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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-11-01
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Dear Mrs.. Thompson DD Ncy-
cral week, ago ! began going with d
very nice Young man and liked him
quite well III, mother died when he
va, quite small and he was raised
bN the lady he live, with NOW An
other gr became jealous oi me- and
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were uo, rruc and then thu, lady FOR
hadc h' coming TO see me Wa, tins
right,
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pockets and read the letters ] wrote
him lh., made me very angry ami
he did not like it cNhcr \, vc ,H,
both OF ,ge ha, she any right to 40
this
81 He often come, to see me when
she doesn't know anything about il.
and he write, to me Should ! let him
call, and should answer his letters
tID There Is another Young man who
comes 10 see me once I'm while bu,
he /, not to be depended upon Should
! count HIM as true friend;
tSl ! have girl friend whom'l
though, was very nice girl. and she
really wa, until rhi, summer. whca
she chwmmcd with a g,rl who J., moi,
highly respected Therefore m, friend
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asking me to 60 home with her To stay
over night OF course ! do not van:
To do 'hl, ON account oi what pcopla
say What can tell her SO that She
viii not be- offended
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forbid the boy TO see YOU, because she
must have known he would de- as he
thought best regardless OF what she
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heard and let him Judge for himself
(2l She has right to do such
things as long a, he makcs her home
hi, home.
90 Don't LET HIM come to see YOU
secretly Ii he knows what was said
was false and is willing to stand up
for YOU in spite OF everything, let him
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-11-01

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lower Hest butchers and heavirs ranged
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Wright-Davis

Presenting the laughahle Sklt
"lhc Lone lnNnaucc Agent"
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02

its songs, legends and ceremonies. But the
younger generation goes out in search OF the
symbols Of America. For youth will search
for symbols, and is sure to find them better
or worse, as they are provided for him.
What does the immigrant boy find' Broad
way, or the Bowery, or Sixth Avenue. he
finds electric signs, or musical comedies, or
nickel-in-the-slot machines. But whatever he
finds. better or worse, it has little to do with
the real America. Broadway stands chiefly
for the amusement of an idle hour. What has
it to do with American history or with Amer
ica's international destiny2 Broadway's effect
on the young immigrant may not be VICIOUS
but it is bound to be misleading. And he goes
back 20 his father and says: mo, father you
are old-fashioned. America isn't what you say.
It is this, and this"
They come TO us with an old and magnificent
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02

culture. They find commercialism and busi-
ness competition. We have given them no
symbols for the great America that we believe
in. We have let Americas case 60 by default.
To keep some beauty and poetry in their lives
the immigrants turn back to the culture and
love of their mother country
felt this once when was with four Indian
chiefs who came to visit New York. They
were powerful in their own tribes. They had
behind them a superb culture of legend and
religion. They had been at Washington on
some business with the government, and be-
fore going home wanted TO see the metropolis
They looked at the big buildings and the cleo
trio lights, marching about silently with inn
mense dignity and pride.
But they wanted to understand the legends
and purpose behind the big buildings So they
called in an interpreter. He was a graduate
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
-.- Low Speed Eliminates Navy Defence Factor 9:

they will merely await attack. At that rate,
why put engines into them at all? Why not
Just anchor them off some perfectly convenient
spot, like Coney Island, and wait for somebody
to come and attack them1
The theory may look specious to the un-
initiated; it is really crude and dangerous
Stop TO consider a quite possible sequence OF
facts. The feet of some foreign power, pos
sessing superior speed to ours-and most OF
them do-starts across the Atlantic, aiming
toward New York. There is no need to con-
ceal its movement; on the contrary. (Wireless
patrols and such inventions could not play any
controlling part.) II our feet should happen
10 be near to its home ports and could be
coaed and supplied in the time, we might as
sumo it to be concentrated OF the entrance
to Long Island Sound. The foreign heet
closes in. At some point behind it covers a
fleet of transports that cannot be located. Our
feet goes out, but the enemy, with greater
speed, starts either up or down the coast.
What shall we do then? Shall we start on
wild goose chase and take the chance OF a
double or shall we stay where we are? The
reader can see at glance what a range OF
possibilities the game offers and how the bot
tom trouble in every case is the inability OF
our feet to engage the enemy unless the enemy
should consider it to his advantage. And this
is a line OF defence
INSIGNIFICANT NAVAL MANGUVRES.
The fact is that one feet is a good deal
more formidable in its peace manGuvres
than il would be in war. 1t captures Boston
or New York, just as easily rs though our
adrnirals had the powers of capital and i'm
agination OF a movie trust. And this does
infinite harm Money can be got out OF
Congress by this sort of method for building
more ships; but in the meanwhile real un-
derstanding and graphing with the problem
Of national life or death are indefinitely post
poned. 1t is lamentable that one should have
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02

