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Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
HOUSE BUILDING IN KOREA
Operations Always Begun by the Con-
struction of Most Ingenious
System of Flues.

When a Korean begins to build
house he first lays down "a system of
Aues where the floor is to be. These
fiues begin ut a fireplace, usually
built in an outer shed or in a closed
alleyway connected with the house.
From the. fireplace the flues branch
out like the ribs of fan and end in
trench at the back of the floor space.
his trench, in turn, opens into a
chimney, usually built at some dis
tance from the house. When the flues
are completed the builder carefully
covers them over with flagStOnes; he
then Cements the whole floor and COW
ers it with sort of thick oiled paper
for which Korea is famous. The rest
of the house is then built round the
completed floor.
The heating system works in this
way: When it is time to cook the rice
for the morning meal the housewife
lights a little straw or brushwOOd in
the fireplace in the outer shed. While
the rice is cooking the heat from the
fireplace passes through the f1ueS
heating the stone flags of the floor
and diffusing a pleasant warmth that
lasts until it is time to prepare the
next meal. Two heatings a day gen
orally suffice to keep the floor warm
On the floor the people sit by day and
sleep by night. The heavy oiled paper
that covers the floor prevents any
smoke from entering the room.
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
TYPIFIES SPIRIT OF FRANCE
Brave Thirteen7Year-OId Girl, With
Two Small Brothers, Doing All
the Work on Farm.

When the work in your war gar
den seems tedious and you straighten
your aching back and look lOngingly
toward he inviting shade of the trees
or toward the arm chair on the awning
covered porch; when you mutter to
yourself that it will not matter much
whether the weeds do choke the beet
patch-it may help you to finish your
task if you call to mind story told
in MY War Diary" by Mrs. Mary King
WaddingtOn.
In village near ours, says the au-
thor, Il girl of thirteen is running the
farm. At the beginning of The war it
was thriving farm with a man and
his wife, six sons and one daughter.
Then the blow fell, and all the men
in France were modified; the father
and his two eldest boys went off at
Once-fOur hours after the decree of
mobilization was received in the vii
lage. The farmer had no time to put
his house in 6Order, but left the farm
in the hands of his wife and the two
man and his two eldest sons are now
dead, the two next are in the army,
and the poor mother, a wreck phys
ically and mentally, cries all day. The
girl and the two little boys do the
whole work Of the farm. The young
est, who is only ten years old
cannot accomplish much, but he does
manage to watch the cows and tC
carry cans of milk or baskets of but
ter.
see the girl simetimes; she is per
fectly well, never complains and never
asks for anything-eXcept occasional
ly for a warm petticOat, or hood t.
keep her head and neck warm and DIR!
when she is working in the fields
There are hundreds of girls doing tha
work all over France.-YOuth's Com
paniOn.
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30

The Smyrna Board of Health took
a precautions course in refusing to
lift the ban caused by the Epidemic
of Influenza last week when the State
Board of Health did. Conditions,
they declared, did not warrant Smyr-
ma being too hasty since there are
a number of cases reported especially
in the Spruance City neighborhood.
As usual our citizens acquesced and
there were no services at any of the
churches Sunday, the opening of
schools was held up and public as
sembleges and amusement places were
continued under ban. AS the Sunday
Star pertinently says: Zone cannot
refrain from contrasting the method
of the twentieth century with that of
even a century ago. Science and re-
ligion met, and science, backed by the
authorities, assumed control. Now.
in olden times, yes, even in old New
England, the churches in such an cpl
demic as the one which ravaged our
city the last two weeks, would have
been crowded with panic-stricken wor-
shippers, who would have prayed for
aid, just as many now pray for rain.
As a result of the assemblage, the di-
sease would have been spread, and the
whole community would have been
down with the plague, whatever it
might have been. Now however, a
better understanding of the causes
and distribution of disease germs has
made it imperative that all classes
shall obey the orders of health board:
and sanitary bodies. Just as doctor.
and surgeons have become necessities
so also the observance of sanitary re-
gulatiOns has become of paramount
Importance"
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
Center of Agricultural Production.

