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New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

worthy of the traditions of your coun-
try. Your defence crushed the German
assault and made possible the offensive
OF July 49, to the west of Rheims Be
fore Chalons you were thrown against
the picked troops of Germany You
captured great quantities of stores and
munitions. You forced the crossing of
the Ourcq, took Hill 212, Sergy, Meurcy,
ferne by assault, drove the enemy, in
Guiding the Imperial Guard Division, be
fore you to a depth of sixteen kilo-
metres. For service in the Lorraine sec
ton you were formally commended in
general orders by the French corps com
mander under whom you served In the
Champagne your assembled oilicers re
ceived the personal thanks Of General
Gouraud AT the Ourcq your division
was officially eemplmentcd by tho com
manding general Of the First Army
Corps.
In all these honors the 6oh partiei.
ratcd while. in addition. there are re-
turning IN the sadly depleted ranks of
those that originally SGT forth scores Of
brave boys who bear upon their bodies
the sears Of grievous wounds sustained
in the conflict and upon their breasts
those Distinguishing marks of individual
gallantry which great nations confer.
A grateful city awaits the coming of
the regiment with wide open arms. For
it is to welcome company of heroes
essentially cur own that New York has
its eyes turned toward Sandy Hook
An adequate history Of their deeds
still remains to be recorded. Strict cen
sorship still holds locked in the records
Of the War Department the fun story of
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

on the field; in the Champagne, 500
more; in the Argonne, 1000.
Note this: On the morning after the
original Goth of Civil War days emerged
from the Battle of Fredericksburg, 2S0
men answered rolcall. So, emerging
from that gallant crossing of the River
Ourcq, in the Marne- Aisne offensive of
July, 1918, in which they sent the Prus-
sian Guards scampering toward the
Rhine-driving them sixteen kilometres
across the open terrain, fighting logged
~ up hill and down dale, in water fire.
quently up to their waists--the Fighting
Goth again made good. and beside that
early record Of Frederickshu they
wrote toll Of seventy seven officers and
$500 mon who fell in the crossing Of the
oufea' No regiment sent overaeas paid
higher price for victory than that.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

through the roof of the dugout and ex-
ploded. The entire party was buried
alive. Eleven Of them died outright,
among them Lieutenant Norman. The
remainder were dug out and removed
to the hospital.
On another occasion, without the
slightest warning, clouds of poison gas
enveloped the trenches and, although the
men donned their gas masks as rapidly
as possible. 105 of them inhaled the
fumes and were carried back to the re-
lief stations
Still in the Lorraine country. the Goth
on March = conducted it's first rad with
eommendable success. bringing back
forty=fiVe prisoners without the loss OF
a man,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Fighfing Unif
Par Excellence

Fighting unit par excellence Of the
Rainbow fa2d) Division, Of which the
s9th was part, Major General Charles
j. Menocher. commanding the division,
addressed this tribute to his men:
you were the first American division
in the trenches and have been in a
longer time than any other division. You
have so conducted yourselves as TO win
the respect and affection Of the French
veterans with whom you fought. Under
gas and bombardment, in raids, in
patrols, in the heat of hand to hand
combat and in the long, dull hours of
trench routine, SO trying to a soldiers
spirit, you bore yourselves in manner
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
The Story as Told
By the Map

Glance again at the map and see with
what twistings and turnings, but always
facing the foe, the Goth kept ever NOV
ing forward until it camped finally on
German territory, its mission accom-
plished
Go back now to the days of the Mexi-
can expedition, when to a man the Goth
rallied to the call Of the colors and en-
trained for the border That waa The
trat move IN the direction of the River
Ourca, For along the Rio Grande they
got the frat stagea of the training which
htted them for tho greater service, and
those officers who survived the war Of
wars will tell YOU that tho essence of
tho Goth which drove back the Prussian
Guards at the Ourcq, was the men in
the ranks, the company commanders and
the field officers who kept watchful
guard at the Mexican gateway.
SO, when the summons came in April,
1917, the 69th was ready to man
again. AS it happened, under the not
always Understandable orders of the
War Department, the regiment left its
historic name Of "69th" in it's armorv.
at Twenty sixth Street and Lexington
Avenue, when it Jared forth to meet
the Hun. Camouflaged at Mills under
the name Of the 165th Infantry. it's
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
The Landing
In France

