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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-27
BATTLE SUMMARY

Fighting OF the most desperate
character attends the German at
tempt to enlarge on the capture OF
Mont KENNEL on the Flanders front
as the Franco-British troops strive
to hold the enemy in check. On the
vital sector of the Picardy front
east OF AmienS, the allied soldiers
have driven the Germans from more
OF the ground than they gained ear
ler in the week.
The fall of Mont KENNEL is a Sc
riouS blow to the security Of the
salient about Ypres, but to gain a
complete victory there the Germans
must strike quickly. This they are
trying to do while the allied troops
resist Strenuously.
While Kennels capture by the
enemy does not mean the immedi-
ate evacuation OF Ypres, military OBJ
servers say, ii does menace the Brit
ish positions there, and further re-
tirement in the next few DAYS is not
unlikely.
Haig Admits Retirement.
Southwest Of Ypres the Germans
are now on a line running from the
northwest OF Baileul through Locre
to La Clyte and eastward to the
Ypres-Comines canal. Field Mar
shal lIaig admits a retirement along
the canal, and Berlin claims the oc-
cupation OF St. Eloi, two and half
miles south of Ypres. Berlin also
says that the prisoners in the pres
ent Flanders battle have increased
to $500.
KENNEL Hill did not fall without
struggle, and it remains a monu-
ment to the bravery OF French reg
iment which. cut off from the allied
lines, held out until surrounded on
all sides by the Germans. The ulti-
mate fate of the French defenders
fighting tremendous odds is not
known to the allies. Franco British
troops attempted strong counter-at-
tacks to re-take the hill, but were
driven back by the Germans, who
are using nine divisions on a front
OF about eight miles.
Germans in North.
The German attack in the north.
unless it can gather much greater
momentum, does not yet threaten
the Belgian line from Dixmude to
the sea, although it does affect the
British about Npres.
The enemy must advance still far
ther before the Belgians will be
compelled to give up the historic line
OF the User, which they have held
for so many months.
Successes were gained by allied
troops in a counter stroke south OF
the Somme from Nillers- Bretonneux
to south of Hangard. The Germans
were driven back all along the line
and most furious fighting ragged in
the village Of Hangard, the west
quarter Of which is now held BY the
French. South of the Luce the
French also gained enemp lositions
and the fighting still goes on.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-27

new branch of the new service
the United States school garden
army
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04

whole surplus in that country now would
go only part way to meet the deficit OF
our allies in Europe.
But the price for the Australian wheat
serves to remind us of what a miracle
the worlds transportation service has
become Ordinarily the price in Mel
bourne and Sydney vitally affects the
return to the farmer in Idaho or Rus
sa. The war has temporarily blocked the
channels of communication. They will
soon reopen, and even the famine threat
ened in Russia may be averted. But no
more than two or three centuries ago
famincs were chronic and universal,
even in the richest countries i'll Europe.
But little back of shakespeare day,
even in England there was famine in one
part while plenty ruled in another.
That greed which is supposed to in
spire commerce has in this brief time
removed a curse that must have made
great populations miserable through ten
twenty, perhaps fifty thousand years
The eradication of famine, once the
haunting dread of the nations, is per
haps one of the largest single benefi
cences ever conferred upon the human
! race.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
MIR. Hearst Heads the Procession

Mayor Hylan has been moved by the
criticism that he is unenthusiastic in
greetings to returning soldiers This
has been corrected. No less a person
than Mr. William Randolph Hearst has
been appointed committee Of one to go
to Washington and arrange with Secre-
tary Baker and Secretary Daniels for
suitable greetings.
Certainly no more suitable appoint
ment could have been made than that of
Mr. Hearst. If anybody has the right
to welcome our soldiers home, it is Mr..
Hearst. He is not only glad to see them
back; he never wanted them to go.
When he arranges his first parade the
procession will, of course, display a sign
bearing these words from Mr.. Hearst's
American of May IT,. 1917;
To throw away strategic ad
vantage by sending fleets and armies
away from their home bases to be parts
of a European offensive which has prac
tically broken down is blunderng pro-
posal that would make real strategst
gasp and that will cost us dear if We
accede to it.
Our money like armies and our
fleets, should be concentrated at its
home bases and not dispersed abroad.
We presume Mayor Hylan will wish
MI Hearst to march at the head Of the
column. There is surely the right place
to fling out the words written by Mr.
Hearst on March 9, 1919
I cannot get so violently excited as
some people over possible effects in Eu
rope of the present war
Plainly Mr.. Hylan agrees with Mr.
Hearst and does not propose to let the
city disgrace itself with any violent
excitement in greeting our returned
soldiers.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
Jerus of Poland

