The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1917 Page: 1 of 10
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ThelCfelston Tribune
Christmas
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Entered et the Poet Office et Releton. Okie.,
Ae Second Clese Mail Matter June 23, 1916.
ORRIN L. BROWNING*
Editor and Owner
Advertising Rates: Readers, per line Scents:
Display, inch. Transient 13c. Contract 12 1-'^
$1.50 per Year in Advance
Ralston, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Friday, December 21, 1917
Volume II Number 27
REMEMBER THE
SOLDIER BOYS!
Every Youngster in tlie Camps
MUST Have a Box on
Christmas Day.
Will a single Oklahoma soldier
boy awake on Christmas morn-
ing without finding a Christmas
box frbm folks back home?
The Oklahoma State Council of
Defense is asking this question
of the men and woman and the
boys and girls of the state
“It is too easy to prepare a
little box of gifts, it is too enty
to write a letter or a card of good
home Christmas cheer for any
lad in training camp or across
the seas to be left out,” the
message to citizens reads. “Of
course it is a beautiful custom
for each of us to remember close
friends with Christmas gifts, but
the joy that will come to a lonely
soldier lau on receipt of a token
from hom^, and that vacant feel-
ing that would come to one who
was not remembered, make it a
duty for each of us to think of
the lad in camp
“County council of defense,
lodges, clubs, churches, schools.
Red Cross chapters. all should
combine to see that every lad
from everv county is remember-
ed It will be to the shame of
each citizen of the county if a
single boy is forgotten.”*
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Home Guards Not Subject
Service Outside Home
Neighborhood.
Every room is now provided
with a new thermometer.
Emery Mosier has heen shsert
from school on account of illness
The Domestic Art grrls are
making Christmas presents for
th 'ir mothers.
But why does Ward McCague
look so s'eepv every Monday
morning—Grace should worry.
The Freshmen English class is
now reading Robinson Crusoe we
decided to use the “gray backs ’'
Every one is 'ooking forward
to the Christmas holidays.- Each
room is to have e Christmas box
and a —? wait and see.
All the little Sophs and Juniors
are in a flutter of excitement
whenever Old Santa Claus is
Am I Doing My Share for Humanity?
By Tke Tribune Editor — 1 ~
‘There is absolutely no connect-
ion between the Home guard and
the National army. Many men
Oklahoma are laboring under the
false impression that once having
joined the Home guard they tpay
be inducted into the federal
ranks. Being a member of the
Home guard establishes nothing
beyond the fact that one is a
public spirited citizen, eager to
render service at home until such
time as he is called for se rvice
under the draft.
Take that twenty-five cents
you did not spend for pork chops
and buy a thrift stamp with it.
You will be doing a double
service-aiding in the conservation
of red meats and giving the
government money with which to
carry on the war.
Sugar sent to the bottom of tin
sea by enemy submarines cannot
be prevented by Americans but
su^ar waste in the bottom of tea
a id coffee cups is to be severely
condemned in this national crisis.
It isn’t whether you can afford
to waste that teaspoonful of
sugar every morning but rather
whether your country can afford
to have you do it. One teaspoon-
ful multiplied by something less
han one hundred million mult p-
lied by 365 means something in
helping to win this war.
Nineteen hundred and twenty- ling nought but pomp and power:
one years ago in a stable at the ! men of narrow minds, atrophied
outskirts of a straggling village ^ h arts and blasted souls have,
of Judea, was born a child whose with the name of Jesus on their
life, short and troubled though | lips, committed every sin Satan
we think of these things now
when our country is beginning a
long and bloody war: a war for
the same ideal for which Jesus
it were, revolutionized a world’s
civilization, and whose influence
grows stronger and stronger as
the years and centuries roll by
Jesus of Nazareth, meek and
unassuming, whose friends were and pray in the name of Jesus,
while their hearts 8re cess pools
has devised.
True; t.c.-dav there are predju-
diced ignoramuses, self-centered
bigots, and self-seeking hypo-
crites who with the lips preach
Tribune’** List Cirowing
The Tribune's subscription list
is steadily growing, despite the
fact that at least one Ralston
merchant who has pret°nded to
be very friendly to the publisher,
has systematically “knocked’’
the paper and advised his custo-
mers not to waste their money in
the lowly of the earth, though he
lived among men but a few short
years—years spent in teaching
the world the nobility of self-
s tcrifice— years cut all too short
by the frightful agony of the
cross: Jesus, dead these nineteen
----------- — centuries, exerts a thousand fold
mentioned evidently s o m e of ■ influence upon the minds and
them have been good little girl9 heart,8 of men of any prince or
and boys ana expect a present. ; potentate, statesman or scholar,
Ora bought him a clock a few
days ago, the other night the
deck got out of order and began
to strike, Ora counted 102 then
jumped out of bed yelling,
priest or poet upon the earth to-
day.
