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TULSI WEEKLY iEMtlf
Published Thursday JE.renlii* of Every Weak.
FKRXOX L. SMITH ...................EDITOR
U. H. HORTON...........GENERAL MANAGER
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Dollar per year, Fifty Cents for Six Months.
GOOD HOADS MUST HE BUILT.
Nt
0 INCE THE ISSUANCE OF THE priority order to
^ the railroads which practically stopped the ship-
^ ment of materials for fairway construction, pro-
tests from every section of the United Stutes have been
sent to Washington. The people of the United States
are bitterly opposed to interference with road building.
These protests set forth the vital need of good highways
and set forth the fact that the railroads are unable to
handle the transportation thrust upon them. They em-
phasize the argument that road building ought to be a
part of the war work—thut it would be if the govern-
ment would look ahead a short distance into the future.
It is suggested than an immense road meeting be
held at some point in the United States where road
builders, business men and government officials could
discuss the situation. Possibly the government officials
could be made to see that road building is more import-
ant now than nt any time in the history of the country.
With the disbanding of the American Highway as-
sociation there is left but one national organization de-
voted to good roads building. That is the American
Road Builders’ association, the oldest organization de-
voted to this work in the country. This association num-
bers among its membership the leading engineers, road
officials, contractors and machinery and material man-
ufactures of the country. It is the only organization
that embraces in its membership all of the factors that
can fully discuss the need of highway improvements and
how to get them. This organization usually holds its an-
nual meeting in February.
The Manufacturers’ Record suggests (hat some
central western point, such ns Cincinnati, be chosen for
a monster representative road meeting under the au-
spices of the American Road Builders' association. Such.
a meeting at Cincinnati would encourage a representa-
tive attendance because those from the south, the east,
the north and the west would reach this central point
and attend these meetings with the least loss of time
and at.least expense.
This meeting would give an opportunity for a thor-
ough discussion of all questions regarding highway im-
provement and out of it would be bound to come a co-
ordinated, co-operative plan for carrying forward high-
way improvements that would be of the greatest pos-
sible Importance to the country at this time.
IBS Ra *4
There is work for the church to do in the war, and
ii: does not consist alone in buying liberty bonds«*nd
helping the Red Cross, according to Rev. c. L. Slattery,
rector of Grace church in New York. “We rightly con-
demn the Russian bureaucrats who made their country’s
peri! an opportunity to swindle and cheat,” he says, “but
we are apt to forget that we once had citizens who,
supposedly filling government contracts for which they
received full pay, sent to our Indian wards such abom-
inations us tin shovels; and it is not altogether clear
that there are not today citizens who would if they
could take advantage of a world’s misery to overcharge
for necessary food, to sell defective machinery and in a
thousand other ways to make capital out of a nation’s
haste. The church calls to repentance; in these days
it ought to call with sufficient voice to make such men
hear its scorn, though they may never darken a church’s
door." m ,
Its
CROZIER ALSO PASSES THE BUCK.
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ENERAL CROZIER THROWS THE WEIGHT of
I | • responsibility back upon congress in the Batter
of ordnance by detailing the applications that
have been made from time to time for appropriations.
He said one application had been made for*?!,200,000 for
ordnance and that congress reduced the amount to
1310,000. No considerable appropriation was made for
artillery until 1910, he asserted.
While this does not explain the delay occasioned by
disputing over the kind of machine gun to be used and
the delay brought about by red tape in every urmy de-
partment, it does place much of the responsibility upon
congress.
Nothing else could have been expected, it is true,
when the country was not at war. Colonel Roosevelt
has been harping upon the unpreparedness of the country
and telling what should have been done. The colonel
knows that it would have been impossible to have passed
a compulsory military training act at any time when
the country was at peace. Congress would not have
passed such an act while he was president, no matter
how threateningly he may have swung the big stick.
As General Crozier has said, the whole country is
to blame, up to a certain point. The country was wholly
unprepared for war. Even when it was in sight con-
gress held back. Since war was declared the war de-
partment has shown the greatest inefficiency. It is a
deplorable condition, but it can be remedied—and it is
being remedied as fast as possible. The inquiry has
built a fire under the departments’ heads and they are
now at work.
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JUMPING TO A CONCLUSION.
