Claremore Progress (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CLAREMORE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1917
THE CLAREMORE PROGRESS
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W C. KATES, ........ WH-J*
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W. B.l.e.. In—PROCRESH—<>*r N.—
UIM in tk« Klr t < on«r MW>wal Dtatrk-t
Twn.lj Bv, Year* Under Pr«Mnt Ownership
the Hrtt.rmrnl and Uplift of tk«
mi nity in Which W. Lira." to Our
k EEP YOUR
PRESENTS
The Christinas present e\change
habit has 'ustened iUelf upon our
population to such an extent that it
tukes the services of many sales peo
pie and delivery wagons for inanj
ilays after the holidays. Sometime.'
Oiri.stmus presents are exchanged a-s
much as a month after Christmas
This year exchanges should be cur
tailed as much as possible.
1'resents should be chosen with
care. Let the buyers use their own
brains a little to sa\e the time of the
salespeople later. And except in case
of real necessity, let the recipient*
keep what has been fiveu them.
There are cases, of course, where it
is necessary to exchange gifts. If
pair of slippers is too small, or a pair
ot cloves too large, or your friend ha
•en l you an electric lamp when youi
house is lighted with gas, there is a
real reason fur the exchange, but
this heedless giving of anylhmg one
sees, because "she can exchange it i
she doesn t like it," this greedy run
uuig aoun town to see if you cant get
a bilk wai.M instead of the books your
Aunt Jane sent you, mu3t not happei
Uus year.
IjMtHir is too precious in this time
uf war. it iuusl uui be wasteu. tie
tincerciy tuaiiKiul lor the love ol your
triends aim be gracious about its lua
ierini expression. Keep your pres
eats.
38T 3T Jtr
OL It NKW
ivN^MiES
itie late*l available statistic* ol
Austria-Hungary give the population
ui that counu-y as jU.UUU.UUU.
.■\ustria Hungary, it must always be
remembered, is merely a geographic
al term, as Uuss.u was uoder tile
czttr*. the "i>ual .ttonarchjr" is mere
iy an acciueniai gioupmg ot in
neterogeneous peoples under one gov
ei-mnentai system.
lo mention only the most import
ant racial elements, there are the
vim mans, numbering about
o\AJ, U.e Jia*yais, about XU,U0o,UU0
uie c^ectis anu oiovaks, often ciassi
iieu togeuier as *_i cnoslova j , 6,-
jou.ouu, Uie ooulh Slavs, i>,UUO,UUU
toe i oies, o.owo.ooo; uie Little Ku
siens, 4,uou,uou; tbe itoumaciana, H,
_.aj,oou; anu tne itauaua, oou.ooo.
fcxpeits say mat omy the first two
gioups, the Vjeruians and Aiagyars
snouid be set down as triends ol Ger-
many. 'lhat mar.es omy 22,000,000
i>ro-iiei mans m /vustxia-uungary, oa
me supposition that these two groups
are unanimous—ana it ia known that
millions of tr.ern from tne beginning
have been opposed lo lighting tor the
lurtherance of (jerman ambitions,
the rest, composing the big majority,
have ali along been disposed to favor
the Allies, though obliged by an iron
military system to fight against
them.
A good illustration of this lack ol
unanimity in Austria-Hungary is
found in the war record of the Czech-
ulovaks. Realizing at the outset that
the triumps of the Central Powers
would mean the death of their nation-
al dreams, great numbers of them de-
fied their government and suffered
imprisonment or execution rather
than fight against their convictions.
In the spring of 101& they organized
a National Council with headquarters
at Paris, and issued a manifesto de-
claring that their interests as a na-
tion demanded that they take a defi-
nite stand with the Allies.
Hundreds of thousands of them who
were forced to take up arms went
over to the allied armies, surrender-
ing as voluntary captives. Some
000,000 are said to have entered Rus-
sia in this way. Others entered
Roumania and Italy. Many who had
been living abroad made their way-to
h ranee, from all quarters of the
world.
Most of the fugitives entered the
service of the Allies as workers
in munitions plants mines, etc
Many of them took up arms
against their former country. An
Austro-IIungarian scholar says that
there is now in Russia an independent
Czechoslovak army of 100,000 men.
There is a similar, though smaller,
army in France.
All this time the Czechoslovaks In
the United States have been helping
the allied cause faithfully and consis-
tently. A similar story might be told
f all the smaller racial groups.
W AKE UP—TIME
TO ECONOMIZE!
Has the country fully wakened to
the seriousness of the business in
hand—the successful prosecution of
our war against Prussian autocracy?
According to Secretary of the Treas-
ury McAdoo, it has not. Mr. McAdoo
said recently :
So far as I have been able to ob-
serve, the American people are not
.sufficiently aroused to the necessity of
economy. Up to the present time there
has been relatively small denial of
pleasure, comforts and conveniences
on the part of the average citizen.
