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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom wilkes and Miss
Flora Newman will motor to Dallas this
week. The trip will be made In Mr..
Wilkes Allen touring car.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-14

Ross Williamson. of the Ardmore
Auto company. has returned from q
business trip to Kingston. Madill and
Durant. Mr.. Williamson sold a Packard
TO j. r. Mcmillan at Madil.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-14

Charley Bigby Of Lone Grove. was
among those who purchased MaSweiis
last week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-14

Mr.. and Mrs. T. Il. Snelson. Miss
Hadie Hunt and J. w. Foehl motored
10 Dallas, Texas. yesterday in Mr.. Smell
sons Paige touring car.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-14

On account Of the government en-
barge placed on freight many dealers
are Obliged to 10 TO the factories 70
get their cars for deliveries
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-14

Charles W. Thomas purchased a new
Maxwell touring car Of l.. c. Slaughter
last week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-14

sam Harris. Andy Hardy. James Car
ter and w. +. Whitsett will motor to
Dallas and Fort Worth this week. The
trip will be made in Mr.. Harris's Hud-
son Super-Six.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Not the Feeling of the
Pacihsts, but Their Stupidity

"What / am opposed to is not
the feeling of the pacifsts, but
their stupidity. My heart is with
them, but my mind has con-
tempt for them. want peace,
but ! know how to get it, and
they do not.
"You will notice that l sent
friend Of mine, Colonel House, to
Europe, who is as great a lover
Of peace as any man in the world;
but did not send him on peace
mission. sent him to take part
in a conference as to how the war
was to be won, and he knows, as |
know, that that is the way to get
peace, if you want it for more
than a few minutes.
GAN of this is a preface to the
conference that | referred to with
regard to what we are going to
do. If we are true friends Of
freedom-our own or anybody
else's-we will see that the power
of this country and the produc-
tivity of this country are raised to
its absolute maximum and that
absolutely nobody is allowed to
stand in the way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
There Have Been
Such Ambitions Before

Germany is determined that
the political power of the world
shall belong to her. There have
been such ambitions before.
They have been in part realized.
But never before have those am
billions been based upon so exact
and precise and scientific a plan
of domination.
MAY not say that it is amaz-
ing to me that any group of peo-
pie should be so ill-informed as
to suppose, as some groups in
Russia apparently suppose, that
any reforms planned in the in
terest Of the people can live in
the presence of a Germany pow
erful enough to undermine or
overthrow them by intrigue or
force? Any body of free men
that compounds with the present
German government is COM
pounding for its own destruction.
but that is not the whole of
the story. Any man in America,
or anywhere else, who supposes
that the free industry and enter
prise of the world can continue
if the pan-German plan is
achieved and German power fast
ened upon the world is as fatu-
Gus as the dreamers of Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
German Power Inserted
Into the Heart Of the World

81 suppose very few Of you have
thought much about the Berlin-to-
Bagdad railway. The Berlin-to-
Bagdad railway was constructed
in order 20 run the threat Of force
down the flank Of the industrial
undertakings Of half dozen other
countries, so that when German
competition came in it would not
be resisted too far-because there
was always the possibility Of get
ting German armies into the heart
Of that country quicker than any
other armies could be got there.
Look at the map Of Europe now.
Germany, in thrusting upon us
again and again the discussion Of
peace, talks about what? Talks
about Belgium, talks about North
ern France, talks about Alsace-
Lorraine. Well, those are deeply
interesting subjects 10 US and 10
them, but they are not talking
about the heart Of the matter.
"Take the map and look at II.
Germany has absolute control Of
Austria-Hungary, practical con
troll Of the Balkan States, control
Of Turkey, control Of Asia Minor.
saw a map in which the whole
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

him we're Mrs. Wilson, Secretary
Tumulty and DR.. Grayson. When the
5000 delegates and guests ceased their
cheering Mr.. Gompers presented the
President as that man OF destiny
and "the spokesman for freedom.
Whitman Appeals to Labor
Governor Whitman, who also sd-
dressed the convention, declared that
the fight of democracy is the night OF
labor, for labor and democracy are one.
They cannot survive. the one without
the other. American workingmen,' ne
said, "are fighting for the worklngmen
of the world, for it is not on the battle
fields alone that this war Is beng
fought.
at is not only what the workingman
does, it is not only the part he con-
tributes, but it is his attitude OF mind
and his faith that constitute an I'M
portant part in this worlds struggle.
American workmen will fight the
battles of the workingmen OF the world
because they are born leaders Of hu,
man freedom and human progress. and
when they are honestly fighting for
lust cause in the interests OF labor
they are lighting. too, in the battles
for civilization and democracy"
A., The Governor spoke OF the lead the
Emitted States had taken in child labor
laws, and expressed the hope that New
York State would enact law "raising
the age limit for young workers in
speciaI industries
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
The Fair Thing VIII
Be Done All Around

