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4fP' yV Wt lraffr The Commoner OCTOBER, 1918 13 The Oklahoma Guaranty Law assures to you absolute safety 0f monies deposited with tlio GUARANTY STATE BANK This bank for ten years has rendered satisfactory sendee to Commoner readers scat tered over thirty Btates. Wo solicit, your business, suggesting either a time de posit, or sayings account, on either of which' interest is FOUIt PER CENT PER ANNJM I Free booklet and copy of guaranty law furnished on request. , GUARANTY STATE BANK MUSKOGEE OKTiATIOMA E. A. EDMONDSON, Cashier. SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION to tho Highest Bidder, ef ike Ceal W AnbhuU Deposits, Leased and Ualcased in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma, by the United States GovenuncW. Tlioro will bo ottered nt public miction to tlio highest bidder at McAlcster, Oklahoma, on Decora-" Iwr II, 12. 13 and 14. 1918, thocoal'aud n-phalt dopo hits, leased and unloosed, underlying tho surface of 441,107 acres of the segregated mineral laud In tho Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma. U89 nnle.ised tracts npsrrceatlne3V8,'-7C acres -will first bo ottered for sale and next 128 leased tracts containing 112,831 acres. Tho coal Is bltumtnoiu aud semi Ijltumlnous, mainly of low volatile bunker coal for kteamthln use hljrh rade domestic coal, railroad steam coal, blfih grade blacksmith co .1 aud coklup roal, Beams avcrajrlnR 4 feet thick, with an average dl or from 10 to 15 degrees outcropping at jhe aur i.i e nnd ex ton dint: to a vertical depth below tho Mirtaro estimated to be 2,300 leetat the deepest part ni the basin. Practically all of the tracts offered aro located noar rities. towns and railroads, many belnpr crossed by railroads, rnuklnjr them easily accessible and attractive for mining purposes'. Tite surface Is already sold, only tho coal and asphalt minerals. bo otlered for salo. Leased land will bo sold utyctt to any oxlstlnjr valid lo tses thereon. No preiereuco rlcht Riven except to lessees or leased iracu and tlio Stato ol Oklahoma as to thocoal and asphalt undei lying State Penitentiary grounds, doverument retains supervision overall leases and mining operations until full payjiicnt of au h pur chase price is made and deed Issued whoa &uper ylslon terminates. No person can acquire more than lour t.acts oi OCO acres eac , except -where such par boil, firm or corporation has such tracts un er exlt-t-lin? valid leases. Bids must conform to tracts as ad vertised. No bids fo fractional parts considered, nor lor less han advertised mlulmum price. IJlda may bo made in person, by mall or by authorized nsents. 20 per cent or each sei arate bid must bo ac I'otnpanled by bank draft or cert cd check payable to 1). lluddruB, Cashier. Terms 20 per cent In cash at tlino oi sale balanco fonr equal installments, payable in ono, two, three nnd four years from dato oi talo s per cent Interest icr annum on deferred payments. Full payment purchase prlco may bo made at any Umo when deed will lesuo. Local ofllco at McAlcster, Oklahoma; main orflce, Muskogee. Oklahoma. For descriptive lists, literature, free or charge, address Mr. Cube E. Farkor. Suporluten dent for the Fivo Clvlllnod Tribes, McAlester. Okla homa. The Un ted attues Government seads out no adertlsliiK or exhibit cjra to advance orexiloit i ho tale of! ndlan lands. All such concerns are prl ato enterprises In no wise com ected wltk the Uovcrnmout. CATO SELLS, Cominl&ekmer of Indian ARalra, J-ixJUlVll A course efeMentlale which in ISO houra, a vuuinv oi ujvuimicim' vrniwu w-wt caiini ua pim.uwii n m --..-. ..vLii3 UUUU3V. IIHnHIMBTlHnni Ki?d,QP0 o'PbyclcUaa, Fer full wrUCulws Text of President's War Aims Speech (Continued from page 12.) statesmen are supposed to instruct and lead, lias grown more and moro unclouded, more and more certain of what it is that they aro lighting for. National purposes have fallen moro and moro Into the background and the common purpose of enlightened mankind has taken their place. The counsels of plain men have be come on all hands more simple and stra'ghtforward and moro unified than the counsels of sophisticated men of affairs, who still retain the Impression that they are playing a game of power and playing for high Stakes. That is why I have said that th'B 1b a peoples' war, not a states men's. Statesmen must follow the clarified common thought or bo brolcen. I take that to be tho significance of the fact that assemblies and asso ciations of many kinds made up of plain workaday people have de manded, almost every time they came together, and aro still demand ing, that the leaders of their govern ments declare to them plainly what it is, exactly what it is, that they wero seelcing in this war, and that they think the items of the final set tlement should be. They are not yet satisfied with wiiat they havo been. told. They still seem to fear that they aro getting what they ask for