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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-07-12

Rogers Hornsby got his accustomed
daily three base hit yesterday lie
PLAYED ifstba,e Tor the Cards.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24

recently cast aside was supposed to have covered a superman. Standing in the terrible limelight of publicity Charles Evans Hughes is not the awe inspiring spectacle he once was. In stead he is a mere politician out after the votes, as he himself terms it, a one hundred per cent. candidate, man who has adopted the slogan, Anything to Beat Wilson" For every railroad tie he crossed from New York to San Francisco the candidate lost just so much esteem. It is a pity that this is so; far better would it have been for the Republicans to have another candidate rather than one who had so much prestige to lose and who has lost so much.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24

task. Men like Secretary of the In terior Lane, Judge George Gray of Delaware, and Dr. John R. Mott, known internationally as a great re- ligious worker, give added assurances that out of chaos may come order. They have the good will of the Ameri- can people, insofar as these people do not represent those who wish all sorts Of evil to Mexico merely to embarass the present administration. If these comm iSsiOners are met half way by the representatives of the de facto government many of the misunder- standings may be cleared up and Mexico put upon a fair road to better political conditions. The way to treat Mexico is not with the whip and spur, but with a kindliness that breathes brotherly love. Kill her bandits when necessary; but spare her poor half starved struggling populace. And some day Mexico will come out of the mire.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
RCSDOnS SiDiIifX.

II l am weak and you are strong, Why then, why then To you the braver deeds belong; And so again, If you have gifts and I have none, If I have shade and you have sun, 'Tis yours with frcer hand to give, 'Tis yours with truer grace to live, Than I who giftless. sunless. stand, With barren life and hand. We do not ask the little brook To turn tlR wheel; Unto the larger stream we look; The strength of steel We do not ask from silken band, Nor heart of oak from willow wand; We do not ask the wren to go Up to the heights the eagles know; From out the doves dumb throat. 'Tis Wisdom's law, the perfect code By love inspired Of him on whom much is bestowed Is much required. The oak must reign the forests kind; The rushing stream the wheel must
 move;
 The tempered steel it's strength
 must prove; 'Tis given with the eagles eyes To face the midday skies.
 -Carlotta Perry.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
Horses and Morals. (NeW York Sum-

No more childish fancy based on | the dream of a world as it isn't guides | the acts of living men than the idea that they have complete control of all Troperty they have acquired for all time to come. It is true that the dead hand exercises in some cases an in-
 fuence for a long period But .,t
 IT any cases it is obstructive and ex-
 cites the hatred or disdain of sur
 vivors. The man who fondly
 imagncs he will make men tremblo
 ct his posthumous power succeeds
 only in becoming an object of rtdicule.
 A will recently filed in Pennsyl-
 v2na forbids forever" the pasturing Of "circus or show horses on the es- tate. Unless this was a mere freak or cccentricity it could only result iron, 6 prejudice against circuses. Tho man had @ perfect right to cherish and express disapproval even of tho great moral show if he found 1t objectionable. But what had the horses done that he should discrimi- nate against them?
 Even the severest of Puritans could maintain that horse is mor- ally responsible for the choice of an occupation. If he does faithfully tho VI Ol IA dSSlSI6u IO IllIIl T6IIdlnS rom biting, kicking or baking, he Is "good" horse. We doubt if the most violent paciist would refuse to Tas- ture an old warhorse
 If the beast were responsible he must also be free to repent. And no provision is made for reformed equine sinners The enemy of circuses has no case ill morals or in logic. And we trust he will be found to have none In law. Though on second thought we're inclined to suggest that the best punishment would be to let no horse so fine as a well-cared-for animal from the big tent glorify that oitIfully restricted field
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
FROM BALTIMORE TO BERLIN