81 am hopeful that in the very
near future new instrumentalities
may be organized by which we can
see to it that various things that
are now going on shall not go on.
There are various processes of the
dilution of labor and the unneces-
sary substitution of labor and bid
ding in distant markets and un-
fairly upsctting the whole compe-
tition of labor which ought not
to go on mean now on the part
of employers-and we must inter-
1ect into this some fundamentally
Of cooperation by which the fair
thing will be done all around.
II am hopeful that some such
instrumentalities may be devised,
but whether they are or not we
must use those that we have, and
upon every occasion where it Is
necessary to have such an instru-
mentality originated upon that oc-
casion.
"And so, my fellow citizens, the
reason that | came away from
Washington is that | sometimes
get lonely down there. There are
so many people in Washington
who know things that are not so;
and there are so few people in
Washington who know anything
about what the people of the
United States are thinking about.
] have to come away to get re-
minded of the rest of the coun-
try; ! have to come away and
talk to men who are up against
the real thing and say to them,
4 am with you if you are with
me- And the only test of be-
ing with me is not to think about
me personally at all, but merely to
think Of me as the expression for
the time being of the power and
dignity and hope of the United
States"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Would Put Woman
In British Cabinet
Lady Balfour Supports Plan
for Female Head of Health
Department
IBy Tie Associated Pressl

LONDON, Oct 3l.--A woman Cabin
ct minister for England is one of the
possibilities of the near future. Wide
support has been given TO the proposal
that a woman should occupy the office
Of Minister of Health, which is to be
added to the British Cabinet imnte-
diately after the war. Lady Frances
Balfour, in a statement in support Of
the proposal, says:
eve have lately reconstructed our
ideas as 10 the place Of women in our
self-governing constitution. Who then
would be so worthy for the new post
of Minister Of Health as a woman She
would be represented in Parliament by
a male under-secretary, and | think l
can assure you that our ideal woman
Health Minister would give her under
secretary plenty to do.
"A splendid vision Of reconstructive
work lies before her. And when we re-
member all the things that the new de-
partment must handle, they seem mat
tiers where women are the practical
leaders. The Minister of Health will
need to be inspector, guardian. counsel
Tor, expert on food values, doctor, nurse,
cook and sanitary expert. If man
were selected he would need a Cabinet
Of his own, composed entirely Of
women"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
She Had a Place
In the Sun

'Her men Of science had made
her industries the most competent
industries in the world, and the
label Made in Germany was a
guarantee of good workmanship
and of sound material. She had
access 10 all the markets of the
world, and every other man who
traded in those markets feared
Germany because Of her effective
and almost irresistible competl-
ton. She had a place in the sun.
Why was she not satisfied? What
more did she want? There was
nothing in the world of peace that
she did not already have and have
in abundance.
1--WE boast of the extraordinary
pace of American advancement.
We show with pride the statistics
of the increase of our industries
and of the population of our cities.
Well. these statistics did not match
the recent statistics Of Germany.
Her old cities took on youth, grew
faster than any American cities
ever grew; her old industries
opened their eyes and saw new
world and went out for its con-
quest; and yet the authorities or
Germany were not satisfied. You
have one part of the answer to
the question why she was not sat
isfed in her methods Of competi-
ton. There is no important in
dustry in Germany upon which the
government has not laid its hands
TO direct it and, when necessity
arises, control it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

should remind ourselves Just how
this war came about and just what
it is for. You can explain most
wars very simply, but the explana-
ton of this is not so simple. It's
roots run deep into all the obscure
soils of history, and in my view
this is the last decisive issue be-
tween the old principles of power
and the new principles of freedom.
THE war was started by Ger
many. Her authorities deny that
they started it. But ! am willing
TO let the statement / have just
made await the verdict Of history.
And the thing that needs to be ex-
planned is why Germany started
the war. Remember what the po-
sition of Germany in the world
was-as enviable q position as any
nation has ever occupied. The
whole world stood at admiration
of her wonderful intellectual and
material achievements, and all the
intellectual men Of the world went
TO school TO her. AS university
man, | have been surrounded by
men trained in Germany, men who
had resorted to Germany because
nowhere else could they get SUCH
thorough and searching training,
particularly in the princiNes Of
science and the principles that
underlie modern material achieve
ments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
All of the
Same Clay

