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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
NOT \ LEARNED PROFESSION

United States District Judge Neterer
filed "A decision in Seattle the other dav
to the effect that school teacher is
not a member OF recognized learned
profession. and If foreigner. may be
excluded from the country under the
immigration laws The federal author.
tiles believe that this will keep out Of
the country many teachers imported bv
parents 10 impart foreign languages
to American.born children.
There is doubtless good reason bacl,
OF this decision and it will serve 10 bar
many a would.be teacher who has no.
thing back of his claim but a knowledge
OF one or two languages which he hopes
to find students for, once ne is inside
the gates. Perhaps IL Will have spe.
cial usefulness during wartime.
But won't it come pretty hard ON the
teachers who fin the summer schools
OF the big universities seeking new
academic degrees TO find out that no
matter how many mystic letters they
trail after their names they can 'ncver
hope 20 Doe considered members of a
learned profession?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
NOW FOR CHEAPER RRr,n

The farmers Of the country are in.
dignant az the failure Of the rovorp.
ment TO follow its price.fixing for wheat
with an immediate reduction of tho
price OF bread. They say they We're
given 70 understand that S22O wheat
would mean return to the nickel loaf
The farmers are little concerned al.
rectly with the price Of bakers bread
Most OF them bake their own bread
ANA they are not moved particularly
by altruistic motives They are NOV.
ed 10y the fear that If the public fails
To get a five-cent loaf al present wheat
prices, It will demand a further lower.
lng OF those prices. And the farmers
say they cannot afford any more ne.
duction
The consumers. needless to say aro
as eager as the producers to have bread
cheaponed. They have been led 10 ey
pect It, and they see no reason why
they cannot have H.
They do not ask for the old ie.h,pco
Ioai Tor nickel, but they would like
10 have II ounces for nickel-a con.
eession which the committee that fixed
the price Of wheat looked upon as DOS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
A GERMAN REVOLUTION.
By William English Walling
Of the Nigiliantes.

Is revolution at hand in Germany?
The Russian extremists go so far as to
assert-against all facts-that Germany
Is already 'ablaze" with revolution.
And nearly all Russians seem to be
convinced that the Germans will surely
follow their example, and do to the
kaiser what they did to the car.
In this connection il is eminently
worth while to note the differences be.
tween Russia and Germany. Here are
a few of the most glaring:
Russia has been revolutionary for
half a century; it is more than half
century since the last spark OF revo.
luton died out in Germany.
The recent Russian revolution an.
nounced itself by thousands Of prelimin.
airy outbreaks spread through more
than a decade; Germany has not pro.
duced single revolutionary outbreak
IN siXty.seven years
The majority OF weu.informei oh.
servers had long predicted a revolution
IN Russia. No prominent German. and
nobody who knows Germany. dreamed
OF predicting am early revolution i'm the
Fatherland-unul this war arose and
the wish became father 20 the thought
The duma elections as long ago as
1906 indicated that ninety percent of
the Russian people We're revolutionists
The reroluuonists iu Germany. a min.
oity OF the Socialists Party probably,
no not number half "a million altogether
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
ALGECIRAS.

