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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13

For years dad has toiled for the
boys and girls without their doing a
thing to aid. He has seen his sons and
daughters grow up strong and beauti-
full, but oh, how careless, Indifferent
and impertinent The old man has put
up with lot, has been patient, in
dulgent and kind, but the more he has
indulged the young folks the more
saucy and inconsiderate they have
grown.
Now dad is in a fix where he needs
help, must have help, and he has turned
to the BOYS Some of them help him
gladly some with an effort to conceal
their disgust and dsnclination, while
others openly are rebelling at the tasks
set them. They grumble and mutter
and talk TO the nelghbors about his fail
ure to keep things going in the old
way, without annoying them. Dad
looks at the willing ones and warns to
them. He watches the unwilling,
but dutiful, sadly. He looks at
the rebellious with new feel
ing yelling up in his heart. "If 1
were starting over again at the bot
tom" he says, 81 would teach every
child to work and make them do it.
There would never be any more of this
stuff where Jim carries his own load
and that of Percival. There would be
no more of having Cuthbert loll in a
hammock and strum banjo, while Jack
carried in his share of the wood and
MIXED the brindle cow for him. I'd
make Algernon responsible for just as
much labor as Jake was doing.
Then | wouldn't have to feel my
face get hot when a friend asked me
what part of the family burden Waldo
was carrying, and how long before
Cosmo would be breaking ffty-ifty with
Bob. | would know that any time
there was a hard job or an unpleasant
one on hand that | could grab the
and tell him to get busy. There would
be an even break all around.
Then | would know that l coulC
bank on the family strength as a uni
at any time that neighbor tried t
pasture his goats in our lettuce bed o.
his mules in our sweet corn. If tn,
neghbors knew that every boy il
the family was backing me to a finisl
and had his sleeves rolled up for ac
d ton, and if they all knew that ever.
boy in the bunch was just as wei
trained a scrapper as Jim and Bob an,
Tim and Jake, they would rope thei
goats and mules and hobble them.
The family has got to come to it o
get picked on by every pup and hee
biting cur in ChristendOm. They hav
to come to it or get walked on an
spit on and used as slop jar by ever
filthy autocrat who sets up a dictator
ship in our village. When they knoV
that a poke at George is like slappin
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13

handicap the transportation, pile on
costs and create dissatisfaction with the
governments share in the business.
President Garretson of the conductors
makes similar assertions.
Most citizens will be disposed to doubt
these accusations. 1t is incredible that
any body Of our representative business
en-, in u time Of crisis like this, should
be so regardless of honor and patriotism
as to enter into such a plot Even If
there were no agreement about il, mere
sporadic efforts on the part or IN
di EQUALS 20 thwart the success Of the
railroads in war time would be no less
than reasonable And we do not be
lieve our big railroad men are traitors
Nevertheless, the trainmen's charges
tend to arouse suspicious that there
may be managers who are not doing
all they can to relieve the freight situa-
ton. Despite the weather and all other
evil factors. the ineXpert citizen finds
il hard to understand why the railroads
should not be doing better than they
are. The public will be interested in
hearing what the responsible operators
have TO say.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
MnEN rIIE L0RD nELPS.

Tulsa Times. Wilhelm is not calling
upon tine Lord of Hosts amy more even
as a subordinate helper in the present
war. There was "a time when he toio
his soldiers that the Lord was on their
side, but they must realize by this
time that he is neither Moses nor
an Aaron.
1t was different when the people OF
Israel were .eeking deliverance from
Pharaoh, as we read about it in Exodus
The first thing tht happened to the
Egyptians was when the waters of the
river turned to blood and the fish died
and the rivers stank, Seven days later
Aaron stretched forth his hand and
the frogs came up and covered the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
From Other
Editorial Pages
DON'T BE A "CLACKER. "

