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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30

which a California man was arrested,
tried and found guilty OF killing a man
named Henry. The California man was
sentenced to fifteen years for man
slaughter. He went to the pen and
served his fifteen years and was dis
charged two years ago. Last month
Henry, the supposed dead man, was To-
Gated in Louisiana alive and we'll Now
the California man wants TO know II,
having Yaid the price set by law on
Henrys life, he isn't entitled to buy
gun and go TO Louisiana and collect3
The Wise Fool.
Revenge is sweet" observed the
Sage.
Not IL you get married for spite, y
commented the Fool.
Ho, Huml H
You sail the matrimonial sea,
When Captain Cupid calls;
/ But when the baby comes, all me,
You must prepare for squalls.
He Was Him.
Will Waddle was in Cincinnati th'
last OF the week.-Somerset (Ky) Com
monwealth Weekly.
We wondered who that fat man wa
We saw in town last Saturday.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30

We don't know much about law. but
we do know that when a man pays for
the goods he is entitled TO the goods,
What we have in mind is case in
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30

Ny son. dodge trouble when you can;
Take this advice. my lad,
And do not monkey with the man
Who grins when he gets mad
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
oh. Ioy.

Many a thirsty, but honest. linotype
operator often thanks kind Providence
that the allies are not driving the Huns
through the prIasEnysE country.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
He Was Him.
Greetings, Brotherl

Rev. George Stoves has been ap-
pointed pastor OF the West End Meth
odist church in Nashville, Tenn w,
hope he makes il warm for the back
sliders.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
Q9d4Sf41ies
Ha4 ~ RHAe M1al
Twenty Years Ago.
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
A Ringer.

NinRtI.
Opportunity halted at the Mans door
and pressed the button operating the
electric bell.
who arc you?" demanded the Man
as he opened the door.
81 am Opportunity" was the reply.
"GowanW exclaimed the Man. "You
are not Opportunity, Opportunity is a
knocker, and YOU are nothing but a
rngerp
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
CinnhI

A worried reader wants TO know u a
man who has family and is only max
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
Advancing

Advancing.
The Hun advance is on the way.
but his advance makes others grin;
The Hun advances every day,
But he's advancing toward Berlin.
Luke Mcfuks.
The Huns in their lace curtain pants
So very styiishly arrayed,
WIN find they'll have TO change "sd
vance"
And spell the blame thing 'retrosrads.
Newark Advocate.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
Logic

II am going to leave this town" said
Smith. The doctor says | should have
change of climate"
Then why not stay herel" asked
Jones I'VE have the most changeable
climate in the world right here"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
LnakeMLf4te
His Column
Not So Busy.
COONASM N@

The busy bee | will not praise
Remarked old Farmer Ginter,
He doesn't work on rainy d1ya.
And he lays off all winter"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
HUH

huhl
Said a foxy old merchant named Mack
"Of dry goods 7 have quite n stack.
Hut III get the kale.
! will have War Sale.
And III welcome n counter attack
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30
Names Il Names.


Sweet William lives in Boston Mass.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-30

Our Daily Special.
Many A Crooked Man Has a Straigh,
Face.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-14
RAILROAD TINE TABLE
I .

Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves Maysvllle 5:35 a. m.
daily except Sunday.
No. leaves Maysville $40 .. m.
except Sunday.
No. 200 leaves Maysville $40 D. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysville 9:45 a.
IN. daily except Sunday.
No. 21O arrives in Maysville 1885 D.
M, Sunday only.
No. 16 arrives in Maysville $40 D.
m. daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-14
Two SMALL. FARMS
FOR SALE

We have two good farms for sale
belonging to Mr.. Green Mcdonald at
Sand Hill Station on the c. s. 0. r. r.
Farm No. contains 100 acres. This
farm has on 1t small house, and Is
all bottom land and very productive.
Price S62.5O per acre.
Farm No. 2-AdjOins farm number
one and is up land, and contains I25
acres. The improvements consist of
broom house, tobacco barn and usual
outbulldings. Price $1,000 per acre.
Here Is some very cheap land, and
1t Is priced SO it will sell. In our
Judgment you can't go wrong In buy
Ing land that is priced this way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Nh, Indeed! The Soldiers
" Must Have the Cherries