Whether or not you accept the
truth of the divinity of Jesus;
whether you believe him to have
mama get up its later then I been Qod jn flesh, or only a man,
even as you or I, vou cannot
read of his beautiful life of puri-
have ever known it.
Rex has a new breed of chick-
ens, Elvin was out watching! ty. so pathetically humble and
yet, withal, 90 triumphant, with-
out the conviction coming that
his example of unselfishness, his
him feed them the other evening
when one old hen picked up a
tack and swallowed it, Rex:
“Whats that hen eating that
tack for?” Elvin: “Thats easy,
she’s going lay a carpet,
Mis3 Stratton: I bet I can ask
you all a riddle you can’t guess.
doctrine of the universal father-
hood of God and brotherhood of
man, point us unerringly to the
only things in this life real-
ly worth while.
of iniquity.
Yet, though these things are
true, the life of him who tries
conciencsiously to follow the
shining example set bv Jesus,
glows only the brighter because
of these cheap counterfeits of
the devil’s.
Who is there to-day who, in
his heart, does not admire self-
sacriflce and despise the selfish
man? It was not always so, hut
the spirit of Jesus life—love of
fellowman — has se permeated our
civilization, that even the most
raoid atheist- self-centered bun-
d e of conceit that he is—accepts
the nobility of self-sacrifice as
axiomistic.
So at this Christmastide when
with the hundred customs hand-
ed down to us from pagan ances-
gave up his life, even as thous-
ands of our noble boys must give
up their lives, that coming ger-Jbubscribing for the home paper
erations may be free.
Think seriously of these things
and then ask yourself, “Am I do-
ing my share for humanity? Am
I living up to the best of my abil-
ity to the example set by Jesus?’'
To SubHCtiberN
Please do not lend this paper
t • e ther persons to read. If your
neighbor is really financially
unable to pay for the paper, send
in his or her name and we’ll send
it to them free. Otherwise, if
they don’t want to read it badly
enough to pay for it, let them do
without. Why should you pay
for your naightv’s reading mat-
ter?-The Tribune.
when the county seat paper
might be had for the same
money. Of course, The Tribune
would grow faster without this
underhanded opposition, but it
will continue to grow, never-the-
less, and we doubt not that the
time will come when this merch-
ant will boast that it was mostly
through his help that The
Tribune became so popular.
There will be regular preach-
ing services at the Ralston
Christian Church, Sunday morn-
ing. and evening.
Mrs. Frank Brown and daugh-
„„„„ „ „» ,ru,„ ters left. Tuesday, for Cherokee,
try. we celebrate the birthday of where they wdl make their home
To Have Charge of Kxploaive*
This is to certify that R. J.
Jones of Ralston, State of Okla-
Hkla is hereby appointed Ex-
plosives Licensing Agent in
Ralston County of Pawnee State
o f Oklahoma and is duly
authorized to execute and fulfill
the duties of that office according
to the act approved October 6.
1917 Public, No. 6865th Congress
Van H. Manning
Director
Countersigned by F. O. Pea-
body, Dated November 30, 1917.
Class: What is it? Miss Strattcn j True; in years gone by, under
what is the difference between a the cloak of the church bearing
Jesus, let us pause a few mo
ments in our feasting and mer-
rymaking and let our thoughts
dwell seriously on the pure, spot-
hereafter.
girl and a soldier with a ball of
string in his pocKet.
Rex: What is the use of the
string. Miss Stratton; Oh that
to catch suckers on.
the name of Jesus, men have
committed the most heinous
crimes. Men seeking only self-
A tgrandizement, despising God
and fellowman, with hearts deair-
Fred Kingsley, formerly of
Ralston but now of Wichita, came
Fess unselfish life of Him ’whosein Sunday, for a visit with
teachings are the cornerstone of
our present {democratic civiliza-
tion, and who in the agony of
crucifixion made the supreme sac-
rifice of the ages.
It is particularly fitting that
friends.
Miss Ivy Overman is soliciting
subscriptions for the The Tribune
and has been quite successful
thus far.
KiiImIh in Aviation Corps
Kay Hedges, who has been
traveling for the National K -
fining Co. for several months,
resigned his position, last week,
and enlisted in the National
Aviation Corps for service in
France. He left for the training
camp immediately.
Wallace Goodson is seriously
ick with pneumonia.
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Browning, Orrin L. The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1917, newspaper, December 21, 1917; Ralston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc907859/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.