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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

FOR RENT-Four-room house, fur
nished for light housekeeping; partly
modern. Inquire 212 Iowa avenue.
Phone 1880. 3-St
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

All good prairie land. Price $3.50
per acre.
$50 acres high improved; SO
acres bottom in alfalfa; large S-room
house; fine orchard and vineyard;
entire place is fenced and cross
fenced hog tight; 70 acres in wheat.
Price $75 per acre.
100 acres miles from Chickasha.
first class Washita bottom; 100
acres in alfalfa; $4,000 worth good
Improvements; fenced hog-tight. Can
give possession at once. Price is
right.
80 acres one-half mile from city
limits; good smooth land; large
house; ideal home; $4,000 cash; bal
ance $1,000 per year at per cent
interest.
10 acres well improved; near car
line; close in; good suburban home;
price $4,000; would consider trade
on city property.
acres highly improved; one-hale
mile from city limitsi Broom house;
orchard and vineyard. Price $4,000.
We have a buyer for a good or
S-room residence. Wants to trade in
fine 5-year old Percheron horse.
$1,5OO private money to loan ON
city property.
Any amount of money you want to
lend on farm lands; low rate; pre-
payment privilege; first-class loan
proposition.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.

REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.
S-room modern home on corner lot
and real close in, priced for quick
sale at $2,75O.
Good 4-room home out on West
hill and beautiful lot, 100 by 1865,
price $1,000.
Choice 5-room, modern, on South
Hill at the low price of $1,000.
Good 4;room plastered house on
corner lot, close in on South Fourth
street, price $1,000.
A beautiful vacant lot so by 165
on car line, well located Price
1926.
Two good, 3-room houses on so
foot lots, will sell either one or
both at $500 each. l can arrange
for you most any kind of reason
able terms on any of the above
property.
FARM LAND
10 acre suburban tract, close in
and mostly choice alfalfa land.
Price $1,000.
10 acres, 70 in cultivation; this
farm is well improved and is close
to good little town. This is a bar
gain at $50 per acre on good terms
and with immediate possession.
If you wish to make quick sale of
your city property list it with me
for l am selling lots of dirt and not
saying much about it, either
See or phone
T. ii. BENNETT,
305 IL Chickasha Ave.
Office Phone 334; Residence 94S
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
OeE the real home HOn ". B. Emerson
First National Bank Building Room 4O4 Phone 7O5 2l5
cocHRAN's BILL BOARD NO. 3

TWO story eghToom frame dwelling rs Price $25OO
F1yeToom, modern dwelling
Fourroom house. 30foot lot; in.
Fourroom frame dwelling
$1,000.
25foot business Chickasha
renting for $50 month
tlveroom dwelling block
$40 MONTH 55foot
SiXroom house block and half
month"; 55oo lot Price $1O0 N
Fiveroom 7Ox9O,
very and absolutely right South Hill III
Sixroom modern
and connection;
the phone
have the loan
hurry the quickest
paid by the month and interest house,
put foundation build
and about
Don't forget to look at the bungalow being built Tenth and Min
it's for sale
If in
and Loan Association will $500
would
ID TNTA
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
MAJOR BROTHERS
511 First National Bank Bldg Phone 2SO
SOMETHING NEW


75foot Paving Groom
4 east front; clear Price $27OO
garden a. ooa rooms, ms east lron Oh paving
ei innroved bonse east
owner moving
away GEAR Frice SzoOV
Catth II
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
Real Estate

For Sale-9O foot lot, near High
School, $3.50; one-fourth block near
High School, $500
For Sale-150-foot front on Eighth
street, paving all paid in fall; A.
room house. Price $4,000.
For Rent-S-room house, modern;
newly papered, West Hill, $25 per
month.
Private money to loan on land.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
Oil Stocks

WIeL BUY SUBJECT, TO PRIOR
PURCHASE.
500 Aubyme Oil & Gas---------S1.3 80
500 Oklahoma Oil & Refining 80
500 Assurance Oil & Refining Is
500 United Oil & Refining 80
so Ranola Oil & Gas------$5.00
100 Gladstone Oil & Refining -$1.90
100 Perpetual Royalty 40
300 Bob rs
200 r. M. Sanders Oil e Gas -$175
25 Wyandotte Oil $4,000
20 Prosperity Oil e Cas- $4,000
CEMENT OIL FIELD LEASES
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