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The war for dem ocracy and liberia
ton is over, but it remains yet to be seen
at the peace table whether the Allies who
fought so gloriously in that war will insure
at least liberation for the race that for two
thousand years has been stamped under
foot by the nations Of the earth.
Reports are even now being heard Of the
renewal of massacres Of Jews in Poland
that Poland for whose liberation more than
six hundred thousand Jews in the armies of
the Allies fought. Shall the blood Of those
Jewish sons who died In battle have been
shed to give the antl-Semitlc Poles free
hand in the slaughter of her Jewish sub
jects? Shall the gold that millions Of
Jews gave with their hearts blood have
been used to purchase freedom for race
that may enslave another? The Poles, too,
have been sorely oppressed In one hun
dred and fifty years they have been dis
sected, denationaized people They have
fought on divers occasions agalnat the
hopeless odds Of the bloody Cars OF Rus
sia And the Jews OF Poland we're with
them. Hundreds of Jews died in the steppes
of Siberia for their participation in the re-
volt of 1908 Thousands more spent the
best years OF their lives in the nquisitional
dungeons of Muscovy, or gave Of thei,
blood in the sanguinary street fighting ir
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
The Deficit

The actual result for the nine months Oh
the calendar year up to October was re-
duction of net revenues by about $2lo,ooo-
OOO 1t was expected that the raise IN rates
would wipe out this deficit and leave the
government with a handsome surplus. Ihis
hope seemed justified by the results IN July
and August.
Meanwhile, that strong pressure when
brought the heavy increase in railway
wages continues. Already before the wage
board is demand from the brotherho foods
for further wage increase Of, it is estl-
mated, something like $175,000,000 for the
brotherhood employees alone. similar de-
mand from the Railway Telegraphers' As
sociaton was turned down by Mr.. McAdoo
last week. This probably reaches the very
heart of the difficulty inherent in govern
ment operation-that is, the strong political
pressure to raise wages higher and ever
higher. 1t might we'll have been that when
the realization of this difficulty began to
become acute administrative sentiment
favoring government railroads might have
undergone a change.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
Net Results

Apparently, then, the result of the gov
ernment handing back the railroads to their
owners would be to leave the roads in a
worse plight than they were before. The
President himself says that this is unthink-
able.
The main problem is that of providing ad-
equate capital for this needed developments
More than ten years ESQ James j. Hill
declared that the roads needed at least a
billion dollars a year for the following seven
years to put them abreast of the transporta-
tion needs of the country. Scarcely half
this sum has been expended. If the need
was for billion dollars ten years ago it is
nearer two billion dollars a year now. IN
deed, two billions now would not represent
what one billion did when Mr.. Hill spoke.
Without friendly policy on the part of the
government this capital could not now
be obtained The rewards for canitaI are
too attractive elsewhere
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04

the various Polish cities. Hundreds Of
thousands went into an everlasting exile.
But all this the Pole has forgotten. At
time when all the world turns again to
brotherhood and reconstruction his me-
di@val hatred beches forth in murder and
destruction. Now what shall the Allies
say?
Another offender is the Kingdom Of Ru-
mania. Here is country which, in times
Of peace, is a land of milk and honey. And
yet in the last thirty years nearly one-half
million Jews fled from Its bounties to
avoid the countless prosecutions and deg
radations they were subjected to. The
thousands Of Jewish men who laid down
their lives IN battle and the great Jewish
wealth that was lost through battle have
not avalled any. The Rumarian Jew Is re-
viIed buihed, massacred and unenfran-
chised. Now what shall the Allies say?
WILLIAM n. KIRSCHNER.
Brooklyn, Nov %, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04

