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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
EDITORIAL
OF THE DAY
THE CITY BUILDING

The completion Of the new city build
ing by the erection OF wings to the pres
ent auditorium is a consummaHon that
has long been desired by the citizens
of this town. We have now reached 4
point where this additional building can
be done. 1t is quite probable that a
scmall amount Of bonds must be voted
OF supply the additional funds needed.
We are in position to vote these bonds
whatever is needed and we believe that
the taxpayers will willingly do SO upon
request.
For the last few years the old Jail has
been used contrary 10 law. The city has
at least one damage suit on account OF
il and is likely to have others at any
time. State authorities have allowed
us extension of time, knowing that we
contemplated building and We're only
waiting for favorable conditions. These
conditions nave now arrived The News
believes that construction should begin
as soon as possible.-Ponca City News.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
PROHIBITION FACTS

Clever European lecturers visit
us, with the attitude OF children in
specting a zoo. They return home.
Asked what they think OF prohibi-
ton in America, they crack the old
stale vaudeville Jokes, such as
when do they begin enforcing it ?
DR.. Robert Hercod, a wise Swiss
who imagines nothing but facts, has
been looking us over. He returns
home and tells the reporters OF his
country that he saw only two
drunken persons during his two
months tour OF our country.
When YOU imagine that prohibit
ton is a failure, look about you;
then summon up in memory the
drunkards of old saloon days.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
THE REFEREE
Jokes

Raymond Hitchcock, comedian. says
Americans have a sense of pie-in-ihe-
face or slapstick fun, no real sense OF
humor.
He claims the old jokes go best with
audiences because a joke to be Ameri'
can, is like wine-has TO be aged 10
be appreciated.
That's not the real reason. Old jokes
bring laughs, year after year. because
new generation is always growing up
that never has heard the old gags.
The stuff that is old 10 grown'ups IL
new TO youth. Actors and SCENERY
change, but life is the same old show,
century after century.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
GOOD READIN

In 1910 the world will celebrate
the 5OOth anniversary OF the inven-
ton OF movable type. Before this
invention, printing was done by
carving an entire page on a solid
block OF wood or metal.
In the 90 years after the first
movable type was brought out by
Coster or Gutenberg, 10000 blocks
were printed.
Men rapidly developed the appe'
lite for reading.
Research men in England, with
more time than they know what TO
do with, have been checking up.
They estimate that about l6,5OO,OO9
separate books have been printed, III
III countries combined, since the in
vention OF movable type.
Nearly 100000 new books are
turned loose on the world each
year. And the flood steadily grows.
larger.
In addition is the tremendous
output OF newspapers, magazines.
trade papers, folders, booklets, etc.
Small wonder that most OF us
are perplexed when it comes to de-
Gliding what to read. We are like
flies, facing mountain OF sugar,
and unable to eat more than one
grain at a time.
Rather discouraging outlook Tor
Young writers. George Ade once
said that the chief trouble with the
writing business is that there is so
much competition with dead men.
Even a rapid reader, reading all
day and far into the night, would
he unable to peruse more than | in
1000 OF the new books issued yearly
throughout the world.
Life is short. We are Gagged in
by the limits OF time.
As with books, so with knowledge.
The most brilliant brain finds life
TOO short to acquire more than a
tiny fraction OF the vast fund OF
knowledge accumulated and passed
on through the centuries by mil
lions OF inquiring minds.
knowledge is a CIRCUS with
million rings, all going at once, no
man able to grasp the whole show
The choice is TO watch one ring
intently (specialize) or wander up
and down the tent, picking up a
,mattering about all rings in gen
cral and none in particular.
French writers seem TO grasp IN,
idea. 1t is not unusual Tor one %
them to devote a lifetime OF re
search to writing the history OF on,
article-such as the pin, glove o.
sparrow.
Greatest OF all books is the never
ending serial story, the Book o
LIE. You see it mirrored in IN,
newspaper.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
FIRST WAR VICTIM

The first man killed in the World
Was was Corporal Jules Peugeot,
a Frenchman. A monument to him
is unveiled with elaborate ceremo-
nies.
Jules was 2l years old, in the
flower of his manhood, when a
German bullet carried him into
eternity. He was typical OF the toll
OF war-young, promising, ambi-
tious, "the best OF the lot"
That is the kind OF meal the war
god loves. Biologists tell you that
war makes nation stronger in the
long run. False! War always
takes the best!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
r r.

