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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
THE NEW WAY TO EAT.

l used to pick a restaurant with
very thoughtful care,
And with discriminating eye peruse
the bill of fare.
l liked to let the waiter stand in
deferential way,
While | decided what Id like and
what Id care to pay.
No more do | assume the air Of q
fastidious man,
I'm eating anything | get just when
and where | can.
| say, as with fortitude approach
the dining spot,
" Just give me seven dollars wortl,
OF anything you've got.
Oh, be it ham and eggs or pork and
beans or cheese and pie,
Or sausages and cabbage and bread
made OF bran or rye,
| shall not lift a murmur, but I'll
sit right up and eat,
And never kick because the service
isn't prompt and neat.
And as to cost, so humbled is my
once exalted pride,
A little change, enough to keep the
waiter satisfied,
Is all ask, as | explain, in tones
of empty mirth,
NO matter what it is Just bring
me seven dollars worth"
Washington Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
OUR PART I'm PEACE PLANS
BY William Almnn Wolff OF the Nigilantes.
By William Almon VOL

Often, of late, people have said
to me :"Why are we interested in
the Balkans? What have we to do
with Poland, and Jugo-Slavia? We
went into this war because Ger
many was going in for ruthless sub
marine warfare, didn't we?"
Well, we did. But that wasn't
the cause of our participation in the
war; it was only the occasion. And
President Wilson summed up the
real, the vital, the ultimate reason
why we had to fight Germany when
he uttered that deathlesS phrase
The world must be made safe for
democracy"
You see, until certain things are
settled, and settled upon a basis OF
right and justice, not of mere eX-
pediency, the world won't be safe
for democracy. 1t will be safe only
for peoples armed to the teeth,
ready and willing to fight at the
drop of the hat. We don't want to
be that sort OF people. We never
have been-sometimes to our cost.
But if this war is ended by a treaty
of peace in which eXpediency is the
test that is applied to every clause
and article, we shall, of necessity,
become that sort of people-or else
we shall perish. We shall have to
build IL navy as great as England's
greater, probably. We shall have
to maintain vast army. We shall
have to organize, and keep, always,
at the top notch OF efficiency and
readiness, an eXpeditionary force Of
probably at least a million men, with
the necessary transports for its in
stant despatch overseas. We shall
have TO sacrifice industrial and So
cial progress to our new military
efficiency. And so-we must not
sign a peace that does not eliminate,
as far As human foresight can elm
mate il, the possible occasions for
a new war to be fought so soon as
the weary nations have recovered
from the exhaustion incidental to
this one that is now being fought
out to its end.
Two great international confer
ences stand out in the history OF
Europe in the nineteenth century,
that of Vienna, in 1915, which end
ed the Napoleonic wars, and that of
Berlin, in 1873, which sealed peace
between Russia and Turkey and
sought to settle the disputes which
had arisen and which threatened
the peace OF Europe. Historians of
the future are pretty certain to re-
cord that the seems of this war
were planted at Vienna and Berlin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
A SEA ADVENTURE.

