The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1917 Page: 2 of 10
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TINS DtNlIO O. S. RIGHT
TO NEUTRAL.
| (torti. H. u.ruml -himt William k- addressed the followiag
mnaton en*u> -s upon yow end upon reur dynasty t M*ur# >oa
d'f oiion ran be only temporary The bwIWhI Bat ot U rmany. w th Cttf .
thar %ld frtm Almighay Uod a 111 raatore >ou t jy r^UWIBS,. S< **
filleo country with spies
r.Td. on ju We Iwpa lu arkoma yon IB iermlfl* at the earliest opport*
"YOUR WI1XIAM. |
OKIA TAKES MORE THAN HER SHARE
last day of big campaign state subscriptions be-
results in millions of "
subscriptions in all
parts of country
HALF MILLION SUBSCRIBERS
IN PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON
Loan Is Papula- One In tvery Sense,
bulk of aubacriptlona Being In
bond* of $60 and $100 Oanom-
Inatlona—Total SuSeerib-
era About 2.500,000.
lieveo to be 25 per cent
over allotment
HALF ULION OF INDIAN MONEY
Help* to Put Oklahoma in Prominent
Vary Position On tha Patrio-
tic Map of tha United
States.
Oklahoma City—With tabulation*
Incomplete, tha following totals ot
sales of Liberty bonda were received
from Oklahoma towna:
Subscriptions Allot't.
Tulaa i.m.m *00.000
Washington—The Liberty loan cam-
palgn closed with every indication Mu,ko^"" " !! !««s!ooo
that the tremendous thirtieth dayjowehom* City J, 2.S00
drive throughout the nation would re- JJJJglmSie
suit in the final going to near throe sapulpa ...
billion dollar*—50 per cant over the .
peal. Enid
Estimate of $2.S«2.300.000. I £££
Estimates fnyn the twelTe reserve q Reno ..
districts, some of them unofficial >ut Ho^anvUla
mostly from the loan committeaa. In-1 Hu*o —
dicata that tha subscription might, 2^"?®?
reach the total of $2,$43,800,000. p-r^erick
These estlmatea. wmch were
Touched for aa authoritative at the j
treasury department, a ere as ft>
lows:
New York $1,030 000.000.
Boaton. $263,300,000 (official).
Philadelphia, $200,000,000.
Cleveland. $384,000,000. as estimated
by the chairman of the local commit-
tee after a careful survey of the en-
tire district.
Richmond, more than $100,000,000.
Atlanta, $52,593,800.
Chicago, $330,006,000, with $322,-
000 000 tabulated.
St. Louis, $81,500,000 estimated upon
returna to the federal reserve bank. , more than the $14,500,-
Kanaas City, 90,000.000. estimated allotted to Oklahoma has been
by the federal reserve bank.
Minneapolis, $62,000,000, estimated
by Governor Wold of the federal re-
serve bank.
Pone* City
Ada
Duncan ...
Collinsville .
Purcell ...
Miami
Perry
Newkirk ...
Marietta ..
Arapaho ...
Medford - - -
The atate of Oklahoma has over-
subscribed its quota of the Liberty
loan. Just bow much of the was issue
bail been purchased in the state will
not be known for several days. Defi-
nite figures are not obtainable from
any point, but the estimates of bank
045,000
400,000
447,000
m.ooo
. . ISO
J 10.000
172,000
114,000
ISO. WO
lU.OOO
•7,550
51.>50
*5.150
110.000
*7.000
160.900
22,200
7.100
150.000
120.000
53.000
48.000
. 43.400
138,000
5.000
45.000
24.500
1.10©
la.oso
495,000
1.100.000
150,000
SlO.OOfl
1S2.000
310,000
300.000
117,747
84.000
120.000
*2.103
65.520
82.500
17.142
50.471
M.OOO
130.000
43.00M
66.53V
85,000
122.000
63,000
45,000
48.000
76,780
4S.0«0
45.SKK)
50.518
18.000
22.3*>
000 allotted to Oklahoma has been
taken.
