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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-10-29

! tyranny. Some Of them speak fairly
II the German private soldier with as
t1uishng generosity indeed
"Thcv were well behaved, orderly
md a0art from the ineyi,,hle bruteS
anon. them gave no trouble said one
Ut the most notable gentlemen OF
grugcs and he added at is right and
lair we should tell that to the world -
But having said that he and other
r'en | rct denounced the German off
Gals and the German officers OF the
regular army type with passionate IN
aignl'iOu
German Beshality Educated
"Thcy were utterly lacking in any
0irltuali'y" said a friend OF mine, Nr
lean de Erouwcr. "Many OF them we're
.n-nlrcd by a kind oi silent pride and
U.o.orhy and they have beSiallty
.. character which was not accidental
.ut deliberate and educated %
lie told me stories OF gross behavio
which would be unbelievable n | did
1i have good evidence The worst ol
! these men were the submarine com
Imandcr, who infested RruGcs They
we're swapCoring bulles like probes
sional ducllists in the old days, taking
,'ls for the sake Of applause and adu-
| 'ation IRON their fellows.
Trivial Causes for Arrest
The brutal police were worse than
| ne military authorities Worse than
/ rc German officers of the most brutal
| tUc were these German secret police
Who went about among the people as
pies IN plain clothes and with a ven
,wouS delight in tracking out small
. ..,cnscs against the German law, S,
, nat they might he punished by heav'
ncS or imprisonment Hundreds o
I men in BruqcS were fined sometime
Z normous sums or taken to prison il
. lcrmany for trivial reasons Jean d
] Brouwcr was lined 500 marks 10
10 writing 20 the authorities in French in
4 'cad of Flemish and this was the in
.icnt IN a deliberate effort made b
lr German authorities to sow th
% ccds of dis,cnsion between ElcmiS
q md French speaking peoples OF Re-
u .um
The nuns oi the Flemish convent wer
Wtd lOOO marks because one OF the,
G ladies when asked the time hy a Ger
MAN officer inspecting their hous,
rrllcd out her watch and gave Be
ian instead OF German time
Craft Machines Taken
q The taking Of wool from every hon
nd every MISTRESS and all the line
e rom the beds and cunhoardS and IN
n lrass door handles and lamps and OF
e nmcni, was CALLING TO the people ,
. Nruges, but IN order to replace the
Il oolen mattresses by straw they ha
c 90 pay one mark for every kilo ,
e 'r3w or a hundred times more tina
r escnt war prices And having take
Nclr goods and their factories N
q Germans rcsold the manufacture
n foods according TO lhc same scale ,
prices
I'VE were uranglcd alter they ha
y -oahcd u.s. said one ul the biggt
q manufacturers OF BrugeS This yer
, lleman who revived the old crafts
p his city OF schools OF craitsmansht
J. IN good carving, leather, stained gla'
n and embroldcries, had many iactorie
. employing thousands OF work peop
2 nd fitted with extensive rnaehiner
" Nj those machines were taken ava
r and now even Il peace comes. the wor
~ ncaple vii he unable to continue the
IN industry ard the lifelong labor of Il
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o, MAMMALIAN FOSTER

ARIs. An army as
~ someone said, may travel on
4 its stomach, but there Is a
certain bunch OF American
troops Just now butting around on
ne map OF France who would Ike
10 cet their hands on the man who
saI1 Il. The troops in question,
TWO brigades OF infantry. are very
much OF the opinion that an army
travels on its feet. They are still
further somewhat OF the opinion
that In the army's handbook OF
physiology there Is no such word
ss stomach.
A fortnight ago the two brigades
landed at a certain port Without
nffrontlng the censor, II may be
said that the port is more than one
hundred and fifty miles from the
front. It may also be said that the
two brigades were put ashore sfoot.
After gtanding on the said feet a
few hours or 30 the newly arrived
warriors we're marched on q few
uarasangs. after which they ar
r1ved Mt a certain railroad station.
