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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28

TT was tomato soup again 5 morn
ing, and 10 tasted pretty good The
more You 90 without soup the better
il tastes When | had piled the dlshe
in yhe sink me and 'Rowdy famblcd,
and Just as We got out OF our yard We
saw Pie Face 20 out OF his yard anl
start mp the street, and his mother wa,
standing out by the sidewalk watching
him I'LL he turned the corner. and. then
when me and Rowdy got to her she
smiled and said, Good morning, Patsy.
and how are YOU this morning, just
said What do you want :" for you
cannot fool the Irish. She said %
nave been very unlucky with my invest.
mcntS OF the life insurance money Mr.
Carpenter left me and taxes must be-
paid STD | have decided 10 become q
wash lady and | thought maybe there
were some clothes al your house that
need washing | said, "Nou thought
right. for the clothes at our house have
skipped a good many wa,hmgS, hut !
don't have YOU stopping around there
while my father i, home You come to-.
night after he has gone and we will
get everything in the house and bring
them to your house and you can wash
them tomorrow So she thanked me
and then she told me It any Of ny lttlc
friends at school did not have a wash
lady at their house, she would be Rlal
to get their wa,hlngs lo do. | wonder
how many friends she thinks have got
az school
. When got TO school | went to all
the pupils. as my teacher call, them
one At q time and said, SAY, does
your mother want to hire wash lady2'
And they all snickcrcd and said no. and
then at recess when me and Rowdy
came IN and took my seat. there was
some writing on the board. and it said
Patsy kil lare, the Irish Wash Won
and. and thought that was pretty
smart OF whoever done il. for then
everyone would know I was looking for
waShings and would tell their mothers
But when the teacher saw it, She said.
who has been writing on the board d"
and no one said a word, and then she
asked me It wrote it, and OF course /
didn't, and them she began at the first
girl in the school, which was Constance
Tompkns, and she said, Constance.
did you write that" and Constance said
she didn't, and then all the other girls
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28
Defense Council
Comes to Rescue
of the City Pig

The much malgned pig may soon
find a home in city sty where hither-
to his presence has been taboo. il the
suggestions of the Oklahoma state
council of defense finds favor with the
municipal authorities.
TO increase the supply of pork in Ok
lahoma and utilize all garbage, county
councils will ask those cities within
their provinces which have laws for
bidding the keeping of pigs within the
city limits not TO repeal such laws but
to amend them so permits to keep pigs
under sanitary conditions may be grant
ed Unsanltary conditions would fur
niSh grounds on which to revoke per
mitS without warning
This is part OF national movement
to use every possible method to increase
the supply of pork 1t has the approval
of the state health department.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28
lIvERsITY men
WILL SPEAK TO
TEACHERS HERE
Many Faculty Members on
Program for Convention,

