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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
THE WISE HAVE PLANS.

Wichita (Kan.) Beacon: A month
OF preparedness is worth a year of
grunting, jawing, jerking, hauling
and digging after the demand has
arrived. We've learned this in the
war.
1t will be unwise in merchants
not to prepare, SO far as they may,
for relinquishment of what British
merchants call the luxury trade;
that is, the trade in non-essentials.
1t is very likely that the federal
railroad management will make fur
thcr heavy cuts in the transportation
OF non-esscntials. SO convinced is
our government that our main war
problem is ships and nothing but
ships that it is seriously thinking
of cutting off all importations.
Either of these measures means that
the merchant must, to some extent,
readlust his business. 1t does not
necessarily mean less business; for
if the folks cannot get the luxuries,
they certainly will purchase more of
the essentials. Forced, sudden re-
adjustments means worry, work and
waste in any business. The wise
man hath his plans to meet what
cOmeth.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
TILE MDRYn DRIVE

The big dry" offensive which
started the first OF the year goes
smashing on. Thus far there has
been an average conquest Of about
one state a week for the federal pro
hibition amendment.
Mississippi led the procession over
the top on January 8. Then fol-
lowed in due order Virginia on Ian,
II, Kentucky on Jan. II, South Car
olina on Jan. g. North Dakota on
Jan. Is, Maryland on Feb. Is and
Montana on Feb. Il, making seven
states in all.
They have been mostly small
states. But this happens to be a
matter in which population doesn't
figure. A little state counts as much
a3 a big one. When 80 of the 48
state legislatures have declared in
favor of the amendment, the issue
will be settled. And if we may
Judge from the pace set thus far, is
likely to be settled in an incredibly
short time.
Barring anearly peace - which
would tend to weaken one of the
strongest arguments for prohibi-
tion-we may see the United States
high and dry a year from now.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
SCISSORS AND PASTE

Tulsa World: Politics wouldn't
be so bad if we could cure men OF
taking more pains to support their
candidate than TO support their fam
lilies.
St. Joseph (Mo,) News-Press
Remember when people used to
crack Jokes at the expense Of the
lunch counter ham sandwich?
Madill Herald: The knife and
fork are implements Of war. In
skillful hands they can further our
cause as do rifles on the firing line,
Clinton Messenger; 1t will be
noted that the greatest food CON
yerSationalist is not always the
greatest conseryationist.
Wall Street Journal: "No indem-
nifty or anneXations that is, no in
demnity by Germany and no annex
ations by the allies.
Wewoka Democrat: There are
more ways of entering the service
OF the government than one. Some
in trying to avoid the federal army
have found the federal penitentiary
Chanute (Kan.) Tribune: The
news that Trotzky was once CON
nectcd with the Appeal to Reason
at Girard is one Of those stories that
everyone will believe, without aifi-
dayits being given.
Kansas City (Mo) Star: Russia
has learned that fine words not only
butter no parsnips, but also are use
less in keeping the German armies
Boston Herald: Some day a Ger
man spy is going to get the surprise
of his career by having his wrist
slapped.
Cleveland (Ohio) Farmer: Worlt
couquerors seem to forget that the
llcas never quite capture the pig.
Colbert Times; Many people wait
in vain for their ship to come in be.
cause it was never launched.
Sherman CTcxas) Democrat: i
you are not helping America to wiz
the war, you are helping the kaiser
McAIcstcr News-Capital: The
Stacker ought to make a good roac
packer.
Omaha CNeb.) Bee: 1t is evidcn,
that the kaiser talks peace out OF
one side OF his mouth and spits wal
from the other.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
THE PRICE OLE WHEAT

Clinton Messenger; While a few
demagogues are agitating $3 wheat
price to be fixed by the government,
it is our understanding no informa-
tion from some of our leading farm
ers, that what the farmers of Okla
homa want most is regulation of the
price of corn and other feed The
patriotic farmers do not want an
unreasonable price placed on the
necessaries of life that have to be
used by the general consumer. What
they want is the control of the price
of corn so that they will not be
compelled to feed their 81 wheat 10
hogs. With the government COM
pelIing the purchase of certain
amounts Of corn products with each
purchase of -four, the dealers in corn
are holding it for fancy prices and
thereby defeating the ends sought to
be accomplished. 1t is not that the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
OUR WAR EXPENSES.

