Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • 4

rage Four Ti mes-Democrat Kr 4 OKLAHOMA REDMEN MAKING SOME OF AMERICA'S FINEST SOLDIERS IN TEXAS CAMPS Retaining thc Fighting Instincts of Their Ancestors Indians at Camps Travis and Bowie Take Readily to Bayonet Work Gre- Throwing and Sniping of Modern Warfare CHARLES A LOCNET Muuiw Published dally mp( gimday from til Wall street filtered at Muskogee MtofflM MIL foralim representative: Kata Agency Na York 11-11 Msdiso gquera North Chicago Harris True bulkUag: Kansas City Waldheim bulkllng ubecrtptloo rttw: By cirri ar 10c par weak bp men $4-01 par pur lb 4 Member Associated Frees fall teased wtra report and member Newepaper ft tarprtaa eesocletlon bouts: Nwi 11: A4Trtlln 174 Cutter tod gubrorlptVra Bafort this sprint hnvsMt that whan gitoee thsrs ah Oil 14 aoma traat ohanars over all tha world but I hava letnrf that natura must I OS Its trap and that mortals ah trail as traoi and floarsrs must sprint up matuw and die Tha crocuaas art out an over tha lawn and as ther lift thalr Fallow haada Just a bora tha ground they aat to apeak to ma of oourmta Thajr oar look at met Im Ju a bit eunahins out hart In yoargrosa plot than live hut a day and possibly you will hardly reallso that am hart bafort 1 am ton hut Tm Just bloomlnt my vtry bast In tha hope that you wUI bt a Utile happier when you look over this traea trass and find It dotted with brilgant yellow This morn It I took Richard Whvarly HI out and aproad a blanket on tha and put him on It tn soma way while was thlnklnt of someth try alee that Massed baby rolled ever to tbs odte at that blanket and When I Ibokad at Mm I found bis llulo hand' daaped Ufhtly around a yellow blossom Of course It was only chanet that mads him olutch tha poesy but to mo It was almost a prophecy that my boy would la time lore all nature as I do As picked him up hie lltUe' hand brought tha croous with It and I am cure he noticed the hrlsht color for ho gurgled and wared his flower with oeeming delight felt myselt smiling as pressed my lips to the Uny moist mouth of that blessed gurgling Infant And then I looked up and dear old Jim was standing looking down at ua "80 this Is Mother Margie" he exclaimed "And Richard Whrerty III said proudly Jim held out his hands for the baby and took Dicky In bis arms He looked at him long and heard him murmur "Ho Is the Image of Dick" "Too her I asked eagerly 1 think could bear It Jim If boy did not look like him" At the sound of my roles Jim eat down on the turf beside ma and looked at me very earnestly "Ton are beginning to look Ilka yourself again ho said "Rut you have not seen ms before but once Jim" I answered "Well tktoi you neither looked nor acted like youraelf" he asserted gently Jim was still holding the baby and he seemed to bo perfectly happy In his arms but he put Mm carefully In his pram and lifted ms to my fast 'Let ma taka tha baby Into the house ho said want to talk with you followed him as he wheeled tha baby up to the fun room where ws turned him over to his waiting nurse do you wank Jim?" I asked "1 want to talk over tha business of the book concern" ho said "I fool as though I would never take any Interest In the book concern again "Why do you nur Jim that the first real quarrel had with Dick was over that same book concern He wanted mo to put all my little savings Into its stock and 1 objected" "Tea Dick told mo about that" he broke la quietly Redskins and palefaea will over the top together in the cause 'of liberty when the 179th brigade the Oklahoma con tlngent at Camp Travis hits ths Hun lino in Franoe Cherokee Choctaw Creek Seminole and othen from Oklahoma have wiped out their tribal lines which were ones very sensitive and are doing their bit for humanity tinder the joint leadership of one head Gen Joseph by name commander of the 179th Infantry brigade That bit Is considerable too as officers of that brigade have pronounced the Oklahoma Indian perfect as a soldier When the Indians reached Camp Travis -last September they were an unknown quantity The Indian quietsnd unassuming was not the kind to rush himself into the limelight right at the jump But hia real wbrth as a soldier was discovered after a brief tryout 4 This great European war is to be the medium through which the American Indian will battle himself back into prominence on the foremost pages of current American history The Indian and hia tomahawk did more than anything else to fill up the pages of American hiatory up to about 1875 By that time English-speaking school books anda few missionaries got into circulation among the various North American tribes and the Indian gradually learned that scalping exactly the civilized thing to do He therefore