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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
MEMPHIS COTTON
CRATER CAUGHT
Bought Cotton for and Sold Stock, In
an Alleged Fake Concern and
Got $4,000.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan. 21. -
Charged with using the mails to de-
fraud in promoting an alleged cotton
exporting swindle. James Hause, for
merly of Memphis, was arrested at
Montgomery, Ala, last night He will
be brought back TO Memphis for trial
Hause Is charged with having de-
frauded Memphis firms our of more
than 100000 and his operations are
alleged to have extended into other
states, Including Texas and Louisiana.
According TO the federal authori-
ties, Hause passed as the special rep
resentative OF the "British-American
Cotton company Of Manchester, Eng
land an alleged fake concern, for
which he bought cotton. On the bills
of lading he is said to have secured
thousands of dollars.
In addition to his cotton operations.
Hause. IL is charged, sold stock I'm the
so-called BritishAmerican company.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
un attendance Of delegates each

fun attendance Of delegates each
meeting
The scheme as proposed for each
affiliated local i'm turn TO invite some
business or professional man Of the
city to address the council the speak
er choosing the subject. The dele
gates claim that this feature will
more closely Identify the interests OF
the labOring class and the merchants
benefiting all concerned. The Bak-
ers' union will select the first speak
er, who will address the meeting next
Thursday night The other locals Will
follow alphabetically.
G. T.. Houghton, assistant secretary
of the Boilermakers' union addressed
the council in regard to the existing
trouble I'm his local. He impressed the
delegates with his remarks and
swayed sentiment Of those present 20
the strikers. The bOilermakers Will
hold an important meeting at the la
Dor hall next Saturday night when
some decisive action will likely be
taken.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
"JITNEY" CARS NOW
OPERATE IN TULSA.
Street Railway Will BE
Competitioned by Five
Cent Auto Service.
Receipts Amounted to For
ty-Five Gents ON the
Initial Trip,

The first trip of Tulsa's new "jit-
ney' automobile passenger service
was made yesterday morning. \
Ford ear carrying the large insignia
"5 cents" on it's windshield made the
trip from the end of the pavement on
Hodge to Third and Main at regular
intervals during the entire day
Passengers VINO gathered on the
corners waiting for street cars were
picked up by the priver Of the auto
mobile and hurried to the BUSINESS dis
trict. The initial trip nctted the
"jitney" service 45 cents in revenue.
Although the capacity Of the car was
only four persons, one person took a
seat vacated by q passenger as the
car was coming into town.
The owner of the car said ycstor-
day that he will start four more run
ming in the near future. They will
take the course Of the street cars car
rylng passengers to and from Third
and Main. The transfer system sim
liar TO that of the street railway will
likely be arranged.
During wet weather passengers will
be hauled to their doorstep, the owner
said. But during the pleasant days
the regular route of the car lines viii
be used.
Similar services are in successful
operation in Houston, Kansas City,
Oakland, Cal, and a number Of other
metropolises. They are becoming ser
ious competitors of the street railway
companies, for passengers prefer to
ride in automobiles because they are
much more expeditions
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
MAY COLLECT INCOME TAX
Freezing Instiucts Howard There Is
No Legal Hindrancc.

Special to The World
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 21.-
State Auditor Howard has assurance
from Attorney General Freezing that
there is no legal hindrance in the
way of the auditor from forcing the
collection of income tax in the state,
and the latter announces that he
proposes to collect the tax. He has
already sent instructions 10 the county
assessors to make the required re-
turn of the assessments and the col
lection of the money will be done
through the states own machinery
Heretofore collection of the income
tax in the state has not been as Sat
isfactory as ii might, and it is the
purpose of State Auditor Howard
to see if there is any legal obstacle
to enforcing the law.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
Nd DANGER CT WAR
FOR UNITED STATES
Lower House of Congress
Spends Time Discuss
ing Our Defense.


