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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
THE AIM OF AIMS.

Muskogee Times.Democrat: Says
Philip Scheidemann, famous leader Of
the majority socialists in the reichstag;
There will always be wars and the
only question is whether men are to
conduct them like beasts or like civilized
human beings"
II is the hope of humanity. and one
Of the highest aims of America. that
this war will Kill war. 1t will, If the
decision as to peace or war is left, not
to the rulers, but to the people who
sacrifice, suffer and die in wars. The
Times-Democrat believes that without
such location of the decision, the peoples
Of this earth might as well pack up
their visions OF democracy and try to
move to another planet.
Whatever the cause, whoever holds
the power of decision, war is simply
men turning upon and rending them
selves like mad beasts, and socialists
are the last folks on earth who can
consistently take any other view of it.
But, if we do have more wars, men
will wage them like beast. The beastly
inventions produced in this war will not
be discarded any quicker than gun.
powder was abandoned when it was dis.
covered that it would blow men, forti.
tications and cities to pieces. Future
wars will have their poison gases, bomb.
ing aeroplanes and submarines and,
doubtless, many other new devices for
slaughter not yet developed but upon
which the biggest brains of the scientific
world are hard at work. Given the
same war education, war policy and
war aims as Germany, and there will be
nations that will outdo all the beastli-
ness with which Germany is charged.
There will be more of the beast in fu.
ture wars, not more of civilization, for
the reason if for no other that this
var will reduce millions of men closer
to the level of beasts, through both
mental and physical hardship.
There is no compromise with the
spirit of war. 1t always demands more
blood, more starvation, more beastliness
Man is now making the supreme sacri-
flee, and he must kill war, this time,
If he does not get out Of this awful
struggle closer common brotherhood and
agreement, backed by in
ternational force, he isn't going to be
more civilized but less, as surely as
slaughter and greed are the passions of
beasts
The rulers Of the European peoples
failed to ward off this world calamity.
Genuine socialism and genuine democ-
racy include the right Of the people who
bleed and starve to say when and for
what they shall bleed and starve. Heaven
grant that this war establish that right
beyond dispute or reversal. If it does,
there will not ALWAYS be wars.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
SERBIA'S MARTYRDOM.

Not long ago, in the Vienna parlia.
ment, DR.. Otokar Ribar, a Slovene dep.
uty protesting against the systematic
determination Of the Serbian population,
said:
GO TO the Balkans and you shall see
how the former flourishing towns and
villages are now but. smoldering ruins
Not military necessity, but the deliberate
Will Of the authorities has devastated our
lands in such manner as has not been
witnessed in Europe since Kossovo. our
unhappy people have been scattered to
the winds; from whole districts the
military authorities have carried off
women and old men and children Just
as did the Assyrians and Babylonians
the conquered peoples of ancient times.
From the vicinity of Nish alone the
enemy have carried away 10000 persons
to the deserts of Asia Minor 1t is a
war Of determination of the Jugoslavs.
The allies speak about a restoration of
Serbia and the unification of the Serbian
race. Serbia they may save, but not
the Serbs and Jugoslavs, for there will
not be one there at all to rejoice in
the blessing Of peace"
Now in the Hungarian parliament in
Budapest similar protest has been raised
by the Socialist deputy, Mr.. Zoltan
Nermes, who, referring to the barbarity
Of the enemy and their crimes against
the unfortunate population of Serbia,
said
AS commandant of a detachment. my
duties called me to the mining village
Of MaidanpeI in occupied Serbia from
which neighborhood is obtained the
pyrites necessary for the manufacture
of munitions. The monarchy needs some
pyrites necessary for the manufacture
Of munitions. The monarchy needs
some 10000 tons Of pyrltes, of which
quantity this mine alone produces 40 900
tons; its regular working, therefore. is
of capital Importance to the monarchy.
There are working in the mine l,OSO
laborers, invalid soldiers, and interned
persons from the Serbian civilian popu.
lation. But the mine is adjacent to the
Bulgarian administrative territory.
where the enemy pusues with the cruel.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
Ardmore, Monday, February II, 1918.
CUSTOMERS AND THRIFT STAMpS

