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Events That Led
 to the Killing
 of Missouri Editor

Gallatin, Mo. Jan. 1.-Two days before Christmas, December 23, 1919, Hugh Y. Tarwater, 52 years old, city clerk of Gallatin, and president of a local telephone company. walked into the back office of the Gallatin Democrat and shot Wesley L. Rob ertson. senior partner and editor of the Democrat, to cea>-. Tarwater admits the shooting, and hints that he shot the veteran editor in self defense. His friends say that the tragedy was the result of political feud in the Third Congressional district of Missouri, the home of Joshua w. Alexander, recently ap- pointed secretary of commerce in President Wilson's cabinet. His trial began Tuesday.
 The friends of the slain man in- sist that he was unarmed, and scoff at the suggestion that politics had anything to do with the killing. Tar water, they assert, bore the dead man enmity as the result of the publication in the Democrat of the statement that Tarwater had been charged with intoxication. Six months before the killing of Robert son, Tarwater had filed suit against the Democrat for libel, asserting that the newspaper hinted that he was protecting bootleggers. This suit has not yet come to trial. In 1918 an attempt was made to nominate the late Judge Frank P. Divelbiss of Richmond, Mo-, for Congress instead of Alexander. A bitter primary fight was waged, which resulted in the nomination and later the election of Alexander. Following the election of Alexan- der to Congress, Judge Divelbiss was stabbed to death last May in the courthouse at Richmond by Rob ert s. Lyon, editor of the Richmond Conservator. Lyon was acquitted of murder at his trial. He pleaded self defense.
 Tarwater, who killed the Gallatin editor was Divelbiss supporter in the Congressional fight. He had bought the machinery of newspaper plant and brought it to Gallatin, in tending to establish newspaper EsHe is g. years old, married, and had been a Sunday school teacher. He was removed to St. Louis following the shooting ,as mob violence was feared.
 In his dying statement Robertson asserted that Tarwater had come to his office at o'clock in the after noon of December 23 and told the editor that he did not wish him to print his name again in the Demo- crat. Robertson, according to his statement, told Tarwater that he was running the paper and would use his own judgment in determin- ing. that matter. Some further words followed, and then, according to Robertson's statement, Tarwatei opened fire on him.
 Tarwater was overpowered and dsarmed by k. J. Ball, Robertson's business partner, and postmaster of Gallatin.
 Robertson had lived in Gallatin many years, and was ,a former presi- dent of the Missouri Press Associa- tion.
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O'COnnOr Leads New Movement
 Against Turks

London, Jan. 17.-A committee has just been formed, with T. P. O'Connor, the widely known Member of parliament, to conduct an ener- getic campaign to the end that the Turks shall rnvn" @~ain govern areas inhabited by Christians.
 The committee was organized at a meeting which was addressed by w. A. Lloyd, an Australian journal ist, who related stories of atrocities attributed to the Turks. MT. G Con- nor, who presided, declared that mot single Christian subject should be allowed to remain under Turkish ms-government."
 MT. Lloyd fought against the Turks and said he had seen much of their methods since haviny only just returned from an investigation of the results of Turkish rule. He stat ed that there was now, more than a year after the signing of the arm istice, a well-equipped, well-organ- ized Turkish army in the field, mur- dering wholesale unarmed Christian men, women and children.
 "Only few weeks ago." he said,
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5000 Banks Are
 Under Control of Government

