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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

echo in the empty streets like those of
belated wayfarer in midnight Oxford. "How
doth the city sit desolate that once was
full of people," Again, there are towns
like Arras, whose flesh, though torn, has
life in it still, and seems to feel new
man there to be hit. These are the broad
er differences between one part of the front
and another. In any one place there are
minor caprices of destruction or survival
Mr.. Bone has drawn the top of the Albert
Church tower, q building that was ugly
when it was whole, but now is famous for
its impending figure of the Virgin, knocked
by artillery fire into singular diving atti-
tude, with the Child in her outstretched
hands. OF the two or three buildings I'M
harmed in Arras is the oldest house in
the town and another was Robespierre's
birthplace.
In the fields, as you near the front line,
you note an ascending scale Of desolation.
1t is most clear the battlefield of the
Somme. First you pass across two or three
or used to fall, that it has not been titled
for two years. 1t is a waste but green
waste, where not trodden brown by horses
and men. 1t is gay in summer with pop
pies, convolvulus and cornf1owers. Among
the thistles and coarse grass you see self
sown shoots of the old crops, of beet, mus
tard and corn. Beyond this zone of land
merely thrown idle you reach the ultimate
desert, where nothing but men and rats can
live. Here even the weeds have been root
cd up and buried by shells, the houses are
ground down to brick-dust and lime and
mixed with the earth, which is constantly
turned up and turned up again by more
shells and kept loose and soft. The trees.
broken halfway up their trunks and
stripped Of leaves and branches, look curl
ously haggard and sinister.
1t is hoped that Mr.. Bones drawings will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

parts of the front. A few miles away it
will straighten and loose itself out; you
see it run free, in great, easy curves, up
the slopes of wide moorlands, the two front
lines drawn apart almost three hundred
yards. Each is double band of color; the
white ribbon of its dug chalk and the
broader rust-brown ribbon of its tangled
wire stand out clear against the shabby
velveteen gray Of the heath. Here there is
less Of thrill and more of ease in trench
life; by day the sentries peer, hour by hour,
into the battling mist that is woven across
their sight by our own and the enemy's
wire; it is like trying to see through low
and leafess, but thick, underground. By
night the wire makes, to the sentry's eye,
a middle stratum of opaque dark gray, be-
tween the full blackness of the earth below
it and the more penetrable obscurity of the
night air above. But the darkness is never
trusted for long. All night each army is
sending up rocket-like lights to burst and
hang like arc lamps in the air over the fir
ing trench of the other. From a command
any night, scores of these ascending rock
cts, each like line drawn on the dark with
a pencil of fame, arching over to intersect
each other near the zenith of their flight,
necessarily tracing and retracing the lines
of Gothic nave over all No Mans Land,
from the Alps to the sea. All night, too,
there is kind Of pulse of light in the sky,
along the whole front, from the flash of
guns. From the trenches the flash itself
can seldom be seen, but the sky winks and
winks from moment to moment with the
spread and contraction of trembling radi
ance like summer lightning
At most parts of the line man in the
front trench is cut off from landscape. To
look at tree behind the enemy's lines NAV
be to give a mark to sniper hidden in its
boughs BY day you see the upper half of
the DONE of the sky, and, through loon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
+ very Telegram
L. Must Be Scanned

"A man who was suspected of pacilist
tendencies was allowed to 90 to Holland to
visit his wife on her dcathbed. The censor
ship holds up for a whole week tclcrrams
OF members of the international Study Com
mission "a society that investigates the
effects OF wars). Every telegram must now
be examined by the military ccnsors-cven
simple kilograms about meeting one's
TRENDS or relatives at the railway station
The Peace Society, which shares the views
of the Rcichstag and the government. is NOT
allowed to hold public meetings, but the
Fathcrland party is free to do so. The prus
sian Minister Of War warned Professor
Schuccking for publishing pamphlc,
which had been pissed by the Saxon censor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Desolation in
- Great Variety

into this vari-colored belt or landscape,
some ninety miles long. and into it's cities
and villages, the war has brought strange
vlolences Of effort and several different de-
grecs of desolation. Some villages are
dead and buried, like rozicres. where you
must dig to find where house stood. There
arc cities dead, but Win their bones still
above ground; Ypros Is one many walls
stand where they did, but grass il growing
among lie broken stones and bits Of
stained giasH on the floor Of the Cloth Hall,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

