davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07
"isIlp WIN rHr Wan. nuN
sAvthos STAMPS.


- t9ffaH " FNsf FANt 4~H7'
Although Australia has q sWsll area
q forrest land as compared wi'h Nheg
eonniftes there Is great variety of
ornamental woods % rare and tean
itfui gram bui uiile ana@a outslar
lhe commenwcaNa 10 nael Il is
within comparatively few yeata that
tee Nneimilan. hayo teoernsei lhe
possibilities ~ their natural ~ ess
oss
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07

Pa; tlooks n neat pscket form. -
Asso osf lszkez- latest forzns. ard as
oxnns1. bizrks.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07

TIE Alane~fa State Federation ni
Labor has asked stare officials io
afop women on ssreef~ears working
IN fhis State 10 sna i2 bosrs day
----sJ~sz As Tksy pssss~-
seses Win ssuiss Boy More
ss.ss 1Asa
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07
OIL LEASES AID PLAYS

on sess@s z.d tozassip pats for
o. -ss. @ sale AZ Leader office
Aiss asrsrsz~rs.. sfn1avfss q pos.
f<ssSoa AL sffs<xs.t 81 czxA b>zas
pa. All os fhe lz.Ast s.rms. AID
r 'ss-us - sa fsxSfsx has
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07

"a OA &zt gas isaze tizEks for sale
o. TIE Leader osfics Coxssrn 70
a. lAse ssBvezs cssrt decisions.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07

The isrYssf neuffal nations gll
neutral are Norway. Denmark. swed /.
cn, Holland. Spain. chle. Argentina
and Msrieo. aAous three -foarihs OF
,he world f. 81 war
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07

toA.s 20 fAHNaHA
fae tAsfsl lahA hsnk Asvs wsas
kaas ~ & tfmef tastFAAssax
tt.si esa
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-10-07
Z = = = \ n y n n ~ = n = = = =
DuR TAG x
tnu usu wsm r = 49, 3

p ia lse "a i'ars wkrn lhe nsasa II
Nlclnfs heats
So eatsh ihe fiags blur rp~es rakr
elA1 aaraena ~ sse sreegs'
Tn see ln teAr.seff Wemea ewes abe
GLORY and the rfsaf
fae hiah whpe Flame Il Nuae leAs
thal lAe nsaa arr lusfteaf
Oh le Ne ~ Parts when she Troops
come Home again
uas ef STERN and fhnadef lhrvai
ogl eE Shapnvi selH'
Ia kon gho saliAns I5sias msns
heneaiH me rieAn free sey
And hall inc Ghosts whisa msfe aNh
them ihe Dead pAo eanaa
die
oh % watch ins eanilshl epq' on
Mala leanNea liniy ante
Ana then Jasi God GO kneel aaa ! #,
slp sAtfed soil NJ Franco
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

them three small hams for 600 marks
($14G. The cyclers offered 1000
mark bank note in payment, and SO got
400 marks in change. Well satisfied
with their booty they began pedalling
for Berlin; but, alas, they were halted
by gendarme before they had proceed
ed far. He hailed them before a magis-
trate, who confiscatcd not only the
hams, but also their bicycles; and he
even took 100 pounds Of flour that they
had bought somewhere. The wheels and
the -four were deposited in the attic of
the magistrates house-a fact which
the enterprising Berliners did not fail to
note.
At night they mounted to the roof of
the house, entered the attic through a
dormer- window, and recovered both BIZ
cycles and flour, besides 200 cans of
preserved foods. Then they made an
other dash for Berlin, but the gendarme
was soon upon their heels once more.
He got near enough to send a few shots
after the fugitives, but they made good
their escape.
1t was the poor peasant, however,
who had to foot the bill for their esca-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

Two Sides of His Mouth
O-ooat war! Pooh! We have Give ships once,
enough ships. or am lost!

