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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
ARMY RECRUITS
co 10 ST.LOU|S
jefferson Barracks May Be
Destination Of III Rockies.

A telegram from the war department
was received at the army recruiting
station last night advising Capt. Mar
ciss Covell, recruiting officer in Okla
hcma, 70 ship the l77 recruits now here
TO Jefferson Barracks. St. Louis, Mo,
provided there Is sufficient room for
tlsem there. Captain Covell wired the
commanding officer Of the post but up
to noon today had not received re
spouse.
Seventeen recruits for the army were
accepted here during the twenb9iour
hour period ending at noon The navy
obtained fourteen recruits during the
sane period, all Of whom were given
fuflouehs and sent home TO await fur
thef orders.
The recruits are:
IAvr--Hale Montgomery, r. w Turner
en1 Ralph Clements, Chickasha; J. W
LAME, McAlester; Harry Benton and 4
\. Collier, Tulsa; NJ. l.. johnson. Musko.
-; Jack Stephens, Ardmore and H. NJ
Powell c. u, Gyger. CsHtrell burton, r
u miller, L; t. Elliott and j. c. Miller
Oklahoma City.
Army--Fred r. Harris, oilton. Okla: or.
Ins Q. Waltrip, Eldon. Okla Clarence Il
Wpkerson. Muskosee, Okla; John n
9teyart. Tecumseh, Okla; Robert |.
C0b, Ames. okla; Ernest d. Freeman
M!d, okla; James ]. Gray, Shawnee
Om,; Earl Jameson, Oklahoma City
nnk J, strewn, Menafd. Texas, Lyn,
Council and Walter 7. Vshlyerg, Okla
mona City; Roy jackson, Cincinnati
omQ; Earl u Hlll, Elk City. Okla Rub
henh,ngton, Tyron. Okla. James II. Wat
500, Bartlesville, Okla. William w. sar
~, Ada, and Elmer A. Dyer, oklshom
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No Draft Needed
for Lawyers, Says
Legal Board Head

mo lawyers will be drafted TO help
~, the questionnaire work, so far as |
know now" County Judge William II.
Zwick, chairman Of the legal advisory
bcard. declared this morning.
We have the right tdsdfEtt lawyers
~ this service, Just as men ar, called
tof military service, but | do not think
tnof II will be necessary. The LAWYERS
Q1terally are responding TO onr call for
Mb. and while We will need a great
M4hy more during the coming week. /
~ that enough will volunteer to keep
~ xosk moving along
hk thc disposal Of todays ques
tleteailss. Judes Zwisk stated tha,
n>twlVI 100 rsistrants had been ciassi.
Csximately 5000 question
- ~ oklahoma county yet re-
q MD out. Many Of those
4 s 1ea filled out a, the court
QAluhoma City lawyers be.
a .SsllAe incn and others who
ytsnslsssed to this district,
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entertain more than one boy at time,
and you seem TO be one of this type.
(2) | think the arrangement Is
quite nice. OF course It might be well
for your mother to remain with the
young man few minutes talking to
him, and then when you arrive, excuse
herself, but II is not absolutely neces-
sary The essential thing Is 10 make
the young man feel at home until you
get there.
90 Usually il Just happenS that
each couple walks together, one boy
and one girl, but occasionally It wlll
happen that the boys will get together
and the girls together and then later
they may change positions so the boys
each walk with their partners. 1t iS
generally more digniiied for each boy
to walk with his partner.
"a At a simple evenings entertain
ment, the guests begin going at about
10 80 hut on Saturday nights, for in
stance, when there is no work or school
the next morning. il would be all right
to stay little later, There is no hard
and fast rule about when TO conclude
an evenings entertainment but Young
people should be careful not TO stay
up too late at night as it impares their
health and they feel it later,
Dear Mrs. Thompson | seem to have
the most trouble of any. woman who
ever lived. My husband is a drunkard
and he does not bring ME home enough
money to keep inc in clothes and to
keep the house going aud both ends
meet. He makes a good wage, but he
spends so much ON drink that there is
little left ! have three small children,
hut the youngest is and they are
at school most of the day. Can't you
suggest something | can do to make
The home happier and to helm make
both ends meet TROUBLED.
II seems To- me that YOU are MemB
| the situation that so many women have
to face nowadays, and YOU must be
brave and not become discouraged Why
don't YOU try to secure position work
ing somewhere? PERHAPS YOU could get
work for part Of the day or get mend
ing and such work that You could take
home with YOU II you have friends
who are employed or who employ wom-
en-, why not ask them II they know of
work to d. IN these times Of war and
enforced rcouinny many women iccl
that they can make themselves useful
Wives Of enlisted men have to work
and many others who never worked
before Working for a living Is no dis
grace, and you va he happier when
YOU feel yourself partly scli-Supporting
at least and You will be we'll paid for
| the work Won do
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
PAN-CERMANISTs
BELOW At new
TERMS or PEACE
Conservatives See Victory fer
Entente in PROPOSAL

