The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-25
From The EmpIoyer)

and he was not listed among the ones
whose earthly abode is marked with
the plain white cross He was spared
to return to his native land for whose
glory and protection he had fought
He had done his bit" in the mighty
struggle to determine whether Force
of Faith was to inherit civilization and
won.
After spending the trying days be-
tween the armistice and Brest he fin
ally made his way across the ocean
lanes and a year later found himself
in America. After the trying period
in the rehabilitation camps he got
his discharge and came home to start
life over were he had left it the year
before. True to their promise the West
ern Union gave him his Old job, with
his seniority rights and the prevail
ing wages He was transferred from
Miami, Oklahoma to Oklahoma City
and became an operator in the local
office. He was competent and faith
ful. The army had given him an ad
ded sense of devotion to his task and
he was valuable man.
During his service the trouble of
June were organized and a partial
strike with the "picketing" event oc
Cured. He was asked to strike but
refused. lie had tried the experience
of nothing to do along the Rhine Bridge
Heads and wanted to remain employed.
He was threatened, denounced, and
abused because he would not abandon
the job which he considered better than
the thirty dollars n month he received
in the military service and was earn
cstly making an effort to save a part
of his salary for some worthy purpose
more than likely to buy n home for
someone who passed a lonesome but
devoted year while he was in France.
Declining all overtures Of the strik.
ers and the agitators he remained on
duty and served the UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT in the telegraph of
flee as devotedy as he had served the
government in France. lie gave no
heed to the threats that We're made,
doing his duty without complaint and
faithful to every obligation. The con
troyersy did not concern his individual
welfare and he was contentedly earn
ing the amount paid him.
he was leaving the office Of the tele-
graph concern, in company with an
other employee, he decided to visit
q small clothing store a few blocks
from the office He had saved enough
money since his unemployment to jus
tify some modest clothing and was IN
the store looking over prospective
purchase. lie noticed that crowd
Of hostile men had followed him from
the telegraph office and the demonstra-
ton they were making outside indi-
Gated that he was in for some trou-
BILE Wishing to avoid trouble he asked
the store keeper for a back way out
Of the store, but finding that there
was none finished his business and
went out the front door. No sooner
had he left the stcre-room than he was
yiciously assaulted by the crowd of
pickcters who had followed him from
the office. He was knocked down and
an effort made to stomp him into the
sidewalk" His face was frightfully
lacerated and a serious damage done
to one of his eyes. one of his klu-
news was kicked loose with the result
that he is liable TO sustain lifetime
injury \ week after the brutal assaull
he was still in bed suffering with the
| most intense pain in every part Oh
his body. uncertain as to whether he
would ever be restored to his former
| health and condition. One of his as
sailants returned to the position IN
front of the office and was overheard to
remark: See that blood on my shoe?
! That's where L kicked the--------in
/ the eye" The individual who made
/ this remark, along with the others
participating in the various phases OF
the disorder were arrested by the Unit
cd States authorities.
Private Covey had committed no OF
fense other than to be faithful to MS
employers who in this case were the
same ones who had used his services
for more than year in France he
had fought for ten months on foreign