"Hosc can zee cat out the hyPhenY
We have asked this question during
the last f,cclrc months Of politicians and
socioloqists. U'c hare not get asked it Of
poets and artists. But Percy MGcKGye.
poet and dramatjst, feels that the cues
fion Of hyPhcHdtion can HcUcr be sotred
unless .1mcrica puts her artists on the
JOB
Before "bypbcuotior" had become an
acute problem Of american politics Mr
MacKayc. ,rih the poets intuition and
Tision. had forcsccn and studied 1t. lie
realised that IL is not the immigrant
but america. ,cho is chiefly 10 blake; for
the immigrant falls back upon the cult
nrc of his nafiCc land only yrben he real
ICES that Amcrico has little to feed has
emotion and imagination. The remedy.
or a part Of it, VI. NGckoyc here or
plains. is the dramatising and symbols
ina of Anerica's history end meaning by
making the Amcrican politician realise
The part poetry and art can play IN poll
iics-fhe part they hare played IN every
European nation.
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02

20 warn the public not to believe the So
called results of our naval manGuVres'
The protection of our great cities from
naval bombardment is the simplest part OF
the problem of national defence Ano inc
public can get its facts as to these ma'tefs
quite easily from the daily newspaper. every
one knows that the Queen Elizabeth ana
query British first rate left the Dardaneles
the instant the presence of a single German
submarine was suspected. Every one knows
that the North Sea has never been open TO
the operations of battleships since the war
began, and that the use OF large cruisers has
been very slight It is hardly an exaggera-
ton 10 say that a foreign admiral who sus-
pected that my esteemed colleague, Professor
G. w. Pierce was afloat in Boston Harbor on
a log raft armed with couple OF electric
switches would promptly cast his moorings
and sheer off at least 500 miles And he
would be wise
To summarize, then, our feet can only be
considered a valid line of defence, I, if we
keep it tied to Long Island Sound; 2. il the
enemy will be so good as to attack it there
But if we happened to send it away-if, for in
stance, it went even as far as Vera Cruz and the
enemy chose that moment to act int might
cease to act as line OF defence. Or. again.
if the enemy chose not to fight, but to
maneuvre. with the man9uvring whip hand,
which is speed, once more it might fail to
act as line of defence. Yet the theoretical
point should not be pressed too far. 1t is
indeed quite conceivable that with both skill
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
Professor JohnstOn's Analysis Proves Vir-
tual Tnutility of Present Fleets Except
as Floating Batteries Covering
Nations Vital Spots.

and theoretical questions turning on Mahans
doctrine of sea power; that belongs TO another
place. But. putting a discussion OF Mahan on
one side, il is maintained that the fleets essen
tial part is an offensive one, and that if it is to
be thought OF as primarily line OF defence
il is only special circumstances that will justify
it. Such special circumstances are to be found
in relation to the invasion of California with
a view to conquest
Let US suppose-whch is entirely feasible
that the United States possessed a triangle OF
naval bases in the North Pacific, making pos
sbe battle fleet operations from San Fran
cisco to the Philippines to Alaska. An eX-
pedition directed against California tor the
purposes of raid might with luck, slip
through; but for the purpose OF conquest the
only serious eventuality as we have seem
would stand no chance For the action OF our
feet on the invaders line Of communications
would be too continuous and insistent to en-
able him to maintain his army of invasion in
a country OF restricted resources and Slight
population.
In that sense, then because the feet could
act against a necessarily weak line OF com
munications the navy might be described as
a line Of defence for the California coast. Yet
il will be noted that the operations contem-
plated are such as to call for the development
Of the special qualities which we associate
with the function Of a fleet-high mobility and
The power to strike distant blows. Now let
US turn the question 10 another angle
Taking our actual experiences since 1898
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
O O
Inability Of Our Ships to Move Swiftly
Gives Enemy the Whip Hand in
Manoeuvres Army Problem
Greater.
Greater.

