The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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War
VOLUME 24.
The County Democrat
Entered at the Tecumseh, Oklahoma, posteffice, a* second-class mail under the aet of March 3, 1X78.
TBCUMSEH. POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1918.
NUMBER 48
TABULATED VOTE OF PRIMARY AUGUST 6, 1918
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WEEKLY FINANCIAL
REVIEW
Prepared for the Democrat by the St.
Louis Union Bank, St. Louis, Mo.
GERMAN VIEW OF
CHRISTIANITY
Business men of the United States
have a tendency to under-estimate the
commercial and financial importance
of Canada. This northern neighbor of
ours but for war conditions would
rank second in our list of customers.
Canada last year imported from this
country goods to the value of $828,-
887,573, according to the records of
the Dominion government. The total
was actually much larger, for not all
, goods went through the customs.
There must also be added the large
sums paid in interest on federal pro-
vincial, municipal, industrial and pri-
vate, corporation loans and the expen-
ditures of Canadian tourists. A com-
petent observer expresses the opinion
that Canada is our customer to a total
of more *hau one billion dollars a year.
Canada’s importance is further re-
vealed by the fact that in ten months
of the fiscal year 1917-1918 her war
exports totaled above a billion dol-
lars, $624,858,700 being the value of
war materials and $438,904,400 the val-
ue of foodstuffs exported.
Her development in the war years,
particularly in industrial lines, has
been properly described us a wonder-
ful achievement. Her organization and
power must be maintained and in-
creased, and there is need and oppor-
tunity at this time for the United
States to aid her in sustaining them.
Her credit is, of course, unquestioned.
There is present need of further
financing by the Dominion govern-
ment and the United States should
respond by a loan of $100,000,000 or
more, on a basis similar to the meth-
ods followed in assisting her other
allies.
COLLECTING UNITED
STATE TAXES
' In the execution of the policy of pay-
ing as large a proportion of the ex-
penses of the war by taxation as pos-
sible the Treasury is making every
effort to collect all Federal taxes due
to the United States.
The department has evidence against
many who have sought to evade taxes.
Some of these tax evaders are Amer-
ican citizens residing or sojourning in
Canada. A corps of specially trained
revenue agents will be sent to the
Canadian communities where many of
these tax evaders reside to obtain tax
re.urns from them.
Frederick Wilhelm Nietzche was one
of the most noted of modern German
philosophers. How much has his
philosophy affected the views and char-
acter of the Germans of to-dayf Is
not the answer written iu blood of
the women and children the old men
of occupied Fiance at > Belgium! Are
not the Lusitania victims witnesses to
German adoption of Nietzche’s faith!
Here is the indictment of Christ-
ianity:
* ‘ With this I conclude, and pronounce
my sentence: 1 condemn Christianity.
To me it is the greatest of all imagi-
nable corruption. The church is the
great parasite; with its aueinic idea
of holiness it drains life of all its
strength, its love, and its hope. The
other world is the motive for the denial
of every reality. I call Christianity
tho one great curse, the one great in-
trinsic depravity, the one great instinct
of revenge, for which no expedient
is sufficiently poisionous, secret, under-
hand, to gain its ends. 1 call it the
one immortal shame and blemish upon
the human race.’'
YOUNG MEN SHOULD
PURSUE STUDIES
War Department Plans to Give Mili-
tary Instruction at State
University.
Oklahoma City, Aug. 21.—“How can
I render the most valuable service to
my country during the period of the
wart” is the question which young
men over eighteen are asking themsel-
ves these days.
The war department has just offered
a solution, the plans for which, how-
ever, have not yet been entirely work-
ed out. The war department says:
“Enter college if you are fitted to
do so or return to college if already
enrolled and enlist in the Student
Army Training Corps.’’ By enlisting
in this corps, according to plans pro-
posed, you will become a member of
the United States Army and will be
given instruction, equipment, etc.
President Stratton D. Brooks, has re-
ceived advices that the Oklahoma Uni-
versity having satisfied the prescribed
conditions, a unit of the Students
Army Training Corps will be establish
ed therein by direction of the Secre-
tary of War.
George Bee was here from Wanette
th? first of the week on business con-
nected with the Sheriff’s office.
Statement to the Public.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 20, 1918.— have the wholesome effect of reducing
Complaints have reached me from J unnecessary passenger traffic through-
time to time of overcrowded trains aud , out t|le country. The smaller the num-
unsatisfactory conditions prevailing in 1 bef Qf p8Mengert who traveli t,„.
some sections of the country in passed- I ...
... greater the number of locomotives and
ger train service. -J feel certain that ,"
there are grounds for sonic of these . <'ars a,1|l the larger amount of track
complaints, but 1 am sure the public and terminal facilities that will bo
will be interested to know that the freed for essential troop aud war ma-
reasons are twofold: terial movements. Engineers, firemen
First, the great number of troops now and other skilled laborers will also be
being handled over the various rail • released for service on troop and nee-
roads between the homes and the can- ; essnry freight trains.
