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MEMS SHIRTS

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CATTLE DIPPING SETS
NEW RECORD FOR MAY

REPORTS fror the nureau ~ Animal
Industry disclose that MuN set d new
record in the work NJ Graduating the
cattle fever tick la THAI month the
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the largest numbcg reported In any one
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MEMS HATS

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WASH PETTICOATS PRICED
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
A REAL PEACE.
BY William Almon Wolff
of The Vigilantes.

Everyone wants peace. But II
must be a real peace. The last hope
OF beaten Germany is to get a
peace that will not be a real one.
Clear, straight thinking in America
this spring will help to make that
impossible. That, after all, is the
vital need to this hour. 1t isn't
straight thinking that led some peo-
pie to see, in Won Hertlings reply
to President Wilson's last speech,
an agreement in the matter of Bel
GUM. The German chancellor said,
in effect, that Germany had never
meant to keep Belgium, and that the
whole matter of Belgium was one
to be brought up in the peace con-
ference.
Neverl The only question that
can even conceivably come up con-
cerning Belgium in the peace CON
ference is that Of the exact method
by which Germany is to make what
little reparation money can make
for the crime of rape. There can't
be a peace conference, even, until
Germany has agreed, convincingly,
to evacuate Belgium and repair the
wrong she has done there. And
that applies as much to northern
France and to Servia as to Belgium.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
SACRIFICING THE CHILDREN.

The school physician OF Chem
nitz, Germany, is reported to have
advised that the children OF that city
give up sports and energetic play,
including walking trips, in order to
economic food, The more they eX-
ercise, he explains, the more food
they will want. But cutting out ex-
ercise, they can get along on less
food without suffering unduly from
the pangs of hunger.
Certainly they can save food that
way. But at what price German
childhood has already paid an ap-
palling war toll in disease and death,
resulting from improper and INSULT
cient nourishment. Now the toll is
to be increased by making sport and
play "verboten" things. The boys
and girls are to sit with folded
hands, lest they develop normal ap-
petites and call for food which Ger
many wants for her soldiers.
The children must be sacrificed to
the army. They must die from lack
of food, in order that the German
militaristS may oVerrun still more
territory and make more foreign
peoples subject to their brutal pow
er. Children are TO be fed to the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
What Name For This?

Without a fort, without an army,
Luxembourg drew up across the
road the Germans were flooding, a
motor van (called a panier-a-salad,
a salad basket. The Germans
laughed and rolled it into a ditch,
and the mighty host of invaders,
having long been ready, marched
triumphantly into Luxembourg 5
long dismantled fortress, placed
their feet on the breast OF the maid
Ell they had sworn to protect, and
went their way along the smooth,
unlawful road to France.
What is a motor van dumped
into a ditch? 1t is a silly thing,
with helpless wheels sticking in the
air like a tortoise turned upon its
back. \ salad basket set across the
road to stop the war hosts OF the
| All Powerful War Lord. The Ger
mans laughed as they marched by
lit: There is Luxembourg's colos-
sal defense a motor van upset in
ditch. Ii was a good joke; they
did not forget that soon.
Neither let us forget it. Let us
mot forge; that ii anything could
be more vile than the rape of Bel
gium, the violation of helpless, un-
armed Luxembourg was ten times
more vile. When the time comes
to demand reparation ior the
wounds OF the youth who fought
from the hills OF Liege to the sands
Of the User remember the maiden
who, weak and defenseless, saw her
sworn protectors iron heel fall upon
her tender breast, making OF her a
pathway and slave.
What name have you for this ?
What name have you for this Ger
many? What shall We call this yio-
lator of nations?
When Germany tossed the motor
van aside she besmirched a whole
world, said Nations are liars; trca-
ties are but scraps of paper; oaths
are not binding" Can any Lux
embourg ever believe any nation
again?
Yes. When the Hun is driven
back like whipped cur and made
Ito swallow the lie that nations are
I liars. Not until then. When France
and Belgium are rebuilt-not until
then. And not then. Not until,
with lesson well learned, the next
squad OF German soldiers leaves
Luxembourg and, leaving, replaces
the motor van - panicr-a- salad -
across the famous road, the Luxem-
bourger Loeb.
And then the nations should erect
there a panier-a-salad of bronze as
as a sign to all the world that all
nations are not liars; that the ma
tions of the earth, united, have the
will and the power to keep treaties
inyiolate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
(By Ellis Parker Butler).

