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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14
NEW NATIONAL
GUURD IN TEXAS
TO COMPRISE 10000 OFFICERS
AND MEN-FEDERAL GOVERN
MENT PAYS EXPENSE.

Austin. Texas. Nov. 1.-THE war de-
partment has authorized the raising
of a new national guard for Texas, il
Is announced by Adjutant General
James A. Harley. Adequate financial
aid will be given by the federal govern
ment. it is stated.
II is planned under the authority
granted by the war department to re-
cruit the new guard to a full division
which will comprise more than 10000
officers and men.
After organization the Texas nation
al guard will be subject to the call of
the president for service. but IL is
thought there Is a possibility that it
will be used in the state.
The adjutant general hopes to re-
cruit the new organization with men
outside Of the draft age. However.
men within that age viii be enlisted
bot they will be sabject 70 draft by the
war department.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14
THE DRY MAP.

Prohibition has grown so quietly but
so rapidly that most persons are aston
ished when first they look at a map of
the United States with the dry states
white and the wet ones black. II the
recount which has been asked in Ohio
puts the Buckeye state into the dry
territory. 1t will be the twenty eighth
dry state.
The northwest corner of the country
is all white. OF the seventeen west of
the line which runs almost due north
and south at the western boundaries
of Minnesota, Iowa. Missouri. Arkansas
and Louisiana, thirteen are dry. Cal.
ifornia and Nevada give each other
moist company in the southwest corner
Wyoming is a wet spot i'm an expanse
of dryness. and Texas still stays black.
Texas and Louisiana on the coast
and Kentucky on the upper edge are
the only black stretches left in an
otherwise solid south Of white. and
Kentucky is fighting hard.
There are two big black patches-one
containing MinS Sesota. Wisconsin. III
inois. Missouri and Kentucky and an.
other one in the east including Penn.
sylvania. Maryland. New Jersey. New
York and all Of New England ex-
cept Maine. II Ohio goes dry IL will
cut those groups sharply apart. II IT
goes wet II connects them.
There is hardly a doubt that the
federal prohibition amendment will be
voted upon by Congress this winter.
II the measure passes both houses Il
will be referred to the lexislatures of,
the states for ratification. II takes
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

an affirmative vote from two.thirds Of
the states to put Il through. This will
hardly be lacking. for several OF the
states now wet are wavering. and the
fact that the nation was voting would
line them up decidedly dry. There are
good many voters who vote wet on
state prohibition. believing II useless.
who would vote dry on the national
amendment. which they think would
be effective. And war influences are
constantly fighting on the dry side.
In two years the whole map may be
white.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14
IF GERMANY SWALLOWS
RUSSIA.

