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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14
The DAILY BANNER
Published Daily Except Sunday.
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

ITdHu Opera
! Mrs John ). Skinner has returned
/ t cher home near Cambridge, after
visiting relatives in Baltimore and
/ Preston.
/ Mr. and Mrs. William Snyder, of
! Pittsburgh, are the guests of Mr.and
! Mrs. Elmer Tregoe, at their home on
/ Maryland avenue.
! Miss Estelle Kirby left on the b.,
I c. * a boat Wednesday night for
! Baltimore. where she Will visit rela-
tiveS and friends.
! Mrs L. NJ Newton, of Baltimore,
, is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
| Mrs. +. d. LaIrimore, at their home
on the Handbook Boulevard.
Mrs Sarah Kelley and daughter,
Miss Emma. Of Baltimore, are the
guests of Mrs. Richard Hughlett, at
her home on Choptank avenue.
Miss Lola Sullivan left on the boat
Tuesday night for Baltimore, enroute
for LaGrange, \. {. where she will
spend the coming millinery season.
Attention is called to the public
sale of personal property TO be held
tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Den
! iel Marvel For particulars. see adj
Vertisement in this issue.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Harris have
returned to their home at Baltimore,
after having spent several weeks
with Mr.. Harris sister. Mrs. Mary
Ennis. at her home in this city.
Mr. Whitelaw McCready, of Phila-
delphia, is visiting his sister, Mrs.
Levin \. Wroten, at her home in this
city. She also has as her guest her
sister, Miss Matte McCready. of vi
emma.
Mrs Spence Phelps left Wednes-
day for Admission, Ala. where she
will join her husband, Lieut. Phelps,
of Company G, who is stationed at
! Camp Mcclellan with the Maryland
troops.
1 Mrs. John G. Hurley and little
daughter. Lucille, left on the early
train this morning, enroute for Phil
adelphia and Atlantic City, where
they will spend the remainder OF the
week.
\ List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the Cambridge postoffice to
Sept Is: Henry Gross Laird, Amos
Fell, Isaac J. Haywood, Capt. W. '.
Hughes. Mace Harris, Edward Jones,
Oscar r. Turner, Miss Ethel Barkey,
Miss Ruth LaNallette. Mrs Mary
MacMeed, Miss George Stanley.-G.
Walter Wright, Postmaster,
Did you see our soldier boys in
pictures? If not, see them tonight.
An entire change of Cambridge pic
lures the last half of this week, with
the exception of the Newlyweds' trip
to the Cambridge stores, canneries,
and business places. Special matt
nee tomorrow at the Grand Opera
House. See separate ad.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14

Mrs Spence Phelps left Wednes-
day for Admission, Ala, where she
will join her husband, Lieut. Phelps,
of Company e, who is stationed at
Camp Mcclellan with the Maryland
troops.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14

Mr. Whitelaw McCready, of Phila-
delphia, is visiting his sister, Mrs.
Levin \. Wroten, at her home in this
city. She also has as her guest her
sister, Miss Matte McCready, of vi
emma.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14

Mrs. John 5. Skinner has returned
cher home near Cambridge, after
visiting relatives in Baltimore and
Preston.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14
RROOM SPECIAL.

Make clean sweep, keep happy,
and buy your brooms from Smith,
The Egg Man. A dustpan free with
every broom 9-14-tf.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14

Important meeting of the AssOcia-
ton this Saturday, Sept. Is. at 8 p.
m, at the Woman's Club Rooms. IN
the Brown Building, Race street, ov-
er McAllister's drug store.-John 5.
Skinner, Pres; FRED Hirst, Sec'y.-
Adv 1t. B. 14-2t.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14

Mrs John G. Hurley and little
daughter. Lucille, left on the early
train this morning, enroute for Phil
adelphia and Atlantic City, where
they will spend the remainder of the
week
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-14
Fail Millinery.