St. Joseph MOI News-Press: In the
current issue of Golfers Weekly ap'
pears an article anent some war time
problems right here at home. The ar
ticle deals with The Clacker," by
which is meant that person who sits
about the comfortable fires Of home and
continually "clacks" Of the horrors of
warfare, of the dangers in our military
cantonments, of the indignities TO which
our boys are being subjected, Of the IN
efficient manner in which the war is
being conducted and so on ad infinitum
And it is true, just as the author of
that article says, that every time you
give utterance to one of these "clacks"
you are aiding Germany just as surely
as though you were carrying musket
for her armies, for you are aiding in
spreading a gospel Of unrest and false
hood and are playing directly into the
hands Of the kaiser
Don't be "clacker." Put your
shoulder to the wheel and push, don't
retard progress by dragging along be-
hind. The boys in the camps are being
well cared for, most of them in much
Dtlltl SldDN llltiI AllNg Npulb w 81
home. The death rate in the camps is
probably lower than it is right here in
st. Joseph. With every report Of death
in camp a sniVeling whine arises from
the German propagandst-the "ciack.
ers"-and yet it is incOnceivabie that
in a bunch Of 10000 men, such as there
are in each of these camps, there should
be no deaths Can you imagine city
Of that size without a death?
Washington was criticized and al
| but made to resign. Lincoln wa Will
| fed and cursed Every war president
whom we have ever had has beer
obliged to suffer in the same manner
| Let Us learn a lesson from history anc
forget partisanship forget to gossip anC
| forget to spread idle tales which have
| absolutely no basis for foundation.
This war is going to be won, we are
| sure of that. War is not a holiday, bu
| there is no excuse for magnifying il,
horrors; they are great enough withou
| that. No one is being shot in our mill
| ,ary camps, the men at Washington
are doing everything possible to place
| this country in state of real prepara
| ton 70 rthe ultimate victory, whici
must come; your boys and ours are be
ing treated squarey and fairly by tn,
| government, and every time you con
denim without offering remedy yol
| are aiding the German cause.
Constructive criticism is always we
come, always justifiable, but destruC
tive criticism, which merely tears dow
without rebuilding or offering mean
for so doing, is contemplate and merel
indicates the caliber Of the one VIII
| offers f.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
A RAILROAD CONSPIRACY.

1t is serious charge that the rail
road brotherhoods have brought
against the railroad managers in their
testimony before the federal wage com
mission.
Although the roads have passed un.
d - federal control, their actual opera
ton remains in the hands of the men
" formerly ran them. President Lee
of the railway trainmen declares that
"the old management" is engaged in a
conspiracy to prevent the success OF
ernment operation and to discredit
the Adamson wage law. He alleges
n grant Misuse of rolling stock delay
IN the handling of trains and crews
nd mischievous changes in personnel
! ,e.time he says, has been enormously
creased, without corresponding ad
vantage to freight movements. Every
@Hat> hA asserts- is being made tS
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
WHERE SHOULD WE
FIGHT?
BY HERBERT QUICK,
United States Farm Loan Commits
eiOnCr

SlOn(r.
Where should we go to trial in
case in which our most sacred inter
ests are at stake? In one place only
We should appear in the court where
the great issue is on trial.
The welfare of the whole world IS ON
rial in France today. Germany has
set out to make herself mistress Of the
world, just as Napoleon did in his day.
Germany must be fought where there
is a chance of defeating her, just as
NAPOLEON had to be fought a hundred
years ago. When the nations gathered
at Leipsic to give him his first defeat,
| that was the proper place to tiGnt Ma
poleon. When they came together
again to give him his final overthrow
at Waterloo, that was the exact place
to meet the Corsican.
1t was a home fight for every nation
arrayed in arms against him. II any
ONE of them had said, 1--WE will wait
until Napoleon comes to our gates or
our shores: when he comes we will fight
| him: until then it is not our fight that
| nation would have been contributing tC
| the enslavement of the world by Ma
poleon, and sooner or later he would
have appeared at their gates, and moi
even the gates of hell could have pre-
| vailed against him.
Germany must be fought where heI
armies are found.
She must not win foot of terrltor!
in this war.
If she does she will be able to poin
to the war as a victory, and the Ger
man people will. believe her.
After the war there is only one hop,
for the future Of the world. That hop
lies in the German people. In dc
feated Germany, the people will soone
or later unseat the HohenZollerns and tn
mnkers and then take from the hand
OF that insutferable crew of egomaniac
and murderers the sword with whic
they threaten the whole world. A vic
torious Hohernollern dynasty will hol
the German people in the thraldom o
the trumphs they will claim to hav
won. The German people are sleepwalF
ers rayaging the work. under the hyI
motto suggestion OF the mightiest me!
merist that ever made subject the huma
mind. They are mad with mob psyche
ogy-homicdal mania. The Frenc
under Napoleon needed defeat, and r.
t ccived it, otherwise they would hay
bliehted the whole earth. The German
need defeat, and they must get
j otherwise they will press down on II
brow Of humanity 4 crown of thorr
e more agonizlng than that Of Attila, II
Hun.
Germany must be defeated now
France and not after she appears
our doors swollen with the pride of vi
C tory and with our present allies flogg'
into her ranks as her allies
The great cause is on trial now. }
4 any other time It will be too late. III
p place is France. Germany Is reelir
down to defeat. If we add the migl
of our blows to those Of our allies, 81
0 will fall Unless she fails we meet h
/ next, and we may have to meet h
alone
The man who argues that we shou
Il await her coming to our shores to
e tack US has not thought about it, G
+ if he has thought about it, he either
a fool or he wishes Germany to wi
Let us cease listening to the unthin
n. ing. to fools, and to traitors. Let
"a fight this out in France alongside o.
D. allies.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
THE, GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY
BY E. f. Hartman of the vigilantes.

