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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-09-18

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Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
PRICES NOT CUT BY
 LARGER PRODUCTION
Interesting Figures Given by Bu-
 reau of Crop Estimates.
Abnormal Conditions Created by War
 and Other Causes Have Imposed Special Relationship of Prices : and Value.

(Prepared by the United States Depart.
 ment of Agriculture.)
 It is often said that when the farm CT has a bumper crop the price is so low that the total value of the crop Is below that of usual crop, but the abnormal conditions created by. the war and other causes have imposed a special relationship of crop prices and total value to the production of 1918 in comparison with 1917.
 In the estimates of the bureau of crop estimates 1t appears that larger production has been followed by low CT price and lower total valve only for barley, cabbage, onions, and broom corn, while larger production has been followed by higher price and hence by higher total value for wheat, buck wheat, fiaxseed, rice, sweet potatoes, tobacco, apples, oranges, and cran- berries.
 As Is often the fact, lower produc- tion Is associated with higher price and higher total value for oats, hay, sugar beets, peaches, and sorghum raised for sirup, but exceptions to this relationship are found in potatoes and hops, both of which had lower pro- duction and lower price.
 Rye, cotton, the kafirs and peanuts, had higher production in 1918 than in 1917 and lower price, but not low enough to prevent higher total crop value; whereas these conditions were reversed for corn and beans, both of which had smaller crops and higher prices, but not high enough to prevent lower total crop value.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
WHAT FLAG MEANS TO ALL
Days of Sacrifice and Devotion Have Made 1t Cause of Pride to
 Every American.

The flag means more to Americans In the year 1919 than it has ever meant in our lives. And why? Not, surely, because 1t Is more familiar. Nor yet because 1t floats over hosts of soldiers and mighty fleets. There were soldiers and fleets before. Not, therefore, be- cause of its new part in the panoply of war.
 It means more to us because we have put more into 1t. Because, after years of peace and plenty in which we thought of our flag chiefly as some thing to protect and guard us, we have in time of war and grief and hardship learned to know our flag as something for us to protect and guard and serve.
 A flag, in short, is as great as its people-and no greater. When they are great and generous and coura- geous, 1t is great and beautiful and holy. When they falter and haggle, their flag Is less than nothing to them, as to the world at large.
 Ours to love and cherish and die for in the greatest of causesl Therefore a source of pride and of deep emotion to every American. That Is the lesson we are learning in these days of sacri- flee and devotion, when a flying bit of color becomes the most glorious and joyous and sacred thing in the whole wide world.-New York Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12

paign this week for associate mem bers. Heretofore the Boy Scout movement has been practically self supporting and now since it's benefits can be appreciated, the men and women are asked to become associate members in order that trained men may be sent to every town to ad- vance their education in manly prin- ciples. The people of this commun- ity know what our boys have done during the war, yet few realized a war record, such as the following. could be attained by the boys of the nation:
 First four Liberty Loans: Scouts sold 1,S67,047 subscriptions, amount ing to $278,744,65O.
 War Savings Stamps: sold $42,- 751, 1,O31.25 in 2,175,625 sales (to April 10).
 Standing Walnut located: 2O,75S,- 66O boaard feet (5,2OO carloads.)
 Fruit pits collected for gas masks over 100 carloads.
 War Gardens and War Farms con- ducted by scouts: 12,0O0.
 Government literature distributed over 3O,O0O,0OO.
 Rendered invaluable services for the Red Cross, the United War Work Committee, and other National or ganizations serving the Government. Cooneratnd in American T,ihrarv Association Drive for better books.
 Served we'll in Food and Fuel Con- servation. U.
 Performed countless individual acts of service to the Government, not recorded under any special class ifcation.
 Presented a united front of patrio- tic zeal in many forms of community service, which in itself was of incal- culable value to the nation.
 Scouts have earned the following Government awards: for war service, 10000 Treasury Department Liberty Loan Medals; nearly half qualified for bars in addition; 16,026 achieve ment buttons for W. S. s. sales 8,221 ace medals; 1886 bronze palms; 1,726 silver palms; PIP gold palms.
 This record for war service should prove that the Boy Scouts deserve your help. A dollar can never do better service than with the Boy Scouts of America.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
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Dora Heinz is absent from school this week on account of the death ot her grandmother. She was absent two weeks ago on account of the death of her grandfather.
 MT. Barnes, a member of the ia culty, has been missed from his ac, customed place in school for several days. MT. Barnes father who was critically i'll for week passed away Monday afternoon.
 The last teachers meeting for this school year, was held Monday after. noon. Super. Teague being in charge
 The attendance banner is held by grades II and III this week.
 The following was contributed by a member of the Senior class:
 All pupils are making the most ot their time in preparing for the final examinations. The sad aff1iction which has come to MT. Barnes is greatly felt by all pupils. All feel it theil duty to do even better, than usua. and have expressed feeling of much sympathy during his absence. Al hope that he will soon be able to re, turn.
 The pupils of the Grammar anc High School are practicing singing for commencement.
 Beno Perotti, a former student al the school but now in the navy wis. tied at the school Tuesday.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
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Do not forget Swiss chard in order. ing seeds for greens.
 The pasture land need not be land suitable for nothing else.
 Good corn in the ear runs about PA cubic feet to the bushel.
 The fight against the bugs of the or. chard and garden must never stop.
 The supply of red clover seed in the United States is short again this year.
 An increasing number of gardeners are using greenhouses for starting early plants.
 This is a good time of year to do garden planning and get the seed list ready to order.
 Soils are easily tested for acidity by means of blue litmus paper. Lime sweetens sour soils.
 These are mighty good days to rs- pair harness and machinery against the busy days of spring.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
TWIN LAKES ROADS

