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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-11

From many paragraphs IN President Wilson's noble
message calling the nation quote following
as expressing what Il 90 complete ustft
cation for war should 70 be the soul and heart
af ear national purpose:
we noN about TO accept the aaae o. battle with
this natural foe 90 liberty and shall necessary
e~ ~ois force - the nation 70 check uulfy pre-
sensens and ia power Ne glad
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-11

Elsewhere along the line where
Gen. Haig smashed his men forward.
three corps OF British troops took
:. .2si prisoners. including 40 Off
GERS. They also seized IS guns. is
trench mortars and 81 machine
guns
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-11
PRESIDENT
leads in
WORK
Rail Heads Promise Help in
Transporting Food to the
Allies
SEEK LARGER CROPS
BY ROBERT ]. BENDER



WASHINGTON. April IL.
The great food drive OF
the United States was on IN
full blast today
Railroad officials and all
government departments were
working to the immediate cud
OF mobilixing foodstuiis for
this country and her allies.
President Wilson aud Chair
~ Dcnman OF the United
:. shipping board eomplet
,sns for the prompt con
-. rtion OF 1000 vessels to
transport the supplies TO en-
tcnte ports.
Cooperation with the entente
governments toward safely deliver.
Ing the necessities vas planned in
detail
May Exempt Farm labor
While means OF putting under
cultivation thousands OF acres OF
unused land were being worked
Qua. the president conferred with
members OF congress relating 10
methods OF securing farm labor.
Investigation into the feasibility
~ exemptlng all farmers. farm Ia
borers and others engaged In till
ing the soil. was asked In resolu-
.ion introduced today. Other pro
visions suggested that the council
~ national defense Inquire into
the advissblliiy OF appointing
committee on agricultural defense.
10 organize the farm labor 10 in
erezse the production OF crops.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-11
LAST EDITION

Tonight and Thursday, showers"
says the weather man, but don't let
that interfere with your attending
the msss meeting at the Tivoli the
tire Thursday noon, for conscriptlon
Of wealth as we'll as men.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-11

From the top of Vimy ridge. now
attained and firmly held. the British
were systematically clearing out
snipers in villages farther ahead on
he lower slopes. The steady pound.
ing OF field guns searching out such
Continued on pace 81
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-11

tcHIt pUftN.
Cooperation with the entente
governments toward safely deliver.
ing the necessities vas planned In
det>tl
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21

city OF Naples was struck. destroyers
dropped four depth bombs over the spot
where the submarine was believed to
have been,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
IL.vrN SOLDIERS FROM
SAN ANTONIO. RtNAWAXS
FROM CAMP, HELD HERE

Eleven young soldiers at Camp Travis.
san Antonio. Texas. deserted and came
TO Ardmore. They were all from Ard
more and Carter county, many OF them
born and reared here. Nine OF them
are in Jail and a search il being made
for the other two. The police and the
sherln's officers picked them mp In a
short g.nle. seven are In the county
,all and two at the police station
One Of the boys explains how II oc-
CURED He said they were all drinking
.shd were at the railroad station in San
Antonio when the train. caller an
nouncei: This train for Dallas. Fort
Worth and all points in Oklahoma" and
when one OF the boys said; Lets 90
To Oklahoma they all piled on the
train and came along. hardly realizing
what they were doing.
The mother OF one OF the boys, ac-
c,mpanied by several young women,
called on him at the police station this
forenoon. The young man did not APP
pear 10 realize the seriousness OF his
OnenSe.
They will be held awaiting the ar
rival OF n guard 10 be sent here TO
take them back TO Camp Travis
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
WANTS OKLAHOMA OIL AND
GAS LIMBS DEVELOPED

Oklahoma City. Dec. 2l.-An unsuc
cessful attempt was made bv =. q.
Howard. school land board member to
have the board rescind its action of sey.
eral weeks ago when it passed "A reso-
luton not to aiTertiEc.O or lease any more
oil and gas lan1s Until the supreme
court had pared fn3llv OF the case
now before IL. involved In which r the
authority OF the school lard board to
readvertise lands subject 10 the prefer
ience right clause.
Mir. Howard In explaining his action
before Ike board said THAI /, w5s his
cezire to make possible development Of
ell oil CT Eas ianls because OF govern
ment nceis. he thought the state
should he in the attitude OF ope-ing up
any resources possible to that end.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21

