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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-08
Sale of Porch SWINGS

Hard wood porch swings, fumed oak
finish, 4-foot size, complete with hooks
and chains. Very storngly built and
will last for years. Buy now and save
several dollars Just limited number of
them.
[Third FIoor)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-08

Boys Athletic union suits and Boys
ribbed union suits, sizes 6 to 16.
Mems ribbed union suits, sizes &c to
~, also women's union suits, sizes Sc
to AZ, all in one big sale for Saturday
lnly.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-08
Reduced 2O3o to $3.50

Exquisite models embodying all
that il new in the way of love
ly summer frocks- Daintiest of
materials and beautiful color
inga Each a rare value for this
sale Saturday. You must see
them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
OWNERS OF "SQUARE DEAL BATTERY
COMPANY" FORMED FRIENDSHIP YEARS
AGO AND PLANNED PRESENT ASSOCIATION

Several years ago, Frank F'airburn
was Singing hash" at the restaurant
Of the st. Nichols Hotel at Galveston,
Texas. and, during the same time. G..
De Loach. a customer at the restau-
rant. ate the hash" Today, both men
are partners in business In Ardmore,
and operate the Square Deal Battery
Company, located at Is west Broad
way
The two men had met each other
over the lunch counter at the hotel and
formed friendship which has become
ev' .iasting. one day, while at Gal
vcston. the two men We're discussing
the prospects OF their futures. Both
decided that Fairburn. as waiter, and
De Loach. as an employe Of COM
mission house. had no future So
they determined 10 study some pro-
ression which would eventually set
them up in business for themselves
and yield them u profitable occupation.
They chose the battery INDUSTRY and
auto game, and went 10 Kansas City,
No, where they entered Rahy's Auto
School. They remained there for six
weeks, and then obtained employment
with a battery man in Kansas City,
where they worked at salary OF 81
per week. The proprietor OF the es-
tabllshment in which they worked did
not own any delivery car of any kind,
and the men were forced to carry
batteries to wherever they were TO
go. Many times, they were forced to
deliver batteries " places miles out
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and in 1920, 50 acres. This year he
expects to plant 90 acres,
In 1919, Mr.. Dyer dug 1000 bushels
of the sweet potatoes out OF one
ten acre tract. and In 1890, 5000 bush
els making total Of 1000 bushels
In tow years from one lo-acre tract
alone.
During the 20 days drought In 1918.
when practically all crops were burnt
up. the sweet potatoes on Mr.. Dyers
farm were not injured In the least.
Last year. Mr.. Dyer dug 5000 bush
els OF the sweet potatoes out " so
acres which he had planted, and they
are now worth s. per bushcl. He
has stored his crop and does not in
tend to release It on the market until
the market demands the potatoes.
Besides plapting his own potatoes,
Mr.. Dyer also buys them from other
farmers, and re-sclls them to the groc-
crs In Atdmore and the oil tields, at
the same time that he markets his
own crops.
From November TO March. during
which time there is no activity on the
farm in connection with the grow
ing OF the sweet potatoes. Mr. DyCr
uses the land for pasture purposes.
and turns in 100 hogs which he owns,
together with horses and cattle. TO
eat the vinss roots, and left over
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
TOM HARRIS SELECTED ARDMORE
WHEN WILLARD BATTERY PEOPLE
OFFERED HIM BRA INCH OFFICE

Tom d. Harris, president Of the Har-
Tis Battery Company at liz North
Washington street, first gained bis
battery experience at the Willard Bat
-tery Company school and service sta
tion at Dallas, Texas. Two months
after his admission to the school,
where he studied and earned SIS per
week, which thecompany allowed him,
ne was given the opportunity to take
charge Of a service station at McKin-
ney, Texas, although there were fifty
other students at the school who had
been there longer than he. Mr.. Harris
displayed remarkable aptitude for the
work, and he finished the course in
record time. AT tine time the Nc
Kinney station was offered him, he
was the youngest man in point OF
service at the Dallas school The $l5
which he received each week was not
enough to pay his expenses, so while
at Dallas he had borrowed money from
a banker at Mckinney who had taken
great interest in BIS career. He re-
ndned at Mckinney one year. The
W1Eiard Company Udfered"Mr. Harris
a ranch station at a number of cities
an Texas and Oklahoma, among which
was Ardmore. Mr.. Harris visited each
place which was Offered HIM, and
made the decision. Of which he is now
justly proud, that Ardmore offered
% tine greatest opportunities and estab-
lished himself in this city, in January,
1918. His first place of business in
this city. was space in the Cooper
Garage No. 2, where the Patterson
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