«»
npAXES AMOUNTING TO SOMETHING more than
1 $3,000,000 may fall on the common or garden
variety of property owners, in the conclusion that
has been arrived at very suddenly by J. L. Lyon, secre-
te ry of state. This is the amount represented by the
taxes paid by the railroads and the secretary of states
cites the fact that the railroads have been taken over by
the government. Also the provision of law which says
no government property shall be taxed by the state—
not even property that the government contemplates
buying.
It is making a long guess, though, to presume that
the government intends to buy the railroads. The gov-
ernment has not yet announced such intention. The gov-
ernment does not yet own the railorads and has only as-
M Ik h
Lenine and Trotsky have decided that they will not
loot the American bank in Petrograd, which shows that
they have not as much nerve as A1 Jennings used to
have.
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William Hohenzollern and his hired men, Lenine and
Trotsky, are giving their fake peace proposals ten days
fn which to soak in, but they might as well go ahead and
make their arrangements. Nobody is going to be taken
to by their scheme.
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Faith in the Morrison field was not justified. We
refuse to believe that there is such a thing as the Mor-
rison gas field.
sumed their management in an advisory capacity. Sec-
retary Lyon is quoted as saying that he thinks it may be
neoessary to call the state board of equalization to-
gether again and readjust the assessment on this ac-
count.
Why not wait awhile and see what the government
i> going to do about it? The railroad property in this
state is valued at $204,042,472 and the owners of other
property in Oklahoma are perfectly willing for the rail-
roads to pay their share of the taxes.
Eca MQ NE3
TEACHING HISTORY IN THE SCHOOLS.
ket
TOKESM1TIIS AND CARTOONISTS HAVE set forth
I the difficulties presented to teachers in the schools
J when they come to the subject of history, having it
appear that the teachers are all at sea on both history
and geography. Such is not the case, however, ami
American teachers never before had such an opportunity
as hus been presented to them by the war and this coun-
try’s participation in it.
Present day conditions present a subject that is both
interesting and fascinating. Through the pupils they
will reach many parents and if the teaching is sound,
they may be an effective factor in the country’s political
development. Two dangers in particular must be avoid-
ed. In the first place, the war has not changed history;
the methods of treatment and presentation that have
proved to be sound in the past are not necessarily to be
abandoned. In the second place and as a corollary of the
first the teacher needs to be on guard against the per-
version of history in the interest of any particular creed,
whether that creed be pacifism or militarism, national-
ism or internationalism. He should not follow the Ger-
man practice which has used the teaching of history in
the public schools as a means for inculcating “love of the
reigning Hohenzollern family” and the “need of a strong
navy.”
While history and the purposes in teaching it have
not changed the scope of our interests has broadened,
and because of the events of the present war it is possi-
ble to understand some historical facts more fully. It is
well known to all teachers that in any course in history
either in school or college only an outline can be at-
tempted and only a very small percentage of the impor-
tant facts in any field can be taught. While not neglect-
ing any of Ate supremely important issues it is possible
to choose new facts to illustrate them and those espe-
cially which are of immediate interest because of the
present war may well be chosen.
In the past the methods of presentation and the
choice of topics have been determined to a great extent
by traditionalism and by a somewhat narrow provincial-
ism. It has become traditional in the nineteenth century
to trace the course of events as it led up to the war of
1870, the formation of the German empire, and the uni-
fication of Italy; the later history was not presented so
fully and too frequently consisted merely of a series of
interesting or important events, arranged chronologically
or geographically, but without any logical nexus. Con-
sequently too little attention has usually been given to
such more recent events as the congress of Berlin and its
results.
Now it is imperative that the history should be so
taught as to explain the causes, both remote and imme-
diate, which brought about the present war. Further-
more because of* the tendency to stress events prior to
1870 and because of the feeling up to the present time of
'America's comparative isolation, the history of eastern
Europe and of Asia has been almost entirely neglected.
The opportunity must now be seized to study the whole
o.' Europe and its influence on and connections with the
rest of the world, and the influence of America upon
Europe, especially in the last century, must be
brought out.
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Consumers may now watch the price of potatoes
soar along with other staples, since it is announced that
Food Administrator Iloovcr is going to recommend their
use and ask the dealers to stabilize the price. The same
result has followed in all other instances where the use
iif cheaper food was recommended, notably in the case of
rice and corn meal. It would be possible for the govern-
ment to distribute throughout the country the immense
surplus of potatoes now on hand from last season’s crop.
