The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-29

coal bins will be filled next July.
And so, after all. that announcement
OF tremendous German offensive on
the western front, ACCOMPANIED by n
terrific bombardment all along the line.
including new longrange gas shells,
was merely BLUM. meant to scare the
allies. After three and "a half years OF
continual disillusionment, the Germans
still imagine that, like the old.fashioned
Chinese warriors, they can frighten the
enemy into submission by making hor.
rible faces, noises and smells.
Every wine cellar is more than ever
a gold mine. since congress adopted the
federal prohibition amendment. Every
bit of liquor bottled in bond" takes
on new value. Dealers are making the
most of the situation realizing that
they may never be able TO buy another
quart of spirituous liquor And de.
spite the prevalent prohibition senti.
ment, they seem 10 be finding a sur.
prisng number Of consumers willing to
pay their monopolistic prices
After all. the Turks must have some
redeeming features, compared with Ger.
Hfl
Jerusalem in good condition, with all its
historic and sacred structures intact and
undehled. And considering the tempta
tion. they carried off surprisingly little
loot. Just imagine the condition In
which the Germans would have left
Jerusalem!
Nobody would imagine there was any
lack OF coal TO look At the carloads
cluttering up all the railroads. Nei
ther would anybody imagine there was
any scarcity of cars, to see all the
sidings jammed with empties
Secretary Daniels remarks that many
citizens who go to Washington insist
ing that they want TO do their bit"
really want to take their bite" And
he might have added that whenever
some federal official sees through their
pretense and kicks them out, they 60
back home and tell all their friends
how badly things are being run at
Washington.
The baseball magnates go right ahead
planning for ball as usual" next sum
mer And most of the sporting writers
keep up the same old line of dope.
Nevertheless we shall not see baseball
as usual. The national sport next sum-
mer. and every summer thereafter until
further notice, is going to be fighting
Germans.
Trotzky. the New York East Slider
posing as foreign minister of Russia's
bolshevik government. has given he
allies two months TO join in a general
peace. And we'll give Mr.. Trotzky two
months of strutting in the spotlight
before he's swept away and forgotten.
"lf the United States does not win
the war" says former President Taft
"the only alternative will be to make
militarism the dominating policy of the
government" Let the gentle folk who
object to thorough-going war measures
put that fact in their pipe and smoke it.
Now that New York's great white
way is darkened two nights a week,
New Workers. are waking up to the fac:
that when you take the whisky. cigaret
and patent medicine signs out of Broad
way there's nothing left.
Liberty feet is the latest in the army
now. anu ttlrg VIII pt WiilHtt ittN' thC
kaiser will realize. when they get to
going over the top.
What has become of the railroad Of
fetal who answered and said the public
be ID
That American woman in Los Angeles
who plugged her German husband in
the shoulder with bullet when he
raised rough house because she
bought Liberty bond used drastic
means to end the rumpus. But we
have not yet found anybody who has
cried about il.
Just think, a freight shipment billed
TO Podunk. forty miles away. will not
now travel 269 miles. roundabout, and
take twenty-seven days on the road.
lust to allow the dog-in-the-manger rail-
road stockholders to pocket all of the
si.S0 cents actually required and s6.4O
unnecessary charges. Go to ii. Uncle
If YOU were walking over a mountain
or through valley and came upon
Young American prostrate and bleeding
from wounds. would you stop and give
him help? Sure. Then do so-join the
Red Cross.
What has become Of the little girl
who used TO sit on the doorstep AT