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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-07
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
Common Version,

~ And II cnme "a pass, as peter
passed throughout all quarters. he camc
down also 10 the saints which dwclt at
LJddg.
80 And there he found n certain man
mined Enras, which lad Kept his bed
eight years. nnd was sick OF the pnlsy.
"a And Peter said unto him. l;nois.
Jesus Christ maketh thee whole. arise.
and Nuke thy bed And he arose I'M
modipt"ly
&c. And an that dwclt at LYDIA and
Snron saw him, and turned to the Lord.
SO Now there was At Joppa "A certain
disciple nnmcd Tpbithn, which by in
terpretntion ~ called porcas; this wo-
man WA fuli at good works and aims
deeds which she did
~ And II unmc To pass In those days.
TINT she Wns sick. and died; whom when
they had washed. they laid her IN an
upper chamber.
81 And foraHmuch ms Lydia WAC nigh
to Joppn, and the disciples had heard
that Peter Was there. they sen unto
lin two men desiring him that he would
not delay 10 come IN them.
~ Then Peter prose and went with
them When he wnA come. tho, brought
him into the upper chamber: and all the
Widow stood b, him Weeping and -hoW-
ms the coats and garments Whicn DUrDHs
made. VIII" M" was with tlon
" But Peter put them pll forth. and
hnc'l"d down. and prayed and turning
him 10 the bod, s0ld. Tnhitha. arise
And she opened her eyes. and when M,
'UW rct"r. She lat up
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-07
THE MARKSMAN
Continued from yesterday
BY EDWIN BLISS.

Thlrt, feet Of open lane. parked h>
! LiutcOntk. mounted, ana otherWlfo
stretched before me llr'otlN htNon'
thi, stared into the stands jHmm'c
tignt with humanity. stNr IN the mhth'
,iuaticnl confer. Whcr, the colnrs, easy
| chulrs. ana general ruomiucss hetrRNrd
-, fact that the frook coated, high-hat'
ted men who rose, nov ana then, g
scatter pompous bows mud smiles upon
tlo pOpuiNDp were the reviewing OFFICIALS
Personally ! WAS humperrd and sui
roratcd by n huge. black Wig Hn0
brushes Of whis,ors my anatchistl'
dir guiac. Useless things they were an
d'abolicnlly itchy. Time and again,
was quite tempted 10 teHr them off. hnd
would have dono So had II not been foi
IN, fact that old Sparks was ALBANIAN
tin, on the subject There rs nothin
more disagtruhlr than Il needless Itch,
Sunrks was unreasonable Whiskrrs 81
ne one hundred mun o. no; should II
be- dccro'd In my ledger account that
pass out. pass Thirty d years
hive proved tins yonrlusiy"lN 10 me
aud VIII believe 1t To the end which u
net yet
Down IN. uhlt,-rihhoucd road marched
sue bands and soldicrl,-n gallant lot nj
urru Tho blue infantry ana rafting ar.
till,N. suHppN. careless. but effective
with IN" militia scattering q Int ~ hl'
tomato marching hctwccni IA" ruler.
straight lines Of the white ~trous"f'd lin'
from west Point. with the curved bucr
which no amount NJ trench work cycI
DESTROYS. then the chatter of huolH Nu'
my time vas close AT hand
q short Dit up the avenue came nun.
dclous rOars ~ welcome and the good
ngturcd, slangv comment ON ih" az
ituguishcd guest oi honor the GRAM
Duke Nm,s. An orderly gnlloT"d dow
The line 10 young chap, equipped nn'
mounted M for n general woul't.
what the captain hostrodo when "rd"r'l'
r,ue thu.
Through mo rnuh o' tine troop j.
leaning forward. I caught Il .ploi'u a.
O,.or which ! recognized for th' uni
r,fm OFF colonel ul ilIt.It. ih" mill'rr
urh "l the grand duk' n' home
! i'ii thr bulge iu mN pocket mon
giudl}. 'nr d" mot hho me rrnnd d1t
urH never have, SINCE that lilil" nftti
40 Monaco, when hut lhn' BE- moth
iiui}, and. ! fear. not .ccmb 4" De- iul'
reached To- my right hand porkdt. Am
ih" ol M the nicely prepared r,Nulv'
'Ufcd slightly to nv touch Then
d!wu'h upon W" how {" mhk' any get
Nu' Showing th' thvtu'ng' NJ u'
uuAlling % problem iNl the last minute
NJ company was %undouhtrdlN clos" q
hand Perhaps sparks designed them &
l'td me. but that would onlN show HI
l'ol ot huoWi'dg" Us 10 militn's u.Hr
not ~dlHrnutt'sN certainly the men mus
fellow mo WuH' shoot. that would d'
organize the squadron they wore .",
militia despite their mdnnis
In N" stands they were BANNED
iirhi their only Thought would 10" pam
md personal safety There l'N my ave
rue Moreover. p"orl" vii" rnl to d
u,olr' are not 10 ,,'d, TO. cmyrsrnG' n
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-07
FEAR PEACHES DAMAGED.