Washington, Jan. 1.-The num- Der of banking institutions under the supervision of the comptroller of the Currency is now eNsctly eight thousand, including 7.94S na- tional banks in the United States, Alaskan and Hawaii, and B savings banks, building and loan companies and trust companies in the District of Columbia. There have been char tered under the present administra- tion. or since March 1, 1918, more than one thousand new national banks, and more charters were granted in 1919 than for any other year since 1909.
 The year 1919 has been for the national banks of the country the most successful in their history The resources and deposits of these banks have shown unprecedented growth. On the date of November IT. 1919, call, national bank resources amounted to $22,444,992, ,000, being SS29 100000 more than ever before reported. The number of individual deposit accounts in all national banks, reported June 30, 1919, was 1S,24o,300, an increase of over ten million accounts in less than ten years.
 Oar national banks have grown more in the past six years, or say from August 9, 1913, to November 17. 1919, than they did in the entire fifty years from the inauguration of the national banking system in 1863 up to 1913.
 The increases in deposits and to- tai assets are scattered widely throughout the country. The s1- crease in resources of the country" banks-those national banks outside of the Reserve cities-since June 80, last. has been in excess of eight hundred million dollars. The "coun- try" banks of Texas alone have in- creased in the past six months one hundred and thirtyfour million dol lars, or 34 percent; in North Caro- lrs.~ the increase was over S51, ,000,- 900, or 3S percent; in California, S72,f21, ,O00,. or 2S percent, and in Oklahoma, 49,929, ,oo0-So percent.
 The record for immunity from failure for the twenty-two months from January 1, 1918, to the close of the last fiscal year, October 3l, 1919, was thirty times, ar 5000 per cent, better than the record for the forty years prior to 1914. There
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Crusade Against LOw-Neck Gowns
 Still Under Way

Paris, Jan. 17.-The church cru sade against short skirts and low neck gowns continues. A notice posted on the door of one Paris house of worship reads:
 "No woman will be allowed to at tend service in the church whose dresses are cut low in the neck and whose skirts do not reach at least to their ankles"
 Scathing sermons on the subject have been delivered in Paris churches for some time. One priest refused to conduct the marriage ser vice for a bride whose dress, in his opinion, showed too great a length of silk stocking and which was cut in such a way ''as possibly to make it suitable for evening wear and cer- tainly not fitted for church. Ihe wedding was postponed. Probably this was the first occasion Of the nostponement of marriage cere- mony for such q reason.
 Parisian women say that thiS measure, if generally enforced, would compel every woman worshlpper to have special skirt to wear to church.
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Eve Weariness B
 Troubles Pliers

London, Jan. 17-Air-service doc tors have discovered that airmen who have been experts, will on oc- casion and for a period, make all manner of mistakes in landing. With a smooth lawn below them they will do a "poached egg" and crash the machine on it's tail or will take the ground before they mean to. These
 accidents are attributed to a partic- ular sort of weariness of eye mus cles as well as eye nerves. The eye fails to convey to the brain a prop CT eye-picturc of the ground or other object. The eye fails very
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was no failure involving dollars loss to depositors of any national bank in the fiscal year closing De- tober 31, 1919.
 The earnings of tlfe national banks for the past year have also exceed ed all previous figures and will ap- proximate billion dollars gross and not far from three hundred mil lion dollars net.
 The record furnishes added testi- mony to the high efficiency and in- valuable aid of the Federal Reserve System to the country's commerce, industry, agriculture and business of every kind.
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High Cost of
 Counting Troubles

Kansas City, Mo. Jan. 1.-The high cost of courting is no excuse for obtaining money under false pretenses, Fred L. Martin found out in criminal court here when he ad- vanced that argument before Judge Ralph s. Latshaw. He admitted passing a bad check and said it was done in an effort to recoup his fi- nances following courtship which had cost him 2,50O. Judge Latshaw sentenced Martin to two years in the penitentiary.
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Leper Hospital
 at Rio de Janeir0

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. H. A huge model leper hospital, intend ed to accommodate several hundred lepers of both sexes and all ages' is heinz built some distance outside the city of Sac Paulo. It is claimed
 that the institution will place Bra gil in forefront of any country in the world in the fight against the dread disease. Laboratories, with staffs of experts, for research into the disease on the most complete
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SELL CIVILIAN SUITS.