u 'he play soon saw, however that the
Nologne censorship again took occasion tn
pa! d lew tricks with the author and with
Hio'ol'eal truth as we'll. Instead Of the Abbe
NolaHe7-who danced about in court society
and with characteristic remarks tvn;tied j.,
the play, the role of the clergy dur;no Tho
excitement just before the French Revoln-
tlon broke out-there appeared. in accord
ahce with the orders of the censorship.
e"iofless marquis, whose words had been
pe'e'lied down to the vanishing point
IN THIS way the whole role was condemned
TO complete superfluity. And in general the
not blast of the Revolution scenes was tenn
pered to gentle zephyr In Cologne no.
ooay would be surprised to hear that this.
power"
but the censors are not content with
ilghtlng the French Revolution. Politi-
cal and spiritual dignitaries must be
shielded from danger. A PLAYWRIGHT
whose name is Essig. or VINEGAR. re-
Gently wrote comedy which he called
the Cow-trade." 1t was about a stingy
village parson and a quarrel with his
mock about a mich COW. The whole idea
alspleased the censor; he saw in it an
attack upon the clergy in general, and in
sisted that the parson should disappear
from the play altogether. Poor Essig
mad to transform his parson into
schoolmaster and shift his chief scenes
from the parsonage to the schoolhouse.
which produced homogeneous effects. The
newspapers are now asking why the
schoolmasters of the country should not
also ENJOY the protection of the censors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Hughes on DEMOCRACY
rHARLES E. HUGHES gsve .
definition of democracy" N
recent speech. He said: IA

AAARLES T.. II C\I II f.o Sr's
definition of democracy" N
recent speech. He said:
We say that we want to make the yes
SAFE for democracy. But what IS os''.
racy? In some places they talk OF oe'D.
racy as if it were the absence OF soss's
ment, as if it were mere negation, ~. -,
thing different from autocracy, the apssp'
OF autocracy. ..l
Democracy is a life, it is an ors'a ~
i,'e. Democracy means, If it means "a. I'd
'",hg, rule; rule OF reason su.se, ..st
only among reasonable people. VS. Il,
mere to-day under the stress OF the Na' d.
problems OF democracy. of rule, ~ ~,
people. And as we go forward ana ! III
these problems of the future. you e "a. ~
down any absolute rule and compel ". 10
PIE TO toe the mark. That is not aens. sn,r.
All you can hope for is that in 'h! ~ III, IA
Try of wide opportunity for educa''. .,,.s
inns country of free speech and ircs IN
right reason will triumph, and tnss -
'ne opportunity of campaigns OF eaS ~ III
given full freedom of discussion. 'h..s.ss d
emerge among these competing ih" .ssafs
dominating rule of approximate ssxt
mat is what we mean by demoe.sss3t
america, and it is that oppcrtun'ss Ss q
hgnting to maintain"
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warts" and the "Berliner Tageblatt.
Soldiers were even prohibited from asso
eating with members of the Reichstag.
4 polishing the Military
~ Censorship

TO all Of this the Minister of War re-
sponded with a few commonplace re-
marks, in which he denied not one sinple
statement that had been made. Finallv
Wolfgang Heine, another Socialist.
brought in a bill for abolshing military
government in parts of the country NOT
near the seat of war. The adoption of
the bill would mean the abolition Of the
military censorship.
1t is queer state of things that was
revealed by these debates They showed
how liberty of discussion is suppressed
by the military authorities and how it. is
influenced in favor Of the Pan German
annexatonist policy of the army leaders
and the Iunkers. They snap their fin
gers in the face of the Reichstag and the
so-called government of the German
Empire
The German newspapers have also
been giving attention to the censors and
printing examples of their queer antics.
Recently the "Frankfurter Zeitunp"
printed the following letter from Cologne
under the caption, "'The Transformed
Abba":
I'VE had the first performance here of
Heinrich Mann's Madame Legros' last Sun
day, which was greeted by the audience
with stormy applause. THE friends
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Germany Is Havimg All Sorts of Censorship Troubles

