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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23

Jay c. Brandimore, one OF the best
known men in the motor car business
has been appointed special factory
representative of the Mitchell Motors
company, Inc, of Racine, Wis.
Brandimore, who assumed his new
duties at Racine. Wis, only recently,
was formerly connected with r. c.
Rueschaw. vice e-president OF thc
Mitchell Motors, at the REQ company
for seven years. Brandimore rs
prominent man in the automobile
industry having Travelled from one
end OF the United States to the other.
For the past ten or IL years he has
devoted his entire time and attention
TO the manufacturing and selling of
motor cars. He is especially quail
fled to work among dealers where his
time will be confined.
Parallel with the conservation of
food, the new corn kitchens, Hoover
breakfasts, war relief card parties
and masculine knitters, n school to
teach women the mechanical side of
the motor car in many Of the larger
cities is the announcement of the
Mitchell Motors company, Inc, of
Racine, Wis. A representative rron
the big factory lectures in the local
showroom three afternoons and one
evening each week on the educa-
tional campaign to enable women to
own motors. The campaign has n
twofold purpose. War conditions
have made It Necessary for many
women to operate their own cars and
numbers Of Red Cross motor ambu-
rance units have been formed by Red
Cross workers. Education in auto
mobiles along practical lines will
help these patriots and those who
want a knowledge uf the chassis ana
motor knowledge will get much help.
The lectures, which of course are
free, will not only be practical but
will be given also from a popula"
and easy sy-to-understand viewpoint.
The unique experience of being lost
Tor three days in the Utah desert,
without food or water was the un-
welcome lot of A. f.. England and e.
r. Tappan. Detroit motorists, on their
recent trip to Los Angeles in a
Goodyear tired Oldsmobile. All went
well until in some accountable man
ner they strayed from the Lincoln
highway, and before they realized
their mistake, were plugging away
thru washes and sand dunes AS the
heat was terrific both men drank
some of the water from the radiator
and suffered considerably from its
effect After their gasoline and
water had given out, Tappan started
on foot TO follow the wagon track,
and about four miles distant, came to
a miners cabin Gasoline was OBJ
tained at another mining camp sew.
elal miles away, and following the
directions of one OF the miners, the
two explorers were soon back on the
Lincoln highway,
The girls of the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co. branch of the Y. w. c.
A., Akron, Ohio, have perfected a
military organization. Aitho Uncle
Sam will hardly permit them to
emulate the example of their brave
sisters in the Russian battalion Of
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cuited or not making contact. This,
however, is not often the case with
the later models, tho with some Of
the earlier models il was often so.
Congealed oil or water in the COM
mutator will cause hard starting and
sometimes failure to start Again
cleaning is the remedy
A way to tell if the magnetic,
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CONTINUED On PAGE ELEVEN
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23

The girls of the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co. branch of the Y. w. c.
A., Akron, Ohio, have perfected a
organization. Aitho Uncle
Sam will hardly permit them to
emulate the example of their brave
sisters in the Russian battalion Of
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23

The General Motors company will
open the Marquette plant at Saginaw.
Mich, and start operations about
January I, employing between one
thousand and 1900 men. George
If. Hannum, general manager Of the
Jackson Church Wilcox COMPANY
manufacturers of the JacoX steering
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-12-20
Drawings by Ray alter,

by ReyWalter'
%Jingling of bells was heard-they were the
Christmas bells on the Renders and up they
pranced to take the King to his home far away
For the King was none other than santa ClapSl
And all of a .saadea ths2 }seehs changed and
instead of one great 4thfone maAhFyShhd4nes could be
seen-big homes and little homes baut IN all there
was a Queep44-thhe mother of the childfHehfwhom on
Christmas pnaHH{ssanta clqe%uHf calls his BSyya! Family.
