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Uky tJaily (Eljifftatn
OFFICIAL CITY (""APER
Entered a second class matter
August S, 19oS, at post omce In V'inlta.
Okla.. under Act of March 3, 1879
ISSUED DAD.Y EXCEPT SUNDAY
Published by
3. M MARRS PRINTING COMPANY
hood home. ""' and uistr'' 1,o;eveI;. ,H
There If ... element of triumph In no reason why we should not question
returning to the place that raised you. the parting year about the year that
if vour life has been even passably has its foot upon the threshold,
successful POT If you left at any One thing especially marks the year
period after infancy, you were always LHl Throughout the wor'.cl, the .un
depreciated No prophet is without humanitarian spirit, long felt by th se
honor ete In that feeling there is al- Who wal- h events and currents of
v , an dement of envy. Village thought, has shown itself in action,
wise men and boyhood associates al- Of tl most dramatic sort,
ways hate to admit that anyone who On the other side or the world lay
has had the same advantages that diica. In the grip of Confucianism;
they had could ever outstrip them. It because, as we were told, the
lfs very different when you return, teaching of Confucius was perfect, and
No matter if it is a small share of the ::i:seiueuiiy niaue inuuBm mpmruw
r, M. MARRS
BOXING CONTEST
Per week by carrier $ 10
Per month by carrier Jj
Per year by carrier, in advance. 6.00
month bv mail, in advance. . .40
Three months bv mail, in advance I. 0 ,. ..hinder that you ous and change a crime. Yet the seed
One year by mail in vance w graP( y(m 8Mm , sown by generations of alert Chinese
.,.. prettv big man to the stay at homes, and by uousaoai o. uevo.eu cUIv
IThe 'element or jealousy is reiir.ved. penus and Americans filially genni-
Bince they are able to say lo them- nuwu. lira 1 T f
. ., ...... .....i heei. iiennseil- n rcnnhlic has been de-! P
selves, that it mey nan ubu
chance they would have done as well elared. Not deep as yet are the foun
. ... dat ions r the new government in the
.or oetter. , ,,
Even if the former country bump- understanding ana anecuo.is oi uit
....... ...h, , wpnt to school great, stolid mass of the Chinese peo
h III "lilt " liwin JV .
does call TOO ''Eddie" or "Tommle," Pie; "i" nevertneiess. me nauon ua
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO u . nr him t0() .ak-en the (Irs. great step-it has re,
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Vinita, Okla. Tuesday, Decembre 31.
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don't step too high nor snub htm too taken the first great step-it. has ret-
. ..e UaM ,1 tf nmtA nf lllB.nSA.
. 1 ....l.. iii-.:. i'iii ii H I - iwiiif.i u it.v. - -
A'h I HA. I I" nui'i'f
. ,,. , .,.. ., ii,,ir like the Of what enormous strides Japan has
noon yufw i " .. . . , . .
old oaken bucket, after you have been tl0 on the path in which China is
si i ia rat ed by your associates by the now setting an uncertain foot, the
formal handle Of -Mister." 0ttB M the nunoo no turneu tue
There is something rather tine about face of his people toward modern
iWlng an honor with the influences Weals has come to remind us. And it
. . . ... t., . . l pond to remember that what re-
...I r . I I I I VI . 1L II.Jl I ItOI- O
rived and reinvigorated the ancient
empire is the stimulating spirit of
America.
Even in autocratic Russia, the year
has seen a triumph of constitutional
ism :i steti toward nomilar rule. A
HAVE A PLAN.
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You wouldn't build a chicken O
roost, nor give the old rail O
fence a boost, nor make a self- O
revolving fan without a defi O
nlto set plan. When you've r O
dog house to erect, you plan it O
like nn architect; you figure O
where each piece must go, and O
work it out just so and so. It 0
is the same upon the farm O
you plan ahead, the crops to O
charm: or if your work is in O
the mart, you plan it from the
very start. Hut in your life it
is not so. ' There, architects
and plans don't go. Y'ou work
in loose, haphazard way from
youth till you are old and gray;
you mix the shingles and the
tile, the rocks and boards you
loosely pile, you wield no level,
square or plumb, your build
ing oft is weak and bum. Oh
life it is a sacred trust; and
built it, good or bad, we must. O country, empty pews eon.ro... uu. . Qf penlnBulai a,
We ought to choose a noble O the pulpit orators, and many of then. ,n thjfj ver
plan, and tash.on it tne nest
dent Carlield who on taking the in
augural oath turned to kiss his
moth? Similarly it is a gracious act
of the president-elect to give due
honor to a civic parentage.
