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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-15

roNCA CITN-The Rig Protection
ola com paur is shut down at i.73O
feet on the Doughrrty farm In the
northeast corner OF the southeast Of
S-2G-3e
Mariand has q rlg IN vet on the
Simmons farm in the northwest cor
ner ~ l6-2G-3e.
The Kay = kiowa No. I Wainscott
In the northeast corner OF l3-2G-2e ls
shut down at ,, 40 feet.
Matland is drilling al t.sTi feet on
the Clark No. In the northwest cor
ner OF is-2G-3e
The Okla & Kansas OIL a Gas Co Is
shut down At 3. $40 feet on tho Ruby
farm In the southwest corner OF the
northwest OF a-26-2e.
The Bnrtt No. OF the Marland OH
company In the southeast corner Of
the northeast ~ s-2b-2e Is drilling at
1855 feet
Same company No 4 Premeaux In
the southeast corner Of the northwest
OF s-25-2e is drilling at 1875 feet. No
PremeallX Is rig. IN the center of
the southeast Of the northwest Of the
section.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-15
NEW kIHk -

NEW hIRk-The Armstrong 40. I
trnnan IN the southeast corner uf
S-22-Se Is stIII rig.
The Marland oil company has a rig
np On the Williams farm IN the south-
east corner OF 162f-3e.
The Mafland Oil company IN drill
Ing at 2,j,5 feet on the Keuhn farm
~ the northeast corner Of 93-27-9e.
In the southwest corner OF 27-27-3e
the Oklahoma star on compnny Is
shut down at l.3lO feet waiting for
n new rg {" be bult. II Is on the
RlChards1n farm
The oklahoma star on company
has riE on tho ground Tor well on
the Smith farm in the southeast cor
ncr Of 2S-27-3c.
Pope and associates are shut down
AZ 200 feet ON the lindsey farm in
the northeast corner of the southeast
OF 4-27-3e.
Joe fumsey's rig on the Hawthorn
farm in tho southeast corner of the
northeast Of the northwest OF 10
91-3c Is still standing.
The blackwell Development & Pc-
lining company Is drilling at 1850.
feet on the Atterbury farm I'm the
northeast corner Of the northwest NJ
the northeast Of 1-2T-fo
on the Paulson farm IN the north
cast corner OF the southwest Of "a
81 Be- the Kay. on compGuy has made
a location NIX NO. /
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-15
INTEREST IN DRILLING WELL

~ "-H-NeH being drilled on 40 acres near 4
5',.DD. rms corners with Sec. 20 in which large
d,,Ii5" ~ Delng obtained; wF'@ now down about 81
t,., 10 Lao foot sand; went through 30 feet
49, contractor says this would make rs barrel v
or % %,n''res IN this 4o-acre lease with web to be co
WI" s'h one-haif interest for $4,000
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16

music is music whoever writes or sings
it. Die Wacht Am Rhein" and that
"Uber Allies stun have the musical
punch in them; but they are not pop
ular at present in America and likely
to create d~issension between those who
sing them and patriotic persons who
happen to be within carshot. Like
wise and In point the public has had
an eyeful and an earful Of enemy
aliens on the public stage or the pub
lie platform.
Moreover there is no good reason
why American dollars should be gath
cred in America to go into German Sc
curities later. For if Miss Hempel is
faithful to her citizenship surely some
part of her gains would be loaned to
her own government.
There is also another and personal
side. Miss Hempel's cwn people are
sroaning and dying in hospitals and
rude shelters all along the west front
and far bach in Belgium and Germany.
They love her music SUM in the
tongue she and they we're born with.
They would welcome with delight that
which America refuses. Why not sing
TO the sick and wounded Of her own.
blood and cheer the hospitals of her
W people instead Of seeking the
ready dollars Of a half baked musical
culture in an enemy country?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
In a Year.

