The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-03
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920
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A REPUTATION WORTH WHILE

In commenting upon the manner
In which Dallas business men got
down to cases and raised her one
million dollar pro rata of the bonus
required to build the interurban from
that city to Wichita Falls, the Dallas
News says that the city maintained
its previously established record for
doing things.
Iallas business men appreciated the
advantages which will come to their
city from the contemplated interur-
ban, they realized as soon as they
had glanced over the bue-prints and
made survey Of the increased trade
territory which would be opened up
that the million dollar bonus would
prove bread cast upon the waters TO
be returned TO them, within a short
time, an hundred fold.
What Dallas has done, Ardmore
car do. As Dallas stands with a
record as one of the Texas cities
which does real things, so can Ard.
more stand as one of the Oklahoma
cities which lays a just claim to the
same distinction.
And as the interurban from Dallas
&c Wichita Falls viii open up vast
trade territory, hitherto undeveloped
for Dallas business men, SO will an
interurban connection between Ard
more and the Rock Island mainline
railway open up new trade territory
which has heretofore been reached
by the interests of other cities.
1t has been said that The Ard
moreite is prone to build railroads
on paper. We admit the charge, but
plead that every railway which was
ever built had its foundations estab-
lished in the columns of the news.
papers before the first shovel Of dirt
was thrown in making the grade, be-
fore the first cross-tie was placed,
before the first rail was laid, before
the first spike was driven.
The newspapers published in the
territories which have been developed
by railway extensions, have even been
moulders of opinion, the advance
guard which blazed the trail, follow
ed later by the engineers VINO estab-
lished the lines and the grades; fol
lowed later still by the other engin-
eers whose steady hands guided the
iron horse along the bands Of steel
which linked their cen msaities with
the outside commercial world
This being the case The Ardmore-
ite will feel well satisfied if the pro.
posed line from Ardmore to point
on the Rock Island, west of here.
small he built when the business men
Of this city and of other cities to
be- benefited by such a road, shall,
like the business men of Dallas, go
Cn record as being the moving spir-
its IN town which does real things
AS has been previously stated in
these columns, the Ardmore Chamber
Of Commerce, the chamber Of com
merce which has promised the people
cf Ardmore to do things which will
put Ardmore on the commercial map
Of the outside world, can bring about
the building of the link which is re
quired to connect this city with the |
vast trade territory Of western Ok
lahoma; the Chamber of Commerce
can raise the bonus which may be re-
quired as Ardmore's pro rata; the /
Chamber Of Commerce can awaken /
interest Of the people Of the territory
which will be opened up by such a
road.
But the Chamber Of Commerce, as
a name only, cannot do any part /.
Of this. The Chamber of Commerce, |
AS name only. attempting to nc.
complish the required end, will prove |
u fiz2le and u failure.
In other words, while the Chamber !
OF Commerce can build this road, can
raise the required bonus. it can do /.
80 only with the hearty support and /
disinterested cooperation Of every in. |
dividual member Of that organization. |
Therefore, talk the railroad from /
Al dmore west; boost the railroad. |
tell the people of Duncan, of Lawton,
OF Comanche, of all other towns on
the Rock Island mainline that the I
railroad will be built out of Ardmore /
and that the Ardmore Chamber of
Commerce is going to do more than /
It's part toward making such rail +
road an assured fact. while you will |
do your part toward helping the !
Chamber of Commerce make good in |
Us Undertaking, and we venture the |
that before another twelve |
shall be numbered upon the |
cages of history, either electric or in.
.erurban connection will link Ardmore
With the great southwestern section
,f this great state.