A REMARKABLE situation has sud
N denly developed in regard to the
- railroads, precpitated by, apparently
q sudden change Of front rs to the govern
ment's policy of railway control.
1t had been generally supposed that IN
any event the railroads would remain under
the governments control for the full period
allowed by the law--that is, twenty-one
months after n formal proclamation OF
peace And it was surmised that If the
railway administration was fairly success
full in the mean time this would lead to d
strong movement in favor, if not of govern
ment ownership, at least of a continuance
of the present arrangement.
Abruptly at the end of eleven months
direction of the railways Mr.. McAdoo re-
signs, and fortnight later tho President
appears before Congress to say, to the gen.
eral surprise of the country, that the ques-
ton of railway control presents large prob
lens, that he has no "conident opinion
about it., and "turns to Congress for coun-
sci upon it," He makes this further ex-
plicit declarations
~ stand ready and anxious to release
the roads from the present control, and
must do so at very early date if by
waiting until the statutory limit of time
is reached | shall be merely prolongine
the period of doubt and uncertainty
which is hurtful to every interest con
cerned"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
Cheap Wheat in Australia

1t reads queerly that the Australian
government is offering million tons Of
wheat at 81 pence minimum, or about
s1.18 per bushel, while our government
has guaranteed base price Of 81 26
for all the wheat produced in this coun-
trv till the end of the crop season Of
1919. In reality. the Australian wheat
offer is Just sell-otf of small quantity,
tn make room for the new crop now COM
ING on. The whole wheat crop of Austria
liza does not equal that of two or three
of our Leading wheat states. and the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04

the Civil War it was our grcenbacks. In
the present war, in this country 1t was
the less obvious, but none the less pow
crful, expansion of bank credits. With
this "casy money and with general cm-
ployment at high prices there always
remains a huge purchasing power that
is not quickly exhausted. There is
usually much more extravaganza after a
war than while the war is on. And
that may be the case now, not merely
in America but in all the warning coun-
tries of Europe.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
The World of Make Believe

Romance suffers a thousand deaths
yet never dies That is as true Of life
as it is of art. Edmond Rostand came
to his great success in the peak of a
realistic uproar He came purely and
simply as romancer, splashing all the
old colors on the same old heroic scale.
Not life as he and we saw it then, ana
not life, really, as anybody ever saw it,
was his theme He placed before us
life as we have'it in our day dreams, as
we constructed it ideally to cheer and
succor US with the beauty and soft lines
in a world of hard, dull facts.
The old fence between realism and
romance went crashing when it came
to be seen that all art was something
more than life and Elat the only dis
tnctons to be mag were Of subjec
matter, Of method, Of time, of place,
and of the degree to which the process
of idealzation, of generalization, is car
ried. In your true romance, like "Cy-
rano de Bergerac," the idea runs away
with the fact, and we reach an extrava-
gance of emotion and color that sweeps
us off our feet. In Henry James, let us
say, idea and the fact keep pace The
readers mind stays in command, and
the emotions play only their allotted
part But in both it is a reconstructed
world we enter. the dream of great
mans brain, analyzing life, Interpreting
it, generalizing from it. Try as he will,
no artist can keep himself from his
work.
There have been few romancers to
surpass Rostand in his combination OF
theatrical skill and poetical feeling
Some larger abilities he lacked. Bu
the heart Of romance and of the true
poet was his, and he swept his countr!
and this country off their feet by the
sheer power Of his imagination. He un
doubtedly had much to do with oul
modern swing, if not away from real
ism, at least away from it's narrower in
timations. We relearned from "Cvrano'
what we had known in our youth tha
great art will not stand within a mar
row definition and that pleasure, jo
and wisdom are to be had from ever,
color on its palette
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
YeIlo1us