and luck on one side the feet might succeed
in preventing the Decentralization Of an
enemy's force on our shore. But this is very
far, indeed, from being certain, and it does
not invalidate the theoretical proposition.
The thing that is certain is that secure
unimpeachable defence means sutheient
army working on mobilization and concen-
tration scheme that will place it within the
necessary time limit at any threatened point
The instant the land force is provided tor me
feet regains its freedom of action. 1t can
now operate at a distance. II is no Longer
tied by the leg to Long Island Sound It is
free from its impossible task Of the defensive
floating battery.
In all that have said there is no desire
to minimize the importance of the fleet IL
it only intended to explain the inter-relatioh
of land and sea power, 70 show that eono''
tons may vary a great deal as between the
Pacific and the Atlantic, and to emphasize INC
weakness of our feet as at present consu-
tuted because OF its inability TO bring feai
opponent TO action. / am not prepared 10
emit an opinion as TO what should be done
for our navy. II is question requiring mueh
study. But in the matter of national defence
viewed broadly, l believe that tor tpe
moment, while the strength OF the navy
should De carefully maintained, everything
should be subordnated 70 the creation oil a'
army And the creation of an adequate army
would automatically double or treble '"'
power of our navy.
Copyright l96-The Tribune Assn
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
By Percy MaCkaye.

TN EVERY European country the poet
has been a powerful factor in politics.
Governments have deliberately fostered
patriotism by patronage Of their artists poets
and dramatists The English government pen
stoned Charles Dibdin for his songs in praise
of the English navy. How much OF the pres
ent solidarity Of German feeling is due to
Schllerl But much more important are the
solksongs. the local legends, the community
festivals of the peasant class
The immigrant comes to this country with
all these forces to bind him emotionally to
the land Of his birth When he was a little
child his emotions were moulded. his loyalty
fostered. by these powerful appeals to his sub
conscious feelings Then he comes to Amer
ica What does he find here TO catch his emo
ton? What is there to symbolic Americas
struggles and destiny TO his imagination3
Next to nothing And yet we wonder why
hyphenation exists.
PEOPLES subconscious emotions are con-
trolled largely through symbols. We cannot
love the abstract until it is interpreted tor our
senses and emotions l cannot love the bi-
nou,ial theorem. And l cannot love the alb
stract idea of Christmas But / can love a
Christmas tree. The festival Of Christmas is
filled with multitude of symbols. and through
them we learn to love and understand the
meaning of Christmas
How. then, can we expect the uniearned i'm
migrant to love and understand the meaning
of America without symbols to catch his imagi-
,a,;on7 How can we expect to have national
life when there is nothing, or next to nothing
to symbolic our national Iife1 No political
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02

what are the things whether right or wrong
which we are likely to be doing with our fieet
in the immediate future2 If difficulties OF any
sort, whether internal or international, break
out in Mexico the feet is likely to be sent
there If the Japan California trouble breaks
out agan-and this is merely question OF
time-the feet is likely to be sent either
through the canal or to San Francisco, or even
to Pearl Harbor If Nicaragua, or Venezuela,
or Costa Rica, or Colombia, or Peru should
happen to annoy US or seriously to violate the
remaining decencies of international inter
course the fleet would probably be sent to
wave, very gently, the flag at them How then
is it line Of defence1 Or do we mean, when we
say that the feet is line Of defence, that it
is never again TO proceed south OF Fortress
Munroe and that our ships are to be treated
as floating batteries and anchored to some
spot which we happen to select for defence?
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
SEVENTH ARTICLE OF A SERIES ON
NATIONAL DEFENCE.
Nv Professor K. NJ. Johnston.

II
MUST confess TO considerable diihaen'e
when dealing with the sea. 1 am LANDS
i man and s1ueamish. The amount OF
s,rdv 7 have devoted to naval warfare does
M, really entitle me 70 an opinion Aho
7 venture TO formulate my views 1t is only
from keen sense of the unreality OF mu0H
,ba, ;s currently believed about the junction
os our feet and from the impossioility one IS
alwavs I'D against of wholly dissocianng mill
tary and naval action.
~. Great value of our feet-its function,
:, otber words-lies in utilizing the power II
nossesses TO move to any point where our IN
t.,ests need protection. If the lives and prop
.-., of our citizens are menaced in any part
>, ~. world il is not to our army but TO our
Gee, that we should naturally turn. 1t can
,roceed 70 the spot and enforce our views
II can 90 to Panama if the canal shouid DC
,br.atened. Ii can 60 TO Guam II we shouiu
have TO protect the Philippines or to lena
h,rd IN China. The West Indies. South Amer
;ca are within the range of our power OF OF
our assistance through its action. IN o'Hei
words il is in it's mobility, IN Its power 10
e,r;L. AZ distance that we have its distinctive
oual;tv. And il is in such terms that certain
degree of national expenditure on the navy IS
justified -.
Rut what we hear about constantly at the
present day is of the navy as line OF deieh0e'
7 40 No, propose to debate here the historical
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
Give Immigrant the National Sym
bolism and Beauty Which Em-
dear His Native Land to Him,
Sugsests Percy MacMaye.

