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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-12
CITY BOND QUOTA ~
Is PASSED WITH
MONEY TO SPARE
Wontlnvsd From Page y

Practically fifteen days remain for thi,
kind Of a subscription to be accepted
as the campaign closes May 4.
Oversubseription Sought.
While large percentage OF the cam
palgners may now return TO their
usual business. any persons in this
community who feel further pa
,tiotic impulse to buv a bond will find
some one at a bank 10 take his sub
scription Filling her quota in five
days is one cause for this city TO re.
oiee, the executive committee says, and
large oversubsetiption to dangle the
figures OF before the eyes Of Secretary
McAdoo when he reaches here a week
from today will be the second cause,
Quietly, nov that the big busine" NJ
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births

Mr and Mrs John W. Teller. u glfl
Mr. and Mrs Maurice a. rhlllIps, a
West Park, gifl.
Mr and Mrs. Spencer Norris lands,
III West Seventh. Girl.
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Vital Statistics


Frank Mcclure, 20 years old aud Mrs.
Grace Arnold, ~ years old. both OF "a
luhumi titY.
Mohor pottochnr. 20 years old Fort
sil.. ana Rosa lledlicki. y ychra Old l,u-
thef
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Whatever your financial measure
you can be fitted with Liberty Bond
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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES. FRIDAY. APRIL l2. 1918.

ping In the city only THIS week and Is
client Of Gum brothers, farm loan
people. lie was al Gum brothers Of
flee Tuesday and went up TO the cam
paign team and said he guessed he'd
take 2SO IN bonds, giving a check
Wednesday he hunted up the team aud
said he had changed his mind and
wanted his check back II was given
him and he said the spirit In this city
has taken hold ( him so that he ielt
he must buy 5000 worth which he did
giving another check Thursday the
team accidenlly ran across Moore who
said he hadn't had enough bond buying
and wanted his second check II was
given him and he added 81 900 making
his total subscription 5000. And he
may change his mind again'- Moore
served in the Spanish American war
The team covering the Grain EX-
change building says the tenants, all
grain men, in that building are 10 be
recorded as 100 percent These are
lean times for the grain dealers and
brokers. but $500 worth Of bonds has
been sold In this building
The first day the campaign team in
that territory called at the Tropic Ice
Machine company. the twcnty-thfce
workers and clerks at the place OF bust
ness each bought a $50 bond This made
them 100 percent Liberty bonders
Thursday the same team visited the
establishment and explained subscrip.
tions were coming slower than they
ought 10. The iwenly-three dug down
again and doubled their first subscrip-
ton, which act General Bearly IN
whose division this place is, saws makes
the Tropic Ice Machine bunch to be
200 percent loyal
The Sifes Candy company's outfit
here has to make candy up in Hutchin.
son. Kan, until the new factory here is
finished but the office force being here
now. six clerks, all bought bonds and
Cypeu himself bought 81 600 worth ioi
the company, this being an instance
where a eypher meant something TO III,
team that covered this office
The State National bank records It
self as 100 percent pure. The total sub
scription among the executives, clerks
tellers and cashiers and all other Of
flee help amounts TO $4,000. TN
| Stetisn- -Bftch Ice Cream compan
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home rule was concentrated on the de-.
mand for unrestricted fiscal powers
The nationalisls made a strong case
Tor such fiscal powers and were able
10 prove that q considerable number Of
the leading commercial men had come
to favor fiscal autonomy. A majority
oi the nationalists aud OF the southern
unioni,ls agreed. IN order that a par
lament might be established At once,
10 postpone the decision In regard TO
conltol OF the customs The nationalisls
were prepared 10 agree 10 free trade
with England but the southern unionlsi,
Joined the Ulster unionists in opposing
a satisfactory system Of customs con
troll.
Pull Power Sought
A majority Of the convention adopted
series Of resolutions forming com
pleie plan Of seli.goyernment under
which the lfi parliament would have
iull powers over all internal legisla-
uon Pending a decision concerning
the customs question the imposition Of
duties and excise would remain with
the imperial parliament, but the entire
proceeds Of these taxes would be paid
into the Irish exchequer.
The difficulties ol the convention
Sir Horace remarks, may he summed up
IN two woris, Ulster and the customs.
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DnalIlI


Cyphas Love Wilson. l7lln West Eley
rnth. months,
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in the safety deposit 6ox than tax re-
ceipls in the bill file.
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Bits About Bonds
in Oklahoma City