.!.. .1... kna .1.. : i, 'ii!' Oil! I'l'Oin
0 I lit U"J o itv, D ,
g this town today, or who have gone out Duma has lived its full appointed time
O . ,, , . .,., j !. new one hiui l.epii neaepfullv chosen
in past vears, it may wen ne iuiuiihii,
u , , . ir ,.,, n. honors or The event marks the real beginning
I ion l iuis' i. ' j1-'"
wealth ln the big world outside, that of stable constitutional government;
share of the success is due to ior, aiinougn me luunu uuu is l-
..... . ,.nau,l iif li.tinir mi1 ii.nv l.p i-enetion.
tile earlv lionie whose shelter anu w v...r. .
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ulse made it
all possibh
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ary. yet it is a working body, an in
strument sure in time to pass, ar
parliaments have ever done, into the
hands of the people.
As despotism is disappearing from
we can. And yet you'll find,
along the track, full many a
life is but a shack because, for
sooth, no plan is there, to make
it permanent and fair.
O PREACHERS AND EMPTY PEWS.
O Oklahoma City has many fine
(J i lurches anil tne cuuicne .nu wra .
w Humus. Russia, so. too, is Oriental barbarism
O attended. But In some parts of the D.7w.. Th
0 l ouiitrv ompty news confront some of
: i J MVm "' -- noninll ir tl,i. fori
O are pu.zjed to K,.o me - ,MU0 s,rjkingly point8 out, larg(,ly by
n in :i recent editorial, the Atlanta . .. ..
. ..... l,w..,t.ieimr "JUlIail lueaio, iicv.t en. un , uw
u i oust i ut on notes mL
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
j i ..f mere to ;uosien. inn-.
O failure of men to attend church is af-
l.oH- fart bv many And what of our own home these
V ll-l H tl tin .i IIU.....V..-V
O preachers who grope blindly for the United States? There is a new spirit,
n here, intangible, illusive, but none the
The ' Constitution says that Bishop less preceptible by all who are intelli- j
James H. McCoy, in his recent ad- gent and sensitive. For a generation
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dress ... the North Georgia Methodial after the ml war tne American peo-.
O conference struck the cause at its core i" " l" v
THE TOM MORROW YEAR. O when, according to press dispatches, material resources of the continent
"censured the modern tendency to we Became niouey-uiau. anu u.st io,
I with secular and trival matters B season and in a measure that spirit
O in the pulpit to the exclusion of th- M equity which alone dignities tne
O gn at Inue of salvation." The bishop possession of wealth. Not until re-
O la right and if the churches wish to "'ntly did we. as a people, begin to
O exercise their old-time Influence in this that great wealth is often hard of
O wonderful and expanding age in which heart and devoid of understanding:
O iiv tl.ev must take cocnizance of that men and women and even little
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"The less we have to do Willi
our sins the better." said Elmer
son. For what we have done this
( losing year that we ought not
to have done and tot what we
have lt'lt undone Hint we ought
to have done, Lord have mercy,
have mercy upon us.
And thee, neither with care
lessness nor with enervating
regret, let us leave the 1912
account and turn to the things
we ought to dO In the tomorrow
year.
O h
O di
O his criticism.
Viewing
there, one
pulpit practice here
is almost tempted to
child ri
and greed;
n were being sacrilioed to
that money was learning to ,
sav talk with a voice so loud as to drown
O that many ministers, forgetting their the cries of the sunenng ana tne ap
0 divine mission, usurp the functions of Peal of human rights.
O "yellow journalism." We are guilty But when wo did begin to see, lead- j
O of no irreverence to true religion when ers arose who demanded that the ad-.
