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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-27
WILSON JUST CAN'T
KEEP OUT OF COURT

Hardly had II. II. Wilson been re.
leased after paying fine In police
court on charge Of operating and
maintaining an immoral house. thnn he
was re-arrested on ximiAr csnfUes
and will face charges In pe,ics court
Thursday afternoon.
At the time Of the second arrsse cUuf
persons were arrested for lsltefing
about the place and four .anug1o1 -
. changed sAahR. = -<..s "a !.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-27
Aged Woman Is Dead

WALKERTON, ont-Mrs. Christie.
pher Morrison, 81. mother of Frank
Morrison. secretary OF the American
Federation OF Labor. died yesterday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-27
ROW May SPLITCHURCH AT LAWTON
My yOpiiniionls Is

Every day The Ardmoreite ques-
tions five persons on subject Of
general interest The answers are
published with the names Of those
interviewed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-27

More Than A
Newspaper
An Institution
Evening star., 1922-01-22
How the Clocks Run.

An astronop, er at Lick Observatory
has discovered that clocks run faster
at night than in the daytime. The
error is very small, but an elaborate
observing program confirms earlier
conclusions that clocks do run faster
then.
This will be interesting news to all
sufferers from insomnia, who have felt
that clocks run very much slower at
night than during the day. All those
who have lain awake in the small
hours, waiting for the dawn to come,
will be inclined to doubt the accuracy
of the professors observations.
Just what bearing the discovery will
have upon men and clocks is not
known at this time. At first blush it
would seem that the amount Of good
such a revelation can accomplish
would be very small. Who cares if
clocks run faster at night, anyway?
Yet who knows but what greater
discoveries in science may hinge upon
the apparently harmless discovery
that clock wheels turn around a bit
faster at night, and clock springs have
a bit more power during darkness:
Evening star., 1922-01-22

in too much Of a sweat. We forget.
or ignore, what we have passed
through since the summer Of 1914.
The world has hitherto never had
such an experience The destruction
Of life and treasure and the disloca'
tion and Generalization Of affairs OF
every kind have been appalling-in.
iescribable, indeed. p
In the very nature Of things, re-
covery will be slow. After such a
seizure the world cannot reasonably
be expected to spring to its feet and
get into its stride right away.
But it will recover both its temper
and its strength, and 60 forward again
In the old way. 1t is still q good place
to live in, and will be made better by
those who have learned much in the
bitter school Of war and have now q
chance to apply their knowledge.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
The Teachers Task.

Elementary school teachers. accord
ing to speaker at the annual meeting
Of the Washington tuberculosis Asso-
citation, must be depended upon to give
the children Of America their -elen,en-
tary training in health.
This is probably true, and it points
anew to the key position which the
grade school teachers occupy in the
life Of the nation. Malnutrition, from
which so many children suffer. Is not
a matter Of being born into a rich or
poor family, researches show. Par
ents, through either ignorance or care
lessness, fail to comprehend child
health problems.
1t is left for the teachers, then, to
do what they can to detect the under.
nourished child, the child with too thin
and spindhng legs, whose shoulder
blades stick out like wings, whose
abdomens are already prolapsed. Then
the teachers must apply what knowl-
edge they have to correct the condi-
tions.
The 'children's year" in Washing
ton brought out the conditions Of mall
nutrition existing among the school
children here, in line with similar con-
ditions revealed in many other large
cities Of the country. The solution Of
the problem will depend largely upon
the spread of knowledge and the work
Of the elementary school teachers.
While it may at first seem to be
burdening already overworked teach
ers with more work. there can be lit.
tie doubt of their enthusiasm and their
readiness to take over an important
task for the benefit of the youth Of the
land. Much is left to the public
schools. too much expected Of them.
perhaps, but they can do and are do
ing much beyond merely giving the
children "book learning
Evening star., 1922-01-22

