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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
WASTE IN PANGASINAN.

Or course it's very reprehensible OF
the Filipinos in the province of Pangas
imam to waste annually enough cocoa
nut husks to make coir mats of a value
of S22,5OO'OOO, but the average Ameri.
can householder can't help regarding
the fact with a certain amount of com.
fort. Here he and his wife have been
gnawing the bones Of their pork chops
with reckless disregard of table man
ners, and eating the heel of the rye
loaf, when they never did like either
rye bread or the heel, and such like
things in order that through their econ
omy their allies might be fed.
And they are wearing the old clothes,
and putting new seet in old stockings
and everything
And there's kind of mental exhilara.
ton about those twenty-five million dol.
lars worth of coir mats the Ffipinos
don't make. II recalls the good old
days when we liked Woods Hutchinson
better than Harvey Wiley. because he
let us eat white bread If we wanted It.
and told us cheerfully to throw away
our meat fats and use butter instead
because 1t was better for us, young and
old. And the soap factories fattened
on the garbage cans, and that white
soap that floats was only eight cents
bar instead Of twelve.
II seems the careless natives-who.
alas, have no Hooverian mentor, guide
and friend, throw their cocoanut husks
into rivers and let them float into the
sea, or they burn them or let them rot
on the ground. And they ought to be
made into perfectly good doormats to
save parlor carpets (which are going up
in price at about the rate of a cent
yard minute)
In few schools in the Philippines the
children are learning how to make these
coir mats. II is hoped, says the divis-
ion industrial supervisor OF the prov.
ince, that this art and craft may be
made popular among the natives. Then
the natives will all be rich and there will
be plenty of doormats to save the par.
lor carpets and no one need feel guilty
over eating cocoanut cake. because by
that time the war will be over and
there1l be no waste in Pangasnan
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
Venison for All.

The Christian Herald: 1t is said tha,
only one person in a hundred in this
country has the opportunity or money
to buy venison as regular article az
food The meat is 30 delicious tina,
considerable attention is paid to the
serious proposition 20 raise deer and
elk as a food product for the masses.
II is claimed that venison can be raised
from herds OF animals in as large quan.
titles and as cheaply as beef. mutton
or pork, and the common people can
have as a staple that which now is
a forbidden luxury. The ordinary deer
have so much OF the wild In them that
1t is difficult, II not impossible. to do.
mesticate them. and yet they will thrive
and multiply in herds in a seml.wlld
state, and much OF the year in many
parts actually take care OF themselves
The elk is more easily domestlcated
and grows into meat rapidly, weighing
from 500 to 1000 pounds. Now. when
the food supply OF the world is so criti.
cal a problem, II is we'll to consider
venison, which, Il is said. can be raised
easily and prohtably.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
THE WICKED RETAILER.

Here's a new kind of "rapaclty" that
is grieving storage house people con.
siderably. Western warehousemen, who
thought to make a lot out of their poul-
try monopoly, have suddenly found that
they have overshot their mark Re
tailers are sitting tight waiting for
lower prices. And the warehouse peo.
pie who find themselves burdened with
3O,OOO,OOO pounds Of poultry in danger Of
spelling on their hands, groan and
call the retailers wicked because of
their rapacity.
The downtrodden consumer probably
has sufficient humor left to smile at
this turning of the tables against his
arch enemy With the retailer spelling
the storage mans game, there is hope
that the game may be called" on ac.
count of indisposition of one set Of
players. And for the consumer, the
game of the hoarder and speculator in
food cannot be called too soon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
DAILY ARDMOREITE
NEW DODGE OF THE PACIFISTS.
| (By the Vigilantes)

