The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 224, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 27, 1918 Page: 3 of 4
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Spring Shirts
Analysis of the War
Editor Transcript-Enterprise:
The war may end by next June. It
may end next October or November.
It may continue for three years. Ger-
many is winning the war now. She
has been winning all along with oc-
casional setbacks. We had as well
face the facts. This talk of starvation
and political dissatifaction in Ger-
many and of disloyalty to the Ger-
man cause in Austria, in which so
of our statesmen and writers
SHIRTS
WE ARE showing all the new patterns in Man-
hattan and Arrow shirts for spring and sum-
mer, both in French and starched cuff, lots
of new ones in silk and silk fiber, prices $3.00 to
$8.50. Don't put off buying that summer under-
wear. We have Munsing, Manhattan, and the
genuine B. V. D. Prices 75 cents to $2.50. We try
to please the student trade. Give us a look for what
you wear. We carry the best in clothing, hats, shoes
and furnishings.
.V. K. McCall Co.
HERTLING'S SOPHISTRY
By CARL D. GROAT,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Feb. 27.—President
Wilson is waiting upon Count Czer-
nin's expected reply to his last peace
terms message before determining
his future course as to a new state-
ment before the tribunal of the world.
If it shows a conciliatory and re-
ceptive spirit, the president will again
appear before congress to amplify his
nrevious statements, according to the
relief among international authorities
today.
Whether he would reply to Hertling
cannot be stated now.
The general spirit here, after di-
gesting Hertling's message, was one
of rejection. Everywhere the thought
was that Hertling was insincere, that
he was playing a game. This game,
according to the general view, was to
rry to foster pacifist spirit within
the allied nations and to try to cause a
sp1!t in them.
There is much camouflage about
his remarks anenfc Belgium, about
self-determination and about German
war aims, according to the thought
here.
The disposition of the Russian
problem is considered a particularly
adroit maneuver.
The chancellor's statements anent
Germany's war of "defense," are re-
garded here as threadbare sophistries
which in the light of German atroci-
ties appear ludicrous.
Count Czernin, however, may adopt
a different tone as he has in the past.
While the Austrians are so linked to
Germany by debt that a break is dif-
ficult, Austria's yearning for peace
is such that the president believes a
political offensive should be confined
to them as long as any chance of a
separate peace is possible.
A new field engineering course has
been started by Prof. James I
Tucker of the civil engineering de
partment. The course includes £
study of military maps, both how
they are drawn and their interpreta-
tion. Movements in the field and ob
servation from aeroplanes will also
be included. The course is open to
anyone, but no credit will be given for
the work.
Liberty Theatre
3—DAYS ONLY—3
Commencing
THURSDAY, FEB. 28th
THE
NEST ILL L
PLAYERS
In Complete Scenic Production of
NEW PLAYS
n
$5,000.00 Invested in Plays, Scenery, Wardrobe
Opening Play—"The Penalty"
A Story of Love and Politics.
Friday -"The Red Cross Nurse"
Saturday—"Damaged Goods"
Episode 1, "The Retreat of the Germans"
VA111 >E VI LI E BETWEEN THE ACTS
KKCUI \K PICTURE PROGRAM
Prices 15—25—35c
indulge, is very reassuring and sooth
ing to the nerves of America and her
allies, but it won't win the war.
Germany is in this war for blood,
territorial aggrandizement, indemni-
ties and world domination. She is not
discouraged. She cuts into Russia as
easily as a sharp knife cuts into a
rich cheese or a ripe melon. She lias
made an advantageous commercial
peace treaty with the Ukraine, com-
prising the rich wheat fields of south-
ern Russia with important seaports
on the Black Sea. It has a popula-
tion of some thirty million. Germany
can easily have access to Russia's
great oil fields. Rumania, the richest
agricultural country in the Balkans,
is mostly occupied by Germany and
wholly at her mercy. Austria, Bul-
garia and Turkey are her allies and
tools. Her dream of Mittleuropa is
already realized. Her crushing, di-
vision and control of Russia has ex-
ceeded her most sanguine expecta
tions. In the Near East her sway is
supreme. I suspect she could1 take
Salonica, if she wanted to. She might
spare enough men off the western
front to drive further into Italy if
she thought it expedient. With her
control of the Black Sea and South-
ern Russia she might get into a po
sition to end British conquests ii
Messopotania and Palestine. Only the
line from the North Sea to the Swiss
border remains unbroken and un-
shaken. A drive on the western front
with a power and destructiveness that
will put the thunderbolts of Jove to
shame is expected momentarily. The
result of that battle may be as mo-
mentous as the battle of Chalons in
451 A. D. when Achilla and his Huns
were overthrown and Europe was
saved from the domination of pre-
datory Asiatics.
Hindenburg might be able to break
them. And he may not.
They failed when the Allies were
much weaker on the west than now
and they may fail again.
But this time they are coming with
the fury of demons and the scientific
knowledge of the jackal, accentuated
by 3 1-2 years of experience and ex-
periment.
If they do break thru and get pos-
session of Calias and the west coast
of France then woe to American com-
merce and communication lines.