Christian Science Monitor. some little
time ago. the good people Of Algeciras.
the little Spanish coast town which
looks across tHa blue waters OF AIgo.
ciras Bay az the rock os Gibraltar.
We're not a little disturbed by most
untowarl happening Without any
warning white uuffs Of smoke We're seen
one day issuu. cut of the sides of the
hitherto alwai friendly rock az the
other side Of ,ra bay and. almost Inn.
mediately thereafter the sounds of vN.
plosions We're heard in and around Al.
geciras itself The bomharimynt went
on for some tim. All AlgecIras was ar.
reused boy il. and then IL suddenly ceas.
ed The town authorities. much cXer.
cised got into gmmunication with Glib.
raltar, only 90 lind the British authori.
ties equally exercised and greatly con.
cerned over am extraordinary mistake
which had been made by the British
gunners. The most profuse apologies
were forthcomug These We're. at once
accepted with t1o usual Spanish cour.
tesy. whilst general harmony was re.
stored 10y the assurances from the span.
ish authorities that. fortunately no dam.
age had been done So ended the most
recent incursuH Of Algeciras into the
great ambit OF public attention.
The public remembered IL we'll enough
OF course. FOR eleven years ago, Algc.
..t. L..
everybody 10 was then that Il carved
out for itself that position which has
rendered Il famous, or. rather notorious
In the annals of diplomacy ever since.
FOR Il was az Algeciras, In the early
months OF 1906 that there came togeth.
er that strange International gathering
which is enshrinel In history as the
Algeciras Conference. IL was called 90.
gether at the instance OF Germany. 10
the first place tn settle the information.
al status of Morocco. Some nine months
earlier the kaiser had paid his mem.
orable visit 90 Tangier, and Germany
has thus publicly declared her intention
OF being very much consulted Ia all
matters telating 10 Morocco I'm vain
NJ. Delcasse insisted that there was no
need for a conference. Prince Won Bulow
on behalf OF Germany maintained that
there was every need FOR one. and so.
az last. a reluctant general consent 20
the meeting vaa won, and On the janu.
airy of 1906 the delegates. many OF
them none too pleased with their task.
began 10 assemble at Algcciras.
For over three months they confer
red. and all manner OF accounts as to
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PAGE THREE.

hundreds Of thousands OF the flower
Of the country have languished in pris.
on or exile, while tens Of thousands
have died, not for innoeuous verbal criti.
cism Of government but for revolution.
ism
The Russian socialists are all revolu-
uonists. The German socialists-g5
percent of them-have actually attack
ed revolutionism as being unsocialistic
ana have preached legality the kais-
er's law while discipline" has been
their God. They have taught obedience
to the Socialist leaders, who-as we
have seen-obey the kaiser.
Nor has the war brought the Ger.
man revolution nearer-as vet. The
whole German nation is under the i'm
preston that Germany has been stead.
lily victorious and the Socialists and the
reVolutioRists have publicly announced
that this is their view also. Now
military victories make an excellent
basis for the German-made peace-for
which all German agents are now az.
itating. But they are not exactly a
favorable soil for a German revolution
AS August Bebel, the great Socialist
leader, pointed out only few years ago
The view Of all wellinformed Ger
mans is that Of Victor Berger who.
after making the usual German claim
that Germany would remain victorious
on land, concludes that there is no
prospect Of a revolution in a victorious
Germany
But let these military victories and
their very memory be wiped out bv a
series Of equally numerous and decisive
defeats and the country may begin a.
move towards revolution. The military
caste will never yield-except under
compulsion That compulsion. implying
the complete reversal Of military dis.
cipline, can scarcely be expected from
a militarized and non-revoutionarv
people ike the Germans. The pressure
/ will have TO come from without.
1t may be that a German revolution
/ is near, or it may be that a German
revolution is far. One thing is certain
that the only hope Of such a revolu.
tion is smashing and irretrieyable de-
feat for the Kaiser's armies.
! The German revolution is already be-
ing fought for-by the revolutionists
of Russia and the descendants Of the
, revolutlonists Of France, Italy, England
and the United States. Kaiserism left
the worlds great democracies no choice.
to be robbed Of large part Of the
1 benefit Of their own revolutions in the
past, or they had to undertake to bring
about revolution in Germany Tor in
/ lieu Of that to treat her as a criminal
among the nationsD
1t is now the chief hope Of the allied
{ democracies-by force Of arms together
with the offer Of just peace-terms. such
as have been clearly outlined by Presi
dent Wilson-to bring about that Ger.
/ man revolution.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08

