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PAGE FOUR
Wednesday March C 1918
DAILY ARDMOREITE.
Hi
ARDMOREITE PUBLISHING CO.
H. G. KPAUJ.DIXi! I'uMishcr.
THE OFFICIAL PAPER
Of Carter County and tho City of
Ardmore.
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One Month .60
One Week .15
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One Tear. iy Mail $1.50
Six Months .75
Three Months .40
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news credited to it. or not otherwise cred-
ited In this paper atul also the local news
published herein.
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dispatches heroin are also reserved.
Ardmore Tuesday. .Man ll a WIS.
EVOLUTION AND REVOLU
TION.
Prof. Edward A. I
r .i
.-ica I
f.icull
brill
cut
of the American S
ciet v and nienibt r a
cii.l
I iie
Wi-Ci ll-hl t 'ill i el '-i .
v. r i 1 1-' intimately aeijii
social aiiii eeoiioiuic ci
Ainei ica has ret no i i
fid -im c of i "'! il' h i
sia. :i I) i- in iking -onii
compari-.hik between th
i it II
iotl- II!
a i.iiv-
n Ku-re-tiug
i eoili-
can In-
'hir.igo. I'niP d
t i'ii'. Adilri s-nig ;
stitulc uf Social Scr i
he di elated that mi!.
Stales -pi'i-il- ii) 1 ; i r
I inli." -lie will be 1. 1
revolution" w iiliin I i
ty years.
I'! vi dm ion. he tvtiiiiii
er titan revolution
blood and c'lea; er ill
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be d.id''i
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its de-l inai ion.
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war i- 1 1 j . 1 1 the
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and ab t'ne onl t
in-. Thi- i- l
man and wom.'.ii
Ihe old reliable-
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delivi rv of the
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BIGGE1
There -hoiild
PARCELS.
be L- . Her. I I .
il oi di r rai-i
tion of ihe po-tal
weight limit of .
and second .one
I'd !
lr.
l1
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m
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nouni!-. ami in
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in Jo
to .Ml pound-
service i- meant
direc; marketing
through the imi-!i
n i
t.
-I II
farn
. b
IMC
that it will have thai etfeci
The hi-tor of our . i
so la; ha- been raiber i!i
in-. It ha- been widely
the sending of small mi-c
parcel- but far h-- than
jiected for the shipping
st tilt's. The .o-toi;ice di
is now in position to -ivc
eel po-t
lM.itlt-
-ed i'-.r
'laneoli
' a- ev-
il food-
.art in iiit
Ci Uellt
service in thi- rc-pect and il can
be utilized with profit by rural pin-
dticcrs and urban consumer- in anv
section or any comnuiniiy.
CHILD FINANCIERS.
The Ihrift campaign has brought
tho child before the public a- a
financial agent. Thai the child be
encouraged to buy thrift stamps as
a patriotic measure i good. Au-
thing fur which people work and
save or widen they -hare becomes
peculiarly their own. Whether it
be the sick kitten in the barn to
whom he gives part of his milk or
the country at war to which he
gives his penny the moral effect
upon the child is good.
As to the methods by which he
obtains the money--a very linle la-
bor i- good for a child Eight ta-ks
interf criiiLT neither villi his health
his schooling nor his normal amount
of play do not hurt him. Nothing
will teach the real value of money
like earning it. The direct ratio of
effort to purchasing power be-
comes quickly apparent.
This is a good thing to learn and
to learn early for two reasons.
First it sows in the child's mind
the seed of a great understanding.
When his time comes he will not
depreciate the problems of the man
with the small income. The second
effort is more immediately practical.
It checks indiscriminate buying.
The object purchased must be worth
the price.
With the power to discriminate
values there develops naturally the
tendency to save with a view to the
possible future purchase of the de-
sired object. This is the only clean
motive for saving. Saving except
for increased freedom in spending
is mere misering and a vice lo be
abhorred.