The Hughes Bararth- Anderson com
pany makers of harness. register 100
percent for bond holders Their help
average about SO a week and many are
German born and other aliens. They
have averaged to subscribe for a $O
bond each. Th.re are about iorty-nine
workers employed. including office
workers. The subscription for the
workers aggregates $500.
The executive committee today called
attention TO the fact that during this
campaign the element Of guessing about
what subscriptions would be and tufn-
ing in guesses as TO actual figureA had
been eliminated and no figures have
been given out at noon which have had
to be corrected afterward. In other
words. no persons. rich or poor, have
had credit for buying a bond and had
its figure announced until their name
was on the dotted line and they had
given a check or currency for the initial
payment.
Mrs. r. {. Cavitt of the Cayitt Drug
company at 80l North Hudson, while at.
tending TO the Customers calling at the
store this week has collected $500 Tor
the third Liberty bond sale
Mrs. Cayitt is not in the bond service
but has done this as an act OF patriot
ism.
A fluslered little woman campaigneI
this morning set out new problem fol
Judge AmeJ. chairman OF the executive
committee, to settle when she pro
pounded this Judge Ames, II we find !
person who has three or four pleasur,
riding automobiles and who says he Of
she cannot afford to buy any bonds
and that they have no money, wha
ought 20 he our retort, what ought
person like that TO do?"
Il, seems to me-" said the judg,
without hesitating. "that inasmuch a
most Of us are satisfied TO have on
pleasure car, even in peace times, whet
we are at war | should certainly thinl
II was up to such persons so wonder
fully blessed with pleasure cars to sci
| off all but one and perhaps that one,
they have relatives with tho colors an
invest the net proceeds in the bonds {
our government"
! Mrs. Earl Shelly appointed In N
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II I, improbable any woman bond
buyer has changed her mind (that be-
ing a fault generally attributed TO wom-
en) a. often in this campaign as w. ID.
Moore Of Philadelphia. Moore Is stop
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female spiders that first WOO their mates,
then devoIr them.
The wild life that Mr.. Watson describes
is SO fascinating that we wish he had
written book on the natural history Of
the region. We come to know the "cock-
eyed BObs," swift currents of air only a
yard wide. that rush roaring across the
desert in red swirl of dust, as well as
the willy -Willies," of which they are the
gentle forecasts, tremendous gusts that
sweep everything before them.
People of the Bush.
The savage life of man is likewise real
and faithfully portrayed here. We are
far more interested in the natives than
in the white men and women, for they
seem authentic, while the latter are stereo-
typed and forced. The blacks, with their
primitive customs, their strange fantastic
habits of religion and society in which we
catch faint far OF reminders Of our own
ideas, seem actual.
A skilled eye and sympathizing mind
have studied them, for Grant Watson is
scientist, versed in sociology as in natural
history, so that he speaks with authority.
We thrill 1T the sound Of the "bull
roarers," magic instruments made of fiat
wood and pieces of string, that make
sobbing moan full of mystery and witch
craft, and We watch the aborigines in all
their forms of work and play with genu-
inc interest.
Teacoopoo, the young black boy who
is stolen from bis tribe, has magic sticks
that will, he AYERS, STAY any one who
wishes evil against him. He can utter
an awesome curse also, very systematic in
its scope. This curse can summon the
powers of evil to assail his foe, so that his
cnemy's eyes will 60 blind, his tongue
will swell, his teeth fall out, his toes
will canker, his feet will be eaten with
lice, his heart will burst, his kidneys
wither, his brain be made mad. Every
separate thing he may. eat can be made
to turn against him and every living thing
to become his antagonist.
The corroboree, or native dance. Is
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ethnologically significant and dramtic.
With their bodies blackened with SCOT and
oil and streaked with clay, with tufts Of
emu feathers on their shoulders and the
