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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
PATIENCE HAS AN END.

Tulsa World: Tulsa is apprehensive
that other acts of wanton destruction
will occur, either in the city or at the
big industrial plants. The l. W. w.
Germa n bought and German-controlied,
seems bent upon following the inclina'
ton of its warped mind, sparing neither
life nor property.
1t is truly unfortunate that any sec
ton of the country should have the
visitation of a class that knows not
what il wants and that knows no hap
piness except the fiendish glee in the
maniac who is obsessed only with the
idea to slay and destroy.
The suggestion OF IA citizen OF Tulsa,
a veteran of the Civil war. and man
whose bravery has been tested on
dozen battlefelds. contains a note of
warning to the helpers of the Hun.
81 will be one of a committee OF
citizens to knot the rope and pull 1t
over the nearest tree. when one of the
disreputable wretches is found, hs
said. Years ago, the same course was
pursued in regard to horse thieves.
Why should any discrimination be made
between a horse thief and one of these
cowardly vandals?"
Tulsa will not tolerate any untoward
acts, any more than the brave citizens
of Hughes, Seminole and Pontotoc coun.
ties tolerated the half-hearted rebellion
there i'm August. Besides the danger
of allowing the rabid. skulking terror
lists to be at large, the citizenship suf-
fers i'm the estimation of the world.
Tulsa is too proud of her good name
To stop at any measures which will end
the trouble.
This. then. to the assassins:
Your worthless lives will be made
more wretched at any attempt to inau-
gurate the reign Of terror you have con-
templated Your German-begotten in
spirations from your Goldman and your
Haywood will be your death warrant. If
you attempt to carry them out. Your
leaders got the German gold. while you
got nothing. but the price OF folly will
be prison or death. There is no tri-
bunal to which you can appeal for elem
ency: there is no official but will sus
tain the true citizenship in keeping civ
ilization uppermost and in upbuiiding
the nation in its work TO be done.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
TALES OF L. $. TOWNS.

ST. Louis leads all cities in manufac
turing stoves.
Amigo. Wis. has new $4,000 post
Office building.
Buffalo plans to employ women or
street railways
Duluth reports famine in woodsmen
for lumber camp work.
Milwaukee has opened a school for
the deaf with 80 pupils.
Washington is to have a campaign
against street accidents.
Philadelphia has 10000 school child
rem on part time study basis.
Seattle. Wash. has more than l0OU
organized laundry workers.
Baltimore in three years has invested
$3.50, GOO, 600 In new industries
Pittsburg has n bank consolidation
which now has s9,O0o,O 600 capital.
Lexington. Ky. is the largest loose
leaf tobacco market in the United sta
tes
Los Angeles. Cal. is the largest city
In the United States in point of area. 1t
as against New York City's S14, Chi
cago's 1875. and Philadelphia's l29, all
greatly exceeding it in population.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

them, and IL would be interesting TO
know how the agents are obtained. AS
matter of fact one of the very last
condolences made by Count Won Bern
storff. before leaving the United
States, under a shower of flowers. was
the strictly unveracious one that the
State Department had informed him
that Mr.. Balfours dispatches were all
bluff. and that he might safely go for
ward and ignore them. Once more, in
the phraseology of the Latin gram
mar. The ingenious youth. the youth
of the ingenious countenance."
In face of sucn iacts there is alb
soiutely nothing to be done but to turn
resolutely a cold shoulder TO all the
efforts of peacemakers, charming
never so wisely" none of whom are
really anxious TO create peace, but, on
the contrary. only to save the Central
Powers from the full effects of their
sins, and so to make absolutely GER
tain another war. Everybody desires
peace. that is to say, every sane man.
Indeed even the German war phiioso-
pliers, for their own reasons, are ready
for il now. But II must be a peace
which. whilst requiring every satisfac-
tion from the aggressors for the enor-
mites committed by them, though
without any spirit OF revenge, shall al
so secure the future peace of the world,
so far rs that is humanity possible
against future attacks. There will be
no condonation in such Il peace, there
will, on the contrary, be the very limit
Of legitimate reparation of wrongdoins,
and yet. in spite of all this, it is a peace
which can come. if the whole body o.
the Allies are true to themselves, thk
winter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
by George AIDE.
Article N.-Advice 20 Americans lie.
| tween the Ages Of Il and 30.