BY this time, there was not a man
In the lot who wasn't hlled win
buspicion that nm army this part
0t II anyway, travels On It's feet
But this was Just beginning.
a STORY ABOUT WALKING.
There we're trains at the station.
U7vlnr climbed aboard the trains.
which each individual soldier be-
llr.od we're 10 take them TO their
destination, the lads IN khaki
drarad themselves In and about
ile cars In that graceful way all
ec'7'ors have Of drar'ng them
ftlyes. PrCcently, amid rouslng
cheers the trains got under way.
II wasn't for far. though; not more
than couple Of hours walk. which
the trains did n that same gait;
for. having arrived at a country
crossroads the train, crme TO a
dlrnl0ed halt "Got out and walk"
vas the order then
The two brigades walked They
walked all that day-Or i' seemed
n that day, at any rate After
that they canned And camping"
nr This occasion was not the kind
= o-~ping where you fii cut with
ret under n tree and eGt ham
Cllcren snndwIchre pie and
AXE what the two hr'rades ate
us willie" kind N preserved
iomethiug or tho other rut up in
Harvcyi.ed steel containers The
lntairo-B you can o-." y'ih an
a1e-that ie. n you | 10
aim straiFh,-af'"r w .'r
up with your ,,aspl". .r
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fingers what you have not distri-
buted over the landscape with an
aIe. Camping In France Is not
what II is at homo.
The next day the two brigades
walked some more. That day there
was Willie" again. And on the
following day again they walked.
There Is, in fact, a great deal OF
walking in this story. There was
about one hundred and fifty miles
Of II in what the two brigades did
the next days, but lack OF space
does nSt let one describe It In de-
tail.
Seeing France" was what the
two brigades came TO term II but
at the end OF the sixth day there
arose strong suspicion that II could
not be only France they were see
Ing. France was not large enough
to hold ali that seeing" they were
sure. However, never mind about
that either Each day they walked
and ate more willie"
NOT A SMOKE IN SIGHT.
Understand, now, that army in
Franco is extremely we'll fed. Al .
permanent ca lp and even In the
front line trenches the food 10
varied and Of the very best But
when troops are hiking the way
these two 6I,Fades had TO hike
there was neither time nor oppor-
tunlty 10 tickle the lads with
tastles. That was nothing. though.
II wasn't the food that was the
trouble. The Willie" still held
out; but everything else was
"napoO.' There was not a pipeful
OF tobncco in the outfit. The last
chaw OF chewing hnd been chavn-
As for a cigarette, had anyone dis
played one there would have been
q riot
The two briGades walked on.
They h7d no orders TO quit march
ing They rose each morning and
walked. The song where Do We
Go From Here" ceased TO have
any inspiratlunal effect. They were
far. far from knowing whore they
were going. The long lines OF
weary, worn, fagEedout men we're
fed up with their marching. They
had come aioOt with all their gear
more than one hundred and nifty
miles In a little more than six days.
Another day Ike this. and
About this time there arrived IN
Paris a courier. The courier Ike
that line Of footsore, weary lads
traroping along on their way, was
white from heqd TO foot with the
dust Of the white. chalky roads OF
France. Hali.past seven In the
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man who devoted himself to ideals OF
beauty is utterly ruined
That is only part OF the tragedy oi
Bruges as OF many other cities in Bel
Cium and Northern France where the
Germans destroyed scientifically the
industry OF towns and villages in order
10 be free Of their comne,ltion.
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2RUeES CREETS
RELCINNS' KING
/. WITH GREAT JOY

Rv pLlILn Gihhs-

hN lhl'V hluuNa
,"opyua0'. '.... I. f.r .,. No.' Times !