For many years the summer resi- dents on the south and east side of Twin Lakes have suffered in silence much inconvenience caused by the miserable road leading to their cot tRges. This road, unfit for traffic antil long after other roads are set lied and in good condition, branches from the main road when taking the toIl bridge route, and once travelled ever will never be forgotten.
 The town of Salisbury is respon- able for it's condition, and yet as far as can be learned nothing has ever Been done to improve it, unless indi- vidual cottages have made some inn provements at their own cost. Branches of trees hang over the road M such manner as to be dangerous % the autoist, even though one be ever so careful, while stones of vari- gus proportions protrude through the surface, with others so close to the mad side that false turn would be disastrous. Any one of these filings should be sufficient to demand the action of the town authorities. Yet there are other just as important reasons. Take into consideration for instance that it is almost impos- able, except at few places, for two automobiles to pass and that the average country road can be tra- veTsed in ease compared with this sne, and you will wonder still more If the town of Salisbury has forgot eeu. that it owns this road.
 Individual cottagers have com nlained of this condition with appar- smtly no results and yet these same eottagers and residents of that sec- tion, presumably pay something over <2,00O a year into the town treasury from which they derive no benefit whatsoever. This treatment is not snly unjust to the summer residents, hut also to the business men of the town, inasmuch as many city people would come earlier and stay longer If the roads were in better condition.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
SANITARY BARNS FOR
 STOCK ARE FAVORED
Fair Standard of Hygiene Should
 Be Maint lined.
Important That Animals Do Given Abundance of Natural Light and Pure Ar to Prevent Preva-
 fence of Disease.

CPrepared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture)
 Losses of live stock due to disease are less on farms operated under req sonably sanitary conditions, and are slight In proportion to those on farms where no special attention is given to making the housing conditions sani- tary. A man about to embark in the livestock industry should hesitate, say officials of the United States depart ment of agriculture, unless he is able to supply buildings suitably equipped to maintain at least fair standard of hygiene. The prevalence of diseases, particularly tuberculosis, and their rapid spread in communities where large numbers of animals are confined in dark, damp, poorly ventilated build ings-especially of bank-barn type anu the nonprevglence of similar diseases among animals which are allowed to roam at large, Illustrates the importance of constructing barns so that the live stock may have abun- dant natural light and pure air.
 Sanitary barn construction means the liberal use of concrete and glass. This does not necessarily mean expen- sive construction. The sanitary barn should be built on site that has the advantages of good natural drainage and good water supply. The sur roundings should be in keeping with the interior construction. Barn yards and exercising lots should be dry. Con- crete feeding forms which are properly sloped and drained are advisable. In all cases convenience in locating barn sites should be secondary in considera- tion to sanitation.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLAG
Glorious Record From January 1e, 1776, to Its Proud Position In
 the World In 1919.

The Stars and Stripes was raised on the heights near Boston on Janu- ary IS, 1776. and the British troops be- lieved 1t to be evidence of submis- sion to the king. The Betsy Ross flag, the official flag, came later.
 After the declaration of independ- ence, July 4, 1776, the first salute to 1t was given by the Dutch island of St. Eustatious in the West Indies by Jo- names de Graf, commander of the port.
 When Kentucky and Vermont came into the Union in 17S4 two additional stars were placed on the field, but they were discarded after much de- bate in congress and the original thir- teen were restored in 1918.
 The first flag that fioated over for eign and captured fort was at Nassau, January 28, 1778. The first carried to London was on a vessel February 8, 17s3. It f1oated in China in 17S4.
 It was carried around the world from 1787 to 1790. The first blood shed un- der 1t was in Ireland In 1790 during a mob riot over bridge built by Ameri- can engineers. The first salute to 1t given by an English vessel was in May, 1791.
 One of Napoleon's generals remark ed to the illustrious man that senti- ment had no place in the thought of country. Napoleon replied: "Sen- timent concerns what most enriches life."
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
SNAP SHOTS