Gabe E. Parker, superintendent of
the Five Civilixed tribes of Indians,
lerve bank. announced in Idabel that the interior
Dallas. $48,000,000. estimated by ,>,e department haa authorized tne invest-
foderal reserve bank. ment of approximately J5.000.000 of
San Francisco, $160, 00,000. Indian money in Uberty bonds. That
It appeared that only one rese've the }nvestment of Indian money is to
district—Atlanta—would fall oelow ^ extended to other than the so-called
the minimum allotment. civilized tribes is indicated in another
Button Factories Buay. report from El Reno which said that
_ that at Superintendent W. Scott of the
-rirus 2SM
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ViobHrtber. Si SapwUHend.nt P.rHer-. .ut.m.nt
three million. New York, was that the department, at the re-
philadelphia and Boaton reserve dis- quest of large numbers of Indians had
fricU alone have received, and It is decided to invest surplus funds of the
believed have placed a high percent- Indians in Liberty bonds. The money
of the 2 500 000 of the buttons, with which purchases are to be made
More than four millions will have been i. to be withdrawn from banks outside
distributed before the three chief but- of Oklahoma, leaving Indian deposits
ton factories in the country, working within the state intact.
night and day. catch up with their or- Scattering reports of sales from over
ders several days hence. the state indicate that Oklahoma Has
\>w York Philadelphia. Boston, more than subscribed its quota of the
Cleveland Chicago. St. Louis and Kan- $2,000,000,000 Issue even without the
Cltv 'are the big districts from $5,000,000 investment of Indian money,
which came the great bulk of sub- If the investment of the funds of Ok-
scriptions. The total number of but- lahoma Indians Is credited to the
tons distributed approximates 3,509,- state. It is estimated that Oklahoma .
°°' aislrlDU w subscription will exceed $20,000,000.
The loan, according to report, - ^ ^
ceived by treasury officials is in every subscription.
sense^a popular one. By far the great- The total estimated subscription o
est issue# which the bureau of engrav- the Liberty loan in Oklahoma City
ing and printing will be called upon to through the banks *as $3,062,700 ex-
in™ out will be of the $50 and $100 ceeding this city's apportionment of
bonds For them there has been an $2,100,000 of the national war loan by
^romely heavy demand in every la- $952,700 Subscribing this amount
duatrial center. were over 6.000 Individual Investors.
GORE BUCKING
HOOVER'S FUN
senator sees "grave
danger" in conserving
nation's food supply
HOOVER BIDES THE SITUATIM
And Shews the Senate Committee
tha T smbls Seriowensss of
the Situation the Coun-
try la In.
Washington — Sonstors Gore of Ok-
lahoma. lleed of Miaaouri and Vsrda
man of Mlssioippl were the chief op
ponenta to "reaidaot Wllson'a food
bill, who took part In <|usatlonlnc
Herbert C. Hoover, food admlniatra
lor, at an Informal hearing.
Under aoarp questioning by th
three aenatora Mr Hoover outlined bis
p'an increasing production and cut-
ting off the axceaalv# profits of apec
] ulatora.
Mr Hoover said that:
Success in the war may be Imper-
iled by lack of government food con
I trol.
No rationing, requisition of facto-
i ties, or regulation of wages la contem
plated
Flour speculator* have taken $50.-
| (>00.000 a month from the Amerlcar ■
public In the laat five month-'*.
Bread prices are 60 per cent less In
I'elgium than in New York, and 30 to'
40 per cent lower in England and
franc*, with producers realixing the
same prices.
Food conditions which face the a'.-
lies and this country were frankly ex-
plained by Mr. Hoover. Without gov
ernment food control, he aaid, success
in the war tray be imperiled. Such
control to * great degree, he ex I
plained, will be voluntary.
Tha four baslo measures of the food
bill planned. Mr. Hoover aaid. are ex
port regulation, control of distribution
including ape?ulation. mobilization of
America'a women and men in a cam-
paign for economy and against waste
and participation of the states in ad-
ministration work.
Normal Profits Proposed.
Federal commissions to control
wheat, sugar and a few other "prime
commodities" by regulation of produc-;
tion, storage, transportation and sale
are also contemplated, he said, but in-
stead of injuring farmers, as some
! have claimed, these things will benefit
both producers and consumers with-'
out curtailment of middlemen's nor-
mal and fair profits.