O we say that it is a common custom nutted evils be relormed. 1 hey havt
O for preachers t
out. a pair of been confined to no political party.
they have been committed to no par
ticular creed; but all without excep
tion have placed their emphasis on
onnnnnnnnrinririnnnn matnnhnricnl field-elasses for the lat
O est fad or nostrum, in iK.litlcs or si
(Inv.innir Wlluol. I'WII lla ihnt be ei.lle.l "nth! nnlill.' all of which sill
was sick after smoking his first cigar, jects fall in the secular and not the the man rather than on the dollar. The
Fortunately it was not one Of those religious held. The moment a "dis number of these leaders has been
itven out in his behalf last Novem-1 covery1' s made, the views of the steadily increasing until, this last
her .pieacher on that particular topic are year, they made themselves felt in
. Q harangued from the pulpit Sunday divers ways throughout the country.
The suffragettes may have Walked after Sunday to a restles and res nt- I heir influence has shown nseit in ,
to Albany to deliver u petition, but ful congregation. There is hardly a advanced legislation by many of the
thorn will nnrhani he the usual diftl- whisner of the creed of the meek and states and by the national government
eulty In walking down town to get a lowly Nazarene. But there are plenty and it has appeared in the decisions
yeast take. of half-baked or pre-digested opinions of high courts of justice. It gives the
- Q on alleged "issues of t ho hour," with year 1912 a noble place on the calen-
A St. Louis hat rack attendant lias the result that men who come to dar of human aspirations,
just bought a hotel out of the tips church looking for spiritual bread go fu, future? We may be sure that
that lie lias collected, Perhaps by and away with an intellectual stone. the aspirations of democracy will not
by he will wish he was at the counter Not one man out of one hundred al- U(1 gtified. The man is, indeed, greater
again receiving i s touds service to be given first easy tllan tn(, dollar, and human rights
0 'lessons as to how he should vote, or greater than the rights of property;
With New Year near at hand, here's to be, in kindergarten fashion, taught DUt since the one is included in the
h very good ntggostion ftpm Itl Dur- his duty toward various matters 61 other, and property rights are no
dette: "Get away from the crowd for public policy. If lie deserves a vote raore than human rights In property,
a while and think. Stand on one side, at all. he reserves that function to we must see to it that the old Amer-
!?et acquainted with yourself and see himself. He protests, inwardly, when ican virtues of thrift and ambition;
whet kind of a fellow you are. Ask ! Opinions that may be diametrically op- the laudable desire to conquer, unaided
yourself hard questhltts about vour- posed to his own are shouted at him nn alone, an honorable place among
self. Ascertain, from original sources, from the pulpit. Having no recourse ,,,. fellows shall survive and shall not
if you are really the manner of man. in rejoinder, he does the next best g unrewarded: that democracy shall
. .. . Lvi- t... .,, ,,..,. Tl,. cnui-iilllv' . . . ...
you say you are; ami it yon are ai-.mn.n i.e . .....i... . ... ........ , no, uegenenue i:uu nunruu?,
tle BQcren missi in, in me preacuer is
ways honest; if you always tell the
square, perfect truth in business de
tails; if your life is as good and up
right at 11 o'c lock at night. aR it is at
noo.r.' if you are ns good a temper
once man on a fishing xcursion as
you are on a Sunday school picnic;
if you are as good when yon go to the
city as you are at home; if, in short,
are you really the sort of man your
lather hopi3 you are and your sweet
heart believes you are Cet on inti
mate terms with yourself, my boy, and
believe me, every time you come out
of one of those private interviews you
will be a stronger, better, purer man.
IJnr't forget this, and it will do you
good."
