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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

ing that any working girl can keer
straight on 50 per week II she wants to,
1t isn't bashiulness alone that makes
a man want to dodge his obligations in
stead OF meeting them.
A pretty girl has a comforting %reflec-
ton every time she gets a glimpse OF
herself in a mirror.
There isn't much hope for the man
who has more use for the kind OF
friends he needs than he has for the
kind Of friends who need him.
Rubber is getting so scarce that the
corset manufacturers claim they will
soon have to quit making corset suspen-
ders. Well, we can remember when the
girls wore the round kind of carriers
aboxe he knee, and they seldom pro-
duced Jacobs Ladders in the stockings.
The one horrid feature about the out
look is that next Christmas the store
windows will be filled with Baby Blue
carriers with satin bows and gilt buckles
with initials cut into them.
After they have been married for
awhile and Lovey hasn't anything else
to do she will start bawling so Honey
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
GOOD LUCK, BUT NOT GOOD SENSE.

A STREAM of motor cars flows down Classen boulevard
= in the morning, most of them driven by safe and sane
motorists, who realize that others are entitled to some CON
sideration, and that even the lowly pedestrian is endowed
with the right of life, liberty and the pursuit Of such hap
pincss as one can find without the aid of gasoline, But
there are a few drivers who aren't like that. On a recent
morning two cars came down the boulevard, racing at about
fifty miles an hour, At the triple corner Of Tenth, Clas,en
and Walker is a market where many youngsters go for the
matutinal milk supply, or such other breakfast food as may
be needed, 1t happened that neither Of these speed fiends
succeeded in killing a child at this place, where the oppor-
tunities are excellent 1t was good luck, but not their good
sense which averted such a tragedy. There is still useful
work for the motorcycle cops to do.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
wIsCoNsIN's LOYALTY.

THE NATION has regarded Wisconsin's senatorial
election as q test Of the loyalty of that state. Even
Wisconsin accepted it as such a test, and for that reason
there will be rejoicing that Victor Berger, the socialist
candidate, charged with ~disloyalty was showed under
three or four to one. The socialist candidate stood on the
St. Louis platform, and polled the disloyal vote, as well
as that Of a few hopest but misguided socialists, Had it
been possible to elect such a man, the situation would have
been grave, indeed and the shame Of Wisconsin would
have teen as great as that Of Milwaukee ought to be
and isn't Milwaukee gave the socialist leader a plurality,
and that should make that city as infamous as any matted
beverage II manufactures. Democrats, including President
Wilson, would have preferred the election Of Davies. but
In choosing Congressman Lenroot the state has selected
an honorable and patriotic citizen, which the rest of the
country had a right to expect. Pro-Gsrmans seem mbre
Numerous In the state than they should be, but this evil
dence that they are decidedly in the minority probably
will serve to keep them in restraint.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
&deGAmsa@rMooe
THE MEASURE OF GERMAN SUCCESS.

"The first requirement for success Is superiority In
morale and tactics on the part of the assailer, and espe-
cially a vigor in attack proportionate to the efficacy OF his
arms. Up TO the present we have not gone TO the bottom
Of this necessity, for we have not felt like using those
means on the western front up TO n point which means
success.
THE enemy line must be broken on a front large
enough 80 that reserves can be rushed in to widen the
break. The reserves must be at hand and the enemy must
be prevented from uniting his two broken ends.
"An operation Of this Importance can only be under
taken IL there 10 the certainty Of a decisive success"-Ex-
cerpt from the book, Lessons Of the World War" pub
lished in December, 1917, in Berlin, written by Lieut.. Gen.
Baron Won Freytag- Loringhoven, deputy chief Of the gen.
eral staff and unquestionably the mouthpiece Of the Ger
man military hierarchy.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
HistorYE
Bits -
one Hundred Years Ago reday.