Russia seems to be on the verge OF
disintegration. The many races that
composed the empire, no longer held
together by military force and loyalty
to a car, are rapidly falling apart.
Since the revolution broke, no senti'
ment or interest has developed suf-
ficient to hold her 160,000,000 people
together.
Finland has demanded autonomy,
and had its demand granted is far
as the provisional government could
grant anything. Poland has been prom.
ised its freedom. Now what little nation
al authority Kerensky welded has van
ished, various other units are likely to
drop away. Ukrania, Lithuania. may
decide to set up their own government.
The two branches Of Cossacks may di-
vide. Caucasia may be lost, along with
such Asiatic provinces as Turkestan,
Astrakhan and KazaH Siberia the
largest geographical division Of the en-
pire. may decide not to remain a mere
tail for the Petrograd kite.
And the Russians don't care. 1t is
as IL the big majority of Americans
had no interest in our Union, and the
United States were breaking up into
its original elements.
That fact is at the bottom Of the pres
ent situation in Russia. If the Russians
cared for their country as a whole,
they would hang together and fight for
it But the typical Russian has no
interest in nationality. He is an ex.
treme provincial. He wants local in.
dependence, with some land and voice
in his town affairs; he is full of good
twin toward the rest of the world;
he doesn't want to bother that world,
and doesn't want il to bother him. He
is tired OF the war, tired of the blood.
shed toll and suffering. And he doesn't
believe in war anyhow He's a pacifist
by nature.
The present rule of the Bolsheviki
under Lenine and Trotzky doesn't mean
much, except as it serves to emphasize
the dont-care spirit of the Russian
masses. This faction only mustered Z
per cent of the vote in the recent elec.
ton. There is no dominating, organized
faction in Russia. 1t Is doubtful If
there can be. One group is on top to-
day. another may be on top tomorrow,
Herein is the real peril to Russia
and to the world. If it were not for
Germany. the situation need cause no
great alarm. There is no compelling
reason. in the nature of things, why the
Russian Empire should hold together
as one republic instead of dividing into
many republics. Mere size is no ad.
vantage to democracy. But there
stands imperial. ambitious Germany.
ravening with hunger for power and
territory, ready to swallow the pieces.
And il Russia does break up, and II
Germany does not have her military
power broken. 1t is easy to imagine a
Prussian Empire stretching from the
North Sea across two continents to the
Pacific.
For Russia herself IL she permits
that. we need have no great sympathy.
But what 1t would mean in menace to
and the whole world is so
evident that the mere mention of II
should suffice to steel our hearts to
greater efforts. II Germany could alb
sorb Russia, she could dominate the
world.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14
Fron1O Other
Editorial Pages
FRANCE Is NO PICNIC GROUND.

rRHNSE 10 w TINNAC O1OuND.
Cincinnati Times-Star: The war de.
partment last August issued orders de.
signed to keep out Of France the wives
and women relatives OF American army
officers. II was thought at the time
that the more or less gentle hint con.
veyed to the ladies IN the order would
put an end to the threatened exodus.
But II seems that wives and sweethearts,
sisters and mothers Of many officers
have gone on the principle that the
hint was Intended for others and not
for them. Scores have found their
way into France. greatly to the per-
plexity Of the American commander.
A new edict speaks In somewhat palmer
language. 1t states that any officer
countenancing disobedience OF the or.
der OF last August. will lose his field
command and will be returned prompt.
iy to his country where he can bask
as long as he pleases in feminine so.
ciety.
War is stern and deadly business.
There is no place near its borders for
women who are attracted thence
through mere sentiment, curiosity or
half understood instinct for adven.
ture. The wife who follows her hus.
band to France does him an injury
rather than a service. She interrupts
by her presence the ceaseless concen.
tration which the officer must put
upon his duties.
When the war first began both
France and Great Britain went through
a similar petticoat drive toward the bat.
tie fronts. 1t required some stern
measures and several inflictions OF dis.
cipline to teach the devoted ladies that
their place was at home. unless their
presence was in response to some Of
ficial order or In performance of Off.
cially recognized duty.
The well meaning, but perhaps over
jealous women of this country may
spare themselves some very embar.
RAISING moments and their officer.hus.
bands humiliating discipline by taking
to heart the plain warnings conveyed
in the war departments order.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14
PURIFYING" OUR PUBLIC LIFE

Says Morris Hillquitt. who pulled an
unusually large Socialist vote for mayor
Of New York; Socialism will hereafter
have to be reckoned with as a potent
factor in the public life OF this country,
and will be a purifying and salutary
factor in politics"
Perhaps so. in the case of genuine
Socialism, as embOdying certain useful
principles Of social cooperation: but Ger.
tainly neither purifying" nor "salut.
ary" IL Mr. Hilquitt means the organic.
ed disloyalty and blindness to demo.
cratic id0ls which characterized his
New York campaign.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

There were 100000 subscribers to
the Second Liberty Loan. That is by
far the largest number of people who
ever participated in any government
loan. And before we entered this war,
the number of bond-buyers in the coun.
try was about 100000. The rapidity
Of our hrifteducation, and the UNI
animity for our loyal support of the
government, as evidenced in this loan.
are equally remarkable.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14
MONUMENT TO MRS WILSON.

