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Editorial
OKLAHOMA LEADER
published ilny except Sunday by The Oklahoma I.e der CO,
Oncar Amerlnger
Una Hogan
Johu Hagel
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a* Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3. 187J.
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LEAVE THEM NOTHING BUT LIES
Wo have called attention to the ferocious cruelty and
selfishness of the employers in wanting unemployment to con-
tinue in order that they may be able to beat down wages and
slave-drive their workers.
Of course they will not admit that they want to slave- ;
drive— but they do it when they have a chance. Many of
them are doing it now.
What they claim is that they want efficiency and pro-
ductivity. One of their number cynically remarks, "The line
at the gate, asking for work, is the most persuasive thing in
" the direction of increased efficiency that I know of."
He means that it affords increased opportunity on the
part of the employers to slave-drive.
There is, however, an atom of truth in what he says.
And it is up to the workers to remove that atom of
irgument from the lips of the employers. To disarm the em-
ployers. How? By always giving honest service, even when
they know they are being robbed.
w There is, of course, a lot of difference between honest
' service and slave-driven service. The latter hounds the work-
" ;r and takes so much of his vitality that his physical and
} mental efficiency are depleted. Honest service is the kind
you would give if you were working for yourself.
Soldiering is one of the natural effects of capitalism.
Vet the workers must fight against the tendency to soldier.
Like sabotage, it is a boomerang that returns and inj ures the
jser. It undermines the character of a worker and makes
him deceptive and dishonest. The workers cannot afford to
81 le dishonest just because employers are.
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers have done a number
j g if unusual things—and one of them touches this point. Their
ifficials and organizers urge the members to give honest serv-
ce. If they did not give conscientious service, it would be
mpossible for them to hold the comparatively high wages
ind short hours which they have attained.
That the complaint of the employers is nine-tenths bunk
s evident from the fact that the workers were very productive
luring the war—when there was no army of unemployed
leeking their places. They were so productive that over-
iroduction ensued and the depression came.
It is the one-tenth of truth in the employers' complaint
hat muBt be taken out of their mouths. They will then
lave literally nothing but lies to stand on.
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THE COAL SITUATION
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i The latest report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
t he United States Department of Labor reports that in five
< cities in which a survey was made it was found fhat the price
>f coal today is higher than at the peak of wartime profiteer-
1 ng. There has been a steady increase in the cost to the con-
< umer since last May, says Charles M. Kellogg, in his weekly
I lews letter.
< At the same time, the production has dropped to the
1 owest point in the history of the industry. Thousands of
i niners and their families are actually starving. Many of them
iave not been permitted to do a day's work for nearly a year,
'armers are burning corn as fuel, because they are unable to
neet the high price demanded for coal.
This, baldly, is an outline of the coal situation. Miners
. tarve because they are not producing; farmers burning food
' tecause it is cheaper than coal, and the operator, starving and
) reezing the workers and farmers, is taking his profits in di-
ninished production.
The country is about to be dulged with propaganda favor-
ng a wage cut for workers, the argument being that this is
lecessary to increase production and lower costs. The public
vill fall for this stuff, no doubt; but if the facts were known
he coal barons would not get far with their campaign.
M ine labor costs are not higher than they were threa years
igo. Coal prices are much higher than they were three years
igo. And three years ago the coal industry was proven to be
•normously profitable. Some operators, according to official
itatistics made more than G.000 per cent on their investment,
'rofits running from 100 to 1,000 per cent were comparatively'
.ommon. Railroads today are paying for coal just about half
he price charged consumers. It would be fatuous to assume
hat the operators are handling this business at a loss.
What the coal barons desire is still higher profits and to
hat end they intend, if they can, to further impoverish the
vorkers. Even should wages be reduced there is no assur-
ince that the public will get the benefit. The operators will
.ee to that, for their past record proves that there is no limit
o their rapacity.
Oklahoma Leader
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AMERICANS AS THEY ONCE WERE
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MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife
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lion katie Led Madge and Mllian! "Hut that is a mile around tho
Down the Lonely Lane. road, ' I said. "We never can mak«
j Katie sprang from the couch on it in time."
j which Lillian and I had deposited "llooah—Listen!"
Iter but a few minutes before, as I "We are uot going by road," Katie
if she had never known u tremor, retorted. "Eet only leetle ofer hali-
Elther the pungent restorative of mile across pasture and through dot
Lillian had brought her. or my wood path to beeg road, und I can
! drastic threat to lock her up—prob- feex you oop fine in place to hide
J ably the combination—had quieted vere you can hear eferyting."
her hysteria, and had given her new '"ight. Katie, ko ahead, i said
polae. impatiently and in another minute we
.... . j were outside the house with Mother
..u6re . B^e t? t Graham latching the door behind ua.
