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

The Democratic national committee
has established press bureau which
prepares canned" articles to counter.
act those scattered broadcast by the
Republican Publicity association
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

Kansas City MoJ STAR Premier
Lenine is believed to be preparing to
flee from Petrograd. if he is still premier
and still i'm PetrOgrad.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01
Political Observations.

Figures of the New York soldiers vote
show that while S,753 soldiers voted
against woman suffrage, almost twice
that number or 1873, voted for it.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

The calling of the meeting of the Re
publican national committee at ST.
Louis, February II, next, is regarded
as flying start in favor of st. Louis
i'm the race for the Republican national
convention, which viii name presi-
Dental ticket in 1890. St Louis enter
tanned the Democrats in 1916. Woodrow
Wilson and Thomas r. Marshall were
nominated in the st. Louis Coliseum.
The Democratic national convention of
1904 was also held i'm st. Louis. Alton
+. Parker, who was defeated by Thco.
Gore Roosevelt was also nominated i'm
St Louis Woodrow Wilson is the
only winner nominated in St Louis.
Grover Cleveland was renomnated i'm
St Louis in 1855. Benjamin Harrison
triumphed over Cleveland in the ma
tional election that year Samuel j.
Tilden, the Democratic standard bearer
of 1876, was named in St Louis Every
Democrat believes he was elected, but
Rutherford Il. Hayes was awarded the
certificate Of election.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

\ canvass of the soldier vote re-
suited in the election Of Michael j..
Foley, Democrat, as mayor Of Cohoes,
n. Y, by majority Of twenty-nine.
Before the soldier ballots had been
counted James S. Calkins, Republican,
the present incumbent, had led by a
majority of twenty.seven
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

Tulsa World: The japanese general
who remarks that Japan is ready to
join the allies in war might complete
the information by explaining who is
holding her back
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

Death for the third time since the con
vening OF the, siXty.fifth congress has
invaded the United States senate, and
each time his victim has been lead
ing Democrat. The first to die was
Senator Lane of Oregon; the second
Senator Husting of Wisconsin, and the
third, Senator Ncwlands of Nevada.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

Bartlesville Examiner: The movement
in the cities to allow people to keep
pigs within the city limits only goes
to, prove more conclusively than ever
that Sherman was right.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-01

\ baseball player bought by Ger.
tain club for $3.50 has been sold" to
another club for $4,000 and now insists
that he ought to get some Of that $780,
0OO. Very likely he ought 10. And
while We're fighting to make the world
safe for democracy, why not inject a
little democracy into the baseball bust
neA?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
FIGHTING AT HOME

1t has been officially announced that the
next bond campaign will open September
18th, and continue until October 10Th The
campaign will be directed toward securing
subscriptions to $4,000, 100000. Congress
is framing new tax measure providing for
the raising of S8,000,0OO 900 To raise SIG
OO0,OOO,OOO the American people have got
to do some fighting at home of an intensely
practical kind-the fighting of extravaganza
IN every direction They will have to econ
omize as never before in what they eat,
drink and wear; in expenditures for many
things now regarded as essential to comfort.
The fact is, this amount is about twice the
surplus earnings of the American people
under normal conditions.
Congress is also asked to fix the draft age
at Is to 45. At the least calculation this
will subject 100000 more men to the
draft, and, while not more than 900 900
men may be taken for service. under the
work or fight" order others may be assign
ed to essential war industries and business,
Even if rs per cent. are withdrawn from
production the burden on those remaining
will be considerable, as industrial figures
show there were but 100000 men en-
gagged in productive industry when war was
declared. All this means that the war bur
den will force the American people to buckle
down and to work hard as well as to most
rigid economy.
Still, this fighting at home to produce
foodstutfs and dollars is not to be compar-
ed with fighting in the trenches. While it
may mean the utmost the people can do, it
will be only "bit" in each individual case.
There isn't an American who will not do
his part of this home fighting and get away
with it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
TAXING OFFICIALS.

The ways and means committee has bold !
ly declared that federal and state officials,
from president down, shall be subject to the
payment of an income tax. A correspond |
ent states that this would upset zone con-
stitutional Interpretation of fifty years
standing and another of seventy-fve." The
committee decided not only to cause the
president to pay an income tax, but also
the judges of the United States supreme
court. Not only the officials of every state
and every subdivision thereof are in the
new category, but ''still defying traditions
and court decisions" the committee calls
for tax on the yields of new state, county
and municipal bonds hereafter issued in the
taxable income totals. This would require
the president to pay $4,000 year into
the treasury.
Here is where the hitch comes: The con-
stitution provides that the salary of the
president and justices of the supreme court
shall not be increased or diminished during
the terms Of incumbents. A correspondent
goes on to inform his readers that some
seventy-fve years ago the supreme court
laid down the rule that the state and federal
governments could not tax the activities OF
functions of each other. Under this rule il
has been held that the federal government
could not tax the salaries of state or loca
officials or of the securities of political sub
divisions.
If the ways and means committee has it
way an interesting legal contest is in pros
pect. Perhaps now is as good time as an.
to have the supreme court reopen the oil
question. The court may give new inter
probation.
Yet, remarks the Montgomery Advertis
err, if such a law is held to be sound from
constitutional point of view it should hav
steadying effect upon those hilariou
, statesmen who would spend public monte
lavishly and replace these monies by raisin
! the peoples taxes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
Newspapers Non-Essential?
From the Savannah Press

