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Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
LABOR IMPOSED ON FRENCH
 GIRLS BY GERMAN OFFICIALS

French Front. March 20.-That com pulsory labor for German conquerors is imposed on the French women and girls, as we'll as on the male inhabi- Of tho invaded districts of France, is shown in the order issued by General Volkers Of the 9th German army corps, recently stationed in the vicinity of Cambria. The text of the order is as follows:
 This group of troops will shortly have need of 1000 men for various works. An increase of production must be exacted from these workers, and groups of women must be employed whenever possible, especially for work in the fields. Those in charge of these workers must bear in mind that at the present moment our German women are taking the places of male workers and they should not lose sight of the principle that no French woman or girl ought to be allowed to do less work than our countrywomen in the inte- rior."
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
JOESPH E. RILEY

After years of hard toil in diff ferent mining camps of Alaska, bearing burdens, responsibilities and disappointments sufficient to make quitters of l9 out of every 20 men, and always with an un. failing cheerful disposition, Jos eph E. Riley (known to everyone as "George,") suddenly ended his earthly cares on Otter creek last Sunday morning-the victim of an assassin's bullets. Shot in the back three times at close range, given not an instant's show for his white alley, he was ushered into the presence of his Maker.
 Riley was for years recognized as one of the big Industrial pill lars" of this camp. He was a bundle of nerves, grit and perse verence. The tougher things happened about his mining oper ations, the more firmly he set that square jaw of his and smiled.
 The trials, cares and troubles attending last seasons mining were probably the most exasper- ating of his career, but the buoy ancy of his makeup kept him going full speed ahead.
 Several mining associates of Riley's have left this camp with snug homestakes, and he was, according to common hearsay, about ready to get good peep at the sunny side of the street. and reach that long fought-for goal-when he was shot down.
 Riley's was a strong character, and like most men of that nature, made warm and devoted friends, and, probably, some enemies, but all agree that
 He was no qutter--was built of stuff From soda to hoo he ne CT cried 'nough
 :: :: ::
 Riley deserved better fate.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
POOR McADOO

Poor MT McAdooy Think of the jobs he's hitched up to- The treasury, the railroad crew, The income tax. and then few. Each week they hand him something To tax his time and temper, too He has to know when loans are due, What source to get his billions through, What fund to pass each dollar to, What tax is what, and who is who1 What bonds to sell and what renew, Which "trust' to coax ard which tc
 sue.
 He stretches out each day 10 two To do the things he has to do. The job would founder me or you, But it's cinch for McAdoot
 Philadelphia Paper.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11

Newark, N. J. April 2-Presideut Wilson in letter to New Jersey demo- cratic leaders assembled at banquet here wrote: "Every sign in these ter rible days of war and revolutionary change when economic and social forces are being released upon the world whose effect no seer dare venture to conjecture bids us search our hearts and make them ready for the birth of a new department Old party slogans have lost their significance and will mean nothing to the voter of the future, f,r the war is certain to change the m nd of Eulo,e as we'll as he mind cf America.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
IRON TEST FOR LABOR

Tn this country the war is the war of the people. This means that the labor ing man is conducting his own war. In Germany 1t is dynastic war with it's controlling purpose not to widen but to limit the freedom of the people.
 In this country the war continues and will be prosecuted to the end with vigOr because the working people whose interests are primarily at stake --and this does not imply class distinc- fion-are unit. In Germany they are dumb driven cattle. Hence the la bor unions of America are being treated to the kind of conditions that would be created fer them were the kaiser vic torious in the war as he or his minions have proclaimed the death penalty for strikes.
 Tbese are forced into the shops or into the army or into death. So would the American workingmen be treated by the German autOcrat
 The iron fist for labor-this is the ideal of the country that is ratified with classes, where the benefciaries of so-called kultur have nothing in com mon with the bread-winners. And against this nefarious, medieval state of society the American fights with all his manhood. Baltimore American.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
man people will overthrown the

