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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04

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There Is more than one gambling
king in New York these days. They
take down huge sums from the credu-
lous and svaricious. What becomes OF
the money? toy have their own
sucker" traits. ahese catchers OF
suckers" One king has been known
to bet 5000 on three different horses
In one race and to lose every bet, SIS,
900 in all, In a minute. Probably some
moro skilful stage manager" was
staging a race for benefit of the stag
er Cheating Cheaters" is tho great
est pastime in America AS a matter
OF fact you can cheat only a cheater.
He could catch only men who wished
to get something for nothing, who
wished to play a sure thing. You can
scarcely cheat an honest man. Wheh
q man is willing to take from TO 10
per cent per annum for his money, or
when a man is willing to risk a few
hundred dollars on a chance TO win
and does not care II he loses. you can't
cheat him He Is uncheatable. The
chances are that II the sellers OF
stocks of various kinds would say.
Mr.. here is a proposition that looks
reasonable. We have land, where oil
or gold. has been found. The land
may turn out or II may not turn out
II you have few hundred dollars to
risk you may win a million, and you
may lose the few hundred. VIII you
take q chancer they would get a lot
OF customers.
But the cheaters seem TO deem n
necessary TO assure the ayartcious that
they can't lose. that It is simply a
cinch to win. And such a thing as n
cinch TO win there never was and thers
never will be-
Meanwhile the inhabitants Of the
Ur..ed States shoot $4,000, ,00o, 900 q
year at the moon. Billions 20 at horse
races and on stock. and on card games
that are supposed to be fxed and all
that The farmer will do we'll TO stick
to new bungalows, hot water heating.
modern plumbing and some labor saw
Ign devices for the wife Then the
next eighty will bs worth thinking
about
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04

few days. Clark did not actually lose
any money. save what he put into
drilling. but he lost q chance to sell
for 81. .00O. 900 or thereabouts. They al
ways speak In millions In the oil re-
gions.
Well. tho festive oil salesman II -
busy as beaver these days. He has a
good argument with him. Usually he
has a chance to sell. OFTEN he is a
young man you know we'll. You have
some money laid up. Most of US have.
in spite OF the high cost OF living
rents, etc. There can be No doubt tha,
money never has bean 80 plentiful as
II now is We all have IL And we all
want moro. when tho oil salesman
comes along you have Q few hundred
in the bank that you really do not
want.
All Have Irens
In the hre.
So you take . chance with the oil
salesman. Like as not Il does moi
come out Somehow or other the aide
Issues never do come out. Many men.
smaT. men. city fellows. corporation
lawyers. have numberless irons in the
Are that somehow never do come out.
Always a man has one place where he
sots hts money or makes his living
Mine n riding q gang plow. Ny broth
ers 10 rolling pills. Ny brother-in-
laws In at q lawyers deak. All Of M
have had irons In the nrs and got eur
fingers burnt trying to pull them out
OF IRA We srs always going to get
rich out Of these "irous" Some OF
them are sound. real estate speculA-
tons OF the best sort and all that
But We and ourselves inssnsibly shoot
Ing the sound money after tbs un.
sound money. For instance, ali Of NJ
had Q nios apartment building In q
large city some yoaru ago Il wa
woll financed and sound. Then ve 70,
into the amusement business. W.
needed money, We shot the sound
apartment al the unsound smuscmsn
business All OF US had other sources
OF incomes, The income kept coming
over the samo old plow, or the sams
old desk. or the same old counter. II
never rolled In tbs back door, Ths
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04

