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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

The local exemption board has been
advised by the adjutant general that
neither the local board nor the attor-
ney general has any jurisdiction in the
matter of shipbulding employees. The
board may release for this purpose
men on the draft list who are OF such
high numbers as not likely to be called
to complete the quota for this county
w. r. Beattie has filed suit In the
district court against his wife, Addie
Bcattie seeking divorce. He alleges
in his petition that they were married
April 3, 1917, and that the defendant
has been guilty Of gross neglect of
duty in that she fails to prepare his
meals for him and spends much Of her
time away from home; that she is in
dolent and that when he left money
at home to pay the family bills she
would spend it for other purposes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

Mrs. II. +. l.. Morgan has returned
from Dallas. where she visited her
daughter, Miss Mabel Morgan. who is
attending the Southern Methodist Uni.
versty. Mrs. Morgan also attended the
woman's missionery meeting Of the
North Texas Conference.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

The county attorneys Office is filled
again today with schoolteachers work
ing for the local exemption board. They
are engaged in the work OF classiica
ton and card indeXing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

Chairman John Carlocll, Of the local
exemption board, said the board has
plenty Of help today; that the people
are beginning to realize the magnitude
Of the task falling upon the board
and are willing to help.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

\. J. Driver, 81 years old died last
night at O'Clock at the Confederate
home and was buried this afternoon
at o'clock at Rose Hin cemetery. He
is survived by wife and son, both
of whom live at the Confederate home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

Charles Maulen, who has just in.
stalled the fire alarm system in Ard.
moro, said last night he had closed
a contract with the city of Amarillo,
Texas. to install system costing $4,000.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

Judge Thomas w Champion return
ed last night from Sulphur, where he
had gone to assist in perfecting the
organization Of that county for the war
savings stamps campaign
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

Jack Phillips. II. ID. Johnson and 4.
5. Key, charged with vagrancy. were
brought in from Writ last night by
Deputy Sheriff Budd Ballew and VIII
Ward and placed in the county Jail.
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
Public Ownership Is Coming
lex Street Railways win Soon Accept the Ineyitab
Permanently Cured By the Change.
By EARL GOODWIN.


Washington is not the only city in the country where
the street railways are in trouble.
All the country street companies are losing
money-or say they All the country street
companies privately owned at loggerheads with public
utilities commissions. Sometimes the street companies
to blame; sometimes the commissions do not have the
slightest idea how to deal with corporations.
Street costs going up. Wages are increasing
thank heaven steel rails and equipment prices shooi
ing skyward while fares remain the understand
fare whenever it has been authorized has not solved the
problem for the railways as the public will not pay sx
cents to ride EXCEPT WHEN ABSOLUTELY NECES-
SARY Consequently business has fallen of in conspicuous
instances where six-cent fares have been instituted
In Portland Ore, sxcent fare has driven the receipts
to lower level
In Pittsburgh the sixcent fare put the street railway
into receivers hands in thirty days.
In Massachusetts, the Bay State Railway with nine
hundred miles of track in ninetyfou towns and cities the
biggest street railway EARTH managed to get slxcent
fare and as a result it GOES UNDER STATE CONTROL
this week.
These developments are sure indications of the trend Of
events o.
Public control State management, municipal ownership
ali of these forms of the BEST solution of the street rail-
way problem, coming surely the rises
Street railways cannot get along under present con
ion because they forced to give service to the people
and big dividends to private
In addition corporate ownership has tendency to try
to monkey with politics and with government, with dsas
trous and scandaous results.
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP takes cognizance of service
only and eliminates the necessity of dark and mysterious
corporation bookkeeping. If costs high the general
public shares the burden At present the rising costs merely
prevent the street railways from getting the proper equip
ment
should think that all street railways would see that
under public ownership they would be much better off,
that the public would get better service and be-
eve the employees of the railroads would get higher wages
The Washington times., 1918-07-03