not money economically II they are Sc.
creted. put away in strong boxes any
where out Of service. Money is money,
indeed, only when 1t is working, and
1t works only when 1t is being spent
or is at the service Of users through
loans. Every dollar Of boarded cash il
waste as long as 1t remains idle.
The tragedy Of these cases IL that
those who learn the lesson through
theft or other misfortune do not, as q
rule, find themselves again in q posi-.
ton to take advantage of It. Their
savings have accumulated through
many years. and the loss comes when
they have little expectation Of making
further accumulations. But others can
take warning and take their own saw
ings. II they are boarding them per-
'sonally, to the banks for deposit, or to
some Trustworthy agent for invest
ment in dependable securities. This
misfortune that befell q Washing
tonian the other day should be the
cause Of the starting Of numerous
hank accounts. -
Evening star., 1922-01-22
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
AGapsulnxxl as,A HI&~mlxnsa
An Agricultural Program.

Chief purpose Of the agricultural
conference to be convened in Wash
ington tomorrow, according to an
nouncement from authoritative
sources. is to stabilize the industry
and work out PERMANENT program
for agriculture. This is something the
need of which has long been recog-
nized, but the conference. called at the
instance Of President Harding, is the
first attempt on a Qational scale to
bring about its accomplishment.
If success is to attend this effort.
there must be understanding by all
the people that the need Of such a
program is not wholly, or even pri-
marily, that the farmer may be bene-
fitted. The industrial worker. the
school teacher. the store clerk. are as
much interested as is the farmer.
Stability for agriculture means stabil-
ity for industrial and commercial en-
terprise; an assured food supply at a
fairly even level Of prices. narrow
ing Of the ups and downs Of business
periods Of unemployment.
Agriculture is the greatest indus
try in America today, and is the great
est gamble. A main purpose Of the
conference will be to devise ways to
minimize the gamble, to reduce the
hazard at least to the limits. Of ordi-
nary business. When that is done the
farmer will not have some years OF
excessive profit and others of loss. He
will get fair return for his labor and
feeling assured of just prosperity ne
will be confident and steady buyer
of the products of other industry. The
paradox of bountiful crops yielding
less return than meager ones will be
done away with. The bearing Of ma
ture on farm production cannot be
wholly controlled. but in a country so
vast as this nature generally averages
things fairly we'll and when nature
does get out of balance one years
other years deficit without disaster to
the farmer.
Public confidence in. the conference
Is strengthened by assurance that it
will not attempt to afford present re-
lief to the farmer at the expense Of
the general public. There has been so
much Of that lately that the nom
farming public would have little pa
tience with such an undertaking. But
to any effort looking to prevention Of
conditions such as those from which
people should be sympathetic and
should lend support.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS

franc, has fallen to ten centimes, and
in consequence the most humble Ru-
maniap student cannot spend less
than 5000 lei a month. This is per-
fectly prohibitive in most cases, and
already some students have quilted
Paris to return to the German uni
versities. The Rumanian government
came to the assistance of the stu
dents and exchanged for them 500 lei.
for 400 francs each month Recently.
however. this subVention was stopped
on grounds of economy. There was
diSmay. There were protests. Tn.
Rumanian government has finally de-
cided to resume the system of sub
sidies, and the Rumanian students
are again happy. 1t is said that the
CZechoSlovakian government has
voted a million francs to the Paris
University for the endowment OF a
chair of Slay history
Evening star., 1922-01-22
Pursuing Bootleggers.

In a wild chase through the city
streets yesterday between a police au-
tomobile and a bootlegger's car. the
former was barely able to keep pace.
The whisky runners had high.
powered machine. and had it not beer
for traffic conditions would probably
have escaped through greater speed.
One Of the occupants Of the fugitive
machine tried to escape by jumping
out. but was caught. The other leaped
from his machine when it was
wrecked in collision and got away. II
rum-running through the streets of
Washington is to become a practice
the police should have a better equip
ment for pursuit. The bootleggers are
using the best machines available.
enough to enable them to command
the most efficient motors for their
trade, and they thus have a handicap
of speed If the enforcement forces are
not as well provided.
1t is. of course, to be hoped that the
city will not become a race course be-
tween the bootleggers and the police.
Such happenings as that Of yesterday
are highly dangerous. The two cars
were rushed through the streets at
racing speed, and it is the best Of good
fortune THAT they did not leave a trail
of wreckage behind them. Neverthe-
less. if there'is to be racing it should
be to good effect, and the police should
be in a position to cope with the fleet
est fugitives. whatever their offense.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
A Deeds Record Building,

