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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22
WE SUBMIT A BRIEF

TF THE NEWS STORY headed "Parole Is
L Given to Joe Proctor" on the front page OF
The Daily Oklahoman today, states the sltua
ton accurately, we arise here and now TO de-
nand that paroles be granted to the soda-Jerk-
er and the negro porter in Proctors drug
store.
Briefly stated, the situation seems to be
that Joe Proctor and his two employees, the
dispenser" at the soda fountain ana the blacK
porter in the place, were convicted jointly uh-
der the state laws for selling booze. We learn
that deputy sheriffs raided Proctors store ana
seized Large quantities of whiskey and gam
bling paraphernalia." Each OF the three de-
PENDANTS was sentenced to jail and a fine was
imposed upon each. The conviction of each
man was affirmed by the criminal court of
appeals, which held that the place operated
by Proctor as a drugstore was in reality
booze Joint where the prohibition law was
fagrantly violated
And now the governor has paroed Joe
Proctor, the chief offender, before he has
served single day in Jail. We are submitting
here and now brief for the soda-lerker ana
the porter We contend that if Joe Proctor,
the owner and operator of the establishment,
is entitled to parole, then most surely are the
two employees so entitled We may not be high
IL learned in the law, but we claim that we
have an even break with the average man as
to appreciation of standards of common sense
and common justice.
Wherefore: If the employees were guilty,
the employer must have been guilty AS
matter of fact though not of law, the employer
must have been guilty in deeper degree than
the employees. But we are proceeding upon
the law and the evidence, which appear to
have held the three men equally guilty.
Therefore: Let the governor extend equal
clemency to each of the three convicted men.
Let the governor parole the soda-ierker and
the negro porter Otherwise, what's the use to
pretend that such a thing as justice, such a
thing as common horse sense, obtains in Okla
homa?
Ladies and gentlemen of the court, our
brief is submitted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22
THE WELL-KNoWN IRONY OF FATE

TKIHEN HE WAS BORN ne was halleu "'
w the Hundred Million Dollar B D y
Throughout the land the hysterlcal newspapers
shrieked the news of the birth and the buhule
of wampum. Saffronized Sunday editors Oh
those faroff days-about nine years ago
PLAYED up the baby and his bundle to 1uIl-paee
space, gorgeousy illustrated, ,,.
Even the parents of the Hundred Mliiloh,
Dollar Baby made much over the plrlh anu
the bundle. The baby boy was regarded py
them as such a precious thing that they needs
must employ almost an army OF nurses ana
doctors and care-takers and lookers-atter ana
so forth and so on.
And so the baby grew to be boy OF hlhe
vears-grew in spite of the coddlng and the
care-taking Even though his parents had MN
trundled. when he took his airing, IN PAD
locked baby-carriage to keep kldnapperS from
getting him, the baby grew to be good-slZeo
bow Even though the poor little unfortunate
fellow never had any real fun, never got TO
play at will with other little boys and girls,
never knew the joy of wearing an old battered
straw hat and going barefoot and stubblhg ms
toe against a rock or stump-eVen deSplle an
that the boy thrved for he had plenty OF good
food. of course. and his caretakers saw that he
was comfortable except for his being pltl1ul
little prisoner of wealth, with a wall built all
around him of golden dollars, and never a win
dow nor even a peephoe in the wall through
which he could look out and see the other boys
hiking to the old swmmin' hole OF the fishin'
pond or the vacant lot where they played
three -cornered cat and mumbley-peg and leap
frog.
And so, after all those long years of re-
strant. of authority that hedged him around
like lines of pricking bayonets, this poor little
Hundred Million Dollar Baby, this boy who
missed all there was of the reality and the
romance and the richness of boyhOod-and so
the other day Vnson Walsh Mclean of Wash
ington, d. c., escaped from his guards and ran
out into the road in front of the huge gate
that had shut him in from liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness.
Then, in twinkling, a Ford flivver ran
him down and killed hin--a Ford driven by a
woman and inhabited by two other women all
three of which females, it is related in the
dispatches, disappeared after the accident.
AS to the irony of fate, what mores to be
said?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