laid aside his warlike tendencies and weapons and settled down to making good American citizenship and breaking athletic records One hundred and fifty mile of good road graded in the county four month is not such a bad record If you have not read the in the current uiue of die Saturday Evening Post do to There is not a man or woman in Muskogee who will not be benefited by reading it When you have read it apply the questionaire to yourself and see if you can pass a 1 00 per cent grade The Muskogee fife department equipment is said by city officials to be in deplorable condition Practically no money has been spent on equipment for several years This appears to be the situation We must either swallow another increase in fire insurance rates or we must either by increased taxes or a small bond issue get about $40 000 to buy fire fighting equipment Anyway around the result is the same The question is merely which is the most satisfactory way to get at it The traffic regulations on Broadway seem lo be getting results At least there is less jay walking Activities were extended to Wall street this morning and the police were putting the red tags on cars illegally parked there The police department however is going to have continued difficulty in enforcing the traffic regulations unless the state highway department speeds up in getting license tags for cars There can be no good excuse for five to eight weeks delay in getting a license fag back when one sends in an application with the money yet that appears to be what is happening in Muskogee There are scores of cars running in Muskogee today that bear no license tag or number JUDGE OWEN A CANDIDATE Judge Thomas Owen has announced that he will be a candidate for the nomination to succeed hint self as a member of die Oklahoma supreme court A short time ago Judge Owen whose home is in Mus-- kogee received an unsolicited endorsement signed by practically all die members of the Muskogee bar and a request that he become a candidate for a place on the supreme bench in the next election 'Judge Owen was appointed a member of this court by Governor Williams when the number of members was increased by the legislature This short term will expire next January The district which Judge Owen represents is composed of Muskogee McIntosh Okfuskee Okmulgee Creek and Lincoln counties known as district No 7 So far there has been no one who has indicated an active desire to go against Judge Owen in the primary for the nomination It is not believed he will have opposition The enthusiastic endorsement of the Muskogee lawyers is not likely to en- courage anybody else to enter the race from this sectionand the big vote of the district is in Muskogee and Okmulgee counties Keep Well Column Mir Met! As evidence of the progress of ths Indian It Is pointed out that In the 35ith Infantry which received heaviest quota of Indians there Is not a company now without Indian noncommissioned officers Each organ tsatlon has from ona to four noncommissioned officers who are full-blooded Indiana -and maffy others who can boast of Indian Unaage The Indian warrior of today however presents a wide contrast to (ha brava of old Instead of war paint tinted feathers and the hatchet and tomahawk the new Indian warrior wears a steel helmet gas maak a heavy pack that does not even pinch his massive shoulders and In a vice of steel he grips a rifle and bayonet bayonet that Is pointing always always at the Imaginary throat He still possesses the daring vigor and craft of his warlike forefathers They Love tha Bayonet Modern methods of warfare Including the bayonet on which the Infantryman of today depends mostly the grenade rifle rifle grenade scouting sniping etc the Oklahoma Indian at Camp Travis has tgken hold of ahd trimmed down to a fine point It Is the work with the bayonet the thought of which makes lota of folks shudder but which the Infantryman learns to love that the daring strength and skill peculiar to tha In dian race has best shown Itseff In ths draining course at Camp Travis It Is required a good bayonet fighter must hav strength aggressiveness speed direction and confidence All of these the average Camp Travie Indian has and In ths hundred of bayonet dummies at Camp Travis painted to represent the Hun are holes 1 tht Oil wo Sgalnet military etiquette The flrxt practice In semaphore and wig-wag In tha company attar Plnoe-kogea arrived woe a eource of much emuaemeiu to him and ba laughed aloud "What I that man laughing at?" an oftlcai Inquired of an Interpreter The intrpreter naked Plnoakogee "He all them men with flag are craiy" relumed the Interpreter All Want to Ftgtit Plnoekogee dom not know any more Engllh today then ha did when he arrived