London, Jan. 6.-The Ministry Of Munitions is offering for sale 250,- 0oo civilian suits, the surplus Of millions whech were acquired for the clothing of soldiers after their de- m mobilization. On being demobilized a soldier had the option of a suit of clothes, or the equivalent in mon ev. SIP. Thinking they could get better value for the money, large nnmhers of them took cash.
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trict and it probably will net be completed by January Is, according to Miegs Bland, supervisor of cen sus.
 q had to have them," said Blan- din, speaking of the women enumer- ators, "but they will not work at night. And then they like to talk about family matters and indulge that whim. But we'll get the cen sus and it will be accurate, although it may take a little longer that we expected"
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Steamer Lines
 to Chilean Ports
 Being Planned

Valparaiso, Jan. 7.--ltaiy, rfahee and Sweden have taken steps to eIkx,sh;nr okSH steamship lines to Chii- nor+s One Italian steamship ean anv composed of the Trans, < ecnsp; a1apst;c ftaliana and the Naclenal
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ANY TlME--ANY N1c,|
 SERVICE
 PHONE 564 TU R N FER ri,,1 II, s.
LADIES

When irregular or dA,,r., Triumph Pills. Safe and '.a .'
 dependable. Not sold .. ''e1 stores. Do not experjnent N I others, S a V e y}isanno;,. Y Write for Relief and pora!as1 nsra;a { is free. Address, Nat aral gr'i'i9i Mt cal Institute, Milwaukee Aa' ia sl'.
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WOman'S Fear of Night Retards
 Census Taking

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 17.-Wom- 2 s fear of the night and her de- size to talk about family matters" is retarding the census in this dis
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It is a noticeable fast that the vol ume of statutory law has been in, creasing since the initiation and adoption in 1912 of the amendment restricting legislative sessions to sixty days.
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much as the muscles of an ur'- .cises for the eye have been desigh-
 ed which will remedy this defect'
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"I helped to gather the mutilated bodies of some 300 or 400 little Christian children for Christian burial in Asia Minor"
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scale will be established within the hospital. ,, I n. rate departments for single men ana women, children and married per sons. It will have its own church. nostal and telegraph office, police and fire departments, light and wa +ar services and cemetery.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10
Editorial
of the Day
A PROGRESSIVE STEP.
(Oklahoman)

(Oklahoman)
The people of Johnston county are
TO he congratulated for the tremend-
Gus majority which they rolled up in
favor of the s3SO,O0O road bond is
sued at the special election Monday.
Only few voters cast their ballots
against the bonds.
With the $3.50, 900 OF county road
bonds and an additional s3S0,OO0 to
be donated by the federal govern
ment, Johnston county will have a
total of s76O.0OO for the construction
of hard-surfaced highways. This will
give the county a fine system OF
roads, which can be still further ex.
tended if the people desire to vote
additional bonds.
Johnston county has an inexhaust-
ible supply of building stone and road
materials. With such a supply of
road materials in their own county.
the people can secure the construction
of a greater extent Of hard-surfaced
roads per dollar than in most sec.
tons of the state.
The hard-surfaced roads which will
be built as a result of the approx.
al of the bonds will make 1t cas-.
ier to haul the county's road mater.
ials and building stone to Tishomingo
and other railroad points for ship
ment elsewhere. The granite used in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10
IsiIKa
GOAL OF EVERY LIFE

(Florence Davis in Detroit (NIich.)
Journal).
We still suffer from the old Puri.
tan tradition that happiness is one
of those unnecessary luxuries on
which We ought to pay a kind of
constant war tax of worry or guilt
or fear, Happiness is supposed to be
sort of by-product Of life that one
should be ashamed TO try to salvage.
If it may be found, all well and good
If not, it is as bad manners TO reach
for it as if it were the biggest piece
of cake on the plate, One should
wait until it is passed, and then not
appear overly anxious.
But perhaps this unconscious denial
of happiness as a worthy object Of
pursuit is in some way connected
with our hazy understanding Of what
it really implies. 1t takes us q long
tune TO get over our childish habit OF
associating happiness with the pos
session of things. What would make
you happy? Ask little girl and she
will say, Candy and a new doll, and
new frock." Ask an older girl and
she may say, "A string of pearls, a
limousine, and a trip to Europe"
Getting things isn't the secret, but
getting a state of mind or an atti
tude toward life holds the answer.
John Galsworthy tells us that we
Americans never tell our young peo-
pie how to be happy. We only talk
to them about doing big things and
making money and getting power
Whereas we are indebted to another
Englishman. Viscount Grey, for q
truly illuminating definition of happi-
ness. Happiness, he says, has four
essentials Some moral standard TO
guide all action; good relations with
Of work that makes for good citizen
ship; and a degree of leisure occu.
pied by interesting pursuits" 1t 10
a strange thing that these four essen
tials of happiness named by Viscount
Grey. correspond almost identically
with the four things that Dir. Henry
Cabot says are the essentials Of whole.
some living. Religion, love, work, and
play. Doctor Cabot says, are the
things that men live by. None OF
those four essentials implies the pos
session Of mere things. Each one
Of them infers a certain acquired out.
look on life which could be taught
to the young, if We thought it Of
enough Importance.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10
a NATIONAL RIGHT

