davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The herald., 1919-02-13

A bit Of cold wrgth,~ with some
enforced exercise with the coal shovel
will quickly GiSpel the "ti-I."
The herald., 1919-02-13

The pasta who heads the new Turk.
ish cabinet has first name of Tewfik.
Say It fast and II sounds like a dental
ailment.
The herald., 1919-02-13

The difference between the common
grip and the Spanish influenza Is that
the influenza lets go with both barrels.
The herald., 1919-02-13

Everyone can be a fuel administra-
tor Of sorts by turning off the steam
In the radiator whenever it is not real
~ needful.
The herald., 1919-02-13

If overoNertion were fln only cause
of influenza, q large Part az every COM
munity would be immune.
The herald., 1919-02-13

Just now the world seems 70 be
made up of two kinds ot people--he-
rOeS and ZerOS.
The herald., 1919-02-13

King Boris Of bulgaria. quit after
reigninS one month. y month is too
long for a king these days.
The herald., 1919-02-13

The first question Il barber asks q
haircut customer who shaves himself
Is whether he wants a shave.
The herald., 1919-02-13

The fact that the "hu" is being taken
seriously is indicated in tie surcease
of puuS about It.
The herald., 1919-02-13

In years gone by Europe professed
to Fay very little attention to Ameri-
can craftsmanship. Ii is different now.
The herald., 1919-02-13

Spain is now rid of the influenza.
Considering what We have over here
there is no reason to doubt the state
ment.
The herald., 1919-02-13

Saving the world for democracy
ought to teach America the value Of
the saving habit
The herald., 1919-02-13

Germany is making bread ont q,
spruce wood. but the Germans don't
pine for IL.
The herald., 1919-02-13
VISITORS.

DR.. Charles Lewis, U. s. N, was
guest OF the Very Reverend Rector at
luncheon on Tuesday. DR.. Lewis is
an old Marist boy, having spent eight
The herald., 1919-02-13

What was done with peach Pits and
coconut shells before the war?
The herald., 1919-02-13
Uncle Eben.

'De actual producer" said Uncle
Eben, "don' make de mos noise. Oar
never yet was a hen dat cackied as
loud as a rooster kin crow"
The herald., 1919-02-13

We are opposed TO the freedom ~
the sneeze.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

Commission on Training Camp Ac-
Invites, has frequently been credit
ed with the authorship, who wrote
the article "Peter Sat by the Fire
Warming Himself" in the January
issue of "The Atlantic" last year.
DR.. Fosdick said: "For years the
solicitous, paternal attempt of the
churches to build a protecting hedge
around their peoples character has
been confirming the idea that the
marrow Of Christian duty is Thou
Shalt Not The righteousness of
the saints, in the general estimation
of the army, is little more than anti
anti dance, theatre, cards, drink,
smoke, profanity and all fun on Sun
days"
1t has seen stated that the soldiers
have actually shown the churches
the positive ethic Of the religious
life. DR.. Fosdick is not The only OBJ
server who has come to that conclu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
an Intimate Thing

Churchmen have been greatly
alarmed because the soldiers, in
their definition Of their understand
ing of sin, have given no place to
blasphemy or to Godlessness. But
those that have been with the troops
express no concern over that. They
say the men regard their relation
ship to God as too intimate a thing
to be discussed publicly. There was
little Testimony" given there, even
at the evangelistic meetings. The
churches that had liturgies were the
favorites of the men. They took
great comfort in the words of the
Psalms, feeling that their emotions
were being expressed in a manner
that was not too self-disclosing. The
idea of God has not been lost to the
men, in spite of the fact that there
is no mention Of Godlessness, is the
conclusion Of observers.
Father Francis Duffy, of the ia
nous Fighting Sixty-ninth," tells
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

