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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
STRATEGIC VALUE FOODS.
Self-Control Principle Upon Which
Hoover Says Depends Trust of
u. S. Administration.

Philadelphia Public Ledger A
few food facts:
Our trust is in self-control." SAYS
Mr., Hoover.
That is a constant quantity on
which our government in peace and
war can rely.
The people are patriotic and will
ing; they will obey orders and they
will take suggestions,
They are anxious to do the right
thing.
Staring us in the face is the big
gest food fact OF all-that we must
send abroad l00,0O0000 bushels Of
wheat.
Oatmeal, corn mullins, fried
mush-who says these are hard
ships?
They are delicacies.
Cornmeal can't be sent to Eu-
rope; it spois on the way
Corn itself is too bulky; it takes
up precious space in the ships hold.
Unless you are able to send the
allies at least 75,000000 bushels Of
wheat" cables Baron Rhondda, 81
cannot take the responsibility Of
assuring our people that there will
be food enough to win the war"
Nor does that amount include the
100000 bushels that must 90 to
Belgian relief.
1t is a problem that comes down
TO your table and mine.
We at four ounces of sugar day
-four times what they get in Italy,
France and England.
They can't get even their ounce
per diem unless we cut down our
sugar.
A crop shortage in France and
Italy has cut down the beet sugar
output a third for this year.
Seventy per cent of England's
supply OF sugar is cut off by the
war. England must get 100000
tons from somewhere.
Therefore we must save 80 per
cent OF our wheat, 20 per cent Of
our pork, 10 per cent of our beef
and mutton, 10 per cent of sugar.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
THE MEN WHO CAME BACK
copyrighted by the British-Cana-
dian Recruiting Mission.)
BY Lieut.. J. d. Cameron

| Copyrighted by the British-Cana-
dian Recruiting Mission,)
BY Lieut. J. d. Cameron
5th Battalion Western Cavalry
Continued from Yesterday
Just at the time the prisoners
were coming out thickest ! got hit.
Strings of prisoners passed me go
ing out in charge Of a corporal and
couple of the men. Our orders
were that the prisoners were to be
used for the purpose OF assisting
our stretcher bearers and taking
care OF the wounded, which they did
readily and efficiently.
Charlie Gordon, a friend OF mine,
threw a bomb into a dugout where
there we're seven Huns. He told
me that only two Of them were able
to come out when he got through
with them. He himself was wound
ed and he made those two carry
him back. They took him to an
enemy dugout which was now in
our possession, stopped the bleed
ing of his wounds and supplied him
with food from their own rations.
The third enemy trench was
found to be almost deserted. The
machine gun crews put up a fight
in a few places, but it is now con-
ceded that we were practically
through the enemy lines that day
if we had only known it.
From where ! was hit | had a
box seat for the rest OF the show.
Right on the top OF the rising
ground | could see the towers of
Bapaume in the distance Mira
mont, and other villages in the fore
ground were directly under our ar
tillcry observation.
That day Thiepval was captured,
which had resisted our efforts since
July lst. Its strength lay in its
tactical position, in the deep dug
outs which the enemy had made,
and the two redoubts which sup
ported it from a commanding posi-
ton on high ground. From these
redoubts a sweeping machine gun
lire could be lid down over the
terrian across which we had to adj
vance. In addition practically all
the high ground south from Thiep-
val to Combles was occupied by our
troops, excepting a couple OF points
like the Butte dc Warlecourt,
which was taken later and is now
held sacred to the memory of the
men who gave their lives to take it.
For the whole length Of the line,
some sixteen miles, the eighteen
pounds were practically wheel
to wheel, and behind them at short
intervals were the heavier howt-
zers. The barrage which they laid
down was appalling to the enemy,
and most satisfactory from our
point Of view.
As the colonel had said, nothing
like it had ever been known in the
history of the world. The result
of this attack from a military point
of view as the fal lof Bapume and
the retirement OF the Hun to the
latest Of his iIIndenburg lines.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
THE OLD LADY TALKS
ION POISON GAS)
By Edith Barnard Delano
of the Vigilantes.

