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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-11-01

the full distance there is the meas
urement known as the absolute tom
mile, and for the load that is dropped
piecemeal in the trucks journey there
is the commercial ton-mtle.
The absolute ton mile is ton car
ried one mile IL a truck carries -FOUR
tons one mile the ton mileage is four,
or IL one ton goes four miles the ton
mileage is four Four tons carried
four miles makes sixteen ton miles.
This method of computation is so
simple that the truck owner can read
ily work out his ton-mileage on
trucks that leave the whole load at
the end of the trip.
PM for the trucks that make par
hal deliveries the commercial ton
mile has been adopted as the unit of
measurement. As most trucks oper-
ate under this plan this is the unit
which will be employed in most cases.
In order to obviate the necessity of
weighing the goods taken OF al each
delivery a simple rule OF averages has
been devised which gives the ton
miles with sufficient exactness for
the purposes required.
Take Average Tons.
The first Step in arriving at the
ton-miles on such a trip is to COM
pute the average tons. This is found
BY dividing the number of tons hauled
BY the number of deliveries. If a
truck carrying four tons made Ave
deliveries, the average tons for the
trip would be four-ifths. This re-
suit multi piled by the total mileage
for the trip gives the ton miles for
the trip. For instance, il the truck in
question travelled twenty miles. the
ton-miles would be twenty times four
ffths, or sixteen.
There are some truck operators
whose cargoes are entirely of one
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-11-01
NATIONAL ROADS
NEEDED IN WEST

Concentration of Government
funds on roads OF national import
ance, and adequate provisions for
their maintenance, is q development
which is soreIy needed in the West
ern country, according to T. J. Ehr-
hart. State highway commissioner Of
Colorado.
So acute has the situation become
under the operation OF the present
Federal aid act that 1t is Mr.. Ehr-
hart's opinion that a continuance OF
the present policy will find Colorado
State highways rapidly decorating
from enforced neglect. with here and
there detached stretches Of well i'm
proved roads, which will exaggerate
the condition OF the many miles Of
, highways poorly maintained.
The Federal aid program in 1915
20 in Colorado, includes III projects"
said Mr.. Ehrhart. These have a total
mileage of $50, and total cost esti-
mates of $5,425, 900, so per cent of
which will be required from state
funds. which will absorb every avail
able dollar. There are approximately
5000 miles of State highways, and de
Quoting the mileage to be impYove ed
I'LL miles of State roads without
financial provision for construction or
proper maintenance.
Tourist TraAse.
Growing tourist or truck traffic is
hammering away at our highways.
making it absolutely necessary that
we have constant and continuous
maintenance. The situation is fast
becoming an impossible one and IL
cannot nnd relief in an increase in
Federal Aid Funds, unless there is a
distinct revision in Federal policy, and
the States be permitted to construct
longer sections of road not used for
the carriage of mails.
"A study of the situation has con-
WINGED me that the first step which
should be taken is the construction of
a national highway system by the Ma
tional Government. The Government
should then protect this system by
maintaining IL. This would release
our State funds and permit US to un-
dertake construction and maintenance
of State highways. II the Govern.
ment should decide to give us aid in
this, too, so much the better. but some
relief must be granted from the pres
ent law. The Western country ID too
sparsely settled and valuations too
low to permit of continued increase
In funds for construction only.
Through Reads Needed.
The great need Of the West today
is through roads which will withstand
q heavy trafhce. We can't raise funds
for them by taking the visitors who
use them most, because to do so would
be to check travel and travel is one
of the most important assets which
the West has. But national expendi.
ture on main-rosds would equalize the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-11-01
RIGHT KIND OF TRUCK
CUTS TRANSPORT COST

"It will more than pay every con-
Germ employing motor trucks to make
doubly sure that it's truck equipment
fits local transportation problems and
is fully equal TO meet all transporta-
tion demands" says w. l.. Kissel
secretary and treasurer of the Kissel
Motor Car Company.
when he has the right sized and
kind of motor trucks, the owner is
securing the very lowest cost per ton
mile for delivering or hauling his
goods or materials. But when he has
the wrong kind OF truck equipment
his cost of transporting goods or ma
terial is greater and the difference
between this overcast and what he
would pay IL his equipment fitted his
demands, represents an unnecessary
loss"
LOCK YOUR SPARE TIRES
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-11-01

