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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14
BUILD ROADS NOW.

1t is announced from Wash
ington that the information and
education service of the United
States department of labor, CO.
operating with such national or
ganizations as the American Au-
tomobile Association, the Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce
and the National Highway In
dustries association, is calling
the attention Of state officials to
the desirability of at once get
ting under way such state road
construction as has been APP
proved by the federal govern
ment and for which that govern
ment has set aside funds, says
the Christian Science Monitor.
The department Of labor de
clarea that by taking this course
the business Of the country will
be helped, and surplus labor will
be provided with work. In its
statement this department says
it does not deny that road ma
terials and labor costs are now
very high, but from the informa-
ton at hand these are not like
ly to be lowered for some time,
and that, in view of the forecast |
for market conditions, it would |
be imprudent longer to hold up !
road Improvement in anticipa-
tion Of lower construction costs.
To this is added:
Road building will provide
buffer employment for thou
sands Of men until they can be
absorbed by industries as the lat
ter gradually reach their peace
stride production. Road build
ing Immediately pays dividends
in increased land values. Roads
IRE an asset to every state, and
to their permanent value as pub
ic improvement is now added
heir temporary value of stimu-
ating business and protecting
tates against the possibility Of
general unemployment.
Here is both an argument and
IN appeal which should be heed
ID by every one of the states.
Delay IN beginning road con
will never be compen-
ated for hereafter in some tri-
.ial saving gained by waiting.
he waiting policy in this in
tance is the one thing that is
ikely to prove too costly; the
ne thing not wanted. The mo-
ey necessary to general high
ray construction is available.
he projects are approved. The {
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14
A STOLEN SMILE 'ER TWO
+ = T. + + + + + + j. =
Prices Get us All Up.

did you try the simple plan of
counting sheep for your insomnia ?"
"Yes, doctor, but made mess Of
it. l counted 10000 sheep, put 'em
on the train, and shipped em to mar
ket. "And when I'd got through count
ing the money / go for them at pres
ent prices it was time to get up
Farm and Home.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14
500 Reward. 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative power of Halls
CataTrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t fails
Address = 7 C5TNf-Y 4 CO. Toledo.
Ohio. Sold BY all Druggists, &c.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14
Treating 'Em Rough.

San Francisco.-Mrs. Nellie G.
Lawson married sailor and wrote
on the first page of her diary:
MAY 8, 1911.-Married."@ Subse-
quent entries, according to her peal
for divorce filed today. were as fol-
lows:
"Jan. 1. 1912.-Threw me out of the
house.
March /, 1913.-Threw me on the
bed and hit me with shoe.
July 4, 1913.-Turned over the
supper table and threatened to kill
me with a knife.
Jan. 5, 1915.-Threw me on the
floor and tore at my throat.
MAY 1, 1915.-Appeared suddenly
from a closet, grabbed my baby from
my arms and dropped it on floor"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14

SURGEONS agree that in cases of
Cuts, Burns, Bruises and Wounds,
the FIRST TREATMENT is most
important When an EFFICIENT
antiseptic is applied promptly, there
is no danger of infection and the
wound begins to heal at once. For
use on man or beast, BOROZONE is
the IDEAL ANTISEPTIC and HEAL
ING AGENT. Buy it now and be
ready for an emergency. Sold by
Wren Drug Co.-Adv. DIV
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14

season for road building is al
ready at hand, in many parts of
the country There should not
be single hour wasted in get
ting all the approved road-build-
ing projects under way.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14

1t is really astonishing the number
Of geologists that have sprouted about
town since the oil fever broke out
For example, Tom Hendrick can spot
an anticline hundred yards off
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14

AS far as we are personally CON
cerned we have no complaint to reg
lister against the weather man be-
cause he doesn't deliver the goods
every time he advertises blizzard.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14

But eventually the buffer can be
depended upon to carry his play to
the point where he blows up.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14
EXPRESS PAcKAeETTEs

