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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
THE POINT OF CONTACT

Since our expeditionary forces suf
fered their first casualties at the front
there has been keen speculation as tC
their present location and the direction
OF any future drive they will make
Secretary Baker was asked the Other
day whether II would be proper to re
veal the specific sector occupied by oui
troops, and their precise point Of con
tact with the Germans.
"The Germans will know the point
OF contact when we hit them"' was the
reply.
And we can afford to let II go al
that. So far we haven't hit them. A
handful of Americans, placed in an ex
posed part of a first.line trench merely
for training purposes, were caught and
overwhelmed by superior numbers
They gave "A good account of them
selves, but 1t wasn't real fighting. When
the fighting does start, 1t will be AT
their own time and place. on their
own terms. And the Germans will
know when 1t starts.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
WIRELESS COURSES
FOR DRAFTED MEN
University Will Have School Of Teleg-
raphy Also for Future Soldiers

Norman, Okla, Nov. 15.-tSpeciaD.-
The United States government has ask
ed the University of Oklahoma to es'
tablish a school Of telegraphy and radio
telegraphy for those students who are
of draft age and will be summoned for
military service on the second call.
This is expected some time after the
first of next year. The school will be
open to anyone and those who com
plete the course will be used by the
government wherever needed.
Railroads of Oklahoma are interested
in the movement and desire girls TO
take up the course in order that they
may be available for railroad telegraph
service to take the place of men who
enter military service. r. r. Fisher
general superintendent Of the Rock
Island telegraph and telephone service
visited the university last week and
compiled a list of equipment needed
This will be provided by the railroads
Signal corps instruction work among
students who will be called for the army
soon will be started here. Semaphore
flag and other signal systems used in
the army and navy will be taken up
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
NURSING THE WOUNDED

II takes strength and courage to
nurse the wounded Every woman
should make herself fit for wars call
at home or abroad. Health and
strength are within the reach of every
woman They are brought to you by
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Take
this medicine and there's safe and
certain remedy for the chronic weak
nesses arrangements, and diseases pecu'
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strengthen, and invigorate every run
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and assists the natural functions.
At some period in her life, woman
requires a special tonic and nervine.
II you're a tired or afflicted woman
turn to "Favorite Prescription you
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You will escape many ills and clear
up the coated tongue. the sallow com
plexion, the dull headache. the lazy liv
er. IL YOU will take a laxative made up OF
the May-apple, leaves Of aloes. root OF
jalap, and called "Pleasat Pallets" adv
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
THE MENACE OF SINCERE
PACIFISM.

The plotter may be discovered and
suppressed the mob may be led and in
spired. but what is to be done with the
conscientious objector" - the man or
woman of one idea, whose head Is bur
led in the sand? 1t is difficult TO find
the point of attack. 1t is useless to tell
the sincere pacifist that war Is not the
worst of evils; he merely retorts that II
is. He measures evil mathematically-
by the number of gallons of blood shed.
His sense of moral values is lackingi
he is unable to see the point upon which
the argument turns-the absolute differ
ence between the aggressor and the
defender. Such is his faith that to sit
on a stile and continue TO smile" Will
take the starch out of savage in
vader, and crumple him up on the spot
that he would Tor thinks he would be
willing to apply that interesting meth
cd in case of an onslaught upon his own
home and family. AS for other peoples
homes and families, he Is not concerned
He Is without that stern, wholesome
human indignation which crime and
tyranny. treachery and cruelty. natur
ally arouse in the normal man and
woman. All classes Of pacifists are
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
DO SOMETHING
FOR THAT COUGH
DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey Will Prove
Ideal Treatment.

