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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

James A. Cotner of New York, is in
the city for a few days mingling with
friends MIR Cotner was resident OF
this city for a number of years and
served as mayor for one term. At pres.
ent he is engaged in the brokerage busi
ness with offices at ~ Broadway. New
York.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

W. d. Kemp, buyer for the ready-to
wear department of Whiteman & Simp
son, has returned from purchasing
trip to eastern markets
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Dan Poland and Ralph Halle left this
morning on a motor trip to Corpus
Christi. .'hey will be joined there by Mr..
and Mrs. Rob Poland. who will leave
saturday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr., and Mrs Thomas Frame have re
turned from motor trip TO Fort Worth
ana Dallas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs. II. W. Harris and sons
Tom. Dick, and Harry. who have been
guests of Mr. ana Mrs. J. w. Davis
and Mr.. and Mrs. 7. f.. Petit, left
yesterday afternoon for their home in
Charlotte, n. q.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08
States are Cooperating

Washington, ID. C.-Forty states
are now actively cooperating with the
department of agriculture in its cam
paign against animal tuberculosis. The
campaign is gathering momentum as it
goes along, and is expected eventually
to rid the country of this dangerous and
destructive malady. The demand from
live stock owners for official tuberculin
testing is steadily growing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr., Stanley Bruce has returned TO his
home in Oklahoma City after a short
visit in Ardmore with h'' mother, Mrs.
George I'll. Bruce.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr. Hoxie Anderson is in sulphur on
a business trip.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr.. ana Mrs. j. Robert Gillian have
as their guest Mrs. Lucas Roundtree
and daughter, Miss Gladys Roundtree
OF Bartlett, Texas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Milton Hardy went to Oklahoma City
yesterday afternoon TO visit his sister,
Mrs Dick Lee.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs Jake Newman are
spending a few days in Fort Worth
They will return within few days and
will leave the latter part Of next week
for California where they will spend
three months.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. W. Harris and sons,
Tom, Dick, and Harry. who have been
guests of Mr. ana Mrs. j. W. Davis
and Mr.. and Mrs. I. f.. Petit, left
yesterday afternoon for their home in
Charlotte, n. 9.
Mr.. Stanley Bruce has returned TO his
home in Oklahoma City after short
visit in Ardmore with his mother, Mrs.
George IL. Bruce.
Mr.. Hoxie Anderson is in sulphur on
a business trip.
Milton Hardy went to Oklahoma City
yesterday afternoon to visit his sister,
Mrs. Dick Lee
Mr.. ana Mrs j. Robert Gillian have
as their guest Mrs. Lucas Roundtree
and daughter, Miss Gladys Roundtree,
Of Bartlett, Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Sass returned
yesterday from a short trip TO Dallas
and Fort Worth, Accompanied by their
sons, Jerry and J. b., Mr.. and Mrs.
Sass Will leave within a few days for
an extended eastern trip. They Will
stop in Chicago en- route TO visit Mr..
and Mrs. w. K. McCluskey at their cot.
tage on Lake Michigan. and will then
go to New York and other eastern
points to be away several weeks
I've nd
Lucy Hill. have returned from Dallas
where they were guests ten days of
Mrs. Hill's daughter. Mrs. L. L. Hall.
Mrs +. f. Graham and daughters,
the Misses Margaretta and Francis. left
yesterday afternoon for Cranberry,
Texas, where they will visit fort
night with Mrs. y. y. Lowell
Mr.. and Mrs. sam Newman are in
Colorado Springs. They will be away
two weeks
Mr. and Mrs Jake Newman are
spending few days in Fort Worth.
They will return within a few days and
will leave the latter part Of next week
for California where they will spend
three months.
Mrs. Bert Foster is i'll at the home of
her mother. Mrs. George II. Bruce. 4l9
North Washington street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Ekern whose mar
riaee took place in July, have returned
from their wedding trip TO Chicago and
other northern cities. They are at home
at 1905 McLish avenue. Mrs. Ekern
was formerly Miss Sallie Mayes Mccoy.
Miss Dorothy Dings has returned
from a few weeks visit with relatives
in Waukegan. Ill. She will remain in
Ardmore until September /. when she
viii go to Lake Forest. ILL.,, to enter
Ferry Hail. for the school term.
Mrs. Henry Carpenter and children,
Of Healdton, who have been guests of
relatives in Ardmore. were called home
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Newman are in
Colorado Springs. They will be away
two weeks.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mrs. Bert Foster is i'll at the home of
her mother. Mrs. George II. Bruce. 4l9
North Washington street.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mrs f. f. Graham and daughters,
the Misses Margaretta and Francis. left
yesterday afternoon for Cranberry,
Texas, where they will visit fort
night with Mrs. y. y. Lowell.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Ekern whose mar
riage took place in July, have returned
from their wedding trip to Chicago and
other northern cities. They are at home
at 1905 McLish avenue. Mrs. Ekern
was formerly Miss Sallie Mayes Mccoy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mrs. r. &. Hill and daughter, Miss
Lucy Hill. have returned from Dallas
where they were guests ten days OF
Mrs. Hill's daughter. Mrs. L. L. Hall
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Mrs. Henry Carpenter and children
Of Healdton, who have been guests of
relatives in Ardmore. were called home
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