Of town, and after taking the trolley
the batteries and walk the rest OF
the distance. II II was during the
winter time, they had to wade through
slush and snow. Neither grew dis
couraged. however. for they decided
that it was all part OF their schooling,
and necessary in order that their am
bitions to some day own a place Of
their own might be realized
After working there ten months the
men separated and obtained employ
ment in various places. Later they
both came to Ardmore and worked for
the Southern Oklahoma Battery Com
pany. When the opportunity present.
ed itself, and good location was
available, the men resigned their po-
sitions. and opened the place which
dhey now conduct.
Mr.. DE Loach is n native OF Alexan-
dria, La. He was born In 1890. He
worked on his fathers farm there un-
I'll 1906, and then went to Galveston.
with an older brother. Prior to his
employment at the commission house
at Galveston, he attended Draughn's
Business College there for two years.
Mr.. De Leach married Miss Carrie Jose.
phine Undercheok Of Enid. IN 1909.
Mr.. Fairburn was born in London.
England, In 1883, but left with his
parents for the United States when
he was six months old. He lived on
farm with his parents until he was
II, and then went to Galveston.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
H. T. STEELE HAS
HAD VAST EXPERIENCE
IN AUTOMOBILE GAME

II. T. Steele. one of the owners of
the Mechanics Motor Company. has
had a vast experience In the automo-
bile game. His first activity In the
industry was In 1913, when he acted
as manager OF the Altcizer garage at
Chicago. one NJ the largest and best
equipped service statiops and garages
In the windy city"
From Chicago. MIR. Steele went to
81. Louis, where he formed part
nership with Allen Baker. and CON
Quoted Federal truck agency. when
the two men first opened up their
place OF business there. they occupied
what MIR steele terms as two by
four" room. The firm now occupies
almost an entire block. Mr. Steele
remained at 81. Louis for "A period
covering more than two years. after
which he accepted position as dis.
trict manager with the Master Truck
Company. his territory including Mis-
souri. Kansas. oklahoma aud Georgia.
He resigned the position with the
Master truck people to accept one Of
a similar nature with the Diamond T
Truck Company. with the entire south
west az his territory In July. 1919.
Air. steele left the employ of the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

Motor Company Is now located Due
to cramped quarters, he remained
there but 30 days, and then moved to
his present fine location, where Mr..
Harris conducts one of the most mod
ern equipped battery stations in south
ern Oklahoma
Mr.. Harris was born at Pottsboro,
Texas, on August 24th, 1892. During
his early youth he attended the pub
lie schools there and when not occu-
pied with his studies worked in his
fathers drug store. He graduated
from Tobys Business College at Waco
in 1910. For two years after his
graduation he was engaged in the cot
ton business at Waxahachie. Texas.
Mr.. Harris married Miss Ezra Free
man, Of Denison, Texas, on Septem-
Der 10Th, 1915. One son, Tom D. Har-
ris, Jr-, aged II months, is reported
by his father as growing battery
man"
Mr.. Harris is a member of tine Lions
Club, Elks, and Chamber Of Commerce
of Ardmore. He has in his employ
IL 1uoSl NhlitfthI NOiPo VI ibNh oii vi
whom are experts in the work in
which, they are engaged. These in
clude: Charlie Harris, manager: Jes-
Sc Jennings. service manager; and
Jesse Robertson, shop foreman.
Charlie Harris, manager of the Har-
ris Battery Company is one OF the
most popular automobile men in the
southern part of the state. He is we'll
known throughout the county, travel
ing through the territory at various
periods during each month
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
PUTS FAITH IN THE
SWEET POTATO AS A
FARM PRODUCT MAKES
FORTUNE OUT OF THEM

