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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
WHEAT CROP PROSPECTS.

WINTER WHEAT is looking better than it did last
" winter The spring wheat belt starts the with the
soil In excellent condition and large acreage Alto
sether the wheat prospect is so excellent that crop
expert forecasts yield of billion bushels We prefer
the apmst the crepe hanger who killed the whole crop
last winter, he usually does made such inoads in
the prospective yield that looked II must become
corn fed nation However il is Just possible to swing
TOO far the other way Next the peach buds the wheat
crop is perhaps the most uncertain outlook at any time
before threshng begins 1t is a month or more before
harvest begins in the southern end Of the great American
wheat belt and four months before it will sweep
the northern border into Canada great deal can happen
in that time Green bugs chnch bugs Hessian fy rust
drouth fires and flood may wreck the prospect or timely
rains and favorable weather conditions may make the har
vest all more than present prospects indicate and the
only shortage be OF harvest hands and box cars
All Of those things possible in the uncertain lottery
Of agriculture, particularly where wheat is the product
sought Somewhere between the two extremes the Weld
probably will be when delivered and that perhaps win be
sufficient II will If have learned the lessons of using
substitutes as we should and America will help in feed
ing the allies on their way to victory BY large acreage
~ whest farmers proving their patriotism despite the
cosnpIaints against pee-xing That matter may still be
Aljuatcd in fairness the wheat grower and in the mean
line Il viii be well to recruit few divisions Of husky
t6rvsss hands The indications are they are going TO be
sss1sd before long
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
DON'T BLAME US.

MEX WINTER when the trains are 'nowbound when
the mercury hoyers around and points south and
the gas pressure lower don't blame us il there is
no coal in your bin and you stricken with chlbans
and pneumonia When the water pipes freeze and make
business for the pIuocratic plumber and the house plants
perish at their post because OF waning fuel supply we
may be charitable and not say told you so but as
matter of fact we did, and do SO did Mr. Garfield and
other spokcsmen OF the fuel administration You were
warned to purchase coal early for your own sake as we'll
as that Of the government the and industry IN general
And the only excnse many have for not taking advantage
of this sage advice is procra,tnaton the X thief of
time and popular pasme That feeble subteriuge and
will win no sympathy when the day Of reckoning and
irostbte comes Therefore let state again, as the
evangelist says that now is the accepted time To buy
coal now is patriotic service we'll as demonstration
Of common sense which isn't common its name might
imply,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
A BIG DRAFT CALL.

AMERICA must supply reserves, said the Administrations
a weekly war review yesterday Then came call for
lists Of al available class Those two items in
te days news undoubtedly presage large mobilization o
drafted men soon There have been other indications Of
the imperative need OF increasing man power Lloyd
Georges appeal to America one, and the new man
power bill in Great Britain was another Everything nd
Gates our army is grow and go faster than seemed prob
able few weeks ago Our are needed and 1t IS
found that they be transported faster than
earlier plans contemplated Undoubtedly this change Of
plan will hasten many who hoped to postpone their
departure but will give others their chance earlier than
they hoped Also since America is to strike the deciding
biow may hasten the end Of the The Amer
ica can strike with full force the quicker will aerism
Be beaten America has large task but America will not
hIter
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

AYEws that an Oklshoma City man, Lieut. r " Chant
- Of the Royal flying corps Is prisoner Of the Huns
Srss home 20 u here that unpleasant feature Of warfare
yuss how unpleasant is Irwin Cobb relates In arti-
cis In hast week, Saturday Evening Post Mr Cobb has
Nd access to the archives Of III. British war office con
saiune the testimony OF prisoners escaped or exchanged
and what h, learned Is enough to make man fight to
finish without taking chance on the humane treatment
Germany promises to prisoners Of war
Since the war began Germany has eentsred is hatred
On the British and British prisoners were made to feel this
hstred by every form OF insult cruelty and barbarsm the
Hun can devise Prisoners were made to suffer needessy
from thirst and hunger Wounded prisoners were left
without medical care for days at time They were ar
rayed At the stations to b, nsued by angry mobs The
cars in which they were transported filthy cattle
cars Al one camp several prisoners we're burned TO death
without any effort them Many prisoners par
teulsrly Italian were starved to death or died from
disease resulting from malnutrition.
These ar, few Of the forms which kutur takes toward
defensee,s men to whom the Germans like other nations
are sworn to accord the treatment that given their
own soldiers so far food and medical attention are con
cered Knowing the Huns savage nature and his utter
disrsrsrd for principle or promise it doesn't so
s>s,nee And now the Teutonic hatred is shifting from
the Briton to the American That boys who are
captured are going through another phase Of the hell Of
war without chance to fight back But their wrongs will
not be unavenged Frightfunes doesn't ntmidate real
men Mstreatmen Of prisoners Is only another why
we must win this war and win II deoiSivey that Prus
sian militarism will never have chance to repeat its
effort ct world conquest
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