Thou ne'er mayest see
The purple from thy shoulders fall
ing down;
But it is thine to live right royalty,
King of thyself, and gain a kings
renown.-Noble.
81 Simp says he notices that the
longer he goes without eating the
more hungry he gets.
Really, the big Irish republic ought
to have more heart than to declare
war against the whole league of ma
tions.
Bob Richards is back in town and
he announces that the Pure Heart &
Can't Lie club will take up unfinish-
ed business. He intimates that the
case growing out of Col Bill Dwyer's
exemption from jury service may be
taken up.
Mayor Durbin of Chickasha, hav-
ing satisfied the women who put him
in office that he proposes to enforce
the chicken ordinance, has decided
to offer himself for re-election.-Tul-I
sa World.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-14

"Curley" Reynolds figures that he
is pretty sure to be re-nominated
Tuesday if Judge Clark and Sam Dur
bin don't drag the entire ticket down
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-11-14

IDENTIFY do not wish to be grouped
with the Jews of the later wave
of immigration. This is the true
reason why certain Jews in other
communities join the church. You
generally find them all of the same
type, the type of Jew or Jewess
who looks down with disdain upon
the East-European Jew and his off
spring born and raised in this coun-
try.
In contrast with these sere and
yellow" leaves that are falling off
the Jewish tree, it is refreshing to
see the vast majority full of sap
and vigor, clinging to the sturdy
old oak. Even in such a small
Western community as Aberdeen,
S. D., where the Jews are far away
and isolated from the larger cur
rents of Jewish life that sweep thru
the larger cities, they are we'll
organized and carry on all Jewish
activities according to the best tradi-
tons of their people. May they go
from strength to strength.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-11-14
JEWS IN SMALL COMMUNI-
TIES.
TIES,

1t has been a long time since we
had such qualification while visiting
small western community as we
enjoyed during a brief visit at Aber-
deem, South Dakota, town of about
1900, with a fourishing Jewish
community of about forty families,
mostly recent arrivals. The Jewish
people of that little town are all
prosperous, and all Jewishly active.
They are organized as congrega-
ton, have synagog, religious
school, minister, Zionist society,
and young peoples organization,
to which almost all belong and con-
tribute. There are two exceptions,
or exceptional families, belonging to
a somewhat earlier stratum of the
community, of Germanic CO stock,
and they, gof course, are Christian
Scientists, for no other reason, APP
parently, than that they do not wish
to be Jews any longer. They evil
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-11-14
FAITH AND OPTIMISM.

We Jews have given the world
some profound thinkers and philos-
ophers. Philo, Ibn Gebirol, Main
monides, Crescas, Spinoza, Mendels-
sohn, Bergson are bright stars in
the armament of philosophic specu-
lation; and they are all our own,
bone of our bone, and flesh of our
flesh. And yet we Jews have had no
philosophy of our own. Jewish Gull
ture has been rich in all elements ex-
cept philosophy, in which the culture
of the. ancient Greeks and Hindus
excelled. The Jewish mind was not
given to ffne-spun speculations. 1t
often studied the PHILOSOPHERS of
other nations, assimilated them, and
tried to reconcile them with its own
religious world conception and its
own doctrines. But the Jew pre-
ferred his rock-based faith to the
quicksands, depths, and shadows Of
metaphysical subtleties.
There is something about the
Jewish faith that precludes all spec
ulation. q The first chapter of his
religious textbooks, the Bible, starts
out with the idea that the Cod
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-11-14
LEARNED RUBBISH.

