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TCJLSA DAILY WORLD. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917 9 WILSON SHOULD WELCOME HELP Draws Censure From All Sides for Holding Out Against Expenditures Board. REPUBLICANS TRUE PATRIOTS Make no Effort to Obstruct Needed Legislation for Party Reasons. My OMKlt K. UKNKDIOT. (World's Washington Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 1G. "Thm K r.ot a popular war," observed n semi tor the other day In dobato. There Is nothing HtranKe In that there has never been a popular war In this or any other country. Wars are not pop ular. Wars are diseases, a nil have to bo treated by the body-puiitie sur geons. Homtlmes the treatment hurts, the knlfo cuts deep and the saw scrnpes liard; but the surgeons must work Just the same until the patient Is curid. Konietinies the disease h of a very bad nature and time anu drastic measures of treatment am re quired. Of course, this war In not popular, neither Is pneumonia, ty phoid, smallpox or dlphlhcrln. A few senators and congressmen voted against WHr. That Is only natural. The Amerlcnn people were ""t all agreed on the revolutlonao war that brought Us Independence, but we won It in spite of the opposi tion. Many congressmen voted atcainst the war of lull, and the Clvn war lacked several votes of being unanimous and many opposed the Spanish-American war. In fact there was nearer a ununlmlnity of opinion In the present war than any war we have had. IVoplo More I'nlloil Tlinn Kvw. This war ha demonstrated, more than any other like occasion, the fact (hat people, thru their coiiKiru Mlonal representatives, are closer to Kether, regardless of politics, than ever before. I'resident Wilson Is the head of this (jovernment, eomn'ander-ln-chlet of tho army and navy, and has neeii Xiven more power than any other former incident, and now has more autocratic power than any ruler In the world. I t him have it; the power still belongs to the poople this Is a democracy, and any time tne people want to take hark that power they cun do so; and If rreslucnl Wil ron does not (five a pood -stewardship of it, the people most certainly will net. While Mr. Wilson Is president and all-powerful, he Is not the ROvrrn inent; he Is an attent of tho people and conifierfH makes up the people's repie. fentatlves. Mr. Wilson Is not only all-powerful, but he I biK blir because of tho power, lie Is given almost free rein, almost without constraint or critlsism. 1'eople say thiH is not the time for criticism. HI as Mr. Wilson Is, he could he biKBer. He could be more popular. While the ronuress is standing by him mnnfuily, regardless of politics; u is lai'klnK In a finer sense of onnfldenco and appreciation exhibited towaru iw whole people. While this Is a w.tf for democracy. It Is not a democratic party war. The whole people ne puhliennn and Uemocrals are fluht Iiir this war, and are supportliiK the government and its aent, the presi- J.V. We Will No! Jeopardize Our Reputation by Selling You Unreliable Goods under the pretense that we have a cheaper price. We Sell Reliable Goods at Reasonable Prices And solicit your patronage on anything in PAINT, WALL PAPER, VARNISH, ART GOODS, PLATE, WINDOW AND -i . SHIELD GLASS; - - Tulsa Decorating Company 414 SOUTH MAIN. Phones 407-6509. STRAND TODAY AND MONDAY BLUE1MKD rilOTOIIiAYS PKKSENT RUP E-RJTJ U L IAN RUTH CLIFFORD "THE MYSTERIOUS MR. TILLER" Praimt of Hie Rooret Service AS ADDKD ATTRACTION "BALOONATICS" Tho funniest kind of comedy, featuring ALICE HOWELL lHlmilom's Cleverest Coined len no. tit;si.y AND VKI)Xi:.SDY BRYANT WASHBURN in "The Man Who Was Afraid" From Mnry Dreclit I'ulvcr's Mtnry In Uio Katnrclny l:vcnlnjr VrmU f I c f HAKKT CARKY LYMEC TODAY Universal Animated Weekly Tho latest news from all para 01 Uio world. "The Texas Sphinx" 101 Bison Western Drama with Harry Carey "Speed Demon" l'okcs A Jabg Comodr "Mixed Nuts" Spnrk Comedy Vdmlsflton . .5 and 10 rents liowtng continuous from f:30 a. m. to 11 p. m. dent. Mr. Wilson, while welcoming Hepublicun support, hu never' shown his apreclutlon of It. lie lakes It llko a laborer takes his paycheck, with an nir that he hits It coming to Mm. Hulks nl l'icndllur- llonnl. Tho nil-powerful Mr. Wilson docs not want a war expenditure boarfl. such as proposed by Senator Weeks an Senator Owen and members of the house of roprcNcntati cs. Just why ho docs not want It. he does not stute. Just why he objects to It, no body can understand, unless, to us the lanKuiiKe of Oklahoma's discred ited Senator Core: "Jt l personally objectionable