Rome. Ca. Nov. 14.-Simple cere-
monies accompanied the erection Of a
monument here over the grave Of Mrs
Wood Wilson. at Myrtle Hill cemetery.
The grave was covered with floral
tributes from the women and children
OF Rome.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Boston almost slipped into the Repub-
lican column at the recent election. The
Democratic majority was only 3.797 as
against 1866 In 1916.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

FL Reno Democrat: Some men are
born fools, others go crazy, and then
there are those who rear back in their
flivvers and try to beat a lightning ex-
press train to the crossing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

OF the twelve states In which women
have full suffrage eight are In the
dry column and four are not. Those
which are not dry are New York. Cali
fornia, Wyoming and Nevada.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14
Scissors and Paste.

Snermah (Texas) Democrat: The peace
officers Of every community could
serve their country in no better ay than
by seeing to 1t that all the loafers are
put to work
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Bartlesville Eexaminer: Home guards
in the capital city of Kansas are hunt
ing a hall while in Oklahoma the differ.
ent local guards are hunting for a
chance to get at some of the traitors
that are alleged to have been sent to the
oil fields
Miami News: War hath its poetic JUS
tice. Many a soldier who cast his candy
upon sundry damsels, after many days
finds ii returning to him-cigarets.
Tulsa World: AS a military genius
the German crown prince is an efficient
soda jerker.
Durant Democrat: If the price of gas
oline keeps on mounting. it ought to put
a damper on the automobile thieves.
McAlester News-Capital: The politi.
clan has at least one redeeming trait
he always speaks well of the common
people.
Madil Herald: A fellow who waits
for pull is undoubtedly lacking in
push.
Lawton Constitutions: We all admit
that half loaf is better than no bread.
but there isn't a darned bit of enthusi-
asm in the admission.
Cherokee Republican,: Democracy is a
fine thing to fight for but poor thing
to fight with.
Gainesville (Texas) Register: The kais-
er is still capturing everything in sight,
according to his dispatches sent out
from Berlin. But II must be remember
ed that the kaiser is the greatest monu-
mental liar of the age. For instance.
his claiming to be in full partnership
with the Architect of the universe.
Galveston. (Texas) News: The east
gains a million new voters by the suf.
frage election. The south may not like
II. but 1t may have to grant woman
suffrage in self-defense.
Coleman CTexas) DemocratVoice: The
casualty list grows. Edgar Kinney Of
Sweetwater is lying at deaths door as
the result of accidental shooting while
duck hunting.
FIT. Smith (Arl) Southwest American:
1t is now generally known that the term
Seasoned troops" means those that have
lots OF pep and ginger in 'em.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Lively times may be expected In
Washington during the first two weeks
OF December. Congress assemblies on
the I'd. the Anti.Saloon League on the
10th and the women suffragists on the
18th.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Kansas City MoJ Star: Jerusalem is
soon to fall, it is announced Well, we
need all the comfort we can get.
ffwwlJ
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Dizzy! Bilious! Constipaied!
DIR. King new Life Pills cause healthy
flow Of Bile and rids your Stomach
and Bowels Of waste and fermenting
body poisons- They are a Tonic to
your Stomach and Liver and tone the
general SYSTEM First dose relieves.
Get t,ottle today. 2sc. all druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

For the first time in twenty years
the Republicans have a majority on
joint ballot of the Maryland legislature.
This will enable them to elect sue
cessor to the Democratic state treasur-
er. John Nj. Dennis. According to the
latest figures. the Republicans have a
majority of seven in the house Of dele
gates and lack but one vote of control
ling the senate. The result was brought
about by a Democratic split over an
annexation bill for Baltimore.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Latest figures of the wet" and dry"
election In Ohio and which will not be
materially changed by the official count
show a wet" majority Of 1876 votes.
The totals are: wet" 524042; dry"
522,226.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

