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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-25
ANNOUNCE LIST
OF EXAMINATIONS
Civil Service Tests Will be
Held at Local Post
office Building.

Civil service examinations will be
held at the federal building. July Z,
for addresSograph operators calcu-
lating machine clerks. and posting
machine operators. il was announced
by the local civil service board,
Thursday. This is an emergency
examination made necessary by eX
pansion occurring in activities of
these departments, in the last few
months. The salary of addresSo-
graph operators ranges from LOO
to $500 according to standing
reckoned from examinations. In
this test experience counts for 20
points. while 30 are allowed for
copying tests. spelling, and penman-
ship. Any citizen. possessing these
qualifications. who is Is years old,
is eligible Work is in Washington,
d. c.
Operators for calculating ma
chimes get $1,000 at the start. In the
examination, 60 counts are given for
experience, and 40 for education
tests.
Applications for positions in the
fish culture service or Indian ser
vice are also received for eNlmina-
ton TO be held on July Z. Appren-
tees in fish hatcheries begin at
$500. Common school education
will be the scope of the test. Do
nestle science teachers are needed
in the Indian service. Their salar-
les range from $1,000 to $1,000. The
tests are all technical in this class.
Substitutes will be APP. ointed as
a result Of the civil service examin-
atoms for local postoffice clerks and
carriers set for July 10. These serve
till announcements Of appointment
when the time spent as substitute is
counted in for regular service
Clerks and carriers begin a $1.4O0
and get 500 raise automatically an
nually, for the five succeeding years.
Fifteen days vacation is allowed
every year together with l. days
sick leave. Beginning July 1, a new
innovation in postal regulations pro-
vides for pension retirement Age
limits for clerks and carriers is is
and As.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-25
NOTRE DAME MEN
READY FOR MEET
To Take Part i'm Preliminaries
For Olympic Contest on
Saturday.

Eddie Meehan, who forged into
fame. when ne touched the cape in
the half mile almost two yards
ahead OF Joie Ray. worlds cham
pion middle distance title holder, at
the Notre Dame l. A. c. meet, held
on Cartier field on May p, is now in
Chicago tuning up FOR the olympic
tryOuts, 10 be held on Stagg field
next Saturday. Meehan's best time
made i'm the I. A. G. meet is 1857 As.
He has been improving rapidly in
the last few weeks and unofficial
reports, by trainers. give his fastest
time at 1856. After taking his de-
gree at the Notre Dame commence
ment, June IA, he left two days later
for Chicago where he entered into
thorough program Of training. It
will be more OF a surprise If this
Gold and Blue star fails at the Chi
cago tryouts than would be news
of his breaking success.
Besides Meehan. Notre Dame is
confident of being represented at
Antwerp by at least three addition
al athletes. Johnny Murphy. who
topped the bar at six feetfour inches
in New York last winter, is expected
TO make his mark again in Chicago.
Murphy has been working faithful
~. daily, on Cartier field since COM
mencement He viii leave for Chica-
go Thursday. IL was rumored re-
Gently that the Gold and Blue
jumper had run into a streak of
bad luck If this was ever true. it
is daily refuted when Murphy con-
sistently does better than six feet
three one-half inches in training.
Two Go East.
Bill Hayes and Gus Desch went
east a week ago and Will compete
i'm the preliminaries TO be held at
Columbia university held. Hayes is
national 100 yard champion with a
record of 3-5. At the I. A. G.
meet he made the 220 in q 3-5. tic
ing the record. He is regarded as
one of NOtre Danes most reliable
performers. Desch is national cham
pion timber-topper. He did the go
low hurdles AT the 1. A. c. meet In
% flat and did not extend himself
TO his fullest.
His conduct at New York is con-
sidered by local sport fans as safe
bet.
Cy Kasper is the remaining star
20 be entered i'm the olympic try
outs by the local university. He
easily beat Addison Of the 7. A. c.
in 80 So for the quarter mile. Al
though no national contender he is
looked upon as dark horse of
much promise.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-25
SAILOR BROTHERS
IMPROVE STORE
SHOW WINDOWS

