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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01

fled by reductions in hours worked,
rose ut about the same ratc from l'll
to 1915, so that during that time
wages would pay for about even
quantities of food each year. Actual
~ workers. enjoyed better conditions
in 1915 than in 1912, because they
had more and steadier work. But
war losses got into the equation In
1916 and pushed up food prices fast
q than wages. Thero were some
crop shortages also, which contrib
uted their share. Besides this. how
ever there is reason to fear that other
elements are conspiring to raise
prices
cold storage, rebilling. reshipping
and Withholding of commodities from
markets are suspected to contribute
to the present abnormal rise in the
prices of food. Whether some per-
sons have conspired to engross the
markets. the department of labor can
not state. But the reports Of the bu-
reau of labor statistics seem to lend
some color to such an opinion. viewed
in the light of conditions revealed by
comparison Of figures thru a range
of wears
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
FOOD UP FASTER
THAN DAILY WAGE
Government Statistics Show
It's Harder on Workmen
Now Than 10 Years Ago.
POTATOES SET THE PACE
But Onions and Other Com
modities Are Close Up; More
Work Now, However.

WASHINGTON, March 31.-The
annual food bill of the average fam
lily has grown from s339.SO in 1918
to S425.54 at present, the department
OF labor announced today in review
OF rood prices. In ten years, the de-
partments experts estimate, the ad-
vance in the cost of food has so far
outstripped wage increases that the
workman who drew SO a day in 1907
now finds himself just 90 cents day
worse off
The heaviest increase in food prices
during the last four years is shown
In potatoes. the cost of which has
riser from $3.50 tc s4469. Other
large increases are in eggs, from
339.91 to s43.07: flour, $15.12 to
$cb.4O; butter. $45.72 to $54.7S. OF
thu whole list of foods, only sirloin
and round steak are cheaper than
five years ago.
Jump 4 per Cent in Month.
In the period from January Is to
February Is, food prices took 4
per cent jump. Onions led with a II
per cent increase; potatoes went up
80 Fer cent; eggs alone decreased in
pris,.
II is estimated that If dollars
worth of food bought in 1907 weighed
ten pounds, 1t would weigh today a
trifle more than seven pounds.
Despite the average increase of 10
per cent In wages an hour in the
years" says the departments state
ment, "and despite a cut in hours
worked of 4 per cent. the rising cost
of foods has operated to reduce the
pay of the American workingman
about 16 per cent, expressed in terms
Of food his dollar will buy. A work
ingman who made SO day in 1907,
working ten hours a day In 1916
worked hours and SO minutes a day
and drew s34S for It; but 1t cost him
$4.17 to buy the same quantity of food
his SO would cover in 1907.
The average of food and pay quail
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
From The Worlds Bureau,
q

From The World Bureau,
704 Metropolitan Bank Building.
WASHINGTON, March 3l.-H Ok
lahoma is to be charged up with
Francis j. Kearful. who recently was
appointed by President Wilson assist
ant attorney-general, he will make
the second lawyer from that state
holding a high position in the legal
end of the present administration.
Charles ID. Mahaffey, solicitor for
the interior department is former
Oklahoman. However, Mr. Mahaffey
comes from Portland, ore, and is
charged politically to that state: but
oklahoma can well feel proud to
claim him as a son. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G.. b. Mahaffey, reside on a
farm near Hobart.
Brought Up In State.
Charles Mahaffey was brought up
on farm near Kingfisher where he
received practically all of his COM
mon and preparatory education. He
attended the country schools of King
fisher county. and the graded and
high schools Of Kingfisher CITY. He
was graduated from klngfisher col
lege with high honors, and brought
addiiiorai honor 10 tho territory o.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01

that this substitute for the Cuban
weed has gone up In price along with
the rest OF smokers requisites.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
NEW PASTOR FOR lUTHERANS
Rev. Albert Massey of Kansas City
Begins His Work Here Today.

Rev. Albert Massey OF Kansas City,
pastor elect OF the First Lutheran
church of Tulsa will arrive this
morning and occupy the pulpit in his
new relation to the congregation in
the regular palm Sunday service at l /
a. m. 1t is especially desired that all
members of this church and sojourn-
ers in the city be present at this serv-
ice. All friends of the members and
The new pastor has been delayed
this long in his arrival because his
presence was required at the bedside
Of his wife. who was taken seriously
i'll while visiting her parents in Wash
ington.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
ADA BUILDING UP RAPIDLY
residences, Factories and Business
Houses All In the List.