NNNNEWOOD. Okla. April T-(Spo-
cial) "a heavy huilstorm which visited
this locality Thursday night " believed
TO have done great damage to the pros
nccllvc peach crop according to local
orchAfdists. The hail fcll for n longer
time than ever known here IN the past.
but the hailStoncs were small
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-07

BACKS rLivvER ON GARDEN

Building Inspector James An
dcrson WA In AN irritable frame Of
mind Friday. In his zeal to get to
work he backed his flivvcr out Of
the iliyver- box too fast and ran
over the family garden Ns the
garden was very soft. the inspcc-
tor lost almost an hour getting
his gas boat back on terra firma
once more,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-07

vas uniformed knew him lnstinc,ively
for the ear operator. lie had been thrown
out, The hands unloosed me.
To he continued
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
'NORTHCL|FFEPRESS' IS NOW UNDER FIRE
Lords Newspapers a Handy Ex- Cuse for Resigning Statesmen

Correspondence of the AssO. PresS.)
 life was seen today by the Associat
 ed Press correspondent at his office
 on Printing House Square, and asked
 about the "Northcliffe press which
 has been talked about so much lately.
 Hardly a day passes in Parliament
 that some noble lord or cOmmoner-
 and often several of them at the
 same time-does not rise to state that
 his opposition to the compulsory mili tary service bill was not so much
 against the bill itself but because che 'Northcliffe press had dragooned the government into adopting Inc measure. When Sir John Simon rs- signed from the Asquith ministry he announced that the pressure of the "Northclffe press on the government had a good deal to do with his action. So that it has come to be accepted of late that if there is 9 cabinet crisis, Or a parliamentary division, or the prospect of a general election, quite an element will declare that the "Northcliffe press has brought it about. On the other hand the North cliffe press has it's own party in both houses.
 l It was 5:3O in the afternoon when 1 Lord Northcliffe was seen at his office l This is the busy hour at the London 1 Times when the editorials and leaders l begin to take form for the presses which begin to thrOb towards mid night. He was not sitting at a desk 1 in the conventional pose of a man of i. affairs, but was spread out in a great easy chair with a big bunch of proofs I in his hands, departmental editor bending over him, and another editor
 waiting to take his turn.
 1 Inquires About Submarine. 1 ''Is the submarine article ready for l tomorrow D. he asked the editor 1 'Yes Chief, all ready was the l answer. -s@
 And this article'' he said, glanc- l ing through the proofs, "has Nichols made that changer "Yes Chief, < he has made the l change"
 But it is not clear,H persisted Lord 1 Northcliffe. Tt should be made per- l fectly clear that it was the govern ment, yes the Foreign Office, that said this thing. Here let me fix it. And taking his pencil he wrote in on the edge of the proof "as stated by l the Foreign Office" Chief Surveys Reports.
 1 The the other editor took/his turn, ! with leaders, reports from Germany
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