What kind of customer would YOU
prefer to have, Mr., Merchant?
The man who, as soon as he gets q
dollar, rushes into your store and spends
~ for something, whether he needs it
or not, and then, when he is out Of
work, hasn't a cent to his name and
comes around begging you for credit?
or the man who, while earning
money spends little less than he
makes, saving something for Il rainy
day and always has something laid
by to tide him over periods of ad.
versity?
Which kind Of man makes the best
customer in the long run? Which do
YOU lose the most money on, the care.
ful savers or the quick spenders?
Every man woman or child who in
vests in United States war savings
stamps automatically steps from the
ranks of hasty spenders to those Of
savers. Every dollar saved is invested
in the worlds best security, drawing
good interest. Every stamp bought can
be cashed at the postofiice, at full face
value, with interest added, in time Of
need. People who own these stamps
won't be sending around to you, Mr.
Merchant, the next time crops are bad
or times are slack begging for long
credit. They will have money of their
own.
Sell war savings and thrift stamps
in your store Boost for them all the
time and everywhere. They are max
ing safe. responsible customers for you
all the time.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
From Other
Editorial Pages
A NEW LANGUAGE.

Milwaukee CWiis.) News: War always
makes changes in a language. 1t is much
the same with foreign possessions for
eign trade and other contact with diff
ferent tongues. Words of those other
tongues are borrowed, applied to our
own and finally Incorporated therein.
This war will prove no exception to
that rule. In fact, the changes are
going on about US now.
AS an example Of this there is a bit
Of modern talk overheard by a gentle
man Of unquestioned veracity in the
national capital.
why don't you speak plain English?
Putting up a barrage like that all
round your real meaning. Camouflage
is all right when it comes to deceiving
the boches, but. you needn't dig your
self in so deep when it's only me you're
talking to-"
That went over the top.
OF course, our mother tongue, or its
American modification and expansion
thereof, is not going to be so thorough
ly reformed as indicated in that mod
ern classic. 1t is admitted that that
is a bit extreme and fully complete
1t merely points the way and serves
as illustration. OF course the speaker
was a young woman - and probably
chewed gum-to say nothing of the
powder dab
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
The Men Who Came Back
copyrighted by the British.Canadian
Recruiting MissionO
BY Scrgt. Major J. X. Falconer.
II the Forty-second Royal Black
Watch Highlanders.

'Nt'ii LIE llliuutlS.
| was sent overseas with the advance
party Of the Black Watch in 1915. ana
was first billetted with our battalion at
LeFletre, France. In those first day.
the small things looked big. For in
stance when we halted by the road for
'ations on our way to Aldershot Camp
ana Just rs we got the dixies Of hot
tea in our hands, the order came, "Fah
in and we began to find out how we
could fail in and march and eat and
drink tea on the road
And the first of our men to be
wounded: | shall never forget it. We
were at Ploegsteet in Flanders. The
working parties had come back from
the trenches, and one Of the men.
1uietly taking off his coat remarked
Il believe I've been hit" There was
singing sensation in his arm and
small mark there That was too much
for an eXcitable Welshman who over
heard it, Private Spaught has been
wounded" he shouted. where is the
orderly corporal? Where is the or.
derlY corporal?" Finally we got
Spaught attended to. For days the
boys kept that going every time they
saw the Welshman, Where is the or.
lerly corporal?"
Another time we were out In work
ing parties. We were getting the brick
and stone from buildings which had
been shelled by Fritz, using the stone
TO build roads, when all of a sudden
Fritz started in shelling again. our
Welshman lost his nerve and ran wildly
lown the road He was as likely to run
into danger, as to run away from It.
The boys said an automobile was in
the road, and he told them to get out
Of his way and Let man run thar
can run" He never heard the last of
that.
But the Welshman got hardened
That same boy had lots of pluck. At
the third battle Of Ypres, when some
Of our boys were detailed to go up to
reinforce the =. p. c. l.. l. princess
Patrica company Of light infantry he
volunteered. 1t took some courage TO
go through the shelling to get up there.
[ can tell you-just to get there. Fritz
was shelling all the time The Welsh.
man was one of our boys who held the
Germans back there for a time until
help came from the rear for the p. p.
C l.. Is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