The summons came October 90 Tn
der cover of night the First Battalion
Of the Goth left Mills, and, embark
ing few days later on the former Ger
man liner Amerikn, set sail for France.
Brest was reached on November II. By
successive stages the remaining bat
talions of the regiment were ferried
across, through the mine fields and amid
the lurking dangers of U-boats, and as
rapidly as possible were assembled for
final training, first in the area behind
Toul, later in the Langres area. At
last, on February %, 1918, having been
pronounced "ready" eighteen days be
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
By William Hoster

\NGLAND has her "Black Watch"
regiment, France her Blue
Devils; Germany hud her
Deaths Head Huzzars," but
's" York has her "Fighting Goth"
ana the boys are coming home. A
sss'ancholy fragment of the gallant
s"''ag unit that was, but covered with
I'a'' ss ana sears, its story is simply told.
: ,s'"'hg command at Camp Mills, back
me summer Of 1917, Colonel Charles
a'aes' In general orders of the day,
sselafsd, '"''
sae proud traditions Of the regiment
p p, ~ respected and peFpetuated,"
e' "' promise has been made good
,..' s"eo AZ The accompanying map Of the
.s'"sns's operations during It's tour ~
,a., .'ee overseas. BY hike and train It's
..,, ,s'as journeyingt carried II over the
!, @e sheatre Of war. A nyInp ntreak
;, . nesn 1t waS--its progress marked
s.s s'.e' brush and skirmish, raid. foray
h.s pa'.oi' from LunevilIe to Baccara,
ss.~ "e champagne, the Marine. Ajsne
sss ss"s''e, s, NJ. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne
""s'y into the hills around Sedan
u. a ~ undaunted spirit was ready for
d. 'si smash against the Hun when
g,.~'s sm'stice put an end to the fighting
d. :, nastle 1t entered was marked nv
nen s's I. 70 90 or die. They fought like
Il p..,a sp'rsd by the splendid traditions
.a nun. and Antietam the Spanish
tAex -ha the Mexican Expedition behind
ssn 0agat and died like men of the
At st. Mihiel. 600 men were ,"ft m
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

tore, the regiment entered the line in
the Luneville sector on February %.
The night before they were thus
brought face to face with the foe for the
first time, the boys sustained their first
casualty. Corporal Arthur c. Taylor, of
B company, fell seriously wounded by a
chance shot
Intermittent fighting followed. Oper-
atlng in the Luneville and its supporting
points of Rocroi, Haut Arbre and Rouge
Bouquet, the Goth was soon plunged
INTO the thick of hard fighting, which,
including the general engagements in
Lorraine, gave it its baptism of fire and
proved It's mettle for the stern work
ahead
In one of the frat hombafdmenta for
instance, IN which the gallant Lieutenant
John Norman, Of /, Company. lost his life.
thirty-one hoya of the regiment we're
buried alive in a dugout which collapsed
under the heavy fire of The German big
guns.
boys. OeileNe II get mine to-day.
said Lieutenant Norman. at mess early
on the morning Of the tragedy
The remark was laughed off by his
comrades. That night, after Norman
and a squad of his men had taken refuge
in a dugout, the Hun opened terrific
bombardment. A steady rain of explod-
ing shells poured in upon the exposed
line of The regiment. Norman and his
companions, unable to emerge from the
dugout, but regarding themselves as rea-
sonably safe so long as the Germans did
not attempt an assault. sat silent in the
din. when German trench torpedo tore
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Stopping a
German Raid

March = IN retaliation and for tho
purpose of trying out the lighting ouaii-
ties of the Americans, the Germans
launched q raid upon the 69th's trenches
The raid WAS preceded by a tremendous
bombardment which was continued
through several hours. and then. at )
p. M, under cover of heavy barrage
hre' the Jerrys came over. Ready and
waiting for them, the boys of the seth
met them with machine gun fire and
with hand erenades. by bayonet charges
and hand to hand graphing, when the
hghhng came to close quarters. TIL.
RAID was a complete failure. For theiY
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
The 69th and Its R0ugh Road Of C1or