1 denly by one campaign or one great l victory or any series of decisive events 1 in any one field.y, The issues of. na~ ] 1onal and racial existence are far toe l great Tor any such sudden ending. Ii l will go on, believe, for a long time, l very long time. In the ed it may be 1 narrowed down to a war between Eng ! land and Germany--the supreme issue l Which must be fought to a finish. In- stead of ending soon or suddenly, the war Is more likely to go on and on, and then gradually abate by slow pro- cesses, here and there, as localities pass through their ordeal and emerge with a wish to take breathing spell. But for the time being it is not only a war of Europe, but a world war. You can see it's effect in the most distant parts of the Norld. The assassinations in China the other day were but a se- quel to this conflict. Even the blood shed in Mexico is na way related to this war" Supreme Issue of Struggle.
 You referred to the supreme issue between England and Germany" was suggested.
 "Yes," said Lord NorthcGffe Ger many did not think England would come into this war. That was one instance where she was not efficient; she was not prepared for us. It is shown by the fact that she had few commerce destroyers at sea-less than a dozen wasn't it?-and no means of preventing her own complete com- ' mercial paralysis by the British fleet. 1 She had counted on a continental war, 1 without England and England's entry l was her greatest surprise, completely 1 destroying her projects, and calling for 1 this colossal expenditure of men and 1 supplies. But being in, England and l Germany know there is something more than a continental land war at issue, great as that is, and that there is a racial mastery at stake the Saxon or the Teuton, which civi-
 lization will go forward in the future,
 and which backward, Both of them cannot go forward together as in the
 past. The issue is too great for that
 and must be finally determined
 Now an editor came in with
 proof Lord North cliffe looked at it,
 a long searching look from the head
 line to the end. Then he said "Yes,"
 and the editor disappeared.
 UphoIds Northcliffc Press.
 And the Northcliffe press and its
 critics" was suggested.
 "Oh. yes!,,' said the embodiment of the 'Northcliffe press" Its critics; like Othello, they would be nothing if they were not critical. The press in England is performing a useful ser vice, just as it is in America It is the exponent of public opinion. l That is the service it performed in l the military service campaign-to 1 drive home that the overwhelming 1 force of public opinion was against 1 the stay-at-home man, and for na- tional unity in fulfilling every obliga- tlon required by the war. There are few men still alive who are deaf to the voice of public opinion; who think England is ruled by a small
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
WAR MAKES PRICES
 OF CARS HIGHER
Chalmers to Increase in Price
 Materials More Costly

Raw materials have advanced in price to new high levels in the past few months, and the end is not yet in sight" says Hugh Chalmers. We have found it impossible to manufac- ture a car conforming to our stand Yards of quality at anywhere near the former production costs Rather than sacrifice quality or cheapen our \ product in any way we have decided to advance the price of the Chalmers Six-4o touring car s1oo, effective k March l.
 # T predict a general upward revi- ASsion of motor car prices all alorg the line before many months. There @ is no other way out for the automo- N bile manufacturer.
 A The European war has been re-
 onsible in a great degree for tho
 increase in the costs of raw ma rSs&ls. The tremendous demand for &yteel, copper, tin, lead, aluminium, Wsheet metals and other materials for 8 use In the manufacture of war muni- %s1ons has made prices high and de-
 j veries uncertain
 s Vanadium steel, which sold at
 1.85 pound only a year ago, has
 lmper to $S.50 a pound. Aluminium B~as nearly tripled in price, going from M 19 cents pound to 53 cents a pound. N Other sensational increases are: Steel \ bars, from $1.10 a hundred to s2 a M hundred; high speed steel, from s1.05 . q pound to s3.35; leather, from 20 S cents foot to 33 cents a foot; cop per. from 1 cents a pound to 24 cents pound.
 S@ sAdded to this is the difficulty in @ securing machine tools and automatic @ machinery of the latest type. Factor. # ies turning out shrapne1 and other N munitions of war have practically g coTTaiied the output of the machinery a makers.
 @ t.SteeI mills are making no promise 8 of delivery within the six months per
 icdAand parts manufacturers are ac- " 8cordingIy held up in their production # Almost every concern in the metal # Industry is turning down orders, hav- # ing accumulated a quantity sufficient M to keep them at top speed for months # to come.
 N The situation can result in only one thing-higher prices on cars with @ in the next sixty days. If we find that materials continue to climb af- ter the $10o increase in price on our cars has taken effect we will un- < dotfbtedly be compelled to raise the r. price again.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

