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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09

under his jurisdiction, as a rule about
once a year, but frequently more of
ten, and to whom the banks must re
port usually without notice as call
ed for, from two to four times a year.
State banks are precisely the same
kind of business as carried on by
national banks, namely, receiving de
posits, paying checks, discounting
promissory notes and making loans.
State banks everywhere are permit
ted to lend on mortgage loan, privi-
lege denied national banks, until the
passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
Even yet national banks in large
cities cannot make a mortgage loan.
The state laws are not uniform by
any means and vary as the lawmak-
ers have deemed wise. The main diff
| ference lies in the supervision and
not in the manner of conducting bust
ness In fact, if you were to go into
national bank as an employee and
then in a state bank you would find
no difference, except in the matter
of reports and supervision.
1t would be unwise and unfair to
even distinguish the one as better
than the other. 1t depends altogether
upon the men. A bank is no more or
less than an aggregation of men, and
stands or falls as the men stand
or fall A bank is as good as the men
! in control and no better. 1t is con-
ceded that our state laws, in encoura-
gng state banks, have done much to
| promote the welfare of the country
The bank by its process of gathering
the funds of the neighborhood and
putting them to good uses have ad.
ded materially to the growth of com
munities. In places where it would
seem there was no money, banks have
been established and have prospered
and in prospering themselves have
helped the community to prosper, fol
the process OF gathering money anG
lending to local borrowers can have
but one result, and that is beneficial
State as well as national banks by
propagandas in the line of better
agriculture, civic improvements ant
thrift, have done much for their com
munities and the place Tor every dol
lar that is not in current use is il
the bank of your choice, where it viii
accomplish its beneficial work boil
for you and for the community o
which you are part.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09
Ticks.

Ticks are divided into four classes:
Wood, sheep, bed and watch.
The fourth one mentioned is the
most nearly harmless of the four.
The wood tick is a small, flat, seal
brown, yulcanized, puncture-proof
varmint with legs that look long and
gaunt when he is sober, and that
seem totally negligible when he is in
his fourth quarter.
If anybody were to produce a tire
made of similar material said tire
would retail for about a hundred dol
lars per casing of not less than thirty
by three.
The tick is crabbed-looking thing,
but is prone to adopt some total
strangers with any number of legs
ranging from two to four, and when
he does so he becomes greatly attach
ed to his guardian.
He acts as if some of the blood of
his owner flowed in his own humble
veins, and, before long it does.
He prefers the spot just behind the
ear of a dog or just any old place
temporarily not in use. on human.
When he has got his bean burrowed
beneath cuticle and half way through
the cults and begins to taste warm
blood, he loses some of his lathery
complexion and begins to plump up a
bit. And by the time he has stuck
around for a few hours or a day he
looks like a freshly-filled jelly-bag
before anybody squeezes it.
When l was a boy | used to detach
these plethoric, not 20 say apoplectic,
beasts from a dog, and burst them.
mean the ticks. We used TO have
4 small dog at our house and it was
hard to tell which was which when
the tick got filled except that the dog
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09
FORMIDABLE DEFENSE NOW
ALONG BELGIAN COAST

Rotterdam, Netherlands, Aug. Q,
Correspondence of The Associated
Press) A correspondent who has
just been permitted to visit the Bel
gian coast reports on the formidable
defense that have been raised there.
A long line of barbed-wire entangle-
ment stretches along the coast, and
an endless series of long slender
ships guns protude from the coarse
grass of the dunes, and behind the
dunes crouch the heavy howitzers.
Underground dwellings of bomb
proof concrete form part of the great
trench along the entire coast, he says.
mo spot is unguarded. Everywhere
the endless line is occupied by sail
ors, who endeavor to find relief for
the monotony of their life in garden
ing and in the care of their pigs,
goats rabbits and birds.
"Here and there one comes across
an enormous unexploded shell, hurl-
ed ashore by one of the big British
warships, and now which forms the
ornamental center or a flower garden.
l saw a big fellow among them. some
of SO centimeter calibre.
What one sees in the way of de
struction is the work of the fast tor
pedo- o-destroyers, which have on oc-
casion hailed smaller shells on the
coastal towns with their quick fir
ing guns. The corners of houses are
gnawed away; here and there a ga
BILE exhibits great holes. But the
damage is not very bad, at least not
in Ostend and Zeebrugge, much less
than one would have supposed. Even
on the seaside the towns appear to be
little damaged. The big bath hotel
at ostend is untouched, and the great
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09

GS4 is The Ardmoreite's job de-
partment phone.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09
BANKING TALK,
STATE BANKS
AND NATIONAL
NO MATERIAL DIFFERENCE Be
TWEEN THEM EXCEPT THAT
STATE BANKS Do NOT ISSUE
BANK NOTES.

