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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26

The Willard unit OF the Red eros,
J. ided INTO TWO sections one diyl
meet on TUESDAY for WaT work
an tIc other Sew, on ludag The
me nbcr. ot Tue,day's unit have met
regularly for sixteen consecutive weeks
avu'y-tiye women have taken part IN
Inc work and 100 garments have been
completed. Thu amount ~ ewing m-
gludc5 hospital garments, refugee
dr,,.cs and underwear
o. Tuesday OF TN, week the unit
met Tor ne usual work and after the
garments were finished and laid AVA
the members ENJOYED ( social hour Al
which time tea and waitr, were served
The anti tuberculo,i, exhibit az tie
Sil,c lair grounds ha, had many yi,i.
trrs during tair week who have had the
woJh OF tie society explained 20 them
by Miss Glsdy, Vernon Nice Vernon
has been present each dal distributing
literature and furnishing the cause not
ou,y rere hut m the bah, booth where
size has rendered valuable assistance
Tuesday morning a. o O'Clock the
women OF the State Capitol unit Of the
Red Cfosz will meet IN the work rooms
to as emble the luly quota OF front line
parcels. Further work ot the unit vill
bt resumed in the near iuture. the date
10 be announced Later
WEDNESDAY the receipt, at 'ht Red
Gross h~eadquarter, IN the Empire build
ing were the smallest of any day duriu.
the recent campaign Thi, was du
p-r,ially to the elevator service being
Discontinued during the afternoon
The force from Luther branch Of he
Red Cross visited the local h%eadQuar
teg "Wednesday morning and attended
the fair in the afternoon Every branch
OF the service wa, represented and rcn-
dered assistance 10 the Red Gross booth
At the lair grounds IN every depart
mtnt.
The neN home NinnoN cards issued
by the government have arrived AZ the
office OF ,he food administration and
win he ready for distribution on DC
tober !. Mrs ?. n Wea,hcrs, as
sistsnt county iood administrator. says
there are 10000 OF these cards and one
will be placed in the window Of every
housewife who is conserving food for
The gusernmtnt. Many calls are still
eo,pino IN Ia the drpartment Tor add
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26

Navy Ensign Killed.

PENSACOLA. Fla, Sep, 30
Thomas Mccarthy OF Pittsburgh. an
ensign OF the navy, was killed ye,tcr-
DAY while making an airplare Hight
over Pensacola hay A companion iN
ing with him when Inc machine Tell va,
seriously hurt.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26

N and Mr.. b Isl scu. OF Ard
more and Mr., u > Mathew, also ct
Ardrorr arrived N ,lu..Isy a. be Nh,
guest of Mr. and Mr. " K Ingram
OF EW We, ronrtrrr,n tree, until ihc
latter par n the tceN
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26
No finer
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VALUES

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sewed all sizes-S2 pr
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Cape Cloves black, grey
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stitching all $3.50
pair,
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26
COATS

|N'n Kind Tn, p..r war.
t.s,Hf.iI models. s.I Che
dry.s,.f nUysl'iys for those Vr.
like 20 be udmIringly noticed
y. Us fl. serE.s. Ahalis, yarIu-
r1}s seltIurs. plu ah,s aHi
chine hIllns: .' grey. blGra, ,HF
lirnl. green rose navy. brow
foH.H. ruptr. Khaki ard whit.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26

PARIS sept, 1u The number 4
Turkish prisoner. taken IN Palestine
by the British now aggregates 42On.
according 20 the latest advice reaching
Paris
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-26

oFhUTH Ut HeJtt-UUFTTh
Scuora de RrycS Guerra, formerly
Linda Elizabeth Hcrde't}. ), the wri, o.
Dr. Antonio Reyes Guerra charge
datiairc, of Salvador The wedding
took place late TIN, ,ummer in Wash.
ingtun Sonora de Reyes Guerra 81, a
direct descendant OF Lord BiIlugslry
and General HnddoDk Warren
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
MUST SHOW HIS HAND.