TIME German Reichstag is again
quarrelling with the censors and
the military governors who con-
troll them. Every year since the war
began there have been angry debates over
their arbitrary and partisan decisions,
and regularly there was some minister on
hand to promise that better practice
would be introduced. About the middle
Of January another of these debates oc-
CURED, which showed that the censors
are going on SPINNING the same thread"
as the German phrase has it.
In the Main Committee of the Reichs-
tag, on January II, Georg Gothein, a
Progressive member, called attention to
some Of their sins. He complained that
they were working to undermine the au-
thorty Of the Reichstag and the govern
nent; that they freely passed insulting
attacks upon the Reichstag, and even
upon iindenburg, whereas thew used
their rcd pencils literally to protect Won
Trpitz and the Fathcrland party from
attack. The censorship is responsible to
the military governor Of the district or
city in which they discharge their func-
tons, and these governors are response
bic to the Prussian Minister Of War vet,
according to Gothein's showing, the gov
ernors pursued each his own course, and
it appeared that most Of them placed the
ccnaorship at the disposal Of the Father
land party in it's war upon the govern
mcnt and the Rcichstag. Such are con-
ditiong in Germany at this moment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

~ feels that he has not quite left the
~ place of his training on Salisbury
Plain. The main roads may be different,
with their endless rows of sentinel trees,
and the farms are mostly clustered into
I villages, where they turn their backs to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

No two points in an Allied front trench
are wholly alike. Certain general patterns
there are, but no facsimiles. Each traverse
or bay has a look of its own; it is personal
and expresses, as Robinson Crusoe's stock
AIDE might have done, the nature of some
man or men making shift, each after his
own kind, to put up what they could, in the
shortest time, between their bodies and
danger. German firing trench is less
various. In it you seem to see the minds
or few large and able contractors: in
ours, the minds of thousands of good camp
ers-out To put it another way, the Ger
man trench has, in some measure, the
quality of long street built we'll enough.
to single design; ours possesses the
charm of strip of coast or a long country
lane where nature or man has made every
lndentation and turn a surprise, and each
farmer has made gates and hedges to his
own mind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

