Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1919-03-07
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Grove Sun: Bad roads, roads that
we're impassabie, have done more to
demoralIZe business and the generai
welfare OF Oklahoma. than anything
you can call TO mind. Give us fifty
million dollars worth of good roads
in Oklahoma and We viii climb out
OF the rut.
Atoka Indian Citizen: The mos.
important piece OF legislation pend
ing, according to Governor Robert
son, is a measure that seems TO have
been entirely overlooked as to let
ting people of the state know about
II. 1he governor goes so far in his
advocacy of the Pure Seed Law as
to say that he believes it to be quite
the most important enactment of
the present session. The Pure Seed
Law Is a drastic measure against In
PRODUCTION into the state OF anything
but pure seeds. 1t was opposed by
seed houses only.
Okemah Ledger: The provost mar
shal general is about to publish a
complete list of all draft deserters
in the United States, according to a
war department announcement, to
aid police officers in experimenting
these men and sending them to
camps. II is stated that, to avoid
arrest and removal to camp under
arrest, men charged with draft de-
sertion, should surrender voluntar-
lily at the nearest post or station.
Cordell Beacon: Ia not the clear
lesson which Woodrow Wilson, as
an American historian, has had to
present to the European statesmen.
that the critical period Of American
history proves that the world must
create a strong central government
IL its undeveloped nations are to
have an opportunity to develop and
progress, If democracy is to triumph
over militarism and IL civilization is
to be protected from another great
breakdown? A minimum OF inter-
national machinery must be estab-
lished and beginning on interna-
tiOnal law must be made. The League
of Nations must come first. The
application of principle to specific
cases will then follow safely and
| logically.
Noming News: The trouble de-
partment of the Democratic party in
Oklahoma was enlarged last week
by the admission of a large number
of feminist politicians to the party
councils. Some OF the scraps in
Democratic conventions have here
toforc been considered first-class
rows. but in the light of the next
roundup they will probably appear
infant class charades.
Altus TimcsDemocrat: Have YOU
noticed that the young soldier inst
home from the army never sits down
IL he can help it? He argues with
you towering up above you in a po-
sition of vantage or he tells his ad-
ventures while striding up and down
the room. It will be ruinous to the
chair manufacturers II this keeps on.
But we now understand for the first
time why 1t is called standing
army"
Ada News: In u recent verdict
rendered by n federal district cour.
In Texas and sustained by the court
OF appeals becomes by the court Of
"pPSoio oVSoHleS an eStuDllSnpQ DrGc-
edent, 1t will be Jolt in pleading
self defense in murder cases. In this
case the defendant killed a man who
was coming at him with knife. The
court held that he should have run
instead of shooting his assailant and
ne was given sentence of> fifteen
years.
Ada News: No matter what the
terms OF the final peace treaty ar,
no one will be altogether satisfied
1t Is not in the bounds of human M.
ture for such a desirable state of af
rairs to exist. However, world dem.
ocracy will have made a long stride
forward and the oppressed national
lties given an opportunity to prove
what they can do in the way of self
government. Above all the Huns
VIII be taught that their place is
not in the sun. as taught by VIII
helm, but only a small part of the
earth's surface which will be left
them when they have met the terms
Thar will hn