Asserting the allies' food supply will
be 40 per cent deficient, even with |
America's food surplus assisting. Mr.
' Hoover said the deficiency mcst be
made up by sacrifice abroad and econ-
omy here. A 20 per cent saving in
flour, he declareu, would give 100.
000 000 bushels to the allies. In thit
) connection, he told the senators spec
ulators in flour alone have taken $50.-
: 000.000 a month from the American
public during the last five months.
Millers Not Speculators.
'Mr. Hoover denied that millers have
been speculators in grain, and said
that any action they might have taken
| was for self preservation. Senator
Gore said he had heard that millers in
the recent wheat rise had offered ap-
proximately 16 cents more than of-
fered by speculators.
Senators Gore, Reed and Vardaman
plied Mr. Hoover with questions in
such fasion that he told them with
some emphasis he had not asked con-
gress to do anything although he be-
lieved the proposed legislation vital to
the conduct of the war The opposing
senators contended that the bill would
j disturb business, take property with-
i cut compensation and embark upon an
enterprise of varied dangers.
English Prices Lower.
Representative Graham of Illinois,
speaking in favor of the measure be
j fore the house, aroused interest by
' submitting a comparative list of Amer
i ican and British prices on staple 'ast
; May 19 Some English prices were
lower than the American despite the
I fact, as Mr. Graham said, "that Eng
land is surrounded by submarines "
The prices follow
English. American.
Beef ** * 42
Butter 40 to .56 42%
Potatoes 2.10 3.75
Tlaron 48 -45
Floor 8.20 17 $0
r
THE SUBS
n
London -An uneipwted Increase In '
the number of British merchantman
sunk by mine* and submarines In the j
laat ssek i sho n In the e#kly
report of the admiralty A total of i
SI vmsela went down the largeat
number in flts weeks Thla makea a
total loss of 562 British ships sunk In '
fifteen «eeka. aa follows
Over
Under
1.SOO
'•00
Smaller
Week
Tens
Tons
Craft
Piret
.... 14
S
9
Second . .
.... 1$
4
S
Third
IS
S
21
Fourth
,... 1$
7
10
Pifth
.... is
1$
3
Sisth
.... 17
2
•
Seventh . .
.... IS
S
12
Cighth ....
. 40
16
S
Ninth
. . . $S
1$
S
Tsnth
. . .. 24
22
14
Eleventh
... IS
6
3
Twelfth
.... 1S
•
3
Thirteenth
.... is
1
2
Fourteenth
...16
S
8
Fifteenth .
.... 22
10
S
Totals .
. . $09
150
113
Grand total
552
$56 HON IS PRICE FOR STEEL
to be used for govern-;
ment shipping fleet
Big Reduction From Mills Secured
By Chairman Denman ef Govern-
ment Shipping Board.
Waabington.—A tentative price of
$56 a ton was obtained by the govern-!
ment on steel for the great fleet of,
merchant abipa to be built by the ship- '
ping board s emergency fleet corpora-1
tion. Previous contracts, let before j
congress gave the president power to
commandeer supplies, called for steel ;
at $95.
Contracts went to the Downejr
Construction Company of New York ,
for ten vessels, and were signed by j
Chairman Denman of the shipping
board, after he had refused to approve
them when they first came to him
from Major General Goethals. general j
manager of the fleet corporation,
naming a price of $95.
The price of $56 will stand. Mr j
Denman announced, until a final fig !
ure is set by the president.
The country's steel plants accepted j
the price of $56 on condition that Its !
acceptance would not determine the j
final price to be paid. Steel men esti- j
mate the cost of production around
$45. but they have been able to se'.l j
all the plates they could make at from ,
$95 to $12"..
