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New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Thieves and Plunderers

Those 100000 houses contained some
500, 900 beds, which were either stolen or
destroyed, and 100000 Frenchmen at
present have no roof over their heads, not
even pallet on which to sleep. So we shall
have to go to the thieves and plunderers
and take the 100000 beds and bedding we
need. More cries, more complaints more
lamentations The women of Germany will
say it is inhuman, that war is being con-
tinued after is over; they will cable
to the women of America. (And even as
write these lines the news comes that
they have done so.) In the name of COM
mon fairness, should they be listened to?
The mines of Northern France have been
scientifically and cleverly tampered with,
filled with water, or destroyed. Not ton
of coal can be extracted from Lens for
another two years. The normal output Of
these mines cannot be restored for another
five years. Meanwhile, who will supply
France with the coal she so badly needs?
England? No; why should it be England?
1t will be Germany, who should have left
those mines alone. And, of course Ger
many will protest that she is being de-
prived Of her fuel, and that after having
been starved she is being frozen She will
appeal to the world and to humanity In
the name OF common fairness should she
be listened to?
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs--By Mail including Postage I,
IN THE UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OF GREATER
NEW YORK
etnsr AND SECOND zoNEs-w'thn Y0 Miles Of
Sew York City
oas,v and Sunday - 5000 SSoo $2.75 sl00
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Don I Be Too Generous -
By Stephane Lauzanne

address dorred before League for Educaon
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
GUARANTEE

Entered At the Possotce at New York Second Class
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-11-26

When chG7'ity campaigns lag OF P717lt-
ing the names of the VeaIthy aVho haze
qiven large amounts, We'U admit that
there is hope eventually of civiliS1mg the
quorld.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
AIR SERVICE IS
TO BE CONTINUED

Washington, Nov. lO.-Demobil-
lzation OF the army air service pre-
'cntS separate problem on which
war department officials are now at
work. How it is to be accomplished
so that aircraft manufacturing III
drStry, can be preserved has not
been disclosed, but it is possible to
state authoritativcly some OF the
considerations that will govern de-
mobilization plans.
Secretary Baker is known to re
gard the air service as the field OF
military enterprise in which the
greatest developments are to be ex-
pcctcd. For that reason. the army
program, To be laid before congress
probably will show recommends
uonS for continuing the aviation
branches on a scale disproportionate
to the other arms OF the service. E.v-
cry effort Is expected to be made
to improve existing types OF planes
and engines or develop new ones.
1t Is also certain that the plans
now being formulated will make
provision for retaining in the pres
cni military establishment Officers
and men who have displayed marked
aIlIitv in the operation, Production
and cqnipmcnt Of airplan.S. balloons
'hd other aircraft.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
DAILY ARDMOREITE

strctcher bearers carried the wound
ed by hand for three miles.
For nearly two years while the
war was at an impasse in the trench
es, wounded men were cared Tor
with precision Wounded men from
battles that began in France at day
break. were landed from ambulance
trains at Charing Cross station in
London. in the afternoon OF the
same day. But when the great allied
offensive was in progress, the Brit
ish medical service was not able 20
keep pace and the succor OF wound
ed men which had seemed automatic
became less prompt.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
British Armies Outran
Their Medical Corps

London. oct. 26.-The British ar
mics 50 far out ran the forward
movement OF the medical corp, ir
the advance eastward from Arras,
France, in the great allied offensive
that at one time the troops were
twenty miles ahead OF the medical
stations. In all this twcnty-mile
strip there was no habitation above
ground and no shelter for a main
dressing station, still less for cas-
ualty clearing hospital. For time
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
Would Legalize Ten
Round Boutes In Illinois

Chicago, Nov. l9.-A new attempt
to have boxing lcgalizcd in Illinois
will be made when the iilty-iiltl,
general assembly conycnes in Jam
uary. Boxing in the army and navy
have created an impression favor-
able to the sport. sponsors OF the
bill say. They declare they are cor
fident OF its passage.
Under the proposed BILL bouts
would be OF ten rounds, aid ;h'
state would receive percentage OF
the receipts Senator Richard ].
Barr, Republican leader in the -eu-
ate said he would support proper
" drawn measurc
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
Garbcr-B Billings.