In an essay on "rhe Intellectual
Pre-eminence of Jews in Modern
Europe" Mr.. Thorsten Veblen
makes the following comments on
Zionism and it's probable outcome:
Gas bearing on the Zionist enter
prise in isolation and nationality,
this fable appears to teach a two
fold moral: If the adventure is car
ried to that consummate outcome
which seems to be aimed at, it
should apparently be due to be
crowned with large national COM
placency, and possibly profound
and self-suffcient content on the
part of the Chosen People domiciled
once more in the Chosen Land and
when and in so far as the Jewish
people in this way turn inward on
themselves, their prospective con-
tribution to the worlds intellectual
output should, in the light of the
historical evidence, fairly be ex-
pected to take on the complexion of
Talmudic lore, rather than that
character of free-swung skeptical
initiative which their renegades
have habitually infused into the pur-
suit of the modern sciences abroad
among the nations"
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-11-14
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

created world is good very good.
His legislation supplies him with
all the rules of conduct that tends
to make life long and blessed. They
are the result of the profound ex-
perience of the race and the in
spired wisdom of it's intellectual
leaders. And all the doctrines and
laws of the sacred book are consid-
cred God-given, the last word of
truth. Given such a faith-faith in
a good divinely-created world, and
a good divinely-ordained law-and
what need is there for further philo-
sophizing?
Speculation makes dreamers,
pessimists, restless, discontinued be-
ings. The Jews optimistic faith has
made of him wise, practical man,
man of the. world, a man who can
adapt himself to all conditions and
circumstances. It has given him
fortitude and hope. That very
largely accounts for his survival,
while other peoples, greater and
mightier than his have been sub
merged and swept away by the
tides of time. That also explains the
remarkable historical phenomenon
that in less than a hundred years
since his release from his ghetto
dungeon he has advanced to the
front rank and leadership in every
sphere of achievement, not only in
industry and commerce, but in
science and statecraft, in letters and
learning. His intellectual force that
often evokes the admiration of the
world is not matter of race endow-
ment and blood, but purely the re-
suit of his three thousand years old
faith and optimism.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-11-14

An Editorial Contributor to
Jewish paper finds in this food for
thought. He evidently knows as
much of Jewish history, and under
stands Zionism as we'll as does the
author of the essay. Tallnudic lore
was not the fruit of the Jewish mind
in its own free homes, but in lands
of oppression, when bearing the gall
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

full insistence upon its utter validity
in and for itself You look al the
cover Of the magazine to assure your
self that you have not picked up a
copy OF Emerson by mistake. No; Play
boy,' it says. The trouble is that your
education has been wrong. If you had
never heard CT Emerson you would
be in no difficulty about accepting the
doctrine as new and therefore vital.
A little vitality, however. is danger
Gus thing. Turn back to the magazine,
therefore. and see whether it does not
break away from Emerson here and
there. All. we thought so. Your eye
falls upon a picture which suggests
that if the vital life must be lived with
out. surrender of It's integrity this
is not true Of its clothes, particularly
if the form which they do not adorn
does not recall the Venus de Milo.
/. you have a clue to the mystery of
being vital. 1t Is not simply that real
beauty is ugliness writ large. That is
elementary. The deeper, higher truth
is that the purest spirituality is most
truly expressed in the grossest mate
rialism. Self-determination for souls
is the vital way of saying 'self-deter-
mination for bodies But this euphe-
mism is not always adhered to. Vitality
is 40 single-track quality. In an in
spired moment it can wink one eye and
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

not to know that he imagined
modern battles to be very different
from what they are. often re-
ceived at the front amusing advice
from him.
"Cut off the ears Of those rascals
for me''
He could not endure the thought
that anything was able to stop the
thrust Of a French attack. didn't
disabuse him. What was the use?
That illusion was natural to him.
He belonged to a race which died
gayly.
try TO excuse myself. But the
guests insist and lean their elbows
on the table to listen more COM
fortably.
begin. To emphasize the beauty
of the role of anonymity and etface-
ment | explain to my grandfather
what war is as | have seen it. But
he doesn't listen. He awaits impa-
tiently the moment when | am going
to cover myself with glory. | ar
rive at my citation.
'It wasn't anything spectacular"
I say. Il replenished the battery
supply under violent enemy bonn
bardment."
For a moment my grandfather re-
mains speechless. Then he bursts
out:
"How's that, my boy? You re-
ceived blows without returning
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

