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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-23

interested I'm the drama and especially
In the works OF the bard
Shakespeare's birthday Is also TO be
observed by the Philomusian Club this
afteroon at o'clock, when Professor
Henry W. Southwick, Of Boston, will
give "a reading Of Julius Caesar" Tho
members Of the club have been invited
to bring their friends by the literature
and art committee, OF which Mira
Charles Fish Clement Ia chairman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-23
LOAN LAGS IN LUXERNE
Every City in County Reported Con-
sidcrably Behind

WiILes-Eurre. April 23-Eycry city
and town i'm Luzcrnc County is COusid-
nrably behind its quota in the Liberty
.oan drive, according To- a statement is
Barre has subscribed only II per cent
of It's quota; Plymouth, SO; Nauticoko
10: Pittston, -; IIazlcton. %: Ashley.
~. and Kingston. %. Other towns run
about the same proportion.
orders were sent out to all committees
10 begin hustlinG ana the campaign must
he uf the whirlwind nature in the clos
ing weeks II quotas are to he subscribed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-23
BAR GERMAN PAPERS
'0ur Towns Will Not Allow Their
Sale

Ns" York, April 23-Four more
gsus nave barred the sale Of German
suage newspapers, thus extending the
.n,.s.antly widening area in the metro
~utSn district in which patriotic citi-
S no longer will be insulted by the
4sTrauhg Tl OF the German tongue.
me places joining the honor roll yes
10y We're Caldwell, rutherford and
AN rutherford, n. J., and Glencoye.
-. Inc action at East Rutherford is
Seslly noteworthy because of the
sssponderance Of residents of German
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-23
INJURED SOLDIER DIES
FROM TRAIN ACCIDENT
Private John Secore, Fatally Hurt
Leaning From Window, Dead at
Jewish Hospital

John Sccore a private in the United
States army died early today in the
Jewish Hospital from injuries received
here last Friday.
Secorc was being transported from a
southern training camp to an Atlantic
port with "A contingent OF troops soon to
sail for France. AS the troop train
passed over "a bridge in Nicetown, he
stuck his head out Of the window and
was bumped by AN obstruction.
Ills skull was fractured. lie was un-
conscious when taken to the hospital and
died without rcgaining consciousness,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-23
ARREST TWO SUSPECTS
IN AVIATION SERVICE
Department Of Justice Agents Are
Investigating What May Be
Widespread Plot

lawton, OKLA, April 23.-The ar.
rest OF Two enlisted men in the ayia-
tion service on presidential warrants
rhargng them with being dangerous
o. what Is believed 60 be a widespread
pl1t Increased precautions have been
taken here.
one pt the men arrested is Frail; NVpL
low. The other is Carl Jensen. who US
arresaed with Wallow, and is also at
the county Jail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
A Holiday Message To Our Fighting
Young Men

Contributed by George Ade to the
National Security leagues campaign of
patriotism through education)
We must win the big war or else
revise all moral codes, rewrite all prove
revise all moral codes, rewrite. all
proverbs and adopt a brand new set
of rules to govern conduct.
We have accepted certain time.hon.
ordered adages as self-evident truths.
We found them in our early copybooks
and we grew up on them and repeated
them so often that, naturally, we came
to think that they could be relied upon.
Then Germany came along with an
intensely modern variety of ethics bear.
ing the label of kultur.
The new medicine is not taken in.
ternally or rubbed ON as a liniment but
you have it shot into you by a large
gun.
Unless we refuse to take the treat.
ment, everything that we ever believed
in will he overruled. discarded and
thrown into the alley.
If Germany is not licked to stand.
still, we might as well begin to memorize
and humbly accept the following:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
WOMEN DRUMMERS.

Since many of their "drummers" have
been called to the colors, New York
dress manufacturers have begun en-
ploying women as travelling statesmen.
SO far the women seem to be making
good.
This is not the first experiment of
that kind. The last census listed 1888
women commercial travellers. This may
not sound like a large number when
compared with the 1Gl. .O27 men on the
road in the same business. But it's a
pretty good showing for field sup.
posed to be the rightful domain of the
masculine salesman.
So far as business is concerned the
women may anticipate nothing but
glory. They have shown aptness as
buyers at home and abroad for dress
goods houses and other firms. As sales
men it is reported that in many cases
they have secured more business in the
territories allotted to them than the
men whose places they have taken.
But in the role of the typical drum,
mer" the women have yet to prove their
ability Whether or not they will try
to live up to the manner and missionary
ability of the familiai-in vaudeville at
least-drummer. and carry the latest
thing from Broadway straight to the
outlying districts, remains to be seen.
Perhaps new type of drummer will
invade fiction, the stage, and incidental.
ly, the small town. Was there not
Emma McChesney?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
PAGE THREE.