WAR tORRESPONDEN 7 81
HEADQUARTERS. oct ~ Aitcr
ne rr TWO puN.. visits hc king and
u..n Of thc Belgian. made state
uirv into bupr, ln. queen rode oU
.re left OF the king anil uu h, right
NaS young Prince Leopold in the uul-
form OF his regiment 1l Jatb'ngcrs.
livery soul in the city was ~ the
streets or al their wi~dow, and bal
tlUlcs and there were flaming fires OF
enthusiasm wherever The people who
had waited for four years for this day
when the entry of the brave soldier
who STAYED with his army on the mar
,Iw strip Of ground which Wa, all his
kingdom would symbolic 20 them the
'e,urn OF their liberties
For the time while King Albert re-.
viewed his troops the people OF BrugC,
held back in the hollow square, but al
tcrwards when he went up the steps OF
the governors house they broke the
bounds, and tens OF thousands OF then
surgcd around him cheering that tat
,'igorc who looked down upon then
...l his hand al salute with the muy
joyous and wonderful emotion
Glory OF Bluges.
From hundreds oI old houses 10
IUrugc, long banner, iollti with lh,
rOn colorS oi the Halglan llau and or
lfHis splendid day oi autumn the tree
along the canals and the wlllS'o III,
UmSes above the stone bridge, wrrv
,tpld and scarlet in glory OF their dy
ling foliage, so that Bugr, was like
iplinting in am old boltaud one wen
iwilh wonder into the heart OF it
, The Bellry rang ont a Joyous carilloI
and from other tall towers OF IN,
t,mfcheS built live dream house,
(uycr the gabled roofs there was thr
(loomirg OF dcep toned bcll, Ncr
,goihing below the singing note, ot Nh,
Hc'iry chimes the voice, ui many cen
ttufics seemed 10 Winglc with I'M
hIuts of the living drawn into lh
IHIst history Of Brures when there Vcr
4 other wars and other ,cryimdc avid ,h
tmuSic OF bell, was iul .uf ihc Old sad
fnrsS OF life mingled with tina, dancin,
7garillon, like the laughter ii yhildrcl
lulo fOrgct
Suffering Was "Nothing."
2 Poor Bruoes will not soon forge
fthese past four years Tor they scarret
the spirit OF her people nhysicall,
They put laside their suffering. dear
mess and scarcity ol food lack oi coa
shabbiness OF clothes that had to b
worn Tor four years--a, suit OF elo,he
Aeo,n twsnty-seven peurds-iiru with
sshruF Of shoulders and t,c words "a
thM wa nothing" Bu,~ what hur
! 'srn, which was HAD - bear. wa
'Aeir utter helplesncss uuder the ire
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hau con their fn~ los goo. O.
20 tho "Y," and b.y had woa a
what became " LAT money
they fgv. H.. weren't la.y
cheeriug tho ~ though They
we're cheering too, II they didn't
know IL, their families and friends
who are the "Ys backbone
An hour later the Red Triangle
was firmly established in those two
French towns. Ihe Roman Catho-
llc church In one u the towns gave
the "Y" the use of an entire house
II owned on the public square. in
the other town 'he mayor gave The
"Y" permission TO opcn whore II
would. That evening two Rcd
Triangle csutecus were In 'uIl
blast
, ON RED TRIANGLE PAPER
The two towns vero queer TO see
that Sunday. There we're boys 70
khaki spread all over the place.
Every boy had a cigarette tucked
between his lIrs og he was chewing
away at a lawful Of gum, or NIB
bling at a sl9b = eating choco.
l-'o. And vhllo he smoked or
chewed or nIhhled, about every one
~ those lads was lnteTly scrib
llim, away on n sheet ~ note paper
With a Red Triangle marked at the
tnn. The Trner was the note paper
tie "Y' trucks had brought along;
and for the FIRST time sinco they
had set foot IN France, our boys
we're writing home.
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strong hope that there has been an
error and that her husband is not dead.
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Bous of Two American BattaGOns Emphatic
ally Disagree with Person Who Said an
Army TRAVELS on It's Stomdch-Ks the Feet
= that Count, They're Certain - Dedrth OF
Il Smokes Makes Aching SOleS Sopr Tired
San,nlieS Discover.