the streets. More of the land, too, is
gentle undulation, and these great rollers
are made as in Wiltshire, of pure chalk
coated with only little brown clay. There
are the same wide prospects, the same lack
of streams and ponds, the same lodges and
curious carvings of the soil, and journeys
on foot seem long, as they do on our downs,
because so much of the road before you is
visible while you march.
A little north of Arras there begins, al
most at turn of the road, black country,
where men of the South Lancashires feel at
home and grant that the landscape has
some of the points of Wigan 1t is the re-
gion of Loos and Vermclles and Bulle-Gre-
nav, most of it level ground on which the
only eminences are the refuse heaps of
coal mines. Across this level the eye feels
its way from one we'll known stack of pit
head buildings and winding machinery to
another. They are, to English eye,
strangely lofty and stand out like light
houses over a sea. The villages near their
ject dIo CONTINUITY LiOOcA VI SdiuSH,
with all the houses built WE'LL as parts of
one plan. As in Lancashire, farming and
mining go on side by side, and in August
the corn is gray with mixture OF brown
dusts from colleres and from the road.
The next change is not abrupt, like the
first, but it is as great. Near Ypres you
are on the sands, though yet twenty miles
from the sea. Here you have sense of
being IN q place still alive, but pensoned
off by nature after its work was done. You
feel itsat Rye and Wnchelsea, at Ravcnna
and q. any place which the sea has once
made great and then abandoned. The wide
Ypres landscape drawn by Mr.. Bone was
all mellow sunny days at the end OF
July sth the warm brown and yellow Of
many good crops. Almost up to the British
front s. farmed minutely and intense
"; IN spring had seen a man ploughing
Z heldl where d German shell, on the aver
age, dsopped every day. But all this coun-
tfyside has the brooding quietude of a sort
Of honorable old age, dignity and pensivc-
ness and comfort behind its natural ram
part Of sand dunes, but not The stir Of life
al full pressure.
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holes, few yards of rough earth or chalk
then the nebulous wire, and, through its
thin places, perhaps a few uniforms, blue
gray or brown, lying beyond, among the
coarse grass and weeds. At night you see
all the stars we'll, and on moonlight nights
if you walk the trench softly, you can
watch strange friezes sharply silhouetted
on the sky line of the parapet the wars
and loves of capering rats, "fouting the
ivory moon" Whole choirs of larks may be
heard; neither cannon nor small arms seem
to alarm them; and most of the ground has
Its own hawk to quarter it daily
To men put on this short allowance Of
natural sights and sounds it is an extraor-
binary pleasure to find in the rear Of
their trench a clean rivulet, such as often
water filters rapidly in and comes out at
the bases of slopes like SO many crystal
springs. But the greatest of all trench de.
lights is the rediscovery, every year. Of
the sun. Some day in March it is suddenly
found to have a miraculous warmth and
everybody off duty comes out like the bees
and stands about in the trench, summing hi;
head and shoulders in the tepid rays and
adoring-quite inarticulately-and feeling
that alls we'll with the world A winter in
trenches revives, in US children of civil
eaton, a prePromcthean rapture Of lore
Tor the sun; and the dark nights, in which
not match must be struck, makes US, at
any rate, think more highly than ever
did OF the moon, which halves the strsd
OF the soldier on guard, and of the stars
which guide him back overland to his Bill
let, at relief, to sleep in Elysum. So
Tor man who has all his senses alive sna
unJaded, the hard and bare life has is
compensations. 1t makes him do without
many things, but it also quickens delight IL
the things which are at the base Of all Tx
rest, and without which there could MOI
have been the incompatible adventure sis
spectacle of life on the earth
The editor of "The Touchstone' in
note following this article, states:
For these brilliant and understasd .
ing sketches of the Western front "
Muirheod Bone and for the descrpf''s
so uatal and human and sympathetic
thas great battlefield The Touchstoas
wlshes to entend its thanks to GsorT
Newmes, Limited. of London, lcho has o. I
ready for English publication br0ass
thus material together in beautiful ds'
significant FORM"
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Cingular Thrills
~ of Romance

The line goes through wonderful places
and charges them with singular thrills of
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Reprinted from
The Toatchstone"

e British line in France
and B e l G i u m runs
through country Of
three kinds, and each
kind is like a part of
England. Between the
Somme and Arras a
British soldier often
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
DELIVERY ECONOMY URGED

Paul B. Smith, secretary Of the
chamber Of commerce, is in receipt
of number of circular letters from
the federal government and is dis
tributing them to the merchants OF
Ardmore. The government is again
insisting on economies in the matter
of deliveries by merchants. Mr..
Smith said this last letter is re-
quest, but it can be read between the
lines that the next one is likely to be
in the form of an imperative order.
The government is insisting on de-
liveries being confined to one day
in each section of the city. In fact,
the government suggests co-opera-
tive delivery to save man power and
committee of merchants is now
considering a proposal to have one
concern take over all the delivery
work of the city.
Mr.. Smith said what he calls
pro- German lack of cooperation is
ordering half dozen times day
and demanding as many deliveries,
when each household should have its
order made up and everything need
ed for that day embraced in it, that
it might all be delivered at the same
time
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
TO RED CROSS WORKERS

Headquarters at Washington has
directed through the divisional head
quarters, that all chapters take an
inventory Of all material, garments,
both finished and unfinished, and
that after this is completed, no more
work, except that of the present quo
ia be started until further notice
from the divisional manager.
The regular work rooms will be
closed for an indefinite period. All
the quota of work to date has been
finished and some has been sent in.
Until the remainder of the quota is
received the work will slow down,
and workers are asked to knit at
home. Knitting must be continued
as long as the supply Of yarn holds
out. The yarn can be secured on
Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays,
from the knitting room.
The women of this chapter will all
appreciate the rest, they have worked
faithfully and untiringly, and the
work has made good name for
Carter County chapter at headquar-
terS.
When the next garments come to
finish, the present quota, notice will
be made through the columns OF the
Ardmoreite. The various directors
appreciate the great work done by
everyone in the chapter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13

right now, if they just had some kind
of fire alarm. One of the officials
stepped into the street, pulled his
six-shooter and opened fire. In a
flash the horses with the engine
came dashing down the street, al
most running over the man who had
sold the engine. On his way back
east the salesman repeated the story
until it found its way into the news
papers and travelled. 1t was the
story of the frontier fire alarm sys-
tenn and for many years Ardmore
held the credit for originating it and
its novelty kept the story alive
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
STEAM FIRE ENGINE
PUT ARDMORE ON MAP

