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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24
Fireworks at Woodslde

Woodside Park retains all its old
attractions, and with the addition of a
number of thrilling and up to the min
ute amusements this season, has great
ly increased the list of its patrons. The
success of Rodias Concert Band, under
the leadership of Giuseppe Rodia, has
materially aided in establishing the rep
utation of Woodside with music lovers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24

At tonight's concert of the Leefson- lille
teachers certificates will be conferred upon
four pupils who have finished the course
and prizes Will be awarded for the best
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24
courtleIah Well Known Here

William Courtleigh, in Tiger Rose,
has appeared here in blue Jeans,
THE District Attorney" Northern
Lights" "Alce of Old .Vincennes," as
leading man with Charles Frohman's
Empire Stock and as lead with Maxine
Elliott in "Her Own Way
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24

performance, everybody Is agreed upon
the way in which each line ought to be
sensed, and how every scene ought TO be
projected. Then the mechanical part
Of preparation, which follows, is made
much easier"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24

The Catholic Choral Society. composed of
about 200 voices. and under the leadership
important concerts of the season on Mon
day evening next In the ballroom of the
specially Of a capella singing, and has done
Philadelphia music a, valuable service by
compositions. The program on Monday will
he along these same lines.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24
.WhlrIwlnd Dancers Record

Layman and King, the whirlwind
dancers of "Fiddlers Three" are
Frisco folk who came East to appear in
"Flora Bella" and later in Princess
Pat" in both of which they made sensa
tional records.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24

With two new trunks. in addition to
the three she took with her. Madge Ken =
nedy has returned from New York. The
contents of the trunksRre no secret, for
the Goldwyn star w aeast with the
avowed intention of iging in a per
feet orgy of clothes .uying. She will
be featured IN Daughter of Mine" at
the Great Northern on Monday and
Tuesday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-24

DUT Mr.. Scotti said more about opera
ID in America. He paid high tribute
to the advancement of musical knowl-
edge and appreciation in this country
during the years in which he has been
singing. He said:
"It has been my privilege to de-
vote number of the best years of my
life to singing Italian opera in this
wonderful country and one cannot help
noticing, first of all, the almost inde-
scribable advance that America has
made along all lines. 1t is so mar
velous that those who reside continu-
ously in this country do not stop to con
slider it. Musicians of Europe who
have never visited America can form
no conception of it, and when they
have once had an opportunity to OBJ
serve musical conditions in America,
! tile great opera houses. the music. the
schools, together with the extracgdi- I
nAry. cssfs ek Hotld famous opera stars.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-13
OWNERSHIP OF YOUR OWN HOME IS
ASSURANCE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP

While ii is probable that conditions
will be unsettled for some time in the
country at large, it is true that there
will be prosperity in spots. and one
factor to make PendIeton one of these
si,ots will come from the building in
dHstries and trades. This is the drift
of conservative opinion o. the coun-
try, and is a movement that is advo-
Gated nationwide by the federal gov
ernment.
The "own your own home" move
ment means building of good citizen
ship in the community. 1t means the
stability of the town and tends for the
uplift in social relations. A fireside
that is ones own is an anchor to the
family tie, which above all, stimulates
TO harmony in the home 4 homeless
people are more prone to unrest and
disorder. Pendleton has already en-
tered upon a constructive program in
this direction and as the "own your
own home" movement grows so win
the general Improvement of the cit
izenship become an accomplished
fact
The vision of cheerful and whole
some surrounding seems TO inspire
the human mind to nobler thought
and purpose. The bright and happy
home is one of the greatest aids in
rearing strong and virtuo,.- and am
hitious boys and girls; and our chill
dren are the hope of the race. Do
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-13
G. p. Miller Gets contract.

