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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-28
CALL on.
WOMEN TO WORK
Even in Land Of the Harem
They Come Into Public Eye
EYES AND NOSE VISIBLE
Not Operating Trains and Cars
in Far'EaSt Yet

ROTTERDAM, Netherlards-tven
2 in the land oi the harem the var -
bringing women into public employment
and the public eve Hard shocks are
beina administered n old preIud,oe' III
Turkey, woman age long secluS,on is
beinp assailed. and i, will be strange
indeed il the facts recorded IN the latest
letter OF the Nluwe Rotterdam Cour
ants Balkan correspondent do not have
a lasting effect On the genera, post
tion OF women IN the east
Such announ, emcnts az the ministry
Of war requires women for office and
warehouse duties, at a commencing "a
avy Of 4O0 piaNers equivalent to nor %
uuslIy about sl9l month emana'mS
from the depatnen OF Imperial post'
teleqraph and telephones. the Turk
ish Red Cresccn, Turkish Red Crosse,
the railway companies and the ,nuni-
cipaliy can now be read daily IN the
papers of the Turkish capital says
the writer quored The notices partic
ularly add tina, the candidate must pre-
sen, written iatemen, from the hca i
OF her family that she haS been gwen
permission 10 accept SUCH work
Signs OF the Times
They are signs oi the times, testify
ing 10 the prevailing di'locatlon oi OF.
tinary life. IN Turkey Women are moi
only permitted but openly invited tc
come and do mems work beside and
among men, and even in public More
over. they arc offered Immediately a
salary OF $40 4 month while, III ordl-
nary times. male beginner had 10
serve the first few months for moth
Since the beginning OF the war living
al Constan,lnoole has become two or
three times as dear as before. and long
er hour. are worked even in the pub.
lie departments. Nevertheless IN,
conservative lid Turk cannot v-r
bring himself To- grant his womeniol.
the prenission required by the gov,
ernment
80 Women in Demand.
The more levies Of young and older
men are called to the colors, however
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Vital Statistic
Marriage llcersss

mancie hrny, q yeaps old aud Fan
nle Roberts. N years old. both of Luther.
okla
Osn r. MeComb. ~ years old. Norman.
OKLA, and Mira Mary | Monroe, ~ years
old, Noble. Okla
Raybonrn II, Smiser. - ysars old and
Lucile Westervslt, 20 years old both OF
Okla homa CITY
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-28

Rose" johnson, month old. son nl 10.
sepi Johnson, 'hO west rm, nvcnu,
Mrs Minnie leo HARRIET 4, ,crra OH
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-28
" omen in Demand.

The more levies Of young and Older
men are called to the colors, however
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0Irhs
Deaths

MI and Mrs Ralph r Pratt. ny,
west Washington avenue. gItl
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-28
Hickey.Freeman Quality

HAfhSy 1OCIttOH VUSSIIVy
" GU can feel sure that we have
Il the correct styles for men of
every taste and build. Conserva-
tive models for men from the farm
and business men; lively models for
young men of every walk in life;
clothes that will give you full value
for every dollar you invest. You
can pay $25 or more. We have
good clothes at SIS.
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comparison with the crops of the past.
In 1914 we made over 16.O0O,OoO
bales: and. in the year before that. the
crop brought in more than S1,O0O.00o
900 of clean, cold, hard cash.
Let us pile up the cotton we raised
three years ago. and get a picture of
it in the eye of our mind. A bale.
ready for shipment, is about two feet
square and five feet in length. Laid
reach from New York TO Chicago, and
$4,000, 900. the crop of that year.
would extend $4,000 miles farther. The
whole would reach twice as far as the
distance through the center of the
earth from one side to the other. and
if the bales were piled in a tier of
sixteen it would make wall of cotton
two feet wide and as high as three
story house all the way from the mouth
of the Hudson river to the southern
end of Lake Michigan. If loaded upon
cars at forty bales to the car. it would
fill solid train reaching from Boston
to Puget sound and long way to-
ward Alaska. Built up as wall along
the trenches in Europe, it would di-
vide the belligerents on the western
front by a fortifcation higher and
stronger than the cotton ramparts be-
hind which our soldiers under Andrew
Jackson fought the British in the bat
tie of New Orleans.