LARGE MANUFACTURER wants
representatives to sell shirts, under
wear. hosiery. dresses, waists, skirt
direct to homes. Write for free sam.
pies Madison Mills. 5O2 Roadway,
new York City. S-4t-tf
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
WANTED

WANTED-To buy second hand
furniture. Tom Cheney, 5O2 Chix
Ave, phone 499. 27-30t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
FOR RENT

FOR RENT nicely furnished
sleeping rooms, modern conveniences
close in. 317 Colo. Ac Call Mrs.
Webster at Dillon's Cafe. 3-Gt
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
SIR ARA Lauder

1t is not easy to realize that the quaint
Scotch minstrel OF the music halls, who from
the stage has called upon the audience so often
to join in the chorus of his ballads and topical
songs is to be made a knight. Never had
knight humber origin or more singular ca
reer. He tells you in his autobiography in the
English who's Who" that he was educated by
"Stumpy Ball as half-timer in Arbroath,"
and that he was first mill boy in flax-spin-
ming mill, then miner. now is what the people
have made him." 1t was at his native Arbroath
that Harry Lauder sang his first song as an
amateur when star" was missing. In the
vernacular, he did not get the hook" being
applauded from the start
Harry Lauder, as he became famous made
pretentions to some education. He tells us
that he has written Scotch comedy; also that
he is composer-of his own music, which is
so much broken by monologue often better
than the score. Like more distinguished men
in who's Who he has his recreatons: try
ing to hit wee guilty ba'; trying to catch sal
mon and trout motoring, shooting" He is a
clubman, too: the footing Bee and Kim Golf "
SO he was gradually qualifying for society far
above the pit mouth and those obscure days of
poverty. The ost democratic of all wars has
translated Harry Lauder into knight, and
richly he deserves the honor, as compared with
great many previous aspirants and doubtless
with some of the new company in which he finds
himself, for he has done his "bit" in the war in
his human and useful way inspiring his coun-
trymen to greater sacrifices and forever endear-
ing himself to them, on the stricken fields of
France-New York Times
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
ODD BITS OF INFORMATION

In some of the villages in Siberia
very few of the inhabitants can
read or write.
Within the lid of new pancake
dish are contained a syrup cup and
a butter plate.
With lead deposits numerous in
Guatemala, the metal is mined only
by the Indians.
Between four and five million gal
Ions of wine are annually produced
in the Union of South Africa
Ashville, N c., boasts Of having
one of the best barber shops in the
south to be owned and operated
entirely by women.
Women in the employ of the
state of Texas are assured by law
of receiving equal pay with men for
equal service performed.
If pink crepe de chine waist
fades to an ugly color when washed
soak small piece of red crepe pa
per in some water, dip in the waist
and it will restore the original
color.
If France is poor in coal, such is
not the case in water power, and il
is principally through the utiliza
ton of this factor that the industrial
future of the nation looks hopeful
Good opportunities await Ameri-
can capitalists who are willing to
| operate cotton mills in China and
produce the brand of goods to suit
, the local market at competing
prices.
January exports exceeded in value
| the total for any previous month ir
| the history of American commerce
according to a statement issued by
| the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, Department of Com
merce,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
Still Pleading for Budget

At its convention at ST. Louis the Chamber
Of Commerce of the United States decided to
enlist in the campaign for budget system for
the government. 1t will not lack for strong
allies. But even if it stood alone it would still
speak in the name and command the support
Of more than thousand trade bodies covering
the entire country.
The budget system has been advocated by
both democratic and republican presidents as
a means of putting the national finances on a
sound basis. Both the democratic and repub-
iican parties have approved it in principle The
business interests and the press generally have
urged its adoption as the only logical and prac-
teal policy.
The one obstacle to the budget system is
the inertia of congress By long habit con-
gress is welded to methods that are unbusiness-
like, unscientific and improvident In debate
it has admitted the justice of the criticisms lev
elled against it by its own members, but always
when the opportunity arrived it has proved itself
incapable of making the effort by which a
position to act it continues to defy commoa
sense and experience.
There is nothing radical in the proposal that
the budget system be made fixture. 1t calls
for no surrender of the powers of congress. On
the contrary, it would simplify the legislators
work and tighten their labors.
In the circumstances the Chamber OF Com
merce of the United States in undertaking to
press the adoption of the budget system has
passed what amounts to vote OF censuve OF
congress. but votes of censure never disturb
congressional apathy. Besides, the people who
want budget are mostly taxpayers. and why
should congress worry about taxpayers ?-New
York World
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
Soldiers and the New Life.