The senate military committee has had a
conference with Secretary Baker relative to
the new selective draft regulations and we
learn the committee had heard from outside,
sources the war department was considering.
bringing professional classes, like LAWYERS.
newspaper men and others who were not
actually engaged in producing war supplies
under the work-or-fght order.
We believed when thase. registrars in one
Isolated community declared newspapers
we're not essential to THE proper promulga-
ton of this war we Rad heard the last of
any such suggestion. But if the newspapers
men are to be made To- answer under the
work-Or-fght REGULATE ms we guess we were
mistaA9n abs1t it.
Of course, there are plenty of Newspaper
mon who want to fight. This is shqaNn by
the star-stVdGed service flags of every news
paper that is any account and by the number
of newspaper men who have volunteered for
army scrT3Ce direct and having failed 60 pass
there A&Ta gone irEso the branches of the
allied service, such as Tie Red Grass ard the
Y. M. C.. A.
No one questions the loyalty Or the BRAY
cry of the newspaper men or the lawyers,
either. But If the newspaper business is
declared a non-essential industry and the
men engaged in it are drafted into other
business or into the ranks what is going to
become of the country and it's interests?
Without the newspapers there could have
! been no successful sales Of liberty bonds
But for the great service Of the press we
would have been conquered by Germany
| before this because the American neonle
would not hare been advised what they were
fighting for. We are willing, all of us, to 20
to the war If Uncle Sam calls upon us to 20
| but when the government even thinks of
! sending US to war or work because news
paper is a non-essentia1 we are prepared to
file protest in behalf of the entire call
! ing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
DIGGING UP THE PRICE.

The high cost of living has hit Uncle Sam
such savage swat that the old gentleman's
goatee is inclined to curl up at the end like
an inverted question mark. His daily outgo
Is now somewhere around $4,000. 900,
which is bound to make fellow take no.
tlce, and present conditions indicate that
there will be a substantial increase in his
forced offering to Mars before any reduction
may be expected. 1t becomes necessary,
therefore, for Uncle Sam to roll I'D his
sleeves and start in digging up the price
wherewith to pay the martial bugler In
this emergency due and timely consideration
is being given the question of levying a
further tax upon Injuries, and if all goes
well it is estimated that the government
strong box will be enriched by some $4,000
100000 from this source, which would ma
terially help in meeting the price.
Automobiles, gasoline, mail order con-
Germs doing business above a certain yearly
amount, theaters and all places of amuse-
ment, tobacco in all forms, brokerage bus
inesses and stock exchange seats club dues,
yachts-all these are among the Injuries it
is proposed to tax in providing the price of
our present world-bettering enterprise.
Thos "aristocrats" who are already giving
up generous share of their income for
various taxes may protest that any further
levy will jeopardize the life of the tradition
al goose, but under the present stress the
powers at Washington are expected to be
firm against all entreaty. The people, with
due appreciation Of the urgent need of
funds believe luXuries rather than necessi-
ties should bear the burden.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
The Question of Labor.
From the Cuthbert Leader.

Day hands are demanding land getting)
about double the scale formerly paid for
such labor. And it seems to be the general
opinion of farmers that the amount of work
day labor is giving is considerably less than
when wages were lower. The man, the wo-
man and the boy with a hoe are very in
dependent characters just now. A day or
two ago we went In search of two or three
hoe hands, and approached a group of idle
negro boys of ages ranging from II to 16.
In response to our question, ''Do you boys
want a job?" one of them promptly arose.
What you want dOne?" he asked
"Hoeing," was our reply
He promptly sat down again. He sup
posed we had package to send out. Two
or three said they had jobs; the others were
silent.
No, they didn't want to noe; and it may
be remarked that lots of older ones, col
ored and white, who could be of valuable
assistance now in adding to the food supply
of the country are very much averse to hoe
ing and blowing They fail to discover any,
thing connected with agriculture that savors
of patriotism. In fact they are not ambi-
tious to become patriots if manual work is
required.
Here's hoping that before the war ends
the government will register every person
between the ages of II and To and assign to
each of them not engaged IN useful oc-
cupation some specific task that will aid in
carrying on the war to a successful conclu-
sion. Work suited to the ability of each can
be found. With the urgent demand for
workers of all classes while the destiny of
our country is at stake there are many idlers.
Some of these would help if they realized
the situation; others are too lazy or too sell
fish to toll, and should be forced to contrib
ute of their time and strength for the coun-
try's good. No one is 'too good to work
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
Silly to Worry.
From the Pittsburr Dispatch.