man people will ovesthrown the kaiser.
 We are going to win the war, but it IS goiug to take fighting to do so, In fighting, men are killed. Our boys, many of them, are going to give up their lives on the battlefield before this thing is over, and we might as we'll be prepared for the awful ness of the sacrifices. Our troops will kill more of the Germans than the Germans will kill of our troops; of that we feel certain. But the point is, F~'e must get down in the mud and dirt and smoke and fight. We must fight and die. We who were not on the firing line must help with the fight. We can not-we ought not ito expect these soldiers to do it all. We ought to know that they cannot do their best unless we are with them to the last dol lar we possess. We have got to lay aside politics; we have got to stop criticising; we must get into the game with both hands and with our whole hearts.
 Whether the end will come this year or the next, we do not know. But it will not come until Germany is whipped, and she is not as yet whipped. That is as far as we ought to go in our specuIations. -Juneau Empire.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
GERMAN KULTUR NOT 4
 NEW THING

'Every village they have passed through has been the victim of what is only organized pillage, Every city has been practically sacked, ransacked on system: it's citizens plundered, it's civil officials terrorized, imprisoned, out ragged. or killed. The civil populations have been, contrary to the usage of modern warfare, forced to serve the invading armies. brutally put to death, reduced to wholesale starvation, and desolation. Vast tracts of the richest and most industrious districts of Europe have been deliberately stripped and plunged into famine. solely ln order that the invaders might make war cheaply. Irregular troops, contrary to all the practice of war, have been sys tematically murdered, antf'ctyil popula
 tions indiscriminately massacred, solely to spread terror. A regular system ot ingenious terrorism has been directed against civilians as horrible as anything Ill Lu6 History LII CiFll ti tSIiF iOAS NdtS Large and populous cities have been, not once, but 20, 30, 40 times, bom- barded and burnt, and the women and children in them wantonly slaughtered, with the sole object of intlcting suffer- ing. All this has been done not in li- cense or passion, but by the calculating ferocity of scientific soldiers
 The above was not written, though it might have been, yesterday, last month or last year. It appeared in the English Fortnlghtly Review February, 1871, shortly before the surrender of of Paris. Frederick Harrison, the writer, is still alive. It's statements were true then, are true now. Julius Caesar in his Commentaries narrates events which show that even before the time of Christ the Germans demon strated the possession of all of the rudl- ments of their modern 'kultur." It is no new thing; and hundreds of thou sands of men will have died in vain if this sinister thing is not absolutely and utterly exterminated forever by the forces of civilization arrayed against it..
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
BUTTON WON PILLOW

The Red Cross pillow, donated by Mrs. J. H. Mclean, which is going the round of this part of Interior Alaska, and which has been in Iditarod during the past week, was won by Dick Button last Monday eveniug, who sent it to Flat City to be sold. The Red Cross realized s2l by the award in this city.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
A MATTER OF FIGHTING

The outcome of the war is going to be matter of fighting. We might as we'll get that into our minds. It will profit us noth- ing to hope that internal conG- tons in Germany will put an end to the war It will get us no- where to sit down and figure upon Austria s breaking away from Germany. We only deceive ourselves by thinking the Ger
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11

John Sinclair, John Webster, John Edwards and Billy Tewsit, each with a tired dogteam, reached town last Monday evening from Ophir-wards.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
WHEN THE DAY IS DONE

I have eaten a bale Of spinach and kale, And I've never raised a row. I have swallowed can Of moistened bran And I feel like q brindle COW. I am taking a snack From the old haystack In the evening shadows gray. And I'm glad, you bet, At last to get
 To the end of meatless day.
 =WaShingtOn Star.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
SOLDIERS DROWN

San Diego. Cal, May 6. Fifty, two soldiers drowned and eleven other persons are missing as result of terrific tide rip at Ocean Beach. Sixty persons were rescued.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11

Carranza has put a head tax of $8 in gold on persons leaving Mexico for the United States But no doubt the privilege is worth the price. IN. Y. World.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11

If shipping space were not at such a premium it would seem desirable to send some of our German spies to France for trial. Philadelphia North American.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11

Russian bear looks more like a dachshund every day. - Wall Street Journal.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11
BIG WAGE INCREASES

Washington, May Recommending millions of dollars in wage increases to men who man the American railroad systems, the Railway-Wage Adjusting Board completed it's report today and forwarded same to Secretary McAdoo.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-05-11

wally Labosky, widely-known old timer of the Interior, is 8 late arrival in the camp from the Kuskokwlm.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12

Lon tnrn 10 the MIAMI ADS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12
Love County Over the Top.