Talk of differences between Mr
Denman and General Goethals over
the ship building program were re- j
ceived here with Mr. Denman's forc-
ing down the price of steel. In voting
a $500,000,000 appropriation for ship- ;
building, congress authorized the pre*- j
ident to exercise powers granted in;
the act through any agency he might j
designate
Both Mr. Denman and General;
Goethals are anxious that the other
should not be designated to carry out
the act's provisions.
u. S. GUNNERS LOSE FIGHT
Moreni Sunk After Encounter With
German U-Boat.
cantonment list ready
Sixteen Points for Construction of
Military Towns Selected.
Washington—Four sites for war
mrmr divisional cantonments were ap-
proved. completing the list of sixteen
points at which military towna are to
built by September 1. whoa the
•rat draft troope will be called to the
colors
At each cantonment a full division
will be given its preliminary training
before being sent to Europe. They
will be located as follows:
Ayer, Mass.; Yaphank. Long Island.
N. Y ; WrfgbtatowB. N. J.; Annapolis
Junction. Md.: Petersburg. Va.; At-
lanta. Ga.: Columbia. 8. C.; Chilli-
cothe, Ohio; Louisville. Ky.; Battle
Creek. Mich ; Little Rock. Ark.; Rock-
ford. Ill ; De* Moines. Iowa; Fort
Riley Kan : Fort Bam Houston, Tex.;
, American Lake. Waah.
Washington—American naval gun-
ners have met their first defeat in
open fight with a German submarine.
Official dispatches announce the de-
struction of the tank steamer Moreni,
after a desperate running fight in the
war *one which cost the lives of four
of her crew.
Half sn hour after the tanker had
been sent to the bottom her forty-
three survivors, including all the
members of the armed guard, were
picked up with their life boata by a
passing steamer The German com-
mander bad set them adrift after con-
gratulating the American skipper
upon his game fight and having the
wounded men treated by the subma-
rine's surgeon.
The submarine began the action at
a range of 8,000 yards, four nautical
miles, when she hardly waa viaible to
the steamer without glasses. Pre-
senting virtually no target herself, she
sent 200 shells at the big tanker,
making four bits, while the American
gunners wasted 150 shots without
harming the speck from which the
deadly bail came
8ima Commanoi Entente Shipa.
London—Vice Admiral William 8
Slma. United States navy, has been
appointed to take general charge of
operations of the allied naval forces
In Irish waters Hla government has
given Admiral Sims wide powers to
ceabls him to meet any situation that
may ariae. Because of the distance
from Washington to the scene of op-
erations no effort was made to ham
p«r the officer with requirements ' hat
be report for orders. The admiral
has full authority to act o« hla own
Initiative in disposing the forces.
President Signs War Budget Bill.
Washington — President Wilson
signed the three billion-dollar war bud-
get bill which carries appropriations
for the new army and other war prep-
arations. It is the largest single ap-
propriation measure ever enacted by
any government.
Irish Revolters to Be Released.
London—It was announced In the
house of commons that the govern-
ment bad de Wed to releaae all the
prisoners taken in the Irish rebellion
of Easter Sunday a year ago
Failed In Attempt te Spread Sedition
—German Pseple in Grip ef Same
•mister Power That Mas
Drawn Bleed From Us.
W aMilngton. June 18.—President
Wllaou In a Flag dny addreaa dell*
ered here <<n Thursday declared that
wo were forced Into the world-wide
w r by the extraordinary Insults aud
aggressions of the military masters of
Germany.
The president's addreas In part Is as
follows:
My Fallow Cltliens: We meet to
celebrate Flag Dny because this flag
which we honor and under which we
serve Is the emblem of our unity, our
power, our thought and puntose as s
nation. It has no other character than
that which we glva It from generation
to generation. The choices are ours.
It floats In majestic alienee above the
hoats that execute those choices
whether In peace or In war. Aud yet.
though silent. It speaks to us—speak*
to us of the past, of the men and wom-
en who went before us and of the rec-
ords they wrote upon It. We celebrate
the day of Ita birth ; and from Its birth
until now It has witnessed a great his-
tory. baa floated on high the symbol of
great events, of a great plan of life
worked out by a great people. We are
about to carry It Into battle, to lift It
where it will draw the flre of our en-
emies. We are about to bid thousands,
hundreds of thousands. It may be mil-
lions of our men, the young, the strong,
the capable men of the nation, to go
forth and die beneath it on fields of
blood far away—for what? For some
unaccustomed thing? For something
for which It has never sought the flre
before? American armies were never
before sent across the seas. Why are
they sent now? For some new pur-
pose. for which this great flag has nev-
er been carried before, or for some old,
familiar, heroic purpose for which It
haa seen men, its own men, die on ev-
ery battlefield upon which Americans
have borne arms since the Revolution?