AS far back as in the year 1872
the national political conventions hint.
ed at woman suffrage. The confer
ring of political power upon woman
is not merely an outgrowth of the
world war, for a half century and
longer it has been growing and adj
ding materially each year TO it's ad-
herents. a question that stays be-
fore the people for so long a time
cannot be charged with being new
and untried and there can be no pros.
poets that it viii result in failure. 1t
is natural right that belongs 10
woman as well as 10 man and woman
is now coming into the possession Of
that to which she has been entitled
since political governments We're first
established.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10

modern times will not permit It and
the best friend to community spirit
ana to the town is the man who finds
work for the newspaper and pays
for it. 1t is our sincere desire not
to be misunderstood. This paper
wants to work heart and soul with
every progressive movement in the
city lust as it has done heretofore
but II is also our desire to remind
our people that more revolutionary
changes have been wrought in the
publishing world in the past year
than were made in a quarter OF a
century prior to that time and The
man who fails to grasp the situation
and adapt himself TO it will quickly
be back number If he is not "a pub
Usher and if he is a publisher he
will suffer the humiliation of business
failure. ISAka
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10
REVOLUTION IN PUBLISHING
BUSINESS

A revolution Of thought is now tax.
ing place in the mind of every editor
Of the country and this revolution
will take the country paper out Of
the mire into which it has placed it.
self and its feet will be placed upon
a more solid foundation of business
success. This one great aim of the
country publisher has always been
to live in the respect and affections
Of his people. He thought more of
the kind words said of him than of
any other asset he possessed and he
was hurt worse by biting criticism
than he was by financial loss. Those
were days when labor and paper were
cheap and it cost him but a small
sum TO turn out Ms paper. But to.
day his labor bills are high and paper
has reached that point where it is
almost unobtainable. The seriousness
Of the situation may be realized when
Washington dispatch says that the
Congressional Record will have to
suspend on account of the govern.
mcnt not being able TO obtain paper
When the government with all its
money carnot publish paper, what.
might be asked, Is the country news.
paper to do? When the editor is fight
ing with his back TO the wall for the
existence Of his paper he loses sense
Of the sweet words that use TO
please him. He cares but little about
the patting on the back and the en-.
couraging word when those evidences
Of appreciation are not accompanied
by Il patronage that will enable him
TO accumulate enough money to meet
his paper bills. Men and women must
pay for courtesies they have always
received free. Fairs and lodges and
clubs and churches and commercial
clubs must learn to pay for advertis.
ing or they will have no paper to be
used in conveying their messages to
the public. The editor may have
the same big heart, he may be ever
so willing to work for nothing hut
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10

suffer The keenest humiliation and
while ne suffers that humiliation the
whole South will suffer a keener dis.
appointment that one of its most be.
loved sons has failed TO wear the
ernine of power of intellect in be.
coming manner and his usefulness is
lost to mankind.
The great pity is that he and his
friends have misjudged his power. lie
cannot accomplish what he has un-
dertaken. He cannot throw Texas Sn.
fluence away from Woodrow Wilson
and progressive craftsmanship, he
cannot with one hand stop the pro
gress OF that matchless state while
with the other he elects himself gov
ernor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10
MORAL ELEVATION

