The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-19
Oklahoma
Observinss

n ECAUSE more soldiers weren't
|n granted furloughs to come home to
help in the harvest, tho Deer
Creek News is disposed to be peevish
Which Is the wrong way to look at It.
Speeding up OF transportation prevent
ed the number OF iurloughs previous.
ly contemplated. And. blest with favor
able weather, the harvest seems to have
made satisfactory progress with the
help available. There is much work
in harvest and much after harvest is
over, land it will all have to be done
without help from the soldiers, who. 1t
must be admitted, have a large task to
attend TO overseas, This is u poor time
to complain OF such difficulties.
The Haskell County News points out
that those who are lsnicnting that they
are past the service age, should be able
to find some useful work to do, even 1t
they can't wear the khaki.
In Thomas the weeds are several
feet high in some OF the streets, ac-
cording' to the Tribune Another op-
portunity for war gardens seems to
have been overlooked.
Capton is the old-fashioned town
where baseball enthusiasm is still so
strong that they maintain second
nine" in addition TO the regular team,
and Kiowa is another OF the same sort
Meanwhile harvest hands are some
what scarce in several sections,
Durant is getting results in It's cam
paign OF go to work. go to war or go
to Jail" The News says Durart will
soon be entirely rid of habitual loaf
ers, and they won't be missed. II also
says that some Jf> the offenders have
actually gone 10 work, while others
have merely left that part OF the
country
As Colonel Shakespeare intimated,
there doesn't seeu~ to be much in a
name Wallace Drinkwater (what
name could be miIder than thatO is
under arrest at Durant, charged with
assault with intent to- kill.
. Commenting on the food administra-
tons assertion that from twenty-five
to fifty items could easily be stricken
from the hotel menus as a matter of
food conservation, the Clinton Messen-
ger says this doesn't apply to that
town where about four items pass as
full meal. The Messenger suggests
that the food administration should
Hooverize a Bit on printers ink.
"Bill Went West" Is the caption the
Clinton Messenger used oyer a story
narrating the departure OF Bill Alex
ander from that city, but the phrase
wasn't used in its warlike sense. No
one has accused Bill OF being a dead
one.
There is no record that a paper ever
suspended because an irate subscriber
cancelled bis subscription, and the Wa
tonga Republican probably will go on
as usual. II says: Last week GER
Sain Stacker in this town discontinued
the Republican, because we had been
going after people who are not loyal
TO the government, and had been ex-
posing certain ones who had fallen
short of duty. We will try to get along
without this slecker's help, as we never
knew him to be straight in a business
deal which we have had with him, al
ways attempting to squirm out Of an
obligation. But we will see to it, and we
know how and where to pull the rope,
that he loses more in the deal than we
lose by losing this subscription, which
he never paid fairly and without
bringing in counter, bill, in all these
years. The subscription TO the Wa
tonga Republican Is 81 per year. We