FIT. Smith (Ark) Southwest American:
1t is now generally known that the term
seasoned troops" means those that have
lots OF pep and ginger in 'em.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Lawton Constitution: We all admit
that half loaf is better than no bread.
but there isn't a darned bit of enthusi-
asm in the admission.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Madill Herald: A fellow who waits
for a pull is undoubtedly lacking in
push.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Miami News: War hath its poetic JUS
tice! Many a soldier who cast his candy
upon sundry damsels, after many days
finds it returning to him-cigarets.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Cherokee Republican: Democracy is a
fine thing to fight for but a poor thing
TO fight with.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Now that the campaign is over"
says Mayor-elect Jewett of Indianap-
oils, II want to tell you something
declined to take a dollar for my cam
paign from a public service corpora
ton. from saloon keeper or a gamb.
ler. My hands are not tied by any
body. l stand today without single
promise having been made to the high
est or lowest" Where is there another
mayor or mayor-elect who can say
that?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

McAlester News-Capital: The politi.
clan has at least one redeeming trait
he always speaks well Of the common
people.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Durant Democrat: If the price Of gas
oline keeps on mounting. it ought to put
a damper on the automobile thieves.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Lynn, Mass. having tried out the
commission form of government has
gone back to the old mayor and alder
men form. Lynn's vote was almost two
to one, 6,0l3 for the charter revision to
1871 for sticking to the commission.
One of the interesting features of the
vote on charter change was the fact
that it won in every one of the twenty
five precincts.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Tulsa World: AS a military genius
the German crown prince is an efficient
soda jerker.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

Coleman Texas) Democrat.voice: The
casualty list grows. Edgar Kinney Of
Sweetwater is lying at deaths door as
the result Of accidental shooting while
duck hunting
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-14

1t is talk In Republican circles In
Missouri that State Auditor George
Hackmann intends to throw his hat In
the gubernatorial ring In 1920, and
man believe that he could defeat May.
or Kiel Of ST. Louis for the nomination.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
Must Place Responsibility for Mine Horror

Responsibility caamous mine disaster at Hastings
placed belongs and the miners
like catastrophe impossible The loss OF
making dependent widows and orphans must
be permitted unpunished.
failed compel the
torAerican Fuel comply with safety laws after being
hundred daily
strictly Mining laws enacted and
for the of protecting lives and property
company officials neglected
and thereby
be made the penalty
coming death emphasizes fact
could had
his duty either the chief mine inspector who was informed OF the
official
could possibly be
explosion such that the
had
permitted exist for long
great world has caloused the
killing of helpless miners Hastings is
permitted recorded AN unavoidable accident and
those responsible for allowed go free Here is an opportunity
who deve earth
dwell the surface luxury
Honolulu afford sufficient
dangerous until
mad world it.
United Mine Workers has started investigation deter
the disaster 1t will be thoo
Officials of the decline make
ing their proof compiled Then
be made public.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
CARRANZA ON JOB
TAKES OATH AS PRESIDENT OF
REPUBLIC OF MEXICO.
First Constitutional Government Es-
tablished Since Murder of Madero
in 1913; Labor Unions Help.

Venustiano CarranZa took the oath
of Office Tuesday, May /, as the first
constitutional president of Mexico
since the assassination of Francisco
Madero on February %, 1913. Backed
by majority of nearly 100000 votes,
given him by the Mexican people at
the March elections, President Car
rama drove from the national palace
to the chamber of deputies and swore
to uphold the new constitution.
President CarranZa left the presi-
dental gate at the palace at 5 o'clock
in an open carriage. Seated beside
war in the provisional cabinet. The
carriage was escorted by the survivors
of the sgners of the plan of Guade-
lupe, which formed the basis of the
revolutionary scheme.
At the chamber of deputies Presi-
dent CarranZa was received by COM
mittee of congressman who led him to
the rostrum, where the president of
the chamber administered the oath.
The ceremony was extremely sim
pie, consisting of the reading of the
oath and General CarranZa's reply, 81
swear it,"
The members of the diplomatic
corps attended the ceremony and sub
sequently returned with the president
to the palace where United States Am
bassador Fletcher, as ranking mem
Der, offered the president the congrat-
ulations of foreign nations on Mex
ico's return to constitutional govern
ment.
Later in the evening a parade of
more than 10000 persons, composed
of soldiers, students, government en-
ployes, labor unions and commercial
organizations, formed at the Juarez
monument and marched to the palace,
where it was reviewed by the presi-
dent. IA.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
Nation Faces Great Task and Will Do 1t