Chalmers world.record race will be
shown az Princess Theater Friday md
saturday. G. W. crabtree. dealer. +, 2O.s
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
SUGAR SHORTAGE !
4 DUE TO SCARE

Washington. Dec. 81 i.--Foundatipa for
the sugar shortage was laid while re-
liners held large stocks last February
by sensational stories OF threatened
famine. and scares caused by the /. w.
w. Earl ID. Babst. president OF the
American ugar Refining company. who
testified yesterday at the sugar investl-
cation.
AIR fsabst dif not say who he believed
was responsible for the stories. Con-
sumers began 10 hoard. he said. and
during the spring and summer demands
upon the refiners were unprecedented.
When CONSUMERS began to hoard. re-
faile-s raised prices. he said. but re
fners -did not increase prices CORE
spOndingiy. as they did not desire to
Sncrease the alarm"
Added to the scare stories came re-
ports OF Cuban revolution and destruc-
ton OF cane fields. which stimulated
the demands greatly. Babst said. Then.
after stocks became low. there developed
a difficulty in getting raw sugar. and
when II was proposed 10 supply the
eastern trade with cane sugar, the car
shortage prevented new beet sugar from
being sent east
Americans consumed 100000 tons
more In 1917 than the year previous,
fsabst said. and 900 tons Of Cuban care
sugar usually coming TO this country
went abroad. The demand FOR the can
ming campaign was. enormous, he said,
and added that instead OF sugars being
IN sugar bowls. II is in fruit jars."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
Hun GOVERNMENT BUREAU
STUDIES PEACE QUESTIONS.

Amsterdam. Dec. 2i.--A German gov
eminent bureau for "studying questions
relating to peace" has been opened in
Berlin. Dr. Karl Helferich, former vice
chancellor. Is at the head OF the bu-
reau. with Privy Councillor Albert. the
former commissioned 10 the Panama
Pacific exposition. his assistant
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21

Washington. Dec. si.--The next step
of the house sub committee mves,isat
ing the war activities Of the navy. had
not been revealed. and Il appeared prob
able tina; further session would be lie
ferfed until after the Christmas recess
rhe committe adjourned "Wednesday
without fixing any time fer resumia-
the hearing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
STEAMER CITY or NAPLES
Is SUNK BX SUBMARINE

An Atlantic Port, Dec. 2l.-TSlnkins
OF the British steamer city of Naples
ara tons ON December Q. while under
convoy OF destroyers By a German SUB
marine. was reported in arrival here
of an American steamship The British
vessel. which was In ballast and was
under charter >to the White star line'
was Just ahead OF the American snip
when struck by a torpedo. After the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
BIZ ADOPTED IN AUSTRALIA

Vancouver b. c. Dec 2i.-First re
turns from the conscription pleblscite
In Australia gave a majority of 10000
votes agains, conscription out of about
half OF the 1000 0cO votes east. accord
ing 20 a cablegram from sydney to the
Vancouver World The one million
votes vet to be counted include the sol.
der vote. and the great ouIS of these
are expected To be cast for conscripiion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
BRITISH BOMB ENEMY AlRDRo,IE.

London. Dec. el.--rhe successful bonn
harding by British naval aircraft OF the
Engel airdrome behind the German
lines In Flanders Is announced ln To-
days admiralty statement. "One enemy
aircraft was brought down ablaze and
one out OF control All Of our machines
returned safely the statement adds
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
MenInxIi, in C.ntonment.

Chatianooeh. Tenn, Dec. .l.--Oscar
Angeles. , private In the s6th United
states infantry ~ Fort Ogle,horpe, Is
dead of meningitis today. the first death
from this cause among soldiers at the
camp. Angeles father lives =. Thiho.
deaux. Louisiana.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
Rainhow Commander M.

Washington. Dec. i.-MaJor-GenefaI
William A. Mann. who commanded the
celebrated rainbow Division, which took
national guarismen from many states
.n the union 10 the battlehelds of
France. has been relieved because OF
physical inability 20 stand neid duties
and will return 10 the United States
20 be retired next July. Ills successor
has not been announced,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21

Pueblo. Col. Dec. Led by the gill
who asserts she was attacked by negro
soldier seventy-iive armed Austrians
maze second attempt here TO
get Lewis Smith and lynch him. Only
after permitting members OF the mob
to ascertain for themselves that the
negro WAS not in the city Jail was the
mob finally dispersed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
Iafollette Ipouir, Lays.

