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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
men Who shot
TAXI DRIVER At
FORAKER CAUGHT
Mortally Wounded Chauf-
feur Is Left in Field to
Die; Suspects Came
From Whiz Bang.

TULSA.-Jack Sutherland, alias Ed
Adams, known as Brownie and Al
fred Dreyton, both Of Whi2 Bang,
Okla, We're arrested here this morn
ing and confessed, according to the
police, to kidnapping and shooting n
taxi driver at that place. Jack Hooks,
the taxi driver, was left to die in a
field near Foraker. the men said after
he had been shot i'm the head. The
car, the men said, was wrecked near
Sperry. and they came here on "a
truck.
The men are being held at the po.
lice station pending further investiga'
ton and the filing of charges The
police said.
A long distance from Foraker con
firmed the wounding Of Hooks lie was
found in field one mile west OF
that place He had a bullet wound
above the heart and is not expected
to live. He was unable TO give any
coherent account Of the affair.
The shooting according to Suther-
land and Dreyton occurred at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon after they
had hired Hooks at Wh2 Bang to
drive them to Foraker. on the way
according to the alleged confession
the passengers sandbagged Hooks
took a gun from him, shot him anc
threw him out Of the car, driving on
to Sperry in the stolen car where II
was wrecked in an accident Hooks
was found about o'clock last night
Sutherland, the alleged leader in
the plot, has served a term in the
Kansas state penitentiary for de-
sertion from the United States army
and has been engaged in selling whis
key in Whiz Pang for several months
the police say he confessed.
Dreyton has been working on an
oil lease near Whiz Bang for five
months.
An unnamed girl in Sand Springs
was the incentive to the crime. she
is Suthcrland's sweetheart and it was
in order to return 10 her that Suth'
erland laid the plot and carried IL into
execution. the police said
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
LIGHTS BLIND MOTORIST: MAN
DRIVER KILLED IN WRECK

PONCA CITY, Okla.-Barney f.
Simpson, a pipe filter. was instantly
killed and Mrs. Charles Miller slight.
ly injured when their automobile roll.
ed down an embankment near Mulhan.
The couple We're returning from Okla
homa City where they had gone to
see a sister, Miss Helen simpson who
is i'll in a local hospital. Lights from
an oncoming car are said to have
blinded Simpson.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
A THOUGHT FOR
TODAY

And Jesus came into Galilee.
preaching the good news Of the
Kingdom of God. and saying, The
time is fulfilled. and the Kingdom
Of God is at hand; repent ye, and
believe the good news.--Mark ll3,
II.
COD give us mem a time like
this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office
cannot kill.
Men whom the love of money can
not buy,
Men who possess opinions and a
will,
Men who have honor and who will
not lie.
j. c.. Holland.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
LEGION MEN AND AUXILIARY
HOLD JOINT MEET TONIGHT

Joint meeting Of the executive COM
mittee of the George Il. Anderson
post OF the American Legion and the
Women's Auxiliary will be held at 7
o'clock tonight at the legion head
quarters. Convention Hall. Regular
annual session Of the auxiliary will
be held Wednesday when election of
officers will be held.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH WHILt
PARENTS ATTENDED CHtRCH

OKMULGEE. oka.-While Mr.. ano
Mrs. j. l.. Papp were attending a pray.
er meeting at ,he salvation Army hall
here Sunday night. their one year
old daughter Linnie. was burned to
death in n fire which destroyed the
Papp home on the outskirts OF town.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
SIX MILLIONS
LOANED BY WAR
CORPORATION

OKLAHOMA CITY.-The war Fl.
nance corporation has advanced &c.
3S6,644 up to December 81 TO Okla
homa banking and financing institu.
tions and cooperative associations in
Oklahoma for agricultural and live.
stock purposes, Eugene Meyer. Jr..
directors of the corporation announc.
ed from Washington In a special dis.
patch to the Daily Oklahoman said
tonight.
Offices for loans of the corporation
have been opened for business only
six weeks. according to p. A. Jane.
way. state director of the corpora.
ton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
POLITE HOLD-UP ROBS
GROCER OF $50 SATURDAY