So much for the size of that crop.
Now for its value This depends upon
the price of cotton per pound. The
crop that brought in $1,000. 100000 was
less by one-eighth than the one l have
estimated in giving the size. Last
year cotton went sky high. 1t sold for
as much as 20 cents a pound, or 500
per bale; SO much that thousands of
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part which is very much older. The
older part is one and q half stories
high with dormer windows. and that
part which Is not SO old. even though 1T
shows the marks of many years. is
built after the fashion of many houses
one sees in the country today. A big
vine of Virginia creeper embraces one
locust trees in the garden tell that this
place has long been a human habita
ton.
There is graveyard close to the
house. but nearly all the graves have
been effaced and vault which inclosed
the remains of the last of the ances-
trail proprietors has fallen In. No in
formation can be had by looking at the
sad depression in the earth. The last
White. better known in Montgomery
county IS Capt. White. a title which
was his by right of service in the civil
war. He died there in 1870 and was
born in 1921. and it is the belief of the
Rambler that he was born in that
house He was half f-brother of DR..
Busey.
The mother of DIR. Busey was Rachel
Clagett. She was the only daughter
of Thomas Clagett the seventh, in
Eneal descent from Capt. Thomas
Clagett the emigrant, whose tract of
land. Weston two miles from Upper
Marlboro. in Prince Georges county.
was patented to Capt. Clagett by
Charles. Lord Baltimore. in 1871. Rachel
Clagett was born on that historic plan
tation. DR.. Busey, in his "Autobio-
graphical Sketch of Early Life" makes
many references to Stony Lonesome,
and among them what follows:
My mother was married early in life to her
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King Cotton and His Irmportame Position i'm the War
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upward, shooting off at every few
inches a branch which is loaded with
cotton bolls The bolls are as big as
black walnut with the hull on, and
when they burst out the cotton hangs
down all over the plant like so many
balls of white popcorn 1t is as mn nne
as silk and it shines like satin. The
fiber is from one and a half to three
inches long and is much longer than
any other cotton we raise. 1t makes
the finest yarn and, it is said. a single
pound of it can be spun into thread
$50 miles long.
The Egyptian cotton. which l have
of the Nile. below Cairo. and also in
the Sudan not far from Khartun.
ranks about next to oar sea island
cotton in staple. We import thousands
of bales of it to use in manufactures
where cotton is mixed with wool, and
the product is sold as wool or wool
limitations. The same is true of the
Peruvian cotton. of which compare a.
lively little is grown.
The East Indian cotton has short
staple and it brings a low price in the
market Still, from it were made the
muslins of Dacca, which were so fine
that they were called webs of woven
wind" India will raise several million
bales of cotton this year
The most of our cotton is known as
upland cotton. This also is of many
own place in the market. and brings its
own price. according to quality and
length of staple Altogether the value
of cotton depends upon the. soil. the
climate. the seed, the season and the
way in which the crop is cultivated and
brought to the market
During my trip through the south I
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been brought in from Egypt and mar
ried to our native cottons with good
results
Not long ago an official of the EGyp-
tian government came over to study
the cotton belt. He visited all of our
southern states and was SO impressed
by the excellent soil and climate that
he expects to come to the United States
to plant cotton He says we have
about the best cotton-growing terri
tory on earth. There is no doubt that
he is correct.
1t will surprise some to know that
cotton Is of many different varieties.
The plant is divided up into families,
and each family tree has as many
branches as those of the Puritans who
came over in the Mayfower. Each has
a long botanical name derived from the
Latin or Greek. but in plain United
States the chief types known in a
commercial way are sea island cotton,
upland cotton, tree cotton and Indian
cotton. ] haze seen the sea island
cotton. which is said to be the finest
that has ever decorated the fair bosom
of old Mother Earth. 1t grows on the
islands of Georsi., and South Carolina,
and it is more like a tree than the plants
about here. which are from one to
three feet in height. rhe sea island
plant is as big around as a broomstick
where 1T comes from the ground, and
1t towers to a height of six feet and
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can be used. Such was the Goodwin
idea that was practicaliZed into the
plan for the epochal meeting of busi-
ness men.
