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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

81 do like ordered the captain
SO Van showed him. Though the
doctor couldn't quite make it out. at
that just what Van did. He stroked
their heads little and massaged
their tlroats bit, and all the time
he talked to them in the quietest,
most harmless sounding voice in the
world. But ten minutes after he be-
gan, the boys were asleep, naturally,
without tremor in the bodies that
had been nerve-wracked for weeks.
| The doctor looked at Sergeant Van
helplessly and left shaking his head
Two weeks later Sergeant Van
held a clinic before major general
of the medical corps and several ma
Jors and still more captains and
Iieutenants--all men OF reputation in
| America as doctors. Two of his sub
jects were the two men over whom
he worked that first morning. They
came into the clinic, clear-eyed and
straight and ruddy as athletes from
the field. They passed tests that the
doctors couldn't pass themselves.
/ One OF them, supporting himself
by his shoulders and his ankles be-
tween two table, held the weight
Of four OF the huskiest of the doctors
standing upon him at the same time.
Another subject was a huge negro
who had been brought to the hos
pital the day before and whom Ser
geant Van had never seen. Four hy-
podermics had not been able TO quiet
him, and they brought him in in a
straight-iacket. 1t took Van Just !
seven minutes to have him asleep.
Since then the shell-shock cases
have been in Vans hands The doc
tors shake their heads and wonder. |
An American professor, well known |
for his psychological research work |
shakes his head, too, and has moth
ing TO say.
In the camp and the hospital they |
call himthe "hypnotiSt." Perhaps he
is. Under the management OF the |
Young Mems Christian Association
he has given a great many perform
ances that set the men into gales OF
laughter-rcgular slap-stick feats of
mcsmeric ability. He laughs when
you try to get him TO explain them.
"Oh. | don't know he will say. But
h. grows serious over his shell
sock cases.
1T isn't that | hypnotic them, at
all, he will tell you. u just tell them
that they are bigger than thcir
nerves and that they can control
them if they really want to. And I !
show them how. They believe it be-
cause | tell them it is so, and then
you See they are WELL
But the doctors continue to won
der and TO say that Van has discov-
cred the first really successful treat
ment for shell shock.
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VAN CURES EN- OF
SHELL SHOCK BY HIS
HYPNOTIC" METHODS

Paris, Dec. l2.-(Correspondencc)
! ly-that is, he has never been in
doctor Van" isn't a doctor, real
side OF a medical school. He is not
a commissioned officer, either. Two
DAYS after the war was declared in
America he enlisted in one OF the
cities OF the middle West and came
over as a private. lie is d sergeant,
now. His experiences-driying an
ambulance. first, and alter that IN
the front line and then in various
camps in France till he was sent 10
a base hospital as a patient, would
fill several diaries, ii he keeps such
things, which l doubt.
But there are a good many men
in that base hospital who owe their
returning health 10 him, after they
had been in bed 10; weeks and even
months. Now. .lthough they admit
that ne j, well again they will not
let him 90 from the hospital, be-
cause a transfer i, a long and tcdi-
Gus business To bring about. and
they need him there 10 help out with
the patients.
He was only out OF bed day
or so himself when he came across
two BOYS in one OF the wards who
had been in the hospital since April.
One Of them had been an interpreter /
with the French army and the other
was a Marine from Chateau Thier-
~. They had been shell-shocked, |
and in all these monthS-from April /
10 September-thoy had grown
scarcely any better.
Captain Sergeant Van said one
morning to the doctor in charge OF
ne ward. "do you mind if ] see
what / can do for those men there?
think ! may be able to help them
,ut a bit. if YOU don't mind
The captain looked n him inter-
stedly. If it had been any other
nan this captain would have been
Indifferent, perhaps. But Sergeant
Ian has way with him.
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JOIN ihe Red CrOsS-----
FOR INTERNATIONAL
CONSIDERATIONS Will
WILSON VISIT LONDON

