The Herald-Sentinel. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, November 4, 1918 Page: 2 of 4
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The Herald-Sentinel
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S. B. Macdonald, A. W. Anderson,
Editors and Managers.
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the Post Office at Cordell, Okla.,
inder the act of Congress of March,
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and German opinion In the mans ex-
pressing a great yearning for a mer-
ciful peace and admission to 11 toler-
ated position in the League of Na-
tions. Certainly an Emperor who can
.ntage a spectacle of his own throne
totteriug, Ills armies beaten, and his
empire In dissolution, and then in a
marvelous transformation scene can
reveal himself as securer than ever,
his armies undefeated, and hl coun-
try united, Is a wonderful manager.
Only lifs role is altogether too heroic
for the average mind to grasj
much more mobile and
generally by the allies.
GERMANY'S HUMILIATION.
JUDGE J. B. A. R0BERT80N.
democratic Nominee for Governor of
the State of Oklahoma.
When Washita county litlzens learn
• that only $14.>,oo0 worth of war sav-
ings stamps have beeu bought iu the
county and recall that Hie quota is
approximately $650,000, limy will see
the necessity of not only redeeming
their pledges made on June 28, but of
buying stamps iu amounts exceeding
their pledges. It will not do to lay
down Iu this matter especially in view
of the light quota of the fourth Lib-
erty loan,— Foss Enterprise.
Whether Hungary is to emerge
fropi the confusion as a republic or as
a monarchy is likely to be too soon,
disclosed to make any speculation!
worth while. The essential and over- I
shadowing fact of the moment Is that
the annulled Austro-Hungariau Em-
pire no longer exists. Whether a's re - ,
public or monarchy, the career ofl
Hungary henceforth Is to be tlur <if
a separate and independent Slut",'
smaller in territorial area, for the
reason that Transylvania will un
doubtedly be awarded to the Rouma-
nians. But even when thus bereft,
Hungary will be as much larger as ,t I
is more virllo than Austria. For nfU-r
Austria shall have been deprived ofl
the provinces which must be taken to j
satisfy the claims of the Czecho- |
Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs. to .nay:
nothing of the Poles, there will be but !
little left In excess of the ancient!
mark set up by Charlemagne—-was it \
not? -as a kind or obstacle to the en-
croaching Slav mass of the Eas'. It
is doubtful If. thus reduced, Austria i
will have eithnr the area or natural
resources necessary to support the
.pretensions of an Independent nation, j
Possibly Austria will g.avltnto Into
the German orbit, and become a king-
dom of the Oertuan Empire such as >
Bavaria Is.—Dallas News.
o —o
if Germany continues to resist
stubbornly, it is undoubtedly because
it imagines that any show of weak-
ness would only Incite its enemies
into being more relentless in naming
the price of pear*. There Is a reve-
lation of this motive Iu the remark
of the Frankfort Zeltung that Mr.
Wilson's "position as' world arbiter
depends solely on whether the Ger-
man military power Is worth so much
lhat it can not be forced to surrender
without the help of the American
forces.-' The implication, if not oli-
.vious. is at least easily found. The
German notion Is. evidently, that Mr.
Wilson s Influence will be exercised
to restrain the demands of France and
Great Britain, and that his Influence J
will be greater while the struggle
continues than it will be nrter It shall
have ended. Germany sees in Mr.
Wilnon, not a friend, but the most
merciful of its foes, and It is fighting,
not with any hope of averting defeat
nor or long delaying It, but In the be-
lief that It can enhance the persua-
siveness or Mr. Wilson's moderating
counsels in the conference now being
held, it Is this belief which seems
to animate the Germans in the stub-
born resistance they are making, and.
if this is so. we have good reason for
thinking that the termination of the
war waits only on the decisions that
are in process of being made at Paris. .
•Dallas News.
NAMING THE "TANKS."
Dallas, Texas, Oct. U0. -Tanks, the
groat armored caterpillars that crept
out over the battlefields of France
and caused one of the war's muny
, military sensations, were given their
name by the curious folk of a little
town neur London.
The story was brought to Texas
l>.v Lieut. P. E. Klnsey, United States
Army Reserve who Is recruiting fori
the tank service.
,rhe English war department was
at work ou a new weapon of offense I
in a small town near London and sfi- ,
, recy was of utmost importance.
Guards were chosen from the tried
men of the army and a light enclosure
j "reeled around the work shops.
I Neighbors were barred from the lo-
cality and curiosity reached the lim-
its as the pounding of automatic riv-
eters, clanking of cranes und other
noises gave evidence of the construe- I
lion.
At lhat time the question of sup-
| pyling water at the fighting fronts
i was an important one and the neigh- j
horhood gossips Including u)l of thei
army wlio knew that something was
going on decided that a new style of i
tank was being built. Thereafter the
mystery was commonly referred to us
the tanks.
When the first machine issued from!
the enclosure it, did have u resem- ■
blaine of a water tank. So it Is as I
tanks tlmt the armored cars have be- !
come known throughout the world. I
The tank Is an American idea,'
Lieut. Klnsey said, although the first j
one was built in England by Eng-j
llsli mechanics.