PONCA CITY. Okla.-"Don't get
excited. but give me all of your
money was the order given in a po.
lite tone Saturday night to T. p. vii.
son, pioneer groceryman of this city.
Mr.. Wilson conducts store just
outside the city limits. He estimated
that his loss will amount TO about $50
The bandit. who was masked thanked
the groceryman when he left.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09

Mince pie was known originally as
SHRED" pie.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09

WE ARE carrying "A nice line of wall
paper in addition TO our Lumber Co
When you get ready to build let us
figure on your bills. If you have an
old house to paint. try our Snow Lite
Paint. 1t goes further and lasts long.
er than any paint on earth. II you
have room that needs papering come
and get our prices on the paper. +.
l.. Phillips painter and paper hanger
at Cornwell & Chowning Lumber Co.
Phone 170. 9.12
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09

If YOU WILL TRAIN FOR GOV.
ERNNIENT WORK. PHONE THE
ARDMORE BUSINESS COLLEGE,
NO. 613. 81
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09

$500 ACRES in range l3 east. township
and south. Atoka county, for
lease for oil and gas Test well now
drilling in range II T.. Township 2
South Plenty water and timber. What
am l offered? Geo. Lyles, owner.
Greenville, Texas. SO
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-09
roo LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR RENT-Good east exposure Of
flee rooms. Apply Hamilton Shoe
Store. 90
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
SHOULD HAVE NO WEAPONS.

Lockers on can afford to stand idle
and amused when two six-year- old
lads settle their differences with their
puny fists. Let one small urchin pick
up a brick, and bystanders interfere.
When the urchins grow up. they still
fight if they will, provided they use
natures weapons. But let one take a
pistol or a knife, and the law says
mo"
We don't disarm our civil popula-
tion-we simply don't arm them. The
way FOR nations 10 prevent war is to
have no weapons With which to fight.
II no nation had battleship for pro-
lection" no other nation would need a
battle ship. The idea that we must
have battleships to protect us from
naval aggression falls flat if there are
no battleships to do any aggressing.
II $3.50, why not 0-0-0?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
FORD STANDS ALONE.

Secretary Weeks long wait fer the
appearance of a real competitor of
Henry Ford as a bidder for the Muscle
Shoals nitrate and power plants seems
to go unrewarded. Everyone besides
the Detroit man, who looks the project
over, finds it too big for him. Those
who would like to operate the enter
prise virtually as agents of the gov
eminent, are fairly numerous, but none
is willing to undertake to swing it on
his own responsibility None but Ford.
Mr.. Tinker, the much heralded Cali
fornia contender, has been to Muscle
Shoals and looked the situation over,
but rumors indicate that his proposal
to Secretary Weeks falls far short of
relieving the government of further
responsibility. Dispatches from Wash
ington indicate that his offer is not
considered in a class with Ford's bid.
1t is apparently not greatly different
from other plans previously submitted.
Daily it becomes more clearly ap-
parent that the Ford proposition is the
only choice as against virtual govern
ment operation or junking the plants.
Secretary Weeks is on record against
both the latter alternatives. Nothing
remains, therefore, but to award to
Ford the bargain he has honestly won
and allow the great enterprise to sue
coed. Further postponement is now
Observation-Disclosures News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
LET FRANCE DIsARM.