Because of their mission in France
and Flanders it quite naturally fol-
lowed that the man who would stir
the spirit Of emulation would be the
bravest man. Therefore the soldiers
by contrast condemned cowardice as
the chief Of all sins. The army had
no use for the man with a yellow
streak. All the revulsion that
humans could summon was vented
upon the man who turned tail in
battle. And what they found most
contemplate was, to them, the first
of the cardinal sins. The contrary
virtue, as the language of theology
puts it, was heroism or bravery.
But that is getting ahead Of the
narrative, which first concerns the
soldiers discoveries about sin.
The welfare workers looked at the
little cards. They followed the SOL
diers' replies down each list in turn,
and they were Mortified at the dis
covery that immortality found no
mention.
1t seemed as if their teachings
had gone amiss. For all the gather
ing places of the soldiers were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
5y Yron Paris,
nunes sin pcuous by from, soldiers
creed although it Of the sins the old
end OF the capital sins Of the Catholic

ethical instruction that had been
given it was expected that all of
the men would lay emphasis upon
vice first, then upon drunkenness
perhaps upon profanity, because of
the very wide propaganda in favor
of clean speech, and then upon
gambling. 1t was expected in some
way that the code of the soldiers
would conform to the traditional
seven cardinal sins.
But there was no mention of vice
in most of the soldiers codes. And
drunkenness came in for no con-
demnation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
The Roman Catholic View

DOMAIN CATHOLIC doctrine defines tsco kinds Of SIN: o)
~ mortal; (b) venial
Mortal sin is grevous offence against the lo10 Of God
Veial is: First slight against the law of God
IN matters of second, IN matters of great
poance it committed hout sufficient reflection
full of Uil.
Under the classification of mortal si the Advanced Catechsm
the Roman Catholic The most grieuou sins
those against the Holy the sins that heaven for
vengeance. The against Holy Ghost these
L. Presumption
9. Despair.
s. Rejection of the Kmowm TRUTH
l.. Envy of amothers spiritual good
S. Obstinacy in
8. Final impcnence.
The sins that heaven for vengeance
/. Wilful murder.
2. The sin of Sodom
S. Oppression of the poor
/. Defrauding nborers of their aUoges
The Advanced Capital
Sins named by st. Thomas, follows:
PRIDE
2. Covetousness.
s. Lust
I. Anger
S. Gutony.
s. Envy
2. Sloth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

Of all sins, they displayed a great
profundity, better grasp Of the
fundamentals of the moral life.
than any Of the professional moral
lists who had presumed to lecture
them" ''
His conclusion yass much 1.-The
same as that Of the chaplain who
said, ION the whole the men are a
pretty good lot"
The welfare workers, finding that
the soldiers had made no mention
Of immortality, asked to be allowed
to consult some of the telltale
medical records of the army. They
felt that somehow the men must
have fallen into the Grimes histori-
cally attributed to the soldiery" and
that the tabulations of victims of So
cial diseases would indicate the need
of further, and more stringent,
teaching and regulation of the lives
of the men. But now came the
second shock; and this is what made
them scratch their heads in bewilder
ment. The medical records showed
an unprecedentedly low average Of
social disease victims. The Medical
Corps boosted that it was the clean.
est army in all history. It is a mat
ter Of record that one regiment of
$500 men passed through the port
Of Brest, on the return journey,
with only one man that had to be
denied the privilege of going home
because Of a preventable commune
cable disease.
The soldiers were accounted as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

how regular his "parishioners" were
in their religious observanccs. He
said: Zone of the most striking
things about this regiment has been
its religious life, and the external
religious life has been dominantlv
Catholic, partly on account of the
men and partly on account Of the
sacramento nature and sacrifeial
nature of the Church's worship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
The Ten Commandments
IRON 1he Cocsm" IN the Episcopal of Common Pravey

4. 1ho~ shalt have other gods but
Thou shalt not make hysef ann craven nnoe nor the
likeness OF anything that IN heavn beneath
on M the 7rdter nder the EARTH Thou
them voship Lord TIM God am 5ealou God
ma o1s1t the SINS of the fathers the children the
tna ana fourth generation of them that hate
mercy unto thousands Of them that mn
mondmcntS.
Thou shalt not take the Name of thu God in voi
for the Lord cU not hold him guiess His name IN
Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath Day. Sir dav
shalt tho" labor and do all that ho hast do seventh
day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God
s. Honor thy father and thy thu days MON b.
tong the land aOhich the Lord thy God giueh
6. Thou shalt do murder
2. Thou shalt adulteyu
s. Thou shalt not
Thou shalt not bear false acitness against thy neighbour
TO- Thou shalt hy neighbours house. thou shn uo
covet tiny me1ghbors % nor his rvom his or
his anything that is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Rv Percy r. Edrop