The woman who sits around disconsolate-
Iy bemoanlng the fact that what she consid-
ers her best years have vanished does not
by any means deserve the sympathy she
would like to receive
Pray, who outside the home circle cares
what ones years are, whether the bloom
has faded from ones cheek or whether ones
figure has lost or is losing it's youthful lines?
The person who foolishly wastes good
time in wishing that he or she could reclaim
other days should try to forget self and
Immediately become busted with some whole
some task.
There are no fountains of perpetual youth
to be found at any price in any cline. This
fact was demonstrated long ago, and the per-
son who sets out in search of those magic
waters will return bitterly disappointed.
Time leaves its traces upon all of US,
much as we would like to refute this charge
How senseless then to resort to artificial
means, hoping that by so doing we shall
eradicate the marks of passing years!
On the other hand, why not concentrate
ones best thoughts upon the present. re-
memberlrg that there are October sunsets
more lovely and more brilliant than any that
ever painted a June sky!
The woman past her first youth has. if
she is blessed with health plus will power,
work to do, and she should do it. Not one
of US ever questions the age of any person
who performs some worthy task Instead.
we applaud the worker, meanwhile hoping
earnestly that he or she shall long continue
to serve or entertain
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
Origin of Tornadoes.

The tornado of the Western plains is
identical in formation with the sand whirl.
The sun beats fercely on a limited area
say ten square miles of barren prairie--and
as a result the air next the earth becomes
very hot, perhaps 100 degrees, and the mass
is constantly increasing in volume. Above
the warm air is a stratum perhaps 20 de-
grees colder.
By and by passageway is made, the hot
air begins to ascend and the cold upper air,
pressing downward, forces the lighter air
through a channel thus formed. 1t begins
to whrl, it increases in velocity, surface
current forces it along, and the tornado
starts on its destructive journey.
The terrific cyclone originates in much
the same way, only differing in extent The
most violent cyclones originate in tropical
ATTITUDES, in the Atlantic ocean, to the north
and east of West Indian islands and in the
Pacific, in the China sea and in the neigh
borhood of the Philippine islands.
The reason they are so destructive is be-
cause they are carried such great distances
by extraneous influences.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
Grady County Representative
Praises Pickett.

Editor Dawson News: If your generous
nature will prompt you to allow space IN
your columns to give unto Caesar that which
is justly Caesars l would like to say to the
good people of Terrell county that IN my
opinion they made a most excellent selec-
ton when they selected the Hon. D. c. Pick
EFT as their representative in the general as
sembly. | am assured that the large maj orr
ty of the members of the house concur with
me in this opinion.
The member from the county of Terrell
beyond doubt is one of the most faithful and
watchful members. No county is better rep
resented than Terrell. If every county in
Georgia would be as careful in selecting
representatives as Terrell seems to have
been l am sure that the standard of the
general assembly of Georgia would be con-
siderably elevated No member is given more
attention in addressing the house than the
logical gentleman from Terrell.
From the many favorable expressions
made of him l must conclude that he is re-
garded very highly by his fellow members.
He is considered as being ruggedly honest
and as having conscientious convictions, and
by the eternals not afraid to express his
honest views upon any and all questions. I
have heard many of his fellow members
say that if every seat was occupied by men
like Mr. Pickett Georgia would have more
wholesome legislation.
Now, Mr.. Editor, permit me to say in
writing this that l am prompted only from
my high regard of D. C. Pickett as an hon
est and faithful public servant. Let me say
further that if you should give this space in
your columns that Mr.. Pickett, l hope, will
be pleasantly surprised at its contents. l
pledge you that this is written without any
ntimation to him. / have never even init
mated my regard for him as public SER
want.
Assuring you of my very best wishes for
he future of The Dawson News, l am very
5ruly yours, JOHN F. STONE
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
REMARKS BY EDITOR WILLIAMS

From the Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Thank you, gentlemen of the Georgia leg
islature, for extending the age limit from 10
to ID years. The 10 years limit was dis
grace to Georgia; the limit should be 18
years in place of Ia. We are aware of the
fact that the little ducks begin to hump in
the back at 10 years old and dress in X-ray
clothes. Manners and morality have very
nearly left the country. We notice some
girls, in passing with their arms and lower
limbs exposed to the world, and if we had
those pipe stem legs that some of them have
we would certainly have our life insured
You can preach about the people of the
world getting better but there is nothing
to it-they get worse every day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

