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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-09
DRY ACT PROHIBITS LIQUOR TRANSPORT
 THROUGH AMERICA
Both Transportation and Pos session Prohibited, Regard less of Place Where They
 Are to Be Consumed
Rx Assoeinted press

Washington, February s.-Trans-ship-
 rilents of intoxicating liquors for bever- age purposes from one foreign country
 to another through the United States is
 prohibited by the national prohibition act,
 according to an opinion by Acting Attor-
 ney General Nebeker, made public to- day.
 The opinion was in reply to an inquiry
 of the treasury department as to whether
 the prohibition jaws affect the provisions
 of the customs laws, which permit all
 merchandise arriving al any port and des-
 tined for a foreign country to be con
 yeyed through this country without pay
 ment of duties
 "The national prohibition act" MT.
 Nebeker declared, applies to all the ter
 ritories of the United States that is not
 otherwise excepted and extends to all
 territories of the United States that is
 not otherwise excepted and extends to all
 waters within it's territorial limits, in-
 cluding a marine league from the shore;
 within these waters the manufacture,
 sale. transportation. possession, etc.. is prohibited"
 Transportation of liquor throughout the Panama canal and on the Panama rail- road, the acting Attorney General said, was expressly excepted by Congress from
 the terms of the prohibition act. Both transportation and possession of intoxicating liquors for beverage pur- poses, Mir. Nebeker continued, are pro- hibited except as authorized. regardless of the place where they are minded to bes consumed. The prohibition act, there fore, he concluded, prohibits in transit shipments of such liquors touching at the ports or moving through the United States"
 New customs regulations will be draft ed in accordance with the opinion, GUS toms officials said tonight, as soon as study of the acting Attorney Generals 8 interpretations of the law is completed. Strictly construed, they added, the opn-
 ion blockades American ports to ships with liquor aboard, well as prohibiting trans-shipments.
 Violation of the law, officials said, would render such liquor subject to seiz- ure However. It was suggested that the practice of sealing up while in port the liuuor aboard foreign ships intended for the use of the crew might be extended to cargo of liquor on vessel merely put | ting in at an American port on a voyage between foreign ports.
 DIPLOMATS BOOZE SAFE Shipments of liquor to this country consigned to the diplomatic representa- tives of foreign nations, nevertheless, of ficials asserted, would not be interfered with by the customs officers. That ques- ton, they declared which penalizes in- terference with diplomatic representa- 1 tiyes Closing the United States to liquor trans-shipments, prohibition officers sa,d' would solve another enforcement prob | lem by shutting off a source of illegal supply Shipments of liquor from can ada to Mexico by rail or to American ports for American ports they ex- planed, have given trouble to prohibition authorities Consignments from Canaoa l tCentinued on Page Two)
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
HONESTY WITH ADVERTISERS

One of the greatest evils which has developed in modern
storekeeping is the matter of substitution
Through his advertising manufacturer may convinceI
ought to When you ask for these advertised products
in some stores you discover strange condition. The
chant have what ask for but he takes great pains
to sell you something else.
This is because whole multitude of products have been
put the market for the definite purpose of substitution
1t is nothing less than deliberate attempt to cash
in on the other fellows advertising
Gain not base gains; base gains the lossess
says Hesod.
There be larger margin of profit the substituted
article and for that the merchant believes he is max
ing more profit by offering the unadvertsed article
However, the time he in selling the substitute
amounts to something Time is money business in every
thing else. BY concentrating upon the sale of weknown
advertised merchandise time lost in craftsmanship These
goods already sold before the clerk says word By
selling larger volume of these standard goods the store
keeper really make profit if he will only realize it.
Big volume of sales at small profit better than small volume
of sales at q larger margin Of profit.
The question of ethics also should be considered When
manufacturer has spent money to influence sales for his
-poduct it quite ethical not to say honest for the mer
chant to switch" the purchaser to substitute article?
Advertised products are usually of high standard of
excellence to advertise inferior article would be
10 tell the world its faults Advertising never be
cess unless the product advertised is all that IL claimed TO
be- And advertising creates larger volume of sales,
abg the manufacturer to sell products of high grade at
lower prices.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
LOCAL PRINTERS
WILL NOT TAKE
PART In STRIKE