WANTED--Experlen maid, at Cor
dova Hotel. 7-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-08

Miss Dorothy Dings has returned
from a few weeks visit with relatives
in waukegan. Ill. She will remain in
Ardmore until September /, when she
will 60 to Lake Forest. ILL.,, to enter
Ferry Hall. for the school term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24

Georee Drayton Strayer in Leslles.
 0R T E HAD supposed that we were
 NAV a literate people. In the army
 V V camps in which the tests or illiteracy were given-apd these tests con sisted in simply getting ideas rom newspaper and writing letter nome one man out of five was found 10 De IT. lterate. These facts astonished most ol us who had thought that the contessloh If iuiteracy given to the census enumera- tor by something more thar fl8s n'iiiio'i of our population measure las s'ze o4 the problem which conffo7t{s as' lne army tests would seem to iadicA1 hAN'- ablv from fifteen to twenty iiAssiio4t s'Ho7 nIe in tn United States whc are nAs.pis to read and write It is to thAs sr9'sp that the appeal of the anarchlst CT DOT shevist is being continually mace Aa
 who cannot read are influenced by lha dema gogue who would destroy our deaa'7 cratic institutions. They are mehae
 ,,ich oan only be removed through a program of education.
 There are in the United States haoie than thirteen million people of loreish birth. Some of these are good Amer ie' ' citizens. but a great majority or thSsn have as yet little or no appreclarion Y 1 Arar;can institutions or ideals. we aFsVsf for the most part. educated thSn enA-
 dren. while we have segregatea anu
 plotted the older brothers and sAsietS a-''t' fathers and mothers. We have oftesl slss. ceeded in Americanizing ne cfaahsA " Ithe point where they haNs nophipk
 Icontempt for their fathers and mosnsss Many of these people came to
 hoping to enter into ou- seei@- TIE s-'S
 to work with us in the deysaopfhsfA r
 our democratic society. If leauea'ioa !.
 rrov,aed for them theysmay contrihnts largely to the development of oaf TIE
 1f wa fail to Americanize them they nay
 actually prove to be the group "ho' De'
 cause they do not understand our govern
 ment or our institutions. will follow ths lead of those selfish and short-sightee Individuals who seek to gain their owi
 temporary advantage through an attacF
 mon society as at present constituted We need a very III uCIi HiOlS SiShiAiNs-A program of education as <sis fol
 naturalization. and we need. as well, tn' , requirement that those who do not wlsi
 to become Americans shall not contln I to enjoy the opportunities provided Il
 our land.
 As important as it is to provies g 9t adequate program of physical Asass2a 7 Ito establish system of scho ger se } removal of illiteracy and fof Nne 5 canization of foreigners, w nata Sste Jus today the even more llnpofe kFoV 7 Hem of providing adequately ne gu 9 cation of all the children a23 youth Q . the United States. Theres 10 ore fac . tor that is more importapt in he edu 1 cation of our children pan is tta kin e of a teacher providsa In our publi ' lschools. During the past yeHr approxi
 |mately one-fifth e the ehlldzen of tn
 Limited States were tAu sAs hs ssteacher
 lwho had less thaA 3 hlsa. sehool educa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
SAVE DUKES FOR LITERATURE

