The Tribune-Progress (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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THE TRIBUNE-PROGRESS
A
Volume 20. Number 27
Mountain View, Oklahoma, Friday, November 8, 1918
$1.50 Per Year
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
Government Finds Employment
For Men Whose Religion
Won’t Let Them Fight
The conscientious objector of
draft age is considered useless in
army circles, and all are given op-
portunities to prove their sin-
cerity. As draftees they are
certified as such by their local
boards and go to cantonments as
do other drafted men. Pending
hearings these men are segre-
gated in camps as special detach-
ments under command of military
officers and live much as do other
soldiers except that they are not
forced to perform military duty.
Labor is required of them and
when farmed out all sums in ex-
cess of their pay go to the Red
Cross.
If an objector is found insin-
cere -he .serves as do other
draftees or stands court martial,
which tnay send him to Fort
Leavenworth. Sincere objectors
are encouraged to enter non-
combatant military service,* but
should their convictions prevent
this they are furnished to various
forms of service under the juris-
diction of civilian commissioners
of the wat’ department who have
supervisory and recommenda-
tory powers. Many conscientious
objectors are taking part in re-
construction work in France.
Others are furloughed into agri-
cultural service and others are
employed in sections suffering
from labor shortages. Still others
will be sent to carry on large-
scale farming operations in the
west or to perform service in
state institutions for defectives.
Never Too Lat?
It is never too latC'to make
amends. If we haven't purchased
our share of War Sayings Stamps
and helped to finance the suc-
cessful war we can do so now.
There is no reason why every
person should not own War Sav-
ings Stamps or Liberty Bonds.
Four dollars and a few cents en-
titles you to stamps for which
Uncle Sam will give $5 in gold in
1823. Save your nickles, dimes
and quarters and lend them to
Uncle Sam. He needs vast sums
and will for yedrs to come. Don't
think you are giving it to him;
keep in mind that you are merely
lending it.
A LETTER FROM
HARRY McMEHEN
HE IS SEEING THINGS THAT
INTEREST HIM AND IT
MAY BE WILL YOU
No Mystery
in Meat
Some things are so simple
that they have to be explained
again and again. When things
are obvious, people keep looking
for mysteries behind them.
So it is with the packing bus-
iness. The mere size of Swift
& Company confuses many.
Because their imaginations are
not geared up to scale, they be-
lieve there must be magic in it
somewhere—some weird power.
Swift & Company is just like any
other manufacturing business run by
human beings like yourself, it takes in
raw material on the one hand and turns
out a finished product on the other.
Swift & Company keeps down the
“spread,” or the expense absorbed be-
tween raw and finished material, to as
low a figure as possible. (If it didn*t
it would be put out of business by
others who do.)
How much Swift ft Company pays
for the raw material, and how much
it gets for the finished product, depends
upon conditions which Swift ft
Company does not control.
It depends entirely upon how much
people want the finished product, and
how much raw material there is avail-
able to make it from.
The profits of Swift ft Company
amount to less than one cent per pound
on all meats and by -products—less than
one-fourth of a cent on beef.
Keep Your Pledge
Make Good ter Our
Fighting Mon
BUY WAR - SAVINGS
STAMPS
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
Somewhere in France,
Oct. 10,1918.
Dear Mother: I wrote you that
we had helped to make the St.
Michiel drive and was expecting
something big soon. Well, our
expectations were realized, the
First Army Corps taking part in
that major operation from Ver-
dun to the western side of the
Argonne Forest, beginning Sept
30. The boys made the drive
just as they make them all—with
go and vim and success at the
end. This battle was over coun-
try with shell holes, crater mines
and machine gun nests galore.
The forest was a tangle of barb
wire and underbrush. And be-
sides all this it was raining. The
boys would send word back for
guns, more guns and ammuni-
tion." They got them, too. Ev-
erything waited but ambulances;
these the boys helped to get
thru. No one could stand the
sight of the ambulances loaded
with wounded men standing
there in the mud and rain. Those
men had done their bit and were
uncomplaining and everybody
worked to get them where they
could be taken care of.
Kenneth was with his car two
days on the front and was sup-
posed to be on duty only one
day and night, but he turned in
0. K. I sure was glad to see
him. We are “shock troops”—
that is, we are used to start a
drive then taken out and held in
reserve until everything is sure
on the lines. Then we are moved
to some other place, so we get to
see a lot of France. We saw 150
air planes go over to the front
yesterday. They looked like a
flock of birds. They were not
gone long. Some of the boys said
it sounded as though they had all
dropped their bombs at the same
time. Some of the planes were
large. That many boche planes
wouldn't get very far on this
side. Yesterday we walked about
half a mile to where I had heard
a boche bomb drop the night be-
fore. A car could easily be put
in the hole it made. A boche
plane visits us now and then. We
would feel lonesome if they did
not. Of course we get under
cover so that if he takes any pic-
tures there will be no one in
them.