Secretary Hoover says THE COM
merce of the world is obviously de-
pendent on international confidence
and 1 know of no greater demonstra-
ton of the Importance of confidence
than the recent rise in international
exchange rates as the result of the
conference in Washington. There was
no movement of money or commodities
that warranted such a rise. 1t was
simply and solely a movement of con-
fidence.'
Exchange win rise still more sharp
ly and an era of prosperity such S the
world has never known will inevitably
result If the Washington conference
succeeds in largely limiting land, as
well as naval ornaments. If the United
States. with its hundred and ten mill
lions of people and its vast national
wealth, finds an army OF 10000 bur-
den, what must the load be to France,
with less than half the population and
five times the army?
If u. s. army figures are reliable,
guns, no ammunition. Ii Germany
cannot fight, she cannot injure France.
Against what other enemy does
France propose to seno her mighty
standing army?
Let France disarm, and every stand
ing army in Europe will diminish, if
not disappear.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
By Ad Carter

would be. Our Heavenly Father has
made all human beings dependent
upon one another from the cradle to
the grave. all classes and conditions
of men. the rich. the poor. the strong
the weak, all are depending on each
other and each individual has all the
opportunity to help someone and do
good and use his or her influence in
the uplifting Of the weak and the
| tempted in your community and not
always condemn your fellow man and
pass judgment. remember we are all
liable TO err and If you and I are
tempted and We're surrounded with
the same influence we might yield to
do wrong as we are ell apt TO err and
don't forget that if you and I are bet
ter and do not commit the same err
rors that others do we should give
thanks to the given of all good and
90 our best to aid those whom have
fallen and help them by personal as
sistance to do and act right BObbie
rBurns, the Scotch roet, made a very
appropriate saying: 20. wad some
power, the gift to gees us, to see our
selves as either sees US, it wad fra
many ills befree us and damnable no
tons"
Let each and every citizen help and
work together and help ell Organiza-
tons and authorities in their respec-
tive duties, the Chamber of Commerce,
and stand by the officers and en-
courage them in their various impor-
tant duties The newly elected Capt.
Price. and all the various committees.
in ali things that are for the uplift
and good of your city and county
commercially as we'll as socially Com
mercially Pensacola has received not
alone publicity as being the finest and
best seaport in the L. S. but through
the good work of the Chamber of
commerce and Mr.. Morrow had a re
duction in freight rates by the rail-
road and the inaugurating, through
the efforts of Mr.. Mcdonald. Captain
Stewart Mr.. Altink and others. Of a
steamship line between here and Cuba.
Time is too short TO enumerate the
various and important opportunities
Of Pensacola and Ecsambia county
but let each and every citizen do his
bounden duty-help these noble men
in their efforts to make our Pensa-
cola, the ancient city, one of the larg-
est and most important, commercially.
speaking, city Of the entire southland
to which she is entitled by her natural
possession, one of the best and safest
seaports not alone on the gulf, but the
United States. where commercial COM
~ odi+iaS Of iyopOr+ and evUovf COY, he
done with more speed and financial
economy than any other seaport in the
United States.
Let your slogan be For the Good
of Escambia county and Pensacola"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
WE SHOULD EcoNoMIzE.

That the nation needs a New Year
resolution objected to thrift and sanity
in it's conduct of business is the opin-
ion of w. J. Moore, financier and pres
ident of the American Bond e. Mort
gage Company, of Chicago and New
York
Now that we have plunbed the
depths OF depression and are well on
the way toward recovery and the nor
NAL" said Mr.. Moore. is the time for
the people of America to take stock
of themselves and see wherein they
have been remiss in the past
Following the war, when money
was easy to almost everyone, we had
the usual spending spree which we al
ways have under just such conditions.
Then came the inevitable period of
stringency, and instead of profiting
from our gains in the flush and easy
times of the preceding two years, the
American people really underwent
great hardship.
There was no sane reason for it, No
European nation would suffer to any
thing like the degree America did
given similar conditions. That is be-
cause real thrift is ingrained in most
European countries. OF course, Eu-
rope has suffered much more in the
past few years than we have, because
the war was harder upon it, and it
never really recovered.
But we did recover and were pros
porous to a degree heretofore I'M
known, and yet we suffered. right af-
ter our prosperity because we squan-
dered what came easy and made no
provision for the sterner time sure TO
arrive. This could not happen to
really thrifty nation, and the events
of the past year have proved again,
and more strikingly than ever before,
that America, as a country, is totally
lacking in thrift.
I'VE must face the fact that we
have been a spendthrift nation in the
past, and remedy it. We have seen the
terrible effects of our thriftlessness.
We have suffered in this country, amid
plenty. There was no real reason for
it, except our spendthrift habits. Now,
at the dawn of a new year, is the time
for the making of a national and in
dividual resolution-and keeping it
The nation needs the resolution as
much az do practically all of us as in
dividual Americans. 1t is to practice
proper economy to conserve, not only
national resources, but the national
wealth aud our individual resources. If
we were thrifty, taxes would be lower
and good times would return more
readily after every period of depres-
sion. Besides, there would be fewer
depression periods.
America, as a nation, needs thrift,
and if the New Year thrift resolution
is made ard kept, we shall unques-
tionably witness a new and welcome
era in the history of this land, when
the wonderful bounty of nature will
be reflected in general ease of con-
ditions, not merely in flush times but
all the time"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
OBJECTS TO A "sAck DOOR"