hoped would enter into the German spir-
it and become the futlVe's surety, Ger
many, if we may accept the implication
of President Ebert's plea, has only a
sense of grievance that must foster
u desire for revenge.
The fact is that, instead of having
betrayed Germany into the hands of
its enemies, Mr.. Wilson has saved ii
from just wrath which, if it had not
been restrained by him. would have
destroyed Germany. Severe as the terms
of peace are, they are lenient compared
with what they would have been if Mr..
Wilson had rot, on every occasion, in
tervencd in its behalf. Who can doubt,
for example, that it was due only to Mr..
Wilson's opposition that Marshal F'och
did not succeed in having Germany put
back behind the Rhine? There is prob
ably not an item of the peace which
has not felt the mitigating effect of
Mr. Wilson's counsel in the peace con-
ference. Not only does Germany re-
main impenitent and arrogant, but to
those it adds the sins of ingratitude and
hypocrisy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

give the future all the guaranty it would
need. But, unhappily. the requisite
conditions have not been realized, nor
does there seem TO be any likelihood
they will be. That Germany will be-
come penitent, no one any longer hopes
Now the other hope. the hope that Ger
many would at least be sensible of hay
ing been defeated, seems in fair way
to be equally disspated. notwithstand-
ing the formal acknowledgment made
for the technical purposes of peace
making.
President Ebert says that Germany
was "hypnotized' by Mr.. Wilson into
accepting the terms of the armistice
1t imagined. or lie says it did, that Mr.
Wilson would have it let off with terms
SO much lighter than those that have
been imposed that it would not be worth
while to continue the fighting. This
is, of course, by implication, a denial
that Germany was conquered by force
of arms. II is equivalent to the asser-
tion that if Germany had known it
would have TO pay so great a price for
peace it would have and could have
continued TO fight. Germany, if We fol
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

Those who imagine that the removal of
Judge G.. B. Ames to Washington and his ac
ceptance of an important place in the depart
ment of justice will have the effect of eliminat-
ing him as a senatorial possibility are talking
before they think. Who knows but that in
Washington the former Judge may do some
things so big and so we'll that the other fel-
lows who aspire to the senatorship will look
like under nourshed schoolboys beside him?
You know you can't most always sometimes
tell about such things.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22
ARDMORE GIRL AuTHoh u
OF VERSES PuBLlshED
IN OKLAHOMA NENS-

rho oklahoma News of last SATURDAY
oditod for that day by students III the
school of journalism at the uhiNe's,s
of oklahoma. at Norman. contained ','e
following verses by Miss Frances 1'
Go,man ol Ardmore, Il graduate OF the
local high school and now sop
homore in the state university;
Small Things
Sometimes the little homely tasks seem
hard,
Those trivial duties that day aiter ua!
Steal precious moments from our ieis'
ure hours,
And call our thoughts apart from IAN
cies gay,
Ave harbor in our heart our dLscon'
tent
And cry: "Oh for one duty and but one
4 task of which to boast. called dlili'
cult,
one that will merit place within the
sum-
II we but stopped to think, then we
would know
That lparate stones compose each
palace rare,
Small stones. and thousands of them'
tier ON tier,
Until the mighty turrets cleave the air.
So little tasks and duties, when well
DONE
Rise, coral reefs in the broad sea OF
life,
Until united. one great work stands
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

Two boys and nineteen girls are grouped
in a four-column cut made from photograph
of the high school graduating class at Miami
Some of the girls are prettier than the pic
ture, too, but that is not the point. The point
is that if the two-to-nineteen ratio obtains gen
orally throughout the high school world, in an
other generation the men-folks of our beloved
country won't know beans from bugs, and the
women-folks will be so bright that they'll have
nearly all the men harnessed up and be driving
and telling them exactly where to head in
Boys, stay in high school until you earn that
little roll of muleskin bound with baby-blue
ribbon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

That extra money which you don't know
how to spend will save human lives in Armenia
and Syria if you hand it over to the Garter
county ArmenianSyrian relief fund commit
tee at the Chamber of Commerce, which in
turn will hand it over to the national commit
tee in New York, which will send it to the
starving people who need it vastly more than
you do.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22
AnOrther AububOnic Slur.