Americans did not compromise the issues
Of the four-year-war of the Cos. America,
North and South, fought them out That is
the way America, once goaded into war,
deals with principles The imperial German
government will pay for its contempt of
America before this war is over 1t will learn
to its bitter cost what it means to sink a
Lusitania, The torpedo that sunk the liner
awakened a giant conscience so implacable,
to terrible, that it will change the aspect of
civilization. government without con-
science could not, of course, conceive it.
But it will bow to it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
FOOD FROM THE SOUTH

The South is shipping annually 100000,
600 worth of vegetables and supplying
$35O,000,000 worth of cotton seed produc-
lions besides cotton for the mills of the
whole country, $1OO,OOO,OOO worth of pea
nuts, and all the sugar cane raised in the
United States. The Manufacturers Record
which quotes these figures, says that without
the foodstuffs furnished by the South this
year there would be starvation in the North
and West and starvation in Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
EDITOR PRAYS BRIEFLY.
From the Tulsa Democrat.

From the Tulsa Democrat.
Inquiry is made in this column as to
the proper length of prayer We do not
know, but we have heard prayers which we
thought took up little too much of Gods
time. There is nothing to prove, either, that
the short ones do not bring results that are
just as satisfactory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20
AGAIN THE RUIN OF DRINK.

From the Moultrie Observer.
The cotton boil weevil is addicted to
drink. 1t was this discovery that will event
ually lead to her undoing Like many a
human this addiction will be her ruin. To be
sure, she drinks only water, yet by doping"
her drink the cotton boil weeviI will meet
her death through her partially for dew
drops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

Florida will go dry in November, and then
Havana will be the nearest liquor port Au-
tomobies cannot make the trip, but Editor
Grub, of the Darien Gazette, calls after
ton to the fact that flying machines can
Would like to go over sometime with our
friend in his
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

The alleged "postponement of politics" is
not interfering with lot of political funer-
ais being held.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

Ordinarily there seems to be some misun-
derstanding, when dissolution of a monopoly
is ordered, whether a company is supposed
to dissolve or just be dissolute. Pursuant
to hallowed custom International Harvester
stock advanced sharply on the market when
dissolution of the concern was announced.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

The McAdoo proposition to tax war prof
its of the excessive kind as high as 80 per
cent. is on the right line. Most of these war
profits are unjust, and if they who have col
lected them retain fifth of them they will
still be that much ahead, which is too much
in most cases.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

Three weeks from tomorrow we will
know which two of the senatorial candidates
will be in the second primary. We have a
pretty good idea now, but there is, of course,
a possibility of being mistaken in such mat
ters
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

The heroism of the doctor who enlists is
double, at least He risks the people find
ing out in his absence that they can wiggle
along without him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

President Poincare stood on tiptoes to
kiss Pershing's cheeks after presenting the
grand cross of the legion of honor. That's
one advantage Fred Funston would have
had over "Black Jack"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

A mere advance in the price of gasoline
IS not so bad, if we could only know an ad-
ditional portion of kerosene was not souirted
into the tanks simultaneously.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

The legislature wisely decided not to
NEEDLE with senatorial politics. 1t had
troubles enough of its own.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

This hot weather is only by illustration
to US at home how hot we are making it fol
the Teuts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

1t will be here shortly-that IS to As
draft limit Then some of those fellows who
have been telling their friends how anxious
they are to get into the fray will have
chance to make good on the talk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

1t is extremely difficult, says the Associat-
ed Press correspondent, to buy shirt in
Petrograd. Still, with suitable crop of
whiskers shirt is not an absolute essential.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

Nope, the turn in events in France does
not mean an early peace. But it does mean
the right kind of peace eventually, and that
is worth celebrating
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

All right, then; politics is not adjourned
Let's charitably forget that anyone ever
pretended that it had been.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

The legislature is no longer in our midst
Thanks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-20

We are spending $5O,OOO,OOO day for
the war-about AZ cents a head. Just few
cigars, few ice cream cones, movie or
so q dav
The Prescott daily news., 1918-12-21

Woodrow Wilson is the leader of the world today and one of the most busy men in it, but he went to church twice last Sunday in Paris. He is no grouch nor church stacker nor quitter.
 In letter received by Mir. and Mrs. George Hale from their son, Lieuten- ant Roy Hale who is in France, he states that he is practically recovered from his wounds received some months ago and is feeling fine. The loss of his voice which was due to the shocks while in battle, lasted only a few weeks and he states that his speech has been completely restored.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-12-21
THE PRINCE OF PEACE

His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Ever lasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his king dom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.- Isaiah SGT.