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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02
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breakfast room. hard wood floors
and French doors; nice lot. or'Ve
way and garage. one OF inc peh.
paved streets 10 town. VIII Se"
completely furnished. $3.50 down
balance 500 per month, imlheoia'r
nossesslon. Lnngston & kinH'
40, Simpson Building or phones 444,
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02
Okla City Pays Higher Rate

Oklahoma City. Jan. 'l.-oklahoma
CITY residents today began paying In
creased gas rates In accordance with
The corporation commissions order
effective Jan /. Tho increase
amounting to ten cents, makes the
new rate 5S cents thousand for the
first 100000 feet of gas with
graduated scale for amounts over
this figure.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02
state Subscriptions


Abldl---- 80 WI ,lNf
Robert p Maddox Of Atlanta, chair
man Of the campaign committee. to
whose work is due largely the real-
zation Of the plans for this large
bank under the Edge Law, gave the
following statement to the correspond
cnt OF The Christian Science Moni-
tor:
The ovcrsubscription Of the capital
stock originally contemplated. and the
optimistic atmosphere of the confer
ences, were gratifying features OF the
launching Of this bank, so long need
cd by the export and general foreign
commercial interests Of the south
and pleasing intimations of the sue
cess of its future. Those who have
co-operated in the organization Of this
institution believe, from the response
their labor has received, that the
sonth has now arrived at point from
which II can handle its own financial
problems, This bank is the third Of
its kind to be formed in the coun-
try.
Many Branch Banits
"The headquarters VIII be in New
Orleans, but there will be branch
banks established in many foreign
countries, including agencies in Lon
don Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid. Lis
bon, Christiania, and in each OF the
South American capitals, with prob
ably one branch serving Central Am
erica. Under the bylaws. these banks
cannot discriminate against localities
or communities OR any interests
whatever, so that each of the nine
southern states involved will be as
adequately served az the state in
which the headquarters is establish
ed.
The call for the payment Of o5 per
cent of the stock means that the
bank will begin business very shortly,
probably within ten days, following
the stockholders meeting of January
Z, with funds on hand aggregating at
least $l,S50,O00. Under its charter
privileges II can and will sell deben-
lures and acceptances of 10 times the
amount OF its capital so that the
operation Of the bank will mean the
release Of virtually stS,500,OO0 as n
revolving fund to relieve tight COM
mercial conditions in the south and
in tho south's foreign trade"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02
TRIED TO KILL WIFE AS
OLD YEAR PASSED OFT

Ada, Okla, Jan. 1.-Aance j. Jones
of this city is being held today on
charge of assault with intent to kill
as result Of shooting OF his wife
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02

philadelphia. Two bombs placed IN
taxicabs in separated parts oi t'F
city. explode Simultaneously. damag-
ing cabs but not injurlne drivers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02

last night. Jones is alleged to have
shot her after quarrel following
their return from a New Year dance.
She is said by physicians to be in n
critical condition.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02

Dcnver.--Pillar Of Fire, religious or
ennlzation. charged with alternating af-
iections OF wife of the Rev. Thomas
a, Goode, who files suit for s1oo'ooo'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02

Okmulgce Price Of milk reduced
from % cents quart to 20 cents II
quart starting Jan. g.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02

Company Is not dissatisfied with present
business conditions.
Mr.. Cooper states that he has just
closed the largest years business in the
history Of his business career He is at
present delivering more cars than he
was six months or year ago. He states
that people are not spending money as
lavishly as they did year ago, but still
have money sufficient to supply their
needs. They are closer buyers and try
ing to get more for their money. This
is not all together indicative of hard
times, but Mr.. Cooper believes is the
spirit of thrift which people are grow
ing into more each day. People are
spending money but are looking for
value received"
Not only is business better in Ard
more with Mr. Cooper, but he also states
that business at his Wilson branch has
increased twenty-five per cent in the
last few months and that the Rmgling
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02
MMMN MMH
TOM. COOPER MOTOR co.

branch has increased their business ten
or fifteen per cent. That business has
increased so materially during the last
few months is, in Mr.. Coopers opinion,
a good indication that it will not only
hold up to it's present standard but will
be better for 1921.
81 do not believe that we have passed
the best business era nor that the good
times are thing of the past" said Mr..
Cooper 'but that the best is ahead of
LIS. Each year presents new opportu-
mites.
Everywhere we hear of the pros
perity and advancement Of Ardmore and
Carter county. All Ardmore boosters
do not reside in Ardmore. Do we for
tunate ones realize our opportunities?
"We are living in an age Of pros F.,
perity. The country everywhere is again
at it's best. A lot of our troubles in the
past were only in the mind. Personally
| believe Nineteen Hundred Twenty One
will be GREAT year. l see nothing in it
to fear I believe on New Years day
1922 we will look back over the year and
say we were not optimistic enough. Il
exceeded our expectations"
Adv
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02