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I have noted number of items
lately to the effect that various paciis-
and Socialist organizations are planning to
petition the President to pardon "political"
prisoners, criminals sentenced for viola
tion of the espionage and sabotage laws,
for sedition, for refusal to perform mil
tary duty, and so forth. Surely it is time
for all genuine Americans to stand on
guard against the activities of such yellow
ours.
Ny son gave his life last June for
humanity. While he was fighting with that
magnificent I'd Division on the Chateau
Thierry sector, the various types of yell
Iowa Do not call them "Reds" Red is
one Of the colors of our fag) were doing
everything in their power to stab him and
his comrades in the back. Now they are
asking for the release of political prisoners.
When the pactists, constituencies OBJ
jectors, traitors, Bolshevists, and all others
Of their ilk unite in one great petition to
the Almighty asking that my boy and his
millions of fallen comrades shall be re-
leased from the grave and shall be restored
to the happy, useful lives which they were
leading when the call to duty came, when
they shall have demonstrated that they
/ have sufficient influence with the Creator
TO have that petition granted, then, anc
never until then, let them petition earthly
rulers for the release of those OF their kline
who have been sentenced to small part Of
the punishment which they have so richly
earned G. B. SIMRELL
| West Babylon, N. Y, Nov. 80. 1913.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
The Gold Star

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May l, without offence suggest that
IN the welcoming celebrations for our re-
turning troops places be kept IN the front
ranks OF each company for representatives
of our fallen heroes? Is 1t not practicable
to invite each hero's nearest of kin (man'
woman or child, to march there before all
others, carrying the gold star that is Their
aching pride?
Nothing can please us more or become
us better than thus before all else 10 cele-
brate the heroes who have given their lives
and to honor their kinsfolk who have given
them. MARY PERRY KING
New Canaan, Conn, Nov, so, 1915,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
Cheap Transportation

But would it be any misfortune if still
higher rates were needed? 1t is we'll to re-
call that through twenty years, up to this
year, the average rate per ton mile has not
substantially varied. Meanwhile, before the
war the general average of prices had gone
up fully so per cent, and it has gone up Is
to 100 per cent more since the war-be-
tween 200 and 800 por cent in all This
means that railway rates even under a
25 per cent increase are not relatively much
more than half, or possibly not more than 40
per cent, what they were twenty years ago
that is, the relative cost to the country.
No other country has anything like such
rates.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04

The sob-squad in Germany has had no
effect on the women Of Texas. In con-
vention in Dallas the State Federation
of Clubs called upon the women not only
of Texas but OF every other state to
pledge themselves to buy goods manu-
featured only in the United States and in
Allied and neutral nations. They them
selves will refuse to buy anything made
in Germany. With Texas alone 57,070
square miles greater than all Of Germany
before the war, this one state of itself
closes considerable market for German
goods
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
Absence and 'Inability'

The question whether Mr.. Wilson's
absence abroad constitutes an INA
bility" to administer the Presidential
Office will probably have to be met If
he stays in France for any considerable
period. Vice President Marshall has in
dicatcd one way in which test can be
had He says that if a court instructs
him to assume the Presidency he will
assume it.
The courts have the right to con-
struc the clause in the Constitution
which provides for the succession OF
the Vicc-President. The Constitution
directs that the powers and duties OF
the President shall devove on the Vice
President in case Of tho formers ''ina-
bility" to discharge them. The word
''inability' has never been construed
iudicially But the courts arc entitled
to construe it, and cannot we'll avoid
doing so if occasion arises.
Congress may also pass a law or
resolution defining Presidential "disa-
blity." 1t is authorized to pass all
laws which may be necessary to carry
into execution the powers vested by the
Constitution in the government or IN
any department or officer thereof.
1t is highly desirable to have the
Presidential succession clarified. And it
would be a simple thing to declare by
law to what extent absence from the
country or from the seat of govern
ment would constitute disqualification
in the constitutional sense.
There has been no case SO far ir
which a President has succeeded q
President, temporarily or permanently
because Of the latters "inability.'
There is nothing in the Constitution
clearly providing for a temporary sue
cession "Inablity" is vague an(
dangerous term. 1t should be brough
into some definite relation to physica
presence in or absence from the coun
try And some provision should b.
made discriminating between an q,
interim and permanent exercise b.
the President of the powers of tn
Presidency
The Presidents trip to Europe in
evitably brings all these questions t
the fore.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
Handing Them Back