When the Oklahoma Educational as
sociation meets in Oklahoma City, No
yember %, 30 and 81. the University
of Oklahoma will be well represented
on the program at the various sessions
Of the convention Besides an address
by DR.. Stratton D. Brooks, president
of the university, a number of other
members OF the faculty will speak
The Teacher and the War.
At the afternoon session Thursday,
November %, DR. Brooks VII speak on
the Teacher aud the War" In the
business session in the high school
building on the morning Of November
70, A, {, Parsons, state high school
inspector, will deliver an address OH
the subject, The High School and
TEACHER Training" He will be fol-
lowed by DR.. W. W. Phelan. director
Of the school OF education, whose sub
ject will be The Care Of the Excep-
tional Child"
DR.. w. A. Schmidt, OF the depart
ment OF education, will take part in the
discussion at the afternoon session,
November 80 On the same afternoon,
Prof L. J. Griffith will speak on "The
High School Student and His Eng
lish.'
Dale To Discuss Russia.
In the history teachers department
Prot. +. +. Dale will give a historical
Interpretation of the Existing Pollti-
cal Destruction in Russia" Jesse l..
RAIDER, university librarian and chair
man of the department OF Librarians
OF the association, will preside at the
meeting of that department on the aft
crnoon OF November 20.
Miss Margaret Mitchell, secretary
of the correspondence study department
Of the university, who was sent as
delegate to a meeting of the Mississippi
Valley Historical association will make
a report at the afternoon session
In the department OF music, Mrs.
Eva +. DUNCAN, professor of public
school music and piano, will speak on
the question OF junior high school or
chestra.
Shannon To Speak on Science.
In the department of science, c. w.
Shannon, director of the Oklahoma
geological survey, will speak on the
subject OF elementary science in Okla
homa schools.
During the meeting Of the Oklahoma
State Educational association univer-
si,y headquarters will be maintained in
one OF the open parlors on the second
floor of the Lee Huckins hotel f. r.
Irsettli will be in charge o, the head
quarters,
Many students in the department OF
: ,ducation will attend the meetings OF
he association. il IS expected, and
practically every member Of the faculty
viii be present
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28
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BY Judd Mortimer LeviA
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said they didn't Then when she got
back o. Constance. she said, Constance,
do'yuu know who wrote Il and Con-
stance said YES ma And then
the teacher kept still a long time and
Constance kept getting Sclfeder and
scarcdcr and then all OF sudden the
teacher sand. WHO wrote it, And
Constance said. "tclie Turner" And
Nellie Turner was one OF the ones that
said she didn't OF course nobody feels
a, bad about being caught IN a lie as an
Irish hulc girl would, only an lash lit
tie grr never does tell them The
teacher did not say anything, and Con-
stance had her lessons better than any
one else IN the room except a little
friend Of Rowdy'S, and Nellie Turner
Was CRYING behind her book all most all
the time. and the teacher looked at me a
heap Of time, but did not say anything
MI Just before school let out, and then
she said PATSY Kildare and Nellie
Turner will remain after school " SO |
did and Nellie did and Rowdy did and
the teacher came and stood by Ncllie's
desk and said, Nellie, ! have been
thinking about your case all day and |
have finally decided how to punish YOU.
II was bad enough TO write on the
board and thus hold Patsy up to riN-
culc--I have never heard that word be
fore hut il was far worse to tell a
ialSchood The punishment ] am going
10 impose is this: That YOU are to play
with Patsly Kildare and no other child
for a week II that does not cure you
OF telling ialschoods we will make It
two weeks for the next oiienSe You
may both be excused now" SO we both
walked out with ,Rowdy between us.
When we gH to the short sccmcnt posts
at the gate she sat on one and sat on
the other and she looked at me and !
smiled and she Rrnncd, and said
Why don't you go on home, you don't
have to play with me until tomorroW
She said u don't want to 60 home yet
| said, what did you write that on thu
board for" She said Because dom
like YOU" Then | stuck out my tongue
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28
Able- Bodied Idlers
Should Be Jailed,
Says State Council

To be\idle is an oifense against the
government now. No mans time is his
own; il belongs to the nation, and II an
able-bodied man will not work tor
wages he should be made to work on
the road gang
That is the message TO citizens being
sent ont by the Oklahoma state council
Of defense, which has been informed
that In many sections high wages have
resulted merely in idlers working one
day q week or two or three and loatlng
the rect OF the time A movement is on
foot, especially in the eastern part Of
the state, TO rid the entire country OF
every man who will not work
The labor problem has become an
acute one in every industry, farmers and
managers OF shops, stores and factories
getting along the best they can with
boys and women taking the place OF
men.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28
Fiue Hundred
NursesNeeded
In Southeast
Urgent Call Sent to Oklahoma
City Woman

Word was received last night from
the Red Cross Nursing service a,
Washington by Mrs. Marjorie Morrison
at the Nurses Central Registry, Okla.
homa City telling Of the need for
graduate nurses in the army The teie.
gram is
Five hundred graduate nurses
are urgently needed for immediate
service in the Army Nurses corps,
for duty IN cantonments and hos
pitals. Please bring this need to
the attention of your nurses, and
ask those who desire to offer ser
vices during this war emergency
TO apply TO the superintendent of
the Army Nurses Corps in Wash
ington, for further information and
application papers, The salary will
be $50 a month with maintenance.
Signed, Dors +. Thompson, super
intendcnt of Army Nurses Corps,
Washington"
Mrs Morrison says these 500 must be
obtained from Oklahoma. Texas. Kan.
Sas, Missouri and Arkansas, which is
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28

me and Rowdy rambled. We went to
town and window looked for a while
and then went home and prayed,
Dear mother, which art in heaven. |
am not going to pray much tonight, for
] have got fat woman to think about
And a little girl that lies think |
can cure the little girl, but ! will have
to have God to help me with the Iat
woman Ask God to bless you and my
father and Rowdy "Pll see what can
do about Nellie before do any praying
for her. Amen"
ITO be Continued)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28

the southern divisioa. The message win
br sent broadcast 90 that all nursesl
will know of the call.
The Army Nurses corps is separate
from the Red Cross nurse service. but
they cooperate and do the same work.
The Red Cross nurses are those who
enrolled in time OF peace, The nurses
corps was organized since the war. Alp
members must be graduate nurses.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28
Printer Poet"
Is a Suicide at
Daughters S Grave