Instead q FRHrIpesS an Princes5}6A&th they were
ali children. @~11ppS@tteead d 0ne g~reat5tggfseN there were
many trees. (Ahha1n7 plaeeAq ktheEE Sparkling snow
and the W ods thsfss0 KserNS fMEESsp1aces ahd green
decorations aud bright fsad55bH 7rtties@
For once a yeaY SAINT ia CLAUS dreams this
dream this christmnas fable He sees not the
hundreds of homeeE he has visited. He does not
see the different h%SNsthers. He does not see the
children scattered over the earth. He has been
to many homes but him it IS all as one. And
it is a true dream, f00l 4
For every chriSemas oueen is a mother with
love in her heart, aid there are the fathers who
sit ON theNthrone of Santa Claus on Christmas Day
with ia. Merry Christmas" inscribed in letters
which Oily. the children of Santa's dream can see,
bit which all the. children of the world can feel.
Ahdthe$ Royal Family the Princes and the Prin-
4, cessesZ they are all child renI Not unusual
1T ,sSeehildreh,> but usual children. They are
I''EA@} the children who give JOY just because
LAS$3}x theNsare children, and they are given
]4IH||RyY \ pleasure because hH too can give.
)IYNr2 4 /Yes, ali oyer th4 world, in hun.
Nrl2N ydreds> of homes eaffterr the visit of
1tn1ka/ Santa Claus thefe is happiness.
1HlNNKS And b~ecauss is Christmas
.M1NEGT< Bay there is cheer Emu good
&}M NN will And M gifts that
YsJyX ~ 'FIN Santa Claus tt~eqfeives are the
~ N&@zz . smiling eyfz I'd the merry
~: >bNNlGUWM Is II voices d children as they
81 Is MAMIayNE 4==e-tfe Christmas festival.
Nc A41MN Wu|NN He is the King-not
\ 4 NT1AWI NlllArI~~ of a country, nor of a
- jWUEVNIsHlI[~ and-but Of a Day,
= E1IGY # >&(A~AO lay
i. . T., ;v,A< ! (" ns, his subjects % ss. ar, ". the
- &G.5 For him there is this fable.
He can dream of the JOY that is in the hearts of
all on Christmas morning, while he is sitting on
his throne and his chariot drawn by Renders
Is waiting to take him back home!
Copyright Western Newspaper unO)
1 Il
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landing at Gloucester. Mass, cries Of
help were heard from the water near an
adjoinink dock. The Michigan's first
sailing launch was tied alongside the
landing where was standing and Cam
eron, who was in the bow of the boat,
informed me that the dock near where
the cries of help were coming from
could be reached by casting Off the sail
ing launch and putting ii alongside a
fishing schooner. which was about five
feet from the landing, and then jump
ing to the next and hence to the dock.
/ ordered the sailing launch cast off,
put alongside the first schooner and
Cameron Immediately jumped on it.
in doing this. the sailing launch
was showed from the schooner's side
delaying me. When i reached the dock
j found Cameron in the water with one
arm holding up an apparently drown
ing man (civilian). With his other
hand he was holding on to the gunwale
of small dory. / jumped into the
into the boat. The night was very
dark and Cameron showed great pres
ence of mind in remembering that the
dock could be reached as described.
When he was pulled out of the water
he was fully dressed with oilskins and
heavy shoes, showing that when he
jumped into the water he did it with
apparently no thought for his own
safety, his one object being to rescue
the man.
1T was two or three minutes after we
reached the dock before the others who
ran around the landing arrived, show
ing that the man might easily have
drowned in this time if Cameron had
not been prompt in remembering the
shorter way to the dock and using
every effort to get there as soon as pos
sible."
Mr.. Cameron has advanced in his rat
ing in the Navy and is now a fireman.
second class. stationed OF the Atlantic
coast at a submarine base.
The hero of heroes among the twen-
tytwo men receiving medals during
the fiscal year ending June 80. 1917.
was Stephen J. Murray Of 615 East 18th
street. New York city. Between the
years 1897 and 1906, Murray saved
eight persons on different occasions
from drowning in EAST river. One
night at ire-in February, 1s11-this
hero rescued fourteen persons. In 1913
he saved the lives Of three girls. pull
ing them away just In the nick Of
,xtrre from q lighted bomb, which ex-
49, In Ukst 18th street. New York.
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The act of heroism for which he re-
ceived the medal from the Treasury
March /, 1917. occurred on April 10,
1916.
