Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 96, Ed. 1 Monday, December 5, 1921 Page: 4 of 4
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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
Features
OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every day except Sunday by The Oklahoma leader Co.
Editors
. Business Manager
Oscar Amerlnger i
Dan Hog&n J '
John Ilas«l
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By Mail: $4.00
One Year $2.00
Six Months 11-00
Three Months
17 West Third Street. Oklahoma City. Okla.
P O Box 777. Telephone Marie 7buu.
Entered an second class mall matter June 1. 1918, •tgth*g7(l""
at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3. 1
LET'S LET EVERYBODY VOTE
One of the most striking things in connection with the
recent bond election was the very small proportion of people
who pretended to speak for the 100.000 inhabitants. It does
not resemble democracy—not very much. We think we are
conservative when -we say that the voting population of the
city is at least 20,000, and yet hardly more than a thud ol
that number passed upon the highly important question of
whether.the city should be mortgaged for $7,100,000 lor 2;,
vears at 5' •> per cent interest.
In the election 3,725 votes were cast for water bonds and
3 749 were cast against them. They were defeated by a bare
majority of 24 votes. Suppose 13 electors who voted against
the water bonds had voted for them. There would have been
3 738 "tax paying citizens" who by their action would have
saddled onto the backs of the remaining 96,262 people in the
city a single item of interest bearing debt amounting to ?1,-
600,000. It doesn't appear to us as being very democratic
not much.
Democracy means government by the people.
But the qualification prescribed for voters in this bond
election was based upon property, a principle repugnant to
democracy. In olden times the people were disfranchised be-
cause they did not happen to belong to certain families having
royal or superior blood. Now we are allowing the settlement
of the most highly important questions by another royal house
which has for its coat of arms the dollar mark.
The more than 12,000 voters of Oklahoma City, who be-
cause they did not possess tax receipts in their own names,
were not permitted to participate in the bond election, on the
ground that not being taxpayers, they had no right to pass
judgment on a question of taxing the property of others, is a
false and misleading premise.
Taxes are paid by the community as a whole, notwithstand-
ing the owners of property may primarily hand over the funds
to the tax collector and get the only outstanding receipt for<t.
Every patron of a barber shop, bootblack stand, restaurant,
theater, mercantile establishment, street railway or bank—|
every one of them—is a taxpayer, and those who have identi-
fied themselves with the city by a legal residence ought to have
an opportunity to exnress their wishes in any election.
Take this question of water. Does not everyone drink
water? Does not everyone wish pure water? Are those with
tax receipts the only ones who are concerned with the universal
question of the public health? Are the property owners to
always be the exclusive guardians of the community in this
respect ?
Such a rule, limiting as it does, the rights of certain classes
of citizens to take part in the settlement of questions vitally
affecting the whole of the inhabitants, is violative of every
principle of democracy, and steps should be taken immediately
to remove from the constitution what amounts to a social and
civic stain, a contradiction of that philosophy of government
we profess to worship.
JERRY ON THE JOB —
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More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Mont a Hue
ARTHUK BRISBANE
(Copyright, 1921, The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife
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An Open Letter To | i
Charles E. Hughes J MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
Dear Brother Hughes: You may '
not remember me, but I'm the fellow
who sat in the fourth seat, in the
eighth row, in the center section of
the second gallery in the Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, auditorium, the night you , ||#( |b |w .
made your speech there when you ! erH*H Keuuent to Meet Lillian I tween me and the others. 1 noticed
ran for president. j -Hold the wire, please," 1 sent the 'hat the people in the room, inc u
Then I met you again in New York trif< ,equest into the transmitter nig Dicky, talked away, for t lere
Seventh avenue subway train | d turned t0 col. Travers. wus that in lbe oMlcer 8 manner
' ••(•apt. Hastings 1. on the lre. which authoritatively Indicated his
■ol. Travers. Do you wish to speak ; desire that no one but I should
to him'*" j liear k® had to say.
| "Whift does he want?" The words j "NVhat is the earliest moment to-
! came from lips that were actually morrow morning that I can see the
stiff with thwarted anger. 'friend who lent you that badge.'