One Hundred Years Ago To-day.
l8l8-Act of congress establishing Z
present design of the flag OF the Unit
States.
Seventy-Five Years Ago Today.
l&3-Formal opening OF the Const
yatory Of Music at Leipsic, Germany,
Fifty Years Ago Today.
l868-William Smyth, celebrat
mathematician and educator, died
Brunswick, Maine. Born at Pittstt
Maine, Feb. /, 1877.
Twenty-Five Years Ago Today.
l803-Arguments of British a
American representatives begun befd
the Bering Sea court Of arbitration
Paris.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Our Toe Miller Contest.

Lou Baumann, the most popular ref
cree in the Middle West, claims that the
oldest Joke Is the one about the
who staggered into a barber shop and
said to one of the BARRIERS: What do
you charge for a shave, mister ?" Eff
teen cents" replied the barber. Fifteen
cents3" said the stew. That's too
much. Will you shave one side of my
face for ten cents p "Sure." replied the
barber. The stew climbed into the chair
and the barber tucked the napkins
around his chin. Now" said the bar
her, (which side Of your face do YOU
want shaved1" THE outside" replied
the stew.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Than There Wlmmin-

The modern girls have thh quecrest ways,
They wear straw hats on wintry days,
They wear low shoes when It's raining
cats.
on muddy DAYS they wear white spats.
when it's ten below their necks nre bare,
They say they're roasting and want fresh
air:
When lis eighty above they're sure
they'll freeze,
And put on sweaters TO reach 10 their
knees
on sunny days they're always late:
When Il rains they're at work nj a quar-
ter to eight;
hut II proves the old time saying Ia true;
You never can tell what a woman Will
do" r. II. c.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

will kiss her and apologize for some
thing he didn't dol
Matrimony is an awful gamble for the
reason that many a girl who looks like
Heaven acts like the Other Place when
You get her.
II is none of our business. But we'll
bet that there isn't much wrong with
the vision OF a man who uses a monocle
when he wants TO read anything.
A sick man is so impatient that after
he has taken four doses Of a prescrip-
ton and isn't able to get up out OF bed
he is willing to bet that all the drug
gist put in the bottle was water.
1T is more blessed to give than to
receive" said the Street Car Conductor
as he passed a plugged nickel on a pas
senger.
Well, the wal Is q terrible thing, but
every cloud has its silver lining. The
girls are going back to hobble skirts
this summer.
-W.s,s.
Lines Worth Remembering,
II is our kindest and tenderest emo
tons which we screen from the world
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Haw, HawI

"Sce here" said the angry man as h.
walked up to the proprietor Of the cloth
ing store. 81 bought this suit here
about ten days ayo and you told me that
this was a fast color. And uow look at
III II has faded already"
well, my dear sir" blandly assured
the proprietor, 81 spoke truthfully You
could not expect il to fade any faster
than that. could you9"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
ConRfats.

t%AwrenceburR. 0nd) Ncws
An clcyen-and pound gifl was
born to Mr. and Mrs Albert f. Grubbs
at their home in Harrison Pretty good
for a man with one arm and one leg
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
MercyI

Abe Levy stopped off at + rankin,
Ohio. the other day because he was feel
ing III. But he didn't remain in town
more than a half minute. The first sign
he saw wa on the office Of DR.. J.
Death, and a little way up the street he
noticed the Blood Drugstore
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
A Wond.f.

your wife seems 20 he an excep-
tional woman" said Mr. Smith
"She is." agreed Mr. Jones. "She can
receive and open a telegram without
getting cold feet"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

This war is going to be long enough without waiting for
an uprising In Germany to end il. The way to whip the
Huns 10 to apply a superior force on the outside.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Luke McLuke Says.

Time hangs so heavily on the hands
Of many a wealthy society woman who
is living with her fifth husband that she
Joins a club and prepares a paper prov
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

You are soon to have another chance to buy Liberty
bonds, and you will be expected to take advantage of the
opportunity in proportion TO your pile.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

There Is a fellow employed by tho
Lima (Ohio) Locomotive Works who
gives you good advice when he tells you
his name. His name is b. A. Mann
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
ddStoaes
Mam% Times Nx1l3le
,MoM%M
Twenty Years Ago.

