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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-01
HIS EXPENSES

This is a story of the election ex.
penses of a Georgia man who was
defeated for county commissioner in
the recent primaries. His sworn state
ment runs;
Lost 1.S49 hours OF sleep thinking
about the election. Lost two front
teeth and whole lot of hair in a
personal encounter with my opponent
Donated one beef, four shoats and
five sheep to county barbecue. Gave
away two pairs of suspenders, four
calico dresses, IS cash and 10 baby
rattles. Kissed 1875 babies. Kindled IA
kitchen fires. Put up four votes Walk
cd 4076 miles. Shook hands with g..
sos persons Told ,10l lies, and talk
ed enough to make, in print, 1000
volumes. Attended l6 revival meet
ings, and was baptized four times by
immersion, and twice some other way.
Contributed $50 to foreign missions,
and made love to nine grass widows,
Hugged Al old maids. Got doglbit 39
times and was defeated. Selected.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-01

the overthrow of the Carranza regime
has been accomplished according TO
General Luis Medina Barron. who ar.
rived here yesterday as envoy of
General Dlaz to confer with General
Obregon and Adolfo de Ia Huerta,
provisional president
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-01
Ditz VIII Retire From War

Mexico City, May Sl.-General Felix
Diaz, who has been carrying on IA
revolutionary movement in the state
Of Vera Cruz for Some time, is willing
10 return 20 private life now, that
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-01

Akron. Ohio-Jack Britton. Okla
homa City. champion welterweisht
won the newspaper decision over
Johnny Griffith of Akron in 10
rounds.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-01

500 PAIRS WOMENS, ONE AM
TWO STRAP. WHITE PUMPS AZ
sl,65, HAMILTON'S BIG SACRIFICE
SHOE SALE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-01

THE Won KELLER HOSPITAL
1921 18th Avenue, Northwest Ardmoe Okla.
Founded by the Keller Hospital Association,
DectorsF p Keller President;
L. Vice President; Johnson
Westhemer r. Poland Kirkpatrick NJ
Franklin Harold Wallace b. A Simpson.
equipment Pathological
exclusively Medical Surgical Oberica
Contagious and
all ethical physicians
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persuaded big business" to adopt
rofit-sharing, insurance, service bo-
muses., sick benefits and old-age pen
sions.
1t was Perkins who was also said to
have inaugurated the plan which per-
mitted employees of the United States
Steel Corporation and the 1nterna-
tional Harvester Company. in both of
which he was at one time an exec
utive, to purchase stock on install
ments and at less than market value
on the assumption that industrial
justice is the most profitable of in
vestments, that justice promotes
peace. peace promotes prosperity and
that the workmen's prosperity is nee
essary to the prosperity of the busi
ness man"
Mr.. Perkins was born in Chicago,
January 81. 1862, descendant of ia
settled in Boston in 1881. His father.
George w. Perkins, long engaged in
the shipping industry at Buffalo, was
later a pioneer in the life insurance
field. The son entered the insurance
business in Chicago when fifteen as a
clerk, became a bookkeeper. an agent
and subsequently manager of a Cleve-
land office. He went to Denver and in
1892 was made vice president Of the
New York Life Insurance Company
His achievements attracted the atten-
tion of the elder Morgan and in 1900
he was invited TO become member of
the Wall street firm. In this capacity
he negotiated a number of big for
eign loans. He remained with ]. p.
Morgan & Co. until 1910. meanwhile
becoming a director of numerous
large corpora tions. including the steel
and harvester companies, a number of
railroads and the International Mer-
camille Marine Company.
Retiring from business faw wars
later. as he said, ito devote myself to
other work of a public and semi |
public nature" Mr.. Perkins wrote and
spoke frequently on. the subject of
industrial justice. and when Col.
Roosevelt became progressive candi- |
date for the presidency in 1912 he !
became chairman of the national ex-
ecutive committee of the party. Pre-l
Viously he had been republican. The
year before he had urged a revision
of the federal corporation laws and
in testifying before a congressional |
committee investigating the United
Steel Corporation he advocated the
fullest publicity for all corporations.
Despite the defeat of the colonel Mr.
Perkins continued active in his ad-
vocacy of progressive principles.
Mr.. Perkins early in the world war
interested himself in the matter of
American preparedness. He was Sc
we're critic of President Wilson. In a
speech in indianapolis in 1915 he de-
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ganizations. In 1911 Mr. Perkins re-
ceived the honorary degree of LII. p.
from the University of Wooster and
the University of Vermont.
SIR Perkins married in 1889 Miss
Eyalina Eall. a daughter of Flamen
Ball of Cleveland, Ohio, to whom two
children were born. Dorothy and
George w. Perkins, jr.. the latter of
whom was lieutenant in the Ameri-
can expedittonary force.
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liberty loan and other patriotic
drives. After the war Mr. Perkins
went to France to investigate charges
of waste and ineff1ciency against the
Young Mems Christian Association
workers abroad. He reported that,
while some mistakes had been made,
there was little ground for honest
criticism
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close friend of the late Mayor
John Purroy Mitchell, Mr.. Perkins at
one time was prominently mentioned
for the mayoralty of New York He
was once quoted as having said that
New York city could save $4,000 600
year by "a proper cut in its budget
He was a trustee of yassar College
and Berry School, Rome. Ga, and
member of numerous civic. scientific.
sociological and phlanthropic or
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clared the United States was unpre-
pared for war" and urged immediate
action. After the United States entered
the struggle h eendeavored to stimu-
late food production and by large pur-
chases of provisions at distant points
sought to avert a war time shortage
in New York city
Active In Patriotic Drives.
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HcfISe III FHtfTUtIC HrIVPN.
lie also was active in Red Cross
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GEORGE W. PERKINS,
CONFIDANT AND AID
OF ROOSEVELT, DIES

