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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Mrs velie c. Suggs. of Little Rock
will be here Monday to spend Thanks.
giving with her mother. Mrs. c. NJ
Campbell. 709 North Washington street
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Miss Vera Sharp will spend Thanks.
giving at Ada.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Mrs A. w Wallenstein. S2l S street
southwest. has as her guests her moth
er. Mrs. A. Moses. her sister, Mrs. Wal
ter Metzler and Mrs. Al Mangold, all
OF Dallas. Texas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Mrs. Lewis II. Rocket. who has been
visiting her mother. Mrs. II. G.. Stong
$50 McLish avenue. left yesterday for
Wilburton. Okla. Mr.. and Mrs. Rocket
will live on a farm near Wilburton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Miss Eleanor McPheters will spend
Thanksgiving at Edmond
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Miss Minnie Stong. who is teaching
at Dundee this year. is home for Sun.
day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Continued on page 81
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Mr.. and Mrs. u. n. Waling their
daughters, Gladys and Martha Lee. and
son, Charlie. have returned from a mo-
tor trip to Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25
Big Reduction on Hats

You can find many ualuoble as Uell
as attractive Christmas Gifts here for
your friends.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Mrs. G.. l.. Gano will have as her
dinner guests on Thanksgiving day.
Sergeant Gordon Gano. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Tucker and family.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

The Washington Forty.Two club will
meet Thursday with Mrs. b. II. Cor
lew, 400 North Washington street.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Hinkle are home
from Tuskahoma, Okla. where they
spent the week with Mr.. and Mrs ID,
ii. Morgan.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

The Lions club has postponed its reg.
ular meeting one week on account of
Thanksgiving. The next meeting will
be held "Wednesday night December s.,
when .he club will have an evening
dinner wita the wives OF the members
as guests.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Miss Bess Cowen is spending Sunday
In Ft. Worth.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25

Miss Hettie Lee Davenport is spend
ing the week end in sulphur.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-25
Great Dress Sale

Fur-trimmed Velvet, Serge
Satin and Georgette Crepe
dresses; also smart combinations
of Satin, Serge, Georgette Crepe
and Velvet. These are beautiful
ly trimmed in buttons, embroid-
cry and fur. Regular price $500
to $85.00-less one-third.
Many party and dinner frocks,
most attractive and appealing
all at reduced price. Be sure and
see these dresses before you get
your Thanksgiving gown.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

A MAN came into the shop the
other day ond asked us for a dona-
ton to one of the 100000 causes
the common people assume 1t their
prerogative to ask during the term
of the war. Upon being refused he
stated that it was up to every per-
son to do his bit" After the afore-
said prominent citizen had departed
in quest of other victims, we took
down our files and little examination
disclosed that our "bit" consisted Of
5000 worth of space for the Red
Cross, $36 for the churches; 1921 for
the last Liberty Loan publicity; 1888
for the band and civic societies. and
various sums reaching in the hun
dreds Of dollars for other purposes.
Probably other papers in the terri
tory who are accused Of being unpat-
riotic because they do not publish ev-
everything handed them are undergo
ing the same experiences. If 80 1t
might be wise to let the public know
that the editors bit would knock a
large hole in a merchants stock II
he had to dish out his wares as law
ishly and gratuitously.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

is that since the United States went
to war with Germany total OF l.
100000 men have volunteered for
service-certainly an army OF no in
considerable proportions. About one
third of these have been rejected,
chiefly on the grounds Of physical
disability, but this does not alter the
fact that the others came forward
and offered their services. The manner
in which the army and navy standards
have worked in rejecting volunteers
has been shown in the recent select
i've CONSUMPTION examinations, and IL
every man who applied for enlistment
had been accepted we should now
have an army and navy-including
the men in the service when war
broke out--of about 1850, 900.
Had the president called for vol
unteers for war with Germany the
response would have been still better.
1t was decided, however, to enact
elective CONSUMPTION law, which would
be fair to all men, and consequently
thousands who would have volunteer
ed in response to summons, will
await their call under the se1ective
draft. That their number would have
eceeded by far the number of men
who have enlisted to avoid the draft
goes without saving.
1t is true that Americans adhere
to the principle of defensive warfare
and for that reason hesitate to vol
unteer for service on a foreign con-
tinent. However, offensive action is
necessary in a defensive war, and the
moral certainty that we must fight
Germany now or later-with the ad-
vantage entirely on our side now
convince the nation of the necessity
of carrying the wor abroad.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