Boston Post. How long Will the
American people permit the liberty OF
this country to bc used for It's destruc.
tom To Doe employed i'm the interes,
OF the Prussiau autocracy AGAINST the
policies of thi, government Now
comes announcement by Chicago
newspaper alleged 90 b, controlled by
Mayor William Hale Thomson. of n
series of articles In defense of the
German government ass compared 10
that of the United states. While IL
keeps within the letter of the law
against treason It's spirit is reflected
IN the sneering tone in which IL refers
10 the thought of this countrv's spread.
INK democracy in Germany Its high
sounding words may bc dismissed quick.
ly. What Americans have 10 consider is
that II proposes to defend the nation
that sent American women and chill.
dreu 10 their graves without warning
plotted 20 destroy this republic and
divide It's land among German allies
dynamited our industries and sought to
helittlc our culture II means To uphold
the nation responsible for this cut.
throatism against the Just wrath NJ
Americans. II would speak for the
government that has plunged the world
into war, claiming millions of lives and
imposing untold suffering in the cause
OF autocucy
VIII Americans bc gullible enough to
permit the continuance OF such Ger.
man propaganda In this country Under
the cloak Of free speech?" The time
has come when every defender OF the
Prussian autocacy should be looked
upon as "a defender OF the slaughter of
innocent Americans and Of every Of.
fort TO undermine this country. Il is
difficult to think Of any letter of the
law that can serve as a cloak for pub.
Tic enemies when their objects are so
clear II the effect OF such defense is
not to give aid and comfort TO the
enemy what is IT,
Is there any effort on the part of
these reptiles 20 uphold the viewpoir.
OF Americans against Prussia No
That shows whore their hearts lie
With them II is always this country
that Is In the wrong and Getmany that
is In the right
Serving the enemy instead OF this
country the Chicago newspaper I'm
question should be suppressed at once.
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PLEA FOR BETTER POSTAL
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how they Were faring spread themselves
abroad over Europe from the little
Spanish coast town, tales OF how Ger.
many was standing out for this and
that and of how Austria was proving a
brilliant second but Italy ca bitter
disappointment" The Algeciras round
table was iu those DAYS. a favorlte
subject for the cartoouist. who told ,at
"a glance. what the papers sought 10
bring out On many columns Finally.
ON Auril g. the famous Act was com
pletei and later IL was signed and
ratified 10y au the parties concerned.
When on the 3lst OF December. 1906.
these notifications were deposited in the
Foreign office az Madrid. the confer.
ence and It's delegates and their goings
and comings. were but a happy recol.
lection 90 Algeciras. which, In those
days as still today. was wont to look
TO It's visitors for large part OF its
daily bread
The present town is not an old one.
but the site has been the site OF a
town ever since the days OF the Rom.
ans. IL Is, indeed. believed TO have
been the Portus Albus of the Romans:
but however this may be. IL was prob.
ably refouuded in 7l3 by the Moors.
who retained possession OF IL until 1874.
I'm that year the town endured the cele.
brated siege which attracted crusaders
from all parts OF Europe II was con.
Quoted by Alfonso NJ OF CASTLE. whilst
amongst those who assisted him was
the famous Earl OF Derby, grandson OF
Edward III. Ultimately. after a siege
lasting twenty months. the city was
taken, and, In order TO mark the com.
ploteuess OF his triumph Alfonso en-.
tirely destroyed H. and for three hun.
dred and fifty years It was little more
than heap OF stones. In l704. however
Il was occupied by Spanish colonlsts
from Gibraltar and In 1860. the mod.
ern town was erected by King Charles
Ill During the siege OF Gibraltar. in
l1N0l7N2. Algeciras was the station of
the Spanish fleet and floating batteries
and IL was OF Algeclras. on the 6th OF
July 1901 that the British Admiral.
Sir James Saumarez, completely defeat.
eel the Franco.Spanlsh fleet Thereafter
for over one hundred years. the history
OF Algcciras was one of undlsturbed re-
pose Then came 1906, and now 1917.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
CONSCRIPTION
By blanche ShoemalSer.Wagstaff of the
Nigilantes.

You ask me why ! gave my SOM
tAh well, does God know whyl
That Prussian blood may swiftly run.
That tyranny may die
That over earth an men may 20
At freedoms call and none may know
The Nandal's power In our land.
The Nandals arrogant command
You ask me why gave my son?
lAh well does God know why1
| gave him that the barbarous Hun
Might well defeated lie.
gave him that the coming race
Might meet with justice face to face
And free-men mingle over earth
In liberty's divine re.birth.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
OVERHEAD CHARGES on HATS