The center of agricultural ppoduc-
ton of the United States, according to
the value of crop and animal products
for 1917, is in west-central illinois. as
shown by a diagram just issued by
the department Of agriculture. TIL,
states of greatest production are:
iowa, S1,@@000O,0O0; Illinois, $1,255,-
100000; Texas, $1,O45,00O, GOO; Missou-
II, $947,000,000; Ohio, $S51, 1,0O0,0G0; !;
Nebraska, $774,OO0O00; Indiana, $7G6,-
100000; Kansas, .$735, 100000; New
York, $700Ooo,000; Minnesota, &04G.-
C"@oN2; Pennsylvania, $G3GG0a900;
Georgia, $GG5,0J0,000; Wisconsin,
.-"1.o11oo0; California, $515,o000JO;
Michigan, $5340G000O and Ken
lucky, $J2AWJ.000
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
DREADED ENEMY OF AVIATOR
Most Expert Airman, Caught in Fog,
Is Practically at Mercy OF
Circumstances.

Nothing connected with the history
of aviation is more remarkable than
the way in which the weather difficult
ties and dangers of a few years ago
have been reduced to the level OF
minor Inconvenience by the increased
skill of aviatOrS and especially by i'm
provements in airplanes. 1t is hardly
an exaggeratiOn to say that at the
present time the only serious Outstand-
ing meteorological problem of the avi-
atOr is fog.
There is no means of keeping ones
bearings when flying in or over
fog, and the same IS, of course, true
of lOw-lying clouds. The compass
tells which way the machine is point
ing at any moment, but not the d.
rectiOn in which it is flying, except
when travelling exactly with or
against the wind. There are no land
marks in the air. Even more serious
is the problem of landing in a fog.
The chances are always considerable
of striking dangerous obstacles, such
as trees, buildings, or telegraph wires,
or of alighting in bodies of water,
swamps, etc. Moreover, as one vet
eran flyer has stated, 'what is dis
tressing to the airmen in fog is the
impossibility of knowing whether he
be slightly climbing or slightly de-
scending full tilt into hills, trees OF
houses without time to save the stu
atiOn."
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
Building Racord.

All building records were broken
recently at Grasmere, S. l., where
United States base hospital is located.
In five hours a force of 300 men erect
ed a building 230 feet long and 80
feet wide. In the finished building;
when the workmen laid down their
tools. was steam-heating plant, sewer
connections, electric lights and a bath
room with tiled floor. TIE work
started at Z o'clock in the morning,
with men digging post holes. When
the whistle blew at noon the last
workman in the building was putting
on his coat. with the task completed.
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30

1t is not so many years since the
Delaware Rivers channel had a depth
of only 20 feet of water. That was
increased to &c feet, and then to 80.
at present says the Philadelphia
Record, "wOrk is in progress on the 80
foot channel. Now it is proposed to
deepen this to 40 feet. Certainly it is
desirable consummation. A big
port needs plenty of water in the ap-
ploach to it. After the war these
projects can be taken up with better
prospects Of success than ever be
fore"
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
Use Common Sense.

In a desire to help food conservation
many women go to ridiculous extremes.
Children and growing youngsters
should be well nourished. war or no
war. Mr.. Hoover wants us to use COM
mon sense in our conservation. Put.
ting youngsters on half ratiOns is very
far from common sense. If you cut
down their butter or sugar. increase
their consumption Of milk.-People's
Home Journal.
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30

lieutenant w. X. Framp'Un,, p,.or
Sand Town, seven miles Of Felton, 5sr.
whose name appears in WeGnT'i iI"5 n
casualty list as having been ,,ntor. kl,,T
action, was a son of W. W. I i%il an lr.
of that place. He enlisted while 5nats nt
in ing in in Wilmington. He is agra a gradpadi and
of the Preston, Md, High ScnOOlI ""I,ace.
also of Beacom's Business EO'rH ~; ns.
Wilmington. He served with 'n' S.rder =
aware troops at the Mexican otbsr UOt
and is survived by his father ni0''
and three or four brothers
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30

THE SMYRNA TIMES is an Independent paper
devoted to the welfare of the town it repre-
sents and the State of with it is part. 1t
also gives the items of importance of the East
ern Shore of Maryland.
ADVERTISEMENTS-THE SMYRNA TIMES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
resents, but for the outlying district of which it
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton,
KentOn, CheswOld, Townsend, Leipsic, &c.
rate of 80 cents an inch for first insertion and
% cents for each subsequent insertion will be
charged for transient advertising. Locals and
Reading Notices. 10 cents per line per issue.
A special discount on all semi-annua and
yearly advertisements.
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
Ash Trees for AIrpIanes-