These are questions which must be
answered. We are Americans. We in
our turn serve America, and can serve
her with no private purpose. We must
use her flog as she has always used it.
We are accountable at the bar of his-
tory and must plead in utter frnnknesa
what purpose It Is we seek to serve.
United Statea Forced Into War.
It Is plain enough how we were
forced Into the war. The extraordi-
nary Insults and aggressions of the Im-
perial German government left us no
self-respecting choice but to take up
anns In defense of our rights as a free
people and of our honor as a sovereign
government. The military masters of
Germany denied us the right to he neu-
tral. Tbey filled our unsuspecting com-
munities with vicious spies and con-
spirators and sought to corrupt the
opinion of our people in their own be-
half. When tbey found that they could
not do that, their agents diligently
spread sedition amongst us and sought
to draw our own citizens from their
allegiance, and some of those agents
were men connected with the official
embassy of the German government It-
self here in our own capital. They
sought by violence to destroy our in-
dustries and arrest our commerce.
They tried to Incite Mexico to take up
arms against us and to draw Japan In-
to a hostile alliance with her—and
that, not by Indirection, but by direct
suggestion from the foreign office In
Berlin. They Impudently denied us
the use of the high seas and repeated-
ly exacuted their threat that they
would send to their death any of our
people who ventured to approach the
coasts of Europe. And many of our
own people were corrupted. Men be-
gan to look upon their own neighbors
i with suspicion and to wonder In their
hot resentment and surprise whether
there was any community In which
hostile Intrigue did not lurk. What
great nation In such circumstances
would not have taken up arms? Much
as we had desired peace, it was denied
us. and not of our own choice. This
flag under which we serve would have
been dishonored had we withheld our
hand.
No Emnity TowartJ German People.
But that is only part of the story.
! We know now as clearly as we knew
before we were ourselves engaged that
we are not enemies of the German peo-
ple and that they are not our enemies.
' Tbey did not originate or desire this
hideous war er wish that we should be
drawn Into It; and we are vaguely con-
scious that we are fighting their cause,
as they will some day see It. aa well as
our own. Tbey are themselves In the
grip of the same sinister power that
has now at last stretched Its ugly tal-
, ona out and drawn blood from us. The
whole world Is In the grip of that pow-
er and Is trying out the great battle
; which shall determine whether It la to
be brought under Its maatery or fling
Itself free.
The war was begun by the military
' masters of Germany, who proved to be
! also the masters of Austria-Hungary.
These men have never regarded na-
tions as peoples, men. women, snd
j children of like blood and frame as
themselves, for whom governments ex
{ Isted and in whom governmenta had
| their life. They have regarded them
merely as serviceable organ!ration*
whirl* they could by force or Intrigue
head n curiupt to their own
They MVS regarded the smaller *i«.e*
to particular and the peoples <*«*
could be overwhelmed by force, as
(heir natural tools and Instruments o
domination Their purpose has loti|
been svowsd.
The demands made bjr Austria upoo
Serbia were a mere single step In
plan which cotapeneed Europe and
Asia, from Berlin to Bagdsd. They
hoped llxwe demanda might not arouse
Europe, but they meant to press thrm
whether they did or not. f' r **jr
thought themselves ready for the final
Issue of arma.
Vaat empire Planned.
Their plan *as to throw s broad belt
of Oermau military power and political
. ,.f,i I ..I scross the very center of Eu-
rope and beyond the Medlterrsnesn In-
to the hesrt of Asia : and Austria Hun-
gary wsa to be ss much their tool an«l
pawn sa Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey
or the ponderous ststes of the East
The dream had Its heart at Berlin. It
could have had a heart nowhere else.