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HolloWe'en Parties
Banned to Prevent
Spread of Epidemic

The shop windows are ,ctmInu with
black cats iack.u- lanterns and wucHc,.
heraldlng the approach OF Halloween.
Several new souvenir, are introduced
this season for the pleasure OF the
younger members OF the family. VINO
are still interested in eating salt AMI
pectlng into mirror as thcy walk
down the cellar stairs backwards hop
ing to yet a glimpse Of their future
mate, Celebration OF Halloween must
he kept within the limits of the fami,
as a ban has been placed on gathering,
even as small as Halloween parties.
The ghosts and the goblins who
usually frequent the streets ON Al
Halloween night must remain within
their own homes A iack-o'lantern ma,
be placed in the window or swung from
the balcony for the amusement Of the
children and other emhlems Signiiican,
OF the mysterious festival used to dec
crate the home but other than thai
Halloween must pass unnoticed this
year giving place TO a more serious
goblin-that OF influenza
Wheat more than six feet In height
has been grown on a farm in Devon
shire England, which is entirely
worked and managed bv women's labor
=
Although women are eligible TO ST, In
the Norwegian parliament. no woman
has vet been elected to membership in
that body This is accounted for large
" BY the electoral SySter' and I've
women are working hard to change it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-02
MOTHER! YOUR CHILD
is CROSS, FEVERISH,
FROM CONSTIPATION
If tongue Is coated, breath bad, stomach
sour, clean liver and
bowels.

Give California Syrup Of Figs" at
outc-o teaspoonful today often saves
a seek child tomorrow.
II your little ono is out -of.sorts, half
sItN' ISM resting, eating and acting
HatuFally-look, MotAerl see if tongue
= coated. This is sure sign that its
httle stomach, liver and bowels are
clogged with waste. When cross. irri.
taoIg' teverish, stomach sour, breath bad
or has stomachache, diarrhoca, sore
throat, full of cold, give a tcaspoonfuI
OF " California Syrup Of Figs. " and in
few hours all the constipatcd poison.
undigcstCd food and sour bile gently
moves out Of its little bowels without
gripping, and You have a weu. nlavfni
child again.
Mothers can rest easy after oivirc
this harmless fruit laxative. 3, because
u never fails 20 cleanse the little ono =
liver and bowels and swecten the ston.
aeh and they dearly love its pleasont
taste. Full directions for babies. chill.
drcn of all ages and for grown.ups print.
cd on each bottle.
Beware Of counterfeit fig syrups
Ask your druggist for bottle OF
California Syrup of Figs" then see
that u is made by the California Flo
Syrup Company. ''-Advt.
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the movement Of soft coal to the south
and west
In the mining districts Of Pennsvl-
wanna 1t was reported yards and sidings
had been cleared of recent snow and
traffic would show Improvement today.
Conditions in Michigan improved great
~ because Of special embargocs, and
there was notable reduction i'm az
foundations. The Chicago. Terre Haura
and Southeastern railroad was entirely
out OF commission on account eff defec-
tive water tanks. In New England
there was continued Slight IMPROVE
ment. In the whole territory the ne
eumulatlcn amounted Yesterday to
about $4,000 carloads, the rrincipaI
congestion being in eastbound freight.
In this harbor conditions improved
to some degree. Ice in the river,
thinned little, but there was consii-
cradle still floating in the Kill van
kull- Coal, frozen soHdly in ears. re
taIded dumping and contributed there
tore to more congestion on the lines
and in the wards
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-02
Letters, on Average, Take
from Is to SO Days to
Reach Soldiers
DELAY CAUSED BY
MOVING OF UNITS
Plan of Sending Mail from Canadian
Ports via England Found to Be Less
Satisfactory Than Shipment Direct
From New YC-k.