Whether the child be given or
earns the money from which he
does his saving he should be help-
ed to see that system in his saving
is the surest road to the accom-
plishment of his object. Incident-
ally he is learning patience and
working at a mark. So he should
be taught to save regularly but in
fair proportion to his income. Why
expect a child to save 50 per cent
of his money for instance? Do his
elders do ibis? It will not endear
saving to him and it is bad practice.
The iii-t apportionment oi hi- in
come is ihe hard reward of years.
Saving lo buy thrift stamps of-
fers three objects in one. It present-
a good reason lor -aving
money and a good reason for part-
ing with money. Morcowr the
motley once so saved and spent become-
bread cast upon the waters
returning for future Use after inanv
das.
THE PRE3ISTENT RECRUIT.
W aller Davidson 23 ears old a
lacloiy worker in an inland town1
has ju-t -ailed from New York to
?.'. a Scotia a vi happy voting!
man. lie isn't going to be married
lie's going to take passage from
Nov. i Scotia to England to join the
lit it i-l; armv. And what makes him
particularly happy is the knowledge
thai the army w ill take him.
1 avid-oii might he called a chron-
ic and per-i-leiit recruit lie tried
to jon the United Stac- army a vcar
ago. and was turned down because
ol a wiak eve. 'I lieu he tried to
en iiio ihe navy with the same i
n-ult. lie oliered his services t o !
the
Th
r i . i i -
i.iuisii army ami was reitiseu.
.i. i... r. . . a 1
ii i une i.ie . uiei nan mail. anii1(.v do not
number was called and hope;(l iUy (lf j(
en. 1 .1:1 tin re v. as anotinr ilis-
Miitincnt. lie failed again to
pa -s Hie pliy-ica! examination lie
tried the loui-h army once more
and once more was rejected. Hut
be kepi light on taking good care
of him-elf and doing what he could
tor hi- "hum lamp" and at last
-uccecic.l m getting liiniseM pas-cit
by a i'.riti-h army doctor. I
I lu re are more of such nu n in
the llri;i-h and French armies than!
..ne would -ii-pect. Every little
'.' hi'e a ca-e bob- up of a good
American who. refused the high
privilege of lighting under the Star-;
ami Mums ha- gone across the -ea
-! I Ipl S
-uccee
I" It 1 -1
in enii-t in- tor the I
c under another llag. '
net is an honor to Anier- --hame
lo any able-bodied
w ho shrinks from armv :
i:i ir i
a. an.
nieric
it .
ondi
I a s
an
SriAPNEL
isCVl ll
and in
t ore:
has icit the hospnal
is ready for a frolic or
eiabl.v the latter.
s gnoil as courage if
i a scniceable back-
nig-
thuiiilermg now.
rub- of u-iria tell- the ruler
b- Runnnii he 11111-; cede cer-
iorl!.-'ii- of hi- territory to the
nekle u-triin enipire and
In "rat ilic.il ion of hi- boumb
ov be crushed and hi- throne
:ii
Ir-
in him. A remarkable
l'l tbe-e kings in -urli go-
s thi-.. is that the .people
it.- not consulted a 1110-
in ui glit as to their feeling
i . given ; their rights are
oinpleielv. 'es. the kin-s
iii
na
1 hindering now but ere long
mud -'II- of luonarchial Europe
begin to bow up and then a
1 -ad won't be worth a- much
low a cabbage is worth on Main
1 t in Ardiuoie.
-tfi
lured iernian machine gun
-ent as a war trophy to
;ion. 'e hope somebody
l.al'olbite up to it and in-
him to it.
O ' M
-hill
lea 1
luce
:
w i'
; r . 1
l'.ut. ;.:'ter all
ling on earth i-
about the dearest
a cheap man.
Put
pow er.
he J-powir behind the
The national Prohi. partv in ses--ion
at Chicago in conjunction
with the new "National" partv de-
111 inds iruion-w ide prohibition' in '.'0
lavs. Whv not make it i) min-1
utes?