sacred waninga or headdress on their
heads, the natives 60 through the solemn
performance.
"The dancers proceeded with sharp, me-
chanical movements, knees and elbows
bent jerkily twisting in their hands white
covered sticks as they moved. Their con-
ventional steps and gestures suggested
automatic sprung of sudden from the
earth to express some of its savage sig
nificance. With heads thrust forward and
with features fixed in set grin their
movements betrayed complex Of emo
TONS Piety was there, deliberate and en-
during; savagery, abrupt with fierce in
tentions; mystic seriousness, an intense
grotesque malcness more> pious than the
grave endurance of thousand madonnas.
"While the figures shifted in the slow
mazes of the dance the nasal chant swung
through all its modulations, supported
always on the undereurrent Of the low
moan of the women"
Rousseau, Look Here!
The central character Of this book is
John Sherwin, the son of Nurse Desmond
and the Sherwin Of Where Bonds Are
Locsed, the little red headed baby whom
we saw playing about on the floor as that
story closed. In some respects John is
tremendously interesting. He has grown
up on an unfrequented island, knowing
only his father, his mother and the black
man, Coffee.
He is absolutely ignorant of life, of
the world outside, of men as of books. He
does not even know how to read or write
and when he goes away from the island he
wonders why woman can spend so much
time looking at white pages. In his prim-
tive simplicity, his unspoiled innocence,
his naive ignorance of life, he is a novel
and delightful character, one whom Rous-
seau would have loved.
But when he leaves the island and
comes in contact with other human beings
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GRANT WATSON'S second novel,
~ The Mainland, disappoints the
high hopes that readers of Where Bonds
Are LoOsed have cherished for this new
writer's work. 1t is neither so dramatic
nor so realistic as the first book, and
possesses less of the sweeping thrill of
wild romance and less fidelity to human
nature.
1t is a curious combination of the I'M
known, the novel, the unusual, with con-
vcntional material Nature is real here as
in the other story. We feel this instinc-
lively, though it is a nature with which
We are, for the most part, unfamiliar.
But man is artificial and woman even
more so. The first half Of the book is
sincere, but the latter half seems false
and is unconvincing.
An Australian Setting.
Perhaps the greatest merit of the novel
lies in its descriptions, its power of max
ing us see the strange and vivid setting
in which the action goes on. There is
nothing hackneyed, 'trite nor initiative
here.
We see the wild Australian country,
with its tropical luxurianee, its bizarre
beauty, its texjble suggestiveness. Every
thing seems real, from the monstrous, sin
lister trees to the tiny, creeping sundews
and the delicate orchids that bloom bluely
in the grass.
We are introduced t6 all manner of liv-
ing things, wild and elusive; the island
mice that carry their young in little
pouches; the bandicots, whose tender skin
is torn at touch; the grasshoppers that
initiate dried twigs to protect themselves
from being eaten, the echidnas, the walla-
bies and others.
We see the enormous lizards, the ig,f-
anas, sometimes five feet long, with their
bronze green skin and cleaning eyes; the
bush devils, covered with spines, that
drink through their skin; the sand lizards
with long bodies and tiny legs, that van
ish like magic in the sand; the geckoes
that live under loose bark, the monstrous
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Of Miss Somerville had "a singularly
small and well shaped foot; fact to
which her son, Robert, was wont to at
tribute the popularity that her shoe
strings were rarely securely fastened, in
volving her in an appeal to the nearest
man TO tie them" The man on one oe-
casion being q cabman, "she thanked him
with her usual and special skill, and as
she moved away she was pleased to hear
the cabman remark to O fellow:
"'That's dam PLEASANT ovid heiferp
And the response Of the fellow:
"'Ah, Shakspere says yell always know
q real lady when We see her."
Or this of Numerically disputatious
county family: at is said that stranger
without their gates heard from afar one
such dispute, and trembling asked what
it might mean. oh, thatp said little