This event, too, was most productive
Of thrills. In his own words. in let
ter addressed to the writer, he says:
ION April 10, 1916. while !! was work
ing on the pier at the foot OF sSth
shouting Man overheard! l ran to
where they were standing and saw the
man. The tide was running out at the
time and was carrying him away from
the pier 1 Immediately jumped in
without removing any of my clothing,
but before 1 reached him he had sunk.
l reached him, however, as he came up,
and caught hold Of him. He struggled
with me and tried to break my hold
ON him until be became exhausted. 1
finally succeeded in getting him to the
pier and sent to Bellevue hospital"
The fact which at once acts as
Mt. Murray failed to mention-that the
man rescued was a prisoner who had
broken away and jumped into East
river while being taken to Elackwells
island.
binary, possibly rescue another by lad
der out of the water? A medalist OF last
years list performed this feat. He lives
in Niagara Falls. which may account Tor
any event. on that afternoon of January
"a. 1916, boy named Erving Sahr. who
was skating on an arm Of the Niagara
river at La Sale. n. Y, broke through the
ice in midstream.
In the phrasing of one of the hero's
friendst "While on the second floor Of
the Riverside Inn, La Sale, about o'clock
that afternoon. Moakler was looking over
the expanse of ice on. the upper river. a
territory with which he is quite ia
miliar. Some distance from the mainland
playing on the ice on Little river. where
there is swift current involving depth
Of eighteen feet of water. was young Sahr
Suddenly there was cracking sound and
the boy disappeared through the ice. Los
ing no time, and, familiar with the lay Of
the land. Moakler ran to where he could
procure an extension ladder, and dragged
this to the edge of the river. He thrust the
ladder forward to the spot where the boy
had gone down. crept rapidly along it's
rungs and reached the black hole just in
time to get firm hold Of the boy, who
thought that he was sinking for the last
time. He was pulled from the icy waters
on to the ladder, hurried to the inn by
others who had gathered on the shore and
revived in the furnace room there" Mr..
Moakler lives at No. 1872 9Th street. Mag
ara Falls. N. Y.
All brave and daring men do not live
around New York city or in the nefghbor-
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Caggiano, a Brooklyn man who was
awarded medal on" May 10. 1917, is
last on the list of the medalists, SO
far as the day of awarding goes. He
rescued Nicholas d. Magrath near the
39th street ferry, New York city. The
first medal awarded during >thel last
fiscal year was given Thomas O'Con-
nor, lieutenant in the fire department
of New York city. Albert George Row,
Andrew Frohlin, George Riley and
Edward H. Pawlosky and o. Kenneth
Rudd were the other medalists.
Clair B. Baker, a railroad man in
the transportation department of ehe
Southern Pacific since 1893, a Spanish
way veteran and a medalist several
times over. can be called a hero, with
out the slightest exaggeration. He re-
ceiyed silver medal from the coast
guard, a bronze medal from the Car
negie hero commission and a second
bronze medal from the American Cross
of Honor. The Carnegie institution ad-
mirad him enough to add material help
to badges of bravery and sent him a
check for $1,000.
In his own words, the story of the
rescue runs like this: ut was an after
noon in July. and two companions,
walter A. Salisbury and Elba Bur-
nett, and myself. were completing a
swimming race of nearly one hundred
yards in the Willamette river, near Al
bany, Ore. I. being in the lead. did
not hear Archie Ramsden. an exhausted
swimmer. call for help. bnt Soiisbury
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ing rapidly and few people were venturing
out in over five feet of water. CHANGING
out to sea, Thomas saw something float
ing in the water about 200 yards away
The young Georgian right about
faced and swami swiftly toward that
which he believed to be a man un-
conscious. When he reached him they
were in water no less than twelve
feet deep, but Thomas obtained safe
hold on the exhausted man. who proved
to be Jacob J. Hauck of Marietta. Ohio,
and finally got him ashore. after bat
tie. Nearly hour passed before even
a physician, who was summoned could
restore the rescued man to conscious
ness. Representative Edwards of Georgia
was principal in securing the medal OF
honor for MIR. Thomas, who Is this
fall. student in the law department
of the University of Georgia and the
youngest in his class.
