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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

DEAR SANTA CLAUS:
| want one of the electric trains at
Herd Bailey Co. and a tricycle. Mama
took me all over town but I liked yours
best and a drum. Don't forget to get
them because / wouldn't like you any
more. l am years old and have been
good boy, your
waiting friend,
Richard Penprose.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
Dear Santa Claus,

Dear Santa Claus.
| wanty GU to bring me u train. drum
candies, fruits and little car. | have
been very good and | hope you VIII
bring the things | have asked for ana
oh yes | want little monkey that
climbs u string. Santa, | love you dear
ly and Don't forget my brother w. l..
he wants tool box train and oh |
don't know what else. Bring us both
What you think we need but we had
rathed have the things we asked for
| would like to come to the nor,h pole
and live with you and ride in your
sleigh. will be good and hope Christ
mas will hurry up and come. l do moi
go to school but | 20 to the Sunday
School every Sunday. lam five years
old.
Edward Brooks Robinson.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
pear santa.

Dear Santa:
am little girl six years Of age
and | am In the first grade. love TO
80 to school. Santa this christmas |
want a doll and doll buggy and III.
tie doll bed. Please don't forget my
sister Geneva aud my little brother
j. 4. My brother wants rookie
horse and please bring me some cand.
les and fruit
And don't forget the other little girls
and boys,
Dear Santa please excuse me for
writing so much.
Gerllne Cross.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
Your Buddy,
Raymond $. Weeks. Jr.
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
win you please come by the First
National bank and bring me a Savings
bank and Il bank book too. | want ne"
doll and a little table and also u bath
robe and house slippers.
Santa please don't forget to bring
Walter Gene train and a little dog
lie is my baby brother and Is d
good boy
Lovingly.
Dorothy Lee Gray.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
Healdton. Okla.

Dear Mr. Santa Claus.
Please, sir could you not bring me
a green box with set of boxing gloves,
football and basketball in It? saw them
at Mr.. Rittter's store and | heard Mr..
Ritter tell my mama that he only had
two or three sets, so kindly hurry over
there and get one for me or | shall be
greatly disappointed ! would also like
to have YOU bring me one Of those
fountain pens that | saw in Ringer
Drug store for / am going TO school
now and must do lots Of writing. Pleaes
do not forget the other good girls and
boys who so To- my school.
\ Merry Christmas and happy New
Year
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

Dear santa: / have been a good hoy
in school and will you please bring
these nice things a bicycle, football,
story book, games, apples, oranges
candy nuts and fire works andm sis
ter forget to tell you to bring her CO.
coanut so please bring two and any
nice things you have.
Clark Payne
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

Dear santa
am u little girl ten years old and
am In the fourth grade and my teach.
or is Miss Enloe and like her very
much. So now | will tell you what
want Tor Christmas Is a doll and doll
cradle that 1 saw down town. She IL
all dressed up pretty with green gcmp
and white waste with lace around the
cuffs and neck. She has pretty blue
Eyes and long curlcy hald.
Yours lovingly
Lois sutton
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

How arv YOU. am going to school
In the fourth grade and ana nine
years old. Dear Santa ! want you to
brins mc big sleepy doll and a doll
buggy Aiy little sister wants little
cubhv bear for christmas 40 good buy
From Ailcne Morris.
Springer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
EGGS ROYER Is SANTA
FOR SALVATION ARMY

Eggs Royer who for the past sew.
eral years has acted as Santa claus for
the salvation Army, Is again on the job
raising funds by contest. Misses Bur.
lnitt and Robinett are assisting him.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
Dear Santa Clause:

Dear Santa Clause:
will write YOU u few lines to tell
YOU what | want Tor Christmas | am
years old and | am In the third
grade want "a big sleepy doll for
Christmas and "A doll cedar chest for
christmas Dear santa Clause / will
close for this time. from your loving
friend
Frvlda Morris,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