Under New York date line the
Ardmoreite carried story last night
To the effect that ON May l there would
Doe a strike OF men in the printing bus-
ness The printers in the job offices
of the country have asked Tor the A.
hour week TO be made effective on May
|. Many employing printers are fight
ng the reduction OF hours and In many
shops there will he walk outs. Okla
huma employing printers have organ
lied to fight the workmen and a meet
ing has been called for oklahoma City
To be held April ~.
The job printers of Ardmore have
signed up with the printers and as
far as this city Is concerned there will
be- no strike. Also It can be stated
with assurance that there win be no
sympathetic strike on the part of print
ers whore the shops have signed up
and whore the contracts have been ap-
proved by the International Union ~
is the ease in this city.
on the Ith day OF May the printers
OF the country will vote ON the PROPOSE.
tion OF devoting ten per cent of their
gross earnings To be used for the sup
port OF the men who 1t Is expected Will
bc out on u strike II Us practically
certain that the assessment will be-
voted and the term Of the assessment Is
Indefinite. That means that the tax
will bee allowed to stand until the fight
Is won.
The reduction Of hours reminds us
OF the fight that was made against the
S-hour day. The printers won that
fight and the employers never gave
evidence OF being injured. II ~ claimed
by the printers that ON the whole there
will be- just as much work done during
the shorter hours, that men who are
not uVcrWorsed viii feel freshcr and
will accomplish more In a given time.
IL this is not the case there a. but one
solution to the matter and that is to
pass the extra expense on TO the peo-
pie and they will find 1t charged up to
them In their printing bills.
There II scarcely an office anywhere
that does not waste each year much
printed matter. Letterheads and en-
vclopes are allowed to become soilcd.
some men will use printed stationery aS
memorandum pad, etc. II the people
who use printing will save this waste
they will more than make back the
extra cost OF printing and at the same
time give the printers one afternoon IN
the week off to be with their families
or to engage In some recreative sport
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
THAT LITTLE WORD, COURTESY"

Have you ever tried Courtesy Campaign"
Courtesy is another for Kindness Courtesy one
of the greatest influences toward business building and yet
of the least used.
Courtesy is than smart "goodmomng" to the
customer or the fawnng thankyou after the sale That
merely poiteness
ii we would be truly courteous must go deeper,
must be helpful and kind and sincere
Try the Courtesy Idea yourself Imagine that you 90
to buy suit of cothes that the salesman gres you pleas
ant listens carefully to your description of the Of suit
you want brings out for your inspection.
But after all you do not find what you have your mind set
upon and turn 60 Imagine that the salesman
instead of looking daggers you, should smile and say
Now remember. it pleasure to show you suits.
Come again You are always welcome. Please don't feel
that have to buy unless find exactly what you want
Wouldn't that sort of farewell make you feel friendly make
you speak well of the store to your friends?
Not long ago Chicago newspaper conducted courtesy
campaign reporter given the mission of relating his
daily encounters with various citizens and each day $50 was
given award to the person who the most
teous and helpful to the disguised newspaper II said
that this unique plan had marked effect upon the conduct
of the people they osed their way along the streets
rode the
Why not try Courtesy Campaign in your store office?
Make clear just what real courtesy is-that it must
from the heart
Incidentally remember that your stores reputation for
good manners honesty atracteness depends not upon yo
the proprietor but upon the saepeope who actually meet
your customers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
AS GOVERN MENT
ASSUMES CONTROL
OF RAILW WAYS IN
ALASKA RATESC CUT
FREIGHT CHARGES REDUCED S6
PER CENT; PRIVATE OWNERS
DEMAND PROHIBITIVE PRICES
FOR TRANSPORTATION