Blessed are the peacemakers- blessed slow.-Boston Transcript.
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 The only thing for Germany to do is to pay up and shut up.-Baltimore American.
 It would have been a pleasant and appropriate thing if President Will son had spoken at Suresnes just a word of tribute to Theodore Roose- velt.-New London Day.
 When it is man getting a set of false teeth, he is afraid he is not going to be able to eat with them if it is woman, she is afraid she will not be able to talk.-Houston Post.
 The Turks are to be summoned to Versailles, but merely for the pur- pose of asking if they have anything to say before sentence is pronounced New York World.
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 Unless we change our standards the discerning parent will be in- clined to raise his boy to be an ice man instead of president.
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 There's one person more unspeak- able than the unspeakable Turk He's the fellow at Versailles who first conceived the idea of unloading Constantinople on America.-Knox- vile Journal.
 The republicans and democrats in congress appear to be working in ad- mirable harmony, but it is only truth to confess that the democrats could not we'll help it.-Charlotte Obser- yer.
 That PTS persons of royal strain have lost their positions by the war has been figured out by a German professor. It is one of the brightest aspects of the unemployment situa-
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
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ME first American flag, for
 mally adopted by congress on
 June 14, TIT. is said to have been made out of a soldiers white shirt, an old blue army overcoat and a red flannel petticout. It was first hoisted by the Revolution ary army during Burgoyne's campaign and was first flung to the ocean breeze by Paul Jones.
 We have not advanced so far from those humble but glorious beginnings as to have lost the savor. The com bination that went into the making of the first flag answered all require ments. History has neglected the own CT of the white shirt and the old over coat. It has likewise courteously re- trained from mentioning the original possessor of the petticoat. It Is enough that all were Americans.
 But the vicissitudes of history have not dimmed the luster of those first Stars and Stripes. Rather have they grown more glorious in the eyes of the people over whom they float.
 The observances of 1919, while com memorating the glories of the past, must necessarily take account of the new epoch upon which we have en- tered. But there is no change in tho significance of the national emblem. AS before, 1t stands for justice, freedom and humanity. There will be no new teachings, but fresh consecration of the old.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
HELP OUR BOYS

This week the national campaign bers of the Boy Scouts of America h is campaign for the benefit of fhe boys of today in order that the men of tomorrow will be better, phy- zcally, mentally and morally, and consequently raise the standard of aaanhood to such an elevated posi- sion that it shall prove the aspiration h every boy for generations, to at tain this state of perfection.
 On my honor I will do my best, To do my duty to God and nay country and to obey the Scout law; To help other people at all Emes; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
 That is the oath taken by every Boy who becomes a member of any scout troop. It is unnecessary to comment on the benefit any commun- Ry should derive if the majority ot hx boys were Scouts who tried to full. ETI this promise.
 We who live in this community can gee the effects of Scouting on many sf our boys and more especially dur ing the past year and half since Mey have received intensive work sud instruction. We can realize to some extent the effect if more of ou1 boys were Scouts and their work and instruction extended still more.
 That is the purpose of the cam.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
tion.-Springfield Republican.

The Canadian minister of labor says that the cost of living in Cana da has decreased 10 per cent, since Feb. l. That seems to refute the theory of American experts, that it can't be done.-Albany Journal.
 Prevailing wages of plumbers. painters and milk-wagon drivers al most tempt the average man to pur- chase overalls instead of a new suit of clothes.-Baltimore American.
 Cannot our senators raise enough to buy the full text of the peace treaty? Thirty cents a copy in Co., penhagen, or 15 in Berlin, should not upset the foreign exchange market Wall Street Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
MUCH MEAT WAS INSPECTED
Million Head More of Cattle slauah- tered in October, 1918, Than
 In October, 1917. ,sl

Prepared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture)
 The meat inspection service of the United States. department of agri- culture supervised the slaughtering of over a million head more cattle in October, 1918, than in October, 1917. That additional protection to the American table came as the result of additional wartime tasks.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12

On History's crimson pages, high upon the roll of Fame, The story of Old Glory burns in deathless words of flame, Twas cradled in wars blinding smoke, amid the roar of guns, Its lullabies were battle-cries-the shouts of freedoms sons: It is the old Red, White and Blue. proud emblem of the free, It is the flag that floats about our land of liberty; Then greet 1t when you meet 1t, boys, the flag that waves on high, And hats off all along the line when Free dom's flag goes byl Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, Iris freedoms starry banner that you
 greet,
 Flag famed in song and story. Long may 1t wave, Old Glory, The flag that has never known defeati All honor to the Star and Stripes. our glory and our pride, All honor to the flag for which our fathers fought and died; On many blood-stained battle field, on many gory sea, Its stars have riumphed-evermore tri- umphant may they be; And if again mid shot and shell its folds must be unfurled, God grant that we may keep it still unstained before the world; All hail the flag we lovel May it victori- ous ever fly, And hats off all along the line -hen Freedoms flag goes by! Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, Iris freedoms starry banner that you
 greet,
 Flag famed in song and story, Long may it Old Glory The flag that has never known defeati
 Charles T.. Benjamin
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
Hold the Flag Sacred.