Tom Cooper of Tom Cooper Motor
Company Is not dissatisfied with present
business conditions.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-02

W, W, JE 7 MN
Mr.. Dings recently resigned as
nrcsident Of the Oklahoma Bankers
Association; Mr.. Letter Is chairman of
Group Five OF the Association and
will preside at the meeting Of this
group. which includes southern ana
southeastern Oklahoma, to be held IN
this city February 26.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18

so back to the federal constitution for
their guidance and to the declaration
of independence for their inspiration.
1T is the section, in short. where the
kind Of government established by
the fathers is still the ideal of a ma
jority of the people.
Contrasting it with other sections it
is found that New England has been
overrun with foreigners, who, however,
desirable they may be as citizens, are
not STEPPED in American traditions.
New York is a hodgepodge of Ian
guages and nationalities. The great
and prosperous middle west is domi-
mated by foreign. mostly German, views
and manners Of thinking: The west
is catching the turnover from the east,
and receiving uncertain elements of its
own from the Orient.
It is the south that the nation must
seek it's leaders and it's guiding prin-
ciples if it is to remain the worlds
greatest example of self government
Lakeland Telegram.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
A DAILY MESSAGE
BY DR.. WILLIAM &. BARTON
PROPHETS OF OLD

The Ten Commandments are discon-
certingly personal. They do not say,
at is undesirable that there should be
stealing" but, Thou shalt not steal"
They do not say, 1T would benefit So
ciety if mortality were more commonly
observed" they say, Thou shalt not
commit adultery"
Large is the effort to soften down
this rude personal directness. AS for
the individual sinner, he or she is
assumed II be more to be pitied than
blamed; the responsibility is upon so
ciety."
1t seems to be necessary in every
age to invent a scapegoat for our own
sins.
Our fathers found the devil con-
venience in this regard: we comfort
ourselves with the fact that Society
is responsible.
Human life has invested largely in
indemnity insurance against personal
responsibility.
This was not the way the old proph-
cts did it.
Nathan did not say to David, AN
exceedingly unfortunate condition has
arisen, and a situation exists for which
widespread social conditions must be
held chiefly responsible, but whicb( l
regret to say, is liable to work harm
my indirection, to the royal govern
ment": he said, Thou art the man"
That was what caused David TO rise
from him throne and clothe himself
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
ON THE FIRING LINE.

The generals face grew serious,
A cloud formed on his brow.
IL seemed as tho the enemy
Had bested him just now.
The aide-de-camp looked up and
feared
Defeat was not far off:
He held his breath almost afraid
To smile or laugh or cough.
And sure the generals look was full
OF meaning most profound.
His wrath was like a tigers just
Before the prey is found.
lis muscles tiwtched with pent-up
rage;
His eyes blazed Ike heater;
Then with an oath he raised his hand
And killed a large mosquito.
--R. ID. ~, In the Tampa Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18

blank amazement at the slender,
woman who had just assumed
Dicky was my brother.
She had been q feIlow-pass
with US on the little mountain
climbing from Kingston to
Spring in the-Catskills, where
and I had planned a weeks Il
She had vaguely annoyed me wi
approving looks at Dicky whe
had accosted me on the train.
After we had alighted from the
station she had been a spectator
dilemma in which the quarant ,
the farmhouse we had expected
had placed US.
She had heard the ridiculou
nick name of sister Sue"
Dicky had called me, and the
for two rooms which he had n
the evident surprise of the c.
boy. Her assumption that Die
my brother instead Of my husba1
of course, a natural one, but
noyed me intensely.
1 was dbOuL ~ vi 1 CT AANA
when the pressure on my arm
Dicky's fingers grew stronger.
a tone which I recognized as full
mischief In which he so often d
he said:
Yes, We expect to have a gres
up here, don't we, Sister Sue?"
l knew that Dicky's love OF
was such that he would greatly
any attempt Of mine to spoil i
contented myself with a demure
Yes, indeed"
But the vague annoyance W
had felt when the woman first
ed me deepened at this mistake
relationship which she had mad
Dicky had sanctioned.
l was sure that the woman h
marital ties-either she was a i
or had never married.
ITO Be Continuedl
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
CUTTING FREIGHT RATES

