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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
Family of Mcthodists

T am glad to know that my friend Rev T. R. McCarty. who underwent an operation for appendicitis. is resting easily at the Birmingham infirmary," ," said Dr. P. B. Wells. MT. McCarty comes from distinguished family of Methc cdists. His father was one of the pest known preachers in the state. While it is true that he is actively engaged in business. he never refuses to accept an invitation to preach and Is frequently called upcn."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
NOT BAD LOOKING

NOT BAD LOOKING
 Having any trouble in keeping your new maid satisfiedT'
 No answered Mrs. Giddison, with a baleful gleam in her eyes, "but if Mir. Giddison doesn't quit smirking at her every time he gets a chance. he's going to have lot of trouble keeping me satisfied" %
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
Wants Best in Country

My entire attention now is being devoted to the police and fire depart ments here" said Commissioner John 1T. Taylor. T am going to see to it that Birmingham's police and fire de- partTents get up where they shoc,i be and am not going to stop pushing until we have not only the best public safety force and equipment in the south. but the best in the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
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RECIPE FOR A Honn

From the Houston Post.
 ''It takes something more than a good cook or good provider to make a home. D declares Chicago woman. It surely does. A good cook. however. and a good rrovider. mako . pretty fair start. About three singles. two pairs of twins and one set of triplsts added win make 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
MIGHT BE SAFER

From the Montgomery Advertiser. A Kentucky service man marries a girl who was a soldier in Russias famous Battalion of Death" and we should say that he'd do well to watch his step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
A READY WRITER

T suppose your boy is giving a good account of himself at coilegee' Indeed he is,' replied MT. Grabcoln Almost every time he writes home. In the last letter I received. he rave such good account of himself I dls.
 counted it's improbability and sent him
 a check for $500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God. we need q deeper quiet. Our an- chor drags and we are tossed about We arc easy prey to irritation, to worries and fears. We are shallow and quickly ruffIed. We need n simpler trust in Thee, Thou great, majestic ,God.--H. Nj. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
PROFOUND PEssIMIsM

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal Needn't throw up your hat when you
 hear of large crop of any product; it only means that there will be more of 1 that commodity for the profiteer to profit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
Hemher sS the Associated Press

The Age-HeraId is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in BirmInghaun carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 Ths Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or net otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published aerein.
 4 Il rights of republication of several Dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

Washington Bureau. 500 Davidson ouildlDg.
 European Bureau. 10 King street. Covent Garden. London, ". c. 2.
 Eastern business office. World build- ing. New York City; western business office, Tribune building. Chicago. The g C. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
A NONENITY

I'm not the object of applause"
 An unobtrusive person said; Nor do 1 look for It. because
 My work at best Is poorly paid" We clutched him quickly by the arm. Amazed to hear such words as these ''Foi sooth. our good friend. do you
 farm
 Or milk the kline. or tend the bees7 You surely do not wield pick
 Or monkey with a monkey wrench; For. nowadays. however thick
 workers head, upon bench, Or in a shop, his wage demands
 Are very hard to satisfy; For labor done with human hands The prices now are wondrous high.' The stranger modestly replied
 such large incomes are not for me. On much less I'd be satisfied
 I'm merely teaching Greek, you see.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

HAS CHAMPAGNE INCOME From the Baltimore America
 After all. beer was too plebeian for the prosperous working man. anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04
UNAccoMMopAr1NG LOT

Phyllis is in quandary"
 What is the matter with the dear girl?'
 How was she to know that all 12 of the young men she promised to mar ny would survive the war?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

TELEPHONE Bell tprivate exchange connecting &fs departmeBfsD Main 4gOo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

It's prestige and quasi official status, it's organization reaching into every part of the country. its equipment for mobil- izing aid and skilled workers and its ex- tensive experience in this field have more and more caused the Red Cross to be
 regarded as the nations chief reliance for organizing and directing relief work following disasters, to great to be han dled by city, county or state authorities.
 During the past 15 years it has adminis- tered millions of dollars for the relief of
 hundreds of thousands of sufferers from
 disasters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