Marquis of I.andsdowne groping!
about in the daik hunting for aj
peace .mark should go across the
River Stvx and borrow Diogones' I
tm lantern; but then the marquis
ii not have any more success in
the quest than old Diog had in his.
And
in the meantime what is be-
oi those rantankcrous ani-
coming
mals kn
ti-ed to
v.ii as bulls and bears that
."amoullage the innocents in
the
canyons of ( iotham ?
Place a wreath on the tomb of
1'icaureg aid I'.ryan of Texas who in
a dark moment ended his own lite.
Place a wreath there because he
was a just judge a great friend and
a magnanimous enemy. Peace to
his ashes and it is said in the ex-
treme of sincerity.
Those New York City women
who voted vesterdav for the first
time no doubt are now making their
hu-bands split the kindling and
milk the cow.
Soldiers going over to France are
ripping chunks off the vessel that
carries them to be stored as souve-
nirs and the war office has protest-
ed to the commanding officers. We
suggest the boys desist and reserve
their energy that they may rip the
pants off the kaiser.
Mr. Solomon said: "Bread of
falsehood is sweet to a man; but
afterwards his mouth shall be tilled
with gravel."
Every hoarded dollar in America
is silently working for the kaiser.
Scissors and Paste.
El Keno Democrat: A club for
ex-kings in Europe is an after-war
possibility. Tlic only objection that
a regular king could have to join-
ing siidi an organi. ition is that the
kaiser miilit .nit in.
Guthrie Leader: Russian editors
sc. in to nave retained tiieir sense ot
I; ti tin r in a critical .situation as tew
n in could. They are advising the
ih 'eminent to light She iernian in-va-ion.
dabe
-ines
I Vtnncrat-Kccord : Any
is better than loafing but
of nun
lou't know it.
McAlester News-Capital: The-
ka'.scr will never know what a man's
ji b it is tu run the whole world.
Marlow Reviiw: ''Win the war
by wearing soft spirts" a college
I lofessor ai!ises us There are so
many ways of winning the war that
we hope the old American way of
walloping the other fellow will not
be altogether ovet looked.
Lawton Constitution: If th
e. ies on much longer thev will
; war
soon
hools
Li teaching gem
hv wiieless.
rapnv in the
Chicka-ha F.sprc.c- : In so com-
plex a thing a- human nature we
liiu-t consider i; hard to find rules
w .' bout exceptions.
Cherokee Republican: The
... lia s coin tnaiideered i he
gov-
SU Il
ii. . . . .
pv t licnip. It is t
1 . '
ls to lie liotieil mat
arrange for the export
until thev have used a
er ii-nleral
a-uils wh
e ipiant.ty on (iertn.m
are fomenting discord
ami preaching sciii; ion.
i;
! Kansas City (Mo.) Star: (ier-
many should mule.' : land that Uncle
S un i- prettv nearlv through count-
i ' I
i ie
one huiiilrei
Fort Siiiit
A meric.'.n :
out a book
produced by
bat we woul.
to he ir the ci
ii. the ihsh
lion.
llaiiles i'!e
-e.i'IiUs ever'
1 right.
(Ark.) Southwest
imeone is bringing
limed to have been
lark Twain's ghost
;ive almost anything
1. 1 ol M ark I w am
upon such a proposi-
Exatiiiiicr :
time a war
A Hum
stamp is
Tiil-a W
g. e.--uian's
mil : l lie
opinion ol
average con-
a war meas-
iii' is about on a par with the po-
jlnieal acumen of -oine newly tiat-
il."alied ijitiens wi.ell it comes elec-
t'O
n time. III!
he is aiain-l
ie
.(ivernnient i-. lor
it.
s lew lam
hundred :
i irk have
. (lihio) Press:
ociety women of
orgauizid to teac
liree
New
the
poor how
Rise the
to ecoiiuiiii-.
poor sliMihl
In self-de-orgaui.e
to
teach the rich
low to -pend money. !
Wichita
rise is K;
i.llioll to
ben the
et ieorge
Peacon :
.iisas City':
the army
time I'm
do it.