4 writer In New York periodical
complains TINT. though he only pavs
~ apiece for his hats. and only buvs
TWO or three "a year. his headgear costs
him about $50 year.
He finds himself obliged IT, spenc
S'3 year for what might be called
overhead charges" ON his hats That
sum represents the tribute laid ON him
10y the robbers who mrk i'm strategic
positions inside the front doors of big
city restaurants and waylay HELPLESS
patrons
Ihe writer eats two meals dav i'm
restaurants, and after even. zeal -
mas To pay the hatbandit 10 CENTS IN
get back his chapeau Twenty cents a.,
day Fl4o a week, anybody can see how
runs up. Scventythree dollars n
year just TO have ones hat hung ON
one-cent hook at mealtime,
No doubt the man deserves svmpotb, q,
Ana yet not much sympathy. He knows
the iull extent OF She imposition. He
Knows that hatChrcking is a regular
business, organized along trust lines.
tnat the privilege is sold for thous.
ands OF dollars a year; that part of the
loot goes TO the masters of this pirati.
car monopoly and part goes 10 the .es.
''ulanteur who ought TO hang up his
customers hats for nothing. and only
" tlthe OF 1t goes to the poor fish who
collects IL.
hut the complainant goes right on
digging up dimes just the same Most
OF us DO when we run up against the
nat harpy just because we haven't
the moral courage to defy the hold.up
ana then we complain about the price
OF loaf of bread.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
Scissors and Paste.

New York World Perhaps in time
the people Of the United States will
be officially exhorted to exercise in
eating the same common sense nine.
tenths of them have always exercised.
Milburn News: If you are going to be
bad be bad; if you are going to be good.
be good. Don't try to be both. for that's
more or less hypocrisy
st. Joseph MOI News Press: Speak.
ing of pigs, it is also true that if YOU
keep pig the pig will in turn keep
you.
Dallas News: Reports from the east.
ern front indicate that the Russian
troops seemed ragged when they left
kaggedZeem and that it took 'em no
time to evacuate 'Tukkum.
Chicago Tribune. Russia is sound at
the core, reassures Mr.. Root. But If
the Russians don't check the Teuts
there won't be no core"
New York Telegraph The kaiser told
Ambassador Gerard that he would re-.
member the United States after the
close of the war, and there Is every
reason to believe he will keep his word.
Muskogee Times Democrat: Hearing
all this talk about autocracy, many peo.
pie believe it must be good thing. as
from the sound Of the word it must be
some new kind of automobile.
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Great
pity that the 100000 bushels Of oats.
sunk by a torpedo last week were not
the countrys wild" variety crop.
Guthrie Leader: Perhaps the late roy.
al family Of Russia shed tears over its
departure for Siberia because nobody
else did.
El Reno Democrat: A combination
banjo and ukelele is called "baniuke," ,"
which seems a punishment to fit the
crime.
Madill Record. Lots of people would
go 70 God for guidance if they didn't
know beforehand that His advice would
be contrary to their desires and inten.
tions
Lawton Constitution: No. it isn't at all
necessary for a woman TO be a high
ilier' TO make a good aviator
Tishomingo CapitalDemocrat: The
man who has no sense and knows il
is very apt TO develop into a sensible
and useful man.
Drumright Derrick: The poor dove Of
peace certainly would like TO know
where she is at"
ldaDel DemocratRecord. Politics are
divided even in brutal Germany.
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Berkeley DCalifl Gazette. The German
imperial government was nearly fifty
years 100 perfecting its military effici.
ency. ln less than four months the
American Republic has made such
tribes as to indicate that I'm less than
two years time the boasted superiority
of German efficiency will have been
discredited. There is such thing as
American efficiency and time viii
prove that German efficiency can not
withstand IL, fighting as it is for liber.
ty justice and humanity.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
mELAND'S PEACE CONFERENCE