What has a twelvemonth wrought in
us? Ask of those eyes that strain
For a last look at the homeland from the
windows Of the train;
Search to the sacred uttermost the
meaning of those eyes.
For they have learned from Calvary
the soul of sacrifice.
of the women and the mon who
put their dreams away
To glory in stern drudgery-yes, ask of
those who stay.
What has a twclyemonth wrought in
us? Ask Your heart and mind
What selfish hopes are strong in YOU,
what dross is left behind,
Fho they may bend. tho they may
break the line we hold so we'll
Tho guns may carry miles untold their
devil driven shell,
The strength which has been born 20 US
in this. the worlds red night.
Will carry thru the pit of hell and up
TO heavens light
Amelia Josephine Burr.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
THE COVER UP" BOYS.
ISioux City Journal

The majority report Of the senate
military affairs committee on aircraft
production has boldly called attention
so that the country may be sure some
thing will be done about it. Inciden-
tally the majority report contained
some actual facts as to the small
amount of production we have
achieved, and the administration idola-
tors are simply aghast at the indiscre
tion of publicity.
1t may well be that the figures OF
plane production INT aviators trained
should nave been withheld. But no
shifty defender of inefficiency in the
government is going to turn public
attention from a really ominous and
heartbreaking failure to a minor in
discretion in the manner Of a%nnounc-
ing it. IL it is really going to be OF
great advantage to Germany to know
how poorly off we are in the air, who
is to blame for it. in the last analysis
the senate committee hat took the lid
off or the government agencies that
are responsible for our plight?
1t is hardly likely h la the Germans
are aStounded to hear we have no
planes. Their Eyes are ordinarily good
at the front, and they can tell an air
plane when they see one. Besides. it
was the Germans who very oontemptu-
ously told us long ago that our air pro-
gram was bunk and bluff, that we'd
merely talk a lot and blow a lot and
90 not much Of anything.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
The Smoke Screen.

The persistent and increasing out
| cry against partisan criticism ema-
| rating from the claque is beginning
| to arouse a feeling of disquiet and APP
prehension.
There has been no partisan criti-
cism. There is none now. The repub-
| lican party has not continued it's ac-
tivities in congress a a party Of OPP
| position and criticism. 1t might have
done so, The administration did not
want a coalition for the conduct Of
| the war. 1t did rot ask able and pa
triotic men connected with the repub-
lican party to give their services to
the administration in times of emer-
gency. But The republican party did
not continue Gs an organized opposfs
ton.
Even il an organized political OPP
position and criticism had offended
the susceptibilities of some people, II
might have done a great deal of
good. 1t might have been the most
powerful stimulus and corrective
which could have been applied. II
was not applied.
Organized political opposition and
criticism, which is in keeping with the
theory of government in normal
times, was not continued. 1t ceased.
What. then, is the purpose in the in
sistence that it is operating to do in
justice to the administration and to
retard activities?
Where there is an attempt to create
a manifestly false impression there is
a reason for it. What is the reason in
this case? To prove the absence Of
partisan criticism it is necessary only
to point out That the most effective
criticism of government in congress
has proceeded from members Of the
party which furnished the administra-
ton. The most eve c~astigation, and
the most unfair Of a critic was shat
given by the administration to Cham
berlain, a democratic senator.
The retarding Of activity attribut-
able to congress vas IN congress, at
t%ributable to democratic members. A
conspicuous S an ineyplicable case.
was that Of Dent holding up the draft
legislation within the las week when
it was necessary to get the machinery
Republicans nave been oversensitiye |
in the matter Of opposing and CRITICS.
ing, They have LETT unsaid many !
things which ought to have been said.
They have done so to avoid the APP |
pearance of partisanfip in national
emergency.
Now to find that there is a wide |
spread and a deliberate attempt to
confound criticism with unfair parti-
sanship prompts the fear that this is
the start of a cloud OF smoke to hide
something.
The attempt is to appeal over the
intelligence OF people to their senti-
ments and prejudices. Is there a grow
ing fear Of intelligence? Is this an at
tempt to cover? And to cover what?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
THE RETIRED EARMER.
[Hopkinton Leader