Is to April Is; and from January 1 to
April 10 there were 1911 burglaries, or
$40 month. To illustrate how serious
conditions have grown, he shows that the
burglary losses of these six companies in
greater Berlin from January to April
Is this year amounted to s387 900.
whereas they had amounted for the whole
year 1915 to only SSO,OO0 In other
words, the monthly loss is now nearly
thirteen times greater than three years
ago.
Between hunger, nakedness and crime.
however, many Germans are still able to
join IN the revelry around the golden
calf. The newspaper columns bear wit
ness to this, containing many advertise
ments of goods classed as luxuries. In
the columns of the Berlin papers adver-
tlsements OF persons wanting to bay Per-
sian and other Oriental rugs iostle each
other, and jewellers advertisements are
plentiful. The consumption of cham
pagne is a striking illustration of the
tendency to jollity and indulgence of the
appetite for luxuries. Before the war
the yearly consumption of Germany was
about 10,000,000 bottles of champagne.
but during 1914 it dropped to less than
half Of that amount. Last year, however,
the consumption was estimated at con-
siderably more than 2O,0OO,0 900 bottles.
Amuserents, too, are kept up on law
isl scale. One light operetta celebrated
recently its 800th consecutive perform
ance at Berlin; and it is still given be-
fore crowded houses.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Kladderodatsch, Berlin.

DR.. Roesicke, the president of the Great
Agrarlan League, calculated to knock
very wide breach through the present
1000 control system in behalf of the
agricultural classes. He demanded that
certain proportion of the grain and
potato crops be exempted from control
and distribution by the state upon the
card system. Of course, the people Of
the cities we're up in arms at once
against this proposal. The Berlin city
government gave expression to the gen
eral protest by declaring that the Roe
slcke plan would "paralyze the war or
ganlzatlon for feeding the urban popu-
latlon." 1t further declared that "everv
ton of grain was now needed to sustain
the people even on a scanty basis; and
1t was no time to adopt a system con.
ceived exclusively in the interest of the
producers and the rich consumers. The
discussion of the food control system
called forth in connection with this mat
ter indicated that, while it is regarded
as having many imperfections, still it is
far and away better than to leave the
food supplies wholly at the mercy of the
speculator and hoarder.
Notwithstanding the scarcity Of food,
however, the latest mortality reports of
Greater Berlin would seem to indicate
that the vital forces Of the people cam
not be suffering severely. The mortal
lty rate there was considerably less dur
ing the winter of 1917-'18 than in the
previous winter, which had shown a con-
siderable increase. 1t was noted, in par
tlcular, that a marked decrease in the
deaths of older people and of the young
from infectious children's diseases had
been recorded.
The scarcity Of food, moreover, is
supplying material for humorous writ
ers. Here is the outline of little food
comedy, described in the local columns
of Berlin paper under the caption:
Dear Hams:
Three Berlin "y~sters" (hoarders of
food) mounted their bicycles for food
forage. Securing the country far and
wide, they came at last to village in
the Province of Posen, where they found
a peasant with supplies and willing
ness to risk something. He finally sold
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

more freely forcible measures would be
adopted. "In which case," it added, "a
light will be thrown into the wardrobe
OF every individual and an inventory of
clothing supplies made"
1t is still possible in the shops of Berlin
to buy a few all-leather shoes, but at
very high prices. Of course, there are
maximum prices; but buyers and sales
girls have found ways and means to beat
the price-tixers. An official notice points
out that clerks in shoe stores are insist
ing upon gifts of food in some form
often a pound of butter few eggs-or
theatre tickets along with every pair of
all-leather shoes sold. Shopkeepers are
then warned that this is illegal, and that
they are running the risk of having their
shops closed up by the authorities.
Old Professor Won Hertling, otherwise
known as the Imperial Chancellor, is
signing his name to some queer docu-
ments nowadays. One Of his latest de-
crees prohibits the illegitimate use Of
the word "soap." There are now so
many substitutes for that useful COM
modify, and all of them calling them
selves soaps of some kind, that it has
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
The Fabulous Cannon
One needs long spoon sup with this O3d A,,fy

THE latest German newspapers
give a curious impression of the
Il life that the German people
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
4 dventures in the
a Stock EXCHANGE

