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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-08-22
Potatoes Galore!

Twenty thousand bushels Of Irish
potatoes will be given away by w. J.
Corners, provided persons who want
them will go to the Corners farm on
the Palm Beach canal and dig them,
each man to dig his own supply, and
the Corners boats will bring the tu-
bers into town for those who dig them,
and no charge will be made for the
transportation Of the potatoes. This
offer was made yesterday by w. c..
Groves, manager Of the Corners farm.
There is no market for potatoes,
said Mr.. Groves, and rather than have
them rot in the ground he was going
to give them away on the conditions
stated. Anyone can go to the farm
and dig away and get all the potatoes
he can use. This offer is designed to
be helpful to those who may wish to
profit by it. There is no way to keep
the potatoes, said Mr.. Groves, and it
will not be long before they will begin
to sprout. The potato crops of the
Virginias and Carolinas have reached
the market, and there is no chance for
what remains of the Florida crop to be
marketed with profit. Corners lost
money on the last five or six carloads
shipped, said Mr.. Groves, although
previous shipments Melted very good
profit. About SO carloads were shipped
from the Corners farm.
Mr.. Groves said he had written a
letter to the food administration set
ting forth the conditions that Florida
potato growers were up against, but
of course nothing can be done about it.
The plain facts are these: The pota-
toes are in the ground at the Corners
farm; they will rot if they are not
used, and they cannot be used unless
the people will come in and help con
sumo them. All that Mr.. Corners
asks Of the people who want them is
to pay their way on the regular boats
to the farm, or get there some way,
and dig the potatoes and get them
down to the landing, and his own
boats will bring the potatoes into
town. That's generous enough, isn't
it? Palm Beach (Fla.) News.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-08-22
The Spy System Breaks Down.

The Spy System Breaks Down. B
The very elab orateness Of the Ger
man spy system in this country, its
traordinary organizat alton, proved its
undoing in the hour Of crisis.
n single office Of a railway com
pany or other large American business
blshment5 employing 100 or 200
men there might have been three or
four German spies working in the
same room for years, and not one Of
them even suspecting that any Of the
others was. . fellow spy. In the Unit
ed States, at least, German spy
never knows who is just above him in
rank or who is just below him. AS a
matter Of fact, each one is ordered to
report to just one man in the United
States and to receive instructions only
from that man. 5.5 f.5 55 &.
TO understand the wrecking Of the
system on April 6, 1917, take the en-
tirely supposable case Of German
spy located in Omaha who had not
been discovered by the department of
justice, and consequently was not
seized during the roundup on April
6. He would have known just one
other German spy in the United States,
this being a man in Chicago, perhaps,
to whom he reported and from whom
he received orders. But while the
Omaha man escaped arrest, his super
ior in Chicago was seized.
Of course, the Omaha spy had no
means Of knowing that the Chicago
man had been seized; all he knew was
that after April 6 he did not hear from
the Chicago spy and could not get into
communication with him. The Chica-
go man had simply disappeared with
out leaving trace Of his whereabouts.
Here, then, was the Omaha spy COM
pletely isolated, still at liberty, but
marooned in foreign land, not know
ing or even suspecting the identity Of
a single other spy planted here by the
German government. He had nobody
to turn to-, nobody whom he could
trust, nobody from whom he could re-
'ceive instructions. The German spy
machine had been organized with such
elaborate secrecy that when single
link was broken, the chain fell to
pieces Century Magazine.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-08-22
A Remedy for Insomnia.

The professor Of elocution was in
structing an ambitious young man in
the. art Of public speaking.
when you have finished your lee
ture," he said, '8bow gracefully and
leave the platform on tiptoe."
"Why on tiptoe 2" queried the am
bilious young man.
$50 as not to awake the audience"
replied the professor. Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-08-22
FOrgetful Pat.