neglected cough may lead TO such
dangerous bronchial or lung ailments.
that proper attention with DR.. Bells
Pine-Tar.Iioney cannot be begun too
promptly.
You can absolutely depend on this
remedy as 1t has proved effective In
thousands Of cases where a hacking
cough, difficult breathing. Inflammation
or hoarseness were involved. It's bal.
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throat, loosen the phlegm, the antisep-
tic properties check the cold germs
and feverish or grippy feelings are
promptly allayed.
Take DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey at
once, not only for quick and gratifying
relief for all distressing symptoms, but
to prevent serious after-effects. Don't
let a cough hang on all winter: delay
is dangerous. The flavor is so pleasant
that children need no inducement to
take IL.
Tear this ad out and take 1t to your
druggist with CSC. and he will give you
the genuine DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey.
(AdvJ
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
SOONERS TO MEET
RAZORBACKS NEXT

Norman. Okla Nov. 15.-(SpeciaD.-
The next opponent of the university of
Oklahoma football team is the univer-
sity of Arkansas which the Sooners
will meet Saturday at Fort Smith. This
game will have an important bearing
on the southwestern championship as
Arkansas has not yet been defeated
and Oklahoma has won from the uni
versity of Texas. The Sooner eleven
will be stronger for this game than for
any previous one as both McDermott
the half back who was hurt in the
Phillips game and has been out of the
lineup since. will be back and Wallace
Abbott sensa tional freshman halfback
will be eligible for this game.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

position OF a country without a friend
In the world and partly because the
active enmity OF Brazil Is by no means
a trivial thing, as the manufacturers
and business men OF Germany In their
hearts know perfectly well.
What makes this latest detection
from neutrality especially trying In
the higher German circles IL the fact
that for many years the occupants OF
those circles have been working hard,
and, as they confidently thought. with
success, TO create In Brazil something
very much like "A real Germany across
the sea-a Germany not the less pleas.
ing TO German eyes because its estab.
lishment was in only half concealed
defiance and violation OF the Monroe
doctrine.
But again German efficiency Is not
justified by its results. With only a
single opposing vote. both houses of
the Brazilian legislature voted for rec
ognition OF a state OF war. and the
delegates from the provinces that Ger.
many believed were in everything ex.
cept name her own were as eager as
the others for breaking off the rela.
tions so laboriously and extensively
formed
The Germans at home may laugh.
but II will be only to hide an aston.
ishment that is distinctly painful, and
again will the kaiser hear the trouble.
some question-"Why Is 1t that all the
world hates us?" In due time he will
have TO hear not that question, but its
easy and obvious answer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
McDERMOTT PRESIDENT
OF SOONER ATHLETICS

Norman, Okla, Nov 15.-(SpeciaD.-
II. V. McDermott, of Portales, Okla,
halfback on the University of Oklahoma
football team has been elected presi.
dent of the athletic association succeed
ing Graham johnson. former quarter
back on the team. who has withdrawn
from school. Ross Johnston. of Shaw.
nee, end on the team, was elected vice.
president and Glenn Laskey of Okla
homa City is secretary. McDermott
suffered broken shoulder in the Phil.
lips game this season and has been
out of the game for several weeks.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

without II; this IL their self'styled vir
tue. They are. OF course, the natural
prey OF the German propaganda. They
cheerfully furnish the wolf with all the
sleeps clothing that he needs; and un
knowingly wear the number OF the
Beast.
Two sweet old Quaker women were
at Friends resort a summer or two
ago. One OF them monotonously an
swered all arguments with the shocked
assertion, But thee could never ex
pect a Friend to believe In war, under
any circumstances The other. after
hearing of a few child murders and
other gentle pastimes on the part of the
invaders. flushed up and exclaimed hon.
estly, 'I'd like to smash 'emr'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
NUMBERING WOUNDED MEN