ADA, Okla, March 31.-More than
$50 residences are either under CON
struction or have been completed in
Ada within the last forty davs. I,um-
Der men say that many more will be
started within the next forty days
Ihese residences are all modern and
nave from five to twelve rooms
The demand for many more houses
mas been brought about by the com
ing factories in and around Ada The
glass plant of the American Glass
Casket company has already started
to turning out tiling. and number Of
men are employed there The cut
glass and casket departments will be-
gin operations in a few days. giving
employment to about two hundred
extra men.
Several business houses are going
up. Many OF the store buildings OF
one and two stories are receiving an
additional story. At the present rate
of increase, Ada will have from four
to five thousand more people at the
end of a year.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01


that rebuild
a suf
be obtained
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
TOOK OUT REVENGE ON DOGS
If Cows Couldn't Have Freedom Of
Streets, Dogs, Too. Must BE Confined

Special to ne w ORD.
COLLINSVILLE, Okla, March 81.
The city authorities have ordered all
dogs kept on their owners property.
Every dog found out upon the street
without his master leading hinr will
be shot. The enforcing OF an ord
rance against allowing cattle to roam
at liberty upon the streets so peeved
the cattle growers that they immedi-
ately got busy TO obtain an ordinance
against allowing dogs to have their
liberty In this city.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
TULSA CAMP IN HONOR LIST
One OF IS to Gain Honorable Mention
Because OF Rapid Growth.

The Modern Woodman. the official
organ of the order of that name, gives
a roll of honor of seventy-five camps
which has last year increased their
membership by one hundred or more.
Near the top of the list stand Tulsa
camp No. 6967 with a total of PIT
adoptions to its credit.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
PLEASED WITH THE PROSPECTS
Okemah Men Believe Alton District
VIII BE Good Place to Invest


ALTON, Okla, March 31.-Messrs.
Dill. Harman and Kennedy promi-
nent citizens Of Okemah. have been
looking over the Alton mineral field
the past week for the purpose of
taking leases and drilling on them.
The men were very much pleased
with the cuttings shown them from
the different drill holes around Alton
and will endeavor to get leases now
for the purpose of prospecting and
drilling for ore In this vicinity.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
Sudden Attack Brought
Threat OF Operation
Sent For a Bottle of FruitOla
and Vas Quickly RelieUed
of Gall Stone Trouble.

Aftor doctoring With several differ
ent doctors ard getting no relief Mr.
i. l.. Sherman, II CroclScr Ave. John
son City, ~ Y. says lie was taken
very suddenly one night with severe
pains and on calling tie doctor was
told he had gall stones that an opera
ton was necessary. MIR. sherman
writes, II had heard of Fruitola SO
sent for bottle and took II. | was
relieved of n large quantity Of gall
stones, and continued the treatment.
gained over forty pounds lost weight"
gained over forty pounds lost weignt. :
fruitola ana TrnNo are compound
ed from the original Edsall formulas
at the pinus laboratories in Month
cello. H., and can be purchased at
drug stores; doctors prescription il
not necessary. Fruitola Is n pure fruit
oil that ncts ne m intoettuaI I,bri,,n,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
Even Substitutes Costly.

BERLIN. March 3l.-Cigar smokers
in Germany are being prepared for
the worst. The Vossische Zeitung,
which cheerfully admits that the
"war Havanas'' now on sale are filled
with dried cherry leaves, darkly adds
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01

n telegram today to j. Arthuj
Younger. graduate manager Of thu
University OF Washington, recomI
mending cancellation OF Pacific coasI
conference athletic schedules and in|
tercolleeiate athletic activities of all
kinds IL war is declared or a genera
mobilization ts ordered.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
No Intercollegiate Race.

NEW YORK, March 31.-The an
nual intercollegiate rowing regatta at
TouShkcepsio may be cantelcd il the
United States declares war against
Germany
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02