Over the top is what Love County
reported in the Liberty loan drive
last Sunday afternoon.
County Chairman c. i. Morris
had previously stated that he was
going to put Love County over the
top in three days, and when Satur-
day morning came the drive began
at once all over the county. Every
business house in Marietta was
closed and the business men went to
different parts Of the county to as
sist in the drive.
Thackerville by noon Saturday re-
ported over the top and was the
first town to make that return.
Love County was no doubt the
first in the state to report over the
top, although two other counties
were reported ahead, and it is said
that the banks in these counties got
together and guaranteed their quota
and sent in the report to headquar-
tiers. Mr.. Morris did not send in
his report until rhe applications were
reported to him.
The quota for this county was
$l4l,300, but will reach more than
100000 when all the applications
are received. Mr.. Morris is jubi-
lant over the drive and our people
are proud OF the way in which he
conducted it.
The following is a partial list, but
not in full, as several places have
not as vet repOrted:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12

MRS. NATIVE N. ROSE,
Agent and Correspondent.
Bell Telephone Office.
Fun Carrier Service.
(Ardmoreite Correspondence.J

(Ardmoreite CorrespondenceJ
Marietta, Okla, April l2.-Orma
Autry, Jessie White, William Lati-
mer, f. w. Robinson and Fred Nc
Means went 10 Ardmorc yesterday
to enlist in the navy.
Mr.. and Mrs. B b Askew left yes
terday morning for Omaha, Nebo
to visit their sons who are in bust
ness at that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. G. Noryell and
Mr. and Mrs w c Peden motored to
Fort Worth yesterday. They will
return tonight.
r. T. Harper Of Thackcryille was
here yesterday.
DR.. and Mrs. d. Austry are visit
ing in Fort Worth and Dallas.
T. J Berry OF Dallas is a business
visitor in Marietta.
Miss Jack Ballard Of Kaufman,
Texas, has accepted a position in
the dry goods department OF S.
Westheimer's store.
T.. q. Mckinney one OF Love
County, commissioners. returned
yesterday from Oklahoma City
where he attended the state conyen-
ton of county commissioners. Mr.
Mckinney was elected state presi-
dent.
w. A. Gatlin of Lakeyiew, Texas
L.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12
OKLAHOMA CITY
RAISES QUOTA
TOTAL OF S2,20OO0O PLEDGED
AS WORK ENDS LAST
EVENING.

,,tt .1 - nit
oNI'Itoil'a non, C''y' -iP'! u. - 600 0So
. I,ol," Cily ''1s p, ,.' IdlseI no 10 T-'-0o''0'
qu4ya q,},.., oI lie .,oI L51eIEy ,zG loIn. ,,. -,
w IN pGl 3Io7'''o i10hIIs 'ue 30. ~!
IaI ID YESTERDAY HooH' ll'e cam, 'e"IIlS 'uIew '
themselves IuIlou'lE !i,' t"e i "oIN n
al an 'ne aI,TrnooI5 WIN l,. 'ne result sun
I"sl "'snl int WINE I'o oI.IO'ai i ! e. g
'or,a "ele ,iI a,Iuvu' l'i' 49,, elGlu,'l :
coII'IIil'lee hau received promises oI
suIl0'e"t ~, SuoSoI' Puo's " cover 'I'e
quo'a; ! ne nc, "C'u'I STO'CI 'pI'o''S !,
ProDaDIy VIII not De III 'Hc IIai'uS ol
'"f comm C1lllllllt'ee '''' moo" you1S' ,.S ,
I\'0I'dIu u ~ o9e' wee we, '''dii ''l1Il i %
IIt eNeTu''Ee .,, Oolil'',''''l' ,i' ue0''I } gu
last Ins"I lna' 'u'l arc sure ti'e
noon nsure' loqay "ouIo see the the
quota passed; -uuSe - d. ISIles' Ii
chairman OF i4G committee said 'Iat
me dTlNe "o9'u De over py ,,, noon TO-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12