It is well known that they are plentiful in every potato
growing section of the country,' but that distribution is
at a standstill and that they are not being shipped. The
government now has control of the railroads and the po-
tato growers have spuds for sale. What's the matter
with putting these two facts together and knocking this
higli price into a cocked hat? It seems to be up to
Hoover and McAdoo.
WORKING GERMAN PRISONERS HERE.
Sumtnin
ey
RICHARD £ GRAVES
It Up
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From one review of the year's work
It may be gathered that the police
stack up very well alongside the build-
ing permits
Tlmre is thin difference, howevv,
the permits repres -nt new buildings
while the work of the pplico has been
“working over” the frames of those
arrested
Whenever there is a dull day the
telegraph editors can call on Secre-
tary Lansing to release some more of
the German correspondence he has
concealed in his safe.
Teamwork Is needed in the gov-
ernment. Hoover is going to inau-
gurate a potato day and if McAdoo
will permit the railroads to haul the
potatoes it will bo all right.
Things ate turning out well for the
consumer. Thousands of Idle fi eight
cars have been found in the congest-
ed yards and of course they will be
used to haul potatoes.
Writers of oil and gas news are all
the time finding new gas wells, hut
what's that to tha consumers of gas.'
Compared with the busy McAdoo,
the late Mr Poo-Hah was really idl-
ing hit; time away.
Flares From Coke Burning Fur-
naces Make Use of Electricity
Unnecessary.
GARY, Ind., Jan. 1.—Gary is one of
the few cities in the country that can
snap its fingers at the fuel adminis-
tration’s order to observe “lightless
nights” in order to conserve fuel. It
is not because the city is unpatriotic,
but because If it does not use the elec-
tricity it has on hand to light the city,
the current will have to be dissipated
in the blue, thin atmosphere.
The peculiar condition is the direct
result, moreover, of war necessity.
I The government must have steel. In
order to have steel it must have-coke;
in ordtfr to have coke a certain
amount of coal must be burned and
in the coking of the coal so many by-
products are formed that it would bo
sheer waste not to use everything.
When coal is colled, there are 760
by-products taken off. The most
worthless of these is gas and the most
/aluable is benzol. The gas obtained
here drives 66 engines in the power
houses, each of 33,000 horse power,
It develops that Secretary Baker ap- besides running the blowers for the
pointed a committee to make tests of, blast furnaces and performing other
machine guns in September, 1016. and tasks. The gas engines, in turn, gen-
tho committee arranged to rnako tin- crate electricity, not only all that is
tests in May, 11/17. We wonder why lysed for the steel mills in which there
the committee was hi such a rush? j are twelve blast furnaces continuously
-----. I turning out pig iron, but also enough
Announcement is made that the po- to operate the cement plant, five
lice made ton thousand arrests during j miles away; a bridge company’s
1017. Which was a thousand more than j plant some big tin mills; lighting for
Germans Excuse Acts
of Barbarity In War
Higli Officers Go on Record as Endorsing Acts of Mur-
der, Arson and Pillage on the Part of Rank and File
—Excuses are Flimsy and Evasive.
they arrested during the previous year.
Maybe Commissioner Matthews wants
to find out what they did to that ex-
tra thousand.
Working over tea thousand pris-
oners must have been an awful big
Job, though
lATUPElMD)
Tin- World’s First Paper Maker.
"There is at least one thing for which
the entire city and to ryn a couple
of street car lines.
The coke ovens also make enough
""is for all purposes—too much, in
fact, for at eac hend of the steel mills
there is a four-foot exhaust pipe
which sends a tongue of flames, four
feet thick, 50 feet into the air at all
times when the ovens are running full
blast.
Hence Gary is in no Hanger of be-
coming a dark city because of "ex-
cessive use” of its light sources.
The people of the United States'are
beginning to learn thff truth con-
cerning the conduct of the war by Ger-
many. Proof is offered that Ger-
man offici-als deliberately lied in
their statements concerning atrocities
committed by the Belgians and allies.