Dear Santa:
| am boy II years old and IN the
fifth grade Mrs. Wolyerton Is my
teacher. thought / would write you
so you wouldn't forget me. Santa. l
want that transformer and erecter set
at the Dolies box co. Then / want
some fruit candy and nuts. l shore do
thank you for what you brought me
last year Don't forget other little
children.
Your good friend
Taft Nicholson
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

Dear Santa Claus:
My name is Jack Jr. Boy Ian. | live
at s2l McLish Ave. Please bring me a
radio set, one of the sets that viii re-
ccive $50 miles and "A football.
My little sister Bettey Ellen wants a
doll that talks and can walk | am
seven veqls old and betty is four with
love
Jack.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

ALIAS Santa Claus Club:
Dear santa Claus: Please do not for.
get US. There is OF US all to gether
let's see there is Virgil IL months old,
r. T. Q years old Dole years old,
Marguerite years old, and Myself
10 years old. Our papa has been out OF
work for some time picking up odd
Jobs but there Will be no Santa Claus
ut our house unless some body plays
Santa Tor us,
Wishfully,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
Dear Santa Clause:

have been a good girl and will you
please BRING mc these things. want
u bicycle u little set OF wnlture. set
o fdishcs. "a story book game, doll
that viii say mother, cry, walk. or
angos. nuts, candy and fireworks. an
thing else you can think OF.
Your little friend.
Faye Payne.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

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please bring me Il little table and chairs
set OF dishes, little bed, telephone,
dresser and u doll cart. Yes ana !
have two little brothers, Claude ana
Kenneth, Claude wants a rocky horse
a nd "A horn nrH kennAfn klu0X CuT
and a horn and anything else you want
to bring them.
With love fromyourfriend,
Carlene Holden.
Do,r Santa.
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Dear Santa;
am u little girl six years OF age
80 to school. Santa this christmas
want a doll and doll buggy and u III
tie doll bed. Please don't forget my
sister Geneva aud my little brother
J. a. My brother wants rookie
horse and please bring me some eand
les and fruit
and boys.
Dear Santa please excuse me fo
writing so much.
Gerline Cross.
-
Dear Santa:
| am little grl ten years old and
J am In the fourth grade and my teach
cr is Miss Enloe and like her yer!
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

Dear Sany: | am u little girl years
old
/ do not so to school. / would like
for you to bring doll and Il tricycle.
| would lik for you to bring my SIS
ter and mother and father | would
like fore you TO bring me some candy
Mary McMurey
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
From Our
Exchanges
Let Our Tariff Be American Made

Let Our Tariff Be American Made!
This government has been such a
perennial good thing and easy mark
for the rest of the world during the
last few years that there are those
at home and abroad that assume that
the natural mission of America IS to
be humanity's perpetual burden bear
er. The diplomatic representatives of
European nations are busy telling US
how we can best frame our tariff
laws in the interests Of foreign lands
and protesting against the restoration
of the protective policy in behalf Of
American labor and enterprise. There
are many statesmen and near states
men in this country and n Europe who
seem to be very slow waking up to
the fact that the present national adj
ministration has a mandate from the
American people to give an occasional
thought to the United States.
Recently the representative of the
French chamber of commerce, emit
ting an cutlery against the pending
protective tariff law, declared that
for the American government to i'm
pose stiff tariff rates on articles of
French production was a violation of
friendship and an outrage upon the
French people. Whereupon a New
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
REPRESENTATION

Waiting, when there's so much to be
done,
Waiting, while success waits to be
won,
Waiting, while days pass never to
return,
Days that are full Of things to learn.
Waiting, while opportunity stares in
the eye,
Waiting, as golden chances pass on
by,
Waiting, while go-getters fill their
tills,
And reach success by their winning
wills.
Waiting, for something to turn up
that will pay,
Waiting, while wiser men fight and
win their way,
Waiting and wondering why they new
er reach success,
While each day wasted waiting,
makes their chances less.
It's not hard luck that holds back men,
It's the curse of waiting that ham,
pers them,
The world moves on and leaves then,
by the way,
And they keep on waiting for sue
cess to come some day.
But success does not come to him who
waits,
Procrastination anchors him in a
lowly place,
And the wiser men go forward and
climb and climb,
And leave real footprints in the
sands of time.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09

