Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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ONE HUNDRED PER CENT FOR
WAR AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Pottawatomie County War Workers Have Lined
Up in Favor of Woman Suffrage.
CLUB WOMEN FOR IT TOO
Presidents of Federated Clubs and Women Employees
of Largest County Store Are Suffragists. _____
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Pottawatomie county war workers are 100 per cent, for
woman suffrage and, with the same enthusiasm which has put
all the war drives over the top, are prepared to roll up a topping
majority for the woman suffrage amendment on November 5,
1918. They have organized for suffrage with the following
officers: ,
Mrs F. V. Askew, chairman, Instructor In Red Cross surgical dressings,
head of the Red Cross packing committee, county chairman of the W. S. S.
campaign and leader of her ward in every one of the war drives.
Fell, Mrs. W. W. Lucas, members of
the Suffrage Board are war workers.
Other war work officials in favor of
woman suffrage Include Mrs. A. O.
Eaklns, chairman of the four-minute
speakers; Mrs. George McKlnnis,
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Prices being paid by the retailers for staple and the reta.l prices which
they should not exceed. The prices are based on the "No Delivery” plan.
The Fair Price Committee ordere 1 that all deliveries should cease be-
ginning Monday June 10th. This acti >n has the backing of the State and
County Councils <jf Defense and it is expected that it will be observed.
Retailer Pays Consumer should pay
......Sugar: Pcr Cwt- Per
Granulated (in sacks)............ *8?(l
Corn Moal Per Ba«
8 3-4 th sacks —,-----------------
171 th sacks..................... 90
10 th sacks — — — --- —-----
25 tb sacks--------------------- ' -t!
Corn Flour
Per Cwt......-................- 6 50 7 ?0
Rye Flour
Per
Mrs. Tom C. Wuldrep. first vice
chat; man, wife of Representative Wal-
drep, always a champion of woman
suffrage. She is an officer in the
fifth district of the State Federa-
tion of Women’s Clubs and secretary
of the Red Cross Christmas Seal Com-
mittee/
Mrs. B. W. Slagle, second vice chair-
man, mother of a senior sergeant in
the army, Shawnee chairman of the
Red Cross drive and a former Kansas
voter. Of the winning Kansas cam-
paign, in which she was an active
worker, Mrs. Slagle says: “That was
the happiest election and brought the
most good to humanity of any I have
experienced. The fact that Kansas
women have the ballot on an equality
with the male citizens adds to their
efficiency and makes them capable of
better things. So it will be in Okla-
homa when the election Is over."
Mrs. G. C. Abernathy, secretary,
prominent war worker and speaker, Is
5 sack------— — — — — *■ *
Rolled Oat. Pcr Pkge-
No. 5 package------------------- 2o-2S
No. 2 package------------------
Barley Flour Per it)
Bulk.....-.................... i08 2-3
Rice Flour
k____________
Edible Starch
package — —
Rice
Bulk
Beans
Navy and Lima---------------— ^
Pink — — — — —« — — ----FT
Pinto----------------------
Per lb
12*
Per Package
7 3-4-9*
Per it)
.11 3-4
Per lb
3-4-.16*
..................... .10
-d Per tb
Bulk — — -— — — -— — — .28-.30
Bulk compound substitutes--------- 241-.28
Milk Per can
Small....................... •05’'4
Family size--------------------- FO*
Canned Corn per
Standard No. 2---------------— -F^
Canned Tomatoes Per
Standard No. 2 —------ —- ------ -F5*
Syrup* Per gallon
Corn syrup____________— ««• — .70
can
can
2.10
Tkge.
.30-. 35
.13
ePr tb
.10 3-4
Per tb
.14
Per pkge.
.09, .10, .11
Per tb
.14
Per tb
18
13*
12*
Per tb
.32-.35
27-.30
4 for .25
.12*
Per can
.18
Per can
.18
Per gallon
.80
The United Doctors is an organiz-
ation of reputable licensed physici-
ans for the treatment of certain dis-
eases.
They are all specialists. The United
Doctors treat, without surgical oper-
ations or hypodermic injections, dis-
eases of the blood, skin, and all inter
nal organs, rheumatism, sciatica, tape
worm, leg ulcer, weak lungs, atvd all
long standing deep seated diseases.
Thirty-five years’ experience and
the completer ecord of thousands of
cases successfully treated prove that
tlte methods of the United Doctors
arer ight. They were among the first
to be called “Bloodless Surgeons."
Each member of the United Doctor
staff lias at his command the knowl-
edge and resources of the whole or-
ganization.
Many people go on suffering num-
eases that can be alleviated just be-
cause they cannot afford to go to
high priced specialistss at a distance
from home.
menti ned to support special hospit-
als for their teratment and cure.