AGO with our war equipment allowed
Co run down, that it would find this
country an easy prey for it's forty years
OF preparedness; but the speed shown
by the United States in the past few
months in preparing gives an idea OF
the greater speed il would have de
Ncioped If the Teutons had tried to in
wade it, Man for man, the American
forces on the western front have shown
superiority to the Huns in every test
Recognizing these facts. who will say
with this country only one Of several
great powers arrayed against the
Teutons, that Germany will not be
beaten?
The Americans at home should show
the courage and confidence of their
boys at the front, and the great ma
iority Of them do. Silence the blatant
proGermans in our midst who speab
with contempt Of Americas fghtint
ability.
The pro-GermanS i'm this country are
standing by their brother Huns across
the sea. Americans must stand by
their brother Americans across the sea
Join with General Pershing in saying
Germany can be- beaten Germany
must be beaten and Germany will be
beaten"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
On THEIR HONOR


"'''alo news Inc declaration OF
....ai..l. - p'V.''','I''u py i'es'oe"t "lsoh
'7.'l''a' =, ,u'''i''iiuhSary ooes not carry
"'',I II ''e same pehaIties with respect
=" ''e ,rs'S''"l'on ana supervision on
y iui'sa''''' residents. IN TINS
'N"',' "n'c'' are III Iorce against Ger1
many ,Ii > SuoJe''S 'NIhg mere.
"eS nee" i'o' register they VIII no7
"'' T." i'""' certain zones they may
"''V' 'I'e,! ana without hindrance but
'" ''' ''''' ''''S country Wlthou7
~,
.,. l''.i''''', gives as reason Tor this
,i., ,'1'.' ''''',''''o' 'ne TACT lhat many sub
80 WI .,uS'''''iiunsarN nave dem
,'.'.'','" '''e' 'ol'''l' ooth py enlist
""i" '' 'I' various blancneS OF mill
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
CANADIAN HISTORY.

movement has been started n
Montreal for revision of the school
histories used in Canada. with a view
to eliminating unkindly and inconsid-
crate passages dealing with the United
States. 1t is recognized by the reform
ers that as the textbook stands, they
tend to create and perpetuate a certain
amount of antagonism between the two
countries
Not that the Canadian history-writers
have gone out of their way to slander
the United States. or deliberately per-
vert history. But there are ways Of
saying things, of relating and inter
preting events, which begin to look an
gracious and even offensive when the
countries concerned tapphE to find
themselves fighting side by side in a
common cause, with the utmost good
will toward each other.
All this has familiar sound. For
tunately our histories have never eX-
hibited any animus against Canada,
though they might have been a bit
more respectful and appreciative. 1t is
England that has been the bogie-man
of our school historians. Generation
after generation of American youth
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
\ COURSE IN -
BY Reinctte LoyeweII of the yigilante.

Ehie Perkins started in AT business
college" Yesterday morning. I'm eight
months or a wear she will he ready for
a job. and pay envelope.
Then she will sit all day in an Office
and tap out words on a tvpewriter She
knows girls who have jobs like that
and they wear ten.dollar shoes and
Georgette crepe houses and white kid
gloves.
ffie is a husky girl. with bright ewes
and a healthy pink skin. He, people
have lived i'm the United States more
than two hundred years and she has
sung MY Country "ris of Thee. Sweet
Land of Liberty" ever since she could
lisp
rut.-she is Going 10 take cuurs, in
shorthand and typewriting now-in war
,ime-when one of the greatest needs of
her country is nurses NOT volunteer
nurses but trained nurses. nurses who
start right at the bottom as probatiuners
i'm a hospital. and get real old-fashioned
backache doing. the hardest sort of man
nal labor Nurses whose uniforms he.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