But this old arrangement in connec- tion with the one now being worked out
 with the Surgeon General will give one of the greatest and completest organi-
 zations ever worked out to meet the de-
 mands which at any moment may be
 suddenly put upon the American Red
 gagged in this class of work since 1905, actively participating in disaster relief operations in many parts of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

The agreement provided that Upon call from the director general of civilian relief, an institutional member, as these societies are called, to the extent of it's ability, shall send one or more trained agents to assist in the Red Cross emergency relief work in any part of the United States" Since that time there have been few disasters of any magnitude in which social workers drafted from institutional members have not had largo part in the tasks of emergency relief and rehabilitation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-04

If metropolitan magazines are go- ing to move away from the metropolis and set up business elsewhere, how will they continue to get the metro- politan point of viewf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
BILL STEAMBOAT FLOATS FREE

ONE DAY LAST WEEK, as you may have
" noticed, The Ardmoreite printed an edi-
toral headed 1--WE Submit a Brief" The brief
was in behalf of two employees of Joe Proctor,
Oklahoma City eX-druggist whom Governor
Robertson just had paroled. Proctor for a long
time had been under Jail sentence, affirmed
by the higher court, for selling booze at his
pharmacy. A fine also had been assessed
against him. The governor relieved him of the
jail sentence, but let the fine stand.
In the brief which we submitted we con-
tended that r. A. Waller, Proctor's soda
jerker," and Bill Steamboat, Proctors negro
porter, convicted at the same time for the same
ohense and sentenced to Jail and fined, should
receive the same kind of parole granted to
Proctor himself. This contention was made
in the interest of justice Our notion was and
is that if the employer went free the employees
also should go free We advanced no argu-
ment, mind you, for the liberation of either of
the three convicted men on the ground of JUS
tice, but set forth merely that if one were re
lleved of the Jail sentence all should be re-
lieved.
Today we are pleased to learn that the gov
ernor has paroled Mr.. Steamboat and Mr..
Waller as to the jail sentence, leaving their
fines standing as in the case of Mr.. Proctor.
Now if The Ardmoreite were Hearstpaper
boast that eve did it"-that Governor Robert
son, sitting in his swivel chair in the beautiful
building with the imaginary dome, read our
brief and acted upon it. But we are not a
Hearst paper, so we make no such boast. We
don't know whether the governor read our
brief or not though we have a sort of sus-
plclon that Governor Robertson follows the
meanderings Of The Ardmoreite.
We believed that the governor would parole /
Bill Steamboat and the soda jerker when he
got around to it. However, we could not af-
ford to let slip the opportunity to direct public
attention to the apparent slip-up of justice
The governor is a mighty busy man, and it took
4 little time for him to get around to the other
Wo paroles.
We congratulate the governor, and we can 'e
lot refrain from expressing our pleasure at the
le-anchoring, as it were, of Bill Steamboat so
hat hereafter he may float free upon the ad- :
enturous voyage of life. But we beg leave b
0 admonish Mr.. Steamboat that he should re c
ram in future from carrying a booze cargo for
arter
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
WELL DONE, TITANIC TEXAS!

GLOW COMING RETURNS in Texas indicate
~ that the Titanic commonwealth has voted
itself into the prohibition and equal suffrage
class. This was a case of killing two birds with
one stone, both the constitutional amendments
having been adopted at one special election
last Saturday. The birds were bad birds, too
the Shiny old booze buzzard and the cawing
crow Of political inequality Titanic Texas ap-
pears to have been for the moment the bold
little David that went out upon the plain with
pebble in his sling (about the size of an as
teroid or a secondary planeD and flung the
missile SO forcibly that it rcocheted from the
cloven skull Of one Goliath to ceaVe the skull
of his twin brother.
We are pleased to welcome Texas into the
class where Oklahoma stands. The class grows
larger from month to month There are only
few left outside, and they will come in pres
emily, so that the whole school will be in line
for progress and justice. The suffrage resolu-
ton is dead-sure to pass the senate very short
ly, and there is every reason to expect its swift
ratification by the states. The prohibition
amendment already is ratified and will go into
effect next January 16.
1t is good to know that Texas has climbed
up into the band-wagon a few months before
the full load Of passengers is to get aboard.
This should be gratifying to the people of
Texas, who will be glad to remember, in the
better years to come, that their state did not
wait to be whipped into line, but walked over
and got into the advancing pro
ceSsion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
- What Japan Really Gets Through the Peace Treaty

