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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

to his grave, 81 could have given that cuss
run for it. Pm getting too old now, but
| had to get in a little lick, anyway"
"You ask such embarrassing questions"
protested another, whose long-windcd de-
fence of Kascrism had been cut short by a
demand that he define his stand regarding
the murder Of Edith Cavell; "and yet you
have such kindly eyes"
He had taken the measure of Knute Mel
son quite perfectly. Kindly eyes and en-
barrassing questions. The Senator is as
kindly man as lives, and as averse TO bunk
Of any brand. He wants facts, the bottom
facts, and, if given chance, is quite likely
to get them. When he makes statement
IN the Senate no one ever thinks OF verify
ing it; it stands at a hundred per cent on
the spot. And when some man comes before
him with carefully rehearscd sophistry, he
is more than likely to depart crestfalen.
The Senator never has aimed to shine.
Probably he has never delivered an Grafton
in his life, though he has taken the bloom
OIL many with his embarrassing questions
de occasionally makes "A speech, hut it ia
rather spoken synopsis of the available
information on the subject at issue than an
oration~-and it Is puncture proof
Work he also loves, and he is always to
be found where work Ia going on. He sell
dom listens TO the Illuminating ON the Sem
ate floor, but can always be found in some
committee or other, patiently enduring the
drcary toll OF dragging facts from unwilI-
ing or prejudiced witnesses, or the even
more drcary work Of whipping some meas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
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now divided into two departments. lie WAS
also the author Of the bill that made Okla
homa state. He-having been d soldier at
eighteen-fought to get the cighteeu-year
age limit into the draft law In the coming
Senate, when the Republican party again
comes to power, he viii be one OF the Big
Eight the chairmen of the important com
mittees. lie will have the choice Of three
Judiciary, Commerce and the all-powerful
Rules Committee The betting is that he
will take Commerce. 1t deals with facts far
more than with theories, and he is at home
there.
This is the Oldest man in the United
States Senate, the man, except for Senator
Lodge, with the longest service. He is the
man who brought out that Boston persons
remark about what foreigners think about
Americans. And the joke of it is that the
Boston person would probably not consider
knute Nelson an American at all! He, hm-
self, once told the Senats that he did not
care to Investigate his family tree, lest NO
find pirates hanging in itNorse pirates.
He could never be President under our Con-
stitution.
Knute Nelson, aged six years. came 10
America some three hundred years after the
non-chewing New Englander's ancestors
landed. There were good many such flax
en-haired Morse youngsters coming in those
DAYS and in the years that followed. His
Americansm is not inherited but sequlrcd'
and he has made ii utterly like himself
strong, aggressive sturdy, thing of facts
and deeds and not of language.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
tor Nelson, the Grand Old Man of Congress, at Il

way or other-as a member of the legisIa-
lures. first of Wisconsin and then of Mime
sofa, as public prosecutor, as member Of
Congress, and finally as Senator. To day
he is the oldest man in the Senate--this
Sunday is his seventysixth birthday-and
the nearest to him in age, though there are
many who look and act older, is Senator
Warren, the only other Union veteran in
the Senate, and who, by q coincidence, also
won his wound and "A Congressional medal
at Port Hudson
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Oldest Man i'm
The Senate

Kff1ye SeIgon has earned the right to this.
lie MS in the American army before he be-
came an American citizen, won his stripes
as n uon-comfaissioned officer on the field Of
battle, lay all day helpless from wound
aftbs The fight st Port Hudson, La., and
spent MOTT Of the rest Of the war In Con-
federatc prlsoD.
Slnee he vent home he has been almost
continuously in the public service in some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

ure INTO shape. He has two othor lines Of
endeavor~re reading and writing letters.
He is probably the only man in the SEN
ate who personally dictates and signs the
answers to every letter that comes to him,
no matter of what kind. His mail is enor-
nous, and the requests for advice, help and
information that he gets come from Nor
way as well as from Alaska. His secretary
does not own rubber stamp with the SEN
atorial signature
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

