Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 26, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XXVII.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918
NUMREK 2(>.
RETURN TO JOBS
BEING MADE EASY
Defense Machinery Brought Into
<-* 1'lav by Action of National
Defense Council.
Oklahoma City, Doc 24—(Spec-
ial.)—Nothing should be albwed to
interfere with or obscure the pur-
pose of the Bureau for Returning
Soldiers. Sailors and War Workers
to provide work fo~ discharged men.
Local communities are charged with
this duty and local and district
councils of defense are importuned
by the Council of National Defense
University Staff
To lie Increased
One hundred and eight teacher:
will be on active duty at the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma next quarter
I according to the new schedule jus'
issued by the university.
During the past quarter thirty-
three members of the faculty ha',
been on leave of absence and en
gaged in some kind of war work
Ten of these teachers will be ba. t
in their regular places during tin
coming quarter. They are as f
lows:
Maj. John Alley, head of the d
CLEVELAND COUNTY
i'oe rr vises yank valor i America Will go Slow
Teehniqui Helping German}
Americans Lacked
hut Smashed Through, Ger
man Said.
(United Press.)
Hilly Sunday in
Oklahoma City
Billy Sunday \Vill come to Okla-
HICO
W ill Show Good Results When All
Returns are In—Norman
District S2.500.
Chairman Moowau. of the Cleve-
land County Red Cross Christmas
Roll Campaign, is not getting re-
Coblenz, Dec. 23—(by courier to I
Nancy.l—"The Americans lacked
experience in the technicalities of
modern warfare, but they knew In \v
to go ahead—they knew too well."
That is the opinion of Colonel
Von Steibel, chief of staff of the
ports from many of the country 27th division, which fought and
school districts, but what he gets vvas beaten by the Americans at
are encouraging and he feels cer- Argonne.
tain that when all are in Cleveland yon steibel, who is attached to
county will show as good results t(ie Qerman bridgehead commission,
according to population, as any discussed freely with a correspon- s
the
! Washington l>ec 21 <1 rmany homa City if the ministers who
is in no present danger as to food, were absent from the meeting o
accomling to state department in- the ministerial alliance yesterday
formation today. Her chief i'if- are of the same 1 pinion a ^ the rem-
ficulty is one of distribution, mittee who will call upon them to-
Many places in Germany have suf- jay.
ficient food. But des ite the The eight members of the alli-
vaunted Germany efficiency, her ance present voted unanimously to
means of distributing food have ra|| the evangelist to preach here
been poor, while there was graft- when he closes his meeting in Foil
ing and hoardin ■ A'i roaching Worth, A committee composed of
the east, the foorl situation grows jtev Charles C Weaver, Rev. I'l.ii
graver In Austria, it is a subject c Bair(| a,„| i;ev. 1. Frank Roach,
for concern. ,>vas appointed with power to act
The American government's dis- if th(,y fiml aM otlier mcmbers of
favor of the call.—
partment of government; Capt. R
.. . , C. Terrell, associate professor of county in Oklahoma. dent the phases of the Aigonnej position toward food problems in ,),r ,,njanci,
to lent every an o agent tea w 10 engineering; Capt. W. S The prevalence of the influenza breakthrough. tiermatiy is to make no hasty food Oklahoman
seek to pro, lie sui 1 emp oymen (Campbell, instructor in English: and the very cold weather has been "The Americans were too reck- adjustments, anil when they are
These men should meet with the gc(;t Fmi E Tarman assistan !a great detriment to the work o less; in too much of a hurry to get ma(je not to rati0n her extensive-
least possible resistance possi^ e in profe'ssor journalism; Everett R i solicitation, and it will probably things done," he said. ]y_ fhe sole concern of this go\
be several days before reports a; For instance, in attacking our, ernment in that respect is to see
all in. machine guns-—which are the best, that the distribution problems are
In the ten or twelve country di in the world; tbey utilized no scien- adjusted so that famine cannot
tricts from which reports have beer tific means. It seemed to us that cause a menacing revolution in the
received, the work has been com- the only way they knew to climin- nation. It would be necessary to
pleted in good shape and a numbe ate a machine gun nest was to keep supply some food to the central
of them report 100 per cent met coming until they got it. That was empires later.
bership. Others have sent in par- rather discouraging to the morale j
tial reports, indicating good results of our gunners. They knew that j
as soon as the workers finish their if they .stayed long they would be |
job. In the Norman school district killed or captured.
a membership of 2500 is indicated We have no doubt that American 1
and Chairman Moomau estimates intervention won the war. We
The evils of bad roads are ad- that Cleveland county will show r could have beaten the other allies
mitted by everyone. If the actual total membership of 10,000, or hut the constant stream of Amer-
moncy loss they entail each year about half the population, when all icans, young and enthusi istic
could be definitely set forth in returns are in. overwhelmed us.