The plumbing work in the new All
fred j. Smith home to be built on
riverside Drive has been secured by
c. F. Miller. This is one of the new
modern homes to be built in Pendleton
this season. Mir. miller Is now put
ting the finishing touches on the
plumbing at the Miit Whitmore home
on West Webb street.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-13

mestic infelicity and juvenile delin-
quency are not confined to the tenant
class, but they are not so frequent in
the permanent homes. In the social
order the home is great conserva-
tive force.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-13

Plumbing Contract Goes TO Phelps.
J. l.. Hor has awarded the plumb
ing contract to ID. ID. Phelps for the
new home he is building on South
Main street.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
NEW LUMBER YARD
OPENS FOR BUSINESS

Cornwell x Glowing are now own
ers OF lumber yard at Caddo and
Third streets northeast, formerly
occupied by Mandenberg & Kimble.
Glenn Cornwcll is the manager
OF the new concern and comes 80
Ardmore with - year, experience
in the lumber business. Mr.. Corn
well originally came from Faye,te-
vile, Ark, although he has had oX-
perience in the lumber business IN
various sections of the country.
The new company will carry full
line OF lumber, paints and building
materials and is in 4 position to
render every service to the general
public. Mr.. Cornwell is a member
OF a iirm that owns several wards
throughout the country,
w. G.. Hanks is the yard foreman
ior the new concern and came to
Ardmore with Mr.. Cornwell having
been connected with him for the
last y years.
This yard is one OF six yards own
cd by the same company and the
company also owns its own mills
at Talahina.
S. l.. Chowning is the other mem-
Der OF the new firm and is a banker
OF Talahina, and is not actively IN
tcrcsted in the management. Mr..
Chowning was formerly cashier in
a Madill bank and still has broth
or in that city.
The yard now has a good stock
on hand and another large shipment
is on the road so that in a matter
OF a short time the yard will be one
OF the best equipped, if not the larg-
est yard in Ardmore.
With the experience OF Mr.,
Cornwell, combined with the cN-
perence and the capital behind him
it seems an assured fact that the
new lumber yard will be a success.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
PASSPORTS TO NEGROES
FOR PARIS PAN-AFRICAN
CONGRESS ARE REFUSED

Washington, Feb. Passports
for negroes desiring to attend
pan-African congress at Paris have
been refused by the state deparrN
ment, which announced today that
the French government does nor
consider the present 4 favorable
time to hold such a conference. Inc
department issued the following
statement:
The state department has been
approached by various colored
delegations with view to sending
representatives to Paris to particl-
pate in a pan-Airican composed OF
colored people from different parts
of the world. The department has
been in touch with the French
government ON the subject and IS
now in a position to state that the
French government has not been
approached, but does not consider
this a favorable time to hold such
a conference.
In the circumstances, the de
partment will be unable to grant
passports to persons desiring to
proceed to Paris for the purpose OF
attending such a congress-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
GORE AMENDMENT TO
WAR REVENUE BILL
HELPS OKLAHOMA OIL

Washington. Feb. 1.-The oil,
gas and mining interests OF the
southwest have won a victory in the
adoption of Senator Cores amend
ment to the war revenue bill by the
conference committee that has
about completed the measure to be
reported to congress. The most i'm
portant to the oil people was Sena-
tor Cores amendment providing
that the tax on profits arising from
the sale OF oil and gas properties
when sold by the discoverer shall
not exceed ? per cent OF the selling
price. In the opinion OF Senator
Gore the existing tax and the tax
proposal by the house bill on such
profits was either confiScatory OF
prohibitory.
Only three transactions OF any
consequence took place in Okla
homa last year, said Senator Gore
in explaining the amendments. This
will stimulate not only sales. but
promote development generally and
bring much more revenue to the
government. The amendment also
relieves from excess burdens those
who sell their properties.
Under the existing law, the SEN
ator explained, one Oklahoma op-
orator who could have sold for
q QO0 OOO v.OrIJ L,,o L,i O.. ,.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN
TO IMPROVE THE EXPRESS
SERVICE OPENS FEB. 10