Through his keen insight into the
possibilities OF the sweet potato as
farm product, George l.. Dyer OF
1903 West Main street, has made
fortune by growing them and has pros
poets OF increasing his revenue from
this source alone to a great extent.
The recent slump In the cotton
market. which bore down hard on
great many farmers throughout this
part OF the state, did not In tho least
infect MIR. Dyer, for athe sweet pota-
toes grew and marketed just the
,Npmc."
n In the fall OF 1917, MIR. Dyer pur-
Chased farm consisting " 10 acres
located miles east OF Animore. lie
pnid SIS per acre for tho land. After
ne had planted his first crop, and In
the spring of 1919, he was offered
1900 an acre for the farm.
~ In 1918 Mr.. Dyer planted 30 acres
" sweet pshA4oes. In 1919. ~ acres,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
strictly Repair shop

The Mechanics Motor Company has
the reputation " having among its
employees some Of the most efficient
mechanics In the automobile game
The owners of this firm claim their
employees as their most valuable as
set. and the work which they turn
out as their most valuable advertise
ment
The company was originally organ.
lied by H. +. Sims. -. W. Boren.
Frank oakley. aud ~ 7, Steele In
1919 a short time after the organi.
zation. oakley and Steele bought out
the interests Of the other two men,
and they are now conducting it.
The Mechanics Motor Company is
strictly repair shop. Nine mechan-
les are In the employ OF the firm.
John a. German. the shop foreman,
has been In Arlmore for tire past
six months. lie is n machinist of %
years experience and is thuraughly
familiar with the interior mechanism
Of an makes Of cara.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

Diamond II people and came To Ard
more the Following November and
bought the Ralph Halle Garage" In
partnership with Frank oakley. and
the Two men are now conducting the
business under the name of the Me-
chanics Motor Company.
MIR, Steele was born at Chicago on
March 2sth. 1878. Prior To- his en-
gagement In the automobile game, he
worked with his father la the cigar
business
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

potatoes. Mr.. Dyer considers this as
u "by-produo;" Of sweet potato grow
ing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
BIGGEST LITTLE
SALVAGE HOUSE" IN
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA

In words " it, owner. the biggest
little salvage house In southern ok
lahoma," s Porter's Salvage House
and Garage located at liS East Main
street. which IL equipped to repair
any make of ear and supply any nee
essary parts.
Its owner is Porter Craig. who has
more than II years experience In the
game MIR Craig has been In Ard.
more Tor the past eight years. For
three years he was In the employ OF
T.. T.. kearney. ~ this city. and dur
ing the past five years he has been
the owner of repair shops.
His first experience in the auto
game was a. Tishomngo
Mr.. craig was born at Mil Creek In
1920. lie married Miss Francis smith
Of this city in 1919. The Cruigs are
the proud parents ot one child. kath.
crime. aged 8. and reside at lg Second
avenue, northeast.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

Use Ardmoreite Want Ads for sure
results.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

London,--A reduction to definite
form the various proposals for the APP
plication o; military and economic pres
sure. sufficient to change the mind OF
Germany, should the government re-
fuse to accept the reparation terms of
the allies. was the purpose q con-
sJltation of Marshal E'vch. President
Wilson and prerniers Briand and
tlOyu George
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

All that the words -custom built true Of
is until dealer has taken
wishes smallest
finish
other items You have personality built into
satisfaction Of knowing when planning Pierce
like it without
laid a
combination for practical
The blending into general effect
distinctive
the handles, all details delight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
Children s Books
Letters TO Heypood Broun During His Vacation

