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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
A NEW INDUSTRY.

Wichita (Kan.) Beacon: One
thing that made the people of Ger
many believe they would have an
easy time conquering the rest OF
the world was the fact that Ger
many before the war was leading
the rest OF the nations by a long
distance in matters pertaining to
chemistry.
The German temperament lends
itself to the study OF chemistry.
America leads i'll inventive ability
because the average American has
lot of imagination and initiative.
The average German lacks the
spontaneous element, but is very pa
tient and methodical and is fond OF
research-in polishing off the big,
rough creations OF other minds, so
to speak.
1t was this trait which gave Ger
many the monopoly OF the coal
tar dye industry, which welded, as
by-products, trinito-toluol and pic
ric acid, bases of modern high ex-
plosives, which were stored away
for many years in preparation for
a general assault on humanity. For
several years preceding the war
many learned professors were ex-
perimenting with gases to lind the
most horrible ones for use in war
fare.
One OF the most important ex-
ports of Germany before the war
was potash. The United tates alone
received a million tons of potash
each year from Germany. This
country had practically no potash
industry. This product is indispen-
sable to agriculture because of its
value as a fertilizer. 1t is also nee
essary in making cotton products.
The high price of cotton today is
due largely to the scarcity of pot
ash. The price has jumped from
$45 to more than $400 a ton.
As mentioned in these columns
the other day, Germany said the
United States entered the war in or
der to get at the potash beds of
Alsace-Lorrainc. Perhaps the Ger
man government can make a great
many German people believe this.
AS matter Of fact, there are i'm
mense potash deposits in Death
Valley, California, which have been
known for more than three years,
and steps are being taken now to
develop the field.
America is now taking hold of its
own dye problem and in a short
time will also be independent of the
rest OF the world in the matter OF
potash.
If Germany had been content
with its existing prosperity it might
have continued to make big profits
in certain chemical industries
When the war is over it will prob
ably be seen that the Prussian adj
vocates OF frightfulness have only
succeeded in driving away all busi-
ness and making Germany the pa
riah among nations.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
THE DEVIL AND THE BABIES
Confidential Letter From the Devil
to the Kaiser.
De-coded by Eugene II. Blake
of The Vigilantes.
Internal Palace. Hades.

of The Vigilantes.
Internal Palace, Hades.
My dear Kaiser:
So many people are always say
ing, Give the Devil his due that
few people would believe what they
heard about our frighttulness, even
after you announced you were go
ing in for it to make the inferior
nations respect your government.
When rumors reached the outside
world about bayonetting babies in
Belgium, most people dismissed the
thought as lie got up by some
newspaper reported. l wish those
allied soldiers had thought it was
not so. Each bayonetted baby
means ten thousand extra bayonet-
ted German soldiers.
And now, Wilhelm, the evidence
is getting stronger than ever against
us. What you reckon
You remember that Capt. A. p.
Simmons OF the United States army,
attached TO the American embassy
in Berlin when we got this war
started. You know he was military
observer in Germany during the
mobilization, and those Americans
sent him to Germany because they
could trust him. Well, now he's
back home. And here's what he up
and tells the Republican Club in
New York on January 10Th;
Don't let anyone tell you that
German atrocities are merely fic-
ton. One of the most gruesomc
sights | ever saw was the impaling
of babies on the ends OF German
bayonets and their return to frantic
mothers Later, he tells those
Americans, "Wc've got to sacrifice
till the skin is worn down to the
bones OF our hands. The dragon
is just outside our gates
You know the Nazarenc said,
Suffer the little children to come
unto me- and the world has been
getting so tender with the kids ever
since that's why its going hard with
us now. Wilhelm, my friend, we're
up against it. Baker says more
than million more Of those Ameri-
can soldiers are ready. They've got
the evidence on us. That's what
makes me fear every one OF them
is going to put up most Myself
OF a fight when they get at us.
Yours for kultur,
I BEELZEBUB.
Prince Of Devils and Kaiser OF
llades.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
SIDELIGHTS ON WAR NEWS.