( iCOI'l
latest
ov er
attack
e Sur-contri-there.
comes.
ort ( i
llsllll
lied
Ne w bra : 1 f prop-
1I1011I (H) per cent of
el :v
the
1 are drv
THRIFT BY BORROWING.
ly I'.olton
of "Thii
lall
Acres
Author
.and
Liber..;."
Money in the bank can be cm-
ploved only when some of the people
want to supply goods and when
v. oil ing people can buy goods lfj
people cannot buy food and clothes
however hungry they may be no j
me will borrow money from the -bank
in order to make more food or.
clothes. I
That it may be profitable to make 1
more of such things the people or
some of the people must be using I
up more and more things all the'
lime. I
But if everybody saved more and !
more ail the tune who would use
up the goods?
If saved up capital is used to
produce only such things as fru-
gal workers consume the difficulty
ot finding buyers would be greater
than it is now; for there would be
less for the rich to spend money on
and the poor would have less to
spend than they have now.
As Mr. Coffin says: "Waste is
bad. but undiscrim.nating economy
is worse." It is only on waste or
v isteful expenditures that we can
.iff :rd to economize.
ONLY KIND OF STAR SHE
KNEW.
Chicago Xcws: The stage struck
damsel was dining with her latest
"sub" at a fashionable restaurant.
"Do you see that old gentleman
with the long white beard?"
"Yes" answered the patron of
musical comedy.
"They say lie has discovered a
number of stars."
"Colly" said the flapper. "He
doesn't look as if he knew a dressing
'room from
1 telephone box."
Why So Costly An Exhibit?
Chicago News: A certain mil-
lionaire presented to his native city
a fine collection of stuffed birds
and animals.
The attendant escorting a visit-
or through the silent halls noticed
that he was yawning and ventured
to say:
"Perhaps you are not aware sir
that this is one of the richest taxi-
dermist exhibits on earth. Yes sir
this collection of stuffed animals
and birds is worth a hundred thou-
sand pounds!"
"Is that so'" said the visitor.
"What the dickens are they stuffed
with ?"
THE MEN WHO CAME BACK.
(Copyrighted by British-Canadian
Recruiting Mission.)
By Sergt. R. E. Bulger
Third Hattalion Oueen's Own To-
ronto Rifles
f Continued from yesterday.)
"Sav. Dick if I get mine I want
you to send my stuff to my moth-
er." lie gave me her address and 1
remembered l'.ut 1 have not seen
Jerry since that night.
"Hang!" went a bomb and we
knew then that the major had let
fly. I'u rt her concealment was im-
possible. We sprang up with a
fiendish desire to give Fritz hell. No
sooner had the bomb exploded than
with a murderous rattle their ma-
chine guns opened up and that gave
us Ihe information we wanted as to
llicir positions. Hang: went an-
other of our bombs and by their
yells of pain we knew we were "get-
ting home."
I'.y thi time several of my pal-
had fallen. Two of their guns had
been sen; "west." and we went afier
(.. 111 . i.;il--its We
were lille
i i! i
kill and destroy. Were not those:
hellish weapons responsible for the
deaths of so many of my comrades.'
Now after two failures two previ-
ous attacks by our regiment having'
been beaten back with great lo-s toj
us now we were getting a savage
iov from the fact that even while
we were destroying the I Inns' de-
fenses our men were gathering for
another attack. So we kept al it
until the two remaining guns were
destroyed and a terrible menace to
the advancing infantry removed.
Thev were just coining "over the;
top" w it'u mad. and it almost seem-
ed joyous yell. They were coming1
to pay in lull to l-ntz tor what they
and their comrades had sullered
and. while there was the thought
of levenge and the dedre to exter-
minate liiem it was not a wanton
' t.
lust to K
ill ; it was to remove a har-
j baric enemy to world civilization
1 whose terrible atrocities to the weak
and helpless particularly to the
i women and children of Pel-ium and
France aroused our righteous in-
dignation. So with yells crash bang and
stab we were on them and in a
short time our men were in the Nun
trench. Fritz contested hotly. Such
j bitter fighting could not continue.