A great deal is being said, most of it by per-
sons who have not had time to think, about the
soldier and the new life. Some of these tell us
the farmer boy, having caught glimpse of the
tall buildings, the, noisy dirty streets, the smart
clothing, and other outward features Of the city,
is not going back to the drudgery OF the farm
Others are full of tbeotion that the city toilers,
having gotten taste of outdoor existence, will
not again suffer themselves to be "cribb'd,
cabin'd and conhn'd' in sa1esrooms, offices or
factories. All of these are right and all aye
wrong.
The war disturbed the normal existence of
100000 of our boys, by snatching them away
from the course along which they were moving
and setting them at novel tasks. However, very
few Of these were finally established for life
before the upheaval came. Each was trying
out an experiment possibly one of many,
searching for success. None was in the army
long enough to actually have his habits fixed
by the experience. All will benefit to some ex-
tent by the enforced discipline, the lessons of
orderliness and the like, but every soldier still
is left with sufficient of the residence of youth
to adapt himself to the changed circumstances
of life, and with ideals so little dimmed that he
can meet any chance Of fortune with smile.
1t is true that not all the returned soldiers
are seeking the old job; it is but natural they
should feel the STRINGS of an awakened ambi-
ton and look for better way than they knew
of earning living. This means restlessness
and stirring about. and it is good for the life
of the nation as whole it should be So 1t
prevents stagnation 1t may disturb the plans
of some who had buded on doing certain
things, in certain way. when the war was over
but even such may readjust themselves. Indus
trial and commercial operations will be carried
on, in town and in country, and in time all the
gallant soldier lads will be absorbed into the
busy life of peace just as if they never had gone
! f0 u,r
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
THE TOCSIN.
(From the New York SUM-

(From the New York SUM-
Never since man first preyed on man,
And battlefields turned red,
And guns were forged and metal ran
Hot for its feast Of dead.
Rang Tocsin louder on the air.
More menacing, more wild,
Than rouses races everywhere
What they be not defiled.
y 1t echoes over mounds of slain
And weary Europe weers:
It's hoarse above the meaning main,
From sea to 1t leaps.
It's raucous where the valleys are,
1t shakes the hills with dread
Who raised their eyes and a star
Now fear that star is fled.
The Tocsin! The Tocsin. IT'S 49,
harsh to human ears;
Our graves have grown too many, we
are tired of our tears:
But the foe is arming, arming,
And the Tocsin. giving cry
Is watch dogs tongue. alarming
Them that sleep to wake or die.
Far afield the war-god ranges.
Peace? All, where Is ittoday?
Age on age Eow slight the changes.
In the price their victims pay!
To the Robespierres. red handed,
Who have slain, and Stay again
Now behold new millions banded
For the massacre Of men!
The Tocsin! The Tocsin! The winds of all
Are carrying the warning of a monstrous
evil birth,
OF the coming of a Frankenstein, insati-
ate for blood,
OF cavemen with machine guns, and of
murder at the flood.
Nay, tarry not, we Needless, for the foe
draws nigh the gate,
And wo to we, ye laggards. IL We grid your
loins too late:
Ye have fought splendid battle. We have
won a fight for God
But there's lightning in the armament and
blood upon the sod.
The Tocsin' The Tocsin Its thunder
groweth loud
Ye saved the goddess, Liberty--they would
wrap her In shroud:
A new crusade awaits We, ye must face
the foe again.
For brutes break loose to make treir kill
and Freedom calls for men.
Edward S. Van lille.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
Child Labor Loses Again.