Two Irishmen arranged 70 hgh, :
duel with pistols One OF them wa
very stout. and when he saw his lear
adversary facing him he said
"Bedad, I'm twice as big a target a.
you are, so / ought to stand twice a.
far away from YOU as YOU are from me
"Be aIsy. now replied the other
"Tll soon put that right And. taking
a piece of chalk. he drew two line
down thc stout mans coat leaving a
space of moderate width between them
Now" he said. fire away ys spalpesu
and remember that any h.r. outside that
chalk line don't count
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

the alleged rsnartee pulled of by the
big town Cut.uns
Funny how men who are bush league
spoilers can make $1,000 a year and
hire college graduates TO spell for them
for Sl2 a week
What has become Of the old-fash-
ioned woman who had one good black
dress that she saved for church and
funerals
A husband likes 10 pick up a book
and start reading II so he can pretend
that ms w,.c's nagrng doesn't worry
him But his wife keeps u uagg1g
because she notices that h- has mot
turned a page in the last half hour
After aIl you might as well solicit
criticism II is a D,noh that Won are
going to get n anyhow
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
Habit

The Church Worker was trying 10
prevail On the Rounder 10 attend the
evening service with him. and the
Roundef finally said "All right TIl ty
anything once They went Co Church
together and sat together After a half
hour had passed. me Rounder began i0
get uneasy He leaned over 20 mE
companion and said
"Say. pardncr. when does th. first
act end I'm gottiu dry'
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

II takes a real fellow 10 retain nopu.
lsriDy for any length Of time
There is always some woman IN the
neighborhood about whom the other
women say Huh, II I had the time
and money to spend on myself that she
has ! could look as young as she does
Once upon time there was a man
who acted as cheerful and ohhgng
after he got into office as he did when
he was a candidate for office But he
died lie was too good for the world
II is just as well 10 know before
hand that your friends are going 90
beat u when your enemy strikes you
SO prepare 10 fight YOUR battles alone.
We would hate TO be a glrl az n no.
rel cigar stand and have 10 listen 10
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
SAVE THE STREAMS.

EISHING in Oklahoma isn't as important an industry
as the oil business; in fact there many who will
contend that fishing industry at all which IS why
they are for it, At any rate let us hope The oil men will
listen to the plea Of the game warden and make some other
disposition Of their residue than pollung our placid
streams, and putting the piscatoral pastme on the blink
Not all men are fishermen although unable to un-
der,tand why but all have interest in the beauty spots
Of IN, state Also the water courses serve more practical
and proao purposes than making the Landscape picturesque
and providing a family home for the fnny tribe They
furnish the water supply for herds and focks which can't
he run by petroleum gasoline like the tractor or tour
ing car Doubtless the oil men can find other means
Of dsposng Of the waste We hope for IS best to set
lie controversies amieaby But they don't IT they per
s,t in applying an oily finish to the fish ot OF fisher
men ae going to quit buying stock That is an ulumatum
II Jess Willard and Fred Fulton are really looking for
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

"Thsy tell me that nd Prnrhnenny BE-
your champion ughtwad." said the
stranger
HE sure is" replied ths native
why. he's 'o Iingy that he's been
loaimR In the drug store for thc lao
two days hoping that ths odor OF thr
drug, will cure hs cold
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
Try This on YouT SweetheaTl

