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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16

Joys Of babyhood. It's bubbling
laugh er. and lusty grief its contin-
ual reaching out are strangely alb
sent.
This baby's smile is a lazy one,
the merest uplifting of flabby white
checks.
Her small fingers lie limp, they
fail TO tighten on a visitors prof
fered finger, one of babyhOod's old
est tricks.
Yet, sad and gloomy as the pic
ture is, the greatest force in the
world lightens it,
Hope-there is hope for Baby x.
and her unlucky kind.
They can be deprived Of drugs
without any serious effects. They
will not wish for it after it is taken
away s%Hn their diet. And that fact
proves that drug addiction is not a
disease, but a habit. None but
adults, who are mentally awake,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16

says Mrs *. i nursed my baby
for II months"
Poor misguided victim Just in
that way is a baby made an addict
It would have been kindness TO sep
arate mother from child immediate
/ ly after birth and permitted other to
care for il till the mother had re-
covered her normal state, free from
the thraildOm of morphine.
When a child like Baby X, ac-
customed to the soothing effect Of
drugs is deprived Of them there are
certain symptoms which appear,
violent digestive disturbances, which
might brighten un untutored woman.
These are known as withdrawal
symptoms and prove beyond doubt
that a child has been a drug addict.
Milk viii sicken such baby.
Its thirst must be quenched by
something that lacks the peculiar
qualities Of that food.
Hence. tea in baby's bottlel
Since milk is the ideal nourisn-
ment for young children. what de-
vastaHng power drugs possess when
they make this best of ali foods i'm
possible to their slaves For there
against drugs in the human stom-
ach.
Signs of HerOin.
Beside the rosebud mouth Of Baby
Y. pouting while she dreamed was
an anEry-loOking red abrasion. Her
little nose was dishgured with an
other such mark.
These ordinarily trivial irritations
are 10 an expert suspicious signs.
They indicate herOin applied TO the
nostrils TO be breathed into the sys-
/ tenn.
/ At two years a child should be
bright, full Of the eXuberanCe OF
\ youth. active. aggressive in it's move
ments, firm of cheek and clear of
/ eye.
The story of Baby X Is a dreary
/ one In il there is nothing Of the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16

couldn't eop me suffer without it.
"I paid "a "a week 10 the doctor
for the prescriptions. and the drugs
cost 81 .50 day.
Another doctor got hold of me
latcr and he wanted me TO start on
the needle. I couldn't do it. / have
% horror of it, So 7 began buying
from the peddlers. That cost about
$40 a week.
Easy 90 Get Narcotics.
ga girl j know and I used TO buy
an egg OF morphine. It's a big
white lump IT. cost SPA or S25, and
we'd each pay half and then split IL
iu two. That much would last me
"a little over a week-about nine
DAYS
"It's easy TO get drugs on any cor
ner i'm certain neiEhhOrhoO Just
go 90 some one standing around and
give them a hint of what you want
and there it is.
"I used to take 80 or 40 grains a
day i can stand a lot. I need fl.
Tt is the only thing that brings me
back 10 normal | had some today.
but not enough. Feel my hands
(they were Damp and my forehead.
I perspire terribly when ] haven
had the usual amount
"Oh God, what doctors have done
to me, / wish I never saw one.
They give drues to people and make
habits and the poor victim then
must always suffer"
Mrs X. was conquered by drugs
seven years ago.
Since then baby Y. was born.
child of drug habit
Il have been q good mother.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16

crave the drug.
But Baby X must be separated
from her mother while that wretch
ed woman takes a cure in some in
sttution Fear of this separation
has haunted Mrs. X. ever since her
child was born It is her dreaded
punishment. yet SO mighty is the
call of morphine she cannot put the
drug from her even to hold fast
her baby at her side.
But, after ALL why blame these
poor women in the thrall OF a power
they cannot defy?
Blame the drug prescribers. pros
ecute the Illicit dealers and the
opium ring"
A menace that affects the think
ing resourceful adult Is something
depIOrable, but one that reaches out
its long, clammy fingers TO caress
into sleep the rosy cheeks of babies
is one TO be fought reIentlessly.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16
OF
BABIES ARE GIVEN
DRUGS BY MOTHERS
Pathetic Cases of Infants Con
tracing Habit Come to
Light.