That their own soldiers were disgusted
by the cruelties practiced at the order
of high officers of the kaiser is
shown. Extracts taken from pam-
phlets issued follow:
The Vorwaerts of Berlin, October
22, 1914, said:
“We have already been able to es-
tablish the falseness of a great num-
ber of assertions which have been
made with great precision and pub-
lished everywhere in the press, con-
cerning alleged cruelties committed,
by the populations of the countries
with which Germany is at war, upon
German soldiers and civilians. Wo
are now in position to silence two
others of these fantastic stories.
“The war correspondent of the Ber-
liner Tageblatt spoke a few weeks
ago of cigars and cigarettes filled
with powder alleged to have been
goven out or sold to our soldiers with
diabolical intent. He even pretended
that he had seen with his own eyes
hundreds of this kind of cigarettes. We
learn from an authentic source that
this story of cigars and cigarettes is
nothing but a brazen invention. Stor-
ies of soldiers whose eyes are alleged
to have been torn out by francs-tir-
eurs are circulated throughout Ger-
many. Not a single case of this kind
has been officially established.
"It matters little that reports of
this nature bear an appearance of
positive certitude, or are even vouched
for by eye-witnesses. The desire for
notoriety, the absence of criticism,
and personal error play an unfortun-
ate part in three days in which we are
BARBARIANS MUST LEARN.
..... CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—"The time is
we are indebted to the vicious tittle j fast approaching when strong men Hiving. Every nose shot off or simply
wasp,” Uncle Jack told his nephew, must learn to respect the rights of : bound up, every eye removed, is im;
~ “Our blue wasps mostly^ but weaker men, when Vrong nations . mediately transformed into nose or
woody | mm t protect and not ravage weaker j eye torn away by the francs-tireurs.
have ; nations, and when intolerance of the ] Already the Volkszeitung of Cologne
J unior.
not all,
fibrous
make
matter
nests of a
which they
chewed. It was the nests of wasps white man for the red or black or yel- | has been able, contrary to the very
which first gave man the idea of1 low man must vanish,” said Henry M. . categorical assertions from Aix-la-
ruaking paper from wood which had i Beardsley, former mayor of Kansas Chapelle, to prove that there was no
been reduced to pulp. H'ity, in an address before the Sunday I soldier with his eyes torn out in the
If we take the trouble of inspect-’ Evening Club.
ing tlie nests of wasps, after they | --
have been driven away or destroyed,
which is accomplished by burning
sulphur near their homes, we will dis-
cover that its outer covering is a sub-
stance not unlike dark wrapping paper
strong and tough and water proof as
well. That is a little art that man
has not yet mastered.
I field ambulance of this town. It was
said, also, that people wounded in
j this way were under treatment in
| the Aeighborhood of Berlin, but when
! ever inquiries have been - imade in
| regard to these reports, their abso-
j lute falsity has been demonstrated,
j The Pudwiudjinnies Camp Fire Girls At length these reports were con-
; were accompanied Sunday afternoon j centrated at Gros Lichterfelde. A
But he can by ! b.v Mies Ruth Edwards and Miss Eva newspaper published at noon and
Y. M. C. A. Notes
reducing wood to pulp, make pa per, | Horner of the Y. W. C. A., to
and for the knowledge he has thus, Tulsa County Home, where they
gained he thanks the wasp. This is ’
but one of thousands of instances
where we have profitted by : ludying
the ways of so-called Inferior crea-
tures.
“There are many varieties of wasps,
but all are famous nest-builders. Tn
this respect they are even more in-
genious than the bees. They have a
faeility for selecting obscure places
where they will have protection from
marauding enemies, for the wasp, de-
thel widely circulated in Berlin printed a
en-; few days ago in large type the news
ti-rtained the old folks. Hymns were j that at the Lazaretto of Lichterfelde
sung by the Camp B’lre Girls and j alone there were 'ten German sol-
51 iss Horner gave several bible read-' diers, only slightly wounded, whose
i’igs, the entertainment was brought eyes had been wickedly torn out.’
lo a close with prayers
Activities at the Y. W. C. A. contin-
ued as usual New Year’s Day.
The K. A. C. club will meet Thurs-
But to a request for information by
Comrade iebnecht the following
written reply was sent by the chief
medical officer of the above mem-
spite his vicious sting and his equally | the W. C A. club rooms for Biblo
study and current events.
vicious bite, is preyed upon, as are all
other creatures.