"He says that Crowley recovered he asked abruptly.
' consciousness for a minute and iden- j I considered a minute and lifted
But. anyway, as we sat there. I 1 tlfle<, Smlth u8 his assailant. Capt troubled eyes to his.
studied your face and said to myself: j hastings thinks Crowley has a Rood she should not permitted to see
"This man has a good face, a clean I leftl more U) teI1 but he is uncon-| "She should not be permitted to see
face and a strong face." And th«- 8CjOU8 again." ■ valescing from a serious nervous
other night when I saw you in th«- -Thank you." His tone was the breakdown, and we have kept all
movies, in company with all those mechunical one of a man so trained 1 disturbing things away from her.
European diplomats, that face of tQ perfunct0ry courtesy that he never An(j 8he could not possibly do any
yours struck me again as being alto j forgets itt eVen when- as was patent actjve work—"
gether too good to be seen in that^j nQW he did not know he was speak-! ..j can llSgUre you that nothing
outfit. So it's on account of that face | ^Vith two strides he reached my i wm be asked her save advice and
side, took the receiver from my SQme information that I suspect sho
last July a year ago. You sat oppo-
site me, and I could tell by the look (
in your eyes that you were trying to i
remember my name, and couldn't. |
You finally gave it up and looked out
of thi' window in that dark tunnel,
where there wasn't anything to see |
as far as I could see.
i hands and began to
? ' staccato commands.
speak, crisp,
"lie Must Not t.et Far!
of yours that I'm writing to give you
a little friendly advice.
You called these fellows over here j
to explain to them what I often tried
to explain to Wilson, that prepared- , j; Roun(I"Averybody up I fTlcnd,'Ter.elr7would bid you" tell
Z'uke SuT!Z?rZaZ you can get hold of by telephone or me to see her. did she Know the lm-
paratlon for a .hooting scrape. If telegraph, send description of Smith Po^anc. o' my errand^
there weren't any guns made, there j have police n every section watch
wouldn't be any shooting Roing on. every road leading out of these
and If there weren't any armies and « «•£•■ ™ ° « '0, „way ^berTusw^.tiun W minute,
navies then there wouldnt be any • 1 •
—temporarily—man here had mm ()f that time.
W*Now I own that the law i well tied up in woods, but he got un- He gmiled a bit quizzically.
si t ™ xzxzsszx
ITZX ™asnt done away with | hut it s like a need.e .n . 8:30. She will have break-
shooting scrapes a,together, because] in these, woods, and^.^peopie fa.tedby hen^ . ^ ^
possesses, and I don't. The whole
I interview should not take ten min-
and I assure you that your
"Sh«* rises at 7:30," I returned.
"I will give her your message di-
rectly after that. I can telephone
DISTRESSING NEWS
Whiskers are to be revived among college undergraduate
Ship Matter Settled?
i There will probably be an agree-
1 ment on the size of navies, England
ind the United States to be equal,
j Japan 60 per cent of the English and
American battleship power. If the
i Kugltsh-Japanese alliance stands,
that alliance would have sixteen na-
val fighting units to ten for the
United States.
Beatty, who speaks for England,
says If Japan insists on more ships
I than her allotment other countries
j will have to have more. England ap-
I parently trusts Japan, "but doesn't
j believe In fooling with her."
enin Succeeded.
further objections, for I knew per-
fectly well that he had gauged Lil-
lian's probable actions correctly.
"You know where to come?"
"Yes. Cosgrove's. Thank you so
much. And now we will not need
to detain you any longer. I would
wholly with
I "I wish to ask you a favor, how-
: ever. Col. Travers. I assured this
MORE GOVERNMENTAL INSANITY
According to a bulletin just issued, the government at
Washington offers to sell to any paper manufacturing concern
that will agree to manufacture not less than one hundred tons
of paper daily for a period of thirty years, 90,000 acres of
spruce and hemlock forest, situated on the west side of Ad-
miralty Island in Alaska. The land has a navigable water
frontage of 48 miles and is 24 miles by boat from Juneau.