After a tWenty-tWo day trip across the ocean the super -submersible Deutschland arrived safe at the mouth of the Weser yesterday. Dispatches from Berlin report safe journey, all members of the crew being in good periences.
 If from Berlin to Baltimore was a remarkable voyage for the Deutsch- land, the return from Baltimore to Berlin was no less worthy a feat From the moment of her arrival in this country until the day of her de- parture through the Virginia Capes, the Deutschland was the subject of British vigil. Outside the three mile limit of American territorial waters cruisers and torpedo-boat destroyers awaited her. But the willy old cap- tain of the good ship was ever on the alert and succeeded in escaping Tn this' he had the best wishes of all Americans who could not hope other
 
 lifted the blight carried by those that sank the Lusitania and other mer- chant vessels.
 Now that the Deutschland is safe and sound in it's own harbor and the eyes of the world have seen a rcmark- able demonstration of under-soa navi- gation, the next bet is the coming of the Bremen. No word has been heard from this ship for so long that many fear her lost. Still, she may put in an appearance at any time. If she does, another such journey as the Deutschland will serve to make these trips across the ocean part of the commonplace achievements of the hour.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
"BIuebeayd's Castle is
 Zn Danish WeSt Indies

Washington, D. C., Aug. 24.-Con- cerning the early history of Ameri- cas- about-to-b be- possessions, the Danish West Indies, the National Geographic society issues the follow ing bulletin from Washington:
 'Of the three small islands on the northeastern edge of the Caribbean sea, for which the United States ex- peots to pay Denmark s25, 900, 1000, St. Thomas and St. John, both smaller and less densely populated than St. Croix, have been the scenes of many thrilling episodes. Here white colo nlsts Of four nations followed each other with bewildering perplexity dur Ing the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
 More than a hundred years after the discovery of St. Thomas by Columbus in 1493, the \ island was wholly uninhab abited, although it's ex- celent harbor had been a port of refuge for Dutch navigators during many decades. When a handful of French colonists, survivors of a mas sacre on Crab island perpetrated by band of Spaniards from Porto Rico, reached it's shores in a dugout in 1647 they found evidences of an earlier set tlement, but no clues as to the na- tionality of their predecessors or of their fate. These French wanderers were not disposed to brave a similar mysterious end, so they sailed on.
 At about the time that Peter Stuyvesant was establishing a repre- sentative form of government on M countrymen were establishing the first recorded settlement on St. Thomas. These hardy coIonists met the same fate which overlook their brother Hollanders of New Amster- dam,' for three years after the town on the Hudson became New York the St. Thomas pioneers were forced to surrender to the English also. The latter soon deserted the island and turned to the more fertile lands of St. Martins and St. Eustatias, so that in 1871, when tn Danes, wishing to share in the colonial prosperity of other European nations, chartered the West India and Guinea company, St. Thomas, uninhabited again, was awaiting the advent of settlers who were to establish Denmark's rights in the island With two brief interrup tions this sovereignty has been main taind from that day up to the present time.
 '"The legend that St. Thomas was at one time the headquarters of the ruthless buccaneers who terrOrized the Spanish Main for so many years is perpetuated in the names given to two towers still standing on the heights back of the seaport of Char lotte Amalie. On one hill is Blue boards Castle,' while on an adjacent height rises 'Blackbeard's Castle.' History does not substantiatc the TO- mantic tradition, and it is extremely doubtful if the buccaneers were ever in possession here.
 "When the Danes arrived they were under very strict orders as to religious Observances and with respect to preparedness program against rival cOlOnists. The first order is- sued by the governor was: Every per- son who speaks Danish is bound to at tend service every Sunday in Chris tian's fort when the drum beats, and
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24

soul of "firmness." It tells MT. Hughes that
 "he must come out very soon and very plainly, and make it clear that he differs materially from MT. Roosevelt on the war questions and the duty of the United States to the belligerents, if he hopes to win the masses of the people,"
 Very soon and very plainly. The water must be spilled from one shoul- der or the other. It needs no import unate voice in Erie county to tell us that. Roosevelt and Hughes! Dyna- mite and milk! Can they concord? Does Mr. Hughes dare to speak out? As for MT. Roosevelt he must be accumulating a wrath that will make the Maine lakes boil. What will hap pen to 'pussyfo oting" when war footing begins?
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24

