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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
THE NATIONAL GAME

Americans everywhere, from those
living in the smallest hamlet to those
in the largest cities, are now inter
ested in the national game, baseball
Baseball has been our national sport
since the Knickerbocker Club of New
York city started the worlds first
baseball club in 1845.
Six years before that. Abner Dou-
bleday took paper. quill pen and a
ruler and an inventive brain, and
maped out the first diamond" Abb
ner certainly started something. He
would have heart failure if he could
come back today and see big league
grandstand audience in action.
You can never tell what you are
starting. Some of the things recent
ly brought into existence will play as
big n part in future American life as
baseball.
1t is fortunate that we have ma
tional sport that combines physical
exercise with the execrise of the
brain. mental agility and quick decis-
ion.
Baseball is of incalculable benefit
to the nation. as a stirrer up of the
liver as soother of nerves highly
strung by cOngested civilization.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
EXIT ARBUCKLE

The public will approve the action
of Will II. Hayes, former postmaster
general and now head of the motion
picture industry. in ordering the can
collation. of the Fatty" Arhuckle
film contracts.
Arkuckle may have been directly
responsible for death of Miss Pappe
at any rate a jury acquitted him of
the charge.
But it was brought out at the trial
that Arkuckle and his friends had
been leading disgraceful livcs-the
kind of lives that are not discussed
in the homes of good people and es-
pecially before children.
To throw Arbuckle pictures on the
screen in the future would bring back
to all who saw them memories of the
whole unsavory mess in which Ar
buckle figured, and this of itself
would be hurtful and demoralizing.
Arbuckle's pictures will not bt
shown on the motion picture screens
again, and now let's all try to for
get him.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
WHEN JoFFRE NODDED

Marshal Joffre, hero of France, is
big enough man to do anything he
wants to do any get away with it.
Joffre was guest at formal Jun
cheon in New York city the other day
at which many local celebrities were
present. 1t was tiresome affair
as such things usually are. and the
great Frenchman was bored. He nod
ded while some old blunderbuss was
making a speech, and fell asleep.
A friend at his elbow nudged him
He opened his eyes, grinned, yawned
and fell asleep again.
Nobody made unkind criticism. Il
was Joffre, and whatever he did wa.
all right. A lesser man would have
been socially damned forever after
ward, but not Joffre. He has been a,
eagerly invited to public functions
since as before.
It must be q fine thing to be bi,
enough to do anything you want t,
do.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
RESERVE BANK LOANS
STILL ON DECLINE

The Federal Reserve systems vol.
ume of loans to member banks do
clined from $474.5S0,00 to $46s $685..
900 in the week ending last Wednes.
day, the decline being $5,8sO,OOO. Tbe
volume of Federal Reserve notes
declined S12,530,000 in the same be-
riod. Loans to member banks bv
the Reserve Bank of Dallas declined
Sji5,O00 and the volume of Federal
Reserve notes 100000. The rate Of
decline for both the system and the
Dallas bank on loans and notes is
less than the average since the first
of the year.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
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Man Needs I'm sui

The hired men between their shews
had stopped and spat and aired their
views where listening cows could
hear the news. So Jersey Jane nudg-
ed Guernsey Ann shifted her sud and
thu began. 81 hear that Henry Ford
allows that he can make some fllvvcr
COWS, and since he never works by
halves, no doubt some motorcycle
calves. Do you believe, good sister
Ann. that we shall lose our use to
man? Is our long history complete,
and will they make us into meat? ~
Said Guernsey Ann to Jersey Jane,
81 share your fears, share your
pain" To hold his place no longer
able. thus spake old Dobin from his
stable:"O pray excuse this horse
laugh grinny, but wouldn't Lizzie's
milk be tinny? 1t makes me smile. il
makes me snicker, it makes me whin-
ny, neigh and nicker. Your dams
have worn the herdsman's care
since Eve was young and Eden fair
You topped with cream mans coffee
cup ere good old Hector was a pup
and folks won't risk their lights ant
livers by drinking milk that come:
from flivvers. So Jane and Ann pray
cease to weep. swallow your cud'
and go to sleep. You still shall serv,
your human lords in spite Of fift!
Henry Fords."
BOB ADAMS
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1922
PRACTICAL EDUCATION