iety is the void their going will leave In literature. What are the English novel and the English stage to do without the dukes? And heavens, what are they to do without duchesses? A duke, generally with the gout,. or a duchess whose rank permits her to say startling things at which nobody must seem to be startled, have been essential properties to fiction and drama from their beginning.
 Before the thing goes too far parlia- ment or the reform club, or some of those institutions that take the place in Eng land of our supreme court, ought to do something for the protection of the writ CTS. It ought to be possible to take the duke's land away from them, and correct any other little inequalities rooted In the-r order, without cutting the dukes down wholly. They should be preserved Ike Stonehenge or the Elgin marbles.
 Perhaps there could be home for dis possessed dukes set up where writers could go for the necessary material as they now go to the British museum when | they want to describe a costume Of the | time of the Tudors. For fee any duKe' when properly approached by duly ac- credited playwright or novelist, ought to
 be willing to swear ducal oath, give
 a, ducal command to an invisible butler or give a correct representation of any act or custom of his order that might
 be required. Thus literature would De
 saved a great loss and the English reVo-
 1ution could still march on unhalted by r1xe ar,d hadpaS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

A woman isn't satisfied unless she gets a hat that makes her look better. But a man is satified if he gets hat that doesn't make him look any worse.
 Just kinda keep your eye on the fel- low who is always telling you how crooked other people are.
 Isn't 1t strange how liberal people are with their cigars when you have quit smoking?
 The main trouble with a white vest Is that it was but it inst. Why is it that man would rather discover that there are five pay days in a month than discover that there are live Sundays in it? In spite of the fact that his wife makes him go back upstairs and put on clean shirt after he had started down town, man will go down town and brag that he is boss in his house. There would be more prosperity if g i lot of fellows would get jobs as dock hustlers while they are waiting fol | their ships to come in. There are all sorts of people in thu world. including the man who eats lik,
 . hog and attributes 1t to his cleal conscience.
 The fashioned man who ate l has . son who expects three fork
 when he sits down to a meal. | What keeps man poor is the foo habit of trying to keep other peopl from knowing that he is poor. l A sure sign that woman is get 1 ting tired of her husband is when sh no longer gets any pleasure out o quarreling with him.
 The only thing about his wife that | man is sure of is that she couldn't hay married better than she did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
Influenza Appropriation A
 Denied by Republicans

THEE United States public health
 N service asked an appropriation of $2o0, 900 to carry on its investiga- tion of influenza. The request was refused by republican Congress, bent on practicnig economy for political purposes, to enable the republican party to say that it has called halt on democratic extravaganza"
 The public health service and medi- cal authorities throughout the coun- try are convinced that there will be another influenza epidemic next win- ter. Repeated warnings have been is- sued. Most intelligent people know that no effective way has yet been found to prevent a recrudescence of this disease which took heavy toll of lives in America and Europe last year. The medical fraternity is baf- fled and does not mind saying so.
 Yet, the agency which is best lequipped to make an intensive study that might result in saving thousands |of lives is handicapped by congress lsional indifference. Millions of dol liars have been appropriated for less urgent causes, without murmur. lThe frightful mortality of last win tier and the great economic losses due to influenza have apparently been for gotten. The probability of another epidemic as bad or worse is ignored. The appropriation for the current year having been exhausted and no more funds being available, the public health service will have to abandon its investigation of influenza. If we |are to escape another outbreak of the disease, municipal and state health de-
 partments must continue the fight.
 The American loss of life in the war was small in comparison to the num-
 Der of deaths caused by influenza.
 It is estimated that something like
 100000 people died in Europe. The
 republican bosses of Congress Lave
 other fish to fry. They are laying
 plans for the presidential campaign lof 1920 The possibility that severa , hundred thousand people may die ol influenza in the United States nex year is of less importance to then r tthan the spells of office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Joke on Dentists