Water power sites are abundant and these will pass to the pur-
chaser of the acreage.
The value of this concession for paper making alone may-
be reckoned by the figures given. The purchaser, making one
hundred tons of paper daily for thirty years would manufacture
30,000 tons in one year, or 900,000 tons in thirty years, worth
upon the market now about $72,000,000, and since this land, if
replanted as fast as it is denuded, will grow enough timber daily
to produce one hundred tons of paper, it would be as valuable
at the termination of the thirty-year period as it is now.
Now one would think that the government, owning and
operating the largest printing office in the world, and being,
itself at the mercy of the news print trust, would install its
own paper mill upon its own land and save itself much more
money that we have mentioned. Common sense and ordinary
business intelligence would suggest that, but the government
is so afraid that it will interfere with the business of the print
trust that it prefers to sell this valuable concession and fur-
ther tie its hands so that it will be unable to resist its power
to rob the people.
By such an arrangement, not only would the government
save scores of millions, but it would be able, if its factory was
intelligently managed, to protect the rest of the defenseless
consumers of paper who are now mercilessly exploited by the
trust. But this, a most effectual means of combatting the
trust, is not to be thought of.
In 1920 two-thirds of the news print made in the United
States was made from timber grown on foreign soil. This rep-
resents a payment each year of more than $191,000,000 for
raw material imported to this country, and not withstanding
all this our government proposes to turn over to private owners
this splendid and gigantic source of perpetual wealth. No
yonder we are wrestling with problems of taxation and forever
getting deeper and deeper in debt. The business man who
would conduct his business as the politicians conduct the gov-
ernment, would be haled befoi£ Uie lunacy board, pronounced
crazy and locked up.
We do not hold with S. G. Blythe,
Who somewhat frequently affirms
That whiskers make him cringe and writhe
As does the sight of angleworms.
A set of whiskers now and then
(To give it what is but its dues)
Adorns the maps of many men,
For instance, look at Charles E. Hughes.
When Mr. Sousa sheared his set,
The world at once observed their lack;
Ourselves were moved to deep regret,
And still we hope he'll put them back.
Should Jim Ilam Lewi; shave off his,
Their loss would slSike the halls of state
But here we pause—this subject is
Too sad for us to contemplate.
But whiskers chain mankind's regard
When they grow thick upon the throat
Of persons bearded like the p;ird
(The pard, we think, must be a goat);
• They must possess a reverend air
To hold the populace in awe,
Such whiskers as great rulers wear,
Or men renowned in war or law.
But whiskers on a college boy,
A beard upon an undergrad
Our reason swiftly would destroy
Apd drive us raving, staring mad.
And if this eye-disturbing style
On campuses revived should be.
We know we soon shall be on trial
For murder in the first degree.
much easier to make a law WraUlo, him ail ™ 'his see;
against gun toting than against But he mu8t get
making. Gun toting Is a crime but «•tUM J on
gun making is a business, and na- Iar- A1UD1 "Ul-
turally we can't afford to hurt busi- > prompt worn.
j "Make arrangements to have some-.
one constantly by Crowley's bedside
jsjtz ■" « • -rV- s ir -
applied to limitation of armaments. 1 "> ■ , and you like to have that young chap, Ted
So I would put the soft pedal on that I J°ld Jou- ' ' r m | Cosgrove. He's a live wire,
scrapping of war ships business and |br®* UP J® ' ? h a he heal|. "That of course lies
tackle the problem from another: n" here' v ' ' „ . , 'him or his father," I said sedately.
quarters for the present. uoou-i)>.