but he understand moat order and cutea them with tha predrion of tha old tlmera -It singular too that In th quail-flcation cards which all recruits are required to fill out a few of the In expressed a preference for eerv-Ice-In the Infantry the branch where a man gets the most use out of his fighting talent All of which Indicates that personal safety was not uppermost In their minds Nor does this mean that the In dlans who are taking-part in thte war are doing so from blood-thirsty lust for fighting On the contrary their motives are of the highest A young Indian writing to his school paper in Oklahoma stated he was giving the best that was in him to Unde gam order that ths world may be mgde nearer what It ought to be" Caihp Travis fndlstTs were among tha most liberal subscribers fo ths second Liberty loan last fall and although the third loan Is not being pushed In the camp many of them have volunteered large subscriptions Before attempting to grow muhroomo study tha varieties carefully oo that yon will know which are poisonous Book on mushroom culture may ba found In tha publlo library Tas many persons make Urge profits growing them Kohl-rabl la cultivated Just tike cabbage The swollen part of the stem should bt eaten while the 1 plmtalt young War Garden Patriot: It It patri otic to grow any food In yohr garden more oo to raise substantial things like potatoes beans peas carrots etc than parsley melons cucumbers When in doubt give preference to thoee foods which may be stored fo winter tips Kale may bo town In tht garden as late at June but the plants do better If transplanted Garden: A five or alx-lnch piece of horseradish root may bo planted about three feet deep at one side of the garden so It will be out of the way The large part of the root should be planted upward Grate the root pieces in the fall and store In vinegar Watch epreadlng roots so that the plant will not overrun the whole garden It grows rapidly "Miss MHt These herbs may be used for borders of gardens or flower beds balm basil borage catnip fen Milk Is probably th beat an round food known to man We eat chiefly for two reasons First to renew the body waste and promote growth by forming new tissue and flulda second to supply snsrgy for carrying on tha body functions Milk contains tbs body-building materials protein and mineral substances such ss lime and and also the fat and sugar elements which supply energy The bureau of animal Industry of the department of agriculture Is authority for tha statement that one quart of whols milk la equal to seven ounces of sirloin steak for Its protein and slavun ounces for Its energy In protein value la equal to four and throe-tenths eggs end In energy to eight and one-halt eggs To put It another way It milk is celling at tan oonts a quart sirloin steak must sell os low os ttl cents a pound and eggs at sst cents a dossn to supply protein at equal cost As this be dons It la very evident that It is poor ooonomy to deereaso consumption of milk Milk can bo used In a variety of ways and In all of theso we ye it Is an oxoel-lent food Every growing ohild should have at least one gloss of whole milk at each meat For children milk has no substitute Skimmed milk can bo used In cooking and In making cottage cheese Rats asks "What disease or -diseases Joes the rat transmit to man?" The moat dangerous' Is bubonic plague but there are many others Including so-called trench fever around tha heart throat and other to It Almost to mgn the Camp to reach Camp Travie late this menth will be a nephew of the famous In-diaa chief Crasy Bnaks who staged the last ladlan upriaing la this eeua-try a few years ago A reoent visitor at Tamp Travis Pna Pete Hudson of Muskogee kings pan of the Choctaw natioa and man who has grown wealthy through dlaeoveriea Hudson has velun- -tee red to spend his own funds ts quip an Indian regiment Camp Travis Indians do ot excel only at learning to fight and at ath' letice In the 159th Infantry band te David Johnson a young Cherokee Indian a aaxaphone player who as such le given a high rating by band- masters The only soldiers football team In the Ban Antonio dietriot to play as many as five games aad be undefeated last fall was that of the tilth Infantry Fourteen members of this squad were Indians Many of them were from Haskell and other Indian schools The captain of the le an Indian Corp Calvin Bryant The ooach Captain Danenhour is of does Indian deecendancy In all lines of attUetlcs gt Camp Travie will be' found the Indians front the 179th brlgads Corp Bandy Timothy Seminole le the undefeated mile distance runner of the camp Bergt Oeorre Baker Eucha India Is a valued member of the Camp Travis baseball tedm Indians at Camp Bowie' Fort Worth