The installing of display windows
across the entire front of the three
upper floors OF the Sailor Bros. fur
niture store has recently been COM
pleted by the management. A back
ground has been arranged so that
the windows have the appearance
OF a room and the furniture is dis
played In them 10 advantage. The
windows are brilliantly lighted at
night and are attracting much at
tentiOn.
a representative OF the Grand
Rapids Furniture Record" a ma
tional furniture trade journal, visit
ed the Sailor store recently and took
a number Of interior views and night
pictures Of the front 10 be used in
the August number of his publica-
ton. The representative came un-
solicited having heard Of the store
through parties who stopped here
enroute 10 the Grand Rapids fur
niture show.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14
HAMON'S PLANS EXECUTED

The most spectacular piece Of Re
publican political work ever done in
this state was accomplished by Nation
al Committeeman Jake l.. Hamon Of
Ardmore on the occasion of the visit
of Senator Harding to this state
on the 9th of October.
The demonstration at Oklahoma
City is said to have been the great
est that was ever given a candidate
for office in this state.
ouch demonstrations do not just
happen. They are produced. Sena-
tor Harding was so well pleased with
his Oklahoma welcome that he fire.
quently referred to it on the trip from
this state to Saint Louis The Okla
homa welcome was the greatest the
candidate ever received, it was prob
ably the greatest demonstration that
has been rendered any candidate Of
any party during the campaign.
That demonstration was not a sud
den and uncontrolled outburst of Re-
publican enthusiasm or anti-league
enthusiasm or Harding enthusiasm in
Oklahoma. 1t was planned for in the
master mind of our fellow towns
man, Jake L. Hamon. This oil man
who had a meteorc careef in oil is
also making meteoric career in
politics.
He touched the state and it re-
sponded.
There were bands from every Sec
ton of Oklahoma. There We're flags
by thousands. There were county
delegations limited only by the number
of counties in the state. Each county
We'd with every other county in
looks and in spirit and the contest
was a mighty demonstration that was
formed first in the smind of Jake
| J.. Hamon and was executed by him in
a manner that delighted the candi-
date beyond measure and added ma
terially TO the prestige of the Republ-
can candidate in Oklahoma
Jake L. Hamon has done big things
in business. He is capable of doing
big things in politics and of Okla
homa was n state where the vote be-
tween the parties was anything like
equal the work of Hamon might be
sufficient to frighten the Demo.
Gratis. AS ii stands today there is a
new issue before the people, there is
a greater independence in politics
than at any former time and 1t be.
hooves the Democratic party to use
these days for registering its entire
strength and then OF see that this
strength and then TO see that this
yember.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14
COTTON SITUATION
BECOMES TW0-S|OED

New York, Oct. 14.-Recent. trad
in the cotton market has been char.
acterized by sharp erratic fluctua-
tions around previous price levels,
without making much headway in
either direction. The noticeable fea-
lures are the increased spot demand
in the southwest and persistent re.
ports of prospective improvement in
the cotton yarn, print cloth ana
finished goods market The encourage
ing developments, however, were off.
set by the Favorable and normal
weather conditions over tn. greater
part of the Gotten belt that followed
the recent rainy spell. apl eEne eta
tions of large inci ease IN tho crop
movement in the near future. TIE ac-
tion of the fc lcral res,r>c board
in refusing Increased government aid
in financing the movement Uf the
new crop has tendency To heck
new speculative bnyine for tho time
being Nevertheless, the Loaid de-
clares it realizes the Importance Of
sustaining the agricultural interests
uf the country and will not perm t
"A situation to arise where nee :ssary
der Tands for funds will be rejected.
and also ventures the prediction Of
a good demand for the staple later
in the season, which is encouraging
for southern holders. Besides. the
general policy of the federal reserve
banks to restrict credits is said to
be responsible for the limited ex-
port of both the raw material and
manufactured goods and is occasioning
considerable dissatisfaction in the
commission trade. Then again un-
settled political, labor and financial
conditions that have prevailed in
Europe and America for some time
past have served materially to reduce
mill production and speculative ac-
tivity and confined the purchases Of
raw material by the consumers to
immediate requirements only. Cotton
manufacturers generally have delayed
buying so long owing to the pre-
vaiing sentiment against high prices,
and the unfavorable credit situation
that many are now believed TO be
short of their desirable cotton re-
quirements, This condition might be
followed by an increased demand
for actual cotton when the movement
| becomes general, especially il at
| tended with Il steady market for
contracts. The census report showed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

