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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
IZATI0N RUSSIAN ARMY AND FLEET STOPPED

we're supposed to start the campalsn
in this city had been i'll and that
they had not gotten off to good
start but that they expected to get
going today and would secure the
lodges of most Of those in Chieka-
sta by tonight.
A meeting was held at the schools
In Rush Springs this morning to for.
mulate plans whereby the entire city
and surrounding community will be
covered at once The Rush Springs
contingent were slow in getting off
but those who went down there yes.
terday to look into the matter said
that the campaign would begin to-
day and that that part of the county
would not be behind when the fin.
count was made.
Late reports coming from Tabler
his morning were to the effect that
he campaign was coming along nice
y in that precinct and no opposition
was being met with at all. The
lumber of War Savings Stamps sold
n this precinct yesterday totalled
q and the number of Thrift Stamps
otalled SO.
The reports received SO far are
cry incomplete. That is, not all Of
he precincts have been reported
several of these are expected in to.
ay by mail as not all the precinct
hairmen have access to telephones.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
Wants Proof


BY United Press
London, Feb 20-General HofE-
man, leader OF the German milita@'
lists at the Brest-Litoysk peace con-
ference wants proof Of Russia's viii.
lingness to accede to German terms,
a Petrograd wireless said today.
Acknowledging receipt Of the peo.
ple's commissaries wireless message
signed by Lenine and Trotzky, in
which it was declared that the Boil
sheviki were forced to express a wiz
lingness to sign the German peace,
Hoffman declared that he desired to
see the original signatures. They
are being forwarded to Dvinsk
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
Not Allow Excesscs.

By United Press
Amsterdam, Feb 90 Germany
will not allow Finland. Lithuania
and Ukraine to be ruined by the Boil
sheviki excess Foreign Minister
Kuehlmann declared in the reichstag
according to dispatches received
here. He said they would SEQ what
effect the new military plans have
toward Russia.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20

BY United Press.
London, Feb. Foreign Minis
ter Trotzky, speaking before the cen
trail executive committee Of the Pan
SOVIET announced that the Germans
at Brest-Litovsk reduced the indem.
nifty asked of Russia from four and
a half billion to one and half bill
lion dollars, according to a Petrograd
dispatch.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
BROADWAY SAYS FAREWELL
VERNON CASTLE, DANCER
By United Press.

BY United Press.
New York, Feb. 20.--Broadway to-
day said goodbye to Vernon Castle
captain of the Royal Flying Corps
and premier dancer who was killed
recently in an aeroplane. The church
was packed with leaders of the the
atrical world on one side and a line
of men wearing the khaki on the
other.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
AlIies-oermans Ready.
BY United Press

By United Press
Washington, Feb. 20 Both the al.
lies and the Germans are now ready
for the impending battle on the west
front. Secretary of War Baker an.
Eounced in his war review today.
He said the Germans have recent.
ly withdrawn a pumber OF units from
the west front trenches to train them
for mobile warfare A large number
of units now assembled on the west
front are wholly unframed In the
method of western front warfare.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
ESTABLISH MILITARY POLICE
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 20.-poFice
Chief Nichols is touring Camps Doni-
phan, Bowie and Fort Sill and con
ferring with commanders relative 10
the establishment of military po
lice here to cooperate in the cam
paign for stamping out vice ana
make the city safe for visiting sol
diers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20

Mrs. NJ. R. Majors who has spent
three months visiting at points in
Texas, has returned to her home in
Chickasha, ~-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
SOLDIER SHOOTS SELF
By United Press.

By United Press.
Dallas, Tex. Feb. 20.-Luther Ven.
tress Of Wyneewood, Okla, who is
in the 142nd infantry at Camp Bowie,
Texas, shot himself here last night
and is now in the hospital not ey.
pected to live
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
PORT STRIKE FEARED
BY United Press.

by UnILeu Pfess.
Buenos Aires, Feb. 20.-Port work
ers today boycotted a Transatlantic
steamer loading meat at the pack
ing houses which are affected by the
strikes. The action is believed to
be forerunner of a general port
strike,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-20
THE WEATHER
For Oklahoma.

