The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-10
Article v. Advices 10 Americans Be-
tween the Ages Of 30 and 80.

While the war IL on, the active work
In support OF the boys AT the front will
be shouldered cheerfully by men and
women IA little too old for acrobatic
services but not yet frosted at the
temples.
They will supply part OF the money
and most OF the pep" needed to sup
ply and encourage a huge army In the
field
II Is for them to realize that we have
passed the period OF doubling and ques'
ton answering.
/ We have come to the days when hus'
Ting must supplant conversation.
IL was all right six months ago to
spare an hour day in trying to con-
vince some one with vacant eye and
dark mind that We were really justi.
fled in accepting the insolent challenge
thrown at US by Germany
You are to be forgiven IL, even three
months ago, you spent valuable time
/ trying to convince a sluggish minority
| that
First. Government bonds are a safe
investment
Second. Pro.German propaganda are
to be hit in the head.
Third. The allies are to be trusted.
Fourth. The Red Cross is above sus.
picion and does not obtain either money
or knitted goods under false pretenses.
Fifth. All taxes which have been
levied are justified by extraordinary
and unprecedented conditions.
Sixth. This is not a rich mans war;
IL was not precipitated by any Wall
Street influence; II Is not concerned
over private Investments; 1t Is not
grand benefit for munition makers.
Seventh. Fair promises have no value
when they are made by criminal who
finds himself backed into a corner.
Eighth. The men in our training
camps and aboard transports and sta
toned somewhere In France are being
safeguarded as American soldiers never
before were looked after, as regards
wholesome food, proper sanitation, pre-
vention of disease, and moral guidance.
Why enumerate further?
Abe Martin met a feller down in
Brown County that never heard OF
Tony Pastor. and we have a taxpayer
in our township who thinks the world
is flat. and you can find cabaret per
formers in New York City who don't
believe there is such place as Iowa
and clairvoyants still find customers
and YOU can name people who will con-
suit a patent-medicine "ad. In pref
erence to a doctor, and old Jethro
Tilford. over in Shelby Township, car
ries a dried-up potato to keep off the
rheumatism.
In every community you will find
contrary.minded sediment of the hu
man race-people who keep themselves
somewhat in evidence by noisily deny
| ing facts which are self-evident to all
of their neighbors who happen to be
| in the full enjoyment of sanity.
They are somewhat like frogs / e.
thev make an awful noise in proper
ton to their number
Now. if YOU will take the trouble to
check up in your immediate nelghpor
hood the people who, from the oeslh
ming of the war, have been fun oi
doubts and questions and false alarms
Won will find that they are few in mum
ber and of precious little Importance
except as atmospheric disturbances.
Also. did it ever occur to you:
! That the man who had bought most
literally of Government bonds never
questioned the safety of his security
| That the woman who was knitting
! the most socks and sweaters never be
Iieved the silly stories about the Red
Cross being a crooked institution?
That the soldier boy about to boarc
a transport and join his comrades oi
France and Great Britain never was
known to doubt the sincerity of th'
men with whom he was soon to Jolr
shoulders?
No, indeed!
| All the walls and misgivings and fisf
stories are put into circulation by
few picayune outsiders who were JUS
built TO be obstructionists and some
how can't help it.
| They are in a class with the Tories
who feasted the aristocratic British OF
ficers while Washington's Army starved
at Valley Forge.
They are a hold over of the Val
landingham clan that reviled Lincolr
and gave an underhanded copperheaC
support to the cause of slavery, ever
after it was doomed.
They are the kind of people who op
pose public improvements, will not buy
tickets for the Chatauqua. criticize the
minister if he smiles in public, and at
tach the presumption of guilt to any
woman attacked by scandal.
They are the small bores, the two-by
fours. the gnats. the sand flies the ticks