Il
Six months ago the new voters were
the sizes.
No man under 80 held topnotch
executive position or had moved to tn,
front row OF his profession.
Any man under 30 was likely TO be-
regarded by a man well over 80 as 4
bit pin.fcathery and somewhat OF a
squad
The word "halfbaked" Is much Ia
vored by those who begin to feel q
stiffenIng in the joints. o..
Just "a few shifting moons, and now
the whole nation is looking up In rev
erence and admiration and dread al
our lads still In the twenties.
The bank president is pigmy along
side OF the first lieutenant. Elderly
persons sit lonesomely In clubs. feel.
ing depressed and unworthy.
We have witnessed the transfigura.
ton OF the cub.
The very qualities which we ap
praised 80 lightly or regarded as minor
faults are now recognized as the in.
gradients OF heroism.
We do not smile tolerantly at the
eager enthusiasm. the scorn OF danger,
the cheerful optimism. and the candid
patriotism OF these coltish youngsters.
We look AT them with eyes bit
misty and say, Boys, you're greatr
Many Of US are sitting In sheltered
corners. away from the first hand ac.
tivities Of the war, trying TO compre-
hend that thousands of our boys are
now In France and thousands more are
going, and we have passed the long pre-
amble Of talk and come up against the
flinty realities of shrapnel and hand
grenades.
How easy il is for u man living In a
steam-heated apartment sleeping on a
box mattress. and just about 5000
miles beyond the range of the longest
guns-how easy IL is for him to tell
the boys to endure grimly the trench
privations and then go over the top
like a whrlwind!
Are words OF any account just now?
Shall we advise our soldiers to be
brave? Probably the French and Eng
lish instructors will urge them to be
cautious.
Snail we tell them to so out and die
for their country? That is not the
prospectus. at all. at all. The plan is
for our boys to tame the Germans and
then come home alive.
If We are to poster them with coun-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
FOUR THOUSAND TO ONE

Lloyd George reports that since the
beginning OF the war Great Britain has
transported by sea 100000 men, be-
longing to various parts of her en-
pire. with loss of only $500, and tina:
OF these only 200 have been lost
through enemy actions
Tha, means a loss Of about one man
out Of every 600 transported. In other
words. IL means that any mans chances
are 1000 to onei that he'll get across
the sea safely II is reassuring to our
troops, as they face the voyage to
France.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
France Honors New Orleans

Paris. Nov 1.-The French govern.
ment has ordered struck a special medal
commemorating the bi-centenary OF the
founding OF New Orleans. after de
sign by Abel Lafleur. \ large copy In
bronze will be sent through the Ameri'
can embassy to the city of New Or.
leans, while small copies viii be given
to the members Of the Louisiana delega.
tion now here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
Ninety Taking Public Speaking,

Norman. okla. Nov. 1.-tSpecialt--
Ninety students are now enrolled in the
department of public speaking at the
University OF Oklahoma. a gain of thirty
over last year. Most OF the students
enrolled are in the school OF fine arts
as public speaking is requirement in
that school. but a number are students
in the law school
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
THE FOUR BROTHERS"

