The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-19
NOTICE TO THE WOMEN OF ARDMORE

sufficient to have carried on the Rev
olutionary war continuously for more
than 1000 years at the rate of eXpen
diture which that war actually involved
Prom April, 1917, to April, 1918. the
war cost the United States more than
$1,000 an hour.
"Treasury disbursements during that
period reached a total Of $23 500 900 900.
"The pay Of the army during the war
cost more than the combined salaries
of all the public school principals and
teachers for a five-year period imme.
diately preceding the war.
"The total direct war cost amounted
to around $lS6,OOO OOO,O 900.
1T is to prevent the recurrence of
these incidents and these conditions
that League of Nations is desired"
EuIogies on the Navy
In passing the bill conferring the
highest naval rank upon Rear Admiral
Sims and Benson, republican rspre
sentatives took occasion to pay tribute
to this phase of President Wilson s
successful handling of Americas part
in winning the World War.
"When we honor them q, ison and
Sims we recognize the whole navy.
which has come out of this war with
the well deserved reputation of having
shown itself the most competent naval
force in the world said Representative
John \. Peters of Maine. republican.
In speaking Of Admiral Benson $
work, Representative Peters gave some
intimate details of the placing of a
barrage across the North Sea from
Scotland to Norway. an American
scheme that eventually stopped the
German submarine in further attempts
to get into the Atlantic through their
fayorite channel. This barrage. he said.
was perhaps the greatest naval mate
rial activity of the whole war: II was
the boldest. most hazardous and best
executed enterprise of the kind ever
attempted-and it was successful"
Sims is u man of vision as well as
Of action continued the representa-.
tive. In 1910 after firsthand obser.
yations abroad ne submitted a report
which declared that the European war
could not be delayed longer than four
years. He also said that England ana
France would be allies and that Italy
would subsequently join them. Inevit.
ably Sims was the man sent abroad
March 2S, 1917, to be on the spot and
take charge in foreign waters when
our naval forces should arrive to take
their places in the greatest Of all wars"
Representative Frederick c. Hicks of
New York, republican, was equally Gu
logistic in painting Americas naval
achievements, saying in part:
The achievements of the navy In
the great war were unique and incom.
parable in our history. They form
brilliant record of accomplishment: of
cooperation and coordination; of iudg.
ment and foresight; of determination
and courage unsurpassed in the annals
of the sea. The scope of action was
without precedent-the performance
without parallel. When before has any
navy been confronted with such gi-
gantic tasks as those which confronted
our navy in the spring of 1917? And
when in all history have problems only
approaching them been solved with
such complete success?
"The magnitude of the numbers TO
be transported across tho danger-in-
tested ocean presented a situation un.
known in any war, ancient or modern,
problem so difficult that the German
high command considered it utterly i'm.
possible; and yet the American navy.
bidding defiance to, its enemies. accom-.
plished the impossible. One million men
sent across in American ships, with A..
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