JOke on DcnLStS
 Tt looks like the whole world has gone mad on the subject of the extrac- ton of teeth" said pr. F. E. Perkins, the we'll known dentist "Of course there are times when 1t Is absolutely necessary to have the teeth pulled, but dentists ought to be very careful in advising such thing. I'd rather have one real tooth than mouth full of artificial teeth. Of course many dis eases arise from lack of care of the teeth. Tn many eases a disease can't be cured unless the teeth are extracted. but a dentist ought to be mighty cer- tain before advising extraction.
 An amusing thing occurred the oth- story about how he had gone to a cer- tain dentist who advised him to have all his teeth pulled. He wasn't satis- fled at all with the diagnosis. and so he consulted a second dentist This one advised him as the first one had, Then he went to third. This dentist made an x-ray of his teeth and told him he would have to have every tooth in his head pulled out
 T waited for the man to go on with his story and when I glanced around he was laughing heartily. asked him what he was smiling at, and he said:
 "srhe funny part of it all is that the laugh is on those three dentists, for I had mouth full of false teeth all the time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
TWENTY MILLION ILLITERATES

tion. A very great number of these teachers were boys and girls who were themselves the product of the very inef- ficient school in which they were now teaching No nation may expect to be strong that entrusts the teaching of it's children to boys and girls who are un- educated and untrained.
 As poor as the teachers are in terms of their education and professional training, we are getting in the United States to- day just what we pay for. The average salary of teachers in the United States during the past year. in so far as sta tistics are available. is $630. There are still many teachers who receive less than 300 in any one calendar year. Compared with the avera SC salary of teachers, four thousand one hundred and ninety-eignt workers in nsthe shiryasAs during the same
 ear NeceireS s 7vesssys sRiary of s14l1. hvssu the sections hands or ,hs railroads received a higher annual aver se wage than gIa tho teachers of tsas United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD Events Recorded June 24 1894

The Boers are preparing for what seems to be the inevitable war with Great Rri- tain. The volksraad of the Orange Free State has voted ss7o pounds sterling for purchasing more artillery, tents and othor military supplies. Business at Cape Town and Johannesburg is at standstiu. Rrit- ish warships are moving and the tension in London Is great.
 Henry Bradley Plant, president of the Plant Investment company, controlline the great system of boats and railroads on the west coast of Florida, and steam. CTS from Tampa to Havana, died yester- day at his home in New York. He was 80 years old.
 l Inhabitants of the French port of Bres are eagerly waiting the arrival of Cap tain Dreyfus. The new French ministry which was seated in Paris yesterday, 1: expected to solve the Dreyfus affair.
 Gen. Russell A. Alger. secretary of war has announced his candidacy for th' United States Senate from Michigan, witt an antitrust" platform. and "electiol of Senators by direct vote of the people. 
 The Birmingham Elks who did not at tend the convention at St. Louis are pre- pairing big reception for B. M. Aller
 elected grand exalted ruler. and the Sir
 mingham delegation.
 Yesterday the coal mine operators C the Birmingham district and the miners
 now holding a convention in the city had their second meeting. but failed
 reach an agreement on wage scale fc the coming year. The convention wi , adjourn and report back to the locs
 unions of the United Mine Workers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
A rEtMErrY souk.

