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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17
THE v

There are eleven millions of the southern Slavs who
are now so frequently mentioned in the papers. Six mil
lion of them are Serbians, although only four million OF
them live in Serbia proper. There are three and a half mil
lion of Croatians and another million and a half OF SLOW
enes. These various groups are referred to when there
is mention of a southern Slavic territory after the present
war. The recreation of these elements into one nation is
one of the problems that remains to be solved in the Balk-
ans. The allies are firmly committed to at least a part of
this realization. They have made it plain that they will
not and cannot desert Serbia. Serbia expected allied aid,
but it was not possible to render it before the disruption
of that little country came. Serbia was so far from any
allied base that could be established that an undertaking
to relieve them would have been extremely hazardous es-
pecially after the failure in Galipoi and the disaffection
among the Greeks.
The aspiration of these southern Slavs had much to
do with the creation of the war conditions. Austria was
bound to Illustrate such amalgamation of racial elements
and Germany encouraged Austria to such opposition for a
southern Slav nation would have blocked her corridor to
the Asatic coast. To crush Serbia was the initial work
of d~issipating these gathering forces, and it was the at
tempt to crush Serbia that started the Wharf.-The assassina-
ton of the Austrian crown prince was merely the excuse
and the occasion for w%reaking destruction on Serbia.
And as the southern S1avs were in at the beginning of
this war, SO they will be in at the ending of it. If Ger
many wins they will be crushed. If the allies win they
will be nationally resurrected.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17
NEUTRALS AND THE UNITED STATES

President Wilson's note OF invitation to the other
neutral nations of the world to make common cause with
the United States is receiving much attention from foreign
governments. Its reception from the countries that have
been heard from since its PRONUNCIATION IS indicative OF
approval, if not of actual cooperation. Neutral nations
everywhere are in the same pred1cament as to the war.
Beligerents have shown no intent to discriminate be-
tween them, but have indifferently ignored the rights of
non-combatants in the application of their own rules. The
same ruthlessness at sea applies to one and all. Submis-
sion or resistance has been the choice open for months,
and is still the only course.
The earnest desire of all nations not now involved
in the conflict to avoid being sucked into the vortex is
manifest in many ways, but in none SO strongly as in the
patience with which unwarranted interference with com
merce has been supported. Whether the action of the
United States in breaking off diplomatic relations with
Germany is or is not followed by other neutrals, they will
share our beneficial results, and it may eventually produce
a change of policy for all. At any rate, it is encouraging
to know that the course of our government strikes a sym
pathetic chord with all the neutral nations so far heard
from.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17
THE MODERN SAMSON

Germany has defied the world. She has staked every
thing in a desperate and ruthless venture. If she wins she
will be master of the world, and if she loses in this under
taking she loses all, including the respect of mankind. No
nation, whether belligerent or neutral, can look up to the
promulgator of such a doctrine of warfare. The civilized
world is not yet willing to accept the dictum that all is
fair IN war, nor that necessity knows no law. If Germany
wins she will be feared, dreaded and all nations will stand
armed against her, and if she loses she will be despised for
having made SO dire a threat.
Germany is the Samson among the nations. Her en-
emies have tied her with withes, with new ropes, and they
have shorn her of men and resources, but "howbeit the
hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.'
Time and again Germany has broken through the meshes,
the bands of steel. AS Del1as pressed her giant daily with
words until his soul was vexed and he confessed his
strength to her, so the allies have pressed Germany daily
with their swords and their ships until her soul is vexed
also and she has confessed that her final strength is in her
submarines, and these she will use ruthlessly. And as
Samson called upon the tribal Lord, so Germany is calling
upon her tribal God: "Remember me, I pray thee, and
strengthen me, pray thee, only this once, O God, that I
may be at once avenged of the Philistines, who beset' me
round and about Her hands are upon the middle pillars
upon which the security of the world rests and she will
pull them down. $50 the dead which he slew at his death
were more than they which ne slew in his life"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17
SPEEDING UP DEFENSE PLANS