demand for car heaters from open
car owners.
Viewed from this angle, the car
heater will do much toward solving
the winter storage problem for manu-
facturer and dealer. This season
there is big shortage in closed car
production, and il Is serious mat
ter for dealers who have an abund-
ance Of closed car prospects and an
alarming scarcity of closed cars TO
sell.
Worthy Substitutes.
Dealers unable TO take care of their
closed car prospects in many cases
may be able to induce the prospect to
accept a touring car equipped with
well fitting curtains and a heater as
a worthy substitute to meet the situa-
ton.
There is also vast number of mo-
tor car buyers who cannot afford to
pay the additional price OF a closed
car. and who require all-year use of
their car. In this case. also. car heat
ers have an unusually strong appeal.
II seems but a logical step to carry
the car heater to the truck field.
Drivers OF delivery cars and trucks
are obliged to be out in all kinds of
weather, and it is only natural that
their personal comfort should affect
their efficiency. One manufacturer
Of motor trucks is now equipping his
cab bodies with well fitting side cur
tains and installs as standard equip
ment a compact and efficient heater
using the exhaust gas from the mo-
tor
From a variety OF viewpoints, IL ap-
pears that car heaters are destined
to become a decided factor in the au-
tomobile field and their universal use
Is but a matter Of a short time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-11-01

article-such as barrels, cases. bum
dies or kegs-and for these the ton
mile unit would not be so seryiceable
as a single unit of the goods they
carry. For these the same measure
OF haulage may be effected by sub
shutting for the ton the unit best
suited to measure their delivery sys-
tenn
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-11-01
I FIND TRUCKS VALUE BY TON MILEAGE =

burden and at the same time would
open up the Western country with
surprising rapidly.
There are some, OF course, who
would rather see State highway de-
partments in full charge. / disagree
with this viewpoint The need 10
roads; the method OF operation is sec
ondary. The people of our country
are not going to ask whether IL is
the State or the National department
which is building them, as long AZ
they get results.
The problem is so large. so vital,
that IL cannot be handled by any one
group. There Ia enough work for all
of us.
The Colorado commission is In
favor of legislation such as that con-
tanned in the Townsend bill. which
provides for National system and
q Federal commission, and Il is our
hope that Congress will see At to act
favorsbly upon this measure"
~wHor-
Who rescues you when in distress;
Who spots the trouble quick?
Whose keen perception saves the day,
Who turns the clever trick?
Who eruffy gives announcement;
Who scorns to camoufage
When. desperate, you bite the dust?
The man from the garage!
Whom do you cuss when things go
wrong?
Whom bless, when things go right7
Who gets the odium and praise?
Who hates the man who's "tight7-
Who, speaking of his bill. resorts.
To airy persifage?
Who makes us draw big sirhs-snd
checks
The man from the garage
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
The Ardmoreite Means Ardmore Right
EX- SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK

D ETIREMENT OF Champ Clark from the speak
N ership OF the national house OF representatives,,
because OF the defeat of the democracy at the
November election, sends back to a plain member
seat the most picturesque figure seen in the house
1or many years past.
Mr.. Clark would have been president of the Unit
ed States beginning March H. 1918 but for the action
OF the democratic national convention at Baltimore
in going against the precedents OF history And he
would be occupying today a seat in the United States
senate but for his refusal to accept appointment or
election because he felt it to be his duty remain in
the speakers chair when the nation going through
a major struggle
Champ Clark is getting along in years, but all his
friends hope that he may have before him many years
OF usefulness in congress Like "Uncle oe' Cannon
who preceded him speaker he has suffered one de
the parallel, appears that the voters in the Pike
county statesman's district never intend TO let that
happen again.
Mr. Clark is an old-schoo democrat. He is what
people term a semade man, who has known what
it is to be dead broke and in debt. 1t is said that
when he first went to congress he used to carry his
luncheon from home and it in the cloakroom, thus
helping to money for paying debts. He has given
d quarter OF century OF time to his countrys service
and probably is almost poor in worldly goods now
as he was when he first went to Washington.
The unanimous vote OF thanks given him by the
house for "able and impartial work speaker was
due the veteran legislator. Champ ClarkS friends are
numbered by millions.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07

Written for The Ardmorete by Mrs. Sam H. Butler)

this way do your bit for bird pres
ervation; | have started a wild-bird
hedge OF hackberrieS and wild plums
and shall plant each year some ber-
ry-bearing trees or shrubs. What a
list OF attractive ones! blackberry,
mulberry bird cherry, choke cherry,
pin cherry juneberry, barberry, cor
alberry, mowberry, woliberry, high
bush cranberry nannyberry and
many others; and there are the
thorns, Towering crabs and dog
woods, elder, wild plum, sumac and
such vines as Virginia creeper, hon
ey suckle, bitter-sweet, ioX-grape
and matrimony vine.
And Build Bird Houses.
Then to carry on the good work,
place a bird house or two or three,
according to the size OF your
ground, and keep vessel OF water
freshly filled in protected place.
Joseph n. Dodson OF Kankakee, Ill.,,
has some very handsome bird
houses for sale (yery handsome
prices, too,) that would add greatly
to the attarctiveness OF any lawn
but for the benefit, ,of those who can
not afford such luxuries for their
renters, let me add that | have had
wrens, blue birds and fly catchers all
nesting at once in what my husband
called "whopper-j -jawed" houses q
built them myseli.)
TO me a garden-and / mean by
garden every green thing, big or lit
tie, growing within the bounds OF
ones own home plot-would be nc
garden without a pair of nesting
blue birds fitting through it. Sit il
this garden beneath a cottonwood
tree with its rainy whispering foil.
age and watch these, our prettiest
thrushes, build their home, feed theii
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
ONE BY ONE OUR IDOLS FALL