girl, with sang-froid. That's only the
Coghills roaring (As dweller in the
Hebrides would speak of north Atlantic
Storm"
Particularly this, Renaissance by
Martins" childhood nurse and foster
mother of a certain raw underling nurse
maid Caught at large on turf bog:
Assure didn't ketch Kit Sal one time,
an she batting and kicking yerself on the
avenuev Nurse B. began. She then went
on to describe how she had fallen on Kit
Sal, torn her hair and 'shtuck her teeth in
her.
"'The Misthress seen me afterwards,
and she axed me what was on me, for
sure / was cryin' with the rage. "Nothin',
Ma'am," says I. But told her two days
after, and she goes to Kit Sal an says
she, "What call had you to Bate Miss
Wiletf" says she, Eye big shtump!" "She
wouldn't follow me-" says Kit. "Well, in
deed" says the Misthress, II believe ye
got bigger batin' yerself from Nurse,
and as far as that goes" 'says she, u de-
clare to God" says she, II wish she
dhrank yer bloodp says she'"
The tale (the author notes) is above
comment, "but for those who knew Mrs.
Martins very special distinction of man
ner and language, Nurse BIS para
phrase Of her reproof has q peculiar
appeal"
"A war note, one Of many: "The Titanic
passed within q few miles Of Castlehav@,
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low in the fields Of the Somme or in the
midst Of the defenees Of Verdun. In
the future this portrait of to-day win no
longer be reminder to you of the. sor-
rows of this grievous war, It viii be the
symbol of that army which has held on
long enough 10 give the American sol
diers time to gather up their strength and
huri themselves in full numbers against
the barbarians, and finally to assure them,
together with ourselves andsall our valiant
allies, the triumph Of civilization and the
freedom Of nations" -
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AIOW, here is a delightful big hick
4 Y book, an inexhaustible mine Of o
book, to be opened or put down any
where, to be read in as long or as briefly
as you like+always provided you don't
20 through methodieally with book
mark; malpractice upon these Irish
Memories because fatal to the joy of Dip
ping again and again when you think
you have finished them, and infallibly
bringing up treasures earlier overlooked.
The authors, E. E. Somerville and
Martin Ross, appear to have begun writ
ing "reminiscences in girlhood: on refec-
ton, happier age for it than the usual
one, second childhood, at least from the
reading public's point Of view. A pre-
vious volume is listed among their works,
the rest of which are fiction, mainly fox
hunting comedies of mountainous Come
mara, not as well known over here as
they deserve. To-day Martin Ross
(christened Violet Florence Of the. Mar
tins of Ross) is dead. Her MINOR part
in the Memories is posthumous./ Miss
Somerville is M. F. H. of the West Car
berry hounds, and if photographs and
internal evidence mean anything, should
still be in the early prime Of hunting,
much more of writing.
The range Of the book includes old let
tiers of Maria Edgeworth, that direful
maiden moralist and creator Of she Roll
los, and first hand sketch by E. G. S.,
who was there, Of the final Whistler
atelier in Paris, in a studio so infamous
for typhoid that the girls of the class
stopped the sinks mouth with q yellow
satin cushion. But readers, in whose
lives the butterfly signature is little and
Miss Edgeworth less, will find the, beauty
Of the Memories and the bulk Of them,
a rich documentary hodgepodge Of Irish
West coast humor, peasant humor chiefly,
chronicled by urbane gentlewomen whose
funnybones resembled the old Adams and
Mr.. Kipling's.
The sosd things are upsetting, mildly
tnssea}y- surprises Like thiss- A oeaaia :.
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A life sized portrait by Joseph De
Camp Of Lieut.-Col. Paul Azan, author
Of The Warfare Of To-day, has just been
unveiled at the Harvard Club of Boston.
Col. Azan, speaking at the pnveiling,
said: Let this portrait represent to you
simply the soldier Of France. / may be
here, but my kinsmen, my friends, my
troopers are dead. They are far away,
my fine fellows Of the Twentieth Corps,
shrouded in the mud of the User, buried
in the German trenches Of Artois, laid
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A Diverting Book of "1rish Memories !"