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Evening journal., 1918-07-27
The Government Again
PUTTING Itself to the Test
tFrom the New York Sum-

Although government operation OF the
railroads is just what large part OF
tie financially irresponsible Of our
people demanded, 1t undoubtedly has
been a great shock TO them to have to
pay a quarter, a half, three-quarters as
much more than they used to pay TO
get service from the railroads. And al
though those same financially irrespon-
sibles have been just as keen for gov
ernment operation Of the wires. we
have no thought that they could be
cheerful at seeing that service go TO the
dogs as the postof1lce department, which
is to manage the wires, has gone to. the
dogs. As for paying twice as much or
even half as much more as they have
been paying for telegraph and-telephone
service, we doubt not they would go
wild.
SO II the government does not re.
deem Itself with its wire control-f 1t
does not either cut the price to the
public or improve the service at price
no higher than now, II may be reason
ably suspected that it is going to knock
government ownership and operation OF
public utilities in this country higher
than Gilderoy's kite.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

we really stand
"one can almost say that what the
result might be was wholly subordinat-
ed to this deeper thought: Anyway, we
couldn't have gone on like this much
longer; clarity must come; the burden
must be shaken of. II 1t goes badly for
us, then we shall start again, with new
bearings, more modest, simpler, more
sympathetic, better. II It goes well,
then we. the people, have done our
work. We can demand that we shaI.
lead In the future a life more worth
living and that we shall come to an
understanding with our present enc
mics, as soon as those enemies, who
now surround us. mlsiudge us and plot
against us, are overthrown."
And OF the Socialist leaders, whose
antics have been somewhat mysterious
to foreign eyes:
1.-THE Socialist leaders also finally
abandoned their opposition. adhered to
the government and demanded full sup
port for II, since they saw that then
whole following wanted no more verbal
controversy and no position Of isolation,
but wished TO leave the road free for
tiAN tUNNAhiHNhb W dttf Nltl NiO NllOlN
people behind it-so that the failure
Of the government might definitely col
denim 1t, while success might bring to
the German masses new life and prog
ress.
"The millions Of Socialist workers
did not want in this crisis to separate
from the people. to which they belong
and which they wished to seq get for
ward more and more. The people would
have to fight the war and bear its bur
dens. So one would have TO stand by
Il, not abuse 1t and fight against 1t
by refusing obedience TO the govern
ment. The Socialists had suddenly
enough OF strife. They wanted to go
along with the nstion-to bind 1t closer
20 them and thus attain more easily
their Social-Democrati aims"
AS a European, with enlightened Eu-
ropesn views, DR.. Muhlon found him
self standing alone in nation bent
on war-wa., for conquest or for selfish
aims at home. And in this war every
stratum Of German society was ready
to acquiesce and play It's part. From
the beginning we have been fighting
the German government and the Ger
man people. We are still fighting them.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

1--WE are making war on the German
government, but not on the German
people" That is a statement we often
hear. IL has an air OF pleasant sophis-
ticatlon which appeals to those who
lack a close acquaintance with modern
Germany and the modern German char
acter.
There never was any foundation for
a distinction of this sort. Say what
you will about the helplessness Of the
German people in the hands of a mill.
tary autocracy. the fact remains that
the German people have fought It in
a spirit entirely different from that OF
the people OF Austrla-Hungary, for In
stance. They have fought the war not
merely out Of loyalty to the existing
dynasty and the existing political order,
but for what they themselves expected
TO get out OF IL.
II support for the theory OF n clear
rift between the German governmsnt
and the German people and Of unwilling
participation in the war on the part Of
the latter could be found anywhere, 10
would be found In the diary OF Dr.
Wilhelm Muhlon. He is a bitter critic
Of the deliberate policy OF the German
government which forced war on Eu-
rope. He would gladly have testified to
the existence OF an antl-war sentiment
among the German people. Such Oppo-
sltion- would have mltlgated his own
painful sense Of isolation. But he could
not testify 10 lt, because il did not
exist. He says frankly. on the other
hand, that all classes Of Germans well
coined the war as a relief from the DIFF
flculties Of Germany's pre-war sltua-
tion.
As 10 the ruling classes-the military
autocracy, the industrisls, the profess
sionsl men and the leaders In education
they had all long ago embraced the
doctrine Of military aggrandizement.
"They want TO lie in the beds Of other
people and don't mind being stigmatized
as barbsrisns for wanting to do So"
Plunder was the watchword OF the
dominant classes In Germany.
But how about the lower classes 7
On this point Dr. Huhlon writes in the
very first Of the war:
mo wonder that the German prole-
tarlat welcomed test; that 1t saw IT.
self relieved Of an Alp-like burden when
it realized: Now things have broken
loose and we shall soon know where
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