Nov comes Col. Henry Watterson, dean of Amer
lean newspaper editors, saying in his remnls-
that Andrew Jackson was a courtly gen
tleman instead OF an uncouth backwoodsman, that
odd Hickory" never swore, either "by the Eternal"
or by anything or anybody else, and that he made
hit with the ladies by his gentily Of speech For all
these years since the days when John c. Calhoun
was vice-president under Jackson, and since South
Carolina beginning feel her oats as a sovereign
state without regard to the federal union, have
been thinking of President Jackson as the man who
roared in mighty wrath:
"If South Carolina passes the notification act by
the Eternal, | will hang John {. Calhoun from the
dome OF the Capitol
This repued remark is brought wildly to mem
ory by the report Of violent language OF similar sort
attributed to President Wilson at his recent luncheon
to the congress committees on military and foreign
affairs The president was reported as saying that if
he could have his way he would hang the senate op
posers OF the League of Nations upon a gbbe as
high as heaycn-and that the gibbet wouldn't be
erected in the heavenly direction, eherl Secretary
Tumulty has issued direct denial that the president
said any such thing; and of course nobody who
knows the Wsonian temperament would accuse the
president OF employing such plain and ugly English
under any proyocation. As TO what Mr.. Woodrow
Wilson might think to himself, as a private individual
that's another matter.
me point mere IS tndt we nate 10 see our lQOlS
shattered by "AIarse Henry who has but just begun
writing his "reminiscences and may do more
shattering. Now that he has pedestaled Andy Jack
a gentle-worded ladies' man, maybe he
will offer proof that Admiral Farragut didn't say "To
hell with the torpedoes-fulI steam ahead" in Mo-
bile Bay; or to go back somewhat beyond the Marse
Henry memory that he may offer historical evidence
that General Washington didn't dcnounce Gen
Charles Lee to his face at the battle of Monmouth as
a white-liyered bankety -blank-bank and certain
other things hardly fit print in polite journal Of
civilization.
We have read only this week excerpts from play
called abraham Lincoln written by a British play
wright, wherein General Grant, popularity supposed
to have had eXplosve-bullet vocabulary when oc-
Cason called for such ammunition his strong
est expletve the ladylike expression my word !"
We do hope that Colonel Waterson, when he gets as
far Grant will defend the hero of Appomattox from
the shame OF having used such inadequate cuss
word which seems to imply along with it the wear
ing OF a monoclc-and perhaps corset
Let us stand ioursquare in defense of our his
torca idols
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07

Have YOU NOT found while out on
your fall and winter walking tours
or automobile trips a great number
oi our ratiye trees mortally wound
ed -gashed to their death; And
have YOU NOT heard echojng through
the wood, the workman blows icl'-
my one hoary-headed sylvan mon
arch after another, and not ,paring
ven the youthful saplings Maybe
you have noticed, also, the bonfire,
here. there, everyWhere-hghting
up the horizon rs soon as the
shades oi night we're safely
lrawn; What doe, it all portcud,
pray: Of, !, nothing to- you-al' ye
hat pas, by
1t mean, that when our valiant
army OF ",ky-swecpers' seed Kill.
FRS" and weed warriors arrive they
wiIl find their aerial habtation--
which was last summer a populous
city-deyastatcd, deSolate, the gate
a-jar' and ruin uSurpng the throne.
What a homecoming Can YOU not
imagine the mourniul dirge which
will arise from these workers thar
have so faithfully assisted us in
Neeping the homeland green and
iruitful?" Shall this lamentation go
unheeded? This bird-Ierusalem left
PROSTATE with its host OF innocent
victims? Shall they be forced to
wander around for awhile like pas
9ureless beasts and then seek herb
age and shelter afar?
The chief thing for life is water
and bread, and a garment, and a
house" Ii our streams are stripped
oi their leafy bird-shelters, and red
topped steel fence posts everywhere
displace the knotty post oak ones in
which so many OF our ieathered
home-seekers love TO build, and we
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
HAS WOMAN A SPHERE
IN POLITICS?