Soldier Rigdale, which is for children
of about seven, and go on to Mothers
Son and Christopher somebody-or-
other, which are love stories. There's
Hans Rrinker and the Silver Skates and
Frances Burnett's Secret Garden.
When I was about seven I remember
reveling in an endless series about
Dottie Dimple and Little Prudy, but I
imagine they're on an equal plane with
the Elsie books. But I don't think
any self-respecting parent ought to de-
prive his child-if it's girl-of Elsie,
who loved Jesus more than papa. They
took my Elsie books away from me
and had to read them in guilty secret.
Then there is whole group Of old
fashioned stories. Sara Orne Jewett's
did she write Little Lucy and her
Wonderful Globe and The Story of a
Short Life?
And when children are about eight
or nine there is series of books writ
ten by two English writer's named
Nesbitt that are splendid-The Treas
ure-Seekers, The Would-Be- Goods, five
or six in all, think.
If parents have got to be higkbrow
about it let 'em read H. G. Wells's
"The Magic Shop" from Twelve Stories
and Dream-I've read that to small
children. You have to paraphrase the
longest words little as you go along,
but that's easy.
And has every one forgotten Robin
son Crusoe and The Swiss Family Rob-
inson?-
The Childrcn's Hour, that set of ten
books, has stories for almost every
age and taste-and whole volume of
the John Gilpin kind of poetry that
children love.
And then there's always Jurgen and
Figures of Earth-I've never read
fairy tale more thrilling than ManuePs
journey up the mountain.
l almost forgot the best one of all
-Arabella and 'Araminta. I suppose
III be just as bored as my mother was
when l have to read how Arabella
picked white rose and Araminta
picked white rose and Arabella
picked red rose and Araminta picked
red rose-and so on forever. think
l liked that che best of all.
PHYLLIS DUGANNE.
New York, July 2, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
No Beer Prescriptions
Baltimore, Md, July S, 1921.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent who signs
himself Business Man" speaks OF
putting the brake on the indiscrimi-
nate prescribing of beer" He may now
learn, for the first time, that the anti
beer bill not only prevents the pre-
scribing Of beer at all, but it permits
the prescribing of alcohol in every
other form of medication, including
that of the great American institu-
ton the patent medicine" About on
a par as to general accuracy with
what your correspondent claims about
Kansas eliminating the drink evil is
his statement that "Dr. Congress has
attempted to limit, not to prohibit, the
prescribing of beer"
JOHN P. DAWN, NJ. D.
New York, July 5,-is21.
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that has unrolled before her since
she was a bride in her teens, she
must often smile inwardly.
Reorganizing the Fleet

The Navy Department order re-
organizing the fleet and placing the
majority of the battleships---the oil
burners--in the Pacific is condem-
nation of the previous political plan
of having equal fleets in the Allan
tic and the Pacific, but it does not
provide full-hedged fighting force
in one ocean--a real navy team
ready for battle.
1t is at best poor compromise, a
hating, half-hearted measure which
fails to conserve Mahan's invulner-
able principle of naval concentra-
ton. The battle fleet ia still divided.
Naval dispersion still exists in viola
ton Of the basic law of strategy.
Moreover, there is a strange fail
ure to realize that not less than six
teen battleships are needed to con-
stitute complete tactical unit and
to form a proper school for the
training Of officers and men in battle
tactics. The now organization re-
sembles a football team on the Pa
cific Coast with one-quarter of it's
line temporarily absent in the East.
In passing from the naval absurdity
Of two impotent half fleets separated
by a continent we have arrived at
the slightly less unseemly situation
of three-quarter fleet in the Pacific
and a one-quarter fleet in the Allan
tic! Straddling is an approved
political device, but it has no place
in naval organization. 1t does not
prepare a navy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
Openly Arrived AT