... ... . figures the sum would be startling, The campaign in the state is ^bi "The Americans are good op-
the questions drawn up by the It- am, by com,,arison with the sum . rctar(ic(1 by the told weat'.i ponents and fair fighters"
agencies together wi h queres nece5sary to put the highways int0 « much gickness and „ total of Von Steibel said the German the pcace terms modified.
behalf of federal o les wi 1- „1doii ,„„„i,i „„„„ something jike 200,000 members is Army could have held out for
Chairman Phillips months if internal conditions had
procuring all necessary information N ^ nn(, reKistrar. ,
that will promote their welfare un- ^
til they are securely settled.
The following procedure is sug-
gested for local councils by the
Council of National Defense and
contained in a letter issued to
county councils by the Oklahoma
State Council of Defense:
(1) See every local agency
which serves returning soldiers,
sailors and war workers and find
out just where it is located, just
what it will do for the returning
person, and just what questions
should be asked each person to de-
termine whether its help is needed; ~ b7"^finitely ""s
(2) Consolidate into a single list
w questions drawn up by the lo-
cal agencies, together with queries
Morgan, assistant professor o
English; Paul S. Carpenter,%asso
ciate professor of violin; C. F
Giard, professor of piano; E. P. R
Duval, associate professor of mat
ematics; II. S. Brown, dean of the
school of pharmacy; Randall Stew
art, instructor in English.
GOOD ROADS.
(Contipued )
Miss Dudley, milliner at McCalls.
left on Sunday for a holiday visit
with her folks ir Missouri and will
visit the Eastern markets before
returning.
George McDaniel, son of Mr and
Mrs. Aaron McDaniel, is home from
The United States Government Houston, Texas, to which point he . .mmnnitv
will not hurry this process. was transferred after completing w
In the meantime, the German his course at the vocational camp
propaganda "wails" for assistance the University. The train
are falling on ears they do not de- h s evidently agreed with him. j
ceive. The department has made he is a fine looking young soldier.
a careful analysis of the whole He is home on a fin lough, and has
German situation and now realiz- t0 return on New Year's day.
es fully that these plaintive ap- ,
peals are insincere and put for Warren Hazletine Alive: A report
So ' i!e Sunday School is
progressing nicely as they have a
Victii. this district now.
Sic' i f in this community is
[ibout all over with now as Mr
.Ian .! reported some better.
Eveiylt ,ly n this part is fix-
ing fr,i" ( ns mas as they aim to
hav e ill ite a time at llico.
Miss Nannie Talbot and Miss
l!i Whuu visited at Mr. Hur-
ges's Sunday.
Mr. l.eorge Gill has been sick
for s me lime with the influenza
but is u.i now.
Mr. V, S. Talbot's sister wfi< >
lives near Purcell has been visit
ing him and family.
Rev. Cook who lias been out here
some time is fixing to go back tO'
Texas.
Miss lone Alexander and Mis.-
Zona 1 albot made a business trip
to Norman last Saturday.
On account of bad weather and
sickness Christmas is going to
cateli lots of crops in the field in
ward with the sole idea of securing from the war department dated
sympathy with a view of having Nov. 1st stated that Warren Ilazle-
Mr. Lee Bettes expects to move
I to Norman this week.
Mr. Kveret Davis has been mov-
I ing some of his things to Chicka-
1 sha as he is going to farm in that
i part next year.
| Mr. Capehart made a business
trip to Norman last week.
Mr. E. E Gill has been hauling
out wide-spread local branches
(such as the Federal Board for Vo-
cational Education). 0;iposite each
question indicate the directions
which should he given the returning
man or woman in case it is evident
lielp is needed;
(3) Arrange that the bureau
shall go over tlie points in this list
with every applicant;
(4) If the Bureau is a busy one,
a competent information clerk
should be nrovided for the purpose.