These are the things that soldiers
in the camps like most; Tobacco,
fruit, candy, cake, pies and books.
Thrift garden products last year
amounted to $350,000000 or approx
imately the equal in value OF years
potato crop.
1t costs the United States $l57 to
equip an infantryman for service in
France. That is the price paid for
his tools OF war only
In an earnest effort to increase
the nations food stock, more than
million people will serve in the
British voluntary vegetable brigade
during the present year.
The Canadian government eX-
empted the Doukhobors from con-
scription because OF their religious
views. In acknowledgment the
Doukhrobors prepared $4,000 jars OF
Jam for the Canadian soldiers.
Bigamy is rampant throughout
the war zone. 1t is 4 singular fact
that the majority of bigamy charges
are registered against women who
offer the excuse that they believed
their husbands to have been killed
at the front.
In England il person died, his or
her sugar ticket must be returned to
the food administrators Office. This
is to prevent drawing sugar on the
ticket OF a person who no longer
needs it. A sugar ticket is issued
with every birth certificate.
Religious work in English par
ishes is breaking down, according
to the bishop of London, owing to
the fact that the church has been
combed Of all its young clergymen
who are fit to fight at the front
More than seventy clergymen have
been killed and hundred or more
badly wounded in France.
Missing is the word the folks
at home in various bclligercnt ma
tions fear more than killed" or
wounded" when it is used in con-
nection with their loved ones on
battle fronts. When soldiers are re
ported missing their relatives may
have to wait months before they
learn the exact fate of the lost ones.
The words killed and wounded"
at least have the merit OF being
definite.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Mrs. Lily Busch, widow OF the
late St. Louis brewer, AdolphuS
Busch, is the largest individual tax
payer in that city. Her tax return
is %l4,S00.
Miss Anne Martin, vice-chairman
of the National Woman's party, has
announced her candidacy for the
seat left vacant in the senate by the
death OF Senator Francis G. New
lands OF Nevada.
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of
the secretary OF the navy, is said to
be the most popular and beloved
wiman in Washington. She has
many charms and easily wins the
hearts of those who know her.
Mrs, Hortense Ward of Houston,
Texas, is tho only woman able to
cast a vote in the Lone Star state.
By virtue OF her being a member of
the bar She is allowed to cast a bal
lot in the special election for judges.
Mrs. Alice s. Weeks OF Boston,
who has been "mothering" Ameri-
cans fighting on French soil for two
years, has been officially voted
mother of the regiment" by the for
eign legion OF the French army.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
THE MEN WHO CAME BACK
Copyrighted by the British-Can-
adian Recruiting Mission)
BY of Alsace-Lorraine.

dQldu KcCTulllng MlsSlOU.D
BY of Alsace-L Lorraine.
The author, an Alsatian, does
not dare to give his name until
PrusSianism is anpihilated, as
the lives OF his father and sis
tcrs may be at stake. lie re-
Gently enlisted with the Can
adian forces.
When YOU read reports regarding
the attitude OF the Alsatians toward
Germany, they are usually mislead-
ing and often untrue as far as the
real AlSatians are concerned. Since
1871 many OF our people have moved
into France rather than go under
Prussiau rule. My father could not
move on account of his business.
And many Germans have been in
troduccd into Alsace- Lorraine
through the custom OF placing a
Prussian sergeant, as burgomaster,
in charge OF every town that
amounts to anything,
70 show YOU the true feelings OF
the Als8tians: When | was a boy,
was sent to a boarding school.
The Alsatian boys lined up on one
side and the German boys on the
other. II a German licked an Al
satan, he had all the Alsatans to
meet. The feeling was so strong
with these boys, y to IS years old,
that they would get together with
knives and plan to fight the Prus-
SLAMS. One of the rules was that ii
an Alsatian boy forgot and ex-
pressed himself in his own language
he was punished by forfeiting a
whole weeks pocket money.
was in this country on business
when war was declared. ] knew if
there were not papers to show that
| had enlisted with Germany the
law is such that ! would not be able
to have our family's business when
it is over. SO went to German
consul. But / never intended to
fight on the side OF Germany / saw
the consul and almost had fight
with him. | finally got the papers
from him. Now l have destroyed
them. ! will not be able to get the
factory and the business without
them. Alsace-Lorraine will be free.
After a boy of Alsace-Lorrainc
is seventeen he cannot leave the
country without a passport from the
German authorities. He has to
agree to come back at the age OF
twenty to serve a year in the army.
Ncglccting to do so he forfeits citi-
zcnship and all property there. Six
months later he has to go back and
serve ) days. A year or so later he
is called back lor another So days.
Some eight to ten years later he is
called back to the army for three
weeks service. Therefore until
man is As years old he belongs to the
army and is home only on furlough
The whole nation is war machine.
The lie OF an Alsatian in the army
is made miserable.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
OKLAHOMA and TEXAS NEWSNOTES
OKLAHOMA.