Marshall (reXasl Messenger: The sig
niticance of recent news from Austria
Hungary is unmstakable The dual
kingdom is quite fed up" with war,
weary of its own hopeless struggle
and weary Of pulling Prussian chestnuts
out Of the fire. Loss of man-power,
lack Of food, priyation and suffering
of all sorts almost beyond our power
of imagining, have had their effect The
military autocrats at Vienna cling to
their hopeless projects Of aggression,
stiu profess the same absurd and cr!mi.
nal purposes for which they launched
the war. But the people have had
enough Of it.
Strikes, riots. protests everywhere
tell the same story. The accumulating
evidence can no longer be swept aside
as sporadic, unrepresentative outbreaks,
magnifed by allied newsmongers. Pre-
mier Czernn, in his endorsement of
the Russian peace terms of mo an.
nexations and no indemnties," spoke
for his country. The people care moth.
ing for conquests. They want to throw
off the German masters. They are filled
with the hope Of honorable peace held
out by President Wilson. They are in
fected too, with the bacillus of free
dom. The various racial groups that
make up the weltering empire are
talking Of Independence, of "salf-de-
termnation."
And SO, as nearly as we can tell. Aus.
tria-Hungary is rapidly approaching a
supreme crisis. That crisis may mean
a separate peace. 1t not, il may mean
collapse, which amounts to about the
'ame thing, so far as the allies are con.
cerned.
In either event, AustroHungarian
usefulness as part of the central Euro
pean plunderbund would be over. The
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

Wesley Wiley, shot BY an officer
who was end7avoring to arrest him as
a fugitive whiskey peddler, died at
Wylie, near the scene of the shooting,
A daughter was born the previous
night to Mr.. and Mrs. John Chitwood.
A. j. Wolverton, president of the
Commercial Club, issued a call for a
meeting of citizens to consider appn.
cation for the incorporation of the city.
At Nowata Jim Dwyer a cowboy,
rode into town firing his revolver.
Marshal Wilson attempted to Arrest him.
The two men emptied their guns at
each other and both sustained wounds
which caused their death a few min.
utes later.
The trial Of Mrs Lizzie Isaacs
charged with the murder of Sterling
Elder, was begun in the federal court
at Chickasha.
Y. c. Saunders and ]. V. Oyerton.
alleged countrfeiters, arrested near Sal.
lisaw' were brought to Ardmore to be
held for trial in federal court
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
SEEN IN THE 100.

The dromedary-swifter animal than
the camel.
The kangaroo-carres its babies in
pouch.
The Alaskan walrus-big as an OK,
and weighs more than a ton.
The fox-one of the cunningest of
animals; always takes his nap during
the day
The flying snake-a reptile from the
tropics; can make flying leaps Of eight
feet
The rama esculata-the only known
species Of frog at this time to be found
in Egypt.
The kldeer-long.legged and and long
winged; runs on ground flies high and
swiftly and calls dee, dee, dee; is
larger than a robin.
The iguana-usually caught by the
South American Indians with a lasso,
which is thrown over its head as it
sleeps on branches of trees.
The giant tortolse-only prehistoric
animal now extant which has not
radically changed; can support weight
Of 10000 times its own weight on its
she'll.
The platypus--a strange Australian
beast which lays eggs like a turtle,
has horny pads for teeth and a bill like
the duck; it's front feet are webbed and
both back and front feet have claws.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
THE PATH OF THE HUN.
BY Clinton scollmd of The vigilante,

81 Clinton SCollaTd of The Vigilantes
Only ravaged earth
Where the grass runs wild,
And an old bent woman there
With a little child.
Only a shattered tower
Bereft 'of its bells,
Where, with its sealed lips
Gray silence dwells-
Only a fresh.heaped mound
With its grim pathos,
And a titled soldiers cap
On a wooden cross.
Only the creeping wind
And the shrouded sun;
Only the pale gloom-this
Was the path of the Hun!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
ARDMORE IN OTHER YEARS
From the Files of The ArdmOreite
TEN YEARS AGO.