Z n THE front lines of France
:. and Flanders the soldiers dis
. carded every essential, whether
it was of pack equipment or of
.soral truth. Now they present a
problem for theologians, for they
nave evolved a code of their own.
They have decided for themselves
what are the cardinal sins. They
have enumerated the essentials of a
religious life. Some of the old doc
trlnes and dogmas are. in strange
conflict Some professors of divin-
ity who spoke with gertrude before
they looked into the faces Of these
men that have dared death and eter-
nifty are wondering whether re-
statement of religion is not going to
be an absolute necessity.
The seven cardinal sins, according
10 the oldtime theologians, and also
according to modern Interpretation
up to the time Of the war, we're
these:
!. Pride.
>. Covetousness.
3. Lust.
t. Anger.
5. Gluttony
s. Envy.
Z. Sloth.
Some Of the welfare workers who
we're with the troops over there had
been preaching the doctrines of the
orthodox churches on the subject of
the cardinal sins. 1t occurred to a
group Of these workers that one of
the ways to measure the effects Of
their teachings would be to pro-
pound QUESTIONABLE to the troops.
1t was simple undertaking. The
men were merely asked to tell what
they considered-as DR.. Elmer r.
Clark puts 1.-THE most repulsive
sins
Because of the very nature of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Profit From, Lessons

DR.. Harry Emerson Fosdick.
preaching pastor of the consolidated
First Presbyterian Church of New
York, is one of the leaders of the
movement to have the Protestant
churches profit by the lessons the
soldiers learned. DR.. Fosdick, al
though in Presbyterian pulpit, is
a Baptist, and he was the convention
speaker at the great national gath
erirg Of that denomination this
year. He told of his experiences with
the soldiers and said the religion of
the future, if it we're to appeal to
the men that had "diced with DEATH"
must not be thing of negations.
He told Of the appeal of the positive
qualities to the soldiers and said
that they would return to their
churches expecting to hear that re-
ligiop was a vital and vitalizing
thing that would glorify in its ad-
herents the very qualities they had
come to admire. 1t was the same DR..
Fosdick, although his brother, Ray
mond B., Of the War Department
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

Manville Company, and who went to
France for the Y. M. c. A., where
he was the author Of the question
naire referred to, the soldiers state
ment of the most repulsive sins con-
tanned only four words. The replies
were given tersely and in military
precision, as follows:
1. Cowardice.
2. Selfishness.
3. Stinginess.
4. Boastfulness.
Mr.. Smith, in an article he wrote
for "The American Magazine" told
Of his first feeling Of being shocked
as he read the replies. But after
ward he came to analyze the SOL
diers' code and he felt that it could
be construed to be as broad as the
reaches Of the terse statement of the
constitution of the Kingdom of
Christ. DR.. Clark received another
set of replies, enumerating, gen.
orally, five cardinal sins, as follows:
l.. Cowardice.
2. Selfshness.
3. Hypocrisy.
4. Disloyalty.
5. Meanness.
DR.. Clark has made his findings
the subject of a very interesting
chapter in his book, "Social Studies
of the War" (Doran).
He says, "It will be noted that
these are all sins of the spirit, and
when these old rocks, as we used to
call them, named these as the worst
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Ne" Moral Code That but the
Five Cardinal
Poser for Practical Theologians

placarded with pictures of whole
some looking girls, representing
"The Wife Waiting at Home" "The
Sweetheart From Whose Gaze You
Must Not Have to Turn" and "The
Little Child That Has a Right to
Clean Parentage"
What of the Ten Commandments?
What particularly of the Seventh
Commandment? Did the replies of
the soldiers indicate that there was
to be a disregard of those teachings
that have been held to safeguard the
family?
These questions were asked in
quick succession as the welfare
workers met in conferences after
the receipt of the answers to the
QUESTIONABLE. Some of the more in
tense among the workers began to
fear for the fate of America after
the destiny Of civilization had been
settled. The chaplains were called
into conference. 1t was felt that
they entered into closer relation
ship with the men than the civilian
workers. The chaplains-some of
them theologians Of note-did not
seem to share the fears of the civil
ian workers. One chaplain said:
"On the whole, the men are pretty
good lot. Somehow their code, if it
really be their own, stands the test
of practice pretty we'll"
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Continued on page tipo)
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Soldier Sins

According to Fred B. Smith, one
Of this country's great evangelists,
who in private life is assistant to
the president Of the H. w. Johns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

