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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
AS THE TWIG is BENT
BY Geraldine Bonner of The vigilantes.

There is saying accredited to the
Jesuits, | think-that give them a child
to the age of eight and he will be theirs
forever. Trend of thought, habits Of
mind, standards of conduct, inculcated
in the early years, persist on through
the seven ages. As we advance on our
march we can look back and see how
the formative influences Of our child.
hood have stretched out from the past,
have like invisible fingers, nodded us
into our present shape. Our basic be.
liefs, our inhibitions, our failures and
successes, can be traced to what we alb
sorbed from the surroundings and the
teachings of our first decade. Upon the
foundations then laid we have bullded
up TO what we are.
The Germans. with their long.sight,
years ago grasped the possibilities of
this moldinG process and set about
creating the nation they wanted. They
left nothing to chance but went at it
with a scientific thoroughness. build
ing from the bottom up, building
through the children. The school, the
pulpit the home, were all mobilized to
assist in the great plan. The plastic
mind of the child received the sugges,
ton, which slowly seeped in and perme.
ated the consciousness. Thus the peo.
pie were trained TO be the instrument
their leaders needed--the sword in the
hand Of the war god. AS the twig is
bent so will its growth be.
Let US take a lesson from our enemy
and begin TO bend our twigs. God for.
bid that We should bend them in the
form he has-but one needn't waste
words on that All we want to learn
from him is the value of a concerted,
continuous effort directed to the de.
yelopment of the young idea. one picks
pearls from diseased oysters, and wears
the pearl as Il jewel when the oyster
has gonefthe way Of all dead things.
one Of the directions in which we
should bend our twigs is toward better
understanding of economy. No chill.
dren in the world have as much spent
on them as American children. Among
the well.to-do they move in an at
mosphere of carefully devised luxury,
nothing is too good for them, nothing
too costly. They are dressed extensively,
large sums are spent in the purchase
Of toys which the: break and cast aside
with precocous ennui. one of the
axioms among purVeyors Of Children's
clothes and furnishings is that mothers
will deny themselves that their babies
may have the latest and daintiest
equipments. In the matter of presents
money is squandered on them. On
Christmas and birthdays they are
showered with gifts, overwhelmed by an
abundance too great to appreciate or
enjoy.
70 start life amid such influences is
to start under a handicap. A child with
its few treasured toys loved and in
child in clothes too simple to
stimulate vanity, is n child with better
chance than one trained in an apprecia
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

/ ton Of meretricious values, and satiated
with plenty. 1t is not being treated
| fairly, nor being started right. Its
parents-even though they may be able
TO dover it richly-are not helping it to
that self-denial and restraint which will
carry il to the high destiny they dream
| OF. They are bending the twig in the
wrong direction, neglecting their duty
as the gardener in whose hands its fu-
ture lies.
No matter how lacking in public
spirit such parents may be, they have
read and heard good deal lately Of
the necessity for a curtailed eXpendi.
ture and conservation of our resources.
They know they must be careful of the
coal and the food and the general out
lay. No doubt many of them have
| honestly tried and experienced a COM
forting sense of accomplishment as the
bills grew smaller and the house grew
colder. But this is only temporary; an
effort to be sustained till the war is
over To make a permanent change
in the national character, to implant
must 90 deeper, TO the root-and tho
root is in the children.
Early training can make thrift as in
sunctiye as it is in the French. But
the children must be educated to It,
not only by speech and precept but
by suggestion and setting. Cease to
surround them with an unnecessary
luxury, cease to cloy their powers Of
appreciation with 4 superfuity, and the
process is begun. If the child under
stands that it must take care Of and
value what it has, that what is lost or
broken won't be replaced. sense Of re-
sponSiblity has been implanted
Strengthen its will power by teaching
it to do without, to control its natural
primitive instinct to destroy and de.
mand. Let it feel its share in the
grown-ups burden, take its part in the
general endeayor see itself, not as an
outsider in the famiy's effort, but as a
participant in its sacrifices and obliga-
tions.
The government with its war saving
stamps has given US an excellent me
dunn with which to start this training.
Instead Of the penny box, which can be
made to disgorge, try the book of TWEEN
ty-fvecent stamps. A child of seven
or eight could understand this, that it
represented an investment of his
pennies, to return to him eventually
increased in value. IT would start a
process in his mind, inaugurate an in
terest, which would be kept alive by
the desire to save for another stamp.
1t has the value of a progression, OF
an advancement toward goal. AS
game it offers the great incentive
something to be won; as a training II
establishes an idea and nourishes the
faculties that make for its accomplish.
ment. 1t teaches something that in our
easy-going, haphazard way we left to
chance or trusted to natural inclina-
ton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