They were waiting in the railroad
station for the nine o'clock train to
town; the trolleys were showed up,
and it was Saturday, so the station
was crowded; of course everybody
knew everybody else.
Cyrus Adams was talking, and he
had the kind OF voice that pierces
other sounds. What | say is that
things oughter be better managed"
he was telling a group nearby--and
the whole station heard him. Look
at the sickness in the camps! Look
at the way the men are fed and
clothed Look at what they got to
shoot with! And look at Washing
ton-why, everybody down there in
Washington, they tell me, is just
spinning round in circles, not get
ting thing done not a thing
The Old Lady drew near. Morn
ing, Cyrus" said she. I'm inter-
ested in what you're saying, be-
cause I've got a grandson that's
being fed and clothed and so on,
and | wouldn't like to think he
wasn't getting the right treatment.
| want you to tell me just which
hospitals are too crowded and what
the boys ought to get to eat and
wear that they don't get, because |
hink | can do something about it.
] amt afraid OF speaking my mind,
and I've known our senator since
he and my William used to rob my
cookie jar together and both get
spanked for it. SO il you'll give me
the exact facts about what you're
describing, Cyrus, I'll set down
soons | get home and write the
senator a letter he won't. Just
give me your authority for what you
said, TOO, will you, Cyrus;'
why, nobody needs more facts
and authority than what the news
papers are telling us and what ey-
erybody knows" said Cyrus.
(Which newspaper, Cyrus? And
what was the name OF the person
that told you
well, ! can't tell just which pa
per, and | can't give you the name
Of the person who told me in con-
hdence; but everybody knows
who is everybody in this case ?
"Why, just everybody-you know
how things get Ground, Mis- Wat
kins News travels fast, especially
bad news, and | guess there's plenty
OF that, these days.
"Why, yes, | guess there is" the
Old Lady agreed. And the worst
I've heard suppose you've heard
it, too--is about that new weapon
the Germans have set loose right
here in our own country. You
have heard about it, haven't you,
Cyrus? They're pretty smart, those
Germans; but they've outdone
themselves in this new weapon. You
wouldn't think that they could be
smarter than all us folks here in the
United States, now would you
Wouldn't think they could let loose
German weapon right here among
us, now would you"
81 would mott" said Cyrus. 81
deny it!'
"Why, you just been using it
yourself, Cyrus! Funny you didn't
know it, Just shows how soon we
get used to things, and how much
we'll put up with before we get mad I!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
TOO MUCH FOR A FLOWER.
He Succumbs When Callow Youth
Demands Winnings on Horse
That Turned Back at Starting.

Chicago News: The race was
over, the flag hoisted, and the crowd
Of iortunates who had backed the
winner had gathered round the
bookmaker to receive their win
nings.
One vacant looking individual,
who was evidently seeing lie for
the first time, claimed 5 pounds.
"What did you back?' asked the
fat-faced man with the big waist,
who was standing on a stool.
Silver Cloud" replied the vacant
one.
"Why man alive replied the man
with the stomach, that horse turn
ed back and finished at the start
ing post"
Il know that" said the other.
But didn't l back the morse both
ways?'
There was a dull thud on the
greensward, and an anxious crowd
gathered. The man with the big
waist had tainted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
GOVERNORS AND POCKET
BOOKS.

Arizona has governor whom
many citizens Of that state consider
an easy mark when it comes to free
ing prisoners. He has recently Of
fered a reward for the recapture OF
a man whom .he governor himself
paroled and who broke his parole,
rhe Tucson Citizen and Arizona
Gazette suggest that the governor
ought to pay for this mistake out
OF his own pocket
THE state can stand for an oc-
casional mistake by its public serv-
ant" says The Citizen, quoted by
The Gazette. "but if the servant
makes too many mistakes Of the
same sort, he ought to be penalized
with his job or his wages. Every
crime story has come to have as its
corollary, He was paroled by Gov.
Hunt or upon recommendation of
GOV. Hunt '
If a public servant makes too
many mistakes he ought to lose his
Job, just as 4 private employe does.
But there is a higher authority back
OF the employe. The employer
should see to it that he exercises
good judgment in choosing his en-
ployes. An employer whose subor-
dinates make too many mistakes is
pretty unui5e employer.
The employer of governor is the
public. The most responsible posi-
ton in the world is that OF a voter
in a democracy. Upon the head of
The individual voter rests the final
accountability. Everything is up to
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12