NEW YORK. Jan. 15.-Baby ".
g. % months old.
She is drug addict
she IS one OF thousands of drug
Bcdicts.
Drug addiction is a fact known to
most OF US We know doctors pre-
scribe drugs and dealers peddle
Them illegally.
We also know that determined
efforts are being made by city state
and government 20 check opium
rings" and drug sales, that officials
Try tO regulateH the habit I'm those
users they viii later try TO cure.
But we think OF a drug user as
wiluly disapated adult, a poor,
foolish victim of a morbid craving
Tor excitement who got the habit of
lig or her own free Will.
Cannot Drink Milk.
Baby y. has the habit and
through no fault of her own. /
went TO see hetr in the home of her
unhappy mother.
She seemed to be asleep. Clasped
iu her soft arms was nursing bot
ne filled with strong tea.
Baby drug addicts cannot drink
milk. 1t uauseates them
ON n rickety table al the bedside
was a glass of water. a spoon with
1.hitlsh powder lay beside it,
Baby KS mother was vivaciCus
that night She had had "a large
dose OF heroin.
The happy dust" had made the
mother gay-but II had put her
baby into a death-ike slumber.
The next day tie baby was
brought 20 Manhattan from "a suburb
IA joltlng journey In Cab-but
she still slept.
she always sleeps sound" Mrs.
Y said You can't wake her up
She was right ] couldn't And I
tried everything which might ace
complish that purpose I'm order to-
have her picture taken. bH.y N.
slept on heavily. her pulse slow. her
little hands fevered. her breath
hardly audible.
She opened her eyes for mo-
meut They were brown ana misty
She closed them again and her head
nodded. Beside her was "A bottle OF
tea again.
she doesn't Ike milk-since she
was very sick once. the mother eV-
planned. excitedIy. "Norody could
get her TO drink Il now. She loves
tea"
Finally the mother told me the
D story OF her own DRUG taking.
Thus she had unwittiuELy made u,r
pretty and apparently healthy child
a victim OF the crueles- tyranny iu
the world
. 1T was after an accident" She bee
gan Il was taken 90 tla hospital
They gave me the hypodarr-c
needle. 1 hated IT, Eur ] dilD
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16

Don't stay stuffed-upl Quit blow
ing and snumling. A dose Of "Pape's
Cold Compound" taken every two
hours until three doses are taken
usually breaks up a cold and ends
all grippe misery
The first dose opens clogged-up
nOstrils and air passages Of head;
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16
"Pape's Cold Compound" is Quickest Relief Known

stops nose running; relieves head
ache. dullness, feverishness. sneez-
ing.
'Papes Cold Compound" is the
quickest, surest relief known and
costs only a few cents at drug stores.
1t acts without assistance. Tastes
nice. Contains no quinine. Insist
upon Pape's. ADV.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
SCHOOL MOTHERS CLUBS

WEDNESDAY afternoon about one hundred of
the mothers of school children met at Ardmore
High School to discuss program for the coming
YEAR and to get the views OF the teachers and swap
ideas.
A whole lot was said in a short time, and the
works of the mothers clubs of the past repeated
1t was told how the clubs provided books, phono
graphs, records. pictures, entertainments, and all
those things for the schools And all OF those things
were good. The teachers appreciated the work and
the cooperation The children enjoyed the fruits
of that labor.
Just now when the work of new year is be-
ginning. would like to remind the mothers that
during the school year the greater part of the wake
ful hours Of the child is spent in the school room
with the teacher. That means that the teacher will
have to act in the stead OF mother during that
time. teacher must take mothers place
What the teacher does and says during the coming
nine months will have a lasting effect the younger
minds 1t is only rghtfu to believe that the teacher
will give the child the best that she has; she will
minister to the child ii it her own.
Such being the case. the mother should become
better acquainted with the teacher. She should fire.
quently consult the teacher so that the teachers
burden would not be so great. The mother should
not take offense the teaching OF the school room,
and should not take the childs word for everything
that happens
The easiest way to know the teacher and the
school work would be for number of mothers to
visit the schools at least once each month and see
how things are going The visit need not be
long enough to become tirng. but it should be
long enough to learn what things the children are
being taught and how they being disciplined
Instead OF the mothers OF the different wards
pledging cooperation between themselves they
should become chummy with the teachers so that
cooperation would be companionshp work both at
school and at home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
IN VISITING THE STATE FAIR