Volunteers will undoubtedly be
''available for this position in most
communities berause of the cessa-
tion of other lines of war work.
Mary Pickford
In New Hole
first class condition would at once
suggest the permanent improve-
reported so far,
TAKING PKiSONERS
ment of our highways as a sound hopes to show a membership of not interferred,
but,
business proposition. The attention
of the people has not been called
t0 the "GOOD ROADS" proposi-
tion in a way to arouse a general
interest in the same; to brin
forth the best efforts of the masses
to secure permanancy in road
building. Reforms, in all lines, are
400,000 when all the reports are in
ton. formerly of this town, had died
of wounds in France, but his broth
er Roy has received a letter from
him dated Nov. 27th, stating he had
recovered from severe wounds. He
later, lack of material would have ; Tulsa, Okla , Dec. 20.—D C. Rose
brought its downfall. j executive secretary of the Tulsa was in the 89th Division, a machine
C* 1 * f*• ^ • n/,n He asserted that Ludendorff is County Council of Defense, has r - gunner, and enlisted at Kansa working some
L/nriSlian OtlCIltC a p,rea^ peneral, but that he rnad< jceived a letter from Corporal Wil- City, where Roy is also now livin Moore
Welfare Work several fundamental mistakes, son Fremuth, of the United State
such as the Verdun attack. Marine Corps, a former oil field
Now that the war is practically j He inquired eagerly about the worker in this state, in which he
some wood to Franklin.
Mra. Misc expects to move soor
on the VV. O. Wynne place.
Mr. John Harris from Chicka-
sha has been out in this part lately
Mr. Willard White helped It. E.
Church kill hogs Saturday.
Mr Patten darby has beer*
for M r. Harvey
; Mr. and Mrs. Alva Church ex
On Monday. Dec. 211. 1-ect to leave soon for Colorado,
relates an interesting anecdote just
before the signing of the armistice.
"Our captain gave us a dinner
j the night before we left for the
front.
Married:
1918, at the home of the bride's j
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H War
ren, the marriage of Mr. Dewey
Dodson of Carney, Okla, and Miss |
IGrace F. Warren, of Norman was
to work in
they
Denver-
Singing at llico was postpone*/
last Sunday night on account of
the bad weather. , . _
" : Tv .7 v
over, a statement of the war work effetts of German artillery fire.
notoriously of slow growth, the by the Christian Science Welfare He also wanted to know what the
temper of the majority of the peo- board may be of interest All this doughboys thought of the German
pie seems to be conservative ratheT work has been done within the soldiers' courage and ability.
than radical and as Jefferson said denomination, without asking any JQ}
"MariKind is more disposed to suf assistance from outside sources, yotJR OWN FRIKNDS, | ""Now bays', he said, "treat this officiating. They will live 'Tis good to see the boys come
fer, while evils are sufferable, than and is truly a remarkable showin. YOUR OWN NEIGHBORS. Idinner as y°u would the enemy ' at ^da Oklahoma, where Mr. Dod home. Among the recent arrival
to right themselves by abolishin ■ The following were its contribu- "We dug in with a will After'"son ls operator for the Katy, and is Lewis McDailes, son of Mr.
the forms t0 which they are ac tions to the men in the army, given jjave Hundreds More Just as dinner the captain found one of the ta)(e wjtj, them into their nev Thomas McDaniel, who has been at
customed." to all alike, no discrimination being s Good. ! men stowing away bottles of cham- ^ome the very best wishes of a Fort Upton and was discharged at
As a general proposition, reform made as to religious predelictions
I pagne into a bag and highly in , circ,e of frienda
Mary Pickford's forthcoming follow in the "wake" of some great 0f the men, young or old, black or Norman, Okla , 12-20,1918. dignant, demanded what he meant \
photoplay, "How Could You, Jean?" event or happening that arouses white. Many of tftie men write let- j-,r ^ ]) Ru]]ey> ; by such conduct.
shows the little star in an entirely the thinking faculties of mankind. }_ers 0f .grateful appreciation of the Guthrie, Okla., " 'I'm only obeying orders, sir,'
new role, that of an almost-grown- The world war of the past four creat help the welfare committee DenJ. DocJ.or; the man said.
up society girl who turns cook when years has aroused mankind's think- t,as been to them. The following is j am very p]ea9e(j to tell you that " 'Obeying orders ?' roared the 1
fate deals her a blank in the form ing faculties as perhaps no other the report: we are more than pleased with the captain,'what do you mean?'