the family face. and that every boy is
all there and ready, they won't POKE
believe me.
"Then there is another thing No
one ever saw a family yet where GER
tain members did all the work, whle
certain others loafed, that was free
from internal fights. They are always
at it. Put them all at work, keep them
equally occupied, and there is four
times the good feeling and harmony
The boy who feels that he is useful
unit in the family, always thinks lot
more of the family than the one who
| is loaiing ever does. | expect that l
will stir up lot of ugly feeling when
| start in making all the boys work
| but ! must stand it as best | can, Tor
the boys sakes as much as my own.
| SO here goes for a late reformation,
but a complete one, and in the future
this family can be run on the basis of
making the unwilling do their share
not letting the willing carry double
loads"
Poor old Uncle Samuel Until every
man and woman has been made to see
where lies the wisest course there Will
be grumblers. | meet them every day.
I know one who grumbled loudly and
bitterly because her boy was induced
to enlist in the artillery. She could
not see any right nor justice IN H.
She felt that the act of the goVerp'
ment had been cruel and uncalled for.
Then the boy came home from the can
tonment and gave his mother a course
of lectures extending over three days
Ihis time of furough.
Look at me, mother" he began Il
. was round-shouldered, hollow'chesteu'
couldn't stand square on my feet had
no muscle, and was supremely selfish.
| had little stamina and no wind
So he went on, telling her what he
: had lacked, and she saw what he mad
, lacked, and she saw what he had now.
Then he gave her enthusiastic ac-
counts of what he did and how he had
been made a sergeant and how the
! commandant had given him a few
: words of commendation and what a
, fine lot of fellows the other boys were
p and how the spirit of patriotism was
a growing every day. The day after he
, went back to his duties | met her
, 81 never saw him look so well in his
>. whole life. He looks four inches taller
u and his shoulders are so square and his
4 muscle is big and hard. He is so en-
4 thusiastic that he had me and his
p father so excited that we wanted to get
out and march with him. He has gained
>, so much and I fail to see where he has
I. lost anything / wanted him to keep
. His mind is taking hold of bigger anC
4 better things, he looks at religion witt
y more appreciation his whole menta
p. attitude is improved. Take him out
- Not if / could do it with word.
q am proud of him right there
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
REVERSI0N.

Said Lo, the wealthy Indian:
"'Tis plain we had the better plan,
And wiser social order
We had no poor--we all were rich,
In health and happiness and SIGH
No rigid tribal border.
1--WE had small sickness and less crime,
No clocks to veX us with the time,
No real estate, no taxes.
Our sins were few and small because
We did not challenge men with laws
Now then the simple facts is,
when all your fsms you have tried
And failed-by my plan you'll abide,
You'll thank the noble Red Man;
My only grief is that I'll blow
Ere | can say, I told you so!'
fear I'll be a dead man
Chicago News.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
A QUESTION.
BY Clinton ScoIlard of the Visilantes