Slowly but surely the Huns were
! driven back and at last we had him
1 011 the run down communication
I trenches thev ran except great
'numbers of their dead and wound-I
; eel. The latter now that the light-
ling was liii-hed. were handled tend-
erlv and carried back to our own
I dressing stations lo get their
; wounds treated. We. too had suf-
fered but we had the wonderful
i feeling of elation which belongs to
!the victor. A weary hut triumphant
i company beat it back lo our own
lines.
EARTHQUAKES.
Piy Theodosia Garrison
of The Vigilantes. I to
There was once a man who ig-1
nored an eanhiiuake. Iletween a 1
morning and a night the greater
portion of the town in which he
liseil was demolished hut as his
own hoti-e remained standing he
viewed with complacency the mis-
fortunes of others
"Inconvenient but merely tempo-
rary" he would smile.
'T.usincss as usual" was his fa-
vorite inottos and bis conviction
that what you did not choose to
see would never pain you was often
oil bis lips.
It was a great relief to his neigh-
bors when one day a tottering pile
ot bricks which he had preterred toj
regard as a wall in good conditii:i
fell on him and destroyed him.
Pairing the few remaining ig-
norers of earthquakes America is
fully awake at last to the disaster
that has shaken a world and to the
fact that the leaping flames in Eu-
rope have strength and fury enough
to reach and set fire even a land
across the sea. It is 1 believe al-
most an accepted fact that there is
nothing to think about work for
write for but to the end that this
war shall result in such a triumph
for democracy that generations to
come w ill name the horror in- Eu-
rope today "The Holy War" as well
as "The La-t War." '
To work for this is not voluntary
it is compulsory to any one with
a brain and a heart and two hands.
1 read recently a talc of a person
who "was too true an artist to
write propaganda."
And 1 thought that it would lie
to the everlasting renown of every
artist in the world if he would take
and transpose by a single word the
sentence that glorifies ihe statue of
Nathan Hale and have for his own
motto
"I regret that I have but one art
to give to my country."
Incidentally the moral of the
earthquake fable is that it is ridicu-
lous to avoid the obvious.
ANOTHER BATTLE HYMN
VERSE.
I can see the kaiser's finish
In my little book of stamps!
I can see the frightful ending
For the hosts of German scamps!
I can back up with my savings
All the boys in all our camps!
For thrift will win our war!
Every Little Helps.
Boston Transcript: Hobo (at
kitchen odor) Did you tell de lady
I was practically barefooted in all
dis snow?
Maid Yes. She says she hasn't
any old shoes but here's a pair of
shoestrings you poor man.
German women who are engaged
in heavy tasks thrust upon them on
the farms in the mines and fac-
tories have abandoned the skirt
which was first officially adopted
and have donned bloomers and
gaiters
Editors-mi P.
'is-
GERMANS WANT TO QUIT
POISON GAS.
Topeka (Kan.) Capital: Major
Ccueral Maurice discussing the ef-
forts now being made by the t ier-
T.an government to have a ( leneva
c 'invention for the arrangement of
a mutual agreement to discontinue
the use ot asplivNiating gas reports
i n
th: I the
"') such
possible
allies would be glad to come
an agreement "if it were
to get any guaranty that
t
inanv would bv- bound hv anv
Agreement to do likewise."
I Should the allied governments en-
i t e r into a convention with ( iermany
lo quit the use of poison gas what
would happen can be easily pre-
j ibv led. The military authorities of
!the ( lerman empire agree and the
Ueerman rules of v .r as taught by
I I tie general staff to officers of the
Idernian arm v declare that in time of
w a; u is ine uui ui uic aimy to
violate agreements it such agree
ments are contrary to Herman iu-lere-t.