"He is drawing upon the general
store of supplies in the country with
almost the same freedom as before
America came into the war. This can-
not continue without serious hurt to
the nation and to the world. The great
financial operations of the govern
incut cannot In: carried forward sue
cessfully unless the people economist
in every possible direction, save their
money and lend it to the government."
If Mr. Average Citizen wants con-
firmation of the secretary's words, he
has but to look about him to see that
as a whole the country is still pretty
carefree. Most folks are making only
the very slightest attempt to carry
out Uie food conservation rules fully
and consistently. They're eating about
as n""*h as usual - auid that hnn al
ways been a little more than enough
in America. Perhaps they observe
vvheatless and meatless days, but they
turn around and make up for these
slight deprivations by eating more
tlian usual of something else. The
war tax on high-priced theatre seats
may be the reason why affairs in Uie
theatrical world seem to be slackened
up. But Uie li> and -o-cent movie
bouses are still packed.
Most of us still indulge in many uf
our favorite pastimes regardless of ex-
pense. i'arties and teas and pleasure
trips haven t been noticeably curtail-
ed. bo far most of us have only dab-
bled in economy as we would ui any
new lad thai appealed to u
It's probably true that most people
are peitecny willing to save. They
just haven i appreciated the full
scope of Uieir previous extravagrance
and haven't «otten down to actual
saving, liui its got to couie SOms
tune, and the inure patriotic a citizen
is Uie quicser he 11 appreciate Uiis and
Knuckle down to genuine Uirut.
* * JT
fiUTLNG FISH
"Kat l'ish, and save meat,'' urges the
food adiuiiustraUoii. Whereupon the
lun industry proceeds to charge more
lor lish Ulan lor beef.
This happens not merely in interior
localities distant irom the source of
production, out in such communities
as -New iork, lioston, Philadelphia,
-sew Orleans, cleveland, Chicago anu
various l acilic Coast cities, ail with
easy access to a pieutuui supply,
i^ake r.rie white lish, fur instance, in-
ter the biggest season's catch m many
years, has oeen retailing for more than
00 cents a pound in the lake ports
where tishing tugs unload their car-
goes. Nearly every big fishing cen-
ter tells the same story. At most in-
terior points the prices are still mors
prohibitive.
Why is Hum: President Wilson
probably hit the nail on the h^ad when
he said, in his address to congress,
"ihe law ul supply ant' demand, 1 am
sorry to say, has been replaced by the
law of unrestrained self is hue—."
The food administration's work has
only just begun. Heretofore it has
operated chiefly by persuation. Here-
after it may have to operate with a
club.
* 3T
HlMiUUiliRG
STRATEGY
Field Marshall Von Hindenburg, m
a newspaper interview, expresses the
opinion that "the Americans will hard-
ly send their newly created army to
Europe at once, as by so doing their
country would be retained helpless in
cast Japan should tbow a sudden in-
clination to square up old accounts
With America."
Pesides, he says, we can'* transport
a large army to Euiope, and evsn if
we could get the troops across, we
couldn't send the necessary supplies.
We haven't got the ships. And if we
had, the U-boats would stop them.
It is impossible to believe that the
commander-ib-chief of the German
armies is a man of such feeble men-
tality or slight information as his
statements might seem to indicate.
Surely he is aware that the United
States already has in France a larger
force of armed men than this country
ever before assembled at one time,
that that force is being steadily aug-
mented, and that no less than a mil-
lion Americans will face him on the
western front next summer, while a
second million prepares to follow.
These are matters of common knowl-
edge. If Hindenburg doesnt know
them perfectly well, his spy system
must be sadly disarranged, and he
and his staff must have quite stopped
reading the newspapers.
<Jf course Hindenburg does know
what we are doing. Hie remarks are
a crude bluff, meant partly to reas-
sure his own people, but meant pri-
marily to foment trouble between
America and Japan, after the usual
Prussian manner. It's an essential
part of German strategy to stir up a
quarrel between us and the Japs by
pretending that a quarrel already ex-
ist i.
*
ItllLU BOND
ISSUES
The United States has tremendous
financial power, but it is not financial-
ly omnipotent. We can raise whatev-
er money is needed to win the biggest
of wars, but while we are accomplish
intr this extraordinary feat we cannot
raise money as usual for ordinary pur-
poses.
This fact is recognized by the In
vestment Bankers' Association of
America, which is systematically di-s
outraging bond issues not immediate-
ly contributing to the war. It has
been proposed that this effort be fur-
thered by proclamations issued by the
governers of all the states, asking
cities, counties and townships to with-
hold from the market all issues not
absolutely indispensable.
It is recognized that the financing
of public improvements cannot be
wholly stopped. There is no desire
to interfere with sewer-digging; wat-
erworks construction and school ex-
tensions, for example. But little en-
couraKeinent is given for such pro-
jects us buying new parks, erecting
costly city halls or court houses, etc.