“When we strip a wasp nest of its
paper-like covering which the wasps
have made, the nest is seen to consist
of a .series of cell-combs We already
know that wasps do not store honey,
hence we must conclude that the cells
they construct are for another pur-1 danger to the allied situation
clay afternoon in the Y. W. C. A. club j tloned field hospital, dated the eigh-
rooins. “ teenth of the month:
The 'Get Acquainted Club” will ! “Sir: Happily there is no truth
meet Thunrdav owning at 7 o'clock in whatever in these stories.
'Yours obediently,
PROFESSOR RAUTENBERG.”
German Soldiers Protested.
Thus the teachings of the German
War Book and of the German apos-
SUBS STILL EFFECTIVE
SAYS GERMAN ADMIRALTY t7“ oTTr^'fi^r S
—--—. | hatred had now begun to bear their
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 1.— According; natural fruit. But the voice of pro-
to the German admiralty view, “the j test was not entirely silent. A coil-
allied situation by the, sideratole number of letters by Ger-
pose. They are to be nurseries for j snbma rtne is irresistibly and increas- j man soldiers who were shocked by
baby wasps, for the nature of wasps is | ingly effective.” the German atrocites were sent to
controlled by the size of the ceil in; Dispatches from Berlin today quot-1Ambasador Gerard, because he was
G1
ERMAN PRISONERS NOW BELNG HELD in
France and England should be brought to the
United States and put to work on farms, it is
suggested by the Oklahoma State Council of Defense. It
is pointed out that farm laborers are badly needed in
Oklahoma and Texas and that these prisoners of war
could be fed and clothed here much cheaper than they
are being fed and clothed in Europe.
which they are born. The larger cells
are for princesses, the smaller ones
for workers, and the intermediate
for drones, or male wasps. Wo rare-
ly find any honey in wasps nests, and
that is one reason they are safe while
on the ground. Larger animals which
prey upon bees do not bother wasps,
for they know that all they will have
for their trouble is the pain of swol-
len snouts and eyes that are closed
by fiery acids that accompany the
wasp’s sharp lances.
“We cannot find much for which
to praise wasps, my Junior. After j
e l these statements from Captain I the representative of the United
Brneninghnus. director of the finance States, the leading neutral nation. T-ue
department of the admiralty, made to j three letters which follow, in transla-
a war committee of German industry, tion, were received by the American
—composed of manufacturers and, ambassador from German soldiers,
army and navy officials and parlia- Here ls the potest of a German
men to rims I soldier, an eye-witness of the slaughter
of Russian soldiers in the Masurian
mentarfans.
"The entente’s ’ack of tonnage is,, ,
approaching a catastrophe,” he dc-1lakea ftnd 3Wa.mps.
dared Thu United States can help,
in a mHitary wav, but an regards these musses of human beings wer
shipping she has not fulfilled expecta- driven to destruction. Above the
tions. English ami American experts [ terrible thunder of the cannon could
admit the danger in the situation.” | be heard the heart-rending cries of
------, I the Russians: 'O Prussians! O Frus-
"It was trightlul, heart-rending, as
we have accredited them with having MAN HELD, CHARGED WITH sians”—but there was no mercy. Our
. ,,, . ,> ,> - .. ... , . ,. than any other single factor to the;
This would be retaliating for the cruelties and tndig- , happiness and well-being /if the world I
giving man an td^That "has en^Rd | OBSTRUCTING DRAFT LAW
us to have books and great newspa- j --
pers, which have contributed more; Charles Krnlger Arraigned Before
U. S. Commissioner, Bond
nities put upon the non-combatants of Belgium by the
Germans, but it might not work out well in the end. In
Texas especially they do not seem inclined to accord Ger-
mans and German sympathizers kind treatment. Ger-
man citizens there who refused to subscribe to the Red
Cross fund were whipped by the loyal and patriotic
Americans. In Texas there have been times when -the
penitentiary convicts were not given the best of treat-
ment and it might be that the German war prisoners
would be subjected to cruelties by those who permit their !
enthusiasm to lead them too far.