anR *. r 4 He snapped the receiver into it
In that movie picture I was telling h , hp. i for
you about, I noticed that these j I' ace* 8 . n ()f man. Kronish, that if he told tho
statesmen around you were all old ^ , ln bl8 mlml, ,ben turned to tru,h n" hH, m would hlm"
men, and they represented the very I ' I suppose I grossly exceeded my au-
kind of people who caused all the c 5' thority. but—"
trouble of late years. It was gray "What about your • ' . ... ; "As I am not quite sure just ho#
"It can wait. Dicky said shortly. I ^ ymu. l|f.pme(, BUthority from yon,
"It was only a glancing >lo i . goes," Col. Travers returned,
way. It looks messy for It hap- M[ (eU hf)w
pened to cut the skin but It doesn I ^ d)>reUctlon js But need „„t
need any at entIon u°l1 ,ke^0™. mrry about Kronish. He is only a
iAnd it was pray haired generals | a 8 8 . , . "Mrs 'very innocent and now thoroughly
Mr. Lenin, taking charge of **UB" an(j grandfatherly officers who sat ^ 00 e niav have a word with | frightened cat's paw. He gave your
sia with the idea that the only thing i French chateaus, twenty miles be-, ™ 11 ' beiieVe we will need husband some valuable information
labor, and that capital didn t | ^ ^ Hne> and sent beard. I ^ do not ^y\ny toniKhl. and tt8 ion, as he continues
less youths into stinking trenches | lonf,er .. his present docile attitude, he will
He strode over to me. stood so that 1 not b< disturbed.
heads and grandfathers who did all
the lying, scheming and preparing
for the last war. It was gray heads
who voted for the war and sent the
boys of every country into that hell
THE DEFEATED BONDS.
The defeat of all the improve-
. . twenty miles be ,
was labor, and that capital didn t ■ MnA the firing une> and sent beard-j^0"
count, anounced that he would make s .n(o stlnkin„ trenches 1to '
money ridiculous. So far as Russia ,nto bttrraKe8 whcrR theJ. were
,s concerned, he seems to have sue- j an(| (orn ^ smothered and
rubles' worth $500 000 in the old |1,urned llke Kamc ln a forest fir<-' Washington now into signing an
\ V M.I i for That is making These old boys had a glorious ironcia(j agreement setting forth that. —
days, sold $ . well ' time out of the war. They got all I the .lRe at which a man may be ment bond proposals in Oklahoma
T h . h- t ' " " ' ,he glory and all the money and. drafted into the armed force of any city was not unexpected on the out-
wish to nave it j or lh(, scruU.bes. Consequent- I country shall be from 50 to 75. That's ] side and indicates that the same lack
I ord Mount Stenhen I b\ the>' were wllllnK 10 8ee ,his 5 all you have to do. Brother Hughes, of confidence toward the municipal
lord Mount Stephen is dead 92 thing through to the last man and to stop war and if you follow my ad-; officers obtains as does toward the
ve u ol ln that n'an s care r is the last dollar- in the pockets of vice you'll give a back seat to every j bonds themselves by the invest ng
hope that affects the world Eighty other folks. This bunch of old- peacemaker from the Prophets of public, no pretense whatever being
n„r„ K..,nbon „ i timers and has-beens is just as ieniei to Henry Kord. 'made by cities of taking care of de-
years ago plain George Stephens, a I timers and has-be^ns is just as
little boy in the Highlands of Scot- strong for war now as ever and if
land, was looking after sheep and j there is going to be another war,
cows for a living. you can bet your bottom boots it's
After he found work in drygoods 1 them that will make it.
department store, lucky thing for ; You remember how these old fos-
him, for such stores give business sils used to wag their ivory domes
education to their employes. and cackle about our heroic boys
Later he was a pioneer railroad and our brave boys and our victo-
builder in Canada and first president I rious boys and how sorry they were
of the Canadian Pacific road. j that they weren't 21 years younger
A builder of railroads is a builder so they could go over there and share
of civilization. He brings men to- in their glory. They wore flags on
gether, frees them from slavery by ; their collars and in their button
making machines do the work. j holes and the radiators on their fliv-
At this moment the American Lo- . vers served as flag poles for seven-
comotive Company of the United j teen different nations. Yes. these old
States is building forty-seven loco-1 boys surely oozed patroitism out of
motives for China. These locomo-1 every pore until the draft age limit
tives will do more for civilization was pushed up to 48 years. It's
Israel to Henry Ford. j made by cities of taking care of de
Well, I guess I had better quit and faulted bonds for improvements, the
do the chores. Remember me to all specious plea being made that they
your folks and if you ever come out
our way be sure to stop in. We
haven't got much to eat. but if we
can stand it all year 'round, you can
stand it for a day or so.