Pat was very forgetful, even on his
wedding day. When going to his
brides church he happend to meet an
old friend, and they began to talk
about CONSUMPTION. Suddenly he re-
membered he would be late, but rush
ingof to the telegraph office he sent
the following wire to his intended:
Don't get married until ] arrive.
Pat. -" Montreal Star.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-08-22

Sour stomach, clogged up bowels,
headaches, foul breath, and evils Of
constipation. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea purifes the stomach and re-
lieves constipation medicine the
whole family should take. g. A.sJack
Drug Co. Adv. m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
SHIP SHORTAGE PROBLEM.

Leslie's: Ships, ships and still
more ships. That is what we must
produce to win the war. Practical
ly every recent economic and po-
litical crisis in the United States
and England can be traced straight
back to the shortage OF shipping.
The fuel administrations recent
drastic and exceedingly unpopular
shutdown of industry resulted in
large measure from the railroad
congestion about Atlantic ports
where supplies, vital to the needs
OF our allies and overseas armies,
were steadily piling up on the docks
and terminals waiting for ships to
carry them abroad.
1t is no secret that we could
send hundreds of thousands more
troops abroad in 1918 if we only had
the ships to transport and supply
them. This at a time when the
British government is forced to
risk serious trouble with the labor
unions, and handicap its own ship
building program, by combing out
from previously exempted industries
nearly half million additional men
to strengthen the British armies
against the threatened German Of
fensiye in the west.
Scarcity OF shipping is, Of course,
entirely responsible for the food
shortage in Great Britain, France
and Italy, which has already caused
grave unrest among the working
class popultions and forced compul-
sorry rationing even upon England.
We are told that to transport and
supply a million American soldiers
overseas we shall require 100000
in 1918: Not unless our shipbuild-
ing operations are very much more
efficiently conducted than seems
likely from past performance
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
THE WORKERS

The Rev. Charles A. Eaton, ID. d.,
OF an aristocratic New York church,
has got years leave OF absence to
help speed up work among ship
builders. He seems to be getting
results in his new missionary field.
BE regular he-men,' he tells the
shipbuilders. "Work whether the
boss is around or not. The destiny
Of the country is in your hands.
Every man in a shipyard is a mem
Der OF the army, every shipyard is a
fortress OF freedom, every riyet a
nail in the kaiser's coffin.
Men who apply Tor work ask,
Is the work hard| and How long
will it LAST What is the matter
with you2 Do a days work because
you are men. There is no hope for
democracy till the rich man and the
poor man give all that they have,
their very best"
There are spies and traitors
among them, he says, urging them
to shirk; men who whisper behind
their backs and in a hundred ways
impede their work.
"When YOU find such a man, don't
wait. Don't say to him, Come, lets
talk this over Don't ask him to
have tea. Knock his block off p!
And when he comes sneaking
around with bomb, don't say, Let
us pray But take him out there in
the marsh and tie him down and
place the bomb on his chest. Light
it, and stand of. and watch him blow
to his kaiser-to hell.
Some people may find a certain
lack Of elegance and propriety in
this line of ministerial talk. But the
men to whom it is addressed don't.
They shout their approval, and go
back to worn with doubled zeal.
1t might be we'll ii we had more
missionary work OF this sort in
other war industries. Plenty OF
them need it. The industrial sol
diers have not yet risen to their task
in this country as cnergetically as
they have in England and France.
Much might be done in our muni-
ton factories, on our railroads, in
our coal mines and elsewhere by
patriotic speakers who know their
hearers and speak their own Ian
guage.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21

the very policy of national honesty
and goodwill which the United
States has so signally exempli6ed in
all her connection with the present
war, and which she is now insisting
that every warning power shall rec
ognize as universal principles OF na-
tional conduct.
We stand today as the leader OF
word democracy, the chief exponent
OF the democratic ideals first given
reality by Washington and the Won
dcrful group of men who surround
ed him. We have attained a posi-
tion where we can strive, with good
prospect Of success, to achieve his
parting wish-we are so advanced in
ordered freedom and the power it
has brought that we have the glory
of recommending it to the applause,
the affection and adoption of every
nation which is yet stranger to it,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
GERMANY AND SWITZER-
LAND.