Editor Times:
Can you suggest a logical explana-
ton of the course by which Con-
gress reached the conclusion that
Government clerks employed prior
to the outbreak Of the war and per-
manently domiciled in the District,
required an increase Of salary, while
those who have left their homes,
their families, friends and associates
in order to do their bit in helping
the Government in the existing
great emergency, can get along
without such relief?
If Washington is an expensive
place for old employees, must it not
be far more so for these new ap-
pointees, who must submit to all
sorts of prices for rooms or apart
ments, and who very soon begin to
pat themselves on the back if they
have succeeded in getting a bed to
lie on without having to share it
with another.
| have heard the argument ad-
yanced that the increased pay should
not be given the war workers be-
cause they come into the service at
abnormally high salaries. ! would
like to know what that expression
The Washington times., 1918-07-03

JOHN BOYLE says that he and
EDDIE HOOD covered" the Pat
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
All Clerks Should Get a Raise

means in these days. Is $1,000 tc
$500 abnormally high for a wa
worker7 II it is, then it is pro
portionately higher for the older EN-
ploye whose contract with his land
lord antedates existing conditions
yet the latter gets the increase.
But / believe it is untrue thai.
the thousands who have accepted
employment in the departments
since the war began, are receiving
abnormal salaries. In my own ex-
perence. during the past six months
l have acquired a large acquaint-
ance with one Of the great branches
of the service employing fully $500
people, and with the possible ex-
ception of five or six men at the
head OF it, there are not a dozen
whose salaries reach $500, yet
these clerks are assisting in. the dis
bursement Of billions of dollars.
do not wish to be understood
as opposed to the relief granted 10
the older clerks. On the contrary,
q fiat increase of S240 would have
more nearly approached the equities
in the case, but | do think Il is IN
just to discriminate against the
strangers in our midst.
N. 3. R 4
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
The Ever Young Yvette Guilbert

experience, she wasn't afraid to
marry and have children. And
probably It is for this very rea-
son that she has been able to de-
velop her art 50 wonderfully
Able to Suggest Human Character.
Having a warm, quick sympathy
with human beings, she was able
to suggest human character and
human emotion on the stage as
only the really great artists can
do.
At present, Madame Guilbert is
without doubt one Of the great
artists Of the world. A "diseuse"
they call her in France, which
means simply a teller of stories.
II is a very modest title. For,
as somebody truly said Of her the
other day, Her versatility knows
no limitations"
So amazing is her gift Of pan
tomime that without a word she
can create tragedy or comedy.
She can interpret contemporary
life with delicious ironic subtlety
or she can sing and act medieval
French folk-songs with heart
breaking simplicity and pathos.
Alone, she can people an entire
stage. Without sets" or proper
ties or accessories Of. any kind.
she can grip and hold every heart
and every brain within the COM
pass of the theater.
Upsetting to Our Notions.
It's upsetting to a great many
Of our notions, this sort Of a career.
But it is a good thing for young
people to understand that dramatic
schools ana musical conservatories
can't, after all, make artists.
Yvette Guilbert, who has taught
herself all that she knows, is a
supremely great artist. 1t may be
that she has genius, but that isn't
the whole story.
Though she Is a grandmother,
she is filled with and effuses the
spirit Of youth.
The Washington times., 1918-07-03

Also John says he belonged to 3
literary society about that time, in
which JOHN LARNER was a Lead
ing literary light; also @AL" PAR
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
WEDDuJC REI RTNC
From the Public to the Editor

be large, II only fair dividends are
paid to the holders OF the stock the
Income might be materially reduced
II not entirely wiped out II this
latter should happen II seems only
fair that the small investor, who
cannot afford to invest except with
the expectation OF q return on his
funds, should receive some consid-
GRAFTON and manifestly he does not
when the law deals with the income
Of the corporation instead OF the In
dividuaL Would # be an unfair
proposition to permit corporations
to pay say or 8 per cent dividends
on their preferred and common stocks
and allow such dividends to be de-
ducted in making computation of the
net income OF the coproEation7
B. 3. JENKQI6
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
By Beatrice Fairfax.

eral education nor special school
ing as an artist, being, in fact,
entirely self-made, Yvette Gull
bert's head wasn't turned in the
least by this early acclaim
She knew that she had q gift,
but she could develop it into a
much bigger one. So she went on
trying.
A London manager heard her,
and shortly after she was induced
to cross the Channel. London
music halls succumbed promptly
to her art without suspecting how
true an artist she was. For Yvette
was rather naughty in those days.
It required sophistication to get
the points Of all her witty songs
and monologues. Sophisticated
London went wild over her. And
The Washington times., 1918-07-03