In Lewes, Del, there lives pilot by
the name of John NJ. Barnes. He has
been a pilot and has loved the sea for
many day During a gale of GER
tain March night, when the seas ran
were tossing their half-meIted ice
blocks, and roaring in unison with the
Atlantic. Barnes the pilot was the
means of rescuing ten men aboard the
have been left to tell the tale of the
pretty pleasure boat had not John NJ.
Barnes dared turning the big steamer,
bound FOR Philadelphia, straight
river, and. disregarding entirely his
own safety, determined to save others,
even If he lost his life medal was
given him January 80 last.
-
Frank A. Dunn is a police sergeant
in New York city. He received a medal
from the Treasury through the offices
of the coast guard for the rescue of
Frederick Radsey. who fell into the North
river at the foot of West 127th street
August 81. 1916. Sergt. Dunn was in
full uniform when he plunged in after
his man, and he sustained injuries of a
rather serious nature in the rough con-
tact with the rocks. This is not Mr..
Dunn's first rescue.
Twenty-Five medals were awarded
through the coast guard during the
past fiscal year upon the recognition
of bravery shown in the rescuing of
persons in danger of drowning in the
navigable waters of the United States"
according to the phrasing of those Of
ficials whose services are employed in
either the one or the other of the two
organisations forming the coast, guard
tthe life-saving service and the reye-
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nue. cutter service This is the first
wear for several years when no gold
medals have been awarded. There were
thirty persons rescued, only one at
tempt falling.
one of the youngest medalists on
Walker of Siaconsett, Mass. He is a
colored boy. twelve years of age, and
was accorded the symbol of courage for
his quite remarkable effort in the sue
cessful saving from drowning of a
white boy of the same age. David
Sparks, an orderly at Colon Hospital.
Canal Zone, deserved his medal of
honor. He leaped into thirty feet of
water after an insane patient, who had
leaped from rock into the sea.
There was a sea fight staged in a
small way. Reserves came to Sparks
assistance and both men were assisted
to safety Alexander Jackson, a pri-
vate in Company G. of the LIST Della
ware Infantry, saved a fellow soldier
from death in the Mississippi. at Ford.
ILL.,. and was rendered a silver medal
February 26. 1917. Clair B. Baker and
William A. Salisbury. both Oregon men.
secured medals last March, for a rescue
they effected in the Willamette river,
near Albany, Ore.
One of the most picturesque and. I'M
fortunately. one of the stories about
which could be obtained the least in
formation. was that of the medalist.
John ]. Kennedy. Storage cook of
the coast guard cutter Yamacraw.
Simply a Storage Cook" would make
the title for good old-fashioned melo-
drama. with truth as a basis. Frank
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1HE United States will come OF

61HE United States will come out
of the world war more Of a ma
ton of hero worshipers. There
q will be songs and stories of
heroes who fought under the Stars and
Stripes as long as the loved banner
floats at the mast of our country's pur-
been to wars at home or abroad, men
too old and boys too young, who are
briefly announced now and then as
heroes and then forgotten.
Each year there is issued list OF
men and a short account OF their ex-
,,loits which have won the attention OF
the Secretary of the Treasury through
he medium of the United States coast
guard service.
For forty-three years, near the end OF
each calendar year, names of the men
whom the government wished to honor
with medals for the saving of others
from drowning during the previous MS
cal year have been reported Requests
for photographs and descriptive letters
from these medalists often bring tales
that have not Seen told before, except
in the immediate community where the
men had spent their lives. A unique
case this year was that of little Harry
Powley, who lives in Port Jefferson,
Long Island, n. Y.
*
This boy was given silver medal on
April Q, 1917. and he is only eleven
years old. II there is anything in
romance in these days of horror. sor-
row and world war the ghosts of the
gods should not forget this incident.
say ten years from now. Youthful Mr..
Powiey rescued youthful Miss Forbes.
q girl about his own age, who had more
love for sea-bathing than she had ex-
perience. She thought that on blaz-
ing day in August nothing in the world
could be nice as trying ones wings
in the water. But she had no real
wings, and when she had done her best
overstroking it out some distance her
small skill departed. and she was only
a frightened youngster. too confused
60 recall any of the things she had been
Instructed to do in an emergency.