only in statesmen's terms only in the terms of the territorial ar rangements -and divisions of power, and not In terms of broaa-visloneu justice and mercy and peace and the satisfaction of those deep-seated longings of oppressed and distracted men and women and enslaved peo ples that seem to them the only things worth fighting for that en gulfs the world. Perhaps statesmen have not always recognized this changed aspect of the whole world of policy and action. Perhaps they have-not always spoken in direct re ply to the questions asked because they did not know how searching those questions were and what sort of answers they demanded. UNITY OF PURPOSE IMPERATIVE But I, for one, am glad to attempt the answer again and again, in the hope that I may malce it clearer .and clearer that my own thought is to satisfy those who struggle in the ranks and are, perhaps above all others, entitled to a reply whose meaning no one can have any excuse for misunderstanding, if ho under stands the language in which it is spoken, or can get Borne one to trans late it correctly into his own. And I believe that the leaders of the gov ernments with which we are asso ciated will speak, as they havo oc casion, as plainly as I have tried to speak. I hope that they will feel free to say whether they think that I am in any degree mistaken in my inter pretation of the issues involved or in my purpose with regard to the moans by which a satisfactory settle ment of those issues may be ob tained. Unity of purpose and of counsel is as imperatively necessary in this war is was unity of command in the battlefield; and with 'perfect unity of purpose and counsel win w" -surance of complete victory. It can be had in no other way. ' "Peace drives" can be effectively neutralized and silenced only by showing that every victory of the nations associated against Germany brings the nations nearer the sort or place which will bring security -and reassurance to all peoples and make the recurrence of another such strugglo of pitiless force and blood shed forever impossible, and that nothing else can. Germany is constantly intimating tho "terms" she will accept, and, al ways finds that th worh djjeis not want terms. l wishes thfc JtrtaT tri umph of Justice and fair dealing. "HELLO HUCK!" I n T'rBBBBBBBM4kBjujut - W LBB. aLLLBBBLV W!rf4 BBaBBBBBHl h y :5TR:B3SM" DwHml!MbV 1 -Jiy, f CbBRbBKwbbbbbbHb &Vr7W4&,. t vjA nilBBBVBCKBXJLLBVr .BBWBBM Wll '2 bBBBBHBBBBRb1bVIELBB RECALL that golden day when you first read "Iluck Finn?". Hpw your mother said, "For goodness sake, stop laugh'ng aloud over that book. You sound so silly." But you couldn't stop laughing. Today when you read "Huckleberry Finn" you will not laugh so much, You will chuckle often, but you will also want to weep. Tho deep humanity of it the pathos, that you never saw, as a bdy, will appeal to you now. You were too busy laughing to notice the limpid purity of tho master's style. MARK TWAIN 25 VOLUMES: Novels Essays Boys' Stories Travel Humor History BBlJHBjgBwIaStMBS ' Out of the gencrouB Wept came Mark Twain, tflvltiff widely anil freely to tho world such laughter as men had nover heard. Simple, unasHumln democratic, he waa welcomed by kings, ho wu& loved by plain people. If foreign nations loved him, we in thin countryA, give him rtrat place In our hcarla. Tho homo with out Murk Twain i not an American home. A REAL AMERICAN The world haB asked, Ih there an American lit erature? Mark Twain Ih tho anbver. Ho Ih tho heart, tho spirit of America. From IiIm poor and struggling boyhood to his gloriotiH, Hplendld old age, he remained a simple, un democratic uh the plainest of our forefathers. Ho "was, of all Americans', tho most American. Free in soul, and dreaming of high things, bravo In the face of trouble and always ready to laugh. That waa Mark Twain. LOW PRICE SALE MUST STOP . Murk Twain wanted everyone in America to own a set of his books. Ho ono of tho lat thlnga ho asked was that we make a sot at so low a price that everyone might own it. He auid: "Don't malco flno editions. Don't make editions to sell for $200 and $300 and $1,000. Mako good books, books good to look at and easy to read, and make their price low." So wo havo made this set, and up to now we have been able to sell It at this low price. Rising costs make It impossible to cqntlnuc the sale of Mark Twain at tho low price. New editions will have to cost very much more than this Author's National Edition. Now the price must no up. You must act at once. You must sign and mall tho coupon now. 'If you want a set at the popular price, do not delay. This edition will soon be withdrawn, and then you will pay considerably more for your Mark Twain. The last of the edition Is In sight. There will nevoV again be a sH of Mark Twain at tlio present low price. Now is your opportunity to nave money. Now not tomorrow Is the time to send the coupon to get your Mark Twain. 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