Pensacola shippers and receivers of
freight complain of high rates. The
chamber of commerce will institute a
traffic bureau to attempt to have the
railroad tariff reduced.
But there is an easier way and a
surer way than that of arguing with
the Louisville 81 Nashville railroad or
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
That way is by water.
Pensacola has long boosted Of its
wonderful harbor.
We know all about it but what good
does it do us If we don't use it.
Sure we let other folks use it. In
terror shipments and foreign ship
ments. But what about Pensacola
folks?
That water transportation offers a
solution to the present freight trans
portation situation here is proved by
the action of group of Ohio lum-
Der buyers. Here is what they did:
Bought several million feet of Doug
las fir on the Pacific coast, loaded it
on ships and transported it via the
Panama canal TO Philadelphia, where
they unloaded it and transhipped 1t
by rail TO Ohio points at a saving of
1S4 a thousand feet over the all-the-way
by rail shipment
There is no reason why Pensacola
merchants should not route their
shipments via Baltimore or some other
port and bring them into Pensacola by
water, thus releasing the city from the
burden of crushing freights. 1t can be
done.
And when water competition be-
comes a fact rail freights will drop
and service will improve.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
ADVENTURES OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

Lets hunt for Mrs. Kangaroo" said
Nick. Does she live near Squeak the
circus elephant?"
Mr.. Fnppety-Flap, the fairy-man,
shook his head. Nope! Nothing like!
She couldn't be happy with a million
tree trunks in the road everywhere.
She has to have room to stretch her
long legs. She lives on a nice grassy
plain, far, away over the ocean. And
say talk about your magic shoes, she's
got it all over US, my dears! She goes
to market in three steps, and ten is
quite a summers vacation. She could
be round the world and back again
while you and I were getting started,
she goes so fast, and takes such long
strides"
Nancy looked discouraged. Then
how can we ever find her?" she de-
clared. Our Green Shoes won't help
us one Bit"
you never can tell" answered the
fairyman, "but I'm thinking that we
shall have to use our wits. Come along,
kiddies. S'pose we start"
Off they wizzed, the three of them
in their Magic Shoes, to the place
where Mrs. Kangaroo lived. To cross
the wide, rolling ocean was but the
matter of a minute or perhaps one and
half minutes or one and three quar-
tiers. But, anyway, they soon arrived
in a very curious place.
Some people call it Australia and
some call it Topsy-Turvy Land, al
though 1t wasn't the same Topsy-
Turvy Land that the twins visited on
their travels. That Topsy-Turvy Land
was In Fairyland and this Topsy-
Turvy Land is in the earth.
No wonder it's called so! The flow
ers are the loveliest in the world, but
have no smell. The birds are the most
gorgeous in creation but cannot sing a
note. And the animals-queerest
things you ever saw. Look at Mrs.
Kangaroo!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18

with sackcloth, and cry, "Have mercy
upon me, o God"
The old prophets were very per-
sonal they were terribly rude. But
their rudeness was effective; and
David was too sensible a man, and
fundamentally too just a man, to do
other than admit his wrong.
In the day Of judgment, which is
today, the index of the books of the
recording angel may be searched in
vain for any page devoted to Society.
For all of SOciety's sins. individual
men and women must account.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
nv A1EI & GARRISON
Why the Persistent Unknown Thought
Madge Was Dicky's Sister.
BY ADELE GARRISON.

Why the Persistent Unknown Thought
Madse Was Dicky's Sister.
"Oh, yes" his face nghtAd up and
he turned to me with a bOyish out
burst of enthusiasm. There's the
best fishing in the stream right back
of our house" he said his face glow
ing-"a man pulled. some whoppers out
of there just last week, and our swim
ming pool you just ought to see it,
Pa fixed it up a couple of years ago
in a sort of little cove, and it's the fin
est place for bathing you ever saw"
HAS your mother two rooms va
cant?" Dicky struck in.
1.-TWO rooms" the boy repeated in
half-puzzled sort of way. You want
two rooms?"
"Of course" Dicky replied. impa-
tiently. "Have you got them ?"
ooh, yes" the boy returned reas-
suringly, Ma only has two rooms fill
cd this week"
THAT ought to be all right then"
Dicky replied, grudgingly. II guess
you can take US over there. But
where's your rig?"
Haven't any" the boy returned
cheerily. ITS only a step over the
bridge and around the curve. I'll carry
your grips, and We'll come over for
your trunk right after supper"
"All right" Dickys i'll humor van
ished, as it has a trick Of doing, in an
instant. He surrendered one bag to
the boy, keeping the other himself, and
turned to me gayly:
Come along, Sister Sue"
AS we started out over the rustic
bridge spanning the rushing mountain
stream the dark slender woman who
had been our fellow passenger Joined
US.
81 am so glad we're going to be fell
low boarders," she said to me. TN
sure your brother and you will enjoy
Cosgrove's very much"
Had it not been for Dtcky pinching
my arm think I should have stopped
short upon the rustic bridge over
which we Were making our way to
Cosgrove's farmhouse. and stared in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
PRESS COMMENT
Perjury