letter written by Kenneth CASTOR
New Jersey la1 who is in France will
the Harvard hospital unit gives an IL
Eliminating view Of the difficulties un
der which the Red Cross operates.
I'VE have moved" he says. I'VE haC
10. The night after | last wrote, oul
hospital was raided fiercely. For three
hours German aviators were over ui
all the time, shooting or droppine
bombs. Two surgeons were killed ant
five more were wounded, two of the
big tents riddled, some small tents
blown up. big holes put in the road-al
togther IL was a complete job.
1T ended all usefulness of the village
The next day orders came to evacuate
the entire village, hospitals, depots and
all. We had to stay two nights more
while the hospital was taken down and
-carted away.
THE first night after supper every
body trailed out into the fields carrying
g. their blankets. Some slept under hay
stacks some in trenches, few in an
ammunition room eighty feet under
ground. The second night four of us
stayed in the tent, building a barricade
shell-bursts. and got to sleep before the
visitors arrived. That night they made
special visits to the two hospitals to
which we had sent our badly wounded
of several nights before, and as re-
suit one of them had to be closed.
"They seem to be carrying on a spec
ial campaign against hospitals, five in
this immediate neighborhood having
been closed within a week. l don't see
what they will do with the wounded
now, for all the hospitals near the
front are closed"
His own unit has taken refuge in a
big forest, fifteen miles back of the
lines.
Every hospital is plainly marked with
red cross on the roof. No airman
could mistake these hospitals. And
there is no pretence of mistake. The
Germans deliberately pick them out for
attack.
No nation pretending to be civilized
has ever before broken the humane
rule. established by unanimous consent
Of the powers, that hospitals are in
violate.
OF all forms of combat, this warfare
against wounded men and against the
selfsacrificing doctors and nurses who
tend them is the most brutal and bar
barous. But we have come to take
IL as a matter of course. We expect
nothing better from Germany under
her present rule of brutal and consci-
.enceless militarism.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
FRIEND AFTER FRIEND is
DEPARTING.

New York Times: Probably the Ger
mans will be able TO see-or VIII pre-
tend to see-something amusing in the
declaration of war against them by a
nation as far away and with an army
and navy as small as Brazil. The amuse'
ment, however, will not be very sin
cere, partly because the action of Bra
zil marks another step in Germany
progress toward the rather dreadful
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
Turks in Mesopotamia Lose.

London. Nov. 15.-The Turkish
forces in Mesopotamia having with
drawn 30 to 50 miles north Of Tekrit,
the British returned to their original
positions. according TO the plans made
before the Tekrit advance. says an
official statement issued today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

VIII happen.
Boston Transcript: 1t takes a paci
| fist to make the Ku-kluX popular il
New England.
Washington Star: Or. Muck of the
Boston orchestra, played The Star
Spangled Banner" and then resigned
His salary was exceptionally large, but
his sense of patriotic obligation to the
country that has paid it is evidently
not so great.
FIT. Gibson New Era: The average
man has more than one kick coming
to him.
Gainesville CTexas), Register: There
is not much bread allowed to fall on
the buttered side these days.
Chelsa Reporter: 1t takes an ex
perienced elevator boy to let a man
down easy.
Lehigh News: The man who plays
fair can always find somebody to play
with.
Guthrie Leader: When man grows
old enough to keep his good resolutions
he doesn't need to make any.
Tishomingo Capital-Democrat: The
kaiser is living simply now, a German
newspaper correspondent writes, and
he may continue TO live that way on
st. Helena or some other secluded spot
after this storm has blown over.
Tulsa Times: 1t is said that in some
communities the Americans are so pa
triotic and so determined to save food
for the allies that they will even eat
the Ben Davis apple.
Atoka Jeffersonian: A woman is nat
urally off color when she removes her
complexion.
Soper Democrat: A lie has no legs
but it never feels the need of them
while on its travels.
Pauls Valley Free Lance: a Local
dealer tells us that oysters are 81 per
gallon in New Orleans, making the
price prohibitive here. Possibly the
submarines manned the young and
killed off the old ones.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
Scissors and Paste.

st. Joseph (MoJ News Press: Il have
noticed, too, that men who are bald
have a habit of sneering at the fellow
who parts his hair in the middle" says
Uncle Potiphar.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

