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OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER
FREEDOM GOAL OF NATIONS
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FROM OKLAHOMA STAKE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
OKI. IIIOH I I W.IKE!
Oklahoma is awakening to the fart that America is at war. We showed
it when we flooded banks with subscriptions to t&c Liberty I>oan In the
eleventh hour and over-subscribed our quota.
Ucrmuny Forced America Into Mar,
Declares President in Flag Day
Address at nslilngtoiu
Now that America h;ts ben forced
to war, declared the president, she
bids her young men to go forth to fight
on fields of blood far away for the
same old, familiar, heroic purpose for
which it has seen its men die on every
battle fl« Id upon which Americans
ha i borne arms since th - revolution
liut Thl- Is the Rarest Beginning.
We were asked merely to lend our
money last week, at a fair rate of
interest and with the best security
in the world behind it. We will be j
asked to give soon. We will give of 7
our time and money, we will give of
our family and friends, many of us
will give our lives.
W ashington, June 14.—America's
reason's for sending her flag against
the fire of the enemy ocross the sea
and the purpose she seeks to serve I for democracy. A sinister power, he
• is not making a donation. It is doing were 8tutcd anew by*President Wilson 1 said, which lias the German people
our duty. today in a Hap day address beneath themselves in Its grip, "now at last
Let's over-subscribe the Red < ross llu. Washington monument. has stretched forth its ugly talons and
f,,nri- i Germany's military masters denied'drawn blood from us.
Let's I ill National Onard.
"The whole world is at war," he
the United States the right to be neu
The Oklahoma national guard needs tral, the president said, and by extra .
00 more men for war slrenRih. Many ordinary insults and agressions "Iff- , becaU8c ,be wlll>le worl11 ,K J"
and
i their young men. Others have not done take up arms in defense of our rights
their share Two million people wilt as a free people and of our honor as a
We are fighting a defensive war, wat|}h the work of "our own regiment." sovereign government.
Just as truly as if the Teuton were al- Adjutant (leneral Earp has been call- ne recalled how the imperial rov-
ready devastating the tlelds of Okla- iIlg for men for wecka. Ten men mime i had Torliiden Americans the
homa instead of the Helds of Alsace- should be sent from every county 111 UHC of the high bcus nnd time and
Lorraine. Had Prussian science found thc glate within five days. a?aln PJi«,lted Its threat to send them
a method "f coping with the British j jt ten't necessary to malie a trip to t0 their death; how It filled this un-
nmvy, von Hlndenberg s generals might oklahoma City, Enid, Ada or Tulsa In suspecting country wilh spies
(already he plotting systematic de- „rdfir to t(lkt. thc ,lhysjcai examina-
struction for America as they have tion Any physician in Okla homa will
plotted and executed systematic de-, examirfc you free. If you pass, wirt?
structlon over Europe. | Adjutant General Earp, Oklahoma City,
They have boasted that America will collect, and he will wire you transpor-
pay. We must pay. And we can tation. No married men wanted. The
cither pay the price of victory and guard calls for single men between
freedom or we and our children will is and 46. Patriotic citizens in every
pay the price of defeat j county should help recruit the guard.
What we must do now is to shoulder. Save Garden Seed.
the task of the struggle, throw the j Every family in Oklahoma ipust
tull weight of our strength and re-'strive to produce its own food, this
sources behind our government and year and next l^et nothing waste, and
stop the toll of destruction and death above all else, save seed from the
Just as quickly as possible. |garden, if your radi < and spin-
The longer we wait to do this, the j ach and mustard and lettuce have
fewer of our sons will return. The more seed than you can use next year.
louder may be the cry of women and gather it all anyway, or permit your
food. i less fortunate neighbor to do it. It's
Those who can join the colors now crime to waste anything now. Only
should go. The regular army is call slackers will do it.
ing for men. The navy is calling I'or y. M. C, A. at Fort Sill.
thorn. Even our own national guard The Red Triangle, the sign of thc
is 700 men short of war strength
out the great battle, which shall de-
termine, whether it is to be brought
under its mastery or And itself free."
In giving warning that the Germans
actually have carried into execution
their plan to throw a broad ifelt ofi
military power across the center of
Europe and into the heart of Asia, re-
jecting the idea of solidarity of nations
conspirators and sought by violence Iand ,he ch°lc° °f peoplPR Mr' Wil8on
to destroy industries and arrest com- <>f th" "n<"w 1n,,iKU0 for <>«"•"
merce, and finally how the Merlin for- n"W *PI 'arin* "■ guises at thc
dsn office tried to influence Mexico |bchcst "f thc B*r n Kovernment.
and Japan Into a hostile alliance. | "" cannot 80 f,"'thor; " dar" not m
|'back." h< said. "It wishes to close its
' What great nation," he asked, "in bargain before it is too late and it
such circumstances would have not has little left to offer for the pound
taken up arms?" of flesh^it will demand
in their after years, is the least of
Wilson Flays Opponents ,Jo llson,8 worie, „ h(. „as plcnty
oi U. S. Food Bills and is adding dally to his pile.