Dishonesty is the best policy.
BE as mean as a skunk and YOU will
be happy.
Blessed are the child murderers. for
they shall inherit the earth.
BE sure you are right handy with
firearms. then go ahead.
An evil reputation is better than
riches.
Truth crushed to earth will not yise
again il the crushing is done i'm su-
perior and efficient manner.
BE virtuous and you will be misera.
BILE.
Thrice armed is he who goes around
picking quarrelS.
Might makes right.
Hell on earth and hatred for all men.
DO unto others as you suspect that
they might do unto YOU if they ever
got to be as disreputable as you are.
God helps the man who helps him
self to his neighhor's house and his fields
and his unprotected women
Those don't sound right. do they?
The old ones that we learned first of
all are not yet out of date.
suppose we don't revise them
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
From Other
Editorial Pages
SIBERIA A NEBULAR NATION.

- '''''' I"IN 'NNIIV
hmporia lkan) Gazette. Many pco-
pIe IN the United States laughed this
week at the report of Siberiat declara-
tlon of independence from Russia. But
siberia has am area greater than that
oi the entire United States, has natural
resources practically untouched. and "a
population three times as great as that
"i the nit'd States at the tim" of the
American Revolution.
IodaN IN the worlds history, siberia
occupies position much similar to
That held by the country west of the
Nleghenles a century ago. Across the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
THE LITTLE GHOSTS.
BY Theodosia Garrison of the Vigila

By IneOuOSld GarrlSOll OF tne 'isndllleS
He shall see many ghosts before he dies
The ravished and the murdered and
those slain
I'm torture, shall arise from earth and
main
Ana close about him, mute and shadow
wise:
And ever first and foremost to his eyes
From the red streets and from the seas
vast plain,
The little children shall come back
again
The frail, crushed blossoms of the sacri
flee.
And in their eyes no fear will be, noI
wrath.
only a child's bewilderment at hate,
And in their hands no lifted menace
dwell
Vet these frail shadows shall obstruct
his path,
And at the last, or be it soon or late
These helpless hands shall push him
into Hell.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
CuTTING SOLDIERS, THRoArS.

There are no German atrocities, q"
pG" prO-Gcrman friends used to tell us
\n Associated Press dispatch from the
American army in France, sent on
Christmas day, told OF an American SEN
Try found with his throat cut from ear
to ear, and our army officials declared
that "he must have been so killed after
capture"
It's an old story, though new in its
direct application TO US. over and over
again Canadians captured by the Ger
mans have been found with their
throats cut. Only three or four weeks
ago an official account from the British
front told of more than a dozen Ca
nadians discovered in that plight in
German trench when the British took
It,
Ii is hardly necessary to explain that
such conduct is absolutely beyond the
pale Of civilized or halfciviized war
fare. Our own army haG experience of
it in fighting the Moros, in the Philip
pine campaign, but nobdy expected to
meet with such cold-blooded barbarism
in Europe, at least outside of the
Balkans.
It's the way of the modern Hun. 1t
may be done in blind, bestial hatred,
reversion to primal savagery, or it
may be done calmly and deliberately
with a view to breaking the enemy's
spirit There is much evidence that
most of the German atrocities in Bel
GUM, France, Serbia and elsewhere
have been perpetrated in this war by
men acting under official orders, in
cOld-blooded, scientific devilishness hay
ing the approval of the German general
staff and the kaiser himself.
But all the horror and anguish in
Acted by the satanic Prussian military
machine have had the effect not of
breaking down resistance but of
strengthening it. and steeling the allies
to 4 more relentless determination.
That is precisely the effect of this
cOwardly throat-slitting has on the
American army and public
Every American soldier, hearing the
story, finds his jaw tightening and his
hands cropping for a bsyonet, Every
civilian realizes with n sudden clearer
vision, the sort of foe we are fighting
and resolves to DO his part in wiping
such savagery from the map Of civiliza-
tiOn.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
GERMANY WILL BE BEATEN

pittsburgh Post: General Pershing has
sent word from France that should
shame the Americans who give ear to
the Prussian propaganda that Germany
cannot be beaten. He says: "TelI them
there is no ground for the hearsay that
Germany cannot be beaten. Germany
can be beaten, Germany must be beaten
ana Germany will be beaten"
1t IS not boasting To say that Ger.
many never saw the day it could whip
America. 1t is statement Of fact. In
1898 Germany talked as if it would at.
tack the United States while the latter
was engaged with Spain, but it thought
better of it. When Dewey told the
German naval fleet at Manila bay to
get out of the way or it would be
blown out, it got out of the way in Il
hurry When Germany was told later
by this country to stop menacing a
South American republic, it stopped.
Germany may have thought few years
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