President Wilson's and of the staff been
overwhelming both branches
The the seecve conscrption bill by of 81
in the carried by AS predicted by The Bule
responded overwhelming of the people
that adequate be taken
Prussian
regretted Coorado delegation split fftyfy
support Wilson
greatest crisis Senator Shaot and Congressman Taylor and
voting the bill
national honor while Senator Thomas and Hlad and
Heating give comfort the nations
between the
will signed by the president and This
will probably have been done by the time this read
Under coming within the
undetermined will be registered for service. ShHs, county
officials will charged of conducting
the registration Each will be
perform will the national
Some will go fighting line and others industries
production of food supplies.
No nation has before undertaken herculean
power,
the the three essentials world
And will do it
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
CRAFTS TO MERGE
LEATHER WORK ERS' UNIONS
HOLD JOINT CONFERENCE.
Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor Requested to
Grant Charter to Organization.

At conference of representatives
of crafts in the leather industry re-
Gently held at Indianapolis, the follow
ing conclusions were unanimously
agreed upon:
That merger of the organizations
represented be effected for the pur-
pose of forming new organization
under the name and title of Omitted
Leather Workers international I'm
ion"
The aforesaid organization shall
consist of local branches composed ex-
clusively of the wage earners engaged
in the harness and saddlery industry.
the travellers goods and leather nov
city industry, the tannery industry
and such other leather industries as
jurisdiction over the workers has not
been awarded by the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor to existing national
or international unions, or joint local
branches may be formed composed of
all classes of workers above referred
to. All local branches affiliated to
same acknowledge the jurisdiction of
the parent body and agree to obey its
laws, its adopted customs, and rulings
rendered by regularly constituted au-
thorities. 1t was further unanimously
agreed by the conference that the
Federation of Labor be requested to
grant charter to the said organiza-
ton, and that all local unions of leath-
er workers affiliated to the American
Federation of Labor, under whatever
title they may be known, be turned
over to the United Leather Workers
international Union. 1t is further re-
quested that the president of the
American Federation of Labor issue
said charter upon application from the
duly accredited officers after the terms
and conditions of merger have been
ratified and adopted by a joint con-
vention.
1t was the unanimous opinion of the
conferees that after careful consider
alton Of the purposes as set forth. that
the granting of charter would bring
about more thoro organization of the
different branches in the leather work
ing industry, which would tend to es-
tablish higher living standards for the
workers under the jurisdiction as con-
templated.
The following representatives were
present at the conference: Murt Ma
lone, Edw. Shilling and j. T. Luckock,
of the Travellers Goods and Leather
Novelty Workers international Union
of America; W. f. Bryan, John J..
Pfeifrer and John Doran of the Unit
ed Brotherhood of Leather Workers on
Horse Goods; Thomas McFadden Of
Tannery Workers Union No. 14600,
A. +. Of l.; Frank Duffy, sixth vice
president, and Hugh Frayne Of the
American Federation of Labor.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
NoU Swat the Bipartisan Machine Scheme

There is municipal election held
Denver Tuesday May and that surely of sufficient
magnitude The election
which will ballots No
the machine complete control future
elections should be repudiated overwhelming
Regardless of what opinion be of the election
chosen
the
visions governing elections retained Should the amendment
old practices
absolute control by professional political
bidding Of the corporations for price.
If in doubt how going be
this proposition is make ocular and
those who supporting the election
then clear around and class of clean
citizens who oppose it
Should this amendment will be absolute
troll of elections the clerks and judges for each polling
things
This of the vicious highhanded
the people of their rights attempted be
big mtt in Denver and there ought be hesancy
the works
he she will Every citizen who believes
for and by the people, will against