1--WE are all Of the same clay and
spirit, and we can get together if
we desire to get together. There
fore, my counsel to you is this:
LET US show ourselves Ameri-
cans by showing that we do not
want to 20 off in separate camps
or groups by ourselves, but that
we want to cooperate with all
other classes and all other groups
in a common enterprise, which is
to release the spirits of the world
from bondage.
81 would be willing to set that
up as the final test Of an Ameri-
can. That is the meaning of de-
mocracy. have been very much
distressed, my fellow citizens, by
some of the things that have hap
pened recently.
"The mob spirit is displaying it.
self here and there in this coun-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
We Must See That
Labor Is Free

when | say that nobody is al
lowed to stand in the way, don't
mean that they shall be prevented
by the power of the government,
but by the power Of the American
spirit. Our duty, if we are to do
this great thing and show
America to be what we believe
her to be, the greatest hope and
energy Of the world, is to stand
together night and ay until the
job is finished.
"While we are fighting for
freedom we must see, among
other things, that labor is free;
and that means number Of in
teresting things. 1t means not
only that we must do what we
have declared our purpose TO do
see that the conditions of labor
are not rendered more onerous by
the wsr-but also that we shall
see 10 il that the instrumental
ties by which the conditions of
labor are improved are not
blocked or checked. That we
must do. That has been the mat
ter about which have taken
pleasure in comforting from time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Nobody Has a RICH. to
Stop the Processes of Labor

"Now. to stand together means
that nobody must interrupt the
processes of our energy, if the in
terruption can possibly be avoid
ed without the absolute invasion
of freedom. To put it concretely,
that means this:
Nobody has a right TO stop the
processes of labor until all the
methods of Cancellation and settle
ment have been exhausted; and |
might as we'll say right here that
/ avn not talking to you alone. You
sometimes stop the courses of la
Dor. but there are others who do
the same. And l believe that |
am speakineeof my own expert
ence not only, but of the expert
cnce of others, when say that
YOU are reasonable in a larger
humber of cases than the capital
lists.
81 am not saying these things
to them personally yet, because |
haven't had a chance. But they
have to be said, not in any spirit
of criticism. But in order to clean
the atmosphere and come down to
business, everybody on both sides
has got to transact business, and
the settlement is never impossible
when both sides want to do the
-a,,o..o o,,J ,.icrb+ tbippc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
When the Parties Can
Be Brought Face to Face

Moreover, a settlement is al
ways hard to avoid when the
parties can be brought face to face.
can differ with a man much more
radically when he isn't in the room
than ! can when he is in the room,
because then the awkward thing is
that he can come back at me and
answer what | say. 1t is always
dangerous for a man TO have the
floor entirely to himself. And
therefore we must insist in every
instance that the parties come into
each others presence and there
discuss the issues between them,
and not separately in places which
have no communication with each
other.
81 always like to remind myself
of delightful saying of an Eng
lishman of v past generation,
Charles Lamb. He was with a
group of friends, and he spoke
very harshly Of some man whU was
not present. | ought to saw that
Lamb. suffered a little bit. And
one Of his friends said, why.
Charles, | didn't know that YOU
knew so and So"
ooh he said, 4 don't. ! can't
hate a man | know
"There is a great deal of hu-
man nature, of very pleasant hu-
man nature, in that saying. It is
hard to hate a man you know. |
must admit, parenthetically, that
there are some politicians whose
methods / do not at all believe in,
but they are jolly good fellows,
and if they only would not talk the
wrong kind of politics with me |
would love to be with them. AID
so it is all along the line in serious
matters and things less serious.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
If She
Can Keep That

IF she can keep that, she has
kept all that her dreams contem-
plated when the war began. If
she can keep that, her power can
disturb the world as long as she
keeps it, always provided-for l
feel bound to put this proviso in
always provided the present in
fuences that control the German
government continue to control
it.
II believe that the spirit Of
freedom can get into the hearts
of Germans and find as fine a
welcome there as it can find in
any other hearts. But the spirit
Of freedom does not suit the plans
Of the pan-Germans. Power can
not be used with concentrated
force against free peoples if it is
used by free people.
"You know how many intima-
tons come to US from one of
the Central Powers that it is more
anxious for peace than the chief
Central Power; and you GnOw
that it means that the people in
that Central Power know that If
the war ends as it stands they
will in effect themselves be vas
sails of Germany. notwithstanding
that their populations are COM
pounded with all the people Of
that part of the world, and not
withstanding the fact that they
do not wish, in their pride and
proper spirit of nationality, to
be so absorbed and dominated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Which We Call
Democratic Government