fbo9h VI PEI maps uoIl tT!Ik
OF free verse" Most of us. too, may
be getting weary OF war poetry. But
there's n free verse war poem In the
last issue of Poetry" written by Carl
Sandburg, SO big and strong that II
sweeps aside not only all rules but all
criticism. The author calls his poem
The Four Brothers" meaning the
four republics" of France. Russia, Brit.
ain and America.
The whole of this wonderful com.
position | s too long TO quote. Here's
part Of Il:
Good night is the word. goodnight to
the kings, to the czars.
Good night 10 the kaiser!
The breakdown and the fade-away be.
gins.
Tho shadow OF n great broom. ready
10 sweep out the trash. is here.
one finger is raised that counts out the
ozar,
The ghost who beckoned men that come
no more
Tho czar has gone to the winds on
Gods dust pan,
The ozar n pinch of nothing.
The last Of the gibbering Romanoffs.
out and goodnight
The ghosts OF the summer palaces
And the ghosts of the winter palaces,
out and goodnight to the kings. the
czars. the kaisers.
Another finger viii speak,
And the kaiser. the ghost who ges-
lures n hundred million sleeping
waking ghosts,
Tho kaiser win go onto Gods great
dust pan
Tho last Of the gibbering Hohenzol-
iorns.
Look! God pities this trash, God waits
with a broom and dust pan,
God knows a finger will speak and
count them out.
II Is written in the stars;
1t is spoken on the walls:
II clicks in the white fire zigzag of the
Atlantic wireless:
Il mutters in the bastions of thousand
mile continents;
II sings in a whistle on the midnight
winds from Walla Walla to Meso-
potamia;
out and goodnight!
God takes one year for job.
God takes ten years or million.
God knows when doom is written.
God knows this job will be done and
the words spoken;
out and goodnight.
The red tubes will run.
And the great price be paid.
And the homes empty,
And the wives wishing.
And the mothers wishing.
There is only one way now. only the
way Of the red tubes and the great
price
and hurl their big shoulders
And swear the job shall be done
out OF the wild finger writing north
and south. east and west. over the
blood-crossed. blood-dusty hall of
earth.
out OF 1t all a God who knows Ii
sweeping clean;
out OF il all a God who sees and pierces
through is breaking and cleaning
out an old thousand years. is max.
mg ready for new thousand years.
The Four Brothers shall be five and
more
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
THE FIRST PRISONER

a certain mail carrier belonging to
the German army on the French front
had tho surprise of his life on the night
Of October "a While delivering his let
ters he blundered into the enemys
trenches To his amazement. he dis
covered that his captors were Ameri-
sans He had no: known that there
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02
Scissors and Paste.

Eauls Valley Democrat II the faith
full old farm horse could express his
view of this war, 1t would likely con-
tain strong protest against the anna
tcur drivers that have been wished on
him lately.
Drumricht Derrick: Some married
men Join the army because they are
tired of fighting.
Chickasha Express: But in spite of
his reputation for being cool, Mr.. Fair
banks was warm enough on war mat
ters
Durant Democrat: Cities in Oklaho-
ma are cleansing their streets of the
floating population" class. No excuse
exists now for the man without job.
Milburn News: II Is easy to convince
a boy that there is law or ordinance
against pretty much everything he
wants TO do.
Ft Smith ArkJ Southwest American
II Is a beautiful world and we purpose
to prevent the kaiser and his clique
from mussing up the scenery much
longer.
Bartlesville Examiner: They are eat
ing whale steak in New York City and
saying they like It. Ii it is like other
food In New York ii must cost whale
Of a price.
Dallas CTexasl News: our guess is
that it would be easier for rich man
to pass through the eye of needle
with his overcoat on than to pass
through the gates of heaven without
having bought Liberty bond.
Okmulgec Democrat: If those Ger
man mutineers don't look out, they may
lose the privilege Of being the kaiser's
slaves.
Oil and Gas Journal: Faith moves
mountains" said the philosopher. Pos
sibly," remarked the cynic. but Goe-
thals. in moving one. used steam SHOW
els" quite so." persisted the philos-
opher, but he had faith in the steam
shovels and in himself Faith turned
the trick"
TSshomingo Capital Democrat: \
Young man was sent down town by
his mother to get two chickens, but
those he got he couldn't take home.
NARROW Review: The boy you cheer
ed when he marched away viii stand
knee deep In trench mud; he WIN face
poison gas and deadly flame. That's
his bit Your bit. perhaps. is to save
one slice Of bread each day for him.
sherman (TexasI Democrat: Courtship
Is like travelling in the front seat be-
hind the windshield: marriage is like
sitting in the rear. where you get all
the jolts all the jars and all the wind,
and haven't "A chance to jump when
the smash-up comes. At least that's
the reflection of bachelor girl.
Tulsa World: New York Socialists
are believing for free press" What
they mean by free is German.
B7rtlesVille Enterprise: IL might help |
some il fewer people regarded going |
@ church rs the quintessence OF re
ligion
The Maine was sunk In Havana har-
bor February IS. 1898 The ship was
aised and buried at sea with appropri- |
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