At meeting of the Washington
Real Estate Board the other evening
resolutions were adopted asking Con.
gress to provide suitable building for
the Office of recorder Of deeds of the
District. This matter should he
pressed vigorously, and the attention
of the proper committees of Congress
directed to the urgent need of estab-
fishing the Office. and it's invaluable
records in a perfectly fireproof. con-
venient structure that will afford ade.
ouate facilities for the transaction of
irreparable loss.
The conditions in the recorders Of
flee are better now that the court
house has been remodeled. They are,
however, still unsatisfactory. The
quarters assigned to this branch Of
the District government are restricted,
with no chance for expansion. The
working force is crowded. and the rec
ords themselves. though now stored in
steel filing cases, are not as accessible
as they should be in a modern reposi-
tory.
The work of the recorders office is
constantly increasing. During the past
thirty years this Office has been not
only self-sustaining. but has paid a
substantial surplus into the Treasury
If this surplus were now capitalized it
would 90 far toward the erection Of a
suitable building separated from the
courthouse and especially designed for
this work.
1t is needless to point out the i'm
mense value Of the records kept in
this Office. Upon them depend enor.
nous fortunes in real estate titles.
The loss Of these records would be
calamity, and no expense should be
spared to make them just as secure as
II Is physically possible to render
them.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
Dangers From Trucks.

Yesterday morning q heavy Army
truck collided with a street car in this
city. breaking the windows of the lat
ter, but. fortunately. by narrow mar
gin. failing to do other damage. The
collision occurred at an open crossing
with no other traffic near. The street
car had, right Of way over the intersec-
ton, and the motorman had reason to
believe that the, truck driver would
yield passage. Evidently the. truck
driver expected the car to halt Tor him,
for he proceeded at a sharp pace in an
effort to cross the track. The bump
followed.
This luckily unimportant accident
should be noted by all owners Of
trucks, who should instruct their
drivers to proceed with greater care
through the city streets. A large per-
centage Of accidents in Washington
are due to the indifference and haste
Of truck motorists. These vehicles f1g-
ure in many of the fatalities. They
are heavy and can Withstand shocks.
Their drivers take advantage OF TINS
fact to risk collisions, claiming right
Of way and securing 1t by virtue Of
their own power and stoutness. Other
vehicles yield to them because in a col
lision they will be the more seriously
damaged.
In yesterdays case the driver was a
soldier. During the war these ma
chimes were run through the city
streets with a shocking degree Of
recklessness. A private driver may be
disciplined by docking his pay. or by
dismissal. A soldier chauffeur fears
no such penalty. But those who are
responsible for the handlipg of govern
ment goods by truck in this city
should take some steps to protect the
public from the carelessness of the
men in charge Of their machines.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
Cleveland and Wilson.

Mr.. Wilson's friends are remember
ing him. and he them. The sixty-f1fth
anniversary of his birth brought him
many kilograms and letters Of con-
graduation. and their senders received
in return warm expressions of appre'
ciation of their assurances.
Mr.. Wilson's communications are
cropping out here and there. The re.
cipients are proud Of them. They give
a sort Of distinction.
In all of them appears an expression
Of confidence in the demOcracy's fu-
ture. Mr. Wilson is certain that the
party is coming back: that the country
still has work for it to do. and that
the party is in condition to do the
work.
This correspondence suggests what
took place in the case of Mr.. Cleve-
land after his defeat in 1888. His op-
ponents. and particularly those in his
own party, thought he was done for.
Not so his friends. nor he himself.
They had hopes: and HIS friends
cheered him. and he them.
Returning to New York. Mr.. Cleve.
land took up the practice Of law. Bnt
he did not permit his professional
duties to obscure the political field. He
kept his eye on that. He likewise kept
in communication with his friends who
were active there. They wrote to him.
and he to them. His PEN was busy
right along.
In this way Mr.. Cleveland remained
in touch with all the live wires of the
democracy. There was probably not
state in the Union where some demo-
crat Of prominence and influence did
not hold and cherish a letter from Mr..
Cleveland of a hopeful character as
respected the next presidential cam
paign.
At Chicago in 1892 Mr.. Cleveland
achieved an easy victory. He was in
health, and eager for another try at
the White House.. But 80 complete
was his mastery of the situation that
il for any reason he had failed of the
prize for himself he could have die
tated its bestowal and thus established
"pull" with the winner.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
The World and Recovery.