As a measure chiefly for the conser-
walton OF coal and transportation, the
Federal Trade Commission and tho War
Industries Board continue to urge. upon
the newspapers the necessity Of reduc-
Ing the amount OF news print paper
used In their business. By economies
already put in practice it is expected
that paper consumption VIII be low
cred by perhaps per cent. A further
saving is needed, as the amount of coal
supplied TO paper mills must be re-
duced.
Several plans for this further saving
have been proposed, some have been
discussed with representatives Of the
government. IL seems 10 us that what
ever effort is adopted must he based
upon the prinlople that the newspapers
nat the government, shall be the Judges
OF the contents and character OF the
paper. Newspapers have the right and
II is their duty TO print news, they have
the constitutional right to express opin-
ions. Those are rights which cannot
with prudence be abridged even in war
time: II would be less 20 the public
advantage In wartime. we think. than
in time Of peace. The public would be
ill-content with any measures that de-
prlyed II Of full information about the
progress Of the war and Of intelligent
discussion Of the measures and issues
OF war.
The managers OF the newspapers rath-
er than the government can best deter
mine what use should he made OF q
paper available. because they know
paper available. because they know
much better than the government how
they can diminish the quantity OF PAPER
they use without injury to the interests
Of the public they serve. Newspaper
vary In quality and in aims. A decree
that certain features or certain depart
ments should be abolished or abridged
as unessential would be unfair and un-
equal in its working, injurious to many
newspapers, while leaving others prac-
tically untouched. On the other hand
an order that the quantity Of news
print consumed by ell newspapers must
be uniformly diminished by a further
3 to 10 per cent-we imagine that would
be sufficient TO accomplish the pur-
pose desired by the War Industries
Board-would leave each newspaper
free to determine how the order could
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

How the governments wire control
is to be executed we don't know; we
are still waiting for the details Of its
program. Probably 1t will follow the
general principles Of the governments
rail control. In any event, as the gov
ernment again puts itself to the test
we naturally compare the possibilities
OF the telegraph and telephone system
under the pOstmaster-general with the
actualities of the transportation sys-
tenn under the director of railroads.
Everybody knows what the public
got out OF the government operation
OF railroads. Nobody buys a railroad
ticket without having his pocketbook
remind him; for the cost Of travelling
on our railroads has gone up under
government operation, all the way from
30 per cent to 100 per cent. Nobody
ships freight without having his pocket
book remind him; for traf1lc rates have
gone up on the average, some 40 per
cent. Nobody buys a ton OF coal In
which a very large part OF the price
does not represent an increased trans
portation rate. Nobody eats potato
that isn't paying an enormously higher
transportation tax.
1t is only fair to say that some part
of these huge Increases is due TO the
emergency OF the war. II is only fair
TO say that some increase would have
been imperative II we had not gone
to war. But 1t is Just as fair to say
that, war or no war, the railroads, un-
der the operating control Of their own
ers, could never have gained 100 per
cent Increases In passenger rates, or
OF half that, or even a quarter OF 1t.
Nobody would dream that II the rail-
roads had remained In the hands OF
their private managers freight rates
would have gone up 40 per cent, or 30
per cent. or perhaps even 20 per cent.
The telegraph and telephone lines are
not in the desperate plight in which
the railroads had been left by the per-
sistent policy OF the Interstate Com
merce Commission to starve them to
death. The telegraph and telephone
systems have been making handsome
earnings. So. as compared with the
the straight out. test for the
government is either TO give a very
much better wire service at the old rate
than private operation has given, or,
to cut the charges to the public.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
THOSE CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS.