] one man you sent yes six. Area dy ! there have been three million men l sent forward, and with those in process of enlistment and to be brought forward it will be six mil- lions. And they are the young and nddle-aged men, the men of the fu- | ture those who will come back into 1 our civil life and be the controlling Influence of public opinion. Those will be the men who shape our poli- cles for us for the future and will unmake our ministries and govern ments, just as they did ill America after the Civil war.
 You remember what Oliver Wen dell Holmes said about the stacker, the man who failed to respond to his country's neea for military service, in his poem on the Sweet Little Man: Now, then, three cheers for the Stay-at-Home Ranger: Blow the great fish horn and beat the big pan:
 First in the field that is furthest from danger,
 Take your white-feather plume, sweet little man'.'
 Here was an Englishman drawing anaIogies from American history, and familiar enough with an American poet to quote verses which would not be familiar to good many Americans Will Fight to Finish.
 And peace?" was the query put to Lord North cliffc.
 "Peace! Before We are really ready for war!', he exploded, with an emphasis of disgust "Why anyone who would attempt to talk peace on
 
 place would be mobbed. A Quaker tried to make a peace speech the other day and was silenced by an an- gry crowd. No sir, the word peace has disappeared from the English vocab- ulary. And that is a deep underlying conviction in the very hearts of the people, who do not want peace and will not listen to any talk of peace un- til this war is fought to finish and won, hOnorably won, and the score with Germany settled for all time. It is the same in France, a deep-tooted feeling of the plain French people not the politicians and public men that the very existence of their race depends on the winning of this war. This overwhelming feeling is we'll recognized over her, and it needs no official envoys from the United States to gather it. for it is perfectly appar- ent for anyone to see.''
 War Very Long.
 Then the war will be long?' was suggested.
 "Yes, very long," was the reply. "Those who talk of ending the war in a few weeks or months, do not real ize the stupendous character of this conflict, and the vital issues of ma tional and racial existence back of it. Really it is not a war at all, in the ordinary sense that we speak of wars. It is one of those vast upheavaIs of the human race, like the great racial the Moslem invasion of Eu- rope which lasted eight hundred years in Spain and is still alive in the near East. No, this is no ordinary war which can be brought to an end sud-
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

tically universal, and single men first carried it through, and it's ended, yes ended-We will have our army, an army equal to our needs, with he country behind it, and we're just be- ginning the war;
 Lord Speaks Calmly.
 Lord Northcliffe speaks cal cly, without demonstration, but with posi- tiveness and with ideas which crowd each other to find expression.
 "YOur American Civil war gave us some lessons on how an army had to be raised in a great emergency" he went on. What did Lincoln do when he needed men? He called for them ;; issued a proclamation calling therl to the service of the federal government and putting it up to the governors to furnish them-first, 100000 men, then 25O,OOO men, and so on. And they had to be furnished: the men h d to enlist or find substitutes; there were drafts and riots, as there always are when slaCkers are made to do their duty to their country. And you got your army; not a volunteer army ex- cept in nominal sense, but an army calculated in number in advance. ade- quate to the country's need. An we will be doing just what Grant did fighting it out on that line if it takes all summ mer-piling on more men, hammerinG at a given objective, and massing overwhelming numbers until they yield to the sheer weight of num- bers. That was Grants tactics, and it will be ours now that we have an army and are ready to begin"
 Another Experience Like America.
 We will have another experic~: ce much like that in America" continued Lord Northcliffe, "and it will be the same here and in France and Ger many, all through Europe where great armies are being organized. You re- member after the American Civil war that the soldiers came back to civil life proud of their service for the country in the field. These returned soldiers were scattered all over the country, in every city and town, form ing a vast aggregate of sentiment and influence, with just pride in the achievement of having shared in serv- ing the country in it's need. Out of this sentiment came the Grand Army or the EepuDl1c Wnlch LOOK a hanf3 Tn civil and political affairs, all bound together in a common impulse ramifv- ing all over the country. And as a result you had soldier presidents for twenty-five years-Genera1 Grant General Garfield, General Hayes, Gen. eral Harrison, and soldier candidates for president, Hancock, Mcclellan cnd the rest
 And that will be our expert ,'-ce, here and in France, when this vast body of soldiers come back to civil life. They will be the great controlling factor of our civil and public lif,., all of them proud of their service ant, inspired with a common sentiment. It will be even a. greater influence than that of the returned soldiers in civil life in the United States, for we gre sending six men to the front for every
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