An explosion on Caddo street the
previous day, it was decided, was
caused by sewer gas.
More than fifty deeds, leases and
II ort8ages, the largest number pre-.
sented in one day for more than three
"ears, were filed with the register Of
deeds
News was received Of the death. at
Leon, of William 5. Hodges, q former
resident Of Ardmore
Attorney Guy II Sigler, on behalf Of
Y. j. Howard and other residents of
Durwood, filed with the Oklahoma
state corporation commission, a petition
seeking the establishment of a Frisco.
Rock Island depot at that place.
Wendell Woods was sentenced To
serve two years and nine months in
the Lansing Kan, penitentiary after
conviction Of manslaughter. Woods
killed his brother-in-law, Dick Willet,
near Davis.
May wheat on the Chicago market
was quoted at ninety-six cents bushel.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
ONE YEAR AGO.

The Five Dee Oil Company was or
saniZed with a capital stock OF 10000
Twelve representatives Of bond COM
panies were here seeking to purchase
the $4,000 issue Of city bonds voted
short time before.
The Chamber of Commerce announced
the appointment Of a committee EN-
powered TO secure conventions of 1918
for Ardmore
Announcement was made that the
new Princess Theater would be opened
Feb. 10.
Efforts were being made by Ardmore
friends to have the sentence of life
Imprisonment assessed against Harry
McBryde, for the muredr of one Nc
Laren at Georgetown, Texas, reduced
to five years.
Charles b. Hanford was advertised
to play Macbeth" at the Palace the
following night,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
An Acquisition.

Everybodys. when you were in
musical comedy you were known as
Miss Tonsils. Now you're in grand
opera you are Madame Tosils. How's
that" quizzed the new interviewer.
IT'S this way" was the explanation.
Now I'm wedding to my art Then
merely had husband to support"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
VISION
BY AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR
of The Vigilantes.

What is the great present need Of the
American people? | would say a quick
ened sense Of proportion, a revised and
improved standard of value, zeal ac-
cording to knowledge-in a word vision
We need to understand that the cause
for which we are fighting is more than
national more than individual-no less
a thing than the living growing quality
of the world-spirit--a cause so great
taat our own worth today is measurd
by our service to that cause once we
realize that, once we see ourselves in
the right relation to the great need that
claims US, there will be no more
Glamour of 81 choose this, | want TO do
!hdt" our only word will be What
can | dO?" one of the recent recruiting
posters tersely phrases the situation.
Don't Enlist Without Thinking.
Where do you fit?
Find out
Then enlist to help win the war.
Where do you fit? Where viii you
be the most help in winning the war?
In France, perhaps, bearing hardships
that are Il glory to you, suffering in
body and triumphant in soul At home,
perhaps, carrying on with the little dull
things that few notice unless they are
left undone, trying to remember when
you resent your own stodgy comfort
that it really does not matter whether
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
The Place for Him.