CARRIER, OKLA, Nov ~. mere "'
two completions ana nlh' WelS "I'
on the sand and being dlIIru ii ''u'
week in the CARRIER ilrld' Ih'Ir o'Pl"'
range from 2l0O feet I" lloo' 1h'y are
scattered over TN" ".3o" acres "I Pi"F'"
territory ln tine lield jusj S'".H "'
town.
OF the lO1 strings of tools lh 'he Gar
Der district. ~ ar" active h lNI' ll'i''
II are in the Billings urid ANA near IT,
and The remainder are ih lh' BARNES
field and hunting Tor new pools ANA 'N
tensions. The Garfield on company
is the largest operator. having 20
strings OF tools, six of winch are roe
tarI outfits. "n their extensive acreage
\ Nice 1riplet.
The Cosdeu and Mar1nl interests
No. 10, ON the Walker school Iand'
southeast l3-22-+ west, u.s. 81 "ou-barrel
well in a sand from I'I To I''-N '''I
1t is a triplet to no ] ana 40. la. No.
] was completed NOR" than a. year ago
in the llOOtoot sand and was good
for only 10 barrels, No. 2, completed
at about the same time produced 3"
barrels. Other wells near their Ane
missed the llOoioot pay ana no more
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
Mid. Comment Refining Co
10 Operate Peoples h'l'"''H
Mid.COntinent-

The Nlid.Continent Refinint Co. .
NOW onerating the Peoples Refinery ''
Ringling. having leased that plant u me- me-
oryicers of the MidContncut Rc'n'"t
10 ore i. r. Ryan, president aud treas.
,,.o,. l. Ecrins. vice president 'n'
r - brennan. secretary The offices
49, rn. comuanv are ON the fourth floor
of the Simpson building. Ih' '''I''
refinery was built log "a STOCK ''''''''
organized i'm Iunc of l'l' AN" '. '.'''
a. having 1000 barrels ''P'''''
Gated at Ringing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
Thousands of Prisoners
Returning to France.

Nancy, Nov. l9,-Havas)-Re-
leased French, British and Belgian
prisoners by the thousands are COM
ing into France in the region OF
Nancy. Many of them show plainly
how long they have been in captivity.
The American Y. NJ. c. a. is cloth
ing and feeding the prisoners.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
LEASES FOR SALE.

Am going back into the Randol
Hotel office again. Have for sal.
some very fine leases in Texas. near
Ranger. Would like to have YOU
come and look them over and see
whom ! have sold here in town.
1910 GEORGE TERRY
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20

ilcs Offered in NJ xico, Cuba, Can
ade and various South .Imerican
countries as market Tor their pro-
duct.
Reports from border points say
large quantities OF beverages are
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20
FINE FOR RHEUMATISM!
Musterole Loosens Up Those
Stiff JolntS-DriveS Out Pain

You'll know why thousands use Mus.
terole once you experience the glad re.
lief it gives.
Get a jar at once from the nearest
drug store. 1t is clean, white ointment,
made with the oil of mustard. Better
than a mustard plaster and does not
blister. Brings ease and comfort while
it is being rubbed on!
Musterole is recommended by many
doctors and nurses. Millions of jars arc
used annually Tor bronchitis. Group, stiff
neck, asthma, neuralgia, pleurisy, rheu-
matism, lumbago, pains and aches of the
back or joints, sprains, sore muscles,
bruises, chlblains, frosted feet, colds Of
the chest (it often prevents pneumonia.
Soc and 6Oc Jars; hospital size $3.50
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20

FOR SALE-3O-star machine and
complete string OF tools and set Of
Io0 hydraulic Jacks, ringes, and
wedges; 1000 feet OF lain 17-lb.
casing 1000 feet 5-S-in. LIB. cas-
ing, 400 feet 8 lain 24-lb. casing.
Address Box 600, Madill, Okla.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20

crossing the line and are sold at low
prices 9 veral leading manuiactuf-
ers are reported to be taking steps
to establish breweries and distlIi.
cries in this country. in place OF
those closed in the United states.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20

prcbeScitc be held in SchclSwig-TIol-
stein 10 decide whether that terri
tory should remain German or JON
Denmark.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-20