The world today is crammed with
blood stirring adventures. Hair
breadth escapes have become so
common that news-writers give lit
tie heed to them. How we would
thrill, in ordinary times, at such a
story of seamanship as was told the
other day in a few simple lines from
the navy office at Washington!
1t concerned one of the "subma-
rine chasers' that were made in
this country by hundreds last year
and hurried to the war zone. They
are small craft, only ll0 feet long
and very narrow and shallow, driy-
en- by gasoline engines. At a short
distance the ylook like power-yachts
rather than fighting vessels.
The boat in question, carrying a
French crew, was lost from her con-
voy during a fierce January storm.
Nothing was heard from her for
several weeks. She was naturally
supposed to have gone down. Then
one Gay She appeared III Il fItnCH
port, moving along two or three
miles an hour by means OF sails i'm
provised from bedclothing and
rugged up on her stubby wireless
mastS. The only nautical instru-
ment aboard was a compass. She
had been sailing that way, with the
crew on short rations, for 80 days.
Boat and crew were in good condi-
tion. The engines were disabled,
that was all
A fine movie film could be made
Of that. And it's merely one Incl
dent out of thousands that we never
hear of. The fiction writer's OF the
future will find enough material in
this war TO last them for a century.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
WELL, DON'T Be!
People Notice 1t. Drive Them 0ff
with DIR. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A pimply face will not embarrass you
much longer if you get a package of DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin should
begin to clear after you have taken the
tablets few nights.
Cleansethe blood, the bowels and theli liver
with Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sue
cessful substitute for calomel; there's never
any sickness or pain after taking them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do that
which calomel does, and just as effectively,
but their action is gentle and safe instead
of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets is
ever cursed with "a dark brown taste"
a bad breath, dull listless, mo good"
feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad
disposition or pimply face.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are
a purely vegetable compound mixed
with olive oil; you will know them
by their olive color.
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa.
tents afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result.
Yake one or two nightly for a week.
See how much better you feel and look.
10c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
'olh' of the Vigilantes.

, Both at Vienna and Berlin, right,
Justice, equity, had to give way to
cxpediency The eXpedient thing,
not the right thing, ruled the minds
of the statesmen who drew up the
public law OF Europe at those great
congresses. At Berlin the nation
alistic aspirations of the Balkan
states were sacrificed, ruthlessly, to
the ambitions of the great powers.
The two Balkan wars which pre-
ceded the present holocaust were in
evitablc results. And then came this
cataclysm which has involved us,
despite our fancied lack of interest
in the affairs OF the European con-
tinent.
That is why our interest in the
questions concerning the Balkans,
concerning the readjustments on
Germary'S eastern border concern
ing the whole great German scheme
OF Mittel-Europa, is as great as
the interest of France or England
or Servia. We cannot desert Rus
sia, even though the bolsheyik gov
ernment seeks to make a separate
peace regardless of our interests.
Russia will remain nation. Sup
pose, under the bolsheviki, she
makes separate peace, gives up
Riga, loses her Black sea ports
through the setting up of so called
independent states? The time will
come when she will begin again to
struggle, when she will plunge Eu-
rope into war to regain what she
has lost. There is an analogy in
history almost exact. Prussia Yield
ed to Napoleon. She was crushed
under his heel. Her rulers submit
ted as tamely as the bolsheviki, filled
with their pacific ideals, have ever
threatened to submit to the kaiser.
But the spirit of Prussia did not die.
1t broke the bonds of its timid
rulers to emerge and rise, go to the
other extreme and impose its domin-
ION, hrst upon Germany, with sue
cess, and ultimately upon all Eu-
rope and the world. That attempt
will fail; we are pledged to insure
its failure.
No. We Americans have an in-
terest, vital interest, in every adj
justment that the peace conference
must make. We cannot hold aloof
from any single phase of its delib-
erations on the ground that they
do not concern us. They will con-
Germ us. And we must fight on
until We have achieved peace from
which every sordid condition and
thought of eXpediency has been
banished.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
ArdmOre, Friday, March s, 1918.
WELLESLEY DRAFTS FARM
HANDS.