Hon. James E. Boyd federal Judge for North
Carolina, stands an undaunted champion of the
right of the child to toll m the cotton mill, in
the mine, or wherever its nfantile fancy may
lead it. He has just ruled against the provision
of the revenue bill, which puts an extra tax on
those articles into the production of which the
labor Of children entered.
We have not the text of his decision at
hand, but may~follow his probable line of rea-
soning because of familiarity with his mental
habits. After disposing of the states rights
features of the case, which the Judge upheld in
overseeing the Heating law, being joined there
in by the supreme court, we can imagine the
courts descanting on the sacred and inviolable
right Of contract No individual may be de-
prived by the law of this, which includes the
privilege of selling his services to any pur-
chaser at any price agreed upon between the
two.
Thus no child under the age of l6 may be
through the mistaken notion of lawmakers aim
ing at philanthropy forestalled of the inherent
and inalienable right of selling his or her serv-
ices to cotton manufacturer, to fruit or vege-
table Gamer, to coal operator, or to any other
INDUSTRY whose successful operation rests on
the employment of those capable workers who
might otherwise be wasting their time in going
to school or playing childish games, such as
marbles, hop-scotch, follow the leader, or ever
blind mans buff
In this way the learned and upright judge
preserves to humanity the usufruct of the
creative effort that otherwise would be dis.
sipated, while the little boys and girls would BE-
eating their heads off, instead of turning ou
wares that may be sold at a profit.
Then, too, he may consider the factor Of
parental control. Stranger" replied the
cracker to the inquisitive visitor, IL reckon as
how don't have 10 work, SEEM that I've go
eight head of gals workin' over hyar in the
cotton mill" Is this man to be disturbed If
his contemplative -umination and consumption
of tobacco? He is soon to be deprived of The
accompanying comforts of con likker; shall h,
also be compelled to take up work to supper
his family while his children go to school? No
if Judge James Z. Boyd of the federal court O
North Carolina can prevent It!
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
Burleson and Labor

Omaha, April 2s.-To the Editor
OF The Bee: Postmaster General
Burleson in statement issued to the
press defends his administration
against the accusations brought
against him by the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor.
He says that it is little short Of
silly to talk about collective bar
gaining with an executive officer Of
civil service employees under his ad-
ministration," and in the matter of
hiking compensation the postmaster
general says that "he~has RECON-
mendcd, as the record will show,
that the government be a model en-
ployer. that compensation for those
who serve it be fixed upon a gener-
GUS basis, in fact, compensation for
'aborers and clerks should be fixed
at from ! 5 to 80 per cent more than
Is paid for similar service in private
employment" and points out that
the legislative branch Of the govern
ment has in the last two years
granted increases which aggregate
more than $40.000,000.
Mr.. Burleson insists that all the
criticism to which he has been sub
1ected since he became cabinet
officer has been due ito certain
selfish publishers, who have been
bloodsucking the postal establish
ment for years"
1t may be we'll to ponder over in
ones mind. IL in the entire history
Of this government there has ever
occurred such a situation as Is now
prevalent in the postal, telephones
and telegraph systems of the coun-
try.
To those who come in contact
with the Postoffice department and
know the situation as 1t exists, will
honestly say that the service Is en-
tirely demoralized and the mails are
considerably delayed, will not be say
Ing an untruth.
That same and like conditions pre-
vail in the telegraph and telephone
system is beyond question.
The Generalization of the most
important arteries Of commerce sure
ly cannot be charged to certain
selfish publishers whom the post
master general blames for all his
troubles
The fault lies in the view which
the postmaster general takes of run
Ming the postal service as he wishes,
| which means autocratic rule, which
Is now the vogue in that depart
ment.
What other cabinet officers now
In the government call an enlight-
ened policy of dealing with the vari-
GUS craft organizations which their
departments control. no discord can
be shown, and if friction develops it
~ readily adjusted by the proper
officials who represent their men.
tSut the postmaster general calls it
silly to talk about such things. Well
may the exkaiser of Germany say
the same thing about democratic
government; at any rate, the ex-
raiser found out to his sad regret
that 1t is not: while Burleson has not
found it out. at least not yet.
1t is true that the postmaster gen.
aral stated in his past reports that
the civil service employees in his
department should be paid from Is
to 80 per cent more than what is
raid in private employment; and that
the government should be a model
employer.
But it is also true that when the
representatives Of the postal organ
izations appeared before the legisla-
tive branch Of the government and
sought to have the Postal depart
ment grant sufficient living wages to
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
Ancient Rule Revised
From the New York Times.