What has been called the wars
first peace conference" is now in pro.
gress. II is being held in Dublin. Its
purpose is the Inauguration Of perma
nent peace and contentment i'm Ireland
through the establishment Of work.
able plan Of selfgovernment.
An American correspondent makes
the illuminating remark that the dele.
gates are 'surprisel to find that there
are really possibilities of success"
The Unionists lately so truculent in
their opposition 20 Home Rule, an
nounce that they have come to the
conference without prejudice and are
sincerely trying to hammer the thing
out The Nationalists speak hopefully
Of the auspicious opening Of the con.
vention," and are less bitter against
the Obstetrics. Both factions find them
selves IN agreement on one matter. at
least-their condemnation of the Sim
feiners. The latter have. refused to
participate in the convention. and are
demanding nothing less than absolute
independence for Ireland
An independent. Ireland, as every lev
el.headed observer recognizes. is an
impossibility. Great Britain would nev.
er consent to it, She needs ireland
for a bulwark. And if Britain. by mir.
acle Of self-abnegation. should consent
it would probably bring nothing but
misfortune to Ireland. Until the affairs
of the world are much better regulated
than they are today it's a perious thing
i1r any small country to be left wholly
TO it's own resources.
Ireland has yet TO prove its capacity
for selfgovernmcnt Americans have
no doubt that it can do so. under fay.
orabie conditions But absolute inde.
pendonce amid the pulling and hauling
.of world forces. with the German wolf
looking sreedily for juicy realms to de.
vour and eager for vantage point
for encroachment agaist England can
hardly be described as favorable con.
ditions
Ireland had far better stick to Eng.
land remaining bulwark Of Britain.
and contentipg herself with such liber.
.al measures Of freedom as is possessed
by selfgoverning Canada. South Ameri.
ca Australia and New Zealand
There is hope for such a consuma.
tion. \ prominent member of the con.
Nention declares: The Irish question
is no longer acute, for now quietly and
slowly lrishmen are trying 10 work il
out together"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-08
A MOTHERS APPEAL
TO
PRESIDENT WILSON

In the agony of mothers gives
loved to the nations call to save civilization plead with
holding allegiance to Germany claiming
which they have been doing
to lessen the chance the life boys
who are answering call offering
other M oyoG Pa oa those Of US US who Who are giving and husbands
trying to bear the sorows which have upon Bravy
we are trying to look forward with
They are going out to fight desperate dabo enemies
ever hn1~h 10 mankind and they going because
We would hold for we know that they are going for
our hono ana to save US and all womanhood
mas ID pe.oi'n H, Pslsilm ] and much Of France.
But Mr. President we know that being enaced be
cause o pIGGmn activities We know many soldiers life
activities been suppressed with a ruthless hand
~ n men VINO this country fighting States by work,
ing for Germany infinitely enemies and the enemies f t
oy ones ina, we are sending battle men in Germany
These backhepe humanity are walking @ t Know 1, IT,
business with our people with Hell in an efft 10
sure at many thousands Of otherwise be saved
ShaH be left on the batleneds Of Europe
IN the name Of the mothers wives sisters and the sweet
hearts Of all these soldiers called and of the other ]
% 1 ] L % pIeiu Nh you to suppress with every
man ana women in this country who openly endyong
hearts-the very flower Of the life
element your power Mr. President to suppress this German
nc rs in your power to shorten the war and to save to
US thousands and tens Of thousands soldier bows nv eir
whether you will permit activities in behalf Of G
10 run rampant in this country whether YOU suppress before the
@ ns squad need be- every this country traitor to
II you talter Mr. President not suppress these r i
o 1s nave pay The just penalty crimes you will be re-
American soldiers ' '''77 40 many
WoWd not ada one ota the are saripg. ,,
o' seek 10 lessen the appreciation country of the roagr
MorN you nave d'no but for the boy has
e millions OF boys who will loved ones rosI , ~
t othg shan oe left undone dangers which tbo TACO
And you and know, Mr. these dangers will be- %
I many i'a proGermans, working and against
activities ' '' '' I'e' VICIOUS
And you know however true and good however oo
ana patriotic may be Of people Of German descen, uy ~
"u|' "e are so many that their number millions who
quietly sometimes and openly other doing their utmost 70
ns ABOUT the downfall Of this Of GERMANY
the
these people are seeking the for the benefit Of
~
The facts are too plain 10 be
every other honestheartd them and is copsa
running against
Unless the government suppesses this strong hand
ana with unbndng determination than the
welfare Of the nation the safety its soldiers there
VIII come time when bitter undying
every GermanAmerican will fill the
And then the spirit which the innocent os
well the guilty will ea vengeance and
do the things which the should capacity have
done from the beginning
For my boy and other boy President to
realize that the lives millions on what the
does country
Manufacturers