for liked" horse race. The South
erner was told that the race was fixed.
He knew quite well that a fixed race
meant . crooked race. He was not
only assured that the race was nxed.
but that he would know the actual re-
suit OF II In time TO bet huge sum on
the winner before the poolroom which
was to be victirnized, could know II,
This IL the wire tapping game" The
Southern gentleman was taken into
the Western Union Office whore man
working in his shirt sleeves was
called out to talk to him. Tho man
was introduced as chief OF the Western
Unions racing wire service. He as
sured the Southerner that there could
be no mistake. He would tell him the
name Of the winner Of the "axsd" race
and withhold II for some minutes from
the poolroom 80 that bets could b.
placed What the Southerner did not
know was that all legitimate pool
rooms have q post time" after which
they will not accept any pets. This
Is. OF course. designed to protect the
poolroom against Just such accidents"
a. the Southsrner was seeking to q
advantage OF. But he did not know II.
sucker" Usually
Refuses To Roar.
In duo time he got his winner and
rushsd to the poolroom and wagcred
$4,000 on It. Then q totally differ
ent result-ths real one--was an
nounced. The southsrnSr put up what
whole caboodle arrested This was a
surprise. AZ q rule the sucker re-
fuses TO roar" He is ashamed to let
II be known that he was made a
sucker Of" This sucker" was not OF
the thin-skinned sort He "roared" so
hard that the gambling king. for the
nrst time In his long and rather rtsque
career. was sent to Sing Sing. But the
sucker never got his money back. The
gambler and his pals. Of course, staged
the entire thing for the benefit OF the
sucker. They put up the poolroom
found the wire chief" employed the
hangerson touts. etc. In fact. put on a
Belasco play and rehearsed It until the
performers we're letter perfect In their
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04

has been used in his locality. all other
farmers go In for It. too There is a
deal OF rivalry. not to say jealousy.
among farmers. \ When one gets a
high priced car the man next door is
going To get q high-priced car. too. or
bust = lung doing It.
But there are things other than
-oightys" and cars TO interest farmer
and other Americans who have a little
laid up. too. The oil stock is very
common form OF money getter these
days. This Ia especially 90 In the
Southwest where oil has been boom
ing OF recent years. There Is no doubt
that a lot of money has been made In
oil and there Is no doubt that a lot Of
money will be made in oil in the near
future. There is not simAiacrum of
a doubt either than that a lot OF money
has been lost IN oil and that more mon
oy will be lost in oil In the immediate
future II all depends on luck. You
may wager $500 or 81. 900 against moth
ing that you will make $1,000 900, and
you may lose Then again you win.
For the one man that wins II is safe TO
SAY that 900 men losa Yet. you may
sc the lucky ona
Lost His Chance
to Make Million-
There IL scarcely q town In the
Southwest indeed. from Buffalo and
Pittsburg to San Diego that 10 NOT fed
up on oil stocks, good, bad and In
different Most OF these oil companies
are legal. that is to say, they have land
and possibly have sunk or are sinking
wells on the land or have good pros
pect land. There is a chance that they
may pan out all right and there are
100 chances that they viii not Some
times land shows oil and the owner
thinks he Is going to become q multi
millionaire. A case IN point 10 that OF
Fred Clark. former manager OF the
Pittsburg Baseball Club Clark. a very
vell-to-do man. owns large farm
near Winfield, Kan. Oh was found on
IT, Clark could have sold for Sl,000,-
900, But he determined to play his
own hand and get out OF the land all
that was in Il, The oil well proved TO
be but q pocket II drained out In a
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04

well spent II tho farmer buys them
with good Judgment and takes good
care OF them. For Il is generally agreed
that. first. the farmer should buy him
self good roads and better houses with
modern convenienoes. and the tele-
phones and motor cars. He has gone
In pretty well for the telephone and
motor cars. but the house is still lack
ing. His barns arc usually nne. els-
giant residences for pigs and cattle. but
hts own residences are not what they
might be. In a word. the day Of the
woman seems TO have come On the
farm
sun Thinks First
Of the Next Eighty.
So far the hustlers who have been
out on the road trying 10 sell every
thing from black coal to blue sky. say
that the farmer 70 stiil the farmer that.
next to his own -oighty." he thinks
most of tho "neIt eighty" and OF buy
Ing that When he has about three
"elghty's" somo distance apart and
can get enough hands 10 work them.
he 10 q made man. All he has to do
Ia ride in a sulky or cart Il he 10 too
larry to ride horseback, from enc
eighty" 10 the other eighty" and see
that everything is going all risht. then
ride homo for meals, Meanwhile, the
wife and daughter prepare three hot
meals day and do the washing for
the men who work the "eishtys,-
Next to eighty" motor cara 10 beat
with the farmer. lie has fallen for the
gasoline buggy with . vengeance First
Il was cheap car. Then Il was 9
slightly desrer car, Now he is In for
a medium-priced car. II the famine
continues in Europe and the Russians
do not raise some wheat. the farmer
will be for the high-pricsd car In 1890
And when one farmer goes In for 0
car Of hixhsr price than the car thai
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-04