The trustees of the University uf
South Carolina have done somewhat
unusual thing in selecting W. ID. Mel
ton, a lawyer and business man, as
president of the institution. The cleo
ton has been favorabIy received
however. This action may have been
influencer to some extent perhaps, by
the frequently-heard complaint that
college heads are not practical men.
As a rule, they have devoted their
lives to the cause of education, hav-
ing become teachers Immediately af-
ter graduation, and in the quiet
depths Of their studies and class
rooms have lost touch with business
affairs and the everyday things of
life.
This complaint may not be alto
gether well founded, but it is one that
Is frequently heard.
At any rate, it is a rather welcome
thing that a man who has made a
success Of his business and profes-
sional affairs should be selected as
head Of great university, and
should accept. He may be able To
bring to his university some Of the
things desired by outsiders without
IN any way lessening the high stan.
dard Of scholarship.
The experiment in South Caroline
will be watched with great deal Of
interest throughout the country.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
LIQUOR

Judging form the chances that
some people take with bootleggers,
they had rather have drink Of
hootch than peck of diamonds or
even the reasonable certainty of a
longer life.
The bootl"gger, too, runs risks,
though of a different kind than his
customers. High prices of illicit
liquor is due largely to those risks.
The Anti-Saloon League checks uT
and reports that in New York state
last year 1926 were convicted out OF
l.205 placed on trial for violating the
prohibition laws.
This is probably typical of othe1
states. The figures answer the popu
lar question. What becomes of al
the hootleggers that are arrested?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
EVERYBODY BUT THE JUDGE

(From Mondays OklahOman)
Judge r. L. Williams took IN a
lot of territory If he said as quoted
at McAlester:
"Everybody's just gone crazy.
That's what's the matter with the
world, and nobody has grit enough
to get out and stop it. They are
to0tin' horns in schools, wearin' caps
and gowns supposed to signify hon
est learning, wcarin' 'em in school.
style! Style"
The judge seems to imply we are
headed straight for "dcmnition bow
vows" throttle open and out of con-
troll.
Pcrrible--if true.
But there is plenty Of room for
argument.
Courts have been operating for
some decades now, and the old world
is still grinding along at about the
same old "clip". 1t is quite as easy
and altogether more satisfactory to
believe it is progressing as it grinds.
Certainly we are improving our
school sy+tcm rapidly as the years
roll by. and our public schools and
colleges should get the credit for all
there is of honest learning.
A thing the world needs, always
has needed and probably will need for
some time to come. is moderation. A
federal court bench is an excellent
place for the exercise Of that virtue.
Federal court judges have acquired
reputation for bench philosophy
much of which is sound, but Judge
Williams will do better for the pub
lie veal if he refrains from sensa-
tional indictments of society as a
whole.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
THESE MODERN GIRLS

"This new fad of women bobbing
their hair makes me tired" is the
remark Of many an already tired
crank these days. These blue indi-
viduals should try to remember that
bobbed hair is not new, and there
fore it is not fad.
Stone-hewn pictures on the walls of
temples erected before Moses of the
Old Testament was known to the
world have found to represent dane
ing Egyptian girls, not only wearing
shorn locks but going through con-
tortions that resemble the "shimmy''
in a startling and realistic manner.
Joan Of Arc bobbed her hair, though
she probably did it for convenience
while on the field of battle, and his
tory tells us of the style being ac-
cepted by the women of certain sec
tions of France off and on for quite a
while thereafter.
Later, as far back as 1900, when
women of certain types, then called
freaks" broke away from matri-
mony and entered the professions,
they not only bobbed their tresses
but had 'em off completely and even
donned trousers.
So. girls. you sec that you can't
start much that is new. This planet
is a pretty old mass and it is almost
an impossibility to pull anything new
that some one else hasn't tried out
centuries or dccates ago.
Il
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
CADDO KHAN VISITS A
CHURCH SUNDAY NIGHT

Twelve robed members Of the Ku-
Klux Klan of Caddo visited the Caddo
Baptist Church Sunday night, dur
ing the progress of revival services
conducted by Rev. Rylant. As the
robed figures entered the building and
reached the front of the house they
all knelt while the pastor offered
prayer. They were loudly cheered by
the congregation, it is reported. An
envelope containing letter and a
contribution was handed the pastor.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
WRONG WORD

The press dispatches the other day
brought this story:
Prohibition enforcement officers
in raid near Knoxville, Tenn, re-
port that they were attacked by a
huge black snake. When they ad-
vanced the snake would lash itself in
to fury and would throw itself to-
ward the raiders. A pistol shot dis
posed of the reptile and few PAGES
beyond the raiders found and de-
stroyed complete moonshine outfit
And now they are wondering
The Charlotte Observer thinks the
wrong word was used. What they
are doing, the Observer thinks. more
probably. is getting sober,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
SQUEEZED.

