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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
EDITORIAL
OF THE DAY

II those malcontents, those destruc-
tive critics of our government and its
methods, those red and pink and laven-
der tinted semi-socialists riding over
good roads in cheap automobiles could
be plunged back into the early days of
our republic so that they might see the
labor and sacrifice and striving by
which this organized government was
brought forth 1t would surely change
some present popular modes of critical
thought. If those of us VINO are prone TO
complain Of our postwar burdens, q
complaint which voices itself in every
election by vote which is neither for
or against either party but is "agin the
govment." could study some of the
postwar burdens OF the Revolutionary
War we would not so curse the gov.
ernment when We sit down to dinner
after hard day with the income tax
unit or feel such an unfavorable pang
when we pay 10 per cent tax on theater
tickets.
Yesterday saw an old print of the
operations of the first mint in Phila.
delphia, highly idealizel picture with
George and Martha Washington watch.
ing workn,en with hand press break up
family silver which had been donated
by patriotic colonists, heirlooms which
they had brought with them from Eng.
land-their most priceless possessions
Ito give to this country its first. coin.
age. We had no precious metal produc.
tion then. We had no means of imme.
diately buying silver and gold. This
was the beginning of the financial sys.
TEN Of country having total stock
Of money on the first day Of November
of SS,4SS,j6 ,623. AS our ma ior basis
for comparison in the United States
is in the dollar ratio this should be
impressive.-From the Mining Congress
Journal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
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Sooner
Read

The ia!Le ducks, says the 1onca City
News. are not likely to he bagged by
real Duck hunters. Being sports, they
are after game birds.
The ba.tlesville LlanIir or observes
that TIE Iadio enthusias- spends the
time lef: otter tuning in and trying to
tune ill., in telling everyone he meets
Who he got" after he got tuned in.
TIE fastest mov!Dg and hveliest
thing in the world says Ire Bartles.
vile Enterprise, SIS the idle rumor,
which gets loose ia copununity oc.
2Jsionally."
The Chlckasha Express observes that
a n an sets along better Will, the part.
ner OF his joys ami sCilcws when he
ecesn't undertake to give her pointers
on how TO play her cards in u bridge
game.
The Ada Evening News finds that, as
a rule. man does not feel embarrassed
to be seen wearing a seedy suit provided
he is certain that the public knows he
has better one al home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
PITY THE MENAGERIE

One buffalo, two bears and seven
deer, animals formerly comprising
the menagerie Of jungle park in
Garfield county, are offered Tor the
Walton barbecue, TO the committee
in charge Of that county's quota OF
stock and fowl for the inaugural
feast.
Things are certainly going badly
for exhibition animals in recent
years.
In 1914 an American circus which
was showing on the continent wal
unable to get out Of Germany wheI
the war broke out. But when the
war was over there was nothing
left in the way Of hive animals tc
take out. The Germans had eaIu
up the whole menagerie.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
PULLING TOGETHER.

The Chamber Of Commerce c:
Ardmors is 10 be highly commend
ed upon is program OF support to
the many infant industrial enter
prses here. The factories OF west
ern cities are going to be thei;
great asse, some Of these days, and
wise are those cities who eneourag-
and support factories and industrial
expansion.
Ardmore is ideally situated for .
manufacturing town. /; is faI
enough removed from any other
center TO have q great trade
territory Of its own, yet neal
enough other cent.rs 10 be abl'
10 dispose of whatever oyerplus o
products it might have.
The industrial plants we nov
have are great assets. Let's al
suppor; them and their products,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Swindles

We have been swindled so much that
even II we came face to face with gen
timely easy money" most of US would
be suspicious and turn it down.
Jack Cohen, New Yorker, bets 5000
hat he can stop people on the street
end sell them 5O-cent pieces for rs cents
zach. He tries 10, FOR 10 minutes. and
oses the bet. To make it worse, a
udge fines Jack 81 for trying to sell
without license.
John w. Raper, philosophical humor'
ST, says where Jack made his mistake
vas in not trying to sell 20 cent pieces
for half dollar.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
SEEING US RIGHT.

