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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
WOMEN ARE TOLD
Government WILL
SEIZE PRESERVES
False RumorS Alarm Feminine
Part Of Grady County, .,

CHlCkASIlA. Okla, Sept ll--(Spe-
cial )-aSo great is the alarm which has
been spread among women oi Grady
county aS to the alleged designs OF
Uncle Sam upon her canned and dried
fruit ,ha, /, has been impossible for
Mrs NJ Coryell home demonstration
agent, 10 get accurate reports on the
number OF Jars put up by members OF
the Women' and Girls clubs In des-
pcration she has made public q state.
ment asserting that all allegations -
the ciiec, that the government has
asked the reports IN order to prepare to
seize their products are false,
II was hoped that these reports would
he available on the date OF the opening
OF the fair on Wednesday but this 10
now believed impossible
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Divorce Preferred
by This Woman to
Flowers on Grave

CHICAGO, Sept, II Especially
MY husband has been putting flowers
on my grave" was the startling state
mcnt made by Mr. Maunv llAbrl us
she sWore oul a warrant lor her hus
band. John llahcl, 4 >loliul,t. ou the
charge oi non support
Hes been spending money on n
widow" she explained Do the aston
nhcd clerk "llc told her was dead
and buried m ~ Honlfarc crmc,er,
and even went So iat a, ,u place flow
cr, ON a grave and weep
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
This Judge Gives
Ten Reasons Why
Men Leave Home

~ lIICAGO. Sep, ll--tSpeciaD
v There are at least ten good
reasons why men leave
home Judge Siclk of the domestic
relations court outlined them for $50
women m church meeting today
He lists mother-in law aud father
IN law; money or lack OF ~ Young
marriages desire to sport around
after marriage" lack oi home tram.
ing on the part oi young girls, I'm
proper training permitting them TO
become loose IN moral<9 card parties .
and shopping crazeS argument over
who's boss, and bcsiowal OF moro
attention upon children than hus-
bands
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Earth Swallows
Man With Powder

MAflANON CITY, pa Sept IL
Especial } -Shoulderng a key OF pow
der on his way to work at the Prlm-
rose mIne, NichoIa, Pchart had
harrasNug experience when the ground
under hm gave way and left him
struggling for hrs lIte thirty feet down
IN a mine shaft Miners on their wa,
TO work saw HIM cllngiug to some tim.
bcr and saved hrm.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
CITY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
In Answering Ads. fisas. Mention Times.

FOR SNLE-5-room bungalow two rooms
I'm oak - buff brick mantclS book cases,
nrcpkfast foums, near good 'schuol 2OlS
West Eleventh Wal gbgg-H
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Harvest Checks
Being Raised

DURANT, okla, Sept / Specially
As result Of the issuance OF bad
checks several farmer boys are in Gus.
tody In most cases they are accused
Of raising their harvest pay checks and
had 10 difficulty IN getting them
caShrd In most cases the checks arc
being mado good and prosecution
stopped before getting too far along
N the hands of the courts,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
CATTLE LEAVE
RAILROAD CAR
Animals MySteriouSIy lost
While in Transit,

WACkOMlS, Okla Sept ll.-lSpe
cral Somewhere along the line of the
Rock Island railway four cattle were
lost out Of carload IN transit SEC
ton Foreman Wehh OF th,, city located
ono OF them a, Henr-"ey and another
N pasture near this city The other
two have not been found. Il i, not
known how the cattle got out ol the
car
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Railroad Gets
Water From CITY

CHlCKASHA. Okla, Sept ll--(Spe.
cial) Owing to the Frisco private
supplies Of water at Cement and Chick
asha being dried up, the railroad IL
now being supplied by the city water
drpattnen, here
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Fire DESTROYS
Farm Home

WAOkOMIN, Okla, Sept II (Spe
c'aO-Ihc residence on the farm owned
by George Summers and occupied hy
JOHN Bennett was completely destroyed
by fire Monday night There was no
ono At home when the hla1c broke ont.
which was supposed to have been from
a defective fuc
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
To Increase Capacity Of Mints.

'SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. H.
To increase the capacity Of the United
States min,' for coining subsidiary sill
yer, now at the limit, a conference Of
the heads OF the. various mins and SUI
perintendents of the government refin-
cries is to be held here tomorrow in re.
'ponSe TO a call issued by Director
Baker A general revision of the work
ing schedule, the addition of more EN-.
ployes and other proposed changes will
be discussed
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
City Spends Huge
Sum for PAVING

CHlCKASHA. Okla, Sept, ll--(Sps-
cialO Within the last year, Chckasha
has sent TO paving bond holders in To-
ledo. Ohio, the sum OF 10000 and 70
this will he added between $4,000 and
10000 IN back taxes during September.
The city has collected 100000 in de.
linqucnt taxes during the last twelve
months
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Our Fighting Men

Brig Gen. Peter T. rraub, assigned
To the command VI the Fifty -f,r', infant
~ brigade Of the new Twenty SKIN
division ol the army which comprise,
the New England national guard, IS ~
ys,,, old and A native of New York
After graduating from west rom, w
entered the cavalry first serving a: q
second lieutenant of the First cavalry
lie subsequently served with the Filth.
Thr,centh Twelfth and seventh cav
alr, regiments In lol4 he became as
,,,tant chief oi the Philippine coustsbu-
lar, with the rank Of colonel He came
from Manila last spring, beng rseAlls4
for service IN the field
-
Women have voted on equal tesme
silh men m Wyoming since 1917
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
OIL LAND. LEASES AND STOCK

WILL SELL 400 shares white Rock oil
for 2bc per share II taken at once,
Address B2t2 care Times,
INVESTORS and brokers can find what
they want snd get what they buy. Sil
Campbell PldG
FOR SALE 1000 shares Oklahoma on
stock In lots OF 900 or more, rs cents
per share. par value 81 BSOs. care
Times
WANTED oklahoma oil stock. state
lowr-f price and number Of shares u
30J care Times
ron SALE 900 shares oklahoma oil
stock, tTi0 B-1lO care Times
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
CITY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
In Answ erinr Ads. Please Mention Times.

FOR SALE-b-room bungalow. with
sleeping norch doors from Shnrtcl
car 72s West 2Oth Walnut 10. after
call Walnut 32US-J
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Thieves Brutally
Torture Recluse

fREMENTO, Ohio, Sept II -(Spe
uall Arthur Graccmyct, Louis S,app
and frank Dupysrs, all OF Toledo are
IN jail here charged with hru,ally tor
turing and attempting to rob Joachim
Myers, aged wealthy farmer, who re-.
sides alone west ut town They got
nothing after pointing loaded re.
,olycr at the old man. choking him
until he was black in the face, aud
holding lighted matches to hi, beard.
The trio was arrested while eating sup
per IN a saloon The men would have
accomplished their purpose hut tor the
arrival of Attorney II { Dean. whose
counit, place adjuins the MYERS home
and who hsatd MYERS shouts int help
The oldest oi the women, college
itatcruiticS IS the Alpha Delta PL
which was founded at Wesleyan f..
male college IN 1851,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11
Second Draft
Tests BeQin

DURANT, Okla Sept IL (SpcciaIO
The county board began the exami-
nation Of $50 men OF the second call
yesterday Sis,y-one are needed to com
plete the coun,y's quota OF ia, and It
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-11

is thought they will he secured with
little difficulty As the officials and
clerks are the same who made the first
examination better progress is being
made, owing to their experience and the
work should be completed this week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
An Apology Due

On August % THE World" declared as
follows:
UNLESS the Saratoga conference takes
definite and positive action in regard to
the White House pickets and the fragrant
disloyalty of their conduct, it cannot es-
cape It's own share Of responsibility for
practices that will otherwise cost the suf-
frage amendment tens of thousands of
votes in this state next fall"
The Saratoga conference has taken def
mite and positive action in regard TO the
White House pickets. II has condemned
their conduct by formal resolutions adopted
with only one dissenting vote, and that
cast on techncality. 1t has reaffirmed
the loyalty and patriotism Of the suffrage
workers Of this state-loyalty and pa
triotism which have been demonstrated not
by words alone, but by acts.
The White House pickets have never
represented the women suffragists Of this
country, those who already vote and those
seeking enfranchisement, any more than
the Maximalists represent the great mass
Of the Russian people. They have been re-
pudiated and their methods have been con-
demned by national and state leaders of
the suffrage movement. There has not
been at any time reason for attributing to
ether suffrage bodies than theirs an atti-
tude of sympathy and approval for the
doings of this little group Of misguided
zealots, or for undertaking to visit on
other suffragists the weight of disapproval
which their activities called forth.
In view of all these circumstances, ii
seems to The Tribune that THE World
owes an apology to the suffragists Of New
York State for a series of editorials which
unjustly and unwarrantably aspersed the
loyalty of the million women who are en-
rolled in the party here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