London, Dec. 25.-Commentina
upon the visit OF President Wilson
TO England, the Daily Mail says:
1--WE shall give him OF our best.
II is with that desire that our peo-
pie have learned with especial sat
siaction that the fullest panoply OF
honor will be spread to welcome so
notable guest. Mr.. Wilson is not
coming here for politics. His visit
is for international consecratiou and
is to viSibly cement the two English
speaking peoples, graded in whose
hands reposes the newborn peace
of the world.
1--WE behold Christmas OF jos
and Il moment unexplained in the
rugged history OF our race. It is
the peace Christmas. Many of our
soldiers are back again and our tor
tured prisoners are coming home.
Gaiety at last is released from bond,
of anxiety and privation and glow3
like fire in our hearts. Al this
season OF all, the presidents visit i,
a heartening augury for the world
at peace, since it POUNDS upon rock
the solid amity and united purpose
OF the British and American democ-
racieS.'
There are Jew incidents which
can rival the presidents visit to our
capital says the Daily Telegraph.
London and Great Britain will rs,
proud to greet the man who is at IA
head OF vast nation and is himself
a foremost citizen of the world
They recognize in his visit a token
of wonderful future and a sign
and seal of that great alliance OF the
Anglo-Saxon peoples on both sides
of the Atlantic which means 50
much for the happiness and tran
guilty OF mankind. They know how
will be his advice and
counsel in the future parliament OF
peace, for he brings to the discus
Sions that clarity of judgment and
freshness OF vision which are SC
helpful in an emergency like that
with which we are confronted"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24
-JOlI tile htu trOSS--
LUDENDORFF SUCCESSOR
THREATENING TO SEIZE
BERLIN TO KEEP ORDER

Zurich. Dec. 2S.-The Ebert gov
ernment in Berlin is reported to be
faced with another crisis through
the resignation OF the minority men,
bers of the cabinet.
Political circles in Berlin. another
report says. are agitated by a rumor
that General Groener. who succeed
ed General Ludendorff as chief quar-
termaster general. has threatened to
seize Berlin with troops that have
remained faithful if order is not es-
tablished there shortly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

we must exercise our imagination
to translate abstract principles,
which are in reality as old as the
hills, into concrete, practical facts
ii We should insure the future
against such tragedies through
which the world has recently passed.
Imagination is sometimes associ-
ated with the impractical. But it
is not necessarily 4 sign OF the i'm
practical. Applied TO affairs OF
statecraft It is a process OF careful
analysis with due regard for the
principle OF change which runs
throughout the plans OF Nature. II
ample provision were made for this
principle, a swapping OF the great
Gordon OF human affairs would be
far less likely to occur; the slack
would be taken up, so to speak, as
it developed
Lost to American Colonies
1t was lack OF imagination on the
part OF King John which lej to
the situation at Runnymedc in 12l5;
the compulsory signing OF the Mag |
ma Charta was but the elimination /
Of long series of events in which I
the factors of change were forming. |
Great Britain lost her American
colonies because her statesmen re-
fused to see, through the eyes of
the elements OF change
in process of capitalization.
Similar instances might be cited
indefinitely, for the pages of his
tory are full OF them. Reversing the
situation. one might dwell upon
events in which imagination played
the leading role. The founding OF
our own republic. with It's untried
principles OF government is an I'M
)ressive example. 1
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24
An Honest Lawyer
Merits an Honest
Obituary Mention