THE Carter County exhibits at the state fair in
Oklahoma City not going to be as large as
in former years. but from point OF wealth the
exhibit will be above the average o past years lhS
is because OF the crop shortages
Visitors to the fair this year need not expect the
bountiful exhibits OF past years. They should seek
quality instead OF quantity Other counties in the
state have reduced their quantity but have endeavor-
ed to make up the difference in quality 1t is an
nounced that there will be scrubby cattle for
comparison there this year; all stock must be pure
bred and OF clear strain.
This is a step forward; it is more economical
more valuable, and will prove more instructive.
Visitors to the fair should take pride in the
offerings from their county. Carter county will
have register in the booth the fair grounds for
those visiting the exhibits. There will be several
thousand badges bearing the words Garter County,
which will be distributed to Carter county visitors
The home people should not be ashamed to wear
one Of the badges inscribe their in the reg
ister This is one OF the methods OF cooperation
and is an evidence OF interest
Pisitors to the fair should not feel their duty
done when they visit this home county booth they
should visit other booths and what people il
other parts Of the doing. In this way there
are thousands OF ideas to be picked up. 1t is al
education on small plan and is better than a hom
study course by correspondence.
Lastly. what you at the fair tell others abou
when you come back home. Let the stay-at-home
enjoy the fruits OF your visit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
REBEKAHS MEET ON
10Th ANNIVERSARY
WITH BIG AFFAIR

The Rebekahs and their guests. Odd
Fellows and their families, enjoyed
delightful social hour last night
al the |. o. o. F. hall. the occasion
being the observance OF the SEVENTEEN
anniversary Of the Rebekah branch
of Odd Fellowship, the womens de-
gree, given TO the world by Schuyler
Colfax. an Odd Fellow. farmer, news.
paper publisher, statesman and vice.
president q the United States.
The meeting was called 10 order by
Mrs. Ella Dent, noble grand OF the
local lodge who. after q few well
chosen words, the singing Of the Oh.
ening ode Of the order. and PRAYER
by the chaplain. Mr.. G. c. Borren.
introduced Judge !. Il. Mason. who
delivered the welcome address and
presided over the remainder of the
meeting.
Judge Mason's words had more than
passing interest In tho fact that !he
founder Of this branch Of the order
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23

was close friend OF Mr.. Masons
father. and on frequent occasions
visited at his house. He told of hear
ing this noble man talk at odd Fellow
gatherings years before he ever
thought Of being an odd Fellow.
Mrs c. p. Washington, principal OF
second ward school was the next
speaker and although she spoke as Il
lhree.minute man." her words were
gems Of thought and beauty and car
ried message OF our lives OF today
10 every one who heard them.
Col. +. L. Gregory, who has held
the highest office in the ranks OF
odd Fellowship, that OF Grand Master
of the state OF Tennessee, gave one
of his forceful fraternal talks, which
was a review Of the order, he told Of
how he began making these talks,
and in attending such meetings a.
this Being pretty long-winded In his
talk on the order, his wife and he
decided that when the time came
that the audience would become restive
Mrs. Gregory would give him the
quitting sign, which was done by
scratching her hair.
Whether this sign was given last
night or not is not known, but after
iO.minute good OF the order talk
he was roundly applaudcd.
Others who took part In the pro-
gram by readings and song were
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23

The calendar year begins in January, but the
business year opens in September.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
OKLAHOMA WOMAN
SAYS IT PROVED TO
BE FRIEND IN NEED