from Mrs. J. NJ. Van Winkle. This
makes total Of $1,000 fCr Mrs. Van
Winkle, who added her subscription
yesterday, she said, because She saw
it was needed.
In addition to the figures issued al
noon, Frank f. Wikof, district
chairman, had Snad reports from
Pottawatomie County cl 100000
raised towards the quota Of $625 ,OOO
with as vet no subscriptions from
the banks; and 100000 from Payne
County out of a quota OF S3I3.OOO
The whole district will be cleaned
up, Wikoh says, by Saturday at the
latest.
More Buyers Than Formerly.
One Of the most gratifying fea-
tures Of the third drive, in the opin-
ion of all the loan workers, is the
TACT that three or four times as many
bonds have been sold as in the
earlier issues. The meu's commit
tee SAYS that Mt least three times as
many have been sold this time, and
| the women believe they hay sold
/ five or six times as many.
Along towards the middle of the
afternoon there was Il noticeable
slackeniug of the tension at head
quarters as team after team came
in with fresh reports, making it GER
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12
Eddie Collins Is Sick.

Chicago, April p. - Eddie Col
Inns, star second baseman Of the
champion White SoX, is on his way
to Chicago today, having been or
dered home by his doctor who has
pronounced his ailment as tonsilitis.
Collins was taken i'll at Wichita,
Kan, where the White Sox played
yesterday with the local Western
league team.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12
GOODNIGHT TO GERMAN
AMERICAN ALLIANCE

Philadelphia, Pa, April 1.-THE
German-American Alliance, which
has been the center of congressional
investigation for some time past,
will disband and give the $4,000
now in the treasury to the Red
Cross. This announcement was semi
officially made during a conference
late yesterday alter an all-day ses-
sion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12
LARGE INCORPORATION
FEE PAID TO THE STATE

Oklahoma City April IA
check for $19,0O3 was turned over
to the secretary Of states office yes
terday by r, w. Kellough of Tulsa,
attorney for the Oklahoma Pro-
ducing & Refining Company a $25,-
100000 Maryland corporation, which
yesterday qualified to do business in
Oklahoma to the extent of $lS,000,-
00Q. The incorporation fee was one
OF the largest ever paid to the state
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12
Chasing Huns in Africa.

London, April l2.-Allied troops
are advancing on the remnants OF
the German forces which escaped
from German East Africa to Por-
tuguese East Africa, it was an
nounced officially
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12

ed in the fire Saturday, is improv-
ing.
Mrs. L. A. West, who has been
seriously i'll, is improving.
II. Pennington Of Ardmore was a
business visitor here yesterday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-12
NO COMMISSIONS SOON.

New York, April l2-There will
be no graduates from the third and
subsequent officers training camps
and the men given training will go
back into their organizations as pri-
Yates and commissioner Off
GERS to await commissions as their
services are needed. The men
trained the war department an
nornced, will wear white arm bands
to distinguish them from their fel-
lows. They will be known as eli
giblc and will be classified according
to the grades they made in train
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
Dangerous Play by Children.

The children in this city are at pres
emit engaging in a pastime that is high
~ dangerous to their health. Freed
from school and with no occupation
through the day, they are spending
hours in the streets riding on what they
know as "skatomobiles," made Of roller
skates and strips of board. Seated on
these they slide down hill, guiding
themselves with their hands or pro-
pelling themselves by hand on level
stretches. Necessarily they are breath
ing volumes of the foul dust of the
streets, especially when they reach the
climax of their delight in sweeping
through piles Of dead leaves. 1t needs
no technical argument to prove the
danger of this practice. If the parents
of the city wish to conserve the health
of their children they will prohibit
the use of these devices, by means of
which the youngsters are inhaling the
most dangerous dust that can be i'm
agined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
THE EVENING STAB TUESDAY, OCTOBER q 1918