Judge W. w. Clark OF ChickaSha,
city treasurer, is one OF the oldest
officials in the state who is actually
in harness. He has just passed his
73rd birthday. That he is always on
the job is shown by the fact that he
personally takes care OF all the citys
business and submits accurate and
correct reports at the end of each
month OF all the financial transac-
tions in which the city is involved,
As a matter OF history and not Of
pride, it is recalled by residents OF
Guthrie that Leon Trotzky, who re-
Gently handed Russia to the kaiser,
was once visitor in that town and
made 4 speech there. 1t was in
1o08-00 when Trotzky was an edi-
torial writer on the Appeal to
Reason" In those days he was lit
tie more than tramp. He wore his
hair long and his face was dirty.
Twenty Of the forty-two carloads
in the first solid trainload of food
stuff for the allies, since the en-
barge, which reached New York last
week, were furnished by the Guthrie
Milling Company Of Guthrie.
Here's a new one. A Tulsa man,
in his petition for divorce, declares
his second wife has habit OF pin
ming his little 3-year-old girl to the
clothes line with clothes pin
through her irock and letting her
hang on the line as much as an
hour. This is also something new
in step-mothering.
Governor Williams has pardoned
c. +. Culbertson, sentenced to life
Imprisonment from Oklahoma
County on charge of murder. The
testimony of three physicians was to
the effect that Culbertson had COIL
tracted tuberculosis and that he
would die soon ii LETT in confine-
ment. Culbertson was paroled to a
sister who lives in Virginia and she
will take him there. CulbertSon was
one OF a gang of men who killed a
druggist named Mcdonald while
robbing his store.
A Durant citizen will some day
have the proud distinction OF per
sonally owning the first war savings
bank building ever erected in Amer
ica. When the purposes for which
it was established shall have ceased,
the building will be given to the
Red Cross and it will be sold at
auction to the highest bidder. The
building has been insured for $3.50
and If it should, by any accident be
destroyed, the Red Cross will be
benefited to this amount.
DR.. /. s. Skclton, millionaire oil
man and glass manufacturer Of Ok
mulgee, who recently opened an Of
fee in Muskogee, has closed a con
tract for the building of the Grand
River dam to generate hydro-elec-
tricity for Muskogee and cities with
in a 50-mile radius. The Grand
River dam project was first launched
by former Gov. c, N, Haskell, Il
years ago.
Hereafter Oklahoma cotton ship
pers are to load Is bales of cotton
into car instead OF 65.
More than 20 per cent OF all grad
yates of the school of pharmacy Of
the University of Oklahoma are il
military service, according to stats
tice. A roll of honor with theii
names will be hung in the Science
building.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
THE INCOME TAX
How to Report Your Commissions.

A salesman working a commission basis claim deduc
expended from his funds for railroad fare
baggage show assistants,
Advertising If he reimbursed for such expenditures by
his firm should report under Gross Income the total
received and he may then claim such
actually incurred and paid the earning Of those comm
sonS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
Ardmore, Tuesday, March 2G, 1918.
CROPS AND PROVIDENCE.


