The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-05
SHRAPNEL.

If David was alive today he would
gather up pocket full of rocks and
bounce them off the head of the kaiser
It's Just getting to be so in this
country that the man who likes sauer-
lraut is looked on with suspicion.
When a hog gets on the track down
in east Texas, will the engineer have
to call Mr. McAdoo to shoe i'm off?
Slcing their white prisoners heels
off and making them run barefoot
through a wilderness of cactus is one
of the bloody diversions of the Yaqui
Indians in Mexico Yet there are some
Americans who prefer Mexico to the
land of Miss Columbia.
What has become of the old-fashioned
girl with her hair in two plaits down
her back and who blusned when a man
spoke to her?
The administration railroad bill as
introduced yesterday in congress and
published in The Ardmoreite calls for
drastic punishment in stripes of any
individual, no matter at which end Of
the social scale ne may consider him.
self to be, who hinders or obstructs
by any willful manner operation of
trains. This, of course, is aimed prin.
cipally at Woud-be strikers, and will
prove to be the acid test of govern
ment ownership.
Il am sanguine enough to imagine
that the Russian and German armies
on the eastern front some day will
march together against the common foe
OF the worlds proletariat in Germany
itself and perhaps in other countries,
too said the new bolshevik ambas.
sador to Britain in conversation with
London newspaper man. Truth is
stranger than fiction ever could be. and
it may be that this bolshevik prophecy
will come so true that the kaiser's head
will some morning adorn a pole i'm Ber.
lin; and there are Mein Herr Charles
of Austria, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the
Turkey buz2ard in COnstantinople, and
all of their retinue of canking saber
and brutal pride who would make good
meat for a headsmans AK Come to
Ardmore.
Senator EardwiCk, Democrat, of Geor.
gia, declared yesterday in the senate
that President Wilson's action in hold
ing over his cabinet members from his
first term without submitting their
nominations anew was "a contemptu-
GUS disregard" of senatorial courtesy.
and the senator introduced a resolu.
tion calling on the president to inform
the senate by what warrants or law"
the present cabinet officers hold their
offices. The resolution went over with.
out action and Senator Hardwck prom.
ised to make speech on it later. Go
to it, Senator Eiardwick-anything to
harness man who has a world on his
hands, and that world atire.
a cablegram from Petrograd says dis.
closure OF details of the Brest Litovsk
peace negotiations makes il clear that
Germany assumed a domineerng atti-
tude, while Austria, Bulgaria and Tur.
key were conciliatory and disagreed with
the German position. The message sta
ted also that Germany posed constant
ly as conqueror, while her three al
lies showed eagerness for peace and
disposition to compromise. This yer.
sion of the affair is just about correct.
as any student of current events can
discern. There seems no doubt that
Germany's allies have got enough of
war and seas of blood, but the vora-
cious Prussian vulture is not yet sur.
feited, and will not be until the giant
republic of the western world beats his
brains out.