Nothing will do more to eliminat.
the failacious impression tha, Ard
more is a wild city than such
conventions as are being held here
of late. During this week, teach
ers, preachers and members OF a
fraternal order have been guests OF
the city. Representing ,hre. great
classes Of high citizenship, they
must be impressed with the clean
atmosphere Of Ardmpre, it: sppsr-
cnt intent upon the better things
OF life and i,s great prepondsranes
Of good people.
Let's have more conventions Il
Ardmore. The visitors who com;
here expecting 80 find vice ant
corruption are sore 10 20 ava!
praising oar good citizenship.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Slaughter

shown the art exhibits. Then they took
him TO the stockyards. Thus he saw two
extremes OF civilization. That's the
trouble with keeping ones artistic sense
alive-there's always slaughterhouse
just around the corner.
The pleasant things OF life are the
harvest Of the disagreeabls things.
Sweet babies are possible only by ter
rible ordeals for the mothers. Pleasure
is fleeting, hard work is long. We toll
hours for the pleasures OF minutes. The
whole system is an art museum sup.
ported by stockyards.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Standard

ard Oil group this year nave distributed
10 stockholders nearly sl29,0o0 900 i'll
cash dividends and over s751 900, 900 in
stock dividends. BY the end Of 1922 the
figures probably will be nearly an even
billion.
John D. Rockefeller never dreamed
OF anything like that, when he started
out ss a sSj month bookkeeper. When
you really start getting rich in this
country, il seems that nothing can stop
you. You may not like the big divi.
dends. But would you be willing TO ac-
cept them for yourself? II so, you are
Kidding" yourself when you say a
million is too much for anybody.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Killing

Keen old Clemenceau. visiting the
Chicago stockyards, keeps insisting
Let me see the killing" So they show
him one Of the most terrible sights OF
civiliation-the building where an
endless stream Of hugs is driven single
file down a runway TO death.
We meat eaters have a lot in com.
mon with the man-killing tiger of In
dia.
The situation changed from morbid to
humorous when a bright young guide
told the joke about the packers using
everything Of the hog except the squeal.
Clemenceau shifts: And what becomes
OF she odor?' He could find out by ask
ing people who live within two miles Of
the average city stockyards.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

Many We're shocked because the
Greeks executed the officials who got
hem into the disastrous war with the
Turks. It's done and gone" though.
md opinions cannot bring the corpses
pack 10 life.
Having had time TO think 1t over, 1t
may have occurred TO you that 1t prob
ably will be some time before other
Greek officials decide TO lead their ma.
ton into another war.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Tom
Sims /
Says

There seems TO be great deal Of
weather this winter.
What makes a man madder than
finding it was the wrong toothbrush?
Height Of ignorance is shining
your shoes to listen to the radio.
Half our cuss words were thought up
by people as they got out Of bed.
II you think every watch chain you
see has q watch on il you are wrong.
Wish the man who divided the
day into hours had made lunch
hour longer.
Exposure" says an arctic explorer,
develops one" Hello, short skirts.
What are you going TO give your
wife for Christmas. Pick out some.
thing she can't throw.
A reader writes in to ask II suede
gloves come from Sweden. No.
Prince of Wales has broken an
other precedent. We thought all
those things were broken long ago.
The man who gets up the shape and
and colors OF blankes evidently has
lob designing overcoats no.
Etyle hint Mama, these buttons on
mysleeve hurt my nose"
Clemenceau says hell is brewing
A neighbor tells us brewing is hell.
One of the saddest sights OF mod
ern times is seeing man hugging d
girl because he wants her vote.
II would be great II we knew who
was sending US Christmas cards.
China's boy emperor married cir
lie hud never seen. A little more
rouge and We Will be doing the
same.
Now that Harding has made Irvir
Cobb major our army is increased tC
wartime strength again.
Conference OF cotton growers TO bl
held in Memphis, Tenn, has started
some talk among the boil weevils.
Our opinion of the man in Fulton
Mo. who has worn pair Of pants 81
years Is he stands up too much.
In San Francisco. preacher wa!
robbed just after services. Why ii
crooks get so far from Chicago.
II showed in Albany, Ca. for the firs
time in seven years. The wire does no
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Turkeys