New York. Feb. IA nation
wide campaign to improve the ma
tons express service will be in
augurated on February 10 by the
American Railway Express COM
pany through the $4,000 men and
women employed in the express
business, it wa, announced here to-
night. The purpose is to interest
the shippers and the people gener-
ally in this government organiza-
tons plan to raise the standards OF
packing, wrapping and marking
express shipments with a view to
minimizing the waste OF time, effort
and money that result from pack
ages being lost or damaged through
lax methods OF preparing them for
sending forward.
While shippers and the public are
being educated to pack, wrap and
mark shipments properly the
American Railway Express COM
pany will campaign among its own
employees, instructing them to avoid
rough handling, mis-routing and
other devations from correct eN-
press methods in offices and termi-
mails, and this closer supervision is
expected to improve internal oper-
ating conditions. On February II
every agent at all important points
will address employees, and these
addresses will be made on each
Tuesday OF the campaign. Better
service campaign committees will
be organized and four minute
speeches" will be made to drivers,
platform men, Office and claim
bureau clerks, car messengers and
other employees. Start express
shipments right texts will be
placed on posters to be placed on
express wagons and on window
placardS.
Between July | and November
80, 1918, mo mark bureaus OF the
company received l27,S5o shipments
which the company had been unable
to deliver because all means OF
Identification OF either shippers or
conSignees had been lost, and part
OF the campaign will be to eradicate
this mo mark" evil and induce
shippers to place Identification
marks on shipments in addition to
the address tags. Use OF inferior
quality OF twine and paper will be
discouraged The cooperation
especially OF business executives
and managers OF large concerns
will be invited.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02

poses farm instead OF a mere home otherwise a
dormitory for the imprisonment and punishment OF
culprits The farm would have no dormitory but
would have cottages placed here and there, so that
the girls could be classified according to their char
acter and their correctional needs and could live
like human beings instead OF like beasts. The cot
tage plan has been adopted in many states for hos
pitas for the insane. Our hospital at Norman is an
approach to the cottage plan, and will be nearly
an arrival ii appropriations made and sought ap-
piled with intelligence.
With farm home created on the cottage plan the
girls would have a chance Tor betterment. They
would work in the fields gardens and respective cot
tages, with fresh air, sunshine exercise and human
kindness as medicines 1arshness has no place in
corrective agencies, A pinch of human kindness is
worth great deal more than pound OF human
cussedncss in any circumstance and this is true par
ticuary when the cure is being applied to young
girls
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
THOMAS HAS THE IDEA

CURELY it is time ior Oklahoma to rise out OF the
y rut OF "insttutionaIsm wherein the unhappy
past has ioundered for ages without getting
anywhere in particular. Just why home for way
ward girls such as the one now under investigation
should have been built as it was built is beyond the
comprehension OF any enlightened mind. The world
is getting away from the prison-pen idea in public
correctional institutions. 1t is learning that impris
onment in itself is harmful, and that unless restraint
works toward the correction Of the evil TO be cor
rected, that evil will increase instead OF diminishing
The Russell Home for Girls appears to have enhanced
and quckened the evils which, presumably, it was IN
tended to
State Senator Thomas who lives at Medicine Park
a beautiful and inspiring outdoor place, evidently has
imbbed ozonic inspiration from his place OF residence
Tor he has forward with plan ior a state home
for wayward girls which smacks OF common sense
welded to a high humaneness Senator Thomas pro-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
From The Bellman
Minneapolis, MINI.

right to force its methods on a ma
ton which prefers different Sys-
tenn, Thi, was exactly the argu-
mcnt used bN the apostles OF Ger
man kultur; the barbarouS French
and Belgians, they said will be much
better oil if governed according TO
Gcujonic principles.
The United States government !,
unquestionably more efficient than
that ot Mexico, but it is by no means
certain that it would Just now suit
the Mexican people better. At any
rate, it j., entirely evident that Mex
leo does not want or intend, ii 1t
can help it, to be governed from out
side. there has at no time been
any large popular movement favor
ing intervention. The ciamor mas
come almost without exception
from foreigners who, after period
of unchecked exploitation, have
been horriiied by the tendency OF
reserve Mexico as much as possible
Tor the use OF the MeXicanS them
selves. As these men have repre-
sented the chief commercial ties be-
tween the southern republic add
the northern, and have linked it with
Europe as WELL it is not strange that
their voices have been audible out OF
all proportion to the justice of their
demands.
The opponents Of the present ad-
miniStration are by no means going
to let the Mexican problem alone,
and they are certain to find Just
enough material OF the kind they
seek to maintain a steady fire OF
criticism Allied with them is that
exceedingly large element which,
hali-unconSciously feels that, since
the army exists, it is rather pity
not to use it. In answer to all such
arguments it is enough to ask what
position the United States would be
in IT, at the same time that it sup
ported the claim OF the people OF
AlSacc and Lorraine TO determine
under what government they chose
henccforth to live. it should deib-
erateIy use its own overpowering
military force to deny the same right
to the people OF Mexico.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
AND IN INDIANA THEY
THINK THIS is NEWS !!