4s3.l9a oales as the cotton consump-
tlon in the United States during An
gust, against 525.405 bales in July
and 502, ,536 bales last year, rejecting
the general curtai'ment about AZ
expected. Stocks held by United
States manufacturing corporations
are l,l30,694 bales of American cot
ton. Based on recent reports from
mill centers another moderate re-
duction in production during the
current month is looked for. Weather
conditions for the maturing crop are
now more favorable than for some
time past. with plenty of sunshine,
and average warm temperatures
over the belt except in the northern
districts. In Texas and parts of Louis
lana and southern Alabama and
Mississippi generally fair progress is
reported. The recent rainy spell was
responsible FOR on'y poor progress
and slow maturity in parts of Miss
issippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Ok
lahoma. The usual complaints in.
cidental to the season OF insect 'dam-
age and shedding are coming in, but
most of the private semi-monthly
condition reports indicate only slight
deterioration. Cotton is now opening
rapidly in most sections and pick
ing, also, is making satisfactory
progress with the improvement in
the weather
In making estimates OF the ulti-
mate yield much will depend upon
the date of killing frost this fa,l.
The crop is known to be later than
the average, consequently, more LA
BILE to injury and material reduction
tion in the event of an early frost.
Evidence is accommodating of gradual
Improvement. in the dry goods trade
based on some increase in the volume
of inquiries as well as the actual
business doing in both wholesale and
retail markets. Some constructions
Of gray goods are one cent yard
higher than last week and standard
printcloths are firmer with a better
outlook for the future reported by
sellers. Most new orders for prints,
hoWSNSip are Stiil lOT SIIldll QudHtl-
ties as result OF continued eau
tiousness on the part of retailers.
Other signs of improvement are the
increased efforts of producers to
meet jobbers part way in price re-
adjustments to secure new business.
There Is also reported to be more
disposition among southern mills to
accept lower quotations and prevent
curtailment of production. The price
reductions are expected to permit
jobbers and retailers who have been
waiting for lower prices before plac-
ing orders, to enter the market more
freely to replensh their supplies OF
seasonable goods. AS long as the
present favorable weather conditions
continue any decided check to the
buying by consumers or exporters
would be followed by renewed south
ern hedge selling and initiate against
any important upward move.
ment. On the other hand, present
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14
AN UNPRONOUNCABLE

"Gendarmerie" Is word in whose
presence we have felt embarrassed
that sore of modification which one
feels when an acquaintance-or a
stranger-wants to discuss Eugene
Baptiste Coroto. So long as the gen.
darmerie were confined TO France
and Italy, we felt they were total
strangers. rather aoof strangers-and
they were.
But now Secretary Daniels informs
us that they are and have been for
some time in the service of the United
States government in Haiti. Upon
hearing Of it, We felt that we must
get better acquainted Having re-
course to the highest authority" we
find that the gendarmerie are numer-
Gus in Italy and France. which is
nothing new to u.s.
The species is a subdivision OF the
genus usually associated with law
and order. On isolating one OF the
species, we find he answers to the
name OF "gendarme" in the singular
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