them? And they gave you the
Croix dc Guerre for that? All, they
would have seen, if | had had the
patience TO await their shells, if
wouldn't have sabred dozen Of
those Prussians instead But whom
DO you take after? Whom
So he rises from his chair. He is
Incapable of enduring any longer
the presence of lead soldier Of my
type.
Certainly | didn't count on any
etfusve congratulations. But this
sort Of conclusion left ME dazed.
What had said that was so dis
agreeable to him personally?
Through the window | see him
pass into cur garden. He takes
great strides. He goes and comes.
Then gradually he calms down. He
shortens his steps and reflects.
| shall never have mean charac-
ter. 1t isn't in my blood. | decide
to admit all my offences, without yet
knowing why and how | have Of
Tended. So go to rejoin my grand
father. In the modest but dignified
manner which the victim of Judi
cial error assumes say TO him:
IF | have offended you By my
talk, swear that it was altogether
unintcntionally. | beg your pardon
from the bottom of my heart. Don't
treasure it up against me-"
His face softens with a sort of
feminine emotion. He draws me to
him and kisses me.
Little one, why should | be hard
on you? You weren't made at all
for war. Ee happy that you have
been able TO render some modest
services. 1t isn't your fault. You
are too good. Ycu are the very
image of your mother"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

bells that make only dull metallic
clicks
"If this had been written in the
eighteenth century, or in the mid-|Ic-
torian period. it would have been rldi-
culed as sentimental. Being written in
1919 and published in magazine that
has a horror of the 'anamic, II Is
OF necessity vital
"'Vitalty' is thus OF infinite variety,
but in all its forms it is true to one
principle: The more vital art is the
further it is from life. This does not
mean that vital artists are not human.
They suffer from an excess of human
qualities. Ordinary self-consciousness,
self-csteem, bumptiouness and other
admittedly human traits which are
somewhat suppressed in ordinary peo-
ple. owing to their slavish worship OF
conventionality, flourish unhindered IN a
vital personality. Vitality thus Is
what we should all be manifesting ii
we had learned nothing from our an
cestors II is straining after spon-
tanety; also daring to be other than
ones real self. Or rather, this is what
it would be if it were natural 70 be
vital But it isn't, with rare exccp-
tions. Ordinarily il means nothing
more than an excessive craving for
novelty.
Instead of turning the pages of a
Joke book or going to vaudeville one
becomes vital. That is, he draws a
picture or writes a poem that is as far
from the normal as he can make it and
then shows it as his idea of real art.
a worldtof such art would be intoler-
able even TO the artist Luckily, he
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
The CO,Uard

'Tis weH enough on a wiater's night
for lad to sit be his lone,
Bat I'm dreadm' the time lchen
Pheim's pipes sing up from
the glen below.
I must be Of and a long woy of
and there's 40 one to Did me
stay,
And she and the man of her choice
may laugh at seem a fool de-
part.
must be of nad a long time gone
before spring comes this woy,
Before the sight Of a child Of hers
would tear the strings Of me
heart.
From Harpers.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

and | survived. How was it pos
sible? When | open my eyes in the
morning | see from my window our
garden, with its leafess trees, our
well and the far-cf farm buildings.
Ny grandfather, who is prowlng
about the house, catches sight Of
me.
"He, my boy. | didn't want to
have your rehabilitation pass with
out celebration. | have invited
the Mayor, my two farmers and
the notary. We are going to have
good breakfast. What do you
think of it,"
| approved the idea.
At noon the guests arrive and
we seat ourselves at the table.
They drink in my honor. enjoy
in silence the wines and the life
about me. | am soothed by the
sound of the voices. The minutes
seem to me as delicious as draughts
of old Burgundy. l listen inatten-
lively. They discuss local improve
ments and the condition of the
roads.
Suddenly my grandfather changes
the conversation and addresses me
my boy, each one has his turn
You used to like to hear ME tel
about my martial adventures. Now
tell US about yours. Explain how
you won the Croix de Guerre."
awake with start.
knew my grandfather too vel
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
By Theodosia Garrison