The United Doctors have solved
the problem.' Their highly trained
specialists travel from place to place
They diagnose and prescribe a course
of treatment for the sufferers in
each community and teach them how
t take care of themselves at home.
Worn-out and run-down men ro
[women, no matter what your ailment
may be. no matter what you have
been told, or the experience you have
had with other physicians. If ycur
case is incurable they will tell you
so. Consult him upon this visit. It
cost nothing.
Married ladies must come accom-
panied by their husbands and minors
with their parents.
Laboratories, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
USED CARS FOR SALE
Several Fords, and three or
four other good cars at attractive
prices MUNSON & McNEELEY.
No community has a sufficient nttm
her of sufferers from the diseases
Now All Together
Let’s get rid of the bad habit of say-
ing “after the war is over.” That
means nothing.
Let’s make it a rulei nvariable to
say "after we win the war.” That
means something.
The very change in mental view-
point, from careless to definite, from
casual to positive, is sufficient to win
the war.
More than that, its effect on busi-
ness can be nothing less than con-
spicuously helpful.—The Eclipse.
^ Corrections will be made and published every Thursday and if pos-
sible the quotations will appear in the same place in the paper each week.
The committee will do all in its power to be perfectly fair between retail-
fer and consumer.
Merchants are requested to show on each customer’s sale slip the
number of pounds, cans or articles of each purchase.
MRS. B. W. SLAGLE
Of Shawnee Has Voted in Kansas and
Expects to Vote in Oklahoma After
November 5, 1918.
chairman of the Council of Defense,
and the following eight women
members of the County Red Cross
Board: Mrs. Sidney Clarke, chairman
of extension work; Mrs. B. IV. Slagle,
director of women’s work for the coun-
ty ; Mrs. W. O. Deuson; Mrs. R. J.
Colter, chairman of women's work of
Wanette Red Cross'; Mrs. H. G. Camp-
bell. secretary of Asher Red Cross;
Mrs. O. B. Sheiry, secretary of Maud
Red Cross; Mrs. C. A. Knight, leuder
MRS. G. C. ABERNATHY
Of Shawnee Is a Home-maker, the
Mother of Four Children, a Leader
in Church Work and Civic Improve-
ment and Secretary of the Pottawa-
tomie County Suffrage Committee.
the wife of Judge Abernathy, who says
he is going to vote for the suffrage
amendment this fall because, "First,
the right to own property should carry
with It the right to vote. Second, I
have never been able to see why the
mere fact that she is a woman should
disqualify her from voting, my Idea
of the test being one of Intelligence
rather than sex. Third, I believe that
the weight of woman’s influence in
voting will be on the side of such legis-
lation as will tend to the general Im-
provement along all moral, educational
and other lines bettering conditions of
the race. Fourth, I believe in giving
woman a square deal politically.”
Miss Aloysios Larch-Miller, chair-
man of women’s petitions, and county
chairman for the Third Liberty Loan,
and secretary of the county chapter of
the Red Cross, Issued a proclamation
calling the women of the county to a
mass meeting on the day war was de-
clared by the Onited States. All of the
town chairmen who helped her put the
Third Liberty Loan over the top are
suffragists. They are; Mrs. Slagle,
Shawnee; Mrs. D. F. Christ, McLoud;
Mrs. J. W. Lackey, Wanette; Mrs.
Charles Ttndel, Earlesboro? Mrs. Clar-
ence Robison, Tecumseh; Mrs. J. H.
Campbell, Avoca; Mrs. D. V. Haney
Asher, also chairman of Asher Red
Cross and member of the Board of
Directors.
Mrs. T. O. Sanders. Mrs. Marjorie
Tapp, Miss Kate Hamilton, Mrs, A. E.
Lst the hand that rocks ths
cradle drop a ballot In tha box.
Vote yoo for woman suffrage on
November 6, 191®.
MIBB ALOY8IU8 LARCH-MILLER
Of Shawnee, Who Called tha First Pa-
triotic Maoo Meeting of Women in
Oklahoma.
of Tecumseh Red Cross women’s
work; Mrs. W. T. Williams, supervisor
of hospital garments, Shawnee.
There are five federated club* in
Shawnee with the following suffrage
presidents: Shakespeare, Mrs. C. R.
Wallace; Synthetic Music Club, Mrs.
Emmett Felton; Hawthorne. Mrs. W.
C. Bradford; Round Table, Mrs. C. M.
Taylor; Waukomah, Mrs. L. W. Moody.
The Ladies of the Maccabees and fhe
Women's Christian Temperance Union
haVe endorsed woman suffrage and the
women employees who form 80 per
cent, of the staff of the largest depart-
*ment store In the county, the Mam-
moth at Shawnee, are registered 100
per cent, for suffrage.