indianapolis, Feb. IA man
stepped from the union station here
carrying a market basket and a suit
case. The police began to question
him about a mysterious bulge III
each.
I'm hard working, religious
man from Dayton, Ohio he said.
He protested it was against his
principles to have Intoxicating
liquor. Just to prove his assertion
he raised the covering OF the baskc,'
and displayed a much-worn bible,
saying he priced it more than ali
the whisky in the country The Oh
iicers were not satisfied. They de-
manded that the suit case be open
ed.
1t was found to contain two one
half pint bottles OF gin and thirty
one hall pint bottles OF whisky.
And it was squirrel whisky, too.
One drink OF it would make your
hair curl sighed a policeman. The
man was charged with operating 4
blind tiger"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
ENGLISH WOMEN WILL
HANG ON TO WAR-WON
INDEPENDENCE-YES!

London. Feb. 1.-(Correspond-
ence of the Associated Press.)-ln-
dependence won by women during
the war is moi going to be relin-
quished in a hurry, say the news
papers in commenting on the man
ner which thousands OF London
women, lining the streets during the
reception TO Field Marshal Sir
Douglas Haig, commander OF the
British armies in France, cheered
him to the echo.
"They were vitally changed from
the women who used to be carefully
escorted to pre-war pageants in the
London streets" observes one pa
per. at was evident these women
had learned the right to cheer Gen
teel fluttering of scrappy handker-
chiefs is no longer good enough for
the women who have worked and
waited through the grey days OF sor-
ro when war heroes come home.
The crowds needed no urging to
make way for women in uniform.
They soon found line places, and
were among the most insistent in
calling for Field Marshal Haig
while the official party was lunching
in Buckingham palace with the king.
High and shrill rang their voices,
"We want Haig, we want Haig,"
and when that failed to bring the
commander OF the British armies in
France to the balcony, they led the
refrain "Haig, Haig, Haig."
As this did not secure the de
sired result, they finally gave it up
and led the great crowd in singing
Rule Britannia. They were here,
there, everywhere, and we're as much
the spirit OF the occasion as we're the
soldiers, Of whom great numbers
turned out to welcome their chief.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
NAT GOODWIN, JOY-GIVER

IT HOUSANDS OF persons know the late Nat Good
| win only as an actor who had five wives, one
at time, and was ready to acquire the sixth
when he called to that bourne where, according
to popular notion, there is neither marriage nor Civ
ing in marriage. Thousands of Others know Nat
Goodwin actor who gave ungrudgingly and
abundantly of his joy of life the multitudeS
who attended his plays
Nat Goodwin was primarily joy-givcr The COM
pounded word should be engraved upon his tomb
stone as his most fitting cpitaph For more than forty
years he went about through the American states and
through several other lands where English is under
stood, giving JOY to the great common mass Of hui
manity. He artist born and an artist sell
bred, shining exception in the murky midst OF q
world of pretendcrs. Goodwin got by because he
had within him the elements of actor-ar and applied
them with most intelligent appreciation OF his oppor-
tunitcs. He was accepted because the play-going
world found him suited TO, its needs
Nat Goodwin was the immortal youth When he
played in "When We Were Twenty One" a score OF
years ago he was forty or past but he looked like
tWcntyone and acted the part. About the same time
he was playing Nathan Hale and Nathan was
youth of twenty and Nat likewise was but twenty
Goodwin grew up but he never outgrcw his
youth. HiX siNty-odd years did not count in FULL not
by any means. When he passed on the other day he
young at heart, and the immortal youth
OF the American stage he will be remembered long
and lovingly.
The work OF a stage-artist is -Wracking Some
actors become irritable as the great artist Richard
Mansfield was. Others, occasionally, take to mar
cotic stimulants to buoy them up. We have in mind
incident in the career OF Nat Goodwin. About
twenty years ago, the stage of Brooklyn theacr
he appeared before the curtain and made apology
for having failed to keep his engagement the night
before. lie had drank too freely. In words OF un-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02

