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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-16

An unusual discovery like the finding Of three sacks Of
arid metropolis should be reported Geographic oc
which is keen about discoveries and that sor, Of thing
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-16
VERING.

The public prints announce. VIC see.
That many able moonShine men,
Are landing in the jslls, but We
Predict that they'll get ont again
And they'll resume, as like as not
Their industry and past oiiense,
They are a pefscvering lot,
But sadly shy on common sense.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-16

Our devotion to the south sufficient far but
enough heed the clarion call from New Orleans
food doubt long calories fats protein and the like
know much and still know what he likes
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-16

While there Is artificial shortage the home grown
variety that won't behave will continue be greater
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09
H. WAMk<.vR.
Germany Lives for Revenge and Will
Seek 1t at First Opportunity
ey cHPRRF1ELD Judge Divieo

do think the when that the German people
conquered They have their hearts great hate for England
and France and while they will the treaty and make the best
of they will do Judgment with the that the
time will come when they have their revenge.
The German people along the Rhine paid the American soldiers
respect and implicit obedience But they have hate for the
British and French They also have bitter feeling for the
nation because they believe that they would have the the
United States had not in.
The constant surprise along the Rhine and Germany
today the great number of children all the
children and the military idea is
youngsters everywhere playing with
These children will grow with their hearts,
because Germany has not been hurt home with horrors
and Belgium.
certain they will feel that somehow they will yet
realize their slogan-"Der Tag"
Germany lives for and will seek opportunity
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09
Why Every Citizen Who Can Should Own
His Home and Should Build Now
1yoRoRoH n REYNoI.Ds ch,e.ro n.n. p,..,a.,.

1t should be mans ambition home In realizing
that ambition he will providing for the future family and him
self He will doing far more than merely furnishing over the
heads Of those he loves he will be laying foundation mon which
his children will build frmness and nobility of character
permanent residence the nome you the DEVELOPMENT
Of higher type OF citizenship for the owners have pride in the
community They know that the general Of the
will be raised lowered by the lack Of interest thew take IN
affairs
not much is be gained by waiting for decline in
Prices OF building materials for authorities tell is impossible for
prices to ede to considerable Of cst ,r
ton which are likely to continue without change for at least YEA,
0 two longer. " . ''~-
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09

unit that got a chance at
the Hun showed it was made
up Of heroes.
How do these incredible
young fighting Americans
look and act and have their
being? Why, you know.
You see these heroes every
day-either actual or poten-
tial. They are coming back
By the thousands, tens OF
thousands, hundreds Of thou
sands. They look very much
as they did when they went
overseas = the ablesbodied
ones. You can see changes.
II you look close, but In the
main they are the same
smiling, jolly. clean, decent,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09

g0od-natured American boys. NO wonder the
French loved them for their looks and their ways.
wondered IL it was possible that they really could
fight and went delirious with ecstasy when they
put the Hun on the run and kept him going!
Well, the generations to come, who cannot see
these American heroes In the flesh, will have the
chance to see few Of these heroes in official p0r
traits.
Joseph Cummings Chase, weil-known portrait
painter, who went overseas In October on q spe-
cial mission for the War college. has returned.
He brought with him 142 portraits, including a
complete set Of nkenesses of the American ger.
erals overseas-save four. which he will be cont
PEELED to paint here. There are Y portraits Of
generals so Of privates, "noncoms" and lieutenA
ants who performed especially noteworthy serv.
ice; 20 are pictures Of officers Of various grades
Mr.. Chase was selected by the War college to-
paint these portraits. which are to be incorporated
into the official history Of Americas participation
In the great war;
Doubtless the generals and other officers Of high
rank are all imposing in looks. but their portraits
have been published before 1t Is quite likely pop
MAR interest In these official portraits will run
largely toward those OF the fighting men. Some
body said: mo army is bigger thar its buck
privates.'" He said something
The four portraits here reproduced out Of 1S at
hand are the selection of the etcher and not Of the
writer: so It is clear that reproduction quality and
choice Yet this choice haphazard as to deeds,
shows clearly the marvellous qualities Of the
American soldier. Here is what the four did, In
brief:
Lieut. Philip Benson. One Hundred and Eighty
fifth Aero Squadron.-During the last three weeks
OF the fighting Lieutenant Benson made trips
nightly over German towns. dropping hundreds of
bombs and fired thousands Of rounds Of amnuni-
ton into Hun supply trains. OF the pursuit group
to which he belonged only two pilots remained
alive. His father il q well-known New York arch
itect. and his uncle u the famous painter, Frank
Benson. Work like this requires different sort
Of courage from that Of the charge in the heat Of
battle Let your imagination 90 along with this
aviator. alone in the heavens at night over the
enemy country, and make your own estimate sof
this city boy well-bred educated and refined and
az native American stock. Keep In mind, too. that
aviators have to be just about 100 per cent per
feet mentally and physically. and In q sense are
volunteers.
Corp. Mlscxysiaw Brock, Company B. Sixteenth
Infantry First Division.-South Of scissors on
July u, Corporal Brock came to the conclusion
that the Germans had too many machine guns. He
picked out the two that were causing the heaviest
losses to his company. went out single handed
and captured those two particular guns, with
every Boche pertaining thereto. His citation says
this was only one incident Of Corporal Brocki's
activities This man is OF Polish birth blood.
according to Chase-cv.dently one OF those stem
peramentar fellows
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09