There is no material difference be-
tween a state bank and national
bank except in one respect, mention
ed in the last banking talk, namely
that state banks do not issue bank
notes. While the laws of some states
permit state banks to issue their own
bills, the national banking act i'm
poses a tax of ten per cent. upon all
such issues, thereby making them un-
profitable.
The national banking act provides
that every national bank shall have
the word National" in its title, the
only exceptions being three banks,
one in New York, one In Philadelphia
and one in Pittsburgh, which are al
lowed to use their old name with the
initials " N. B. A." (National Bank
ing Association) in their titles. There
fore the bank that does not have the
word National in its title is state
bank. By that token you may dis.
tinguish between the two.
State banks are more numerous
than national banks by nearly foul
to one, the reason being that in some
states smaller capital is allowed FOL
state institutions than for nationa
banks, in some places running as low
as ten Thousand dollars.
State banks are under the juris
diction of the states, and most of the
states have a department of govern
ment called the Banking Depart
ment," as a rule, and the official il
charge Superintendent Of Banks
Banking Commissioner, State Audi
tor" etc, who examines the banks
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09

There Is more Catarrh in this sec.
tion of the country than ell other dis
eases put together, and for years 1t
was supposed to be incurable. Doc
tors prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incur
able. Catarrh is a local disease great.
ly influenced by constitutional condi-
tions, and therefore requires consti-
tuticnal treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. J. Cheney
e Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a constitu-
tional remedy, is taken internally and
acts through the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System. One Hun.
dred Dollars reward is offered for
any case that Halls Catarrh Cure
fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials.
+. J. CHENEY e CO, Toledo, Ohio
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09

had hair and a collar and the tick
had neither.
If you feel that you are still not
sufficiently acquainted with the tick
(woo6 after this descriptive nara
tive, go and stay among the sage
brush or in the woods anywhere in
the temperate zone for a good while
and sleep on the ground. If you are
tickless after the third day, you are
not as edible as a dog, and that is
the worst thing | can think of to say
to you.-Stickland Gillian in Farm
Life.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09

glass Kurhaus shows no breakage in
its innumerable panes. 4 few big
buildings by Zeebrugge have been
leyeled to the ground, but that was
the work of the Germans, owing to
the fact that these buildings helped
to direct the enemys fire on the oc-
casions when he sought to destroy the
most susceptible feature of the har-
Dor, the big lock.
The real work of destruction be
gins where the French land guns
have been able to have their say.
Middelkerke is a mass of ruins. 1t
is a remarkable fact rnat 600 people
continue to crouch there. The school
is even still attended by so children.
But every house has ITS underground
refuge such as the soldiers construct
in the front lines. Shells still fall
in the place almost daily.
"Middelkerke is now in such a state
that the Germans TO longer take up
quarters there, but prefer to live in
dwelling holes burrcved in the dunes.
Some streets always lie open to the
French observers and gunners. Long
walks can be taken In the southern
part of the place. by winding cover
ways that have been broken and dug
out, half in, half under the earth,
through garden walls, houses and
cellars A deep trench is the only
safe communication with the West
ende watering place, where no house
remains standing. In the village Of
Westende, which is if possible even
more thoroughly knocked to pieces
than the watering place, | noticed
that the enemys shells had spared
the part of a wall of an inn on which
was inscribed its name, "In den
Vrede" (The Peace Tavern)."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09
If Threatened
With Tuberculosis

you must pay proper attention to diet
and living conditions, and get plenty
of rest and fresh air and good food.
Many q life claimed by this affection
might have been saved by timely at
tention to these matters. In many
cases, however, a rundown system
needs assistance. Under these circum-
stances. try Eckman's Alternative, q
lime treatment which has the unique
quality Of being easily assimilated by
the average person.
Give Nature every chance, but
strengthen your own chances by u.s.
Ing this preparation, which often mas
effected beneficial results.
No undue claims are made for It, but
IL has helped i'm many cases. And IL
is safe to try, for 1t contains no opi-
ates. narcotics or habit-forming drugs
From your druggist.
Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09
DO you KNOW THAT

The hand that carries food to the
mouth can also carry disease germs
Health first is the highest form OF
safety first?
tuberculosis and povery go hand
in hand?
The U. S. Public Health Service
will send a booklet on flies and di-
sease, gratis to all applicants?
The breast fed baby has the best
chance?
Physical fitness is preparedness
against disease?
Pneumonia is a communicable di-
sease?
Cockroaches may carry disease?
Rent that room with a want ad.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09