In addition the council of Vlefense sets forth the idea j
that ships returning from Europe laden with a cargo of j
German prisoners would not be torpedoed as other ves- j
sets are. The theory is that the German submarines, |
would not sink their own countrymen as they do the ene- j
mies. If this would prevent the sinking of ships it could !
be done by carrying German prisoners back and forth;
but the chances are that the Germans would not mind
sacrificing their own countrymen. They have already
sacrificed several millions of them and a few more
would not make any difference to the junkers and ntili- |
tarists of Germany.
Fixed at $3,000.
wre close the account and charge
everything else to the wasp's had ac-
count. He is a mean, vicious. Reach-, federa, amhoriti(,„ in
erous creature, and we should be hap-1 mnvpmpn, nm„„„ th„
py that he is doomed to die at
end of the summer.”
Charles Kriager, Implicated by the
the anti-draft
captain had ordered: 'The whole lot
must die; so rapid fire.’ As I have
heard, five men and one officer on
our side went mad from these heart-
rending cries. But most of my com-
rades and the officers joked as the
unarmed and helpless Russians
shrieked for mercy while they were
right? Might is right.
“A SOLDIER AND A'MAN WHO IS
NO BARBARIAN.”
Socialists Oppose System
Many of jjie Germans, as has been
already indicated, do not believe the
reports of the atrocitices committed
by the Belgian civilians and refuse to
accept the system of frightfulness.
The Vorwaerts, the leading socialist
paper, which has a very wide circle
of readers, has opposed the policy of
frightfulness. All honors to its editors
who have so courageously opposed
the powerful military authority! Its
editorial entitled “Our Foes,” pub-
listed August 23, 1914, reads as fol-
lows:
“What should one say wnen even -
such an organ as the Deutsches Offi-
cial-Blatt expresses its sympathy with
a demand that 'the beasts’ who are
taken as francs-tireurs should not be
killed, but only Wounded so that they
may then be left to a fate ‘which
makes any help impossible?’ Or what
should we say when the Deutches
Offizier-Bl&tt states that ‘a punitive
destruction even of whole regions
cannot'afford full recompense for the
bones of a single murdered Pome-
ranian grenadier?’ Those are the de-
sires of blood-thirsty fanatics and we
are thoroughly ashamed of ourselves
because it is possible that there are
people among us who urge such
things.”
"Barbarism,” Declares Vorwaerts.
On the following day, August 24,
ills, the Vorwaerl;: returned to the
attack in an editorial “Against Bar-
barism.”
• . . "One might, in the first
place, possibly believe that such a de-
mand f,,r a bloody vengeance (against
alleged Belgian outrages) emanates
from a single disease-racked brain;
but it appears that whole groups
among certain classes who represent
German kultur want to indulge in or-
gies of barbarism and to devise a
whole system for the purpose of or-
ganizing 'a war of revenge.’
"What of law and custom! Such
thoughts do iiui. stir a ‘threat nation.’
Thus in a' leading article of the Ber-
liner Neuestf- Nachrichten, the demand
s made that ail the authorities of
Brussels—one, the second burgomas-
tt r, is generously excepted—should ba
immediately seized and subjected to
trial in order to expiato tho wrongs
which, according to fragmentary and
highly uncertain reports, ,wera said to
hate been committed by the people.
They demand that the ecaptured city
should immediately pay a fine of 600,-
000,000 marks; that all stores of tho
conquered territory »e requisitioned
without paying tho Inhabitants a
.singlo penny for them.”
Vorwaertz in Protest.
Three years later, August 26, 1917,
the Vorkaertz quoted the following
passage from the Deutsche Tageszei-
t li r.g:
”’Ve have a ring of politicians who
hold that might makes right iMacht-
politiker), who despise the forces of
the inner life and believe that they
mii^t eliminate all ethical points of
view ■ ■ ■ from foreign and social
politics For them Germany of the
Present and of the future is the coun-
try of the Krttpps and Borsigs, of the
Zeppelins and the U-boats. Any idea of
a connection between politics and
morals is rejected and any reference
to the right of a moral method of con-
sideration is ridiculed as delusion and
sentimentality?"