Congressman Miller Of this
district recently made a trip
across the state and, from the car
windows, he assumes to have
learned all about the trials and
tribllations of the farmers there
is to know. In franked and
useless congressional document,
wherein much valuable print pa
per might have been conserved,
he deliberately misrepresents the
political status Of the farmers of
the>northwest. What Miller does
not know about the class strug-
gle from the farmers view would
make a mighty big book, and as
a representative of the agricul-
tural interests of the northwest,
he is a helovajoke. Organized
labor, however, has a candidate
who not only is loyal to real
democracy, but is loyal to the
wealth producers Of the state as
we'll. Miller will have to lay
both hands, with palms up, on
the political table this year.
Bear River journal.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10

has special qualifications for that
committee. Last, but not least,
this lop-sided :. makeup of the
committees is presumed to put
much-needed safeguards around
the haunted Hoke.
G.. Francis Colman was re-
elected treasurer and, with great
self-denial, opposed Col. LeDuc's
proposition to increase his sal
airy from 5000 to $1,000 a year.
If to the easy victor the spoils
belong, then Mr.. Colman was en-
titled to the raise. His refusal
atones at least in part for his
numerous absences from board
and committee meetings the past
year.
One sane,. fitting and popular
act was the retention of Charles
A. Bronson as clerk of the board
Of education with a raise in sal
airy from $1,000 to $4,000. Many
Of the patrons of the school, as
we'll as taxpayers, have feared
that the board soon would go
abroad for a secretary, thereby
eliminating another competent,
popular and old-time employe.
Those camouflage text book
agents were hastily put back
into the closet with divers school
board skeletons, with a curt re-
fusal Of director Amundson' 8
earnest request to have them
really and truly identified. They
probably will be brought forth
for service again next year by the
mudslingers for the Autocrats.
It's up to the Autocrats to
make hay and raise hell this year,
for it's dollars to doughnuts
they will, figuratively speaking,
join King Brewer, Car Mich
olas and Kaiser Wilhelm after
the next election.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
NOT IN. UNIFORM.

They wear no khaki or. battleship
blue,
They're kind of nondescript sort of
a crew,
Hard-handed and husky but not like
= you meet
On the holystoned decks of the bat
tleship fleet.
Nope, these here is only the every
day guys
Who tandle the vessels that. feed
our allies.
But-stop an consider q bit what
they mean-
These lads of the merchant marine!
They sail with cargo of beet or Of
steel, =,
Or T. N. T. maybe. or bacon an meal,
An so they 60 wallowin' loaded for
fair,
TO feed an munition the folks lover
there"
An if they get over they sigh with
An come back to take on more bis
cults an beef,
An If they get sunk-well It's plain
to be seen
That's rough on the merchant ma
rine.
They don't get: much glory for takin'
chance
On dyin' while steamin' to England
or France,
For if they get rescued from drown
in one trip,
They just come up smilin' an find
new ship.
An if they go down, in 'watery
grave
There are no half-masted flags thatll
wave,
An yet they're real men who're dom
their bit,
Not askin' no special approval for it.,
An that's just the reason we otta be
keen
For the boys Of the merchant marine.
Selected.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10

pend the civil service require
ments and almost entirely elimi-
nate the age limit. While the
men must be credited with do
ing the best they can, certainly
the morale, efficiency and for
mer high character of the depart
ment have sadly deteriorated
under the fateful Silberstein-Mc-
Kercher regime. T.
If the city treasury is as empty
and dried up as Commissioner
Voss indicates, perchance there
are wealthy citizens, bankers,
manufacturers or even kindly cor
porations who will deem it a duty
and a pleasure to advance some
real money to meet this emer-
gency. More good would come
from that, in these critical times,
than land donations for park pur-
poses or even expensive systems
of private police and guards. No
scandal or criticism could fol-
low, as might in such a case as
the gift of a powerful, speedy
automobile to the head Of the
department.
Certainly a great city Of 100,-
600 souls possesses enough abil-
ity, enterprise, liberality and
loyalty to meet such a trifling
emergency as a demand of the
police for living wages.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
JUST FOLKS.