NTRETCHED out on his back upon
- the wretched bed, and with
49, vague glance eying the cracks in
the ceiling, the journalist Juan
Vanez, only guest of the Salo de Poll
ticos, calculated that on that night he
began the third month of his imprison-
mept-
Nine O'Clock In the yard the
buele had blown the prolonged notes of
taps; in the corridors resounded the
monotonous regularity of the guards
pacing to and fro, and from the locked
wards filled with human flesh there is
sued rhythmic sound, similar to the
blast of far-off forge or the breathing
of a. sleeping giant. 1t seemed impos-
sible that, in that old, silent convent,
whose ruined condition was made even
more evident by the crude gaslight,
there slept thousand men.
Poor Yanez, compelled to go to bed
at 8, with a perpetual light before his
eyes and buried in a crushing silence
that induced belief in the world of
ghosts, thought what a hard time he
was having, settling his accounts with
established institutions. Cursed article!
Every line of it was going to cost him
a week of imprisonment; every word a
day.
And Yanez, recalling that on the self
same evening the opera season began
with Lohengrin, his favorite piece, could
see the boxes filled with nude shoulders
and adorable necks, amid the sparkle
of jewelry, the flash Of silk and the
airy waving of curled plumes.
Mine o'clock. BY this time
the; swan must have come on, and the
son of Parsifal must be carolling his
first notes amid the expectant hush of
the public. . A fine opera this isl"
Not bad one, indeed From the
dungeon below, as if from cave, came
the noises that attested the presence
of a brute from the mountain district,
whom they were to execute at any mo-
ment for no end of murders. There was
a scraping Of chains that sounded for
all the world like heap of nails and old
keys, and from time to time a weak
voice repeated, "Our Father who art
in Heaven. Holy Mary"
with the timid entreating expression of
a child falling asleep in its mothers
arms. INCREASINGLY repeating the same
naonetonous song, and none could make
him keep silencel According to the
opinion Of the majority, he was trying
by this method to feign insanity so as
o>7save his neck. Perhaps fourteen
months of solitary confinement in a
dungeon, expecting death at any hour,
hadz-really robbed him of what little
sanity his brute instincts possessed.
Yanez lay cursing the injustice of
soc~ty, which for few sheets of paper
scrubbed in a moment of i'll humor had
obliged him to go to sleep every night
lulled to rest by the delirium Of man
condemned to death, when he heard loud
voices and hurried steps upon the same
floor that contained his room.
:'No, no. I refuse to sleep therew
shouted quivering, piping voice. 'Do
you take me for criminal? I'm func-
tionary of Grace and Justice the. same
as you and with thirty years
Of service to my credit You just in
quire about Nicomedes: everybody
knows me; even the papers have talked
of me And after putting me up in the
Jail, do you wish to make me sleep in
a garnet that's not fit even for pris-
oners? Thank you ever so much. Is
tb&t what / was ordered to come here
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

([N -sff EN- oHHcrSLopd until came
q" to Washington, where foreigners
4 get ideas Of Americans that they
write books about" said a Boston
esfSen the other day. II ncvcr"--hc hest
lated, because this was vulgar thing he
~as going to nay, and he sought in vain for
ansN1gar' words to say it in--"I never saw
nice man chew tobacco before"
TIE ''hice man" in the case was Senator
Netyon. though probably no one but a Bos-
ton person would have chosen just that ad-
jective. But my friend WAC right about one
thing Senator Nelson IL an American, UNI
derscored, capitalized and emphasized in
every possible way. There il not in the
Senate--~sjrce RooscvcIt's death there is
probably nowberc-a man more militant, ag-
gresgiyc, thoroughgojng and vigorous In his
Ahssicanisra. II IL his religion, his hobby
and his battle cry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Anlericanisn,
OF Deeds

The biggest measure for which he has
been responsible has been the creating of
tho Department of Commerce and Labor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
FIRST Authorized Translation from the
F"S Spanish by Isaac Goldberg

tecpyrisss. 1919 New York Tribune Inc,)
This tale seems to be founded on the
personal experience Of the author, a0ho
early IN life Suffered Imprisonment for
Just such ,critings as landed the Journal
ist of the present story IN jail. That
journalists name, too, bears close re-
s6,Mblaaaco to that Of the author.-
Transluto,''s hotel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Vacation with a
PifchfOrk

But he is rather plain person, for all
that He walks to and from his home in all
wenthers, and he does not go in for art or
music-which are fashionable in Washing
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
PRESIDENT IS ABLE TO
SIT Up: CONFERS WITH
REPUBLICAN SENATORS

Washington, July 22.-President VIII
son was sufficiently recovered today
from his indisposition to resume con
ferences with republican senators ut the
White House without objection from
Rear Admiral Cary r. Grayson. his per.
sonal physician.
Admiral Grayson said the president
was in no pain, but that he still was
extremely weak.
THE president is sitting up and now
receiving a caller" said Admiral Gray
son, land he probably will he up at
least until lunch time. He was very
anxious to get to work this morning
and | thought it would do him no harm
TO see one or two people. 1t depends
upon how he feels in the middle of the
day whether he goes back to bed again
this afternoon"
The president went into conference
at 10 o'clock with Senator Edge. repub
lican, of New Jersey. and he hoped to
fill othe.' ,cnts which he was
forced to de. ''ioOe rause Of an
acute attack of in,,. Juble which
developed upon his return from week
end trip down the Potomac.
Senator Norris of Nebraska, one of
the republican senators invited to the
White House, declined the invitation,
but others whom the president expected
to see today were Senators Calder of
New York and Cummins of Iowa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
LOCAL BOY SCOUT TROOP
SECURES CERTIFICATES