You love me. GIRL your heart ] now cor-
troll
From me YOU cant conceal your dear
affection
I EnEed into tho mirror Of your s0pl
And there I clearly saw my Ohn re-.
Election
Luke McLuke
on my sweetheart this little Jest tried
Her answer really caused mr much de
lection
Just glance into your own heart" shs
replied,
And YOU viii sec ths very same rs-
Election
Newark Advocate
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

Il A we are still busy saving wheat it may interest you
T. sw that the people of Colombia South America cat
sg Nod almost exclusively and thrive on it, However
III Nh be no news to many parts OF the sunny south
I've long counted bread as the only staff Of
- While
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
Yat

To Other women Nrs Chit
About hor wardrobe bfaEF.
Ana thon she'll toll her husband hat
Hhr dresses ere Hil rage
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

Nor shall neglect the thrift stamp, because they are
small They will be sale for eight months yet and }ou
can help yourself and he country by purchasing regularly
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

Willie-Paw. how does love make the
world go round
Paw That's when a 'poony couple
is bIockadng lhs sidewalk my son
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

No matter what man may HHr.
He always finds out 90 hiH HuTuw
lie never does sO we'll tOdHy
A. hu expects 10 do tomorrow
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

Luke McLuke Says.
When Nature permitted a musiache
to grow on a mans upper lip she never
intended that he would spend. eigNt
hours a day trying TO male il curl
After = princess develops enough Of
a shape to warrant wearing a corset she
believes that If great artist ever saw
her figure the great artist would have
her kidnapped and use her for a model
The mother Of a couple OF small BOYS
can imagine more trouble In so Sec
ond' than could happen IN so years
You think YOU have a good memory
don't you2 Well then. who is neutcn-
amt governor of your siate2
ANY boob can attain popularity Rm
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
LaakeMLfGe


Modern Cupsry Rhymes.
BiH Hun Won lmhy,
Tortured n baby
"A BelgiAnl he poked out lts eye
le hacked m lts feet
Then said with r0nCeit
"Ach. Colt N0t "a brave Hun am
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

We thank r w for giving the
rhyme a little more publicity as n is
good Kaiser poison bu kindly give
| mkc LrrlM
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
Betchs

IA rather he q doodle bug
And roll B ball NJ mud
Than ho the kaiser ON thf.
AflOat boo Infants blood
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
ThanIl

Lukes rhyme in prose Rebellion In
Hell" Is going the rounds done up into
six verses and credited 10 K W The
rhyme Is the one that closes thusIy
our company lg not NO FwrII
VIE beasts We won't reject.
But keep tho kaiser out M hrI
We have SOME self-rcEpcrf
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30

If Jess Willard and Fred Fulton are really looking for
fight instead Of easy money they should take Kaiser
Wilhelm the Hohenroern kid.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
Fifteen Years Azo


Miss Lucille Nulhlil passed fHr1lsr
.he city yesterday enr1r's f" 50 Louis
The new Jewish temple a.' hs dsdi
Gated Friday evening ar 'Hs Dhrsuar
hurrh Ratbi W n 5rssr-lrg Pr
ID 0f the Temple Emar1s. 1. palla'
Texas vIil deliver me address
Mrs Arsf arrived yesterday 'r1r
her home 100 Tennessee. 'n make l7 rt
tended visit With her laagrf-- Ms
H N RHnbrlu
II 3, hoped that Dkar.rl CRY r.'
attract frs rFr ui some .i '. H.i
packers before fH- Bee. ns-s-r
formed
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
Line, worth RsnsmherlnE
Conditional Dusling

Victory belongs 10 the most 9e-'e.
ycrng Napoleon
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
OnE Iot Miller Conlssl

Joe Zimmerman claims that the old
est Joke is the one about the cwcde
servant girl who met another Swede
servant girl on the street and was tell
ing her about the fine house she was
working in. 1T is a fine yob. said
Hilda And it bane a fine house We
got a crematcd cellar cemetery plumb
ing elastic lights and hooat"
What's hooSit'" asked the other girl
"Nell," said Hilda "a bell rings and
YOU put a thing TO your car and you
say 'Hcllor And some one says Hcllor
And then you say 'Hoost|'
Form in Line, Don't Crowd
Schcmann an Camp Building Mil
waukec. adycrilscs IN the Milwaukee
Journal for AN ambitious hoy either
sex, Young or old
Our Daily Special
The Best Sermons Are Preached I'm
Silence
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-30
Form In /. Ine. DonlL Crnwd
Our Dailr SnAcinl
Lnke McLnke Saw

The Rest Sermons Are Preached II
Silence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-03
TRUE TO TYPE.