Twenty Years AGO.
A. n. Classen went to Edmond yes
tefday.
One accession by letter al the Baptis
church last Sunday morning. 4
Work on the Frisco line 10 pro
crossing all along the line, Neg
Chandler recently 200 pounds OF gu
cotton was set off at M time on
cut tventy-three feet deep.
March 20 was the anniversary OF N
Chandler cyclone. the most destfuetiY
ever known in this section.
Saturday the telephone line betwed
Stroud and Choctaw City was sop1
pleted. -
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

when skinny oma atOOnH 10 folly
And Htuffs her stocking calves with has
She finds out 10 her melancholy
That horses follow her each day.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
The wise Fool.

"a man should be true to his eolors"
observed the Sage.
But suppose he has the bluesl"
asked the Fool
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Well. Well

Julian S. Cannon tells rs that A
Farmer, the Elya Ky farmer. isn't
such a much lie claims that Charlotte
N C., has A Baker, who bakes, and A.
Barber. who bafbs.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
LMkRMIhke
His Column
wax, Upl
COONAUM NQB

A cable from DER the ser
Where millions clash and big guns
roar
The nswaboy shrilly screams; "EI-tres"
And than We ask Say, what's the
scorer"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

Anna May Wobble lives at Richmond
Kentucky.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

Negotiations are pending fos~
erection OF a three-story block on n
south side Of Grand, sONl4O feet, al
joining the B~atchelder property TN
property is owned by d. Wolff.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Ten Years Ago.

Miss Caroline X. Lands, a popul'
and handsome girl from st. JOSEF
Mo, who has been the guest of N
and Mrs. George Sohlberg the pei
month, will return home the last
this week.
A box party was given at the Owe
holser last evening for Miss Land
by Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis T. Flynn.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

Gus Talliafero Of this city has bee
appointed territorial scale inspector Y
Col {. +. Ptouty, territorial grain u
spector. n
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

Our Daily Special.
A Man Will Bear 1t, But He'll B,
Darned II He'll Grin.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
he Modest Maid

She stands Afar
Sho greatly fears
Some nasty car
win strip lts gears
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04

Dr. w A. T. Robertson Of Pom
City is in the city calling on his frien
Cyrus Avery.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Fifteen Years Ago.

FlIIeen TehTs HKU' I
Lieut. l.. II. Eyerhar, u. S. N, wi
open a recruiting office In this el
Monday at room 40S, Culbertson built
lng. for the purpose Of securing x
cruits for the navy.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
Names Ia NameI

Things To Worry About.
Bedbugs can't see in the daytime,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
By H. c. Brokaw

In spite of the education of automo-
bile owners anbc chauffeurs in precau-
tions against fire, there are enough
cases still to warrant a word of eau
ton as prevention through removing
the causes. Automobile fires do not
always come from causes considered
ordinarily to be within control of the
operator. But it is fact that by far
the larger part is preventable.
The principal cause, of course, is
back-fring 1t is not necessary to
enumerate all the causes for this, but
the chief one is q mixture which is
too lean when fed to the cyclinders,
and this almost invariably will cause
back-fring in starting. Again, most of
this comes in starting when the engine
is cold, and naturally is most frequent
III the winter time. When there is
back-fire sheet of flame comes from
the air intake of the carburetor. If
there is anything infammabe there
abouts, it is quite likely to take fire
Gasolene vaporizes so rapidly that if
there is gasolene in the drip pan there
is almost sure to be sufficient mixture
serious
trouble. In fact, the drip pan under
the carburetor should be so arranged
! that the gasolenc will drain off before
1t has time to vaporizc.
There ought not to be very much
there at any time. If it comes from a
leak in the supply pipe or the connec-
! ton where it attaches to the carburetor
it should be fixed; if it is from car
buretor overflow, due to poor seating
4 nm hn al
should be cleaned and the trouble recti-
fed. These two precautions will
eliminate gasolene from the drip pan.
Fast Running May Do 1t
Too fast running may, under some
usually heats the exhaust pipe almost,
if not quite, to a glow. Now, if it is
placed close to woodwork, particularly
If there is an accumulation of grease
or oily dirt, there may be q fire. Cau-
tion as to this, that is, in keeping the
woodwork free of oil and grease by
cleaning it off regularly and thoroughly,
will minimize the danger in this re-
spect
The pipe also heats up when the
engine is run with greatly retarded
spark.
Occasionally fires have been started
by opening the muffler cut-out in start
ing. This is particularly dangerous in
a garage, where grease and gasolene
are spilled around on the floor, giving
off fumes and creating n danger zone.
Occasionally when the car is standing
in the garage the supply line will leak
q little bit. 1t may be all right when
the line is feeding the carburetor regu-
larly, but will drip a tiny bit when
standing. and the drip will vaporize
into dangerous mixture beneath the
car. n
Standing in a closed garage over
night, the mixture would ignite from
the least spark from any cause, includ-
ing an open cut-out. Sparks and gas
mixture are perilous combination,
except in n cylinder.
| Sometimes the tank ovcrhows in fill
ing, especially when one is in hurry.
Then, in the further hurry to make a
quick getaway, the mufAer cut-out is
opened and the driver finds that max
ing haste is often waste
Short Circuits May Cause Fire
Another cause of fires is the short
ctrcuiting Of the ignition or lighting
wires where n storage battery is used.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Orphans Day in Need
Of More Cars and Money