made NO difference where-pretty soon Washing
ton got this stereotyped message: "The marines
have landed and have the situation well in hand"
Add to this their unofficial motto. what we have,
we hold" and you have a pretty good line on
this picked outfit of fighting men
This marine stuff Is old stuff for an entirely
different reas0n-for two reasons. One Ii that
there was a lot Of fighting between June I and
November II, 1918. The other is that we are
now beginning to heart all about It. The point
Is: While the marines, kept right on adding to
their laurels and the regulars ran 'em a dead
heat the common everyday American soldier
all branches of the service-also got into action
and staged some thrillers himself. National
Guard National army. air seryice-it made no
difference. As fighting men they proved they
were worthy to stand and to charge alongside
regulars and marines-and words can say no
more. They have their own place In the sun and
they won 1t In the only way q fighting manecan
win It. You know how.
The German high command at the Spa in Bel
GUM during the war studied the American sol
dIer systematically and thoroughly. and formally
wrote sts conclusions into the official records.
Major Won Rundstendt, on General LudendOrTs
stan, has made public some Of these Official con-
customs One Is: THE Americans are very
brave and active, but highly tennaNpmental." he
explained this BY saying that with the Americans
the lighting was good deal of a lporting propo-
bauOn Auu sJuuS Iicy Wuutcu " Scb u1l INC uV-
venture Ind excitement possible ont Of It. Besides,
IL war impossible to tell what the Americans
would do. They might attack anywhere and any
time. They might get tired sitting around or
get peeved at the mosquitoes or feel md be-
cause their rations had not come up-then they
were apt to take 1t out on the enemy. Major Won
Rundstendt. asked to name ofrhand some Of the
American divisions considered by the high COM
mand as among the best. replied:
10 yxlrir r0Il fho In
the Sky W&y-second), and that division made
up haf % narines tSecond regulars; also the
Twenty-0ighth (Penpsylvania National Guard),
and the First (regulars)..
when the high command records were examined
these divisions were also found included among
the most effective: Thirtysecond (1fchigan and
wisconsin National Guard), Twentysixth Nation
al Guard, New. England). Thirty-third National
Guard, Illinois, Prairie), and Thirty-seventh (Na-
tioaal Guard; OkIo).<
oSlIcaal American Portraits
The Judgment Of the 0Sonan high command %
to division efficiency ~ poted. Il borne ont
By the American reg - beginning to be
made public. And M - Rundstendt uncon-
sciously painted gosE30us picture Of the Amer
lean soldier rs = nrstclass fighting man.
II II when We come to the individual exploits
az our hghtikx men that we get the real thrills
Oalcial citations have given rs the bald outlines
of deeds OF desperate valor that won recognition.
Here ana there some especially noteworthy ex-
Mott has found sympathetic chronicler. Every
Aere q this outstsnding fact: Every fighting
-
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09