There never was q man so good
But could be better II he would;
There never was q man 50 bad
But what a chance for good he had,
And since no one can truly say
What he shall do another day,
Or shall he rise or shall he fall,
Mercy should govern one and all.
Sometimes the good and fine go
wrong;
Sometimes the weak have finished
strong, ~,
And only he has failed to win.
Who, unrepentant, dies In sin.
In doubt the living move ahead;
Fixed are the standards of the dead ;
OF them alone may men exclaim,
That they shall never stoop to shame.
The critic arrogantly sneers
When one In crimson sin appears.
Yet ere his words have passed away
The tempter leads his feet astray.
Men on whom honor's robes were
placed, ..
Have fallen from the heights, dis
graced;
And others, weak, despised and
lowly,
Have earned the rights Of burial holy.
Praise good whenever good You see
But patient with the sinful be.
The eyes Of men may never learn
Just how the wheel of fate shall turn
Nor can we guess what life may do,
Tomorrow here with me and you.
Be merciful! Some day We may
For mercy sadly kneel and pray.
Selected.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
DIED IN LINE OF DUTY.

John H. Callahan, for seven
years a member of Duluth's po-
lice department, died early Tues
day morning as a result of a
gunshot wound, received while
trying earnestly to do his full
duty.
Levi w. Turbell, an enemy Of
organized society, an outlaw who
sought to reap where he had not
sown, a veritable bit Of vermin
on the body polite, lies in a
prison cell, facing life imprison-
ment, as the self-confessed per-
petrator of the terrible deed.
John H. Callahan was an ideal
policeman, both by tradition,
temperament and record of serv-
ice. He was watchful, faithful
and effective. He kept his own
counsel when on duty and did not
obtrude himself into matters not
his business. He had strength
of character and pride to keep
him from being demoralized by
conditions at headquarters and
improper examples set by some
of his superiors. He was loyal
to Duluth in that he planned to
stay in the department instead
of seeking temporarily higher
wages elsewhere. He recently
took the examination for promo
ton to sergeant. Only SO years
of age, in perfect health, vigor-
GUS and active, he probably would
have served the city for many
years and gone far up the ladder
of promotion. His record and
example should be an inspiration
to every man in the department:
In these strenuous, troublous
times, the city lily can afford to.
lose man, like John H: Callahan.
Far greater than the city's loss
is that of a wife. and fond rela,
tives.
We knew officer Callahan fav.
orably and WELL, We greatly re.
greet his untimely end. We de-
sire to extend condolences to the
bereaved wife and all others who
mourn his sudden death as a per-
sonal loss.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
PROVIDING FOR THE POLICE

The members OF the police and
fire departments ask a 10 per
cent raise in their salaries. AS
usual, the city commissioners
have not anticipated this de-
mand, therefore now dolefully
declare that no funds are avail
able for meeting it. Commits
sioner Voss, the faithful watch
dog Of the treasury, even de-
clares that, to grant the desired
salary advances, would compel
a reduction in the police force
and the closing Of a fire hall.
It is hoped that the city COM
missioners will develop skill and
ability to meet this emergency
in an effective and brilliant man.
ner. Too much cannot be ex-
pected Of men willing to serve
the public at only $4,000 year,
but the size of a mans salary is
not always a positive proof Of
the size of his brain. Perchance
that board Of city commissioners
possesses an embryo Wilson, Nc
Adoo, Ordean or Patrick.
Duluth usually has underpaid
its policemen and never overpaid
them. The service of a patrol
man, especially, is hazardous,
exacting and often thankless.
Nothing within reason is too good
for the efficient man who walks
a beat, day or night, in heat or
cold, in rain or snow, constantly
risking health and life and waiv-
ing the home life that the av-
erage man can. enjoy.
Under the Silberstein-M cKer-
cher regime, Duluth's police de-
partment has steadily and sadly
disintegrated. Many of the old
est men have quit the service and
many more will follow as soon as
they can claim a pension. The
pension system probably has kept
the department from going en-
tirely to pieces. Wages paid are
better almost anywhere than in
the police department.
At headquarters, especially,
there are jealousies, injustices
and dissatisfaction. The grand,
gloomy and peculiar methods of
a wild, raiding chief, untitled by
nature, education, moral charac-
ter or previous experience to hold
and handle so important a posi-
tien, have nearly wrecked a de-
partment so brilliantly built up
and handled by his predecessor.
To keep anywhere near the
needed number Of policemen, it
recently was necessary to sus-
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
THE NEW SCHOOL BOARD.