T. OR the Information Of persons who may be interested
In the coming Senatorial and Congressional contests
the Republican Publicity Association through its pres-
dent, Hon. Jonathan Bourne Jr. presents the
panying tabuatlon showing the political Affiliations Of
the present membership In the House list Prohlbi-
Zionist from California, Progressive each from Louls
ana, Minnesota and Utah. Independent from Penn
sylyans, and Socialist from New York are classed as
Democrats they vote with the Democrats organi-
zation questions For like reason Independent from
Massachusetts, and Non-partissn from North Dakota
classed with the Republicans There is one vacancy
each In New Jersey Ohio and Wisconsin In the Senate
list aserlsk indicates that Senator VIII elected
November. The membership Is divided follows;
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
TRADING ON PATRIOTISM.

% DRAsNG the farmers for their patriotism President
Wilson vetoed s2Ao wheat, indicating that he did
not believe the farmers needed the 100000 stimulus
the present crisis.
Well the farmers manage to totier along without
IT. But Mr.. Wilson found such application OF pa
trotism when he scrubbed his signature to bill which
gave an aggregate OF s3OOOOOOoO TO 100000
railroad operatives to meet which increase passenger
rates were raised so and freight per cent rates
which the farmer is obliged to meet
But the situation was a little different nerhans 10 tbe
railroad operators did get their increase general
tieup Of the roads by strike in prospect But no
has heard the farmers declaring they viii no re-
fuse to False whent - 49,
Again, let 1t be borne in mind that while the Presi-
dent has his own idea Of what should constitute the
maximum price of wheat, and while he has seen At TO
nx the price Of cotton manufactures both products OF
the North and West. cotton, the Dixie Despot s en-
Joys that divinity which doth hedge king
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918.
A HIeHLY PArmorIc sAcRnIcE.


HOSE who have followed the development Of THE
EVENING JOURNALS Our Boys in France Tobacco
Fund fail to have noticed, with keen apprecs
ton that the employees Of the Harlan plant OF the Behe
hem shpbuding Corporation have added $1,000 to that
fund.
That that through this contribution alone they
contributed $500 Of tobacco TO the American
fighters In Europe to say nothing Of smaller contrbu-
ons previously made and that in the aggregate, from
the time the fund opened they have made between 5000
and 10000 such fighters happy by providing them with
American smokes.
Since the began, officials and employees OF tho
Harlan plant have distinguished themselves by their
hearty and feehanded response to all patriotic appeals
What they have done for the Tobacco Fund is line
Nth what they have done for many other patriotic
enterprises In fact they not only have responded to
appeals. but they have initiated various projects them
selves and put them through with praseworthy In
telligence and dash.
The $1,000 just added to the Tobacco Fund represents
the sacrifice by the employees OF much time material and
money. BY the same token. however. It represents
highly patriotic sacrifice and which viii rebound
TO their credit for many years TO come.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
pnIsoN LARoR AND FREE LARon.

r,sRoM prominent wilmingtonian we received today
II the following letter;
Wilmington Del, July 2e, 1918.
Editor, THE EVENING JOURNAL:
Dear Sir: VIII you kindly inform me- II in these days
Of 40 and so cents hour for ordinary labor that the
inmates OF New Castle County Workhouse stll
working under the old contract and only being paid
55 cents day, less than cents an hour by
the New York Clothing Manufacturers, for whom they
working. II So and when boys are being paid 40
cents an hour 10 pile brick the Philadelphia Pike
and labor almost impossible TO get this being part
OF the Government Highway. Is It not about time the
taxpayers should have look after their interests
and endeavor to help the Government as well as our
selves? Most respectfully yours,
INFORMATION
Perhaps the trustees Of the County Workhouse are
in better position 10 that question than Is
anyone outside the board. II secret however that
the method whereby the labor Of the prisoners in the
Workhouse is farmed out under low contract with
certain outside manufacturers the chief benencaries
has caused much criticism That criticism become
more pronounced since war conditions sent wages
soaring.
1t certainly doesent right that the prisoners
should work for nfty-hve cents day when free labor
is receiving, in many instances more than that much
per hour. However. the trustees may be tied up with
longterm contract the next should be shorter
and made reFocabe under specified extraordinary condi
tions.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
ALIENS EOOI-EASE DOES II,

