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THE CHANDLER NEWS-PUBLICIST
Friday. May 4. 1917
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR US COLS
COUSTY ASD CITY.OF CHASDLER
O. F HAYES. Proprietor
L. B NICHOLS. Editor
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SOME ADVICE.
It is the (Mttriotic duty of every man, woman,
boy and Kiri in this nation to take an active part
at this time to serve our country. We are at
war. We are at war with an exceeding dang-
erous enemy, ami one which for a half century
has been fitting itself for this conflict. But we
cannot all shoulder a gun and go to the front.
Some of us must stay at home to produce the
crops that will be required to feed our papula-^
tion ami provide a surplus for our allies who
are in an even more precarious situation than
we are.
Increased production of crops is most de-
sired! Secretary Houston of the United States
department of agriculture is endeavoring in
every possible way to encourage the planting of
every available bit of ground possible to some
food crop this year. And fruit-growers can
easily take an active part in this increased pro-
duction through the use of inter-crops in their
orchards. There are few orchards which will
not permit the growing of an inter-crop of some
kind, particularly the leguminous crops such as
oowpeas, beans, vetch or clover that may be
planted after the spraying season is over.
There are vacant places in almost i vory orch-
ard-places where trees have died. And in the
larger, aged orchards, the sum total of these
vacant places will run into a considerable acre-
age. Plant these vacant places now to some
food crop. Put in potatoes, corn, beans, toma-
toes, onions cabbage or any crop that is adapted
to the season and soil and which will make food
or feed.
Clean out the fence rows and plant pole
beans that can take the place of the weeds in
climbing over the fence. Plant enough of the
necessary food crops to supply your own family
for a year, with a surplus for some other fam-
ily. Get a canner and a supply of cans for as
much of your produce as you can possibly pack.
Do your utmost now, at planting time to put all
possible land in cultivation for food or feed
without much thought of the labor problem at
harvest time.
It is not to be doubted but that by harvest
the labor problem will be sufficiently well de-
veloped to take care of a great many of the la-
bor difficulties that not infrequently prevent
farmers from planting as much as they would.
Ami in addition to planting, hatch as many
chickens as possible* and raise as many as you
can. Breed the sows for a fall litter. Feed the
stock a balanced ration instead of an all corn
ration and make available for human food some
of the corn that would otherwise he wasted. Do
your utmost this year to help in overcoming a
serious food shortage in this country and a
great loss of human life from starvation among
our allies.
WAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
In entering the great war for the final over-
throw of autocracy, the American people do so
soberly and sanely as befits an earnest, aggres-
sive citizenship interested only in that sort of
government best calculated to promote the wel-
fare of the individual in his home, his business
and his property rights. We have no interest
in the war except to displace the "divine right
of kings" with the sovereign will of the people.
The opportunity has come—the hour has
struck—when Liberty may truly enlighten the
world. Russia led off. Until the great revolu-
tion no word had leaked abroad that the czar’s
government was having any trouble. The same
sort of censorship may cover a seething caul-
dron in Germany. And any moment the word
may flash forth thut a revolution has enveloped
the Germanic peoples—out of the. upheaval
emerging a Liberty something after the fashion
of the American ideal.
All those who think and reason highly esteem
the German people, whether in America or Ger-
many, or anywhere else in the world. But we
abhor autocratic military power wherever it
exists—whether in the person of Czar, Kaiser
or King.
Protection of human rights must and .shall
be the first concern of all governments of the
earth.
And in entering the war we do so cooly and
dispassionately—without hate or hysteria—
with malice toward none. It is a task of first
magnitude, to which as President Wilson said
in his address to congress:
“H'e ran dedicate our licm and our fortunes,
everything that ue are and everything that we
Kao , with the iiride of those who know that tin
day has come when America is privileged to
spend her blortd mid her might for the prin-
ciples thut gave lirr birth and happiness and
the pi arc which she has treasured."
The old isolation is finished: We are no
longer aloof from Europe. The heart-throb of
the oppressed individual is felt around the
world. And having set their hand to'the plow
the American people will not look back. What
has been started cannot be stopped. The world-
war will not cease until military autocracy is
destroyed and the liberties of the people emerge
triumphant and secure.