When Judge Mayer, in the trial of
the Fricke case. this week, ignored
the objection of the governments
counsel and permitted the prisoners
wife to be called as witness for the
defense. he abrogated, and so far as
! lay In his power abolished, the
| ancient, well-established, and hith-
| erto yreverently observed rule of law
that a wife cannot testify either, for
or against her husband
Whenever a Judge does this he
| shocks the lawyers severely. for he
| removes one of the not many GER
| tainties Of their professional prac-
tice. and for the time being makes
| them feel that they do not know
| where they stand or where they are
| going. All this Judge Mayer doubt
| less understood and appreciated, but
apparently, he rather rejoiced In the
utilization of an opportunity. for
which he said he long had been
| waiting. OF course, his action was
| far from unprecedented, for legal
history records not few other over
turnings of just such rules as the
one which he characterized as
archaic and not in accord with
| modern ideas or Jurisprudence. He
| was quite right in saying that. but
one cannot help remembering that
| the same thing could be said Of
many other rules Of law that are
still treated with utmost respect in
all courts, and also Of a good many
statutes into which rules of law have
been formulated.
The rule of law which Judge
| Mayer declared out Of date, came
down to us from the ages when no.
body questioned that man and wife
are one, with the man most en-
phatically the one. On that theory,
to let the wife testify either for or
against the husband would obvi-
ously add nothing to the courts en-
| lightenment, as it would be assumed
either that the wife would not de-
| sire, or would not dare, to say any,
thing against her husbands inter-
ests, and that what she might say to
| further them he could better say
| for himself.
Both laws and rules of law have a
| habit of outlasting the conditions on
! which they originally were based,
and it is especially in criminal pro-
l'cedure that archaisms survive, in
spite of having no merit except that
| they are old.
In slavery days there was the same
rejection of slave testimony for or
against the master, and for much
| the same reasons. Now there are
no slaves, and husband and wife, for
most or at least many purposes,
practical and others, are very dis
| tinctly not one but two.
Whether or not the time has come
| for FULL judicial recognition of the
wife's new social and legal status is
highly interesting question, not to
| be settled until after other and high
| or courts than that OF Judge Mayer
have spoken on the subject. They
rlay CT may not be ready to move
ahead into the position he has taken;
they may even insist that he has
| n owed backward, not ahead.
Meanwhile common folk can go
en- assembling evidential value to the
| testimony Of wives both for and
against husbands, just as the COM
| mon folk have done long, and per-
| haps always. For in nothing else do
common folk. in the conduct of life's
| ordinary affairs, differ so much from
courts as in the rejection and ac-
ceptance of evidence.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-04
TEST OF THE LANGUAGE LAW.

The law prohibiting the use of foreign Ian
guages in Nebraska schools is now to be tested
by the courts. Laying aside for the moment
the constitutional difficulty u the way Of Sc
curing an order to require the governor to do
the law as parts OF his executive duty, the case
is interesting for other reasons.
1t involves specifically the right of the state
to prescribe rules for the regulation and govern
ment of Schools public and private The law
itself is not aimed directly at the German
tongue, but forbids the employment of any for
eign language as medium for mparting secu-
lar instruction until the pupil has passed a GER
tain point in the common school course This
law is rendered necessary by the very fact that
is set up in the bill of the REALTORS, that children
of school age in Nebraska do not speak English.
1t was intended to destroy that condition by re-
curing that they be taught in the English Ian
guage alone until they do become familiar
with it.
The law does not interfere with religious ex-
ercises or instruction. except as such are held in
connection with the common school courses. 1t
is Interpreted to permit the use of foreign Ian
guage in homes, and to allow instruction in
homes in the language of the parents. But it
does intend to destroy the exclusive use of any
foreign language as medium of instruction in
the schools of the state
That it would be attacked in court was ex-
pected. That the outcome will be of service
to the state is certain. 1t will determine how
far the people of Nebraska may go in setting
standards for education in the state. And, more
over, it will determine if those who come hther
from foreign lands are to become Amercanized,
or to remain for generations alien in speech if
not in thought to the life of the country.