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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CLEVELAND 101 MY AND THE CITY OF NORMAN
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CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE
V *CON^tWnON or CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE. NORMAN l'RANSCR.RT AND NORMAN DEMOCRAT-TOPIC.
NUMBER ISO.
XOKM.VN, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, JAM AR\ -I, liM**-
VOL. XXVI.
Powers' Case Saturday
Potato Days Are Urged
GARFIELD ORDER
TWO TRIOS WILL
TOUR OKLAHOMA
(U. S. Food Adminitsration, Norman,
Floyd E. Miller, Publicity Manager.)
Two teams of speakers, ca*h con-
sisting of two men and one woman,
will tour the east and west sides of
this state from February 10 to 16
and tell of the actual war conditions
on the battle front of Eur'ope, ac-
cording to announcement made Wecj-
nesday by Dr. A. C. Scott, Director of
the Speakers Bureau of the Food Ad-
ministration for Oklahoma.
The team that will tour the ea-t
side of the state will be composed of
Roscoe Micherr and John D. Barry,
and a woman whose name has not
been announced. The member of this
team will speak first Sunday, Feb-
ruary 10, at Tulsa, and after visiting
seventeen other points on the cast
side will deliver their last speeches at
Ardmore on the following Saturday.
On the west side, the team will
likewise consist of two men and one
woman. Everett Colby and Dr. R. L.
Wilbur will be on this team. This
team will speak first at Oklahoma
City, Sunday, February 10th, and will
give nineteen other addresses, finish-
ing at Frederick-and Lawton the next
Saturday.
Mitchell and Colby were members ;
of the commission that was sent by
the government, to Europe to ascer-
tain the actual conditions on the fir-
ing line and among the civilian popu-
lations. They examined conditions in
the agricultural districts, the cities,
the munition plants, and lived with
the soldiers for several days where
the shells of the Busy Berthas fell.
They will tell a true story of the con-
ditions "over there."
Mr. Barry and Dr. Wilbur are
among the strongest men connected
with the U. S. Food Administration.
They have been with the administra-
tion since its creation and know the
food resources of the country.
A great deal of interest is being
manifested in the women speakers.
1 is not known definitelv who these
women will be. but Dr. Scott is as-
sured that they have been closely as-
sociated with the government in deal-
ing with its big problems that have
developed since war was declared.
Dr. Scott also announces that pro-
minent state speakers will speak on
the outskirts of the'itineries of ti ese
men from Washington.
The itineries of the teairft will be
published later. ^From Oklahoma they
go to Texas, arriving there Sunday,
the J 7th.
The Irish spud has tidej the Kaiser
over when other foods failed. It is
proposed by the Food Administration
• to have the potato used more and
more by Oklahoma people and release
wheat and meat.
Grocers are urged to hive a Potato
Day each week. On the days when
sales are the slowest is the day "to
: make special prices on potatoes. The
dealers are asked to advertise special
Potato Days; to show the value of
potatoes as a food; to get the public to
appreciate the value of this valuable
tuber.
By having Potato Days grocers can
sell a valuable substitute for other
foods, keep the supply regulated and
the prices reasonable.
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
News comes from Lexington that
Ray Sawyer, 23, a young man of the
< Banner neighborhood, was killed there
! at an early hour this (Saturday)
morning in an automobile accident. It
i appears that he and Lonnie Smith and
Alvin Hitchcock, two young men of
Lexington, had been to a dance at
John Cameron's, eight miles north-
east of Lexington, and were on their
way in a Ford to another dance south
of Lexington. Near the J. M. Stovall
farm, three miles south of Lexington,
and on a level straight road, the ma-
chine got out of the control of Sawyer,
who was driving, and upset. It was
; going so fast that it turned a double
somersalt. Sawyer was taken from
the wreckage dead, and Smith had a
broken arm and some bruises. Hitch-
cock escaped without much injury. All
the boys are said to have been drink-
ing and Sawyer was especially under
the influence of liquor.
Sawyer is said to have had an upset
of his Ford on Friday, from which he
escaped uninjured.
editorial
It really appears as if our lav-makers ;in:l statesmen
should not be fiddling and piddling while Home is burn-
ing; should be working in harmon? on war aims instead
(/endeavoring to make political capital out of the situa-
tion. .Mistakes have been made, of course^ but infinitely
less than were made by England, France and Russia in
speeding up war activities. Those mistakes are being
rapidly rectified. President Wilson is doing everything
possible to carry out America's part of the great war.
and we feel satisfied the people will be back of him in al>
his endeavors. This is no time to cavil and criticise.