I am, yours for Peace on Earth, etc.
JOB. S. TURKEY.
Box 23 R. R. I., Poverty Plains,
Hardup County, Oklahoma.
are against property and are not
liability of the city, despite the fact
that each bond itself specifically
states that the credit of the city is
back of it. There is every reason
to believe that Oklahoma City has
come a long way from getting dol-
lar for dollar for the money spent
in improvements and this fact must
than many conferences and discus-,
sions.
PAB M ( OMES SOOHEB NOW.
"Your honor,'' said the prisoner at
funny how quiet th^y became after
that and how some of them hustled
around adopting orphans and invent-
ing dependents.
The antics of the oldtimers at that
JUSTIFIED
Now Italy wants a bipr navy, probably to suppress l)'An-
nunzio in case he breaks out again.
\ our nonor. huiu iue i i iauuoi «n i uc auiito m
the bar, "I may have been intoxi-I time put an idea in my head. It's a
cated. but I assure you that I had j wonderful idea and I really ought
taken only two drinks of 'moonshine,' to get it patented, or copyrighted or
a mere trifle, aa 1 thought, for a man something, and make money out of
of my capacity and experience in | it: because this idea of mine will do
such matters." away with wars for all time to come.
"My friend." said the judge, kindly. But I don't care for money, nohow,
"you can't regulate your drinking so I give the idea to you. Brother
nowadays by the standards that used j Hughes, t)n account that your face
to prevail when a man could prop looks so good to me. And if you act
his foot up on a brass rail and chat on it, I give you a written guaran-
for hours with friends and acquaint- i tee that you will become the greatest
ances without either losing his sense j man in history.
of direction or his gift of repartee." | Here is the idea: Jolly that bunch
Birmingham Age-Herald. 'of superanuated roosters you have in
11 ti ti 1< V.UUIIIJ I V"."" —■ —
J.—If you don't get anywhere be patent to the voter himself judg
with the moral argument, put it on ing by the way he vAted on Saturday,
the ground of efficiency. Tell 'em To be sure, the expenditure of the
that a tough old geaser can stop bul- | money received from large bond is-
lets better than a tender boy. ! sues gives a sort of temporary pros-
' perity to a city which is often mis-
\ SI Hi: EXTINGUISHER. taken for the real article, but the
' m ii,„r fact remains that unless the money
Booth ar ing o . . hi ! is judiciously and honestly expended,
Gerald de Maurier, wirt knows him J munlc|pam it8elf does lts
well is an American ' utmost to pay the Interest promptly
ly when he was in I aly a ,and the prlnclpal wheD due, there „
spoke to him o eBUy *' a reaction which cannot be otherwise
"Well, anyway, sad the ItaHan, harmfui to the city itself and
Im sure you ave no g . infjirect|y to every Cfty in the state
uvius in the n «< . a when it issues bonds, for Oklahoma
"We've got Niagara f''1. U Oklahoma to the Innocent l vestor.
Tarktngton. which could put e It.alf malilni. rllff«ri>n<N
blamed thing out in just about two
minutes." — Pittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph.
SYMPATHETIC.
Singer—Did you note hoi
voice filled the great hall?
Friend—Yes, people were kind
enough to leave, so as to make room
for it.—Houston Post.
the city itself making little difference
to him. When political chicanery,
jobbery and spoils are superceded by
efficiency and municipal honor, brass
band campaigns to put over bond
issues will no longer be required.—«
well my i Shawnee News.
Send your Job Printing to Okla-
homa leader. It helps to maintain
this institution.
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