THEODORE Roosevelt is swinging
around on the steenth lap of another
lecture circuit following the last cir
cult following the one before that.
While no one denies the Coloners
patriotism it is of the same calibre of
the devotion expressed by woman
who swats her husband with a roll
ing pin. The Colonel, can go into
perfect peacable community and in
six hours have each and divers of its
inhabitants at each others threats.
Not on account of what he says, but
the way he says 1t. A perusal OF one
of the Colonel's speeches would cause
the man who believed in him to think
the country was going to the demni-
ton bow vows and himself and his
family the only patriots in the coun-
try. An hour in his company would
cause the average man to suspicion
his cook of pro-Germanism and to
look for pretzels in out-of-the-way
places. But it is only the froth of
frenzy spun into threads when you
take it in sober thought, and really
does more harm than good on account
of it's radicalness. One private in the
ranks is worth boxcar full of Roose-
velts in speech-in action Roosevelt
is a host in himself
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1917
SOME STARTLING FIGURES

The official announcement that the
United States now has more than g.
5000 tons of shipping engaged in
the foreign trade and the shipping so
engaged a year from now will be in
exces of 100000 tons is startling
revelation. The figures mean an Am
erican gain of approximately 1,5O0,-
900 tons in the last year, and within
year we will have more tonnage en-
gagged in foreign trade than any other
country in the world unless we class
the British Empire, including Canada,
Australia, India and other colonial
possessions and Great Britain and
Ireland, as one country and the trade
between the various members as for
eign.
These figures mean that the total
American shipping tonnage, includ-
ing domestic, is now more than TO-
100000, or more than four time that
of any other country than Great Brit
ain. They mean that the total Ameri-
can tonnage, foreign and dometic, in
a year from now will be 100000
or more. and within IS per cent of
the total of Great Britain and all of
her colonies at their highest point.
Before the Civil War, when Buch-
anan was President, the shipping of
the world was divided into about
three different parasitic United
States having a little more than one
third and the remainder of the world
a little less than one-third. At the
rate thing are going now the United
States will soon take first place again,
with Great Britain and the rest of
the world dividing the remainder
about equally between them, making
the relative situation about as 1t was
at the outbreak of the American Civil
War.
While information that the United
States was making tremendous for
ward strides in shipbuilding was gen
eral, few people realized that the pace
was as rapid as the official announce
ment of the government discloses.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

WHEN you hear man rail at re-
ligion you would like to have his cere-
bellum under a microscope for a SCI
entific examination as to his sanity.
Religion is like the measles, every
man necessarily may not have exper-
fenced it, but 1t is no sign that it is
not a condition. The world is not
governing itself nor did the splendid
mechanism OF the human body be an
accident. The more science delves in
to the mysteries of life the more won
derful appear the workings Of the su-
preme power which governs our des-
TIMES. There is no thing as chance.
Everything is worked out to the min
utest detail, and the functioning OF
the plane and the life teeming upon
it is a wonderful thing to study.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03
AMERICAS VOLUNTEER ARMY

German sympathizers in the United
States, taking their cue from Berlin,
which belittles Americas part in the
war, point to the circumstance of the
selective draft as evidence that the
war is not popular with the people.
On the contrary, the fact Is that al
though the president and congress
never have called for volunteers, ex-
to raise the army and navy to new
standards, 1t now has armed forces
totalling $4,000, all of whom are
voluntary recruits.
Yet this figure does not tell the
whole story by any means. The truth
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03
Feed Wheat to Hogs

OKLAHOMA CITY Oct. 3.-Farm-
ers in the northwestern part of this
state are feeding their wheat to their
hogs and horses rather than sell it
at the maximum price fixed by the
government. They are dissatisfied be-
cause prices for commodities which
they use have not been fixed by the
controller.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03
BIG HILL LINERS NEARLY
READY TO GO IN SERVICE.