In one year the ~ Federal Reserve
Banks of the country have reduced
their commercial loans from 1924
$4,000 to $362G62 900. The reduc-
tion is more than two-thirds.
There seems to be little human in.
terest in these figures. Back of them
though, is the greatest tragedy of oul
generation-the story of defalcation
with its hurricane of desperation
fear, despair and necessity.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
DO IT RIGHT

1t takes very little if any more time
and trouble and expense to do any
thing right than to do it half right.
But many people do not realize this.
And when you do thing we'll you
get so much more satisfaction out of
it. Nobody is ever happy over a
slovenly job Of anykind.
One of the main reasons why many
ncople never succeed in life, and are
continually discontented, that they
have never learned to do their work
thoroughly.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
FARMER ON THE BOARD

The suggestion of K. II. Wilson,
Democratic Candidate for Governor
that farmer be placed on the Board
of Affairs, sounds like good judgment
backed by honest intentions. The
state buys and sells great deal Of
agricultural products. 1t deals with
farmers as much as any other class.
There is no reason why the farmers
should not be represented on the
Board of Affairs. A farmer might
prove very proper balance wheel.
Why not?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
AS TO VALUES

a one-ccnt stamp, printed by the
government of British Guinea in 1856,
sold the other day in Paris for S32'-
OF.
For that much money you could buy
a diamond big enough to look as if
Il small hen had laid it.
Value are usually firtitiouS--im-
aginary. So. too. are the most things
in human life. especially emotions
and so called knowledge
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
ROTARY CLUB MEETING

Governor Robertson, Adjutant Gen.
eral Barrett, and several other off,
GERS of the regular army, from +,
Sill, were Rotary club guests TUESDAY
noon at the regular meeting. Tbs
program was cut short one-half hopr
on account of trades day. The entira
time was given to Governor Robert.
son, who spoke for thirty minutes ON
various phases of government.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The papers tell of a couple who
have been married for seventy years.
But they do not claim that they never
exchanged cross word in their
lives.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
WE MAKE SOME PROGRESS

Forty-six years ago this May, Alex
ander Graham Bell had his telephone
patent. No. 174465, only two months
and was talking himself blue in the
face. trying to interest capital in his
"toy." Today youngsters no taller
than yardstick are successfully
making wireless telephone outfits
Capper's Weekly.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

1t won't be long now until some
husbands will be sending their wives
off to the summer resorts so they can
rest. n. B.-You can construe that
sentence to suit yourself
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

Now some congressman claim that
they are underpaid. But they will not
get much sympathy until they can
show that they are overworked.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

A Chicago woman complains that
men will trust woman individually
but not collectively. There is some
thing in that, too.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The campaign is approaching, and
some of the prospective candidates
are beginning to discover what fine
fellow the editor is.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
FLYING LOW

Silas lin a whisper)-"Oid you git
a peep at the underworld at all while
YOU wuz in New York, Ezry?"
Ezra-"Three times, b'gosh! Sub
way twice an ratcellar once.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
HIS ADVICE

Your rifle" said the military in
structor, sis your best friend. Take
every care Of it; treat it as you
would your wife; rub it thoroughly
with an oil rag every day.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

A Harvard professor says the aver
age man has a vocabulary of $500
words. And he needs twice as many
when he stumbles over a rocking
chair in the dark.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The time of year is coming when it
won't be so hard to believe the man
who says he takes a cold bath every
morning.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

Some people may rejoice to learn
that the paid reformers and uplifters
are suffering from the general busi-
ness depression.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
NOW WILL YOU WORRY?