extracted from their pockets TO make
illegitimate profits for interruptions
dealers.
It is to be hoped that the suggestion
which Mr.. Hartigan leaves as vale
Gictory-that the scope of his bureau be
enlarged and the ordinances and laws
which it enforces be modernized-m be
followed. There has been an unfortunate
tendency in this state, shown by several
attempts to devitalize the State Depart
ment of Weights and Measures. to under
estimate the worth of this form of public
service. Instead of being held down and
hampered, such bureaus and departments,
whether state or municipal, should be
fostered and encouraged There is wide
reed for them. They protect particu-
larly the very poor, who are forced to buy
in small quantities, and so are especially
likely to be victims of the short-weighters,
At this time consumers have difficulty IN
making their budgets supply their needs,
at the best Any governmental agency
which helps to prevent their being cheated
is worthy of all possible encouragement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02
Night Signs for Sreetcars
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: There is one thing the Public Service
Commission might get for US that would be
appreciated by all who have occasion 70 use
the streetcars at night. This apparently sim
pie convenience is the designation of the dif.
ferent surface lines by colored lights high Up
on the ends of the car roofs, where all could
see. The transparent names would still be
there for the uninitiated, but the habitusl
users would quickly learn to determine by 8
glance from affair whether the car headed
toward them was their own or another.
II is very difficult az night in the busy
downtown district to make out the name OF
our car until IL is almost upon US. and some
times we signal the wrong one and get things
said at US by an exasperated motorman. Now
that eolored electric bulbs are common, IL
would seem an easy matter TO mark certain
lines with single light of red. green or blue.
or with two of the same or differing colors.
or With three in vertical or a horizontal
line, or in triangle. II the identifying
end lights were repeated above the sides OF
tae ears, il would certainly facilitate their
loading at congested crossings and save the
busy conductor from the usual fusillade OF
ques ions. ALICE c. RUSSELL
New York, July 81, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In spite of the country's admirable
energy, intelligence and devotion now cen
tring In the Defence Council and its Ad-
vsory Board, we are in danger OF disap-
pointment and disaster through failure TO
mark the difference between money power
and tool power
We must bear in mind that money power
| is a merely conventional institution, while
tool power measures the strength OF the ma
ton and will decide the issue Of the war.
The point is that the kind OF economic
power that rests merely upon legality ana
property right, should be kept quite dis
tinct in thought from the kind Of economic
power that actually works and fights. For
legal economic power has no direct relation
to natural forces. II merely gives its pos
SCISSORS rights in court against society at
large. 1t can be used quite as effectively 10
waste real economic power as to conserve
and increase it
The financial system of the country Is,
broadly speaking, the organization Of own
ership of legal economic power we are
living under an historical tradition which
falsely assumes that this organized owner
ship tends necessarily-under the guidance
of enlightened self-interest and natural eco
nomic law-to produce the maximum tool
power that the country is capable Of. IN ire
present state of the arts.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is that organized ownership devoid
of social and scientific guidance tends con-
stantly toward self-destruction and the
wreck of economic society. Its instructive
and suicidal effort Is to lay upon the gen.
eral working plant heavier overhead
charge than can be physically sustained.
Because it enormously supposes that legal
claims are identical with capital, 1t wastes
CAPITAL In the accumulation of claims
Now, real economic power Is, OF course,
compounded of skill and tools. To en-
nance our working and fighting strength we
must improve our technical ability and our
material equipment-our capital. The short
formula of the martial law Of production Is
this: Legal economic power must not be
permitted to exert itself otherwise than for
the increase Of real economic power.
This primary law of modern war cannot
be executed by soldiers or policemen. 1t
must be executed by masters Of efficient
industry and Of creative arts. Organized
ownership must-for its own good and the
valuation of It's securities, as we'll as for
the common defence-be subjected to or
ganized tool power.
Since It Is impossible to accomplish this
social recuperation by authority Of the
police or by any external governmental
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02
Conscientious Directors
An Answer to the Criticisms of Bishop
Cooke

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The article by Bishop Cooke, reprinted
in The Tribune from "The Methodist Advo-
cate-Journal," brings up an important subject
that Of the conscientious objector.
The Bishcn takes an impregnable stand
when he declares repeatedly, Certainly no
man has the right to disobey God Certainly
no government has the right to compel man
to do wrong thing" He might also add that
the Judge Of the mans relation to God can
Of course be only the man himself.
The writer misunderstands the conscien-
tious director, however, In the statement,
"He will not die for any Of these principles,
nor will he suffer one hour of agony, nor
endure q pin prick" Over 1000 Of these men
have been imprisoned in England, some for
the third or fourth time, for refusal to aid in
war. Thirty Of them were taken to France
and there condemned to death, the sentence
being afterward committed to ten years
penal servitude because Of Parliamentary
protests. Are there no hours of agony here?
Bishop Cookies chief point is his charge that
the C. O. will not go TO war, but is willing
to enjoy the results Of war" Here he is
wrong. The directors have no desire to en-
joy the results Of war, for these results, In
their opinion, are only and essentially evil.
The Bishop further recommends that they
be punished neither by interning nor i'm
prisonment but by being deprived forever
of all benefits of war, Of all political and
social and civil rights"
The fruits of war, according to the pacifist
are taxation, high prices, repression, the
checking of civilization, the ill-will Of our
neighbors, and insecurity by land and sea.
The conscientious DIRECTORS are sharing these
with their countrymen. AS to our political
and social and civil rights, however, these
we owe to no international conflict, but to
the directors of past generations, to the
rebels of Runnymede, to Ppm and Hampden,
to Latimer and Ridley, and to the Pilgrim
Fathers upon whose monument Wendell
Phillips would have written, THE Right is
more than our country"
JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN (Ph. d..
Doylestown, Penn, July 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02
Another Squeeze on Milk