Sherman (TeXas! Courier: The Ard
more (Okla.) Ardmoreite says that Au-
dubon Club should do something 20 pro.
tect the chickens that insist on CROSSING
the street in front of automobiles. Most
of the chickens we hnow in Ardmore
ride in autos.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

Well, after all, what's the odds? Oklahoma
is going to have an 81 per cent peach crop, and
we can dispense with the 13 per cent that is
missing-if the profteers don't take advantage
Of the crop failure" canard and raise peach
prices to about two-bits for pair of Elbertas
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

And while you are doing other things and
thinking Of other things, think about the forth
coming Chautauqua in the Ardmore Conven-
ton Hall and buy season tickets for yourself
and your family. This is everybody's enter
prise.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

One might suppose that the Victory Liber
ty loan quota in Bryan county still SHES from
going over the top. inasmuch as the Durant
Daily Democrat of May 19 carries two columns
Of matter imploring people to go out and buy
V. L. notes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

Uncle Nose, our office janitor and weather
seer says he thinks it's going to rain on the
Fourth of July, because his roas in yeahs will
be needing the freshening along about that
time and the good Lord will provide Faith,
you know, removes mountains.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

If some of our oil friends would drill for
sweet potatoes on the fine yam lands south
and east of Ardmore, they'd produce more
wealth and human happiness than ever they'll
bring up through a metal pipe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

issue of $4,000 in Kosom township,
Pushmataha county, for road and bridge
building, also was approved.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

King Peter, of Serbia, one of the pa
thetic victims of the war, is now living
in a $35.amonth flat.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

homa Good Roads association, were at
the state house Tuesday. Mr.. Mahal
fey stated that Seminole county is un-
dertaking campaign to improve its
dirt roads under Il plan which will form
the foundation for future hard surfaced
roads development.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22
UNDER The IMAGINARY
STATE HOUSE DOME
By CHARLES II. ADAMS
Staff Correspondent

Attorney General Freezing VIII ue-
liver his lecture, THE Trial of Jesus
from a Lawyers Standpoint" before
the Presbyterian brotherhood Sunday,
June /.
Buck Garrett sheriff, and Bud Bal
lew deputy sheriff of Ardmore, were
state house visitors Monday.
Oklahoma has G59,7S6 children of
school age. according to compilations of
the state school land office. Tulsa coun-
ty leads in point of numbers with 26,-
375 and Oklahoma county is second,
with 1886.
Pending advice from Governor Hobby
of Texas relative to the suggestion
for an Olllahoma-Texas combined com
mittee to go to the port of deharkation
to greet the 3Gth and Goth divisions on
their return from France, more def
mite plans for the trip are held in alb
eyance by Governor Robertson. Brig
Gen. Harry w. Pentecost and the gov
ernor were in conference yesterday, but
they said no conclusion could be reach
ed until word is received from the Texas
executive.
VI. /. Cunningham. chief engineer of
jhe state highway department, is in
Washington on official business.
Senator L. p. Hill and George NJ.
Porter, an attorney, of McAlester, We're
state house visitors Monday
\. y. Leecraft state treasurer, is in
Enid on official business.
r. II. Wilson, state superintendent Of
schools, returned from an official trip
to Enid Monday
The state board of public affairs has
purchased 22O acres of additional land
adjacent to the Vinita asylum for the
insane. The land, which will be used
for farming, cost about $50 an acre.
A. A. ONTalley, an attorney Of vii
burton, and n member of the board of
control of the Wilbutton School of
Mines, was a state house visitor Tues
day
Paris Perswell, city superintendent
of schools at Onton, was a capitol cal
Ter Tuesday.
G. w. Austin. president OF the Okla
homa College for Women, at Chickasha,
transacted business at the office of the
state board of education Tuesday.
Ben la Fayotte chairman Of the state
board Of public affairs. returned Tues.
day from Durant While in Durant,
Mr.. La Fayctte approved the contract
for the remodelling of the building used
by the students army training corps,
which will be converted into a cafeteria
for students at the southeastern State
Normal school.
W. T.. Disney, state representative
from Muskogee, brother OF former
Representative Disney, of Ardmore, was
capitol caller Tuesday.
II. d. Mahaffey, secretary of the We
woka Commercial Club, who handled the
publicity in the recent fifty-million.dol-
lar good roads bonds campaign, and
Il. \. Singletary, secretary of the Okla
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