Perjury
In a city that has usually prided it
self on it's administration of justice
several indictments for perjury have
been brought by the grand jury, grow
ing out of a celebrated murder trial
which involved police magistrate. 1t
was established by the testimony of
several witnesses that there were only
three men directly concerned with the
crime. One of them was shot, and it
was accepted as self-evident that one
of the other two did the shooting.
Witnesses heard the report and saw
the flash. The only question was,
which of the survivors did it?
One of the suspected pair was tried
and acquitted, with the testimony evil
IDENTIFY establishing his innocence. Then
the other was tried, and he likewise
was acquitted. The witnesses in the
two trials were mostly the same per-
sons, but they did not tell the same
stories. The testimony of some of
them varied so markedly from the first
trial to the second that it became the
obvious duty of tho prosecuting at
torney to proceed against them for
perjury, ito make an example of
them"
How desirable it is that such an eX-
ample should be made is indicated
from the statement that never, in the
hundred years of that county's history,
has there been a conviction for per-
jury. That there has been a great deal
of perjury goes without saying. The
witnesses in this murder case would
certainly have never ventured to take
such liberties with the truth if they
had not realized that witnesses did
that sort of thing right along with i'm
punity.
This is an evil of which too little
has been said. Perjury has grown to
alarming proportions, in the last few
years especially, in almost every sec
| ton of the country. 1t is one of the
big contributory causes of the increase
in violent crime, though it has not
been sufficiently recognized as a
crime breeder. Why should criminals
fear the law, if they have good reason
for believing that they and their
friends can cheat the law by lying on
the witness stand?
| This country needs new respect for
the oath as much as it needs anything
Nothing would help more in the moral
regeneration of this age than a wave
of convictions and punishments for the
insidious crime of perjury, which saps
| the very foundations of justice and
corrupts the mutual faith without
which organized society cannot hold
! together.-St. Petersburg Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18

guage was tried recently in Brooklyn
when John Garrett Underhill, trans
lator of THE Passion Flower, sought
an injunction against Richard G.. Hern-
don, producer of the stage version and
Joseph NJ. Schenck producer of the
film, to restrain them from using Eng
lish titles on the screen. The judge de-
MED the application, gave the produc-
ers clean bill and held that the Eng
fish language, at least, was free for
general use.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
Public Utilities


Florida has, perhaps, one of the best
railroad commissions now existing in
the United States. It, through years of
Christening and broadening through ex-
perience and contact with the public
and the corporations within it's juris-
diction, has gained a fund of practical
wisdom, and has contracted the habit
of looking carefully and impartially
into every question brought before it.
The Tribune has for a number of
years been urging the enlargement of
the Jurisdiction of this body, so as to
include all public utilities operating in
the state. This has been urged be-
cause of the growing number and di-
versity of public utility companies,
corporations, and individuals. The Tri-
bune has seen the autobus and auto
truck passenger and freight service
grow. to where it needs to be kept I'M
der the watchful eye of a public utili-
ties commission. The time has past
when only railroads can be regarded
as needing supervision. There Is the
airplane passenger and freight service,
and the wireless telegraph and tele-
phone public service to demand con-
sideration in few years at most.
1t is with considerable qualification,
then. that The Tribune finds the Flor
ida railroad commission joining in the
demand that a public utilities COM
mission be formed, and that it's pow
ers and jurisdictions be made so wide
and elastic that it shall automatically
assume control of every utility that
arises from year to year for the pur-
pose of serving the general public.
In an excellent article recently car
ried by the press of the state, the Flor
ida railroad commission sets forth the
needs for such a commission and says
that it has prepared a bill, and will
recommend its passage to the legis-
lature, which changes the name of the
railroad commission to the public util-
tiles commission" It sets forth that
the bill will ask retention of "all OF the
powers heretofore exercised over rail-
road, steamboat express, telephone and
telegraph companies, and brings under
the jurisdiction of the commission
other utilities serving the public. viz:
Street railway gas, light, water power
and transmission companies"
1t states also that the commission
ers recommend raising the necessary
revenue to meet the expense of this
department of the government by a
small tax on gross operating revenues
of all of the utilities coming under
the Jurisdiction of the commission,
rather than by direct appropriation
from general revenue. This plan re-
lieves to a considerable extent the ru-
raj taxpayer, who is not interested, as
a rule, in the regulation of street rail-
way. gas, light and water companies"
If, however, "other utilities" to be
brought under the power of the new
commission, are all that the bill asks
for, the trainers of the bill should at
once take cognizance of the fact that it
omits motor passenger, and motor
freight companies and business which
under every possible consideration
must now be regarded as public utlli-
ties, and as such must be answera BILE
to the same jurisdiction that steam,
or electric passenger and freight COM
mon carriers are subjected to.-Tampa
Tribune.