Ttsw the Cincinnati ErQeirer.
 l2 the old days vixen every saloon aAt free lunch there vas man who
 worked in railroad yard in Cincinnati who saved noney l. saloon, near the yard served & plsts lunch free if you bought two haers or spent 10 cents over the bar. The nan did not drink So he wouln SC to the saloon every day at noon ard spend his 10 cents on two pacl of tobacco. Then they would sefSA him a lunch The man did not . ahe~, SD when he got back to the yard he would sell the two packs of tobac-
 co for dime. He used the dime next day to buy two more packs and get lunch Then he would sell the toba a again. In this way he ate lunch for 300 l.days for nothing and still had his orig inal dime. This is, true story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
Congressmen's Clerk
 Hire Causes Debate

A FTER a prolonged debate over EA congressional clerk hire legis- lation yesterday, the House of Repre- sentatives adopted bill and sent it to the Senate providing that members of both houses be allowed two clerks to be paid salaries totaling $32o0. But it was pointed out that nothing in the bill prevented member from paying the entire amount appropriated to one person and placing the other clerk on the pay roll at nominal salary. It is provided that no part of the pay shall be "pocketed" by representa- tives or senators. Time was when some of the congressmen had agree ments with their clerks that after the
 latter had drawn their pay they
 would divide. That day has long
 passed, it is believed, and it is an
 ungracious reminder for members tc
 refer to a custom that might have
 been indulged in by few when oul
 national lawmakers received muct smaller salaries than Uncle Sam payi lnow.
 Congressmen were not furnished with clerks until sometime in thu Ieiphties. Twelve hundred dollars wal
 the amount appropriated at first Later on the pay was increased t' fifteen hundred dollars, and messen
 gers at nine hundred dollars wer
 added to the political patronage O
 senators. The correspondence O
 members of both upper and lowe
 house has grown in volume, and thirty 1.-two hundred dollars worth of clerica Ihelp is now thought reasonable. Germany's Unconditional
 Surrender and Stocks
 TTH HE fact that Germany has de Il J cided to make an unconditions , surrender to the allies can but hay a good effect upon business in ger F eral, but the indifferent attitude C 3 the stock market yesterday shows ths } financial circles had long ago dii . |counted Germany's action. 5 When the peace treaty is signe' : which it will be shortly, the era ( : abounding prosperity confidently pr' L |dicted will begin to come into flu e swing.
 v Wages are high and will continy
 lhigh and if labor keeps a level hes n every industrial center will prosp' j. las never before. Europe will have : be rehabilitated and in this count,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24

~ N THE program of the English il ] revolution, which is going along
 in it's quiet English way. almost as matter of factly as the London Robbie beckons and waves the traffic at street crossings, there is an item impossible to view without deep concern. It calls Tor the passing of the dukes.
 These exalted personages, after stand ing in the foreground for cent<ries, where they have taken up considerable room without seeming to be very busy at any thing, aras suddenly being asked what they consider themselves to be good TOT, anyway, and not having been able to think of any plausible answer are now in the way of being placed on the sklds The indictment against the dukes Is tnat they are a small, hereditary class given to landowninn which spells a number Of evils. There are only about 30 of them. Their titles and their land came down 10 them from nobody remembers just where or when or for what service performed by their ancestors. In this they are dls- tinct from the other orders of noblllty' most of which are of modern creation l and the members of which have some claims to their honors based on indus trial or commercial success. or on serv- ice to the state.
 Rut our concern for the dukes is not for them personally as class. ProoaDly they will get along somehow if on re- duced footing What arouses our anA-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24

CTS will proceed to organize other cities and districts.
 By this method the United States treasury department will be aided in surprising degree. The Savings Stamp business is now organized on permanent basis and the govern ment will probably receive something like two billion dollars a year from America's patriotic savers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
THE NUN
By Leigh Hunt. M

By Leigh Hunt.
 If you become a nun, dear,
 friar will be; In any cell you run, dear,
 Pray look behind for me. The roses all turn pale. too;S The doves all take the veil, too;
 The blind will see the show. What. you become a nun. my dear! I'll not believe. it no. If you become nun. dear,
 The bishop Love will be; The Cupids. every one, dear.
 Will chant We trust in thee The incense will go signing. The candles fall dying,
 The water turn to wine; What! you go take the vows. my deaxs Iou may-but they'll be mine.