Here Lillian took It from o Thlll her olfl flDKers were tremulous
clta r and handed each of us a heavy wlth t(.rrm. for us j well knew and
dark veil, the next minute beginning j mentally paid tribute to her gallant
l°. «-e °De °U own head. it spirit In keeping down any expres-
" * raP y°ur heads in these, she fi|on 0( jier feelings as she saw us
said, "and keep your faces covered forth.
;ib much as you can. We want to gat "shade thoi<e flashlights and keep
as near you. Katie, as we can, and thelr ]lgllt on th(, ground," was the
we don't want to 1„* seen." only advice £ha had given us as she
"You bot," Katie declared em- let us out of the door and we accept-
phatically. It Is her favorite ex- cd and acted on the suggestion as
pression of acquiescence, and she soon as the intense darkness made it
uses it in season and out of season, necessary for us to use them.
much as Jerry Ticer does his in- I shall not soon forget that toil-
varlble "Yes. ma'am." no matter some, nerve-racking journey through
what the sex of the person to whom the pasture land and woods to tho
he Is speaking. "You bet I no vant old wood road. Katie, because she
nobody to see you. I get vot knew the trail, stalked ahead, using
Meester Dicky say. 'merry hell' eef the flashlight In the more difficult
At Valley Forge the patriot cause seemed almost lost. But the spirit of our nation's founders did not despair.
Washington, it is said, prayed for guidance. But he also arouse and fought—fought till the cause had won! Join
the Fanner-Labor Reconstruction League of Oklahoma and help in the fight for true American ideals, for the
things for which the fathers fought.
dot ma—eff anybody see you."
"Vot You Mean}**
With her ostrich propensity she
was still keeping up the fiction that
we did not kuow the sex of the per-
son who had so terrified her.
"Nobody will," Lillian said .con-
fidently, then, as Katie turned to-
ward the kitchen, instead of the
front door, she asked quickly:
"Which way are you going?"
Katie stopped and looked at us un-
certainly.
"You say dot Jeem no stop me to-
night?" she asked.
"No, Katie, he will not trouble you ;
tonight," I returned and she must
have caught something unconscious-
ly ominous in my tone, for she
places. The only words uttered wero
a whisper of mine to Lillian when wo
had gone but a few rods on our way.
"Suppose he discovers us and
turns ugly."
Lillian did not speak in reply, but
she reached out her left hand, took
mine and guided to the thing which
the fingers of her right hand were
firmly grasping. I had no need for
words as I touched the cold steel.
I recogni7i'« the little silencer pistol
which Lillian only carries in mo-
ments of unusual danger. I needed
nothing more to tell me what esti-
mate she placed upon the encounter
And then we had come out upor.
the wood road, and in another min-
., ..... 7.1 ute had glided into the other path
turned on me quickly, demanding, | Rn(| W(iR! helnK llid(|pn hv KaUe in
"Vot do you mean by dot. mUe thick(,t of bllsheil from wh|cll
"Nothing at all." I returned, mak- we could distinctly hear voices
ing my tone purposely impatient. 0ither on the main road or in th«
"We told you before that Jim had llttie jane KaUe herself, stayed
promised Mrs. Underwood not to In-1 with us. whispering tensely:
terfere with you tonight. Now tell "Ven I hear vlstle, one, two—one
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright. 1921. The Bell Srndlcate, Inc.)
TODAY
ARTHUR BRISBANE]
j us in which direction we are going,
I necklace, gave it to his wife. She how far and where?"
gave it to her young daughter. The ! "We go down on dot old wood
I foolish cry "extravagance," which is j road to Sag Harbor, just beyond dot (signal, and the girl stepped out into
j nonsense. beeg tock vere dot automobile got i the little lane. The whistle came
Extravagance is waste. There is turned over. Dere a leetle road nearer, so quickly and with such ab-
two, three, den I go out. Hoosh—
listen!'
Down the road came the expected
A PROTECTED INDUSTRY
no waste about an $850,000 neck-
j lace, for nothing has been LOST. It
„ „ .. . I makes no difference in which bank
Does the Lave Man Live! Iaccount the $850.ono resides. Wheth-
Are cave men, dating back 50,000 j er the jeweler has the money or the
years, alive in Africa? Quite prob- rich manufacturer has it, is all one,
ably, says a scientist. Homo rhode- j to the general welfare.
siensis left a skull in South Africa j It is otherwise when you waste ltu-
and it's probable that his brothers J man labor or wealth or effort. To
may still live, according to Profes- j have five footmen and a butler in
sor Boule, of Paris. your dining room and a hall is i
In dear old Paris, years ago,
When managers produced a show,
And carping scribes
Penned diatribes
Upon the leading actors,
The actors, as in duty bound.