The Roxana Petroleum Company
surely has found the top OF the anti.
cline in the southwest 1929 west.
Schroeder farm, as many of the regular
oil sands contain gas. No. 4 got To-
100000 feet of gas in a sand at .94j to
1850 feet. No. is cleaning out at
u ,Ssl feet. No. 6. twin well. IS drill
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22
To Mrs. SkeHington
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 tne Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Somebody who understands the
American people and those of us who by
birth or extraction, or by the conviction
that free government and individual lib
exty are not merely consistent with but
necessarily include religious liberty, SYM
pathlze with the Irish cause and de-
plore the long-standing conflict between
Great Britain and Ireland, who hopes to
see it ended to Ireland's benefit and salts
faction and who is also in the confidence
of Mrs. Skefington-somebody with
these qualifications ought very quickly to
tell her that she would better quit.
1t is not that she or the Mr.. Mellowes
who got the Friends of Irish Freedom
into such great excitement at their meet
ing Sunday afternoon can really accom-
plish here what Germany hopes they can.
1t is not that they are dangerous to our
people here. 1t is that by giving to the
German militarists an opportunity of
mlsrepresenting in German newspapers
and German proclamations to the Ger
man people the conditions existing here
their work here tends to prolong the war
and tends to increase the sacrifices that
all the democratic peoples are making in
life and in their needed savings. We
cannot permit that. We are not going to
permit it, and the Friends of Irish Free
dom must make up their minds to stop
their propaganda, and stop it now. or
else to join the Friends of German VII
lany in internment camps.
With the Irish people represented here
by such men as Morgan O'Brien, Victor
bowling, John Quinn, Bourke Cochran,
Victor HERBERT could go on with list
that would fill this column-with the re-
llgion of Ireland preached in this coun-
try by such men as Cardinal Gibbons,
Cardinal Farley, Cardinal O'Connell and
Archbishop Ireland-and l could 90 on
with list of bishops and priests that
would fill the paper-with such soldiers
actually in the war as that immortal
69th, no sensible person can suppose that
the interests of the United States at
home are being embarrassed by Mrs.
Skeffington or this Mellowes person.
But, Mrs. Skefington, you must see
that because your husband was killed I
do not want you to do things that pro-
long the war. From what have heard
OF you I syrnpathize with you intensely
and respect you very much, but would
try to gag you before would let you ssy
again that the way for the Irish ia
America to help the Irish in Ireland ia by
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22
Georgia's Lynch Law

Even amid all the war horrors of which
we must read daily until we grow
little callous it is permissible to express
some horror at the lynching of colored
woman in Georgia. Her crime was ap-
parently her vehement denunciation of
the lynching of her own husband the
day before on the mere accusation of
being concerned in the murder of a
white man. 1t will be observed that
here was no suggestion of crime COM
mitted, nor the remotest connection
with the one crime which is supposed to
condone these barbarous performances
in the South.
DR.. Motion, president of Tuskegee In
stitute, has given wide publicity to the
fact that from one-quarter to one-third
of the lynchings of negroes occur in the
State of Georgia. In 1916 the last year
for which we have seen figures, fourteen
out OF fifty-four were in that state.
In 1916 all save one of the fifty-four
lynchings were in Southern states and
fifty of the victims were negroes. At
torney General Gregory's state, Texas.
stood second to Georgia, with a total of
nine. Only one in four of the fifty-four
was for the crime of rape.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22
The Professional Amateur