COMETIMES success IL scci-
dental But 1t Is the other
kind of success, the kind
that is the result Of courage and
energy, and perhaps genius, that
is worth looking into.
And it is this kind Of success
that has been achieved by that
very wonderful Frenchwoman,
Yvette Guilbert
Salesgirl Twenty-Five Years Ago.
Twenty-Five years or so ago a
salesgirl in a big department store
in Paris, she used to interest and
amuse the other girl workers By
her gift Of impersonation.
An endless succession Of funny
and pitiful and grotesque types
came to this store, as to every
other. She did this extraordinarily
we'll. Too well, in fact, for when
her employers found what she was
doing she lost her job.
Fortunately, this didn't occur
until the girl herself had realized
that she had a dramatic gift She
didn't try to get another job as
saleswoman. She had courage
enough to take risks, and she took
them.
Sings In Cafes.
So she applied to the proprietor
OF a cafe, who said that the tall
girl with the highly expressive
face, and big, eloquent hands was
an actress. But an actre1s Of a
new type. He engaged her to en-
tertain his patrons with imperson-
atoms and songs-for she sang,
too, after her own fashion.
It wasn't long before this very
different and original young artist
achieved a vogue. Other cafes
engaged her, and she received so
much praise that if she had been
merely a vain young girl, with a
mediocre talent, her progress
would have been arrested at this
point
But though she was so young,
and though she had neither gen.
The Washington times., 1918-07-03

again, il Yvette had not been a re-
markable woman, she would have
gone no further.
She Comes to America
Americans remember her at this
music hall stage. The tall, thin,
young woman who had neither
beauty nor a voice bewitched
New York as she had London and
Paris. She was the piquant SEN
sation Of her season. In fact, the
Yyette Of that period is a tradition
still.
But the interesting thing for
other women with careers to
realize is that this woman who
was for so many years developing
a unique art was at the same time
expanding humanity.
Yvette wasn't afraid Of life and
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
Dorothy Perkins Rose
Poem By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1918, Star Co.

Copyright, 1918.
.OROTHY PERKINS, long agone,
Was white, white, white as the breast of a swan,
Till rowing bee, in a cloak of gold,
Stared straight in her face, so the tale is told.
And that is the reason, the gossips think,
why Dorothy Perkins turned to pink
Then much elate was the bee, as he thought
Of the wonderful change his glance had wrought;
And the story is told by the wind from the South
That the bee kissed Dorothy right on the mouth
And that is the reason, so it is said,
Why Dorothy Perkins turned to red
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
HEARD AND SEEN

ent Office as cub reporters when tha
famous fire occurred.
The Washington times., 1918-07-03
The interests Of the Stock
holders.

EdftoF Washington Times:
That Congress recognized the
equities Of the shareholders in cor
porations is evidenced by the fact
that the Government as I under
stand II, guarantees q fixed dividend
or the stock Of railroad corporations
while they are operated By the Gov
ernment
It is conceivable, and probably
often. the fact, that the majority Of
stockholders in Industrial corpora
tions are comparatively small hold
ers Of stock and that, while the ag-
gregate income OF . corporation may
The Washington times., 1918-07-03


heels were all run down. so / took
them to a shoe shop that looked
more like a, factory than an old
fashioned cobbler's. There learn
ed that the president Of the works
was my old school friend, JOHN L.
EDWARDS.
MR.. HARRINGTON, who repre-
sented Mr.. Edwards in the prelimi-
naries Of getting rubber heels on
my shoes, told me that W. s.
RoYER and ALLEN BoTELER,
both old-time Washingtonians, had
it in mind to ask me to inquire in
this public manner what was the
name of the old river steamboat that
antedated the "MARY WASHING
TON"
Too much for me to answer off
hand, but perhaps some one will re-
member. In speaking Of the old
steamers, WHO IGllculDGAo bAC S<A1A
UEL PENTZ," that was so old that
when she was sold to a New York
man she went to pieces en- route to
the big city?
Saw TOM DAVIS, the ammunition
expert, in the doorway Of bank as
was entering.
"Put in or take out?" said Tom
as he quoted a Weber and Fields
comedian Of twenty years ago.
Ever been to SHERWOOD FOR
EST? It's a collection Of pretty cot
tages on the Severn river, near An
napolis. went over there a day
or two ago to see LEWIS HANEY,
of the Federal Trade Commission.
Mr.. Haney lives in a group of cot
tages called Nottingham" and
there are other grours, all named
after persons and places in the leg
end of Robin Hood.
JOHN BOYLE says that he and
EDDIE HOOD covered" the Pat
The Washington times., 1918-07-03