But consider the situation if now the
. President should decide to return the roads
to their owners. The matter is in the Presi-
dents hands. The government is under
obligations to go on operating the roads for
any specified time, nor for a day longer than
it thinks best.
This is the possibility that the railway
executives must consider at their meeting in
New York to-day 1t is we'll known that
opinion as to the desirabilitys sof immediate
return, even among the railway managers, IS
extremely divided 1t is evident that if the
unfavorable results of September and Oc-
tober should continue the desirability of
this return would be immensely lessened 1t
would place the roads in genuine prcdica-
ment. 1t is we'll known the roads are in
none too good condition. Expenses for
maintenance have risen very heavily, and in
spite of this the last accounts show an in
crease in the number of locomotives and
cars under repair. 1t is likewise we'll known
that expenditures for renewals and improve
ments have been this year at the lowest ebb.
The budget made out by Mr.. McAdoo at the
beginning of the year called for an outlay
of something like 81 1300,0 900, 900. The actual
expenditure for ten months was under
$45O, ,0OO,O 900
In the face of the present cost of living
and the prevailing high prices. and espe-
cially with the urgent demands for still
higher wages, it would be very difficult for
the roads now to make a drastic reduction
IN wages. And whatever may happen in tht
next six months so, there is no presen
indication of a heavy decline in the cost O.
supplies.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-04
War Prices and Peace

Seldom has Mr.. Darlng's genius for
depicting a national feeling or state Of
mind shown brighter than in his strik-
ing cartoon of yesterday, showing the
tree of "war prices" rising into the air
after peace had laid an axe across its
base. 1t was entitled, "And Still the
Blame Thing Doesn't Fall" The fact
is already becoming a national wonder
ment. In the three weeks since the sign
ing of the armistice there has been no
marked decline either in the wholesale
or retail price of any of the chief COM
n,odtes or products Of the country. Cot
ton had a sudden and excited slump, but,
under the restrictions imposed by the
government, it, was soon over, while corn,
even from & base price of $120 a bushel,
has had sharp rise Last weeks papers
announced that butter has, since the
armistice reached the highest price since
1875. The receipts Of hogs at the prin-
cipal points have been unusually heavy,
the opening up of shipping gives pros
pect Of speedy release Of all sorts of
dammed-up supplies from the Orient,
South America and Europe. And, in
spite Of ALL as Mr. Darling puts it, 1.-The
blame thing doesn't fall"
Nh Houston, the Secretary OF Agrl
culture, assures us that these high prices
will continue for some time to come,
agreeing in this with Mr.. Armour and
other experienced judges of market con-
ditions And yet all this comes in the
face of tremendous slump in the gov
ernment's demands general cancelling
of advance orders and the return of a
large number of munitions workers to
the fields of normal enterprise. To a
great many in spite Of general knowl-
edge as to the shortage of food in Eu-
rope the thing is profound mystery
Undoubtedly, the food shortage in Eu-
rope and the demands of our army
which will continue for many months tc
come, account for the continuance of high
food prices. And the apparent deter
mination of the labor leaders to resis
any reduction in wages in part explains
why the steel, copper, coal and othe,
posed to hold for present prices in thei
fields But, when all this has been said
there remains the feeling that the ces
sation of the wars intense demand
ought to mean a decline in the cost o
living and of prices generally.
Yet this is not usually one of tn
close sequels Of great war. In the las
generation an economic writer, after
broad survey, declared that, as a rule
prices were higher after than durin
wars. This apparently was true fc
some time after our Civil War ACCORD
ing to the figures compiled by the Aldric
commission, the gold price for lare
{ variety of products (over two hundred
t was higher in January, 1866, than
January, 1865, and that was apparentl
top-notch for the days of the rebellio
The fact seems to be that almo
: every war is accompanied by lars
. issue Of soma kind Of papex money,