At the same time, the Boerse. or stock
exchange, was having such a boom as it
has not had since the war began. Some
of the financial writers go even further
and say that there was never such a
boom even before the war The papers
report that one can hear youngsters On
the streetcars near the Boerse boast
ing of what they pocketed from their
last Operation" in this or that indus
trial. At the banks, especially at the
many branches of the big banks, the
employees, including many young women
who have now become bank clerks, or
ganize petty pools for specializing in
stocks
Thus the wild hubbub on the Boerse
was kept at fever heat, and stock prices
were carried to higher and higher levels.
Not few companies had found it neces-
sary to warn the public against specu-
lating in their shares at present prices,
which, they said, were by no means JUS
titled by the prospects of their business.
Nevertheless, their warnings were un-
hiNSNCdt hIlN pIlCcS COUIlnuCQ TO be
pushed up.
The financial reviews agreed that the
causes for this wild revel of specula-
ton, which was restricted to the outside
public, were chiefly political. There was
much use made, indeed of the fact that
many companies were earning very big
profits; but the one fact that dazzled the
eyes of this wild army of lambs" was
the military success of the German arm
les. They believed that Hindenburg was
scoring such big results that he would
soon be able to dictate peace on Ger
man terms.
1t is interesting to note, finally, that
cabled reports of the past week indi-
Gated that the Berlin Boerse is now weak
and very dull. Apparently the Austrian
Sasco has cooled off the hotheads at
Berlin, and they are thinking more So
berly and sensibly about the military
situation.
A terrible decimation of the German
nobility is one of the noteworthy effects
OF the war, which may be not without eff
tects upon Germany's political future.
According to statistics just published, not
less than 270 counts and 633 barons have
fallen. Still heavier have been the losses
OF the lower nobility bearing the title of
won" From these S43 of the older
nobility have fallea, while the newer, or
patent" nobility has lost S3S of its
members. There has thus been total loss
OF 1852 men of noble rank Famous old
families have suffered heavily in losses.
Not less than twenty-five Wedels have
fallen, twentyone Arnims, and seventeen
bulows, all Of noble rank. Seven
Counts Dohna and the same number of
Counts Fink Won Finkenstein have been
kllAd.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
he Question of Clothes
L Is a Vexing One

In the general scarcity the lack of
wearing apparel is growing more and
more acute. The newspapers tell of
collection of suits Of secondhand cloth
ing now being taken up in Greater Ber-
lin for munition workers. People were
appealed to sell their outer garments to
the clothing Office for the makers of
artillery and munitions; but these ap-
peals, though dressed out in the usual
patriotic phrases, had most disappont-
ing result. Hence, the clothing Office
Instructed it's appraisers to grant more
liberal terms, and advertised that it
would send its agents to call for gar
ments offered by mail Then newspa-
per notice on the subject intimated
plainly that if clothing were not offered
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
The Prediction That Gott
! Would Do His Duty

Thus the lean spring was ushered out
and summer was greeted with hopeful, if
not satisfied, stomachs. Good rains fell
toward the end Of May and ended a
drought that had seemed to threaten the
grain and vegetable crops. The official
crop statisticians were accordingly busy
predicting that the old German God
would again do his duty toward Deutsch-
tum. The first fruits Of natures good
gifts had already garnered in the shape
Of early cherries. The papers reported
that the first arrivals of these had just
come upon the Berlin market. But at
such prices! Sixty to seventy-fve cents
pound! DeEcacies, it would seem,
within the reach of the "war profiteers"
only!
The advertising columns Of the news
papers also gave abundant evidences
that GUNNER was approaching. Adver-
tsements of summer resorts and hotels
Tor vacation takers occupied many col
umns of the Sunday editions. Many OF
Forest and other beautiful regions of
South Germany. And these South Ger
man places present just now special at
fractions to the hungry Berliners and
other townspeople in North Germany.
There is much better feeding in the
South, with its rich agricultural districts
and pretty rigid prohibition covering
the shipping of food to other parts.
The governments of the South Ger
man states are keenly aware of the dam
ger Of their food supply from the
hungry army of summer visitors. Hence,
they sent representatives this spring to
conference at Heidelberg to agree
Upon some plan for restricting the SUM
Msr visitor traffic" Not long ago the
alnister of the Interior Of WJrttem
"erg reported to the legislature OF that
state that the conference had agreed to
restrict the stay of outsiders at the
summer resorts in all these states TO
Nfee weeks; and strict measures were
greed upon making it impossible for
visitor, after staying out his three weeks
az one resort, to prolong his "cure" at
smother. Moreover, the various towns
we're given the right to protect them
seves against the flood of visitors by
Nsng in advance the number that they
sould accommodate Thus, after all,
Ae hungry North Germans will not be
i'sfmitted to feed without limit upon
~s abundance of the south.
=, me food question, of course, con-
~aues to be one of the acute troubles Of
%s people. The latest papers give much
S'acusslon to a proposal put forth by
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