Back in a corner at the central
fire station there sits an old time,
horse-drawn fire engine. When mo-
tor equipment was installed in Ard
more, and horses no longer used to
transport the machines, shor.
tongue was fitted to the old steamer
so that it may be hooked onto a
motor truck and taken to fire. 1t
is now seldom used. This morning
Zed Cromwell, superintendent of
the water works, had it taken to the
lake to pump water out of the clear
we'll to enable the workmen to make
repairs on pipe now beneath the
water.
The steamer throws 500 gallons of
water n minute and works just as
we'll today as it did when it was pur-
chased This steamer was one of
the first, if not the very first brought
into Indian Territory.
The man who sold the steamer to
the city came here to see it installed
after it had been tested and accepted.
There were a number of wells in the
business section from which water
was drawn. The salesman told the
Ardmore officials that they were all
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13

held in the Arbuckle mountains.
They will be away ten days.
Mrs. Minnie B. Church, county
demonstrator, and Ray Bryant, as
sistant county agent, went to Criner-
vile and Brock today to visit the
boys and girls agricultural clubs.
Miss Howard Barrett went to
Davis today.
Mrs. w. A. Hilligoss left today
for Mound Valley, Kan, where she
will visit relatives.
Rev. II. P. Robertson and Rev.
Frank Graham, of the M. +. church,
south, are holding successful meet
ings at Downward Mines, near the
home of w. F. Whitsoh, county
commissioner. The meetings have
been in progress more than week.
w. II. Gregg, of the w. II. Gregg
Office Equipment Company, is in
Kansas City, Mo-, attending meet
ing of stationers. He will return
Thursday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
WATER SITUATION SERIOUS
IN INDUSTRIAL ADDITION

With three refineries, the lmpe-
rial. Cameron and Shickasaw, taking
water from the Chickasaw Club lake
it is not at all improbable that this
source of supply will be closed with
ing thirty days. What these re-
fineries will do then, unless a new
supply is furnished in the meantime,
can be but one thing, and that IS,
shut down. The present supply is
inadequate, and the forced econo-
mical use OF this water is entail
ing considerable loss of the more
valuable properties OF the OIL
through evaporation. The federal
government is asking for contracts
which the refineries are unable to
respond to for the reason that they
cannot depend on a future water
supply under present conditions.
The Chickasaw refinery people are
calling special meeting OF the
stockholders OF that company to
vote on a proposition TO construct
a dam at some point on the Washita
river and pipe the water through an
eight inch line to the Industrial ad-
dition. In case this project carries
successfully it is probable that the
Chickasaw people will sell water
from this line to other industries in
that addition, including the other re-
finerieS.
The Ardmore refinery is getting
water from King lake, and seems TO
be little better situated in this re-
spect than the other reiinries, but
with continued dry weather, there is
a limit even to this source.
Another angle of the Industrial
situation is the matter OF fuel sup
ply-| At present the refineries are
using oil for fuel. quite an item at
this time when the federal govern
ment is continually urging conserva-
ton of this product, as being one OF
the vital necessities OF war needs.
With the abundant supply OF nat
ural gas in the Fox field, within
easy reach of this city. the question
arises, why should the gas company
refuse TO do its Bit by enlarging
its mains enough to provide fuel for
industrial purposes? 1t may be
urged that the additional revenue
will not Justify the expense in
Cured; but cheap fuel will be big
incentive to other industries 10 10
cate in ArdmoTe, and the final out
come would undoubtedly result in
profit to the gas company. which
should appeal to the stockholders,
even II the matter of patriotism
does not.
The Ardmore-Akron Tire and
Rubber Company is making slow
progress on its building. owing to
scarcity OF water and difficulty in