When rumors arose awhile ago in
Switzerland to the effect that the
United States meant to invade that
country in order to attack Germany
on an unprotected flank, Americans
with one voice Indignantly repudi-
ated the SANDER, and President Will
son gave official assurance that we
had no such intention or desire.
Lately Switzerland has been
afraid that the Germans would send
al army through to attack southern
France. The massing OF German
troops on the upper Rhine has given
them good reason for alarm. And
what do the Germans say about 1t !?
According to a United Press dis
patch, Teutons who happen to be
enjoying the hospitality OF Switzer-
land are jubilant at the prospect,
and Germans in Zurich are openly
boasting that Ludendorff could
smash the Swiss army in 48 hours"
The Germans may really try it.
Switzerland may be Belgiumed be-
fore the wars over. Pruss'anssm,
which learns nothing from expert
ence and recks nothing OF the opin-
ion of the decent part OF mankind,
Is capable of ending its long and
bloody orgy with such a crime,
As for those insolent Germans in
Switzerland, they are probably Won
dering, like their brethren in many
ether countries, "why they are so
unpopular"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21

Odllduldll INptulllOlldIN FOICc,
Grand Rapids Depot, B. c. r. NJ,
One afternoon a monster, appa-
rently a tank, was seen coming up
the road in the rear OF our trenches,
in the wake OF a small army mule
1t was constructed almost entirely
OF canvas, put together so cleyerly
that from a short distance one
couldn't distinguish it from the real
thing. After dark we brought it up
and placed it between the front line
trenches. AT daybreak the Germans
spotted the tank" They were on
the alert, remembering their expert
enccs OF the day before. They lost
no time in getting their artillery in
to action, and the way they pepper
ed the vicinity was a shame. Their
firing was absolutely rotten. They
must have been nervous. Hundreds
OF shells were fired. Finally direct
hit was registered and the dummy
tank went up in smoke.
They day before this performance
they had encountered, or escaped
with their lives only, from three of
the real ones. 1t was in the village
of Thiepval where all our efforts to
take the place had been futile.
Every cellar was a fort and every
ruined wall machine gun emplace-
ment. Underground passageways
and tunnels connected the fortified
positions with the rear support OF
the Germans. Fritz ielt perfectly
safe.
Imagine his surprise at daybreak
one morning at seeing three mons
ters coming toward them, through
shell craters, over parapetS and dug
outs at a slow methodical gait. 1t
was the first appearance OF the
tanks. Their two siX-pounders and
four machine guns spread terror
and death as they approached. Fritz
didn't stop to investigate. There
was wild. scramble for safety in
the rear, rifles and equipment being
discarded on the way. Few of the
defenders escaped and a large mum
Der of prisoners were taken. Unfor-
tunately two Of the tanks were put
out of commission, but the third
more than made up for them. That
tank went clear through the heavy
barrage of shells and paraded Up
and down the ruined streets OF the
town until every cellar and dugout
that showed any signs of life had
been cleared out and Our infantry
was occupying the place. Then it
returned to our line, leaving behind
the most frightened and surprised
lot of Fritzies that ever went to
war.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
WHAT THE NATIONS NEED.


The world today needs more
George Washingtons
Russia particularly needs a Wash
ineton, to bind together her scat
tered energies, clear up her con
fused thinking and set her on the
straight and narrow path that leads
to ordered freedom. All the little
nations crushed by the iron heel of
Prussian and Austrian despotism
need Washingtons TO rouse their
spirit and lead them to renewed re-
sistance against the oppressor. Our
allies need Washingtons, to keep
their ideals clear and bright and to
revive their courage when they sink
into the slough OF disappointment
and delayed hope. We ourselves
need Washington's moral strength
to hold us true to our national
ideals.
1t was Washington, more than
any other man, except possibly Lin
coin, who gave us these ideals. Our
custom OF looking back to him once
a year in loving contemplation helps
us to live up to them. Such com
memoration is especially worth
while at this time when the fate Of
the nation that Washington estab-
lished is at stake, and the fate of the
civilized world is linked with it.
We can near Washlngton'5 voice
again today, sounding the clear and
prophetic note that found utterance
in his farewell address:
"Observe good faith and Justice
toward all nations; cultivate peace
and harmony with all. Religion and
morality enjoin this conduct; and
can it be that good policy does not
equally enjoin it?
1T will be worthy of free, en-
lightened, and at no distant period,
a great nation, to give to mankind
the magnanimous and too novel eX-
ample Of a people always guided by
an exalted justice and benevolence
Who can doubt that in the course
of time andthings, the fruit of such
plan would richly repay any tenn
porary advantages which might be
lost by a steady adherence to it?'
There is a clear foreshadowing Of
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
THE SHIPYARD WORKERS.