Everybody was roofing for the Wash
tngton Square Players when they first
set sail. "Here are pioneers!' we said;
"goodness knows there are plenty of un-
visited theatrical shores to be explored
in this city of much convention" Now
that they have failed, everybody is Won
dering why. Various reasons, including
the war, helped, but we suspect the un-
derlylng cause was very simple one
that you cannot be both professional
and an amateur in the same breath.
The Washington Square Players sold
their amateur birthright for the chance
of Broadway. They retained much Of
their old amateur pretension, but their
outlook, their plays, their productions
were necessarily colored by the Broad
way viewpoint Grant that their inten-
tions continued of the noblest. You can
not long stay an amateur at heart in a
box office atmosphere. Nor did these ex-
perimenters ever become real profession
ais They lost the enthusiasm and inde-
pendence of the amateur and they never
achieved the finished technique of the
professional.
Must the amateur always thus COL
lapse? Not if his own or his angels
bank account holds out, the cynic will
say. But that is not the whole story.
Amateurs are valuable folk. They fur
nish the most intelligent of publics, and
in hidebound art they can and often
do start something. They seldom last to
create great movement or achieve
any large creative work
For where your treasure is there
will your heart be also" is not without it's
artistic bearing. 1t might seem as if all
a man needed was freedom from money
cares and wives and brats to do his
noblest work. But he doesn't, as rule
Goodness knows how many major works
of art received their primary impulse
from the rent collector We can be thank
full for our intelligent amateurs. But
it is great professionals that we reallv
need in every art.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22
Coiled in the Flag
II e a r S-s-s-s-S t

Ne1v York american, March 2s, 1917.
Everybody knows that Wall Street
financiers have been using all their
influence, openly and secretly, to get
the United States entangled in this
European war.
Ysu can see Wall Streets under
ground wires when you read the ar
guments, now commencing to appear,
that the United States should fill the
Allies bankrupt Golfers.
Now, we propose to fight this
proposition right now and clear
through to the end.
This proposition that we shall
finance the Allies and send our boys
for cannon fodder is a Wall Street
proposition, and nothing else.
What these dollar patriots are
striving for is to have the shaky
foreign securities they have gambled
in and invested in made safe and
valuable by being backed by Amer
ica's credit.
Let the Allies fight their own war.
We did not start it, and it is none
ef our business t. prosecute it fer
them.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22

enduring task of defending our civiliza-
ton against German dangers which will
not end with the close of the war and
may be as acute as ever in few years
after peace is restored.
Our men are on their way, but they
cannot arrive in time to take over any
considerable share of the burden Of this
years campaign. The great cost of this
German offensive has been borne by the
British. Aided by French devotion and
promptness, the British have for the
moment checked the rush, but there is
certain to be new flood and new
crisis. And it is for us, who cannot
much aid in checking this, to demon
strate utterly to our British ally our
confidence, our sympathy, our enduring
and generous understanding of what the
effort and the spirit are and how terrific
is the cost in the best lives of man.
hood already heavily taxed.
All that we most care for in the pres
ent and the future depends upon the
preservation of the alliance not merely
of arms, but of sympathy between the
three great peoples now engaged as allies
in Picardy and Flanders. And of these
three, we, who are the richest in men
and treasure, are so far doing the least.
Criticism from Us now is not alone un-
deserved, but unworthy. And upon such
criticism the German will seize to make
propaganda both abroad and at home.
The war is to be won only by the un-
selfish, accomplishing and undoubting
efforts of the three great nations now
fighting upon the Western front. To-
day as yesterday the heaviest weight Of
the storm is upon the British, tomorrow
we may take some of the burden off, the
burden of attack, but now, when all de-
pends upon the holding of the line, there
must be and there should be an effort on
the part of every American to make
those who at the risk Of life are holding
it, shedding their blood without stint and
without hesitation, realize how deep is
our sense of obligation to them and how
unqualified our confidence and our ad-
miration.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22
Our First Army