The title of colonel" which is usually
prefixed to the name of Edward Nj.
House. the presidents high commits
sioner to Europe, and which appears in
cable dispatches, is entirely gratuitous,
and the colonel" objects to it. He has
never held public office or had mill
tary rank.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

Saltwater Gazette: 1t takes two
thirds of the people half the winter to
shut the door and that the remaining
third never will learn.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

Kings county and Bruckner borough
president OF the Bronx. Both are Demo
Gratis, but the Socialists, elated over
their great vote last Tuesday, are pre-
pairing to make straightout fight for
the seats they will resign by Dec. 81
Presumably these special elections will
be held early next year and the women
will become voters on Jan. l.
The understanding in Wisconsin is
that Governor Philip will recommend
to the Legislature which meets next
month that he be authorized to appoint
a United States senator to fill the va
cancy in the senate caused by the death
of Senator Husting. If such authority
should be granted the governor the
election of senator would be postpon'
ed until November. 1918. The governor
is believed to covet the senatorship him
self and his friends say that he will
enter the race if the plan for an ad
interim appointment is adopted. II he
should resign now and enter the race
he would have to turn the executive
office over to a La Toilette Lieutenant
governor, which would be undesirable
politically, from his viewpoint, and that
of the patriotic wing of the Republf
can party in Wisconsin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

When a careful study is made of the
general results Of city elections held
all over Indiana last week, ii becomes
apparent that the people of the state
made up their minds that the main
issue before them was a moral issue,
and they went about smashing dirty
political machines right and left.
The vets win" is the final an
lnouncement of the result of the vote on
i the prohibitory amendment in Ohio.
But they win by the skin Of their
teeth" The official figures are: For
prohibition, 522, ,430; against prohibition,
524 ,153; majority against prohibition, l.
1898.
There are eighty nominees for the
five places on the Newark, N j., city
commission TO be elected at an election
today. Voters can vote for their five
first-choice preferences, five second
choice preferences, five third-choice
preferences, and for as many fourth
choice preferences as they wish.
After his violent assertions of last
week that the whole nation hung upon
! the outcome of the election in New
York City, and that the kaiser was
eagerly watching the vote. Colonel
Roosevelt's announcement that there
was, after all. no national significance
in the election. and that it turned
merely upon local issues, is amusing, to
say the least.
Although the term of United States
Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr. of
New York does not expire until in 1921,
the newly enfranchised women of that
state are whetting their knives to take
his political scalp. Senator Wadsworth
is not only cantankerous anti-suffragist
himself. but his wife is president of the
National Anti-Suffrage Association.
| Former Congressman A. p. Gardner's
secretary, w. w. Lufkin. won a nota-
BILE victory in the Sixth Massachusetts
congressional district. He carried the
district by more than 1900 votes. His
total was 17.497 for his Democratic OPP
ponent. He carried every city and
town in the district except Ipswich. do
ing probably as well as Gardner. who
succeeds, could have done.
Analysis of the election returns of
the municipal election in New York
City show that thousands of enrolled
Republicans supported the Democratic
ticket from top to bottom. The Repub-
lican machine literally went to pieces
and the Democrats were swept into
power by a vote that broke all records
Mayor Elect Hylan's plurality is 14I.
975. the largest plurality ever given a
candidate in the city. The Democrats
won control of every administrative
branch OF the city government. includ
ing the borough and county officials.
Special elections will be held in two
congressional districts in New York
City in a comparatively short time. tC
fill vacancies caused by the prospective
designations OF Representatives DAME
j. Griffin and Henry Bruckner. Grif
fin has just been elected sheriff o.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

There is already a boom for Carter
H. Harrison, the many times mayor
of Chicago, for another term. big
Bill" Thompson has been a humiliating
failure.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
Political Observations.