Yorker who had undergone a recent
experience with the French govern
ment related the story in a commun-
ication to one of the New York news
papers engaged in advocating the the
ory that our tariff laws should be
framed in the interests Of importers,
international finnanciers and alien
producers. A pair of gloves was re-
Gently sent by a New York friend
to a World war soldier now visiting
in Paris. They were returned by the
French authorities, postage collect,
with the information that foreign
gloves were not permitted to be sent
into France!
A good deal of the same sort of
hypocrisy is being practiced by other
European nations which, with the
highest tariffs in their history, are
arguing that the United States can
not h%onorably return to our tradition
al protective policy. Canada, with the
highest protective tariff that country
has eve known, written after this
country had enacted the lowest tariff
the United States has known since the
Civil war, is indulging in some Of
this %insincere agitation.
The American people have had about
all they want of policies laid down
for the United States by foreign ma
[tions in their own selfish interests.
The time has come when the United
States must take some account of the
American people, and act in some
thing of the same spirit of preserva-
ton which dictates the national poll
cies of every one of these govern
ments now engaged in trying to con
troll American governmental policies
by propaganda.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09

Any n who has followed the con.
duct of the Government since Mr..
Hardtng's induction into the presi.
dency must marvel at the rapidity
with which the cost of government has
been reduced. 1t is the constant aim
OF the administrative and legislative
branches of the government, all in O n
troll OF the Republican Party, to ad.
minister the affairs of the Government
on a strictly business basis, expend.
ing not a single dollar for any purpose
not essential to the Nations needs.
h one thing on which all are agreed
is rigid economy in Government ex-
penditure, and nothing can more forci.
bly, portray the story of accomplish.
ment achieved in this direction than
the statement that costs have been
reduced to the extent above indicated.
One billion, five hundred and seven.
teen million have been expended on
the care of the wounded and sick SOL
diers of the World Wal up to Febru.
airy LIST, last. indicating that nothing
has been left undone to provide for
the care and comfort of the men who
gave themselves to the country in it's
hour of need.
The country is to be congratulated
on having Mr.. Harding in the presi.
dency. The problems handed down to
him from the war complicated though
they are, have been solved in the in.
terest of the people. He has had the
vision to see, the patriotism to do, and
the courage and ability to achieve. His
devotion to the Nations needs has
been the admiration of all who have
watched him. He has been Jealous.
painstaking, patriotic, untiring and un-
selfish, and he has had and will have
the hearty cooperation of the Con.
gress in his efforts to put the country
on a stable basis. Nineteen hundred
and twenty-three will find America the
only country in the world living within
it's income. The people have reason to
rejoice at this accomplishment of their
President and their Congress.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
SALES FABLES

I needed a spring coat the other
day and as I am built somewhat or
the lines of a first class battleshir
it vas necessary that I find out what
stores were prepared to fit circum.
ferential gents who need large sizes
I called one store after the other
on the phone, and one after the other
a fishy voice would inform me in a
tone that implied that fat men needed
no clothes, that they didn't have any
thing near my size and all gave me
the impression that I was wasting
their time asking for such a darn
fool size. Now l have seer people
bigger than I and they wore top coats
so I knew that somewhere in the world
was a store where I might lay down
my coin of the realm and become
clothed in a nice coat even as the lilies
of the field, etc.
I told the operator to keep on call
ing until someone showed interest and
in a few minutes she called me and
on the phone was a voice, a real snap
Ply, poppy voice, a voice of gold and
craftsmanship that carried a smile and
an invitation to shake hands and get
acquainted. No, he didn't have my
size, but if I would come up and pick
out my style he would wire the man.
ufacturer and get my size and he
would personally see that I was fit
ted, pleased, satisfied and so on and
so on. Did l 60 up? I did. Did he
sell me? He did. Is he a salesman ?
He is. Am l going to send him every
nj I know to sell? I am. Salesman
ship is a rare and beautiful thing,
and that's no fable.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
Public Economy Motto of
Republican Administration
Operating Expenses of Government Re-
duced Nearly One Half by Republican
Congress Working in Harmony With
Executive Department
o.. 8. REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN b.. MADDEN
U~LLINOIS), CHAIRMAN HOUSE, COMMITTEE
ON APPROPRIATION