Portland Oregouian: There liV-
ed in Seattle a lawyer who would
take no case unless he had firm
conviction OF its merits. He made
no boast OF it, and he sought no ac-
claim because OF it. Yet it brought
him many clients, undoubtedly; bnt
i, brought him more than clients. 1t
won tor him ease OF conscience,
without Selt-righteousneSs, and it
B saved him from many troublesome
/ situation.
This lawyer had no thought OF
criticism ior others in the profession
who thought it their duty to take u
clients case, right or wrong. 1t IS
quite true that in many caseS-per-
haps most cases--no one side has
all the right or all the wrong; and
in others no essential question oil
moral is involved. He believed pro-
ioundly in the law as memorable
profession and he was proud o. his
high place in il; and he was proud
OF the esteem OF Other lawyers
The lawyer was Elwood Clark
Hughes, and he lived for 2S years in
Seattle. He was associated in that,
period with such distinguished mcuI
rs the late Henry G.. Sturve and the-
late John b. Allen and Maurice Nc
Micken, and he was long the senior
member OF the important firm OF
Hughes McMiken, Ramsey & Rupp.
lie died the other day at The Dali
les, whittier he had gone ior treat
ment OF troublesome disease, and
he was later buried at his home
amid the general grief OF a commu-
nifty in which he was as widely
known as he was thoroughly re-
spected
Mr. Hughes had been a teacher in
his early days, and he was for a
time college professor. But the law
him and he became men,
ber of the bar. He practiced in
Iowa before he came to Seattle in
1880. His career was identified con-
Spicuously thereafter with the de-
OF that city. He had a
taste for literature and poetry, and
he cultivated it, he had genius for
friendship, and he gave it full bent;
he had talent for politics, and he
played part in it, but never for
he had an interest
n public affairs, and he responded
% every call to aid his community
and state; he had an instict for pa
.riotism, and he served his country
n every crisis, giving to the cause
0f America in the recent war his son
and his son-in-law. He knew weeks
lgo that he could not live, but he
lept the even tenor of his way, and,
when he could no longer bear up(
'etired TO a hospital distant froiS
lis home, and quietly awaited the
Messenger
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

The recent case OF Germany !:
not out OF point, from whatever an
gle it may be considered. The kai-
ser either had no imagination, OF
failed 10 exercise what he may have
had, when he planned to conquer
the world. Having started the war,
he refused again to heed the coun-
sci which imagination would have
furnished.
The Intangible Sent America
One might say that the kaiser was
simply a fool. Even so, were not
the visible. concrete factors in ia
vor of Germany? She had the
greatest war machine the world
had ever known. and her imniedi-
ate enemies. and also her possible
enemies, were all unprepared. The
German army would be in Paris
within three weeks! The kaiser did
not analyze the possibilities; he did
not consider those intangible fac
tors which had been making for
democracy since that principle OF
government had been established;
he was counting upon the old fac
tors OF the past, among which was
military might. But it was the in
tangible that sent America into the
war-and that, in the form OF an
awakening consciousness OF right,
throughout the world, caused Ger
many's defeat.
In dealing with the problems ere
ated by the war the statesmen and
the people OF the allied nations will
have 10 exercise their imaginations
as never before. Sufficient leeway
must be allowed for this or that
possibility. and provision made even
for eventualities which are not visi-
Die now even as possibilities. |
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24
/ A ~ N
- L The San Antonio

Since time immemorial the world
has been developing the habit OF
depending upon the past, with its
apparent, concrete facts, for guild
ance in the future. Its calculations
have been built largely upon ma
icrialistic considerations, with lit
tie allowance for possible combina-
tions OF factors which might upset
all OF those calculations. In short,
the world in general has given little
exercise to the faculty of magma
tion.
The result is to be seen in the
great events of history, the political
governmental, economic, social and
religious upheavals which have so
often reddened human annals. Ad-
herring closely to the things that
have been and the things that are,
the world has neglected the things
that might be. Hence factors,
oftentimes intangible, which made
for change were ignored, until fl
nally, having been built up with
cumulative effect, those factors be-
came potent in the present sense,
were transformed suddenly from
the intangible to the tangible. Then
the world had to deal with a prob
lem for which it was not prepared
and there was immediate friction,
and oftentimes war and great suffer-
ing.
In a Transition Stage
We are just now in one OF the
great transition stages. Some OF us
in the universal sense
are contending for a continuation OF
the things OF the past. while others
are insisting that there is no single
criterion OF the past which is COM
oetent 10 guide us now, and that /
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