The time that has lapsed since
the death OF Theodore Roosevelt is
TOO brief to furnish the perspective
necessary in determining the real
position that he will hold in our
permanent history.
As president his most far-reaehing
public service was the "trust-bust-
ing" movement he iathered to DEM
onstrate that the people OF the
United States, through their gov
ernment. are more powerful than
any possible combination OF dollars
or individuals. The demonstration
is not yet complete.
As Roosevelt Memorial Day rolls
round this year. however, +. K. the
man looms above 7. X. the polici-
iian.
This is as he would have PREFER
ed it.
With a virili,y and explosive ner-
vous energy that made him the
typical American, T. X. at the
height of his influence had the
greatest popular following OF any
presidents except Jackson and lef-
ferson.
As a personality he looms MONT
mentally. and his influence still is
exerting itself in America or a
scale perhaps greater than even his
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
Tom
Sims !


This in hunting time. Many little
dear is a little bare
Singers In London heard in New
York must have a strong bass
The early bird gets the worm.
So does the chestnut.
Holland is broke. so holes in cheese
may be made larger.
Politicians who so from side to side
don't get far ahead.
Years ago they got the buggy
and went sparkling. Now they get
the auto and go parking.
Now is the time for father to paste
on his wallet "Not TO be opened before
Christmas"
It is unlawful 10 shoot landlord
unless he wears mask
The Turks Sunday comes on Friday,
putting them two days ahead OF MS in
their golf
miners use either forks or show
els ,"--headline. They need one Of these
etiquette books.
Thick fur on animals means y
cold winter for all and n hot 1923
summer for the women.
The auto which turned turtle was
not going like turtle.
Do you know what Is paved with
good intentions" Well. that Is what
streets are that are paved only with
good intentions.
Fashion note Coal dealers are wear
ing diamonds.
Only three were bagged in one Mich
igan hunt. Three hunters.
There are fifteen million phone mum
bers in this country and still the thlng'
hard 10 get.
East ls east and west Is west, and
when the twain meet at football there
is an awful mess.
In Boston, man asks divorce
because she lei men Idss her. Why
not feed her on onions?
In Chicago. mediums are delivering
spirit messages. all OF which seen
to come collect"
Girls college has new pistol range
May be domestic science.
This year we beat England at golf
rolo. rowing and rowing II you pro
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
Talk

Comedian Raymond Hitchcock has
decided that most Americans who 80
to theaters have vocabulary OF only
500 words-such as yes, no, lisen, radio,
love. money, papa, mama, prohibition,
and say.
Maybe its for the best.
Even with a vocabulary limited TO
500 words, most OF us talk too much
OF the wrong kind of stuff. What would
IL be like II We had the whole die.
tionary at our tongues tip?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
SAFETY IN FLYING

Is it safe to take a trip in fly
ing machine? You would think so,
if YOU flew l,7S0,000 miles and
came out alive. That is what our
air mail has done in the last II
months with no fatalities. Incident
ally, it carried 100000 letters.
In the previous year, II were
killed carrying mail by airplane.
Flying is getting safer. That is
more important than news about
faster flying. The airplane will be-
come popular only as it is made
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

not be permitted TO vote: Persons
who employ hired labor for the purpose
OF profit. persons who live on unearn-
ed increment. private dealers. traders
and commercial agents, clergymen.
monks, and all employees OF religious
cults"
This is class government, pure and
simple" Among others. II bars from
the polls farmer employing one farm.
hand. Still. what happens in Russia
IS the Russians business. not ours.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

most ardent enthusiasm would
claim.
The life and career of T. r. dem
onstrated that personality is the
most powerful OF all human forces.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
TEN YEARS AGO
Happeniugs in Carter County anA
ArADors ~ told BY the fles
q The Ardmoreits,