Next morning sent their cards around,
And asked the right
To meet and fight
Their cynical detractors.
Today an actor cannot start
A duel to defend his art,
Although the raps
Of critic chaps
Arouse his savage dander.
lie's not permitted to run through
The writer of a harsh review.
Rut may assuage
His righteous rage
By bringing suit for slander.
In consequence the critics' stuff
In Paris is becoming rough,
Full well they wot
They can't be shot
For getting mean or funny.
And, if the actor should restort
For satisfaction to a court,
It will not fright
The mfen who write;—
They haven't any money!
turned
turn off from beeg road, und ve go I sence of other noise that it did not
down dot a few feet out of sight." j take a Sherlock Holmes to deduce
I shivered irrepressibly, for I j that the man was riding a bicycle,
knew the spot, and a lonelier, more j We were so intent upon the queer
dangerous place for a night en- whistle that we heard only subcon-
counter with a probably desperate sciously the noise of an approaching
man could not be imagined. The motor car in the opposite direction,
road is a winding, tortuous one. a I And then— the sight haunts my
dream of sylvian beauty in the day- eyes yet—the car rounding the
light, but a dangerous thoroughfare curve, caught the cyclist who had no
You may ay that such creatures, I WASTE. They"^ght "b"e earning a j night and there were not a dozen lamp and hurled 1.1m almost to our
being stupid, would fight the men living at productive labor. What , ^aia a night tr.i\eisinK it. ^ 11« t-t.
with guns and be killed. Possibly, they might produce is wasted. When _
but men that go down there to get j Cleopatra dissolved and drank the;
rhinoseroses, lions, gorillas, know | pearl, that was wasteful extrava-
llttle of ancient man. If they killed gance.. It wasted the labor of the
a cave man they would think him an j diver that held his breath and "went
inferior native and leave his car- all naked to the hungry shark."
t cuss 011 the ground. [Waste of time, labor, goods, is ex-
The other cave men would soon , travagance; mere spending is not.
learn not to attack white creatures > Remember it, and spend without
carrying exploding sticks and more j wasting.
| cunning than lions and rhinoceroses,! Eight hundred and fifty thousand
with better sight and hearing than dollars is not so VERY much for
white men. they would easily keep a Pearl necklace, either, in these
out of the way.
Perhaps Akeley, a real scientist,
who goes hunting occasionally, could
bring back a cave man couple. Noth-
ing on the planet could be more in-
teresting.
days. This writer was told by a
prosperous friend leaving the Rltz-
Carlton in New York at Christmas
time: "Come in for a moment; I am
looking at some pearls." He looked
nt a double string, about as long as
your forearm, the pearls about as big
as a very small marble. The price
The Difference. •
President Harding told the col- of thft string was one million and
ored men and women in the south lia^ dollars.
that it was a mistake for them to' ,
talk about "social equality." Said! rhanro nf irpf tin^hnrlr hi«!a constructive program to assist the
he: "This is a nuctlon of recognl,, ; yoTuncTekm*' co-operative associations In devol-
n Information is nicely put, and i °l)ln^ ^h
PRODUCERS' CO-OPERATION IN ITALY
All-American Co-operative Commission. %
From Slgnor Beneduce, the Italian I Hon of the vast water po4ver avail-
minister for industry and agricul- able In Cantanla, in southern Italy,
ture, the All-American Co-operative This sum will supply only a part of
Commission, Washington. D. C., has ; the cost of the work, the remalner
secured some instructive facts about
the remarkable progress of produc-
ers' co-operation in that country.