A writer for the London Saturday
Review says:
TT is only too evident that unless
the world in general can recover it's
temper and agree to behave as q hu-
man being and not like villains OF
the melodrama stage, there can be
no real recovery Of business"
But will it help to lecture the world
in terms like these?
It should be remembered that the
world has had a violent fever, and
been left In dsbiljtated. almost an
exhausted, state. A patient in such a
state should be coddled, cozened, en-.
couraged in every way. Sharp talk Is
out Of place. Give the world a chance.
Tfes& It 40 a human being. Allow for
q slew convalescence. With the proper
treatment it will soon be sitting up
and taking neurishment again.
We ere all h too much Of hurry
Evening star., 1922-01-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Impossibility.
I'D like to loaf the time away"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
But everything you do or say
Result, of some kind. brings.
The careless pleasure that you planned
Toward future gloom may range.
The idle story may expand
Into a falsehood strange.
I'D like to loaf away the time
Where perfume fills the air
And hear the music lightly chime
Without thought Of care.
I'd like to live this life for fun.
Like many other things
I find it simply can't be DONE"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
Evening star., 1922-01-22
English Water Famine,

LONDON.-Owing to the eXtraordi-
nary persistence of the drought, Lon
don and a large part of England are
faced with no distant prospect of
water famine. declares a writer in
the London Observer. The great
heat of the summer of 1921 has been
eclipsed by the whole years dryness:
in the southeastern half of the coun-
try the dry weather has now contin-
ued for nearly seventeen months. he
says. Other westerly districts have
also had an exceptionally dry year.
Rain has fallen SO seldom that it
has evaporated after each successive
fall" continues the writer, land wells
are now lower, and more of them
completely dry, than in the height of
the hot weather last summer. Under
December sky brooks and rivers
have less than the normal flow at the
driest season. Still graver than the
present unreasonable Inconvenience
is the outlook for the coming year.
Even if heavy and persistent rains
were Immediately to set in. the deeper
water-bearing strata upon which we
depend for most domestic and COM
mercial purposes could not be re-
plenished until the very end of the
winter. Every fresh week of deficient
rainfall threatens to involve us in
second year of drought. beside which
all the Inconvenience of last sum-
mer would be trifiing.
THE flow of the Thames in Oc-
tober-normally the wettest month
was not very much more than quar-
ter of the average. The drying up
Of four more miles of the Kennel,
in Wiltshire. since the middle of No
vember is an even more significant
fact than the previous disappearance
of the river from the first sixteen
miles of it's course. Unlike the in
habitants of some towns and many
country districts, Londoners have as
yet experienced little or no incon-
venience from the failing supply, but
unless it soon rains both hard and
long. this immunity will not continue,
and severe restrictions OF the hours
of supply, and probably the prohibi-
ton of the use OF water Tor many
less important purposes. will be in
evitable if relief does not come.
Lord Desborough, at a recent Lon
don meeting, observed with perfect
truth that IL rain does not come soon
certain districts of England will pos
sibly become uninhabitable. Farms and
entire villages in many hill and
piled with a minimum ration of water
at the cost Of many daily hours of
labor spent in hauling. II the dis
tance from which water must be
hauled became much greater. farm
stock and human inhabitants alike
would have to flee from the arid
scene. Land would go temporarily
out of cultivation. further reducing
the food supplies, always diminished
by drought; and when farmers and
laborers had once left poor outlying
land. in the present state of agri-
culture, IT Is far from certain that
they would gosback again" s,
Evening star., 1922-01-22
Politics at Home
Women in Southern Politics.

