The Oklahoma News (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 67, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 15, 1917 Page: 4 of 10
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Did you notice that Von Hinden-
burg is sympathetically worrying
about us?
Von says that he cannot bring him-
self to believe that we will send a
huge army to Europe and leave our-
selves helpless in case of an attack by
Japan. Poor old fellow! he doesn’t
understand us at all.
There used to be a time when we
got out of bed, in our nightgown, with
every hair erect, and urged wife to
hunt the house for Jap ghosts, but that
time is past. There arc no such
ghosts. On the contrary, if Japan
wants to get into the big fight, crosses
the Pacific, and wants passage across
our territory, she’ll find sonic splendid
roads open to her army, from San
Francisco to New York. In fact, that’s
EYES BUT HE CANNOT SEE
one of the things we’d very much like
to see Japan at.
Von Hindenburg, like most all Ger-
man autocrats, cannot yet believe that
all civilization outside his circle is
united, heart and soul, to put down
Von Hindenburgism so that it will stay
down. When the Great Fear holds the
Jungle, as Kigling would put it, it is
the Law that all the creatures should
unite and be at peace with each other.
Over all the nations that know the
right and that would have freedom
and pursue happiness is the Great
Fear—Prussian barbarism. The panther
drinks at the pool beside the kid. Uncle
Sam lieth down with the Jap. It is
so. The Law of common peril maketh
it thus. But a Von Hindenburg can
sec only the Law of might.
COLD WEATHER
BRINGS IDEAS
IV HOT TIMES
FOR BUSINE SS REASONS
Over in London they’ve got a breed property, in our great civil strife
labeled
of pacifists that should be
“pacifists for business reasons,” and
one of the most prominent of them
urges that it is utter folly to put off
peace, when Alsace-Lorraine is really
the only impediment. Alsace-Lorraine
is smaller than Yorkshire, has only
about 2,00,OCX) people and, if put up at
auction, wouldn’t bring a sum equal
the British war expenditure for one
month.
You have to be pretty thoroly
steeped in business to see only dollars
and cents as the issue respecting
Alsace- Larraine.
However, a great many people saw
only freedom of the 'negro as chattel
surely could have bought all the slaves
for less than the war cost us. But
there was another issue than that of
slavery; the Union was to be pre-
served. In the latter the issue of the
right vs. the wrong was certainly in-
volved and that issue could not be
settled by bargain and sale. So it is
with Alsace-Lorraine. The French do
not look upon that territory from a
financial coign. They consider it part
of themselves of which they have been
despoiled.
If peace is a mere matter of dollars
and cents, the British “pacifists for
business reasons” might put up Canada
at auction.
the public in general have
a Benue of humor?
Or ran they el|lver with rold
while they talk of hot weather?
The following Interview* were ob
lutned when the mercury was al-
moHt sticking to the bottom of
thA tube:
Frank J. Wlkoff looked up
from hie desk.
•What?" ,
\V hen have I heeti the hottest
In my life? Well, that* a funny
question to ask me, NOW.
I do remember, tho, a scorch*
Ing day. It was In |S»9, I think,
In July. The ncraelon was the re-
union of the Itoosevelt Koiighrld
er„. This wag In the heydey of
Koosevell'a |>opularlty ami when
Mr. Classen got the reunion here
In came the people from all direc-
tion*, In every conceivable man-
ner. Home walked, other*, came
In vehicles, many rode horseback
and probably fewest mme on the
train.
“In those days Oklahoma City
had no paving and Main st was
always either a foot deep in mud
or threo Inches deep |n dust.
There was srarcely any water,
nowhere to rest, and the people
were Jammed together and the
sun beat down on the whole
scene."
Mr. Wlkoff took out Ills hand-
kerchief to wipe Ids nose nnd ho
came nearly mopping his brow.
Then he said, reminiscently,
"That was a 'beastly* hot day."
•HUN DRIVE IN
WEST MEANS
PEACE OFFER’
1
ure Germany is extorting food and
natal supplies from her neutral
neighbors.