The Maine was sunk in Havana har-
bor February Is. 1898. The ship was
aised and buried at sea with appropri-
ate ceremonies March l6 1912
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

Bortlesville Enterprise: II might help
some If fewer people regarded going
@ church as the quintessence Of re
ligion
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

Rum win be the issue az several spots
ON the political map next week. Ohio
and New Mexico viii vote on submitted
constitutional amendments proposing
prohibition. Delaware IL all dry except
In Wilmington, and the county and the
voters there will decide whether TO make
the state wholly dry.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

Fauls Valley Democrat: If the faith
full old farm horse could express his
view of this war, 1t would likely con-
tain strong protest against the ANA
tcur drivers that have been wished on
him lately.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

Drumricht Derrick Some married
men join the army because they are
tired of fighting.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

Tulsa World: New York Socialists
are believing for a free press" What
they mean by free is German.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-02

Chickasha Express: But in spite OF
his reputation for being cool, Mr.. Fair
banks was warm enough on war mat
ters.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-07
P, sSIAH DEFENSE CntE..:::: IS
y; kcSt Hour Of Russia j. al did
s..aSseS Terr0rized. Expect Marc1
To Petr0grad

London. Sept 4.-Russia's crisis
grows darker hourly. The Bavar1an
prince IS hard on the heels of the Rus
sian twelfth army, shrinking noSh-
eastward from the captrsed Riga with
swiftness and vigor. The counter rev.
olutionists and worshipers of the fall
en- czardom are exploiting the grave
military situation with all their might.
Their pleas fall upon fertile soil with
the panic-tricken masses haunted by
the fear Of a German march on Petro-
grad.
But the Kerensky government is
watchful The only member of the Ro-
manoff family who enioved full liber-
ty after the revolution has been incar-
cerated He is Grand Duke Michael
AleXandrovitch. brother Nf ex-czar
Nicholas. His wife also has 'een ar
reste" Both are charged with having
had connection with the counter revo.
lutionist plot that was nipped in the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-07
NEGRO TROOPS
TO TRAIN IL SOITIl
Bv Jesse IS. COttrell.

Washington, Sert 4.-That .Secre-
tary Baker has changed his mind
about sending colored troops 10 the
national guard camps OF the south TO
be trained vas an admission that tt,
war he"G made today to Congressman
S. Huber Dent. .Er, chairman Of the
house mi::t2"y affairs committee, Who
protested at"ut Hattalion Of negroes
from Ohio being sent to Montgomery
and large number to Admission.
While Mr.. Baker did not go into de-
tails as to the other points in the de-
partment of the southeast from which
protests have emanated as to the plan
to send negro guardsmen to the south
to be trained, he intimated that the
original plan to send them there would
be carried ont. Mr. Dent told the sec
retary that General Mann. While head
of the militia bureau, had assured him
that no negroes would be sent to
Montgomery and to other southern
points. NEEg
Mr.. Baker said that was true, but
that he himself had changed his mimi
on the subject and now that some
were already in the south, he had ad-
vised their commanders to see thar
they observed all southern laws. such
as the Jim Crow statutes and certain
customs as to privileges of equality.
Secretary Baker said that the north
ern people would resent sending the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-07