where rewards for merit are surer and
swifter and chance of individual advance
ment is greater. They cannot be blamed
for that. Living costs are skyrocketing'
the girl with initiative and confidence IN
her knowledge and ability must do the
best she can for herself. Good hours,
long vacation period and certain tenure
Of Office during good behavior cannot
counterSalance years Of toll for small
wages.
New York City needs the good material
in its teaching staff, not material not good
enough to go elsewhere. This good ma
terial must be obtained by meeting market
conditions. The increases in pay for the
young teachers, who are hit hardest by
the present scale of wages, are frankly
an endeavor to meet the competition OF
business and the professions. II New
York City is to get the brand of teachers
il should have, not culls, the pew scale
should be adopted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Has Price Fixing Failed2
IVNIJTk
For the Civil Liberties Bureau
New York. Aug. %, 1917.
ditnr Of the Tribune.

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Carl Snyder says that failure OF
price fixing is inevitable because maximum
output depends on high prices" This is
easy to understand, but the underlying reason
must be more forcetully brought before the
people who are giving their dear ones to de-
fend our democracy.
One plain fact needs first be stated lest
we forget in our greed for gain our need for
concerted action. We are at war.
Now let US see just why Mr.. Snyder makes
the failure of price fixing inevitable. |
say makes the failure inevitable" for it is
what he does in his very accurate conclusion.
He says: "Let prices soar on all needed
materials or else we will limit the output
OF course this is the same as saying that the
output will diminish from the standard now
set. But how limit the output? Because, he
states, I'VE trying TO put an iron hand
on the throat Of the money men and the men
with brains" and IF reasonable price is
set on one commodity, as steel or copper o.
wheat, Immediately capital and enterprise
will seek fields where prices are not fixed
and profits are greater"
So here we have the essence of our wonder
full democracy; controlled by men of money
and brains and with so little patriotism that
they Immediately withdraw their financial
support Of a nations urgent necessity al
times Of stress and look forward with greedy
eyes to profits and more profits.
Mr.. Snyder. you are wrong as time will
show, for | cannot place the men Of finance
and brains on so low level as to think that
they would allow their own sons and neigh
Lors' sons TO 90 forth to battle and then
withdraw mere gold.
You say: "a childs primer Of economics
will endeaver to make clear that the price
il determined by the marginal de-
mand" Admitted; but may ask, Was that
childs primer written under war conditions?
Please do not be too harsh on the theorists
in Washington when you yourself theorize.
RAYMOND c. TATE.
Brooklyn, Aug q, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Increased Pay for Teachers

In the budget of the Board of Educa-
ton provision has been made, at the desire
of Presidnt Wilcox, for increases in
pay for young school teachers which are
thoroughly desirable. Instead of begin
ming at yearly salary of $720 and OBJ
tanning a yearly increase Of $50 until the
salary becomes 1900, they would begin
at $500, receiving that sum for three years
and then 5000 year for second three
year term. After that their compensation
would increase $50 year until the $1,000
point was reached.
This change, small as it applies TO each
individual, will make considerable add
ton to the total Of the citys budget if the
Board of Estimate sanctions it. But there
can be no question of its wisdom or of
its Justice A school teacher begins work
now for the wages Of a clerk or stenog-
rapher of average competency. Her
advancement is strictly limited, no matter
how fast she nay develop in her work or
how valuable her services may become.
That is not precisely the way to attract
the best kind of material to the city's ser
vice. Educational experts know that,
whatever curriculum the schools may pre-
sent, the results obtained inevitably de-
pend on the quality of the teaching staff.
No system can be better than the teachers.
And the difficulty to-day is not to get
teachers, but to get good teachers.
More and more, with wide opportunities
opened for young women in business and
the professions, they are going into other
lines Of endeavor than school teaching
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Entertainment Wanted
people.