Italy is much disturbed over the
hopes of the Vatican to reestablish
temporal power, which would include
a free outlet to the sea. The agrarian
population of Italy is markedly Catho-
lie, and of course sees in the desires
of the Vatican but a hope to extend
the influence of the church. The ur-
ban population of Italy, which has dis
covered what food shortage means and
how much hardship a war works, takes
less account of the religious angle of
the proposition than the practical
viewpoint, and objects strenuously to
a back door" to the sea which might
open or close to the enemies of the
Italian government without the secu-
lar authority having a say in the mat
ter,
Italy. like all other modern countries,
has prospered with church and state
divorced. and doesn't propose to risk
a reunion which has, from the civilian
point of view, everything against it
and nothing in its favor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06

who jumped onto his lap and entwined
their arms about his neck, and who
wonder where is the one who once
cared for them so tenderly?
What is the tragedy in this human
life?
Why was there not a scrap of paper
that might lead to the finding OF
those who knew him in better days?
10 monument viii rise on the mound
under which the unknown will minEle
his bones with the dust. Not even a
headstone above. will tell who once
inhabited the tenement Of clay that
lies buried there.
Unwept, unhOnored, unsung, I'M
known. he is at least at peace and
those who tread the sod that grows
above his grave may never know what
sent him an unknown wanderer upon
the face of the earth.
Such is human life. We fuss around
a little while and make quite a stir.
We pass to realms beyond, are soon
forgotten and in a brief span of years
even the chiseled name upon tie mon
ument erected by those we once ca
ressed bring back no predictions to
those who take our places and fuss
along the route that knows our foot
steps no more.-Laurel (Miss.) Leader.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
TONS OF GOLD
IN OCEAN WATER

There is $5OoOO,OOO in gold in the
sea for every inhabitant Of the globe,
says John Hays Hammond, the famous
mining engineer. But, unfortunately
no commercially successful method Of
extracting it has been invented thus
far. Water dredged from the great
depths Of The Atlantic contains four
grains of gold to a ton Of water. An es-
timated total amount of gold in the
oceans of the world thus runs into
thousands of millions OF tons.
Hammond tells The Story Of Gold"
in the January Mentor Magazine.
drawing upon his life experience for
some Of the most interesting bits Of
his article. He tells of meeting John
Marshall the discoverer of gold In
California. Marshall showed the IA
nous engineer the exact spot where he
found the tiny nugget that started the
California gold rush in 40.
Mans high regard for gold is due,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
HUMAN TRAGEDY

A few days ago man committed
suicide only a short distance from
here.
The fat that he had cut his own
throat and afterwards hung himself
indicated that he was determined to
end It all.
Not a scrap Of paper was found
on his person to identify his identity.
He was buried by the county and
lies in. a pauper's grave. while those
who knew him in life know not that he
is gone.
This is not a peculiar case. Similar
cases happen many times every year
in this broad country Of ours, but
coming so close to home We are led to
speculate.
Where are those gho knew him in
his prosperity and mayhap enjoyed his
hospitality?
Did he leave a family somewhere in
this great, big world Of ours?
Is there a wife somewhere wonder
ing why she does not hear from the
one who for years shared her JOS
and her sorrows?
Are there children somewhere who
once We're under his parental care,
who romped and PLAYED with him,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
YOUNG KOREA