The rills of resolution that recently have inspired earnest and impressive but locally scattered manifestations of disapproval for demonstrations of disloyalty or erroneous concepts of civic obligation are gathered into one mighty stream. The symbolism of the flag, of which the disloyal prove the correctness by their acts of desc cration, was never more clear and luminous than on this fourteenth day of June in this tremendous year of history 1a1a ......s.s.,S
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
What the Flaa SymboIlzes.

In 1777, within a few days of one year after the declaration of independ- ence, the congress of the colonies in the confederated states assembled and ordained this glorious national flag and advanced 1t full high before God and all men as the flag of liberty.
 It was no holiday flag, gorgeously emblazoned for gayety or vanity. It was a solemn national signal. When that banner first unrolled to the sun, 1t was the symbol of all those holy truths and purposes which brought to- gether the colonial American congress ! The flag means now all that our fa- thers meant In the Revolutionary war. It means all that the Declaration of Independence means. 1t means all that the Constitution of our people meant in organizing for justice, for liberty, for happiness. ... .,..
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
The Finding Of Old Glory.

When the day came that our revolu- tionary fathers needed to design a flag for the new nation of their heroic founding, they had but to lift their eyes to the heavens to find the banner of their faith and pride.
 In the glowing West, in the burning clouds of a sunset sky-streaming across the wide horizon in alternate bands of flame and mist-they saw the symbol of their own fair dreams, mys- tic, mighty and baffling.
 And as they looked, there came a sudden rending of the fleecy mass by a wind of liberty's own sending, and through the monster rift thus made they then beheld patch of azure sky set thick with silver stars.
 The stars-the stripes-the blue Old Glory, blazoned in beauty across the wonder of Gods great heaven, for all the world to see. It is our flag God make us worthy of it.-Anne Ran kin in Southern Woman's Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12
The Patriot By ETHEL N. COLSoN.

I-N-N-H-G-I-IQ -IQ-p-p-p-p-p- The little old lady
 Trudaed down the long street, A fraiI little figure
 From bonnet to feet.
Connecticut western news., 1919-06-12

ME first American flag, for mally adopted by congress on
 June 14. 1777. Is said to have
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-27

is your chance to make good your am
bitions!" Roger was excited, too.
What chance have T. she laughed
1.-THE Puritan to them is a joke"
THE owner of the Puritan circus to
the owner of the Mammoth circus Is
the most wonderful woman in the
world. He wants to marry her. am
the owner of the Mammoth. started
out to find you. joined a circus in
the hope that that would bring me
nearer to you, and look what it has led
to, after all these years! know now
why you left the narrow, bigotted
country life the fever of circus life
is in my blood, too. Won't you join
forces with the Mammoth, won't you
marry the owner of the Mammoth?
Mona, need you, want you So"
a need you, want you, too Mona
drew closer in his embrace. Here
where we quarreled, where we parted,
we have cone together again. The
little flowers and the brook know all.
Il only we could take them to our cir
Gus for two!"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-27
l slipped into my soft pink kimonc
and crept to his door.
TheStoryLady

1t was Saturday afternoon and Peter
was lying in the hammock reading
the stories in his new school reader
Pan, his black and white shepherd
dog, was taking a nap on the porch
rug.
Mamma Palmer came out on the
porch.
"Peter, l don't know which is the
dirtier. you or Pan. You've been read
ing that book for an hour. Come, now
run and put it up. Give Pan bath
in that tub OF rain water back Of the
house and dust him with that insect
powder and then come on in and gel
your own bath"
Peter growled out something about
never having any time to do anything
he wanted to-finished his page
slammed the book down-grabbeo
Pan up by the nape of the neck, ran
around the house and showed him
down in the tub OF cold water. Pan
jumped out again as quick as he was
put in and knocking Peter down in his
mad rush took refuge under the barn.
Peter picked himself up and crawled
under the barn after him.
After fifteen minutes Of hard work
he dragged him out and holding tight
ly to him finished the bath and got the
box of insect powder
But Pan who despised the powder
even worse than he did bath wouldn't
hold still and Peter got a big Whit
under his nose He gave big sneeze
and Pan got away the second time
Peter threw the can at Pan and stalked
to the house. He had powder on hts
nose and mud on his trousers where
he had crawled under the barn.
1.-THE darned old dog is washed" he
announced bitterly.
Jane, who was cross because she
was late about getting through, took