Fairview Leader (Fairview, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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The F airview Leader
IVAN WILLIAMS : : Editor and Publisher
Pabliskad Erary Thursday at tha Office of the Fairview Laadar
Subscription price $1 per year- t hone No 9 1
Battred ( ecor-o-clan matter iiarch rt li'lf' at the poit office at fair-
eV Oklahoma under th Art of C jngrrM of Jsn:ii 8 1870
rice If you are not already
an invalid you can live on that
for the sake of feedin? the
boys at the front or by the
Gods you are too much hog to
deserve to live in a land of lib-
erty at all
If you can’t live on that cr
think you can’t suppose you
take this view of it Let a
warm hot biscuit made of llour
represent all ten points of sus-
tenance and gastronomic satis-
faction It will sustain you and
it is mighty good Let a piece
of com pone represent eight
points of desirability from the
gormand’s viewpoint It will
sustain and you can work on
it but that is all The flour
in the biscuit represents to the
man in France not gastronomic
pleasure not a tickled palate
but life itself You have set
before you the corn pone and
the biscuit you choose the bis-
cuit What have you done'
For the sake of a pampered
appetite to please your palate
for those two points of gastro-
nomic satisfaction you have
eaten the portion that was tc
the man who is fighting your
battle ten points of sustenance
and energy to continue the bat-
tle Which are you eating?
The question of what would
be done for breadstuffs during
harvest time was raised early
in the week The fickleness oi
the harvest hand’s appetite was
mentioned Don’t worry about
his quitting to go to a place
where they feed better lie is
going to meet pretty much the
same sort of grub all the way
around and he will be able to
get better grub at an Oklahoma
farm table in harvest time than
he will anywhere else in the
country Anyway when we
turn in our report we are go-
ing to suggest to the authori-
ties that some arrangement be
made to allow the wheat grow-
ing sections an extra supply of
flour during harvest time This
for two principal reasons First
a man is just like any other
work animal and cannot meet
the hard conditions of a hot
harvest on a heat-producling
feed like corn It is better that
he should have the cooler food-
stuff and especially will this
be true this harvest when a
great number of soft and inex-
perienced men -will be in the
field The second reason for
having an extra supply of flour
in harvest is that it will be
an almost unsurmountable task
for the women of the country
to meet the labor of harvest
cookery without the use oi
wheat bread But it must be
understood that if the needs of
the boys at the front require it
we believe that it would be bet-
ter for the man in the harvest
field to eat raw potatoes for
that cool food and for the wom-
en to let the uncooked condi-
tion of them represent the labor
saved rather than to abate one
iota the efficiency of the fight-
ing men
Several of the reports sent in
seem to indicate that there was
a fear that the holder of flour
might have been suspiciored of
hoarding Don’t let that won
you for a moment We realize
that last fall a lot of us got
worried about the flour simpl
and laid in even a larger supply
than usual That was y-oiu
privilege at that time although
as a matter of fact that same
thing is what has helped tc
bring about the apparent short-
age But even though you had
hoarded don’t let that detain
you from bringing in the report
or the flour Laid away in ouv
desk is the report of a lurgt
quantity of flour given in by
one man who after the hoard-
ing rule was made went from
within a few miles of Fairview
over to Okeene and got a big
load of flour We knew he had
that flour knew to the sack
just what he had When lie
turned it in we never baited
an eye He had broken both
the spirit and the letter-of the
rule but we want to say that
if any other officer of the Food
Administration attempts to
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make trouble for that man wc
are going to defned him So
far as we are concerned his
skirts are clear But not sc
the man whom we know is at-
tempting to “hold out” aftei
the request for a delivery
comes We know of no reason
why he is not the same kind
of an enemy as the man in the
U-boat
IN EXPLANATION
Several have asked us about
the apparent discrepancy be-
tween the Official Household’s
Flour Deport and a certain ar-
ticle in the paper last week
There is no inconsistency The
case is this The Flour Report
is ail officials blank sent out
from headquarters to get cer-
tain information The article
in question is a personal appeal
to those who hold flour to help
etiiovc a stain that was put
ipon this county’s name early
m the war and that has been
added to since Early in the
war Major County was put
down as a slacker county be-
cause of the acts of certain peo-
ple In one of the Liberty Loan
drives we didn’t show up well
Even now some of the peopk
in the county who have been
honored by the people are not
adding to the honor of the
county even though the great
majority of our citizens are
getting into the harness and
doing splendidly If a big lot
of our flour that must even-
tually find its way back into
the channels of trade were vol-
untarily taken in and turned
over it would go a long way
toward making a condition that
would look well and sound well
to the people of Major County
when this war becomes history
See the point?