When your shoes pinch or your corns and ban
Ions ache so that you are tired al over, get
Aliens Foot-Ease, the antisepiic powder 70 be
shaken into the shoes and sprinkled In the foot
bath. II will take the sting out Of corns and
bunions and giveinstant relief to SmArting, Ach-
ing, Swollen, Tender feet. Over 100000 pack
ages are being used by the American, British
and French troops. Sold everywhere, 26c.
Don't accept any stIbstftufte.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

Commenting upon these figures. former Senator
Bourne says:
Among the 220 Democrats In the House OF Repre-
sentatves, there 100 from States Included in what
is commonly known the solid South" States in
which Republicans seldom have hope OF SUCCESS Those
States and their present Democratic representation
Alabama, 10; Arkansas, = Florida, a. Georgia. i2 Ken
ucky o. Louisiana. 8; Mississippi 8; Missouri "a: North
Carolina, 10; Oklahoma g. South Carolina Il Tennessee
s; Texas IS; Virginia, o. In those States however the
Republicans have two Representatives from Kentucky
two from Missouri. eight from Oklahoma, two from
Tennessee and one from Virginia. The Republicans
elected one Representative to the last Congress from
North Carolina There is doubt that the Republicans
will hold their present representation fromthese States
and probably increase the number
For purposes Of comparison there is here given the
party alignment at the close OF the Sxynrs Congress
when the Republicans last had Of the House and
at The opening Of each subsequent Congress:
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
Reducing the Consumption
of News Print Paper
(From the New York Tlmes.)

be met with least injury to property
and public interest. In our judgmehs
this principle should be regarded as fun
damental. All newspapers would loyal
Iy comply with the requirement and
each would know how It could be best
met.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

r,s.RoM prominent wllmngtonian we received today
the following letter.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
GEMS OF THOUGHT

All sunshine makes the dcsort.-Arab proverb
-:=:-.
No mind sailed steadily without moral prinolple
to ballast it.-Seected
%=%.
1t is thing to your road another TO cut It,
George Eliot.
:-:-.-:
Never depend upon your genius; II you have talent
industry will improve IT.; II you have none Industry will
supply the defoiency.-Ruskin.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
STRICKEN WINGS.

n ATAL accidents from flying fields come with
y startling frequency
What is the troubleY We doubt IL any OF the COM
baant nations has paid heavy toll of life among
student avators OF its forces has the United States
1t was American who invented the flying machine
Is Americans who show the utmost daring In action
with the planesbut at home seem to have fatality
after fatality with readily plausible reason
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

Prior to 1913 the total membership Of the House was
S9i The sxty-thrd Congress had a membership OF
45 In addition to the i27 Republicans and POO Demo-
Gratis In the sixtythlrd Congress there were seven
Progressive Republicans and nine Progressves In the
Sxyfourth Congress there nine scattering votes
Although the alignment at the beginning OF the
Sixy-nfth Congress, shown by the record gave the
Republicans one plurality, there were enough Demo-
Gratis among the scattering membership to give Clark
27 votes for Speaker against 2O9 for the Republican
candidates At the present tme with all present the
vote for Speaker would probably be 22O Democratic and
22 Republican with three vacancies The party division
is practically the at the beginning OF this
Congress
THE Republicans lost control OF the House in 1911
but did not lose the Senate until 1919 The party classn
cation In The senate has been as follows:
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

In the Sxty-third Congress the membership of the
Senate was increased from 90 to e6 by the admission Of
Arizona and New Mexico
without admitting that they will lose any Of their
present seats in the Senate the Republicans expect to
elect Republicans to MI Democratic seats in at least
seven out Of the following eleven States Colorado
Delaware, Idaho, Illinois. Kansas Kentucky Missouri
Montana, Nexads, New Hampshire and North Carolina
The membership in-the House is so large and so few
OF the nominations have been made. that Republicans
have not yet determined where they can probably win
seats now held by Democrats but confidently expect 10
carry the House by handsome Majority
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
TIE Germany That We Fight

(From the New York Trlbune.)