Must Have Peace Now.
The kaiser, to eave his autocracy,
must now In thla moment of
strength, try to save something
from the wreck that Inevitably Is
coming, by a peace made while
Germany Is strong.
He knows President Wilson's
proselyting of the German people,
seeking to bring them to their
senses and overthrow autocracy,
will gain every day henceforth.
lie and his leaders know the
Berlln-Bagdad scheme Is gone, with
Turkey's smashup. He knows with
the Hilled and American shipbuild-
ing plans and with perfection of
antisubmarine devices that the
German l’ boat Is destined to play
In the Franco-Brltlsh I less and less a part In tho war.
He knows his ambitious propa
panda seeking to disrupt Italy ha*
BY LOWKIJ. MKI.I.KTT.
I'nlted Press Staff Correspondent.
I.ondon. Dec. 15. — Germany
much advertised forthcoming west
front drive Is her first preliminary
to another peace offensive.
Hhe hopes to achieve a dent
somewhere
line. HI-' inta to cluim "Irivln
clbillty" >f r military forces to
the German people to steel th'-m! failed; that a separate peace with
to the overwhelming sacrifices
which must come when America
throws her strength In the battle
line.
Hhe wants to buck up Austria-
Hungary to greater sacrifices
against that day. Hhe wants to
accelerate growth of pacifist nnd
“peace without a victory" senti-
ment In allied nations.
Above all, she wants the war to
end before America's millions of
men and war machines cun be
arfayed against her.
Kaiser Can't Hpare Men.
This Is the view of observers
the Russian Bolshevik! means
nothing.
Above all else, he realties that
next spring, perhaps, America will
have a great force of carefully
trained men on the fighting line;
that American aeroplane* likely
will start with the allied avtatora
to sweep Germany from tho akles.
WOMEN WED SOLDIERS
MERELY TO DRAW PAY
Sprrial to The \eirt.
Camp Mills, N. Y., Docv
15-
hcre. It is based on well, defined I Polygamy for profit is the latest
recent developments In Germany, j means of making a living during
Tho kaiser and his military chiefs! war times, according to charges
can ill afford to sacrifice theimude by a local minister.
V. 35 ALT-i'MATtf
A DIFFERENCE PERHAPS
Mr. Myron T. Herrick, Ohio banker
just, appointed to the advisory com-
mittee of the National Association of
Owners of Railroad Securities, says:
“There is scarcely a benevolent asso-
ciation, college, charitable institution,
trust company, or bank in the country
that has not invested funds in railroad
stock.”
Considering the long-continued in-
stability of railroad stocks, we would
like to ask Mr. Herrick a few ques-
tions.
1 Is there a difference between “in-
vestment” in railroad stocks and “spec-
ulation.” or “gambling,” so-called, in
oil, gold-mining stocks, or pink pills
"company stocks, or eye-waters com-
pany stocks, or any other stocks of the
Col. Sellers varietv? If putting funds
info one sort of fluctuating securities
is “investment” and into another sort
“gambling,” why?
Also, what proportion of the credit
of the trust companies and jui.ks of
this country is predicated upon rail-
road stocks, at this writing going
down, down, down? We arc not try-
ing to start anything, but Mr. Her-
rick, president of one of the greatest
banks in this country, has made a state-
ment that should not go forth unac-
companied by quite a little elucidation.
The average man is apt to get stock
“investment” mixed up with stock
“gambling,” and it is not well that a
popular impression should prevail to
the effect that all our benevolent asso-
ciations, colleges, trust companies and
banks have been betting that the de-
lusive little profit pea was under this,
that or the other railroad shell.
PERMIT US TO GET HEATED.
Drat wai censorship! We’re just pie shiver, hungrily gnaw their finger-
about dying for introduction to five
American women, and the censor
won’t let even their names thru.
When the French soldiers retake a
section of French soil, there conies
forth from caves, cellars, dens in the
woods a host of hungry and ragged
French men, women and children, who
have long been tortured under Ger-
man rule. These people are be-
wildered, despairing, mourning for
their bit of land even if there is noth-
ing left of their homes, homesick for
the poor gardens that were theirs even
tho they are now devastated.
