The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-05
HAMILTON IS
AGAIN HEAD Of
LIONS CLUB
DOCTOR WARREN WAVERLY
PHELAN SPEAKS OF
"GREED OF GERMANY"

"GREED OF GERMANY"
J. +. Hamilton was reelected
president OF the Lions Club at its
annual election yesterday afternoon
II. c. Potterf was chosen first vice
president and ]. G. Leeper second
vice president.
The following were elected direc-
tors of the club: Rev. r. +. l..
Morgan, ]. X. Pennington, o. II.
Wolverton and Cecil B. Williams.
DIR Warren Waverly Phelan OF the
state university made forceful ad-
dress on "The Greed OF Germany.
In part Mr.. Phelan said 81 am bring
ing to you twofold message-the first
concerns our university Y. M. c. a. at
Norman; the second deals with the
great war, for no man can speak III
other terms in this time of the Fourth
Liberty Loan. Then, too, my subject
of the needs of the state university Y
M. c. A. and its soldier boy students
and the great war are most closely con
nected Much that l shall say you are
already acquainted with, yet they are
facts and as such should be reiterated
for, as President Wilson says, he has
found that the particular tmnS 10
which you have to surrender is Facts
ION Tuesday, Oct. l, 1918, at exactly
II q. m, all over the nation, wherever
there were universities some 15OOOO
young college men, at the self same
time. and by the same binding cere'
ivHn intp fhn of
the United States At Norman / saw
upward of 1000 collegians drawn up in
regular line before a company of sol
diers, properly differed, and they ana
:he assembled citizens of Norman at
exactly IL o'clock, beheld the flag of our
nation unfured. AS the flag was raised
20 the top of the staff | saw in the eyes
OF the boys the prayer of their hearts
as they said: My Flag Then, stand
ing at attention, these students of the
Students Army Training Corps heard
the message of the president of the
United States, which declared them com
rades in the common cause in making
the world q better place in which to
live. They were pledged, on their sa-
cred honor to the cause of the freedom
of humanity. 1t was an impressive
ceremony. There stood the young man
hood of our country, with all its rich
ideaism, and to that idealism President
Wilson appealed, for in this war or
ideals he counts on them for final vic.
sorry.
did you ever realize how much this
IS u war of ideals, how each nation has
declared its ideals by its acts and its
slogans? How we We're thrilled at the
siege of Verdun, when the battered
French gave back the message: They
shall not passp How we all loathed the
German whose characteristic morals
were disclosed in the scrap of paper.
How we re-live that fateful August 4,
when Sir Edward Grey told the house
of commons the story of England's dip
lomatic battle for its honor, and we are
thrilled when we read Goschens reply
TO the German chancellor that Eng
lands honor is to her a matter of life
and death.
"And we, in America, should not for
get the ideals for which our forefath
ers fought. Do you remember that
Thomas jefferson, in the Declaration
of independence, declared that all ma.
lions SuOulu nave d utCtll ItSlGNl lOl
the opinions of mankind and that there
was such thing as the conscience of
mankind? TO this conscience of man.
kind the United States is appealing that
Bu civilized nations shall act as one
against this brutal Prussia with its
eag' of Prussan aggrandizement.
Land Where Hatred Dwells.
"When William II threw off the mask
Of civilization in that last week before
the war, he showed himself to be the
monster that he is. Then, indeed, we
saw what the HohenZollern principles
and ideals are, and we came to realize
why Prussia is called the land where
hatred dwells'
my friends, L wonder do we realize
what it means to live in a land where
hatred dwells? Prussia and France are
gripped by the dead hand of the past;
their traditions and customs, their in
Stitutions and dynasties, their quaint
towns, castles and cathedrals, their an.
cent cities, be it Rheims or Cologne;
their glories of a Frederick or a Louis
their gorgeous and tragic past; all these
have cast a spell for good or evil on
these lands and choked them with mem
ories of the past, so that the imagina-
tion of the people is filled with the