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. ,3.-The
two big passenger steamships Great
Northern and Northern Pacific, re-
Gently Communicated by the govern
ment for war purpoes, were turned in
to the navy yard at Bremerton, Mon
day, and will be fitted up for the
transport service.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

Lieut.. Faust brought his car In
from Workman yesterday. He reports
the trail passable, and says that at
ter it is surfaced it will be In good
condition.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

Otis Osgood is recent arrival In
in Valdez from the trail, where he
has been at work this summer.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

Dad" Gleason, who has been work
ing for the Alaska road commission
this summer. arrived in town yester-
day and will winter here.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

AN exchange asks: what will stop
this war;" We dunno. but we have
a bunch that it will take more than
talk.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

The publisher of a weekly paper
in Mounds, Ills, advertises for man
to take entire charge of his paper
while he goes to war. adding 1.-The
Job may be permanent"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03
Notice of Sale

Special sale on jewelry at the VAL
DEE Drug. Everything half price. tt
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

Charles Eby was a recent arrival
in town from the trail, where he has
been at work the past summer foi
the road commission.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03
Ice-lce-Ico

Delivered to all parts Of the town.
1c. per pound. Love-Whitley Co. tt
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

M. Morey arrived in Valdez yester
day after spending the summer OF
the trail with the road commission
crew.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03
HOW SHALL We
PAYFdk the WAR?
4 Constructive Criticism on tho
House Revenue Bill.
LOANS BETTER THAN TAXES

Five Reasons Why Excessive Taxes at
the Outset Of War Are Disadvantage
ous-Great Britain Example Worthy
Of Emulation-How the Taxes Should
Be Apportioned.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-03

Complete line Of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. II
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31
LOCAL BOY SCOUTS
TO CAMP IN OzARKS
Fourteen Will Go on Ten
Days Trip, Beginning
August IA.
TO HIKE y MILES
Prof. o. R. johnson, Scout.
master, to Be in Charge
of Party.

About fourteen Boy Scouts of Co
lumbia will go to the Ozarks for a
ten days camping trip August IA.
The party will be in charge of o. r.
Johnson, scout commissioner. The
following boys are assured of going:
Clarence Moss, Joe Latshaw, COrwin
Edwards, Don Faurot, Abner Swim,
Cliff Wiggans, Vernon Trowbridge,
Raymond Upton, Harold Green, Aus
tin Toalson, Jonas Viles, Harlan Hib-
bard. Tom Everley. Vernus Pyle. Sew
eral more boys may be added to the
list
The party will go by train to Bag
nell and from there hike twenty-five
miles to Linn Creek. They will go
down the creek in boats to Hahatonka,
a summer resort. The camp will be
made several miles up the creek. Each
boy will take along his own equip
ment and SO to pay expenses.
This is. the first trip of its kind
and it will be made an annual affair.
1t is a reward for those boys who dill
igently performed their duties as Boy
Scouts. Last spring they put in a
garden on the farm of President A.
Ross Hill. About one-third of an
acre was put in navy beans, one-half
an acre in soybeans and half an acre
in sweet potatoes. The dry weather
has affected the yield on a part of
the garden. The soybeans are good,
but the navy beans and the sweet po-
tatoes will yield only part of a crop.
Half Of the money left above expenses
will be divided among the boys ac-
cording to the time put in by each.
The other half will be put into the
fund for the building of a cabin on
Perche Creek.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

who lives about two miles north OF
Columbia, returned to Chicago this
afternoon.
Mrs. W. Eagan was called to Mexi-
CO, Mo-, today on account of the Sc
rious illness of an aunt.
Miss Mary Nauser, who has been
visiting Miss T. H. Brink, left for her
home at Yonkers today.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Black of Salina,
Kan, who have been visiting Mrs. W.
R. Finley, 1411 Bass avenue, left for
their home today.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Wilson of Stephens
passed through Columbia today on
their way to Excelsior Springs.
Mrs. T. E. Wisdom, sos Sanford
place, left today for Maryville to visit
friends.
Mrs. NJ. E. Fieldmeyer left today to
visit relatives at Hallsville.
Mrs. G. Miller and Mrs. ]. Cannon
were called to Kirksville today on ac-
count of the illness of their father.
Miss Sophia Couch of Knobnoster
left yesterday for her home because of
illness of relatives.
II. White, a student in the School
of Journalism last year, is on the
Kansas City Post this summer.
Miss Mabel Ladd of Knox City came
to Columbia today to take the Civil
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31
CITY AND CAMPUS