"What do you want to do with
them?' he wanted to know.
I'D like to talk to them bit, sir
now and then" Sergeant Van said
The captain threw up his hands
"Kamerad!' he cried jovially
Talk is the deadliest medicine on
top Of the earth"
Il was meaning it SIR the Ser
geant said, steadily.
ooh, 90 ahead, Van" the captain
agreed. do anything YOU blame
please "
The next morning on his rounds,
the captain stopped beside the bed
Of the first of the two men who
had been shell-Shocked.
"How's it coming this morning,
boys?' he asked.
"F-f-fine, sir" was the answer, a
little unsteadily given, perhaps, but
the captain did not notice that. He
sat down on the bed and looked at
the boy in amazement. Those were
the first words he had spoken aloud
since the day ne came to the hos
pital unconscious, five months be-
lore.
At that moment Sergeant Van
hove into sight from the diet kit
chen. He had plate OF milk toast
in his hands-a plate that the boy
in bed followed with an interested
gaze.
BEG pardon. sir" Sergeant Van
said. saluting, but [ must ask you
to wait until my patient has had
his breakfast before YOU talk with
him" !
The astonished captain allowed
himself to be waved from the bed
TO the nearest chair and watched
n amazement the boy devour the
toast. His hands shook so from |
,hell-shock, that he could scarcely |
manage it, but he was propped up |
md led himself. with every ap- /
'earance OF keen interest in his /
ood. The day before the boy had
lot been able to swallow anything
,ut liquid food, and he couldn't
iave held the spoon.
The captain beckoned Sergeant
IAN to the end of the ward.
Did YOU do that he demanded.
"Yes sir admitted Sergeant Van.
How in blue blazes-"began the
.aptain and paused for lack OF
words.
'I'll show YOU il you like, sir"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24
CHILE AND PERU STORY NOT pERUsED

J INIIL four or five years ago such incident as
~ the contemporary quarrel between the republics
OF Chile and Peru would have been frst-page
nroyender for the multitudnous readers of Amer
can newspapers All of US would have been excited
over the trouble down there Long and labored edi-
orills would have occupied honor places, discussing
events, possibilities, causes and effects. But now
adays very little appears in the press concerning the
lmbroglio of our southern ncghbors. The people do
not care to peruse Peru-Chlc trouble-talcs
Even the very recent operations of the so-caled
Villa bandits in Mexico would have made fine large
first-0age matter five years ago. Now we pass over
he scant reports with feeling akin to disgust more
than to anything else. We not particularly inter
csted in Mexican affairs these days And if the semi
momhy revolution in a Central American republic
continues to break out at present writing, we learn
little or rothing about it and care still less
There are bigger events in the making. But aren't
You vearnng. now and then, for return to the old
far-off and wellngh forgotten days when lynchng
in Mississippi made the staff correspondents hotfoot
it for the canebrakes to Cover the story? And
aren't you slightly avid for of the oldtime news
paper stories anent the dog-fght Main street?
Let's take vote and see how many OF would |
prefer human-interest tales-even concerning dogs
o the big war-andpeace proposition the wat
RS. The ladies, you know have votes now.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

The Heinrich lIeine OF Henryetta, otherwise the
bard OF The Free Lance newspaper there, holds the
mistlctoc 10 be Okahoma's state flower lie has writ
ten charming little lyric anent it. However by
OF the influenza epidemic it may be wise for the
girls not to get under the mistleoe too obviously
this Christmas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24
JOIN the Red CrOss-
HINDENBURG MASSING
SOLDIERS IN POSEN

Zurich, Dec. 23.-Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg, according to re-
ports received here from Germany,
has concentrated large force OF
soldiers in Posen.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

A San Antonio reporter got Macklyn Arbucke, the
noted 'egitimate' actor confused with the Arbuckle
person who is known 'thc San Antonio Kid" in the
movie world; and Macklyn is native of San Antonio
and has promised to serve this season public Santa
Claus there! "No prophet is without honor save in
his own country"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24
Join the Red Gre
DIXON'S

Mems, boys, ladies and children's
reduced price shoe sale continued tGl
January lst. so cents to $3.50 saved
on every pair OF Dixon's shoes. Next
to postoffice. 49,
Join the Red Gross
ALL KINDS FIREWORKS. w
J. LANE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

This is the last day OF the Red Cross Christmas
roll call. "Whe yet the lamp holds ont to burn
YOU know the OF the quotation, otherwise the last
line.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

This is Yuletide otherwise Christmas time. so lets
all forego the grouches may have been cuItivatng
and assume or assmlate the Christmas spirit. n Z.
And Join the Red Cross, incidentally
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

Posen is in German Poland. Polish
nationalists have claimed it as part
of the new Poland, and Polish
troops have invaded the territory,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

Give yourself that Christmassy feeling by giving
your dollar far Red Cross membership today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24

Only few weeks until we shall have the
state legislature upon our hands and our nerves.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-24
The Ardmoreitc Means Ardmore Right
THE SOCRATES OF FORT GIBsoNn

WYE Lit the following from the Fort Gibson New
w Era, an Oklahoma weekly that is unique:
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-31
THE BURY THE HAMMER CLUB.