The true greatness OF a nation
tellect alone. Literature and art
cannot be in triumphs Of the in.
may enlarge the. sphere of its in
fluence; they may adorn it; but
they are in their nature but acces-
sories. The true grandeur of hu-
mamty is in moral elevation-the
surest tokens of this grandeur. in
state, are that Christian bcne-
ficence, which diffuses the great
est happiness among the greatest
number, and that passionless, God
like justice which controls the re-
ldtions of the state to other states,
and to all the people, committed to
its charge.
Charles Sumner.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10

every one told me the same but kept
fighting to keep from having the opera.
tion. ] had read so many times Of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
1t helped my sister SO ! began taking it.
] have never felt better than have
since then and keep house and am able
to do all my work. The Vegetable Com.
pound is certainly one grand medicine"
Mrs. j. r. MATTHEWS, 1911 Sycamore
Street, Cairo, III.
OF course there are many serious cases
that only surgical operation will re.
lievs. We freely acknowledge this, but
the above letter, and many others like it,
amply prove that many operations are
recommended when medicine in many
eases is all that is needed.
II you want special advice write To
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10
MONDAY, MAY 10. 1920
SACRIFICED SONSHP OF SOUTH

One OF the joys of the South is
to mediate upon the achievements Of
The men it has produced. There is
a loyalty in the bosoms Of southern
men for their leaders that is not felt
in any other section Of the country.
That loyalty and appreciation are
SO marked that they amount to. an
affection. There are few joys now
greater than to get down q musty
volume and let Sargent Prentiss and
Bob Taylor play upon the heart
strings. A contemplation Of the life
of Henry W. Grady arouses a par.
donable pride mingled with grief that
he was removed so early in life. In
the present day John Sharp Williams
is big enough TO belong to the whole
country and he is an inspiration 10 a
higher honor in statecraft than is
what stand he takes the country re-
spects his opinions because the peo-
pie know that he belongs to none OF
the powers that own members Of con-
gress. John Sharp Williams has
chosen TO wear his coat until it is
shiny from use rather than 10 yield
to temptation. and the youth of the
South will ever be taught TO respect
him for his honor and for his ability.
The South developed another big
Drained. big hearted man. A man
who had more personal magnetism
than any other man North or South
and this wonderful gift was coupled
with a personality as pleasing as that
of Grady. This man possessed the
powers of debate of a Roscoe Conk-
ling but the arrogance and unap-
proachable disposition Of Conkling
We're absent. This man gave promise
of combining all the wonderful facul.
ties that we admire in men whom
we almost worship. We trust them
for leadership in the most crucial
hours of the country We listen for
their words with eagerness to obey
their counsel.
But this man who lowered in intellect
above all his colleagues in the United
States senate has fallen short Of the
expectations Of the people. He is the
greatest disappointment of modern
times. In a speech recently in his
home town Of Gainesville, Texas, he
stated that he was the same kind
Of democrat that he was thirty years
ago. In that one sentence he reveal
cd the reason that he has proved TO
be n disappointment. He has failed
10 grow. He has not caught the
spirit of the times. He has been put
10 sleep by the arguments Of those
whose business was being interfered
with by the trend of politics. And
net only their arguments but their
praise and homage have inspired him
to. do their bidding and If he did their
bidding his powerful mind must stay
in the same channels of thought for
all the years to come.
This failure TO grow is not natural
with mind like Joseph Weldon Bal
ley's. This failure has been produced
by outside influences and has not
sprung from within. 1t is a viola.
ton Of nature TO presume that his
stand for the dead past arose from
his own thinking. He has suffered
himself TO be mesmerized by other
minds. Pushed out by a conceit not
his own but borrowed from those who
have HIM under their influence he
is brought face to face with a propo.
sition in Texas now where he must
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-10

4 WOuiu nave W De
operated on. / had
a bad displacement.
My right side would
pain me and ! was
so nervous I could
not hold a glass Of
water. Many times
/ would have TO stop
my work and sit
down or ! would fall
on the floor in a
faint. / consulted
several doctors and