Speaking of the retired farmer and
his ability to go back to the farm and
AXE the place of the hired man or the
son gone to war: of course he can help.
But in most instances the farmer re-
tired after his years OF strenuous toll.
and when his efficiency as a day work
er was about exhausted, with a hope
of enjoying a few years of rest before
the last CALI. The retired farmers
brain power is doubtless as good as
ever, but his muscle power is a minus
quantity. The retired farmer is not
the solution of the labor shortage. 1t
lies in the boy of II years Of age and
upward. and even tho they are town
bred. If they have the gumption Of a
louise and a modicum of intelligence.
they can learn the job under COM
petent instruction. The young bucks
IN the newspaper business and in the
agricultural departments find it easy
to advise the old men to go back to
the farm. but they nave not yet reached
the age that realizes there is a limit
to human machinery. They will know
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
Billy Bunny and His Friends

the nest SO as not to d~isappoint the
little hen when he took away the egg
she laid most every day.
81 cues I'll take an egg home to
Mrs. Sharptooth," said the old rat, and
then he carefully rolled the china egg
out Of the nest onto the floor Of the
henhouse, and aftkr that he pushed 1t
thru a crack in the boards, and by
and by, pushing. and showing. rolling
and twisting, he got it into his house
in the Old Red Barn.
"Oh Mrs. Rat, come and see
What L have got for you M me.
A nice fresh egg Kenny Jenny.
Just think, 1t din't cost a penny"
And then that old robber rat and his.
wife started in to open that china egg.
"Ha, ha! Ha, hal" laughed the
Weathercock. peeking down thru a
crack in the roof. Pretty tough shell,
ehY and then he laughed again and
swung around Oh his right toe.
Goodness me, but that's a funny
ego" said Mrs. Sharptooth. And, all
of a sudden it slipped out of her paws
and rolled into the barnyard. And
just then the big farmer looked ont of
his house, and in the next story you
shall hear what he did; that is. if that
little china egg doesn't roll into the
bahbling brook and brighten the little
fishes to death.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
Topics Of the Times

The difference in interest between
AZ and 8 per cent is o.!y 3A per cent,
but the difference in loyalty is precise
~ 100 per cent.
A picture shows the boys over there
grinding their bayonets sharp after
learning of atrocities practiced on cap
tured American soldiers. It is not re-
ported that they sang "Blest Be the
Tie That Binds while the grinding
was going On.
Really, practically everything an
American citizen wants to say and
ought to say can be expressed in the
United States language.
If it were only to feast our eyes on
in the evening the extra hour of day
light would be Observation-Disclosures
Times Tribune.
It's all right in the morning too.
Why not try that?
So
Yesterdays fine rain viii so a long
way to help lick the kaiser. AS a food
conservation measure it was a COM
plete success.
The teacher shortage in the schools
is becoming serious. Might take some
Of the teachers of German and set
them teaching English branches. That
would help some.
The Pilot Tribune of Storm Lake
says candidates are undergoingscareful
scrutiny. BY whom? Nobody seems
to be paying the least attention to poll
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
DEs MONIES STOPPED HEmpEl CONCERT.

Frieda Hempers concert scheduled
for Des Moines is not to be given.
Governor Harding has forbidden it and
Miss Hempel will probably not give
concerts at all in Iowa. The singer is
an enemy alien.
The governor acted after many or
CARNATIONS had protested vigorously
against the appearance of Miss Hem
pei and after having been Invited to
meeting Of, the Greater Des Moines
committee which had made up its pur-
pose to take steps TO prevent the con
cert The governor forestalled Off
cial action on the part of the Greater
Des Moines committee by telephoning
It's president that the coliseum was
not to be opened for Miss Hempel's
performance. Of course that settled II
quickly and definitely and officially,
However, Des Moines had made up its
mind hat Miss Hempel should not
sing there while her countrymen were
killing Americans.
It should not be necessary for gov
efnors and Great Des Moines commit
tees and loyal organizations to stand
between the public stage and enemy
aliens who desire American money
The management Of public entertain
ments should do that. Miss Hempel is
an artist of high ability and no doubt
a charming woman personally. Tine
loyal public IS not at war with her but
the loyal public feels a great incon-
gruity in permitting aliens entire free
dam to exploit this country for every
dollar they can manage to coax thru
a box office window while enemy
aliens are cutting American threats
in the trenches of Flanders and shoot
ing down Americans on the fields Of
Picardy. A very considerable part OF
the public resent the assumption OF
artists and their sordid managers tina!
art" excuses all things.
He is q sensible manager of public
entertainment who eanceis all con-
tratcts with enemy aliens. OF course
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
RECALLING A FUNERAL SERMON.