While Turkey in Asia comes back
turkey in America continues losing out
Food dealers in most communities sold
fewer turkeys for Thanksgiving than
they expected That forecasts low
Christmas sales.
Turkey eaters (our population) have
increased 100000 since 1900. Mean
time, the number Of turkeys on farms
has been cut in two. Why continue draw
ing them On tho school blackboard? The
chicken, not the turkey. is our nation.
al bird. Turkey sales are off because
Americans prefer to eat something else.
Price is secondary.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
THE REFEREE
Cilarnler

Statue Of a Cretan snake charmer,
carved in ivory by an unknown artist
$500 years ago, is shown at Boston art
museum.
The charmer wore a long skirt, drag.
sing ON the ground. She hadfa wasp.
waist. encased in corset. BY enlarging
her waist she could pass down our main
strets without attracting attention, and
looking much like the woman of 1922.
Vanity ID almost as old as the hills,
and asserts itself in one century about
the same as in another.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

WEWoKA. Okla.-This vicinity had
one Of the heaviest rains Of the season
Thanksgiving day. Winter wheat is IN
fine condition and tall plowing will pro.
gress rapidly now, according to the
county farm agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

A party has sailed to measure
the deepest part OF the ocean. II
they succeed in getting to the bot
tom OF things in the briny deep.
they might come back and probe
things at home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

Tom Bean Times carries head
line that ssds: AN Editor in
Glory We are mighty thankful
for that discovery. for we were just
wondering how ore of those things
could ever pass the waves Of this
troublesome world and reach the
cipu Land.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Berton Braley's Daily Poem
INVITATION
INVITATION

Up In the forest the leaves are railing
Mating the earth with red and brown ana soia'
The birds long, will hear the southland caihhg'
The autumn days bright. the nights are eou
And as struggle my daily labor
Soft in my whispering a breeze
Which says 'Come the forest calls YOU neshDoI!
There lovlier days and nights thaa these
The brisk air sets your pulses beating quicker,
Life Is atinslv in these gorgeous days
Each breath you take IS like draft Of ichor
The woods with many colors ablaze,
Gone is the summers languor, but the water,
Clear, cold and impid laps the Iebbly scores,
Nature Is fairer than YOU thought her,
Now is the time to seek the Out-ofDo0s.
Come. slip away. Put your old attire,
Tempt good pal to along well,
Think Of the nights beside cracking fire,
Think Of the frosty mornings and the smell
OF bacon in the pan the fragrant
OF boiling coffee in the morning glow.
These the lays You hesitate you
Back the woods, old scout on--let's go"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
Students Earn EXPENSES

NORMAN. Okla.-More than one.fifth
Of the students in the University OF Ok.
lahoma are at least partially self-sup-
porting. according TO report from the
registrars office.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08
TEN YEARS AGO
Happenings in Carter County ana
Ardmore rs Told BY the Files
Of the Ardmoreite.

Carpenters are busily engaged in fit
ting up the extra room on the second
floor Of the city hall for use by the
boys Of the fire department as sleep
ing quarters. The old quarters have
been too small and Commissioner Slau.
ghter at the last meeting OF the board
Of city commissioners was granted per-
mission to have all the vacant rooms
on the second floor added TO the old
quarters. When completed the firemen
Of the city will have as neat sleeping
apartments as will be found in any fire
department In the state.
Mrs. L. N. Murdoch has returned
from visit to saltwater, Nowata and
Claremore. She reports having had
good success in the business OF writing
life insurance and will leave again be.
fore the holidays to write other poll
cies in order TO have her years work
more satisfactory TO herself.
In the case OF j. =. Zook OF Law.
renee, Kansas, against the Ardmore
State Bank which occupied the district
court yesterday jury returned yer.
dict in favor Of the defendant This
was a case wherein the plaintiff al.
legged that he was the purchaser OF q
certain block Of stock In the said bank
which the bank refused to deliver 10
him. The verdict OF the jury calls for
the delivery Of this stock together with
accrued dividends OF over five hun
dred dollars in value.
The Gypsy Oil company OF Tulsa has
begun drilling in the field at Fox. The
we'll Is being sunk very fast and the
company has ealready hauled out to
that place from the railway station
here two carloads OF casing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