thing 20 sell. who Will want 20 do the
farmers good turn and who will b"
honestly enraged when the obdurate
apple knocker" refuses 10 fall for
what IN right. There will be plenty OF
men who will want 10 sell the farmer
new house, OF which. 30 OF every
100 farmers stand In great need.
Some Hustlers
Genuinely Honest
For the $4,000 4 year farmer lives
and has his being In house In which
81 900 year city dwellor would
scorn to live, Many good hustlers will
try TO sell tho farmer some labor saw
ing devices for his house. to save his
wife and daughters the heart-breaking
labor OF the farm. II 10 unlikely that
the farmer will fall for the labor say-
ing devisos for his womonkind. The
farmer does not worry much about
what his women do. They have always
done It. His mother and grandmother
and all his women folks. world with
out end. have died doing IT, Died is
right. His father died In the arms OF
his third wife. For woman's work on
the farm Is hard, terribly hard.
There will be a lot OF young archi-
tects and house builders trying 10 sell
labor saving houses 10 the farmers
this fall. others will try TO Sell them
labor saving. modern plumbing. Farm
women have TO carry in all tho wator
they use for washing and cooking, lit
Il onto the stove. boil It with wood
which they also carry In, INT II OF the
stove into the sink, lit It out OF the
sink into buckets. carry the buckets
away from the house 10 empty them,
etc That Is but one operation where
In the farmers wife does about thrice
the work Of tho city women, who
merely turns n faucet let's her hot wa
ter run In, and when the gets done
with II pulls a plug and lots II run out.
They will want 10 sell the farmer
gas plants which will be quite well
worth while. and electric plants which
win furnish light and gasoline power
for pumps and automobiles and all
that sort, all OF which win be money
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
CITY NEWS

Dance at GIasers beach Sunday
night Rights reserved
For style, service and comfort
wear Hodges footwear.
For sale: Best kiefer pears .oc
the busheI; seconds soc; fallen 35c.
Phone 200. Clara Joiidon Lift, Ham
lton-
Have you your season ticket for
the American Legion lyceum course
Keep the home fires burning for our
soldiers organization
knights OF Columbus, arrange TO
be at depot this evening to meet the
body of Arnold Schmieg. which viii
arrive On $50 train
Contractors who use ctnoers for
sidewalk foundations or other pur-
poses can have several loads free for
! the hanfing by calling at The Gate
City office.
For sale: Abort 500 western year
Hing sheep In good condition VIII
sell in lots of so, 100 and 200 or
whole herd. Phone 81. DUPONT Co.,
Keokuk, Iowa.
The Gate City classified adver-
sisements are accepted only on a
ash basis. When you send your ads
IN. be sure that you send the money
10 pay for same.
The story hour at Rock Han VIII
z Sc resumed Saturday afternoon for
he children. Miss Alice Huxley viii
be in charge and the hour viii com
nence at 2:so o'clock. There viii
be games and stories for the children
The police have a report that
car carrying Iowa license 1895
failed to stop for a street car that
had stopped to take on and discharge
passengers. The auto violation was
reported by man who said That ne
had to Jump to get out OF the path
OF the oncomtng machine.
Let's show the rest OF the county
how we support our soldiers by max
ing their lyceum course grand sue
cess, The ladies Of the Y. ". c. A
viii call on you. Take the tickets
and then attend the numbers. The
soldiers appreciate your presence at
their entertainments
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
AMERICAN LEGION.

The funeral of Comrade Arnold
Schmieg viii be held Sunday after
noon, leaving the par'ors Of John J
Crimnins at p. m. Services at st
Mary's church at $50 p. II. Every
soldier In KeofHlk and vicinity Is
expected to show his respect by ap
pearing In uniform. The firing squad
win be IN charge OF Sergeant Ed.
Schard. We would Ike thfrtytwu
men to report for this duty. New
rifles viii be used All bugiers IN the
city are requested to bring Their
bugies. The eulogy IN behalf q the
American Legion viii be delivered a.
the grave by Lieutenant JOHN s.
Sprowls. All citizens WIN kindly re
move their hats when the flag is
passing.
W. FRANK BROWN, NJ D.,
Commander Keokuk Post No. Il
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
CITY NEWS.