WAsHINGTON, Jan. 21,-After an
all-day discussion Of the national de-
fense the house tonignt complet d
general debate on the $10l,0OO, 900
army appropriation bill. Reading of
the measure for amendment viii be-
gin tomorrow, with both majority and
minority leaders urging that action
on this and other appropriation bills
be expedited in order I, avoid a spe-
clal session of congress
The feature Of today's debate was
a speech by Representative Hay Of
Virginia, chairman of the military
committee, deprecating war talk and
declaring that 1t was not necessary
to add single man to the standing
army Of the United States. The pend
ing bill makes no provision for addi-
lions TO the army, but measures now
before the senate military committee
with the approval Of the administra-
ton, would increase the army by
about $4,000 men.
Representative Gardner of Mas
sachusetts and Kahn of California
vigorously insisted that the present
defenses Of the country were mad
equate. though they agreed with Mr.
Hay that there was no immediate
prospect of the United States being
involved in war.
How people can claim" said Rep
resentatiVe Hay, that the great ma
tions now at war, which are exhaust
ing themselves financially and physi
cally, az soon as the war is over, are
going to turn around and attack the
strongest nation on earth is beyond
my comprehension. The United
States has latent power greater
than any other country or of any
other three countries in the civilized
world. 1t Is going to maintain peace
with all the world. That is the policy
of this country, not only of the ad-
ministration, but Of the entire cit
izenry
I'VE are reasonably prepared. ]
find that owing to the European war
our manufacturers of small arms
have increased their capacity so that
today we are turning out about one
million rounds of ammunition a daY
or could if we desired to do It. We
have on hand ono million rifles. 1t
would be folly for us to lay up too
large reserve, because models
change and become obsolete. We
have 100000 rounds Of small am
munition in reserve"
Representative Kahn suggested
that the European war proved that
all Of the great generals developed at
virtually the age at which the United
States retires its officers. Mr. Hay
admitted that this was true.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23

have at last been found in the United
States.
The efforts Of the geological survey
were rewarded soon after the war be-
gan hy the discovery Of a deposit OF
potash, estimated al ten million tons,
at Searls lake I'm Death valley. Calf
fornia. According to an announce
ment by Franklin Is. Lane. secretary
Of the interior, the mining 4 this pot
ash is about 10 be begun at the rate
of 120 tons day. or 37,4l0 tons "a
year This rate OF production Is ex-
pected 10 be- increased rapidly. The
imports from Germany for several
years have ben at the rate OF 300 600
tons annually Popular Mechanics.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
WOMAN Is SENTENCED
Used Mails to Defraud Wealthy Ac.
quaintanCCs of Many Thousands.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-Mrs. Clara
Griffen, sentenced yesterday to six
years in the Auburn, n. Y, prison for
women, for using the malls &c defraud
wealthy acquaintances out of $500, 900,
was arraigned today I'm a state court
for sentence on three additional in
dictments charging grand larceny, TO
which she had pleaded guilty. The
court directed that she be brought
back for sentence when she completes
the six years federal term.
Mrs. Griffen's husband was SEN
tonced yesterday TO seven years in the
federal prison at Atlanta.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
POLICE AND TANK
BUILDERS CLASH
Effort Made to Force Non
Union Men to Discon-
tinue Their Work.

DRUMRIGHT, Okla, Jan. 21,-At-
tempts by striking tank builders to
cause non-union workers to abandon
their work here late today caused q
clash between the strikers and police.
No serious trouble ensued and no one
was injured.
Twenty-Five deputy sheriffs were
sworn in and tonight are patrolling
the streets. Leaders at the head
quarters of the striking men declared
strongly againts the bringing of
strikebreakers into the field.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
MORE EARTHQUAKES.
ARE FELT IN ITALY
Walls Cracked Last Week
Are Crumbling Now;
Fear Reigns.

ANEZZANO. via London. Jan. Ell
(S:3O p. m) - Slight earthquake
shocks continue to be felt here. The
disturbances are causing the walls
which were cracked by the earthquake
of last week to fall and keeping the
populace In state of terror
Three persons, two women and a
boy years old, were taken alive from
the ruins of a fallen building today.
All were in good condition.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23

talks were made which had not been
previously scheduled and some musi-
cal numbers were rendered upon
quest, to supplement the program.
The banquet concluded with a song
''America"-by the entire assembly.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
STRIKE TROUBLES
AIRED IN MEETING
Weekly Feature Now Is Billed fos
Trades and Labor Councils
Sessions.

Tulsa Trades and Labor CouneN
met In regular session last night with
a good attendance and much import
ant business was transacted. A new
feature was inaugurated which prom.
lses to be q drawing card TO induce a
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
Axes to Grind.

kindnes an dpoliteness would be
appreciated more II they were not
used so ofted as gold brick substi-
tues
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
PILES CURED AT HOME BY
NEW ABSORB ION MET ROD

II you suffer from bleeding blini or pro.
truding Piles send me your address. and
will tell you how 90 cure yourself at home
by the new absorption treatment; and will
also send some Of this home treatment free
for trial with references from your own
locality n requested. Users report imme
diate relief and speedy cures Send no
money. but tell others Of this offer Write
today 70 Mrs. ~ Summers, Box r. South
Bend. Ind.-Adv.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
Missionaries Safe.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21-The Pres
byterian board Of foreign missions
received q cablegram today reading:
'Urumiah Tabriz missionaries
Well" announced that it felt justi-
fled "in sending out the assurance
that all the missionaries in Persia
are safe"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-23
THE RUSSIAN ATTACK QuELLED
Brought to standstill Along Cau-
caslan Front.
| lMsTERDAM. Jan. 2