The Berlin city authorities are a fore
sighted group of men, and they had made
contracts for cherries for the citizens
long before the season. Some of these
contracts were placed in the province of
Silesia. But when the cherries ripened
there the Berliners learned to their sor-
row that no shipments could be made.
Why so? The military declared an en-
barge upon the entire crop, which was
taken for the army.
The fruit crops of Germany this year,
as shown by an investigation carried out
by the German Pathological Society, are
very unsatisfactory. 1t was found that
night frosts, insect pests and disease of
various kinds had done much damage to
the growing fruit. A producer in the
Duchy of Anhalt wrote that the hopes
for a good fruit yield had been dashed;
leaf lice of all sorts had attacked the
trees in such number as he had never
seen. Another orchard owner reported
that he had suffered loss of $4,000 on
his fruit crop. He said that the fruit
growers did not have the materials or
the labor to make war upon the insects.
A man in Posen wrote that his orchards
had been stripped quite bare by cater
pillars. Drouth also did great damage
in many parts of the country. Alto
gether, therefore, the outlook for fruit
was regarded as very bad
The shortage of vegetables is no less
keenly felt than that of fruit There was
such clamor at Berlin for these much
missed food commodities that Herr Won
lilly, the director of the Imperial Bureau
for Fruit and Vegetables, received the
members of the press on June 10 to en-
Tighten them as to market conditions.
His remarks are summarized by the "Vos-
sische Zetung" as amounting to claiming
that the principles of the bureau were all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
\ II the Brains of the Country
n Were Thrown In

"Lensch attributes the German success,
first to the fact that Germany was really
producing "a ripper and higher form of eco
Monies; secondly, to the very fact that the
movement started from such small begin
nings and apparently hopeless prospects,
and Germany positively profited from her
political backwardness, which caused all the
brains of the country to be thrown into
economic organization, while other coun-
tries were spending their brains and activ-
tiles upon politics.
"For him all that is necessary is for Ger
many to break down old-fashioned political
barriers in her stride toward world power
through ever greater state concentration.
He is satisfied that the necessary amount
of freedom will be granted to the German
people, simply because that will be
essary relief from the ever tighter domino
ton by the state. For example, the Prus-
sian franchise will be reformed because it
has become the interest of German finance
to remove such obstacles to German pres
tige abroad!
What, then. is the new revolution. the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

have been directed to proceed with vigor
against boarding cure guests"
A Berlin paper, which prints this no.
tice, ironically calls attention to one point
in which it shows gratifying difference
from similar notices of the Middle Ages:
it does not threaten the poor summer
visitor with having his head chopped
off!
A notice Of this kind might decide the
Berliner to go north instead and try one
of the seaside towns on the Baltic. But
there he will meet with similar Difficult
ties. Not long ago the Landrat of the
Usedom- Violin district, Of which Swine
miinde is the chief town, posted this
warning to the "cure-guests and bath
guests" and it differs from the Freuden-
stadt notice only in being little more
polite. He promises not to exercise his
right to restrict the stay of visitors so
long as the visitors keep within the food
regulations and do not jeopardize the
supplies of the residents. Yet if any Wis
itor-quite contrary to his expectations
should be caught buying food in illegal
ways he would be expelled from the dis
trict within forty-eight hours and his
name printed in the newspapers. The
food thus illegally bought would be con-
tiscated and the culprit would have to
stand trial. Moreover, the police would
keep sharp lookout at railway stations,
ferry houses and postoffices to see that
there were no unlawful shipments of
food
Meanwhile the scarcity of food con-
tinues to swell the criminal records of
Germany A month ago a Socialist speak
er quoted in speech in the Prussian
Chamber figures compiled by the Minis
ter of Justice which showed that there
were 487,722 convictions for infringe
ment of the food regulations from Sep
TENDER, 1916, to November, 1917. The
police authorities of Cologne, too, recent
ly contributed their mite to the statistics
of food swindles. They reported that
their seizures for food infringements Of
the regulations during single month in
cluded 2,212 pounds Of meat, butter and
lard, 2 cows, 2,766 pounds of grain and
legumes, Ills of bread and flour, So 900
of sugar, 3,545 of potatoes, 3,139 of mar
malade, besides much other stuff. This
was all taken in the so-called "sneaking
trade" which is the German conception
! Of illicit dealing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
THE Courts Are Full of
i Food Squabbles