SrIr<-crDN~
-'''iii w ~ + CD IN answer
TO resolution introduced IN the house
by Representative Rogers (Massachu-
sett,) Postmaster General RnrIesop ,-os.
tar3a,. md, = 4,,, -. 4.
~ CIV 7f''' NJ. !
- 'Ho 'i''o with Whlch soldier mail
10 France IS handled and the methods
employed.
He said the average lencth nj time
"a ,po,,s o Lotto. froa, -, 49,
'i''''' so .
- an -A''''I4eah Soldlof IN the trenches
Is between - and 30 days He eX-
planned, though, where units have been
moved ranidE, from one r,1oca "a ona.i,
OPP nv =, man i, 5o..lt.o, -;
a,,,,,,,,.-I C''' ''-' l'' !'''
'''-'''''''a the time would be somewhat
longer.
This informo+iou : IN ,o,,s;.. ,,-;.,
that aa+bar.a ~. A.. po..u., .l..-..
''oS''' "ui ing Ms
stay ." lhe American front Ill France
Sometimes fully six months were re.
CURED for the transmission Of letter
mani from home to the soldiers, and
much mail was lost
l"n'i+daNCI general report cX'
rIalned that after the mail IS delivered
IN bulk to mail orderlies in France il
passes out Of the hands OF the post
office department and in to those Of
the army Mn Burleson admitted some.
times the transports bv which mail is
transmitted are so filled with supplies
and other things it is impossible to ear
y paper and parcel mail on them. To
show the frequency with which steam.
ships and transports CARVING latto,
mail left New York Mr.. BurIeson noint
cd 10 the sailing dates in the last 4hreo
months in all a of these annearrd
The average time REQUIRED for NOV.
ing the mail to French ports after :,
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CHURCH NOTICES.

First Church Of Christ, Scientist.
Emerson building, Elliot street. sun
day service at 1915 a. m Subject.
Love Wednesday evening testimonial
meeting at 7.45. Reading room open
daily, except Sundays and legal holt
days. from 70 > o clock All are vel
come
st. Michacl's Roman Catholi. church
The Feast of Candlemas Dav. being
kept ON sunday. candles will be blessed
before the $50 mass They NAV be oh.
tanned after the first or last mass. II
BEING also the feast of st. Blaise. the
patron for protection against throat
troubles, the throats will be blessed
Sunday afternoon AT 80 o clock. Ben
edIctlon immediately after the BLESSING
II the Threats. Catechism at , clock
IL Oak Grove school
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FLOODS HAMPER
EASTERN LINES
Little Progress Made To-
ward Relief of Conges-
ton, Say Officials
MILES OF TRACK
... So. ARE UNDER WATER
for East-Traffic in Mining Districts
VIII Show Improvement if Storms
Cease for a Little.

NEW YORK, Feb 2.-The railroads
of the eastern territory reported to A
IL. Smith, regional director, yesterday
they were continuing to exert their best
efforts to break up freight congestion,
that a little progress was being made
here and there, but bad weather and
floods were holding them back.
The flood situation has come to be
more annoying even than the bad con
ditions caused by ice and snow. Around
Cincinnati very important producing
and shipping territory is cut off by ris-
ing streams that have submerged rall-
way lines, compelled the abandonment
of yards and terminals and have caused
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
loss. y few miles south of Cincinnati
an ice gorge has formed III the Ohio
river. In consequence the water has
backed up over the banks and over
flowed a large district.
There are similar conditions in West
Virginia, where the supply of bitumi-
nous coal has been reduced because of
floods that have thrown the waters of
the Big Sandy, Kanawha and other
rivers out Of their channels. Several
large mines are entirely cut off and
many of the coal carrying branch rail
way lines are unable to operate. Both
around Cincinnati and elsewhere in the
ONO valley, and also in the West Vir-
glnla field, the temperature was drop
ping yesterday and there was hope that
the floods would be checked and re
cede.