Anchorage, Alaska, April 20.-Rates
on freight consigned to interior Alaska
points will be reduced from around
$3.50 a ton, the present price, TO within
$25 a ton, when the government rail-
road from tidewater to the inside" is
completed next spring, It is estimated
here.
As q result a great deal Of mining
machinery will be shipped to the inter
ior, it is thought, and many dredge and
frozen placer areas will be enabled to
resume operation. At present the high
freight rates on supplies and machinery
make 1t impossible TO operate at prof
it.
For years much Of the freight for
Fairbanks, Nenana, Fort Gibbon, Ruby
and other interior points has been sent
by teams over trails from the seaport
towns Of Valdez and Cordova. During
the summer some shipments went in
by the long water route from Seattle
to St. Michaels and up the Yukon Rive,
system, while other consignments We're
billed via. Seattle to Skagway. across
the mountains on the White Pass rail-
road and down the Yukon from White
Horse
When the railroad is completed, tims
and cost will be saved. Goods will b,
shipped from Seattle to Seward or An.
chorage. the seaport towns of the rail.
road and will be carried by the line
across the mountains to Nenana and
Fairbanks, two interior points both on
Continued on Page Two)
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
Madil, Our Next Door Neighhor Has Live Wire Chamber
OF Commerce; Lookr5 For HustEng Boosting, Secretary
LaW's Comblex
Bars Child d--Mother..
Wife on EueryH Hand

Chicago, April 2O.-Too young in
years to be a wife and mother, al
though she is actually both, too old
in experience to go back to school
vita other children, so she may
progress far enough to go TO work
under Illinois statutes, the case Of
Mary Prohowink and her baby was
presented TO juvenile court Off
cials today by Miss Sullivan, assis-
tant states attorney.
In July, 1919, when Mary was
13 years old, she left her home
here and went with Steve Danko
to Detroit, where they were mar.
ried and their baby was born.
Marys parents took her away from
her husband and brought her back
to Illinois where she could not work
under the Illinois law, because, al
though she is now IA, she had only
reached the third grade.
Another law barred her from
school because of her motherhood,
so she was taken 10 police deten-
ton home, while her parents cared
for the baby and under a special
dispensation, she was permitted to
go home evenings to see her child
Mary wants to go back to Detroit
to her husband, but under the law
she is too young without her par.
ents approval.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
GOVERNMENT HAS
TROUBLE FINDING
MONEYS OWNERS
PROFITS ON WOOL WENT TO THE
WRONG FELLOWS; OBSTACLES
PREVENT PAYMENT TO GROW
ERS: COIN IN TREASURY
(By the Associated Press)

Washington, April 21.-The govern
ment, which lately has been having diff
ficultes in getting money. also occas-
ionally encounters difficulty in getting
rid Of 1t. The latter difficulty faces the
agricultural departments bureau of
markets which is trying to distribute
half million dollars among wool grow
ers and distributors The job has been
dragging along for months without
coming to an end
Under war time price regulations, the
government bought all the wool pro-
duced in the United States, fixed the
commission to all dealers and buyers,
and undertook to see that the sheep
men got the exact amount due them
on their entire flock growth. In view
of the tremendous weight of wool hand
led. small mistakes in weights and esti-
mates accrued during the TWO years
the system was operated, and Ia the
end the audit of the joint accounts
showed that dealers had $55G,013.9S on
hand in excess of their allotted profits
and commissions. This, it was decided,
should 30 back to the producers. In
accordance with the amount of wool
they furnished the government. But ii
has proven easier to decide the problem
than to work it.
The government TO date has distrib-
uted S1O1, ,5G9.62 TO 34,5SO wool growers,
Most of the excess profits originated
in the territory east OF the Mississippi
river, where small sheep flocks are
somewhat Of u side line for farmers.
Big producers in the west were easily
accounted for.
The government thus is up against
the job Of paying the money out in
amounts ranging from 80 cents up
wards TO So. Also, it has been discov-
cred that while $500 country buyers
took out proper licenses and came un-
der regulation, 1869 stoekeepers. bank
ers and others bonght small lots Of
wool but didn't handle enough to ac-
quaint themselves of the requirements.
The balance OF the half million Is like
ly TO lay in the treasury for indefinite
ly as a consequence.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
CANADIAN JOYFUL
JUICE Is HARDER
TO GET INTO US. A.
RESTRICTING SALE OF ONE QUART
PER PERSON PUTS LIMIT DOWN
TO PENNY ANTE WITH A
TEN-CENT LIMIT
(By the Associated Press)