With the quotations aeesawing dur
ing the civil war, Salmon P. Chase.
Secretary of the Treasury, in April.
1864, emptied eleven millions of coin
on the New York market with the pur-
pose of stopping the upward move
nent. The price broke from 1S9 to
1s5. but the fall was temporary only.
Two months later Congress passed its
celebrated gold statute. All contracts
for future delivery were invalidated.
Buying and selling were prohibited.
Guilt meant penalty.
The bill passed June Il. From June
20 to July l gold advanced from zoo to
250-that is. from point where it took
s. of paper money to buy dollar in
gold. to a point where gold dollar
was worth $3.50 in paper currency.
Although" Chase wrote to the
bankers of New York, there is not
the slightest reason for any rise in
the price of gold, either in the fnan
cial or the military situation
Human nature had once more Knocked
at the mandates of the mighty. On
July . the law, drastic in theory, i'm
potent in reality, was repealed at the
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almost frenzied entreaties of the ma
tons wisest bankers.
Chase resigned several days later.
Again gold shot up and touched 2S5 in
August and September under the NEGRO
mantle spell of the spectators. Then
the decline began. BY February gold
had fallen to 200. In March 1t dipped
to $50. The picnic was over. And
crusts. broken crackers and the smear
of custard pie Uttered the landscape.
What Congress failed to do had come
to pass naturally.
Analogy is absent. perhaps. between
times modern and times ancient-be-
tween 1917 and 1s64-but whatever
form price controversy may take, trou-
BILE follows, both for the participants
and the bystanders. The bull, SO far.
has never been dehorned or roped and
thrown, much less skinned, cut up and
distributed. Just the same prices are
to be debated in Atlantic City The
subject contains three divisions
prices to the government of the United
States; prices. through retail dealers,
to the people of the United States, and
prices to the allies of the United
States.
several large producers OIL "di ma
terial complain that, fastening TO
Washington early in the spring ana
offering themselves and their estab-
lishments to the cause of freedom.
they were chilled by an atmosphere of
bargaining. The psychology of the sit
uation, they say. was ruined
rs that your lowest price, they
were asked.
Yes" they answered.
But can't you shade it 10 per cent? ,"
resenting the government. So, follow
ing their instincts, the volunteers be-
came traders.
The conduct on both sides of the table
would have been usual in times of
peace. But war had come and the buy
er, remembering history. failed to un-
derstand the seller. Nor did he recol-
lect that the ethics of business have
been purified
Doubtless his mind went back to
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what has been done all over the south
in fighting the boil weevil, that plague
which has afflicted King Cotton more
sorely than the locusts and flies afflicted
King Pharaoh, or the worms afflicted
Herod. the King of the Jews. The
plague of King Herod and that of King
Cotton are strikingly similar. The boil
weeviI is bug not one-tenth the size
of a mans finger nail. but 1t multiplies
so rapidly that a single family will pro-
duct fifteen million grandchildren in
the space of year. This bug lays eggs
in the cotton bolls. They hatch out as
worms and they eat the golden profits
of great part of the crop. The only
way to withstand them is by raising
more cotton upon the same ground. so
as to feed the weevils and leave some
to spare.
The motto Of DR.. Knapp, who led the
fight against this terrible plague. was
to double the crop by good farming. or
to raise the same crop on half as much
land. This has been done in nearly all
the boil weevil districts, and notwith
standing the continued invasion and
spread of the weevil, the crop has grow
greater and greater since the bugs first
came in from Mexico, more than two
decades ago. We have been increasing
bringing in new seed from all parts OF
the world and growing that which is
best for special localities. We have
been marrying different kinds of cot
ton and producing hybrid children that
do better than their parents on either
side. The sea island cotton has been
crossed with the upland, and cotton has
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name of Concord In grove of big
oak trees and standing a few yards
back from the road is the Concord NJ.
f. Church. resident of the village
told the Rambler that Brother Slick of
Washington breaches there every Sab
bath. The site of Concord was once
upon time called Federal Hill and the
inference would be that it was given
that name during the civil war. but
John Burrows. the oldest inhabitant,
says that it was called Federal Hill
long before that war. One of the i'm
portant property owners about Con-
cord before the civil war was William
Savers, who married Miss Martha Duly.