President Wilson is lighting factions within his own
party as well as those without. To our mind. Senator
Hill Stone's speech in the senate was delivered as much
to embarrass the President as it was to vent his spleen
on Roosevelt. By springing his partisan political speech
at this time, he knew it would bring reprisals lroin the
Republicans, and if he could block war legislation by in-
jecting politics into the arena, just so much would Presi-
dent Wilson be embarrassed and "aid and comfort be
given the enemy.
What the people must do in this emergency is to
.stand squarely behind the President. \ house divided
against itself cannot stand and we must know no democ-
racy. republicanism, popism or anything else in that line
w hile this great war is upon us.
By L. C. MARTIN,
t >■ i i ■ • -
Washington, Jan. 23.—Under the
lash that "without harmony the war
will be lost" democratic leaders are j
ROLSHEVIKI AIMS
By JOSEPH SHAPLEN,
Petrograd, Jan. 23.—New Russia
wants recognition from the peoples of
the world more than the governments
of the world. She looks forward hope-
fully to a world proletariat which will
combine to stop war's slaughter and
eradicate all causes for future war.
The Bolsheviki ministry of foreign
affairs thus outlined Russia's view-
point in a special statement for the
United Press today, signed by Under
Foreign Minister Salkind in the ab-
sence from Petrograd of Foreign Min-
ister Trotsky.
iim i C. MARTIN. ate and centralize authority and pro-
vide legal authority to get things
done in the place of volunteer advice
and suggestion.
Tile administration forces will lay
whipping into line party legislators! tmphasis on harmony and on the fact
wavering on the Chamberlain "war i tliat the war cabinet as proposed.
I cabinet bill." Today it appeared likely > would have direction of naval policies.
| that the storm which has broken bt*- j 'j hoy will argue that the naval policy
tween the White House and congress |ias 1)10ved itself critic proof and hence
i on the measure may be tempered with should not be meddled with. In this
compromise. The presence of Theodore! they-will be supported by some repub-
Roosevelt on the battle ground has !ic:in senators.
done much to consolidate the demo-] 'phis point is likely to cause the dc-
crats back of President Wilson's feat, of the war cabinet measure in
wishes on the pendi/ig legislation. | the,kenate where it will take practic-
There was even talk of a "get to- a]ly ;ln the republicans, plus five or
getlier" meeting shortly between the Hj:; democrats to pass it.
president and Chamberlain. Democrats who are for the measure
The telling argument advanced b.v inelnde Chamberlain, Hitchcock, Alc-
i the sis democrats is that a bill as Cellar, Hardwick, (lore and Reed.
: repugnant as this one is to the ad- Senator King, Utah looked on as like-
ministration, would, if passed, hamper n support it, is noncommittal,
war efforts even though an efficient Senator Hiram Johnson, California
VY1. Maki the Wild Cat Wild
will probably he decided by Judge
Wurkt on Saturday after ' .• heai s
the ' siiniot.j of the witnossi - in the
case of Bei nie Powers, the obstreper-
ous boy of the Wildcat district, I
charged with disturbing the peace '
and being the ringleader of a gang of
Jiad boy- who have made that district
a byword on the countrywide. Beanie
was ar e.-tted and brought to Norman
esterday by Sheriff Wheelis. With
him came lis father and mother, Mr.
uid Mrs. George Powers, who, in-
tead of being ashamed of the repu-
• at ion their -on had acquired, seemed
'.o giory in it. and proposed to back
him up u ail bis devilment. Mr.