In the known word.
For 100 per cent all
round efficiency they
have no equal. The
military experts Of all
nations Will tell you so.
For one thing. they're
always equipped, al
ways ready, always
packed up and asking.
where do we 60 from
here7" They're the
oldest branch Of the
United States military
vervice and Uncle Sam
has used them 30 long
a. q sort Of interna-
tional N. r. that they
really know their busi-
ness. Before the great
war. you know, they
were the fighting men
on our battleships, and
when they were put
ashore anywhere - II
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09
To Build American Prosperity on the
lmpregnable Rock of Economy


How manv of the women who worked SO ardenty
fo- the war are now working with equal ardor for
roce, certain service is badly needed just now by
r., n+rv II ;s vital service and be performed
at no loss of time and at monetary gam.
While money is needed by the Cniteo 0la'es "
carry out the extensive program OF when
peace brings in its train, part OF ''e
program and which is far more important ,''an
Just the gathering of money is the great task We nave
before us of learning what intelligent thrift Is anu put
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09

knowledge such effective pacce tha' VIC ~ " ~
eliminate waste during but shall sccusom countess
Americans build prosperity the lmpregnaOle ck % e
economy
every person to model life following lines 10 save
to spend wisely to safely 1t may SOUND easy
have heard often before Duh Apply Gull
scntousy week every bit of time energy ana money oe WHICH
will be amazed to see the Immense an u
personal readjustmen there is waiting for you to do
And every individual brings this OF THRIFT n1o his lie
adds just that amount vitality to the life OF the naeon
Besides pointing particular mountain at the peak OF winch
promised every climber the treasury an easy
by OF Thrift and war savings
Through them saving be converted into profitable
investment Twenty-Five buys Thrift stamp and sixteen Thrift
stamps exhangeabe with pennies additional Tor hvedoar
Savings stamp bearing interest compounded quarterly
Savings stamp bought for tribe over Tour
five dollars five from But
necessary cashd office on ten days
notice Taking purchase aowedwo hundred War Saw
little dollars invested
during will thousand dollars January l. l9 war
indeed offer the best and safest small
forgotten that besides this personal monetary gain
benefits The thus loaned the
accomplishing tasks Of national readusmnt in which
just do her share she has been
serving Lastly while accumuaing W. S. often with
odds expenditure acquiring firm
economy which depend and coun
future.
This truly special postwar work for who directly
responsible the ideals of the generation Let make nation
spenders farsghted No child will satisfied until
acquired enough Thes fill his card And when that
done he will not be content until another card has been begun
you your child the apayng ways economy,
him today with 25-cent Thrift stamp.
~H' </
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09

Harki Where the cheern' Is the loudest,
Who's that steppin' into view?
The answer is 1.-The Marines"-the lines are
from Joseph C. Lincoln's spirited tribute to the
aI>eathernecks" which written shortly after
they opened the ball in the frst week Of June.
1918, by stopping the victorious Germans In the
Chateau Thierry sector. forty-odd miles from
Paris "You know the rest In the books you
have read"-how the marines not only stopped
the selected German shock troops short, but went
fight at 'em and licked em to a FRAGILE. The
marines were the whole thing then for quite q
while. They were the first Americans to get into
action on their own account and the Chateau
Thier-y story was spread broadcast over the world
for the sake Of its heartening effect allies
But this marine business is old stun now.
Don't mistake me. The marines have not
changed. And there are no better fighting men
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-08-09
PORTRAITS OF MEDAL WIN
NERS BYJ.C. CHASE FOR THE
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AVER
ICA IN THE GREAT WAR
ex JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

ARK Now the city DeIIS are rlngiH.
Hark Now the drums begin to
beat.
Look! Where the banners all are
swingin'.
Who's that marchin' up the street?
See! Where the flag Is flynn proud
est.
Look, Where the hats are tossin',
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
PHILADELPHIA PRODUCE