of a depleted bank account. The event in all time, and from such a Total number of knitted goods, *p. C. H. A. "'You told us to treat the dinner
story is by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd awakening we may look forward £U, distributed by tiiis committee And unless you have gone like the enemy, sir; and when we
sad appeared serially in one of the confidently to one of the greatest to men jn war scrric(, 113,079 through with what I have you can meet the enemy, sir, those we ran't
popular magazines The adaptation advances in civilization made in the Total number of garments made llever know the value of this treat- kill we take prisoners'."
was made by Frances Marion, that world s history . It will mark the ^ gewjng Units of'Greater Boston, TOent t0 me or mine Just to see
clever young manipulator of photo- breaking away from many time ^ di3tra,uted by this committee my iitlle wife helpless, weak and Prof. C W Shannon and daugh-
play plots who has to her credit honored customs and tlw inaufr- f0r men in var servH-e and refugees frail and almost in her grave as ter Ruth left yesterday for Indian-
most of the Pickford 3.su«essesj,f uration ol:new {25,116. she was when She joined the T. C ..polis, In.!., where they will
Total number of old ani new H. A and to see her now wit' spend the Christmas holidays with
garments received trom the field the bloom of youth upon her cheeks, relatives, after which Mr. Shan.
and distributed by tiis committee ir,ot like the same person at all, then non goes to Baltimore to attend
for r«fugees, 234,672. you can understand why I say ttie National Convention of Geol-
ArtScles sent out by the field, but would not part with this treatm. joRists.
not through this committee, for tor a thousand dollars cash.
refugees
117,288.
, Total number of articles dis-
tributed .by this committee and its
branches from December 1, 1917, to
the last year. The direction was meet the needs and requirements of
in the har t! of William D Taylor, an advanced civilization. Now 1
producer 0t the Tom Sawyer sto>"' a most opportune time to take u-
in which Jack Pickford gained seriously the "Improvement of our
added fame. Public Highways." The need of em-
It is heralded as one of the bright- ployment for the millions of men
est and cleverest photoplays in who have been engaged fc.r the
has past four years in the titanic Strug- ",en war service ar*
Fort Sill a day or two ago
RLSC■ : O
That dv/Rinc the i
ylrafc we have: built up
HOhl£.'iT Ft?AD£ \J) IH
IhonEST PLOPLc BXSfLLltVr,
HONEST GQCOS ATKCM£? T
PRICES- NT XT ;
13U57l a
which "America's Sweetheart" has past four years
ever a^eared, and it will be pre gle to "Save the World to Oem
sealed at the University Theatre ocracy." is of first importance to
Christmas day. Rave the country from the scirarge
' - of unemployed million—a scene
C ■ Fvprvwhere witnessed in this country in the September 1. 191 , 490,138.
^ " early nineties, when the tread of [n distiifiuting the ahor,-> articles
-~~~* 24 Tho tne unemployed millions in this we have been able to aid in a very
I have seen enough of the T. C. I The late storms have put the
H_ A. in mv family and neighbor- roads in a bad condition, full of
hood which causes me to say—that ruts and mud holes, and reports of
I do not believe there is any sys mariy stallings of automobiles come
country was heard marching effective way many of tke relief
through our land and the fires of committees that have been in exis
the vandal lit up the skies from fttice for some time, as well as giv-
Chicago to Pittsburg.
JOHN S. ALLAN,
(To be continued.)
CHRISTMAS ENTERPRISE
ing very substantial help to men in
all branches of war service.
■ We have many letters of grate
j fill acknowledgement for articles
received from individuals and com-
Yes, we know the Enterprise is t0 able to give such material
Kansas City, Mo
southwest was assured today of a
white Christmas.
The weathe ibureau here report-
ed a heavy blanket of snow over
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, west-
ern Missouri and part of northern
Texas. Some snow has fallen in
eastern Missouri, the repoit Btated.