Many years ago in this editors early
youth over in Illinois a wealthy man
died. This dead person had been no
torious in many ways and by number
less methods. So naturally the min
lister most noted as one who could and
usually did most ~elo4uently preach
EN- straight into heaven was secured
TO furnish oratorical transportation for
this certain rich man. To the aston
iShment OF all concerned the minister
started off by informing his c~ongrega-
ton that they and he knew all about
the dead man and his life, that he
wasn't going to say much about him
except to say that he wouldn't want
his boy to live like thai and nobody
else would want his son TO take Mr..
Soandso for an example. Then he went
on to admonish the living and made
no further reference 20 Mr.. Soandso's
ultimate destination.
Somehow when certain slippery pol
!ticians die and the newspapers deal
in fulsomc obituary Of the departed
statesman the incident of the rich
mar and the funeral come to mind.
That congregation had been trained
thru long years of custom TO expect
the officiating clergyman. to make
good" Sc it seems the obituary writer
and the public which have been refer
ring TO a living man as a slippery
politician" and distressing his every
act by common agreement meet at the
funeral and jaud him as a statesman
and a patriot.
Say nothing but good Of the dead
Maybe that's the best way out of it.
If the funeral m n the obit-
uary notices told the truth. all the
truth and nothing but the truth mighty
few of us would enjoy reading the ad-
yance proofs. Perhaps it is as We'll
that newspapers do not base obituary
notices on Twenty-Five Years Ago
Like as not it is a good thing that we
forget Wickedness and weakness in the
presence of the great shadow and re-
it's excusable when memory fails and
checks on the bank of recollection are
returned with mo funds that some
body is willing to cXaggerate a little
and smear a little gold paint on the
rusty record.
Still when a mar dies who has lived
in utter s%elishness, when the politi-
clan passes who has made a sordid
an Of public duty, when a career
closes that is spotted with evil and
barren Of true service the thought of
the country preacher and the rich
mans funeral comes 10 mind. We
wouldn't want cur sons to live such
lines, we do not want sly, gumshoed,
sordid representation Of ourselves in
government, we do honor real service
In our hearts and remember it. Per-
q IA" " 'HaC Hlei &c ives SIter
them but it does not live as long as
the good that men do.
But man, man, if the minister in the
pulpit and the writer at his machine
were to paint things as they were and
not as they ought to have been a lot
of US would hate to die worse than we
do now.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
PLANT TREES NOW.

Fuel shortage is making away with
trees by the millions all thru the
farming country. 1t is the same in cen
trail Minnesota as in Iowa and it is +
from one end of this state to the other.
Willow hedges are being sawed into
blocks for fire wood. Cottonwoods are
being turned into barn lumber. Hard
wood lumber along the creeks is be-
ing attacked by the ~sasolene avs for
the fuel market in town. There is a
wide movement on to substitute trees
for coal but what of the future?
Who is planting any trees to replace
the umbcr that IS being consumed:
The people in the vicinity of Glen
wood arc proud and boastful in the
Of the fifty car loads of
black walnut logs that they have
SHIPPED out this spring to make gun
stocks TO stop the kaiser. Who is plant
ing more black walnut trees for the flu
ture? It is only seven years from nut
10 NUS Will lle Didtn walnut t'S III
Iowa and it is a magnificent shade
tree when grown. 4 few Of them ought
to be planted in every farm yard.
Another excellent method Of con-
serving fuel in the future is TO thicken
the wind breaks that protect farm
houses and barns. Trees should be
planted liberaly now for fuel is always
going to be high. II is n or the
natural products hat must become
scarce as population increases and
trees disappear. Wind breaks not only
conserve fuel in the homes but they
conserve corn in the feed lots and they
soon provide an abundance of fuel
from the annual normal wastage in
dead limbs and trees that must be
trimmed out.
There never was a time, not even in
the days OF the homesteader. when tree
planting in Iowa was more needed h
it is right now. This war is burning up
so much fuel in its munition factories
all over the world that will be wasted
and it's navies and transports and rail-
roads are consuming so much fuel for
war work, and the factories of the
world will have to keep on burning
fuel for years after the war fabricating
materials for reconstruction that fuel
is going to be high in price for a long
time to come. Grain must remain high
er than it was before the war altho it
will drop from its present war price
but trees for fuel and as protection to
livestock for the conservation of feed
will be NEEDED in the future.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
b David Cory.1