Washington, May 27-Contrary to gen.
eral impression the peace treaty as sum.
married in the preliminary statement.
does not cede to Japan the whole prov.
ince Of Shantung, nor the bay Of Kiao.
chau, nor the holy places of Shantung.
which include the home and grave of
Confucius.
The geographical limits Of the portion
ceded are outlined in Il bulletin of the
National Geographic Society, based on
a communication from Miss Eliza r.
Scidmore, traveller and author of many
books ON travel, which follows
In 1896 a German expert reported
TO the German government that a deep.
water harbor could be dredged and con.
structed in the northeast corner OF
kiaochau Bay. Oyertures were made to
the Chinese to lease the bay to Ger
many for Il long term of years. and were
refused.
In October, 1897. the opportunity
came to Germany to claim the desired
coaling and repair station for its fleet
in Kiaochau bay by the murder of two
in another part of Shan
tung province. Apologies and indem.
mites We're demanded. \ German squad
ron entered the bay and raised the Ger.
man flag. In March, 1898, the Kiao-
chau convention was signed at Peking.
which gave a ninety-nine year lease of
100 Ii Of land. comprising the rocky
point at the entrance of Kiaochau bay
to Germany, with supplementary rail /
way and mining concessions in the PROV I
nce which provided for railway line |
from this leased territory on the sea /
coast to Tsinanfu, the capital OF Shan .
.ung. with the right to develop coal /
mines within thirty Ii of the line. and 1
% build two branch lines.
THE Chinese had not occupied their
seacoast since the ravages
II Koxinga, the Japanese pirate some
,enturies ago, to foil whom the en-
,eror commanded his subjects to retire
hirty Ii inland and leave the deserted
no mans land to the buccaneers.
The city of Kiaochau, 45 miles from
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

went up on the governors flag staff
Much damage had been done by ar.
tilery fire, but more was done by dyn.
amite by the Germans themselves be.
fore the surrender, records were de
stroyed, stores burned, the dry dock
and the Austrian cruiser sunk, and the
public utilities wrecked.
Twenty thousand Japanese troops
were engaged in the Tsingtan expedi-
tion, and Japan has since spent great
sums in restoring and repairing and
putting the place in order. She has
said in 1914 and TO the peace confer
ence in Paris i'm 1919 that she will re-
turn the leased territory to China, with
the guarantee that Tsingtau shall be-
come an international settlement. Japan
will retain the German railway and
mines In the articles signed with ia
pan, China agreed never hereafter to
cede, lease or assign any bit of ter
ritory to any foreign power, neither
bay, island, port harbor or market
town"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

Senator Jim Reed of Kansas City is terribly
worried lest the League of Nations put the
white race under the rule of the blacks, vel
lows and coffee-coors of the species 1t seems
not to have occurred to Senator Jim's mental
apparatus that the white race as represented
by Uncle Sans section thereof possesses
'LeWslte,' an agent of benevolent assimila-
ton which is accredited by scientists with the
potentlality of wiping off the face of the earth
any race of people which may show signs of
trying to rule the other races of people.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

