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New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

"a IL oll%Sdine pTact1calneSS which
Wv has made the Stage Women's
War Relief third in usefulness to
the government in war time this organ
lzatlon is now watching keenly the needs
OF tomorrow and holding firmly together
the departments Of service for which
there is still need.
For instance, the Service House which
will be kept open, glowing with welcome
and home atmosphere, as long as there
are enough uniformed men to ask for it;
the furnishing Of free and wholesome
entertainment as long as a soldier or
sailor wants and needs the soace and
sweetness which the world of make
believe can give him; the free tickets to
shows" which the Stage Women's War
Relief has been dispensing to nurses and
men in uniform, and the two SUNDAY
night performances of current New York
attractions, given under their auspices.
with the cooperation of managers. plav-
eSs, musicians, stage hands and cleaning
women, all giving their services, will con-
tinue as long as there is need.
Now, more than ever, our army and
navy must be cheered and told how worth
while their sacrifice has been. Our hos
pitfalls will be filled with our own
wounded, and this work of the theatre
must go on throughout the country, Civ
ing its especial gift as long as a sick
soldier lies waiting for it.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

Will light a flame which will shine into
generations to come
In the Stage Women's War Relief
workroom thousands of baby clothes have
oeeh made out of every available scrap
OF material, the tails of shirts and stock
lng-tops playing a conspicuous part So
much love and pity have blossomed in
this baby corner of the workroom that
vast plan has crystallized to aid Allied
war orphans.
play has been written by two we'll
known WRITER'S Harriet Ford and Harvev
OHlgglns, called when a Feller Needs
Frlend'-the title which Briggs. The
tribune cartoonist, has made a house.
mold phrase. This comedy-melodrama
especially suited to amateurs, has been
donated to the Stage Women's War Re-
let by the authors, and will be distrib-
uCeo gratis to any group of amateurs in
America who agree to give the pro-
ceeds to this fund for aiding war Or
phans
The usefulness of this bodv Of women
VIII continue perhaps longest in the
soldiers welfare work-the care of the
man OF the theatre who has fought the
actor, scene shifter, or the man from anv
place IN the theatre who needs help for
himself or his family. This help is so
1afreachlng and many-sided that if the
women of the stage had never done anv-
thing else it would give them an excnso
FOR existence
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

NHRISTMAS, we all know, is the
4 celebration of the birth of Christ:
but there is no reason to suppose
that Christ was born on the 25th of
December. The Gospels give no date for
his birth. and therefore no anniversary
was observed in the early years of
Christianity. Later, in Egypt, the belief
started and spread that the date was
january 8, and. in the fourth century
services of commemoraton at this time
We're universal in the East.
1t was never accepted as the true date
by the Western Church, where in the
same century December 25 was fixed
upon, with no more real cause for be-
lleving it the correct date than there was
reason to suppose January was cor
rect.
"The reason says a Syrian writer,
Christian himself, "why the fathers
transferred the celebration from the 9Th
of January to the 25th of December was
this: 1t was a custom of the heather
to celebrate on the same date the birth
day of the sun, at which they kindled
lights in token of festivity. In these
solemnities and festivals the Christians
also took part. Accordingly, when the
doctors of the Church perceived that the
Christians had leaning to this festival.
they took counsel and resolved that the
true nativity should be solemnized on that
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

ale the growth and progress Of the
race.
If they have no grown-up folk Of
whom to ask questions they invent re-
plies to their questions themselves, as
did the race when it was young; and
the replies they invent are a crude
mythology, a weaving of legends such
as were woven by the human race when
it's mind was as the mind Of a child
land the world so new and ALL" as Kip
ling says.
20 fairy tales are as suited to the
mind of child as diet of milk is
suited to it's digestion. A child of five
or seven years could not digest the
"truth" as adults see it. 1t must receive
it's ideas about life in the form Of simple,
concrete symbols. Its mind, ignorant
and inexperienced in reality, works
only with the methods which it has
inherited. And these methods deal with
faith, fairies, nature, religion and
heroes
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