Why, along in the first part OF the
war, when the Germans first let 1t
loose on the fighting men, the whole
world just turned sick over it-said
it was the meanest, dirtieSt, cruel
est weapon the devil ever invented.
But now-why, even folks we know
use it, and we don't seem to do
much about it !"
Cyrus Adams face was red. 81
must say | don't know what you're
talking about, ma'am, but"
I'm talking about poison gas,
Cyrus" the Old Lady said; and her
eyes were swapping. when you or
anybody else talks the way you been
talking, Cyrus Adams, you or they
are using the Germans own pet
weapon, the nastiest and the mean
est even they have been able to
invent-poison gas! Something that
smells bad, something that kills you
the way we here in America are
only willing to kill rats, with poi
son; something that works best in
the dark, Cyrus! Poison-and gas;
not nice words, either of 'em, but
nicer than the things they stand
for
81 suppose you mean because |
criticized things, Mis- Watkins"
said Mr.. Adams, his face very red
but his head up. Nov, let me
tell you, this is a free country, ev-
cry man his own master, and every
man entitled to free speech! Its
what's the foundations of this coun-
try are made of, freA speech y
The Old Lady laG ! ned. Land,
yes And thank goodness for it! |
dunno how I'd get along if it wasn't.
But it's one thing, Cyrus, to tell
people out and out where they're
wrong and how they're wrong; one
thing to tell 'em you don't like the
way they're doing things and think
you see better way; and it's an
other thing to throw out accusa-
ions and poisonous hints you don't
dare say aloud. Why, you never
know what harm you're doing, nor
how you're helping the Germans,
Using their own tavorite weapon! |
remember how, years ago twas, Miss
Ann Wilks, dear soud, when she
wanted to prove to somebody that
married folks could live happy to-
gether if they wanted to, asked the
person she's talking with whether
they'd ever had any reason to sus-
pect me and my John didn't get
on together. Well, some time after
that the minister called, and said
he'd heard how | was suing John
for a divorce, and he hoped we'd
reconsider it and try to continue
to live together for the children's
sakes.'
ooh we'll, but =
Don't dodge, Cyrus! Good, hon
est criticism is like a railroad train
it gets you somewhere; the kind
OF talk you were talking isn't free
speech nor even real criticism; it's
poison gas, sneaking into peoples
minds to discourage them and
trouble them and then make them
sick of the war the Germans are
already sick of. It's poison gas!
But land, here comes the train!
Won't you sit with me, Cyrus, SOS
we can talk on the way to town"
Thanks" said Cyrus. 81 got to
meet a man in the smoker"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
SIDELIGHTS ON WAR NEWS.

Italy's population has jumped
from 37,000,000 to 39,000,000 during
the war because OF the restriction
OF emigration.
More than two million Armenians
have been massacred during ne
course of the present warfgare in
near-Eastern regions.
During peace times chaplain
does not receive pay, but chapla'ns
in active service rank as captain
and receive the pay of captain.
Since the outbreak OF the war the
total strength OF the medical corps
has grown from 81 to 1904, in-
cluding officers of the regular army,
medical reserve, national guard and
national army.
1t is said that no child born in Po-
land since the war has survived, te-
cause of lack of proper food, and
the death rate in Belgium of the old
and very young is triple that OF a
year ago.
The loss to American shipping by
U-boats has been III ,06l tons. Put
at the declaration OF war America
seized 6S6,494 tons of German and
Austrian shipping and put it into
commission.
With the advance OF the British
into Palestine the Turks made
wholesale deportations of Jews from
the seaport towns. From Jaffa some
10000 Jews fled the Turkish power
or were driven out.
Thirty-nine different styles CT
shoes and boots are being manufac-
tured under British government
control. The price is stamped on
each pair. The British government
was forced to step into the shoe
business because of the wild prof
iteering during the early years Of
the war.
1--WE live by the hour, the moment
yes, the second. We count no fur
thor while in the front-line trenches.
Death may tap us on the shoulder
at any moment and say, You are
chosen Thus did a soldier who
had served three years at the front
describe the general attitude of the
fighting man.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
THE CAP'N'S REGRETS.
(By Warren Eliot Carleton OF the
Nigilantes.)