For Johnson's interests in Barcelona
are diverse. In the first place, he is a
toreador, working steadily three times
l<> II, lease Tern lr..m Speculators, a w. and 0D |,oIidavs> a,ld ,.a|,irt:
Object Is Not to oCntrol Supplies hut
Says President.
Washington. June l&.—•President
Wilson today in a letter to Represen-
tative Borland concerning the adminis-
tration food 'bills warned opponents of
j Y. M. A., is already working among the measures that they must «be pre-
CHAUTAUQUA
AND
HOME-COMING WEEK
GUTHRIE
^ July 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 ——
But those who go to the front, al i the lads at Fort Sill. Those in charge pared to (bear the responsibility for
though they make the greatest sacri-, will notify citizens through the Coun- their defeat, if they accomplish it.
flee, tight only hair the battle. Na- « il soon just how each can help most,
tions are fighting now. not armies In the meantime those who send par-
merely. jcols of any kind to the fort must send
The farmer Is fighting for his coun-'them express preprfid.
try when he produces an extra bushel Plant Seed Crops.
of grain, the mother when she saves Plant seed crops after grain if the
an ounce of bread, the laborer when condition of your land will permit It
he leaves a task well done, the office at all. If you haven't teams or labor
man when his increased efficiency re-( or seed to do it, permit some <• your
leases another for the front, the fac-1 neighbors to use the land.
tory or the farm. , Food will help win the war
The war will not stop business It citizens should see to it that no land
must not. We must produce, transport lies idle unnecessarily,
and manufacture morf than ever be- ( < lilldreii Conif First.
fore. Half the world is depending on j Many cities in the state have fulled
us now, and our future depends upon to vote extra levies for a nine months'
how well we supply them. school, according to < re|>orts. It. P.
Every day s delay means sacrifice Claxton, national commissioner of edu-
eventually of more lives and more cation, has sounded
money.
lied Cross Week. war interfere with the education for
America is raising $100,000,000 for the children until the national defense
•be Red Cross this week, one dollar for demands it. Besides the interests of
every man, woman and child. National of your own children, the best inter-
officers of the Red Cross have allotted ests of the nation demand that the
"A certain disservice has been done
the measure by sp a king of it as thc
food control bill." wrote the president.
"The object of t".ie measure is not to
control the food of the country, but to
release it from the control of specula
tors and oth r persons, who will seek
to make 1': ordinal profits out ,t' it, and
to protect the people against the cxtor-
Fced and tions which would result.
Patriotic i **11 seems to me that those who op-
pose the measure ought very serioush
to consider whether they are not play-
ing into the hands of such persons and
whether tin*, are not making them-
selves responsible, should t ey suc-
ce d. for the ordinary and oppressive
price of food in, United States,
warning to Foodstuffs will, of course, inevitably
America that they must not let the : be hlKh, but „ ls |K>SKlbk>, hy perfectly
legitimate means, to keep thorn from
being unreasonably and oppressively
high."
earning a place of endearment in the
hearts of the Spaniards, wiio delight in
seeing wornout horses disembodied I
• maddened bulls.
Recently Johnson has added anoth- r j
string to his bow by becoming an edi-
tor. He has purchased an int . rest in j
a periodical published weekly in .Span-
ish and devoted to Socialism and
sports—frtrange bed-fellowj, but forc-
ed into contiguity 'by t'ae merging of
two publications. Long screeds in
Spanish are printed in ever; issue'
over Johnson's nourishing signature,
but he betrays intense modeVv in dis-
cussing these articles, due, according
to som doubters, to t fa.-t that he
does not know wnat they contain.
Skilful Toreador.
Johnson is a prime favorite with the
I Barcelona people, who never weary o!
watching him in the bull-ring, and de-
votees of bull fightiu? a.vert he has
attained considerable skill as a tore-
ador. Also .he continues a prime
drawing card as a boxe- and shadow
boxer. Although he has not appeared
in the squared ar*-na for a couple of
years, and declares to his friends he
never will appear therein again*. he
continues to give "trailing exhibi-
tions" a couple of times a week, when
for a few pesos t'.c wide-eyed cradu-
Colorado's Woman Senator, who speaks at Chautauqua
t he L ccturets comirg here cn the 1? 17 program include—
Senator HELEN RING ROBINSON, of Colorado;
Dr. DEAN C. DUTTON;
Dr. O. D. McKEEVER, and
Chancellor GEORGh H. BRADFORD.