constructions gangs, urging that the
great railway embankments across their
valleys and fields would impound the
waters in the rainy season. a few rounds
from German machine guns ended the
discussion.
IN the first weeks of August, 1914.
the Germans made frantic efforts at
Peking temporarily to transfer Tsingtau
ana the railway to some neutral and oh.
liging power-but not to China. on
August 16, Japan sent an ultimatum
TO Germany, couched in the exact Ian.
guage Germany, France and Russia had
addressed to Japan i'm 1895, in asking
Japan to Withdraw from Port Arthur
and the Liaotung peninsula for the
sake of the peace of the east on Au.
gust % war was declared. and August
% the blockading squadron took up
position off Tsingtau. Troops were
landed at Lungkow west of Chefoo.
went inland, cut the railway at the
point nearest that coast, and took nos.
session of the line and its stations IN
TO Tsinaufu. and then landed and es
iablished base at Lauschan bay. fif-
teen miles east from Tsingtau Just at
the line of the leased territory. and slow
ly closed in upon the fortress and its
garrison of some 400 men.
The whole campaign was so meth
odically carried out that military men
in Japan termed it autumn manouvers.'
The Germans were twice formally asked |
TO surrender and save useless loss of |
life, but refused. Notice was sent that
bombardment would begin on certain |
day and they were invited to send out |
all non-combatants, women and chill |
dren. \ boatload of such, including the |
American consul and several priests,
were exchanged at the harbor's mouth
to japanese destroyer. and the great
guns began their play. At dawn of
November 9, just as the troops were
about to leave their trenches at the
edge of town and sweep the place in
l hand-to-hand assault, the white flag
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
A FOOL At 40

1t is an old prOverb that every man
is either a fool or physician at 40.
Well | fooled along for 40 years in
the drug business and practice Of meii-
cine before perfected a blood mcii-
cine that l thought and knew | could
offer the public with impunity.
| have perfected Number 40 For
The Blood" and to show you that |
do not wish to fool you | will send you
your money by mail if YOU return the
front of the carton with the statement
that you have tried one bottle of Mum
Der 40 For The Blood without satsfac.
tory result for any scrofulous disease,
for blood poison, chronic rheumatism,
chronic liver and stomach trou-
Bile, constipation, or in fact any disease
for which it is recommended. j. c.
Evansville, Ind.
Sold by city Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

/ Isngtau, by train, is far across the
silted bay ana six miles inland from its
muddy shore.
Thus Kiaochau city was not includ
ed in the territory leased by Germany
and therefore is not within the area
now ceded to Japan. But confusion has
arisen on this point by the phraseology
of the summary of the peace treaty
which states that Germany cedes TO
Japan all rights. titles. and privileges.
notably as TO Kiuochau.' The entire
territory about the bay of Kiaochau
formerly was known by that name.
which still is preserved in diplomatic
correspondence. Only the German con
cession was known as Tsingtau.
The Germans made Tsingtau a lit
tie corner OF Germany in the east 1t
was first declared free port. the Chi.
hese maritime customs functioning
there as at Hong Kong, dealing only
with cargo to and from the Chinese
hinterland. Later % per cent Of the
customs collections We're assigned to
the maintenance of the port.
The railway line of 255 miles from
Tsingtau to Tsinau.fu. the capital of
Shantung, was completed in 1904. 1t
does not pass through any large or
rich cities-Tsinau-fu with only 800. 90
hardly counts in teeming
China-and the line traverses a rather
poor part Of the province. After the
hills around Tsingtau, there are un-
ending levels Of bean and kaoliang
fields.
THE coal mines Of FanEtse. three
miles from the line. and the Poshan
mines, fifty ii from the line. do not
produce a superior coal, and both coal
fields have been worked by the Chinese
'or centuries. BorinEs have been made
10 depths of 5000 and 1000 feet through
many thick seams Of coal at Poshan. |
)dt the Fungtse mines are nearly ex-
lausted.
What Japan Really Gets.
THE railway line was built without |
'egard for local interests. and when an
cry peasants drove off engineers and /
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

