The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-27
FRIDAY, AUGUST p, 1920
HE WHO PROCRASTINATES

"Procrastinaton is the thief of
time"
Thus wrote the great American
philosopher, Benjamin Franklin.
Another, philosopher of more
ancient time. gave voice to the ak
ION. that the fellow who dances
must pay the piper.
Ardmore, through the voice Of
her people might well say PRO
crastination is the thief of time, and
he who procrastinates is an acces'
sorry to any thefts which the prin-
cipal commits"
Away back last winter, when it
become evident that the census emu
meration of Ardmore was being taken
in a more or less hap.hazard manner,
the Chamber OF Commerce, throuh
its acting secretary, Colonel Gregory
urged upon the business men or
the city the great need of getting
busy and helping out, if We We're
to have the real population Of the
city shown upon the national census
rolls. The appeal to those most
deeply interested produced spasmodic
results. Meetings were called and
committees appoined And there the
effort ended and the result became
abortive.
And now the excuse is offered that
the regular census enumerators
seemed to resent any offers Of help
This excuse is on tap since the fed
eral census bureau announces that
Ardmore has a population of less
than 1900, while all business and
surface indications, including the
number of residences which have
been built here, with the added miles
of streets and paving during the
past 10 years, show that our popu
lation has really more than doub-
led
But this excuse will not add one
single figure, now, TO the total
which the census bureau shows as
our total citizenship.
Charley Carter, congressman from
this district, and citizen of Ardmore
and believer in Ardmore and Ard.
more's possibilities, arranged for
recount-laid all the plans and took
the matter Of sending the necessary
blanks out from Washington, and
those blanks were not delivered at
Ardmore as soon as they should
have been. Possibly Mr. Burlesons
postoffice department was TO blame,
possibly some inefficient clerk was
to blame. Be that as it may the
blanks were not received until the
last moment. When the blanks fin.
ally reached Ardmore we had but
six days in which to make the re-
enumeration.
Did anyone get busy then? Not
by large majority, with all the
outlying precincts heard from. on
the contrary some fellow, maybe he
was plural number, folded his hands
and said, Great Jumping Shade OF
Peter! How the Samuel Henry Heck
does that chuckle.headed bundle of
Wilsonian red tape expect us to re.
enumerate Ardmore in six days."
And then he, several hundred Of
him, sat down on the street corner
snd whitfield on a dry goods box
and said, "Oh well! What's the use?"
forgetting all about the fact that 1t
2nly took God Almighty six days
10 make the world, the heavens and
nll the planets which are in the
heavens, together with the birds Of
the air, the beasts Of the field, the
ueuclus Of the human race, the
tiarden Of Eden. the serpent, the
6ee of knowledge, the depravity of
man and the original sin.
Failing to call to mind that they,
while not omnipotent, were the chill
tren Of Omnipotence, they reasoned
that inasmuch as it took Moses forty
Years to find his way through the
Wllderness--a wilderness out Of which
even the Frisco could have wandered