Philadelphia. Dec. 5.-Eggs. higher:
nearby fiTsts, $3.50 per case; current
receipts. $25.S0; western extra nrsts.
1854 western tirsts. S24.90025SO:
fancy selected packed. 9Sca$1 per
dozen.
Potatoes-Higher; No. l nearby per
basket. 9Oc@ s1.10; lower grades 400
65c; Penna. per 100 pounds. S2.7O02:
New York and Maryland, $2@2.70
Butter-Lower; western creamery,
extra 73hc; nearby prints, fancy. ST
q sac.
Cheese-Lower; New York and Wis
consin, full milk. S11a G33c.
Dressed Poultry-Easier; old roost-
ers., 24c; western spring ducks. So
Live Poultry-Lower: fowls, as to
quality 24@32c; chickens as to quail
ity, .23@21c; roosters. 21@22c; ducks.
Fekin. 32a34c; Indian runners. ESQ
30c; Muscovy, 2t@26c; turkeys. $50
GSc: geese. 24d 26c.
Flour-Quit. steady; soft winter
straight western, $10@10.50; nearby,
S9.65 a 10; hard winter straight, $126g
1850; short patent, $13@13.50; spring
first clear, $9.75 61025; patent, $3.50
IA; short patent, Si4G145O; fancy
spring an and L cit city mills patent. family
"a; No. 2. ss6Gsi: !S No.. NS, g. s27S9S, sSSg
clover mixed hay, light mixed; $500
81; No. l mixed, S27@2S.
Tallow-Quiet; prime city loose. 16
@16Ac; special loose. 16@16& c;
prime country, 15Xi ed3le in tierces,
IS Y @19c.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
Garfield Returns to
Take Personal Charge
OF Coal Situation

Washington, Dec. o. Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield returned to Wash
ington to-day from Williamstown, Mass,
to take personal charge of the coal sit
uation. After n conference with As
sistant Attorney General Ames, he went
to the White House to attend the cab
met meeting. Director General Hines
also met with the Presidents official
family.
Mr.. Garfield appeared to be optimistic.
He said coal production was getting
closer 90 the normal, and although the
stringency in the middlewast was
acute.
Members of a general committee rep
resenting the coal operators who re-
mained in Washington after the ad-
journment of the general conference of
operators yesterday, denied in a state
ment to-day published reports that they
had considered offering any amount to
the miners considerably greater than
the II per cent wage advance suggested
by Director Garfield.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
MEMBERS OF 1878
CONVENTION TO
BE HONOR GUESTS
Constitutional Revision Com
mission TO Honor Framers
of Present Organic Law

Surviving members of the Penn
sylvania Constitutional Convention
of 1873 have been invited by Attor-
ney General William |. Schaffer
chairman of the Constitutional Re-
vision Commission, to be the guests
of the Commission at the opening
session here on Tuesday.
Inquiry made by the Attorney
General has disclosed the fact that
as far as known there are only four
members of the convention of 1873
who are alive. They are Supreme
Court Justice John Stewart, of
Chambersburg; eX-Judge Harry
White, of Indiana; Mortimer f. Ell
lott, of Wellsboro, and John McMur-
ray, Brookville, editor.
Practically all of the heads of
departments and members of i'm
portant commissions of the State
government have accepted the in
Vitations of the Attorney General to
be present at the opening session.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05

terest the filing of the expense ac-
counts for the mayoralty elections.
The fact that the Philadelphia re-
ports show over 100000 spent by
the committees was not a surprise
here. The Committee of 100 spent
$4,000. the Moore committee s20,-
900; the Moore United committee, of
which G. w. Coles was treasurer,
$4,000; the Republican Alliance,
$4,000; Senator Penrose giving
$500 to this committee; the Re-
publican City committee, covering
IL year, $13S,000: the Ware brothers
giving $4,000 each. All told SEN
ator Penrose contributed $4,000 to
various committees. The Democrats
spent about $11,500.
State health authorities are fol-
lowing iwth interest the develop
mcnts In the effort to revive the pig
raising industry in Philadelphia
backyards. The North American
says that it is camouflaged under an
effort to reduce the cost of living
and that Director of Health Wilmer
krusen says no"
The Carbon county commission
ers have been sent Il bill for $44 by
State game wardens for the killing
OF unlicensed dogs which county au-
thorities did not appear interested
in. The county will have to pay.
State Game reports show II num-
Der of does being killed. Some have
been shot by mistake and where re-
covered in good shape the carcasses
are being sent to hospitals.
1t is expected that the first forms
for the establishment of the Penn
sylvania system of rehabilitation for
men injured in industries in this
state will be ready early in January.
The blanks are now in the hands of
the state printer and information
as to the character of accidents in
the industries of the State is being
compiled by S. S. Riddle. chief of
the bureau, from the reports sent to
the State Workmen's Compensation
Board. He will use a follow-up sys-
tenn so that information can be OBJ
tanned as to the extent of injury and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
Augustus K. Oliver
Elected to Council
rsnecial to the TELEGRAPH I