Powers (who, by the way, claims, it
,s said, to be a cousin of Caleb Pow-
ers, of Kentucky Goebel notoriety)
was extremely peeved at the audacity
of County Superintendent Clark hav-
ing his son arrested, and, of course,
Mrs. Powers, mother-like, blamed it
all on the school teacher, saying -he
wasn't fit to teach for she could no'
control her scholars. 1 he whole |
neighborhood will be her* .vluida' J
but Mrs. Powers remark" > that they j
"probably wouldn't g'et justice for the
whole community was against them. '
This is the school taught by Miss
Imogene Turbyfill, and in which, a ;
few days ago, Co. Superintendent j
Clark had to assist her in giving one ,
of the Powers' boys a deserved whip- |
pin .. The boys had threatened to
"cut her heart out," that being, it is
said, one of their mildest threat-,
many of their utterances being too
vulgar for repetition. Mr. Clark
states that Miss Imogene has the
goodwill of almost the entire body of
patrons and that she is doing excel-
lent work. They deplore the bad re-
putation the district ha- acquired by
reason of these bad boys, and want
them sent to the reform school, if
a liner methods do not bring them to
a realization of their depravity.
Number of ships waitiir. '"or coal
reduced from 121 to 80, at northern
Atlantic |io:ts
Dumped .14,000 tons of but.'.or coal
yesterday for ships and six: . thou-
sand tons already on hand.
Southern porta have loO.OOO ton
bunker coal on hand with 100,000 tor-
tons moving toward ports.
Empty cars being rushed back to
mines and full results not expected
for several days.
Coal going to domestic consumer-
in large quantities.
Freight congestion practically a>
! great as before.
Ship plants in danger of closing
| unless rail congestion clears.
, General freight embargo urged by
1 Garfield.
Curtailment of passenger traffic
. demanded in many quarters to relieve
I congestion.
Prospect of warmer weather ex
ported to help situation.
I urthor workloss days in prospect
unless railroads clear congestion
quickly.
JttU - -
AT BATTLE FRONT
!'KI
PASSENGER RATES
MAY BE RAISED
(LY rsirr.K prj -s)
Washington, Jan. 23.— lo curtail
travel on the National Railway dur-
ing the war, Director General Mc-
Adoo may raise passenger rates. Pas-
senger trains may also be reduced
later.
Called today before the house inter-
state commerce committee to explain
what steps have been taken and aie
contemplated to relieve freight con-
gestion in the east. McAdoo indica-
ted that among other steps, drastic
reduction of passenger traffic is es-
sential.
"For the present," he said, "a halt
has been called on the curtailment of
passenger trains because many state
commissions, with the best of inten-
tions, started wholesale slashing of
this service.
Before the passenger service can
be reduced much more, in order to
prevent many disturbances, the great
amount of travel must be decreased.
When that time comes I think the
rates ought to "be raised.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
All registrants who file claim of de-
ferred classification on ground of
agriculture, and who do not file claim
of deferred classification on grounds
of dependency, cannot take an appeal
from the Local Board, but must wait
till the District Board passes on the
claim of agriculture, and then they
may take an appeal to the President
of the United States. All rer t.arts
who claim dependency, and whose
claim has, been disallowed, can take
an appeal" from the decision of the
Local Board.
The classification card that is sent
out by the local board does not apply
to agriculture or industrial claims.
E. D. McLAUCHLIN,
Clerk of the Board.
"The Russian people hitherto in all
ages have been ruled from above ' he
declared. "Now they rule themselves
They will stand and tight against all
foes wherever found, with full pride
in the consequences of having contri-
buted an immortal page to the history
of mankind.
! The government of the soviet of the
peoples commissaries, which is a gov-
ernment of the workers, the peasants
; and the soldiers, "is not concerned
with obtaining official recognition of
foreign powers" the foreign office
statement to the United Press : -sui t-
ed. "The republic of the United So-
! viets appeals primarily not to govern-
ments but to the peoples of the world,
whom it seeks to unite with the pur-
i pose of ending the world slaughter
and eradicating the cause of war.
i namely, imperialism and ambition
which in one form or another, animate
i all governments as at present con-
j stituted.
"Any recognition which foreign
governments bestow upon the present
Russian government, will be welcome,
l principally as testimony of the power,
the frankness, the undisguised pur-
i poses of the Russian revolution. We
are not concerned over old diplomatic
urages. Ours is a new first-time-in
history government.
"We can hope to succeed, not in pro-
! portion as we are recognized by the
foreign offices of other countries, but
| in proportion as we receive the active
support of the proletariat of the de-
mocracies of the world.
"If any governments willingly rec-
ognize the historical importance and
the granduer of a republic being born
in the midst of the ruins of an extern-
al and a civil war, the peoples of Rus-
sia will be glad to receive that recog-
nition."
measure itself.