II honestly believe Tanlac is the
best medicine in the world and /
speak from personal experience and
not from hearsay," said Mrs. q. w
Bryce, 427 Noble street, Oklahoma
City. Okla.
II suffered for two years from in
digestion. nervousness and sleepless-
ness, and about sixteen months ago
had complete breakdown. Finally
lost nearly all my strength and had
to take to my bed and stayed there
all of the winter and part of the sum
mer too. believe | was about as
wretched in mind and body as II per
son ever gets to be.
"Tanlac proved a friend in need
and if it had been made especially
Tor my case it couldn't have suited
me better. I'm just like different
person now and eat. sleep and feel
better than | have in many years. ]
have adopted Tanlac as our family
medicine and intend always to have
it in the house"
Tanlac is sold in Ardmore by the
Frame Drug Co., and by leading
druggists everywhere.--Adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
MEDIUM in TRANCE,
RUNS DOWN CRIMINALS

Berlin. Sept. e3.-Utilzation of
spiritualistic mediums by the police
is the latest. German method of run
ming down criminals. 1t vas first EN-
ployed at Heidelberg. when the Burgo-
master of that city was murdered, and
later in the assassination of Matthias
Erzberger
The police at Heidelberg had spir-
itualistic medium go into a trance
The medium then recalled incidents of
the crime and described the murder
ers. From the description furnished
by the medium the police Were en-
abled to make arrests which led to
solution of the crime.
A medium at Mannheim was utilized
i'm the Erzberger case. She told of the
shooting. giving details that We're cor
roborated by the police and described
the trail taken by the murderers. She
said that they We're at present hiding
in Naples.
At the time of the seance the police
were working on a clue that the assas-
sins were in Switzerland. The two
murderers were described either as SOL
diers or eX-solders.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
MARRIED MEN LEAD
LIST OF SUICIDES

Chicago. Sept. 23.-Suicides have
increased "a per cent during the first
seven months of 1927 as compared to
the same months last year, according
to figures made public by Coroner
Peter NJ. Hoffman. The suicide toll
was 365 for the seven months with
the month of May highest with 81.
Three times as many men took their
own lives as women. In age. the sui
cides ranged between thirty and forty
years while the married men was
two to one over the bachelor. Almost
one.third We're asphyxiated, with
shooting a close second as the
means"
Temporary insanity was the motive
in the most cases, with despondency'
due to i'll health q close second.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
MAN IN SHIRT SLEEVES

A RESTAURANT corporation and the Santa Fe
Railroad Company have been given an order by
the chairman OF the Corporation Commission for
bidding them to deny service to men who want 70
dine in their shirt sleeves. American are the
most conventionalized and tmid wearers Of
clothes in the world, and this is OF the few rec,
ognitions that they have any right OF decision what
ever
Women do as they please One generation of
them sweeps the sidewalks with long skirts and
another makes stocking-tops and skirt hens meet.
Man makes about as much change in his clothing as
a rabbit makes in his
Continued warm is the standing summer fore
cast out west the plains and there man has
achieved little more independence and his right to
make few decisions for himself is recognized
by authority in Oklahoma. He has not lost
any OF his citizenship rights ii he has removed his
coat In most states he has lost some OF them
Chicago Tribune
Too much has been said about the present. output
OF poison variety liquor, and too little has been said
about the whereabouts of the botled-in-bond left
over.
The calendar year begins in January, but the
business year opens in September
-o
This is the beginning OF new business year lets
make it hummer
1t is difficult for man to maintain his sell
respect and require tenants to live in OF the
houses that adorn Southern Oklahoma farms.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
BANK VAULT DOOR
WEIGHS FIFTY TONS

Kansas City. Sept. pa steel door,
weighing fifty tons which will guard
the vault of the new Federal Re
serve Bank here was hauled from the
railroad yards To the bank building by
four draft horses and two five ton
trucks. each Of sixty horsepower pull
ing capacity Several days We're re
quired to get the door from the rail
road car ON which it was brought
here to the house movers trucks on
on which it was hauled TO the building
today 1t will take 4 week or more TO
get II inside the building. II was said
by the contractor who is moving it,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23
NORRIS GROCERY CO., BIG FIRE
SALE NOW GOING On. NEXT TO
CORDOVA HOTEL. I.-idv. 1913
Oil FIELD WORKERS
VOTE TO GO ON STRIKE