Cnil.,eha Eypre-e. Although the type
made Tine EXPRESS announce it, We
,..a naa, decread but we are in favor
,. il
For, smith lArkl Southwest American:
.1r..c,I opcration TO yet the idea into
r. Tautorfo head that German world
l,,rfuat,or is defeated. and we guess
i,h
D,,,s rrov,s, Industrial Record. Some
mn, .,arfro tba, are decent because
thew shave and wear "a clean collar
...o,y lg,
Gainesville Tevas, REGISTER. Good.
b,a Joruar, Glad you are going. for
,..u ..ilra have heon '0irtfng with Buly
I-..t..,. Fl, o. f,re.,.,u.u,a1
no,igor rrev.,. Irorslf. Dronnino
,.o,.r. o, der.rsal.., women and cbf.
d,nr is anotbr, .necfes Of German
...,,ltu,." t,,t c,ueas civilized nations
- b,,nae,. ro, am early aruibiIation of
fine ar,rfra or Kaiser force
gt ro,anb Ato, Ne,ys.prase, safe
,,.,,. fl, ,'sy..r the other rauovy,s oroi.
,,ent +. to ch,,.,,e him vim .nI,ying
,..ftioso
C,,t,rfa roado,. si. Edward Careon
,,.. ,,.i,,,,,.l ,,,ai, Irbo..loa,,,, ,,..,t.}
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
THE FRANK BUTIER.

Washington Star: William II. Crock
er of San Francisco, who recently re
built a war.wrecked French village al
his own expense, tells, apropos of the
wine shortage, an amusing story
"A friend of mine" so the story runs
''is remarkable for the bad wines he
keeps. My friend, entertaining some
rather important guests one evening
turned to his new butler and said:
'IIiggs is this the best claret?'
No, sir said Higgs solemnlv, ii
amt. but it's the best you've GOT"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
PROTECTING THE LANGUAGE.

-..IDf, ~ IIiYIvn IIOTnDU I'M" on
,,o,i,.1 r,,. tno ,,r,noso or nrotcetipq
tho 1,,,Iisb I..rs,,.oa ao.iret porrun.
ti,r md do,erfnr,tion Every school
obiIl ,ruI I,o .,sl,od IN sion tbi. nrejoe.
.r n.ul ,ot disnopo. r,v connt,.,,s
,,,oaoI, ,,,. Ioo,,i,,, oo, ,,o last s,.l.l,I.
will sa,, "a GOOD American YES or mo-
in nl,ce or nm Indian pr,,nt or 81 roraipr
",.nhn o, o.a,," ,,,. unora,,. will III,
my hest IN fmnroye the American 4peech
bv enunciatinp distinctly and bv sneak
ing pleasantly and sincerely. will trv
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

NO HALFWAY MEASURE.

Christian Register: Under "sketchy
little thing" exhibited by Jones there
hangs printed card which bears the
words:
do not touch with canes or um
brellas."
An appreciative small boy added the
following postscript:
Take an ak"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
Check Protector Device.

Popular Science Monthly: A check
book cover provided with 4 protecting
device which makes it impossible for u
man to raise check has been placed
on the market. Various amounts up to
81 900 are stamped on the check near
the row of perforatioR where it is de
tached from the stub. The protector Is
permanently attached to the leather
cover of the checkbook and it can be
quickly adjusted for any Of the three
columns of figures. A sliding straight
edge is moved either up or down to the
correct figure. The protector is pressed
fast and the check torn from its stub,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
ARDMORE IN OTHER YEARS
From the Files OF The Ardmoreite
ONE YEAR AGO.