Miss Elsie Harding went to Browns
this afternoon to visit her father.
W. l.. McCashey and his mother
went to Montgomery City this after
noon.
L. F. Ziegler of Chicago, who has
been here on business, went to st.
Louis this afternoon.
Mrs. H. H. Perkins, who was here
today shopping, returned to her home
in Browns this afternoon.
H. B. Barks, who has been visiting
Dean Walter Williams, returned to
his home in Mexico this afternoon.
Miss lola Staraube, who has been
visiting her sister, Altha, student in
the Summer Session of the University,
returned to her home in Wellsville
this afternoon.
Miss Sarah Morris, who has been
visiting her brother. John Morris, us
Lyons street, returned to her home in
Centralia this afternoon.
Mrs. Carl and Mrs. Tony Henninger
left this afternoon to visit their sis
ter-in-law, Mrs Harry Schubert in st.
Louis.
]. f. Hoffman, who has been visit
ing his mother, Mrs. J. T. Hoffman,
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

River district, of st. Francois County,
which resulted in the expulsion OF
thousands of foreign miners, resulted
in the district being placed virtually
under martial law. The militia units,
will soon be removed and mine-own-
ers. it is believed, fear fresh outbreaks
with consequent tie-ups, properly
damage and loss. The guardsmen' IL
present war department plans are car
ried out, will be called to mobillza-
ton places August 5.
The Adjutant General has received
affidavits from Irwin B. Connell, ana
the secretary of the Committee on
Lead of the Advisory Board OF the
Council of National Defense, in which
the latter states that his company is
under contract to supply the govern
ment with 3,31S tons of lead monthly.
The price of this lead, delivered In
East st. Louis, is eight cents pound.
The st. Joseph Lead Company states
that it has government contracts for
/ 1856 tons of pig lead for delivered at
the navy yard at Norfolk, Va; 800
tons for shrapnel shells by the st.
Louis Smelling and Refining Com
pany: 300 tons by the Desloge Consoli-
dated Lead Company and $50 tons by
the Federal Lead Company All con-
tracts are for the army and navy.
The Adjutant General is forwarding
all this information to the War De-
partment without comment. He be-
lieves that all the companies are pre-
pairing to ask government protection
because they are supplying war neces-
sites.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Service examinations at the Post Of
fee.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Stice left today
for Kansas City.
Miss Mary Elliff, who is attending
school at Madison, Wis, will spend the
rest of the summer in New York City
visiting an aunt.
Victor B. Jones, secretary of the
Commercial Club, was examined yes
terday in Sedalia for the officers re-
serve training camp.
E. Meisberger of the Kansas City
Post has been in Columbia few days
enroute to Fort Sill, Okla.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31
Mrs. Sallie ii. Alexander Is Dead,

Mrs. Sallie Hickman Alexander, a
former resident of Columbia, died at
her home in San Jose, Cal, July 6.
She was the daughter of the late
James Hickman, a former citizen of
Boone County. Mrs. Alexander is
survived by two children. She was
about 40 years old.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Boone County Woman, 81, Is Dead.
Mrs. Peter E. Smith died at Hot
Springs, Ark, July %. She was the
widow of the late Peter E. Smith,
who was a former resident of Boone
County. Mrs. Smith was S4 years old.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31
W. ]. Wright to Lecture Tomorrow

W. ]. Wright, supervisor of voca-
tional training in the Kansas City
schools, will give an illustrated lee
ture at 7:3O o'clock tomorrow night in
the University Auditorium.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Prof. and Mrs. J. d. Elliff and Prof.
and Mrs. George Twiss will give an
informal porch party tonight at the
home of Professor Elliff for the
classes in the department of sec
ondary education. The porches will
be decorated in garden flowers and
fruit punrh will be served.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Miss Martha Dearing, Miss Mary
Hatcher and Miss Carolyn Worrell,
who have been guests of Miss Mildred
Pearl, have returned to their homes
in Mexico.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31
McBaine Couple to Marry.