( y THE front lines of France
:. and Flanders the soldiers dis
. carded every essential, whether
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Father DuFy's Tie,cs

"1t is interesting to see the life
Of the men where they don't care
what people think about them. The
impression made is one of absolute
lack of human respect. When the
uniform is off they go flying about
the bases with their scapulars and
tags flying loose.
when confessions are to be held.
they go to confessions out in the
open square, one by one, each fes-
low coming up and telling his little
story, and it is all right in front Of
the staring villagers and swearing
transfers and all the crowd that
gathers about in time of war.
zone Sunday morning it was
a beautiful picture to see that great
crowd of men, hundreds of them.
coming up to receive communion.
most devoutly, from my hands,
assisted always by that best of COM
handing officers and truest of
friends, General Michael ]. Lehman.
Before action all were given gen.
eral absolution and everybody was
given holy communion. Sometimes
thousand of them would receive
the bread of life before the dav
would be out.
During an action on the battle.
field, religion runs through it all. I
"A man would think, with all this
religious stuff going on about the
place, necessarily other people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
The Whole Duty

1t was recalled that one of the
most beautiful liturgies Of the
church, quoting Christ Himself,
says only this in summing up the
whole duty of man, "Thou shalt love
the Lord Thy God with all thy heart
and with all thy soul and with all
thy mind. This is the first and great
Commandment. And the second is
like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as myself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and
the prophets
1t had been taught by theologians
from time immemorial that this
summation of the law implied pro-
hibitions against all the cardinal
sins, so called. If a man loved the
Lord His God he would walk with
humility and shun pride. If he
loved his neighbor he would not
covet his neighbours goods, neither
would he be angry against his neigh
Dor. His sense Of responsibility to
God would lead to his watchful care
of his own body and soul. The glut-
tony that would harm his body,
the lusts that would defile his spirit
these would be Stunned. Envy
would be as impossible as covetous-
ness; he would rejoice in his neigh
boris prosperity. And he would not
be slothful, because he would feel
that his responsibility to his neigh
Dor, to society, would make him
contribute his just part. So the
theologians have reasoned.
The code of the Christ was not
code Of prohibitions. There were
no "Thou shalt nots." 1t was a
positive code. 1t defined no cardinal
sins. 1t stated broad general prin-
ciples. No theologians have been
shocked by the failure to specify
in a statement which Christ Him
self announced as "all the law and
the prophets" Yet the soldiers,
who actually announced certain
specifications, produced a reaction
of disappointment and of alarm as
they endeavored to reduce to the
shortest possible dimensions a code
of their conception of the eternal
moral truths.
Soldier Sins
According to Fred B. Smith, one
Of this country's great evangelists,
who in private life is assistant to
| the nresident of tho II w Toh,,e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14

good men =, in proportion as they
developed virtues in contrast to the
sins Of their code.
Their religion was not a negative
thing. 1t was not the man who
avoided doing this or that but the
man who dared and died, the man
who would not take a mean advan-
tage of his fellows, the man who
would share his own meagre sup
plies, and, finally, the man who did
not brag about his goodness or his
bravery or his generosity or his
unselhshness, who fired the magma
ton Of his comrades.
Bravery finds no contrary vice in
the enumeration of the seven cardi-
nal sins, but all the others are there.
immortality, or even lust, finds no
actual mention; but examine that
word selfishness, in the light of all
the soldiers connotations, and see if
the indulgent man can measure up
to the soldiers standard of goodness.
The other comparisons are obvious.
ReOrientatiOu
With the medical records before
them and the testimony of the men
the welfare workers began to "re-
orient themselves" as the soldiers
say, and to wonder il the troops
were not right after all. DR.. Clark
was flank about it. In his words,
"They displayed a greater profun-
dity, better grasp of the funda-
mentals Of the moral life, than any
Of the professional moralists who
had presumed to lecture them"
And hear what Mr.. Smith saws
in, his article in 1.-THE American
Magazine:
81 have come to believe that it is
a fundamentally sound code. for
one am perfectly willing to go out
and preach it. And I believe that
our churches will have to take it
into consideration in the future. We
have laid too much stress on the
old surface things, the old taboo
acts--dancing, card playing, swear
ing and so on. We have got to fol-
low those boys down to the deeper
things which are fundamental
courage, unselfshness, generosity
and humility. When you come right
down to it those are the very les
sons which the Great Teacher Him.
self tried to set before the world"
In some Of the great church gath
erings Of this fall men who have
served as soldiers or with the troops
in some capacity or other will exer-
else. the privilege of the ballot in
matters pertaining to church legis-
lation. It is expected that their ex-
periences will have a marked bear
ing on the action of the Legislative
bodies of the churches.
Profit From Lessons
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
NASH TELLS VIVID
STORY OF BIG FIGHT