Teas May The In-' dian Is the only hyphenated American who le proud of It He le an Amer- Ican-American With the passing of year people have forgotten the Indian as an American Tha white people became Americans and the Indian Just an Ihdlan But now he has earned the privilege of being classed along jrlth cltieens of English Irish Bcandlnavlan Scotch and German descent He is a good American eltlxen and haa proven it by sacrificing his ell and making good as a soldier in the United States amy There are at preseat 4 909 Indians in the service The InTflane also have purchased 910009 909 worth of the first and second Liberty bonds and an almost aqual amount of the third Issue Tha 9909 Indian soldiers are divided among all camps and many are now In France wjth Pershing There are 709 of the Oklahoma Indians at Camp Bowie Fort Worth Texaa and fourteen different tribe are represented the majority of them being from the Choctaws Chemkees and Creeks Pershing hfs wfth him a band of thirty famous Apache scouts The Indians at Camp Bowie have gone through a strenuous nerve-trying training echeduU for the last eight months but not one of them will admit that It has been hard or monotonous although their paleface brothers round about camp will tell you that the drilling has become stale and that it has been strenuous to the nth degree The Indian is the beet Infantry soldisr In the world This has been the re pasted declaration of Gen Bt Grsble commander of the Panther division at Fort Worth end proof of It Is found In tbe Indians themselves Military experts at one time be-lieved that tl Indian would never make a well-disciplined soldier His ancestors lived a free and easy life: It wee in his blood: he fought hie ware without regard to organisation and the thousand and one things that make discipline Always Have Bora Soldiers But the experts have changed ihelr minds since the 9999 Indians In Un- cl Barn's army have transformed themseivla Into hard-fighting hard-working dependable soldiers It all came to him by In- stlnct too For centuries for ages his ancestors had bean soldiers even If undisciplined They possessed military strategy and poise twotralte that have been Inherited eo the discipline came more easily to their descendants than to many other American troops i Company of the 142d Infantr regiment at Camp Bowie le made up wholly of Oklahoma Indians com manded by Capt Walter Veach himself a half Choctaw Many of these Indians are rich owning valuable oil lends In Oklahoma Many of them are college graduates and they are as enthusiastic over going to France and over the American cause a anywhite soldier even if tey do not show their feelings In demonstrations One private In Comnany fa Jess Flxon a Cherokee Jena talk English but he can talk the allied language Recently 'he wanted to convey some message to one of lieutenants and eslng an Interpreter end the sign language ha declared he wanted to go to Franoe right away and bayonet the kaiser all by himself Many soldiers and 'civil-lane have said the same thing pot expecting to' get the privilege but Flxon was sincere and since he volunteered for the Job couldn't understand at alt why he wasn't allowed to go Noted and Wealthy Oaagea Thera are some noted members of various tribes In Company Thera Is George Baconrlnd son of Chief Baeonrtnd of the Osage nation a good soldier and patriot Hie father back in the Osage oounty still wears a blanket But you see no blankets' at Cams Bowie except thoee on the cots They dress eat sleep fight play work and drill Just the same a the other soldiers but do It more quietly Nell Panther le another Osage and in very wealthy as is algo William McKinley Charles Choteci Is Osage All of hie relatives are dead and he is one ot the wealthiest men in camp There Is a famous sergeant In tbe company He le Sergeant Me Clure a full blood Choctaw of Durant Okla McClure was through the Philippine camnalgn In the 99th United Btatea volunteers and he also sew much border service with the First Oklahoma Infantry Once he wee a captain of cavalry In thP Oklahoma National guard When Cato Belle United Btatee commissioner of indie affaire and General Grehle together inspected the Indians of the Infantry recently they found maqy oddltTee A photo was taken of group of soldiers and tneir names taken down by the writer One "olcier gave hie name as Jim-mv Johnson and beside Rim was Johnson Jimmy and the writer was certain that some joke was being played on him by these solemn faced 1 nel lavender mint parsley sage tarragon thyme Reader: den Commission Washington will send you a garden primer for two cent stamp to pay return postage- It contains much valuable gardet ng Information Garlic Is sown In early spring