The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-10-07
Rainbow of Prosperity is Seen
On Ardmore Horizon By Banker
Changes Economic Conditions
& Work for Betterment In
South, Dings Says.

p. c. Dings, president of the Guar
anty State Bank of Ardmore was here
from his office in Chicago Thursday
and FRIDAY. He is looking we'll and is
the horizon has begun to clear" he
said, land is making rapid strides
and the country will soon be on a
solid footing and these fellows that
complain SO bitterly will soon be
looking back and realizing how fool.
ishly they acted in taking fright be-
fore there was anything to really
frighten.
81 want TO enter word Of approval
for .he Chamber of Commerce cam
paign for the building up of the
creamery business. AS a banker,
man whose boots are spattered with
milk. He will always pay. lie gets
money every week. He needs TO
contract no debts except for expan.
sion of his business.
Cows Lift Mortgages
"Thc COW and the hog. that go hanG
in hand on the farm, are mortgage
lfters. They will not only lirt the
mortgage but they will take the
tenant farmer and put him in home
of his own. When Carter county uses
what it has in they way of dairying,
hog raising, purebred cattle rails
ing and in growing potatoes, peanuts,
alfalfa and the like you will build
greater county with more wealth
and more happiness and more con.
tentment and your new generations
will be educated men and women
which is best of all and which always
results from farm prosperity"
Oil to Make Advances
In speaking of the oil situation Mr..
Dngs says that oil viii hold its own
and will make further advances
Drills will soon become busy again.
he said New areas will be opened
up and the city of Ardmore will con-
tinue to go forward. The discovery
of Hewitt put city property clear
above any doubt Of the future of the
city and real estate will gradually
grow stronger until another field is
discovered in our territory and then
you will see property values go be-
yond your fondest dreams and thert
will be many fortunes made in Ard
more realty just as there have been
many fortunes made that way in the
past.
while there is a drop in the wheat
market just at this time, the general
tendency OF wheat is upward. The
progress will be slow because we must
depend upon Europe TO take the sur
plus crop and foreign trading is not
back to normal.
Coal Strike is Coming
I'm my opinion" Mr.. Dings con-
tinues, there will be no railroad
strike. Labor voted for a strike be.
cause the leaders wanted to have
weapon in their fight but the lead.
ers will not use the weapon. However,
there may be a coal strike and should
such a thing happen II will result in
much suffering among the people this
winter.
'''rhe natural tendency now Is to-
ward lower retail prices and toward
lower wages but there is no reason
why prices should descend to that
point where the retail business of the
country will he hurt or where the Ia.
borer will not have funds to COM
fortably house and educate his family.
Reductions TO such a point are never
healthy and never desirable and thees
commodities will naturally seek the
level to which they belong without
agitation and trouble The world will
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