The trail of the 69 through the hottest fghting from the
4merican beginning to the end Of the
Nov. II, 1917: Arrived at Bres moved November
10 to training camp.
2-Nov IS: En- through Don.
3-Feb. 1917, 1918 On the way % the Lorraine front.
4-Regment in first line at Rouge Bouquet.
Solicitations at Handranvile Ancervie and Rend de
Chaeurs with hot fighting and heavy losses from the end of
March to the end of May
8Retuned to Neufchateau for but hurried instead
o-l0l-To the Champagne to help halt the great Ger
offensive of July 5.
l2-l3-Juy p En- Paris Chateau Therry;
July 228 continuous hot fighting and losses of 600 Foret
Fere to Fore lie Neses
l4-Juy Is to August 4: The 69ths proudest achieve
men the crossing of the Ourcq
l5-Aug l7-8: Sent to the ST. Nlihiel salient
16-l76-l9-August and September Steady pushing of
the Germans after retreat from St. Mihel.
20-Regiment in line from October II to November ! in
the hottest fighting of the Argonne.
2l-Nov l. The beginning of the end with the advance
Sedan
22-Nov 10 The coup de grace Hill 252 and the fall
Of Sedan,
2324-2526-Nov. 20 to Dec. 5 The march into Ger
part of the Army of Occupation
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

all that the 69th accomplished, and it is
possible as yet only to sketch in brief
the cardinal facts of what its gallant
men achieved
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23
BETTER BABY SHOW AT
OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR

Oklahoma City, Aug. 21.-Of all the
sixteen departments of the thirteenth
annual Oklahoma State Fair and Ex-
position to be held at Oklahoma City
from September 20 to %, is the Health
Conference of the Better Baby Contest.
The examinations are limited to 400 ba-
bies and already a large number of en-
tries have been received.
No prizes. premiums or awards are
given in this department but instead the
parents of each child are furnished
with a certificate slowing in detail its
physical and mental condition as deter
mined by specialists who conduct the
examination. No entry fee or charges
for the examination is made. Children
between the ages of one and three years
may be examined. The entries for the
Health Conference close on September
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

In closing their testimony for the
Plumb plan before the house committee
on interstate commerce the spokesmen
of the railroad brotherhoods made
wholesale attack upon the financial
management of the railroads. They con
tended that under private control the
railways were financially mismanaged
to secure excessive profits for their
owners that these excessive profits We're
made at the expense of the public and
the railroad employees, and that there.
fore the government should buy the
railroads and virtually turn them over
to the employees to manage.
The Railway Age in an editorial in its
current issue shows. in reply to the
charge that the railroad companies
have exploited" their employees that
during the last 10 years, while the mum
Der of railway employees has increased
only 50 per cent, their total annual com.
pensation has increased 39l per cent
Nineteen years ago" says the Rail.
way Age, "the wages of railway en-
ployes were about 100000 600 a year
more than the operating income, which
represents the profits Of the companies.
the employees is running at the rate of
81 800 900 900 more than the return
guaranteed by the government to the
companies. which is based upon the
average operating income actually earn
ed in the years 1915, 1916 and 1917. The
increase in the wages Of the employees
since 1900 has been over four times as
great both absolutely and relatively as
the increase in the operating income
of the companies. Since the labor agi
tators indulge in so much wild talk
about exploitation who do these fig
ures indicate has been doing the 'ex
plotting?
THE fundamental postulate upon
which the advocates of the Plumb plan
based their arguments for it in the
hearings" the Railway Age points out,
was that the operation of the railways
by private companies for private profits
results in the public on the one hand
and the railroad employees on the other
hand being exploited to get huge prof
its for the private owners. If this
contention is based upon experience and
not upon theory. it must be possible to
show that under private ownership and
management the railroad owners actual
iy have received large and increasing
profits while in order TO make these
profits they have exploited the public
by charging it ever higher and higher
rates and exploited the employees by
keeping down or reducing their wages"
The Railway Age publishes table
showing that in the years 1900 to 1919
the book cost of railway road and
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23
TEACHERS MAY LEARN HOW
TO TEACH AGRICULTURE