yond that, the English fleet must be re-
police duty at sea; then England must
give up Gibraltar, Malta and other great
naval stations and level their fortifica-
tions with the earth. Until these con-
ditions are carried out Germany must
retain Belgium; after they are carried
out the Flanders coast would have no
particular value for Germany.
But that is not all. The writer de-
mands that Germany shall be indemni-
fled for the loss Of it's foreign trade, and
there must be adequate guarantees in
the peace treaties to secure Germany the
freest access to supplies Of raw materi-
ais. Also, Germany must get back her
colonies, with indemnities to cover losses
caused there by the war. Failing to get
back the colonies outright, Germany
must demand that all the colonial pos
sessions of the world be pooled and then
divided out among the great powers.
One characteristic fact must be men,
toned in connection with this discus
sion Of peace offensive. 1t was insist
ed in various quarters, namely, that the
military authorities should have voice
in formulating peace terms. The Ger
mania," the leading Catholic organ,
which is regarded as specially influen-
tial under the Won Hertling regime, ad-
vised the government against publish
ing its peace terms before coming to an
understanding with the "army COM
mand," which means Hindenburg and
Ludendorff. In similar tone the "Kol-
nische Zeitung" urged that the German
rulers, in fixing peace terms, Should
confer with the diplomats and the
supreme army command" The shock
which the American public would re-
ceive if the Administration should ask
General Pershing what peace terms we
should accept would give good hypo-
thetical measure of the difference be-
tween Germany and the United States
in respect to the position of the military
power.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Trying to Bolster a Tenacious Delusion

as a completely independent state; the
English know that Germany will keep
its hand, permanently and for all future
time, upon this land, with its important
coast, in spite Of all weakened and per-
aicious majority resolutions" Of the
Reichstag. Kirchhoff goes on to say that
only through a thoroughgoing defeat of
England can Germany get the colonial
possessions and the high war indemni-
ties that will be needed by it's cripples
and industrial workers. Only by such
victory can German industries get at
once the needed raw materials.
Another political ex-naval officer is
Rear-Admiral Kalau vom Hofe, who is
now blowing the war trumpet furiously
in the German press. Writing in the
"Vossische Zeitung," he expressed the
fear that Hindenburg is now pressing
the Allies so strongly that they will
break down all at once and come for
ward with peace proposals before Ger
many shall have definitely fixed her
terms of peace. Hence he fears that
"we shall be taken unawares, as it were,
with seemingly favorable conditions for
an armistice and rapid conclusion of
peace" Kalau vom Hofe will accept only
q peace that guarantees sufficiency Of
raw materials for keeping the German
Industrial population busy. can armis
tice at sea-" he says, "could only be ac-
ceptable to US when our contiscated ships
come home fully laden with raw materi-
ais, or when England and Germany have
reached a fair agreement regarding raw
materials and tonnage" Perhaps the
admiral is giving us Il "kalauer," which
is German for an Irish bull.
Compared with these bellicose admi-
rails, the "Frankfurter Zeitung' may be
compared to a mild-mannered shepherd
piping on reed to his flock; yet the
music is the same. Here is what the
"Frankfurter Zeitung" said about the be-
ginning of June: "The victory of Ger
many is now SO manifest to all the world
that it can no longer be placed in doubt
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