The Autocrats promptly and
aggressively organized the school
board last Saturday night, as per
slate, and firmly straddled the
saddle, ready and willing to ride
down any Commoners and Bolshe-
Wiki possessing enough hardi-
hood to get in the way.
John R. McGiffert was con.
tinued as president and Col. A.
G.. LeDuc was elected vice pres
ident, probably in keeping with
the policy, safety first
Frank A. Brewer, King Of the
Autocrats, having had enough,
made Col. LeDuc his understudy
and heir last February. Ex-
tremely thankful for the clever
coaching given him, Col. LeDuc
now may be expected to try to
put across the curved ones which,
with Mephistopholean skill, pres
ident McGiffert will endeavor to
mitt.
Less arrogant Autocracy and
more kindly Democracy on the
part of the dominant faction of
the school board probably would
have tended to greater eff.
cheney, through an era of good
feeling, all through the ensuing
year, as well as have gone far to
get the confidence and good will
Of the real patrons of the schools.
As the willy McGiffert made
up his slate, lawyers and finan-
ciers predominant on educational
committees and educators and
opponents of high moral endeav.
or predominant on the more pure
ly business committees. That is
hardly the acme of efficiency.
For the next IL months the
committee on schools. especially,
will be an air-tight, secret ses-
sion, none-of-your-busine insti.
tuition. DR.. Schaibly, who should
have been member, both in
justice to the minority and be.
cause of his great value in educa-
tional matters, was excluded from
the committee, thereby getting
well spanked because he per.
sisted in being candidate
against the expressed wishes of
director Davis and little jimmy
Bachelor. Director Foster, also,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
POETS CORNER
IT'S THE LAST ROSE OF SUMNER,

IT'S the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower Of her kindred,
No rosebud is nigh,
To reflect back her bushes,
To give her sigh for sigh.
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one,
TO pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly scatter
Thy leaves DER the bed,
Where the mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from Loves shining circle
The gems drop away!
When true hearts lie withered
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone!
Thomas Moore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
AN ExACTINa WOMAN.

"That woman's the limit - ex-
claimed an East End letter car
rier as he came down the steps
of the home Of a lady prominent
in Red Cross activities.
"What' 8 the trouble!" inquired
a citizen who overheard the mail
carriers exclamation.
"Why, the woman in that
house told. be if / did not come
earlier she'd get her letters from
some other carrier"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH
TARA'S HALLS.

The harp that once through Tara's
halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
AS If that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory's thrill is DER,
And hearts that once beat high for
praise,
Now feel that pulse no more!
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
That harp Of Tara swells;
The cord alone that breaks at night
It's tale Of ruin tells.
Thus freedom now so seldom wakes.
The only throb she gives
Is when some heart indignant breaks,
To show that still she lives.
Thomas Moore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
THOSE EVENING BELLS.