In the central west a recurrence of
zero weather caused further discourage
ment to the operating officials of the
carriers. Bad weather has been their
excuse mainly day after day since be
tore Christmas, but they insisted again
yesterday there has never been such a
stretch of evil weather in the history
OF the country. At the office of the re-
glonal director the statement of the
weather observer of this district that
january, 1918, was the coolest month
III the bureau s histry was pointed to.
The cold yesterday reduced tonnage in
some sections.
There was fair movement of live
stock and perishable 1reights out of
Chicago for the east. In general. it
was reported to the regional director
there was good flow of food and fuel
from west to east, to the six principal
Atlantic ports the allies depend upon
Chicago sent 500 carloads of live stock.
dressed meats ana other foods, but
there was a shortage Of refrigerator
cars The food administrator s requests
caused the railroad administration to
send four trains loaded only with food
Tor live stock from Cedar Rapids to the
east.
In the Pittsburg district, where the
trouble has been severe, the coal and
coke movement improved, but it is by
no means recovered from the setbacks
given It By ice, snow and sleet. The
Ice choked and gorged the Ohio river,
and the condition of the Monongahela
ana Allegheny rivers interferes with
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-02
GERMANS STILL
ROBB|NG BELGIUM
Destruction of Industries
Also Continues Without
Cessation
SWORD A FACTOR
IN TEUTONIC RULE
Victims is No Longer Published
Girls Forced to Witness Killing of
Parents.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Robbing OF
dustries by the Germans continues re
lentlessly, according to dispatches tc
the Belgian legation here. Linen and
mattresses are being taken from hotels
boarding houses and converts and the
/ Belgians are not allowed to have wool
IN their possession. They are offered
seaweed as a substitute for wool al
five cents a pound. The big electric
plant known as Il 'Eseaut' is said
to have been stripped and its machinery
placed in the German plant known as
Rombacher Hutte.
The sword the gibbet, and the prison
are still the main factors of German
rule in Belgium. The executions for the
year number ITO, killed for some patri
otlc ''crime - under the rule of Gov.
ernor Fon Falkenhausen, who succeed
ed won Kissing. Among them were l0
women, three girls from II to l6, and
several boys under 20. Won Falken-
| hansen, surnamed "the tiger has
ceased to publish the official lists of
the murdered men, in order that the
names of the maTtyrssof Belgium should
not be worshippcd by their compatriots
and has had them buried inside the
prisons where they we're executed so
that their tombs should not be covered
with flowers by their friends.
Most Of these victims Of German Ter.
rorlSm have been SUFFERED before their
execution, to most cruel fortunes in or
der to force them to denounce their
| accomPlices. The two daughters
OF NJ Groneret, a shopkeeper of Liege,
were forced to witness the death of
their father and mother. Life was then
promised to them ii they would con
sent to speak. The eldest, aged 90.
refused courageouslv. and was killed
beside her parents Pressure was then
put on the Younger. girl Of II, but
she remained firm in spite of all efforts
OF her tormentors and Shared the same
fate. III a Rr6up 81 90 pttrristoners Slot
recently At Ghent, was a Young girl Of
10, whose only crime had been to carry
letters over the frontier. She bepged
for her life until the last moment @rd
was shot kuecling.
Before his execution Il well-known
sportsman Of Ghcnt, Van Rentecen,
was dragged at the end Of a chain
through the streets Of the town and
subjected TO the insults of the soldiers
who pelted him with mud and spat On
nm. The following is an extract from
a letter written to his wife few hours
before his death by a young Fleming
aged 20, one of the latest victims of
German terrorism:
My hour has come | have re-
celNed the Last Sacraments | am 90.
ing to give my life gladly for God and
country. For the last time l kiss vouI
dear picture and those of my beloved
children. Goodbye, my poor dear
Wlfe; goodbye, my little innocent chill
dren. My love for you will not die
with me. From heaven l will watch
over YOU and pray for you.