AMSTLRDAM, Jan. Z1.-INla LON
don. Jan. 22, 1888 a. m.)-The follow
ing official communication issued at
Constantinople was received here to-
night:
The Russian attacks along the
Caucasian front have now been
brought TO a stsndstill.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28

armies have values which, In terms of yards.
expense and efficiency vary greatly. 1t is, in
fact. barely a paradox to say that the raising
of new conscript army in England which
would give only very low results in war work
would be OF great service to Germany, for it
would drain her opponent of about 100000
a day for every million men raised, with little
compromising advantage.
In asking, therefore, what amount of war
power or work an invader might develop VIC
are bound to be on the safe side and to state
it in terms of first line French or German
troops They would be able to develop front
of, say, twenty to twenty-five miles, along
about one-thrd of which they could assume
the offensive. Our problem becomes, there
fore, narrower. How could we hold such
line against such troopsP
To this we may add the time factor. When,
in 1898, we went to war with Spain our gov
eminent delayed matters fer four months after
the blowing up of the Maine so to mako
necessary preparations. Even then the
fusion and feebleness of our first movements
are well remembered. But in this case the
Spanish precedent will not hold. II is our
opponent ana not ourselves VINO may Select
the moment for trying the issue. And cslcula
tons exist-have been printed, in fact--as to
the very few days we should get before the
storm broke on us. From seventeen to twen-
ty-one days is reasonable calculation, and if
we want TO be really safe we had better fix
our time limit, with slight margin, at four
teen days. Within fourteen days, then, we
have got to be on that line, within, let us say
one hundred miles Of New York, and with suf-
fcient power to hold it.
This, then, is minimum statement of the
requirements of national defence. How can
we in fourteen days hold line of twenty five
miles front within one hundred miles of New
York against an opponent made up of first line
troops equivalent to the Germans, who would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28

icers, which more than compensated the lack
of training and lack OF cohesion OF the men.
Training officers, unfortunately, means to the
American citizen West Point. General So
and-So was trained at West Point? That is
the unanswerable certificate OF comprehend
German generals who know nothing more than
what a cadet school teaches, with sundries OF
individual experience superadded, would be
held guilty of murder II they attempted to
handle German brigades and divisions in the
field. Our own history Is one long record OF
murder In this same sense, and the foundation
of any real scheme of defence, as l shall show
later, Is to eliminate this hideous blot on our
system; unfortunately for a reform scheme 1t
would noe cost even 100000 to put through
West Point trains the boy into a subaltern
officer To train a company commander is
matter of years. To train field ofhcer IS
more difficult, and so on progressively tor stan
officers, brigade and division commanders,
army commanders and general staff officers.
And it is at each successive grade upward that
economy Of effort becomes the more definite
reward of high training. A single officer OF
the operations section of the General Staff,
profound student of military history and the
DRY, may we'll represent saving OF quarter
of million men on front of $50 miles.
Germany draws the sharpest distinction in
grading her first line, reserve and landwehr
formations. The first only capable of
strong offensive movement; the third are for
rearward service, though usable at pinch for
defence AS between Germany's opponents,
the French, Russian, English and Italian
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28

Germany at the present day is more adept
at this process than any other country. she
can hold defensively more yards OF front with
fewer men at less expense than any other
country She can act extensively with greater
vieor than any other. Many computations
have been made of the number OF German SOL
diers required to hold the western front dur
ing these last few months, but it Is tar to av-
eraee Il at not over three men to the yaru
front. Some calculations have placed 1t much
lower. and il Is not improbable that there have
been times during which the figure has dropped
TO about IA to the yard The French line has
been appreciably denser, but on the other
hand, has at many points continuously at
tempted to assume the offensive. The British
army has apparently never held the defensive
with fewer than ten men to the yard front, and
on the offensive has employed up to about
thirty men to the yard front. Now let us con-
slider how the Germans achieve this result and
what II represents In terms OF finance.
The German army is, first and foremost
body of trained experts; the men are the least
matter Even in 1870, when the General Stan
knew far less than it does now, this was the
case Phil Sheridan, when at Gravelotte he
saw several German army corps in state OF
partial disarmament, declared that corps OF
the Army of the Potomac could have walked
through them in any direction. But he did
not ask himself how it was that those German
short service disbanded men on that day de-
feated the we'll ordered long service men of
Bazane's army, which they did. And the an
swer, of course, was The training OF the Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28
PartitioningofWeakLa Latin American
Nations, Says Professor Johnston.
is Among the Possibilities EN-
failing Great Danger for U.s.
Our Officers Not Suffi-
GENTLY Trained.