The boy, who became a meda1ist, was
In the harbor bathing when he heard
Miss Forbes scream. Without thought
Of himself the lad dived and, swimming
on his back, reached her. 1t took
strength to fasten his hold upon the
terrified girl. and no small presence of
mind, yet he quickly accomplished this.
and. with her. swan back toward a
wreck lying close to the sands. The
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Concerning MistIetoe.

MIsTLEToE is gathered in great
Avn quantities in the Potomac region
and tons of 1t are sold in Washington.
No other plant has associated with it
SO many strange beliefs as the mistle-
toe. Because it is parasite some OBJ
servers among the classical Greeks
called it tree thief" and the Druids
of the British Isles reasoned that it
was the soul Of the oak trees on which
they found it growing. In some way
that has given rise to a very popular
belief that mistletoe is to be found
only on oak trees, whereas it grows
on all, or nearly all. trees. and seems
to take with especial fondness to the
tupelo of the south, and certain NAPLES,
especially red naples. in this latitude.
One of the old mistletoe beliefs was
that originally the plant had itself
been a tree. and that it was from that
tree that the holy cross was made
The mistletoe became popular with the
ancients of Europe because it was be-
lieved to have the power Of keeping
son why men and women hung it in
their homes. And because SO many
people hung it in their homes to keep
away evil spirits it came 10 stand as
SymDOl OF hospitality. hdHS SloTts
have been made to trace the origin
of the connection of mistletoe with
kissing, but the many explanations re-
sulting from those researches are far
from being clear and convincing. The
mistletoe-kiss custom is very old
among the peoples of northern Europe.
There are more varieties of mistletoe
growing about the world than could be
named in a column of newspaper print,
but the commonest in America is that
which the botanist.- Nuttan named
after the Greek fashion, tree thief"
or phoradendron.
In addition to all the many kinds of
oak trees and the naples, mistletoe
grows with persistency and fondness
on the paper mulberry. the persim'non,
locust. ash, gum. sassafras. elm, Usage
orange. pecan, hickory, cherry. pear
and apple trees. In the far west it
takes hold of the cedar and the Pima
trees, especially the yellow pine, lodge
pole pine and Douglas fir. The plant is
widely distributed by birds, which eat
the whitish-green semi-transparent
berries those birds being mostly mock
ingbirds, cardinals, cedar waX-wi2gs
and sparrows. The robins have some-
thing to do with the distribution of
the seed. The pulp of the berries is
very sticky. and when they become
overripe they fall from the parent
sprfg and stick to some other part OF
the tree thus developing another sprig
Of mistletoe. The Department Of Ag-i-
culture considers the mistletoe pest
and has inveighed against it. but the
mistletoe still fourishes.
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a boil on his neck. He's going to keep
on having them until he gets 'em en-
tirely out of his system
well. Russia has had such an awful
siege of them ABE said. that you
would think she was immune by this
time"
ITS the freedom breaking out on
her. Morris said.
1T seems. however" said Abe. that
in Russia there are as many kinds of
freedom as there are fellers that want
a job. running a revolution. There was
the Kerensky brand OF freedom. which
was quite popular for while; then
Korniloff tried to market another
brand of freedom and made failure
of it. and now Trotzky and Lenine are
putting out the T. and L. brand Of self
rising freedom in red packages. and
seem to be doing quite a good bust
ness. too"
Sure. I know" Morris agreed. but
you would think that freedom was
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freedom and that there could be no ar
guments about it. so why the devil do
them poor Russian workingmen go on
fighting each other. Abe:'
They want an immediate peace with
Germany" Abe said, land the way it
looks now they would still be fighting
each other for an immediate peace with
Germany ten years after the war is
over, because if them Russian work
ingmen was to get an immediate peace
Immediately. AIawruss. they would have
to go to work again. and you know
as well as L do. Mawruss. the very last
thing that Russian workingman
thinks of. understand, is working"
Well, in a way, you couldn't blame
the Russians for what is going on in
Husband. Abe" Morris said. For
years already the socialists. has been
telling them poor Nebiches what rot
ten time the workingman had before
the social revolution. understand. and
what good time the workingman is