The theatrical managers of the country
and the War Work Council of the Young
Mems Christian Association are discovering
at about the same time that neither civilians
nor soldiers want sob stuff" at their places
Of entertainment. Word comes from the East
that there are to be fewer plays of a serious
nature in the coming season, and the !. NJ
C. A. managers say that the eight million or
so feet Of film they are preparing to show in
tn. army cantonments at home and abroad
will have little to do with "home and mother"
Both here and abroad all are working hard
People want TO be relaxed, not narrowed. The
mission Of the entertainer now is only 10 en-
terrain.
We are all more or less in the situation Of
the tired business man, for whose especial
benefit roof garden shows we're made We
are doing a good deal more thinking than
usual, and thinking is hard work, as any one
knows who has tried it. The young fellows
who are going abroad are busy learning the
work Of the soldier, and the folks at home
are under a cumulative strain. So those who
understand why the follies and the revues
succeed in the great centres OF mental press
urc will comprehend why all over the coun-
try we have the promise of a diet of comedy,
farce and frothy music. Those who still pre-
fer something more substantial can only
make the best Of it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Baths and Bathos
Cleanliness and Goodness Touching
the Views of an Unwashed Doctor

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. A doctor recently made the statement
that We take too many baths and that by
paying too much attention TO our BODIES we
neglect our souls, with the result that we are
more immoral than we were in the dear old
DAYS when baths were unknown or were in
duIred in merely as a kind of Saturday night
indoor sport.
This was the point of view Of the monks
in the Middle Ages, and their frghtful
profigacy in those days undoubtedly weak
ened the hold of the Church on the masses
and prepared the ground for the Reforma-
ton. Monastic lcentiousness was the basis
of many of Balzac's "Droll Stories" OF the
tales of Boccaccio and the far from white
nights of Margaret OF Navarro.
This good. but presumably unwashed, doc
tor indicts the people of to-day for immoral
tendencies on account of excessive aolutlons'
and cites as evidence the allegation that they
are interested in sex problem plays and
novels and neglect the works OF the Bard OF
Avon"-the title is his own selection
Il would be interesting TO know exactly
how much the protagonist of the bathless has
read of the works of his bard" Has ne read
some of Sir Toby Belch's speeches in Twelfth
Night" Falstafs speeches? Has ne read
THE Merchant of Venice" Measure for
Measure" Venus and Adonis," "The Rape Of
Lucrece"? Also, as an evidence OF the ten
denotes of other periods noted for abstinence
from bathing, there are the comedies Of the
Restoration in England; in Rome. the cpl
grams Of Martial the writings of Petronius,
Ovid and the rest. In France We have the
works OF Rabelais; and as giving an account
of the ubricty Of the unwashed there are
Zola's "L'Assommoir" and La Terre." Finally,
we might inquire how carefully the doctor
has read his Bible.
Il would appear almost like expatiating on
the obvious TO labor the point were it not for
the fact that there are still persons in the
civilized world who would welcome the doc
tors theory as camoufage to mask their own
laziness and aversion TO water. Yet can there
be doubt that the man who battles and shaves
himself on rising is better and cleaner citi-
zen in consequence both in mind and body
New York. Aug. 81, 1917 S.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
,ditor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir TO an observer just back from dis
lance the purposes of most of the American
press in this war seem TO be:
To discredit war as means of inter-
rational adjustment by ourselves rejecting
in the process all other means except war;
20 insure and make permanent the
right kind OF peace by discouragns and
even preventing free discussion of it,
$40 destroy secret diplomacy by estab-
fishing IT,
40 set the world an example Of the
fruits Of liberty by gaggng free speech
almost as timorously as old Russia gagged
II; and.
$50 persuade the German people 70 con-
troll their irresponsible government by our
selves refusing TO permit representatives Of
that part of them most likely and able 70
control il an opportunity 10 meet representa-
lives Of that part Of our own people from
whom German majority is most likely TO
understand and accept American ideals of
freedom. WTTTER RYNNER
New York, Aug, 80, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Mr.. C. B. Shaw on SHINING Alive"
From The London Tines