We were having gas mask drill
and lectures a day or so ago and
zig, zig, boom! came a shell. It
was some shell, too. The saying
is a miss of an inch is as good as
a mile, but I’d just as soon have
the mile. Had an air battle over
us last evening. A big boche
plane with two men came in
sight. They heard one of our
little machines and turned back,
but the little one followed with
only one man in it. He run the
machine with his feet and the
gun with his hands. He couldn’t
do much with the big plane ex
cept outmaneuvre it, so he kept
at its tail and finally followed it
into the clouds, and there he
killed the gunner. The boche
place began to come down in a
spin and when it landed the
other man was killed and the
plane destroyed. We all ran but
the M. P.'s beat us to it and 50
feet was as close as we were al-
lowed.
Dad, they've gotten this war
game down pat, but we are even
better than the boche at his own
game; he can't fight the Yank®.
Gen. Foch has profited by their
mistakes and has shown them
that be is tbeir superior* We
Now is the Time!
Opportunity Awaits You
FARMS FOR SALE
We have a number of farms far sale ranging in price frem
$10,000 down to aa low as $1,000 per quarter section; soma
on exceptionally easy terms. Now is the ideal time to buy
land if you possibly can do it* as the prices arc sure ts advance
in the near future.
FARMS TO EXCHANGE
160 acres of good land located northeast of Mtn. View only a
few miles to exchange for land south of Mtn. View. This is a
good farm and is worth the money.
160 acres northeast of Mtn. View to exchange for income
property in Mtn. View priced right. This is worth looking into
by the city man who wants to got on a farm.
TOWN PROPERTY TO EXCHANGE
Good 9-room residence to Made for Auto. Look at this. A
better one but not so large to trade for Auto. Surely you will
like one or the other. Better hurry and see them.
MONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS
Yes, sir, we are on the job when it comes to farm loans,, either
big or little, at the lowest rates and most liberal terms. No
rsason for looking elsewhere for form loans. Let us know; we -
will do the rest and save you money, too.
INSURANCE
Yea] we write all lands of insurance and we know how ta do it
You may be paying too much for your insurance right now
and do not know it Come and sec us and we will tell you
are or not
The G. L. Romans Land d Loan Oo.
Telephone No. 39
MOUNTAIN VIEW, OKLAHOMA
Over First National Bank
sure are proud of him and are
glad to be under him. Foch and
Wilson can't be beat; they are
the brainiest men in this old
world.
Everything will come out right
in the end and from the looks of
things the end isn’t far off.
We have a dandy place to stay,
can shut the windows so as to
have a light at night and a fire.
Haven’t had any mail for a few
days, but I know mother’s letters
are somewhere on the way and
have some friends who are good
stayers. Am sending Nelle anc
Mary Margaret some roses.
With much love for all, I am,
your son, Harry McMehen.
Always tell us news you may have about anything
Years ago Carnegie began to
give awav his wealth, believing ii:
the right thing to die poor, and
that he would pass away at four
score. He is now 83 and sti
burdened with a hundred
millions.
or so
James R. Tolbert Raymond A. Tolbert
TOLBERT ft TOLBERT
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Suite 6-7 Abstract Building
HOBART. - OKLAHOMA
F. G. DeGette
Veterinary
Surgeon
Office at O. K. Feed Yard
Mountain View. Oklahoma
A. H. Hathaway
Res. Phone 28
A. J. Weedn
Res. Phone 76
Hathaway ft Weedn
Physicians and Surgeons
Office over Corner Drug Store
Phone 34
Calls Answered Day or Plight
Mountaio View, Okla,
SECURE A
FREE WAR MAP
For Children 8 to 12 Years ot Age
ENTER CONTEST
The One Producing the best Colored Map,
With battle line drawn, will receive
1st Prize, 20-oz. Box Chocolates, $1.75
2d Prize, 1-lb. Box Chocolates, - 1.25
3d Prize, Post Card Album, - 1.00
A map showing last battle line front is in
our window. Call and see it; it will assist you.
Call for free maps.
CORNER DRU6 STORE
Rexall Store
MTN, VIEW
OKLAHOMA
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