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The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
HONOR DEGREE
TO JUSSERAND
Four Others to Receive
LID, at ST. John 5 Grad
uation Exercises.

Especial 10 washinaten Heraid)
Annapolis. Nd. June 1o.-The
honorary degree of Doctor OF Laws
will be conferred upon the French
Ambassador, j. J. Jusserand; Gov
ernor Albert C. Ritchie. of Mary
land; Assistant Secretary of the
Navy. Franklin d. Roosevelt: Rear
Admiral A. II Scales. superintsnd-
ent of the Naval Academy. and
Erig. Gen. Robert w. Alexander.
U. s. A., at the commencement cere-
monies of historic st. Johns Col
lege tomorrow.
A class OF twenty-three cadets
will be graduated. Francis j.
Lloyd, Pocomoke City. Nd takes
first honors OF the class. and the
second honor man is Raymond s.
Hyson. Hampstead. Md. Governor
Ritchie viii address the graduates
Special features will be theSunveii-
ing of memorial tablet to twenty
four st. Johns men who gave their
lives In the world war and the for
NAL presentation of a German gun
captured by the French and pre-
sented to the college.
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mand of a dictator in a matter
where the authority and the re-
sponsibility under the Constitution
was theirs and not his.
Praise for Senators.
The Senators performed their
duty faithfully. We approve their
conduct and honor their courage
and fidelity. And we pledge the
coming administration to such
agreement with the other nations
duty of America to civilization and
American ideals and without sur
rendering the right of the American
people to exercise its judgment and
its power in favor OF justice and
peace.
Pointing to its history and relying
on it's fundamental principles we de-
clare that the Republican party has
the genius, courage and constructive
ability to end an executive usurpa-
ton and restore Constitutional gov
ernment, TO fulfill our world obliga-
tions without sacrificing our ma
tional independence, to raise the ma
tional standard of education, health
and general welfare; to re-establish
pcace-time administration and to
substitute economy and efficiency for
extravaganza and chaos; to restore
and maintain the national credit to
reform unequal and burdensome
taxes; to free business from arbi-
trary and unnecessary official con-
troll: to suppress disloyalty without
nullifying Justice; to repeal the ar
rogant challenge of any class and
to maintain a government of all the
people: and finally, to allay unrest.
suspicion and strike and to secure
the cooperation and unity of all
citizens in the solution of the COM
plex problems of the day, to the end
that our country, happy and pros
porous, proud of its past, sure of it
self and of its institutions, may look
forward with confidence to the fu-
ture.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
Notes By a Chicago ObserOer
McAdoo Looks in at Chicago-Lodge Shows
Teeth in Rebuking Spectators Name of
Penrose Cheered