on failure of doing so is to pay a fine
 of 250 pounds of tobacco. Persons
 of all other nations are bound to at
 tend service every Sunday afternoon
 at the same place, under the same
 penalty
 "As to armament the order was:
 For the defence and good of the Coun- try every householder shall keep in
 his house for himself and every man
 in his service a sword with belt and
 a gun with sufficient powder and ball;
 and also each householder shall have
 two pounds of powder, Or more If he : pleases. Every person neglecting
 this duty shall pay 100 pounds of to- ! bacco.'
 The order for the citizen army ran thus: Every Saturday afternoon
 when the drum beats, all persons who I can use a gun shall meet at the pa rade ground fully armed. Any per- | son absent, in favorable weather shall i forfeit every time 25 pounds of to- 1 bacco, which is to be paid at the end 1 meet regularly
 l "The shortage of labor during the 1 first year or two of Danish occupation
 was overcome by the importation of
 many slaves from the Gold Coast of
 Africa. The laws governing these 1 human chattels were extremely se- l vere Drum dances and feaSts were l forbidden and all slaves were required l to be at home by sunset on Sundays | A slave transgressing such regulations was for the firse offense whipped, for 1 the second his ears were cut off, and
 for a third he was hanged and his head placed on a stake
 "In the neighboring island of St. i John the slave laws were even more
 drastic. Here are some of the penal
 ties which brought about bloody
 insurrection in 1733, costing the lives
 of many white planters, their wives
 and children: The leader of runaway
 slaves shall be pinched three times i with red-hot iron, and then hung.
 Each other runaway slave sha9; i lose one leg, or if his owner pardon ! him, shall lose one ear and receive l 15O stripes
 "A slave who runs away for eight i days shall have 150 stripes, twelve
 weeks shall lose one leg, and six i months shall forfeit his life, unless ] the owner pardon him with the loss | of one leg.
 1 "A slave who lifts his hand to strike a white person or threaten him
 with violence shall be pinched and 1 hung. should the white person de-
 mand it. if not to lose his right hand
 'In the terrible instruction one of l the victims was a Judge Soctman, who
 murdered and decapitated in the 1 presence of his beautiful 12-year-old l daughter, and while council was 1 being held to determine what should ! be done with her the child, over
 whelmed with grief, entreated them to
 take her life also, to which plea they 1 gleefully acceded. laying her man
 gled body across that of her father. "The tnsurrection was put down
 only after aid from the French m Martinique had been invoked. Three
 hundred slaves were surrounded and l when they realized that escape was l impossible they held a great feast of death. Tradition says that they l plunged over a, cliff, but the historian 1 Host says that they shot. one another,
 and that when they were found at
 Brim's Bay they were lying in a cir 1 cle"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
The Pitching Post.
(Syracuse Post Standard )

 We hear much nowadays about the destructive influence of the automo- bile upon American country life how it is doing away with the sim plicity of our villages and robbing our rural communities of their charming isolation and rusticity. The vacation tripper who seeks to escape the whirl of city life for a brief period each summer is forced to go farther and farther into the will derness. Once secluded spots are now 1 accessible to the thousands who used ! to travel only by rail; the country 1 landlord has been quick to learn the wiles of his city brethren, offers hot and cold running water instead of @ l pitcher and basin, and charges accord i ingly; the cracker barl at the general store has given way to the gasoline barrel. with brilliant red sign quot ing the standard (oil) price for that commodity.
 There are still a few places un- touched by the auton1 obile's uncharl- table wheels. One of these is Dan- bury, Conn. One of it's citizens writ ing to his home paper, fhe Danbufy News, has a quaint complaint to make He deplores the lack of hitching posts within the city limits. He points to the fact that while Danbury boasts general hitching place, flew persons care to go there and leave some of their purchases while they go for others, with prospect of having some of them stolen.' Moreover, he knows
 for a fact that Danbury merchants lost two important sales last week 1 because they had no hitching posts in front of their shops. Fortunate Danbury. Life still goes on it's placid way in Connecticut. Within the 50-mile radius of Syra- cuse, on the shores of one of the lakes
 of which central New Workers ought habit of ignoring because it Is direct 1y finder their noses is a hotel which still attempts to carry on the business of affording lodging for beast as well
 as man. Over the long ram bling sta hle is a weather-beaten sign: Eitching, 10C.
 With hay, IS.
 Hay and grain. 25c.
 r A glance in the stable door tells the story Not horse in the stalls-fOr the stalls have been torn out. And the floor is of cement. There are usually from 10 to 20 motor cars standing insolently in the places once occupied by horses. The landlord sells much gas and little hay. There is no hitching post in sight.
 We may have to go to Danhury to escape from the mad rush of the automobile
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on aTI sides of timely questions us discussed tn ex- changes that coIne 10 the Herald Office
Business Failures.
(Price Current Grain Rcporter)

