The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-16
Uncle Sann's Tabloid Talkers

rather than OF using it merely to
make noise.
They arc under the direction OF
district officers, who, in turn, are
controlled by state chairmen.
All are directed from the nation
al headquarters in Washington,
where the machine is under the
management OF Director William
Mccormick Blair.
The organization is as complete
and perfected 4 bit of human ma
chinery as is taking part in the
great war.
1t supplies all the state and dis
trict branches with the verbal am
munition to use in the four minute
speeches at the movies, and in the
methods OF training its men is as
exact and precise as Henry Ford's,
or Patterson's out in Dayton, who
makes cash registers.
The topics chosen for discussion
usually run through two weeks.
Each topic is timely and big with
importance, dovetailing in with ma
tional movements by other organi-
cations.
Thus, when the drives for Liber-
ty loans are on, the -Four Minute
men pour out their appeals to the
Common People to become pur-
chasers OF Uncle Sans paper.
Just how many dollars have flow
ed into the treasury because OF the
fine work OF these tabloid orators
will never he known, but the sum
total must have been prodigious.
These men have changed the
viewpoint of unnumbered pacifists;
have stopped waste in thousands OF
homes; have started countless fin
gers knitting; have made it plain
that all we are fighting for are lib
crty and peace; have influenced
men without number to go to re-
cruiting stations and enlist; have
taught that economy is patriotism
and that waste is near to treason.
Their messages have echoed and
re-echoed clear across the CONT
ncnt.
The most beautiful part OF all the
work is this;
The men get no pay for the in
valuable help they are giving the
government,
1t is all labor OF love.
Their service is given free, and
some OF the men leave work for
which they receive pay in order
that they may do work gratuitous-
ly.
1t is quite patriotic to buy Lib
erty bond or serve the country 1or
a salary, but | think we all should
uncover to these Four Minute men
and others like them who render so
priceless a service to these dear
states without money and without
price.
Also the thanks of every true
American should go out to the own
ers OF movie theaters, who freely
and gladly stop their performances
long enough to allow the -Four Min
ute men to talk.
1t is this spirit OF brotherhood
this union OF a whole people-this
combined and consuming desire to
be useful and to join hands in a
common purpose that will win the
war.
Ii these words reach any city or
town where there is a movie the
ater, but no -Four Minute men,
there is fine opportunity in that
place to realize the sweet satisfac-
ton OF pushing a good thing about.
Every town and hamlet has its
local orators who can say some
thing and then stop-say it in four
minutes and quit.
SO long as there is even one such
town, just that long is there void
that patriotism ought to iill-just
that long is there a gap in the
ranks.
suggest that, in such case, it
would be a mighty good idea to
take the matter up with the Four
Minute men division OF the commit
tee on public information at Wash