4 a2 u ~ Is y
Mrs. Broadmind, at our last meet
ing, felt moved to make few remarks
as to why civic movements often fail
to accomplish what they hope.
There are too many people,, 2 she
said, who want to know who starts
a thing before they will do anything
to help, # a-good public movement is
started by some one without much So
cial prestige or backing. lot of peo-
pie will have nothing to do with it.
They say It did not have the right
crowd back of it. They will hammer
1t until the person who really had a
good idea becomes discouraged, lets it
drop and one more good proposition is
done to death.
'.The knockers seem to feel that in
some way their social prestige will
be prejudiced ifthey allow themselves
to be identified with people who do
not have prominent social standing
As a result, unless you can get the
social. leaders of the town to back a
thing, it will be knocked to death
How much better it is. when any.
lone suggests a good idea, for the so
Icial leaders to encourage them to
push it, and take secondary position
III necessary in backing it, and let
Isome one else have little credit"
Mrs. Broadmind's remarks were
greeted with applause.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-31
.ouR BOYS IN FRANCE

Is 4
Our European allies must be greatly
encouraged by the fine spirit our sol
der boys are showing in the trench
es. And the Germans who have been
saying that the Americans were lot
of towards who would never fight,
have a lot Of their own words to eat.
There is a great big disagreeable sur
prise coming to them one of these
days. They would better hold back
those shock troops concerning which
they say SO much, to stand some of
the shocks they will have to meet.
Whenever our boys set out to take
"a position they seem to get It, And
they don't give up anything they have
taken either. The universal report is
that they fight like demons. Mr.. Hun
did a very poor stroke for. his bust
ness when he stirred UP great sleepy
America to the fighting mad pitch. He
will regret it before he is many months
older.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-31
COUNTY AGENT MOVEMENT
Il. GROWS

Two thousand county agent workers
were employed to help the great land
army of this country to produce and
conserve food during the six months
from January LIST to July 1st, accord
ing to a recent report made by the
United States department of agricul-
ture. The report shows that over (, )
200 county agent workers were at work
in all parts of the country on July 1st,
as compared with .4,20O on January
list. This increase consists of an ad-
dition of $50 persons connected with
the county agent work, 625 with the
home. demonstration work and .725 with
the boys and girls club movement.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-31
PRESIDENT AND FAvoRlTlsMs !.

II President Wilson finds himself
where Increased criticism is lodged
against him based on the charge that
he has been unduly crowding the
farmers Of the Northwest engaged in
raising wheat, while showing faF
voritism for cotton raisers OF the
south. The charge is made that the
president is working in the interest
OF the democrat party and aiding the
democrats of the south, while frowning
upon the rights Of the wheat raisers OF
the Northwest. The president was
prompt to insist upon fixing the price
by the government Of wheat, because
it was claimed that the price might be
manipulated, at the same time ignor-
ing, the demands that the price also
be fixed upon cotton. BY government
action, the price of wheat which
reached SO. 10 in June, 1917, has been
held at 1920 per busfel since the fall
of that year, and double its price in
the early months of the war. Cotton,
without any action of the government
to hold the price down, rose from seven
cents to a maximum OF thirty-three
cents per pound, and yet the presi-
dent has not seen fit to interest him
self in preventing the price of cotton
running away with itself.
Government control has given grain
farmers an increase of 1000, while I'M
restricted markets has placed the cot
ton product up nearly 400%. The
western farmer hears with alarm that
the cotton interests are beseaching
Washington with the demand that the
government take further action to pro-
tect them against the falling of prices.
We doubt If President Wilson will