The estimates submitted by Presi.
dent Wilson for the conduct of the
Government for the fiscal year 1921
amounted to $6,15O, 900, 900, and the ap-
preparations made under these esti.
mates by a Republican Congress
amounted to $4.7S9, 900, 900, showing an
approximate saving in appropriations
for that year of $1,4O0, 600, 600.
The estimates submitted by Presi-
dent Wilson for the fiscal year 1922
were $500, 100000, and the a%ppropria.
lions made under these estimates by
a Republican Congress were reduced
to $4,O65, O00. 900. showing an approx.
mate saving of $1,000, 600, 900.
The estimates for the fiscal year
1928 submitted by President Harding
amount to $685. 0O, 900, and the ap-
preparations, when completed, will
probably be $500, 900. 900, or 1858, OOO..
900 less than the estimates.
The people of the United States
should understand hat for many years
to come it will not be possible to run
the Government for less than $780,
100000 per annum. This seems like
a very large sum, but when it is real.
lied that we have three fixed charges,
consisting of interest on the public
debt, sinking fund, and maintenance
of the Veterans Bureau, which were
created by the war and amount to ap-
proximately $4,000, O00, 900 per annum
it will be seen that the other expenses
of the Government have been reduced
by the Republican administration. to
$4,000 600.
The annual cost OF the Government
before the war was $3.50, 000, 900.
Thus it will be seen that the present
cost, aside from the fixed charges re-
ferred to, is but $780, 900, 900 in excess
of pre-war cost, and at least Sl5O, OOo..
600 OF this is accounted for by the
normal increase in the business Of he
postal service, leaving but $500, OOO, 900
Of expense for ordinary purpose in
excess of pre-war costs.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09

form, or in our present highly COM
pick organization, prosperous produc-
ton must precede satisfactory con-
sumption. Giving first thought to the
consumer, as the Democrats under
take to do, is putting the cart before
the horse, to use an ancient but APP
propriate expression. There r nu-
nervous commodities which cannot be
produced in the United States at all,
or in insufficient quantities, and in
those instances there must be large
purchases abroad. But in every in
stance of commodities that can be
produced here, it is to the interest not
only of the workers directly employed
in each particular industry but to the
interest of those depending upon gen.
eral prosperity for their success, that
purchase of the home product be en-
couraged.
Appeals to patriotism and loyalty to
home industries will not suffice. The
importer, often a foreigner by birth,
is tempted by the opportunity to make
a larger profit for himself by pur-
chasing the product of cheap labor in
a foreign land and selling it here at
a price with which American labor
cannot compete. With the exception
of an import tax, no effective means
of restricting importations has ever
been devised. Such a tax, based upon
difference in cost Of production here
and abroad, does not shut out all i'm
portations and give the home producer
an absolute monopoly, but does shut
out importations at a price that
would be destructive Of American in
dustry. Under protective tariff rates
as enacted in the past, there have been
importations large enough to disprove
the assertion that the Republican pol
icy would erect a Chinese wall of
trade exclusion.
All that the Republicans ask is that
American producers shall have at
least an equal chance in their home
market, and this, it is submitted, is
in the interest of the country as a
whole.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
STATE COLLEGE news NOTES