Certificates of membership from ma
tional headquarters, Boy Scouts of
America, have been received by Mr.
Cisco, scoutmaster of Ardmore Troop
No. and will be ready for delivery
to the members of this organization at
a meeting at the Y. NJ. C. A. room in
Convention Hall. Friday evening, July
25, at o'clock.
The Boy Scout work in Ardmore has.
the past year. been carried on by few
faithful volunteer workers who realized
the necessity for this line of endeavor
to provide the youth of Ardmore with
and helpful occupation dur
ing their unoccupied time. Efforts now
are being made to secure the help of
a paid executive who can direct the
work and devote his entire time to it,
thus assisting the volunteers, whose
business affairs make it impossible for
them to give the work as much thought
and time as they would like to give it.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
PIONEER OKLAHOMA CHARTER,
ISSUED 20 YEARS AGO. NOW
COMING UP FOR RENEWAL

Oklahoma City, July PIT was only
80 years last April since the 'S9 rush
to Oklahoma What is probably one
of the first corporation charters ever
issued to an Oklahoma concern expires
the day after tomorrow and the secre'
tary of states offices has been requested
to renew the charter issued to the
Blackwell Milling and Elevator company.
The charter was granted for 20 years
and application was made July 21, 1883.
bv r. Warkentin, Jacob Linn and j. II.
McNair, residents of Harvey county,
Kansas. and Josiah and Frank Feltz.
residents of Kay county territory of Ok
lahoma. The company was capitalized
for $50. 900 and now seeks n renewal
of the charter and increase of its capital
to 800, 900. The original capital was
made up of 500 shares of par value of
800 each.
John II. Linn and c. w. Goss, nota-
ries of Harvey county, Kansas, and
John r. Tate, notary of Kay county,
Territory of Oklahoma. acknowledged
the signatures of the incorporators.
Each of the Acknowledgements bears
1O-cent documentary stamp. At pres
ent the revenue is paid by attaching
stamps to certificates of stock and the
newly chartered company will be
obliged to use $50 worth of revenue
stamps on its s1o0,o 900 worth of capital
shares.
The original charter application is en-
dorsed as having been filed at 3 a. m.
July "a. 1899. and the notation of filing
is signed by William NJ. Jenkins, secre.
tary.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
FORD NOW IN HA NDS
Of PERSONAL LAWYER
AND IS COIN G Fin {

Mount Clemens, Mich. July 22.-EX'
animation of Henry Ford by Attorney
Elliott G.. Stevenson, for the Chicago
Daily Tribune, defendant in Mr.. Ford's
81 100000 libel suit, was conducted to-
day and Interrogation passed into the
friendly hands of Alfred Lucking, Mr.
Ford's personal attorney.
Mr. Ford said that he was born OF
farmer parents at Dearborn. Mich, his
present home.
Ibid you tell John Reed. the maga'
zine writer, that you built S3O,oOO
house for your gatekeeper?" asked
Mr.. Lucking.
mo" smiled the manufacturer.
"There is nothing but a sort of chill
dren's playhouse, about 10 feet by
TO-"
1T was just bit of writer's i'm
agination?"
Yes"
"Mr. Reed spoke of guards about
your grounds. and counsel have worked
this into armed guards. What have
you there?"
"Only the one gatekeeper."
"Hundreds of people call on you in
a year and you talk with them?"
"Yes."
"And is that why that your mem
ory fails to retain much that they or
you said?"
Il think So"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
.ECHOLS PROPOSES PLAN
To RESTORE TELEPHONE
S SERVICE TO EFFICIENCY

Oklahoma City. July 22.-In view of
the probable early return of the tele-
phone companies systems to their own
ers, which would place them again un-
der the direct control and jurisdiction
of the state corporation commission, R.
f.. Echols, member of the commission,
that should have far-reaching effect
in the rehabilitation of satisfactory
phone service and readjustment of rates.
Among the proposals of Commissioner
Echols are:
Abolition of the station to station and
person to person, as well as the report
charge. fixing the cost of service upon
flat basis as formerly.
Compulsory payment of sufficient
compensation to employees to make pos
sible their retention and efficient serv-
ice.
Physical valuation of property in order
to determine a fair return to the owners
upon their investment.
An adjustment of rates which will
give the patron a clear basis upon which
to Judge the cost of service and will
give the owners reasonable profit upon
their business.
The bill pending in congress contem.
plates the return of the telephone COM
panies by August 1 and the owners are
expecting to find the lines in their own
hands at that time. The necessity for
the commission to have some plan of
action ready when the lines come back
to its unlimited jurisdiction is apparent
to all members of the commission.
Commissioner Echols said he had
talked the matter over only briefly with
Commissioners Walker and Russell and
that they would require more specific
detail before passing an opinion. 81 be
lieve that a wide investigation of both
sides of the service and cost question
of telephone operation should be made
as soon as possible" he said. There
is no question in my mind that the em-
ployes are underpaid and should receive
better compensation al an early date.
The owners are entitled to n fair re-
turn on the investment, the public is
entitled to satisfactory service at reas.
enable cost and the employees are en-
titled to such compensation as will re-
suit in the companies being able to re-
tain competent and satisfied organiza-
tons. i believe that such an order as
| have proposed can and will bring
about all these needed remedies"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
TULSA-SAPULPA CAR
OPERA TORS PREPARE
To ASK FOR TROOPS