WHAT IS TREASONI
FARMERS WILL NOT LAG.
GOOD ROADS.
TELL THE WORLD.
The United States is not going into this war
for glory. We are going in to help get the
kaiser's "goat.”
The people of the state demand of the gov-
| emor that he see to it that every needless em-
ployee of not only the school land department
but every other department in the state shall
be eliminated.
The Kaiser offers electoral reforms to the
Germans, "after the war is over." After the
war is over the Germans will not need to ask
the Kaiser for anything. They will be free to
do as they please with their own. in their own
country.
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• DR. H. H. WYXM •
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Mexico is mobilizing and army upon our
southern border. Mexico says it is there to
prevent Villa from committing depredations,
but it may be to hit us a whack in the rear as
the Germans engage in the front.
The suggestion that Colonel Roosevelt could
duplicate in this country what Lord Derby did
for England in filling up the ranks of the army
is one worth considering and applying. Roose-
velt as chief recruiting officer would put pep
into the whole situation.
Many a rich man has to acquire the title of a
"tight wad” in self-protection. If he did not
he would be beset, annoyed and bothered be-
yond measure by lieggars. The unworthy beg-
gar is the greatest backset to the cause of
charity.
The army is going to the devil. In the old
days we were all Irish and Germans, and when
pay night came there was a fight and the Ger-
mans ail went to the hospital and the Irish
went to the guardhouse, but now the army is
the safest place a man can get. It never fights.
The word treason is loosely employed when
it is used with regard to seditious enterprises
or utterances under present conditions.
The crime of treason is defined by the con-
stitution :
"Treason against the United States shall con-
sist only in levying war against them, or in ad-
hering to their enemies, giving them aid or
comfort,”
Two Conditions Necessary.
Two conditions are necessary: An actual
state of war. and citizenship on the part of the
traitor who breaks his allegiance and gives aid
and comfort to the nation’s enemies. There
must be war to make treason possible. The
crime can be committed only by one who owes
allegiance. *
Even a conspiracy to subvert the government
by force is not "treason.” unless war is levied.
The maximum penalty for treason against
the United States is death.
The purpose of the constitutional and statu-
tory provisions on this subject is to prevent op-
pression by the prosecution of citizens, no mat-
ter how obnoxious their attitude toward the
government, on charges of “constructive”
treason.
Deuth Penalty in War.
Once war is declared, once a state of war
exists, all attempts to subvert the government
by those owing it allegiance, all adherence to the
republic's enemies, all giving of aid and com-
fort to the republic's enemies, become treason
punishable by death.
In the present aspect of affairs it is well to
keep these things clearly in mind.
When Eugene V. Debs urged the workers of
the country to declare a nation-wide strike in
case our government went to war, he was not
committing treason. The same advice, uttered
five hours or five minutes after the beginning
of war, would bring Deb’s neck into possible
relation with the hangman's knot.
When Oswald G. Villard at Pittsburg, before
the national federation of religious liberals,
denounced the plans for military preparedness,
he was not guilty of treason. Even if war had
begun it might be debatable whether the aid and
comfort he was giving the nation’s enemies was
of such a character as to render him liable to
punishment for the crime of treason. With or
without a state of war, however, and with or
without evidence of Mr. Villard’s citizenship
there could be no doubt of his guilt of the crime
of damfoolishness.—New York Sun.
thing you have and raise has a possible buyer
—pigs, calves, young chicks, turkey eggs, spring
vegetables—in fact you have nothing you can-
not sell. A few lines in this paper will do the
work, cheaply, quickly and satisfactorily. Try
it if you have anything to sell from a garden
hoe to a threshing machine, from a sucking tur-
key to a good span of mules.
It is not yet too late to plant garden. There
is always a proper season for. planting in Ok-
lahoma. It may vary and sometimes get a lit-
tle too dry or a little too wet, but with a resi-
dence of twenty-seven years here we have never
yet seen a complete failure. It always rains
just before the last day and ■■!• ars up before the
rains have entirely destroyed the crops. The
h ■
year, and yet we have always had a harvest.