The appeal Of the Aerial league of
the British empire for ash trees for
aeronautical purposes has resulted in
between three and four thousand trees
being offered within the last few
weeks, according to "Flight." The
government requirements In the next
twelve months are expected to excee.
100000 trees.-Scientific American.
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30

The good work taken up by the
Town Council to continue the street
sprinkler on, at least during the Inhu-
enza Epidemic, did not last the week
ont and dusty streets were the order
Of things over the Weekend It
would seem that the Board of Health
might urge upon Council this pre-
cautionaly measure. Dust is ladened
with germs and one way to keep the
dust down is the use Of the street
sprinkler Let us hope Council will
see to it that the sprinkler is kept in
service a while longer atleast.
IN the death of Charles b. Swain
Smyrna has lost one of its best citi-
the Smyrna Town Council anc
I'LL smyrna Board of Health a usefu
and active member and Asbury NJ. f
Church one of its strong workers
Such men as Charles B. Swain max,
any community better by having live
in it and it is with sincere regret tina
we chronicle his death.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-29

Cora Adams, Anna Roark, Bessie
Turner Rose Roark and Catherine
Cramcr.
Several of the women have been
in pail heretofore, They were ar
rested when the cleanup was made
in the oil field towns two months or
more ago and were fined Sl00 each
and sentenced to serve thirty days
in Jail, after a hearing in Justice
Bourland's court. Some OF them
were allowed to go after paying
the costs and agreeing to leave Car
ter county and to remain away.
Three or four days ago they be-
gan coming back, one or two at a
time, and they had no more than got
settled in a place to live than the Of
ficers were after them. They waited
until yesterday when they had all
Of them under arrest and brought
them to Jail at one time.
The officers said this was the first
time they had been troubled with
this class since the cleanup.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-29
GARVIN COUNTY FARMER
JAILED ON CHARGE OF
BOARDING FOODSTUFF

On his way home from Enid yes
tcrday W. r. IIignight. deputy
unitct States marshal, stopped off
at Pauls Valley and brought D. f.
Brimley with him to Jail here. Brim-
ley is a Well-to-do farmer, who lives
a few miles west OF Pauls Valley
and has a son in the army, stationed
at Camp Travis, San Antonio,
Texas. He is charged with boarding
flour and there are other charges
against him lie was held in bail
of $1,000 ior a preliminary hearing
mex cdncsday.
Deputy Sheriff Buckholz, OF
Pauls Valley went to Brimley's
house and searched it to see what
flour he had on hand Five sacks
were found, but he claimed he did
not know it was against the law to
have that quantity at one time.
While there, the deputy sheriff,
in searching the house, found four
soldiers uniforms, two army
two As automatic pistols
government pattern and one pair OF
army shoes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-29
TERM OF FEDERAL
COURT. NEXT WEEK
CAPERS CASE is ON DOCKET
FOR HEARING BEFORE
JUDGE YOUMANS.

The October term of the United
States court for this district will
begin in Ardmore Monday, oct. I,
with Judge Frank Noumans, OF
Arkansas, presiding.
The criminal docket has been
set covering a period from Oct. !
to Il, both inclusive. Following
that, the civil docket will be taken
mp and grand jury will come IN
the third week.
There are niuety-four cases on
the criminal docket. One which will
attract wide attention is that against
the Rev. Henry Clay Capers, who
is charged with obstructing the re-
crulting and enlistment service of
the United States. Capors was tried
at Muskogce and later at Tulsa,
both trial, failing of verdict as
the jury could not agree and a mis-
trial was noted. The case now
comes here for a third trial
The offcusc OF introducing liquor
leads in the number OF cases, there
being p on the docket, while that
OF failing to register comes next
with IS There are seven cases Tor
conspiracy to obstruct the recruit
ing and eulisting service and two
ior advising and harboring a de,er-
ter, one being the case OF NJ .
Weaver and Walter WcWch, faith
pr 1tt SON iron, T,ln.r,n ,.,,pt,. .
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-29
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
BILL IN SENATE
HAS ROUGH ROAD
CERTAIN DEFEAT OR WITH
DRAWAL ONLY ALTER
NATIVE TO FRIENDS.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-With cer-
tain defeat or withdrawal admitted
to be the only present alternatives
the house resolution proposing sub
mission to the states of the Susan
b. Anthony equal suffrage amend
ment furnished another sharp but
briet fight in the senate today and
then went over until Monday. In
the meantime, conferences will be
held between its supporters to de-
eide whether on Monday, it shall
be brought to vote with defeat ap-
pareutly assured, or again be laid
aside indefinitely.
Facing filibuster, begun today
b. opponents OF the resolution, loss
OF the vote OF Senator Benet Of
South Carolina, who today an
uounccd he would vote in the mega
tive, and also absence of many SEN
ator, supporting the resolution, the
woman suffrage forces were on the
defensive.
That the opposition is strong
enough to defeat the resolution, it
was conceded by both senator's Pitt
man lNc1ada) democrat and Smoot
(Utah, republican, who have
worked actively in its behalf. Chair
mau tones OF the woman suffrage
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-29
ELEVEN ACCUSED OF
VAGRANCY ARRESTED
IN OIL FIELD TOWNS