The presidents address to congress
Yesterday was characteristic. He asked
the support OF congress without taking
congress into his confidence. In short
he desires congressional support blind
fold. II was typical proposition. Th"
president. dtsmissing the senate as u
treaty making power under the con-
stitution proposes to make the peace
treaties without consulting the other
treaty making power and the senate is
to accept whatever Mr.. Wilson sees
fit TO write into the settlement Of the
most momentous treaty ever made be-
tween this country and other nations.
The dismissal of all prominence Of
craftsmanship except his own in the
selection Of the commission was typi-
cally WiIsonian. And with that COM
mission and its cooks and satellites
and sycophants the president of the
United States sails merrily away today
leaving behind the request that con-
gtess he prepared 10 indorse ali and
any settlement he may see lit to make.
For that is what it amounts TO- Mr.
Borah was within the facts when ~
said that Mr.. Wilson named himself
five times.
The address was true TO type and 10
the idea OF a presidential aItocracy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-03
is THE PRESIDENCY V,CtNT7

Con gress proposes 10 make the vice
president president indeed while Prest-
dent Wilson is abroad with his retinne
and those fifty famous cooks which
the dispatches relate he carries with
him. That is resolutions in both
both houses propose approximately the
same thing.
George =. Edmunds. who IS given
the credit by the New York Times Of
the best constitutional lawyer living
who has served IN the senate offers the
opinion:
1t is my belief that the president by
going abroad will, for the time being
cease to possess his executive power
He cannot delegate those powers. Il
will be the duty OF the vice president
to carry on the government.
BY leaving the country the president
has brought on legal discussion and
perhaps,a clash Of authority to say the
least extremely regrettable Il not
dangerous. The functions of the presi-
dent Of the United States can not be
suspended while the president 2bsents
himself for an indefinite period. There
are important papers that can not await
the return Of president from across
seas. and these important functions OF
all kinds are not he exercised by the
vice president as vice president.
4,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-03

The young prince Napoleon who
died in Africa was dashing soldier,
the ideal OF French courage and
leadership. ple swin!sh sons Of the
Hohenzollern have been branded as
towards and fools.
But while the claim e right 10 rule
rests with any Hohenzollsrn the dan
ger remains. And the greatest danger
of all is that those who rule in their
stead have learned nothing from his
tory. Bad government is the opportun-
ity Of deposed royalty. The Bourbons
who had learned nothing and for
gotten nothing rather than Napoleon
brought on the 100 days. Bad govern
ment in Germany will be the culture
bed for plots and revolution seeking
the return OF royalty.
The rurest counter to royalists plots
is free and just government OF the
people and 10y the people for the
people.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-03
LRN David Cory.l


on where are you 50 merrily on,
You two little rabbits, pray tell,
In your Luckymobie, painted red
white ana blue
You are looking Remarkably swell;
Please stop sor moment and tell me
Just where
You are going, for maybe youli meet
"A big bear
What did yoG say" asked Uncle
Lucky. stopping the Luckymobile so
suddenly that his old wedding stove
pipe hat slipped over one ear and his
gold watch and chain jumped out OF
his waistcoat pocket.
Il said YOU might meet big bear,
said the little bird with a twttter chit
ter and then she turned her pretty
head first on one side and then on the
other and after that she shook he''
tail feathers.
We're not afraid Of bears" said
Billy Bunny i've got my pop sun and
Uncle Lucky has a gas bomb
SWslL then cont let me stop YOU
sad the little bird. and she flew away
into the Friendly Forest 10 make call
on some other little bird
just the same" said Uncle Lucky,
we'd better be careful, tor bears are
rot the incest kind OF people 10 meet
on a lonely road and one big bear Is
better than two little rabbits
Let's Camoutiage the LucEymooile.
said Uncle Lucky. who had learned
this word from little French bunny
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-03