From The Cleveland Leader
Milk goes up 20 per cent IN cleveland III
tbo middle of summer marked by ex-
traordinarily favorable conditions for past
ures. The cool, wet season, with week Or
so Of weather hot but still marked by many
showers, has made the grass unusually
luxuriant. The cheapest and most natural
food for cows has been at its best, and still
is exceptionally abundant.
The rise in the price of this vitality neces-
sary food for little children has been 90 per
cent in the last two years, at summer rates
Milk has gone up 100 per cent in COM
comparatively short period. And where Is
the top limit TO be reached7
If the cost Of milk is to rise two cents q
quart. in the midst of exceedingly favorable
summer conditions for pasturage, what may
happen when nature Is less friendly? Has
the movement for lowering the cost OF liv-
ing any bearing whatever on one OF the food
staples which must be had in millions OF
homes where there are babies?
Possibly city and village people who have
little yards may yet be driven to the hum
BILE but handy goat as n means Of escape
from the price of cows milk. 1t takes little
care to keep a goat and less space. Goats
give excellent milk and they are accommo-
dating in respect to diet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02
Impartial Nightsticks
,From The sprinoasld Republican,

(From The Springfield Republican,
In one particular we can find encourage
ment in the Chester (Penn.) race riots, as
compared with those in East st. Louis. The
authorities in Chester were far more prompt
and vigorous in REFRESHING disorder, and they
evidently did not commit the malignant Of
fence of taking sides in the use of their
clubs. Any rioter was knocked out, regard
less Of the color Of his skin. II was solid
pleasure to read that dozens Of white men
were knocked unconscious with riot sticks"
The white gangsters and toughs will always
run to excuses the more quickly IL they
have the slightest reason TO think that the
police will show partially. White MODS
must be put down with prompt severity
wherever race friction arises. If trouble OF
this sort is to be minimized as it can be and
must be, -. ,.......--...-.,. Nr,.,-,.-.-.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02
No Stigma in Consumption
A Dearth of National Fidelity if
Volunteers Were Only Patriots

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | wish to vouch for the correctness
of facts and the sincerity of spirit shown in
short note in to-days Tribune UNFOLDING
CONSUMPTION. It's writer, Samuel Hagan, l
recognize as recent acquaintance and have
some familiarity with the heckling he is re-
ceiving from some critics with stinted ideas.
1t is the height of folly and injustice for
any one 10 imply that with CONSUMPTION there
goes a blemish. If volunteers are the only
patriots, then there is a sad dearth OF ma
tional fidelity and service in this deserving
land.
The safety and sanity of CONSUMPTION ere
obvious All the citizens of the country can
not volunteer because Of the obligating nat
ure of their home and business life. But
the draft is like wand. First ascertaining
that man is fit and convinced of the need
for his help Though submissive to the select
ing process) when it touches him all changes
like magic and ne is released from important
home ties without the feeling of Sinking and
neglecting very necessary relations. When a
man is drafted there can be no reproach or
complaint from those at home, for then truly
Is he answering his country'5 call. Such q
regulation solves admirably the problem OF
the married man. So does it answer the
problem for millions Of others who have
sound personal objections and inconvenience
that deter them from voluntary enlistment.
hope Mr.. Hagan and others will not be
discounted by any ignorant remarks con-
corning their waiting to be called. Take it
from whence it comes. The volunteer system
has not a leg to stand on anywhere on the
globe. National service must be accomplished
in national way-conscription. After this
war; when a peace league of nations has been
formed, we can look for service on a larger
scale. If this new service is to be strong We
will not make it voluntary; Of necessity it
will be international conscription. Conscrip-
tion lends scientific aspect to the quality
and quantity of the fighting forces Of nations.
1t does away with wanton human waste, and
is therefore an invaluable principle.
THEODORE MICHEL.
Brooklyn, July 80, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-02
Prohibition as a War Measure

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The United States Senate seems to be
bent upon prohibition legislation, not in the
interest Of the people as whole, and GER
tainly not in the interest Of the public reve-
nue., but to please fanatical minority, drunk
with the love Of rule and regardless of any
ones freedom except their own.
Neither our allies nor our enemies, even
after three years of terrific war, would dream
of enacting any such unpopular and un-
necessary legislation. For us to perpetrate
such foolishness, at this time, a war
measure" before we have actually begun to
fight, would not only make us ridiculous In
the eyes of the whole world, but far worse, it
would surely arouse widespread feelings of
resentment and indignation among many MILL
ions of our loyal people, both native and for
eign born.
To force prohibition legislation at this
time, when a united nation is Of all things
most desirable, is to court disaster.
New York, July 81, 1917 w. C. c.