Senator G. B. kendrick left this morn.
ing for the eastern portion of the state
where he will spend the week in cam
paigning for Woodrow Wilson and the
democratic party MIR. kendrick is one
OF the best political speakers in the
state and his services are always in de-
mand by the party
The philathea- -Baraca' exercises given
at the Broadway Baptist church last
night was attended by q crowd that
taxed, the seating capacity OF the
church Fifteen members OF the Marie;.
Ia class were here as guests. and q
program was arranged for their enter
tainment that was greatly enjoyed
shortly before noon today the fire
department was called TO the residence
OF j. X. Pennington on Second avenue
TO eXtinguish blaze caused by a gas
stove. The damage was very slight.
y. b. Pugh. and two sons and daugh.
Ter, OzeIld, nave rttufncC from Dallas
where they spent the latter part OF the
week. They report having u good time.
"Cobe" King has purchased y new ).
passenger Hudson automobile. The Ok.
lahoma City agents received il yester.
day and drove IL through.
ls nothing unusual for a minor to sing
high.
When a woman throws herself at "a
man she usually misses, declares tn,
Ponca city News.
Sweet Adcline" never was n very
fetching song, but even at its height
Il was no more tiresomc than "Ilow
Dry | Am" says the Enid Eagle.
Otis Lortou says that what Senator
Bob Davidson seems "a want Is AZ
Oklahoma City Heiny in Tulsa
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

In Russia only soldiers and peasants
or other people who actually work with
hand or brain are allowed TO vote.
New orders. issued 10 soviet election
officials, rule that the following shall
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
Boomer
Read

Most of us want things different
even after they are.-Nowata star.
lawyer thriyes the most when he
has the most trials, says the Grove
Sun.
The escape of hot air makes more
noise than the expression OF true reas.
onng declares the Major County Dem.
ocrat.
An Oklahoma firm is named the Co
forth Produce company and it deals in
chickens. but members do not 30 forth
in the night 10 get the fowls. rather
encourages the raising OF better chick.
ems through proper feeding, according
TO an advertisement.
The Beaver Herald is an advocate of
love making. 1t says Vote for John
A. Spohn for county judge.
According TO Tom Sims. putting eggs
In cold storage is shell game.
When a girl wants man TO save his
money he is going to need it, warns
the Ponca City News.
Too many people are scared by the
shadow OF a doubt, says the Black
well Tribune.
At FL Reno a parson hopped a circus
train Sunday and ever since he las beer
holding meetings wherever the show
sets up" lie certainly is carrying
religion into Gods own wilderness:
whenever he breaches In the mcnagerie
which report states he does.
The Ponca City News, commenting
on the report Welsh miner Is start
ling London by singing tenor. says i
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

Have YOU noticed. inquiries the Black.
well Tribune that We never believe IN
evolution until We look at some people.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27
BertOn braleyS Daily Poem
ROOSEVELT

lie looked at lief game To play
With all of Lis glorious 2est,
And he played It manfuly. day cy day,
While the heart beat high in his breast
He never whined when the play was spilled
Or the surging line thrown back,
But ever his soul was thrilled
As he eaped to fresh attack!
He loved the sun and the good brown earth
And horses and dogs and men,
And joyous labor and brave clean mirth.
And ever and again
He'd turn with smile from the cares OF state
To romp with his kids span;
A bully Father, knightly Mate
And yard-wide, allwool Man!
And though he stood with his feet on the ground.
His eyes not blind to stars
He fought for the visions his soul had found.
Nor WINGED at his bate-scars
In the hearts of men is his monument,
Though Greatheart himself is gone,
Who lived his life to the top Of his oent,
And died with his harness on
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

A man Of the hour in China only lasts
a few minutes, reports the Bar:lesvilulc
Enterprise
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