Bozeman, June 6.-Montana is to Of
fer to the country at large a distinct
type and quality of watermelon which
will be marketed in a special manner
in carload lots under a trade name.
This was decided upon last week in
Forsyth when watermelon growers Of
that community met with M. L. Will
son, farm management demonstration
of the Montana extension service.
The watermelon grown in the For
syth community is to be known as
the Rosebud melon" Growers have
signed up one hundred acres this year
and the organization expects to mar
ket between fifty and one hundred
carloads of high quality melons this
fall.
Inquiries concerning the Rosebud
melons already have begun to reach
the growers in Rosebud county. It is
recognized that farmers in that To-
cality can grow melons Of exceptional
quality and with a very large produc-
ton to the The watermelons are
very early, and this year all will be
of standardized varieties. All grow
ers are planting in hills ten feet
square. This year data will be kept
to find if there is any advantage be-
tween summer fallow and melon grow
ing.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
BLUE RIBBON FOR ARMS FARLEY

The platform of the Indiana Repub-
lican marshals the facts concerning the
national administration in Washing
ton in a way that must carry convic-
ton to the voters. 1t gives first place
in the list of Republican achievements
to the Washington rms conference.
Then come the business adminnistra-
ton of President Hardingn, the en-
actment of the budget law and all the
other pieces of legislation that have
brought so much benefit to the tax
payers, the pending tariff bill, and
the marked tide of prosperity that is
setting in all over the country.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
AMERICAN PRODUCER
SHOULD COME FIRST

There is one indisputable fact that
the American voter should always
keep in mind-that the interests of
importers of foreign goods are
promoted by the tariff policies of the
Democratic party, while the interests
of American producers are injured
thereby. The Democratic theory that
it is best to buy where you can buy
cheapest entirely ignores the obvious
truth that the country will o o lose
it's buying power if it practices the
policy of buying abroad while it's own
industries are neglected.
The importers Of Italian lemons
were among the most ardent sup
porters of the Democratic candidates
in 1912, when the tariff was a pro-
minent issue and when, unfortunately,
there was a split in the Republican
party. Buying lemons in Italy be-
cause they can be bought there more
cheaply than in CALIFORNIA; is GER
tain to result in diminished buying
power among the lemon growers of
the United States. Buying glassware
in the Netherlands, cutlery and OPP
tical goods and dyes in Germany, cot
ton and wool manufactures in Eng
land, dried fruits in the Far East and
various other commodities in various
other foreign countries when similar
goods could be produced in the United
States in larger quantities, must in
varibly reduce the buying power of
those who depend upon those indus
tries for a livelihood. Thus our domes-
tic market is weakened and all our
commercial interests are impaired.
The first thought of those who
would promote the welfare of Ameri-
can industry should be for the pro-
Queer. Whether in the most primitive
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09

fort to secure the enactment of con-
legislation to accomplish tax
equalization and reduction, and econ
omy in government.
F. B. GILLETTE.
Pub. June 2,-Aug. rs, Incl.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09

The 1922 graduating class at Mon
tana State college is the largest in
the history of the institution. This
year 70 young men and women will
receive the degree of bachelor of sci
ence from the institution.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
TO THE VOTERS OF VALLEY
COUNTY

l hereby that l will be
a candidate for State Senator on the
Republican ticket. If nominated and
elected, will support Governor Dixon's
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-09
TO THE VOTERS OF VALLEY
COUNTY

SOONlI
l hereby announce my candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
state senator of Valley county, and
respectfully ask your support at the
primaries.
l have lived and farmed here for the
past twelve years and believe I know
the needs of the people as we'll as
anyone else.
Realizing that farming is the fun
damenal fact of Valley county, I will
if sustained at the polls, pledge you
my entire time and energy for the
upbuilding of that industry, and stand
for equal justice for all without fear
or favor.
Yours for a square deal,
c. M. PETERSON.
Published June 9, Aug rs, incl.