UP IN ALFALFA COUNTY
THEY HAVE A WAY
Word ocmes down from Cher-
okee that they once had a
slacker there but by the kindly
help of his neighbors he has
recovered It appears that this
individual failed to realize that
when the nation said through
its properly appointed officials:
“We need the wheat for the
boys in the trenches” he wasn’t
listening lie seemed to be in-
tent on what some politisians
were saying about a chance for
a few cents raise in the price
The Food Administrator called
attention to the nation’s cry
No response The neighbors-
pitied the poor deaf cuss and
issrmbling twenty teams with
vagons they drove to theffarrr
md loaded up the wheat Thf
requisition papers were served
0 make that wheat the prop
arty of the government A
banner bearing the inscription:
‘Slacker Wheat” adorned thf
leading wagon The procession
went to town The Food Ad
ministrator paid his crew wirl
their teams good wages lhc-y
gave the pay to the Red Cross
The crew ate dinner at the best
restaurant and the bill was
’’aid for out of the proceeds of
lie wheat The restaurant man
gave the cash to the Red Cross
Any and £11 expense that might
bt incident to marketing a gen-
erous crop of wheat was paid
ou c f the crop without a mur-
mur and the recipient turned
the cash oer to the Red Cross
That’s Alfalfa county
Mob Violence in Fairview
One day last week the ladies
of the Red Cross were giving
1 dinner They needed pies
Cliff dwell was drafted as a
ommittee to get them He
went to one restaurant and pur-
chased all they had got what
there wc-e at the bakery and
Mien went to another restaur-
ant There were pies but not
for sad Those pies were for
the restaurant's own business
Now it is an axiom that when
'he Red Cross calls an - Ameri-
can has no business greater
Mian serving This man is an
American It matters not what
he thinks of it what others
may think or what he wants
to be lie is an American and
it is up to him to serve So
Cliff organized himself into a
tw-
one-man mob and took the pies
They brought a good price
SOMEBODY LIED
Looking over the cards for
the Food Pledge Campaign the
Loyalty Pledge Campaign and
the Liberty Loan Registration
we find that there are several
kinds of answers that would
tend to indicate that there are
some slackers in Major County
Of all the excuses given the
one appearing most often was:
“I don’t believe in signing any-
thing” We wondered if these people
carried their objection to sign-
ing anything into the more se-
rious affairs of life or only kept
it for use in little matters like
helping to save a nation We
investigated
We found where one of these
conscientious objectors to sign-
ing anything had put his name
to a document that tied him up
to the job of paying a certain
large amount of money within
a certain time We found an-
other place where one of these
transferred a piece of land and
where another had received a
piece of land Another had set-
tled up an estate and received
a commission — and signed for
it Why dammit! two of ’em
had even got married and sign-
ed up for it There are other
places where they had signed
but in no one of the places did
we find where they had regis-
tered a demurrer by putting in
parenthesis like this (“This is
my signature but damfi believe
in it”) The unavoidable con-
clusion is that for selfish pur-
poses these people will sign
tbout any old thing but in or-
der to avoid doing what the
nation expects of them and
what they know in their hearts
they should do they develop a
conscience and hide or make
themselves believe they hide
behind it And the corollary
to that is that somebody pre-
varicated In the meantime we want to
suggest that in some of the loyal-
ty and Food Pledge drivts there
have been some in fact many
who are not Germans who have
been far more remiss than the
Germans
Another pleasing report that
oozed up from the south this week
was to the elTect that when some
of the people who would have
taken their business away from
Fairview because Fairview was
TOO loyal appeared at Home-
stead with their bank books they
were told that they might go
right back to Fairview or they
might go to tunket Homestead
was not seeking business that was
too good to stay in a loyal' town
Now we clain again that there is
some class to that that that spir-
it will convince the disloyal or
he lukewarm that they have not
home on this continent
liaik On he Jab
After being closed up for a bit
over three weeks the BOSS BAR-
BER SHOP is again open for
business thoronghly dusted
cleaned and renovated We will
be glad to meet again our old
customers H E Koss
A i’estiufion
By the Hospital Committee ol
the Okla Coivegtion of Mtnnen-
ites in session March 27 1918
Meno Okla
Among other resolutions to
make inquiries about cost of a
hospital location sister etc the
most important one we consider
to be the following one which we
resdved to publish at this time
to help urge the matter— Resol-
ved that our comitten proprs? at
next convention in fall '18 t hat
a hospital be built right soon so
that we can in it receive woinded
or otherwise sick U S soldiers
that may be sent home trom the
batt efield This is one of the
greatest services we can -render
our Country in gratitude for
granting us religious freedom and
we hope will always grant to the
extent of satisfying all
J B Epp Sec’y of Com
Just What You Went
’ LUMBER
I am selling all thelumber and
improvements on the Fairground
at most reasonable prices if so’d
soon
Rep H C Kliewer
The butcher and hog buyer 9-2t
SECRET ARMY IS I
GREATEST MENACE
German Propaganda Must Be
Fought by Americans
W” t ZV
ONLY EFFICIENT iN KNAVERY
Sava for 8ubterfuge Diplomatie Trick-
ery and Underhand and 8hamelesa
Methods of Waging War tha Teu-
ton la Not Much of an Inventor
Every Entente Country Haa Its
Heroes but Where Are the Heroes
of Germany?