SSrThe Melting Pot"
by Israel Zarigv, ill.
'U
condition" for
Is ludleathe of tireater Oil Vein Than
Illy Vet Encountered.
Enid Events.
A twenty million-foot
gasser was
$500,000 to Oklahoma. This is less next generation do not suffer by ha* -0.MILLION FOOT IJASSKR AT 1101. lous Spaniards can watch him "work-
than we should raise. Figure the popu- i R their school work interrupted.
latiou in your own county. That will The War Lord's Vmbitloii.
give you the amount you should raise. "Our (Jjy must and will come, the
Become a member yourself, and ex- day of Germany's splendor, the day of
plain to others the work of the Red groaning and lamentation, of gnnsh-
Cross. ing of teeth and tearing of hair in
Every home should be visited. That Ixrndon and Paris, In Rome and \Wl-- brought in Sunday afternoon on th
home is laggard that does not support ington, in all the capitals of the ar-
at l *ast one membership. cursed of God."—From l^eip/ig Nach-
Kurnishicg money for the Red Cross richten.
II ITT ll.MIN OK M t.HOI S DLI'IRTS
FOR FR I > t K.
Longshoremen, I nlhted ii. New Or.
Icuns Are First From South; I Ie-
brute llitli a I'arade.
New Orleans, June 16. \ battalion
of negro longshoremen from this ■ t
has di-part«\l for Pram > ir d will
the li st war companies o go rum th
8outh, it is state<l. All t. e nu n \\.
recruited from the docks hert ;u; 1
proud of that fact, as then are
stranger among them Thc\ depart-
Hoy farm, fourteen miles east and two
south of Phillips University.
The ronr of the gas can be heard f'-r
several miles
The well ranks with some of the
Servat and Louis do Blois as Second : largest in thc Blackwell fields. It
j Lieutenants. j makes ample thc supply of natural
i It was announced at theoutsw of the gas within a small radium of F,nid for
recruiting that ouly the best negro*.- almost any industrial requirement,
for the work were to be accepted. Ir i Oil men say also that it means a
) pursuance of this purpose a e urch greater volume of oil than any yet
! rally was held, where Godfry and his, found in this immediate vicinity and
I aids could better see and determine as VVM result in great stimulus of de-
to the available material. More than velopraent.
; '00 applicants were disappointed as | 'r,u' KaH Wl4fi 8truc^ :lt nbout 4
; result of th limitation uj>on the tiurn ; "'dock p. nu in the ninth test being
drilled by the Garfield Oil co. on the
ed on a spe
Thursday morning
in
The
o $10«
there is
will als.
' enlisted
igroes are to be paid from $0
* month, according to abllit
r. and will receive pay whethe
work for them «
be uniformed, h
allowed all tht
I In
farm and is near the
corner of t
section 25-22
northeast
they laid
night of it
r not. Th -
used and fed
holiday and
rument em-
southwest
tuurter of
other
sand
ing himself into
match they Implicit^/ believe he is
traluLng for.
The former cham pion skips the rop«-
an(j punches the bag, causing great as-
tonishment at the finale w hen he pulls
his old triok of striklaig a glancing
blow and tearing the pigskin loose
from the rope and sending it bouncing
among the crowd, just as ne did at
Reno before the Jefferies contest.
Then he wrestles awhile and finally he
boxes a couple of two-minute rounds.
His oppon«*n.t is either one oY the Ne-
groes who are in bis regime here or J
snie husky Spaniard who believes he j
is a -boxer and wants a chance to'
prove it Johnson has dissipated the 1
hopes of a good many of this class, j
and bis continued ability to put these
gentry away with a punch causes the '
people to think he is still champion 1
tlmJber.
In Hole of Moorish Chieftain.
At the recent fete for Ml Saints'
da here Johnson appeared garbed
;n a Moorish chieftain in a flowing
w -lit* ron and Uinban an l mounted
on a prancing steed, die elicited more
ring than anyone els in lin<\ a d
Germans Sink
jap Vessel
steamer Hound From Boston to Kug-
land Fell Victim to Torpedo.
| Host on, June 16.—The Japanese
I steamer Tausan Maru, which left Bos-
i ton May 9, for Manchester, Eng., has
been sunk U>y a German submarine.
Cable advices to agents here today
stated that Captain Nichlkawa and the
crew of 27, all.Japanese, were believed
to have been lost.
The T&nsan Maru carried a general
cargo. Ship and cargo were valued at
$1,600,000. The vessel was unarmed.
The message did not say where or i
when she was sunk.
The Tan ban Maru, formerly • the ,
British steamer Sir Charles Tennant. j
• registered L',41o tons gross.