ems Mercantile company, 81 S c., 1856,
the court held an act regulating the
election of cotton weigher for Bethune
in Kershaw county to be unconstitu-
tional upon the ground that it va,
special legislation upon subject
properly to be governed by a genera:
statute. The statute regulating the
election of cotton weigher for Bethunc
is very similar in it's terms to the act
above referred to which regulates the
election of cotton veigher at Prosper
ity.
1T is we'll settled principle of law,
however, that a special provision car
be included in general law, and the
question of the csnstitutionality of the
act in question resolves itself into
this question, is the act of 1912 pro-
viding for the election of cotton
weigher for Prosperity an amendment
or special provision to the general law
regulating the election of cotton
weighers, or is it special act on the
subject? In the Barfeld case the
court. used this language, we think
the act Of February 2, 1906, 25 statut-
es, 1877, cannot be considered as spe-
cial provision in a. federal law or as
amending a genera law as re was
no general law on the ct cover
ing Kershaw county a. - ne OF
it's enactment"
"It will be observed. however, that
the general law applicable to Kershaw
county was enacted February "a, 1905,
and the special provision or special
statute regulating the election of COZ
ton weigher at Bethune, in Kersnaw
county, was enacted February 2, 1906
from which it will be seen that the
act providing for the election a,
Bethune was passed prior to the time
that the general law was rassec.
I'm the case of the election Of coz
ton weighe- 1t Prosperity it will be
seen that the act was not passed un-
til 1912-long after the passage of the
general law, as contained in section
2343 Of the code of laws on 1912. vol
ume l, was enacted, and there would
therefore, be distinction between the
Garfield case and the case stated by
you and there is at least strong ar,
gument for the proposition that the
rule laid down by the Supreme Court
in the Barfeld case would not apply
! to the act providing for the election o1
! the cotton weigher at Prosperity. II
that it can at least be argued and up
on good ground, that the act in ques
tion is a special provision in the gen.
eral law and not a special act upon G
subject properly TO be governed by tse
general law, and I am of the opinion
that the town council should proceed
to elect the cotton weigher at Prosper
ity in accordance with the terms Of
the act as they have heretofore done
and if any private weigher should be
prosecuted for violation Of the law re
: Quiring all cotton to be weighed by .
public weigher, the test of the consti-
tutionality of the act could then De
| made by him. it not being the function
Of the town council nor of this office
to declare an act Or acts Of the legis-
lature unconstitutional unless their
terms are r7mist2fably in violation
thereof
Your" cry trnlv.
'CI,ATN Y. SAPP.
assistant Attorno~ "anera1 -
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-07

DWinsk, heart Of Russia's western
railway system, and Odessa, the pulse
Of Russias worldwide grain trade
are alluring objectives.
4.-Scarcely ten weeks are left ID
render possible large-scale operations
in the west Hindenburg is known 20
believe the brunt of this years allied
efforts on that front IS spent. 81
preme concentration Of all available
military resources tor the long Plan
ned. oft-postponed "death-blow to Rus
sia,' would, therefore, to his mind oe
safe. He is also believed to consiGer
the Italian offensive stopped He post
poned his Riga drive three weeks 20
await development on the Isonoz
5.-1n the German high commands
calculations, it is believed, the "psy-
Geological moment for striking Gus
sia fatally has arrived. With the drive
on Riga and beyond she means 70 IN
fiuence Finland, the ireland of Rus
sia," while far to the south a drive
on Riga, already symptomized by
Mackensen's thrusts northward fro;l
Braila, would pour oil upon the flames
of disaffection in the Ukraine. At the
same time. The latter offensive would
put Rumania definitely out o. the
war and forcefully incorporate that
fertile land in the Mittleeuropa
scheme '-lr ...i. :. i,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-07
TEUTONS HOPE FOR
VICTORY IN EAST
Riga Drive Has Significance. Success
Would Help at Peace Table-Last
Chance for Military Machine
to Make Good

Washington, Sept. 3.-The evacua-
ton of Riga by the Russians and the
occupation Of the big Russian Baltic
port by the Germans could not be con-
firmed at the Russian embassy tonight.
In well-informed circles here it was
not doubted, however, that the report
was accurate.