Washington. Dec. 2l.-linab.lttN to 0h-
tain quorum compelled the senate
committee investigating Senator LsFoi.
Mites recent ST Paul speech "a post
pone action again for the fourth time.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
Serbian Mission in America.

An Atlantic Port. Dec. 2l.-A Serbian
diplomatic mission 70 the United States
has arrived here on a French steam
ship. 1t is headed by DR.. II. r. Yes
mitch. who represented Serbia at inter.
allied conference at Paris.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-21
Two Norwegian Ship, 10 Down.

Copenhagen. Dec. el.--The Norwegian
foreign office reports the Maidag. 1870
tons. was torpedoed with the loss o.
three men. and the steamer Maroon
struck a mine. five members OF her
crew being killed.
The Washington times., 1917-11-29
CheerfuIness Is Catching.
Continued from First C


If you can start being cheerful this Thanksgiving
Day and keep it to the end Of the you will be doing
a big part of your bit.
You know that actually himself to death
Practical okers decided to fghten They bound
him chair put his feet in water pretended to cut
the soes of his feet with dull razor and told him that he
was to bleed to death without feeling pain.
They sat and watched him. he imagining that his blood
was running into the warm water
The effort to frighten him perfect he
grew gradually pale and diedwhch had been planned
Do your part to keep the nation cheerful Fear and
anxiety tighten the heart dull the mind, check effort
We are coming through this war, and going to
win it. When it is over, every will have his chance
new and big chance.
Billions of dollars will be in circulation and opportuni
ties will abound.
Our men are going to fight and but few of them will be
ed-the low rate of insurance the soldiers life guar
antees that.
Persist in cheerfuness Talk to your children and
vour friends The world-wthout knowing -had horri
BILE cancer growing Prussia had to be cut out The
work is being done and almost finished When it is
the world will take start prosperity peace and safety
will return.
And you can help it by maintaining your cheerfulness
in look and in speech meanwhile.
IF our men can 90 into battle with smile, and joke
they talk to the operating surgeon home should at
least be able smile and keep up spirits three thousand
miles from bullets-and thousand billion miles from any
possibility Of ultimate defeat
The Washington times., 1917-11-29

My general answer is this: Washington D. c., contains
the brains of the nation and the nation the braniet
earth the 100000 intelligent residents of Washington,
gathered here primarily attend the nations business get
the vote they will exercise to the greatest and best adj
vantage How many million votes have been dropped into
ballot boxes in this country without rpplei The timd
gentlemen who look upon ballot box armed enemy
foreaton conjure situation wherein something expodes
with deadly effect every time ballot is slipped into the box
For these perhaps, procure few armored tanks
to lead the approach to the polls.
Suppose the nation at large sad Do not let elect
President because the W. W. will burn houses and become
obstreperous Let appoint a Gar
Washington, like every other city of red-booded men
especially young take of few rough hood
ms We will not stand for government by mob rule and
be denied the ballot for such people
now using is but form of mob rule.
What effect viii the argument of the elysh have upon
the Washington MEN who will meet the Boche in the
renches Fit does not sicken them it will give them good
laugh.
Washington D. c. is bigger factor in the nation than
half the States. self government is good thing for
those States it is a better thing for u.s.
The Washington times., 1917-11-29
Little Problems
and Bio Men.
Once OUers


This s thinking about
You should apply o your own position .,,,
Don't trouble superior with nc al arc s ., 49,,
OF
The man Wnon ne eau uepSnu upon 70
handle small matter, which might before him. and he
NEE the reouirenens else gets tne loo.
hghprced in that posiuon 10 hAnue sSh 10
tails
him iof uIn en- sno ne mas
not the time to give to the little ~A'' " ~ " e
larger ,,L ,,,r,Do-.o,, ,....
too mucn win I'M dnnaS msoers s
which required OF him Is ,. uue " " 'p "en
with ability initiative s
Learn to rely yourself to Ss' 0u' ~ ~ ~ ]
arise in department
The Washington times., 1917-11-29
Winifred Blacks Article on
the Datura Tree
Pv W;r;frod PIacL
By Winifred Black.