Publicity is word to conjure
with, and newspapers, from their
nature, are priests in it's temple.
Nevertheless, if disarmament
agreement is sought by Senator
Borah, and he is willing to subordi-
nate other things to this end, it is
doubtful if he is we'll advised in ask
ing for open sessions of the interna-
tional conference.
Why are managers of affairs in
all activities averse to the public
sitting in at all their deliberations?
Is it because their ways are evil and
there is something they would con-
ceal? Such is the present popular
assumption as to diplomatists. But
there are probably more inno-
cent reasons. A thought or idea
that is in its first stages is often
modest. 1t exists, perhaps, in en-
bryo-is not matured-and may
perish if rudely put under the burn
ing rays of publicity. Few reach
conclusion all at once, or would be
confronted with perhaps a garbled
report Of the firstlings of their
minds.
Moreover, there is a corollary to
publicity not always respected by the
outsider - namely, that those who
know little should not try to dictate
to those who know much. We also
should have a new technique of
behavior when doubtful matters are
under debate. When the ignorant
venture on positive opinions while
the informed are dubious, it is not
strange that the latter are shy. AS
long as the country has it's present
number Of intuitional thinkers all
doors are not likely to stand wide.
"Open covenants of peace openly
arrived at" said Mr.. Wilson before
he went to Europe and buried him
self in a sound-proof room which
had neither keyhole nor window. It
wasn't hypocrisy, but rather a be-
lated perception Of an impossibility.
Senator Borah, may 1t be said with
out offense, does not practice what
he breaches - has been known to
draw aside for private conference.
The Marble Room of the Senate pre-
serves his secrets.
Finally, as seasoned a public per-
scnage as the Idaho Senator is we'll
aware that though the reporters are
invited to all the meetings of the
conference the real and deciding
business will be done when they are
absent. 1t may be wise to have the
conference room equipped with
sounding boards. The formal Hague
conferences were open. We venture
no positive opinion either way. But
If the net results of openness would
be to foster national suspicious and
jealousies, Senator Borah should be
the last person to urge it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
Bwleson Rises to the Surface

So much has happened since
March A that the void left by the re-
tirement Of Albert Sidney Burleson
has been but too little noted. Mr..
Burleson, with the modesty Of the
well known violet, promptly. sub
merged himself. The public is in
debted to The New York Times for
the chronicle of his temperance.
He has risen to the surface in Ger
many. We are duly informed that
he is there Representing the cotton
interests of the West and South"
Our former Postmaster General,
IL appears, has had an exceptional
opportunity to meet not only the
members of the German administra-
ton but the largest bankers and the
most influential and largest spinners
and weavers in the country. The
officers of the government, he is per-
suaded, "are directed by conviction to
meet all obligations" Also that the
people entertain no bitterness"
Having thus settled a question over
which there has hitherto been some
doubt. Mr.. Burleson, with the cour-
age that has carried him through so
many crises, presents to us the
darker side of the picture. Speaking
for Germany, he says that the sun
certainty of legislation on the part
of America" is a matter for deep
concern" Both Germany and he are
very much worried about what we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
The Teachers Calling

The half-educated person, who
knows many things, but who left
school too early to have learned to
think clearly and to reason we'll. is
far more dangerous than the litter
ates." Such was the judgment ex-
pressed by Sherman Williams, of
Albany, at the National Education
Associations annual convention, and
there will be many who will agree
with him. "A little learning is a
dangerous thing"
The solution of the problem thus
presented is, Of course, not to leave
people uneducated, but to make their
education complete. That does not
mean complete in scope, but in char
acter; not in quantity, but in quality.
1t means that all education should
be complete as far as it goes, so that
If the boy goes no further than the
eighth or even lower grade of the
grammar school, he shall be taught
to think clearly and to reason well,
to know how to use Alright the in
formation which he has received. In
that sense-and it is the paramount
and essential sense-a sixth or
eighth grade boy may be fully edu-
Gated, while college graduate may
be only half educated.
To achieve such results half-edu-
Gated teachers do not suffice; there
must be, as J. A. H. Keith, an In
diana normal school head, said at
the same convention, "a competent
and patriotic teacher in every public
school position in the United States"
There must be an end of the make
shift teacher. The tendency not only
of academic administration but of
statute law is to require higher and
higher preparation for all profess
slons. Surely the care of minds
should not be more lightly regarded
than the care of bodies or of bust
ness. 1t is literally true, as Mr..
Keith said, that civilization must
be saved by each generation, and it
can be saved only by education,
which is its recreation by each gem
eration."
Thus, to be the perennial re-
creators of civilization, the teachers
calling must be made b while,
in compensation and in ( litions of
service. 1t will not do to expect
them to work in such ranshackle
buildings as the Tammany- Hylan
administration permits. Not for