CHICAGO, Nov 2S-lohn T. Oyler
printer poet" Of Chicago. shot and|
killed himself in an Omaha, Neb, cemc,
terry yesterday, according to a message
received by his widow, who lives in
this city, His body was found he.
tween the graves Of his two daughters
who died in Omaha year ago.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28

William x Hart In his latest mud great
est release not "a reissue aud positively
never before shown In Oklahoma CITY, en-
titled THE cold Deck" comes TO tho
strand Thoator starting tomorrow Thanks
giving morning at 10 O'clock and continues
dullv for seven days This's n brand new
Triangle Hart sly-tryl produc,ion-a state.
right ro,Hso. costing 800 per day film
rental Produced ny Thomas n tnre. true
to western NE, fun ot surrlug situations
every s'cnc is packed with action William
Hart made THIS his masterpiece Hart
picture starts daily nj 10. ~ 80 !, 2,30. T.
! $50, 7, $50, 10, closing Bt ll.30 Adtnis
sion. children ljr, adults 2au. This In
Cludes war tax
Notice This is tho only new first
llett picture hcing advertised Ht amy the
Htrr
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-28

They stacked the cnrcs on Level Leigh,
hnt stirred by the love Of two good women
he bcat them In the game of death Wi.
liam Hart In The Cold Deck
, 1917-08-30
TRICK FOR 0ILING SPRINGS
application of Kerosene and Then Fol-
lowed by Lubricant VIII An
swer Purpose Fairly Well.

An emergency trick for oiling a
pIihg Is to go over 1t with kerosene,
Elhlhg OFF the dirt as you do so, and
Fu'uing the kerosene down the sides
W. 1t VIII run in between the leaves.
wipe off the surplus. Pour oil over
rNt'l the same way. 1t is led in by
A'r"sene and oils the leaves very eff
!t'iually. Now rock the car or jounce
'nT running board and your springs
N'I De fairly well oiled. The best way
OIL a spring, however, is to remove
ana take 1t apart, scraping or filing
all rust and covering both sides
WIN graphite, grease or oil. This is
troublesome, but 10 the best in the end.
, 1917-08-30
Full EIIiptics, Semi IIiptics and
Cantilevers Meet Varied
Favor.
IS CENTURY old
Leaf Steel Devices Hold Their Own,
Although Time and Again New Ar
engagements Have Been
Introduced.

Progress in automobile construction
has each year been accompanied by
improvements in springs. In fact, few
parts that contribute to the users COM
fort have been so fully and so far i'm
proved as have the springs. We natu-
tally expect improvements in devices
that are comparatively new, like the
pneumatic tires, but remembering that
)eaf-steel springs were invented a e
Jury ago, we are inclined to assume
them to be practically perfect and to
oOk for very little change in them.
AS first applied they were far too
BhOrt for comfort. Makers attempted
10 apply the lengths and widths used
pm horse-drawn vehicles, and simply
hdded thickness to carry the heavier
weight of the power vehicle. That this
was not satisfactory could have been
[oretold, and every year since has seen
lettering of these necessary articles.
Semi-EIliptic In Favor.
The full elliptics at first used gave
fSay to semi-eliiptics, which carried the
load lower and better resisted the side
Fwaying of the body, which tended to
throw a change on driving mechanism
put of alignment. These advantages
pave not been superseded, and still
hold the semi-elliptic in growing favor
Today.
Time and again new springs or new
arrangements are introduced, but
through them all the old standby holds
rs own. 1t is a most simple form, and
II the same number of pounds or
inches of steel employed In other forms
IS used In 1t there will be no complaint
lbout the service.
Three-ouarter Platform.
The three-quarter platform adds to
he rear ends of a pair of semi-elliptics
mate placed crossways, and attached
N the body at its upcurved center.
lp3is gets added spring length without
Ntending the body further to the rear,
put 1t has not found much favor.
More was expected from the canti-
ever, and it still has strong advocates,
put 1t has not been adopted with that
uSh which seemed probable a couple
years ago. The cantilever is a semi
fIllptic turned over and resting one
'ld on the car axle instead of resting
Is middle thereon as does the semi
''ptic. Because of this peculiar
mounting 1t has nearly twice the
prlhgy motion possible in a semi-ellip-
e or the same length, but also re-
luires to be about twice as thick. Each
u me public is gaining the knowl-
ruge that every car can be properly
pruhg' and that a well-sprung light
ar rides more comfortably than a less
"clehtly sprung heavy car and, con-
'luehtly, they are demanding and
e''lhg better spring values each
Year.
, 1917-08-30
Trade Union Success
In Effort to Shorten
the Hours of Labor
Copyright. 1917.
BY SAMUEL eoMPERs.