Wellesley College is drafting
farm labor for next summer. And
one of the first students to be
drafted is Miss Katherine Hughes,
daughter of Charles f. Hughes.
Fifteen girls are to serve at a time,
twelve 20 work in the fields and
three to keep house. Each draft
will serve month. A member OF
the college faculty will act as fore
man.
Last wear students at NaSsar Col
lege did much the same thing, cN-
cept that the farm was worked by
volunteers. Wellesley seems to have
submitted the matter OF draft to
the whole student body, which
agreed upon conscription as a fair
method of choosing the laborerS.
Although the big women's col
leges supply 4 picturesque example
of the movement, they are by no
means alone in their farm work.
Almost every institution OF learn
ing the country over, from the col
leges and universities with farms OF
their own, or with quotas OF stu
dents going out together to labor IN
the country, down to the little FIRST
graders who have promised to give
fifteen minutes \ day to helping
father or mother with wedding and
sprinkling the backyard garden, is
helping the great cause OF keeping
the world in food.
And it is right that the movement
should be led and given SO strong
an impetds by the schools. If learn
ing means anything it should mean
learning how to live and how to
help Others to live. When the nee
essaries of life come easily, the
schools should lead in matter of art,
music, social progress, OF the gentler
side of life. But when the whole
world is down to the primitive,
when food is the basic need every
where, then the schools are taking
their proper place by leading in the
production of food.
All labor is worthy, if under
taken nobly. All learning is worth
while if it serves the community.
Learning to labor that the world
may live is this year the one big
scholastic principle.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08

word "Usa,' to be used for oui
country instead of the word Amer
ica.' With that basis, the rest i,
easy. After the regular manner OF
forming German words, an "Ameri-
can becomes a "Usaner,' and for
American as an adjective, we get
the charming word sanisch."
The proposal is seconded by the
learned Professor Penck of Berlin
University.
Professor Sapper of Strasburg
doesn't quite like "Usaner," be
cause it "offends his esthetic ear.
He proposes, instead, the melodious
compound "Nereinstatler' (union
citizen, former from "Vereinigtcn
Staten the German equivalent for
United States
SO there you are-take your
choice. Just imagine that Germany
has won the war, and in very un-
PruSSi2n burst of libeality has sub
mittcd the question to a public
referendum. DO You prefer to be
called a "Usaner' or a ereinstat-
Ter"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
"USANER. "

German university professors,
whose crudition has so long en-
lightened the world, are now en-
gagged in another solemn task. They
have tackled the problem of pro
viding an appropriate name for this
benighted land and people.
1t isn't right, they maintain, that
we should arrogate to ourselves the
term "Americans'; there are many
other nations in this hemisphere
equally deserving the title. The
professors are unwilling to call us
North Americans" as the people
of South America generally do.
That is unjust, they say, to the
Canadians, Mexicans and Central
American peoples. That these
neighbors OF ours all have their own
established appellations and don't
care fig about the matter, doesn't
affect the German savants at all.
Justice must be done to Canada,
Mexico ct al, in spite OF themselves.
Professor Norrenberg, who hap
pens to be a Prussian privy coun-
cillor, whatever that is, has had a
happy Teutonic idea. lie takes the
familiar initials of United States of
America and makes them into a
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
GOING AT IT RIGHT.

Guthrie Leader: Commenting
on Food Administrator Hooyer's
declaration that the country's food
problems, both OF producers and
consumers, were due to the collapse
OF our transportation system rather
than to shortage of crops. The Lead
er said no problem before the ad-
ministration or the country is of
more direct interest to the people, to
place the railroads of the nation
now under government control in
shape to function adequately. 1t is
not a question of cost, but OF indis-
pensable results.
A dispatch from Washington
shows that this is fully realized by
the government, which is preparing
to spend from a half billion to a
billion dollars, if necessary, to put
the railroads in condition to meet
the traffic demands OF the country.
Whatever locomotives, rolling stock,
trackage and terminal facilities are
necessary are to be provided. No
chance is to be taken that if the war
continues there can be another such
winter of helplessness due to con-
geStion OF transportation and the
resulting paralysis OF industry and
business. with the concomitant of
famine prices in the midst of the
most abundant crops of our history
grinding down both consumer and
producer.
The sum estimated necessary,
large though it be, is not to be com
pared with what it has cost and is
costing the American people to
muddle along as we have been do
ing with WorkleSs weeks and heat
less days, with the collapse of our
whole system of distribution, OBJ
structing industry, imperiling bust
ness, forcing the cost of living to
unheard OF levels and threatening
ourselves and the world dependent
on us for food with restricted pro-
duction and war rations.
Arguing about the responsibility
for the rundown condition of the
railroads when taken over bv the
government as a last resort, wheth-
er because the railroads were un-
able to get funds without that in
crease in rates, is beside the press
ing issue OF the moment-which is
to see that the country gets the
traffic service it needs both for our
own immediate necessities and for
the successful carrying out of our
war program. We have simply got
to have adequate transportation and
to get at is quickly as possible. Ii
the cost can be repaid out of rail
road earnings, so much the better,
but if some OF it has to come out of
the national treasury it is of less
consequence than that we should
continue to muddle along, handi-
capped at every turn, public and
private, by the utter inability of our
railroads to keep things moving.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
THE FAMINE IN TEACHERS.