Fresh line of trimmed and UNI
trimmed hats to be shown Friday and
Saturday. The public invfred.-L.E f.
Vane.-Adv. 1t. B. 14-2t.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
VOTING GERMAN N
OkI- I-iHONiA INFANTRY DE-
PIIyED or kI> BN WAR

Fnz Blumenthai Comnany NJ. First
oklahoma Infantry camp Bowie. Texas
is sa-udlns today % h- ,aty with
friends. Private Blumenthai was born
IN Hamburg Germany but has been In
this country thirty-eight sears. fie is
emphatic Ia the statement that he IS
an American. in training 10 fight ooun-
try which he does not claim as his own.
Blumenthal came TO this co'mlry
with his parents. four brothers AMI a
sister and made his home in St LOUIS.
Mo. until 1905. when his parents, win
three Of the brothers and sister. re-
turned To their native land. soon after
their arrival in the old home. his father
died. At the beginning OF the war. hrs
three brothers were compelled To enter
service under the kaiser All have been
kiIld. His sister and mother both have
died since. the sister dying while nurs'
ing prisoners Of war In Russia The
other brother is I'm the French army.
we are not In this war 20 hight the
people Of Germany. but 20 conduer their
rulers, whose oppression we could not
tolerate" is Private Blumenthafs terse
summary Of why he has enlisted TO night
the forces Of his fatherland.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
SINGING CONVENTION
IN ARDMORE NEXT YEAR

The Carter County Singing associa
ton met in regular quarterly session al
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Mary
NibIack school house. seven miles south
west OF Ardmore. Following the open
ing song. prayer and the report Of the
credentials committee, the following OF
ficers were elected:
President, l. X. Mason. Ardmore.
yice-president. W. Baker. Mary Nib
lack.
Secretary treasurer. G. c. Adams
Provence.
Chaplain. J. r. James. Enterprise.
organist, Miss Hollie Craddock, Plain
view.
Assistant organist Miss Helen Car
roll. Plainview.
Upon invitation Of the city officials
and Chamber Of Commerce, Ardmor'
was chosen as the next meeting place
in January. 1918.
IL is expected that hundreds from
Ardmore and other points in the county
viii be present at the meetings today
This il the only association in the coun
ty that is formed for the purpose of gen
eral singing and service.
The Rev. Mr. Graham VIII preach a
II a. m. and the Rev. Mr. Wagner WI
preach al p. m. today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

old backgrounds. ana though may
bc only fancy 1t seems that the sheets
Of color are richer and more unbroken
where the fighting was fercesi. NO
where does the ground flame quite 80
brilliantly as around the Butte de War
l,rcouy-t. on the dreadful eXpanse above
the Ba-eniins toward High Wood an
ON the face OF the Thiepyal slope. where
the I-lstermcn passed on July !. ln
these places the ground l. all poppies
for rods together. Elsewhere the scar
L., {, half Veiled IN the mist ot flow
ering grasses. and mixed with them are
a profusion OF other blossoms. yellow
ragwort. hawkweed SOW thistles and
ladies' bodstraw. mauve scablous ana
purple vetch and knapweed. tall camp
anulas. blue chicory and viper's bug
loss and cornfiower. and nearer 10 the
ground pale field convolyulous and PIN
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

gone through 20 preserve it, national
ity-
Essad Pashas emphatic declaration
for an independent Albania. was direct
ly opposed TO the recent action OF ltaly
in proclaiming a protectoraie over Al
bania. and he was asked as to the Al
banian policy toward proiectorate.
we are opposed TO all foreign pro
tectorates." he said. and the Albanians
will never consent 20 give up their rights
OF directing their own affairs In Their
own way. That has been the cause
they have struggled for through centur
les. and they feel the sentiment all the
more now that the European war has
brought ambitious designs from all quar-
ters on Albania. What Albania wants
il the sand right Of free development
that other small states enjoy. and as
a distinct nationality with its own race
and language it feels II Is entitled tc
this same status that is accorded tf
an other small states. This is a war foi
the protection OF small states. and not
for the absorption by protectorates-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
HIDING WARS RAvAGEs.
Kindly Nature Covers the Torn Ground
With Flowers.