nartv would expect to make headway without
a symbol-s bull moose, an elephant or
donkey. No commercial product could be
sold without its trade mark Yet we expect
an immigrant Immediately to give liie-and-
death LOYALTY to abstract conceptions like lib
erty" and equality before the law.
POETS WORK NEEDED.
To catch mems imagnations by the use OF
symbols. that is and always has been the
poets business. And this work, which the
politician or statesman alone can never do, has
never been more needed than now. That is
why believe America must put her poets and
artists on the job. Without them, I believe,
we never can accomplish our aim-that OF max
inc America a unified nation with an interna-
tonal vision. a fusion of all the magnificent
cultures which have come to her plus that
culture of her own which springs from her
soil
In everyday life VIC rarely realize how much
We are swayed by symbols. Look at the
Christmas candle, one OF the great symbols OF
Christmas.
Is there any man who San resist a candle'
Why does it bring UP such a mass OF senti-
mental feeling in the heart OF anybody who
looks at it? 1t is because the Christian Church
has been working for fifteen centuries TO make
symbol OF it. The candle is associated with
Christmas gifts and stockings, with the carols
we sang when we were children, with the kind
ness and love that we felt all around Us in the
Christmas season. Il represents religion to
us-the mystery Of a dark church full OF
arches end vaults, with black spaces and many
people moving about-all dimly lighted by
these Pickering candles.
When we were little saw this symbol
associated with things that impressed and
pleased us. Now, when we see the symbol, we
remember vaguely the pleasant things that
were associated with it. What would Christ
mas itself be without its symbolism OF Christ
mas trees and holly, its legends of Santa Claus
and the reindeer, its ritual of gifts and carols1
BEAUTY IN FOLK ART.
In his home country the immigrant has lived
among symbols. Nearly all the beauty in his
life was bound up in festivals, legends, folk
songs, poetry and drama. When he comes
here what sort of symbols does he hnd'
The flag? Too often the flag is to him mere
" the symbol of capitalism. Go to any Cooper
Union meeting and you will see this. Some
how the immigrant often gets the impression
that the flag is lined up with his enemies.
We who were born in America associate
the flag with the Revolution or with the war
for national unity. We have our pictures OF
Betsy Ross and of Washington at Valley
Forge. To US the flag is associated with our
great national struggles. The immigrant
knows little of all this. To him the flag is
usually meaningless worse.
When an immigrant family comes here, for
its beauty and poetry it clngs to its folk art
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
ALL SHIPS A COMPROMISE.

One is almost tempted to believe that this
however absurd il may sound, is really the
theory on which our feet is constructed. IN
the planning Of battleship, as is well known
three main factors OF weight have to be ad-
iusted-weight of arnor, weight OF broadside'
weight Of machinery. If you put emphasis on
one or two Of these features you must sacri-
fee the others All ships are a compromise.
The English build for speed and gun power
sacrificing protection. We build for protec-
tons and gun power sacrificing speed. Clearly
the problem is difficult one, and am not Of
ferng any solution OF it. | confne my remarks
to just this point: We have apparently given our
ships heavy armor and d heavy broadside, with
low speed, on a theory that this is natural ad-
justment for purposes of defence which Is as
DELIGHTFULLY."- naive a conception of defence as
you might expect in Alice in Wonderland.
You virtually say that it is unnecessary to give
your ships the speed 70 go anywhere, because
New-York tribune., 1916-01-02
nm DRARdAT1ZF AMERICA AND CUT OUT THE HYPEiEN

Percy MaCkaye, poet and
dran,afiSf, w no would
AmeriCanize the hyphen-
ate by making American
life more beautiful and
providing means for the
immigrant TO find i'm his
leisure the spiritual di-
versions he Graves.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-18

The conference tonight between the
railroad presidents and the managers
committee developed further indica-
tions that the managers were to be
backed up by their chiefs in the atti-
tude they have adopted toward the
presidents proposal.
eve have gone over the situation
thoroughly" said one of the presi-
dents, as he left the conference, land
we agree thoroughly in every par
ticular with what the committee has
DONE"
Bryan Tries His Plan.
VIM. J. Bryan, it developed today,
has sought unsuccessfully to settle
the strike by the application of his
temporary peace plan. having tele-
grabbed pleas to various interested
parties and the president, asking that
it be put in effect. 1t would provide
for truce of one year. during which
time the contentious of both sides to
the controversy should be Investigated
thoroughly by commission and a
settlement attempted on the finding
of the commissioners.