The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-04-08
SIDELIGHTS ON THE NEWS

Conservative estimates place the
number of Armenians who have per
ished at the hands of the Turko-Ger-
man forces at between 100000 and
100000. This is roughly half the popu-
lation of the country.
monument to Jefferson Davis soon
will be erected at Fairview, KY, birth
place OF the confederate president, by
the women and men of the southern
confederacy,' at cost of Sl50,OOO The
monument, an obelisk, will be $50 feet
high.
Religious liberty, one of the first ar
ttcles of democratic faith enunciated
by the new Russian government,
means more to the Slav nation than
Is generally believed. 1t means that
7O0OO000 inhabitants of the country
who do not profess the Greek Catholic
faith will have equal rights in govern
ment, in educational advantages and
in choice of residence.
Statistics just compiled show with
what rapidity horse.drawn fire appara-
tus throughout the country is being
replaced by motor apparatus. In 1914
statistics from 315 cities revealed the
use of 1853 fire vehicles drawn by
horses. This year reports have come
from $50 cities, including the original
3l5, and yet the horse.drawn vehicles,
In service and reserve, number only
1,725.
Records reveal the fact that April
is the fayorite month in the United
States for going to war. The war of
independence brought its first fighting
at Lexington. April 10, 1775. The war
with Mexico is dated from April "a,
1886. When the confederate batteries
fired upon Ft Sumpter, April IL, 1861,
the great Civil War began. War was
ofhcially declared to have existed with
Spain in 1898, from April Il.
In its current series of Food Hints"
the department of health calls atten-
ton to that old.fashioned delectable.
satisfying Southern dish. Hopping
john and gives this recipe Breakfast
bacon, / pound, or fat brisket beef. 9
pounds; red peas (also called Cow
peasD, ! pint; rice, pint: salt and
pepper Ito taste); water (as required)
Hopping JOHN the department says,
is Just charged with calorics. and If
made OF brisket beef contains as much
. building food as five pounds of sirloin
steak.
Since the United States acquired tho
Danish West Indies, Great Britain Is
no longer the only nation that can
say the sun never sets on its territory
Hitherto the little island Of Culebra.
which is virtually part of Porto
, Rico, has been our most easterly point
OF land, and the island of Balabac in
, the philippines our most westerly
point The distance between them is
Just little less than $50 degrees or
r half the circumference of the earth.
, ST CroiN, in the Danish West Indies.
Is thirty.eight miles farther east than
Culebra-enough to bridge the gap.
Just as the sun is rising on St CroiN
1t is setting on Balabac.
Germany's world dominance in the
artificial dyestuif field is at an end
, for all time. declares DR.. Thomas II.
Norton, the government color expert.
Doctor Norton, after tracing the rapid
development Of the coal tar dyestuff
/, Industry In this country, Great Britain.
, France and Japan, said; 1T will not be
long before an American color indus.
, try may repeat in foreign lands the
, successes won by American textiles.
: iron and steel, typewriters, sewing ma.