By mid-forenoon today eleven
inches had fallen in the vicinity of
Kansas Ci
ta, told
thre to four inches leu in soum- . . i
east Nebraska Weather officials i"g and holiday season there is ,
predicted clear we,ther this after, little doing in the way of advert,s- UUarU 3W 1C
noon, but were certain there would ing and we have cut our garmen t nrrl
be plenty of snow tomorrow. according to our cloth. The most
Because of the local street car of our exchanges are omitting the
Strike, an adequate jitney service holiday number of the.r paper en-
and the storm, thousands of Kanaas tirely, but we thought a small pa jg a honor j can tell you, that
Citians walked to work this morn- Per was better th?" non® . , I am fruardinpr the birthplace and
We extend to all our friends and ranger 0f our Lord. It is a won-
Chicairo, Dec. 24—Eight to ten patrons the compliments of the derfu, p]ace an^ j
never thought
' i Vio^ o M«rrv i r . i «_ j :± 1.1.-1.
tern in this world which equalt T
C. H. A.
Youru very truly,
DANIEL M GRAVES,
Route 3
in from all parts of the country. It
is very evident that the only way
we tan secure good roads to to
hard surface them. This thing of
dirt roads is a played-out proposi-
tion.
Norman, Okla,
12-20, 1918
Dr. C. D. Gulley,
Guthrie, Okla.,
Esteemed Friend:
V?1
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WE PEEL THAT WE CAN LOOK OUR PA-
TRONJ .SQUARE IN THE FACE AND WI
Many of my neighbors and sev
eral of my relatives are members
of T. C. H .A and all are delight
ed. Those of us who have follow
I wish to express my heartfelt ed instructions in your books havr j £ HAPPY new YEAR, BECAl/ WITH
thanks to you for the great bene had no serious trouble with the flu,
1 mittees, and we feel very thankfu f,( } ^ recejved from T , e,innot estimate the value of this im qUR JELVE5 WE ARE CON OP H.AV
IS U.> aUIa tn r uio aiir«n mi form 1 . , ' 1
C. H. A. System of Health It treatment in dollar;-, to my family
...ty. Reports from Wichi- «"> " this week, but think it makes help "men in service" and refu- iTanaform'e(l me from
of sixteen inches. From up in quality what it lacks in quant- k,ees
, .... *-ji itv. Owing to the Christmas do
physical I would be happy to know that it
was in every home in the land.
Yours very truly.
wreck to as near perfect health P'
sible for a woman of my age (65
years).
I am enjoying better health, life
is more pleasure to me than any
time in the last 15 years. I am
A young British soldier writes: bound t(J gjve T c H A credit 2Stli, if weather will permit, at Bro , p A«S .SED
"I am on guard at present and it for guch a boon Havill. Phone 596,
inc3 TREATED OUR pATRONJ RIGHT IN. THE
PA.5T. OUR PATRON ACE PRoVEJ THIJ. ?N
ord's birthplace
MRS. J. JACKMAN. ^ JHE YEAR TO COME WE PROMISE To Do NO'
Route
See Dr. Gulley. Saturday, Dec
more
THAN IN THE YEAR.5 THAT HAVE
WE NEED NOT, WE KNOW, EXTEND
inches of snow covered the ground season, hoping they ve had a Merry
throughout the middle west today Christmas and will have a Happy
andmany cities were in the throeo «rK' Prosperous New car.
of the first blirzard of the winter
traffic was delayed seriously in Miss Mary Burks left on Mon
when I used to read about it that
one day I should stand and guard
it. The birthplace is marked by a
fourteen pointed silver star pre-
sented by the French government
The stable is hung with lamps from
Chicaeo hy heavy drifts of snow day night for Okmulgee, Okla, to
Soft snow was driven by a stiff spend the Christmas holidays with all different countries and they look
northeast wind. Miss Mac Shingledecker. Miss beautiful, and I might add, they are
Cold weather and snow storms Shingledecker has been chief clerk always alight. The manger itself
were reported from Missouri, of the selective draft board of that is cut in natural rock, but marble
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkans- county, but is now connected with has been put in to keep it in a good
as. Towa end Indiana. an oil firm. state of preservation.'
VVJ LLIAM FOX Presents
Another Wonder Picture with
William Farnum
in a 1918 version of
"A Soldier's Oath'
By Daniel Roosevelt
Friday ■ inrnTV Adults 15c
Saturday 251 rC I ■ Kiddies 5c
anything but thankj To OUR OLD pa-
tron.s. we know THEY NEED No invita-
tion to come to our -STORE. to tho.se
who have not yet COME OUR way, to
the .stranger in our town, we ex-
tend, however, an invitation to come
and .see uj.
E. B. Kimberlin
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