AMSTERDAM, Dec 2o-Pan- Ger
man newspapers angrily condemn the
peace terms OF the central powers. The
Taslische Rundeschau OF Berlin, says:
Never before haze We gwen up so
completely everything we so dearly
bought with the blood OF hundreds Of
thousands, with the sweat OF millions,
with the depriva,ions Of our children;
with Our own hunger"
The DeutsChc Zeitung says that the
entent has won the greatest victory OF
the war and that the diplomats have de-
stroyed all that has beer fought for
The Koelnische 2eitung on the other
hand regards the conditions as opening
the road to a peace advantageous to all
sides, The Lokal Anzeiger thinks that
the German answer to Russia will not
be much to the taste of people OF mill
tary leaniugs but adds; The outlines,
however are drawn wide enough TO
give scope for demands OF Justice"
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PRoBLBMS
s&.4:;t4',,E &4s ,HE:[lRaAEssRg:T!s RaEssg:!s
Ear MRS THOMPSON.

HEAR MRS. THOMPSON: |
L should like to have some advice
- from YOU on the matter OF how TO
treat my gentleman callers. | am very
pretty girl, so the young men OF our
town tell me, and | am quite popular
with the younger set and have to at.
tend all the parties and dances and
sometimes entertain young people al
my house
CD When two young men call inc
up on the same evening and want to
call on me, how should decide which
to allow to come, or would II be all
right for me to have both
e Usually when ! have a gentleman
friend here my mother opens the door
for him and takes his coat and hat and
tells him TO be seated. Then she leaves
the room and he has to stay there alone
till ! come. Is that all riRhtp
(0 When in party OF four, tive
young men and two girls, how should
they walk when gong TO the picture
show-should the young men walk to
gether and the girls together, or should
they walk in couples boy and a girl
az How late is il proper to let a
party Of young people stay at the house
when having a party'
MABELLE BROWN.
% Unless you have some reason
TO believe that one Of them is intend
ing to call YOU up for a date yot
should allow the first one who calls
the privilege of coming to see YOU
Sometimes it is understood that NOR,
than one boy will call on a girl; wher
you wish to have more than one, sa,
to the first one that you expect another
friend and that il he doesn't mind, yo,
will let them both come then tell IN,
second one who calls that you hay,
made date with the first one but tha
he also may come il he wishes Their,
are girls who are clever enough (,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29

Mt Nearly Enough Rifles to
60 Around in Southwest.

I WASHINGTON. Dee. 2o.-The aver
ses Of sixteen deaths per day in Camp
bewie At Fort Worth, Texas, was at
klbuted 10 the order OF Secretary Of
War Baker to crowd the camps ali pos
sible, BY Major General Greble. camp
conmander in his testimony at the
senate military investigation yesterday
General Greble said often twelve men
were placed in one tent
Summarized the following shortages
were declared to exist at Camp Bowie,
and st Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill Okla.
where Maj. Gen. William NJ. Wright is
cosnmander;
AT Camp Bowie.
With 5000 men, rifles are short 50
percent. pistols 81 percent, and cart
ridges 50 percent The camp has no
machine guns, no trench mortars, no
Iiue grenades, no six-inch howitzers
and no one-inch cannon. The camp is
not short Of overcoats, although the
men we're only supplied last Sunday
Al Camp Doniphan.
With 2S.00O men, the camp Is short
S.ll4 rifles, II is lacking in all artil-
lery, trench mortars, bayonctS and
trench tools, The men are we'll clothed
but are short OF equipment for overseas
service. The death rate is. one a day.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
Blue Tipped Boys
Extract Quarters
for Mythical Gas