Th# women of England, Cana-
da, Denmark and Iceland vote.
Why not the women of Okla-
homaT Vota yea for woman auf-
fraga on November 8, 191B.
Why Wre Fight
No. 4
Because Germ any for Year* Sought
to Uodermine Our Government
and Our Ideal*
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Becretary of the War Committee of the
Union League Club of Chicago.
We are fighting Germany for the
right to live our own lives as we see
fit. We are fighting for our laws, our
Idealn, our homes, our institutions.
“But, how,” one may ask, “were all
these things threatened by Germany
before the war started? It Is easy to
see how they may be threatened now,
for If we are defeated we are lost, but
before the war started did Germany
menace those things we hold most sa-
cred?"
Lot the Germans themselves answer.
After yon have read the evidence out
of their own mouths, you may decide
whether or not Germany planned to up-
set our Institutions, our Ideals, our very
mode of life.
In 1901 the National German-Amerl-
can alliance was formed in the United
States. In 1907 It was Incorporated
by act of congress. Its charter Is
now being attacked In that same body.
One of the objects of the alliance, as
officially announced, was “to check na-
tivlstic encroachments.” In other
words, to keep the Germans from be-
coming Americana. Another object
waa “to awaken and strengthen Die
sense of unity among the people of
German origin in America.”
“This alliance," Its preliminary
statement of alms concludes, “la
pledged to bring Its entire organiza-
tion to the support of any state fed-
eration which is engaged in the strug-
gle for any of these objects.”
It was pledged, In other words, to
have Its members vote, not as Individ-
uals, but as German controlled units,
for or against anthlng of which
they did not approve.
The desire for resisting "nntlvlstlc
encroachments,” was particularly ab-
horrent to American ideals, because
the effort In this country has always
been to keep politics free from rndhl
or religious Influences. Yet here was
a body, proclaiming Itself German In
origin and thought, seeking to perpetu-
ate this German feeling in the midst
of America.
From Its very start the alliance
sought to foment discord with England.
It always spoke of the American press
as “the Anglo-American" press, and It
carried out a long and well-directed
campaign for the Introduction of the
German language Into the schools and
Its use In civil life.
“The National Alliance," according
to an Issue of Its official Bulletin be-
fore this nation entered the war, “la
waging war against Anglo-8axonlsm,
against the fanatical enemies of per-
sonal liberty and political freedom, It
la combating narrow-minded, benight-
ed know-no thing! sm, the Influence of
the British, and the enslaving Puritan-
ism. which bad Its birth la England-"
"The race war which we will be
compelled to go through with on Amer-
ican Roil will be our world war,” said
the New York Staats Zeitung in light-
ing a proposal to amend the New York
constitution to make ability to speak
quid write the English language a,
requisite for suffrage.
Ludwig Fulda wrote a book, “Amer-
ican Impressions.” They were Im-
pressions of a German who had stud-
ied this nntion with a view to seeing !
It ultimately Germanized. “German-
Ization is synonymous with causing to
speak German,” he said, “and speak-
ing German means to remain German.”
Wherever there were signs of dis-
content, of a movement which might
tend to disrupt this country, or any
other which Germany might find as a
commercial rival, the Germnn-Ameri-
can alliance was sure to be on the
Job. It gave support to the Irish-
American societies, because these soci-
eties, before the war, were working for
the separation of Ireland from Eng-
land, a matter in which Germany, at
that time, could hnve no legitimate
Interest. But Germany, even then,
was preparing for war, and was doing
every possible thing to weaken Its
coming enemies. A disorganized
America, one filled with German re-
servists, would be In no position to
side with her enemies, Germany fig-
ured. On this subject the much-quoted
Bernhard! wrote:
"Measures must be taken at least
to the extent of providing that the
German element Is not split up In the
motfd, but remains united in compact
blocks, and thus forms, even In for-
eign countries, political centers of
gravity In ouf favor. The Isolated
groups of Germans abroad greatly ben-
efit our trade, since by preference they
obtain goods from Germany; bat they
stay also be useful to us politically, as
we discover In America. The German-
Americans have formed a political al-
liance with the Irish; and, tints,
united, constitute a power In the state
with which the American government
must reckon."
With the outbreak of the war In Eu-
rope the actions of the German-Amer-
ican alliance became bolder. The cam-
paign for membership took on new
rigor.
Can we talk of peace with a Ger-
many, that, even In times of peace, is
i trying to disorganize our country, to-
! ment strife, and destroy our unity,
| simply because a strong, united nation
j on the other side of the world Is not
German? Can we make peace with a
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language supplant our own* Can ws
talk of peace while a government that
considers the world its prey doml-
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Renfrew, J. P. Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1918, newspaper, August 9, 1918; Alva, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1078609/m1/3/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.