81 despise and hate their pur-
poses as much as any man, but |
respect the ancient processes Of
justice, and I would be too proud
rot to see them done justice, how
ever wrong they are. And so |
want to utter my earnest protest
against any manifestation of the
spirit of lawlessness anywhere or
in any cause. Why, gentlemen,
look at what it means.
eve claim to be the greatest
democratic people in the world,
and democracy means, first of all,
that we can govern ourselves. II
our men have not self-control then
they are not capable of that great
thing which we call democratic
government.
"a man who takes the law into
his hands is not the right man to
cooperate in any form of or de-
velopment Of law and institution.
And some of the processes by
which the struggle between capital
and labor is carried on are proc
eses that come very near TO taking
the law into your own hands. l
co not mean for a moment to COM
rare them with what ] have just
been speaking of, but / want you
to see that they are mere grada-
tons of the manifestations of the
.unwillingness to cooperate, and
the fundamental lesson of the
whole situation Is that we must
not only take common counsel but
that we must yield to and obey
common counsel. Not all of the
instrumentalities for this are at
band.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
War to Last Till 1920,
Says Sir A. c. Geddes
People Must Prepare for Still
Sterner Trials, Says Brit
ish Minister

PLYMOUTH, England, Nov l2.-Sir
Auckland c. Geddes, minister of ma
tional service, in a speech here to-day
said the people must prepare for
sterner trial than any that had yet been
faced. The war would drift into 1920
and after if the people did not pull
themselves together for the mightiest
effort in the nations history, he de-
clared.
Victory. he said. depended upon a
great increase in human energy, gen
Grated by the people in their deter
mination to win. The government
should not be asked to drive them. To
maintain armies in the field, he con-
cluded, it would be necessary to make
further heavy calls on the manhood of
the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Joffre Heads Fatherless
Children Of France

Marshal Joffre has accepted the &C
tive presidency Of the Fatherless Chill
dren of France, announces Miss Luisita
Leland, of 500 Park Avenue, secretary
Of the American National Executive
Committee of the organization. 1t was
the American Committee of the Father
less Children of France who honored
Marshal Joffre while in this country
last spring by raising $4,000 to care
for the children orphaned at the Marine.
Miss Leland also announced that yes
terday S25O,000 was cabled Paris,
through J. P. Morgan & Co., in APP
probation of the new duties that now
fall upon Marshal Joffre. This sum is
to be used for the French children
made fatherless anywhere in Europe by
the great war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
They Wanted Success
BY Authority

"You have only to ask any man
whom you meet who is familiar
with the conditions that prevailed
before the war in the matter of
international competition to find
out the methods of competition
which the German manufacturers
and exporters used under the pat
ronage and support Of the govern
ment of Germany. You will find
that they were the same sorts Of
competition that we have tried to
prevent by law within our own
borders.
"If they could not sell their
goods cheaper than we could sell
ours, at a profit to themselves,
they could get a subsidy from the
government which made it possible
TO sell them cheaper, anyhow; and
the conditions Of competition were
thus controlled in large measure
by the German government itself.
But that did not satisfy the Ger
man government.
"All the while there was lying
behind its thought, in it's dreams
Of the future, a political control
which would enable it in the long
run TO dominate the labor and the
industry Of the world. They were
not content with success by supe-
rior achievement, they wanted sue
cess by authority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

try. I have sympathy with what
some men are saying, but l have
10 sympathy with the men that
take their punishment into their
own hands; and / want to say to
every man who does join such a
mob that | do not recognize him
as worthy Of the free institutions
Of the United States. There are
some organizations in this country
whose object is anarchy and the
destruction of law, but / would
not meet their effort by making
myself a partner in destroying the
law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Lord Northclife
Back in London

LONDON. Nov. 12.-Lord North
c!itfe, Sir Charles Gordon, Lieutenant
Colonel Campbell Stuart and other
members of the British War Mission
to the United States have arrived in
London and will remain here during
the meetings Of The inter-allied con-
ference.
Lord Northcliffe declined to make
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13
Germans Using 1000
Substitutes for Food

ZURICH. Nov.12-An official report
issued by the German War Food Blu
reau says that more than 10000 SUBJ
stitutes are now used in Germany.
Seven thousand Of these are substi-
tutes for food.
At the beginning of 1917 there were
less than 1000 substitutes. of which
1900 were for food.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

to time with your president,
Mr.. Gompers. And, if may be
permitted to do so, / want to ex-
press my admiration of his pa
triotic courage, his large vision
and his statesmanlike sense of
what is to be done. | like to lay
my mind alongside Of a mind that
knows how to pull in harness.
The horses that kick over the
traces will have to be put in a
corral.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

thing was printed in appropriate
black the other day, and the black
stretched all the way from Ham
burg to Bagdad-the bulk of
German power inserted into the
heart Of the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-13

a statement until he had reported %
Premier Lloyd George. He expressed
enthusiasm, however, with the rapid
progress of American aircraft con-
struction.