We can't conceive of America giv-
ing up the war defeated. But Ger-
many will have inexhaustible re-
sources back of her with four years
of military preparation and training
and an insatiable ambition to master
the world and she will be able to con
tinue the war indefinitely.
Then, when will the war end? But
if Germany don't break thru on the
western front, must she give up
fighting and acknowledge defeat
Not as long as she can keep the allies
on the west side of the Rhine or out
of Berlin. Germany's control of Rus-
sia and Rumania and the Balkan
states with the Black and Baltic seas
renders the English and American
blockade of no effect. Germany can
get everything she needs from the
Near East, which she controls abso
lutely in spite of socialistic murmur
ings* political uprisings and social re-
volts.
I am no military critic nor prophet.
I know nothing about the war only
what I have read in the newspapers
and magazines and what i know of
world geography and peoples. But the
war is not won yet. And some people
who thought it would be something on
the order of a picinic party and a fine
time for profiteering may come down
to rather severe rationing and sack-
cloth and ashes before the war is
over. People with soft and tender
hands, who have lived off the labor
of others, may have to go to work,
people who have been making big
profits and collecting big dividends
may have to dig down into their
treasure chests as they never dug be-
fore.
But all this common toil and suf-
fering and deprivation will weld us
into a greater and purer and better
Democracy than we ever knew be-
fore. . . , .
Maybe this letter is not optimistic.
We believe we will win ultimately, but
not soon nor easily. Better to tell a
hard truth than a soft lie. Don't play
the ostrich. Look the devil in the face
and fight. —M. P. M.
Border Raids Continue
By United Press.
El Paso, Tex., Feb. 27.—An uniden-
tified Mexican is dead here today and
an American cavalryman is in the
| base hospital at Fabens, Texas, thirty
miles southeast of here, the result of
border activities yesterday.
I The Mexican was shot while cros-
[ sing the international bridge here
when ho refused to halt at the chal-
lenge of American soldiers.
Private Wm. T. Coleman, United
States cavalry border patrol, was
shot through the arm by Mexican
sniners wearing federal uniforms
while patrolling the border near Fa-
bens.
Food Prices Increase
Bv Press.
Washington, Feb. 27.—Retail food
, prices in the United States showed an
j incresae of two percent for the month
endine January 15, over the preced-
) ing month, the labor department an-
nounced today.
Four of fifteen necessary foor ar-
ticles showed a decrease—flour of two
per cent, lard, bacon and corn meal,
I of one per cent each. Hens showed the
i greatest increase of eight per cent.
Eggs and potatoes increased six per
cent each; butter four per cent and
! milk 3 per cent.
j Sirloin steak, round steak and rib
roast increased 2 per cent; porkchops,
ham and sugar one percent each.
WANTED: One female bull dog at
once. Call phone 226.
FOR SALE: Baled cane and wild hay,
J. H. Zink, phone R151. 27-tf.
WANTED: A girl at boarding house,
Mrs. Worthir.gton, 503 S. Webster,
phone 446. 27-3t.
FOR RENT: Light-housekeeping
rooms; two for eight dollars or
three for fifteen dollars. Call at 416
West Eufaula, half block to Boule-
vard, or phone 688. 27-3t.
CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE: A Quick Meal two-burner
gasoline range, with oven, all in
good shape. Will take $10 for it.
Phone 336 or call at 318 College. 27-3
BOOKKEEPER WANTED: One who
is a good typewriter and capable of
handling correspondence. Apply to
U. S. TUBBS, Central Wholesale
Grocer Company, Oklahoma City. 27-3
HORSES FOR SALE: I have a pair of
mares and two good horses for sale
—ready for work, gentle. See W. H.
JOHNSON, east of city, or phone 142.
27-6td&w'
FOR SALE: Seventy-egg incubator.
Call at J. G. Williams' Grocery. 27-3
TREES FOR SPRING: Good assort-
ment now ready for planting. Spec-
ial offerings in Blackberry, Shade Mul
berry and Cedar. Will furnish a few
peach orchards for a share of future
crops.—NOBLE NURSERY, Noble,
Okla. 27d4w3
FOR RENT: House, near high school.
Five large rooms, electric wiring,
toilet, good garden space, phone 393
26-3r
HENS FOR SALE: Thirty fullblood
White Rocks, Tom Smith's strain
$1.50 each. 575 Elm street. W. A
Black. 26-3t*
BOAR FOR SALE: Registered Duroc
year old. Can be seen at my farm
three miles south and one-half east of
Norman. R. E. Hardman. 2-28-6t
FOR SALE: New typewriter; half
price. Owner has two. phone 382
25-3t*
GIRL WANTED: Apply at the Cot
tage Home.
PIGS! PIGS!! PIGS!!!: 30 head of
nice pigs for sale at my barn.—
Davis Brendle, phone No. 5. 25-3t*
HORSES AND MULES: For sale;
several head of horses and mules.