Chicago. ILL.,, June 10.-Willlam
Gibbs McAdoo whom most Repub-
lican name as their forthcoming foe
passed through Chicago TO-DAY en-
route to California. He is not
known 10 haye visited the Coliseum
but he saw some G. o. p. friends
elsewhere dlring his wait between
trains. Many Democratic. braves are
fitting through the scnvention city
this week en- route tc. their own
pow-pow at San Francisco.
There were mighty shouts all
over the conventions hall this aft
ernoon when the name of Senator
Boics Penros, Vas lead of among
the list of new National Committee
men. Led by the Pennsylvania
delegation the cheering, was taken
up all over the floor. quickly spread
through tho galleries and eventually
became a demonstration. 1t was an
unmistakable tribute to the absent
leader. There were enthusiastic
plaudits too for serator Lawrence
Sherman, National committeeman
from Illinois who is much beloved
here in his home State.
Permanent Chairman Henry Cabot
Lodges formula in announcing the
results of a call for ayes and noes
is 'It is a vote and II is so or
dered." Senator Lodge has an inn
perious way of bringing the con-
vention to its senses when 1t be-
comes obstrcperous. Twice today
he showed his teeth. The first oc-
casion was a rebuke to the dele
gates for not allowing him to pro-
ceed with a statement.
Tonight just before adjournment
when young Mr.. Gross. of Milwau-
kee, was attempting to read his
minority report on resolutions
Chairman Lodge threatened in
terms that carried conviction tc
clear the galleries "if persons who
are merely guests of the conven-
ton attempt to Interfere with bust
ness which only delegates are
privileged 20 transact" Mr.. Lodge
accused the galleries OF trying tc
vote this morning on the question
of adjournment.
Gov. William c. Sproul needs {
committee on pronunciation. Not
two out of ten persons in Chicago
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
SLAYER WILL PLEAD
FOR NEW TRIAL TO-DAY

= Justice Gould in Criminal Court
No. / will hear arguments today on
the motion for a new trial in the
case of Philip Shirley Cockrell, con-
victed of second degree murder in
connection with the death of his
wife, Pearl Hortense Cockrell.
The motion was filed by James A.
O'Shea and John l. Sacks, counsel
for Cockrell. The accused will either
be granted a new trial today or else
sentenced to a term in prison of not
less than twenty years or possibly
for life.
Mrs. Cockrell was killed with a
lead pipe on the night OF June 81.
1918. at her home. 610 F street north
east. Her husband had been on trial
for nearly month before he was
convicted.
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COCKRELL WILL ASK
FOR ANOTHER TRIAL

Phillip Shirley Cockrell, convicted
wife slayer. Is at three-pronged
fork in the road today.
One road may lead to ultimate
freedom--the other two lead to long
years Of Imprisonment.
Justice Gould will today hear the
motion filed by cockrelI's counsel
requesting a new trial for the ac-
cused man. II this motion is not
granted cockrell faces sentences of
not less than twenty years. or i'm
prisonment for life.
Pearl Hortense Cockrell. wife of
the convicted man. was killed at her
home, SIC F street northwest. on the
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
JURY HOLDS DRIVER
FOR DEATH OF DAVIS

Charles r. Jaymes, colored, 1880
Fourteenth street northwest, was
ordered held for action by the grand
jury by coroneF,s jury yesterday fol-
lowing an investigation of the acci-
dent which caused the death of
James d. Davis, 1922 Harvard street
northwest, Wednesday evening.
Davis died following a collision of
his motorcycle with an automobile
driven by Jaymes at the corner of
Fourteenth and S streets northwest,
Davis being forced against a lamp
post. Davis died shortly after the
accident at the Emergency Hospital.
Death was due to fractured skull,
the coroner's jury decided.
Funeral services for Davis will be
held this afternoon at the family
residence. The Rev. Edgar Carpen-
ter. of Alexandria, Va, will be in
charge. Burial will be made in Alex
andria-
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
ZONING BOARD
OFFERS PLANS
District Building Meeting
Given Outline of Work
Proposed.