Automobile dealers, statesmen and
others interested in Orphans Automo-
bile Day are rallying- to the support of
the committee in charge Of the affair,
which will be held at Donnelly's Grove,
College Point, l.. l., on Thursday, June
G. Entries of cars, both touring and
commercial, have been coming in quite
satisfactorily, but as the Orphans Au-
tomobile Day Association is planning
to make this years event the biggest
and best it ever conducted hundreds
of cars will be needed.
Cash contributions with which to
hire additional trucks and cars are
coming in literally, and those who do
nate toward this charity, making
thousands of little unfortunates
happy for one day, feel that it is one
OF the best investments they can make.
Entry blanks and information re-
garding the outing can be had from
the secretary, Orphans Automobile
Day Association of New York, Inc.
l777 Broadway, Room 2O5, New York
City. Telephone, Columbus S409.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Most Fires That Destroy Cars
Are Readily Preventable

Occasionally a short circuit will heat
a wire red hot and burn off the insula-
ton. The danger is obvious.
TO overcome vibration some chauf-
feurs pack old waste about the battery.
Aside from the tendency Of greasy
waste to take fire from spontaneous
combustion, there is the peril of a
spark. A tool may jar down across the
terminals and make the spark or q
series Of sparks. 1t is known in one
instance cushion spring wore through,
and when the car bounced the spring
hit the battery terminals and in a
short time set fire to the car. In the
cases cited it is not necessary to state
the remedy-it is obvious.
Since back firing is one of the chief
troubles it would be wise for the
driver to enrich the mixture in start
ing, particularly in cold weather. This
will prevent back firing, and when the
engine is started the proper adjust
ment of mixture may be made where
necessary. Most cars have a "tickler''
or other device for richeninr the
mixture on the dash.
Naturally the careful driver will
have good fire extinguisher at his
hand. Aside from being a protection
1T will lower the rate OF insurance, and
no matter how careful you may be
some one else may toss a match where
1t will start your car blazing. To re-
peat-caution, fire extnguisher and
an insurance policy arc the three miti-
eating circumstances; with the first
there should be no fire, the second
might control it and the third takes
out the sting if it comes
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Amateur of the Species
Is the Most Deadly