acute reaction. and ncriod NJ in.
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Huerta' by continuing to the best
OF his ability the Diaz program,
would merely have DELAYED and in
creased fine volume NJ Tho rcvoIu-
tion. Mexico todav has n Govern
mcnt which Is admittedly in so,ro
sort representative. # II is mot ad-
ministcrina its Affairs narticn,ar,v
well If /, at least doino 90 oitcr tbc
fashion which il has cLosc, Niore-
over such o,.;de,cc ~ loos ,o, ,,a,,
iiestjv bcar tbe s,sn,n Of b,,,;nc in, '''o Lccn
created ior sncc;af nrrnosos ;rd;-
CAFES that rond;t;ons IN lToy;,o ,r.
slovly Lmt doiiniteI,. ;,n,roy;nr
A. for thc narcnn;,i ,r,iIs ~ tho.o
,ybo claim tb,t tbc;r nrnnor,,' L,g
hccn scomcstr,tod a,d ,h.t ,ho;.
business ;ntcrosts f., Iroy;ro La,c |
co,l,nscd Il vo'l ,o ,.n,onior ,b,t
n,cv ,.bo ,,,Lar.,i. NV" ','N','"o ",'oia:.
forcion COUNT, ~ ,bo cy,,r,o ,f ;+s
;nb,L;t,n4s 49,, ,ia,,;,,a ,', n.;,L i;r,
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to ,ho n,t;o,, anJ - noonio ba, Loon.
,cconnr;sLod ,Lro,oh 1,,t.;Jo 0,t i't, DO,, san
;,,l and effort. Lnt Tho n,;or;,,. Is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02
:. MEXICO AND MILITARISM-

1t was to be expected that, with
the great war over, the newspapers
should revive the Mexican bugbear.
In some mysterious way the Car
rama government, which i'm lol6
was branded by the whole invading
army OF special correspondents, and
the autocrats of the swivel chair at
home, as utterly incompetent and
untrustworthy, has managed to sur
vive for two years without the
Slightest need for armed iuterveu-
ton. Conditions in Mexico appear
on the whole TO have materially i'm
proved; and on the occasion OF the
famous German effort to provoke
trouble in that quarter the LOYALTY.
or the common sense, of the Car
rama administration was strikingIy
demonstrated. None the less. the
possession OF a large army seems to
many people the best excuse for
using it, and the government is once
more being urged to Intervene i'm
Mexico.
Nothing could more clearly dem
ontrate the danger of having a pow
erful military force ready for busi-
ness. Many OF the arguments put
forward have been unblushnglv
frank-the United States is now in
an excellent position for making
war; it has a great many soldiers
trained for fighting they never saw:
why not give them a chance at the
expense OF the unfortunate southern
republic? The government has, OF
course, proved by its course three
years ago that it will not yield in
the slightest degree to pressure of
this sort; but the renewal of the
Mexican controversy shows how lit
lie the import of the great war has
been comprehendcd in certain quar-
ters.
Unquestionably, conditions in
Mexico are by no means ideal. The
past history OF the unhappy republic
would guarantee THAT. The long
years of the Diaz regime, with their
appearance of prosperity as the re-
suit Of violent and constant repres-
sion, were bound to produce an
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-02

ion. Mr.. Baum went abroad sew
eral months ago in y. NJ. c. A. SER
vice. He is now in Nice, France,
in the department to which the SOL
ditrs from the fighting zone have
been sent ior rest periods.
Amendments to the workmens
compensation law, that may split
the difference between the present
statute and what organized labor
proposed in bills introduced in both
houses, will be combined in a sub
stitute bill to be written by a joint
subcommittee, and reported to a
meeting OF the house and senate
committees on commerce and la
Dor.
Governor Robertson has been adj
vised OF the resignation OF Z. l..
Sheldon OF Edmond, a commits
sioner of Oklahoma county. The
letter OF resignation, which is to
become effective at once, does not
cite a reason for Sheldon's retire
ment.