One of the impressive developments incident to the
break with Germany is the speeding up of defense plans.
Congress is taking the view of the situation that comes
with better late than never resolves, and is making lib
eral provision for purchases that must be made. The
navy department has trotted out some plans that may as
tonish the public, but showing that lessons of the war
have not all been lost and is arranging to guard the har-
bors of the country securely. In the war department
similar activity is noted, the army especially proht1ng by
its experience of last summer. Orders for the immediate
purchase of supplies have been issued, and, should the
call for troops come, the quartermasters department will
be much nearer ready than it was a year ago. OF course,
this speed is commendable and rests on wisdom under con-
ditions, but it is also a belated acknowledgment of the
soundness of advice given many months ago and disdain-
ed by the wiseacres who could see no good reason why
the United States should make any preparation in expect
ancy of trouble. 1t is just another demonstration of the
superiority of the hindsight over the foresight.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17
$4,000 AMERICANS IN BRITISH ARMY

A staff correspondent of the Associated Press with
the British army in France estimates that $4,000 Ameri-
cans have been or are now fighting with that army. Four
fifths of them have gained coveted posts in the army I'M
der General Haig, where the big things are being done.
Individually the Americans have ventured to the utter
most for the cause of another country. How many there
are with the French army is not stated, probably not so
many, although France naturally would draw more Amer
leans than England to its cause. The preponderance in
the British army of the venturesome Americans can be
accounted for by the Canadian situation. Instead of going
to France these Americans go across the line and enlist
in the Canadian regiments.
There are Americans in all the foreign armies. al
though fewer in the German and Austrian, and this for
two reasons first, those countries have never made a pop
ular appeal to the American imagination for the reason
that their cause seems entirely foreign to us, and second,
foreigners are not fitted into those armies as readily. The
German armies are closed organizations, and only those
fitted in it who have been trained for it, it is so highly orr
ganized and directed. The average American would soon
find himself in a stage of revolt in that army. for he does
not take kindly to absolute authority over him-he likes
to talk back, even to the captain, and in the Teutonic
armies a captain can either slap or kick a private who talks
back.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

George Sunday, the son of Billy. is immortalizing
himself down east. He says that for his father he has de
clined an offer of 100000 from a moving picture con
Germ and the young man says he was compelled to decline
because it would be "commercializing Christ" We are
afraid the son is identifying his father too intimately with
the lowly Nazarene. Presumably the father would not
be asked to impersonate Christ for the movies. The NOV
les bargain makers would be more apt to ask him to i'm
personate some acrobat. There is somewhat striking re-
%semblance between Sunday and Douglas Fairbanks, both
men having the same smile and the same physical agility.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17
THE BEST DEFINITION OF PEACE

The finest statement of the finest peace ideal that has
been uttered came from Bonar Law, the British chancellor,
when he said:
Our aim is the san as President Wilson's. What he is
longing for W e re fighting for. Our sons and brothers are risk
the people of this country ire longing for peace; WI are pray
ing for peace-for a peace which will bring back to us in safe
ty those who ire fighting u battles, and a peace which will
mean that those who will no come back have not laid down their
lives in vain.
And those who are doing the fighting ought to be al
lowed to say when the time is most OppOrtune to negOti-
ate for such a peace-andt those who have been merely on
lockers should not attempt to harrass and hamper those
who are doing the fighting.
"Ihe end of the war is now in sight!' so the president
of the Russian duma is quoted. Well, it can't come too
soon to suit us!
Rest all fears of attack through Mexico! Carranza
promises to proclaim his neutrality. Only our good friend
Villa is yet to be heard from.
Mexican exiles to the number of 1900 have taken gas
ohne baths on the border. The operations scentses a for
ward leap into automobile society.
Before the next move is made, ought the president
not to find out first whether Henry Ford approves?
The rising cost of living lends effective first aid to
those who contend that we are living too high.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

Senator William Alden Smith contributes a postscript
to Manila bv history. He says Admiral Dewey told him
two weeks before he died that the German admiral, Won
Diederichs, came to Manila for the purpose of taking
possession of the Philippine islands in the name of Ger
MANY, which had agreed to buy them from Spain The
statement materially enlarges the scope OF the famous
"von Diedrichs incident' and appears to be an after
thought, if not an acknowledgment How the admiral
omitted from his account this phase OF the incident is open
to WOnderment.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