thirty or forty war plays that have been
raging along the Gay White Way and
that they would welcome something
cheerful, by way of celebrating peace.
1t seems this is not so. The theatrical
manager has discovered that what the
public wants is that he, the manager.
should not have been put to the trouble
OF producing all those war plays for
nothing; he knows, without asking us,
that If he put it to us fatly and frankly
whether we would have him lose on his
box receipts simply in order to give us
plays we like instead of plays we don't
we would reply, with one voice: "On
with the gloom-stuff, Grady; we are
with you"
The people you give Christmas pres
ents to are divided into five classes:
l. The ones you don't wish to begin it
with.
2. The ones you are perfectly certain
didn't send you single thing last year.
g. Those who will get the usual thing.
"a. Those who get odds and ends.
B. Those to whom you have simply got
to give something "'really NICE" al
though heaven knows you can't afford it.
The Case of Emma
Something Useful''
This last division divides in its turn
into four hideous problems which have
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
What's the Matter
With Father?

Then there is father The problem
about father is that the approach of the
Christmas season does not actively sue-
gest presents to him, that being an in
spiration which seizes him on Christmas
Eve, after all the stores are closed, bus
1t does remind him that there are things
that can be bought to render the course
Of life smoother.
He, therefore, without saying any
thing to the family, wanders off one day
and buys for himself a new razor and
pair of tan gloves and bedroom slippers
and new shaving mug, thus frustrat
ing every single plan you had for his
Christmas. And when your horror
struck gaze lights upon this array in the
bathroom next morning and you ask him
what on earth he meant by it, he an
sWers simply that he needed the things.
And Christmas only three days off
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Is Santa

day, and the festival Of the Epiphany
on the 9th of January. Accordingly,
along with this custom, the practice has
prevailed of kindling fires until the 9Th"
1t was because of this kinship of
Christmas to the heathen festival that
Augustine Piled with his followers to
celebrate the day not because of the
return of the sun but for the sake of
Him who made the sun.
AS the Christmas legend came down
the ages it gathered to itself the myths
of all other faiths; and what more
natural and right than that the religion
of the brotherhood of man should con-
tain something of every ideal and every
form of worship Of man, since the hu-
man race began?
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
What Shall We Give Them for Chr

nss' 30 your "S bs"' bs,s friend '9s @'s'a' ss1.
Now, as a matter of fact, you know
perfectly we'll what you want for Christ
mas, and when you say, year after year:
"Oh, ] don't know-iust get me some
little thingt' what you really mean is
that you want years subscription to
the opera and a tan aeropane coat to
wear to tea parties, but, as your friends
salary is only $40 week, inclusive of
carfare, what is the use of putting your
secret longngs into words?
"Oh, Don't Know
just Amy Little Thing
The great desire Of my life for the
last ten years has been to own a type
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
When the Sun Turns Back
To Replenish the Earth

There were the Roman Saturnalia,
celebrating the return of the sun in mid
December--a time for the exchange of
gifts, the lighting of tapers, the extend
ing Of privilege to the enslaved and
charity to the unfortunate. There was
the fir tree, symbol in ancient Teutonic
countries of the celestial sun tree with
its spreading branches to represent rays,
its tapers for the flash of lightning in
the sky, its apples, nuts and brilliant
balls representing the moon and stars,
and miniature animals hung on the
branches in token of the ancient custom
of sacrifice to the gods. And last, but
somehow most conspicuous now among
all the traditions, the legend of Saint
Nicholas, or Santa Claus, straight from
Holland
For Santa Claus is not an enemy
alien. The eternal friend of childhood
was not conceived in the country that
has wantonly shed their blood. His day,
December s. has been celebrated for
centuries in Holland as a time for
sugarplums and candles and gifts
Toward dusk, the story goes, white
sheet is spread inside the door, and the
family, attired in their best and bravest
await the saint. Presently he arrives.
clad in embroidered robes, with gems.
jeweled gloves and golden mitre-and
in his arms either gifts or sweets or the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

father, wants to go to musical comedies
at night because he likes the gay music;
but, two that he doesn't go because he
is so tired he can't.
Then, if you are still cleverer, you will
see that the thing for father is VIC
trola, by means of which he can listen
to our modern classics and sit still at
the same time. This solves him as a
Christmas problem for years to come,
for after the victrola follows in natural
sequence the victrola stand, and after
that records, and then stand to hold
the records, and then a card catalogue
OF the records to place on the stand.
This covers five Christmases. which is
tar enough ahead for any one. And it
gives father for all that time free
and unhampered choice in the matter Of
T9ZnrC pocl-4ioc oto
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

