reached
relatives today. A telegram
from Charles Elmerdorf, an
American rumored az various
times killed, TO ). 1. barron
here said:
I'VE are all we'll"
BY officials " was taken 70
mean all Americans IN Chlhua-
hua City are safe.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

Tho annual convention and exhibit
ton OF the Missouri State Poultry
association open at St. Joseph today
and will continue until Saturday.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

sALONikA. Dec. 5.-Fresh sd.
vsnees by Serbian troops around
Monsstir were detailed In to-
days Serbian official statement.
Continuing our successes" II
was stated. ION Monday we car
rIed StsrovIna by assault, cap
turing two howltxers. zaovlteh
tCostinued on Rage Eieven)
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
Boycott On Popular
FOOdstuffs Pleases
Health Officer
CLUB WOMEN
TAKE ACTION
Slight Drop In Butter
and Egg Prices
Announced

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The
first step Of .he department OF
agriculture toward policy OK
pected to reduce prices on food
staples was taken today whom
the embargo on Canadian pots.
toes was ordered lifted.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
BOLDT, WALDORF \
BONIFACE, DEAD

NEW YORK. Dec. 5.--George c.
Boldt. proprietor OF the Waldorf.
and perhaps the best known hotel
man in the country. died today.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 5.-Ger-
many now holds "a, 900 square
miles OF Rumanisn territory
and double that amount In
Northern France. according to
estimates made today by the
Vossisehe zeituno.
The same German newspaper
estimates that during the past
five days the German army In
Rumania has captured 2o,724
Rumsnisn soldiers.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
Few Prisoners Fall In
to Hands of
TeutOns
LONDON SEES
RAY OF HOPE
Resistance May Allow
Russians Time to Get
Blow Home

PETROGRAD. Dec. 5.-Under
constant attacks by superior
Teutonic forces, the Rumanians
are retiring around Bucharest,
the offical statement declared
today
"The Rumanisn attempts 20
check enemy attacks on the
roads. from PloeshtI 10 5ueha-
rest were 1nsuceessfui." the
statement asserted.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

Dick Whitings new song sung at the
Electric Show--ArmOry. all thLs
week.-Adv.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

SOFIA. Dec. 5.-ssnpulnsry re-
pulse OF attacks In DobrudJs and
capture OF Satlskueiui was as
serted In today's official BuIoar-
ian statement.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

The mu.icsi prosrsm at the Eisc-
tric Show is the talk of the town.
Armory all this week.--Adv.
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05
Ru RERR @. MILLER.

(sfdr Correspondent United Press.)
EI. PASO, Tex. Dec 6.-A petit
ton to the state department at
Washington to make a peremptory
demand upon the Csrranzs govern
uIent officials to obtain news OF the
fate Of the six Americans and other
foreigners known 20 have been In
(cestl.uea on Pss~ HIeve.D
RAdie MeOrgth siaas all tkts wcrk
a. the Electric SHOW all this
Week--Adv.
--a------a=
Try osr wasAiss ~ the Ls. Nssss-
eha.efts L<snAry Coz Main oeoa---Ads
The Detroit times., 1916-12-05

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The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-10-13
Our Financial MiddIemen.

Life: Bankers. being financial mid
dlemen. naturally possess all the we'll
known qualifications of other middle
men. What their opinion may he at a
given moment concerning the fnan-
cial situation depends, not so much
upon the facts, as upon who happens
to be listening when the opinion is eX-
pressed. If, for instance, a depositor
hearing that interest rates have gone
up, tries to get a little more interest
from his banker, he is met either with
a reminder that the banker Is con-
ferring a great favor upon him by ac-
cepting his money or with the fearful
excuse that on account Of the stagnR-
ton of business. due to the war or
something else, money is a drug on the
market: but il a borrower tries to re-
new his note at the old rate, the bank
er is pained to have to tell him that,
on account Of the excessive demands
due to the war, money is very tight.
and consequently the interest rate
must go up. Next to elastic currency
what the banker most needs is elastic
logic.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-10-13
PUBLISHERS OF HERALD
MUST PUT UP $4,000
Bonds in That Amount Required
Pending Hearing of Appeal on
Demurrer.

A. M. Baker, as editor, and the pub
fishers of The Co-operators' Herald
of this city, must put UP bonds of $10,-
900 each In order to secure a stay OF
proceedings, pending the hearing OF
apepal on demurrer, in the case Of T.
F. McCue against the editor and pub
fishers of the publication. The de-
PENDANTS have three days in which to
secure the bonds.
In this case T. F. McCue of Caring
ton is suing for $4,000 damages foi
libel, when The Hsrald, on Aug. IL
stated that McCue, was formerly at
torney general Of North Dakota, but
was so blind as to the operation OF
blind pigs that the people discarded
him at the first opportunity"
An appeal was taken to the supreme
court by William Lemke, attorney fol
the defendants, whose demurrer o.
complaint filed in the district court Of
this city was overruled by Judge
Charles A. Pollock. Judge w. 8
Lauder, of Wahpeton, is counsel fol
the plaintiff in this case.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-10-13
The HOME MAKERS.
. COURSE OPENS
THOROUGH COURSE At AGRIcUL-
TURAL COLLEGE IN WHICH
GIRLS WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO
EARN THEIR COLLEGE EDUcA-
TION,

The Home Makers courses at the
North Dakota Agricultural college
opens on October %. This is a thor
ough course in which girls may learn
all about home making and home man
agement that will be useful to them all
through their lives. The college or
Plantations also offer a chance for girls
to earn their own way through the
school, giving chance to every girl
in the state to get her education.
In speaking of this course at the col
lege and the advantages, Registrar A.
II. Parrot said today:
Girls who come prepared with the
necessary clothing and enough money
for books and fees-about $2O-can
earn the rest after they arrive. This Is
not a fairy story, but a real propos1-
ton. October % is the date OF open
ing for the home makers courses at
the agricultural college and the run
five months course is thrown open to
any girl who wishes to come.
Well Balanced Course.
"The course includes work in the
selection and preparation Of food,
house planning and sanitation, home
nursing, free-hand drawing, home
decoration and management, house
hold accounts and practical work ir
garment making and millinery. In
/ addition to the domestic science study
many splendid opportunities are also
offered in music. both chorus and
instrumental dramatics and public
speaking.
Plans Now Working.
"This opportunity for girls to earn
their way through college has beer
made possible by the Agricultural
College Young Women's Christian as
sociation. which has found many
homes near the college grounds where
girls may earn their board and room
Many girls at the present time arr
at work such as this and are at
Itending college. The work they do in
cIudes the care of children and hous'
work averaging in all about four hours