The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-06
Oklahoma
Observir1gs

IL a lawyer had no clients, would he
be a legal blank The Sentinel Leader
elassifies him that way.
William Ferdinand, Tulsa enemy
alien, went to 81. Louis without netty
| ing the federal authorities He also
went into the restricted zone at St
Louis and is now spending his honey
moon in jail He went to 81. Louis 10
get married, and not to blow up a
brewery or anything.
The Lehigh News urges farmers TO
raise more cows and hens, and IN sup
port OF the campaign points out that
the prosperous places in the west today
aYe where large herds OF dairy cows
aad large ilocks of hens are found
Dairying and poultry culture do not
wear out the soil as some other forms
Of agriculture do, but being a milk
maid is quite different from what one
might infer from watching the maidens
IN milk maid costumes in the musical
comedy.
Nine moonshiners, eight men and a
women, we're arrested near Antlers re-
Gently and their still and 100 gallons OF
whiskey destroyed The booze business
Is one infant industry which is certain
" having hard shedding in this state,
and il is wonder its promoters don't
take a tumble A hint to the wise is
sufficient, but there are no wise men
engaged in moonshine or bootleg activ-
i,ie'. Those birds merely think they are
wise.
Soldier letters form an important and
Interesting portion Of the reading mat
ter in most of the Oklahoma weeklies
now. In one letter a warrior now So
J journng in France states that he knows
he doesn't write as frequently as he
should, but sets forth adequate excuses
as follows. when we work twelve or
fourteen hours a day, and then keep
clean. besides attending TO little mat
tiers like sewing on buttons, mending
clothes etc, time just seems to pass
and nothing done either" Nothing to
do until tomorrow, so to speak.
Gus Coleman of Seminole Is one Of
Uncle Sans fighting men who didn't
wait until war was declared TO begin
preparedness. He Joined the navy in
1915, since when he has seen much OF
the world, and something of war, and
he came home the other day for the first
time since his enlistment
The Thomas Tribune submits this
treatise on tempers and we suspect II
was written by a woman "Tempers are
queer things anyway We snap, and
erowl, and scold and fume, and fret
for no cause under the sun that we
know Of and when trouble really comes
we smile and take II as unconcernedly
as though II was the most commonplace
affair We will sulk for a week over
a slight that was all in our imagination
and grow all the madder becaust we
know that the whole matter Is an inven-
tion of our own. The fact is when we
feel good cyclone cant spoil our
equanimity but IL we chance to he out
OF sorts and have the blues we are GO
ing 70 get mad and stay mad and II we
don't find any provocation we will make
one. The man who gets the blues--and
who Is there who doesn't get them-is a
most unfortunate person. Ten minutes
after the attack begins he has concluded
that he is the most abused man on the
face Of the earth. Every person in the
town is working against him--he knows
II and Il is no use to deny the fact il
the unfortunate man is married, he
wrVS disgust upon his wife and boy
and COW.
Ivan L. Draper, Of Thomas, answered
his csuntry's cali soon after war wa,
declared, going into the regular army
He has got as far as Honolulu on his
Wy TO France, and doubtless has faced
many rspid-fire ukuleles and seen IN,
dusky hula maidcns who wouldn't dar,