For fear | would take a partial
view as to whether woman really
has any sphere in politics, thought
it would be wiser, instead OF sub
hitting my own views, to secure in
teryiews from acquaintance whose
opinions would be unbiased. 1t will
be interesting to note the wide
range OF ideas gathered in this un-
suspecting way from Ardmore's
masculine population.
On accoant OF my southern
brogue, or from 4 desire to be witty,
the first person | interviewed said;
MY observation leads me to believe
that a woman's greatest fear in
politics will be telling her age; many
woman will refuse to register on
account OF having to tell their age
and each year added will be an oc-
casion OF renewed fear"
Another would-be wit said, when
interviewed, that he supposed that
her greatest fear would be that in
the event tbat she aspired to office,
that when addressing a woman's
meeting she would exhaust her
stock of superlatives and thus lose
out entirely in the matter OF votes.
A cynic, who was interviewed as
to womans sphere in politics said
that he imagined that her greatest
lear would be that she wouldn't
be able to convince her husband
that the candidate she had tossed
her hat into the ring for, was the
only candidate cunning, entitled to
the office, and that, after all these
years OF running the old man t
would be hlmiIiating to her pride
to admit her defeat,
An ungalant said that he sup
posed that the men as a whole would
think that the female of the species
would be too inquisitive about the
male"
A would-be offce-holder said that
her greatest fear would be that
during her first few weeks of ap-
premiership in an Office (proyided
that she attained to that eminence),
that she would perform her OH
fetal duties. so we'll that the public
wouldn't give her credit for the
good she was accomplishing and
would imagine that some man was
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07

do no, supply substitute shelter for
them in which to rear their young,
and places in which to drink or
bathe, soon a modern loci will be
giving us a rhapsody:
That which the palmer worm
hath lett hath the locust eaten;
Md that which the locust hath
lei, hath the canker worm
eaten;
And that which the canker worm
hath 'et, hath the caterpillar
eaten
! know a stream by which, this
winter after the leaves had fallen,
could be counted 81 nests. Among
them we're swinging oriole, pockets,
pensilc, pasted, red-eyed wire homes
and many low nests OF the western
yellow throat warbler. Now there's
scarcely a tree or bush lett standing
around a lake, the source OF this
stream. | found 10 marsh cradles,
one afternoon, all within a few fee.
of each other. The surroundings
have not been changed, but waste oil
stands on the water. ! think, how
ever, this could not have been avoid
ed, for a break in the oil pipe near
was the cause; but when we find our
refneries are not using every avail
able means to prevent the pollution
of Oklahoma water ways it should
be reported to our game and fish
warden and he should be given 10y
al support in his efforts to prevent
or remedy such pollution.
Most everyone will be observing
Arbor Day by planting some favor
ite tree or shrub. Won't you, Mr..
Ardmore Bird Lover, please plant
something that the birds like and in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
RACKING COLDS
HACKING COUGHS
Quickly Relieved By DR.. Bells
-Tar-Honey

When you once try this highly,
efficient remedy you will realize
that at last you have found a reia
bic corrective for colds, grippe.
asthma, bronchitis.
The soothing, healing balsams
promptly relieve irritation, breath
ing becomes easier, phelgm loosens,
feyerish fluShes die down.
DR., Bells Pine-Tar-lIoney is very
economical takes little to pro-
duce gratifying results. Druggists
everywhere.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

CThe Ardmoreite submits in this
column communications from the
public. Those who submit matter
for this department are requested
to sign their names and addresses,
which may or may not be printed
No anonymous communication will
be printed)
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07

WANTED-Two "live wires" to
do soliciting in and out Of the city
one to work in and near Ard
more and one to work the oil dis
tricts This is an excellent oppor-
tunity to make a large and honest
salary, and to the right men
good position is offered. See Mr..
+. II. Kent at The Ardnhoreite Of
flee between 4 and S o'clock any
evening this week
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
UNDER The IMAGINARY
STATE HOUSE DOME
BY CHARLES H. ADAMS
Staff Correspondent

Senator Clark discovered yester-
day that a vast amount of red tape
is involved in recalling a bill from
the governors office. 1t was dis
covered, when Governor Robertson
was about to sign Senate Bill No.
28, relating to the dissolution OF
corporations, that a comma was
misplaced and that this would in
validate the intent OF the proposed
law. 1t was necessary for the SEN
ate to pass a concurrent resolution
which had to go through the va
rious processes of engrosSment and
enrolment and be messaged back
and forth between the senate and
house and then go to the state au-
ditor for his signature before the
request for the bill could be made
upon the governor. Yesterday was
the final day within the limit in
which the measure could be re-
called and speedy action was re-
quired to get the resolution through
all OF the channels before the time
expired.