The German officers were provided
with tlie forms to be ured in terror-
izing the conquered people. The com-
mon scldiers were provided with
phrase books which would enable
them to impose their will upon the
terrified people. Minister Brand Whit-
lock in his report to the state depart-
ment on (September 12, 1917, writes:
“The German soldiers were provided
with phrase books giving alternate
translation in German and French of
such sentences as:
' 'Hands up' (It is the very first
sentenco in tho book.)
“ ‘Carry out all tha furniture.
“ T ant thirsty. Bring me some
beer, gin, rum.
' You have to supply a barrel of
wine and a keg of beer.
“ ‘lead me to the wealthiest inhabi
tail's of this village. I have orders to-'
requisition several barrels of wine.
Uhow us tho way to--. If you
lead us astray, you will he shot.’ ”
riODQfCOPE
k* '
BY GENEVIEVE KEMBLE.
Wednesday. Jan. 2.
Of unusually pleasant aspect is the
forecast for this day. Trines and
sentisextiles rule the transit*, be-
sneaklng good fortune
prospects »from all
NATION-WIDE MILK TRUST.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Establishment
of a nation-wide producers’ combine
movement among the oil field work-j being suffocated in the swamps and j prRes^was planned*^by ^offLYals^of
*........% .—m------ w— * „ ! shot down. The order was: ‘Close up varlous milk producers associations in
and at it harder!’For days afterwards I different sections of the country,
those heart-rending yells ' followed j State’s Attorney Hoyne charged today,
me and T dare not think of them or I’| Hoyne declared that Robert VV.
shall go mad. Thqre is no God, there ] Childs, special assistant United States
is no morality and no ethics any I attorney general, has .copies of letters
more. There are no human beings ! indicating these individuals were
anv more, but only beasts. Down j chaning views on such a ‘milk trust.”
with militarism. * J These letters were obtained in con-
“If you are a truth-loving man, | nection with the federal milk investi-
please receive these lines from a j gation here.
common Prussian soldier.” -:-
Following is the testimony of an- j The iron work plates of many fac-
et her German soldier on the eastern ; tory floors are apt to become slip-
front- pery and unsafe, and to obviate'this
“Russian Poland December 18, ’14. j powdered sal ammoniac is used as a
"In the name of Christianity I corroding agent. A small quantity is
send you these words. j htDted thoroughly with a large quan-
“Wounded Russians are killed with j ^lne sand>
lie today ,n‘ — r 1 Tnp bnvenet nccordine tn orders. 1 Sprinkled
°"s, was arraigned before J. H. Wtt-
j kins, United States commissioner,
! Monday and held under $3,000 bond
I for action by the federal grand jury.
Kriager was arrested by the police
j Saturday and held for investigation
j by federal officers. Monday a war-
I rant was issued, charging him with
obstructing the work o< the draft
law. He has been in the oil fields
In the vicinity of Bristow for Several
weeks.
RA1I,BO \P TB \FFIC INCREASING.
CHICAGO. Jan. 1.—Traffic on Am-
erican railroads paused the $4,000,-
000,000 mark during the last year for
tho f ast time in history, according to
figures compiled hy the bureau of
and hopeful railway news and statistics, made pub- ! „ ’“.V1*
directions. It ‘s be today. The figures are based on ! thP hayonPt *crord,n,f t0 orders'
a particularly fortuitous time for official returns to the interstate com-1
those in employment of those seek- inerce commission for the first ten:
ing favors, honors, promotions or pre- months of the year ami on estimates I “‘"H.I” WI UI'la’ “
Of tho lest two. -rending prayers.
despite this increase in business there
was a decrease of $91,876,153 in net.
The net income for 1917 was $1,022,-
741 90. . Advancing cost of fuel, ma-
terials and supplies, together with in-
crea'*ed wares, are blamed for the
’Uss in net income.