Mayor o. c. Lasher was making a
crusade against unsanitary conditions
in Ardmore and urging that the matter
of civic improvement in general be
given more attention.
A tire factory and broom factory
for Ardmore were under consideration
by the Chamber of Commerce.
Ardmore was entertaining a throng
Of oil magnates from Columbus, Ohio,
Lack of rain was being felt in the
oil fields and many Of the producers
We're forced to resort to the drilling Of
water wells.
f. f. Kirkbright was chosen assistant
secretary OF the Chamber of Commerce.
The contract for the erection of Con.
vention Hall was awarded to Ridpath
& Co. Of this city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
From Other
Editorial Pages
PAN.GERMAN BLIGHT.


Boston Transcript: Pan-Germanism
is blighting the dearest hopes of the
German kaiser. Those rulers who for
various reasons became his allies in the
war appear to have had about enough
Of Deutschland Uber Allies" 1t was
tolerable as song or a complimentary
toast but il is inSufTerable as the decree
Of a superior to be obeyed. The peo.
pies who have been compelled to make
bitter sacrifices in the effort to give
reality to the dream of ambition and
arrogance are tired of the task Sadly
too late they have discovered that the
German purpose was really TO put Ger.
on which she made war, but also over
those who all too easily allowed them.
selves to become her confederates in the
attempt to win world domination for
| the megalomaniac of the mailed fist and
the mirror god. The Turks, the Bul.
| garians, the Magyars the Bohemians
even the Austrian Germans, are making
signs that they will not much longer
march with the Prussians at the behest
Of their vainglorious war lord
Not the least notable signs are those
anti-war labor strikes i'm Austria. The
workers, million or more, who brought
the war industries to q standstill, were
not asking only for higher wages, or
lower food prices, or a more plentiful
| supply of the necessaries of life. II is
admitted that the movement so widely
| popular, was pointedly political being
directed against the Pan.Germanists
and intended to hasten peace without
the attainment of their ends. The Aus
trians are sick Of servitude to Ger
many. They have not shone in the
war, they feel their military inferiority,
they deplore their losses they resent
the German leadership which they have
had to accept, and they are eager for
peace TO put an end to their calling
condition Of subjeCtion. Public senti-
ment is unmistakable when the one
Vienna newspaper published in the
three days Of riOtiug and fighting says
that "the whole nation, excepting a
handful Of greedy war profteers, wishes
peace" and that the Austrian peoples
blood and treasure are not at disposaI
FOR conquests.' We can hardly suppose
that the government would permit the
publication ol such statements unless 1t
meant them to put peace pressure on
Germany nut the government Is IoSihR
grip ana revolt is raising IlS mead
Among other Signs OF olscohtent win
the Pan-Terinah pohcy are hungary
refusal 70 supply either Germany or
austria with gram Il beginning Is not
maze with peace py an agreement win
the RUSSIAN ueiesales at hrest LitoVsN'
bulgaria loNY ehdeaVors TO aHect
escapes through Il separate peace ana
turkey lailufe 10 Iet fleld Marsha'
Won falkehhayh nave an army 'nat ne
might lead mo eltler Falestihe or Me-
soPotamIa'
Inc herihahlc cohIederacy looks
somewhat sicNIy' Pan'Germanlsm Is
the principal cause. Ana TINS IS ac'
knowledged by an increasing number
OF the Germans themselves even IN
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
FIVE YEARS AGO.

Boys corn clubs, cotton clubs, kafr
and tomato clubs were being formed
throughout Carter County.
While smallpox was raging in sur.
rounding counties, Carter because Of a
rigid quarantine, was free from the
disease.
The courthouse tower clock, newly
installed at cost Of 81 900, had given
poor service and was being over.
hauled
The Knights of Pythas were making
plans to celebrate the forty-ninth ami
versary of that organization.
Mrs. II. Galloway aged eighty.six,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
A. G. Bagby.
Streets were so slippery because OF
coating of ice, that most of the de.
liveries from stores were carried in
arms or drawn in trucks by men.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
rnE CnST an CLnTnES.