Chicago News: A number of con.
soientous objectors have arrived in
France, and one of their number hav.
ing a day off duty approached a killed
Highlander, and said:
I'D rather go into lunatic asylum
than go into Riltie regiment"
AYE. I've nae doot ye wild feel mair
at bome there" replied the Highlander
W., a smile.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11

Local optionists in New Jersey have
triumphed after a ten-year fight. The
legislature has passed a bill permitting
any municipality in the state in the
future to decide by a vote of its citi-
zens the questions of license or not
license
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
WOMEN IN OTHER LANDS.

italian women are to be granted the
privilege Of practicing law in their
country.
Scottish women in large numbers are
now being employed in the big ship.
bnI ding plants.
Japanese women excel as hair dress
ers, and hair dressing is one Of the
oesi paying jobs in that country
French women are being given pro-
fcseional training with view Of plac.
irg them i'm positions vacated by the
r:on who have been called away to
Wdr.
French girls 90 about their tasks in
various industries singing songs of love
ana war. They are extremely patriotic
and enthusiastic over their present
ab.Aty to help The nation in its hour
of peril.
Women Of the European countries at
''' CIV i'lA'NN'llS IlAN'IlldhlHB OF
panzations in order to further romances
between the fighting men and young
women possibly destined to lives of
spinsterhood because Of the death of
men after the wa.
The women Of Siam are in supreme
command in that little tropical coun.
try, where they have legal status with
men. They are the legal head Of the
household, and no business transaction
of married couple is valid without
the signature Of the wife.
Rumanian peasant women have been
almost starving for months or existing
solely on maize. The effect is shown
particularly among newly born children,
many of whom are deformed. The ef.
feet Of starvation on future generations
IS causing much concern to the of.
fcials.
German women are demanding the
ballot Three formidable national organi.
ZauonS are now orenly campaigning on
behalf of woman suffrage--the woman's
department Of the Social Democratic
party the German Imperial Union for
Woman's Suffrage, and the German
Woman Suffrage Society.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
BABY BONDS.

y thrift stamp costs % cents.
Sixteen thrift stamps and l3
cents, or $4.l3, this month buys a
war savings stamp.
The government redeems the
war savings stamp at s. on Jan.
l, 1923.
Your profit is 81 cents, or four
per cent interest, compounded
quarterly
Buy stamps at postoffices, banks
and patriotic stores.
You are saving money for the
future and helping the govern.
ment win the war
Begin buying today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11

New York saved at least 5000 tons
Of coal out Of an estimated average
daily consumption for commercial pur-
poses Of 10000 tons, by its scrupulous
observance of the first of the heatless,
lightless and voorhees, Mondays. An.
other feature Of the day was the coaling
of twenty.four steamers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11

In redistricting New York state to
give an advantage to the Republicans,
the state legislature has created some
congressional districts in which the
Socialists are likely to elect their can
didates. And now there is talk Of a new
gerrymander.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11

Chickasha Express: Our experience has
been that one of the most elusive crit
ters on the map is the little electric
bulb suspended from a cord in the mid.
die of the room when you get up to
feel for it at night.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
Political Observations.

California women clamored long and
loud for the ballot and got it. Never
theless they are protesting against do.
ing jury duty.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11
POWER OF WOMAN'S TEARS

A man who was known far and wide
For pluck which had often been tried,
Would sell his soul
And give his roll"
Whenever his little wife cried.
Birmingham Age.Herald
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11

Doubtless the kaiser will read the po-
litical speeches that are being made in
the senate with interest There is much
in them Of comfort to him
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11

Notable among the women who have
been appointed as members Of the wom-
ans national advisory committee of the
Democratic national committee are the
following: Mrs. Gertrude A. Lee, Den.
YER Col; Mrs Perry V. Pennypacker.
Austin, Texas; Mrs. j. A. Corbett, Jack
sonvile Fla; Mrs. John X Ottley, At
lanta, Ga; Mrs. Franklin $. Richards,
Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs, J. Frazier
Bonnie. Louisville, Ky; Mrs Henry l..
Sherlock, Helena, Mont; Mrs. A. II
Hartman, Iaconia, \. H.; Mrs william
X. Pattangan Augusta, Me; Mrs
Theresa Graham, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Mrs George Bass of Chicago will be
chairman Of the committee.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-11

Dallas Uexas) News, 1t is now recog-
rized by even his most infatuated con.
stituents that when the kaiser tells the
world how his people love him he is
only kidding himself.