Our war operations so lar have
cost less by far than we expected.
1t was estimated last summer that
the expenditures of the war depart
ment in the year ending June 80,
1918, would be $S,790,0OO,0OO. For
the first six months they aggregated
only $lTo2,000000.
We may as well rejoice over this
saving while we may chance. For
it probably won't last long. There
is no such thing as economy in
modern warfare, certainly not in
warfare as this great nation wants
to, and must, wage it. The ex-
penses have already started soaring.
In November the war department
paid out $387 100000. In December
its outlay rose to $450,000,000. 1t
will mount higher every month,
ana probably keep on mounting as
long as the war lasts.
Naval expenses, shipping ex-
penses, airplane expenses, all arc
less than the direct army expendi-
ture, but they all help tremendously
to swell the total. 1t is estimated by
the treasury department that for
the current calendar year the war
will probably cost us about $l8,000,-
100000. That is about so cents a
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
A Revelation of True G@rmamisna
BY "A. A. M"
Copyrighted, 1918, merican Defense Society,"

All this you will say is contrary
to all Christian ethic. How little
you know Germany If German
teaching seems to clash with Chris
tian teaching it is Christian teach
ing which is wrong. Lister to Herr
Torges, than whom a more COM
pletely representative German never
wrote:
The conception of immortality is
relative. Good morals are only what
the upper classes of society ap-
prove. The facts give Germany
the justification in case Of necessity
to put the stamp of morality upon
what today seems immoral
In case of necessity"-the good
old German plea again that neces-
sity knows no law. Germany has
the right to put the stamp of mo-
rality' upon whatever may be neces-
sary for her success-Germany over
ALL including God. Is it any Won
der that the allies refuse a peace
by negotiation founded optimistical-
ly on hope that Germany will be
different next time? Already she is
thinking about the next war. If
her preparations for a new and
powerful army seem contrary to
what today seems immoral" she
can put the stamp OF morality upon
it. And ii 20 years hence, when the
new army with this German stamp
upon its brow is ready, German ne
cessity demands another war she
can put the stamp of morality equal
ly well upon that. The world cam
not be safe for democracy, it cam
not be safe for Christianity, II can
not be safe for common decency,
until Germany is taught that neces-
slty, even German necessity, is sub
ject to the law.
Remarriagc of war widows has
also been urged, according to the
American Defense Society, which
recently repubished statement
from the Crefeld General Anzieger.
The statement said:
There are more than million
war widows in Germany. They can
not be allowed to remain widows
for two reasons. In the first place,
the empire looks to them to provide
an army for Germany's future de-
fense, and, in the next place, many
OF them are attending to the bust
ness OF their late husbands without
possessing the necessary knowledge.
"All the widows must therefore
get married at once, and preferably
to wounded or otherwise unfit SOL
diers. They may rest assured that
the National Committee for the Re-
marriage of War Widows will ham
die the business with the requisite
discretion. The committee will pay
special attention to the men in the
hospitals and will insert anonymous
advertisement in the papers geh-
orally read by the war widows.
1T may be added that the util-
ization of crippled soldiers and war
stricken women in the interests of
the empires future wars has the
cordial approval of our great Hin
| denburP."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

day TOR every man, woman and child
in the United States, or about $3.50
a day for the average family.
Fortunately we don't have to take
$3.50 out OF that average family's
daily income throughout the year.
If we did, a good many million fam
lilies would have precocious little
left to live on. Most OF the taxes
are raised indirectly so that they
are not felt as taxes at all, but only
as an unrecognizable part Of the
general cause of high prices. And
half, or more than half, OF the year
burden will be distributed over a
long period Of pears, in the form Of
government loans. But we're incur
ring that $3.50 a-day obligation just
the same, whether we feel it or not,
and we and our kinlolk will have to
pay it, along with as much more as
the relentless war may see fit to i'm
pose on us.
There are two or three Consollng
features about it, though. No mat
ter how much the war may cost us,
we cant conceive OF its ever run
ming up on us per capita bill as
great as our allies have already in
CURED. We can better afford the
outlay, too, than any other nation
on earth And its going to be
worth any price we pay to settle this
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