Especial to the telegraph
Pittsburgh, Pa, Dec. 3. - The
Pittsburgh city council to-day elect
ed Augustus X. oliver, son of the
late Senator George T. Oliver, to
fill the vacancy in the city council
caused by the death of Enoch Rauh.
The election of Mr.. Oliver is a
clean knockout for the Babcock-
Leslie forces, who endeavored to
elect John ID. Barbour, president of
the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. The
vote was to a. Mayor Babcock
personally backed Mr.. Barbour when
the city council met to fill the va
cancy.
The selection of Mr.. oliver gives
control of the council of the second
city in the State to the Republican
forces led by George S. oliver. The
new councilman is Vice-president of
the Newspaper Printing Co., which
publishes the GaZette-Times and
nicle-Telegraph Throughout
the war he was very active in vari-
Gus civilian works and was chair
man of the Pittsburgh Chapter of
the Red Cross, which he still holds.
Mr.. divers wife is relative of
several Harrisburg families and has
visited there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
Little Talks bu
Beatrice FaUfar

In tiny pool
You could jump over
i saw reflected
All of the sky.
wondered: How
Should one rightly measure
This lovely water;
By the Earth that holds it?
By the Heaven it holds?
How shall we measure all that
we see and hear and experience
by the Earth that holds it, by the
Heaven it holds?
There is always more than one
Interpretation of each least experi-
ence of every day. And we gem
orally nave our choice as to con-
clusions. We don't have to read
good or evil out of a thing, be-
cause we are free to read in what
we like. It's all a matter of view
point.
Wait a minute before you start
disagreeing with me. Jennie is en-
gagged to Max and she is seen at a
dance with a man no one of her
crowd knows. Max is away on a
trip. How can people help feeling
that Jennie is pretty lax and dis
loyal sweetheart?
That judgment on circumstan-
tial evidence might be read this way
instead:
Jennie is a loyal sweetheart.
Max is away. If she comes to a
dance and devotes herself to a
stranger there has to be a good
reason. Perhaps that man is a
relative. Perhaps he's a friend of
Max and she's been asked to be
nice to him.
i,,I
of the earth that holds us all. The
second is based on a belief in the
heaven which flowers in our own
hearts.
Our point of view tells more than
we realize about our own selves
Cynicism comes more from what
we know about ourselves than from
what we know. about life.
If you would never under any
circumstances do a dishonest and
disloyal thing, how can you be
thinking so hard of dishonesty and
disloyalty that everything you see
anyone else do looks to you like a
manifestation of those ugly quail
ties?
When you look into a mirror, you
see Yourself.
Life's a big mirror. 1t reflects
to you your own ideas, your own
/ attitudes. your own self.
You can't see out of eyes other
! than you own. You can't see ex-
, cept from the place where you hap
| pen to stand. The angle you get
| on tim gs has to be your angle.
Nobody forces you to stand
where YOU do. or to think as you do
| That's your own to choose and
! make.
SO when you begin interpreting
| things. it has to be from your view!
! point. on a basis of your owl
! knowledge and reactions TO life
| And charity or malice are yours tC
! choose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
Henry Lane Wilson Denies
Alleged Order OF Taft
Calling Americans Out

indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 5.-Denial
that President Taft in 1912 ordered
Americans to quit Mexico as was stated
in a dispatch last night from Ell Paso,
Texas, was made here to-day by Henry
Lane Wilson, American ambassador to
Mexico during Mr.. Tafts administra-
ton.
mo such order, calling on Americans
to quit Mexico. was issued by President
Taft in 1912" said Mr. Wilson. ''On
my recommendations Mr.. Taft did ad-
wise Americans in isolated localities to
congregate in urban centers, but no
order was issued"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
PEACE DELEGATES COMING

Paris, Dec. 5.-The members of
the American Peace delegation.
with the exception of three, will
leave Paris Monday night for Brest.
The three remaining delegates will
leave Tuesday night and the entire
personnel of the delegation will sail
on the steamship America for the
United States on Wednesday. Hugh
Z. Wallace, the American ambassa-
DOR Will. thereafter be the only rep
resentative of the United States in
the Supreme Council.