tPrlce Current Grain Rcporter).
 It certainly takes some of the joy out of the lives of those who try to think sanely on economic subjects Con the art of making a nviug) and hope to influence others to think in the same way to have a government official of so high a rank as MT. Ed ward N. Hurley of the federal traGo commission declare. as he Is reported to have done to the Illinois Manufac- turers' Cost Association at Chicago that "90 per cent. of the business failures in the United States last year resulted from cut-throat competition prices" for such a statement Is purs dogmatism and unwarranted by the facts.
 A far more authoritative exponent of such matters than MT. Hurley (we say 1t with all due respect to Ar. Hurley) is Bradstreets Journal, .he mouthpiece of @ company that has made business of studying succesJ and failure and the causes therefor for a great many years. In an ar- ticle on Jan. 29, 1916, Bradstreet's said that it is worth noting that in 1915, as in 1914, all extraneous causes of failure-those over which the in ,
 
 the conduct of his business-had moro influence than in some other years: yet in 1915 only 25.6 per cent. of the actual business failures in the United States were due to causes othor than the faults of those failing and this proportion w2s then the highest in a generation. In the light of such testimony by Bradstreets which Is based on specific reports, saying that 2 go per cent. of the failures resulted I from cut-thrOat competition priceq" IS mere assertion or support of a doc Urine that Mir. Hurley and his hear CTS happened to be promoting. As a '@atter of fact Bradstreet's credits
 'HutGido Ompetition," with only 57 pr Cont of the failures of 1915, and 1 adds that this proportion was greater~s than any year since 1900 Take, then. the whole number of business men in the country Gin 1915, 1,77O,914). of whom only 1.07 per cent failed in 1 business that year. and then figure 5.7 | per cent. of 1.07 per cent of that number who failed because of com petition. Then compare it with MT. Hurley's dogmatic go per cent! Isn't | is a fact that "competition'' is practically a negligible cause of fail- ure rather than the major one? The fact is MT. Hurley is exploiting doctrine, and cultivating a doctrins 1 is one of the most insidious under , miners of mental equilibrium. His | thesis was that when men know what it costs to do business they will l. ot cut prices, which is as far from the mark as his argument in support of it. The fact is, and we are now writing to grain dealers, that su2- 1 cess in business depends on skill in the art of merchandising, supplement- ed by all those talents, congenitaI and l painfully acquired that go to make up l the efficient man.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
SERVICE?

Nn illustration Of the public be-
 nned spirit of the Connecticut com Ry in this city was afforded last ming shortly after seven o'clock Pn the passengers, mostly women, a car arriving at Central Park Fe unceremoniously turned out into storm and informed that this car |s to the barn." No other cXpIan- In was forthcoming, the conductor replying tO" questions: Fon't know a thing about it." That incident was not the fault of the |ley crew was shown by the pres b of Superintendent Beardsley, stood on the street near the for sd end of the car and offered no stance. To make the situation sse no other car was waiting for passengers who were forced to k shelter under awnings, in door Is, and other places, New Britain
 always been the scapegoat fer trolley service: Last nights :n- mt was a fitting climax to the mis- Iagement Of years.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

American civilization: the negro by
 c. V. Roman. Among the ruins by Gomez Carrillo. "A neutral Latin view of-the French cause. "-Independent. Atlantic classics: essays from the At
 lantic monthly. Business of being friend by Bertha
 Condo. Inter arms, being essays written in
 time of war. by Edmund Gosse. Making type work by Beniamin sher- An outline of industrial history with
 special reference to problems of
 the present day by E. Cressv Poverty and social progress bv Marr-
 ice Parmelee. Principles of health control bv "
 Walters.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
Horns of tho Buffalo
(New York Tim es)

