The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-31

Ou year, you snail not die,
We did so laugh and cry with you,
I've half d mind TO die with you,
Old year, II you must die.
Many people who are bowling for the return OF
normally are really looking for the millennium.
We are too much inclined 10 think that the nor
nalcy for which we hope is the ideal condition. 1t is
all very well to hope for an ideal state-Utopia Of
some sort-but something to which we have not at
tanned cannot be called a normal state of affairs.
We have been promised a return to normally and
there is a general feeling that such a condition is
still some distance off. No one, however, has a def
mite idea of just what that condition is. In inter.
national affairs it would doubtless be a reaction in
favor of peace-"the piping time OF peace"
But as to what would constitute a normal state
tor industry and commerce in general, we can't be so
positive. The booming business OF the period 1914 to
1913 could not be called normal. We were making a
vast amount OF wealth by furnishing munitions and
rations and clothing TO the European bellgerents.
The preceding four or five years might be consid-
cred a normal state for commerce, but when we reflect
that the chief cry of labor during that period was "a
full dinner pail we are reluctant to return 10 any
such state OF affairs. The standard of living has been
raised in the last ten years. If normally means a
lowering of standards, most OF us would do all we
could to ward it off.
Possibly the creates, material benefit which this
country derived from the year OF 1922, was a return
to the ways of thrift.
1t established 4 record in savings accounts.
Ardmore has grown during 1922. The business
district pushed farther out into the residential quar-
tiers, and the suburbs were extended to cover vacant
lots.
The state saw, during the year, its most spectacular
gubernatorial contest. The new administration prom
Uses a more thorough businses-like goyernmet than
Oklahoma has ever had.
Broadcasting was a child of the passing year. 1t
sprang up like 4 mushroom, but has attained the
growth OF an oak. News, musical programs. lectures.
sermons and weather forecasts are sent broadcast by
radiophones over the whole country.
There are now a million amateur receiving sets in
the United States. Shops selling radio sets and equip
ment outnumber three to one those selling phono.
graphs.
The farmer, taking The country over, Jared well.
He received II percent more for his products than in
1921. And there is help on the way for him. Among
the plans proposed during the year to make credi,
available to the farmer on terms which will better
serve his needs is one that includes the extension OF
the Federal Reserve rediScount term on agricultural
paper TO nine months. and the establishment OF inter.
mediary loaning machinery in the form OF farm loan
banks to operate in conjunction with the farm land
banks.
In national affairs. the party in power brough, TO a
successful conclusion the greatest disarmament con.
ference in the worlds history. 1t passed a drastic
tariff bill and killed the soldier bonus measure.
Efforts to harness the resources Of nature wen, on
apaee. The biggest project Of this kind was ,hwarted
at least temporarily, when Henry Ford failed TO &c,
Muscle Shoals.
Early in the year a man who had accumulated a
fortune in oil aud real estate Ia the Southwest com.
mitted suicide. lie was disconsolate over the lack Of
further cutie, for his energies. There are he wrote
in hs farewell, mo further worlds 20 conquer
He would better have wept with King NerSss. tot
pity at the thought OF the ,hor,ness Of the span Of
mans life, or have eoueurred with Cecil Rhodes. the
empire builder, whose deathhed sigh va. SO much
to do, so little done
The top OF the world is still uneonqueted. The
heroic struggle Waged over a period Of several months
to attain the peak Of Everest. failed.
An attempt to fly around the world was unsuc.
cessful.
In short, lo12 has developed the usual amour, Of
advancement, the usual amount OF tragedy. reverses
and successes. 1t has opened new fields OF endeavor
and blaied new paths OF commercial. spiritual an,
political conquest.
The coming year will raise It's curtains for anothet
act. Whatever il holds we can do no less than aeuui
ourselves like men and Americans. We all will hav,
CTR part TO perform. OUT act to carry through and oul
energy and brain and Drawn should be ready ans
willing to respond.
This is fine barbecue weather. remarks the Chick.
asha Star. Yes. II It were only a little finer. the
arench fire wouldn't be necessary.