And another man told me he was
charged $50 a month for a small
room WITHOUT "A WINDOW.
The Washington times., 1918-07-03

famous fire occurred.
Also John says he belonged to 4
literary society about that time, in
which JOHN LARNER was a Lead
ing literary light; also @AL" PAR
RIS.
While walking up New York ave-
nue. Sunday, man emerged from e
house which has been vacant lon.
time. He said the woman at Il.
door had asked him SO a mont
for three UNFURNISHED rooms
And another man told me he was
charged $50 a month for a small
room WITHOUT "A WINDOW.
No reason for this. There are
plenty of good rooms at reasonable
prices, and the way to find out about
them is either by advertising or By
calling up s. B. HEGE at the off,
cial rooming bureau at 1921 New
York avenue. That bureau Is do
ing and has done a splendid bit Of
work.
A private at Camp Meade writes
me:
"We have poor mail accommoda-
tions. If we write letter to Wash
ington tonight, it won't be received
for a day after tomorrow. This does
not encourage the boys to write home,
as they know Of this poor service.
Hoping to see something soon n
regard to same, I am"
More sOIdiers' Home HlntA
"All your correspondents on the.
subject of ejecting the old soldier
from their home here for the bene6
of war workers overlook the poin
that this institution was founded %
blood money extorted from the
Mexicans by General Scott and that
it would be a good thing for the
conscience Of the nation If this little
episode were to be forgotten"
JOHN C. GRADES,
A Veteran.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-08
MARSHALL COUNTY
CLEAN Of TICKS
AND SCRUB BULLS

Madill, Okla, Dec. 7.-(SpeciaD-
The farmers and business men OF
Marshall county are highly in favor
OF driving all scrub bulls from the
state and will do everything possible
to assist the move of J. Robert Gil
lam, announced in the Ardmoretc
several weeks ago, but
There are neither scrub bulls nor
cattle ticks to be found in thi, coun-
ty,' was the statement OF III. Gar
Ian, county demonstration agent, to
an Ardmoreite reporter today.
The sentiment against cold-lood-
ed bulls in this county seems to be
universal and everyone seen ex-
pressed himself in favor of any
legislation that will drive the cold
bloodS from the state. There are
probablye more registered herds in
Carter County than in any other
section OF southern Oklahoma, and
now that the cattle ticks have gone,
it is expected that greater progress
will be made in the production OF
pure bredS than ever before.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-08
Interest In Move For Banish-
mentofScrub Bulls Spreading
To All Sections of the State

That interest in the move inagur-
ated by !. Robert Gillian to Danish
scrub bulls from the state is spread
ing throughout Oklahoma is evil
denced by the hundreds of letters
he has received since the announce
ment OF his plan in the Ardmoreite
several weeks ago, and from the
number of county breeders associa-
tons pledging their support it is
evident that his plan is universally
approved.
During the past week resolutions
were passed by the Ardmore cham
ber OF commerce and the Garter
county livestock association COM
mending the idea of ridding the
state OF cold-blooded breeding ami
mails, The moral support of both or
CARNATIONS was pledged. In addition
word was received that the Usage
County Breeders Association, the
Blain County Improved Livestock
Association, the Grady County Bet
ter Livestock and Seed Growers As
sociation had all adopted resolutions
which assured the unqualified sup
port Of the respective organizations.
Big Breeders Interested.
With the announcement that sew
eral of the biggest breeders OF reg
istered cattle in the state have
agreed to accept scrub bulls at ten
cents pound on the purchase price
of pure breds, it is possible that the
proposed legislation will involve no
other provision than placving a tax
on scrubs and the creation of fund
from which money intended for the
purchase Of registered sires may be
borrowed at low rate of interest.
The consensus of opinion express
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-08