Davis Brendle, phone No. 5. 25-3t*
WANTED: Clean cotton rags
Transcript-Enterprise office.
at
EGGS: $1.00 per setting—full blood
ed, Single-Comb Rhode Island Reds
J. H. Hutchin, Southeast edge of city
limits on Route 5. 25-6t*
FOR SALE: Three good lots in Ruck
er Church addition. Enough for
good garden. See Fred Enmeier, R
4; $20.00 each 25-3t*
RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS: For
setting, $1.00 for 15. Also Red Top
cane sled. M. P. McNamee, 301 East
Keith. 28-3t*
FOR SALE: Ten shares American
Glass Casket stock. Stock now sell
ing at $25.00. Need the money and
will sell at a bargain. Inquire at
Transcript-Enterprise office.
GIRLS WANTED: Several good girls
at the Norman Steam Laundry
Come at once. 11-tf
LOCAL SALESMAN
WE ARE READY TO GO
and want two good men or women to
sell stock in Cleveland County for a
company whose lease has ten off-set
wells. Absolutely proven and a money
maker. Write or call
THE
SOONER STATE PETROLEUM
COMPANY
428 Security Bldg. Phone Maple 3664
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
"Thompsonism" At
Low Pressure
By United Press.
Chicago, Feb. 27.—In the first war
time aldermanic primaries here
"Thompsonism" suffered a staggering
defeat, completed returns showed to-
day. Even the home wards of the may-
or and Fred Lundin, his chief aid,
turned against him.
The primaries set a new low mark
for voting in Chicago but the fire
was concentrated and with few ex-
ception, men bearing even faintly the
brand of "Thompsonism" were brought
down.
The women candidates polled but
140 votes, ninety-five of those being
from sister voters.
BABY BONDS
University Theatre
TODAY—
VALESKA SURRATT
In a six-reel drama
"A RICH MAH'S
PLAYTHING"
Also a News Weekly giving all the current events
of the day.
TOMORROW—
J. WARREN KERRIGAN
—in—
"A MAN'S
MAN"
A Mighty, Virile, Stalwart, Thundering DRAMA of Life,
and Love, Danger and Daring.
He can hold in esteem an enemy who braves his chance
on equal terms. But naught will save from his wrath the
foe who strikes like a snake without warning.
Sends ripples down your spine; grasps your heart and
causes that quick catch in your throat.
IN EIGHT PARTS
And when it says: "The End," you wish there were seven
more. More action than the Falls of Niagara. More stuff
than the Encyclopedia Britannica. And a song of love as
tender as a sprig of thistledown blown by the gentle gust of
an autumn breeze.
Matinee 2 p. m.
5c and 15c
Evening 7 p. m.
10c and 20c
NINE BIG REELS IN ALL
The Orchestra Will Play
THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE
any reduction in the price offered for
live poultry.
An energetic egg-saving campaign
to prevent early slaughter of the hen
that "lays the golden egg" is now be-
A Thrift Stamp costs 25 cents
Sixteen Thrift Stamps and 13
cents or $4.13 this month buys
a War Savings Stamp.
The government redeems the
War Savings Stamp at $5 Jan-
uary 1, 1923.
Your profit is 87 cents, or
four per cent interest com-
pounded quarterly.
Buy stamps at postoffices,
banks and patriotic stores. You
are saving money for the fu-
ture, and helping the govern-
ment win the war.
Begin buying today.
Keep Hens and Pullets
Washington, D .C., Feb. 24.—Over
150,000,000 eggs would be lost to the
food supply of the United States if — ---- — --
.. , , 1 ing conducted throughout the South-
the old practice of sending hens to j ^ N()rth of ^ Qhio river>
market at this season was continued, j farmers have long appreciated the ad-
Figures compiled by the poultry spe- j vantage of getting the spring crop of
cialists of the United States Depart-J eggs and marketing their hens after
ment of Agriculture show that more the laying season or in the fall. They
than 5,000,000 hens, each capable of believe that adoption of this plan by
producing 30 eggs, are sent to market j southern chicken raisers will be prof-
from southern states in the winter itable and will materially add to the
and early spring. i food supply of the nation.
' Every effort, therefore, is being :
made to encourage farmers to keep ! ........ uac DIPTIIPCC
their hens until after the spring lay- ' GIMEN0 HAS PlUTUKtb
ing season, thereby getting a dividend
for keeping the hen through the win-
ter. The specialists point out that
when a hen is sold for meat early in
the spring, the farmer gets no egg
return for feeding and keeping her
IN CUBAN EXHIBITION
Prof. Patricio Gimeno, head of the
Spanish department at the university,
has three landscape paintings on ex-
hibition in the Salon of Fine Arts at
return lur iccums u-u-i- e
through the worst months of the year. | Havanna, Cuba. This exhibition of
. . _i - — Kir t n n A QOAPin t inn
Moreover, the hen is marketable as
poultry after she has produced her
spring eggs. Poultry in May may
bring 2 cents a pound less than it
does in February, but, they point out,
the 30 eggs produced by the hen,
largely from wastes, more than offset
art is conducted by the Association
of painters and sculptors of Cuba and
is one of the big exhibitions of art on
the island. Professor Gimeno ex-
hibited three Oklahoma landscapes
which will no doubt be novel in the
tropic exhibition.
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