Worry poisons the system, kills
love, kindness. and generosity, de-
stroys the ability to think logically,
make the best food taste like Dead
Sea fruit, fills the road to Slumber-
land with briars and brambles and
tacks that puncture, and is never
found in the kit of the men bent on
discovering the pole of success.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

President Harding's income tax
was $4,000, and one of our ex-
changes thinks the law may be chang
ed soon.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

1t would help the government treas
ury some if congress would put a
luxury tax on divorces.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
THE LION TAMER

Gladys: Would you marry wild
over, Muriel?"
Muricl: mo, l prefer to tame my
husband for myself"
o
Bryan from the deuth Of his wis
dam, shifts the pitcher, and with his
right hand tucked in his coat says,
"Any man who thinks he is descend
ed from a monkey should try to hide
the fact rather than tell the world
he thinks So" We agrees.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

1t has happened that a man has
gone off on vacation and got mar
ried and never had vacation after
ward.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

We will have to be careful how We
treat those South American repub-
lies if we keep on reducing our army
and navy.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

1t is proposed to train reserve Off
GERS by mail. But will the future
wars be fought that way.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The fellow who married Is wives
has been sent to the penitentiary.
Some of us thought he was headed
for the asylum.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

Tom Watson has been silent for
quite a while now. but there is gen
eral suspicion that he is plotting
something.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The call now is for d-blooded
Americans. The old blue-blooded
crowd are out of date.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

1t won't be long now until some of
the old geezers will be going around
town Dragging on their wives gar
den.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

A man never realizes how poor he
is until he starts to make out an in
come tax return.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The party in power is never as good
as it says it is, nor as bad as opposi-
tion says it is.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The New York zoo has a monkey
that eats like a man. Wonder what
he thinks of men that eat like mon
keys.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

Some people, says an exchange
would be better off if they were moi
so well off.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

Some people say they don't like
onions, and others are truthful about
it.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

No woman saw public opinion re
Elected from her mirror.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

Fear of wood alcohol has made
about as many total abstainers as
prohibition.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

There is nothing so hard to mend as
a broken promise.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
WOOF, WOOF! BOW, WOW

WOOf! NOOf! BOW' WOW!
How | love dogs!" the maiden cried,
And then her suitor softly sighed:
81 wish | were dog, you know"
"Oh. WELL" said she, perhaps you'll
grow"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
WEEKLY BROADCASTS

Paragraph If you don't know
where you are going, you're not 60
ing far.
Paragraph 2-Gasoline makes a car
go, it's true, but that's not the half of
it, dearie.
Paragraph 3-Mistakes are the
common heritage of opportunity
they are the paving stones of pro-
gress.
Paragraph "A man may lie and
lie and so keep still successfully.
Paragraph 5--What a man knows
not what he tells, is what makes him
successful.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
DER INSPECTOR

A Durant man was describing his
experience at banquet the night be-
fore at Caddo "Onc of the most beau
tiful women have ever seen sat
across the table from me. 1t was
hard to tell whether she had dress or
on or not. She was a regular We
nus"
How did you know that she had 6
dress on?"
Il dropped my fork"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
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Speaking OF para
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long time ago about
leading a horse to wat
er. Well, now they say
that Volstead can lead
the United States to
can't make 'em stop
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

The only ideas in the world worth
mentioning accordin' to some folk:
are the ones that begin with capita
a."
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
STOP!

"Well! What are you stoppin for ?"
asked the young man, as the tax
came to a halt in the middle Of the
block.
81 heard the lady say. Stop, said
the taxi driver, "Well, she wasn't
talking to you"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

Il love to idle by the sea
And spend the day in reverie
And dream of glories yet to come,
And so does every other bum"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

waite. but he can't make EN- stoI
drinpink.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26
THE WEAKER VESSEL ?

She may shed tears in tribulations
But she can come triumphantly
Through twenty-seven operations.
While one would do for your Of
me.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

They're building houses now with
kitchenettes, large enough for pre-
pairing salads and making fudge.
which seems to be about all some Of
the modern wives need kitchens for.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

"The lightning bug is brilliant,
But it hasn't any mind;
1t wanders through creation
With its headlight on behind"
Over in Paris the latest dictate Of
Dame Fashion is for shaven eye
brows. Sort of clearing away the
underbrush SO as to look better!
Old time politicians bought votes
with flour and new boots. nowaday
they buy'em with face cream and
Ford accessories.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-05-26

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