launched in Ohio. where ..fteen proml-
nent republicans of Akron, led by for
ner Senator Charles Dick. have ap-
piled to the teCretary OF state for the
inCorporat ion OF the Pcrshing Repub-
lican league According 10 the articles
OF incorporation, the purpose OF the
league is TO "crystall.ze the already eN-
listing sentiment for Gen. John J.
States in 1920 and TO work for his
nomination and election
There are a erea, many admirers Of
the commander in chief OF the Amer
lean expeditionary forces who would
like 10 join the league II they had any
definite assurances tina. Pershing is
republican. How the Akron patriots
got inside information on this point IL
a mystery. That Pershing's father-iu e
law is republican is we'll known, but
ones father-in-law doesn't Away =
shape ones politics, as the Hon. Mich
olas Longworth. OF Ohio. will testify.
Consequently il Is up to the Pershing
Republican League to secure cert!-
.icate of partisan faith for its cand,-
date as the first step and then get an
inkling as to whether he Will permit
the use of his name in this connection.
When they have done this all that is
necessary TO elect Pershing is 10 beat
the other candidates. Its simple
proposition.
So far as known General Pershins
never cast vote in his life. which
makes Il trifie difficult to get line
on his politics. Since graduating from
West Point in 1856 NJ has been in the
army and thus has had nothing to do
with political matters. He was born
and reared in a democratic atmosphere.
His birthplace. Linn county. Mo- is
u part OF the Second Missouri congress
sional district now represented by that
sterling democrat the Hon William
w Rucker All this, Of course. is cir
cumstantial evidence. buS il is the best
light obtainab bic on the subject in the
absence Of a definite statement from
the general himself or from someon.
com petent to speak for rim. Among the
presidents. Washington, Jackson. Will
liam Henry Harrison. Taylor. Grant,
Hayes, Garfield. Benjamin Harrison,
Mckinley and Roosevelt won fame as
soldiers but IN every case their polit-
.cal faith vas clearly defined Wash
ngton Post
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-03
Billy Bunny and HIS Friends

soldier, and which means TO maNa
something look like something II isn't,
you know,
So the two little rabbits hoped out
and pulled up a lot Of little fir trees
and placed them all around the LUCKY
mobile tin II looked just like little
forest, and then they hoped In ana
started or again. AMI by and %.
after a while, they saw a great Dig
tremendous peur sitting on log by
the road side. He was eating honey
out OF cut glass bowl with silver
spoon, and every once IN q while he
would wipe his mouth with big linen
napkin
20 here comes a forest on wheels
and on springs
VIII | never stop seeing such strange,
funny things"
Til, airs fu!! OF automobiles sailing on
wings,
Ard the ladies' are wearing their
bracelets for ringa,
And the people are taxing the crowns
from the kings
And then the bear dropped the bowl
uf honey and split ~ all over his toes
and while he vas busy picking up the
silver spoons the two little rabbits
passed by and were soon out of sight
and in the next story YOU shah hear
what happened after that-that is, If
the little-~fir trees don't fall off the
Luckymobile and lose their ice cream
cones.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-03
PLOTTiH1 FOR TIE KAISER.

The discovery Of plot to return the
kaiser to rulership of Germany is no
less than should be expected While he
and his princes remain those plots will
simmer among the junker classes OF
Germany while those classes exist.
France lived for many years after
the establishment Of the republic fol-
lowing the defeat and dethronement OF
Louis Napoleon with the Vaccinations
of the royalists OusiIy looking forward
to the return Of the prince VINO fell
under the Zulu spears IN the British
service and finally ended the line of
Na poIeons.
Without any doubt history will re-
peat Itself in Germany and history
offers the evidence that royal lines
and their supporters forever strive to
return to power.
The first Napoleon. dethroned in 1914
and given the sovereignty of the island
of Eiba came back for those historical
100 DAYS.
one hundred aud four years later
Wilhelm abdicated after a failure to
conquer the world.
Can Wilhelm and his royalists create
another 100 days of bloodshed in
Europe?
Wilhelm and MS sons lack the
character to inspire actual love among
the people that the Napoleons pos
seseed to such mafsed degree, The
first Napoleon led his lines. The
his armies