A child left to himself will inv...
his own myth-his own explanation =. :.
what he cannot understand. But a. =
traditional one, the one selected bv =. =.
race and handed down for generatio,.
is the richest in beauty and in feel;a.
And that is why we should tell + !.
the child instead Of forcing him to :,
vent his nnnn -
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
The Stage Women Still On the Job

10 the thousands of orphans left in
the wake Of the war, the children who
are the gateway of the future, the stage
women will devote earnest effort; for
what is done for them in this dark hour
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
By WINIFRED DUNCAN WARD

con views, and although you left after
the first ten minutes, it gave you fine
idea for a Christmas present for Emma,
and you sent her that pocket edition OF
the Encyclopedia Britannica.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
"And the World So
New and All"

"'The child" says Doctor Henderson
Brooke Deadly, who has made a speciality
Of psychology, "has but one problem
the relation of itself to the little world
about it. And for the worries of this
little world it either invents or accepts
the fairy tale solutions which the
adults of the larger world know down in
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

and think out with MIN a way. to house
the caterpillars?
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

it were time we all took a stand and got
the things we really want to the exclu-
sion Of those we don't
There is a great hue and cry all over
this country about giving people what
they want it is sort of national slo-
gan. It was long ago solved in theatli-
cal, political and artistic circles, so it
ought to be possible to solve in regard
to the simple needs Of our friends and
ourselves.
"Give Them What They Want
Like the B. r. I.
The theatrical managers are especial
geniuses at knowing what the public
wants. One would have thought, for
instance now that the war is over that
the public might no longer want the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
BY MILDRED MORRIS

w 7ITH thesame practicalness which
w has made the Stage Women's
War Relief third in usefulness to
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
Buying for the
obstructive Age"

The third on the list is Jimmie. JIM
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22
The Case of Emma
"Something Useful"

This last division divides in its turn
into four hideous problems which have
New-York tribune., 1918-12-22

Vent ms own
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
TULSA PREPARES
ENTERTAINMENT
FOR STATE VETS

Tulsa, oklahoma, August l2.-The
Tulsa Confederate reunion Commit
tee, composed Of many Of the lead
ing citizens of Tulsa have been en-
gagged for some weeks in raising a
fund of 100000. and perfecting an
organization for the entertainment
of the 2Sth annual reunion OF the
United Confederate veterans Associ-
alton, the Confederated Southern Me
mrial Assciatin and the 2Srd reunion
of tn Sons Of Confederate Veterans,
Sept, 2l-27 inclusive.
The committee is insured of the
necessary financial support, so that
no fears need be entertained on that
score, 1t is confidently believed that
100000 delegates and visitors viii
attend this reunion, and chat it win
be one of the best reunions ever held.
Arrangements have been made to
care free of charge, for from 5000 to
10000 veterans. They will be pro-
vide dsleeping quarters in the new,
airy spacious building school build
ings of Tulsa. These buildings are
of brick one story in height and have
ample toilet facilities. Free street
car tickets will be supplied to all
Taterans. Ample bed
ding has already arrived in Tulsa. /
Il is all new, having been purchased |
at the factory for this occasion. These
guests will be served three meals a I
day at large mess hall, and A. e.
Pickens who has catered success
iully to so many reunions in the
past, is in Tulsa waiting for his o.d
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Washington, Aug. 12--Latin.Amer-
ica is looking with ever-growing in
tolerance upon the great numbers
of idle German ships interned in
South American ports. according TO
authoritative diplomatic disclosures
here today
Representative diplomats who are
in close touch with internal condi-
tinos in the various republics admit
that the interned ship problem is
vital one in practically every one of
the countries that have not already
entered the war and turned the
much-needed tonnage into entente
trade channels.
Demand for Seizure Strong.
Late reports from Argentina indi-
cate that the popular demand there
has become so strong that seizure Of
the Teuton merchant fleet on the
River Plata may be forced on the
government One ship OF G,O0O tons
has been sold to Argentine owners,
the money being held at Buenos
Aires until the close OF the war. 1t
was rumored at the time of the sale
that the ship was turned over to the
Argentines without cost, in payment
for the torpedoed Argentine steam
ers "Toro" and Monte Protegido"
which the German government agreed
to replace.
The United Press is able to state
that the question has been raised by
interests in both Chile ami
Argentine as to whether the protec-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
EVENT IS SECOND
HEBREW WEDDING
SOLEMNIZED HERE