London Times: The valley of the
Ancre. which was - hideous last year
when the trickle of the stream ran
from one halfstagnaut pool to another
through a brown waste of sheilkneaded
earth. u now al waving rushes dotted
with meadow-sweet and hemp. agrimony
and purple Ioosestriie. In Aveluy wood
the iIven tree stumps stand out against
q BACKGROUND Of acres OF red rosebay.
Ard - 1t j. all over the baitlenelds
Of a year ago.
II j. an old legend that roses never
blow 80 red as over a hero's grace. |
think II must be true Of poppies. Nor
folk poppyiaud itself can SHOW no
braver fields OF scarlet than these year
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
FROM ROW BOAT
OWNER TO WEALTHY
STEAMSHIP OWNER

Buenos Aires. sept. s.-'By MaiD-The
sale OF the Mlhanovich Steamship Line
this week 10 the Royal Mail Packet
company and Dodero brothers. local
shipping frm. Is hy far the most I'M
portant Of the many sales Of Argentine
shipping which have been recorded since
the war commenced. The price paid
Tor - per cent Of the preferred and
common stock was equivalent To fI.O05'
800. United states gold. The new hold
ing company viii have as hase Of
operations about $50 ships and several
shipyards.
The MhianOvich line was the owner "f
the steamship Presidente Mitre. the
capture of which nearly embroiled Ar
gentina and Great Britain in interna-
tional difficulties TWO years ago. the
rroblem being solved by the return Of
the vessel TO Buenos Aires 10y its Eng
lish captors.
The founding uf Mihanovich Line was
one Of the most dramatic stories Of the
many men who came 20 Argentina poor
and made a fortune. Fifty-three years
ago. Nicholas Mihanovich. n poor Aus
trian sailor. landed in Buenos Aires pen.
niless. After making his way 10 Para
quay and working there awhile, he re
turned 10 Buenos Aires homesick 10
await a chance of working his way
home
For some time, he rowed small boat
out to incoming vessels and feTried the
passengers ashore. Later. he ran tug
or two and from this beginning ne built
UP the largest navigation company in
the Argentine.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
Write Us for Details

Let us send you complete list Of
mortgages. You can then see for
yourself that the security IN ample and
that for safety. convenience and free
dom from petty annoyance. this is the
best investment you could make.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
CLOSING IN On LATEST
BUNCH MEXICAN REBELS

Brownsville Texas. Oct 6.-MeXican
rebel forces under the leadership OF
Porfrio Gonzales. reported TO he organ
izing a revolution in the district between
Aldamas and Ramones Station, near
Monterey. are being closed in upon by
government troops from Monterrey. Nu
evo Laredo. Matamoros and Victoria. II
was stated officially in Matamoros to-
day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
4 COMPANY or
GOOD CLEAN MES
II ORGANIZING

There are few good men In Ardmore
who are taking over good looking
proposition at Miami where really big
profits are promised. = few more who
desire 10 do so can take an Interest
from siOC up il application Is made
either today or tomorrow Phone e4l
or ice and viii call and present the
proposition.
=. JOHN !. i'R@i'f-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

JOHN = EAsLEI
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
Projects soldiers, Homesteads

Washington. oct. 6.-senator Kings
bill which would prevent men absent on
account of military service from having
their entries in public lands forfeited
while away was passed by the senate
and sent to the house.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

In 1915 the United States exported
drugs. chemicals and dyes amounting
TO sI2i 900 900. approximately $4,000, 900
In excess of the previous years exports.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

spain is projecting suburban electric
railways around Madrid.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-09
Schoolma'ams and the Public.

A lamentable lack OF appreciation, not to
speak Of gallantry, was shown by the democrats
at Lincoln while discussing bill relating to pen
sions for school teachers. One honorable gen.
tleman supported his argument against the meas
ure by citing the fact that his daughter daily
wades through snow to reach the school she is
teaching and does it without expectation of pen
sion. Another cited the fact that he had three
red-headed girls who were all experienced school
teachers, and if they were not married before they
had taught twenty-five years he would chloro-
form them.
Women who give their lives to the training
Of other peoples children deserve better than this
A psychological aspect of the teachers vocation
is that the maternal instinct fits the woman for
better service in dealing with the younger chill
dren. That some impulse beyond immediate re-
ward and apart from expectation OF pension
moves them is shown by the daughter of the one
legislator, who braves the rigor of winter that
she may give something to the youngsters of
her district they would not get were all school
teachers to first consult their own comfort The
chief end of teachers life is not to get married.
That so many Of them do is due to the fact that
attractive, and that young men are appreciative
Of mental as well as bodily charms
II the teachers are not to have pensions, their
pay should be raised to point where those who
escape matrimony-and some do-may save sufh-
cient to provide against days when they can no
longer work. Wages paid country schoolma ans
in Nebraska will not permit the accumulation Of
q competency,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-09
Boom IN American Toys
New York Times