MIAMI. okla.-o. Brantley. 43. a
farmer living near Quapaw. was found
IN u mud hole near Fairland Saturday
mumbling his fears that the Ku klux
Klan would get him. He is In hos.
pital here and physicians have pro.
nounced him mentally unbalanced.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

AS predicted many times in this pa.
per, national taxes continue falling off.
From June to November Uncle Sam
collected only about $4,000. 600 from
taxpayers, compared with sl.,20 ,000,-
600 in the corresponding four months
year ago.
This means. tax payments ere de-
creasing 5000, 100000 year.
Unless congress cuts its spending ac-
cordingly Uncle Sam might as well
pick out room In the poorhouse.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

Adesigner says any girl can be bsu.
tiful If she has the right clothes and
We say any clothes can be beautiful
If they have the right girl.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

say how many coal dealers laughed
themselves 10 death.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

A man Is a person who had rath.
er go to his lodge and ride the goat
than stay at home and be the goat.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

Christmas story: Mama, buy papa
some toys so l can play with mine"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

Our opinion Of the man in Fulton,
Mo-. who has worn u pair of pants %
years Is he stands up too much.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

In San Francisco. preacher was
robbed just after services. Why do
crooks get so far from Chicago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

Half our cuss words were thought UP
by people as they got out Of bed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

Conference OF cotton growers to be
held in Memphis, Tenn, has started
some talk among the boil weevils.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

There seems TO be great deal Of
weather this winter.
What makes a man madder than
finding it was the wrong toothbrush?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-08

II showed in Albany, Ca. for the firs;
time In seven years. The wire does not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Last night ma went to a meeting
of the DawterS of Cleopattera and pop
was smoaking and reeding the spoart-
ing page in the setting room and
sed, Hay pop, can 1 go out vile?
If you're back heer at o'clock
sharp and not otherwise, pop sed.
Yes sir, 1 sed. And quick went
out and the fellows was all out there
and we played a game of cops and
robbers and a game of prizzners base
and then some of the fellows had to
go in and the rest of US went GROUND
to Skinny Martins house. to see his
fertile in his back yard. being little
fertile but not sociable, and then the
other fellows had to go in and I
thawt. G, wonder wat time it is?
And I asked some man on the way
home and he sed 10 to 10, me think
ing, Heck, good mite And l ran all
the rest of the ways, thinking, 1 know
wat, Ill sneek in so quiet pop wont
even heer me and Ill sneek up to bed
and he wont know wat time came
in.
WITCH 1 started to do, ony the frunt
door was locked so I had to cline in
the parler window and jest as I was
pulling in my other leg ii cawt on the
cord of the window shade and the
shade went up to the top with a fearse
bang, me thinking, Gosh, holey
smoaks. And 1 stopped breathing to
lissen, but pop dident call down or
enything. so 1 started to sneek up
starts and jest wen I got to about the
5th step it made the loudest skreek
it could. ony pop dident say enythine
and thawt, Maybe he's taking a nap
in his chair, herray-
And kepp on shocking up and wen
I got to about the 18th step tried to
tired on il so lite I missed It alto
gether and fell down about 4 steps
making as mulch noise as If 1 was
falling down a lot more. and pop call
ed out Wen YOU finish your various
efforts to mock down the house Id ap-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