-.st - NsssT ys,5I7-:Ssy.-l
much as possible to minimize the ef.
fects Of its enemies successes. The
Cambrai operations illustrate this
Haig's victory received extraordinary
chronicle. lts distinctive features its
promises and its results We're magni-
fled until popular opinion has hold Of
a substantial victory approximating a
phase of decisiveness.
The German counter stroke was lost
in thin air. Whatever blow it was to
| the British lines, it was negligible
blow to allied opinion. 1t was mini.
mi2ed until it almost evaporated. As a
fact it could not evaporate. Censor
ship and editing could not restore a
British gun or a British prisoner.
MajoitGeneral T., B. Maurice. who
, sums up and interprets military inteli.
( gence for popular understanding, now
| says of the British stroke and the Ger.
man counter stroke that the territorial
gain remains largely with the British.
but that the British and Germans are
about even in the number of guns and
| prisoners captured, with the British
. slightly ahead of the Germans
The two operations thus are brought
into true relation to each other but
the popular opinion must survive that
a tremendous allied victory was fol
lowed by an aborted attempt at retail.
iation. We are far from certain that
the public. which must pay the cost of
facts, needs to be given so much opiatc.
II sometimes produces Il drowsy con.
tentment.
The nations against Germany are not
yellow and their intelligence can stand
an undiluted portion Of bad news when
/ bad news is received Their spirits will
not sink Even if they did they would
rally as they would have to rally, and
with determination. The war will not
be won 10y editing and censorinu.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
SCISSORS AND PASTE

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,,r,od o., .,o,.co which ,,no. -, .,,c,,.
tbot va, has its connonsotion.
tb,t Admiral Nro.,o tbinI,. .o, d,;,.,
,r.,in.t corr,,,,,. T.. i,,n,.,cti,.,l,lo rho.o
+. eonot,iug said IN bor, v.,.;, ,hout
.he .sbirs of Chit,in," ,oina. ~, .,o,ip.t
IN. evil one
lrr,l,,goo rir,...I,, ,,,,,,,c,.,,. ,r,,r ali
! Gamma Nocl, T.. tho o,.oo+.., ,f tho
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O., r,,,nbo,. or nI,,ors fo,. .t,,us..,,,.. ,r
dolIars and nohoJ,. ,,,rnosod ho had a,,,.
PAM. Valley Danoc,ot. I'll. t;,.,,o.t
u.,,.d il, ,bo ,lriod 3iotio,o,.,.- r,ti,.
Idabel Democrat Record. Cheeri,,,.
| the bovs who 90 to war +. mn oonJ
them after the, Get thara
| Nilhu.n News. CONSIDERING how
sometimes if is amazinp tbe r,ice she
puts ON rhem i'm q breach or nromise
suit
sherman Tevasl Co,,riar. II has baan
anv mention in the naners of oNIa md
Gott" Can il he that relations have
been broken off?
Clinton Messenger. If some one wouId
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
He Changed His Tune.

Chicago News: The knight Of the road
was weary and footsore. He knocked
at several doors, but could get no an,
swer At last he came to a house where
a young woman was washing the step
He hung over the gate, and in a very
threatening voice said
Hi, missus, gle me a drink O milk
or else"-
Before he could finish his sentence
a manly voice from within shouted.
cor else WHAT"
"Or else a drink Of water" whined
the tramp
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
CHANGING THE SUBJECT

Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph No
doubt you are aware that one of the
most difficult things to do gracefully
is to change the current of an unpleas.
ant conversation. But the small by
can do it, if circumstances make it nee
essary. This one was having his an
nual outin gon his grandfather's farm.
Thomas, will you please tell me why
you took those apples from my speiial
tree? How many times have told you
to keep away from the gardon?"
Thomas cred red in the face, and his
grandfather went on to depict that retri.
button was sure to befall those who
were disobedient. AS the harangue was
concluded he said, with a smile, refer.
ring to an event Of the previous week.
PITY our old hen died, wasn't il
grandfather"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
UNOBJECTIONABLE LUNURIES.