Burlington, VT, April 20.-Smuggling
Of whisky across the Canadian border
into Vermont will be virtually restrict
cd after May to the small supply that
may trickle through in satchels, boot
legs, and hip pockets in the opinion Of
prohibition agents here.
On that date Dominion law limiting
each purchase of whisky to single
quart becomes effective. While beers
and wines flow freely north Of the line
United States officers do not anticipate
any flood on this side because profits
in these light liquors are too small TO
tempt the rum runners.
Recent seizures have indicated a
concerted effort to rush large stocks IT
whisky into the state before the Cana
dian one-quart limit is enforced Auto
mobile traffic. formerly the principal
underground source is less used now
adays, but now ana then a loaded car
is caught slipping with muffled motor
along the by-paths Of the border. Scores
Of machines have been abandoned re-
Gently by parties that were checked by
yigilant guards.
Most of the shipments however, have
been made by freight car in recent
months. False sides had been built into
lumber ears and whisky in large guam
titles concealed in the skilfully con-
structed bins. Spirits have come across
the line also hidden in hay. grain. po'
tatoes and shipments of similar ma
ture. Some have fallen into the revenue
officers hands before leaving the rail
way tracks.
Capture Of liquor cached in freight
cars, however, is more or less a matter
OF luck, the enforcement agents admit
and this is the chief reason for the use
Of this means Of smuggling by the men
who thereby avoid risk OF their persons
or automobiles.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
s. P. BOYD NAMED.
PRESIDENT OF THE.
MADILL CHAMBER
OF CO M M f RCE

AIadill, Okla, April 2O.-The Madill
Chamber of Commerce. ut its regular
meeting held In the rooms of the or
ganization here Monday evening, elect
ed officers TO serve for the ensuing
year.
$. Il. Boyd, u leading business man,
was named president, while q board Of
five directors was chosen from among
the representative men Of the city on
the board every line Of business l. rep
resented including the banks.
The club has arranged for II salary
OF $500 per month to be paid live
wire secretary and the directors fol.
lowing their organization this after
noon, will enter into correspondence
with different parties and from the
number viii select one who will join
hands with the citizens OF the commu-
nifty In putting Madil and Marshall
county ON the map of Oklahoma as one
OF the leading commercial ana aWl-
cultural centcrs uf southern Oklahoma.
The club will join hands with the
citizens OF all sections of the county
and work toward securing aud building
a system Of roads in Marshall county
second to none In the state.
The meeting Monday night was well
attended and all present expressed a
willingness to put their shoulders to
the wheel and help boost both the city
and county,
Mr. Boyd upon being named president
Of the organization, accepted the honor
In a very timely and gracefully rem
dered speech and stated In positive
terms that he would expect the COS
operation of both the membership Of
the board OF directors and the individ.
uals belonging to the club.
Talks upon the vital worth Of live
commercial club In city and general
community interest were delivered by
:. T.. Boyd, H. a. Small. Colonel Rus.
SELL w. a. Lawrence ~ Crcekmore,
and others. all OF Madill. and by George
H. wyatt. managing editor OF the Ard
more Daily Atdmoreitc, but formerly
editor OF the leading Madill newspaper.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
Diplomats of Kaiser Pre-
pairing New Proposition
for the Payment of
Indemnities
EFFORT TO CREATE
POPULAR SENTIMENT
SEEKS TO MAKE POSSIBLE OCCU-
PATTON OF TEUTONIC TERRI
TORY UNPOPULAR WITH
OTHER NATIONS

Paris, April 19.-The Temps today
publishes "a dispatch under a Cologne
date line giving what purports to be
propositions which the newspaper says
Germany will make to the allies, We'd
nesday OF Thursday.
According to the Temps, Germany
proposes to pay to the allies 100000
900 gold marks during 10 years, and
also yearly payments equal 10 one
fifth Of the value of German exports
to allied countries during the preced-
ing year.
To realize a part Of the above indem-
mites, says the d-patch, Germany pro-
poses to issue an international loan Of
ten billion gold marks, upon which she
is prepared to pay interest up to five
per cent. The loan would be guaran-
teed by railroad earnings, and also by
participation up TO 70 per cent in Ger
man private industries. Germany then
would be ready to discuss the total Of
its debt to the allies. according to the
dispatch.
Germany will also offer reparations
4 in kind, saying German contractors
and labor would undertake to recon-
struct certain percentage Of the work
in northern France, and also that Ger
man industry would supply French
owners whose property was destroyed,
with materials, which would be paid by
bonds which the government Of Ger.
many would deliver to French owners.
The Temps in commenting on the
dispatch says:
Berlin is convinced that the repara-
tions will be rejected by the allies. but
insists in presenting them publicly
hoping that certain part Of opinion
abroad will consider them sufficient 10
bring pressure to bear upon the allies
not to enter the Ruhr region.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
Oppose Colombian Treaty

