The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-09
NATIONAL FACTS.

The legal weight OF bushel oI
wheat is 90 pouds in every state in
the Union. That OF corn on the
cob is 70 pounds in all the states
except Indiana, where it is 68
pounds; Mississippi, y pounds, and
Ohio, 6S.
An act OF congress OF March l.,
1912, prohibits the shipment OF in
toXicating liquor into dry terri
tory in violation Of the state law and
an act OF March 5, 1917, prohibits
the advertisement OF liquor within
dry territory.
The national defense act provides
that the national guard, when
called as such into the service Of
the United States, shall, from the
time they are required by the terms
OF the call to respond thereto, be
subject to the laws and regulations
governing the regular army
The secret service division OF the
treasury department is under the
direction of w. H. Moran, chief Of
the division. Its principal business
is detecting and prosecuting max
ers and dealers in counterfeit money
and making confidential investiga-
tions for different departments of
the government.
Benehciaries of the soldiers and
sailors insurance cannot be any one
other than an actual dependent,
such as husband and wife, child,
legally adopted before April 6, 1917,
or more than six months before en-
listment or entrance into actual
service; stepchild, if a member of
the insured's household; illegiti-
mate child, grandchild, parent, in
Guiding father, mother, stepfather,
and stepmother; brother or sister,
stepbrother or stepsister.
The territorial stage is one OF
for the commonwealth
status. The constitution empow-
ers congress to erect the territories
into states and admit them into the
Union whenever it sees fit. Usual
ly when the territory has popu-
lation equal to that OF the congress
sional apportionment representa-
ton, about 2l2,000, inhabitants
memorable congress to pass an "en-
abling act empowering them to
form constitution and prescribing
the conditions to he fulfilled.
The literacy test provided for in
the immigration law excludes from
the United States all aliens over 10
years OF age physically capable OF
reading who cannot read the Eng
lish language or some other Ian
guage or dialect, including Hebrew
or YiddiSh. Any admissible alien,
or any citizen of the United States,
may bring in or send for his father
or grandfather over IS years of age,
his wife, mother, grandmother or
or widowed daughter, il
otherwise admissible, regardless of
whether such relatives can read.
Candidates for the u. s. naval
academy at the time of their ex-
animation must be physically |
sound, we'll formed and OF robust
Attention will also be
paid to the stature of the candi-
late, and no one manifestly under
Size for his age will be received at
he academy. The height of can
lidates for admission shall not be
esS than five feet two inches, be-
ween the ages of 10 and Is years,
md not less than five feet four
inches, between the ags OF IS and
70 years, and the minimum weight
It 10 years of age shall be 100
pounds, with an increase of not less
han ) pounds for each additional
ear or fraction of a year over one
lalf. Any marked deviation in the
elatiye height and weight to the
Ige of candidate will add materi-
lily TO the consideration for reiec-
ion.