and is one of body-gendarmerie
or gendarmery-of military police.
Although we were bent on getting
his number in the Romance Lang
uages, we are glad TO find that he
can be Angliczed and that it Is
permissible to call him 'jen darn"
in English.
AS for his activities as military
policeman. they don't quite conform
TO those OF our own M. p" since he
IL not restricted in the use of has
baton to the heads of persons in uni
form His duties seem to correspond
more closely to those of the Royal
Irish Constabulary, in Erin. or the
state constabulary in Pennsylvania,
and the Texas Rangers in our own
country
And now, we feel as competent to
speak of the "gandarmerie" as we
would of Louis Raemaekers' or J. N.
(Ding) Darling. In fact the word
hereafter will be listed in our vocabu-
larry, but whether we will ever have
occasion TO use it again or not, we
can't say.
At any rate, we have gcndarmeric
in Haiti
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14
THURSDAY OCTOBER IA. 1920
BOTH ARE misunderstood

These are times in the history OF
our city when the souls of men are
being tried.
The kind of stuff we are really
made of is coming to the surface.
The young legionaire flushed with
victory over a powerful foe, his soul
purified by the death fire Of the
mightiest war Of all the worlds his
tory would bring to his home city
some of the fruits of his broadened
thought gathered while s oing through
this terrible ordeal.
1t is a noble ambition. 1t is an
inspiration worthy of the proudest
soldier whose valor warmed our blood
and raised our pride TO the stage
where the stay-at-home were willing
TO sacrifice their lives along with
his sacrifice.
To hold this impetuous yet extreme
ly worthy movement under control and
to direct it along channels where 1t
will accomplish the greatest good
without stirring up the greatest fric-
tion is the thought Of the older
citizen who has seen his people on
point where sensational scenes We're
being enacted and where fires of
anger and stubbornness were being
kindled.
The peaceful approach Of the alert
relentless. and uncompromising thought
Of the younger man to the cautious
trained compromising thought of the
older citizen makes combination
that is ideal for useful government
and for the accomplishment Of really
munifcent objects
The one is likely to act with haste.
the other is likely to allow itself
imposed upon on account of its
inertia. Both are more or less
perilous but Of the two the one pos
sessing the property of inertia is the
more perilous and capable of the
greater wrong through neglect Of
civic duty.
In any fight such as Is now being
waged in this city between the pro-
administration and anti-administratio
people one righteous thought driven
10 the hearts of men will extinguish
a conf1agration of anger and re-
sentiment and stubbornness. This is
true because there is an innate desire
in the heart Of every man TO per-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14
Editorial
of the Day
HARDING FLOPs TOO LATE
(Muskogee Times s-Democrat)

(Muskogee Times -Dem0craC
Even the most prudent anti-Cox
people must now admit that Senator
Harding has been smoked out" by
Governor Cox. No other conclusions
is possible in view Of Senator Hard
ing's late utterance on the league
of nations question.
The hostility that Senator Hard
ing publicly expressed against the
league during his western trip the
latter part of last week cannot be
regarded as strengthening Hardings
candidacy. The time TO change
front passed long ago. To change
now is too late.
To change clearly betrays the ex-
treme weakness of Hardings prev
ious stand. 1t is entirely devoid Of
courage; it is filled to overflowing
with humiliation. 1t has been a
mighty long time since national
candidate was forced to make such
a complete reversal on leading
question.
The vote gaining power Of Gov
ernor Cox's speeches on the league
have long been recognized by the
Harding campaign managers. They
have realized for weeks that their
candidate must abandon his vaccllat-
ing stand on the league question.
The triumph of Cox's western tour
made this realization more apparent.
The only shrewdness the Harding
managers displayed was to time the
change to come when the danger
was past of alternating the affections
of those republican leaders who are
supporters OF the league.
When the Harding managers con-
WINGED themselves the proper time
had arrived for the change they
moved Senator Harding's scene OF
activities from the front porch TO
the western plains. 1t would have
to have declared himself at Wheel
ing or Baltimore as positively against
the league as he did at Des Moines
and Oklahoma City. only the time
had not yet come when the Harding
managers could risk the change for
| fear of turning the campaign into
a nightmare of the 1912 combat
1t was not what the Johnson.
Borah crowd threatened to do tina,
prompted the turn about face OF
Harding, but 1t was what Cox
already WAS doing-winning votes
that smoked OUT Harding. The al
powerful onslaughts Governor Coz
had made on the rebel!ious attitude
of the bitter enders" and the vac
cilatng policy of his opponent was
heard too frequently by the Hard
ing managers. This was responsible,
for the change.
II anything the republicans today
find themselves in a position thai
is more humiiating In every respect
than was their position before Hard
| ing declared himself so positively
against the league in any form
Harding is running on platform
that In the first place is meaning
less from beginning to end, but which
declares for the league with reser
walton. That platforms candidate
after months OF pussyfooting. an
nounces himself unalterably oppose,
to the league in any form. And sti'
republican campaigners. like Hoover
for instance. are found trying 4
rally the fast shrinking republica:
vote with public declarations for |
Wisonian league, directly contra
dictory with their nominee.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