A engineers of the oklahoma national
guard, probably will leave Fort Sill
during the latter part Of this week
for the Mexican border The com
pany's destination is not definitely
known. Although an order to entrain
has not been received by the. company,
an order directing that the engineers
supplies be shipped to the Mexican
border was received Monday morning.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09
NJ 'KEOWN GLAD
To HAVE VOTES
RECOUNTED
CAUSES NO UNEASlNESS AT ALL
-ATTORNEY GENERAL GIVES
OPINION IN MATTER OF MUIR
RAYS REQUEST.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Aug. s.
Acting on authority of an opinion
from the attorney general, the state
election board Tuesday issued a GER
tificate of nomination to Tom d. Nc
Keown of Ada as the democratic
nominee for congressman from the
Fourth Oklahoma district.
Congressman William II. Murray
who was defeated by McKeown has
filed with the state election board an
application for a recount of the bal
lots in every county in the district
except his home county and asked
that the issuance of a certificate to
McKeown be held up until the re
count is completed
Attorney General Gives Opinion.
The attorney general holds that the
state board has no authority to grant
recount and that it cannot go be-
hind the result as SHOWN by the re
turns made to it By county boards.
The duties of the state board, the
attorney general holes are ministerial
and where the returns show a candi-
date has been victorious it is the duty
of the board to issue the certificate.
Recounts, the attorney general
holds, must be made by county
boards.
McKeown States Position.
"This action on the part Of Mr..
Murray causes me no uneasiness at
all because | made a fair fight and a
clean race and have defeated him
fairly" said Mr.. McKeOwn. "In the
minds of a number OF good lawyers it
is doubtful whether or not the county
boards have jurisdiction to grant re
counts, but am unwilling to plead any
techuicalitles ana viii be glad to have
the recount made in my home county
Pontotoc, and in Seminole county
the ones of which he complains.
think Mr.. Murray should be as gen
erous with his home county where
the returns show that the vote cast
for congressman was within one vote
of the entire registration of Johnston
county where Mr.. Murray received a
larger plurality than was ever re
ceived by him before.
Request Due From Murray.
"The reason l cannot ask for a re
count in Johnston county is that un-
der the law l VIII be compelled to
state under oath that the results OF
the election would be changed by a
recount and a mere increase of plur-
ality of votes on my part would not
change the results and, therefore, un
less Mr.. Murray would be willing tc
recount Johnston county, l would be
precluded from doing So"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-09
DOES SLOAN'S LlNlMENT HELP
RHEUMATISM

Ask the man who uses it, he knows.
"To think | suffered all these years
when one 25-cent bottle of Sloans Lin
iment cured me-" writes one grateful
user. If you have rheumatism or suf-
fer from Neulargla, Backache, Sore
ness and Stiffness, don't put off get
ting a bottle Of Sloan's. 1t will give
you such welcome relief. 1t warns
and soothes the sore. stiff, painful
places and you feel so much better
Buy it at any Drug Store. only %
cents
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-26
FEWER ACCIDENTS
MORE EMPLOYED
$4,000 Miners Are Now Work
ing in Colorado
Deputy Commissioner Tomblin Reports
That Death List in Mines Has
Dropped 40 Per Cent

Colorado mines, during the first six
months of this year, gave employment
to 1900 men, an increase of so per cent
over the number of men employed in the
same period IN 1915.
Fatal accidents in the mines. mills and
smelters of the state have decreased 40
per cent in the first six months of this
year over similar period in 1915, ac-
cording TO statistics compiled by VI. b.
Tomblin. deputy state mining commits
sioner.
With so per cent increase of the
number OF men employed over last year,
the number of fatalities has dropped
The decrease is attributed to more rigid
supervision of the operating plants by
the state bureau, to the operation of the
Industrial Commission and compensation
insurance laws which have served to di-
rect attention in a greater degree TO
safety rules and appliances, and to pro
hibition.
During the first six months of the
year $4,000 men Were employed in the
mines of Colorado. The number of IA
tai accidents reported was twenty six.
Last year, with 10000 men employed.
tweuty y-eight fatal accidents occurred.
Records for the bureau of mines depart
ment show that fatal accidents have
been decreasing steadily. Formerly an
average of ninety-two men yearly were
killed. This year it is believed the years
record will show not morc than half that
many deaths. Accidents occur more IRE
quently in the spring. when frost in the
ground which is Just melting causes rock
slides. For this reason the department
hopes the deaths reported in the second
half of the year will be less.
Rigid supervision of the mines has
been enforced by all OF the inspectors
under Fred Carroll, state mining com
missioner, The inspectors have had or.
ders to watch carefully in all the mines
they visit to see how the safety rules
are being enforced and wherever neces-
sary to post additional rules which will
decrease the possibilities OF accidents
Resides this, the bureau points out all
the mines in the state are insured and
this has directed the attention of the
operators and also of the men to safety
rules. Some of the mines in the Cripple
Creek district have spent large sums on
safety appliances this year and the men
have co-operated with them in the use
of these appliances.
Prohibition, the third cause given for
the decrease, has been help to the mine
operators because the men 10 longer
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-26