.Meantime, however. Chamberlain i- tiu- war
pre oared for a real fight.
Backed by letters of soldiers' moth-
ers and fathers qnent camp condi-
tions: armed with data on what was
regarded as misleading senate tcsti-
mony of Secretary of War Baker,
Chamberlain proposes to go ahea 1
with his war cabinet bill and bis com-
is one of the few senators who think
abinet bill stands a chance
of passage. He will vote for it. Sena-
tor Borah, also a strong advocate of
it, believes it would he rendered non
effective by administration opposition
evt n were it passed over the Presi
dent's veto.
Tne president would veto it if it
,■ i , n" i f ■, icuii ;idered c 11ain
training law. Popular support :11id < en its
.if these measures grew, despite^ ti
administration's very strenuous ef-
forts to kill them, particularly the war
cabinet bill.
The fight will develop in earnest to-
morrow over reference of the war
abinet bill to committee. Senatoi
most optimistic friends
•ould not be passed ov< ■:
agree thi
the veto.
The vote tomorrow on committe
reference is expected lo be a test
practically determining the bill's fate.
Ignoring the president's expressed
li approval of the military investiga
Swanson, for the administration, will lion Chamberlain has called Surgeon
try to have it sent back to both the General Gorgas and from his te-ti-
military and naval committees. Were ny he expects to gather fresh evi-
it sent back to the military committee denee of the need fur better organiza-
alone, action on it would be favorable, tion.
With the double reference, it would Commenting today on the jives i-
be caught in the jam, hence if Swan- dent's charge that the military inquiry
son wins, the bill may die. | had called from their duties officials
S\vanson s move to refer it will be engaged in vital tasks, < hamberlain
the signal for Chamberlain to go over pointed out that General ( ozier and
. the top. He has his bayonets ready General Sharpe both had been re-
aml he proposes to submit data tend-, lieved of their bureau jobs before fus-
ing to prove that the president has tifying and had become members of
; been misled into thinking war condi- t the departmental war council. Secre-
tions are better than they really are. tary Baker was the only one called
He also w ill submit evidence in an 1 away from his duties, Chamberlain
effort to prove that Secretary Baker I said and Baker lost Comparatively lit-
incorrectly testified before the mili- i tie time.
tary committee as to camp clothing Chamberlain is preparing to bring
shortages. The committee probe tes- in nis universal mi;uary training bill,
timony will/ be on every senator's j v. Inch he discussed yesterday with
desk as supporting evidence of Cham- Colonel Roosevelt.
berlain's charges and as reasons for Republicans and democrats in both
support of his bill. i houses will caucus today to consider
Chamberlain plans to submit proof | their action on the Chamberlain bill,
that the war department as at pres- Colonel Roosevelt has thrown the
ent organized, has failed to meet the j full weight of his influence into the
situation. He and his supporter* light, conferring until late last night
argue this is the sole reason they are ! with republican leaders in both
dvocating a change that will co-ordin- blanches.
Berlin Reports Advance Population 105,(106,000
W ashington, I). C.t Jan. —Amer-
ica is ^ending troops to Kurope far
more rapidly than originally planned,
It i- now estimated, barring disas-
ter, that fully twice as many Sam-
mies will he training under Persh-
in ■ by .hithan early estimated pro-
vided.
This fact has been assured mem-'
bt i - of thi- senate by President Wjl
son as an example of the war de- j
j.artmentV tremendous work. I nder :
the circumstances, th president I
hollis, some mistakes were inevitable,
"but the same mistakes have not been
made twice."
A fair proportion of actual ji-;htingl
men are included in the contingents
already gone and this government
has furnished in addition, a goodly
number of badly needed stevedore:-,
engineers, foresters, flyers and other
non-fighting forces.
At first war department officers
felt that the United States ought not
lo send troops abroad short of a year.
Then the allie> bbgan pressure for
some psychological effect. I his
resulted in dispatch of the Pershing
expedition and the Rainbow division.
Conflicting requestas to men and
supplies came from time to time, but
with culmination of the interallied
conference Colonel House recom-
mended that transport of men was
perhaps the most crying need.
Lack of bunker coal has been a
deterrent factor but this is now being
overcome and the transport service h
e. peeted to improve considerably.
The war department is considering
ways and means of increasing the
transport of men.