The passage by the French parliament of a bill sum
moning to the coors men once rejected as unfit clearly
maps out the drain of war on the man-power of the coun-
try. France is not alone in this regard. Germany has
taken similar action. Austria has reached the bottom of
its resources and Great Britain has been combed for men
physically fit to do their bit. These are conspicuous signs
pointing to an early glimpse of the last ditch.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17
WHERE DAYLIGHT SAVING" MAKES A HIT

One place has been found where the "daylight saw
ing plan makes a real hit-almost a home run. Presi-
dent Tenor of the National league pauses for a moment III
the business of arranging schedules, adjusting players
salaries and anticipating the threatened strike, and points
out that daylight saving will be a boon to the game. 1t
will blow the work whistle an hour earlier and naturally
the quitting whistle also an hour earlier. This will lber-
ate a lot of potential patrons in time to see the game start.
and President Tenor conjures up visions of bleachers
packed to overlooking with horny-handed sons of toll
now kept away from the ball parks by reason of a warning
schedule that does not let them off in season. Here is a
real boon and the move, thus promoted, will surely re-
ceive the enthusiastic support of all fans. And baseball
needs all the help it can get from any source at this par
ticular time.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

Foreign-born citizens may sympathize with the coun-
try of their nativity AGAINST other enemies, but it must be
"America first and "America Ueber Allies"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

Ger1nanvs proposed submarine postal service with
neutral countries may have to be abandoned because
there are no neutral countries left.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

When leaders of American industries promptly put
their Establishments at the service of the government,
there is no reason for doubling that Ill needed resources
would be quickly modified as necessities arise.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

After the offer to the government Of his plant for war
purposes how can Henry Ford again hope 80 travel on the
same peace ship with Brother" BRYAN?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

The league to enforce peace cannot complain of hav
ing no work cut out for it.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

The rising cost of living lends effective first aid to
those who contend that we are living too high.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

Before the next move is made. ought the president
not to find out first whether Henry Ford approves?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

Mexican exiles to the number of 1900 have taken gas
oline baths on the border. The operations scentses a for
ward leap into automobile society.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-05-04

FOR SALE-S0 acre farm, Clare
county; good room house; barn; out
buildings; school; telephone; bargain.
Write owner, G. V. RUBY. Clare,
Mich, r. 9.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-05-04

statesmen WANTED to solicit or.
ders for lubricsting oils, greases and
psints. Salary or Commission. Address
The HARVEY OIL Co., Cleveland, D.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
100000 GIVEN
TO WOMAN LIVING
I. II YEARS AS Wife
DupIiCity Of N, Y, Man Re-
veaIed When Girl Kills Self,

NEW YORK -- Mi" Wlhelmins
Meyer has received a verdic, for $lOO,'
M from Nirglnlus ST. Julian Mayo
wealthy auto radiator manufacturer, for
alleged breach OF promise to marry,
Miss Meyer lived with Mayo ~
New Haven. Conn, for II years, think.
INK she vas his lawful wife, until hi'
,lcnographcr Lillian Cook. killed her.
self in Mavch 1915 This revealed that
Two other women claimed him as huS'
band ames " Osborne, representing
Mayo, rested his case without putting a
witness ON the stand Osborne told the
luD that there was only one question at
argued that Miss Meyers condition
vas better than II she had never met
Mayo The manufacturer had given
her. he said, property which brought
her an incom. OF Sol a month, besides
$4,000 worth oi Jewels and other per.
sonal effects The Jury was out thirty
minutes
Miss Meyer ,aid she first met Mayo
IN the Raymond stree, Jail when she
went to see a Mr. Peterson, her iiancc
who was held for failure to pay almony
to iotmcr wilc Mayo she said was
there because ut a Judgment against his
firm She later broke her engagement
with Peterson
testimony showed tina, when IN,
tcnographer killed herself Mayo wa
living with the plaintiff IN New Haven
,hs, he also lived IN Brooklyn with
Lois Dudley by whom he had three
children, all understood to be Mayo'S
legal offspring, and that he had an
other wife, Mrs Florence Week, Mayo,
III Scranton, Pa by whom he had tNo
grown daughters She divorced him
when she learned ol his other connee.
tons
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
BATHS AND MASKS
IN SHAM BATTLES
Bluejackets Fight Under
Actual War Conditions.