think of Belgium as a youth, a
slender lad like David, tending the
hocks Of peace while all around him
slept the Goliath nations. He IS
armed with his sling and pebbles,
this Belgium, but he has no fear,
for the giants have sworn that how
ever much they may battle he shall
not be harmed. Then upon him
leaps liar giant, breaker OF prom
ises, and cries Stand aside, weak
ling! Break thou thy oath and let
me pass"
Scared bruised, wounded but
fighting still, the youth Belgium fell
back and back before the Steel-clad,
blood-reeking monster and Bel
gums name shall ever be honored.
He used the sling and pebbles well
and fought a good fight Brave
Belgium.
There is another little nation.
Hard by Belgium and i'll the path
Of the oath-breaking Hun was this
little nation that | think OF as a
maiden. Like Belgium, Luxem-
burg was a neutralized nation but,
unlike Belgium, LuNembourgs neu-
trality was an unarmed neutrality.
."Child,' the nations said to her,
you are our little sister and we will
keep you inviolate. We VOW the
vow Of strong men that we will pro-
tect you and respect your weakness.
Throw aside your puny weapon and
trust to Us"
The nations said that to LuXem-
bourg in 1867. Her only fortress
was then dismantled and razed to
the ground and her army was re
duccd and limited to one company
of gendarmes and one company of
infantry. Thus She was made pow
erless to resist She was made as
defenseless as Nydia, the blind girl
OF Pompeii. 1t was like some
chapter in tales OF ancient chivalry,
with Luxembourg the tender, help
less maiden, surrounded by the
brave and true knights sworn to
protect her. Had the knights sworn
by the blood of Christ Gas knights
did in olden days their oaths could
not have been more solemnly sa-
cred. A pledged word is 4 pledged
word, and doubly sacred when Civ
en- to the helpless. The giant ma
tions kept their oaths sacred. EN-
cept Germany. Except Germany!
Against Germany we have mark
ed the wrongs of Belgium--Liege
bombarded, Louvain burned, old
men and women and children mur-
dered, slaughtered soldiers and ruin
ed towns, and in million years
Germany can not wipe out that
stain OF a neutral nation violated {;
but let us not forget Luxembourg.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
Apologies to r. Kip.

When the forces OF liquor are
routed,
And women are given the vote;
When fake stocks are no longer
touted,
And democracy has Wilhelm 5
goat;
When privileges all are abolished,
And derbies no longer are worn {;
When all alarm clocks are demol-
ished,
And the whangdoodlc ceases to
mourn;
When all the dream ships are un-
laden,
And all the straphangers have
seats;
When the right guy gets the right
maiden
And nobody minds what one eats /;
We shall rest--yes, Kipling, you
said it
Lie down for an aeon or two;
And think up-and gosh how we
dread it
Something else for reformers
to do, Chicago News.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
LABORLESS SEWING
VIZ.
SpOTJ FSS TOWN

The "SpotleSs Town" in the ia
bic never had anything on Labor
less Ardmore" from a health stand
point il the housewives hereabouts,
especially those who like to do
their own sewing, those who appre-
ciate the comforts derived from the
cooling breezes from a fan motor,
those who appreciate sharp house
hold knives and highly polished sill
verwarc, continue their activity in
purchasing the new sewing machine
invention which is being introduced
by the Consumers Light and Power
Company.
While "Spotless Town" in the ia
bic was noted Tor its healthfulness,
from a purely sanitary standpoint,
the labor required to bring about
this condition would have consigned
thousands Of workers to early
graves. Had those same workers
lived in Ardmore in this day and
had they harncssed their efforts with
the electric labor-saying devices
that can be had for minimum sums,
it indeed would have been a happy
combination
This comparison is not unreaSon-
able when we consider the thou
sands Of lives that have been wreck
ed and homes broken up as a result
. 4 1.1 J.. ,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
FARM MACHINERY.

There is a practical answer to cv-
cry practical problem. Every new
new difficulty in warfare is met with
little delay. SO is every difficulty in
industry, in time Of stress. 1t should
be the same with agriculture.
We have heard much lately re-
garding the hopelessness Of trying
to raise big crops under present CON
ditions, because of lack of labor. The
editor OF little newspaper in up
state New York gives the natural
answer. 1t is machinery.
"A farmer can buy a tractor" he
says, 'for from $400 to $1,4OO. He
can install a thirty-cow milking ma
chine for about $4O0. Add to this
the cost of a little gasoline engine,
and he ought to have in large meas
ure solved the hired help and pro-
duction problem, at one investment
OF from $500 to $780,
Last year. he says, an agent took
his first order for milking machines
in WatertOwn. 1t was for about
$3.50. Recently he made another
trop there, and got more than $l8,-
600 worth of orders. That shows
how the idea is taking. There is
one woman, he says, who is not
young, and whose hands are Grip
pied, who is taking care of dairy
of SO cows with no help but that Of
milking machine.
Here we seem 10 have the solution
OF the dairy problem as we'll as the
grain and vegetable problem. In the
good old days of the farming busi-
ness there was plenty Of labor, but
little machinery. Now the lack of
labor is at least made up by the
great increase Of available machin-
cry. And gauged by output, cxpen-
slye machinery now costs probably
less than cheap labor used to.
The farmers need money, of
buy tractors, gasoline engines, milk
ing machines, etc. But many Of
them who fancy that they can't
raise the money could manage it
easily enough, if they set about it.
That's what rural credit loans are
for. And there are many other
ways.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
THE VIGILANTES PLEDGE.
BY Ellis Parker Butler