TROTSKY'S POSITION
PRESS)
EMBARGO ON FREIGHT
Washington, Jan. 23.—A tempos
ary embargo I'M all freight, except
fiod, fuel, and war -upplies was or
ricred today by Director General Me
Adoo on the Pennsylvania lines ea t
i f Pittsburg, the Baltimore and Ohio
east of the Ohio liver and the Phila
delphia and Reading railroad.
MoAdoo's action followed insistent
demands for it by the fuel adminis-
tration. It was declare.'; to be vital
if material and lasting results in
breaking the eastern freight jam
I v eie to he accomplished. McAdoo
took the step because he agreed tlia
it was "absolutely necessary."
Threatened tieup of the shipbuild-
ing program and intense suffering at
i many points influence his decision.
I The embargo, McAdoo declared,
would lasi only until the weather
moderated. The war supplies which
are exempted from the embargo will
I lie only those specifically de: ignated
jly the war department. These lira
| will concentrate on movement of .
j into New Env land, New ^ ork harl
i and other points and on returnin g
i uipty ears to mines.
I —There are patterns in our men's
and boy's Mackinaw's that will inter-
est you. We have cut the price 20
i per cent in order not to carry them
! over until next fall. Come in and
| look them over. We have your size.
' E. B. Kimberlin, the Clothier.
lll\ INI I ID I'K I SM
Berlin via London, Jan. 23.—
French attacks north of Souain and
northeast of Avocourt were beaten
back in hand to hand fighting, today's
official statement asserted, (ierman
infantry penetrated French positions
: east of Melancour and took many
! prisoners.
—Go to E. B. Kimberlip's Reduc-
tion Sale on Overcoats and Mackinaws
as they are sure selling 'em cheap.
Washington, Jan. 1!). The popula-
tion of continental United States Jan.
1. was 105,00fi,000 as compiled by
Treasury Department officials, who
calculate the per capita money circu-
lation at on that date.
An increase of 1,719,000 in popu-
lation from Jan. I last year is shown,
while the per capita circulation in-
creased $5.76
A reduction of 20 per cent on all
men's overcoats at Kimberlin's store.
(li v 1 NTTE1
Petrograd, Jan. 23. One para-
graph in !• oreign Minister 1 rotsky -
formal report on the Brest-I.itovsk
proceedings today had this forceful
description of the situation:
"The revolution cannot live in an
atmosphere of deceit and falsehood.
At this given moment the revolution
i iay not he in a position to lepud
iate annexationist*, but it will not
humiliate itself to call black white; it
will not cover up brutal annexationist
p-etensions with the fig leaf of de-
mocracy.
"The Brest-I.itovsk pour parlors
make it clear nothing more can be de-
manded from the Germans."
GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP
Washington, Jan. 22 With th
oiK'stion of 'joKn-nmeoi ownership o!
railroads swaying it in it- consider:!
tion of the pending railroad control
hill, the senate interstate commerce
committee, which resumed hearings
on the bill today, had before it a new-
plan for solving the railway problem
The plan, advanced by Former Sen
at >r Bristow, member of the Kan-:i«
public -ervict1 commission, contem-
plates the organization of a national
corporation to absorb the railroads
and operate them under government
direction.
Bristow, who told the committf o
that the present method of control
would not work because many roan
would be excluded, proposed the na
tional corporation, directed by a board
of nine named by the president.
Under his plan, stock in the new
; corporation would be exchanged at par
for railroad stock at its market (quota-
tion and stock not exchanged could
he forcibly exchanged through con-
demnation proceedings.
Stock in the new corporation would
he nonvoting.
The directorate would handle all
matters of operation, including wage
<|Uestions. Rates would be fixed by the
interstate commerce commission and
earnings of the corporation would be
limited l«y such rate fixing to dividends
of four to six per cent.
"With the physical railroad propei
ties behind it." said Bristow. "I would
rather have thi- stock paying four pel
cent than government bonds paying
the same amount."
The local coal dealers think tho
worst of the coal famine is past, and
trom now on the supply will be ado
quate to furnish all necessary de
mands. Still, the demand keeps up,
with a very few cars being received.
Massey & Son received a carload
on Tuesday, and one came also to the
1,'ed Elevator, and some loads have
been taken from the city's -upply. It
looks, too, as if the severe cold spell
has been broken and we may look
' for better weather.
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