' By HAPSBURQ LIEBE
of the Vigilantes
The average man of those whom
you meet la city or country will tell
you that the Germans are a little more
than remarkable for their everlasting
efficiency I used to think that too
but now I think that the Teuton Is a
thorough man rather than an efficient
man In a large measure efficiency
means being original having Inventive
ability the ability to take the Initia-
tive It means being able to fill unlooked-for
breaches Instantly
The Germnn generally speaking Is
a sort of cnt-and-drted fellow He Is
a man of precedents and not big on
taking the Initiative He Is a most
thorough developer of somebody else’s
Ideas but save for subterfuges ex-
cuses “diplomatic” trickery and un-
derhand and shameless methods of
waging war lie Is not much of an In-
ventor His submarine hls air-
planes — well Just what Is he using In
this war for which he spent forty
years In preparation that he himself
Invented? A few kinds of poisons
perhaps
To be a thorough man is not to be
an efficient man An Imbecile may be
thorough at one thing or another As
for efficiency the entente allies— In-
cluding America If you please — are
more efficient at real war than the
nntlons comprising the central powers
The entente worked wonders mir-
acles Judging by precedent consider-
ing the short space of time they had
for preparation Germany had had
forty years you know
But They Didn’t
It was a thorough though purely
theoretical reasoning that told the
Teutons that they could cross Bel-
gium roughshod and unhindered
crushing Belgium and her spirits to
take Paris But they didn’t do It By all
the Germnn rules of the war game
they could have won at the Marne and
yet they didn’t and at Verdun that
crucible that made heroes the defend-
ers of the right again achieved the Im-
possible German efficiency? It’s a
sort of fish story
Speaking of heroes you’ll find he-
roes under the British flag and
French heroes and Italian heroes
even Russian heroes and even Ameri-
can heroes— of course you remember
that American who before the United
States declared a state of war with
Germany went up Vlmy Ridge with a
small edition of Old Glory knotted to
hls bayonet — but where are the heroes
of Germany?
Airmen? AH airmen are superbrave
men Hindenburg? He Is merely an
lronsouled war lord
The point at which the Germans ap-
proach efficiency closest lies In the
work of tlielr vast secret army the
army that defeated Russia and almost
whipped Italy — I mean the German
propagandists dynamiters Incendia-
ries professional pacifists spies etc
Germany counts more upon this latter-
named force for the conquering of
America than she counts upon her
armed forces!
You Can Do A Big Bit
A writer In a recent issue of the
Saturday Evening Post speaks of this
secret army and says in effect that
there Is but one organization that can
successfully fight it and that this or-
ganization Is made up of the every-
day citizen population of America In
this he Is eminently correct The
everyday citizen needn’t be vested with
nuthorlty When he sees anything
that looks Uke German work he can
simply report It Immediately to the
authorities or even to the postmaster
We should keep both eyes open always
for work of this kind
You — you yourself— can be a patriot
and do a great big bit right here Will
you do It? America needs It God
knows America needs It lest the great
pagan whose war slogan Is "Gott mitt
uns” put the grip of kultur on Ameri-
ca — “Gott mitt uns 1” — which means
of course “God with us“ In truth I
am a wicked man but I have not seen
the day when I could blaspheme the
good Almighty Uke that
Watch always brother no matter
who you are or where you are watch
always If you would help to save
America from the fate of crucified Bel-
gium Kaiser After Kaiser
Cornelius George Kaiser twenty-one
years old of Mew York Is anxious to
“go over the top” and take a whack at
Kaiser BUI However he considered
hls name Inappropriate for hls pur-
pose So he obtained a court order to
change It to Oreenletrf
Alarmist Is Fined
Garrett Griffin was fined $10 In a
court In London for causing "unneces-
sary alarm” by spreading a report
that German airplanes had been sight-
ed over London when In reality there
were none
Sudan Seed ?