The Nigilantes, the organization
OF writers who are giving their time
and talents to the work of winning
the war, gave a "wheatless-meat-
less dinner to hundred or more
influential New York men at the
Harvard Club, recently. Because
OF sudden illness Theodore RooSe-
welt, who was expected TO make the
address of the evening, was not
able to be present. Others spoke
and their words and manner OF
speaking left no doubt that the au-
thors of America are back OF the
war and meant to give OF their best
until it is won.
In many respects the dinner was
remarkable. Representing some 400
authors and artists the dinner was
a pledge that they would serve the
nation without pay and without re-
ward until the war was won. To
secure the services of similar men
OF talent in Germany, the German
government had spent years OF time
and fortunes of money, scattering
pensions and preferments, lifting
men above their natural class and
creating an actual aristocracy Of
Scryilc writer's. The enthusiasm OF
The Niligante dinner is proof that
a democracy has but to show the
need and her literature and art vol
unteer eagerly. Equally inspiring
was the evidence offered at the
dinner that thousands OF newspa-
pers are eager to print the work Of
the patriotic writers, placing it be-
fore some fifty million readers.
An America that can draw to her
aid such men and such media of
communicating the words Of such
men is safe. America, though the
war last a hundred years, cannot be
beaten. She has the will to win and
the men to write the words to
strengthen that will by proclaiming
patriotism, bipartisan and unmer-
cenary, through the land.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
SOLDIERS WHO CAN'T READ.

Up to last April, our army would
not accept ilhterates. Our govern
ment held, properly enough, that an
illiterate man cannot make a good
soldier in modern warfare. The
draft, however, changed that.
With our selective service, the
man who cannot read marches and
works and fights side by side with
the educated man. 1t is inevitable,
in a war of peoples for the preserva-
tion of democracy, that We should
adopt this democratic arrangement.
A mans a man. Men are fighting
for mems rights, all on an equal
footing
But it is unfortunate, neverthe-
less. In our first draft there were
nearly 10000 illiterates brought into
the army, and as many more are lit
tie less ignorant. We have regis
tered 100000 men who cannot read
or write, and most of whom are
possibly destined to enter the army.
Secretary of the Interior Lane
points out the element Of military
weakness that this brings.
They cannot sign their names.
They cannot read their orders
posted daily on bulletin boards in
camp.
They cannot read their manual
;
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
MARC HTO RESTRICT
GOODS TO SOLDIERS

Washington, March 27.-Ship-
ment OF any articles to troops in
France unless they have been re-
Quested by the soldier himself, has
been forbidden by Major General
March, acting CHIEF OF staff. They
will be refused ty the postofiice and
express companies unless accompa-
MED by an approved request from
the soldier.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

sumers company have put forth
many seemingly exaggerated claims
for this little home motor, and were
we less cognizant of many of the
possibilities contained in some of
these other devices, we perhaps
would be justified in considering
many of these claims a tissue of
sales tables. But with the proved
labor saving and health-giving pro-
pensities OF these older and better
known electrical devices, we are
forced to admit their right to the
claim they make Especially is this.
so when we realize that many Ard
more housewives have proved their
value TO their own satisfaction, right
in their own homes.
The little motor in question is
known as the SEW E-Z Sewing Mo-
tor, deriving its name from the easy
manner in which it performs its va
rious tasks. 1t fits and operates per-
fectly any type of family sewing ma
chine new or old. No screw or
bolt is necessary to faSten. You sim
ply set it on your machine next the
hand wheel.
The motor is connected to little
portable selt-starter which is placed
in any convenient position on the
floor. Press the self-starter lightly
with the foot and the motor starts
slowly. Press a bit harder and it
runs faster. Any one can sew all
day without feeling the least bit
tired.
Several attachments have been
especially designed Tor use on the
motor. 4 fan attachment which can
be put on in a moment, converts it
into very efficient fan motor. In
addition to this it has an emery
wheel ior sharpening household
knives, etc. and buffer attachment
for polishing silycrware, The Cream
Whippcr attachment is a new fea-
ture that makes it easy to whip
cream, beat eggs, mix salad dressing
and cake dough and save a lot OF
time and hard work. On the whole,
the outfit is very unique and grace
full and appeals very strongly 10
women who appreciate what cleo
tricjty is doing for the world in gem
craI and womankiud in particular.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
Member Of the Associated Press.
Ardmore. Wednesday, March p. 1915
SOLDIERS MEDALS.