1t takes 20 people to make a ma
chine made shoe.
The present year marks the semi
centennial of the first introduction
Of the dining car on American rail-
roads.
Wood is almost an imperishable
substance, and if kept from attacks
OF organisms, both animal and veg
etable, will practically last forever.
An ordinary loaf OF white bread
is nearly half water. White bread
was first introduced m London
about the beginning of the Nine
teenth century.
The largest bell in England is the
big bell of st. Paups Cathedral,
known as Great Paul" Its di-
ameter is 9H feet, and its weight
close to II tons.
One of the greatest engineering
projects of the world, the Suez
canal, was formally opened 48 years
ago, The canal cost $lOO,OO0,OOO.
1t is S8 miles long.
1t is estimated that 65,000 locomo-
tiyes in the biggest railroad system
IN the world-America's-if placed
end to end, four abreast, would
stretch out for a distance of 1856
miles. In a single line they would
reach 1,540 miles.
A rifle bullet covers about two
miles in five seconds, while sound
travels the same distance in a shade
over 81 seconds. SO it is easy to
see why the bullet strikes before
the report of the rifle that fired il
is heard.
The Nineteenth century closed
at midnight, Dec. 81, 1900. The
Twentieth century began with the
first day of the year 1901. One hum
dred years make century, Just as
100 cents make a dollar. Nineteen
centuries require 1000 years, lust
as l9 dollars require 1900 cents.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

Maybe II will begin To dawn on
congress after a while that possibly
the federal food administrator
knows more about food control than
the AVERAGE CONGRESSMAN docs.
A conspicuous example of the
harm that NAV be done by thought
less mcddling is shown in the prac-
tical effects resulting from the re-
cent Introduction of bills raising the
minimum price of wheat. Certain
conrressmen thought the farmer
ought TO pet more for his wheat this
wear and so went bIithely ahead
with LEGISLATION adding SO to Is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
A HANDY WEAPON.
BY Amy Brooks,
Author Of Juvenile Storles).


Thrift is weapon that anyone
can use. Use it to help win the war
Waste is folly at any time, but
when our glorious nation is fighting
for peace and liberty, waste is worse
than folly; it is a crime.
Save then, that we may be victor
ious, and you will have accomplished
more than you dream for while saw
ing that you might do your bit
to help win the war, you will have
lost forever the foolish habit of
wasting, and have gained that adj
mirable quality, Thrift" that will
start you on the road toward indie
pendence.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
ON WAR NEWS

The United States received over
$4,000 in war taxes on concerts
and operas in New York during
November.
The pro-Gcrman with a match
has destroyed food, supplies mu-
nitions and ships in this country to
the value of $6O00000O.
The equivalent OF the labor of
10000 men for month has been
lost to the governments ship
building program through strikes
and lockouts.
An unusual feature has been in
stituted by the Y. NJ. CA. in Pal
estine. Students of Biblical lore
conduct excursions over Jerusalem
and explain the history of the city
to soldiers who may be Interested.
And it may be said that practically
every soldier visits the Holy City
during his days Of leave.
y Owing to the peculiar mixtures
in the bread served by the Ger
mans to their prisoners, the latter
are advised to eat it while it is
fresh. Otherwise the chemical in
gradients will evaporate. One ex-
changed prisoner declares the
bread is three parts sawdust.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