GREAT LAKES, lIl-Nayy regula
,wns require that all men abou, TO par.
iNlpalr in naval battle ba,he and pu'
on ncw and clean clothing before enter
ing tho engagement, And here at the
nrcat Lakes naval training station
every hluclacket assigned to duty in
the weekly sham battle gets call an
hour before the battle is TO start 10 get
under the shower and SHIFT into clean
clolhrni' The future man-o' .warsman
usually demonstrates that he had a
shower that morning and that his
clothes are clean II makes no differ.
cucc. the order mus, be obeyed
In the official regulations the order
!, explained by the statement that II i!
10 prcvcn, infection through bits o'
clothing, torn by shot and shell, enter
ng wounds And so the precaution Is
taken Tor the Great Lakes sham battles
for the same reason, and also to accu'-
tom the recruit To actual battle condi-
tons So iaN aS possible
Another realistic feature Of the shan
battles is the wearing Of gas masks
In the battles the blucjackew hope to
engage in acreSs the water these mask
protect from gas clouds AT Grea
Lakes they protect the pseudo fighter
from alleged gas walls, which prove TO
be thin clouds OF smoke caused by
bursting blank huoms
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
GRAINS SLUMP ON
REPORTS OF PEACE
Free Selling by Commission
Houses Affects Corn

CHICAGO. o., - sharp ,roaka. In
be value of grain and proyispps re
suited today from peace lSIA Hrll from
uiN NcrtGiuty ns to the extent of price fa
ductiou- which miVht result from new
movements regarding food control PORK.
especially, VAS wcpk, and DIR Iuped moro
than $40 barrel Free selling which
characterized tho corn market came
chiefly from commission huuecg The
pcnC" gossip TINT acted MS bpnriEh fac
tor related In the main To u confcrcuc"
reported 10 he held soOu IN Sofia to con
cider what terms the Grutouic allies
would otter Opening prices. which
ranged from ~ to l'.c lower NJ 81 IN
to 81 IS, December, and 81 ~ to 81 iL
MnN. were followed 10y important lur.
thcr declines
oats gave way with corn. Duycru
were scarce. Urgent liquidation on the
part Of leading holders carried down pro.
visions The market lacked any aggrcS,
Sive support and prices tumhlcd rapidly
Is stOp-lOsS orders were uncovered Tn
loading pressure ,seemed to be chiefly
uufk
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
AUSTRIA BANKS
IN GOOD SHAPE
Never Before Were Deposits
Higher Than Nov 80

AMSTERDAM. Nethcrland, cor
rc,poudcucc) The banks OF Austria
Hungary arc IN very strong position
according tu the Vienna Correspondent
Of the Amsterdam IIandclsblad. "Neycr
before" he writes, were the deposits,
reserve or profits Of the banks Of the
dual monarchy higher than at present "
he writer asserts that the demands
for capital after the war. winch are cS.
rcCted tu be enormous. viii tlud the
Austria Hungary bank, IN a position lu
mcct them
There has also been a process ol CON.
'ollda,lou aud accumulation ui reserves
by industrial commercial anl~xgrilul,
tural organizations With a few cN-
rcptlOuS the Correspondent asserts. the
Nuttro hungarian business world is
everywhere marked h, reinforcement.
All financial institutions. writes tins
correspondent, have prulltcd from the
capital utilized III numerous new bust.
ucS, enterprise. This, he adds. !,
shown hy the generally increased d,yr.
dcndS paid by Austrian and Hungarian
banks IN l9lb. These banks invest in
enterprises which IN other ,ouutflr, arc
not normally exploited hy national
banks These undertaking, include the
development ot shipping, wmpau,c,
country estates, cafes. DhcAtcr, and
store, he increased earning, shown
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
HOLLAND USING
BRITISH VESSELS
Arrangement Is Result Of Ger
man Submarine Campaign,