Edwin S. Martin and Miss Beulah
NJ. Samuel, both of McBaine, obtained
a marriage license this morning. They
will be married tomorrow.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Fred c. Wright, who was graduated
from the University in 1916, is a
guest at the Alpha Tau Omega house
Mr.. Wright is employed in the chem
istry department of Sears-Roebuck in
Chicago.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31
MISSOURI FURNISHES U. s. LEAD
Companies File Affidavits Presumably
to Insure Protection.

By United Press
JEFFERSON CITY, July 31.-There
is much speculation here today on the
motive behind filing of affidavits by
lead mining companies from 6. CT. Fran
co.'s, and other counties, declaring the
companies are supplying lead to the
government for war purposes. Adult
ant General McCord believes the COM
panies expect, by this means, to Sc
cure Federal protection from strikers
and tie-ups or damage to property.
The recent race-rioting in the Flat
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Mrs. Turner McBaine and Miss De-
borah McBaine and Mr.. and Mrs. J..
NJ. Kemper will leave today for a mo-
tor trip to Grand Haven, Mich.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Mrs. Jack Bewick and Mrs. R. E.
Lucas gave a fish dinner Sunday
night at the home of Mrs. Lucas for
fifteen guests.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

The engagement of Miss Laura
Cochran and William Brewer Whitlow
of Fulton was announced at a lunch
con at Boonville last week. Mr..
Whitlow was a student in the School
of Law for the last two years. He is
director of athletics at Westminster
College at Fulton and is a member of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Mrs. Louis Selbert, who is conduct
ing a class in home nursing, will en-
tertain the members Saturday evening
at her home on Locust street.
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

How can you ask citizen of the
United States, in the present crisis,
to pledge his moral support and his
money in order to enable you to work
for the repeal of the conscriptiOn
laws?' Such a request is but little
short of an insult. 1t is an insult
when addressed to naturalized citi-
zen. You, being citizens of this
country merely by the accident of
birth. may not understand this.
81 am thoroughly familiar with the
present organization of the German
social body, and with its elimination
the present German government. |
am much more familiar with it than
any of the members of your commit
tee. have lived in Germany twenty
five years. l was born there / was
educated there. Not in the sense in
which some of the members of your
committee were educated there, who
visited a German university for
year or two. l spent nineteen years
of my life in German educational in
stitutiOns from the kindergarten to
the research laboratory.
Il confess that at the beginning
of this war my sympathies were di-
vided. The German nation had many
justifiable complaints against its
neighbOrs. But whatever wrongs the
German nation may have suffered in
the past from other nations, the Ger
man government during this war has
had more than one opportunity to
have them set right and to terminate
the war. Its actions show that world
domination, not justice, is its aim. l
sympathize with the German people,
but not with their government. You,
however, act as voluntary agents for
the German government. Perhaps
you would appreciate your American
citizenship better if, like me, you had
been born and brought up in Germany.
Germany Would Rule Here.
IF Germany wins this war fifty
years hence its government will rule
the American people. l do not want
my American children to be put under
this yoke which | escaped by coming
TO America. My hope is that the Ger
man government will be overthrown
and that the German nation. my rela-
uves and friends, will enter an inter-
national organization for peace and
justice. But the German government.
this fearful danger to our future. can
be overthrown only by raising armies.
not by sitting around the council ta-
Bile of the Peoples Council of Amer
lea and working for the repeal of the
conscription laws
1T is pitiful to see such a propa-
ganda as yours led by an American /
university president, a distinguished |
scientist, who evidently cares nothing
for the freedom of our children. 1t is
pitiful to see even whole universities
in trouble through the shortsighted
activities of their professors in favor
OF the enemy. Please do not count on
me for bringing this disrepute upon
the University of Missouri, the irsti-
tuition to which l belong"
The daily Missourian., 1917-07-31

Miss Agnes Heibel entertained two
tables at 500 last night at her home
on Walnut street