Dozens and dozens Of perfectly good
hSo-bit pieces have been extracted from
the pockets OF north-side citizens with
in the rast few days by the clever work
OF one o, the most youthful "vags" the
police have encounle-ed-would like %
encounter, to be more exact-in many,
many moons.
A trembling knock comes at either
the front or rear door OF the better
class OF north-side homes, generally be
tween the hours of 8 and II in the eve
ming Wondering who is bringing a
bill at that time of night. tie boss OF
the mansion opens the door and peer 5
out She--the boss OF the home-sees
a diminutive. form, all ragged and
shivering, and listens to the brief but
pitiiul tale
MY mama is all cold and sick, and
we don't have a quarter to put in the
gas box pipes the juvenile Dick Tur-
pin, Mama says il We can only get
q quarter to keep us warm till morn
ing, she will send II right back before
! go to school"
The boss Of the warm, comfortable
home starts TO tell the applicant Tor the
two-bits that there probably ism;
enough gas in the box to come out any
way, but doesn't, and forks out the
Necessary open Sesame 10 quicken the
suspended animation OF the balky gas
meter Neighbors today ieatned that
every home In one block had contribut
ed quarter each lrst night 10 The
'gasless" urchin New beats" are be
ing worked every night by the loan APP
bliraut
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OF the righteousness Of his country's
cause as the soldier of the allies. OF
course, he wants to do his part in the
"defense" OF the iatherland, and in
many respectS he has remarkable
sense OF loyalty, but he often lacks
the higher spirit Of sacrifice which fills
the soldier Of the allies
| believe firmly in the maxim that
a real soldier will do his best for his
country, whether his country be right
or wrong, bu, a mans best often de-
pends on hh mental and spiritual at
titudc which he cannot always con-
troll toward the task in hand. Win
the French this attitude might well be
called a religion Of sa(riice Whh the
British it Is likewise, but the Briton,
while he suffers the same hardships
with glowing good cheer and gladly
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
Cold Weather Halts
Dam Construction

Only the extreme cold weather is
now preventing the large force Of work
men from rushing the dam seven miles
west Of the city to completion There
IS sufficient quantity Of crushed rock
at the scene for the immediate need
and there are only twenty section, OF
concrete lo be laid before the iounda-
ton for the whole dam is complete.
Dr. J g. Street commissioner OF
public property said today that in his
opinion lhr entire work will be com
'leled by April / bgl even IN the event
hat the tou,truclioH'ot the dam ceased
entirely al this time, there Is no danger
Ut water shortage next summcr as
with the portion oi the dam which has
been completed 2oOOO00OO gallons OF
watcr-could be held in reserve for any
emergency
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
Euen the Boche on His Knees As in Prayer Is
Planning to Slay---But 1t Works Just Once

after capture he must be carefully
watched
Wounded Officer Destroys Wiring
Some men Of our battalion once came
across a wounded German while clear
ing up the ground after a successful
action and immediately sent back Tor
stretcher bearers The officer was put
on the Strctchcr and the journey back
started. II was pitch dark aud il was
necessary for the officer conducting the
party to pick his way with a flashlight
Thinking 10 observe the condition OF
his prisoner and ascertain If he needed
anything. or whether he was still alive
and worth taking back, this officer put
his ilaShlight on him.
The German captain, although
badly, perhaps mortally wounded,
was revealed busily feeling under
the sandbags along the parspet as
they went along, pulling out the
wires and destroying our communi-
cation.
The German officer is far superior
to the private when il comes down to
two-fistcd encounter, but still he
lacks the punch Of the Priton aud the
man from this side of the Atlantic. |
always recall the battle put up by a
PrusSan guard officer who fought all
the way through the punishment in
flicted by fairly husky adversary and
did not Succhmb until a revolver butt
put him away
OF course the German officer sell
dom gets any true news about the war
As prisoners they invariably are sur
prised to hear that the war is not al
that moment being concluded in Ger
many'S favor. One German officer
taken by my battalion, speaking very
good English. expressed genuine regre,
that the Zeppelins had completely de-
stroyed London. He had spent many
happy years there, he said, and, while
he hated the British in the war, Lon
don was a pleasant place to live, and
he had hoped to live there again until
he had received information from his
headquarters that the city had beer
laid waste
Copyright, 1917, by Major Donald
McRae)
TO be continued tuesday,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
A Stubborn Cough
L0Osens Right Up
Thfs homemade remedy ~ wonder
for quAsk results. Easily and
cheaply made.