2500 lbs of Sud in Seed cleaned and graded no weed seed
or dirt price 20c lb A D Oulhicr
THIS MAN DID
' n out s-or-nsT i t
H P
FAIRVIEW
& S
SEE US FOR THE
Woven Wire Barbed Wire
Paints and Oils
AND COAL
Rogers Lumber Company
Phone 25 Fairview Oklahoma
None Better
WE SELL THEM
Fairview Tire & Repair Shop
Phone 209
CHAS A WRIGHT Prop
LARCHE GOES BACK TO WAR
Belgian Army Veteran Re-enlirts In
British Tank Corps
Sergt J G Larclie former chauffeur
In the headquarters division of the Bel-
gian army has enlisted for a return to
the fighting line — this time In Britain’s
tnnk corps He has been for several
months In this country giving war map
lectures
In offering hls services for the sec-
ond time at the Brltish-Cnnndlan re-
cruiting mission in Chicago he told
of dropping 9000 feet In nn airplane
after having brought down 18 German
machines
He first enlisted he sold on the sec-
ond day of the great war and saw the
Germnn atrocities In many of the Bel-
gian cities Bohemians Poles and
Czechs are being recruited for Immedi-
ate service by the British-Cunadian
mission
LEAVES WAGON TO JOIN ARMY
Butcher’s Man Quits Delivery When
Seized With Desire to Enlist
Everyone Is fnmlllar with the stir-
ring story of the volunteer who In the
days of the Revolution left hls plow
In the unfinished furrow and linstened
to Join the forces nnder Washington
Memphis recently furnished a com-
panion figure for this patriot of 70 In
the person of a butcher who was sud-
denly struck with the thought that he
ought to enlist and abandoning hls
employer’s wagon In which he was
making a number of deliveries hurried
to the nrmy recruiting station
Clad in the apron of hls trade the
butcher rushed Into the office was ex-
amined accepted and departed last
night for training camp
The fute of the horse and wagon Is
unknown
NOT FOKGET
There are two reasons for
his smile of satisfaction —
one is pleasant anticipation
of good things to eat and
the other is that
HE HAS PLEASED
HIS WIFE
Every women who has once
used Alrite Flour insists up
on her order being filled
right Why? Ask any
woman who uses it You
ought to believe your friends
and neighbors
A MILL
OKLAHOMA
BEST LINE OF
Our Soldiers and Sailors Will Not
Forget Gallant Lads Who
Went Down With Her
When the men of the army ©! tha
navy make up their minds to "remem
her” something they do not forget
And they "remember” by acting The
AInmo was “remembered” and thel
Maine was "remembered” — not In
bloodthirsty hatred but in the spirit
of Justice It Is proverbial that Amer-
icans are slow to anger that their
good nature can stand a great deal of
rubbing the wrong way before It be
comes bristly
Because the American people as a
whole have not been giving expression
from the housetops to hatred over the
unrighteous methods employed In Ger-
mnn warfare the Germnn autocrats
have been trying to “convince the Ger-
man mnsses that America’s heart la
not In this war Not long ago a hand-
ful of American engineers fought an
overpowering force of Germans and
fought It to a standstill It was then
that some of the Germnns at least
were convinced that the new foes
could be “fighting mud"
“Men can be fighting mad” said an
American army officer recently “even
when they are smiling
“Now in this ‘remembering busi-
ness the men of tve navy and the
men of the army hnve determined tr
’remember the Tuscanln’ and the gal-1
lnnt lads who went down with herl
But these men should not be expected!
to do all the ‘remembering’ The
whole nation should ‘remember that
disaster and every man woman and
child In the land can do so Every per-
son who buys Liberty bonds can put
himself on record as having ’remem-
bered’ the Tuscaula and the lads who
lost their lives when she was torpe-
doed oft the Irish coast”
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Williams, Ivan. Fairview Leader (Fairview, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1918, newspaper, April 11, 1918; Fairview, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1722897/m1/4/?q=led+zeppelin: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.