cotton contract prices for the time
being appear to have largely dis
counted the expectations OF a limited
demand for spots cary in the season
coincident with the expectation OF
free offerings from Il crop which II
is now believed will be large. A
broadening in the demand for goods
or, disappointment in the volume
of early receipts would naturally
stimulate buying and improve prices
for the raw material II win be seen
from this that the market Is now
more of a two osided affair, conse-
quently, making purchases on sharp
dips and taking advantage of good
rallies to sci, would appear to be
wise for the immediate future.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14
HUDSON-HOUSTON COMPANY
FILES SUIT AGAINST CITY

The HudsonHouston Lumber Com
pany has filed suit in the district
court against the city Of Ardmore,
for judgment in the amount of $l7260
plus six per cent interest dating
from February 1st which the plaintiff
claims represents an amount due
them for goods delivered to the de-
fendant.
In its petition. the plaintiff alleges
that on October eth, 1919, and on
March 18th, 1920. w. f. Wilmington,
acting in his capacity as a member
of the park board Of the city Of
Ardmore, and on behalf Of the board,
purchased merchandise to the value
of the amount claimed in the suit,
and which the defendant has failed
TO pay.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14
WATER COMMISSIONER BUYS
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT

V. Roy Shores, city water commits
sioner. has purchased in Kansas City,
a ioo-horsepower motor to be in
stalled at the city lake pump sta
tlon to take the place OF an engine
that IL broken down. He has also
ordered from Sherman n crank shaft
for an S5-horsepower motor that has
been out OF commission for some
time. The new commissioner IL at
work TO build up the equipment Of
the pump station so the business
can be handled when water Is provid-
ed for the use of the people.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

If you placed your money on the
on Jimmie Cox. Cleveland won the
worlds series and, according TO the
latest advices from the weather bu-
reau. it is q pretty safe bet that
Dayton is going to walk away with
the 1920 presidential handicap on the
first Tuesday in November Play
Dayton to win and Harding to show
and you'll cop the coin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

We are authorized by the census
bureau, without verification. to advise
all lady voters who contemplate vot-
ing the Democratic ticket. that they
do not have to tell their honest-to-
goodness age TO the registrar. Just
assure him that you are a twenty-one
yearling past and it will be all right.
Yon don't even have to let anyone
look at your teeth or inspect your
birth certificate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

Thus, far our $25,OO0 editorial has
remained perfectly safe. Not one
single, solitary editorial plunderer has
attempted to swipe it and claim it
as his own. 1t affords us a real and
sincere pleasure to be able to record
this bit of information, advising the
are of each others feelings.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

The young lady across the way hap
pened to near-serious accident to-
day. inadvertently she bore down
too heavily upon the paint brush, in
kalsomining the right side of her
face, causing her features to he a
little off-color in the west half of the
section,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

Weather Forecast: If your corns
are sore it is sign that it is going
to rain and that your shoes are too
tight; if your corns hurt, 1t is sign
that the weather will be fair and
warmer and that your shoes are not
large enough.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

speak upon the matter Of charter
amendments
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-14

Do you know OF a woman Demo.
crat who has not registered. II so
please phone Democratic Headquar-
ters at gil. l3-3-ldy.