The Ponca City News. commenting
on the report a Welsh miner Is start
ling London by singing tenor, says Il
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

The escape of hot air makes more
noise than the expression OF true reas-
onng, declares the Major County Dem.
ocrat.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

Most Of us want things different
even after they are.-Nowata star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

In Chicago. mediums are delivering
spirit messages. all OF which seen
to come collect"
Girls college has new pistol range.
May be domestic science.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

In Boston, man asks divorce
because she let men Idss her. Why
no, feed her on onions?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

A lawyer thriyes the most when he
has the most trials, says the Grove
Sun.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

The dollars that run the government
also run the taxpayers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

Too many people are scared by the
shadow OF a doubt, says the Black
we'll Tribune.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

This year we beat England at golf.
,olo. rowing and rowing II you pro.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

Forward, speed forward, o Time in.
your fl.ght~-ond give us man that
Dempsey can fight
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

When a woman throws herself at
man she usually misses, declares the
Ponca city News.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

East Is east and west is west. and
when the twain meet at football there
is an awful mess.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

Sweet Adeline" never was n very
fetching song. but even at its height
Il was no more tiresomc than How
Dry | AM" says the Enid Eagle
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

is nothing unusual for a MINOR to sing
high.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-27

Talk Is cheap because il is made OUT
of nothing.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-21

rise to the position of the worlds s largest manufacturers of sfX-cylinder cars. True, the prices of Stakeholder cars went up, as prices of everything went up. but our profits were no greater, for our prices increased only in proportion to the greater costs of raw materials and labor. In other words, although we could have sold our cars for considerably more than their List prices, we were all the while thinking not only of 1919 and 1920, but of the years to come.
 As result. our cars at their high est prices, showed an amazingly small increase over their lowest prices, an.. in addition they incorporated many features of appointment andarefine- ments in design that made them Aally worth more. Our sole object was to retain and enhance the good will we had built up,
 In like manner, when prices began to show a downward trend, we kept pace, lowering our prices as fast as lower costs of raw material and great CT efficiency of labor permitted. The cumulative effect of this policy was telt through the result achieved ,N 1921, and will, believe, be even more in evidence in 1922.
 As view the situation, 1922 is go- ing to prove keenly competitive year, and the public is going to judge cars more critically with an eye to securing the greatest value for each dollar invested. The days when any thing on four wheels would sell for almost any price asked have passed. In offering our cars for 1922, we have incorporated a number of features that give them added beauty. com pleteness and refinement, but our ideals have undergone no change whatever. We are continuing as in the past to pioneer along lines of giv. ing the highest quality at the lowest possible prices.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-21
GOULD'S FORMER
 WIFE LECT URED
Not Made in Good Faith Says Court in Dismissing Action
 of Edith Kelly Gould