The expcclat h-.u of a (ler-
man ohen.-ive this spring will be
fi'ildled according io reports from
the western front now at any mo-
ment and (iermans have done a
good deal of boasting about a new
po'sou gas prepai'.'d for use this
sprit:?;. It is coii.-.i..tent with (ier-
i;i...:i ideas of honor to agree lo abol-
i-:i gas uiiliice
and thcnisclve
lb
ie aiies to do so
hie
ak t'ne agree-
men;.
The impossibility 1 f discontinuing!
(he use of poison gas introduced i
by the (iermans in violation of then
tu.-ting agreements concerning civ-j
:ii.-.ed methods of waifare because j
liol ody in the Wii ld wiil belies ej
'he word of the (iernian nation or!
; 1 1 1 -t its solemn oa'.h .siigge-ls the
di'i icult ies of the future arrange-j
nii r.t of of peace teems. Who is to
;rnst any utterance from lierlin?;
While the kaiser and military ele-;
incut rule (iermany President Wil-'
son long ago was infallibly right in -dei
laving thai nege t iations are idle.
'Ihe only peace with the (iernian
pei pie so long as t! ey are ruled by
the military class a. id 1 lob.enzollern
dynasty is a peace lictaled and en-1
...reed hv the sword. !
WHEN PRUSSIA WAS
DISARMED.
Kansas City (Mo.) Star: Here
mi incident that is to be com-
mended to ihe atte'.tion of persons
who are putting lonlidence in the
possibility uf keeping the peace aft-
er the war by cut arcing the disar-
mament of the Cei'lral Powers.
I'russia was disarmed once before.
It eras .after the crushing defeats
hrlicted by Napoleon's forces at
i'.i.a and Auerstadt. Prussia was
forced to accept ihe conqueror's
Iter. lis A heavy indemnity was lev-
eled and the size of the armv limited
1
.OiNJ men enough for police
purposes. 1 be king ot Prussia sent
his brother to Napoleon in Paris
lo
remonstrate against the liarsli-
10. s of the terms. 1 he king doesn't
need an army Napoleon replied
since no one is at war with him.
I When il is recalled that .Napoleon
I led (oO.OiH) soldiers into Russia it
j i.s ; ppareut that 4.! 001) constituted!
I a iiiere handful "russia accepted
the terms but without meaning to
observe them. Scharuhorst. the able
minister of war who with Stein 11 11- i
dertook the rehabilitation of thej
country devised a system which j
kept the letter of the treaty but '
not its spirit. Recruits were called
up drilled a month and then given
leave of absence. W hile the army
at 110 time exceeded the 42(1(1(1
there were effectively drilled under
this Mstcm 1500(10 men.
In spiie of disarmament enforced
by the master of Europe Prussia
within a few years had become suf-
ficiently formidable from a military
standpoint to furnish the backbone
of the force that overthrew -Napoleon
at Waterloo.
There are just two ways to insure
the continued safety of democratic
governments after 'he war. ' The
first is for them to be prepared to
defend themselves. The second i.s
for a change of heart to come over
the central powers. And the first
is the only one that democracy can
control.
WHAT GERMANY WILL DO.
Tulsa 'limes: Germany will at-
tack or be attacked on the west
front and that will be done in a
very short time. Germany must win
in this drive if it is made by Ger-
many or not at all. Germany is
trying to throw a scare ahead of
iany attack that may be made.
I Information is given out that
(iermany has monstrous tanks in
I w hich the Huns will ride in safety
over the trenches and into the lines
of the enemy. A new kind of gas
will be thrown and men will die by
thousands and hundreds of thou-
sands. The Germans give it out
that they have new methods of war-
fare and that when they make the
attack they are sure to win.
If the Germans know of any-
thing diabolical they will put it into
use. There is 110 doubt about that
part of it. The only question is
about them liavlng anything that
can not be met and stopped by
the armies of the entente and Amer-
icans. All indications point lo an attack
in 11 short lime and the lighting will
not be of short duration. It may
extend throughout the summer and
there is no doubt about it being the
most sanguinary battle ever staged
on the face of the earth. To say
there is no danger of Germany
breaking through would be to make
a statement not borne out by the
facts. One thing is certain though
that as soon as it is humanly pos-
AM EDGE
BY J. H.