article this question will receive special treat
ment. Even if placed ashore with complete
success the disembarked army could not sus-
tain itself except by occupying great city
like New York And there it would meet with
almost insurmountable difficulties in receiving
reinforcements Being raid or gamble, we
may therefore postulate small numbers, which
the difficulty of sea transport further imposes.
Three or four army corps, OF 10000 to 10000
men each, is a moderate estimate of the size
of the invaders army. 1t must be pointed out,
however, that this calculation is not applicable
to the California coast problem, where Diff
ferent set of conditions apply making the
danger less probable, but OF far greater mag
nitude.
Next, we ask, what are these invading troops
worth? How much can they accomplish in
terms of war work. And here we come to a
vital question on which our public absolutely
must get enlightened or we may perish. In
England and in this country there is a resoute
and wicked conspiracy of silence as to the
value of different kinds of troops. The issue
is not in the least whether one Englishman or
ten Englshmen, whether one American or ten
Americans, can lick one or ten Germans. 1t
is when you begin to multiply up the ten by
hundred, by thousand, by million, that the
problem becomes progressively grave. 1t Is
in terms of large organized bodies, eventually
of the armed nation, that the question is peril
nent.
War as waged in Europe at the present day
consists, one may say, in developing and main
tanning an armed front of so many hundreds
IL vctxt NJ
others. Along every yard Of that front the
war work, whether offensive or defensive must
be carried out at the least possible expense
of time, of lives and Of money. And this
necessity becomes greater as the defence pre-
walls over the offence, and duration becomes
the all important issue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28
By Professor K. NJ. Johnston.

IF THERE is a fixed relation between IN
dustrial and military power it is also true
IL that military effort Is measurable in bust
ness terms, or terms of efficiency. The TIL
angle Chicago Richmond Boston represents
the power of this country TO wage war or us
weakness to repel it, according to whether we
are prepared or unprepared. The measures
of preparedness necessary to defend this tri-
angle are susceptible of precise definition
There are not two, three or four ways any
one of which will more or less meet the prob
lem. lust as there are not two, three or tour
ways OF running a great industrial enterprise
such as that of Rockefeller or Ford. War is
a far more complicated enterprise than the
production of Standard oil or standardized
automobiles, and there is only one way to
consider military problems, which is to gauge
them accurately and to measure the means
for meeting them precisely.
We have already seen where our weakness
lies in the region of which New York Is the
centre. 1t therefore remains to consider the
probable form of an attack on that point, the
time factor in that attack and the power which
that attack could develop. We shall then be
In position to measure the appropriate rene
dies.
An attack must come in the form of an
petition disembarking from transports. This
Is evidently a hazardous undertaking. II
might be entirely ruined by our feet, though
of this there can be no guarantee. In later
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28
West Point Diploma No Proof of Fit
ness for Serious Problems of
Actual Warfare Preparation
of Defence Against 1nva-
sion Would Be Work
of Vast Proportions.

be in sufficient force to assume the offensive
along considerable part of that line3 This
question I shall attempt to answer in my NEXT
article But before closing this one would
like to emphasize that this Is a minimum re-
quirement by briefly considering the interna
tional situation.
No man can guess the situation that will
result from the present war. On the whole,
though, we can begin TO perceive possibilities
even probabilities, already The displacement
of wealth as between Europe and America, the
supremacy of New York in terms OF finance
will create grave dangers for US when we con.
slider the impoverishment OF the European IA.
tons and the fact that they will come out with
formidable and smooth running war machines
The repartitioning of Africa is fast coming
into sight as possible outcome and suggests
the same process for the weaker parts OF Latin
America possessing natural resources from
Brazil to Mexico. There, really, is the greatest
danger for US, and the possibility of struggle
that would require far larger military resources
than the driving of Of a mere raid from our
eastern coast. Worse than this, though at this
moment happily improbable, is the combina.
ton of great European and a great Asiatis
military power that would make the conquest
OF California a real peril and that would tar
pur resources to the utmost however large and
however thorough our military organization.
These topics will be reviewed when deal
with the relation Of our feet TO national de.
fence. For the moment | merely point out
that in measuring our minimum problem an
not assuming the suficiency of the answer
when applied to our national needs. / am only
attempting to show on what processes OF rea.
soning correct military measures depend and
to what methods we must have recourse We
wish to establish 4 serious basis OF national
defence
Copyright, 1915, by The New York Tribune