By Theodosia Garrison
J MUST be of and Tong time
4 gone before the spring comes
back.
Before the last saow melis and
runs, before the FIRST bird
sings,
Before me hearts the like Of q hare
nth yelpin' hounds o" ats
track
With the old sounds and the old
sights ard the iiftin' Of ner-
fedged lciags.
I must be off and d long ray Of be-
fore the spring comes or,
Before the hedges are comm greer
the rays that / used to 90.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

roads. l felt a strange JOY within
me. The life about us was full of
color and action. The branches
swayed. A hare bounded past US. A
quail rose suddenly like stone
thrown in the air.
Time passed. was growing old.
even in youth. One day my grand
father called me to him and said:
"My boy, your studies are fin
ished. You are educated, as far as
your mind goes. But those i'm
beetles have forgotten to teach you
to run, to jump, to clear walls.
What can you do in life? | have
reflected. My boy, the military pro-
fession has its charm. With your
youthful beard you will make fine
sprig of a lieutenant'--
He smiled, seeing me a lieutenant
already.
"Grandfather," l answered, "you
know that l haven't your courage.
1t 'akes me i'll to see blood. l
h; wanted for some time to tell
you-I write verses. should like
to be an author"
He was greatly chagrined. He
suffered naively. He wept, though
there were no tears in his eyes. He
looked much older.
He stroked his massive head-the
head of true Christian warrior
and his beard shook.
well, my boy. do as you please
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

am on the retired list and no
longer give orders. There are al
ways good causes to be defended
with the pen. You have my blood.
You have a good heart. To be a
polemist is profession which will
suit you. You will hit out in the
crowd. You will be responsible for
what you write. | am going to
complete your education as Z fencer.
There will be blows to give"
"Or to receive" l thought.
For long time there was an
epidemic of unrest among the
peoples. My grandfather often
prophesied:
You will see. 1t will soon
break"
He shook his head.
War came.
My grandfather accompanied me
to the railroad station. We ar
rived there. Mothers wept. Sons
sang. Trains passed and whistled.
Mine arrived. / kissed my grand
father. Full of emotion, l was hur-
rying away. But he held me in his
arms and said to me gently:
"The old must stay behind, alas
give you my blessing. | have
only you in the world But you
have my blood. can't tell you to
be prudent"
| plunged into black chaos and
rcturned IN life The war endad
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Concerning
Thackeray
..THE Philadelphia Pubic Ledger

.vTHE Philadelphia Public Ledger
relates the following lutte ID
cident concerning Thackcray:
A young Philadelphia booAseIls'
Willis =. Hazard, decided upon
brash, bold venture. lie engaees
Thackeray to deliver four lectures >
April in Musical Fund Hall. oferiss
him the princeIy stipend of $50
lecture.
Three of the lectures were 30
new; Philadelphia thought them ba
in the seasor and almost nobs0
came.
"Thaekeray took the money. but y
sisted on retu ming quarter Of j; =
the luckless manager" =.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

height Of aesthetic emotion through
your paint medium. You have proven
by your work hanging here that
Modern Art has found a deeper
strain. has reached a higher form.
Your things are beautiful because
they speak like a great bell that
hangs over the world, while those in
the other rooms sound like cracked
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

recite a bit OF verse about The Very
Wise Virgins In another mood 1t
sreaks with the authority Of the critic,
the Critic Who Knows. The criticism
ostensibly relates to a painting, but if
il were not vital would be thought to
be directed to the painter:
"'You have wept and have wept
with you. You have reached the