Our first army in France will have a
strength of 100000. 1t will be the larg-
est army unit in the field. That is be-
cause, while greatly enlarging our regi-
ments, we have clung to the old formula
of three regiments to brigade, three
brigades to a division and three divi-
sions to an army corps.
In the Civil War the standard bri
gade consisted of three regiments of
1000 men each. Three brigades consti
tuted division and three divisions a
corps. The paper strength of a corps
was 27,000: But in fact it fell far be-
low that figure, because regimental
losses were not replaced and brigades
and regiments quickly became skeleton
lzed. In the Army of the Potomac in
1868 the average corps strength was un-
der $4,000. The First Corps had only
about 10000 men. 1t was so reduced
after the battle of Gettysburg that it
was found advisable to consolidate it
with another corps.
The Confederate army corps which
fought at Gettysburg were much larger.
Their numbers were maintained by the
device of putting more than three regi-
ments into brigade and more than
three brigades into division. A three
brigade division nowadays is larger than
the army corps used to be. The regi-
ment is 5000 strong, the brigade over
5000. The division comprises, with the
auxiliary services, more than 10000 men.
and with three divisions corps runs up
to about 100000. The new American
army in France will have two such
corps.
Our organization departs widely from
that of the Continental armies. The
German division is now down to 10000
on paper-to less than that in realitv.
The brigade is ignored in the most mod
ern scheme of organization: A colonel
commands French or German regi-
ment; the next officer above him is a
general of division-what we call q
major general. Four regiments consti
tute German division. Five regiments
constitute French division. Six reei-
ments constitute British division.
With three divisions Continental corps
would run in strength from $4,000 to
4o,oOo. But armies are usually consti-
tuted of varying number Of divisions.
the intermediate corps formation being
set aside.
Our first army will be an imposing
military body. Its organization may be
found in practice to be too complicated.
and the division units may eventually
be reduced in size in order to insure
greater mobility. 1t is to be composed
OF the American troops which have seen
longest service in France and whose
mettle has been tested on the Cham
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22

transferring the Irish vote here from the
Democratic to the Republican party, and
that candidates for office must be black
listed who sustain our President, and
that his silence concerning your Sim
Fein rebellion is criminal.
1t may be that this is not what you
said, for | was not at your meeting and
did not hear you say it, but it is the
sense of the newspaper reports Of what
you said. The German militarists, the
German newspapers, can get these re-
ports, circulate them throughout Ger
many, accompany them with stories of
the furor you did not raise, and never
can raise, in this country but the furor
that they will say you did raise, and the
publication of those things in Germany
will encourage the German people to fur
ther excesses in their iniquities, and that
might result, you see, in my son and the
sons of thousands of other Americans be-
ing killed-American who are sorry for
you and who are earnest in their sympa-
thy with Home Rule in Ireland.
Now, Mrs. Skef6ngton, you must see
that you must stop it. Whether you are
conscious of it or not, whether you mean
to be or not, whatever your provocation,
short-sighted or long-sighted as you may
be in respect of the cause of universal
liberty, your husband is dead, and I, and
the millions Of Americans for whom I
am trying to speak, have got our sons,
our husbands, our men of every degree
and relationship-we have got them to
think of, and you must stop.
LEMUEL ELY QUIGG.
New York, May 20, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-22
Exit Railroad Presidents

The Director General of Railroads is
always sudden and unexpected. Out Of
hand, as part of days work in his bed
chamber, he fires all the railroad presi-
dents. Federal directors will be put in
their stead. Some of the same men may
be appointed to the new task, but they
will not be presidents any more. They
will be government agents, responsible
only to the Director General, much in the
same way, we suppose, that the president
of bankrupt railroad is appointed re-
ceiver and becomes responsible not to the
stockholders but to the court Things
then continue to go on very much as
before. So it will be in this case. You
will have gone to sleep in your Pullman
at New York and you will have got up
and tipped your porter at Washington
without the slightest physical notice that
anything unusual has happened. Then
it will seem, on second thought, detail
of government operation. Largely it is.
The railroad presidents really lost their
jobs the day the government took over
the railroads. They have had almost
nothing to do since except to sit in un-
ease and draw their pay. Their position
was uncomfortable. They were respon-
sible to their stockholders and powerless.
They could take orders only from the
Director General. There were bound to
be instances Of bad grace. That woulu
be only human. This outcome was per-
haps inevitable. It will be objected that
Mr.. McAdoo's action is arbitrary. Pos
sibly so. But he must have the faults of
his virtues. The courage to be arbitrary
is dynamic. If Mr.. McAdoo had not that
quality he would not be successful Di-
rector General Of Railroads, in addition
to his other responsibilities. When he
says he was unable to escape the conclu-
sion that the presidents should go,
strong presumption arises in his favor,
because, so far, as is generally conceded,
he has done very good job of directing
half the railroad mileage of the world