Our oldest and least-eseemed cOntempora-
ry, The Congressional Record, which suspend
ed publication some weeks ago, has resumed
It's activities and once more burdens our waste
basket, which makes more work for Uncle
Nose, our joyous ianitor. This is not to be
taken as jeer at The Congressional Record
however, for that publication is full of mighty
interesting reading-too full, it may be admit
ted, for busy editor to read it. If we were up
in the Ozarks, for instance, forty miles from
town, or adrft at sea on a derelct schooner,
a bushel or 50 Of Congressional Records would
be instructive and entertaining
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
"CAN | BE
CURED?" SAYS
THE SUFFERER

How often have you heard that sad
cry from the victims of disease. Per-
baps the disorder has gone too far for
help. but oftener it is just in its first
stages and the pains and aches are only
natures first cries for help. Do not
despair. Find out the cause and give
nature all the help you can and she
will repay you with health. Look after
the kidneys. The kidneys are the most
overworked organs of the human body,
and when they fail in their work Of
hltering and throwing of the poison
that constantly accumulates in the sys-
ten, everything goes wrong. GOLD
MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules will
give almost immediate relief from kid
ney and bladder troubles and their kim
dred ailments. They will free your
body from pain in short order. But be
sure to get GOLD MEDAL. Look for
the name on every box. In three sizes.
sealed packages. Money Refunded If
they do not help you
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
ARDMOREITE CORRESPONDENT
DESCRIBES A WEEK END
PARTY IN RURAL ENGLAND

be in plentiful supply in all English
homes.
At brisk pace the whole company
went down road and across country
into the historic depths of Epping For
est as far as the Robin Hood inn ana
the. nearby cave OF Dick Turpin. the
Jesse James of olden England, II was
bracing exercise! Probably We didn't
enjoy the great roast Of English NUT
| ton, mint sauce ana Yorkshire pud'
ding that night,
Child Fun for GrOwn-tps.
After dinner music and then games
with the grown.ups as chief partiei'
pants. II would certainly give variety
to home entertainments in America 10
import some of these games. cards
here are u notwithstanding resort for
English house parties, to give quiet
for the sleeping children, who are sent
to bed shortly after nine. These par
lor games We're nothing new to US.
We had been introduced To them i'm 9th
er English homes and in London hotels.
Did YOU ever hear of Moods? That
is a bully game, one person goes out
OF the room. The others choose AN ad-
verb like cvasively abseutmindedly,
sWeotiy, rcligiously, rudrly the person
returns to the room to guess the ad.
verb 10y asking silly questions which
must be answered In the mood sug-
gcsted by the secret word. Unfortunate
~ it was my turn TO guess 'rUdely'
and long before | had succeeded | WAS
subjected to more suuhs. villiiication
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

All those editorials on "The Lost Aviators" 3"
to employ one sample caption look bit droopy
now, since Harry Hawker and Mackenzie
Grleve have turned up not missing at all. We
didn't write one, but that wasn't because we
imagined for a moment that those dare-devils|
were Safe-for we didn't
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

After the Ford Tribune libel suit at Mount
Clemens IS settled, whether Mr.. Ford gets
million dollars from the Chicago Tribune or
only SIX cents, the American people will know
What an anarchist and what's not, but some of
EN- Will continue to pronounce it anarchist,
with the accent on the "arch."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

Every additional rain simply serves to ac-
centuate the necessity for good roads in Okla
homa. Hard-surtaced roads don't let you sink
through or get stuck halfway through the
bottom.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
ATTENTION L. {. 7.

\ very important meeting for our
council is called for Wednesday even
ing. \ situation has arisen that de
mands immediate attention. Yur pres
ence Is important.
T.. C. HARLOW, $. c.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
Capture PskOv

Washington, May 27.-Esthoninn
troops have captured the important
railway junction of Pskov, between
Rega and ~Petrograd, according to re-
ports from IIesingfors, received in
Copenhagen and transmitted by the EX-
change Telegraph Company.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28

You still have opportunity to contribute to
the Armenan-Syrian relief fund and save
some human lives, Turn in your money at any
bank.