The prompt and positive action Of this
simple, inexpensive homemade remedy
In quickly healing th infamcd ol swollen
membranes Of the .hioat, chest or bron.
chial tubes and breaking III tight
coughs, has caused - TO b, used in more
homes than M Tthcr cough remedy.
Under its healing soothing influence,
chest sorcne' yocs phlegm .osens,
breathing becOrrs easier, ticking In
throat stops and YOU get good lir'.t's
restiul sleep. The usual thr "a and
chest colds ae conquered by II IA 2l
hours or less Nothing better 70 bron.
chitis, hOarscness, Group, whooping
cough, bronchial asthma or winter
coughs
To make this splendid cough syrup,
pour Pa ounces OF Pnex 100 cents
WORTH. into pint bottle and All tho
bottle with plain grsnulntcd sugar syrup
and shake thoroughly. You then have
. full pint-a family supply-oi much
better cough syrup than YOU could buy
rendymade for g. 90 Kocps perfectly
and children love It's pleasant taste.
IincH IL n special and highly conecn.
tratcd compound Of genuine Norway
pine extract. and 10 known the world
over Tor its promptness, ease and Ger.
hintY IN overcoming stubborn coughs
and chest colds ~
10 avoid disappointment ask your
druggist Tor ~, ounces Of PineSh with
| iull directions, aud don't accept any.
thlng else. Guaranteed 10 give absolute
satisfaction ur money pr0mpilr refunded
lhs Timex Co, ~ Wayne. lad
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gives his life, is less likely TO analyle
his feelings and more loath to talk
about the deeper phases Of the war,
This spirit the average German
lacks. To him the summit of all
worldly things is the fatherland
with the supreme being In the per
son OF the kaiser, He cares nothing
for humanity nor for any of the
higher motives that actuate his ad-
versary. And 1t is for that reason
more than any other that we are
going to beat the German in the
end.
Our morale is built ON firmer rocks
than his. Our will to a finish fight is
greater, our determination is less bla-
tant but more sincere,-and all because
we are fighting for ideals and not self
ish and ambitious aims.
The German officer is a we'll trained
fighter and far moro courageous in
dividual than the men he commands
Usually he has spent the better part OF
his life in earning the insignia Of his
rank and his chief business in lite is to
prove worthy OF his rank The German
officer is not likely TO quit cold. Even
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surrender as long there is the faint
est glmmer OF fighting chance to
beat of their woud-be captors aud
reloin their own forces Often they are
able TO break away from the Huns and
yet back. On the other hand, the Ger
man private is likely to give you the
impression that he has been waiting Tor
a chance 20 surrender Frequently
when they are being led back to our re.
serve lines they are impatient lest their
comrades oyertake their party and res
cue them,
l well recall one German pris-
oner who made no attempt to hide
his 10y at being. captured. asked
him why he was so pleased with
himself. He declared he had been
at the front two years and had
been waiting for the chance to sur
render which came that day
| asked him who he was, and he told
me he had been waiter IN ReiSen.
webers restaurant in New York and
was only by chance caught in Germany
when the war broke out, as he had
gone back TO the fatherland to marry.
lie added that, as soon as possible he
would again be waiter in Relsen-
webers in New York.
German Not Sure Cause Is Righteous.
The average German private does
not seem to he so completely convinced
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
More Jail Space
for Camp Women

Additional jail and quarantine IA
ciiities. in ComaHche county, to curb
camp followers at Fort Sill are made
possible by an opinion given ], s.
Rinefort, county attorney, by s. y.
Freezing, attorney general today.
Mr.. Freling held that buildings could
be erected on land leased by the county
and gave approval TO a transfer OF funds
to make money available for the work
The proposed buildings are to house
women camp followers, who are to be
detained and placed under quarantine.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
Suit Against Road
Asks $36,450, ,382

CHICAGO, Dec. "a suit against
the Denver and Rio Grande railway
company for the collection of $j6,4S0,}&
was filed in the superior court today OIL
behalf OF the Equitable Trust company
OF New York,
The action, according to attorneys
for the trust company, is the result OF
judgment obtained in the United
States district court OF New York
against the railway and is for the sum
which still remains unpaid
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dugout A couple Of
my men started in
his direction to
bring him in, and
they were both shot
down by a German
in the dugout who
sighted with his
rifle barrel under
the arm Of the
kneeling Hun. This
trick worked just
once and it is like
~ tildt many n
kneeling Germ an
died thereafter who
would have lived
had it not been for
the ruse of his
clever comrade.
II is habitual
with the Canadians
that they do not
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
Pershing Predicts
Bone-Dryness for
All Army Camps
(By the Associated Press.)