Watch the season and you can 'raise a good
garden.
107 W P»rk Place, Oklahoma
City Eye. Ear and Throat
Specialist Glassea Fitted.
Offlre with Dr W. H. Davla.
One Regular Vtait of One Day
Only Each Six Weeks. At
(handler. Monday, May 21
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COURTLAND M. FEUQUAY
Lawyer
FFUQUAY BUILDING
CHANDLLK, OKLAHOMA
SHELL ON HIS
HOUSE; TELLS
HOW IT FEELS
Lieutenant Zanghieri Calmly Re-
cords His Impressions of
the Moment.
BOMB IS LITERARY ASSET
It seems to be fashionable just now to scold
the American farmer for not producing more
crops and to urge him to produce more this
year, as a patriotic duty in time of war. There
need lie no fear that the farmers of the country
will miss any opportunity to produce all the
crops they and their families can plant, cul-
tivate and harvest. The prospective price is
decidedly attractive and is sufficient incentive.
But there is a limit to the extent of crops a
farmer and his wife and children can sow and
garner. What is really needed is a larger num-
ber of city people out on the farms to help with
the sowing and the harvest. There is no lack
of either willingness to work or patriotism
among the men now on the farms. We need
more farmers.
There is only one way to have good roads
and that is for everybody to help make good
roads and then help keep them good. Instead
of growling and grumbling about the roads get
out and show by your works that you are some-
thing more than a kicker. There are a few
chuck holes, culverts and crossings along the
roads radiating out of Chandler that could be
improved by a very little effort. Wonder if it
ever occurred to the folks living by these places
that as a matter of pride a few hours’ work
would be a good investment? There is a
bumpy bridge near the home of a jolly7 good
farmer not far from Chandler that could be
fixed with a little work. To get rid of the an-
noyance of hearing the cars bump when cross-
ing should be an ample reward for the work
required to fix it. We agree not to mention
names if the bridge is fixed within a reason-
able length of time.
If you have anything for sale give your
county paper a chance. The expense is small
and in the end your profits will be large. Every-
Mo.t Exciting Adventure In Officer's
Career Occurs While He Is Quietly
Seated in His Home Engaged
in Literary Purauit.
By TANCRED ZANGHIERI,
Lieutenant in the Italian Army.
(Special Correspondence to the Chicago
Dai'
ally News.)
Goritz, Austria.—Heine tells In one
of Ills poems how he sought happiness
nil over the world without ever find-
ing It; returning home dlseonsolate, he
met It seated on the hearth of his own
house. It Is an adventure which rnuy
happen even to a newspaper corre-
spondent. A city like (lorltz Is an El-
dorado for the sensation seeker. Yet
I had tin* most interesting adventure of
my sojourn toduy, without moving from
my table.
Permit me to tell you about it In de-
tail ami with precision, divided Into
three chapters of varying length, and
admit thut even when one Is the prin-
elpnl personage of a story one still has
the right to consider oneself from more
than one viewpoint.
Chapter I.—The Setting.
Up till September 21 the weather
was bud. It was not ruin; It was a
deluge. The Italian trenches, like those
of the Austrians, are all cut into the
slopes of mountains und hills; despite
the shelters, the rain pours In, forms
ditches and flows through them; the
trenches become small noisy torrents.
To fight in these conditions is not pos-
sible. The official bulletins express the
situation In the words: “Bad weather
hinders the operations.”
Hence a forced truce to the work of
destruction. Nature takes care of the
destruction by a sudden cold wave,
dampness that penetrates one’s bones
und slows up the vital functions.
But on the 22d the weather deter-
mines to better itself. The clouds, con-
founded in a grny veil, take on forms,
thin out, show lilts of sky. The day
becomes divinely beautiful; the nlr Is
limpid as crystal. One cun distinguish
every tree, every bush of 1‘odgorn, a
green mass. The Sabotlno. more bare,
veils its reddish seurs made by hun-
dreds of thousands of shells, In the
violety vapor of a cloud, vast hut tenu-
ous. interposed between It and the sun.