I'VE got you this time III never let
She struggled for "a moment. then
submitted to his trembling caresses.
But why are you Raymond Valen-
tine ?'' she asked after a while, her
curiosity reasserting itself You used
to be sydney Thomas when you taught
me in New York"
yes, but 1 thought I'd rather be
incog I'm only here for the winter
getting over pneumonia. For three
years I've hated every woman on the
globe" he continued. going back TO
the subject.
cared so much, and then when you
went out with the Martin violinist girl
I nearly died of jealousy. That was
the end. I gave you up and tried to
forget"
bring you around!"
Yes, but it doesn't always work
that way" she said quietly. ut more
often makes load OF trouble and mis-
understanding"
and to think that it was actually
a flip of the coin whether ia go to
Newton or Madisonville this winter.
Heads were Newton and tails Madi-
sonville. Heads it was"
why shouldn't Providence over
rule the Tipping of a coin as wei as
| the fall of a SPARROW" asked Barbara
soberly.
Il believe it does, dear. and what
tiny, insignificant events are often
the turning points in our lives!"
Like the flip of a coin, for in
I Like the flip of a COIN" he an
j (copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
! paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03
TRADE IS BEING THRorTLEp.

1t has been estimated that because
of the coal and railway strikes, the
buying power of the nation is being
reduced by eight million dollars a day.
The accumulative influence of such
a withdrawal of the exchange medium
cannot but be harmful. 1t may be
months before it begins to make itself
felt, but the fact is that idleness is
economic waste and it is just. as dis
astrous to the business structure of
the nation to waste time as it is to
waste commodities 1t is a sad COM
mentary on the understanding of some
labor leaders that they cannot or will
not grasp that fact. They cannot
seem to understand that hours of Ia
Dor and volume of commodities are
virtually the same thing-that one is
merely exchange for the other, and
that dollars are nothing but the me-
dunn by which that exchange is ef-
fected.
Commenting on this phase of the
Industrial situation the Armour
| Magazine" says:
The battle against ignorance, wheth-
| er that ignorance be wilful or other
| wise, seems to be an amending one,
| and it WILL indeed, be too bad If the
1 controversy is continued to a point
| where the weakened buying power of
| the nation undermines the foundation
| of industry which has been rebuilt
so successfully for the last two or
| three months. Quite naturally if that
| buying power remains in suspension,
| industry will have to curtail its pro-
| duction, its output. That could only
result in disaster for labor because
I curtailed production can mean moth
/ ing except curtaiIment in the number
! of men who are given employment.
! The unsettled condition of the min
ing and railway industries has had an
effect upon all industrial activities,
even agriculture.
Despite all the measures that bust
ness generally had taken to discount
the effects of the railway strike and
the coal strike, those two industrial
upheavals are beginning to show the
restraining influence on the progress
of business. The railway strike in
particular has put obstacles in the path
of the uninterrupted improvement
that had been registered for the last
four or five months.
The outlook for crops this fall is on
the whole particularly good. and with
] everything running smoothly should
add its full measure to the prosperity
of the country. Naturally there must
be the proper strength to the buying
power of the nation this fall if those
crops are to be marketed on the basis
that is anticipated today.
] Up until now the coal strike has had
a rather negative influence upon bust
ness, but fears are beginning to be ex-
pressed on every hand that the con-
tInued smooth operation of industries
which depend upon coal for their
power is doubtful unless some way be
found quickly to resume mine oper-
| atoms.
If the opposing forces in the fields
of coal mining and transportation can
not or will not get together the gov
eminent cannot much longer delay
decisive action without entailing much
more serious consequences on the
country than have yet appeared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-03

The number of men in this country
who are voluntarily idle has been in
creased by the addition of 10000
street car men in Chicago. The fact
adds force to a suggestion by the
Muncie Und) Press, which says:
Perhaps the best way to cure strikers
would be for everybody to go on
strike at the same time, including
housewives, merchants, professional
men and farmers. If all would refuse
TO work it would take only a few days
TO starve nearly the whole population
and then we could begin all over. that
IS the survivors could, and build rev
kind of society in which there would
be no unjust employers. no dissatisfied
employees and no restless public"