OF the man in charge who should be
authorized TO suspend any Inspector
who fails to do his duty. All cattle
must be dipped every fourteen days
in place of eighteen days as designat-
ed in your article.
"You have a good board of coun-
~ commissioners and your sheriff
is efficient. Let the stockmen get be-
hind this work with perfect organ
ization and you can clean your ter
ritory in one year. ! do not believe
that too much criticism should be
made against the county commits
Sioners rs | know the handicap that
they have had to work under. You
know the benefits the stockmen de
rive from tick eradication. Above all
things a sufficient number of yati
should be built and cattle should be
dipped every fourteen days.
Yours truly,
"F, NJ. GAULT,
president Oklahoma State Board
OF Agriculture"
From the foregoing it will be seen
that both the state board of agricul-
ture and the federal government are
prepared TO carry on the work Of
Decentralization in this county to the
end that the territory will have heen
cleaned by Dec. |, 1910,
Not being on the ground it is pos
sible that Mr.. Gaut is not as familiar
with local conditions as many OF
the kill the tick boosters residing
in the county, but one thing is GER
tain; Gault and the federal author
tiles have afforded every facility for
the work during the past year, and
the fact OF Marshall. Johnson, Love.
and other surrounding counties hay-
ing been cleaned OF ticks would ap-
pear to indicate that Carter county S
failure has been due to local pro-
crastination.
But no matter what the cause for
failure in past performances, the
work at hand is the building Of the
25 or 20 yats in the southern part OF
the county by March |, and a uni
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-08

'tc with reference to tick eradication
in Carter County. We cleaned Love
county with the exception Of a small
area adjoining Carter by having per
feet cooperation with the livestock
owners last year. We organized
Hughes county got the vats built
and are releasing that county this
year One difficulty with Carter
county was that it was very hard
to get labor to build vats in time to
commence work systematically
There is no reason why Carter coun-
ty cannot be cleaned up by the first
OF December, 1910. What YOU want
IS a livestock organization OF live
wires organized for the betterment
of the livestock industry of Carter
county, This organization behind the
county commissioners and YOUR
sheriff, cooperating with the state
force and the federal force makes a
perfect working organization.
To clean a county in one year
the first thing that is essential is to
have a sufficient number of vats
ready by March 1st so that no man
will have to drive his cattle more
than three or three and a half miles.
The next thing is to get a sufficient
force OF competent county inspec-
tors. The state will furnish one man
and the federal government will fur
nish man. The county men should
be under and subject TO the direction
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-08
BY Mrs. Alice Barton Harris.

| sometimes wonder what the city
child is able to show in the way oi
self-dependence and initiative when
the inevitable day arrives that he
must stand on his own feet. 1t seems
TO me that he is never LETT alone
In well-to-do families he usually
passes from the teachers hands
directly into the hands OF his gov-
erness or tutor, who instantly as
sumeS the responsibility for his safe
ty and well-being. He works and
plays under supervision, and has no
opportunity to develop initiative or
sense of responsibility. In the
name of education we are crippling
what we should cultivate. The best
way to develop initiative is to let the
child alone for at least a part OF
each day. I think it shows an al
most insulting lack OF faith in his
intelligence, this constant attend
ance on him. Even if he does make
a few blunders, he will be develop
ing himself that way.
My husband and | were brought
up in all the freedom OF large spaces,
and after a few years OF New York
apartment life, with summers in
boarding houses, we realized that
our boys were going to lose out on
most of the joys of childhood unless
something was done about it. So
we bought for almost nothing 100
acre valley, 1000 feet up in the Cats
Kills. and 500 feet above the neares;
village-a real wilderness the near
est village real wilderness into
which no self-respecting servant
would dream of setting foot. There
was 4 rough little cabin in it, whic>
was quite adequate for a summer
home. Our object was to have a
place where the children could
stretch their bodies and souls, and