LA 110>1 A MAN DISAPPEARS.
Uihoma, Okla., June 18,—l^ahoina
citizens are worried about the disap-
pearance of Charles R. Pugh, 2S years
old, who has been absent since May 27.1
Mr. Pugh, who is a painter, left La-
1 homa and started for Enid, intending
j to return the same day. No trace has
f been found of the man and authorities |
have been unable to trace him to Knid.
lid has sent friends no message and
lahoma citizens suspect foul play.'
I ugh has no relatives in Uihoma.
sin.n rni>T
lie
u mi < oi HII
OLD.
*ith mm
on and
! u d h'
long Lan
lumina
with n
witne.v
crowd
the ghor time int« .-veiling between o-
ganlzatlon of tin battalion and its d
part nr., there were no uniforms ex-
cept for the w ite officers, hut the Ne-
groes are to have tho.n i . time f
wear in their si : vice abroad.
The battalion, while designated f
regular longshoremen work abroa.l.
organized as a military unit. It
under command of Fit/ Godfr . a •
eran of the Harrison Line of Blear1 r
with Clarence I) Bach min and ' •
Wakefield, also practii al sh
ag foremen or Lieutenants, ad Go on.
< I \S| Tin: It UK, Mi l rIIK PUN
Get bu£V. Act now. Use Sloan's
Liniment for your rheumatic pains,
toothache, neurulgia. sore museles.
stiff joints, sprains and strains. Bot-
t r t an anything you ever tried to
soothe hurts, reduces swelling and In-
flamation. Cleaner than ointments or
piasters, as it does not clog the pores
or stain the skin. Easy to apply, it
penetrates without ruV.jInu Always
brtve a bottle of Sloan's Liniment in
your mvdicine chest. At your drug-
is t, 2uc. 50c. $1.00.
Children Cry
FOR TLETCHER'S
C A S T O R I A
' JOHNSON SP INISII F.DITOK
INI) TOL'I ADOIt,
Negro Slngirer and 1IU White Wife
Knjoy Popularity In Barcelona. •
ed u<p French durin.
ianish.
Barcelona. S
worry." is t c
life here as 1
year In Spai
every hit as j
ho first arrive
Jaek now, gin
ring. Fat. th
ifts, holds no
and war is t<
conversation
chief anxiety
pain. May 1 ,*i "1 should
motif of Jack Johnson's
e enters on his second
i. with the "pickings'
ood as they wore when
1 For nothing worries
e he is retired from thc
hugaboo of all pugil-
ear for the bulky negro
him only a subject of
Money, the -source of
he
o (nih ility tn learning
• i .. rst - freely enough in
0R> ron in Barcelona. He
nd i >oks at Spanish nwspi
not d finitely known w
an ivaly read them.
Johnson and his white wi
handsome house in the
lost exclu v< part of Harcelona. ami
ecently, when he was having his
ome renovated and redocorrred. thev
Ni'd for a month at thc
The heal
loosen th
ig balsti
phlegli
ms sot
! the
IIV
nnd
and clear
the air passages of secretions which
provoke coughing. Contains mildly
laxative ingredients which remove the
waste that aggravates the cold. At
vour druggist. ~ 0c. *1.00,
The State Register has contracted with one
of the largest wholesale portrait houses in the
Southwest for '5000 Portraits to be distributed
among our subscribers. Our object being to in-
crease the circulation of our paper which is with
out a doubt one of the most u'p to the minute
sheets published in central Oklahoma. These pic-
tures are such as cost from $3.50 to $5.00 else-
where and are practically free when taken with
the Register. The only cost being thp bare cost
of material used in their construction, expense
of shipping and delivery which is but a mere
trifle. Our representatives belong to the South-
western Circulation Bureau and are under the
supervision of Mr. W. H. Conaway, who comes to
us highly recommended. .A representative will
t all on each and every home in town and through
out the county and give each and every family a
chance to subscribe to the Register and have one
or two of these Family pictures Enlarged. No
family can have more than two pictures. Parties
availing themselves of this offer are not obliged
to purchase a frame so h .ve your pictures ready.
Subscribe for t good paper and have one or two
wf your family pictures enlarged ami get what is
coming to you.
THE REGISTER.
to most prize-ttirhters Barcelona.
hip dinner, nnd Johnson Is a familiar fie-
hev ure in thc supper room, w.iere tango
1 in is the sport until daybreak. He never
They are often there for attempts to dance, however, and he
i cits his liquid refreshment to a few for mine' I've done all the lighting
glnsr.es of champag ;e. 1 want to do, and fighting in the army
"Ikick to America?" echoed John- doesn't appeal to me at all. Barce-
son, in aur,w. r to an inquiry; "Never Iona is good enough for me."
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