SSWtE IFhS
President American Federation Of
Labor.
r AROR Day brings to the workers
of America the right to cheer
and confidence in the trade
49, union movement. There have
been tests and crises that have proved
its fundamental principles; there have
been opportunities that have tested its
practical efficiency. Through them all
the trade union movement has made
sure progress and gained in confident
vision for the future.
Every national and international.
every local union affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor has
made definite progress in securing for
its members greater advantages in
those things which are fundamental
of betterment in all relations of life.
There has been great progress in Sc
curing the eight-hour day or the short
er workday. The meaning of the vic
tories car be interpreted only in the
light of full understanding of the
meaning of the eight-hour day. The
shorter workCIy is something more
than an economic demand. 1t is a de-
mand for opportunity for rest, recu-
peration and development; things
which make life more than mechanical
drudgery.
The workers whose whole periods
are short are essentially different from
those who are so worn by toll that they
have neither energy nor mind for
other things in life. They become
more energetic, more resourceful work
ers with Seener mentality and greater
, 1917-08-30
Organized Labor in
Fight to Put End to
Industrial Wastage
BY FRANK L. MORRISON,


Secretary American Federation %
Labor.
TT is impossible to record funda-
mental gains during the past year
because of organized labor's agita.
ton or to individuaIize probable
gains during the year to come. The
best we can do is to observe tenden-
cies. Prominent among these is the
workers seizure of the cry for pre-
paredness" to emphasize q danger in
industry more deadly than battlefields.
Government statistics show that 3d.
900 men are annually killed and 70O,-
900 are annually injured for a period
of four weeks or. over.
1t has been stated that every year
there are over 100000 cases of in
dustrial illness, caused mainly by long
hours, low wages, dust, bad air, fumes,
smoke, ~poisonlngs and poor ventilation,
and that through typhoid fever and
malaria alone 5000, 600, 600 is annually
lost to this nation. Enough to equip
the largest army and navy in the
world, and then have a balance suffi-
cient to pay the tuition of every boy
now in college.
A system of national preparedness
that does not include recognition of
this frightful and p~reventable wastage
is the preparedness urged by big busi-
ness.
Another element among employers
who talk of the scarcity of labor does
so to entice a sufficient number of idle
workers to their factory gates as a
menace to those employed and who are
, 1917-08-30
PLAN TO KEEP HANDS CLEAN
Simple Method Described Herewith Is
Better and Cheaper Than Using
Expensive OIL.

1t is impossible to keep the hands
clean when making repairs on the ma
chine.
A simple and economical way in
which to cleanse them is as follows:
Mix a quantity of sawdust and lubri-
eating oil together and rub thorough
ly into the pores of the skin.
The oil should then be removed by
wiping the hands with u cloth which
has been saturated with a little gaso-
line or kerosene.
This should be followed by the ordi-
nary wash with soap and water.
1t is poor practice to attempt to re-
move the dirt from the hands by bath
ing them In gasoline, as this will cause
some of the matter to become deeply
imbedded in the skin.
, 1917-08-30
United States Has
Well Been Designated
Nation of Workers