Dance at GIaser's beach Sunday
night Rights reserved
Newest styles in the Edwin Clapp
and the Packard shoes for men at
Hodges.
Services viii be held in Valley
NJ z. church Sunday at $3.50 o'clock,
with Sunday school at 2:3o o'clock
A decree of divorce has been
granted TO Jewel Bierman Malone
from Harry Malone by Judge William
&. Hamilton in the district court
Send them away with a smile,
but take two or three season tickets
from the ladies who will call on you
in regard to the lyceur course at the
Y. ". C. A. First number next Mon
day night The ladies are workin
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
CITY NEWS

Have you your season ticket for
the American Legion Iyceum co1rge7
Keep the home fires burning for our
soldiers organization.
-Keokuk police received word thia
morning that taxi driver at Bur
lingtcn had been held UP and that be
had been assaulted and his taxi
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01

,t.olsn. The car was . strdebake-.
Iora license 4127ss. and the engine
number Ia 144sI and factory number
2li7G1
"A petition n bankruptcy has
beer filed In the federal court by
William J. Hart, Of Buriu gton, an
insurance agent there. According TO
the schedule filed Hart. has no as
sets and his liabilities are 1873.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01

in the interest of the American
Legion.
Classified advertising sent in by
phone viii be held until the party
ordering same sends payment for The
ads. All classified advertising Is
cash.
A marriage ceremony was per-
formed yesterday afternoon at 4
O'Clock by Justice of the Peace James
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01

9TH WONDER OF THE WORLD.
Coming to Reokuk and Warsaw for
Just one moonlight dancing trip Non
day night, Oct 4, leaving KeokUk at
o. m and Warsaw at 6:45 p. m
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01
NOTICE.

The Lee County Loan and Building
association offers for sale 500 shares
of stock to date, October 1, 1890.
J. D. ECKER, Secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01

A young crocodile, on emerging from
it's egg, starts instinctively for the
nearest water, even if it is not in
sight
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-01

S. Burrows in his office for Grover
Cleveland Fuller. of Burlington. and
Helen Ada Kent, of Fort Madison.
They will live at Burlington.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Costs Have Climbed

HE poor publick" gets it in tire
neck now as ever. And itrises in its
wrath in the same old way whenever
it has an idea that somebody has put some
thing over.
Reprint of war expenses copied from the
Philadelphia True American by the Hunt
ingdon (Pa-) Gazette is followed by this
summary:
The preceding tables are submitted with
the view of giving our readers a general
knowledge of the present state of the Treas
try, well as some general information
With regard to the different subjects to
WHICH they relate. Let it not be understood
that we pretend to official accuracy in every
item. But we are sure the details in the
tables are not wide of the truth The ques-
tor is. What have we gained by this great
expenditure from the Treasury and sacrifice
of property? To answer this question as it
might be answered would require a volume.
Gains in Experience.
But to be very plain, we have gained ex-
perience;
1. To teach us how to go to war wher
it shall hereafter be necessary
"2. To teach us that a navy is necessary
10 the protection of our commerce.
"? To teach us that a navy sufficient to
rrotcct our commerce and defend our ports
and harbors need not equal the navy Of
Great Britain nor will not incur an expense
winch the United States are inadequate to
boar
"a To teach us that Washington did actu-
ally foresee and prescribe the true policy of
this country, and that we have suffered
much by not needing his fatherly counsel
"5. To teach us that in proportion as we
observe and practise his precepts we shall
prosper and be happy. and that in the same
proportion as we depart from his counsels
we endanger our peace and safety.
"6 To teach us the value of peace and the
ddnger of war to any nation.
a. To teach us who are and who are not
adequate TO the government of the United
States
."S. To teach us that party professions
and party first principles are not always to
be trusted.
80. To teach us that n brave and free peo-
PIE can defend themselves and their liber-
ties though encountered by weak and pusil-
Luminous administration.
"1C. To teach us that in war ii is the duty
~ every citizen to be on the side Of the
government of his country.
I'll. To teach us to respect ourselves and
others at the same time.
"12 What have we gained? We say again
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Skyscrapers From All Angles.