The pacifists are up to a new game.
The Peoples Council of America for
Democracy and Peace" is using Tor mis-.
using) the mails to send broadcast an
appeal to its members to write letters
to their local papers at the rate of one
day They are asking even more than
this. Here is what they write:
"Will you not start a little press.
group at once to read and clip the pa
pers, not negecting to cover the coun.
try newspapers? VIII you not remem.
Der that even if your letters do not al.
ways get in, what you write will help
mould future editorial opinion?"
1t happened that one of these letters
was sent to William English Walling.
Mr. Walling is not only socialist lead.
er. He is also an American and. what
is more, he is fighting American who
happens to love his country considera.
bly, more than he loves either peace or
the kaiser. Mr.. Walling, being a fight.
ing American and writer, is naturally
also a member of The Vigilantes. He
sent the letter Of the Peoples Council
for Democracy and Peace" to The Vlgi.
lantes recommending that not only edi.
tors and professional writer's but plain
common-or-garden letter-writers should
do their utmost to counteract the ma.
licious propaganda of this organization.
"As starting points for letter writer's
says Mr.. Walling, 81 suggest the fol.
lowing:
/. Washington, and not Petrograd
OF Berlin, is the capital of the United
States.
?. "A peace at the present moment
would be a German peace: premature
peace cannot be lasting there must be
no peace without justice to all peoples.
the Germans will continue the war az
long as possible rather than grant such
a peace.
3. Let the German government
state its terms The allies have already
done so and are pledged TO a still more
concrete statement shortly.
4. The campaign to repeal the con.
scription law is not honest; its main
purpose is to encourage resistance TO
the present war and put stumbling
blocks in the way of the nation. which
IS overwhelmingly behind the president
and the war"
The Vigilantes are recommending not
only to their members but to patriotic
men and women all over the country
that they take the opportunity Of serv.
ing their country which Mr.. Walling
suggests. To those who cannot go forti
and shoulder a gun no better means of
working for peace through victory
could be devised than to ask them TO sit
down for about fifteen minutes a day
and write to their local newspapers in
rotation over and over again.
The time has come for Americans TO
say where they stand.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
EYES THAT SEE NOT.

The old song says that THE night
hath a thousand eyes The eyes refer
to the stars in the sky, and the words
of the song fall short of the truth.
To say that the German emperor has
a thousand eyes would be Just as in.
adequate. A thousand, indeed, reckons
only small proportion Of the eyes that
are watching, ever watching. for the
kaiser
No system Of espionage has ever com.
pared with the German spy ststem I'm
magnitude and in organization. But
with all It's battling thoroughncss. anc
incomprehensible extent, there is a
vital point at which Il fails Those
watchful eyes look, but they do not see.
Those ears hear, but they do not under.
stand. Trained to get facts and figures,
they fail 20 catch ideas.
A Chicago man who entertained not
an angel but a German spy unawares,
says that a German spy can find out
anything but an idea. He can and
has. told the Kaiser everything about
Americans but their spirit. That he
fails to understand, that he cannot pre-.
diet nor estimate.
The German spy had it all fixed up
War wouldn't be declared Congress
would never vote for IL. Americans
were peace loving. lie had counted ON
certain facts and figures which he
thought he had carefully compiled. lie
knew everything but the thing which
can't be seen with the eyes OF the body.
which has to be sought with the eyes
Of the soul. He couldn't see that under.
meath the superficial Il should worry"
attitude OF the American was an in.
hctent love Of freedom. burning belief
In democracy an essential patriotism,
and an irresistible gift for putting
thing over, once II is undertaken.
In the end brains will beat Drawn.
and vision will master uninspired es.
pionage.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
WHY CONGRESS- DALLIEs.

Most everyone In this broad land is
sore on congress just about now. II
there IL anything It has left undone in
the way OF criminal waste OF time. pig.
headed obstruction OF needed legisla.
ton, absolute disregard for the exis.
encies OF the situation. II has been by
accident. The omission just hasn't oc.
CURED TO any member Hushl Don't
even think OF one-some member might
get the thought.wave and do IL yet.
But few of the people who are soro
stop TO ask why II is that congress acts
Just this way. There's a reason. And
II serves 'em dead right. For It's the
people who are now sore who elected
these precious Representatives" os
theirs-mrk the word
The people who are sore at their con.
gressmen are the people who were too
lazy to think last election time--or any
time. They elected them because they
made loud oratorlcal noises, not be.
cause they were men of proved abil.
ity.
II IN necessity In any country which
aims TO be well.governed that it's rul
ers be able Intelligent, educated, ski.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
PAGE THREE.