| appreciated much indeed your unani-
nous selection of myself to make these
remarks this afternoon. / knew William
b. Prescott as president of the Interna,
tional typographical Union. l was an
official, subordinate official, during a
great part of his administration. In nv
small way / did what l could to make
that administration success, but knew
him personally, personally and intimate
ly. l never was at city in which he
was located or in which he happened ~
be that did not look him up OF he found
me. We took sometime TO talk, and the
talk was generally OF the labor situa-
tion as it existed in the country, OF the
condition of the International Typo
graphical Union, or some question that
was then engrossing the attention OF the
membership, but il WAS always the com
munion of a friend with a friend. / am
indeed pleased as a member of the In
ternational Typographical Union that l
held that membership while William b.
Prescott was its president. / am PROUD
of the record that he made, n record that
Will become greater and more enduring
as time passes, but from 4 personal stand
point | cherish more the years OF init
mate friendship that enjoyed with VII
liam b. Prescott, and ! know that when
he departed from this life he indeed went
to rest like one who wraps the dra-
peries of his couch about him and lies
down to pleasant dreams"
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-26

ing that WAS done. as far as my hours
and wages We're concerned. was the little
that | was able to do by threatening to
quit every six months or so. | presume
that they thought that a new boy might
pi few galleys of type, and that the
cost TO the office might be greater than
If they did not increase my wages. And
yet today the hours and wages of ap-
prentices are regulated by the Interna-
tional typographical Union. Whyf Be
cause of the sacrifices and devotion of
the men who went before. Whyi Be
cause this organization of nearly seventy
thousand members has SO mapped out a
place for itself that when II takes a po-
sition that is right that position is ac.
ccpted by the employers and made effec-
tive, 40 that today the apprentice with
his hour and wages regulated gradu-
ates to a iourneyman with an eight hour
day and high wage scale. And saw
in too many instances, my friends, he
comes into the Typographical Union not
only without realization of why these
conditions are his, but also without the
know ledge of the determination and the
foresight which resulted in the forrna-
tion OF policies inculcated by men like
Prescott and followed out vigorously.
strenuously and religiously by the men
and the women who made up the Typo
graphical Union in his day, who laid
the great wage scale foundation, the
eight hour day foundation, the great
foundation for all of the philanthropics
that we enjoy today, who well merit the
honor that we pay to his and their mem
ory in setting aside the few brief mo-
ments that we devote to a review of his
brilliant career.
| do not think that Prescott was a
religious man in the sense that he fol-
lowed dogmas, creeds or doctrines. but
think he was reverent man; | think
that he had a profound sense of nature,
and above il all he had a greatly and
wonderfully developed love for his fellow
man. | think that this was his religion
What can l do to make the condition of
the people betterf What can l do to-
morrow that will add more happiness to
the homes of the men and women who
work. And he practiced that religion.
and ii seems to me that even without
his Acknowledgement of creeds and doc
trines and dogmas, that with such n de-
votedness to the cause, that there must
be some place in the hereafter that will
welcome great soul like his. l am in
favor OF this movement to name some
philanthropy or some new movement
which shall testify directly to our love
and our affection and our esteem for
William II. Prescott. voluntary move.
ment which shall place above his grave
! in the cemetery where he lies near To-
ronto fitting monument, something
that will denote to those who 60 there
that he himself is remembered by thou
sands of his friends who contributed &c
the common fund that erected stone
in honor of his memory. and that in ad'
dition to what we do in n larger sense
cpitomizing n more complete realization
of the work that he accomplished, there
shall be n personal tribute by his friends
in order that the place where all that
remains that was mortal of William II
Prescott may be marked by an appro-
private memorial.
My friends, ! said in beginning this
brief sketch OF the life of my friend that
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most notable efforts. For, rcmebcr, my
friends. with this organization, and he
realized il. with the strongest labor or
ganiERtion on this continent, disruption
awaits just around the corner.
So much for his work ns president Of
the International Typographical Union
and a. Secretary OF it, Educational Com
mission. and his work as member, and
his speeches and writings. Now what is
the lesson that all this teaches usf We
do no good - far as the departed presi-
dent j. concerned, in detailing what he
accomplished. We do no honor to him. un-
less after We have considered the great
results OF his life work what he did for
you and me and all the others who fol-
low this trade for n livelihood, unless We
take the lessons home to ourselves and
resolve to make those lessons applicable
to the trade and 10 the organization to-
day. That Is the greatest monument
that ! think We can erect to the memory
Of this great man who has departed from
us. this man who builded for the better
mcnt OF humanity. Today that lesson
should he brought home more emphatic
ally. when OF all the great names that
We see in the newspapers day in and day
out, all OF the names that are occupying
attention today of all humanity, those
who achieve their fame and are perpetu-
ating their fame on their ability to kill
and destroy and disrupt and destroy all
that humanity has accomplished, say
now that great as is the greatest general
who commands million men in the con-