The announcement that woman is
seeking election to the House from
Arkansas comes from Little Rock.
She is Mrs. T. T. Colman. She was
prominent in the movement for suf-
frage for women, and is accustomed to
public speaking.
This follows hard upon the an
,nouncement Of the candidacy Of Miss
Belle Kearney for the Senate from
Mississippi. She, too, won her spurs.
SO to say, as lecturer in the suffrage
movement. and is described as a
speaker Of auency and charm. She has
inaugurated her campaign and will
stump the state.
The south brought up the rear in
the fight for suffrage. The old order
yielded slowly and reluctantly through.
out that section. Women in politics.
either for the stump or for office, did
not strike popular fancy.
But now that the old order has dis.
appeared, the women Of the south are
showing aggressive interest in their
new estate, and a determination to
bear full share of the public burden.
They are participating in organization
work, and Offering for Office.
There is something intriguing in
the candidacy of Miss Kearney. Two
other announcements for the Missis-
sippi senatorship are made-that of
former. Representative Stevens, and
that Of former Senator Vardaman.
Mr.. Vardaman is very anxious to come
back. He had but one term in the SEN
ate, and while serving that fell under
the displeasure Of President Wilson.
He thus lost out, Mr.. Wilson at the
time possessing great power in all the
democratic strongholds.
The appearance Of a woman bearing
Mississippi's commission in the cham
ber where Lamar and Walthall were
for long a power would strikingly il.
lustrate the new order in America and
the opportunities it affords. And the
Hon. Pat Harrison might be put to his
trumps to hold the very prominent
place he has taken and is now filling
in the upper house of Congress.
Evening star., 1922-01-22

Now comes the agricultural at
tache, the newest agency in interna-
tional relations, and urged as a most
powerful aid in stabilizing the basic
industry of the world, thus prevent
ing Industrial depressions and peri
odic periods Of skyrocketing prices.
Emphatic and direct recommenda-
tfon for agricultural attaches has
been made to Congress in the report
of the joint congressional commission
on agricultural inquiry. headed by
Representative Sydney Anderson Of
Minnesota, which advises:
Provision should be made by Con-
gress for agricultural attaches in
the principal foreign countries pro-
ducing and consuming agricultural
products"
This same recommendation is in
cluded among the propositions urged
BY the Farm Bureau Federation at
it's last annual meeting.
1t is expected tosbe the subject Of
careful consideration at the national
conference opening here this week at
the call of President Harding.
But the. agricultural attache is not
novelty or innovation: Some OF
the nations wh1ch are dreet oae
Of farm products in the worlds mar
kets are already represented by such
specially trained agents. Denmark
has five agricultural attaches, one
here in Washington, others in Can
ada, England. Riga and Berlin; Hol-
in England, Brussels. Berlin and
other markets for. her agricultural
products: Norway, Sweden and
Czechoslovakia also maintain such
agents; before the war Germany and
Hungary had them in many countries.
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That the agricultural attache has
good right to a place on the world
stage is shown by the fact that the
average total international trade for
all countries in agricultural products
is in excess OF six billion dollars. Of
which approximately one-hfth repre-
sents agricultural exports from the
United States. OF the total exports
of all commodities in the United
States approximately 50 per cent are
agricultural.
Those gathered here for the ma
tional conference on agriculture are
prepared to emphasize that the pros.
perity and welfare Of the United
States is largely dependent upon
agricultural production and the pros
perity and purchasing power OF the
farmer; that the prosperity Of agri-
culture depends largely upon the
prices Of agricultural products: that
prices depend largely upon relative
supply and demand throughout the
world; that prices Of agricultural ex-
ports largely determine the prices OF
agricultural products consumed IN
the United States.
The field Of operations for American
agricultural attaches would be the
whole world, and it is being urged upon
Congress that there is an immediate de-
mand for at least seventeen Of these
trained agents to be located as follows:
In London to cover the British Isles,