Fort Smith (ArkD Southwest
American: The government wants
two hundred and fifty thousand
shipyard workers. 1t wants to re-
cruit them now, or have them vol
unteer, so they will be available as
required. They are not wanted ir-
mediately; that is, they are not
wanted at once.
The recruiting OF the workers is
to prevent mechanics from madly
rushing to the shipyards when they
can not be placed. Already there
are thousands OF men who have Civ
en- up good positions, and gone TO
the various shipyards in the belief
they can make fabulous wages for
doing little work, and they are
having a hard time OF it, as there
is not even house room for them.
What the government is trying to
do is to organize the shipyard work
erS, and call them as needed and as
they can be taken care Of.
The pay will be good, but no
chronic loafers are desired. Every
thing that can be done to make the
men comfortable, will be done. Liv-
ing conditions will be looked after,
and means OF recreation will be pro-
vided.
The men must volunteer through
the state council of defense, and
await the call for their services.
Skilled men are desired, but the list
of trades includes practically all
those working in metals or wood.
Continuous employment over long
period Of time is promised.
The government ought to have
little trouble recruiting the workers.
and at the same time the trades in
local communities ought not to be
injured from loss of help. There
are a lot of working men in this
country, and the withdrawal of 250,-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
WAR IMPROVEMENTS
Camonhage and War Equipment
Reminds One of Story of Poilu.


Reminds One of Story of Poilu.
Washington Star: French Com
missioner Tardieu said at a dinner
in New York;
81 was astonished, on getting back
to the front last month, to see the
wonderful improvements that have
been made in airplaneS, in tanks, in
camouhage and in a dozen other
means ot warfare.
Some Of these improvements
mustn't describe them-are really so
incredible that they remind me Of
Marirs, the poilu from Marseilles.
"Marius was strolling the Came
hiere with Jules during his furlough.
"'You still send dispatches by car
rier pigeon, | suppose" said Jules.
"'Oh, yes" said Marius.
"'You use the same breed of car
rier pigeons as we do here, sup
poseH
ooh, no, my friendP And Ma
rius gave a plying kind OF laugh.
We've gone much further than you,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
ROY SCOUT LEADERS.

The war has been hard on the
Bow Scouts. The boys have been
spared, but their leaders have been
,aken, and as a result the ranks Of
the scouts have been thinning.
An earnest effort has been made
lately to gain recruits. The ma
tional council wants to swell the
number OF scouts to 100000 1t
wants 100000 men who are ineli-
gible for military service to act as
scoutmasters. 1t wants a fund that
will yield 100000 a year for three
years. All three OF these aims de-
serve complete success.
Anything that is done or given
to increase the war efficiency OF the
Boy Scouts OF America" says Pres
ident Wilson, will be 4 real con
tribution to the nation, and will
help us win the war"
There is more involved than the
active work OF the boys themselves.
1t should be recognized that when
we turn a mere boy into Boy Scout,
we take him off the list OF pos
sible delinquents. In war time there
is special danger OF boys turning to
evil ways, because with fathers and
big brothers, absent they are under
less restraint. 1t has been the eN-
perience of every belligerent nation
that as the war proceeds, juvenile
crime increases.
This fine organization has gen
ius for keeping lads straight and
decent, building up their character
in a susceptible and formative per
iod and giving them an exception
ally good chance to turn out well.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
Scissors and Paste.