According to the present situation,
four states - Oklahoma, Michigan,
South Dakota and Nebraska-will vote
on woman suffrage amendments In
1918.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15
Member o, the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF all
news credited to II, or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
All rights OF republication OF special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

Tulsa World: Princeton university
has erased the name of Won Bernstorff
from her record of LIDS. Thus it
will be seen that even In the matter of
comforting college degrees mistakes
will happen.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

Special elections will be held in two
congressional districts in New York
City in a comparatively short time. to
fill vacancies caused by the prospective
designations OF Representatives Daniel
]. Griffin and Henry Bruckner. Grif-
fin has just been elected sheriff of
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

When a careful study is made of the
general results Of city elections held
all over Indiana last week, ii becomes
apparent that the people of the state
made up their minds that the main
issue before them was moral issue
and they went about smashing dirty
political machines right and left.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-15

Boston Transcript: 1t takes paci'
fist to make the Kuklux popular in
New England.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-07
BENNIE rs A
FINE YOUNSTER

Little Bonnie Gamson isn't one bit
afraid of the evils of Hammond.
Bonnie is bit of a lad. Looks to
be about ten, but says he is CROWN
on IS" He was sent TO THE TIMES Of
flee by his employers in Chicago--in
the heart of the city.
Bonnie trudged into THE TINES office
with a package almost as big as him
self. He turned it over to the proper
person and Immediately asked for re-
ceipt.
- go to night school and work days.
No. 1 don't carry messages all the
time. / do office work" proudly an
swered the little fellow to questions
piled him by the office force. who
thought il mighty strange that a big
Chicago company would intrust impor-
tant matter in big packages to a lit
tie boy like Bonnie. But Bonnie does
not think it strange And the compa-
ny mustn't either and the office force
is satisfied now that Bonnie can han
die himself in Hammond if he can find
his way around Chicago.
Bonnie will be a big man some
day." said one of the force after Ben
ME had left, and everybody thought so.
too.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-07
WRESTLE FOR PURSE
IN WEST HAMMOND

Hammond wrestling fans will turn
out en- mass this evening at the ath-
letic show of the Rice Carnical on
West State street to see the big event
Of the week, a bout between Curley
Davis, local grappler. and the carnival
champion who has performed several
times during the week. meeting all
corners.
Special interest centers on the
match this evening ii is for a purse
Of 500, winner take all. the best out
of three falls. Manager w. Tanner of
the athletic show also announces a
boxing bout between Johnny Clabby
and Tommy Mullen, champion welter-
weight of the United States navy. for
three rounds.
The athletic show is one Of the big
gest attractions of the carnival which
closes its successful tay in Hammond
this evening having attracted thous-
ands Of people to it's grounds. The
carnival is far above the average and
its shows are clean and worth the
money.
Backers of Curley Davis expect him
to throw the carnival champion and
the public Is assured of a corking
good bout. Wrestling is popular
sport in Hammond and there are humid
reds of wrestling fans whose appetite
IL on keen edge because they have not
had great deal of the sport of late.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-07
DENY 600 NEGROES
BEING IMPGRTE0

1t was reparted today that North
township industry had arranged to inn
port 500 negroes because of a shortage
OF labor and was making an effort to
get an entire square of property west
of the Four Corners in which to house
them.
A reporter called the United Chem
ical & Organic Products and Central
Chemical companies which are the
only concerns in the neighborhood
which might need 500 men. The gen
eral manager. Ralph Tenant. stated
that so far as his company is concern
ed and so far as he knows. there is no
foundation for the report.
I'VE are not bringing in any ne
goes" he stated, land have no inten-
ton of so doing. l wouldn't spend a
cent to bring a negro from the
SOUTH
The Importation of negroes has not
been "a success in the region. The in
dustries are employing those who APP
ply at the gates but are not sending
for more, the reporter was informed
at another source.
The Hotel Carleton was taken over
by the United Chemical & Organic
Products and the Central Chemical
companies Monday and will be ready
the coming Monday to house IFS to 200
of the employees. Only whites will be
housed at the Carleton. Manager Ten
nant stated today. The rates Will be
about IS a week for room and board.