D..
 The Buffalo Demokrat 2 C.nrn7ap- language journal, has na bowels of compassion. It ought to be satisfied by Mr. Hughes expressive silences and delicate tiptoeing of eggshens that there is nothing offensively American in his shy and yelled "Americanism, ' and that if, in speculative theory or as a tool of ratiocination, such an object as a "hyphen" may be supposed to exist, it exists only as a bond of union between the republican candi- date and the German vote The inn placa ble Buffa1onian will not have it so, but charges straight against the mute and shrinking victim:
 If MT. Hughes does not very soon disclose his views and plans with re- gard to the great war and the position of America as to war questions, what others who stand near and next to him have said on these questions must be considered. So long as MT. Hughes himself Intentionally keeps silent, we are warranted in the assumption that he approves the Roosevelt view of these questions and has accepted the Roosevelt war program
 The Buffalo DemOkrat is firm, the
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
With Due Allowances.
(Kansas City Journal)

It happened in a little town in Ohio. A visiting Fastener stood on the ve- randa of a little hotel there, watching the sun go down in splendor of purple and gold.
 "By Georgen he exclaimed to an in1passive native lounging against a post: "That's a gorgeous sunset isn't it?''
 The native slanted his head a little and looked critically at the glowing west.
 Not bad,' he drawled. "Not bad for little place like Hoopville.'
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
TWILIGHT XONERS."

In England there is class of in-
 habitants known as the twilight
 zoners." These people are usually ex- 1 patriated Americans although they | have not taken out naturalization l papers in Great Britain. They are,
 therefore, neither English or Ameri- l can citizens, although they may claim one way or another. As the London CTS say, they stand neither in day light, nor night-dark. They are twi- they were never embarrassed with
 making a decision. Now, however,
 military expe1iency demands that all
 English fighting men, between the
 ages of eighteen and forty-five, pre-
 pare for war in the trenches. This
 has brought about a sad state of af- fairs for the twilight zOners." More than two hundred of them, according to the London correspondent of the New York World, have applied to the American state department for papers to show they are American citizens And the state department has refused to grant these wishes.
 One of the salient cases in the entire list is that of man who was born in this country of naturalized Dutch parents. Al the age of six years he was taken to London where he has since resided. He had never thought of making this request until the mili- tary authorities of England notified him he must make ready to go to the front. The State Department evident ly views him as an English citizen for 1t refuses his appeal along with all the rest. Where this man made his mistake, as did his compatriots, was 1n not keeping a firm hold on his American citizenship. If it is worth anything It is surely worth upholding The twilight zOners" of England and other countries are usually made LID of wealthy persons born in the United States who willingly ezpatriate them selves while at the same time trying to hold on to whatever strings of citi- zenShiD they may need ill emergency. In the olden days when the diD1o- matic service of this country was not in it's present state of perfection such tactics worked. Now, however, the | law specifically states that an Ameri- l can who lives abroad for any length i of time must, to retain his citizenship, | visit the nearest American consulate | and register there at least once in l every five years. That is simple enough | to those who prize citizenship in the l United States. Otherwise they should openly adopt some other coun- try.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-24
Canada'S WhiSkey. (Montreal GazetJe)

Large consignments of whiskey have for many years been arriving in Canada from the United Kingdom, and the coming of the gin boats from Holland has been somewhat of an annual event at the port of Mon treal Conditions in the matter of en- 1ivening beverages are about to DO reversed, however, for in due tin2a there will leave this port a shipload of whiskey made right in Canada, in Walkerville, in fact in the hammer whiskey manufacturing province, On tario. The consignment weighs 2,5n0 tons, took 200 cars to carry, and would
 fill, it is calculated 2,5oO,OOO bottles This is somewhat Of al start toward returning past compliments. although it would take Canada 0 century or more to get anywhere near BritaIn's record. The drinkers across the wa ter have something coming to them,