BS NIlhOh pNOhHiu VI ''N
There have been powers malignant and
malign
About us during these discordant
days,
Satanic workings, features saturnine,
Yelled in a friendly haze.
Soft.tongued hypocricies, these have
whispered low;
And traitor heresies, these have
clamored loud;
There have been hands to deal the
treacnerous blow
Like lightning from q cloud.
We have been patient, and are patient
STILL
And yet, my brothers comes there
not a time
When patience and forebearance ano
goodwill
Are little short of crime?
We do not spare the serpent, MOI
excuse
The deadly tiger leaping from its
lair;
wonder would it not be well to us,
a halter here and there!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
Ardmore, Wednesday, February lS, 1911
THE WEDGE.

at looks" says "A newspaper para,
grapher. "as if the Germans have de.
cided to drive that wedge between them.
ST., = and their kaiser without any out
sic assistance"
The reference is to the recent cpl.
demic of protest strikes in German in.
dusJrial centers Those strikes seem
to have been suppressed but we may
safely assume that the spirit which in.
spired them is not suppressed. 1t is
like to appear again gaining power
tn drive the wedge deeper and deeper
wi ipuiug the cleft until the kaiser and
all his war lords large and small stand
on Cuc side and the German people on
the other.
"hi, very term, wedge" is an I'M
terestiug milepost Of the war. 10 gained
currency i'm Germany as a result of
! 'es.dent Wilson's diplomatic messages
pointing out the conflict Of interests be
tween the Prussian militarists ana the
rank and file Of the German nation All
the time-serying and gOyernmeutbosseo
German editors straightway began Ia
rcyne Mr. Wilson for trying to drive
a wedge between the kaiser and his
people" The mere suggestion was
treated as lese majesty, IL was almost
as t. some prcsumptuous and impious
foreigner had tried to turn the German
kaiser loves To call "our good old Ger
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
Scissors and Paste.

Fort Smith (ArkJ Southwest Ameri-
can: The real name of Lenine is Nlad-
mir Hytch Uulyanoff Sounds like
barbed-wire fence across an Arizona
canyon.
Oil and Gas Journal: 1t is possible to
acquire u round sum in a square deal.
St. Joseph MoJ News-Press: cut
ting the cuffs Off mems trousers won't
make them any shorter.
Dallas Texas News: Considering
how many wives a Turk soldier has
probably he can hardly kiss them all
good.by without catching some kind Of
disease.
Guthrie Leader: New York is sup
posed to be shocked at the discovery
that cold storage eggs are sold as fresh.
What would be amazing would be if
fresh ones were sold as cold storage
Tulsa World. This would, indeed, be
a great little world if a few people
amounted to half as much as some
people think they do,
McAlecter News-Capital; 1t is a good
indication The German people have
begun to insist upon learning from
their rulers where they are at.
Gainesville (Texas) Register: The man
,,,l.i,,r s,, much fDCc pVar the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
BABY BONDS.

A thrift stamp costs % cents.
Sixteen thrift stamps and 10
cents, or $413, this month buys a
war savings stamp.
The government redeems the
war savings stamp at s. on Jan.
l, 1923.
Your profit is 81 cents, or four
per cent interest, compounded
quarterly.
Buy stamps at postoffices, banks
and patriotic stores.
You are saving money for the
future and helping the govern
ment win the war.
Begin buying today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
THE WAR MENU.

Sing a song of johnny cake, graham
bread and rye,
Fish and eggs and fowl and fruit, less
of cake and pie,
Wheatless, meatless. sweetless meals
the kaiser's strength will pune
ture;
Isn't that the proper thing at just
this present juncture?
Kansas City (MoD st.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
THRIFTSPENDING
AND SPENDTHRIFTING
BY Ellis Parker Butler, Author OF
pigs is Pigs"

BY Ellis Parker Butler, Author OF
pigs is Pigs
Peter Patriot had a penny. Sammy
Stacker had a cent.
Peter put his penny in his pocket
until he had twenty-five and then he
bought a thrift stamp.
Thus Peter had saved twenty-five
cents for himself; he had loaned twenty
five cents to the government; he had
permitted the government to buy
twenty-five cents worth of goods OF
services to win the war; he had helped
business, himself. his country. He was
Peter Patriot.
Sammy Stacker spent his cent fol
some silly insignificant, stuff, sweets
or something, and saved nothing, die
not help the government and wa.
simply selfish Sammy Stacker.
Peters purchase paves paths to per
manent prosperity; Sammy's silly spend
ing signifies sorrow some day.
Moral Buy war savings stamps.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13