Monte Santo, San Gabriele, San Dnn-
lele gathered up beneath the erost of
the Selva dl Tarnova, seem to smile at
their unhappy brother, the Carso,
which innocently stretches Its low arid
knolls to the sun, as though to intoxi-
cate Itself with warmth and quiet.
No sound of cannon is heard; no
rifle crack disturbs the silence of this
rprlng, like florescence.
The 23rd—not u cloud In the spot-
less sky ; the solar warmth raises light
mists which tint the distant mountains,
palest azure. ,
And not a eonrusslon, not a shot;
r*nl.v above, tin* airplanes are flying and
little eloudlets of white smoke follow
them. Rut It Is not “our” war; we arc
down on the earth, breathing'the vivi-
fying ulr In great gulps. Like the little
dog of Maeterlinck we do not deign to
east a glance at that sky which is not
deemed “eatable” by our desires. The
province of the air, the theater of war
1,000 feet above, does not interest us.
The bursting shrapnel Is so fur away
that one has to pay attention to hear
It.
This “truce of God” Is strange, so
strange that it seems the armies have
forgotten the war. I have never felt
ray soul more ptwceablv inclined, more
•'ourgeols, loss warlike. I forbid ray
•rderly to wake me early tomorrow.
And in truth this morning 1 got up at
k full of crazy ideas, with the desire
!*. climb up, up over the wooded slopes
f a mountain, to throw myself on the
ground upon a carpet of moss, to look
Rt the trees, hear the chirping of
f inis, enjoy all the beauty of this en-
haated region. Anti the Austrians?
i But do the Austrians still exist?
Some hooks lying on my table tempt
my fancy. I half close the curtains of
(ihe two windows, which are filling the
’ hamher with light, raise the shutters
md sit down, taking up the reuding
of u study of Alphonse Daudet by Doc-
| tor Batke. And 1 read, read until a
1 urious statement strikes me:
j “Whereas, Daudet as a bachelor
I wrote only when the inspiration struck
: dm. after his marriage he acquired the
linhlt of dally work.”
This fact Interests me. I go over to
he table ami make u note of Doctor
Balke's statement.
Chapter II—From Another Angle.
Lieutenant Puvlanl, an officer in the
, «nnie battalion to which your corre-
spondent hits the honor of belonging, is
attached to the local command at Go-
ritz. lie Is u strong man. rather heavy,
getting on in years (he completed the
fortieth n few days ago), a good father
and a brave soldier, who has been at
the front and in the immediate neigh-
borhood sipce tin* beginning of the
war. At present he lias a rather quiet
post and takes advantage of itjo make
horrible photographs for which he goes
about begging compliments, and copies
of which he distributes to ull bis
friends.
It is 11:4.r» a. m. and he is late for the
officer’s mess which is located near the
open door of a courtyard, in the same
street where stands the house of your
correspondent.
Lieutenant Puvlanl arrives late nt
the mess. This tardiness Is not neces-
sary considering that he has nothing
| to do from morning till night, but It
gives him a certain air of being a
trembles, jolts ami seems to fall down-
ward into chaos, into un inferno of
broken things. Then silence.
The word “work” Is traced hastily,
almost illegibly, by the nervous hand.
1 write across the sheet: “11:4.r», a shell
on my house." Then I go to tin* win-
dow and throw it open. Two military
IMilieemen and four or five soldiers ure
looking un, showing round eyes, und
pale, almost idiotic, faces.
At the left I see my dear colleagues
coming toward me. One of them ar-
rives on a bicycle, the others on foot.
They too, are pule, and look at me
silently, as though I were a ghost.
An entire corner of the house has
fallen in. hut it is un uninhabited cor-
ner. The shell entered through the
roof anti exploded inside. The celling
of my room shows two great holes in
the front part and two smaller ones
above the bed. But the room, though
partly crushed, is intact.
“What ure you doing up there?”
shouts Lieutenant Fusco, the adjutant
major of the battalion. “The upper
floor is on fire.”