A survey OF occupations in Rock
lord, ILL.,, showed that the salaries
OF elementary teachers ranked just
below those OF housemaidS, and just
above those OF laundresses.
Iowa reports 100 schools with no
teachers. Kansas City reports "a
flood OF designations from public
school service The state superin-
tendent of Louisiana writes: I'VE
shall face a real crisis at the open
ing of the next session unless a way
in the meantime is found out of this
difficulty The United States com
missioner of education says the
shortage is constantly increasing
and is embarrassingly large in some
sections
Is the reason for the appalling
shortage OF teachers found wholly
in the salary matter, as indicated in
the Rockford situation?
DR.. William II. Allen, who, says
the New York Times, "has been
leading student OF school problems
for many years, thinks this is only
one OF the causes. He mentions
the fact that corporations all over
the country are making every effort
to get able men and women, and
that "they know how to advertise
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
From Other
Editorial Pages
PATRIOTISM IS ACTION.

Okmulgee Democrat: Those Of
the American people not actively
engaged in warfare must wake up
There are many things that can be
done to help win the war, To
stand on the corners and in the
cigar and drug stores and shout pa
triotism doesn't indicate anything
but inaction.
The war savings stamps campaign
is now the biggest thing before the
American people. Its success is as
vital as the triumph Of our army
and navy in conflict. If you can't
fight you can either buy or help sell
these baby bonds. They will buy
the machinery OF war; they will
serve as Il notice to the kaiser that
the great mass of the American
people are supporting the govern
ment and will quit only when Prus-
sian militariSm is on It's knees.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
PLANT DOLLARS IN YOUR
GARDEN AND THEN
BUY THRIFT STAMPS.
By Charles Lathrop Pack,
Garden Commission.

President National Emergency Food
Garden Commission.
Plant dollars in your garden this
spring and help to win the war In
doing this you will earn health, food
and thrift stamps. Figure the mar
ket value OF the crops you raise and
then buy thrift stamps with what
you do not keep for yourself. Not
only will You be helping yourself
and your country but you will be
helping your railroads now that
the government has taken control
OF them; for every pound OF food
you raise near the kitchen door
means that much less burden for
the railroads, which have millions
of pounds OF goods and other things
to carry for soldiers. Every hill OF
potatoes a Boy Scout plants and
every hill of corn he cultivates
means one more hill the enemy
must take in its battle against the
freedom and democracy OF the
world. Build those breastworks all
over the land this year.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
AROUND THE WORLD.

Canada still has 901,00O square
miles OF uneXlored country.
Cape Province is said to contain
the largest asbestos bearing areas
in the world.
Alaska has produced 1000 tons OF
in since the discovery Of the metal
n that country in 1902.
Ukraine was part OF the old king
dom of Poland, and part of it has
been known as Little Russia.
Brazil ships fresh milk long dis
tances in perfect condition in sealed
cans with insulated walls, blocks OF
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
THE NASAL SYSTEM.