Oklahoma City, Aug. 22.-P. G. Hold
en- director of the education extension
department of the international Har'
vester Company, will spend four weeks
in Oklahoma next month to confer with
school teachers of the state relative
to the teaching of agriculture. -Four
meetings will be held at Enid, Chicka-
sha, Sapulpa and Durant. 1t is eX'
pected that at least 100 teachers will
attend each of these meetings ana
they will be given training and in
struction relative to the teaching of
agriculture.
Mr.. Holden has met the demand for
a change in the teaching of the same
work in agriculture each year by Il
plan of rotation which requires four
years for completion. The plan was
adopted in Missouri several years ago
for a few schools and this year it is
being extended to the schools in all
cities and towns. The plan of the
state department of education is to lat
er extend this method to embrace all
the schools of Oklahoma Superin'
tendents Of schools in 30 counties have
been asked to send some of their best
teachers to these meetings.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

equipment increased from SO, 263 ,000,-
900 to approximately S1S,5OO 600 900, or
50 per cent. The increase i'm operating
mcome-which is the amount from
which all interest and dividends must
be paid and all earnings used for i'm
provements must be taken-was from
$477, 900 600 to $947 600, 900 Uhis being
the operating income on which the guar
anteed return to the companies is
based, or 9S per cent. Meantime, the
number of railroad employees has in
creased from 1,017 ,653 to 1,S4S,174, or
So per cent, and their total compensa-
ton per year from $577, ,000, 600 to 50,
$4,000 900, an increase of 81, 2,257 ,000, 900
j year, or 391 per cent.
What has been happening to the pub.
lie meantime?" asks the Railway Age.
The statistics of the interstate com.
merce commission show that the aver
age receipts per ton per mile declined
from 7.3 miles in 1900 to 715 miles in
1917 and that there was a slight decline
in the average receipts per passenger
per mile. The public was charged low
er rates at the end of this period Of II
years than at its beginning, and the
average wage of railroad employees had
increased 75 per cent.
"Since 1917, under government oper-
alton. the total number of railway en-
ployes has been increased about per
cent, while the total wages paid to them
have increased at the rate of 63 per
cent per year. Mainly in order to pay
this advance in wages the public has
had its passenger rates increased so per
cent and its freight rates at least %
per cent, and it is defraying a huge rail
road deficit from taxes.
Let us consider the statistics re
garding capital return and wages in
connection with statistics showing the
service rendered to the public. In the
last 19 years. as we have seen, the book
cost of road and equipment has in
creased about so per cent and the op-
Grating income received by the compa-
MES about 9S per cent. The number of
tons carried one mile has increased 160
per cent and the number of passengers
carried one mile about $50 per cent.
The traffic handled annually for the
public having increased almost twice
as much i'm proportion as the book cost
of road and equipment and the operat-
ing income of the companies. it follows
that the capital cost of moving a ton
one mile or n passenger one mile is
now only n little more than half what
it was 19 years ago. Meantime. the an
nual compensation of railrod employees
has increased 391 per cent. In conse-
quence. the labor cost of moving a ton
one mile and u passenger one mile is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23
The Ardmoreite'S
FREE FORUM
THIS BROTHER BELIEVES
IN THE OLD-FASHIONED
MONUMENT AS MEMORIAL