a considerable sensation. The liberal
papers, in particular, discussed the arti
Gle eagerly, one of them noting that the
views Of the writer had hitherto been de-
nounced as reasonable in the Conserv-
ative press. The "Kolnische Zeitung
which ranks as a moderate Liberal
paper and is often used to express the
German official view on foreign political
questions, came forward with an inter
esting Endorsement of the articles in the
"Kreuzzeitung," but its support by no
means looked like advocating a reason
able peace.
1t argued that Hindenburg's military
prestige had now risen SO high that no.
body in the world can longer venture to
believe that the Allies "plans Of destruc-
tion can ever be realized" Hence Ger
lnany's aims should be made known, in
asmuch as the use Of obscure and am
biguous phrases was having bad effect
upon German politics, was embittering
and dividing the people as to the objects
to be attained by the war. "a peace by
understanding at home," wrote the
paper, "is q necessity for us; for until
we get it peace by understanding with
the enemy will be impossible"
After all this thrashing out of the
matter the "Kreuzzeitung" again took
the floor to remark that the peace it was
thinking of was "as wide as the heavens
removed from the notorious peace reso-
luton of the Reichstag." 1t then printed
further article from it's contributor,
which went with considerable detail into
the kind of peace offensive that he
meant He said that the government
must decide upon peace offensive
"based upon our military superiority"
Germany's war aims should be SO formu-
lated that "the enemy can entertain no
doubt as to our consciousness of power"
The freedom of the seas must be de-
manded, including the exemption of pri-
vate property from capture at sea, the
abolition of the right of blockade and
tha seiznra of goods as cnntraband. b.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

been found necessary to take steps to
prevent manufacturers from palming off
upon the public articles which have in
them neither fats, soda nor potash. The
sacred word "soap," so Hertling now
DEGREES, may not even be used in COM
pound forms for advertising such ''Er-
satz" goods. These may be advertised
only as "Waschmittel," or substances
for washing And thus doth the afore-
time professor of philosophy climb down
to the hard realities Of life!
The German horses are in a position
to sympathize fully with their owners in
their struggle for existence, as is indi-
Gated by notice now running in the
Berlin papers under the caption, "Col-
lect Leaf Hay" l. is pointed out that
there is now a great scarcity of fodder
at the front, and "we have an impera-
tive duty to remedy it," To that end the
leaves must be stripped from certain
kinds of trees, dried carefully in the
shade, and then compressed into small
packets for shipment to the troops. 1t
is claimed that hay made from the
leaves of ash, maple, linden, poplar, elm
and mountain ash has a higher feed
value than the best meadow hay, eighty
five pounds of it being equivalent to
one hundred pounds Of the latter. All
persons with leisure time, especially boys
and girls, are appealed to to gather
leaves and make hay while the sun shines.
Much had been said in the papers ear
lier in the year about the great wave of
crime that was sweeping over Germany,
and particularly over greater Berlin,
Later on, it was claimed that conditions
had been much improved by the greater
vigilance brought about through the ad-
dition of convalescent or discharged SOL
diers to the Berlin police force. On the
other hand, the president of one Of the
big insurance companies of Berlin has
just written letter to the papers to
point out that the improvement has been
really very slight, and crime is still rife
to all enormous degree. He said the
six burglary insurance companies of
Berlin reported 405 burglaries in their
business in greater Berlin from March
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

by the failure of a few (Allied) statesmen
sweep them away as it prepared the way
for the overthrow of Czardom.
People in the Entente will be ready,
now or later, for reasonable settlement
with Germany once they recognize, es-
pecially in England, that there can no
longer be an appeal from the decisions
of world history. The splendid
victories of German arms will help to
create on the other side the willingness,
now lacking, to reach such an under
standing"
In this connection it is highly inter
esting to take note of recent "peace
offensive" in the Kreuzzeitung" Of
Berlin, the most respectable old organ of
the Conservative and Junker class, and
to register the outcome of that offensive.
This paper about the end of May print
ed prominently two articles from some
unnamed contributor who is evidently d
man of more than usual force and in
sight--an insight, particularly, such as
the Junker-C Conservative class has rare
ly shown during this war.
This contributor took the ground that
the time had arrived for the government
to publish its peace terms, and he used
precisely the same arguments as had al
ready been advanced by Germans who
sought peace by understanding. He
even recommended the giving back and
restoration of Belgium, which is quite
unusual ground to be taken by Con-
servative. He also went on to say that
the publication of Gernany's war-ams
would rob enemy statesmen of their
trump card which he sees in the ambi-
guilty of Germany's purposes. The
writer took no stock in the current Ger
man objection that the Berlin govern
ment, by publishing it's war aims, would
be throwing down its cards upon the
table. This, he said, was "a naive con-
ception derived from antiquated and out
lived political methods"
Such remarks from that sourca mada