NlSlldllCS'J
"Why the doldrums, skipper" !
asked the cap'n today
When we heard the soldiers singing
in the transports down the bay
He replied: 1T makes me home
sick to see 'em sail away,
For I'm too old to go to war.
I'D like to grab a rifle an well
stocked cartridge belt,
An hunt ferocious Germans, an
send the Kaiser's pelt
As a gift O admiration to Teddy
RooS-ee-velt,
But I'm too old to go to war.
MY joints would timber up il /
could march behind a band,
An my rheumatic would vanish il
a gun was in my hand,
An we got the Germans on the run
back to the Fatherland,
But now I'm too old to go to war
II always was unlucky; went in
sixty-one,
But they put me in the cook tent till
the cussed war was done,
An for four years baked hardtack
and never shot a gun,
But now I'm too old to go to war
IF | should sail as stowaway, ]
wonder what they'd do
With me for tryin' to muster with
the younger boys in blue?
l feel like lad O twenty, though
I've just turned eighty-two,
So l guess I'm too old to go tc
war.
But if Uncle Sam should want me
all he's got to do is blow
The Assembly on his bugle, an II
jump right up an go,
An | reckon there's some German.
who will find I'm not too slow
Even if | am too old to go tc
war
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
TITLES IN CANADA.

Miami News: The Canadian
newspapers are resenting the deco
ration of so many Of her citizens,
meaning thereby that the confer
ring of titles upon citizens of the
dominion by the king of England is
not as popular with the press as 1t
is with the people who are knighted.
"knighthoods are not to be de
spised says the Ottawa Journal,
and, if given with care and for
merit, are not incompatible with our
democracy. But for the sake of
common sense and decent regard
for what the institution stands for,
don't let us be conferring them
upon every Tom, Dick and Harry
who happens to have social preten-
tions. The paper can stand for the
knighthoods, it seems, if properly
conferred, but it is in regard to her
editary titles that it sets its foot
down hard. AS for hereditary
titles, it says, whoever is respon-
SIDE IOr them should be plainly told
that they are not wanted in Can
ada
We have been spared in this coun-
try the nuisance of titles. Mister
and Honorable and Judge are about
all the titles we use outside of mill
tary circles, and they have become
so cheap no one pays any attention
to them; they do not give even So
cial distinction, the least important
of all distinctions. SO we are not
much concerned with Canada's COM
plant, further than as a matter OF
curiosity and the pleasure that
comes from knowing our neighbors
TO the north are thoroughly demo-
cratic.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
Ardmore, Tuesday, March l?. 1918,
THE BLASTING HAS BEGUN.

An Associated Press dispatch to
The Ardmoreite this morning says
that without support OF the French,
one American army in France at
tackled the enemy Monday morning
and fought him hand-to-hand in his
own trenches. Significant words in
the press dispatch are that the
Americans took no prisoners and
that every American later returned
to his own position. The troops
from the western world used auto
matics,' the dispatch adds. The
work was done so quickly that the
Germans did not have time to get
their artillery into action is another
highly interesting statement in the
cablegram.
Now a comment that seems per-
tinent is that the despot OF Hundom
is up against something he and his
hcnchmen have never faced before,
and that is American initiative, speed
and unterri6ed mentality. The word
continually comes from France that
the American officers have difficult
ty in holding their men to the OBJ
iectiyes designated in the attacking
orders; they go far beyond in their
killing raids. Which goes to prove
that the American army in France
is a fighting machine that, as it is
augmented from home. is going to
prove the iuggeinaut that finally
will crush the giant of central Eu-
rope. 1t will not be so much as
TO whether America wins this or
that battle, but it is fact, and
which the emperor OF Germany no
doubt will recall, that America wins
wars. America has lost no war in
its entire history, and America in
these days OF A. II. 1918 is not going
20 lose this war to a despicable Zoe
who licenses his soldiers to destroy
women and children along with his
other diabolical deeds born only in
the brain of 4 savage, which he is,
Also it is good to recall that
every war IN which the United
States has engaged has been a war
Tor freedom and Tor the white light
OF liberty in come vital form.
And the Americans, says today's
dispatch. used their automatcs in
the hand-to-nand combat and took
no prisoners Let us shiyer-ior
the Hun. He is from henceiorth
to go up against the greatest war
riorS that ever swept onto battle
field, and soon he will realize this.
iii, sneers Will turn into squeals as
The armies from the western world
begin to enlarge and crush on
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
ONLY THING NECESSARY.