and is cultivated like you would onions The National War Oar- OBJECT LESSON IN SOCIALISM For many years the soap box orators have been telling us what glorious things would happen if die workers would only seize the instruments of production and establish our industrial system on a communistic basis A good many people have been somewhat interested and half credulous about it But they have had sense enough to want to see some one else try it out first and find how it would work Now they have die opportunity of seeing The Russian Bolsheviks have set out to try out just this idea The ascendency of this party in Russia was called by our socialists a great triumph for humanitarian sentiment The Bolshevik minister of finance in Russia who certainly would not be prejudiced against this proposition made a report to the central committee of his party a few' days ago that showed about how glorious the thing is up to date He reported that the operation of the railways under socialism was costing 1 20000 rubles per verst (two thirds of mile) as against 1 1 600 rubles per verst previously He pictured industrial conditions in socialistic Russia in the blackest terms 'The locomotive works were turning out only two locomotives a day whereas formerly they produced eighteen a day It was reported that the speech was received in dead silence This does not look much like the socialistic heaven we used to hear about where people would work only three or four hours a day and everyone would Have an abundance of the luxuries of earth A little more about this socialistic elysium will be likely to sicken even the bewhiskered Bolsheviks Now if some deluded people in our own country will only take the pains to learn how the thing works in practice they will save themselves a lot of disappointment and our country a great deal of futile agitation £0 YOU BUTTCft HSRes NO -TAd-Hea- tc IT (m'5 ion't Keep fctriT! Travie Indians are men of all of them owning larga tracts of Indian land in Oklahoma Recent oil operations in Oklahoma have made many of them wealthy For Inetance it is almost an every week occurrence for Private Otis Russell Company 359th Infantry to get a check for amounts varying from 9500 to 91 300 Russell Is perhaps the wealth'est enlisted man In the end one of the most spirited soldiers Back In Oklahoma the part the older Indian men and Indian women are playing in the war Is tremendous Private Butler Raker of the 959th Infantry wss advised only recently that his the through their chieftain at Muskogee Okla had Just bought 9100000 worth of Thrift stamps Indian girls from Oktahoma schools have volunteered by the dosen aq Red Cross nurses and many of them are now In France and at various eojdier hospitals In this country Speaking of Indian participation in the war Cato Bells commissioner of Indian affairs who recently visited Camo Travis says: In the making shines from many Quarters FamllleiKof old warriors of hostile leadership against the government vie with each other in the purchase of Liberty bonds Gristly chieftains wearing the scars of battle with the whites are preaching patriotism to their tribal descendants in native oratory as ardent as Patrick Henry's while the sonr and grand eons of Chief Joseph John Gall John Gram and their followers throng the enlistment office have not the least misgivings about ths Indian's part In this war Ws will step to the drum beat of democracy and whether In the reservation In the training camp nr 'over there he ftill gather knowledge and understanding of the great principles he helps to defend and come out of the conflict an element of real and progressive strength In our national life The Indiap affairs commissioner Is strongly opposed to Independent Indian units In ths war He believes they should be mixed Indiscriminately In units with their white brothers ss they have been done in tKe 179th where they can fight elbow to etbow with the pateTacea this to make for a closer alliance of the red and white races not only In thl war hut In cltlsenahlp In America when the Hun has been whipped and the world made safe for democracy once more Some Interesting Warriors r-want no discrimination for or against them but believe they should ba pro meted on tKelr merits and always advanced when deserving" the commissioner iq quoted as Baying As proof that the ladlan is being taken for hte worth In Camp Travla ona can point to a few of tne appointments of tinn-commlsstoned officers from the Indian ranks In tho tftfith Infantry 8ome of them follow: Sergt Silas Battlet Bergt East- man Machintuby Sergt George Raker BergL Charles Wesley Bergt John Hummliyrblrd Bergt Charles Ksneubhee anrdorens of Indian cor-norals to sav nothing of many other