As far back as Sept s, 1917, Charles
f. Hughes, then the Republican candi-
late for president of the United States
speaking of the presidents power as
commander of the army and navy, said
at was not in the contemplation of the
constitution that the command OF
forces and the conduct of campaigns
hould be in charge of council, or that
rs to this there should be a division OF
authority and responsibility. The pros.
secution Of war demands in the highest
legree the promptness, directness and
unity of action in military operations
which alone can proceed from the exec
utive." 1t follows, therefore, that if
Mr. Hughes We're now a member of
| congress he would vote against the Pre-
posed war cabinet bill now before con.
grcsS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
ARDMORE I'm OTHER YEARS
From the Files of The Ardmoreite.
TEN YEARS AGO.

TEN YEARS AGO.
Judge Wallace of Kansas City, No,
announced that he would be a candidate
for governor of Missouri
Miss DeZavala surrendered the Ala.
mo at San Antonio Texas, to the state
which had passed a bill for the repair.
ing of the building.
The Creek Nation was in arms, de.
manding that the government give
them money instead of land.
Ben H. Colbert of Tishomingo, for
mer United States marshal for the
southern district OF Indian Territory,
was in the city.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
1t was reported that a rich vein of
gold had been struck in the hills west
Of WaXahachie, Texas.
The Spanish government made re-.
quest that the Clydebank Shipbuilding
Company push the work on the Span.
ism vessels.
The house and senate were busily en-.
gagged in the work of the Indian affairs
with the five tribes in Indian Territory.
An announcement was made that the
United States battleships Texas ana
Nashville were en- route to Galveston.
The Brock schoolbuilding was burned.
The fire was started from a dilapidated
stove.
The Alaska Territory was in control
Of band of gamblers, of which a man
by the name Of Fay was the leader.
who killed deputy United States mar.
shall, Brown.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
Political Observations.

At last Congressman Mason Of iii
nois has said something for which he
deserves commentator. For Gods
sake, let's quit fighting each other and
fight the kaiser" says the congressman,
who heretofore has been rated as an
extreme pacihst.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
AROUND THE WORLD.

Norway has established a domestic
science school for girls at Stavanger.
Brazil produces about % per cent OF
the worlds yearly total rubber produc
ton.
Great Britain imports 3O,oOo,Ooo
mounds Of coffee annually for home con
sumption.
Japan is credited with a production
of 2O,431 900 pounds of silk in 1915 the
total world production for that year
being 5G,64I7G2 pounds.
Turkey is to take a census OF its pop,
ulation. which is now roughly estimated
at q 10000 Turkey is the only EURO
pean nation which possesses no oincial
statistics of population,
Germany. accepting men Of eighteen
and forty.five, inclusive, has 5,5Oo'Ooc
soldiers in the field. Germanys per
manent disablements are said 10 DC
$500 900, or at the rate Of 1,OOO,OOO
year.
Austria is using an artificial coffee
which is made from figs dried either II
the sun or evaporating pans, groun'
into powder and then compressed into
tablets, to be dissolved in hot wa'sI
when desired.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13

Critics Of the administration are re-
minded by the Washington star that
they are taking chances. "If the ad-
ministration, despite mistakes, scores,
the mistakes will not count in the ap-
peal to the country. The public will
see only success; and nothing succeeds
like success"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13

Americas foreign trade surpassed all
records in 1917, amounting to s917S,'
100000. The gain over 1916 was nearly
81 100000
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
ONE YEAR AGO.

Americans were leaving Germany and
reported that they were glad Of the op.
portunity and said that the govern
ment had cut the meat allowance to
one. half pound per week for each per.
son.
The United States offered to furnish
the Cuban government with guns and
ammunition to suppress a revolution.
w. II. Webb OF North Dakota was
here investigating the oil fields.
Villas troops were just three miles
from the line near Columbus ~ NJ,
and were being watched by United
States airplane observers.
A bill was introduced in the Texas
legislature TO regulate the price OF
cotton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-13
Cause and Cure.

Boston Transcript: Doctor-You need
to be treated for the whisky habit.
Casey-Begorra, doctor, that's how
got it,