The figures quoted above by the Social
ist suggest that the courts are over
worked with food cases; and the columns
of the newspapers fully bear out this
presumption. A single paragraph in one
of the Berlin newspapers recently emu
merated the following convictions Of food
swindlers: Honey-cake manufacturer at
Thorn, fined 5,648 marks for selling sugar
at 200 marks per hundredweight which
he had bought two years ago at $3.50
marks; Max Herzberg, merchant at
Brombesg, fined 10000 marks for extern
sive illegal operations in grain; Heinrich
Simon, merchant at Coburg, fined $4,000
marks and his profits of $4,000 marks
confscated for selling willow twigs and
reeds above the maximum price; Max
Klingen, merchant at Duisburg, fined 49,
900 marks for charging above the maxi
mum price for grain. And those are only
part Of the matter in that paragraph
The trials of these food swindlers bring
out at times some interesting evidence
In June one Of the Berlin courts tried
and sentenced to six months in prison
Herr Won Eberstein, farm overseer to
Prince Friedrich Leopold, who is cousin
of the Kaiser. The charge against him
was that he had sold twelve hogs clan
destinely, charging at the rate Of 2S0
marks per hundredweight. 1t was shown
in the trial that the hogs were sent away
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

right, but the actual conditions were
mightier than the official regulation Of
the market. The small deliveries of fruit
and vegetables were explained by the
director as due to reduced imports and
bad harvests at home. The imports from
Spain, France, Italy, North Africa and
other countries were very large before
the war; but now they are completely
lacking. Consequently imports are now
only one-sixth to one-fifth of what they
were before the war. He said the home
crops were not good and in many parts
of the country they were late in matur-
ing. On the other hand, the demand for
fruits and vegetables had enormously in
creased. There was, therefore, absolutely
no prospect that the Imperial Bureau
would ever be able to make such deliv-
cries of them as were demanded. Such
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

was the cold comfort that he had to give
to the press.
With his bread ration recently reduced,
with few or no vegetables or fruits in
prospect, and everything else eatable or
drinkable scarce to an alarming degree,
the hungry Berliner who has money
enough naturally is planning to go off
somewhere for the summer where he can
get rid of that hungry feeling. But the
news that his morning paper brings him
must convince him that his feeding will
be most rightly scrutinized and regulated,
wherever he takes his vacation.
He has read, for example, of the
action taken by the Town Council of
Freudenstadt, little summer resort
near Tubinger, in Wurtemberg. The
council is determined that every sum-
mer visitor, or "cure-guest,' as the Ger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Germany's Socialism of the Sword

essentially German-tworld revolution?
For Lensch it is this: The economic course
of the war has destroyed the middle classes
as a distinctive factor raised the 'proe-
tariat,' and welded the whole population to-
gether and the whole population with the
state. THE state says Lensch, has passed
through process of Specialization, and the
social democracy has passed through
process of nationalizaton.' The aim of
German Socialism is no longer to over
throw the existing state and the non-So-
cialist classes, but to permeate all classes,
to become itself the state, and to carry
forward the world revolution which is
Germany, to the overthrow Of all counter
revolutonares,' Of whom the chief is Eng
land. The obsolete ideas of Liberalism
and democracy were mere borrowings
from English indvidualism,' and, since
what is wanted is not weak state, but
strong state, the revolutionary character
of particular country has nothing to do
with the question whether its constitution
is liberal and republican, or monarchic
and autocratic.'"
The writer, concluding his analysis,
says this OF the work.
"The Importance of Lensch's book lies in
its candid, if boisterous, expression Of
what the ordinary German Socialists think
but do not dare to say. and in its pene-
trating analysis of the economic founda-
tons OF militarism. Lensch regards Eng
land as the one great enemy, and he ex
poets that England after the war will adopt
protection and be 'rejuvenated by faith
full imitation of the whole Prussian state
system, economic and military. What he
has never attempted to face is the posi-
bility that Germanys enemies will achieve
real economic unity and destroy the Ger
man system in the only way by which it
can be destroyed-by the destruction of its
economic foundations"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