I AVE you ever seen a Datura
n Tree in blossom? There's
= = one in the garden. just
outside my window.
I've been wondering about it since
last Christmas-all the other
trees blossomed or Ieayed. and
grew green and graceful and
summery.
But this one tree stood remote,
and stiff and very still-the wind
didn't seem to move a single one
Of its branches, and there wasn't
q leaf anywhere near II.
The spring came and summer
the garden bloomed and flourish
ed. The white lilies came and
went; the freckled tiger lilies
glowed in the sunny corner like
the laughing face OF some be-
witching brunette, and then the
pink lilies-they call them am
aryllis-gleamed like stars in the
shadowy green where they grew
but no leaves on the strange tree
by the wall.
And no one knew what the tree
was, or where 1t came from-you
see the one who planted the gar
den In the first place is gone, a
long. long journey-and some
times we don't see just what she
meant when she laid out the gar
den.
Next spring." said l to myself.
I'VE will take up that tree and
plant a lilac, or a SNOWFALL, or a
night blooming jasmine there"
/ tried to decide which it would
be-purple or white or creamy yel-
low-and all at once / walked up
one morning and there was the
strange tree all hung with lovely
white bells, large and beautiful.
And the air ws full Of sweet
and enchanting perfume.
"Why!" said / to myself, It's Il
Datura Tree! I've seen it in BIOS
som in the conservtories."
And a Datura Tree it is, and
The Washington times., 1917-11-29

day-carried through life by the
wheel! He has lost something by
it, though he has gained his civ
iZation. He has lost some Of his
primitive endurance and a kind Of
self-power. 80.
Look out for the wheel. 1t is
causing you to lose your hands
and feet.
Do you realize that the hands
and feet Of all of us are slowly di-
minishing and atrophying because
the wheel does their work for US ?
We tend to become less and less
capable ourselves as the wheel
slowly assumes all our old tasks.
Once We were masters. Once
we could bid time stand still and
fondly imagine that it did. Now
We can't. The town clock is our
master; the telephone is our mas
ter. There isn't one of us that
doesn't jump to answer their calls.
The machine masters US, and the
wheel is the soul of the machine.
Chinese Saved Themselves.
The older nations have gone
through what We are in danger of
now.
Long ago the Chinese had a great
mechanical civilization, with the
efficient wheel as the main factor
Of 1t. They were carried even far
ther than we by It. And they saw
their danger. They saw the wheel
was going to destroy them finally,
and they threw 1t overheard. They
somehow passed II up and got rid
OF it don't know how-it was
too long ago.
But they saved their souls at the
expense OF the machine.
They decided against too much
efficiency.
1t is high time that we began
to think Of saving our racial soul.
Perhaps II is not too late to COM
promise. Perhaps we need not
throw over the wheel altogether,
but for the sake of humanity let
US try to restrain It!
The Washington times., 1917-11-29

hatred grow held down only by military powers
That power has been thrust aside in Russia and huge
empire hundred million human beings without gov
control rushing bndy like an express train on
the track But even there intelligence will finally rule
The whole energy of the world has been turned
toward murder land and in the air and under the
water.
Every devilish device is used to end life and destroy
Nothing is sacred and nothing safe, with civil
zaton science and high intelligence making war more de-
structive than it ever has been r
In such condition of world affairs this country enters
the war sends its rivers Of men to the field OF baeand
they viii not go In vain
In such world condition has this country any cause for
thandulness?
woman and child in the United States.
eve have gone into war for the sake of justice and right
We did want and shall not take that which belongs
70 any nation or any We helping in this war as an
Individual would help to destroy wild beast poisonous rep
tle, mad dog. .
science and industry relic of medieval times sitting on the
Pussian throne pl nnng to use all the resources Oh
civilization for murder and for civilizations destruction
civilized world is no longer made up OF separate
peoples each hvng IN the welfare OF the otner
What was true of the United States In Lincons day Is
true of the whole civilized world cannot exist nail
slave and half free.
This country determined that individual no mur-
derer called Emperor no nation OF ers snan unoo 'ne
work of human liberty built up so slowly. ,,,,,,
We are in the war; and we shall do our part ~ WIN
THE WAR
you are sending Europe backed by all the money po"
and moral force of this country. :,
We are sending million, shall send another mil
lion If they needed ten millions viii gowWen armed
well fed well clothed well paid with ninety mlons DaA VI
them and working for them here.
You know the kind Of that are shown In TINS PIC
ture. .,oou ovo.
affection for each other and for their country and courage
that toiH bring back victory and peace for the 0orh
The Washington times., 1917-11-29
Mabel Dodge'S Article on
''The Wheel"
By M a b el Dodge.