Washington citizens were given
an insight into the plans and funda-
mental workings of the zoning
commission for buildings OF the
District in a public meeting last
evening in the board room of the
District Building.
Maps showing the present outlay
of the District, relative to residen-
tial. commercial and Industrial
buildings were shown and the sys-
tenn of the building zone plan ex-
planned by Harland Bartholomew,
of the zone commission.
Questions of the citizens brought
out the fact that care would be
given by the commission in re-
stricting districts so that values of
property would be cared for. Final
plans of the zoning commission will
be announced in about three weeks,
it was stated.
Committees appointed by the
commission to state the desires for
restrictions in their sections will be
asked to report, Commissioner
Charles w. Kutz stated.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
j. S. DAVIS CUP
TEAM is READY
Expect to Regain Tennis
Trophy-Johnston Is In
Top Form. =
(Washington HernId-Cross Atlantic
Service. Special Cable Dispatch.)

(washington Hernld-Cross Atlantic
Service. Special Cable Dispatch.D
London, June 1O.-The American
Davis Cup team begins to show
confidence that it will regain the
cup. After the first practice at
Wimbledon today, Samuel Hardy,
captain and manager. said: AL
thought it's too early to be in top
form. there's every indication that
all the men will be in the pink of
condition before the first match
next week, and well perhaps carry
off the championship at Wimbie-
don later on. All that We really
care for Is to be fresh to meet the
Australians July S for the cup"
He had just watched Johnston
and Tilden play Garland and Will
Jams and was bubbling with enthu-
siasm.
Large crowds of tennis cnthusi-
asts watched the practice and eX-
pressed surprise at the severe drive
of so small a man as Champion
Johnston.
Copyright, 1920. Cross-Atlantic Newspaper
Service, Incl
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11

know how to speak his name cor-
rectly. "Sprowl" Is the favorite stah
at II, with 'Sprule" a close second
Only a few know that the cogreci
version is ..Sprole."
Noiseless typewriters were In eyi.
dence In the newspaper section OF
the Coliseum-a novelty in eonven'
tionhreporting.
= A modest Palmer for President
placard above the. elevator In the
Auditorium Hotel proclaims the facl
that Pennsylvania's favorite Demo
cratic son is not adverse to making
hay while the Republican son shine,
at Chicago. The Attorney Genera
enjoys popularity in Illinois.
Miss Neysa BcMein is in the press
benches drawing pictures of @. o. 7
women celebrities.
Cardinal Gibbons was a noble
figure as the NeiveI of tcday's limo
walton. His red robe stood out con
spicuously on the first white" day
of the convention, when men and
women alike blossomed forth in tht
flimsiesc toggery their wardrobe'
afford. mostly light in color. The
day has been a genuine Chicago
broiler. All rejoiced that the con
Yention's two sessions TASTED alto
,gether only four hours.
It is not a. singing convention. 1
Is here for business. The oyerzeal
Gus cheer and song leader is having
very hard shedding. Today wher
time had to be killed pending tn.
arrival of Senator James Z. Watson
of Indiana, with the majority re
port of the committee on resolu
tions, the official convention inciteI
of mirth. merriment and music triet
to get the CONGREGATION to sing -
Long. Long Trail" There was moth
ing doing. He trotted out Hail
Hail, the Gangs All Here" that hat
better luck. but for the most par
the band had things to itself.
Are national conventions gettini
tired of the old stuff ?-the platitud'
of speHbinders. the song stunts an'
all the trite tricks of yesteryear. 81
far everything smacking of ancien
vintage-from Senator Lodge down
wards-has evoked only desultor,
demonstrations. F. w. w.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
To Elect Delegates Today
But Result May Mean
Nothing.
EVERYBODY MAY VOTE
Progressive" in Miniature
Row With Regulars .
Over Rules.