Washington, April 20.-Vigorous op-
position to ratification of the Colom-
bian treaty was voiced in the senate
today by Senator Norris, Republican.
Nebraska. He referred to Republican
senator's Of the past as rubber stamps"
of the White House and declared that
payment of s25, 900 900 to obtain Col
ombia's good will would logically be
followed by payments TO other nations
of the world for their good will.
.'ll We pay Colombia $25, 900 900, how
long will she stay bought?" he de-
manded
The senator said the effect of the
treaty would be to turn over the Pana-
ma Canal To the countries Of the world,
retaining 10 the United States the
sacred privilege cf paying the canals
expenses and upkeep."
As the final days debate got under
way, Senator Poindexter. Republican,
Washington, offered several amend.
ments to the treaty. one would re-
duce the cash payment from SIS 900, 600
To $4,000 600; second would withdraw
the unlimited privileges of transport
for Colombian troops and war vessels
through the canal. and third would
Withdraw the agreement TO transit
Colombian merchant vessels and com.
modities through the canal at no great
or charges or tolls than shall be as
sessed against American vessels and
products. Senator Wadsworth. Re
publican, New York. attacked the treaty
as another instance OF burgling" with
Latln-American countries. Equal tran
sit privileges accorded Coloinbia. hc
said, We're calculated to drive tho
United States into international diff
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
Charge Made by Head of
Grange That Money Was
Wasted Fighting Gov
ernment Control
HIGH FREIGHTS WILL
RUIN ALL BUSINESS
FARMERS SUFFER HARDER FROM
EXTORTIONATE TRANSPORTA.
TlON CHARGES: ALL LINES
ARE AFFECTED

Washington. April 20. - Declaration
by w. Jett Lauck, economist for the
railway labor unions that l2 New York
financial institutions had inaugurated
nationwide shutdowns were character
ized here today by Charles II. Sabin.
president of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany, as false in every respect"
Members of the union from many
states were present, headed by Ma
tlonal Secretary Davis. They told the
commission that besides reducing the
loss now sustained by the farmers in
the sale of their crops, a lowering of
freight rates would be a big psycholo-
gical factor in starting the marketing
OF farm products and a general price
reduction in other lines.
Unable to market their own products.
the farmers, the spokesmen said, are
virtually on buyers strike.
Members of the commission asked
for suggestions that would make pos.
sible reduction Of freight rates in the
face OF high equipment and labor costs.
Commissioner McChord declared the
roads had lost about $4,000 900 in op-
Grafton during the last year and asked
whether the solution of the present
freight rate problem was not after all
one for labor, capital, shippers and the
steel industry TO solve, rather than the
commission.
Money, labor and equipment are all
abnormally high" said he.
Mr.. McChord asked Secretary Davis
whether, with cheap freight rates farm.
ers could market their products at
profit.
Possibly not" Mr.. Davis replied
but freight rate reduction would be
one factor and it would be foolish TO
reject any plan that would reduce the
farmers loss simply because IL does
not solve their whole problem"
Mr.. Davis added that II decreases In
freight rates would not increase the
volume of business at the railways suf-
ficien1ly to make profit for them. the
farmers would rather pay the railway
deficit in the form of taxes than bear
the entire burden of high freight rates
us at present.
President MacSparran, of the Penn
sylvania Grange. declared that the
present labor costs resulted from ef-
forts of railway executives during fed
eral control to prove government own
ership failure. He cited alleged IN
stances Of extraordinary increases I'm
the number Of employees during the
control period on little used properties
with the deliberate intention of run.
ming expenses high as possible"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-20
rArTLE MARINE PROMOTERS
FACE SERIOUS CHARGES

Tulsa. Okla. April 2O.-Chargcd with
staging a reproduction of the battle of
the Marine In Tulsa early In 1919 un'
der false rcnrcsentation that they were
lieutcnants In the United Smtes army
detailed to that work by the war de-
partment and thereby defrauding Tulsa
business men out Of several thousand
dollars. Elmer W. Douds Warren J..
Vibbard. W. IL Wood aud u. j. JcnN.
ins are to be tried In the federal court
today. Rain prevented the show and
the men left town.