It was a grand trouhy that Wood
row Wilson brought back to lay at
the feet of his mother town, Staun
ton. Va But perhaps while he was
carting around all the lr.urel wreaths
and shiny badges that the voters and
others have bestowed on him, be did
not feel nearly so biggity as some of
the rest of us on returning to a boy-
to quicken the individual conscience
by iii. application of gospel i rut hs
and the expounding of BtbtcaJ princt-
Jfe, !l' the minister succeeds in
tnoid.'UI e man's conscience it is a
pretty ate assumption that that par
tlculai ninii is going to vote right on
any issue invoking his own Or the colu
mn itv'es welfare. Hut il time that
should be devoted to Instilling loyaltv
to righteousness is squandered with
personal tirades upon extraneous po
litical and secular subjects the
preachers have only themselves to
blame for empty pews
And this is the final test . The de
nomination! that avoid this policy, and
concern themselves with spiritual mat
ters only, are not faced with the prob
lem of empty pews! Oklahoin in.
Wherever democratic ideals have
gained ground, the success of the
('.rent ItepuhlW its common sense, its
self-control, its stability as taken
hold upon the imaginations of men.
We therefore owe it to a world that
we have led in ideas of government
to "n'e ourselves with flfBUiess and
COmmOU sense; but that does net
mean that generous f c'ing must be
rebtfkd or altruism forgotten. It Is
our glorious opportunity to show the
world that Christ's eeOOSd command
niiMii is not dynamite but cement
Youth's Companion.
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AT
GRAND THEATRE
Thursday Night, Jan. 2nd
Ernie Dean vs Bart Gordon
15
ROUNDS
IS
Two Good Preliminaries
Admission 25c & 50c. Ringside $1.00
TheDaily
Chieftain
Reaches all the people in Vinita,
along the Rural Routes and near
by towns.
The people who spend their
money in Vinita read the Daily
Chieitain. It covers the adver
tising field like a blanket.
Advertise your business in
a
The Chieftain
St
TO PATRONS.
Ail pupils that have become six
years of age since school opened last
September must enter school within
O- the next two weeks or they can't enter
1912-1913. """" until next September. It is hoped that
Nothing is more certain than thut all parents having children falling tin-
the future grows out of the past. It is der the above condition will start them
less certain which contemporary ten- to school at once,
dencles are destined to thrive, grow W. 0. MASTKKSON.
strong and transmute themselves Into Superintendent.
.i Oklahoma, County of Craig as.
n the CctUtty Court within and for
Craig County, Oklahoma.
S the matter of the estate of .Mary K.
Witt. Deceased) William 1". Witt.
Administrator. Probate No. M17.
NOTICE OF FILING PETITION TO
ASCERTAIN HEIRS.
TO ALL PKHSONS INTERESTKD
AND CLAIMING AN INTKREST IN
THE ESTATE OP MARY B. WITT.
DECEASED:
You and each person are hereby
notified, that on the 26th day of Dec
ember 1912, William K. Witt. Admin
istrator of the estate of .Mary E. Witt,
deceas 'd. tiled In this Court his petit
ion in due form, praying that the right
of all persons interested in the estate
of Mary R. Witt, Deceased, be aoeer-
t liir. d and declaired by this Court,
and it be determi led as to whom dis
tribution should be made.
The following, so far as known, is
a inscription of all the real estate of
which the deceased died seized or pos
sessed is as follows, to-wit: South
half of Northeast Quarter of South
sresl Quarter of Section 13 Township
2."i North. Range IS East, in Craig
Quarter of Northwest Quarter of Sect
ion 24 Township i'.". North Range 18
East, Craig County Oklahoma.
That the said William K. Witt and
Panata N. Witt, father and mother of
the deceased minor, respectively, are
the only p?rsons who have appeared
and claimed any interest in and to
said estate, in the course of adminis
tration up to the time of making ordr
lor this notice.
That you and all other persons not
hereto named, who have or claim any
right, title, or interest in said estate
as heirs or otherwise, are cited to ap
pear before this Court at the Court
Room thereof, In Vinita, Craig County
Oklahoma, on Wednesday the 20th
day of Keburary. A. D. 1913 at 10
o'clock a. m. of said day. and exhibit
and prove as required by law. your
respective claims of heirship, owner
ship or interest in said estate and
show cause why said decree of distri
bution should not be made.
Dated December 26th 1912.
IAMES E. McCCLEOl'tlll
Clerk of the County Court
Davenport- Rye
Attorneys. 18-21

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