conquest of the foreign market. The power
fully extended and extremely efficient Ger
man industries required more business than
the home market could give them. So they
began to work for the foreign market, and
in order to meet competition there, the car
tel created for its members who were
working in foreign countries special fund.-
which was fed from the extra profits of the
home market. From this fund the cartel
paid the socalled export premiums. With
this support behind them, the German in
dustrialists were very soon able to appear
in the foreign market and there to sell
their goods more cheaply than in the Ger
man market. There was no longer
any question of protecting the home mar
ket; it was purely a question of attacking
the foreign market. Protection, which was
intended to break the monopoly Of the
superior English industry and to create free
competition for German industry, was con-
verified into the monopoly of a handful of
cartel magnates, and had finally driven free
competition out Of the German market"
But, as Lensch says, this was by no
means the end of the process. The for
mer Berlin correspondent for "The Lon
don Times" commenting on the matter,
says:
"For the purposes of fighting the compe-
titon which Germany had created in the
foreign market the whole resources of the
German state were brought to bear. The
German customs duties went on rising, and
the higher the duties the higher were the
extra profits in the home market, the high
er the German export premiums. and tho
more powerful the position of Germany in
the world market Lensch continues:
"'Ths fight for the world market and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

the money market was conducted more
and more with the resources of the or
ganized power of the state. German
diplomacy was at every moment at the
service of German finance, and this help
was all the more powerful the more
powerful the power of the state which
stood behind German diplomacy. A
strong navy and a ready army IN the
background were a precious support in
the fight for the world market and for
the division of the still "unowned" re-
mains of the earth's surface
"Crisis followed crisis, and, after Europe
had twice in ten years narrowly escaped
war, the third time what was inevitable be-
came a fact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

OF fruit, so that Werder is popularity
called the fruit chamber of Berlin"
On the Sunday in question there we're
queer scenes at the Potsdam railway sta
ton in Berlin. Crowds of people came
early in the morning, armed with baskets,
bags and other receptacles, to buy tickets
to Werder; and SO great was the demand
that the sale of tickets had after time
to be suspended altogether and access to
the train platforms was shut off by the
police to prevent the crowds from taking
the trains by storm and crowding them
beyond their capacity.
But this quest for cherries was doomed
to bring disappointment to most of the
pilgrims; for railway stations and steam
er landings at Werder were sharply
watched by cordons of policemen, and only
persons holding official permits to carry
away fruit were allowed to pass through
the lines. So most Of the bags and bas-
kets were carried empty back to Berlin.
The German papers tell of other lille
gltlmate attempts to bring cherries from
Werder into Berlin. A Berlin orchestra
went there to give a concert, and when it
came back there was a rigid inspection at
the station in Berlin. The man who
played the double-ba viol was caught in
the act; all the spare space in his instru-
ment case was found to be filled with
cherries.
The orchard men of Werder are also
up in arms against the retail dealers Of
Berlin. They recently held meeting and
appointed a committee to 20 to Berlin
and complain of the retailers to the Fruit
and Vegetable Bureau and to ask for
rigid inspection of fruit shops by the
police. Their grievance was that the
shopkeepers were asking 48 cents pound
for cherries which they bought in Wer-
der for IA cents, and that even at that
exorbitant increase few or no cherries
could be bought, for they were disposed
of surreptiticusly at even higher prices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

TIME war has developed in Ger
many new school of socialism
more mlitaristic than the most
hidebound of Junkers. It's ideal
is a revolution of the world to be brought
about by the fulflment of Germanys
destiny, which is the political and eco
nomical domination of the world. The
principles of this new school and it's
mode of reasoning are shown in a book
called "Three Years of World Revolu-
tion," by DR.. Paul Lensch.
DR.. Lensch, after university educa-
ton and some years spent in foreign
travel and Socialist journalism, entered
the Reichstag at the last general election
in 1912. He is only forty-fve years old,
but is exempt from military duty, al
though he had his military training in
Prussan Guard regiment. He is one of
the ablest representatives in Germany of
the new Socialist school, which regards
internationalism as obsolete and sets 1T
aside entirely in favor of a world domi-
mated by Germany and German princi-
pies and ideals.
Whereas socialism has hitherto been
regarded as a war on capitalism, Ger
man socialism and German capitalism
are now declared by Lensch in his book
to be in alliance for revolutionary and
progressive aims. German socialism Is
no longer the enemy of the Prussian
state. but is it's enthusiastic supporter
and desires TO accomplish Germanys full
destiny" and revolytionize the world.