Los Angeles, Cal, Sept 2S.-All
locals of the oil Workers international
Union in Southern California repre-
senting 5000 men Wednesday voted
to strike in sympathy with the Kern
county oil fields strikers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23

and little Marie Weeks, only four
years old, whose song delighted every.
one.
Following the program refreshments
were served Many expressions OF
pleasure at being present and looking
forward to the coming of the next
anniversary were heard.
Evidently some one had been read
ing the words on the X. X. *. banner
for they said: We will Be Back"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-09-23

Sell it through The Ardmoreltc
Classified Ads.
The New York herald., 1921-07-02
BURROUGHS CLUB DECIDES
FOR WHITE HOUSE OWLS
Jury of Youngsters Appointed by President Harding
Files Brief Rectng Economic Value and Argu-
ing Against Their determination.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-The owls can
live. The John Burroughs Club jury
appointed by President Harding to con-
slider the question says so, and the
jury so reported to-day in memoran-
dunn filed by the youngsters with George
B. Christian, Jr.. the Presidents secre-
tary. The finding Of the jury is based
upon the clubs investigation and upon
hundreds of briefs filed with the Ameri-
can Forestry Association for the club
from every section of the country.
These briefs took up every phase of
owl values as pest destroyers to their
tabled influence on the lives of human
beings. Some of the writers called upon
President Harding to get rid Of the owls
at once IL there are any In the White
House grounds. and predicted all kinds
OF bad luck for his Administration. The
John Burroughs Club, however consid-
cred only the economic value of the owls.
for the question put to them by Judge"
Harding was in,sregard to birds that
preyed on other birds being allowed to
live.
the fnding OF the jury, as fled at the
White House to day, follows:
In spite of the fact that these birds
destroy others of their own ilk, they have
to their credit and in defence of their
lives the fact that they are of much
economic value and have certain other
qualities in their favor.
I'VE shall take, for instance, the
crow, whose value in lessening the num-
Der of harmful insects was so great that
for long time scientists working for the
Government were unable to say whether
his bad acts counterbalanced his good
deeds.
Next we take the great horned owl,
whose bad habits are we'll known, but
even he kills rats. mice and other
rodents
Finally we come to the coopers and
sharp skinned hawks, who, especially
the coopers hawk, have brought wrath
and hate upon the heads of even the less
destructive birds of prey of the country.
But, then, can we convict a whole class
of Gods creatures because a few have
been known to slaughter their own kind T?
Can that inexorable law of nature the
survival of the fittest,' which has been
since the world began be broken by US
who owe so much to it, even unto our
very existence? Do we put sentence Of
death on all bears because few have
The New York herald., 1921-07-02
IS SENT
TO RESCUE BEDFORD
Mother Says the Boy Is Just
Like a Baby, and Case Is
Purely Medical.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, July 1.-Charles
Bedford 20, son or Charles E. Bedford,
vice-president OF the Vacuum Oil Com
pany at New York, was taken to the
Jeffersonville Reformatory to-day to
serve from three to five years for steal
ing an automobile.
His family communicated with the au-
thorities to-day, stating that they con-
templated starting action for his release
on the grounds that he Is mentally ir-
responsible.
Young Bedford was convicted yester-
day Of stealing an automobile.
BELLPoRT, L. l., July Mrs. Charles
e. Bedford said to-day that the family
had received word of the arrest of her
son, Charles Bedford, In Michigan City,
Ind, and his conviction for the theft OF
an automobile.
1T is purely medical case" Mrs.
Bedford said, "and should be handled
as such. The boy Is just like a baby.
He has been mentally unbalanced since
serious illness more than a year ago.
He spent almost a year at Blooming
dale, and we thought he was cured,
but when we put him in a sanitarium
we found he was not.
HE escaped from the physician who
was taking him West to a ranch for
the treatment of nervous cases. The
physician. thinking Charles would re-
turn home. came back, and we had the
trains and ferries watched. Later we
received a wire from Charles sayin Z
that he had been arrested.
THE physician has gone back. and
will quickly show that the case is not
for the police but for the medical
authorities"