A man will say the mixtures wrong,
That's why the car runs so--in
jerks;
Another one will come along
And tell you that the trouble turks
Between the spark plugs and the coil;
A third will say the gas is bad,
Or else she's getting too much oil,
ut did that on one car he had.)
BY this time some one who is wise
Will start to open up the hood;
All hands then crowd in and advise,
But not one does a bit of good.
The juice is tested at the plugs,
The engines almost overhauled;
The brakes, the wheels, the rims, the
lugs,
The cushions, too, are pulled and
mauled
And all this time, the chances are,
You stand there quite devoid of
spunk,
And watch the wreckers at your car
They're fast reducing it to junk.
The dirt that first caused all the fuss
Has long since disappeared in smoke;
And all that you can do is cuss-
And pay for what those. wreckers
broke. II. S. OSBORNE.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Motoring as a Health Measure


that although from point it
influence health So ten it interesting read
Health Commissioner of Cleveland wrote recently
publication issued by the B. Goodrich
Rubber Company
breathing comfortable motor of health value
ordinary indoor atmosphere he deep
quickly rid of products Oxygen
mulan which safely reply depression chaser
al a builder"
automoblng health
Bishop Sea at the wheel the
automobile drink quantities of air that motion
brought
lungs the carbon dxde
impurities by the
lungs.
"To-day perfect only
WELL The value Of fresh
combination of other important factors Under ordinary
conditions the blood will absorb all the requires The
Of the body for moving air great.
enables the
believe that function of the
give This function limited It's main
unduly heated
breathing mouth This is of
dustaden
20 be irritating to the throat and lungs
eff crippled with driving the automobile excellent
the mind off Of the
important safeguard
health but relaxation is almost lost in these modern days
Careless dressing responsible for ailments and the who
his automobile health builder should be careful his
should be the bitter
cold during ride Medium weight
likely sensitive conditions that soften the
individual invite colds body
clothing that
should be adapted the weather. People who
ohe
conditions They
winter cold"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
transportation Is the
Real Problem Of
The Future

Everything in the national situation
as it focuses in Washington indicates
that transportation will govern with
increasing severity conditions Of Amer
lean living in the next twelve months.
This is the opinion of c. r. Norton,
general sales manager of the Packard
Motor Car Company, formed in six
weeks study in Washington of the
various angles Of production and dis
tribution with reference to the nations
war programme.
"Shortagcs develop one after an
other, with startling rapidity, until the
country at large is under the impress
sion that insufficient supply is the
rule" says Mr.. Norton. but usually
shortage induces an thrush of extra
effort and additional capital, with the
result that the machinery to overcome
it soon is under way.
Transportation, however, is another
story. Though we may produce sur
p4us of commodities Of different kinds
in different spots, it is by transporta-
tion alone that the surplus can be
made effective relief for the general
situation. And transportation facilities
are not created instantly, nor even In
the comparatively long time it takes to
grow and reap harvest.
eve may find ourselves with the
wheat for bread, the steel for cars and
the coal for power, each in surplus at
it's source, and still be terribly IN want
Of them because Of inadequate trans
portaton.
"That's liable to be the real shortage
of motor cars, for instance. The man
who needs a car for the efficient carry
ing on of his affairs and the efficient
participation of his wife and daughters
in the various forms of patriotic work
in which women are engaged can
hardly show more foresight than to
buy now. The cars are available now
but the whole tendency is that they
will not be few months from now.
Moreover, the kind of car man
buys now is as important as the get
ting of one now. Automobiles should
be chosen and bought with reference
to their efficient, economic ability as
means of transportation. 1t looks now
as if we were only in the beginning
of curtailed passenger service by rail.
Troop movements are increasing
rapidly. Freight movements are mount
ing beyond anything any country ever
has known. So, more and more the
range Of operation, from cities to sub
urbs, to rcmoter SUI urbs, to smaller
towns forty and fifty miles out, to the
next largest centres, $50 to 200 miles
distant.
"Another factor is the probable
length of the war. The enemy is striv-
ing to make it short and bitter for us.
But Washington is proceeding on the
idea that it will be of longer duration.
A man buying car now should buy
with the care that accompanies invest
ment in a genuine utility. He should
consider how much he is going 10 get
out Of the car, how long it will last
and how Nigh its resale value will be
in case he decides suddenly to go into
| government service.
"a car now, and Il car that will have
the permanency of q real investment, is
the only safe advice in prevailing con-
ditions"