Boston Transcript: While moth
er was arranging the pantry shelves,
Marjory handed her the spice boxes,
mentioning each spice by name.
Presently sche said; Mamma,
can read"
Can you, dear?'
"Yes, mamma" said Marjory, "but
| don't read like you. read by the
smell"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08

France is on slightly more lib
eral diet than Germany, yet the
French sugar ration is only IL
pounds month a person as COM
pared with IA pounds in the United
States.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08

Springfield, Mass, has arranged
Tor a series of free motion picture
entertainments to be given in the
city auditorium. Three thousand
children attended the first of these
performances. The object of the
movement is to educate the taste
of the children for the best pic
lures and to make it necessary for
the commercial houses to give bet
ter films if they are to retain the
support OF the public,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
One Look Enough.

Bystander Didn't you feel
homesick sometimes, Dennis?"
Sure; but | used to look at your
photograph, and then ! didn't feel
homesick any more"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08
Properly Rebuked.

Country Gentleman: 81 met our
new minister on my way to Sunday
School, mamma" said Willier, and
he asked me if | ever played mar
bles on Sunday"
What did you answer?" asked
mother.
81 simple said: Get thee behind
me, Satan, and walked off and left
him" was the triumphant response.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08

New York has spent about $780,
100000 on its water front. The
water front of Manhattan is %.35
miles in length; the Bronx, 647
miles; Brooklyn, 200.57 miles /;
Queens, 1862 miles; Richmond,
55.75 miles, or total for Greater
New York of 555.l miles.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08

was in the Antwerp battle witt
the infantry. We were short o.
ammunition for the guns, the twely,
and fourteen-inch guns, and they
gave us rifles and bombs. The Ger
mans came on lis and took us by
surprise Before | knew what wa,
happening they were on top OF MS
There | was in the bayonet charge
The guns were left outside the city
and we went on throwing bombs
1t was a tight fight in the streets. |
had a hard tusSle with a German
He thought he had me; he aimed
at my stomach, but he only got my
thumb. 1t was as bad a wound as
a thumb could get but that was
nothing, nothing to what came la
ter. ! got him down, killed him,
Capt, Martin, at my side, gave or
ders to advance. We heard a noise
among a lot of boches, and we came
upon a lot of Germans. There was
another good fight. 1t was tight.
They got us in a corner, walls all
around. But some of the men man
aged to get behind the Germans,
went around the block, and that
saved us. 1t was a four days
struggle, as ! remember it, and at
that time we drove them back. They
thought they were on their way to
Paris. There was another attack
afterwards there, but our company
was not in it. We had been sent
out for a rest.
At Mons it was tight work-and
that drive at st. Eloi. | don't like
to talk about it. 1t gets my blood
up and | want to fight again. They
say still have Shrapncl near the
brain and in my neck, near the wind
pipe and in my shoulder. / have
spent Il long time in hospitals.
| volunteered as soon as the war
broke out and went over to Bel
GUM with the first army. had
already had two years in the army.
They gave me the d. c. NJ. for
taking trenches. Later Sergeant
Desmond found me in a shell hole
and helped me out: but he fired
on me first. 1t was in No Mans
Land somewhere. don't remem-
Der much about it, except that Ser
geant Desmond is all right.
CGhis story will be supplemented
tomorrow by Sergt. w. A. Des-
mond).
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08

frozen milk being placed in it to
keep its temperature down.
Australia is considering a sugges-
ton to give the new capital of the
commonwealth the name of Shakes
speare.
Japan proposes to import sheep
from Australia to be sold at normal
prices to farmers for the purpose of
encouraging the local production Of
wool.
Corea produces ginseng that is
unrivaled throughout the world for
its quality. The area under cultiva-
ton is about 1881, ,748 kan. The
annual amount of medical ginseng
has grown to $4,000 kin.
England, though commonly COM
sidered country of hearty eaters,
uses even less fat than France and
is about midway between France
and the United States in meat and
sugar consumption.
Fifteen million people in this
country are shoveling coal, of
whom one-fourth are firemen on
railroads or in power plants. In
a day they have converted 100000
tons of coal into ashes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-08

indianapolis has Is public school
buildings, 81 fire stations and 81
postofficc stations.