Really It is a false alarm; It is only
the dust of a falltn celling. This does
not keep me from hurrying down to
my colleagues, happy in the escape
from danger, and even more so from
having read on their faces affectionate
solidarity for their friend. This satis-
faction is worth at least a 12-inch
shell, especially when it shows itself
us well-bred as thut whose untimely
end I have descril ed. •
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1>R. \Y. G. BISREE
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DR. MABEL HAHN
< 'hiropractor
Office over Crane Bros’, grocery
Office hours 9 A. M. to 12 M.
1 P. M. to 5 P. M. Phone 4 9
Examinations I'rce
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NOTICE TO ALL GAS CONSUMERS.
On all bills remaining unpaid on
the 15th of the month, service will
be discontinued.
OKLAHOMA FUEL SUPPLY CO.
Piles Cured In 0 to 14 Days
Yonr druggist will refund mnnry if PA'/.O
uINTMKNT tails to cure anv case oT Itching
Blind, Mleed’ng orPrt tmding Piles in6to 14days
The first application gives Kase and Rest. 50c.
DR. ALBERT C. PHILLIPS
(iiiropruetor
Over Crane Bros’. Grocery
Tuesday. 4 P. M. to Wednes-
day 11:30 A. M. Friday. 4
P. M. to Saturday 11:30 A. M.
Private Sanitarium at Shaw-
nee, Oklahoma.
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“slave of duty,” which he cultivates,
j So Lieutenant Puvlanl walks along
! with firm and measured step toward
the mess. Behold him in Via L—, be-
I hold him in Via A—, two steps from his
goal. The street is quiet us though
j lulled to sleep in the heut of a summer
afternoon.
Suddenly, nt the end of the street, a
I hundred yards in front of him, he hears
n sinister whistling, an explosion, a ter-
I rific noise. Pieces of Wall, beams,
j broken glass rain upon the street, while
n great cloud, first reddish, then whit-
I ish, rises into the sky.
| Lieiftennnt Puvlanl looks at the
I stricken house and utters a cry. In
, one jump he reaches the mess, where
; nil the officers of the battalion are
j lunching und talking about the shell,
I “which must have fallen very near,”
and with a sentence causes them to
| start to their feet.
“Lieutenant Zanghleri’s house has
fallen in!”
| The officers leave the mess and run
toward the spot where lies perhaps the
. body of their brother officer.
Chapter III—What Really Occurred.
; “After hia» marriage he acquired the
j habit of daily work.”
I At the word “marriage” a dull, far j=
away boom, half obliterated by dls- 1 ==
lance. One hears thousands like it p=f
! every day; today none have been
! heard and this is the only reason why
; the ear distinguishes this. At the word
j “habit” the whistle of a shell. The
! customary noise. The whistle of a shell
{ begins shriller and aguin sinks ns the §
shell passes over. When it explodes |
near you it seems to stop at its shrill- |
l est point, ns if to collect its forces in |
u great howl of rage, which is the ex- =
; plosion. But the shell of which I speak f
differs from all the others. The low |
I tone, the shrill tone, svm- nearer, ever =
nearer, nearer, near—bare It Is! My |
• peg stops at the word “dally” in ex- §
pectntion of the horrible thing. The |
house receives a shock that makes it I
tremble to its foundation, there comes |
an Immense roar as of a hundred can- =
non firing together. The plaster falls =
from the celling everywhere In the §
room, which fills with a white powder, =
while a hull of fragments strikes the- =
shutters. Something caves in with a §
great rumble, JQy$rything rattles,! 5
HEREFORD & GRAY
He have a general stock of merchandise, con-
sisting of standard brands of staple Dry
Goods and Groceries that has the outlook of
becoming one of the best stores in the county.
He Hill Make a Specialty on the Roberts
Johnson and Rand's Star Brand Shoes
at Prices Below What You Have
Been Paying
II
HEREFORD & GRAY
Phone 14
SEASONABLE MILLINERY
Together with Miss Miller’s stock o£
millinery goods, I am showing a new
line of hats, which I am pricing very
reasonable, and invite every lady in
Chandler and vicinity to call on me. I
intend to be in Chandler permanently.
Miss Olga Hughes
In Store Formerly Occupied by Mrs. Frances Sprallen
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