Tulsa, Okla, July 22.-Unable to Sc
cure the proper police protection from
Creek or Tulsa county authorities, Ok
lahoma Union Railway officials today
prepared to call on Governor Robert
son for troops to guard their cars and
to prevent further destruction of their
property
This step was taken as the result of
mob tearing up part of the tracks at
Parthenia station last night stopping
three cars. forcibly removing the car
men and intimidating anyone who
sought to assist the carmen by shooting
at them.
Quiet prevailed today in Creek and
Tulsa counties following the demonstra-
ton at Parthenia last night.
The Oklahoma Union Railway oper-
ates the new interurban line between
Tulsa and Sapupa county seat of Creek
county about fifteen miles from this
city. The line was opened to traffic
last summer. The regular carmen have
been on strike for several weeks and
much violence has resulted. Refusal of
union recognition caused the strike.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
HOUSE Of COMMONS
PASSES THE TREATY
To- THIRD READ|N c

London, July 22.-At what was vr-
tually an all-night session, the house
of commons completed it's considera-
ton of both the German peace treaty
and the Anglo French convention. The
bill carrying approval of the German
treaty was considered in committee OF
the whole. exciting lengthy debate,
in which Premier Lloyd George took
an active part. The bill then was
placed before the house and passed
it's third reading, after motion by John
Devlin, to reject it. as protest against
the premier's attitude toward Ireland
had been defeated by 163 to 4.
Then at 3 a. m. the Anglo-French
pact was taken up and the bill approx
ing it was adopted unanimously after
short but sharp debate, in which the
argument that the treaty was not con
sistent with the spirit Of the League
of Nations failed to find any substan-
tial echo.
The German treaty passed through
all it's stages without amendment. In
concluding his speech on the treaty
Premier Lloyd George, while making
no claim of perfection for it, express
ed confidence that any defects would
be remedied by the League of Nations
Notwithstanding its imperfections, the
premier declared the treaty would
stand las a lighthouse in the deep
and q warning to nations and rulers
of nations against the peril which the
German empire shattered itself
against"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

Jet Porter, the six-year-old son of Mrs.
Sular Porter, who lives four miles east
of Orr. was accidentally shot yesterday
afternon at l o'clock. The boy was inn
mediately brought to the Hardy sani-
tarium for treatment. His condition.
although serious. is as favorable as
could be expected.
He was accompanied here by his
mother, who said of the accident: "Jet
and his cousin, J. Jackson. who is 13
years old, were playing with 20 rifle
down in the horse lot when the accident
occurred We do not know which boy
fired the shot. The ball entered the
child's neck and went down his shoul.
der blade"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
DRASTIC PROHIBITION
ENFORCEM ENT BILL IS
PASSED BY THE HOUSE

Washington, July 22.-The prohi-
bition enforcement bill. described by
members opposing it as drastic enough
to invite presidential veto, finally
passed today by the house.
The vote was taken after a motion
by Representative Igoe. democrat, Mis-
souri,, to re-commit the bill, had been
defeated .f55 to 1875. Nearly every
member of the house was in attendance
and there was SO much noise during the
roll call that Republican Leader Mon
dell was recorded as supporting the
Igoe motion. He was permitted TO
change his vote.
The vote on the passage of the bill
was 2s7 TO 100, with three members vot-
ing present"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
Bank Cashier Surrenders

Philadelphia, July 22.-Ralph T. Moy.
er. cashier of the North Pennsylvania
Bank, for whom a warrant had been is
sued, surrendered to the district attor-
ney today. The bank closed last Friday
owing more than s2,OOO,O 900 to its de.
po, tors. Meyer last night confessed to
James W. Macburney, receiver, that
there was shortage of $500, 900.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-23
HOUSE PASSES So WAGE
MINIMUM FOR GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES, 1868 TO AZ

Washington, July 22.-By vote Of
36S to AZ, the house today passed the
bill providing n minimum wage of SO for
all government employees except those
in the postal service. The wage is ex-
elusive of the wartime bonus of s240 a
year allowed employees. The measure
now goes to the senate.