DO you know, it's q long, long time
since we've heard anything about Mr..
Sharptooth Rat. He lived in the Big
Rec Barn. you remember, where the
Weathercock sat on the top all day
and danced when the breezes began to
play.
Well. Mr.. Sharptooth Rat was very
thin, let me tell you. for the big farm
er had SEN all his grain over to our
boys in France and had oEly kept just
enough for the animals and chickens,
so that this old rat had found very
little for dinner and sometimes moth
ing at all for breakfast.
So one morning he crept into the
hen house and looked about him. And
just then Henny Jenny stepped III Of
her nest and began to sing.
"Cackle. cackle. ker loo. ker loo,
I've laid an egg of snow white hue,
It's in my little nest of hay.
Just where l lay one every day."
And after thai she went outside to
the barnyard and scratched for worms.
"Now's my chance to get a nice
fresh egg" thought Mr.. Sly Old
Sharptooth. and he jumped into the
nest. And what do you suppose he
found there? Why. two eggs. But he
didn't know that one was a China 6
which the big farmer always left in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
GOVERNMENTAL WASTE PAPER
Iowa City Republican,

Some of the newspapers are kick
ing about what is asked Of the news
papers in this time of stress. Bless
Your souls. boys, the government has
about 10000 patriots doing patriotic
duty in the way OF censoring and edit
ng publicity stuff. They have to carr
their salaries, God bless them, and
prove their party loyalty at 81 much
per day. If the government pays the
bills. and we have the baiing machines
and the price of paper keeps up. we
can invest in war stamps. and have
1t over. The Republican has a junk
mans check for over 81, in considera7
ton of baled waste paper, most of
which is from government documents,
including the winsome and patriotic
~uncensored sheet known as the Con-
gressional Record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16

Something that has been done or
something that is to be done?
Is it merely a cloud behind which to
hide a great deal OF political activity
on the part of the ruling party? That,
probably, would be the least conse-
quential thing. 1t would be ugly
enough and bad enough, but it would
not be so had as it would be il this
smoke screen were intended to protect
confirmed errors of policy and man
agement.-Chicago Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
Man Initiate. Natures Works.

We have succeeded in penetrating
the depths Of the sea and the expanses
OF the air, In contention for gain
ami progress, but these accomplish
ments are but Of recent perfection.
For thousands Of years. for millions,
the e a have been Inhabited by inny
monsters, and the air by winged crea-
lures. The submarine and airpIane are
merely limitations, and the very col
ors and shapes Of these forms have
been found to be the most protective.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Wait Mason
DYING FoR

I hate 10 de-and 6 do you-ts such a foolish thing to do We feel
hen " are cashing in, that dissolution is a sin, it's suh a waste of hair
n bones M all he fesh a mortal IN We cad III safe M sheltered
lives; we rear our kids n feed or wives; we've lived in fat commercial
les resolving everything to dimes. Our frugal instincts show that waste
is sin by (which " re are disgraced ad so it causes us distress to lose the
number of III mess; for death is waste. N think we dread: there is n o
Ike II for he dead. The war some consolation brings its showing III a
lot of things; it's teaching US how me may die and make a noble gain there
by "How sleep the brave who snk to rest by all theircountys wishes
blest" The soldier out in yonder sufe who gives his warm and ardent
life. nat tyrants AM their plots ma fail that freedom shall again prevail.
is wasting nothing when h dies but drawing DOWN "a golden prize. and
men wifi see the Ifes bloom about tn portals Of his tomb. and freedom
shall awhile repair to dwell, a weeping hermit there" And so we spoke
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
Surely the Limit.

There seems no limit to the outrages
on the kings English wrought by cine
ma theater proprietors. Featuring"
was an abomination which moved to
revolt all lovers Of our language pic
t%urazation" was worse, but there, 1t
was thought, atrocities would stop.
But no. From the top Of a picturs
palace in South London faunts in bis
letters the announcement that there is
presented "the perturbation Of Sullk
vans celebrated song, THE Lost
Chord, London Chronicle.