10 hsh or not to fish; that is the
question.
Now if Germany will just declare
war on Bulgaria and Turkey too.
Are you ready to buy the first
stamp from the war savings bank !?
| If the man in the moon would
| publish all he saw there would be
some hairpulling on earth.
And another kingdom and an
other king have come into exist
ence in Europe, the kaiser setting
up a postage stamp dominion out
of the province OF Lithuania, and
making the son of the petty mon
arch Of SaXony the ruler. As the
king business on earth is a waning
business, we can prophesy for this
new one that he will not draw many
geldcr from the populace.
That little rain last night was just
drop in the bucket compared to
what Carter County needs.
Paste a thrift stamp on your thrift
card as often as you can. Every
time you paste on stamp you paste
the kaiser in the nose.
Ireland is about to break out
again and crack some English heads
and find some of their own heads
shot off in return. We are not
much OF a hand at prophesying, but
we rise to remark genuine Irish
rebellion seems to be overdue.
Old Man Winter tried to come
back again last night. Again; he
does seem to get along pretty well
even with 4 broken back.
The largest wooden ship ever
launched is Texas newest boast.
And it was built Of lumber from
the great Louisiana and Texas pine
fields. Let's have more of those
TeXas-Louisiana vessels.
To avoid collisions in the air OF
student ayiators the government has
decided to enlarge the training fields
in Texas. After a while the fields
will extend into an atmosphere
which smells OF pretzels and sauer
kraut, and then the Hun will get
taste OF the American brand OF
dynamite.
How about that Washington
Broadway "death-trap," Mr.. Mayor
and city commissioners?
And the L. s. Guards, the new
federal police force created as
home necessity, object to wearing
blue uniforms as prescribed in the
government regulations. They want
khaki. This will sound ike treason
to veterans of '6l.
Mr.. Solomon said: ~ false bal
ance is an abomination to Jehovah;
but a just weight is his delight
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
BABY BONDS.

A thrift stamp costs 25 cents.
Sixteen thrift stamps and 13
cents, or $4.13, this month buys a
war savings stamp.
The government redeems the
war savings stamp at SIS on Jan
l. 1923.
Your profit is 81 cents, or four
per cent interest. compounded
quarterly.
Buy stamps at postoffices. banks
and patriotic stores.
You are saving money for the
future and helping the govern.
ment win the war.
segin buying today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
PAT NAMES.

Boston Transcript: What does
your friend do?"
Hes hydroplanist for Uncle
Sam"
You mean a naviator."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
Numbers.

l wonder what my numbers are.
Some hang upon my door.
The license on my motor car
Has numbers three or four.
The number Of my telephone
Conveys no impress strong;
For those who call in hurried tone
Have got the number wrong.
They say that life is growing hard
Perhaps, before l dine,
They'll make me get a number card
And with it stand in line.
'Tis thus in pleasure and in biz
| stand with heavy heart,
And wonder what my number is
Before | make a start.
Washington Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

The mystery of Oscar Rcinhard.
which was of worldwide interest
10 years ago, has not been solved.
1t is part of the mystery of Fes-
tung Ehrenbreitcnstcin md the 9th
er hideous military prisons of Ger
many, part of the system of mill
tarism of Germany which is more
dreadful than the world has been
permitted to know. Reinhard' S
case, well known to me as a bow
did much to make me revolt at the
remorseless system. He is only one
of hundreds, no, thousands of cases
which can be related by Germans
in the United States if they will.
have seen, and clenched my fists at
seeing, the dastardly things done to
men in the straight Prussian lines
a petty officer, for instance, stand
ing on the toes of a man he wanted
to punish, grinding his heels into
the private's toes because he knew
the man would put up with much
torture to stand immovable in the
line, as he must to avoid greater
penalties.
That many men have rebelled at
the iron military hand is shown by
the size of Ehrenbreitenstein and
the other prisons like it,
Many times has Oscar Reinhard
related in my uncle's home the way
he, of German birth but traveller
and soldier of fortune until long
after his usual military service years
ventured into Germany. Within a
few hours he was seized, to be one
of the uncertain recruits who get
the closest watching and the most
incessant penalizing to break their
spirit of independence.
Reinhard was great stalwart
self-reliant cosmopolitan when they
seized him for military duty. lie
rebelled and forthwith was pun
ished. In retaliation, on review day
he caused his regimental command
er to be sharply rebuked by the gen
eral because of Reinhard's slovenly
drill. In fury the regimental com
mander gave him the limit of humil-
iating penalties; he was set tc
cleaning quarters with a tooth.
bruth and picking UP the dirt with
a toothpick, and other things cal.
culated to drive a self-reSpectine
man who had committed no crime
to a point of hatred which is ter.
rible to imagine. One day two oil
his regimental officers were trusseC
against a wall, dead, with bayonet:
pinning their bodies TO the wall. He
was sentenced by court-martial tc
20 years in prison. but IN a rage
ne tore away from his guards, divec
through the window, carrying sash
and all, two stories, and disap.
peared. Never to this day ha;
there been word of him. What
however, Of the other cases? vii
not the Germans in America who
remember this and other cases tel
their recollections?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
A TOAST TO THE FLAG.
(By John Jay DAILY
of the Nigilantes).