The public will readily acquiesce in
this view, when once the situation is
understood. Individuals and families
must go without many thir.gs in war
time; so must communities. It is one
tf the big misfortunes of war that
.any wor'hy snd desirable public im-
I rcvement* are postpone!. But r:e
must reconcile ourselves to that, de-
riving consolation from Uie big bene-
fits we expect to gain.
Wv shall take up our big communi-
ty enterprises after the war, and han-
dle them all the better be"aus« of the
ir.fture consideration we havj given
them, and because of the ne-e zest and
sense of security that victory has
brought
*
LICKING THEM
One of our contemporaries sug-
gests by way of comfort that after
all, it's no more trouble to lick a
three-cent stamp than a two-cent one.
And another one regrets that there's
no more nourishment to be obtained
from the lavender kind than from the
old-fashioned red variety.
But there is yet another factor in
the situation: Whenever you squander
your hard-earned wage at the stamp
window buying the pale-violet stick-
ers you may have the solid satisfac-
tion of knowing that with every lick
of a lavender stamp, you are helping
to lick the Kaiser.
AFTER FOUR YEARS
Claremore Testimony Remalae Un-
shaken.
Time Is the best test of truth.
Here Is a Claremore story thst has
stood the test of time. It Is a stor>
with a pont which will come straight
home to many of u .
T. it. Kennedy. blacksmith, Ninth
and MuskoKee Sis., says: "J suffered
for several years with dull, heavy
pains across the small of my back
and sharp twinges would catch me
through my back and loins when I
stooped or lifted anything. 1 felt
languid snd all tirej out. The kid
ne> secretions were profuse, highly
colored and contained brick-dust-
like sedln ent My sle. p wa0 b'oken
because I had to get up so oiten to
|)k-s the k.dn > secretions. !*oan'!-
Kidney Pills relieved uie quickly an t
after 1 had used four b xo- the
trouble had entirely disappeared."
OVKK POUR TEARS LATER Mr
Kennedy ad<!*il "I ha. ent had to use
a kidney remedy fur a feng time, a*
the cure Doan* Kidney PUlg gave me
has been permanent. ] heartily back
•p what I have previously ssld for
the medicine."
Price 10c. at all dealers. Foster-
Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. T.
THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER
*4
A new book giving a most compre-
hensive explanation of cancer and Ks
successful treatment without the
knife is offered for free distribution
by medical institution of national
prominence. Send for your copy to-
day. Address, 0. A. Johnson, M. D„
Suite 040, 1320 Main St, Kansas City,
Mo.
m . n
ANNOUNCEMENT
K
I hereby announce myself as a can-
didate for Sheriff of Rogers county,
subject to the decision of the Demo-
cratic Primaries in August, 1818.
John R. Coker, Tiawah, Oklahoma
* m
Mrs. A. B. Foster and young son,
Jack, of Tulsa, arrived in the city
Wednesday for a short visit at the S.
C. Vinson home.
F. E. Carlstrom, of Oolagah, was a
( la rem ire visitor 1\iesday.
John y. Adams and Ayres K. Ross
spent Wednesday in Inola in the inter-
est of the Red Cross.
Only a few
days until—
CHRISTMAS
OUR STORE is still well stocked with Holiday
Goods, but there will be very little left after
the final rush Saturday and Monday. Don't wait
until the eleventh hour to do your Christmas
shopping. There will be "slim picking" for the
late buyers.
Candy
Fruit
Towels
Hosiery
Handkerchiefs
Nuts
Toys
Dolls
Books
Men's Furnishings
Novelties
Ribbons
Notions
New York 5&10c Store
Wednesday, December 26,1917
at the COLLINS LIVERY BARN
Nowata, : Oklahoma
HE TERNS WILL BE HADE KNOWN TBE DAY OF SALE
40 cows in milk, from 3 to 6 years old. Many cows in this herd will give 6 trillions per day. All bred to
registered bull, a grand son of King Segis, and from a 40-pound dam. One Registered Male.
25 Bead of Extra Good Heifer and Boll Calves, all well marked and well bred
SALE STARTS AT 1 O'CLOCK, RAIN OR SHINE!
The above cows are milking or heavy springers and in good, thrifty condition. These cattle attain the true
characteristic of the breed whi:-h has become so famous for good production of milk, butter and beef. All
ure big, broad-hacked cattle of typical dairy conformation, big s<|uure udders of good size and well-placed
teats. All are bred to registered bull.
TUBERCULIN TESTED and THOROLY ACCLIMATED
If you are in the market for Dairy Cattle don't fail to attend this sale. We assore you that we have some-
thing that will meet with your approval.
PAUL FARLEY. Owner
Col. J. W. Athey, ef Nowata, Oklahoma, and Col. T. S. Ball, of El Reno. Oklahoma, Auctioneers
Sam r. Wilkinson, Clerk
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