o-a a,',,.'t'i r'arthIosi ond some men are
not 1,t ,,orth "U,t,''191 90 r,ncb nc that
''0' D" ~
Kansas Citv CIol Times: The
kaiser who saws he bears the ills of
an a, ,'r ,,oailencJ nS, ,,a cp"rdition pv, - Symoa
,hot;c =, hnnocr nrobsbIy
'''>''
Waooner Record. If the general
overseer Of hell would release old
Nero for a few months for little
vacation TO visit his old hauntS in
baTe i.r, opN' = br1Iy lime fcIir;tating.
WASHINGTON Star: A public that
has its mind on surgical bandagcs
is not likely to be patient with red
Navsvillc News: 4 nation may
not build a wall high enough to per
Cbickasha Express: Our notion
is that Hindcnburg is going to find
some pretty bad roads when he
spring drive.
Fort Smith (ArkD Southwest
the administration during the CiYiI
War tound that Their course ana not
get them much and probaDiy the
new crop just coming on VIII nave
the same experience
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ever e'se may DC saia oI Nuss't' ,T :, sue VI
Ga" Su' p! 'Se u' "'iS I"o, @ :, anu 'j5 DJ'
eneIiN! '.,i ~; -! "'.y .,I T''''' '''''0 "0''N
'''''" just 90 DIN
c,i,L,- Do,,o.r,4. Wa cali +
,[ere ",.''e co w r,',ch ~" 70 nnt IN w;rL
-
III Reno Democrat The spring
campaign. contrary TO that OF other
ton rather than of agitation.
Marietta News: Politeness i,
easy currency. and If poeS 4 long
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
Abject Poverty.

Boston Transcript: Mrs. Al
suppose you find many cases Of eX-
treme want during your visits to the
poor.
Mrs. B-Yes, indeed. | visited a
family today, and actually they had
Mt drop Of gasoline for their mo-
tor car
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-21
SHRAPNEL.

Its a neck-and-neck race between
the Russian bolsheviki and the
United States senate as to which
body can pull off the most idiotic
stunts.
That shipbuilders' strike In the
East smells like it came from Ger
man sources.
ii the ordinary man tries to live
within his means these days he is
liable to starye to death.
Has anyone noticed any parlicu-
lar lowering of food prices since the
Hooyerian eta began?
The baseball season will open
soon; then we en- give you some
thing else to read besides shrapnel.
Old Man Winter evidently hasn't
even 4 sore back.
The office boy says one of the
best ways to save sugar is not to
eat any.
German independent Socialists
are arranging for a demonstrative
strike in the munitions factories Of
the empire, beginning March /, &C
cording to information received i'll
London from Berlin. Some day this
strike business in Germany will get
down to real business and the
Uohenzollern family will plead for
lie. 1t seems a long way off, it is
true, and Americans are beginning
to think that the German people will
never realize they are as dumb
driven cattle; but it will happen
some day, probably not Ear distant,
and with a suddennesS that will sur
prise the world. 1t must come, be-
cause there is going to be a cleanup
on this old earth Of all such despot-
ism as the Hun brand.
The weather mans snow for yes
terday did not arrive, but don't let
us crook our finger at him, he may
bury us yet before this frigid winter
is ended
Vodka is blamed for the present
Russian chaos, We can't doubt it,,
as old John Barleycorn, no matter
under what smell he masquerades,
IN the same satanic agent.
Governor Hobby Of Texas will
submit to his special session OF the
legislature bill to make it a peni-
Tertiary offense to sell TO soldier
or sailor OF United States one single
drink within ten miles of army mill
tary training camps; and if this bill
becomes law there will be wailing
among the liquor prohteerS in Hous-
ton, San Antonio, Waco and Fort
Worth. And the proposed law goes
further in that it proposes a peni-
tentiary sentence for any person
who sells single drink Of liquor to
any man in United States uniform,
no matter in what locality of the
state he may be; and provides the
same punishment for any person
who gives to or procures for any
soldier or sailor a drink of liquor.
We see more room needed soon at
the Texas penitentiaries.