sun and batt!ed with the storms. II the
ralm leaf could talk wonder what it would
gay Nobody could prove 1t wrong If 1t
should say:
Once a warm ocean washed the Four
Corners and a gulf stream caressed the
shore of land rich in fruits and flowers,
when by some strange disturbance the in
clination of the earth to the sun was
changed and sun rays that used to strike
our land directly and so were hot began to
strike obliquely and spread out over much
surface and so were cold then chill stole
into the air and our land of fruits and
flowers became land of ice and snow
Then palm trees never grew again"
The Temple of the Sun was a community
scheme. No single clan could have built
such house. All the clans of the country
must have Joined together. Imagine an
Gent men Of good size, and athletic, faring
forth in early morning from pit houses,
tepees and cliff nitches like swallows swarm
out OF caves in a general rally to the
sacred colors floating over the spot where
the Sun Temple was rising. From north,
from south from east from west they came.
They worked not for wages but for the
community. sense of reverence for the
Sun God thrilled them. The greatest good
to the greatest number was their sentiment.
That was not selfish. but generous. This
work OF the stone men nau moran eAcSHehNe'
Let both capite1 and labor sit at the feet
of the men Of the stone age and learn from
them how to give the public a square deal.
The Temple OF the Sun was never dedi-
Gated There came a day when the work.
men threw down their tools and quit work.
They went away never to come back. The
mighty temple was left half finished like
much OF the work we begin and never com
plete.
Fifty feet away stands a great tower in
abject ruins. 1t is located on the thin
o6ge OF rocky wedge where two canyons
meet In this tower in the long ago faith
full watchmen kept vigil by night as well
as by day.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

great buildings of the metropolis from all
angles looking up, down, at distance and
the closeup view that so fixes the artistic
eye
In some the great buildings begin at the
bottom of the canvas and go up and out of
it, In others he has the skyline faithfully
reproduced and the remainder of the build
ings on some imaginative foundation. The
giddy heights and the bewildering immensely
of which old Gotham is so proud are not lost
in any detail in the artists collection The
buildings are painted with high lights and
clear lines. which make their towering char
acter more striking
Art says Mr.. Nevinson, "triumphs in
utility. and the most beautiful products of
the modern world are a Rolls-Ro car and
skyscraper. They have been built for strict
utility; their lines are perfect and they must
appeal to the genuine artist New York will
be remembered for its introduction Of the
architecture of the skyscraper long after it's
people have been forgotten for other things"
Another characteristic of New York's
physical force which has impressed the mind
of this foreign artist is the elevated rail-
way His brush has masterfully caught the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
UNDER BROOKLYN BRIDGE
~ G. e, W. NEN/N>SOW

1889 to and including the year 1916 is given
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
New Yorks Skyscrapers Inspire British Artist

Mr.. Nevinson also has some street scenes
that are typically New York. He has been
able to reproduce something Of the mad
rush and the idea Of movement always asso-
ciated with New York. The Englishman
has gone boldly into a field where other
artists have feared to tread and he has
proved it rich in artistic possibilities.
New York should like Mr.. Nevnson and
his work, for surely he Is her friend. No
native could ever idealize Americas greatest
city more than this foreigner.
Mr.. Nevinson. accompanied by his charm
ing wife expects to arrive In New York be-
fore October rs, and his work will be exhib-
tied at the Bourgeois Galleries, 66S Fifth
avenue, in November. He is popular in
Err Jland as the official photographer Of the
W. tern front. He plans an extended visit
in America
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

But expenses climbed every year. Five
times before the war of 1912 the years APP
preparations were reduced But with tho
first year of the war they were doubc1 and
then more than doubled again. And since
then they have grown as steadily as has me
country They have advanced with Leaps
and bounds during and after each war.
summary of government expenses from
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Bowery's
Optimism
Runs High
Autumn So Far Brings
No Change in Indus
trial Barometer De-
spite Predictions of
Hard Winter by
Some Wiseacres

..VV 7 HAT about the Bowery barome-
NJ ter?" queries the citizen who
knows hic old