“In the hope that you, ns the rep-
Chrlstian state, will
| protest against this, I sign myself,
“A GERMAN SOLDIER AND
■'And Russians who have surren-
dered are often shot down in masses
according to orders, in spite of their
* * ’» ••VMVIU, |JI VIXWWUIIU '•* *'* X -----... .... *.«v J V»l (Mill Uil iaillUUU’9 |
ferment from those in htgh places, j of the last two. Gross receipts fori
Also under a Lunar trine to Mercury j the year are placed-at $4,188,227,185,1
Although this suggestion has been m«nde to the war business ami the professions generally a gain of $451,905,438 over His, i>ut * re9Pn,ative of a
department bv the council of defense, the state employ- 'ylll *hrIfve- being a singularly good
* , , • , , . , ’ . _ r •’ period for signing papers, contracts
ment bureau very wisely is not depending upon it. Ef- or other documents and for writings
forts are being made to induce farm laborers to come and literature of every nature. Jour-
into the state. It is said that Oklahoma farmers prefer !'eys ar<\ fav^ed “kewise law, pub-
. , , , • , , . . , , , ; lierty and trading. A friendly aspect
farm help by married men and invite those who have between the Moon and Saturn prom-
families to bring them along when thev come to the ' loses to remove old disappointments.
state. Men and women are needed for farm work and ”b«tructlon* and delays, giving allj 1300 DIE BY EARTHQUAKE.
. . . T | things a spurt where hitherto were! NEW ORLEANS La.. Jan. 1.—Tri-
men and their families will be given employment. obsmcles. vate messages to fruit companies here
*-/ res | Those whose Birthday it is may from Bclise, British Honduras, today! XVith the French one is more consid-
being I»r- I estimated the dead resulting from the
and this mixture is
over the floor so that all
parts are covered. The surface is
damped with a watering can and left
to lie over a week-end, or even over-
night. The sand is then swept up.
and the rust coating formed by the
treatment is found to last for several
weeks, after which the process is
repeated.
WILL PROTECT CHILDREN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—Efforts
of the National Child Labor commit-
tax to prevent relaxation of the child
labor laws on the excuse of war time
necessity have the endorsement of
President Wilson. In a letter to the
public today the
Socialists in Oklahoma are losing membership, it is
indicated by everything that has a bearing on the rarty.
At the annual convention of the socialists in Oklahoma
City the attendance was light and there was little en-
thusiasm shown. The delegates to the convention wise-
ly refrained front putting forth their platform at this
time. Necessarily it would have to be against the war,
st/ it has been left to a referendum, returns to be made
The reports showed that the number of so-
rtranizations in the state has decreased from a
* thousand to four hundred.
: expect a prosperous year,
tieularly beholden to elderly persons.
A child bom on this day should be
popular, clever, industrious and per-
sistent, rising in life through these
goods gifts.
Gautemalia earthquake at
city Is almost completely
the messages stated
BAR
.EsVILX*
jl
-T«
! t ion of the
th
-man
Mr
■Ml
roughout the east and recommcod-
as a means of relieving the scarcity
labor and reducing the high cost
operation.
W E. Morris Dies.
W E. Morris died at her home,
ntnh Madison boulevard, at 11
Monday night otter a brief III-
8ht is survived by ^er hus-
band aiut her mother. Mrs. Anna
Howell, of South Bend, ind . both ho-
me present at the deathbed. The
body will bo sent to Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs. Morris' home, Tuesday.
CHRISTIAN."
The third letter, from the western
front, shows the same horror of the
system of which the writer was a
witness.
“To the American Government, .
Washington, XT. S. A.
"Englishmen who have surren- j ct>mmUje* made
dersd are shot down in small groups, j president declares that strict enforce-
i ment of the laws not only will con*
erat~ T ^ —----- ---
1.500. The I
destroyed, i be disarmed and shot down aftz*r-1 economy of production.
j ward’’ Is that chivalry in battle? Ts isj ’ ___
— {no longer a secret among the people:
one hears everywhere that few pris-
oners are taken; they are. shot down
tn small groups. They say naively:
'We don't want any unnecessary | ers
mouths to feed. Where there is no | mil
one to enter complaint, there is no , tie
judge.’ Is there then no power In the | an
world which can put an end to these j tar
, ...— 1 ask whether men let tkfi#- j |D)gte to preservation of life and
stives be taken prisoner in order to t health but will tend to efficiency and
disarmed and —’
murders and rescue the victims?
Where Is Christianity? Where is
SIX BANDITS KILLED.
EAGLE PASS. Tex.. Jan. 1— In a
fight ttetween Mexican bandits and
United States troops and Texas rang-
ers Saturday at San Jose Mex.. 19
miles south of here, six Mexican cat-
tle thieves were killed, according to
fficial statement issued at mUi-
headquarters here today. There
were ho American casualties,
ing to the announcement.
accord-
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