Budd Ballcw and Will Ward, dep
u-y sheriffs and Charles Jones, con-
stable OF Wilson township, came
in from the oil field yesterday aft
ernoon with three automobiles, car
rying eleven persons, whom they
placed in the county Jail. Eight OF
the number were women and there
were three men. All have charges
OF yagrancy placed against them ON
the Jail record and they will be ar
raigred in Justice Franklin Bour-
lands court tomorrow morning.
The prisoners are Hume Tabor,
Houy Spencer, John ely, Bertha
Brown, Clara Tabor, Ruth Brooks,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-17
Women Plan to Fill
Vacant Jobs Here

Department Two of the women's
council of defense, ten women in all
lunched at the Lee-Huckins this noon
and discussed plans for getting the work
Of this department under way. i
The chairman OF the department Is
Miss C., T, Wilson. Department Mum
her Two Is called the women in in
dustry department 1t will open head
quarters in the business center of the
city in few days. At the time the
registration for women willing to try "a
take mems places in different kinds OF
industries, was conducted, hundreds OF
pledge cards were obtained. In 2 short
time these cards will be turned over to
this department and the ten women
having its work in charge will try &c
fill Jobs with women who signed
pledges.
This noon the situation at the New
State overall factory, West Fourth
street, where production Of overalls fol-
the u, s, government is being seri-
ously hampered at the present tint
through lack of sufficient women work
,ers, was called " the attention of thu
women. II was stated that the New
State company needed at least fifty o
more women to work power sewing ma
chimes at once. Department Numbe
Two will try to secure some womei
for the factory.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-17

giving the publie>s campaign q edss
cation that has been soreiy sssdsd.
Every possessor d Liberty bond will
have q new interest ID this eountry's
welfare. He will feel that he Is in
partnership with the ,vernment and
that he has right to serutinire and
criticize public expenditures. Il Is safe
to believe that out Of these 100000
Liberty bond holders. an army Of new
investors In Wall street securities will
arise,
The small saver, having discovered
1 that he can operate in Wall street with
SlOO or a few hundred dollars. will look
around for the best bargains. II dawns
| upon him that the money he deposits
in the savings bank Is used by the lat
ter, in most instances, for the purchase
of securities paying more interest than
the savings bank pays its depositors.
Tho small sav feels that II Is Just as
easy for him to buy investment securi-
ties as il is for the savings bank
| Icilie's /,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-17
Crops Are Bought
BY Liberty Kitchen
While Still Growing

Buying vegetables in the ground Is
the newest method about TO be adopted
By the Liberty kitchen as a means OF
insuring 100 percent conservation OF
the yieldof war gardens. Three owners
o. war gardens have put up TO the
kitchen the proposition Of taking over
their gardens entirely In each In
stance ali necessary cultivation has been
done; nothing remains 10 do except
to gather the crop a. II natures and
to can Il. The Liberty kitchen has
accepted responsibility in these three in
stances; the conservation OF these
gardens stands entered upon the kitchen
Journal Just the same as do orders for
90 many cans Of certain vegetables.
Assuming responsibility for truck in
tlbs ground presents to the kitchen man
agement new branch Of service. Some
body viii have to gather the ripe prod
uct and do so when it is the proper
time for picking This new need will
Be worked out by the kitchen this
week. II 1t Is feasible to buy up pro-
duction, then the kitchen will let it be
known generally that it will take over
the responsibility Of conserving entire
gardens in case the owners leave the
city during the harvest period.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-17
Coal Fire Undermines Land,