1t was Miss Garrett. niece of William
Savers who became the wife of John
Burrows, at whose well of good water
the Rambler stopped to drink. Another
of the old landholders in that vicinity
was Erasmus Perry, whose wife was
born Amy Fisher.
Among the great 1andholders in this
part of Montgomery county adjacent
to Washington were the Busey and
White families. 1t was not far from
this point that the late DIR. Samuel
Clagett Busey. known by almost every
body in Washington, was born. Neither
is 1t far to the estate called Spring
field, another farm which belonged in
the Busey family. That farm was
bought in 1895 by Peter D. Posey.
whose eldest daughter Cathar rine, be-
Busey. in May. 1s49. and of whom he
wrote in his autobiography in 1896,
follows:
To conclude this sketch without a final refer
ence to the wife of forty-two years Of q happy
life would prove recreant 10 the finer feelings
of honor and affection. Not day has passed
since her death. January Is. 1891. that 1 have
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have talked with the planters as to how
cotton is raised The ground is plowed
and narrowed in March, and the fur
rows thrown up SO as to make rows OF
hills about three or four feet apart.
Along the middle of March or in April
the cotton is planted. The seeds, which
are small and black and a little larger
than buckshot. are drilled in. and few
days later the green sprouts come
through the soil. They grow rapidly
under good cultivation. The crop is
plowed much like corn. and the weeds
are kept down. The plants are thinned
or chopped out from time to time until
they are one or two feet apart in the
rows. They begin to blossom in June.
when the fields look like great gardens
of roses. The first day they come out
they are white or cream color. On the
second day they become darker and
redder. and on the third or fourth they
fall to the ground. leaving the tiny
bolls which grow to the size and shape
of a hens egg. They soon crack open
and the white cotton bursts out. 1t is
now ready for picking. The crop does
not ripen all at once, and the pickers go
over the field a half dozen or more
times during the harvesting season.
which begins in the far south and
Texas in July. and lasts until late in
the fall In Georgia and in North and
South Carolina some of the cotton is
still being gathered at Christmas:
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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the small farmers are now riding about
in their own automobiles. At $1,000
100000 the crop was equal to $50 for
every family in the United States. or
$50 for every man, woman and child
south of Mason and DiXon's line. 1t
was more than two and a half times
the cost of the Panama canal. and
more than twice as much as all the
gold that has ever come out of the
earth in any one year. But gold mines
play out and the worlds treasure vault
of precious metals will eventually be
exhausted. The cotton crop is like the
cruise of oil of the widow who
fed the Prophet Elijah. 1t keeps on
Welding sums like this year after year;
and as the world increases in popula-
tion the supply will be greater by the
bringing of more of our land under
cultivation. and cotton will be worth
more and more.
AS il is now, less than one-tenth of
the lands of the cotton belt are in cot
ton. The total area OF the plantations
this year is somewhere between tn, ty-
six and forty million acres. and the
average yield will be from one third to
one-half bale per acre. If all of the
land were in use the crop might be
ten times as great. and if it we're in
tensively cultivated after tho plans of
our Department of AgricultuiS. it could
be made to yield twice or thrSs times as
much to the acre. In fact. tNs-ts just
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Springfield was purchased in 1885 by
Peter D. Posey, whose eldest daughter
I married and is now held by me under
his will, in trust for her two surviving
sisters"
The Busey family is of Scotch blood.
and the first of the Maryland Busey's
of whom there is record, was Edward.
who was granted a tract of land in
Frederick county in 1854. He is sup
posed to have been the emfgrant. and
he left five sons. whose names were
Samuel. John. William. Charles and
Severn. Part of the Busey family re-
moved to southwestern Virginia soon
after the American revolution. and in
the early part of the nineteenth CEN
tury many members of the family join
ed the tide of emigration that set out
from Maryland and Virginia for Ten
nessee, Kentucky and the farther west.