Once more bobs up the question Of
the cost Of a woman's clothes. Some
man has proposed a list of what
woman should buy per year which adds
to $310 Lists Of this kind, good or
bad, 1 ossess a fascination, especially TO
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Yves Burncy.
The Baptists were erecting n parson-
age on Campbell and College streets.
Alex Rennie Jr, was appointed bv
Governor Harris special tax collecto-
for the Chickasaw nation.
Deputy b. C. Collins had a lively figh,
with Wesley Wiley, a notorious negro
whiskey peddler, whom he tried to
arrest.
Mrs N, NJ. Duston, aged seventytwo
years, died of pneumonia
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
SOLE SURVIVORS OF WILD WEST

Washington star: ANY cowboys and
rampagin' lariat throwers around Grim
son Gulch?"
There was some here yesterday" re-
piled Broncho Bob. Put the moving
picture troop has moved on"
Adhesive postage stamps were intro.
duced in the United States in 1S4l.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

United States produces almost one
half of the worlds output of silver,
which is about 172,OOo,oOO ounces a
year.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
Political Observations.

New York City Socialists are plan
ming to run woman for congress al
the special election 10 be held March 3
Friends of Senator Warren G. Hard
ing Of Ohio are launching u boom for
him for the Republican nomination for
president in 1920.
Kansas City Socialists have decided
to run a complete ticket for the spring
| election and have already nominated
their candidates, headed by Or. X. w
Max for mayor.
The two new senator's from the West
| Henderson Of Nevada and Nugent of
/ Idaho, appointed to fill vacancies, have
/ taken their seats and both announce
| they will vote and work for the federal
suffrage amendment.
Not all the Republican senators favor
Senator Chamberan's military bin
Senator Warren, a Republican member
nf Gappto,. CI.r,larI.i,,'.. ,.,.,,,r,,;.+,., 49,,
military, orf,irs is onI,. a,,naaad -, NO
Icbairn,,.s bul5 and 80 .ta,,,.,,.. ~ D.
,Iblico, as rodoo i' .,i., -, 49,,
same side
There is no call for a Spirited politi.
cal disrussion, fl, co,,,ro.. and tha ,,,.
triotic barnorv th,t has inns r,. nro.
vailed opobt moi 70 lao h.al,o,, - 10
cIaras tba Inli,n,noii, N,a,v. and tloro
fore OHIO count,,' Is mot ,,roatI,. int.r
eetoI i'm Genotor cto,o,, oni,ia, ~ ,ho
Republicap leaders mr. his ,.iaus oen
eralv."
Under the leadership of woman Marty
workers there is to I've 81 gre,t reyiyaIist
movement among the ranl, and file of
the Republican voters in New York II
is to be like one of BuIy sundays cam.
paigne. and tens Of thousands Of men
are expected TO ohit the traiI" The
which the men will be entreated to at.
t.rJ at ,,,btoL tl,o,.. .;i t .i -
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
TEN YEARS AGO.

j. f. Bowles brought suit in the dis.
| trict court of Carter County against
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
road Company, and the Gulf, Colorado
Sante Fe, for $1,000 damages because
Of personal injuries received in wreck.
A letter was published from Mrs.
Martin II. Hinkle of Detroit. Mich.
which gave a description of her thir.
teen-year-old son, Arthur Hinkle, who
had left home two years before.
A mass meeting of the farmers OF
Carter County was called for the nur.
pose Of making them acquainted with
the Oklahoma herd law, and TO devise
means of suspending certain unfair
penalties attached to il.
list of ninety.six Cherokees. Chick.
asaws and Cnoctaws, whose applications
FOR removal of restrictions had been
granted by the secretary Of the interior.
appeared in The Ardmoreite.
w. T. Adams leased a building on
Main street for the purpose of opening
a stock of confectionery and cigars.
Charles Wages, a farmer living south
OF Durant, when he recovered from a
drunken spree, felt the sides of his
upturned wagon bed which had dropped
over him and thought that he was I'm
coffin and that he had been buried
alive. He became a raying maniac
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

New York City Socialists are plan.
ming to run a woman for congress at
the special election to be held March 3.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06
Scissors and Paste.