to me." Mr. Wilson could have made himself blKcer had he callod In a few Repub licans and advised with them. 1K he has not yet done so. lie could have made himself biSfter by welcoming :i war expedltures board, Instead of do inandlnu that none le created. If ho Is conducting tho affairs of the irovern nirrit us he should In n way thai la above criticism, why should he ob ject to n war expenditure committee, vhich would relieve from him a ;roit part of the war burden, and leave his hands free and his mind clear to wrestle with the other transcending multitudinous problems. , Cuuscs Criticism. Ills constant and peri'stent efforts to thwart tho congress irom creatine a war expenditures board Is cu using considerable criticism in Washington niuonii men of both parties. The war expenditure); bow id Im celled a llcpiihli can iiiL'tisiire. Ix-cause the Heinocrutic presldi lit objcctcil to it. i'arty line have rievcr been drown since war was declared, but tho president is very likely to force n party division in this matter. The Republicans have stood by him bettor than his own party. Instances of this fact nro well known to the public and need not be chron icled hire but It Is a well known fact that the Republican havo fi'tiRht his leKlnlatli.il thru both houses weii members of his own party deserted his ;ecoinmendutions. At the very outset of the war, con gress kh the president $100,000.00". The president does not huvo to nuiks any itccounitnir of It. lie can upend It In his own good way. Ho must, of necessity, havo funds to employ secret agents, etc., and Is would perhaps serve, no Kood purpose to let It uu known Just where ell this hundred million was expended and what return the government had to show for thn expenditure. Hut That 1100,000,000 has all been spent nnd ho will hnvo to have another hundred million, and Inter on another hundred million; and after awhile there will bo bo many hundred,, of millions given to the president that the pcoplo who pay tho taxes will wont to know If the government got dollar-for-dollar returns for its out lay. The people sometimes i-.et plck Ish nnd peevish about spending hun dreds of millions of dollars and not knowing where a dollar of It goes to especially when t";ey are called upon to foot the bills. Up to now, tun people have no other thot than that the president expended this hundred million In a Juat manner; but the poople who pay might feel a little more secure If they know that nn expenditures committee has secretly checked up the expenditures and put an O. K. on the bills. Other Departments Criticise. Not only Is the president being se verely being criticised in Washington, but. other departments are also be ing censured. It has developed tnut the difforent committees having charge of construction of army camps are bidding against each other, offer ing large cash bonuses for quick de livery, and the government Is fooxnm the bills. There arc being constructed tliirty-two contonments and tented ramps In the country. To illustrate; the committee In charge at Fort Sill wants to make a record. It will offer large bonuses for delivery of material; and the suppliers will divert material Intended for Fort Riley and send It to Fort Sill. Then Fort Riley, seeing the progress of construction lagging on thn account of Fort Sill getting Its supplies, will In turn offer a bonus for supplies and the supplier will divert a consignment of material Intended for Fort fiani Houston to Fort Riley; and so It goes on down the line, the govern ment paying tho bllliind tho bonuse until all the camps are taken In. In time the people will hnve to pay taxes for this unnecessary expense, for which the only excuse Is satisfaction of vanity of the committees in charge. Committee Could Komedy. A war expenditures committee cooiu remedy this, relieve the war depai i mcnt of the niess and relieve the presi dent of tha worry and tho subsequent odium, but he wlil liuve no committee, no o-operatlon. The contracts for the cantonments were let to contractors on a bns's of 10 per cent of what they expeuueu. Therefore the more money thoy ex pended, the, more money they earned. When tho contractor took the con tract for a cantonment at Atlanta, the average dally wage of the laborer was $2. Teamsters with team got $t, Lumber was $2 4 per thousand leet. Immediately labor went up to 1 a day, man and team to $9 and lumber to 160; tho contactor paid thmo prices and Kot 10 per cent of what he fcpeut. The $2 laborer suddenly be came an expert carpenter at $6 a day ot eight hours. He worked 10 hour a day and received $12 a day, and sometimes at high as $15. This was reported to congress, but nothing lias pti far been done about It. The con tractor who ordinarily would have earned JO cents n dav off the $2 la borer, beran earning $1.20 a day. Ha made a like Increased amount off tne teamster and off the lumber. And off naMs, and everything elso he ex pended. Up In Junction City, Kan., close to Fort UUey, they were paying printers f H a week before the contractor went there to build a cantonment. Sud denly printers became skilled carpen ters and went to drawing $0 a dav with double pay for overtime. The boy hsd been manipulating leadou tongues at $9 per. for s'x days' work, suddenly began drawing $84 a week for six days and Sunday. The con tractor made $8.40 a week off the Junction City printer, instead of BO rents. A war expenditures committee's re port In these instances would not have looked very nice to tho public or to President Wilson, and perhaps this Is one of the reasons why-he so stren uously o beets to such a committee. But s th' Is no time to criticise the president or the government, I will stop with these few: citations, Instead of going Into detail with simi lar Instances In every other camp. The conditions are tho same; and the contractors are geting their 10 per cent of what they SPEND! Part of tha finme. "Why can't that boy play without getting his face all mussed upT I shall take him In and lock him up." "Easy, mother. It was necessary In this gume. --He's playing choo-ciioo and ho'a the engineer." FIXTURE COMPANY IS SOLD Tulsa Office Ikiiilment Cvntpuny Will lie New Finn Name. The Oklahoma Safe & Fixture Co. has been purchased by J. 11. Ulalr and W. K. Ford and will be known In the futuro as the Tuls.i Office Kyulpment company. ltoth these men nre well known in iho office supply litislncm, Mr. lllalr having es tablished the branch office of tho Western Rank Supply company In Tulsa. On resigning from the mau- agerahlp OT this company to become iilentllied with Supply e.imiKiny by Mr. the Palace Office Mr. lilnlr was suc- l'ord at the Western eiieil office. Mr. Hlnlr recently sold his holdings in tho Palace Office Supply company and he and Mr Ford are now branch ing out for tht'iiMt'ives. Mr. Carl Clark, who lias owned the Oklahoma Sate 4i Fixture Co., has entered the aviation service of the government and Is now with the school of avia tors preparing to leave for tho front. Chirographic t.olf . Wilkins is an enthusiastic golfer, and when his friend Johnson met him coming away from the links a. day or two u.'O he found Wilkins In a ter- jriblo frame of min!. "What hap- pi ned, old fellow?" asked Johnson 1 ambiblv. "Kvorylhlng's happened," growled Wilkins. "It's enough to make one five up golf and go In for fishing. That . Fily.noo.lb', ha,s been run ning nil over the course, and actually crossed my tee Just as 1 wis about to make a lovely drive. What would vou have done had you been In my place-"' Johnson Is a smart man, and his retort was characteristic of lilni. "Well," he replied with a smile. " coins- that he crossed yout 't,' I lliluk 1 would havo doited his 'I.' " All Around Magazine. filrl I.eiwM Orphan's Home sliiil to lint World. C I. A R H.MORI':. Okla., Kept. 15 Friday, Matilda Wells, of the state Orphans' home at I'ryor. was brought to this cltv and then turned ove to officials from the home.. She had run I away, going to a farm near Itushy liend The farmer berime, suspicious and nioiiK'ht her in. Special In Tin. World. OKLAHOMA HOSPITAL This fire-proof hospital is pppreciatcd and the X-Ray and other up-to-date facili ties are open to a discrimi nating profession and pub lic. 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' L 2Ysl Mario Uralncrtl, Kalr Klrknmith and Anita Taylor, eclehratod pianist, celloiMt und soprano respectively, who appear March 28. r em I i a I? '-f r is rhJ'i ar-" r.y 'Tl f V Kr if 4 rrr i 11 ' ) ) "' A ,i Arthur Mlddlcton, Metropolitan Opera Co., buHso, appears Febru ary 28. Oscar Scaxlo, famous southern baritone, Hlnglnn plantation melo dies, appear February 14. ) Ai I f I O tir "I 1 I aC4 I I'nul Althouse, Metropolitan Opera Co., tenor, appears October 12. Mlcha Levltsky, the celebrated boy planlet, appears January 24. Alice Nlolson, American soprano, appears April 11. Marie Mayer, a participant in "The Passion Play," at Oberam mergau, appears January 31. Miss Jennette Rankin appears on October 25. She is the only woman ever seated in our congress. Miss Rakin was elected from one of the strongest labor states in the union. SEATS ON SALE AT DARROW MUSIC CO.