Lieut.. c. c, Nash, of the Canadian
forces, delivered a lecture last night
at Convention Hall on the subject
"a Soldiers Lie on the Battle
Front"
Lieutenant Nash spent 81 months
on the front line with the Canadian
forces, was wounded and spent II
months in a hospital. He was rem
dered unfit for military duty and
was sent to America to assist with
Liberty loans.
Lieutenant Nash described in a
very vivid manner the life OF SOL
der on the firing line and in the
trenches, the feeling a soldier has
as he goes over the top, the horrors
and dangers Of the sentry and lis
tening posts. lie explained the
manner in which a sentry signaled
back to the trenches when danger
was approaching. He related his
first adventure with the Germans
deadly gas, how railroads were built
in 4 short time without the know
ledge OF the Germans and explained
why Americans were successful in
holding certain points OF advantage
where the FEench and English had
failed.
Ae Lieutenant Nash warmed to
his subject he gave a weird eXhibi-
ton OF an American soldier using
the bayonct He also told how the
Americans were encouraged by the
knowledge that the folks 'oyer
here" were depending on them to
do their duty. He spoke in words
Of praise OF the Red Cross and also
commended the work OF the y. NJ.
c. A.
In conclusion Lieutenant Nash
said: The United States did some
thing in two months that it took
other nations two years to do, and
that was to put through the draft
law. Who put through the draft
law? Who is the man that IS blg
enough that he can call men from
every walk OF life and order them
to go to a foreign land and lay Iowa
thcir lives for the cause OF democ-
racva Uncle Sam. Who is Uncle
Sam? Uncle Sam is government
for the people and by the people.
You people before me in the audi,
ence are a part OF Uncle Sam and
are directly responsible for the DRAFT
Jaw. You did a noble thing and
some Of you may think that the
war is now over. But the war Is
not over and it will never be over
until YOU have brought every Amer
lean soldier back from the field OF
battle and tucked him away in the
little Job that you pulled him away
from when he was drafted by YOU
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07

a. l,44S barrels; its initial produc-
ton was estimated at 1000 barrels
but it declined in output for sever
al days after the sand was first tap
ped. Because of the fact that ii
is mile in advance of other wells,
and is the Southermost of the wells
in the big gusher territory the ac-
tions of the Harris well are of un-
usual interest.
Ghoulson Moorman and Dorsey
did not abandon their dry hole on
the J. L. Harris farm, western edge
Ranger pool. Instead they give 1t
a 200-quart shot at 3,450 feet and
think they may make we'll of it
after all, as there as about 1000
let Of oil in the hole after the shot.
McCallister, ct al, are reported
TO have finally abandoned their No.
| T, +. Bourland southeast corner
OF the William Van, approximately
four miles south of the Ranger
pool. The we'll was shot with SOC
quarts. Total depth $3.50 feet with
several good showings OF oil all the
way from $50 feet to $500 feet.
-&,
Winfrey Ready for Motions.
Judge NJ. F. Winfrey announced
today that motions and demurrers
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-07
n EW A|R|E WELL
EXTENDS RANGER POOL
ABOUT TW 0 MILES

Dallas, Tex, March 6,-The
Ranger pool in Eastland county,
Texas, is extended approximately
two miles northwest by the Prairie
Pool Oil & Gas Company's No. l
B. A. Delaney, Cor Danley), NJ,
Fury survey, which is rated at l50
barrels. This well got into a fish
ing job at $3.50 feet several weeks
ago, in the top OF the sand. Its
nearest neighbors are the John II,
Markham, Jro and Tidal Oil Co.,
wells on the Copeland farm, about
two miles southeast.
The Southwest well in the Rang.
er pool, Magnolia Petroleum Co.'S
No. N. B, Harris, near Olden, is
gradually increasing its production
as the gas pressure diminishes. On
March lst the we'll made l,l00 bar
rels; on March 2, 1900 barrels; on
March 3, 1926 barrels; on March