From The London Tines
The Summer School of the Fabian Society
is being held at Prior's Field, Godalming,
and will continue until September s.
Mr.. G.. Bernard Shaw was the chief speaker
yesterday.
On the subject "The Comedy o. Imperial
Idealism," Mr.. Shaw spoke on the war and
the proposed conference az Stockholm. He
said:
81 am very doubtful about going TO Stock
holm. I don't quite see what we are going
there for. War is a thing which does not
enter the Socialist scheme Of society. Their
conception Of society regards war as an obso-
lete barbarism as a method Of settling dis
putes. Yet here comes the comedy. Some
Socialists are imagining that they have some
thing to do with the war and that they will
have an important part in making the terms
of peace. But they will find that they will
have nothing whatever 70 do with the terms
of peace, whatever desires they might have
on the matter.
"The notion that any number Of persons,
like Socialists, or pacifists, or anybody else,
can come in and say that their feelings must
be considered is to me almost inconceivaby
silly. Who is going 10 listen TO them? AZ
the end OF the Franco Prusssn War the Ger
mans had victory, and they simply took
everything they could get. They imposed an
enormous indemnity on France. and when It
was paid so quickly they were afterward sorry
that they had not made it much larger. Ger
many also took the two provinces OF Alsaes
and Lorraine. Protests were made against
the annexation of the provinces by the Ger.
man Socialists and they were put into prison.
Bismarck, the most powerful statesman in
Germany, also protested, and although he was
not put into prison he was equally powerle"
in the matter. You may take it from me that
if the Germans beat US in this war they viii
skin US alive. And if we beat the Germans
we shall skin them alive. and We cannot help
doing it. No amount of agitation by Social
lists pacifsts, or any one else will prevent Us
taking the fullest measur. Of our victory. II
we are not going to DO so, what are We fight
ing for?
"You don't succeed in making an end o.
war By disliking il. Being in the war, you
have got to fight it out. But again, ask, is
it worth while going TO Stockholm 70 tel
them that? II you have any other thing 20
say TO the Germans when you go 20 STOCK
+ ohm, what is it?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
The Old Hen
From The Charlotte observe.

from The Charlotte ObS"rrsrD
All the country seems TO have grudge
against the old hen just now. Householders
are abusing her because she has quit laying
and has brought about a condition Of 40
cents-a-d dozen wholesale egg market, and deal
crs do not want to buy her because public
appetite is running 20 younger and tenderer
meat. The fact is that this is what the farm
orS call the moultinG season for the old hen,
and she is taking her annual rest, regardless
Of the effect of the price on eggs. And the
old hen is going to suffer the consequences.
In cases where the home merchants will not
buy her she is shipped TO other markets, and
the whole country is being depleted Of its
supply of hens. This condition forecasts a
continued shortage IN the egg market and
the day may be near at hand when the public
will be glad to get eggs at 80 cents dozen.
This is a situation which cannot be charged
TO the camp, because II prevails in all parts
of the country and is a practical illustration
OF the workings-of the favorite law of supply
and demand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Brooklyn, Aug. q, 1917.
The Inalienable Right of Disagreement

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The writer of "Sufragists and Paci-
fists" in to-day's Tribune seems TO be both
shocked and surprised that you could advo-
cate woman's suffrage and yet be capable of
the editorial Enemies Within" Now that
outrage has been granted in so many states,
and the feeling is that it is only a matter of
time before all states will give it, it seems
incredible that any one could expect that
among the millions OF women voters there
would be none who advocate peace, none who
either sympathize or aid White House pickets,
and that there should be found among them
a Crystal Eastman.
Woman suffrage is not huge machine
which thrusts individuals in at one end and
grinds out uniform type at the other, like
so many neat little sausages. There are
many types of women among sufragsts, and
one OF their great privileges is that they
may disagree on dozen important themes,
but they are now and always united in their
efforts to establish universal suffrage and to
promote the welfare of their sex.
OLIVE MURRAY HINKLE.
New York, Aug. 30, 1917.