Any time after a Korean boy is
seven he may be married and he is sell
dom still unengaged at II or IA At
that time he winds his pigtail-if he
still wears one in these crop-headed
days-into a top-knot and swag-
gers a bit in the presence of the I'M
bethrothed. Formerly, if a Korean boy
had any schooling at all, he squatted
all day on the school room floor, learn
ing to read and write, but not to
speak. Chinese, and he would have
thought himself we'll educated if he
acquired a vague knowledge of the
maxims of Confucius He often felt
content to carry a, 'jiggy' or to drive
a pack pony or even to act as nurse
to the baby while his older brother
wrestled with the Chinese classics.
Under the new regime the school
hours are still long and strenuous, but
the boys pursue Japanese course Of
study in Japanese. They probably
would vote their games more interest
ing than any curriculum whatsoever.
Their national sport is stone fighting.
which they carry on during the first
days of the New Year AT the
same season they have sky touTna-
ments, in which they cut the strings
of one another's kites and take the
falling kites as prizes.--From Young
Heirs OF the Ages. BY Marietta Neff,
in Asia Magazine for January.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06
CATIONS OF A WIFE
ADELE CARR iSoN

Ia raw Polish girl, had done the laun-
dry work and cleaning in the apart
ment where DicNy and three other
artists kept bachelors hall.
Wy dot joost de way he always DO at
de flat vcn he and dose oder boys lived
dere," she explained. He always have
lots of books and papers, an ven dose
oder fellows tell him dey chuck dem
all out if he no feex. he always get dem
out an den sit an read all time bet
he dere all day.
Il bet someting else, too" she went
on ana her face was full OF mlschie-
vous enjoyment. 81 bet some company
COON today"
oh. Katie don't even speak Of such
Ia thing!" I said, aghast at the very
idea Of guests in so disordered a
house I'm sure no one win come
The Durkees know we are moving.
and the rest of the people here don't
know US we'll enough TO call. And
am sure no one from the city viii be
here today"
Il bet you somebody COON" Katie
repeated obstinately. My bone, I feel
dot in. I tink we get dinner right
away qveeck den it all over, We no
have to feed dose folks"
I'VE would better have dinner early
anyway, Katie" l said, amused at
Katie's persistence and knowing the
absolute futility OF combating any ideal
or superstition Of her, once it became
lodged in her brain.
"Yo no tink 1 know" she chuckled.
You joost Wait ind see"
Her assurance made me uneasy in
spite Of myself I am foolishIy sensi-
tive about the appearance OF my
house ! know it. and have tried to
rid myself of so silly a feeling. tried
to acquire some of LiIlians splendid
indifference to circumstances. She can
be regal hostess. in a perfectly ordered
and appointed home, and she would
make guests equally welcome, enter
tain them with the same apparent zest,
if they should come unexpectedly to
her home when she had painters plas-
terers and carpenters at work.
To have visitors with my furniture
scattered all over the house, and DiclNy
ensconced in such disgraceful untidi-
ness in the living room, was catas-
trophe not to be thought Of.
was compelled to think OF Il a
little later, however, for the Marvin
taxi rolled up to the door. and-of all
persons in the world-deposited i'm
slightly rumpled, but still dignifed
state, my mother-in-law.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-06

was the healthiest year in the history
of both the United States and Canada.
The figures for the first ten months
indicate a lowering of the death rate
among policy holders from SO in 1920
to 8.24 in 1921.
Despite the absence of Rock and
Rye pneumonia decreased so per cent
from 1920.
More prosp rous. non drinking
Americans. however, were able to af-
ford automobiles. with the result of IL
pc. cent increase in deaths from auto
mobile accidents.
The 81 Companies supplying these
figures transact about so per cent Of
the life insuranc" business of the
country.
There was large decrease in deaths
from tuberculosis.