The machine guns arc still barking
not far away and the thunder of can-
non is deafening, and these poor peo-
w
Jap
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Nine American factories are waiting
for orders to get to work on 1,950,000
pairs of shoes contracted for by the
Russian government of November 12
—whatever that was. Oh! get to work
on those shoes! We’ll wear ’em.
nails and wander about hopelessly.
And who conics with first aid? Five
American women! Five American
heroines, with soup kitchens on motor
trucks, driven by themselves, furnished
by the American Fund for French
wounded!
Who are these American women?
2Are they hopeless derelicts from tiie
streets? Are they the mannish notor-
iety seekers? Are they of the adven-
turess claSs? No, but girls who have
given up good homes, who have left
peace, plenty, safety behind them,
across the ocean, and given their all to
minister unto God’s stricken poor in
suffering France. Heroines, every one
of them! And—the censor won’t let
us give their names!
that
At the recruiting station there
la a captain by the name of Mar
cus Coveil. lie was on the retired
list and living In New York City
when America entered the war.
And tho ho weura one badge of
colors and another which aaya
"Sharpshooter," ho la too old to
be In active sefbloe, hence the
recruiting Job.
A Santa Claua type Is he with
white flowing moustache, a red
round face hemmed In with white
hair. At once he makes you think
of:
“He had a broad face
And a little round belly
That shook when he luughed
Like a bowl full of Jelly."
With a start I remembered my
mission and I said to this Cap'n,
“When were you ever the warm-
est?"
"This morning," came back in
a flush.
I put my hand on the back of
a chair for support. Then the
Cap'n laughed. "It was when the
cook turned 'em 'over,' when I or-
dered 'em 'straight up.’
"The very hottest times I've
ever seen were In the Philippines.
I have experienced days there,
when I’d give half of my life to
havi seen a bank of snow to roll
In."
COULD ORGANIZE ARMY
thousands of soldiers who must he
thrown to slaughter In a went
front offensive—this is tho view
hero of Germany’s desperation.
A tremendous increase in G*-r-
son was married and Moy entertain- nun peace propaganda has been
AMONG HIS RELATIVES "T1
for three days, spending $6000 for ■ Germany today Is at the summit
Sprrial to Thr \.,rt
Paul, Minn., Dec.
entertainment.
of lier strength. With every hour
From Inquiries made at Hun Hing, from now on. It oozes away.
At home, Chancellor Herding
I caught step with W. T.
Lampe, publicity mar for the
Oklahoma Council of Defense, and
between the chatterlngs of my
teeth I asked him It he could re-
member the hottest day of his
llf>. Mr. Iaimpe crawled down In
his overcoat a little further and
began to smile.
"It was In Mexico City at the
time of the taking of Torreon by
the Madetistas. We were on top
of the Mexican hotel. It was In
June, the sun was over our heads
and the rays reflected from the
roof nnd there were bullets whiz-
zing by our ears.
"That was the hottest place."
15.—Mojr Moy learned that Ills 275,000 reta-
ilor, proprietor of the chop suoy lives were not properly provided apparently haa cemented pollt enl
restaurant on ltobert-st, has return- with educational facilities. While ruptures. On the seas, by spied-
ed from a seven months' sojourn many of them were well-to-do, a lng up methods, Germany's sul-
In China, whore he visited his aged large number eould not afford the marines are still taking a heavy
mother and 275,000 relatives, all $12 a year a child for education. i toll. Russia has been definitely
members of the great Moy family, j Moy has undertaken to raise th* ] put out of the wat—more than
at Hun Nlng in the provlnco of| sum of $400,000 to build school* I counterbalancing Turkey's utter
Canton. ; and employ teachers In that vlcin- collapse.
While he was at Nan Sing, Moy’s 1 Ity.
Thru cleverly exerted
The Increase In soldier weddings
In Hempstead, this minister says, Is
due to the fact that some women
have been marrying several soldiers
each and getting each "husband"
to make over half his pay to them.