aristocracy of private opinion. But EngIand,is a great denaecracy in which public opinion is supreme, and the press in advocating. the Military Ser vice bill merely recorded the mass of" public opinion against individual private Judgment. You remember what Pope said: Envy will merit as it's shade pursue, but, like a shadow proves the substance true That seems to fit the ease of the critics-their envy proves the sub stance true"
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

and Washington, the situation at Sal oniki and many others, all of which received the quick survey of the Chief. Here was the owner and proprietor of the London Times, The London Daily Mall, the Sunday Despatch, the Overseas Mail, the London Evening News, answers, the Manchester Mail and countless other periodicals-con1- prising the so-called Northclife press" the greatest assemblage of newspaper ownership ever seen in England, headed by the 'Thunderer,' known as the "Englishman's bible" and the traditional exponent of Brit ish policy, himself not alone with the management and larger policies of this organization, but with the editorial details and even with the text and phraseology of leading articles. His two advisors, Geoffrey Robinson of the Times and Thomas Marlow of the Daily Mail, have full authority. freely or frequent ly exercised to censor their chiefs work. Quick in Estimate. Lord Northcliffe is very quick in his estimate of men and things. When
 
 has been much in the public eye of ] late, he said
 ,, 'Yes, he is a good advertiser" Then when reference was made to Lord Y, who is supposed 10 be direct ing very large branch of the govern ment, he said:
 "Why, he is finished.' Finished, how so. he's directing a department"
 Not at all Blank is running the department; Lloyd-George is looking after ammunitions and Lord x is fin ished; yes found out He is a past event."
 Compulsory Military Bill. The talk now turned to the com pulsory military service bill which the government has just put through parliament, many asserting it was really the work of the "Northcliffe l presS.'
 "Why if was as plain as day" said 1 the embodiment of the Northcliffe 1 press. Here is a row of houses" 1 he went on, pointing to row of 1 imaginary houses on the paper pad 1 before him. Now in this first house l lives young married man who wants l to serve his country, feeling that his country's peril is his own. So he gives up his job, and enEsts. Right next door, in that house, lives another young fellow who is his mothers darling and who doesn't want hin 10 expose himself to danger. So he does not enlist, but stays at home-yes and gets the other fellows job. ,ow | those very rows of houses are in every street in every city, town and village in the country That is an actual concrete example of the situ ation which confronted us. And so in vented the phrase Single men first, and that carried it. It has been long struggle; we've been at it many 1 months; it went slowly at first but gathered force as it went along. until 1t became overwhelming and prac-
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

On the summits of the mountainous Ita1ian-Austrian frontier, looking toward Austria, stand Italian Soldiers like the one in the picture, watching for Austrian aeroplanes. It is weary, cold work, and there is ever present the danger of freezing to death alone in the solitudes The pole at the right of the picture is used for sig naling.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

tically universal, and single men first carried it through, and it's ended, yes ended-we will have our army, an army equal to our needs, with he country behind it, and we're just be- shining the war"
The Irish standard., 1916-06-03
PATRIOTS BETRAYED

New York, May 26.-Information
has been received from a man who
has just arrived in this country and
who actually participated in the fight
ing in Dublin that Maj. John MacBride
and Thomas MacDonagh who, were
executed by the British military au-
thorities, had been the victims of Off
cial bad faith. He says that MacBride
and MacDonagh, who were in COM
mand of the rebels in Jacobs biscuit
factory during the Dublin revolt, were
visited by priests from Aungier street
who urged them to surrender and told
them that if they did so their lives
would be spared. "Send a military
officer to us who has authority to
make that offer and we will consider
it," the rebel leaders are reported to
have said. The priests left and in a
short time military officer drove up
in an armored automobile and gave
an assurance that the rebels lives
would be spared if they surrendered.
MacBride and MacDonagh agreed to
the terms and the surrender was ar
ranged. Both were subsequently
court-martialed and shot. Part of the
story is corroborated by at least one
Dublin newspaper, the INDEPEND-
ENT, which says: THE Aungier
Street priests, it should be remem-
bered, made great efforts to bring
about peace, and during their numer.
GUS visits to Jacobs factory urged
on the men entrenched there the ut
ter uselessness of holding out, as the
military authorities had threatened to
shell the building at a certain hour
on Sunday last. However, before the
hour mentioned some priests entered
the place, and it is supposed that as
result of their persuasion the men
finally surrendered"