Probably the greatest fire in the
world Is burning in sputheastern Ohio
says II. A. Mount in The July Popular
Mechanics magazine 1t has been burn
ing for more than thirty years and has
been fed by more than lS,0000OO tons
of the finest soft coal in the United
States. The fire has spread over about
eighteen square miles of territory, snd
has actually consumed about l,500 acres
of coal vein that in places is fifteen
feet in thickness, averaging nine and
one-half feet. So far the fire has de
fled every effort to extnguish II and
promises TO be still burning hundred
years hence. The coal vein that is
burning is said by mining experts to be
the finest vein in the Hooking valley
district, and perhaps the finest soft coal
vein in the United States 1t has been
found impossible to smother the fire,
either by inclosing II or by using chem
icals. In one of the early attempts TO
extinguish the fire, water was pumped
on it continuously for three years with
out visible effect, The fire was started
simultaneously in seven big mines in
the vein during the strike disturbance
which occurred in 1894
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-17
Two Days. Adventure as Boy All
Zella Baker Wants of It; Dreams
OF Joining the Navy Vanish

pearance in The Sunday Oklahoman,
when he ,elephoned her father.
In the meantime the girl remained in
her room most OF the time, going out
occasionally TO a drug store for a cold
drink and to show twice.
Disguise Deceives Friends.
Friday night she went 10 the Flag
day exercises at the Overholser with
her iandlady and saw some OF her
schoolmates from the Lincoln school,
where she is an eighth grade pupil, but
no one recognized her. None of her
acquaintances whom she met on the
street knew her, not even several po-
licemen whom she had known for years
and spoke III on the street
81 think ! could have gone as long
as ! pleased IL il had no, been for the
papers" said Zella, 81 bought every
edition OF every paper, 10 see what my
folks we're doing began to think they
weren't looking for me at all, becanse
didn't see anything about myself until
Sunday morning. I was wanting TO 20
home by then. Home looked better
than the navy to me, so | decided not
TO try 10 enlist"
"Tm Glad It's AN Over"
Her parents thought when she did
rot aoncar a. breakfast Friday morn
ing tina, she had gone to visit her aunt
in near by town When they saw
hat some money was missing too, they
lnouircd At the ticket offices and found
no trace Of her Then they became
really alarmed, and Mr.. Baker, who
vas a re-.Ser Of the police force for
years, notified the police. The. mother
was nearly frantic when ber daughter
returned Sunday morning, and Is thank
ful that the girl is safe at home.
"Zella is such a quiet girl" she said
~ would never dream that she would
do such an adventurous thing. Wher
one of the boys in her class at schoo
told us that he had seen her down towr
dressed in boys clothes, ] couldn't be-
lieve il. She Is very nervous, however
and reads a great deal, mostly books o.
adventure. All last week she read con
stan,ly a book called the Adventure
OF May" which she got at the library
and seemed, more nervous than ever
She always talked about girls who dis
Vuised themselves and had adcenture'
and had said that she wished she wer'
boy so that she could Join the nav!
o., NV brother had done when he wa
only IS. blame il all on the thing
she has read and the picture show
she has seen"
"Wcll," declared Zella, I'm glad IT,
all over and hope it viii be lessor
20 other girls who want to run ava.
L. from home"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-17
Kaiser Poses as
Good Samaritan
! In Aiding Wounded

AMSTERDAM, June l7.--Emperor
William Is pictured by Karl Rosner,
thc correspondent Of The Lokal Anseiger,
Who Is attached TO the emperor's suite,
q acting as a good Samaritan toward
two British soldiers on May 28 While
descending Mont Hiver the emperor
stopped alongside two wounded British
soldiers. He called a medical attendant
% administer brandy to the men, to
LAY and bandage their wounds and to
srrange for their transfer to the hos
patal Il -.
After supper the emperor's thoughts
turned TO the British lads and Rosner
ripresents the monarch as saying;
HWhen the enemy Is beaten we mus,
care for him with all the power and
meaas given to us. A beaten enemy Is
no longer an enemy for uss->lf those
over yonder think and act otherwise
that Il their affair. We Germans will
peeserve our conception OF Christian
duty toward the III and wounded"