This Hempstead minister,' who
says other clergymen there have
planned to do the same thing, an-
nounced that he would marry no
soldle-s to women of the locality
until he had carefully Investigated
how long they have been acquaint-
ed and what conditions brought
them to the altar.
It is reported also that men of
regiments now abroad have left
wives of this sort at Hempstead,
and even made them kencficlarie*
but nevertheless relentless press- of their insurance policies.
That tallest policeman In town.
Jerry M. Hmlth, traffic officer.
‘The very wannest place I’ve
been was right here at the corn-
er of Main nnd Robinson. I’d
been standing for more than an
hour In the hottest August sun.
All at once the cars seemed to
come from every place. The
streets east, west, north and south
wero Jammed I was holding 'em
back until I could get 'em mov-
ing when along came a rube In
a-- nnd without honking or
even looking at me, went ‘bust-
ing’ thru.
"I was pretty hot then."
Golf balls are higher and we expect
every day to hear the same thing of
fish balls.
Pi-
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Bomb for bomb! says bombed Lon-
don. And that’s what she’s been say-
ing since 1914.
Tokio papers urge mat an army
of five million Japs pounce upon Rus-
sia should she make peace with Ger-
many. It is about time that the Japs
exploded.
The army advertises that it wants
150 phone girls. To look after the
Hindenburg line?
of
Pan-German League of Bavaria
boldly announces that it’s for a war
indemnity of 50 billions. Who’s got it?
We have.
FRANCE MUST
CALL YOUTHS
“If There Ever Was a Time on Earth for Trained
Women to Make Money—It’s Right Now!”
—JOHN M. HILL, President Hill’s Business College
That was the remark made by Pres. Hill after noting his Employment Department’s
November report. It showed that besides filling of dozens of positions, there were fifty
applications for Hill’s graduates that could not be supplied! Fine openings they were,
too—hardly a one paying less than $15.00 a week and many offering $25.00 and more
a week.' This unheard-of demand for trained women is caused by the war—as so many
office men, bank clerks, secretaries and the like have joined tlie army. The present
opportunity is the chance of a lifetime for wideawake women!
All You Need is Hill’s Practical Training
“Boiled Down” Courses
IN OUR TOWN-
. IN VERSE, UNI WRITER
1 SIZES UP GAS SCENE
m:
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Like .a thunder bolt the blizzard
cam*
With a blast at snow and sleet and
rain,
A* Mollnard rat In hi* office warm
Thera fell on him a prodigious
smn$
Of neighbors, wive* and preachers,
nil
Jswsrlng ’bout the mercurr's fall.
Taels, it's not our teult the ditch
f' *hit dug,
' K Out you see we're not the weather
hue
9m K waa dry when It ehould >
kswii wst
And now It's wet and ain't dry
Bat If we had the power o’er the
li? '1 mercury, why
We'd made the darned thing stay
sky high.
WeWe done our best to get that
line here.
y** h«ow K means our grub
' the year.
m I*** wsetliiff hi
word,
Twould generate the heat to warm
your herd.
Still, we really want to get more
gaa at onee.
We're not auch an Indifferent, In-
competent bunch.
—C. F. W.
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Th’ Jucleat peach la always on
th' highest limb.
"What," aska a correspondent,
"do you mean when you write It,
‘Okla. N. O. Co?' Are you spring
Ing that ancient piece of slang,
•N. O.'?" No, Indeed. Okla. N. U.
Co. meant Okla. No Goa Co.
man to n New York Judge, “Is due
to wine, women and song.
We refuse to believe It. More
probable that It waa due to wine,
women and ragtime.
rutting a Rlt of Pep In It.
He hella the story in the simple
language of a soldier.—Blooming-
ton (111.1 Bulletin.
Maybe It's Rurkwheat Rrh.
Oeo. Nelson ram* home from
North Dakota Wednesday morning.
He has been breaking out on the
wheat line for the pest two months
—Mahnomen (Minn.) Pioneer.