Tho second Hebrew Wedding ever
held in Chickagha was solemnized yes
terday when Martin Drexler of Hoi-
sington. kan, and Miss Gertrude
Cerstenfield OF this city We're joined
in wedlocl1, Justice NJ, E. Bunnell of
this city and Rabbi Eskin of Fort
Worth officiating The latter part
of the ceremony was performed en-
tlreiy by old Jewish ritual and was
well attended by members Of the sect
in Chickasha
Immediately after the ceremony
the bride and groom left Tor Chica-
go, Kansas City ST Louis and New
York City to spend an extended hon
eymcon. They expect to return
about September 15 to Hoisington,
Kansas. where they will make their
home, Mr.. Drexler is in the mercan-
tile business there.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
Lee Safe Overseas.

The spirit of the days of Clos
has been carried to Franco by thou
sands of Confederate and Union vet
Grams but perhaps no man overseas
has a name that recalls the south $
struggle as quickly as Rebel Angus
tus Lee of this city, whose safe ar
rival has just been announced. Evi-
IDENTIFY Lee was named when the mem
ory OF the war between the states
was yet very fresh and his parents,
proud OF the name the Yankee soldier
gave to the wearer OF the gray, chris,
tened their son Rebel. His last name
gave an additional touch of the South.
He is the son OF r. G. Lee Of Chick
asha. He went first to Camp Nichols
at New Orleans and was later trans
ferred to Camp Johnston.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
LIBRARY BULLETIN

New books recently received a
the Library;
Atherton-W White Morning.
Bosher-Kitty Canary,
Bindless-Girl from Kellers.
Bower-Cabin Fever.
Cooke The Threshold.
Eadicott- Carolyn OF the Corners
Gray The I Trail.
Euard- Ny Home in the Field CT
Mercy.
Kerr Golden Block.
Martin Fanatic or Christian.
Mccall Sunshine Beggars.
pnrter-Oh, Money! Money!
Mary Regan.
Stanley-Miss Pins Camouflage.
Sawyer Herself, Himself and My
self.
Wells Vicky Van.
Weston-Apple Tree Girl.
White Simba.
Juvenile
Ames-Under Scout Colors.
Altsheler-Great Siuox Trail.
Barbour-Keeping His Course.
Hitting the Line.
Brown-Surprise House.
Collins-Book of Wireless.
How to Fly.
Crump-Boys Book of Mounted Po-
liz.
Dyer-Daytime Story Book.
That's Why Stories.
Deckinson-Ch -Chid's Boo kof Patrl-
otic StSIss.
Jackson Silverheels.
Little I.oAt '.sdy.
Lange-Lure of the Mississippi
Paine Mr. Turtles Flying Adyen.
ture.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
Returns From Trip

Fred Andrews and wife have re-
turned from vacation of several
weeks spent at Estes Park and
other points in Colorado. Mr. Andrews
re-opened Fred's chop House this
morning and began thorough re-
modelling of the place with the in
tention of having the house ready
10 resume business by September l.
The whole interior win be remodeled
and repainted, Mr Andrews an
nounced this morning
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
TO OUR FRIENDS
AND CUSTOMERS:

At the request of the War Indus
tries board of the United States, we
are demanded to make only one de-
livery each day to any one customer
and can not make second or SPE-
CIAL DELIVERY under any circum
stances. SO therefore from this date
August 10Th, please do not ask us to
make a second delivery under any
circumstances on the same day, as
we could not possibly comply with
same.
Thanking you very much for your
most liberal patronage, we are,
Yours respectfully,
Abercrombie Gro. Co.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD,
Washington.