THOSE EVENING BELLS.
Those evening bells! Those evening
bells!
How many a tale their music tells
OF youth and home, and that sweet
time,
When last I heard their soothing
chime!
Those joyous hours are passed away:
And many a heart that then was
gay
Within the tomb now darkly dwells,
And hears no more those evening
bells.
And so t will be whom I am gone,-
That tuneful peal will still ring
on;
While other bards shall walk those
dells,
And sing your praise, sweet eve
ming bells.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
PRAYER OF A REGULAR MAN

Lord, let me live like q Regular Man,
With regular friends and true, ~
Let me play the game on a regular
|. plan; =:
And play it all the way" through;
Let me win or lose with a, regular
smile "
And never be known to whine.
For that is a Regular Fellows"
style
And I want to make it mine!
Let me live to q regular good old
age,
With regular snow-white hair,
Having done my labor, and earned
my wage. =.
And played my game for fair:
And so at last when the people scan
My face on it's regular bier.
They'll say, well, he was q Regular
Mani
And drop a regular tear!
-Berton Braley.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
THE LITTLE THRIFT STAMP.

THE LITTLE THRIFT STAMP.
zone little Thrift Stamp, sitting by
it's lone, '-.
Then number two is pasted by his
side,
Uncle Sans workers. glad and full
of pride.
Thrift Stamps now sixteen, sitting in
row,
Soldiers of Freedom bring to Ger
mans woe.
Twelve cents then added buy a Baby
Bond"
Five silver dollars to this CORES
= pond.
Buy them from banks and buy them
from the store. :
Buy them from the postman, buy
them more and more;
Buy in the morning, add few at
night,
Then make your friends join this
new delight.
Pennies now saved mean, when their
work is done,
Gold to rejoice with when the war
is WOn."
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
THE AMERICAN MARINE.

Wherever they be, on land or sea,
when the voice of duty calls,
They're alert and true to dare and
do; no peril our lads appals.
With true Yankee grit they will do
their "bit" through stormiest
battle scenes.
And the Teuten shell that was made
in hell has no terror for our
Marines.
Away in the front where the battles
brunt is winnewing men like
chaff
American lads, the sons Of their
dads, keep fighting right on aad
laugh!
oh, they've hearts Of steel, no fear do
they feel for the Teuton's fiery
screens"
Or his poison guns, and they'll get
the Huns, for they are our own
Mafinesi
Then, here's to the boys. Americas
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
THIS WORLD is ALL A FLEETING
SHOW.

This world is all a fleeting show,
For mans illusion given;
The smiles of Joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow
There's nothing true but heaven!
And false the light on glory's plume,
AS fading hues of even;
And love, and hope, and beauty's
bloom
Are blossoms gathered for the
tomb
There's nothing bright but heaven!
Poor Wanderers of a stormy day,
From wave to wave we're driven,
And fancy's flash and reasons ray
Serve but to light the troubled
way
There's nothing calm but heaven!
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
>s. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918.

common good, no matter how dis
pleasing the publications or their
editors might be to him person
ally.
Many a Big Toad in a very
Small Puddle can learn as we'll as
live, if he really possesses the
desire.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
Tales OF LONG AGO
The Rip-saw Historian Digs Into Doings in the
Dim, Distant Past and Unearths Interesting
Incidents of Days That Are No More.

even had lost his hat during tho
storm.
Friends and neighbors had ut
terly given the man up for lost.
They never dreamed that he
could survive the terrible storm
in a small =, boat. Their sur
prise at his return was surpassed
only by their rejoicing. ..,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10

joys, to our gallant lads in
France! -.
To the Stars and Stripes, the i'm
mortal types Of Democracy's ad-
vance!
TO the men who know how to meet
the foe and who show what cour-
age means!
Uncle Sam is proud of that fearless
crowd, the magnificent Marines!
John e. Barrett.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
WORD OF WARNING.

Lives of editors oft remind us
Honest men don't get a chance.
The more we work, there grow be-
hind us
Bigger patches on our pants.
On our pants once new and glossy,
Now are stripes of different hue,
All because subscribers linger
And won't pay us what is due.
Let us then be up and doing,
Send you mite, however small,
Or when the SHOWS of winter strike
us
We will have no pants at all.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10

Then. here's to the boys. America,