Among the many American exports which
have increased tremendously during the last two
years is the American made toy. The total value
of the exports OF American toys for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1916, was $2030,089, more
than double the total value of the exports for 1911
which reached little over one million dollars,
and still higher in proportion to the total exported
in the fiscal year ended June 80, 1914, the year
preceding the European war, which reached
In the toy trade Germanys loss is Americas
gain. In the years before 1914 the German toy
trade had risen to mighty proportions and Ger
man toys went to the uttermost corners of the
globe. An idea of what the war has meant to
German toy makers may be gained by perusal
of the figures for German exports of toys for the
last few years. For the fiscal year ended June
80, 1914. just preceding the outbreak Of the war,
reached total value of $77ls,OOo, where, for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1916 they fell to ST.
$4,000, or less than one-fourth' the former total
Among the best customers for American-made
toys during the last few years have been Great
Britain and the more important British colonies.
In the two years preceding the war the imports
of American playthings into England, Scotland
and Ireland totaled about $4,000. In 1915 they
went up to little over 100000, and in 1916, to
over $4,000, or more than six times the aggre-
gate imports for each of the two years before
the outbreak of the war.
A similar rise is apparent in the figures cover
ing imports of American playthings into the prin-
cipal British colonies Those for Canada rose
from $4,000 in 1918, and $4,000 in 1914, to
$s94OOO in 1916. During the first year Of the war
there was no increase in the imports, the total
being 1921 900, somewhat lower than during the
preceding two fiscal years.
The imports Of American toys into Australia
rose from $4,000 in 1918, and $4,000 in 1914, to
$4,000 in 1916; those into New Zealand from
50, 500 in 1914 to $4,000 in 1916.
An interesting. point in connection with the
above is that the figures for certain other British
dependencies show no such rise as is apparent in
the principal colonies, and in some cases. even
decline. In British India, for instance, the i'm
ports of American toys totaied little short of
$4,000 in 1914, and rose only to $l4,500 in 1916
In the Straits Settlements they dropped from
$2,10O to $1,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-09
Postmortem on CHASTITY Military Blunder

British parliamentary commission has just
made its report on the failure of the Gallipoli
campaign, the majority censuring Lord Ktch-
ener by inference and Colonel Winston Churchill,
who was first lord of the admiralty when the ven
ture was undertaken. 1t is found that the expe-
dition to capture the Dardanelles was at the in
stance Of Churchill who Numbered in making a
naval affair out Of what should have been COM
bined land and water assault. Kitchener is
blamed for undertaking to do too much, more
than one man might expect to do well. He did
not avail himself properly of the services Of his
staff and confusion resulted from his inability to
properly attend to everything. Other war lords
and sea lords are involved in the implied censure
Of the majority report, which has been revised
with utmost care that feelings be spared as far as
possible. Little enough OF consolation will be
found in this after fact examination and effort
to put the best face on real disaster, the effects
Of which are yet felt by the Allies. The project
was sound enough in its conception, and its car
rying out would have been of immense advantage
to the anti-German cause, but it failed, partly
through the inability Of great soldier, appar-
entity to understand what really was involved in
the undertaking, and partly through the impetuos-
ity of man who had just brought off one de-
cided coup and sought to achieve another. Its
lesson is for naval and military experts rather
than for the public.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-09
People and Evessts