An army mule expert says that when
at hard work a mule will eat more
than a horse.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

Judge Baxter Taylor, of Atolla, mem
Der of the state industrial commission,
is in Gushing on official business.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

The attorney generals department
has approved the $4,000 Okmulgee
county school buildings bond issue. An
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

NJ. L. Cunningham. chief engineer of
jhe state highway department, is in
Washington on official business.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

Senator L. p. Hill and George NJ.
Porter, an attorney, of McAlester, were
state house visitors Monday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

\. y. Leecraft, state treasurer, is in
Enid on official business.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

K. IT. Wilson, state superintendent Of
schools, returned from an official trip
to Enid Monday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

The state board of public affairs has
purchased 900 acres of additional land
to the Vinita asylum for the
insane. The land, which will be used
FOR farming, cost about $50 an acre.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

Oklahoma has 659,7S6 children of
school age, according to compilations of
the state school land office. Tulsa coun-
ty leads in point of numbers with 26,-
375 and Oklahoma county is second,
with 25.626.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

W. +. Disney, state representative
from Muskogee, brother OF former
Representative Disney, of Ardmore, was
a capitol caller Tuesday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-22

H. d. Mahaffey, secretary Of the We
woka Commercial Club, who handled the
publicity in the recent fty-million.dol-
lar good roads bonds campaign, and
h. \. Singletary, secretary of the Okla
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-08-22
GIVES CAT PALM OF WISDOM
Writer in California Newspaper Comes
Forward With Loud Praise
Of Household Pet

1t Is often a subject for discussion
as to which is the wisest animal.
Some say 1t is the dog and some are
in favor Of the horse, while scientists
appear to think it is the elephant.
We beg to differ with all these
views. We do not even agree to the
movement in certain quarters to give
the palm for wisdom to the fox. To
our mind the wiscSt animal that lives
is the cat. And, If it goes to that, we
are willing to have 1T further known
that of all animals we like the cat
the best
\ cat is so wise that 1t succeeds in
not letting us know how wise ii really
is. If you will be friendly with cats
ana that's an easy thing To do-yOu
Will be aStOundcd at their wisdom. And
YOU could not imagine how aiIectionate
cat can also be.
There is an old yellow cat up in the
Ncrdug0 hills that we wouldn't trade
for all the dogs and horses and clc-
plants outside of Barnum'S circus.
When the last of his nine lives de
parts from the earth those mountains
will be very lonely place for us.-Los
Angeles Times.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-08-22
For Success In Rusinesa

Wealth is, after all, only what is
produced by us, either by mental or
physical labor. 1t stands to reason,
therefore, that IL a man would become
rich in this worlds goods, or in knOwl-
edge of things or men, he must work
hard and long to acquire such knowl-
edge and skill. And he will be reward
ed in proportion to his work. Despite
q lucky stroke occasionally here and
there in a mans life. I am firm be-
lever In the motto that nothing really
comes by chance to n man which Is of
much value beyond the ordinary.
Success has usually been prepared
for. striycn for. helped onward by his
own innate ability. work, or tact in
ways the exterior world often failed
to recognize. Hard work is the best
friend any man ever embraced
would say to all youthful beginners
in business that business is like the
land-thc more yOu put into ii the
more YOU will get Out. If you put
nothing IN, you will get precious little
out; if you tend II in dcSultory fash
ion, You can only expect an Indifferent
harvest, if any at Hll.--IXchanSe.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-08-22
OFFICIAL oIREcropv
Or 6reenerser County. West v,
Revised January "s!nls.