Chl.lusha Express: Although the type
made THo Express announce it, we
don't understand that worless days
hrye been decreed, but we are in favor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

Friends Of Senator Warren G. Hard
ing of Ohio are launching u boom for
him for the Republican nomination for
president i'm 1920.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

Kansas City Socialists have decided
to run a complete ticket for the spring
election and have already nominated
their candidates headed by Or. X. w.
Max for mayor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

Ardmore was entertaining a throng
Of oil magnates from Columbus, Ohio.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

The two new senator's from the West.
Henderson Of Nevada and Nugent of
Idaho appointed to fiji vacancies, have
taken their seats and both announce
they will vote and work for the federal
suffrage amendment.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

f. f.. Kirkbright was chosen assistant
secretary OF the Chamber of Commerce
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

Dallas TcNaa Industrial Record Some
men imagine they are decent because
they shave and wear "a clean collar
every day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

And three more important city thor.
oushlares are about TO join the army
of we.tpavcd Ardmorc streets.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

by the way, who knew there was d
United States Senator Wadsworlh unit
yesterday?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

Coleman teXasl Leader: Red tape is
very useful in tieing up packages to
send to the boys in foreign service, but
it is hindrance when used in the de.
partments at Washington. As the sur
eeon said to the man with the innamed
appendix Lets cut it out"
Evening journal., 1918-11-06
PRACTICAL LESSONS
FOR THE WEEK DAY

Contains IN ten lessons, the first eleven
chapters Of Genesis. All questions answered
and symbols explained IN plain language.
Starts the Bible student right and advances
the student several years. Price: leather
binding. 75c: price, paper binding SOC.
Sent postpaid anywhere, on receipt OF price.
For sale by r. :. II. BUTLER son.
42l Market street. Wilmington, Del.
Evening journal., 1918-11-06
By T.. C. RODGERS.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 6-There's
a labor shortage now insists Charles
IT. Clayton, head OF the Training and
Dilutlon Service something new in
government "paternalIsm") because
employers - NOT EMPLOYEES l-are
wasteful.
They are. and have been. wasteful Of
their employees time. They haven't
made II possible for their workers 10
be 100 per cent. efficient. They waste,
in pany industries, half their employees
time, according TO Clayton, who has just
made an exhaustive study OF the sub
ject.
The result has been-labor shortage.
And, says Clayton, there1l be a
continuation Of this labor short
age after the war, possibly for two
or three years.
II don't look for any out-of-work
armies. There'll be plenty OF work to
do" Clayton said.
And, unless the employing concerns
put more efficiency into their indus
tries, there won't be enough workers
10 go around.
"All Europe VIII be hungry for the
products Of American labor. We must
supply Europe with much Of the mate
rial she will need in her gigantic restor-
alton work. Therell be an incessant
cry from over there for American raw
materials and manufactured supplies
That alone Will keep us busy.
"But we have. here at home, and vii
Evening journal., 1918-11-06
JOBS FOR WOMEN
AFTER PEACE COMES


have for several years, a gigantic Job OF
reconstruction. Our railroads are get
ting near the streaks-of-rust condition.
They VIII have to be practically re-
built. Public work OF all kinds, at a
standstill for years, must be under
taken. Business institutions must turn
from war work to peace industries with
the firing Of the last shot.
Most manufacturers already have
carefully prepared programs OF work
after the war They know HOW they
will change from making munitions to
making other things.
And one Of the things coming with
peace, is the TRAINING OF WORKERS.
In fact, this has already begun.
The training service we have found
ed here TO help win the war will help
make workers and the nation more pros
porous in peace"
This. IN a nutshell, is Clayton's train
ing service suggestion TO employers:
Don't hire workers away from
other plants; don't steal employees.
train them open a schoolsof In
siruction In your plant. Teach the
unskilled how TO be skilled in one
thing at least. and then, when he
has acquired that make It possi-
bic for him to go on up in his
Job
Already. many factories have opened
such schools for workers. Here men
and women, under expert teachers be-
come expeB workers themselves.