I-1;to, r,,Y. ,.,,-o.e;.a.
AS per your request lor Suggestions
ioi u llleiiioi ie'i " oei tel COUNTY 9oiuiei
oo!s INA. steep III tiie iieius oii 'iie o'hei
Si'e VI the piS pohu'
lLENCE-WIlAT is MORE I'M
PRESSINE.
DEATH-WHAT IS MORE SERI-
Gus?
Who knows but what the spirits of
the Carter county soldiers that are dead
may not know what we are doing, and
if so, could our appreciation be more
seriously impressed upon them should
we erect in Central Park "A gray or red
granite monument, not less than so feet
high and the size of the monument to
conform to the height with a soldier
and tank at the top, the soldier to
hold in one hand breastplate, in the
other alb right light; beneath this statue
a tablet on which would be chiseled in
letters of gold the name of each soldier,
the light in the soldiers hand to shine
through every dim hour, as long as
Ardmore exists.
Any other monument would but seem
q monument built from new thought
idea, and the great trouble with the peo-
pies of the world today is oversuper.
abundance of the unwise new thought
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23
WHO HAS BEEN DOING THE "EXPLOlTING?"

now more than twice as much as it was
19 years ago.
Far be it from the Railway Age to
say the statistics presented above show
that railway labor has been exploiting
the public. But if it cannot truly be
said that railway labor has been exploit
ing the public during 10 years when the
labor cost of moving a ton one mile has
more than doubled, surely it cannot be
truly said that railroad capital has been
exploiting the public when it can be
shown during the same period the cap
ital cost of moving a ton one mile has
been reduced by almost half"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23
WO0DMEN AND WOODMEN
CIRCLE PROGRAM

Hall open at $50 p. m.
Called to order-C. S. Steadman.
Music, Ardmore Harmony Orchestra
Prof. Wilson, leader.
Reading-By Emma Lloyd Smith ;
own choosing.
Vocal Duet-Miss Ruth Stays and
Mr.. Chas. Haines.
Floor Drill-W. o. w. Degree Team,
Orchestra Music
Floor Drill-W. c. Degree Team.
Recitation-HaZel Holland.
Music and Refreshments
Adjournment-Grov and Camp Hon
ors.
Every member of both orders and
their families are expected to attend
this meeting and help to enjoy the
evenings exercises.
Friday, August 30.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23
POOR WOMAN MAKES
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Frame Drug Co.-adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

Gail treaties rest on moral obligations,
said Senator Owen at Washington the other
day. Senator Nelson, republican, expressed
the same conclusion. 1t is indubtably true.
The partsans and super-patrots who are OPP
posing the treaty now under discussion ought
to possess sense enough to know this
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

Uncle Sam is shipping battle tanks to the
Mexican border, but what chance would a
slow-crawling tank have against bunch of
bandits mounted on fleet mustangs? AS the
Norsk dialect would have it, cay don't tank.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

For fine cleaning and dying. it re
quires a big investment and skilled la
Dor. We have both and guarantee even
shades and colors. London, The Steam
Cleaner and Dyer. Between the two big
shows, Main street. 22-5
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

To have preached for long years the ad-
vantage of high prices and then to be COM
PEELED to attack the excessive cost Of living
that indeed must be painful to Messrs. Penrose
and Fordney.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

Senator Lodge ought not indulge the delu-
sion that the senate galleries are big enough
to accommodate all the friends of a League of
Nations, though they might afford room for all
his warm admirers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23
What Happened August 22.

';s.saby<C Cushidl D Stetsora& = 4
, $.,{sl n. vhSr..t;>2 tsSTA
Copyright 1919. New Era Features,

three to study Mexican situation
British advance IL mile at Po2'
ieres.
1917
Germans start drive toward Riga,
Russians fall back; news worries
Observation-Disclosures losses on
Carso 1900 men as Italians push
ahead-Haig thrusts agan east
Of Ypres. takes Ypres-Menin road
u. :. senate votes increase on in
come taxes; l per cent on So,Uoo
to so per cent on S5O0,OOO.
1913
British capture Albert in fresh
attack, advance . mileS-French
advance on entire front; capture
200 cannon-Bolshevik in Petrcgrad
declare war on L. S.-Philip Sch
eidemann goes to Switzerland on
new German peace drive.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-23

There is nothing but "chicken feed on the
calendar of the house of representatives, said
Mr.. Mann. Well, it will prove useful when
some of these republican congressional chick
ems come home to roost.