/
y. III. Baruch, Chairman
Special Notice to all Retail Mer-
chants.
Every retail merchant in the Unit
ed States is requested;
l. TO restrict deliveries to one
trip a day over each route.
2. TO eliminate special deliveries
and restrict the privilege of return
ing merchandise to not more than
three days.
3. 70 organize cooperative deliv-
cry systems wherever possible and
especially in the medium and small
sized cities and towns
The request for one delivery a day
on each route applies to all stores
that maintain any form of delivery
service, including dry goods, clothing,
or department stores and grocery,
leat and provision stores. Under one
delivery Il day over each route, de.
livery vehicle may leave the store
twice or 3 times a day but over .
different route on each trip. Not
more than one delivery a day is made
to any one section Of the city or
town. Delivery companies, whether
cooperative or individually owned,
are also requisite dto make only one
"trip a day over each route
The restriction on returned Tner-
chandise is to be interpreted to mean
three days in the customers posses
sion. 1t is to be applied in all cases
except for error on the part of the
seller or defective merchandise.
The establishment of cOopera-
tive delivery system in every place
where it. can be operated is request
ed. Where a delivery system is op-
Grating and giving satisfactory SER
vice, merchants are requested to
avail themselves OF the savings that
this form OF delivery makes possi-
BILE Merchants in larger cities who
retain their individual delivery ser
vice and adopt the cooperative plan
for suburban service, thus saving
long trips of many partially loaded
vehicles
Every merchant is requested to put
this program into effect at once in
his store. Carefully compiled reports
from stores in both large and small
cities that have adopted these plans
show that substantial savings have
resulted. In this way these stores
have been able to operate with small
er forces as their men have been
called into military service or engag-
ed in essential war occupations. They
are helping to win the war
All stores are requested to restrict
their deliveries to one trip day
over each route and delivery compa-
MES service should hereafter be sim
ilarly curtailed You are therefore
requested to rearrange your delivery |
service on the basis of only one trip /
a day over each route.
In order TO meet this request, you
should undertake to arrange with |
your customers to ADJUST any con-
tracts calling for more service.
Wherever this adjustment has been
made delivery service has been car
lied on with fewer men and less de-
hery vehicles
Yours very truly.
II. x TAYLOR.
For Conservation Division.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
Two Calls Ansewered

Saturday night at $40 the Chick
asha Fire Department answered Il
call to COZ South Third Street where
children were shooting sky rockets
and endangering surrounding pro
perty. No damage resulted Sunday
at 1920 A. NJ. Station No l was
called 70 2l9H Chckasha avenue
by an oyer-heated stove that gave
indications of fire in BIN and
Johns restaurant Prompt work on
the part of the fire boys prevented
damage
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
GRANT INJUNCTION
AGAINST PLACE ON
SOUTH TWO STREET

Saturday afternoon before judge
Will Linn. the injunction proceeding
against the w. C. Carter place at 51S
South Second was held. the Judge
granting the temporary Injunction
which enjoins Carter from selling
whiskey or allowing gambling to be
carried on in his place.
On Wednesday the matter will
again come up before Judge Linn on
petition filed by County Attorney
Oscar Simpson. in which the court
is asked to make the temporary in.
junction perpetual.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Short Stories
of the To1Un
Observation-Disclosures
Mrs. Bradshaw Joins Husband

WTs' bTaushaW JoIHs F1uSpaHu
Mrs. Carrie Bradshaw who has
beeen visiting relatives in Chickasha
for the past few weeks, left this morn
ing for Fort Riley, Kansas, where
her husband Corporal Roy d. Brad.
shaw is stationeed. Mrs. Bradshaw
win make her home there Corporal
Bradshaw was formerly connected
with the Express as reporter and
Mrs. Bradshaw was with the l1x-
press circulation department.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-12
u. D. c. CHAPTER MEET

The Lee-Jackson chapter of the u.
d. c. viii meet at the Red Cross
rooms tomorrow morning at which
time business OF special importance
will come up. Every member OF the
chapter is urged to be present.
Mrs Elizabeth A. Iinn,
Secretary