It rejected tha Idea of solidarity of
nice entirely. The choice of peoplee
played no part In It at all. They ar-
dently desired to direct their own af-
fslrs. would be satisfied only by undis-
puted Independence. They could be
kept qnlet only by the present or the
constant threat of srmed men. The
(lermsn military ststesmen had reck-
oned with all that and were ready to
deal with It In their own way.
And thsy have actually carried the
greater part of that amaxlng plan Into
execution! Look how things stand.
Austria In at their mercy. It has acted,
not upon Its own Initiative or upon the
choice of Ita own people, but at Ber-
lin's dictation ever since the war be-
gan. Its people now dealre peace, but
cannot have It until leave Is granted
from Berlin. The so-called central
powers sre In fact but a single power.
Serbia Is st Ita mercy, should Its hand*
be but for a moment freed. Fron>
Hamburg to the Persian gulf the net
Is spresd.
Why Berlin Seeks Psaee.
Is It not eaay to understand the eag-
erness for peace that has been mani-
fested from Berlin ever since the snare
was set and sprung? Peace, peace,
peace has been the talk of her foreign
office for now a year and more; not
peace upon her own Initiative, but up-
on the Initiative of the nations over
which she now deems herself to hold
the advantage. Through all sorts of
channels It has come to me. and In al
sorts of guises, but never with the-
terms disclosed which the German gov-
ernment would be willing t<> "accept.
That government still holds a valuable-
part of France, though with slowly re-
laxing grasp, and practically the who1
of Belgium. It cannot go further: It
dare not go back. It wishes to close
Its bargain before It Is too late and It
has little left to offer for the pound of
flesh It will demand.
The military masters under whom
Germany Is bleeding see very clearly
to what point Fate has brought them.
If they fall back or are forced back
an Inch, their power both abroad and
at home will fall to pieces like *
house of cards. If they can se-
cure peace now with the Immense ad-
vantages still In their hands whlcl*
they have up to this point apparently
gained, they will have Justified them-
selves before the German people; they
will have gained by force what they
promised to gain by it: an immense
expansion of German power, an Im-
mense enlargement of German Indus-
trial and commercial opportunities. If"
tbey fall, their people will thrust then*
aside; a government accountable t
the people themselves will be set up-
In Germany as It has been In England.
In the United States. In France, and
in all the great countries of the mod-
ern time except Germany. If they suc-
ceed they are safe and Germany anit
the world are undone; If tfty fall Ger-
many Is saved and the world will be at
peace. If they succeed, we and all
the rest of the world must remaltk
armed, as they will remain, and must
make ready for the next step of ag-
gression; if they fall, the world may
unite for peace, and Germany may be
of the union.
Seek to Deceive World.
The present particular aim of the
masters of Germany Is to deceive all
those who throughout the world stand
for the rights of peoples and the self-
government of nations; for they see
what Immense strength the forces of
Justice and of liberalism are gatberinr
out of thla war.
The sinister Intrigue Is being no les
actively conducted In this country than
In Russia and In every country In Eu-
rope to which the agents and dupes of
the imperial German government can
get access.
United States In War for Freedom.
The great fact that stands out above
all the rest Is that this is a People'*
war. a war for freedom and Justice and
self-government amongst all the na-
tions of the world, a war to make the
world safe for the peoples who live In
It and have made It their own. the
German people themselves Included;
and that with us rests the choice to
break through all these hypocrisies and
patent cheats and masks of brute force
and help set the world free, or else
stand aside and let It be dominated a
long age through by aheer weight of
arms and the arbitrary choices of sell -
constituted masters, by the nation
which can maintain the biggest arml«
and the moot Irresistible armaments- -
s power to which the world haa a ^
forded no parallel and In the face ><
which political freedom must wither
and perish.
For us there Is but oae choice. e
have nisde It. Woe be to the man >r
group of men that seeks to atsnd n
our way In this day of high reuolutl. «
when every principle we hold deare t
Is to be vindicated and made secure f. r
the salvation of the nations. We a •
ready to pleod at the bar of hletor •
and oar flag nhall wear a new luster.
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The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1917, newspaper, June 22, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc281220/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.