"In Fiance the men are wrought
to an edge of steel and the women
are a lim; of fire behind them."
An edge of steel a line of fire.
The itnagi of a nation energized for
war! Hut this is France. And we
the men and women of America
and are we too of steel and fire?
bine as our national temper has be-
come it falls far short of this. The
war is too remote. No cannon thun-
der at our ports. No ohostile air-
planes hover in our skies.
In a trench or two along the bat-
tle front there lie and watch a few
to whom America is home. They
have already suffered. They have
paid their first toll in prisoners and
in blood. ( )thers behind them hear
the roar of distant guns. Still more
are on the sea conscious of the
vague presence of an enemy be-
neath. At home busy preparation
goes on among half a million to
whom the war is still far away
a thing heard of waiter for not yet
seen.
And ihe rest: The hundred-odd
millions of men and women in their
homes! In the main we go on the
even tenor of our way. We eat
! enough as yet; we work a little
j harder than las! year; we take many
j of our accustomed pleasures; and.
1 save for occasional bad dreams we
sleep. The thought of war comes
j to us not above a dozen times a
i l.'iy.
The thing that will make us steel
j and lire draws nearer every hour.
1 In some few months before the
sible America should be there with
the best it has produced to help
stop the I Inns. They must be
slopped now or never.
BERLIN'S INSINCERITY.
St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press:
President Wilson has the opportun
ity to demonstrate hy an analysis
of what has just happened in Rus-
sia the insincerity of (iermany.
Chancellor Yon llertling's effort to
draw a distinction between the aims
of the United States in the war
and the aims of ( ireat Britain
France and Italy isn't fooling any-
one out-ide of the central empires.
When Count llertling says that he
"can fundamentally agree with the
four principles which in President
Wilson's view must be applied in a
mutual exchange of views and thus
declare with President Wilson that
a general peace can be discussed
on such a basis" the German chan-
cellor uses words which are calcu-
lated to mislead the (.lerman people
into believing that their present
government is really desirous of a
general pence but the allies mis-
guidedly block the way. As a mat-
ter of fact every one of the four
principles enunciated by President
Wilson have just been flagrantly
violated in actual practice by Ger-
many in Russia.
World domination was Germany's
aim and ambition when it precipi-
tated the war. It expected to
achieve that aim by conquering and
practically annexing Serbia Bel-
gium and northern France and by
reducing Austria-Hungary and Tur-
key to a slate of vassalage. Now
(iern.'iny may be ready to modify
the means hut its goal its funda-
mental design remains the same.
Jf Berlin really desires peace on
the basis of reason and humanity
as these terms are understood by
civilization generally the powers in
that quarter know how to move in
that direction. When Belgium is
restored when Poland and Serbia
are set free and when the stolen
lands of Russia are evacuated then
we may begin to believe in Ger-
many's sincerity. Uiitil then the
light must go on to the finish.
Von Hindenburg's boast that "by
next April 1 will be in Paris" has
given tlic allies no concern. Two
years ago the German crown prince
promised that he would take Ver-
dun in a few days. One year ago
Tirpitz and other German leaders
promised that the U boats would
reduce Great Britain to starvation
in six months.
The United States produced
about ('M()(W short tons of salt
last year the geological survey has
estimated an increase of about 9
ier cent from the previous year.
AEDMOEE IN
From the Files ol
ONE YEAR AGO.
Automobile owners met to con-
sider plans for the annual car dis-
play in connection with the spring
styl show.
Warning was gi.'en prospective
candidates for city offices that they
must register by March 9 or the
statutes would bar them from the
race.
Capt. Wm. II. Hutchinson pre-
sided over a meeting of Ardmore
Post American Military League.
Ti e post had 50 members enrolled.
The organization of an Ardmore
Lions Club was advocated.
FIVE YEARS AGO.
Corbet Sands assistant ticket
apent at the union station Ard-
more was promoted to the position
of Frisco agent at Okmulgee.