drow; Cassius L. Byrne. Ardmore; J. r..
Capshaw. Chattanooga: J. w. Chism.
Medford Bonnie A. Coley, Davidson.
Milton b. Cope, FL Reno; X. C. Cox.
Granite; Sydney A. Doyle. Maud; Joseph
II. English, Walters Gate Walter); j. NJ.
Ennis, Antlers; Hattie Gore, Nowata;
Andrew j. Grayson. Blanchard; d. NJ.
Hamlin. Newkirk; George H. Hancock,
Welch; Della Hickman. Spiro; Frank f.
King, Braman; j. F. Larecy, Hugo; Ira
b. McCrary. Dewey; Robert Burton
Mayfield, Blair; w. f. Parker, Davis;
Francis M. Reed Jr., Alton; N. L. San
ders, Broken Arrow; Bette Smythe.
NARROW; c. +. Steele, Sayre; Simon Peter
Treadwell. Ryan, and 7. I. Truscott,
Olustee.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
THE GATE OF HORN.
Peculiar Dream of Widow. Fulfillment
OF Which Is Supplied by Grandson.

New York Sun: Dreams, the ancients
held' came either from the gate Of ivory
or the gate Of horn. Those from the
gate OF horn were true presentiments.
Mrs. Roderick, the widow of a sea
captain, was past eighty. She had seen
the whole world. From the decks of
her husbands ships the earth had. as IL
were passed before her in review. The
better was she content in this year of
grace, 1917, to abide quietly at home in
line old house in the New England
village Of her birth.
She was not entirely alone. Both her
daughters were dead. but her sons wild.
ow lived with her. For the rest she had
no kith or kin except a granddaughter.
the wife OF an officer in the American
army and a grandson. since 1914 a
flier in France.
II was Of this son OF her son that
Mrs. Doderick thought most often.
On a summer afternoon. following a
shower the grandmother sat outdoors
looking with admiration at a rainbov
which described a great arc I'm the skv
II reminded her that her husband had
once told her a curious thing. a phe.
nomenon OF the sea. on going aloft.
he had said. while a rainbow was shin.
ing you might see its curve completed
m the sea.
That night Mrs Roderck had a
dream. They We're above the sea
though not In the rigging OF a ship A
splendid rainbow bending over the skv
was rounded to the full circle in the
waters beneath them Mrs. Roderick
was conscious OF something In the rain.
bow She tried TO tell her grandson.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

drove aimlessly about until O'Clock
yesterday morning when he took what
money the old man had and dumped
the body out by the roadside. Driving
little farther down the road, he then
poured kerosene over the big wagon
and burned it, with the old mans pos.
sessions, thereby destroying all means
of learning his identity.
the mules were then hitched to the
spring wagon and, after drive of a few
miles. Messed turned the team loose by
the roadside and walked to Nardin.
where he is said to have purchased a
draft for s107 and mailed il to his moth.
er in Camonche.
The weight upon his conscience. he
is said to have explained, forced him TO
tell the whole story when arrested.
The body of the murdered man is be.
ing held for Identification.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

ful' right-thinking men. In a democracy
the rulers are the voters. Congress ana
the president are the servants whom
they themselves have hired.
It's about time we looked to It that
all our voters should be so trained I'm
youth that they may be able intelligent,
educated, skillful and right-thinking
when 1t comes their time to rule. II
another wrong-headed and unintelligent
congress is not wanted, it's time You
ana and the man next door started
to use our heads to think with instead
OF employing them merely as handy
Knobs on which to hang our hats.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
EX TENEBRIS

BY Lee Wilson Dodd of the Vigilantes
Down, down, down,
Good ships and good men,
Down into the cold sea
Whence none rise again.
Down. deep down,
Flesh, bone and bread,
Wasted, wasted,
Dead among the deac
Wasted, wasted,
Bread and flesh and bone,
Mans need and mans seed
Bitterly sown.
Sown in blind fields
That bear not nor bloom,
Fate-sown, hate-sown,
Under hopes tomb
o God of wonder,
God of mans need,
Quicken the waste fields,
Quicken this seed
out Of darkness
Bring a new birth,
Yea, from the waste sea
Quicken the earth!
Mans seed and mans need
Sown-unto death,
Breathe Thou upon II
Quickening breath.
out from the barren
Fields Of the sea
Bring Thou a re-birth
Like a strong tree.
o God of wonder.
God of mans need.
Quicken the waste fields.
Quicken Thy seed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
SCISSORS AND PASTE

