The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-20
SHRAPNEi.

SHRAPNEL.
con again, off again, gone again, -
is about the most apt description OF
governmental affairs in Russia.
'Rah, kids-thriit stamps for ev-
cry schoolchild. Just like Christmas
in the springtimc.
Learn the w. S. S. Table: One
quarter makes one thrift stamp:
sixteen thrift stamps plus few
cents makes one w. s. s. One W..
S. s. makes SIS in 1928.
Only one more day until the con-
vention of Young Mems Democrat
ic Clubs. If we could only write,
just one more day of Gore!
The German people who are being
told that American soldiers in Paris
are bad lot are going to have an
opportunity to pass Judgment on
them that will be based on personal
observation.
Put a pessimistic cover on book
let and no one will read the story
inside.
The bolsheviki have sent an Of
licial dispatch to London saying
they are or will be forced to sign
4 peace treaty with Germany; and
it is reported that the Hun is to make
the Russians promise to pay many
millions OF dollars indemnity, be-
sides taking thousands Of square
miles OF Russian territory. We
would like to ask what is a
treaty signed by either side of this
bunch OF poker players worth? And
how, we would ask also, is Germany
going to collect from Russia an
indemnity OF nearly a billion dol
lars Promise to pay in this case
is worthless, because the Russian
people will repudiate it, and Amer
ica, Great Britain and Japan will
see to it that the real Russian people
will not long be heckled and plum
dered by the Hun. From what Ger
tain japanese statesmen have re-
Gently said, we may expect Jap
ancse army on Russian soil in the
not remote future. The world is on
fire this time, sure enough.
Many men in Europe are now
going back 10 the land.
Moon superstition won't make .
garden, an agricultural expert tells
us. He better not come around our |
house where Grandma can get at
him.
Nineteen governments warn Rus |
sia that they will not stand that re-
pudiation OF its national debt, and .
contiscation OF property OF their ma
tionals. This is like the congress
Of rats which resolved to bell the
cat, but when it came to doing the
work it was found rather difficult
OF accomplishment.
The scientist who has been pre-
dieting that coal would give out in
SIX million years is in position to be
amazed at the rapid flight OF time.
Germany has more food than
any country in Europe" one report
says. German people are starv-
ing another message tells us. Sup
pose we ask the kaiser inst how
the situation is?
General Kaledines, Cossack, has
shot himself again according to
Petrograd reports. If General Kal-
edines shoots himself many more
times he will appear something like
A human sitter.
What has become of the good old
lays when lambs gamboled along
Wall street?
1t is quite a fad now to organize
society OF nations. Already a
number have been perfected, except
hat none OF them yet has a nation
o start with.
Wind in the Panhandle" wealth
r report says. If ever there was
time when the wind in the Pan
handle wouldn't blow the cottontail
'tt a rabbit we can't recall it.
A gang OF sixty armed men in
motor lorries visited two social
'lubs in Petrograd and robbed the
members OF $4,000 rubles and the
,uests of 100000 rubles, and when
We come to think of it, the loss was
mall, because money in Russia soon
viii be worthless.