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands One OF
the latest curious results II the sub.
marine campaign is that a Dutch ship.
ping company, the HOLLAND Steamboat
company. has decided 10 use British
ships ior i,s services to United King
dom ports, evidently under an arrange
men, with the British authorilc'
Several OF this company's boasts hayo
been sunk by submarines and DS there
is now regular convoy Of British
vessels 10 and from Holland, under a
destroyer escort, II IS considered too
much like deliberately oSlleins Ger
many> anarchists oi the sea 10 con
rluuc sending over single, unarmed
ship, under neutral flag
The superior safety Of the convoy
across the North Sea IS said to be a
matter of such general knowledge
among Dutch scamcu that there Will be
no trouble N obtaining Dutch crews
for the chartered BRUSH ships It tins
ufDNC, necessary
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
Boys Attempted to
Steal Handcar,
Alleges Officer

Eugene lockhart, 708 West poua
watomic avenue John Muraic, D..
West thlckaSaw avenue, Carl Butler
pV West Ioitaw atomic avenue. and ]
K. Osborn, 94S West Chiokasaw avenue,
we're turned over to the tr,laut officer
today by special officer OF the Frisco
road The four bows are alleged lo
have attempted TO steal hand car from
the yards oi the Frisco railroad
According to the special officer II
the Frisco the boys had already placed
the car on the track whepA saw them
They did not say at the police station
where they expected their joy-ridt -
down the railroad track would take
them
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
"TeU the East
About Oklahoma"
Says Hennessey


"Gct the tact, about the natural re-
sources OF Oklahoma to the east was
the suggestion OF Ben lIcnncsNey OF
NatonRa, in a speech before the Ad
club Al 1t, meeting at the Skiryiu at
noon today.
Hcnncsscy said Oklahoma j, not set
tied yet, and that in the agricultural
region, there is room for ten tunes
the farm population StrcsS,ng the oil,
zinc and lead, gypsum. salt and asphalt
deposits. Inc declared Oklahoma has
industrial resources to provide for a
marvellous growth
IIc predicted Oklahoma City will be
Of 100000 population IN the next ten
years
Rev. T. Il. Surface and Fred Bearly
outlined the work and needs OF the
Proyldent association. which is putting
ON a campaign for an SlSWO working
Iud
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-10
ALL CONTINENTS IN WAR.
Worlds Conflict Area Covers Prac.
tically the Entire Globe.

4 day when all the world should he
al war has often been the subject o'
sensational fiction, and those who pro
icsS to read the riddles oi prophecy
have Arcn rrognoS,l,a,cd II, but 20.
day ., IS practically an accomplished
iaD, !, /, surprising how little oi Nh,
world is me-, directly invoked N this
sluptndous conflict
SlN.scv,nlhs ui Europe IN the wa
atca Only Spain Switzerland S,andr
nayia. Denmark aud Holland are ont o'
Of. Vet Europe, the very center ol the
vas, uphcayal, is no, a, FULLY represent
rl, according tu us area, d, the ulhr'
continent, with thc one exception %,
South America, although II, the Nrgcu.
tine Joins Brd,il, even that vast CONT
urnt viii be almost entirely hcllgcrcW
With the exception ot Mc\iyo the
whole oi North America /, N the fight
ing, and II China he counted a bclllgc'
tnt less than one sixteenth of Asia ,s
At peace. Il Is a remarkable TACT that
with the exceptions oi Snar'Sh Morocr
and Aby,slnla, the whole OF Africa !,
m the war, whilst i, goes without say
nc that every square inch oi Australia
the smallest oi the continents. al
| though more than tWo.thirl, the size %.
Europe /, devoted to the cause of Dh.
allie,
In fact the situation remind, one u
| the STORY oi Mark IVAN who's,
father commanded HIM rp weed ,h,
/ flower hcl and who ,Nh 'cto,t.l .'ha
la seemed ease u, 'ilowrrlng q.
/ weed bed ior &, i, much easier &
mmc Nh, states a. p,N., Than thO
IWar..L.uu.u AuN,s.