Tulsa World: Mrs. c. Davis OF Car
tersville Mo. is visiting Mrs. o C.
Short OF Bartlesvile We imagine be.
sides seeing they also did considerable
talking.
Guthrie Leader Can II be that the
food spectators are merely making il
easier for government ownership to
take charge
Drumright Derrick. The relchstag GO
ing on strike against the crown is lust
another evidence that Germany is wax.
ing up.
McAlester News-Capital: The mean.
est man has been discovered He Is the
fellow who spoils his wife's vacation by
writing her what good time he Is hav.
ing while she is away.
TT. Smith tArk) Southwest American:
Is Kerensky the world hero who. ac.
cording to Tolstoi's vision. was to come
out Of the north?
Gainesville Texas Register: The kias.
er and the new chancellor may talk OF
U.boats and victory all their life. but
the reichstag and the people want peace
by an overwhelming majority. and they
ere not alone In their wants either.
There are others. The world is full OF
them
Sapulpa Argus: Marrying for money
is indeed a hard labor. That is. Il re.
solves itself into labor In the long run.
Men who do so should join the labor
union.
Bartlesville Examiner: Definition OF
congress- An eddy in the whlrlpools
and rapids Of bustling war preparations
and activities.
Boston Transcript Does the appear.
ance OF the log cabin In the biographies
OF Peuograd politicians mean that new
Russia is drawing It's inspiration from
the middle west instead OF Oyster Bay.
Washington Star: Political pullers
are notified that In a war for liberty.
the principles OF the square deal will
be applied at the very outset. Exemp.
tion is to be matter OF fact and not
OF favor
Miami Record.Herald, Those most In.
terested In the coming state campaign
seem TO be the prospective candidates.
Philadelphia Press: II is not sur.
prise that the treasury department AT
Washington wants more room: people
have long wondered where II kept all
the money It got
Chicago News: Generally speaking.
the imperial chancellor is the imperial |
goat
New York Evening Mai.
Only two meatless days a week? Indeed |
that sounds like heaven,
To lot OF poor folks hereabout who |
have been having seven. ]
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
AGED MAN SLAIN
WITH AK; YOUTH
ALLEGED MURDERER
COmanche Boy Is Said to Have Con.
fessed to Details of DiabOlical
Crime.

Newkirk, Okla, July 2S.-An all-night
ride, on lonely country roads with the
body Of murdered man, and a day of
/ wild maneuvering in a vain effort TO
wash the blood from his hands. were
described in detail by Ordell Messed. "a
years old. Of Comanche, Okla, accord.
ing TO Kay county officers. who declare
that Messed has made complete con.
fession Of the killing Of an unidentified
man, whose body was found yesterday
three miles west Of Blackwell.
Officers at Blackwell and Newkirk
both were notified Immediately after
the body was found by the roadside.
shortly afterward a mule team, hitch.
ed to spring wagon. was found near
Nardin. report from a Nardin bank.
er that a young man had purchased
draft there yesterday for s107 start.
ed search for the man described by
the banker, with the result that Messed
was arrested yesterday afternoon in
Blackwell. The draft is said TO have
been sent to the boys mother at Com.
anche.
lie Confesses, Officers Allege.
On the way from Blackwell TO New.
Kirk according to County Attorney F.
1. Duvall and Sheriff w. l.. Haines and
again in Duvalls office, Messed made a
complete confession.
The story which Messed is said TO
have told officers is that. several davs
ago he was walking along a country
road in northern Oklahoma when he
overlook a man, perhaps 60 years old.
driving a mule team. A light spring
wagon was attached behind his lumber
wagon. When Missell asked him for
work, the man said he. too, was looking
for employment.
Messed accepted an invitation 10 ride
and the two continued together until
about O'Clock Thursday night when
Messed asked the man for enough mon.
ey to go TO Oklahoma City. The man
refused and Messed struck him over
the head with an ak. he is alleged TO
have confessed a second and third
blow followed. As the old man attempt.
ed to rise, Messed jumped on his body
and stabbed him in the face and neck
until he died.
Says He Burned Wagon.
As the story continues. Messed then
loaded the body into the wagon and
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
Montevideo IS Heavy Ioser

Amsterdam, July 2S.--A German sub
marine has sunk gigantic elevator
FOR the Montevideo, Uruguay, water
works, which was being towed from
Rotterdam to Montevideo by a Dutch
tug, which also was sunk.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
RICH PLATINUM ORE
FROM MINE NEAR MIXERS

Lawton. Okla, July 2S.-Samples of
ore taken from mine near Meers. Ok.
and sent to Joplin, Mo, to be assayed.
developed twenty-five ounces OF plati.
mum to the ton, according to message
received from Joplin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28
BENEFITED by ChamberhIn's Llnlmou,.