INSURANCE SYSTEM
CHANGED
tonments, between the different can-
tonments aand then to the seaboard, is
Among the many j^itriotic iduties
of the American public at this time
making extraordinary demands upon j is the duty to refrain front traveling
the passenger car and sleeping ear unnecessarily. Every man, woman and
equipment of the country. This has i child who can avoid using passenger
caused a scarcity of day coaches ami | trains at tiiis time should do so. I
sleeping ears which it is impossible to earnestly hope that they will do so.
remedy immediately. | Not only will they liberate essential
Secondly, the increased demands up- • transportation facilities which are nee-
on track and terminal facilities for the essary for war purposes, but they will
transportation of the tremendous save money which they can invest in
amounts of coal, food supplies, raw Liberty Bonds ami thereby help them-
materials, and other things required for s Ives ns well as their country; Riid
military and naval operations, as well the fewer who travel, the more amplc
as for the support of the civil popula- the passenger train service will be.
tion of the country, force the largest ! I may add that consistently with the
possible curtailment of passenger train ' paramount demands of the war, every
service. The movements of troops aud j possible effort is being made by the
war materials are, of eourse, of para- ' Railroad Administration to supply the
mount importance and must be given : largest possible amount of comfortable
at all times the right of way.
It was hoped that the increase in j
passenger rates recently made would j
and prompt passenger train service.
W. G. MeADOO,
Director General of Railroads.
Notice
TO ALL MALE CITIZENS WHO
HATE ATTAINED THE AGE OF 21
SINCE JUNE 5th, 1918, AND PRIOR
TO AUGUST 24th, 1918.
The Local Board for Pottawatomie
County announces that all male eiti
zens residing within Pottawatomie
County, who have attained the age of
twenty-one since June 5th, 1918, aud
prior to August 24th, 1918, must reg-
ister ou August 24th, 1918, at the City
Hall in the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma,
between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9
P. M.
There has been a change in the sys-
I tem of the Bureau of War Risk In-
surance of the Treasury in the matter
'of allotment aud allowance checks.
I This result iu some of the cheeks sent
’ out by the bureau being for smaller
•sums than heretofore, but the amounts
| omitted from the cheeks sent out by
tiie bureau will be included in cheeks
sent out from other sources.
The new system will simplify the
wor': \jt the bureau and is expected to
i accelerate the payment of allottmcnts
and allowances.
Prior to July last the War Risk In-
surance Bureau took the compulsory
allotment of $15 a month and what-
ever additional sum the enlisted man
; chose to allot to his family, and the
whole amount, together with the Gov-
ernment allowance for dependents was
included in one check and Bent out by
the bureau. Beginning with the July
pay the bureau will collect and send
out only tlie compulsory allotment of
$15 a month and the Government fam-
ily allowance.
The excess sllotmeiits over the com-
' pulsory $15 allotment and the allot-
ments to persons uot eutited by law
| to allowances will not be handled by
! the Bureau of War Bisk Insurance,
j but by the War or Navy Department
the Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, ac-
cording to the branch of service to
which the enlisted man belongs.
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THE CROWNING *i*
• GERMAN LIE •{*
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“The United States Govern- *J*
*1* mont will repudiate all loans at-
ter the war. Liberty Bonds
•j. after the war will be so much
•J* worthless paper.’’
►J. Perhaps the most palpable and •{•
•J. utterly ridiculous German lie
-I. which has been retailed in the
•J« state of Oklahoma was the above «|»
•J» statement which recently found
•J« circulation in Blaine county. *J*
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NEW QUARTERS FOR
POST OFFICE
The Post Office Department is ad-
vertising for a new lease for the Post-
office in this city. The present equip-
ment is ha<llv out of repair, as it has
been in use for something like 15 years.
The specifications, which are beiug
submitted by Inspector C. P. Johnson,
are the latest and strictly up-to-date
and will give Tecuinseh what she has
been needing for some time—a modern
and up-to-date postoffiee.
Parties desiring to bid on same will
be furnished with all the information
possible by Postmaster Henderson.
TRANSPORTING OUR TROOPS.
THE HAT SHOP
WILL HAVE
A NICE
SELECTION OF FALL
MILLINERY IN SOON
The world has been astonished at the
great number of American soldiers
transported to Europe in the last half
year. The number now approximates
1,500,000, and the loss of life in trans-
porting them has been almost infini-
tesimal.
Tim sucuess with which we have
| moved our troops from the scattered
' camps in this country and across .3,000
miles of ocean to the battle frout is
great evidence of American efficiency,
i We have not only surprised our ene-
! mics; we have surprised our friends
' ami ourselves.
The British controller of shipping,
Sir Joseph Maclr.y, speaks of this
movement across the sea as “ A *rans-
; port miracle.’’ We have been inclined
to attribute this achievement solely to
our Navy and our shipping, but the
British controller speaks in high praise
of the share the American railroads
hail in the work. He says:
“If the American railroads had not
been operated with success the whole
transport movement might have failed,
because it was esse tial to quick trans-
portation that the troops should be
ready for the ships.’’
Director General McAdoo seems jus-
tified in his statement that while tho
di velopment of the policy of the Rail-
, road Administration requires time,
. progress has been made toward the
l goal.
NATIONAL BANK RESOURCES.
The total resources of the national
banks of the couutry, as shown by re-
ports of the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency under the call of June 29, were
$17,839,502,000, an increase of $1,688,
462.000 over the same date last year.
Total deposits in national banks on
June 29 show an increase of $1,249.-
776.000 over a year ago.
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The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1918, newspaper, August 23, 1918; Tecumseh, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1076472/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.