Commissioner Slaughter was ex-
hibiting the first of the buffalo
nickels shown in Ardmore.
A marriage licence was issued to
E. I licks and Miss Babbie Tharps
both of Orr.
OF STEEL
HANFORD.
-leaves are come and gone upon the
trees that half million will be side
by side with Pershing's handful at
the front. Long before that time
another half million will have left
their work and play for the bustle
of the camps.
More and more the war comes
home to us. The battle line' that
cutting edge in France is not a re-.
mote and alien thing; it is becom-
ing it iias become our flesh and
blood it is "closer to us than
breathing and dearer than hands
and feet." Vibrant currents of sen-
sation and energy pass from us to
it and from it to us. The nerves of
our whole being begin to throb in it.
More and more the war comes
home. Il is no longer "the stranger
that is within out gates." It im-
peratively demands admittance to
our inmost thought.
"These are the limes that try
men's souls" wrote Thomas Paine
in 1""5 and the words leap fresh
into our hearts today. Where is
the man ro dull that he can not see
it? Departures sinkings casualty
lists thrusts from unexpected quar-
ters reverses disasters new loans
new labors new sacrifices we shall
know them all.
And we shall meet them as
France has met them? It is impos-
sible that we should flinch. To that
high call to dedicate to the rause
of liberty and right "our lives and
fortunes everything that we have
and everything that we are" we
shall respond.
WOMEN IN OTHER LANDS.
Japanese women make excellent
dentists.
(iernian women particularly and
German people generally have a
remarkable gift for tears. They can
weep on any occasion and for any
reason says a psychologist.
In Prussia Westphalit. Saxony
and Bavaria the number of suicides
I in ')7 increased by 16 per cent
lover the previous years and 75 per
cent ot the suicides were women.
Under the recent decision of the
British house of commons only
married women whose husbands
'are entitled to municipal franchise
are entitled to the right to vote in
municipal matters.
The women of Siam have legal
status with men. They are the legal
head of the household and 110 busi-
ness transaction of a married couple
is valid without the signature of the
wife.
In order that all work and no
play shall not make Jill a dull girl
social supervisors have been sent
to F ranee with those woman con-
tingents who are engaged in tasks
behind the front.
WHERE THE LANE TURNED.
He riz one morniu' an' heard 'em
say :
"A gold mine's blowiu' the dust yer
way
An' it's here whar the long lane's
took a turn!"
Then the oxmobile he throwed
aside
An' rid all 'round like the rich
folks ride;
An' he sot his table jes' so fine
The sun warn't bright as the silver's
shine.
Which is jes' what you an' I would
do
For it's money that makes the old
world new.
i
But the new rich joy-ride throwed
him high
Till he hit the hilltop under the sky:
I An' the house he built with the
j shiny dome
j Wuz a long ways from "Home
I sweet Home!"
;An' he said: "It's finer I use ter
i feel
(When I rumbled 'roun' in the ox-
1 mobile!
An' I miss the joy that use' ter
wait
On the click o' the latch at the old
home-gate;
An' they jes' ain't nuthin' in money
to burn
An' it's here whar the lane takes
the Old Home turn!"
Atlanta Constitution.
THEM YEAEi
Tho Ardmorelte.
TEN YEARS AGO.
Miss Eudora Meek and Robert
Watkins were manied the previous
night.
Dan Painter accused of the mur-
der of Ira Johns was placed on
trial in the district court.
The bankrupt stock of the Grand
Leader Store was sold to Jacob
Dold Packing Company.
A marriage license was issued to
W. II. Scott and Edra Butler both
of Fox.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
The telegraph carried a dispatch
telling of an earthquake at McAl-
ester. Cotton was quoted at S 7-16 cents.
A comparison of cotton receipts
showed Denison's total 20413 and
Ardmore's 48413 b-iles.
A Key West dispatch stated that
a Spanish diver had confessed he
had been paid $2' 000 to place a
mine under the U. S. battleship
Maine. .
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