Here's to the Red of it,
There's not a thread of it,
No, nor a shred of it
In all the spread of it
From foot to head,
But heroes bled for il,
Faced steel and lead for it,
Precious blood shed for it,
Bathing it Red.
Here's to the White of it,
Thrilled by the sight of it,
Who knows the right of it,
But feels the might of it
Through day and night?
Womanhood's care for it,
Made manhood dare for it,
Purity'S prayer for it
Keeps it so White.
Here's to the Blue of it,
Beauteous view of it,
Heavenly hue of it,
Star-spangled dew of it,
Constant and true.
States stand supreme for it,
Diadems CLEAN for it,
Liberty's beam for it
Brightens the Blue.
Here's to the whole of it,
Stars, stripes and pole of it,
Body and soul of it;
On to the goal Of it,
Carry it through.
Home or abroad for it,
Unsheath the sword for it,
Fight in accord for it,
Red, White and Blue!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
THE MEN WHO CAME BACK

copyrighted by the British-Cana
dian Recruiting Station.)
BY William Schneider,
Formerly Of French Colonials.
All persons who have per
sonal knowledge Of similar
cases of military sayagery en-
ployed in the German army may
send their experience to the cd
itors OF The Men Who Came
Back care of British Canadian
Recruiting Mission, Chicago,
assured it will be made to serve
a useful end in uniting the
Germans in American in COM
mon cause against militarism.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

If the man in the moon would
publish all he saw there would be
some hairpulling on earth.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

Henry Allen, considered the lead
ing candidate for the Republican
nomination tor governor in Kansas,
is in France engaged in Red Cross
work, and will not return until after
the primary, to be held in August.
Meanwhile his campaign is being
conducted by his friends. There
are four other candidates seeking
the nomination, w. y. Morgan, a
party leader for thirty years; S. NJ.
Brewster, at present attorney gen
eral; A. NJ. Kcenc, speaker of the
state house of representatives, and
!. A. Troutman, former lieutenant
governor and state senator. Allen
was Roosevelt Lieutenant in 1912
and one of the most active Bull
Moosers in the presidential cam
paign OF that year.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

1t takes 20 people to make a ma.
chine made shoe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

March s is the date set for the
first convention of the new National
party and Chicago the place where
it is to be held. 1t is expected there
will be about 400 delegates. At this
convention at attempt will be made
20 amalgamatc the various minor
political parties of the country. The
platform Of the National party COW
erS much OF the same ground as that
OF the Nonpartisan League that now
dominates North Dakota and is
making headway in other states,
and there is bare possibility that
the league may consent to become
a part Of the National party. Among
the prominent attendants at the
convention will be Matthew Hale.
former chairman OF the "standpat'
Progressiyes; !. A. II. Hopkins,
Progressive; John Spargo and ]. G..
Phelps Stokes, Socialists; Fred II.
Chase, former secretary of the Pro-
gressWes; David c. Coates of Spo-
kane, Wash, leading figure in
Western labor circles, and Allen Nc
Curdy who is acting as one of the
partyS organizers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28
Political Observations.

Now the politicians, practically all
Of them, are predicting that govern
ment ownership of public utilities
will be an issue and a big one in
the presidential campaign OF 1920.
Once more Senator Reed has ar
raved himself against President
Wilson. On the vote in the senate
committee on d motion to report
layorably the Overman bill broaden
ing the presidents power OF organ
ization and reorganizing war agen-
cies the Missouri senator voted IN
the negative. His vote, however
was killed by that OF Senator Mel
son, a Republican.
1t is expected that the confer
ence which Chairman Hays OF the
Republican national committee eX-
poets to hold at Washington this
week will be the first big get-to-
gethcr roundup of old line Rcpubli-
cans and former Progressiyes that
has been held since the 1912 split
and the results there, according to
present forecasts, are likely to be
Of far-reaching importance.
New York farmers are to hold a
conclayc in the near future at which
it is probable a new political party
I
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-28

The present year marks the semi
centennial of the first introduction
OF the dining car on American rail-
roads.