Without the knowledge of the oth-
er ally Prance also was experiment-
ing simultaneously with a machine
THE CORDELL HERALD-SENTINEL.
similar in structure, but on a small-' meeting the fated issue of Armaged-
er scale The smaller tanks proved,don with either dignity or nobility.
adopted There is something Indefinably ig-
noble iu their complaining and wail-
ing. We have seen the French, ap-
parently threatened with Irremediable
kt r,lln- sla,ul undaunted in the presence
New York Evening Post. Whatever of a national catastrophe. We have
the ru ure may have in store for H8en English called upon by Mar-
thnZt n „ . rady "U8,5in8 *hal HaiK 10 fiBht wfth their barks to
through the va ley of humiliation. It the last wall that remained between
s as the resolutions adopted by the then, and destruction. Invaded and
eel, n 7 88lU" D'fit "a!* ^ood up under a hur-
U,e hour of U,e Fatherland'8 rirane of blows without whimpering.
greatest distress. Defeat has enter-
ed the German soul, and is carrying
with it unexampled bitterness and
despair. The expressions of the Ger-
man press are simply atnuxlng in their
admission* of impending and un-
avoidable disaster to the Empire. The
old Prussia, mournfully confesses the
Junker Kreuss Zeltung, is no more,
But Germany defeated instantly he-
roines a Germany well-nigh despica-
ble in spirit, Take the statement by
Erzberger, now a member of the Gov-
ernment. It reads like one long
whine. We could have more respect
even tof people whom we fear and
fight, people ineffacably stained by
acts of cruelty and crime, if they
would at least quit themselves !ike
men when their hour of retribution
came. But Germany today is justify-
ing by her poor-spirited bearing all
that has ever been said of the inher-
ent baseness of the whipped bully.
Iu the now secure defeat of Ger
many, her enemies have attained
more than a military triumph, more
than a respite from the great menace
to the world's peace, more than the
casting down in utter destruction of
the vast fabric of Germany's ambi-
tions to dominate all mankind. They
have done much to restore men's
faith in the moral order of the uni-
vrse, When it seemed possible last
March that German brute force might
weep to death the defenders of lib- i
Monday, November 4, 1918.
rty. many must have-felt, as the Eng-
lish historian says that "wise me*"
in England did at the time of the
civil wars of the seventeenth cea-
tury, that they would not care to live
longer in a world of which the moral
foundations were destroyed. Fro*
that depression of soul and forebod-
ing of spirit we have been saved. T -
day, without gloating over the calam-
ities which have broken upon Ger-
many, we may say that her adject de-
spair is coincident with the rising
hope of all who love liberty and light.
having been pierced to the heart by
the sword of Socialism and democ-
racy. And the most extraordinary
language Is used respecting' the pen-
alties Germany may have to pay. One
[ paper bids Germans to prepare them
selves to think of Alsace-Lorraine as
hereafter "ojtslde the framework of
| the Empire." Another pictures a com-
ing Slav Power as stretching south-
west from Danzig—implying that this
port Is to cease to lie Gorman. An-
other speaks or the only refuge of
Germany being to rind a place In the
League of Nations, though even there
It can hope to enter only as "a be-
littled Germany."
j Such utterances in the still severe-
I ly censored and regulated German
I "reBS are naturally open to a certain
, amount of suspicion. What is their
object? Does the Government hope
I by this means to deceive the allies, to
' lure them Into thinking that Ger-
j many is weaker than she really Is,
. a||<l to lull them into a raise security
| while a new. mighty German stroke |
[ is being made ready? That Is one
theory; but It seems to us too subtle'
by. half. It would be a queer way to I
brace German nerves, to let the news
or Germany's hopeless plight be
spread among the people. The in-
ference is much more plausible that
the Government wishes to eoirvey to 1
the nation through a controlled press I
the necessity of making a huinihat- |
ing peace.
However that may be, it is at least
certain that the Germans are not
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"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE."
-Mew York, Evening Post: William i
IPs histrionic gifts have never been :
denied, but If what is now going on In 1
Germany is really stage-management1
for the delusion of the allies, then
the kaiser will certainly g0 down as'
the greatest impresario in history.!
Only genius in the business of stage '
direction could set such elaborate ma- :
chinery at work and 'could marshal j
such mobs with their alarums an dex-
cursions: the liberal press admitting i
that Alsace-Uirraine is lost; the.
Junkers in East Prussia shouting
that never will they consent to put,
Danzig and Koenigsburg under the
Polish eagle; the militarv critics de-'
ploring Foch's relentless violence and
admitting that the invasion of Ger- |
many must be envisaged; the press
bureaus ordered to deny that the
kaiser is really intending to abdicate;
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Jeweler and Optometrist
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Saturday November 2 and will continue the same
as long as the Quit Business Sale lasts. All Mer-
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you fail to supply your immediate and future needs
the loss will be greater than you think as every-
thing that you can possibly expect of a Quit Bus-
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McDonald, R. B. & Anderson, A. W. The Herald-Sentinel. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, November 4, 1918, newspaper, November 4, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc169671/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.