France is doing America the high
honor Of decorating our soldiers
lust as she does her own, whenever
they perform distinguished service
in action. Every few days now we
read the names of another batch OF
Sammes who have had medals
pinned on their breasts by represent
atives of the French government.
1t must be disappointing TO those
lads when they 90 back to the front
to be obliged to unpin the medals
and hand them over to their quar-
termaster for storage. It's human
nature that the winner OF any such
honor should like TO display it in the
trenches, where it means more than
it will ever mean again. There cv-
cry comrade would treat him with
added respect. And going into bat
tie, he would fight more bravely than
ever, to vindicate his right to the
distinction.
Perhaps when they get home they
can wear the medals. That is some
compensation. But why not while
they are uniformed representatives
of the United States government,
fighting our battles?
The whole thing rests with con-
gress. The men in the army and
navy are forbidden, by a constitu-
tional technicality, TO accept honors
from any king, prince or foreign
state The present situation is alb
surd, for they are allowed to accept
them and forbidden to display them.
There is no logical reason whatever
for the prohibition. Congress is ex-
pected to remove the disability by
special enactment, but has not yet
done en-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

I have not found anyone in Can
ada, not a returned soldier. who
knows the status of the engineer
in France, 1t is mistaken idea
that the sapper in France does the
actual work involved in construc-
tion of trenches, roads, etc. The
Sapper in France has no time for
that. All he can do is to guide and
instruct working parties from in
tantry and other units.
One sapper will have the hand
ling of from fifty to one hundred
men nearly every day of his life.
A field company may be handled
in working parties drawn from 9th
er units up to l,500 men in a night,
at two or three assembly points.
The Sappers are there as consult
ing engineers to lay out the work,
10 set the task and report on the
amount OF work done by the work
ing parties under their direction and
to report on whether this work is
satisfactory. If the sappcr's report
shows that working parties have
not done what they should have
done, then division headquarters
brings pressure to bear so that the
unit that supplied that working par
ty will not have such thing occur
again.
The engineers training is of
two-fold nature. They are trained in
the technical duties OF engineers and
are given sufficient military train
ing so that they may apply their
technical knowledge effectively.
Included in their training are
drill, instruction in care of arms,
swimming, rowing, field intrench-
ments and works, knitting, splicing
and lashing, the use of blocks and
tackels, construction of trestles, etc,
construction of casks and boat RATS
and piers, construction of pontoon
bridges, etc, water supply apparatus,
obstacles, sapping and mining con-
struction and destruction of rail
roads, telegraphs, etc, road making
and repairing, riding and driving
drill, stable management and care
OF horses, etc. This training will in
many cases be of great value in civil
life after the war,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

Controller William estimates the
whole banking power of the nation
at $57,529,O00000, an increase of
more than $l5,55S,000,0OO since the
beginning of President Wilson's ad-
ministration. Taking the latest es-
innate OF the banking power of the
world, placed in 1890 at Sl5.55S.OOO.-
900, he said Americas increase was
alone nearly equal to the worlds
combined banking power twenty
seven wears ago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

1t is officially reported that man
ufacture of moonshine whisky is
increasing rapidly in "bone-dry"
states, and a nationwide campaign
against illegal distillation, in CO.
operation with state governors, is
planned.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

In 1916 the United States produc-
ed 3OO,OOO,O0O barrels of petroleum.
Last year petroleum production in
creased to 34l 100000 barrels. But
in that same year the consumption
of petroleum increased, according
to the geological survey, to 362,-
100000 barrels
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

Prussian war-god, in eyer-mcreasing
numbers, just as they used to be led
to Moloch, the hre-god.
Its a big price to pay for con
OuPCt
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
THE MEN WHO CAME BACK.
Copyrighted by the British-Cana-
dian Recruiting Mission).
by Lieut.. =. Evans
18th Canadian Engineers

Lieutenant Evans had exper-
fence IN Egypt and Africa, as
well as other remote places
where his profession of civil
engineer has fitted him to talk
to and advise men who contem-
plate enlistment in the Cana
dian Engineers).
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27
A Valuable Iron Tonic for the
Rlood

GROVES TASTELESS chill
TONIC Purihes and Enriches the
Blood. 1t arouses the liver, drives
out malaria and builds up the whole
system. A General Strengthening
Tonic for Adults and Children. 60c.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

She who devotes her spare time
to knitting Superabundance of
natty sweaters for herself should
be ashamed TO claim the protection
OF the brave lads in the trenches
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-27

Conservation OF daylight is a fine
proposition. The next thing sorely
needed is an elastic railroad sched-
ule.