Sir Thomas Upton began his working life as
GRAND boy for merchant in Glasgow.
The Duke of Devonshre as governor general
of Canada, receives salary OF $4,000 year.
Irelands richest man is Lord Prrie, who owes
his millions to the Belfast shipbuilding industry.
The youthful ambition of Bonar Law, the Brit
ish statesman, was to be trapper in the wilds
of Canada.
DR.. Christopher Addison the new minister Of
munitions in the British cabinet, is physician
by profession.
Wiseonsins Oldest active lawyer is Captain
Thomas L. KEENAN, of Milwaukee, who was 90
years old on Washington's birthday.
Sir tombstone Forbes-Robertson is believed to
be the only prominent actor of today who began
his career as leading man.
Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous Jesuit
preacher, recently celebrated the golden jubilee
of his ordination to the priesthood.
In eighteen years Nat Gould, the English nov
est, has written seventy-hve novels, the aggre-
gate sales OF which exceed 100000 copies.
DR.. James NJ. PEBBLES the famous physician
and psychologist, who is now resident of Los
Angeles, will celebrate his ninety-ffth birthday
this month"; t
The marquis Of Butte, one of the wealthiest
members of the peerage, enlisted early in the
war as a private and is now an officer in the
Welsh regiment.
A remarkable joyride of car of onions, i'm
pulsed by a wave Of speculation, is mapped by
Commissioner Hartigan of the bureau of weights
and measures at New York. The itinerary began
at Syracuse. then to Boston, over to Philadelphia,
west to Chicago and finally to New York City.
Each leg of the journey lifted the price, but the
spectators paid the freight from start to finish.
The shipment collided with boycott in Chicago
and struck slump in New York that produced
a cramp in the owners checking account 1t is
only just to say that throughout joyride of
some 2400 miles the robust strength of the onions
remained undimnished.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-09
A Far-Reaching Order.

The forthcoming executive order, presaged
through Postmaster General Burleson, providing
for the selection OF all postmasers, except fourth
class postmasters already under civil service, by
competitive examination, promises far-reaching
innovation in the public service. The postmast-
ers jobs constitute the largest batch OF appontive
places still distributed by political favor as re-
ward of party service and while this proposed plan
does not necessarily bring them within the class
flied lists it extends to these Offices the principle
OF merit appointment, though, as we take it., for
the usual definite term and subject to senate
confirmation or rejection. Even so, it is tre-
mendous forward step toward permanent tenure
and possibly toward promotion from one grade Of
postoffce to the grade next higher.
1t goes without saying that much will depend
upon the spirit that governs in the administration
OF the plan and in having the examinations hon
estly and mpartially conducted. The president is
also open to criticism for delaying the Inaugural
ton Of the merit test for postmastership appoint
ments until the advent of his second term instead
of issuing such an order during his first term,
when he was just as strongly committed to civil
service reform, and before all the republican in
cumbents had been supplanted by deserving DEM
ocrats Strict adherence to the method Of selec-
ton by examination, however, will in course Of
time, equalize the political advantages and dis
advantages accruing from the fact that in the be-
ginning the democrats are in possession of the
spohs.
To the congressman who is merely patron
age distributor, the order will come as grievous
shock, but the congressman who wants to devote
himself to big subjects of legislation and the pub
lie generally, will hail it with satisfaction as a
relief from embarrassing postoffce fights and
offering hope OF improvement in the service
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-09
@Aee5M
-&Aw6o%
Perplexities of H. c. L.

Omaha, March S.-To the Editor of
The Bee: 1t will soon be time for us
common people to put into practice
some of the teachings of the wise
acres to reduce the high cost Of liv-
ing by raising few vegetables at the
back of the house. / have plenty Of
ground and plenty of muscle to work
1t, but, on account Of the high cost of
living my landlord cannot afford to
build a fence around the lot and
neither can l. My neighbors to the
right and to the left, in the rear and
in the front, keep chickens to reduce
the high cost of living and every few
nights, by actual count, twenty-one
dogs of both sexes, make night hideous
in my back garden. If 1 buy spade.
fork. etc, and garden seeds, spend
hours of work on said garden and my
neighbours chickens scratch 1t up or
the dogs dig 1t up, please tell me how
have / reduced the high cost of living
to myself.
If | take exception to the chickens
living off my garden l shall have to
go to law, l presume, to compel him
to keep them shut up and that will
help the lawyer solve the problem, but
not me. Now, please tell me where
stand: If shoot the dogs and chick
ems l help the city of Omaha solve
the problem. by me paying fine for
discharging firearms. You may tell
me there is a law compelling people
to keep their chickens off my garden.
But I have noticed obeying the law
in Omaha Is a joke. INQUISITOR.