on her first and last voyage; saw her
racing to the west, into the glow Of
fierce winter sunset. It was from Castle
Townshend that the first warnings Of the
sharks that were waiting for the Lusitania
were sent; and into Castlehayen Harbor
came, by many succeeding tides, victims
of that tragedy. Let it be remembered to
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Mr.. Watson Falls Down.

the honor of the fishermen that the
money and the jewels, which most Of the
drowned people brought with them, were
left with them, untouched"
IRISH MEMORIES. BIZ E. q. soNEs-
WILLIE AND MARrIN Ross. Longmans, Gree.
& Co. 400.
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Better Zoology Than Fiction, This Novel

he becomes unconvincipg, false and IN
natural. The writer's thesis appears to
be that society eontaminates, whereas pa
ture regenerates. But Mr.. Watson takes
BIASED view of society and shows only
one type of human beings, those that have
evil influence. Mr.. Watson's knowledge
Of women seems as one sided and untrust-
worthy as his knowledge of wallabies and
bandicoots is accurate
Mr.. Watson Falls Down.
The women he draws are not only weak
and immoral but they are unreal rs well,
painted puppets, conventional aid unim-
pressive. There is no breath of life in
them. From Mrs. Cray, married woman
ten years older than John who consents
to elope with the naive youth and who,
when the scheme is accidentally disclosed,
draws back not through principle bur
through cowardice, to the innoeent young
girl whom he so casually marries in the
epilogue, there is not one genuine woman.
There are sirens of various types, and
John, now merely q stereotyped Don
Juan, without scruples or honor, loses all
resemblance to the original and interest
ing person he was at the beginning Of the
story.
John is thoroughly selfish and egotistic,
anything but a heroic character at the
last. Yet his creator speaks of him with
complaisance when John reviews his ca
reer Of debauehery with no qualms Of
conscience and eongratulates himself that
he has "been able to come safely through
it ALL"
Mr. Watson's theory of society will not
hold, either as an Theological principle
or as dramatic theme, for not all social
forces are evil and it is not primitive
nature alone that is decent But if painted
manikins are all that make up society in
Mr.. Watson's mind, then he should Ger
tainly stick to savagery in his material
for fiction For his elemental characters
are effective and convincing.
THE MAINLAND. BY E. L. GRANT WAT
SON. Alfred A. Knopf. $l.50.
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0uarto. IS fun Page Illus.
Portrait. Text. 80 Cents Net.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-05
HOBART

Mrs. Ada Pie, who has for the past
five years kept a private boarding house.
has decided to cater TO transient trade,
both meals and rooms. as well as the
regular boarders.
Twin girls were born Tuesday to Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Golf.
Harold Shearer accepted a position in
tho ordnance department at the Ameri-
can Bridge Company at Gary and started
work yesterday.
Miss Bess Banks. who has had her
hand and feet poisoned from poison oak,
is much improved.
Vernon Traeger went to Chicago Tues
day to enlist in the marine corp, but
was advised TO consult his local board
The Hobart Ice Company have pur-
chased the building used as a carpenter
shop on the Fairbanks property in the
south part Of town and have moved II
to the rear of the ice house in the west
part of town.
Harte Mundel who has been super
intendent of the Westville schools for
the past few years and who has beer
working at the Illinois Steel Company
during the past summer. has accepted
a position as principal Of the Ligonier
high school and viii move to that city
shortly.
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HIGHLAND

Mrs. P. J. kooy entertained her sister.
Mrs. Kaluf, of Hammond. Wednesday.
Mrs. Charles w Houk of Benton. H..
came to Highland Monday to visit rela-
tives. Mrs. Houk IS the daughter Of
Mrs. E. Douthett.
Mrs. John Lynch is reported quite sick
with influenza.
Jacob Hook and sister. Miss Kate
Hook, spent Wednesday in Hammond.
P. ]. Kooy transacted business IN
Chicago Thursday.
The Food Club will meet at the school
house October 10. An interesting pro-
gram has been prepared and a large
attendance is desired.
Jacob Blom and Albert Jabaay who
are in Indianapolis taking a course in
auto mechanics. are just recovering from
Spanish Influenza
Henry S Daugherty. accompanied by
Jenry Jr.. went to Chicago Wednesday
evening.
Thursday forenoon a farmer by tho
name OF William Kraay. living west of
town, met with a serious accident when
he tipped over large load Of crates.
He received three broken ribs in the
fall
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-05
ROBERTSDALE

Mrs. Andrew Bogovich Of Roberts ave
nue. spent Thursday in South Chicago
visiting her mother. Mrs. Krouse.
Elmer Eggers is confined to his home
in Roberts avenue with an attack of the
grippe.
Mrs. John Bland. Jr.. spent Thursday
visiting at the Emmerling home in Ham
mond
Mrs. william Parker Of 116th street
entertained her mother Mrs. Munich.
and sister. Mrs. Wise. of Hammond
Wednesday.
Mrs. John Peterson Of Myrtle avenue
visited her aunt in Chicago yesterday.
Mrs. Reed Hubbard and mother. Mrs.
Cole, visited IN South Chicago Thursday.
Captain and Mrs. George Bader of
Myrtle avenue We're guests of Captain
Ryron and family Of Hammond Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Hit and children still remain
very Ill at her home in Roberts avenue
with an attack Of Spanish influenza
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Freese of Myrtle
avenue visited in Hammond Thursday.
Have you given your Linen for
France" this week. Remember our
boys need it over there"
Mesdames Fritz Kasch. Carl Moore.
Fred Binhammer and W. Kaiser were
guests at a luncheon at the home Of
Mrs. Wittke OF Chicago Thursday.
Mrs. Baker of Indiana boulevard is
very i'll at her home with an attack Of
the grippe.
Mrs Regina winkelried Of Sheffield