Chicago News: A New Yorker
was stopping night at a hotel in
Southern town. At bedtime he
called the attendant, and asked to
be awakened in the morning.
"Say, boss" replied the porter,
Il reckon you amt familiar with
these here modern inventions.
When you wants to be called in de
morning all you has to do is just to
press de button at de head Of your
bed. Den we comes up and calls
YOU"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12

him. Ii he doesn't want a public
servant to make a certain kind Of
mistake, he ought to make sure that
the man he 5otes for isn't liable,
by Temperament and experience, to
adopt that course.
Penalizing he governor after he
IS in is too much like locking the
barn door after the horse is stolen.
Prevention is Just as useful in poll
les as anywhere else.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
What the Victory or Defeat Of
Germany Means to Every American
Contributed by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE to the Nat
Security Leagues campagn Of Patriotism Through Educaon

Germany victory would all that the aarms have sadhe
setback OF humanity democracy civilization rights
America it would infinitely
would defeat; thus
perfect record record old that
than the right bag Even army wholly
gans its old formeen beaten champion sinks
desuetudeo nation W traditions OF victory would suffer
deterioration than the fact of defeat could nc
1t would that the who has sked all in his
gle for Right could again feel his former calm certainty that Right
triumph. Thus, the moral the individual well the
nation, would inevitably be lowered.
This country embarked in conquest From us
the fought Liberty Union for the OPP
presedeyer for sterling principle OF Right From childhood
have been taught believe that the high unesne OF
has the We have the decay destruction
OF and nations that have baed for domnionas Germany
battling Should fail this mighiest the Right the
average the simple Faith which has led dear
country from notnges its For that Faith more
than anything else, sacrifice mndrediold justified
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
But Which One?

Chicago News: "Ill give one OF
you boys sixpence to carry my bag
TO the station" said a cross-eyed
man, pausing before three ragged
little fellows.
(Which one, mister" piped the
boys, in chorus.
You" said the crosseyed man.
(Which one?"
There was pause. Finally one
little fellow said: Fair do, mister;
close one eye and look at the kid
you want, will your"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12

The Prohibition party has re-
fused to merge with the new Ma
tional party but has decided to Co
operate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12

Municipal ownership OF public
received big boost when
the state conference OF New York
went on record as favoring
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12
UNFORTUNATE.

Boston Transcript: Housewife
If you love work, as you say, why
don't you find it?
Hobo-Love is blind, We know,
Mum
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12

Boston Transcript: Poor Louise.
just as she met her ideal he"
"Died?"
mo; he met his ideal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12

mouth
Red guards and White guards IN
Russia continue to fight each other.
/ cward for any one who can give
satisfactory answer as to what they
arc fighting about.
1t is reported that Count Won
Luxburg has fled from Argentina
and escaped into Chile. Now il
Chile will drive him on to Terra
del Fuego, and the Fucgo natives
WIll throw him off the end of their
laud into the sea-then the world
Wlll have gotten rid OF curse.
The boss SAYS that when the Chi
re>e and laps get to fighting in s.
IBERIA he guesseS he Will have to or
Ter for the Ardmoreite barrel of
yellow ink.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-12

To Relieve Gas in the Stomach
which disturbs your sleep, just try
one SOC bottle Of LAX-FOS WITH
PEPSIN. A Liquid Digestive Lax
ative for Indigestion or Constipa-
ton. Pleasant to take.