Some of the early Buseys. and 1t is
believed that they were sons of the
emigrant. remained in Frederick
county. part of which became Mont
gomery county. Two of these were
Samuel. who lived at Springfield. and
his brother John, who was the grand
father of Dr. Samuel Clagett Busey.
John Busey. the second, father of DR..
Busey. was buried at Springfield. and
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want to embarrass the powers engaged
in carrying ON the war with perpleXing
questions or an opposing temper. but
il calls attention to the point that in
establishing the lowest price for wheat
Congress made no effort 10 ascertain the
cost of producing wheat.
The farmer living on the Santa Fe
railroad in Kansas is to receive the
farmer in Idaho who lives forty miles
f"oin a shipping point and whose haul
by wagon is that distance We vio-
late, nullify or ignore the principles
that we apply to wheat said the man
of business heretofore quoted when
we take up other products, to the con-
fusion of American industry and its in
jury. We must be consistent and fair
if we are to speed un the nation in all
its parts and elements"
Conscious of its own rectitude, phys
zeal and mental. business states that IL
seeks more fully to express itself to the
country and to devise better ways by
which it can help the armies and the
battleships at the front. Likewise, it
desires to learn the new rules by which
its conduct is to be regulated. Hence,
the Atlantic City conference.
Washington, as it is known. is filled
with business men. the ablest in the
land, who. without compensation, and
at their own expense for board and
lodgings. are giving their time and ex-
pert services to the government. The
personal sacrifices they making are
none too great, and they should not be
underestimated.
Only recently the government re-
quired sixty experienced men, capable
of managing important work of eN-
ecutive character. Their pay. under the
law, would be from $1,000 to $500 a
year The National Chamber of Com
merce was asked to recruit the force
Letters were sent only to men living
within a twelve-hour journey of Wash
ington Answers came through the
off nd hv
ayers and superintendent in large un-
dertakings. whose salaries ranged from
81. 900 to $4,000.
The surrender these men offered to
make was characteristic of the spirit
with which business entered the war
and will stay in the war and hght in
the war until it Is over.
Copyright. 1917. BY yAAss B. Morsow.,
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minimum price of wheat fixed at s2.2o
bushel Two-dollar wheat means a
much larger acreage than one-dollar
wheat And who is to eat the wheat
at twice its former price? Americans.
Frenchmen. Italians and the British
the United States and its allies.
Shrewd and pertinent questions.
But, it may be said, that farmer
is a farmer. Business. however, classi-
fies him as a business man-an indi-
vidual business man. with capital EN-.
ployed and skill applied in a manufac-
turing enterprise. He is as much Of a
business man, in reality. if not to tho
same extent, as is a manufacturer OF
locomotives or steel.
=
If multiplying the normal price Of
wheat by two, under a legislative act
will increase the supply, business in
quires, what effect would the same
principle have on the stocks of shoes,
iron, lumber or coal? Iron for whom?
Americans and their allies. Coal for
whom? The United States. Canada,
Italy and France.
Business declares that It does not
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the ashes OF other older Buseys are
mingled with that soil.
In glancing through the Maryland
census of 1890 the Rambler found sew
eral Buseys in addition to those OF
Montgomery county. They were Ben
nett Busey of Hartford county. Edward
Bussey, Mary Bussey and Jesse Bussey
of Baltimore county and Samuel Bus
sey of Anne Arundel county.
Going through these old records the
Rambler jotted down the names of per-
sons living in Montgomery county in the
vicinity of Washington who owned five or
more slaves. and though the list is not
complete. he enters it here, believing that
it will have some interest for the hundreds
and thousands Of descendants of the men
and women named.
Benjamin stoddert. 13 slaves: Uriah Forrest.
5: Mrs. Mary Butler. 3; Francis and C. Lounds.
4: Charles Worthington. 8; Robert Peter. 10;
George French, 6; James Dunlop, g. Col. George
Beale. 4; Alexander Doyle. 8; Stephen B. Balch,
4: Brooke Magruder. 4; Bernard oNeill. 1s;
Thomas George Beale. II; Benjamin n. Peirce.
5; Joshua Simms, I; Mary Smith, 6; Hezekiah