When all's said, the war question
inevitably comes back to crops. IT.
is food that will win the war. Or
perhaps it is more logical to put it
this way-lack OF food will lose the
war.
In men and munitions the two
groups Of bclligcrcnts are too nearly
matched, and to present neither
seems certain to gain overwhelming
preponderance. 1t is the food factor
that is most variable most untore-
seeablc and likely to prove most de
ciSive.
Thus, at the beginning OF a new
planting season, the crop problem
becomes more cngrossing than ever
1t is probably safe to say that the
outcome OF the war depends liter
ally on the relative quantity OF food
,tuffs produced this year by the al
lies and the central powers. If Ger
many has a good season, at home
and in the ncighboring countries
that she controls, Germany can hold
out for another year, and by eN-
plotting Russia may be able to hold
out almost indefinitely. If her crops
fail, She must make peace next win
ter or spring, regardless OF her mill
tary situation.
The war is therefore resolving it
self more than ever into a great
competitive food-producing strug-
gle. For the allies the principal az
ricutural battle-ground is the United
States. For the central powers it is
Germany, Hungary and Ukrainia.
German hopes OF getting large
stores of grain from Russia at once
have not been realized There was
little grain left, and that small sur
plus is difficult to transport with
present facilities. She now plans to
stick it out until the new crop is
haryeSted--a feat that is possible,
though painful-and hopes to be in
better plight thereafter
In America, with all our handi-
caps, labor supply, seed, fertilizer,
farm machinery and transportation
we are incomparably better off. In
solar as crops depend on human cf-
forts, it will be an everlasting dis
grace il we fail to beat our enemies
Overwhelmingly in this vital depart
ment OF war endcavor.
But it doesn't rest entirely with
US. Weather is about as important
a factor as human effort. And that
rests with Providence. We can sim /
ply do our part, and hope for full
fruition. But if there is a Divine
Power that directs human affairs
and most of us believe there is.
surely we have good reason for CON .
fdence.
This is the critical year of a war
which, We are convinced, represents |
a direct conflict between the worlds .
forces of righteousness and its
forces of wickednesS. Divine right, .
no less than human right is at stake.
We cannot believe that God will
permit the evil elements OF ciyilza-
tion to triumph over the good on
50 vast Il scale as they would il our
enemies were allowed to accomplish 1.
their designs. We cannot believe
that humanity is to be turned back F..
ward, away from justice, truth, mer-
cy, kindliness and piety.
The situation so far is promising,
III I
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is now here officially and it is to be
hoped will conduct itself more seem
ly than the official winter which is
now officially over.
Kingston Messenger: Some men
seem to have married in order to
secure victim to listen 10 their
troubles.
Marietta News: If man would
have a good mother-in-law it is up
to him to make good.
Uenryetta Standards We want
no peace Made in Germany" We
want and expect to get peac
Made by America"
Shawnee News-Ilerald: Some OF
us may live to see the day when we
shall be asked for money to send
missionaries to the Bolsheyiki
Guthrie Leader Those French
courts do not seem to waste much
time rejecting appeals Judging by.
the promptitude in Bolo's case.
McAlester News-Capital: He
thinks he will figure as Williem, the
great anneXer but others are sure
it will only be as Bill, the last OF the
Hohenzollern royal line.
Muskogee Times Democrat:
There are a good many Muskogee
husbands hoping there will be a
thrift stamp design in Easter bon
nets this year.
Lehigh News: Why visit the
pawnbroker with the expectation Of
realizing anything on good repu-
tation?
Chickasha Express: The man
who is coopcd up in an Office Just
can't help envying the fellow whom
he sees passing by with a fishing
pole and a bucket OF minnows.
Detroit Free Press: Riches have
wings" "Thcy need EN- to keep up
with the cost Of living
Miami News: Don't be wastciul.
Remember the big Hoover idea is
food for our allies, not for or al !
leys.
Fort Smith (Ark.), Southwest
Democrat: If old Spurlos Versenkt
Luxburg has a soul, upon which |
point we feel that we need some evi- |
dence, it will certainly vince when, |
by EnEland's consent given at Ar
gentine's request, he sails safely
through those seas to his home in
Germany.
Gainesville (Texas) Register:
Never was a time when it was more
criminal to loaf. Get busy.
Tulsa World: Germany claims to
be after a peace, but Russia begins to
Il ,rl. Ga, ,,.,,,+, .i,a ,,.I, oIo
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
TEXAS.