Both tho regular and progress
sive" factions of the local Demo-
cratic party viii enter the election
for District delegates to the national
convention at San Francisco this
afternoon at o'clock without a tan
sibie understanding as to its con-
duction. That such will be the case
was. indicated by conflicting state
rnents made yesterday by the leaders
CT the respective groups,
Defending the selection of Secre-
tary of State Colby as the leader OF
the regular" ticket, John B. Col
poys. secretary of the. central COM
Hittce. last night declared, .any one
who lives and has slept in the Dis
trict of Columbia, providing he is a
Democrat and has not voted in an
other primary" will be eligible 10
vote.
Everybody Eligible.
ANY man o. woman who has re-
sided in the District of Columbia for
one year" is qualified to cast a bal
lot, states the progressive" ticket
A statement issued yesterday by
VIII V. Mahoney, one of the pro
gressivc" candidates, alleges gross
irregularities and violations of rules
by the central committee"
The polling places were not an
bounced until Wednesday morning.
asserts the statement. thus breaking
the central committees rule which
provides that ten days notice must
be given after announcement OF
the location of the polling places
before the primaries can be held"
Colpoys denied such a rule existed
Call in Police
Mai Gessford. superintendent OF
police, has been asked to station at
least one patrolman at each polling
place because of the report that "ar-
ranGements were completed by the
regular ticket to throw out bodily
any clerks, judges or watchers repre-
snting the progressive ticket" al
a polling place in the southwest.
The progressive" ticket is enter
ing the primary with but four can
didates.
Secretary Colby heads the 'repu-
lar" ticket. He will go to San
Francisco if elected a delegate, he
said yesterday.
Il am neutral" Colby added.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
D. c. to Give Swimming Lessons

AS a feature of Learn to Swim"
week, June 19 to 26. Potomac Divis-
ion of the American Red Cross. has
obtained the cooperation of Fred
]. Drummer. superintendent of the
municipal swimming pools. and l..
Gordon Leech, manager, Tidal Basin
bathing beach, in an effort to de-
crease drowning cases throughout
the District. Brunner and Leech
will furnish the services of their life
guards as instructors.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-11
FARMERS ARRESTED )
IN VIRGINIA DRY RAID
Especial to Washington Herald ,

Especial to Washington Herald.t
Fredericksburg, Va, June 10
Two Federal warrants charging vio-
lation of the Volstead act were
served by United States Deputy Mar
shall William Schoenie on Col" D.
f. Carhart and William b Allen, OF
Spotesylvania County, who were ar
rested and brought to this city.
They were released under bond or
$500 each for a hearing before Unit
ed States Commissioner Leonard F.
Pierson.
-oD the farms of Carhart and AL
len, quantity of what was sup
posed to be corn liquor and wines,
and portions of stills made from
10-gallon milk cans were seized.
Jack r. Watson. of the same
county, on the same charge, has
been sent on to grand jury of Unit
ed States District Court in Alexan-
dria in July, under $500 bail
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE FOUR.
pose now and hereafter the accept
ance of mandate for any country
in Europe or Asia.
INTERNATIONAL COURTS.
The Republican rart~ stands for
agreement among the nations to
pres erve the pc acc of the world. We
believe that such an international
association must be based uron in
ternationaI justice and must pro-
vide methods which shall maintain
the rule of public right by the deci-
sion Of impartial courts and which
will secure instant and general in
teinational conference whenever
peace shall lbe threatened by poll
tical action so that the nations
pledged to do and insist upon what
is just and fair may exercise their
influence and power for the prcyea-
tion of war.
We believe that all this can be
done without the compromise OF ma
tional independence, without de-
priving the People of the United
States in advance Of the right to
determine fo- themselves what is
just and fair. may exercise their in
fluencc and power for the preven-
tion of war, when the occasion
arises. and without Involving them
as participants arC not as reace-
makers, in a multitude of quarrels,
the merits CT which they arc unable
TO judge.
Criticizes Wilson.
The covenant signed by the Presi-
dent at Paris failed signally to ac-
complish this great purpose and
contains stipulations, not only in
tclerabIe for an independent people
but certain to produce the injustice
hos tility and controversy among ma
tions which il BroI.C sed to prevent
gree wholly unnecessary and un-
iustifiable the time-honored policies
in favor of peace declared by WASH
ington and jefferson and Monroe
and pursued by all American ad-
ministrations for more than a GEN.
tury and IL ignored the universal
sentiment of America for genera
tions past in favor of international
law and arbitration and 1t rested
the hope of the future upon expedi-
ency and deviation.
The unfortunate insistence of the
President upon having his own way
without change and without any
regard to the opinions of major
ity of the Senate, which shares with
him in the treaty making power,
and the Presidents demand that the
treaty should be ratified without
any modification created a situation
in which Senators were required
TO vote upon their consciences ana
their oaths according to their judg-
ment against the treaty as it was
presented, or submit to the COM