NHW YORK, Feb. 2o.-Supreme Court Justice Mullan today denied ap plication of Edith Kelly Gould for an order vacating the divorce decree .ob tained in Paris by Frank J. Gould. In dismissing the action with $10 costs the court set forth that the action had not been brought in good faith by the actress and that 'the limit of heI hope is to coerce the defendant"
 The decision also denied Mrs. Gould the right to file an amended reply containing allegations that assail and put in issue the regularity of the French decree.
 Rehearsing the facts leading up to the French action, Judge Mullan Sd that although the plaintiff had the fullest opportunity, she had not seen fit to say a single word in her de- fense."
 Ut would be open to the plaintiff, he continued, ito assert what the rec ords of the French criminal court were not copied accurately or to deny that she had ever committed adultery. But she has been content to rest ne- case upon highly technical points Of law, involving the jurisdiction of the French courts, and the regularity of the French divorce proceedings.
 An innocent woman is not to be ex- pected to reIinquish any rights she may possess, however, technical Jus tice Mullan decided, but she wou.o run barefoot over naked swords to vindicate her honor, assailed as plain tiff's honor has been a5sailed. At least, she would be abnormal if she failed to avail herself, somehow, somehow, sometime. of the oppor- tunity she has had here to deny to highly circumsantial charges of her guilt"
 Justice Mullan said he was con vinced Mrs. Gould merely wished to coerce her former husband :n:o "pur- chasing the nuisance value she pos sesses," and that the action is not made in good faith, and the plaintiff has not a meritorious cause"
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-21
Bid For Muscle Shoals Project Wil Be Submitted To Congress
 For Acceptance Or Rejection
Alabama Power Companys Offer "A Better Offer in Some Respects Than Ford's"-To Come Before Congress-
 Will Conclude Hearings Upon Fords Offer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - An. nouncement by Secretary Week to day that he would submit to congress tomorrow for acceptance or rejection the Alabama Power Company's offer to purchase and lease the Muscle Shoals, Ala, nitrate and waterpower projects, submitted to him last Tues. day, added to the possibility of fur. ther delay in congress of considera, tion of Henry FQSd's offer for the same properties.
 The Alabama company's offer, it was said, would be addressed tomor. row to the speaker of the house and president of the senate, and be re- ferred by them, upon receipt, prob ably to the military affairs committe of the house, and agricultural com mittee of the senate, both of which are engaged in Investigating the Ford proposal Chairman Kahn announced tonight that the house body would conclude its study of the offer sub mitted by the Detroit manufacturer before undertaking hearing on the new proposal, but would not report them separately to the house.
 The plan, in recommending accept ance or rejection of the offers to the full members of the house, the chair man said, would be to prepare join report on all proposals congress might receive. In this manner, it wa explained. the Ford offer would re main in the committees hands pre- venting action by the house until al the proposals the war secretary migh submit were thoroughly investigated
 Kahn said they expected to con clude the hearings on Ford's offe this week, and would immediately De gin an examination of that from tht Alabama Power Company, which Sec retary Weeks indicated today wa considered a better Offer' in som respects than that of Henry Ford.
 The house committee today inte, rogated J. O. Hammitt, vice presideI of the Air Nitrates Corporation, a sut
 sidiary of the American Cymami,
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-21
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and I am sure they will feel as l do about it.-Mrs. FRED. P. HANSEN, 562 Symmonds St., Kenosha, Wisconsin.
 A medicine that has been muse nearly fifty years and that receives the praise and commendation of mothers and grandmothers is worth your considera- tion.
 If you are suffering from troubles that sometimes follow childbirth bear in mind that Lydia k. Pinkham' Vege- table Compound is woman's medicine. It is especially adapted to correct such troubles.
 The letters we publish ought to con- vince you; ask some of your women friends or neighbors - they know it's worth. You will. too, if you give it a fair trial.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-21

| Company of Maine, who defended the rights of the former concern to pur- chase nitrate plant No. at Muscle Shoals upon as favorable terms as the government might accetp from other private enterprises
 He submitted a contract signed by the corporation and war department officials under date of June s, 1918. This constituted a solemn and binding agreement" Hammitt said, adding that if it was violated by the government through acceptance of the Ford proposals, the corporation wou reluctantly instruct its attorneys to resist such action in the courts He asserted emphaticauy that a decision by the government to disregard tn agreement would reduce the standard of business morality to a lower de- gree than ever had been approached by private concern.
 Hammitt declared the proposal to
 give the plant to a man who nothing to develop it" and in addition
 'give him the cheapest water power on the American continent" would be a violation of the governments pledgt to the Air Nitrates Corporation, which he declared had placed it's every fa- cility, including it's patents and secret processes for nitrate production, at the disposal of the country when the war needs were greatest.
 The witness also explained that the Air Nitrates subsidiary was formed in order that the holders of Cynamid 'company's stock might be, protected m case the governments contracts failed to be carried out, but added that in each case the contracts were filled 100 per cent.
 All them asked for the use of the patents and processes" said Hammitt, vas the right to buy the property if he government decided to sell them liter the emergency. That was nec- ,ssary precaution to ask as they rep .'esented our greatest assets and we were anxious they should not be made available to competitor