o January I, 1918. <'
Judge Circuit Courts. II s,,
prosecuting Attorney. Scot, M D.
County Commissioners-Thos
Shields. President; j. o. McCInn W.
E. w. Sydenstricker. lug and
Circuit Clerk-H. c. SkaSgs
County Clerk-Paul c. Hogs..,
Sheriff.. NJ. Miller; Denrt;a.
Mcdowell, J. w. Miller ard " y H. H.
Hunt. W. r.
surveyor2James w. Raider.
oeputy surveyor - C. Lake Whit,
As s;s,s;n I B. Miller: Deputies. ,
Office Deputy. W. Crick emil,
House OF Delagates~-J. 9. rbv, ser.
A. B. c. Bray. tnond end
State Senator's. S. f,awi,
Hill, and H. G. vincell. YAK
Superintendent of SchooIs-J
Haynes of Smoot. L. u
Justices of the Peace
Lewis6"rg District-Iy. r. 8urds,t, 49,.
Fe a1d S + NJ E Ristrict-P. H. Mcors,s
irish Corner District--H. c. Erp,r
White SulphCr District-N a 'H D.,
ner, Caldwell and r. Lee Harnas
White Sulphur 'per'
Falling Spring District-P. H. so,,,.
Williamsburg DISTRICTS. W. cy,.o
and G. w. Burr "'kesoh
Meadow Blum District-o. D. Ru,xm.,
and Renick Osborne N'nan
Blue a sulphur District. L Sawyer,
Constables-
I.ewiahllrC
Brice A. Wade. p.e and
Fort Spring District
irish Corner District
Failing Spring District-R L. Collin,
williamsburg District
Meadow Blum District-H. c. Hea,,,r
Blue Sulphur District =
White Sulphur District. E. Avros
and J. +. Forren. ''''
Overseers OF the Poor
Lewisburg District-J. NJ Cunn,,pbor.
Fort Spring District-H. L. C, oYInanam-
Irish Corner-C. B. Beckner'
Anthonys Creek District
W sn,h sulphur u,. District: e. Ayre.
Falling Spring DISTRICT. F. Bright
williamsburg Districts. L. Waiisrc
Meadow Bluff District-w. a. Anda-sor
Blue Sulphur Dlstrict-Jno. r Mont. :
so:rer!..
Arhuckic. F.. NJ. ArbucI!e. Ssnn W;
Price anu a. NJ. Tressel
Times Of Holding corr...
Circuit Court convenes or the
Third Tuesday in january. Second
Tuesday in May, Second Tuesday in
September
The County Court convenes on he Flr,,
Tuesday in each o: the months q. Jsrt,rv
February. March. April. May. June. July
! September. October. November ard De-
cember srd on the Second and Fourth
Tuesdays in August.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-08-22
Monkeys Fondness for sweets.

The Manchester Guardian tells of a
chimpanZee that died recently after
spending the eight years Of his life de-
flying all the rules laid down for the
wellbeiDg of chimpanzees.
His name was Antony, and he was
the only one Of his tribe of monkeys
who has ever managed TO stand an
English climate unmitigated by arti-
fetal heat. He came from the Congo In
1911. when he was very young and
small. At that time he weighed four
teen pounds; by last summer he was
just six times ms heavy.
He was owned by DR.. Butter Of
Cannock. During the whole period Of
his civilized life he was kept in n
brick building facing southwest and
heated. and he slept in straw with
blankets. He had an exercising
Ttaning swings and pcrches,
made earnest and often sue
IS not to break. Chocolates
poison TO ordinary chin
tere the special treats in
dietary, and he had n less
9heDstble fancy for locust beans.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-08-22
BUSINESS MANS STOMACH
SMALLER.

"My much distended stomach
is greatly reduced. Doctors wanted
to operate and tap my stomach,
but | happened to see a newspa-
Per ad of Mayr's Wonderful Rem
edy and after taking three doses
have had no more distress or bloat-
ing and am eating things l have not
dared to eat for six years. l am
confident your medicine will cure
me-" 1t is simple, harmless pre-
paralion that removes the catarrhal
mucus from the intestinal tract and
allayS' the inflammation which
causes practically ak stomach, liver
and intestinal ailments, including
appendicitis. One dose will con-
vince or money refunded. LEWIS
BURG DRUG STORE. and druggists
everywhere. 33
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-08-22
Where Is Teschen2

This is the latest hrcakfaSt-table
pI~hlcm. Although The town has fig
urcd prominently in European history
at various times for over Il century.
Lloyd George had 10 confess. when it
was mentioned ut the peace confer
cnce, that he did not know exactly
where il was situated
Nor was he alone in his lack of
knowledge. 1t is doubtful If one per-
son in fifty would be able TO give you
any information about the town.
And yet it was once the scene of a
peace conference.-the of 1879,
Nergcnncs, the foreign minister
GO, arranged the peace OF
'ereby avoiding a great Eu-
nd also, in all probable
independence of the