More than two millions of tin
cans, requiring twelve box cars for
shipment, have recently been sent
to a smelter by wholesale grocery
company at San Angelo. The tins
were collected during a cleanup
campaign waged jointly by the city
and business concerns. 1t was nee
essary to flatten the cans with a
steam roller in order to get the
minimum weight of 10000 pounds
in each car. The transaction netted
the company more than 81 800.
Texas stands sixth in number of
war savings societies in operation.
1t has 263 organizations, members
OF which are pledged to regularly
save and invest their savings with
the government. This information
is contained in figures compiled to
March 10 by the national war saw
ingS committee.
More than fifty different trades
are being represented by recruits at
Camp Kelly aviation field. The re-
cruits come from widely separated
placed, but most OF them from CO.
lumbus barracks, Jefferson barracks
St. Louis, Mo-, Fort Slocum, New
York; Jackson barracks, New Or
| leans. and Fort Logan. Colorado.
The Electrical Workers Union
OF Sherman has purchased 500
worth OF war savings stamps. The
union also purchased 5000 worth of
Liberty bonds.
Miss Margaret Woodrow VIII
, son, daughter Of President Wilson,
will visit a number Of Texas cities
next month. She will speak in
Waco on the date of the opening
of the third Liberty loan campaign
c. c. Morris, county dcmonstra-
tion agent of Grayson county, has
formed about twenty-five boys corn
and hog clubs. Many canning
clubs have also been perfected.
Under the direction OF DR.. K. V.
X. OSigian, an American by birth,
thousands of silk worms are being
grown in Austin. They are fed upon
the tender leaves OF mulberry trees
growing on the Austin silk farm.
The farm was purchased by the
Austin Chamber of Commerce in
1916 and the two-year-old trees now
are said to represent a value of
$4,000.
Miss Fanny Sellers of Fl. Worth
is the first woman to take a course
in architecture. Last year Miss
Sellers won 500 for the most ar
tistic arrangement Of twenty ad-
vertisements. She has always been
devoted to drawing and has been
four years in the architectural de-
partmcnt of the University of Tex
as. Next year she will teach me-
chanical and free-hand drawing.
The Christian churches of Tex
as and Oklahoma are building a
tabernacle at Camp Bowie. The
structure will be 4Sxl00 feet, with
two reading rooms and two rooms
for resident and visiting ministers.
The library is to be furnished by
the young women of Abilene and
Thorp Springs Christian colleges.
The ministers rooms are to be fur
niShed by the women of the Hous-
ton street church and the church
at Terrell.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
PEOPLES IN OTHER LANDS

In southern Russia each head Of
a household has his portion of land
assigned to him by the village COM
mune, from the cultivation of which
he obtains at least fair compe-
tence after all taxes and dues have
been paid.
The wild gypsies Of Galicia use
cakes as love letters. A coin is
baked into the cake, which at the
first opportunity is flung to the ia
vored object. The retention of this
is looked upon as a virtual accept
ance'; its forcible return an init
nation that the attentions" are un-
desired.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26

Miss Marie Dahn of New York
City is another to add to the long
list OF women who are holding i'm
portant war posts. Miss Dahn is a
finger print expert in the navy bu-
reau of Identification. The poet for
the navy department is one which
requires high degree OF technical
skill.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
Memher nf the AssocIated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF all
news credited 10 It, or not otherwise cred
tied In this paper and also the local news
published herein.
All rights Of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
ABOUT WOMEN ONLY.

About one-third OF the women
physicians in the United States have
registered for war work.
More than 800 women are en-
ployed in this Du Pont powder plant
at Carney's Point, New Jersey. They
are compelled to wear overalls and
caps, the same as the men.
No legal execution OF a woman
has been recorded in Massachusetts
since July 2, l778, when Bathsheba
Ruggles Spooner was hanged in
Worcester for the murder of her
husband,
College women by the hundred
are applying for admission to the
training camp for nurses to be con-
Quoted at Nassar during the sum
mer by the American Red Cross
and the Council OF National De
tense.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26

Southern Illinois is soon to have
a training farm for girls who wish
to learn practical farm work.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
WOMEN IN FOREIGN LANDS.

Extension OF the electoral fran
chise to the women of Nova Scotia
on the sans terms as now enjoyed
by the men is probable within the
near future.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26

As another indication of the
spread OF the feminist movement,
Japanese girls are now demanding
to see a photograph OF the prospec-
tive husband selected by the parents
OF the girl.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
SCISSORS AND PASTE.

Kansas City lMo.). Star; Spring
is now here officially and it is to be
hoped will conduct itself more seem
ly than the official winter which is
now officially over.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26

Italian women living along the
railway lines carrying French and
British soldiers to the Piave battle
front delight in making and distrib-
uting choice delicacies to the allied
troops. Night or day the women
can always be counted on to be.
waiting at the stations.