Last winter I used Chamberlain's
Liniment for rheumatic pains, stiffness
and soreness OF the knees, and can con.
seientiously say that never used any.
thing that did me so much good."-Ed.
ward Craft. Elba, N. Y. For sale by all
dealers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

Prohibition is playing an important
part IN the Democratic primary contest
IN Virginia, despite the fact that the
state voted dry by good majority
two years ago. This because of devei.
cpment OF unexpected strength by West.
moreland Davis, a local optionist his
opponents for the nomination. Lieut-
Gov. j. Taylor Ellyson and Attorney
John Garland Pollard both being "dry p"
and dividing the dry" vote. The wet"
support Is 10y no means the entire force
oehind Davis. He is known as one OF
the best friends the agricultural inter.
ests ever have had he has fought
their fights in the Virginia legislature
and the campaign cry that he is the
farmers candidate" is bringing 10 him
considerable strength in the rural com.
munities, The date Of the primary Is
August Z.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

Oklahoma POstmasters Confirmed.
Washington, July 27.-The following
Oklahoma postmasters have been con.
firmed: Wharton II. Breedlove. Mul.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

Now it is Representative Mann, Re.
publican house floor leader, who is de-
laying the passage OF the food control
bill. Ever since the declaration of war
Mann has shown that he is more a Re.
publican than a patriot.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

Governors Whitman of New York,
and Brumbaugh of Pennsylvania are
charged with selecting only Republicans
on appeal exemption boards.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

Tulsa World: Mrs. c. Davis OF Car
tersville, Mo, is visiting Mrs. o C
Short OF Bartlesville We imagine be
sides seeing they also did considerabi,
talking
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

Guthrie Leader Can It be that the
food spectators are merely making it
easier for government ownership to
take charge
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

Drumright Derrick: The reichstag GO
ing on strike against the crown is Just
another evidence that Germany is wax.
ing up.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-28

BY Lee Wilson Dodd of the vigilantes).
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22

Linen finished, durable
round rolled thread. Spe-
ciaily priced for Monday only
at 04c.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-22

Made of best grade MILDLY drill tight wrist
band and puff sleeve: yoke back and front;
inverted pocket. Some with emblem and ser
vice sleeve. Some have hand made stars
on collar. Sizes to ~. Third Floor
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-04-05
NPTIoN PICTURE TI1EAIRESSS92

the girl before she finds some one
who can understand fler and who can
make her understand. one must see
the World Film Corporations fea
ture in which Miss Martin is starred
as Lii Breval in "Tne Little MAIDEN =
oiselle"
THE Little Maemoiselle" will be
shown at Temple theater on tonight
only.
That Iili's rescuer IS A young Am
erican. true to type. only adds to the
interest Of the story, but the fact that
he is as badly "broke'as she is when
he rescues her. adds more han hu-
NOR. 1t furnishes the opportunity
for some quantity amusing situations
such as a charming young actress as
Miss Martin can make the most Of.
Miss Martin with her delicate bits OF
almost pathetic comedy and her pure
RirIish characterization OF the part of
Lii. carries the interesting story
through to a finish that gives a final
touch to a true-to-life tale of mod
ern love and adventure.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-04-05

When "Bluebird Day IS celebrat- e
ed at the Cosy theater on Thursday
and Friday. the attraction will be vi.
oIet Mesereau in "Susans Gentle
man. a photoplay rounded on Kate
Jordan's recent appearances in Blue
bird. including her recent adventure
in THE Boy Girl" will be prepared
to expect a display or clever acting by
this dainty star and there is advance
assurance that there. VIII be no dis
appointment. ''Susans Gentleman"
gives Miss Morereau a chance to show
her artistry in two entirely different
roles-a well-bred society girl. or
English breeding. and a tenement
house waif. who has been left to
bring herself up from an impover-
ished start. amid miserable surround.
ingz. There could be no wider va
riety of types. and Miss Mersereau -
declared to he entirely equal TO the
emergency That "S1san's Gentle
man. is Bluebird, Is extra assur-
ance Of splendid photogra ply and ex-
pertneA in production.