WE have looked at the ami
" mails and initiated every
single thing they dove
burrow through the earth-we ny
through the air-we penetrate the
waters. .
Every joint, every spring, every
ingenious bit of animal machinery
has been copied by US.
But one thing we have invented
for ourselves-the greatest of all
the wheel! (And to be perfectly
fair ! must say that l have heard
there was once a kind of snake
called the hoop snake that put its
tail in its mouth and rolled down
hill, but ! prefer not to believe
this.)
The wheel is SO important, SO
constantly used by US, so necessary
to daily life, that we hardly notice
it! This is what happens to the
very greatest things in life. We
are apt to take the best for granted
and give our attention, and our
wonder to the secondary things
about US, which couldn't exist save
for the first and greatest.
Like air. for instance. No one
notices air. Yet without it all
else is as nothing.
Teks No,;ca NJ IN. vhaoI
TLT 80 ;: y ~ w 80
Inc "heei 10 0ne Vi Ihe great
est yet no one ever notices 1t par
ticularly. No one ever stops in
front of a motor car and exclaims,
"L,ook at that wheel! What a mar
49,. th;1u Coro dovr - :,
- 20
tho - uat .orr,,;ra orsotar "a
s,-eatar s;Sriec.nce Greater in lie
nses than anvthing any animal has
ever devised-nore important to
civilization than any other single
object"
No, no one ever stops TO praise
the patient wheel that for genera.
tions has carried US nearer and
nearer the stars.
See where you would be with
out a wheel, except on your feet,
The Washington times., 1917-11-29

there it stands, a glory and a de-
light.
1t is fragrant in the daytime, but
when the moon rises, and floods
the garden with silver, and all the
little leaves begin to dance to
their shsdows-the whole world
seems to be filled with a haunting
and wonderful perfume.
We stood under the Datura
Tree, the Little Girl and l, the
other evening and talked about it.
She had asked her teacher at
school, and the teacher said the
tree was from Africa and was
very rare in this country.
1t is beautiful" said the teacher,
"but very dangerous.
"As long as you are awake it will
not harm you, but be careful how
you fall asleep under its branches.
Those beautiful white bells you
admire so much are full of a subtle
poison, and when you're sleeping
it will creep into your veins, and if
you are not soon awakened, soon,
soon-you my never wake again"
The Little Girl thought the
teacher was joking with her, but
remembered that l had heard this
story about the poisonous Datura
Tree before, and since have re-
membered it, / look out from my
window and watch the white bells
swinging to and fro-but / do not
pick any of them and bring them
into the house, and when it is bed
time / close very carefully the win
dows near the Datura Tree.
What a strange flower 1t is-so
beautiful. and-if.what they say is
true-so deadly.
But l have no doubt. If we
knew how to do so. we could
make something useful and stimu-
lating from it. too, as we do from
strychnine and many other poi
sons.
A young woman / know showed
me the picture of a man she ad-
mires the other day-she thinks
she is in love with him. and she
believes he's in love with her
but there is something about his
face | do not like.
wish the girl had chosen some
one else, and yet he may be right
enough for her-she may have 'he
secret and know how to get from
him something good and fine and
beautiful.
But, somehow, so much OF what
we call love is such a strange and
poisonous imitation. II is heauti-
full and fair to see, but-but-
Do you know. believe | will
dig up the Datura Tree In spite
OF its beauty. Somehow 1t fright
ems me-a little.
(Copyright, 1911. by Newspaper Feature Ser
vioS, Inc. Great Britain Rights Rsssrved.)
The Washington times., 1917-11-29

"1E have looked at the ami
" mails and initiated every
single thing thew dove
The Washington times., 1917-11-29
CheerfuIneSs Is Catching
And Sadness Is Infectious Remember That Today.
We are what we think we are.

We are what we think we are
The insane gentleman who believes himself King Solo
ou or ruler of the universe is bssfu person And the
wise man who thinks himself abused and the world all wrong
is unhappy.
BELIEVE that everything is all right and you help to
MAKE everything right.
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