"I don't know whether our
butcher weighs his words or not,"
writes O. IV. "but I am sure he
weighs his hand every lime he
throws a plceo of meat on the
scale."
Itp Fe'O’J Press.
London. Gee 15.—"We nuwt ex-
pect half a million fresh German
fighters on the weBt frot.t and
tnnny more guns and aircraft," de-
clared Colonel Reptngton, Times
military expert, in un a.tide today
emphatically warning the nation
that Germany waa preparing her
supreme military effort there.
"Thera nra now 510 German
divisions (about 2,250,000 men) on
the west front and about 79 di-
visions (about 1,185,000 men) on
the east," lie declare*'.
"From the latter number all
those between 19 nnd 35 nre being
withdrawn for Percies on the
KranCo-Brltish front. Perhaps some
complete divisions will follow. It
Is possible, too, that Austro-Hun-
garians will go to France.
"There Is the greatest danger In
tho next six months Germany's
reinforcements will compel Fra*v-e
to use lier classes of 1918 and 1919
and to postpone nny withdrawal
orders. They will be forced to pro-
duce a steady stream of the young-
er men.
"Brltuln needs at least 1,000,000
to maintain her existing forces
during 1918. Allied forcos In France
are not Enough to promise a vic-
tory In ambitious offensives.
"It Is unavailing to occupy le-
rusnlem and Bagdad If we are jin-
successful on the main fount."
A Kansas farmer planted Scents
worth of seeds and now has 400
pumpkins on hand. Could there
b* a bettor argument against the
promiscuous planting of reeds?
downfall."
said
a young
Jay Cooke has been appointed
food administrator In Philadelphia.
He'll be a good one If be knows
as much about food as some of
the Jay cooks we've met In our
day.
Every day \v- men, both young and mature, are
entering here. Most of them haven’t had a hit
of business experience. But in a short time they
graduate full-fledged business folks! Our boiled-
down courses and instructor-specialists arc the
reason. Ask any Hill’s graduate—or any Okla-
homa businessman.
Comptometers, Adding Ma-
chine, Posting Machine,
Multigraph, Etc.
Individual Instruction
Here you are not held hack by dull pupils. You
go ahead just as fast as you can. This is because
you receive most of your instruction separately—
individually. This also makes it easier for you
to brush up on weak points and not waste time
taking things you already know.
Being the only business college in Oklahoma that
is Nationally Accredited, it stands to reason that
Hill’s is the best equipped. The latest, improved
office and bank appliances are in daily use here.
Special instruction is given on these machines so
tou don t need to he “broken in” ou them when
you take a position where they are used.
Position Secured For You
Night1 School
Folks already holding positions but eager to ad-
vance fhould come to Hill’s NIGHT SCHOOL,
New Term starts same time as Day School—
Monday, Dec. 31st.
It is only natural that the largest business college
in the state should he the best known: and most
highly recommended by the businessmen of the
state. So when they want employees whom thev
are sure will he equipped with sound, practical
business training, they usually call Hill’s This
enables our graduates to get the pick of the many
positions that are open these days. Our Emplov-
ment Department is at your service absolutely
FREE from the time you graduate.
New Term, Monday, Dec. 31
If you want to render your country a real service—If you would
l.ke to stau making $1,000.00 to^l.SOO.OO a year as soon aTno
employment fvith
FLOWERS ARE NOT ILL;
“WE’RE SNOWED UNDER”
"bfm tTh anr rCfk<T Chan"c for advancement—start at
Henator John Hluu-p Williams
says he will take a drink when-
ever h* pleases and that no law
or reculatlon can keep him from
his toddy. We don't know wheth-
er h* said It In th* morning or In
ths evening. f
"How (he posies had grip or
pneumonia or any cold weather
ailments that have cut short their
supply." asked nn interviewer of
the local florists. ,"No," on* of
them replied, "the cold does not
affect them, but we are Just snowed
under with Christmas business. Gas
shortage does not affoct local flor-
ists because they put In coal fuel
when the temperature drops to 40
degrees, above."
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