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Friday Dec, 28,--General
Pershing, in an interview with CORES
pondents today said the question of
prohibiting the sale Of all intoxicating
liquors to American soldiers, which he
favors. is being discussed with the
French government. He explained his
recent order, stopping the sale of all
intoxicants, except light wine and beer
and the conditions prevailing in France
which caused il to be drawn as il was.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
Army Balloon Lost
From San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec 29.-Of-
ficials Of the army balloon school here
were making efforts last night to locate
an army balloon, commanded by Captain
Mccullough and carrying six student
avators, which left here at midnight
last night
The missing balloon may have beel
forced to land in Mexico.
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By Mai. Donald MeRae.

WYE had executed a dashing trench
w raid and cleared our sector in
w quick order The only live
German in sight was a Fritz who was
kneeling in supplication in front OF
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Mrs. X l.. Campbell wife OF a Den.
yer physician, boasts Of thirty cousins.
nephewS and other male relatives now
fighting in the ranks OF the entente
allies
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-29
Kaiser Holds but
$4,000 Prisoners
of Haig's Troops

LONDON, Dec D.--British prison-
ers held by the enemy including these
in Switzerland, total 46,7l2, according
to an official announcement.
Napoleon wisely said that an army
fights on its stomach, But he, wisely,
did not mean an empty stomach.
Evening journal., 1917-08-25

Secretary Lansing's refusal to grant
passports TO American citizens wishing
TO attend Socialist peace conferences in
Stockholm has been completely iusti-
fed There has never been any excuse
for American participation In these
conferences. They have been obviously
mere annexes to Germanys dishonest
peace diplomacy. Through them tho
German Government has hoped to start
discussions Of peace terms which might
develop clashes among the Entente
Powers.
The reutonic delegates to these gath
erngs are government agents irst and
Marzisls and pacinsts afterwards. The
German and Austrian governments have
never stated their peace terms. They
cannot state them without creating
violent dissonsion at home. They are
moi in the least committee 90 proposals
which tho Teutonic Socialists carry so
Stockholm. Those proposals will be
rcpudialed whenever ami 90 whatever
extent the two Kalsers may think 10 i0
their advantage 10 repudiato them. 10
IS not Gormany's purpose 30 accept
tho principle of no annexation and no
indemnilies so long as she belitvo-
she has the power 90 insist on an-
noxatl0ns and lndemnities. The only
thing 90 which Germany will Yield is
force. Tho sham peace terms which
The German Socialists offer at stock
holm represent mere diplomatic win
dow-,lrtssing They Will serve their
end n Socialist delegates who speak
for Entente Powers can be Induced Ga
return home committed to advocating
peace on the basis OF illusory Germon
promises
The first Stockholm conference was
flascO No second one would have beer
possible except for the fact that The
| Russian Provisional Government seem.
ed willing, until very recently. TO st8nC
sponsor for ~. When the call for th'
second gathering was issued the ultra
! Sociaistlc and pacinst elements were
In the saddle IN petrograd. Now thei
power Is waning. A new cabinet hai
been formed, more militant in splri
! and much more distrustful Of German
peace propaganda. Kerensky, as al
interim director, is pledged TO continu
the war. He has not thought II ad
visable 10 prevent Russian SOcialis
| uclckdlea from kOlnk 10 oluchllululs pu
ne has officially assured the other En-
tenle Powers that these delegates wi
go merely as members OF the interns
tionai Socialist organization, and tina
the proposals they may make and tn
conclusions they may assent 10 wi
not be binding in any way on the Rus
sian Government.
The chief argument in favor Of sent
Ing French and British delegates
the second cor<~~5nce has been tht
such action was due as courtesy
the new Russian regime. There are
France and Great Britain, and in Ital
as welr strong Socialist organization
aflliated with tho so-called Inferno
tionale. British labor leaders like NJ
Henderson have urged participation
the conference for the purpose OF IN