Lord Northclffe in a newspaper ar
ticle devoted to thrift, remarks that
there is one form of luxury which the
British government has definitely en-
couraged--the buying of high-class, ex-
pensive foods by the rich. The idea, as
he explains it, is that those who can
afford the more expensive delicacies
really perform a public service by buy
ing and consuming them, because they
thus leave a greater quantity of the
cheaper, standard foods for the rest of
the nation.
That is undoubtedly a sensible way
Of looking at it, provided the luXuries
in question do not require, for their
preparation or distribution. labor which
could otherwise be used in producing
larger quantities of the cheaper foods.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

IlbDVG N'N 'dl
And many of 'cm,
Are YOU writing it 1918?
The individuals who put ground glass
ion canned tomatoes and breakfast
cereals destined for the American army
must have been the same gentle Ger.
mans who put tacks i'm oats shipped
to the allies some time ago. When the
miscreants are found, they ought to be
fed forciby ON their own glass and
tacks
\ baseball player bought" by Ger.
tain club for $3.50 has been sold" to
another club for $4,000, and now insists
that he ought to get some Of that $50,
600. Very likely he ought to. And
while We're fighting to make the world
safe for democracy, why not inject
little democracy into the baseball bIsi
neA?
The czars used to rule by ukases
nv bbl0ll'N I'M llpN NE'tl lllE III I tllb-
grad rule with ultmatums, which have
very much the effect of popguns
The public is quite competent to Judge
between big business men who, like
Mr.. Hoover, are giving their services
to the nation for dollar year. and
those who, like certain sugar magnates,
agn of Il
motives.
Even so fine a word As "camouflage"
grows wearisome in time
What has become of the old-fashion
preacher who used to announce to the
congregation that there will be meet
in in this house tonight. God willin,' at
early candle.lightin'?
Hundreds Of Shivering men and wom-
en- in bliZZardy New York waiting in
line to get even a bucket of coal. Hun
dreds of men and women in Ardmore
simply strike a match and the fire is
roaring Come to ArdmOre
Next flash on the telegraph wine may
be Lower California Mexico. SeCedes,
at least it looks that way now from
the way the greasers ON that neck Of
desert land are milling around
The charwoman Of London is demand
ing that she have as much pot roast
as the queen and other silk-encased
females. The sewerdigger is demand.
ing that he have as much beer and
cheese as the lord high keeper Of the
royal socks. Now if this kind of mum
bling keeps up something is going to
happen to the king business in Britain.
In long letter to the London Times
by its correspondent at Petrograd the
correspondent declares that the bol.
shevik revolt was instigatcd and
financed by Germany. and that the
movement is anti-national and anti
Russian. In a dispatch to the London
Daily News the correspondent of that
paper declares the bOlshevik element is
real power and is conquering Russia,
and that the German military autOc.
racy fears the effect of the bolshevik
democratic propaganda on the minds
Of the German people And i'm the
meantime the world will await the
referees count, who in this case is
our esteemed friend Father Time, who
is getting agile in his old age.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
EDITING BATTLES

Chicago Tribune: 1t is understands.
bile that when the censors are convinced
that information will be the basis of
damaging erroneous public opinion. an
effort will be made to modify the news
80 as to correct the popular judgment.
1t is a difficult field for censorship
intelligence to operate in, but it is ap.
preciable that no government wants
bad news to be iudggled into worse
effects than it ought to have.
Naturally nation makes everything
possible of its successes and does as
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

has grown up with the honest convic.
tion that it is our duty to hate Eng,
land-just because the schoolbooks have
so long been written in that vein. We
are ashamed of that now, and are try.
ing to get more sanity, more breadth
of view in n word, more truth, into
our historical teaching.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

CThc Ardmoreite submits in this
column communications from the
public Those who submit matter
for this department are requested
to sign their names and addresses,
which may or may not be printed.
No anonymous communication
will be given atteutiom
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
CHARGE or THE PRICE BRIGADE

Half a cent, half a cent
Half a cent upward
SCARED the food prices.
No downward rumor.
His not to question why,
His not to make reply,
His TO go broke and buy.
Poor ult consumer.
Tulsa World
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

j. l.. Babler, who represents Missouri
in the Republican national committee,
wants to be chairman of the committee
Babler as chairman of the Missouri Re.
publican committee won quite a repu.
tation as an organizer and a campaign
manager.