destruction under the cover Of Ger
man occupation during the weary
months Of trench warfare.
Vast quantities Of materials have
been sent into Germany, the loot Of
factories. Machines that were not
stolen were destroyed, not in the
course of retreat or changing lines,
but in a deliberate attempt to cripple
Belgium as an industrial center in the
days of peace. The same thing has
been done in France. Devastation has
been wrought there to an appalling de-
gree with the obvious purpose Of les
sening the French capacity for manu-
facture after evacuation.
No estimate is now possible Of the
money value of these distinctions and
thefts from the occupied territory. It
will, however, mount into hundreds Of
millions of dollars, and with it runs
another debit against Germany, the
sums exacted from cities and towns
in the form of fines, extortions based
upon pretended offenses against the
German rules. The fimsiest excuses
were given for these penalties. In
some cases the amounts were deliber-
ately placed at the capacity Of the mu-
inequalities to pay. There was no pre-
tense at justice. Germany was in cold
blood engaged in the spoliation of the
occupied area. When these amounts
are added to the value of the prop
erty destroyed and stolen the total will
make an immense sum, every dollar
of which should be paid if justice is
done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22
Germany's Brazen Denial.

Germany's protest against the re-
proaeh Of illegal and inhumane acts
made against the German land and sea
forces and thereby against the Ger
man people" is calculated to whet the
anger of the peoples of the allied coun-
tries. The record stands too black to
be questioned. No doubt can remain
in the mind Of the utter barbarity of
the German practices from the day
Belgium was entered in violation of
treaty. No reference to a neutral COM
mission is necessary, or permissible.
The. case has been proved beyond ques-
ton
"Where transgressions occur" says
the German note, in spite of strict in
structions "to spare private property
and to exercise care for the population
to the best of our ability" "the guilty
are being punished" Note the pres
emit tense. The. Berlin government by
a clumsy dodge seeks to fasten the ac
cusation of inhumanity upon the acts
committed during the retreat. But the
record runs long beyond that point.
1t starts in August, 1914, and continues
without remission during more than
four years.
Care for private property consisted
in the early days of the war of driv-
ing motor moving vans into the occu-
pied territory and carrying off enor-
nous quantities of private property.
The great wagons followed the army,
according to schedule, and systemat-
ically gathered up loot by thousands
of tons for transport into Germany.
No surer proof of Germany's full prep
aration for the war was furnished than
by this spectacle Of organized, pre-
arranged spoliation.
Will the case of the Lusitania be
submitted to neutral commission
Or the case of the Belgian Prince, or
that of the Leinsters Will the long
record of torpedoed ships and shelled
lifeboats and slaughtered sailors and
passengers be left for decision to a
mixed tribunal, in face of facts al
ready proved by the most reliable tes-
timony, as fully proved as ever were
charges brought into court of laws
The abomination of the German re-
ply is the apparent belief that this
sickening pretense of innocence would
be accepted or even considered for a
moment. Are we innocents, in our
confidence in an enemy who has thus
far hesitated at nothing to wreak his
vengeance and to forward his aims
Can there be traffic or parley with a
foe that even in his hour Of peace
seeking, desperately situated in the
battle field, driven to overtures by do
nestle dissension, brazenly lies in the
face of record that shames humanity
Germany has closed the very door
herself upon peace talk by thus de-
claring innocence of crimes that have
been proved to the letter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-22

may be evolved one satisfactory to all
who now have different methods in
view for accomplishing the same end
the general good.
The Massachusetts, senator wants a
congressional commission appointed,
because Congress will have a great
deal to do with the subject when it is
taken in hand. Reconstruction poll
cies will require much legislation.
They will not be matters merely for
executive edicts, or for informal ar
rangements in and by and for the
business world. Hence, as Mr.. Weeks
holds, Congress should prepare itself
for work which it cannot escape, or
delegate to any other tribunal. It
should examine into conditions and
needs before iegislating for them.
The resolution is described by its
opponents as representing "reactionary,
big business ideas Of reconstruction"
While it is hardly assumable that big
business will run things" it is clear
enough that all business, big and lit
tie, will have a valuable and impor-
tant stake in the game, and, there
fore, the right to be heard when poll
cies are being shaped. Without its ad-
vice-not necessarily its dictation-
how would it be possible to keep for
the American people whatever eco
nomic advantages have grown out of
the ware We shall be obliged to
draw upon the business world largely
for business ideas.
But the main point at present is to
promote discussion as to means and
methods. Let the Weeks resolution,
the Overman resolution and as many
other resolutions as may be intro
duced, be considered upon their merits,
and not have ascribed to them narrow
and selfish ends and purposes.