non-rommlwioned leaders of half and quarter blood In the contingent from Oklahoma vital parts which show where the In dian like the others ha sent home hia steel with fleetness and direction tnVt the French and British mission officers say most bayonet fighters whb have served three years In the war would be glad to have To the Civilian direction with the bayonat means nothing but to the bayonet fighter it must be a science for various reasons It was a Seminole Indian youth Corpora! Sandy Timothy Company 158th Infantry a Haskell graduate who could throw the the hand artillery of modern the greatest distance of any soldier in Camp Travis His accuracy with that weapon officers say Is wonderful One of the first enlisted men at Camp Travis to master the finer points of musketry was Sergeant Hummingbird Company A 358th full-blooded Cherokee Indian In the Infantry school of arms at Camp Travis which la also commanded by General O'Neil Indiana carried off their share of distinguished grades It la in this school that the use of all arms used by Infantry Is taught In the school for scouts and snipers the Indian student was found to be particularly apt He could build a sniper's post or sentry's nest with such skill that even the In fltructors could not find them unless they had watched him at work This however la true of aU graduates of that school Ths Indian's rapid acquisition of discipline that almost iron brand kind which Is absolutely necessary for successful troops In the European war medley and In which Camp Travis troops have been given a high brought him Into prominence soon after the 90th division was formed last fall Even the non-Eng-Iteh speaking Indians at the camp were quick to acquire It officer! say As sn example of the Indian's aptitude for soldiering the case bt Private Jo Pinoskogee 'until recently a member of the 359th Infantry pointed out Plnosk ogee is a full-blooded Seminole Indian without more than a dosen words of English at his command He appeared one day In a company mesa and no one could tell how or why he was there After several days of labor by Interpreters It developed that Pinoskogee came from-Oklahoma at the order of a local board and he was regularly assigned to tbe regiment dressed up in olive drab and placed In the ranks At the end of ten days It required the most discriminating observers to tell that Pinoqkogee was a recruit His position of the eoUiieMn ranks varied only when hie eyes would movfc to tha right or left when an order was given He watched the soldier on hie right or left to see what he did then Pinoskogee )td the same thing He was never more than an Instant behind He acquired the manual of armi In less than half the time took the average English-speaking recruit imply by observing the right and left Pinoskogee became the life of the comnany Corporalw all wanted him In their squads Bayonet practice pleased him most His favorite pas-lime during rest" In bayonet practice WM nn behind his instructors and give them a sharp prod with the -bayonet and then laugh He was finally persuaded WAR EXPERT ARITHMETIC The student of the war who is trying to form an intelligent analysis and pass it on to other people is perplexed with the conflicting estimates he has to deal with Even the military experts close to the centers of information vary widely: An apparently competent opinion has it that the Germans now under arms number 4500000 Yet the best estimates of the Germans on the west front previous to the offensive were only about 2500000 As only a small force is now needed in Russia and not many on other fronts where are the other 2000000? The changes are that a lot of that 4500000 while technically in the service are in hospitals or on sicl leave The enemy would probably bring up all his good troops for this tremendous effort and the forces not used for this purpose could not be veiy valuable Estimates of the in the giant offensive vary tremendously April I st the French official estimate put it at 275000 to 300000 Now a conservative estimate is 400000 Yet since April I st the hardest fighting of the war has taken place As line after line regiment after regiment and division after division of the men in field grey are thrown remorselessly into the teeth of death it seems to us as if the Hun hordes are endless They ire not so There are sharp limits to the game they are playing These Emits are suggested by the reported order from German headquarters that there are to be n6 more mass attacks These attacks made with Itter disregard of human life have until now been principal dependence But America must not slacken her efforts It will take a 2 to I preponderance to drive the enemy but of his strong defenses (Continued On Pag Six) 5.