N III EN- of labor came to America
Nn in he ayf1Ower. A printer
and a carpenter signed the
Declaration of Independence.
George Washington was a surveyor at
as a day laborer. Andrew johnson
was a tailor. William Howard Taft,
after leaving college, was a newspaper
reporter at So a week. The United
States Is a nation of workers. Labor
day, consequently, is not for n class
but for Americans in mass.
Frank A. Vanderbilt, president Of the
National City bank, is by trade a ma
chinist. His father was an Illinois
farmer-"a specialist in cows" the son
explained. On the death of the father
the family moved into town.
II found employment" Mr.. Wander
lip said, sin a shop where wood work
ing machinery was manufactured. I
was sixteen and my wages were 10
cents a day. By and by l got a lathe
of my own. l would be a foreman some
day, l was told, and earn $21 a week.
l thought l could do better. So l
icul steuOSTdpuy uHu ldleT tOOh up
the study of bonds"
William II. Canniff. president of the
New York, Chicago & st. Louis rail-
road, was a telegraph operator in
Michigan when he was seventeen. The
attorney general in President Taft's
cabinet, George w. Wickersham, also
was a telegraph operator, as was Theo-
dore n. Vail, head of the Bell telephone
interests.
A section hand In 1869, shovellng
and tamping on the tracks, William C.
Brown, then sixteen years old, fought
his way upward until he became presi-
dent of the New York Central lines.
My daily wages at the timer" he
repeated. Figure them out for your
self. My envelope contained $27.5O at
the end of the month when the pay
Il came down the line" His sue
cessor, Albert H.. Smith. was a rail-
road laborer as a young man.
Judge Robert s. Lovett, president Of
the Union Pacific, dug stumps and cut
brush OF the right of way on u little
line in Texas and drove u team of
mules when the grading began. Ben
Jamin +. Yoakum operated a scraper
In the Southwest on a road In It's build
ing, and became u brakeman when the
road was put into operation.
, 1917-08-30
USE KEROSENE OR GASOLINE
Internal Combustion Engines
Offered for War Use.

A carburetor for internal combustion
engines which uses either kerosene or
gasoline for fuel has been perfected
by a C~levelander, who has just offered
his patents to the government for war
use.
The carburetor is said to be attach
able to any motor and to start almost
instantly in any temperature.
The kerosene is converted into vapor
by means of n small electrical resis-
lance wire and a fbrous material
which absorbs the oil. The moment
, 1917-08-30
ATTENTION TO SPARE WHEEL
" So Desired II May Be Covered Com
pIeteIy With Cover and Locked
In Proper Place.

Thieves, dust, rain, and the weather
generally are enemies to the well-being
of your spare wire wheel. You may
now, If you desire, cover 1t completely
with a carrier which locks on. This
consists of u flexible cover for the tire
and n pair of convex plates between
which cover, tire, and wheel are clamp
ed by the nut on the supporting spin
die. Removing the nut releases the
end plate and the wheel.
, 1917-08-30
PUT OIL IN GASOLINE TANK
Particularly Efficacious for Limbering
Up New Motor-Better Service
Also Secured.

An automobile dealer says that any
one who wants to have "a fine running
motor should put a couple of quarts
of light or medium lubricating oil In
with every ten gallons of gasoline
pumped into the tank. This is parti-
cularly efieacious, he says, in the case
of a new motor. 1t will be limbered
up in considerably less time and will
give better service thereafter.
, 1917-08-30

Every day is labor's day. Every man
worth while is a laborer.
, 1917-08-30

liable to demand better conditions.
These employers oppose restriction OF
immigration because restriction will
defeat their policy of having two oe
more men for every job.
Another tendency is the growing OF
position to labor injunctions, which
class labor power as property. The
congress of the United States has
voiced this opposition in amendments
to the antitrust laws. Judicial inter
pretations of the term property, in
the fourteenth amendment to the fed
eral constitution are losing their force.
What was originally intended to end
slavery has been used to thwart the
enactment of social Legislation, but
courts have failed to check the SWELL
Ing tide Of democracy.
The trade union movement is con-
scious of the part 1t has played in the
tendencies above referred to and this
Consciousness will be an inspiration to
greater effort during the coming year.
, 1917-08-30

the engine is turned the spark ignites
the a in the central chamber, filling
it with a continuous flame. The oil
is then sprayed into this flame, vapor-
izing it as it passes through. This
producer flame is checked by a battle
plate.
BY turning off the electric current,
the carburetor is used for gasoline
Cleveland Plain Dealer.