The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-04
INNER WAITE
IN THRILLING STORY
Of HUN ATROC|TY

The most thrilling, compelling,
intense portrayal OF the scenes of the
present world war even given in
Ardmore was presented at Conven-
Hall last night by Chief Gunner
Waite, for Is years member of the
British Navy. Everything he said
was first hand information a story
OF what he had actually seen or
participated in during his service at
the front. If there was a person in
the vast audience who was not con-
vinced that every story OF German
atrocity he has ever heard has not
been one whit overdrawn, it is time
/ for him to leave this country.
The meeting was called to order
at $50 by Edward Gait. district
chairman of the Thrift Stamp cam
kpaign, who introduced G.. w. Barnes
OF Muskogee, state chairman. Mr..
Barnes urged that everyone prepare
to take an active part in the closing
day OF the campaign of June %, to
the end that Carter County retain
its lead as the first country in the
state on the sale of thrift stamps.
The meeting was opened with the
singing OF America" and closed
with singing "The Star Spangled
Banner" At the close hundreds
went to the platform to meet Gun
ner Waite and examine the Lusi-
tania medal which he exhibited.
Waite Fighting Veteran.
Gunner Waite was in "a engage
ments. hand to hand encounters, and
bears many wounds, but he is man
OF strong physique and talks with
an earnestness that carries convic-
ton with every sentence. He was
one of u survivors out of $50 who
made one charge, only II now being
alive. He has participated in foui
wars but the frightfulness of the
present one far exceeds any other,
though one, at ltast of these others
was against a tribe of fanatics.
Gunner Waite has adopted and is
supporting at the home of his par
ents in England, Belgian mother,
as years old, and three children,
each of whom was manned By the
beastly Hun The left hand of the
oldest girl was severed at the wrist,
the right at the elbow, besides which
she is infNted with loathsome
disease: the boz OF seven was
bN the sever;u,g pf II,
toes of both icet and the citing Of
the cords at the instep, and the
little girl OF five bears wound in
the gfoin where a Hun had at
temptdto bayont her but failed, as
she fell from the force OF his blow.
81 don't know what becomes of
all the Germans who are being
killed., said the gunner, "but ii any
Of them are going to Heaven | want
20 say that | want TO go straight
10 Hell. They are not human beings
md no one should so regard them" .
The speaker opened his falkland |
oy the way, he first removed his
,ollar and tie and afterward Dis ,
'arded his coat-by giving historical
acts showing that Germany had,
ime after time. openly declared war !
IN the United States, and graphical
y portraying each instance. His re-
learsal of the instance at Mania
Bay was particularly graphic.
War Has Just Begun. {
Don't worry about your boys r
'ho have gone to the front. This i
var has only just begun and many y
nore will be called Only small /
ercentage OF those who go are ac- 4
ually killed under the present meth
dS Of warfare. Whatever happens i
want to say TO each and everyone E
I you that your boy will COM back O
better man. morally. mentally and "
hysicallv. The war will make men :
t them"
The highest praise was paid the
ed Cross and an earnest plea ior
very woman to help in the work OF
le local chapter. no matter what
lie home tasks might be, as this is
work which is OF prime import
nee in winning the war. Next TO
le Red Cross. he said that he felt
lie work OF the Salvation Army i
lie greatest. as it is rendering a
-eat service. :
Private Barbour. of Pershing's
'rces, who was also in the city and n
as expected to participate in The
Getting. was unable 10 be present
cause of illness. He is still suf-
ring from the effects of a gas at II