Despite the notoriety bestowed on
Italian art and misic and literature,
agriculture is pre-eminently the
chief industry of Italy and the basis
of its prosperity. With this in mind,
the Italian government has adopted
being furnished by the co-operativo
societies concerned, which have ac-
cumulated large funds of their own
through the 2,500 workers' and farm-
ers' co-operative banks in the coun-
try. united in the national Co-opera-
tive Credit Institute. Other co-op-
erative organizations are now work-
ing out plans for large reclamation
and irrigation projects in the unde-
veloped regions of southern Italy,
, uiceiy onn| — agricultural resources of j Sardinia and Sicily
^ I euphoniously bv Mr H Ci Wells I the country. This development is This policy of aiding the co-oper-
( harles E. Russell, rebukes Presl-1 ,j(! <• jt'-8 private talk ti- along three main lines: reclamation ' ative societies in tho large-scale de-
dent Harding and wants to know mogt unjvergally that tho (leb't of of arid land, irrigation, and electri- 1 velopment of the nation s agricultu-
what PROOF there is of a difference Hurope to Anier'i(>a cannot be paid fication to supply power and light. | ral resources has already had a val-
between negro and white races. , and olJffht nQt tQ be pal(]# and that Thc greatest possible tribute to uable effect by decreasing unem-
Show me. says he. the sooner this iegend of indebted- j the soundness and ability of the Ital- ployrnent and industrial discontent
In any natural history museum nega js swept from men's imagina-1 ian co-operatives is the fact that the in tlie larger cities. Surplus labor
the polite attendant will show him. floris the sooner we shall get -to the government Is preparing to lend is taken to the country districts,
ing a fundamental, eternal and
escapable difference."
He will lead Mr. Russell to a row Df world reconstruction.
j them 900,000,000 lire ($39,600,000) t<> given good employment during the
WHAT OTHERS SAY I KRAZY KAT— Krazy's Suggestions Did Not Meet With Approval.
of skulls, and say, ihls is a negro He could not put it more musically j carry through these projects. The i construction of these enterprises,
of one type, and this is a negro of th,m that. " j Italian parliament has just author- rind then helped by the co-operative
another: this is a white man. ! "Only England could pay, any- ized a loan of 200,000.000 lire societies to settle down on the land
A five-year-old child can be taught how," said Wells, and to suggest that1 ($8,000,000) to a society whose plans j as it is reclaimed and opened up for
the difference. And to change the she pay would be "rising to a high have been accepted for the utiliza- tillage.
skull except by interbreeding, which level of absurdity." I "" — —— ju"rnn^wLnmr.-,
is not desired, would take many Assuming that Uncle Sam does STOKIKS FOR THE HO.HE. OBJECTIONABLE TENANT.
thousands of years. not wish to rise to that high level.' "Have you any nice modern sto- ; "What objection did he have to
To lift up the bone of a forehead, he can. in the plainer language of ries for girls?" renting you the flat?"
making it half an inch nearer to the the U. S. A., "kiss his $10,000,000,OOo "Yes I have here 'Flossie Rolltops. "He said I was so bow-legged that
perpendicular, would take then thou-: good by," and charge it u^ to ex- the Flapper.' Also 'Bettys First [ would be continually rubbing the
said years at least. There is the perience. Meerschaum Pipe.' "—Louisville Cou- paper off the walls."—Boston Trans-
"show me" answer, most puzzling' rier-Journal. j crlpt.
to those who would LIKE equality. This bit of irony, sarcasm or
but they don't want to deceive something appears in the form of a Mrs. A. I hear you are going to V FINE START,
themselves. sign on a Scottish golf course: take a coures in a business college. "Dearest I am not worthy of you."
"Members will refrain from picking Mrs. B.—Yes. I want to learn how "That's what mother says. Jack.
What Is Extravagance! up lost balls until they have stopped to get more money out of my hus- dear How lovely to see you two
A man paid $850,000 f°r .a j)earI ^rolllng.'' Boston Transcript. band. P. ston Transcript. agreeing^
—By HERIUMAN
ELECTING A PRESIDENT
Minneapolis Star.
Fred Uph&m, national treasurer of
the frtfpiibi; an party, reminds us
'ua expensive affair to elcct
! r lis report shows the re-
tiublican nu ional committee still
00,000, spent in putting
HIS.
this expenditure, unlike
■ campaign money, was
legitimate expenses,
it came from perfectly
ources. When the re-
mi discovered funds
oing in fast enough to
chest, they knew where
hey borrowed a round
iHarding acr
Of course,
'the New hen
pr perfectly
J? Moreover,
i'tspec table
.public an ci>'
I'cre not ct
g) Lie camp,
turn
i f million in one lot from three
, ban the New York Trust, the Em-
jj • Trust and the Chase National,
liom two others, the First National
and the Old Colony Trust of Boston,
$127,500 was secured.
Again perfectly legitimate. Who
doubts it?
But the • xpenditure of huge sums
in a presidential campaign and the
readiness of banks to lend large
sums to the election committee of a
candidate suggest that the returns
for backing a successful candidal
are considerable.
The returns will doubtless be col-
lected in perfectly legitimate ways.
Tax bills and tariff bills are surely
legitimate. And who can say there'
is any connection between an item in
a revenue bill and an accommodat- |
Ing New York banker?
i Perfectly legitimate is the word.
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